thankfully the vibes are good, and i'm a sucker for seeing a thriller where the cops are arguing with the suits and have to go on a boat ride in the fog, because in the monologue-y bits i just kept going "uhuh, yep. that's true. yep, that's true. peace in the imperial core IS propped up by violence elsewhere that will inevitably blow back on the core somehow. the fall of the soviet union DID leave the imperial core thinking it was the end of history when that was obviously bullshit. i KNOW japan is a client state of america and i have a good idea of the jsdf's complex role there where it's a "self defense force" but is still effectively a major military and contributes to global hegemony. yep. uhuh. going to say anything new to me before before we get back to the plot? are you going to do anything involving the characters or themes or tone of the show/movie patlabor? no?"
still good, though the first one was way better. imagine if a patlabor movie that included noa izumi, main character of patlabor, as a character! that'd be so crazy
well alphonse didn't appear either
i still liked it, gotoh is good even if i wish he hot more to actually do and it's a really pretty movie, but like. the first one managed to do the mamoru oshii thing AND be a patlabor movie! this one should have just been an original setting tbh, doesn't engage with any prior stuff at all
i do listen to ghost divers but perhaps surprisingly i have NOT listened to the utena season. i have it all downloaded, i just need to be in a very specific mood to hear a 3 hour discussion of utena, much less 6 of them. i listen to atlf some and got into ghost divers when they got plugged during their ibo season
WXIII is somehow even less of a Patlabor movie. It's not bad, but it's bizarre lol.
I need to get back into AtLF - they've got some basic b stuff like Beowulf and Le Morte D'Arthur that I'm more familiar with lol.