A huge disappointment.
This is old-school animation, which I'm mostly okay with, and granted, some of it is visually arresting.
But my goodness, the characters were flat and stereotypical, the plot simplistic and predictable, and the action sequences mostly pedestrian and repetitive.
Reminded me of Saturday morning cartoons back in the '60s where the good guys forever shout, "Watch out!" and then run and the bad guys forever give stupid little speeches and fire their weapons and give chase.
My boredom turned to annoyance and even anger in the late goings. An insult to one's intelligence.
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Granted, but I enjoyed it having just been to Paris. The steampunk timeline of Paris was amusing, so really it was the backdrops that worked for me more than the story or characters. The dual Eiffels, Notre-Dame, the focus on steel girder architecture - so Paris. Steampunk works better there. It's not really an American thing because we don't have the architecture yet during the age of steam.
I think I mentioned the comic-shop street that was near our second hotel. A full street dedicated to comics. I never really put together how the French adore comics, but it makes sense now. They had Asterix, Tintin, the Smurfs, and most significantly Metal Hurlant, which translated to our Heavy Metal. I can see how it fell out of Art Nouveau, which can be attributed to u-kiyo influence. But it is well respected there, so much so that the comic shop street supported nearly a dozen stores, high quality shops at that, and some of them were very large. They were patronized by all sorts of common Parisians. And that's where I had my Star Wars crepe.
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I posted all this pics of great art, architecture and arms & armor on my gram, and this one got the most likes. Go figure.
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It’s because we thought you were in outer space and that was pretty cool.
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(08-26-2018, 12:26 PM)Dr. Ivor Yeti Wrote: It’s because we thought you were in outer space and that was pretty cool.
it sure felt like a galaxy far far away. and they made pretty tasty crepes that were reasonably priced. however i think that's where i got an extra ladybug in my salad.
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That’s usually 2 Euros extra.
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