BEST “GENRE” FILMS OF ALL TIME (PT 4)
3. AKIRA: What else? It blew the damn lid off anime (please try and remember that before this sucker came along Battle of the Planets was probably the most widely known example of that art form). It forms the connecting tissue between the films above and below. It has the final denouncement that Revolutions needed to do better here than a tie. And, it tells its deeply personal tale on such an epic scale that it actually ends where the bible begins. Indelible. Breathtaking. Spectacular. Probably the greatest single work of genre filmmaking since Metropolis, managing to surpass even the glories of 2001 by the sheer virtue of the gut-wrenching emotional core at the center of its swirling ideas and stunning visuals. And it would likely be in that oft coveted number one spot if it weren’t so obviously indebted to . . .
Great, thanks to your post, I now have a war (of the worlds, heh) in my head between the 2001 odessey music and the (not so highbrow I suppose) Battle O Planets theme. Thanks a lot.
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