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An error has ocurred. Please try againNeedless to say, you may or may not agree with my quick assessment of the entertainment value of these productions. One man's poison is another man's meat. It's worth noting that this is my most liberal and inclusive list. My other lists are pickier.
The productions herein encompass all genres and are listed in no particular order.
[last rationalized at 1,247 titles; still needs conceptual ordering of individual titles and possibly additional categorization for specialty lists]
Given the nature of the genre, most of the entries herein also appear in my Pizza-Worthy Guy Flicks list, although the latter omits a number of entries that struck me as being too weird or oddball to deserve the full pizza and beer treatment.
[last rationalized at 5 titles]
Given the nature of the genre, a fair number of the entries herein also appear in my Pizza-Worthy Guy Flicks list, although the latter omits a number of Westerns that struck me as being too outdated, hokey or weird to deserve the full pizza and beer treatment.
[last rationalized at 17 titles]
The films herein technically encompass all genres, but each entry possesses that unmistakable flavor of female appeal.
It should be noted that I tried hard to weed out overly weird or horrifying crap. I think all day long already and want not to have to think even more about what is supposed to be light entertainment, which means that militantly artsy-fartsy films have been banished to the barnyard. Sadistic slasher gorefests that rely exclusively on the sheer shock value of bloody mutiliation and murder are also out, out, out. The standard pending list, found elsewhere, is a looser collection that holds a significant portion of the potential couch-potato fodder that didn't make into the premier pending list.
The films herein encompass all genres and appear in a peculiar order that undoubtedly makes sense only to myself.
(Lightly rationalized through entry number 58 on 16 Sept. 2012.)
Reviews
Hoshi o Ou Kodomo (2011)
Beautifully Drawn But Ultimately Flat and Meaningless
The animation is undeniably first class. I wavered between "gorgeous" and "very pretty" whilst watching. As much as I wanted to give this film better marks, though, it's impossible to get past the sheer silliness of the script. Its unlovely bones are a jumbled mishmash of legends, myths, and tired tropes.
Cartoonish eruptions of mindless video-game violence don't help either. Why in the world must a helicopter gunship and masked villains be thrust into the action? Further on, the big fellow who seeks his lost love has an amazing ability to pluck various supplies out of thin air, such as a bulky submachine gun that very clearly wasn't hiding under his clothes or in a backpack that he didn't even have with which to begin. The insulting suggestion of unlimited ammunition made its sly appearance as well. :/
Without belaboring painful plot holes and numerous other problems, the entire production is a disappointing betrayal of the promise of delight held forth by the introduction of so many potentially rich ideas. It's as if a group of educated but stoned scriptwriters dashed this off near midnight of the day before the final deadline, and the producer sighed and did what was possible to lavishly illustrate a chaotic mess. Frankly, virtually the only bright spot other than the outstanding art was the combination of an entirely sympathetic heroine and her believably loving mother. I expected better. Much better. -_-