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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 931143" data-attributes="member: 3887">Some unneccessary comments...Fast Learner re: Happiness... I'll admit that there were some pretty amazing individual scenes in the film {like several w/the child-molesting psychologist}. But overall wasn't the film just the setting up and knocking down of obvious caricatures {fat, lonely programmer, dumb aimless folksinger, untrustworthy Russian emmigrant... too easy}? Without enough psychological realism to be honest, nor enough panache and over-the-top wit to be thrilling trash. The director's complete lack of empathy for the characters prevented them from being truly chilling. It was a soap opera about RL monsters...jdavis re: Trainspotting... were you supposed to sympathize/empathize w/the films junky mates? Absolutely. I always thought the film was less concerned with drugs and more concerned with friendship {its a pretty dishonest drug film}. I'll bet you could replace the drugs in the film w/Playstation {another listless-youth rite of passage} and it would work about the same {except for the baby and the withdrawl hallucinations}.all who dislike Akira... are you crazy?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I recently saw the remastered version on the big screen. Its beautiful. And for those of you who found the ending obtuse and annoying, forget about it, and try watching the film as a collection of anxieties that the Japanese have about their whole society coming unravelled in the 21st century. Akira is all about fear, modernity, reconcilliation w/the past/cultural heritage, just like the giant monster films, only less stupid.all who disliked Chasing Amy but like Kevin Smith... the thing about Chasing Amy is that its Smith's most well-rounded work; humor, well-drawn characters, a bit J&SB, even some nice psychological insight in jealousy, desire, and friendship.end unsolicited remarks...</blockquote>

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