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Summary: good enough to get
Review: not bad I think, I bought this because it's long...about 140min I think... so it's cheap $$/min ... story has some drags, but overall its nice to add to your collection. It's not a bad title...it's ok. But get Lodoss War first...that is really cool!! I just wish they release Miyazaki's stuff on DVD too!!!!!
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Summary: Green Legend Ran
Review: Overall, Green Legend Ran was a good movie. Originally released as a 3 episode OAV series, it was compiled into a shorter length movie that edited out some nude scenes. This DVD contains the full, uncut OAV episodes. The story focuses around a boy who is going through adolesence. Also, it expands something that is somewhat common in anime: the use of oragnized religion as a means to brainwash and control the populace. Religious viewers might be offended, but that is part of the purpose of the film.
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Summary: Those half plant human in the story make me ill.
Review: So so animation, ok storyline and disgusting character design. Those half plant human in the story make me ill. The storyline is a little like princess mononoke, but a lot worse.
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Summary: A 13 year old from Va writes
Review: Sorry everyone who does not like this film. This is one of my favorite movies. I watched one day on the sci-fi channel about 5 years ago. Then I waited and waited until it came on again. It took nearly 2 years, I have not seen this film in a long while, until I saw the DVD version. No one else seems to like as much as i do. If you do not like it you should stick with something else. ^_^
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Summary: A good action movie, with some drama surrounding it.
Review: This is a 3-episode movie, all of which contained in the DVD version. The DVD version is NOT in letterbox format, and I believe that there is NO letterbox format. It has Japanese and English dialogue, and English (regular, and hearing-impaired) subtitles. This DVD does not have any menus, it's a bare-bone DVD title.The story revolves around a teen boy overcoming (some rather) large odds via smart-thinking and some agile actions to be together with the girl of his choice. It's cliche. The story surrounding it is something else though. Fans of Japan Anime would not feel strange of the story, newcomers beware. The backdrop of this adventure is a dried-up earth, with huge pillar-like thing that acts as gods embedded on earth's crust. The story unfolds a bit too quickly for my taste, and the graphics are a bit old to current standards. Most of the movie is serious, with very little humor sprinkled inbetween. A good movie to have on your collection, although I would prefer Miyazaki's works compared to this one. It has some quirky side story in it, which might be enough to make up the dryness of this movie for some people. Overall, it's an average movie.
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Summary: Green Legend Ran
Review: this movie is a classic. i've grown to love it more and more. heck i even used "ran" as an alias online i liked this so much. anyway, the story is really good and i highly recommend it.
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Summary: a great story.....
Review: this movie is a classic. i've grown to love it more and more. heck i even used "ran" as an alias online i liked this so much. anyway, the story is really good and i highly recommend it.
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Summary: Great action movie
Review: This was one of the better Japanimations that I own. It is about a young boy named Ran who is bent on avenging his mother's death. While battling Hazzard, a rebel group whose leader was the murderer of Ran's mom, he meets a pretty silver haired girl known as Ira. Ira turns out to have mysterious powers and is a direct decedant of Rodo, an alien creature that came down from space many years ago. Ira has been summoned by the Holy Mother for unknown reasons, and Ira has no choice to obey. Now, Ran must try to save Ira from the Holy Mother as well as Hazzard, and the fight becomes a battle for the planet as well. END
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Summary: Hit and miss.
Review: What a disapointment. I was loving this OVA up until the end. It was very reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind", but it was original in it's own right. Even though he isn't credited, I'd swear that Jean "Moebius" Giraud, famous French artist, did the character design for the Rodists...although they could've just ripped him off, too. But I could still look past all of it, and the fact that it was longer than necessary, because it was still quite charming. But instead of merely being influenced by Miyazaki's Nausicaa, it's just a knock off. In 1992 the manga of Nausicaa wasn't completed, so the unforunates who had to complete the OVA had to think of their own ending...with horrible results. I don't want to spoil the film for anyone who wants to watch it, but I'm left asking, "what's the point?" It's either too subtle for my thick head, or they just didn't bother. Green Legend Ran seemed poised to be very profound and thoughtful, but it ends with a thud. The DVD itself is a bit of a let down, the quality is fine (and it's a 4:3 'movie' to begin with), but there are some 'bonuses' at the end, and you're only way to get there is chapter skipping to them--there is no menu whatsoever.
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Summary: It's like a futuristic Princess Mononoke
Review: Why does everyone call this a movie? Because the Sci-fi channel treats it like one?
It's actually a spectacular 3 episode OAV. Although it's a little aged (not the best quality of backgrounds in combination with the old techno/rock music) It still has a compelling story to it, very intriguing. Makes you wish it had been a TV series rather than an OAV.
The only real downfall with this DVD is that there's no menu. All you get is the 3 episodes, a music video and comments from the director at the end. But don't let this prevent you from buying it.
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