Casshern. R3 HK Disc Announced. UK Cinema Date Also.

I really wish they would announce these things earlier. I literally just shelled out $11 for an ebay version. This really bites!!!

100% visuals 0% content.

"100% visuals 0% content."



I wouldn't exactly agree with that sentiment. There is quite a bit to say in the ending of the film which holds true as subtext for the duration of the movie. CASSHERN is just weak in the middle and has a few narrative problems. This is not unusual in Japanese Cinema or Comic Book movies...And this movie qualifies as both.
On the whole, I liked it..didn't love it. I believe it is worth seeing, but is certainly not for all tastes.

ok...90% visuals 10% content.

:)

strange as it seem, but that still equals a %100 great movie with this one.
it maybe a little hard on the american veiwers with it's strong anti war messages and with whats happerning in middel east at the moment.
there really isn't anything else like this movie out at the moment. it's a movie very much worth seeing even if you don't end up liking it. it very nicely shot and i love every second of it.

I forked out for the 3 disc box set and I'm still glad I did. Casshern IMHO is one of the best films I've seen in a long time and one of the few to still leave me feeling the after effects for a few days. Personally I found it just so sad, depressingly sad almost, but yet so wonderfully beautiful at the same time :S

"it maybe a little hard on the american veiwers with it's strong anti war messages and with whats happerning in middel east at the moment."

-Louis,
I really resent that statement because it suggest that most American viewers are pro-war. I don't know what your local media is telling you but your assertion couldn't be any more misguided.

America is a pretty good country, I'm down there (NY State) often enough...why do they let the few loud mouth idiots on the TV (read: CNN, FOXnews, political pundits, Dubya, etc.)

John Stewart is cool though.

KuRt.
/the Canadian bails before this turns into a flame-war.

Seriously bloated, but entertaining nonetheless. Definitely a remarkable achievement if the US$6 million budget I've heard bandied about is true.

Funnily enough, it seems to be getting a lot of free press courtesy of Sin City, which keeps listing it as one of the few other fully "digital backlot" productions.

g.

I saw Casshern last night and I was hugely disappointed. Maybe it was the trailer that lead me to expect something else or maybe I'm not all that used to asian cinema as I thought.

The pacing switches between mega-intense-anime-kick-ass-action and *yawn* I'm-bored-out-of-my-skull-slow. The latter seems to take up the major part of the movie. I almost fell asleep at 8 PM, for crying out loud!

I totally get the message: Noone is all bad or all good. War is bad. Power corrupts. And a lot of dead people become a life force that fly through the universe and hit a planet like a stone lightning!?!?

What about the visuals? Everything looks great, but the styling changes so much between scenes that you wonder if it's the same movie. The makers of Casshern could learn alot from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. There's too much styling (yes, there is such a thing).

I want my two hours back.

I've seen it lately in a sci-fi festival, here in France, and...
Hu...
I've been so looking forward to watching Casshern and such a disapointment...

Strange mix of brillant ideas and... A... Hu... The crappiest things I've ever seen (ahah) in the same scene.

When something works (rocks, even), other one don't.

To my view, Casshern will be the future and blameless reference for creators (graphic designers etc.)