Uzumaki: WTF?

The manga is great, especially Vol. 1. Falls off a bit after that due to becoming just kind of a collection of episodes as opposed to a complete, connected piece of work. A lot going on under the surface, so cool. When they discover the dad in the container - !!

Works pretty fantastically as a manga and a movie. Roxy OTM about the dropoff after Vol.1, though.

Yeah, the conclusion to the story didn't feel completely statisfying, but some of the individual episodes were disturbing as hell! It's amazing how many different variations the artist could get from such a simple idea. There was a link in some thread a while ago to a "cut" episode (never released in the English editions) involving spiral galaxies, that was pretty good too.

I've never seen the movie, how does it handle all the transformations? Are they done with digital effects?

Just finished number 3, and it's a return to form imo, though the ending did leave a little something to be desired. Still a nice ending.

It's made me start noticing spirals everywhere (cinnamon roll most recently). And when I just looked over to my right drummer was drawing spirals on his notepad! They've got him!!!

movie is okay, comic is amazing

found the movie at kim's in nyc and snapped it up so fast! gonna watch it tonight

ITS SO BIZARRE

i think i liked it?

i am a huge fan of the manga. my friends came running up to me in the street to tell me it was in the shop. cute!

have not read the manga, movie is fucking keerazy. good times 4 u!

<3 this film/manga. Also was excited to discover the soundtrack is by the same guy who scored Earthbound.

not really into manga in general but i loved these books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Gcw6skLdM&feature=player_embedded

just did a film night with two buddies. each of us selected a film to show the others.

one of 'em showed Bresson's Lancelot Du Lac (which was fucken awesome), then I showed the masterpiece that is Erice's El Sur

...and then the other one showed this

I uh

Got bested?

happens to everyone, shake it off

I'm a huge fan of the comic (maddeningly nobody has translated New Junji Ito comics in several years) but I never saw the film because the cgi in the trailers looked weak.

I've seen and loved far weirder. I simply found it inexplicable and deeply self-sabotaging, even as surrealism. The tone was either too zany or too moody

zoody?

what did yr m8s think of el sur

they liked it a lot. both agreed that the scene in the hotel dining room near the end was the clear apex, which it probably is in terms of the emotional arc of the piece (and a tear came to my own eye), but the whole thing is a ridiculously brilliant visual progression from the warm, supernaturally beautiful tones of early youth into the sharper clarity of adulthood - the quasi-mythical 'south' we all possess as an idealised location (geographical or psychological) moving from a wistful and faraway quantity to a potentially terrible (or wonderful!) reality

I think I felt that more than they did, though

Lancelot Du Lac was also great - medieval existentialism, knights bereft, all searching in vain for their Guinevere, all striving to be too many things at once, having too many conflicting codes of honour. clearly set in 1970s France

Lancelot trying to keep up with his own mythology, but in the end, finding his own text overwhelming

Guinevere as the only character who speaks any practical sense at any point, but finding herself trapped in a sea of vacillating incompetence, has no recourse but to surrender to her various fates