Admit it Yea Forums, the only reason you hate Okada and this movie is because she achieved something Yamada hasn't. Making and directing an original story on debut and making it heart wrenching to the point of making Shinkai envy her.
Admit it Yea Forums, the only reason you hate Okada and this movie is because she achieved something Yamada hasn't...
Connor Anderson
Elijah Thomas
I actually rewatched Maquia recently to see whether or not I was biased when I first watched it. Nope, the ending is still offensively bad. Pic rel is what the film should have ended with. Everything that follow is insippid manipulation and poorly scripted and brings the movie down from 7-8/10 to a 5/10. I still can't believe how obnoxiously bad those final 5 minutes are.
Adrian Powell
>I WANT TO SEE MY DAUGHTER
>but for no more than 5 seconds
Bentley Phillips
The film lurches from unjustified drama to unjustified drama. It doesn't put in the work for you to care about the characters and their lives, particularly the secondary characters are abysmally handled as if Okada only remembers they exists for a few minutes at a time.
And so here the son's dying at the end and all you have to show for it is the presumption of motherly feelings onto a character that's shown you very little of who she is or what she's feeling. Even the son's friend has to spell out and bluntly state her feelings that haven't really been portrayed on screen.
It was so Okada I just sat their wondering why I expected anything different. She dreams up the juiciest affecting scenes she can muster and then just shoves them into her works without building to them in any meaningful or narrative cohesive way.
Jose Cook
It was unironically better than koe no Katachi and Liz. The cold harsh truth that kyoanusfags won't accept.
Ian Sanders
I watched the first 10 minutes of Maquia and then stopped watching because it was shit.
Zachary Smith
Watched this a week ago, kinda hesitated because i thought it just gonna another Okada's shit and turn out really enjoyed it. Also Maquia a cute.
James Miller
I don't hate Okada. He is my favorite.
Ryan Sanchez
I watched it on the plane, because there wasn't anything better, but it was kinda cringe to be honest with you bro.
Carson Green
Felt like a 12 episodes story condensed in 2 hours. Everything after the timeskip to grown up Eriel felt a confused and poorly paced mess, especially the "politic" plot and whatever the fuck Maquia's prisoner friend story was.
Henry Anderson
Thia. Yea Forums is filled with kyoanus lickers.
Andrew Brown
Bump
Ian Miller
Only good for the first 30mins.
After he grew up and the near rape, the story turn shit once her mommy left. Ep10 of VEG was the superior mommy movie.
Christian Garcia
VEG is forced drama the anime. I couldn't get past episode 6.
Christian Cruz
Both are trash, VEGshitter.
Parker Sanders
Maquia is shit, But I do admit it's still far better than anything Yamada has produced. Also yes pre garden words shinkai > Maquia >>>>>>> post your name Shinkai > Yamada.
Josiah Johnson
This. I was able to sit through this because it has some of the best backgrounds in anime and the same character designer as vagrant story but the dialogue and characters were really terrible
Julian Cox
Watched it, was meh. 8/10.
Dominic Roberts
Yeah. Seems like they cut a lot of shit in the third act.
Angel Ortiz
based taste user making VEG haters seethe to this day
Blake Wright
>forced drama
>show is literally a drama
okay retard
Nathaniel Gray
>Can't understand the difference between forced and well written drama
>Calls others a retard
Jordan Evans
What was so bad about the ending? The story was about Maquia and the fact that her life span is much longer than the kids. But i have a soft apot to a stories about passing. 8/10 for me.
This
I liked the movie but it was confusing sometimes and had pacing problems.
>near rape
What?
Justin Cooper
Maquia is trash and Shinkai is garbage. K-On however is one of the finest artistic triumphs of our generation and remains the medium's closest spiritual achievement to Yasujiro Ozu's transcendental language in cinema.
Jace Rodriguez
>What was so bad about the ending?
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IT'S BAD!
PERIOD!
Ryan Miller
Bump
Julian Collins
>What was so bad about the ending?
The fact that did nothing. Her watching Ariel die is something the viewer didn't need to see. You knew that she was gonna lose him, but that's what the entire movie had set up for. By the time she leaves, that's an establsihed fact. Her visiting him on his deathbed is a scene that exists for nothing but kicks. It has no other purpose. And if that wasn't inconsistent enough, the director forces 30 seconds of flashbacks onto the viewer afterwards, riding the film of its last shred of subtlety.
Oliver Sullivan
VEG was worse than phantom world.
Matthew Turner
if they cut out this part of the story, I would have easily called this anime of the year. what was okada thinking?
Isaac Richardson
Sad but true.
Joshua Long
Okada, Yamada, and Shinkai are all overrated hacks.
Jason Allen
This movie was absolutely terrible, shallow melodrama, a plot that made no sense whatsoever, incredible shallow characterization, genuinely bad character writing and interactions, really slow, and really boring.
It isn't good at all, that being said i'm all for Okada > Yamada, but that's just cause yamada is so much worse, neither are good.
This movie in particular was one of the worst i've ever seen.
Levi Rogers
>this triggers the f/a/ggot
Christian Long
That's a lot of buzzwords, and not a lot of actually talking about the content of the film.
Lucas Martin
The purpose of the scene was to show that she didn't just forget about him when they parted ways. She still loved him, so of course she went to see him one last time. If that scene wasn't there, it would imply that she just didn't give a fuck about him anymore. I'll agree that the flashbacks were unnecessary.
Ryder Long
>it was better than koe no katachi
that's not a high bar
Mason Sullivan
>it would imply that she just didn't give a fuck about him anymore
Maybe watch the film next time. This is why solid movies are being ruined by thier directors. Because of people like you, people who come up these absolutely inane interpretations that lack any basis whatsoever. She literally tells Leilia that "she won't forget", followed by Leilia's monologue about how she agrees. They will never forget, no matter how much time will pass. Everything is setup perfectly, and then this worthless reunion is shoehorned as the finale anyway. It's bad, plain an simple. There's no justification for it to exist.
Jace Martinez
I don't hate Okada and I don't care for Yamada.
Blake Ross
>There's no justification for it to exist.
how the hell is seeing your son for the last time in his dying breath has no justification?
David Hernandez
>5 minutes (that, being at the end, could be easily skipped) somehow ruin an entire 2-hour movie because... they were TOO MUCH consistent with the rest of the movie (which somehow makes it... "inconsistent")
Not even a board of psychiatrists would be able to understand how the mind of a contrarian work
Ryan Rogers
If she didn't go visit him on his deathbed, that's the definition of not giving a fuck about someone. It doesn't matter if she says she won't forget if her actions say otherwise.
Xavier Foster
I don't give a shit about her visiting him on his farm once a week, just don't show it to the viewer. It clashes with everything the movie set itself up to be.
The ending is a movie's most important segment. Maquia's ending showed that Okada didn't even understand her own directing decisions and instead doubled down on emotional climaxes by chaining 3-4 of them back to back. So yes, those final 5 minutes have a an immensely negative impact on the overall quality of the film.
>this post
So this is what autism looks like. Imagine watching this movie and thinking, even for a second, that she, at any point in time, stopped giving a shit about Ariel. Anime communities in a nutshell.
Jordan Hill
Couldn't Maquia visit him a little earlier rather than literally 5 seconds before his death? What a cunt.