'The Sky Crawlers' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Nate has reviewed 'The Sky Crawlers.' He says this is a fascinating anime, but it's not for everyone. This Blu-ray features solid audio and video, but a somewhat disappointing set of extras. Worth a look.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2212/skycrawlers.html

[Dogmat]

Been looking forward to this. Can't wait till my copy arrives from Amazon.

[booboo]

thanks for the review nate!

Amazon.ca just shipped my order today. Hopefully I'll have it to view tomorrow or friday latest.

[judesalmon]

I watched this last week. So boring. Not really surprising from Mamoru Oshii.

[Josh Z]

Nate, that 3-star scores seems awfully low considering the nice things you wrote about the movie in your review. What's up with that?

[ZenAmako]

Yeah, I was bored by this movie, and I love Oshii's Angel's Egg and Avalon.

[project-blu]

Originally Posted by Josh Z

Nate, that 3-star scores seems awfully low considering the nice things you wrote about the movie in your review. What's up with that?

i was debating 3.5, 3, 3.5, 3 for quite some time. i chose 3 to reflect my thoughts, but i don't think star ratings matter as much as the words that express the goods and the bads, personally. i enjoyed the flick, and my belief that it will turn off many people didn't factor into the medium range score (my scores are my thoughts, not what i think others will think).

perhaps i'm just a real hard ass lately, with that slew of the lesser films i've been volunteering for... i know with one of my upcoming reviews, a few fans will be quite mad at how it didn't get high scores but the words will express a not very flattering take, for sure.

[Blu-News.com]

Which title is that?

[Josh Z]

Originally Posted by project-blu

i was debating 3.5, 3, 3.5, 3 for quite some time. i chose 3 to reflect my thoughts, but i don't think star ratings matter as much as the words that express the goods and the bads, personally.

Oh, I agree. The star rating scale is the bane of any reviewer's existence. The text is of course more important. I just didn't see anything in the text of this one to indicate that much dissatisfaction with the movie, that might account for such a low score.

Keep in mind that I haven't seen the movie, and have no personal opinions about it. There just seemed to be a disconnect between what you wrote and the score you gave it.

[BullRay]

why then not simply do away with the film rating?

of course that would probably not stop either überfans or those bored silly by X to nag about the PQ being wrong even more just to compensate for it, but hey..

[Josh Z]

Originally Posted by BullRay

why then not simply do away with the film rating?

The content of the disc is every bit as important as its technical specs. A disc can have the absolute best video and audio in the world, but if that movie is Battlefield Earth, it does not deserve a recommendation.

[BullRay]

Originally Posted by Josh Z

The content of the disc is every bit as important as its technical specs. A disc can have the absolute best video and audio in the world, but if that movie is Battlefield Earth, it does not deserve a recommendation.

unless the reviewer is madly in love with Battlefield Earth of course.

jokes aside, what I meant was sort of,, since there is no really hard connection anyways between the recommendation and a reviewers personal taste the grade says little to the reader about which either case without looking at the text. like in this one, Nate sure seems at least a little infatuated with it, but also acknowledges it not being for everyone. a lazy surfer may just look at the grade and assume either, "well this must be all mediocrity.." or "oh, this seems decent enough to waste soem time on.."