Audience reviews
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Kloser
Blam! Blam blam! Blam!!! That's how the title of this work is pronounced, not the actual word "blame". That's right the title to this movie is a poorly written sound effect not a verb.
Blame comic is one of those rare combinations of popular and niche at the same time, generating positive reviews and poor ones depending on the writers. Nihei, the mangaka, creates a divisive work by focusing on atmosphere, violence and body horror, while the story takes a backseat for the seemingly endless journey, leaving readers to pick up the small bits and pieces like bread crumbs. Suffice to say, this did not sit to well with some people, who describes the narrative as "unwelcoming". Now, how does one go about adapting this into a movie that is supposed to have massive appeal?
Well to make it more ac…
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I watched this for the first time just a few days ago without reading the manga first.
The story premise was interesting and the character designs were great. The SafeGuards were creepy and I loved Killy and Cibo's design. However, I found it hard to keep track of who was who with the Electro-Fishers. A lot of their designs were the same and it's hard to identify who is who when you only see a close up of their face in their helmets.
I was also a bit disappointed with the story. The premise is good and interesting but it felt like the story was rushed, characters didn't get the development they deserved, and it ended far too soon from a plot line standpoint. I'm definitely interested in reading the manga to see what I'm missing but if you're looking for something decent that looks good…
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Alright, I gave this thing an 7/10 and now I'm going to try to justify it.
TL;DR:
Interested in BLAME!? Watch this movie. It's a great starting point for newcomers to the franchise, introducing key points, themes, and characters that are more-or-less accurate to the very abstract manga it's adapted from. If you have Netflix, it's one of the better animated series available - and despite being CGI, I promise there are some gorgeous shots, sequences, and scenes in it.
PREFACE:
BLAME! is a series that's been dormant for almost a decade, which is a shame. To me, this movie is a kick of the figurative BLAME! can, a movie not really for existing fans - but one made in hopes of drawing new ones to this dormant franchise. To that extent, I say this movie is a success, and does a wonderful job…
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Twenty years ago, the cyberpunk cult manga “BLAME!” began its serialization run. Tsutomu Nihei’s debut work was a dark, violent epic featuring a gunman on a quest to restore humanity’s control over the Net. Nihei employed a distinctive art style to depict the labyrinthine city, with its gigantic, towering structures and outlandish inhabitants, and backed it up with sparse, terse dialogue in order to maintain the manga’s nightmarish atmosphere.
In 2003, a few ONAs adapting certain scenes of the manga were released, and were deservedly forgotten. Last year, however, Netflix released a feature-length film adaptation, mostly based on the “Electro-Fishers” arc. The question I want to answer here is this: “Notwithstanding Tsutomu Nihei’s involvement as ‘Creative Consultant’, does the Netflix fi…
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Adapting the cyberpunk cult classic "BLAME!" is like adapting "Dark Souls". The source material revels in its indifference and brutality. A strong sense of the grotesque underpins a nightmarish and maddeningly cryptic world. It's everything that a popcorn flick isn't.
Polygon Pictures attempts the impossible by making a popcorn flick from the Dark Souls of manga. What was once grotesque is now cute. What was once gory is now a merciful camera turn and a suggestive blood splotch. What was once an eerie vista of brutalist forms is now chatty human drama. What was once a chasm of unknowable secrets is now an exposition dump. Its many pared-off edges make it a tween-friendly product, but will people buy a softer, rounder "BLAME!" ?
As a popcorn film it seems perfectly serviceable, but I am n…
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*** *** SHORT, CRISP & SPOILER FREE REVIEW *** ***
BLAME!. The trailer itself created an hype with the brand name 'NetFlix' and inculcated me to watch the movie. I thought it would be as hypnotic as it's manga. For those of you who don't know, BLAME's manga uses very less (almost negligible) dialogues, and in this process, our brain have to work hard and jerk. But when I watched the movie, I was disappointed. -_- As if I was looking to an anime version of Terminator.
Story (3/10) : You must have figured it out till this point by watching the trailer, that there must have been a salvation, the machine took control over the humans, and they are about to extinct, and they retaliate to take back what was their. Seriously, a standard story that we have listened or have given a thought so far.…
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TL;DR: Terminator meets AJIN studio. It's a mindless action flick with mediocre CGI and bland characters stuck in a subpar story but the music is atleast nice?
[Story: 2/10 , Characters: 4/10, Art: 6/10, Sound: 7/10, Enjoyment: 6/10]
If you are thinking the Blame! movie is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action flick where humanity tries to blame the culprit that led to their society's demise, well you can't be more wrong. It's merely a plot hole filled story about a group of villagers, Electro-Fishers, trying to survive in this post-apocalyptic world where technology has deemed humans as contaminants due to lack of Net Terminal Gene therefore must be eliminated. Cue in Killy, this strange emotionless robot human cyborg (Terminator) trying to find a human with this Net Terminal Gene to put an…
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TL:DR Good show in general. no crazy flaws.
I low balled the story because its very different from the manga and the manga was amazing and diverse in the different enemy's you see, even before meeting those villagers. The movie has already missed lots of that out and i cant see any way of redeeming that. For what its worth though it isn't bad just different.
Art was good. CGI is risky because it is hated by a lot of anime enthusiasts but I don't mind it if it isn't bad and in Blame it was very good (as expected in an anime movie). Nothing too much to say other than... it looks good pretty much all the time.
(Soz didn't pay attention to the sound track) =P
I think Killy was portrayed well, Cibo wasn't, she was too robot-like and cold in comparison to the manga version of her .Every one…
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| Blame! The Movie : Review |
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Blame! The Movie is an Netflix Original animated by Polygon Studio which is adapted from the hit manga of the same name , written by Tsutomu Nihei.
The movie is about a dystopian , post-apocalyptic , Sci-Fi world and even though I haven't read the manga , I went into the movie pretty hyped up having heard great things about the manga. Did I like the move ? In a way , yes. But was it any good or worth your time ? Let's find out shall we ?
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Story - 6
----------- Okay , the start of the movie was.., Epic!
The world looked and felt atmospheric , dark and it was great. within the first few minutes , we get to see people's struggles , desperation to survive. I got immediately i…
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Lame!
Other than a surprisingly star-studded cast, Blame! has nothing going for it, and with so few opportunities for real acting of any kind, it hardly matters that there are so many A-listers present. I still couldn’t tell you whom Aki Toyosaki voiced, but it couldn’t have been for very long anyway.
The most interesting character was the one who has apparently been dead for 2,000 years, and then probably due to both the novelty of a desiccated half-corpse conversing in casual Japanese and the talent of Kana Hanazawa, whose delivery managed to make this rotting excuse for an Autopsy album cover seem slightly less tedious for a few moments here and there. I’ve seen five-teens-trapped-in-a-murder-cabin B-grade horror movies that devoted more screen time to character development than this…
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In an increasingly vast world of storytelling, filled with near-endless libraries of film and literature, TV and video games, live action and animation among other mediums, standing out is a goal that continues to be sought after, either through new ideas, or simply exploring old ideas in new ways. As such ideas self-replicate, with successes spawning successors and plenty of rip-offs, the thought of something novel grows ever more enticing, to the point that many (myself included) are already drawn to certain mediums like anime simply by their continued willingness to take risks and try new things in their endeavours.
Of course, while such ambitions can result in some of the greatest and most valuable works of art around, they just as frequently fall short. Quite often, the issue is in c…
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Blame!, with its grey ceilings, pillars and story, firmly plants itself within the cyberpunk genre. It even has leather-clad, sexy cyborgs to boot. It looks and feels like The Matrix when the characters aren't in fact in the Matrix. It's an apt anecdote because it's got as much point as that: a franchise missing its hook.
Blame! looks the part, certainly. In fact, it looks and sounds brilliant. Based in a desolate, underground city, it will never look as interesting as Ghost in the Shell's New Port City or the orange hue of Deus Ex. But the mixture of post-apocalyptic dystopia and cyberpunk dystopia come together, with a surprising amount of sci-fi technobabble backing it up, and create more than an interesting-enough world to spend a couple of hours in. Perhaps a franchise, if only there…
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BLAME! is an experimental cyberpunk manga known for its opaqueness, relatively slow pace, and unique, sketch like art style. BLAME! Movie (clunky title, I know) is a schlocky direct to Netflix action film that shares some of the manga’s characters, and that’s about it.
BLAME! Movie basically plays out like a first person shooter video game. We have an almost silent, overpowered protagonist; forgettable bullet fodder enemies and allies; a “protect the stationary hacker” scene. We even get a final boss fight! Cool stuff.
Unfortunately this approach doesn’t really gel with the spirit of the manga. I don’t really want this review to be a comparison between the two, so I’ll try to look at the film as its own entity, but I’d recommend checking out the source material regardless of what you tho…
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First of all I'd like to point out that I've not read the manga and thus know nothing of the original story. Also, first review ever :)
Story: 5
It has a good premise but fails to explain A LOT of things. It gives you the basics to understand it but never goes into detail. It makes it really hard to connect or empathize with the characters and what they're going through.
Characters: 4
Same issue as before plus character development is almost non existent throughout the movie. Any of them could've died and sadly I would've felt nothing. The most interesting characters in this movie either don't talk or are not given enough attention.
Art: 8
It is great. Gorgeous scenes and art overall. It's probably the most enjoyable aspect of the movie.
Sound: 7
It goes well with the movie and the…
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I want to start of saying that Blame! is my favorite manga and I know that I’ll be pretty biased. The manga is probably the best ‘art book’ in the world so I understood they would have to change some things for a successful movie but I’m disappointed in what we ended up with.
The manga ‘Blame!’ follows Killy as he makes his way through the sprawling city focusing on the environment and slowly build up the world. Sometimes there are fights but the people Killy encounters really aren’t important besides showing more of the world. The reason I enjoy Blame! is because it’s different, not just in setting but also in its tone and characters. The movie feels like they just tossed the typical set of characters onto some establishing shots from the manga.
Art(9)
They nailed the background art. Th…
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In 2003, the Blame! manga was adapted into a six-part original network animation by Group TAC, and it was absolutely terrible. Having seen this show many years ago, and hearing nothing but praise for the manga (which I still need to get around to reading) I was more than sceptical to say the least in regards to the movie adaptation, produced by Polygon Pictures (known for their sometimes awkward CGI in the cases of Ajin or Knights of Sidonia) and the fact that it was a film adaptation of a popular manga, which often doesn't go too well. I imagined the series would be as rushed and poorly produced as the Golden Age Berserk Trilogy, but thankfully here, while the characters and narrative aren't exactly as great as it could have been, still manages to provide a great setting for its theme exe…
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I'll make this as short as possible without entering into every part of the movie.
To get the full experience for this movie you HAVE to read the manga to its entirety. This is one of the first major arcs of the Blame! series and the first one. But because they only wanted to make the first arc and not finish the entire story of Blame, they added things, changed things, and made it in a way that could make you think Blame! is only this.
If you didn't notice it (this is for the manga readers), this story is set from the village girl POV. That is why they managed to pull of this movie without getting too in-depth with Killy; also the reason why Killy barely talked and we didn't get to hear his thought process and why we got to see more of the villagers when in the manga they barely even mat…
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Does not follow the manga and thats ok. Trying to stay true to the manga would have led to a much less enjoyable movie. Even the manga writer knew this and oversaw this movie project.
To me it really captured the feel of the world in BLAME!. Isolated community always on guard against Safeguards. With a traveling journey-man appearing and changing their fortunes as he tries reach his goal of turning off the Builders. The feeling of momentous change among the community except for Killy who seems to regard the whole ordeal as a Tuesday.
The atmosphere is top-notch in terms of the isolation that one feels and the danger outside. Humans are treated as vermin in this world and it shows. They hole up in small safe places and scavenge for food. Its clear that humans are not top of the food cha…
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Wow, this is so horrible I'm lacking words. The title should be Lame! the Movie, not Blame! Tsutomu Nihei have proven that he's more into moe girls than goth robots these days with Knights of Sidonia, but seriously? Turn Blame! into some stupid relationship drama?!
First of all, Killy. He talks five times through out the whole movie, and when he does he sounds like an uninspired robot. With his behavior so illogical and stupid, there should be some kind of explanation to why the young girl gets attached to him (like, was she raised by cold, feelingless robots herself and have some kind of parent issue? No! She's the daughter of the leader, just like Nausicaa!). The "goth hero with a secret"-image that was cool in the manga turns into some kind of over powered harem manga MC, intentionall…
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Watch this if you are a Blame! fan, just don't watch it with the intent of getting the same experience you got from the manga.
While not being entirely true to the original story, I can't really complain. This was spectacular... The music, the sounds, how everything looked, it was all so cool! I'm sure if you're one of those super picky fans that rip anything that's not exactly the original story you will find a lot of things to complain about. Also I know lots of people are not fans of the 3D art style. Quite frankly I think it fits it well.
In any event... I would not watch this until you read all of or some of the manga. To me this is just the icing on the cake to Blame! My one complaint is that I wish it was longer and spent more time around Killy. Time to read the manga again...
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