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From a direction and production values point of view though, the 1995 movie is head and shoulders above the TV series. If I could only watch one, I would choose
by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
From a direction and production values point of view though, the 1995 movie is head and shoulders above the TV series. If I could only watch one, I would choose the 1995 movie hands down.
- tessierashpool 3y agoit's all personal preference, but "head and shoulders" is excessive. I prefer the directing in Stand Alone Complex. the 95 movie moves slower, and glosses over a ton of complexity because movies have less time to work with than shows. but it's kind of the same directing in either case, because the 1995 movie's director, Mamoru Oshii, worked on Stand Alone Complex as well. the 95 movie does have some advantages in the consistency of its production values, because TV shows have to churn out a lot more content. but this fight scene is imo better than anything in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZb-43E6clQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZb-43E6clQ also, again, it's a franchise. Stand Alone Complex is not the TV series, it's one of the series.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y ago> it's all personal preference, but "head and shoulders" is excessive. It's hard to beat Mamoru Oshii trademark style of direction. The TV series ... felt like a TV series. It was competent but no different from any other anime. When it comes to production values there is no comparison, one is a movie with a fairly high budget running for about 2 hours, the other is a TV series stretch out over 26 episodes. The level of graphical fidelity of the 1995 movie's animation blew my mind back in the 90s when I first saw it on DVD. Add to that Kenji Kawai's haunting soundtrack ...