4 Anime Movies Hollywood Keeps Stealing From | Staff Picks
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- What is the BEST anime movie? Our dedicated video store staff takes on boobs, drama, and more to answer this nearly impossible question. Four titles will be nominated, but only one can make it on the shelf of our dream video store.
Join us at Patrick, Danielle, Jordan, and Jourdain discuss cult classics, low budgets, and exploding butts. All on the latest episode of Staff Picks
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Welcome to Staff Picks, a brand new show from Cracked. Join Patrick Willems, Danielle Radford, and friends as they curate the greatest video store movie selection the world has ever seen. Every week they'll each pick a movie from one of the big four genres. Then between the four of them, they have to unanimously decide which movie earns a spot on shelves of their dream store.
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CREDITS:
Showrunner: Jordan Olds
Director: Gabrielle Williott
Producers: Jordan Olds, Gabrielle Williott
Executive Producer: Gabrielle Williott
Director of Photography: Rob Menzer
Gaffer/Camera Operator: Rachel Mossberg
Audio: Brett Ainslie
Production Assistants: Bryan Slack, Rachel Mossberg
Editor: Thomas Hedges, Dom Nero, Rob Menzer
Color: Rob Menzer
Mix: Rob Menzer
Composer: Seth Applebaum
Special thanks: Film Noir
00:00 Introduction
00:53 We're talkin anime
01:27 Ghost in the Shell
04:46 Perfect Blue
08:54 Your name
11:08 Millenium Actress
14:08 The winner - Komedie
Kon taking up 2 slots is deserved, but I'm sad I didn't see Summer Wars up here.
I LOVE Satoshi Kon, but my all time fav of his has to be Tokyo Godfathers. It just emphasizes his love of not only animation, but film. By the time he was directing he didn't watch any anime, as the genre had passed him up, and this felt very much like a movie from the era he loved. Plus, it highlights a really neglected portion of the population in Japan: the homeless, the queer, and the mentally ill, each represented in comedic yet never truly disrespectful fashion. Absolutely a classic.
It's also a great Christmas movie!
Tokyo Godfathers is so driven by the characters, I love how deeply you get to understand all three of them in their journey.
Perfect Blue is the prequel to Oshi No Ko.
How about ninja scroll?
Definitely one of the great 90's anime movies that got me into the medium along with GitS.
Makoto Shinkai (Your Name director) also tends to have BEST LOOKING anime pets on screen. There's a dog in almost all of his pictures and they're just absolutely adorable.
These are all great picks. I would've picked Angel's Egg, for the same reason they chose Perfect Blue. It's less talked about than Ghost in the Shell, but you can see its influence in a lot of scifi/fantasy/horror media but especially in most of the biggest video games out there.
Personally I find them, no offense, the most boring picks you could come up with. Like the picks of people who aren’t really into anime and pick the only four that they have heard of the past number of years. I’m disappointed.
Perfect Blue is a fine movie, but it also is a pretty regular psychological thriller but animated, but might very well not have been. It’s not actually showcasing anime’s own voice, what it offers that regular movies don’t easily do. I find Patricks argumentation not a pro but a con against picking this.
Such an interesting episode. I have only seen 2 of the four, so I can't wait to see the the other's. I think Staff picks could do two part episodes for some of the topics. A movie pick to introduce a genre and another pick for an "advanced" look into the genre for those who have already dipped their toes into genre and want more. Which is how this kinda felt as the second anime episode. I am totally enjoying learning about different movie genres I might not be as familiar with. Thank you.
Agreed! I need to see Perfect Blue.
Darron Aronofsky owns the remake rights to perfect blue, and lifted entire scenes from the movie and put them in black swan, but to this day he refuses to acknowledge the fact that he owns the rights and basically remade ot
also put the bath screaming in requiem of a dream
He says they're an "homage"
"Renaissance: Paris 2054" while not technically anime, but a great one if you liked GTS. Hard black and white style CGI. It's got Daniel Craig as the main cop searching for a kidnapped scientist in a bleak techno future.
I've never seen a show about Anime talk less about anime
Excellent choices across the board. I was surprised at the lack of Mamoru Hisoda picks (Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars), but with only 4 picks, it feels like you covered a lot of the best. I won’t be a snob and say Your Name doesn’t belong here, I think it’s a pretty great movie in its own right. It’s odd because while I’d say I liked Millennium Actress more, Perfect Blue is probably the better pick as a staff pick, if only by the slightest of margins. They’re both movies that explore both celebrity and being on camera, but in extremely different ways.
In my opinion Ghost in the Shell is one of the best "hard scifi" movies. Not just animee, but movies period. Definitely a great modern take on Frankenstein.
With boobs.
Perfect Blue and Paprika are two of my favorite animes. I do find it amusing that betweem Ghost In The Shell and Akira, he assumes GITS is the worse one in terms of scary.
Someone please tell me the irony of talking about "picks to go in the best video rental store ever" being recorded with such muffled, awful sound and sound design isn't lost on the people behind this video, nor the audience.
Shocked nobody picked akira
It's great but it's like choosing Wolverine as your favorite superhero.
Perfect Blue is the Anime I hand people when they are wanting to get into Anime.
Y'all need Summer Wars on your shelf.
I was so glad to see your name included. It’s utterly beautiful and heartbreaking and just fantastic
I think weathering with you might look better though
I would have nominated Memories, or Barefoot Gen. I liked the latter one infinity more than Grave of the Fireflies. It's a real survivor's story, told in an honest way, with an oddly uplifting manner, and without portraying the WW2 Japanese government as pure victims. As for the former film, Memories, anyone who knows it will understand and probably agree why it deserves a nomination.
MEMORIES is outstanding and would have given a nod to Satoshi Kon as well since he also worked on it. Trivia: MEMORIES had its first 35mm premiere at Anime Expo in 1995, months before it even opened theatrically in Japan. If you dig that, you should also check out other films such as Robot Carnival and Short Peace, both of which are also feature length releases featuring vignettes of short films with a variety of directors (and Otomo Katsuhiro plays a part in those as well). Barefoot Gen is *brutal* but more honest with regards to the WWII atrociousness of the atomic bombings of Japan than Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER, and despite being animated: is more brutal, but also mercifully not even 90 minutes as contrasted with the 3 hour sadistic Nolan abomination. As an undergraduate I had to read 原爆文学「genbaku bungaku」"Atomic Bomb Literature" and Barefoot Gen is about as close to seeing those kinds of accounts outside of the written word as I hope to ever have to endure.
@@grey5626Robot Carnival was so damn good. Thankfully I managed to find a DVD of it at a convention (I am quite sure it is a bootleg, though).
@@derekstein6193 Robot Carnival has been re-released domestically in BluRay and even UHD 4K BluRay in more recent years thanks to Discotek now having the US distribution rights (originally Carl Macek's Streamline Pictures gave the US release, but if I could find Carl Macek's grave, I would probably piss on it).
Two of the four picks in this were also part of AXCN (Anime Expo Cinema Nights), Ghost in the Shell and Perfect Blue. Amazingly, AXCN also has another Satoshi Kon movie: Tokyo Godfathers (screening this week December 11th-13th). I am perplexed how you recorded these episodes during the SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes, but are releasing them right around pertinent theatrical screenings?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Perfect Blue, but if you could only pick one anime film to represent all anime? None of your choices would even be in my top 10.
Ghost in the Shell was noteworthy insomuch as it was officially the first time an anime film had a simultaneous theatrical release in Japan and the USA, though that conceit was touted in advance at Anime Expo, the reality was far worse: it only screened at ONE theater in NYC during the opening week. I was able to import the LaserDisc box set from Japan, before I found a theater screening it within a 100 mile radius from where I lived in California at the time and worse: the movie theater (in Santa Cruz, California) projected it in monaural, even though the LaserDisc had a surround sound mix.
tbh, I am not super thrilled with AXCN's picks either, particularly given that Leiji Matsumoto passed away earlier this year and for generations, his influence was enormous I think it is shameful that not a single film of his is part of AXCN's picks. Nice to see mention of アキラ「AKIRA」but I think Patrick lost that coin toss if he ended up with Ghost in the Shell. Zero mention of anything from the "godfather" of Japanese animation, Tezuka Osamu too. ;( Even with Crunchyroll/Funimation/HiDive/etc. a lot of classics still are not legally available outside of Japan in any form though. IMHO, there is way too much amazing stuff out there and while I understand the novice and intermediates not understanding the depths that are out there to explore, this felt very Zoomer. I've been exploring this stuff coming up on five decades and even I feel as if I have barely scratched the surface and am ever so slowly catching up on things I was only ever able to read about in synopsis form thanks to things such as streaming media today.
I've been to Film Noir. I'm looking forward to getting more physical copies of the movies I love.
Did I just discover tits in Robocop is the best Mandala effect of all time?
Also, Akira would have been at least as disturbing as Ghost in the shell, but both are AMAZING!!!!
LOVE this freaking show!
An honorable mention for "Wicked City"?
I would've suggested "Serial Experiments:Lain", but that seems a chicken&egg scenario in whether it influenced or was influenced by.
also, not a movie, but a tv show
These picks don’t have enough tentacles
1:28 L take, buddy. Maybe he was holding the DvD for Kite with that explanation
I always thought Darren Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream was a rip off from Perfect Blue more than Black Swan.
I remember ordering a VHS of Perfect Blue solely based on a trailer included in something else I had recently bought in the early 00s. Fifty-fifty chance it came from a catalog or a website. Such a great movie.
You take Millennium Actress but not Akira??
I think everyone assumed someone else would pick Akira, and it sort of has the same space as Ghost in the shell.
Haven't seen Tokyo Godfathers by Satoshi Kon yet. Yeah, he's really into the psychological genre. I remember Paranoia Agent way back .
Saddened for his passing. But the works he left behind is ART, not something produced in a factory. Hollywood directors should be ashamed for copying him and getting accolades for it.
It's on CZcams with ads right now, and it's a Christmas movie. It's probably my favorite Kon film, too.
@@sxeptomaniac Thanks! Saving it in a playlist.😊
Your Name was my gateway into anime. Went in with the expectations of “oh it’s gonna be the typical swap bodies and touch boobs and fall in love kinda movies i guess”, and got fucking wrecked by that twist in the middle
Glad to see Satoshi Kon get so much love, he's probably my favorite anime director, and has consistently blown my mind in terms of quality of animation, quality of story, and also the sheer amount of heartbreaking and life-affirming humanity that shines through in everything he made. I first discovered him through Paranoia Agent, and recently watched Tokyo Godfathers with some friends and have been singing that movie's praises ever since. Anything made by him is worth watching.
I really enjoyed the entire video, their choices, points of view and the charisma of the entire group was super great.
I've been waiting for a Patrick Williams essay on the works of Satoshi Kon. If you're going to do one on anime, that's the one. If you haven't delved into Paranoia Agent .... Do it
That series absolutely fuckin rules. It's so beautiful and heartbreaking. Yet, sometimes funny.
As a Kon fan, I'm glad Paprika stayed off of the list. It's very beautiful, but it's the only movie of his where it ended and I felt like some of the characters seemed a bit flat and underdeveloped. I still recommend it, highly, but I like his other work better.
another great and lesser known movie by mamoru oshii (director of ghost in the shell [there's a trippier gits 2 as well btw]) is "sky crawlers" (2008), it's about a fictional war, and it's beautiful and disturbing
Perfect Blue is so weird, about this trio of Japanese female singers where one of them goes solo and then starts to lose grip on reality. That’s like as if Alana of Haim went solo and then starts to lose grip on reality 😁
The dude probably spent more time talking about "the boobs" in ghost in the shell than every single scene alone in the movie takes to show them
Despite it being rather late in the series, I would recommend _Appleseed Ex Machina_ both as a "first anime to watch" and illustrative of something Western directors try to copy. Literally John Woo action.
Robin is going to have more nightmares when he sees the Akira giant baby. Robocop does have boobs in the police locker room scene. Perfect Blue and Ghost in the shell had theatrical re-releases this year.
Love these videos! Moar plz
Kino's Journey, but that's a series
The fact that Dragon Ball Z Broly isn't here is a crime
Seen 3 out of 4, and they are good, but I kind of wish they went for something more obscure, or at least not so mainstream. For example harmony, hirune hime, jin-roh, and summer wars.
That being said, perfect blue is amazing and deserves to win.
10:15 Given the title of this video, that's basically why I was expecting _Papirika_ between _Inception_ ripping it off utterly and _Millenium Actress_ *not* being yet ripped off by anything (I'm aware of) even for how good it is. I do still like _Perfect Blue_ more, but it's a testament to how good _Millenium Actress_ is that I can *completely* disagree with the protagonist's (mercifully non-abusive) ethos on love but still feel sympathy for her and be moved by her story. MIllions of other stories wish they could say that, but even ones that focus more explicitly on romance tend to fail (horribly) in that regard.
Surprised I didn’t see Akira, but I gotta agree with the winner here, as it might be my favourite movie ever, let alone my favourite anime
Next time get people that know the heart of anime instead of grown children talking about boobs. If it wasn't for Crack's old catalog of videos, I would have unsubbed a LONG time ago.
I’m only watching for the discussion of boobs
They should really watch one another’s picks before they shoot the episode.
I seen 3 out of the 4 so I guess I need to see Millenium Actress.
Highly recommended. I also strongly recommend Tokyo Godfathers, which is Satoshi Kon's movie in which 3 homeless people find a possibly-magical baby on Christmas Eve. Wild adventures and a deep dive into each of their troubled pasts ensues.it's currently free with ads on CZcams
"Ghost in a sell" is not you're usual anime. Its a little bit special because it combines anime over sexuality and philosophy, it's more about the human condition than the sexy anime boobs that are there to deviate the poor minded from the actual beauty of the human condition. U can see boobs and action and firepower and explosions and sadness and love .... But the real subject of the concept , the real idea that the creator wanted to inject into you're brain isn't that : if you put a human mind, with human desire and will, in a painless robot body it will destroy itself ... Cos'è we are bound by the limitations of us but our desire, will and dreams are infinite . The human condition is infinite if given enough resources and limitless time and that will bring you to you're own destruction . Ghost in a shell it's the manifestation of a great idea in a stupid medium. Its what we call "La Creme de la creme" of anime/comic book juanra
I would have go with the boy and the beast
i'm surprised princess mononoke didn't make the cut.
it's because it's a ghibli movie, directed by miyazaki
Your name is too recent to have anyone steal from it, no?
Um… stealing is a strong word. In fact, why use that word? 🤨
In several cases, not only have the creators gone on record confirming that they kinda ripped off the movies, there are also scenes that were literally copied shot for shot. Most notably the bathtub scene in Perfect Blue and Black Swan.
It would probably be different if the respective anime works were credited or shouted out by name within the Western movies, then we'd consider it references or hommages. But since they typically aren't, people use the word stealing.
I have no horse in this race, so I'm not gonna make any claims about how appropriate it is to call it that. I'm sure the word was used at least partially to bait people into watching here.
I have to say though, Satoshi Kon is horribly underrated in the West, despite his works routinely inspiring absolute classics of modern cinema.
@@Broeckchen the word that should’ve been used was “inspired.” When it comes down to it, all mediums took inspiration from something else, even if it never came from their country. Osamu Tezuka took the idea for all of his works from Disney movies. If people want to claim the US “stole” ideas, then in a weird way, Tezuka did it first.
@@animechic420 Idk. Osamu Tezuka was inspired by the style of Disney, but there were no huge parallels in plots (at least not ones based on having seen each other's works). Again, especially if you compare Black Swan to Perfect Blue, the base plot is the same and several scenes are exact replicas. At that point, I'd say it goes past inspiration.
However, I think that Inception and Paprika for example are very different cases in comparison. Inception clearly only took on the concept of shared and influenced dreams and ran with it, it didn't copy any plot or even visual elements. That one I'd definitely categorize as inspired.
So yeah I think it's a case by case basis. For some examples in the video, "stealing" was definitely incindiery hyperbole, while for others, it's actually apt.
Because it has happened countless times with very little credit. The bathtub scene was ripped from Perfect Blue shot for shot and used in "Requiem for a Dream" with no credit. At a certain point the imitation or homage goes beyond the pale to just straight up theft. With the Akira Slide so often done it feels much more homage because of the relation or respect had for the medium and movie, but numerous films just rip entire sequences and even character motivations from anime, making it feel like a hollow imitation.
Weakest episode
"Best anime" is like saying "best cancer".
Weird opinion
@@ECM24 tbf they do have a trollface avatar
1:33 Ghost in the Shell was absolutely a masterwork. Especially in terms of animation quality. If you compare it to everything else produced at that time, only Akira comes close. And the Disney animations of that time look, in comparison, like the scribbles of a 2-year-old. A 2-year-old with severe brain damage.
Although in the very first sequel they jumped the shark, that jumped a shark. And it goes mindfuck from there.
11:01 Paprika is probably my most favorite anime movie.
I started Perfect Blue and got bored. I started Millennium Actress and hated it.
The only thing I hate on Paprika is that my DVD deteriorated and no longer works.