What movies and shows have made y'all cry recently? I have only cried like once in the past month, while watching Elfen Lied, and that wasn't even a full-blown cheek-drencher; it was just a silent little trickle. It's frustrating.
For me, re-watching
End of Evangelion always works. Especially if I've been drinking.
I had to bite my tongue at the end of the
Madoka movies to hold back. It would have bit embarrassing with my father there.
Recent releases or old? I haven't cried to much recently-aired stuff that I can recall, but I can think of what's gotten to me in the past.
I'm keeping an eye on the US release schedule. I doubt the movies will be shown in my area, but if they are, I'm definitely getting tickets. The changes sound pretty good, and as always, more AMV footage! I'm also looking forward to (hopefully) being able to get a hold of the movies for a reasonable price. I still have yet to buy the Blu-rays or DVDs of the series because I've been holding out for a box set.
Thanks for all the information.
It's interesting with all of these movie adaptations of series coming out how they go about mixing things up.
A few years ago, we had the
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann movies, which were basically glorified clip shows for something like 90% of the movies, but which turned it up to over 9000 with their final battles, totally outdoing the counterpart fights in the series, but worth seeing pretty much only for that reason.
A little while back, we had the
Macross Frontier movies which followed along roughly with some of the events of the series, but also changed almost everything, becoming a totally alternate canon to the series. These were pretty much an entirely new experience from the series, but with roughly the same plot.
Recently, we have the
Madoka movies which keep things almost identical to the series for first two movies, and are planning wholly new material for third movie. On whole, I'd say these work better as standalone movies independent of the series than the
Gurren Lagann movies, but they
mostly don't give us any
extremely noticeable and vast improvements to any single part, but opt for more subtle changes. When introducing someone to
Madoka in future, I'd probably just go straight for the movies, since the story works so well in this format, I think. Third movie gives us, essentially, a "sequel," unlike
Macross Frontier movies, which are more of an alternate continuity.
Yet to be released, we also have the
Star Driver and
Steins;Gate movies.
Steins;Gate appears to be offering the equivalent of the third
Madoka movie, giving us a sequel set after the events of the series, but without re-adapting the series events.
Star Driver seems to be taking a similar approach to
Macross Frontier, offering an alternate continuity re-telling of the series, but it's also promising to give us a segment revealing the characters' fates after the end of the series (which I'm hoping is a major part of the story rather than just an epilogue). Both are due for Spring 2013 releases. (But who knows when
we'll see them...)
And of course, we lastly have
Evangelion New Theatrical Edition, or Rebuild of Evangelion as the Western fandom likes to call it.
Eva has a totally different set of circumstances, naturally, as Anno is adapting a decade-and-a-half old series into a new set of movies. The puzzle here is no one knows what Anno's real plan was when he started, and if the first movie and initial press releases are anything to go by, Rebuild was supposed to follow the same plan as the
Madoka movies, directly adapting the original series while giving a new ending in the fourth movie. We all know that went out the window with the second movie, and the series has gone even more off-the-rails with
Q. And the kicker is we still don't know if it's an entirely separate canon or direct sequel with Kaworu timeloop hijinks. Anno, master troll.
What approaches do ya'll like best?