#Million Dollar Movie

[tvneon]

[oldshowbiz]

The Loch Ness Movie

[hakogyi]

kaishin nation i am so, so sorry

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery

[clone-futon]

When he left his doves at home, he just has to befriend with the seagulls in Hakodate because why not?

[epoxyconfetti]

Every Saturday as soon as the cartoons stopped in the morning, I got my education in old sci-fi and horror films from WOR (and WPIX Channel 11). All the classic Universal horror films, highly edited and censored Hammer films. Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Fiend Without a Face. Ten Million Years to Earth. The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Plus, appropriately for today’s date, the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies, and the first US broadcasts of the Tom Baker series.

Laid the foundation for my what taste is today, for better or worse.

(Peter Avellino)

[faith-gigliorosa]

Detective Conan: The Million Dollar Pentagram Airdate: April 12, 2024

[winterfieldfrontiers]

Kid's voice actor revealed, Kid in M27 won't be "Relax" anymore

Kappei Yamaguchi revealed that after reading the script for Conan the Movie 27, he couldn't stop himself from crying. He revealed that the thief's idea in the film is different from the previous films. His character will have a lot of development awaits.

He revealed that there was a scene where he had to do a voice channel that he had never thought of before.

It is "anger" Because we see Kid's thinking about everything in a relaxed manner, no matter how bad he was. But this time it's not anymore.

The relationship of Conan and Kid the Thief, Even if it's optimistic. But there are some walls that will be presented as the core of the film while Nakamori's explored in this film too.

Plus a secret that will be revealed at the end of the movie. It will make the audience crys after finish.

The film is scheduled to be released in Japan on April 12, 2024.

[applejuicewerewolf]

Just watched M27 (in cinema! That was cool!!) And oh boy, thoughts!

First of all, I was sooo excited to watch this anime movie in an actual cinema, with other people who were also there to watch an anime movie (in an actual real cinema). Idk, I often still feel like liking anime is something embarrassing, even tho it becomes more and more mainstream, so seeing 20 or so people who also openly announced that they liked it was amazing.

Now, to the actual content of the film:

Love Love LOVE Heiji and Kaito's dynamic here. He was so angry that he drove his fucking motorbike through a window!!

The fact that the KaiShin same face thing is something Heiji is surprised by is very weird, considering that he knew that Kaito always disguises as Shinichi in movies (and yes, the movies have their own continuity, see the fireworks-soccer-ball!!)

Additionally, I watched this film in the German dub. In German, Conan and Shinichi have the same VA, and Ksito has a different one. Still, Heiji makes a note of Kaito sounding similar to Conan (their German VAs do NOT sound similar!!!)

(On that note, they replaced the German VA for Kogoro and I am scared to google why :(( )

Also in the German introduction, Conan LITERALLY calls Kaito his "fated rival" ("schicksalhafter Gegenspieler"), which is very gay for the movie that completely reveals them as cousins.

Kaito feeding seagulls. Just that. It was funny. This is what happens when he has to leave his doves at home. He is a disney princess but only for birds.

Loved the scene where Kaito was attacked while on the ground and was shown to be out of his depth. Catch him on the ground and he is a wingless bird.

Additionally loved that scene because Heiji and Conan jumped in to save him. Their dynamic was so good, with Heiji attacking front and center, Kaito trying to shoot the attacker, and Conan coming clutch with his soccer ball. These three are so much fun together, and I love how throughout the movie they hunt Kaito in one scene, and work with him in the next.

They also alway immediately recognize his disguises??? That was hilarious. These three are one the same wavelenght and I'm all for it.

Oh speaking of disguises, I am VERY surprised nobody even mentioned Okita being the third same face triplet. Would've probably taken away from the KaiShin cousins reveal, I guess?

Minor mention: idgaf about Momiji and I never will. Useless character. Why does she even exist at all. Focus on the main characters...

Okay, I cannot keep quiet about it anymore. The entire "Ginzo gets shot" scene was THE BEST THING EVER. Kaito literally reliving the trauma of losing his parental figure again, and being unable to even SHOW IT OR VISIT HIM? Him having to silently watch as Aoko (MY GIRL IS ON THE BIG SCREEN I ALMOST CHEERED) is going through this all alone??? She probably was still in Ekoda. Did she get a phone call and was flown in to Hokkaido? WHERE THE FUCK IS MIDORIKO IN THIS?!?!?! GOD. This scene. I want 500 character studies of this scene on my desk by tomorrow morning.

That being said, with the Toichi reveal at the end, NOT ONLY did Kaito hide his emotions as he visited his mortally injured father figure in the hospital, his actual father was RIGHT THERE??? TOICHIIII YOU RAT BASTARD I WILL KILL YOU!

Why even WAS Toichi there. Legit. Ugh, I wanna do this in chronological order.

Anyways, AOKO SCREENTIME MY BELOVEEEEED

I feel like she was underused tho. Her only contribution was calling Conan Kaito's twin, and that was it. Feel like that's a running theme with DetCo focusing too much on random murder of the day and not its actual characters (something that also HIGHLY annoyed me during the Scarlet Schooltrip >_<)

Speaking of, that plotpoint was also kinda never mentioned again after the half point of the movie?

Coming towards the end of the story, the car chase with like 5 different parties through the city was hilarious. This is the stupid Shounen action I expect from DetCo movies (but not the stupidest Shounen action we'll get!)

As for the actual plot, I don't really care for that in DetCo movies, I'm more interested in the established characters doing fun and wacky shit.

Also so not a fan of the "murderer misunderstands or misreads a situation, making their murders pointless" storylines in DetCo. Tho M19 was probably the worst one in that reguard (girl what!)

Okay, so the Kendo guy. His mother died to a bombstrike, so he wants to blow up a mountain with lots of civillians on it. Because he's anti war. Girl what.

And now to the peak of Stupid Shounen Battles: swordfight atop a flying airplane, one of the combattants wears no shoes.

Absolutely LOVED Kaito catching Heiji midair. He does it with Conan, he did it with Heiji. Hakuba, you're next.

Sure, Iori just randomly DROPPED A FLASHBANG right in front of Heiji and Kazuha. Tho shout out to my girl Kazuha who was quick and smart enough to cover Heiji's ears as she "Get down Mr President"ed him.

At this point, shoutout to Ran. She gives it her all to make this Ship a thing. Loved her "casually but ominously deduce Heiji's true intentions" thing she did. Go be a love detective, honey!

Okay, the after credit scene. VERY NATURAL REVEAL you guys did there. Just casually have Yusaku suddenly say "yes, my wife whom I have been married to for at least 18 years, I have a twin brother i haven't seen in 2 decades." Wow.

HE REGULARLY TEXTS TOICHI??? TOICHI WHO FAKED HIS DEATH. THEY TEXT! THEY! TEXT!

YOUR SON BELIEVES YOU DEAD AND WANTS TO AVENGE YOU YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE

WHY WERE YOU THERE! WHY WERE YOU IN DIGUISE THIS ENTIRE TIME!

I HATE TOICHI EVEN MORE NOW WTF

Conan kill your uncle with a soccer ball please.

[fure-dcmk]

movie 27 spoiler, 1 page comic >>

popular guy

that scene where hijikata onimaru calls out to okita implies reincarnation exist in detco. this implies heiji could also be the reincarnated benkei to conan's yoshitsune from movie 7 <- delusional

real talk m7 didn't do a good job at showing the benkei-yoshitsune parallel but its still a fun implication 😁

[pocchi-poket]

Anyway my main takeaway from the fandom's reactions to the "Toichi and Yusaku are twins/Kaishin are cousins" reveal:

[moonlittalk]

more kaito shots from the new trailer! (this one is a bit spoilery tho!!)

[oldshowbiz]

[i-still-loving-u]

[clone-futon]

So I just watched the movie...

And beside the reveal we all-know-what at the end, it was surprisingly good :'Db

[lizardsfromspace]

If you look at the timeline of Most Expensive Movies Ever, most of them are some form of epic, and the ones that aren't are fantastical or historical in nature, which makes sense: obv, massive sets and visual effects and all-star ensemble casts and crowds of thousands of extras eat up cash, and several of these films were the first to do a certain effect, meaning they also had to develop the technology for it. This is true all the way back in the silent era on to today

But then you have the first one, the earliest known movie w/a budget over a million dollars, which was a moody drama about a horny con artist destroying his life and the lives of everyone around him, which cost more money than any epic before it bc noted freak Erich von Stroheim demanded they reconstruct all of Monte Carlo on a soundstage instead of filming at Monte Carlo. And also made the movie's first cut eight hours long