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Dai-Nihonjin (2007)
endearing but sheesh
The problem with this movie is simple. Bad editing. Loved the concept. Loved the monster fight scenes. Loved the smallness of the main character's regular life. But I hated the slow slow pace. Hated the amount of completely uninteresting nothingness between the interesting parts.
No doubt the director and the editor talked a lot about creating a mood and setting up comedic pace. But geeez, we live in a Twitter world of 140 characters.
Still, this is a movie that will get better with familiarity. One that, if you can sit through the first 3 or 4 watchings, will be hilarious to quote back and forth between friends. There are definitely good things here. :) What I would absolutely LOVE to see this film be re-edited down to maybe 80 or 90 minutes. It could be really tight. Please, someone, anyone, even an amateur, re-edit this movie. It would be a great student project - to save this movie from its own festering pacing.