The year is 1999 and Tokyo's Mobile Police have a new weapon in the war on crime – advanced robots called Labors are used to combat criminals who would use the new technology for illegal means. The suicide of a mysterious man on the massive Babylon Project construction site sets off a cascade of events that may signal the destruction of Tokyo.
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'98 VS Type Zero: a short exchange of blows which defines a movie.
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___„Old busted VS New hotness”___ is what I first said, jokingly, when this shot came up in the Patlabor movie. However, as the scene unfolded, I came to realize that my joke was much closer to the truth than I had intended.
The old against the new is…
Patlabor and the self-deification of the modern god
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__Introduction__
Coming from the OVA, I felt conflicted about Patlabor. Its introductory episodes were fine in their own rights, but felt disjointed as some heavily relied on comedy and the others had the perfect balance. The final three are the best exa…
__Quick tldr__
Patlabor the movie is a very good action/drama mecha movie. It looks good and has an entertaining, if somewhat predictable, plot. The stakes are high, the characters are likable, and the action is great. You could theoretically watch it by itself, but I'd strongly recommend having wa…
Making the Possible Impossible: "Yesterday's Science Fiction is Now a Reality"
With spoilers.
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__Real Robots__
Photography, and by extension film, is the medium that embodies modernism. It is scientific, both in the process and in the precision of its rendering. It makes a mockery of the attempts of fine artists to depict scenes and fi…