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RE: My Mega Recommendation Pack For Those Who Want To Dissect World Class Animation Produced Within The Last 30 Years
Redline was fantastic, and I did enjoy Captain Harlock, but man did this movie get a ton of flak when it first came out, especially for destroying Harlock's character.
I got to know of Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013) by randomly checking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinji_Aramaki page and the name looked awesome and I've loved CG animated stuff from Japan like Appleseed. So I jumped in and I actually connected with Harlock a lot and I thought it was great. You can butcher something and still create something good in its own. Resident Evil movies were practically a middle finger to the games. But you can't say that this opening wasn't awesome:
Guy Ritchie also kind of messed with Sherlock in his live action movies.
After your comments, now I'm kind of interested in getting into the original.
Captain Harlock is a classic of the 70s. It was dubbed in French as Albator and was quite famous. I imagined not everyone was pleased seeing their favourite childhood character having his personality destroyed like that. Aramaki is a very creative director and took great risk with that plot. Perhaps he's gone too far, given the movie was a complete bomb in Japan.
Well Redline, Dark City and both Blade Runner movies bombed at the box office. People just tend to have different tastes and Japan doesn't make that much money when it comes to movies with $30 million USD budgets. A wide international release could have made at least some profit for the movie. At least Kingsglaive seems to have done relatively well.
Shinji Aramaki
Shinji Aramaki (荒牧 伸志, Aramaki Shinji, born October 2, 1960) is a Japanese anime director and mechanical designer, born in Fukuoka Prefecture. He was a member of Artmic.
He is noted for work on powered exoskeletons and his mecha and CG design on several anime series.