GANTZ Movie Tweets

Attended a press screening of upcoming moving GANTZ the other day and tweeted some thoughts on it. I don't do the review thing anymore but if you cobble the below tweets together you'll have some of the first impressions of the film in English (potential spoilers).

The first installment of GANTZ will be released on Jan 29 2011 while GANTZ: Part II is slated for April 23. However, cities around the US will get a dubbed, one-night-only world premiere of part one on January 20 (see here).


東宝本社なう。『GANTZ』マスコミ試写。Checking out GANTZ at Toho. 128m! ...
12:41 PM Dec 7th via TweetDeck

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 1: As a movie somewhat episodic but entertaining enough action romp with some memorable sequences and decent cast 5:08 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 2: Ninomiya and Matsuyama share screen time but it's Ninomiya's film character-wise. 5:09 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 3: Ninomiya is believable / naturalistic, with nerd->power tripper->using-power-for-good character arc 5:11 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 4: Ninomiya is so slight in the battle suit that it gives his furious action scenes a fun(ny) quality 5:13 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 5: Matsuyama is fine but mostly plays upset through the film. But that should contrast nicely with GANTZ: Part II 5:18 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 6: You see Lots of relative newcomer Natsuna - her intro recalls Schwarzenegger in original Terminator. Mmm. 5:21 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 7: I'm always a little bit in love with Yuriko Yoshitaka. Here she plays an awkward wannabe mangaka. Too pretty! 5:25 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 8: Structure is repetitive but action scenes are all different, and quite cool. First one is a freakish bloodbath 5:26 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 8.5: (though red is hued very dark). Another scene is robot assassin frenzy. 5:27 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 9: Best is Japan's answer to Night Museum with guardian Deva kings, 1000-arm Kannon and Daibutsu mega-battle 5:28 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 10: It's all CG but very well done -- recalling Daimajin and Harryhausen goodness. Genre fans should dig it. 5:30 PM Dec 7th via web

GANTZ (potential spoilers) 11: Trailer for part II shown after but Toho asked to keep it secret so I'll respect that. Different stuff in it 5:32 PM Dec 7th via web