Re: ((FULL)) Summer Wars Eng Sub 720p Movies
Sofie Kovalcheck
Before getting into the comparisons, this will not be a review of either movie, nor is this an attempt to discredit Summer Wars. Summer Wars does have numerous differences that sets itself apart from the Second Digimon movie, however, the similarities that they share are nothing short of uncanny. It also seems that many people who have seen both movies are inclined to agree with this observation.
Major aspects of the plot framework appear in other movies directed by Mamoru Hosoda, most prominently Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (2000) and Belle (2021). If you have seen any of them, what commonalities and differences did you observe? Please remember to tag any spoilers.
This is something ive wondered about. When i was little and the digimon movie(the 3 movies put together 3rd part heavily edited american release) was in theater's my dad took me to go see it i even owned the vhs later on and watched it a few times. Years way later me and my dad watched summer wars and after finishing the movie me and dad were like wait a minute this is kind of familar it's like one of the digimon movies. And definitly appears im not the only one who noticed there has been posts and videos about how our war game is similar to summer wars even down to a comparison video. While i do know the reasoning is because it's the same director and our war game is sort of like his prototype to summer wars. aside from a lot of people noticing the similarities how does the digimon community feel about it mostly.
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Parents need to know that Summer Wars is a 2009 anime from Japan about an 11th-grade math genius who unwittingly unleashes a form of artificial intelligence that is determined to wreak havoc in Oz (aka cyberspace), robbing millions of email-access and GPS systems and ultimately leading to the planet's potential destruction. There is some cartoonish violence -- especially in Oz, where the avatars of the characters do battle with this monstrous artificial intelligence that starts out looking like a somewhat scary balloon boy and morphs into something large and demonic. There is occasional mild profanity ("bulls--t," "ass") and some smoking and drinking. An uncle asks his niece and her assumed boyfriend whether they've "done it" yet and are in "the family way." When a child asks his uncle what he's looking at on his phone, he tells him, "Women with big boobs." On a positive note, unlike so many movies in which the elderly are portrayed as helpless and doddering, the 90-year-old matriarch of the family is sharp-witted and assertive, just as likely to come up with solutions to the crises at hand as the younger characters around her. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
In SUMMER WARS, Kenji is a teenage boy with a talent for solving complex math equations who works part time coding data for Oz, which is essentially the equivalent of the Internet and cyberspace. But his life changes when the most popular and beautiful girl in his school, Natsuki, asks him to help her with an unspecified summer job. He accompanies her to her family's country estate, where her family is celebrating the 90th birthday of her grandmother, and this is where Natsuki informs her grandmother that she is engaged to be married to Kenji, much to Kenji's shock and dismay. As they try to keep up appearances to her eccentric extended family, things take a devastating turn after Kenji solves a complex equation sent to his phone by an unknown source. By solving the equation, he has unwittingly unleashed an artificial intelligence monster (aka a virus) called Love Machine into Oz, and as it starts to wreak havoc with email addresses, GPS, and infrastructure, Kenji is believed to be the guilty culprit. Not only must Kenji prove his innocence, he must also work together with his best friend, Kenji's nephew, and her uncle, who, out of greed, created Love Machine for the U.S. Army to find a way to stop not only Oz from being destroyed but also the potential destruction of Earth itself.
The veneration of family -- despite and because of imperfections -- is shown and discussed in this movie. How is this similar to and different from how extended families are portrayed in other movies?
While some people enjoy blind buying movies, I am not one of them. This one is not quite a blind buy because I saw part of a fan translated manga adaptation and thought it looked interesting. It ended up on my Amazon wish list and was forgotten until scrolling through that to find it on sale. So did it become a purchase to regret? Read on to find out.
Things go from bad to worse as Love Machine continues its rampage, the world itself is endangered, and Kenji finds himself accompanying the Jinnouchi clan into cyber battle. With the stakes being raised to that of life or death, the peaceful summer vacation has turned into a summer war.
With the latest Digimon movie about to drop for home release, one can't help but think about how far the franchise has come, and the movie that started it all -- Digimon: The Movie. Originally cobbled together from three different Japanese movies into one coherent narrative, The Movie gave many Digimon fans the extra content they had been clamoring for, from an origin story for the DigiDestined, to a harrowing missile crisis, to a more personal tale of trying to uncorrupt a friend. With action and heart, many fans no doubt will be wanting more of the same, but are probably looking for something a little less... dated. Something new. Something exciting. Something like... Summer Wars.
Laura Thornton is a Christian anime-and-manga aficionado, and has been watching anime for as long as she can remember. From Pokémon to Detective Conan, she adores the fun visuals, and powerful storytelling the medium allows. A creative-type herself (having studied Creative Writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Writing for Animation at the Vancouver Animation School in British Columbia), she hopes to one day see her self-published novels turned into a series of anime-esque movies. Likewise, she hopes to one day create a full-color manga-styled comic book--examples of her artwork can be seen on her portfolio and deviantArt. Now, as an anime feature writer for CBR, she hopes to add meaningful conversation topics to the discourse around the anime she loves. Until then though, she can often be found using anime to practice her Japanese skills, crocheting while watching cartoons, or playing with one of her two cats.
Summer Wars (サ マ ー ウ ォ ー ズ Samā Wōzu) is a film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda (細 田 守; Kamiichi, September 19, 1967) released in Japanese theaters on July 29, 2009. Right in the middle of summer.
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