Since I had nothing better to do yesterday (how awesome is that? ) I watched some movies!

I know everyone has seen Akira already, but whatever. Since I liked the manga (it’s on my to-buy-when-getting-paycheck-list), I figured I should see if the movie is good, too.
The story of the movie is different from the manga (obviously, since you can’t put 2000 pages into 2 hours), but not in a bad way. You know how sometimes books get totally messed up when made into a movie, that didn’t happen here.
The animation is pretty good, if you think about it being made in 1988 (when I was 3!), there are a lot of new anime with worse animation quality than Akira.
I still like the manga (started publishing when I was - 3, 1882) more though, it just has a much better developed storyline.

Then about The day the earth stood still…hmm, it’s ok-ish? At the time I watched it I was already pretty tired, so I guess I was easily satisfied. The story wasn’t really drawing me in and the effects weren’t wow-ing either.
In the end it wasn’t a bad movie nor a good one, just really, really deep in the ok category, I guess.

So, I’d say Akira is something for people who liked the manga or are into cyberpunk in general (like me ). The day the earth stood still…well, if it’s on tv or you don’t have anything better to do, you could try it.