Saw this movie with a friend last night. The good news is he wants to read the books again, after previously getting burned out on them around volume 9 about a year ago.
I'll preface with an admission that I don't know what a good animated adaptation of the eclipse would look like, but I didn't much care for what was shown in this movie. I didn't like the way the apostles moved or the weight they appeared to move with. In my mind when reading the manga, I imagined the action sequences with Guts vs. the Apostles to be lot more frantic and frenzied than what this movie portrayed.
As others have already said in this thread, the Femto Caska scene is very difficult to watch. I don't know that I would say that they embellished the scene and made it longer than it should have been, but seeing content like that animated, was extremely uncomfortable and for that reason alone I much prefer the manga version. I think depending on how you look at it, the animators did a good job here.
I agree with some of the comments mentioned in the scathing reviews, Guts took way too long to jump to Caska's defense, and Griffith's vindictive look at Guts when chanting "I sacrifice" is someone from the production team projecting their own stance on what was better left as an ambivalent moment in the Manga.
This might be my least favorite movie of the series, I felt that the eclipse came off as a little cheap or cheesy, and really doesn't pack the same wallop of intensity that I believe that event deserves.
Also, the escape from the Castle after rescuing Griffith felt lame in comparison to what is covered in the Manga. I feel that the inclusion of Wyald would have made this movie a lot better for me.
I'll preface with an admission that I don't know what a good animated adaptation of the eclipse would look like, but I didn't much care for what was shown in this movie. I didn't like the way the apostles moved or the weight they appeared to move with. In my mind when reading the manga, I imagined the action sequences with Guts vs. the Apostles to be lot more frantic and frenzied than what this movie portrayed.
As others have already said in this thread, the Femto Caska scene is very difficult to watch. I don't know that I would say that they embellished the scene and made it longer than it should have been, but seeing content like that animated, was extremely uncomfortable and for that reason alone I much prefer the manga version. I think depending on how you look at it, the animators did a good job here.
I agree with some of the comments mentioned in the scathing reviews, Guts took way too long to jump to Caska's defense, and Griffith's vindictive look at Guts when chanting "I sacrifice" is someone from the production team projecting their own stance on what was better left as an ambivalent moment in the Manga.
This might be my least favorite movie of the series, I felt that the eclipse came off as a little cheap or cheesy, and really doesn't pack the same wallop of intensity that I believe that event deserves.
Also, the escape from the Castle after rescuing Griffith felt lame in comparison to what is covered in the Manga. I feel that the inclusion of Wyald would have made this movie a lot better for me.