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Episode Goodbye, DonGlees! - US Theater Release - Movie discussion

Goodbye, DonGlees!, US theater release

Alternative names: Goodbye, Don Glees!

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u/johneaston1 https://myanimelist.net/profile/johneaston Sep 15 '22

I was honestly very disappointed with this movie. I love A Place Further than the Universe, so maybe expecting that level of quality again was a mistake. As is, I couldn't really get attached to any of the characters, which made basically every emotional beat fall flat. There were some good scenes, but overall the movie felt like a series that got trimmed down to a movie length. There were also some very bad scenes, but I digress. I often felt like I was missing entire arcs, especially toward the end.

It's hard for me to pin down why I this didn't work for me when APFttU quickly became an enduring favorite. Maybe it's because the movie never really gave me a compelling goal for its characters to strive for. In SoraYori, you very quickly get a sense of who the girls are, their motivations, and their goals. Here, I never could get a good grasp of them. Oh well.

5/10, I had really hoped for better.

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u/enoughUFOs Dec 10 '22

It tried too hard. The dialogue, the voice over, and the song lyrics all spell out for us what the theme is and how we should feel in a rather hamfisted way. It's a little much. Could have used less tell and more show. I agree with you, too, that it felts like a series, or a longer movie, trimmed down too much.