The defence The Adrenaline Seeker
“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.
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Appleseed
Animation · Action · Science Fiction · 2004
In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
Movie details
Appleseed
“Humanity's last chance for survival.”
2004 Animation · Action · Science Fiction 1h 45m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.8 / 10
Community rating
In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Appleseed?
For the defence
The Adrenaline Seeker
“If it slows down, you check your phone.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Taste neighbourhood
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Appleseed: Ex Machina
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Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
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Expelled from Paradise
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Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
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Patlabor: The Movie
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A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Cyborg She
Action · 2008
A lonely university student develops a romance with a beautiful interesting woman, who turns out to be a cyborg from the future.
Akira
Animation · 1988
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Shinji Aramaki
Written by
Haruka Handa · Tsutomu Kamishiro
Ai Kobayashi
Deyunan (voice)
Asumi Miwa
Deyunan (motion actor)
Jurota Kosugi
Buriareosu (voice)
Yuki Matsuoka
Hitomi (voice)
Yuzuru Fujimoto
Uranosu (voice)
Takehito Koyasu
Hadesu (voice)
Mami Koyama
Atena (voice)
Court is in session
Put Appleseed on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.