The Rabbitte Perspective

Stylistic Void: Duck Duck...Goose... What's paramount to fathom in perceiving the plethora of recent cinematic features that Marvel have released in recent years, is their faith in giving niche directors the chance to share their vision through a super-heroic scope. Indeed, whether it's through James Gunn's vision in providing an imperative  Guardians of the Galaxy story that's synonymous with the likeable anime of Cowboy Bebop or Taiki Waititi's ever-hilarious Thor: Ragnarok which changed the persona of The God of Thunder for the better, Marvel's credence in allowing quirky directors to mantle box-office superhero films has not only been a naturally bold move, but a successful one at that since these specific visions of different film-makers have allowed the MCU and the genre to evolve in ways that are different from the norm. It's these specific Marvel films which have allowed audiences and critics alike to think differently about the superhero gen...

The Beginning Of The End For any established film-franchise that has exhibited features of intrigue and critical acclaim, one aspect that these blockbuster series have to attain to is audience expectation and hype. It's this very anticipation that can often be seen as a double-edged sword. As much as the marketing of a box-office hitter may say all that right things on their impactful posters and employ hyperbole tactics within their revealing theatrical trailers, it's this very distribution tool which can sometimes become a deterrence and rather alter cinema-goers' perception of a release long-after watching. It's not hard to fathom and perceive just how many heavily marketed films have been hyped-up only to fail spectacularly in their attempts to match the euphoria of the advertising; think of Zak Snyder's Batman V Superman  that failed to live-up to its hype in rivalling the success of Marvel's Cinematic Universe due to its myriad of cinematic problems...

Back To The Drawing-Board Unequivocally, while many outside audiences arguably see it as a series full of characters staring each other down, powering-up and fighting one another in a grandiose manner, there's a reason why Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball  is seen as one of the best anime show's of all time and why so many Shōnen's of similar ilk try to emulate its formula. Indeed, from its vast collection of episodes & different stories, to the 149 video game titles that have sold over 44 million units and even an holiday in Japan called "Goku Day" which is celebrated every year on the 9th May, Dragon Ball's popularity is certainly unrivalled and it's not just down to its lauded battles between different alien races and literal gods. As imperative as the implied East Asian martial arts is in abstracting Goku's ascend from a beginner to a master, it's the shows inherent way of moulding different cultural stories and ideologies together ...

From Horrific Fantasy To Political Nightmare? 😮 Whether you're an anime enthusiast or someone who just keeps a tab on anything popular that a large mass of people are currently watching, the name of Shingeki no Kyojin , or Attack On Titan  to make it accessible for everyone, is a Japanese animated show that must have come to your attention in one way or the other. Why? Well, much to the same degree as a lot of high-profile and well-received live-action shows in the forms The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones , Studio Wit's popular series inhabits a rather likeable aspect that audiences have come to grasp; characterisation. Amongst the aforesaid shows gruesome and Goya-esque monsters in the form of the titans and the inevitable fluid action that comes along with these entities, what's become more appealing to the devotee's that have followed Attack On Titan from its inception are the characters and how they're relationships with one another intriguingly chang...

Spit-Spot As much as audience's association with Walt Disney, and his famed studio of the same name, come from the colourful assortment of animations that have each respectively told distinctive and memorable stories, it's easy to forget the aforesaid studio's live-action features. From their inception into the producing live-action films starting with Treasure Island  and The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men ,  which took inspiration from East-German fairy-tales of the 40's, to this day and age where the demand for live-action remakes of famed animated tales is ever-prominent, Disney have never been shy to act-on a story of realistic proportions and have always enthused musical magic into this specific formula. The most recognisable example of this seen is through Robert Stevenson's Mary Poppins ; a classical musical which rather battened-off Audrey Hepburn's My Fair Lady  at the time and  broke boundaries in its successful attempt in fusing animat...

A Year For Blockbusters And Endings? A Flash Forward Into 2019 "For last year's words belong to last year's language...And next year's words await another voice." Hello everyone and welcome back to The Rabbitte Perspective once again for the year of 2019! 😃👌 I hope everyone had a a lovely Christmas break and a wonderful New Year! As is the norm on this Blog, since this is the fist Post that I'll be presenting to everyone in the new year, what better way to comeback and write to you all then to look onward in the many months that lay before us and pick-out particular films that are certainly going to capture the eye of keen cinephiles and general audiences alike. In quickly gazing the plethora of films that are set be released this year, it can't go unnoticed really how many big blockbuster features there are going to be! I know I personally didn't review a lot of films in 2018, due to my efforts being concentrated on different tasks and re...