"Teaming up once again after the huge success of their earlier film, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, director Mamoro Hosoda, writer Satoko Okudera and character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto have produced another hit, Summer Wars. Originally conceived as a story by Mamoro Hosoda, Summer Wars explores two facets: the exponential growth of people’s dependence on social networking and one boy’s experience while staying with a stranger’s family one summer."
Summer Wars is easily one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It's sad that it didn't get into the Oscars. I hate all that behind the scenes corruption that was against it.
I mean I have seen Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon and they are both incredible kids movies for sure but they are in no way better films then Summer Wars and last I checked the category wasn't called best kids movie(which is basically what it has boiled down to for quite some time now)
Hosoda was screwed when The Girl Who Leapt Through Time wasn't allowed into the Oscars(Really HAPPY FETT? HAHAH no way is that a better movie then The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and basically the same thing happened this time. It's sad because it's likely he will never get the due he deserves. I mean incredibly talented anime directors have gone unnoticed(Satoshi Kon for example never got recognition when nearly every film he made should have been noticed and now he is gone).
Either way I'm really looking forward to seeing what Hosoda does in the future. He has incredible talent and I'm betting he still has room to grow as a Director so his work will only get better.
Summers Wars is easily the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. So much pathetic hype and no payoff. The climax of the movie is a fucking card games??? Anime fans are such sheep. They seriously can't think for themselves.