Reviews

Great show, but you would think a show on the "History Channel" would be able to find some real footage of Japanese planes. Instead in one scene about the attack on Pearl Harbor they show Italian bombers. And then they mention the Ford Motor Company switching to B-52 bombers production for the war. The B-52 was quite a few years after the war of course. But hey the ice cream stuff was fun.

I guess I am the only one who thought it was just depressing. The hook had great promise, but the machines taking over the world bit has been done to death.

Hilariously over the top series about girls and old tanks. One of the weirder things I have ever seen. It is not meant to be a comedy, but you can't help but laugh at some of the things they do on this show. Yes this is Japanese so they wear school girl outfits and yes there is an episode or two in which the girls are in bathing suits (in a scene or two). I have always had an interest in tanks so I was surprised to find that the show uses historically accurate tanks in each episode. As others have said in their reviews, the tanks are used in competitions between schools. And oh by the way, the schools are on different aircraft carriers (!).

Some spoilers ahead. This movie has a well written story and great acting and will probably have sequels. The story starts in a poor "zone" of a future (?) North America. In this future there was once a war and now as some kind of (not quite fully explained) penance to make up for that old war. Each year each zone must pick two children age 12-18 to go to zone 1 and fight each other in a battle to the death. Yes, the children must kill each other. Our hero is a girl from zone 12 who volunteers to go in place of her younger sister who is picked to go, but would not make it five minutes in this battle. From the very beginning of the movie we get that awful, terrible, stupid (you think I don't like it?) documentary style shaking camera movement that persists at random throughout the movie. Cannot understand why this technique adds anything to the movie especially in drama scenes. It certainly makes it much harder to see what is going on. We saw this movie in IMAX and it was almost unwatchable in parts. If they make any sequels (which seems likely since there are more books) we can only hope Mister shaky camera DIED in a fight scene!