Various versions and incarnations of APPLESEED: EX MACHINA go on sale on home video in the US today. I'm featured pretty heavily in the extras included on the Blu-ray and the two-disc set talking trash about a whole lot of stuff in the basement of Other Cinema. Also among the mighty heroes who come catapulting out of your television set are Carl Horn (who I appreciate taking the the effort to put copies of Ikegami-Kokie's Starving Man in the frame) and brand spanking new OTAKU USA contributor Gilles Poitras.
What I remember about the filming: weird audio problems caused by the unseen-but-real Mole Men who live under 992 Valencia street. The cameraman saying that the basement looked like the inside of a U2 spy plane. Col. Baldwin eating a bento.
You also get to see me without my glasses, too much glare.
The producer also had to bribe the noisy neighborhood kids to play further away.
Posted by: Gilles Poitras | March 11, 2008 at 10:05 AM
I'm jealous of the colored lights you and Carl got!
Posted by: Patrick Macias | March 11, 2008 at 10:08 AM
I've always been rather frightened of these Appleseed movies, given I'm allergic to anything 3D. However, various praises on Hot Tears of Shame and numerous Otaku USA articles(love the Aramaki interview, by the way) have convinced both the first movie and second are at least worth a rental...
DAMN YOU MACIAS!!
Posted by: wildarmsheero | March 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Otaku USA was giving ink to Aramaki and Ex Machina before it was cool.
Posted by: Patrick Macias | March 12, 2008 at 01:47 PM