Not what I expected, still good though

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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing .

I remember first seeing it when I was around 11 or so, all my excitement came from the overwhelming word of mouth on it from Anime fans, I was a huge Anime fan at the time.

My bestfriend watched it with me on TV and I remember it being one of the more painful and scary film experiences I have ever had, I just felt dirty watching Akira for some reason.It made no sense to me for a lot of it, I remember the ending with Tetsuo just making me wanna barf and it really messed my head for a long time.

I didn't watch it again until I was 17, as a huge movie buff now, I once again watched it on TV and liked it a lot, it made sense to me now and I was blown away how epic the movie was.

It took me even longer to get into more stuff like Akira, but I got the bluray when I was 21 and watched it with my buddy, he hadn't seen it before and I hadn't in years.I really dug it a lot the third time, embracing the idea that I was never going to get all the answers.

Still, it's a strange movie to say the least, it's never the movie you are going to think it is, one of the more original and crazy films to ever be made, animation or not.

I actually watched it for the first time this week. I got it from the library because I didn't want to buy it without seeing it first. I was disapointed because for some reason the Japanese audio wasn't working on the dvd, so I had to watch the dub. Nothing against the dub, I think it's good, but I wanted to see it in Japanese first. Anyways, I knew this wasn't going to be a light-hearted movie by all means, but I underestimated it. Within the first 10 minutes I was shocked at all the blood and violence And of course, the animation was spectacular. It was all hand drawn. Wow.
One day I'll read the manga, but it's not something I feel the need to do right away.

PIGS ARE PEOPLE!

I had a similar thought, this is how it came to me: I got the 1001 movies to watch before you die book from the library, and one of the films in it was AKIRA, I always loved anime, so to see it in something like that made really excited to watch it. I went on to netflix to put it on my list, but it wasn't available, I couldn't wait so I ordered it. I finally got it in the mail, also with Spirited away which I also ordered. I watched it, and just to let you know I read a little of the manga, (chapter 2,3, and 6. not a good way to come to it, but they were the only ones avaiable) some of the critics reviews, the different dubbed clips, and of course the plot ahead of time. When the movie was done I said "That was...ehh..but I thought..a wait a minute!..ehh awww". I probaly would of said that this film was very "different", by that I mean it wasn't what I thought. It's not: WOW this is even better than thought, this movie rocks, or, Aw crap I just wasted half of my money on this thing, now what'll I do?

This movie is still good, it's really good, but I wanted more. It's like the sequel hype, "man that one was good, I can't wait for the next one". But because I knew this was a stand alone film, so I felt sad that I won't see what was in the Manga be in film, because that would have been awesome to see that giant baby Tetsuo thing be animated.

Just one last thing, By what I said by no means do I want "Akira 2" or something dumb sounding, I just felt like they didn't put everything into film (well actually they didn't).