Madman's Reel Anime festival is back!

The Reel Anime film festival is coming to a theatre near you - more or less - and bringing a mess of hot new animated features.

We loves us some anime here at Atomic, and we loves us the Reel Anime film festival, organised annually by Madman.

This year Reel Anime has some killer features, and will be touring around the country. The films featured this year will be Summer Wars, Evangelion 2.0: You Can(not) Advance, Redline, and King of Thorn. The program kicks off from September 2, at the below cinemas:

Sydney - Sep 2-15 - Dendy Newtown

www.dendy.com.au

Melbourne - Sep 2-15 - Cinema Nova
www.cinemanova.com.au

Brisbane - Sep 2-15 - Dendy Portside / 07 3137 6000
www.dendy.com.au

Canberra - Sep 2-15 - Dendy Canberra / 02 6221 89004
www.dendy.com.au

Adelaide - Sep 2-15 - Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas / 08 8232 3434
www.cinemanova.com.au/SA

Avoca Beach - Sep 2-15 - Avoca Beach Picture Theatre / 02 4382 1777
www.avocabeachpicturetheatre.com.au

Hobart - Sep 2-15 - State Cinema / 03 6234 6318
www.statecinema.com.au

Perth - Sep 6-29 - Luna Leederville / 08 9444 4056
www.lunapalace.com.au

Sydneysiders will get an extra-special treat, as the filming of Evangelion 2.0 will be the Australian premiere, and will have voice talent from the film on hand!

For more info on the program and the films, check out www.madman.com.au/reelanime.

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29 Comments

fr3nzystrikesback Jul 14, 2010 10:45 AM	Dubbed or subbed I wonder...
Hawkeye Jul 14, 2010 10:56 AM	That's a good question - let me ask 'em!
Mudg3 Jul 14, 2010 11:07 AM	Evangelion 2.0: You Can(not) Advance in cinema damn!
Hawkeye Jul 14, 2010 11:09 AM	And the answer is they'll be subbed :)
Athiril Jul 14, 2010 11:29 AM	Thank god for subbed. Summer Wars would be great in cinema.
fredzfrog Jul 14, 2010 1:34 PM	whats the deal with people preferring subbed over dubbed? If i wanted to f'n read, i'd buy a f'n book!
fredzfrog Jul 14, 2010 1:39 PM	dont get me wrong.. i love evangelion.. but subtitled? no thanks.
Hawkeye Jul 14, 2010 1:54 PM	Do you know the mammoth changes that get made to a script to make it fit in English? Plus the changes to the way a whole character can feel? It's like saying you like The Godfather, but only when Woody Allen does the voice of Don Corleone!
fredzfrog Jul 14, 2010 2:18 PM	you may have a point in that example. But i have seen subbing where the text has been on screen for 2 frames, then gone. and if the translation is rubbish? Its why there are professional dubbing artists and script writers. prefering subtitles is in many cases just being a protencious snob. and changes to scripts/characters? well, thats 4kids, and they suck anyway :P what about manga? you prefer that in the origional (to us) backwards formatting? its not that hard to flip an image..
Sparky Jul 14, 2010 2:18 PM	I cant really read emotion in subbs so i prefer dubbs. I also eat my dinner while watching anime, so full eye contact is not guaranteed. I just don't like it when they change character name between dub and sub, makes it impossible to swap :(
Athiril Jul 14, 2010 2:42 PM	The voice acting is almost always worse than sub-par in dubbed.
Hawkeye Jul 14, 2010 2:57 PM	Compare, for instance, the subbed and dubbed versions of Ghost in the Shell. In the dubbed version, Kusanagi is voiced like an emotionless robot, whereas in the original dialog she's much more emotive. On top of that, her dialog changes substantively. A passing joke about 'that time of the month' disappears altogether in the English dub. And, incidentally, Fredz, I own a dual Japanese/English edition of the Manga that does read in the 'proper' direction, so I guess I'm one of those snobs you talk about :)
2SHY Jul 14, 2010 2:57 PM	Subtitled ftw. You lose context and feeling. Dubbed makes it feel even cheap even though its not. You should be able to keep up with the reading imo.
fredzfrog Jul 14, 2010 3:22 PM	worse than sub par? your not talking fan-dubs are you? and an emotionless robot? probebly why Mimi Woods retired from voice acting. and hawkeye a snob? he be keepin it real, in the hizzle, fo shizzle... YEEEE-AAAH 2shy, why should i be reading when theres awesome crazy action happening on screen? i'm outnumbered here!
Sorceror Jul 14, 2010 4:10 PM	Bugger, looks like I'm going to miss it, as I'm flying back into the country on the 15th. Oh, and subs all the way. :)
elvenwhore Jul 14, 2010 4:58 PM	The subs/dubs debate is certainly an interesting one, and it's one I personally don't have an absolute answer or preference for. I agree with Hawkeye's assessment on GiTS, for example, yet I do have to admit that there's a special place in my heart for Brad Swaile's rendition of Light Yagami in the English dub of Death Note. Rather than pledge allegiance to a particular camp (subs vs dubs), I can be happy either way if the quality of the dub is good (good, great or fantastic). As for the festival... I am so there :-)
Athlonite Jul 14, 2010 5:01 PM	frack SUB's suck just dub the damn things in english I wanna watch the movie not spend all the time reading what's going on if wanted to do that I'd buy the frigging book!!!!
fredzfrog Jul 14, 2010 5:13 PM	thats what i said! lol
Hawkeye Jul 14, 2010 5:20 PM	I worry for all those who can't read a line of text while watching a film - it's not that hard!
Mack Jul 14, 2010 6:12 PM	I love watching a film with English dub and sub on sometimes it is priceless. The dub says one thing and the sub says another You won’t get as many translation errors these days...hopefully. [Try a film called MR VAMPIRE] I like subs because I have always watched foreign films and I have always watched them in the original way they were meant to be viewed. I like reading manga the way they were made. It also adds something. It's not not hard to read the manga with "backwards formatting". “I can’t really read emotion in subs so I prefer dubs” ...Don’t you have the sound on? Their voicers still portray emotion. Dubs are good when you cannot give complete concentration. But if you can't give that concentration chances are you will miss some lines in dub as well. I guess subs might be hard to get into at first, but it really doesn’t take long till it is second nature and watching a sub film is as easy as a dubbed. I don’t mind dubs when they are done well I just prefer the subs but that’s just me. "I worry for all those who can't read a line of text while watching a film - it's not that hard!" I was just going to say that.
fr3nzystrikesback Jul 14, 2010 6:51 PM	On the whole sub/dub debate, I really detest dubs. Often the dialogue is localised and the underlying message in the dialogue is lost through poor translations/modifications of the script. Not to mention the VERY average voice actors they use most of the time. The one exception I have to this is Mononoke, which I watched the first time dubbed, and I have to say that Claire Danes, Billy-Bob Thornton and Gillian Anderson were amazing. On the topic of having trouble reading subs, well that just comes with practice, I've gotten so used to reading subtitles, that I even watch a lot of English dvds with subtitles now in case I have trouble understanding obscure dialogue. I don't miss a thing when reading subs now.
Mudg3 Jul 14, 2010 7:21 PM	Have to disagree with the GIS statements she was a cold and detached individual. She was ment to be portrayed as that. But each to their own. Dubs do suck most of the time unless you have decent voice actors But 2.2's dub's arnt bad at all, In fact they were done so well that I enjoyed them more then the sub's
Splinter277 Jul 14, 2010 8:49 PM	Quiet kiddies, imma reading mah subs that arent lost in translation. Seriously though, check out SpeedSubs or similar and check out the difference in dialogue. Dubbed is horrid.
Elfarch Jul 15, 2010 1:23 AM	I fully endorse Mack about loving both sub and dub simultaneously. I mean, come on, if you can't read, and listen to the sub while following the action and comparing all three you need a serious upgrade to your neural processors. ;{D Even with just a sub it's fun following the voice emotion in comparison to the sub and the action. You should be used to the intonations and pacing for the various languages if you follow these.
fredzfrog Jul 15, 2010 2:13 PM	Sounds like this can only be won by a battle... Of Foosball! 1st to 10 points wins... :P
Mack Jul 15, 2010 3:45 PM	I have a Foosball table!
Nchalada Jul 15, 2010 7:06 PM	The first anime I saw was the english dub of Evangelion when it aired on SBS in the mid 90's, I now own the collectors platinum dvd box for it, and prefer to watch it with subs and in japanese... but that's just me, I know a fair few that'd prefer to watch it in English, but I won't let 'em :P
Elfarch Jul 16, 2010 12:24 PM	Come on folks, with some of the crappy titles, especially in movies rather than manga, most of the fun is in the wild discrepency between the dub and the sub. Two different translations by people with varied manglish skills, brilliant !
colganaitor Jul 19, 2010 3:03 PM	I'll have to jump on the subs side of the fence. I generally like to view something as it was intended to be viewed, rather than watching an adaptation with the potential to lose some of the original feeling of the work. It's not very difficult to read and watch simultaneously. If you can't be bothered reading a single line at the bottom of the screen, I don't think you can read very well.

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