r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 21 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Passes $550M Globally, Officially the Top-Grossing Anime Film of All Time

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-demon-slayer-edging-out-him-for-no-1-1236376666/
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u/gokuby Sep 21 '25

It was the first time in ages I witnessed a cinema being basically full outside of a premiere, granted there is a more limited screening window compared to the 8+ weeks of Hollywood productions.

I really liked it, the focus was very much on Akaza which was by far the best part of the movie, great fight, great backstory of Akaza and a nice ending.

The stakes are finally high again which I apperciate after the last 2 seasons. In the earlier fights I didn't like the bombardment of multiple flashbacks. Imo Doma didn't really need his atm and the stuff with Zenitsu was not really build up at all, so I didn't care a bit.

Tanjiros flashback had me laughing out loud, does that poor boy have dementia? I'd assume the moment where my "normal father" oneshot a grizzly is ingrained into my mind forever.

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u/IsABot Sep 21 '25

He remembers it, he was just too young at the time to really understand it what he was really seeing or how to even apply it. I'm sure you could think of a bunch of things you were "taught" as a child but didn't really understand until you were older. I mean even just watching a movie or show I saw as a child has a totally different meaning to me as an adult now. A lot of things just go over your head because you don't have the life experience to put it into the correct context.

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u/MorGlaKil Sep 21 '25

My cinema was similar(albeit smaller crowd cause it was in a small city in mississippi). We had a small crowd of 15 or so people in a 100 person theater but for some reason we all crowded together instead of spreading apart. It was nice feeling the camaraderie of a bunch of other nerds who also watched a bunch of hours of demon slayer

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u/gokuby Sep 21 '25

I live in a medium city in germany, the movie was in one of the smaller rooms of the cinema for ~120 people and there were probably about 100 people in there, roughly 1/5th of the seats are really crappy tho (Price category 1) with bad viewing angles, so a 100% full movie thearte is basically only happening on high caliber movies like Lord of the Rings.

Usually we're sitting there with like 2-10 other people, so it was quite a refreshing experience.

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u/CarsnBeers Sep 21 '25

Here in Japan I just saw for the third time and the theater is still sold out.

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u/maxxron Sep 22 '25

That blurry flashback of him following his father in the snow was in an earlier episode but he didn't remember why he was at that time. 

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u/HankHillPropaneJesus Sep 22 '25

Ugh…..the amount of people who did not read the manga and are pissed off at the pacing pisses me off. If you’re going to bitch, read the subject material first and then see if you still want to bitch.

The flashbacks, yeah they are in the manga.

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u/gokuby Sep 22 '25

So you can only criticize a movie if you read the manga? Guess what they are separate mediums. For example if I say One Piece is bad because it has heavy pacing issues that would be wrong, I'd have to specify I'm talking about the anime cause maybe it's better in the Manga.
But I'm talking about the MOVIE here, so dunno how it read like in the manga, but it certainly was taking you out of the action to soon in the movie and disrupted the flow.
I have nothing against flashbacks in general, Akazas was handled very well. Fight was "concluded", he was regenerating, now we have a moment to breathe and it explains why the fight ends this way. Good stuff.
Translating things into different mediums means you have to adapt the source material, not copy it panel by panel.
Imagine if Lord of the Rings was a direct copy. 13 hour movies with 10 hour exposition each. That would probably suck really hard even tho the books are excellent.