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Twinky_Stryder
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6/10/06 3:29am
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YES!
More love for Howl!
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TwiLekJedi
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6/11/06 4:40am
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I think I didn't quite get Howl's Moving Castle 
Castle in the Sky is in cinemas here currently... how's that one? Good enough to go alone? (don't have anyone to watch animes with  )
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General_Veers05
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Spirited away is a particulary odd film and a weird storyline. however i still thinks its great tale!
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Twinky_Stryder
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6/11/06 1:55pm
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I watched Kiki's Delivery Servie today.
Thought it was alright. Very sweet, but nothing that made me go "woah". Great film for little kids though I'd imagine.
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Dark_Disciple
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6/11/06 11:37pm
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Another great thread here frared!
You all have talked about Spirited Away and Princess Monoke, two movies I really love, especially PM, for some reason it comes across as cinematic, though it can be a bit message heavy, it's one flaw. But, yes, Ashitaka's plight is worth watching and the music in this one is so good too. Sometimes, some of the other animes really fall down in this dept.
Porco Rosso (his most 'adult' film. Kinda.)
I adore this film! I love the character, I mean he's a flying pig for crying out loud and yet, he could be Humphrey Bogart and Clark Cable all rolled into one, and his story is so poignant, charming and full of whimsy. It actually make's me ache to go back to the Adriatic when I see this film.
Grave of the Fireflies (this one's by Takahata, his longtime collaborator, but it's EXTREMELY good, and rather difficult to watch)
Oh yes, very difficult to watch. I find this movie, one of the saddest things I have ever seen. There's a particular moment when the little girl admits to having known something all along (won't say what, in case I spoil it) to her brother, and he just breaks down, that has me crying for their sad lives. Just thinking about it gives me a lump in the throat. This movie will devastate you the first time you see it. When my husband and I first came away from a viewing we were gutted.
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darth_frared
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6/12/06 1:45am
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TwiLekJedi posted:
Castle in the Sky is in cinemas here currently... how's that one? Good enough to go alone?
no idea. it's miyazaki, though. so it oughta be. 
TLJ posted:
(don't have anyone to watch animes with )
i have the opposite problem: someone to tag along with, no animes in the cinema 
good to see you here, dark disciple 
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Dark_Disciple
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6/12/06 3:04am
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Right back at ya frared.
I have the same problem here, no animes at the cinema. Even the dvd rental shops are pretty ordinary in this regard, it's all Dragon Ball Z, not that I mind those, but I just love a bit of diversity.
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darth_frared
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it's probably getting better. i just don't check for much, it's always this thing that you'd have to know what you're looking for first and in germany animation anything is being treated as a kids affair. oddly enough SW is also marketed to kids, i think because it has space ships *sigh*
kiki and the castle in the sky and the newer miyazaki films got a wider reception. as animation for kids, though hence i guess stuff like ghost in the shell doesn't really end up on many big screens. kids wouldn't like it much and adults think they're too old. an unfortunate conundrum.
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darth_frared
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i finally got around to watch castle in the sky because it's been reissued (or maybe it's never been on our screens before) and shown on the big screen here!
i must say it was wonderfully enjoyable and every bit as complex, involved and epic as i expect miyazaki to tell stories.
i especially fell in love with the robot design and the design of all the flying devices. they seemed modern and ancient, organic and mechanical at the same time. seeing how the robots were basically travelling as packages and then would unfold to deadly machines... well, it was just great design. a recurring theme in the film was the old man/machine dichotomy about how they preserve the garden on the floating island or are capable of destroying people as well. it made me reflect on the nature of protectiveness, and as much as i wanted the robots to be either good or bad in the end they were, much like humans, capable of doing both due to their immense power and i liked how sheeta was both frightened by the power the robot held and also tried countering it by putting herself on the line. it's just very impressive.
i was just again, amazed by the depth of characterization and lack of stereotyping. i find that these films can seem to drag a bit but on the second viewing, when i know what they will still hold in store for me, i patiently sit back and take in every scene by itself.
one more astounding thing about the movie: it has vast silences. that one is so seldom in modern cinema, i think, i wanted to hold my breath.
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Master-FatBurt
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8/3/06 2:05am
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I saw Howls Moving Castle the other week and thought it was fantastic.
I've just started watching Spirited away and I have to say I really enjoying that at the moment as well (although I do have some issues with the parental characterisations at the start)
Next up are to be Pricess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro and Pollo Rosso.
Provided they continue to be enjoyable I shall be happy.
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adoyidej
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8/8/06 2:46pm
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I picked up My Neighbor Toturo, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
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LAJ_FETT
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8/9/06 3:44am
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Watched Princess Mononoke on one of the movie channels the other night. I thought it was a bit too long and dragged in spots. I must say I liked Spirited Away a lot more.
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lieutenant_ketch
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I thought spirited away and princess mononoke. They we're awesome.
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faery
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Princess Mononoke was the first Miyazaki film I've seen, and it is definitely my favorite. Since then I've seen Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Next up is Castle in the Sky!
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darth_frared
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well, if you took to all of these so far, you'll not be disappointed in castle in the sky 
i actually like how he recurring themes but it still never feels formulaic. and i would have watched castle in the sky again, i guess, because it has that feeling of a really long story and it was always the second time around that i actually relaxed into the film and didn't bother about it having to end at some point.
maybe that doesn't make sense at all
what i particularly liked about castle was the use of silences. that was pretty awe-inspiring on the big screen. (most directors don't have a feel for silence, they just go on and on with making noise and completely forget about the power of silence)
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