[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;27686168]why would you ever put those movies together
that is the most retarded thing you could ever possibly do
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Nausicaa is great, just not as nuanced as his later stuff. Definitely a lot more preachy.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't as blunt and obvious as Fern Gully though.
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Offtopic: You study zoology? Cool, I study paleo/zoology/biology in my spare time :buddy:[/QUOTE]
Haha, that's really cool :) But yeah, I'm in my 3rd year of my Bachelor of Science with Honours in Zoology.
[QUOTE=Mystery Penguin;27696342]Myazaki also directed six episodes of the Sherlock Hound cartoon form the 80's.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Hound[/url][/QUOTE]
He was also involved in numerous anime series like Heidi IIRC
[QUOTE=postal;27671500]I was pretty surprised when I discovered later on that nearly all the animated films I had seen when i was real young were all made by the same guy. He's a legend.[/QUOTE]
This pretty mutch.
Love this guy's movies. I haven't seen them all, but those which I have were brilliant.
I didn't really like Princess Monoke, felt kind of drawn out.
I remember one time Cartoon Network did like a week long showing of most of his movies.
[QUOTE=Zabe Aeiger;27698758]I remember one time Cartoon Network did like a week long showing of most of his movies.[/QUOTE]
I remember that! Shit was so cash! But a correction, it was every Saturday on Toonami for one month :v:
Spirited Away was my favorite ever since they let us see watch it in my 3rd Grade class.
[QUOTE=Lazer Loop;27696389]It wasn't as blunt and obvious as Fern Gully though.[/QUOTE]
Don't even mention those two things in the same fucking sentence.
Just because it was preachy and about how humanity is evil and is killing the earth [I]does not[/I] mean it wasn't fucking awesome.
Just watched Nausicaa. Yeah, it was rather preachy, but still a pretty darn good movie. One thing that really bugs me about anime is characters' tendencies to explain important details by voicing their thoughts aloud, but I guess that's just a trait of the medium you've got to overlook to enjoy the story. Still, there has to be a better way to tell us that the jungle is poisonous than having the main character, who is completely alone, openly postulate about how odd it is that the air in such a peaceful place could kill her in less than five minutes.
I gotta see Nausicaa at some time. I caught the end during that cartoon network thing that one guy mentioned, but I never saw the whole thing. However all of his other movies that I've seen were awesome.
I hated Spirited Away, but Howl's Moving Castle, Porco Rosso, and Princess Mononoke where fucking awesome
He made all the best anime films, Spirited Away is probably my favourite.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;27700591]Don't even mention those two things in the same fucking sentence.
Just because it was preachy and about how humanity is evil and is killing the earth [I]does not[/I] mean it wasn't fucking awesome.[/QUOTE]
You take everything I say the wrong way. But yeah those two things don't deserve to be compared. I guess I meant to say that even though Nausicaa is preachy it isn't explicitly saying it like Fern Gully did. The only time they mention pollution in the movie is when they have a revelation about why the toxic jungle became toxic. And yeah the whole thing about the toxic jungle is about not disrupting nature. Nothing could be quite as retarded as Fern Gully and comparing it to Miyazaki is like comparing Justin Bieber to Mozart.
The only movie of his that I haven't seen is Porco Rosso. I should see that some time.
Just finished Mononoke. What a badass movie.
Best one in my opinion.
I watched Nausicaa last night. I have to say I think it's even better than Princess Mononoke which is saying something since that one is one of my favorite movies.
I always wanted to see Spirited Away, when I heard it was rather good, but I didn't really have the chance until my girlfriend showed it to me (alongside some of his other movies). I liked all of the ones I've seen, although there are still a number of them I haven't even looked at (Plus, I want to see Grave of Fireflies). Here is an order in which I saw them:
Spirited Away - The ending bits were filled with huge amount of cuteness and happiness. Quite a long time in a while when a movie actually had some emotional impact on me.
My Neighbor Totoro - More cuteness and happiness, and the end sequence was one of the times that I actually accepted a sudden good ending.
Howl's Moving Castle - This one was more focused on story and awesome, steampunk environment. Felt a bit jumpy, and the ending was very sudden in resolution. Still, I liked it.
Castle in the Sky - Another one focused on story and based in the same steampunk settings. While it changed locales often enough, it did have a lot of actions in all of them. I liked it a bit more than Howl's Moving Castle, probably because it relied less on magic. Also, post-nuclear bombing signs everywhere make me think that the setting of those two movies are in post-apocalyptic world.
I still need to see Howl's Moving Castle.
Is Studio Ghilbi still in financial trouble? iirc they might be shutting down.
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aw, here it is [url]http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/09/22/studio-ghilbli-to-go-out-of-business-if-next-film-fails-at-the-u/[/url]
All of Miyazaki's film's soundtrack are epic
Heidi for the fucking win:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Heidi_DVD_1.jpg[/img]
I remember watching Howl's Moving Castle on some bootleg dvd with subtitles late by a line, sometimes two. I did not understand what the fuck was going on. Apparently that movie was already confusing story-wise.
I did enjoy Princess Mononoke a lot though.
I've been trying to find a copy of Princess Mononoke in stores for years now. I saw it once a long time ago but didn't pay too much attention because I had just got my Game Boy Advance and was too busy playing Super Dodgeball Advance and Metroid Fusion to give a damn about some lame anime junk.
I don't feel that way about it at all anymore though. I love Miyazaki's work.
You know apparently the very very first concept for the helmet of combine soldiers was based of Hayao Miyasaki's work. I mean:
[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091007141713/half-life/en/images/2/2f/Combine_helmet_miyazaki.jpg[/img]
Can you see the inspiration?
Any UK Facepunchers notice how much Ghibli films they show on FilmFour? That's probably where I see most of them these days.
Watching Porco Rosso at 1am is awesome.
[QUOTE=Onyx3172;27705242]I watched Nausicaa last night. I have to say I think it's even better than Princess Mononoke which is saying something since that one is one of my favorite movies.[/QUOTE]
I watched them back to back last night, and I got to say that Mononoke far outshined Nausicaa. They're both quite good, but Nausicaa was considerably more 2-dimensional than Mononoke. The characters in Mononoke were complex and believable, their motivations more gray, whereas in Nausicaa the characters felt flat. The antagonists were hungry for war and blood, and damned be the consequences--fuck the jungle critters!
Mononoke's Lady Eboshi was relatable and essentially good-hearted. She bought the contracts of whores in order to give them a better life, she gave a home and work to lepers who were cast out by the rest of the world. The forest was hostile to her and the people of Irontown, and they felt that they no choice but to fight back in order to protect themselves and secure their livelihoods.
"You are angry that we are killing forest creatures, wolf princess? I have two women down here whose husbands your wolves killed!" (paraphrase, can't find the verbatim quote)
Even that squat little bignosed fellow hired to kill the forest spirit wasn't out-and-out evil, he just was just jaded. He saw an opportunity rise above what he called the [i]curse of the world[/i], and he fought for it.
"Everybody wants everything, but I might actually get it!"
The forest creatures were also much better done in Mononoke than in Nausicaa. Nausicaa's critters are undeniably good and spiritual beings, who could do no harm but out of fear and provocation. Again, it's basically just a matter of "fuck the jungle critters, war is [i]awesome[/i]" on the part of the human antagonists.
In contrast you have Mononoke's forest creatures, which were arguably just as misguided and angry as the human antagonists. The boars charged to their deaths, blind with pride and fury against forces they knew they stood no hope of defeating, in the hopes of destroying as much as possible in one final assault. Even the apes turned to eating human flesh in the hopes that it would give them the strength to fight.
Both movies shared the same theme, the same lesson, but Mononoke delivered it far more cleverly, and with much richer characters. Also, the action was more badass. He arrow'd some dude's arms off. I mean, come on!
Man, I really need to watch Nausicaä and Porco Rosso now.
I still haven't seen alot of these. I've seen Mononoke, Nausicaa, and Spirited Away (I feel like I've seen more, I must be forgetting one or two). Are they all streaming on netflix?
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Damn only Ponyo.
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