It's Okay, man. I may be somewhere else in my life, but my heart goes out to you. It is never worth it. Just keep on going, and find your own ray of sunshine.
Chihayafuru-hime
Chihayafuru-hime
Jade Empire is easily my favorite Bioware game. I would sacrifice as many goats as I could get my hands on to every major/minor deity in order to make that a reality. The day #2 gets announced...oh boy. Happy faces all around. ^o^
Aren't they wonderful, the magical moments in Whisper of the Heart? I am always struck by the way that, compared against every other Ghibli films 'magic moments, whether they are the Kohaku River dragon spirit, the Forest Spirit reclaiming its head, or a Castle in the Sky, Whisper of the Heart is still able to instill…
...you are right sir. Apologies. I should have said "Of all the theatrical Ghiblis released in the U.S., the Yamadas has the most unique art style."
Also, while I have seen a few of their shorts, I have not yet seen them all...I shall work on that.
I am glad to hear you say that, because the more grounded Ghibli works have been fantastic. Whisper of the Heart is the one of the most down to earth features ever released by Ghibli. By doing that, the magical personal moments are able to really shine through that much more, so I am glad that you do not discriminate…
Of all the works by Takahata, it is surely the funniest. It of course also bears the distinction of looking the least like any other Ghibli film, (along with The Cat Returns) but those two movies are also the funniest in the Ghibli catalogue.
Agreed. Mononoke-hime is an example of this in degrees. And the unique way that Miyazaki does this is by showing each character with positive traits, but they were only aiming for "the right thing" for their own people while neglecting other groups.
This is unique, for most movies that attempt the "shades of gray"…
Exactly. I definitely agree that it and Mononoke-hime are the two (thematically) closest films from Ghibli, and I still think it's one of the best...I just want to say that just because Mononoke-hime doesn't have 'real' characters like Pom Poko does not mean that it doesn't affect me the same way. I submit that the…
I would agree with everything you said, but for Mononoke-hime, I only half agree. I think that Prince Ashitaka has a better English performance than his Japanese counterpart, and so does Jigo, so in that sense, yes, a great dub. But then we get to Clara Danes performance as San...and in comparison to the original…
Let me put it this way...the film is about the genocide and subsequent forced migration of an entire ecological area. Though the racoons (tanuki) have immense power, it is an illusion; all of their work effects nothing in the end, just like the tanuki are only capable of creating that which is not real. In the end,…
*importing*, NOT localizing.
I am really glad that you mentioned this, because even though it is a Lupin film, it feels like a classic Miyazaki film in the best of ways. From Clarisse (who bears a strong resemblance to Nausicaa) to the brilliant ending which Disney would steal from TWICE, (The Great Mouse Detective AND Atlantis: The Lost Empire)…
The movie invokes a different kind of sadness and the scale of the tragedy is so much greater. Due to the very personal nature of the loss in Grave of the Fireflies, it might hit harder than Pom Poko, but Pom Poko is still able to get me to (consistantly) cry for the final 10-15 minutes, even after seeing it for…
Now, I have been holding off on localizing this due to the fact it is being released this September, but From Up On Poppy Hill needs some love too. Goro Miyazaki might not be the genius his father is, but by all accounts, this is leaps and bounds better than his previous effort, Tales of Earthsea. So I expect all…
My Neighbors The Yamadas. Another of Isao Takahata-sans works.
They definitely own the rights to it now. At the Ghibli Museum in Japan, there is a whole part built to resemble one of the towns from the movie, and seeing as how if they DIDN'T own the rights to it, that would make the squirrel-fox cameo in Castle In The Sky and Nausicaa's cameo in Pom Poko on very shaky legal…
Pom Poko. Possibly the saddest Ghibli film of all time, (yes, even compared to Grave of the Fireflies,) which is saying something. Also important because without this movie, the ending to Mononoke-hime might not exist, and at least one other Ghibli film would be less for it (Spirited Away.)
This movie is wonderful;…
You mean Mononoke-hime, I am sure.
Sorry, I usually refer the Ghibli films by their English names...but this is a masterpiece, and it deserves to be called by its original title.
They stopped producing both of my faves, but firstly, pretty much everything by the 1up Crew before the layoffs hit them hard and they were bought by UGO. Afterwards, I loved Random Encounters, which Jeremy Parish did a great job on.
As for the other, just because of its different focus, there was a podcast called Into…