I get bored of these things.
Too many variables and factors.
Everything affects everyone differently.
Different study pool, different result.
Get a bunch of violent people who play video games, and it's "games make you violent!"
Get a bunch of people who aren't violent and play games, it's vice versa.
But you know what?
Both…

ugh...this railing makes me feel every idea i ever had has been worthless.

There's life and magic in reality. Whisper of the Heart is probably the most breathtaking and beautiful of Ghibli's film, and there where no fantasy or fantastic elements in it, just a school-girl and a school-boy.

it seems to me that many people have gripes with the new final fantasy games. Most name a title where they think the series began to go down. Some say it was after 10, some say after 7, some even say after 3. Honestly, I wonder if there's anything they could produce that would please all of you. Every final fantasy is…

As I mentioned in my own post, I love how even at its most heavy-handed, none of Ghibli's films feel preachy, forced or unrealistic. They take the utmost care to make everything feel tangible and for events and plot lines to make sense. I love how Miyazaki will redo entire sequences because a certain subtle emotion…

How is it that EVERY SINGLE Ghibli film makes me cry at some point during the film?! And it's not even crying from sadness necessarily. It can be tears of relief from Totoro's final shot, to tears of happiness such as in Whisper of the Heart. That film hits you because of how real the relationship feels. These are two…

The first of the Hobbit films arguably took less liberties - entire sections were cut from Fellowship of the Ring, including the entire slow build-up to leaving Hobbiton, moving to Crickhollow, traveling through the Old Forest, meeting Tom Bombadil, the Barrow Downs...and instead had a 10-15 minute sequence that moved…

If you look deeper into the movies you will realize that Jackson was doing something amazing with these next three books. For he is placing the Hobbit within the established timeline that comes about from LOTR. Which better connects everything together. Considering Jackson is basically a Tolkien scholar since he has…