General Chat / Howl's Moving Castle

Saw this last weekend. A very warm and wonderful movie.
I highly recommend it as it went on wide release this weekend.

Batman first though.

The nearest theatre showing it is in Lake Buena Vista (aka: Walt Disney World, more or less). That's about 1 hour in the Florida sun, without air conditioning, and that's not even the return trip which is usally longer! Is it worth it?

I would say so. It was very charming, with a wrenching story, and delightable characters.

Would you recommend seeing this to someone who didn't like Spirited Away at all?

really, if you can't like miyazaki then you have issues. miyazaki being the director of studio ghibli. he is a genius. he really is.

[font="tahoma"]really, if you can't like miyazaki then you have issues. miyazaki being the director of studio ghibli. he is a genius. he really is.[/font]

Excuse me? I have issues for not liking a certain way of storytelling? I've heard stuff before, but this one really tops any other nonsence I've ever heard.
Please spare me the lecture you'll probably post about how much of a genius he really is, I've heard it before. I asked a simple question, I'd like a simple answer.

I'd find it hard to recommend the art-form of 'film' to anyone who didn't like Spirited Away...

I'd find it hard to recommend the art-form of 'film' to anyone who didn't like Spirited Away...

What ever... Nice to see you guys respect other opinions...

Well, you're completely entitled to your own views on these matters. It's just I happen to disagree.

The difference is, you practically said you can't recommend any good movie to me on the basis of one movie. What are you disagreeing with exactly?

I tried to like it, I really did but I just didn't. To say that I can't appreciate the art form of movies is a bit extreme... Now I'd like a simple answer to a simple question... Not asking much I think...

I happen to think that Spirited Away is the epitome of good film...so if you didn't like that, then any other recommendation i'd make would be less likely to please you.

And just cos you're allowed your opinion doesn't mean people can't mock it This is the beauty of message boards - you can violently disagree with people without all the stupid repercussions you get in real life.

Anyway, I don't know about this film, so I can't answer your question. Maybe JBruckner will...

As someone who counts Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky as four of the best movies ever made (as well as really liking Porco Rosso), color me disappointed by Howl's.

It's a good movie, but it's one of Miyazaki's worst. The characters are thin, the plot is meandering and unfocused (with many things left unexplained), and the ending is perfunctory, managing to wrap everything up in a tidy little package in the span of a few minutes.

However, it's wonderfully creative, beautiful to look at, and truly good early on before it tries to take on so many different things. I was a fan of Calcifer, who I thought was the best developed character in the film... and I thought the dog was adorable... So it's better than that last paragraph makes it sound, but it's not without a slew of problems.

***/****. Pretty good, but nothing overly special. Miyazaki had a wonderfully romantic vision, but it just didn't fully work.

If someone didn't enjoy Spirited Away, I doubt they will enjoy this, because it really is Miyazaki at his most esoteric. I'd expect nothing but big Miyazaki fans will find something to really love about this.

I would argue that Laputa is his best film. I first saw it at my japanese mother-in-law's house and it didn't have subtitles, I still loved it.

has anyone seen the yamadas? fuck, i almost pissed myself.

http://anidb.info/pe...0&do.search.y=0

oh, and disney freak, vtd summed it up pretty much.

I'd find it hard to recommend the art-form of 'film' to anyone who didn't like Spirited Away...

I've never even seen Spirited Away, but every bit of the preview bits of it that I've seen look absolutely stunning. One of these days over the summer I'll have to rent it and watch it a few times, sorta let it set in. I occasionally watch some of the animi cartoons when I catch them too. Their interesting to me because they have charecters with personalities that run into additional people(s) also with personalities and all of them seem to have histories and emotions and such. They're just so much deeper than the average cartoon.

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I'm not that big into anime Posix.

[font="tahoma"]really, if you can't like miyazaki then you have issues. [/font]

if you call 'the ability to form an opinion' an issue, then yes, he has issues. well, at least one.

Everytime I see the preview for this movie, I feel like picking my nipples off with a rusty fork.