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Posted by Jackson on Apr-18-2005 10:05:

Spirited Away

Anyone seen this movie?
I saw it with my gf a while ago. Thought it was really good.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-18-2005 10:06:

it's weird.

in a good way.

bought the dvd.

better watch it again sometime.

Posted by chojin on Apr-18-2005 10:08:

watched it again abouta month ago. personally i don't rate it as a good ghibli film.

the older ones are better i find :/ i really liked pom poko.

Posted by Subey on Apr-18-2005 12:32:

I'm rather partial to No face

I also like the trance group No Faces

Posted by Lira on Apr-18-2005 12:47:

I've seen this film.

I remember that I first heard it from an otaku and wasn't all that excited (the guy was completely "OMG, that's " ), but I was trying to pull a girl back in that time (it was about 2 years ago) and decided to watch it in the cinema with her. Heh

The film felt like it was an excellent an advertising stunt from Hayao Miazaki, even though he was quite famous already before S.A. Simply put, it reminded me a lot of "Alice in Wonderland", but with Japanese thematics. Instead of having a good story carried by a nice scenario, it was the other way round, and that's what spoiled the film for me. The story lacked substance, whereas the images were flawlessly designed, bringing whatever exotic elements that ressembled Japanese culture they could find. The hot bath, the lamps... with some mysterious characters. The girl didn't like it either... I still think we should've watched Finding (?) Nemo, but she had to go with her cousing in the previous week and had watched it already

After watching S.A. though, I did watch "Grave of fireflies", and I liked it a lot more

Posted by chojin on Apr-18-2005 12:58:

yeah, i lent the film to my gf of the time and she loved it

what is it with women liking the film?

Posted by Lira on Apr-18-2005 13:01:

quote:
Originally posted by chojin
what is it with women liking the film?

Because it's cute and because there must be a subliminal message somewhere

My sister is annoyingly addicted to S.A., to the point her e-mail address is Chihiro.Lira...

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-18-2005 13:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
but I was trying to pull a girl back in that time

so...

did you hit it?

Posted by dj tek on Apr-18-2005 14:23:

Hayao Miyazaki's final work ! brilliant.

Posted by DJ Chrono on Apr-18-2005 14:26:

It's pretty good, but I like Princess Mononoke, Valley of the Wind, and some of his other ones abit better.

Posted by DJ Chrono on Apr-18-2005 14:27:

quote:
Originally posted by dj tek
Hayao Miyazaki's final work ! brilliant.

How is it his final.. he did Howl's Moving Castle afterwards

Posted by Floorfiller on Apr-18-2005 14:32:

watched it a couple of years ago with my roomate who had it downloaded before the release ehehe...wierd movie...it was...alright i guess....

i don't really like anime though...

Posted by dj tek on Apr-18-2005 14:33:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Chrono
How is it his final.. he did Howl's Moving Castle afterwards

well he said that spirited away will be his final project where he will be drawing the art himself. all his prveious works are almost completely hand drawn by miyazaki.

Posted by Lira on Apr-18-2005 14:51:

quote:
Originally posted by eRRaTiK
so...

did you hit it?

No

Posted by DTMMfam on Apr-18-2005 18:34:

I saw spirited away about three weeks ago. Disney did a really good job with the English dub, and I don't think I would have liked it as much if I saw it in Japanese.

Posted by websley on Apr-25-2005 12:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Subey
I'm rather partial to No face

I also like the trance group No Faces

No face is teh f*cking scary

Posted by eRRaTiK on Apr-25-2005 12:33:

Hayao Miyazaki's new movie with Disney.

Website: http://disney.com/castle

Trailer here (right-click, save as...)
http://bvbp-qt.vitalstream.com/Howl...c41905_1500.mov