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There was a reason they released Grave Of The Fireflies at the same time as My Neighbour Totoro in Japan ;)

@Demilich - I got a Ghibli box set with 17 or so movies off ebay for quite cheap - an official one two. If you like them so much it may be worth shelling out on one. I got mine for cheaper than three full-price DVDs.

Just got back from seeing V For Vendetta at the IMAX. Not only was it fantastic to see it on the biggest cinema in the UK, the cinema is right at the end of the same bridge the protesters march over towards the end of the film :cool: Loved the social commentary even more this time around...
 
Russell said:
There was a reason they released Grave Of The Fireflies at the same time as My Neighbour Totoro in Japan ;)

@Demilich - I got a Ghibli box set with 17 or so movies off ebay for quite cheap - an official one two. If you like them so much it may be worth shelling out on one. I got mine for cheaper than three full-price DVDs.
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I heard it was because Totoro wasn't considered marketable on its own. In the bonus interview with Takahata on the 2nd dvd he mentions that in the double screenings, shows with Fireflies before Totoro had high instances of people leaving after the first film because it was so sad, but when they played the other way around, people stayed for both. I found that interesting.

I was looking at those boxsets on Ebay today. Some of them are so cheap it makes me wish I didn't buy so many of the individual movies already!
 
SURVIVE STYLE 5+

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/

This movie, visually, is an masterpiece. It is also magnificent in many other regards as well to back up this artistic quality. Basically consists of a few different plots (5, I'm guessing it was) intertwined together, some of which are, ZOMBIE HOUSEWIFE who keeps coming back no matter how many times she's buried!, a Guy who was hypnotized into being a duck!, a British hitman who loves to stab with tiny knives!

and starring Tadanobu Asano, a.k.a. Kakihara from Ichi the Killer.

edit: and oh yeah, the hitman is played by Vinnie Jones, a.k.a. Bullet Tooth Tony from Snatch

fantastic cast.

A++++


another edit: Sonny Chiba as a businessman! sold yet??
 
I've only watched "Grave Of Fireflies" once.

I'm not sure if I'd ever want to watch it again. I really can't remember if I loved it or hated it... Probably both. Just so uncomfortable.... I can barely remember how it ended.

Fuck it, I'll try to see it again sometime.


but seriously, wtf.:erk:
 
*bumps Grave of the Fireflies to top of Netshitz quueuette*

No movie, album, book, or piece of art should be banned. EVER.
 
Demilich said:
Pom Poko. Another Studio Ghibli release (yeah, someday I'll see them all) and another one of my favourite movies of ALL FUCKING TIME. Seriously, after watching this stuff I'm convinced that Disney should have packed it in a long time ago and had these guys take over. So much more depth, complexity, emotion, imagination, etc. all without sacrificing the qualities that I imagine kids would appreciate.


edit: I'm about to watch another one, Grave of the Fireflies, a story about two young children orphaned by WWII in Japan. I'm at the point now where I'll shell out good money for any Studio Ghibli release completely blind. And theres a new one coming soon!
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I love studio ghibli dearly and agree to most of what you have said. I've so far bought (pirated) steam boy, castle in the sky, mononoke, neighbour totoro and the moving castle here in Asia. There's some sort of double Studio Ghibli box availible which might interest you btw.

Grave of Firefiles is pretty good, though not as great as some of what they have made. It's too little of that childish "magic" present in the other films. But it is actually really moving which make up for some of the short-comings
 
I thought the melancholy atmosphere of Fireflies ruled, probably especially because it was so different from the rest. The childish wonder of the other films is stifled by the wartime setting, showing a side of childhood that very few if any animated films do.

Spaffe, how long are you over there? The new one, "Tales from Earthsea" comes out sometime soon in Japan... July or something.
 
Demilich said:
I thought the melancholy atmosphere of Fireflies ruled, probably especially because it was so different from the rest. The childish wonder of the other films is stifled by the wartime setting, showing a side of childhood that very few if any animated films do.

Spaffe, how long are you over there? The new one, "Tales from Earthsea" comes out sometime soon in Japan... July or something.
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True, but I've a hard time really caring for characters in animated movies

I'll go home tomorrow actually :)
 
Thanatopsis123 said:
An anime based on some Ursula K. Leguin work? I'm very intrigued.
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Yeah I know eh? I've only read a few short stories by LeGuin but she fuckin rules.

Its directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro. Hayao is FUCKIN STEAMED the producer picked his son to direct, and they're not speaking anymore.

needless to say, i'm kind of wondering how it'll turn out.
 
The Prophecy

Aragorn > Satan, but only just.

Also I watched the 4th disc of Evangelion last night. I didn't like it at first but now it's starting to get pretty good.
 
a few nights ago i watched part of some movie with Maggie Gylenhaal as a secretary in a BSDM relationship with her boss and she was totally fucking hot... oh man
 
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