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I can’t make heads or tails of this. I guess Studio Ghibli fans will rejoice. (I think) the official name is Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. Is this good? Bad? Ugly?
Hiyao Miyazaki is good stuff (ever since I first saw Spirited Away). From what I see above, the video looks like someone gave acid to a child then asked, “Now what do you see?… Hold on, talk slower!… I can’t draw that fast! (Why did Timmy stop blinking?)“ And the singing! Christ! That’ll be haunting my nightmares for weeks to come. IMDB says: “An animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy and his relationship with a goldfish princess who longs to become human.” (I like my synopsis better: “Imagine the ramblings of Timothy Leary as a Japanese child.”)
In any event, its Miyazaki. Now excuse me while I go google all his past works and crobar his name into my next pseudo-intellectual conversation in an attempt to sound pretentiously artistic and quasi hip.
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I can't believe I forgot Spirited Away, which is I think is his best. Crazy ass drug trip or maybe just crazy ass Japanese trip, I just love it. :) It's all about growing up and your imagination and magic and uh.....pigs.
I'm probably a horrible person for admitting this, but my first Miyazaki movie was Spirited Away. When you really think about it, that movie screams CRAZY-ASS DRUG TRIP. Hello? Her parents turn into pigs, like what, six minutes into the movie?*
* OK, so was Alice in Wonderland. But everyone knows that.
i agree with moye. don't forget Kiki's Delivery Service or Porco Rosso. but Totoro is the most magic of them all.
I can't believe I forgot Spirited Away, which is I think is his best. Crazy ass drug trip or maybe just crazy ass Japanese trip, I just love it. :) It's all about growing up and your imagination and magic and uh.....pigs.
I'm probably a horrible person for admitting this, but my first Miyazaki movie was Spirited Away. When you really think about it, that movie screams CRAZY-ASS DRUG TRIP. Hello? Her parents turn into pigs, like what, six minutes into the movie?*
* OK, so was Alice in Wonderland. But everyone knows that.
i agree with moye. don't forget Kiki's Delivery Service or Porco Rosso. but Totoro is the most magic of them all.
You're not allowed to write any more about Miyazaki until you've watched My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa, Howl's Moving Castle (though not his best), Princess Mononoke and Grave of the Fireflies.
And there's nothing intellectual or pretentious about his movies! They're so overly cutesy but solidly good story-telling. :)
(as you can tell, I'm super excited about his new movie, also because he keeps saying that he's going to retire)
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