Studio Ghibli RULES!!!

[PharaohManXe54]

Well, in April, I think, I bought a 4 DVD boxset of all the Studio Ghibli movies in Japanese (except The Cat Returns, I believe) with English Subtitles. Thanks to the common sense of Feldi, I learned it was a bootleg @_@, but nontheless, it's still good. Yesterday, I watched On Your Mark, this music video that Studio Ghibli made. It was so good, it could be extended into a feature length film. Even though they didn't have subtitles on it, I could understand the story. Then I watched Spirited Away in Japanese. There were a lot of differences I noticed in the dialogue translations. And I came to a conclusion that the American voice cast was WAY WAY WAY better. Sorry, but it was the truth.

Today, I watched Ocean Waves (or, as they translated it, I can Hear the Ocean) and Grave of the Fireflies. Ocean Waves was really good. I loved the characters and, even though it was subtitled, felt dearly for them. The narrating style looking on the past made it really nice and dramatic. But Grave of the Fireflies is now my favorite Studio Ghibli movie. It was so sad. Depressing even. I can't believe they'd show that to kids.

Tonight, I plan on watching on Pom Poko. Tomorrow I plan on watching Whisper of the Heart and Only Yesterday.

So, does anyone have anything else to add? I especially wanna discuss Grave of the Fireflies. It was just so good and so sad...

EDIT: Sorry I can't categorize threads @_@. I just think of them as movies.

[feldinaut]

YOU MISPOSTED! YOU MISPOSTED! I'M GIVING YOU A SPAM WARNING, PHARAOHMAN! YOU DISGRACE THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE MODS!

But on topic, My Neighbor Totoro was one of my early experiences with anime and I LOVE IT. What a great movie. If you haven't seen it yet, go hang yourself, and if you survive, GET THE HECK OUT OF THAT NOOSE AND WATCH THE MOVIE!! Kiki's Delivery Service is also killer, and all these are like, the absolute kiddiest movies, but in a way that the whole family can enjoy. GOSH, I just love those movies.

And people keep giving me a hard time that I haven't seen more Ghibli movies, and I really should anyway, so I'll probably go to Blockbuster and just go on a Ghibli marathon one of these nights.

[pitch]

No idea what Ghibli is... anyone care to e'splain?

Oh, but I've seen that Kiki movie before. It was pretty good in an innocent way. Maybe not really the stuff for me really, but my sister - a year younger than myself - sure loved it. She was Kiki for Halloween last year. ;D I dunno, I thought that it was okay. =/ Certainly not bad.

[Reaverguy Rises]

Ghibli ROCKS!!!! They did Grave of the Fireflys!!?? That is a great film! It is also one of the most depressing ones.

Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa, and Spirited Away are great. Heck they all are!

[PharaohManXe54]

Studio Ghibli is a Japanese movie company that made Kiki's Delievery Service, Spirited Away, Grave of the fireflies, and many more. They've also made the recently released in American theaters "Howl's Moving Castle" (which was AWESOME!!). But I just got finished watching Pom Poko. It was alright but DISGUSTING. The racoons used their testicles (and I bet that's gonna get editted) to beat people up and transform and stuff. Freaky freaky freaky. And it kinda had a forced, blatent message . But yeah, Studio Ghibli rules...

[Dashe]

gwpharoahman54 said:

I just got finished watching Pom Poko. It was alright but DISGUSTING. The racoons used their testicles (and I bet that's gonna get editted) to beat people up and transform and stuff. Freaky freaky freaky. And it kinda had a forced, blatent message . But yeah, Studio Ghibli rules...

That IS disgusting. I've only watched Spirited Away, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Grave of the Fireflies, Princess Mononoke, and Castle in the Sky, all of which were impressive.

[ravenf6]

Rock on, Studio Ghibli!! Hail to Master Miyazaki!! ;D ;D



....sorry about that. I just got a little too excited. I remember getting started on SG movies with Castle in the Sky. I was thinking, "WOW, that was spellbinding!. Then after I found Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away , I was hooked.

The flims Ghibli made are nothing short of awesome, and it's founding directer, Hayao Miyazaki is a trailblazer. It's amazing how he and Ghibli have cranked out so many good movies and are still going strong after 20 years.

According to legend, after My Neighbor Totoro, something interesting happened, the government founded a large area of forest untouched by the urban development, and made it a national preserve, they call it the Totoro Forest. Quite remarkble when something you do has that kind of impact.

I remember that in Jaunuary, in honor of Miyazaki's 65th birthday, TMC had a month long marathon of SG's many films, including the rarely seen Only Yesterday.

Howl's Moving Castle is a pretty cool one. I especially loved that they had Billy Crystal as the voice of Calcifer. Very funny IMO.

Haven't seen Grave of the Fireflies yet, but if can find it, I'll check it out.

[Reaverguy Rises]

I watched Howl's Moving Castle at a theatre a while back. I was awesome!!! 10/10

[legendsfan64]

Castle in the sky is one of my favorite movies of all time along with anything made by studio ghibli

[PharaohManXe54]

About that Hayao Miyazaki celebration on TCM: it was in honor of his birthday which is January 5th... the same day as mine! I thought that was so cool!

Anyways, I finally watched Princess Mononoke awhile back and I must say, it was pretty bad @_@. Not only was there no mention to a princess or anyone named Mononoke, but the main character, Ashitaka, was a complete Gary-Stu. Despite that, there is one character whom I absolutely LOVED, Lady Iboshi. She was so non Mary-Sue that it was briliant. I thought that Billy-Bob Thorton was really miscast, but whatever. All of you guys are probably going to start hating me now because Princess Mononoke is liked the hardest of any Ghibli movie.

I saw Only Yesterday on that bootleg I bought. It was amazing. It was kinda weird though because a lot of the movie involved periods, which is one of the reasons it was never brought to the United States.

I also watched Whisper of the Heart, both subbed and dubbed and I'd have to say the American version is better. The Japanese version kinda explains some of the plot things better (for example, the main character translates a song from English to Japanese, they find this guy's name in all of these library cards, etc.), but since it's a love story, the English version had more emotion and such.

BLEH!!!

[Reaverguy Rises]

I found out Miyazaki's son is making a movie based on a series of short books called Tale of Earthsea.

[ravenf6]

gwpharoahman54 said:

About that Hayao Miyazaki celebration on TCM: it was in honor of his birthday which is January 5th... the same day as mine! I thought that was so cool!

Anyways, I finally watched Princess Mononoke awhile back and I must say, it was pretty bad @_@. Not only was there no mention to a princess or anyone named Mononoke, but the main character, Acrapaka, was a complete Gary-Stu. Despite that, there is one character whom I absolutely LOVED, Lady Iboshi. She was so non Mary-Sue that it was briliant. I thought that Billy-Bob Thorton was really miscast, but whatever. All of you guys are probably going to start hating me now because Princess Mononoke is liked the hardest of any Ghibli movie.
I also watched Whisper of the Heart, both subbed and dubbed and I'd have to say the American version is better. The Japanese version kinda explains some of the plot things better (for example, the main character translates a song from English to Japanese, they find this guy's name in all of these library cards, etc.), but since it's a love story, the English version had more emotion and such.

BLEH!!!

There is, but only one. When Lady Eboshi tries to convince Ashitaka to join her cause, she brings PM up, though in in truth, it's San. She's rather ruthless, and the fact that she lives among the wolf gods must've had the villagers believe that she's a goddess of ghouls and spirits, who seeks her vengence upon Irontown. That's what I think, anyway.

[Dashe]

PM was my least favorite too, so don't worry too much about it. Though I must say that the guy's name was Acrapaka, not Acrapaka. At least I think that's what his name was.

EDIT: Never mind. Dang censors. I meant A s h i t a k a. Obviously you meant the exact same thing.

[Darfox8]

Wow I can't believed no body here got into that whole "See with eyes unclouded by hate" thing the movie had. I don't know but I guess I'm a sucker for inspirational stories like that. Probably why I like Trigun so much.

I'm kinda undecided on Whisper of the Heart. I really liked what it was about. When I write stories my grades go down too so I could really relate. And I like the part when she sings and they start playing instrument. I really hate country songs but this movie made me love Country Road. But the part that killed the movie for me was how she started crying in the end. It was unrealistic and over the top. I could understand tears but to start crying and yelling like she was... honestly.

I really liked Only Yesterday. It was such a bizzare little personel story that was basicly just a large scrap book of memories. When her dad stroke her, when the whole period pandemic broke out, when she remembered the boy who like her so he acted rude around her, the time she went to too many hot springs in one day and passed out. I definitely see those type of memories from her childhood sticking out as an adult. Atleast those are the kind of abstract things I remember from my early childhood. And I'm only 18. Plus the ending was so sweet when all her childhood was running along side her while she ran back to the man. And that one boy who throw him self on the ground to make the guy trip and stumble on her was just the perfect touch.

Totoro is the best kids movie in my opinion.

Pom Poko was alot of fun. I didn't think it disgusting just weird. But It's part of the innocence of the movie. Those racoons seem like the drawings a young boy would draw. It was a bit too long though. i enjoyed every minute but I wasn't ready to watch an epic and by the end I was drained. Also I really liked brains voice. He's one of the best narrators around I think.

Grave of Fireflies was one of the most amazing things I have ever see. It's so real and unforgiven. I have never cried in a movie but this brought me closer to it than anything else. They gave you the right amount of happy moments to make the sad ones so much more painfull. It's also just done well. I like who it start with him dieing and he say " is the day I died." and then later in the movie it just shows him arrvie at the city and it just ends. It was so sad but at the same time your happy it ended in a way. But to must gut wrenching part is when his sister dies. AAHHHH!!! How he runs away telling her he'll be back. And then he says "She never woke up". You know she died before he said that but the way they just lay it on you was so sad.

Porko Rosso one of my favorite movies ever, period. It's just the perfect little story it's down so well. It was really entertaining.


If someone actually read all of this then I should give you a prize.

[ravenf6]

dafox8 said:

Wow I can't believed no body here got into that whole "See with eyes unclouded by hate" thing the movie had. I don't know but I guess I'm a sucker for inspirational stories like that. Probably why I like Trigun so much.

I'm kinda undecided on Whisper of the Heart. I really liked what it was about. When I write stories my grades go down too so I could really relate. And I like the part when she sings and they start playing instrument. I really hate country songs but this movie made me love Country Road. But the part that killed the movie for me was how she started crying in the end. It was unrealistic and over the top. I could understand tears but to start crying and yelling like she was... honestly.

I really liked Only Yesterday. It was such a bizzare little personel story that was basicly just a large scrap book of memories. When her dad stroke her, when the whole period pandemic broke out, when she remembered the boy who like her so he acted rude around her, the time she went to too many hot springs in one day and passed out. I definitely see those type of memories from her childhood sticking out as an adult. Atleast those are the kind of abstract things I remember from my early childhood. And I'm only 18. Plus the ending was so sweet when all her childhood was running along side her while she ran back to the man. And that one boy who throw him self on the ground to make the guy trip and stumble on her was just the perfect touch.

Totoro is the best kids movie in my opinion.

Pom Poko was alot of fun. I didn't think it disgusting just weird. But It's part of the innocence of the movie. Those racoons seem like the drawings a young boy would draw. It was a bit too long though. i enjoyed every minute but I wasn't ready to watch an epic and by the end I was drained. Also I really liked brains voice. He's one of the best narrators around I think.

Grave of Fireflies was one of the most amazing things I have ever see. It's so real and unforgiven. I have never cried in a movie but this brought me closer to it than anything else. They gave you the write amount of happy monet to make the sad ones so much more painfull. It's also just done well. I like who it start with him dieing and he say " is the day I died." and then later in the movie it just shows him arrvie at the city and it just ends. It was so sad but at the same time your happy it ended in a way. But to must gut wrenching part is when his sister dies. AAHHHH!!! How he runs away telling her he'll be back. And then he says "She never woke up". You know she died before he said that but the way they just lay it on you was so sad.

Porko Rosso one of my favorite movies ever, period. It's just the perfect little story it's down so well. It was really entertaining.


If someone actually read all of this then I should give you a prize.

Wow, that's pretty powerful stuff, GotF, I'll have to see it myself sometime.

I understand that "eyes unclouded" thing. It's sort of something I try to do. Things have gotten frustrating for me lately so it helps me to calm down when things get rough.

I like Pom Poko, especially the "battle" between the red and blue factions, that was so funny I forgot thery were being serious ;D And all those pranks they pulled, like the spooky voices, was pretty good.