Favourite Films

[smoker guy]

(10-15-2011 12:54 AM)SpaceCadet Wrote:  

(10-14-2011 07:35 PM)smoker guy Wrote:  I don't know what everyone here thinks of Anime...but the Missus and I just watchedHowl's Moving Castle. This film was done by Studio Ghibli the same studio that did Miyazaki another great Anime film. I highly recommend both, sayin?

Do you mean Princess Mononoke? Miyazaki is the director's name. Anyhow, I haven't seen Howl's Moving Castle (yet) - I'm just getting my feet wet in Anime - but loved Miyazaki's Spirited Away. That one's an excellent transformative story about a spoiled brat who gets sucked into an alternate universe, where she learns discipline and responsibility via some very weird hard knocks. His earlier film My Neighbor Totoro is reportedly an iconic classic, so there're three films queued at the top of my must-see Anime list.

The only others I've seen are Castle in the Sky, which wasn't particularly memorable despite interesting characters; Akira (no explanation necessary - another classic); Sky Crawlers, which was interesting as a somber kinda-sorta period piece, but a little pointless in context of plot/theme.

In general I love the fact that Japanese culture retains all of the sense of civilization and human dignity that most of American culture has discarded in its headlong descent into Beavis-and-Butthead/Girls-Gone-Wild stupidity. I'll take a Japanese Anime film over a truckload of recent American Oscar winners - in a heartbeat.
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Nope, meant Spirited Away, but I've seenPrincess Mononoke[i] as well. Thanks for the faux pas correction SpaceCadet.

Anothere good anime to watch isEscaflowne, although this one is quite a bit more violent and bloody. Lots of swordfighting. Still, the animation is excellent and the storyline is acceptable. I also own the series on DVD, bought it for the Missus, then ended up watching it myself.