Spirited Away never pulls me in. I've never finished it.
Princess Mononoke, Nausica, and Castle in the Sky are my favorites.
People should branch out and watch other anime movies too though. Galaxy Express 999 is amazing and was one of the most iconic moments when people started taking the medium more seriously back then.
What was the last movie you've seen?
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The DVD for the movie is pretty cheap due to Discotek releasing it. I have that and the movie sequel, but only have watched the first one - is the TV series better? Seems like it'd be fairly protracted in that format, where the movie is kinda rushed.Xeogred wrote: People should branch out and watch other anime movies too though. Galaxy Express 999 is amazing and was one of the most iconic moments when people started taking the medium more seriously back then.
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Well my branching was done in HS and college when anime was a bit more unique and had more personality. I'm mostly out of that now, but I have hundreds of manga instead. Remember I'm doing this as a fan but also greatly for a nearly 5 year old girl. So with that yeah I forgot about that scene so Nausicaa gets shelved for her for a bit as with Mononoke.
I had Arrietty some years ago I can get that back but it's not in that bundle box as it stops with that Wind Rises one I'm not sure she'd like. She seems to be into animals, little girls, but also like old disney 80s stuff like duck tales and tailspin so watching Castle in the Sky last night worked out well with the sky pirates.
At this rate thinking Howls, SA, and Porco should work, and as I can find it I'll snap up Arrietty and Cat Returns on blu ray.
Personally if I ever bumped into the Akira blu ray I'd get that it's solid. I wish the old Dominion Tank Police and Black Magic DVDs were done up on blu ray, maybe discotek will do it as they're all over things. They did my old favorites my old efnet nick was based upon Vampire Hunter D last year but I just haven't grabbed those yet.
I had Arrietty some years ago I can get that back but it's not in that bundle box as it stops with that Wind Rises one I'm not sure she'd like. She seems to be into animals, little girls, but also like old disney 80s stuff like duck tales and tailspin so watching Castle in the Sky last night worked out well with the sky pirates.
At this rate thinking Howls, SA, and Porco should work, and as I can find it I'll snap up Arrietty and Cat Returns on blu ray.
Personally if I ever bumped into the Akira blu ray I'd get that it's solid. I wish the old Dominion Tank Police and Black Magic DVDs were done up on blu ray, maybe discotek will do it as they're all over things. They did my old favorites my old efnet nick was based upon Vampire Hunter D last year but I just haven't grabbed those yet.
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I hear the series drags and is basically episodic, with only the two leads and nothing else really stands out. I'm sure it's solid and I'll check it out sometime. But it sounds like the movie is really a different thing. Same with Queen Millennia (only the movie is subbed right now) and some of the Harlock stuff. The old Leiji Matsumoto shows and movies can be quite confusing, it's best to see them all as their own thing not try to put together much of a timeline.isiolia wrote:The DVD for the movie is pretty cheap due to Discotek releasing it. I have that and the movie sequel, but only have watched the first one - is the TV series better? Seems like it'd be fairly protracted in that format, where the movie is kinda rushed.Xeogred wrote: People should branch out and watch other anime movies too though. Galaxy Express 999 is amazing and was one of the most iconic moments when people started taking the medium more seriously back then.
Here's my joke link on that:
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If she's into the Disney stuff, don't forget to check out Chip n' Dale and Darkwing Duck. There's also Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and the Jim Henson output like The Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock to think about. Things like that will probably keep her (and maybe you) well entertained for a while.Tanooki wrote:...She seems to be into animals, little girls, but also like old disney 80s stuff like duck tales and tailspin so watching Castle in the Sky last night worked out well with the sky pirates.
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Scary isn't necessarily bad for kids. I found parts of The Last Unicorn scary as a child, but I also wept at the end and have fond memories of the film. I think my favorite children's films were those that had an element of the alien, the scary unknown, the threat of danger. They just present them a little differently, in ways children can learn to handle that kind of scary.isiolia wrote:Spirited Away might be scary as well.
Aw, man, Nausicaa and Laputa are tied in second place for me, right after... Spirited Away. I think to appreciate Spirited Away, though, you have to be in the right head space when you see it. I was the first time I saw it, so every time I see it after I go right there. If you weren't in the zone trying to watch it the first time, it may take you some time to get there when attempting to re-watch. You'll want to crank up the volume on a good sound system and have a big, high-quality TV. I've found that helps.Xeogred wrote:Spirited Away never pulls me in. I've never finished it.
Princess Mononoke, Nausica, and Castle in the Sky are my favorites.
I was lucky enough to see both Mononoke and Spirited Away in the theater the first time I saw them, Mononoke in college and Spirited Away in Atlanta, after college. I've actually decided I think Mononoke is one of Miyazaki's lesser works. It's just a tad on the preachy side, and I don't have a lot of patience for Miramax/Disney's dub job. It was also Ghibli's first (I think) time incorporating any CGI elements into one of their films, and I find those effects stand out a bit and don't hold up to the quality of their more traditional sequences. Spirited Away, on the other hand, is very much Alice in Wonderland with a little more purpose. Their use of CGI and digital effects is much better integrated. And the music is to die for.
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I saw Howl's Moving Castle in theaters, that was cool. I don't think I've seen it since then though.
Yeah, I'll have to get around to Spirited Away again sometime. I'd like to get through all the Miyazaki stuff eventually, his son's movies included.
I'm not too big on Akira to be honest. Always falls apart midway in or something and the pacing gets funky. Too much jam packed in there? It's a visual feast and fun though.
I love Oshii's movies though, GITS, Patlabor 1-2, but those required a few viewings to grow on me as well.
Yeah, I'll have to get around to Spirited Away again sometime. I'd like to get through all the Miyazaki stuff eventually, his son's movies included.
I'm not too big on Akira to be honest. Always falls apart midway in or something and the pacing gets funky. Too much jam packed in there? It's a visual feast and fun though.
I love Oshii's movies though, GITS, Patlabor 1-2, but those required a few viewings to grow on me as well.
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Speaking of Miyazaki's films, I will be getting a couple of them from my first order from the Disney Movie Club: Nausicaa and My Neighbor Totoro (which, iirc, was distributed by Troma at some point).
And since I've got my new Blu-Ray player, I've seen the following films, all on Blu-Ray:
The first Blu-Ray I've ever watched. I wanted it to be a film I love, and I can honestly say that Shout! Factory has done a brilliant job with the release.
De Palma's delightfully demented cult musical (made between Sisters and Carrie) reunites him with Sisters' William Finley as Winslow Leach, a naive composer whose Faust cantata is stolen by enigmatic music mogul Swan (Paul Williams, who also did the music), who uses the music to inaugurate his opulent rock palace, The Paradise. Featuring Jessica Harper, in her first film role, as the starry-eyed chanteuse Phoenix and Gerritt Graham as the effeminate drug-addled glam-rocker Beef.
Never saw this before, but they sold it at Food Lion for $5.
So glad I took a chance on this.
I own the Blu-Ray now. Long-time Racketeers know all about my fondness for this Wagnerian rock opera from Saw II director Darren Bousman adapting star Terrance Zdunich's stage opera about a dystopian future that feels like Rocky Horror's love child with Blade Runner. The fact that Bousman directed this as a follow up to Saw III shows, as does his and Zdunich's love for Rocky Horror.
Set decades in the future after a massive organ failure, many people are forced to get financed organs from GeneCo, though if they fail to keep up their payments, GeneCo sends out the Repo Man, who takes back GeneCo's property with no regards for the life of his victims. The heart of the story is Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega), unaware that her father Nathan Wallace (Anthony Steward Head) is one such Repo Man. She spends her days stuck inside, unable to leave due to a blood disease treated by her father. Meanwhile, GeneCo's founder Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) is dying of a disease and shudders at the idea of leaving his company to his three children, murderous Luigi (Bill Moseley), Pavi who wears womens' faces over his own (Kevin "OhGr" Ogilvy) and surgery addict/Zydrate junkie Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton). Nathan discovers that he must repossess the eyes of opera star Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), while his daughter catches the eye of Rotti, with plans for her, plans that unveil throughout the course of the film (which sadly has about an hour's worth of footage that was never shot and/or excised for various reasons). All the while, the proverbial Greek chorus is The Graverobber (Terrance Zdunich), who makes his living selling a street version of the painkiller Zydrate (which seems to be akin to heroin and/or Oxycodone), which he extracts from the dead.
Why isn't REPO! on Broadway? I can TOTALLY see Tarja Turunen as Blind Mag, Darren Criss as Luigi, Chris Colfer as Pavi, Diana Agron as Amber, and Matthew Morrison as Nathan Wallace.
And since I've got my new Blu-Ray player, I've seen the following films, all on Blu-Ray:
The first Blu-Ray I've ever watched. I wanted it to be a film I love, and I can honestly say that Shout! Factory has done a brilliant job with the release.
De Palma's delightfully demented cult musical (made between Sisters and Carrie) reunites him with Sisters' William Finley as Winslow Leach, a naive composer whose Faust cantata is stolen by enigmatic music mogul Swan (Paul Williams, who also did the music), who uses the music to inaugurate his opulent rock palace, The Paradise. Featuring Jessica Harper, in her first film role, as the starry-eyed chanteuse Phoenix and Gerritt Graham as the effeminate drug-addled glam-rocker Beef.
Never saw this before, but they sold it at Food Lion for $5.
So glad I took a chance on this.
I own the Blu-Ray now. Long-time Racketeers know all about my fondness for this Wagnerian rock opera from Saw II director Darren Bousman adapting star Terrance Zdunich's stage opera about a dystopian future that feels like Rocky Horror's love child with Blade Runner. The fact that Bousman directed this as a follow up to Saw III shows, as does his and Zdunich's love for Rocky Horror.
Set decades in the future after a massive organ failure, many people are forced to get financed organs from GeneCo, though if they fail to keep up their payments, GeneCo sends out the Repo Man, who takes back GeneCo's property with no regards for the life of his victims. The heart of the story is Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega), unaware that her father Nathan Wallace (Anthony Steward Head) is one such Repo Man. She spends her days stuck inside, unable to leave due to a blood disease treated by her father. Meanwhile, GeneCo's founder Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) is dying of a disease and shudders at the idea of leaving his company to his three children, murderous Luigi (Bill Moseley), Pavi who wears womens' faces over his own (Kevin "OhGr" Ogilvy) and surgery addict/Zydrate junkie Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton). Nathan discovers that he must repossess the eyes of opera star Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), while his daughter catches the eye of Rotti, with plans for her, plans that unveil throughout the course of the film (which sadly has about an hour's worth of footage that was never shot and/or excised for various reasons). All the while, the proverbial Greek chorus is The Graverobber (Terrance Zdunich), who makes his living selling a street version of the painkiller Zydrate (which seems to be akin to heroin and/or Oxycodone), which he extracts from the dead.
Why isn't REPO! on Broadway? I can TOTALLY see Tarja Turunen as Blind Mag, Darren Criss as Luigi, Chris Colfer as Pavi, Diana Agron as Amber, and Matthew Morrison as Nathan Wallace.
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Glad to see the REPO bot is back in action. Keep selling your warez, REPO!
The Ogre, AKA Demons III: The Ogre, AKA House of the Ogre, AKA La casa dell'orco
Ogre rape.
That is what this movie is about. Ogre rape.
This is another of the four episodes of Lamberto Bava's Brivido Giallo TV-movie series. It's probably more well known in the US due to its connection to the Demons movie series, though in truth that's actually false; the real Demons III is supposed to be The Church. Then again, the Demons series is mainly a name and a bunch of loosely related titles that may or may not be part of a non-existent series, just like Zombi and La Casa. How else could I explain why the marvelous Cemetery Man is also known as Demons '95?
Anyway, in this movie an American horror novelist who has suffered nightmares all her life takes a vacation with her husband and son to an ancient castle in Italy. Once there, she discovers her nightmares about being chased by a hideous, rape-fueled ogre are actually true. She also makes friends with a local witch and finds out her husband is a total prick. In the end she gets chased around by a dude in a mask and tunic and kills the ogre by running him over in her car and then backing over him a few more times to make sure. The end result is that everyone the ogre raped has apparently survived, and she's now writing children's books.
I learned from this movie that Ogres get aroused by the smell of flowers and that they are born from yellow eggs sort of like spiders. Also cars are their natural predators. I also learned that flying off the handle and suddenly slapping your wife is totally cool with everyone in Italy.
Is October here yet?
The Ogre, AKA Demons III: The Ogre, AKA House of the Ogre, AKA La casa dell'orco
Ogre rape.
That is what this movie is about. Ogre rape.
This is another of the four episodes of Lamberto Bava's Brivido Giallo TV-movie series. It's probably more well known in the US due to its connection to the Demons movie series, though in truth that's actually false; the real Demons III is supposed to be The Church. Then again, the Demons series is mainly a name and a bunch of loosely related titles that may or may not be part of a non-existent series, just like Zombi and La Casa. How else could I explain why the marvelous Cemetery Man is also known as Demons '95?
Anyway, in this movie an American horror novelist who has suffered nightmares all her life takes a vacation with her husband and son to an ancient castle in Italy. Once there, she discovers her nightmares about being chased by a hideous, rape-fueled ogre are actually true. She also makes friends with a local witch and finds out her husband is a total prick. In the end she gets chased around by a dude in a mask and tunic and kills the ogre by running him over in her car and then backing over him a few more times to make sure. The end result is that everyone the ogre raped has apparently survived, and she's now writing children's books.
I learned from this movie that Ogres get aroused by the smell of flowers and that they are born from yellow eggs sort of like spiders. Also cars are their natural predators. I also learned that flying off the handle and suddenly slapping your wife is totally cool with everyone in Italy.
Is October here yet?
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what!? Haha. That's hilarious. They're... not even kind of similar movies.Ack wrote: How else could I explain why the marvelous Cemetery Man is also known as Demons '95?
