What has Takahata been doing the last 13 years?
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The Films of Studio Ghibli |OT| Creating New Worlds
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What has Takahata been doing the last 13 years?
vagabondarts
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Watched Arrietty in the theater when it was out a couple months ago... beautiful hand drawn artwork on THE BIG SCREEN! Awesome.
Tales from Earthsea is so bad partly because it shares a catalog with some of the greatest animated films of our time and partly because it is totally uninteresting. I like the music though.
I really can't express enough how much I love Studio Ghibli's movies.
Tales from Earthsea is so bad partly because it shares a catalog with some of the greatest animated films of our time and partly because it is totally uninteresting. I like the music though.
I really can't express enough how much I love Studio Ghibli's movies.
RatskyWatsky
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blainethemono
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The only ones I ever got to see in theaters were Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle
I wish I had gone to see Mononoke in theaters, I think it was playing around here back then but I didn't see that movie until it was on DVD, and it was my first Ghibli movie
Myoclonic Jerk
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I have almost all of them. My wife is a huge fan.
Just watched Arrietty few days ago.
It was a massive disappointment
Just watched Arrietty few days ago.
It was a massive disappointment
I really enjoyed it, didn't realise there was a generally negative (well, middling is probably fairer) opinion on it.
I guess people saw the outlander and thought "OMG THIS WILL AS EPIC AS NAUSICAA" and were disappointed.
Disappointed by Arriety, and previously Ponyo and Tales from Earthsea. Love earlier Ghibli productions, Takahata in particular. I'm going to check out Gauche the Cellist, and also looking forward to From Up on Poppy Hill - I think it comes out on DVD/Bluray on June 20th in Japan. I've heard good things about it.
Porco Rosso is the greatest Ghibli movie by Miyazaki and Castle of Cagliostro is a close second. (even if it isn't technically a Ghibli movie!)
It's the least visually engaging Ghibli movies I've ever seen but the incredible climax more than makes up for that. lol
Prophet Steve
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Not sure if you are serious, but no. Maybe when you confuse it with Ponyo, but I doubt that.
Do you have the rest of the day free? Good.
Dragoon En Regalia
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No. It was the project that originally led to the creation of Telecom Animation, though, which worked on the Miyazaki Lupin episodes (Red Jacket) and Cagliostro.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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I find it hard to get enthused about new Ghibli projects.
I feel the studio peaked with Spirited Away and, though containing greats moments and heaps of potential, everything from the past decade has been disappointing.
I feel the studio peaked with Spirited Away and, though containing greats moments and heaps of potential, everything from the past decade has been disappointing.
Worth every penny!
Totoro, grave of the fireflies & up from poppy hill pre- ordered!
Still waiting for spirited away & mononoke though
OMG this is lovely.. I'm so jealous.
Another little Nemo.
Didn't Miyazaki produce a promo to pitch his ideas for the movie or something?
Edit: Apparently just rumors that have been proven false
http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nonmiyazaki/ said:
Here is the test clip (not a promo) done by Yoshifumi Kondo nonetheless.
Unfortunately, I'm about as unoriginal as it gets when it comes to Ghibli. My faves are probably Spirited Away, Mononoke, Totoro, and Howl..in that order. I really love Miyazaki's somewhat operatic period, and in addition to that, Totoro is probably my favourite family film.
Ranking the films sort of sells the rest of the catalogue short, though. There's only one Ghibli movie I flat out don't enjoy (Earthsea).
Of their latest couple of films, while I enjoyed From up on Poppy Hill a whole lot (caught it at TIFF), but it's got nothing on Arrietty.
Ranking the films sort of sells the rest of the catalogue short, though. There's only one Ghibli movie I flat out don't enjoy (Earthsea).
Of their latest couple of films, while I enjoyed From up on Poppy Hill a whole lot (caught it at TIFF), but it's got nothing on Arrietty.
I warned you. Good film, but I'll be glad if I never have to watch it again.
That's because Takahata hasn't made anything new yet. Get hype for Bamboo Cutter, man.
Miyazaki peaked at Porco Rosso, tbh.
Kiki is right up there
I've enjoyed all of the Ghibli movies I've seen(except Earthsea), my favorite is Spirited Away. Really magical stuff.
I've missed some of the older classics like Porco Rosso and My Neighbor Totoro, I should probably rectify this soon.
Are you forgetting about Disney there, buddy?
I've missed some of the older classics like Porco Rosso and My Neighbor Totoro, I should probably rectify this soon.
Without a shadow of a doubt, it has the best backgrounds in Ghibli, and probably in all of animation.
So gorgeous.
Are you forgetting about Disney there, buddy?
Spirit of Jazz
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Grave of the Fireflies is based on a true story? That's ruined my day/year.
It is, with one obvious difference about the author's fate.
Akiyuki Nosaka said:
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Are you forgetting about Disney there, buddy?
Eh. Disney's may, occasionally, be technically better, but I personally find Howl's backgrounds to be the most beautiful I've seen in a movie.
Different strokes, and that.
I just finished watching Borrowers Arriety. It's such a great movie but too short.
I love how each and every Studio Ghibli movie just pulls you into the story and leave you wanting for more. When I saw Porco Rosso the first time, the whole Baltic Sea theme of the story, circa 1920's, definitely caught my attention.
Great story-telling and atmosphere, the soundtrack and character development, make Studio Ghibli what they are now: one of the last animation studios that deliver quality entertainment.
I love how each and every Studio Ghibli movie just pulls you into the story and leave you wanting for more. When I saw Porco Rosso the first time, the whole Baltic Sea theme of the story, circa 1920's, definitely caught my attention.
Great story-telling and atmosphere, the soundtrack and character development, make Studio Ghibli what they are now: one of the last animation studios that deliver quality entertainment.
Saw some Ghibli movies at Target the other day and wanted to pick a couple up, but wasn't sure what to go with.
I've only seen Spirited Away, Ponyo, and Howl's Moving Castle. Enjoyed all 3, Ponyo probably the least, but it was still enjoyable.
Any recommendations on which one I should get next? (that can be found in stores)
I've only seen Spirited Away, Ponyo, and Howl's Moving Castle. Enjoyed all 3, Ponyo probably the least, but it was still enjoyable.
Any recommendations on which one I should get next? (that can be found in stores)
Princess Mononoke is a pretty safe place to start. Everything's fine though except Tales from Earthsea.
I think it's pretty interesting how the main character is usually a young female in Ghibli films. Have they commented on that? Is it more of a Japanese thing, or more of Ghibli wants to shake up what is the norm in movies (male leads)? Haven't seen them all, but it looks like Mononoke and Porco are the only ones with male leads.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Miyazaki likes heroines more than heroes, and he's a casual feminist of sorts too (mainly because he sees them as more hard-working, IDK?). Not that he doesn't give the spotlight to men on the occasion: stuff like Laputa, Conan, and Mononoke have some class-A manly men.
Mr. Wonderful
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What's weird is how they decided to do a different encoding for each region's release for video. You would think there would just be one master Blu-ray encoding released by Ghibli, and all the different regions would then just change the audio...
But whatever though, looking at some of those comparison pictures, it's really splitting hairs (though the colors did look worse in the Hong Kong encoding, like it's a different mastering almost).
But whatever though, looking at some of those comparison pictures, it's really splitting hairs (though the colors did look worse in the Hong Kong encoding, like it's a different mastering almost).
Well later HK releases are just ports of the JP video encode, which are really high bitrate compared to everything else. I don't think it'd fit with the stuff Disney puts on the US BDs.
Subbed Japanese DVD
Dragoon En Regalia
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I thought it got plenty of love? Most Ghibli films tend to be marked as the holy grails of Japanese animation these days.
It does seem to have a reputation as something of a dark-horse in the Ghibli catalogue. That said, only a fool would consider it anything but one of the very best.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Never seemed like it was the oddball-out to me at all! I guess that;s because my father loves Porco so much he cosplayed as the jolly man when my family still went to A-KON.
Fimbulvetr
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Just wanted to say thanks for linking this. It's absolutely fascinating.
Haha, too cool. Porco was the first Ghibli I ever saw as well and I can remember dad calling out to me and telling me to come and watch it with him on TV.
Dragoon En Regalia
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I've become indifferent towards Miyazaki's movies these days (mostly due to overexposure and the pomp surrounding his productions), but Porco will always stay with me. Probably my favorite Miyazaki film, now that I think about it.
Was in kind of a crappy mood, which coupled with this thread made me watch Arietty. Cheered me up just fine
Couldn't get over how amazing it looked, I kept marvelling at the immensely detailed backgrounds and smooth animation. Loved the soundtrack as well.
I can understand complaints about the story being slight, but it was still very well executed and touching. As always with these films, the characters felt genuine and well developed.
Hopefully Poppy Hill gets a UK DVD release soon so I can be up to date. As i say I've been a bit unhappy lately, so will probably be rewatching some older Ghiblis; these films are so uplifting*
*I know I know, Grave of the Fireflies aside. That one isn't getting a rewatch anytime soon!
Couldn't get over how amazing it looked, I kept marvelling at the immensely detailed backgrounds and smooth animation. Loved the soundtrack as well.
I can understand complaints about the story being slight, but it was still very well executed and touching. As always with these films, the characters felt genuine and well developed.
Hopefully Poppy Hill gets a UK DVD release soon so I can be up to date. As i say I've been a bit unhappy lately, so will probably be rewatching some older Ghiblis; these films are so uplifting
**I know I know, Grave of the Fireflies aside. That one isn't getting a rewatch anytime soon!
cj_iwakura
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Porco Rosso is pure hopeless romantic delight.
Ghibli are among the best at love stories.
Ghibli are among the best at love stories.
I don't think Miyazaki thinks too much about demographics or "shaking up the norm", telling stories via young female leads just seems to be his thing and suits him best. I don't think it needs to be more logical than that.
The female roles tend to get even stronger when the movie has a male lead. Fio and Gina from Porco Rosso and San and Lady Eboshi from Mononoke are some of the strongest characters in Ghibli movies.