Did you all see the trailer for Ghibli's adaptation of The Borrowers, 'Arrietty' http://t.co/q9nTu5V ? They're doing separate dubs for the US and UK. This one's the British one.
― Alba, Sunday, July 3, 2011 4:51 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh wow, i loved the borrowers as a kid. that actually looks pretty faithful... but i hope the rhyming voiceover is only on the trailer since it made me want to kill everyone involved with knives.
― ledge, Thursday, 7 July 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
secret world of arrietty...due in Feb...
http://kottke.org/11/10/the-secret-world-of-arrietty
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_World_of_Arrietty
I guess Miyazaki is playing an advisory role these days.
― calstars, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
for anyone in toronto tiff lightbox is doing a studio ghibli series during march and april w/almost all of miyazaki's films but also takahata and others
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
IFC just did something similar in NYC. caught only yesterday. it was good!
― original bgm, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
I wasn't a fan of "Ponyo" at all, but I thought "“The Secret World of Arrietty” was absolutely lovely and satisfyingly melancholy. Mayazki didn't direct (he wrote and produced), but he may as well have. It bears some similarities to "Totoro" and the attention to detail is gorgeous. In fact, its languid, even slow pace was such a nice change from the usual. Loved it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Loved: Spirited AwayLiked: Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery ServiceIndifferent: Princess MononokeDisliked: My Neighbor Totoro― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Monday, April 6, 2009 12:16 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Put Ponyo into the "liked" category as well. Maybe someday I'll see what everyone loves in Totoro so much.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
going to see arrietty today if I can convince my son to do it.
― akm, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Took my kids, 7 and almost-4, to Arietty yesterday. They both dug it, and so did I. 2nd everything Josh said about it above, it's gorgeous and gentle, but enough action to keep things moving.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
is it MIYAZAKI good or is it just good?
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
Loved: Spirited AwayLiked: Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery ServiceIndifferent: Princess MononokeDisliked: My Neighbor Totoro― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Monday, April 6, 2009 12:16 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkPut Ponyo into the "liked" category as well. Maybe someday I'll see what everyone loves in Totoro so much.― dead-trius (Eric H.), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:55 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:55 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Pretty much the same as me, although I warmed to Totoro after maybe 3 watches. Seems people appreciate it as a very gentle film for very young children with some poignant moments added on, but for me there's just not enough going on. Mononoke is okay in that it lays down the artistic groundwork for Spirited/Howl's, but the plot starts to wear about 3/4 of the way through and it lacked light relief.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
xp Just good, but that's enough. It's no Ponyo, though.
Totoro is not for very young children or any age group in particular.
― abcfsk, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I'd count the baby / flappy bird / sootlings as light relief - the bit where the plot shifts about 3/4 of the way through is lovely I think, and genuinely dreamlike - "enough about that, we need to go do this!"
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Arietty is Miyazaki-good. Totally feels like his movie.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 20 February 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe someday I'll see what everyone loves in Totoro so much.
catbus
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/27600000/Cat-Bus-my-neighbor-totoro-27648508-476-352.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Haha guess who has completely mistaken Princess Mononoke for Sprited Away!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 February 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
catbus otm
skip the first two-thirds and just watch the bit with Totoro and the Catbus in imo
(I am sort of kidding, or am I? I can't tell any more)
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
So how is the Earthsea film? I liked the books as a kid but I read that Le Guin was not pleased with it so I didn't bother with it at the time. But the talk on this thread is not overwhelmingly negative. Not positive either, mind...
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
my thoughts on it, as i recall, were that it was so ghibli-by-numbers that there wasn't very much space for earthsea-- but tbh the experience of watching the film is such a rage blackout i can't remember many details
― dove cale (c sharp major), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
agree
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Loved: Spirited Away, Castle In the Sky, Princess MononokeLiked a Lot: My Neighbor Totoro, Castle of Cagliostro, Porco Rosso, PonyoLiked Okay: Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service, NausicaäDisliked: uh...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
wish someone would put out a comp of miyazaki/ghibli shorts
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
I really liked Arrietty, I saw it on Saturday and 2 days later it's still gently floating into my consciousness, which imo means it's fabulous.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
the disney-created trailers for arrietty made it look kind of insipid, so i was really happy with how beautiful + engaging it ended up being. also, there were three little 5-year-old girls seated directly behind me in theater, and at first i was like "oh man they are going to get bored and noisy halfway through." but they ended up being equally enthralled! and when they did talk it was pretty funny. they couldn't figure out if the housekeeper character was good or bad for a while, and the ambiguity REALLY troubled them.
― ban opinions (reddening), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
ha yes a girl behind me said, "I think she's bad" when the housekeeper had uprooted the boards.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
The voice casting for Arietty (English dub) was so weird, though – Will Arnett as the strong but gentle, levelheaded, pragmatic Borrower dad. He sounded pretty sedate most of the time but every once in a while it was jarringly Gob Bluthy.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
I got the UK edition, which has Mark Strong as Arrietty's dad with a gruff but caring approach. It seems odd that the UK dub (in this instance) might have more starpower than the US one; Saoirse Ronan plays Arrietty, vs Bridgit Mendler - is she a star over there? I've genuinely never heard of her.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 25 February 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
Howls is on UK TV now. Definitely my favourite Ghibli now, and for ages Spirited Away was my alltime favourite film.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Saturday, 25 February 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
Caught the 2nd half; I've got the dvd, but there is something about a favourite film being on telly that makes me want to watch it even more. It is just superb, enormous rewatching value and there's something new every time I see it. Showing it on Saturday afternoon tv is excellent scheduling, I bet loads of children saw it for the first time - I envy those kids :)
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Saturday, 25 February 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Arietty was good except for the stupid stupid voice of the stupid boy with his breathless DYING RASP, and the terrible terrible coda at the end because I AM STRONG SINCE YOU ARE IN MY HEART. What the hell? Arietty could probably just climb inside his actual malfunctioning heart with a long-ass snorkle and keep it beating by kicking at the inside of left ventricle. I think I will love a dubbed vers, but everything done to translate/Disnify the film made it ∞ times worse.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
What, you think the boy should have died at the end?
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
xpost You think? In my experience, Disney has done a great job (often with Lasseter) doing Ghibli dubbing and voice casting. I'm sure the boy was no better in the inevitably breathless Japanese language version.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Also, want to say from memory that Miyazaki (et all) have trouble with endings, a la Hitchcock and Spielberg.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 February 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Only ones that have stuck out as being bad choices to me were Arnett in Arietty and Billy Crystal in Howl's ––– both of whom were really subdued but I just had too strong of previous associations w/them. I can grouch with the best of them about celebrity voicecasting but Josh in Chicago is basically OTM.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Saturday, 25 February 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Also I loved that dying boy so much, more kids movies should have a character who is just a walking, talking memento mori.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Saturday, 25 February 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
I also liked that he was kind of an ass and put his foot in his mouth constantly.
Ehh, I didn't mean to imply that the kid should have died, just that the line 'strong because you are in my heart' was morbidly sentimental and undermined any potential poignancy of the parting.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Saturday, 25 February 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
i will never forgive disney's dub team for making the cat in kiki talk at the end. kills the entire metaphor.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Billy Bob Thornton's voice casting in Princess Mononoke was particularly jarring for me
― Chris S, Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
billy bob in mononoke was inspired!
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 25 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
I don't like Miyazaki still.
― "HUH?" (admrl), Saturday, 25 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
huh?
― Mordy, Saturday, 25 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, February 25, 2012 8:58 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah, maybe, but howl is the only miyazaki flick that i think is seriously undermined by its ending. the rest i'm good with. haven't seen arrietty (wtf is up w that name).
english voice acting has never bothered me, cuz i mostly watch these in japanese. did like bbt in mononoke.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 February 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Arietty is the actual name of Mary Norton's main character –– a corruption of Harriet, if I remember rightly.
― "renegade" gnome (remy bean), Saturday, 25 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
lol, never read the borrowers. okay then.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
except i think i actually did, but have forgotten most of it
i watched ponyo with a friend the other week and a few minutes in we had a little cynical lol about how obvious the impending environmental theme was, and then... it kind of disappeared? i guess that showed us, but as much as i enjoyed it at the end i kinda felt i didn't know what it was about.
― shart practice (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 25 February 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's about ponyo, who is a girl fish with magical adventures, duh
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
i get you though. it's p nonsensical. i like that about it, tbh.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link