Favourite Miyazaki film

it's about ponyo, who is a girl fish with magical adventures, duh

i get you though. it's p nonsensical. i like that about it, tbh.

who are you awful awful people that you watch the dubbed versions

just finished watch arrietty - everybody otm, felt like a miyazaki film. things I loved:

-the fluid dynamics. when they pour tea, it comes out a drop at a time.
-the tall big person boy is so weak and going to die and can't do any physical exercise but the borrowers are on some ninja warrior shit 24/7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oco3lPfokaU

I hated "Ponyo."

Also, dubbing is a non-issue when it comes to most cartoons. I mean, they're all dubbed!

not that it's miyazaki, but i watched pom poko the other night (studio ghibli flick abt raccoon balls). was weird.

Nausicää is my favorite, followed by Castle in the Sky, then Kiki's Delivery Service. Still need to see the Lupin movie, Totoro and Princess Mononoke, though.

Also: really disliked Ponyo when I saw it in theatres, but that could've been due in part to the English dub.

ponyo didn't really grab me

it isn't directed by miyazaki, but the secret world of arrietty is fucking a plus. amazing movie. much more conventional narratively than ponyo (whose plot really irritated me despite all the beautiful animation of water and such) but no worse for that. just amazing.

for the voice of the dad will arnett seemed to be channeling christian bale's batman.

Ponyo's ending is even worse than Howl's. Miyazaki's never been too good at endings - the few I can think of off the top of my head tend to involve some hurried deus ex machina thing, but it doesn't usually matter because it's the ride that counts.

Just realised Josh In Chicago said the same thing.

for the voice of the dad will arnett seemed to be channeling christian bale's batman.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

I watched the japanese audio version and the dad was voiced by a gruff dude

so so so glad that I didn't have to think about gob at all during my viewing

pom poko is great

greatness tempered constant raccoon balls

*tempered by

i would say "muddled with" rather than "tempered by"

*tempted by

infused

thought pom poko was really up and down. story, impact, themes & more naturalistic animation = GREAT. otoh, at least half the comedy & anthro tanuki action was really lame & grating.

Nausicää is my favorite, followed by Castle in the Sky, then Kiki's Delivery Service. Still need to see the Lupin movie, Totoro and Princess Mononoke, though.

― tanuki, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 3:24 AM (16 hours ago)

^^^ correct first and second choice :D
I'd throw Porco Rosso in at #3

Nausicaä is pretty good, but sadly I read the comic first, and even though the movie is a fine adaptation, it just doesn't manage to convey the richness of the comic's themes. (Partially because the comic wasn't finished when the movie came out.)

Here's how I'd rate Miyazaki's films, to to bottom:

Totoro
Castle in the Sky
Porco Rosso
Nausicaä
Ponyo
Lupin III
Mononoke
Moving Castle

I still haven't seen Kiki, need to correct that soon.

Oh sorry, add Spirited Away there, between Nausicaä and Ponyo.

Miyazaki's never been too good at endings

This is nuts! Kiki - awesome ending! Mononoke - awesome ending! Totoro - awesome ending! Laputa - awesome ending!

Totoro | Spirited Away | Kiki's Delivery Service
Mononoke | Castle in the Sky | Ponyo | Howl's Moving Castle
Porco Rosso | Nausicaa | The Castle of Cagliostro | Cat Returns

Cat Returns is not Miyazaki.

oh. it wasn't very good, anyway.

Eh, i consider ghibli close enough

i LOVE cat returns, one of my favorite ghibli films (a long list, admittedly)

The ending of Mononoke might look halfway cool but it's absolute garbage. The forest spirit is a stupid way to wrap up a movie.

otm

notm

mononoke ending is v satisfying

I was being sarcastic

If Miyazaki is so bad at endings, why am I always moved to tears at the end of his movies??? That doesn't happen at movies with good endings (except for Cold Mountain, I was v mad at myself for crying at that).

subtlety is lost on me

xp

The endings aren't usually stupid. There might be three dissenters here but they only make up a minority

loved this! saw it today. so well written - understated and elegiac. and the animation was gorgeous - so carefully drawn and so lush. really one of the best - up there with totoro, spirited away and kiki in my eyes. maybe the best of the bunch actually (tho i haven't seen spirited away in awhile and i do remember how much i loved it)

also will arnett did not bother me at all! i thought he did a great job as the dad.

i have never seen any of these but my kids watched Nausicaa the other week and seemed pretty into it

cosco has most of these in their movie section now

2 new Ghibli films announced for summer 2013 in Japan!

http://i.imgur.com/5YuiX.png
Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Is Rising) written & directed by Miyazaki, story is about Jiro Horikoshi who was the designer of many WWII Japanese fighter planes.

http://i.imgur.com/95rlW.png
Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya) directed by Isao Takahata, based on a Japanese folktale about a princess discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

those are some beautiful promo posters. especially Kaze Tachinu - looks so breezy and sunny.

Although I'm starting to wonder whether Ghibli will make another truly great movie again.

Great news and yeah, *gorgeous* posters. Almost more excited about a new one from Isao Takahata than Miyazaki tbh, it's been so long since he directed anything and Only Yesterday is up there with anything else that Ghibli has made.

The premise of The Wind is Rising sounds fascinating though, hopefully an excuse for plenty of aerial sequences too. Man, I'm totally psyched for these :)

Sounds like the Wind is Rising could potentially be the first Miyazaki with no fantasy elements, interesting.

Watched Ponyo for the first time the other day, some absolutely stunning sequences, particularly the flooded town. Though the plot felt like it was invented by an eight year-old on the fly (maybe that's the point?).

Oh and the use of colour was phenomenal, maybe his best yet in that respect.

For real, there's some spectacular stuff in Ponyo] - the sequence where they they're racing the storm back to the clifftop home always sticks with me: the roiling sea, and the tiny figure of Ponyo pelting along beside the car on the cresting fish-like waves. And then they get back and have a ham/eggs/noodles meal - from a hurricane to domestic bliss in 10 minutes. And yr right, glorious work with colour throughout. Def. gonna have to watch it again soon.