| So who's seen it yet? I really look forward to it! |
| It's very good and like many people will tell you, it's cuteness taken to a whole new level. |
| Just got back from it. Twas good! |
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| I just got back from the theatre. It was so freaking cute! |
 Rule of Anime #18 - Law of Hemoglobin Capacity The human body contains over 12 gallons of blood, sometimes more, under high pressure. |
| I'm planning to go see it in the next couple days. I'd go see it right now, but the closest theater that's showing it is 45 minutes away so I have to find some time. I'll probably end up watching it in Japanese again later to compare, since I haven't seen it since the camrip a while ago. |
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| I really liked it alot. Super cute movie, but did anyone else notice that they didn't even try to match the lip flaps half the time......? |
Well one thing I've learned from this experience, is that a princess is still a princesss even when she is naked. |
Nagara_Venteel said: I really liked it alot. Super cute movie, but did anyone else notice that they didn't even try to match the lip flaps half the time......? Seriously? Thats going to drive me crazy the entire movie |
HikariAkai said: Nagara_Venteel said: I really liked it alot. Super cute movie, but did anyone else notice that they didn't even try to match the lip flaps half the time......? Seriously? Thats going to drive me crazy the entire movie Wow really? That's gonna drive me crazy too. |
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| Wow, I really didn't even pay attention to that.... |
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| I want to watch this : ) this morning, I saw it in the headline US news in entertainment on msnbc.com ~ |
| I saw it today. It was definitely his best and worst film. Best animation. Worst story. I gave it a six. I was really disappointed. Miyazaki seems to have lost it. |
| Saw it today. I was displeased, definitely. Just by the trailers and pictures, I wasn't really expecting another Spirited Away, Howl, or Princess Mononoke, but I was still expecting much more of Miyazaki. The story was incredibly weak. It was a fairly good concept, but it lacked something. I'm still trying to figure out what it even was, but I think the best possible thing I can up with is just the Miyazaki element that we all love. It felt like it was missing. But aside from the actual movie itself, the English was better than I was expecting. About the voices and lips thing, overall I don't think it was that bad, but at some parts I just had to laugh at it... |
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| Hmm... I dunno. I haven't completely finished it but this has Miyazaki written all over it. The adorable details in the scenes following Ponyo's entrance in the house, particularly the teatime scene, just screams Miyazaki. And all of that scene happening against the eerie backdrop of a freakishy roiling ocean also carries his aesthetic vibe. But the story is certainly lightweight. I think what it's missing so far to put this in the same tier as Totoro is some element of gravitas (the mother's tuberculosis and Mei's potential drowning provided this in the latter). |
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| I'm going with a bunch of friends tomorrow. Yay~ |
| Just finished it. Definitely no Totoro, and it ends in much the same headscratching fashion as Howl's Moving Castle. In the end, this feels almost as aimless as that last film, but with the Totoro cuteness factor, almost as if Miyazaki were trying to get back to his roots a bit but didn't quite nail it. As Rail_man said, it's his best and worst... 6 sounds about right, unfortunately. |
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| I watched it yesterday, and I enjoyed it greatly. The cuteness was overwhelming. :D It was certainly a light plot, but sometimes I just really need a movie like that. It made me happy watching it, and that's all I ask for. |
| I found an illegal DVD copy of it imported from Japan in Japan Video (the largest anime store in the US, located in Japantown in San Francisco). It, unlike the American version, is 101 minutes long while the Disney edition is less then 90 minutes. I talked to one of the employees of the store who went to Japan and saw it when it open and also saw it in theaters in the US said that the story was slightly changed in the dub and also the slow parts were edited out. Also, the slow parts explain some of the story more and is fills in some of the animation gaps. Damn you Disney!!!!! |
| "In the Beginning, the creative energy radiates from within." - No, no. That's Lame. Sounds like something out of a Jodorowsky comic. The Tokusyu Manga Club - Features alternative comics/avant-garde comics/outsider comics/psychdelic comics/surrealistic comics/underground comics + La Nouvelle Manga (part of Alternative). If I'm here, its because I have nothing better to do. |
| Movie was great, the only problem being seeing in a theater found me sitting next to a 3 year old who clapped during the whole movie and scream "Ponyo!" every time she appeared on screen. |
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Pierre_Bezukhov said: I found an illegal DVD copy of it imported from Japan in Japan Video (the largest anime store in the US, located in Japantown in San Francisco). It, unlike the American version, is 101 minutes long while the Disney edition is less then 90 minutes. I talked to one of the employees of the store who went to Japan and saw it when it open and also saw it in theaters in the US said that the story was slightly changed in the dub and also the slow parts were edited out. Also, the slow parts explain some of the story more and is fills in some of the animation gaps. Damn you Disney!!!!! Seriously? My theatre's website says the movie is 103 minutes and that's how long I was in the theatre. (2:20-4:20, actually, which seem to be way too much wiggle room if it was only 90 minutes.) Could they have shortened it for some previews/con screenings? |
AnomalousAug 16, 2009 7:35 PM
| I think what bugged me about the film was that it started out as a simple Totoro-ish story with some hints of mermaid tales, but got quite a bit bloated at the end with the whole world-saving, moon falling to earth... stuff. It didn't make a lot of sense, to be honest. Part of the magic of Miyazaki, at least in my experience has been his ability to draw you into the fantasy in such a way that you don't question the logic, you just... wonder at it and enjoy the ride, relishing all the weird and simultaneously quotidian details along the way. But this one just sort of derailed into the absurdity spectrum and never really came back; the same conceit that brought his prior film down a notch as well. In any case it's good to see him go toward this nostalgic style again. I just think in many aspects this film is one of his failures, and he'll probably admit that a few years from now, just as he admitted to a few failures in the past. |
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Frohike said: I think what bugged me about the film was that it started out as a simple Totoro-ish story with some hints of mermaid tales, but got quite a bit bloated at the end with the whole world-saving, moon falling to earth... stuff. It didn't make a lot of sense, to be honest. This is very true. The whole test of love sort of thing they had going on towards the end was just total nonsense too. The boy is five years old, seriously. I really did not like that. |
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