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Waffleman_ posted:I just realized this week is the perfect time to start the challenge because How Do You Live comes out in 12 weeks and it's his 12th movie. One a week. my tiers:  The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to watch the Miyazaki directorial canon front to back in release order, make a tier list, and then go see How Do You Live and add it to the tier list. You're not obligated to stick to the weekly schedule, but I look forward to Waffleman's posts on that schedule. I did a lot of these movies one a day. symbolic posted:also if anyone was like me and had to look up release order, Ohtori Akio fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Cephas posted:i've already watched like half of these this year already but frick it, im in. hot takes are welcome here. actually they're obligatory
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Sep 19, 2023 21:13
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i am busy thursday evenings im sad to say. but i endorse groupwatching with my whole heart
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Sep 19, 2023 21:14
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hes done work on many others. 11 directed with another coming out is pretty good
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Sep 19, 2023 23:07
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symbolic posted:also if anyone was like me and had to look up release order, added to op
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Srice posted:I've been revisiting all of Miyazaki's stuff throughout the year since thanks to Ghiblifest they get theatrical showings and since a new Miyazaki movie is out this year they've only been doing Miyazaki movies this year. Half the point of that movie is not to be weird to nice young ladies when you're a washed up old guy...........Marco would have beat his rear end.
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Sep 20, 2023 00:48
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its aids bitch
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Sep 20, 2023 01:18
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also im gonna participate and post my reviews in prose form. i did my recent watch through with the dubs so a sub watch through will be fun too
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Sep 20, 2023 01:19
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owned. have a good time with an undisputed classic
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Sep 20, 2023 02:03
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it really is funny how it'll be goofy bullshit with a hot jazz soundtrack one second and a beautiful panning landscape the next
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Sep 20, 2023 04:52
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theres only two i can think of that dont have flying. one of them takes place centuries before aeroplanes and the other is about flying underwater
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doing my lupin watch. (just finished it as i was typing this) the soundtrack bangs more every time i hear it. the mickey mousing and vibraphones and big-band stuff are perfect for what this movie is and i wouldn't mind another like it. i wonder if hisaishi has ever written jazz, actually something i've noticed on rewatch is the early appearance of one of miyazaki's favorite story idea, a princess and a "knight" and a chaste/chivalric romantic dynamic between them. in this movie we get the full version with all the players, a literal princess and a guy who protects her and a gross guy trying to take advantage of her and a lady the knight's age he's actually interested in. miyazaki really beats you over the head with a message about the right way for men and women to interact, especially when they aren't an appropriate match, using a very specific and classic story framing, and that's an idea that appears in just as many films as (say) war is bad or don't kill the environment. i'm going to pay attention to how that idea evolves over miyazaki's career
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Sep 21, 2023 05:31
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the Day is thursday right? so nausicaa week is here. i'm gonna watch that tonight
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Sep 22, 2023 23:45
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its insanely badass when the ohm pops out of the forest and period-correct jrpg battle music starts playing.Srice posted:Just a heads up that over the next 5 days Howl's Moving Castle will be playing in theaters as part of Ghiblifest. I'm definitely gonna try to find the time to catch it, been awhile since I've last seen it and what better way to revisit it than the big screen. i should go see it..........its out of release order but hell, what's one more watch
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Sep 23, 2023 00:49
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OK I'm almost at the end of Nausicaa. This one's one of my favorites to this day. It goes insanely hard on the self-sacrificing pacifistic moral stuff and leans way far off the princess/knight romantic dynamic even though it clearly includes those two players in the story. The soundtrack is a fun outlier in terms of how much it leans on synthesizers and, I think, does a great job of using them for what they are. I'm struck by how incredibly 2d Final Fantasy this movie looks and I'd love to get a clearer idea of what people call this style. Things like extremely round character and monster art, snub-nosed tanks, artistic reference to Medieval Europe, is there a starting point for this stuff in Japanese art and animation when I primarily know it from about a decade later in games?
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Sep 23, 2023 02:38
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I would simply reintroduce Clarisse more often than once a decade and for more than a cameo each time.
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Sep 23, 2023 03:15
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It's a perfect scene. He went through all that to get up there and turns on a dime to trying to make a very upset girl laugh.
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Sep 25, 2023 03:42
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it's laputa week, i'll watch tonight!
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Sep 29, 2023 16:33
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ok laputa is still really good. very comfy, great adventure flick. everyone should see it. i've seen it a billion times by now. things that are not perfect are starting to stick out to me in a way that the other miyazaki films dont yet. like, the soundtrack has some phoned-in moments, and there are some scenes that don't contribute a ton. it's relatively long for an adventure-fantasy movie and that starts to get you on rewatch. the princess, knight, and evil count are here again. this is a much more pat romance and i think that's a big part of why it feels so comfy - you know those two are gonna get together at the end and ride off into the sunset, and they do. it owns. lol at the developing visual language from miyazaki that big poofy business suit = evil bad man. the spectre of weapons of mass destruction appears again and this time it's depicted a few different times instead of just one. for a longer more swashbuckly movie i think it works really well. i feel more confident every time i see it that this is a really good movie that's just slightly not as good as nausicaa.
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Sep 30, 2023 03:59
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i live for this poo poo
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Waffleman_ posted:Love this kid desperately trying to tell his boss he became a protagonist but getting interrupted with work he's incredibly dutiful and we love him for it
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Oct 7, 2023 02:40
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the kitchen scene ftl
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Oct 7, 2023 03:29
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I think it is fair to say that Shinkai is evolving on what works about Spirited Away but I do not feel the same way about it overall, at all.
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Oct 29, 2023 04:55
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Diet Poison posted:I respect your right to an opinion but you've made an enemy for life. This.
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Oct 29, 2023 22:21
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GateOfD posted:Worst is Ponyo. Turn that thing sushi rolls gently caress you
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Waffleman_ posted:Haku is like the perfect early 2000s anime heartthrob the best bishie to ever do it
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Nov 11, 2023 03:40
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audiences agree: spirited away is one of the greatest films of all time
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Nov 13, 2023 22:21
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first of all, bitch, there are sequences of magical transformation-based flight and drone warfare
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Nov 14, 2023 02:53
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i agree that Howl would make an excellent 13 or 26 episodes but i also kinda like how it dodges neat cliches and wraps itself with a little bow nevertheless. the turnip head true love's kiss is such a good bit. i mentioned way upthread how miyazaki works with knightly figures a lot and that's such a properly knightly thing to do!!!
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Nov 19, 2023 22:31
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I'd really be interested to see Miyazaki do a proper sequel, I'm interested to know if he could stick the landing. Sequels can be good! It's just inherently hard.
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i am just now sitting down for my showing and whatever happens, i'm excited to be a contrarian about it
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Dec 9, 2023 05:58
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man what the gently caress was that. gonna need to rewatch
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Dec 9, 2023 08:23
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under the circumstances i think we would all do the same
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Dec 9, 2023 21:15
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The strongest read I got from the overarching pocket-dimension, kingdom, wizard plot is a wartime and imperial one.
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Dec 10, 2023 05:53
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I think whichever way you read it first, it's intentionally inclusive of a few different meanings. This one's got layers.
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Dec 10, 2023 06:27
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The fatherly-motherly contrasts in the movie suggest, to me, a contrast between dreams of ever-expanding empires of achievement and control, where the motherly figures suggest, to me, making your way through life with a spirit of acceptance, joy, and nurturing for those who cross your path. These are applicable to both the autobiographical and historical readings.
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I just can't get away from the fact that the meteor dropped right around the time of the Restoration and the movie concludes just as the Imperial military is getting decisively pwned.
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thats an excellent read. to the point about Stones, the movie dwells a lot on the contrast between building with wood and building with stone, both architecturally and textually. the movie opens with the gruesome death that can result from building with wood, we are introduced to the manor house through its architectural stone elements, but the places of life within the estate are all wood: the beautiful Japanese entryway and working areas, the shake exterior of the Western residence, the floors and interior walls and doors of the same residence, even in a sense the growing wooded greenery of the estate. this contrasts sharply with the permanence and incompatibility with life of the tower. the use of this visual language keeps going in the spirit world, until eventually mahito just says it: when you build your tower out of stone, it's tainted. if you build your tower out of wood, accept its impermanence and frailty and even hazard, it's pure. and then the tower collapses under the weight of its own Permanence, and its residents go forward with joy to their life in death. yeah i think i've come around on the autobio read
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in addition to the wood and stone contrasts, i think building with metal comes up a lot as a counterpoint. fire water and wind are of course used a bunch, but less as architecture more as natural elements of the world or nonarchitecural human creations. the two metal items i noticed the most were pigeon spikes (on the Western residence and in the parade scene) and the fighter canopies. the nail head of the homemade arrow felt like an intentional echo of a pigeon spike. wood topped with metal has to be saying something
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