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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445326: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:13:24 PM

@Tats: WELP

good luck

I hope none of them are serial killers

also I read that as ghouls for a second as was concerned

@Squid: Right, that'd make sense.

And yes, Ghibli always has great animation if nothing else. Even in Ponyo I could enjoy it just for the animation. The latter point should be a given in anything but insert Miyazaki talking about otaku gif here.

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#445327: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:16:44 PM

The best thing Ponyo had going for it really was the animation IMO. I personally didn't think the characters were all that memorable besides the hummen mom.

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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445328: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:18:07 PM

yeah

Ponyo was easily my least favourite Ghibli movie that I have seen

animation was nice but

it just felt

disjointed?

something felt off

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445329: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:18:17 PM

Plot was meh too. The whole "oh by the way the world's gonna end" thing just kinda showed up out of nowhere.

[up]that's the word i'm searching for thank you

I mean it was okay, but Studio Ghibli does not do "okay" so by their standards it was bad.

edited 29th Aug '15 9:18:40 PM by WonderSquid

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#445330: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:21:35 PM

There was a plot?

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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445331: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:22:36 PM

Yeah, I mean a disjointed plot can work if it's deliberate and well-crafted, but I didn't think Ponyo was either of those things. Plus the whole seeming a lot worse by comparison thing you mention.

Like how Cars wasn't a bad movie but it was awful in comparison to Pixar's other work at the time.

edited 29th Aug '15 9:24:55 PM by ThanatoSeraph

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445332: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:23:16 PM

They should've just stuck to the Little Mermaid guns. Didn't need no goddamn cambrian appocalypses.

[up]oh god ponyo is the cars of japan

fuck you for giving me that mental image

edited 29th Aug '15 9:23:42 PM by WonderSquid

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445333: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:25:05 PM

Oh also it was responsible for this "gift".

I'm not linking the English version because at least with this one I don't have to understand the lyrics.

edited 29th Aug '15 9:25:14 PM by WonderSquid

ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445334: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:26:54 PM

ponyo 2

sosuke becomes an accidental spy in ponyo's sea kingdom and gets into wacky shenanigans as he uncovers a plot to

uh

shit I lost it

[up]now, it is my turn, to say, fuck you

that is going to be stuck in my head for hours now

not pleasantly

edited 29th Aug '15 9:27:41 PM by ThanatoSeraph

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#445336: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:28:32 PM

I legit don't remember the apocalyse thing. Did it have to do with giant woman?

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445337: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:34:27 PM

No, she was just Ponyo's mother/dating Aquatic Wizard Liam Neeson. Also the embodiment of the ocean.

Ponyo fucked some shit up when she ran off and that caused everything to flood with fucking megafauna and shit.

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#445338: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:39:16 PM

Oh okay.

So the water wizard fucked ocean resulting in magic fish babbys one of which decided fuck this and ran away which caused the ocean to be...I don't know. It was an excuse to little mermaid it up.

Who here remembers Princess Mononoke? That was a good movie.

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445339: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:41:05 PM

I'd be okay with weird shit. You can make anything sound like weird shit if you put it bluntly enough.

But you just said all that, and yet they didn't do anything with it. We mostly just hung out with the tsunami survivors and did people-building scenes. And they were good people-building scenes, I guess, but it would have been really great if we got things other than people-building scenes.

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#445340: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:41:51 PM

I remember watching spirited away and that.

Dad told me it was supposed to be scary to convince me to watch it for the first time when I was little.

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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445341: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:42:29 PM

Also, to me at least, it just sort of felt like the same people-building scene over and over

I never felt like it was actually going anywhere.

Which again, is fine if that's what you're aiming for and you execute it well. But...

[up]Spirited Away is a Good Movie

edited 29th Aug '15 9:42:51 PM by ThanatoSeraph

Lilqueendaisy A chill feller from Not Earth Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#445342: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:45:34 PM

Indeed, even when I understand absolutely nothing in it.

And it still makes me hungry.

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445343: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:48:00 PM

There's an English dub, you know.

Lilqueendaisy A chill feller from Not Earth Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
A chill feller
#445344: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:48:55 PM

I know, I have seen it.

I still didn't understand what was going on in english.

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#445345: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:51:09 PM

Spirited Away was about greed and growing up and shit. And also magic things. Lots of magic things, that we actually got to see, which was cool.

edited 29th Aug '15 9:51:29 PM by Azure

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#445346: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:51:21 PM

spirited away was the first and regrettably only ghibli movie i watched

ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#445347: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:54:10 PM

This must be remedied.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#445348: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:54:52 PM

only one ive seen was grave of the fireflies

it was not especially an enjoyable experience but i liked it

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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#445349: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:55:02 PM

I haven't seen any.

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#445350: Aug 29th 2015 at 9:55:18 PM

Fuck

Shit I only have Princess Mononoke on VHS, but you should definitely watch that one.

We really need to set up another stream that you guys can actually go to.

[up]Fucking hell, man.

edited 29th Aug '15 9:55:27 PM by WonderSquid


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