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Post by RickW on Nov 22, 2014 19:20:09 GMT -5
We got to watch this last night. It's the latest movie from Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese anime movie maker. This is reputedly the last movie Hiyao Miyazaki, the driving creative force behind the studio, will make.
We had a bit of a thread about the studio just a little while ago. They have made some wonderful, dream like movies. This one was, to us, one of their best. It's a bit different. It's set in prewar Japan, and it's about a young man, Jiro, who dreams about flying, then decides to become an airplane designer. Of course he is forced to design fighters and bombers for the war.
The animation is the old fashioned kind, hand drawn, and it is stunning. If you let yourself just watch the details in the scenes rolling by, you can start to lose track of the story, they are so beautiful. The story itself is excellent, well done, sad, but happy. All the good things about a movie you can imagine.
If you love anime, or just a great movie, watch this. If you really, really love flying, you have to watch this movie. Bill, I think you just might love it.
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Post by theevan on Nov 22, 2014 20:44:05 GMT -5
Is Ghibli the studio that made Grave of the Fireflies?
A stunning, sensitive, beautiful, devastating film
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Post by Lonnie on Nov 22, 2014 21:25:01 GMT -5
Just watched trailers on YouTube for "The Wind Rises" and "Grave of the Fireflies" and immediately added both to my Netflix queue. Stunning animation.
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Post by RickW on Nov 22, 2014 21:36:42 GMT -5
Is Ghibli the studio that made Grave of the Fireflies? A stunning, sensitive, beautiful, devastating film it is, but not one I've seen.
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Post by RickW on Nov 22, 2014 21:38:32 GMT -5
Just watched trailers on YouTube for "The Wind Rises" and "Grave of the Fireflies" and immediately added both to my Netflix queue. Stunning animation. Lonnie, if you have never seen Spirited Away, it's a beautiful, odd, dream of a movie.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2014 21:48:42 GMT -5
I initially thought this was a thread about my house and kids...
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Nov 22, 2014 21:54:32 GMT -5
I was afraid someone made beans for dinner.
Sounds like a good movie.
Mike
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 22, 2014 22:16:49 GMT -5
When I was a kid and local television stations still had local programming for kids, one of those shows would take a cartoon break by showing Astro Boy. I liked it. Years later I learned that it was the first anime to be broadcast overseas.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 22, 2014 23:07:28 GMT -5
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Post by Lonnie on Nov 23, 2014 10:38:18 GMT -5
I was afraid someone made beans for dinner. Sounds like a good movie. Mike Kramster apparently has a product that will take care of that.
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Post by millring on Nov 23, 2014 10:54:35 GMT -5
I think Christopher Guest is a scream.
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Post by frazer on Nov 23, 2014 21:51:22 GMT -5
Big fan of Studio Ghibli here. The trailer for The Wind Rises features the song 'Vapour Trails', which I like a lot:
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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 23, 2014 22:26:14 GMT -5
I'd love to see it, but I could never convince Kim to watch something she's consider a cartoon.
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Post by RickW on Nov 24, 2014 1:50:41 GMT -5
Well, there are cartoons, and there are cartoons. These ones are art, Todd.
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Post by frazer on Nov 24, 2014 7:07:12 GMT -5
When I was a kid and local television stations still had local programming for kids, one of those shows would take a cartoon break by showing Astro Boy. I liked it. Years later I learned that it was the first anime to be broadcast overseas." Very cool. This one kills me - I clearly remember watching it at home around 1969 when I was about 3 years old. Marine Boy was a major influence on me for several years ;-)
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