Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:04 am
I watched Porco Rosso today and thought it was good, but not great. I didn't really enjoy the animation style of this one or the weird punching scene towards the end, but the story was very good, loved the era it was set in, the little girls being kidnapped by the pirates, that tomboy engineering girl and many other things.
It was quite a funny movie and many of the characters were very likeable but Porco Rosso just lacked that something (a decent dogfight or something a bit more epic towards the end - I was expecting an anime version of Biggles maybe).
Overall it was a good anime movie, but Spirited Away is still better.
Fortnight Wednesday (12th) SBS:
(This is so good! I've only seen Spirited Away so far)
10:00 pm
MOVIE - ANIMATION - NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WINDS - (KAZE NO TANI NO NAUSICAA)
A Hayao Miyazaki film – in the genre of Japanese anime. A thousand years have passed since the violent collapse of industrial civilisation. Small pockets of humanity survive on the fringes of a vast polluted forest, inhabited by giant mutated insects, of which the Ohmu, are the greatest threat. The Valley of the Wind is a small community of humans protected by sea breezes from the toxic spores. Their young princess, Nausicaä, tries to understand, rather than destroy the Toxic Jungle. The peaceful life of the valley is threatened when the Torumekian princess, Kushana, arrives with her army. She plans to destroy the jungle and at the same time she is waging war against the kingdom of Pejite, another small pocket of human survivors.
(From Japan, in English) (1984) PG
The 19th:
10:00 pm
MOVIE - ANIMATION - KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
A Hayao Miyazaki film – in the genre of Japanese anime. Kiki, a young witch, has turned thirteen and according to the ancient tradition she must leave home to find her own place in the world. She flies her broom to a coastal town where she finds a room above a local bakery, run by Mrs Osono, and sets up a delivery service. Despite a few misadventures, Kiki is doing well until one day she discovers that her powers have disappeared, she cannot fly her broomstick and she can no longer communicate with her cat Jiji. Ursula, a painter Kiki has met on one of her delivery runs, explains about artistic blocks and how something similar may have possibly affected Kiki.
(From Japan, in English) (1989) G CC
The 26th:
10:00 pm
MOVIE - ANIMATION - SPIRITED AWAY
(SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI)
Directed by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki, this film won numerous awards including the Best Animated Feature Academy Award, the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival. Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs, on their way, they stumble upon a tunnel and Chihiro's father decides it is a shortcut. They walk through and discover a place that looks like a deserted theme park and an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Chihiro's parents gorge themselves on the food while Chihiro wanders away and finds herself in the world of ghosts, animals and other strange creatures. She runs back to find her parents, only to find that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a in a bathhouse for Japan's thousands of gods and spirits, however, her parents are being held in the bathhouse's stockyard. Chihiro must find a way to break the spell before they end up as dinner.
(From Japan, in English) (2001) PG