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Mulboyne wrote:"I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me,"
Buraku wrote:That guy is so far up his own ass its unbelievable.
I've done some CAD and graphics many, many years ago and during my teens and later years I was still like a big kid watching the latest Aladdin and today I'll view as many Dreamworks or Anime movies as much as possible so I feel the right to comment on this industry. Miyazaki is a great talent but as a person he's is just so full of it. Don't get me wrong because I do love his movies, Tonari no Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Kaze no tani no Naushika but after watching about about 3 of them films they suddenly start to repeat themselves and its the same tired old message repeated again and again
What Miyazaki fails to understand is people do not pay tickets to be arthouse critics. People do not go to the movies to watch the traditional mix of paint on screen and people do not go to the movies to count the brushstrokes. They go to the movies to be ENTERTAINED and most of the people are parents taking their kids to the theater
Miyazaki does create great work
but does Miyazaki create any of this arthouse stuff? No! He also is in this industry to make a buck.
Does he create zonked out shit like Phil Mulloy's adult, bizarre, nasty, comical brutality?
Can he create living brush strokes like Yuri Norstein's amazing animations
Or beautiful onscreen calligraphy like Ron Hui's 3-d paintings (no graphic yet its still 3d)
Or Joan c Gratz wonderful mix of ink,chalk ones and sublime oils.
No he's just like any other great classical animator trying to claim some uber artistic merit but he's behind the times and is using something old school and predictable and selling the world something very commercial. Miyazaki is constantly supported by a big team and big studios
Miyazaki telling us he hates the commercial nature to modern animation would be like Madonna telling us she hates raunchy pop music.
Miyazaki comes up with all kinds of ridiculous statements I remember one time he stated the children of Japan should only be allowed watch 2 movies per year. What a dick! obviously this is someone who never had to baby sit his kids and his Wife like a good traditional Japanese must have been doing all the running around.
I watched Wall*E, it was a Pixar movie supported by Disney. It was one of the best movies I had seen in a long while.
All computer animated, all 3-d and probably 10 times better than Miyazaki's last movie
Go Disney!
Mulboyne wrote:The 67-year-old Oscar-winning master animator known for his hand-drawn movies said in a newspaper interview Sunday he hasn't seen any of the major digitally animated films in the last two decades.
hundefar wrote:Miyazaki is just an old fart. He wants the good old days before the black ships came and Japan embraced western culture and lost themselves. Really, he makes me vomit.
Captain Japan wrote:I think the "cannot forget for the rest of their lives" bit is a little arrogant in that it is very possible that a young kid will feel the same way about "Akira" or "Appleseed" in thirty years.
6810 wrote:WTF?
WHy all the defense of digital? For fuck's sake, genuine, handmade shit is rare as all hell these days.
By hand made I mean not on a computer. I mean the stuff with imperfections, made by people who can fix problems in real time, by calculating in their head, by getting their hands dirty...
Am I the only one here that prefers to play into an all-tube amp, who digs hand painted/screen printed t-shirts over digitally printed and slow food over fast food?
I ain't denyin' digital's good points, whether in engineering, research or virtually any creative endeavour - even if my preference is for analog, hands on and hands dirty.
But in this day in age where it seems we're always switched on, resonating with the electromagnetic vibes from computers, games, cell phones, hybrid car batteries etc... I think Miyazaki has a point - SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
Adhesive wrote:
As to whether or not we need to disconnect or slow down, the only reason I laugh at that argument is because it gets regurgitated by every passing generation. You don't think the old story tellers who sat on their ass all day spinning yarns said the same thing about commercial animation? It just seems silly to me to draw an arbitrary line in front of yourself and call it the point of equilibrium.
Grave Of The Fireflies (1988)
A powerful, rickly symbolic anti-war film, this is the harrowing story of two orphaned children attempting to survive in the ruins of post-War Japan. The five year-old girl dies of starvation and is cremated by her big brother, who stows her ashes in a sweet tin. And cartoons are meant to be fun?
Taro Toporific wrote:"Ponyo" is not breakout film. I watched 20 minutes for free by sneaking in at the multiplex, and walked out---Miyazaki's worst work so far. Just listen the theme.
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Taro Toporific wrote:"Ponyo" is not breakout film. I watched 20 minutes for free by sneaking in at the multiplex, and walked out---Miyazaki's worst work so far.
Mulboyne wrote:Bloody hell, I finally watched this the other day. Not only is it one his worst films, it is positively creepy.
6810 wrote:Care to say why?
Mulboyne wrote:That's a great shame for a Miyazaki film because his stories are better when they are more baroque.
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