Recently Watched Films

Vim Fuego wrote: So this is about where I thought the books fell off the rails, and this movie seems to have done the same. It might have been affected by the fact it too me three separate viewing sessions to watch it, but it was just a bit dull, despite the Big Plot Events in it.

I wouldn't call it weak as such, just weakest, which one of them always has to be. To be honest I drift being 4, 5 and 6 for that dubious honour though. I love the first three and Deathly Hallows. There may be something in that 1 to 3 are all much shorter books while the rest are considerably longer (especially 5) and had more cut for film until book 7, which got the two part film. Of course it's been bloody years since I read the Potter books and since I don't even own my old set anymore I'm unlikely to ever read them again so I don't recall precisely what may not have been featured in the films anymore. But if we count 7 as one film, I think there's something to be said about 5 being the shortest film but the longest book. Of course that may also mean that book 5 was full of unnecessary waffle. 

adg211288 wrote: Studio Ghibli takes a dump on its legacy.  To be fair, it's a watchable animated film, but it does not feel like a Ghibli film in any way (not helped by the fact that Netflix only released the English dub of the film despite listing the cast as the Japanese actors). It also feels like most of the story is missing, with a mystery set up in the opening, then the rest of the film spent on character building, with a few flashbacks and then it just...ends.  Yeah, not a good movie at all really. It's both hard to believe the world's most beloved anime studio put this out and that its also based on a story by the same author as Howl's Moving Castle, one of their best and most popular films.  I didn't have any expectations for this going in, so it's quite an achievement to have still managed to disappoint me.

DippoMagoo wrote: adg211288 wrote: Studio Ghibli takes a dump on its legacy.  To be fair, it's a watchable animated film, but it does not feel like a Ghibli film in any way (not helped by the fact that Netflix only released the English dub of the film despite listing the cast as the Japanese actors). It also feels like most of the story is missing, with a mystery set up in the opening, then the rest of the film spent on character building, with a few flashbacks and then it just...ends.  Yeah, not a good movie at all really. It's both hard to believe the world's most beloved anime studio put this out and that its also based on a story by the same author as Howl's Moving Castle, one of their best and most popular films.  I didn't have any expectations for this going in, so it's quite an achievement to have still managed to disappoint me.  Yeah, I remember there being a huge uproar about that when it was first coming out, both from people freaking out that they were doing something other than anime, and over how awful it looked. I'm not really attached to Studio Ghibli, so I might try it at some point for a total joke, and see if it's really as awful as it's made out to be  (I almost said I've never seen any of their movies, but I have seen Princess Mononoke before, and it was an absolute masterpiece. Need to rewatch it someday, since it's still on Netflix.)

You can't really go wrong with any of his movies. He's basically anime gold dust. I've a personal special fondness for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which was the movie that resulted in the founding of Studio Ghibli and is often retroactively counted as their first film. I just find that one so damn rewatchable. 

I thought deathly hallows pt 1 was the worst of the entire series, it's so angsty it's unbearable