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# Yam it bee tiem?!:O
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 16:50, archived)
# Ladies and gentlemen, the plot for the next Studio Ghibli film; Panda Bees!
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 16:58, archived)
# complete with child-unfriendly shapeshifting demons, hideous old women with unrealistic wrinkles, something about a curse
and a storyline that is a bit WTF

I miss old Ghibli, though 'arrietty' was a welcome return to simpler times.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:01, archived)
# Porco Rosso is still my face.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:06, archived)
# The sequence with the graveyard of planes in the sky always gets me tearful
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:11, archived)
# You must get a lot of funny looks then
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:11, archived)
# Laputa and Porco Rosso are my favourites
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:08, archived)
# Laputa & Kiki are mine
Love Totoro & Porco, too
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:12, archived)
# Kiki and Totoro are the only Miyazaki ones I haven't seen
Might have to do something about that
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:14, archived)
# Porco Rosso is great, but you have to watch it a few times to get it, and the lack of a clear ending.
For some reason 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance always reminds me of that awesome parade of dead aviators in the sky.

Laputa and Spirited Away are probably the only ones that have a clear beginning, middle and end like you'd expect from a story.

Princess Mononoke is amazing, but there's no arc to the story, it's just all about progress. But then that is the theme of the film; it's just unconventional in exposing it in that way.

Kiki is good, but more like a series of 1/2-hour shows edited into one movie. Kids can kind of all too easily get bored and turn it off after the first few deliveries. But it does have the best opening of them all, and the epilogue scenes over the closing credits are wonderful too.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:50, archived)
# arrietty seemed to lack ghibli weirdness
the borrowers meets the flower fairies

ponyo ftw
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:12, archived)
# I dont much like the modern ghibli wierdness trend
The wierdness in spirited away was acceptable, because old japanese ghosts / gods are wierd as fuck, generally, but its still no excuse for grotesque grannies with giant heads and clitorises on their forehead.

I prefer the simpler, more charming tales, like kiki, which had no wierdness, bad guys, curses, fantasy realms, monsters or real peril.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:13, archived)
# I thought Spirited Away was a bit haphazard, but I still enjoyed it
Nausicaa was a bit of a disappointment
(I helped save b3ta! Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:18, archived)
# I liked Nausicaa, I thought she was cute
although the giant bugs that looked like woodlice gave me the heebie jeebies

The Cat Returns is my Ghibli disapointment
(I helped save b3ta! Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:24, archived)
# I like the older stuff where you can see influences on what came later.
Like the giant airships that kind of leaked through into Laputa.

That trailer for Whisper of the Heart on all the DVDs is extraordinary for the little references and cross-over of motifs to the other films, even though the film itself is a simple modern story of young relationships. A shame the director didn't get to do any more, on account of his premature promotion to full time daisy pusher-upperer.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 18:54, archived)
# Nah, Ponyo is a bit too mental. It's trying too hard to be another Spirited Away.
It's OK, but maybe it's just the concept of 'tasting human blood' that really weirds me out. That's just nasty. At least it wasn't as awful as their version of 'Earthsea' though.

Then again, the bit in Spirited Away where it goes all Disney with that hopping lamp is the strangest part. The tram running through the flood is awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:43, archived)
# earthsea
review: "it just stopped"

I guess that's a side effect of making what's effectively an episode in a series of books, apparently the author didn't like the animation much.
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 30 Apr 2012, 18:47, archived)
# i enjoyed it, although it was slow...
And when the boy was going on about how he was probably going to die at the hospital, geez, we figured that out already -- but way to completely bring me down.

Ponyo was cute. I felt like it left bits unresolved, though.

Spirited Away is just plain awesome.
(I helped save b3ta! Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway..., Mon 30 Apr 2012, 19:27, archived)
# Fuck all that.
Tigers In The Mud FTW.
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 30 Apr 2012, 17:19, archived)