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# Really sorry for this thread waste ...
But I think there are probably enough b3tans who would really appreciate this that I wouldn't want it to be lost in a thread jack.
For those that love Anime, and even for those that don't, 'Spirited Away' (aka 'Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi') is being shown in cinemas around the U.K. (finally).
Okay, so I've already got the DVD, but I'm gonna go see it on the big screen.

See www.digital.anime.org.uk/news/20030819.html

For those that don't know, this won the Best Animated Feature at this years Oscars and IMO Hayao Miyazaki is one of the best film directors in any form of film making.
Perhaps we could get people together for some of the more central screenings (London for me).
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:53, archived)
# but its being distributed by disney, n'est pas?
well maybe i will have to go see it anyway. is there any violence?
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:54, archived)
# Finding Nemo
is amazing :)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:55, archived)
# so is POTC
yarrr!
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:56, archived)
# I saw both of those on Saturday night
in the space of 5 hours :)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:58, archived)
# not seen that
saying that, the last time i went to the cinema was to watch Austin Powers...
(vork and burlap, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:58, archived)
# go see it now, its superb.
we sat in the cinema in edinburgh, about 15 b3tans going "yarrrrrrr!"
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:00, archived)
# yaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!



just like that
(I helped save b3ta! Reverend Dan, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:03, archived)
# yeah.
yaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr!!!
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:06, archived)
# your all
Disney's bitches.

the iceman fucketh ye hard.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:05, archived)
# The thing I don't like about Disney is the way they patronise the audience so much.
Everything has to be laid out so neatly for you. Nothing for you to do but sit back and watch some (predictable) pretty pictures. Essentially they have never learnt how to tell real stories with animation*

Also, they are always set in magical lands which don't have any real world familiarity. Miyazaki's stuff is set in the real world, warts and all, with little bits of magic thrown in. In makes the characters far more solid in the stories.

* With the exception of Pixar stuff and possibly Bambi.
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:08, archived)
# it's phenomenal
you have to see it sometime.
(I helped save b3ta! dipdapdop, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:57, archived)
# but is there violence!?!?
if there is violence, i can justify it much more easily
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:59, archived)
# If you *want* violence then you're out of luck ...
Go rent a Mangled Video instead.
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:02, archived)
# well i'm all for well directed, etc movies.
i'm not really that big on violence, ordinarily. but i wouldn't be able to handle Kiki's delivery service no matter how well directed. i need something more which i have yet to identify. i guess a strong realism on the part of the main character, even if the situations/setting isn't realistic
ex: Cowboy Bebop. Spike is a very realistic character, even though practically everything else about the show is more
example: cowboy bebop. even though the show has a sci-fi setting, and some of the events are unrealistic, spike, and the other main characters are well grounded and believable.
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:07, archived)
# That's odd because I think Miyazaki makes some of the most realistic characters.
Kiki is just a normal girl (who happens to be a witch). She has to go off to a new town as part of her training and has to find her feet. She's at times optimistic and adventurous and at times scared and frightened.
The characters might not be as familiar to us as some genres but they are (I think) very realistic.

EDIT: I think Cowboy Beebop is great to (if you haven't got them, go get the soundtrack CDs - Yoko Kanno is fantastic).
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:16, archived)
# uh YES!
no. not really
(I helped save b3ta! dipdapdop, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:02, archived)
# Oh god no.
Hayao Miyaki has long been producing some of the greatest (animated) films of all time. They are anything from the most gentle childrens fairy tales (Totoro) to the epic stories of war and peace (Nausicaa). From islands in the sky (Laputa) to witches on broomsticks (Kiki) and flying pigs (Porco Rosso).

All of then gorgeously crafted with stories to sweep you away.

Plus, if you think Anime is all a little light-weight, go seek out "Grave of the Fireflies" (by the same Studio, but not Miyazaki himself). That one left me in tears - and I'm a heartless bastard most of the time :)
(I helped save b3ta! Hagbard ... it's been a long time., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:00, archived)
# And if they still think it's lightweight
Get the to wtach Urtosukidoji : The Legend of the Overfiend and when their eyes start to bleed, nick their wallet.
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:04, archived)
# i think ive seen that.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:06, archived)
# nice one
i'll be here:
Cameo Edinburgh (sub)
whenever it's on (on or after 12 september)
(I helped save b3ta! dipdapdop, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:56, archived)
# I see that yet again the north east demonstrates itself
as the cultural hot spot of the country by yet again not having a showing of a film I want to see (unless you count york - which I don't)

Bollocks to this I'm moving
(The Scone from U.N.C.L.E., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:58, archived)
# Yayyy For AnimE

I'll see your TW and raise you a TJ....

I'm stuck at Vienna aiport for the next five hours.

And the internet access machice costs 15 Euro-cents per minute.


Bah Humbug
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 1:59, archived)
# 15 Euro-cents?
Isn't that about three eighth's of a penny?
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:01, archived)
# Dunno.....
(which may, or may not be why I seem to have spent every last single penny I have)
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:02, archived)
# the ones in heathrow
were £3 for 20 minutes or 15 minutes depending on which company you used
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:03, archived)
# heathrow smells of rancid tramp cock though.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:07, archived)
# Last time I was there...
...the BA assistant at the check in desk was very nice.

She even laughed at my half hearted attempt at humour.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:12, archived)
# what did you do?
flash your willy at her?
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:14, archived)
# My little brain
is now so completely nadgered that I can't even work out if that's cheaper or not
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:07, archived)
# WOOHOO
It's being shown subbed in my area!
(I helped save b3ta! Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:03, archived)
# Spirited Away
is sooooooo good!
I saw it months ago in America, where movies flow like water.
(Hobbes, Tue 2 Sep 2003, 2:05, archived)