Finnegan
10-01-2002, 12:34 AM
now let me preface this by saying that i'm a relative miyazaki n00b. I've now seen this, mononoke, laputa, and castle of cog. Being an animation student myself, this film is both inspiring and overwhelming in it's sheer scope and beauty.
i am amazed by this film. It's at all times beautiful (in terms of art and story), fun, creepy, odd, and flat out bizzarre... and absolutely fantastic. Creativity is bursting out of the seems of this movie. It takes turns you'd never guess... has some of the most beautiful backgrounds i've ever seen in an animated film (and i study layout in school). The character animation has such sensitivity, subtlety, and expressiveness to it that the only thing that compares to it is a disney movie in terms of performance of character. This isn't about static frames and loops like most anime... this is a work of passion and beauty. Sure, it's rather odd at times... but in the context of the world that miyazaki creates here, it's quite easy to digest said bizzare occurances... it all just works! Everything suits what preceded it, and what procedes it. The sheer amount of characters painstakingly animated in the frame on any given shot is mind boggling. The dragon... THE DRAGON... the way it whips and flails is so beautiful... THIS IS HOW A DRAGON SHOULD MOVE!
There is a scene amidst a bunch of pillows in which characters are diving, hiding, an tossing through em.... this scene nearly gave me an anurysm... there were soo many objects being animated that were interacting with every other object, the mere thought of animating this made my head want to explode (a la CSI: Miami)
i saw it tonight at a 2 screen theater in menlo park... that was oddly thx certified, and quite amazing. What suprised me the most was that this was the subtitled version with a japanese DTS-ES sound track. Kinda crazy that i saw the subbed version since disney threw down all that moolah to dub this mutha... exec produced by john lassetter nonetheless... kirk wise too i think.
anyways... if you have any reservations about seeing this film, throw them away... it's a fantastic trip into a fantastic world that miyazaki has created. Without a doubt this film will win the best animated oscar this year. Nothing even remotely compares to it. See it, enjoy it, and tell them FINN sent ya.
this film goes up to an eleven!
=FINN=
i am amazed by this film. It's at all times beautiful (in terms of art and story), fun, creepy, odd, and flat out bizzarre... and absolutely fantastic. Creativity is bursting out of the seems of this movie. It takes turns you'd never guess... has some of the most beautiful backgrounds i've ever seen in an animated film (and i study layout in school). The character animation has such sensitivity, subtlety, and expressiveness to it that the only thing that compares to it is a disney movie in terms of performance of character. This isn't about static frames and loops like most anime... this is a work of passion and beauty. Sure, it's rather odd at times... but in the context of the world that miyazaki creates here, it's quite easy to digest said bizzare occurances... it all just works! Everything suits what preceded it, and what procedes it. The sheer amount of characters painstakingly animated in the frame on any given shot is mind boggling. The dragon... THE DRAGON... the way it whips and flails is so beautiful... THIS IS HOW A DRAGON SHOULD MOVE!
There is a scene amidst a bunch of pillows in which characters are diving, hiding, an tossing through em.... this scene nearly gave me an anurysm... there were soo many objects being animated that were interacting with every other object, the mere thought of animating this made my head want to explode (a la CSI: Miami)
i saw it tonight at a 2 screen theater in menlo park... that was oddly thx certified, and quite amazing. What suprised me the most was that this was the subtitled version with a japanese DTS-ES sound track. Kinda crazy that i saw the subbed version since disney threw down all that moolah to dub this mutha... exec produced by john lassetter nonetheless... kirk wise too i think.
anyways... if you have any reservations about seeing this film, throw them away... it's a fantastic trip into a fantastic world that miyazaki has created. Without a doubt this film will win the best animated oscar this year. Nothing even remotely compares to it. See it, enjoy it, and tell them FINN sent ya.
this film goes up to an eleven!
=FINN=