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Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)

This movie captured my imagination and really sent me on my Miyazaki kick, I think (besides Kiki’s)~

I love the whole Iron Town setting and concept. It’s so haunting and real and gorgeous :)

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Coppola, Pacino, Keaton.

Classic.

Gary Cooper (the one at the right, the right!!!) was one handsome devil.

Not only did he have the fact that he was tall and dark, but he was close friends with Ernest Hemmingway! And vacationed with him! It wouldn’t suprise me if he was boyhood friends with George Gershwin or something of the sort.

He pressured his “other woman” to get an abortion, but later converted to Catholicism. In the end, he did more good than harm though.

Lovely, lovely Gary Cooper. I want to see more of your movies. RIP.

Just slap this right on my Christmas list please.

I just went to see the movie “2012” today.

Firstly, if you are going to see this, suspend your disbelif. It’s chock full of those moments where you think the guy is dead but then you see his hands and he pullshimself up triumphantly from the pit of death. Lots of them.

The special effects were wonderful, if you don’t mind nearly 3 hours straight of massive explosions, world-scale tsunami waves, and airplane jet engines taking off in your ear. I was happy with the effects, if not somewhat deaf.

And yes, all the people who you want to see live really do live thorugh the hundreds of diasters (with a few minor exceptions).

It was like “The Day After Tomorrow” except a lot longer and with even more extreme conditions ranging from a supervolcano in Yellowstone to an icy blizzard in China, to a tidal wave that covers the entire country of India—just to name a few.

I would recommend this for someone who is looking to be entertained for a few hours, because it really is engaging, but not if you are looking for an plausible end-of-the-world scenario.

(Some parts made me laugh. Especially certain political references *cough*the president*cough*)

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I want to see this movie very very badly.

A beautiful film…

Highly recommended. A war movie that shows what it’s like to be a POW under the charge of the Japanese in WWII. A lot is lost in translation if you watch the subtitles, but…watch it any way you can! The soundtrack is one of th emost moving I have heard.

Oh—and there’s David Bowie, too!

An American in Paris!

Ahh, how I love you Gershwin. Your music is just as magical as Tchaikovsky’s. A little past the ballet stage, though—your music got turned into a musical!

I really enjoyed this movie…despite certain cliches and awkward moral moments (Lise double-timing her fiancee)…it was a joy to watch!

The dancing of top-notch, of course, and probably the film’s strongest point.

I need to watch more Gene Kelly.

(Oh. I have to go. Takahiko Kozuka is on NBC!)

So yesterday I watched Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

It wasa good movie, but I can’t say it’s the best I’ve seen from Miyazaki.

Being one of his older works, I can understand this, though. It was his first really big break where he gained a huge amount international attention. I can tell the stories and characters in his films developed more through the years.

Nausicaa is a great example, though, of “going green.” Literally, the world has become a huge toxic waste dump.

Having such dark, dull and monotone colors, I was not a fan of the scenery. However, the character design was great—especially for Nausicaa whose bright red hair reflects her positive and nature-loving personality.

The best animated parts were by far the flying scenes—which he would later perfect in Kiki.

I’m on a Miyazaki kick~ :3

I watched Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle for the first time last weekend.

He kills me. He absolutely kills me with his brilliance.

Once again, he was able to create a beautiful, strange and masterpeice of a world with charming characters that live in it.

What amazes me most is the overdose of imagine injected into these movies. It seems inhumanly possible to be able to create stories and animation that unique and just gorgeous.

I loved Howl’s a lot because I am a big fan of the “world” focused films of Miyazaki like Kiki and Spirited Away where there is a lot of emphasis on the set—the world the characters interact in.

I may just have to rewatch it very soon and let all the beauty soak in again.