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NEWS: Hayao Miyazaki to Attend Honorary Oscar Ceremony in L.A.

And based on all the other stories about him, I assume Miyazaki is coming to America MAINLY to see Cars 3 and make out with John Lasseter who convinced him to stop by the Academy (and maybe mention Cars 3 in his speech).

Lasseter has the creative imagination of a 4 year old boy. "I'll make a movie about toys! Then bugs! Then cars! Then planes!" If Thomas the tank engine didn't exist he'd be doing that to.

This dude needs to retire already. I only like 3 of his movies, the rest are not interesting.

We don't live in the past anymore.

Drac wrote:

Because a movie's quality rests solely on the director. Sorry I don't have a dumb internet meme to accompany this post.

Unless the staff of those movies are identical otherwise, after about three movies, it should be pretty clear that it IS the director.

enurtsol: His excuse is that he's older, and he might not be able to handle long plane trips like he used to.

I always find the disdain that more "hardcore" anime fans often display for Miyazaki on this and other sites rather strange. He's easily the most acclaimed and beloved anime director in the world, and even if you're not a huge fan yourself, for the past decade and a half he's basically been single-handedly responsible for Western critics and general movie-goers having a much more positive view on anime in general. At least show a little respect, eh?

I don't get their bromance. Why the fudge would Miyazaki support a movie about anthropomorphic cars polluting the environment with their exhaust and crap.

Lasseter has the creative imagination of a 4 year old boy. "I'll make a movie about toys! Then bugs! Then cars! Then planes!"

penguintruth wrote:

Drac wrote: Because a movie's quality rests solely on the director. Sorry I don't have a dumb internet meme to accompany this post. Unless the staff of those movies are identical otherwise, after about three movies, it should be pretty clear that it IS the director.

He has 3 types of Movies he likes to make; Environmental, Nasaca, Princess Mononoke, Anti-war, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, and Down the Rabbit Hole stories like, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro.

I always find the disdain that more "hardcore" anime fans often display for Miyazaki on this and other sites rather strange. He's easily the most acclaimed and beloved anime director in the world, and even if you're not a huge fan yourself, for the past decade and a half he's basically been single-handedly responsible for Western critics and general movie-goers having a much more positive view on anime in general. At least show a little respect, eh?

You guys are so mean. You're like bullies on the playground. Except most of you are actually middle aged men who do freelance programming while finding time to masturbate to anime characters on the side.

He has 3 types of Movies he likes to make; Environmental, Nasaca, Princess Mononoke, Anti-war, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, and Down the Rabbit Hole stories like, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro.

His Oscar win WAS a big deal, but he's not the Alpha&Omega. And the fact is that he hasn't put out a truly noteworthy movie (outside of Japan) SINCE Spirited Away (or MAYBE Howl's Moving Castle).

Outside of his proponents being too effusive about him, my only real issue is that he wears his passions on his sleeve and is a bit TOO heavy-handed about pointing them out. (but that said, as much as I respect John Lasseter (and kidding aside, I do respect him and what he's done re: feature animation) the guy is weirdly over-board with his Miyazaki fandom and Miyazaki is surprisingly (for a curmudgeon) amenable to Lasseter. The previous time he came to America is was supposedly COMPLETELY because his "good friend" john asked him to.