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INTEREST: Danny Elfman is a Miyazaki Fan

Mohawk52 wrote:

MentalMachine wrote: I've hated Miyazaki for over 9 years now I can't tell if you're soap boxing, or trolling, or a bit of both.

Nope, the TRUTH. Most hardcore Ghibli fans themselves consider Howl to be a blight on Miyazaki's record. Howl is the Cars of Ghibli, though even Cars has more to offer than that dreck,

He wrote and directed Ponyo, which looked like something from the early 80s, due to the dated cel animation

MentalMachine wrote:

He wrote and directed Ponyo, which looked like something from the early 80s, due to the dated cel animation

Ponyo is not cel animation, but digimation. It was made to look like cel animation and it was promoted as "hand art craft", but it's definitely digital animation. Just look closely for the typical artifacts you find in cel animation (scratches, shadows between layers, interrupted outlines of characters, ect.), you won't find them in Ponyo. Moreover, you can't find any cels of the movie in Japan or online, because they do not exist.
Ghibli abandoned cel animation after Mononoke hime in 1997 and uses software for coloring, editing and animation checking like all other japanese anime studios too.

penguintruth wrote:

MentalMachine wrote: wootsman wrote: Quote: Danny Elfman is a Miyazaki Fan Who isn't? lol I've hated Miyazaki for over 9 years now, due to that farce of a movie called Howl's Moving Castle. Pure garbage. Even in Japan, the film got negative criticism and got nominated for a Razzie equivalent. That's their Phantom Menace. Not well liked, but a huge seller. One bad movie and he's ruined for you?

He wrote and directed Ponyo, which looked like something from the early 80s, due to the dated cel animation, the plot and overall feel is lame. He wrote Arrietty, which was also garbage. The visuals were better than Ponyo, due to the returning to digital animation effects, but his writing wasn't very good. He wrote On Poppy Hill, which is a bad movie, due to themes, which I won't gloss over. He ended with a crash and burn with The Wind Rises, which not only has atrocious voice acting, the worst in a Ghibli movie, which is saying a lot, the story is cheesy, forced and I've heard it a million times from this dude.

Mohawk52 wrote:

MentalMachine wrote: I've hated Miyazaki for over 9 years now I can't tell if you're soap boxing, or trolling, or a bit of both.

Seems like both

Call me when someone comes out and says they're a fan of Haruhi, Genshiken, or some other show that won't have mainstream appeal.

Princess Mononoke is by far my favorite Ghibli film. It is one of the very few films that I consider to be perfect. And the Dub was fantastic as well.