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Soundmonkey44
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I saw the movie last night, visually I loved it, even if alot of stuff did drag out too much, but content wise, pretty mixed feelings, I liked the romance aspect even if that was fictional, the plane stuff was neat. But knowing why the planes were being made was kind of a "bad touch" feel. And the whole making A movie about making war machines but still trying to fit an anti war message in there, its interesting to say the least, but still leaves you with mixed emotions.
Overall A decent swan song for Miyazaki, I'm glad I saw it, but probably wont buy the physical release of this one. |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I don't think Beauty and the Beast was the favorite to win that year at all, it was always Silence of the Lambs. |
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aoi yuuki fanboy
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>touchy subject matter
there isn't any |
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Tenchi
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BoxOffice.com's early weekend estimates have The Wind Rises at #2 on the "Limited" chart with a projected weekend take of $1.65 million, behind American Hustle. Overall, if the projection holds, The Wind Rises would only be about the #12 highest earning movie at North American cinemas this weekend.
Of course, it's only a projection based on Friday numbers. |
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GATSU
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Lyco:
Do the Chinese give a f**k about the perspectives of the Tibetans, the Falun Gong, and the protestors at Tiananmen Square? Do the Koreans care about the perspective of the sweatshop workers they're frequently outsourced to?
And how many films which glorify the Kim family mafia up north do they let slide?
It's tense, because the Chinese are still stuck in the Cold War like Putin, and they're still eager to nuke the hell out of Japan as payback for a war in which the latter country lost, anyway. So they're constantly looking for a pretext.
And we buy iPhones with the help of Chinese and Korean slave labor. So I guess we're more civilized than those JP bastards. 
marie:
True, but the main reason it won was the Academy didn't like the idea of a cartoon beating their precious live-action pics in the race. Tenchi: Seriously, I'm really impressed by that. The most "mature" types of cartoons I always assumed casual viewers went for in America were in the vein of South Park. Did they just suddenly get tired of that shitty, over-priced, cookie-cutter talking 3D animal/object gimmick one day, and I wasn't told? But I guess now it has no choice but to open wide. |
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JediSamurai7
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Not playing in a single theater in a decent diameter of my area.
I will have to catch this on Blu ray eventually. |
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Ingraman
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You expect the film to be out on Blu-ray earlier than (or at the same time as) the Japanese release? That'd be different... |
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GATSU
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Ingraman: Supposedly, The Wind Rises and/or Princess Kaguya were unusually over-budget by Ghibli standards. And as of last year, at least, they still haven't been declared profitable. So I guess their normal stance of, "We only care about Japanese consumers" will be waived this time around, hence a potential same-time international home vid release. It's probably why Miyazaki explicitly stated his anti-war views. He knew he had to make money on the damned film, so he had to avoid more controversy than he already has to just get into the U.S. market. Otherwise, Disney would probably not touch it with a ten-foot pole outside of Japan. [Note that this doesn't mean I consider his statements to be phony. He's just expressing what he's always felt about the war, but he had to do it for business purposes this time.]
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Ingraman
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If it happens, it happens. I don't care either way, but I'll be surprised/impressed. I'll be importing the Japanese release, even if the US release actually happens first. |
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Tenchi
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The weekend "Actual" for The Wind Rises has it at $1,517,404, over $100K down from the Saturday projection. I'm going to guess that the Oscars were a spoiler on the Sunday box office (not because it lost, but because much of the audience that would watch a non-kid-oriented Miyazaki film in theatres were at home watching the Oscars or maybe at an Oscar party). |
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Lycosyncer
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@GATSU
I would say something but since Frozen won its two Oscars, I really don't care anymore and once again, as good as the film is, it's not Miyazaki's best and don't get me wrong, I'm glad I saw it but I have no interest in seeing it again. |
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enurtsol
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So........ how full were the theater rooms where ya guys saw Wind Rises?
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aoi yuuki fanboy
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^
I saw it twice (sub then dub) and there were about 40 people in the theatre both times |
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GATSU
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enurtsol: I saw a lot of oldies at my L.A. screening last year.
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enurtsol
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Old people?
Just a few rows in ours. Dunno if this'd be justified for further screen expansion. |
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