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Post by cara24 on Mar 18, 2008 12:47:59 GMT -5
I hadn't seen this movie for a while, probably since it first came out, but I was looking through the guide, and saw that it was on Cartoon Network, and I was like,"I remember that movie!". So I watched it again, and remembered how much I loved it the first time! Probably one of my favorite animated movies ever.
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Post by Hana on Mar 18, 2008 14:06:55 GMT -5
I haven't watched this movie in awhile either but from what I do remember it was great. My favorite part was when Howl was having a hissy fit over his hair. >_<
My friend just recently came back from Japan and got me a souvenir from Studio Ghibli (so NOT FAIR!). It was a Howl pin to add to my enormous collection of pins, lol.
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Post by Kohana on Mar 18, 2008 15:02:01 GMT -5
This is a Japanese animated movie so it belongs in the Anime section of the Other Media.
*moving this*
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Post by Hinata Uzumaki IS BACK on Mar 18, 2008 19:07:22 GMT -5
i just saw this movie for the first time on Cartoon network. I liked spirited away better, but this movie was really good. I love Hayoi Miyazaki. His films are sooo awesome .
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Post by username on Mar 18, 2008 19:23:23 GMT -5
Spirited Away is probably Miyazaki's most overrated movie, next to Castle in the Sky.
Howl's Moving Castle on the other hand, is one of his best.
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Post by Sheogorath on Mar 18, 2008 23:22:22 GMT -5
i just saw this movie for the first time on Cartoon network. I liked spirited away better, but this movie was really good. I love Hayoi Miyazaki. His films are sooo awesome . It's Hayao Miyazaki. Anyway, I watched Howl's Movig Castle on Cartoon Network, and I was just amazed. How cool would it be to have a home like that, and to be able to turn a nob, open the portal door, and be in a different place each time? And to have the place itself be able to move? That'd just be incredible.
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Post by mahatista on Mar 18, 2008 23:40:32 GMT -5
I loved the movie when I first saw it. But I was a little confused by a few things so I read the book. Then I hated the movie because what Miyazaki did wasn't an adaptation it was a rewrite and one that caused all the confusion to begin with. Still, I went back to the movie to get the screenshot for my sig and decided I still liked it anyway -- against my will. But if you read the book you'll see he took major liberties with what was a very good story and the liberties he took were unnecessary and added confusion to the mix rather than clarification (as a good adaptation should do). Just to be clear. I'm a knee-jerk reactionary writer's advocate. I hate when the movie industry takes someone else's work and makes it something else. Even if Dianna Wynne Jones gave it the thumbs up (I'm assuming she did -- writers usually do), the movie would have been better had it stuck more faithfully to the original storyline. It would have lost none of the magic and would have been more coherent besides. IMO. And yet it's the inspiration for my sig. I feel so dirty.
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Post by username on Mar 19, 2008 2:26:53 GMT -5
It was a very good book, but that wasnt quite the story Miyazaki decided to tell. Changes as a result of the story being adapted don't negate the quality of the movie.
He probably could have made the film more faithful to the novel and remain a good movie, but I do not think it would have been as good a movie. Not because the book's plot is lacking or anything of the sort, but because it wouldnt have been the movie Miyazaki desired to create.
The focus of his movies have never been on plot so much as overall cinematic beauty and excellence, and HMC was spiritually a faithful adaptation of Diann Wynne Jones' novel.
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Post by mahatista on Mar 19, 2008 3:08:14 GMT -5
^^ I understand the adaptation process but Miyazaki didn't just 'adapt' the book for a screenplay, he wrote another story entirely and attached it to a truncated, highly manipulated version of HMC. So while I do understand plot points always need to be adjusted, scenes cut, characters eliminated or combined and the story line reorganized that's not what he did. He did much, much more. And personally I liked what was in the book much more than what was in the screenplay. 'Spiritually faithful' gives a lot of leeway for artistic license. I think he took too much license with the story. I don't think he was so much spiritually faithful as single-minded in what he wanted to do, original story be darned. And he did a visually stunning job of it. But the story itself is somewhat incoherent -- because of his original elements IMO. It's gorgeous, and like I said, I don't want to like it but I do. All of this is IMO of course. I highly doubt I'll find any allies in criticism of Miyazaki.
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Post by cara24 on Mar 19, 2008 13:34:28 GMT -5
That is exactly why I will never read the book, my friends. lol. I know if I did it would probably make me hate, and pick at every little thing in one of my favorite movies. Thats how it usually is when I see a movie, and love it, and then I read the book, and I can't watch the movie anymore cause it annoys the heck out of me because all of the stuff they changed. Prime example is The Golden Compass, loved the movie, read the book, and I'll never be able to watch it again. lol. I love HMC so I am not going to take a chance, read the book, and it ruin it for me. Then again one of these days the curiosity will get to me, & I'll probably end up reading it. lol. My favorite part was when Howl was having a hissy fit over his hair. >_< XXDD That never fails to make me crack up! He's just being so melodramtic about it.
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Post by I need a good username! on Mar 19, 2008 15:32:48 GMT -5
God yes...his hair...the green slime! I think the movie was pretty good (no...really...then why is it on my iPod?) and I liked the book too. I liked Spirited Away also. Has anyone seen Princess Mononoke? Thats a really good one too. Pffff...that was the stupidist thing I'v said. Maybe...anyways...Hayao Miyazaki is lieka genius! My mom thinks anime is sorta stupid and I showed her Howls and Spirited and she loved them both (I also showed her the Narruto opening and she thought it was a picture I'd taken). Anime is really amazing and not enough people realize that.
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Post by ilovetaang03 on Mar 19, 2008 15:37:24 GMT -5
i saw it the when it was on carrtoon network and saw most of it. i love hayo mizaki's work so i like howls moving castle in a weird way.
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Post by conspiracytheorist on Mar 19, 2008 15:47:11 GMT -5
I saw this for the second time a few days ago at a friend's. It's a visual wonder, really, and watching it a second time helped clear up some of the elements I found confusing the first time through. But I fear that I'm tainted as a fan of Miyazaki because I saw Spirited Away first, and everything else kinda pales in comparison. =( I loved Mononoke and Porco Rosso was quite good (except for that ending >_>), but Howl's Moving Castle hasn't yet struck the same chord in me.
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Post by cara24 on Mar 21, 2008 10:39:57 GMT -5
My friend let me borrow Spirited Away, I am going to watch sometime, lol. I don't think anything could top Howl's Moving Castle for me though. I really love it! ^_^
I was watching it with my best friend last night, she saw Spirited Away first, and she really liked it. We didn't get to finished though because I had to go home, I'm gonna call her today, and ask what she thought of the rest of the movie.
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Post by username on Mar 21, 2008 13:02:20 GMT -5
In my opinion, Spirited Away is only his 4th best movie. After Mononoke, Totoro, and HMC.
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