Spirited Away... Pwaa0000enddeded

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<div class="IPBDescription">yep.</div> tired of anime thats a fat sux? *COUGH*(any anime on kids tv [besides Trigun and Bebop, which they started showing late at night]) *COUGH*

tired of having to resort to looking at pieces of krap on a stiq?

then go watch spirited away. it's not exactly a story about some flying battousais or hyper-super saiyajin "elite" type things. but it is hayao miyazaki (sp on the name?) .. so it's awesome.

it's really great.

really.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    I want a little pet rat that goes "chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" whenever it bites stuff!

    KAWAIIIIII!!!1!!!1!!!
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  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 1970-01-01 Member:
    ek! i h8 when little girls in anime scream KAWAIIII or some kind of krep like that... especially EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    The movie is simply incredible. I love it.

    Oh, and for the intellectuals out there: It can be interpreted as proletarian fairy tale. Just take a close look, it really works.
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <a href='http://www.madman.com.au/ViewItem.php?CatNo=MMA2089' target='_blank'>Spirited Away: Limited Edition</a>

    Truly worth the money, as a connoisseur of anime and anime DVDs this one has to be ranked right up there. Not only does it feature one of Hayao Miyazaki's more widely spread movies (I still prefer Porco Rosso) the sheer time and effort that has been put into this release is amazing.

    As with nearly all of Miyazaki's films (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is just a teeeeeeensy bit to violent for the littlies who wouldn't understand pacifism) this film can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Hell I even forced my parents to watch this and they loved it.

    Go out, do yourself a favour and buy this DVD. You WILL not be disappointed.

    *Inf's Seal of Approval*
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Jin-Roh+Jun 16 2003, 01:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jin-Roh @ Jun 16 2003, 01:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ek! i h8 when little girls in anime scream KAWAIIII or some kind of krep like that... especially EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well what else are they sposed to scream?
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Nemesis Zero+Jun 17 2003, 04:36 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Jun 17 2003, 04:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The movie is simply incredible. I love it.

    Oh, and for the intellectuals out there: It can be interpreted as proletarian fairy tale. Just take a close look, it really works. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't think that an intellectual view should be entered into this film, sure it's great to analyse a film and get all the in's and out's clarified for everyone too see, but this isn't a movie that SHOULD be analysed.

    You either feel it's wonderful charm and fall in love with it or you don't.

    It's just a superb feel good movie and nothing more.
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  • UnknownUnknown Join Date: 1970-01-01 Member:
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    i actually felt that you could view it as a sort of simple.... Alice in Wonderland Hyper X2... thing

    but it also had some undertones that seemed very sophisticated.. even subliminal themes? i might be overanalyzing, but the point is that it <i>wasn't</i> so simple. maybe the depth of the movie was just due to it being a hayao miyazaki film... but i'll be right back, after looking for analyzations by other people. i've only watched it once, so i'm afraid i have no revelations of my own.


    edit: and besides anime girls screaming EHHHHHHHH! and KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! they can also scream YAMETEHHHHHH!!!

    edit2: aww... i couldn't really find anything. i'd love for someone to give some kind of insight here.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    edited June 2003
    <b>Next time, I will read the <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums.html' target='_blank'>Forum Rules</a> - especially the part regarding warez and other illegal activities - before posting.</b>
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  • GnatsumGnatsum Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10566Members
    Ahh i saw it this past thursday. A friend lent me his DVD of Spirited away. Animations good and all, same goes with the plot. Has alot of imagination going in. Its almost like watching a girls dream.

    the only thing that i didn't like was how everything came together in one nice little package.
    And Haku... *gets angry and starts glaring* I want to beat that little punk so bad.

    and for some reason i grew quite fond of that little girl at the end. =|









    *Spoiler *
    *look down*













    HOW DID THAT LITTLE GIRL FLY WHEN SHE FOUND OUT THE BOYS NAME!?!?! WTHUX
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    I saw it. Really really pretty. Not too bad, either.
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    Oooh, this is totally one of my favourite films to be released. And anyone else spot the older version of Mei from Totoro in it?
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Jin-Roh+Jun 17 2003, 02:29 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Jin-Roh @ Jun 17 2003, 02:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ek! i h8 when little girls in anime scream KAWAIIII or some kind of krep like that... especially EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why exactly are you watching anime? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Anyways, Spirited Away pwned. Go see My Neighbor Totoro.
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  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    And go see Grave Of The Fireflies. Same guys who did it, but this time it's not a kids film. I listed this as my favourite film of all time, and you better believe it is. It's so so so sad and so moving, i'll defy anyone not in tears by the end of it.

    nii-chan..... arigato.....
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    <----- Owns it on VHS.

    Pretty damn good, but did you ever notice that she brings her arms up behind her body whenever she runs? whats up with that?
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--Infinitum+Jun 16 2003, 06:57 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Jun 16 2003, 06:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't think that an intellectual view should be entered into this film, sure it's great to analyse a film and get all the in's and out's clarified for everyone too see, but this isn't a movie that SHOULD be analysed.

    You either feel it's wonderful charm and fall in love with it or you don't.

    It's just a superb feel good movie and nothing more. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If it's a superb feel good movie, chances are it <i>is</i> something more.

    Spirited Away uses heavy influences from workers tales and similiar 19th/early 20th century clichés because it is quite bluntly part of our joint cultural background nowadays (think 'Modern Times'). A younger version of myself would kill me for writing this, but if a good movie is really great, it does not lose charm with an interpretation, on the contrary.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    If you ask me (which no one did in this case) nearly all anime loses something when it is overanalyzed (and by overanalyzed I mean nearly any search for symbolizm or search for "deeper meaning" not readily apparent). Going too far into it nearly ruined Evangelion for me, and because of NGE there are people out there who think that all Gainax films are like that, and that makes me mad. As for Spitited Away, I think the surrealistic fantasy imagery hints at a deepness that really isn't there, it's a simple, classic love story, and that's that.
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Did I talk about the fantasy imagery? Did I try to talk about cultural hooks? Did I ridicule myself by acting as if Spitired contained true religious symbolics when most of the gods were created by the studio? By golly, I did not.

    There's a difference between overanalyzing and analyzing.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    I recently heard that supposedly, Lodoss was based on the actual adventures of a roleplaying group (and before you flame me "clueless nub": shut up). Now THAT'S cool! Awesome GM they must've had.
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  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    edited June 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Nemesis Zero+Jun 17 2003, 04:42 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Jun 17 2003, 04:42 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Did I talk about the fantasy imagery? Did I try to talk about cultural hooks? Did I ridicule myself by acting as if Spitired contained true religious symbolics when most of the gods were created by the studio? By golly, I did not.

    There's a difference between overanalyzing and analyzing. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Notice how I was not responding to you, and was merely commenting on the subject of analyzing Spirited Away, and anime in general.

    Are we clear now?
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