Hello again!
So it was a decent day today, got some work done on a couple cosplay things, finished up the Wire and caught up on youtube videos. Now I just finished up a Gem from studio Ghibli named From Up On Poppy Hill.
Ghibli has established itself as one of my favorite Studios around. Big Talk productions and Pixar are up there as well, even though Pixar has been slipping a bit recently with Cars 2 and letting Disney control the hell out of them.
anyway, onto the review.
Pros:
Ghibli is the only company that can get me to care about a 16 year old girl living in rural japan. Well, to be honest I love Rural Japan. I don't really know why but I love the otherworldly nature of it, the mix of traditionalism and modernism is great and i'm fascinated by it.
I love how the story can unfold without any real issues popping up. No action scenes no swearing or sexuality, its just a brilliant film. as with most Ghibli films its a very slow film, It takes it's time establishing characters and the world and keeps the same calm pace throughout. this is a staple of the studio, Similar to Secret World of Arrietty or Ponyo it has a 'floaty' type of feeling to it, it's uplifting but i'm not really sure why.
As always the Animation is astounding, the characters themselves are basic but distinctive, yet the surroundings are very intricit and beautiful. the animation style doesn't suffer from the 'floating items' of older anime, where a person walks into a room and you can tell what's going to be interacted with. Ghibli always puts so much time into making their movies seamless and it shows.
I also really liked the way the Umi/Shun relationship played out, the crush then potential sibling to best friend type thing. it never felt forced and the interactions always felt natural.
Cons:
I personally Loved the pacing and the subject matter, yet most people in america won't. you have to have a long attention span which most people wont in this country. not enough explosions I guess.
Though I will admit that I found a few of the characters out of place, like the oversized Philosophy guy, was he a teacher?
Voice acting:
- Correction -
Disney was actually not the distributor of this film, I claimed they were, i'm sorry. It's actually distributed by Gkids. I can't find much about Gkids online but theyve distributed a bunch of foreign language movies lately.
After more searching the 'English language version' was produced by a company partnered with disney. Wow I sound like a conspiracy theorist.
I watched the Japanese version, so the Huge list of actors on the Cover have nothing to do with the movie, yet their names are plastered all over the Blu-Ray's case
Gillian anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff, Anton Yelchin.
Hows that for a list of people? yeah, and yet I decided to watch it with a completely different Cast. I know kids can't read Subtitles, but do you really think they understand what the Korean war is, or why she raises flags? or what the Latin Quarter is? They should Focus more on releasing the original film and not the Disney bastardization.
Bastardization? is that too harsh? oh well, I've said it many times that I think Disney is Evil.
Even though this might not be fully Disney's fault.
FINAL VERDICT: 90
Amazing animation and lovely story, but slow paced and not for everyone, Watch the Japanese language version for Gods sake
So, off to watch something else, wish I had Another Ghibli film to watch. I'll shoot a couple more updates out over the next few hours
So it was a decent day today, got some work done on a couple cosplay things, finished up the Wire and caught up on youtube videos. Now I just finished up a Gem from studio Ghibli named From Up On Poppy Hill.
Ghibli has established itself as one of my favorite Studios around. Big Talk productions and Pixar are up there as well, even though Pixar has been slipping a bit recently with Cars 2 and letting Disney control the hell out of them.
anyway, onto the review.
MOVIE REVIEW: From Up On Poppy Hill
Ghibli is the only company that can get me to care about a 16 year old girl living in rural japan. Well, to be honest I love Rural Japan. I don't really know why but I love the otherworldly nature of it, the mix of traditionalism and modernism is great and i'm fascinated by it.
I love how the story can unfold without any real issues popping up. No action scenes no swearing or sexuality, its just a brilliant film. as with most Ghibli films its a very slow film, It takes it's time establishing characters and the world and keeps the same calm pace throughout. this is a staple of the studio, Similar to Secret World of Arrietty or Ponyo it has a 'floaty' type of feeling to it, it's uplifting but i'm not really sure why.
As always the Animation is astounding, the characters themselves are basic but distinctive, yet the surroundings are very intricit and beautiful. the animation style doesn't suffer from the 'floating items' of older anime, where a person walks into a room and you can tell what's going to be interacted with. Ghibli always puts so much time into making their movies seamless and it shows.
I also really liked the way the Umi/Shun relationship played out, the crush then potential sibling to best friend type thing. it never felt forced and the interactions always felt natural.
Cons:
I personally Loved the pacing and the subject matter, yet most people in america won't. you have to have a long attention span which most people wont in this country. not enough explosions I guess.
Though I will admit that I found a few of the characters out of place, like the oversized Philosophy guy, was he a teacher?
Voice acting:
- Correction -
Disney was actually not the distributor of this film, I claimed they were, i'm sorry. It's actually distributed by Gkids. I can't find much about Gkids online but theyve distributed a bunch of foreign language movies lately.
After more searching the 'English language version' was produced by a company partnered with disney. Wow I sound like a conspiracy theorist.
I watched the Japanese version, so the Huge list of actors on the Cover have nothing to do with the movie, yet their names are plastered all over the Blu-Ray's case
Gillian anderson, Sarah Bolger, Beau Bridges, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Fuhrman, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard, Chris Noth, Emily Osment, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Saxton, Alex Wolff, Anton Yelchin.
Hows that for a list of people? yeah, and yet I decided to watch it with a completely different Cast. I know kids can't read Subtitles, but do you really think they understand what the Korean war is, or why she raises flags? or what the Latin Quarter is? They should Focus more on releasing the original film and not the Disney bastardization.
Bastardization? is that too harsh? oh well, I've said it many times that I think Disney is Evil.
Even though this might not be fully Disney's fault.
FINAL VERDICT: 90
Amazing animation and lovely story, but slow paced and not for everyone, Watch the Japanese language version for Gods sake
So, off to watch something else, wish I had Another Ghibli film to watch. I'll shoot a couple more updates out over the next few hours
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