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I never saw it when I was growing up... I saw it after Spirited Away, for sure, and after Princess Mononoke. But I still appreciate it, even with its 80s soundtrack. It's an amazing film, and it really resonated with me.

Oh, but we're supposed to be talking about Earthsea, which I haven't seen yet...


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Well, had you seen other Miyazaki films of that era before?


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yeah, think about it
the way stories were told in the 40's for example, were with little dialog, small sets and slow passed stories, now most movies are faster passed, more dialog, large sets and huge budgets


Movies from the '40s had way more dialogue than movies made today do.


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yo not even,
k well maybe not 40s but somewhere around there.


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Well, had you seen other Miyazaki films of that era before?


Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service... although, I did see Kiki's when I was really young, but I don't think that's what drew me to Nausicaa... I don't know...


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They are the same style of animation though.


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I'm curious. This morning I read an article about Earthsea in The Independent. They said it was very good but didn't have the edge that Hayao Miyakazaki's films do.

That isn't what struck me though. It followed on to say that the father and son arn't on speaking terms. Sorry if this is old news but I havn't been online in a while.

Can anyone help me out abou this? Have they fallen out over Earthsea? I havn't seen it yet but it looks hopeful


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Read a few posts back, we had a discussion about it.


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I'm curious. This morning I read an article about Earthsea in The Independent. They said it was very good but didn't have the edge that Hayao Miyakazaki's films do.

That isn't what struck me though. It followed on to say that the father and son arn't on speaking terms. Sorry if this is old news but I havn't been online in a while.

Can anyone help me out abou this? Have they fallen out over Earthsea? I havn't seen it yet but it looks hopeful


ye, i wasnt aware either.. just check out the thread like Pink said, people explained it to me.
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As a first-time movie, yeah it was pretty good, if not wordy. Comparing to standard anime movies like Bleach/Naruto/Pokemon stuff, it's obviously better, of course.

Thing is, Earthsea happens to have more plot holes than Howl IMO, and the pacing isn't very good. Directing wise, well, it's Goro's first time, so we can't really expect Oscar standards.

Miyazaki was against his son directing the film partly because he didn't feel that he was ready to do it. And him being a perfectionist, of course couldn't stand the movie.

It's family politics, basically.


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Screw your opinions, they are not relevant ^^.
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good point

and i for one am definitely looking forward to Goros next.
weather Hayaos against it or not
his opinion should have no rule over us, or Goro for that matter


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Thing is, Earthsea happens to have more plot holes than Howl IMO


That's a disturbing thought . . .


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his opinion should have no rule over us, or Goro for that matter


i think maybe miyazaki (a god of anime) and his opinions should deffinately have influence in regard to anime... but Goro deserves his chance... he didnt make an absolute peice of trash of a movie.. it's just not up to the standards of his fathers work yet.
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love this movie,yeah,whats with the dragon thing?meh.
ill just write a fanfic to explain it for me....oh wait,i did!
too bad i cant uplode it to fanfiction.net....
btw,im confused.are therru and arren together now or what?hope so..and yes cob must be orochimarus twin brother.i saw him and i was like"wtf is he doing there?!"


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[I]btw,im confused.are therru and arren together now or what?


im not sure about his
cuz i havnt read the book or anything,

but maybe its in the book.


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Actually, in the books they only meet once or twice.


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obviuosly.hope he does more,hes brilliant


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I actually really liked tales from earthsea. I wasn't expecting to, but I did. I like Arren and his little bouts of insanity or whatever those things were. I felt that I was missing something, but I assumed that was because I haven't read the books. It's not as good as a lot of ghibli films, but I agree that it's not trash either. My sister-in-law disliked it greatly. I think Prince Arren was a little to out there for her.

However, I loved some of the visuals in it, it makes for good Music Video fodder anyway. I also loved the song in it, I thought it was beautiful. Anyway, it could have been much worse considering he's a first time director.


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ok i know i'm majorly rebooting an old thread here, but i've only just watched tales from earthsea and i have stuff to say haha

i thought i was pretty good (aren't all ghibli films?) but there were so many loose ends that needed tying off in my opinion. like loads of people, the whole dragon/eternal life thing was confusing. i think the film needed more explanation about the power of an object's ''real name''.

and then little is mentioned of the sword. it's magical, but why? why can only arren unleash it? perhaps reading the books would help, but i think the film should have been better worked so that people who haven't read the books can watch it, like the lord of the rings was, for example

i think that arren and therru were some of the best characters i've seen though

anyway, i think it's an amazing first try and i think goro can only go up from here!

tell me what u think

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I rented this from blockbuster today and just watched it, so yeah...OPINION TIME!!!

Ahem!

To be frank I enjoyed it No it was no Nausicaa or Mononoke but it romped along fairly well and had its touching moments. The animation itself was beautiful, espescially the scenery. I particularly liked the scene were arren see's therru singing and begins too cry a little, that was so lovely. Nice song as well.

The only complaints I have are the same as everyone else: LOOSE ENDS MUCH?

Now I have a vague knowledge of the true name part, i'm not sure how maybe I read a little of the books? But anyway i'm pretty sure if they know the true name of something you can control it.

I honestly think I may have read that book? Or if not very similar, but a long time ago.

Thats going to annoy me now.

But anyway! I was dissapointed by there not being many dragons in it (big fan of dragons ) and a lot of the topics in it were merely brushed on and to be honest needed fully explaining. I intend to read the book soon so I can understand it all, which is good. But until then its all going to be rather vague for me.

Major plus though was arren! So cute Even though he made really weird faces. I espescially liked any hugging scenes, him and therru look so sweeet.
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