A bunch of Studio Ghibli movies just showed up on Netflix!
We watched Pom Poko on the weekend and I'm not sure how to describe it. A totally weird mix of hilarity, insanity, and a deeper message. The music is still stuck in my head. Also, hands down the best use of testicles ever used in cinema. I give it 10 balls out of 10.
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I watched Fire Saga on the weekend. When was the last time Will Ferrell made an actual funny movie? I do love a lot of his stuff, but this was just...nothing. Outside of him making fun of Americans, there weren't really any laughs in that movie. Music was okay though.
Since there is kind of an overwhelming amount of Ghibli stuff, I'm making two recommendations Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away
Both are more adult orientated films and represent Ghibli at the peak of their ability and between the two of them they cover most of the themes and style that Ghibli is known for. Mononoke is a brutal and violent story about a young man seeking redemption who finds himself in a clash between nature, gods and human development. Spirited away is much more whimsical movie about a young girl who loses her parents and finds herself in a massive bath house for spirits. It's harder to describe since it isn't very plot driven, but is filled with great characters, scenes and settings.
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Finished Marcella; some plot gaps but definitely kept the themes from the first two seasons. There are a few almost unwatchable intense scenes.
Also finished the Fire Saga movie. I thought that it was one of the better recent Will Ferrell movies. Edinburgh geography was a bit off, but I enjoyed seeing my old flat onscreen for a few seconds. Other than the statues, it could almost have been a G rated movie. No real baddies, but it was okay.
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I watched Fire Saga on the weekend. When was the last time Will Ferrell made an actual funny movie? I do love a lot of his stuff, but this was just...nothing. Outside of him making fun of Americans, there weren't really any laughs in that movie. Music was okay though.
Ugghh.....there is over 2 hours of my life that I will never have back.
I was 50 minutes into thinking they were about to start the final act....then somehow they wedge another hour of movie into the plot.
This move would have been so much better if they'd cut the runtime down by about 45 minutes. It would have concentrated the zanier bits. There was a solid hour of weird melo-drama in bad fake accents that was totally unnecessary.
How the %^&^ is Fire Saga getting average to good reviews?
Anyone else see the whole Unsolved Mysteries reboot? I tuned into the first episode and without Robert Stack's haunting narration, it's not the same as I remembered it as a kid. I like documentaries though, so I'll probably watch the rest. First episode indicates it's a documentary with the Unsolved Mysteries title and music...and that's it for the connection. No narration.
Anyone else see the whole Unsolved Mysteries reboot? I tuned into the first episode and without Robert Stack's haunting narration, it's not the same as I remembered it as a kid. I like documentaries though, so I'll probably watch the rest. First episode indicates it's a documentary with the Unsolved Mysteries title and music...and that's it for the connection. No narration.
Loved that show when I was a kid. Such vivid memories of watching that just on the over the air channels as a kid in rural Alberta. Robert Stack’s narration was probably the scariest thing I remember.
I just did watch the first episode and hearing that music brought back the memories. It is more documentary like but I enjoyed the first one. Hoping for some extraterrestrial ones I can watch with my kids to give them the same experience I did.
That damn unsolved mysteries music brought me back to being 10 years old and terrified...then they added a silhouette of Robert Stack's head to the intro just to top it off.
The Robert Stack episodes are on Prime. I've been rewatching them. They've even been updating mysteries that have been solved since the episodes stopped airing.
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I binge watched Unsolved Mysteries yesterday while doing work. They aren't as good as the original but I was disappointed there were only six episodes. I would have liked to have seen more than one supernatural episode.
it was really complicated, in a good way... they didn't answer all the questions i wanted answered, but generally they were just small things...i had a few questions tho...
Spoiler!
a little deus ex machina for Ep 8, but i think it was earned... still not sure how old Claudia was still alive if Noah still shot her... and the entire construct in the future, i wasn't sure when that was built? Was it after Ep 2 of season 2? It wasn't there before?
Happy with how it ended though - the only other answer was ending it after the end of Ep 7 or shifting that to Ep 8 and using 7 to develop a little further the transformation of character arcs.
So, no Peter Cullen, no Frank Welker, no Gregg Burger, no Michael Bell, no Corey Burton, no Dan Gilvezan, no Neil Ross, no Jack Angel, no Charley Adler, not even a John Moschitta Jr. to do a Blurr cameo like in Animated.
Who the hell is going to watch this junk!?
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Yeah I might watch that...
Ugh, you would!
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