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    I doubt this will be a popular post, but -

    Is it just me, or are Studio Ghibli flicks generally a bit.. shit?

    We've been going through them on Netflix and they're not quite as amazing as either I remember (in those I've seen) or most people harp on (those I'd not seen).

    Sure, the art's mostly beautiful and some of the worlds and imagination are fantastic (looking at you, Spirited Away), but I basically fall asleep half way through them or get to the end credits and wonder why the fuck I just wasted a couple of hours of my life. Mind you, I do this with quite a few movies these days. Perhaps my attention span has been neutered by tech.

    We're going through in a weird order, but I'm kind of hesitant to watch My Neighbour Totoro again in case it's just as much bilge as Porco Rosso or Castle in the Sky, both of which I thought were, well - bad.

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    • "my attention span has been neutered by tech." you are a true wordsmith!stoplying
    • I'd be very surprised if I've not simply regurgitated that having read it elsewhere, but these are trying times, so I'll take it :)Nairn
    • falling asleep watching films = getting oldBluejam
    • Mononoke still holds up. My niece n nephew love the shit out of Totoro... but yea it's kinda boring. Ghibili does something to kids imaginations.inteliboy
    • Miyazaki is a genius but not going to set out to watch them. Totoro blew my mind when i was 10 + saw Spirited Away on TV not so long ago and it still stood up.kingsteven
    • Spirited Away was a trip visually and to some degree conceptually, but was an incoherent, almost school-kid writ, arbitrary pile of twaddle otherwise.Nairn
    • haha go and make a cup of tea over the bit where the boy, that is ALSO a dragon confesses to ALSO being "the river you lost your shoe in when your were young"kingsteven
    • Archive bump - what did you mean by ' go and make a cup of tea over'? But yeah, shitlike that was impenetrable. Like schoolkid story-writing.Nairn
    • oh i mean, the films are great up until the end where he tries to tie together the story. you may as well change the channel/ make a cup of tea/leave the roomkingsteven
    • aah, right - I thought it was some peculiar Nornism I'd never come across, or something, haha :)Nairn
    • hah, i definitely have a strong connection with making tea as a unit of procrastination. it's like something roy walker would say to lead in to an ad break :Dkingsteven
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