'Serenity'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Oooooo. Just found out that Mizayaki's Warriors of the Wind has just been re-released on DVD as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds. Not up to giving it the hours of rapt attention it deserves tonight, but I'm not making any plans for next weekend.
We watched this a few weeks back. I'd always heard great things about Nausicaä, but it all felt like a less complex dry run for Princess Mononoke to me. I liked Castle In The Sky (which I also saw recently for the first time) much more.
Nausicaä is a prototypical Mary Sue. Miyazaki's characterizations got better as time went on.
Nausicaä is a prototypical Mary Sue
I couldn't agree more. Also, the good guys were all good and the bad guys were all bad. The only ambiguity was in the motives of the gigantic cthulhu monsters.
Aw, I love Nausicaa. More than Mononoke, even, which I found more convoluted than complex.
Delurking.
'Cause I see things I want to respond to and then think "Damn, I better delurk before jumping into a conversation". And then I don't and the whole demented cycle begins again.
So... hello.
Hello! Uh, I'm not really sure how to nick your name. IANRAS?
Let's use Spring, for maximum irony value.
Well, since s/he is not really a spring, maybe we should use "Spring," so the quotes can imply the not-really-a-spring-ness....
t flashing back to "Aimee" and giggling
Well, we can use =!Spring, no?
Or, Spring. Although with the html, that's more letters to type than IAmNotReallyASpring. Hmmmm...