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this movie was incredibly lame

posted 14 years ago by sneakysloth
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i liked princess mononoke, spirited away, howl's moving castle.

but this was just too much. it combined the worst elements of all three of those movies.

the sentimentality dripping off everything, the in-your-face environmentalist message...the incredibly annoying, schizophrenic protagonist who had to vocalize every single emotion she was experiencing for the audience.

not to mention the ludicrousness of gigantic warships being shot down with regular bullets by some guy in an x-wing fighter.

'WHO KNEW HOW WONDERFUL AND CARING THE OHM COULD BE?!' i found myself facepalming near the end of the movie, as hard as i tried to like it.

anyway flame away

[–] 12 years ago

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[–] Dr_Harford 11 years ago

It's from the year 1984 so give it a break or get back to the short bus.

[–] DethstruXioN 11 years ago

Im not hungry… but i'll bite anyway

You're wrong.

...Oh, you want a reason?

Because.

[–] Bob_Brooker 10 years ago

anyone who enjoyed Mononoke but complains about the environmental themes in Nausicaa has to be suffering from "selective memory bias for the purpose of trolling"...

^ This

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Last movie watched: Princess Mononoke (7/10)

[–] mere2010 9 years ago

This film entered my thoughts unbidden a few minutes ago and I thought I would go see what negative crap IMDB had to offer. I had to scroll down a bit before I found this right-wing know-nothing tripe, but here it is, as expected.

I love this film.

[–] Degree7 9 years ago

It wasn't bad, but I got the feeling Id seen it all before. The prophecy was sort of predictable in that it would obviously come true in the end, albeit in an incredibly contrived fashion. It just happened her dress was stained blue, and the Ohm tentacles are golden and can revive people. So was this very specific and improbable sequence of events all just a giant coincidence? How was this prophecy made anyway?

I thought this was a rough draft for Princess Mononoke, which is a bit better imo. There aren't as many fantasy cliches, and it in fact subverts a lot of them, with an ending where everyone and no one wins. Nausicca, on the other hand, is straightforward and too basic.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

[–] 9 years ago

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[–] mevmijaumau 8 years ago

Definitely not lame, but I wasn't much of a fan of it myself. The animation is absolutely stunning in some parts and there are some imaginative ideas, not to mention Hisaishi's great soundtrack, but overall the story wasn't interesting to me. The creature designs are hit-or-miss, the character interactions (and the characters themselves) are boring compared to, say, Mononoke, there are some cliches and the ending is bursting with pathos and sentimentality. So there are some good parts, but all in all it did nothing for me.