Princess Mononoke (The Ghibli Archive)

Princess Mononoke is held to be one of the best of the Studio Ghilbi films. I read online that it was supposed to be Hayao Miyazaki's last film back when he said he was going to retire. What the film is centered around is a Prince Ashitaka the last prince of his people who gets cursed defending his village from a cursed boar. He must leave his village and try and find a cure. When doing this he comes across forest gods and village that are trying to kill each other and thats the story.

Well to begin I am going to say this all the Studio Ghilbi films look amazing. This is like the Brave (be it a lot better) of the Studio Ghilbi. It has a lot of stuff work with like the landscape and the people it greats to create. It has great shots of mountain sides and it also has some really epic looking battle scenes. Now when it comes to the story this is a very good story with a really big and completely obvious message.  It isn't really much subtext to the theme of film. It is nature is good and man is good we need to work and live together and have no war. Miyazaki did a great job of balancing the two stories understanding were both sides come from. Now I will admit you feel more for the forest spirits like the humans are in the wrong, but that could be different from each viewing or who is viewing it. The acting in the film was good. I mean I enjoyed everyones voice, but I don't thing anybody brought anything to the role but it is still good. The tone of the film is amazing. The tone that is set by the film is this dark but very fantasy like world were everything has weight to it. The soundtrack is amazing. This my second viewing of the film. I really enjoyed it this time around. I thought it thought way to highly of itself. Now this viewing it wasn't as bad and a lot better.

My real only problem with the film is the pace. It is really action packed and really well made I think some scene just drag on a little. Not too badly, but sometimes I was like alright I get it lets move on please. I think if you are a person who things down on Anime or any from of Japanese film making this film should prove that it can very adult medium. This film can turn someone who things its just kid stuff to someone that is the total opposite. I mean this won the best Japanese film of the year at there "Oscars". I think more films need to be made like this.

RATING
3.5 out of 4 Ticket Stubs

Studio Ghibli

This intro is for those who don't know about Studio Ghibli. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio. Created by the great animator Hayao Miyazaki. Most people have heard of a lot of these films due to the fact disney took them a ported them to America. They have many of there films dubbed. So all of this films are Japanese influenced. Now I am going to do what I did with Disney Collection posts. I am going to watch and revisit some of them. A lot of these I am going to be seeing with fresh eyes it will be really cool. I am going to try and find all the dubbed ones and only those I won't go and back and watch it again subtitled. Some aren't dubbed and those are the films that I will review with subtitled. I am just going to watch them randomly, but I will try and keep them in order. So with all that being said look out for the first review which will be Princess Mononoke.

Gravity

Gravity is a space thriller. It is about a crew of astronauts that are working on the Hubble telescope. When a ton of space junk comes and hits the ship and the telescope sending the astronauts in a bunch of trouble. The film stars really only two people George Clooney and in the main role is Sandra Bullock.

First off the film is CGI masterpiece. Guys I am not kidding when I say I could tell what was a CGI effect or a built set. It is also helps that this film is amazingly shot. The opening shot of the film is one of the longest takes in have seen in a awhile. Like the director Alfonso Cuaron loves to do this and it works so well for the movie. This movie is really his master piece like he is the star of the movie. Like I don't think this movie would have worked without this director. He was set a tone in one shot. Easily my favorite opening shot of the year so far. The shot goes on for about 20 minutes but it was amazing. This is one of the most tease films of the year. I was on the edge of my seat for the whole movie. Now the acting by Bullock and Clooney was very good. I really enjoyed them you really felt for Bullock because I mean who would want to be in this situation. Clooney felt like a old and awesome old astronauts. I also loved the music for the film. It was beautiful score and very good use. Which leads me into the point about sound it is soundless for parts which just draws you in more and more. I also say go see the movie in IMAX and 3D this is what it was made for spend the extra money.

My only complaint is hard to explain but I will try to explain the best I can. So the writing in the film is good, but I feel like it couldn't be used that well. There is so much in the film going on with the action that the great and awesome writing can really show up for the great parts. There is like one scene of character development  and they needed more and I wanted more.  Everyone needs to go see this movie much like Prisoners.

RATING
3.75 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.