I'll be honest, I was disappointed by this one. It definitely felt way longer than it needed to be, which is a sign I was bored.
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Totally agree. Beautiful to watch but there were plenty of pacing and writing issues for me.
The pacing and writing issues seem to be a Ghibli staple at this point. Or maybe I'm just not understanding them when I watch them?
Have you watched Ponyo or Princess Mononoke? Those are pretty coherent throughout, the pacing is way better in those, and the writing is almost flawless.
I have watched them both, and I can’t remember Ponyo very well, Mononoke was awesome with some slight weird pacing from my memory of it.
They were both pleasurable to watch!
The ones I can think of where I questioned the pacing is Earwig, Pocco Rocco, the other airplane one, the small people one, and there are a few others I may be forgetting.
Call me Original™️, but the pacing of Spirited Away was fantastic!
As for stories, the only story I have actively disliked is the earwig one. To me, that movie made absolutely no sense.
Granted, I know these movies must be going over my head, as I don’t have a firm understanding of the Japanese people and their culture. I just really love their art style!
I think you need to be aware of some background about Miyazaki to appreciate some of the details in the movie. For example he was in a firebombing during world war 2 as a child. Additionally at the end of his career he was looking for a successor to take over his fantastical kingdom and there is a metanarrative about the creator having to let go of the world he created.
So I can pirate it now!
Under the deal renewal, Max will be the future home of “The Boy and the Heron”; the streaming premiere date on Max will be announced later this year.
There's no release date yet. You can pirate it later but we don't know when.
Any news on the digital release for the EU?