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Augen said:

My biggest want is to get Princess Mononoke on Blu Ray some day. Wish traditional animation was still prevalent (especially in the west) as can just imagine how gorgeous it could look these days.

That's my most wanted as well. Mononoke will be released on Blu Ray in the west this year (e.g. German release has recently been confirmed for April).



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Augen said:

My biggest want is to get Princess Mononoke on Blu Ray some day. Wish traditional animation was still prevalent (especially in the west) as can just imagine how gorgeous it could look these days.

It's available for import, but i'm waiting for a more affordable version.
http://www.play-asia.com/mononoke-hime-paOS-13-49-en-70-757z.html

All Ghibli movies look great on blu-ray. The extra detail in Howl's moving castle stands out especially.



NiKKoM said:
SvennoJ said:
I just finished watching it with the kids, Amazon delivered it this morning. The first time I saw it was at a school viewing in kindergarten. I'm still getting used to the English language track after growing up with the Dutch dub.


als je van beren leren kan..

Yep that's the one I grew up with. My parents however had this version




I only buy DC Comics films on Blu Ray lately. Used to buy every animated movie but my interest tapered off last year.



pokoko said:
I only have two blu-ray purchases. The Man With No Name trilogy and the latest Gamera trilogy.

Hm. Seeing it written out like that makes me wonder if my tastes are a bit different than most.

Yea!  He was my favorite as a kid.

I think my first Blu-ray was a Harry Potter movie.  But it might have been Halo: Ledgends as Halo on a Blu-ray was just too funny to pass up.

I also really like Blue Planet, but I haven't purchased a blu-ray in a few years now.



 

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SvennoJ said:
Augen said:

My biggest want is to get Princess Mononoke on Blu Ray some day. Wish traditional animation was still prevalent (especially in the west) as can just imagine how gorgeous it could look these days.

It's available for import, but i'm waiting for a more affordable version.
http://www.play-asia.com/mononoke-hime-paOS-13-49-en-70-757z.html

All Ghibli movies look great on blu-ray. The extra detail in Howl's moving castle stands out especially.


I saw Mononke about 10 years ago in HD and I liked it very much, I think it was on HDNet at the time. But honestly after seeing Spirited Away I felt that movie had more magic and intrigue, I'm dying to get Spirited Away on Blu-Ray! The whole challenging childhood and growing up and overcoming your personal fears vibe. The main character Chihiro is so damn likable, and believable. Even the english actress does a great job. Some of the earlier Miyazaki English actors fail to deliver great performances imho, unlike Chihiro's/Daveigh Chase did imho. 

I think to that Spirited Away pulled off very nicely, and has some interesting subliminal message/Japanese culture layers to it. Where as Mononoke felt more straight, and like an enviromental film with a positive message (building a better world even though some men never learn) with a cheesy love story that went almost nowhere, maybe to preachy and cliched for my tastes in movies now to be rewatching it more than twice. The first time I saw Mononoke I was very mpressed though. Haha you probably think I'm a dick now! Anyhow if you haven't watched it you should check into it.

Cool little fact Chihiros voice is done by that creepy girl in The Ring. She looks a lot hotter now though lmao! She also did the voice in Disney's Lilo and Stitch but I have yet to watch it. Oh well...




Also if you guys hate plagarism don't watch the Deer God scene in Snow White and the Huntsman. It might kill you! Who knows maybe it was simply a homage like to Princess Mononoke, like how Quentin Tarantino does homages to 50 different films he grew up with in every one of his films. :)



Zappykins said:

Yea!  He was my favorite as a kid.

I think my first Blu-ray was a Harry Potter movie.  But it might have been Halo: Ledgends as Halo on a Blu-ray was just too funny to pass up.

I also really like Blue Planet, but I haven't purchased a blu-ray in a few years now.

I'm a sucker for these turtles...well the first 2 movies at least. So old and cheesy but so not taking themselves seriously is what I love, and the JCVD action scenes! What's not to love?!?! haha. I used to have a few of their comics as a kid too, not bad. The mindset of MS3k might assist a person in watching them completely all the way threw though. ;)



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FinalFantasyXIII said:
SvennoJ said:
Augen said:

My biggest want is to get Princess Mononoke on Blu Ray some day. Wish traditional animation was still prevalent (especially in the west) as can just imagine how gorgeous it could look these days.

It's available for import, but i'm waiting for a more affordable version.
http://www.play-asia.com/mononoke-hime-paOS-13-49-en-70-757z.html

All Ghibli movies look great on blu-ray. The extra detail in Howl's moving castle stands out especially.


I saw Mononke about 10 years ago in HD and I liked it very much, I think it was on HDNet at the time. But honestly after seeing Spirited Away I felt that movie had more magic and intrigue, I'm dying to get Spirited Away on Blu-Ray! The whole challenging childhood and growing up and overcoming your personal fears vibe. The main character Chihiro is so damn likable, and believable. Even the english actress does a great job. Some of the earlier Miyazaki English actors fail to deliver great performances imho, unlike Chihiro's/Daveigh Chase did imho. 

I think to that Spirited Away pulled off very nicely, and has some interesting subliminal message/Japanese culture layers to it. Where as Mononoke felt more straight, and like an enviromental film with a positive message (building a better world even though some men never learn) with a cheesy love story that went almost nowhere, maybe to preachy and cliched for my tastes in movies now to be rewatching it more than twice. The first time I saw Mononoke I was very mpressed though. Haha you probably think I'm a dick now! Anyhow if you haven't watched it you should check into it.

Cool little fact Chihiros voice is done by that creepy girl in The Ring. She looks a lot hotter now though lmao! She also did the voice in Disney's Lilo and Stitch but I have yet to watch it. Oh well...

No worries, Spirited away is my nr 2 all time favorite movie, right after Mononoke. Spirited away is probably next for a blu-ray release, they've covered all of them by now. I'm also still waiting for Porco rosso and Kiki's delivery service's blu-rays to make it to NA.

Spirited away had a bigger awe inspiring first viewing, but after having watched both movies numerous times, Mononoke still comes out on top.
This was my review of Mononoke http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5185564
and Spirited away http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5182307
I'm still resising getting the import, the Japanese covers are awesome but at over $80 a piece I'm better off at least waiting for the Honk Kong international release. Once I get one I might start buying the whole series again :(

I expect more out of a blu-ray version of Spirited away, same way with Totoro and Howl's moving castle. Both look great on blu-ray but Howl's moving castle revealed a whole layer of fine detail that the dvd simply couldn't capture.

Have you watched Ponyo btw. Most impressive hand drawn animation I've seen. My kids are addicted to it, it's probably been played over 50 times already. I went straight for the blu-ray when it came out so can't compare it to dvd, but it looks amazing on blu-ray. Perfect line detail and color.