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How would you rate Princess Monoke?

10 30 55.56%
 
9 15 27.78%
 
8 4 7.41%
 
7 1 1.85%
 
6 0 0%
 
5 0 0%
 
Lower than 5 2 3.70%
 
See results 2 3.70%
 
Total:54
Cheddarchet on 07 November 2014
t3mporary_126 said:
Cheddarchet said:
Fantastic film, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
I would imagine the samurai wouldn't come back when the ironworks that made the village worth anything was destroyed. And if they come back after its rebuilt, the means to fight them is already back in place.
... Now I want to go watch it again.


Hey, don't spoil the ending for others! Go back and edit so people can enjoy this awesome movie fresh like most of us! > : (

My bad, fixed it! 



Hmm

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Symbios63 on 07 November 2014

Great anime movie indeed !!



vivster on 07 November 2014

Better late than never.

Now go and watch the rest of the thousands of hours of Anime you missed over the past 17 years.



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curl-6 on 07 November 2014
t3mporary_126 said:
curl-6 said:

One of my favourites. I love its mature take on man vs nature that goes beyond shallow cliches of "nature = good, man = bad."

As to your question, I think after the craziness that went down the Samurai would likely not dare go back.

That's what I think too.

And this sounds really cliche, but I wish Ashitaka and San kissed... affectionately. Not by mouth to mouth food. Although Ashitaka did possibly cry from happiness because he got mouth to mouth with San and San did continue it afterwards... I love how the movie ended with them as friends or possibly more, though. I hate cliche hook ups at the end.

But I swear. Studio Ghibli films are the only ones that make me want cliche romances to happen.

The way I interpreted that scene, his tears were because he realized that they could not be together; to him kissing was a romantic thing, but to her it was an animal method of feeding the young and the weak. That's when he realizes their worlds are just too different for them to ever have the relationship he desires.



SvennoJ on 07 November 2014
walsufnir said:
SvennoJ said:

Glad you enjoyed it!

The ironworks are gone at the end of the movie, they have to start from scratch. Without the forest god the emporor has lost interest in them anyway. The samrurai have nothing left to get there either. They can rebuild in peace.


I knew you would post in this thread

I've already pre-ordered my 4th copy of the movie :/
Already have the DVD + factory sealed DVD + Hong kong blu-ray version and now the Disney Blu-ray on order with the english dub for the kids. I prefer the english subs though. The english dub makes some changes to the script that lessen the impact somewhat. For example when Ashitaka has to leave the village it's clear enough that it will be permanent, the english dub didn't really have to add 'You are dead to us from now on', 'To see with eyes unclouded' sounds more poetic then adding 'by hate' at the end. Other changes don't make much sense at all, for example when Okkoto the boar god is near death the english dub says, "Don't touch him, he is no longer a god" while the sub says "Don't go near him, the curse will fall on you". Why change that? The voices themselves are well done luckily.



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t3mporary_126 on 07 November 2014
SvennoJ said:
The North American blu-ray releases on November 18th, together with Kiki's delivery service and The wind rises.
I already imported the Hong Kong International version when it came out. The upgrade from dvd to blu-ray is definitely worth it. The movie looks and sounds fantastic on blu-ray.


Oh I would love to see this again in HD! I actually rented this as a DVD from my school library. The caption text was ugly and the DVD was laggy so the mouth moved before the characters talked. And I was watching it in Japanese!

 



t3mporary_126 on 07 November 2014
curl-6 said:
t3mporary_126 said:
curl-6 said:

One of my favourites. I love its mature take on man vs nature that goes beyond shallow cliches of "nature = good, man = bad."

As to your question, I think after the craziness that went down the Samurai would likely not dare go back.

That's what I think too.

And this sounds really cliche, but I wish Ashitaka and San kissed... affectionately. Not by mouth to mouth food. Although Ashitaka did possibly cry from happiness because he got mouth to mouth with San and San did continue it afterwards... I love how the movie ended with them as friends or possibly more, though. I hate cliche hook ups at the end.

But I swear. Studio Ghibli films are the only ones that make me want cliche romances to happen.

The way I interpreted that scene, his tears were because he realized that they could not be together; to him kissing was a romantic thing, but to her it was an animal method of feeding the young and the weak. That's when he realizes their worlds are just too different for them to ever have the relationship he desires.

Oh that makes so much sense. Poor Ashitaka...



SvennoJ on 07 November 2014
curl-6 said:
t3mporary_126 said:
curl-6 said:

One of my favourites. I love its mature take on man vs nature that goes beyond shallow cliches of "nature = good, man = bad."

As to your question, I think after the craziness that went down the Samurai would likely not dare go back.

That's what I think too.

And this sounds really cliche, but I wish Ashitaka and San kissed... affectionately. Not by mouth to mouth food. Although Ashitaka did possibly cry from happiness because he got mouth to mouth with San and San did continue it afterwards... I love how the movie ended with them as friends or possibly more, though. I hate cliche hook ups at the end.

But I swear. Studio Ghibli films are the only ones that make me want cliche romances to happen.

The way I interpreted that scene, his tears were because he realized that they could not be together; to him kissing was a romantic thing, but to her it was an animal method of feeding the young and the weak. That's when he realizes their worlds are just too different for them to ever have the relationship he desires.

I thought about it differently again. Ashitaka feels he has been rejected by the Forest god, who didn't cure him. He realizes he is now going to die regardless, yet Mononoke still cares enough to nurture him back to health.



KLAMarine on 07 November 2014
ktay95 said:
Im sad to say Ive never watched it, its sitting their just waiting for me to watch but Ive never got around to it...

HERESY!



t3mporary_126 on 07 November 2014
KLAMarine said:
ktay95 said:
Im sad to say Ive never watched it, its sitting their just waiting for me to watch but Ive never got around to it...

HERESY!


The true heresy is the person who voted less than 5 in the poll. I'm going to assume someone miss clicked the see results options in order to perserve my faith in humanity.

Just kidding, we are entitled to our opinions.

And is anyone else excited that Zelda U seems to be heavily inspired by this film so far? I also noticed the spirits in the Deer God's forests are quite similar to Makar's race in Windwaker! Their tiny, wear masks, live around a forest, and make rattling noises!