princess mononoke-who liked it

[BigShot Jordan]

i went and saw princess mononoke about six months ago and so far it is my favorite miyazaki movie.i was wondering if you guys could tell me about your experiences with this film.and tell me about your favorite miyazaki animes.

[ryezen]

Princess Mononoke was great! - its actually one of my fav anime

the animation's quality as well as the story was well done. when i watched this for the first time i was taken by surprise - the animation was so good that i actually thought it wasnt going to have that kind of violence. and there was the issue of how Ashitaka decapitated people by just shooting an arrow at them...

[Hiyoku]

Mononoke Hime stands as my all-time favorite Miyazaki film. It was extravagant in animation and soundtrack, and the storyline instantly pulls you in. It's hard _not_ to love this movie, as it is with all of his other works.
..as fer th' decapitation with th' arrows, didn't we cover dat...?

~Tasuki No Miko

"What, you expect me to flap my arms and FLY back?!"

[tekblade]

i remeber seeing it. at first i thought it was kinda werid but once you get deeper into it, it was really good.

[ryezen]

deeper? its more like a "save the earth" kind'a story shows what we humans are doing to the environment and stuff.

[tekblade]

hehe thats kinda true but i liked them big whole wolf spirits.

[ryezen]

hehe... about those wolves, remember the part where the mother wolf takes Ashitaka by the head and shakes him? one of my favorite scenes! - wonder how it felt :lol:

[tekblade]

yeah i remeber that :lol: but wasnt it sick when that huge pig was covered up in that disease thing. looked cool and disturbing

[ryezen]

w/c pig are you referring to?

the second one was bigger and grosser though! to think that Ashitaka and the girl - what was her name again? took a plunge into the second pig!

[tekblade]

hehe i remember that. lemmee think which pig. hmmmmmm i dont remember. :heh:

[Boltarion]

I loved mononoke. I think the girl's name was San. It was really sad when the forest spirit got killed. I was on the edge of my seat.
There's actually another Mononoke thread going in the Anime Movies and DVD forum. Here's the URL:
http://animeboards.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=131

[tekblade]

oh yeah i remeber. it was sad when the spirit died

[ryezen]

died? i thought it just lost its body and spread throughout the earth? :confused2

[Boltarion]

Something like that happened, but losing it's body is like dying. It was just sad when they shot it while it was walking on water and it just started to sink. Oh yeah, then it turned into the night walker or whatever and wanted it's head back.

[ryezen]

sorry but my definition of death is

"one is truely dead when he has been forgotten"

the part where the forest spirit was looking for its head was creepy - somehow i felt sorry for it! :(

[tekblade]

hey it did loose its head. so he was probably mad when they took his head and now he wants it back. :D

[bbc0]

I liked Princess Mononoke

[cloakactive]

I'm not even going to read the posts....

I still haven't seen it... but i'll see it sooner or later.

[Keroppilee]

i didnt like it that much, i thought it was too tree huggerish, i'm against anybody who loves nature too much.

[Junko Saotome]

I like the movie. I just got to see i a couple of weeks ago. I loved how it was animated. I might go out and buy it sometime. When I get money for it.

[mrgazpacho]

I kinda know what you mean, Keroppilee. But don't forget, when he was young, Miyazaki lived in this suburb of Tokyo that had forests and everything, and now it's just a concrete jungle. So he's seen how crappy humans can be if they don't have someone to slap 'em around the face now and then to make them slow down.

BTW, I've seen Mononoke Hime 4 times at the cinemas (3 sub, 1 dub).

[Yebisu Beer Penguin]

i like mononoke.

i had never seen a miyazaki film before and this was the first since it came out on dvd.

great anime. good animation. good characters. good music. good plot.

what i like about anime is that just about anything could happen. and that scene w/ san, ashitaka, and eboshi in the iron town definitely was shocking. kinda sad and inspirational at the same time.

i especially thought the scene where san can't control herself and ashitaka embraces her was very strong part of the movie. it wasn't just some lovey-dovey junk that was put in for the sake of it as in most hollywood films. saddening yet still inspirational/hopeful. time froze during those few seconds of embrace as all came falling down. pretty amazing stuff.

[Harlock]

The movie was ok, the plot was well shintoism so tree-hugging abound! The animation was just beautiful (Watch the rain drops reeeeeelly carfuly) Its also a great movie to make fun of (does the theme to x files whene ever wolf god comes on screen) Try making fun of it you will get a laught or two from it.

[Dryden-san]

The movie seems tree-huggerish on the surface, and I think to a certain extent that's true. Really, though the message was supposed to be about how humans should coexist with nature and vice-versa. If it was a straight eco fable then Lady Eboshi would have been flat out evil. She wasn't. That's the kind of moral ambiguity Miyazaki is known for. The only person I've ever met who really doesn't like Mononoke is one of my college friends. She's a big anime fan, but she felt it was just plain boring. Oh well. Not even Miyazaki can have a 100% sucess rate with the audience.

[mrgazpacho]

Mamuru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) seems to think his friend Miyazaki has gotten a little soft in his old age... :lol:


I like both their latest stuff... Jin-Roh *and* Mononoke Hime...

[Fatal Outlaw]

i liked the movie, but i really didnt see it as a 'great' movie in terms of anime. Roger Ebert is raving about it becuase its his first 'cartoon made for adult' or anime. but i liked the movie though.

[Dryden-san]

When Mamoru Oshii can direct a movie I enjoy as much as Laputa then he can talk. I don't know about soft, but Miyazaki is getting older. Mononoke was the last movie he was able to personally draw cels for. He's pushing 60, and he can't keep up with the frantic pace required for cel drawing. He did draw nearly half of Mononoke himself, I hear and that's a damn impressive accomplishment. He still directs, even so.

[mrgazpacho]

Miyazaki turned 60 a couple of months ago.

He did not draw half of Mononoke Hime himself, but he personally checked about 80,000 key animation cels and also redrew some.

The new Ghibli movie "Sen" <somethingorother> is coming out soon... Miyazaki directed this one as well. Unfortunately his heir apparent at Ghibli (Mr. Kondo) died of a stroke a short time ago, so Miyazaki's retirement didn;t last long... "Sen" is about a girl who gets trapped in a parallel world and has to make her way in a strange land...

[priss_bgc]

Originally posted by Fatal Outlaw
i liked the movie, but i really didnt see it as a 'great' movie in terms of anime. Roger Ebert is raving about it becuase its his first 'cartoon made for adult' or anime. but i liked the movie though.

no..ebert reviewed "akira" a couple of years ago..he really liked that one too.

[SS2EnragedGohan]

I loved this movie! The animation was amazing! Definitely one I'll watch over and over!

[Sastan]

He's also reviewed Grave of the Fireflies, which I'm desperate to see.

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/gravefireflies.html

If only I could get a job, I would import it in a flash :(

[Likkle Baer]

I liked the film... its sitting on one of my DVD shelves right now...

[Palchan]

Excellent movie! If you haven't seen it, go out there and watch it!

[I'm not a doll]

I found Princess Mononoke to be truly entertaining and well worth my time its definitely high up in my top 5 anime movies

I cant wait to get the movie for keeps ^_^ ,,

[Slugfest]

I bought it on DVD a couple of months ago and finally saw it last night. WOW, what a great movie!. Granted it was really sad when the forest sprit "passed on" but still a great movie. I suppose it was either the forest spirit or the main character dying to make the movie really dramatic.

[Phantom Angel]

it was a beautiful movie. i have watched it twice so far, and every time, i got my family members glued to the tv. and in the end, they liked it too. i saw a few other animation movies, such as ghost in the shell, and ninja scroll, and i didn't like them as much as princess mononoke. there was something about that movie... it was... great. i loved it. favorite anime movie of all time. heh, just great.

[Falinah]

like all of Miyazaki's films, Mononoke Hime was great!!
even after seeing it like 10 times in a month i still like it...but i like all his stuff...Nausicaa is still my reigning favorite though...
i can't wait to see this new one of his!!! i keep seeing stuff for it and it looks really neat!!

[Phantom Angel]

who was ur fave character from mononoke?

[Ivy]

*waves to PA* I really liked San. Is that how you spell it?

[kaji]

Originally posted by Sastan
He's also reviewed Grave of the Fireflies, which I'm desperate to see.

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/gravefireflies.html

If only I could get a job, I would import it in a flash :(

Grave of the Fireflies was the most saddest anime i've ever seen...it almost made me cry and it was just so..touching...

[Project Akira]

It was highly enjoyable but nowhere in the league of Akira as some people are prone to thinking. Akira still beats all in terms of imagination and sheer power.

[Freaksaus]

I just watched it last weeked, I really enjoyed it, great movie :agree: