Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea

[murrich]

Excited for this. Anyone else excited?

[Ailite]

This will be excellent

[WakingTheMisery]

Some good shit. You can find it online if you want to watch it early.

[irthesteve]

Miyazaki? Very stoked

[caveBEAR]

At first I thought it said 'Porno on the Cliff by the Sea' and I was really excited for that...

[WakingTheMisery]

At first I thought it said 'Porno on the Cliff by the Sea' and I was really excited for that...

http://timmaughanbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ponyo_release_date_pic.jpg

[murrich]

Some good shit. You can find it online if you want to watch it early.

Yeah I might look in to that. Have you watched it already?

[stayillogical]

There isn't already a thread for this?

One of my most anticipated. I love Miyazaki.

[WakingTheMisery]

There isn't already a thread for this?

One of my most anticipated. I love Miyazaki.
I thought there was but maybe its because we always talk about it in the anime thread.
Yeah I might look in to that. Have you watched it already?

I saw a bit of it but had to leave about half way in. Its quite awesome, as expected.

[reinvaldez]

Wow. It'z miyazaki movies. I am really excited with this. :)

[fluke182]

It came out while I was in Paris this year and I almost went and saw it. Even though I don't speak any French. That's how bad I want to see it.

I loved Up more than any movie this year, but this movie is the only reason why I don't consider Up a total lock for Best Animated Feature. Miyazaki is as money in the bank as Pixar is. Can't wait.

[Thomas Balkcom]

can't wait

[slickwataris]

There isn't already a thread for this?

One of my most anticipated. I love Miyazaki.
there is

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=221771&highlight=ponyo

[murrich]

Yeah, should have just searched Ponyo instead of Pono on the Cliff by the Sea.

[WakingTheMisery]

I wonder why there isn't an English trailer yet.

[terrycw89]

I watched Spirited Away for the first time today and now I am definitely excited for this.

[stayillogical]

I watched Spirited Away for the first time today and now I am definitely excited for this.

And now you have to watch Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.

[fluke182]

And now you have to watch Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.
Castle in the Sky! Castle in the Sky!

[stayillogical]

Castle in the Sky! Castle in the Sky!

Hahaha, we've discussed this before... Castle in the Sky is my least favorite. I watched it once and thought it was so slow. It didn't interest me.

[terrycw89]

And now you have to watch Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc.

I bookmarked Hayao Miyazaki's imdb page, so I have a list movies to watch this summer, haha.

[stayillogical]

I bookmarked Hayao Miyazaki's imdb page, so I have a list movies to watch this summer, haha.

Oh, I forgot... add Grave of the Fireflies to the list. This is important. It's not Miyazaki, but it's Studio Ghibli.

[silentstar1134]

nausicca is one of Miyazaki's most underrated movies, pom poko is also up there

[WakingTheMisery]

Princess Mononoke is my favorite animated film ever. So perfect.

[silentstar1134]

Princess Mononoke is my favorite animated film ever. So perfect.

Agreed. Certainly the best Miyazaki movie in my opinion

[WakingTheMisery]

Oh, I forgot... add Grave of the Fireflies to the list. This is important. It's not Miyazaki, but it's Studio Ghibli.

:-(

[stayillogical]

:-(

:shhh:

[WakingTheMisery]

:shhh:

hehe <3

[fluke182]

Hahaha, we've discussed this before... Castle in the Sky is my least favorite. I watched it once and thought it was so slow. It didn't interest me.
My goal is to continuously sass you until you learn to love it. I will continue forever!

[slickwataris]

Castle in the Sky is my second favorite Miyazaki film.

[stayillogical]

Oh boy... Ill admit that Ive only seen Castle in the Sky once. I own it on VHS, so I guess Ill give it another try. Slick, whats your first?

and wtf, why is Firefox not letting me use apostrophes.

[slickwataris]

1. Spirited Away
2. Castle in the Sky
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Princess Mononoke
5. Kiki's Delivery Service
6. Porco Rosso
7. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
8. Castle of Cagliostro
9. Howl's Moving Castle

[WakingTheMisery]

I have yet to see Porco. :-(

[murrich]

I haven't seen Castle of Cagliostro yet, is it as good as his other work?

[Thomas Balkcom]

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[Thomas Balkcom]

not sure if that's old news or not

[TK]

Anyone else misread this as "Porno on the Cliff by the Sea"

[slickwataris]

HD trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/ponyo/


I love how the trailer makes it look so much more epic than the Japanese ones

[Protested Hero]

I loved Spirited Away. Will I love this?

[kanyewong]

I have yet to see Porco. :-(

Porco isn't that great in my opinion. Kind of boring. We watched it in Japanese class. My japanese teacher is a big fan of Miyazaki. We've watched Totoro, Naussicaa, Grave of Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, and Porco russo. Pretty awesome. :p

[Thomas Balkcom]

new trailer

http://screencrave.com/2009-07-31/new-ponyo-theatrical-trailer/

[everybodywakeup]

So I saw the Japanese version, and the 1st trailer for the American one seems to have a completely different plot than the original. How is that even possible? The new one looks okay though.

[Thomas Balkcom]

So I saw the Japanese version, and the 1st trailer for the American one seems to have a completely different plot than the original. How is that even possible? The new one looks okay though.

Does the second trailer seem more similar? If that makes sense.

[everybodywakeup]

Does the second trailer seem more similar? If that makes sense.

Yeah, it does.

[Thomas Balkcom]

Yeah, it does.

glad to hear that

[Thomas Balkcom]

I was surprised to see that the release date is only two weeks away.

[slickwataris]

I saw a poster for this at my local mall theatre so hopefully that means wide release.

[Thomas Balkcom]

I saw a poster for this at my local mall theatre so hopefully that means wide release.

saw one too last night at a major theater in Atlanta

[Thomas Balkcom]

new set of pictures

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/miyazaki-genius-13-new-beautiful-ponyo-pics-colea.php

[slickwataris]

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[slickwataris]

Every theater in the area will be playing Ponyo on Friday. I'm excited.

[Thomas Balkcom]

Every theater in the area will be playing Ponyo on Friday. I'm excited.

hell yes! This reminded me to check, and sure enough it is. I will more than likely see it Friday morning before work.

[ThexQuietxCull]

saw a subbed version of this. pumped this is getting a release here

[silentstar1134]

stoked

[Thomas Balkcom]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ponyo/news/1837420/total_recall_hayao_miyazakis_best_m ovies

Miyazaki's nine best movies according to Rotten Tomatoes

[irthesteve]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ponyo/news/1837420/total_recall_hayao_miyazakis_best_m ovies

Miyazaki's nine best movies according to Rotten Tomatoes
just added the top 3 to my netflix, have seen 3 others, and stoked for the new one

[cantnokdahustle]

I loved Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Howl's, and Totoro, but fuck did I hate Kiki's Delivery Service.

I'll be taking my boy to see Ponyo on Friday morning.

[slickwataris]

For those counting: 94% on RT (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ponyo/)

Several theaters will be playing this at midnight (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-13/miyazaki-and-ghibli-ponyo-film-opens-at-midnight).

[stayillogical]

Watching this tomorow, double feature along with The Time Traveler's Wife. Then saving District 9 for Tuesday.

[ThexQuietxCull]

For those counting: 94% on RT (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ponyo/)

Several theaters will be playing this at midnight (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-13/miyazaki-and-ghibli-ponyo-film-opens-at-midnight).

no theatres playing it here at midnight. i be sad

[color_coded]

So excited for this.

[OtherBen]

saw this a month or so ago. wonderful film. miyazaki's films are just...pure cinema magic.

[slickwataris]

96% at RT

I'm going to the first showing, in like an hour :excited:

[forget_december]

man, i hope i can catch this soon...miyazaki always delivers. i went to japan back in march, and i went nuts on all of the totoro merchandise.

[yves.]

i literally just heard about this about five minutes ago, it looks really good.

[billyboatkid]

96% at RT

I'm going to the first showing, in like an hour :excited:
So stoked to see this.

You should let me know your thougths on it.

[ThexQuietxCull]

watched a subbed version before seeing this earlier today. heartwarming, and just amazing.

[slickwataris]

It was magical. I don't know what else to say. It's not often you get to see a hand-drawn animated film in the 21st century, not even Pixar can breathe this much life in their films.

[mrnegativezero]

My friends and I made the mistake of waiting to buy tickets for a 7 o'clock showing; it was sold out. For some reason some of us thought no one heard of Miyazaki. We ended up going to the 10 o'clock showing. The theatre we were at wasn't giving this movie a lot of spotlight (all was going to District 9), yet every showing was sold out.

That aside, I loved this movie. Very light hearted and adorable.

[slickwataris]

Ponyo opens at #9 with $3.5 million and already is the 8th highest grossing anime theatrical release.

[WakingTheMisery]

Theme song is so awesome. Can't stop listening.

[stayillogical]

This was so darn cute. The first time Ponyo said , "Ponyo loves Sosuke!" I smiled so wide. Or anytime a ham joke was mentioned.

[ThexQuietxCull]

This was so darn cute. The first time Ponyo said , "Ponyo loves Sosuke!" I smiled so wide. Or anytime a ham joke was mentioned.

ponyo wants HAMMMMMMMMMM

[ThexQuietxCull]

Ponyo opens at #9 with $3.5 million and already is the 8th highest grossing anime theatrical release.

so glad that it got a good response. hoping more is to follow

[abbysmith]

This was a great movie. I love all of Miyazaki's movie's that I have seen, so I wasn't really surprised that I loved it. Ponyo and Sosuke were downright adorable.

[slickwataris]

$2.4 million in its second week (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-23/miyazaki-ponyo-drops-to-no.12-with-us$2.4-million).

[terrycw89]

Loved every second of this.

[stayillogical]

Loved every second of this.

Did you ever finish watching the other Miyazakis?

[terrycw89]

Did you ever finish watching the other Miyazakis?

Nooo, but I really really want to. I am going to get the rest of his films before I head back to school.

[slickwataris]

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[Thomas Balkcom]

finally seeing this at 10 am tomorrow

[heyozzie]

i really enjoyed this, ive only seen a few miyazaki movies, but this was my favorite.

[slickwataris]

$2 million in it's third week (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-08-30/miyazaki-ponyo-slips-to-no.13-with-us$2-million). Also, the 5th highest grossing theatrical anime if anyone cares:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=anime.htm

[owiseone35]

Ponyo is the first Miyazakis film i've seen and boy was it good. This really was an adorable film glad i saw some ads for Ponyo or I never would've known about it. Also this did get really good review.

[stayillogical]

I like very few AMVs but I love this one with other Studio Ghibli films:

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[murrich]

This film was great, I haven't seen the English dub yet though, is it good?

[fluke182]

This was another good Miyazaki film, but a massive downgrade from his best work. The plot was a lot more rushed, the characters were a lot less developed, and the voice acting was significantly worse than his best stuff. I wasn't disappointed because it was still fun and Miyazaki's animation is so breathtaking, but I guess you just end up expecting more out of Miyazaki.

[Thomas Balkcom]

Amazon has this coming to DVD on March 2nd, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002ZTQVGQ/dvdtalk

[TheFury]

More importantly, it's coming out on blu-ray on the same date.

[jwelborn]

Love Miyazaki, loved this film.

[irthesteve]

looking through this thread, i am obviously the minority here.... but this movie just didn't do it for me like some of his other films. The character of Ponyo kinda annoyed the hell out of me and thought the plot was pretty bland.

I still enjoyed it, but I guess I was expecting more :shrug:

[jwelborn]

Ponyo when she was a little girl reminded me a lot of Mei from My Neighbor Totoro, to me they even looked identical

[WakingTheMisery]

I still need to get this.

[Mitch]

Is the dub decent? HATE watching dubs, but I want to watch this on my TV and Xbox can't read subs...and I'm too lazy to hardcode them.

[jwelborn]

I think all of Miyazaki's films are very well dubbed.

[Mitch]

Not sure what I think of this so far. Probably because the dubbing is sort of distracting.

[flask]

I think all of Miyazaki's films are very well dubbed.

yeah they usually are. Howl's Moving Castle in particular, I thought was dubbed very well.

[Thomas Balkcom]

loved this.

[WakingTheMisery]

The dubbing on this isn't so great. the kids are kinda annoying.