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Originally Posted by IceHand
I'm actually taking media studies at the university so I have to watch a lot of (mostly old) films. My favourites are more or less recent though: - Lost in Translation
- Ghost World
- Broken Flowers
- Dan in Real Life
- Pieces of April
- Cashback
- Garden State
- American Beauty
- Donnie Darko
- Cube
- Millenium Actress (Anime)
- Spirited Away (Anime)
- Haibane Renmei (Anime)
I prefer movies that concentrate on human relations without being ordinary or clichéd. Sol Stein put it this way (I'm quoting from memory): "Every character has to be a bit excentric to be interesting." |
I own DVDs of some of these films ... I'm talking about some of the ones I haven't seen. Again .... I don't know why I haven't watched them yet ... I need to. I've had "Sprited Away" for a long time .... but, most of the anime I have seen just completely fails in my eyes. This could be because the anime I see on TV is really low budget ... I don't know. I think the two things that bother me the most (and you can probably tell me if this is true of any of the anime films you've recommended) is:
1. What seems like endless periods of "talking heads" ... where the animation is frame after frame of pretty much nothing; and
2. The dialogue, which seems interspersed with gratuitous "Huh?" and "Uh!" exclamations ever few scenes.
I'm actually worried I'm so prejudiced against Anime, that "Spirited Away" ... which won so many awards, will be something I can't like. If you get my reasoning ... which sounds a little convoluted to me.