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"Spirited Away"

OK. Japenese anime movies usually arn't my sort of thing, but my mate likes them so he decided to put Spirited Away on during one of our "Film Nights."

WHAT THE HELL!?!?!? This is officially the weirdest film I have ever encountered. It starts off pretty understandable with a girl worried about moving to a new school etc, and all of a sudden her parents are turning into pigs, a good looking lad she's friends with randomly turns out to be a dragon and the baby's are 3 feet taller than their mother and speak better english.

Anyone seen this?! Did I miss something or is it just a damn weird film?

Well, thinking about it (using the Brain located somewhere behind my forehead) Bruce Lee really does jump on top of buildings. Not in the CT way, they're just normal looking jumps. In a few scenes he is shown doing these jumps onto buildings with mutiple storeys.

tnc wrote:

> It's the same with Bruce Lee jumping on top of buildings and people
> walking in on finger-width branches in CT, but why has it become part
> of the genre?

*smacks forhead*

Get back to watching Karate Kid.

Oh and Bruce Lee never jumped on top of buildings.

Del Rogeo wrote:
> For all those who recommended me 'Full Metal Alchemist' a while ago
> I'd just like to say thanks. Rather than resurrect a dead topic, this
> seems like an appropriate thread. The first DVD was excellent; I
> really enjoyed it and I've pre-ordered the second (which I think
> should be out tomorrow).

Is that anything to do with Full Metal Panic?

Herr Dark Wolf wrote:
> if you want a less "wierd" anime film try something like Princess
> Mononoke or Akira.

Yes but Akira was a mindscrew from start to finish. Princess Monoke on the other hand was amazing.

I don't particularly like films that decide they need magic

I would say "such as Crouching Tiger" but it was just an awful film altogether, so instead I'll say such as Bulletproof Monk. BM is a film that everyone was giving me good comments about so I eventually went and rented it.

I have to say it was brilliant, there was a nice little story building up and the characters had a little depth. Then it happened. In the middle of a dramatic bridge fightscene the Monk broke out into some spinning backflip far beyond human capabilities.

It's the same with Bruce Lee jumping on top of buildings and people walking in on finger-width branches in CT, but why has it become part of the genre?

I'm hoping that "Ong-Bak" is a film without all this magical tosh, the film box itself claims it is. Before I get it, has anyone seen it?

I found it weird too.
I mean, magical stories are meant to make a little bit of sense right... :-)
Oh, and that lad isn't just a dragon, he's the spirit of a river. Does that make a little more sense? :-)

Maybe he should try Kiki's Delivery Service? Class film

Herr Dark Wolf wrote:
> if you want a less "wierd" anime film try something like Princess
> Mononoke or Akira.

To be honest I doubt he'd follow 'Akira' if he couldn't follow 'Spirited Away'.

...and the floodgates are open for gay jokes.

Any takers?

no its not you it's whoever it upset, they even asked the staffies to sort out the word filter to stop it happening.