Category: Movies

Oh my, now that I have watched the movie, I even know how to spell the name! *hrrr* Uh, just like I thought already, this movie is so trashy and cult at the same time, it’s unbelievable. It’s horribly dumb, but because of that, horribly funny XD

There isn’t really much to say about the movie… except that I am theoretically willing to watch it again *g* And I really think it has to be watched in german, because, well, in japanese, one might get the idea that the movie can be taken seriously *ggg*

PS. Me is annoyed that Haruhi takes so long to download…

I guess not… at least not when it comes to the definition of fangirl in this gorgeous blog entry. I’m more than glad that I do not have to deal that much with this kind of people… but I do enough to know that they exist. Oh my gosh! Fette verschwitzte Cosplaykiddies… aaaah! (I hope there really will be a second part of this like the title suggests *hrr*)

I was looking through the Ghibli movies I have at home and saw that there are 6 of them which I still have to watch. There is only “Go! Panda, go!” which I have but doesn’t sound that interesting. It’s not a “real” Ghibli anyways. And there is “Like the Clouds, Like the Wind” which I don’t have but want to watch either (of course it was not in the Ghibli collection box I bought, because this is not a real Ghibli movie either *snif*) Which means that there are a lot of them that I watched already O.o In fact, it was so difficult to rank them O.o Especially Totoro/Porco Rosso and Spirited Away/Nausicaä/Howl’s Moving Castle were difficult…
1. Totoro – I think the beginning is rather slow and boring… but the rest totally makes up for it (otherwise it wouldn’t be no.1 *g*)
2. Porco Rosso – Apparently nobody talks about this movie when it comes to Ghibli. But I totally love it… it just has everything: comedy, pilots and a witty story
3. Spirited Away – This was a “love on the second sight” movie… I first disliked it a bit for its weirdness and chaotic structure – but still… it’s so full of good ideas *_*
4. Nausicaä – This is my very first Ghibli that I watched when I was 8 years old… so it means a lot to me *g* Not to mention how good the movie is anyways…
5. Howl’s Moving Castle – Before Mononoke? Well yes, I kind of dislike the storyline of Howl… but I still enjoyed watching the movie a lot, and I love every single little detail in it while Mononoke just isn’t… beautiful at all (in fact, the movie scared me back then when I watched it *haha*).
6. Princess Mononoke – If I had to do a hitlist only considering the storyline, this would be no.1 or no.2 after Porco Rosso, I’m not sure. In fact, the message of this anime had a great impact on me back then when I watched it
7. Mimi wa Sumaseba – A cute story, absolutely lovely characters and great atmosphere. The only thing that is slightly lacking is the story, imho.
8. Grave of the Fireflies – Of course this movie made me cry, just like it makes everybody cry. I also remember this movie quite well (a lot better than Mononoke), because it did touch me. But this is a movie I do not want to see ever again.
9. Neko no Ongaeshi – The story isn’t that interesting, but the movie itself is cute nevertheless. *_* A little bit like Howl, just that Howl looks a lot better.
10. Laputa, Castle in the Sky – It’s last place, but still a gorgeous movie, no doubt about it. I enjoyed watching it, I just don’t have any emotional affiliation to this movie whatsoever (unlike no.1-7) *hrr* It was also interesting to compare this movie to Nadia ^^
11. The Ocean Waves – Will most likely stay my least favourite Ghibli movie *hrr* Even stuff like Pom Poko might be cute, but this story just turned me off actually ^^;;;
The first 4 movies are the ones I have watched more than 1 time already (Totoro and Spirited Away 3 times, the others 2 times), and in fact, I would watch the first 6 movies another time if somebody would want to *___*

So what are your favourite Ghibli movies? I bet you have watched them all *g*

For some reason I have always hated musical movies… Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, 8 Women – all the movies were nice, only the songs were annoying. But recently, I get to discover that there really are nice musical movies. The first one I saw was Chicago, I think. And this one really is nice as well, but in a totally other way, of course. Singin’ in the Rain really is a classic *_____* I’m so glad I didn’t let my prejudices against musical movies prevail *g*

I’m watching the performance of Cosmo (Donald O’Connor) right now – it’s really cool and funny. *g* I guess this my favourite character XD Maybe I can enjoy these scenes this much because I don’t see many old movies – and when I see some, they all feel refreshing to me. It really helps that I like the actors a lot. Somebody I know used to say that there are no good actors nowadays compared to that time… when I see movies like this, I begin to believe him.

Aaah, fangirling! In minute 33, there is a scene with dancing girls wearing white dresses with music score patterns… arrr, they are gorgeous! It’s interesting to see how many elements in older fashion are timeless… In fact, there are lots! If I were a designer, there would be one single rule I would never abide: accentuation on the waist. Low and empire waisted clothes are interesting both in style and ‘message’ of course (low waist meant to rebel against traditional beauty in the 20s – and empire waist has a long cultural tradition – not only at Napoleon’s time, but in medieval Korea as well for example). But in my personal opinion, the waist of a woman is too beautiful to catch it away… which reminds me that I am thinking of making/buying myself a real corset *hrrr*

It’s the 23! XXD What a good number *g* The trivia on Wikipedia are interesting to see *hehe* For instance, Jean Hagen seems to be a lot better actress than Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly a tyran – which doesn’t surprise me *g*

Manderlay

I want to see the last part of the trilogy!!!1!!11eleventwelve
Okay, the last movie you should fangirl about is Manderlay – but I have to admit that the movie had a great impact on me. I hated Grace during the whole movie (which was rather bad) because she was so blatantly naive and stupid to me. I think that’s mainly because the american “missionary work” is one of the most highly debated subjects nowadays… so it’s way too easy to see the parallels between the movie and, for instance, what happens in Iraq.
On the other hand, the movie had its great moments: How many funny scenes there were (unlike Dogville which actually wasn’t funny at all), how exactly everything fit together at the end… And especially Grace’s father is cool.

Notice the ending. There’s a lot to discover. 2 points precisely *g*

Broken Flowers

I think I would have liked “Dead Flowers”. In fact I remember first hearing about this movie under the name “Dead Flowers” and I liked it. But actually there’s no big difference.
There were funny scenes, but unfortunately the movie started off very well and became worse. The only later scene I liked was the one with the flower shop girl and how he sit besides his ex-girlfriend’s gravestone. It reminded me a lot of Horváth’s “Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg”. The premise of the story sounds gorgeous: An old Don Juan, an absolutely likeable and hilarious friend, a great Sharon Stone (not to talk about her daughter called “Lolita” *hrr*). But the rest was blah and the movie was slightly boring. That’s why I feel like sleeping *uh oh*

Soundtrack-wise: God-like. I love the ethiopian music and I especially love “There is an end”.

Lost Highway

Uh-huh. How many people will kill me now if I say that I actually found this particular movie extremely boring? It’s easier to talk about what I liked about the movie:
1. Everything that was similar to Mulholland Drive. (Which means the parallels between part 1 and part 2.)
2. The soundtrack. Although I usually dislike Rammstein, it just fitted and sounded extremely well.
Considering these 2 points, I’m glad to have watched the movie nevertheless. ^^

Next movies I want to see: the malicious J-pop movie (aka Shimotsuma monogatari), No Man’s Land and Los lunes al sol.

Hm, well, it’s not an anime, but a cartoon… and I liked it *g*

To be honest I was switching between PC and TV so I didn’t follow the whole story, but from what I have seen so far, I can’t understand all the tam-tam about it. What’s so incredibly shocking about this series? It’s not ‘that’ funny, but not that provocative either. A typical MTV cartoon if you ask me. For some reason, I like the animation and the way the pope moves XD So I’d love to follow this series further (which isn’t sure because it’s likely for MTV Germany to stop showing it if the reactions are poor.)

Is there really nobody who watches this? O_o

I don’t know much what this movie is about yet, but I love it already. After watching Gosford Park and 20 minutes of this movie, I think I know a bit mor what Altman movies are about… and I love them like this. It basically is a collage of portraits of people… I love it.

Somehow I think it might be interesting to try to compare this movie to Citizen Kane. They both are very sociocritical, well, not even really critical, just… an overview of society. Hm, now I could start to write an interesting and deep interpretation of both movies. But I’m too lazy for that, sorry XD

By the way, I know already that I like Gosford Park more. But only because I prefer the 1920’s England over L.A. at the end of the century. Somehow I believe a lot of things have changed since the 1990’s…

To me, the highlight of the whole movie is the dispute between Ralph and Marian. Wow, it might have happened to me, I was like… wow. It immediately made the movie a lot better. Julianne Moore and that guy were perfect in that role. This is how good actors get angry.

Of course the “other” jazz rhapsody I mean is Magnolia, a movie which I totally hate. I have read a few websites recommending Magnolia to people who like Short Cuts, but to me, it’s two totally different movies. Of course there’s also Julianne Moore in Magnolia, it’s both movies about different people’s lifes, but somehow I think Short Cuts is a lot more… real. Magnolia was just crazy, nothing more. Oh, and Magnolia is a lot about love, Short Cuts is about lifes that include love and feelings.

Oh my god, MASH is an Altman movie? Okay, I understand, I really have to watch it.

PS. I want to play cello as well.
PPS. These kinds of movies make you think your boyfriend cheats on you. Really, it’s funny, satiric and all, but showing human’s egoistic, hypocritical and dark sides is just… depressing.

Currently in the “rant” category. Who knows, maybe I will want to watch more in the next time so that I will include a “movies” category.

This is by far the most tiring movie to watch but I was so curious about what actually is so good about this movie that I’ve stuck to it. I really want to go to sleep now but I feel that I should comment on this great movie a little bit more. First of all, I have to say that I preferred “To be or not to be” over this movie – it was a lot more fun to watch, and in some ways I even think it is better done. I watched “To be or not to be” 2 days ago, and it looks like I’m more into fun movies right now, although both of them are, in some ways, sociocritical.

So in some ways, I have to admit that I did not enjoy the movie. Watching it is like… reading Tolstoi. You really think it is unbelievably good, but you can’t feel it. I adore the cinematography of this movie (and the way the story was told, with all those time gaps and flashbacks), definitely, but I hate the storyline. There was no psychological analysis whatsoever, there was no attempt to make any of those characters interesting except for Kane, who – to me – rather looked like a nobody who’s unable to love and nothing more. I expected a deeper insight of Kane and/or into the society that surrounds him… or the way he actually became that successful he was.

But I have to say that I was impressed how big the impact on me was when I saw the end. 30 seconds before it ended, I thought it was over and that “Rosebud” really doesn’t mean anything. That might have been possible too: A life is too complex to be explained with one only word. But there was an explanation, and that explanation was just absolutely gorgeous. It saved the whole movie – at least in my eyes. From “Hm, pretty nice, nothing spectacular” to “Oh, wow.”