Howl's Moving Castle

bb haha · Eminence Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 425

just wondering what everyone thought of it because i saw it last night and i LOVED it!!!
haha yeah its kinda weird.. like all the other hayao miyazaki films... i was going 'wth?' for most of the film but nonetheless i still loved it...
and the music was like.. WO-AH!! so good!! ^_^ joe hisaishi's pieces... hehe cant wait for the next concert to see what they play!! =D

has anyone else watched it? if so, what did you think of it??
-bonnie

Nephtis · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:05 am Post subject:

Howl's Moving Castle music was on during ANIF2004! And Destiny to my knowledge...

Yes, I saw the film when it came out last Thursday, it was very good. Colourful, vibrant, young female protagonist, it's all there, it's all Miyazaki.

I just realised while watching the making of Spirited Away today that the day he dies is going to be quite the crappy day. I mean Tezuka died, but I wasn't really into anime, being 2 at the time and all. Miyazaki has one academy awards, and now the Golden Bear at Venice, he'll be a sorely missed man one day...

(Not to dampen the thread, but man it's a big whoa thing!)

menchi · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject:

hahaha nice one, Neph. ><

Sounds like an interesting film.... hmm, maybe I'll watch it on sunday. o.O

transistor · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

anyone knows where i can get my hands on one of the dvds? or do i have to purchase it on-line for now?

Aikurushii_Lulu · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure sorry, I haven't seen it yet either. I'm really looking forward to it though. My Studio Ghibli collection is almost complete! muhaahahaha!!
I've got: Nausicaa of the Valley of the wind, Grave of the fireflies (i cry everytime...), Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, My neighbours the Yamadas, Laputa Castle in the sky, Spirited Away, The Cat Returns, *takes deep breath* and Kiki's Delivery Service... i think that's it.. yeah!! STUDIO GHIBLI ROCKS!

Guest · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject:

haha grave of the fireflies..
that.. that.. oh so horrible film. -_-;

Darn it's good. But Darn it's horrible.

wow, haha nice collection. the cat returns, and the yamadas any good?
haven't seen those two, oh nor pom poko thingy. Wink

Aikurushii_Lulu · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject:

Pom Poko is pretty cute, The Yamadas animation is pretty cool, and the story is pretty funny too. They're family is so whacko! Razz

Yeah... i cry everytime i watch Grave of the Fireflies... The last time i watched it i basically sniffled from the start to the end Razz

my sister made fun of me...
oh! and The Cat Returns is really cute too, it came out in 2001 so it has really good animation as well Very Happy

transistor · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

grave of fireflies, i'd say 10/1, one of the rare animes where it really grabs you and moves you into tears..... enough said, see it and you'll know what i mean...

[off topic]
the only other one that moved me to tears is "the march of penguins" the french version, ok i'm a lame guy Embarassed

J-Hisaishi · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

I think this one dont have a big response as Spirit Away.....perhaps its a smaller production

Concinnity · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:01 pm Post subject:

didn't and haven't seen it unfortunately, looks promising tho.....

Taifumoffu · Newbie Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 2

Howl's moving Castle was good
but a personal favourite would have to be Princess Mononoke

Concinnity · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:21 am Post subject:

yeah, pm is good, altho spirited away is better.... go see it!

transistor · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

haven't seen it, but i see more on how the made it, using combination of hand drawing and digital painting, really cool and when is the dvd gonna come out? in australia i mean

Concinnity · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:53 pm Post subject:

i'm assuming ur tlaking about howl's moving castle......?

well, i guess wont be long, but u can get ur local anime shop to import it for u, or better still, just get it urself from cdjapan or yesasia

transistor · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject:

whoops yeah, i meant howl moving castle, hhhmmm the internet eh.... yeah they are convinient but i'm still in the stone age ya know, i dunno why i never have the condifedence to purchase stuff over the internet, it's always fear of hackers and stuff. Then there's the trick of cheap goods but expensive delivery fee Xp

oh and i saw a book on how they sketched the characters and story plot down at kinokuniya and i have to say wow they are very very detailed on what they are doing, and at the same time keeping things original by drawing by hands but then sweetening things up digitally

kkfc01 · Forum Addict Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 166

Santa · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

You mean the storyboards?

Both my howls moving castle and spirited away dvds have storyboards as special features. The Spirited Away one has a side by side comparison with the storyboard and the final film.

Concinnity · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject:

yeah, delivery is a bit expensive, altho, alround, might be better than getting it from here, unless it's made here....

like final fantasy osts, in the shops they're around $100+ but online altogether, it might only cost u $70...

JellyfisH · Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:33 am Post subject:

Honestly, from the beginning to end, it was a great watch, although i was extremely disappointed and annoyed when the turnip head man had to go and ruin the whole escapde for me, by saying this really corny moral
".. some people change.." or something along those lines...

bb haha · Eminence Staff Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 425

hehehe OT but... 'change' lol.. yr 11 english!!! XD

the music from HMC is really nice... espeically the instrumental version of jinsei no merry-go-round =] get the album people!!!

manfa · Regular Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 66

howl's moving castle is the best!!!! i just loved it so much more than spirited away....like the story...plot...and just everything XDDDDDD i ask my friends to watch it and keep teling them that its better than spirited away but they dont believe me *pout* BUT!!! i reali do like howl's moving castle =D i do wish it wuld get more....promoted like spirited away but i guess its because....spirited away is more aimed at a wider audience =/ while howl's moving castle is more like...15+? i duno XD but o wells =D its an awesome movie =) recommend everyone to watch it!