Ninebelow ([info]ninebelow) wrote in [info]instant_fanzine,
@ 2008-09-05 16:28:00
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Studio Ghibli Canon
What are the best films in the Studio Ghibli canon?

Tick three films only.

Poll #1254212
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What are the best films in the Studio Ghibli canon?

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Castle of Cagliostro
3 (9.1%)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5 (15.2%)

Laputa: Castle in the Sky
7 (21.2%)

Grave of the Fireflies
8 (24.2%)

My Neighbor Totoro
24 (72.7%)

Kiki's Delivery Service
7 (21.2%)

Only Yesterday
0 (0.0%)

Porco Rosso
7 (21.2%)

I Can Hear the Sea
1 (3.0%)

Pom Poko
3 (9.1%)

Whisper of the Heart
2 (6.1%)

Princess Mononoke
9 (27.3%)

My Neighbors the Yamadas
1 (3.0%)

Ritual
0 (0.0%)

Spirited Away
18 (54.5%)

The Cat Returns
0 (0.0%)

Howl's Moving Castle
7 (21.2%)

Tales from Earthsea
0 (0.0%)

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
0 (0.0%)


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[info]blue_condition
2008-09-05 03:36 pm UTC (link)
How can you NOT vote for Porco Rosso? Superb story, wonderful design, great characterisatioins, beautiful planes, beautiful planes, beautiful planes, beautiful planes, beautiful planes...... ;)

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[info]mishalak
2008-09-05 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Because Howl's Moving Castle is on there and it is magic and steampunk. I had to vote for Howl! And Spirited Away is even better. And for my third I was really torn and eventually voted Grave of the Fireflies. Because it was incredibly good and sad.

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[info]talvalin
2008-09-25 03:43 pm UTC (link)
Insanity.

It looks stunning, but the plot is all over the shop and it butchers the book so badly he may as well have called it by a different title. I'm surprised Diana Wynne Jones didn't call him on it in the same way that Ursula Le Guin did with Tales From Earthsea (which I haven't seen yet because I'm too afraid of how bad it will be).

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[info]mishalak
2008-09-25 05:20 pm UTC (link)
I like the movie better than the book. I found the book entertaining, but not one that grabbed me. Not unhappy that I read it and I might even give it a second read someday, but I'm not going to go back again and again unlike with the movie which had an interesting steampunk magic and impossible technology ethos. From what I remember of the book it was a rather standard badly thought out fantasy world with the only redeeming features being the origins of the magician Howl.

I probably would not have read the book all the way through if I had not liked the movie.

You're the one who's insane. I'm not a fan of Ursula Le Guin and I've never even watched the Studio Ghibli Tales of Earthsea and even I know that it was produced by Hayao Miyazaki's son Gorō Miyazaki, not at all the same person as the guy who did Howl's Moving Castle. Indeed there was considerable friction between the father and the son about him taking on the project. Cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor%C5%8D_Miyazaki

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[info]talvalin
2008-09-25 03:40 pm UTC (link)
I voted for it. I suspect it may have fallen by the wayside in comparison to Mononoke and Spirited Away.

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[info]snowking
2008-09-05 03:37 pm UTC (link)
You mad, mad fool! Everyone's knocked off for the day and no-one reads LJ on Saturday!

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[info]ninebelow
2008-09-05 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Oh no! Oh well, I will keep my Arnie powder dry till Monday.

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[info]cellardoor28
2008-09-05 04:22 pm UTC (link)
How can you make me choose only 3?

*cries*

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[info]nuttyxander
2008-09-05 06:07 pm UTC (link)
I can't pick three.

Technically, I can't pick Cagliostro or Nausicaa as both are pre-Ghibli, but I love Nausicaa too much to ignore it.

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Graveyard of the Fireflies
[info]applez
2008-09-06 12:26 am UTC (link)
Needs to come with an emotional damage warning!

EDIT: I really loved Spirited Away, but Chinese Ghost Story took some of the shine off of it.

Edited at 2008-09-06 12:43 am UTC

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Re: Graveyard of the Fireflies
[info]korintomichi
2008-09-06 07:18 am UTC (link)
Grave of the Fireflies was originally screened with My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki could only get funding for Totoro that way, as investors thought the concept was too childish) - can you imagine a more incongruous double bill?

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Re: Graveyard of the Fireflies
[info]applez
2008-09-06 02:07 pm UTC (link)
Holy crap! Yep, the Japanese must be insane. ;-)

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