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At the local WalMart tonight and various higher priced DVD's normally 24.95
or so are marked down to 14.95

Pollyanna

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Parent Trap

Treasure Island

Swiss Family Robinson


and others.

"Jim Hollis" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> At the local WalMart tonight and various higher priced DVD's normally 24.95
> or so are marked down to 14.95
>
> Pollyanna
>
> Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
>
> Parent Trap
>
> Treasure Island
>
> Swiss Family Robinson
>
>
> and others.

Check out your local BestBuy or Circuit City. I've seen the Pollyanna
DVD already priced at $14.99 as its regular price and at least this
stores don't have slave-labor.

I'm waiting for them to lower the price of SPIRITED AWAY. I know, I am a
CHEP b**tard!



"revoltnow" <> wrote in message
news: m...
> "Jim Hollis" <> wrote in message
news:<>...
> > At the local WalMart tonight and various higher priced DVD's normally
24.95
> > or so are marked down to 14.95
> >
> > Pollyanna
> >
> > Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
> >
> > Parent Trap
> >
> > Treasure Island
> >
> > Swiss Family Robinson
> >
> >
> > and others.
>
> Check out your local BestBuy or Circuit City. I've seen the Pollyanna
> DVD already priced at $14.99 as its regular price and at least this
> stores don't have slave-labor.

<< I'm waiting for them to lower the price of SPIRITED AWAY. I know, I am a
CHEP b**tard! >>

Cheap or not, you really SHOULD pay out and get this movie... I play it for
people who think Anime is "Speed Racer" and they are tearing up by the end and
asking if more of it is like that... to which I unfortunately have to answer
'no'...

Go buy it... you'll watch it so many times it'll pay for itself in no time...
not like that "Akira" special edition.

(Oh boy... now I'm gonna have to hear about how "Akira" and "Grave of the
Fireflies" are better, just watch!) but I still proclaim loudly over the
fan-boys:

Greatest. Animated Feature. Ever.

In article <>, Wade365
<> wrote:

> << I'm waiting for them to lower the price of SPIRITED AWAY. I know, I am a
> CHEP b**tard! >>
>
> Cheap or not, you really SHOULD pay out and get this movie... I play it for
> people who think Anime is "Speed Racer" and they are tearing up by the end and
> asking if more of it is like that... to which I unfortunately have to answer
> 'no'...
>
> Go buy it... you'll watch it so many times it'll pay for itself in no time...
> not like that "Akira" special edition.
>
> (Oh boy... now I'm gonna have to hear about how "Akira" and "Grave of the
> Fireflies" are better, just watch!) but I still proclaim loudly over the
> fan-boys:
>
> Greatest. Animated Feature. Ever.

Whatever floats your boat. I don't think Miazaki was at his best with
the film, although it is good. Personally I thought Laputa and Nausicaa
were better, and enjoy Kiki more.

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total ****. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

Invid Fan wrote on [Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:02:01 -0400]:
> In article <>, Wade365
><> wrote:
>
>> << I'm waiting for them to lower the price of SPIRITED AWAY. I know, I am a
>> CHEP b**tard! >>
>>
>> Cheap or not, you really SHOULD pay out and get this movie... I play it for
>> people who think Anime is "Speed Racer" and they are tearing up by the end and
>> asking if more of it is like that... to which I unfortunately have to answer
>> 'no'...
>>
>> Go buy it... you'll watch it so many times it'll pay for itself in no time...
>> not like that "Akira" special edition.
>>
>> (Oh boy... now I'm gonna have to hear about how "Akira" and "Grave of the
>> Fireflies" are better, just watch!) but I still proclaim loudly over the
>> fan-boys:
>>
>> Greatest. Animated Feature. Ever.
>
> Whatever floats your boat. I don't think Miazaki was at his best with
> the film, although it is good. Personally I thought Laputa and Nausicaa
> were better, and enjoy Kiki more.

I have to add Mononoke here as better than SA

<< Personally I thought Laputa and Nausicaa
were better, and enjoy Kiki more. >>

Maybe I'll give Kiki a chance... it didn't look like my cuppa but then I've
been wrong a miriad of times in the past... do you know anything about "Castle
In The Sky"?

<< I have to add Mononoke here as better than SA >>

I also think very highly of Mononoke, but the english dub is pretty
attrocious... Billy Bob Thorton brings the whole piece down if you have to
watch it in the dub (which is how most of my uninitiated friends gotta do it
for the first time usually).

Wade365 wrote on [23 Oct 2003 20:12:07 GMT]:
><< I have to add Mononoke here as better than SA >>
>
> I also think very highly of Mononoke, but the english dub is pretty
> attrocious... Billy Bob Thorton brings the whole piece down if you have to
> watch it in the dub (which is how most of my uninitiated friends gotta do it
> for the first time usually).

Oh, if you must watch the dub, Castle in the Sky is a pretty damn good.

Apart from Billy bob, the Mononoke dub is passable. Sort of...
I personally love to watch it with all sound off. It's just so damn well
drawn

"Wade365" <> wrote in message
news:...
> << Personally I thought Laputa and Nausicaa
> were better, and enjoy Kiki more. >>
>
> Maybe I'll give Kiki a chance... it didn't look like my cuppa but then
I've
> been wrong a miriad of times in the past... do you know anything about
"Castle
> In The Sky"?

I find Kiki very entertaining, watched it several times this year when
nothing was on tv. The opening scene is for me, something to behold in its
beauty, direction and framing, detail of drawing, smoothness. The iconic use
of an early transistor radio appearing several times in the film has
resonance with me. My brother was the first on his block to have one, and
the small red radio made in Japan was around the house for a long time.

Castle is a little heavy in its themes for light viewing. I find some of the
drawing quality to be lacking compared to the other Miyazaki films, the
figures look a little like 70s tv cartoons. It's a good film. The robot
destroying the fortress has to be one of the great action sequences of any
film animated or not. Mark Hamill does voiceover FWIW.

I still feel SA is his best film, the quality of drawing and animiation as
well as the themes make it that for me. The witch may be a little too
broadly played for my taste. The feeling evoked by the long train ride over
the flooded landscape is quite powerful, just to name one moment.

Steve