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avram ([personal profile] avram) wrote2002-09-27 03:12 am
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Spirited Away

I just saw Spirited Away with a bunch of games club folks. Damn, that was good. Better than Princess Mononoke, which was mostly a retread of Nausicaa, and was lacking in traditional Miyazaki tropes. Spirited Away was full of tropes — no airplanes, but it had flying, and a rushing-over-a-crumbling-bridge scene. (Actually a pipe, not a bridge, but close enough.) And, of course, a spunky young female protagonist.

Anyway, it’s lots of fun, and a real treat for the eyes, full of visual inventiveness and lush detail. I did spend a good chunk of the movie expecting a giant Wayland Flowers to show up, though. (Nobody under thirty is going to get that joke.)

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[identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com 2002-09-27 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm looking forward to Spirited Away. Might go see it Sunday night.

I didn't get the Wayland Flowers joke either, I'm afraid. Does that put an upper age boundary on your joke (45)? Or am I just media-istically clueless?
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[personal profile] avram 2002-09-27 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
The only other person I know who got it was Chris, and it took her a while. I may just be too hip for the room. Is this what it feels like to be Dennis Miller?

[identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com 2002-09-27 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
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