That has me worried. I haven’t seen it yet, but this is the third comment I’ve seen about it being confusing or moving too fast.
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lemmylickyourfanfan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It was nice to watch in the cinema, but hot damn did it make no sense to me at all.
danekrae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ghibli has taken a steady course since around Spirited Away or Howl’s Moving Castle to be weird for the sake of it. I like surreal elements in media, but it seems like they’ve been used as a crutch for good storytelling. I actually haven’t watched anything by them since Ponyo, and it sounds like I won’t enjoy this one either.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It had an odd flow to it, like entire pieces of the story were cut.
ericbomb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Felt like they heard about chekhov’s gun and took it as a challenge. Every thing that comes up that you feel like will be important to the resolution of the movie simply isn’t. Any point that isn’t resolved in the scence it’s introduced probably won’t be resolved.
So if pieces were cut I would love to know cause it was a strange experience.
Cort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hollywood has been known to do that to anime. I wonder if there are any deleted scenes
ericbomb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It made perfect sense!
Stuff happened and then it was implied at the end none of it mattered.
Very pretty though.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I just watched grave of the fireflies. Same thing applies.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You monster!
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Oh I love the movie and feel bad for the kids. I was just poking fun at the comment since iirc grave was one of the first if not first by miyazaki and technically since we know how it’s gonna end right off the back non of events matter.
My fiancee actually got hit extra hard because she missed the part with the bones in the fruit tin. She was under the impression the sister might still make it… She was hopeful that the doc might be able to help the girl.