Overated/underated anime's

As John Lassenter once said regarding Miyazaki, he enjoys having alot of quiet moments for his films. Whereas American animated movies tend to have more action going on in just about every shot. It was an amusing interview cause Lassenter goes saying this is how directors in US movies do "Oh jeez, quick keep the action going, they're reaching for their pop corn , we gotta stop them! Keep the entertainment and energy high! But no, Miyazaki san celebrates the quiet moments in film."

I never felt any of his movies was boring, and I've been watching them since I was like, 3 years old. Maybe it's just not your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it less beautiful and enchanting.

My overated animes is the same old DBZ, Naruto and Bleach crowd, but I also think alot of good or decent anime ends up getting more hyped or bad exposure then it needs. Haruhi Suzumiya, I loved it, the concept was kinda new and interesting, but goddamit, try explaining to someone who hasn't actually SEEN the show about how it goes into philosophy, bit of religion or psychology in certain parts of the show, when they would go to anime sites and see Haruhi and the girls dressed in Bunny Suits and various lolita or Eroge outfits.

Death Note was great as well, but now we can probably get all these hot topic shirts and everyone who hasn't seen the show will assume L is some emo punk, when he's just a mad genius who probably never slept, hence the eyelids.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Regarding the CG, Miyazaki does occasionally use it, sometimes for things that would have killed the animators hands, (like Prince Ashitaka's curse arm), but sometimes he uses it for shots that don't really need it. There was a CG background shot used, a panning shot, when Howl and Sophie were walking together after they first met. Or the shot of the flower patch where Chihiro and Haku walk through to see her parents in the pig farm. Personally I find those shots interesting, and shows that his use of CG is either something that's too hard to animate by hand, or to do panning shots that live action do easily, whereas animation is much harder, which I can respect.

And I personally think that alot of people respond more to action oriented shows, that's why Naruto etc are popular, but when it just comes down to an action show, and people seem to have this misconception that anime has to be supernatural or action or some insane punk sci fi show, and anything that's quieter is "boring anime".

What they don't realise anime is not a genre, its a medium. Technically any type of show can be animated, and alot of shows in anime can be shot live action, especially the ones that are down to earth and have no supernatural or sci fi elements. You can't just see a few "top ten animes" like Bebop or Ghose in a Shell and assume that anime is always gonna be stylish and unique with alot of hot action. It's like saying you expect most movies to look and feel the same as Spider Man or Lord of the Rings all the time.

If people don't like Miyazaki, then its just their taste in films. Not all anime is required to have insane action.

Personally I think it's because to Westerners, Anime is "niche and different", and never been seen before, whereas everytime I hear about some morons going on how DBZ is cool, I just wanna scoff and tell them the show is so old is like enjoying 80's music and saying it's the hottest thing ever. To most Asians, anime is a medium that has been with us before I was born. My own mother saw anime when she was young. It's not something niche or different unless a particular anime tries something that hasn't been done before.

But that is not to say that the Japanese are immune to the whole preferring action over art, apparently Ponyo was reported to have "reported empty seats at "Ponyo" screenings in Tokyo and elsewhere -- a sharp contrast from previous Miyazaki pics that drew long lines and packed theaters from day one."

Possible reason? The new Pokemon movie was out on the same weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo_o...Sea#Theatrical

It's a sad day when kids rather see more generic Pokemon crap, a show that is NEVER GONNA END, over something beautiful like Ponyo.

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS, MADAM.

The people I was refering to were people who thingk DBZ is like, something TOTALLY new and awesome. Makes me wanna bang my head against the table when I hear that. If someone likes 80's music but aknowledge it was made in the 80's go ahead, but it bugs me when someome sees something that's old and they think its completely new and different. I mean, I heard of DBZ when I was 6 or 7, and I played an old SNES DBZ fighting game at my cousin's place when I was that age too. To hear as a teenager people yapping on about DBZ like its the latest thing ever made me cringe. (Currently 22 years old.)

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