Movies

[MaggieoftheOwls]

I basically feel the same way about How to Train Your Dragon, although I've only seen trailers of that.

[Ezra]

For Howl's Moving Castle, you could consider the two versions to be like two runs of the same glowfic scenario. One player runs Sophie and the castle, while a different player each time runs their own magician Howl.

[Adelene]

It may be worth noting that I watched the movie first, and still found it incomprehensible. :P

[AndaisQ]

But it's so prettily incomprehensible.

The book, on the other hand, is a tour de force of Diana Wynne Jones being Diana Wynne Jones. I recommend reading it and then reading absolutely everything else the woman ever wrote.

[ErinFlight]

My favorite is spirited away, I think spirited away might actually be my favorite movie of all time.
I also really liked castle in the sky, I spent a lot of time imagining what had happened.
I saw Howl's moving castle first, and then read the book and was delighted.

[cbhacking]

Soft spot in my heart for Princess Mononoke, as the first time in my life that I encountered anime that I liked, much less liked enough to want to find more by the same people. Miyazaki stuff is still pretty much the only anime I wholeheartedly recommend, though; I've seen a few others (things that aren't his) that are tolerable-to-decent, but something about the whole genre tends to rub me the wrong way.

Haven't seen *or* read Howl's Moving Castle yet; it's on the current top of the list.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

How about Naussica of the valley of the wind?

[ErinFlight]

Have you read The House of Many Ways? It's set in the Howl's Moving Castle universe, and I've always wondered how deep the house went.

I really liked Naussica, though I never read the original graphic novels.

Spirited Away is still my favorite though. I've seen it far too many times.

Has anyone watches the more recent movies by Ghibli?

[Bluelantern]

Just came back from Batman vs Superman: Dawn of super-battles. It was a lot of fun. Had the expected problems of non-rational fiction, but pretty fun.

[DanielH]

I think that might be the first time I’ve heard a positive review of it.