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MonkeyFunk
08-27-2006, 05:03 AM
Amazon reviews of anime are usually good for a laugh (seriously, check them out some time), but this takes the cake:

Unduly Hyped Movie Summarized in Parody: "A Demon's Curse has infected my Arm and its Hatred will spread until We're all dead!!", March 4, 2006
Witnessing the reviews from one moral relativist and movie-sheeple after another, I can without insecurity declare that there's a reason the mainstream doesn't hold "opinions" (read: undereducated ignorance) from those in the entertainment community in much esteem. Similarly, all these misjudging sheeple misallocating severe praise for Mononoke are as, if not more dangerously, ignorant of basic morals and awareness as their idols in the entertainment field who force feed them these societally poisonous features!!!!

What ails most of the reviewers stealing such undue praise for Mononoke is likely their zealous, self-righteous "distinction" as movie buffs or fans of animation/anime. In that afflicted state, they'll unduly praise ANYTHING from the anime field--especially features by that environMENTALIST Miyazaki--because they prioritize their pleasure from the film over the grave implications such an unaccountable movie involves.

Hayao Miyazaki-AKA, the Japanese Walt Disney-is scandalously a liberal/socialist ideologue; this damnation of him is irrefutably clear just by watching all that smut he passes of as cartoons/animation. In all his cartoon-movies, the viewer is imminently fated to endure one of several, merciless ploys Miyazaki tactically plants in ALL his films:

1) A menacingly zealous "concern" for the environment which includes proselytizing viewers to become more environMENTAL
2) A corresponding defamation towards the capitalist/industrialist practices of mankind in some form of self-hatred
3) Misuse of the concept of death to punctuate his environMENTALIST brainwashing
4) Exploitation of generically "harmless" and "innocent" vehicles (like cute animals) as a disguise to hide behind while imposing his radical indoctrination

Miyazaki, therefore, is inexcusably condemnable for using his films to push through a dangerous and fanatical agenda; this stealthy mischief is on par with Hollywood fiercely pushing through a pro-gay agenda on the mainstream (BrokeSACK Mountain) without admitting it!!!! This is unquestionably a menacing development because those targeted due to the appeal of the cartoony quality of anime are easily susceptible children. So, what you have here is in fact the dastardly, age-old liberal/socialist maneuver of mendaciously marketing to young children to indoctrinate them all the easier!!!!

Princess Mononoke is also censurable in additional aspects like its story and character development--or, rather, ABSENCE of it. While Miyazaki torturously battles to punctuate his indoctrinating message that war and polluting the environment are bad, he exploits the lowest ways of conveying that message. In example, to agonizingly drive home his ideological belief that war's "bad," Miyazaki inexpertly manipulates his characters to use the buzz words of "die," "death," "kill" and so on literally a thousand times over in his simplistic movie and his voice actors to be unnaturally cancerous when delivering dialogue!!!! This grating monotony wears down one's patience with the film because it's an insult to the intelligence; it, in effect, discloses to the viewer that Miyazaki's not thoughtful enough to sell his message with more subtlety or tactfulness. In that mistreatment, my accusation of Mononoke's lapse in strong themes is vindicated because if Miyazaki's messages would really be clear-cut enough, they wouldn't necessitate such brutal abuse in calling attention to the ideologies Miyazaki's scheming to brainwash the audience with.

Yet another complaint I eluded to was the misuse of the voice actors' ferocity; their delivery dilapidated into parody due to the overwrought emotionalism, which actually fails to succeed at that and instead becomes melodramatic and affected dialogue. Most voice actors deliver their lines with such simplistic screaming in an impersonation of legitimate "profundity" that the appearance coming across resembles people without voice-modulation ability!!!! Such simple-minded forcing of deliverance is a confirmable taint of what a horrid, overall product Mononoke is.

Continuing its trespasses, Mononoke imitates the perception that it was created by a sick sadist due to its bloodthirsty excesses of gore and violence. What curses Mononoke as misusing gratuitous violence is that most of the scenes with beheadings, limb severing and mass killing are NEVER central to the, by now, blurry direction of the story. In this maltreatment, Miyazaki's dishonored as a hypocrite because of his supposed despisal of violence in his anti-war brainwashing, yet he contrastingly uses the most extreme violence in delivering his "art."

Mononoke does have subtle, grudgingly salvageable qualities: the 2-D animation's unsurpassed due to its life-like fluidity. Now that's Disney's on hiatus with producing 2-D masterpieces, Miyazaki's sadistically violent and polluted "entertainment" is a satisfactory fill. However, judging Miyazaki's works alongside Disney, it's clear to ANYONE except these Miyazaki-fanatics who subordinate to every product he releases that his animation is scores inferior to Disney; Miyazaki's works come short of featuring realistic and natural movements in the drawings. Keep children away from this incitement to violence this movie is. The hypnotized reviewers subordinate to Miyazaki are inarguably the most unreasonable partisans because they fail to substantiate why Princess Mononoke's themes are allegedly so "powerful"--unlike I, who've absolutely made my criticism clear!!!!

By the way, this is the screenname the author goes by:

Nero's Fire Against The Christians "Murmillo Gladiator" (A Coward's Mother Does Not Weep)

Inkwolf
08-27-2006, 06:34 AM
Oh, my...yes, Princess Mononoke is definitely full of 'cute and cuddly' animals! Monster wolves that attack supply convoys, battle-mad kamikaze pigs who turn into demons, apes who want to eat our brains...

Apparently environmentalism is this loony's hot button. Personally, I always felt that Princess Mo was the only movie I'd ever seen that balanced out the forces of industrialism and nature and tried to make a place for both of them.

I, personally, never felt that Lady Eboshi was a villain. She was just a fighter for her own people, and didn't care about the other side, the same as the forest critters. I thought she was a great character, arrogant and ruthless, yet working for the good of all her people.

And here's a funny self-contradiction. Apparently someone doesn't understand the meaning of 'unsurpassed' and 'lifelike.'
the 2-D animation's unsurpassed due to its life-like fluidity................judging Miyazaki's works...it's clear...that his animation is scores inferior to Disney; Miyazaki's works come short of featuring realistic and natural movements.

I hope a lot of people are clicking on the 'unhelpful' button of the Amazon review...like or hate the movie, this is nothing but a rant.

MonkeyFunk
08-28-2006, 04:08 AM
Apparently environmentalism is this loony's hot button.

You mean environMENTALISM!

I looked through some of his other reviews and he seems to have a thing for such "witty" plays on words. My personal favourite is "Michael BOOR".

P.C. Unfunny
08-28-2006, 10:39 AM
Oh what a screwball, the explanation for this rant quite is simple, this guy or girl needs to get laid.

lupercal
08-28-2006, 11:16 AM
Yes, those mendacious Japanese, subverting Western youth to socialism (they only have the 2nd biggest economny in the world) How did he see through it?

I don't quite understand how M. can be guilty at the same time of pushing an anti-war sentiment while being guilty of excesses of sadism, gore and bloodthirstiness. What does that make 'Saving Private Ryan?' (well, SPR probably wasn't anti-war, so he probably likes that)

It's ironic, because I thought that one of the film's virtues, and at the same time maybe its fatal flaw, was the attempt NOT to take sides between nature and technology. I thought it left it with a rather unconvincing end where the two are supposed to be reconciled, but you just don't buy it.

I ran through the list of things which Miyazaki is supposed to always be guilty of, and applied them to Porco Rosso, and couldn't see how any of them applied, for the life of me.

He does have a minor point in that Miyazaki has been quoted as saying something like he'd like to see Japan return totally to wilderness - but he's supposed to be reviewing the film, not the filmaker, and M. certainly didn't project such a simple ideal in this movie. In fact it was almost confounding in its refusal to portray the nad guys as bad.

Oh, and I loved his thing about 'cute animals' being the vehicle for M's scandalous propaganda. Which cute animals would he be talking about here? The demon pig thing writihing with tentacles? The wolves who half the time have blood dripping out of their jaws? The closest is the hero's Deer-thing, and all you could really say about him is he's portrayed realistically, with no anthropomorphism.

Why did I just waste my time writing this?

Loop

Inkwolf
08-28-2006, 12:11 PM
Because it's fun to nitpick at a bozo. :D

I didn't even feel there was a real reconciliation at the end. The animal warriors were all gone and the girl said she could never forgive the humans, and Eboshi said they were going to build a new, better city...I don't know if she meant more environmentally friendly (one hopes), or just bigger and badder.

MonkeyFunk
08-28-2006, 12:31 PM
My best guess is that he was talking about the Kodama when he mentioned cuddly animals. Either that he had My Neighbour Totoro in his mind, since he seems to have beef with Miyazaki's stuff in general.

But what I really don't get are his complaints about "misuse of the concept of death".

lupercal
08-29-2006, 02:59 PM
To be blunt, the guy can't write. Don't beat yourself up if you can't figure it out.

Loop

MonkeyFunk
08-30-2006, 08:20 AM
Since we're done with this guy here's some vintage Miyazaki bashing from 1992:

If Disneyland had a New Testament, animator Hayao Miyazaki would be the Antichrist, Defiantly cheesy, insistently eccentric, Miyazaki sneers at the naturalistic Disney style, finding his muse not in Mickey Mouse but in Astroboy.

That show, Japan's first cartoon serial and most American's first look at Asian animation, has become a kind of icon in Japanese cartoons. But in
the 60's, it was disturbing, especially if you'd grown up believing Uncle Walt was God. The animation was clearly low-rent; backgrounds, for instance, would move instead of the characters. It had an ecconomy of style that passed right by minimalist and went straight on to cheap.

Miyazaki's new film, "The Castle of Cagliostro," for all its involved storyline, has the same look, and it hasn't gotten any easier to take. Miyazaki occasionally attains a simplicity that rivals classic Japanese watercolors, but more often, the pictures are simply devoid of nuance. It's a cultural thing, we assume, but if "Beauty and the Beast" was a Cadillac, Cagliostro" is a Hyundai....

[skipping brief plot summary]

It's refreshing these days to find an action-adventure film - even an animated one - in which the heroes are Asian, rather than villians. Machismo, however, remains paramount....

(found in the Miyazaki mailing list archives)

MahouTragicQueen
09-19-2006, 12:05 AM
I love how they seem to change tune for no reason at the end.