meh

[hikari87]

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who does not love Studio Ghibli. Granted I haven't seen that many of their flicks...I've seen Spirited Away, which I thought was too long and rambling; I've seen part of Castle In The Sky, which, while I actually did find the premise interesting, was also too rambling (I didn't see the whole thing

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/uses ghibli icon for the pretty

[ceylon_tae]

You're not the only one, I've met others who didn't like it. I do love it, but it is kind of different.
In my opinion, Spirited Away is a big but episodic and wide-focused (rambling) adventure in a side-world, yeah, but I love that one. I think Princess Mononoke also takes its sweet time developing several betrayals and I don't often just sit down and watch it. Ponyo and Totoro are cute slice-of-life stories, if normal life were Cambrian-age style sea surges and friendly forest spirits, respectively. Overall, the pacing is really different and takes its damn time doing anything, but a lot of people enjoy that, too, taking their pretty fantasy art and scenery porn nice and slow.

That's what people generally see in it.
But now that you mention it I do see the pacing really is slower and wider in a lot of them. I get what you're saying.

Re: /uses ghibli icon for the pretty

[hikari87]

yeah, I can most definitely appreciate the pretty, but I really prefer a tightly plotted story in my movies. Books, I'm not so fussy about, but in movies I really don't like rambling.

Re: /uses ghibli icon for the pretty

[ceylon_tae]

Books can stop and ramble on later when you have time to read again later, which is something movies don't generally do, no.