Miyazakis Final Film How Do You Live Receives Abysmal Review in Japan

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    3.8 now

    >https://filmarks.com/movies/107171

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's (not) over.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the matter with it? Japanese audiences finally had enough of the same old same old every time?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not enough fighting, boobs and tentacles.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >tentacles
        This isn't the 90s anymore grandpa

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          don't remind me, zoomtard.
          the world was a better place before you spilled out of your mom's crater sized pussy

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >if you arent as old as me then you are a zoomer
            I was born in the 90s you assuming delirious moron

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's Saturday during the summer, peak moronation hours. Don't let it get to you.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >i was born in the 90s
              thanks for proving my point /z/aggot

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Holy shit that post time is bussin' frfr

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            cry more

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well, Mononoke hime have tentacles.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This.

        >if you arent as old as me then you are a zoomer
        I was born in the 90s you assuming delirious moron

        Holy shit that post time is bussin' frfr

        why are zoomers so dumb

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >incoherent/messy 2nd half
      >Collage of every previous work abstractly done

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        oh this is just miyazaki sucking himself off huh. that sucks man. guess he's finally went full senile.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          idk someone on Cinemaphile said it's not satisfying and has mediocre execution despite amazing visuals.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Did he think he could make EoE or something? That sounds like ego wank while EoE is just misery porn. He didn't get it.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Some audiences say he was trying to put every idea/theme into this rushingly.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >and then nature was destroyed because of Americans and an atomic bomb dropped and it was bad, but THEN a young girl found purpose and maturity through what had transpired and also saved nature and stopped war from ever happening using time travel

            I would unironically enjoy something that schizophrenic

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >incoherent/messy 2nd half
        why are nips so bad at endings?

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the frick does it even look like

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      it looks like a normal Studio Ghibli film. It's pretty much the same as Spirited Away, so I'm surprised people don't like it.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Should have let Opphenheimer to play instead

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I undesratnd why they didn't waste any money promoting it.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    He must have pissed off the japanese elites class

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      no he's just a washed up old man. not very surprising this ended up mediocre.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >every single individual failure is an elite conspiracy
      What causes this brainrot?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        In that anon's defense, Miyazaki's last movie "The Wind Rises" rustled the jimmies of some Japanese Nationalists last time.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >In that anon's defense, Miyazaki's last movie "The Wind Rises" rustled the jimmies of some Japanese Nationalists last time.
          It wasn't the movie itself, but Miyazaki in some promotional interviews where he said that japan should recognize crime wars and ask for forgiveness to korea and china.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Japan should recognize war crimes
            Correct
            >should apologize to China and Korea
            Frick that guy

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >japan should recognize crime wars and ask for forgiveness
            frick that, it's a slippery slope. first you ask for forgiveness, then the victim starts asking for money/reparations, then they demand you open your country to the brown masses so that you can prove you're enlightened and not xenophobic, and it never ends because the victim will never be satisfied.
            see Germany, which still gives billions a year to israel. or the USA where nogs are asking for billions in reparations.
            never apologize

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Pol

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                [...]

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I learned that this is true just by watching court TV. Even a legitimate victim will get greedy and try to play it up and get more than their worth, nor will they ever drop it or really consider it forgiven. You literally can’t afford to apologize on this strategic scale.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              You just described the situation (except replace the brown masses with asiatics asking for reparations).

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's funny seeing people here act like he's some based nationalist because he hates Hollywood/America, guy is super liberal. Self described communist/pacifist.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        he said using a greentext strawman
        sorry you aren’t smart enough to gaslight people in this thread
        better luck next time dopey

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Someone spoil me this Shit fricking hate mystery boxes or at least tell me the synopsis

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >film starts like a horror movie, with a young boy named Mahito waking up in the middle of the night to sirens. The hospital is on fire and his mom dies. This scene is really amazing, and the way they animate the heat of the flames it warps the perspective of the people. It's really surreal and cool.
      >Mahito moves to a new home and meets his new mother, who is really pretty and nice. Mahito is super formal and reserved for his age.
      >there's a strange blue heron/stork that flies around his new home, and there's a strange old building that's really creepy. The setting and characters really reminded me of "I Remember Marnie."
      >Mahito gets in a fight with some kids because he's the new kid, and Mahito decides to hit himself in the head with a rock to fake an injury, and he starts gushing blood.
      >the strange blue bird haunts Mahito while he's recovering, and there's a dream sequence where the bird starts antagonizing him. A bunch of frogs attack Mahito but his new mom scares them all off with an arrow.
      >but it was all a dream-- or was it?
      >Mahito makes himself a bow and arrow, and it sucks until he adds some fletching using feathers from the strange blue bird, and he accidentally makes a magic arrow
      >his new mom disappears, and Mahito goes off to the creepy old building to find her. Some old lady comes with him.
      >the film now takes a hard turn into fantasy and I didn't fully understand what the blue bird said, but I think the bird says that he can take him to the other side to meet his mother
      >the magic arrow also pierces the blue bird's beak, and it turns out the bird was actually a disguise and there was an ugly hook-nosed man inside the whole time. Now that the beak has a hole in it, he can't disguise himself anymore, and he's a dude with an ugly head and a bird body
      >Mahito goes to the other side and he winds up at pic related, the Isle of the Dead

      1/3

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Mahito gets attacked by some pelicans and saved by a woman on a boat who fights them off with some fire. This scene is never explained.
        >Mahito goes with the fisherman woman to her home, a giant ship overgrown with trees and grass, and they gut a fish and eat.
        >there are a bunch of little marshmallow dudes that frick around, and fisherman woman explains they're unborn babies. They start to float up into the sky to be born, and the pelicans start eating them.
        >then a girl on a boat, I think her name is Himi or Hime, starts shooting fireworks to scare off the pelicans and save the unborn babies
        >the blue bird guy shows back up and tells Mahito that he'll help him, but Mahito has to fix the hole in his beak so he can disguise himself
        >so there are these man eating budgies. They're really big, and they eat humans. The blue bird guy creates a distraction so they chase them, so Mahito can break into a building to save his mom.
        >but it's a trap, and he's about to be eaten by the giant budgies when firework girl saves him with the magic of burning everything
        >firework girl, by the way, looks like Alice in Wonderland, but with a red dress and black hair. And she lives in an old fashioned English cottage.
        >Mahito and firework girl find his mom, and for some reason she says "I hate you!" and a bunch of paper starts attack him. He and firework girl both faint.
        >Mahito wakes up and he's about to get eaten by the budgies when blue bird man saves him.
        >they go to save firework girl, who's being paraded around by nazi budgies and taken to see the king, or the wizard, or some old dude with a massive mustache
        >mustache dude tells Mahito that his world is dying, unless some precariously set up jenga blocks can remain standing. He tells Mahito that he has to stay and make sure the jenga blocks don't fall.
        >firework girl is also this old dude's daughter, so she was never in any danger. Also, she's Mahito's mother.

        (2/3)

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Mahito says no frick you I'm going home old man.
          >so the king budgie, not to be confused with the ruler of this world, says frick you Mahito I can rearrange the jenga blocks and save the world. And he fricks up the game of jenga and the world starts collapsing Inception style.
          >the climax of the film is the characters running away as reality tears itself apart
          >they go to a hallway filled with doors, like in the Matrix sequels, and one door will lead them back home
          >Mahito goes back to his world with his new mom who no longer hates him (for reasons I don't understand), and firework girl goes back to her home in fantasy afterlife world

          Pros
          >beautiful Ghibli backgrounds
          >beautiful high quality 2D animation
          >good characters
          >good music

          Cons
          >felt a little long
          >the story was kind of nonsensical bullshit, in my opinion, like Spirited Away, very important characters just show up out of nowhere with zero foreshadowing

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >good characters
            the spoilers don't lead me to believe this at all. isn't the book this is adapted on pretty realistic and grounded? why even adapt it if you're just going to add a bunch of stupid shit like giant budgies and unborn babbies.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            interesting, thank you for your service

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Sounds like unfiltered kino. Modern Japanese audiences don’t deserve content like this, all they do is gobble up Disney slop and rote identical substanceless slice-of-life anime.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Do we see vore?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yes. The guy disguised as a blue heron is constantly getting vored and regurgitated by his disguise. He'll look like a normal bird, but then he'll start talking and from inside the beak you'll see his teeth and big ugly nose. Eventually his entire head comes out of the bird, and when he wants to disguise himself the bird just swallows his head.

            The budgies, on the other hand, just walk around with knives and swords and there are two scenes where they're about to butcher Mahito.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        So it exposes the israelites. No wonder it got review bombed

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Boy in postwar has lost her mother in a fire(air raid?) them his father marries his late wife´s sister and she gets pregnant, kid is all angsty and shit, even hits his head with a rock to not go to school, then one day theres this misterious, guy in a bird costume who tells him his mother is alive and waiting for him, he ends up in an esoteric but not too trippy adventure in a fantasy land

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I live in nipland and saw it today. It was alright but they fricked yo because we also got Oppenheimer in advanced and they’re screening right next to each other, at a very sentimental and quiet part of the Ghibli movie you could hear the nuclear bomb going off and the screams of Japanese school children being melted alive from the theater room next door which really soured the mood.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous
  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    God, no spoiler please.

    I wait for my cinema to host the pure kino.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Apologize.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm sorry, Takahata-sama, I always knew you were the talented one.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      pom poko is kino.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is the proper way to do movies.

    Hope other directors are taking notes.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    This version was better

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    He's been making his "last ever movie" for like 20 years now, he made 10 final films

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      he said he wanted to make this for his grandkid or some stupid shit.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >hates anime
    >does nothing but create anime

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    He's been bad for so long now. Like Ponyo? Come on now, Miyazaki has been a hack for a long time.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Better to quit while you're ahead.

    And then ruin your reputation anyway by doing a bunch of shitty live action movies

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      A man's gotta work. He can't just live off GITS and Patlabor 2 forever.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    All his films are dogshit. He's a hack

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >so butthurt about Kimi no na Wa he comes back from retirement
    >ends his career with an absolute dogshit movie
    Makotobros, we can’t stop winning

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > Butthurt about Kimi no na Wa
      really?

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the creative power within him has transferred onto another person...

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    this was a movie? I was wondering why I kept seeing this bird thing

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah, it's a great poster imo.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nice pokémon

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        i like the human eye

        miyazaki is still visually creatively genius in imo

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love the controversy about this movie.

    Can't wait to see it on cinema.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what controversy? that its not that good?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Some gays are still trying to process it and there are multiple viewing to decipier it.

        Also, they think no advertisement is pretentious.

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So in this thread people are shitting on a film they haven't seen, or even seen a trailer or a SCREENSHOT from.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      well the plot sounds like ass. i don't know if visuals alone can save it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You should have a nice day. No one will miss you.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >getting this upset over the idea that an old man who has been washed up for almost two decades made another flop
          lol

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      just reiterating/discussing the Japanese audience reviews

      >https://filmarks.com/movies/107171

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    no trailer?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not even a pamphlet.

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it's a film intentionally made for literal kindergarteners

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      so average film viewer?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        yes. but on a serious note he meant to ingrain this movie into kids minds and those things go a long way. seems to me he really hates the grown ups around him

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I read he is apologizing to his son in some scenes.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good. That sashimi hiroshima geezer deserves to get knocked down a peg.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >How Do You Live
    By not watching same-y movie from this boomer hack

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >3/5
    >abysmal

    moron

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    People are surprised that this boomtard squeezed out another turd that flopped?

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