First movie of the year? Princess Mononoke on the big screen! Absolutely beautiful film.

[New note: Like other releases of Miyazaki’s, this was a limited engagement, where the sub and dub were in theaters for only one day. I saw the English dub, which I almost always prefer. There were cool intro pieces done by now infamous John Lasseter.]

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Just got back from seeing Miyazaki’s directorial debut! It was great to see it on the big screen and see the extras at the beginning and end. I will say though, I much prefer the Manga Dub to the original Streamline dub that they showed tonight, but still awesome either way.

[New note: For those who may be interested, a Japanese with English subtitles release was released a few days prior. These were one day limited engagements. Aside from the voice differences, Lupin was named “Wolf” in the Streamline dub, because of the Maurice LeBlanc estate who owns the rights to the Lupin name. This has been a point of contention in the history of the Lupin III anime for a long time. Also the pronunciation of Cagliostro as “Cag-liostro”, which was a flub line the first line he says it! Dubs have come a long way since then.]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Two years ago today I saw The Force Awakens in theaters and was blown away. I figured I couldn’t pass up such a serendipitous moment and went and saw The Last Jedi. Annnnnnd…..9/10, phenomenal movie, on par with TFA.

I had heard how divisive it was, and quite honestly, I have to agree with what my good buddy Jon Gillett said earlier “2015: TFA is too much like the originals, its not good”

“2017: It does too much original stuff and therefor it’s bad”

Some people just can’t be pleased.

In fact that’s what I loved so much about this movie, it played with your expectations and swerved you when you least expected it to, and then swerved you again because HAHA you pseudo-intellectual critics and theory-making youtube nerds, shut up and let the movie tell its story before you call it bad, because your own projection of what you “thought” it was going to do, didn’t actually happen, and that yes, the movie CAN do that because apparently everyone forgot that space magic is a thing, the end.

Anyway, I recommend if you haven’t seen the movie by all means please do. If not for the fact that it’s a great movie, but also for the fact it was Carrie Fisher’s last.

Rest in Peace princess.

[New note: Yup, still the best, especially after Disney tried to course-correct afterwards with the following movie. Shame.]

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