Audience reviews
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Yaboisire
You know when an anime has a high review you're expecting something that's gonna blow you away therefore when i started this anime my expectations were set really high.The intro of the movie really starts off interesting and pulls you in making you anticipate mystery and soo much more.Sure it has beautiful visuals but what else does it do that makes it worth such a high review?Is it because its a Studio Ghilbi film?
Man cause was I thoroughly disappointed every time i got closer to the end. Tbh i wish I never even watched it cause there is really nothing you get out of watching it but saying hey, i watched this Studio Ghilbi Film doesn't that make me cultured?
In conclusion this movie is not really worth the time investment at all.
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If you are like me who hates pacifist main characters who can't take a side then you are going to hate the climax. Our annoying MC couldn't take a side even though it has been abundandtly clear what he should have done but he continues to help the "villains" who also don't get any punishment whatsoever despite all the cruel things they did. when i reached that point i couldn't wait to stop the movie since it took a really tasteless and infuriatin turn. like get a drip and do what must be done. Hated it felt like i wasted 2 hours of my life for nothing. wouldn't recommend at all if you hate pacifist , dumb , dispassionate MC.
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I don't get the hype of the movie. I watched it, and it was Fine. Not amazing as most people seem to think. If this movie was exactly the same but made by anyone else than Ghibli, i belive it would just been an anime lost in time, Howl's Flying castle was more entertaining to me. The animation was fine, great landscapes, clean but flat animation, not much depth on the charecters, but that is the style of Ghibli so that is fine. Story is nice and linear but also predictable, you know what will happen 5 minutes before it does. I think people mostly just give this a good review due to growing up with it. For a more adult first time view, i think it falls flat.
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Okay, I just want to go on a rant for a bit. This is crazy, how can you can you make such a good story and characters and then just fuck it all up. The first half of the movie was great, I liked the story of it and how it showed both sides of the battle. The main character wasn't on any side, he just wanted for them to live together, and how cliché that may sound, it works. Through the movie he tries to get everyone together, but he doesn't actually do anything, he just isn't fighting against anyone, he helps both parties. So when the humans are attacking the forest and the forest is inferior, he just doesn't do anything about it. So my rant begins: The main character just doesn't do anything about Eboshi, the one who wants to take the forest down and make more and more iron. But the main…
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Wow, I am appalled. I cannot believe there are so many high ratings for this movie. During my two hours watching this "Ghibli classic," I often checked the running time, only to groan at the fact that I still had a slow hour, fifty minutes, forty minutes, etc to go before I can be freed from this boredom. Princess Mononoke is a bad movie. There, I said it. I'm sure many will disagree with me, although I have no idea why, but let me start with what was good about this train wreck.
Firstly, I'd like to say I have never truly been disappointed by a Ghibli film. All that I have had the pleasure of watching so far have been nothing but great movies, classics that have endured the test of time. However, this was not the case with Princess Mononoke. But, this is Studio Ghibli we're talking about…
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Princess Mononoke was released in Japan on 1997. It is a Studio Ghibli film, written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and it is his seventh feature film. Having seen some of Miyazaki's best works, I can safely tell you, without any hesitation, that this is his second best movie.
If you own the Blu-ray DVD combo pack of Princess Mononoke, I can assure you that once you experience Princess Mononoke on Blu-ray, you will never want to go back to the DVD addition of Princess Mononoke. This is because the Miyazaki films that I have actually seen on Blu-ray have been remastered so well, and they make Miyazaki's films all look incredible, especially the case with Princess Mononoke. This goes without saying, the animation in Princess Mononoke is astounding, I found it to be breathtaking and gorgeo…
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***Warning: This review may contain significant plot spoilers***
Let's start with the title - 'Mononoke Hime'. After watching the movie, one can easily concur that the title is a mismatch.
The movie starts off great. Immediately we are introduced to the main character taking down a demon god and was cursed in the process. He sets out on a journey to find a way to lift his curse. At this point i was greatly engrossed & was really looking forward. Man!! It was a big let down.
Characters:
We have a main character 'ashitaka' who is so lame and useless that if you remove him from the movie, the story would remain the same & not a thing would change. His presence do not impact the story in any way. All he does is postpone the inevitable. This kind of characterization applies to others as w…
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• My grasp on why people consider Mononoke Hime great.
It is another Miyazaki masterpiece that showcases beautiful landscapes and the theme of preserving and protecting nature from of the oh so evil humanity, and how it will also pushback when it is demanded of it. It is one visually stunning tale which manages to capture visually the importance and beauty of our surroundings, as well as the ferocity and primality of nature. Striving to find the balance between us and nature is something we should seek for the benefit of every living being on the planet, so this also makes Mononoke Hime really forward thinking. The dedication to visual details, as well as its theme and the fact that it doesn't really pursue a moral echelon where the conflict revolves amongst the forces of good and evil, b…
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Mononoke Hime is a 1997 Studio Ghibli film written and directed by the legendary Miyazaki Hayao. It's also frequently brought up alongside Nausicaä & Spirited Away as one of Ghibli's classics. Does it hold up as well as those two films? Let's take a look.
Story:
We open in a small village coming under attack by a demon God, which looks kind of like a boar covered in small, squat tendrils. In order to protect his people, Prince Ashitaka rides into action. He manages to stop the rampaging beast, but its tendrils grasp his arm, leaving a scar that won't abate and continues to increase in size. He's told that it's curse and will eventually claim his life. So, his people send him out into the world to try and find a cure while examining things with unveiled eyes. It doesn't take him long to…
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First off, I LOVE Hayao Miyazaki and a lot of his movies. I fell in love with Studio Ghibli’s artwork, music, and pretty much anything about them. This is one of my all time favorite movies in fact. Just the story line is so beautiful about how man and nature are supposed to live side by side but when one fights against the other, there can be both misunderstandings and consequences. The story is open to interpretation but it feels like a timeless tale. A lot of times, I found myself believing that he could have made the story in this time frame and it would have had the same meaning behind the story. I’m going to sort of talk about what I consider part of this Psychology of this show, and this is only what I feel is part of this. What you take from it may be different.
The story is set i…
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Princess Mononoke - 6/10
it's one of the few Midzayaki cartoons that isn't really for children as much as the others, has some very violent moments, but thankfully they aren't the centre of attention of this movie.
The plot follows a boy from a village who gets cursed during fighting a demon and is now seeking the spirit of the forest to beg for a cure.
Instead he gets tangled in wars between regions for resources, and this is where the main point of this movie comes in, it's greed that makes humans want to claim things. "Everyone wants everything, but i might actually get it" and they don't care as to what happens to the surroundings, so they try to kill a god for their own greed, thinking that they are the god that can rule over everything.
As you can see the plot is pretty good, it is…
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Princess Mononoke was the second Ghibli Studio I ever saw, and to this day remains one of my most favourite works of all times and styles.
A cross-story of love and hate, nature and humanity cohabiting or failing to do so. The story of the wolves and the spirits of the forest is halting; their determination to fight, each of their respective personalities and their respective decisions as to HOW they will fight, were halting. The Mother Wolf fighting to protect her young ones, her forest, her home, despising the humans and then finally handing her only daughter over to one of them, handing her home and thousands of lives over into the hands of one boy...
And a human's struggle, far away from home, with the thing that consumes him, while never fully designating the thing consuming him as…
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Miyazaki has got be one of the greatest filmmakers of time. Not just anime, but films in general. Without a doubt, definitely in my top 5 directors of all time along with Scorsese, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, and Leone. Including Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke is one of his masterpieces. The plot here is about our main protagonist, Ashitaka, trying to find a cure for a curse given to him by a boar god, after an attack on his village. During his journey he meets a monk named Jigo, who tells him that his best chance to rid himself of the curse is to seek out the Great Forest Spirit. Later on, Ashitaka eventually gets caught up with a conflict between a town and the guardians of the forest. Now this is one of the many great aspects of Princess Monoke; there are no good guys or bad guys. Both the f…
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First off all, my FIRST Review ever and I would like to say: This was EPIC!
This Anime Movie is produced by Suzuki Toshio and directed by Miyazaki Hayao. Same couple that directed and produced the award-winning Spirited Away, and How's Moving Castle. This couple, have blessed us with the best and most known Anime Movies ever. And I'm personally very grateful for the experience I get from watching these.
Story: 10
The story was amazing, unique, exciting, warm and also, a little traditional.
It is Action, Adventure, Fantasy genres. I would say minor Romance as well.
Humans, spirits, demons, and conversations between them.
It's about a young prince (Ashitaka) that haft to leave his village to save his own life from a curse.
On his journey, he meets a beautiful young lady that thinks she…
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Introduction
I feel as if i wasted 2 hour of my life watching this but I will try to review it fairly...
Story
Ok, it wasn't too slow moving and it wasn't too quick, bonus points for rating. It had a nice sort of nature vs ironforge vs empire sort of story. It wasn't simply good vs evil, nature and ironforge both had their fair points to war, bonus points. The princes adventure... fair story... But I think the biggest let down was my expectations of the whole..."The Star Wars of animated features" and besides that the cool action sort of action style cover...yea...I can no't recall more than 30 seconsd (out of 2 hours 14 minutes) of decent action footage, nothing worth remembering except when he was first cursed and his first fight scene. Being generous because it was a decent fantasy adv…
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Ah, Princess Mononoke. It was one of the most earlier films, and anime in general, that I watched, and was captivated at first sight.
The thing I love about this movie is that I've seen so many different takes on what people viewed as the purpose behind the plot. I've read in a few different places that Miyazaki is not a fan of industrialization (or what it has evolved into) and clearly that is represented in the overarching plot in this movie. Whether or not that was the true meaning Miyazaki was trying to portray, he nevertheless sends a powerful message of the side effects of industrialization and not respecting the natural Earth and its resources. I've also read opinions where people were a little disappointed in the movie's plot because "its one big ad for environmentalism." I obvio…
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For each new Studio Ghibli film I watch, I just get more and more convinced that they are the best animation movie studio out there. Princess Mononoke is by no means an exception.
Ashitaka, the last prince of a people called the Enishi, gets cursed while fighting a demon, and sets out on a journey to get rid of the curse, which can be lethal. He soon hears rumors of a forest spirit that can give and take away life, and sets out to find it. However, he soon finds himself in the middle of a fight between humans and animals, and he soon gets to know of a girl called Princess Mononoke, who has sided with the animals.
The way the story is presented makes it really enjoyable, as we get to see how various humans and animals view the ongoing fight. Different humans have different viewpoints, dif…
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First of all I'd like to say this is my favorite Miyazaki Film. Why you might ask? Its the most powerful and thought provoking of all his films. It also communicates a message very differently since it has much darker overtones than his other lighthearted films. While they may be enjoyable and powerful in their own way they can never be compared to the stature of this film. I hold this one higher than the quality of Spirited Away. Which in my opinion is then most overrated Miyazaki/anime film. This is the one film that Miyazaki completed perfectly because it gave you that feeling that it couldn't get any better. The film has themes that even an adult could enjoy immensely.
The story is basically can be summed up as Man's conflict against the natural world. While this may be a good summar…
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Let me start by saying that I am not a Miyazaki-disciple. I do not view him as the "grandmaster of everything anime." When I say "yeah...Miyazaki is ok" I say it not out of ignorance (I've almost every one of his films) but because I personally find him to be incredibly overrated. However I find that when he has all of his stuff together, Miyazaki can destroy practically any other director out there, the man is incredibly talented, but his problem is consistency.
When I say that Princess Mononoke is his masterpiece, I mean it. It was the first film where he finally got everything together and made a perfect anime film. Some will say that Spirited Away is better, but Mononoke is so much more powerful than that.
Story: Miyazaki does not like civilization. He stated once that he would pref…
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Princess Mononoke. Another classic from Hayao Miyazaki.
Before watching this, the only other Miyazaki film I had seen was Spirited Away. That was my favorite anime at the time. After watching Mononoke, I found a new favorite.
I think the english dub of the film is one of the better ones out there. Their choices for voice actors and actresses were good for the film.
The animation was superb, as was the music. The strength of Mononoke lies in the story. I really felt connected to the characters. When Ashitaka was searching for San, I felt the sense of urgency with which he was running. I was practically jumping up and down while rooting for him to reach her.
The ending was definitely different from Miyazaki's other films, but then again, I feel that you have to look at this film differen…
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