• LucidNightmare@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The pacing and writing issues seem to be a Ghibli staple at this point. Or maybe I’m just not understanding them when I watch them?

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      8 months ago

      Have you watched Ponyo or Princess Mononoke? Those are pretty coherent throughout, the pacing is way better in those, and the writing is almost flawless.

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        8 months ago

        I have watched them both, and I can’t remember Ponyo very well, Mononoke was awesome with some slight weird pacing from my memory of it.

        They were both pleasurable to watch!

        The ones I can think of where I questioned the pacing is Earwig, Pocco Rocco, the other airplane one, the small people one, and there are a few others I may be forgetting.

        Call me Original™️, but the pacing of Spirited Away was fantastic!

        As for stories, the only story I have actively disliked is the earwig one. To me, that movie made absolutely no sense.

        Granted, I know these movies must be going over my head, as I don’t have a firm understanding of the Japanese people and their culture. I just really love their art style!