yup! ^^ they're all great so you i can asure you you won't waste at all your money on renting one... :bg:

it's not the money im concerned about, its the time.

hehe... well watch one a saturday evening tuked in a big fluffy blanket while eating pop corn and drinking soda... :bg:

soda and popcorn! im no western coach potato you know! LOL
its a nice cup of green tea and rice crackers for me! LOL

i'm not a coach potato either! ^^ i just do that when i have some friends over at home and when we watch movies all night... ^^

hehe ^^ movie time! large soda! , large popcorn! hotdogs! yay!

Oh! I love Mononoke Hime!! (I haven't seen Howl yet). I pre-ordered Nausicaa (stupid disney FINALLY released it in eng.) but, unfortunately it won't arrive until march somethingorother cause of another movie order my mom placed on amazon... WAAH! Watching spirited away right now though...

lucky you!

miazaki is awesome! mononoke hime and spirited away are awesome!! miazaki makes some of the best storylines that i've seen. And think about it this way - he made the top grossing film in japan ever! (right? cant remember. I think it was...)

yea i heard something like that too... or maybe top blockbuster, even before the lord of the rings and titanic... lol :bg:
oh and welcome to the gang nausicaa!

in my opinion anime movies will always top live action ones! :bg:

so true papa... they're the best... ^^

you can do so much more with animated films than you can with live ones, and Miyazaki does everything so well! I must admit i haven't seen too much Anime but i'll do whatever to see anything miyazaki produces.

Oh, and thanks for the welcome, Morphee!!

no matter how good the special effects in live films become, anime will always be one step ahead of it, anime is the form where one can truly bring ones imagination to life.

I'm still awaiting the release of Zu Warriors in the US... I've seen some of the special effects, and it honestly looks like a live action anime. The special effects, just in the few clips I have seen, blow the Matrix off the map. I cannot say if it is really good or not, since I haven't seen the whole thing, but the story line definitely has me interested. Besides... I've seen some really poorly drawn anime (Drag-on Ball Z springs to mind). A good story is a good story, regardless of medium. I think Ringu (I'm not talking about the cheezy Hollywood remake) was extremely effective as a live action movie, and wouldn't have been as good as an anime. True art transcends medium.

Never underestimate the inventiveness of human beings.

Larry