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Studio Ghibli's Earwig and the Witch review thread
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idk I don't think Goro has it in him unfortunately. Like, Poppy Hill was fine and Ronja was cute but with this and Earthsea? Maybe he just needs better screenplays to work with...
Gotta feel somewhat sorry for Goro, having to fill in the boots of Hayao Miyazaki is a near impossible task to do. Even if you were to make a great film, you'd probably seem lesser than your father unless you create a masterpiece, scratch that, multiple masterpieces.
Shame this one didn't work out.
Shame this one didn't work out.
Hayao was pretty harsh with his criticisms after seeing Earthsea and this reviewed even worse than that
You do realize this was directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, right?
You do realize this was directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, right?
It's Goro so I'm not surprised, but it's a shame Miyazaki didn't take on more potential proteges during his heyday, instead tapping into empty reserves within the family with Goro. Meanwhile people like Hosoda were fired.
Pretty sure Hayao was strongly against Goro making films for Ghibli
Damn that's a shame, I actually kinda liked what they shown in the trailer so its disappointing to see such a low rt score. Still gonna watch it but will keep my expectations low.
That's how I️ feel. Has ghibli had any good movies made by younger directors? Hope they're not on borrowed time
When Marnie Was There, The Secret World of Arrietty
Yonebayashi left to start his own studio though.
I didn't have particularly high hopes for this one, and if I remember right it's essentially a TV movie so I don't think the studio did either. At this point I think they're waiting for How Do You Live? and then moving on to 100% legacy content going forward - particularly since what younger talent they had left for Studio Ponoc.
Even Goro was strongly against Goro making films (see The Wind Rises making-of documentary). Having Goro making films seems like a marketing ploy to get funding for Ghibli.
Ghibli feally fucked up relying so heavily on Miyazaki and Takahata when they should have been cultivating new talent. With Kondô dying so young and Yonebayashi leaving, Goro is pretty much all they have in terms of younger talent. It's really not a good situation.
Speaking of, what have they been doing? Last thing they made was Modest Heroes and that was back in 2018
Arrietty was solid. Didn't care for the first one. Hope they try to cultivate some future talent
Sucks but was pretty expected by most people. Will probably still watch it as some point as I've seen every other Ghibli feature length film at this point.
I get this is a personal dislike but to put this in perspective as it's a review thread Only Yesterday has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Only Yesterday is also a 90 on Metacritic meaning it's the third highest ranked Ghibli film after Spirited Away (96) and Grave of the Fireflies (94)
So pretty much the polar opposite of Earwig and the Witch when it comes to critical reception.
I get this is a personal dislike but to put this in perspective as it's a review thread Only Yesterday has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Only Yesterday is also a 90 on Metacritic meaning it's the third highest ranked Ghibli film after Spirited Away (96) and Grave of the Fireflies (94)
So pretty much the polar opposite of Earwig and the Witch when it comes to critical reception.
Was watching the Pixar sparkshorts and Pixar popcorn the other day and I suddenly felt frustrated realizing Ghibli just doesnt do anything like this and it's getting to be too late to start it.
That's really unfortunate. Goro just can't seem to catch a break. :/
I was wondering about that too, and looks like they were making a olympics short.
Modest Heroes had shown some potential, especially for Akihiko Yamashita, who directed Invisible.
I was wondering about that too, and looks like they were making a olympics short.
Modest Heroes had shown some potential, especially for Akihiko Yamashita, who directed Invisible.
People have strong responses to Only Yesterday. I liked it fine but my girlfriend hated it so much she was mad at me for taking her to see it for a couple days.
About where I expected it to land. The awful style and 3D make it a hard barrier of entry to get past and looks like the storytelling struggles as well.
Not sure if I'm remembering this correctly but Hayao wasn't the best father right? Like he invested so much of his life into his craft that he wasn't always there for Goro? Or was it that most of their friction started after Goro was forced into the seat for Earthsea?
He's brutal
I'd say there are quite a few Ghibli films like this, probably Ponyo, Grave of the Fireflies and Porco Rosso for starters.
Also could be from cultural differences as Only Yesterday is a very Japanese drama which is quite unique for an animated movie (or at least was at the time)
That was the extra funny thing, because while I like anime fine, she was a complete weeaboo when she was younger and was obsessed with various elements of Japanese culture. But I guess farming techniques weren't one of those elements lol
Pretty evident to me that he's incredibly talented but also kind of an asshole of a dad.
I think it's less that Ghibli allowed it to happen and more that Miyazaki and Takahata just lost any passion they once had for fostering new talent once Kondo died. It very much became a studio just for those two, as Takahata would wind up spending much of his remaining time working on The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Miyazaki wound up chasing talent away that would eventually make it really big elsewhere, like Hosoda did. Goro always felt like he was caught between a rock and a hard place with how much Suzuki wanted him to carry the flag for the studio, while also having the father that he had, so I have a lot of sympathy for him, even as he may just be the kind of decent talent that really isn't going to turn into the next Miyazaki after all.
I do hope that Ponoc starts working on features again, since their first of hopefully many Modest Heroes anthologies showed that they have some serious talent over there waiting to be unleashed. They may not necessarily get to where Ghibli got to, but I don't think they need to and frankly, it'd be a real shame if they did aspire to be nothing more than Ghibli 2.0.
I love Takahata's work, I consider Only Yesterday to be one of my favorite of all Ghibli movies and his work in tv series like Heidi and Anne is sublime, but the man was probably the main culprit in leading Ghibli into a place that didn't cultivate young talent.
What Suzuki had to say about him just after his death wasn't great to put it mildly. A true shame that because of stuff like this Ghibli is very likely dead as a studio after How Do You Live?
What Suzuki had to say about him just after his death wasn't great to put it mildly. A true shame that because of stuff like this Ghibli is very likely dead as a studio after How Do You Live?
I will give the movie a shot this weekend, despite the low reviews. It will feel nice to see a new Ghibli movie again. And I'm really hoping Studio Ponoc does have something lined up cause I've enjoyed their work so far
