Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I loved Princess Mononoke muchly at the time but it hasn't aged as well in my memory as others. Probably because Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle were so much better while things like Porco Rosso and The Cat Returns are more purely entertaining.

Howl's had problems. It was overly long and suffered from multiple endings, many of which didn't make much sense. I remember having trouble liking Howl's character.

But still, it was breathtaking in scope, visuals, and concepts, which was enough to make it very memorable. Mononoke seemed somewhat the opposite to me, in that it was well put together but lacked wow, even though the concepts were great. I dug it a lot.