Spirited Away 神隐少女
Sunday, May 21, 2006
after buying 25 pieces DVD+R at 27.90, I went to Lot 1 and saw two video shops side by side, namely TS Video and Laserflair. this reminded me that I wanted to buy Spirited Away since it will take me a long long time if I were to ever read that 5 book manga page by page.
at Laserflair, I saw Code 1 (America) release from Buena Vista. loads of extra stuff, but 44.90. I also saw Code 3 (Asia Pacific, most probably Taiwan) release at 24.90 with lesser extra stuff.
being the cheapskate I am , since I thought they wont make much of a difference, I bought the Code 3 one.
the Disc 2 seems crap. it contains a 20+ minutes of Making of Spirited Away, which is your standard movie making of stuff like interviews with director and some interesting facts about te movie.
the other thing inside Disc 2 is the storyboard version of the animation,which is basically crap that is added to make me think it is worth it and cheat my money which are storyboard drawings of the exact same movie in Disc 1. watched like 5 minutes in 5x speed and I know that already.
Disc 1, the actual movie, about 124 minutes is in relatively good quality though. after watching, I cannot get out of the mood of the show and I probably had to watch it tomorrow again since I am extremely bugged by the fact that I did not understand parts of the show.
that aside, this movie is really good. thanks to yik yie for introducing this to me. the leading female, Chihiro (千寻）is really cute (10 year old only mah) and overall character designs are quite interesting. maybe I should go get Totoro that is produced by the same studio as well. that oversized cat in totoro also very cute.
now I must think of how I could get back to sleep. cant get out of the mood of the story. sian.
at Laserflair, I saw Code 1 (America) release from Buena Vista. loads of extra stuff, but 44.90. I also saw Code 3 (Asia Pacific, most probably Taiwan) release at 24.90 with lesser extra stuff.
the Disc 2 seems crap. it contains a 20+ minutes of Making of Spirited Away, which is your standard movie making of stuff like interviews with director and some interesting facts about te movie.
the other thing inside Disc 2 is the storyboard version of the animation,
Disc 1, the actual movie, about 124 minutes is in relatively good quality though. after watching, I cannot get out of the mood of the show and I probably had to watch it tomorrow again since I am extremely bugged by the fact that I did not understand parts of the show.
that aside, this movie is really good. thanks to yik yie for introducing this to me. the leading female, Chihiro (千寻）is really cute (10 year old only mah) and overall character designs are quite interesting. maybe I should go get Totoro that is produced by the same studio as well. that oversized cat in totoro also very cute.
now I must think of how I could get back to sleep. cant get out of the mood of the story. sian.
