Topic: Favorite Films

[Renny]

Totoro is on TCM next Thursday night. 9 of his films this month on Thursdays, English dub during primetime then Japanese track aired afterward.

[mantidor]

Im not entirely sure, but Disney grabbed most Ghibli films for US distribution, including Totoro, and they havent released it in any form. Being the legal distributors, no one else is allowed to release Totoro, and thats why its so hard to find it over there. Luckily, Grave of the Fireflies wasnt include in that deal and is easier to find.

[Hostile Creation]

Ghibli films that I haven't seen (but that I'm aware of):
Porco Rosso
Grave of the Fireflies
The Cat Returns

I've seen all the rest, of those I'm aware of, and my friends owns all three of those, so I'll see them before too long

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
Im not entirely sure, but Disney grabbed most Ghibli films for US distribution, including Totoro, and they havent released it in any form. Being the legal distributors, no one else is allowed to release Totoro, and thats why its so hard to find it over there. Luckily, Grave of the Fireflies wasnt include in that deal and is easier to find.

Actually, Disney owns the worldwide distribution rights to nearly all of the Miyazaki films (except the ones which  Discotek is releasing). They even release the region 2 discs in Japan now. The only exception is that Toho handels theatrical distribution within Japan. There is also some trouble in regards to "Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro", which had the US rights bought prior to the agreement and will likely revert to Disney when the current rights to the title are up.

As for Totoro, Fox released a pan & scan dubbed version awhile back, which I have and would suggest against buying. Disney is going to release their own version, correct aspect ratio and with the Japanese audio track, on March 7th and I would suggest waiting for that one. "Howl's Moving Castle" and "Whisper of the Heart" will also be released in region 1 on that same day:

http://www.tohokingdom.com/web_pages/rdates/region1_dvd_dates.htm  

[Renny]

NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Castle in the Sky (1986) will be playing on TCM tonight starting at 8. Watch it, or else.

[Sir_Stabbalot]

In no order what so ever:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
LoTR
Raiders of the Lost Ark

...That's all I can come up with right now.

[kirby_killer_dedede]

That's my boy Stabbalot, Holy Grail's where it's AT.

[Dasmos]

Life of Brian is better..  

[animecyberrat]

ew Monty Python is just, well no thats it just no.



Ok so ya all been dieing to knwo what my list of favorite movies of all time is so ok here it is dont be surprised if these are on your list too their all great mvoies.


Favorite Horror series, hands down Nightmare on Elm Street, 2 sucked but the rest are great movies.

Favorite Sci Fi series, duh Star Wars all the way, Empire is my favorite but I also love Revenge and Phantom Menace a lot too.

now the rest are as follows trhese ar movies I watch a lot

Ghostbusters
Mall Rats
The Pest
Police Academy 1-4
Short Circuit
Ghost World
Mumford
Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back
X-men
Spiderman
Elektra
the Hulk
The Labyrinth
Willow
Inndianna Jones (Not temple of doom hate that one)
Back 2 the Future
Gremlins
Caddy Shack
Transformers the movie (huge TF fan)
Project A-ko
Wrath of the Ninja
Macross


and many more but I am late for work damn gotta go

[S-U-P-E-R]

I remember when survey threads were VERBOTEN

[vudu]

I remember when mods locked threads like this.

[Jonnyboy117]

Yeah, this kind of thread usually doesn't end well.  It looks like there is a start to a Studio Ghibli discussion, so please feel free to create a new thread for that.  What we don't need is six pages of people listing movies.