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Offline Orna

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« Reply #15 on: July 01, 2005, 11:52:07 PM »
Ah-I see.  I thought it was familiar, but I wasn't sure if I was associating it with a cereal.

(Yes, bad joke, I know)

I also liked the movie.  I'm going to buy it when it comes out and immediately watch it in original japanese.
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« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2005, 09:22:10 AM »
lol no it's funny
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« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2005, 06:36:50 PM »
Eh? Cereal...?

...OH! XD!! Crispies Freeman? Crisp 'n (fat)Free-man?

...Right, no more caffeine for me for a while. ^^;
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« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2005, 10:35:57 AM »
lol try calfeen and chocolate last night
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« Reply #19 on: July 03, 2005, 01:37:47 PM »
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Eh? Cereal...?

...OH! XD!! Crispies Freeman? Crisp 'n (fat)Free-man?

...Right, no more caffeine for me for a while. ^^;


lol..  I was thinking along the lines of "Rice Crispies" but you're right-no more caffeine for you.
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Re: Howl's Moving Castle
« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2005, 10:05:39 PM »
Oh!Oh! :jumps up and down: After i saw Howl's Moving Castle (in which the english version was done really well... i think they almost made up for Spirited Away) I went out and bought the book the next day!

The book is amazing and was really well written. Although there are some very big differences between the two...wait, no... huge differences.
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« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2005, 11:29:27 AM »
i loved that movie so much. the second it was over i wanted to watch it all over again. but yeah, im really interested in the novel. i was ready to start a topic about it if there wasn't already one.
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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2005, 02:38:05 PM »
maybe the novels section should be extended into the Novels and movies sections  :D
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« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2005, 05:50:41 PM »
OOOH!! It's a novel??!!! Now you've got me hooked. *goes out on a search*
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« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2005, 07:20:17 PM »
Quote from: Onion O' DOOM! on July 11, 2005, 02:38:05 PM
maybe the novels section should be extended into the Novels and movies sections  :D

Especially since they keep making movies out of books..  whatever happened to original screenplays?
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« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2005, 01:18:03 PM »
^^ I would highly recommend almost any book from Diana Wynn Jones (except, perhaps, the Dalemark Quartet. ^^; ). However, that book specifically.... ^^; I can't seem to recall all that much about it. I read the book around four or five years ago, when it first came out in its second edition cover, I think, and I loved it. ^^
This is slightly off-topic, but I would highly recommend reading 'The Homeward Bounders' and 'The Chrestomanci Chronicles' by Diana. ^^ They are excellent reads, especially 'The Homeward Bounders'. (T_T I really, really wish that she'd write a sequel to that ^^; )
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« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2007, 05:08:57 PM »
I was a huge fan of the book before I saw the movie. It is extremely well written as is the squel Castle in the Air. Another awesome book by the same author is The Darklord of Derkholm.

Anyways, the movie obsiously changes a lot from the book. The basic idea is still the same.

Sophie works in a hat shop and ticks off the witch of the waste. She has two sisters. One is sent to apprectice at the bakers and the other is sent to apprentice for a sorceress. There is the Wizard Suliman (not Madame Suliman).

But I highly recommend the book as well as Castle in the Air (nothing to do with the film Castle in the Sky). Just remember that the book was the basis for the film.
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« Reply #27 on: May 15, 2007, 07:08:31 PM »
I really loved the book but I think I might like the anime more ...Um ... Maybe I don't ... I'unno. Maybe I should treat them both different but equally! .... Eh.

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« Reply #28 on: June 01, 2007, 11:57:03 AM »
Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorite books.  When I first read it, I read it in two nights, it was that engrossing.  I absolutely loved it.  So when I went to see the movie a few years ago, I was expecting... y'know... at least a LITTLE semblance of the book...?  Well, the characters were there.  Well, okay, Howl, Sophie, Calcifer and Michael were there.  And a few other characters at least had names from the book.  Huh-huh.

So while I wasn't disappointed in the movie as a movie, I was thoroughly disapointed in it as an adaptation of my favorite book.  I'm normally not too critical when it comes to book-turned-movie adaptations, but meh, HMC wasn't one that I was really happy with.  It's not even one of my favorite Ghibli movies.  It felt kind of... like it was lacking something, and I'm not sure what.  Charm?  Something like that.

Artistically it was top-notch, but otherwise, I didn't care to see it more than once in teh theater, and I didn't bother getting the DVD because I knew I wouldn't watch it.  ^^;

...but at least they kept the slime scene.  XD


I never did see the English version.  How did Billy Crystal do?  Calcifer was one of my favorite characters.  Hehe. 
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« Reply #29 on: September 15, 2007, 04:27:59 PM »
I hear Howl's Moving Castle is a great film. I love Miyuzaki's work.
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