 but anyway it's anime day and we watched one new show it's not that new but it's a movie actually yeah it's a movie called uh... kazeomita shonen or the boy who saw the wind i like it a lot it's alright i liked it a lot of people think it's a ghibli movie in fact on noska.net it's on the page of movies that are commonly mistaken for ghibli movies and many vcd bootlegs of this movie have the studio ghibli uh... logo on them when i first downloaded it uh... it was pretty much just i was on the anime ski and i saw a torrent for uh... the boy who saw the wind ghibli style movie and i said well i never heard of this but i'll get it and i got it and we i watched it alone a long time ago and forgot most of it but we watched it all together again just this weekend see it's alright it's really pretty like it looks like it's a really old style but the style is really well done i think it was done in two thousand it's not that old yeah but it looks a lot older than it is and it's just the typical you know there's a boy he has a power he goes on adventure to save people and it's good but it's kind of simplistic there's good guys they're perfect there's bad guys they're absolutely silly evil oh the bad guy yeah yeah the bad guy is like imagine hitler only i think they could have made that a little better if they would have uh... added some they could have shown the uh... the rebellion sometimes in a bad light like look they're killing people too yeah but they always had the bad guys with those like masks on so that you know when they do that kind of thing if they would have humanized those guys in the masks a little bit more to make the rebellion seem you know not perfecting great and if they would have had that uh... evil scientist lady not turn insane yeah they should have actually like made her someone who is nice and is like forced into evil so you kind of like feel bad for instead of going as she's not get rid of which is what they seem to start doing right away and they just like and i like all right she's crazy they make her crazier than rica goes mom from eva yeah every other anime seems to do with the way i just described this one was just like forget it's not worth the effort it was still good it was just it was really simplistic like every time they needed to move the main character somewhere else for a change of scene or to move the plot along they haven't fall from a great height the knocked unconscious and wake up in a strange land yeah they did that twice right at the beginning yeah it was great it happens a grand total of three fricking times yeah they need uh... another way to move the plot they didn't only hope for a trap it's a trap but it's definitely worth watching i mean i enjoyed it and there's a lot of good characters it's real sad at points uh... we can't ruin the end and i suggest you watch it because there's a twist that i didn't see coming yeah i mean i'd seen it before and i forgot what happened at the end and then i was like all right uh... not like the other ones where there's a twist that it was so strong you remember it that way when you see it again you're like it's gonna happen again it's just a it's a it's a twist you don't see coming that's really all i can say i did not expect the movie to end the way it did it was a good ending i don't think so i don't think there could have been a better ending for what they had already done in the show had the ending not been the way it was i probably would have written the show off because other than that it was just kind of a typical predictable see that was the worst thing it was pretty much a hundred percent predictable watch other than the twist every single thing that happens you can predict from like the previous two things that happened and as we as we're all watching the show because we watched it at the party when everyone here and it was basically just everyone's yelling out oh obviously blah blah is gonna happen and then blah blah blah happens it's like every time there's a happy scene there's a sad scene right after it that pretty much is a direct thing that ruins whatever was happy since the problem though with it's all kinds of things these days is that when you've seen enough anime or you've seen enough movies or television over the course of your life everything gets predictable and you need to watch really complex or really weird stuff to find something that's not predictable the thing is even they get predictable because the the unpredictability itself becomes predictable it's like he's gonna do the opposite of what's normally gonna happen so he's gonna do this oh I got it right we started a while ago we were watching Hitchcock movies we were watching the old Hitchcock movies like early in his career like they're they're good but they're hard to watch and old and like in the first one I figured out what was gonna happen like you know right before it happened at the end but then later on I was like saying what was gonna happen like like minutes and minutes before it happened because back then like it seems like the big thing with movies back then was to put a twist at the end like every movie had a twist well no that's not the big thing back then that's Hitchcock's thing and I've seen a lot of other movies from that era of course but Hitchcock is like the twist master yeah the problem was once you like start figuring out how the twists work you always predict the twist because it's always just think what's the least likely thing to happen well that's obviously how the movies gonna end well it's not the least likely thing to happen least likely thing to happen is something crazy the least likely thing to happen that is still possible to happen it's not really something that's least likely it's actually very likely it's just unexpected it's the thing that is most unexpected to happen but still makes a whole lot of sense and is very exciting a lot of times though they didn't make sense those are the bad Hitchcock movies that no one remembers yeah like the one I don't remember which one it was where they're conflicted the bunch of characters are conflicted about killing someone and then they end up not even having to worry about it because a freaking bomb blows up the train they're on and the guy dies anyway yeah that's just something crazy but like 39 steps is very make sense you know and and me yeah yeah they're also highly predictable some of it was highly predictable but it's one of those things where you can predict it if you remember everything that happened in the movie because the twist is something that you forgot that happened way the beginning though regardless this movie is highly predictable if you've seen like three or four other anime in your life you'll probably just know exactly what's gonna happen in this whole show but it'll still be fun if you like movie movies and things then if you've seen them all and you're looking for more of that and give Lee doesn't supply frequently enough and you're bored and you want a movie to watch boy who saw the wind is great there's also a really funny he ends up wake one of the times when he gets knocked out and wakes up somewhere he wakes up in this village and apparently their sole source of food is hunting these Zabby Zabby Zabby our giant fucking man eating kill you all fish like a whale barracuda mix thing like a bunch of villagers die and they finally take down this fish and then they have a big feast and then later and then everyone in the room with us is like why don't they just hunt smaller fish or something this is kind of silly and then in the show one characters like why do we hunt these stupid Zabby all the time yeah that's great I think they were trying to make a comment about like vegetarianism or something and then whoever made the show gave the message that's not good yeah the moral of the show is really heavy-handed yeah it was like you're disrespecting the Zabby by not eating it like it's already dead you know and you know we eat it and it eats us and it's come you know they tried to make a message out of it that was pretty yeah not deep in its presentation like the evil dictator at the end when he like tried to not ruin anything basically at the end of the movie when the evil dictator whatever is happening to him he pretty much is like oh I wasn't evil I was just lonely yeah it's like they say it right right out whereas other shows are more subtle and yeah subtle is not like surely stimulating the show is definitely not subtle not subtle at all it's hard to be subtle when you have a kid flying around and you know cute little animal going oh yeah the cute little animal I totally forgot about that and then they had the cute little animal babies yeah that was really cute too cute I mean I've seen cute things but those little babies were just like where the tail was more than half the body oh my god I think they were supposed to be foxes if we're nothing else you 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