Agreed. I also see them all over youtube videos and stuff and I just can't keep reading/watching. Its not like an ideological thing, i don't hate generated art. I just find it so distracting.
I feel like such a fake fan. This is obviously one of his most personal and sincere artistic offerings as a film maker... but I was just bored the entire way through. It was beautiful and whimsical, but the story left me so cold and unsatisfied. Nothing resolved, nothing really mattered, nothing felt like subtext. And I know I'm wrong, it MUST be something I missed.
I guess I'm just basic, but hit me with that Porco Rosso or Wind Rises or Laputa vibes. But thats art, there's no accounting for taste. I'm going to watch Heron again and see if it takes a second viewing for it to hit home.
Regardless how I feel about it, I was so happy to finally catch a Miyazaki film in theatres with my kids. That was great.
I always thought the reason gold became so valuable to many human societies was that its really unreactive and doesnt corrode over time as easily so it seems ageless, and you can easily determine its quality without advanced tools (touchstones).
Yeah FAM 100% feels like Expanse: The Prequel to me but totally different in tone and format. Just this last season I think we witnessed the genesis of the OPA and MCR.
In Babylon 5 an alien race destroys their enemy's homeworld with "mass drivers". Ship mounted mechanisms that accelerated captured asteroids towards the surface of the planet, completely decimating it. In the show they are regarded as heinous weapons of mass destruction for their merciless destructive power.
I wish Eric had given us pebble v2 instead of beeper, honestly.