Yeah, I'm waiting on the Miyazaki movies to come out in HD format before investing in the collection.
I read the Wynn Jones books and this is a rare time when I say that the movie was better than the book. Miyazaki definitely changed and made this story his own and in doing so made it so much better than the original.
"Suddenly, RoboPacMan's 8-bit cog circuits began clicking and whirring and computing an analysis of the adequacy of having eaten all the county's ghosts with just one Pac-gum-fueled chomping combo smorgasbord; the preliminary calculation results left RoboPacMan in a state of glitchy haze that showed on the front facet of the swollen metal bodyhead of Pac-Land's invincible mecha protector: 'Grind... Die... Zrrr...' Unfortunately, similar to the cephalothorax of crustaceans, Pac-anatomy had its downsides: the more you ate, the more the brain had to shrink to make room for the stomach's increasing size. And that stomach at rest state already made up 90% of Pac-anatomy, like the silicone implants in the breasts of Lolo Ferrari. Constantly popping all those pills didn't do the neurons much good either. It was exactly like with human males, these bizarro wild primates of the Forbidden Zone, comically unable to irrigate and use both their brains at the same time. 'Oh, no!', exclaimed Pac-Mayor "Pearl" Joe Quimby, squinting in a panicked tic, 'Thar she bl...' The cataclysmic detonation of the dangerously building eructation brutally released caused the rest of these famous last words to be lost forever for the enlightenment and education of the forthcoming generations of survivors. Won't anybody think of the children? Little Pac-boys and Pac-girls at school were left to forever speculate wildly, like only kids know how to speculate wildly, every time a school trip would visit the meteoric site of the Great Zit Crater on Memorial Day. This spectral gaseous apocalypse was later known as the first 'Ghost Busted Incident'. The first. Because alas, there were sequels. Oh, the humanity, make it stop! Ever tampering with steam-engine technology and the box-office, Pac-mankind never learns. GBI2 was sparked by an attempt to bake the Universe's mostest biggest Gingerbread Man... and the ill-inspired idea of giving it a computerized brain programmed for finding its ows sustenance. It seemed like a "green" idea at the time... As you all know, GBI3 came out just last year. (sigh) History. It's like a kaleidoscopic maze of tragic mistakes, identically repeating itself again and again just to forever increase the casualty score, with a fatal error glitch as the only possible outcome when memory size allocation attempts to exceed 255. Ooh, dibs on that bonus cherry! Perhaps it didn't help that RoboPacMan's giant iron cog computer brain, and all those that followed and similarly rusted, were designed after Pascal's Calculating Machine. It just never could have worked."
5 comments:
My then 6 yr old made a great Calcifer in Lego a couple of years ago.
I got home yesterday to find Porco Rosso in the DVD player again.
Did you read the other Wynn Jones story, "Castle in the Air" (not to be confused with the other Miyazaki film "Castle in the Sky").
Nope.
(I think I liked the castle in the sky better than the moving one. As I liked Totoro and Kiki better than Spirited Away.)
Yeah, I'm waiting on the Miyazaki movies to come out in HD format before investing in the collection.
I read the Wynn Jones books and this is a rare time when I say that the movie was better than the book. Miyazaki definitely changed and made this story his own and in doing so made it so much better than the original.
The book was better, as it almost always is.
I once made "Number Johnny Five" in Lego, with just one box of the space series. I've still got the blueprint to make it again.
My attempt at winning the Bulwer-Lytton contest:
"Suddenly, RoboPacMan's 8-bit cog circuits began clicking and whirring and computing an analysis of the adequacy of having eaten all the county's ghosts with just one Pac-gum-fueled chomping combo smorgasbord; the preliminary calculation results left RoboPacMan in a state of glitchy haze that showed on the front facet of the swollen metal bodyhead of Pac-Land's invincible mecha protector: 'Grind... Die... Zrrr...'
Unfortunately, similar to the cephalothorax of crustaceans, Pac-anatomy had its downsides: the more you ate, the more the brain had to shrink to make room for the stomach's increasing size. And that stomach at rest state already made up 90% of Pac-anatomy, like the silicone implants in the breasts of Lolo Ferrari. Constantly popping all those pills didn't do the neurons much good either. It was exactly like with human males, these bizarro wild primates of the Forbidden Zone, comically unable to irrigate and use both their brains at the same time.
'Oh, no!', exclaimed Pac-Mayor "Pearl" Joe Quimby, squinting in a panicked tic, 'Thar she bl...'
The cataclysmic detonation of the dangerously building eructation brutally released caused the rest of these famous last words to be lost forever for the enlightenment and education of the forthcoming generations of survivors. Won't anybody think of the children? Little Pac-boys and Pac-girls at school were left to forever speculate wildly, like only kids know how to speculate wildly, every time a school trip would visit the meteoric site of the Great Zit Crater on Memorial Day.
This spectral gaseous apocalypse was later known as the first 'Ghost Busted Incident'.
The first.
Because alas, there were sequels. Oh, the humanity, make it stop! Ever tampering with steam-engine technology and the box-office, Pac-mankind never learns.
GBI2 was sparked by an attempt to bake the Universe's mostest biggest Gingerbread Man... and the ill-inspired idea of giving it a computerized brain programmed for finding its ows sustenance. It seemed like a "green" idea at the time...
As you all know, GBI3 came out just last year.
(sigh) History. It's like a kaleidoscopic maze of tragic mistakes, identically repeating itself again and again just to forever increase the casualty score, with a fatal error glitch as the only possible outcome when memory size allocation attempts to exceed 255. Ooh, dibs on that bonus cherry!
Perhaps it didn't help that RoboPacMan's giant iron cog computer brain, and all those that followed and similarly rusted, were designed after Pascal's Calculating Machine. It just never could have worked."
Post a Comment