Saturday: Movie day

First, I saw this person on the way to the theater. It was apparently orange day.

She wasn't homeless, a lot of people walk to the grocery store with wheeled carts.

Unfortunately, I read the show times wrong, and discovered as I arrived that "The Wind Rises" started a half hour earlier than I expected, and so I had to rush in to the theater:

So no in theater ticket picture.  So I had to take it on top of the most appropriate thing in my house.

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding the film.  Miyazaki likes drawing planes.  He decided he was going to make one last movie.  That movie was chosen perfectly so he can draw lots of planes.  I liked it, partially because most (all?) the sound effects are done by people with their voices.  It had the same standard beautiful art as all the other films, although the story was a bit weaker.  I again put that to the fact that the movie seems more about drawing planes, so I don't think it's that bad of a thing.  I think Frozen is still the best animated film of the year, but it's also the best Disney film like ever.  This would have won on any other year.

I am happy that I got to see the subtitled version, as the main character is voiced by Hideaki Anno, who is the guy who did Neon Genesis Evangelion, along with other things that will always be overshadowed by NGE.

Given that Miyazaki is retiring again, I decided to go over his films.  Blatantly stealing from wikipedia, and inserting my "where I first saw the film" in this color.

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Writer	Notes
1979	The Castle of Cagliostro	Yes		Yes	Rented a dvd in grad school.
1984	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Yes		Yes	DL/stream.
1986	Castle in the Sky	Yes		Yes	DL/stream.
1988	My Neighbor Totoro	Yes		Yes	Japanese VHS with printed script.
1989	Kiki's Delivery Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	DL/stream. Theater too.
1991	Only Yesterday		Yes
1992	Porco Rosso	Yes		Yes	DVD.
1994	Pom Poko		Yes
1995	Whisper of the Heart		Yes	Yes
	On Your Mark	Yes			Music video
1997	Princess Mononoke	Yes		Yes	Undergrad campus theater. Twice.
2001	Spirited Away	Yes		Yes	Grand Rapids, the night of a giant snowstorm.
	Whale Hunt	Yes		Yes	Short film
2002	Koro's Big Day Out	Yes		Yes	Short film
	Mei and the Kittenbus	Yes		Yes	Short film
	Imaginary Flying Machines	Yes		Yes	Short film
	The Cat Returns		Yes		DVD.
2004	Howl's Moving Castle	Yes		Yes	Theater.
2006	Monmon the Water Spider	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short film
	House-hunting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short film
	The Day I Harvested a Planet	Yes		Yes	Short film
2008	Ponyo	Yes		Yes	Theater, but no link.
2010	Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess	Yes		Yes	Short film
	The Secret World of Arrietty		Yes	Yes	Theater.
2011	From Up on Poppy Hill		Yes	Yes	Theater.
2013	The Wind Rises	Yes		Yes	Theater.

I probably need to back through and fill in the gaps.  The shorts are harder, as I think some of them are only played at the museum.  Hopefully they'll put out a shorts DVD at some point.

Finally, I discovered the mall has a Doraemon:

because I was peaking through the window at the sushi place after the movie trying to see how long the wait list was.  It was too long, so I went home, only realizing when I got back that I bought stuff at WF, and could have gotten some tasty WF sushi to eat for dinner, but I didn't, and now I want sushi.  So I may be going back to get sushi tomorrow.

• Get used to this snorlax picture.  I've saved it, and I plan on using it in the future.
• Tl;dr: English stole all the words from elsewhere, and stole all the rules that go along with those words.  That's why the language is what it is.
• Economics.