Blather, rinse, repeat

I'm not quite seeing it. But pretty, pretty, pretty!

I love Miyazaki. Howl's Moving Castle seemed to suffer a little bit, I think. Not in depth or anything. In fact, I think it has a bit more character and slightly less plot than his other work, but he's always been more into heart than plotpoints. When I mean suffer, I think the look of the movie suffers. The first 2/3s seems more beautiful than the last 1/3. Some of the animation looks bad towards the end. Maybe due to outsourcing the work to korea like they did for a little of Spirited Away? Its hard to put my finger on exactly when the jump in quality happens, but when Howl is swallowing the light, it looks REALLY bad. Or maybe I'm just projecting my fear of what'll happen when Miyazaki fully retires and lesser artists have to carry on his work.

Being the neatfreak germophobe that I am, the scenes with Sophie cleaning up Howl's house is REALLY gratifying. God, his movies are good at making you SMELL STINK visually!