@tingle007: Yeah the game soundtrack was better.
Hadn't heard os Super Columbine RPG, just watched some videos. OH MY GOD THAT ST IS AMAZING. THANK YOU.

@Anonymous: booooom Boooom BOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOM

@Anonymous: the PSX game had the best music

@Anonymous: contest

@Cosbro: Fuck yeah for you sir!

@Anonymous: Wait, this got a Fuck Yeah but Blues Brothers only a pile of hearts?

No justice in the world.

Though I can't see it working the other way round, to be fair.

@springsteen47: /obligatory_comment_about_that_being_a_book

@remeranAuthor: I can't argue with that. I'm still tempted to grab the original japanese version from somewhere on import, someday. But, for now, whilst I'm just about meeting the bills each month as it is, I'll stick with my at-one-time (like, about 2001...) highly cherished HQ VHSrip download.

Maybe if I get bored enough I'll overdub it onto the DVD visuals. The US voice acting's OK enough, but it's one of the few foreign films that I prefer to watch the subbed version of because of the music, the more genuine seeming expression, and because of how they *don't mangle all of the characters fucking names*.

(How in the world do you manage to change what someone's name sounds like when you're basing it off a recording where it was said right in the original language? I don't get it.)

Disney always did seem to enjoy pushing the limited envelope they were given (basically: "make no changes") as part of the license agreement, though. Extraneous lines of dialogue inserted exactly where it would seem most stupid, presumably on purpose... cocking about with the music (I guess that doesn't technically count as part of the movie?!), applying dubtitles, etc.

@Anonymous: Please, elucidate, from behind your interwebs mask. Be brave enough to come forward and stand up for the things YOU like, so we can slate them with pithy one-line comments.

Having seen about three quarters of the ghibli/miyazaki back catalogue to date when SA came out, it was a bit of a disappointment. Not "bad", but just not as good as was expected, and certainly nothing like the insano hype that always seemed to accompany it (ditto HMC ... I haven't yet dared put Earthsea in the deck to see if it's suffered the same way). A little -too- weird and japanesy, and the story seemed to fall apart a bit near the end; plus I can't call a single bit of the music to mind. It was plenty pretty though - I used the part where Haku saves Chihiro from the paper birds as a video encoder stress test for a good long time, because it was a gorgeous piece of animation I didn't get tired of watching - and at least had some kind of denouement unlike HMC (and Ponyo for that matter) which stopped like a freight train running into a nuclear bunker.

All of the ones I've discussed thus far are better than goddamn Triplets of Belleville (aka Belleville Rendezvous) though. I can't understand what about it everyone was raving about, other than it being a bit strange and french and therefore somehow worthy of attention. It looks like a lot of work went into it, but the result was naff from start to end.

@Anonymous: you earned that piece of eight

@remeranAuthor: VHS = video home system = could work as a descriptor?

Or at least "VHS deck"...

@tingle007: Hmm possibly because the movie outright nicked bits from Final Fantasy and so-on ;)