Growing up I remember seeing my dad come back from his trips to Montreal and he would bring home a plastic bag filled with pirated CD's from who-knows-where.
We had all sorts of genres on our shelf but mostly the classics and ALOT of bollywood classics.
You can call me a fake south asian but unfortunatley I wasn't very interested in
bollywood movies at a young age simply because I didn't speak Hindi and was too dumb to read the subtitles.
My parents weren't able to give me alot but one thing they spoiled
me with was all the Barbie DVD's <3 I also had some of Disney's failed movies that I enjoy watching to this day. I can't really watch alot of movies now that I work and university but I do try to
get into the habit of watching at least one movie a week...
I first watched this movie when I was in kindergarten and I became obsessed with it. I own the vhs tape version and would watch it on our old Sony trinitron through vcr. The TV was in my shared room because we didn't have
space for it in our living room so me and my sister would watch it on REPEAT. I think I could say it was my first introduction to romance so all I ever dreamed of was having a nutcracker that would turn into a handsome prince if I kissed it...
It's Babrie's first movie so I'm pretty biased towards it even though I think the later movies can be better. There's alot of nostalgia attached to this movie and I loooved the dance scene at the very end.
I don't have that small television in possesion anymore but I still own the vhs and thankfully I have a VCR so I'm capable of watching it when I connect it to my TV.
I watched this movie when I was in middleschool after I saw a gif of it on tumblr.com and I immediatley fell in love with EVERY aspect of it. This was around the time where I started to pay attention
to the beauty in cinematography and I was gobsmacked by how colours were used in this film. It might seem like an amateur perspective now, cut me some slack I was 12, but the movie really is timeless. There's a reason that
it's still on people's favourites list to this day. The romance was sensitive yet seductive at times and the ending really broke me. The interactions between the two protagnists was just so tender. Such a beautiful movie and the soundtrack was amazing. Left me with a hole in my chest.
This movie was also an introduction to Wong Kar-Wai's movies for me.
I came to really love Sophie and how lovable she was without her evening knwoing it. Without getting too personal, I heavily resonated with her self-esteem issues and how she felt less and the sacrifice she made for her sisters as the oldest. Seeing her switch back and forth from a young woman to an old one due to her curse everytime she's concious of herself was so interesting to see and it made me think that one of the movies' main themes were about Sophie learning to love herself. Of course, I loved the movie because of the romance between Howl and Sophie, but who doesn't want a Howl. The story is beautiful and each character is so lovable and the art style is breathtaking, and the worldbuilding and...ETC. I've rewatched this movie so many times and I just want to relive how I felt when I watched it for the first time in middle school.
Treasure Planet (2002)
Although this movie did absolutely shit, I will always thank Disney for the creation of it. It's just so different from the Disney movies that were being released during that time but unfortunately the Harry Potter movies were stealing all the attention so it didn't do amazing...
I remember watching this movie so many times because I was obsessed with the dynamic that Jim and Silver had, even though he was an antagonist he was a father figure in Jim's ife. I don't know I was sort of jealous of Jim because even though Silver was a villian, he still cared for Jim.
I can't even say it's my favourite for nostalgia reasons because I genuinly enjoyed this movie, the soundtrack was so good and the art style was dynamic and fun. I'm also a sucker for animated sci-fi.
Words cannot describe how much I love this movie. Although it falls under the more slice of life or "mundane" genre compared to others produced by Miyazaki, I have such a soft spot for it because I had watched it during middle school when I was at the most lonliest point of my life. It felt like a warm hug, it felt like it was telling me that my situation is not set in stone and that one day I'll be far away from the present moment. I don't think I got better since middle school (lol) but I still watch this movie when I'm feeling down and need a remainder that the simplest things in life are worth living for. Being alive is one of the hardest things to do but Studio Ghibli films never fail to make me want to stay a little longer, they're my saving grace.