[National Champion Chris Cole]

Spirited Away


vs.

The Jungle Book


Poll closes Monday, August 27th, 8 AM Eastern.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Some half-naked kid running around with animals? Might as well call this "The Tex Book"

[williamssl]

That's why I voted for it, too.

[Lucky]

well, I've heard of one of these.

And I used to love Louie's "I wanna be like you" song.

[Moreofabreadguyanyway]

I'm not a big Jungle Book guy, but I've never understood the appeal of Spirited Away.

[Chris Eco]

Boo you all.

[Lucky]

Dude, I looked it up on Wiki to find out what the hell it is and I had to stop reading the damn synopsis. I mean, huh? Some Japanese anime about people turning into pigs and a 10 year old girl fighting hummingbirds in a bathhouse where a magic river spirit lives as a dragon? WTF? I'd be tempted to watch it just for how insane it seems if I thought I could sit through that if it turned out to be subtitled.

[Batman]

Yeah, it's weird. It's like a dream. And it's amazing.

Major Japanese animated movies are almost always available both in subtitled and overdubbed form these days.

And I already posted a link to where people could see one of the beautiful scenes and get an idea what Eco and I are talking about. Here it is again, and, yes, it's overdubbed:

Jungle Book is cool and all, but also really, really gay.

Spirited Away shouldn't be blown off in the first round, damn it.

It looks like it might be too late, though.

[chretienbabacool]

This is actually a hard one for me. I loved the Jungle Book as a kid, loved the songs, the characters, the book, etc. But I also love Spirited Away. I generally dislike Japanese animation, but this is the best possible example of it, with beautiful imagery, a female character who's actually strong, amazing and funny supporting characters and a great plot.

I wish these two weren't competing right here, but I think I have to go with the Jungle Book for the childhood love aspect.

[creepy]

Don't care.

Although, I worked at a movie theatre as a high highschooler and we edited the Jungle Book remake movie with a scene from Delores Claiborne. The scene where the old lady falls down the stairs was put in the middle of some gay song and dance number.

We almost got fired.

[salmonjunkie]

I do like Jungle Book a lot but Spirited Away is a masterpiece. You can't judge it by its synopsis, Lucky, you really do have to see it. It's not typical anime shit at all.

[Krydor]

It's been awhile since I've seen Spirited Away, but I enjoyed Jungle Book.

Due to the overabundance of Disney Movies, I went with Spirited Away.

[Lori]

Poor Spirited Away. It doesn't even look like it's going to make it past the first round... I love The Jungle Book, but Spirited Away is amazing. I don't care what the synapsis said, go rent it anyway, I doubt you'll be disappointed. Unless you suck.

[Lucky]

salmonjunkie said:

I do like Jungle Book a lot but Spirited Away is a masterpiece. You can't judge it by its synopsis, Lucky, you really do have to see it. It's not typical anime shit at all.

I'm not saying I discount it for the freaky synopsis. I just went there to get a sense of what it was. And 3 paragraphs into 10 I was completely lost. I've never heard of it before this thread. But I was serious when I said I'd consider watching it just to see how the hell it plays out but I fear subtitles would be too much (and not that I hate subtitles but on top of animation this weird I think I wouldn't be able to deal). If its dubbed, meh. Maybe I'll try it.

Honestly, my basic complete lack of interest in fantasy and the fact that I don't think I've ever enjoyed an anime feature serve as much bigger roadblocks than language. Plus... and call me weird... but I don't actually like much of any of this wave of animated features. Hated Shrek. Hated Nemo. Stuff like Ice Age and the Incredibles were fine and all but nothing that really interested me or that I care to watch a second time. Which I don't totally get. I enjoy the comic cartoons and I watch Foster's. And I like watching the cartoons of my childhood. But the whole Pixar and anime worlds just do nothing for me.

[Courtney]

I know every word to Bear Necessities. Nuff said.

[chretienbabacool]

Lucky, I dislike anime too the vast majority of the time, but I did love Spirited Away. It's just so different from anything else in the anime market.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Locked: The 12-5 match claims another victim. Jungle Book wins in an upset. USA! USA!