http://www.beyondhollywood.com/black-magic-m-66-1987-movie-review/ Hollywood, Indie, Asian, Foreign, Horror, and Genre Movie Reviews and News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:19:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/black-magic-m-66-1987-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-67160 Made in DNA Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:54:08 +0000 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=1536#comment-67160 You forget (or didn't know) that Kiki's had a budget far bigger than M-66 and was a full-length movie (compared to the OVA hour-long M-66) made at a time when Ghibli was the money maker in animation. You can't compare the two. Sponsors are EXTREMELY important in Japan. Nothing gets made without corporate sponsors. When 80s animation was being made, it was being made on shoe-strings many times. Is this the fault of the animator or animation houses (many of whom went bankrupt and are now gone)? No. It's not. So before you start comparing movies and spouting off about how good animation is today or even in the 90s, don't forget that it was the 70s and 80s generation fans who are NOW MAKING animation. If it weren't for their love of the comparatively 'bad' animation of yesterdecades, you wouldn't be enjoying the great animation of today. Oh... and now that Shirow's work is so well recognized and well-to-do (thanks to little diddies like M-66 and others) Ghibli now works on Shirow's latest projects, cuz they can't cut it anymore. You forget (or didn’t know) that Kiki’s had a budget far bigger than M-66 and was a full-length movie (compared to the OVA hour-long M-66) made at a time when Ghibli was the money maker in animation. You can’t compare the two. Sponsors are EXTREMELY important in Japan. Nothing gets made without corporate sponsors. When 80s animation was being made, it was being made on shoe-strings many times. Is this the fault of the animator or animation houses (many of whom went bankrupt and are now gone)? No. It’s not. So before you start comparing movies and spouting off about how good animation is today or even in the 90s, don’t forget that it was the 70s and 80s generation fans who are NOW MAKING animation. If it weren’t for their love of the comparatively ‘bad’ animation of yesterdecades, you wouldn’t be enjoying the great animation of today. Oh… and now that Shirow’s work is so well recognized and well-to-do (thanks to little diddies like M-66 and others) Ghibli now works on Shirow’s latest projects, cuz they can’t cut it anymore.

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