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Sen To, X-Men 2
liquidbrains writes "With 'Princess Mononoke' fresh in our memories, the number one highest grossing film in Japan -ever- is coming to the US. Thanks to Disney and Pixar's John Lasseter, who has supervised the dub, we can soon expect a fine English adaptation of animation master Hayao Miyazaki's latest masterpiece, 'Spirited Away'. See the trailer here." Reader thefalconer writes "It seems that Apple has just released the very first trailer to X-Men 2 on their website. From what I've seen this movie looks like it's going to rock! Too bad I have to wait for May of next year!"
Dont buy or rent this movie. It only helps Disney kill open source.
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It really sucks, when you have to deal with an English dub of a great movie. Is it too much to ask Rodent inc. to release this film in original Japanese in the digital theatres? Maybe even at midnight only?
The English dub for Mononoke Hime was incredibly bad, it was a true pain hearing just a few minutes of it. I don't mind English at all, and I enjoy movies in English, but that dub was complete crap. I can understand why the audience failed, because let's face it, it sucked.
That said, I liked the dub of GITS and found it to be pretty good (but it lacked the much better sound effects in the japanese soundtrack). I will probably buy the movie if it is released with the japanese soundtrack.
I hope that Disney and Ghibli can co-produce the language tracks next time (might need to make certain small changes in the movie depending on language, which is only natural) so that the japanese and english tracks are laid down side by side, and it contains the exact same sounds (minus voices). That would make it a lot better, and some people might even do both langauge tracks (ever seen the dub of Das Boot? Most of the people dubbed themselves into English).
And while I am in 'this is upsetting me' mode I should mention that I hope that the japanese DTS track is included instead of the inferior DD track. If you like anime with a serious tone I can recommend Jin-Roh which was great, and had a beautiful and strong score, which was thankfully in glorious DTS (you also get the music on a CD in the spec. ed. and the music is real good).