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Mimi wo sumaseba (1995)
Perfect for anyone
I am a grown man, I love Clint Eastwood movies, and eat beef jerky. Occasionally a film aimed towards a female audience will come along that often speak to the inner soul of a man (i.e. Juno, Mean Girls, Clueless). This film definitely fitted pretty well into that category without a comedic overtone.
It is a pretty straightforward love story that's been played out many times that has a very awesome feel to it. I was a bit sketchy about watching this at first but I certainly am glad that I did; I can't think of a bad movie that Miyazaki has done. If you do find the courage to man up and watch this, you'll definitely appreciate the little things that love/life has to offer, and realize how awesome of a song John Denver's "Country Road" truly is.
Singles (1992)
dry but good
I'm a guy, I drink beer, smoke cigs, I'm insensitive and i don't care that much about couples and stuff. But this movie was really good, I liked how it covered the whole troubles of finding love (I know how troublesome it can be), and so on. But the things i didn't like were how Hollywood wanted us to focus on Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon; when most of the story was going on with Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott. The soundtrack was great and thank god they didn't put Nirvana on it (I am from Seattle and I can't stand Nirvana, everywhere i go i see a die hard fan of Nirvana and i hear Smells like teen Spirit every 5 minutes on the radio), but most of the grunge they put on it didn't really "fit in" to the Scenario. The cameos were dope too. But the main reason why I liked this movie so much is the scenery. The view of Lake Union at the end (thats not really a spoiler) reminded me of the fact that Seattle is the most awesome city in the United States. But next time Mr Crowe should hire actors that are not from New York.