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Mar 30, 2008 5:01 AM #105626
I don't think this would really go in the general help but....

What are some of your favorite movies/ animes/ or anything related to television that i can get in torrents.

Tired of downloading movies, wanting to watch some good anime or something.

Post them all here, and if you don't mind a brief disription of it.
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Mar 30, 2008 5:06 AM #105627
Spirited Away:The movie begins by introducing Chihiro, a whiny, pessimistic child, who is very annoyed at having to move to a new town. While en route to their new house in their car (2001 Audi A4), Chihiro's father attempts a shortcut; they subsequently lose their way and come across a mysterious tunnel. Out of curiosity, they enter it, not knowing that they have entered a kind of mythological Japanese spirit world drawn from the Shinto religious traditions. The family crosses a verdant field and enters what appears to be an abandoned theme park lined with fully-stocked restaurants. Both parents impulsively eat the food they find there, and as a result transform into pigs.

Chihiro's distress at losing her parents is compounded by the discovery that the world around her has changed and her body seems to be dissolving. A mysterious boy named Haku then appears and comforts her. Haku gives her something to eat, which makes her solid again. He smuggles her into a large bathhouse, owned and operated by the tyrannical witch Yubaba, where the thousands of spirits in the Shinto religion come to refresh themselves. Haku tells Chihiro that the only way she can remain in the spirit-world long enough to rescue her parents is by gaining employment in Yubaba's bathhouse.

Following Haku's advice, Chihiro descends a long staircase to the boiler room, where she asks Kamaji - the humanoid, six-armed boiler operator - for work. He rebuffs her until one of the coal-carrying sprites (a theme of Miyazaki's repeated from My Neighbor Totoro's soot sprites) collapses under an extra-heavy lump. Chihiro takes the sprite's place and feeds the boiler. Impressed, Kamaji warms towards the girl and tells her to ask Yubaba herself for a job.

A young woman named Lin helps Chihiro find her way through the labyrinthine building, ultimately diverting a fellow servant by tantalizing him with food while Chihiro squeezes into an elevator behind a grotesque but benign radish (daikon) spirit.

In Yubaba's penthouse suite, Chihiro repeatedly and stubbornly asks for a job, overriding the monstrous witch's refusals. Yubaba ultimately consents, on condition that Chihiro give up her name. Yubaba literally takes possession of Chihiro's name by grasping the kanji characters from Chihiro's signed contract, leaving Chihiro with one part of one character of her original 2-character name, in isolation pronounced "Sen". Taking a person's name gives Yubaba power to keep its owner in her service forever; it is revealed that Haku is also in Yubaba's service, and remains so because she has taken part of his full name.

The following morning, Haku takes Sen to the pig pen and indicates her parents among the other pigs, urging her to memorize them. He then reminds her of her full name, warning her to keep it secret.

While at work, Sen gives admittance to a wraithlike spirit called No Face, who returns the favor by helping her obtain water needed to bathe a "stink spirit" whom no one else will help. After bathing, the stink spirit is revealed to be a powerful river spirit who rewards Sen with a small ball. This ball later turns out to be a strong emetic.

Subsequently, Sen sees Haku in the form of a white dragon, and perceives that he is under attack by a horde of paper figures resembling birds. She helps him escape from these, although one of them adheres to her back unseen.

Desperate to find the injured Haku, Sen searches the bathhouse. In one room, she encounters Yubaba's gigantic infant son, Boh. Boh attempts to retain Sen as a playmate; she escapes by playing on his fears of sickness and hastens to find Haku. She finds him lying on the floor of Yubaba's office, wounded and bleeding. The paper object stuck to her back transforms into Zeniba, Yubaba's twin sister, whose sigil Haku had stolen. When Zeniba is distracted by Boh, a harpy employed by his mother, and three spirits employed by Yubaba, Zeniba transforms them into a mouse, a hummingbird, and a replica of Boh, respectively. At this, Haku strikes the paper figure with his tail, causing Zeniba to vanish from the room. He then topples into Kamaji's boiler room with Sen and her transformed compatriots in tow.

Using the river spirit's emetic, Sen causes Haku to spit out the stolen sigil, which he had swallowed, as well as a black slug. Kamaji orders Sen to kill the slug, on grounds that it brings bad luck; this she does. Haku remains comatose; hoping to lift Zeniba's curse, Sen sets out to return the sigil to Zeniba.

Meanwhile, No Face has become intoxicated with the greedy atmosphere of the bathhouse and swells into a huge, aggressive monster, giving illusory gold to the bathhouse workers in exchange for lavish amounts of food. When they do not comply with his demands, he swallows three of them; this causes a panic and the entire bathhouse is thrown into pandemonium. Sen manages to solve the problem by feeding No Face the remaining emetic making him throw up his tainted substance and then leading him out of the bathhouse; No Face then reduces back to his former demure size and personality.

Sen travels by train with No Face, Boh, and the hummingbird, to Zeniba's faraway cottage. Inside Zeniba's home, the three spirits are put to work spinning thread while Sen converses with a now amiable Zeniba who is actually a very kindhearted grandmother like figure. Sen gives the sigil back to Zeniba, apologizing for having killed the black slug. Zeniba reveals that the slug had been one of Yubaba's means of controlling Haku, and that the curse put on the seal has already been broken by Sen's love for Haku. Sen also confides in Zeniba, whom she has now befriended, her proper name of Chihiro.

Back in the bathhouse, Yubaba discovers Boh's absence and is enraged. Haku, now revived and restored to his humanoid form, offers Boh's safe return in exchange for Sen and her parents to be freed and restored to normal. Yubaba accepts, but promises to set Sen one final task. (The plots of the Japanese-language and English-language versions differ slightly here: in the Japanese version, Yubaba and Haku talk about that which is necessary to break the spell on Sen's parents, while no such conversation occurs in the English version.)

Haku, in dragon form, finds Sen at Zeniba's cottage. Along with Boh and the hummingbird, they all fly back to the bathhouse, leaving No Face to live with Zeniba as her assistant. En route to the bathhouse, Chihiro remembers a previously suggested meeting with Haku: some time ago, she had fallen into a river and was rescued by the river's spirit. She realizes that the spirit of this river, called Kohaku River, and her friend Haku, are one and the same. At this realization, Haku's dragon form molts away, and he rejoices to recall his name (and hence is finally delivered from Yubaba's control).

They return to the bathhouse, where Yubaba and a large crowd have gathered to witness Chihiro's final task: to pick out her enchanted parents from a group of pigs. Chihiro correctly states that none of the pigs displayed by Yubaba are her parents, who have already been restored to human form and sent back to the human world. She is taken to rejoin them by Haku, who bids her farewell just as she is about to meet her parents, and promises that he will come see her again.

Chihiro and her parents (who have been deprived of all memory of the spirit world), return to their car and resume their journey to their new home. Chihiro, perhaps as a result of her adventures, is more confident in herself and more willing to embrace her new situation.

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i really reccomend this, its my favorut movie.

and Howls Moving Castle
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Mar 30, 2008 5:07 AM #105628
I don't watch anime but I've heard One Piece is supposed to be pretty good.

As far as movies go, look into anything by Darren Aronofsky.
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Mar 30, 2008 5:19 AM #105631
Wow, i've seen bits and pieces of Spirited Way. May download that.

Exilement: What genre does he film? action, mystery, suspence?
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Mar 30, 2008 5:27 AM #105637
Yeah, you should definitely check out howls moving castle and spirited away.
I'm not much into anime, but the art in those movies and the animation is just amazing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9hbntEofuT0
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Mar 30, 2008 5:31 AM #105639
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Exilement: What genre does he film? action, mystery, suspence?


They're usually art films, I guess you could call them psychological thrillers. You might have heard of Requiem for a Dream. It follows the lives of several people dealing with different types of addiction.
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Mar 30, 2008 5:37 AM #105643
Ohhh, sounds interesting.
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Mar 30, 2008 6:41 AM #105688
Movies I Recommend:
Enemy Of The State, great movie with WIll Smith, loads of action and government cover-up stuff which I like.

Network (1985), real oldie. Tells the tale of a news anchor who goes suicidal but the network exploits his madness for a new show and makes profit until their money maker goes rogue. The rants he does are genius

Back To The Future, another oldie but need I say more? Awesome movie.

Shooter, not a bad action flick with loads of shooting, explosions and snipers and more goernment cover-up stuff.

Anime:
FLCL (Fooly Cooly), only size episodes long but has been deemed one of the best animes of all time. Has alien women wielding guitars seducing young boys while bashing him over the head with her guitar with a motor on it while riding a super vespa (Motor scooter)

But that's just me.
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Mar 30, 2008 6:59 AM #105705
ive seen enemy of the state, back to the future, and shooter.

Seen like the first episode of FLCL and loved it, never got to watch anymore of it though.

So FLCl is up so far.

Anybody have any good movies that have a really good twist to it, or the ones that make you think, or lead you on?
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Mar 30, 2008 7:03 AM #105710
Network does just that, Other than that, I haven't been caught up on my movies.
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Mar 30, 2008 7:35 AM #105723
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Yeah, you should definitely check out howls moving castle and spirited away.


i liked those two.


For shows, Dexter is a good one.
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Mar 30, 2008 6:09 PM #105958
Oh, I ****ing love Dexter. But is it available in seasons and in a torrent?
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Mar 30, 2008 6:21 PM #105971
2 good Anime Movies:

Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.
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Mar 30, 2008 6:31 PM #105983
I suggest Ghost in the Shell.

"The setting of Ghost in the Shell is cyberpunk or postcyberpunk, similar to that of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. More than other cyberpunk authors, however, Masamune Shirow (the creator of the series) focuses on the ethical and philosophical ramifications of the widespread merging of humanity and technology, the development of artificial intelligence and an omnipresent computer network set the stage for a reevaluation of human identity and uniqueness"

A really philosophical series, and I love it.
There are 2 seasons of anime TV-series, and three movies. Personally I liked the series more, because they gave more to think about., but the moves are awesome nonetheless.

Interesting fact: The Wachowski brothers, makers of the Matrix trilogy, have acknowledged the influence of Ghost in the Shell.
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Mar 30, 2008 7:58 PM #106070
I know Ghost In The SHell, only because there is some awesome hentai of it and that one episode where the main character saved that kid and was half-naked with him which was awesome.