My Neighbor Totoro (Welcome To The Basement)
My Neighbor Totoro (Welcome To The Basement)
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Cartoon June continues in the basement. Take a journey back to childhood with us as we pay a visit to My Neighbor Totoro. He’s cute, cuddly and surprisingly loud.
In Seen It, we discuss animation — adventurers, princesses, dreamers and fireflies.
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Thanks for all the great comments. Keep em coming! If you watch one of the movies we discuss, let us know what you thought of it.
Welcome To The Basement” is a show about watching, discussing and having fun with movies. Matt choses the movie and Craig doesn’t know what it is until the cameras start rolling, so none of the discussion or riffing is planned ahead of time.
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September 26, 2018 @ 4:13 pm
ok I’m laughing, at 15:16 you’re using the Finnish cover haha 😀 fun lil’ bit.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:15 pm
but why is it the same dad from kikis delivery service!!
September 26, 2018 @ 4:16 pm
I don’t know why, but Craig’s air-keyboarding at 8:17 always cracks me up.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:17 pm
I cant believe theyre watching the dub
September 26, 2018 @ 4:19 pm
So I Married a Axe Murder and Captain Ron are good
September 26, 2018 @ 4:21 pm
Wow I heard the new dub was bad but not this bad
September 26, 2018 @ 4:23 pm
My burger is Dont tell mom the babysitter’s dead
September 26, 2018 @ 4:23 pm
Princess Mononoke is the superior Miyazaki movie.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:23 pm
an episode where craig is not wearing a suit jacket? heresy!
September 26, 2018 @ 4:27 pm
This was my movie when I was a little girl
September 26, 2018 @ 4:28 pm
I hate chino cartoons this was not interesting
September 26, 2018 @ 4:29 pm
you should watch "in bed with santa" every Swedish family watches it every christmas, it is hillarious.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
maybe its a cultural difference thing, but, that bath part doesn’t sit right. Those kids are dangerously close to his dad junk.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
"There’s definitely something weird in this house!"
"That’s great!"
This dude gives zero fucks.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:31 pm
COULD YOU DO MORE ANIMATED FILMS LIKE THIS ONE?!?! It was hilarious 😀
September 26, 2018 @ 4:33 pm
I find it kinda funny how much you guys change the pronunciation of Totoro
September 26, 2018 @ 4:33 pm
Just had a lot of fun watching My Neighbour Totoro with you two making funny jokes about some of the scenes ! XD
Arigato ~ !
Greetings from Kobe, Japan
September 26, 2018 @ 4:34 pm
Matt, you need to watch Grave of the Fireflies. Some movies should be required viewing for movie buffs such as yourself, no matter how uncomfortable or sad you think they may make you.
Also, if you guys watch another foreign film in the future, please use subtitles instead of crappy American dubs. I can probably count on one hand the number of dubs I have found over the years that were equal to or superior to their original language.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:34 pm
I would be lying if I said that I didn’t cry my eyes out during the last like 20 minutes of this movie
September 26, 2018 @ 4:36 pm
"In animation, nothing is found—everything is created."
That’s an incredible quote.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:37 pm
Craig’s raspy voice is making me crazy! I want him! I’ll take him
September 26, 2018 @ 4:38 pm
I agree absolutely with Craig about cartoons. I submit: ARCHER! (Laaaannnaaaaa…………!)
September 26, 2018 @ 4:40 pm
Is Craig out of focus or does he just have a lower resolution camera no him? I was looking closely at his face and the camera seen to focus more on his hands the his face. I have been watching you guys for a while and this videos I noticed more then before. Is it just me or is their something off with Craig’s camera?
September 26, 2018 @ 4:40 pm
Never realized they watched a movie starring Superman after watching a Batman movie. Tim Daly, who provides the voice of the father in My Neighbor Totoro, also voiced Superman/ Clark Kent in the Superman TAS and beyond.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:41 pm
when did craig get married?
September 26, 2018 @ 4:45 pm
I don’t understand how is this considered his best work… If you ask me Princess Mononoke is 100 times better.
Also, this one is creeping me out. No mater the culture of the nation you can’t tell me that the huge constant smile and the roaring is anything you can call cute or friendly.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:45 pm
You two are shit heads. And you watched the english version. Also racist?
September 26, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
You watched it in English? Noooooo! I remember this came to Japanimation weekend at Cinematheque CIA (Cleveland Institute of Art)
September 26, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
Love it when you do animation! Keep up the great show!
September 26, 2018 @ 4:49 pm
19:52
Well…I didn’t expect to come here to learn what Craig’s O face looks like, but, there ya go.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:52 pm
I remember seeing this movie when I was young, maybe five or six?
I don’t remember much except for the cat bus. I don’t know about this movie, man.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
I think mom had radiation poisoning ?
September 26, 2018 @ 4:56 pm
Dag nabit Disney Butchered the original dub! Damm Mouse.
September 26, 2018 @ 4:56 pm
Ya probably seen it but, what about Do the Right Thing?
September 26, 2018 @ 4:57 pm
I live in the corn lmfao
September 26, 2018 @ 4:58 pm
I usually really like your show but shouldn’t you have watched the original version of this? Watching dubbed movies is like trying to enjoy non-german stuff on german TV – simply not doable. It takes away so much of the experience.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
Very awesome you guys broke into Miyazaki! I would -actually- donate though if you guys watched Porco Rosso. One of his best and I think it would fit Matt/Craig’s style and taste very well.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
The mum is suffering from tuberculosis, it’s why the ‘cold’ is such a scare. Miyazaki’s mum suffered from TB, and the reason the story is about two girls is because Miyazaki says it would have been too emotionally hard to make it about two boys.
There is a novel written about Totoro that Miyazaki illustrated that mention that she got TB. Also the hospital she stays at, Shichikokuyama Hospital, was known for dealing with TB patients.
And it is heavily implied by the end credit that she lives, you guys in the comment section. Let happy little film, stay happy, don’t over think it.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
I got a chance to see this film on the big screen last week. This is the only film where I left the theatre with more energy than I came in with. most movies I watch either end up satisfied, bored, or tired–but I was literally grinning and giddy. and yes, I saw the subbed version. just the waiting for the bus scene alone, everything about this movie had me watching and genuinely interested.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:02 pm
I made it until 4:30 then I had to stop watching you annoying nerds doing damage to something beautiful.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:03 pm
What a weird toon.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:03 pm
The dubbed version isn’t very good. All of the original Studio Ghibli movies are wonderful and I highly recommend giving the subbed versions a chance.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:03 pm
An amazing cartoon I just saw: Interstella 5555. I never knew that a movie with zero dialogue could draw me in so much and really have such an interesting story and the music is (obviously) brilliant!
September 26, 2018 @ 5:08 pm
Seen it…the abominable dr. phibes!
September 26, 2018 @ 5:09 pm
in the original Japanese she’s dying. I’m pretty sure it’s cancer. they changed it in the English dub
September 26, 2018 @ 5:09 pm
WOOOHOO! One of my fav movies! So happy you are doing this one! =)
September 26, 2018 @ 5:11 pm
Have you heard the fan theory that Totoro is the god of death, and both Mei and Satsuki get lost and die at the end of the story? Ghibli studios has denied this; but a lot of people still adhere to it. Jessica Nigri even did an awesome costume about that for this last Comicon with an axe that has a Totoro smile along the edge, two eyes above that, if the axe is held with the handle horizontally, and above that, the totoro ears, which in this case are spikes, as you might see in a battle axe.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:11 pm
Have you guys seen "the lobster" yet? I thought the acting was flat, the comedy didnt land, and the social commentary was WAAAAAY too heavy handed. The only good thing about it was the soundtrack. what do you guys think??
September 26, 2018 @ 5:11 pm
Mom has radiation poisoning O_O. Ok maybe not, but that would be a weird twist on a children’s movie that fit the times if the war they’re talking about is WW2.
September 26, 2018 @ 5:12 pm
When Craig started talking about cartoons being the highest art form I was so pumped since that’s actually a belief I hold firmly (for the same reasons he described.)