The Place Promised in our Early Days

Swordfish23 · Post by **Swordfish23** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:48 am

Anyone seen it? I just watched it after buying it from Advfilms.com and damn..that was really great. Id recommend it to anyone who likes movies even if they dont have action and are just all about the characters basically. Great music in it, dubbing is really good too, stories pretty good too. Id give it like a 4.7/5. Anyways if anyones seen it get back to me, would love to discuss it.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 2:40 pm

I think that a lot of people here know this movie by the title <i>Beyond the Clouds</i>...

Swordfish23 · Post by **Swordfish23** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:06 pm

It has two different names?

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:28 pm

Swordfish23 wrote:It has two different names?

Not exactly. The Japanese release had the main title Kumo no Muko, Yakusoku no Basho, with the subtitle The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Kumo no Muko... literally translates to Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place, but for the English release, ADV dropped the Japanese main title and used only the subtitle on their release.

As for the film itself, I enjoyed it. I liked Shinkai's previous work (Hoshi no Koe), and was looking forward to seeing this one. Like HnK, he has issues with his pacing, but KnM's pacing is much better than HnK's. I think on his next trip out, he might have pacing completely worked out.

All of the characters were interesting, some more than others, though I wish I knew more about the world they were in. Maybe reading the prequel manga Tou no Muko (Beyond the Tower) would have helped.

The animation, especially the computer-generated parts, is gorgeous, which is welcome, given how weak the cel-based parts were in HnK.

I agree, the music is quite good as well. Hopefully, we'll be getting this soundtrack in the US soon.

Shinkai definitely has my attention on whatever his next project will be.

Swordfish23 · Post by **Swordfish23** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 4:59 pm

About the world they were in it seemed almost entirely normal until it started talking about everything having to do with the tower. Besides that everything seemed pretty normal and realistic. Like the hole north and south division and all that.

HyperTails · Post by **HyperTails** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:16 am

I have this on Netflix, I've been waiting since the day it came out for it to come. It's still on the long wait list. T_T

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:35 pm

I didn't quite like it. Too much trams, railroads, electric poles. But not much of the story. 2/5.

Swordfish23 · Post by **Swordfish23** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:30 pm

Lol that sounds like a bad reason for not liking it, not enough action for you?

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:56 pm

I guess so. I fell asleep while watching it.
But I liked the CG at least it's a good source for AMV footage.

HyperTails · Post by **HyperTails** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:20 pm

I finally saw it today. It was a good movie, even though there was really no action in it (unless you call the main character getting punched or that one plane being blown up action). I enjoyed the music to it, but I think they played the same song too many times over.