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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9640318" data-attributes="member: 7035894">This is hard to take seriously. First, it makes me doubt that you actually know much anime - if you are familiar with even just Miyazaki's work and dismiss it out of hand, then...yeah. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess.Secondly, doubting the sincerity of anime's fans and essentially calling them poseurs is deeply unfair, and to me reads like "I don't understand this thing so the people who say they do must be lying." Not cool, in any genre.I don't get opera. But that doesn't make its fans liars. Dismissing an entire genre...yeesh.I think it's a great film (Gerwig only makes great films) that, for me, was slightly undone by the America Ferrara speech, which I found too on the nose and rehearsed (i.e. people don't really talk like that, at least not impromptu), but is the highlight of the movie for a whole lot of other folks. So what do I know? That's about my only mild criticism of the entire movie, anyway. I wouldn't call it underrated because it is incredibly acclaimed, both popularly and critically.Her best film is Lady Bird but you can't really call a film that sits at 99% on RT underrated. I teach it in my Year 1 classes - it pairs really well with the novel The Great Gatsby.</blockquote>