{"id":2169,"date":"2025-01-09T22:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T06:12:36","slug":"streaming-retro-movie-adventures-my-neighbor-totoro-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/09\/streaming-retro-movie-adventures-my-neighbor-totoro-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Streaming Retro Movie Adventures: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro.webp\" alt=\"Mei in My Neighbor Totoro\" class=\"wp-image-2170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-300x38.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-768x96.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:38,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/dogwelder\\\/list\\\/movies-i-watched-in-2025&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250422025620\\\/https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/dogwelder\\\/list\\\/movies-i-watched-in-2025\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 09:30:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-11 13:45:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 18:36:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 12:12:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 08:10:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 11:56:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 11:20:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 03:25:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-31 02:24:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 07:37:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-10 15:45:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-13 19:28:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 13:31:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 11:45:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 13:13:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 10:13:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 22:27:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 08:03:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:58:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 15:43:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 06:32:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 22:28:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 12:12:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 04:17:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-08 06:21:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 05:35:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-18 15:10:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-25 15:13:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-01 15:37:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-01 15:37:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My students have raved about this movie for decades. <strong>Decades!<\/strong> I always thought &#8220;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s good, but I&#8217;m too old to enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s wonderful. I&#8217;m not sure how a movie that starts with almost twenty minutes of people moving into a house is so charming, but it was absolutely captivating. The animation works so well that I found myself thinking &#8220;that girl is really good; I wonder if she made other movies.&#8221; Not if the voice actor had done more work- if the animated girl had continued her acting career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s two kid movies in a row that I watched and enjoyed after years of people saying &#8220;watch this &#8211; you&#8217;ll enjoy it.&#8221; Maybe it&#8217;s time to accept I should finally watch Paddington 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Would you like a confusing poster?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for My Neighbor Totoro in the style of the first Terminator poster.\" class=\"wp-image-2172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/my-neighbor-totoro.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be back&#8230; with acorns.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All my silly posters can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/dogwelder\/list\/movies-i-watched-in-2025\/\">https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/dogwelder\/list\/movies-i-watched-in-2025\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least, they&#8217;ll be there if they don&#8217;t get mysteriously pulled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want a cat bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[129,161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i-made-a-thing","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}