Animé films - any recommendations?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by scragham

anything with the name miyazaki attached to it is awesome, but they're not so much action and gunfighting sequences...

And for those that are, don't forget that just because it wasn't part of Disney's deal doesn't mean "Castle of Cagliostro" (movie version of the old Cartoon Network "Lupin III" series) isn't pure Miyazaki...
(In fact, Manga had to reissue a "lookalike" edition strategically packaged to resemble Disney's Studio Ghibli disks, just to try and stem the confusion...)

And getting off of features and onto TV-based movie goodness, you may need to research a bit of "Urusei Yatsura" backstory and characters online--okay, maybe a lot of it --before watching "Beautiful Dreamer", but since we're talking classics, it's worth it.
It's more fun than you'll have at most serious Mamoru Oshii epics, trust us.

Originally Posted by Drew664

The only ones that I can say that you will enjoy are these titles in this order:
Spawn (the animated HBO series)

("Spawn is anime because it's serious"? "Ninja Scroll and Iria are cool because I found them at BB"??--Oh, lordy, what a 90's flashback.
FTR, Spawn--and not just because it's Canadian--is not anime. Spawn is Gargoyles with cuss-words.)