Just finished Porco Rosso.
Made me laugh numerous times, awe-inspiring, interesting characters, a good film overall.
...Until the ending, who is just plain disappointing to watch. Wait, who am I kidding, there's NO ending.
I mean, Porco and Curtis go prepare themselves to fight the italian air force... and then bam, epilogue. No final battle, no dénouement, no sense of finishing a story.
Feeling pretty disappointed by that. It's like you're in the final pages of a book and there's nothing as a final chapter.
Just watched it myself actually, and I have to agree. A great film overall, but there wasn't really as much of a sense of closure to it as I'd hoped- granted, you do see what happened with most of them, but you don't really find out what happened to Porco afterwards. Mind you, I did hear that they are planning a sequel (Porco Rosso- The Last Sortie) set during the Spanish Civil War with an older Porco, so if that gets made, maybe we'll see then. I'd watched the English dub as well, so it was quite awesome to hear Tim Burton's Batman (Michael Keaton) doing the voice of Porco.
I also watched the Japanese version of Grave of the Fireflies beforehand- it's definitely one of the most heart-wrenching films I've seen, particularly when Setsuko dies, and the scenes with her outside the shelter and her cremation afterwards.