I don't really (honestly) understand this critique.

What's wrong in being honest?

Goro works are clearly inferior to his father's works on many levels.

He's no amateur, that's for sure, but he's no master either.

Among the best Japanese animation artists, he's probably average.

He's no Takahata, Oshii, Otomo, Anno, Watanabe, Hosoda by a long shot.

Hayao worst rated works on Rotten Tomatoes are "The cat returns" and "The wind rises" and I completely agree on that, with a rating of 88%.

Goro worst is "Earwig and the Witch" that I have not watched with a 28%, "Tales From Earthsea" that I've seen and did not like much with 38% and the best is "From Up on Poppy Hill" with 87%, which was good, but not "Spirited Away", "Princess Mononoke" or "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" good.

And Nausicaa itself is not as good as a movie as the manga, that is an order of magnitude better!

Have you ever read or heard about the 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart children that survived?

No?

You are not the only one.

It's just the way it was done, unsympathetically, in front of the whole world. I wouldn't do that to an employee, let alone my own child.

That doesn't make Hayao a bad person.

I see him as a concerned father.

"Don't put yourself in the position of being judged in the very competitive field of Japanese animation, because your works are not as great as you think they are"

It's like being the son of Michelangelo.

Of course everyone of us tells kids that their terrible drawings are sooooo goooood, but they are terrible.

Now, Goro was already 40 years old when his first movie came out.

Isn't that a false dichotomy? I think there's more possibilities than either walking out of the theater in the middle of your son's first movie and tell to the press how he's still far from being ready to make films, or treating your son like a 5 year old.

> I think there's more possibilities than either walking out of the theater in the middle of your son's first movie and tell to the press how he's still far from being ready to make films, or treating your son like a 5 year old.

That's a gross misrepresentation of what happened.

He was asked and he answered honestly.

End of story.

Who cares? Goro works are generally not good if compared with the works of his father, like a 5 years old drawings compared to their parents' drawings.

But this is not the school's play that every parent hates but attends because their children (they assume) care so much about it (I, for example, hated it and never wanted my parents to come and see me fail at something I was never good at and never liked), if you don't like the movie of some director, you can walk away and say "I did not like the movie", nobody dies, nobody should cry.

I sincerely wish more fathers did that, so we would be spared so many bad movies!

There's nothing wrong in being not equally skilled as your parents at something, but for the love of God, why are people so upset about what Miyazaki had to say about the works of his son and (BTW) be completely right about them?

Is it some form of projection with their own father?