personaly i don't like miyazaki movies,yes i know,i am an horrible sinner for saying this and i guess that coming from me it seems that i'm just doing it because i want to be a contrarian
but to me he just looks like some kind of master hippie animator,everything is about "WAR = BAD! NATURE = AWESOME!" for example i never watched nausica but let's just read the first paragraph of the plot summary
One thousand years after the "Seven Days of Fire", an apocalyptic war which destroyed civilization and Earth's ecosystem, scattered settlements exist throughout the Toxic jungle (renamed Sea of Decay in subtitles and the manga translation), a forest swarming with giant insects. Everything in the Toxic Jungle is lethal to humans.
of all the miyazaki movie i watched,the only one i liked was spirited away because it didn't give me this feeling,for references i watched porco rosso,totoro,princess mononoke and of course spirited away
bebpo suggested me once to watch laputa describing it as "the plot of every rpg ever!" but i never got around to do it...