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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2021 8:16:16 GMT -5
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Post by windfisch on Nov 13, 2021 10:42:46 GMT -5
If there's one constant in the universe, it's the revival of pop culture phenomena that used to be en vogue three decades ago - good old 30 year cycle!
I'd be impressed however, if they kept the original "inked comic book"-style and resisted the ongoing trend of "angular" character designs. I wasn't really into the show back then (I had Batman TAS and Gargoyles), but it was a respectable effort (as far as I can tell).
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Post by lurker on Nov 13, 2021 11:24:14 GMT -5
I do like how they’re trying to include both members of the original crew & the original voice actors.
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Post by Woody Alien on Dec 4, 2021 17:08:37 GMT -5
I like Ballmasterz. I hope it comes back for another season. Probably you don't even come on this forum anymore, but guess what? There's a new season of Ballmastrz! I'm not going to watch it but I watched a video about it and it seems to be made with a higher budget and a much higher quality of animation.
As for me, I just watched on Netflix Tear Along the Dotted Line, an animated series based on the books of a comic book writer and cartoonist I enjoy very much, Zerocalcare. Since he's from Italy I doubt anyone here has heard of him, but since the cartoon has been distributed worldwide in several different dubs, it's still made for a much greater audience and one can enjoy it even without having read the books. If you did, there's lots of nods about them, but they're not necessary to understand the story. It's actually very relatable if one is in the age range of Zerocalcare's, that is, between 30 and 40 years old. Universal themes such as the difficulty of growing up while juggling precarious jobs, friendships (with benefits or not), your own morals, people who influenced you for better or worse... all mixed with a lot of wacky (but still appropriate) references to TV serials, films, games, cartoons and everything else. Plus the main character Zero is an author self-insert but not annoying at all, and his conscience is a giant cartoony armadillo, so what more could you want? Someone compared it to BoJack Horseman, I'm not sure about it (also since I never actually watched it), but still it's much more serious than it lets on at the beginning; and I warn you, some themes ARE heavy (toxic relationships, self harm and the like) so don't expect just another "adult comedy" series a la Rick & Morty or whatever.
It's just 6 episodes of 20 minutes each so you can watch them in an afternoon, and actually it's better to watch them back-to-back since it's mostly a giant flashback until the end. Here's the international trailer:
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Post by Woody Alien on Feb 24, 2022 9:34:43 GMT -5
Finally finished The Cuphead Show! on Netflix.
As a mid-budget imitation of zany old-timey cartoons it's actually quite good and I loved how they added in certain episodes dioramas that blend with the 2D animation (though I think they were made in CG rather than using physical props). My only complaint is that they had to make it as a series for kids and, as such, they had to remove every single reference to gambling, alcohol, fire arms etc., which is kind of absurd in a series that features death and the literal Satan, and arguably misses the point of the original game while making everything watered down. Speaking of Satan, I also don't like that after the first episode they turned him into the typical wimpy idiotic cartoon villain and in general making him much more campy and frivolous instead of the goofy yet menacing figure he was in the game.
For the rest however I quite liked the series as an adaptation. It ends on a cliffhanger so let's wait for new seasons!
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Post by lurker on May 26, 2022 16:10:33 GMT -5
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Post by windfisch on May 27, 2022 6:43:27 GMT -5
Let's be honest: The original Willow wasn't exactly the deepest nor the most original fantasy movie out there. But it was rather charming, especially during its quieter moments. One of its biggest strengths to this day remains that tangible visual quality that many 80s films used to have. That quality is largely missing from this trailer. Instead it suggests something grander, more action-packed and slicker-looking than the original. Bigger is always better, right? I do wonder if that'll leave enough breathing space for its characters, though. So far it looks and sounds like a very, very bland Lord of the Rings knock-off.
edit: And what's with that skullmask? The dude who wore it originally wasn't that big of a deal ultimately. So even if they won't resort to resurrecting him, bringing in some vengeful descendant would feel really lame.
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Post by lurker on May 27, 2022 9:57:34 GMT -5
Let's be honest: The original Willow wasn't exactly the deepest nor the most original fantasy movie out there. But it was rather charming, especially during its quieter moments. One of its biggest strengths to this day remains that tangible visual quality that many 80s films used to have. That quality is largely missing from this trailer. Instead it suggests something grander, more action-packed and slicker-looking than the original. Bigger is always better, right? I do wonder if that'll leave enough breathing space for its characters, though. So far it looks and sounds like a very, very bland Lord of the Rings knock-off.
edit: And what's with that skullmask? The dude who wore it originally wasn't that big of a deal ultimately. So even if they won't resort to resurrecting him, bringing in some vengeful descendant would feel really lame.
Though I would not be surprised if he’s just supposed to be part of a flashback.
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Post by windfisch on May 27, 2022 15:36:42 GMT -5
Let's be honest: The original Willow wasn't exactly the deepest nor the most original fantasy movie out there. But it was rather charming, especially during its quieter moments. One of its biggest strengths to this day remains that tangible visual quality that many 80s films used to have. That quality is largely missing from this trailer. Instead it suggests something grander, more action-packed and slicker-looking than the original. Bigger is always better, right? I do wonder if that'll leave enough breathing space for its characters, though. So far it looks and sounds like a very, very bland Lord of the Rings knock-off.
edit: And what's with that skullmask? The dude who wore it originally wasn't that big of a deal ultimately. So even if they won't resort to resurrecting him, bringing in some vengeful descendant would feel really lame.
Though I would not be surprised if he’s just supposed to be part of a flashback. You're right, that is a possibility. My spidey-sense is telling me otherwise, though.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Jul 6, 2022 13:51:49 GMT -5
I don't watch too many series these days, but I did manage to complete one for once: This Time with Alan Partridge. Okay, so it's only 2 seasons of 6 episodes, but still.
I was not familiar with this character, but I saw some snippets from this series on Twitter the other day and it looked interesting. It's very funny, with a lot of subtleties in the expressions, body language and delivery of lines that make it so fun (and make certain scenes funny even upon rewatching). It's one of those comedies where the writing is good but the performance(s) make it so great.
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Post by spanky on Aug 5, 2022 8:21:22 GMT -5
Watched a couple of episodes of the new Beavis & Butthead on Paramount Plus.
Verdict: Pretty good. You see Judge's involvement in the show and he hasn't lost his touch as far as writing. The only bad episode (out of 4 so far) is the one where Beavis meets/hallucinates a fire spirit...But the fire tries to be a positive influence on Beavis? It doesn't make a ton of sense. Otherwise, the show still has the right mix of physical comedy, mild social commentary and scatological humor all held together with the "innocence" of the two main characters. There's a hint of mean spiritedness too which shows the show can still have a bit of bite.
The video segments are split between music videos and Tiktoks. It works better than you think.
I guess my big complaint is the animation quality. I don't really care for the robotic modern animation style and the designs for many of the new background characters are tremendously ugly. I think a good example of this of VanDriessen's bee keeper girlfriend. Her character model is very detailed and much more realistically proportioned compared to VanDriessen's character model from 1992 and it sticks out. The background characters and students in the classroom are all different. Highland has seemingly been gentrified - I don't get the vibe its a trashy west Texas hellhole anymore.
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Post by magic89 on Aug 6, 2022 17:55:33 GMT -5
I don't watch much TV at the moment, instead i recap some old tv seriees on YouTube/Internet archive if they exist, Like Max Headroom bassed on TV movie Max Headroom 20 minutes into future.
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Post by Woody Alien on Aug 20, 2022 18:08:21 GMT -5
Watched a couple of episodes of the new Beavis & Butthead on Paramount Plus. Verdict: Pretty good. You see Judge's involvement in the show and he hasn't lost his touch as far as writing. The only bad episode (out of 4 so far) is the one where Beavis meets/hallucinates a fire spirit...But the fire tries to be a positive influence on Beavis? It doesn't make a ton of sense. It could possibly be a nod to the fact that in the 1990s Beavis & Butthead were considered responsible for an accident where a kid died in a fire, which of course did not have anything to do with the series anyway: beavisandbutthead.fandom.com/wiki/Fire_Controversy Personally though I never was a fan of the series and did not watch the reboot because of a lack of interest so I could be wrong about that.
By the way I just finished watching Detention, the Netflix series based on the game of the same name by Red Candle Games. Reviews weren't too great but I enjoyed it, even though it's true that it is quite slow it manages to capture the game's aesthetic and feeling and it links to it in a clever way. Technically it's a sequel set 30 years after the events that started the game, following a new schoolgirl going to Greenwood High School, which is still being run in a somewhat militaristic fashion by the same principal and instructor. Fang Ray Shin (or Fan Ruixin or whatever the spelling of her name is) is still around and after three decades her spirit is more vengeful than ever: it all starts when a ritual to purify the abandoned wing of the school where she committed suicide goes awry, and after a seance among the kids Fang Ray Shin manages to possess the protagonist. This is clever because while Ray tries to influence the present, the MC is forced to live Ray's purgatory and the events of her past life (i.e. the plot of the game) and also follow the game's same loop structure. Wei, one of the two playable characters, also makes an appearance though given his role in the game I hoped he had a more substantial plot. There are several other nods to the game, including one of the puzzles, and it also addresses somewhat the teacher/student romance thing that several people complained about, with the scenes in the present when the MC's apparent love interest, the attractive new teacher, tries to rape her (after she discovered he's a talentless hack who tried to use her ability in poetry to become famous), complete with victim-blaming. As you can understand, just like the game it's a drama with some fantastic elements masquerading as a horror, the scary scenes are most concentrated in the first 2 episodes (of 8), save a brief but creepy scene near the end where Ray briefly takes away the young teacher's eyes and mouth. I liked it, but I guess people who didn't play the game would find it too boring and confusing, not helped by the fact that it is only in Mandarin Chinese with subtitles.
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