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I have some nostalgia vision for the tv series but I've also not seen it since new episodes were still airing. It was on Netflix at one point and I couldn't bring myself to see the truth
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I will admit the Yerks terrified me on a pretty big level that most villains didn't. Being a prisoner of your own body and having a parasite still go through the motions... Yeesh.
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Jan 26, 2018 19:52
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Big Mean Jerk posted:All of the main characters would need cg sequences multiple times per episode, and one of the main characters would either have to be extensive prosthetics or mo-cap cg. Nickelodeon attempted a show back when the series was at peak popularity. It was... not good. There was also the problem of fight scenes. The books had a lot of action, animals fighting or animals or aliens or destroying property, and a lot of it was pretty gory. No way did Nickelodeon have the budget or the ability to do the action scenes properly.
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Jan 26, 2018 19:55
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I liked the books as a kid but I don't know how well it would work as a modern adaptation, the series is explicitly about then biding their time fighting a losing guerilla war against an omnipresent invisible alien threat until the good guy aliens finally get their poo poo together and show up to save humanity which is great if you're Schoolastic and need to push out a new book every few weeks for as long as they keep selling but would be really hard to sustain outside of that specific context. Even the books eventually started involving Star Trek style extradimensional god-beings to retcon anything that could actually effect the story or give them a free pass to do unrelated premises like alien battle royales and post-apocalyptic future flashforwards on top of some really bad ghostwritten filler for roughly half it's run.
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Eh, you could do that pretty well as a TV series. It wouldn't work well in movies unless you trimmed a lot of fat, though. e: honestly, something like Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events would be perfect for Animorphs. Because that show is on Netflix and Netflix actually has a set on them, they're able to keep all the insanely dark poo poo from those books, and the show also looks really nice and is basically a 1:1 adaptation. Just skip or cut down the filler books and adapt the ones Applegate wrote in-depth and we'd be golden. (It would be kind of hilarious to see Netflix do a show that they're basically advertising to kids and have Spartacus-level gore in it, though. Animorphs got hosed up at times.) WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2018 21:29
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:(It would be kind of hilarious to see Netflix do a show that they're basically advertising to kids and have Spartacus-level gore in it, though. Animorphs got hosed up at times.) I only read the first ten or so books, but I remember them each having a chapter where the kids would transform into deadly animals to rip apart a bunch of body jacked humans because, welp, that's war!
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Jan 26, 2018 23:07
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Schwarzwald posted:I only read the first ten or so books TIL there are fifty-four Animorphs books.
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They're all so short. It took barely an afternoon to read them when I was in the fifth grade.
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Jan 26, 2018 23:27
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yall need to read Applegate's letter to the Animorph readers: http://www.hiracdelest.com/database/articles/kaa_response-full.htm
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Jan 26, 2018 23:59
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i got in a fistfight in primary school because i insisted goku couldn't kill a garatron because it was too fast and my friend got upset, as goku was his lord and saviour, and he could kill anything
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quote:‘Indiana Jones 5’ to Be Steven Spielberg’s Next Film, Followed by ‘West Side Story’ http://collider.com/indiana-jones-5-filming-2019/ Yay?
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It's cool that Disney is letting the original director of the Indiana Jones movies back for another. It would be cool if Disney did the same for Star Wars.
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Jan 27, 2018 00:16
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So what's Indy 5 most likely to be: 1960s or 1970s?
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Wheat Loaf posted:So what's Indy 5 most likely to be: 1960s or 1970s? 2040s.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's cool that Disney is letting the original director of the Indiana Jones movies back for another. It would be cool if Disney did the same for Star Wars. Please god no.
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Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game) is directing Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. http://deadline.com/2018/01/the-shi...son-1202270283/ porfiria posted:2040s. It worked for The Phantom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_EcQodt3jA
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Jan 27, 2018 00:45
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Krankenstyle posted:yall need to read Applegate's letter to the Animorph readers: god drat
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Krankenstyle posted:yall need to read Applegate's letter to the Animorph readers: What an idiot
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I wish Rian Johnson would write something like that.
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Krankenstyle posted:yall need to read Applegate's letter to the Animorph readers: This is fuckin badass
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The MSJ posted:Mike Flanagan (Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald's Game) is directing Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. I'm still blown away that of all the lovely licensed video games out there based on popular stuff, Phantom 2040 got a legit good metroidvania-ish action game with a grappling hook and multiple endings/paths through the game that altered the story and structure of the levels depending on what order and how you beat them and everything. It was awesome.
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Fart City posted:TIL there are fifty-four Animorphs books. Is that including the spinoffs and side stories? I think if you include everything it's closer to 70.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It would be cool if Disney did the same for Star Wars. No, I don't think it's a great idea to let the least capable director Star Wars ever had have another shot at the franchise. I mean, I'd like to think he's been humbled and maybe had come to realize he isn't a genius, but it's still George Lucas.
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Jan 27, 2018 02:07
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Disagree slightly. Whatever rando directed Return of the Jedi is probably the worst.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:No, I don't think it's a great idea to let the least capable director Star Wars ever had have another shot at the franchise. I mean, I'd like to think he's been humbled and maybe had come to realize he isn't a genius, but it's still George Lucas. Where has George Lucas said he's a genius? Edit Pictured, a Hollywood monster who needs to be humbled of his hubris- 
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Jan 27, 2018 02:13
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is that spaghetti bolognese? who the gently caress eats that at a fast food place
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A man who won’t stop loving with his movies.
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Krankenstyle posted:yall need to read Applegate's letter to the Animorph readers: I admire how didactic this is.
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CelticPredator posted:A man who won’t stop loving with his movies. a monster imo, regardless of the movies
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Krankenstyle posted:is that spaghetti bolognese? who the gently caress eats that at a fast food place A man of taste and class.
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Krankenstyle posted:is that spaghetti bolognese? who the gently caress eats that at a fast food place Pizza Hutt in my country has pretty good asian sauce spaghetti. Which are the only ones I eat because tomatoes make my joints swell.
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Jan 27, 2018 02:53
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Krankenstyle posted:is that spaghetti bolognese? who the gently caress eats that at a fast food place Nosir, that is Grade-A trashbag Mall Chinese.
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no. NO. there are only two kinds of good spaghetti: homecooked & from an actual italian place.
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Fart City posted:Nosir, that is Grade-A trashbag Mall Chinese. George chowing down on bourbon chicken makes him a man of the people.
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Jan 27, 2018 03:04
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George Lucas, free at last from the clutches of Star Wars and thus PepsiCo, finally gets to drink Coke again.
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CelticPredator posted:A man who won’t stop loving with his movies. He can't make commercial edits of Star Wars anymore.
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Detective No. 27 posted:He can't make commercial edits of Star Wars anymore. I mean, if Disney lets him, he can, and unlike most of us he's a Movie Person so he can actually ask for the privilege (though whether they'd let him do any more, especially given the reactions to the previous edits, is up in the air). He just can't unilaterally decide "I'm going to make a new edit of Star Wars now" and have that be the new existing version anymore.
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Detective No. 27 posted:He can't make commercial edits of Star Wars anymore. So good.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:George chowing down on bourbon chicken makes him a man of the people. Telling a richass zoning board “Fine, gently caress you, if you won’t let me expand my business on property I already own, in a way that preserves green space and still makes everything all nice and pretty, I’ll just put up low-income housing instead” makes him a man of the people. Still doesn’t make up for the prequels.
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CelticPredator posted:So good. Commercial being the operative word. He could privately be making his own edits.
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