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Watched it with my niece when she was 4 and it was new, watched it again with my son last year when he was four. The thing I've learned is that most children's programming is just point and click adventure games. Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse clubhouse, Blues Clues, it's all 90s pc adventure games. Dora even had a drat computer mouse appear on screen and click on poo poo.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Dora the Explorer started in 2000. I assume a lot of the younger posters on this forum grew up with the show. Yeah, it wasn't quite in my age range, but it was definitely out and huge when I was young. It's not like baby shows exist in this cordoned off space of pop culture, so even if you didn't see it personally you'd still see commercials for it as well as those for its toy lines.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:03
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Watched it with my niece when she was 4 and it was new, watched it again with my son last year when he was four. And yet the show based on an actual 90s PC adventure game (based on a comic) got cancelled after like, half a season. RIP Sam and Max.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:23
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GrandpaPants posted:And yet the show based on an actual 90s PC adventure game (based on a comic) got cancelled after like, half a season. RIP Sam and Max. There was another one that was basically Monkey Island with the serial numbers filed up but I can't remember the name. In one episode they tried to find a singing weird which they thought was a "singe" -ing flame sword but was actually musical
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Aug 21, 2018 14:29
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I remember it took me like 5 years or more to realize that Dora the Explorer was a pun.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:30
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I like how Dora the Explora is being filmed in Australia for reasons.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:48
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TetsuoTW posted:In fairness him and Cliff Curtis have basically played every kind of brown person aside from Polynesian in Hollywood. And then when a literally textually Maori character comes up who do they get? Ben loving Kingsley. Ben Kingsley still gets poo poo for playing Ghandi as that was somehow racially inappropriate which feels really unfair given that his birth name was Krishna Pandit Bhanji.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:19
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Young Ben Kingsley was unmistakably a brown Indian man.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:22
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Young Ben Kingsley was unmistakably a brown Indian man. Then he became an old white man through the same (but weaker)magic Michael Jackson used.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:31
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Samuel Clemens posted:Dora the Explorer started in 2000. I assume a lot of the younger posters on this forum grew up with the show. I was just old enough at the time to miss out on it, but I do remember catching some commercials for it and some of my relatives would turn it on whenever they were over. I was raised on Caillou. I honestly couldn't tell you why I liked that show so much, I think I was 8 by the time I finally stopped.
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Aug 21, 2018 15:34
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Isn’t Caillou the kid from the Play-Doh containers?
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Aug 21, 2018 15:42
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:The thing I've learned is that most children's programming is just point and click adventure games. Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse clubhouse, Blues Clues, it's all 90s pc adventure games. The PC adventure thing kind of makes sense if you figure that Children's TV wanted to both introduce concept of basic computer use to children, but structure the show in a way that the repetition wouldn't be super forced while throwing in some simple cause/logic stuff. And now my toddler basically knows how to skip the commercials on his YT Little Baby Bum videos so he's going to grow up and look at Dora as a really, really dated work probably.
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Aug 21, 2018 17:56
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I was raised on Caillou. I honestly couldn't tell you why I liked that show so much, I think I was 8 by the time I finally stopped. I recall one called Little Bill, which I think might have been a Bill Cosby creation. The one thing I really distinctly remember from it is an episode where he has to wrap a toy for his friend's birthday present, but breaks it because he took it out of its box to play with it first. That's your friend's birthday present, kid! You're not supposed to play with it! I'm pretty sure the lesson was "be honest and tell your parents so they can help you fix it" rather than "don't play with the toy you got your friend for their birthday".
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Aug 21, 2018 18:06
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Finally saw Alien Covenant and it owned. I'm like 100 pages behind in the Alien thread and lol at everyone freaking out about SMG. His funniest gimmick is when he just summarize poo poo that happens on screen.
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Aug 21, 2018 18:43
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MonsieurChoc posted:Finally saw Alien Covenant and it owned. It's really fuckin good.
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Aug 21, 2018 18:46
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I always get weird looks from people when I say how much I loved it. Apparently Prometheus is fine now. But Covenant? That’s still got a ways before people appreciate it. I can’t wait for David’s journal this September.
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Aug 21, 2018 19:04
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CelticPredator posted:
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Aug 21, 2018 19:48
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Covenant is better than Prometheus but only in the way that torture is better than death.
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Aug 21, 2018 19:56
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Covenant is definitely better than Prometheus but that's not saying much. Prometheus is distractingly stupid (i will concede there's a certain level of stupid that is acceptable in sci-fi but that film went way over there line). Covenant is just "fine." These things are true whether you consider them next to their predecessors or as standalone films
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Aug 21, 2018 20:01
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Prometheus is one of the top-3 sci-fi films of the past 25 years or so. Covenant is not quite as good, it is merely top-10.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:03
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Gray boring drudges, the both of them.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:07
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Basebf555 posted:Prometheus is one of the top-3 sci-fi films of the past 25 years or so. Covenant is not quite as good, it is merely top-10. This is true enough but consider that the competition is stuff like Ex Machina.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This is true enough but consider that the competition is stuff like Ex Machina. Agreed. Kind of my point though, if you're gonna poo poo on Prometheus and Covenant, good luck finding other $150 mil+ budgeted sci-fi with top of the line talent involved like Ridley Scott, Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, etc. etc. These movies just don't get made very much, you have to appreciate them when they come or just give up being a sci-fi fan. What are we supposed to do, watch Blade Runner every day forever?
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Aug 21, 2018 20:14
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MacheteZombie posted:Say what https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Covenant-Drawings-Dane-Hallett/dp/1785659243
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Aug 21, 2018 20:21
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Basebf555 posted:Prometheus is one of the top-3 sci-fi films of the past 25 years or so. Covenant is not quite as good, it is merely top-10. You're nuts. Basebf555 posted:If you're gonna poo poo on Prometheus and Covenant, good luck finding other $150 mil+ budgeted sci-fi with top of the line talent involved like Ridley Scott, Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, etc. etc. Don't move the goalposts.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:31
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Don't move the goalposts. I'm not, I stand by my statement. They're both in the top-10 sci-fi films of the past 25 years. By all means, give me a top-10 list and I'll tell you which ones aren't as good as Prometheus of Covenant.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:36
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Alien Covenant would be fine if the alien never showed up. It’s pretty bad with it
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Basebf555 posted:I'm not, I stand by my statement. They're both in the top-10 sci-fi films of the past 25 years. By all means, give me a top-10 list and I'll tell you which ones aren't as good as Prometheus of Covenant. I can give you eight off the top of my head, in no particular order: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Ex Machina (2015) Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End Of Evangelion (1997) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Her (2013) Annihilation (2018) Zero Theorem (2013) kalel fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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Solid list but what the heck is I, Robot doing there.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:I can give you eight off the top of my head, in no particular order: So you have eight, and one of them is I, Robot. Ok.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:59
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My logic is undeniable!
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Alien: Covenant is very good, but I think I take all these over it: 12 Monkeys 28 Days Later District 9 The Fifth Element Godzilla (2014) Hulk Jurassic Park Mad Max: Fury Road Man of Steel The Matrix The Prestige Primer Prometheus Shin Godzilla Starship Troopers Universal Soldier: Regeneration Whereas, yes, Prometheus is top-3.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Alien: Covenant is very good, but I think I take all these over it: A list of solid films, for sure. But it's a bit padded with stuff like 28 Days Later, Hulk, Man of Steel and Universal Soldier. I mean I get that comic books movies are technically sci-fi in a lot of cases but it's not really what I was referring to. Anyway, I like Covenant more than Man of Steel and Hulk so it's moot. Regardless, you aren't going to come up with a top-10 list where those last few entries aren't very debatable. Like, you're gonna say that I, Robot is one of the top-10 sci-fi films of the past 25 years, but then call me insane for saying the same of Covenant? Come on.
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If you stretch the boundaries a little to include horror sci-fi and indie, I have ten more: Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) Under the Skin (2013) Signs (2002) Hidden (2015) Daybreakers (2009) Iron Sky (2012) Dark City (1998) 9 (2009) 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) 11 A.M. (2013)
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Aug 21, 2018 21:11
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Yea, how insane of me to prefer Covenant to Daybreakers.
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Aug 21, 2018 21:13
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Basebf555 posted:So you have eight, and one of them is I, Robot. Ok. You're right, I forgot about Inception. Pretend I said that instead
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Basebf555 posted:Regardless, you aren't going to come up with a top-10 list where those last few entries aren't very debatable. Like, you're gonna say that I, Robot is one of the top-10 sci-fi films of the past 25 years, but then call me insane for saying the same of Covenant? Come on. Yeah, definitely, I was just taking the opportunity to think through the last few decades of sci-fi. SciFiDownBeat posted:Under the Skin Add this one to my list.
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Aug 21, 2018 21:18
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Define "sci-fi" first.
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Byzantine posted:Define "sci-fi" first. No, this has never been interesting.
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Is Children of Men a science-fiction movie?
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