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On silly 90s movies that shouldn't have worked as cartoons but actually did: I really liked the Dumb and Dumber cartoon. They had a beaver whom both Lloyd and Harry thought was a cat. I remember it being very funny and charming, but I haven't seen it in decades.
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All this talk of 90’s movies weird spinoff cartoons and no one mentioned the weirdly excellent Men In Black one? For shame.
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Dec 11, 2020 11:41
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Ugly In The Morning posted:All this talk of 90’s movies weird spinoff cartoons and no one mentioned the weirdly excellent Men In Black one? For shame. Or the also weirdly excellent 90s Godzilla cartoon.
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Dec 11, 2020 13:33
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Ugly In The Morning posted:All this talk of 90’s movies weird spinoff cartoons and no one mentioned the weirdly excellent Men In Black one? For shame. Wow that is a lot of memories coming back all at once.
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Dec 11, 2020 13:33
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The Men in Black cartoon was good cause the writers could let their imagination go wild and whatever they came up with just have a character say "that's an alien." Same thing with the Ghostbusters cartoon. "That's a ghost."
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Dec 11, 2020 13:46
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The Jumanji cartoon was good. It felt like a proto-Wild Thornberries
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Dec 11, 2020 13:49
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The 90s had a huge number of awesome cartoons. Really a bit of a golden age, though there might also be a bit of a nostalgia filter at work.
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Dec 11, 2020 14:01
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The mid to late 90's were okay, but there was a lot of dross in there. I think the early 2000's were generally considered a bit desultory, but who knows exactly how these things get defined.
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Dec 11, 2020 14:05
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I'm pretty sure that Extreme Ghostbusters, MiB, and Godzilla were all done by the same team. I watched Extreme Ghostbusters earlier this year and held up pretty well.
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Dec 11, 2020 14:07
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I remember there being a Mummy cartoon based on the Brendan Fraser movies. Maybe it was good but I never watched it as a kid cause I thought "every episode is going to be about a mummy. Boooorrriiinnggg".
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Dec 11, 2020 14:08
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Josef bugman posted:The mid to late 90's were okay, but there was a lot of dross in there. I think the early 2000's were generally considered a bit desultory, but who knows exactly how these things get defined. I think it was when Disney decided to ditch traditional animation altogether and other animated shows became mostly Adobe Flash based that the decline really got into gear. It was only when Avatar: TLA came out that western animation started digging itself out of the hole. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 14:16 on Dec 11, 2020 |
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Dec 11, 2020 14:10
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duck trucker posted:I remember there being a Mummy cartoon based on the Brendan Fraser movies. Maybe it was good but I never watched it as a kid cause I thought "every episode is going to be about a mummy. Boooorrriiinnggg". They added a mongoose to the main cast
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Dec 11, 2020 14:40
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Mister Kingdom posted:As I continue my Dark Shadows watch, I've seen way more women being slapped in the face than is necessary (that number being zero). I believe at this point every female character has been slapped at least once. Granted, some of the men were slapped but that doesn't make up for it. Even the young boy, David, got slapped by his father. And it was a real slap, not a stuntman slap. This reminds me that when my friends and I used to do a weekly Criterion double feature, we determined that every film distributed by Janus featured a woman getting slapped at some point.
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Dec 11, 2020 14:59
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Only thing I remember about the Men in Black cartoon is the excellent theme song.
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Dec 11, 2020 15:00
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I remember MiB, and The Mask being pretty good, but for some reason I felt shame for watching them. My guess is that I had a combination of being at just the right age for wanting to shed the childhood trappings of of cartoons, and the fact that they should have been terrible, like every other movie tie in cartoon. It also makes no sense because I had no issue watching the Superman cartoon and bullshitting about it with my fellow high schoolers at the time 
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Dec 11, 2020 15:40
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:Postmodern Prometheus absolutely does not age well. duck trucker posted:I remember there being a Mummy cartoon based on the Brendan Fraser movies. Maybe it was good but I never watched it as a kid cause I thought "every episode is going to be about a mummy. Boooorrriiinnggg". I love stuff that's transparently trying to be TMNT/Power Rangers, and this one came pretty late to the trend. I remember it was bland and inoffensive. That theme song rules just for "They're gonna save the day the Egyptian way the MUMMIES ALIVE."
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Dec 11, 2020 15:43
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mind the walrus posted:Why not? Reading the synopsis, I'd think it's on account of the multiple rapes by Mutato.
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Dec 11, 2020 15:48
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Groovelord Neato posted:Only thing I remember about the Men in Black cartoon is the excellent theme song. See also: Mighty Max I mean, you should really remember more of that show than just the credits, like Tim Curry as the main villain, for instance
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Dec 11, 2020 15:53
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Who What Now posted:The Jumanji cartoon was good. It felt like a proto-Wild Thornberries The premise of the Jumanji cartoon was completely unlike the movie... but weirdly, almost perfectly in line with the Jumanji reboot. I've always had a theory that it was what they were basing it on, rather than the Robin Williams movie.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:35
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Iron Crowned posted:It was James Bond Jr. but he was actually James Bond's nephew All I remember about that show was that he introduced himself as "Bond. James Bond. Junior." and it instantly made him seem like the lamest and most pathetic dude ever.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:40
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Tiggum posted:All I remember about that show was that he introduced himself as "Bond. James Bond. Junior." and it instantly made him seem like the lamest and most pathetic dude ever. Hell, even the local TV station that played it apparently thought he was lame because I remember that it came on at like 6:30 am when no self-respecting kid would be awake. On that note, I was always sad that I had to go to the bus stop about 5 minutes into the Conan cartoon.
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Dec 11, 2020 16:49
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It also had this really odd blend of new and old villains in Jr's Rogues Gallery. He wasn't fighting SPECTRE. It was "SCUM". It had Goldfinger, Green Dr. No, Jaws, Nick Nack and Oddjob but also...Goldfinger's daughter "Goldie", "Skullcap"(a guy with a metal top half of his skull), "Barbella" (A...really strong woman) and a bunch of GI Joe reject looking motherfuckers. My "favorite" moment of the show was one episode started with Jr. complaining to IQ (Yes, "IQ". Not "Q". "IQ". GEDDIT?) that his digital watch counted backwards. Later on, Jr. is put in a room set to explode so he connects his watch to the self destruct computer and makes...the timer go backwards. Even as a kid I yelled "BULLSHIT!" ...man, I hate watched this show way too much.
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Dec 11, 2020 17:05
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I especially appreciate that they snuck a size gag in at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAePIyC4kQ
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Dec 11, 2020 17:19
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The Bloop posted:See also: Mighty Max And Richard Moll as Max's adventure friend. And god-tier voice person Tony Jay as his bird friend. Wiki says David Warner was there too, but I have no memory of him.
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Dec 11, 2020 17:27
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The Bloop posted:See also: Mighty Max Which was Polly Pocket for boys.
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Dec 11, 2020 17:34
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Alhazred posted:Which was Polly Pocket for boys. Yeah, but Polly Pocket didn't have a kickin' rad cartoon show where the main character's bodyguard was literally Thor and everybody gets killed in the series finale forcing Max to rewind time to the very beginning so they could do it again.
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Henchman of Santa posted:This reminds me that when my friends and I used to do a weekly Criterion double feature, we determined that every film distributed by Janus featured a woman getting slapped at some point. Every James Woods movie from the 80’s is unbelievably misogynistic, but I’ll give special mention to ‘Cop’ which is not only about a crazed slasher targeting women, but adds a feminist bookstore owner for James to screw some sense into, and a scene where James sits in a car with Charles Durning discussing why women are so loving unimaginative and stupid. I don’t remember the last two bits from the (generally ok) James Ellroy book it was based on.
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Dec 11, 2020 18:41
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If only Polly Pocket had a cosmic cap
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the_steve posted:Yeah, but Polly Pocket didn't have a kickin' rad cartoon show where the main character's bodyguard was literally Thor and everybody gets killed in the series finale forcing Max to rewind time to the very beginning so they could do it again. Norman was literally Thor and also literally Samson, Lancelot, Hercules, and Little John.
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Dec 11, 2020 18:48
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Torquemada posted:Every James Woods movie from the 80’s is unbelievably misogynistic, but I’ll give special mention to ‘Cop’ which is not only about a crazed slasher targeting women, but adds a feminist bookstore owner for James to screw some sense into, and a scene where James sits in a car with Charles Durning discussing why women are so loving unimaginative and stupid. I don’t remember the last two bits from the (generally ok) James Ellroy book it was based on. In retrospect James Woods' recent politics and sociopathy really shouldn't have been a surprise.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:00
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There are exactly 3 things James Woods did right. Salvador, that one story in Cat's Eye, and voicing Hades. Otherwise I've always seen him as the guy you cast when Ron Scheider won't return your calls.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:12
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Not only did he nail Hades, he has repeatedly stated that it's his all time favorite role and he is always available to voice him. Apart from like a single episode of House of Mouse, whenever Hades shows up in ANYTHING, whether it's the Hercules series, Kingdom hearts, cameos, etc, it's always Woods. Wonder if he still feels that way. Before I learned he was a psycho I always found his love of Hades pretty endearing.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:14
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Krispy Wafer posted:There are exactly 3 things James Woods did right. Salvador, that one story in Cat's Eye, and voicing Hades. *coughs in Videodrome*
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Dec 11, 2020 19:17
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christmas boots posted:*coughs in Videodrome* *VHS cassette ejects from your navel*
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Dec 11, 2020 19:20
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the_steve posted:Yeah, but Polly Pocket didn't have a kickin' rad cartoon show where the main character's bodyguard was literally Thor and everybody gets killed in the series finale forcing Max to rewind time to the very beginning so they could do it again. One of the best finales in television history. The balls doing that in a children's show.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:21
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christmas boots posted:*coughs in Videodrome* *clears throat in Once Upon A Time In America*
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Dec 11, 2020 19:22
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He can only be good in 3 movies. That's the cut-off. I don't make the rules. I've also never seen Videodrome or Once Upon a Time in America.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:25
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Alhazred posted:*clears throat in Once Upon A Time In America* *hocks a loogie in casino*
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Dec 11, 2020 19:37
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EEsh. A joke at the beginning of episode 6 of The Mask really has aged poorly. He becomes a stereotypical asian kung fu guy while fighting Walter at a chinese restaurant. Yikes. The rest of the episode was interesting though, it teased greater lore (turned out to be a trick, but it was an interesting idea) and goes for a theme of the Mask making it impossible to lie to yourself due to being pure id. Pretorious before this episode keeps playing lip service to being a scientist, and science requiring sacrifices, basically claiming to be more amoral than evil. However, when he accidentally catches the Mask to the face, he reacts by changing his tune: "It seems I am more than just a scientist.... actually... I'm evil." It's pretty hamfisted writing due to being a kid's show, but it's an interesting idea and I'm hoping more is done with it with other characters.
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The Jumanji cartoon was really loving weird. https://bogleech.com/jumanji.html I like the recent Jumanji movies, but part of me really wishes we could see more of this take on things.
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