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I'm not sure why but I've been methodically going thru Crunchyroll before I delete I guess and found a pretty cool relatively unknown movie by the Studio Bones called Sword of the Stranger. Well done movie with excellent action and some really well sketched out bad guys. Minimum amount of anime bullshit as well.
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Shageletic posted:I'm not sure why but I've been methodically going thru Crunchyroll before I delete I guess and found a pretty cool relatively unknown movie by the Studio Bones called Sword of the Stranger. Well done movie with excellent action and some really well sketched out bad guys. Minimum amount of anime bullshit as well. This has been on the edges of my Radar for like forever cause I really do have to be in a specific mood to watch anime these days. I had a friend send me a clip of the final fight and its quite good to watch. I love the kinetic energy and the style quite a bit. After riding the high of Blue Eye Samurai, I should finally get around to it. Here is the clip mentioned: https://youtu.be/xT66YPk0Q5w?si=U9mmQzADFtLLTrDg
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Dec 3, 2023 16:22
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There's stellar highly kinetic actions liberally sprinkled thru the thing. Felt like the Studio was flexing. Helped thst they designed bad guys that were weird and intimindating and all had great designs/ideas. Coolest bunch of goons ever.
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Dec 3, 2023 16:38
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Sword of the Stranger is really, really good.
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I got my son to start watching gargoyles.  First response meeting Xanathos. “Umm, can they really trust him? He seems nice, but sounds so…”
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Robindaybird posted:Sword of the Stranger is really, really good. Yeah I grabbed the blu ray like ten years ago and never let go, it's really awesome.
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Dec 4, 2023 03:10
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I think that movie was formative for the anime community because Yutaka Nakamura's final fight in that movie turned a bunch of people on to sakuga compilation videos.
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Dec 4, 2023 03:55
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Darth TNT posted:I got my son to start watching gargoyles. Gargoyles still largely holds up - and I still say Demona is one of the most compelling villains in animation - you can understand the reason behind everything she does at any time, how she can get out of the cycle she's trapped in... and exactly why she can't bring herself to do it.
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Dec 4, 2023 05:28
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Robindaybird posted:Gargoyles still largely holds up - and I still say Demona is one of the most compelling villains in animation - you can understand the reason behind everything she does at any time, how she can get out of the cycle she's trapped in... and exactly why she can't bring herself to do it. As long as you stop after the first episode of the third season since that's the point where Disney fired the original creator and the show became mediocre at best (there's an ongoing comic continuation but I'm not sure how good it is)
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Dec 4, 2023 18:34
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thankfully they're all in the right order on D+. The X-Men was, and far as I can tell to this day still in absolutely the wrong order so characters show up on familiar terms well before their actual introductory episodes, and I'm trying to figure out how they managed to screw that up.
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Dec 4, 2023 19:18
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Robindaybird posted:thankfully they're all in the right order on D+. There is going to be continuation of the latter at some point in the near future so maybe they'll fix things once that goes up (but I'm not holding my breath)
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Dec 4, 2023 23:02
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They've fixed episode orders on D+ in the past (I believe the new Ducktales had that issue) and it would probably behoove them to fix that show in particular with the sequel series coming along.
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Dec 4, 2023 23:07
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Speaking of, is X-Men Evolution on D+ out of curiosity?
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It is, actually. As is Spectacular Spider-man which always needs a shout-out.
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Nikumatic posted:It is, actually. Not anymore it seems: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1731856020069114340
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Dec 5, 2023 03:13
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are you loving kidding me
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Larryb posted:There is going to be continuation of the latter at some point in the near future so maybe they'll fix things once that goes up (but I'm not holding my breath) What the hell is happening with this? It's been years and I haven't seen a single frame from it.
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SCheeseman posted:What the hell is happening with this? It's been years and I haven't seen a single frame from it. Supposedly it’s coming next year last I checked but yeah, it’s weird we haven’t seen any footage from it yet to my knowledge
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SCheeseman posted:What the hell is happening with this? It's been years and I haven't seen a single frame from it. I think they referenced it 2 months ago? So it’s apparently still happening.
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Merch has been coming out for it, including some very nice Marvel Legends figures.
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Dec 5, 2023 10:26
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And yeah, they've shown off some character designs and spoilers: they're extremely 90s. We're getting mohawk Storm, mullet Magneto, and Morph's back: in bald form! When it comes to decades, hairstyles are always the first to know.
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Just realised that canonically due to the events of the TV show, Rapunzel's magic hair always comes from the same source: Aliens.
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in fairness, Mohawk Storm is a very popular design
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Dec 6, 2023 20:03
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I'm tired of all the trailers showing the entire movie all the time. Studios should just band together and agree to only let the advertisement people have the first 30 minutes of any movie - if you can't sell a story with 30 minutes of footage, you are a poo poo salesperson and should be out of a job. You can do a lot with that much setup.
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Dec 7, 2023 19:48
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you won't like movie ads in Japan then.
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Dec 7, 2023 21:13
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I don't like em here, why would I want to see them there? :P
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Apparently Mae Whitman will not be reprising her role as Katara in the animated ATLA movie (in fact, everyone's been recast except for Dante Basco): https://knightedgemedia.com/2023/12/jessica-matten-set-to-voice-katara-in-2025-avatar-the-last-airbender-animated-movie/ Larryb fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Dec 8, 2023 |
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So the new actress' website shut down since that article was published. Uh... I wonder if thats a coincidence or a bunch of angry fans are harassing her.
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Ccs posted:So the new actress' website shut down since that article was published. Uh... I wonder if thats a coincidence or a bunch of angry fans are harassing her. Where is it? The optimist in me thinks it maybe just got overloaded and inadvertently DDoSed due to the influx of visitors after the announcement.
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MikeJF posted:Where is it? The optimist in me thinks it maybe just got overloaded and inadvertently DDoSed due to the influx of visitors after the announcement. It was here but it says there is no longer a domain connected http://www.7forwardentertainment.com/who-we-are-1
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So has the new actress been in anything notable prior to this or is she fairly new to the scene? Also do we know who’s playing Aang, Sokka, and/or Toph yet?
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Is there a separate thread for The Boy and the Heron or has anyone else seen it yet? I saw it last night. It’s ok but I didn’t really connect with it. Sometimes it takes me a bit to come around on Miyazaki movies (like I’ll get swept up in the world but feel let down by the story, then digest it differently on the next viewing) but idk. There is some really interesting stuff going on with Miyazaki himself in the film; parts of it are autobiographical and the wizard is DEFINITELY a stand-in for Miyazaki and his legacy with Ghibli and like… him coming to terms with it being unfair to burden his creative ambitions onto his progeny. The heron is just…an ugly little guy!
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It's like the platonic ideal of a Miyazaki movie with all his favorite character archetypes (it was funny seeing the old maid turns into the stock badass woman he loves so much) but it's good. Animation is gorgeous as usual. Obviously the stuff with the wizard has a lot of subtext to it but I found the protagonist's relationship with his mother to be more impactful. Kind of a shame though that the Heron is sidelined in the second half of the movie.
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I don’t think Boy and the Heron will be anyone’s favorite ghibli film. It’s one of Miyazaki’s darkest and contemplative and probably weirdest. That last hour is just going wild. But I think the heart of it is centered around Mahito and his mother and that takes until the end to really make itself clear. She chooses to go back to her time so she can have and be with mahito even though it will end in her death in a fire. It gives Mahito the closure he needed for feeling frustrated that there was nothing he could do to save his mom. This thought/optimism is further reinforced by the final lines: two years later the war ended and we moved backed to Tokyo. Tokyo was destroyed in the war by fires and bombing, so to go back is to accept the tragedy and rebuild again. I definitely want a rewatch myself. There’s lots of great callbacks to his other films. And many new interesting ones. I was just thinking about how the parakeet king mirrors Mahiotos dad who is a king of the war factory. All the parakeet troops are taking over the dream world just like imperialist Japanese solders.
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The boy and the heron is a top 5 film for me but definitely one of the weirdest and most contemplative ghibli films. It spends a lot of run time on animating mundane actions which pads the length a bit which made the film feel a bit plodding before the third act, and the world itself feels sparse and less alive than most Ghibli "worlds". Its like Miyazaki's mind images stripped to their barest components. Thats not a negative really, more just an observation I had while watching. The visuals and score and the characters are all great, and I didn't realize it was semi-autobiographical (had no knowledge of the story/development going in) so I was just kinda vibing with it. Low key one of the grossest ghibli movies too.
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I've been warning people that parrots are assholes for years but noooo only when Miyazaki says it do people listen.
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motm is one this thread will really enjoy https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4049094
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Watched Super Mario Bros and Across the Spider-Verse. SMB is just so overwhelmingly fine with everyone (except Jack Black) is doing their absolute minimum of work they have to. Also, the directors thinks that slow-mo is super hilarious. Meanwhile Across the Spider-Verse is a cornucopia of creativity, every scene is so vibrant and pushed the boundaries for what an animted movie can be.
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