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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I was going to say that it's probably a safe bet that they'll end on a Shrek-like "It's okay to just be yourself, true beauty is inside, you don't need to hide it with magic!" note but uhhhh I don't trust Korean cinema to pull that off. It's kind of amazing that Shrek is still this high water mark.
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Lobok posted:I don't think people really have a problem with Shrek, right? Maybe just the overexposure or sequels or Smash Mouth but the first movie is good (if your kid hasn't made you watch it a thousand times). It's less that Shrek is a bad movie--far from it--but I'm kind of astonished there hasn't been a better "you can still be beautiful even if you don't conform to strict cultural standards" animation since then.
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Taintrunner posted:They should just adapt the Tekken story and make all the monsters fight but also Frankenstein throws his monster into a volcano at the end I think that's how they finally got Varney the Vampire.
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quote:He still sends me a Christmas card every year with $5 in it, like he's my uncle or something. I don't know how to react to this.
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Guy Mann posted:I thought the goon hivemind was supposed to be against incarcerating children and ruining peoples' lives with a criminal record but I guess hating celebrities wins out against hating America's prison system. This is basically a perfect post.
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When it comes to stories about anthropomorphic symbols, the biggest comparison has to be with the various Sesame Street skits that star muppet alphabet letters and roman numerals.
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I can't imagine a Robotech movie possibly moving forward, mostly because the company behind the project, Harmony Gold, has only questionable ownership of the franchise. I'd almost suspect the whole production is just a pretext to entice Tatsunoko into paying them off to cancel the project and avoid a lawsuit.
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Pierson posted:Are those guys still being complete predatory assholes with the Robotech/Macross stuff? I'm not certain about that, but I remember the owner of the company being on trial for embezzlement and tax fraud to the tune of some 100 million dollars a while back. I can't imagine any movie studio being willing to do business with the company. Ape Agitator posted:Is it really possible for any movie of that kind to turn out better than Pacific Rim? I loved Pacific Rim, but I refuse to believe that film is as good as it gets
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Inescapable Duck posted:Hard to say, wouldn't be the first time anime's thrown in a ton of loaded symbology and cultural references that don't actually mean anything significant, just to look cool and exotic. The loaded symbology and cultural references in LoGH are extremely significant.
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Rirse posted:Oh they already met his twin from Future Trunk's timeline and bought him back to the present. And then Goku opened his mouth about a tournament so all the universes minus a few have to fight, with the losers being erased from existence. They already had one universe full of furries get erased after they tried to fight Goku and Frieza and failed. The gently caress? Isn't that the plot to loving Bokurano?!
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I'm looking forward to the combined five minutes of these cool robots before they job.
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If it were really a Go Nagai mecha series there'd be tit-ballistics.
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The Go Nagai shows all had extremely bombastic and ghoulish villains for the heroes to yell at. Pacific Rim doesn't have anything close to a Dr. Hell or a Count Brocken. They sort of have a Baron Ashura in Gypsy Danger, though.
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Having not read the book (but having heard some about it) the trailer seemed encouragingly uncomfortable. All the scifi extravaganza and the ending shot of the guy in wide-eyed astonishment is contrasted with the fact that we're actually seeing a teenage trailer-tenant distracting himself with an Xbox. My thoughts when the Iron Giant ('s image) was briefly on screen were, roughly in order: 1.) Wait, why is that here? 2.) Oh, right. This is the IP with all the references to earlier media in it. 3.) I liked the film The Iron Giant. I like the character the Iron Giant. The Iron Giant is good. 4.) This is all deeply hosed up. I think the film has potential. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 22, 2017 |
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If someone began claiming that tiny Japanese ladies in fairy costumes were speaking to them, especially if they were a little mentally off to begin with and there was some level of ambiguity throughout the movie, then I think that would be okay.
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Simplex posted:Star Wars is heavily influenced by the works of people such as Kurosawa, to the point that it could easily take place in late-19th Century Japan rather than a long time ago, in a distant galaxy. Is there any record of Lucas discussing or showing familiarity with the Shaw Bros. films? There's some similarity between the galactic landscape of the Star Wars films (both OT and PT) and the "martial world" many of the Shaw films inhabit, especially the handful that do feature an evil empire.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I thought he was space-Shylock? We don't know what specific space-ethnicity Watto is a caricature of, but he is definitely very offense to whichever one that is, and we are all very disappointed in Mr. Lucas for inventing him.
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FreudianSlippers posted:He could get freaky with some lab equipment. It's what his daddy did.
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Perhaps the ultimate expression of the masculism/patriotism overlay is rescuing the President's hot teenage daughter even though she is not your girlfriend.
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At this point it honestly seems like a minor miracle that any of these big studios are able to release any films at all.
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marshmallow creep posted:It does sound like the premise of a lesbian porn. suck your rear end, Mar
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I mean in the sense that all stories are "adventures," sure. But it's not a loving "adventure story." "The Road" is a grim adventure story. "Lord of the Flies" is the opposite of an adventure story, incredibly deliberately so. There is no growth in "Lord of the Flies," there is only decay. It's a story about a group of ship wrecked survivors learning to adapt to life on a deserted island, it's every bit as much of an adventure story as Robinson Crusoe. "Growth" in the sense of character growth just means change. There isn't any real distinction between growth and decay, in that sense.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:But they don't learn to adapt. That's the whole loving point. What's the distinction?
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:"Development" is that the character is in a different place emotionally than when they started. You're contradicting yourself here. Is growth becoming "better equipped to handle the world around them" or is it becoming "a healthier, more fully-formed individual?" Ralph hasn't become healthier, but he has become better adapted to survive on the island, and specifically the tribalism of his peers. He's also become a more fully-formed individual. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:As much as I'm trying to wean myself out of TVtropes terminology, I do like 'glurge'. It sounds like pink toxic waste. Glurgic Avenger The first Super-hero...from Plattsburg!
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The Robotech brand is owned by Harmony Gold, and they've been involved with numerous lawsuits over how much of Macross they actually own, as well as numerous other lawsuits involving tax fraud, embezzlement and false accounting. I doubt they have the rights to produce anything involving the 80s anime. It'd almost certainly be something wholly original. Assuming it's not actually a scam. Given the company's history, that's my personal guess.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Does make one wonder how you make a good live action Peter Pan adaptation. I suppose you don't know til you try. Not necessarily. Jungle Book and BatB both went heavy on the CGI, and notable Disney film Star Wars: Rogue One shows that fully CGI people (and so, children) are at least possible. And since Peter Pan is some kind of discreetly monstrous fey-human, you even have a built in excuse for everyone looking off.
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When are we getting more of Three Caballeros?
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Inescapable Duck posted:Theatrical movies of ongoing cartoons never seem to do well, but they keep on making them. The MLP film will make a fortune just from kids walking past grocery store displays and demanding their parents buy it.
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Casimir Radon posted:I'm surprised the MLP movie isn't drowning in pedo money. If the film came out two or so years ago, I'm sure it would have.
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Guy Mann posted:I'm pretty sure they all became Stephen Universe dorks considering it has the exact same magical girl framework and every episode being solved by talking about their feelings only with rocks instead of tramp stamps. I always assumed the MLP fans didn't take to SU because of all the adult woman in the latters fandom.
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DBZ is plenty funny on it's own, and for the most part Abridged just shines a spotlight at jokes that were already there. The jokes that are original to Abridged are uniformly unfunny.
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The Frieza saga as a whole is a riot. The most powerful person in the galaxy is continuously shown up by people he considers beneath his notice, culminating in him getting his rear end kicked by a monkey. It also features the Ginyu Force.
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Shageletic posted:Did you see the press bit about Sony's latest earnings? Looks like Spider-man Homecoming led them to have huge earnings last quarter (along with the PS4). Imagine the world were Homecoming fell through, but that smilie movie brought in money.
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Leavemywife posted:Blue, the last raptor, Gosh, imagine a world without raptors.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:No one watches Dragon Ball for the fights, they watch it for the conclusions of the fights and character drama. This is why 'One Punch Man', a series where the fights always conclude instantly is so popular I don't actually think you're too far from the truth, but I'd add that people watch it for the set up as much as the conclusion.
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FilthyImp posted:That makes kiiiiiind of sense if you assume the force is a net positive, creative energy and Dark Side practitioners are perverting its potential for personal gain. I wouldn't be so quick to say that. "Eastern spiritualism" isn't some monolithic whole, and any religion will have competing sects.
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I'm not too familiar with the Robin Hood stories, but isn't the character a veteran from a middle eastern war who comes home to find the government imposed too many taxes? I'm not certain the character is an anti-conservative as he's been hyped to be.
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