Sweevo posted:

What this three hour long movie needs is for the action to stop dead so we can watch a dancing fairy man speak in rhyme for 40 minutes while adding absolutely nothing to the plot.

Glagha posted:

I mean... Have you seen the extended content of LOTR? They did that poo poo, adding in every single fuckin cut scene they ever shot into one gigantic like 9 hour slog of a trilogy.

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

comedy forum somethingawful has not aged well

Pick posted:

CharlestheHammer posted:

Eh the pharaoh stuff doesn’t really happen until after the card game takes over.

The last arc is where 95% takes place

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Then again, Pegasus needing to cheat to be a threat to Yugi and Kaiba makes sense; both of them (well, all three counting Yami) are full-time card game fanatics, while Pegasus may have invented the game but he's an artist and businessman, and it's not exactly typical for the developers of a popular game to be the best at it.

christmas boots posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk-ZBYyjsko

These ones are pretty good too but they work because he's imitating Trump's style of speech rather than a a political parody

Cleretic posted:

In... well not really less disgusting subjects, but different disgusting subjects, it's interesting to see that the third Yu-Gi-Oh series, 5D's, got derailed by some very sad real-world events at the time.

They were really building up to a cult storyline for the female lead, laying the groundwork pretty early on... only to abruptly stop when it turned out that one of the show's Japanese voice actresses was involved in an actual cult (largely as a victim, but as usual with cults it's murky). It was the sort of news story that was over by the time the news broke as far as I know, it isn't a Smallville situation, but it did lead to that voice actress being replaced, the character being (very obviously) scaled back, and the show's cult storyline just vanishing.

Neither of which really help the show much at all, since the two characters affected are the two main adult female characters, and they clearly struggle to find what to do about that.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Rocketman was definitely a bad movie but I watched it in the ideal setting: on an airplane

hawowanlawow posted:

the poster who corrected me was ...correct, it was renfield and not van helsing

Solice Kirsk posted:

They're the same country dummy. That's why they call it Dutchland.

ilmucche posted:

Nether Gundam

sassassin posted:

Vegeta is still a bad dad in Super. He reluctantly goes on a trip to a theme park with his family, acts like a sulky child the whole time (except when eating) and flies away to train when Bulma tells him he's fulfilled a basic, minimal obligation to his son. The episode is somehow considered a mark in his favour by many.

CharlestheHammer posted:

It’s just more Z. What your seeing is Z was always bad

christmas boots posted:

Now granted I only ever knew one mexican who’d seen G Gundam but he loving loved that sombrero space station

CharlestheHammer posted:

Dragonball is weird in that it has a button that makes death toothless but it needs drama so it has to figure a way around it.

The Buu sagas solution was to pretends the dragon balls aren’t a thing when it’s more dramatic

Megillah Gorilla posted:

OSTs (original sound tracks) seem like a massive business now.

I know in Korea, a lot of artists want to get to a sing a show's theme because it's one of the few things they can do where they'll actually get paid.

Push El Burrito posted:

Well this explains a lot of what happened on Angel.

Cleretic posted:

Basically the only thing I'll ever grant Snyder in terms of actual storytelling is that I actually do get why he moved away from the giant squid, and I think the approach they ended up going with was better for the movie. The giant squid works in the comics because, while it does come off as just completely absurd, they had the space to subtly pave the way towards it so that it doesn't come off as a complete non-sequitir. But because they had to cut a few things out to make the movie adaptation not a billion hours long, it actually works fairly well to replace the giant squid with 'I'm gonna nuke a city and blame Doctor Manhattan'.

But since we're talking about Zack 'Four-Hour Justice League Movie' Snyder, I suspect that bit of plot streamlining wasn't his idea.

Der Kyhe posted:

It was also competing at the time with Babylon 5, which had no luggage whatsoever from the earlier shows. And surprisingly, both ended up with a galaxy-wide war and how can you have war without meaningful casulties.

And yes, I know that B5 was fully written by Straczynski as four season, 60 episodes or so story arc before even the first episode was filmed and he was forced to later split stuff and add filler episodes which started to show towards the end of the series.

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Isn't that largely what racism means? A prejudice that becomes so ingrained its systemic? Like you can easily use 'black' as shorthand to tell someone that something is evil.

docbeard posted:

I'm reminded (in a good way) of the parts in Ben Aaronovich's Rivers of London where the protagonist has to occasionally tell his (well intentioned but much older) magic teacher not to call it "black magic".

Voyager I posted:

Family Guy feels like cheating in this thread given that it was insipid garbage at the time, even if the years have made its attempts at edginess much worse.

John Murdoch posted:

Captain America punched Hitler for purely apolitical reasons.

Aramek posted:

I like the normal film ending because how do you top

"WELL I'M A MEAN GREEN MOTHER FROM OUTER SPACE AND I'M BAD!"