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I don't know Mr-K. You are kind of a pussy. I don't know if there is anything for you to like. I'm not saying the show will make you a man. But it pretty much appeals to that part of you that is a 5 year old boy that likes to get on the couch and jump and scream while you pretend like Optimus prime is flying around. Maybe also the part that pushes the tonka dump truck around and goes VROOM VROOM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Maybe you would like Lost or Heros more? Maybe some Battlestar Galactica.
Ok, I'm being mean. HAHA
anyway, the show is Getter Robo + Macross + FLCL. If that doesn't appeal to you, don't watch it.
People who don't get it, just think it is another robot anime. People that get it, and it all clicks, adore it.
Gurren Laggan has the problem of "Japanese Sense Of Humor". A lot of that shit is painfully unfunny. You can weeboo yourself into thinking it is, apparently!
Anime humor can be appealing, I really liked Excel Saga... when I was 16. Maybe I'll watch it next week.
Watched "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". Pretty awesome! Steve Martin noir comedy, incorporating a lot of footage from older b&w detective movies. With boob jokes.
Big Fan
A diehard NY Giants Fan (played by Patton Oswald) gets into a scuffle with the teams star (and his own favorite) player. Everyone around him says he should sue, but it would likely get the guy kicked from the team.
Patton sells this movie on his own. He's actually a hell of an actor. There is some depressing and straight up sad shit in here and Patton plays the loser part to perfection. There's a great supporting cast in this too, I liked it a lot.
I found Big Fan depressing and not very fun to watch. I turned it off at some point when they were stalking the dude. Not my kind of movie.
It's a rough movie. It ends the way you think it does.
I was unaware the show was funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Or that anyone watches anime for it being funny?
Is this what people talk about at cartoon network?
"why do people keep watching Bleach? It isn't funny at all. All they do is fight and give long stupid monologues about team work and friendship. What the fuck is funny about that?"
bleach is a horrible show regardless, mind you
EDIT: I mean, yeah, I guess I remember some Japanese jokes. Like the robots turning into SD characters while yelling at each other. I guess that is a Japanese joke? I don't know, I just tend to ignore stuff like that. I don't need another culture to do EVERYTHING my way to enjoy something. I'm a big boy. I got these big boy pants. Sometimes I wear them.
I wonder if Forign people get upset with us when we put racial stereotypes in our movies. Like do they get upset the second they find out Chris Tucker will be in a movie? Are their long French debates on the internet somewhere about every Rush Hour movie?
"Why is zhere zo much American humor? I just have to turn zit off every time the black guy openz hiz mouth"
EDIT 2: Has Cartoon network put out anything that didn't try to be funny? Maybe my joke isn't too far off from the truth.
EDIT 3: Just because Tom and Eric, and 12 whatever Mouse are not actually funny, does not mean they count.
I just watched Meshuggah's new dvd "Alive". Holy fucking shit. The production values are through the roof. It was by far the cleanest, best sounding, most incredibly filmed music dvd I've ever seen. Sounds better than the albums. And the set list had 7 of the songs I would choose for my perfect 15 song list.
Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
Pravus (Tokyo)
Bleed (NYC)
New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal)
Stengah (Montreal)
The Mouth Licking What You've Bled (Montreal)
Electric Red (Tokyo)
Rational Gaze (Tokyo)
Lethargica (Toronto)
Combustion (Toronto)
Humiliative (Montreal) OMFG!!!
Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
The video quality is absolute shit compared to the actual dvd, and the sound can't stand next to hearing it in surround sound, but it's a decent approximation of the dvd on a good system. Shit was epic.
Greatest music dvd evar.
Uh huh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
My friends gave the impression that Gurren Laagan was amusingly ridiculous, and not anything serious at all. Seems that it's actually serious business.
Quite serious.
Oh, you have those freinds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
I'll put it this way. There are two types of Godzilla fans.
There are those that watch Godzilla because they think those movies are horrible films and find them funny for being so horrible. The kind of people that say "omg that suit looks so stupid. this is so funny"
And then you have people who watch Godzilla films because they love watching a huge lizard break shit. These people say "fuck yeah Godzilla, fuck mothra up."
I realize there are people that are a mix of the two, like those who think the original Godzilla movies are awesome, and the spin offs are cheesy, but I think my point still stands.
The action in Gurren Laagan gets pretty crazy. It borders on the absurd. The only parallel I can draw is that some battles would be like Voltron forming a blazing sword as big as the planet and cutting it in half.
Some people are going to find that funny.
Others will find it fucking awesome.
I found it fucking awesome.
And this type of humor (if it meant to be funny) is different than what Yeller was talking about. The Japanese don't hold a cultural copy right on things being over the top. He was probably talking more about boob jokes and sweat drops and SD robots being silly and cute and other little things that are in every anime made in the past ten years or more
But no, the show is not overly serious. The plot is probably half as serious as old Macross. No real deaper meaning other than "don't be a lazy ass" and "life sucks sometimes." And there is a love triangle of some sorts.
Hey, lets not turn this into one of those situations where everyone sees that IP likes something and everyone patronizes him because there is nothing good on Tv. Because I have a paper to write today and I'll probably let you guys do it as being poked at is more fun that writing about coffee shops.
Indeed.
;_;
you people won't let me like anything
Why you gonna give a shit what I think, son?
I'm not an island? This is a forum?
I don't know. That is an odd thing to ask in the middle of talking about something.
"I like apples"
"I do not like apples from Tensbrook"
"But those apples taste good"
"indeed"
"I can't have any apples ;_;"
"Why do you care what I think of the apples?"
You still in Atlanta? Shut up. Go exploring.
and you don't check my facebook.
you are the worst friend ever
I think that you are a terrible friend, because you haven't sent me a friend request :cry:
Anime sucks.
I'm with bbobb, I've tried to get into some things (like Gurren Laagan) but get bored after an episode or two. I loved the shit when I was a teenager but the vast majority of it is horrible to me now. I think Genshiken is the only thing I've liked in years and I still haven't watched past the first series of that.
I still like really old stuff. I can watch Castle of Cagliostro any day of the week, for instance. 70's/80's movies/OVAs, hey, awesome.
Anything from the 00's after a certain point though, forget it. With exceptions, of course. With exceptions.
Oh I'm with you there. I don't know what it is about the newer stuff but almost all of it turns me off. FLCL & Genshiken are the only things that come to mind that I remember really liking.
That is really how it should be. Only retards and dweebs like ALL animation coming out of any one country.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I'd probably hate "anime" too if I ever went through the "must watch everything" phase so many others did.
I don't bother with the bulk of kids programming regardless of what country it comes from. I'm not watching the suit life of zack in codey or Hamtardoe.
well, what is your name on there, Mr. Roboto?Quote:
Originally Posted by DumpTruck
Oh, get fucked. NO! CUTTING A PLANET IN HALF ISN'T FUNNY IT'S AWESOME! STOP LAUGHING. STOP LAUGHING!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
As for anime, I'm rather in Yeller's boat. Once everything went digital about ten years ago, I just thought everything started looking like shit.
I'm watch an episode of SVU with Smash from Friday Night Lights in it. He ripped a girl's lips off (although, there are twists to come, he probably didn't do it). There was an episode a couple of seasons before where Matt Saracen from FNL was a pedophile and murderer.
And for the record Godzilla movies are awesome and stupid. On the one hand it's a giant lizard wrecking shit, on the other hand it's a giant lizard wrecking shit.
You probably won't like the show. I'll go pour some of my drink on the curb to morn the death of your inner child.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
You and your friends should probably go buy some Iron Maiden T-shirts from Hot Topic so you can all have a good laugh at how ironic it is that you are wearing band t-shirts for "such a silly stupid band. Operatic Metal singing, LOL, amiright?"
You're an idiot.
And wow, Godzilla Final Wars is bad!
I know you are but what am I?
I like Final Wars a lot! Mostly because King Caesar's cameo is nuts!
It can't touch Invasion of the Astro-Monster, though. Or Godzilla vs. Headorah!
It's a nice sampler platter, but not as good as ordering a full meal? Does that make sense?
It had about an hour's worth of Matrixy super humans that really didn't need to be there. Godzilla doesn't enter the picture until like an hour in. It's like he's a secondary player in his own movie.
The American dude with the sword was pretty rad though.
Answer your text messages.
I got a text message?
imoQuote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Don Frye!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
And I love how he carries that sword around everywhere but when he actually goes to fight he sets the sword down (if I remember right, it's been a while).
Except for the "Matrixy" bit, this is usually how it goes! The standard Godzilla flick usually involves MAYBE 30 minutes of giant monster crazyness, the rest of the run time is typically made up of some absurd spy movie B-Plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
This is usually acceptable, but sometimes the monster bits are stock footage from previous movies! That is horseshit.
weren't a lot of the baby godzilla movies like that?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
They were basically clip shows, yeah. It's fun to see them disregard the various Godzilla suits in the edits, there was a slight redesign every three movies or so.
I never really liked the baby godzilla movies. I remember them being mostly about a boy in shorts talking to baby godzilla all the time (and yet not really). Like he would be at school and he would think to himself "man I wonder what baby godzilla is doing right now."
The whole movie would be a lot of that and 20 minutes of stolen Godzilla fights.
Baby Godzilla movies suck. Fuck that thing.
The best/worst Godzilla designs were from the 70s:
http://www.historyvortex.org/68Godzilla2.jpg
Googlie eyes!
I kind of like 80's catface godzilla, but yeah, 1970s suit is hard to beat.
I wish there had been a whole movie like this:
watched a delightful little romp in the thai "kick the hell out of everybody in crazy fight scenes" genre today, "raging phoenix"
it's the broad from "chocolate"! and the tourettes fighter is in this too
That looks like a fun movie.
just watched Howard The Duck for the first time since I was little.......what a silly ass movie and Lea Thompson was really hott in it
Duck titties!
dude i fucking laughed so hard when i seen that....i miss the 80's
I remember being fascinated by Lea Thompson in that movie.
She's a duck fucker.
and a sick "guitarist":
Horrible.
Saw the Princess and the Frog last night. Pretty good, better than I thought it was going to be, actually. I hope the next one they do is a bit more adventurous, but I did really like the art deco sequence.
They should have sung this though:
Moon - good but not great. Again, nothing to do with the lack of a twist in the plot or a surprise ending; the movie just came off as a little bit shallow for the story being told, almost music video-ish especially upon a second viewing, like it wanted to go further but couldn't commit whether it be due to time or budgetary constraints. It almost felt like I skipped past a few scenes when watching it. This is a movie that I hope to see a longer director's cut version. A good movie and a very nice looking BRD.
District 9 - another nice looking BRD, saw this about three times before wanting to really comment on it. I like this but don't see this as a genre classic as I've heard it mentioned as.
Basically two pretty good sci-fi movies that fall noticably short of being as good as something like Children of Men, for example.
500 Days of Summer: I totally did not expect this romantic comedy to be this good. It helps that I can relate to Tom's experience and both leads were charming and cute.
Moon: I didn't really read up on this at all so I am pleasantly surprised by the premise and shocked that basically Sam is the only actor in the whole movie. Really amazing performance, and Gertie was amazing for a computer!
I'm glad you like 500 Days of Summer, Kinofu. Anyone who doesn't is a butt.
Finch is right.
I didn't like it!
What didn't you like about it? Thought it was funny and heartfelt, unlike 90% of the romantic comedies out there.
You're dead to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
You don't know what you like, YellerDog!
I don't like it either.
That's expected since you are a cold hearted sob.
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Originally Posted by Josh
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Originally Posted by kingoffighters
david fincher directed that!
Look into my eye.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/p...&pictureid=807
It kinda looks like it was painstakingly engineered to appeal to the indie movie crowd. It has my boy JGL in it though so I'll give it a chance if the opportunity arises.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1266289070Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Up In The Air - Considering I am recently unemployed, I felt like this movie could have had more weight than it did. Although seeing people getting canned via video conference got a twisted smile out of me remembering getting told not to come into work on Tuesday via cell phone call while I was walking home.
I'm glad that they curve balled the potentially saccharine ending with Ryan and Alex, when he was walking up to her house I guessed that she was married, but was glad that it didn't go with that move. Still, with Ryan learning the value of relationships, I'm not sure how flying to a random spot on the globe will help him out. I guess he's just permanently adrift.
Also, lol at Sam Elliott basically reprising his Big Lebowski role as God.
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Originally Posted by D_N_G
I thought it was ok, but I had no real expectations going into it. I still hate Zoey Whateverthefuckhernameis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
I wouldn't go that far, but I seriously disliked the jumping around dates aspect. Shit got annoying real fast. Not mad I watched it, but will never watch again.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
That's the point of the movie.... when we remember our past relationship, we jump around and remember all the good stuff (at least if you still want to get back together with your ex). We don't remember the past like a linear timeline all neat and stuff in a typical movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
I actually find this to be refreshing and effective.
Basically!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
Started watching Amadeus last night!
I had no inkling this was going to be so good!
Amadeus is an amazing movie. I thought it was going to be a snore the first time I watched it, but it's a really well made piece of drama. And you see Mozart's wife's hooters.
I just watched Wrestlemania X. I wish I had watched Amadeus instead. As soon as they tried to make Bret Hart the main face of the WWF it's been downhill from there.
That's probably the last one that I watched!
I watched Where the Wild Things Are last night.
I think I was expecting more from it. It was definitely fun & charming at times, but ultimately kind of... uneventful?
I understand the point, and I agree that's a good way to portray cinematically the way our brains jump around to various times, it just didn't appeal to me that much. Unfortunately after that I was forced to watch A Walk To Remember, which... ...I was forced to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I ended up having to watch this in highschool for an English class and I LOVED it. That movie was incredibly well done. Kinda wanna go rent it right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
If you have NetFlix and a magical Xbox 360, you can rent it from your couch!
Watchin' Wargames! First time I've seen it!
Kind of want to do Terrible Things to Ally Sheedy!
Ok, bunch of movies over the weekend:
Moon - Great little sci-fi outing. Liked quite a lot.
Black Dynamite - I can dig it. Good times.
Whiteout - Meh, cool opening, rest was boring trash.
75% of Final Destination - Not too bad, except for horribly laughable 3d moments, that you can spot in regular 2d. Got to finish it tonight
The Challenge - A forgotten action gem from early 80s, with Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifune. Glenn hired to smuggle ancient sword back to Japan, and gets into the middle of war between 2 brothers (one honorable samurai and one businessmen with yakuza connections) - It plays similar to Last Samurai, with Glenn, first outsider and down on his luck thug, learning the ways of honor, and kicking ass among Mifune. Pretty cool flick
noobQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I am under 30. /ohshit
Oh yeah, forgot one more:
Patriot Games - been a while since I seen, so did a little refresher. Flick still holds up, Ford is cool as Jack Ryan, and Sean Been is a fun baddie. To think, thats a spy flick that has Han Solo, Darth Vader and Mace Windu in it ;)
I think i know how you feel. At first i thought i liked it a lot, but slowly, i realized that i really hated that movie. It feels like Spike Jonze wants you to hate the movie, because like Charlie Kaufman, he hates himself, he hates his movie, and most importantly, he hates you for watching his movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
Kate Beaton says it best.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1266385674
It's worth noting that Amadeus's Blu Ray transfer is liable to make the tip of your penis do that thing where it kind of twitches for a brief dick moment. It is that good. Do take care to avoid the Director's Cut if possible.
It's also worth noting that~ ~
Been snowed in a lot lately and having movies on in the background while I'm playing games...
Assassination of a High School President - Great flick, I wasn't expecting much but this one blew me away. Unrealistic high school hard-boiled detective/reporter story ala Brick but I actually like this one a little more. Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis & Mischa Barton are all fantastic in this.
Rocket Science - Another Reece Thompson vehicle. He pulls off a really believable stutter. I actually watched this first and I almost didn't recognize him in Assassination. Nothing I'm going to watch again but I enjoyed it.
Monsters vs. Aliens - Meh. Bob was kinda funny but this was pretty bland overall. Animation was alight but nothing to write home about I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to watch it.
College - Garbage with a heavy sprinkling of tits. I had to FF through the body shot off the wookiee fella in the beginning. Awful flick.
Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths - The best DC direct to DVD flick so far. Tons of action.
Adventureland - Nothing at all like it was advertised, this is not Superbad in an 80's amusement park. It has more in common with Clerks than it does Superbad, which isn't a bad thing. Ryan Reyonlds was more or less wasted, I wasn't expecting such as sad character from him.
Couples Retreat - Meh, the Guitar Hero duel was kinda painful to watch.
The Ramen Girl - I think someone on here said is was a little too ABC Family and that's what I got as well. I do really want to check out Tampopo now though.
It was like Jonze wanted to beat you over the head with "THE WILD THINGS ARE LIKE KIDS OR THEY THINK LIKE KIDS KIND OF OR SOMETHING" and then they all threw dirt at each other, realized Max was a kid and it was over. I think I wanted something more visually if that's all I was getting out of the story, as the wild things looked great but they just kind of ran through a generic forest, jumped on eachother a lot and then built a fort that looked pretty cool but didn't do anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Watched "Man Push Cart" last night, depressing but recommended! I will not tell you anything about this movie, even the subject was kind of a nice surprise. It's on NetFlix. Do not read the description. Go.
edit: Sisyphus
I'm not buying what you're selling.
Your loss, IMO.
Ebert gave it 4 stars and a nice writeup. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...610190302/1023
It will spoil certain things, if you really need proof that it's a good movie beyond me telling you.
The Invention of Lying and it's one of the worst movies i've ever seen.
Really? I actually enjoyed that movie a lot, it started off with a lot of lulz and got a little more emo near the end, but I thought it was pretty good. I especially laughed at what they named the old people's home.
Also Compass, I doubt you will ever see that on Netflix. Seriously doubt that. Go here and get it, it's worth every fucking penny http://www.myspace.com/meshuggah . Unfortunately, we both missed out on the hoody and poster deal (that poster is fucking HUGE, my buddy got one).
I liked the movie overall, but I saw that twist coming from the first time the people met. Too sappy, but his overall philosophy through most of the movie roughly mirrored mine, he just didn't play it out as I would expect someone too. Hmmm, my issues with the movie feel difficult to explain on a forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
The Hurt Locker
I enjoyed this a lot. I don't recall seeing the main actors in the movie (aside from a cameo of Ralph Fiennes and the Ice Truck Killer), but they were fantastic. Aside from the bit at the end where the 3 soldiers try to hunt down the terrorists in the village at night, I thought the whole thing feels authentic.
Needed more bombs. It was over two hours long and we had what......three bombs?
Shit needed to go boom more.
Pandorum - For a major-release sci-fi haunted house pic, it wasn't bad. I expected it to suck big time, but I didn't fall asleep once. :tu:
The Objective - Another one by Daniel Myrick of the Blair Witch crew. Cliched setup - an elite army squad and a mysterious CIA agent travel into the desert for A Secret Mission - but it turned into something quite interesting.
FLCL - Series. I don't normally like comedy anime, but this was a pretty good show. Tad goofy for my taste though.
Niea_7 - Series. Loved it. Realistic and emotive, but bizarre and impulsive. Hard to believe it was done by the Lain folks; it's so different.
Millennium Actress - OK, Satoshi Kon is now officially one of my five favorite directors. I've loved everything he's done, and everything has been quite different.
Doesn't really count, but I'm also half done with Samurai Champloo. At the rate I'm going, I'll finish in the next couple days. Worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as Bebop, SAC, and Mushi-shi, IMO. Most of it is completely stunning.
Samurai Champloo rules.
Blood: The Last Vampire
Live action take on the anime. Solidly average. Not bad, not good either. The CG blood pretty much ruins any kind of impact the fights have and the action direction is pretty spastic. I really can't recommend it, there's better shit out there.
Mirrors- Keifer all up in this bitch. Supernatural thriller/horror movie directed by the guy that made High Tension and The Hills Have Eyes remake. It took awhile for it to really get my attention, but I ended up liking it in the end. Cool concept but a lot is left unexplained. Really well made, it looks good, quality soundtrack and the cast holds it together well. There are some really cool FXs and one of the more memorable and brutal deaths I've seen in awhile. Worth a look.
I loved High Tension so I will give Mirrors a whirl.
I finally reluctantly watched Hostel. The three main killer guys were extremely well done. This movie would have been just as unnerving without any gore whatsoever, on the basis of the very real notion that there is almost certainly market for this sort of thing.
I ended up being disappointed at the Hollywood cheese factor, especially during the last half hour or so. If it hadn't tried to be mainstream at all (read: no "happy" ending, no rampant ridiculosity), or spell out every little connection for retarded people, I'd be able to give it more respect.
So you decided that he's your favorite director after seeing a movie you thought was mediocre?Quote:
Originally Posted by BioMechanic
Millennium Actress is pretty much the definition of mediocre and forgettable.
I didn't think it was mediocre. Anything but, actually.
Man, wait til you see a good movie! It's gonna blow. your. mind.
ME is pretty darn boring. Didn't bother to see Tokyo Grandfathers as a result.