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    Pokemon, bitch

    in We Have Technology

    Posted

    I wasn't super jazzed about the UB designs in S/M but I have to say I'm really loving Burst and Adhesive. Trailer looks absolutely bananas too - I can't wait to see what the hell is going on in this game.

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    I think I missed this fad

    in Ask Me

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    On 9/16/2017 at 6:10 PM, Dr. WhoBruh said:

    yeah, usually they go quick on the season premieres, so If that's actually Barry, it wouldn't surprise me. Flashpoint arc was disappointing for me because it was just one episode with same old stuff we've seen on the show but I think I can let this slide since I have been waiting for good old wise Barry for a long time. Still I feel like they'll get out of Barry in the first episode but Barry still feeling confused and weird after staying in speedforce?

    Yeah, that seems likely.

    On 9/21/2017 at 7:07 PM, Katniss said:

    I loved the season premiere of The Good Place. Have you seen it yet?

    I did because you reminded me! I totally forgot about it even though I had looked up the premiere date a few days prior. This season has been wild. The second episode got a bit... odd and I kept questioning what the plot of the season would even be up until the last scene. I'm hoping that was the last reboot, though, because I think they really went whole hog on it in that episode and there isn't really any juice left in that anymore.

    On 9/30/2017 at 11:46 PM, HelloMisterSpringtime said:

    Do you know what looped animation is?

    I'm assuming just a bit of animation that can continuously loop? That's what my professor had us do when we did that, anyway.

    Kingsman: The Golden Circle

    in Culture Shock

    Posted

    On 9/22/2017 at 7:55 AM, Clappy said:

    Man.  What a disappointing year for mainstream blockbusters.

    I was hyped as hell for this.  The original made my freaking top ten list.  I've watched the original like at least ten times in the past two years since buying the Blu-Ray.  I...I should have lowered my expectations.

    I'm not posting this thinking this is a bad movie.  It's not.  I'm glad I saw it.  But it is an average movie at best though that's for sure.

    The acting was enjoyable, the cinematography was great, the action sequences were fun...whenever the CGI wasn't being blatantly obvious (the first film hid it better even though it was there but the direction had those levels of selfawareness that made it clever).  My problems are almost all with the writing.  They were trying to cram way too much into an overly long two and a half hour movie.  It just started to become a mess at times trying to connect all the sequences together.  I sat there bored wondering when they were going to do something interesting with these characters instead of having them hopscotch around the globe from one set piece to the next.

    "I always thought the old James Bond films were only as good as their villains."

    Remember that funny line from the original?  Well that applies here too.  Not saying Julianne Moore was bad because she was good with what she was given.  I'm serious when I say I enjoyed the acting in this movie.  But what she was given did not make her all that memorable outside of her hidden lair that made me laugh the first time I saw it.  Her character's motives were vvveeerrrry weak and there wasn't enough menace towards her actions.  I hate to compare, but since I brought up the original Kingsman quote, she would be one of the lesser tier Bond villains unlike Samuel L who would have ranked as one of the upper tier.

    Honestly, one of my friends I saw it with said it best.  That this gave us more of the same but without the creative spark that the original had.  So true except I would include overly inflated to that as well.  Because this felt a lot like the first movie in terms of how it was giving us more of the same but it just doesn't have the passion applied towards it that just makes the sequel feel like a lamp or any sort of functioning product.  Which I hate to say about a Matthew Vaughn film especially since I consider him of the better directors working today.

    Once again, this isn't a bad movie.  But if you were expecting a great one, you're in for a major disappointment like I'm feeling.

    I think I enjoyed this more than you did, but yeah, basically agreed on all accounts. My girlfriend and I were both super hyped for this and we went to see it last night and then on the walk back to her apartment we just kept talking about how many problems there were with the writing.

    The action was super tight - Pedro Pascal in particular got some of the best material in that regard - and I thought basically all the jokes landed. Everything else was just... off. Still fine, honestly, but definitely off.

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    I couldn't comprehend why they killed off Roxy and Eggsy's friend (and dog). I get wanting to "raise the stakes" as it were, but, like, come on now. With the way they shot Roxy's death I thought they were gonna bring her back towards the end of the second act or something, but then that rolled around and there was nothing and I had to accept that she was actually dead. I don't even get why Poppy wanted to get Kingsman in the first place. Were they posing a threat to her somehow? They didn't even know she existed until Roxy found traces of The Golden Circle about two minutes before her death, and her plan was pretty much working independently from Kingsman and would've gone off without a hitch if she didn't try to kill them. She was operating from the shadows for a good long while, and someone may have wanted to search into Elton John's disappearance but it's not like they would know where to look. Her whole plan hinged on the President agreeing to her terms, so why not go after the Statesman? Or why not go after, I don't know, the President? Wiping out Kingsman (and, by extension, Roxy's death) just felt like hollow motivation for Eggsy and Merlin.

    Going off of that, Merlin's death also really pissed me off. First, he has a talk with Ginger Ale about how he loves the grunt work because without that then the field agents would be totally lost. He has zero desire to go into the field, whereas Ginger Ale really wants to go in and kick ass. Then he just goes into the field anyway? And they even bring along a minesweeper specifically because Poppy has landmines, and Eggsy still steps on a landmine that they should've detected. Merlin freezes it, pushes him off, and steps on it so it'll activate when he moves. Yeah, sure, he takes out a handful of guards too, and he gets that really good musical number (that I may have shed a tear during), but, are you kidding? He has to die because Eggsy is an idiot? He didn't want to be out in the field to begin with, and then he's there for five minutes and blows up? That rubbed me the wrong way. I get that he probably wouldn't have been amazing out there, and I think a sacrificial death was the right way to go for him, but at least... I don't know, maybe have him get killed by Whiskey? Something better than trying to clean up Eggsy's mess.

    Harry had a weird plotline that I didn't quite understand. I liked that he came back but I wish his character worked better. He was good at being used to show off how badass Whiskey was, but aside from that he didn't get a whole lot to do until the action stuff at the end. He had that odd butterfly thing going on in his eyes that felt like should've been a bigger deal than it ended up being. It worked as a way to show that he was out of practice, but then they just kind of brushed it aside at the end anyway so I'm not sure what it was doing in the film - and, likewise, I didn't think the amnesia thing worked either. I thought they were gonna do something where Harry wanted an out from Kingsman to go back to a life before all the craziness so he faked having amnesia, but then he actually had it and there wasn't much to do with that plot because this is a movie and not a TV show and that type of thing doesn't really work out too well as a side-plot in a movie. If it were a show then I could see them being able to work with it longer and then have it cured in the mid-season finale, but because movies don't have the luxury of that it just ended up feeling pointless and rushed. They just as easily could've nixed it from the plot but just explain that his body is still recovering so he's not up to snuff yet.

    Statesman were a neat idea but they didn't get nearly enough time. I thought Tequila had a killer introduction and I would've loved to see Champagne in action (so we could find out why people call him Champ other than that just being a joke/cool thing to say). Ginger Ale was pretty good too, but she got basically nothing to do. Whiskey, obviously, was a show-stopper for most of the movie, and then they had to turn him evil and that was just weird and stupid. Up until the scene in the cabin where he wants to see the antidote there's practically zero foreshadowing or set-up or any real reason to suspect that he could be evil, and then they had that shot that lingered too long on Eggsy holding the bottle in front of the fire and Whiskey wanting to check it out and from there it was incredibly obvious that he was working against them (to me, anyway - my girlfriend didn't pick up on it). This is another reason why the amnesia/butterfly thing was weird - Harry was right, but no one believed him because they thought he was crazy. When you introduce that plot line, there's one of two ways it goes: either he's right and he's not crazy, or he's wrong and he is crazy. Did anyone watching the movie actually think Harry was gonna be wrong? They had just re-introduced him back into the story and there were three Kingsman left. There's no way he was gonna be that whacked out, obviously he was going to be right because Merlin was destined to die and there's no way Eggsy was going to be able to run Kingsman by himself, so why not just have Eggsy and Merlin believe him? Why bother with trying to cast doubt and try to make it some kind of big reveal at the end? Again, amnesia should've been nixed so when this happened there'd be no reason for Eggsy and Merlin not to believe him but the Statesman would still be weary if they got wind of it (they had him locked up, after all, so in their minds there's probably a good reason for him to try to pit the two organizations against each other).

    I might have more to say later, but for now I think that's everything.

     

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    I think I missed this fad

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    1 minute ago, Dr. WhoBruh said:

    well you haven't seen most of season 3, so that's why you probably don't get it. Barry's gonna be very experienced and different in season 4, compared to him in first three seasons. Due to the fact that until the premiere, he's in speedforce for like 4-6 months? That's why he looks very weird in the trailers. And the title is literally "The Flash Reborn".

    Yeah, I mean, I know he was in the Speedforce for a while. I'm not talking about him looking weird, I'm talking about the way they chose to shoot the close-ups and the Cisco scene. It felt different. Like, why bother doing a wonky POV shot of Cisco explaining the new suit if there wasn't something going on? Unless, again, I'm way off base and they just wanted to do something different for the sake of something different.

    I don't know. I might just be in denial that this plotline got resolved so fast, and if Barry's gonna be more mature and experienced I would've rather seen that happen on screen than just be told that it happened.

    I think I missed this fad

    in Ask Me

    Posted

    Just now, Dr. WhoBruh said:

    I mean they just showed his face multiple times in the promo and he's going fast af. That has to be Barry lol. I mean are there even a shapeshifting speedster we are unaware of? :P 

    Besides Thawne doing that exact thing in season 1? I dunno. I guess maybe more like... personality-wise I don't think it's Barry. That shot with Cisco saying he built a new suit was really weirdly done and the close-ups of Barry's face felt like they were indicating a change within him. The whole trailer felt ominous.

    Who knows. I'm probably completely off-base. I haven't been following any news so I don't really know what's happening with it.

    The Magic School Bus Rides Again

    in Culture Shock

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    1 hour ago, Metal Snake said:

    Steve left because his actor, Steven Burns, wanted to leave. He had just grown tired of working on the show and Nick understandably wanted to keep it going because it was still immensely popular. One thing that needs to be pointed out that many seem to gloss over with changes with characters in cartoons compared to live-action shows is voice actors. The rationale behind this change could be Lily Tomlin just not wanting to reprise her role and the makers of the reboot just thinking, "No one can replace Lily Tomlin as the old Mrs. Frizzle, so let's have a new voice actor voice a new Mrs. Frizzle". It happened with Ernest Borgnine on Spongebob, where they just completely stopped doing Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy episodes after he passed away because, "No one could replace Ernest.". It's possible that's not what happened here, but it shows something.

    Also, if you're looking for cartoons that have done that, toy-promotion shows, bruh. Hasbro probably has the best example of that with how they killed Optimus Prime and replaced him with Rodimus Prime in Transformers. And if anime counts, Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh! always change the main character cast with each new generation.

    Yeah, I know Steve wanted to leave (to pursue music, I think? Or other things, I know he did music after the fact though) - I said that wasn't even that apt of a comparison and acknowledged how different live-action and cartoons are, but it's a better comparison than Doctor Who where replacing actors is a staple of the show (much like the toy-promotion shows you mentioned, though obviously not in the same capacity or for the same reason). I mentioned voice actors in my original post as well (and how that would be more applicable to this situation than the changing of actors, because 4EverGreen mentioned no one caring about Doctor Who constantly going through actors); if they don't want to replace her then that's one thing I guess, but it's not like this is a straight-up continuation of the old show (as in: this isn't being marketed as a new season of Magic School Bus) or even really pandering to the demographic of people that grew up with it. It's a weird sort of reboot/spin-off deal and not wanting to replace the voice actor just feels odd because none of the kids are really gonna care since they didn't grow up with Ms. Frizzle and teenagers/young adults aren't exactly being factored into the equation with that so it's not like the creators are gonna care what we think; I guess it's a bit like Mermaid Man and Ernest Borgnine, but Spongebob is also still airing and it's not like Borgnine just didn't want to reprise his role - it was a classy move done out of respect for the actor (which they most certainly did not have to do because Mermaid Man is not the main character). If Spongebob had been off the air and came back as "Spongebob: Under Sea Adventures!" or something like that, then I wouldn't put it past them to have recast Mermaid Man (and again, he's not the main character; replacing him isn't the biggest deal in the world because he's not the focal point). Take another example I used in my original post - the Powerpuff Girls got recast no problem (if I'm remembering right the original actresses weren't even consulted about coming back, but I could be wrong on that) but the designs are still basically the same. Maybe it's a matter of Tomlin not wanting to do it and them making a new character out of respect because they didn't want to recast, maybe it's them making a new character because they want to be different, I don't know. It's just a weird move in my opinion, especially because Kate McKinnon is known for being zany and could've easily been a dynamite Ms. Frizzle.

    As for toy-promotion shows: I was trying to stay away from them just because of how obvious they were. My mind immediately jumped to Pokemon, but I thought "wait that doesn't count because they need to promote a game" and with this they aren't exactly promoting anything (and anything they could be promoting would probably be received better if it had Ms. Frizzle on it because it'd catch the eyes of people who grew up with the show and now if those same people see that product they'll go write a Buzzfeed article about how "you won't BELIEVE which 90s childhood hero of yours just got replaced" or something). I was trying to think more along the lines of a regular cartoon that mostly stands on its own.

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    Worst class in school you've ever had?

    in Robot-Pirate Island

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    On 9/6/2017 at 9:49 PM, Clappy said:

    Seeing this topic reminds me that I also took Art History in college and that class was a load of hot garbage.  Didn't give us a textbook, was not allowed to take notes or anything.  He just wanted to us to pay attention to his lecture and remember all 500 paintings he showed us for his midterm.  Which sucked because I really actually liked taking Art Appreciation the semester before Art History.  What a difference two professors makes.

    Ugh, remembering paintings sucks. Art History majors are really the only people that actually need to do that. If you really like the artist/art period then it's more than likely that their name and style will stick out to you over the names of a specific piece. I love me some Mannerist art, as well as Caravaggio, Bernini, Hieronymus Bosch, Dali, what have you - zero chance of me knowing any titles.

    I had to take a required "Art History of the World" type of class my Freshman year, and then I had to take it again when I transferred, and it was basically just writing down names, titles, and dates. There wasn't any sort of thought being put into it, it was just "cool, you sort of paid attention, have a cookie and a B-" type of deal.

    Also took a "History of Sound Design". The professor didn't require a textbook (because there are none), she didn't require any reading (because there is none), and she showed us a video of her performing a concert where played a balloon like a cello. One of the homework assignments was to listen to Gregorian chant.

    The last art history class I took was called "Magic and Art", and it was taught by this extremely anti-establishment bordering-on-anarchist libertarian who would often go on tirades about what's wrong with literally every part of the entire world, and the point of the class was to, like, examine each individual part of a painting and try to explain the meaning behind what the artist was trying to do and how they were playing with our expectations and why X artist was clearly objectively better than Y artist and why piece A was clearly objectively better than piece B and if you didn't agree with him then you were totally wrong. He'd typically show B-movies (Cat People, A Bucket of Blood, Carnival of Souls) and the class would decide to act like they were in MST3K or something and just try to make jokes and talk over the movie. He gave one homework assignment, a mid-term, a 5-page final essay, and a handful of in-class writing assignments, and he never gave any grades back, but if you wanted to pass then you just needed to basically write down everything he said in a lecture and then copy it verbatim onto the writing assignments because if you had an opinion that wasn't his then you were more than likely wrong. For the in-class assignments and the mid-term he wanted us to recount all of the paintings that he had shown us in the prior weeks and compare/contrast them and explain what they were trying to accomplish and if they had succeeded and why you believed they did/did not and what your interpretation of the symbolist movement was and why art does not reproduce the visible. The final was basically a free-for-all as long as you could convince him of your argument (which, if I remember correctly, was something along the lines of "explain why this is art"), and I'm pretty sure some kid did his about Persona 4.

    As a Cartooning major I was required to take "History of Cartooning", which was a combination of the professor showing us old cartoons and talking about how we'll never be as good as Will Eisner or Jack Kirby.

    Art history is whacky.

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    The Magic School Bus Rides Again

    in Culture Shock

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    1 hour ago, 4EverGreen said:

    I was speaking GENERALLY! o.o It's not like I'm an encyclopedia of every single incarnation of "Dr. Who." :rolleyes:

    Then I think you probably should've used a different quote to illustrate your point because regeneration isn't just a superficial change and it's been an established precedent for 50+ years. It's a bit different than creating a brand new lead character for no real reason. Remember in Blue's Clues when Steve left for college and then Joe took over and then everyone got super pissed because we loved Steve and Joe was a stupid-face? This is kind of like that (though not totally because switching main characters in live action is different than in cartoons and I know I said that in my previous post, but I can't think of a cartoon off the top of my head that's done this before).

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    The Magic School Bus Rides Again

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    13 hours ago, 4EverGreen said:

    To paraphrase Heath Ledger as The Joker from "The Dark Knight", : "Dr. Who, is CONSTANTLY replaced with actors who act nothing LIKE each other, nobody bats an eye. Ms. Frizzle is replaced ONCE by an actress who acts nothing like the original, and everybody loses their MINDS!!!!" o.o Why don't you actually WATCH the special before you make a judgment, okay?

    The reason regeneration exists in Doctor Who is because William Hartnell was getting old but they wanted to keep the show going, and the easiest way to do that was to just introduce a mechanic that allowed them to switch actors whenever they felt like it - and if each actor acted the same exact way then the show would've gotten boring and stale because then you have a character that doesn't have any sort of development or any kind of layers to him(/her). Each actor brings something new to the role - though there is a consistency in the writing (and some of the performance) in order to keep the Doctor, at his(/her) core relatively the same character. That's part of the draw of regeneration, and the show, in general.

    Cartoons do not age. Logistically, there's no good reason why they needed to introduce a new, younger (and, frankly/weirdly/confusingly, hotter) Frizzle, when they're clearly capable of drawing the original design. A more applicable use of that quote would've been if they recast the voice actor. The Doctor, at his(/her) core is still the same person, but there's new dimensions brought on by each actor(/actress). Keeping Ms. Frizzle's character design but changing her voice actor would've been the same thing. You still have the original Frizz, but you have a different person giving their new take on the character. Not just a completely new character in general, most likely made for the sole purpose of cashing in on Kate McKinnon while she's still the new hotness (even though she easily could've just been the new voice actress for Ms. Frizzle, but whatever). When Powerpuff Girls rebooted the writers didn't introduce some weird plot where the Professor decided to recreate the original experiment to try to make more heroes for the world and then retire Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup by having them fight crime elsewhere - they just kept the Powerpuff Girls the same, because there's literally no reason not to because they are the Powerpuff Girls; the reboot of Ducktales doesn't start with Donald shipping Huey, Louie, and Dewey off to boarding school to make room for a new trio of nephews he just found out he had, because they are Ducktales.

     

    Aside from all that, animation looks like lazy Flash tweening and the designs look basic. Not my favorite thing in the world, because in my opinion it speaks to the level of care that's being put into the show. If they don't care enough to put the time into properly animating an animated show (or giving it the budget for the animators to do so), then why would they care about anything else about it? The voice acting seemed really lazy too. McKinnon sounded super bored. Unless they do some new topics that the original didn't, there's no real reason for this to have been made (maybe it's so they can make an app and cash-in on that, who knows). It doesn't look like it's catering to the demographic of people that would be nostalgic about it, and teachers can just show kids the old one if they want them to learn about a given topic (which I imagine they'll still do, unless schools are now getting a budget for Netflix).

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    Steven Universe

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    21 hours ago, Bada Bing Nuggets said:

    do you like this show yet 

    I tried a handful of episodes but still couldn't get into it, and I'm not intrigued enough by it to binge it all. I was also soured on Rebecca Sugar/the show for the really stupid reason of going to the school she went to and running into her art style-clones/worshippers in all of my classes for three years.

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    Death Note (Netflix Movie)

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    3 hours ago, CyanideFishbone said:

    I know this is so meticulous but god i just can't help it and it distracts me way more than it should, but am I the only one who hates how they Americanized some of the names? I'm sorry, it bugs me way more than it should. There's really no reason. I just don't get it at all, but whatever. I can get over it.

    Mia isn't even sort of the same character as Misa so there's no reason to call her Misa (Light's not really Light either but he's the main character so I'm letting it slide) - why they called her Mia and not, like, Jennifer or something who knows - and white people portraying the "Yagami" family would be, uh... bad, probably (and, going along with that, they changed the name of Light's dad because a white person portraying "Soichiro Yagami" would also be bad). They kept L, Ryuk, Watari, and Kira (L wouldn't really have a reason to be changed, but they could've easily gone with, like, Dante, Smith, and... I don't know, Baguette or something). Name changes are probably the least problematic thing about the movie.

    Also: always form your own opinion on something. You may end up hating it, but at least you came to the conclusion by yourself and you weren't just going along with the majority (and try to go in with an open mind instead of thinking "well this is gonna be a waste of my time but here we go anyway" - it's healthier and less detrimental to your overall viewing experience).

    Death Note (Netflix Movie)

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    10 hours ago, Doug Dimmadome said:

    It's that this is over the top and instead of having a serious effect it gives off a more comedic vibe which seems just like an extremely bad choice. He can still flip the fuck out because any sane person would but goddamn the pitch of the scream is what makes me find it laughably bad more than anything. It still wasn't as bad as the music choice for the ferris wheel though, they just went full "generic action movie" with the explosions and "I regret how this happened" music as I like to call it playing in the background.

    As I said, I didn't think it was supposed to be serious and they knew what they were doing (otherwise I think we would've seen a lot more of that type of scene/acting throughout the movie), it was more just a poor choice to actually do comedy there rather than something serious because it wasn't a particularly funny movie.

    Death Note (Netflix Movie)

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    5 hours ago, Doug Dimmadome said:

    Yeah if you needed further confirmation...this is just laughable and it's not even one of the plot related issues this has

     

     

    I've been seeing this particular scene brought up elsewhere, and I don't totally know why. Are you thinking that was supposed to be played seriously? It felt intentional to me, just the problem with it being the rest of the movie didn't ever get this over-the-top (except the end on the Ferris wheel, which I thought was a much worse scene that no one seems to be talking about).

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    I had to get up early this morning for work, so I ended up watching this as a way to waste time and I was almost late because I was very invested in how many poor storytelling choices they decided to make.

    L is superficially the same character but fundamentally different, which was an odd decision. I'll give props to Lakeith Stanfield for trying his best with what he was given, but he wasn't given anything great. I think they should've just nixed the sitting positions and candy and overall weird quirkiness if they weren't going to fully commit to that type of character.

    I never felt invested in what Light and Mia were doing. I cared about Light individually, because he had a real motive and drive to want to do good, but Mia needed more fleshing out because she felt very... stock crazy character. I think I was generally with the movie up until Light killed his mom's murderer, and then after that it was off the rails. Light felt more like a vessel for Mia to control, which on paper I'm totally cool with but we didn't learn enough about Mia for me to care about her. I think they either needed to make her the main character instead of Light (because she felt very anime-Light) or cut the romance and make them siblings so we could understand both of their motivations right off the bat and then we could see the characters diverge from there.

    The end "twist" was well done but I'm left conflicted. I really liked Light being able to plan that far ahead and ensure his win, but it felt out of character for this version of Light because we never saw him be that clever and calculating. We were shown once in the very beginning that he's supposed to be super smart, but afterward they didn't really bother bringing it up again.

    L felt inconsequential to the plot. I understood his plan but it was very far out there, and Light doesn't even beat him in the end - they have that absurd chase scene and then L gets hit over the head by that Kira-worshipper (which I was fine with but that also felt odd because that dude just took L at face value when he had no reason to). I did enjoy him just popping into rooms though. I thought him just showing up at the dinner table and telling Mia to leave was really funny, and the movie could've used more low-key comedic moments like that. His "moment of clarity" thing at the end when he realized there was a page of the Death Note in Light's calculus book was a weird jump in logic that I wasn't super on board with. He had already searched his house, he should've found something when he did that. Like, if he originally found the calculus book with the page but didn't know what the fuck it was (could've just as easily been a blank page) and he put it back and then he has that realization at the end because of his conversation with Light I think it would've worked better.

    Ryuk was fine enough, I guess. I dunno, I don't have an actual opinion on him but nothing he did felt out of character for that particular Ryuk. It made me happy that they included his obsession with apples.

    Pacing was bad. Needed to be a lot slower and a lot more careful about shot choices because they were trying to condense a decent chunk of anime into 1hr 40min which is very hard. Ended strangely. Light's dad didn't even seem to react to finding out his son is Kira, aforementioned L scene, and then it cuts before the audience gets any kind of resolution to the problem.

    Score, atmosphere, cinematography were all great. Soundtrack was weird.

     

    The Simpsons

    in Culture Shock

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    22 hours ago, CyanideFishbone said:

    HANS MOLEMAN PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS MAN GETTING HIT BY FOOTBALL

     

    I think it's safe to say that this show from like seasons 4-11? 12? is some of my favorite animation ever. I can't even begin to list all my favorites in this show's run, man, but I'll try: Sideshow Bob Roberts, Homer Badman, Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, The City Of New York vs. Homer Simpson, King Size Homer, Homerpalooza, Treehouse Of Horror IV, Boy Scoutz N' The Hood, Homer The Great, Two Bad Neighbors, Bart On The Road, 22 Short Films About Springfield just oh my fucking god dude

     

    so many amazing episodes

     

    You're sleeping on seasons 2 and 3.

    Unpopular opinions you have

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    2 hours ago, CyanideFishbone said:

    I prefer Sam's Town over Hot Fuss. Sam's Town just has that super warm, hopeful, and nostalgic feeling to it in two different ways (as in the reminiscent 80's sound, and the lyrical content largely consisting of a character who hates the town they live in). Both albums are really great but I just prefer Sam's Town for that reason, and I think the instrumentals stepped up, same with the songwriting. It's just overall better to me. Also Read My Mind is probably my single favorite song The Killers ever wrote. 

    Gimme Sawdust over either any day of the week.

    terminoob's Sketchy-Sketchbook

    in Squidward's Art Show

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    I've been really frustrated lately because I felt like I haven't made any progression in the past year and I feel like I'm just missing something and not getting it and just having a general meltdown about my art, so I decided to compare last year (that I thought was amazing, mind you - it was the only time I ever aggressively defended my work in a critique) with this week. Also a note that I used the pages I did a year ago as rough layouts for the ones I'm doing now.
     

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    Cuh-razy.

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    Ready Player One(2018)

    in Culture Shock

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    50 minutes ago, CyanideFishbone said:

    This book takes me back to 8th grade when this kid who always used to pick on me who was at the same time was one of those kids that did no work in class everyday, but fucked up my self esteem quite a bit. I just remember he always had Lootcrate because he would wear the t-shirts and he was always reading this book and my teachers constantly told him to stop reading it in class because I think it was from a Lootcrate...

     

    Man, I apologize for bringing something dark from my life here, man. Anyway I forgot this book existed until now. When was the idea of a film adaptation announced? Because the buzz about it, at least to me, was like 2/3 years ago

    Wikipedia's saying that the film rights were bought before the novel was published (I think I remember seeing somewhere that it was originally a film pitch that Ernest Cline couldn't get off the ground so he made it into a book) but I don't think it was anything serious until Spielberg got attached in 2015.

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