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Tracula posted:Ugh, just spoil the joke. Did he actually say this because a lot of me genuinely believes it and I really, really don't want to go digging through his twitter. Spoony said he's greater than Jesus since the last Reburary.
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There used to be a wiki of all the internet critics out there, and there were separate articles for Good Spoony and lovely Spoony. Good Spoony was reported dead in like 09 if I recall.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:46
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So I made the mistake of watching the Blockbuster Buster/Linkara review of Flash Gordon. 5 goddamn minutes of logos and credits and set up before they even mentioned the drat movie. Then they proceeded to spend far more time talking about whatever silly story they were doing instead of talking about the majestic cheese banquet that is Flash Gordon. Shame and a pox upon them.
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Sep 29, 2014 01:48
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Gyges posted:So I made the mistake of watching the Blockbuster Buster/Linkara review of Flash Gordon. 5 goddamn minutes of logos and credits and set up before they even mentioned the drat movie. Then they proceeded to spend far more time talking about whatever silly story they were doing instead of talking about the majestic cheese banquet that is Flash Gordon. Shame and a pox upon them. As an alternative here's a good review of Flash Gordon from SFdebris: http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/flashgordon.php
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Hbomberguy posted:There used to be a wiki of all the internet critics out there, and there were separate articles for Good Spoony and lovely Spoony. Good Spoony was reported dead in like 09 if I recall.
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Tracula posted:As an alternative here's a good review of Flash Gordon from SFdebris: http://sfdebris.com/videos/films/flashgordon.php Yes, SFdebris always understands the important things.  I really hope people quit torturing the guy with horrible anime requests. Someone pay for some Gurren Lagann or Space Dandy for the poor guy.
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Sep 29, 2014 03:37
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Tracula posted:Ugh, just spoil the joke. Did he actually say this because a lot of me genuinely believes it and I really, really don't want to go digging through his twitter. It's totally a thing he said and totally not an urban legend about something Kanye said
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Sep 29, 2014 04:14
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Gyges posted:Yes, SFdebris always understands the important things. poo poo, get him to do Akira, he'd have a blast discussing that one. Unfortunately I don't know if it's aged really well.
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OldTennisCourt posted:poo poo, get him to do Akira, he'd have a blast discussing that one. Unfortunately I don't know if it's aged really well. I promise you 100% that it has aged perfectly and there's a lot of themes about political unrest and revolution I didn't notice the first time. Give it a watch but do avoid the original english dub since that was pretty bad. I've heard the second one is better but I'd still just rather watch it in Japanese.
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Gyges posted:Yes, SFdebris always understands the important things. Get the poor guy to watch Redline. That'll cheer anyone up.
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Tracula posted:I promise you 100% that it has aged perfectly and there's a lot of themes about political unrest and revolution I didn't notice the first time. Give it a watch but do avoid the original english dub since that was pretty bad. I've heard the second one is better but I'd still just rather watch it in Japanese. Akira is a breathtakingly beautiful and very important movie, but it's not very good. It's a super-condensed version of a phone-book sized manga, with massive pieces of information about the setting left totally unexplained. In some ways that actually adds to the surreal atmosphere of the movie, but on the other hand it leads to poo poo like the horrible scene where the female lead starts talking nonsense about amoebas in an ill-advised attempt to sum up the entire six volume manga in a single thesis. Plus the back half is mostly just the army throwing poo poo at Tetsuo and him wrecking house on whatever they try, which gets old fast. That's not to say Akira doesn't have pockets of absolute brilliance-- in terms of mindfuck imagery it's the fillet mignon of anime-- but as a whole it's a solid B at best and even that is mostly on the strength of its AAA animation and acknowledging its importance as a seminal gateway anime in the late 80s and 90s. Having said all that, it's definitely a prime project for a dude like SFDebris to tackle. I'd love to hear his take on it.
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I'd be quite keen to see SFDebris try Robotech, because it seems* like there's a lot he could say about it. *Disclaimer: My entire knowledge of the franchise comes from James Luceno's page on Wookieepedia.
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I'd like to see him tackle the old american series Millenium like he does Star Trek and Babylon 5 and such. On the anime front I wish he'd do more Gundam because I liked his review of 0080.
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In his 0080 review he makes it clear there is more Gundam down the pike, problem is the dude is probably backlogged to hell with stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if we've got another couple garbage anime to plow through since guys more than likely sent him requests all at the same time when he started for Madoka.
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The good thing about him reviewing this awful anime is that some idiot(s) out there paid out the rear end for him to watch crap.
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mind the walrus posted:Akira is a breathtakingly beautiful and very important movie, but it's not very good. It's a super-condensed version of a phone-book sized manga, with massive pieces of information about the setting left totally unexplained. In some ways that actually adds to the surreal atmosphere of the movie, but on the other hand it leads to poo poo like the horrible scene where the female lead starts talking nonsense about amoebas in an ill-advised attempt to sum up the entire six volume manga in a single thesis. Plus the back half is mostly just the army throwing poo poo at Tetsuo and him wrecking house on whatever they try, which gets old fast. That's not to say Akira doesn't have pockets of absolute brilliance-- in terms of mindfuck imagery it's the fillet mignon of anime-- but as a whole it's a solid B at best and even that is mostly on the strength of its AAA animation and acknowledging its importance as a seminal gateway anime in the late 80s and 90s. The movie is really good but suffers from being a hacked together composite of one of the best and most purty manga's ever.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I'd like to see him tackle the old american series Millenium like he does Star Trek and Babylon 5 and such. There is a part of this post that makes me strangely depressed. .. 
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Sep 29, 2014 14:53
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Old is more a way of differentiating the series from the recent Millenium movies/books which have nothing to do with it. 15 years isn't that old.
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Sep 29, 2014 14:57
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MonsieurChoc posted:Oops I think I hurt grandad's feelings. 15 years isn't that old. S'ok. I'm getting used to it. 
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Gyges posted:So I made the mistake of watching the Blockbuster Buster Yup. You sure did.
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Mad Lupine posted:Yup. You sure did.
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Mad Lupine posted:Yup. You sure did.
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Mad Lupine posted:Yup. You sure did.
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Mad Lupine posted:Yup. You sure did.
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Linkara is probably my favourite reviewer, simply because he needs a tumblr plot guide to explain what the gently caress is happening in all the footage between his comic reviews. The dramatic 'plot twists' are the unintentional comedy moments of the decade.
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The internet needs videos about a crazyman with a fedora battling weird space entities in the most low-rent fashion imaginable, and it needs a lot of them.
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quakster posted:The internet needs videos about a crazyman with a fedora battling weird space entities in the most low-rent fashion imaginable, and it needs a lot of them. Basically this but sincerely. I love his dumb comic plots and characters and stuff  .
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I always hated in Akira how Tetsuo's girlfriend has no reason to exist except to get sexually assaulted and the get horribly crushed in a bloody pulp. The movie was overstuffed with plotlines and characters already, so you could easily remove her character with no harm done.
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Solaris Knight posted:Basically this but sincerely. I love his dumb comic plots and characters and stuff Yeah, it reminds me of the plotlines on MST3K. It's cheesy enough to work.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I always hated in Akira how Tetsuo's girlfriend has no reason to exist except to get sexually assaulted and the get horribly crushed in a bloody pulp. The movie was overstuffed with plotlines and characters already, so you could easily remove her character with no harm done. She's got a bigger role in the manga and comes in the story at a totally different time. She's still there to illustrate Tetsuo's increasingly deranged and bitter mindset, but it's much more thematically consistent than her pretty pointless parts of the Anime. It was really weird watching the movie again because I totally forgot how jumbled and mashed together everything is. Like a fever dream version of the comic.
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Akira's, like, not even a character in the anime.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I always hated in Akira how Tetsuo's girlfriend has no reason to exist except to get sexually assaulted and the get horribly crushed in a bloody pulp. The movie was overstuffed with plotlines and characters already, so you could easily remove her character with no harm done. I kind of think Kaori's one of the most important characters. She is abused by her boyfriend in his attempts to look big to his gang, and then by the clowns in a similar display of power, before literally gets suffocated and crushed by the logical conclusion of these struggles. She's basically the only normal person in the entire film and her mistreatment is kind of telling about the story's setting. The film is saying society is on the edge of collapse because 'normal people' (symbolised in the one couple in the whole story) are pushed to the wayside and forced to either become megafuckers (and in doing so add to the problem) or get killed. Kaori's basically the only character who pursues the possibility that everything could be all right. Society fails to possess the same vision as her and almost falls apart. It's thematically similar to her character in the manga - which ends with The People taking back their city and society actually rising to the challenge.
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Hey guys! Wanted to drop in and let you guys know Phelous.com has been completely redesigned!
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It has been done.
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Sep 30, 2014 20:21
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Thanks a lot, that's helpful. I'll tell Phelan.
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Yeah the spacing is pretty odd, as everything is way bigger than the header which makes the layout look weird.
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Hmmm... padding:5px; That ought to do it. 
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Spacing's fixed now.
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Miss Wallace posted:Spacing's fixed now. Sorry for not articulating that better.Ema Nymton posted:
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So, we have the next Vampire Reviews: http://chezapocalypse.com/episodes/vampire-reviews-count-von-count/
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