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Shirec posted:I'm enjoying the serious uptick of Shatner impressions in my life. The patreon has paid back in spades How good is The Nexus? I've never been a big Star Trek fan and I'm only at the Animation Damnation Patreon level.
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GoutPatrol posted:How good is The Nexus? I've never been a big Star Trek fan and I'm only at the Animation Damnation Patreon level. It's probably the raunchiest you'll ever hear them. It's also hilarious and full of things that have made it a must-have for me. I'm really looking forward to the listener month episode to see how they take to the different shows.
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GoutPatrol posted:How good is The Nexus? I've never been a big Star Trek fan and I'm only at the Animation Damnation Patreon level. Nexus is excellent, I'd say all of the content on their Patreon is strong and well worth your dime. It's not something new each week, but they do have a consistent release schedule (one Nexus a month) and nothing feels shoveled in to meet content quotas. Plus their Mario Bros animation damnation is one of the funniest eps of all time. I lost it when they describe Mario and Luigi's derelict living environment.
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I've never consumed and star trek media other than what appears in other pop culture things. Would I still enjoy the nexus
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I'm thinking about dropping back to just AniDamna so I can afford Chapo but that's nothing against the WHM guys - they've done everything they can to make me pretend I'm interested in Star Trek. I'm just not sure I can do it indefinitely.
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Calaveron posted:I've never consumed and star trek media other than what appears in other pop culture things. Would I still enjoy the nexus Do you think their Shatner and Stewart impressions are funny?
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Calaveron posted:I've never consumed and star trek media other than what appears in other pop culture things. Would I still enjoy the nexus I have never watched a star trek and I enjoy the Nexus.
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On tv lately there has been an commercial for Oikos yogurt and the guy in it looks like Steve's more attractive doppelganger.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIa_nwwbrj0
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Aw nobody's more attractive than Steve. Except that total babe Chris Cabin.
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Vakal posted:On tv lately there has been an commercial for Oikos yogurt and the guy in it looks like Steve's more attractive doppelganger. Holy poo poo that's uncanny
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Every now and then I'll take a couple weeks off just so that when I start listening again I've got like 4 episodes banked. 
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precision posted:Every now and then I'll take a couple weeks off just so that when I start listening again I've got like 4 episodes banked. That was me when I bought into the Patreon. They had just updated like four Animation Damnations and it was like getting hit with a deluge of new content. Animation Damnation is perfect for when you want background noise, but don't want to invest 90 minutes into an episode. I think I've listened to Steve's raccoon story at least half a dozen times.
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Brooklyn show was amazing, and includes a great story of Steve trying to buy Wizard magazine at Port Authority.
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Nouvelle Vague posted:Brooklyn show was amazing, and includes a great story of Steve trying to buy Wizard magazine at Port Authority. Did Human Water Fountain Stephen Sajdak do his thing again?
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Vakal posted:On tv lately there has been an commercial for Oikos yogurt and the guy in it looks like Steve's more attractive doppelganger. Stefan Sajdakke
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So while I was a fan of the cartoon back in the day, I never watched the movie. Do they really mispronounce Aang's name as "Ahng" in the movie? Because, I mean...it's in the cartoon.
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Evil Mastermind posted:So while I was a fan of the cartoon back in the day, I never watched the movie. Yes. I guess M. Knight thought it was more correct for some reason. It says a lot about him. Also the kid that plays Aang is the biggest wiener ever and looks like he could break out it in tears in any given scene for any emotion. Maybe they mention it in the podcast (I'm only half way through and can finish it until later today) but the actor was cast because he looked like Aang and could do all the Tai Chi moves. M. Knight sent him to an acting boot camp for a few months and figured that would be adequate for the main character of a big budget movie based on a beloved carton.
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Trillhouse posted:Yes. I guess M. Knight thought it was more correct for some reason. It says a lot about him. What's even more insane is that the movie is the first season of the cartoon jammed into an hour and forty minutes, and Shyamalan is clearly trying to hit as many of the season's beats as possible. So he's willing to cram in all these single-episode plots into the movie, but not use the right pronunciation for a name? Ugh. I need to put down my Tweet.
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Evil Mastermind posted:That's the thing that always drives me nuts about bad movie adaptions of existing properties...you've got the reference material! It's all right there and easily available! You're not making it all up whole cloth! Keep in mind that he also changed the Earthbender prison from a metal rig in the middle of the ocean to a literal campsite in some foothills.
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I've got my tweets ready to go...I loved the show. Weird how everyone complains about the exposition in the movie when the cartoon sets up everything in the intro to every episode.
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I watched The Last Airbender with rifftrax a few years ago and it was so boring even with commentary that I honestly cannot remember if I finished watching it or just turned it off halfway through.
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I'm surprised Nickolodeon didn't take the franchise away from M.Night and give it to another director. The cartoon still had enough goodwill. I know they said to put my tweet down, BUT I WILL NOT PUT MY TWEET DOWN, SIR! Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Has there been a kid's tv cartoon that successfully adapted to a live action film? The Scooby Doo franchise made money, but it always looked like garbage, and so did Fat Albert.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Has there been a kid's tv cartoon that successfully adapted to a live action film? The Scooby Doo franchise made money, but it always looked like garbage, and so did Fat Albert. Transformers is having a fifth movie this summer. The TMNT movies probably count since those are more inspired by the cartoon than the comic. Looking over the `based on a cartoon` list on IMDB, that's about it, everything else is serious trash.
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Didn't the first Scooby Doo movie have James Gunn writing it? Apparently the Josie & the Pussycats movie is smart satire with a good soundtrack... I know the AV Club loved it.
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duz posted:Transformers is having a fifth movie this summer. The TMNT movies probably count since those are more inspired by the cartoon than the comic. Looking over the `based on a cartoon` list on IMDB, that's about it, everything else is serious trash. I knew I was missing something obvious. Both of those franchises are probably better than Scooby Doo, but Avatar really could have taken cartoon adaptations to another level if they'd tried even a little bit. Count Chocula posted:Didn't the first Scooby Doo movie have James Gunn writing it? Apparently the Josie & the Pussycats movie is smart satire with a good soundtrack... I know the AV Club loved it. Josie and the Pussycats is surprisingly good and worth a watch. It's also an interesting time capsule - there's a scene that functions as a joke about product placement, and almost all the brands featured are defunct now.
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The first TMNT movie was more based on the comics... I saw Brendan McCarthy, designer of Fury Road, give a talk and he talked about making the suits. Masters of the Universe isn't great, but it's a perfectly fun b-movie with Frank Langella as Skelator.
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Count Chocula posted:The first TMNT movie was more based on the comics... I saw Brendan McCarthy, designer of Fury Road, give a talk and he talked about making the suits. Robbing James Carville of the role he was born to play
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Robbing James Carville of the role he was born to play I don't think he had hatched yet.
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clown shoes posted:I don't think he had hatched yet. lol way to buy into the right wing smear that James Carville isn't eternal, always slumbering, waiting to be awoken.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:lol way to buy into the right wing smear that James Carville isn't eternal, always slumbering, waiting to be awoken. I like Carville, have met him several times (we're from the same place), and he loves jokes like this.
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All I know is I tried to watch this movie once and quit at Fatcore. It's nice to know that seems to be the threshold of madness
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clown shoes posted:I like Carville, have met him several times (we're from the same place), and he loves jokes like this. Tell him he's awesome and that you know a podcast he should guest star on. Tell me you guys wouldn't want to hear Carville's stab at a Stallone impression.
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Iron Crowned posted:All I know is I tried to watch this movie once and quit at Fatcore. It's nice to know that seems to be the threshold of madness AHEM his (or her?) name is Appa & they're the best flying water buffalo friend a boy could have! I dunno what a Falco is, is that from the 80s movie pop punk bands always put on shirts? Last Guardian but with Appa! I dunno how Platinum screwed up the Airbender game.
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Fat Spies I'm sure would be fine, but the movie I really want still is Fat Ghost.
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You know, I didn't realize that if you hadn't watched the cartoon the movie made so little sense. Then again the cartoon did have the advantage of using actual actors doing voice acting. Like Mako, or our lord and savior Clancy Brown.Count Chocula posted:AHEM his (or her?) name is Appa & they're the best flying water buffalo friend a boy could have! I dunno what a Falco is, is that from the 80s movie pop punk bands always put on shirts? Please don't be like the girls walking out of Logan trying to figure out what was with that "weird song" playing over the credits. If you don't know Johnny Cash or Never Ending Story, get to the youtubes.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Tell him he's awesome and that you know a podcast he should guest star on. Thanks to this podcast, every time I hear someone say something like "wouldn't you like to see/hear <person> do <thing>, all I can think of is Gallagher. "I can do a Stallone impression, Mark."
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Gyges posted:Keep in mind that he also changed the Earthbender prison from a metal rig in the middle of the ocean to a literal campsite in some foothills. Yeah, usually complaining about how an adaptation is different from the source material is boring  but that's a great example of how the movie being so dumb is even more frustrating because they went out of their way to be stupider than a show for kids.The Earthbender prison ship episode was a clever little story that also helped establish the setting and the characters while being consistent with the rules they had established for the setting: a bunch of people with the power to control the earth are kept on a metal ship in the middle of the ocean because that way there's no dirt for them to fight back with, since they're so reliant on their powers they lose hope and become docile and disillusioned, Aang his friends wind up in the prison and he inspires everyone and leads them because he's The Avatar, and they end up beating the bad guys because they realize that while the ship is made of metal the coal that powers it is still earth so they drive their captors away by attacking them with giant piles of flaming coal. Also the prison warden is voiced by George Takei. By comparison in the movie they're being kept on a dirt island even though they have dirt powers and then they suddenly remember that and beat the bad guys by doing jazzercise while a rock slowly floats across the screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpgbZcHk_A
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Evil Mastermind posted:Thanks to this podcast, every time I hear someone say something like "wouldn't you like to see/hear <person> do <thing>, all I can think of is Gallagher. Or Louie Anderson doing all the roles of a movie, tv show, or podcast,
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