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This is the Doolittle Raid: Sourcequote:THE 16 BOMBERS ROARED OFF the Hornet’s deck on the morning of April 18, 1942. All bombed targets but one, whose pilot had to ditch his ordnance in the sea to outrun fighters. According to materials only lately brought to light, the raid obliterated 112 buildings and damaged 53, killing 87 men, women, and children. Among 151 civilians seriously injured, one was a woman shot through the face and thigh while gathering shellfish near Nagoya. At least 311 others suffered minor injuries. This, on the other hand, from Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire by Richard B. Franks, was Tokyo: (Don't read if you don't want to ruin your Sunday morning) This, or something like this, happened to nearly every Japanese city. Tokyo wasn't even the worst hit, as this helpful chart explains. See if you can find your hometown! The reason Grave of the Fireflies takes place in Kobe is because the story is semi-autobiographical. The author of the original short story that the film was based on grew up in Kobe, and based the story on his experiences in the aftermath (Including the death of his sister from malnutrition). And while the story is, in part, intended for children (though 'child' here is probably better defined as 'pre-teens and teenagers'), it's to help them understand the very real events that their parents and grandparents lived through. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It’s the point where the thing where everyone collectively confused cloud with a brooding antihero got cannonized. He’s a doofus goofball in the game but everyone just arbitrarily decided he was cool and dark and advent children made him that. i mean i think it was the events of the game that kinda made him go from goofball to sad jerk
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 17:28 |
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Advent Children is absolutely terrible and the best thing about it is it forced FFXIII to get finished, there is no conceivable reason to watch it unless you are doing research on product placement in films.
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Grave of the Fireflies is the movie with the big sequence of the bomb going off where they have shots of people's faces and eyeballs melting off right
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 18:02 |
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The only reason I liked Advent Children was the whole Cloud getting impaled by Masamune, then pulling it out and performing Omnislash. That was literally it.
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I liked the nonsensical jump boost sequence.
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Macaluso posted:Grave of the Fireflies is the movie with the big sequence of the bomb going off where they have shots of people's faces and eyeballs melting off right No, that's Barefoot Gen.
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Maybe it's the quarantine talking but I really like Thundercats Roar. It seems to be almost universally reviled but my daughter and I find it hilarious.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 19:19 |
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I assumed it was cancelled! I love this style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9u8WWfuxo
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SolarFire2 posted:I have never cried like I cried when I finished that book in third grade. I finished it on a Saturday morning and I was completely inconsolable all weekend. My 4th grade teacher read us the book when we finished our work early (kind of childish even for 4th grade, but he had a very good audio reading voice and picked interesting books), I think half the class yelled 'drat you' at him, and he didn't even try to scold us for swearing at him.
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Pick posted:I assumed it was cancelled! I love this style. yeah nope, it just sitting in CN's vault for a while before they dusted it off. It was meant to come out last year (we haven't even gotten any eps copyright 2020 yet), and one of the directors on a few early episodes moved onto Mao Mao, and his first Mao Mao eps aired back in september
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:yeah nope, it just sitting in CN's vault for a while before they dusted it off. It was meant to come out last year (we haven't even gotten any eps copyright 2020 yet), and one of the directors on a few early episodes moved onto Mao Mao, and his first Mao Mao eps aired back in september Mao Mao is incredibly good btw
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I like that some episodes of Mao Mao don't go how you'd expect or have a fun twist, like the thumb wrestling tournament where it's revealed that Mao Mao is just a normal cat who only has fingers because of his gloves, without them he just has paws with little nubs where a thumb would be or the cooking competition where it's the serious Mao Mao being the artistic one and the sensitive Badgerclops being the scientist when you'd expect it to be the reverse due to their personalities. I also like that the villains make full use of the Power of Friendship. They aren't embarrassed by their reliance on each other, they care for each other as much as the heroes, and unabashedly love the mouse's mother's cooking.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:This is the Doolittle Raid: Source
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hallelujah posted:i would like an edgy dolittle wherein the doctor incites the animals to kill quote:Robert Bourgeois, bombardier of the 13th plane the loving bourgeois. i knew it hallelujah fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Robindaybird posted:My 4th grade teacher read us the book when we finished our work early (kind of childish even for 4th grade, but he had a very good audio reading voice and picked interesting books), I think half the class yelled 'drat you' at him, and he didn't even try to scold us for swearing at him. my fifth/sixth grade teacher read us that book at some point and I kinda remember him having to stop reading Red Fern at a certain point because he realized he was just gonna start crying in front of the kids and wanted an extra day to steel up. That would have been roughly the same time period in which I read Bridge to Terebithia, another sterling example of a "Make Kids Sob During School" book this isn't strictly animation but when's the last time one of those Disney live-action YA adaptations has really landed? I feel like they've tried many times over the last few decades and they're always like, fine, but then they bomb at the box office and yet they try again. Wrinkle in Time, Artemis Fowl, Bridge to Terebithia, Tuck Everlasting, The BFG, Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, i feel like there's probably more i'm missing. I guess Narnia was the last time that worked, but even then they sorta faded away after Prince Caspian and Fox went and co-produced the third one instead.
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Holes.
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maybe it didn't make $200 million but Bridge to Terabithia was a very well made adaptation and had a pretty drat good cast, but looking at the other films you mention it seems like it was the one that probably had the biggest cultural impact. I remember when The BFG came out and during the first week I remember sitting in the theatre with maybe 10 people in total. This also happened when I went to go see Pete's Dragon, anyone here remember that one? did anyone actually SEE Tuck Everlasting? I remember ads for it when it came out but I don't know a single person who actually went to see it
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 04:27 |
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I had no idea Tuck Everlasting was a movie. I remember reading that in school, didn't think much of it.
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Holes is loving fantastic and what changes they made were mainly for the sake of filmability (and so a kid isn't literally gaining and losing a fuckton of weight in a short span). I never even thought of Sigourney Weaver for the Warden and I can't picture anyone else in that role.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 05:11 |
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I have now watched all of Thundercats Roar and can confirm it loving rocks
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Pick posted:Holes. Holes was a good film/book, I should watch/read it again sometime.
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I actually recall liking The BFG when it hit theaters, but I gather that is not exactly the popular consensus about the film. Tying it in more to this thread, I should really see about (re?)watching the earlier animated short (insofar as 30-ish minutes is "short") as well. Shadow Hog fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Pick fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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I remember some people were going "Thundercats Roar sucks despite being made by professionals while Hazbin Hotel is great and was made by independent artists" and one of the boarders on Roar replied with something along the lines of "jokes on you I worked on both"
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 07:14 |
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Now that someone gave me the heads-up it was out, congrats 'cause thundercats roawr is my favorite tv cartoon of the last... mmm probably three years, easily The animation is incredibly loving great, honestly sort of blows my mind how good a lot of the action sequences are.
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:"jokes on you I worked on both" ugh. Will no one rid us of this CalArts STYLe?!?!?!?!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3VTBJYfivg
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animated short? it was a feature length movie e: this was in reference to Shadow Hog's post about The BFG
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 07:33 |
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BTW has Mao Mao been cancelled or is it still going? It's last episode was in December. It just seems to be releasing very sparsely.
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BioEnchanted posted:BTW has Mao Mao been cancelled or is it still going? It's last episode was in December. It just seems to be releasing very sparsely. nope it's just been on hiatus (the ep that came out in december was app exclusive as part of CN's recent tradition of releasing episodes of shows early on the app in early december as a preview for the following year, hasn't actually aired on TV yet). Not sure how long season 1 is yet, but given that it's been over 26 episodes already, then, by usual CN trends, it's either 40 eps or 52 (and the ep that came out in december is ep 31)
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:I remember some people were going "Thundercats Roar sucks despite being made by professionals while Hazbin Hotel is great and was made by independent artists" and one of the boarders on Roar replied with something along the lines of "jokes on you I worked on both" Is the logic here straight up pointy-lines-good round-lines-bad? Also, a few pages late, but finally got around to seeing Onward and just add me to the pile that saw that as basically replacement level Pixar, which is still really good. The core of the story was pretty straight forward, and it just didn't have the visual panache of, say, Coco to make it stand out. The goofy dragon face got a laugh out of us, though, especially when Mr. Angry Eyes Dragon happened. Boxman fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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I wonder what fantastic setting Pixar is planning to make mundane next.
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I love that they’re using all the original cartoon music. I don’t think I’ve seen the cartoon since the 80s, but I instantly recognised that music.
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Pick posted:Now that someone gave me the heads-up it was out, congrats 'cause thundercats roawr is my favorite tv cartoon of the last... mmm probably three years, easily I'm glad that my love of it isn't just Corona brainworms! My daughter, who has no point of reference for Thundercats, is in love with it and now I'm trying to figure out how to make/acquire a Cheetara costume that would be in any way appropriate for a seven year old to wear.
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flashy_mcflash posted:how to make/acquire a Cheetara costume that would be in any way appropriate for a seven year old to wear. Tan bodysuit without one arm, boots, orange overall-shorts? Or you could go with the reboot young cheetara if you eant more work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpcldJByGA FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Apr 7, 2020 |
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That's cool! I never saw the 2011 reboot. It's it worth my time?
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# ? Apr 7, 2020 00:37 |
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The 2011 Thundercats was so loving boring. It was amusing that they cancelled it after a season and then immediately greenlit a Lego series about an orange lion man using a special sword to fight crocodile lizard men for ten seasons.
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The first episode was very promising. That's not nothin'!
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