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Just saw HTTYD 3 and it's a bit good. Better than alright. Whether you like it or not might hinge on whether you find the plot point of Toothless being the speshulest dragon ever tolerable or grating. (I'm the latter). A couple of things: Early on, its explicitly established that our main cast is not good at teamwork. They start to realise this and try to do better, but that doesn't matter because almost nothing outside of what Hiccup and Toothless are doing at the moment is relevant. It's a shame because HTTYD has really compelling supporting characters, but none of them get a chance to grow like they did in the first since they're all delegated to comic relief and busy (and they're very busy) fight scenes. Hiccup makes a massive decision to leave the original Berk and... absolutely nothing comes of it. Some characters disagree. Then they agree. You'd think a community of vikings would cause a bit more of an uproar, but they happily follow and I don't think there really was any payoff to starting a new Berk. They could have moved back to the old one, or stayed in the new one and barring the dragon situation, nothing would have changed. I would have loved to see more dragon inspired architecture in new-Berk outside of a couple of engravings, dragons are a massive part of their history after all, but that's a nitpick really. The lightfury is just as homewrecker-y as the trailers portray. She has her redemption toward the end as expected, but she's not likeable at all. For all my crits, I think the movie could have been leagues better if they just extended her personality beyond 'glossy eyed animal'. The dragon dating scenes went for absolutely ages, so there was plenty of time to establish one. It is a very pretty movie though. I really liked how goddamn chaotic the sweep of Berk was near the beginning. Compared to the first, where you saw Berk clearly and deliberately, 3 has it being all awful and chaotic. You can barely rest your eyes because the place is just swarming with dragons now. Something has to be done about all these darn dragons, and as sad as it is to see them go, both the dragons and humans are better off with a healthy amount of separation.
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While we're on Broly, are we all watching the sub or the dub? I've been exposed to both pretty equally so I'm just going to go with whichever people like more.
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Jan 19, 2019 05:03
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As a bird- haver, you'd think I'd have seen Rio by now butMamkute posted:The dancing
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Jan 22, 2019 04:36
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Moon Atari posted:Masaaki Yuasa's (Ping Pong, Devilman Crybaby, the life cycle episode of adventure time etc) latest film Night is Short, Walk on Girl is in cinemas and it is real good, and absolutely bonkers. I struggle to accurately explain what this film is about or why it is good, except to say that I really liked it and it is worth seeing if you want something you haven't seen before. It's trippy and weird, with the symbolic layer and the literal layer kind of swapping around and getting mixed up in a sort of magical realism kind of way. At one point it turns into an opera for an extended sequence. My local cinema keeps screening this on 10am weekdays once a month and it's an absolute tease. It looks so good.
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Feb 25, 2019 10:54
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That real rear end owl is wearing mascara and eyeshadow.
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Mar 9, 2019 21:12
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Crazy Ferret posted:So Love, Death & Robots showed up on Netflix. Its a animated anthology show developed by Tim Miller (Deadpool and Blur Studios) and David Fincher (you should already know). Don't be put off by the first episode. It tries way too hard, but there are some really nice eps in there (yeah, skip The Witness).
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Mar 17, 2019 08:16
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I really want to like mob psycho, but I only made it a few eps in since since most of the comedy consisted of something happening, followed by a reaction shot of someone yelling that the thing just happened.
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Apr 5, 2019 02:56
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There are lots of things about this design that wig me out, so why am I so distracted by the beige facial hair and white stomach hair. It doesn't match. I hate it.
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May 2, 2019 10:51
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Schwarzwald posted:The whole Nickelodeon house aesthetic was especially unpleasant. Rocko was funny and subversive, sure, but as a kid too young to get the jokes, I remember it mostly as an ugly show that leaned too far in on gross out humor, and most other Nickelodeon shows (especially anything by Klasky Csupo) were the same. In the contrary, Rocko was honestly my favorite show in the world when I was like 5 - 8. I never really thought there was anything wrong with the Klasky stuff visually at that age, and while I can see they were grotesque in hindsight, they really fueled my imagination when I was really young far more than a lot of other shows did. This backlash is dumb. Give kids more ugly shows imo. RE: Detective Pikachu I really like how the romance subplot was never resolved, but I just know the sequel is going to follow this up in a big way. I'm blatantly a minority here, but I find a lack of romance subplot, or at least an unresolved one, really refreshing for some reason. Mr. Mime is now my favorite pokemon, which I'm pretty sure makes me cursed.
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May 12, 2019 06:49
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It's funny tauros was mentioned because that was the very pokemon that got knocked down a rank in favor or mr. mime in the 'pokemon I think are cool' partition of my brain. Which takes up more space than it really should. And it was definetly Bouffalant (a cool one).
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May 12, 2019 12:11
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Macaluso posted:Pixar has released two images from their next movie, Onward: I'm gonna say it, I've never told anyone this before: I really don't like elf ears. They just knock a character's design down a few notches for me. I don't know why. I know this is irrational.
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May 30, 2019 01:42
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:This is one of the most confounding things I've ever seen. On mute it looks like a dogshit off brand kid's show animated in Turkey, but is absolutely schizophrenic when combined with the sound which could not be more like oil and water mixing. I watched it without sound because I was too lazy to grab my headphones and the lion just looks more like he's in pain than anything.
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