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I liked the one where they go back in time and turn into dinosaurs also theres intelligent crab aliens on earth that farm broccoli
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Tree Bucket posted:!!! It's also the explanation that's generally accepted in Transformers fandom for things like where Prime's trailer disappears to, how Soundwave can turn from a twenty foot tall robot into a pocket cassette player, how Skywarp can teleport, etc.
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Jul 1, 2019 12:57
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Liquid Communism posted:What, the dubs? Yeah, they were notorious at the time for translating an obviously gay couple as 'cousins'. Cousins who were still super gay. They went from regular lesbians to incestous lesbians and uh it was bad. Middle school me still bought the VHS tapes though. The only good thing about the early Sailor Moon dubs was the music and I will die on that hill.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Cousins who were still super gay. They went from regular lesbians to incestous lesbians and uh it was bad. Middle school me still bought the VHS tapes though. The only good thing about the early Sailor Moon dubs was the music and I will die on that hill. The theme song is seared into my brain. We had only just gotten cable, but didn't have the channel Sailor Moon aired on. My mom babysat a kid who lived across the street, after school, whose family had satellite though. We got permission to go over there together and watch Sailor Moon, and it was the high point of the day. ETA: The German opening is the best version, though. AngryRobotsInc has a new favorite as of 14:04 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Super Waffle posted:I liked the one where they go back in time and turn into dinosaurs also theres intelligent crab aliens on earth that farm broccoli
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I was lucky enough to grab the special edition CD (with lyrics sheet?) when it came out in like 97. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyQqiZdaMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVSTULWphac Missed the LunaRock album that covered the end of the R dub tho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZF9hp0PZ4c
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Kenning posted:He was later given the ability to morph again, and was introduced to his pre-hawk human self via a cosmically powerful superbeing messing with space time (thus permitting him to become human again for 2 hours at a time) but he chose to not permanently "morph" back into his human form because that would mean losing the ability to morph for a second (and final) time, thus permanently removing himself from the Animorphs and just living as a regular kid again. But also his home life really, really loving sucked so his choice was to go back to abuse and neglect or try to hack it as a hawk. It was a lovely choice either way, not like, HAWK IS MY TRUE FORM AND NOW I CAN BE MY ACTUAL SELF. His struggle with maintaining his humanity was a whole thing. e: also I'm not sure why people think Rachel is an admirable badass, her fear of her bloodthirst and what she's becoming, and the other kids using her for their dirty work, is also a whole thing LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 20:36 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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Jul 1, 2019 20:32
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If Avatar didn't have the 3D gimmick literally nobody would care.
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Kenning posted:He was later given the ability to morph again, and was introduced to his pre-hawk human self via a cosmically powerful superbeing messing with space time (thus permitting him to become human again for 2 hours at a time) but he chose to not permanently "morph" back into his human form because that would mean losing the ability to morph for a second (and final) time, thus permanently removing himself from the Animorphs and just living as a regular kid again. Fair enough, not sure if I got that far. I definitely don't remember him regaining the ability. And wow he got perma-hawked in the very first book, didn't he
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Tree Bucket posted:!!! As far as I'm aware they never explained where they gained extra mass from when they became elephants or w/e though. Super Waffle posted:I liked the one where they go back in time and turn into dinosaurs also theres intelligent crab aliens on earth that farm broccoli This was such a loving incredible 90s kids explanation for why broccoli is gross it was amazing. LITERALLY A BIRD posted:But also his home life really, really loving sucked so his choice was to go back to abuse and neglect or try to hack it as a hawk. It was a lovely choice either way, not like, HAWK IS MY TRUE FORM AND NOW I CAN BE MY ACTUAL SELF. His struggle with maintaining his humanity was a whole thing. Yeah, I know. There was a degree of genuine, realistic complexity to several of the characters and their arcs that was surprisingly satisfying when I did a partial reread a few years ago. If you can find some old books they're worth rereading, especially since each one takes like 30 minutes to an hour to read.
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Yeah, sorry, tracing the conversation back the guy you were replying to was saying something about that article comparing Tobias to people who are trans. Which I think does not really mirror his situation but maybe I don't have the right insights here.
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skooma512 posted:If Avatar didn't have the 3D gimmick literally nobody would care. I'm one of the weirdos that saw it once in 2D and never bothered with it again. I hear the 3D effects were great "for the time" but I've never seen a 3D movie where I felt like it enhanced the experience. Now I see the trend is dying (at least in the theaters I go to) and I hope it's soon gone for good. Gotta pace the way for real holograms or some poo poo.
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3D is something the movie industry keeps hauling out every few decades to try and push back against competing technology - in the 50s it was against increasing TV ownership, in the 80s it was home video, and in the 2000s it was streaming. It always ends up being a dumb gimmick and gets abandoned pretty quickly when people realise it doesn't work very well.
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Doctor Strange was pretty impressive in 3D but that’s probably the only time I’ve seen a 3D movie that felt enhanced by the gimmick. And the trade off was fighting a headache most of the time
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Aesop Poprock posted:Doctor Strange was pretty impressive in 3D but that’s probably the only time I’ve seen a 3D movie that felt enhanced by the gimmick. And the trade off was fighting a headache most of the time
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Jul 2, 2019 03:06
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I have a 3D tv and I have literally never once used the 3d capability
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Jul 2, 2019 03:35
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Who What Now posted:I have a 3D tv and I have literally never once used the 3d capability
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Aesop Poprock posted:Doctor Strange was pretty impressive in 3D but that’s probably the only time I’ve seen a 3D movie that felt enhanced by the gimmick. And the trade off was fighting a headache most of the time Both Guardians of the Galaxy movies had some nice 3D.
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People who say the Avatar sequel won’t make money forget how easily swindled the loving dopes who partake in geek culture are by paid/bribed “influencer” podcasts and YouTube channels. Soooo many absolute dullards will see it because Nerdist or whatever got paid to tell them to, and then they’ll buy the Funko Pop
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I saw a guy walking down the street yesterday who looked like the NPC meme and was wearing cargo shorts and a Dunder Mifflin logo t-shirt. Just a soulless automaton. Hundreds of thousands of that guy already have their Avatar 2 tickets preordered
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Who What Now posted:I have a 3D tv and I have literally never once used the 3d capability I have a Passive 3DTV, so I just need the movie theater style glasses for my set. Only time I'll use it is with Tron: Legacy. That movie's 3D was extremely well done, and it hides the super uncanny valley CG rendered Jeff Bridges with the slight color loss.
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3D doesn't suit the way modern action films are made, where there's too much going on at once because film-makers think putting ten times as many things on the screen will make it ten times more exciting. The giant boulder scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark could have worked really well in 3D because there's one particular thing you can draw the audience's attention to. But if that film were made today then it would be five minutes of Indy ducking and weaving while fifty CGI boulders flew all over the place. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Jul 2, 2019 |
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Sweevo posted:3D doesn't suit the way modern action films are made, where there's too much going on at once because film-makers think putting ten times as many things on the screen will make it ten times more exciting. One of the best usages of 3D was IMHO in the first Hobbit movie, where they laid out one of the scenes to play almost as of a stage play and there it actually worked to give you a sense of space and isolation. Unfortunately the rest of the effects and the rest of the movie was more or less a garbage fire. However I still maintain that the bloated Hobbit-trilogy could be realistically edited down into one tolerable ~4h Hobbit movie.
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Der Kyhe posted:However I still maintain that the bloated Hobbit-trilogy could be realistically edited down into one tolerable ~4h Hobbit movie. Its been done, you can find torrents of it. Its ok.
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Super Waffle posted:Its been done, you can find torrents of it. Its ok. Oh, nice. Have to check that out. Its almost funny how a series of stories by an author who made most of his works to include at least 100 pages of unnecessary filler ended up being made to movies full of unnecessary filler.
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I like to think that LOTR was the Harry Potter of its time: mediocre writing but with worldbuilding that made you want to be there and be a part of it.
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Sweevo posted:3D doesn't suit the way modern action films are made, where there's too much going on at once because film-makers think putting ten times as many things on the screen will make it ten times more exciting. This is exactly why the flying dildo scene in Jackass 3D was so effective.
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:I saw a guy walking down the street yesterday who looked like the NPC meme and was wearing cargo shorts and a Dunder Mifflin logo t-shirt. Just a soulless automaton. Hundreds of thousands of that guy already have their Avatar 2 tickets preordered My kids inheritance will be my laminated avatar 1 ticket
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Somebody already said Farscape and the things I liked as a kid are still going (Thomas the Tank Engine, Doctor Who, various movie franchises that inexplicably keep getting sequels). Lost, perhaps (remember all the shows that tried to replicate it like The Event and Flash-Forward?). Nobody makes kid-themed martial arts movies anymore. Stargate apparently got a new animated series just last year, but does anyone really care? And various big web comics and series that aren't online anymore but I can't think of any good examples.
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KiteAuraan posted:Does Sluggy Freelance still have fans?
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Knormal posted:http://www.warpstock.eu/ I would imagine Ecomstation (or whatever the current OS/2 commercial distribution is called) is much better than any current Linux distribution for pretty much any non-server use case.
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Tumblr has decent little pockets of Animorphs fandom remaining. Podcasts, in particular. On the official side of things, there's also a graphic novel adaptation in the works.
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I wonder if the Marvel films will be going this way eventually? I mean they are important Now. But how long for?
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Josef bugman posted:I wonder if the Marvel films will be going this way eventually? I mean they are important Now. But how long for?
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Yeah, nothing lasts forever. Even Supernatural, which was the juggernaut of all fandom spaces (and the crucible of tons of awful, awful fetishes) for over a decade, seems to be fading out in recent years; my assumption is that fandoms hit a tipping point where they're no longer the most trendy thing to write your generic porn about, and then the downward spiral of lowered production and demand takes hold.
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