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Nerdietalk posted:I think its really fun that the author of that comic made two sequels essentially outlining "I wasn't even trying to make a political statement, I just wanted to write a drama about a relationship falling apart" and seemed genuinely baffled that people logically assumed it was a political thing. Extremely funny type of guy to me. Need more of that type of guy. Yeah, people thought the original comic was pro-life and made Judy look in the wrong. So he made the sequel a queer-positive comic that made Nick look pathetic. Then in the third they're both happy, on good terms with each other, and have moved on with their lives. The comics even referenced the Arby's meme. Also there's apparently a Sheep Nazi movement happening but it's not part of the story. Then there's the JFK finale except she got 'shot' with starwberry jam instead and everything's fine, and the gunman is either an elephant or a donkey who both shot her at the same time.
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I'm not going to read it but the art in those comics is legitimately impressive which is funny. Just nutjobs with great drawing skills deciding to share their derangement with the world.
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There are so many talented and passionate illustrators, and so few ways to make money off of it. It is not at all surprising that even the most bizarre fan art is beautifully crafted.
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I’ve been banging the drum that Cloud Atlas would have worked way better animated (the Wachowskis already love anime!). Instantly solves the “all these characters are being reincarnated over and over so oh whoops distracting yellow face/white face/etc makeup” issue.
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I watched that movie recently and I agree. It also probably would've worked better as a limited series instead of trying to jam all those plotlines into one movie.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWzPKrNoSyM I didnt know this was even being made. I thought thought next Predator film was supposed to be that Badlands movie set in the future.
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They were teasing it in interviews a while back, but I don't think anyone knew that it would be animated.
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I did. There was rumors it was an animated project months back https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2024/10/25/secret-predator-movie-is-animated-anthology-potentially-featuring-samurai-pirates/amp/
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Heh, so Predators are the Foo Fighters.
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There was a really bad fan film that had the predators be the ones who crashed near Roswell. It’s kinda interesting but it didn’t work in the fan film
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That's cool, people were talking about how they should do Predators throughout history and they went "okay, we'll do that all in one film." I worked on Prey and a friend I had went to another studio in another country and ended up working on this. Half his career has been animating Predator IP haha.
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Pray was great. Real back to basics movie that was needed after the one before it. I really do not care about the whole Predator civil war subplot that was introduced in that and Predators. I think the series works best when it feels like the Predator is dropping into someone else's movie to start hunting, and this animated movie looks to he just like that.
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Rhonne posted:Pray was great. Real back to basics movie that was needed after the one before it. I really do not care about the whole Predator civil war subplot that was introduced in that and Predators. 
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New season of Love, Death, and Robots out next month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnvke44Rps4 The B-17 segment was the only unequivocally good part of the original Heavy Metal film, so I'm excited to see how the one featured in this season compares.
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Joe Abercrombie, one of my favorite fantasy writers, is apparently involved with this new season. The previous 3 seasons have been a bit sad because they have incredible visuals partnered with some really lackluster stories that prioritize spectacle and lurid displays over substance. I would say that it's a drawback of the shorts form that they can't properly develop characters in such a short runtime and have to rely on spectacle but The Animatrix for the most part managed both, so it has been done before, and The Animatrix is probably the most similar thing I can think of to Love Death Robots.
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There are very few pieces of media that I have excessive physical reactions to, but I teared up watching Bill Farmer and Jason Marsden chat and pretend to drive a fake car. This documentary is gonna ruin me, isn't it?
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I went to see the Vampire Hunter D 40th Anniversary Edition in theaters. Originally I thought I bought tickets to see VHD:Bloodlust, until later that night I went "wait a second, the year 2000 wasn't 40 year years ago." I actually bought tickets to see the original 1985 OVA. It certainly shows its age! This is one of those movies that reminds you it was made on cels, because things jitter in frame a bit, especially when they try to pan. It was made for home video so its isn't in widescreen, which is funny to see at a theater viewing. The character designs are hilarious, the main female character's skirt is so short she is constantly showing her pants, he forehead is huge and her eyes are so far apart on her face that the distance from ear to eye is tiny. Also some nudity here and there just for good measure, at totally random moments. The audience laughed a lot at that. And the "introduce character, kill them 5 minutes later" is a good unintentional gag that the movie repeats over and over. But the vibe of the future world that is sort of like an alien planet and sort of like the wild west is cool, and D is cool, and they do spend their limited animation budget on the kill shots. Its like a half step up from a B movie, a B+ movie. The 2000 movie from Kawajiri is like this gorgeous piece of work that's a relic of all the traditional animators that were trained up from Akira onward and can animate the hell out of designs that seem too complicated to even think of moving. I hope I get to see that on the big screen one day, maybe in 15 years they'll have a 40th Anniversary screening for it.
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Vampire Hunter D isn't like, a great movie, but I absolutely love it and the vibes it delivers on make it clear why it had such a lasting legacy.
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I'm glad that it spawned the Kawajiri movie in 2000 and it definitely does deliver on the vibes! And Kawajiri doing D also opened up a path for him to do the best Highlander movie, The Search for Vengeance, which has a very similar plot to Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and also looks absolutely amazing. Apparently he was going to supervise a D animated series but production of it was put on hold due to the pandemic. I guess covid can also kill vampires.
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Prey was fantastic, Just a complete dark horse out of nowhere film that was an actual worthy successor to a stone cold classic. Also they should have cast Amber Midthunder in Alita, every time I saw her with the markings under her eyes all I could think was yep that is 110% reminding me of something right now, facially she's a better match for the character and would have loved to see what her acting chops in particular would have brought to the role.
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I remember watching Vampire Hunter D late night on tv when I was a kid while my parents were asleep. It felt both so cool and strange then. Not sure I can beat that experience, but still would be fun to revisit.
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Are we gonna talk about Heavy Metal 2000? In a perfect timeline we'd keep getting stuff like this. At least we have anime. Titan A.E. was cool. Also, what I thought with that Predator trailer, the low framerate 3D model CGI reminds me of claymation sometimes. Kinda funny that we lost 2D animated movies in the US, and we're almost harkening back to claymation. Granted there are those Netflix Western anime as they call em movies, but those are usually a little milquetoast. And those DC video movies (also usually not my cup of tea). Had a run I really liked early on though. Speaking of anime, and the D posts there, good stuff! Love me some VHD, I saw Bloodlust in the theater at the time. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Apr 10, 2025 |
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Sourdough Sam posted:It's interesting watching the featurettes from the 90s Disney movies and seeing Jeffrey Katzenberg and his relationship with the creative departments. Seems like he was a huge rear end in a top hat with bad ideas even back then. Having just watched the Goofy Movie doc, I stand by my statement. Dear god. Seems like he was the lesser of two evils between him and Eisner though. I love the animated bits of this doc.
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I remember my mother renting Heavy Metal 2000 and being so disappointed that it wasn't a series of vignettes like the original. Vampire Hunter D is absolutely a series that runs on vibes, and honestly the books have some absolutely amazing Gonzo-Post-Post-Apoc Cool and an evolving rebuilding society (the series starts with humans being helpless and conditioned to forget about vampire weaknesses to rebuilding cities with dedicated anti-vamp tech) that really makes up for that D is largely a very boring character for most of the series.
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I dig the D books too, fun stuff. And on Heavy Metal, that original is a mega classic, what a soundtrack too.
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The phrase "Like the wings of a mystic bird" lives rent-free in my head.
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I saw Heavy Metal on tv once when I was very young but all I remember is the bit where aliens do cocaine
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I saw the Vampire Hunter D anime in theaters decades ago and really enjoyed it; you can actually watch it for free on Netflix. The Good: These great liquid smooth shots of characters winding up for attacks, there's a lot of scenes where characters are moving really fast but they're very calmly reacting. The monsters and all their gimmicks were entertaining too. Every structure in the world seems gargantuan and ancient, it really feels like you're living in the faded memory of a civilization long ago. I think in a way the Hand doing all the exposition dumps works because he's a smartass who is often trying to troll D by speaking the obvious. The Bad: Wolf man fight was offscreen, guess they didn't want to waste time having D solo him? But they had great action setpieces with the other two creatures guarding the carriage. Also, it seemed like an awful lot of trouble for Camilla to lure a human into her castle if that's all it takes to resurrect her.
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Camilla wasn't even in the book, so it's more they slotted her into the plot. Really it deviates a lot from The Demon Deathchase but honestly the majority of the changes are good - the movie version of Leila and the Marcus brothers are much more interesting and palatable. The biggest contention is they changed Caroline (The green woman) because in the novel she's one of the few Dhampirs other than D that had popped up.
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A lot of 80s anime OVAs is mediocre to comically terrible plot and characters, wildly mixed animation and incredible vibes.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lot of 80s anime OVAs is mediocre to comically terrible plot and characters, wildly mixed animation and incredible vibes. There was enough money flowing to the industry in the 80s that you could make an OVA or short film about literally anything.
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I think Akira really hit the industry like a bomb though, after Akira every OVA and anime movie stepped up their game. Pre-Akira, even stuff like Nausicaa shows its age and feels more like 70s anime. Post-Akira, its like everyone went "oh okay, this is the new bar, lets aim for that." And we got stuff like Demon City Shinjuku and Cyber City Oedo and then Ninja Scroll, stuff that just pushing to see how ornate their could make the character designs and how smoothly they could move them. Even after Japan's economy collapsed in the 90s you still got stuff like the X feature film which is loving insane in terms of ornate animation. So apparently Cinesite is hiring for Brad Bird's "Ray Gunn" movie he's been trying to get made for ages. Ccs fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Apr 10, 2025 |
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Ccs posted:So apparently Cinesite is hiring for Brad Bird's "Ray Gunn" movie he's been trying to get made for ages. the olympics was only last year, wouldn't call that "ages" 
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I actually just started reading the vhd books and I'm on the second one. The world is truly insane, like such a wild place and history.
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Kingtheninja posted:I actually just started reading the vhd books and I'm on the second one. The world is truly insane, like such a wild place and history. yeah, and imho it's the biggest draw of the series the world-building, and the fact the setting evolves over time.
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There's a humble bundle for the vampire hunter d manga right now, right? Worth the buy?
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Captain Invictus posted:There's a humble bundle for the vampire hunter d manga right now, right? Worth the buy? the book series, and $18 for 30 books is a steal though I'd warn you the prose can be rather dense and purple-y - and the charity is World Chef Kitchen, so very worthy cause.
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Breetai posted:Prey was fantastic, Just a complete dark horse out of nowhere film that was an actual worthy successor to a stone cold classic. If Jim's ever released from the Avatar mines and allowed to make more Alita movies, there's plenty of opportunities to cast her. poo poo, depending on how far they wanted to take it, she could end up being cast as one of Alita's clones. Then she'd be set for a good 3 movies after
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