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Post by Edich on Nov 4, 2011 6:46:53 GMT -5
Wakfu.
Was kinda hesitant to watch it since France has a way of being more weeaboo and fan-servicey than Japan sometimes but I really liked it.
At first, I felt it was pretty "meh" since the first 10 or so episodes after the first one didn't really live up to what the opening episode seemed to promise but after it picked up it's continuity it got really good.
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Post by Kyle on Nov 4, 2011 10:14:23 GMT -5
The Weekenders.
This was back when the Disney Channel was good, and not the absolute mess of bad acting that it is today. It's a good show, and I'm pretty sure it would get the 'Official Stamp of Barrett's Approval.'
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Post by Mikéy on Nov 4, 2011 11:16:28 GMT -5
The WEEKENDERS? Daaaang. Where does the time go? Lor was the definition of awesome, Carver was the pineapple head, Tino was the pumpkin head, and Tish was the know-it-all. I also love how unique their names were, definitely better than the standards that seem to overcrowd most TV shows these days. Good times... I ought to formally re-watch that series.
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Post by Kyle on Nov 4, 2011 12:43:31 GMT -5
You watched it too?! Oh man, I respect you soooooo much more now, Mikey.
All of those running gags were great too. The Pizza-Store's theme always changing, Tino's mom making weird meals. Great times.
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Post by Trege on Nov 5, 2011 3:58:49 GMT -5
I've recently watched two shows an old classic and a show from 1982 I've never seen before until today. The first one I watched was a classic the fox and the hound most people probably know about this show so I'll just say that I still love watching it even today. The 2nd show Secret Of NIMH was really new to me despite it being from 1982 I only wish I would of watched it sooner because I liked it almost as much as the fox and the hound, some parts seemed a little rushed which is understandable due to It's history some of the people working on it had to mortgage on their homes just so they could finish the animation due to lack of budget, the show seemed to have a lot of heart put into it, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed classic movies like the fox and the hound, the sequel on the other hand isn't that good I hear I haven't tried watching it yet just from reading the plot preview I'm not even sure Mrs. Brisby is in it just from reading the details. The animation was pretty detailed for It's time on a limited budget. Trailer for anyone interested. : www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNfsLwQBhM&feature=player_embeddedIt isn't touched up like the netflix version. SPOILER ALERT :Quote used from IMDb : Nicodemus: Johnathan Brisby was killed today while helping with the plan. It is four years since our departure from NIMH, and our world is changing. We cannot stay here much longer. Johnathan was a dear friend. I am lost in knowing how to help his widow. She knows nothing about us or the plan. Perhaps best that I do nothing at present. I shall miss him. Johnathan - wherever you are - your thoughts must comfort her tonight. She will be waiting and you will not return. Farewell... my friend. This may just be me being biased but I'd give the show a 5 out of 5. A more detailed critics review. dvdcompare.net/review.php?rid=2458
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2011 12:21:11 GMT -5
The Lion King trilogy: These movies are entertaining to watch. Some might find the third movie to be a bit too silly as it is Lion King being told with Timon & Pumbaa's P.O.V.
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Post by Dashe on Nov 14, 2011 19:56:48 GMT -5
I've been spending quite a bit of time going through the House of Mouse shorts lately. I missed most of them the first time around because my mom didn't have the Disney Channel back when it showed the good stuff, but I was quite relieved to find out that Clarabelle and Horace weren't as obscure as Epic Mickey made them out to be. My favorite was by far Mickey's Big Break. Mickey and Donald break a picture of Minnie and Daisy while the girls are out shopping. Hilarity ensues. I really wish Disney would make another round of shorts like that instead of milking their teenyboppers. Especially Oswald shorts, now that they have the rights to him! The guy has 420 canon children! Where could you go wrong?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2011 7:09:48 GMT -5
I had watched the Young Justice episode "Alpha Male".
It was a fair amount of tension between the members of The Team and Aqualad as well as Robin reasoning that the only reason why Captain Marvel decided to come with them was because he doesn't trust them.
Some might think that their reactions were quite unreasonable, but one must remember that they are still inexperienced teenagers.
While I was always a fan of Captain Marvel, this version of The Big Red Cheese was simply adorable. They had chosen a voice that definitely suited him.
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Post by ravenf6 on Nov 16, 2011 13:08:51 GMT -5
Dashe and Truner: Oh yes. Oswald is awesome- 'Oh, what a Knight' had me consistently laughing to tears. I think they need to bring back the Mad Doctor, as well- he's got a wicked sense of humor and evil to him (I drew him a long ways back). Disney needs to go back to its roots. As for the recent stuff I've seen.. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: This was a good crowning piece for the Batman: TAS- it contained a lot of the essences that made that iteration so well-remembered- it was dark, dramatic, and in a few areas, a little scary, the Phantasm's hunting down of the mobsters, and the Joker's trademark insanity as he comes to take control towards the end. Topping that off with little flash backs of Bruce's earlier beginnings as a vigilante to the point he first dons the mask is both cool and haunting. Definitely a tale of the dark knight I'dwatch over and over again. Mega Man Star Force: Thanks to e-bay, I snagged the first 13 episodes from England, and I like how the series is shaping up. Outside the action of fighting FM viruses, I like the oddball partnership Geo and Omega-Xis have: especially when the alien wants to go to school I've only seen 6 so far, but I might just hunt down more in the near future.
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Post by Dashe on Nov 16, 2011 14:03:44 GMT -5
Disney is planning to rebrand Mickey Mouse, no? I wonder how that'll turn out, because the first step, Epic Mickey was... epic. Yes, they're in the process of doing that now. I'm cautiously optimistic. Epic Mickey had a lot of serious, non-story-related flaws that amounted ultimately to Disney Interactive filling up too much of the disc too quickly, but so far I couldn't be happier with how they've handled the plot. They could've at least packaged the collector's edition of the game with a DVD of all the film reels you collect in-game if they couldn't take the space to actually put more than two Disney shorts in the Wii disc itself. I'd have swapped the figurine and T-shirt just to have those shorts available to me for reference even if I'd never seen any of them before. It would have provided a much more effective cross-market promotion approach, to say the least. :21: But, uh, this is certainly not the right place to review Epic Mickey, so I'll save the rest of my kvetching for when I actually finish it. In any case, yeah, Mickey's definitely in need of a rebranding, and I essentially agree completely with the philosophy behind it. I've got the same philosophy regarding Mega Man. He needs to be able to evolve and progress if he's going to keep people watching. I really want to see more of a relationship build between Mickey and Oswald myself, and I'd be seriously happy if they managed to integrate him into the Mickey-Donald-Goofy trifecta of Disney Legends, but I'm not holding my breath or on the edge of my seat over it. As for what I've been watching lately? Sky Scrappers. Hurdy Gurdy, Race Riot (the competition kind of race). Basically watching through the Oswald shorts, and not just Disney's. Even if they weren't dated in the Youtube videos it's pretty easy to figure out which ones were made after Disney and Iwerks left. Most of the later ones weren't well-timed at all. A lot of them seemed to be focused on unnecessarily long shots of a character performing a repetitive action. Damn you, Charles Mintz, damn you and your pennypinching ways!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2011 14:54:03 GMT -5
Batman: Year One: This is a good movie, yet it is more based on Gordon than ol' Brucie. But, that's not a bad thing, mind you. I also found the Catwoman short to be good, especially since it showed how awesome Selina is.
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Post by Adrian2040 on Dec 9, 2011 2:23:43 GMT -5
If an image is worth one thousand words, then how many words is a video worth? Well... it depends on the video's length and its FPS. However, that's not the point. The point is that a video of the intro will explain this animation better than I can, while not giving away spoilers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2011 4:07:07 GMT -5
Legion of Superheroes Season 2: While season 1 started out as being lighter & softer, season 2 was much darker. The characters have grown up and there was a bigger threat.
While I highly enjoyed this season I was quite disappointed that it ended on a cliffhanger. Season 3 would have been awesome.
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Post by Mikéy on Dec 28, 2011 18:18:33 GMT -5
Okay, lets dust off this topic, eh? This one's for the 3 movies I got for Christmas: Rio, Cars 2, and Wall·e. RioThe main plot in Rio revolves around a blue macaw, who gets "birdnapped" out of his natural habit in Rio (fancy that!), and gets shipped off to Moose Lake, Minnesota. On the way to the pet shop, "Blu", as he's called, gets knocked out of the truck, and is found by Linda, who raises him domestically in America for 15 years. Because of this, Blu is unable to fly. An opportunity arises one day where Blu must return to Rio. Although he looks just like the many birds that reside in Rio, Blu is 100% American, and doesn't fit in at all. Thus, hilarity and drama ensues. Overall, Rio is definitely an enjoyable film for those who enjoy heartwarming touchy-feely films sprinkled with hilarity throughout. Heck, it's got George Lopez as one of the Voice Actors. Need I say more? The story is easy to follow, and it's really well made. It gets my 10/10. Cars 2Pixar didn't waste any time with this one. Right from the beginning, you're thrown into the action, with a British car having paid a random sailboat to take him to the middle of nowhere at sea. The British car is obviously made out to be a spy when he begins jumping from boat to boat without being seen, using Grapples, Sticky Wheels, Compact Cameras, and all sorts of gadgets to navigate and recon a series of oil rigs. This immediately struck me as being based off of another popular British Spy scenario. Yeah, that one. The plot's a bit more twisted and situational as Mater the Tow Truck seems to be put more into the spotlight (for better and for worse) rather than Lightning McQueen. The plot's definitely clever, but after a story like the original Cars, the events in Cars 2 are not what you'd expect. I'm not sure how I felt about it. It was a pretty good plot, but it felt like it was trying too hard to be something that it's not; in contrast to the original. Overall, the story's nice. But, I felt that it joked a bit too much about cheating death and getting killed, which is probably why it felt so different from the original. Otherwise, between those events, the idea is conveyed nicely, and Cars 2 gets an 8/10 from me. Wall·eRight from the beginning, Wall·e is made out to be a tiny little robot working to compress and stack cubes of trash, mountains of which are around him. So once again, the viewers are thrown into the middle of the storyline, but what else is there to make of it? The trash looks as if it's been there for a long time, and Wall·e seems to be one of the only intelligent things left on Earth, besides a lone cricket; but why? So, we get plenty of time to learn about Wall·e as he works. There were also apparently many other Wall·e robots, but the particular one that stars in the film is presumably the last functioning one. Wall·e is a robot of few words, and instead prefers to watch, learn, and be just like Curious George. He leads a simple life of stacking trash cubes, finding and putting whatever he finds interesting amongst the trash into a lunch box, and camping out in what appears to be a smaller version of a Sand Crawler from Star Wars when odd wind storms begin sweeping across the land. As the plot continues, things begin to make more sense. Why trash is covering the Earth, where all of the humans have gone, etc. There's a few "in the future" ideas floating around, and Wall·e portrays one well. I find the plot to be original, but also a bit exaggerated. The chances of Wall·e's portrayed future are lower than zero, but I've enjoyed fictional "what if" stories too. Plus, Wall·e's love interest is even more heart tugging than one would think, seeing as he is a robot of few words, and her name is one of the things Wall·e says the most throughout the film. Overall, a fun and enjoyable movie, and probably one of the greatest. It's a no-brainer how Wall·e became so popular in such a short time. I give it a 10/10. And, that's all I have for now! Now if I could just focus on my games more.
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That's "SketchMan3". Capital S, capital M and the number 3. It's official (nicknames are ok, though)
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Post by SketchMan3 on Dec 29, 2011 8:46:26 GMT -5
"Tailspin"... Just... "Tailspin"... The only thing that would make it better is if it followed a chronological storyline. I thought my appreciation for the show would be lost after all these years, but apparently not. It may have something to do with the writers being influenced by a certain manga about battling sky pirates... come to think of it... Megaman Legends has comical quirky sky pirates too...
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