So he'd have made flops like Almost Human and Dredd?

Now, when you say "flops" and "Dredd" in the same sentence you mean that abomination with Stallone, right?

So, I watched the Madoka Magica movie, Rebellion, which has been sitting on my hard drive for nearly a year. Mind you, there are actually 3 movies but the first two are recaps of the series and supposedly skippable.

I loved the series. This movie.... was just wtf? It starts out interesting. All the original cast is alive and well and the movie is focused on Homura as the main character as she's the only one who remembers the old universe and can't figure out why everyone's still alive. Eventually she figures out there's a plot by the Kyubeys to harness God-Madoka's powet for entropy or some shit.

So, spoilers, but Homu had been turning into a witch at the end of the series. And the kyubeys froze her in time so she could lure god-madoka in so they could capture her and study/control her powet. Also, Charlotte, the witch that bit Mami's head off, is back as another magical girl who gets hardly any screen time and appears only briefly, so is useless and has no relevance to the plot. Homu decides to fully turn into a witch to save Madoka. The magical girls fight Witch-Homu and Madoka prepares to do her thing. Then Homu grabs the god-madoka and does... something. Claims she's a demon. And apparently rewrites the universe again, so Madoka becomes a regular schoolgirl again and isn't a magical girl anymore.

So, what? In this new universe, do witches still exist? And if so, and God-madoka doesn't exist anymore to save magical girls, does that mean magical girls have to suffer becoming witches so Homu can be happy and with Madoka again? If so, that means Homu is a selfish bitch. Willing to screw over all the other magical girls that Madoka pledged to save just so they could be together. Good job Homu.

I'm apparently not the only one confused as a google search shows that everyone else is confused as well. Shouldn't be surprised, this is Shaft after all. Hell the movie had too much bizzare artwork throughout it anyway.

About the only awesome part was Mami and Homu doing a bullet time battle in the city, bullets flying around left and right. And then Homu shoots herself in the head. Should have died at that part.

Yeah, and it got weird in the end.

How so? The whole point of that was everything that was happening in the movie was actually the kid controlling the legos and playing with them. And the evil villain represents his dad who wants to keep his lego city exactly a certain way and doesn't want his kid playing with it.

I was very disappointed on the lack of Goldblum

Only reason I wanted to see this was in hopes he'd be in it.


Gremlins
Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus? Howie Mandel as the voice of Gizmo? Okay I'm interested now.

I last saw this movie when I was but a wee lad, and I remember the movie scaring the shit out of me back then. I hadn't thought about watching it again until I found one of my old Gizmo stuffed animals.

I can kinda see why it creeped me out. It's not necessarily scary, just... gooey. Gremlins oozing out of their pods, gremlins vomiting, gremlins melting into a pile of goo. And, for a horror comedy, people die quite a bit in this movie. In any case, even though this is supposed to be a horror COMEDY, I didn't find it that funny at all. Certainly, the gremlins taking on various stereotypical roles based on what they saw on TV (like the trenchcoat flasher in the bar) was kinda amusing, but not laugh out loud funny. More like, silly satire.

I'm also not exactly sure how such a creature as a Mogwai can evolve let alone exist if water makes it multiply. How does it eat when most food HAS water in it? What about the water in air? What happens when it rains, does the Mogwai become a Duggar? Also, the movie implies that all the gremlins are dead, but near the end of the movie the radio DJ says the marines were fighting off the gremlins with "water hoses" so yea....
In any case I found the puppet animations of Gizmo to be quite good and he was pretty adorable.

Okay, so Kate hates Christmas because her dad tried to climb down the chimney in a Santa suit and broke his neck and died? What? Seriously, what chimney is big enough for a man to fit down? And has he ever heard of a flue? That was the dumbest part of the movie.

A decent movie though. I thought that Kate was cute, but she's the same age as my mother so she's in her 50s by now...


Lego Movie
Not the best movie I've ever seen but I found it fun anyway. Except for that stupid song they kept singing through the movie.
I was most impressed by the fact that the majority of the movie was filmed with actual lego pieces and stop motion. Seriously.


Ghostbusters
Seen it many times, own it, nothing more to add.

I may have said this before but I noticed that Dana is the "Gatekeeper" and Louis is the "Keymaster". And then they apparently make love when they meet. Think about it. Key=penis, gate=vagina. The man is the Keymaster, the woman's the Gatekeeper. That whole bit is oddly sexual. Or I'm just a perv.

So I decided to finish the Odd Thomas series just to get it over with. The books have been hinting at explaining everything that's going on since book 4 and I want answers.

So far, the book hints at bigger things while not actually revealing a lot. It hints that there are people in the world like Odd with powers. Also, there was a curb grate that was like the one in book 4... an old-fashioned one with a lightning bolt in the middle. In book 4 when he looked into it, he saw strange pulses of light and heard muffled voices and marching feet... but the phenomenon wasn't explained.

Other thoughts:
- The book takes a pretty good potshot at 50 Shades, which amused me.
- I haven't seen the Bodachs, the shadow demons, since book 3. What gives?
- In every book Odd mentions that he won't publish his stories until he is dead. Is this foreshadowing that he'll die in the last book? Oh well.
- Once again, a little old lady gives Odd a ride, and gives him a gun. Same stuff happened in book 4, doesn't Koontz have original material?
- Odd never wants to call the police, even when he'd have a valid case. A guy points a gun at him, and he's like "No one will believe a ranting young man saying some guy tried to shoot him." Really? For someone who had a cop for a buddy, he sure doesn't trust them.
- Odd seems to be really stuck in the 50s. He constantly complains like an old man about how today's society is so evil and horrible, and the 50s were so much better. He's constantly negative about modern society and culture and it's annoying. And he knows so much about 40s-60s era movies and music, and the ghosts that hang with him are all baby boomer celebs, like Elvis, Sinatra, and Hitchcock.
- Every person he meets is almost perfect in every single way, except for the bad guys who are pure evil. I'm getting sick of this. Good guys are perfect, bad guys are satanic. Really?

Odd is too good. Too plain...too unassuming...too unflawed. And if he is flawed it is always someone else's fault or a loveable quirk instead of something that might actually give him anything like depth.

Yes. Definitely started noticing this as the series progressed. While he's not perfect, he has almost no negative flaws. He gets angry but rarely, and is still able to control himself when he's angry. Always, ALWAYS seems to know what to say in any situation, even when he has a gun to his head or his life is in danger (the second book was the worst for this, a perfect retort for whatever Datura said to him). And yea, if he is flawed it's nothing that inconveniences him in a major way, just minor things he can shrug off.

I do think Koontz is gary stu-ing quite a bit with these books, the main character seems to be almost like the author. With the exception of Odd not being very religious, and Koontz being a strong catholic, I hear opinions Odd says that kinda sound like something Koontz might feel, and then there's the love of dogs both the character and the author share. I have heard the books were written about a character who experiences the loss of a loved one and is based off of Koontz losing someone who was very close to him, so there's that.

Already watched Kung Fury. Damn fun.

Kung Fury: The Trailer
Kung Fury: The Music Video (starring David Hasslehoff)
Kung Fury: The Full Movie. 30 minutes of Fucking Awesome.

What 80s tropes does this movie NOT have?
Explosions, Hitler, Nintendo Power Glove, fake VHS tracking, David Hasslehoff, Kung-fu, renegade cop, Nazis, Shiny chrome lettering, neon grids, 80s style CG and animation, laser raptors, viking chicks with chain guns riding T-rexes, Thor (real one not marvel one) product placement, 80s sports cars, obvious green screening, did I forget anything?

Also, Hitler in the movie is played by one of the Lonely Island guys.

For something that's just 30 minutes it's worth it.


Ultron
Decent Marvel movie. I'm not sure if I'd say it's better or worse than the first Avengers. Definitely more action. And more character development. Still, quite a bit of the jittery camera effect during battles. A bit confusing and chaotic at times. Certainly at times felt like it was just a bridge between Avengers and Infinity War. Still, now 4 infinity stones have shown themselves and Thanos is shown with the gauntlet, so we know what will happen next. Also, there's a lot of tension between Stark and Capt, which is probably foreshadowing for Civil War coming up next year.
Still think Winter Soldier was better.


The Room
"After appearing in The Room, the Golden Gate Bridge committed suicide... by jumping off of itself." - Rifftrax

So, I watched a movie about.... tossing a football around, stock footage of San Fransisco and the bridge, and lots of sex scenes...
This movie was just painful to watch. I mean, yea, the acting's about the same level as most soap operas, no one really tries that hard, and the story's really simplistic, but it's not even that. I'd even give the movie props because Lisa's actually pretty hot.

It's just, Tommy Wiseau just fucking slurs his lines and says the most insane shit during the entire movie. And all his dialog sounds overdubbed. And that god damn laugh. "hahahahahaha". I don't believe for a second that Wiseau is actually "Eastern European", the accent sounds fake. And if he is, it was probably from some poor, shit country like Romania and he was born of some poor rural chick who was snorting blow and drinking whiskey while pregnant with him because his is quite the dumbfuck.

Not to mention half the movie is stock footage. Or sex scenes. Or tossing around a football because apparently that's what all Americans do when we socialize.

And the acting....
More bad acting

I hope sempai notices me....
*kawaii eyes*

Pretty much. Fanservice, big tits, girls fighting each other (symbolic for their raging lesbian desire I bet)

I saw most of Madoka Magica.  I see the appeal of it and I admire the intent.  I get why people like it.  My overall enjoyment was minimal.  Probably having a soft spot for magical girls helps.  Which I don't got. 

How much of it did you watch? If you didn't get through episode 10-11 you wouldn't have any idea what's really going on.

In any case there's also three movies out of the series. 1 and 2 are just movie versions of the series, which seems to be a popular thing to do with anime nowadays. (Gurren Lagann, or Macross Frontier for example).

The third movie is an original story. I have it on my hard drive but haven't watched it. It looks intense though. And the usual trippy Shaft color/texture palette.

Redline.

Simple plot, kinda stupid, but enjoyable as all hell. I actually had some fun watching this.
I had no idea what was going on during some of it due to the crazy artwork making everything all confusing and crap.

The ending I found lacking. It was like "LOVE!" and then it suddenly ended. Did they live? Did they die? Did they ascend to a higher state of being?

It was like Redline was trying to beat the Hobbit for shortest ending ever and they won.

I was listening to Apex Predator by Otep.  Great song but apparently the album it comes from is utter shite.  How sad.

(one year later...) I thought that name sounded familiar. I've heard both "Warhead" and "Smash the Control Machine", although for warhead they took the music video off of youtube. If you want to hear more angry brutal metal with women, I like Arch Enemy. 

MY ANACONDA DONT
MY ANACONDA DONT

This song don't, as in don't sound good at all.
Butchers the original and the only reason people like it is because her ghetto booty is jiggling through the entire video.

Some Taylor Swift song.  Ha ha, no I'm kidding.  Fuck that bitch.

Shake it off is about the worst song of last year, and Taylor Swift's worst song ever.

The girl singing the song at the end of Pacific Rim sounds so good and the dude trying to rap sounds so opposite of good its sad.  I wish I could have a cut of this song without the stupid guy on it.

So basically Kanye West is ruining another song. 

Odd Thomas (the movie)

Not a bad movie. Not the greatest movie, but this was a small budget indie-type so yea, and also there were things I'll explain in a minute that bugged me. The movie was a pretty good adaptation, they kept quite a lot of important things in there, and had nods on the things that they didn't include. Obviously they couldn't include everything, and I am aware of that. I liked the guy playing Odd, he was a pretty good fit for the role.

Now, on for the issues:

- The ghost of Elvis is a major character in the books. Here, he didn't even show up. Either there was licensing issues with the Graceland estate, or they just couldn't find anyone to do a good enough Presley (an Elvis fest, maybe?).

- In the books the police chief is described as a stereotypical chubby donuts and coffee slamming cop. In the movie, he was Willem Dafoe. No, seriously, Dafoe played the cop. Dafoe did a good job and all, I just would have rather seen a chubby cop.

- Ozzy, one of my favorite characters in the books (even if he shows up for only the first 2), makes a 2 minute appearance here, and they do a pretty bad job of portraying him. No Shakespeare quotes, no excellent cooking. Boo.

- I always imagined Stormy as a black-haired hippy/goth type, and kinda Luna Lovegood-ish. In the movie, she was a supermodel in hot pants. The movie spent way too much time showing off her tanned legs.

- The film company seemed insistent on having at least a few 20 year old supermodels around with fake tans and hot pants. I'm no prude but really?

- And if you think I'm exaggerating, there was a scene where Stormy was wearing a thong so tight she had serious cameltoe, for no fucking reason. And then they threw in an ass shot as well.

- When Odd sees the tattoo on Fungus Man's chest, he immediately knows to go to the mall. This bugged me the most, because it doesn't explain HOW Odd knew he was supposed to go to the mall. I guess his psychic powers were probably the reason, but it seemed like the producers had run out of time and had to wrap the movie up quickly.

- There was quite a bit of foreshadowing... a little too much. Even if you didn't read the book you could probably guess who two of the killers were just because they acted like complete pricks the entire time.

- Also, a bit of a spoiler, but POD. The book/movie describes it as meaning "Prince of Darkness" but, um, usually POD means "Payable on Death", like the metal band. It's supposed to be a type of will. Or, it's supposed to mean (according to P.O.D.) your sins are payable on death, or Jesus paid for our sins on death. I've never heard of it being used for "prince of darkness".

yea, but what exactly was it you didn't like about the main character?

Also, do you like his Frankenstein series? I've been thinking of trying it as well.


Odd Apocalypse

Has nothing to do with the Apocalypse, besides the fact a character in the book sees the future, and describes schoolgirls exploding on fire and turning to ashes and skeletons turning black and exploding into powder, which is supposedly what happens when people are killed with a nuclear weapon. In the last book Odd stopped nuclear weapons from coming to the US, maybe he didn't quite succeed.

Apparently Dean Koontz is like the Windows of novels; every other one is good, every other one sucks (like Windows). This one was actually quite better than book 4, but not quite as good as 1 or 3.

In the book, Odd is staying at a billionare's estate where time seems to stand still (literally?) and strange pig beasts roam the land. As usual though, Odd Thomas seems to know exactly what to say most of the time, seems to be a perfect shot with a gun despite being terrified of them, and probably due to plot armor never seems to ever be shot  when going against people who are better trained than him. Also, the villains once again always seem pure evil once you see their true side, which probably makes it easier for Odd to dispatch them left and right without even feeling remorse. At least in book 4 and previous books when he did kill people he felt at least a little shaken up about it.

Still, Koontz does a wonderful job describing what's going on in the world in rich detail, from a bizzare steampunk mechanism in a basement to even crazier stuff. And thanks to pretty good foreshadowing and clues (maybe ones too obvious) I figured out exactly what was going on before it was revealed to me. In the end not a bad read, and pretty suspenseful for the most part.

I noticed that in some of the threads in this board I haven't posted last since a year ago.

I spend too much of my time on FB, because fb's news feed just throws shit all over the place and it's hard to tell if I've missed something if I see the same crap over and over again.

And busy with work.

Quote from: The D on Mar 15, 2015, 11:51:39 PM

And while I didn't think the whole elf-dwarf relationship had much chemistry

They aren't supposed to have any chemistry at all, they have hated each other since almost the beginning

I meant Kili and Tauriel. Not much actual chemistry there.

Dear god I haven't posted here since over a year ago!

I saw most of Madoka Magica.  I see the appeal of it and I admire the intent.  I get why people like it.  My overall enjoyment was minimal.  Probably having a soft spot for magical girls helps.  Which I don't got. 

I don't even like magical girl series and I loved that series. I remember watching the first three episodes and thinking Mami was the coolest thing ever, what with magical flintlock guns to gun-fu her enemies with. And then I stopped watching it for a while because she ded.

I picked up an older show a couple weeks that I just started watching: Yosuga no Sora,

     
 

I could have warned you about that series. Me and some buddies started it up and got to the fourth episode and all of a sudden PORN. And we were like "uh wat."
I haven't seen the rest of it but could see it would get incestual fast. And looking up the rest of it, yea, the bro and sister start screwing like rabbits before the end of the series.

I don't understand a series like that. For those who watch it for fap material, there's too much actual plot and story between each sex scene. Any anyone there for the harem romantic drama would be turned off by the random gratuitous pr0n scenes.


I can't even remember the stuff I've watched in the past year, since I didn't watch much of anything. Right now I'm on "From The New World", Shin Sekai Yori, which is set 1000 years in the future where everyone has telekinetic powers but everything's gone all feudal and 13th century farming culture for some reason. It's said to be one of the best series of the last couple years, but I'm a little bored with it so far.

Kill la Kill... yes. I liked Kill la Kill but I didn't love it as much as I thought I would. Problem I had with it was that the entire theme of the series seemed to be to outdo itself. It would have something happen way over the top, and then the next episode would try to surpass even that. It got just a little tiresome after a while.
And then you have these people running around naked saying clothing is evil, and then the main villain suddenly said "I'm actually not a badguy, I'm trying to fight my mother who wants to rule the world with sentient alien clothes!" Yea, no. It's too much of a sudden turn around for no reason, and doesn't justify how much of a bitch she was for most of the series.

Someone mentioned Attack on Titan. I finished that a couple years ago. Good series. It was a little dragged out with some serious filler, and a lot of the humans acted like stupid shits, but it was good enough and badass enough for me to enjoy it one time around. Not sure I'd watch it twice due to the filler though.


And netflix notes that I watched Black Butler. Yes.
The reason I wanted to watch this was because of the first episode. In it, this guy tries to scam Ciel Phantomhive, the protagonist and rich young heir, out of his business and money. And Ceil has his demon butler torment the guy, mentally screw him over, and then bake him alive in an oven (oddly the guy runs away later, so maybe the baking never happened?). The reason I didn't want to watch this was because all the fangirls said it was filled with teh GAY.
It was a little in between. There was only maybe 2 gaybait scenes in the entire series, so I'm not sure what the fangirls saw in it. Maybe because it has one of the only openly gay characters in anime, Grell, who I found annoying as hell. And the series wasn't quite as good as the first episode, but it was somewhat enjoyable. The ending was annoying though. I fully expected Sebastian to go against his contract of eating Ciel's soul, out of like for the boy, but...