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Lance Reddick is dead.


Rest in peace, you fucking legend.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by B E C K on Mar 06, 2023, 06:08:26 PM »
I decided to try a bit of Lupin Zero and kid Jigen shooting at the bullies at his school was a bit too real for America. Doesn't look bad although I admittedly find Lupin very hit and miss for my tastes. I might come back to this later.

I also watched a bit of Aggretsuko Season 5. Way to turn this show into the Haida show. It's like the writers forgot who the main character was. They sidelined all of the more interesting characters for Main Character's homeless, jobless simp.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: What Anime are you watching?
« Last post by B E C K on Mar 06, 2023, 05:49:48 PM »
I tried a bit of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. The beginning with the mom was kinda cute but I'm not feeling this show. The lead being some frail little girl who insists that she can protect herself and then buys a fairy slave to protect herself is just... eh. I think I would've liked this show more if she truly had to find other ways to protect herself. But then, you know, we don't get the trope of master/servant love between her and the hot dude-fairy she buys. This combined with the prior scene where a big burly man beats a tiny fairy while he screams for his wing sends off mixed signals about the feel of this show. I mean, what kind of show do you want to be, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale? I'm kinda confused by it tbh.

I think this might've been a better show if her mom was still alive but sick and the Main Character needs the prize money from contest or whatever to buy medicine. And maybe she has a dad or aunt or someone else who buys her the fairy for her own safety and is keeping the wing hostage. This way, she's forced into her journey prematurely and she's forced to have a slave even though she thinks slavery is wrong. (In this show, the owners keep one of the fairy's wings hostage which forces them in slavery. So if someone else had the wing, she'd had no way to free the slave.)

But here, her mom's dead. And the Main Character just pops on over to the slave market to done buy her a slave. And that slave is sassy, so she's sassy back.  "How dare you call me names, slave." And I'm supposed to, uh, like this character? Just because she's a young girl and the English dub gives her a voice that sounds two degrees above ASMR whispering?
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by B E C K on Mar 01, 2023, 03:58:37 PM »
Gotta give props to Ol' Billy pulling in those paychecks. He's just phonin' in these days, right? Sit there and be a cranky geezer so people can point at the screen and say they saw Bill Murray.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by jonhammstein on Feb 24, 2023, 08:42:52 PM »
Man, I can't find it now, but there was a pull quote from one critic along the lines of, "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an awful film, but awful in a way that Marvel movies rarely are."

And I was like, "DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!!" :laugh:

Bill Murray was in it, but I couldn't tell you why. He's a fucking nothing character who has about 5 minutes of screen time, and then is implied to have died? I think? Just worthless.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by jonhammstein on Feb 24, 2023, 08:34:49 PM »
I think Guardians 3 still has the potential to be good, owing entirely to James Gunn's involvement, IMHO.

But after that? Really starting to feel like the MCU is running on fumes.

And I seem to remember reading not long ago that dude what runs Disney was talking about cutting back on Marvel spending, so...
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: So cold!
« Last post by B E C K on Feb 24, 2023, 08:16:08 PM »
That fucking groundhog lied. Six more weeks of winter, my ass. It's been warm and shit. I'm so bitter.
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by B E C K on Feb 24, 2023, 08:08:40 PM »
You know, I kinda actually forgot Marvel movies are still a thing. :lol:
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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Last post by jonhammstein on Feb 24, 2023, 12:13:44 AM »
Quantumania is kind of fucking bad, y'all. Like, I don't even know what the idea was behind this one. Oof. Big fucking oof.

Even worse than Love & Thunder, I think. That one at least had some highs to contrast its many lows.  This new Ant-Man is all lows, all the time.

I'm honestly wondering if its box office will end up being less than Black Adam's, which would be a special kind of dire.
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I can't decide if I still like The Sounds. Their first album "Living in America" was so solid and "Dying to Say This to You" was a good follow-up. I'd listen to them both on repeat in full back in 2006/2007. But nothing they've done since comes close to the lesser tracks on either of those albums.

This is one of their latest songs and I think it could've been improved by a little less repetition. The chorus could've been better with some different words. Instead of, uh, repeating "the things we do for love" thrice each time.



This song auto-played right after and this one also keeps repeating "safe and sound." I'd almost prefer they'd pop out a thesaurus just to get some different words. Maybe I'm being too hard on the repeating words. I could probably find examples in their old shit, too. But those songs had hooks and slapped. Their recent stuff sounds like they're tired.

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