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J. Alfred Prufrock wrote:BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL (do Brazil, please).
No, they should do the studio cut of Brazil!
Jeffery Harrell wrote:Oh, and Uncle Owen is totally Obi-wan's brother, according to the book.
Ah, so I'm not the only one who thought that. I distinctly recall something having this info pre-special edition, maybe the back of one of the toys or a new trading card. Made much more sense then what we got.
(just got a great idea for a fanfic/movie- some time traveler keeps altering the timeline of the Star Wars universe, accounting for ALL the changes over the years!)
I saw an ad for some big budget movie about someone entering dreams and immediately thought, "that's it, Down in Front should do Dreamscape!"
Zarban wrote:But second: you listen to them in iTunes? If I listen to a commentary without the movie, I use Windows Media Player and crank it up to about 1.4x play speed. (for fine control: View > Enhancements > Play Speed Settings)
That's the way I listen to podcasts all the time. You get used to it pretty quickly.
I don't think they make Windows Media Player for the mac, but I could be mistaken 
That aside, I have no desire to speed up audio. I have time in my day to listen to everything.
No show notes? Well, the creators didn't use their science notes so we shouldn't be surprised...
maul2 wrote:Alright so it's basically a combination of "we grew up loving it so fuck off" and "meh it's a kids movie, fuck off.".
Guess I wasn't really missing the all great epicness that I hear every one talk about when referencing this movie and how I absolutely NEEED to see it.
So they yah go.
Nobody has said "fuck off", but whatever makes you happy I would never describe Labyrinth as having great "epicness"- that would be Dark Crystal. It's more Henson's last stand not using Kermit and friends before retreating to TV for his "serious" stuff.
TrowaGP02a wrote:To be honest I never once thought of watching one more than once. My favorite is Galaxy Quest probably only because it's my favorite movie of the ones you've done.
I've listened to DVD commentaries, podcasts, and even Rifftrax more then once, so something that combines each should also get a second listen.
Dark City was the first I listened to multiple times, as a) it's damned fun and b) at the end you guys commented one could listen to it without watching the film as very little related to what was on screen, thus starting me off on that path. It's still a favorite. As for others... looking at the list, it tends to be those where at least one of you is strongly against the film. Spiderman, Ghostbusters 2, Transformers 2... those I might listen to at work or while on my evening walk. If I like the film and you trash it, like Avatar, it won't go into heavy rotation The original Star Wars is probably a favorite, though.
Jeffery Harrell wrote:I think the more interesting question is why Independence Day works and a movie like, say, Godzilla so doesn't.
Expectations.
I liked Independence day, because I went in looking for big fun battles and found them. I also liked Godzilla because I've seen the 1990's Godzilla films and this was so much better then them (the Japanese audiences, although not hard core fans, also preferred the US film going by the box office). If however you were expecting something along the lines of the best 1960's films or just hadn't seen a Godzilla film in years you weren't going to like it.
Coming at this movie for the first time as an adult might be some of the problem. As a teen, I thought it was great. As an adult, it may require putting myself back into that mindset. I'll have to re-watch it. Labyrinth, though, has the major problem of being a response to Dark Crystal. THAT is the direction Henson wanted to go in, and you can sense him pulling back this time and trying to make something audiences would accept more. "Ok, we have a teen girl, a rock star... how dark can I still make it and have the sucker make a profit?"
But can you reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?
Or every Star Trek book more likely Gundam is one exploited cash cow (I remember when it was a finished idea, three tv series and a final movie, before they started doing side stories and alt universes)
TrowaGP02a wrote:And I pretty much love every story that has the "Gundam" name.
That's a bit like saying you love any movie with a vowel in the title
TrowaGP02a wrote:I'm also a big fan of all the Gundam Series, because I love giant robots/super soldiers.
The original Gundam is very subversive, really. Told to just make a kids show to sell toys, instead they create a complex SF story where both sides are somewhat evil. Like Star Trek and now Star Wars it later became its own genre, with some shows fitting into the original continuity and others just using the name.
It was also the first show where the giant robots were considered just weapons, not super special magic beans VOTOMS took this to its logical extreme, treating the mechs as just big tanks to be used and abandoned when needed.
Lots of good stuff out there, among the crap
Irresponsible Captain Taylor- easy going lazy guy becomes captain of a starship during a war. Is he just lucky, or does the whole zen thing work?
Armored Trooper VOTOMS- one of the best war shows ever.
Bubblegum Crisis (original)- combine Blade Runner, Streets of Fire, and the music video for the ASIA song 'Go' and you get cyberpunk goodness!
Battle Athletes Victory- when the first episode starts with teen athletes running into minefields as part of midterm exams, you know you're in for a fun time.
Gregory Harbin wrote:There's like four good anime shows, and the rest of it is crap. Watch those, and move on.
Same with Japanese live action films. Only 4 good ones, ignore the rest. No nation can produce more then 4 good shows in any medium
I've loved The Cowboys since I was a kid.
Assuming you want things not already plugged in the request thread, I'm going to suggest the anime Whisper of the Heart. I just realized I can't really describe it, apart from saying it's an incredible small story of a middle schooler starting on the path of becoming a writer. Good animation, and the dub is great although it tweaks the end a bit (they also had to deal with the fact the main character couldn't be translating a song from English into English, so had her creating a new song to that music)
Coming in late, with so much good discussion already here
My take on magic beans is that in part they set the limits of your story. Events can flow naturally once you accept that bean as a given, but nothing can contradict it. In Ghostbusters ghosts are real and can be dealt with using science. Ok, fine, run with it. If however you then have someone casting spells in a way that's not just "science" applied differently you've exceeded the self imposed limits and hurt the story. You should have set that up right up front, even if in a subtle way.
Finally listened to it. I was interested in the talk at the end about those who's reasons for not liking the film seemed to indicate they only watched the trailers. I have a Malaysian Muslim friend who saw the movie with her sister and complained at how pro American it was (what with all the fighting for freedom stuff, which brings up Robot Chicken's 1776 spoof but never mind). My reply was that it's all in how you look at it. Sure, it could be good Europeans fighting evil Iranians. On the other hand, you could just as easily see the Persians as representing the Superpower of that world and thus be the overconfident US. I think the ads had just beaten it into her going in that it was US propaganda so that was going to affect her opinion while watching.
I'm reminded of a comment on the radio a few years ago. There's a local band called "Cute is what we aim for", which I think is doing well nationally among the younger female set. The DJ was commenting on how he liked how ironic the band name was, and the producer just gave this depressing sigh and said "No, it's not..."
I prefer a SOTRY with a fringe on top.
downinfront wrote:Yeah. To be clear, we're not doing much particularly special, it's a recording of a commentary like any other we've done and will be the Episode Of The Week at some point soon.
We're just gonna have a camera on and Matt in the chat room with ya'll.
Maybe when you post it you can make the picture for the podcast be a screen grab or something so those who miss it can still put a face to the voice.
MasterZap wrote:- Dark Crystal (one of my favourite movies)
- Labbyrinth (less so, but, hey, puppets 
)
And we can cry over what could have been if either of those had been a hit, and Henson had continued to push in that direction 
maul2 wrote:Awesome, so psyched.
Although I guess I should probably watch the core now...is this one I should watch first?
Nah, just sit back and enjoy the badness
Kyle wrote:DorkmanScott wrote:Yeah, the Hitchhiker's movie was pretty awful.
Kyle, you know handful of the bits where the movie would show an entry from the Guide and it was weird and quirky and just the way things were phrased and constructed were hysterical? The books are like that the entire time.
That's what I've gathered. Still though, I have to say I enjoyed the movie on its own merits. It may not have been the best adaptation, but you throw the guy from the office, Sam Rockwell, Zoey Deschanel, Bill Nighy, Mos Def, and Alan Rickman in a film together and I'm probably going to have a great time.
And I loved the SPIRIT of the movie. If that same "y'know, the universe is pretty ridiculous and probably way more ridiculous than we know" spirit is at the core of the books, then that was conveyed totally to me.
I really do need to get around to reading them, though.
If possible start with the original radio series. The characters in many cases were written for those actors, which is one problem with the movie (although not a factor in your enjoyment naturally!) The first two books are somewhat based on the first 12 radio episodes (Adams tended to re-write everything instead of just adapting it). Just before Adams passed away they started turning the other books into radio shows, but as with the movie it's just not the same. Also worth checking out is the 6 part TV series based on the first radio series, using much of the same cast.
Kyle wrote:TrowaGP02a wrote:Original King Kong anybody?
I'm guessing nobody has that DVD. I don't know how you feel about Nostalgia Critic but he recently did an Old vs. New for the original and latest Kongs, it's pretty good.
Oh, I'm sure many have the DVD. I know I do
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