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by Dr. Nick
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Pompo the Cinephile: You wouldn't guess this from the marketing, but this film is not primarily about the love of cinema or the movie-making process in general. It's a film about film editing , and everything else is just scaffolding supporting that core. I think it's helpful to know this in advanc...
by Dr. Nick
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II
Replies: 1952
Views: 387111

Re: Gundam (In All Its Incarnations) Mk. II

My remarkably lukewarm Witch from Mercury take: there are just too many disparate show ideas in it, so it doesn't cohere into a satisfying whole. Which is a shame because there's some tremendously good character stuff amidst it all, and I loved how there were two completely separate antagonists both...
by Dr. Nick
Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:12 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

Re: Last Movie You Watched

by Dr. Nick
Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Sengoku Collection: Represents probably the best way to adapt a gacha game to television. Cheeky freeform anthology nonsense, probably greatly benefitting from the original game being a product of Konami, a game company that famously doesn't give a shit. Whatever plot the game may have, the anime e...
by Dr. Nick
Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:02 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: The Macross Legacy Thread (Incl. +/DYRL/Zero/Seven/Frontier/Δ)
Replies: 533
Views: 167995

Re: The Macross Legacy Thread (Incl. +/DYRL/Zero/Seven/Frontier/Δ)

So, about Zettai Live : I mean, this is a weirdly luddite movie, right, and the antagonists absolutely do have a point? They're otherwise psychos and will use nukes in the atmosphere, but they do have a point: Who died and made Lady M the Emperor of Man? Why is the N.U.N. taking orders from her (the...
by Dr. Nick
Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

Re: Last Movie You Watched

Alabama's Ghost (1973): They say it's low budget cinema, but the scene in which the dirtbiking vampires charge down a sand dune to attack the Altamont festival is genuinely impressive kino. The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008): Conceptually, this is a nostalgia bait sequel I can get behind: sure, ...
by Dr. Nick
Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:33 am
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Mongol (2007): So apparently Genghis Khan's warfighting genius boils down to not some horse archery meta but him using his elite warriors as unabashed suicide units. Then again, the film makes it markedly clear that the Mongolian god Tengri is very real and favors Temüjin with concrete miracles, so...
by Dr. Nick
Mon Oct 23, 2023 2:49 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Majestic Prince: An early impression I had was "We have Nadesico at home". What I mean by this is the show is comedy-coded, but there's very little comedy in it. The characters are very generically anime-quirky (The main girl is a terrible cook!), but they have shtick, not jokes. The stor...
by Dr. Nick
Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:23 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Napoleon Dynamite:

Man, they weren't kidding when they said this is the most realistic time travel movie.
by Dr. Nick
Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Rendel (2017): Supposedly Finland's first full-length superhero film (although there are some indie guys from the Trash Video collective who might disagree with that statement), Rendel is a troubled product hobbled by the besetting sin of Finnish genre movies - slamming together multiple theoretica...
by Dr. Nick
Thu Aug 31, 2023 10:15 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Is SRW 30 any good btw? It's worth the money just because it gives you Gaogaigar & Betterman sequel content in English, since the original web novel is completely untranslated I believe, and the manga adaptation is only half-way scanlated. It's absolutely wild seeing these characters again. I t...
by Dr. Nick
Wed Aug 30, 2023 2:45 am
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

I've seen a lot of mecha fans hold it up as a good show though in recent years and it makes me wonder what drugs they're on. It has that psycho protagonist novelty. A hysterical thought came to me: in terms of life philosophy, Ernie is basically a softer and twinkier M.D. Geist. Both cause a robot ...
by Dr. Nick
Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:58 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Eat-Man: A genius reviewer on MAL made this connection, in large part because of the mysterious main character's inscrutable desert wandering antics: think of Eat-Man as a Neil Breen anime, and you're set. It's not good, but it does have that same tryhard outsider artist energy. Eat-Man '98 is a mo...
by Dr. Nick
Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:52 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Ninja from 2009 is one of my favorite DTV actioners thanks to its earnestly unironic attitude towards its remarkably goofy subject matter. Scott Adkins is obviously a genuine martial artist so the cleanly shot and edited action scenes look better than in many A-list tentpole films, and even though ...
by Dr. Nick
Sun Jul 02, 2023 2:05 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Galvion: The unfinished swan song of the eighties C-list studio Kokusai Eigasha, Galvion is one of those also-ran products that look interesting on paper, being a real robot show that's all about fighting organized crime. Aliens also factor in, but, I shit you not, only as a worldbuilding detail th...
by Dr. Nick
Thu May 04, 2023 4:10 am
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985): Mid-eighties Spielberg producing a C-grade Spielberg pastiche. Imagine if The Goonies had aged like milk. Features a lot of garbage fan service found in modern cancerous prequels, such as giving separate origin stories to Holmes's cap, coat and pipe, and including a po...
by Dr. Nick
Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:16 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: How do you feel about NTE? + Rank the movies!
Replies: 328
Views: 84505

Re: How do you feel about NTE? + Rank the movies!

My two cents, now that I've finally watched all of the Rebuild films. My central question with the film series has always been why was it launched in the first place, artistically speaking that is. After all, Anno also wrote and directed the audio drama After the End , a piece of media that pre-empt...
by Dr. Nick
Sat Mar 18, 2023 10:49 pm
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

Re: Last Movie You Watched

The King's Man (2021): A film ahead of its time, as in it feels like it should exist as a 20-years-later hard reboot of Kingsman, wherein the franchise is resurrected as a prestige alt-history thing. It's a bold film, certainly, and refreshingly not even in the edgelord way the previous parts were,...
by Dr. Nick
Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: Anime and Manga
Topic: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now
Replies: 1464
Views: 324398

Re: What anime are you watching right now? Summer 2016 to now

Probably the best thing about the eminently skippable Burn-Up re-imaginings ( Burn-Up W, Excess and Scramble ), at least the first of which was co-produced with ADV's money, is their willingness to have their lady protagonists be slovenly, horny, gold-digging idiots who are police officers only beca...
by Dr. Nick
Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:58 am
Forum: Film and Video
Topic: Last Movie You Watched
Replies: 1979
Views: 353732

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Dark Glasses (2022): Is it Dario Argento's return to form? Well, a formidable attempt at least, and it must be commended for trying to imbue the giallo formula with actual emotional resonance beyond just thrills. Small details across the film reveal how it's definitely the work of a spry octogenari...

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