^ With Sonic, it was less “He doesn’t look like old Sonic,” and more “No child wants that nightmare fuel as a plush toy they’d sleep with.” I remember seeing that design for the first time and immediately watching 7 episodes of Excel Saga in a row just to cope with how crazily awful and unappealing ...

I’ve never seen it either, but the terrible looking creative decisions really intrigue me. I can’t wait to experience this in a packed theater, seeing who reacts to what in which way and all that. I actually kind of think that it’s a pity that Sonic got redesigned. Don’t get me wrong, he now looks b...

Is anyone else excited to see Cats? Or is it just me?

I mean, that movie looks mesmerizingly bad, and I cannot wait to see it.

Booooo.

Oh well. Looks like I’ll have to wait and see.

chee#891338 wrote:Pen Pen will fuck.

Pen pen already fucks.

Also, I would like to see Shin Eva ignite discussions/arguments/downright shouting matches over an ambiguous ended. It wouldn’t be an Eva ending without that.

For what it’s worth, ANN has Megumi Hayashibara credited as voicing Rei Ayanami, EVA 1 (Berserker), and Pen Pen for Shin Eva specifically. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8423 For comparison, she was only credited as Rei Ayanami in Eva Q, since that’s all she did for that ...

Fuck Gainax. All of the cool, creative people have already left. They can’t seem to make a profitable concept even if it slapped them in the face. They literally leech off of more successful studios’ profitability and inspirations. They preyed upon at least one young girl, however these cases are u...

That first post reminded me that Anno's cat died that that Shin Eva will probably be the most depressing movie ever made as a result.

Godammit, I wanna see at least one of these terrible ideas fully realized at least once.

The animation production process is all a blur to me, and it doesn’t help that Anno likes to tweak things until the very end. I’ve no idea what “stage” of the process they’re in other than “the part where Anno & Co. draws a movie together until they’re done with it.”

This is a good thing. WB hasn’t been doing too well competing in the summer screenings of their films. Waiting until fall/winter months is better. For example, this year Star Wars’ competition for ticket sales is Cats.

This is a real thing I’m doing, but I’m blaming the cat if it fails.

Mr. Tines#873904 wrote:Is that the Ghibli movie Mononoke Hime, or do you mean that at a just a decade after airing the Old Dope Pedlar now counts as old stuff?

You mean that the 1997 movie Mononoke Hime can now be considered “old stuff?”

That screech is from Ramiel’s attack sound effects from Eva Jo, which was also reused from a space monster screech in DieBuster.

Square shapes are the way to go.

I’ve seen the interviews. But I have professionally worked on behind the scenes documentaries and filmmaker interviews for various film projects on various budgets, and, while I haven’t worked with Star Wars or Disney specifically, I can spot out a scripted corporate shill piece when I see it. All o...

Lemme put it this way: I might respect her more if she were to resign. She’s clearly not in control here, Iger is; and no one but Iger can keep that from happening. Looking at her past filmography, none of her previous films share the same issues that her SW movies do. That’s not to say that her pas...

If Bob Iger wasn’t telling Kathleen Kennedy to make limp, stealth remakes, he’d simply hire someone else and tell them to do the exact same thing. I don’t see how replacing Kathleen Kennedy would resolve any of the issues with these movies. It’s not like she has these issues with any of the other fi...

^ Oh, that’s definitely true as well. But I’d be kidding myself if I believed that the decisions that Iger’s been making aren’t also the ones that are negatively affecting the Star Wars movies these days.

It’s important to note that Kathleen Kennedy is referring to source materials, not just fiction in literary paper formats. In that sense, she’s 100% correct. Star Wars has no source materials outside of the original trilogy. The EU canon isn’t a source material in the slightest. At best the EU is ma...