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#1078472
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Explain Your Username / Avatar / Title / Signature
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Username:
Basically just a short version of “Earl of Sandwich”, also has a nice ring to it. Sounds far fancier than “king” or the like. Plus its the name of my Youtube channel so it fits.

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  • Previously: Obi Wan doing his “You don’t need to see his identification” look.
  • Currently: Rogue winking at camera from the japanese intro to X Men TAS.

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Messed up youtube automatic captions, The line is “The Son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi”, but instead it comes out as “This is the largest gold why”. I just found it funny.

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#1077577
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Conan The Barbarian (1982):

Arnold is pretty up and down in this, but considering how little dialogue there is in the movie it’s not worth bringing up. I was expecting a mostly average fantasy movie with a little bit of gore, but I was pleasantly suprised when I actually watched it. The music in particular is probably some of the best I’ve ever heard in a movie, the great cinematography also helps with the shots of expansive landscape. I was also completely caught off guard by how unconventionally the story was told, compared to other fantasy movies, there is very little dialogue in this and if there was no dialogue at all I would be still be able to understand what was happening. Another interesting thing I noticed was despite obviously being set in a fictional period of history and being a fantasy movie, the elements of fantasy are kept to a minimum and are used to advance the plot or provide setpieces (Doom’s stare, the slutty witch, giant snake, Doom turning into a snake and bringing Conan back to life), instead of just having magic happen left, right and centre for a majority of the runtime to showcase special effects. So its not only fantastical escapism but also feels grounded to the point I could feel immersed in a world that didn’t exist. Please watch this movie.

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#1076311
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The "Share about your career/career plans, hobbies, passions, etc., and what inspired you" thread.
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I don’t have a solid idea of what I wish to do as a career yet, but the mains that interest me are music composition and film making. I don’t necessarily wish to be a director, I don’t think I have the stuff for something of that caliber. I’m more interested in the editing process, its something that fascinates me. BTS, deleted scenes and director’s commentaries are things I love, I feel inspired to make something when a director goes in depth about how a favourite movie or show of mine was made and the experience that came from it. I’ve made one short film for school and that’s as far as my experience goes, I lost the original file a while ago but I doubt I want to return to it anyway. A few years ago I did consider getting into writing fan fiction for some dumb web series (I believe it was either Red vs Blue, Happy Tree Friends or Dick Figures), I’m glad that was something I chose not to do as I’ve never been good at writing stories anyway.

I suppose my biggest inspiration to want to get into the industry was the TV shows Thunderbirds and Thomas and Friends, as a kid the miniatures in both shows were life-like in my eyes and I hadn’t seen anything like either until that point. I can still hum the motifs for each Thomas character more than a decade later without having to watch the show. Both shows were also the first time I noticed reoccurring musical themes and motifs in a form of media that wasn’t just the main titles, so I can thank Barry Gray and Mike O’Donnell/Junior Campbell for my love of music. I’m currently practising how to play a cornet.

Cartoons like Arthur inspired me to draw a lot as a kid, although I fell out of the phase years ago and tried several times to get back into it (Once through digital art, which didn’t last very long) with nothing coming out of it, mainly just from lacking motivation and other commitments. So basically nowadays when I’m not busy, I’m wasting time by watching movies, listening to music, surfing the web, playing with my cat and having hundreads of ideas flowing through my head at anytime and only executing one of them every once in a while. Such is life.

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#1076286
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Random Thoughts
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suspiciouscoffee said:

Speaking of X-Men TAS, I found an old Disney store gift card I still haven’t spent and I am considering getting an X-Men TAS DVD from their site with it. However, having just watched an episode on an old tape, the animation wasn’t as good as I remembered. I didn’t watch much of X-Men when I was younger, so maybe I’ve just been too spoiled by the DC shows of around the same time and the decade or so following.

The animation is no doubt pretty average stuff compared to other shows airing at the time, the intro is actually animated to a higher standard than the show itself (And then there’s the Japanese intro which is done to an even higher standard). The producers behind the show simply never had the money to properly finance it, whereas WB’s animated series (Batman and Superman) were properly financed and were praised for their animation. The show is never unappealing to the eyes though, until the last 6 episodes of the show which had to done by a studio in the Philippines to save budget and just look ugly.

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#1075935
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X Men (2000):
It’s been years since I first watched this and since I’ve been bingeing the 90s cartoon I’d thought I would give it a watch. The biggest problem for me was that it was way too short, even the deleted scenes that come on the DVD add nothing but filler, so I assume that’s the fault of the screenplay. Speaking of screenplay, for the most part it’s fine but there were a couple bits that made me unintentionally snigger. (“Do you know what happens to a toad when its struck by lighting?”) Some of the editing choices also felt off to me, some shots cut away to another location too quickly for my taste (this doesn’t affect the action scenes thankfully, though they are pretty average and not particularly spectacular). Overall it feels very small in scale, like they had a small budget or something. The performances by the actors are probably the best thing about this movie, except for Hale Berry and Anna Paquin, I didn’t think they were any good.