EyeShotFirst

Gundam Wing was one of my favorites back years ago.

Trigun is probably in my top 5 anime of all time

Cowboy Bebop is and probably always will be my favorite ever

Wolf's Rain, it's been years, but I loved it a lot when I watched it.

Yu Yu Hakusho was one I enjoyed, but I never watched the whole show, as they stopped airing it. I'd like to watch it all someday.

Blue Gender another one I remember enjoying, but it's been so long and my tastes have changed, so I don't know if I'd still like it.

Case Closed: Detective Conan really loved this show.

Big-O if The Batman Animated Series, Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop had a baby. I think I'd probably enjoy it more as an adult than I did as a teenager, if I were to rewatch it.

generalfrevious said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

EyeShotFirst said:

Right next to the fucking ocean, and have a water shortage?

Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink. 

 No one can drink seawater without desalinization, and we don't know what impact could happen if that plan was taken. That ocean might as well be not water at all.

 I love how my statement about desalination wasn't in the quote. Now I sound like a Kardashian.

^I love Chinese food...take it back!!

I've always hated the colors on the 2004 master, but seeing it in that night and day comparison made me sick to my stomach. I literally need some tums after looking at that. I can understand filters, and color adjustments, but that shit doesn't even look right. Who thought that shot looked good with those colors?

Maybe if California would invest in desalination, and less on looking like melted muppets, there wouldn't be an issue with water. Right next to the fucking ocean, and have a water shortage? Of course our Government doesn't invest in solutions.

Signed.

Bingo was one of the people here when I joined in '09, and he made me feel welcome. There are several people I would sign this for to return if they were in Bingo's place. I don't post on here near as much as I used to, so I don't quite know the details of the various arguments that have taken place, and I honestly couldn't give 2 shits.

People say things I don't like all the time, but I don't give those statements any momentum by firing back.

I have long held this forum in high regard, for the respect most members give one another. Let us continue down this road. It's okay to disagree, but nothing truly gets accomplished by fighting over the internet.

You can ignore somebody without hitting the ignore button. Just scroll past their comments, like I know you will scroll past this one for being long-winded. ('o')

Man, you got me drooling with these overly compressed vimeo videos. That's how bad these films have been treated. All my life I've heard about Lucas being the pinnacle of quality... BULLSHIT. Films a good 20 years older than Star Wars have better blu ray releases.

It's definitely a beauty. I love the engine glows against the dead of space. The shot no longer feels old and neglected. A labor of love, I can tell.

I just don't understand why Star Wars wasn't big on television, until recently. Books, movies, and in some respects games, it has done pretty well. We could've had some amazing television programs in the 80's and 90's. Droids sort of fell by the wayside.

Maybe Lucas was worried they would tarnish his vision, like the Holiday Special. Maybe the failure of Droids was something he didn't want to repeat, but Droids wasn't near the cartoon we could've gotten.

I'm just saying a lot of stuff that's thrown out there for kids on American networks are done quick and without attention to detail, when you have studios in Japan that will take a lot of time and effort to make things look great. CGI has been used to great effect in Japanese films. In fact the film Steamboy featured CGI models that were penciled over to achieve better symmetry for mechanical things.

The old Fleischer Popeye cartoons featured miniature models for backgrounds, to great effect.

The talent is definitely not an issue in these studios, it's all about getting it out there as cheap and quickly as possible. I've seen some great work on Disney television programs in the past.  

Anybody that would complain about this animation style is crazy:

Star Wars done in a style similar to Cowboy Bebop would be a huge hit. People would go nuts for it. I would hope a Japanese studio develops it. They are doing animation on a level that America just doesn't do anymore. Even our cartoons are done in computer programs that do all the hard work for us.

Trailers, more often than not, will make make me hate a movie before I even see it. It's kind of a mistake to trust a trailer. Some trailers are better than the movie. Then you have great movies with a certain tone, and the trailer is the complete opposite. Guardians of the Galaxy looked like a crapfest in the trailer, and I was shocked at how much I liked the movie.

I'd like to see a bad Jedi, who doesn't look like a bad Jedi. Take a page from Sergio Leone's "blue eyed villain" book. Maybe somebody who, betrayed their fellow Jedi during Order 66 to save their own skin. Maybe Palpatine sensed anger in some of the Jedi while he was still Senator, and offered them a deal.

You could also have a Jedi character who left their training to do mercenary, bounty, muscle, bodyguard or any other similar work. They would certainly utilize the skills they learned while a jedi.

Too many Jedi seem to be exactly the same as one another. I think it's time we see some who are against the grain. Enough with the robes and ponytails.

Heck, you could have an third party Jedi group. One thing all societies have, are disagreements. I find it absurd that there is only good and evil in the world of the Jedi.

So George Lucas's film-making tools are more simplistic than what a teenager with a mac and an iphone uses.

Fantasia 1940

My niece has really been spending a lot of time with me, so I like to subtly expose her to music she might not hear. I figured the best introduction she could get to classical, would be one of the ways I was exposed. Fantasia, while I find modern releases of it to be appalling, it is still a good film. I was watching it, and was reminded of how beautiful Disney's art was back then. It kind of saddens me, that they don't do animation work on that level anymore. In fact without Pixar, they wouldn't have any output.

It's a shame they didn't make more Fantasias. Fantasia 2000 was okay, but wasn't really on the level that the original was. Beethoven's 5th was a war of Nacho chips? Fantasia made a lot of lesser known pieces, standard repertoire. I think good quality sequels could have done the same. I'm also shocked that neither film contained any Mozart, Brahms, Handel, Ravel, or Wagner pieces.

I know a Fantasia 2006 was proposed, but never finished. Some pieces ended up being shorts.

I was definitely surprised by the level of violence in it, especially now that everybody is afraid for their children to see death. I remember watching the early English dubs of Dragon Ball Z where an entire city would be destroyed, but they'd say something like "Good thing the city was evacuated" or a character would die, and they'd say "He was sent to another dimension".

The show doesn't show their death in great detail, but you know they didn't make it.

I binge watched the entire first season last night, and I wanted more. That is saying something.

Sure, it is made for kids, but it feels more like a made for the older 12-14 year old range, though I would've watched it as a 5 year old if it had existed.

I've gotten used to the art style. I think the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that hair looked like it was made out of rubber.

I also gotta give Frank Oz some props. He sounded much more like the wise, yet joyful character of the original trilogy. They didn't force the backwards talk as heavy as the prequels. The Clone Wars series is probably even more blatant, with Tom Kane taking over the role. Not every sentence Yoda udders has to be phrased like that. In ESB and ROTJ, it wasn't an awkward way of phrasing when you think about it. It just felt like an old way of speaking. Kind of like how a direct translation of something in Spanish is always phrased odd when looking at it from an English perspective. In the prequels, he sounds like he's trying to phrase it weird.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Ghostbusters II

*gets booed off the stage, pelted with eggs and tomatos on the street, and finally tarred and feathered in the town square*

 I liked Ghostbusters II a lot. I always thought I was the only one. Hello there!!

It didn't have the serious undertones that the first one featured, but it did keep a lot of the comedy aspects. I don't see why people hate it so much.

Maybe I've seen the first one so many times, I don't find it as funny and clever as I once did, and that has sort of numbed me to the point where I place it alongside the sequel. Keep in mind, I was a very young child when I watched both of the Ghostbusters movies, so maybe nostalgia has clouded that, but nostalgia doesn't hold every thing up. I don't like a lot of movies I loved as a child. q

Good job! I really like it. Looks like something Lucasfilm would've done back in the day.

I gotta say, I'm 5 episodes into the series, and I have been overly satisfied. While I'm not a fan of the art style, the sheer entertainment makes up for it.

I didn't think I would enjoy it, as I didn't care for what little I saw of the Clone Wars.

All I know is she try to twerk and she ain't got dat ass.

I don't like Batman anymore. People have ruined the character for me.

Disney doesn't believe in restoration. Look at the Fantasia blu ray. They'd rather replace things than fool with working with what they have. Disney does the bare minimum to sell their products. What is so interesting is how they will talk about how great their restoration work is, and they'll show a before and after wipe with boosted color. That shit was impressive 30 years ago, but every kid with a freeware video editing program can boost colors.

It would be so awesome to have Criterion releases of Disney films, but that's unlikely.

Thank you! It's a big relief to know that even if the drive fails, I still have copies in various places now. The plan is to eventually build a better computer and just use my smaller hard drives for keeping copies of my important documents. There are many great adapters that turn adapt SATA drives to USB, so that's an option. As for the large drive that failed, I'm getting a replacement eventually. I'm still pissed about all that was lost on it. It's a lesson that I wish I didn't have to learn.

Copy your files guys.

I'd like to get back to making covers, but it just isn't possible at this point. My main rig is on it's last leg, and the laptop I'm using is so old it can barely process enough data to do simple tasks. It plays music and browses the web, so I'm not completely without. I just cannot make anything on it.

Wow, you're not kidding. Very bold imagery on her site.