Is it Cake 2. The judges keep failing to enter their guess so everyone is safe by default. Meanwhile contestants are painting whole decoy objects so that everything looks like a disguised cake. It just makes for a dull show so far.
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It doesn’t get much better. I was disappointed with the second season overall
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I’m fucking speechless at how bad this new animation looks for the upcoming FLCL season 4. They’re swapping to a 3D animation. The original is my favorite anime of all time.
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I watched a little with my kids and it really does seem to accept its trash TV status. The judging is haphazard in such a way that makes the entire competition unnecessary.
You excited to for Fionna and Cake?
I’ve been rewatching through Adventure Time with my kids, and it really holds up. The just started season 10. I figure they’ll finish, watch the Distant Lands specials and then I’ll watch Fionna and Cake with them.
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I challenge everybody, name a good looking 3d anime reboot
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While not a reboot, I will say the few sequences of 3D animation spliced amongst the hand-drawn art in Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is something quite beautiful to behold and still leaves me speechless. The original films and the 2 season show are timeless in my opinion.
When it comes to the reboot, with Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, I found the artstyle, which leaned heavily into more CG art, to look lazy and unpolished, which is quite the shame given the franchise’s usual pedigree.
If you are going to get into the show, I would stick with the original films, the first run of Stand Alone Complex, and Ghost in the Shell: Arise, which really solidifies the series even more and was a surprisingly fantastic addition both in the story, character development/ introduction and art.
Also, as there is an elephant in the room, while I thought the Ghost in the Shell Live Action was derivative at best, taking a greatest hits approach to picking and choosing what to pull and reference from the source material, the visuals were awesome and really one of the only reasons to watch the film. I didn’t have a problem with the casting choice when it came to the Major as well, as I found Scarlett’s performance to be as good as you can get with this character, although a bit more emotion wouldn’t have killed her.
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Season one or two? The problem is season one is a lot of fun. Season two is just messier in a way that’s dull rather than as fun as season one.
Very. Excited that Simon is a main character and it seems like Fiona and Cake might be travelling dimensions. There are shots of Marceline rather than Marshall which hints at interesting things to come.
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This could be a really odd thing to comment on a TV subject but two days ago, in Japan, the currently best boxer in activity, Naoya Inoue, won in dominating fashion world titles in a 4th category. A generational talent that gets overlooked a bit because of his size and fighting in the lower categories. If you like boxing and ever have the chance of watch one of his fights, do so. He is just something else.
Coolest thing is that it was a Tuesday Japanese fight night so, in order to watch it fully, I had to have an emergency issue to postpone a meeting for a few minutes. Totally worth it.
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So we didn’t make it last Sunday, so we have tickets to see it this Saturday. Still looking forward to it!
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It was fantastic and better than it has any right to be for a movie based around a toy that is coming up to 75 years old.
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We finished a second watch through of Adventure Time last year, but I think we still have one or two Distant Lands to go. Those have been a little harder to get into. But man I love AT. Jake wafting the ghost of a lobster into his sandwich is high art. I’m interested to see Fionna and Cake but the original series and cast is so great that I’m a little leery of spinoffs. But perhaps I’ll be more invested if it’s in the same universe and not an entirely new canon.
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I think it’s fascinating that Mattel gave their Barbie IP to a Mumblecore director, and let her basically do what she wanted with it. Kudos to them for being smart enough to realize that was a good move.
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If it helps Adam Muto has been the show runner throughout, so I imagine we are in for more awesome TV. But I enjoy the Distant Lands installments, and like seeing Muto take the show in directions away from Finn and Jake. Obsidian was an especially fantastic episode, but I like them all. Also Natasha Allegri is the mind behind Fiona and Cake, and she was a storyboard artist, and therefore writer, on the original run of Adventure Time, so I’m hopeful we are in good hands.
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Funny what tends to happen when studios allow the directors to go through with their visions uninterrupted. Not always a sure thing for a great end result but more often than not, with what I have seen, it ends up working out.
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My understanding is that Gerwig basically had carte blanche, and even casting was written directly into the script with Gerwig wanting people like Robbie, Gosling, Liu, etc. as her first choice. Mattel’s money made it happen.
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I imagine they’ve said everything they have to say about it, but I’d like to see them explore and really dig into what led to the mushroom war, and the immediate aftermath.
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Awesome. I really enjoyed her directorial debut with Ladybird and while this wasn’t as serious (at times without giving much away), it was just as great. Along with Wes Anderson, she has become one of my favorite directors of the 21st century so far.
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Have you watched Nights and Weekends? That’s her actual debut, co-directing with fellow mumblecore director Joe Swanberg. She also wrote Hannah Takes the Stairs, another mumblecore film that Swanberg directed before that.
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The last two Distant Lands are some of my favorite AT things. If you haven’t seen them, I’ll vaguely say that they are the Finn and Jake one and the Peppermint Butler one.
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Would you consider Baumbach mumblecore? I see them (Gerwig and Baumbach) elevated above what I normally consider mumblecore.
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