My partner has never seen the early seasons of Project Runway, so I’m catching them up. I would pay money to see unedited footage of all of Santino Rice’s judging sessions from season 2. Nina Garcia HATES him and I live for it.
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I got the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD for my birthday [a little belated because the release date was so close] ! About time they put out that one
It will be nice to re-visit those. I used to watch that and Shaman King on Saturday Mornings, back in the day. Those were the days
[The 4kids version of Shaman King is only available on Blu-ray, which we don’t have. I thought: that’s kinda stupid ! What a shame]
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Is also a scarily accurate depiction of what being a teacher feels like.
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SO glad they kept with the style of the comics and not some generic anime rubbish!
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It still has a touch of Science Saru’s flourishes, but Science Saru and their founder, Masaaki Yuasa, are anything but generic.
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I was kinda thinking animation along the lines of that recent Dragon Age series Netflix did. It was so generic looking, although that was far from its only problem.
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I didn’t watch it, but I know what you mean. A lot of Netflix properties seem farmed out to animators that specialize in a very safe, generic look lacking any personal studio style. I knew Science Saru was doing this so I was already excited and I’m not disappointed so far. Looking forward to November.
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Apart from Arcane. That thing is be-ay-oooootiful!
And Skull Island. It’s so much more free in it’s animation and flows really well. Would highly recommend if you’ve not seen it.
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Tampopo blew me away. Every vignette is intriguing and hilarious, but also cinematically distinct. The whole film is satirical, but it expertly shifts the genres it is satirizing while maintaining enough connective tissue that it doesn’t feel “so random”. There is so much to take in with Tampopo that I know it deserves a rewatch just to see the jokes I missed because I was still howling from the last segment. Tampopo gets my full recommendation with a little content warning for those who are interested.
Content Warning: You see a real turtle get killed in the preparation of a dish. Easy to avoid actually watching as the scene telegraphs it coming for like a full minute. Less easy to telegraph is the two food sex scenes which are absolutely some of the funniest scenes in the film, but it was just within my wife and my sensibilities. If they pushed it even a tiny bit further, it would be too much. There is also a scene where a person who looks young does some stuff a child should not do. Don’t worry, I looked it up after. They’re an adult!
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Has anyone ever seen a child sincerely do the call and response with a TV show? I’ve watched these kind of early childhood shows the last 9 years with my four kids and I’ve never once seen them respond “Swiper No Swiping” or count with Elmo or nothing. They just watch the moment silently. I never remember doing the call and response and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person do it sincerely. Does that kind of person exist or are these shows just pretending there is some kind of psychological benefit to this kind of low effort entertainment?
I can not talk about TV shows, but the park I often walk around in does puppet theater for children in summer (for free) and that’s 50% call and response and the children love it. I always hear them shout when I walk by, usually its about something stupid that a character named “Sepperl” is about to do and shouldn’t do, because “Kasperl” explained that and why it is bad, but he tries to do it anyway the moment Kasperl is away and the children make him stop. It always makes me smile how eager they are “to help”. Maybe it works when it is not poorly made and low effort, making the kids feel like they can make a change while once a kid realizes the show will turn out the same no matter how much they shout or not, it’s boring. “Sepperl” does react to the kids and talks back to them. It’s a live back and forth, which a TV show isn’t.
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Haunted Mansion again proves critics are pointless. Just got back from it and thought it was a lot of fun!
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come to think of it (and I know I’ll get a response explaining why we need critics from someone) but why is it someone’s job to watch a film, then express their opinion and it’s hailed as a fact? Media reviews are far out, man.
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I guess it comes from a time when people wanted to be informed about how to spend their money? I guess once, back in the old days, not any old hack could call themselves “critic’s,” you actually had to prove you knew what you were taking about.
Nowadays, it’s people pushing an agenda, furthering Thier own goals are think anything that’s been seen than more then seven people is too mainstream to be “true” film.
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I think it’s a mistake to read the Tomatometer as a guide to what is “good” or fun". All it means is that only 38% of critics enjoyed it. I think gauging media based on aggregate scores is essentially useless.
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Or, which is far, far, far more likely, people have different tastes and yours might not align with the taste of some critics. Clearly 38% of critics enjoyed the film, which probably means they are the ones you’ll find are aligned with your taste and enjoyment of the film. Critics are just people, and they have likes and dislikes just like everyone else. Criticism can’t be boiled down into numbers. You need to read pieces by critics you’re familiar with, both those that align and don’t align with your personal taste, to glean more than whether or not they gave a film one star or five stars. I also think reading critics you disagree with can be quite useful, because they will invariably have a different perspective which can be useful for thinking about films from different angles.
I also think that lots of people fall into the trap of thinking that critics that don’t enjoy a particular film that we ourselves enjoy are being elitist. But sometimes people just don’t enjoy what a film is putting out.
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The audience that reads reviews has its fair share, when bad reviews get clicked way more than good ones. If you want to earn money as a critic, find something to complain about, put that into a clickbaity headline and you are set.
Especially decent, but neither extremely good nor extremely bad media suffers because of this,. While in reality average media will always make the bulk of games, movies, books, music etc. . We should celebrate the “well done, was worth my time albeit not perfect” more and we should read critics more that can do that, but then algorithms on social media don’t like mediocre either, only “engagement” which is mostly found in the extremes, so finding these critics is hard.
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@BMO You’ve taken my post waaaaay too seriously. It was tounge in cheek, sorry if that wasn’t clear. I honestly don’t care about critics, I prefer to make up my own mind. That said, what I DO find useful are sites like Grouvee on which “regular” people post their thoughts.
Also, you can’t tell me that the people who reviewed Ghostbusters (2016) - at either end of the spectrum - weren’t trying to push an agenda.
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You’ve taken my post waaaaay too seriously. It was tounge in cheek, sorry if that wasn’t clear.
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I can appreciate that, but you have to know there’s lots of people out there who say exactly that while fully meaning it.
Not without reading individual reviews. I think some people liked it, some people hated it, and some people review bombed it probably because the antagonist was an incel and that group felt they were being picked on.
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I think the problem with that is plenty of critics like that exist and they give a film 3/5 stars which is decent, but people have it in their minds that it’s a negative score. Too many people look at the number and don’t read the actual words.
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