OT: Capitals Cinema Club: TV and Movies

[HTFN]

I think we're definitely in an era of way more animated content than before, but a lot of it is pretty mediocre (including several shows named in that article). There's great stuff like Arcane, Big Mouth, Inside Job, Harley Quinn, Smiling Friends, and Bojack Horseman - but for every one of those there's also a Disenchantment, Velma, F is for Family, Hoops, Thundercats Roar, or the whole moundful of shoveled out low-budget animated content on Netflix. And that's not even touching the stuff that has long overstayed its welcome (Rick & Morty, The Simpsons, Family Guy, etc).

Some of it is probably nostalgia, and a lot of it is probably survivorship bias in the pre-streaming age, but I feel like the early 2000s had a much higher average standard for animated content than today. It obviously wasn't perfect back then (Stripperella ), but that was the time period in which we had Venture Bros, Samurai Jack, Tarakovsky's Clone Wars, ATHF, the original run of Futurama, Home Movies, The Boondocks, Moral Orel, etc.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Castlevania: Nocturne released….yes.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

I watched all the ones released now I have to wait a week.

All caught up…..just as good as The Boys…

 

[ChaosLord]

I think we're definitely in an era of way more animated content than before, but a lot of it is pretty mediocre (including several shows named in that article). There's great stuff like Arcane, Big Mouth, Inside Job, Harley Quinn, Smiling Friends, and Bojack Horseman - but for every one of those there's also a Disenchantment, Velma, F is for Family, Hoops, Thundercats Roar, or the whole moundful of shoveled out low-budget animated content on Netflix. And that's not even touching the stuff that has long overstayed its welcome (Rick & Morty, The Simpsons, Family Guy, etc).

Some of it is probably nostalgia, and a lot of it is probably survivorship bias in the pre-streaming age, but I feel like the early 2000s had a much higher average standard for animated content than today. It obviously wasn't perfect back then (Stripperella ), but that was the time period in which we had Venture Bros, Samurai Jack, Tarakovsky's Clone Wars, ATHF, the original run of Futurama, Home Movies, The Boondocks, Moral Orel, etc.

You're right there is a lot of c**p. But we have never in our history seen shows like Vox Machina, Primal, Castlevania, Star Wars Visions, Invincible and others. I grew up as a teenager in the 1980s, and so I remember shows like GI Joe, Transformers, the original Thundercats. They were fine, but by today's standards they look primitive.and are basically unwatchable.

If there are 10 bad shows for every gem, I'll still take it, provided the gems are as good as Vox Machina, Primal and Castlevania.

 

[usiel]

You're right there is a lot of c**p. But we have never in our history seen shows like Vox Machina, Primal, Castlevania, Star Wars Visions, Invincible and others. I grew up as a teenager in the 1980s, and so I remember shows like GI Joe, Transformers, the original Thundercats. They were fine, but by today's standards they look primitive.and are basically unwatchable.

If there are 10 bad shows for every gem, I'll still take it, provided the gems are as good as Vox Machina, Primal and Castlevania.

Imho Robotech should get a shoutout due to actual characters dieing and basically an apocalypse of death on earth.

 

[HTFN]

You're right there is a lot of c**p. But we have never in our history seen shows like Vox Machina, Primal, Castlevania, Star Wars Visions, Invincible and others. I grew up as a teenager in the 1980s, and so I remember shows like GI Joe, Transformers, the original Thundercats. They were fine, but by today's standards they look primitive.and are basically unwatchable.

If there are 10 bad shows for every gem, I'll still take it, provided the gems are as good as Vox Machina, Primal and Castlevania.

dude, Devilman Crybaby is as ridiculous and challenging as any piece of media I've seen. Way the f*** too many emotions in that show, f*** whoever made it in the best way. I genuinely think I've only watched it twice because there comes a point where it makes me too angry and I don't want to revisit it, but that also makes it incredible media.

and I don't want to be that guy but anyone who has watched even the live action One Piece and can tolerate a certain amount of anime flourish will find Death Note to be one of the best narratives they've ever seen. That live action sucks hard, but the show is the type of chess match that can almost only be written by crazy people. There are lots of shows about "smart" types of characters that are either moderately intelligent or way masked by plot convenience, but I don't think I've ever seen a show less predictable and more logical at the same time. The moves all make sense, they're just operating at a different level. I put it off for a long time because of the people who recommended it, finally gave it a shot, and have regrets towards the people I judged. It's on the level of Holmes and Moriarty

How do you solve a crime where the killer is killing remotely, but you know there's a killer?

 

[usiel]

I will never understand, with all the anime I've consumed starting in the late 70s to present, at how many live action adaptations of anime get made that are the dumbest to even attempt to adapt.

 

[HTFN]

I will never understand, with all the anime I've consumed starting in the late 70s to present, at how many live action adaptations of anime get made that are the dumbest to even attempt to adapt.

they really do attempt the weirdest ones

that's why I thought One Piece would fail, but instead it kind of just... condensed a lot of some really long but academic arcs and skimmed through about one arc per episode and honestly did okay by staying weird.

If you can excuse the occasional weird cgi (Sanji doing triple kicks) in the same way you can excuse the occasional weird animation then I don't think there's been a series to do it better so far. A lot of the other stuff is right on flavor, so it's basically "do you like the original series". We don't need to sit through 4 seasons just to get the crew together, one acquisition and backstory per episode was pretty much fine, and from then on it's just everything up until they really group up for good since Nami's got the first "plot twist" arc, and now they're primed for the more fun parts.

not a lot of stuff you can even say that for, all the ones that came to my head were mostly shit. I think the previous best was the Netflix Fullmetal Alchemist movie

 

[Neil Racki]

Watched first episodes of Gen V, the Bear and Nocturne .. all 3 are good so far.

Mortal Engines - apparently the book is really good and movie missed the mark. read the reviews and reviews matched what i saw ... could have been a whole franchise of movies but there was no classic story telling.

What was the main conflict/objective/goal? Who were the bad guys and who were the good guys?

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent -- was a nice, mostly entertaining, tongue and cheek made for streaming buddy comedy ... a good movie to watch on a long plane ride.

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Another weekend of meh movies ... im going to get 2 bottles of red wine and watch Ran, kill bill 1 and 2 or good bad ugly.

 

[Ovechkins Wodka]

Checking out Winne the pooh: Blood and honey on peacock. Im kindof excited for this.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Imho Robotech should get a shoutout due to actual characters dieing and basically an apocalypse of death on earth.

I loooooooooooved Robotech……Rick! MinMay! Lol….

 

[John Price]

Checking out Winne the pooh: Blood and honey on peacock. Im kindof excited for this.

shocking that maria taylor is in it

The Bear is good if you all talking about that cooking show in Chicago.

 

[AlexModvechkin8]

Checking out Winne the pooh: Blood and honey on peacock. Im kindof excited for this.

Don’t think I can bring myself to watch it. Pooh was my favorite growing up and my youngest kid sleeps with my old Pooh bear in his crib. He’s recently become obsessed with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from the 1970s as well. Watching Pooh as a killer would break my brain, I think — he’s a Buddhist for f***’s sake.

Plus, nostalgia aside, it has a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2/10 on IMDB so it seems like it’s ass.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Digging WOT season 2…

 

[Neil Racki]

Don’t think I can bring myself to watch it. Pooh was my favorite growing up and my youngest kid sleeps with my old Pooh bear in his crib. He’s recently become obsessed with The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh from the 1970s as well. Watching Pooh as a killer would break my brain, I think — he’s a Buddhist for f***’s sake.

Plus, nostalgia aside, it has a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 2/10 on IMDB so it seems like it’s ass.

if people want to watch a kids characters show doing heroine and prostitutes and pimps and shoot outs .... just watch Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles! ive mentioned this before on here, just pure f***ed up weirdness.

Winnie the pooh - one of our go to movies tripping balls in college



^ the trailer, full movie free on youtube.

 

[max21]

Reptile on Netflix was decent, del toro was good and Timberlake was alright which seems to be his first movie in a while. It’s a solid Netflix thriller but pretty predictable

 

[usiel]

Watched first episodes of Gen V, the Bear and Nocturne .. all 3 are good so far.

Mortal Engines - apparently the book is really good and movie missed the mark. read the reviews and reviews matched what i saw ... could have been a whole franchise of movies but there was no classic story telling.

What was the main conflict/objective/goal? Who were the bad guys and who were the good guys?

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent -- was a nice, mostly entertaining, tongue and cheek made for streaming buddy comedy ... a good movie to watch on a long plane ride.

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Another weekend of meh movies ... im going to get 2 bottles of red wine and watch Ran, kill bill 1 and 2 or good bad ugly.

Re: Mortal Engines I read the books really goes off the rails to not good quality territory.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

if people want to watch a kids characters show doing heroine and prostitutes and pimps and shoot outs .... just watch Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles! ive mentioned this before on here, just pure f***ed up weirdness.

Winnie the pooh - one of our go to movies tripping balls in college



^ the trailer, full movie free on youtube.

What the actual F?

 

[PlushMinus]

Reptile on Netflix was decent, del toro was good and Timberlake was alright which seems to be his first movie in a while. It’s a solid Netflix thriller but pretty predictable

Yeah I enjoyed it, but thought it was a little slow. Benicio is always good no matter what he does.

 

[Neil Racki]

Yeah I enjoyed it, but thought it was a little slow. Benicio is always good no matter what he does.

Big fan of Mr Del Toro but havent seen him in anything in a while ... Im guessing my boy didnt age well.

 

[HTFN]

Big fan of Mr Del Toro but havent seen him in anything in a while ... Im guessing my boy didnt age well.

depends on how you define age but he barely looks different than he did in the 90's and apparently learned how to talk

 

[notDkristich]

Digging WOT season 2…

Started a bit slow, and is picking up steam nicely. They are progressing the story better than I hoped for. The books were immense.

 

[PlushMinus]

Has anybody here watched Silo and did you enjoy it? I only watched one episode and gave up but a couple of friends have raved about it.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Started a bit slow, and is picking up steam nicely. They are progressing the story better than I hoped for. The books were immense.

Yes they were…probably my greatest feat of reading to this day. Really digging the magic fighting.

 

[Jags]

Has anybody here watched Silo and did you enjoy it? I only watched one episode and gave up but a couple of friends have raved about it.

I really liked it. I don't recall it getting off to a bad start, but the setting they have to introduce is a big part of the story, so maybe it's a little slow out of the gate while that's going on.