Pretty much my reaction. I for one would actually like to see the story of Arminus played out correctly one day, because it is a very interesting historical charecter with a fascinating story plus I do love myself some good ole captivity narriatives but it always is screwed up, every sngle time. I just want to ask producers, How? How do you screw this up?! It's just so frustrating.
So what are you watching?
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Finished the first season of One Punch Man yesterday. Really liked it, hilarious, with awesome fights, great animation and style, and a clever deconstruction of a Superman-style hero.
Also rewatching Stargate SG-1, this time with the missus. A fun mindless rump, great for relaxing after a day's work. Good blend of humor and action, doesn't take itself too seriously (unlike many more modern series) but doesn't shy away from serious topics on occasion either (family estrangement and the death of a close family member are but two of the themes I've seen explored in the series). Currently we're mid season 3, can't wait to see what the wife thinks about the Replicators.
Also rewatching Stargate SG-1, this time with the missus. A fun mindless rump, great for relaxing after a day's work. Good blend of humor and action, doesn't take itself too seriously (unlike many more modern series) but doesn't shy away from serious topics on occasion either (family estrangement and the death of a close family member are but two of the themes I've seen explored in the series). Currently we're mid season 3, can't wait to see what the wife thinks about the Replicators.
gral
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To whomever it may concern, Dovahhatty has done a Unbiased History episode on the Defenestrations of Prague, at
Argent
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So I finished all the anime I started and have now moved on to Attack of the Titans. Yes I know I am massively behind the times but life happens. I have only seen a bit and so far it has lived up to the hype.
Next is that live action shows are coming back. I watch the Rookie but with recent events and an increase in preachness I may drop the show.
I also have started watching Community for a time waster and short comedy show. So far 8 have liked it but some of the epsoides do get a bit weird and feel like they should be in a Sci-Fi series instead of a major comedy sitcom.
Next up on my list is the new and sadly last season of Last Man Standing. But I have to say that it may be time for it to go. The show has struggled this last season and plotline have become tougher since all the girls have moved out of the house and graduated high school in the show.
I also have the newest season of the Expanse. One of the best Sci-Fi space opera around and hopefully this season continues the political plot lines that started last season especially the Mars one and the Belt becoming a true nation instead of just random terrorist groups.
Next is that live action shows are coming back. I watch the Rookie but with recent events and an increase in preachness I may drop the show.
I also have started watching Community for a time waster and short comedy show. So far 8 have liked it but some of the epsoides do get a bit weird and feel like they should be in a Sci-Fi series instead of a major comedy sitcom.
Next up on my list is the new and sadly last season of Last Man Standing. But I have to say that it may be time for it to go. The show has struggled this last season and plotline have become tougher since all the girls have moved out of the house and graduated high school in the show.
I also have the newest season of the Expanse. One of the best Sci-Fi space opera around and hopefully this season continues the political plot lines that started last season especially the Mars one and the Belt becoming a true nation instead of just random terrorist groups.
Basileus_Komnenos
Imperator Romanorum Βασιλεύς των Ρωμαίων
Welcome on board mate. As manga readers I can tell you that its only going to better as you keep reading/watching.
Though I also recommend checking out the manga as well. Sometimes things are cut/altered in the anime because of time constraints. Isayama's art style also improves in the later chapters, and currently in ch. 136 its pretty damn good.
Is the expanse really that good? I've never gotten a chance to watch it, but all my friends keep telling me to watch it.
Argent
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I may have to check out the Manga. It has been a long time snice I have any.
As for the Expanse. I would say that it generally live up to the hype. The first season starts off with a strong Noir detective vibe. It also has distinct and interesting factions. While the political subplots are some of the best part of the show. Also it has a fairly large ensemble cast but the main group alone has the everthing from an idealist to mercenary. I do have to say that one of my favorite is Shohreh Aghdashloo. She is the main political charater viewpoint from Earth and reminds me a lot of D.C.' Amanda Waller from the 90's. The cold hearted realist that get things done.
Overall if you like Space Operas or shows like Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9 I would say give it a try.
Val the Moofia Boss
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I finished Clannad. Including After Story and the OVAs.
I have mixed feelings on the show.
First, this is probably the only KyoAni show that I overall enjoyed. My opinion of KyoAni is that they are massively overhyped, and that their shows rely too heavily on obnoxious melodrama I just can't take seriously. Clannad for the most part avoids obnoxious melodrama.
The show has quite a few great tracks I have added to my playlist.
The show about 50% comedy, and 50% serious stories. I think that the serious stories don't really work that well, except for when they are about Tomoya (the MC) and Nagisa (love interest and deuteragonist). The rest of the cast is too two dimensional, too one note for them to really amount to anything. The Kotomi arc is a snooze. Fuko was a fun comedy character, but she isn't interesting on her own, and her story lacked any real tension because you knew from the beginning there was really nothing that could be done at all. I think that's the problem with most of the cast. They are cardboard cutouts, nice for slapstick and gag comedy but not interesting for an actual, indepth story.
The slapstick and gag comedy is fun. Some of the gags got old after a while.
I enjoyed the show most when it was about Tomoyo and the Furukawas, about this family. Borderline 8/10 for that stuff.
But what I loved most was the 3 episode long Ushio arc, from episodes 16 through 18 of After Story. Very satisfying redemption story, and it provided closure. I think it could probably stand alone as its own movie. 10/10 amazing.
... Except the show kept going, and... well.
Episodes 16-18 are going to remain as one of my most favorite anime stories, 10/10 arc, but I can't rate the overall show higher than a 7/10. Overall good.
I have mixed feelings on the show.
First, this is probably the only KyoAni show that I overall enjoyed. My opinion of KyoAni is that they are massively overhyped, and that their shows rely too heavily on obnoxious melodrama I just can't take seriously. Clannad for the most part avoids obnoxious melodrama.
The show has quite a few great tracks I have added to my playlist.
The show about 50% comedy, and 50% serious stories. I think that the serious stories don't really work that well, except for when they are about Tomoya (the MC) and Nagisa (love interest and deuteragonist). The rest of the cast is too two dimensional, too one note for them to really amount to anything. The Kotomi arc is a snooze. Fuko was a fun comedy character, but she isn't interesting on her own, and her story lacked any real tension because you knew from the beginning there was really nothing that could be done at all. I think that's the problem with most of the cast. They are cardboard cutouts, nice for slapstick and gag comedy but not interesting for an actual, indepth story.
The slapstick and gag comedy is fun. Some of the gags got old after a while.
I enjoyed the show most when it was about Tomoyo and the Furukawas, about this family. Borderline 8/10 for that stuff.
But what I loved most was the 3 episode long Ushio arc, from episodes 16 through 18 of After Story. Very satisfying redemption story, and it provided closure. I think it could probably stand alone as its own movie. 10/10 amazing.
... Except the show kept going, and... well.
Not a fan of the ending. I was sorta interested in the idea that he died and went back in time to the moment he met her, and then decided to get with her but try for a different outcome. But according to a comment posted on the episode, apparently he got a wish and it changed the timeline. If that's the case then it wasn't really communicated well at all. I was also disappointed in that the new timeline felt pointless because we didn't get to see them together as a family or any screentime of their happy life. Not even the OVA did it because it was a recap episode.
What I wanted was closure, get to see that everything was going to be alright for Tomoya, regardless of whether or not Nagisa and/or Ushio died. I feel like stopping at episode 18 or 19 leaves you with that closure, but if you watch any further there is tension that was never resolved. There is ostensibly a happy ending, but again you don't get to see it.
Ushio being the god of another world was bizzare, really doesn't feel congruent with the rest of the story.
What I wanted was closure, get to see that everything was going to be alright for Tomoya, regardless of whether or not Nagisa and/or Ushio died. I feel like stopping at episode 18 or 19 leaves you with that closure, but if you watch any further there is tension that was never resolved. There is ostensibly a happy ending, but again you don't get to see it.
Ushio being the god of another world was bizzare, really doesn't feel congruent with the rest of the story.
Episodes 16-18 are going to remain as one of my most favorite anime stories, 10/10 arc, but I can't rate the overall show higher than a 7/10. Overall good.
prinCZess
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Open question to all here spurring off this...
Is Attack on Titan as relentlessly grimdark, death-fest as the bits and bobs it's presented from make it seem? At least in my experience it seems to be one of those 'scary-face' animes that dedicates itself to people being assholes, people being killed, or people staring at people being killed with all the lines around their eyes and waggledy-pupils for maximum audience creeping-out.
But I've also not seen or read much about it, so my 'experience' is very limited and it does get talked-up a lot. Guess my question would be if there's anything more to it than fancy flying-fights, death, and death-angsting as my biased perspective makes it look like is the basis of the show?
Watched a few episodes of Top Gear 2: Electric Boogaloo (otherwise known as 'The Grand Tour') with some friends--or, at least, had it on in the background between BS'ing with one another. Seems like it's still got the exact same spirit as the previous show, and seemingly as much of a budget for wild shit--one of the episodes I recall was a special of them getting dumped into bumfuq nowhere of Mongolia, having to build this kit-car ORV, and drive out. 'Three older Brits roughing-it' could/should probably be a series of its own, based on that.
Big complaint is they don't seem to have bothered pressing physical copies of the show whatsoever, and I have no desire to shell Amazon and overlord-Bezos money for the prime-subscribing bullshittery.
Basileus_Komnenos
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No. Though while some of the scenes are shocking in it, there's a purpose to the violence and some of the darkness within it. The show actually take some inspiration from Norse mythology in some ways, though I won't say how as that would be major spoilers for the series and what's going on in the Manga right now.
I wouldn't say its grim-dark. It has its dark moments, and some bits of slapstick humor at times to balance it out. Rather than exhibiting the traditional shounen anime tropes, Attack on Titan is more story driven overall with quite compelling characters. The show made waves with its dark scenes (in a good way unlike Goblin Slayer), but this mostly sets the framework for the show/manga which gets expanded in the later seasons/chapters. I'd say the story has a pretty consistent world building and logical framework that the story stays consistent with which is a major reason why its so compelling.
As someone who used to pretty much look at Anime with disdain and skepticism, shows like Attack on Titan and Legends of the Galactic hero completely made me do a 180 turn on that perspective.
As for Attack on Titan, I actually stumbled upon it by accident. I was bored late at night and looking for a decent show to watch to take my mind off my worries for my upcoming O-chem exam. I was trying to watch something else, but I was too lazy to search again, so I decided to watch the first episode. I was blown away and then I watched another, and another and so on and so forth until binged the whole series in two days and forgot about my O-chem exam I had to study for. Good thing is that I was able to bs the exam and pass it.
KnightTemplar
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I just finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and thought it was very good. The first few episodes were a little slow but the show got better very quickly. The comedy and some of the animation choices are also a bit out of place though it doesn't subtract from the experience too much. I would rate Brotherhood as my favorite anime with the exception of Legend of the Galactic Heroes and would definitely recommend it.
Terthna
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Second opinion on Attack on Titan, though from a manga-only perspective. It is relentlessly dark and depressing, and what few hope spots there are inevitably get turned into setup for something tragic later down the line. I ended up reaching a point with the story where I stopped caring about what happens to any of the protagonists. I'm not sure I'd call it "grimdark", but it is definitely dark; basically a tragedy mixed with elements of horror, in terms of genre. If you don't think watching horrible things happen to people, good and bad, is entertaining (which, to be fair, some people do; that's why tragedies and horrors are things that exist); I'd stay far away.
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Argent
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I am five epsoides in and it is pretty dark. O don't think it is the grimdark like 40k where nothing gets better. Instead it gives me more of a feeling like All Quite On the Western Front or something like Full Metal Jacket.
It definitely is not a happy show where then end of the world is played of as a joke like Assassination Classroom but the tone is not bad so far.
I have not seen Grand Tour but the only full epsoides Top Gear I watched where the road trip ones. I always get a laugh out of them like their trip across the Amercian south.
I am watching all of you from my computer!
(In all seriousness, I am watching Dunkirk.)
(In all seriousness, I am watching Dunkirk.)
Argent
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I liked the first season but I felt they lost focus and the plotlines fell apart in the second season.
Haven't been watching much TV lately, but I plan to watch the premier of Resident Alien later this afternoon.
Argent
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I saw that I am happy that Sci-Fi is getting back into science fiction instead of Fantasy. There has been some slim picking of shows I have enjoyed snice the era of Eureka, NUBSG and Warehouse 13. The only two shows I have really watched on the channel since that is the Magicains and Killjoys.
Since the brouhaha started I've been watching Gina Carano movies on a variety of platforms. I've already seen Haywire and Deadpool and obviously the Fast and Furious 6 movie where she did a fine job in all of them but she did a lot of Direct to Video stuff as I recently found out.
In the Blood has Gina Carano as the main star/protagonist. She's with her husband, portrayed by sexy pretty man Cam Gigandet. They're in some Carribbean or Central American country where her husband is abducted/disappears and she has to find out where he is. She had a criminal background as a drug dealer and addict and is recovering from it so she uses those skills to hunt down, beat down and brutally dispense justice to various neerdowells. She does a fine job in this, I think because the character she portrays is more grounded and real unlike the next film I mention. It has a bit of a Far Cry vibe to it since it's a badass normal thrown into increasingly frenetic action scenes but it works. Very entertaining action movie.
Extraction is a spy thriller movie starring Kellan Lutz (who I think was in the Twilight movies as well as the Expendables 3 and some other stuff) and Bruce Willis and DB Sweeney. It's a pretty standard by the numbers action movie with all of the main characters being various sorts of CIA agents and Kellan Lutz's character has to go rogue to rescue his Dad (Bruce Willis) from some evil bad guys and there's rogue CIA types and betrayals and intrigue. Gina Carano is a fellow agent and love interest/rival to Kellan Lutz and her performance was decent enough. Kind of script readish but nothing bad. The action scenes with her were alright. She's a strong supporting character and there's some amusing and interesting bits but for the most part, pretty average direct to video style action movie. The main problem is... she's portraying a CIA agent and unlike in Haywire I don't think the Director or whatever did a good job guiding her. Not everyone can be Steven Soderbergh I guess.
Scorched Earth. I tried to watch this film and gave up about five or ten minutes in. It's an Ecological Post-Apocalyptic film where Gina Carano portrays some sort of badass bounty hunter. But the opening introduction is narration heavy and in a very cringey and overbearing way. And I didn't like the world building or the sets or the entire look of the thing despite the pretty visual effects in the skies. It looked like it'd just be too bad to really enjoy even as background noise. So after ten minutes I passed. From the brief scene I saw of Gina Carano though, she seemed to do well enough with the half dozen lines from a cliche script she spouted out.
Daughter of the Wolf is a movie that almost verges on being really good, but falls short everytime. She plays a military veteran who lost her husband in service prior to these events and as a single mother, her resentful son is then abducted by a merry band of kidnappers who turn out to be a creepy gang of rural hillbilly style folk who abduct children to be raised in their family. It's a truly creepy premise that just fails to deliver. It could've been amazing because they really tried to do something different I feel instead of some derivative exploitation type of Hills Have Eyes kind of schlock but what they do just doesn't transcend above average. Some people might even find the film boring and there were parts that were formulaic and a bit eye rolling, though I didn't and Gina Carano did a decent job in helping carry a large part of the movie. Other parts of the film were fun, like the low key action scenes and some of the beautiful scenery and wilderness sets and several of the dialogue exchanges. Oh yeah, that's right, Richard Dreyfuss is the main bad guy in the film. Not sure how they got him to do it. But they did.
Madness in the Method is a Jason Mewles directed film and Jason Mewles is the close friend of Kevin Smith and you may recognize Jason Mewles as being "Jay" from the Jay and Silent Bob duo. It's ironic because this film is a fictional comedy about how Jason Mewles is trying to break out of his stereotyped role of playing a stoner for his entire career and so he begins adopting an extreme form of method acting and the film itself is both ridiculous and hilarious. Kevin Smith fans will love the film, but I think if your not one and you like these kind of really out there comedies, you'd like it as well. It skewers Hollywood and celebrity culture and mocks Kevin Smith and their circle of celebrity friends as well. Vinnie Jones, Dean Cain, Casper Van Dien, Danny Trejo and a plethora of others are in this film too and they're all great. Gina Carano has one of the bigger supporting roles portraying Jason Mewles girlfriend and out of all of the films I've mentioned, I think she did the best job acting here. I think it's because she's not portraying a CIA Officer or badass warrior, just a girlfriend character with a charming smile, strong personality and kinky and quirky and dominate enough to play off of Jason Mewles character. The movie is great overall but it's even just worth it to see Gina Carano in what might be her best acting role in her career? Plus she shouts out the term "Clit Commander" which is worth the price of (free) streaming the movie in and of itself.
In the Blood has Gina Carano as the main star/protagonist. She's with her husband, portrayed by sexy pretty man Cam Gigandet. They're in some Carribbean or Central American country where her husband is abducted/disappears and she has to find out where he is. She had a criminal background as a drug dealer and addict and is recovering from it so she uses those skills to hunt down, beat down and brutally dispense justice to various neerdowells. She does a fine job in this, I think because the character she portrays is more grounded and real unlike the next film I mention. It has a bit of a Far Cry vibe to it since it's a badass normal thrown into increasingly frenetic action scenes but it works. Very entertaining action movie.
Extraction is a spy thriller movie starring Kellan Lutz (who I think was in the Twilight movies as well as the Expendables 3 and some other stuff) and Bruce Willis and DB Sweeney. It's a pretty standard by the numbers action movie with all of the main characters being various sorts of CIA agents and Kellan Lutz's character has to go rogue to rescue his Dad (Bruce Willis) from some evil bad guys and there's rogue CIA types and betrayals and intrigue. Gina Carano is a fellow agent and love interest/rival to Kellan Lutz and her performance was decent enough. Kind of script readish but nothing bad. The action scenes with her were alright. She's a strong supporting character and there's some amusing and interesting bits but for the most part, pretty average direct to video style action movie. The main problem is... she's portraying a CIA agent and unlike in Haywire I don't think the Director or whatever did a good job guiding her. Not everyone can be Steven Soderbergh I guess.
Scorched Earth. I tried to watch this film and gave up about five or ten minutes in. It's an Ecological Post-Apocalyptic film where Gina Carano portrays some sort of badass bounty hunter. But the opening introduction is narration heavy and in a very cringey and overbearing way. And I didn't like the world building or the sets or the entire look of the thing despite the pretty visual effects in the skies. It looked like it'd just be too bad to really enjoy even as background noise. So after ten minutes I passed. From the brief scene I saw of Gina Carano though, she seemed to do well enough with the half dozen lines from a cliche script she spouted out.
Daughter of the Wolf is a movie that almost verges on being really good, but falls short everytime. She plays a military veteran who lost her husband in service prior to these events and as a single mother, her resentful son is then abducted by a merry band of kidnappers who turn out to be a creepy gang of rural hillbilly style folk who abduct children to be raised in their family. It's a truly creepy premise that just fails to deliver. It could've been amazing because they really tried to do something different I feel instead of some derivative exploitation type of Hills Have Eyes kind of schlock but what they do just doesn't transcend above average. Some people might even find the film boring and there were parts that were formulaic and a bit eye rolling, though I didn't and Gina Carano did a decent job in helping carry a large part of the movie. Other parts of the film were fun, like the low key action scenes and some of the beautiful scenery and wilderness sets and several of the dialogue exchanges. Oh yeah, that's right, Richard Dreyfuss is the main bad guy in the film. Not sure how they got him to do it. But they did.
Madness in the Method is a Jason Mewles directed film and Jason Mewles is the close friend of Kevin Smith and you may recognize Jason Mewles as being "Jay" from the Jay and Silent Bob duo. It's ironic because this film is a fictional comedy about how Jason Mewles is trying to break out of his stereotyped role of playing a stoner for his entire career and so he begins adopting an extreme form of method acting and the film itself is both ridiculous and hilarious. Kevin Smith fans will love the film, but I think if your not one and you like these kind of really out there comedies, you'd like it as well. It skewers Hollywood and celebrity culture and mocks Kevin Smith and their circle of celebrity friends as well. Vinnie Jones, Dean Cain, Casper Van Dien, Danny Trejo and a plethora of others are in this film too and they're all great. Gina Carano has one of the bigger supporting roles portraying Jason Mewles girlfriend and out of all of the films I've mentioned, I think she did the best job acting here. I think it's because she's not portraying a CIA Officer or badass warrior, just a girlfriend character with a charming smile, strong personality and kinky and quirky and dominate enough to play off of Jason Mewles character. The movie is great overall but it's even just worth it to see Gina Carano in what might be her best acting role in her career? Plus she shouts out the term "Clit Commander" which is worth the price of (free) streaming the movie in and of itself.
So I decided to watch one of the "Best Picture" movies today after realizing I haven't even heard of any of them... so we saw The Father because it was about family and had Anthony Hopkins in it. Not typically the movie I want to see but... gotta feel cultured and smug sometimes I guess.
What an emotionally draining, absolutely gut wrenching film. Just seeing Anthony Hopkins portraying a charming aging Englishman going through an increasingly difficult, confusing and baffling everyday life. I was literally watching the movie increasingly leaning forward, burying my forehead in my hands and by the time it was over I just flopped back on the sofa and felt felt absolutely vacant and emotionally drained and depressed afterwards. So actually yeah, best film of the year and I never want to see it again!
I think that's my standard for Oscar-Bait movies.
Movies or stories about memory loss or dementia or whatever, it provides a direct line to the parts of my brain that make me feel sad and depressed and I'm pretty sure I would've avoided this fucking film if I had known anything about it or just seen the trailer. But yeah... just give that movie all of the relevant awards tonight.
What an emotionally draining, absolutely gut wrenching film. Just seeing Anthony Hopkins portraying a charming aging Englishman going through an increasingly difficult, confusing and baffling everyday life. I was literally watching the movie increasingly leaning forward, burying my forehead in my hands and by the time it was over I just flopped back on the sofa and felt felt absolutely vacant and emotionally drained and depressed afterwards. So actually yeah, best film of the year and I never want to see it again!
I think that's my standard for Oscar-Bait movies.
Movies or stories about memory loss or dementia or whatever, it provides a direct line to the parts of my brain that make me feel sad and depressed and I'm pretty sure I would've avoided this fucking film if I had known anything about it or just seen the trailer. But yeah... just give that movie all of the relevant awards tonight.
In Honor of the Oscars, I've been spending the past few weeks when I have free time watching Academy Award winning and nominated films as well, largely because I want to educate the younger generation on the rich cinematic history Hollywood has given us over the years that, year after year, is fading from view thanks to a film industry that seems to be dedicating itself to empty, soulless Hollywood blockbusters that are nothing but mindless splatterfests of gore, violence and White Supremacy. To that end I showed the impressionable young lads and lasses a carefully curated list of award winning, critically acclaimed films on their favorite platforms.
Such as:
Expendables, Expendables 2 & Expendables 3 which were all available, "free" to watch on Amazon Prime. Of course it wasn't my Amazon Prime account, but that didn't stop me from showing three wonderful films that were released that star some of the titans of Hollywood's Golden Age (the 80's) including such luminaries as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis. We learned, laughed and cried (in laughter) over the numerous set pieces which showed the true state of the world and how CIA sponsored mercenary companies are often our first and last defense against a colorfully whimsical cast of supervillains who deal in drugs, nukes and nukes again and dominate all of the areas of the World that aren't the West!
Total Recall. Tell me, what should you kid watch to appreciate Science Fiction besides a dozen Star Wars movies? Star Trek? No. That's boring. Blade Runner? LMFAO GTFO! Predator? I wish... but that's behind a paywall! Why... you watch the celebrated 1990 science fiction, action SPY thriller Total Recall, once again starring that guy from the Expendables and that clip of Predator (KILL ME! I'm right here!) that my Kid somehow had already seen and thinks is hilarious. All jokes aside, this is a terrific film and definitely right up there with other Paul Verhoeven classics like Robocop and Starship Troopers (which I haven't used as educational aids yet). I did have to fast forward all of the scenes with the three titted mutant Martian lady of the night though... I forgot that was in this film. 😬 It was also fun pointing out how 1990 movies thought the future would look like!
Big Trouble in Little China. Let me just say...this movie might've been their favorite. It's a film beloved by people of all races, especially those who are ambiguously Asian. This is the film that Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is going to want to be (if it fails miserably) because it has a wonderfully diverse cast of mostly Asian and some White people. It has a simply told but delightfully complicated story with wonderful world building, great set pieces, character designs and memorable... everything. This is a movie that they just won't be able to make anymore and I'm sorry The Thing, but I like this film just that much more. It was also fun telling the youngling how Kurt Russell's character wasn't really the hero, but actually the sidekick in the whole film (just like most famous White Men in all of history).
Terminator. If you want to teach your kids the danger of Big Tech, this is the film to get them started on the pathway of becoming Doomsday Preppers. Hook them early and it'll pay dividends later. Starring that guy from the Expendables and that clip of Predator (yes this is a running gag), despite being made in 1982 or whatever. The movie didn't feel dated at all beyond the fact it was set in the grimy world of post-Jimmy Carter America and the action scenes and special effects were top notch. Can't wait to get around to showing him the ONLY sequel to this film someday!
The Quest. Because Bloodsport wasn't available. Try harder next time JCVD. But I mean... it was liked. Bored does hit back you realize.
Resident Evil. Wasn't as good as I remembered. That's nostalgia for you... or maybe the fact the sequels get increasingly horrible. I mean it wasn't bad... it might've even been above average... but ehhh... still won Best Director for Paul WS Anderson that year... it would be the first of six Best Director nominations he received for his work on this series IIRC. Honestly the younger you are, the more you'd probably like the sequels to be honest.
Off the top of my head... of these eight movies we just watched, I think we had at least 8 Best Picture Nominations... at least three Best Picture wins, a half dozen Best Directors, and by my estimation.... fifty seven Best Acting (and four Best Actressing) Awards. And I'm pretty sure Total Recall won best Cinematography as well.
Once I get a blu-ray player hooked up I can unload all manners of shitty DVD's and Blu Rays upon impressionable minds.
There are other award winning movies I do wanna show... such as Predator, The Mummy, Commando, True Lies, The Running Man, the aforementioned Bloodsport, and potentially Rambo II and/or III among other historical films.
Such as:
Expendables, Expendables 2 & Expendables 3 which were all available, "free" to watch on Amazon Prime. Of course it wasn't my Amazon Prime account, but that didn't stop me from showing three wonderful films that were released that star some of the titans of Hollywood's Golden Age (the 80's) including such luminaries as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Chuck Norris and Bruce Willis. We learned, laughed and cried (in laughter) over the numerous set pieces which showed the true state of the world and how CIA sponsored mercenary companies are often our first and last defense against a colorfully whimsical cast of supervillains who deal in drugs, nukes and nukes again and dominate all of the areas of the World that aren't the West!
Total Recall. Tell me, what should you kid watch to appreciate Science Fiction besides a dozen Star Wars movies? Star Trek? No. That's boring. Blade Runner? LMFAO GTFO! Predator? I wish... but that's behind a paywall! Why... you watch the celebrated 1990 science fiction, action SPY thriller Total Recall, once again starring that guy from the Expendables and that clip of Predator (KILL ME! I'm right here!) that my Kid somehow had already seen and thinks is hilarious. All jokes aside, this is a terrific film and definitely right up there with other Paul Verhoeven classics like Robocop and Starship Troopers (which I haven't used as educational aids yet). I did have to fast forward all of the scenes with the three titted mutant Martian lady of the night though... I forgot that was in this film. 😬 It was also fun pointing out how 1990 movies thought the future would look like!
Big Trouble in Little China. Let me just say...this movie might've been their favorite. It's a film beloved by people of all races, especially those who are ambiguously Asian. This is the film that Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is going to want to be (if it fails miserably) because it has a wonderfully diverse cast of mostly Asian and some White people. It has a simply told but delightfully complicated story with wonderful world building, great set pieces, character designs and memorable... everything. This is a movie that they just won't be able to make anymore and I'm sorry The Thing, but I like this film just that much more. It was also fun telling the youngling how Kurt Russell's character wasn't really the hero, but actually the sidekick in the whole film (just like most famous White Men in all of history).
Terminator. If you want to teach your kids the danger of Big Tech, this is the film to get them started on the pathway of becoming Doomsday Preppers. Hook them early and it'll pay dividends later. Starring that guy from the Expendables and that clip of Predator (yes this is a running gag), despite being made in 1982 or whatever. The movie didn't feel dated at all beyond the fact it was set in the grimy world of post-Jimmy Carter America and the action scenes and special effects were top notch. Can't wait to get around to showing him the ONLY sequel to this film someday!
The Quest. Because Bloodsport wasn't available. Try harder next time JCVD. But I mean... it was liked. Bored does hit back you realize.
Resident Evil. Wasn't as good as I remembered. That's nostalgia for you... or maybe the fact the sequels get increasingly horrible. I mean it wasn't bad... it might've even been above average... but ehhh... still won Best Director for Paul WS Anderson that year... it would be the first of six Best Director nominations he received for his work on this series IIRC. Honestly the younger you are, the more you'd probably like the sequels to be honest.
Off the top of my head... of these eight movies we just watched, I think we had at least 8 Best Picture Nominations... at least three Best Picture wins, a half dozen Best Directors, and by my estimation.... fifty seven Best Acting (and four Best Actressing) Awards. And I'm pretty sure Total Recall won best Cinematography as well.
Once I get a blu-ray player hooked up I can unload all manners of shitty DVD's and Blu Rays upon impressionable minds.
There are other award winning movies I do wanna show... such as Predator, The Mummy, Commando, True Lies, The Running Man, the aforementioned Bloodsport, and potentially Rambo II and/or III among other historical films.
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