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  • #61
    Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
    I grew up when Disney Afternoon was a big thing, so some of my favorite stuff goes way back.
    Disney channel was a premium cable service that my parents couldn't afford.

    Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
    I also watched Underdog, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and other really old stuff.
    Yeah, I was a cartoon addict in the 70s and 80s, but filmwise, my dad was taking me to see The Dark Crystal and Heavy Metal, and Heavy Metal wasn't really intended for children. Besides maybe The Secret of NIMH and The Black Cauldron, I'm straining to think of animations that were theaters when I was a kid. The Last Unicorn? Dot and the Kangaroo? Disney didn't ramp up the animation big time till the 90s I guess. By the time films like An American Tale and Roger Rabbit came out I was already too old for that stuff.


    Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
    I like anime too, some of my favorites are Rorouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho Spirit Detective, and oddly enough Ultimate Muscle.
    No idea what those are. I think the last Japanimation movie I saw was maybe the Cowboy Bebop movie or Spirited Away. I never got into the anime cartoon series. I attempted to watch that one with the giants, and it was too goofy and scatterbrained to keep my attention. Watched the first episode of that one show, I think it's called One Punch Man, or something, and it was just too silly. I think I just don't...get...anime. I got it in the late 80s and 90s cause it was grown up R-rated (and sometimes X-rated) stuff in a cartoon. And to me and my high school pals it was cool and edgy, but I'm completely out of the loop with the stuff that's going on today.

    Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post
    More recently the DuckTales reboot, and Gravity Falls have been some of my favorites. Gravity Falls is something you might like with the horror/mystery theme. It is one I can recommend for most ages.
    Yeah, I heard of Gravity Falls. Every now and then I'll check something out when my nieces are over, but they're teens now, so they don't watch cartoons much. I watched a few episodes of the Misadventures of Flapjack and that trippy cartoon with that kid with the white hat, and his talking dog with them a few years ago. Weird psychedelic stuff I probably would have dug in my, ahem, experimental phase.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Adrift View Post
      ....my dad was taking me to see The Dark Crystal....
      Netflix better not stuff up my memories with their new series for the Dark Crystal.

      Originally posted by Adrift View Post
      Besides maybe The Secret of NIMH
      NIMH was good (a toss up on whether or not a enjoyed the book more). My daughters prefer the sequal to first one (my younger two found the first one a little too scary)

      Originally posted by Adrift View Post
      and The Black Cauldron,
      That was the first movie I ever watched in theatre. My mom's cousin took me with her daughters to watch it.

      (the first time, and so far I think only, I ever went to a movie theatre with my dad was to watch the first Bean movie.....my dad views movie theatres as a pointless waste of money and so never took us as kids, and is a fight still to get him to go when it's our treat)
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      • #63
        Originally posted by Raphael View Post
        the Amazon adaption of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens is a pretty faithful adaptation. In the where it diverges from the book it's pretty much because that works better on screen than in print.


        Edit To Add: and the new Watership Down on Netflix. I found that to be a very good adaption of the book (why yes, a book about rabbits having a war happens to be one of my favourite books)
        Yeah, I never read Good Omens the book (even though I had borrowed it from a friend for a few years), but I did see the show. It was pretty good. Gaiman's stuff is a bit tricky for me because sometimes he goes into full blasphemy mode, and I just can't stick with it. Like the end of the first season of American Gods...I was really into it up until he had to poke at Jesus. I mean, I kinda got his point, but it turned me off from seeing season 2. And Garth Ennis' work is even worse. I get so into his adaptations (typically produced by Seth Rogen) like Preacher and The Boys, but it starts dumping on Christianity, and I just lose interest in it. The Boys, which just came out, has a whole episode devoted to tearing down Christianity with a whole Stephen Fry-type problem of evil meltdown, and a look at a hypocrite gay evangelist superhero. And of course, when not out and out hypocrites the rest of the Christians are portrayed as completely out of touch sensitive types who just hate everyone different from them, and we get a chance to see the only decent Christian in the show lose her faith on a dime, and go into a preachy dialogue for why she did. It really irritates me that there are zero depictions of Christians with a robust and deeply considered faith in Hollywood. Even when they're not completely demonized, Christians always come off as a-wishin-anda-hopin types who preach a watery anti-intellectual "there is no evidence, you just gotta have faith" type of message. Or...they're a Catholic priest who's doing exorcisms in Latin.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          They nailed Alex though. Indian with a Texas accent.

          They really couldn't do Naomi right though, she was supposed to be a belter, elongated and skinny.
          Texans do not have accents. Everybody ELSE talks funny.
          The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            I liked the Hobbit, but I never could read the Lord of the Rings trilogy. same reason, pages of useless drivel, like the stupid elvish songs.
            i was the other way around - LOTR was no problem but I slogged through The Hobbit.​ I saw part of the movie - that was a LOT better than the book to me!
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            • #66
              Originally posted by Sparko View Post
              Still, a good spy is supposed to be inconspicuous and blend into the background.
              Bond is an action adventure hero who moonlights as a spy...

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                Yeah, I never read Good Omens the book (even though I had borrowed it from a friend for a few years), but I did see the show. It was pretty good. Gaiman's stuff is a bit tricky for me because sometimes he goes into full blasphemy mode, and I just can't stick with it. Like the end of the first season of American Gods...I was really into it up until he had to poke at Jesus. I mean, I kinda got his point, but it turned me off from seeing season 2. And Garth Ennis' work is even worse. I get so into his adaptations (typically produced by Seth Rogen) like Preacher and The Boys, but it starts dumping on Christianity, and I just lose interest in it. The Boys, which just came out, has a whole episode devoted to tearing down Christianity with a whole Stephen Fry-type problem of evil meltdown, and a look at a hypocrite gay evangelist superhero. And of course, when not out and out hypocrites the rest of the Christians are portrayed as completely out of touch sensitive types who just hate everyone different from them, and we get a chance to see the only decent Christian in the show lose her faith on a dime, and go into a preachy dialogue for why she did. It really irritates me that there are zero depictions of Christians with a robust and deeply considered faith in Hollywood. Even when they're not completely demonized, Christians always come off as a-wishin-anda-hopin types who preach a watery anti-intellectual "there is no evidence, you just gotta have faith" type of message. Or...they're a Catholic priest who's doing exorcisms in Latin.
                I'm a Terry Pratchett fan, not a Gaiman fan. His only books I've really enjoyed are the ones he worked with Pratchett on.

                Because I didn't enjoy his books, I haven't watched the series made from his books.
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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Raphael View Post
                  Netflix better not stuff up my memories with their new series for the Dark Crystal.
                  I was a little let down when I heard that the characters in the show were going to voice acted by a bunch of Hollywood celebrities. One of the things I LOVE about The Dark Crystal is how alien and foreign it is. I don't want Mark Hamill, Simon Peg, or Helena Bonham-Carter's faces in my mind while I'm listening to Skesis arguing with one another. I never really got the point of celebrity voice-overs anyhow. I mean, you can't see their face, just hire some regular who does this full time (and yea, I realize this is pretty much Hamill's full time job now).

                  Originally posted by Raphael View Post
                  NIMH was good (a toss up on whether or not a enjoyed the book more). My daughters prefer the sequal to first one (my younger two found the first one a little too scary)
                  Never saw the sequel. I'll have to check it out some time.

                  Originally posted by Raphael View Post
                  That was the first movie I ever watched in theatre. My mom's cousin took me with her daughters to watch it.

                  (the first time, and so far I think only, I ever went to a movie theatre with my dad was to watch the first Bean movie.....
                  Bean movie?

                  Originally posted by Raphael View Post
                  my dad views movie theatres as a pointless waste of money and so never took us as kids, and is a fight still to get him to go when it's our treat)
                  That's a shame. The theater experience has changed dramatically since I was a kid. It used to be an experience. I mean it was a big deal. It feels much less so nowadays. The picture itself just doesn't look right. It all feels like it's produced and cut on a TV show level. Might be something lost between film and digital. I miss picture grain, and soundtracks that were as epic as the picture on giant screens, and before every film was part of a massive franchise or a reboot.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                    Disney channel was a premium cable service that my parents couldn't afford.
                    Disney Afternoon wasn't confined to Disney Channel. Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, et al



                    Yeah, I was a cartoon addict in the 70s and 80s, but filmwise, my dad was taking me to see The Dark Crystal and Heavy Metal, and Heavy Metal wasn't really intended for children. Besides maybe The Secret of NIMH and The Black Cauldron, I'm straining to think of animations that were theaters when I was a kid. The Last Unicorn? Dot and the Kangaroo? Disney didn't ramp up the animation big time till the 90s I guess. By the time films like An American Tale and Roger Rabbit came out I was already too old for that stuff.
                    Seventies would have included The Fox and The Hound - only Disney movie animated movie I really didn't like. The Wall would technically fit. But yeah, none of the studios were doing nearly as much animation then.




                    No idea what those are. I think the last Japanimation movie I saw was maybe the Cowboy Bebop movie or Spirited Away. I never got into the anime cartoon series. I attempted to watch that one with the giants, and it was too goofy and scatterbrained to keep my attention. Watched the first episode of that one show, I think it's called One Punch Man, or something, and it was just too silly. I think I just don't...get...anime. I got it in the late 80s and 90s cause it was grown up R-rated (and sometimes X-rated) stuff in a cartoon. And to me and my high school pals it was cool and edgy, but I'm completely out of the loop with the stuff that's going on today.
                    I only knew one of the three - although I think the second is a second go round for that character.


                    Yeah, I heard of Gravity Falls. Every now and then I'll check something out when my nieces are over, but they're teens now, so they don't watch cartoons much. I watched a few episodes of the Misadventures of Flapjack and that trippy cartoon with that kid with the white hat, and his talking dog with them a few years ago. Weird psychedelic stuff I probably would have dug in my, ahem, experimental phase.
                    Most the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon stuff is unwatchable nowadays. Courage the Cowardly Dog was good but that was ages ago.
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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                      Bond is a softcore porn actor who moonlights as a spy...
                      ftfy
                      "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                        ftfy
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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                          Disney channel was a premium cable service that my parents couldn't afford.
                          Well, they aired the same shows on ABC as well. TailSpin, DuckTales, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck etc. I only had Disney when I was really young, and much later in life since cable was expensive.

                          Yeah, I was a cartoon addict in the 70s and 80s, but filmwise, my dad was taking me to see The Dark Crystal and Heavy Metal, and Heavy Metal wasn't really intended for children. Besides maybe The Secret of NIMH and The Black Cauldron, I'm straining to think of animations that were theaters when I was a kid. The Last Unicorn? Dot and the Kangaroo? Disney didn't ramp up the animation big time till the 90s I guess. By the time films like An American Tale and Roger Rabbit came out I was already too old for that stuff.

                          Who Framed Roger Rabbit might have been "PG", but it wasn't exactly a kids movie. Under todays rating it should be at least PG-13. I will never understand why some people think of animation as "kids stuff". Just because a show isn't rated R doesn't mean it is "just for kids".

                          No idea what those are. I think the last Japanimation movie I saw was maybe the Cowboy Bebop movie or Spirited Away. I never got into the anime cartoon series. I attempted to watch that one with the giants, and it was too goofy and scatterbrained to keep my attention. Watched the first episode of that one show, I think it's called One Punch Man, or something, and it was just too silly. I think I just don't...get...anime. I got it in the late 80s and 90s cause it was grown up R-rated (and sometimes X-rated) stuff in a cartoon. And to me and my high school pals it was cool and edgy, but I'm completely out of the loop with the stuff that's going on today.
                          Rorouni Kenshin was also known as Samurai X. Yu Yu Hakusho was another one of the somewhat darker shows I watched growing up.

                          Yeah, I heard of Gravity Falls. Every now and then I'll check something out when my nieces are over, but they're teens now, so they don't watch cartoons much. I watched a few episodes of the Misadventures of Flapjack and that trippy cartoon with that kid with the white hat, and his talking dog with them a few years ago. Weird psychedelic stuff I probably would have dug in my, ahem, experimental phase.
                          That would be Adventure Time for the dog and kid with the white hat. I never really got into it, but I do have to appreciate the animation. Gravity Falls is great, heck even my mom and dad like it. It's not often we get a show all of us enjoy watching.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                            I was a little let down when I heard that the characters in the show were going to voice acted by a bunch of Hollywood celebrities. One of the things I LOVE about The Dark Crystal is how alien and foreign it is. I don't want Mark Hamill, Simon Peg, or Helena Bonham-Carter's faces in my mind while I'm listening to Skesis arguing with one another. I never really got the point of celebrity voice-overs anyhow. I mean, you can't see their face, just hire some regular who does this full time (and yea, I realize this is pretty much Hamill's full time job now).



                            Never saw the sequel. I'll have to check it out some time.



                            Bean movie?



                            That's a shame. The theater experience has changed dramatically since I was a kid. It used to be an experience. I mean it was a big deal. It feels much less so nowadays. The picture itself just doesn't look right. It all feels like it's produced and cut on a TV show level. Might be something lost between film and digital. I miss picture grain, and soundtracks that were as epic as the picture on giant screens, and before every film was part of a massive franchise or a reboot.
                            Mark Hamill is actually a really good voice actor. I mean, he's now the most iconic voice for The Joker for most Batman fans. He's also got a rather wide range of voices too.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Teallaura View Post
                              Disney Afternoon wasn't confined to Disney Channel. Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, et al



                              Seventies would have included The Fox and The Hound - only Disney movie animated movie I really didn't like. The Wall would technically fit. But yeah, none of the studios were doing nearly as much animation then.




                              I only knew one of the three - although I think the second is a second go round for that character.



                              Most the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon stuff is unwatchable nowadays. Courage the Cowardly Dog was good but that was ages ago.
                              Regular Show was ok, but before that the last really good show I remember from them was Symbionic Titan, but it got cancelled quickly because they couldn't think of any toys to make for it. This in a show that featured aliens and robots.

                              Right now the only thing I watch regularly is the DuckTales reboot, which is really good. I'm hoping they bring in Darkwing Duck as a new series alongside it. They've actually kind of got everything set up too. If you liked the old DuckTales, I'd say check it out. The art style worried me a bit, but I'm really enjoying it. I'm almost liking it better than the original, which is a really high bar for me. I even got the old show on DVD to compare the two. The people working on it clearly care about the source material, but do enough new to make it their own thing. There are only a small handful of changes they made that I don't like, and given how much I like the remainder, that's not much to ask.

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                                I was a little let down when I heard that the characters in the show were going to voice acted by a bunch of Hollywood celebrities. One of the things I LOVE about The Dark Crystal is how alien and foreign it is. I don't want Mark Hamill, Simon Peg, or Helena Bonham-Carter's faces in my mind while I'm listening to Skesis arguing with one another. I never really got the point of celebrity voice-overs anyhow. I mean, you can't see their face, just hire some regular who does this full time (and yea, I realize this is pretty much Hamill's full time job now).
                                I can agree with you on the Simon Pegg and the Helena Bonham-Carter, but outside of Star Wars Mark Hamill has been a very prolific and successful voice actor. As Brum noted, he's acknowledged as being the best animated Joker for years.

                                Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                                Never saw the sequel. I'll have to check it out some time.
                                Completely different animation style, way more young kid friendly. Not a bad movie, but you wouldn't think the one was a sequel of the other going from the style

                                Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                                Bean movie?
                                Rowan Atkinson. It had my dad curled up in his seat crying with laughter (he enjoys the humour of Rowan Atkinson's Bean and the Peter Sellers' The Party type of stuff)

                                Originally posted by Adrift View Post
                                That's a shame. The theater experience has changed dramatically since I was a kid. It used to be an experience. I mean it was a big deal. It feels much less so nowadays. The picture itself just doesn't look right. It all feels like it's produced and cut on a TV show level. Might be something lost between film and digital. I miss picture grain, and soundtracks that were as epic as the picture on giant screens, and before every film was part of a massive franchise or a reboot.
                                When I was a kid (I was born in 1980) my dad was busy working on his PhD and money was tight, and having grown up in WW2, and having had to drop out of high school at 16 to work (and putting himself through night school to get his Senior Certificate, then his B.Com, Hons, Masters and PhD), he's never really seen the point of spending much money on entertainment.

                                What we used to do was go hiking and camping in the Natal Drakensberg instead, or go mountain biking.
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