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Finally got around to getting the Dungeons & Dragons animated series on DVD for myself, and have been enjoying it since yesterday. I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10 because it's certainly a great series of cartoons that are still enjoyable even now that I'm older...much much older...than when it was on TV (and unless I'm mistaken, that was sometime in '83). It doesn't get an 8 or 9 because now that I'm so much older and way more jaded than I was as a kid, I'm spotting a whole lot of animation flaws that I wouldn't have spotted before.
That's not to say that the animation stinks by today's "standards"...in a whole lot of ways Dungeons & Dragons is far superior to a lot of the drek passing for cartoons that these poor kids have to settle for now-a-days...but there's still some sloppy flaws in the art from time to time that kinda' unnerve me.
And of course since it's a cartoon aimed at kids, and since TV supposedly has the job of raising kids here in America, the characters as well as the villains tend to "pull punches" all the time. You know...somebody has a clear shot at somebody else in a fight, and what do they do? They tie them up, or punch the ground, or some dumb shit...never going for the straight-shot kill.
Regardless, this series comes highly recommended by me, and if you long for those wondrous trips down memory lane you simply can't go wrong in picking up this show, or others like it now that they're on DVD. All we need now is a DVD release of Mighty Orbots, Thundarr the Barbarian and Manta and Moray, and my personal quest for living in the past will be much closer to complete.
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Afro Samurai - I like becuase it doesn't go so deep like many other animes (which I don't mind at all), but it is purely a revenge plot like so many other anime (and so many other movies, too). But just the style and the look of the series alone drew me in. Add to that a great soundtrack by the RZA and voiceovers by Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman and Kelly Hu, it's bound to be a classic. 10/10
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I've just finished watching Series 1 of UK 70's cop show Life on Mars. Bloody brilliant. Best character: Gene Hunt, played by Phil Glennister. I love his one-liners. The great thing about this show is that there's no stupid political correctness in it. Think The Sweeney meets Minder and you're half there. Good stories, superb filming and great characters. I would recommend this to anyone who has a dry/ironic sense of humour. Funniest if you can remember what 70s policing was all about: No Mr Nice Guy, questions follow the punch-up, we could get away with going back to work pissed after a lunch consisting of a few lager chasers, and we could get away with cracking un-PC jokes. Best thing the BBC has produced in a long time. Series 2 has just aired and its on my "want list". 10/10, no question.
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Kenny. It's about a guy who installs portable toilets. It's Australian. I'd give it 7 1/2 out of 10. It was very real and I laughed all the time. LOL
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quote:Originally posted by toesuckerryan: Kenny. It's about a guy who installs portable toilets. It's Australian. I'd give it 7 1/2 out of 10. It was very real and I laughed all the time. LOL
Awesome movie/doco there toesuckerryan... I give it an 8.5 outta 10 coz it shows the life of an average workin' dude makin' a livin' I see alot of people within the film look down on him and his colleagues as if they were nothin' or low class...
It puts the camera through his perspective of lifes everyday experiences. Even though alotta people look down on him, I look up to him of how he deals with his life and From my point of view, One of the most successful citizens of Australia...
I highly recommend this to all people who don't have full-time office jobs....
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quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: Went retro and watched the 1986 version of "The Fly." I'd rate it about a 5 on a 10 scale.
Ahhhhhhh I remember unloadin' alotta juice over the sex scene back when I was knee high to a grasshopper...
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quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: Went retro and watched the 1986 version of "The Fly." I'd rate it about a 5 on a 10 scale.
Is it that bad? The way I remember the movie it was about a 7/10 or even 8/10 (for that time)....but maybe I was too young to remember correctly.
-Hal-
For me it didn't age too well. I think I saw it for the first time when it came out and I was 18. The thing that killed it is mainly the FX which were kind of cheesey even by '86 standards. Brundle Fly after his complete transformation moved around like a bad puppet.
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Fearless (2006-Subtitled)... Talk about kick ass... Another awesome performance by Jet Li... 8.75/10 Not quite a 9 but definately a 9+ if they have an English dubbed version...
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The Jacket (2005). Rewatchin' this and realized that that the Crazy inmate/patient Rudy Mackenzie is played by Daniel Craig... Funny to see Rudy becommin' Bond
Luv movies that have a thing to do with time minipulation (eg. Back to the Future Series, Groundhog day, Frequency) but also with added thriller types in the tradition of Butterfly Effect and Event Horizon...
I give "The Jacket" 7.5/10
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The Road Warrior from the early 80s. I watched it with my daughter and she totally loved it. I gotta get the other two Mad Max movies for her to see now. I guess I would give it a 7 for a fairly violent all action no brains flick.
quote:Originally posted by LeDaemon: The Road Warrior from the early 80s. I watched it with my daughter and she totally loved it. I gotta get the other two Mad Max movies for her to see now. I guess I would give it a 7 for a fairly violent all action no brains flick.
It's a total crime that a Mad Max IV was never made...they had a cool world, lots of action just waiting to happen, and all kinds of potential to keep expanding on everything. I kept thinking it'd be cool if somehow Max got back in league with The Bronze, and this way they could've passed the buck off to a younger actor to take the lead, then they could've kept on going with new stories since Mel has gotten so much older and all...oh well...
I haven't seen it on DVD yet, but I've got the entire series, that is every single episode of Red Dwarf on the way in an 18 disk box set. Amazon was running a sale, and the box set was dropped by $100 or so in the price, so I snapped it up. I'm gonna feel the pinch from that money going out, but man I can't wait to get this! I LOVED what I got to see of the series on VHS, and I got three of the novels (maybe there's more, I dunno)...so this is gonna be sweet. I'll be sure to get on here and gush aplenty once I'm digging this great show.
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Just saw Beerfest..from the Broken Lizard Comedy group...the ones that created Super Troopers and Puddle Cruiser. I rate Beerfest a 7 out of 10. Super Troopers was way more funny than this latest effort but still it does give a good few laughs not to mention some good drinking games I never seen before. Plus a cameo by Willie Nelson at the end.
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