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Rambler

Eagly wrote:

He said adults want something for themhe seems to have some belief that animated content skews younger.

I think that's a given. Most western cartoon animation is designed for a non-adult audience. The age range within that will be large, and many will have adult cross-over appeal (or be designed for that).
You can see that, in an anecdotal way, by comparing the Netflix home screens for kids and adults.

(I've no idea about the demographics for non-western cartoon animation, and most of the stop motion stuff I've seen would perplex the average child, if not scare them silly)

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jump

To me this is a case of looking for a reason to hate on Bob Chapek, if Bob Iger had said the same thing people wouldn’t have even paid attention like how many of the things people complain about such as the live action remakes came from Bobby IG not Big B C although Boss Bobby I was always more conscious when speaking.

The general resentment to Big Bobby C is understandable considering he’s the type of big boss to increase profits by tightening the belt rather than looking at expanding and is in general clumsy with tactful matters but at the end of the day Disney is still making Atlanta which is better than Star Wars, Marvel and Mickey Mouse ever were!

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The two Bobs, eh? Maybe they're wondering where everyone's TPS reports are

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Pizzamorg

I can't remember the last time I checked in here with my Halloween watching, but I can say I have watched the new Scream, I thought it was the best one since the second one. I also watched two more Argento films, Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Deep Red. I actually liked both of these, especially Deep Red. It has the most insane musical score I think I've ever heard? I have been watching horror movies for over two decades now and I've still never experienced anything quite like this. Every horror scene, from violent murders to stalking scenes and false scares are all set to this insane, funky, base slapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yu-7bbO8bE Rather than being scared I just wanted to boogey the whole time.

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Pizzamorg

Oh yeah, I know who Goblin are, they ruined Suspiria for me, but absolutely made Deep Red (mostly for the wrong reasons).

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WoomyNNYes

I'd never seen Terminator: Dark Fate before. I was surprised I liked it. I liked a lot of the new ideas in the story. Rotten Tomato scores for Terminator movies agrees that Dark Fate was the best one in a while (better than the previous two Terminator Genesis and Terminatory Salvation),

Whenever I like a movie, Jump usually chimes in to say it's derivative. Fine, I still had fun.

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@WoomyNNYes At least @me if you're gonna complain about me. ;p Hmm, derivative isn't a word I often use as I normally spell it wrong so it depends on if I'm using my phone or laptop where I can use the autocorrect.

I found Dark Fate a lot less derivative than the 3rd one which was the same thing but camper and too clean which I really disliked. I thought was Dark Fate was great, if you put it next to the first two it really holds up and I remember saying to the person next to me in the cinema as we were watching this is a lot better than I thought it would be. I do have issues with it from around when Arnie turns up as it shifts tone and become silly though. Alot of people got upset about the kid dying however I didn't really care as he was just a Macguffin as I think of these flicks as Sarah's story from the first movie. There was also a lot of people moaning about too many female characters so they were outraged about that too but they are normally the people who don't have great insight when talking about movies.

I will stand up for Genesis, it's not a great film but it was a crazy mad fun fan fiction movie until it became too crazy which I'd still take over Salvation and T3.

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I know this might be weird, but Tim Miller's conduct of himself ruined Dark Fate for me. He became the cartoon version of the woke warriors the right claim exist, but actually don't.

In the last thirty years we've gone backwards. Rather than having kick ass female leads in action movies, now the whole marketing is their gender. It is no longer about the performer or the performance. They've turned gender here into pure novelty. It is the aggressively far right group that has its only non-white member stand at the front during all their conferences so they can deflect comments of racism.

Progression is when you see a woman leading an action movie and don't think about anything other than their performance or their character. That isn't to say you should be blind to race, gender, sexuality either - but rather, you see a woman in the central role and you're not saying, "hey that was pretty good... for a woman."

The way women are used here is no different than giving women predominantly love interest roles or making them wear skimpy outfits for the whole movie, it is just different shades of exploitation.

So, every time 50-year-old CIS, white man, Tim Miller waived away every criticism of this ***** ass movie with "you are just a misogynist" made me hate it that little bit more.

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RR529

Got the 90's Fatal Fury OVAs on Blu-Ray recently.

Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (Blu-Ray)

First saw this online sometime about 10 years ago, and decided to pick up the OVA double pack on Blu-Ray once I noticed it was available.

Based upon the fighting video game of the same name (a big competitor of Street Fighter in it's time), it very much feels like the standard martial arts flick of the time (although anime'd up a bit, obviously). Not that that's a bad thing, as while it's not the deepest story, it's good cheesy fun (I especially liked the faux "Arnie" German accent the big bad had, a theme that carries over to the followup as well). Only thing holding it up is that there's no Mai yet, lol.

Fatal Fury 2: the New Battle (Blu-Ray)

Watched on the Blu-Ray double pack (with the first OVA).

I feel about this one a lot like how I felt about the first. It's no masterpiece, but good cheesy anime martial arts fun. I don't think the core story is quite as tight as it was in it's predecessor (though that's not terribly important for a film like this), however I'll rate it a tad higher as I believe the art/animation seems to be slightly improved (and because Mai makes her appearance, naturally).

Trailer for both (couldn't find a remastered one):

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I've now watched two more Argento films, Stendhal Syndrome and Four Flies. Hated both. Both were maddeningly boring.

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Fizza

What's everyone sticking on for Halloween night? I wanted to go for something at least a tiny bit horror and, while I couldn't find much between Netflix and Disney+ (it's either all modern horror or basically nothing at all), I did manage to find the original Predator on the latter which I'm very excited to watch. I've somehow never actually seen it before so it'll be a nice night in with my dad and sister!

I'll probably also be checking out stuff like the two Hocus Pocus films once my other sister gets back from college, 28 Days Later (apocalypse movies are my absolute jam) and maybe National Treasure which I completely forgot was on Disney+ and kind of want to give a watch to be honest since I've heard pretty good things about it.

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@Pizzamorg That's not how I remember the marketing, a lot of it from what I saw (or the bits that looked good so I remembered them) was focussed on the return of Linda Hamilton as a bad arse granny. She was bloody great in it too, it's a shame there's no sequel for it as I'd love to see more of her.

As much as you dislike the idea of those silly wokers in their hippy communes taking the conversation away from the movie isn't that exactly what you're doing too, as there's 4 paragraphs on the matter but none of it is actually about the movie itself.

@Fizza Ready Or Not, The Fly, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fright Night are all on Disney+ I think.

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@jump Definitely considering those for next year (TRHPS especially, that film's iconic).

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@Pizzamorg That's not how I remember the marketing, a lot of it from what I saw (or the bits that looked good so I remembered them) was focussed on the return of Linda Hamilton as a bad arse granny. She was bloody great in it too, it's a shame there's no sequel for it as I'd love to see more of her.
As much as you dislike the idea of those silly wokers in their hippy communes taking the conversation away from the movie isn't that exactly what you're doing too, as there's 4 paragraphs on the matter but none of it is actually about the movie itself.

Yeah, cause the movie sucked, sucked so hard Miller admitted the film was a mistake and apologised for his comments about misogyny. Just an absolute fail all around.

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WoomyNNYes

@jump 😁Yeah, but I wanted to see if you'd come along on your own, without me tagging. That's all.😁 I didn't mean that to look disrespectful. You're ok with me @jump<3

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@Pizzamorg Have you got a link to that?

There was definitely misogyny aimed at the movie as well as racism so I'm surprised if he said they were right and apologized to them. I suspect this is one of those things were depending on if it's a lefty SJW PC safe space website or an incel basement dwelling alt right hate website it will be a different headline to the same story.

@Rambler Isn't that technically a spoiler even if it's a meme? At least you didn't spoil the ending for @Fizza where Arnie dresses up as a goat to sneak up on Predator and keeps stabbing him in the wang till it is dead!

@WoomyNNYes No worries.

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@jump ooh I posted a meme?!?! Get me!

That give a new meaning to get to the chopper

Anyways, Predator the goatsucker

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