So what are you watching?

Captain X

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Osaul
Oh neat. I'll check it out then. Been on a bit of a Anime kick that comes and goes. Kinda annoyed I bought Cowboy Bebop and now its on Netflix but... PHYSICAL MEDIA is important I guess. I also recently got the seasons for Black Lagoon and the movie Princess Mononoke that I wanted to watch when I get some time. Getting TriGun is on the list as well.

I saw parts of Black Lagoon and TriGun when I was growing up but never finished either. And I've seen like one episode of Cowboy Bebop so I need more.

I have seen Death Note actually and really liked it. You're talking about the excellent Netflix adaption correct? I never saw the anime or read the manga. From what I'm told, engaging in that material might actually ruin my appreciation for the live action adaption. :sneaky:

Interesting that if I like Death Note that I'd like Code Geass though, that's kind of interesting I guess.
Hey, if you're on a buying streak, I'd definitely recommend Ergo Proxy, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Dirty Pair, Outlaw Star, Desert Punk, Yukikaze, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and The Big O.
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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Code Geass was entertaining enough for me to finish it, but I'm in the "it's overrated" camp. The first season is good up until around episode 22 or 23, when the plot was effectively resolved and the writers had to asspull a way for the story to continue. The second season has to retcon away everything that happened at the end of season 1, and has a pretty nonsensical ending.


I watched that last month. A refreshing OVA series that avoids the usual anime-isms, but I was really confused by the final episode. I don't understand why those humans were left behind in the city to get shot up by the Jam infantry.
 

Captain X

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Osaul
I watched that last month. A refreshing OVA series that avoids the usual anime-isms, but I was really confused by the final episode. I don't understand why those humans were left behind in the city to get shot up by the Jam infantry.
They weren't. They were all holograms. The only real human was a turncoat who lead part of the Jam, and they turned on him when the deception was revealed. The confusion I have is why anyone would try to join the Jam and betray humanity.
 

Urabrask Revealed

Let them go.
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They weren't. They were all holograms. The only real human was a turncoat who lead part of the Jam, and they turned on him when the deception was revealed. The confusion I have is why anyone would try to join the Jam and betray humanity.
I mean... *gestures at the leftoids and their anti-humanist antics* You will always find some nihilists that believe their species deserves genocide.
 

prinCZess

Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
Hey, if you're on a buying streak, I'd definitely recommend Ergo Proxy, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Dirty Pair, Outlaw Star, Desert Punk, Yukikaze, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and The Big O.
[insert princzess' obligatory addition of Gunsmith Cats]...Wait, it's out of print...Again...Shit...

I am always somewhat annoyed by the cost of physical media anime. I'm a tight-fisted, penny-pincher when it comes to live-action movies that are usually <20, and seems like most animated stuff almost-ineviteably ends up being >30.
That said, did find Nausica and Howl's Moving Castle at a thrift store for three bucks total, and I've never seen the former and only watched the latter a long, long time ago, so those are probly on the ol' watchlist.

Anywho. More directly on-topic, last few weekends watched and read-along to Shakespeare productions on the ol' Youtube. Richard II and Henry IV part one I've got through, with the part two also on the watchlist, with something of the goal of watching the bigger-budget Henry V at some point in the near future. It's so much more enjoyable than any of the bits I recall being assigned in school--maybe part of that is the vaguely historical facade being more interest to me than R&Juliet's Verona, or maybe part of it is just being older and having seen some of the tropes and characters and stuff in more modern media? I dunnow, either way, I enjoyed the heck out of it.

A few excerpts I particularly liked:
From Richard II (and a really classy combo-insult to an individual, to their dad, AND death-threat, all with pun/double-meaning overlay! It's wonderful!):
Dishonorable boy,
That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword
That it shall render vengeance and revenge
Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie
In earth as quiet as thy father's skull.

From Henry IV:
(context: Prince of England, who is a womanizer and outright thief, has just gotten done drinking and trading quips with this older rogue he's friends with)
So when this loose behavior I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;
And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I'll so offend to make offense a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

And, what I think might be one of the earliest written 'Good night.' 'No, *good morning*.' style of jokes:
SHERIFF Good night, my noble lord.
PRINCE I think it is good morrow, is it not?
SHERIFF Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.
Anywho. Also:
Got sidetracked from part II of Henry IV by regressing back to animated fluff and watched ~10 episodes of Tomo-chan is a Girl over the last weekend. I haven't actually watched many romance or rom-com animes in general, but having read the manga and liked it peeked-in to the show and got drawn-in. Would actually recommend it to folks, even if they don't like the romantic genre in general just because it's...not quite an outright parody but is pretty comedic, plays with school-romance and boy-girl thought differences humor a lot in ways that are fun, and has a lot of parody 'feel' to it in general, even as it plays the main story straight.[/spoiler]
 
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Husky_Khan

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Watching MH370: The Plane That Disappeared and its pretty stirring stuff.

Apparently the pilot, Zaherie, locked himself in the Cockpit and without any motivation or explanation but involving months of planning, depressurized the cabin and took six hours to commit an act of mass suicide/murder.

No wait, it turned out the Russians are actually behind MH370 and it's apparently an Act of War.

Oh my gosh the Inmarsat Data was tampered with. Someone broke into the 777's Avionics Department through an unsecured hatch between the first class cabin and cockpit.

The Americans knew what happened because they had two AWACS planes in the area at the time. The French guy who lives in China had an associate who got him to meet someone connected with the Secret Services to tell him this in person. They know where the plane crashed but were under a Pact of Silence. Why are the Americans covering it up?

Actually the plane went north because a Russian asset (or assets) hijacked the plane by accessing and hacking into its electronics bay whilst altering the Inmarsat data. It did end up in Kazakhstan, the client state of Russia.

Nevermind the plane went South. An American Adventurer named Blaine Gibson found multiple pieces of confirmed debris on the beach of Mozambique negating that North theory.

But the Adventurer is actually a Spy for the Russians with links to them going back decades. The Russians were actually spoofing pings like then did with the Korean Airliner shootdown back in the Cold War.

Actually the Adventurer was working on behalf of American media interests.

"Highly likely" only means that they can't prove something!

The confirmed debris from the plane actually proves that the discovered plane was actually from a 'dismantled' plane. The discovered debris is not from MH370 according to inside sources!

The Plane crashed in the Indian Ocean and they haven't found the wreckage yet.

There is no plane wreckage because the plane never crashed in the Indian Ocean.

Holy shit, it was the Pilot the entire time! The Pilots Flight Simulator Hard Drive showed him doing a flight path into the Southern Indian Ocean a month before.

Actually no it wasn't the Pilot after all. The Simulator data didn't really match up with the flight path.

The FBI actually has the Pilots Flight Simulator Information and released the information to implicate the Pilot.

So the Australians are actually involved. MH370 flew over an Australian Airbase on the Malay Peninsula called Butterworth. There were two major military exercises going on in the South China Sea at the same time, both involving the United States! Inmarsat was working with the US Government and fabricated by them to cover up what truly happened to MH370. The airliner never turned towards the Indian Ocean.

The plane actually crashed off of the coast of Vietnam in the South China Sea. An elderly Florida Woman Tomnod volunteer scanning the satellite images found the debris there including a nose cone.

Turns out the plane was carrying a sensitive cargo of... of... 2500 kilograms worth of "Lithium Ion batteries, walkie talkie accessories & chargers" to China. This Airliner was smuggling stealth drone technology to China and the United States found out at the last moment.

Two US AWACS planes surrounded MH370 between the gray zone of Malaysia and Vietnam, making it disappear from the radar and jamming all communications. The Pilot refuses to be intimidated by the AWACs planes and as the airliner approaches Chinese airspace, the United States intercepted the Airliner and it MET ITS FATE.

I mean on the other hand, French people can't be trusted.

No the plane was never shot down over the South China Sea because no debris was ever found in Vietnam, China, Malaysia, or any other country bordering the South China Sea. Also it'd have to be a massive conspiracy, including China, covering it all up.

You know where there wouldn't be any debris floating around? Kazakhstan.

The person involved in the Official Search in the Indian Ocean is on the verge of tears talking about how they discontinued the search for the Airliner in the Indian Ocean.

In conclusion no one is able to determine the cause for the disappearance of MH370.

Closing Thoughts After Three Hours:

What have we learned? I don't know. I guess we learned not to do it again. Fuck if I know what they did. It's hard to say.

I don't want to say I feel dumber after watching this but it wasn't even that entertaining. I certainly wasn't expecting to loop directly back to the beginning with absolutely nothing resolved, answered or even credibly offered as an explanation. It's just three hours of babbling. It's not even good coverage of the actual (much less potential) events!

Mildly Entertaining.
 
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Val the Moofia Boss

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Babylon 5 - S3E17 "War Without End part II".


I like the bittersweet future, with Sheirdan's alliance having vanquished the Shadows, but new foes appear and take over the Centauri, and apparently Sheridan lost a lot and has became weary, no longer being the bright, hopeful man we see in the present. The future scenes with Delenn reuniting with her husband and Londo pleading with Sheridan were really powerful. Hope this future doesn't get retconned away. Lol at teasing Delenn seeing her son David open the door, maybe we will see him later. Also, really? Sheriden and Delenn only had one child?

I've heard that this is the last we see of Sinclair, which is disappointing. Where did the two Vorlons standing with him come from?
 

Jormungandr

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The Girlfriend, Girlfriend dub.

My god, it's hilarious.

"Why would you trust me, I'm an asshole!"

"I'm gonna beat the shit out of you!"
"Not if I shit myself first!"
"Not literally!"

I've also been looking at the Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions! dub.


I haven't started to watch it, though.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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I saw the new Shazam movie last weekend and I liked it.

It was far from perfect but it was entertaining and fun to watch. If you liked the first Shazam movie this is more of what made that movie fun and enjoyable. There's more action and fight scenes, a lot more character development both for the main character and his friends/family but also the villains, the aforementioned Daughters of Atlas portrayed by Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu etc got a lot more development then your typical movie supervillain.

So here's the thing, it had as much humor as say Ant-Man Quantumania had but unlike Quantumania, the humor wasn't forced into weird parts of the movie, killing any sense of drama or impact. Likewise unlike say Black Adam the villains here had more depth and establishment and the final battle didn't become a complete stinker despite being just as ridiculous.

This is because unlike Black Adam or Quantumania, this movie had a different tone. It wasn't trying to be an austere, serious superhero film while also injecting large amounts of forced humor and levity and child friendly nonsense. This film did the opposite. It had a relatively lighthearted tone with likable characters but it was interspersed with some "dark" content just like the first Shazam was (ie the opening car crash or the Sivana summoning the monsters in the boardroom etc). This film was also better because despite somehow having an entire family of protaganists so to speak and more then one villain, it managed to balance those storylines well in service of the main story that was going on. The character development directly served the story and vice versa. It wasn't bloated and overly complex like so many movies, superhero ones (looking at the latest Black Panther here) included, are.

So overall, Shazam: Fury of the Gods was a decent superhero film. Far from perfect but its perfectly entertaining and fun to watch. It's also qualitatively better than probably all of the recent superhero films that have come out since... probably Spider-Man: No Way Home? The action and whatever might not be as good as what you see in other superhero films but everything else is. So I'd recommend it I guess, especially if you liked the first Shazam film.
 

Husky_Khan

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I saw Cocaine Bear in a theater!

It was alright. The trailer kind of ruined a lot of special moments regarding the film though so if you haven't seen the trailer yet and want to see the movie, I'd recommend not watching said trailer. The movie is actually a bit of a period piece, taking place in 1985 and combined with the soundtrack it helps add a nice atmosphere and feel to the whole film that makes it a bit distinct. The film is populated with a fair number of mostly interesting minor characters with their various traits and quirks that makes them somewhat interesting to follow to their often gory demises.

The whole film kind of reminded me a bit of Tremors but while both films had comedy in them, this one had a bit too much humor sometimes, or the characters just seemed a bit much in some cases. Plus while I didn't mind the effects all that much, sometimes the CGI was pretty noticeable like when it was ragdolling objects and people. The ending was kind of narmy as well.

I was surprised at the cast. Ray Liotta in one of his final roles, O'Shea Jackson, who is Ice Cube's son or whatever, and Keri Russell as well as a fair number of character actors populated this film. I recognized one of the EMT's as a TikToker who got famous for his videos about working retail. Also Elizabeth Banks directed the movie, which seemed kinda random.

But overall, decent film. Certainly not disappointing considering the premise but there was room for improvement.

Might've liked it more than half of the recent Superhero movies with ten times the budget. 🤷‍♀️
 

Sergeant Foley

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I saw Cocaine Bear in a theater!

It was alright. The trailer kind of ruined a lot of special moments regarding the film though so if you haven't seen the trailer yet and want to see the movie, I'd recommend not watching said trailer. The movie is actually a bit of a period piece, taking place in 1985 and combined with the soundtrack it helps add a nice atmosphere and feel to the whole film that makes it a bit distinct. The film is populated with a fair number of mostly interesting minor characters with their various traits and quirks that makes them somewhat interesting to follow to their often gory demises.

The whole film kind of reminded me a bit of Tremors but while both films had comedy in them, this one had a bit too much humor sometimes, or the characters just seemed a bit much in some cases. Plus while I didn't mind the effects all that much, sometimes the CGI was pretty noticeable like when it was ragdolling objects and people. The ending was kind of narmy as well.

I was surprised at the cast. Ray Liotta in one of his final roles, O'Shea Jackson, who is Ice Cube's son or whatever, and Keri Russell as well as a fair number of character actors populated this film. I recognized one of the EMT's as a TikToker who got famous for his videos about working retail. Also Elizabeth Banks directed the movie, which seemed kinda random.

But overall, decent film. Certainly not disappointing considering the premise but there was room for improvement.

Might've liked it more than half of the recent Superhero movies with ten times the budget. 🤷‍♀️
Watching the last minutes of the NCAA Midwest Regional of Men's Basketball between my Texas Longhorns versus the Miami Hurricanes with 3:57 remaining in the game; tied up 75-75.

Spot in the Final Four is on the line...

Getting nervous right now 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓
 

bintananth

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Watching the last minutes of the NCAA Midwest Regional of Men's Basketball between my Texas Longhorns versus the Miami Hurricanes with 3:57 remaining in the game; tied up 75-75.

Spot in the Final Four is on the line...

Getting nervous right now 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓
This years Final Four: a #4, two #5s, and a #9. LOL!
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
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Watching the last minutes of the NCAA Midwest Regional of Men's Basketball between my Texas Longhorns versus the Miami Hurricanes with 3:57 remaining in the game; tied up 75-75.

Spot in the Final Four is on the line...

Getting nervous right now 😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓

I don't think Cocaine Bear has a chance of beating John Wick in the Final Four but we've seen a lot of upsets already this year!!!!1
 

Sergeant Foley

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Final Four in Men's CBK:
#9 FAU Owls vs #5 San Diego State Aztecs
#5 Miami Hurricanes vs #4 Connecticut Huskies.

Predictions about who plays in the national championship game on April 3rd plus who wins it all.
 

Vargas Fan

Head over heels in love :)
Watching the second series of Babylon Berlin at the moment. I saw the first two seasons years ago and only just managed to get seasons 3 and 4 so I need to watch it again to catch up.
 

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