[TV] The What Animation Are You Watching Thread 2!: The Sequel!



Interesting documentary style animation similar to Creature Comforts.
Without doing to much research guessing from the cast list the monster family was voiced by the family of creator Elizabeth Ito.

I like it but maybe to niche to be picked up as a full show.
 

GasBandit

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Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

A stuttering, politically hamfisted, by-the-numbers 60s-era JLA origin story that paints all Americans as jackbooted McCarthyists with a nebulous, ill-defined villain and little narrative cohesiveness. I suppose it's supposed to be a silver-age love letter, but aside from the retro character designs there's not much to love about it. And they couldn't even get Kevin Conroy to voice Batman. I did like seeing a version of the Martian Manhunter seldom explored in the DCAU - that of his "Detective John Jones" alter ego. But too many dangling threads are left. Events occur with no apparent cause or connection other than for the sake of "but suddenly, disaster!"

It's got one or two redeeming moments in it, but by and large, it's one you can safely "pass" on.
 
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

A stuttering, politically hamfisted, by-the-numbers 60s-era JLA origin story that paints all Americans as jackbooted McCarthyists with a nebulous, ill-defined villain and little narrative cohesiveness. I suppose it's supposed to be a silver-age love letter, but aside from the retro character designs there's not much to love about it. And they couldn't even get Kevin Conroy to voice Batman. I did like seeing a version of the Martian Manhunter seldom explored in the DCAU - that of his "Detective John Jones" alter ego. But too many dangling threads are left. Events occur with no apparent cause or connection other than for the sake of "but suddenly, disaster!"

It's got one or two redeeming moments in it, but by and large, it's one you can safely "pass" on.
I have the reverse take: This is an extremely faithful adaption of the New Frontier comic mini-series, which was entirely about the shift from the Golden Age to the Silver Age of comics. About my only complaint is that it's really short.
 

GasBandit

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So... Am I the only one not really feeling the new season of Archer?

I mean, it might have been interesting for a one-off or two off special, but setting the series 70 years in the past robs it of a lot of its reference humor repertoire.
 
Samurai Jack

Where we learn that-
Aashi and the daughters of Aku weren't wearing skin tight suits, that was simply their skin after...it was burned from hot coals...Jesus.
 
Samurai Jack

Where we learn that-
Aashi and the daughters of Aku weren't wearing skin tight suits, that was simply their skin after...it was burned from hot coals...Jesus.
Also, some fun cameos in this one.

I don't mean the previous villains and the guys Jack has helped. One of the dog gangsters looks like Astro from The Jetsons and a robot looked like Popeye!
 
Adventure Time Elements part one and two:

As if I didn't NEED more reason to want to murder Patience-
SHE RUINED BETTY AND ICE KING'S DATE! HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A SHIPPER SCORNED!
 
OK, maybe not the thread for this, but I wanted to say this somewhere. Previously, I'd only seen some of the "earlier" South Park episodes - by which I pretty much mean Kenny died every episode.
Recently, due to changes in my dinner time and there being absolutely nothing on except a SP marathon, I've been watching a lot of newer episodes - season 15-ish.
First of all, when the heck did this become "the Butters show"? I've seen 10 or 15 episodes over the past few days, and all of them were either about Butters, or Cartman and Butters. And really, fuck Butters.
Secondly, Jesus do these episodes suck. I mean, Simpsons still has good episodes even if a bit of the old spark is gone. This is....just unfunny.
 

GasBandit

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OK, maybe not the thread for this, but I wanted to say this somewhere. Previously, I'd only seen some of the "earlier" South Park episodes - by which I pretty much mean Kenny died every episode.
Recently, due to changes in my dinner time and there being absolutely nothing on except a SP marathon, I've been watching a lot of newer episodes - season 15-ish.
First of all, when the heck did this become "the Butters show"? I've seen 10 or 15 episodes over the past few days, and all of them were either about Butters, or Cartman and Butters. And really, fuck Butters.
Secondly, Jesus do these episodes suck. I mean, Simpsons still has good episodes even if a bit of the old spark is gone. This is....just unfunny.
You missed a lot of character development between seasons 3 and 15.
 

GasBandit

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Ok, I just went back and looked, and you be trippin. Season 15 was a riot.

Royal Pudding? Hilarious. As is tradition.

The Tweenwave two part episode too (You're Getting Old and Ass Burgers).

Crack Baby Athletic Association was a great lampooning of the problems with the NCAA.

Last of the Meeheecans made me laugh so god damned much.

Broadway Brodown. Another classic.

Just know you can skip season twenty all together!
And you're tripping too. The troll arc is great.

You guys just have sand in your vaginas.
 
I'm with Gas on this one: Season 15 had some of the show's strongest episodes in years and the years they've done with continuity have been great. Especially the police brutality one.
 
My Entire Highschool Sinking Into the Sea



So I had about 2 hours to burn today after finals, so I went to the Gateway Film Center near OSU and saw this. I was one of three people in the audience. I... I don't even know how to discribe this movie. It's... Posiden Adventure in a High School, if the entire thing was an analogy for the high school experience and how it destroys people... and how sometimes the only people who actually care are people you never noticed at all. It doesn't shy away from the fact that you can both be right about something AND be an asshole that no one wants to be around. This is a movie about the cruelty of the people you don't even think about and how they might have done horrible things for the right reasons.

But it's mostly Daria, if it was an action movie and Daria was a guy. I guess it's worth a watch if you get a chance? It's only 75 minutes. Just... have friends with you.
 
My Entire Highschool Sinking Into the Sea



So I had about 2 hours to burn today after finals, so I went to the Gateway Film Center near OSU and saw this. I was one of three people in the audience. I... I don't even know how to discribe this movie. It's... Posiden Adventure in a High School, if the entire thing was an analogy for the high school experience and how it destroys people... and how sometimes the only people who actually care are people you never noticed at all. It doesn't shy away from the fact that you can both be right about something AND be an asshole that no one wants to be around. This is a movie about the cruelty of the people you don't even think about and how they might have done horrible things for the right reasons.

But it's mostly Daria, if it was an action movie and Daria was a guy. I guess it's worth a watch if you get a chance? It's only 75 minutes. Just... have friends with you.
This reminds me of one of the best low-budget movies I've ever seen: Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain.
I wish someone would upload this to YouTube or something. It would be an instant cult classic. Seriously, I'd rate it right alongside the original Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

--Patrick
 
This reminds me of one of the best low-budget movies I've ever seen: Housesitter: The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain.
I wish someone would upload this to YouTube or something. It would be an instant cult classic. Seriously, I'd rate it right alongside the original Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

--Patrick
That's sort of how I feel about this one. This is the kind of movie you watch with close friends and basically talk over. Or while on drugs. Lots of drugs.
 

GasBandit

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I tried to make a funny at Underling 2 with a Simpsons reference. His blank look made me realize the gag I was referencing aired before he was born.

I mean, I know they've been around forever, but I never thought I'd see the day where a Simpsons reference wasn't mainstream youth culture >_<
 
I tried to make a funny at Underling 2 with a Simpsons reference. His blank look made me realize the gag I was referencing aired before he was born.

I mean, I know they've been around forever, but I never thought I'd see the day where a Simpsons reference wasn't mainstream youth culture >_<
Monorail!
 
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