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Saul Goodman said:
I've never met him but I always saw him as a horrible creep. He reminds me of the milk monitor from junior school, who believes he got the gig because people like him. He seems to thrive off putting other people down and laughing at his own shit jokes. I'd put him on a par with David Walliams.
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Ah right. I have also met Walliams . . . and I would not put them together. Walliams is utterly slimy and horrible. He makes my skin crawl. He's like a snooty slimy alien. Really odd. His on camera persona switches on when the camera rolls and then turns off again. Granted I have only come across him only a few times over several years, and don't know him on a personal level. . . but other people have said similar and other celebs of the same ilk don't act like he does. Ugh.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Ah right. I have also met Walliams . . . and I would not put them together. Walliams is utterly slimy and horrible. He makes my skin crawl.
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That's exactly how I feel about him. Every time I see his face I shudder. Gervais is obviously nowhere near as creepy as Walliams, I doubt anybody could be, but they're both creepy, nasty people who think they're funny but aren't.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Ah right. I have also met Walliams . . . and I would not put them together. Walliams is utterly slimy and horrible. He makes my skin crawl. He's like a snooty slimy alien. Really odd. His on camera persona switches on when the camera rolls and then turns off again. Granted I have only come across him only a few times over several years, and don't know him on a personal level. . . but other people have said similar and other celebs of the same ilk don't act like he does. Ugh.
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Yep Walliams is vile to me when the camera is rolling too.
 
T & P said:
Watched the first of the brand new Fear Street trilogy films. The first one dropped tonight, the other two being released in the next two weeks.

They’re basically a kind of ‘Stranger Things meets Scream’, each film set in a different decade around the same setting. They’re based in the novels of the same name written by R L Stine, the author of countless teenage horror/ fantasy stories.

Haven’t read the books but the consensus is that this is bloodier and much more adult themed than the books, even if still teenage-ish.

For much of it this first instalment, the film felt like any other slasher flick, but it does pick up towards its climax, and as it ends (completely unresolved) and you’re given a sneak preview of next week’s prequel second film, it ended up feeling a much more decent production, even if still nothing more than 6/10 and a poor man’s Stranger Things. But so long as you don’t go in with high expectations, recommended as mindless fodder if you have nothing to watch.

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All very very meh until the end where there are two surprising deaths (mostly surprising because nobody else of importance dies and nobody dies in an interesting way.
The mystery doesn't come up until about half way, and it doesn't feel like a mystery of much consequence, or in fact much mystery, as they figure it out straight away (the bit that matters).
Worst of all, at the end nobody seems to give a shit that their mates died horrible deaths just moments before in close proximity.

Feels like it's too long and missing the mark. Not enough intrigue, not enough scares, not enough style. . . .it also sort of feels like it thinks it's something a lot better than it actually is, which makes me a tad annoyed.

And they were gunning it a bit with the soundtrack.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
All very very meh until the end where there are two surprising deaths (mostly surprising because nobody else of importance dies and nobody dies in an interesting way.
The mystery doesn't come up until about half way, and it doesn't feel like a mystery of much consequence, or in fact much mystery, as they figure it out straight away (the bit that matters).
Worst of all, at the end nobody seems to give a shit that their mates died horrible deaths just moments before in close proximity.

Feels like it's too long and missing the mark. Not enough intrigue, not enough scares, not enough style. . . .it also sort of feels like it thinks it's something a lot better than it actually is, which makes me a tad annoyed.

And they were gunning it a bit with the soundtrack.
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It did feel rather too long to me also. And whereas I suspect the books this is based on have a different vibe, this film felt like shamelessly jumping on the current 80s/ 90s nostalgia (which might explain the soundtrack).

But I’ll be watching the second one next week, which feels might be better and where this trilogy comes into its own.
 
T & P said:
It did feel rather too long to me also. And whereas I suspect the books this is based on have a different vibe, this film felt like shamelessly jumping on the current 80s/ 90s nostalgia (which might explain the soundtrack).

But I’ll be watching the second one next week, which feels might be better and where this trilogy comes into its own.
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I just wish the mystery was enough to warrant the time jumps, as that sounds quite interesting. However the 'rules' and internal logic that were in place for the first film were all revealed at once, then the film revealed 'the witch will find a way', which seems to mean she can do whatever the fuck she wants, and just control the girl anyway.
Sure we may eventually find out why the witch is doing this, (or is it just that people touch her bones?) but so far I don't care about that.

And why were sometime the ghouls after the girl like that was the only goal, and sometimes just killing everyone?

The more I think about it the more I hate it. . . . And yeah, it probably was trying to do a 90s stranger things vibe, but 90s movie soundtrack scores were not as hip as Tron and John Carpenter are today. . . So I guess they just threw in every late 80s/ 90s song they could think of. . . .
 
Artaxerxes said:
Akira is on Netflix so I'm happy
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Have not seen it since I was about 14. I remember wondering what all the fuss was about. Horrible music, boring film.
Accidentally flipped it on for a couple of minutes this evening. I've never seen it in Japanese. It's immediately so much better than I recall. I think we will probably watch the whole thing later. I'm stepping up my Japanese language practice and trying to watch as many shows without subs as possible.

Anyway, looks much more interesting than I remember. Not sure why I thought it was so boring.
 
I just watched the first instalment of Fear Street.
I quite enjoyed the nostalgic feeling as I was about 15 in 1994 :D
I mostly enjoyed it but I also thought that some of the killings were not right.

The final 5 teenagers should have all lived imho.
They were portraying a teen slasher film and the rules really felt like they all deserved to live.
The film didn't do anything outstandingly different enough to warrant breaking that kind of contract iysim?

It did remind me how much a loved White Zombie at that age though and I basically listened to Astro-Creep 2000 on repeat :D :oops:
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Have not seen it since I was about 14. I remember wondering what all the fuss was about. Horrible music, boring film.
Accidentally flipped it on for a couple of minutes this evening. I've never seen it in Japanese. It's immediately so much better than I recall. I think we will probably watch the whole thing later. I'm stepping up my Japanese language practice and trying to watch as many shows without subs as possible.

Anyway, looks much more interesting than I remember. Not sure why I thought it was so boring.
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Dubs are fucking awful thats why. Subtitles all the way.
 
Artaxerxes said:
Dubs are fucking awful thats why. Subtitles all the way.
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Was pretty much the first Japanese anime to hit the UK. I think all dubs until after the turn of the century were notoriously bad.
Perhaps the only anime we were exposed to in the uk before that might have been Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). Cities of Gold, Ulysses, and Dogtanian were too, but they were joint productions with other European companies so don't really count.
 
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stick with it, the first 10 minutes need some acclimatising to work out the tone, but once you get into it its special
 
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ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Was pretty much the first Japanese anime to hit the UK. I think all dubs until after the turn of the century were notoriously bad.
Perhaps the only anime we were exposed to in the uk before that might have been Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). Cities of Gold, Ulysses, and Dogtanian were too, but they were joint productions with other European companies so don't really count.
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This was the first, watched it as a kid

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Sweet Tooth is so charming. I've watched five episodes so far. The boy who plays the main character is so good. And Adeel Akhtar is in it too - he played Wilson Wilson in Utopia, which was really good too.
 
Saul Goodman said:
Give over. Monkey was ace! :D
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Monkey was not anime and was dealt with as a 'proper' BBC dramatic production so I don't feel it really counts. Star Fleet / X Bomber would count too if you are going down that route.
Interestingly Xbomber never even finished it's run in Japan, and unlike the USA this is not common at all. It was incredibly unpopular and even though production had been completed only half of it was transmitted. The UK was the only country that originally got the whole show. It blew my mind as a kid, but is actually a pretty generic 'giant robo' connecting robot spaceship anime 24 ep series. . . just done with puppets (re runs of thunderbirds were very popular at the time in Japan.)
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Goodness!
Broadcast in 1969 in the UK so I was too young. Didn't know.
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I remember it being shown in the mid seventies during school holidays. Somewhere alongside Why Don't You? and The Man from Atlantis. There was a Marine Boy club in my street. One of my neighbours made hand drawn membership cards. I had no idea it was anime until now though tbh.
 
I avoid dubs like hell, but at least for animation they are less jarring than for live action, as even the original is a dub anyway. I watched dubbed versions of Miyazaki films with a young children, who couldn't have watched them with subtitles. The later dubs were done by Disney with famous actors and they are pretty good. I remember seeing an awful early dub of My Neighbour Totoro at the ICA where the children's voices were dubbed unconvincingly by adult female actors adopting squeaky voices.
 
Part 2 said:
I remember it being shown in the mid seventies during school holidays. Somewhere alongside Why Don't You? and The Man from Atlantis. There was a Marine Boy club in my street. One of my neighbours made hand drawn membership cards. I had no idea it was anime until now though tbh.
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I don't think I was allowed to watch TV in the mornings and in the day on school holidays. I remember watching a little, but in general it was a no no.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Was pretty much the first Japanese anime to hit the UK. I think all dubs until after the turn of the century were notoriously bad.
Perhaps the only anime we were exposed to in the uk before that might have been Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets). Cities of Gold, Ulysses, and Dogtanian were too, but they were joint productions with other European companies so don't really count.
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Cowboy Bebop's dub is pretty good, but that's the only pre-2000 series I can think of. (and just mentioning it means I have to go and watch the opening credits on YT again) In films, Princess Mononoke wasn't too awful but that's a high-budget Disney import so you'd expect it to be half-decent.
 
Chz said:
Cowboy Bebop's dub is pretty good, but that's the only pre-2000 series I can think of. (and just mentioning it means I have to go and watch the opening credits on YT again) In films, Princess Mononoke wasn't too awful but that's a high-budget Disney import so you'd expect it to be half-decent.
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Never understood what people saw in bebop though I did 'ape' the titles for a music video many years ago.

I don't remember the dub being good. I think I tolerated the Evangellion dubs, and thought they were ok at the time bar all the kids, though to be fair all the kids sound dreadful and annoying in Japanese too.

Mononoke has an absolutely horrible english dub. Absolute shit. They just threw a load of famous US actors at it.
 
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