What Are You Watching? |Special Edition|

[Mystie]

Holy crap! I didn't know they started making Homestar Runner cartoons again!

*goes to homestarrunner.com to see what she missed*

[Marth]

Yuyu Hakusho. I forgot how great it is.

[Gwen]

Sixteen Candles

Gotta love the 80s, sexual angst, cussing, unnecessary naked shots all wrapped in an awesome PG rating, good stuff.

[Virt]

Well this thread hasn't been posted in for a while.

I just watched "The Wind Rises." It was actually a really inspiring film.

[puggsoy]

Saw "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared". It's not as good as the book, they removed a couple of things but also added a couple of things so it was still very enjoyable.

[Goemar]

I am watching so much fantastic bad-TV. Storage Wars and Moonshiners. So so good...

[~Axis~]

Who hasnt watched this yet???

[puggsoy]

Finished Over The Garden Wall last week. Now I know why people keep saying how good it is. Really nice ending.

Also watching Samurai Jack from the beginning now

[E-Man]

Speaking of the latter, I only watched Samurai Jack and handful of times when I was younger. It was not bad.

Now that I keep hearing people stating how awesome of a show it is, I'm dying to rewatch it again and fully appreciate it.

[Kosheh]

I am watching so much fantastic bad-TV. Storage Wars

i'm so sorry


My girlfriend told me about this show on Netflix and now neither of us can stop watching it. (Yeah, Netflix only. Sorry guys )

It's called the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

It's written by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and holy god doohickey jesus why is it so GOOD

So, basically the show centers around the titular character, Kimmy (who's 29) who spent 15 years in an underground cult in Indiana with three other women who were groomed and believed that the end of the world already happened and that they were the lone survivors...until they're rescued by a SWAT team. They're interviewed by Matt Lauer (ironically so as the reason the news story is popular is because of the interview of a witness to the scene was an Autotune the News clip [which, also is the themesong for the show]) on Good Morning America and on their drive back to the airport, Kimmy realizes that she doesn't want to go back to Indiana and would rather stay in New York, and thus begins Kimmy's adventures to living and adjusting to life in New York City.

Given it's a pretty serious plot with plenty of dark issues that are just brushed under the rug, the show never really takes itself seriously - which is arguably a good thing in this case (just watch it, dammit). The show is seldom gloomy, if ever and there's never really a dull moment; it's laughs from beginning to end - especially because Kimmy is like a big 14-year-old and she's doing a lot of things For The First Time Ever and...her approach to everything when it's shitty is always so positive and IT'S SO GOOD
(for example, the first "sensible things" she does with her quarter of the shittons of money given to her by charities is buy shoes with light-up soles and buy 5 pounds of candy from Dylan's Candy Bar "for dinner")

I think probably the best part is that given the circumstances Kimmy is in, she's probably the most normal person out of the entire cast of characters on the show. :V

[Kosheh]

Double posting hell yeah I love double posting

I watched Big Hero 6 last night.
There was so much LENS FLARE but idk, I feel like The Incredibles did it better though all-in-all this is an excellent teenish Disney movie and I'll totally accept this for now while I wait for The Incredibles 2


I don't know what it is, but I'm incredibly attracted to CGI women. I mean like, Gogo was kinda cool in the film (the punky cool girl who's all 'g2gfast') and Honey Lemon was cute, but they're both these polarizing, nauseating stereotypes.

I really like Hiro's Aunt Cass.



help, Cinemarella couldn't put up with all my pining. "Why did they make Hiro's aunt SO HOT? OH MY GOD HELP WHY AM I ATTRACTED TO DISNEY MOMS"

"[KOSHEH] I think you just need to accept it. You have a thing for moms. You think my coworker who's like 50 is really hot and it weirds the shit out of me. I think you need to just suck it up and admit you like moms."

it's official VGR, I love moms

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Though, now that I'm looking at the character, I'm kinda realizing that the lead (Hiro) and his brother (Tadashi) have a mysteriously Caucasian aunt with brown hair and Rapunzel's face, as if having an all-Asian lead family would have been like this super-spooky taboo in a cartoon.

...what's weirder though is her name in canon is Cass HAMADA - on Hiro's dad's side of the family, so like
Hiro's dad would been like, Japanese, and his wife was also Japanese, and
then Hiro's aunt has a Japanese last name and there's no depth into Hiro's uncle soooooo she just married him for the name, the joy of staring at a bunch of Japanese shit in her house and more or less purely so she'd be related to Hiro?

Uh, okay Disney

[Lemonray]

The weeb is strong with this one.

[Kosheh]

The weeb is strong with this one.

eh I didn't know actually wanting casting choices to remain consistent is weeaboo, but OK.

I don't want the main characters flashing peace signs and peppering their conversations with basic Japanese, girls busting through doors shouting "KONNICHIWA MINNASAN oh Hiro your misutaa roboto is so KAWAII DESU" or anything. But if they can't properly explain why the aunt of two Japanese children has a Japanese last name (hence she's from the father's side of the family), covers her house in Japanese shit, but isn't Japanese...I feel like the movie's being weebier than me at this point.


I mean sure, the character serves the role they're meant to play: the single caretaker of two boys, and the movie's scripting/scenario does a great job at portraying it. There's enough suspension of disbelief throughout the movie that you don't really question it while watching the film, and I didn't realize it honestly until afterward. But in hindsight, there's like a crater of a plothole here.
Of course no one's gonna think hard about it, but...yeah, what the heck.

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On weebiness though:
I think the original comic, though is far more weebier.

Disney sorta whitewashed everything about this film to appeal to a broader audience stateside, I guess; the characters barely resemble the original comic, honestly - but that might be a good thing because the original comic's characters and setting seem a lot more bland in comparison now. :/

[Enchlore]

I've been starting the Japanese Spider-Man tokusatsu series, something I wanted to do since I was 8 or so.

Right in the first episode there's so much spider imagery that I'm glad I didn't get to watch it when I was younger.

[Kosheh]

I've been starting the Japanese Spider-Man tokusatsu series, something I wanted to do since I was 8 or so.

Right in the first episode there's so much spider imagery that I'm glad I didn't get to watch it when I was younger.

I'm not sure if this is an OK question here, but is there a fairly legitimate method of viewing said tokusatsu series? You know, that doesn't require me opening up a download manager of some sort?

I've been dying to see it, and if it's available on like, Netflix I'm all over that omg

every time he does that pose like 3 times, makes his declaration, and shouts SUPAIDAMAN I absolutely lose it