I'm up to Reality Bites now. ARGH "GEN X" MOVIES. I was a senior in high school in 1994. You fuckers are post-grads. I'M NOT YOUR AGE.. I CAN'T RELATE. I certainly can't slack off and waste my parents' money like you rejects from a John Hughes script can. :P
This is why I feel like I identify more with Gen Y...aside from being a late bloomer who's immature for his age, it seems like there's fewer stupid assholes. :(
Yeah, I'm kind of baffled as to whose idea that was. Setting aside the possibility that someone on the staff was a huge Outkast fan and just wanted an excuse to hire Big Boi for something... I've read interviews with the head writers, and neither of them seem even close to that clueless?
However, I still find some of the more dramatic assertions of misogyny and racism a little overblown, to say the least. All I can think is, "Are we watching the same show...?"
It's not too difficult for me to believe that a show set in what is essentially medieval Europe + dragons would host a good deal of misogyny and racism, the question is whether the show goes to any length to condemn said misogyny and racism, or whether it is simply left there to swelter and stink up the whole affair like a particularly unpleasant piece of roadkill.
It does the latter, but not generally in an anvil-over-the-head way.
Although there are certainly some... blunt moments. Like the liberation of Astapor. Daaaaamn.
That's where I was going with this...it looks like it has something to say, but the way it's written is just really, really...turgid, I guess? It desperately needs an editor.
That's where I was going with this...it looks like it has something to say, but the way it's written is just really, really...turgid, I guess? It desperately needs an editor.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
As for eighties kids: In my time on RetroJunk I found it highly alienating that most of the members believed the half-hour toy commercials of that decade were the pinnacle of animation and everything made from 2000 (or, in the more extreme cases, 1995 or 1990) onward was junk
One of the only '80s cartoons that seems any good, more for its animation than its writing, is Inspector Gadget
Speaking of which, I keep wanting to watch more of Get Smart because Don Adams is hella appealing
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
The 80's were not good years for American animation, for the most part. Some interesting stuff came out, but mostly those were dark days.
I really liked Rescue Rangers, but it's also not exactly a technical showcase. Wang had a bad habit of zooming in on black lines without redrawing them, and it seems like it showed up even more on CDRR than it did on TTA!
Transformers was good, too, when they let Toei do their thing (AKOM sucks), and pretty much everything DiC made before, oh, the C&D split was pretty good because a shocking amount of it is technically dubbed anime...
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
The 80's were not good years for American animation, for the most part. Some interesting stuff came out, but mostly those were dark days.
I know...
And at times I wonder if the '70s were worse. They generally seemed to lack the 1980s' crass commercialism, but the ONLY cartoons from the '70s anyone remembers are Scooby-Doo and Fat Albert; everything else is stuck in the cultural dumpster, on Boomerang, or whatever the hell channel that DreamWorks Classics has convinced to run their back catalog now.
Lee, does C&D refer to Creativité et Developpement? I only ever saw their logo in the wild at the end of Hub reruns of Conan the Adventurer in 2011...it's actually pretty clever
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
The 1970s had a lot (and I mean a lot) of Scooby-Doo copycats. The ones that weren't just Scooby-Doo copycats were tie-ins with something else IN SPACE...and typically were Scooby-Doo or The Archies ripoffs on top of that.
For all the weird animated movies that made it into theaters between Walt's death and An American Tail, TV animation was really, really bland. At least Filmation was weird enough to be entertaining. :| Most of the really creative stuff was live-action and more often than not a Krofft production.
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
you forgot The Real Ghostbusters
I tried to watch the first episode of it and I could not get into it
Peter Venkman sounds too much like Garfield, for one thing
I like individual cartoons, but I honestly don't care enough about the medium itself to compare different "ages" and argue which is better or worse. So I'm baffled by the endless internet discussion of the same.
1980s cartoons that aren't complete shit: G.I. Joe if only for being fun cheese, Inspector Gadget, DuckTales, Garfield and Friends (there's a reason that this thing has popped up in reruns every now and then instead of just vanishing into the vaults like most other cartoons of the decade), Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (not my cup of tea but whatever)
you forgot The Real Ghostbusters
I tried to watch the first episode of it and I could not get into it
Peter Venkman sounds too much like Garfield, for one thing
Does it get better later?
Well, kid!Imi watched it endlessly. So there must be something good about it...
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
To be honest, that reminds me of the time that I became obsessed with Brandy & Mr. Whiskers in part because I wondered what the hell the Disney Channel's promotional push for it was about.
I re-watched it years later and found it to be really awful
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It has a meaning, it is just stupid.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
IT'S HAPPENING
What a strange and surreal game. I like it a lot, but I got stuck in a rock and have yet to start over to get back to where I was.
Li'l bit immersion breaking, that.