To piggy back on top of this, I have a room setup for this kind of thing on both synchtbe.6irc and cytu.be (synchtube is a fork of cytu.be, both made from the same code) at http://synchtube.6irc.net/r/HeapersHangoutAltJukebox and http://cytu.be/r/heapershangoutaltjukebox respectively, so if you use either of those streaming services, we have a dedicated room set up to use.
Father shall be swallowed by the son, and brother shall be swallowed by brother.
So, the Black Cauldron
was merely "okay", neither a great in Disney's catalog nor utterly repulsive
though it had some inspired bits, on the whole, it was a bit too bland for its own good (and, as basically everyone pointed out, felt too Star Wars-y without the same level of impact)
“Alice is like Princess Kaguya, except instead of being found in a stalk of bamboo and sending suitors on impossible quests, she was found in a toy store and eats all the candy.” – Fossilmaiden
I missed the screening, unfortunately, but it's worth noting that the story is basically the Cliff Notes version of a series of books that was explicitly written to riff on the clichés and archetypal narrative themes in Arthurian and traditional Welsh fantasy stories.
Also the Horned King is the real villain's lieutenant in the books; apparently they only vaguely allude to Arawn in the film with the implication of what the cauldron contains.
I missed the screening, unfortunately, but it's worth noting that the story is basically the Cliff Notes version of a series of books that was explicitly written to riff on the clichés and archetypal narrative themes in Arthurian and traditional Welsh fantasy stories.
Also the Horned King is the real villain's lieutenant in the books; apparently they only vaguely allude to Arawn in the film with the implication of what the cauldron contains.
There's an exposition dump at the beginning about how the Cauldron was created by the gods sealing a super-evil king inside a cauldron but it doesn't get brought up again.
Also they never explain what the Horned King's deal is.
Next stream is at the same time. This time we'll be watching a youtube queue of old cartoons(Felix the Cat, Popeye, characters you haven't heard of) on synchtube. If anyone has any suggestions, get them in.
I think the strength of old Fleischer cartoons was that they knew nothing mattered in the anarchic world of cartoon shorts, so they weren't afraid to go dark.
Also, despite it being one of the weakest cartoons of the night, "Frozen Frolics" still gave me the seal playing the snowshoe. I am totally using that seal as an avatar at some point. Just sayin'.
You know, this is probably too fucked up and weird even for this venue, but the experimental animated film Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki is on YouTube. It's only about fifty minutes long and was literally the sole work of one director mostly known in later years as a storyboard artist and key animator. It's based on one of Suehiro Maruo's surrealist horror manga and apparently it's hella messed up.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I will not want h that for less than 48 Rozpoints, and everyone starts with 36.
Any of the following will get you 12 rozpoints:
The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskina
The Man From Snowy River
The Adventures of Tintin
The thief And The Cobbler, any version
The Secret Of Kells
Water ship Down
Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival
Merriam Webster's new Collegiate Dictionary, Ninth Edition
The Pogo Special Birthday Special.
DOOOOOO IT!
Now would be a good time to grab synchtube accounts for the chat.
It was clearly be pulled in several directions, and it doesn't go far enough in any of them.
Also they never explain what the Horned King's deal is.
I forgot I have a busy day Thursday
I totally forgot.
i mean it's not a bad cartoon or anything but still
it's neat how "experimental" it was in 1928 though, in a "there are no conventions yet" way rather than a "fuck conventions" way