Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
Doctor. wrote:Some people just aren't into movies. Personally speaking, I can't sit through a 2 hour movie without having the urge to pause it for half an hour and do something else. Only time this is an exception is when I'm at the cinema with friends and can occasionally make quick remarks about the plot. You can't really blame people for preferring quicker, faster-paced formats such as cartoons and animated films (which usually have a lower runtime). Even as someone who holds literature above every other medium, the appeal of reading a book is that you can pause, re-read and reflect. Can't really do something like that with a 2-hour flick in the same way you can with, say, a 24-minute anime episode.
Well, this is off-topic but I've meant to watch The Godfather trilogy although I've yet to because those movies are really long. Just today I binged Sneaky Pete Season 2 and loved it but that was split to a season of 10.
The first two Godfather movies are, in my opinion, strong contenders for the greatest movie ever made (moreso the first one for me, but the second has its fans). The third is...a thing that exists, and isn't bad, per say. I recommend watching the first two, for sure. And read the book too, it's great.
(Enter Kunzait to blast a Goodfellas diatribe at me )
Metalwario64 wrote:
I'm so glad I don't fit in that category. I love those movies. And even in that other thread, I've seen Videodrome as well.
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Reminds me when my friend told me that his class was shock at learning that pornographic films like Deep Throat were once shown in theaters and how none of his students know what Mystery Science Theater 3000 is. I would imagine them must be close to my age in their mid-late 20's.
I'm 27, myself. Even when I was young, I wasn't stubbornly fixated on the "new and the now" like 99% of other kids seem to be. I've always been curious about older games, movies, music and TV shows (Columbo is my favorite detective series, for example).
"Kenshi is sitting down right now drawing his mutated spaghetti monsters thinking he's the shit..."--Neptune Kai "90% of you here don't even know what you're talking about (there are a few that do). But the things you say about these releases are nonsense and just plain dumb. Like you Metalwario64"--final_flash
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Doctor. wrote:Some people just aren't into movies. Personally speaking, I can't sit through a 2 hour movie without having the urge to pause it for half an hour and do something else. Only time this is an exception is when I'm at the cinema with friends and can occasionally make quick remarks about the plot. You can't really blame people for preferring quicker, faster-paced formats such as cartoons and animated films (which usually have a lower runtime). Even as someone who holds literature above every other medium, the appeal of reading a book is that you can pause, re-read and reflect. Can't really do something like that with a 2-hour flick in the same way you can with, say, a 24-minute anime episode.
Well, this is off-topic but I've meant to watch The Godfather trilogy although I've yet to because those movies are really long. Just today I binged Sneaky Pete Season 2 and loved it but that was split to a season of 10.
The first two Godfather movies are, in my opinion, strong contenders for the greatest movie ever made (moreso the first one for me, but the second has its fans). The third is...a thing that exists, and isn't bad, per say. I recommend watching the first two, for sure. And read the book too, it's great.
(Enter Kunzait to blast a Goodfellas diatribe at me )
I like Godfather III outside of Sophia Coppola. Also prefer the Godfather series as a whole over Scorsese's gangster films.
On topic, I have no idea. If I had to guess, I'd assume it's because it is less actiony than DBZ.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
Metalwario64 wrote:
I'm so glad I don't fit in that category. I love those movies. And even in that other thread, I've seen Videodrome as well.
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Reminds me when my friend told me that his class was shock at learning that pornographic films like Deep Throat were once shown in theaters and how none of his students know what Mystery Science Theater 3000 is. I would imagine them must be close to my age in their mid-late 20's.
I'm 27, myself. Even when I was young, I wasn't stubbornly fixated on the "new and the now" like 99% of other kids seem to be. I've always been curious about older games, movies, music and TV shows (Columbo is my favorite detective series, for example).
Same here.
"It was deemed to be too awesome." - Scott McNeil on Dragon Ball Kai not being aired yet in Canada.
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