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The only good thing about Dragonball is Akira Toriyama's art.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I bloody don’t hate it!

I greatly enjoyed the lesser known, knock-off live action movie version.

I just don’t see the appeal, based on what I’ve seen of Dragonball Z, and its whole “very little happens for a long time, then quite a lot happens in a very short time” shtick.

If others enjoy it? All power to them. It’s just not for me.

You may be thinking of my General “I just don’t get it” take on most, but not all anime.

Which Live Action DragonBall movies? The Interwebs mention 2 of them...

There's one from Korea "Dragon Ball: Son Goku Fights, Son Goku Wins", and one from Taiwan "Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins", as far as I am aware. They are both charming in their own ways, I think.

We do not speak of the American live action knock-off movie.

Dune Prophecy

In-flight entertainment, and its rather good, isn’t it,

Did try Kraven out of sheer, morbid curiosity. But…just….no.

US TV

So, it’s 3:49am in New York. But my brain knows it’s really 8:49am and won’t sleep further right now.

Telly is therefore on. Oh man, the ads are doing my nut! Not only do I only very, very rarely watch broadcast TV back home, and so am not used to ads. Some of them are quite odd to me. And so frequent!

3:49 am is a great time to visit Times Square.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
US TV

So, it’s 3:49am in New York. But my brain knows it’s really 8:49am and won’t sleep further right now.

Telly is therefore on. Oh man, the ads are doing my nut! Not only do I only very, very rarely watch broadcast TV back home, and so am not used to ads. Some of them are quite odd to me. And so frequent!

We do not own a TV set and whenever I am in a cinema (rarely) I am reminded how dumb and intrusive commercials are, because I do not see them on day to day basis. It is always a culture shock of sorts.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
3:49 am is a great time to visit Times Square.

Perhaps, but only here for a week, and need to sort jet lag now.

Binged through the latest Devil May Cry anime and its... enjoyable? It's definitely not good and its not a very good adaptation by most measures, but its fun and the franchise is always more about being fun than anything. Also the last 5 minutes are the purest form of "subtext is for cowards" I've ever seen.

It actually annoyed me, not because I disagreed with the message per se, but because 'we're using demons as a metaphor for politics' is the most hamfisted backward ass look me in the eye and tell me you don't see the problem with this metaphor move the director could have made.

Honestly, the weirdest thing about that show is that there is one 10/10 episode in it, and its the episode that has really jack all to do with Devil May Cry and it is unfathomably better than the rest of the show by being a bit too disconnected.

Scavengers Reign

A neat little animated, sci-fi series about people stranded on a rather hostile, alien world.

I rather enjoyed it, could've done with being shorter, quite a few episodes boil down to nightmarish monster/environmental hazard of the week (And there was one whole subplot I just didn't get), but I loved how bizarre and alien the planet was depicted as, even if it occasionally veered into the absurdly convoluted.

I was preparing to scream at my TV over the ending, but it turns out I didn't have to.

 LordofHats wrote:
It actually annoyed me, not because I disagreed with the message per se, but because 'we're using demons as a metaphor for politics' is the most hamfisted backward ass look me in the eye and tell me you don't see the problem with this metaphor move the director could have made.

Honestly, the weirdest thing about that show is that there is one 10/10 episode in it, and its the episode that has really jack all to do with Devil May Cry and it is unfathomably better than the rest of the show by being a bit too disconnected.

Yeah, you could try to ask some very big questions about who the monsters really are, but then the series is also happy to revel in ultraviolence without ever giving it meaning so it just ends up coming across as thoughtless. It definitely tries to have its cake and eat it too in that regard. I feel like if they had made the rabbit's crew more direct parallels to Lady's agents there could be something, but ultimately its just kind of like, "killing bad, except when it looks cool."

 LunarSol wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
It actually annoyed me, not because I disagreed with the message per se, but because 'we're using demons as a metaphor for politics' is the most hamfisted backward ass look me in the eye and tell me you don't see the problem with this metaphor move the director could have made.

Honestly, the weirdest thing about that show is that there is one 10/10 episode in it, and its the episode that has really jack all to do with Devil May Cry and it is unfathomably better than the rest of the show by being a bit too disconnected.

Yeah, you could try to ask some very big questions about who the monsters really are, but then the series is also happy to revel in ultraviolence without ever giving it meaning so it just ends up coming across as thoughtless. It definitely tries to have its cake and eat it too in that regard. I feel like if they had made the rabbit's crew more direct parallels to Lady's agents there could be something, but ultimately its just kind of like, "killing bad, except when it looks cool."

Soooo.... worth watching?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
It actually annoyed me, not because I disagreed with the message per se, but because 'we're using demons as a metaphor for politics' is the most hamfisted backward ass look me in the eye and tell me you don't see the problem with this metaphor move the director could have made.

Honestly, the weirdest thing about that show is that there is one 10/10 episode in it, and its the episode that has really jack all to do with Devil May Cry and it is unfathomably better than the rest of the show by being a bit too disconnected.

Yeah, you could try to ask some very big questions about who the monsters really are, but then the series is also happy to revel in ultraviolence without ever giving it meaning so it just ends up coming across as thoughtless. It definitely tries to have its cake and eat it too in that regard. I feel like if they had made the rabbit's crew more direct parallels to Lady's agents there could be something, but ultimately its just kind of like, "killing bad, except when it looks cool."

Soooo.... worth watching?

It's under 4 hours and regularly has some cool fight scenes. I've definitely spent more time on worse.

I could list faults for days, particularly as a DMC fan. I wouldn't call it a good respresentation of the source material, but then again, the source material has never let telling a good story get in the way of looking cool, so maybe it's a better representation than I think?

I definitely don't regret watching it, if only for the the opportunity to discuss some of its..... choices.

As a mediocre action series..... it was fine.

I actually watched it, but forgot I had watched it and never put anything up here.