Wasn't there a hanna barbara cartoon about a random assortment of character traveling around in a hot air balloon trying to find a place unspoiled by modern civilization? And every time they had to leave a new place because civilation fucked up, they sang the same song.
"We're on our way to the perfect place, the perfect place" is emblazoned on my brain for all time.
EDIT: Yogi's Ark Lark.
Honestly, if I didn't remember the song so vividly, I would have thought I imagined it all.
Bring back Dinosaucers you fucking Hollywood cowards.
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Yogi's Ark Lark was then sort of turned into Yogi's Gang, which is a truly weird one where it's still largely the same cast of animal characters but also every episode is basically them and a villain that represents like... Racism, or Pollution
Give me all the weird 90's cartoons as movies. I want Street Sharks, Mighty Max, Mummies Alive, Biker Mice from Mars, the Mighty Ducks where they are actual alien ducks who fight crime with space hockey
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A SWAT Kats movie. With a score by Keiki Kobayashi (the Ace Combat composer)
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The Last Dinosaur
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Swat Kats always seemed like the most obvious series for a reboot.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Give me all the weird 90's cartoons as movies. I want Street Sharks, Mighty Max, Mummies Alive, Biker Mice from Mars, the Mighty Ducks where they are actual alien ducks who fight crime with space hockey
All of these together in a Suicide Squad movie. No, not a good one, exactly as bad as Suicide Squad, as God intended.
After wearing out tapes of old Chuck Jones cartoons being exposed to Hanna Barbara stuff the disrespect was palpable, disrespect to me a small child
Meanwhile I fucking loved the Hannah-Barbera content I got as a kid.
The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, The Smurfs, and more!
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Centurians and let David DeCoteau film it in his weird porn mansion from A Talking Cat?!?
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when I was a kid my main problem with all the hanna-barbera stuff was that it was presented as comedy, and none of it made me laugh even a single time
the fact that it was so cheap that even I noticed it wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't collectively the most unfunny stuff I saw on television until they revived Hollywood Squares
An interesting thing is that a lot of kids today don't watch TV in the same way so these things that were so integral for a lot of kids is no longer a thing, the re-runs of Loony Toons, Flinstones, Jetsons
That stuff stayed on air for so long cause it filled up space and now there's so much content that it doesn't really matter anymore.
Oh yeah that Monster Hunter movie that everybody thought looked so good came out Im surprised I havent seen more people talkint about how good that good looking shit was
In addition to what Pooro said, it previously cost $20 and every time I've been thinking about spending that I've seen something else for cheaper that I was actually interested in
Was finally on sale for a more reasonable price ($13) the last few days but again, I had other/cheaper stuff I was more interested in*. If it's still on sale Wednesday I'll finally get it
*Finally gonna get to watch An Elephant Sitting Still, looking forward to being bummed out as hell
Monster Hunter is still on sale at that price, so I just bought it. Prob double featuring that and Godzilla v Kong tomorrow, hoping I like at least one of them (post-KOTM I’m skeptical about GvK but I get that for free thanks to cable+HBO Max, so I can’t really pass on seeing it)
What, the Rednex Cotton Eye Joe song, off the Sex and Violins album, nominated for song of the year at the Swedish Grammis awards, which should not be confused with the similar sounding Grammy awards?
Bring back Dinosaucers you fucking Hollywood cowards.
I want to believe the last , Jurassic Park movie, was a prequel to, "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs".
Hey Spielberg, you're welcome!
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Make a Laff a Lympics spiritual sequel involving those disparate anthropomorphic/pop-cultural-zeitgeist teams
- The Biker Mice
- Street Sharks
- Mystery Inc
- Thundercats
- Mummies Alive
- Teddy Ruxpin
- TMNT
- That King Arthur cartoon
- Visionaries
- My Little Pony
Make a Laff a Lympics spiritual sequel involving those disparate anthropomorphic/pop-cultural-zeitgeist teams
- The Biker Mice
- Street Sharks
- Mystery Inc
- Thundercats
- Mummies Alive
- Teddy Ruxpin
- TMNT
- That King Arthur cartoon
- Visionaries
- My Little Pony
Throw in the Extreme Dinosaurs, the Extreme Ghostbusters, and baby, you've got a stew going!
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
I got up to watch Godzilla vs Kong at 4 AM EST this morning (I wanted to wake up at 3:10, but I needed to get at least 5 hours of sleep).
Non-spoiler impressions: I really liked it a lot! My only major complaint is that I wish it had been a little longer, in fact.
Now to get more into detail:
Things I Liked
Godzilla wins! "Looks like round two goes to Kong", spoken minutes before Kong needs what is effectively a giant defibrillator to save him.
Speaking of the defibrillator, was this a subtle nod to King Kong vs Godzilla, where King Kong was strengthened by electricity?
Making Kong effectively the protagonist was an interesting choice. While I'm glad Godzilla was the clear winner with two victories over Kong, one of which could have easily ended with Kong's death, this iteration of Kong put up a great fight and was an agile, weapon-using fighter, making him unique among Godzilla's opponents throughout the franchise. It was cool to see them team-up to defeat MechaGodzilla. It made me care more about Kong than I have before, and giving him essentially a magic weapon (+3 to attack and damage rolls against MechaGodzillas) was fun.
Speaking of MechaGodzilla, interesting that they went the cyborg route like they did in the 2000's with MechaGodzilla Kiryu, but changed it from being derived from Godzilla's to having a brain derived from King Ghidorah. I am curious if MechaGodzilla effectively had one of King Ghidorah's minds, or if it was it's own unique entity despite the source material.
MechaGodzilla preparing to fire a beam down Godzilla's throat was a fun callback to how Godzilla himself finished off the female M.U.T.O. (I wish they'd retcon a better name for those two...). I would say it was also a callback to when Godzilla fired a beam through King Ghidorah's throat, but that time the beam was shot up through the throat and out a severed-yet-still-alive head (STILL SO FUCKING COOL).
The Hollow Earth sequences were very cool, and for a franchise as full of weird stuff and nods to fringe pseudoscience as the Godzilla series is it fits right in. Plus it provides a useful explanation for where the monsters in Godzilla movies go when they aren't attacking cities and where they get their food from.
I need to go back and look at all the stuff Bernie had, I'm 100% certain there are easter eggs. I managed to make out "Mothra: Pregnant?", which implies that not only has Mothra come back to life and reached maturity but is already preparing the egg for her next incarnation.
I'm continuously amused that the "grounded" take on Godzilla in Godzilla 2014 has fully given way to high-tech super-science straight out of the Heisei era of the Japanese Godzilla movies.
Things I Thought Could Have Been Better Explained
Were the other Titans killed offscreen? At the end of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, it seemed like they were all subservient to Godzilla and actively beneficial to the world, but apparently Godzilla defeated at least a portion of them (although I guess, as we see with Kong, "defeated" doesn't mean "dead".
Was the intended pilot for MechaGodzilla Dr. Serizawa's son, or at least a relative? I think that could have used a bit more build-up. I was wondering if we'd see him again after MechaGodzilla went out-of-control, but nope.
How exactly does this mystery power source work? I thought Apex would need a large sample to power MechaGodzilla, but apparently just scanning a small sample and transferring the data works somehow. Is it dangerously radioactive, or is it somehow safe to be around? Does it somehow promote plant growth? Is this what Godzilla actually runs on in the Monsterverse, with nuclear energy just being a substitute? To put it another way, was this the movie's attempt to make Godzilla still powered by "radiation", but a strange variety that isn't dangerous for the human characters to be around?
I've just learned that there are upcoming prequel novels set between Godzilla vs Kong: Godzilla Dominion and Kingdom Kong. Maybe some of these questions will be answered in those books (which I'm definitely going to get my hands on, along with the artbook).
Minor Nitpicks
I found it amusing that getting Kong to the Hollow Earth entrance, and then from there to Kong's species' stronghold in the Hollow Earth took most of the movie, but then Godzilla blasted a hole with his breath all the way down to where Kong was (which was conveniently just below Hong Kong), allowing Kong and everyone else to quickly make it to where MechaGodzilla was being held. I honestly thought Godzilla was blasting down to where MechaGodzilla was held at first. Did Apex build that facility because they knew what they were looking for was below them and previously wanted to try and drill down? This in particular strained by suspension of disbelief, but it got us quickly to the third act, so I'll forgive it.
How come there was this weird vortex thing when everybody entered the Hollow Earth but not when they left? I assumed that it was a phenomenon that just manifested whenever a certain depth was reached, but I guess not?
Random Thoughts
I feel like I remember seeing someone claim that Emma Russell enacted her plan in Godzilla: King of the Monsters due to telepathic manipulation by King Ghidorah (or at least that it was a scrapped concept), but I couldn't find a source last time I looked so I figured maybe I was misremembering someone's suggestion that the movie should have done that. However, this movie establishes that King Ghidorah did have telepathy, so maybe I remembered correctly?
It's interesting that the Monsterverse Godzilla movies have become more faithful to the "traditional" Japanese Godzilla than any of the entries that have come out of Japan in the last decade. Shin Godzilla, Netflix's Godzilla movie trilogy, and now the anime series Godzilla: Singular Point are all pretty big departures from the Godzilla formula.
Seeing as this could potentially be the last MonsterVerse movie (or at least the last one with Godzilla), I wish there had been a little more fanfare to Godzilla's departure.
Am I crazy, or did the flying creatures in the Kong stronghold look like baby Rodans?
Final Thoughts
To be completely, 100% honest, despite acknowledging its flaws, I still like Godzilla: King of the Monsters best out of all of these movies. I really like Godzilla vs Kong, but as a lifelong Godzilla fan KotM was chockful of nearly everything I ever wanted in a big budget Godzilla movie. King Ghidorah had more personality and posed more of a credible threat than ever, Rodan looked extremely cool and also had more personality, Mothra was amazing (as always), we got to see Godzilla's undersea temple (before it got blown up), the Burning Godzilla form appeared in its coolest iteration ever, and Bear McCreary's soundtrack for the movie was absolutely phenomenal. It was honestly very disappointing to see the movie get savaged critically and underperform (although I blame the former on critics perhaps being subconsciously disappointed by the lack of Bryan Cranston and the latter on stiff competition from other major Hollywood releases).
However, I still really enjoyed Godzilla vs Kong. It was a long overdue rematch for the two monsters, it was executed very well, it made me care about Kong more than I did before, it gave us a fantastic journey through the Hollow Earth, and the final battles between Godzilla and Kong and the former two versus MechaGodzilla were a grand spectacle.
Critics are being much more fair to this movie than they were the previous film, and unlike Godzilla: King of the Monsters it doesn't have to compete against multiple high profile movies, so here's hoping it does very well at the box office, too
In the EU, there are deals in place to feature more European movies and series on Netflix / making more content available across countries (which sounds nice, but is really a political move to force money into the European film business).
The end result is often a bit baffling, and while we do get some good stuff out of the deal, it's often just random stuff, like today when an assortment of 1950s Italian comedies and dramas seem to have been dumped - along with Demons 1 and 2!
when I was a kid my main problem with all the hanna-barbera stuff was that it was presented as comedy, and none of it made me laugh even a single time
the fact that it was so cheap that even I noticed it wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't collectively the most unfunny stuff I saw on television until they revived Hollywood Squares
Oh you thought you were supposed to laugh? Oh no, no no no no
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"We're on our way to the perfect place, the perfect place" is emblazoned on my brain for all time.
EDIT: Yogi's Ark Lark.
Honestly, if I didn't remember the song so vividly, I would have thought I imagined it all.
Fuuuuuuuck yesssss I Loved that show
Give
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A SWAT Kats movie. With a score by Keiki Kobayashi (the Ace Combat composer)
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All of these together in a Suicide Squad movie. No, not a good one, exactly as bad as Suicide Squad, as God intended.
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Once Matt realised it was an actual skeleton ball, he had the best day ever.
No no, the Troll Stone Protectors. Who I had the toys of.
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Meanwhile I fucking loved the Hannah-Barbera content I got as a kid.
The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, The Smurfs, and more!
You mean Doozy Bots?
the fact that it was so cheap that even I noticed it wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't collectively the most unfunny stuff I saw on television until they revived Hollywood Squares
That stuff stayed on air for so long cause it filled up space and now there's so much content that it doesn't really matter anymore.
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We’ve found it.
The most 90s thing in existence.
Monster Hunter is still on sale at that price, so I just bought it. Prob double featuring that and Godzilla v Kong tomorrow, hoping I like at least one of them (post-KOTM I’m skeptical about GvK but I get that for free thanks to cable+HBO Max, so I can’t really pass on seeing it)
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I have missed the theater a whole lot, y'all. A whole, whole lot.
What, the Rednex Cotton Eye Joe song, off the Sex and Violins album, nominated for song of the year at the Swedish Grammis awards, which should not be confused with the similar sounding Grammy awards?
I want to believe the last , Jurassic Park movie, was a prequel to, "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs".
Hey Spielberg, you're welcome!
- The Biker Mice
- Street Sharks
- Mystery Inc
- Thundercats
- Mummies Alive
- Teddy Ruxpin
- TMNT
- That King Arthur cartoon
- Visionaries
- My Little Pony
Throw in the Extreme Dinosaurs, the Extreme Ghostbusters, and baby, you've got a stew going!
Someone's never watched Dogma.
Or
Boogity.
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Lil Nas X slaps in general.
Non-spoiler impressions: I really liked it a lot! My only major complaint is that I wish it had been a little longer, in fact.
Now to get more into detail:
Things I Thought Could Have Been Better Explained
I've just learned that there are upcoming prequel novels set between Godzilla vs Kong: Godzilla Dominion and Kingdom Kong. Maybe some of these questions will be answered in those books (which I'm definitely going to get my hands on, along with the artbook).
Minor Nitpicks
Random Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Critics are being much more fair to this movie than they were the previous film, and unlike Godzilla: King of the Monsters it doesn't have to compete against multiple high profile movies, so here's hoping it does very well at the box office, too
The end result is often a bit baffling, and while we do get some good stuff out of the deal, it's often just random stuff, like today when an assortment of 1950s Italian comedies and dramas seem to have been dumped - along with Demons 1 and 2!
Finally the EU pays off.
Oh you thought you were supposed to laugh? Oh no, no no no no
The animation style also looks fantastic.