I remember all the hype D used to get WAAAAY back in the day. All the game magazines spoke about this game as if was some sort of watershed moment for videogames. People acted like this was the first true high art in video games, and D was going to elevate videogames beyond kiddie entertainment into the realm of…

I don’t think citing comic artists as a reference for the animation industry really works.

I think you are going in the direction I was talking about in my post.

Mamoru Oshii was talking about style and content more than workload. Sure his style is labor intensive, but so is the resat of anime. Like you said, the anime world is pushing towards genre’s and niche markets such as otaku culture.

To be fair, I didn’t take it as him complaining they don’t work for shit. I think it’s more of a style or quality thing. This seems to me he’s looking for certain types of animator.

If you look at certain Anime from the late 80's to early 90's, there were certain films that pushed towards a certain realism, such as…

Implants don’t move around much. As long as she doesn’t do jumping jacks or cartwheels she should be okay.

Soo, what the best guess for X-men’s future? Recasting or reboot?

I’m guessing two more X-men films, Wolverine 3, Deadpool 2, X-force then a soft reboot.

The only thing holding them back from a total reboot is Deadpool is pretty fresh. Who knows how long people are going to go for that. But Deadpool is the sort of thing…

Those dance moves are too fresh for Sandpeople. Only Imerpieal Stormtroopers are so dope.

Whether he was beaten by a sneak attack or by being triple teamed, it still undermines the concept that only a Prime can defeat the fallen.

It’s never firmly established that “parts’ are needed for the resurrection process. Plus that complicated and contradicted by the fact that the Cube and the shard can create life form simple machines with no additional parts. The cube and shard seem to be able to reconfigure whatever is on hand into whatever is needed.

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Second on Martin Campbell. The guy deserves redemption.

I just texted my friend that Dinobot looks like Bumblebee if he tried to grow chest hair, and my friend threatened to burn my house down.

Googled David Kaye. Man, that guys is everyone. That’s what I love about voice actors. It’s fun to find out who was playing what, because it’s always a surprise because they need to…

Just texted a friend who has the series on DVD. I won’t get it tonight, but I’ll finally see it. My friend demands to watch it with me so he can enthusiastically and annoyingly point out the parts he loves. So, there’s one Dinobot in Beast Wars or something? Which one? He kept mentioning it.

As for tonight, I’m really…

Don’t you mean in the third film when Optimus offered to give up the matrix?

It’s on Netflix? My significant other is visiting her mother so I’m stuck at the house with boredom, the dogs, and alcohol. I think I’ll look into it.

I am kinda worried it might not be as good to the 38 year old me as it would the 14 year old me. Oh well, time to find out.

You can’t really match the gravitas of Nimoy. Even in a bad movie he carries weight. Plus I love him in the original animated movie.

One thing I do like is how they jettisoned Weaving and brought back Frank Welker. There’s nothing wrong with Angent Smith; I just prefer Welker.

I was pretty big into all the 80's action shows, but transformers and Voltron were my thing.

I never got into Beast Wars, because by that time I had discovered anime via Sci-Fi’s Saturday Anime.

I think I still have a VHS of Akira I recorded off TV. It’s edited for TV, but I keep it for the nostalgia.

The first was about the best for me, plot wise. Dark of the Moon is second, Extinction about ties with Fallen.

I do like the end fight of Revenge of the Fallen, simply because it’s the only time in the movies where Optimus Prime gets to save the day by kicking ass. In all the others he needs to get saved by someone.…

Eh, that’s fair. If I may blaspheme, some of the plots of the Gen 1 cartoon were insipid.

Granted, those were rushed cartoons with a restricted budget, not 200 million dollar mainstream Hollywood productions, but they were still insipid.

So, your mileage may vary? To my nephew, Bayformers ARE the Transformers, and the…

I know you weren’t speaking to me, but mind if I take a swing at the question?

The plots themselves aren’t hard to follow. There’re your basic get-the-Macguffin-before-the-badguy plots. It has to do with the fact that the plots make no sense if you think about them logically. They aren’t confusing; they just don’t make…

At this point, finding the continuity errors is kind of a fun little game for me, so I actually consider them a bonus, entertainment wise.