Team America: World Police

[bruce]

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

FIVE STARS OUT OF FIVE!

I laughed so hard I almost beshat myself.

Bruce

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Who's in it? Is it animated? What's the deal?

I caught an episode of Cowboy Bebop last night. I don't know why I like it. It's not funny, it's predictable, the characters are nothing special, the girl is nice to look at and has the animated equivalent kind of legs that I could gaze at, chin-droppingly, forever but it's still just a cartoon, and I can't STAND the obnoxious little girl who is sometimes in there (she wasn't last night). But somehow it is entertaining to me.

Catching one episode every three months isn't ideal.

Then they put on a commercial for the "Animatrix." What a fucking waste of time. Not just the animated Matrix, but ALL of it.

[chris]

Who's in it? Is it animated? What's the deal?

It's done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "South Park". The movie features marionettes, and I've heard it's incredibly hilarious. Might actually have to go to a theater and see it.

[Worm]

I caught an episode of Cowboy Bebop last night. I don't know why I like it. It's not funny, it's predictable, the characters are nothing special, the girl is nice to look at and has the animated equivalent kind of legs that I could gaze at, chin-droppingly, forever but it's still just a cartoon, and I can't STAND the obnoxious little girl who is sometimes in there (she wasn't last night). But somehow it is entertaining to me.

Www.animeforever.org has Samurai Champloo up which is done by the same people as Cowboy Bebop and is just as oddly entertaining.

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Though he watched it all in one weekend, which I think just effects quality. Just try an episode a week like I do, or you might get sick of it. At least you don't have to stay up late to watch it just so a bunch of fourteen year olds can pretend their parents don't want them to watch it.

We need the anime forum back at caltrops PS.

[Debaser]

I laughed so hard I almost beshat myself.

Good but am I spoiled to say I was expecting more? There was more lag time between belly-laughs than I typically expect from these guys. Like the scene on the balcony right before the hot p-on-p. That was like ten minutes where they didn't even attempt a joke until the very end. And the montage song was blatant self-plager... wait a minute, when the fuck did I become a South Park fan? This is unnacceptable.

I caught an episode of Cowboy Bebop last night. I don't know why I like it.

It's the jazz, baby. While their handling of plot and character is less than stellar (though still above-average for subway-gropers), the nips who made Bebop and currently make Champloo have just mastered the art of pacing a scene. It's like drinking Amaretto: A little saccharine and you kind of feel like a pussy for liking it, but it goes down so smooth. Just be careful, Bepop pretty steadily declines in quality over the course of its run as it slowly descends into horrible, half-sensible melodrama (really, the same can be said for most anime).

Though he watched it all in one weekend, which I think just effects quality.

I don't know where you derived that theory from. Anyway, Champloo is (thus far) better than Bebob in that it's more violent and hasn't (thus far) sharply plummeted in quality towards the end but worse in that it tries almost too hard to be playful sometimes and the characters tend to behave kind of nonsensically, even on their own wacky, anime terms.

The whole premise is that these two swordsman who want to kill eachother have both vowed to be this girl's bodyguard until she finds this guy she's looking for. On at least two occasions the episodes have opened with the characters deciding, essentially out of the blue, to ditch the girl and go their seperate ways only to just as arbitrarily decide to come back and save her from whatever menace towards the end.

Debaser Fun Fax: A year ago when I had longer hair, I looked precisely like Jin, the melancholy disgraced Samrurai who is one of Samurai Champloo's three main characters.

[Worm]

Though he watched it all in one weekend, which I think just effects quality.

I don't know where you derived that theory from.

I guess just from a childhood of being able to think, digest, and enjoy the episode for a week. Even in my life right now [pathetic] when I watch saturday morning cartoons I enjoy waiting a week before I see them again. [/pathetic] When watching things like stuff on Disney, Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi, or Tech TV I get really tired of episodes every week, reruns are totally different though.

[Worm]

Well, they've released new episodes in Japan as of the 22nd, so they should have new ones up on Anime Forever anytime soon. If you want early episodes Bi-Torrent.com still has some running.

[Lex]

Fullmetal Alchemist is better. I grew board of Samurai Champloo, but there is no way to grow board of that adventure; it starts off as "crazy generic animé", toned down, but the characters are so deep. You expect this 15-year-old kid with a robot arm and leg to act like a hero, but he's scared shitless, crying and bleeding come the end of an episode. It actaully answers the question of what an animé world would be like if these guys acted like normal people.

Giant-robot brother who has a soul trapped in armour? Check.
"Auto-Mail" arm-and-legged badass kid? Check.
Really hot enemy? Check.
The ability to create any object out of any other using alchemy, and the amazing fights that ensue due to this?


Check, baby.



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[Worm]

Fullmetal Alchemist is better.

So, of course Cartoon Network is airing this at 2 am or some shit, right?

I grew board of Samurai Champloo, but there is no way to grow board of that adventure; it starts off as "crazy generic animé", toned down, but the characters are so deep. You expect this 15-year-old kid with a robot arm and leg to act like a hero, but he's scared shitless, crying and bleeding come the end of an episode. It actaully answers the question of what an animé world would be like if these guys acted like normal people.

Really?

Giant-robot brother who has a soul trapped in armour? Check.

I saw a picture of him fucking a little girl somewhere.

Honestly, I can tell I'll hate it from the one episode. It's going to be goofy long enough that you get used to that and then pull the same "now the are acting like Japanese people" thing that Vash pulled, except Japanese people aren't normal. Though I'm going to watch it and get specific reasons why I hate it, just for you Lex.

[Lex]

Please don't watch the English subbed version, and please don't attempt to hate it :(

It's one of the few things I've seen which just keeps getting better and better, rather than spiralling down. For a moment I thought Stargate might do it, but the last two series of that haven't been so good, either.

[pinback]

Finally saw this tonight. KINDA SPOILER WARNING



1. The puppet sex was indeed hilarious, even though I was "prepared for it".

2. The puking scene was, for me, the funniest of the film. Tears of laughter pushed forth from my eyes like... like, what. Like Pez from a Pez dispenser? I dunno.

3. The third funniest thing was the Pearl Harbor song.

4. The fourth funniest thing was the song at the very end of the end credits.

There are other bright spots, not least among them the quality of the production itself. A lot of the fun is just watching the puppets and being impressed by the whole thing.

That being said... other than the things I've mentioned above, it was about as funny as a substandard South Park episode. Where Parker/Stone excel is when they go completely overboard (see: puppet sex, see: puking, see: "you had me at dicks fuck assholes"), but when they go for straight satire, they would do better to leave it to the Groening crew.

So, yes, I liked it. Yes, I laughed several times.

But it ain't no Bigger, Longer, & Uncut.

[Lex]

That was good. Caught the Uncut version and disliked the puppet sex.

The AIDS song and the puking were hilarious, the latter causing stomach pains to both me and my comrade, Phruitcake.

[Lex]

The song "America - Fuck Yeah!" is possibly more hilarious if you are not American-- it really is how the American (specifically New Yorker) attitude appears to everyone else.

[pinback]

Gee, Lex! Thanks for that HELPFUL HINT! We all thought it was just funny that he says the "F" word, completely missing the point of both the song itself, and to a larger extent, the entire movie!!!

I gotta see it AGAIN now!

[Lex]

I'm glad I could help.

[pinback]

Hey babies! Just got through with Magnolia again -- hadn't seen the old girl in, whew, at least 9 months or so.

Still good!

Still the best movie EVER, though? Well. Heh. I guess I might have gone a weeee bit overboard there at the beginning. I mean, a lot of great scenes, good performances and whatnot, but more flaws than horny assholes sitting in the Seduce and Destroy seminar, am I right?

So... best movie "ever"? By a factor of several thousand? Weeell, I suppose if you're putting a gun to my head and making me bring it with tha truth, then...

...well, let me put it in song, in keeping with the thread topic...

"MagNOLIaaaaa, FUCK YEAH!!! Comin' again, to kill three hours of your DAY now!!!"