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Gina Szanboti
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It didn't start off too bad. I mean, the reflection of the sky in the well water was a nicely artistic touch. Then they started some sort of actual dialog.  Hard to place the accents, but it sounded either German or Russian (though the title card was German). Clearly phonetic readings (the next time anyone makes fun of Engrish, I'm pointing them to this).
I skipped ahead to some scene with the frog and some woodland animals talking, except none of them were talking, just lip flap, while the frog seemed to be falling asleep. I skipped ahead several minutes and the frog was still falling asleep! Skipping several times again, just trying to find out whether they'd completely given up on the dub half way through or not, I finally got some more dialog, but by then I'd had enough. Seriously, that was amazing. 
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ParkerALx
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Wow. That's even worse than Dingo Picture's typical quality standards. |
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kenrobinson1982
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Just going by the name alone, Space Thunder Kids sounds like the best thing ever.
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trunkschan90
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I've seen those DVDs at the 99 Cents Only store. I've seen lots of Inuyasha DVDs and saw some Tokyopop like Reign: The Conqueror. I also a few Kimba the Lion DVDs although they were select episodes. There was also an Area 88 Boxset with volume 1. I've seen Project ARMs, Trouble Chocolate, Yu-gi-oh the Movie and I had the luck of finding volume 7 of Zoids: Chaotic Century/Guardian Force (I quickly snatched that one up)
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gwdone
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I've just booked at least a 34 min 47 seconds session of some heavy duty couch time with my shrink to discuss this link situation further. I now have some very serious questions about life in general. 25 thumbs up? Must be those funky far left of the left handed cigs. Thanks for sharing! |
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Top Gun
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Oh wow, I literally just learned about the existence of Space Thunder Kids yesterday. The clips I saw featured dubbing that would make even an Odex stinker sound like an A-lister Ghibli dub, and it was downright hilarious seeing blatant Yamatos and Voltrons flying around. I feel like the only reason no one ever got sued for that was because the Japanese production companies probably didn't even know it existed.
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gwdone
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Wow! As in the Aniplex / Sony version? That's pretty high quality for a Dollar Store shelf. At a Dollar General or Family Dollar where I live, I saw the live action Blood The Last Vampire in stock as of a week ago. I already had it though. |
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Revolutionary
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I skipped toward the 30 minute mark and the voice acting and animation were so all off-base from each other it was horrible! Reminds me of CDi Zelda, but even that at least had the animation and voice acting matching...IIRC. |
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IanC
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They were legit, iirc. |
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OldCharlieStoletheHandle
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Well then, just you go ahead and watch it, it's available in all its glory on YouTube. I refuse to be held responsible for any medical expenses you may incur for brain damage. Space Thunder Kids was actually created when Joseph Lai took 5-6 of his previously released Korean knock-off cartoons, threw all the footage in a wood chipper, picked up random pieces of film and taped them together. He then redubbed the whole mess but only did so to change some character names, making no effort to change the "plot" of any of the segments to make this any more coherent. There is one scene that must be seen to be appreciated (it is repeated). If you do watch it you will know it when you see it. |
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Gina Szanboti
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Don't be coy, give us a time code.
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revolutionotaku
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Yes, it was the Aniplex/Sony version. I was very surprised that the dollar store was able to sell a whole bunch of them for $1 each. |
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Top Gun
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I know that Big Lots used to sell off overflow inventory of single DVD volumes and movies. I stopped in there once or twice after learning about it (turns out shopping there is an...experience), and I managed to score both Tekkonkinkreet and Steamboy for next to nothing.
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chaccide
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Now that was worth a dollar! I wonder if these are now streaming on those crappy free cartoon/movie channels on Roku that show D-grade shows. |
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leafy sea dragon
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From my perspective, I didn't know discount DVDs were becoming rare. I still see them at every Big Lots I've visited, and even the Wal•Marts still have a rack of mockbusters up at the front. I do notice titles come and go though. I'm glad I nabbed Santa Claus Conquers the Martians when I could, but I foolishly passed on the Mexican film simply called Santa Claus.
Shout! Factory is a godsend if you're looking for TV shows no one else is willing to sell on home video. I got my complete sets of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and The Legend of Zelda when I could. Too bad some of the episodes were missing their live-action segments. I presume this is because they had celebrity guests and getting permission would've been too cost-prohibitive.
I have a guess regarding Der Froschkönig. Assuming that it was originally made in Germany, this was most likely made to take advantage of a project from the German government, where they would provide a bunch of money to any German person who made a movie. The idea was to incentivize domestic German filmmaking under the idea that there must be some talented filmmakers in Germany who are hamstrung because they can't afford to make one. What resulted instead was brain cleaner like this, where they'd put something together as quickly and cheaply as possible so they can get more money out of this government program than they spent making the movie. That is, movies like these were sold to the general public only to fulfill the requirements the German government had to receive that money. I am certain Der Froschkönig is one of those productions, because there are a lot of moments meant to just kill time so the runtime can be longer than 30 minutes, like the four minutes straight of that princess walking down the path telekinetically moving that ball around before dropping it. This program also created Uwe Boll's career. Remember him?
Same here. For a year or so, also, Tales of the Black Freighter flooded these bargain DVD shelves. (That was the animated companion movie to the live-action Watchmen.) |
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