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ANNCast - Poke-Maughan The Movie 2000

AmpersandsUnited wrote:

Movies dumbing down and ruining books is nothing new. I remember reading Jurassic Park as a kid then seeing the movie. It's completely different and they went for a more family fun dinosaur adventure flick. Hammond was such a huge ass in the book and gets eaten by dinosaurs in the end because of it and everyone cheered. In the movie he's some jolly Willy Wonka with Dinosaurs instead of candy. Talk about 180ing a character...

I often use Jurassic Park as a litmus test to see if someone is so obsessed with the idea of a film adaptation being exactly like the book that they can't tell when a good film has resulted regardless of how slavishly faithful it is to the source material.

If you can't recognize Jurassic Park as basically flawless summer entertainment and point out how it's different from the book as your chief argument, then you aren't really watching the film, you're just checking off boxes in your head and it's more about how faithful the film is than whether or not it's actually any good on its own.

ljaesch wrote:

These are also kid-friendly, but could potentially be a stretch for preschoolers: Pokemon, Kirby Right Back At Ya!, Hamtaro (this one's probably harder to come by these days), and Sonic X.

Only the edited 4Kids dub versions of those shows, though. The originals.. not so much.

ChibiKangaroo wrote:

I have to ask Zac, will you be watching Urotsukidoji? Inquiring minds have to know.

The original Urotsukidouji OVA series was released in 1987 through 1989, so it doesn't really qualify as 1990s. It had sequels released in the 1990s, but they're not nearly as iconic as the original.

I agree with Zac on Cowboy Bebop. It is one of my favorite series, but for of its amazing production values, Cowboy Bebop is at times weak plot and story wise. I love this series, but it is more style than substance.

It is kind of funny that some of you seem to be bashing Cowboy Bebop, one of the corner stones in the Anime industry in the United States, just because Zac has offered some criticism. Zac is not saying that Cowboy Bebop is a bad series. I am looking forward to the Revenge of the 90s show.

Pocket Monsters originally had lots of sexual instances and violence

No, it doesn't (and, yes, I've seen the original version.)

Zac even though bamboo did forget space pirates this week due to the flurry of new shows. it should be noted that it still scored consistently in the top 3 or 5. so even though it has it's own pace and will not go any faster, it is still a great show. and thank heavens they are renaming it

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

Zac even though bamboo did forget space pirates this week due to the flurry of new shows. it should be noted that it still scored consistently in the top 3 or 5. so even though it has it's own pace and will not go any faster, it is still a great show. and thank heavens they are renaming it

Bamboo might be more in-tune to those kinds of shows, but the show starts out wanting to promise on adventure and excitement, and that's not at all present as the episodes go on. It is a cute girl show when your entire cast is full of cute girls. Not that it's bad in that regard, but it's definitely not want some people wanted out of it. I certainly had hoped it would be more ambitious, but I've settled that it's an underwhelming and kind of dumb show about teenagers cosplaying onboard a spaceship, so I dialed down my expectations and everything's fine now. I have the feeling Zac and Tim would rather eat mud than sit through that.

The Nobody's Boy Remi movie came out on VHS in Sweden in 1981, called Remis äventyr ("Remi's adventure"). I think it was subtitled in Swedish, but I hardly think it had the original Japanese audio -- it was probably dubbed in English, so I'm thinking that it may have been a sub-license from the company that issued Maughan's copy or something like that. So yeah, there is probably an English dub out there somewhere...