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What are you currently watching?

Started by Archiecomicxfan215, March 30, 2016, 10:11:44 PM

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rusty

The Expanse Season 2 on bluray

Outlander Season 2 on demand

recently watched - The Good Place, The Orville, Salvation - on dvr

irishmoxie

The Land Before Time
The Last Unicorn
Both on Netflix

irishmoxie

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 23, 2017, 04:58:59 AM
MONSTER HIGH feature DVDs:
   New Ghoul @ School
   Fright On!
   Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love?
   Escape From Skull Shores
   Friday Night Frights
   Ghouls Rule!
   Scaris: City of Frights
   13 Wishes
   Frights, Camera, Action!
   Freaky Fusion
   Haunted
   Boo York, Boo York
   Great Scarrier Reef

EVER AFTER HIGH Specials:
   Legacy Day
   True Hearts Day
   Spring Unsprung
   Way Too Wonderland



A lot of these are on Netflix. Which one of these do you recommend?

DeCarlo Rules

Quote from: irishmoxie on September 26, 2017, 06:58:55 PM
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on September 23, 2017, 04:58:59 AM
MONSTER HIGH feature DVDs:
   New Ghoul @ School*****
   Fright On! ****
   Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love? ****
   Escape From Skull Shores ***
   Friday Night Frights ***
   Ghouls Rule! ****
   Scaris: City of Frights ***
   13 Wishes ***
   Frights, Camera, Action! ****
   Freaky Fusion *
   Haunted ***
   Boo York, Boo York *****
   Great Scarrier Reef **

EVER AFTER HIGH Specials:
   Legacy Day****
   True Hearts Day****
   Spring Unsprung****
   Way Too Wonderland****



A lot of these are on Netflix. Which one of these do you recommend?

The list above is in their original order of release. I've rated them all from 1 to 5 stars, depending on how much I liked them.

You should definitely watch the first of each series (in red), as those are both the shortest of both series (at 23 minutes), and they are definitely designed as "introductory" features that introduce the main characters and basic premises of the series.

Other things you should know:
The Monster High features all focus on some different theme, and each features a slightly different cast that they focus on. Generally speaking, one or two characters tend to take the lead parts, with some new character(s) also being introduced in that feature. The first two MH features, and all of the Ever After High features, are traditional-style flat (2D) animation, while the MH features from Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love? on are all CGI animation. The characters tend to look a little different in one style to the other, and the same is true of both their appearance as dolls and the packaging art. I have a definite preference for the 2D animated characters' look.

You might want to check out Mattel's YouTube channel to sample either of the short webisodes (about 3 minutes long, +/-). Just search for Monster High Volume 1 or Ever After High Volume 1. The first couple of Ever After High specials are compiled from shorter webisodes making up a continued story arc, so you can sample those for free.

Boo York, Boo York is a musical and a love story. Out of all the CGI-animated MH features, it tends to work the best, because the music keeps the story moving along at a good pace.

DeCarlo Rules

#619
MIRACULOUS: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (Season 1, 26 episodes) - What a great show. It's one of the most unusual spins on a superhero series I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of them). A pretty girlie take on a superhero, because it's cartoony, and a high school rom-com, or maybe that should be "magical girl" + "henshin hero" instead of superheroes... or maybe it doesn't matter since the series is set in the city of Paris. Ordinary (or is she?) Parisian 15 year-old Marinette Dupin-Cheng is chosen to be the wearer of the miraculous, which grants her the magical powers of Ladybug (no sillier than being bitten by a radioactive spider, I guess). She's goofy, clumsy and tongue-tied whenever she's in the presence of her schoolgirl crush, Adrien Agreste, son of a famous and wealthy fashion designer (and himself a teenage male model)... who is also secretly her crimefighting partner, Cat Noir, unbeknownst to her. And Cat Noir has a mad crush on Ladybug, but of course, he doesn't know she's really Marinette either. There are some strong hints that the master villain of the series, Hawkmoth, may be Adrien's father (and neither hero knows that either... but does Hawkmoth know who they are?). Hawkmoth never confronts them personally, but remains safe within his secret lair until whenever he senses dark emotions of frustration, anger, and hurt and in people, and he absorbs and transforms those emotions into a dark force (because he too is the possessor of a miraculous) which allows him to imbue an ordinary white butterfly with evil power, changing it into a black "akuma" and sending it out to "evilize" a normal person in emotional turmoil (by bonding with some object in that person's possession, transforming them along with its power into a proxy supervillain) that Hawkmoth promises the power to gain revenge to, in exchange for them agreeing to bring back to him Ladybug and Cat Noir's miraculouses, their magical power objects that are said to represent the powers of creation and destruction, and together are said to be the most powerful of several known miraculouses, that have been in existence for thousands of years, and have been passed down worldwide over the centuries to different chosen ones in many different times and countries. When transformed, the heroes gain both the usual enhanced speed, strength, stamina, agility and durability, and also a signature weapon (Ladybug = magical compact/yo-yo; Cat Noir = magical battle staff)  and a special "finishing move" power. Cat Noir's is "Catastrophe!", an ability to summon dark force into the palm of his hand to disintegrate any solid object (one-time only), and Ladybug's is "Lucky Charm!", a randomly-changed object that comes with no instructions ("What am I supposed to do with this?"), but which also includes Ladybug-vision (she sees red-and-black-spotted objects when she looks all around her that clue her into what she needs to combine the seemingly-ordinary Lucky Charm with to win the day and defeat the villain). Ladybug never knows what to expect when she shouts "Lucky Charm!" -- some of the Lucky Charms have been: a spray-paint can, bath towel, Ladybug costume, another yo-yo, a cardboard box, a spoon (all of them red, with black polka-dots). After they've chosen to use their special power, they have only 5 minutes remaining before they'll transform back to their normal selves. There's a rhythm to the ritualized repetition of certain tropes and expected actions, so that you actually look forward to seeing them in each episode. So well thought-out, funny, action-packed, and having some real emotional truth at its core. Usually I'm not a big fan of CGI-style toons, but in this one the characters are so well-designed, and their body language and facial expressions rendered with a lot of care. They're well-animated and can be graceful or goofy in their movements, according to what the situation calls for. I love it.

DeCarlo Rules

#620
ARCHIE'S WEIRD MYSTERIES - Watched 12 episodes (out of 40 total) of this show, and it's the first time I've really seen it.

THE BAD: The character designs, the animation, the voice acting, and the horrible opening theme song. I might have rated it as typical of its time had it been made in 1989 as opposed to 1999, and even though I've owned this DVD set for years now, this is the first time I've been able to force myself to watch through an entire episode. In addition to that, there's a little over 4 hours of video (10 episodes + 1 "bonus" Sabrina episode) squeezed onto each of the 4 discs in this set, so the poor video quality due to compression doesn't help. It's no real surprise that this show wound up being dumped onto the Fox Family channel, since I'm sure none of the networks or major basic cable channels wanted to touch it with a 10-foot pole. It's pretty embarrassing by turn-of-the-millennium animated series standards.

THE GOOD: Once I managed to get past all of the above and force myself through watching a few episodes, I noticed that (given the basic atypically-Archie Comics premise) the writing is actually not half-bad, certainly far better than most previous Archie Comics cartoon adaptations. The single exception would probably be the original Hanna-Barbera JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS season, but who knows, if the animation and voice acting here were better, maybe it would be up to that standard. The best thing that can be said about it is that the writers obviously bothered to actually read some Archie comics, so that the characters at least somewhat resemble the personalities that readers of the comics are familiar with. The quality of the individual episodes' plots vary somewhat, but the better ones (such as the few that focus on Veronica as a main character) actually manage to get the characters' dynamics right. In fact, I'd say a fair number of the episodes were better plotted and written than many of the issues of the comic book series spawned from the show, and on average it's no more badly-plotted or written than something like ARCHIE'S EXPLORERS OF THE UNKNOWN or JUGHEAD'S TIME POLICE, to mention a couple of "atypical" Archie series which it might be comparable to. I guess we could still wish for a show that was closer to a mainstream classic Archie series, but for what it is, it's okay. I just wish the acting was a little less hokey-sounding and that they had bothered to model the characters more closely on their comic book appearance.

Oh, and if I recall correctly, I think I spent about $8 (new/sealed) for the set, so I guess I can say that I about got my money's worth at least.

SAGG

Daredevil on Netflix. I'm about to see the season finale of season two. If you like superhero TV shows, you MUST watch this. Rarely is it done right from the comic book (Why call it that? There's nothing comical about many of them), but the writers have it spot on for Daredevil here, I think. Two things if you haven't seen it: 1) Start at season one so you won't get confused, and 2) be warned: this is a VERY violent series. The choreographed fight scenes are the best other than Arrow. Vincent D'Onofrio IS the Kingpin, just as Charlie Cox is Daredevil....

BettyReggie

I plan to watch last espoide of Riverdale tomorrow.

BettyReggie

I'm watching Archie's Weird Mysteries - Cinemadness. I'm watching it on my IPod Classic.

DeCarlo Rules

#624
Finished watching the rest of ARCHIE'S WEIRD MYSTERIES. Towards the end of the series there are a couple of 3-episode story arcs, one with Veronica getting a sunstone pendant and thinking that she's The Ender, destined to save the world by preventing the Eternal Night of the Vampires. This introduced a character named Scarlet Hellsing, who also appeared in some issues of the comic book series based on the animated series. The other 3-episode arc involves a time-travelling villain named Vinnie Wells, who steals a time-device invented by Dilton (don't ask how, but Vinnie's whole motivation stems from a desire to mooch money to buy nachos). The final episode of the 3 also features a time-travelling adult Archie Andrews, and a wilderness scout (in the year 1699) named Bob Montana who found (and thus founded) Riverdale (with some help from time-travelling Archie), as well as an homage to the very first Archie story where a 12 year-old Archie tries to show off by balancing on top of his bicycle seat, and meets Betty for the first time. Without a doubt, this was the best-written episode of the entire series. I almost expected Marshal January McAndrews of the Time Police to show up to help put an end to Vinnie's chrono-meddling. It very much felt like a plot from Jughead's Time Police, mixed with a little of the multiverse stuff from Life With Archie magazine.

Since then I've been going back and forth (one disc at a time) between the original SABRINA THE TEEN-AGE WITCH (1969, Filmation) and THE GROOVIE GOOLIES, which was an additional half-hour program created to expand Sabrina's show into an hour-long block when it spun off from THE ARCHIE COMEDY HOUR where it first appeared, in the same way that The Archie Comedy Hour was an expansion of the earlier half-hour THE ARCHIE SHOW (1968). On DVD, the shows were released at different times by different companies, each as a 3-disc set (16 half-hour episodes per series). As with the Archie cartoons appearing on The Archie Comedy Hour, SABRINA AND THE GROOVIE GOOLIES re-ran the earlier Sabrina animated episodes from The Archie Comedy Hour, while adding the new Groovie Goolies cartoon episodes (in which Sabrina also appears, but as a distinctly minor supporting character). The weird thing is, although the Goolies were an original creation of the Filmation Studios writers and animators, the copyright is still in the name of Archie Comic Publications (1970), which makes it odd to me that ACP never ever used the characters (not even once) in their comics. For some reason, Filmation felt that it was necessary to hyphenate the word "teen-age" in the title of Sabrina's cartoon, as opposed to the more common spelling "teenage". One of the songs from the Groovie Goolies was "Chick-A-Boom" which was later re-recorded by Dick Monda, who did the songs for the entire series, under the pseudonym "Daddy Dewdrop" and became a big hit (although now mostly forgotten, as are most one-hit wonders).



Archiecomicxfan215

I am watching


MY CLOTHES: GUY'S CLOSET TOUR - Life After College Vlog: Ep 47 on YouTube

BettyReggie


BettyReggie

#627
Riverdale Season #2- Espoide #1

Archiecomicxfan215

Scooby Doo Dog Games - Life After College Vlog Ep 65

BettyReggie


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