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The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart (2023)
So glad this is a thing
I hope this is the first of many Venture Bros movies. It picks right up from where the shows ended. Thank you. So glad to get some closure, lol. This was one of the best shows on TV and so underrated, so well written and the how they tied every little detail together is impressive. Anyway, this movie was great! I only wish it was a little longer after waiting all this time since they finalized the cancellation of the series. But it was worth it. Amazing voice work, as always from the cast. I just happened to be online and I think I bought it on Amazon Prime video as soon as it came out. More than happy to send some money towards the creators, hopefully it makes bank and they keep making more of these.
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One (2023)
Made for RWBY fans
If you're a fan of Justice League, don't bother, unless you also like, or even follow RWBY. It's basically like RWBY bribed DC to get their name thrown in with Justice League so they can get some attention or maybe new fans. But if you don't like RWBY or even know what it is just skip this. It's about 90% RWBY and about 10% justice league, and not even a good version of them. They are teenagers, with lame powers, obviously nerfed so they wouldn't outshine the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rip off anime characters that are called RWBY. Which even the name is lame. It's the first initials of 4 of the characters, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang. How clever... sigh. I got about 2/3rds of the way through and had completely lost interest. It was like watching someone else play a final fantasy game while you sit there. I'm waiting for Ash Ketchum to get his VS justice league movie.
Around the World in 80 Days (2021)
Mediocre. And a butchery of the actual book
I hate when directors and producers think they can improve a timeless classic as if they think they are smarter or more skilled than the original artist. This version of around the world in 80 days is nothing at all like the book. The characters aren't even close to how they should be. Phileas Fogg is a cool headed, brave, capable and determined main character, but in this show he is an insecure, emotional, hot headed incompetent. The visual effects for the show give it some credit, great scenery and well filmed. The changes they made to the original story just ruin it though. I had high hopes and it originally looked great, but the first episode alone was enough to change my mind. It would probably be a decent show if I never read the book. Which I assume is the case for most of the people that give this 10 stars.
The Return of the King (1980)
In a lot of ways better than the movie
Sure they cut a lot out and made up other stuff to fit it into an animated 90 minute movie, but a lot of the stuff they kept in was straight out of the books and the dialogue was a lot better than the movies. Eowyn's confrontation with the witch king wraith was much closer to the book. And John Huston (Gandalf) doing the narration is flawless. "Horns, horns, horns, Great horns of the north wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last" So many lines are direct quotes from the book and work so much better than the dumbed down versions Peter Jackson did. And there's the added nostalgic touch with the classic Rankin Bass animation style, and the voice acting talents used in this are top notch. So many talents. The soundtrack is another gem, so many great songs, done so well. But the bottom line is after watching the main stream trilogy, then re-reading the books, then watching them again just made me notice that so many of the changes they made for the 2000's movies were horrible. And then watching the animated version with so many quotes from the book just made me like it that much more. And then when they did the horrendous Hobbit "trilogy" movies it really made me appreciate the animated versions so much more than the garbage Peter Jackson was slapping together for a pathetic cash grab.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
This was tough to get through
First Andrew Garfield is just the worst Peter Parker/Spiderman. Emma Stone helps a lot, but no matter how perfume you put on crap, it's still crap. I thought the first amazing Spider-man was bad. Well congrats, you made an even worse sequel. I only watched this because for some damn reason they are going to tie this in to Spider-man No Way Home with Jami Foxx as Electro. I really hope they don't try to shove Garfield on us in that as well.
The Eric Andre Show (2012)
No way this is good.
Eric Andre is one of the least funny people I've ever seen. He's not clever or witty. I guess this show is funnier if you're stoned out of your mind and like other horrible adult swim shows like the pathetic "Loiter Squad". Eric sucks in everything I've ever seen him in, he is always the weakest cast member. I don't know who he begged or knew at Adult Swim for them to give him his own show.