What are you watching?
Re: What are you watching?
Watched the whole movie, it was meh.
Re: What are you watching?
Duckman - Pilot (1992) Ronnie Schell as Duckman (aired only once in 1993) VHS
I'm trying to pinpoint when I watched that episode, and seem to recall how when the series started after the first episode, the main character sounded different (because Jason Alexander voiced it for the majority of the series, but the pilot episode would never be aired again and I doubt it was ever released on DVD.)
The animation studio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klasky_Csupo ) was the one that created the beginning seasons of the Simpsons, and would have moved onto Duckman, Rugrats, Aaah!!!! Real Monsters, etc.
I nearly glossed over the 4th season (and though it's good, it seems to preserve it's identity in the first 3, at which point it started to break the 4th wall and lose itself way too much; such as Coolio, and a main character for one episode specifically calling out the audience as part of the joke, as well as other musicians being introduced in later episodes which they had never done prior, including making a crossover reference to Seinfeld (hence why as that show got more popular you can see a dropoff in how much Duckman's character was featured, but they would also have a cameo with Homer in a spoof of a Scooby Doo episode (hence breaking the fourth wall and escaping the hermetic universe, even when it was derived from a comic book that probably never did that.)
I think I had a compilation file containing the entire season 1 and 2, and 3rd seasons, off of Youtube, but the fourth was elusive until now.
Something weird about some of the files (EDIT: apparently if you skip the first disc 1, a second disc 1 is a longer version with the correct episode order. . . Not sure what the F was going on, but what I said will hopefully make sense,) is that it doesn't start with the correct episode order (it starts with the second one, and the first was a Batman parody, but I now realize it also was making an allegory to the Simpsons about 17 minutes in,) but also at some point in the 4th season had a portion where it seems to truncate in the middle of an episode, and I couldn't tell if it was an editing issue, or something was omitted. It's similar to some TV shows being impossible to rerelease due to legal reasons, and perhaps if the archive is a direct copy of whatever was allowed to be rereleased, it seems it either reorganized the episodes for whatever reason (I haven't checked it much) or those episodes were never allowed to be rereleased (which I'm wondering if the cameo of Homer in Season 4 was somehow allowed, but the satire of the Simpsons in the first seasons for some reason ran into some issues (since the 4th had the actual voice actor and seems to have had an accurate representation of how Homer looked) but I can't see why this would be the case, since many shows do such things (such as Family Guy and South Park taking jabs at each other, but even moreso was the animation studio just finishing up with the Simpsons, so it was like if the Simpsons jokes about Conan O'Brien starting his talk show after having written episodes for them.)
In regards to "breaking the fourth wall," It reminds me of watching Flash Gordon 1980 (after checking out Ted 1 and 2 which features the "has been" Actor) and they made reference to stuff that never existed in the original series since the author had been dead since 1960, such as mentioning The Beatles and something else (I didn't really watch the movie and will get back to it. . . It's enough that I wasn't really engaged in finishing Duckman and falling asleep every time I would start watching it, and am only now getting half-way through the longest season four.)
If checking out just Season 4, it's the last 4 discs, and Starts from Ep 43, and each disc is 6 episodes.
An episode list of Duckman (seasons 1 and 2 combined are about 8 hours long, and is similar to 3 in length, whereas 4 is 10 hours combined.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duckman_episodes
Flash Gordon if you want to check that out.
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Some other series to check out:
MTV Downtown (1999–2000)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208616
Mission Hill (1999–2002)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197148
Moral Orel
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476922/
And a fan-edited (deleted scenes added) version King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
I'm trying to pinpoint when I watched that episode, and seem to recall how when the series started after the first episode, the main character sounded different (because Jason Alexander voiced it for the majority of the series, but the pilot episode would never be aired again and I doubt it was ever released on DVD.)
The animation studio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klasky_Csupo ) was the one that created the beginning seasons of the Simpsons, and would have moved onto Duckman, Rugrats, Aaah!!!! Real Monsters, etc.
I nearly glossed over the 4th season (and though it's good, it seems to preserve it's identity in the first 3, at which point it started to break the 4th wall and lose itself way too much; such as Coolio, and a main character for one episode specifically calling out the audience as part of the joke, as well as other musicians being introduced in later episodes which they had never done prior, including making a crossover reference to Seinfeld (hence why as that show got more popular you can see a dropoff in how much Duckman's character was featured, but they would also have a cameo with Homer in a spoof of a Scooby Doo episode (hence breaking the fourth wall and escaping the hermetic universe, even when it was derived from a comic book that probably never did that.)
I think I had a compilation file containing the entire season 1 and 2, and 3rd seasons, off of Youtube, but the fourth was elusive until now.
Something weird about some of the files (EDIT: apparently if you skip the first disc 1, a second disc 1 is a longer version with the correct episode order. . . Not sure what the F was going on, but what I said will hopefully make sense,) is that it doesn't start with the correct episode order (it starts with the second one, and the first was a Batman parody, but I now realize it also was making an allegory to the Simpsons about 17 minutes in,) but also at some point in the 4th season had a portion where it seems to truncate in the middle of an episode, and I couldn't tell if it was an editing issue, or something was omitted. It's similar to some TV shows being impossible to rerelease due to legal reasons, and perhaps if the archive is a direct copy of whatever was allowed to be rereleased, it seems it either reorganized the episodes for whatever reason (I haven't checked it much) or those episodes were never allowed to be rereleased (which I'm wondering if the cameo of Homer in Season 4 was somehow allowed, but the satire of the Simpsons in the first seasons for some reason ran into some issues (since the 4th had the actual voice actor and seems to have had an accurate representation of how Homer looked) but I can't see why this would be the case, since many shows do such things (such as Family Guy and South Park taking jabs at each other, but even moreso was the animation studio just finishing up with the Simpsons, so it was like if the Simpsons jokes about Conan O'Brien starting his talk show after having written episodes for them.)
In regards to "breaking the fourth wall," It reminds me of watching Flash Gordon 1980 (after checking out Ted 1 and 2 which features the "has been" Actor) and they made reference to stuff that never existed in the original series since the author had been dead since 1960, such as mentioning The Beatles and something else (I didn't really watch the movie and will get back to it. . . It's enough that I wasn't really engaged in finishing Duckman and falling asleep every time I would start watching it, and am only now getting half-way through the longest season four.)
If checking out just Season 4, it's the last 4 discs, and Starts from Ep 43, and each disc is 6 episodes.
An episode list of Duckman (seasons 1 and 2 combined are about 8 hours long, and is similar to 3 in length, whereas 4 is 10 hours combined.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duckman_episodes
Flash Gordon if you want to check that out.
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Some other series to check out:
MTV Downtown (1999–2000)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208616
Mission Hill (1999–2002)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197148
Moral Orel
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476922/
And a fan-edited (deleted scenes added) version King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)
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Snow White (2025)
The protagonist did a 'brown face' IMO. IDK, it was a very strange movie. You could tell everyone hated each other.
The protagonist did a 'brown face' IMO. IDK, it was a very strange movie. You could tell everyone hated each other.
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I could never get into this movie within the opening minutes (I only ever fully watched Pirates of Silicone Valley,) and can see why a parody film was made about it.
Jobs 2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern
iSteve 2013 by Funny or Die
Pirates of Silicon Valley is here:
Something that stood out at first was a documentary (direct link https://archive.org/details/cyberpunkeducator
The Cyberpunk Educator (Andrew J. Holden, 2003) (Northrop Frye theories)
I'll come back to this topic:
Another odd documentary (without watching it, is it an argument for the possibility of transhumanism? I believe it was basically the idea that society will be so seduced by technology and how it affects us, that we basically become replaced by it's allure, similar to the PC game, Observer, voiced by Rutger Haeur) :
Synthetic Pleasures (Lara Lee, 1995)
https://archive.org/details/SyntheticPleasures
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114597/
Download - https://archive.org/details/WelcomeToCyberia
Kind of related
The Chemical Generation - Acid House documentary (2000)
Download - https://archive.org/details/youtube-KxBCaMvBH5c
Apple 1984 Superbowl commercial (Ridley Scott)
The Joy Of Cybersex Part 1 (1993) Book with a cover of a woman holding a floppy disk. . .
https://archive.org/details/TheJoyOfCyb ... 1/mode/2up
More background info suggests VR will be intimately linked to the purpose:
https://boingboing.net/2015/07/10/joy-cybersex.html
And a 1994 article on Cybersex for a Amiga Computer ad suggests the the future of technology will be more involved; and now that AI generated imagery is here, it's evidently a key function of global warming. . .
https://archive.org/details/Amiga.Compu ... m.Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Fantastic
The Net - the Unabomber, LSD and the Internet (Lutz Dammbeck. 2003)
Ted Kaczynski must be rolling in his grave?
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The TekWar videogame is the interesting part (last part)
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/will ... tekwar-2sc
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Probably the only funny part to the Ted movies were from this character by Giovanni Ribisi (in the first movie he kind of has a Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs vibe, and was dancing after abducting the bear and trying to keep him locked in his child's room, and plays the villain in Ted 2, where he tries to take the bears stuffing and mix it into millions of new toy bears, thinking it will make them come to life, like fragments of souls.)
For some reason I was confusing him with Pete Davidson, but I could never imagine him playing a complex character even slightly convincingly. Giovanni Ribisi has some similar aspects to Paul Giamatti (who usually plays eccentric and smart characters.)
I was looking over IMDB and noticed that Amazon shows seem to have an unusually high rating for a website that is usually very reserved and keeps everything closer to 7 and below. . . It seems they are known for manipulating not only their reviews (by having negative ones removed or accounts suspended entirely) but also skewing the metering. . . ) Almost every Amazon show is an 8 or above, such as this last one Giovanni was involved in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5011816/
(a 2014 article which is mostly about IMDB Star-Meter though it's relevant to the movie algorithm that they control)
https://www.frostmagazine.com/2014/03/i ... starmeter/
Though I think it's entirely possible that Amazon has created better shows than the ones Netflix has pulled out of it's ass, but I still would find it a little too hyped (though perhaps 8 is what one might expect if they can generate more attention to shows through the platform, where people's immediate impressions will tend to be favorable, whether they actually have the time to watch a show for more than an episode.) Personally I will never return to the Amazon platform for anything, even if it were free or I wanted to see what it was about.
Jobs 2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern
iSteve 2013 by Funny or Die
Pirates of Silicon Valley is here:
Something that stood out at first was a documentary (direct link https://archive.org/details/cyberpunkeducator
The Cyberpunk Educator (Andrew J. Holden, 2003) (Northrop Frye theories)
I'll come back to this topic:
Another odd documentary (without watching it, is it an argument for the possibility of transhumanism? I believe it was basically the idea that society will be so seduced by technology and how it affects us, that we basically become replaced by it's allure, similar to the PC game, Observer, voiced by Rutger Haeur) :
Synthetic Pleasures (Lara Lee, 1995)
https://archive.org/details/SyntheticPleasures
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114597/
Download - https://archive.org/details/WelcomeToCyberia
Kind of related
The Chemical Generation - Acid House documentary (2000)
Download - https://archive.org/details/youtube-KxBCaMvBH5c
Apple 1984 Superbowl commercial (Ridley Scott)
The Joy Of Cybersex Part 1 (1993) Book with a cover of a woman holding a floppy disk. . .
https://archive.org/details/TheJoyOfCyb ... 1/mode/2up
More background info suggests VR will be intimately linked to the purpose:
https://boingboing.net/2015/07/10/joy-cybersex.html
And a 1994 article on Cybersex for a Amiga Computer ad suggests the the future of technology will be more involved; and now that AI generated imagery is here, it's evidently a key function of global warming. . .
https://archive.org/details/Amiga.Compu ... m.Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Fantastic
The Net - the Unabomber, LSD and the Internet (Lutz Dammbeck. 2003)
Ted Kaczynski must be rolling in his grave?
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The TekWar videogame is the interesting part (last part)
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/will ... tekwar-2sc
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Probably the only funny part to the Ted movies were from this character by Giovanni Ribisi (in the first movie he kind of has a Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs vibe, and was dancing after abducting the bear and trying to keep him locked in his child's room, and plays the villain in Ted 2, where he tries to take the bears stuffing and mix it into millions of new toy bears, thinking it will make them come to life, like fragments of souls.)
For some reason I was confusing him with Pete Davidson, but I could never imagine him playing a complex character even slightly convincingly. Giovanni Ribisi has some similar aspects to Paul Giamatti (who usually plays eccentric and smart characters.)
I was looking over IMDB and noticed that Amazon shows seem to have an unusually high rating for a website that is usually very reserved and keeps everything closer to 7 and below. . . It seems they are known for manipulating not only their reviews (by having negative ones removed or accounts suspended entirely) but also skewing the metering. . . ) Almost every Amazon show is an 8 or above, such as this last one Giovanni was involved in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5011816/
(a 2014 article which is mostly about IMDB Star-Meter though it's relevant to the movie algorithm that they control)
https://www.frostmagazine.com/2014/03/i ... starmeter/
Though I think it's entirely possible that Amazon has created better shows than the ones Netflix has pulled out of it's ass, but I still would find it a little too hyped (though perhaps 8 is what one might expect if they can generate more attention to shows through the platform, where people's immediate impressions will tend to be favorable, whether they actually have the time to watch a show for more than an episode.) Personally I will never return to the Amazon platform for anything, even if it were free or I wanted to see what it was about.
Re: What are you watching?
The California Raisins (1) Meet The Raisins (1988 claymation)
The California Raisins (2) Raisins Sold Out(Will Vinton, 1990 claymation) CBS
https://archive.org/details/the-califor ... s-sold-out
After the first clip, a 5 hour video contains a collection of the series (which I believe is the The California Raisin Show from 1989-1990 with 13 Ep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calif ... aisin_Show )
https://archive.org/details/4131_202107 ... DISC_2.iso
Something about those videos makes me think of Mr Towelie from South Park.
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I haven't seen this since the 1990s.
I think it might have inspired shows like Tool Time.
The California Raisins (2) Raisins Sold Out(Will Vinton, 1990 claymation) CBS
https://archive.org/details/the-califor ... s-sold-out
After the first clip, a 5 hour video contains a collection of the series (which I believe is the The California Raisin Show from 1989-1990 with 13 Ep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Calif ... aisin_Show )
https://archive.org/details/4131_202107 ... DISC_2.iso
Something about those videos makes me think of Mr Towelie from South Park.
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I haven't seen this since the 1990s.
I think it might have inspired shows like Tool Time.