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Watched the whole movie, it was meh.






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Post by Catoptric » Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:09 am

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)
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by aether » Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:55 am

Snow White (2025)

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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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Jun 12, 2025 5:29 am

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.

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:23 pm

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.


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A "so bad it's good" anime. . . Just give it 5 minutes.

Download opt - https://archive.org/details/garzeys-win ... e-24-a-483

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzey's_Wing

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Really weird stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cremaster_Cycle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1992236/




Synchronicity Or Breathing by OresteS (2016)

More - https://archive.org/details/@strange_movies_sanctuary

Similar stuff found here:
- https://archive.org/details/@arqueologo_digital
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Post by Catoptric » Sat Jun 14, 2025 10:43 am

Around 8:20 Emmanuel Lewis mentions the "real creator of the Matrix," Sophia Stewart, *who also claims they wrote the screenplay to Terminator, which is something Harlan Ellison claims, citing plagiarism for the "The Outer Limits" episode titled "Soldier." Incidentally Christopher Nolan did say he plagiarized, but he took ideas from a more obscure episode which was in a different, series if I'm not mistaken; at least that's what Harlan Ellison mentioned in an interview.) What I find especially odd is that Sophia Stewart just happened to be around Michael Jackson at that very moment, and seems to hover around people of influence. Though I haven't looked into her claims much, their are people that legitimately were the central inspiration behind significant series, such as 'Ice Age' where a woman, who goes by Ivy Supersonic, created a concept art for a squirrel character that had teeth like a sabertooth tiger, and whose central character in the Ice Age series happens to have a very evident similarity to the name of the character. The fact that Sophia Stewart has done nothing of the sort in regards to ideas, suggests she is a grifter who convinces people by trying to appear genuine, but who are likely the sort that Michael Jackson gravitated towards, since he was too impressionable to being taken advantage of (similar to how Elvis was a bit stupid by bending over for his 'Manager,' and paying him as much as he was making,) that I can't also help but believe Michael Jackson could also be a groomer and Emmanuel Lewis would have still not believed he was nothing more than a potential catamite that Michael Jackson kept around like a pet animal.



An interview with her (though I'll have to come back to it, as I would rather read summaries.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vrR2i5Oni4



Where some believe they stole the Matrix idea from a comic book (The Invisibles has an Omnibus of 1994-2000 by Grant Morrison.) When Keanu Reeves was caste in the role he was told to read a book by Baudrillard called Simulacra and Simulation (1981) and Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World is a 1992 book by Kevin Kelly. Even Jordan Maxwell claims he inspired The Matrix (though since he was himself scammed out of using his stage name, he might well have forgone any royalties even if he could prove he was owed some credit?)

Currently Jimmy Buffet's estate is going through a legal battle while the person put in charge of it is raking in $1.7 million per year on a $250+ million estate, and the guy had been entrusted for 30 years. I'm not entirely sure what value someone has, but it seems like a significant portion of what revenue someone generates could likely be a byproduct of accumulation of wealth, and not because of any real value they could otherwise provide.



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The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Andre Gregory, River Phoenix




The Mute Samurai (Gosha Hideo, 1973) 26 Ep
Subtitles are in a zip file. . . so the whole series would need to be downloaded and needs work to append it (though it's rarity seems worth preserving it.) It shares similarities to other series (Shintaro Katsu also plays a more famous blind character, Zatoichi.)



Similarly, MKV Tool would be needed to edit this, which has the audio for episodes 15 and 16 swapped (so basically you can deactivate parts of the file and allow the other one to merge) This is a Redux of the official one, which some seem to prefer, and the lead actress, Lena Headey would have gone onto GOT, which ultimately was more recognized. Some consider this series the only valid continuation after Terminator 2 (though it very much looks like the usual derivative TV series that have come out in the last 2 decades. . . Intended to create a basis for "content" by fluffing it out; though it doesn't quite have that Netflix "glow. . .")

Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) REDUX HD
https://archive.org/details/terminator- ... 2008-REDUX


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The Keep (1983)

Full movie: https://archive.org/details/the-keep-v-1.1.mkv

Momento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) Guy Pierce (Chronological edition fan-edit)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144
https://archive.org/details/MementoChronologicalEdition


Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011) Simon Pegg (unrated version)




Wolf Hall which aired Season 1 in 2015 finally had a continuation made, now 10 years later. It's the Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell story, following up after Anne Boleyn getting beheaded (Hilary Mantel book.)


Roku cucked me with a trailer and not any episodes, though PBS can give access to it with a $5 monthly donation (whether it can be canceled after the first one. . . and Apple TV can have a subscription for it. I've not seen it elsewhere.
Trailer only: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details ... l-season-2
PBS option: https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-6-lig ... ction=play

The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025 ... review-pbs
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Tue Jun 17, 2025 6:11 am

The Pride Of Strathmoor (Einar Baldvin, 2015) short


Predator Dark Ages (James Bushes, 2015) 27m Fan film


The Brothers Mario 1 and 2 (fake movie Trailer) by The Game Station




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End Of Empire (1985 Brit doc) 13 Ep




Monty Python's Season 1-4 (A larger file format is also uploaded there.)
https://archive.org/details/mpfc-remast ... 10305_1553

MP Fliegender Zirkus (2 part German exclusive) -> (I thought it was only 1 German episode)
https://archive.org/details/monty-pytho ... der-zirkus

Poirot series, (Agatha Christie) starring David Suchet
https://archive.org/details/poirot-series

Star Trek TNG (I skipped over the lesser episodes previously)
https://archive.org/details/cover_20240716_1919
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