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Good Eats (1999)
It really is...GOOD eats
Emphasis on the good.
^_^ I love Alton Brown. I remember being confused the first time I saw it, but once I saw another show, I got it pretty well. My favorite episode is when Alton had the voodoo doll of W, ha! Thats a great way to use skewers. Its excellently written, the camera angles are amazing, and its just plain funny. I like the food network and this has to be my current favorite show, They need to hurry and make more episodes.
Oh yeah, the scrap iron chef episode rocked!!!!!!!!!!! HAhah...the iron chef won..hahaha...I'm sorry, I guess you have to watch Iron Chef to get that joke.
Its awesome. Alton Brown forever.
Justice League (2001)
Hmm
Great show. I am a die hard anime fan, so normally the whole batman/superman whatever stuff doesn't even phase me (I read mangas not American comics). However American animation is just starting to catch up, giving characters flaws, making them human, and not always balancing with a happy ending, just like anime. Not that I want the show to be depressing, just to have more depth. I was a bit surprised when IL Superman, the man of steel himself, got exposed in the recent eps for having quite a temper when it came to Luthor, one that could've been dangerous. The conflicts with the government worrying about the League becoming more powerful instead of just saluting them all the time, also one of my favorites was "Epilogue" the batman beyond crossover (SOMEONE REALLY NEEDS TO BRING THAT SHOW BACK) Where they show an older Terry McGinnis question his own origin and show some of Bruce's old temper, and they figure out the government conspiracy behind his birth...Its like we all expected it, but at the same time didn't. (one of those "its too obvious to be true, wait..it really is?) sort of deals. Either way, looks like America is learning from the manga world in Japan..slowly.
Batman Beyond (1999)
Go Terry!
I miss Terry so much now that everything is over...
Bring it back!!! Bruce is okay but I could never relate to him. He is my favorite of superheros but the Bruce Wayne side of him was still very much too mature for my tastes. Bringing Terry in there, not so much because he is a teen hero because there are plenty of those, but bringing him in under Bruce's shadow, is an excellent POV to try.
The villains are okay, but not worse than from Batman: The Animated Series. (which i loved, btw). If you watch BB then the Justice League Unlimited Episode "Epilogue" You will have a lot more respect for Terry.
I'm sick of him making appearances of other shows, we need to bring Terry back for good. It is inspired by anime a good deal, which I'm glad (im an anime fan) and the cold feel of Gotham is still there, just futuristic.
So all of you "Bruce isn't batman, wah" people get over it, because there are only 100 million other batman shows with him in it to watch. Let Terry have his show. And I love the old Bruce, that old man has bite, he's great and I'm so glad he is still there. He's one of those guys who outlives everyone, you can tell. LOL!
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)
Pretty Good
This was good. I was angry at the rating this movie got. It was for the fans, people. "Too many card games, blah blah blah" HELLO! What the heck you think YGO is about anyway. Its about the game, morons.
Normally I see a movie's preview, its great, then the movie is so so. IT was actually the opposite in this case. I saw the previews, they didn't look that interesting. However, i was bored in the mall one day, and decided to go see it, I was pleasantly surprised. Okay, so its not the most original plot I have seen. Bad guy, ancient evil, he gets defeated. Oh well.
The thing that made this movie good was the way this old standby was done. I loved how they brought back IL Max Pegasus. yes, he used to be a bad guy, and now is a ..neutral guy, and helping out because he isn't all that completely evil. Thing about it, in ANIME bad guys usually have a reason for being bad instead of just doing it (unless they are one time bad guys like Anubis who are not going to come back). Max wanted to bring his wife back with the shadow magics...but back to the movie.
I've heard a rumor about that it was created by 4kids, not translated by them. Or something like that. If thats the case then they did an even better job than I thought. I've read the manga, and they kept pretty darn close to the essence of the characters if its true. If its not, except for a few cheesy Americanizations it was a great movie. Main opponents for this movie are the ones who don't understand the YGO universe at all, or the people who hate anything that is English and is anime. Dubbed anime has come a long way since the days of sailor moon, and the disrespect given to American voice actors sickens me. They are usually not even given a chance, their own versions of the characters can sometimes be more interesting than their Japanese counterparts.
I give YGO: The movie an 8/10. It isn't the absolute most wonderful movie ever to be ever, but its pretty darn good and I did go out and buy the DVD. For those of you who hate it THAT much (this directing to parents) Go watch Law and Order and..some former prostitute solving a case or something. Like that is original either. By the way, I am almost 20 and will continue to watch YGO