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Tobyfoxofficial said:
I know this is a retarded question but why isn't there any decent R rated western animated action films? Its all shitty sex comedies.
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Some of the DCAU movies get pretty graphic with the violence, rated-R stuff like seeing Starfire's ripped-in-half corpse with the guts hanging out, heroes and villains getting graphically killed with huge blood sprays and everything. Whether you consider any of those to be decent movies is another question ofc
 
Celebrate Nite said:
Kinda peeved a lot of these didn't get actual shows. Some of them had good potential (Yuckie Duck, Pfish and Chip)
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Yeah, some of those old shorts were pretty good for what they were, but these are the newer ones that CN teased a few years ago but didn't end up releasing them... and judging by some of the leaked animatics to those new shorts...
Life is Hell... said:
A couple of these shorts actually leaked a while back, and yeah... they're nothing special... (Link)

Hungi Ghost by Jesse Moynihan
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Tib Tub, We Need You! by Sean Godsey and Mike Rosenthal
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Life is Hell... said:
More of CN's cancelled 2022 Cartoon Cartoon shorts program have leaked. (Link)

Scaredy Ghost by JJ Villard
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The All-Nimal by Nick Edwards
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Mandie Mander by Nick Bachman
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The Journey to Donut Palace by Somvilay Xayaphone
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It's a very mixed bag...
 
Tobyfoxofficial said:
I know this is a retarded question but why isn't there any decent R rated western animated action films? Its all shitty sex comedies.
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It is kind of weird. There were Heavy Metal and Rock & Rule, both over 40 years old, and then almost nothing I can remember. The Japs by comparison have tons of that shit.
 
draggs said:
I should note that it was adult Starfire not 15 year old girl Starfire
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she got better though... i guess
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lol
Tobyfoxofficial said:
I know this is a retarded question but why isn't there any decent R rated western animated action films? Its all shitty sex comedies.
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I've been wondering that too. Maybe even a movie about war or something, possibly dealing with imagination or stories.
AnOminous said:
It is kind of weird. There were Heavy Metal and Rock & Rule, both over 40 years old, and then almost nothing I can remember. The Japs by comparison have tons of that shit.
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By comparison, their movie industry seems to suck ass. They seem to struggle doing movies with real actors and such, something the Gooks do more.
 
Outer Space Traveller said:
By comparison, their movie industry seems to suck ass. They seem to struggle doing movies with real actors and such, something the Gooks do more.
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Yeah that's weird, too. I can think of shitloads of movies from South Korea that are absolute kino, but after Kurosawa, there's what? Tetsuo the Iron Man is the only relatively recent Japanese movie I've seen that I'd describe as awesome and that's over 35 years old.

I mean I'm sure there have been some good movies since then, but they haven't really jumped the border, unlike the Studio Ghibli movies. (I suppose there's Ran but I haven't seen that.)
 
AnOminous said:
It is kind of weird. There were Heavy Metal and Rock & Rule, both over 40 years old, and then almost nothing I can remember. The Japs by comparison have tons of that shit.
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Maybe Fritz the Cat has something to do with it? Set a fucked up precedent in the 70s and everyone just followed that?
 
Chromeo said:
Maybe Fritz the Cat has something to do with it? Set a fucked up precedent in the 70s and everyone just followed that?
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Maybe but I'm not going to dis Fritz the Cat. It gave us this marvelous deconstruction of 2020s SJW-ism as it related to dumb white chicks, somehow, 50 or so years early.
 
AnOminous said:
Maybe but I'm not going to dis Fritz the Cat. It gave us this marvelous deconstruction of 2020s SJW-ism as it related to dumb white chicks, somehow, 50 or so years early.
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Not to get too spergy, but He was able to do it because they’ve always been like that, it’s just in the last 10-15 years that they were both taken seriously, gained seats in places of power, and social media has taken the mask off on how insane/stupid they are. Literally nothing about their stupidity changed, it’s just that they have a bigger megaphone now and are taking things to their logical conclusion.
 
AnOminous said:
I mean I'm sure there have been some good movies since then, but they haven't really jumped the border
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Old, but 1996's Shall We Dance? and 2002's Ping Pong are still good. Godzilla Minus One was surprisingly cinematic, although Shin Godzilla was, too, since Hideaki Anno loves his unconventional composition shots.

I think the Japanese film industry is still trying to get out of its funk. It was likely only held up by live-action manga anime adaptations and independent (guro?)horror.
 
AnOminous said:
Yeah that's weird, too. I can think of shitloads of movies from South Korea that are absolute kino, but after Kurosawa, there's what? Tetsuo the Iron Man is the only relatively recent Japanese movie I've seen that I'd describe as awesome and that's over 35 years old.
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Beat Takeshi made some good pictures in the 90s. Sonatine, Fireworks. I'm not a big one for most of Takashi Miike's movies, but 13 Assassins was a good meeting between his shock horror shit and a traditional samurai story. This century has def been pretty thin for live action film over there, though, the broader point I won't argue with at all.

It's interesting, if you look at a list of the all time top grossing Japanese films, the top 25 is Godzilla Minus One, two corny spinoffs from a TV police comedy, and 22 cartoons. 14 of the top 15 are animated.

Also, it was today that I learned The Adventures of Milo and Otis was made in Japan.
 
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KissMyTaint said:
Did you guys know that Pixar was making a magical girl movie at one point? And it got cancelled in favor of Elio?

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Glad they cancelled it. It feels like a Steven universe inspired aesthetic and considering this is modern Pixar, it's gonna be hecking queer™
Do you think they'll try to revive this, since kpop demon hunters is a success? 🤔 (I'm surprised that movie was not super obnoxious as I thought it would be. The girls are heterosexual there, very surprising)
 
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