Synchtube Tropers (Riff on Videos and Movies)

Lesser-known Saturday Night Live alumnus Brian Doyle-Murray Jim Belushi starring in another something or other that isn't a comedy, but, gee, wouldn't it be surreal watching Brian Doyle-Murray in one of these kinds of roles? ...Nah, I suppose "President Grandpa" will just have to do.

One Way Out.

Reading the Nightmare Fuel page for Digimon Tamers is making me very curious about using it as pre-show material. Anyone else interested?

If you want melodrama without the mindfuckery, anyone interested in Digimon Frontier?

Tamers takes a looong time to build up to the mindfuckery. Are you planning on watching the whole thing, one episode per preshow per night? Because that's 51 episodes.

In that case, what would be a good starting point that wouldn't require a lot of foreknowledge? Tamers is a different continuity from Adventure 01 and Adventure 02.

It starts out fairly dark, doesn't it? It's just that all the really messed up stuff happens near the end.

I actually really liked Tamers. Though I enjoyed Adventure as well.

If you're looking for something shorter than the series though, have we ever seen the Fox Kids released movie? It's three shorter films with separate plots that they tried to weld into a cohesive whole with exposition. Granted they're more or less in the same continuity over a period of about 8 years in story, but if you didn't watch a significant amount of Digimon Adventure, it'll make little sense. Hell, even if you did, it'll be tough to follow. It's also loaded with the same Woosleyisms the dubbed series were infamous for, and a soundtrack of late 90s hit songs from the likes of Smash Mouth, Fatboy Slim, and Barenaked Ladies.

i should also add that digimon wasnt intended to be a competitor to pokemon in the first place. it was actually a sister series to tomagachi, which was all the rage back in the 90s.

Are you talking about the movie that took three separate movies, (well, two movies and one 20 minute special,) then spliced them together while cutting them down to the length of one film? Let's see. Here's a trailer. From what I understand, unless you are intimately familiar with the intricacies of the franchise none of it really makes that much sense.

edited 21st Feb '17 12:14:26 PM by WillKeaton

I have actually seen that movie, and I think rather than splitting it into three, if we're gonna watch that mess, we might as well watch it all as one, as a feature. That's what I think, personally. That's how the English dubbed version was intended.

And yeah, I was surprised to see that Digimon started as a Tomogotchi ripoff with fighting, and grew into something bigger from there. It was most likely US marketers that saw Digimon as a way to compete against Pokémon by having a new franchise they could wield against them. And with Fox Kids competing against The WB, well, Fox probably wanted something more "cool" they could use (though what was the rest of their lineup at that time? Anything good at all?).

@Will: Yes.

@Bonsai: Not so much ripoff as spinoff. They were made by the same company.

The Fox Kids lineup during the Digimon era was on its last legs, so it was a mixed bag. You had mainstays like the Saban produced Power Rangers series. There was also Transformers: Beast Machines (a sequel series to Beast Wars), and the short lived Cybersix animated series. There was also Monster Rancher (a mon-based anime spinoff of a series of Play Station games) as well as a few other similar anime, like Mon Colle Knights and Medabots. You also had Angela Anaconda (an ugly looking cartoon I avoided), a short-lived censored version of the Vision of Escaflowne anime, and that Galidor series I think I remember seeing here.

I think Vision of Escaflowne is a really odd choice for the Fox Kids lineup. I wonder if they were grabbing for whatever when it came to that. But the rest is definitely action-heavy stuff.

So Tamagotchi created Digimon? Huh. Interesting that it would turn into multiple series, beginning with a simple kid-friendly adventure, then moving into melodrama and mindfuck for the third season, before keeping some of the melodrama but toning down the darkness for the fourth.

Also, I remember seeing Cybersix advertised. It looked like an odd choice also from a marketing perspective, and having watched it, I really like it, but I feel that, much like Peter Pan & the Pirates, it doomed itself by having not much audience in the US by the views of animation and boys/girls content at the time.

edited 21st Feb '17 1:06:28 PM by BonsaiForest

With Escaflowne, I think they focused on the mecha aspect of it and tried to downplay the romantic angles. They even chose not to air the first episode (probably because of its relative lack of action for the first 15 minutes or so), dumping us right into the action with zero explanation. Sort of how the original Cardcaptor Sakura dub focused on the episodes featuring the male protagonist to hide that it was originally geared towards a female audience, like most magical girl series.

Cybersix was originally a Canadian series. But I guess it wasn't a big success there either, since it only lasted a season.

edited 21st Feb '17 1:36:20 PM by Morgikit

We watched Cybersix on this very coven at the time I joined, however long ago that was. Escaflowne was censored and they didn't show the first episode when it aired in the States and they never finished it, but up here we got the first episode and it was eventually broadcast up to the final episode. Which makes sense, since all the voice actors are Canadian. Not entirely sure why it aired on Fox in the first place. I recall a similar thing happening with Cardcaptor Sakura. In the States they started with the episode that introduced Li, one of the male leads, but up here we started at the beginning.

I don't have a problem with translations that change minor things (see the video game Earthbound) for flavor or whatever. But localizations that butcher the core of the series really annoy me.

Interestingly, the English dub of Digimon Adventure 01 supposedly went out of its way to make it look like it had a specific main character - Tai - rather than show that all the protagonists were equals.

I won't be able to make it tonight (too tired) or tomorrow (early start).

while we're on the topic of saturday morning trash from the 00's, that reminds me of this trainwreck i saw a few times but barely remember.

EDIT: and i also remembered of the revivals for The Twilight Zone. i've been hearing about how bad they are, but i never really watched any of them.

eh, we all have guilty pleasures in some form. its no big deal, really.

edited 21st Feb '17 2:11:58 PM by I-Teleported-Bread

I actually liked that show as a kid.

But then again, I also like The Magic Island back then, and we all know how that turned out when we watched it recently.

So here's where it's at! First up, we got more recent discoveries Retsupurae made on Kickstarter, Street Sharks and... (I completely forgot this was a thing) X-ARM. It must be seen to be believed.

Then, at the top of the coming hour, we kill an hour-and-a-half with Jim Belushi in some pizza shit called One Way Out.

Join us! http://cytu.be/r/TroperCoven

~Morgikit ~lewattoo ~Noaqiyeum ~Finger Puppet ~Colonel Cathcart ~Completely Normal Guy ~TAPETRVE ~Rockonman ~spacealien ~Mystic Eclectic ~Shippudentimes ~Space Wolf ~colonelcathcart ~Germi91 ~Maple Samurai ~Gehayadren ~iflewaway ~Tomodachi ~imaginedbird

We all only have one way out in this life.

Reviews indicate that Digimon Tamers starts getting good about halfway through the series, and then it stays great from there, once the character development really hits.

"From slow to awesome in 34 episodes" is a title.

If we use it for pre-show, that's something that should be kept in mind. Maybe jump ahead a bit rather than start at the beginning.

I'm wondering if that specific episode is the point to start at, or just a few episodes prior.

edited 21st Feb '17 8:31:59 PM by BonsaiForest

sorry i missed today maybe post if its a gdrive file? sorry if you do and im spacing

tamers would own as a preshow, so would escaflowne

Complete IMDb Plot Synopsis:

Well, that surely explains everything. Get ready for... Panman.

I sincerely hope this isn't one of those WHAAAAAAAAAACKYYYY self-aware shitty horror films.

IIRC the trailer (can't view it at work) quoted someone calling it a combination of horror and comedy.

Somehow I doubt there's any actual horror here.

Sorry to spam suggestions but OH HOLY HECK A STOPMO SHORT FILM
This was done by the son of Jan Švankmajer. I've seen this a long time ago and I just found it.