Interactive Poll XLVI

Logan wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: ^^ Logan, again an admin, huh? May the force of patience be with you. Or better, I hope we'll all be nice so you'll spare your "force" to drive out Justin Bieber fans.  "Baby, baby, baby goooo!" ;) I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

Yet again, beware what JB might have "under the mistletoe". 

mistletoe: a leathery-leaved parasitic plant which grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees and bears white glutinous berries in winter.

Perhaps they are some gluttonous human-flesh-eating giant zombie berry-humanoids. Just be cautious.

Shadowyzard wrote: ^^ Logan, again an admin, huh? May the force of patience be with you. Or better, I hope we'll all be nice so you'll spare your "force" to drive out Justin Bieber fans.

"Baby, baby, baby goooo!" ;)

I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

Meltdowner wrote: Logan wrote: I will have to look out for that Yamato remake. Thanks. The Japanese had already done a live action version, but I haven't seen it. I watched it first by myself, and then later I wanted to share it with my teenage daughter (who I knew would like it). her favourite thing is Danga Ronpa, which is a video game series with something of a Battle Royale feel to it. As to Utopia, the violence I feel can be a bit much, and if you continue, keep an eye out for a spoon. One episode was delayed because of a tragic incident at a school. That said, I don't really find the violence senseless or gratuitous. Questionable, certainly. I;m reminded of A Clockwork Orange where the violence is off-putting, but then I think violence should be disturbing. I;m not one who tends to be titillated by violence even if some of my favourite films and TV shows (say Kill Bill, various horror films, or Westworld season one) use it fairly copiously(it's not that copious in Utopia, which makes the violent scenes more powerful and shaking). I tend not to go in for a lot of action, but like it when things are handled intelligently (one could find potential plot holes in various stories). The violence in Utopia is horrific and disturbing and it is important to the story and atmosphere. It could be more subtle at times. As a father, if kids are involved it's very hard to take, and I am now more sensitised to violence than I was then. I found the story very intriguing and the themes it deals with, and the ethical issues it raises have been issues of particular interest to me for much of my life. I won't go into details as that would be spoilerific. These days I do find many scenes of violence much harder to bear. I loved season one of Korean show called Kingdom (A zombie historical drama) but am having problems with the violence (munching mayhem) in season two. I like horror films, but haven't gone that much for the gory ones -- I prefer, say, folk horror to splatter horror. For real nightmares, nothing gave me more nightmares than reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy (great novel). I'll probably watch the remake as well, also because it's easier to find out there with English subtitles. "keep an eye out for a spoon"... pun intended? Yeah, I skipped the school incident on the second episode. I just finished the third I remember seeing A Clockwork Orange without flinching but in the last few years I became very sensitive to "ultraviolence". Speaking of anime and brutal change between seasons, I really loved the first season of Psycho Pass, the futuristic setting, the plot, tone and characters, but became disgustingly gore afterwards. I don't know if it got better on the new season but I don't intend to find out.

I had hoped you might get the fairly subtley done pun if you'd seen that and were paying attention. :D I have reverted back to an avatar I used to use for the occasion. I'm the same with the ultraviolence of Clockwork Orange. First time I saw it did not bother me, but now it would be very hard to take. The last time I tried to watch it it gave me real problems. I am intrigued to try Psycho-Pass (the first season) even if I will pass on the later disgusting gore.

I already went into some detail about many of these earlier, and I will be excluding ones I know really well and already loved (Twin Peaks and Land of the Lost being very old favourites of mine).

Two of these I have heard, but I feel I didn't remember them so well as to exclude them. I adore the "La Piovra" and "Rote Erde". Both are very much my kind of music, and while I've heard them (but not much before), I feel like listening to them sounded so fresh that I won't exclude them. "Black Hand", on the other hand, is new to m methinks, and I really liked that. It does pain me not to vote for Twin Peaks, but since I've been obsessed with that show, love that and Laura Palmer's Theme (which was an alternate of mine) I will exclude it. When Micky first mentioned doing this topic, Twin Peaks is what immediately came to my mind.

So, to re-cap, I vote for "La Piovra", "Rote Erde" and "Black Hand" while painfully not also voting for Twin Peaks.

micky wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: micky wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: I've missed this one, sorry people. It is the second IP thing that I missed, I wasn't aware of the first one, that was my first. Also, I always try to be under the auspices of this awesome gathering; yet I get tense and act sharply sometimes, irregardless of one's age. So perhaps my absence was better this time, taking the last topic into account.    bah.. you haven't really become a full-fledged member here until you've thrown elbows at someone or had them thrown at you haha.  Hope that wasn't the reason why.. but look forward to seeing you back at it when Christian starts the next one. Nope. Just had to concentrate on my work, and listened to Celtic relaxing music and stuff while resting. It will go on the same way for a month and a half, but I'll still participate, hopefully. I love you, micky. You're the other half of my heart. Just give it to me, so I can be complete and love you bettt... you bet, I'll ignore you. Hahaha!  ahh shucks.. you got that man  you had me the minute you said you liked my CDB suggestion all those weeks ago did I say was I was easy... oh yeah you bet your ass I am..   and cool on the work part... know how that was.. I had to sprint a marathon to make up for lost time during this week. Listening and managing..

Easygoing, perhaps. Easy? Hmm, I'd hate myself if I "appraised" people like that. I think you're great guy. If you really want to learn what I think about you, you're like a guy who can adapt to a post-apocalyptic world. Really. It is a great asset, I think. You're sensitive, but you can also endure a "lost paradise". We are not that similar, in lots of things, but I guess similar in "creating" stuff, if we cannot find to entertain ourselves, haha. Sometimes the world doesn't give you the flowers, and you just make flowers from papers... Hey what the hell am I talking about, we are both deviants, hahahah. 

Shadowyzard wrote: micky wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: I've missed this one, sorry people. It is the second IP thing that I missed, I wasn't aware of the first one, that was my first. Also, I always try to be under the auspices of this awesome gathering; yet I get tense and act sharply sometimes, irregardless of one's age. So perhaps my absence was better this time, taking the last topic into account.    bah.. you haven't really become a full-fledged member here until you've thrown elbows at someone or had them thrown at you haha.  Hope that wasn't the reason why.. but look forward to seeing you back at it when Christian starts the next one. Nope. Just had to concentrate on my work, and listened to Celtic relaxing music and stuff while resting. It will go on the same way for a month and a half, but I'll still participate, hopefully. I love you, micky. You're the other half of my heart. Just give it to me, so I can be complete and love you bettt... you bet, I'll ignore you. Hahaha!

micky wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: Big Trouble in Little China was one of the most enjoyable movies  that movie kicks a thousand and one asses man...

Planning to watch it once more. Perhaps in my 20s, I wasn't believing in magic and stuff. Now I do, I may love it again. 

Edited by Shadowyzard - July 19 2020 at 16:42

micky wrote: dr wu23 wrote: Twin peaks Monk Hawaii Five O I missed this poll or I would have added something....oh well.... ahhh.. you were missed Doc ... a man of your extended and extensive.. umm.... yeah...experience  I figured you could have given us a few good suggestions from the dawn of TV

And plenty from recent times too, since he isn't stuck in the past when it comes to TV. I've talked TV with Doug a lot over the years.

Edited by Logan - July 19 2020 at 16:37