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It's the title of an actual anime.

Actually, the anime only has three 'O's in it, so your confusion is justified.

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm assuming from Mal's post that it ends on a cliffhanger.

Just watched episode 21.

This. Fucking. Show....

Preordered it on Amazon for $40. It's still up for that price last I checked. The thing is a tome, so I think it's well worth it at that price. Now, that's for the paperback version, the hardcover was a Comic-con exclusive, and is going on ebay and the like for around 2 bills.

Came in the mail the other day. 432 pages of solid blue gold. Say what you will about Udon, bless those guys for localizing all of these artbooks. I've got a bookshelf full of imported artbooks from back in the day, and now, for half the price, I can get a copy I can actually read!

...the animation in 1 is dated but great, it's only the intro/ending themes that are harsh for me, haha

Come on now, this is some classic shit.

Don't you want feeling? Rolling go indeed.

Ippo's one of those shows that I have watched the first twenty episodes or so like 4, or 5 times, but never finished. Every so often I'll start it up again from the beginning, and I'll just eat it up for a week or two, wondering 'Man, this is great, why have I sat on this for so long??'. Then I'll just stop for some reason. It's not like a hit a lull that I can't get past or anything, I just step away for long enough (a year or two) that I feel like I should start over. It's so weird. The prospect of the new series does get me fired up at another attempt though!!

I'd love to support this, but there's no way this isn't getting slammed with a cease and desist from Capcom. I love it, but it's almost too on the nose.

Karl Urban is great in just about everything, so I'd be all for that.

Of the names that they have been throwing around, I think Garrett Hedlund (kid from Tron Legacy) might be able to pull it off.

Well, five episodes left and no end in sight. Now I'm just hoping they don't try and pull an 'original ending' to cap the series. Build up has been great, just leave it on a cliffhanger and give us a few more seasons!

Oh and Nick, I read a mild spoiler from the manga (not something that's happened, something that HASN'T happened yet)

Meh.

I think the best part, by far, was

Last film that kinda freaked me out was Antichrist... But that was for different reasons than films should freak people out.

Chaos....Reigns.

Man, WB's desperation is palpable. Just goes to show they have absolutely no idea of what they are doing. The only savings grace is that Bale is probably one of the few actor's out there principled enough, and more over crazy enough to turn down $50 million.

Next they are going to try and have an animated Batman voiced by Kevin Conroy up against the reanimated corpse of Christopher Reeves.

So who's picking this up today, and on what system? I hear you actually have to beat it before the multiplayer is unlocked, but it'd be good to have some peeps to raid dungeons with!

From Box Office Mojo's weekend report:

Pacific Rim was always expected to do great business in Asia, but few expected it to do this well: the movie opened to an incredible $45.2 million in its first five days in China, which is Warner Bros. biggest opening ever. Overall, the movie took in $53 million this weekend, and its overseas total is now just over $200 million. With Spain, Brazil and (most notably) Japan opening Friday, Pacific Rim should have no problem getting to $300 million by the end of its run.

Here's to hoping strong overseas numbers more than make up for the lukewarm reception here.

Here's to hoping that's gameplay of the current gen build....

 

Mangold has said he plans to release an unrated extended cut on Bluray though.

 

That could be incredible!! One of my few grips with the movie was that the Wolvie vs. Ninjas fight wasn't satisfying enough. I've caught TV spots for it since watching it, and I was convinced that they were showing scenes from that fight that weren't in the theatrical cut.

you guys still aren't getting it; BC is BC. for proper BC, you have the hardware on board - this is either present, or it isn't.

Mark my words, years after the PS4 is out, there are going to be cross-play/cross-buy network titles that will run identically on both systems (Vita and PS4). This means that the hypothetical title could also run for PS3 equally well. Are titles like this going to be available for PS3? Will Sony continue to support digital content for PS3 even after PS4 is released, this remains to be seen and there is no precedent we can look towards, but it makes the PSN/XBLA BC issue seem like an artificial and contrived boundary.

The plan is to release the game as a digital download only when it arrives in early 2014. The game is currently being developed for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and the PC

It. Begins.

But how??.......the hardwares.....they are different.

Not bad, not bad at all.

 

That train sequence up there plays alot better on the big screen. And the whole getting-his-face-sliced-turn-around-heal thingy never gets old.

 

Agreed. A lot of great little scenes. Some things worked, other didn't. Train sequence had be rolling my eyes in the trailer, but it worked really well in the film. Then there's this great, GREAT setup for the ninjas, but the actual fight falls kinda flat.

I mean, going in, I was expecting a 'back to basics' story, but the restraint exercised here was actually quite refreshing, especially when my resolve weakens and I remember Origins happened.

But for a weak 3rd act, I might say I actually loved it? I don't know. Certain decisions bother me, but the more I think on it, the better the film sits with me.

And then there's dat post credit sequence. Squee!

STRIDER ON NEXT GEN MUTHA FUGGAZ!

Yeah, but it's being developed by Double Helix games! Apparently they weren't content with ruining one classic franchise....

Pacific Rim

Domestic: $38,300,000 - 41.9%

Foreign: $53,000,000 - 58.1%

Worldwide: $91,300,000

 

Guess I'll never see this type of movie ever again.

Yes, it's really heartbreaking, but that's not as terrible as trackers were thinking. They had it coming in at under $30 million for the opening weekend. As it stands it's Del Toro's biggest opening weekend ever too. Those foreign numbers are really strong, particularly for a completely unknown property. While it's still early as hell, revised estimates for the final foreign haul are around $300 million, which is hopeful. Might not be the unmitigated disaster everyone's thinking it will be.

Still, I'mma try and see it multiple times to support, just in case....

in recent times, Let Me In gave me some faith regarding remakes, at least

Panch and I were continuing the discussion in this thread on the phone and Let Me In came up often. I can remember thinking that the remake was excellent and that it may have completely eclipsed the original, immediately after leaving the theater. I've found that in the years since (having not re-watched either in some time), my memories have coalesced into a strange quantum hybrid. When I think of the characters of Oskar/Owen and Eli/Abby I always default to the Swedish versions, but I know that I am probably remembering them in scenes with the superior cinematography of the remake.

The effort of trying to distinguish them as two distinct experiences gives me a nose bleed.

While at one point I would have heralded Let Me In as the litmus for a quality remake, the resulting cognitive entanglement that has resulted makes me second guess that assessment. If an effort to remake a film is going to be made, is it a good thing that the resultant is loyal to the point of being indistinguishable, or should it be distinct enough that both can exist and be enjoyed for their own particular merits. I think I would need to watch both versions again, but at this point I would give the edge to Let the Right One In solely on the merit of having a much better title.

edit: Good looking out Jax :p

Slumdog Millionaire was in English.

Not all of it. A lot of the film was in Hindi (I just watched it again last week). But I mainly bring it up to address the point (not one you made) that American audiences won't watch films with and entirely foreign cast.

Because Americans don't like watching movies in other languages with subtitles, so when a good movie comes out in another country, if it's animated, we dub it, and if it's live action, we just remake the whole thing.

While I whole-heartedly agree that that is the motivation, and I have heard many a person say things like "Subtitles?! If I wanted to read I stay home and watch the book!", I think that it is, a flawed, self perpetuating rationale. If a movie is marketed correctly, and legitimately good, people will go see it regardless of an ethnic cast and subtitles: see Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Slumdog Millionaire.

While I concede that Brolin is a much better fit than Will Smith, I just can't fathom how this is going to work. Oldboy is just so...Korean.

The rational of the villain, and the intricacies of his plot for revenge teetered dangerously on the edge of becoming laughable. Now I love Oldboy, but there was a razor thin margin between it working and not working. Koreans know melodrama, and Oldboy worked ‘cause they sold it. I’m not sure a westernized take will be able to achieve the same feat, without compromising the plot somehow.

Then you take something like the squid scene. One of the memorable scenes in the movie, but steeped in the culture of the original film. How are they going to pull that off without making it seem even more surreal? I guess they could set the movie in Korea, but if they are going to do that, why remake it at all?? Ugh.

Way, Way, WAAAY better.