Recommend me some post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, psychological stuff!
If I sent you a friend request, it's because I like your taste and I'd like to see your updates to check what other cool things you found. Also, feel free to message me about anything :)
Something happens in my heart when I see Seiya in his first anime cloth... I probably have seen some random episodes of Speed Racer and Kimba before, but I really got into anime when Saint Seiya aired in my country in 1994, and I was 5yo. After its success, there was a huge flood of anime on over-the-air TV. Dragon Ball, Shurato, Ronin Warriors, they'd even show some random OVAs for the kids, like MD Geist and Genocyber, between Sailor Moon and Captain Tsubasa. I also got a VHS of Akira back then and fell absolute in love with it - no wonder I became teenage punk later on. Some anime I watched in the 90's I hold dear are Street Fighter II V, Yu Yu Hakusho and Samurai X (and Akira!).
In 2001, when I was 12, my family got a paid TV service and there was an anime channel. I got to watch tons of random stuff, but also Cowboy Bebop, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Jin-Roh, Perfect Blue, Animatrix, among others, that blew my mind and completely changed my view of anime. In 2003 we changed the service and I no longer had that channel, the anime on TV were the likes of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Bey Blade, and I couldn't get into those, my bar was set too high already. I didn't watch anime through the rest of my teenage years.
In 2008 I started watching some episodes of One Piece and Naruto on my lunch break. It was either that or watching the news, but they didn't air too many episodes on over-the-air TV. I got curious to see how the story would continue, but my internet wasn't good enough to watch online, so I looked for the manga. I discovered that manga (of those shounen, at least) are so much better than anime - it's fast paced, they don't repeat the same dialogue ten times per episode, nor have a flashback every five minutes. From there, I started reading a lot of manga, and although friends got me reading stuff I regret wasting so much time on (like Fairy Tail and Noblesse), I also discovered Berserk, Basilisk, Gantz, Attack on Titan, Eden, Death Note...
It was late 2015, I was hanging at a friend's house and he said there was this cool anime I had to watch, I thought he was going to show me yet another shounen, and I was pretty bored at the whole genre already, but he showed me the first episode of Gangsta. and I absolutely loved it. When I got back home I watched the whole thing, there were nine episodes out and I was so excited, but then, like a curse, when I finally got back into anime after twelve years, the studio went bankrupt and the anime was dropped two episodes later, not even completing the season haha.
But now I was back at it and started looking for other stuff. I discovered Ergo Proxy, Texhnolyze, The Sky Crawlers, Darker Than Black, Code Geass, From the New World, Terror in Resonance, Psycho-Pass... I was watching a lot of stuff, and then I found MyAnimeList. I joined on Jan 5, 2016, and the rest of my updates you can see on the site :)
- Error: Comickers Manga Collection For Another World (?) - Plan to Read
- Gabuli (?) - Plan to Read
- Global Astroliner Gou (?) - Plan to Read
- Sky Crawlers - Innocent Aces (?) - Plan to Read
I saw it a long time ago, and I think "how ridiculous it looked" is the part that made my monocle drop and quickly led to a bout of inner snobbishness kicking in. I had heard/read some interesting things about it along the way that would probably have me appreciating it more now. I suppose I'll bump it to 3/5 for now. I was thinking it might have been an influence on Holy Mountain, but it turns out that came out the year before Zardoz.
That’s actually insane!! ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) I did watch it a few years back and if thats his most tamed work I don’t know whatever the hell his more extreme work would look like…I guess I’ll find out soon this year lololol. Interesting, those panels give me a new perspective, I never read western comics before but I might look into them in the future!
Sup! You read anything recently? Im currently reading a little samurai manga, Blade of the Immortal. Its pretty good so far and some panels are pencil only so that’s awesome!
Yeah the media tried their hardest to stifle the popular sentiment about the CEO killer. That dude was basically viewed as a hero to so many people who are completely fed up with how corrupt our health care system is. More than that even, we're all just at our breaking point with these billion dollar corporations in general. To have someone step up and take action like that struck so much fear into corporate America. I thought that it might have been the first shot in some sort of class war. This country spends so much time fighting against each other with left vs right issues, and this felt like the one thing that both sides were in agreement about. They keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the real issue is corporate greed.
The CEO that got killed was making $44 million a year. His company denies claims to people who are going through so much pain and suffering. He implemented an AI system that would decide whether or not to accept the claims. So if the AI decided that some elderly person didn't deserve oxygen or pain medicine, or if a child needed treatment for a debilitating condition they were just shit out of luck and would probably live out the rest of their years in horrible pain. I thought there would be copycat killers popping up and finally making these corporations terrified to leave the house. But now it's kind of just lost to the rapid news cycle. But man, it really felt like something was brewing!
Sorry I haven't logged on in a while so helping you with the syntax might be too late. If you're ranking A and B with B as the best, I wouldn't use term "best" for A unless I said "A is the second best after B." It's a little confusing to use "best" to describe two separate things in comparison with each other because it's kind of an absolute word. So say I was ranking Metallica albums and I thought Ride the Lighting was the best one. I wouldn't say "Master of Puppets is the best after Ride the Lighting." It would be more along the lines of "Master of Puppets is the second best after Ride the Lighting." Best should be reserved for the one thing that you have determined as the best. To use it when describing the other items in the conversation can be too confusing. But saying second best (or third, fourth, etc.) would be fine. Hope that helps, but I'm sure it's too late to be helpful for your message now. I haven't been on this site as much lately and my phone doesn't alert me when I get messages on here for some reason.
Dude that was hilarious! I need to check out the whole series. I've actually never seen Waking Life or A Scanner Darkly if you can believe it. I've always been aware of them, I just never got around to watching. I have a three day weekend so I'll have to check out at least one of them.
So much weird shit has been happening in the news over the past month with all of the drone activity. How much of that news have you been seeing about it? For about 2 weeks here it literally felt like we were in the process of being invaded by aliens. I know that might sound crazy, but some of the footage people were talking was wild. It feels like it might have been a massive psyop to distract people from the CEO killer story which was dominating the news cycle. Because now it's no longer being talked about at all. No explanation was ever given from any government agencies. The news just stopped covering it. Maybe once California caught on fire they figured they no longer needed to keep up with it.
The footage was still insane though. Some of it was like an all out war in the sky where these red orb things were destroying the man-made drones in mid air and they would just drop. I don't know how much you believe in all of that stuff, but it really had me wondering if this was going to turn out to be the big moment. As always it's impossible to tell what's real and what's being faked in the post-truth age we're living in.
I'm not sure if this award would make it eligible, since it seems to be something given from the school, but I will see if I can find a staff member who worked on it that also contributed to something else in the database.
Just wanted to share a funny little thing that happened today. I woke up and went on reddit. It recommended a post in r/Koreanfilm (which I have never looked at and didn't even know it existed.) I haven't even typed about Korean movies anywhere online in ages up until yesterday. And of course the very first post it recommended to me was by none other than PxHC! How weird is that!? I swear that the algorithms are just logging everything we type everywhere and it's kind of blowing my mind. That was one of those things that made me feel like I was either still dreaming or had stumbled upon a glitch in the simulation. Oh and by the way, I went through my list a few times to see if anything matched that movie you've been trying to find. The only one that even comes close might be The Man From Nowhere from 2010. A few of the details match up but some don't seem to at all. I would have asked if you might have accidentally been mixing up the details from 2 separate films, but then I remembered how sharp your memory is and how mine just seems to get worse all of the time. But that was the only one I could come up with from recalling all of the films on my list. It's probably not the movie you're looking for.
Ah, good old Revenge of the Nerds. Definitely a nostalgia thing for me, although you're probably right that you'll regret checking them out! I remember watching the first 2 a few times when I was a kid. I know one thing for sure, that they sure don't fit "today's standards" for what would be acceptable. They're always on those lists I come across like "Top 10 problematic scenes from 80s movies" or "Top 10 films that could never be made today." One scene in particular involves a Darth Vader mask. I'm sure you've just watched it. I don't like those types of lists because it seems like they're really trying to make people feel bad for enjoying things at a time when things were completely different culturally. That's a whole other conversation that I would probably spend too much time talking about, but you get the idea.
I'm about to pull up my list of Korean movies that I've watched and rated. I suppose I could just copy and paste it here. It's long so I'll shorten it with a spoiler thing. My ratings were very different from how I rate things on this site. Back then I guess I was using more of a school grading system where 7 was like a C, making it average. I actually prefer the MAL system to any other I've come across where 5 is average. In school that would have been an F, and really anything under a 7 or even an 8 in some cases would probably be a grade that you didn't want your parents to find out about. I wish I would have taken more notes about what I liked or didn't like about these movies. Also, these were so different than what I was used to watching at the time that I probably rated things much higher than I would normally. I was just blown away by the genre mixing and bizarre story structures among many other things. I was rating these on a scale of their own. Not compared to any American movies. So here it is:
1. Joint Security Area 10
2. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 10
3. Oldboy 10
4. Lady Vengeance 10
5. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK 6.5
6. Thirst 10
7. The Handmaiden 10
8. Barking Dogs Never Bite 8
9. Memories of Murder 10
10. The Host 7.5
11. Mother 9
12. Parasite 10
13. Sea Fog 8
14. Crocodile 7
15. The Isle 9
16. Address Unknown 7.5
17. Bad Guy 7
18. Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall.. And Spring 8.9
19. Samaritan Girl 7
20. 3-Iron 9
21. One on One 5
22. The Net 10
23. Made In China 7.5
24. The Chaser 10
25. The Wailing 7
26. The Yellow Sea 10
27. The Good, The Bad, The Weird 8
28. A Tale of Two Sisters 5.9
29. I Saw The Devil 9
30. A Bittersweet Life 9
31. The Foul King 6
32. The Quiet Family 6.5
33. Bedevilled 8
34. A Taxi Driver 10
35. Secret Reunion 8.5
36. Burning 7.5
37. The Man From Nowhere 10
38. Tazza: The High Rollers 7
39. Sunflower 8
40. The Classified File 9
41. The Client 6
42. Tunnel 9
43. A Girl At My Door 8
44. Friend 9
45. Road Kill 2
46. The Truth Beneath 10
47. Intimate Strangers 9
48. Voice of Silence 8
49. New World 8
50. Asura: City of Madness 6
51. Missing You 6
52. Moss 7
53. Moebius 4
54. True Fiction 5
55. Veteran 9
56. The City of Violence 5
57. Castaway on the Moon 10
58. The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil 7
59. 1987: When The Day Comes 10
60. Derailed 7
61. Hwayi: A Monster Boy 6
62. Secretly, Greatly 8
63. Attack the Gas Station! 9
64. Timeless, Bottomless, Bad Movie 3
65. The Pirates 10
66. Bluebeard 5
67. The Bow 7
68. A Violent Prosecutor 8
69. The Witness 9
70. The King and The Clown 9.5
71. The Unjust 8
72. Shiri 8
73. Extreme Job 7
74. Pandora 8
75. Dark Figure of Crime 7
76. Welcome to Dongmakgol 8
77. Samjin Company English Class 4
78. A Hard Day 7
79. Seven Years of Night 8
80. Helpless 8
81. Default 8
82. Space Sweepers 5
83. Train to Busan 9.5
84. White Night 8
85. Perfect Number 9
86. Silmido 8
87. Crying Fist 10
88. Human, Space, Time, and Human 8
89. Arahan 6
90. Start-Up 8
91. The Thieves 6
92. The Doll Master 2
93. The Accidental Detective 7
94. Private Eye 8
95. Collectors 7
96. Blood and Ties 8
97. The Piper 5
98. Memoir of a Murder 8
99. Arirang 2
100. Rough Cut 6
101. The Battle: Roar To Victory 9
102. Confidential Assignment 8
103. Luck-Key 9.4
104. The Battleship Island 10
105. Doomsday Book 4
106. The Berlin File 6
107. The Terror Live 5
108. Chronicle of a Blood Merchant 7
109. Among The Gods: The Two Worlds 8
110. Assassination 9
111. Poongsan 6
112. Pieta 9
113. The Spy Gone North 9
114. The Outlaws 9
115. A Man Who Was Superman 8
116. Children... 8
117. Deep Trap 5.5
118. Kick the Moon 6
119. Woochi: The Demon Slayer 7
120. Traffickers 6
121. Die Bad 4
122. Waikiki Brothers 6
123. Conduct Zero 8
124. Murder Take One 4
125. Going By the Book 8
126. Broken 9
127. Confession of Murder 5
128. The Queen of Crime 7
129. Trap 8
130. The Call 9
131. My Sassy Girl 8
132. #Alive 8
133. Miracle in Cell No.7 10
134. Diary of June 7
135. Nameless Gangster 8
136. Squid Game 9
137. Silenced 9.5
138. Young Adult Matters 6
139. The Chronicles of Evil 7.5
140. Hostage: Missing Celebrity 6.5
141. Breath 5
142. Beasts Clawing at Straws 8.5
143. Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror 7
Anything below a 7 is probably garbage. 7 is average. That's what I don't like about the school ratings system. It's so narrow. Basically anything that's above average you have to decide only between 8, 9, or 10. Anything below 7 you're kind of just deciding what level of bad it is. If you happen to like "Spring, Summer...," 3-Iron, Pieta, Time and The Bow, those are from that controversial Kim Ki Duk guy as you probably already know. I think my favorite of his was The Isle. There were some of his that I never ended up finding, which bummed me out. Also there was a movie we had talked about called H that I never found. It was almost impossible to search for due to its name only being one letter, and even when I did there were never any available sources.
I didn't understand why you linked to that post in particular, but I figured it out when I scrolled to the top. I think P-P S2 has to be one of the most disgraceful sequels ever, not counting weird unofficial stuff. Takes everything from the original and inverts it. I honestly question if Ubukata even watched P-P as prep to write the script.
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The CEO that got killed was making $44 million a year. His company denies claims to people who are going through so much pain and suffering. He implemented an AI system that would decide whether or not to accept the claims. So if the AI decided that some elderly person didn't deserve oxygen or pain medicine, or if a child needed treatment for a debilitating condition they were just shit out of luck and would probably live out the rest of their years in horrible pain. I thought there would be copycat killers popping up and finally making these corporations terrified to leave the house. But now it's kind of just lost to the rapid news cycle. But man, it really felt like something was brewing!
Sorry I haven't logged on in a while so helping you with the syntax might be too late. If you're ranking A and B with B as the best, I wouldn't use term "best" for A unless I said "A is the second best after B." It's a little confusing to use "best" to describe two separate things in comparison with each other because it's kind of an absolute word. So say I was ranking Metallica albums and I thought Ride the Lighting was the best one. I wouldn't say "Master of Puppets is the best after Ride the Lighting." It would be more along the lines of "Master of Puppets is the second best after Ride the Lighting." Best should be reserved for the one thing that you have determined as the best. To use it when describing the other items in the conversation can be too confusing. But saying second best (or third, fourth, etc.) would be fine. Hope that helps, but I'm sure it's too late to be helpful for your message now. I haven't been on this site as much lately and my phone doesn't alert me when I get messages on here for some reason.
So much weird shit has been happening in the news over the past month with all of the drone activity. How much of that news have you been seeing about it? For about 2 weeks here it literally felt like we were in the process of being invaded by aliens. I know that might sound crazy, but some of the footage people were talking was wild. It feels like it might have been a massive psyop to distract people from the CEO killer story which was dominating the news cycle. Because now it's no longer being talked about at all. No explanation was ever given from any government agencies. The news just stopped covering it. Maybe once California caught on fire they figured they no longer needed to keep up with it.
The footage was still insane though. Some of it was like an all out war in the sky where these red orb things were destroying the man-made drones in mid air and they would just drop. I don't know how much you believe in all of that stuff, but it really had me wondering if this was going to turn out to be the big moment. As always it's impossible to tell what's real and what's being faked in the post-truth age we're living in.
I'm about to pull up my list of Korean movies that I've watched and rated. I suppose I could just copy and paste it here. It's long so I'll shorten it with a spoiler thing. My ratings were very different from how I rate things on this site. Back then I guess I was using more of a school grading system where 7 was like a C, making it average. I actually prefer the MAL system to any other I've come across where 5 is average. In school that would have been an F, and really anything under a 7 or even an 8 in some cases would probably be a grade that you didn't want your parents to find out about. I wish I would have taken more notes about what I liked or didn't like about these movies. Also, these were so different than what I was used to watching at the time that I probably rated things much higher than I would normally. I was just blown away by the genre mixing and bizarre story structures among many other things. I was rating these on a scale of their own. Not compared to any American movies. So here it is:
Anything below a 7 is probably garbage. 7 is average. That's what I don't like about the school ratings system. It's so narrow. Basically anything that's above average you have to decide only between 8, 9, or 10. Anything below 7 you're kind of just deciding what level of bad it is. If you happen to like "Spring, Summer...," 3-Iron, Pieta, Time and The Bow, those are from that controversial Kim Ki Duk guy as you probably already know. I think my favorite of his was The Isle. There were some of his that I never ended up finding, which bummed me out. Also there was a movie we had talked about called H that I never found. It was almost impossible to search for due to its name only being one letter, and even when I did there were never any available sources.