Recent content by Bradax24

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    The Big Picture: In Defense of Nostalgia

    I was pleasantly surprised. The title certainly didn't foreshadow this. After all, nostalgia has been a relatively leading drive in Moviebob's other show, the Game Overthinker. And that can be pretty good ("Can It Happen to Us") or really bad ("Worst Person," which snapped my fandom for a...
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    Zero Punctuation: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

    The name "Alucard" was actually used in the third Dracula movie, "Son of Dracula," in 1943. Though I don't know the reasoning for why Japan likes to use the name.
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    What is so great about Anime?

    Sorry I can't find a word that means both movies and television. Plus, there's a difference between prevalent tropes and fact. The people I'm arguing against think that they're one in the same. I don't mean to sound like everyone else in this argument, but the same can be said in other mediums...
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    What is so great about Anime?

    2 things: 1) Your comparison is fairly accurate, but you miss the point. When I say film, I mean anything that interprets a scene through moving images. Anime fits into that category. Also, a painting and a photo basically do the same thing, they show a scene through a still image; the...
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    What is so great about Anime?

    I'm going to put in my word again because of all the ignorant comments I see. Anime is just another way of presenting the film medium. Animation is a form of film, and anime is a form of animation. Anime does not have to have skimpy girls, giant robots, or convoluted plots; those are...
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    What is so great about Anime?

    I'm a fan of anime, and if you want to know my reason for liking anime, it's because it's one of the few forms of animation that takes itself seriously. Movies are a different story completely, compared to television shows. Many of the Renaissance Disney movies could easily surpass Japanese...