And they already tried to appeal to China with Mulan live-action. And failed HARD with terrible understanding of culture and history. I would've been pissed too if I was a Chinese govt. official.
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There is an third option: Hellsing Ultimate Abridged. I haven't laughed that hard when Alucard said "I'm gonna FUCK the fear turkey!"
For the record, Bennett has gotten better about this for years, but this wasn't even him at his worst. He's even apologize for a lot of crappy pulled back between 2013 and 2015 and regrets certain episodes, or those were he acted like a jackass. It shows a lot more serious now. You'll still crack a joke every now and then, but it's not like the old days where you just acted like an angry or obnoxiously snobbish critic.
It's fine if you like it for that, but it doesn't excuse either a lack of trying, nor the lack of time and budget. While Ultimate is a bit more serious and similar to the manga, there is self-awareness on both ends. The Ultimate does regular humor and dark humor better. The characters are fleshed out better, and you get the goofy, over the top, action. The manga and Ultimate just does it better. The only thing I don't like about manga or Ultimate, is the dumb ass pull that Walter is the traitor. None of this is hinted that in either version. Ultimate tries to be a little better about this, but it still comes off as pulling something out of thin air at the last minute. Ultimate also didn't waste my time.
That is truly bizzare. I'm almost amazed at how obvious and lazy the direction they went with is.
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Yes, it's one of the things that makes me find the original anima and the OVA all in all equivalent in terms of plot randomness (another one is the nature of the Major).
I also don't think that ultimate does humor better. Firstly, I'm note sure that I find the humor in hellsing (all versions) where the authors intended it : I enjoy the ridiculousness of many things that I suspect are being played straight, and may possibly be less ridiculous in japanese than in the english (written or audio) translations. The lenghty taunts before during after the fights, for instance, are so bloated with delirious man/monster/dog metaphors, they are a joke in itself. But also, there's a kind of humour that I truly dislike in anime/manga, it's the switch to "comedic stylized design" during the jokes-haha-we-are-having-a-funny-moment. The original anime spares me this.
Also Ultimate did waste my time (and I'm generally not picky about that, I like films to take their sweet time narratively). Seriously, that Major monologue about war, I felt like it took up half of the serie's running time. I barely exaggerate - I was checking the timeline and didn't believe he would keep rambling till the end of the episode.
But anyway, the fact that my appreciation of Hellsing comes from a slightly ironically distanced angle explains my fondness for the clunkier original anime. Precisely because it tries less, I'm more forgiving with its material than with the slightly tryhard OVA (or even manga). But all three have a different approach to the same roughly material.
Yep. Best of all worlds.
Ymmv. I usually didn't mind it. Sure the first anime doesn't have this, but only some of it's humor hits from the English dubbing side (Jan Valentine). It's too dry and just not there. Hellsing Ultimate has one of the best dubs in anime ever. They brought all the voice actors back, and they're all on full cylinders!
The Major's monologue is one of the best parts and I had no issues with it. There's a reason why a lot of fans like it or like to make fun of it lightly. There's a reason why there's that Smash Brothers parody comic, that does the speech almost frame by frame from the panels in the manga, but replaces the words with Smash Brothers terms. The abridged version does shortened up, but both are awesome and hilarious for their own reasons. I rather listen to the Major babble on about war for 8 minutes, than Trump or any of the right wing nuts about their dicks, clits, and pathetic, insecure, egos.
I usually don't mind clunkier or lower budgeted animation, but there has to be effort done for these with the story or characters. And if you are going for trashy action or going gonzo over the top, it has to be done better than that. The first anime failed at that for me. If I need over the top action that doesn't take itself too seriously, and still be fun, I got plenty of other better options. Gunsmith Cats (for a three episode ova, there is an incredible level of detail done in the action and animation), Outlaw Star, Kill La Kill, Promare, etc. I can go on all day.
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I usually don't even check the dubbed versions. I had just a couple versions of fan-made subs. So I had the original voice tones. As for the rest I can't say I cared much about the litterature aspect of it ("and you think that you are a monster but you are the dog of a monster while i am the monster of a human that is to a dog what a monster's dog is about the human of a dog's monster and not even the monster that a dog would eat but the dog that a human would eat like a monster muhaha" "- that's what you think but you are merely to a dog what a dog is to a monster who's...").
Oh I was really really fine with the "and then they all asplode" *pours a can of tomato juice on the cells and calls it a day* work ethic. It was just part of the delight to me.
Thinking of it, I should publish superhero comics where absolutely all panels (fights, exposition, etc) are just those white clouds with little color stars, onomatoeas and fists and feet poking out.
Nothing against the voice actors on the Japanese side, but that just made the show less interesting.
It doesn't get that exaggerated or pretentious, but I see where you're coming from. You want real pretentiousness? Look at the original Eva, the parts of MHA that tried to downplay or make light of bullying and bad teaching, Naruto, or Shaman King (manga/2022 anime).
Can anyone have an original fucking idea please!? Just one?
Here I'll give you one for free! A sci-fi love story where a lonely parts recycler builds an android companion out of spare "junk" parts. When he accidently installs a mistakenly disguarded military AI Core, his companion becomes more capable than he expected. He is murdered when the government comes knocking and he refuses to return the part, so she goes out for revenge. Ultimately she returns the favor by rebuilding him.
Or how about a rebooting those cheerleading movies "Bring it on!", except it's a skate boarding crew and competition? Staring Jason Statham for some reason.
Oh you motherfuckers, you gonna play me like THAT are you!
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Anderson gets some of the best lines in that, I fuckin' swear.
"You don't have to follow orders when your boss is being a daft ****"
"Don't weep for the stupid, you'll be crying all day"
Oh man that show is a fucking ride.
And because it's FUCKING FUN!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAAMEN!!!!
Not surprised in the slightest. I mean BW’s story was done in Endgame, and the standalone film was just okay.
I actually applaud the actress for realizing when things are done, and not drag this through mud as long as possible.
The Flash? Who's that? Anyway, here's some Batman. You guys love that shit right? Oh and uhhh, what do we have... Ah, Superman! We got Superman! Wait... Oh, Superman's cousin, we have Superman's cousin. Hey look, more Batman!
Anyway. I will unashamedly watch this just for the Batman stuff (well, probably not through any... formal channels). I'm not even a fan of Keaton's version, in fact quite a lot of the nostalgia bait is straight up off putting, but I can't say no to the glider cape.
I really.. really hate being that guy, but like this..is..wb. We have zero evidence that this isn't another giant clusterfuck being smeared over with hype trailers.
On a more contained, but concerned note, I cant be the only one that noticed the CGI ...off. Like not quite ps2 cut scene, but its sooo obvious that his action scenes are all cgi and the suits been redone a couple times in post. Theres a brief second in the trailer thats practical, I think hes just standing in the batcave and it looks nothing like his weird ultraslim bright red bird neck suit.
I don't want it spoiled for me, but the flash 2 betrayal twist seems increasingly evident. Im assuming flash 2 cant accept that his mom hasd to die and flips out. All the action in the trailer seems like an early or mid movie battle.