My bad. Here are the videos:
Anime Shakespeare #2
"I Was Sick" video
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
The stuff you couldn't see on the review site....
Yeah, so I uploaded two videos, not realizing that if you lived outside of the following countries and territories, you would never see them: American Samoa, Canada, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, United States, United States Virgin Islands.
My bad. Here are the videos:
Anime Shakespeare #2
My bad. Here are the videos:
Anime Shakespeare #2
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
KungFury!!!!!! The Movie!!! Awesomeness!!! Totally Rad!!!
(WARNING:
SPOILERS!!! You've been warned.)
So,
basically, if you were born somewhere between 1979 and 1982, or
before, then you grew up with some of the best, worst movies ever to
be made.
From
around 1980 to the late 90's, there were certain genres of movies
that took BIG advantage of a certain new technology; the
videocassette player. Today, it is known as the VHS. There's a huge
discussion on the war between the Betamax and VHS format wars, but
for a quick idea watch the “Speak Like a Child” episode from
Cowboy Bebop.
When
the commercial opportunities of the VHS were realized by certain, low
budget studios in the early 80's, scores of straight to tape (that's
right, tape, not DVD) movies
were made. No longer was a movie studio committed to creating a movie
that required expensive equipment, expensive set locations, expensive
set crews, expensive writers, expensive directors or expensive
actors.
The
rise of the VHS basically did two things. First, it allowed already
established studios the ability to make more movies in a year,
concentrating higher budgets on films that could make it on the big
screen, while still making a buck on the BHS tape market with lower
budget movies...like reallly low budgets. Second, it also allowed
fly-by-night-studios to come into existence and start pumping out
movies without having to compete in the theater market with the big
boys.
And
many of these low budget made-for-tape movies, even the ones that
managed to find their way to the big screen if it developed a fan
base (and later a cult following) were of very low quality. We're
not talking B-movies. We're talking, bottom of the barrel stuff.
I'm
trying to say that these movies were incredibly bad.
The
movies genres that benefited the most were action, sci-fi, martial
arts and to a smaller degree, the earliest movies based on video
games. The video game movies, even the ones that made it to the big
screen were horrifically awful. Case in point; the last movie that
the Golden Globe winner and accomplished actor, Raul Julia was
in...Street Fighter, as General Bison.
It's
almost a sacrilege for Julia's last theatrical release to be this
piece of crap.
But
I mention Street Fighter for a reason. And that reason, is why this
review is being written; KungFury!!!
KungFury
is an excellent parody of all of those awful, awful, dreadful,
mindless made-for-tape movies of the 80's and 90's.
Even
watching this movie is supposed to be like watching a VHS tape.
There are moment when the screen blurs and in the corner you see the
TRACKING digital symbols show up. This is actually a clever way to
move the action along and without having to explain certain
things...like how the main character KungFury goes from the street to
somehow dangling from a helicopter.
KungFury
is a meathead, Streetfighter-esque character who is the savior of his
city, complete with ribbon around his head and a buddy-cop, back
story that involves a “NNNOOOOOO!!!!!”. And a great scene where
his partner is cut in half from the side except for his tongue...try
to wrap your head around that visual.
The
movie starts off with street punks straight out of the 80's, boombox
and all, causing over the top mayhem before closing in on and arcade.
That's right, an arcade...as in the 80's arcade full of low-rent
video games. One arcade game in particular gets abused, then turns
into a mecha-arcade game and starts running around shooting people
heads off. KungFury is called in and as he races across a city that
looks like Miami, the mecha-arcade game menaces a puppy with its
built in hand gun as it gives the cops the finger.
The
rest of the movie involves KungFury going through a flashback after
dispatching the malignant, mecha-arcade game. Involving the back
story, how he goes back in time to enlist the help of a couple of
Viking women with Uzis and chain guns, and giant Asgardian god, a
T-Rex, a hacker (with a glorious mullet) and aided by his new
partner, Triceracop to take on, you guessed it, Hitler. Yes...you
read that correctly.
Having
said all of that, the punchline is this: it's hilarious and you need
to watch it. In fact, click the link below...don't think just do
it!!!!
Friday, March 20, 2015
The Ghost in the Shell AMV Debacle
So...ever had one of those days where the electronic and internet gods are against you? Was having one of those days yesterday...
It takes some time to make a video. From choosing the subject, researching it (which is the fun part), creating the outline of points, writing the script, shooting it, downloading then uploading...only to somehow, someway...manage to delete the work and source material. So, since it takes a bit less time to make an AMV (making a review, excluding research, takes a few hours), I spent two hours last night and made a Ghost in the Shell AMV to hold over until trying again next week...
And if you live in Canada, the US, the US Virgin Islands and the US Minor Outlying Islands, you can't see the video on YouTube. So...here it is..at least the first part of it...:
So here's the thing. I have quite a few different YouTube channels. And there is another one that is closely related to The Unagi Observer. In fact, it was the first YouTube channel I ever started and has a lot of anime-related videos and AMV's...and a lot of Otakon videos that I have taken over the years. So, if you would like to check that out, it's simply called bigsteveotaku, please click on the links of the two most recent uploads..
This video is simply an experiment on using spoken word with anime. The poem is "Evidently Chickentown" and set to "Dominion Tank Police" anime. Click away:
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The other video is something of a challenge video. See if you can watch the whole thing without clicking away...
And lastly, if this is your first time to this blog. Please check out the video version of The Unagi Observer by seeing the last review I did of "The Ping-Pong Club".
Oh, and if you would like to see the AMV in YouTube format and you DON'T live in Canada, the US, the US Virgin Islands and the US Minor Outlying Islands, then please click here:
Thanks!!
Friday, March 6, 2015
Ping-Pong Club & White Day Reminder!!
PING-PONG
CLUB
Ping-Pong
Club. The Japanese answer to America's South Park. Well, that's
what it said on the VHS box that I bought at a video store from the
used movie bin for three dollars back in 2003...
Ping-Pong
Club, as many other animes, orginally came from the manga series of
the same name. The manga series was written by Minoru Furuya and had
a manga series run from 1993 to 1996 in Young Magazine. It would be
adapted to anime in 1995. The anime run lasted from May of 1995 to
September of the same year. Yeah...just six months...imagine
that...and honestly, I'm surprised it even became an anime...
As
it sounds, Ping-Pong club is about...a ping pong club in a middle
school. And said club is really just a group of twits who use a
classroom and the pretense of being their middle school's ping pong
team as the backdrop to their wonderfully idiotic misadventures.
You
have Takeda. He's sort of the straight man of the group. He's the
serious type who is actually there to...play ping pong. He's not
nearly as stupid or ugly as most of the others, but he is a male,
middle school student and his moments of lewd behavior towards women,
including his crush, Kyoko.
Next
is Takeda's friend, Kinoshita, the school's cool, laid back hot guy
that all the girls are after. Takeda talked him into joining the
club somehow, and while he has actual skills at the game, he really
doesn't provide much to the overall story...not that there is really
any over-arching story plot...but he doesn't really have a
presence...at all.
Izawa
and Maeno. They sort of drive the series along and if anything, it's
about them and their schemes. Izawa has the Joe Boxer hair style,
is actually kind of nice but stupid and horny whereas Maeno is
exceedingly proud of his ass and seems to attract women and really
doesn't understand why (hint: no one really does). The two seem to
have a homoerotic relationship...
Tanaka.
He's just a weirdly looking and sounding, creepy, little pervert.
Really, that's it.
Tanabe.
Poor, poor, Tanabe. He's half Japanese and half American. He's
huge, hairy and has incredibly bad body odor. Possibly the nicest of
the guys, he's really the butt of everyone's jokes and even when he
wins...he still loses.
Then
there are the two token girls of the series, Chiyoko and Kyoko.
Kyoko was pretty much forced into being the manager of the club by
the principal; she's basically a badass who has an unlit cigarette
hanging from her mouth at almost all times. Chiyoko is the “nice”
girl who is under the mistaked impression that Izawa will help her
improve her ping pong game....calls him “Instructor” all the time
and seems to...enjoy?...the abuse given to her by Izawa.
Basically,
Ping-Pong Club is a train wreck. The humor is very low-brow and not
very clever. Unless you are under the age of 18, in which case this
might seem like brilliant comedy. Don't get me wrong, it has its
moments, but its no Shin Chan where there is a good mixture of goofy
pervertedness mixed with intelligent humor.
And
unlike Shin Chan, Ping-Pong Club is not adverse to showing the head
of a penis for a cheap laugh...I'm being serious...they actually show
the head of Izawa's penis coming from his shorts...I really wish I
could un-see that....
WHITE
DAY
Remember Valentine's day
? Where women in Japan give men chocolate? If you haven't seen the
video blog, click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ftpUVY2RWU
.
Well, on White Day, men
return the favor. On March 14th,
men give women chocolate, mostly white chocolate, as a sort of
repayment.
Basically, if a woman
gave you chocolate as a friend or a co-worker, you should reply in
kind. However, if your significant other gave you chocolates or a
nice gift...or MADE you chocolate...then you have to get her good
stuff like very nice chocolates, jewelery or...white lingere.
So don't screw it up
guys!!! Remember: March 14th
is White Day and get her the right kind of gifts or she will go
Dokuro on your ass!!!!
See the video version of this blog here:
R.I.P. Mr. Spock
“Mr. Spock” by
Nerfherder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvLiyiyAT2g
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