Gorillaz "Humanz" is an awesome album, and those complaining about it having "too much Hip Hop" obviously haven't been listening to the band that much, following them for the wrong reasons, or not paying attention. They missed the fact that Damon has been slowly phasing out the punk rock and hard rock aesthetics, since basically at the start of "Demon Days" and "Plastic Beach". There is still soundtrack variety in those, but there's definitely a lot more R&B and Hip Hop influence in them too. I will concede that the band was kind of pushed to the background with the album in 2017, and that Damon is not in there as much. He actually still is, but he's not singing as much in that one. I'll also can see that they had too many of those little skits, or short segway intros/outros segments that only just there to make the album seem longer than it actually is. Seriously, they might as well have just been part of the full song or not at all.
At least he made it up with the three other albums that came out later. His solo album which is pretty much all him, but a lot of those songs aren't that memorable. "The Now Now" only had three memorable songs. The rest fell into the background. "Song Machine" and "The Mountain" is a more "true" return to form I guess, but there's still a lot more Hip-Hop, R&B, and Soul on both. Especially the former. I'm not complaining. but I find it funny, almost no one makes a fuss over it in the newer albums. Probably because the band is at the forefront again, and Damon is on a lot more of the albums.
Any media where the whole point is nihilism, misanthropy (goes heavy and pretentious with humans are the real monsters trope), or both loses my immediate attention. I don't care how "deep" your characters are. If your whole point is pointlessness, then what's the point? You're just another smart ass that acts like they know everything about the world, or some edge-lord try hard seeking attention and validation.This also goes double for movies, shows, or books that try to present fantasy races as better/superior than humanity with little or no justification, other than because they are "in tune with nature", the author says "Fuck you and shut up, cuz I said so!", or the fantasy race(s) are not much better than humanity, and are usually worse. Yet we're supposed to like them or find them "sympathetic", because at least they're not human!
This means you
Black Lagoon (or any show that goes too deep in to black and grey)
, Walking Dead,
Elfen Lied,
Tokyo Ghoul,
Rick and Morty,
Shaman King (manga and the second anime adaption),
Avatar (2009), and
Legend of Korra.
This is probably not much of a hot take anymore, but anyone that complains about
Panty and Stocking having the same problems as
Family Guy are full of it. Odds are they did not want to like the show to begin with, and only disliked it, because too many people hyped the show up. P&S does have its problems, has pop culture references (not to the crazy extent of FG) that became dated, and has plenty of random humor. The only difference is P&S is at least honest about its raunchy, low brow humor. FG tries to have it both ways in its later seasons. Also, I can still laugh for a good reasons in P&S. I can't say the same for FG. Another trivia, the former team at Gainax (now at their own studio, Trigger) were shit faced drunk and high at their Chistmas party. In order to come up with such absurd show, I don't know why people acted that surprised or were upset. The after credit ending still sucked, and should be avoided and ignored.
Next to Naru and Kagome, Anna Kyoyama is the third worst love interest in anime history. We have another entitled biatch in an anime/manga where abuse is okay as long as it's female on male. Fuck that. I always despised her. What's worse is that she's a bigger moocher than Minnie the Moocher. You want to be Shaman Queen, yet work your boyfriend to death so he can reach
his both of yours your dream. But, while you are capable of fighting and etc., you rather not train as much. Why don't you do it yourself you lazy bitch? I don't care about your sad childhood! Cry me a fucking river! There's plenty of other shounen characters and protagonists to tell you to get off your ass, and do it yourself.
Out of all the old shows on Cartoon Network
: Billy and Mandy is one of the shows to age the worst. It does not help that some or all of the writers love Mandy too much. And we're supposed to like her or see her win, because she's a big jerk ass that is "smarter and powerful" than anyone else. It's the writers saying fuck you! Mandy only loses some of the times, but that became less and less as the show went on. Also, she is another self-entitled misanthropic douche bag, so she wins no points for me.
Dexter's Lab I can't watch anymore because Dee Dee nearly ruins each episode for me.
Ed, Edd, n Eddy is too frustrating to rewatch. I can watch the movie, but that is my threshold. Fuck off Kevin, and fuck off Sara!
We need more characters like her in anime. None of that tsundere, "HENTAI NO BAKA!!", bullshit.
The Crow shits on nearly all comic book movies. Not just the 90s, but those from the 2000s and 2010s too. This movie had a huge influence in not just comic movies, but other movies, and WCW (Sting's gimmick became the Crow for the rest 90s).
The Crow gave influence to
Blade (1998),
Dark City,
The Matrix, and
Underworld (fucking garbage!). Either in looks, atmosphere, costume design, and music.
The Crow itself, not only got influences from
Batman (1989). There's Heroic Bloodshed (The shootout at Top Dollars club and the final action scene in the Church), film-noir, and music videos. The movie may have dark moments, but there are plenty of light moments or those with humanity. The coloring in this movies proves that just because your dark, does not mean you can't have color. You can be dark, but not insecure about it, and not just have dull metal gray or dog-shit brown. The humor flows in naturally and does not have any of the MCU style humor, no Deadpool, nor constant lampshading, thank Christ! Sets it apart from everyone else and stick out positively. The action scenes are on point, and you get see more of Brandon Lee's athleticism one last time. The acting is great all across the board and no one misses a beat. Brandon is a treasure, and I still miss him.
Before I quit watching
Rick and Morty, of the latter's parents, I consider Beth the worst before character development set in. Jerry had his problems, but I always found Beth the worst, because she was either the more toxic of the two (yet we're supposed to sympathize/see her in the complete right with her most of the time), or went way out there to please daddy and act like him. To the detriment of her own children. Yes, it is shown as unhealthy, but it really does not get properly called out on it, until midway and late in to Season 3. I will give the show credit for developing these two along with other characters in Season 4 & 5, but I had lost interests. I briefly returned to watch Season 5 of certain episodes for some loose ends, but that was it.
Also, I noticed that animated shows from 2010s sometimes had this weird habit of making mother characters were supposed to like or see as sympathetic are unlikeable and garbage characters.
This is less of a hot take and more of a thought, but I find it funny that the
Castlevania TV series has better water/ice bending and fire bending, than nearly anything
Legend of Korra could come up with. And I'm not talking about the blood and gore either. All the more funny is that Sypha is mage and not martial artist or Kung Fu expert of some kind. That is not a knock against her. Plus, the fight scenes are so well animated.
Isaac Florentine is one of the best action directors a our generation, and I do not want Hollywood swooping him up. He's not an expert storyteller, but he knows how to keep it simple and straight to the point. Florentine has done well successfully, and I would never want him to get worse quality work, but if he wants to move up I don't blame him. But I prefer he stay in the straight to DVD or streaming market. That way his vision won't ever be compromised or barely messed with by studio interference.
