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Ask Me / Re: Ask shaiger anything!
« on: September 11, 2022, 05:24:15 PM »
Quote from: Enchanted-Valley96 on June 02, 2022, 08:35:08 AM
Have you ever seen the Northern Lights?

Yes I have! They're more common and prominent up North, especially during the winter, but these past few years I've seen them twice. They're hard to photograph, tho  :p

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Silver Screen / Re: Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
« on: June 11, 2022, 05:20:55 AM »
My spoiler-free review is that, personally, I think it's more entertaining than the previous two, but somehow it managed to make dinosaurs uncool. Weirdly enough I think the movie would've been better without the dinosaurs, but then again it would make no sense to call it a Jurassic World movie :D.
I didn't think it was slow paced at all, but maybe that's just me. But what bothered me was the amount of pointless scenes that just added to the length of the movie and not to the story/plot. I think it was 45 minutes too long but it wasn't as painful to me as sitting through The Fallen Kingdom.

And now onto some spoilers...
Spoiler: ShowHide
I actually quite liked the locust plotline. We've had dinosaurs for how many movies now, so expanding the prehistoric roster to insects as well was interesting. I just wish that the movie was written better, so the plot could also be more interesting.

The plot surrounding Maisie was awful. It just reeks like they write her backstory without checking their notes, and just... I dunno. Her story just doesn't make any sense. Virgn birth, tampering with her genes [I mean... it's eugenics], she's a clone but not really, her mother just reproduced asexually because... why not?
In TFK Maisie sort of mirrored the Indoraptor (both "lab born", in need of a mother, etc.etc.) but now she's supposed to be the human counterpart to Beta?
The original trio totally stole the show. It was great seeing Ellie Sattler after so many years and she still continues to be my favorite. I also liked the new characters (mosty Ramsay and Kayla), and the fact that none of them got killed :D. I just felt like Claire was stripped from her agency and the plot would not suffer much if she was cut from the movie altogether. I wish they had done more with her...

And as I mentioned before, there were way too many pointless scenes. I especially think the action sequence with the assassin raptors was too long and completely unnecessary. I mean really, if you cut that scene from the movie, nothing really changes. All you need is Claire & Co. finding a clue where to find Maisie, and Owen escaping a bunch of carnivores (that could've just been any regular carnivore roaming the streets to be honest) and jumping on the plane. That's it.
The dinosaurs looked bad and the movie suffered from having waaay too many dinos. The feathered raptor was sort of cool but then they made it swim... I also liked the introduction of the Therizinosaurus even though it just yeeted that deer for no reason lol. The fighting scene at the end was - as my husband put it - cringe. I usually enjoy giant monsters beating the crap out of each other but this was so dull and boring that I just wished it was over soon. Also the fact that it was edited poorly and the scene was so dark you could barely see anything made it worse.

But then again I think this is a great "turn off your brain and grab a bucket of popcorn" sort of movie to watch with your friends. It's entertaining, it has some good acting (Mamoudou Athie did a really amazing job in the last scene with him and Campbell Scott [Dr. Dodgson]) and overall I think it was more fun than the previous two.

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Silver Screen / Re: A Winnie the Pooh Indie Slasher Movie Coming
« on: June 02, 2022, 08:33:28 AM »
While I really like horror movies and new retellings of stories, but this one just... doesn't do it for me. It kinda irks me the same way all of those new Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass stories where it's all dark and edgy (eg. Alice does drugs and hallucinates the whole ordeal or something). I just think there's a million other interesting things you could do with Winnie the Pooh rather than a slasher movie. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but this feels like they're using a popular character just because it's popular and not out of love for A. A. Milne's works...

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LBT Fanart / Re: Pibbyfied/fnfafied lbt characters
« on: June 02, 2022, 08:25:52 AM »
The new Mo drawing is so cool! It looks like it could be from a side scroller video game or something :0 Maybe an underwater level where the player has to find a way to free Mo?
You're getting better and better. Keep up the good work!

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LBT Fanart / Re: Pibbyfied/fnfafied lbt characters
« on: April 24, 2022, 08:28:45 PM »
These are neat! Super creepy but I like it. The distortion/glitch effect looks cool, it's especially good with Ruby and Pterano. And for some weird reason I find the drawing of Petrie kinda cute :DD

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Silver Screen / Re: Favorite characters in the shows you like?
« on: April 13, 2022, 02:08:02 PM »
What a neat thread! ^^

Arcane - Jinx
Transformers Animated - Shockwave
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - skekMal
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Plo Koon
Dorohedoro - Noi
Naruto - Hoshigaki Kisame
Fargo - Hanzee Dent
Better Call Saul - Kim Wexler
Pose - Elektra Evangelista



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Ask Me / Re: Ask shaiger anything!
« on: April 09, 2022, 08:22:00 PM »
Quote from: Enchanted-Valley96 on April 09, 2022, 10:47:32 AM
Favourite place to visit in Finland?

I really love Tampere. It's a very beautiful city, has some great flea-markets and some shops we don't have in Turku, and my sister lives in there ^^ And there is no cold wind coming from the sea since Tampere is an in-land city.

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Silver Screen / Re: Turning Red (2022)
« on: April 09, 2022, 05:59:36 AM »
While it's not my favorite Pixar movie by a long shot, I still think that it was cute. I don't know if I've ever seen an animated film capture the essence of being in a small weird friend group of girls as a pre-teen better than that :DD

I like it that Pixar decided to try a different artstyle. It's not my favorite but to be honest I think it fits the movie better than the generic Pixar style. The coloring is absolutely gorgeous and I liked it that they made the apartments look like they're from the early 2000's :D

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Ask Me / Re: Ask your local 6teen junkie!
« on: April 09, 2022, 05:48:07 AM »
Another GNG/GDW fan! :DD Have you read any of the mangas? I stopped reading around the fifth part of GDW and I haven't read any of the newer mangas relating to other characters...

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Ask Me / Re: Ask me anything.
« on: April 09, 2022, 05:40:36 AM »
Ever visited Turku? :D

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Silver Screen / Re: What are your favorite character pairings?
« on: April 09, 2022, 01:26:50 AM »
I'm not going to list all of my favorite ships here (even if it's tempting) because it's too time consuming. Instead I'll list some of my all time favorites and current ones.

All time favs include:
Spyro x Elora (Spyro the Dragon)
Plo Koon x Kit Fisto (Star Wars)
Sub-Zero x Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
Megatron x Starscream (Transformers. Depends on the continuity, for example I don't ship them in Cyberverse)
Jazz x Blurr (Transformers)
Shockwave x Bumblebee (Transformers, especially Animated)

Current favs are:
Ana Amari x Reaper (Overwatch)
Shimada Hanzo x Zenyatta (Overwatch)
Ekko x Jinx (Arcane)
Sevika x Silco (Arcane)

Maybe I'll add more when my interests change :').

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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« on: April 04, 2022, 01:22:32 PM »
Love that the correct/incorrect rows just say "AIM PECOS" xD

How about D?

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Silver Screen / Re: Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
« on: April 04, 2022, 01:17:07 PM »
Quote from: Gentle Sharptooth on April 03, 2022, 02:12:19 PM
Very good points, Jurassic Park is the guikty culprit that made CGi the go to for creature films. However, I personally believe it was pratical shots combined with CGI that mde Jurassic Park a masterpiece. The close up for animatronics, and they have held up well, while some of CG is now dated. The fact people were in Raptor suites, giving them personalities and life made it more believable, and terrifying. The CG helped as you said for the full body shots, but without the animatronics I think the movie would look very dated. Alien is another good example, most of it was practical effects and it has held up well.

I didn't at any point say that the practical effects had no influence on JP's popularity. I agree with you that it's the CGI + practical effects combination that made it such a huge success (especially when they used CGI in parts that they couldn't do practically), and I firmly believe that it would've been a box office hit even without all the CGI. Personally I prefer practical effects because - as you said it - they are more believable. You can't fake real, y'know? But my point was that "Jurassic Park used amazing CGI that hadn't been seen before in the mid-90's + Jurassic Park was a box office hit and made a lot of money = Hollywood saw that with proper CGI you can make a lot of money = CGI took over practical effects." I'm not solely blaming JP on this but you get my point  :DD

To be fair, I know that Universal has the money to hire practical effects studios to make amazing animatronics and use CGI in places where it's absolutely necessary, but because it takes longer to produce and excecute than CGI, it won't happen. I think it worked for the first trilogy and films such as Alien vs Predator (I know the movie is kinda meh, but it had a cool combination of practical effects and CGI, and this is the hill I'm going to die on xD)

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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« on: April 02, 2022, 11:50:59 AM »
O?

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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« on: March 30, 2022, 12:57:42 PM »
M?

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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« on: March 29, 2022, 05:42:24 AM »
I?

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It's Party Time! / Re: Hangman
« on: March 28, 2022, 12:54:23 PM »
C?

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General Land Before Time / Re: If you were a LBT character, what species?
« on: March 28, 2022, 12:18:54 PM »
Can't pick just one, so I'll go with three categories: leaf-eater, sharptooth and flyer. If I were to be a leaf-eater, I think I'd go with Therizinosaurus. As a sharptooth an Acrocanthosaurus, and as a flyer I'd go with Tropeognathus.

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General Land Before Time / Re: LBT in your country
« on: March 28, 2022, 12:08:53 PM »
I agree! Finnish dubs translate names quite often and I think it's because English has speech sounds that aren't present in the Finnish language (for ecample the "ch" sound in "speech"), so it's easier for kids to learn and remember names that they can actually pronounce. For example Lightning McQueen from Cars is "Salama McQueen" (Salama means Lightning) but they kept the surname the same, because it's pronounced like Mäkwiin and kids can say it without difficulties.
But I also think that one of the reasons why they have given Finnish first names to a majority of the LBT characters is because of lip-sync. Lizzie, Rocky and Dusty have almost the same lip movements as Lissu, Jori and Assi. But I'm just speculating, so don't quote me on this haha :D

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1988 Theatrical Release / Re: Outcut land before time scenes
« on: March 28, 2022, 11:56:15 AM »
Quote from: GreyLizard226 on March 28, 2022, 11:38:41 AM
It seems like over the years we keep thinking we’ve found a VHS copy with the missing footage, and every time it just leads us to  a standard copy.

But what about that rumor that the uncut version was broadcast in Finland in the mid-90’s? Do we know for sure that it was just a rumor?

I am no expert on this since I was a small kid back then, but I have a faint memory of seeing the first Land Before Time on VHS when visiting a friend in the early 2000's, and I was wondering why they had changed some of the scenes. The VHS my friend had was the regular version, so either:
a) I had seen the uncut version as a kid before (not when it broadcastet, but on tape. We used to record a lot of shows and movies on VHS tapes)
b) I didn't remember how the movie went / mixed it up with some other movie.

Maybe the latter is more likely, considering that I don't remember much about my childhood in the 90's. But, I know for sure that this is a topic that Finnish fans also talk about. Mostly I've seen it on toy collector forums/FB pages, so it's not necessarily that insightful, but I remember taking a part in a few conversations. Usually they end with a statement like "I hope that someone had recorded it on tape and still have it saved somewhere." So, I would say that it is a myth until someone can provide footage of it :\

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