"Cry harder, Simba!"
Sep. 28th, 2009 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshayminI've been watching a ton of videos by the Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd lately. It's... fascinating. XD I finally had the guts to watch NC's review of the first movie and surprisingly didn't get too angry. :o I still wish he would have commented on the whole Mewtwo & Ai sequence, but I liked that he ripped the worst part of the dub ("Fighting is bad! ...Now who wants a Pokemon Battle? :DDD") while PWNing what sucks about the movies in general, dub or not (The-Eternal-Monologue-in-Which-Everyone-Sharing-the-Same-Screen-Has-Something-To-Say, the WTF ending of Mewtwo erasing everyone's memories, etc.). I admit Pikachu trying to shock Ash back to life still gets me. Regardless of how cheesy the Swiss Army Tears were, at least Birth of Mewtwo foreshadowed it, and it was nowhere near as stupid as the other deux ex machinas in the other movies (*coughDarkraicough*).
That said, I'm breaking myself away from Pokemon movies 'cause the recent ones just keep getting worse. GUYS. THE DEOXYS MOVIE WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE OF THEM ALL, STOP MAKING COPIES OF IT WITH YOUR SHALLOW LEGENDARIES AND INFURIATINGLY UNREALISTIC AND STUPID CHARACTERS. Shaymin was a small break from that, until after Giratina got fucking revived.... then Zero just had to drag the movie something annoying. I don't want to rant again 'cause I've said it in chat a billion times before, but... ugh. This is infuriating. What happened to Pokemon dying and staying dead? What happened to Legendaries like Mewtwo who were fully developed and had a personality outside of "GET OFF MY PROPERTY KILLKILLKILL AND FUCK EVERYONE ELSE" What happened to the dysfunctional-but-human characters like Molly that were a thousand times more interesting than brainless stock Mary-Sues or megalomaniacs obsessed with catching and torturing their favorite Legendary? You know... where the story had depth, the characters were flawed and endearing, what happened to you guys?
Hell, I miss relationships like with Butler and Diane. Dysfunctional? Yes. But at least it was easier for me to relate to Diane (and to a lesser extent, Butler's humiliation after being laughed at by Team Magma) and root for their happiness. There was actual growth. Diane had to admit her guy had a problem and can't watch and let him get away with torturing small Pokemon, and Butler paid for his wrongs by having what he truly cared for taken away from him in the name of revenge. He didn't just say, "Oh I promise I'll be good!" like an overgrown Pinocchio. He got cracking on his machine, dangit. He still would've saved Ash & Max knowing he may never see Diane again. The fact that Demon*Groudon only used its victims as red blood cells was a super lucky thing. :P
Hell, at least Zero gets jailtimeand a sane...r boyfriend. The rest are friggin' Karma Houdinis, especially the bickering Legendary Pokemon (*coughDialga&Palkiacough* No, the whole chastising Palkia thing doesn't count). :/
Yeah. I'm hedgehog hissing and curling under my rock until PokeMovies become darker and awesome again. Unlikely but still. More Mewtwos and Lucarios please! Meanwhile, I'll be sticking with freeware gaming because it's awesome. I still want Braid but the full-version is 14 bucks. *sob* Oh well, at least I can still beat Cave Story on the normal path. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate having to fight four bosses in a row though. DDDDDDD: *snuggles Yume Nikki, Eversion, I Wanna Be The Guy, etc.*
That said, I'm breaking myself away from Pokemon movies 'cause the recent ones just keep getting worse. GUYS. THE DEOXYS MOVIE WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE OF THEM ALL, STOP MAKING COPIES OF IT WITH YOUR SHALLOW LEGENDARIES AND INFURIATINGLY UNREALISTIC AND STUPID CHARACTERS. Shaymin was a small break from that, until after Giratina got fucking revived.... then Zero just had to drag the movie something annoying. I don't want to rant again 'cause I've said it in chat a billion times before, but... ugh. This is infuriating. What happened to Pokemon dying and staying dead? What happened to Legendaries like Mewtwo who were fully developed and had a personality outside of "GET OFF MY PROPERTY KILLKILLKILL AND FUCK EVERYONE ELSE" What happened to the dysfunctional-but-human characters like Molly that were a thousand times more interesting than brainless stock Mary-Sues or megalomaniacs obsessed with catching and torturing their favorite Legendary? You know... where the story had depth, the characters were flawed and endearing, what happened to you guys?
Hell, I miss relationships like with Butler and Diane. Dysfunctional? Yes. But at least it was easier for me to relate to Diane (and to a lesser extent, Butler's humiliation after being laughed at by Team Magma) and root for their happiness. There was actual growth. Diane had to admit her guy had a problem and can't watch and let him get away with torturing small Pokemon, and Butler paid for his wrongs by having what he truly cared for taken away from him in the name of revenge. He didn't just say, "Oh I promise I'll be good!" like an overgrown Pinocchio. He got cracking on his machine, dangit. He still would've saved Ash & Max knowing he may never see Diane again. The fact that Demon*Groudon only used its victims as red blood cells was a super lucky thing. :P
Hell, at least Zero gets jailtime
Yeah. I'm hedgehog hissing and curling under my rock until PokeMovies become darker and awesome again. Unlikely but still. More Mewtwos and Lucarios please! Meanwhile, I'll be sticking with freeware gaming because it's awesome. I still want Braid but the full-version is 14 bucks. *sob* Oh well, at least I can still beat Cave Story on the normal path. I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate having to fight four bosses in a row though. DDDDDDD: *snuggles Yume Nikki, Eversion, I Wanna Be The Guy, etc.*
