LEXX Season 2 - continues to bring the weirdness. If you like weirdness, definitely worth checking out.

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LEXX Season 2 - continues to bring the weirdness. If you like weirdness, definitely worth checking out.

Lexx S02E18 "Brigadoom" might have been the best in the series. The season 2 cast change where Xenia Seeberg (takes the part of Xev Bellringer (get it?) from the 1st season's Eva Habermann. Haberman played Zev Bellringer in the credits changes the series for the worst.

Yeah, we've just gone through that process in the first few eps of the season. Seebring is attractive, but she just doesn't have the charisma and playfulness of Habermann. As Cassie said, "How cool would the 'Zev Show' on TV World have been with the original Zev?"

Saw Hellboy 2 tonight and it was well worth my time. I think I prefered it to the original, but that may just be by virtue of having seen the first so many times. The creatures in it are spellbinding. One part Terry Gilliam, one part Lovecraft and completely amazing.

I really need to go pick up some Hellboy comics.

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The creatures in it are spellbinding. One part Terry Gilliam, one part Lovecraft and completely amazing.

I would like to watch the 'Troll Market' scene at half-speed, just so I could study it. It makes the iconic Star Wars Tatooine Bar look like a grade-schooler's birthday party.

i always found the hellboy comics a bit too one dimensional for my tastes. the art was always cool, but i just never really had the sense that mignola was as good a writer as his art deserved. saw trailer for second film, which i understand is based on the novella someone else wrote, looks good. not sure when it comes out here, but reasonably soon.

Billabong Pro JBay 08 South Africa

All happening.

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Originally posted by Evilpenguin9000:
I really need to go pick up some Hellboy comics.

If you haven't read any of the comics you may surprised at how unlike the films they are (though I haven't seen #2 yet). I didn't really like Hellboy 1 at all; visually the film gets the characters down very well - Perlman is obviously completely ideally cast, Hurt is perfect, but the tone is utterly lost. The comics are all about long periods of drear silence and stillness in half darkness punctuated by crashing fights and explosions. Lots of vignettes that lead nowhere and asides that might add up to something one day or might not. Plus falling through floors and monkeys with guns and nazis. Whereas the movie was generic CGmonster action. And Hellboy is not even the central character, the new agent on the job is the story focus in the most clichéd device of all storytelling. Why? He's not even an interesting post device either!

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Originally posted by remotepush:
i always found the hellboy comics a bit too one dimensional for my tastes. the art was always cool, but i just never really had the sense that mignola was as good a writer as his art deserved.

They do get a bit repetitive. But The Corpse and the Iron Shoe is perfect.

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:
They do get a bit repetitive. But The Corpse and the Iron Shoe is perfect.

oh look, nazis and demons...
which one was that one?
i suspect i've not read them all,
but lost track of the spin offs and tangents.

"Weeds" (2005) S04E02-E05

The series has taken a darker turn. I'm not sure I'm liking it at all.

Cowboy Bebop
Not bad, but the music is terrible.

The themes are crap, but some of the atmospheric stuff grows on you.

Currently on Film4.

The Libertine



IMDb

Johnny Depp
John Malkovich
Jack Davenport
Richard Coyle

I thought that was pretty good.

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Originally posted by Limulus:
Cowboy Bebop
Not bad, but the music is terrible.

I always wondered why nobody else seemed to notice how bad it was..

Some of the stuff from Bebop worked quite well for me. Not everything, mind you, but some of it.

The state of the art when it comes to anime scores is definitely a step up from when I started watching anime in the early 80s. The original score for Macross, for example, is *so* cheesy and over the top. A great many soundtracks from that era (not to say since) are mired in bad pop or bad orchestral scores.

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:

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Originally posted by Limulus:
Cowboy Bebop
Not bad, but the music is terrible.

I always wondered why nobody else seemed to notice how bad it was..

Some of it is horrible but some is pretty good.

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Originally posted by Sentinel400:

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Originally posted by Limulus:
Cowboy Bebop
Not bad, but the music is terrible.

I always wondered why nobody else seemed to notice how bad it was..

I rather enjoyed a lot of the music from the series. The movie, not so much. In both cases, I though any of the tracks with vocals were inferior to the ones without.

Okay, fine. I'm a sucker for anything Joss Whedon does (and for that, I can thank my dear wife. She'll follow Joss anywhere).

Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
http://www.drhorrible.com/

Yes, it's a musical. Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion. Funny. Tick-like.

For the record (back to the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack), I generally enjoy Yoko Kanno's work, but, like Pigkilla, I like her jazz/rock instrumentals with the Seatbelts over her more traditional scores. Her electronic stuff is hit or miss (hits: Stand Alone Complex, Macross Plus Cream PUF and second soundtrack). And her score for the Magnetic Rose sequence in Otomo's "Memories" is something else. And I have a total sweet spot for her work on the "Vision of Escaflowne" TV series.

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