Recent content by TheBrett

Yes, terrible. The acting was okay, but never even came close to getting me emotionally involved with the characters. Rapace and her husband/boyfriend/whatever had minimal chemistry, and everything about their connection felt rushed, like they had to bring him on screen just long enough to do...

Inuyasha is one of those series where the manga is a lot better (and more nuanced) than the anime. Inuyasha: The Final Act captures a lot of that, mostly because it's the most directly translated manga-to-anime series I've ever seen.

Fixed that for you. :D More seriously, the dubbed Duel Masters actually ended up being really funny and entertaining both because of the bad dub, but also because they never explained anything (least of all the card game rules). When I first watched the series, I thought they were...

This bothers me more than it should, I think. I really liked The Lorax as a kid, and that animated show left an impression on me for a long time. The ending in particular is powerful and ambiguous, and I'm not happy that the movie ditched that for a more generic happy ending. I don't get the...

I'm not convinced by Bob's second theory, either. I didn't regularly start watching The Simpsons until 2007, and I only occasionally caught a glimpse at one of the "Golden Age" episodes (Seasons 3-8) until I started buying used Simpsons season box sets in 2009-2010. Having watched a bunch of...

About 2 years ago, I started buying up used Simpsons box sets, to the point where I now own Seasons 2-11. What I noticed is that out of all the really memorable episodes, the kind where you remember the jokes and the story, the vast majority came from Seasons 2-8. Season 4, in particular, is a...

Devil May Cry is an awesome game, but it's not the type of game that lends itself to becoming a movie. The plot is very bare-bones (Dante goes into a possessed island, progressing through levels while killing monsters), and the cast is very small - Dante is alone most of the time. That can...

I actually don't mind the idea of calling the film "Akira". If you made the replacements for Tetsuo and Kaneda minority youths in a possibly mixed-race gang (and don't call them "Tetsuo" and "Kaneda" - I agree with Bob there), then having Akira named "Akira" wouldn't be a big deal. In fact...

I don't blame you. The first half of the Fellowship of the Ring is torture: slow-paced and boring. It's even worse if you saw the movie before reading the book, since the movie has much better pacing. I don't know if I would call it "bad", but I put down Kushiel's Dart about 150 pages in. I...

I'll third the Prince of Nothing trilogy, although with a word of warning: the books can be challenging as well as rewarding. They're my favorite fantasy series, but it's not always an easy read. Very dark and philosophical at times. Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy is good as well...

Chain him up, drop him into a vat of molten metal, then seal the top. The constant burns and damage will bring him to exhaustion, and eventually he'll die from dehydration.

VG Cats is still my favorite, although the updating is so slow that XKCD may be displacing it (particularly since the latter are so though-provoking at times).

#8 could work if you made the whole thing a comedy, and portrayed the Professional's Pre-Switch Life more sympathetically. They may not have a Spouse and Kids, but they get great satisfaction from their job, they have good friends and admirers, etc. They've got a family in the Switch . . . but...

Sorry about the ninja edit on my post. I deleted the second sentence shortly after because I found a ton of stuff about what happened online (particularly through this guy [http://www.examiner.com/video-game-culture-in-new-york/extra-credits-leaves-escapist]). That's the Extra Credits side...

The link to their Youtube channel is here [http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz]. So far, they've only got 4 videos up yet.