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Well I watched both movies 2001 and 2010 . Befor I ever seen 2010 I could see clearly that Hal wasn't a villian . Just a machine programmed by man . So who ever had Hal programmed without his creaters knowledge was the sick one . As is revealed in 2010 . Hell before I ever seen 2010 I knew what it was goung to be about and I got it perfect .
 
I Saw OJ said:
H. I. McDunnough
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That sumbitch. You tell him, I think he's a damn fool, Ed. You tell him I said so - H.I. McDonnough. If he wants to discuss it, he knows where to find me: in the Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility For Men State Farm, Road Number 31, Tempe, Arizona! I'LL BE WAITIN'! I'll be waitin'.
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Seriously, one of the best movies ever...
 
Nemesis 1 said:
Well I watched both movies 2001 and 2010 . Befor I ever seen 2010 I could see clearly that Hal wasn't a villian . Just a machine programmed by man . So who ever had Hal programmed without his creaters knowledge was the sick one . As is revealed in 2010 . Hell before I ever seen 2010 I knew what it was goung to be about and I got it perfect .
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The AFI disagrees with you.
 
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I actually don't even know what my avatar is, but it looked cool, so I chose it. I think I'll switch it to one that I used to use.

Locut0s said:
It's a well known Japanese anime. I think it started back in the 80s or earlier.
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The problem with anime is that most series aren't well known in American culture. People know of a few from Internet memes or simply jokes. Stuff like: "It's over 9000!" You could also just mention something like Dragonball and people know what it is.

But even though Guyver's been around for a long time, it's still somewhat obscure to most people in America as are most anime series that didn't air on Cartoon Network:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_Booster_Armor_Guyver
 
Aikouka said:
I actually don't even know what my avatar is, but it looked cool, so I chose it. I think I'll switch it to one that I used to use.

The problem with anime is that most series aren't well known in American culture. People know of a few from Internet memes or simply jokes. Stuff like: "It's over 9000!" You could also just mention something like Dragonball and people know what it is.

But even though Guyver's been around for a long time, it's still somewhat obscure to most people in America as are most anime series that didn't air on Cartoon Network:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_Booster_Armor_Guyver
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I'm not sure but I think Guyver did air here in the 90s?
 
Aikouka said:
The problem with anime is that most series aren't well known in American culture.
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the problem is that it's associated with creepy old guys obsessed with immature little cartoons.

Some of it is good--I've seen a few good cartoons, and I'd imagine that "anime purists" wouldn't call it anime--the Miyazaki stuff.

but the majority of it is piss poor animation and horribly juvenile stories. There is really nothing good about Transformers and all of those lower-rent enime series that we grew up with as kids (not knowing that is, technically, anime).

I noticed that Naruto is on Netflix instant. and one season...52 episodes....52??? WTF? how can those possibly be good? Might as well be grocery store dime romance novels stamped out on a machine by the gross.
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my avatar is from dbz, i believe its vegito due to his potara earrings...or it could be just goku in super saiyan form wearing 1 potara earring. stock avatar from vbulletin.
 
Locut0s said:
I'm not sure but I think Guyver did air here in the 90s?
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It possibly did, although it doesn't mean that it really was available to many. The one thing that was big about the Toonami days of anime was especially the time slot... it was right after school. The only other iconic slot than that is Saturday mornings 😉.

Locut0s said:
As bad as a lot of it is, there is some very good anime out there.
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One interesting thing that I've always found is that people tend to lump anime into one category. What makes that a problem, is that anime is much more diverse than that. Maybe it's because cartoons in America were geared more for kids with the exception of a few that were more adult-themed (Simpsons, Bevis and Butthead, Aeon Flux, etc).

zinfamous said:
Some of it is good--I've seen a few good cartoons, and I'd imagine that "anime purists" wouldn't call it anime--the Miyazaki stuff.
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I don't know why an "anime purist" would consider Miyazaki's work not anime. Maybe you're considering how purists tend to dislike fans that only like the mainstream media, which there are some that tend to rag on those that like the more popular shows.

zinfamous said:
but the majority of it is piss poor animation and horribly juvenile stories. There is really nothing good about Transformers and all of those lower-rent enime series that we grew up with as kids (not knowing that is, technically, anime).
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Sure, not all anime is good and we'd likewise state that not all movies are good.

zinfamous said:
I noticed that Naruto is on Netflix instant. and one season...52 episodes....52??? WTF? how can those possibly be good? Might as well be grocery store dime romance novels stamped out on a machine by the gross.😀
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Naruto has around 400+ episodes if you consider that the original show has 220 episodes and the newer Shippuden currently has 209 episodes. The thing is, Zin, if you consider the actual story lines that occur during the anime, most of the distinct events are around 20 episodes long. For the example that you gave, you can actually get the different arcs listed with their episode span here:

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Plot_of_Naruto

The longest one was 47 episodes and I believe all others are under 30 a piece.
 
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