Round 4: Johan vs Troma

Johan_WoW
1. She-Ra(She-Ra: the Princess of Power)
2. Teegra (Fire & Ice)
3. Teela (Masters of the Universe)
4. Tyris Flare (Golden Axe videogame series)
5. Catra (She-Ra: Princess of Power)
6. Alex (Totally Spies)
7. Razor (Maniac Mansion videogame)
8. Blaze Fielding (Streets of Rage videogame series)
9. Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service)
10. Lady Amalthea/The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)
11. Shadow Weaver (She-ra: Princess of Power)
12. Medusa (The Rescuers)

Tromafreak
1. Rudy(Fat Albert)
2. The Tootsie Roll Pop Owl.
3. Little Rosey. (Very short-lived Roseanne-inspired Saturday morning cartoon.)
4. Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
5. The Quik Rabbit
6. Hair Bear (Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!)
7. Q•bert
8. Gaia (Captain Planet)
9. Boo Berry
10. Gilligan (Gilligan's Planet)
11. Wendy (Wendy's)
12. Jesus(Flying House)

Round 3: Box vs. Snowy

Box_a_Hair
1. Ren Hoek(Ren and Stimpy)
2. Butthead(Beavis and Butthead)
3. Rick Sanchez(Rick and Morty)
4. Fritz the Cat
5. Zorn (Son of Zorn)
6. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
7. Salad Fingers
8. Butters Scotch (Southpark)
9. Bojack Horseman
10. Colt Luger (F is for Family)
11. The Toxic Avenger (Toxic Crusaders)
12. Nathan Explosion (Metalocalypse)





Snowy_Owl
1. Scooby Doo
2. Coraline
3. Roger Rabbit(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
4. The Cheshire Cat(Alice in Wonderland)
5. Lumière(Beauty and The Beast)
6. Sully(monsters inc)
7. Courage the Cowardly Dog
8. Bubbles(The Powerpuff Girls)
9. Nigel Thornberry(The Wild Thornberry's)
10. Casper
11. Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry)
12. Mr. Krabs(Spongebob Squarepants)

1:6

Annimated Movies On Youtube

Recomenatiions for the Annimation Challenge.

This one is great but very sad.

Savage Weekend (1979): Better than I Remembered

...and better than is usually credited for.

Filmed in 1976, but not released until the post-Halloween slasher glut of the late '70s and early '80s, Savage Weekend, much like The Redeemer (1977), is a rude, crude, and wonky-as-hell early stalk n' slash prototype.

Our ragtag group of friends - adults, curiously, and not teens - spend a weekend in upstate New York to watch the construction of a boat, but also spare no expenses in a little r&r and the chance to bop each other's brains out (what's a weekend without gettin' your freak on, eh?!)

A few of the local hicks, played by William Sandersen and a pre-Re-Animator "Dr. Hill" David Gale, provide two of the strongest, scenery chewing performances, as well as your requisite red herrings that are so intrinsic to the slasher formula.

For much of Savage Weekend, the story that unfolds is more along the lines of a psychotronic soap opera, but one that is never not engrossing, and more than a little sordid, with past details of a woman's previous marriage-gone-awry, and the lust-filled thoughts she has for other men despite being newly married to a decent guy.

But as is the case for these films, someone does eventually crash their weekend, dons a scary mask, and begins systematically knocking them off one-by-one.

True, Savage Weekend is leisurely paced, talky, and when the action does get going, it's neither particularly gory or violent, but what it does offer is that sweet, sweet '70s atmosphere, interesting characters, a cool folksy music score as well as early analogue synth blurts, a great final half hour, and an air of general weirdness and freshness, no doubt benefitted by being an early film of this type, the makers not pressured into following some uniformly bland stereotype.

It's rough around the edges sure, and very low-budget, but the movies that stay with you usually are. It's classic '70s horror regional filmmaking at its near-best.

Round 2: Onyx vs Bambi!

OnyxHades
1. Mok (Rock & Rule 1983)
2. Pizzazz (Leader of The Misfits from Jem and the Holograms)
3. Hexxus (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest 1992)
4. Hades (Hercules 1997)
5. Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996)
6. Ursula ( The Little Mermaid 1989)
7. Mad Jack (Donkey Kong 64)
8. Bowser (Mario Bros game series)
9. Scar (The Lion King 1994)
10. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty 1959)
11. Sinistar (Sinistar arcade game 1983)
12. Mileena (Mortal Kombat)







Bambithedeer
1. Stimpy(Ren and Stimpy)
2. Sterling Archer (Archer)
3. Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
4. Dagget Beaver(Angry Beavers)
5. The Brain (Pinky & The Brain)
6. Tina Belcher (Bob's burgers)
7. Ickis (Aaahh!! Real Monsters)
8. Bloo (Fosters home for imaginary friends)
9. Krusty the Klown (The Simpson's)
10. Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
11. Garfield
12. Sylvester(Loony Tunes)

4:3

Mayans Season One

Not sure how many people here watch Sons of Anarchy, but it very well be my favorite show ever. Due to that I was very sceptical of watching Mayans M.C. At first it was going to be a prequel, which I wasn't into, but turns out it is set years after SoA ended.

Despite all of my reservations I finally watch it and I have to say I was very pleased. I'm not sure if it is quite as great as SoA, but it far exceeded my expectations. It is gruesome at times. FX didn't hold back at all on this one. That ever kill children and show there dead bodies with plenty of detail. Just like SoA the main character has a love interest and despite her being kind of a strong woman type I think she is a great character. I don't want to give to much away since it is rather new, but if you liked SoA and haven't watched Mayans yet you have my word it is worth the watch.

Round 1: Ballz vs. Gymno

Ballz
1. Oogie Boogie(The Nightmare Before Christmas)
2. Rocko(Rocko's Modern Life)
3. Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)
4. Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget (1983))
5. Dick Dastardly (Wacky Races (1968))
6. Dale Gribble (King of the Hill)
7. The Creep (Creepshow)
8. Jill Valentine (Resident Evil video game)
9. Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987))
10. Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal video game series)
11. Chun-Li (Street Fighter video game series)
12. Ganondorf Dragmire (Legend of Zelda video game series)



Gymnopedie
1. Kusanagi Motoko(Ghost in the Shell (1995))
2. Adult Terr(Fantastic Planet (1973))
3. Mima Kirigoe(Perfect Blue (1997))
4. Seita(Grave of the Fireflies (1988))
5. Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir (2008))
6. Tetsuo (Akira (1988))
7. Marjane (Persepolis (2007))
8. Chihiro Ogino (Spirited Away (2001))
9. Ashitaka (Princess Mononoke (1997))
10. Sofî (Howl's Moving Castle (2004))
11. Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
12. Thadeus - The Animatrix (2003)

6:1

Animation Draft 2020

I was planning on starting this tomorrow, but what the hell. Let's just get it started. So I think instead of 10 characters, we are going to go to 12. I have used a randomizer to determine draft picking order.
Okay have fun everyone! We will start with @box and once @onyx goes, it will be box's turn again.

Box_a_Hair
1. Ren Hoek(Ren and Stimpy)
2. Butthead(Beavis and Butthead)
3. Rick Sanchez(Rick and Morty)
4. Fritz the Cat
5. Zorn (Son of Zorn)
6. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
7. Salad Fingers
8. Butters Scotch (Southpark)
9. Bojack Horseman
10. Colt Luger (F is for Family)
11. The Toxic Avenger (Toxic Crusaders)
12. Nathan Explosion (Metalocalypse)

Ballz
1. Oogie Boogie(The Nightmare Before Christmas)
2. Rocko(Rocko's Modern Life)
3. Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)
4. Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget (1983))
5. Dick Dastardly (Wacky Races (1968))
6. Dale Gribble (King of the Hill)
7. The Creep (Creepshow)
8. Jill Valentine (Resident Evil video game)
9. Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987))
10. Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal video game series)
11. Chun-Li (Street Fighter video game series)
12. Ganondorf Dragmire (Legend of Zelda video game series)


Johan_WoW
1. She-Ra(She-Ra: the Princess of Power)
2. Teegra (Fire & Ice)
3. Teela (Masters of the Universe)
4. Tyris Flare (Golden Axe videogame series)
5. Catra (She-Ra: Princess of Power)
6. Alex (Totally Spies)
7. Razor (Maniac Mansion videogame)
8. Blaze Fielding (Streets of Rage videogame series)
9. Kiki (Kiki's Delivery Service)
10. Lady Amalthea/The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn)
11. Shadow Weaver (She-ra: Princess of Power)
12. Medusa (The Rescuers)


Bambithedeer
1. Stimpy(Ren and Stimpy)
2. Sterling Archer (Archer)
3. Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
4. Dagget Beaver(Angry Beavers)
5. The Brain (Pinky & The Brain)
6. Tina Belcher (Bob's burgers)
7. Ickis (Aaahh!! Real Monsters)
8. Bloo (Fosters home for imaginary friends)
9. Krusty the Klown (The Simpson's)
10. Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
11. Garfield
12. Sylvester(Loony Tunes)


Gymnopedie
1. Kusanagi Motoko(Ghost in the Shell (1995))
2. Adult Terr(Fantastic Planet (1973))
3. Mima Kirigoe(Perfect Blue (1997))
4. Seita(Grave of the Fireflies (1988))
5. Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir (2008))
6. Tetsuo (Akira (1988))
7. Marjane (Persepolis (2007))
8. Chihiro Ogino (Spirited Away (2001))
9. Ashitaka (Princess Mononoke (1997))
10. Sofî (Howl's Moving Castle (2004))
11. Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
12. Thadeus - The Animatrix (2003)


Snowy_Owl
1. Scooby Doo
2. Coraline
3. Roger Rabbit(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
4. The Cheshire Cat(Alice in Wonderland)
5. Lumière(Beauty and The Beast)
6. Sully(monsters inc)
7. Courage the Cowardly Dog
8. Bubbles(The Powerpuff Girls)
9. Nigel Thornberry(The Wild Thornberry's)
10. Casper
11. Jerry Mouse (Tom and Jerry)
12. Mr. Krabs(Spongebob Squarepants)


Tromafreak
1. Rudy(Fat Albert)
2. The Tootsie Roll Pop Owl.
3. Little Rosey. (Very short-lived Roseanne-inspired Saturday morning cartoon.)
4. Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
5. The Quik Rabbit
6. Hair Bear (Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!)
7. Q•bert
8. Gaia (Captain Planet)
9. Boo Berry
10. Gilligan (Gilligan's Planet)
11. Wendy (Wendy's)
12. Jesus(Flying House)


OnyxHades
1. Mok (Rock & Rule 1983)
2. Pizzazz (Leader of The Misfits from Jem and the Holograms)
3. Hexxus (Ferngully: The Last Rainforest 1992)
4. Hades (Hercules 1997)
5. Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996)
6. Ursula ( The Little Mermaid 1989)
7. Mad Jack (Donkey Kong 64)
8. Bowser (Mario Bros game series)
9. Scar (The Lion King 1994)
10. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty 1959)
11. Sinistar (Sinistar arcade game 1983)
12. Mileena (Mortal Kombat)

Animation Draft: Voting

Okay, now that the drafting is done, it's now time to move on to the voting stage. Before I list the rounds, I will go over a few rules.
1.) No one gets mad because someone didn't vote for them
2.) No one calls someone out on how they voted.
3.) If you do have a problem, pm said person, and talk about it privately.

4.) Everyone on the site can vote except for the people in the round.
5.) Voting will be open for one day each round.
6.) Most importantly, Have fun!

Okay, here is the order of the knockout rounds!
Round 1: Ballz vs. Gymno
Round 2: Onyx vs. Bambi
Round 3: Box vs. Snowy
Round 4: Johan vs. Troma

Ice Cream Bunny Rescues Santa From Sunshine State



Once upon a time, the state of Florida was quite the go to location for Exploitation film directors. "The B-movie capital of the world", some called it... Actually, nobody probably ever said that. However, in the 1960's, small-time directors such as Herschell Gordon Lewis and Doris Wishman couldn't stay away. Choosing some town in Florida to shoot whatever off-beat weirdness they recently came up with. Gore movies, Nudie Cuties, Hixploitation, you name it. Quite the history, and to many B-movie fans, quite the legacy. The 1960's was a magical time within the world of Florida Explotation, but like every heyday, there is a decline before the book is finally closed on yet another era. By the early 70's, Exploitation films weren't considered quite what they were. Still a thing, but not as profitable, therefore, not as common. Some were still coming out of Florida, but mostly just odd, random little films that came and went unnoticed. Films like Blood Freak, films like Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things. I could probably come up with something better for this one, but I can't resist. I got to at least try to elaborate on a film I saw recently called Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny. A movie you may just want to skip all together. Not gonna lie.

"Why, Florida ain't no place for Santa", you might say. And you'd be correct, but that's really the running gag of the movie and eemingly what all this pile of nothing is based around. So, Christmas is a little up in the air at the moment. Being just days away, Santa's elves (played by a bunch of kids) have no idea where he is, as they let us know this loudly in song because they sing everything, I guess. They ARE elves, after all. At the moment, Santa happens to be stranded on a Florida beach. Abandoned by his Reindeer, the old guy is naturally having a hell of a time getting his sleigh off the sand and back to the other side of the world. Santa needs to come up with something fast because Christmas is approaching, and he really seems to hate the sun, which seems to be the bigger issue of the two. Santa then sings about all that for a while.

Having powers and stuff, Santa uses some old fashioned telepathy to summon random kids in town to head down to the beach to try and help out. And try they do, as these random kids find a bunch of random animals to serve as substitute Reindeer. Even a Gorilla gets involved, but to no avail. For the time being, Santa is going nowhere. So, what now? Well, they throw us a bit of a curve ball around the 20 minute mark, as Santa starts babbling about faith and courage, which, I guess, is a nice way of telling them to get up and keep helping. Santa proves his point by telling them the story of Jack And The Beanstalk. We'll just say this is the extra long version of the fable. Seriously! THIS is the movie. Santa And The Ice Cream Bunny is actually about Jack And The Beanstalk because Santa's storytime last about Forty fucking minutes! That's forty straight minutes, by the way.

And I'm not even going into this one because we've all heard that story, but I will say it makes this 70 minute movie feel like it lasts several hours. Thankfully, we're returned to Florida by the 60 minute mark. Just in time to watch Santa and some little girl play with some dog for a while. The children then run off as Santa takes another nap. So, either these kids went looking for the Ice Cream Bunny or they just happened to find him on his fire truck. I don't know, that was weird. One second they're gone, and the next, they're on there with him, headed back to the beach. We then sit through an uncomfortably long scene with the Ice Cream Bunny with a bunch of kids, driving down the street as slowly as possible. At one point, he even has to come to a complete stop when the dog gets in the way. Ice Cream Bunny doesn't mind, as he doesn't come off like someone who gets in a hurry often. ICB does seem somewhat interested in helping out, despite his unusually slow pace. After what seems like a tour of the entire town, Ice Cream Bunny and pals finally make it to the beach, and as they say, the rest is history!

Ok, first of all, too much singing. Like way too much! I guess one could classify this movie as a musical, huh? Well, that and a one-story anthology with a wrap-around, making this possibly the worst Santa movie in existence. Secondly, WOW! Filler outweighing the actual story isn't something you see every day. So, that was unexpected. And thirdly, that questionable 60% of the movie is actually scenes from some other movie entirely. I'm guessing it's called Jack And The Beanstalk. Not-so interesting fact: After a little research, I discovered that The Jack And The Beanstalk filler only appeared in the theatrical version, while the vhs version included Thumbelina. Guess I lucked out.

And lastly, that thing driving what's supposed to be a fire truck is not an ice cream bunny! I don't even know what that means, but it's clearly not made of ice cream, nor did I see him handing any out to the kids, so, that's stupid! And unless that happened to be a young Cabin Fever bunny, sorry, not interested. I didn't bring this movie up because of what it is, but rather what it's part of, or what it's wedged into, really. Being from Florida, myself, I have a soft spot for these Sunshine State oddities from another time, but I don't think I could find a worse one if my life depended on it. Just the same, I just thought you should know. So, what is this, a fish out of water story? Campy kiddie flick? The last gasps of breath from a once-fruitful era in independent film? We'll go with all of the above, and probably a couple other qualities I'm missing. Whatever this is, or whatever it's supposed to be, the world would probably be a better place, had it never been made. 2/10



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