Happy birthday to Iggy Pop, 4/21/15

This should be a bit more controversial, since I'm very anti-Crow: City of Angels, and thought Iggy Pop's character was a major highlight of everything that went wrong. Way too over the top, bizarre and neither fit the comic writer Ed Barr nor 1994 breakout director Alex Proyas. I mean it sorta had the direction, but it wasn't... it wasn't executed with the same mystique, class, despite having such a horrible subject. And if I ever get a show/movie going you'll note how much I admire Brandon Lee and Thuy Trang's work, Rest in Peace.
But, he was also in Deep Space Nine. He was sort of a mellow character. There wasn't as much hype. He played a conservative general. And if you're on Deep Space Nine, I hear you have a lot of fun, despite DS9 being the most dramatic of all series. He's a musician. He didn't want to disrespect anyone's legacy or anything. He was either doing it to get paid or in admiration or trying to follow a director's goal to mixed results.
Happy Birthday Iggy.

Gavan, Enter and Basco to be in Yakuza stage play

List of Kamen Riders that should be Mortal Kombat X DLC

Amazon
Stronger
Shadow Moon
Agito
Gills
Ren
Odin
Zolda
Ouja
Gai
Femme
Camo
Kaixa
Orphenoch variations of Faiz belts
Joker
Hibiki Riders especially Todoroki
Wing Knight played by Johnny Cage himself
Saga
Decade's Dark Riders from the Diend universe
The Akuma himself Decade
Baron
Micchy
Takatora/Zangetsu
Cid
Marika
Kurokage
Kurokage Warrior
Proto-Drive
Kamen Rider Mach, combined with special Kamen Rider Mach House, (Japanese film fans will get it.)

Bonuses:
Dark Heart played by Raiden's voice actor
Black Beet

Good vs bad of Godzillanno

Godzilla vs Angels
Angel-like designs for Godzilla thoughs
MechEVAGodzilla

Furry Godzilla
Godzilla masturbating while locking the door
Godzilla having underage sex.
Godzilla as a non-good-bad guy not doing anything involving the fate of the world, where the humans are the bad guys trying to kill him by saving him.
A Godzilla dating sim
An unsatisfying ending and rebootquel.

Ranking the last 3 episodes of this half season of Power Rangers Dino Charge

1. 7. "Let Sleeping Zords Lie"
2. 8. "Double Ranger, Double Danger"
3. 6. "The Tooth Hurts"

Kamen Rider: The First (mandarin dub) meets the hype of Kamen Rider

Please note: I listened to the mandarin dub of Kamen Rider: The First for this review. I did it after hearing about the 10 year anniversary this year.

The beginning of the film has to do with Kamen Rider: The First, being in college discussing the human body and how it's part of nature. When asked by his female colleague about the human body, he responds that it's 60% water, like the plants outside featured in the camera shots. There's beauty even in the realistic Christopher Nolan coincidental type film that this toku is trying to be.
Ichigo also discusses wanting to stay in University, school, a safe area that all students are familiar with, growing up there for 20+ years. Some form independent opinions, but some are institutionalized forming certain ideas of how life was from textbooks and professors. Textbooks that are no better sold than by politicians dealing with weapons salesman, and professors of a lacking education system, struggling to make money, struggling to teach, struggling to benefit others including themselves, to make themselves feel mentally active as well.



Other notes:
Kamen Rider 1's love story parallels the other love stories of the film. And they even make a reference to shipping in the film.
2, what don't you say that you're KR 2? Because it's cooler that way.
It's a bit of an unwelcome love triangle for me, albeit it demonstrates that there's struggles for them cuz of being Kamen Rider and creations of Shocker.
The hospital love story.
Suicide
It's a good story, and idea, but it wasn't edited right, introduced a bit too late in the film to gain interest, and too short to have people care about it, albeit I didn't quite understand what everyone's complaint was considering how short of a segment in the film it was. (I would've started with this as the introduction.)



2 also knows the female protagonist, a main connection to the fresh out of water bystander protagonist ta la Vickie Vale in Batman and Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
Speaking of which, Batman Shocker sounds like a friggin variety show host and salesman.

There are some Shotaro Ishinomori references that you might've missed. (Might've. You probably got it.)
Leaping from a building you just exploded could be a 9/11 reference to how people had to leap out of the Twin Towers to survive the collapse.
Nazi references include the S S Shocker Shocker logo.
The place where 2 and the female protagonist work are also parallels between being institutionalized and being in an institution.

Smoking doesn't kill someone in the movie, but someone is killed after smoking a cab in the movie.
Taking care of a taxi, a blue collar workjer.
Originally knocking out KR 2



Nitpicks: I wouldn't wanted to know more about Shocker if they were going the Batman Begins route. (It came out the same time so can't blame them.)

The admirable flaw of the The End of Time finale

I'm not the biggest fan of Time Force. I, in contrast to many people, have issues with the acting. I like certain episodes, but it didn't really register with me completely.

Btw, FUCK NEO SABAN.

"The End of Time Part II" was like a Dark Knight, Empire Strikes Back sequel to the intro episode with a great use of Judd Lynn cliffhanger ending.

However, "The End of Time Part III" was the flaw for me.

Somewhere along the lines of the words of second Mighty Morphin Red Ranger Steve Cardenas come to mind, "Princess Leia name the child after a man who destroyed her home planet?! Ha!"

They ran out of the budget for the season. They wanted to do another part. Saban wanted them to end there, unlike with Lightspeed Rescue the previous year. Lynn was out. 

I expect Jackie Machand ad-libbed Ransik saving her daughter that brought him down to tears. And it sort of works, because in Time Force, the baddies are captured, not killed. Jen learns not to take vengeance. Ransik needed an arc too. But it wasn't alluded to earlier, and only really works if you're sentimental and weren't from a broken home, giving into right wing forms of conservative nuclear families.

Sure, it would've been cool if Ransik ruled the world and set up a base in the Middle East or something. 

But nah- it's Lynn. Tommy, Mutant Rangers, The Alliance of Evil, Astronema, Trakeena, and even the already mentioned flawed Ryan Mitchell, Diablolico story is his kind of style. 

Adaptation Decay, but the great kind.

But like "Countdown to Destruction," "The End of Time Part III"  just didn't register with me. A little bit now, but it had a bad reputation for me along the years.

However, there are some great Lynn moments I enjoy, whether directly influenced or not.

All of Carlos Vallertes' storylines such as injuring another soccer player in , injuring Cassie in "Another Chance," a man in love with Cassie who steals her diary, who we never see again.

Heck, I'll give him credit for Jason vs Tommy in "Fins and Needles," as campy as that was.

I'm not saying that it had to be a minor storyline and that was the only way to make it fit. Trakeeniot anybody?

But, Lynn has to clue in options early on in writing. I get that 40 episodes a year on a tight 12 hour schedule is tough, while Haim Saban is snoring on the set, but, you try...

I dunno.. Maybe, we'll even write it in as an auteur trope that Judd Lynn gets known for...