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On 5/31/24 6:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Another post found in the outbox:
> 
> 
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> MERRY LITTLE BATMAN (2023) on the prime.
> 
> Run, run like the wind.  Absolute garbage at every level. Garbage people
> doing garbage voices, garbage people doing garbage character design,
> garbage people doing garbage animation. 

Awwww...

> The fire stick and more specifically Plex offered me a whole bunch of new
> things to watch this weekend. I’m not sure exactly When Plex took a dislike
> to me.
> 
> 
> TRANSMORPHERS: MECH BEASTS (2023)
> 
> I was sure none of these people were speaking English and were badly
> dubbed, but it turns out they were speaking English but it’s still badly
> dubbed. It’s like they recorded the table read and didn’t record any audio
> on set And just ran the two unmatched feeds simultaneously.  I only figured
> this out once top bill a star Tom Arnold showed up. Apparently this is a
> sequel.  I made it about 10 minutes into this mostly because I was trying
> to figure out what language they were speaking.

Yeah, I've seen cheapo flicks like this before - What is the actual 
advantage of dubbing/ADR in post?! It *never* sounds better than 
actually just recording the sound "live", on set!

I know Tom Arnold and Jolene Andersen here, and no one else.

> MONSTERNADO (2023)
> 
> There are all these tornadoes at see (which means they aren’t tornadoes),
> and they’re full of prehistoric monsters (except they’re just bad, CGI
> imaginary creatures), and apparently the dialogue is trying intentionally
> to be stupid. Shot in a metric country where the steering wheels are on the
> wrong side of the cars. It’s from the asylum!  And the supposedly
> attractive women are men in drag.  Made it less than 10 minutes into this
> one.

Wow - someone even lower-budge is ripping off Asylum!! (IMDb says it's 
not from Asylum.)

I know no one in this cast. Absolutely no one... Wait, I've run across 
Chloe Karr before - yeah, she's British, so I think this is a UK ripoff 
of the Asylum!!

> THE SQUAD (2023)
> 
> A bunch of not nearly as attractive as they think they are women are
> psychotic drug brokers, and tend to kill their clients before they get the
> drugs which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Acting and directing that’s
> not good enough for an asylum film.  Made it maybe 20 minutes into it until
> I realized I was literally slack jawed.

I actually have been wanting to see this for a little while (Meghan 
Carrasquillo, who has done Lifetime and Asylum stuff before, is in this, 
so I am morbidly curious).

Just noticed that Tubi(!!) finally has it - This will be on my weekend 
viewing list now!  ;p

> The DVR treated me to:
> 
> ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN.
> 
> MeTV showed the last few really terrible episodes of the series and then
> began over with the good stuff. So far they showed the pilot, “Superman on
> Earth“ complete with the good Lois Lane. Additional episode goodness will
> ensue immediately.
> 
> The DVR also treated me to an old episode of death Valley days, starring
> Jack Mahoney, and his once and future wife, Sally Fields’s mother!
> 
> Feeling a bit like dimensional traveler I ran the original 1961 VOYAGE TO
> THE BOTTOM OF THE SEE movie to pull screen caps for the new voyage group
> I’m in on the Facebook. Somebody was insisting that admiral Nelson‘s
> office/cabin is behind the top row of windows in the bow. There are set
> design similarities but there’s no way that’s where it is although it would
> be kind of cool.

Was this off DVD? Someone gave me the DVD...  ;)
But I think there may now be a Blu-ray of this flick.

> Coming up the DVR is going to finally give me S01E01 of the Kurt Russell
> classic Travels of Jamie McPheters!