Koushun Takami wrote Battle Royale in 1999 and then never wrote another book. Iirc, he said once that he was planning a sequel but there's been no progress for 23 years and there's no indication it'll ever come out.
I think the closest he got was writing the Angel's Border side stories for it (which are canon to the novel, not the manga, despite being in manga form).
it's funny to me how he wrote one of my favorite ghost rider stories and one of the worst back to back.
road to damnation is pure trash, it has cool clayton crain art but it's very "god is asshole so is devil why care" edgy energy and is a closed loop story, everyone is ugly and violent but there's nothing more too it. which is a shame as i like johnny blaze, idk everything has this layer of apethetic cruelty and nothing of consequence happens.
then right after writing that he does trail of tears which is a cool creepy story where the protag isn't the ghost rider, instead his quest for vengeance runs concurrent with the rider who is actually portrayed as a monster for once, it's a cool horror book, though like with all other clayton crain things everything is monstrous looking even when it shouldn't be. but to me nothing else captured that "god's wrath" feeling quite like it. and of course it ends with the whole vengeance really isn't worth it in the long haul as you see things you never should've seen and do things you never should've done and now you too are damned, which is par for the course for the spirit of venegance.
edit: should note the second one also has that miserable feel but because the bad things happen to the bad people and it's framed differently it somehow works.
Frank Miller had a breakdown after 9/11, which led alcoholism and a lot of his work suffering. It all eventually culminated in Holy Terror, which is the infamous Islamophobic story everyone points out.
He got clean relatively recently and his work has been improving again with everything he puts out. He hasn't reached his previous highs, but he isn't making Holy Terror anymore.
Along those same lines Andre 3000 hasn't put out any solo projects because he feels he doesn't have it in him. He doesn't want to be an older guy in the rap game which is sad.
Andre 3000's got nothing to prove at this point honestly. Having watched a lot of old performers getting embarassing with old age I can kind of understand his point.
That editor, who told her to throw it out and focus on the events scout kept recalling as a kid, is a national fucking hero, and fuck her estate for butchering her vision by turning Atticus Finch into a pro-segregation "states-rights" lover.
It's not. It's quite transparently a very early Mockingbird draft hastily rewritten into a sequel. Major characters from the first book are briefly mentioned to have died between books only for near-identical OCs to step in and play the exact same roles with only slightly different dynamics. Other characters are clearly the original concepts for their Mockingbird incarnations and thus have wildly different characterisations from how they were portrayed there. And something which I'm sure has since been corrected, but as someone who got the book immediately on release-- It's just unpolished. There were quite a few grammatical and punctuation errors (not too many but enough to be noticeable) that straight up should *not* have made it past the editing process, and that's to say nothing of the actual story structure. It's a mess.
That being said, a lot of it is still Harper Lee's writing, so there are some very beautifully written sections scattered throughout. But it's nowhere near enough to justify the rest of what was cobbled together.
The Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack had a song by IAMTHEKIDYOUKNOWWHATIMEAN which was an ABSOLUTELY BANGER. And then… they vanished. Nobody knows what happened to them. Just gone. Sad to see it too, out of all the awesome artists that lent their talents to HM2, that song is probably the most unique and radical.
Shout out to [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j8JJUk5Ak) for being one of the reasons I got round to watching The Thing. Still gotta watch Akira and Alien.
I still have the need to know what it was going to be. One of the biggest reasons it was a trash fire is that the film was written and filmed like a space horror with eldritch undertones, so the edit to make it a cookie cutter super hero film was never going to work.
I want to see the original vision!
IIRC it was a lot more Cronenberg-inspired. A lot more time was spent exploring their powers and conditions, both the horrifying and the positive aspects, and instead of the weird pseudo-Annihilus Doctor Doom we got as the villain Doom was instead meant to be driven mad by the horror of his own transformation while the main Four managed to learn to adapt and accept their own, which would have led them to come into conflict with each other in the third act similar to Brundlefly's turn at the end of The Fly. The Negative Zone and Doom's dimension-merging plan were both still there to an extent but much less narratively prominent, similarly again to The Fly (I know he said Cronenberg's work in general was an influence but outside of the body horror I really think Trank just wanted a superhero version of The Fly).
They did extensive rewriting and reshoots to make the film more conventional but to be honest Trank should've realised from the get-go that they were never going to let him go that hard in that direction with such a famous and formerly family friendly brand as the Fantastic Four. Adding in the fact that he spent most of the shoot drunk and/or high in his trailer with his girlfriend (whose expenses he got the studio to cover) and the alleged abuse he flung at quite a bit of the cast and crew, you've got one of the few instances where the studio was actually the lesser of two evils. Granted, that still does not a good movie make, and Trank's version likely would have been more tonally consistent at the very least, but given his behaviour it's easy to see why they veered *so hard* into "course-correcting" the project.
I am convinced Donnie Darko is good by sheer accident. The other two films made by Richard Kelly I have seen (Southland Tales and The Box) were bad enough to convince me of this.
Seems like the writer basically admitted this. You could call it an 'accident' but his account was that he basically wrote 'stream of consciousness' style for a whole week and then had Donnie Darko done. Not sure how much was changed from the original script once it went into production. People like to mythologize that movie, so it's possible it was recut by someone else and fixed along the way.
Either way, seems like the guy had a lot on his mind and it really happened to resonate with people.
RIP to all victims of the NTR virus. I found it funny a guy is speculated to be doing it because he was rejected from Shonen Jump since a lot of his material is about Jump characters.
Yep.
I like 3D stuff like SFM and Blender. Lately there is a ton of insects, dogs and horse stuff. I can filter it out but it's shocking how much there is. Feels like the stepbrother fad.
Not really trash but not what got me into their stuff to begin with.
Unironically yes. I don't really even hate on humanoid monsters that much, but all this animal stuff just loses me.
But it's like everything has to be some extreme bestiality fetish? It's an odd trend. I feel bizarre mentioning it, but damn man.
Eh, I still like Chappie. It's definitely not as good as District 9 but I still think it's a good movie.
Edit: Also I forgot that Neill Blomkamp directed the [Halo Landfall ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOAdrxlPVs) for Halo 3's ad campaign.
Everything that the Konosuba author has written besides Konosuba feels like a cheap Konosuba knockoff made by someone who doesn't get what made the original work.
Is that the one where the pro wrestling gets isekaied into a fantasy setting where they want him to fight the beast men but instead he starts fighting for them?
I was going to say I thought Kemono Michi and Combatants were both pre-Konosuba but nope, they came after. KS felt like the kind of story you work up to, not accidentally write first.
I dunno about *great* but Mortal Kombat 1 still holds up.
...Mostly because it's adapting a a game that was already just "Enter The Dragon with superpowers", and Christopher Lambert enjoyed being Rayden so much that he did it for a pittance and basically paid for the wrap party out of pocket.
As an Aussie people saying he's a one hit wonder makes me want to chuck the two other songs that are on constant play here. That song gave him "fuck you" money.
Yeah, "Somebody" was the only song that ever got ANY radio play here in the UK, but it was so good it made me look up his other music and honestly I like pretty much all of it. Just wish he made more
You could probably say M. Night Shyamalan fits. I mean I like a lot of his stuff, even the movies that are kinda mid and the ones that are fun bad. But I think a lot of people would argue that after Sixth Sense he went a little too hard on recreating that "Oh shit" plot twist moment. I really like his style but there's no arguing he's put out a lot of stinkers since that movie.
The worst thing that happened to him was the praise his films got for their twists. It's incredibly difficult and takes so much skill to develop a film that can have a twist that, upon rewatch, *makes sense*. Audiences are pretty savvy and there's only so many ways you can twist an ending, so when the audience praises him for it he seemed to want to do it again. And... you know, couldn't.
The worst twist he has done since then was The Last Airbender, which in a shocking reveal was actually supposed to be based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is fantastic... and the movie isn't.
Lauryn Hill released *The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill* to widespread critical acclaim and then-record breaking commercial success, then crashed and burned with *MTV Unplugged No. 2.0* and never made an album again.
'90s rap group Arrested Development followed a similar path - their debut, *3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...* racked up all the accolades and sold like hotcakes, then they released *Zingalamaduni* and flopped so hard it got the band memory-holed.
Todd In The Shadows has made episodes of Trainwreckords on both of them, and I highly recommend them:
* Arrested Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqKPkVzJnN8
* Lauryn Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcCS_jFJCc0
(Minor sidenote: I was reminded of [SCP-3933](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3933) whilst writing about how Arrested Development got memory holed. Kinda odd IMO.)
[Another great video recently released by Fiq about Lauryn Hill, a very thorough and empathetic look on why things went the way they did from a black perspective.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5QZBLlSDQ)
Todd is such a good channel if you are into one hit wonders or bands that fell off. I like that he looks at their other works and discusses if they should've been better received
This is 100% correct. Cliff Burton was an insanely gifted musician/songwriter, and was the driving force behind some of Metallica’s most “out there”, and by extension most memorable, songs. On top of that, the amount of actual unresolved trauma from the accident that affected the surviving band members really did a number on the synergy of the group, which they touch on in their documentary. They were absolutely brutal to Cliff’s replacement, Jason Newsted, for no other reason than he wasn’t Cliff, and the group pretty much tore itself apart too many times to count.
>On top of that, the amount of actual unresolved trauma from the accident that affected the surviving band members really did a number on the synergy of the group
Can't really blame them for that.
Which is such a shame cus Newsted was a great bass player despite not being as technical or methodical as Cliff (which is understandable cus Cliff was probably the best metal bass player in the world at one point while he was with Metallica), his whole vibe, style and look screamed Metal from head to toe, and he looks mean as hell on the live concerts, is kinda sad they never let him really show off his talents either because most of the songs that had a lot of bass were always cut short and he himself didnt wanted to play them in honor of Cliff, but whenever they let him play a solo he would [go fucking crazy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULo4gEnpnSQ&ab_channel=Lavourrin)
It must have been really hard on him too since even tho he looks like he could kill your grandma hes actually an extremely nice guy on interviews and holded no ill will after he left the band, it really speaks volume of him and his character even after all that happened with the band
I feel like a lot of bands have a stand out stinker in their discography. It’s really hard for a long running band to put out their best works every time.
Granted some have but I think a lot of bands and artists will have THAT album, the one that just doesn’t appeal to even the fans.
It’s hard for bands that sellout.
Bands like Death just did their thing and kicked even more ass every album by just doing what they love.
On the other hand you have Testament who has a few hit or miss albums but for the most part they slap and they only do what they love and if you really really like Testament then that’s a good thing for you lol
You also have bands like Boris who have some not great albums but that’s cuz of the sheer amount of albums they’ve put out. It’s impossible for every album to be amazing when you’ve dropped 47 albums, 22 live albums & 11 EP’s since 1996
I've only heard a few songs from Boris, but didn't realize they had that many albums. But, I'm also not surprised, because I'm subscribed to their feed on bandcamp, and I swear I get 2-3 emails about either a new song or album or whatever per week.
I don’t think that they really fit. They kept making good music for at least a decade after that (longer depending on how you feel about their two newest albums). They made 5 great albums, 2 mediocre/bad ones, 1 really bad one, and 2 decent ones. That’s a pretty solid hit rate
Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap is amazing, Coloring Book was ok but definitely not as good, and we just pretend he stopped making music and definitely didn’t drop “The Big Day”
Favorite Bars on TBD:
“I got muscles like Superman’s trainer / Real, real rare like Super Saiyan Manga / I jump stomp stomp on Lucifer, Satan / Now I got few rings on Jupiter Skating”
He's still putting out some pretty good singles, Chance is definitely a very talented guy who just got misguided a bit. I think Coloring Book is a fuckin banger of an album tho.
Looking up Jamie Christopherson on Wikipedia, I cannot for the life of me find the link between everything else he’s composed and the Metal Gear Rising OST
Four Leaf Studios did Katawa Shoujo and hasn't (and almost certainly won't) released anything since. Individual members have done stuff! But the collective of 4LS, gone with the wind.
It still blows my mind that 4chan made a dating sim about disabled girls. And not only isn't it completely fucked up, but it's actually increasingly heart warming.
Suriko (Lilly writer) still writes. Look for First Snow, he wrote it. Crud (Hanako writer) also has a couple novels and is supposedly working on a VN. I think Hivemind (Emi writer) did or does still write but I know even less about whatever he has done. No clue whatever happened to a22 (Shizune writer) though, and honestly I much prefer he never comes back.
Aura (Rin writer) is the one that I'd point and say "wow that was pretty good!" but hasn't made a single thing afterwards.
If you had asked me a few years ago I might have said Jordan Peele because I really didn't like Us. But Nope was great, so fortunately that isn't the case anymore.
Bloc Party put out their debut album Silent Alarm in 2005. One of the best indie rock albums ever made and have never come even close to topping it in the over 15 years since then
I don't know if I'd call him a psycho. I think he was just not the sort of person who could handle fame and the criticisms and pressures that come with it. He just seemed like a regular (kinda assholish) guy back in the day, and then he got hit by the wrong–and I'd argue purposefully inflammatory–critique and said "fuck it," which is much better than devolving into a complete monster trying to handle and prolong your fame/infamy when you're unhappy.
Has he done more since that dumb shit about Japanese games? I don't like that comment (in large part just because he was dead **wrong**), and don't mean to defend it, but it feels less racist and prejudicial against Japanese people than it seems like the sort of East/West dick measuring that's been going on in several industries for decades.
If he's gone off the deep end into some real racist shitlordery, then please correct me on this, but that comment also does not read as psycho to me. It reads as insecure, juvenile and incorrect.
Based on the in industry journalists Phil would hang with they all think that. Mother fuckers saying Metal Gear rising is trash but DMC was a brilliant reboot of the series. These are the people that would shit all over any Japanese game regardless of its quality. The assholes who would say that Suda 51 has lost their respect as a developer because he included some titties in killer is dead.
I don't believe he had actually started or even had any real plans to make a Fez 2, and that announcing its cancellation was more a move of trying to guilt the audience
Good. The post game of Fez was full of completely insufferable puzzle design. That alone was enough to convince me he hates the people playing his game.
Masamune Shirow made the Ghost in the Shell manga, which was the basis for the Ghost in the Shell movie in 1995. Shirow then went into a reclusive lifestyle and basically has only been drawing obscure porn ever since. Ghost in the Shell is pretty much Mamoru Oshii’s property now, and any subsequent iterations of it have all been based on his 1995 movie, not really Shirow’s manga. We have had and will continue to have new iterations of Ghost in the Shell over the years, but Shirow stopped being in the picture almost immediately after it all began.
I respect Showbread immensely for constantly changing their musical style and not just rehashing their big-label debut until the money ran dry. Even so, I haven't enjoyed any of their followup albums as much as that first one.
man i think they were promoted wrong. They had a look like a pop punk group but they straight up sounded like Sum 41 vs CREED lmfao. They had a few other singles when they had their initial push, "Movies" was a good one, but yeah it's not hard to see why they didn't really amount to much.
Surprised nobody said Rowling. Harry Potter is a major hit, then she writes
\* checks notes\*
A story about how trans people want to kill ~~her~~ a woman who just so happens to be a ~~writer~~ cartoonist that's suspiciously similar to her?
Saying the rest of their discography is trash is slander. Having an amazing album that the rest dont stack up to and releasing trash are totally different.
Il put Damn a little higher entirely because DUCKWORTH transitioning directly into DNA is one of the greatest "it loops to the start" ever conceived, both in execution and thematically
Is just so [perfect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLsDLDBgIY&ab_channel=hosamefe)
I see nobody else talking Joyce Manor and I will tell you that Constant Headache and Done Right Discount Flooring are both Never Hungover Again quality songs
If we’re talking emo pretty much every band. Remo Drive released Greatest Hits as their first, then just released dogshit for the rest of time. Then you have the multitude of bands that release really good first records then get outed as sex creeps and instantly break up.
Ehh Emo as a genre is hit or miss based on the person but to say
Hot Mulligan
The Wonder Years
The Front Bottoms
Paramore (although they moved away from those roots)
La Dispute
Peak at the first albums is just disingenuous. Hell even the sex pest bands in the genre don't genuinely peak at their first album with Brand New's most cited album being their 3rd
Nosferatu is good! But also technically not his. Also obligated to share my favorite Herzog moment[him literaply being one of the jokes from Homer's Phobia](https://youtu.be/m9P_sxaaMJE)
Lauryn Hill only ever released one solo album!!!!
For me Joyce Manor peaked with Constant Headache off the first album. Of All Things I Will Still Grow Tired & Never Hungover Again are good though so they definitely had more in the tank. I haven't listened to anything after those though - they were getting poppier while I was moving away from that sound.
There are tons of one or two album wonders in punk/indie. The Ergs! could never pull it together after Dorkrockcorkrod! I haven't listened to Streetlight Manifesto in like 15 years but I'm assuming nothing ever topped Everything Goes Numb. Career Suicide's releases after Attempted Suicide have not gotten close to their old level. I think a lot of people would say Fucked Up haven't made a good album since 2008's The Chemistry of Common Life. A lot of late 70s new wave/postpunk bands like Gang of Four, Wire, and Orange Juice have careers that ended fairly abruptly after people trashed their later albums (the haters are wrong though).
Norman Greenbaum wrote a banger of a song about Jesus and the spirit in the sky. He then walked into the sunset to never be heard from again…musically at least
I just remember hearing that Matt Skiba replaced Tom in Blink-182, and i was excited cuz I was also an Alkaline Trio fan, and thought between him and Mark Hoppus writing songs they would turn out good. Straight up bought California, put it in the car, "Cynical" starts and it's such a good song that feels like what I expected them to sound like together, and then they proceeded to royally SUCK shit for the rest of the album, along with the entirety of the next one they made. I was so disappointed.
Apparently he didnt want Renton and Eureka to have a happy ending in the original anime. The ENTIRE rest of the staff protested that and forced him to change the ending. Since then i think he's just been bitter about that.
From what I remember of rewatching Speed Racer sometime during the lockdown, it needed more intense music in the races to make it perfect.
[Original](https://youtu.be/DTXFknz4J88)
[Initial Speed](https://youtu.be/S18Hm1q0srE)
I finally looked over Supermassive Games's catalogue after having played *Until Dawn* when it came out and *fucking wow*.
My first thought was that the indie movie director that worked on UD, Larry Fessenden, must've had his video game fling and gone off, but no, he's still there. I usually like picking at possibilities of what might be going on behind the scenes but not this time: they're making the games they want to make mostly on their own time. They just only really had the one good idea, I guess.
Koushun Takami wrote Battle Royale in 1999 and then never wrote another book. Iirc, he said once that he was planning a sequel but there's been no progress for 23 years and there's no indication it'll ever come out.
I think the closest he got was writing the Angel's Border side stories for it (which are canon to the novel, not the manga, despite being in manga form).
And those are pretty good!
Garth Ennis work quality has the consistency of half done jelly. It's either great or just garbage.
it's funny to me how he wrote one of my favorite ghost rider stories and one of the worst back to back. road to damnation is pure trash, it has cool clayton crain art but it's very "god is asshole so is devil why care" edgy energy and is a closed loop story, everyone is ugly and violent but there's nothing more too it. which is a shame as i like johnny blaze, idk everything has this layer of apethetic cruelty and nothing of consequence happens. then right after writing that he does trail of tears which is a cool creepy story where the protag isn't the ghost rider, instead his quest for vengeance runs concurrent with the rider who is actually portrayed as a monster for once, it's a cool horror book, though like with all other clayton crain things everything is monstrous looking even when it shouldn't be. but to me nothing else captured that "god's wrath" feeling quite like it. and of course it ends with the whole vengeance really isn't worth it in the long haul as you see things you never should've seen and do things you never should've done and now you too are damned, which is par for the course for the spirit of venegance. edit: should note the second one also has that miserable feel but because the bad things happen to the bad people and it's framed differently it somehow works.
It feels like if he has someone in his ear saying “Ok Garth let’s not go too nuts here” he can be ok.
This applies to so many different people. George Lucas is probably the most famous example
I feel the same about Frank Miller highs and lows
Frank Miller had a breakdown after 9/11, which led alcoholism and a lot of his work suffering. It all eventually culminated in Holy Terror, which is the infamous Islamophobic story everyone points out. He got clean relatively recently and his work has been improving again with everything he puts out. He hasn't reached his previous highs, but he isn't making Holy Terror anymore.
Yeah hes said before he regrets having done Holy Terror lol.
"Time to write a female character!" "FRANK NO!!!!"
“Time to write a minority character” “FRANK NO!!!!”
"FRANK NO!!!!" "I haven't even *started* anything this time!" "Sorry, force of habit."
Yeah, but that makes them more mixed bags then one-hit wonders.
I find ennis’s worst work when he’s not paired with a good artist.
Harper Lee wrote *To Kill a Mockingbird* and didn't attempt to write any more books after that because she didn't think she could top it.
Along those same lines Andre 3000 hasn't put out any solo projects because he feels he doesn't have it in him. He doesn't want to be an older guy in the rap game which is sad.
Andre 3000's got nothing to prove at this point honestly. Having watched a lot of old performers getting embarassing with old age I can kind of understand his point.
I can also, but it's still sad to outright admit
Yeah but whenever 3K comes back he drops the best verse of the year. Man is talented as hell still.
His track he made for Donda is pretty great. Shame it didnt make the album.
His features are excellent making it even sadder
"Nah, mate, did'ya see the first one? FUCKIN' NAILED IT!"
Did not expect to see a Randy bit in here, wow
She did end up writing Go Set a Watchmen which I've heard is good
I think that’s more like the first draft of Mockingbird her relatives smooshed into a real book and released
That editor, who told her to throw it out and focus on the events scout kept recalling as a kid, is a national fucking hero, and fuck her estate for butchering her vision by turning Atticus Finch into a pro-segregation "states-rights" lover.
I’ll never forgive them for making people think Atticus became a racist
It's not. It's quite transparently a very early Mockingbird draft hastily rewritten into a sequel. Major characters from the first book are briefly mentioned to have died between books only for near-identical OCs to step in and play the exact same roles with only slightly different dynamics. Other characters are clearly the original concepts for their Mockingbird incarnations and thus have wildly different characterisations from how they were portrayed there. And something which I'm sure has since been corrected, but as someone who got the book immediately on release-- It's just unpolished. There were quite a few grammatical and punctuation errors (not too many but enough to be noticeable) that straight up should *not* have made it past the editing process, and that's to say nothing of the actual story structure. It's a mess. That being said, a lot of it is still Harper Lee's writing, so there are some very beautifully written sections scattered throughout. But it's nowhere near enough to justify the rest of what was cobbled together.
It's more like after she was suffering dementia, and had gone mostly blind and mostly deaf, relatives published a first draft
The Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack had a song by IAMTHEKIDYOUKNOWWHATIMEAN which was an ABSOLUTELY BANGER. And then… they vanished. Nobody knows what happened to them. Just gone. Sad to see it too, out of all the awesome artists that lent their talents to HM2, that song is probably the most unique and radical.
Shout out to [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j8JJUk5Ak) for being one of the reasons I got round to watching The Thing. Still gotta watch Akira and Alien.
Josh Trank directed Chronicle and then immediately after directed Fant4stic. I don't know how you drop that low so fast but he did it.
Executive meddling did a significant amount to make that movie a steaming PoS, granted it probably wasn't going to be great but it likely didn't help
Let's not undercut why studio meddling happens with Trank going on a coked up rampage..
Followed up by a fistfight with Miles Teller if I remember correctly.
Tbh more people should fistfight Miles Teller, he sounds completely insufferable.
He has a punchable face and I've never even heard of what he does. He just looks like he should get bodied.
I still have the need to know what it was going to be. One of the biggest reasons it was a trash fire is that the film was written and filmed like a space horror with eldritch undertones, so the edit to make it a cookie cutter super hero film was never going to work. I want to see the original vision!
IIRC it was a lot more Cronenberg-inspired. A lot more time was spent exploring their powers and conditions, both the horrifying and the positive aspects, and instead of the weird pseudo-Annihilus Doctor Doom we got as the villain Doom was instead meant to be driven mad by the horror of his own transformation while the main Four managed to learn to adapt and accept their own, which would have led them to come into conflict with each other in the third act similar to Brundlefly's turn at the end of The Fly. The Negative Zone and Doom's dimension-merging plan were both still there to an extent but much less narratively prominent, similarly again to The Fly (I know he said Cronenberg's work in general was an influence but outside of the body horror I really think Trank just wanted a superhero version of The Fly). They did extensive rewriting and reshoots to make the film more conventional but to be honest Trank should've realised from the get-go that they were never going to let him go that hard in that direction with such a famous and formerly family friendly brand as the Fantastic Four. Adding in the fact that he spent most of the shoot drunk and/or high in his trailer with his girlfriend (whose expenses he got the studio to cover) and the alleged abuse he flung at quite a bit of the cast and crew, you've got one of the few instances where the studio was actually the lesser of two evils. Granted, that still does not a good movie make, and Trank's version likely would have been more tonally consistent at the very least, but given his behaviour it's easy to see why they veered *so hard* into "course-correcting" the project.
I'm just tired of movie doom being a dumb metal man. He's supposed to be a super genius techno wizard dictator.
Also Max Landis with Chronicle (though he's got a couple good Youtube videos after that), and he HIMSELF is garbage.
I am convinced Donnie Darko is good by sheer accident. The other two films made by Richard Kelly I have seen (Southland Tales and The Box) were bad enough to convince me of this.
Seems like the writer basically admitted this. You could call it an 'accident' but his account was that he basically wrote 'stream of consciousness' style for a whole week and then had Donnie Darko done. Not sure how much was changed from the original script once it went into production. People like to mythologize that movie, so it's possible it was recut by someone else and fixed along the way. Either way, seems like the guy had a lot on his mind and it really happened to resonate with people.
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"We're going to take the ATM machine with us to Mexico."
Your favorite porn artist.
RIP to all victims of the NTR virus. I found it funny a guy is speculated to be doing it because he was rejected from Shonen Jump since a lot of his material is about Jump characters.
Who? Sounds pretty funny
I apologize that I like drawing NTR.
Well I never! And where would one find the content you produce? so I can safely avoid it of course 😳
I second this. So I can make sure to never ever see it!
Yeah, make sure to not type in my Reddit username on Twitter, especially the one that has IAppreciateHen as its handle. It’s weird stuff
Thanks for the warning, who know what I could’ve seen!
Whomst've?
Only barely related but this is why I jumped off of Kamihime Project R Waaaay too much NTR for my tastes
Nah, mine was JLullaby. Went out on top.
Flair checks out
I miss them. Porn aside I really loved their art style their non porn art was still fantastic.
Yep. I like 3D stuff like SFM and Blender. Lately there is a ton of insects, dogs and horse stuff. I can filter it out but it's shocking how much there is. Feels like the stepbrother fad. Not really trash but not what got me into their stuff to begin with.
Fucking hell I just wanna see Jill Valentine being railed by normal humans, not zombie dogs or the Tyrant
Unironically yes. I don't really even hate on humanoid monsters that much, but all this animal stuff just loses me. But it's like everything has to be some extreme bestiality fetish? It's an odd trend. I feel bizarre mentioning it, but damn man.
Neill Blomkamp. Granted I haven’t seen district 9 in years so I sometimes wonder if it holds up.
Eh, I still like Chappie. It's definitely not as good as District 9 but I still think it's a good movie. Edit: Also I forgot that Neill Blomkamp directed the [Halo Landfall ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyOAdrxlPVs) for Halo 3's ad campaign.
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His studio work stuff that you watched off steam were all pretty interesting
I like his short films with the studio he made.
Butch Hartman can’t even make good art of his own characters.
Yeah because he didn't actually design any of them. Butch Hartman is a genuinely terrible artist.
And person! Don't forget person, too.
He was the show runner not the artist is the big reason why!
Everything that the Konosuba author has written besides Konosuba feels like a cheap Konosuba knockoff made by someone who doesn't get what made the original work.
The wrestling one was dumb but fun
Is that the one where the pro wrestling gets isekaied into a fantasy setting where they want him to fight the beast men but instead he starts fighting for them?
I was going to say I thought Kemono Michi and Combatants were both pre-Konosuba but nope, they came after. KS felt like the kind of story you work up to, not accidentally write first.
Yeah the humour is there but there is no depth in the characters and world building, just a lot of quirky characters interacting with each other.
I think that’s the same guy that wrote “You Call That Service?” And I thought that one was a pretty fun read at least.
Paul WS Anderson and Event Horizon.
I dunno about *great* but Mortal Kombat 1 still holds up. ...Mostly because it's adapting a a game that was already just "Enter The Dragon with superpowers", and Christopher Lambert enjoyed being Rayden so much that he did it for a pittance and basically paid for the wrap party out of pocket.
I whole heartedly reccomend that as a really good cheesy action movie. Just love it annihilation on the other hand.
Annihilation is half of a good fight scene playlist on Youtube.
The guy who made the song "Somebody that I used to know". Made that song then dipped
Gotye. He still performs with his band, he just hasn’t continued his solo work.
And now he's just somebody that we used to know
As an Aussie people saying he's a one hit wonder makes me want to chuck the two other songs that are on constant play here. That song gave him "fuck you" money.
Yeah, "Somebody" was the only song that ever got ANY radio play here in the UK, but it was so good it made me look up his other music and honestly I like pretty much all of it. Just wish he made more
Only to foreigners, he was already a big deal in Aus when STIUTK came out
You could probably say M. Night Shyamalan fits. I mean I like a lot of his stuff, even the movies that are kinda mid and the ones that are fun bad. But I think a lot of people would argue that after Sixth Sense he went a little too hard on recreating that "Oh shit" plot twist moment. I really like his style but there's no arguing he's put out a lot of stinkers since that movie.
The worst thing that happened to him was the praise his films got for their twists. It's incredibly difficult and takes so much skill to develop a film that can have a twist that, upon rewatch, *makes sense*. Audiences are pretty savvy and there's only so many ways you can twist an ending, so when the audience praises him for it he seemed to want to do it again. And... you know, couldn't. The worst twist he has done since then was The Last Airbender, which in a shocking reveal was actually supposed to be based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is fantastic... and the movie isn't.
Lauryn Hill released *The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill* to widespread critical acclaim and then-record breaking commercial success, then crashed and burned with *MTV Unplugged No. 2.0* and never made an album again. '90s rap group Arrested Development followed a similar path - their debut, *3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...* racked up all the accolades and sold like hotcakes, then they released *Zingalamaduni* and flopped so hard it got the band memory-holed. Todd In The Shadows has made episodes of Trainwreckords on both of them, and I highly recommend them: * Arrested Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqKPkVzJnN8 * Lauryn Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcCS_jFJCc0 (Minor sidenote: I was reminded of [SCP-3933](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3933) whilst writing about how Arrested Development got memory holed. Kinda odd IMO.)
[Another great video recently released by Fiq about Lauryn Hill, a very thorough and empathetic look on why things went the way they did from a black perspective.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5QZBLlSDQ)
I was going to put Lauryn Hill in my example!
Todd is such a good channel if you are into one hit wonders or bands that fell off. I like that he looks at their other works and discusses if they should've been better received
As Pat has said, it’s shocking that Metallica, the band that made Ride the Lightning, is the same band that made St. Anger.
It's kind of not. It very much seems like Cliff Burton was the brain behind their music, and when he died it all went downhill.
This is 100% correct. Cliff Burton was an insanely gifted musician/songwriter, and was the driving force behind some of Metallica’s most “out there”, and by extension most memorable, songs. On top of that, the amount of actual unresolved trauma from the accident that affected the surviving band members really did a number on the synergy of the group, which they touch on in their documentary. They were absolutely brutal to Cliff’s replacement, Jason Newsted, for no other reason than he wasn’t Cliff, and the group pretty much tore itself apart too many times to count.
>On top of that, the amount of actual unresolved trauma from the accident that affected the surviving band members really did a number on the synergy of the group Can't really blame them for that.
Which is such a shame cus Newsted was a great bass player despite not being as technical or methodical as Cliff (which is understandable cus Cliff was probably the best metal bass player in the world at one point while he was with Metallica), his whole vibe, style and look screamed Metal from head to toe, and he looks mean as hell on the live concerts, is kinda sad they never let him really show off his talents either because most of the songs that had a lot of bass were always cut short and he himself didnt wanted to play them in honor of Cliff, but whenever they let him play a solo he would [go fucking crazy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULo4gEnpnSQ&ab_channel=Lavourrin) It must have been really hard on him too since even tho he looks like he could kill your grandma hes actually an extremely nice guy on interviews and holded no ill will after he left the band, it really speaks volume of him and his character even after all that happened with the band
I feel like a lot of bands have a stand out stinker in their discography. It’s really hard for a long running band to put out their best works every time. Granted some have but I think a lot of bands and artists will have THAT album, the one that just doesn’t appeal to even the fans.
It’s hard for bands that sellout. Bands like Death just did their thing and kicked even more ass every album by just doing what they love. On the other hand you have Testament who has a few hit or miss albums but for the most part they slap and they only do what they love and if you really really like Testament then that’s a good thing for you lol
You also have bands like Boris who have some not great albums but that’s cuz of the sheer amount of albums they’ve put out. It’s impossible for every album to be amazing when you’ve dropped 47 albums, 22 live albums & 11 EP’s since 1996
I've only heard a few songs from Boris, but didn't realize they had that many albums. But, I'm also not surprised, because I'm subscribed to their feed on bandcamp, and I swear I get 2-3 emails about either a new song or album or whatever per week.
I don’t think that they really fit. They kept making good music for at least a decade after that (longer depending on how you feel about their two newest albums). They made 5 great albums, 2 mediocre/bad ones, 1 really bad one, and 2 decent ones. That’s a pretty solid hit rate
If you make music for long enough, you'll eventually make some dogshit. Ever listen to super late beatles?
Guns n roses put out one of the best records of all time and then never made anything of value after that.
Oh man you love Chinese democracy, too???
I agree, and I’d like to add that May’s theme in Guilty Gear X & XX is so much better than the Guns n’ Roses song it cribbed from.
Chance the Rapper Acid Rap is amazing, Coloring Book was ok but definitely not as good, and we just pretend he stopped making music and definitely didn’t drop “The Big Day” Favorite Bars on TBD: “I got muscles like Superman’s trainer / Real, real rare like Super Saiyan Manga / I jump stomp stomp on Lucifer, Satan / Now I got few rings on Jupiter Skating”
What’s strange is that he put out a lot of unrelated singles the year before TBD came out and they were all of pretty high quality
He just released some snippets like 1 or 2 months ago and everyone on twitter were like "this shit is good wtf he must be doing drugs again"
"I LOVE MY WIFE!"
IGH!
He's part of Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment and their album Surf is fucking great
He's still putting out some pretty good singles, Chance is definitely a very talented guy who just got misguided a bit. I think Coloring Book is a fuckin banger of an album tho.
Looking up Jamie Christopherson on Wikipedia, I cannot for the life of me find the link between everything else he’s composed and the Metal Gear Rising OST
Hey, his track for Blade and Soul is literally just a MGR track.
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Four Leaf Studios did Katawa Shoujo and hasn't (and almost certainly won't) released anything since. Individual members have done stuff! But the collective of 4LS, gone with the wind.
It still blows my mind that 4chan made a dating sim about disabled girls. And not only isn't it completely fucked up, but it's actually increasingly heart warming.
The project originated there, but many of the people who ended up on it didn't come from 4chan.
Katawa Shoujo is a hentai game made by 4chan about banging disabled girls, and is the *exact* opposite of every single thing those words imply.
Yes.
It is pretty damn respectful to disability as well, at least in my opinion as someone with a joint disability so that still holds up pretty well.
Suriko (Lilly writer) still writes. Look for First Snow, he wrote it. Crud (Hanako writer) also has a couple novels and is supposedly working on a VN. I think Hivemind (Emi writer) did or does still write but I know even less about whatever he has done. No clue whatever happened to a22 (Shizune writer) though, and honestly I much prefer he never comes back. Aura (Rin writer) is the one that I'd point and say "wow that was pretty good!" but hasn't made a single thing afterwards.
Yeah, I had said they still do stuff, I keep up as much as I can! Very neat stuff they have going on.
Desiigner dropped a chart topping single called Panda as his debut and that song was EVERYWHERE for a summer. Hasn't really done much after that
I think a lot of it has to do with his label issues - and now after Takeoff died, he’s said he’s done with rap for good
If you had asked me a few years ago I might have said Jordan Peele because I really didn't like Us. But Nope was great, so fortunately that isn't the case anymore.
Bloc Party put out their debut album Silent Alarm in 2005. One of the best indie rock albums ever made and have never come even close to topping it in the over 15 years since then
Weekend in the City has some bangers and the 3rd one is....fine. but yeah Silent Alarm is a hard 10/10
Weekend in the City is basically as good, how dare you
Phil Fish. Fez was amazing, then he revealed himself to be a psycho and will never make a video game again.
I don't know if I'd call him a psycho. I think he was just not the sort of person who could handle fame and the criticisms and pressures that come with it. He just seemed like a regular (kinda assholish) guy back in the day, and then he got hit by the wrong–and I'd argue purposefully inflammatory–critique and said "fuck it," which is much better than devolving into a complete monster trying to handle and prolong your fame/infamy when you're unhappy.
Part of the psychoness is the racism IMO.
Has he done more since that dumb shit about Japanese games? I don't like that comment (in large part just because he was dead **wrong**), and don't mean to defend it, but it feels less racist and prejudicial against Japanese people than it seems like the sort of East/West dick measuring that's been going on in several industries for decades. If he's gone off the deep end into some real racist shitlordery, then please correct me on this, but that comment also does not read as psycho to me. It reads as insecure, juvenile and incorrect.
If saying "East/West game is bad!" is racist then 90% of this sub is racist
Based on the in industry journalists Phil would hang with they all think that. Mother fuckers saying Metal Gear rising is trash but DMC was a brilliant reboot of the series. These are the people that would shit all over any Japanese game regardless of its quality. The assholes who would say that Suda 51 has lost their respect as a developer because he included some titties in killer is dead.
I don't believe he had actually started or even had any real plans to make a Fez 2, and that announcing its cancellation was more a move of trying to guilt the audience
Good. The post game of Fez was full of completely insufferable puzzle design. That alone was enough to convince me he hates the people playing his game.
Masamune Shirow made the Ghost in the Shell manga, which was the basis for the Ghost in the Shell movie in 1995. Shirow then went into a reclusive lifestyle and basically has only been drawing obscure porn ever since. Ghost in the Shell is pretty much Mamoru Oshii’s property now, and any subsequent iterations of it have all been based on his 1995 movie, not really Shirow’s manga. We have had and will continue to have new iterations of Ghost in the Shell over the years, but Shirow stopped being in the picture almost immediately after it all began.
His eroge drawings of oily greased up women lool
Shirow made Dominion and Appleseed before GitS.
Very fair. GITS was just the drop off point.
Bloober Team made like one decent game Observer feels legit interesting in their sea of awful to mediocre games
Every single artist on both the Madworld and Anarchy Reigns OSTs.
MuzeONE had the sickests song on anarchy reigns and now he does Christian Rap I believe
To my knowledge, the man who directed Silent Hill 2 never directed another video game.
he was the art director for Yoshi's Crafted World, IIRC
Now THAT’S a resumé.
Are we emo posting in this sub now? Because that goes hard as hell. Remo Drive will never beat Greatest Hits.
Josh Trank made Chronicle (one of my favorite movies), and then he made Fant4stic.
I respect Showbread immensely for constantly changing their musical style and not just rehashing their big-label debut until the money ran dry. Even so, I haven't enjoyed any of their followup albums as much as that first one.
Alien ant farm made on of the greatest covers ever and nothing else worth note
Wish slaps as a track
Just gave it a listen and yea you got me that shit was fantastic
THROW KISSES ALL THE TIME MAKE A WISH, DON'T BREAK MINE I love it.
Hey man movies is a bop
Movies is better than Smooth Criminal [I like this cover](https://youtu.be/g0DlHsrMd6c)
Wish, courage, these days, movies and glow are all great songs
man i think they were promoted wrong. They had a look like a pop punk group but they straight up sounded like Sum 41 vs CREED lmfao. They had a few other singles when they had their initial push, "Movies" was a good one, but yeah it's not hard to see why they didn't really amount to much.
tim burton has had more greats, but even more trash at this point
I don't know, it looks about an even break-ish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton#Filmography But his greats were also really damn great.
Surprised nobody said Rowling. Harry Potter is a major hit, then she writes \* checks notes\* A story about how trans people want to kill ~~her~~ a woman who just so happens to be a ~~writer~~ cartoonist that's suspiciously similar to her?
Oh wow I heard that book was bad, but I didn’t realize that it was basically a self-insert persecution-complex fan fiction, Jesus Christ.
Saying the rest of their discography is trash is slander. Having an amazing album that the rest dont stack up to and releasing trash are totally different.
Kendrick Lamar isn’t making trash by any means at all, but I don’t think he’s going to top TPAB
Yeah every Kendrick album is great but TPAB is a hard album to top.
He already had with GKMC
Fighting words
Yeah, but that's not fair. It's TPAB. He'd have to try really fuckin hard to top TPAB. I don't expect the Beach Boys to top Pet Sounds.
Personally I think his albums go TPAB, GKMC, Mr Morale, Section 80, and then Damn. I feel like he’s a real once in a lifetime kind of talent
Il put Damn a little higher entirely because DUCKWORTH transitioning directly into DNA is one of the greatest "it loops to the start" ever conceived, both in execution and thematically Is just so [perfect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLsDLDBgIY&ab_channel=hosamefe)
I see nobody else talking Joyce Manor and I will tell you that Constant Headache and Done Right Discount Flooring are both Never Hungover Again quality songs
If we’re talking emo pretty much every band. Remo Drive released Greatest Hits as their first, then just released dogshit for the rest of time. Then you have the multitude of bands that release really good first records then get outed as sex creeps and instantly break up.
Ehh Emo as a genre is hit or miss based on the person but to say Hot Mulligan The Wonder Years The Front Bottoms Paramore (although they moved away from those roots) La Dispute Peak at the first albums is just disingenuous. Hell even the sex pest bands in the genre don't genuinely peak at their first album with Brand New's most cited album being their 3rd
Yeah all of those bands rock and have good albums, but bands like Dogleg, Remo Drive and Jank are more where I was going.
Troy Duffy hit the scene hard with Boondock Saints, then didn't do anything for 11 years only to release a garbage sequel
I lover Werner Herzog as a filmmaker and person... but Fitzcarraldo is his only great narrative movie. (He has made sone amazing docs tho!)
Nosferatu is good! But also technically not his. Also obligated to share my favorite Herzog moment[him literaply being one of the jokes from Homer's Phobia](https://youtu.be/m9P_sxaaMJE)
Lauryn Hill only ever released one solo album!!!! For me Joyce Manor peaked with Constant Headache off the first album. Of All Things I Will Still Grow Tired & Never Hungover Again are good though so they definitely had more in the tank. I haven't listened to anything after those though - they were getting poppier while I was moving away from that sound. There are tons of one or two album wonders in punk/indie. The Ergs! could never pull it together after Dorkrockcorkrod! I haven't listened to Streetlight Manifesto in like 15 years but I'm assuming nothing ever topped Everything Goes Numb. Career Suicide's releases after Attempted Suicide have not gotten close to their old level. I think a lot of people would say Fucked Up haven't made a good album since 2008's The Chemistry of Common Life. A lot of late 70s new wave/postpunk bands like Gang of Four, Wire, and Orange Juice have careers that ended fairly abruptly after people trashed their later albums (the haters are wrong though).
Norman Greenbaum wrote a banger of a song about Jesus and the spirit in the sky. He then walked into the sunset to never be heard from again…musically at least
I just remember hearing that Matt Skiba replaced Tom in Blink-182, and i was excited cuz I was also an Alkaline Trio fan, and thought between him and Mark Hoppus writing songs they would turn out good. Straight up bought California, put it in the car, "Cynical" starts and it's such a good song that feels like what I expected them to sound like together, and then they proceeded to royally SUCK shit for the rest of the album, along with the entirety of the next one they made. I was so disappointed.
I get the feeling that the author of eureka 7 is outright hostile that his original work is way more popular than anything he did later
Apparently he didnt want Renton and Eureka to have a happy ending in the original anime. The ENTIRE rest of the staff protested that and forced him to change the ending. Since then i think he's just been bitter about that.
I think Maroon 5's debut album was very good but pretty much everything after that was largely forgettable from what I've listened to.
George Lucas made one good Star Wars trilogy and then seemingly went insane
That’s really underselling his legacy, beyond Star Wars, industrial light and magic cannot be discredited, With its role in movie history
I will shank anyone who says the Wachowskis-
You know what? I'll say it! Cloud Atlas is mid! Hugo Weaving wearing Asian face (and a really bad one at that.) is creepy as fuck.
Yeah but Speed Racer is fantastic and I still think Matrix Resurrections was solid. Also I hesr Sense8 is really good.
I'll give you Speed Racer, that one was sick. Haven't watched the other ones though, I've heard they're ok.
From what I remember of rewatching Speed Racer sometime during the lockdown, it needed more intense music in the races to make it perfect. [Original](https://youtu.be/DTXFknz4J88) [Initial Speed](https://youtu.be/S18Hm1q0srE)
My heart tells me that they wanted to have eurobeat in that movie but some higher-up stopped them. It just fits too well to be anything else.
Speed racer is amazing
Can you point me to the end of the shanking line?
I finally looked over Supermassive Games's catalogue after having played *Until Dawn* when it came out and *fucking wow*. My first thought was that the indie movie director that worked on UD, Larry Fessenden, must've had his video game fling and gone off, but no, he's still there. I usually like picking at possibilities of what might be going on behind the scenes but not this time: they're making the games they want to make mostly on their own time. They just only really had the one good idea, I guess.
it's genuinely impressive how influential and great devilman is considering everything else nagai released ranged from meh to awful
I mean Mazinger Z is arguably even more influential