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by Ares
Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:56 am
Forum: Film, Television and Music
Topic: The Predator
Replies: 7
Views: 1127

Re: The Predator

It basically sounds like a movie that was ashamed to be a Predator movie, and one that might have worked better if it had just been its own franchise. But allegedly, what a lot of studios do is just sit on potentially valuable properties and make tweaks to unused scripts and just shove them into sai...
by Ares
Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:43 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Captain Shang

https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/li-shang.jpg http://www.watermarkonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Shang_Mulan_Screenshot_600_by_400.jpg ... I’m not in love with Shang. As Crow T. Robot from MST3K once put it: "His body makes me feel funny." :mrgreen: Though one cu...
by Ares
Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:43 pm
Forum: The Arena
Topic: The MANLIEST of Men Fight:Li-Shang vs.Gaston
Replies: 3
Views: 7713

Re: The MANLIEST of Men Fight:Li-Shang vs.Gaston

Gaston's cunning is more along the lines of manipulating scared townspeople and figuring out that if he puts pressure on a girls father, the girl might do what he says (incidentally, making more of a beast than the Beast was at the start). Beyond that, Gaston didn't really display anything in the wa...
by Ares
Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:32 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Frollo! Hercules! Megara! Hades! The Titans! Circe!)

Hmmm, got the sidekicks out of the way . . . . uh oh, my heterosexuality feels threatened. I think Chinese Hanzo is on his way.
by Ares
Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:31 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Frollo! Hercules! Megara! Hades! The Titans! Circe!)

Fun Tidbit: As part of the promotion and play-testing for my own RPG system, I go to conventions and run games. One series of adventures was designed to be this big 4 part crossover called "The Toybox Wars". The idea was that the figures of the recent "Toys to Life" video games ...
by Ares
Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:25 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Frollo! Hercules! Megara! Hades! The Titans! Circe!)

It's funny, because I've been working on just this one decade of Disney now for AGES- a real sign of just how much more "involved" their movies got. Every Renaissance film has a ton of major characters who deserve statting. Compare this to films of the '40s and '50s and it's night & d...
by Ares
Tue Oct 02, 2018 2:53 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Frollo! Hercules! Megara! Hades! The Titans! Circe!)

It's interesting what will and won't fly in China, as I personally think Mulan is a solid Disney film, possibly even in my top 10 (I've never really created a top 10 Disney films list). While I can understand being annoyed at them tweaking the film, Disney has been doing this since day one. I'd be w...
by Ares
Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:03 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Quasimodo! Esmeralda! Frollo! Hercules! Megara! Hades!)

It's also important to remember that the Olympian gods have been re-imagined multiple times over several thousands of years, and gods within their own pantheon waxed and waned in personality and popularity. The Roman's version of the Olympians were very different from the Greek versions, and even wi...
by Ares
Mon Oct 01, 2018 3:23 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Quasimodo! Esmeralda! Frollo! Hercules! Megara!)

I wonder if Transform wouldn't be a good way to mechanically replicate things like Deals With the Devil, where the victim needs to agree (and thus gets no save), but is instantly returned to normal if the deal is broken.
by Ares
Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:36 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (Quasimodo! Esmeralda! Frollo! Hercules!)

As for the scene when Herc was a kid and gets ostracized for being freakishly strong, that's actually very true to life. Paul "The Big Show" Wight talked about how he got picked on due to his size growing up, because that's the thing: It doesn't matter how you're different, teenagers will ...
by Ares
Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:22 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (DuckTales! Quasimodo! Esmeralda! Frollo!)

Lindsay Ellis does a great (37 minute!) feature on the tonal issues of Hercules . Among her complains are * The tone jumps around dramatically, even during important scenes. The battle against the Titans is full of comedy, even though Megara has just died. Megara doesn't die until after the battle ...
by Ares
Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:40 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (DuckTales! Quasimodo! Esmeralda! Frollo!)

Tony Jay's Judge Frollo was simply amazing as a Disney villain, very different from the hammy "evil for evil's sake" villains, this time being something we've all encountered: the self-righteous hypocrite that sees fault in everyone but themselves. And Jay's voice was simply epic, with the...
by Ares
Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:26 pm
Forum: Gaming Chatter
Topic: Top RPG Conventions
Replies: 3
Views: 1602

Top RPG Conventions

Hey folks. Like I mentioned a while back, I'm planning to Kickstart my own tabletop RPG sometime in 2019. One of my plans starting 2019 is to hit the gaming convention circuit to do some final playtesting and early advertising, try to build up good word-of-mouth reviews for when the Kickstarter laun...
by Ares
Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:10 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35322
Views: 7080803

Re: Jab's Builds! (A Goofy Movie! Max! Pete! Powerline! DuckTales!)

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"It'll be a dark day when I give in to a mere superpower!"

God DAMN.
by Ares
Thu Sep 27, 2018 8:29 pm
Forum: Books, Comics and Web-Comics
Topic: What's new with the big two: Marvel and DC Comics discussion thread.
Replies: 946
Views: 201241

Re: What's new with the big two: Marvel and DC Comics discussion thread.

Here's a couple of videos. Prof. Geek is interesting in that he's a college professor who looks at superheroes from a folklore and mythological perspective as well as a literary one, and tries to figure out what makes them work while criticizing mishandling of the characters as he sees them. Check t...