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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence
timbloid writes "I spotted on Ain't it cool news that Mamoru Oshii's new anime Innocence Ghost In The Shell 2's website is now open! The trailer is beautiful! But I can't help thinking a translated version is some time off from the 2004 Japanese release... Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?"
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"CBS will not broadcast THE REAGANS on November 16 and 18. This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film, not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script.
Although the mini-series features impressive production values and acting performances, and although the producers have sources to verify each scene in the script, we believe it does not present a balanced portrayal of the Reagans for CBS and its audience. Subsequent edits that we considered did not address those concerns.
A free broadcast network, available to all over the public airwaves, has different standards than media the public must pay to view. We do, however, recognize and respect the filmmakers' right to have their voice heard and their film seen. As such, we have reached an agreement to license the exhibition rights for the film to Showtime, a subscriber-based, pay-cable network. We believe this is a solution that benefits everyone involved.
This was not an easy decision to make. CBS does tackle controversial subjects and provide tough assessments of prominent historical figures and events, as we did with films such as 'Jesus,' '9-11' and 'Hitler.' We will continue to do so in the future."
I have to wonder what sort of negative influences todays youth get from these things.
In the olden days we had cartoons that taught us lessons, taught us right from wrong, using American standards and American morals. This was the mindset that drove the industrial revolution and pushed the USA to the top of the super power food chain.
The youth of today watches these Japanes cartoons and can only get confused by it all. The Japanese mindset is totally different from the USian mindset, which serves to water down the American youth and poisen them with bad values and habits. It's no wonder we are becoming a service industry while the JApanese and Chinese produce all the goods. Is it a coincidence that they have stolen our business in this manner? Hardly.
Lets look at some of the greatest Japanese companies at this point in time, Honda, Nikon, Qualcom, etc. How do you think they gained so much market share in such little time? Because we gave it to them because our youth has no drive or motivation to innovate. They simply think they can rest on the laurels of the great men who went before them, the Henry Fords and Rockifelers, etc.
I think we should outlaw all this crap and make kids go back to watching quality cartoons before we're all forced to speak Japanese, if you know what I mean.
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I, like most of other people, often masturbate watching all of those "innocent" anime. Let's face it -- why whould a bunch of big, fat, old and ugly nerds (myself including) watch cartoons with cute, little, sweet, innocent girls, if not for masturbation related purposes? Why indeed? For the story line? Puh-lease! I generally don't get laid very often (especially by cute, little, sweet, innocent girls) so I watch anime and masturbate. Sue me!
The original Ghost in the Shell made us think
It made me think "why the fuck am I watching a cartoon, and why do all those fat nerds think this is deep cinema?"
I went to see a movie the other day called "Spirited Away." It's a Japanese cartoon (known as anime to the elite) that Disney had the unusual foresight to bring to the US. I was standing in line listening to the elated nerds in front of me when I saw a guy walking down the stairs with the biggest tits I'd ever seen. He was wearing a shirt with some female cartoon characters with Japanese writing on it, his entire mass jiggling back and forth as he slothed his way into the line. He stood in line behind me and was eventually joined by his nerd posse, all of whom had equally massive tits (I'd go so far as to say that the tits would have been boner inducing if they didn't belong to these guys).
We were eventually let into the theater and I sat and waited as the nerds piled in one after another until the cheese-like stench of the unshowered pseudo-intellectuals was overwhelming. There was every type of nerd imaginable, all wearing geeky anime shirts that don't fit because they were made for Japanese school girls (Hello Kitty). While I was waiting for the movie to start, I noticed something that I had never noticed before: a secret nerd social structure! I wasn't surrounded by ordinary nerds, but rather by mega nerds with specific roles. Here are the types of nerds I found:
1. The "I wish I was Japanese" anime nerd: Everyone knows someone like this. They refer to themselves as "otaku" and they embrace everything Japanese, not necessarily because it's something unique or interesting, but because it's Japanese. They wear clothing with Japanese or Chinese characters on it that translate to English phrases like "good will" or "long life." They wouldn't be able to get away with wearing a shirt that said "long life" in English because it would just look stupid, but as soon as it's translated into kanji it suddenly becomes cool and mysterious? Please. Since they'll sooner die than admit that their fascination with everything Japanese is a sham, you'll occasionally sense how uneasy they become when confronted with something Japanese that's so lame and obviously for little girls that they almost start to back off from the mountain of stupid they've climbed up on. Almost.
2. The balding gothic loser with an ugly girlfriend nerd: This is a goth who's so much of a loser that he's even shunned by other goth losers. A telltale characteristic of this nerd is his inability to stop deep throating his ugly girlfriend in public. They not only kiss, but they kiss in the most vulgar way possible (full on tongue and groping). As if it wasn't bad enough that they're both kicking the funk, they usually sport massive pizza-face crater acne. Barf!
3. The big-titted lardass nerd: If this type of nerd was a soup, he would be Campbell's: Thick and Chunky. Girls usually refer to this nerd as "a nice guy," and despite every girl's wish for a nice guy, they'd sooner be shot than date, let alone bang a guy like this. This type of nerd is usually very sensitive and introverted. You can get away with punching this nerd in the face because he's too much of a pussy to do anything about it. However, you can expect to find an entry about what an asshole you are in his blog several days later. And don't expect to be invited to any Magic: The Gathering parties he hosts any time soon.
4. The nerd leader: This is the "cool" nerd of the group. The nerd all other nerds aspire to be. You can tell which one is the nerd leader by watching his posse swarm around his every move. No lesser nerd dares speak against the nerd leader's opinion on cartoons, sci-fi movies or debates about which Star Wars characters are able to defeat jedis "if only they learned to use the force." The nerd leader revels in being able to boss around all the other nerds and does so as often as he can to make up for his utter inability to boss anyone else around in his life. This nerd is usually tough shit until you point out the fact that he's 36 and still lives at home.
5. The "Silent Bob" trench coat mullet nerd: Tries to look intimidating but