Hurdle FAIL

Ah, good ol' failblog. Always great for a laught

Was this just for some funny pictures or is it where people should post their failed attempts at hurdling nerdism?

I think you can make it whatever you want.

Ha ha, that means it's my schoolday athletics memories!

Here is one:

I really tried to hurdle anime and all of it's tentacles.

I went in deep.

I talked to punk kids wearing Naruto shirts.

I stayed up all night on a Chritmas ever about 15 years ago watching Akira.

I have done all of the prepwork a person should do to enjoy and appreciate anime.

But I can't get over that one. It is daunting.

Of course, I also had the wonderful experience of being at a tattoo artist's house for a BBQ and watched some of the harshest hentai ever made to the tune of undercooked beef...that sure didn't help. It also didn't help that the freakish crowd was moved to lustful silence during the regular scenes of alien/monster/human/beast rape.

Anime is beyond me. I can't lock it down. There isn't enough time to do it, and the syllabus is too huge. Perhaps I don't understand the storytelling either. Every time I get to the end of one of those serials I wonder why I wasted my time. It is always either too cute or too violent, with a hopelessly ambiguous (or straight up vacant) solution.

HURDLE FAIL.

And for the record, the animation sucks.

Like mentioned elsewhere, Hentai probably should be categorized under PH (perv hurdle). Especially tentacle rape.

Jakob wrote:Like mentioned elsewhere, Hentai probably should be categorized under PH (perv hurdle). Especially tentacle rape.

So happy Perv hurdle is part of your vocab now

(I love this little dude > look at his happy tongue out face!)

I totally failed the comic hurdle. The lack of naturalistic dialogue was just too much, even in the books that took themselves seriously, like Watchmen or Killing Joke, the dialogue was always either contrived or over the top. I don't really rate Alan Moore as a writer at all.

Lost and Heroes. Just can't get into them.

The Next Generation is a bit of a fail for me. I liked the original series. I loved DS9. I enjoyed watching both Voyager and Enterprise. Apart from the odd episode, I find myself nodding off when I watch TNG. Not really a hurdle I feel I've got to clear, but with the internet circles I roll with, I feel as if I should be more "into" TNG. And the odd thing is, I love Patrick Stewart. Perhaps they only repeat the boring ones

THAT is a unique opinion. Bold move, Anthony, bold move.

mediasaurusrex wrote:
I talked to punk kids wearing Naruto shirts.

There's your problem, guy.

Bear Police wrote:

mediasaurusrex wrote:
I talked to punk kids wearing Naruto shirts.

There's your problem, guy.

Perhaps. Anime is anime. Naruto included.

Man, that's like saying all American movies are Crank. The people who are "into anime" are the wrong kind of people to get anime recommendations from. Watch some Miyazaki, and avoid everything else.

I have seen all of the Miyazaki stuff. Amusing, but meh. Billy Crystal as a living fart in Howl's Moving Castle was fun for a solid 3 minutes. That stuff is as long winded as any of the old STAR BLAZERS full-length films from the 80s. Oh, and just as badly animated, I might add.

Like I said, I put in my time.

And please enlighten me as to where the various categories of anime lie. Hentai is one end of the spectrum. I am beginning to think you feel Naruto is not canon anime. But seriously, what is the difference between Naturto and DBZ? Some people swear by the (manga turned anime) DBZ. Anime seems to be this big badly animated oleaginous wog that is touted as being cool/enlightening/sophisticated/well-written. I haven't found any of that yet. Oh, and did I mention that it is badly animated? Surely something called "anime" should at least step it up and not go '70s Hanna Barbera on its audience.

Your comparison saying that what I said is similar to calling all American films "Crank" is a little weak, sir. Unless you are someone from the outside looking in. I am on the outside looking into anime. It is making no sense. Plus, I have put in more aniume time than your example individual who has only seen CRANK. Anime needs to have its categories exposed or something. I can't do this hurdle.

mediasaurusrex wrote:Billy Crystal as a living fart in Howl's Moving Castle was fun for a solid 3 minutes.

I love Miyazaki, but Howl's Moving Castle was a big pile of wank.

Was Howls moving castle supposed to not make any sense at all? Or am i missing something?

2hot2handle wrote:Was Howls moving castle supposed to not make any sense at all? Or am i missing something?

It was just bad. You're not missing anything.

THIS is Howl's Moving Castle, not that piece of crap they called a film.

*That "THIS" is a link, by the way.

I didn't like the book either to be honest. I was loving the film, I was actually preferring it to Spirited Away, what with its rich visuals and Miazaki's splendid storytelling until the third act. That has got to be one of the biggest let downs in a film ever.

Hayden_Bloom wrote:I didn't like the book either to be honest. I was loving the film, I was actually preferring it to Spirited Away, what with its rich visuals and Miazaki's splendid storytelling until the third act. That has got to be one of the biggest let downs in a film ever.

I think it fell apart in the second act. I almost walked out in the third act.

The book is definitely not for everyone; but it's a breath of fresh air in the so-called genre of children's fantasy novels.

When I saw the film I didn't know it was a book (which I ahev not read). I enjoyed it. Not as much as Spirited Away, more than Castle in the Sky. My complaint was that it seemed like if you took those two films and smushed them together, that's what he was doing with Howl's. I like his more fanciful works (Totoro), myself. He more serious (Mononoke) leave me a bit cold. Bur still, Studio Gibli is the only anime I'll watch.

Obama Fail, or is that an oxymoron (take that republicans)