03-18-2019, 11:48 AM | #1 |
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Love Death + Robots on Netflix
Anyone watching Love Death + Robots? It's a bunch of different shorts, different styles, different themes, most of them realistic CG which you don't normally see outside of video games, lots of violence, cursing and nudity to make clear it's not for kids. Such experimental styles by different people really remind me of Cartoon Network's What A Cartoon? and MTV's Liquid Television type shows where they let people be creative and see what stuck. Apparently this show started as a Heavy Metal reboot.
I'm halfway done and not all of them are great but some show potential and i just like the fact that this exists. i'm tired of cartoony looking CG, we've seen it so much over the past two decades and I don't get uncanny valley vibes from the realistic CG. I hope we get to see more stuff and overall the shorts feel very 90s, like let's go extreeeme because we can, I think the 90s are slowly making a comeback; I keep seeing jeans become a little baggier every year. Last edited by sdp; 05-21-2021 at 10:25 PM. |
03-21-2019, 02:54 PM | #2 |
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I just finished the Dracula one (which was an odd duck... there was no love OR robots in it). The one before it with the hillbillies in mechs holding back the alien invasion is easily the best so far. It's so short, but still, by the end I completely felt for the characters.
Yeah, this all began as Heavy Metal 3. Kevin himself was working with Fincher to get a deal going, but never got the money.
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03-21-2019, 03:14 PM | #3 |
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Only watched Sonny's Edge so far.
Animation was great, loved the creature designs, but the story seems pretty edgy for edgy's sake. Makes sense it was a Heavy Metal reboot or whatever.
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Also, I was a little bit unclear in that first one... Spoiler:
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03-21-2019, 03:41 PM | #5 |
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I saw it.
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03-21-2019, 03:51 PM | #6 |
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If you think that, then I feel I have to check it out.
Edit: Seen three episodes now, I kind of want a blu-ray already.
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I thought her brain was primarily in the monster, not the computer... yeah, it was a tad unclear.
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I agree not all the stories are winners but some are salvageable and the series shows potential. I still have 2 shorts left and so far only 2 stories are worth rewatching, but I've enjoyed watching them all, the worst one for me so far is the Russian one.
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Oddly, this was my favorite one so far. I've only watched the first three, though.
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And it is definitely the strongest of the first three. Keep trucking forth. The hillbilly mech people episode is great. That could have easily been a full feature, if refocused.
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03-26-2019, 04:42 AM | #11 |
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I'm a fan of Heavy Metal, Robot Carnival, Liquid TV and other anthologies and this show was cool.
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03-26-2019, 04:53 AM | #12 |
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watched up to episode 10 and I'm really enjoying this. The great thing about anthology series is that you skip all that drama ******** you have to build for 3 seasons and get right to the good stuff. There's so many characters that I love in this, Sonnie is so cool and badass, Gary and Crazy Mel are fantastic, and the Three Robots are the best.
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03-29-2019, 09:03 AM | #13 |
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Three Robots is definitely my favorite.
Starting to feel a bit diminishing returns, though. I liked Sonnie's Edge even though it was uber-90's, and Beyond the Aquila Rift was quite good, too. I'm realizing that the short span of these stories, though, isn't leaving a lot of room for unpredictability. I don't like being able to predict each and every story beat (with the exception of, say, cats in the Dracula one) and it's been that way for me for about five or six of the episodes.
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03-29-2019, 11:13 PM | #14 |
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I never replied after watching them all, overall I want more, I liked that these things exist. None of the shorts are excellent, some had neat ideas. Have I mentioned I want more? I just love that a platform gave a chance for these crazy stories to exist, no doubt some could be polished into something better or some creative teams behind them could do something great.
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03-30-2019, 10:46 PM | #15 |
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I haven't watched this, but I just saw a clip in my fb feed of the three robots, and a cat, which was pretty funny. Makes me wish I had Netflix.
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The one with the unlucky 13 fighter ship was pretty good, too. By the end I felt for an inanimate object (the ship), so that's a big feat. I imagine a lot of people are going to come out of these saying the one with the wolf lady that becomes a steam-powered avenging fox is the best, but I didn't care for that one. It's pretty empty, if visually engaging. There's really no takeaway from it.
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03-31-2019, 09:38 AM | #17 |
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Does this show remind anyone of Heavy Metal and Robot Carnival?
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03-31-2019, 02:30 PM | #18 |
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It should. It was almost Heavy Metal 3 a bunch of years ago. When Kevin was pitching it.
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I watched the whole series. Those were awesome. A few of them were awesome enough to be their own series.
I think Good Hunting and Suits are the top for me. Secret War is up there, too. That's not to say the other one's weren't fun, though.
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