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This Movie Sucked Dead Donkey Diseased Testicles

posted 13 years ago by sidemachine
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I grew up watching the t.v. series "Denjin Zaboga". Thus, I've been a fan of that robot that could change into a motorcycle & back since I was a child. I've also been a fan of his human "brother", the character Daimon, Yutaka, played by the tokusatsu actor Yamaguchi, Akira (R.I.P.).

This PARODY movie in 2011 sucks dead donkey diseased testicles. It really does.

It spoiled a chance it had to impress old school fans like myself & failed to create a new generation of fans out of people that were probably not even born when the show aired on t.v..

If you truly love something & want to revive it, WHY parody it? Why make it more grotesque & ridiculous than it was? Big lips on an otherwise cool black samurai robot? A scientist father that attempts to breast feed his sons? Utterly disgusting.

I hope I NEVER meet the big fat fool who directed this movie because, quite honestly, I will be tempted to bitch slap him. HARD.

So, I guess Zaboga will probably never get the revival he truly deserves. Not without being turned into a Machine Girl-like travesty.

Sadly, the cliche "raped my childhood" expression just fits all too well in this situation. Damn all the people that consented toward ruining the revival of a legend that was so cool in the 1970s.

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[–] DeathShrike 11 years ago

Hilarious.

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[–] Stop_stealing_my_name 11 years ago

Also, yes.

YAY FOR NINJAS!

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[–] Stop_stealing_my_name 11 years ago

I'm a little late to the party, but I feel I need to chime in on one thing here; Men can indeed breast feed. Scientific fact. Look it up.

Also, man, the only way to make something like a transforming karatecycle work now is to make it a parody. I really enjoyed the movie, however I had a hard time getting through the second half.

Seriously, though, how could you not laugh when the cyborg chick had tentacles coming out of her tits all over Daimon's face and he screams, "AWESOME!"?

Or when she shoots the rockets out of her tits and he's all like, "HOLY CRAP!"?

That's gold, man. GOLD!

YAY FOR NINJAS!

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[–] sidemachine 11 years ago

You are, as everyone else is, entitled to your opinion.

However, I stand by mine.

No, I didn't find that part with the cyborg chick's tentacles funny.

As a kid, Daimon, Yutaka was a badass. Sure, the show was over the top. But, as a 5 or 6 year-old kid, I took it as legit.

This modern movie, if done right, could have gained both Daimon, Yutaka & Denjin Zaboga some new & perhaps widespread respect as hero characters. Instead, it painted them as a farce.

Sad, really. To me, it's like comparing the low budget Roger Corman version Fantastic Four movie (not the theatrical one) to Avengers. It's not so much the property but how you treat it. I didn't want a parody. I wanted a serious action film with good guys and bad guys that take themselves seriously.

If you enjoyed the movie, fine. More power to you. But my review is still as this post string's titles reads.

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[–] sidemachine 11 years ago

P.S. And regarding men breast feeding: STILL disgusting.

It's funny that much of (at least American) society is so against WOMEN breast-feeding in public (personally, I don't have a problem with it). But men? Come on, now. Really? Freaking disgusting. Get that sh*t outta here.

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[–] GorePolice 11 years ago

this movie was hilarious. it's a sushi typhoon movie, not sure exactly what you expected?

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[–] sidemachine 11 years ago

I expected it to be cool like the original t.v. series it was based on. Not weird & twisted.

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[–] GorePolice 11 years ago

admittedly, i've never seen the series that this film is spoofing so maybe that prevented any disappointment, but i had a great time with this flick.

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[–] sidemachine 11 years ago

I'm not trying to be mean when I say this (I know how tone of "voice" is often lost when communicating via the internet) but I must quote the old cliche, "You don't know what you're missing".

Even though the t.v. series Denjin Zaboga has been re-released in Japan via laserdisc &, in more recent years, DVD, the chances of it EVER making it to U.S. shores on a DVD release WITH English subtitles are pretty darned slim.

One never knows, though. SHOUT Factory just came out with a DVD set for Ultra Seven (another great "tokusatsu" series from the late '60s (Denjin Zaboga was from around 1975, if I'm not mistaken)]. I never thought THAT would happen (it includes English subs!) so, maybe odds are better than I think.

Incidentally, Denjin Zaboga was the child of a company called P Productions while Ultra Seven is a child of the company known as Tsubaraya.

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[–] GorePolice 11 years ago

I'll see if I can track the series down (surely, its out there on the interwebs somewhere?) and check out Ultra Seven. I'm a huge kaiju fan, but I've honestly not seen a lot of tokusatsu superhero/robot movies although I'm sure it's a genre I'll enjoy. Thanks for the recommend!

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[–] couchtomato 11 years ago

Dead Donkey Diseased Testicles????

really. you're too nice. I wanted to take the DVD and fling it out on the highway after I made it through to the end. This movie looked like the work of someone with ADHD who never saw the TV series but instead grew up on a diet of tentacle rape porn and robot chicken.

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[–] sidemachine 11 years ago

Well said. Maybe I WAS being too generous.

I gather you've seen or are at least familiar with the original t.v. series.

I give that much respect!

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[–] MaximusGrandimus 11 years ago

I learned of this movie through a Cracked.com article. The article made it sound amazing so I decided as I have Netflix to give it a watch last night. I was completely blown away by it. My jaw was literally on the ground through most of the opening sequence. Then the weird, sick and twisted storytelling style set in and I was hooked.

I can understand that you enjoyed the original series for earnest, straightforward storytelling and that's what you expected for this revival movie OP. But still, this was freaking awesome to me!

I love TransFormers - Gen 1 AND the movies. I just love giant, transforming, fighting robots. I love stuff like Voltron and while I was a little old when Power Rangers came along to really get into it I could appreciate it for the giant fighting robots aspect of it.

Now, Voltron was a huge part of my life when I was a kid, as was TransFormers and GI Joe. Huge nostalgia trip when I watch those shows on netflix. They are a cherished part of my childhood. But if they were to take Voltron and make a revival movie that included some of the crazy stuff this movie did - breast-feeding fathers, motorcycle fights on the body of your 100-story tall daughter...I would not rant and rave about raping my childhood. The original series would still be there. And in this case, I mean, the original show is still out there, you can still watch it, right? It's not like they went back in time and changed the things that came before, did they? No, they just used the same characters to tell a vastly and wildly different story. I don't understand why that is so offensive to some people because honestly, the original thing that you liked is still available to you, unchanged and unharmed.

I have to say as far as this movie went, the thing just friggin' blew my mind! And I will tell you it made me want to go and watch the original Zaboga series! So please don't make assumptions that the viewing audience will all be somehow turned off by this. I think the difference in stories is more due to the nature of pop culture today. It seems to me that something with karate fighting robots that takes itself too seriously may be viewed poorly by audiences, that they might not "get" it. But if you have crazy sh!t going on all over the place, then it might get more of an audience. I know I loved it!

I don't know if you're aware of this but I've already changed things. I killed Ben Linus.
--Sayid

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[–] Grethiwha 10 years ago

I haven't seen the original series, and I don't think I hated the movie as bad as you, I wasn't put off by the 'grotesquery' or anything... But I was still put off by the movie, and judging from the clips in the credits, the show looks so much better! To me... I hate how people look at a lot of older or foreign movies and shows and stuff that are kind of cheesy or ridiculous and conclude: it's unintentionally funny, or so bad it's good. Typically I expect the creators knew damn well why something's amusing, and if you genuinely enjoy it then there's no reason not to consider it 'good' – I hate the ironic detachment facade. And here's a movie that falls into that, it mugs at the camera, winks at the audience – clumsily insists that you know they're in on the joke... and it's way worse for it. And from what (little) I saw of the original series, it had everything amusing about the movie, but it looked a lot more sincere, genuine, and a lot funnier, and I don't doubt that's exactly how it was intended. Anyway, that's my little rant; that's my take on it.

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