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“Exterminators of the year 3000″ by Giuliano Carmineo (1983) Robert Iannucci and his post-apocalyptic car in Tabernas Desert #Almeria
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Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
There are many Mad Max ripoffs and the most ripoff-iest of them all must be Exterminators of the Year 3000. The few original ideas contained within feel like asterisks, tiny details thrown in to “prove” this cheapo action adventure isn’t simply The Road Warrior on shuffle mode.
It's the year 3000. Nuclear war has destroyed the ozone belt. It hasn’t rained for years and the remnants of humanity battle on the roads for every remaining drop of water. When lone marauder Alien (Robert Iannucci) stumbles upon young Tommy (Luca Vennantini), he agrees to bring the boy to the source of water his tribe was desperately trying to reach. But even with the demented Crazy Bull (Fernando Bilbao) and his raving gang of lunatics forcing them to work in unison, Tommy can't trust his new partner.
You’ll immediately notice the Italian cast and the dubbed dialogue; dialogue so poorly written it confirms director Giuliano Carnimeo (as Jules Harrison) only had a tenuous understanding of the English language. It’s hard to determine if the villains’ constant references to “mother-grabbers” or “lousy splots of aberration” are attempts to self-censor and make the film available to those under 18 (they failed, it’s still rated R) or some of the weakest bits of world-building you’ve ever seen. Generally, I’d call the film tedious, but the dialogue is full of gems: bits of random words strung together that’ll make you laugh out loud. “Nothing is impossible with faith and prayer; even miracles!” indeed. Characters frequently tell you how they feel instead of letting their words, inflections or actions do so. Even if they were given brilliant lines to barf out, it wouldn't have matted. The people chosen to read the script are dreadful.
Giuliano Carnimeo makes you appreciate the skill and artistry of George miller. In this picture, there’s no escalation in the action, whatsoever. The climax has a big body count, but it’s nothing compared to a big sequence about 20-minutes in - a scene shamelessly lifted from the climax of The Road Warrior. It’s a pool of quicksand you’re only barely making your way through when finally, we’re properly introduced to this film’s Max Rockatansky: Alien. While Mel Gibson's character has charm and you can sense a heart beating beneath his bitter exterior, Robert Iannucci is like an unwrapped chocolate bar that’s been sitting on the pavement on a hot summer day. Even if you wanted to dig in, he wouldn’t be worth the effort. The guy’s just a jerk with no bargaining skills, and he’s not even good at what he does! Sculpting an anti-hero is delicate work and Exterminators of the Year 3000 is not up to the task at all.
Plot points frequently come out of nowhere, characters act illogically, their dialogue feels like a crossbow bolt through the palm and their performances are worse. Don’t even get me started on the scenes that demand they shed tears. You’d think the Italian movie people could at least get the stunts right, but they can’t. The gore isn’t convincing, and neither are any of the punches or kicks thrown. It then makes the fatal mistake of showing every explosion and crash in slow-motion. Now you'll definitely spot the helmet-wearing stunt drivers who have replaced the actors and their cheap costumes.
Exterminators of the Year 3000 (a title that is neither memorable nor appropriate for this film) is amusing for a while but sitting through the entire thing is a bore. You can have fun at its expense but eventually, the overwhelming, ever-pervasive shoddiness gets to you and you simply want it to end. (On Blu-ray, June 15, 2018)
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THE EXTERMINATORS OF THE YEAR 3000 (1983) Reviews and free to watch in 4K
The Exterminators of the Year 3000 is a 1983 Italian-Spanish post-apocalypse action science fiction film about survivors searching for water.
Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo [as Jules Harrison] (RatMan; The Case of the Bloody Iris; I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death) from a screenplay co-written by Elisa Briganti, Dardano Sacchetti and José Truchado [as James A. Prich], the movie stars Robert…
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So it's ok for israel to commit atrocities and genocides just bc other regimes are also committing war crimes? Please be serious
That’s not my argument. Never accept the ‘it could be worse’ argument since it doesn’t help you trying to make things better.
My point is that young people in the west, in particular, have been sheltered from the realities of war and how horrible it is. This has made you vulnerable to propaganda that you repeat above - that this war is full of atrocities and genocide. You can only think that if by being so unaware about what those things look like. There’s also this almost naive belief that - since the world is a fair and just place - that things you ignore can’t be genocide because no one is making a fuss about it. And if someone is making a fuss, then it must be serious. But that’s not true at all. In fact, there are forces in the world that would very much like you to ignore their genocides and focus elsewhere.
The harsh reality is that It’s extraordinarily easy to kill large numbers of people, especially by surprise and especially in small communities.
Let’s reverse the scenario, oct 7th was genocidal in intent, clearly the orders were to kill as many people as possible and kidnap as many as they could transport. In 24 hours, 3000 men killed approx 900 civilians and kidnapped another 200+. Then a military response finally mobilized and resistance started, resulting in more Israeli military deaths - around 300- and the deaths of about 2000 of Hamas fighters as they were overwhelmed.
Imagine israel attacking without warning, going house to house and just killing everyone in sight. Let’s restrict this to small arms, motorcycles and everyone wears civilian clothes or are dressed as Hamas fighters to sow confusion.
But Israel can send 300,000 fighters not 3000. In the first 24 hours the death toll would be near 90000 killed before resistance was mobilized, assuming it even tried. The entire population would be dead in 26 days using nothing but small arms fire.
In Rwanda in 1994 800,000 people were killed over 3 months with machetes and a few machine guns. The rolling Sudan genocide between 2003-2005 killed 200,000 people, 300,000 raped and 2 million people displaced. World war 2 lasted 5 years and 6 million people were exterminated - plus a peer to peer war was happening at the same time that cost another 75 million lives. The word genocide was invented to describe what happened to Jews in Europe, but systematic killing has been part of human societies forever. We just have more efficient weapons now.
The world is a bad place anon, and you should never take safety and civilization for granted. This is the larger reality I want you to see. you have to realistically look at the numbers and realize that if Israel wanted to kill everyone in Gaza it would have happened by now.
But this misinformation continues to spread, even as the UN finally admits the reports of deaths in Gaza of women and children have been exaggerated, and that in fact many of the dead are Hamas fighters. I won’t go as far as to say no atrocity has been committed by Israel during this campaign - all reports should all be investigated - but I look at the numbers and see Israel at least trying to meet a military standard of conduct against an enemy that would commit genocide if they just had more time.
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MDZS – Prologue thoughts + analysis
"Great news, Wei Wuxian has died!"
(In was, in fact, not great news)
Jokes aside though, what a great way to start your novel – it immediately intrigues you, especially since you likely know WWX is the main character from the blurb at least*. It also introduces one of the main themes of the novel right off the bat, ie scapegoating and mob mentality – not a word is wasted. And I love how it clearly lays out all the things that will be explored/contextualised/proven false in later chapters. In order:
Jiang clan 'adopting' and teaching WWX (proven false/contextualised) – they did take him in and teach him, but it wasn't a full adoption, he wasn't of equal status. Though it is true that he'd be living on the streets otherwise. Part of the reason rumours are so hard to distrust is because there's a grain of truth in them. Also, it's cool how apart from his death, this is the first thing we hear, and the first flashback also takes place in this period!
WWX defecting (contextualised) and leading to the Jiang Clan's near-extermination (proven false i'd argue, at the very least heavily contextualised). It's interesting that they seem to asociate the fall of Lotus Pier, which happened a few years before, with WWX's ('evil') actions now, though it does make sense – but also I wonder how did people came to that conclusion? Did they just make associations themselves (WWX is evil –> WWX was taken in by the Jiangs –> Lotus Pier was destroyed a few years ago –> WWX was there –> WWX caused it)? Did JC mention it to people deliberately, since we know he blames WWX for it? Did people hear JC mentioning it more privately (expressing anger, he does not hold it in) and spread the rumour themselves?
WWX's 'demonic' (ghost) cultivation being the reason for him turning evil and his eventual downfall (proven false, there are some great metas on how guidao isn't actually corrupting. See: how WWX keeps using it in his second life and is completely unaffected, and how in his first life he was suffering from way more stress and a lot of trauma – especially SunShot era – which could easily have explained the seeming change in behaviour during that time. Same for Qiongqi Path and Nightless City)
WWX massacring 3000-or-5000 people at Nightless City (heavily contextualised, reasoned with a little during the Second Siege. I have more to say on this but we'll get to it in time).
And then various other things, eg emphasis on how necessary it is to cultivate the righteous path or else – despite the discovered irony of 'righteous' cultivators besieging and killing 50 innocent people, while the 'demonic' cultivator is the only one protecting them – along more information about WWX's death (most of which is confirmed by passing words/thoughts of WWX) and the destruction of the Yin Tiger Tally.
But the things listed above are said first, which is quite important. MDZS is very much a mystery story, both for WWX, LWJ and often the Juniors uncovering the clues about the missing body parts – but also for us readers, as we find and piece together the missing knowledge and context WWX's past, and the full story hidden behind it. And it's so cool how MXTX lays out what we'll explore (our leads, if you will) so clearly, within the first moments of the first chapter of the book.
(If you want to go there, just like how WWX found his first lead/motivation to investigate within the first few (relative) moments of being brought back to life, with the hand at Mo Manor, but I might be reaching a little too far... anyway parallels in MDZS narrative structure I love you so much)
Other details in this chapter:
I love how this comparison is used:
Having read the book, we know there was a very recent war, so this speed/comparison would be very familiar to everyone! A subtle way of setting up and showing the efforts of the Sunshot Campaign, though you wouldn't recognise it the first time round.
Admittedly we don't know how subjective/exaggerated this POV is, but there is evidence for the fact that hundreds of smaller clans participated (or at least wanted to participate before Nightless City..?), judging by the fact that three thousand cultivators gathered to plan to kill him. Surely that's not just the Great Sects. But on the topic of that, yup, all four sects were involved (I don't think it's disproven later, and all four sects did gather at Nightless City as well**), there's no one 'good one' that wasn't corrupted or complicit.
Even by just reading what the crowd says, it's cool how you can tell that at least some of what's being said is untrustworthy:***
Already, they're contradicting information and exaggerating rumours – also note that later on at the Guanyin Temple (Hatred 2), LXC, someone I trust more, says three thousand when talking about the number of cultivators at Nightless City (even not considering what WWX said during the Second Siege). That contradiction and exaggeration does make you doubt what they're saying a little already! As well as the fact you know there's more to the story due to, again, WWX being the main character.
This is heightened by everyone saying, later, that if WWX returned, 'the cultivation world, or even all of mortal land, would be faced with the most insane damnation and revenge, sinking into nothing but chaos and despair' – something immediately disproven in the beginning of the next chapter, immediately suggesting that a lot of these rumours are much more untrustworthy than they seem.
His death here is made even worse by the belief that (iirc) the state of your body after death affects the reincarnation of your soul...? That definitely contributes to the 'karma' the people mention in screenshot after.
This hurts already, but hurts even more after knowing WWX's fear of dogs due to them always biting him when searching for food...
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*I wouldn't be surprised if this opening plays a big role in why why MDZS seems to have the biggest following of all MXTX's books. Openings are probably the most important part of the novel, since you start with no attachments that would make you keep reading, and MDZS absolutely nails it. I love it so much!
**Off-topic, but I do wonder how painful being at the meeting at Nightless City (before WWX showed up) was for LWJ...
***I'm curious about this extract, actually – the 7S translations has an extra line/distributes this differently? If anyone knows the original Chinese, I'd love to know which one is more accurate.
#skye rereads mdzs#mdzs prologue#guess who spend two minutes reading the chapter and fourty minutes writing about it.... heh#i probably won't go into as much detail on future ones since it'll take me so so long to finish#but it's *such* a good book/story...#mdzs meta#tagging because it's long and analysis-heavy#my meta
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The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1983)
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...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes
Children of the Atom: children in post-apocalyptic films
Damnation Alley (1977) Mad Max 2 (1981) Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) Solarbabies (1986) Steel Dawn (1987) Waterworld (1995) Terminator Salvation (2009) The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
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Death Lag Ratio of 10x to 20x means 100,000-200,000 Palestinian deaths in pipeline over next 20 yrs
I simply ask the question:
How many Palestinian people in Gaza that are exposed to toxic air from Israel bombs pulverizing buildings will die over the next 20 years?
What is the Death Lag Ratio (DLR) over 2 decades? Can we estimate it?
Yes, we can calculate it to get a rough estimate since we have lots of data from September 11, 2001.
On that horrible day about 3000 people died. There were many first responders and survivors and others living in NYC that were exposed to the toxic dust clouds from three (3) pulverized buildings.
Since then, over 20 years later over 4500 additional people have died. That’s a DLR of about 1.5 or so, and it is still rising today.
I argue in this video that the DLR is between 10 and 20 for the people in Gaza. So if the massacre of men, woman, kids, and babies in Gaza was stopped today we would have over 10,000 dead (4,000 kids) by the direct bombing.
This DLR means that an additional 100,000 to 200,000 people will die of illnesses directly caused to the Israeli attacks.
Why is DLR much higher for Gaza?
For a variety of reasons:
- 911 was three buildings; Gaza is entire neighbourhoods and an estimated 25% of all buildings in North Gaza; basically many tens of thousands of buildings
- exposure to the toxic air has lasted for 30 days, and is 24-7 in Gaza, for 911 first responders could leave toxic air and go home to rest
- first responders and survivors were adults for 911; for Gaza many people exposed are kids, babies, and the elderly. Lungs are not fully developed in babies or the very young, so exposure to toxic dust is much deadlier; older people are likewise killed from toxic dust at much higher rates
- people in Gaza have been without food, water, fuel, electricity for almost a month; hospitals are not functioning properly, noise from bombs is incessant, and people are worn down and have greatly suppressed immune systems from constant stress; this are much more susceptible to diseases, etc.
Of the 50,000 or so first responders to 911, roughly 4,500 have died in the 20 years since the attack. Call it 10%.
In Gaza, say almost half the population or 1 million people have been exposed. A 10% death rate over 20 years due to inhaling toxic air from pulverized buildings would be 100,000 additional deaths. But, many of those exposed are kids, even babies, and older people (not the case in 911) so we can maybe double the DLR meaning 200,000 additional deaths over 20 years.
Thus, the title of my video.
Please do your own thinking and your own calculations, to come up with your own DLR.
My analysis that I present in this video is my first rough attempt to come up with some numbers.
What I conclude is that for every 1 Palestinian person killed by Israeli bombs on attacks over the last 30 days, roughly 10 to 20 more Palestinian’s will die over the next 20 years from diseases and cancers directly caused by the bombing by Israel, cheered on by U.S. and other Western leaders under the guise of “self-defence” for Israel.
This really is an extermination of a people.
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"we were there 3500 years ago blah blah blah!" y'all are standing on the last thread of your credibility and your argumentation (and my patience) when you say shit like that. your "evidences" are literally the canaanites, a group of nomadic farmers from whom BOTH palestinians (modern term) and jews from the sinai region (modern term) are descendants, so fuck off with that deranged argument and go learn some history (i mean that as, open a real history book with facts, not your hebrew bible with selective "history" - if even history at all - in it).
btw, just because a 3000 years old book calls upon your "civilization" to go and rain war and extermination upon civilizations, doesn't give you a free-card to do it. doesn't give you a shred of justification or god-given right and argument to do it. it is a 3000 years old book. not a free-ticket to oppress, erase and genocide people by "birthright" or whatever.
#palestine#free palestine#every time i argue with someone who is pro israel#they go back to “WELL WE WERE THERE FIRST 3000 YEARS AGO”#no y'all weren't “there first”#and stop oversimplifying history and archeology#and human civilizations#the way y'all are so binary and think our ancestors were#when there was SO MUCH RICHNESS of culture and beliefs back then#you are RIDICULOUS
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I guess the two BAD pro-independence movements are in Palestine and Northern Ireland, because they get violent about it instead of just asking nicely, just to be told no over and over again.
Because if history proves one thing, no good country has ever gained independence through terrorism and violence.
The best way is to do it like Israel did it and have someone hand you land they don't own to make up for them actively trying to exterminate you for 1000 years.
...What even are "ethics" when the default is everyone stealing and murdering all the time? Why do we even have religions that ban behaviors, but only up to the moment someone decides they are too important to abide by that? Which is immediately, and all the time?
This Western liberalism thing where we pretend there are universal rules, which we ourselves constantly break and no one is ever in a position to enforce, really is just starting to look like a self-delusional way of ordering poor brown people around, but feeling slightly better about it.
Whining about who has what super-special justification to do what, when, seems a moot point when all anyone ever seems to want to do is kill people and steal land.
Western Civilization collapses not because it was a beautiful humanitarian light snuffed out by Evil, but because everyone is realizing it was only ever selfish murderers lying to themselves about how being that was secretly good, but only when THEY did it.
And that isn't anything. The Ancient Egyptian pharaohs did that. That's been the royal philosophy of whoever has ruled most of China over the last 3000 years. Lying and posturing isn't a moral philosophy, it's just being a dick with more paperwork.
And I guess the IRA and Hamas didn’t file the right forms with the right municipal authorities.
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Rainwing-Scavenger Incident (+3000 AS)
A conflict that occurred thousands of years ago resulting in the deaths of many rainwings and the near-extermination of scavengers in the rainforest. This started after a rainwing was found dead as a result of a scavenger trap. The rainwings had decided to weed out the scavengers to make it safer for the rainwings but the scavengers were tenacious and ruthless resulting the deaths of many rainwings during the extermination.
The conflict reached its peak when scavengers burned down a rainwing village resulting in the deaths of many dragons and dragonets. After the rainwings found their den, many of those who attacked described the scavengers as ferocious and vicious that threw fire that never extinguishes. In the end, the rainwings were unable to eradicate the scavengers and have agreed to forbid travel to that part of the forest.
In truth, the death of the rainwing by the scavenger trap was an accident after the dragonet had inadvertently flown into a snake trap while following a scavenger.
This was the first time the Bush Clan had faced dragons since the Scorching.
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K-Kunimitsu
B-but of course~! There's not much I can say about them from an in-universe perspective, I'll be honest, we just don't know enough about them personally, but there's actually quite a lot to say about their inspirations.
So! Let's look at our commoner youkai exterminator:
Royal Court's Youkai Exterminator — Kunimitsu Ooya
To really understand Kunimitsu's basis, we have to understand the very poorly documented (in English anyways) "The Tale of Yasutaka Utou's Loyalty" (善知安方忠義伝) by Santō Kyōden.
Disclaimer
Since I could find literally nothing on the book in English. Everything here's gonna be based on my own translations of the Japanese/Chinese sources I found, so take it with a grain of salt.
(The English equivalent of its wikipedia page is on a woodblock print based on the story, and not on the actual book, so uh, make sure to read carefully folks)
(Normally I'd be more confident but I'm not reading an entire 17th-century novel written in pre-modern Japanese so y'all are gonna have to deal with a third-hand account)
The Tale of Yasutaka Utou's Loyalty
"The Tale of Yasutaka Utou's Loyalty" (善知安方忠義伝) is an Edo period yomihon novel series by Santō Kyōden. Its story was never actually completed, but was published anyways in 1806.
It is said to be based on the Noh play "Utoh" (善知鳥 Lit. "Auklets", also translated as "Birds of Sorrow") as well as the Masakado legends.
The story follows Taira no Masakado's children, Taira no Yoshikado (平良門) and Takiyasha-hime (滝夜叉姫), and their attempt in continuing their father's uprising; as well as the trials and tribulations underwent by Yasutaka Utou (善知安方) and his wife, as well as Yasutaka's loyalty (to what or whom I'm honestly unsure).
For the part of the story we actually care about, we start with the toad spirit Nikushisen (肉芝仙), who resides on Mount Tsukuba (筑波山). It saved up so much spiritual power over its 3000-year life, that it awakened to potent "toad magic" (yes toad magic).
After Masakado's defeat as an enemy of the imperial court, Nikushisen appeared before Yoshikado, who Masakado had kept a secret and thus saved, told him his origins, taught him toad magic and persuaded him to continue the rebellion.
(Note: Yoshikado is entirely fictitious, and never existed, although tales about him have existed for a while, hence his use in this tale)
Depicted below: An illustration showing Yoshikado (right) learning toad magic from Nikushisen, true form inside the frog (left)
In addition, Nikushisen possessed Yoshikado's sister, the Buddhist nun Kisaragi-ni (如月尼), transforming her into Takiyasha-hime. Together, they are the masterminds behind most of the misfourtunes in the book, and the main antagonists to Yasutaka and co.
(Note: Takiyasha-hime was a historical figure, but nothing was known about her other than the fact that she existed. These books are believed to be the origin of fiction using her as a character.)
Depicted below: Takiyasha-hime in one of the books (left), Nikushisen (as a toad) and Yoshikado on the right
Inspiration: Ooya Tarou Mitsukuni
With all this established, we can finally get into the pivotal scene and character Kunimitsu is based on: Ooya Tarou Mitsukuni.
In the story, Ooya Tarou Mitsukuni (大宅太郎光圀) is a fictitious retainer of the historical Minamoto no Yorinobu (源 頼信), who put down another rebellion attempt by one of Masakado's grandsons.
Mitsukuni was sent to the Soma clan's old imperial palace, an abandoned palace originally built for Masakado imitating the one in the imperial capital where the Emperor lives, to arrest conspirators of Yoshikado and Takiyasha-hime, who were gathering there.
To fight back, the siblings summoned and controlled the skeletons of countless fallen warriors to fight back against their enemies, chief amongst them Ooya Tarou Mitsukuni.
This scene is famously (even moreso than the original story) depicted in a woodblock print by the famed ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi, simply titled "The Soma's Old Imperial Palace" (相馬の古内裏). (This by the way is what the English version of the books' wikipedia page is actually on, ugh)
In Utagawa's depiction, only Takiyasha-hime (left panel) is present, while the many skeletons are instead one giant skeleton (centre & right). In the middle, fighting against it, is Mitsukuni (left) and fellow warrior Araimaru (荒井丸) (he's unimportant to us though).
SO! Now we can finally look into how Mitsukuni inspired Kunimitsu.
First off, name: Obviously, they share the same family name, Ooya (大宅), a fairly common surname that means "large mansion". The given name Kunimitsu (都光) is just the name Mitsukuni (光圀) sliced in half and swapped in order.
However, while "mitsu" is still written with the same character, 光 (light); "kuni" is written with a different one: 都 (capital city) in Kunimitsu and 圀 (country) in Mitsukuni. This swap was likely to distance Kunimitsu from Mitsukuni, as well as to strengthen their ties to the imperial capital of Devanagara.
Kunimitsu's occupation as a youkai exterminator is likely based on Mitsukuni repelling the skeleton army/giant skeleton that Takiyasha-hime (and Yoshikado) sends after him.
Finally, the pose Kunimitsu is in is actually nearly identical to that of Mitsukuni in the following woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, often considered "the last great master of ukiyo-e". Interestingly this version keeps the skeleton army.
Tying Things Up
While I could've certainly just drawn the parallels between Mitsukuni and Kunimitsu and called it a day, "The Tale of Yasutaka Utou's Loyalty" is actually quite influential to Len'en in general.
In fact, it ties together Chouki, Fumikado, Sese and Kunimitsu, perhaps you've noticed them as well? So think of it as laying the groundwork for analysing all of them, and thanks for bearing with me.
In any case, here are some other curious points that I'll point out about Kunimitsu:
The symbols on their crown (the Fujiwara dynasty's crown) are likely Sanskrit, I can't read Sanskrit though so I've no idea what it says, and I can't identify them with any characters just from what I have online either
Kunimitsu seems to have a personal grudge against the Senri Shrine, having "a score to settle with them", although it's unclear why
They extermination youkai to demonstrate that people no longer need the Senri priests
They're apparently talented in the kitchen as well as with a sword
So, that concludes all I have, let's look forward to learning more soon, hopefully~
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Hello how are you? Could you make a male Timefire reader for the legends of tomorrow?The reader is Nate's younger brother, after a strong argument with his father the reader drops out of university, travels to Japan joining the Asami group, a private military security company number 1 in the world that is dedicated to exterminating to the criminals of the future. later the reader becomes the leader of the Asami group, upon meeting the legends he decides to accompany them on a mission where the legends face a new enemy, the Londerz family, a group of criminals of the year 3000 who want to end humanity. The legends have been unable to defeat them, on the journey they learn of a technological device from the year 3000 that could help them defeat the Londerz. the reader decided to travel on his own to find that power for himself, finally in an abandoned and almost destroyed building he finds a transformation bracelet calls V Commander which is technology created from the year 3000, decides to put the v Commander near his mouth saying "Timefire" becoming a superhero who wears a red and black spandex suit called Timefire and manages to kill one of the Londerz agents . Also the reader raises a mecha T rex named V-Rex. The legends offer him to join the team, which he rejects and decides to work alone for him, but in case they need his help, he will be there.
Interesting plot
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okay okay, what is like... The Main Canon. the primary timeline. for Atumu? or if you don't have that, the one you explore the most often?
Oof well there was The Main Canon™ that was the longest standing on (a story that spans decades of irl time, so literal millennia of in story time, and it's...there is just too much. Atumu wasn't even a main character lmao. I have things saved under the tag Life Story™ for that. It's long long long long loong story.
That's all before I met [] with whom we made a bunch of AUs for our characters to interact because we wanted to. All those stories are now the main canon because I can't experience Atumu any other way now hah, which is kind of sad that his entire being is dedicated to a person(s) who ...has chosen to no longer be in my life.
That's why it's kind of hard for me to share the stories now (in anything but me ranting in tags) bc it almost feels disrespectful. Like half of the story is not mine to tell. And yet, it's...half of it *is* mine to tell. Anyhow.
The Main Canons:
StarTumu Teen AU - Atumu (17) meets Startop (17) in a hospital (Atumu got into a domestic violence related car accident and Startop was there for a suicide attempt). This one spans til they are nearly 30.
StarTumu Foster AU - Atumu (11) and Startop (10.5/11) meet and grow up as foster brothers. This one spans until they are in their early 20s (22-23?).
KingTumu - This starts in ANNNCIENT times (idk maybe like 800 AD or so). Atumu (like 3000 years old by now? no idea; physically appears about 27-30) is a slave and bought by a gorgon King (idk how old King is sorry at least a couple hundred years probably) who is on a Mission™ to try to save the gorgon population from human extermination. Atumu is King's travel companion through the centuries. This one spans until like 1800 AD or so.
Those are the main ones that I'll allude to bc those are the ones that have my heart in a headlock. And if I make art of things, they are likely from those 3 universes.
In the Real Primary Canon...
4. Life Story - The story mostly follows brothers Atemu, Atumu, and Yumi through wild shenanigans in life. Imagine Dr Who/Supernatural but on steroids. They're just...going through life and trying to LIVE and shit happens cuz... well just cuz things happen as the brothers are weird demi-god creatures who are essentially unaware of their pasts (they never become aware). There are interactions with other deities and multiple international governments trying to understand these boys. Yumi just wants to like...settle down and live a normal ass life. Atemu is too daft to form complex thought. Atumu has no purpose in life but to be loyal to his little brother Atemu.
anything I allude to regarding Atumu's siblings are from Life Story. The siblings are also complicated. In the StarTumu AUs, Atumu is also not aware he has siblings because he basically has no memory before age 8 (thanks suppression of traumatic memories!). Even in the beginning of Life Story (many lifetimes ago), basically none of the siblings are aware each other exist. They haven't known of each other's existence for thousands of years. They all believe themselves to be human (don't ask).
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1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
I watched 1990: The Bronx Warriors as part of my exploration of the “Road Warrior Post-Apocalyptic” genre. For the most part, the various imitators and derivatives have been aping the Mad Max franchise. This is the first time I’ve seen “inspiration” principally drawn from the other two establishing films of the genre: Escape from New York and The Warriors. The results are one of the most uninteresting and cheap attempts I’ve seen so far.
In (the then futuristic) year 1990, New York’s Bronx is dominated by crime and declared a No Man’s Land. The police have given up all attempts to bring order to the raving biker gangs who roam the streets. Ann (Stefania Girolami), the 17-year-old heiress to the nefarious Manhattan corporation runs to the lawless wasteland to hide from the responsibilities she will soon inherit. There, she befriends The Riders and their leader, Trash (Marco Di Gregorio). To get the woman back to the boardroom where she belongs, the Manhattan Corporation hires a mercenary named Hammer (Vic Morrow) to do anything it takes.
It begins as a thinly veiled rip-off of John Carpenter’s memorable action film and then turns into a cheaper, lazier, and endlessly duller version of Walter Hill’s cult-classic. You go in assuming this will be a cheap film; the other Post-Apocalyptic adventures didn’t exactly have big budgets. Even so, this is inexcusable. This film is too low-grade to deliver even the mildest form of vehicular carnage, which is a shame because the Warriors’ – I mean the Riders’ – motorcycles look so flimsy you know they’d fly in a million pieces if they hit even a medium-sized pothole. I’m not joking when I say it looks like they bought a bunch of Halloween decorations – on November 1st when they’re heavily discounted- and then glue-gunned them onto the steering wheel of their motorcycles.
The performances are horrible and the actors are made to look even worse by the ADR. Everyone’s all mush-mouthed, and with the home release’s lack of subtitles, you’ll struggle to understand what anyone is saying. Had this plot had any kind of substance or complexity to it, you’d be completely lost. Nonetheless, you keep watching, hoping there will be some cool stunts or hand-to-hand combat scenes to make this effort worth your time. Your hope is in vain.
The only way to draw enjoyment from 1990: The Bronx Warriors is by making fun of it. Even so, it doesn’t have much to offer. It’s agonizingly dull and so obviously devoid of any kind of passion, enthusiasm or effort. The one thing that might bring a smile to your face are some of the characters’ names and the art direction. If it seems as though I’m grasping at straws, I am but how could you not laugh at characters named Hotdog (Christopher Connelly), Witch (Elisabetta Dessy), The Ogre (Fred Williamson), Ice (John Loffredo) and… Paul (Rocco Lero)? Some of the random gangs receive given quirks that make them mildly diverting, such as a group of mimes who perform a coordinated dance, but those add nothing to the story. It’s a flat picture, obviously shot in a run-down neighbourhood. It drains the life out of you.
I suffered through 1990: The Bronx Warriors so you wouldn’t have to. There’s no reason to see this, even if you enjoy the stories it’s shamelessly burglarizing. I didn’t think it could get any worse than Exterminators from the Year 3000, but here we are. To survive these films, I’m going to have to set the bar way lower than expected. This Italian production has not one, but two sequels and I can’t imagine either being any better than this. (On DVD, August 4, 2018)
#1990: The Bronx Warriors#movies#films#movie reviews#film reviews#Enzo G. Castellari#Elisa Livia Briganti#Dardano Sacchetti#Vic Morrow#Christopher Connelly#Fred Williamson#Mark Gregory#1982 movies#1982 films
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