Fox struck gold in 2016 with Deadpool, and it looks like they want to ride the momentum. The studio has added two untitled Marvel projects to its slate, scheduled for October 6, 2017 and January 12, 2018. These dates come with the news that Gambit has also been pulled from its scheduled release date of October 6, 2016.
Gambit is meant to star Channing Tatum, who has been treating the film as a passion project, similar to Ryan Reynolds’ treatment of Deadpool. Yet, the film has been plagued with recent problems, with Tatum almost dropping out completely. Its original director, Rupert Wyatt, left the project last year.
Tatum representing Gambit alongside Fox’s other superhero stars. Photo courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.
It should come as no surprise that the film was pulled, since it has yet to begin filming. Still, this news raises a slew of questions about the future of Gambit. It is merely delayed? Will it ever get made?
Fox’s next superhero blockbuster, X-Men: Apocalypse, will be released May 27, 2016.
Fuller House dropped on Netflix this past Friday. It’s everything that it’s predecessor (Full House ABC 1987 – 1995) was. The traditional multi-camera show shot like pretty much every sitcom was in the 1980s and early 90s, complete with laugh track. Fuller House is a shameless retelling of the original story only with the kids now as the grownups. The oldest daughter DJ (Candace Cameron) is the widowed mom of three boys and her sister and best friend move in with her, in the same house. (Kind of how Star Wars The Force Awakens mostly retelling of the original Star Wars trilogy with a new younger more diverse cast.) Of course, to update into this century, there is a bit more sexual innuendo, and one of the characters speaks Spanish. They even try to be a bit “meta” as they talk about the Olsen twins and how they are too rich to act in stuff like this these days.
Let’s make no mistake about it. Full House wasn’t Seinfeld, Frasier, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, The Office. To compare with more contemporary ABC multi-camera sitcoms, Fuller House isn’t even on par with The Middle, The Goldbergs or Blackish. DJ in the gang aren’t even the same room as Netflix’s other original comedies like Kimmy Schmidt and Master of None. In fact, Fuller House should never even be spoken in the same sentence as those two shows.
But here’s the thing, it’s not trying to be any of those shows.
Fuller House sets the bar low. The plots are easy to see coming. They go for simple laughs based on corn and nostalgia. Certainly not laugh out loud funny, but you will smile or giggle from time to time. The three leads: Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber all do a fine job bringing their characters up to 2016. Of course, no pun is too obvious. This is the type of show where they have a Bollywood dance number and aren’t trying to be ironic. In other words, put your mind on hold because Fuller House is not high-brow humor. It’s cheesier than a cheese sandwich made with cheese instead of bread. Of course, in a world where we have presidential candidates insulting each other on a 24-hour news cycle, it might not be such a bad thing to munch on a mental cheese sandwich once in a while.
Side Note: John Stamos and Lori Loughlin have aged very well. Loughlin still looks like she could still play Black Canary in a retooling of Birds of Prey.
22 year-old supercutter and video essayist Jorge Luengo, who lives in Madrid, says his most recent video, The Kubrick Gaze – posted on Vimeo on February 26 – is “the craziest video I’ve done and has nothing in common with any other of my video’s editing”. See for yourself:
Before this video, his supercut Pixar’s Tribute to Cinema went viral when it hit the internet about a month ago and has gathered over 1.3 million views to this day. It consists of almost five minutes of Pixar movie scenes which look the same as some of the most recognized live-action films in the history of cinema.
Luengo states that the actual editing of his supercuts doesn’t take as long, because “the process [of constructing a supercut video] consists basically in watching a film and finding some constants or leitmotivs which grab my attention, and they become an idea to edit a video.” For example, another one of his works is based on Christopher Nolan’s focus on his characters’ hands. After finding out the idea he wants to work on, what takes him the longest time is watching the films and analyzing almost every frame to catalog what goes in his final product. Luengo explains, “In regards to the Pixar video, it has been the one that took me the longest [time to make] since I had to watch all Pixar films, many of which I’d seen when I was younger, but obviously, my film culture was not the same then.”
And watching those Disney and Pixar films as a little kid was what sparked his interest, but it wasn’t until he discovered Tim Burton’s Batman when he realized the power of movies beyond animation. He also became his favorite superhero: “He’s the most purely human of them all. Since childhood I have been a big fan of him.”
How does one go from loving film to editing supercuts? Luengo, in particular, says he’s attracted to evading himself from reality when watching movies and being able to empathize with the characters, but he also loves the technicalities of the making of films. He went to film school and practiced editing in his spare time, emulating the kind of supercut videos he’d see around the internet. “I love disengaging movies, and doing these type of videos, you tend to look a lot more for the cuts in each film”. This is why he likes being surprised by movies while at the same time paying attention to the photography, styling techniques and the editing, which is for the most part the focus of supercut videos.
And in seeing those videos online, he found authors he admires like Rishi Kaneira and Jacob T. Swinney. Luengo cites the latter’s First and Final Frames video as one of his favorites. But apart from directors like Nolan, Tarantino and Hitchcock, featured in several of his videos, the young Spanish editor claims video essayist Kogonada was one of his first inspirations to start creating supercuts. Many of Kogonada’s brilliantly crafted work has been featured in Vimeo’s “Staff Picks” channel. One of his most viewed videos is based on Kubrick’s One-Point Perspective technique in constructing shots, with over 2.2 million views (only second to Wes Anderson // Centered), which ties-in back to Luengo’s The Kubrick Gaze.
It doesn’t come as a surprise that one of Luengo’s favorite movies is Boyhood, which was edited across multiple years of filming. It was included in his Top 10 Movies in 2014 video, along with others like Inside Llewyn Davis, Wild Tales and Her. About some films he enjoyed in 2015, he cites Mad Max: Fury Road, Inside Out, The Revenant, Sicario, Ex-Machina, It Follows, Inherent Vice and Star wars: The Force Awakens. And mentions new movies from Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood as the ones he’s looking forward to seeing this year, along with more commercially acclaimed like Suicide Squad and Jason Bourne, especially because the latter’s saga overall “has some of the best editing ever done”.
Jorge Luengo has edited videos exclusively featured on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel in Spain, collaborates with One Perfect Shot… What’s next for him? He says he’d like to edit a new Emmanuel Lubezki video, different from the tribute that first gathered international attention, “centered in something more specific from his work”. He also muses about making a video relating to “one of my favorite directors: Steven Spielberg”, who he hasn’t covered yet. Spielberg uses many interesting, rich-in-content filming techniques like framing characters with a foreground object or simultaneously showing the character’s reaction and the scene they’re reacting to through a window, glass, or even a reflection in the eye… which a supercut video could explore successfully.
Whether you’re interested in supercuts, movie technique compilations and clever edits or you simply love film, don’t forget to have a look at Jorge Luengo’s Vimeo page for more of his work.
Academy Award Nominated Films Wrestle With The WWE!
Ahead of the 88th Academy Awardsthis Sunday, WWE gives this year’s nominees the ‘Wrestlemania‘ treatment with brilliant movie posters inspired by wrestlers of the past & present! The results are hilarious homages to the best movies of year with wrestling references. With puns like DX-Machina & The Kevinant, how could you go wrong?
Below are some of the best of the bunch!
J.O.B.S
-When you do a “job” in wrestling, you are basically there to make the other guy look good & eventually lose the match. In the late 90’s, there was a group of misfits named The J.O.B. squad filled with the best of the worst in the company. WWE gives the beloved group a shoutout with their parody of 2015’s ‘Steve Jobs‘.
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Mean Dean: Lunatic Road Dean Ambrose is known as The Lunatic within WWE. He has quite the aggressive side much like Max from 2015’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road‘. Also featured on the poster is ‘Diva’ Becky Lynch; the Irish born wrestler is as bad-ass as Fury Road’s leading lady Furiosa.
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The Monday Night Wars: The Franchise Awakens -Inspired by 2015’s biggest film, The Monday Night Wars were a battle between two massive feuding empires; Vince McMahon’s WWF vs. Ted Turner’s WCW. ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is the most recent return to the Star Wars universe where two massive empires fight for dominance; the Jedi vs. The Sith. The poster features WCW’s Goldberg as a Jedi with The Undertaker obviously playing the role of a Sith lord. McMahon does have similarities to Snoke from Star Wars as well.
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Check out the rest of the posters by clicking here & don’t forget to share your favorite wrestling inspired movie poster!
Odds are you may have heard of Marvel’s Runaways, but you may not be familiar with what the comic is actually about. The general plug for the team is that a gang of kids find out their parents are a super-villain team called The Pride, trying to end the world. The kids steal weapons & unlock powers in their attempt to strike back against their parents, and since they left their parents, they’ve been “running away” ever since – from The Pride, aliens, and even S.H.I.E.L.D. It’s a series that has been considered for a show or a movie before, but nothing has come to fruition. 2016 is the perfect time to change that.
Marvel has built such a strong base with its movie and television show universe, but right now there’s nothing quite like Runaways. The comics did a wonderful job of blending serious and comedic elements, creating a Breakfast-Club-Teen-Titans-Kick-Ass-type comic series. All of the characters are also able to exist outside of the major properties – The Pride doesn’t need to contend with The Avengers, Xavin doesn’t have to be a Super Skrull alien, and Molly Hayes could just be a Von Strucker HYDRA experiment. It’d also be nice if Marvel was willing to set up a superhero team that didn’t live in New York, as almost every hero resides there currently. They also have some glowing recommendations and co-signs, from Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn, and Avengers’s Joss Whedon (who also wrote a couple Runaways comics).
The other major pull for the Runaways is it would give Marvel and entirely different-looking team. Marvel has a bit of a problem with diversity, as many of their major heroes have been straight white guys named Chris. But Runaways is a team that has racial, gender, and even sexual diversity. The team has more girls than boys, has kids of different backgrounds and ages, and the team also has a dinosaur. A DINOSAUR.
Now Runaways has spent some time in developmental limbo. There have been talks of both a movie and a television series for years, but so far, nothing has really come to fruition. There is the worry that a Runaways movie might not intrigue enough viewers. Marvel’s been keeping busy with their movie schedule, trying to pump out however many movies needed to build up to Infinity War. But Marvel has shown that they’re trying new things with their grittier Netflix shows, like Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and the upcoming Luke Cage show. Runaways is the kind of series that has had a lot of their own stories & lore that it could work as a running television show. To make another comparison, the show could thematically be a cross between The Goonies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (another wonderful piece of work written by Joss Whedon). It’s a new take on superheroes that could freshen up the studio’s releases. While our Marvel-canon Spider-Man will be of high school age, it would be nice to see a superhero show that could be more relatable to a teenage audience, while still contending with the dark adult Netflix shows.
Marvel’s certainly been keeping themselves busy, what with all the different projects they have to juggle, but their line-up could use something a bit different. Runaways would showcase so many different things that the previous movies/tv shows have yet to demonstrate. And while it wouldn’t be animated, you can’t discount the beloved DC Young Justice and Teen Titans programs. Runaways has a lot going for it, and a lot of it could make for a really entertaining show.
A few weeks ago, tech giant Apple refused to create a tool for bypassing phone restrictions that would aid the FBI in an attempt to gain information about one of the attackers of the San Bernardino massacre. This decision is now being taken to court and even has the potential to reach the Supreme Court. Luckily for Apple, they are not alone in the battle. Microsoft announced that it file an amicus brief in the near future in an attempt aid Apple in the case against the U.S. government to help protect what they view as an intolerable act of intrusion of privacy. Other billion dollar companies such as Google and Facebook also announced their support for Apple’s decision and their concern about the security of personal information and online privacy.
Apple’s choice to help their customers remain anonymous is a risky and courageous move, especially in the wake of increasing tensions and hostility between the U.S. and terrorist organizations such as ISIS. While some may view this as a foolish and a potentially dangerous decision, others view this as a breath of fresh air for a major company like Apple refusing to release private information in a world where online anonymity and security has become such and issue. To many, this is a case in which the options are aiding one’s country between supporting individual freedom and rights. However you look at this, it is clear that the ruling on this case could have a gargantuan effect on internet privacy and the United State’s ability to look into one’s personal life through the use of technology. Amidst all the confusion and chaos in this case, one thing is absolute: It is becoming increasingly clear that Apple is not going down without a fight. And it appears the allies of the technology industry are here to aid the battle.
Goose IPA, although technically not a craft beer having sold its stock to Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2011, does have craft brewing roots. So, I bent my own rules a bit, as I’ve done before, to make an exception for this hoppy beer. I should also note that this is the first beer I’ve reviewed that was originally made by an American brewery, Goose Island Brewing—formerly Fulton Street Brewery—from Chicago, Illinois. Don’t feel bad, guys. We can’t all be Canadian.
First Sip
If it looks like an IPA, tastes like an IPA, and honks like an IPA, it’s an IPA. This beer goes after my bitterness receptors making my jaw clench and my mouth pucker. Beware: if you’re not a fan of bitter beers, this will take some getting used to. Goose IPA’s medium carbonation level allows its exceptional bitterness to hit the taste-buds hard.
Last Sip
For IPA lovers, this is a great beer to pick up. Others less inclined toward bitter flavours–those who generally drink lagers–probably won’t appreciate this beer’s bold flavour. As with most of the beers I review, I recommend drinking Goose IPA out of a glass, preferably a clear one so that you can enjoy its honey-amber colour.
Other Comments
Don’t goose yourself, please enjoy responsibly
If you’re looking for a complex IPA, this one doesn’t have too much to offer. Although Goose IPA does have notes of citrus, as most IPA’s do, its predominant flavour is bitter. Unlike some other IPA’s that achieve a unique flavour, this one is pretty straight ahead. That being said, Goose IPA’s bitterness level is excellent, likely a result of using high quality ingredients such as Goose Island Brewing’s hops: fifty different types of hops are fastidiously produced at Elk Mountain Farms in Northern Idaho for Goose Island. But remember, this incredibly tasty IPA is a bit stronger than usual, weighing in at 5.9% ABV, so don’t enjoy too many of these in one sitting or you may end up honking yourself.
Hugh Jackman and Taron Egerton soar into theaters this weekend in Eddie The Eagle, a liberally dramatized true story of British Olympian Eddie Edwards. Even though this film is rife with predictable elements and cliche characters, Eddie The Eagle is an underdog story people will adore.
The 1988 Winter Olympics were the motherlode of underdog stories. The Jamaican Bobsled team reach international acclaim during these games. However, the person that caught everyone off guard was a frumpish looking British athlete named Eddie Edwards. Eddie Edwards caught the world’s attention for being the first British Ski Jumper since 1922. In a field where everyone was out for glory, Edwards was just out for personal satisfaction. Edwards knew he had no shot at winning, and he was okay with it. His attitude was the living embodiment of the Olympic spirit and fans worldwide loved him.
Edwards is played by Taron Egerton. Egerton gained notoriety last year for his role as the tough kid turned secret agent in Kingsman: The Secret Service. He puts himself through a remarkable physical transformation to play the far-sighted Edwards. Egerton contorts his face into any array of grimaces and squints behind owlish glasses. Awkward both socially and physically, Edwards is nonetheless determined to compete in the Olympics.
Of course, in any sports related Hollywood dramatization, we always have that coach who scowls and doesn’t believe in the athlete at first; that part is played by Hugh Jackman. Jackman plays a fictional American, who ends up coaching because Edwards will not stop asking him. Jackman embodies every cliché ever seen in a coach on screen. There’s even part of a “Karate Kid ” like montage complete with a synthesizer-heavy musical score. What’s remarkable is that none of these cliché ridden elements detract from the film.
The reason for this is Sean Macaulay’s screenplay, which puts Edwards innocence and can-do spirit in the spotlight. Instead of sitting through the movie and bemoaning the predictability of the film, we are instead amazed everytime Edwards gets back up after wrecking on the slopes. Rather than rolling our eyes when we see Egerton and Jackman go through a cheesy montage scene, we hold our breath as Eddie ascends the 90m ski jump to compete in the event for the first time during the Olympic Final. Even though this film has all the elements of a movie that normally would be eviscerated, the sheer likeability of its indomitable hero plus Egerton’s winning portrayal of him compensate for these issues.
The director Dexter Fletcher also does a wonderful job capturing the beauty and danger of ski jumping. He manages to capture moments of sheer sportsmanship and sheer terror when a jumper experiences a catastrophic wipe-out. One cannot undersell how important this was to the overall film because, to understand just how amazing Edwards accomplishments were, it is essential to know how dangerous ski jumping truly is.
Eddie The Eagle will leave audiences full of good will and bursting with pride after watching this soaring comeback story.
Eddie the Eagle
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Taron Egerton, Jo Hartley, Christopher Walken, Edvin Endre, Tim McInnerny
The penultimate episode of the second season of Agent Carter. Let’s see what happened! Part two of this week’s Agent Carter two-parter, “A Little Song and Dance,” started off in a dream of Peggy’s. The dream starts out in black and white. Peggy is talking to her dead brother, Michael. Unexpectedly, this monochromatic blast from the past ramps up pretty quickly into a full-blown song and dance number featuring most of the main characters. The lyrics of the song demand that Peggy end her love triangle and choose between Dr. Wilkes and Chief Sousa. Shortly after these revealing lyrics, though, we see that Peggy and Jarvis are actually tied up in the back of a truck: Agent Carter is understandably upset with Mr. Jarvis who risked all of their lives in a vain attempt at avenging his wife’s injury by trying to kill Whitney Frost in cold blood. We also see Samberley, Sousa, and Thompson get picked up by two of Vernon Masters’s thugs. Thompson pulling a triple-cross is able to convince Masters’s thugs that he’s working with them and demands that the two thugs take Sousa and Samberley hostage.
Agent Carter and Mr. Jarvis escape from the back of the truck by way of a few shoulder slams and Peggy’s “hotwire.” Their civil jabs at one another escalate quickly into a full-fledged pithing contest wherein they both say things they’ll regret, including: “ … how come everyone around you dies?” from Jarvis and “ … you go home to another man’s mansion,” from Peggy. All in all, neither are at their best, but some of it’s forgiven when Jarvis admits that his wife can never have children due to complications from her gunshot wound.
Meanwhile, in the lead mob car, Whitney Frost and Joseph Manfredi seek to coerce Dr. Wilkes into cooperating by threatening Peggy’s life while Wilkes begs to be left alone, so that he can avoid hurting anyone with his Zero Matter powers. It gets worse for all parties, especially the thug Manfredi murders for allowing Carter and Jarvis to escape, when they find the back of the truck empty. And, before too long the truck has circled back and located the bickering do-gooders.
Peggy plays possum and then beats up the thugs that were sent to recapture her and Jarvis. Any time Agent Carter gets to beat up some thugs I’m happy. Her rejoinder to one thug’s “Oh crap,” though was particularly well executed. Having taken control of the situation, Peggy and Jarvis leave the two thugs with a canteen and Peggy directs them to the nearest beach. That done, they climb in the truck and speed off.
Things aren’t going well for Dr. Wilkes. Restrained in Joseph Manfredi’s waste management facility and literally being poked and prodded by Whitney Frost who wants Dr. Wilkes’s Zero Matter, Jason’s pleas to be taken to an uninhabited area fall on deaf ears as his chest is punctured by a very large syringe.
Back at SSR’s LA branch Thompson convinces Masters to let Samberley and Sousa live, also convincing Masters that the prudent course is to attempt to kill Whitney Frost with the gamma cannon, which the team used to close the Zero Matter rift in the last episode. After a meeting, the team decides that Thompson should meet with Frost in order to buy time while they complete repairs on the gamma cannon, intended to be used on Frost. Thompson’s motives become unclear, though, when he tells Frost of the plan to use the gamma cannon on her—a quadruple-cross?
As the team rolls out with the gamma cannon, Thompson and Masters apparently en route to destroy Whitney Frost, Agent Carter and Chief Sousa are unable to start their car. They appear to have been double-crossed by Vernon Masters. In fact, and as the two soon figure out, they’re being quadruple-crossed by Chief Thompson. It’s quickly decided that Samberley must build a gamma bomb detonator jammer to stop Chief Thompson’s plan to destroy Whitney Frost—and the arguably innocent Dr. Wilkes in the process.
We’re treated to a touching scene between Ana (Lotte Verbeek) and Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy) in Ana’s hospital room: she demands that Edwin help Peggy. She also demands to know what Edwin is hiding from her.
Sousa, Samberley, and Carter are experiencing technical difficulties with the jammer when Peggy decides there’s no more time and attempts to save Dr. Wilkes on her own. Peggy’s attempt to save Wilkes doesn’t amount to much: Wilkes locks himself inside the building and demands that Peggy save herself. Meanwhile, Jack Thompson executes his quadruple-cross on Vernon Masters, leaving Masters at Frost’s mercy while also leaving the gamma bomb in the same room as Frost. Thompson’s attempt to detonate the gamma bomb, which he hopes will kill Masters and Frost—a quintuple-cross?—is thwarted by the now functioning detonator jammer that Samberley designed. In a tense moment, Thompson demands that Samberley deactivate the jammer at gunpoint. Samberley does so with little hesitation. But, just before the gamma bomb goes off we see Dr. Wilkes barge in on Frost and Masters. He’s in no talking mood and releases his Zero Matter store all over Frost and Masters. Cliffhanger? Check. I’ll see you next week after the season finale.
My Critique
I thought this was a pretty good season finale cliffhanger. It’s too bad that they had to make this part two of the second two-parter. I think this episode could’ve probably stood on its own pretty well. Although the song and dance number were pretty over the top, I thought it was sensible to have a bit like this be used for a dream sequence that a character from the ’40s is having. Some good bits, some good tension, and a cliffhanger.
The attempts to adapt a Video Game into a series or movie hasn’t yielded the best results. Watch any of the video game adaptations by Director Uwe Boll and this point is proven pretty effectively. Unfortunately, when anime has tried to make their own shows based on games, the results haven’t fared much better. Often though instead of delivering a truly terrible adaptation which fans can mock, the result is a bland and forgettable movie or TV series.
What follows isn’t a list of the worst Animes based on Video Games but instead shows which didn’t take any risks, don’t deliver anything essential for fans of the franchise, and really come off as just “meh.”
1. F-Zero: GP Legends
Sure, the YouTube clip of Captain Falcon dying in the final episode as he Falcon Punches a world is cool but what else does it offer? Not much for fans of F-Zero to get excited about. Instead of making it about racing, the show made Captain Falcon some kind of light being who was fighting Black Shadow who was evil and you have to ask if the creators forgot this game was originally about racing.
2. Devil May Cry
A series where main character Dante takes demon related incidents while using his cool powers and weapons to solve the cases should be a recipe for a must see show. Sadly, Dante only uses his sword and twin guns and none of rest of the vast arsenal from the different games and doesn’t even use his devil powers until the last episode. It’s not really worth the wait when he finally uses it.
3. Star Ocean EX
A show to look at the expansive universe of the Star Ocean franchise sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, this anime doesn’t properly tell a complete story and 5 drama CDs (audio stories featuring the original cast) had to be released to give the show a proper ending. Whenever additional media is needed to finish telling your story, then you know something is wrong.
4. Blue Dragon
You can’t blame Japan for wanting to try a formula which has worked so many times before. Adding the character designs of Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama to an RPG was what made the Dragon Quest franchise incredibly successful. Neither the game nor this anime really caught on with fans in America and no more installments have been announced to the franchise. Best to just let this sleeping dragon lie.
5. Ragnarok the Animation
There was a brief period where the MMORPG game Ragnarok was starting to gain some traction in America. At the tail end of its popularity this series came out. It didn’t help to add to the games populating but didn’t really hinder it either. It just gave a generic story of a team fighting monsters which only hardcore fans will insist is worth watching.
6. Samurai Showdown: The motion picture
Fighting games really don’t make the best anime movies. For every Street Fight II: The Animated Movie which gets made, there is a Tekken movie to remind us to be wary. Samurai Showdown doesn’t really do much but have the different characters from this neglected (there hasn’t been a new game in close to a decade) franchise gather together to fight Ambrosia, a generic God of destruction.
7. Viewtiful Joe
The first Viewtiful Joe game was a classic but didn’t get as much financial success as the developers would have hoped. The anime fares about the same, telling the story of the first game but takes 51 episodes to tell the whole thing but really didn’t inspire others to pick up a copy of any of the games. Considering this show was longer than the entire playtime of both games combined, can you really blame them?
8. Bomberman Jetters
The popular game about a character who loves to blow things up did get his own anime. The show starred the titular Bomberman, called White Bomberman (as there are multiple bomber characters in the show) working with an intergalactic peacekeeping force known as the Jetters. Together they fought the Hige-Hige bandits with a basic “monster of the week” formula and really didn’t win people over. It never even got a DVD release despite broadcasting on Cartoon Network.
9. Wild Arms: Twilight Venom
Each Wild Arms game tells the story of a different group of individuals who each come together using the accent weapons known as ARMS to fight evil. The anime showcases a character called Sheyenne Rainstorm, a man capable of using ARMS who has been put in the body of a 10 year old boy. The entire series features Sheyenne trying to track down his body by getting hints of body shaped treasures. The item specific concept mixed with the less than gripping mysteries makes this show easily forgotten.
10. Power Stone
The popular Dreamcast fighting game did indeed get a cult following as being one of the best games for the system. The anime didn’t receive nearly as much attention. It started one of the fighters Edward Falcon going around and gathering the different Power Stones in an effort to save the world. Considering the license has never been rescued for a re-release it’s safe to say the anime wasn’t a must see show.
of None. In fact, Fuller House should never even be spoken in the same sentence as those two shows. 
