Well, Paris Hilton will be getting her own animated show...

No, you don't, but you'd hope that if Stan Lee is working on it, she'd turn into someone respectable. It's not like it hasn't been done before. Saint Augustine lead a life of debauchery...he even had a sex tape, if memory serves...and he turned his life around.



Now there's an image.
 
John Lithgow? I don't think he's struggling for work. I think he's just doing a lot of theatre work, so you don't see him doing too many movies or TV shows much anymore.
 
Jesus... this is what I mean whwn I say that people who make cartoons like this don't care about animation at all, and yet it gets greenlit.

I makes me frggin' sick.

Stan Lee, please stick to comic books, your ruining my already crappy bread and butter here.
 
Yeah, I think many would agree that American animation has gone off the deep end. No decent cartoon idea on a large scale has come out of the US since the 50's, apart from some movies.

Okay what I said is not true but I'm pretty disappointed to always have to look towards Japan to find something good nowadays. Most of their shows are inaccessible to me so that's a pain in the ass. I plan to study there in university mostly just to be able to watch Japanese tv because there's nothing good in English I haven't seen.

Oh another thing I wanted to say is that the Golden Age of animation in the US was in mid-2oth century and in Japan it is still going.
 
Pfft. There's just as much crappy anime as there is crappy USAnimation. I agree that there aren't a lot of good cartoons on right now, but I get tired of people treating anime like it's our savior and what comes from Japan is automatically superior to anything the US or any other country has ever done. You can't generalize an entire genre of entertainment by just 4 or 5 shows; there are literally thousands of shows out there, each of them aimed at a different crowd and made by different production teams. Saying "All USAnimation is crap" is like saying "All books are crap" or "All movies are crap". It's a ridiculous, biased statement that's absurd to the point of being funny.

Sorry to be so harsh, but it bothers me how some people, on the internet especially, worship anime just because it's anime. A show should be judged by the quality of its' content, not by its' country of origin.
 
Firstly I admit I was rash in generalizing all American and Japanese animation, that's because I was in the ticked off zone. But I do believe that there's not one good American show in production NOW and those that used to be good have JTS and are no longer that good (like Family Guy, The Simpsons, Southpark, Spongebob, every CN show that hasn't been killed by the network etc.).

Also I think USAnimation is going back to the ways of 70's with budget-cutting when it comes to framerate and music. Yes, anime never had a good rep when it comes to framerate, but at least they're not getting any worse in that department and US cartoons are. Also in Japan they spend heaps more money on music then in the US when it comes to cartoons. Another thing is there are definitely more adult-focused cartoons in Japan then in the US which don't solely rely on toilet humor and celebrity references.

I just don't see a comparable level of awesomness in American cartoons compared to anime in any individual project on a large scale, any more. I hope that puts it more decently.
 
I agree. I like anime just as much as the rest of you, but they produce just as much crap as we do in the states. I could never understand the world wide phenomenon that is 'Pokemon'. There are probably two, or three anime shows i could name that deserve way more recognition than 'Pokemon', but it would probably go in one ear, and out the other. Anime may take more risks than we do, but all of it is not better some of our best cartoons.
 
Shouldn't somebody be making sure Mr. Lee is taking his Alzheimer's meds and changing his Depends, rather than letting him develop shows like this? In fact, they could probably come up with better show concepts simply by mining the contents of his fully-loaded adult diapers!
 
I'm better off doing a Hara-Kiri then of to watch this disgrace. Stan Lee must've smoken some abymsal drugs to his career when he was being asked to do this project, Paris Hilton is America's answer to the worst actress in the stakes of Hollywood, and hope to god that this cartoon will never ever be surpassive to such like Celebrity Deathmatch or Robot Chicken. Because if it does, then there should be a day that she will wind up sleeping with the fishes, and we'll all be celebrating like Christmas...that will include laughing our asses off during the pardon words.
 
I don't know if I mentioned this before, but cartoons like this proves that no matter who you are, but so long as you're famous, you can easily get a cartoon greelit.

Stripperella, My Dad the Rock Star, and this new Paris Hilton show is proof of that.
 
Pokemon is a kid's show. People trying to lump it into the whole that is "anime" would be like me comparing Family Guy to Dora the Explorer. It doesn't work, so please-- stop.

As for Stan Lee, maybe this is just confirmation that all the good ideas WERE from Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby after all! :p
 
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