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So it was literally more than twenty years ago that I first put one of my dumbest creations on the internet: The Steven Seagal Movie Generator.
Like I seriously publicly launched that dumb thing back in 2004, and for those of you who were unaware, it assembles a title, cast and plot of a fake Steven Seagal movie from elements of his (real) bad films.
I honestly got the idea from a former-friend, who in high school wrote a comedic piece about how you could mash up the titles of Seagal films in the weird underground "newspaper" that got handed out for a few years. But I took it a few steps further, and made a whole thing.
Mostly it just sat there though, a thing I made once and never went back to. I followed it up with the Sci-Fi Channel Movie Generator (later retitled the Syfy Movie Generator) in 2008. I spent more time on that one, doing a later design update that made the "Syfy" movies show up on a fake DVD back cover.
But the Steven Seagal generator just sort of sat there, untouched.
And Steven Seagal kept making (terrible) movies with (predictable) titles. Like a lot. But the generator still only spat out movies culled from the nineties and early 2000s, ignoring all of his new stuff. There was a whole library of awful movies that just weren't in there, and it made the generator feel less relevant.
So, uh, I went and did something about that today.
First off, I redesigned the page. Now it looks like the back of a VHS tape box. Then I loaded the elements of about twenty-five additional films into the generator. And that was harder than I thought it would be, since some of the films are so obscure that they're not well documented. I literally had to do some deep research to figure out a lot of the basic plot details that are now in the generator.
But I did it.
And it's done.
And the generator is now fully loaded.
It's still useless and dumb, though.
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Is Ruth asexual/aromantic, or is this a joke about a nerd girl we know that everyone asked out and no one ever succeeded? Both?
Both. Mostly the former, but both.
Does Troy Harrington do any voices for that series?
It’s not on his resume. 😛
So what company owns the dubbing rights to this series?
Victory Sunstar has the rights, but they’re currently in bankruptcy.
Magical Soldier Princess Z is a remake of Galaxy Fighter Hiromi, which was a better series, but you kids won’t watch it because it isn’t CGI. At least I was able to replace my Arctic fansubs.
Actually you’re thinking of Magical Starlight Empress Z, which is totally different.
Magic Soldier Princess Z is an obscure series from the late 70s. It was originally released stateside as the bastardized dub “Soldiers of the Sun” (where it got combined with the unrelated series “Lost Whispers” and “Destiny Police” which was weird) in 1982 by Silver Rhythm. Silver Rhythm lost the rights to MSPZ in 2002, when Victory Sunstar snatched it up. Victory Sunstar put out a DVD release in 2004. It didn’t sell well, so it went out of print in 2007 — and with Victory Sunstar’s legal and financial problems there doesn’t appear to be any chance of a rerelease.
(As an odd coda, Silver Rhythm has tried to release a version of Soldiers of the Sun WITHOUT the MSPZ footage… And it doesn’t really work)
And Kelli and Sally were the *worst* names to use for those characters. Ugh! Thank the gods for the mute button.
I just hate Captain/General Rayburn. I mean they made General Yamazaki from Destiny Police an older version of Tanaka from MSPZ. As if it made any sense to combine those two characters to bridge the “generations”
What, did the guy just happen to grow his left arm back somehow?
You know, when I was a kid watching it, it always weirded me out that the character designs changed so drastically. When I found out they weren’t meant to be one cartoon, it made more sense.
My heart rate still doubles when I hear the theme song, though.