Alright, a friend and I officially decided that it was about time for a brand new holiday because all the old ones we know and love are beginning to get a bit stale. And don't pretend that you haven't noticed it either, I mean Colombus Day, seriously? So our new holiday is going to take place annually on January 6th and you know what it's for?

It's National Celebrate Anne Hathaway Day!

That's right, we're dedicating our holiday to one of the greatest up and coming actresses of our generation. (And besides that I think she's the most beautiful woman in the world ... but Sam disagrees so screw him.) But yeah, mark it on your calenders, reserve January 6th for Anne Hathaway.

What do you do on this day in celebration you ask, well there is a plethora of fun things you can do such as:

-Have a private festival of all her movies. (I recommend Rachel Getting Married and Get Smart)

-Make a love shrine to her. (Unless you're like me and already have one)

-Buy an Anne Hathaway Tree (Similar to a Christmas Tree but not the same.)

-Send her a letter (Could be fanmail or a love letter or whatever)

-Look for her autograph on eBay

-Look for her autograph on Amazon

-Look for her autograph on Overstock (We should be getting paid for advertising all this.)

-Begin merchandising Anne Hathaway's likeness (That's what we're trying to do, at least make t-shirts.)

-Ask for her autograph in the letter you send her

-Try to meet her in person (Not recommended)

-Try to meet her publicist in person (More recommended)

-Try to meet her hair stylist in person (Even more recommended)

-Write a sonnet about your love for Anne Hathaway

-Write a poem about your love for Anne Hathaway

-Write a song about your love for Anne Hathaway (I already did this one.)

-Try to kidnap Anne Hathaway and keep her as your sex slave (Not recommended at all)

-Dress up in an Anne Hathaway costume and go around door to door begging for candy (I doubt you'll get any)

-Go on an Anne Hathaway doll hunt (Similar to an Easter Egg Hung)

-Stay up until midnight and cheer when they announce her next movie

-Drink champagne and pretend that you're drinking it with Anne Hathaway

-Buy a lifesize cardboard cut out of Anne Hathaway to display in your front room

-Kill all the people who don't like Anne Hathaway (Not recommended but I applaud you for doing it.)

-Quote random lines from Anne Hathaway movies

-Quote lines that were never said by Anne Hathaway ever but pretend like they were

-Make your Facebook profile picture that of Anne Hathaway

-Make your Myspace profile picture that of Anne Hathaway

-Join the I <3>

-Become a fan of Anne Hathaway on Facebook (Like me)

-Add Anne Hathaway as a friend on Facebook (Like me)

-Dream about Anne Hathaway when you go to sleep that night

As you can see, there are several things you can do on Anne Hathaway Day this year so please do celebrate, and do tell your friends. Trust me people, we could have the next Christmas on our hands if we do it right. So January 6th be ready.

I love you Anne Hathaway!!! ... in a totally fan-related, non-stalker, sort of way....

The Ani-Dictators Ep1.3: Great Ideas for that Special Someone on Christmas!

Matt gladly awards MICHAEL LINDSEY Hero of The Year Award!!! Congrats Mike!!! LMAO

Hello people and welcome to episode 1.3! Yet again it's another episode of with just Matt and Sam. Sam jumped right into his review of Gangster High a Korean movie from 2006 as Matt went over Kaze no Yojimbo an anime that aired from 2001-2002. Our group review was one of our buried treasures from a couple of episodes ago, Arm of Kannon. As you listen to this episode you will hear various sounds in the background such as mouse clicks. Mainly, because Matt and I aren't pro at editing and we like browsing the internet and having random rants while we make fun of the looks of voice actors lol.

Opening Theme: "Dogfight" by M.O.V.E. (Inital D Fourth Stage opening song)

Ending Theme: "Alones" by Aqua Timez (6th Bleach opening song)

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The Ani-Dictators Ep1.2: Delinquents, Bricks, and Badasses.

FINALLY, a new episode has arrived! Hot damn in this episode we talk about the most hot blooded movie ever, Crows Zero. Matt talks about his most recent detective movie he came across and Sam gives an update on Darker Than Black II. Unfortunately, Zach couldn't be with us for this episode so there isn't a detailed video game section. Just to let you know this episode we reviewed more live-action media than anime this time around. Matt is not sure what he will review next time but FOR SURE Sam will review Gangster High, a Korean movie from 2006.

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Reviews:
Sam - Darker than Black II (first 2-3 episodes)
Matt - Brick
Sam and Matt - Crows Zero 1 and 2

Happy Late Halloween!

Buried Masterpiece: Versus

Well, we've mentioned earlier that we would throw up buried treasures on the site or on our podcast whenever they came up and since it looks like it will be a little while before we actually get another podcast recorded and posted, I figured I'd go ahead and toss this one up there. And yes, not only is it a buried treasure, it's a buried freaking masterpiece.

Alright, let me give you just a little bit of background on this find: last week yours truly and the other hosts of the Ani-Dictators ran over to a used entertainment shop (CDs, books, games, movies, the works) and I stumbled across the kickass cover that you see as the picture for this post, without the director's cut and all that mess, so I asked Sam, our big foreign film guy, if he'd ever heard of it. He said that he hadn't but I was like, 'It's only three bucks for a VHS, why not?' and picked it up.

So for the rest of the week I was too busy with work and other things that are much less important and just now got around to dusting off and hooking up the old VCR. I tossed the movie in and after a little bit of fanagling with the cords I got it to work. All I can say is, 'Wow.'

The movie opens with a scene of a person getting cleaved in half and then a samurai fighting a score of zombies before he gets sliced in half as well. After seeing the cover of the tape, it was a little unexpected that it would start off in the 1500s, but I wasn't too worried. I mean if an opening like that doesn't draw you in, you clearly are not a man. Anyway, I sat down and got comfortable with a little grin on my face, knowing that this would be a great film.

Well, it's the story of two prisoners who escape from a prison compound and wind up in the middle of a demonic portal to the netherealm or somesuch, what really matters is that whoever dies in this forest comes back as a zombie, and not just any zombie, an uberstrong and kickass zombie that can use guns and knives and such. Looks like a handful doesn't it?

That's not even the start.

Not only is our hero, the escapee, facing the many zombies that are running amok in the forest, but he also has to face a gang of total badasses that he just happened to really piss off at the beginning of the movie because he killed one of their members and ran off with a girl the kidnapped. Confusing, yeah I know, but it gets better, I promise.

So anyway, you've got about a half dozen badasses running around in a forest, chasing down another badass who's protecting a girl, with uberzombies trying to kill them all off. Yeah, so if you can't tell, you're in for one hell of a great action movie. Not only is this the basic premise for the first hour, but you also get to watch it shot with a guerilla cam that slides from doubletime to slow motion more than 300, and what's better is it's all filmed on what I believe to be an old Super8, giving it a very 80s independent film look.

All of this is a plus for me, but if you're still not convinced let me add this: I believe that this movie was filmed as just an experiment in sheer badassness. Seriously, everyone in this movie, and I mean everyone, is a total badass capable of giving even Chuck Norris a run for his money. And when these guys start trying to kill each other, it's amazing. Blood everywhere, splattered all over everyone's face that no one bothers to wipe off, massively oversized guns, insane gore, psycho characters, and a whole lot of screaming. There isn't much that this film could've done better, and on the cheap budget that I'm sure it was on, it's was amazing.

The biggest problem I had with this movie was trying to decide whether or not it's trying to be serious, I figured out a little past midway through that it really wasn't trying all that hard to be serious and at that point, the movie got a whole hell of a lot better. There are several moments when you're sort of like, 'Did that guy seriously just do that?' And the answer is yes, the answer is always yes.

Take for example, 'Did that guy just pull that dead guy who was barbed wired to a tree down just so he could take his leather jacket?' The answer, 'Yes, because every badass main character needs a leather jacket and there's only so many ways a person in a forest could obtain one. So yes, he did just pull that dead guy from the tree just for the jacket.'

If that doesn't make you want to see this, I don't know what will.

I will tell you this though, about midway through the plot takes a major change that you sort of don't see coming, not that it's a bad thing or anything like that, you just don't really see it coming. And the ending is rather open but apparently they're in the process of making the sequel as we speak so all I've got to say is, 'Rock on and keep 'em coming.'

Fans of the super gory and manly will fall in love with this film twenty minutes in, fans of Go Nagai will fall in love with this film fifteen minutes in, fans of Japanese cult cinema will have already fallen in love with this film when it first came out. So yes you hotblooded Go Nagai fans and you people who preordered Machine Girl, you need to check this one out.

Basically, I'm saying that no matter who you are, espiecially if you agree with our opinions on the podcast, you need to see this film, or at least put it on your list so that when you walk into an FYE and see the Director's Cut of it on the shelf you'll be able to say, 'Hey, that movie's supposedly totally badass, I think I'll pick it up.'

You won't be disappointed.

9.5 out of 10.

The Ani-Dictators Ep:1.1.5: FYI

Some of you may be sitting at your desktop wondering, 'Why in God's name is the new episode called episode 1.1? Why not episode 14?' Well, I figured I'd go ahead and answer those questions here because I don't think we really did that in the episode, and we should have. Too much outside stimuli for us to cope with I guess.

We are calling the new episode 1.1 because, although it is the same hosts and setup you have grown accustomed to, it is by no means the same podcast. No, we've added so many things and we're changing things continuously, from the addition of the blog, to a new section entitled 'Buried Treasures', to the semi-regular appearance of vidcasts, and most importantly the varying of what we review.

Like I said, the layout of the show will really not change all that much; we'll still have our same order of operations, the same random facts and rants, and our focus will still be anime. However we are diversifying ourselves at the same time in order to give you a better, more fleshed out, podcast. That's why we decided to call it 1.1, because although it's not technically our first episode, it's our first episode in this new format.

Also, from now on the episodes will be 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ... and keep going up until the episode after 1.9, then we'll bounce up to 2.0 and so on. We apologize if any of you were confused, it truly was not our intention. Anyway, looking forward to the new season of shows, more later.

Stay classy people.

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The Ani-Dictators Ep1.1: Code Gayass

We are back bitches, and I mean officially. We plan to come out with new episodes every two weeks, which we plan to stick to. This episode is really long but our quality is much better with a brand new mic which captures us much more evenly. We have added a new section called Buried Treasures, make sure to check it out homies. Our mypodcast site is now our secondary site which will act as our server and our blogger is our primary site. I will post all the episodes on mypodcast.com and then direct link them on a post on blogger. Our blogger will have written reviews as well so make sure to check that out. A new feature on our blogger site is if you click on the anime, manga, other, or buried treasure section it will take you to that information page on MAL (Myanimelist).

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Fallen101 - Matt
Sorrow667 - Sam
Ninjashrub - Zach

Reviews:

Zach - Code Geass R2
Matt - Master Mosquiton
Sam - Metal Armor Dragonar
Group - Darker than Black

The Ani-Dictators Ep13: Shit Happens

Reviews:

Sam - Love Hina
Matt - Voltron
Zach - Transformers
Group - Beast Wars

NOTE: These episodes are re-releases so expect to hear old news about how we are so excited about the Iron Man movie coming out. I think we record these back in 07-08. Hope you like our comeback! Make sure to check out episode 1.1, its our NEWEST show. Our email has changed and we no longer have a myspace just as a reminder.

Email: ani.dictators@gmail.com

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