Unplanned Unveilings: Beyonce and Sailor Moon

The person with whom I co-habitate watches a lot of The Nostalgia Critic. I'm not a big fan, but of all the "shows" my room-mate likes on YouTube, its the one I can most tolerate. For those unfamiliar with The Nostalgia Critic (also known as That Guy With the Glasses), he reviews old movies and TV shows. It's rare he has anything positive to say. His earlier works are better, as his reviews over the recent years have become too over-the-top. He now reminds me of Monty Python; sometimes clever, but usually telling the audience "You guys are fucking idiots for watching." In fact, The Nostalgia Critic often directly insults his audience, other times he insults them by repeating the same "joke" in different reviews...such as when he says "Elephant" the Burger King appears amid angelic music, or he hates a movie so much that he tries to kill himself, or he hates a movies bad jokes so much that he laughs loudly and maniacally as he goes on a bizarre rampage or spree. In fact, he used to be funny, now he comes across as nothing more than a loud obnoxious egotistical self-indulgent ass. He would probably claim "Its what my viewers want." He did "retire" the Critic persona in 2012, but brought him back in February 2013.

Anyways, while being semi-subjected to the pompousness that is The Nostalgia Critic reviewing The Last Action Hero, I recognized an outfit famously worn (years after the movie) by Beyonce. Not the first time her Sasha Fierce alter has worn costumes from older movies.

They've got the pentagram and everything

Her famous 2007 robot costume, taken 80 years later straight from the 1927 film Metropolis. In a YouTube video, inappropriately named Reptilians and the Music Industry 2013 (he never once talks about aliens, only satanism) he points out at 34:35 just how planned and symbolic her wearing this suit really is. In Metropolis, a woman named Maria is kidnapped then an evil scientist/doctor (sometimes they seem the same, particularly in films of old) does some Frankenstein-esque body-switching with her and the robot...something to that extent, anyway. The robot  appears to "become" Maria and is made to dance in a nightclub, where her dancing hypnotizes the men. As buddy in the video says "[Beyonce] is doing the same thing that the robot in the movie does!" 

You can skip to 34:35 to see clips from Metropolis

As for The Last Action Hero and The Nostalgia Critic?

You don't even need to watch. This was at "a fashion show" within the 1993 movie. 15 years later, a year after the Maria suit, Beyonce wears the same thing. Nobody seems to have made the connection...until now. Although VC remarked that this suit was also worn in some George Michael video. Most videos of his that I can recall had very little clothing worn, or I confuse them with Weird Al parodies. (Aww, the generation that was brainwashed by a curly haired man with glasses that had a penchant for Hawaiin shirts! We can't even listen to certain songs without hearing Al.)

In 2008, there was a contest to become The Nostalgia Chick. The same year Beyonce wore her Last Action Baphomet suit. One of the runners up, who called herself That Chick with the Goggles, did a brief review on Sailor Moon. Being as I, too, grew up on Sailor Moon, had to watch. I never noticed before, but nearly all of the characters frequently flash the devil horns.

Another one they love to flash is the V sign, which Japanese artists always seem to stick near the eye, which has caught on among both the Japanese public as well as anime fans world-wide. They also seem to do a lot of this 3-V thing, as you'll see below.

A 3-V. 3 fingers, one V, one eye. A lot of symbolism. Not always done beside the eye, as you'll see

Anime characters also love to wink. Sailor Venus was especially fond of it.

They didn't stop the symbolism with their live-action show in Japan, either

I could, and should write an entire article on Sailor Moon. Not so much Beyonce as she's been covered time and again by writers both far greater, and some far worse, than yours truly. Sailor Moon was supposed to make a comeback this year, though its been pushed back now to 2014 or 2015. It'll be interesting to see what they do with it. I know when it came back from hiatus (after execs at Dic freaked out "OMG!!! The lesbians are now coming into the plot!! What do we DO?! Parents won't like this!") the english-dubbed show was destroyed. They replaced good voice-actors with people who should be punched in the throat for "voice acting" at all, they made the lesbian couple-who's relationship was very subtle in Japan-into cousins. Who the hell dedicates a half hour speaking in a husky voice about their cousin?! "I remember when I met Michelle..." Yeah, incest is so much better than lesbian love! To top it all off, the show was now such crap (not that the original English version was ever that great the first time around, but I liked it when I was young)  that I couldn't even watch the character I most anticipated: Sailor Saturn, who had the most interesting story and character arc out of them all. She was even more powerful, period, than all the scouts-including Sailor Moon. Fuck your intolerable voice actresses and incestuous lesbians! Good God, I've heard boys in puberty that sounded better than their replacement Serena! You can compare the three different voice actors they used for Serena here. The fourth one is who they used for singing vocals. The third one should have never been hired! She pretty much single-handedly destroyed the show every time she opened her mouth to speak-which, playing the lead character, was often. She wasn't the only bad voice actor, though. But I'm not writing the actual post...yet!

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