#three eras

[grishamanimationstudios102]

There are three eras that separate the number of seasons for The Smurfs (1981).

Seasons 1-4 (pre-Smurflings era)

This season is considered the best by most Smurf fans because of its exciting adventures and dark atmosphere. Even when Baby Smurf came into the picture, he didn't take the spotlight away as much and had a few episodes of his own. Johan and Peewit had their own episodes too, but with the Smurfs shoehorned into the plot for each episode because the executives demand it. This was when the show was at its peak, before it was ruined to please focus test groups.

Season 5-8 (post-Smurflings era)

This is where the show started to decline gradually. Three Smurfs were de-aged into kids and a new female Smurfling joins the cast. Puppy is also added to appeal to the kids' demographic. To affect the change, Hanna-Barbera was forced to tone down the dark elements and made the conflicts sillier and more juvenile than truly frightening as before. Though this didn't stop them from having an occasional dark episode every now and then. The reception was pretty mixed (whether the new set of characters were a good addition or not), compared to the first four seasons of the show.

Season 9 (time travel era)

Best known as the steep decline of the show, where the basic premise was shifted to that of time traveling. Several fan favorites were eliminated and seventeen Smurfs were chosen to travel through several different time periods. This is what most Smurf fans consider as a "jump the shark" moment. The villains were replaced with descendant doppelgangers of themselves, referencing Biff Tannen from Back to the Future. At this point, fans lost interest in the show and was cancelled afterwards. The Smurfs soon disappeared from animation for a long time.

[wacomtx]

Written and recorded over Labor Day weekend of 2020 in Christian Fields' Evanston apartment for Jay Meyers' Motion Picture "Three Eras" soundtrack. Recorded using Ableton Live, Arturia soft-synths and good ole geetar running direct. Background vocals by Sarah "Shiny" Fields. We're all going to die and that's alright.

We're All Going to Die is the official music video for feature film, Three Eras, loosely based off of Buster Keaton's Three Ages. Three Eras stars wonderdumb/wacomtx founders Chris Kerr and Jay Meyers along with Mark Meyers and K.C. Mackey. We're All Going to Die plays to the theme of the movie and strikes a chord to current sentiments in modern America. Shot on Iphone 11, edited in FCPX with a VHS transfer at 4:3 ratio, 480p. Coffin made by H Schenck.For more music from Christian visit: https://ccfields.bandcamp.com/

[phillyswift]

the saga continues. happy national cat day from me and pumpkin!! 😻❤️ @taylorswift

[fantastica-daily]

Three Eras (2022) Movie Review

Three Eras is a lo-fi independent comedy inspired by film pioneer and vaudeville icon Buster Keaton, who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in his first feature film in 1923, called Three Ages. Almost 100 years later (actually 99… so close—just like Betty White!) brothers Jay and Mark Meyers have released their own biting satire on the never-changing human condition as shown in prehistoric times, the Old West, and the present.

Three Eras is billed as a “dark comedy” and it gives cinematic side-eye to governments, and the humans who run them, through the plot device of real estate. The piece is bookended by Father Time, who acts as a Greek chorus of one. In the first story, Buster (Jay Meyers) is a hapless caveman who tries to sell caves to other men. When the much bigger and brasher E.E.E.E. (Mark Meyers) shows up, he becomes a squatter in the cavern and causes quite a conundrum for poor Buster. Buster eventually embraces the “if you can’t beat them, join them” philosophy and decides to live with E.E.E.E. Needless to say, this is only the beginning of a complicated relationship. Next, we fast-forward to America in the 1800s where a schoolteacher named Jeff (Jay Meyers) finds himself pitted against his neighbor, Bud (Chris Kerr), over the construction of a railroad track that is set to tear through both of their properties. Our final stop is now, where we meet a trio of would-be social media influencers—brothers and real estate heirs, Sal (Mark Meyers), Jared (Jay Meyers) and Eric (Chris Kerr)—who publicly bully their cameraman, Don (K.C. Mackey), to the point that they become “insta-famous.” In spite of all this backbiting and social climbing, Father Time is there to remind us that in the end, we all wind up in the same place: the grave.

There are some religious undertones to Three Eras (“We were raised in the evangelical cult, so no matter how we approach writing a film, [being didactic] is inevitable,” say the directors in their press statement) but the film is mostly a gimlet-eyed stare at society and (bad) human nature.

The acting and writing are up to snuff for the most part, and the score is great, but the f/x makeup, cinematography, and editing leave a lot to be desired—Three Eras reminds me a bit of a very, very low-budget History of the World, Part 1 (1981) mixed with a dash of Clerks (1994). Only time will tell if the Meyers Brothers will be the next Mel Brooks or Kevin Smith… I rather doubt it, but I’ve got to give those guys an A for effort. It’s no simple task to make a feature-length film that’s partially a period piece and that tackles such deep subjects in a comedic manner.

While I can’t say I loved Three Eras, I encourage you to check it out for yourself—it definitely has appeal to a certain audience.

--Staci Layne Wilson

[thelonelyalienx]

[eyelessdisasterpiece-blog]

[phyllisdiller]

ok if i dont see gaga in june i will fucking murder somebody probably starting with myself

[applauuse]