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Wheat Loaf posted:Nightcrawler was best in Excalibur, when Alan Davis drew him looking like Errol Flynn. It also helped that Excalibur was one of the lesser X-men type comics so they could afford to make things weirder or sillier. Like for example Nightcrawler crashes a plane and faces off with the son of Krakoa (aka a hive-mind island) and tricks it into drowning to prove that it's as powerful as its father.
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Sep 25, 2015 09:20
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Beefstew posted:Because professional filmmakers totally watch internet critics. http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ quote:Some guy named Mike from Milwaukee, WI put together a 70-minute video review discussing the many reasons why the movie was horrible. And this isn’t your usual fanboy rant, this is an epic, well-edited well-constructed piece of geek film criticism. In fact, the way I learned about the video was from Lost co-creator and Star Trek producer Damon Lindelof, who said “Your life is about to change. This is astounding film making. Watch ALL of it.” Watch the video review embedded after the jump.
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Sep 25, 2015 09:29
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Terrible Opinions posted:Dude everyone who sleep talks does crazy poo poo like that. You just never remember it. The last time I split a hotel room with someone, they said I reviewed a movie in my sleep. 
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Sep 25, 2015 09:43
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Testekill posted:It also helped that Excalibur was one of the lesser X-men type comics so they could afford to make things weirder or sillier. Like for example Nightcrawler crashes a plane and faces off with the son of Krakoa (aka a hive-mind island) and tricks it into drowning to prove that it's as powerful as its father. Loads of Doctor Who references in that comic, too, at a time when that was fairly "only nerds and PBS viewers know about it" territory in America.
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Sep 25, 2015 10:09
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Wheat Loaf posted:Loads of Doctor Who references in that comic, too, at a time when that was fairly "only nerds and PBS viewers know about it" territory in America. There's also an issue where Excalibur turn into animes and meet not!Dirty Pair.
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Sep 25, 2015 14:55
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The Horse in Tears posted:The NC Fury Road review sounds a lot like the Matrix review, which is where I finally gave up on the show. They kept on whining that "everyone thinks it's so smart" while saying squat to counter that. It was just a strawman that let them rag on the movie with the same kind of jokes they always make. It's actually even more pointless than that, where he says it's not that great, then is explained why it is using the arguments pretty much everyone already knows, then admits it is great. At least the Matrix review was attempting to prove something contrary.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:16
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fatherboxx posted:http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ This is just making it funnier that Lindelof was the subject of a two minutes hate a while ago.
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Sep 25, 2015 15:24
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The Vosgian Beast posted:This is just making it funnier that Lindelof was the subject of a two minutes hate a while ago. Yeah how dare people talk about movie makers paying attention to internet critics in response to someone suggesting that movie makers don't pay attention to internet critics! How could anyone point to this guy doing a thing when people were saying bad things about him before? IT BOGGLES THE MIND!
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Sep 25, 2015 16:11
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Puppy Time posted:Yeah how dare people talk about movie makers paying attention to internet critics in response to someone suggesting that movie makers don't pay attention to internet critics! How could anyone point to this guy doing a thing when people were saying bad things about him before? IT BOGGLES THE MIND! Okay
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Sep 25, 2015 17:19
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PiedPiper posted:Hey now, he pointed out that the saviour of our world was named Thomas. Thomas! What you got against people named Thomas, NC? 
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Sep 25, 2015 17:33
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Puppy Time posted:Yeah how dare people talk about movie makers paying attention to internet critics in response to someone suggesting that movie makers don't pay attention to internet critics! How could anyone point to this guy doing a thing when people were saying bad things about him before? IT BOGGLES THE MIND! ... huh? Near as I could tell, he was just pointing out the amusing irony of a guy getting very enthusiastic about RLM and then getting savaged by their critical circle. Which is quite funny. Your post is a weird post.
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Sep 25, 2015 17:37
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Beefstew posted:What you got against people named Thomas, NC? It's Thoooomaaaaas the Fuuuuucking Taaaaaank Eeeeengine!
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Sep 25, 2015 17:49
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Darth Walrus posted:... huh? Near as I could tell, he was just pointing out the amusing irony of a guy getting very enthusiastic about RLM and then getting savaged by their critical circle. Which is quite funny. Pretty much.
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After catching up with this thread, I have something horrible to admit. It's me, I'm the one that enjoys listening to Spoony yak about wrestling bullshit for actual hours  But really aside from that, Brad is super cool, Lupa's cool, JO's cool, Phelous's cool and so is Bennett. Also I like Rich Evans. The internet has some cool people.
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Sep 25, 2015 18:02
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Testekill posted:It also helped that Excalibur was one of the lesser X-men type comics so they could afford to make things weirder or sillier. Like for example Nightcrawler crashes a plane and faces off with the son of Krakoa (aka a hive-mind island) and tricks it into drowning to prove that it's as powerful as its father. Oh boy, that's not one-tenth as crazy as what happened during his first solo miniseries from the mid-80's. Here's small sample of what was in this 4-part miniseries: http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/nightcrawler_1-4.shtml 
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Sep 25, 2015 18:33
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Tracula posted:That's sort of the biggest thing thing. The review is about 27 minutes long and of which 22 minutes are basically skit and bullshit. This is really what's starting to kill internet critics for me. I get that the whole persona thing is a big deal for them but for so many of them it's persona first, review second. Most of the reviewers don't even really have personas. Their "persona" is just an over the top version of themselves. Few use the personas in any way in the review. Honestly, I hate Doug's skits as well. Doug is not good at comedy and everything he tries to do looks low budget (Pop Quiz Hotshot?) and low effort (Pop Quiz Hotshot?, most of the skits in his reviews). He's been at this for how many years now?
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I think the last NC I watched was TMNT, and the last time I watched regularly was Monster Squad, but I didn't find his skits quite as bad as the rest of you. They weren't good, but while there are plenty of exceptions, for the most part I didn't find them hard to watch or anything. I rarely even actively wished he would stop and get on with the review. NC was just kind of like that TV show you watched 5 years ago and don't remember anymore: bland, but sometimes it was enough to get a chuckle and that's why you didn't change the channel when it came on. I do rather like Spoony's skits. Linkara's I have closer to the reaction most of you have to Doug's, though Linkara mercifully packs them at the end of his reviews so you can usually just turn it off by that point. Though I'll admit I admire the sheer earnestness and sincerity of Linkara's brand of nonsense.
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Sep 26, 2015 03:26
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Jsor posted:I think the last NC I watched was TMNT, and the last time I watched regularly was Monster Squad, but I didn't find his skits quite as bad as the rest of you. They weren't good, but while there are plenty of exceptions, for the most part I didn't find them hard to watch or anything. I rarely even actively wished he would stop and get on with the review. NC was just kind of like that TV show you watched 5 years ago and don't remember anymore: bland, but sometimes it was enough to get a chuckle and that's why you didn't change the channel when it came on. You know what, I should see them. I honestly never paid that much attention to him other than the power ranger videos, it would be interesting to see a development of the meta narrative.
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Sep 26, 2015 05:40
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Jsor posted:I think the last NC I watched was TMNT, and the last time I watched regularly was Monster Squad, but I didn't find his skits quite as bad as the rest of you. They weren't good, but while there are plenty of exceptions, for the most part I didn't find them hard to watch or anything. I rarely even actively wished he would stop and get on with the review. NC was just kind of like that TV show you watched 5 years ago and don't remember anymore: bland, but sometimes it was enough to get a chuckle and that's why you didn't change the channel when it came on. I guess the problem with the recent ones in many peoples' books is that a lot of the NC's skits have dominated the episodes lately. They're the intro, outro, and framing device. Imagine if every review was his Caspter review.
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Sep 26, 2015 05:54
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The Bee posted:I guess the problem with the recent ones in many peoples' books is that a lot of the NC's skits have dominated the episodes lately. They're the intro, outro, and framing device. Imagine if every review was his Caspter review. It's starting to become like it was near the end of his first NC run; his reviews become mostly skits and stale jokes because he got tired of actually reviewing stuff.
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nine-gear crow posted:It's starting to become like it was near the end of his first NC run; his reviews become mostly skits and stale jokes because he got tired of actually reviewing stuff. Coming soon: Demo Reel 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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Sep 26, 2015 06:33
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Leal posted:Coming soon: Demo Reel 2: Electric Boogaloo. This will be worth it if Brad does another parody of it.
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Jsor posted:This will be worth it if Brad does another parody of it. The problem with the original ET porno was that it wasn't hot ENOUGH
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fatherboxx posted:http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ RLM is actually better than any other so-called Internet Critic, so this is no surprise.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:RLM is actually better than any other so-called Internet Critic, so this is no surprise. Pretty much. And say what you will if you like Plinkett or not it's 100% an act for them at least. (far as I know) Mike and Jay aren't actually serial killers who keep women in their basement (this is Wisconsin after all though.) The guys at RLM go pretty much totally in character or not and they know when to turn it off during a review or a discussion.
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New review! I reviewed David Lean's intimidatingly well-regarded film Lawrence of Arabia! I can't believe these men may control the fate of the middle east!
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Phelous also cannot reincarnate, and Todd has a visible face during at least part of his life. I think Tracula is saying that at least Mike isn't actually awful the way some other internet critics are awful and put up a front of "BUT IT'S JUST A CHARACTER". That the negative qualities of Plinkett legitimately are just an aspect of the character rather than actually an aspect of Mike.
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Idran posted:I think Tracula is saying that at least Mike isn't actually awful the way some other internet critics are awful and put up a front of "BUT IT'S JUST A CHARACTER". That the negative qualities of Plinkett legitimately are just an aspect of the character rather than actually an aspect of Mike. Yeah, sorry if it wasn't clear that's what I was getting at. I just get annoyed when guys like Doug and Noah pull the whole "it's a character" thing when they're being aggressively lovely or obtuse in their videos when it's clearly them and not just the Critic or Spoony respectively.
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With Spoony, I think a great deal of it goes back to his love of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He clearly wanted to be a Joel or Mike type character, so he had to have a character to play too. It's undoubtedly why he included skits in his reviews in the first place: Mystery Science Theater had host segments so he had to have some kind of host segment. He ripped off so many, many jokes from that show. poo poo, I know he used this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEI_udV88i4. Can't we just get beyond Mystery Science Theater 3000?
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CynCyanide posted:With Spoony, I think a great deal of it goes back to his love of Mystery Science Theater 3000. He clearly wanted to be a Joel or Mike type character, so he had to have a character to play too. It's undoubtedly why he included skits in his reviews in the first place: Mystery Science Theater had host segments so he had to have some kind of host segment. He ripped off so many, many jokes from that show. poo poo, I know he used this one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEI_udV88i4. To go back to RLM again one of my absolute favorite things about them over them TGWTG veterans is I believe most of them have said they never even really watched MST3K while growing up. I just sort of appreciate them doing their own memes and bullshit when reviewing movies that MST3K might have covered rather than just aping what someone else did before them.
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Pop Quiz Hotshot is a lot worse than I remembered.
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Infamous Sphere posted:New review! I reviewed David Lean's intimidatingly well-regarded film Lawrence of Arabia! The four minutes of black screen with music is a holdover from the ‘roadshow’ days. If you see “Lawrence of Arabia” (or any roadshow movie really) in a theater, the overture plays at or a couple minutes before the start time while the house lights are still up, kind of like a play. At the end of the overture, the house lights dim, and the curtains open for the Columbia logo. There's also music at the end of the intermission to prompt people that the movie is starting back in a few minutes. These elements work awkwardly on home video but since its technically part of the film, it gets included if you watch something like "2001", "West Side Story", "Ben-Hur", "Spartacus", et al on home video. Funny story; when the fully-restored version of "Lawrence" first came out on home video in 1990, rental places had people returning the film thinking there was something wrong with it because of this. Infamous Sphere posted:I can't believe these men may control the fate of the middle east! Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Sep 27, 2015 |
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Tracula posted:Yeah, sorry if it wasn't clear that's what I was getting at. I just get annoyed when guys like Doug and Noah pull the whole "it's a character" thing when they're being aggressively lovely or obtuse in their videos when it's clearly them and not just the Critic or Spoony respectively. That's part of the reason I can't bring myself to watch Doug and Rob's "Real Thoughts" videos. it just seems like an extension of that poo poo.
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Idran posted:I think Tracula is saying that at least Mike isn't actually awful the way some other internet critics are awful and put up a front of "BUT IT'S JUST A CHARACTER". That the negative qualities of Plinkett legitimately are just an aspect of the character rather than actually an aspect of Mike. Yeah, the weirdest thing about the "But Its Just A Character" thing is that they try to toe the line between that and (as I think Linkara put it) having a character that's essentially him but with the dials turned up to max. Whichever works for their argument at the time, they say the one is always the case. This is super judgemental/superficial, but I've found that the more 'normal' an Internet Critic is, the more I like 'em. RLM/PreRec/Brad over "Hey look behind me, I have a whole shelf of anime dolls and action figures" folks.
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Robert Denby posted:Nicely done! Its great to see something where even though I'm familiar with the film it makes me see things about it in a new light. There's plenty to talk about with both the movie and the person the movie is based on. Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I was really glad when this film was requested, because I'd literally just added it to my Netflix queue, and if it weren't for the Patreon request I probably would have never gotten around to watching it. I'm hoping if I get another patreon subscriber at that tier, they also request something equally interesting. There's way more things that I could have mentioned, but I left out because of time constraints, and sometimes there'd be so many things I was thinking about that I'd forget some of the points I might have otherwise made. I wondered, for instance, about the welfare of the animals you see in the movie - there are scenes where horses take some pretty nasty looking tumbles, and seeing as this was a time well before CGI, I assumed that there must have been a lot of injuries there. But I couldn't seem to find any solid information on the animal welfare, so I can only assume that they didn't really take records of it at that stage. Yeah, I assumed that the black screen and the overture were there to allow people plenty of time to get to their seats, much like that random band performance on the front of "How To Marry a Millionaire." I originally thought it was going to happen for about 30 seconds, and so I sat there waiting for it to end. When it got to about a minute, I got up and skipped over the rest of it. Weirdly enough though, while the version on Netflix includes the four minutes at the start, there's no intertitle indicating an intermission. So the movie was still 3 hrs 40 *without* the intermission title and interlude built in. This was a film really made for the cinema. There were a few scenes where I couldn't quite see what was happening, because I was watching it on a small screen - and there's a pretty major discrepancy between the music volume and the dialogue, meaning I had to put subtitles on. Hence, I'd recommend watching it in a cinema, with the caveat that you really need to be prepared to see it in one sitting. I can only imagine this would be a pretty shonky movie to watch on VHS though, especially once the grain obliterated some of those smaller details.
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Todd posted a new video on the hills by the Weeknd but it got taken down with a DMCA in less than ten minutes.
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