Stux posted:

oh before i gforget akagi

Bicyclops posted:

All the animes I've seen are from the Stone Age (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist). Someone make a curated list and I'll make it one of my Forever Projects to watch through them.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

forgot to recommend king of the hill

Cuttlefush posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3953382

people started posting in it again unfortunately

Control Volume posted:

Watch Redline

Control Volume posted:

Watch Redline

ArfJason posted:

paranoia agent is one of the greatest tv shows i ever watched

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

satoshi kon ftw

DarksydePhilFish posted:

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

satoshi kon ftw

Empty Sandwich posted:

holy poo poo this is a tedious review

DarksydePhilFish posted:

This kicks rear end, but I can't see it mentioned without thinking of one of the most embarrassing pieces of film criticism I've ever seen, courtesy beloved frontpage feature "Current Releases." Watch out for spoilers in the column itself, but they kept their ratings breakdown pretty clear of them:

Triticum Guzzler posted:

The essence of the criticism of the criticism that has been ongoing, at least on my part, is that it is bad. It is not good. It is really not very informative. It is not that it is bad to "care".

If you actually legitimately care about film, there is a good chance you do not post about it on this web site, because if you look at the movie forum (or the book forum, etc) you see that largely there's an incredible fixation on really childish products (and they are usually products rather than films) with a corresponding lack of taste. I'm sure it's an idea that's unfamiliar to you, as a grown man who wants to surgically replace his dick and balls with a coin operated motorised Donald Duck ride who is about 3 wispy chin hairs away from being a convicted rapist, but when criticism is coming from a really juvenile place about a less-juvenile subject it can seem very superficial and difficult to respect. Like when they allow kids to do news reports on the actual news.

This is one side of the coin here. Some of the reviewers present as, essentially, children of varying extreme largeness. But even if you read what they have to say about children's movies, it's still incredibly basic analysis of a film seen through a lens of a culture who are obsessed with identity politics in all things.

For example, if you read this week's review of The Boxtrolls, all you will learn is:

- The reviewer liked Coraline and Paranorman, but this film has a worse story
- There are trolls who wear boxes, also there are two characters who have names
- The film is nominally about the trolls who wear boxes, however it focuses on one of them who isn't REALLY a troll, but is actually a boy. This is a "big problem".
- The villain is avaristic and ugly. He pretends to be a woman, this is also a big problem, but we're not told why. Just that tumblr dislikes that and they're right to do so.
- The animation is good, kids will like it.

The only thing gleaned from this review that you won't get from the trailer is a number score and at some point a man wears a dress. It's an 800 word sideways glance at a movie and it really does not do a good job reviewing it outside of conveying the general sentiment that it's sort of not bad. I don't respect this, and I don't much care what this person has to say about other movies especially if they're more complicated than this movie for 6-year-olds.

On top of which the reviews are completely joyless, on a comedy web site. It's not just that it's really out of place, it's poorly executed in its own right. I'm not trying to illegally troll or insult them so please do not electronically beat me up, but I don't think they're cut out for this.

Thank you for reading this wearying post. As a reward, here is a picture of the cast of Duck Tales taking public transport so you can finally blast the biggest load of your life you mewling piece of poo poo idiot

garbage day posted:

The Current Releases crew has decided to "part ways with Something Awful." At one point CR was the 3rd most-read section on the front page; as of late, it's certainly been the most Forums-discussed feature!

Thanks to everyone for their feedback. It seems that the majority of forums posters don't want to read earnest media reviews on SA, so we won't be scheduling this sort of column in the foreseeable future.

DarksydePhilFish posted:

This kicks rear end, but I can't see it mentioned without thinking of one of the most embarrassing pieces of film criticism I've ever seen, courtesy beloved frontpage feature "Current Releases." Watch out for spoilers in the column itself, but they kept their ratings breakdown pretty clear of them:

quote:

The female planes are apparently designed by someone who has no idea what a female plane would look like. The idea of introducing gendered identities to normally non-gendered objects so often treats the familiar as inherently masculine. Female planes are painted hot pink and granted the enlarged, fluttery eyelashes so often used to distinguish women from men in lazily drawn cartoons. "Look at that propellor," declares Dusty and he gets a look at one of the ladyplanes' rear end. In one scene, the film even eroticises the tilting of wingflaps for a disturbingly long time. You could argue that it is a joke. I would argue that it enforces the idea of objectifying women to all the five-year-old boys in the audience by applying it to literal objects who have gender but no sex. Gotta start them off early, after all.

Control Volume posted:

Time to check out what else this guy has done because I remember Paranoia Agent being really good

fake edit: god drat it

Bicyclops posted:

All the animes I've seen are from the Stone Age (Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist). Someone make a curated list and I'll make it one of my Forever Projects to watch through them.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Professor Clumsy is the same fat idiot who wrote this beloved paragraph:

Dude was just the absolute reincarnation of Roger Ebert's panniculus.

Zibraltar posted:

Professor Clumsy, could you please review your next films without going into some diatribe about Disney films polluting our future children's precious brains with evil neo-con values? You do a lot and it's really loving old. How about a review of a movie that talks about it not succeeding because it's boring or lazy, not because it has a hetero-normative, patriarchal subtext? Bringing up the socio-political ramifications of a Pixar movie doesn't make you look more impressive, or heroic, or intelligent. It looks like you're picking the low-hanging fruit so you can make up for not critiquing the movie's aesthetic and narrative faults in more detail.

I'd like to focus on the movie you're reviewing, but I can't do it with the sparks flying off the axe you're grinding in front of it.

Professor Clumsy posted:

No. Read a different critic.

Professor Clumsy posted:

Thank you. Enraging horrible nerds is what I live for.

pentyne posted:

lol of those 3 contributors, 1 deleted their twitter account, one has 209 followers, and one had their account suspended

always a classic

CelticPredator posted:

i found this very silly and i wanted to share it with everyone here

https://i.imgur.com/8IM1Q06.mp4

Coolguye posted:

you can move like 3x faster if you spam the button to pick up and drop the shell fyi

Coolguye posted:

you can move like 3x faster if you spam the button to pick up and drop the shell fyi

Paladinus posted:

They should have given male planes penises instead, imo.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Then FYAD poster g0m got to write a joke review and the circlejerk was ruined hilariously.