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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9KAJiV7PI Jim Sterling is apparently under the weather, so he came out with a remaster of a very old, pre-independence episode. It's got a lot of overlay text about the ways in which it is now dated and the ways in which it isn't.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The videos of a nerd speculating about potential future plot developments in a miniature sci-fi fantasy wargame and its merchandise is really the peak of internet critics. 'People speculate about future developments which may result in changes to the games they enjoy? My god, the horror." When's the last time you talked at length about something you actually liked, BotL?
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Oct 3, 2017 00:31
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Roth posted:I can't believe hbomberguy is making me want to watch a loving found footage movie now. The VHS series has some clunkers, but there's more good segments than bad IMO
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Darth Walrus posted:'People speculate about future developments which may result in changes to the games they enjoy? My god, the horror." 
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Roth posted:I can't believe hbomberguy is making me want to watch a loving found footage movie now. Which one? V/H/S is hit and miss. But the WNUF Halloween Special-- gently caress yeah, watch that thing! Fake commercials and all!
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Oct 3, 2017 01:45
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Falstaff posted:His skits are drat near insufferable. Yeah, I usually don't even mind skits as much as others, sometimes they can be funny or at the very least endearing if it's just a cute little thing, but christ man when you're doing skit, content, skit, content, skit, content you're blowin your charm real fast.
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah, I usually don't even mind skits as much as others, sometimes they can be funny or at the very least endearing if it's just a cute little thing, but christ man when you're doing skit, content, skit, content, skit, content you're blowin your charm real fast. Dang, at that point just pick a thing! If you're confident enough in your skits to plop 'em in the middle of stuff, make them their own videos.
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Snob posted his review of Halloween Water. I remember it being solid but the footage shown is making me question my memories of it.
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Oct 3, 2017 02:44
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WNUF really disappointed me. Great concept, good execution, super dull scenario when it was all said and done. That's my biggest problem with Found Footage, they just kind of build up to one thing and that thing is usually so drat underwhelming that you leave going "thats all?" But I do love the genre despite liking like...barely a few. I tend to be more into the studio ones where they have money to really push the concepts into something big and bold. Like Cloverfield.
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Testekill posted:Snob posted his review of Halloween Water. I remember it being solid but the footage shown is making me question my memories of it. Interestingly he's going to do a Friday the 13th movie review for next week. I hope he does another Nightmare on Elm Street review to complete the set.
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CelticPredator posted:That's my biggest problem with Found Footage, they just kind of build up to one thing and that thing is usually so drat underwhelming that you leave going "thats all?" To expand: most found footage movies-- especially the ghost/monster hunter ones-- are feature length, but only have two acts. A three-act movie would go like this: 1) They're looking for fake legend thing 2) But it's real and now they're in poo poo's creek! 3) And they fight back / escape / have a tragic downfall So many of the Found Footages go like this: 1) They're looking for fake legend thing 2) But it's real-- and that's it. It makes spoopy noises, and the movie ends. It'd be like if the opening of Raiders of the Lost Arc was half Indy wandering around a cave. Then he finds a statue. Then the next 49% is him walking out of the cave, with creepy noises going off and stuff. Then at the very last second, a rock falls on him and he dies. Except that sequence is 90 minutes long. And ends with something jumping at the camera. A couple Halloweens ago, me and my wife's "let's watch a bunch of stuff on a theme" was found footage. Even the ones that were well shot, well acted and had some tense moment-- well, they still followed that two-act formula. And it's boring as gently caress. People go into the woods to look for thing, they die. People go into a hospital to conduct experiment, and they die. It all becomes just a "showcase" of camera tricks and makeup effects with no plot payoff. ... And then you have Trollhunter (2010). Go watch that instead.
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Mraagvpeine posted:Interestingly he's going to do a Friday the 13th movie review for next week. I hope he does another Nightmare on Elm Street review to complete the set. Oh neat next Friday really does fall on the 13th. So like, why didn't they delay the latest game itself until next Friday? Like it'd have gotten a few more months of dev time and fine tuning as well if they had done that.
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wow, you know I only come back here every now and then just because I pity you guys but after reading the last couple of pages where some goons went a little nutty (like Tumblr/Jezebel nutty) now I'm starting to get very mixed feelings. A part of me still feels sorry for this thread but right now I'm just going to stay the hell away until you're all feeling alright.
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Junior Jr. posted:wow, you know I only come back here every now and then just because I pity you guys but after reading the last couple of pages where some goons went a little nutty (like Tumblr/Jezebel nutty) now I'm starting to get very mixed feelings. ... the last couple pages have probably been the best we've had in a long while.
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Junior Jr. posted:wow, you know I only come back here every now and then just because I pity you guys but after reading the last couple of pages where some goons went a little nutty (like Tumblr/Jezebel nutty) now I'm starting to get very mixed feelings. you eat rear end, man?
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Junior Jr. posted:wow, you know I only come back here every now and then just because I pity you guys but after reading the last couple of pages where some goons went a little nutty (like Tumblr/Jezebel nutty) now I'm starting to get very mixed feelings. How does it feel to have your head so far up your own rear end
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lornekates posted:And then you have Trollhunter (2010). Go watch that instead. And Chronicle. Chronicle was amazing and tells an actual complete story, and both Max Landis and Josh Trank turning out to be nuclear hot messes afterward makes it even more of a gem that they managed to stick the landing on it. Plus it gave us Dane DeHaan and Michael B. Jordan 
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Darth Walrus posted:'People speculate about future developments which may result in changes to the games they enjoy? My god, the horror." The thirteenth of the previous month.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The VHS series has some clunkers, but there's more good segments than bad IMO
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The VHS series has some clunkers, but there's more good segments than bad IMO lornekates, I think you could easily view found footage films through a lens that fits this requirement of having three acts: 1. Characters go in search of something fictional and monstrous for fun and find something that could be considered evidence. 2. The characters try to make sense of the evidence and make choices about how to continue. 3. These choices play out, often poorly for at least one character. In The Last Exorcism for example, the first act is the characters learning about the area and realising the girl might genuinely be possessed. The second act is the characters attempting to solve this and learn more and decide if they're going to try to leave and what they're going to do about it. The third act is the consequences of those choices. If anything I would argue that found footage films have a much more explicit three act structure than normal films, but with a much shorter third act, necessitated by the fact the ending is usually fulfilling the conceit of the rest of the story existing in the first place. The third act of The Last Exorcist is shorter than the first two because it's the least important part, we already know this part was going to happen, and the film was about how they got there. The opening conceit of a found footage film is generally 'this was found because something bad happened to the characters'. it often literally says words to that effect. It's a foregone conclusion. The real story of these films is why and how they happened, not just in terms of 'a couple goes out in the woods with a camera and then a vampire stabs the boyfriend with a sharpened frozen ham' or something, but in terms of 'this character refused to give up on his search for the Ham Vampires even after having the opportunity to stop, because he was determined to prove his girlfriend was hysterical about a prior experience with them, because he fundamentally doesn't trust her experiences to be valid.' The Ham Vampire Tapes is not a very unique film because I just made it up off the top of my head, but it's a complete story even if you could easily summarise the basic 'plot' like this: 1. They look for the Ham Vampire. 2. They die. In reality I just made up a film about Gender Politics In Relationships, in which a character refuses to believe the validity of a woman's experience until they're literally being killed by it. I have, in fact, just described a fairly significant portion of the film Paranormal Activity. A man refuses to believe his wife's stories or take appropriate measures and instead sets up cameras to prove she's wrong and fucks about with a ouija board until it shatters their relationship. A lot of found footage films are about the hubris of disbelief. Blair Witch, The Last Exorcism, Paranormal Activity - characters make bad decisions for their own reasons, and poo poo happens as a result. Found Footage is almost inherently an exercise in character study, in what those choices are and their meaning. Lots of people ask of these films 'why would anyone film this?' - Exactly. Why would they? What does that say about that person? This is storytelling, but in a very different way from straightforward narrative film. Hbomberguy fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Viewtiful Jew posted:Oh neat next Friday really does fall on the 13th. After playing off and on for a couple of months, I've decided to just pretend that the game being a buggy mess is a stylistic choice.
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Kim Justice posted:(i propose that every flippant reply to BotL should also include content. Same could also apply to Vosgian Beast) I don't think it's fair to lump those two together. Vosgian can be frustrating but at least I believe he argues in good faith. There's an anime youtuber I really like called Pause and Select who does academic style videos. I particularly recommend his four part series about apocalypse and its use in narratives and how it has changed in response to broader cultural events. Akett fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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I like Nyx's buddy Nightmind for spooky stuff / creepy video discussion. I dunno what he's doing for halloween, though.
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How do y'all feel about MRE reviews? I checked out Steve1989MREInfo's videos on a whim and enjoyed them more than I thought I would. I like his laidback presentation and it's interesting to see what soldiers from different eras ate.
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Supersonic Shine posted:How do y'all feel about MRE reviews? I checked out Steve1989MREInfo's videos on a whim and enjoyed them more than I thought I would. I like his laidback presentation and it's interesting to see what soldiers from different eras ate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29Uvm0pLVY
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there's a lot of loving idiots on this website who are just hopelessly addicted to negative attention and seek it out everywhere they can find it but I genuinely think BotL wants to prove to everyone reading that he is the smartest, most cultured person on the forum and that is just insanely sad and also very funny to me, especially because he loves to masturbate into socks and then stuff them into his mouth because he loves how the taste of cum and sweat intermingle on the palate
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The cumlinary art.
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I'd like to introduce everyone to my newest favourite Internet Critic™. He's got a really fantastic show and he really needs more subscribers, he's an awesome guy who goes by the name of
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Alaois posted:there's a lot of loving idiots on this website who are just hopelessly addicted to negative attention and seek it out everywhere they can find it but I genuinely think BotL wants to prove to everyone reading that he is the smartest, most cultured person on the forum and that is just insanely sad and also very funny to me, especially because he loves to masturbate into socks and then stuff them into his mouth because he loves how the taste of cum and sweat intermingle on the palate uh, do you need a walk or something? cause that's a pretty extreme reaction to have towards a guy who hasn't really done anything (today)
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SatansBestBuddy posted:uh, do you need a walk or something? cause that's a pretty extreme reaction to have towards a guy who hasn't really done anything (today) it's called a joke, friend
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My new video asks a vitally important question: will wanking into a sock lead Chapter Master Calgar right into the arms of Chaos?
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My favorite VHS bit is the "I like you" birdlady because it's what I imagine people would use google glasses for. Ogling women and maybe some porn stuff. It also gives me Chris Cunningham vibes which is a good thing imo.
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Sarcopenia posted:My favorite VHS bit is the "I like you" birdlady because it's what I imagine people would use google glasses for. Ogling women and maybe some porn stuff. It also gives me Chris Cunningham vibes which is a good thing imo. This one has actually been expanded into a full movie but boy does it look baaaaaaad. Maybe I'm just being judgy but the trailer suggested literally the opposite of any promise from the short. I'd pay to see Gareth Evans expand his short from 2 though. Edit: Viral is by far the worst but it had Bonestorm so I don't think I can really hate it. Trojan Kaiju fucked around with this message at 10:59 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Supersonic Shine posted:How do y'all feel about MRE reviews? I checked out Steve1989MREInfo's videos on a whim and enjoyed them more than I thought I would. I like his laidback presentation and it's interesting to see what soldiers from different eras ate. I WAS going to say something along of the lines of "I'm just waiting for the day someone attempts to eat 150+ year old hardtack from the Civil War" but fukkin' whelp.
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Grapplejack posted:I like Nyx's buddy Nightmind for spooky stuff / creepy video discussion. I dunno what he's doing for halloween, though. Nightmind is great for his enthusiasm and thoroughness, but godDAMN he's a dummy. Like every time I watch the stuff he reviews, I find out he's missed multiple really glaringly obvious points, mostly because he's really married to his theories. Also his skits are crap, but that's sort of a universal constant of skits.
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Trojan Kaiju posted:This one has actually been expanded into a full movie but boy does it look baaaaaaad. Maybe I'm just being judgy but the trailer suggested literally the opposite of any promise from the short. Oh god no. How in the world would you stretch that premise to an hour?
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If I had to highlight a couple of Steve1989 vids: The Vietnam Era Pilot Survival kid is something you have to watch fully, not scroll down until you're done and as soon as you do, check the primary comment from an actual Vietnam Era pilot about what happened to these when deployed. The WW2 German Ration vid where he gets more and more hype as he eats the Scho-Ka-Kola chocolate.
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I have an unhealthy joy at watching MRE videos. Like, these are my weird rear end internet rabbit hole, especially guys like Steve1989 who get the cool old poo poo and all. It's a genuinely kinda positive rear end community that's mostly either vets or campers and the like who just wanna find neat food pouches to consume and/or collect old stuff. Gundog is also cool, he just did a neat one on Cosmonaut stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXloQHiLZ_k
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Retrospective Review: FORTRESS (1992) Imagining what would have been with a bigger budget and Arnold Schwarzenegger, not sure I'd actually want this to change.
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Double post  Lindsay Ellis: The Revisionist World of Disney: Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Saving Mr. Banks
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