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Jack Gladney posted:That NC Matrix review is pretty lame overall and really reaches for things to complain about, but the gag of him saying that nothing's changed since 1999 while dozens of white cops beat Laurence Fishburn is pretty funny. Even though he probably should have noticed that race has thematic significance for the movie. I made the mistake of watching that video. Nickpicks the poo poo out of the movie, and the skits are horrible. Also, the agent who represents the fanbase is called agetn Schmuck. 
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Cyron posted:Does matrix even have a rabid fanbase now? i'am sure there are fan of the series and it was hugely popaler back in the day but i don't think it hold on to people's minds as other big name sci-fi, but is doug thinking making fun of it is going to be pages of backlashes. i feel having a charater making fun of a fan base is unnecessary. If this review was 15 years ago, he'd have a point, but the sequels killed the OMG how great is this movie vibe. Nowadays, there have been so many better action movies. I also think the exposition that Morpheus gives is excellent. It did not become boringly pretentious until the sequels.
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Miss Wallace posted:Maybe they won't try to rig it so the contestants will win against Doug and accidentally mix up the sheets, therefore letting Doug easily win and splitting the prize between the losers as a consolation! They do know that rigging a game show in any way is pretty illegal right? Also, anyone else getting the feeling that this is being done just to stop any indegogo investigation and pave the way for a Patreon account? PassTheRemote fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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Miss Wallace posted:It is and it isn't. I have notes written to follow the outline of the movie, but it's improvised off of that to give a more off the cuff feel. So far the response has been mostly positive, but it does throw some people off. I like the more off the cuff feel, though I feel that more people in the video adds to the conversation as it allows for people to play off each other. It's the reason that I love Best of the Worst and Brad's midnight screenings. I don't know if you have plans for having guests in these videos like Phelous and Brad, but even if you don't want to do that, this new video is a plus. I'm eager to see where you go with the new format.
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DStecks posted:I made another Sonichu review, a bit on the quick and dirty side (no pun intended). Bad Reviews 15.5: KCWC Epilogue I did like the bit about the Snowballs. Just an FYI, I'm sure Chirs-Chan was referring to this:  But, he might have been making a terrible boob joke. Who knows.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Hey Dstecks, was KCWC better or worse than Chym FM? I don't know. It might be something significant from that trolling saga, or Chris-Chan putting random humor in his comic without understanding how random humor works. MisterBibs posted:This has likely been discussed, but is the ongoing influx of Patreon users indicative of Blip/etc simply not paying the bills, simple greed, or a mix of both? From things I have heard. Blip payouts are not what they used to be. Patreon allows producers to make money from the fans themselves, not just ads. It's a more diversified business plan. It's probably more stable as well. It also has an interesting side effect. Now that the producer is making money in addition to ad revenue, they don't have to be a part of large sites like TGWTG to survive. It's been a game changer for a number of people. Also, http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/ is throwing internal server errors. It looks like CA is doing fine, it's just something is borked on the forwarding and has been for a few days.
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Tracula posted:So uh Spoony has dipped below 5k on his Patreon. Does that mean the movie is off now? It's probably people pulling their patreons because he is so slow at video making.
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Miss Wallace posted:Loved Brad's review. The Ebert clips were great, ha ha. After seeing Ebert's review, I now understand why John Carpenter took a potshot at him at the end of They Live.
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Slate Action posted:Nah, it's other things too, his Amazing Spider-Man 2 review was conducted in full manbaby mode. That was embarrassing to watch. "Baw, this movie is so bad I;m gonna throw out my Spider-man toys". I thought this movie was boring, not really a lot of nerd rage stuff. OldTennisCourt posted:Other M is a game where the main protagonist freezes in fear and sheer mind numbing horror because a secondary antagonist she's kicked the poo poo out of multiple times shows up. She also does not get to fight the ice resistant metroids, the man will do that for her. She also does not get to fight the final boss, she aims at her, and then the men come and do the job for her. The voice acting is also pretty bad, especially Samus. I think she is narrating the game while hopped up on valium.
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watho posted:Just don't watch Game Overthinker, his Escapist stuff is usually pretty good. yeah, about that
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DStecks posted:Unless the GITS movie is being set in the west, in which case who gives a gently caress. It's every bit our prerogative to relocate and recontextualize an adaptation as it is for Japan to make Spider-Man Japanese and give him a giant robot. Man, they remade Yojimbo and cast Clint Eastwood Mifune's role. Bullshit man.
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Miss Wallace posted:The one that blew my mind was the Scooby Doo review, when he asked if all of the main characters were mad at each other because maybe they were angry in the original cartoon. And he'd just gone over the previous scene where they had a falling out. Like...that's called a story, Doug. It all makes sense when you realize that while he has been doing this since 2007, Doug has only a cargo cult grasp of film making and narrative storytelling. PassTheRemote fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Rebochan posted:In other news, Rifftrax just announced their 2015 live shows Kickstarter and look what made the roster: The Room live is happening on my birthday, so I will enjoy that one a lot. Max Wilco posted:I think that was partly a callback to a joke in the Foodfight review. The NC Matrix review also had some odd things. I get that he does not care for the film, but he gravitates to really nitpicking flaws like the agents cant see through walls, and making a remark about the color filter while missing how the color pallettes in that movie served as a distinction between the Matrix and the real world.
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Hbomberguy posted:It sounds like he overheard someone talking about how they went back and recolourised the original to match the style of the sequels and sort of used that as a jumping-off point. I have the old DVD and I remember it looking somewhat washed out. I wonder if the color correction in the original was digital color correction a la O Brother Where Art Thou, or more of a film process. I don't have a problem with the recolorization for the blu-ray. Hbomberguy posted:Although the thematic changes between the first movie and the sequels are a big part of it - in the original, the Matrix is represented by phone lines and dial tones and stuff. The other two portray the matrix as a digital thing, with different properties. So the matrix world goes from a mundane place designed as a distraction from reality, to a very noticeably fake world with a pervasive 'falseness' to it, underlying everything. I don't have a problem with that as much in the sequels as Neo is the character the audience sees this world thru, now that he is fully aware of the martix from the beginning, it would color how he and the audience see that world. Also, the shift from mostly dial-up to broadband computing probably had an impact on the sequels. The first one was written in '97 correct?
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Vicas posted:Because he's basically shaped and guided the growth of the internet review show as a media format? That's not a good thing. There are better review formats than Doug, yet it seems everyone wants to emulate him, and CA seems to want mostly NC clones.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:30
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Gianthogweed posted:NC videos are just too drat long. 30 minutes of watching a screetchy scream into a camera is too much to ask of the audience. I admit I did used to somewhat enjoy the reviews before RLM started putting out far superior content. It had a sort of MST3K appeal. But NC just couldn't carry it on his own. It did work better when he had guest reviewers and the movie he picked was a particularly good stinker, or one that was generally interesting to me (I discovered The Thief and the Cobbler through him). At first, I found his schtick funny, but over the years I grew more irritated by the character he was playing and was more interested in the more straight-forward "Doug Reviews". I think one of the biggest problems for Doug is that in all this time, he has never evolved his schtick. I'm not sure whether it is lack of drive or lack of talent. My honest guess is a little of both.
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Sephiroth_IRA posted:What's the goon consensus on why rape in movies/TV is OK but never ever ever in a game? Who said it was ok in movies or TV? I'd advise against it, because to use rape in any narrative sense requires a lot of skill to pull off without coming off as tasteless or hacky.
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Rebochan posted:Yup. A name he could never live up to (stealing a joke from Baywatching.) There are very few who can live up to a surname Warlock.
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There is a reason I dislike skits and characters in review videos and series. So this is the series the Escapist did not want to pick up from Moviebob.
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Miss Wallace posted:Are they seriously talking about a new show? Don't they already have like two shows outside of the game show that they haven't even produced yet? I love these Baywatching videos, but I do miss the funny photoshops that the season 1 vids had. I now remember where I have seen Capt. Thorpe., the time he worked with James Bond and the Master Ninja to fight terrorists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkgWJWTuu3Y&t=4210s
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Miss Wallace posted:Doug's "it's a character" defense is exactly that, to deflect negative reactions to dumb things. The Mako bit with Doug was terrible as well. Did Doug literally not understand why people were offended by that joke in the TMNT review, because it seems that way. Miss Wallace posted:That being said, he can't act or write without it being derivative of something else. Understatement of the year right there. Derivative is being kind, in to boldly flee and Suburban Knights, he outright steals. Miss Wallace posted:Funny story actually. In that Shut Up and Talk I filmed in Chicago that will never be put online, Doug asked me where I got my "goofy voice" from in reviews. This was also a question he asked me before we even did the interview. He assumed I was imitating someone from South Park, a show I've seen maybe two episodes of. As I answered him before, I didn't "take" the voice from anything; I just naturally act "doofy." He asked me what the word "doofy" meant since he'd apparently never heard it before, and then proceeded to ask me again where I got the voice, but worded in a different way. He couldn't understand that I actually wasn't copying someone. This explains so much.
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Tracula posted:I was gonna post this earlier as an example of "Doug Doesn't Understand Things Everyone Else Does." I can understand not liking something or whatever but so many time's he misses the loving point and I do not get it. Add computers and filmmaking to that list. I do have a question. I've noticed a few people who are or were on TGWTG working on movies (Spoony and Linkara come to mind). Why is this? Linkara is making an AT4W movie? WHY? The Linkara "character" is not interesting enough to make a movie about? Did they see AVGN and say "I wanna do that too!"
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MonsieurChoc posted:I thought Spoony's latest review was a way of getting out of making a movie. No, the patreon dipping down due to his laziness is what got him out of making a movie. Why did he think making a movie was a good patreon milestone is beyond me.
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WickedHate posted:He's had some kind of plot going on for years where he's (apparently) locked up somewhere under experimentation, but there's only been quick flashes and foreshadowing. I'm actually pissed off he STILL hasn't resolved any of that. I thought that was his initial ripoff idea of MST3K?
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Miss Wallace posted:The NC/Demo Reel thing was a combination of Doug wanting to review Timothy Green and also they were in a terrible financial spot. That's why they released all those DVD exclusive videos on the site. From what I heard, most of that was Mike pressuring them to go back to NC to, I don't know, fund him playing video games. Rob really wanted to continue with Demo Reel, Doug could go either way. But I'd take anything they say about it going according to plan with a grain of salt. They've claimed that revealing the Demo Reel protagonist to be the NC the whole time was always the plan, when the NC DVD reviews of the anniversary movies clearly contradict the whole thing. (He was the NC the whole time, except the NC was reviewing the movies in a plot hole/hotel room?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M No TV affiliate will buy that. It's terrible quality, I guarentee it.
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The joys of the ignore list.Paladin posted:Imagine them still re-filming the same show with the same questions for a whole season because that's all they learned how to do. The timing and host banter stay the same every episode but each time a different set of guests interact with the weird gameshow bubble world. I almost want to see the show, if only to see the trainwreck of quality.
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Miss Wallace posted:Ash is the best cat. Please say part 2 has Ash vs Lloyd.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hogan is not his real last name guys. I don't care what his stage name is guys, you have to call him Robert Allen Zimmerman 
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Miss Wallace posted:It's the three movies, the only English release of the show. ("Movies" meaning "two-part episodes") Phelan and I reviewed the other two as well. The second review is on Patreon, the third is the next to be put together. They just call the other episodes Thunder in Paradise 2 and 3, but it's really obvious they're just episodes of a TV show. Was it as obvious as say the Master Ninja movies, or Riding with Death?
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Miss Wallace posted:So you go to someone's social media, waste time for hours, find nothing of importance, and apologize to everyone afterward? Only if you film the time wasting and air it live.
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Cinematic Titanic's live tours were fun to go and see, my issue was their output was very slow, and it seemed that they limited themselves in the kind of movies they did. That being said, I still want to see those guys and the Rifftrax guys collaborate more. I want a riff with Mike and Joel together.
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Jack Gladney posted:Joel left because of some undisclosed disagreement with Jim Mallon, who is the only MST3K guy to not end up doing Cinematic Titanic or Rifftrax--and the one guy none of the Best Brain alumni will discuss. Take that how you will. Also, my sources indicate that there is a number of the Best Brains alumni don't get that much on royalties from the streaming services or DVD sales. Robert Denby posted:Apparently the last straw was Mallon's desire to make an MST3K feature film and going around Joel to get what he wanted. Joel wanted nothing to do with it, but Mallon met with movie studios and pitched the MST3K movie anyway. Mallon also threw a shitfit when Rhino Home Video hired Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett on for a direct-to-DVD series called 'The Film Crew', which riffed of public domain or cheap-to-license titles. A few episodes of the show were finished and ready to go, when Mallon threatened to both sue Rhino and relinquish the MST3K license from them if they didn't drop the project because he deemed it to similar to MST3K. As a result, it was shelved for years but eventually released right around when Rifftrax started. I think part of the reason was that Film crew had host segments with Mike, Kevin and Bill. I thought that was the thing Mallon was harping on. I think that's why Rifftrax started with more well known Hollywood movies at first. The funny thing is that MST3K eventually did leave Rhino for Shout Factory.
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Prince of Space is also a good one. I like it very much.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I know it's... counter intuitive, but are there any episodes that aren't so good? Season 1 I feel is really off. It feels like their writing is not as top notch. Also, I'd avoid their KTMA episodes, as they were improvised and the movies with potential were redone in season 3.
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BigRed0427 posted:The Main Event this year is going to be Roman Reigns VS Brock Lesnar for the WWE Title. Roman is considered the heir apparent to be the new top guy in the WWE since John Cena is starting to look at retirement. He is someone who can be that guy and has every advantage, including being related to The Rock. The problem is that he has only been wrestling for 3-4 years and it shows. He's not terrible but not someone who can pull out the kind of match the main event at Wrestlemania needs to be. THe WWE has also failed to make him look like the powerhouse he needs to be. Roman also has an issue in that he cannot talk, so he cannot get people invested into his matches. It's not that Roman cannot be the guy, it's just right now this is too early for him. The major problem is that WWE have not been building other top guys to take Cena's place.
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Whoolighams posted:Not to make too much wrestlechat, but last year Reigns was one of the last two left in the Royal Rumble, and people were tearing off the roof at the possibility of him winning the whole shebang. One year later, he actually wins and ends up getting booed while the Rock raises his hand-that's ridiculous. Part of it was how Roman won. That rumble was bullshit, Kane and Big Show eliminate most everyone at the end, not Reigns. They eliminated people by both of them picking people up and throwing them out with no resistance. It was one of the most anti-climatic and gently caress finishes ever. It felt like Reigns did not earn the win, he was handed it, hell Reigns was not booked that strong in this rumble. That rumble was terrible, and the fans were voicing their displeasure at that. Also, between Royal Rumble 2014 and now, Reigns has shown how green and poo poo on the mic he is, which we did not know at the time. WWE have also done nothing to mask his inexperience. He was also injured until right before the Rumble. He is a wrestler who desperately needs a manager to talk for him. OldTennisCourt posted:In all fairness as I recall most of the cheers were over him making sure Batista, who was everyone knew was going to a part-timer, didn't win the Rumble plus he wasen't being crammed down people's throats. Like people are saying, Roman's not TERRIBLE, he's just nowhere near ready. He's not ready, and I cannot buy him beating Brock Lesnar, or even being in Lesnar's league. It takes time to get people to the top, unless they were at the top in other places like Hogan. Bret Hart took a good long while to get to the top of the WWF, Austin was in WWF for probably a year and a half before getting the belt (but he also had been in WCW for 5-6 years before then, so he id dhave experience), The Rock rose quickly, but he had a lot of talent and was so charismatic, his promos blew everyone out of the water. If WWE push Reigns too hard, it will backlash and could hurt or even ruin his career.
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Tracula posted:To be honest I absolutely love that match despite it being one of the worst of all time. The only time I can think of a crowd being that hot was during CM Punk's match against Cena in Chicago at Money in the Bank. That crowd was loving hot for that whole show, and nuclear for that match. It was so great. BigRed0427 posted:Not to keep the wrestling themed derail going (It's this or Gamergate If the author tells a story well, he can manipulate the audience into buying what he is selling. WWE is not doing that.
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My thoughts on this game show: this show is painful. Why are there rounds, if the point values do not change? The questions are far too random, why is there terrorism and war questions next to tv questions? Nuke this game from orbit. The cold open is them trying to copy Double Dare, and like everything, missing why it worked on Double Dare. PassTheRemote fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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