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I've been mentioned already in the thread but I may as well introduce myself to any newcomers. Hi, I'm Infamous Sphere, and I have a show where I review queer movies (and queer TV and one comic and one book) and period dramas. That's everything from famous big-name "everyone's heard of this" stuff, weird arthouse stuff, hideously bad stuff and really old stuff - although I've covered a lot more LGBT media than I have period pieces. There's also a lot of LGBT period pieces, because...well...of course. If you haven't gone to Chez Apocalypse, I'd recommend both Sursum Ursa (who talks about many different topics and tends to be quite positive, although there's often a focus on "female-centered' entertainment) and Rantasmo, who is another queer-media-focussed critic, although his videos have a very different style to mine. Also if you like exploitation films, the Cine-Masochist is very enthusiastic and well-informed about his choice of review material.
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Sarcopenia posted:I Just got around to watch your videos, and I've kind of been binge watching them today. My roommate and I have a very young gay friend who's had trouble knowing where to begin with looking into queer culture and theory, (most of his friends are 17-18 year old hipsters who see his sexuality more as a niche) so we plan to have a once a month queer cinema day at our apartment. I've had problems finding stuff that wasn't just utterly depressing or exploitative so it's nice to have someone weed it out a bit. I already added a lot of the stuff you covered to the list of movies we'll watch. So thanks! thanks! I'm glad you like my reviews. If you'd like recommendations for queer movies that are nice and positive and fun etc, I can give you some. Some ones that I haven't reviewed but I think are more positive in tone are Beautiful Thing, loving Amal/Show Me Love, The Sum Of Us (although it might be upsetting if he doesn't have a good relationship with his parents), My Beautiful Laundrette, Cloudburst, But I'm A Cheerleader, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love (which is VERY 90s, so just be prepared for that) and Pride. (The above films are a mix of lesbian and gay male and a couple of trans themes.) Lots of people like Weekend, because of how aggressively "normal" but at the same time explicitly queer it is, but I personally found it a bit dull. I'm not as up on my LGBT tv, or my LGBT comic books, so you might have to get some other recommendations on that if he's interested in that kind of thing. But I definitely recommend having queer movie nights.
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One of my favourite bits about the vlog is how all the sidebar suggestions are for beauty tutorials, haul videos and Mums vlogging about their kids.
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Jan 17, 2015 22:06
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Metal Loaf posted:It's strange looking at Baywatch from the perspective of someone in 2015. It seems like it was such a big deal in its day, but now it's a relic of the 1990s. There's some series that, their quality or lack thereof notwithstanding, achieve a certain degree of timelessness even when they're products of their time (sticking to the 1990s, I'd put forward The X-Files, Seinfeld, possibly Friends, and even camp-fests like Xena: Warrior Princess), and then there's stuff that made an impact in its day and was a big deal at the time but doesn't seem to retain the same recognition or influence. Twin Peaks had a pretty big impact but that was early 90s. It'll be interesting to see which of today's television makes more of an impact than simple nostalgia in 20 years time.
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Jan 18, 2015 22:28
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That Maroon 5 song was utterly ridiculous. Also...it might just have been that I worked in a butcher's once, but I couldn't help noticing that those sides of beef looked really plasticky. Maybe I just didn't want to look at Adam Levine's weird, rippling back. Wait a minute...Adam Levine...Ted Levine...oh nooooooooooooo........ Anyway. After being rather busy with the holidays, and putting up an exhibition, I've finally put out a new episode! Here's my take on Picnic at Hanging Rock. I didn't mention this in the review, but apparently Sofia Coppola took a lot of inspiration from PAHR when she was making Virgin Suicides. Well, that explains why it's the only film of hers that I thought was any good - because she more-or-less duplicated the mood and atmosphere from another movie.
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Jan 19, 2015 02:21
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I hated them even in the days of She Will Be Loved, which..thankfully was a bit less processed than the latter stuff. But in that song, it wasn't the high shrill bits of the chorus, it was the flat, nasally and awful tone of the verses. I can see how you'd like them if you had no taste though. They're "catchy." (Catchy, in my mind isn't necessarily a good thing, any more than saying that a song having guitar in it is automatically a good thing. You know what's really catchy? Godawful post-1950 church songs. Those things are so bland and predictable and repetitive they drill their way into your brain and won't leave.)
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Jack Gladney posted:That was great. Picnic at Hanging Rock has stuck with me for a long time, and I think you've got the reason in the haunting atmosphere and total refusal to resolve anything--not just the disappearances, but how we're to take apparent fixation or romance between students, and how we're to understand what happens to Appleyard. It's like all those shows about unsolved crimes and disappearances: the actual answers are likely very mundane or not at all remarkable, but if you remove just a few pieces of evidence then the stories haunt the popular imagination forever. Thanks so much for the feedback! For whatever reason, I put off seeing the movie for a long time, because I thought it would be dry and uninteresting, or no longer relevant (much like no one really rushes out of their way to see My Brilliant Career, or The Man From Snowy River anymore. Well, those films could be quality entertainment, I don't know, but I never felt excited about seeing them out.) The answer that Joan Lindsay came up with wasn't mundane, but it was ludicrous, and sort of "ruined everything." It's so stupid that I don't even want to mention it here. Your interpretation sounds perfectly valid to me. In my mind, I think this is a film like Mulholland Drive - it can be interpreted in a number of ways, and I don't think any one of them is necessarily wrong. I find it interesting that it makes Australia into a dangerous place in a way that many other Australian horror/ozsploitation movies differ from. In most of them, the danger is from animals, or from feral and animalistic people. In this, it's the landscape itself. People can use that to their advantage (just read anything about bushrangers), or it can be their downfall (Burke and Wills, all the mountains in Australia called things like Mt.Disappointment or Mt.Warning.) But yes, for me it simply reminded me of stories that pop up in the news relatively frequently, of people getting completely lost, often dying or disappearing forever. There's even a case of a guy calling for an ambulance, and being asked repeatedly to give his nearest cross-street, even though he was in the middle of the bush. He died. And if you want to think about it as a murder, rather than a disappearance, one of the most famous Australian serial killers operated out of a national park. And now I'm wondering if there's many Canadian films made about the danger of the landscape and the threat of the wilderness.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:46
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I haven't been there yet. Nor have I been to SA (or Tas, or WA, or NT, or more than the barest scrap of QLD). I'm a Bad Australian. But yes, Australia has some very nice natural areas, which deserve to be explored. Just take your phone and plenty of water and make sure somebody knows where you're going.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:29
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Testekill posted:Part two of Todds top ten is up ahaha, Trumpets is so loving poo poo sounding. Well...actually, I thought it was poo poo the minute the first part of it played, and then it got to the lines about the arse/eyes/bra. Wow. Just wow. DJ Mustard's beats seem not only identical, but as low-effort as possible. I feel like I could make a better beat than that and I've only got the barest knowledge of an out of date version of FL Studio. Just an ugly collection of songs all-round. I'd never heard of "Take me to church", and so I looked it up. It's certainly a bit of a dirge, and I'm sure I'd get sick of it if I had to listen to it frequently, but I'm very confused that it even managed to be an honourable mention on the list, when the list was made up of things that were a thousand times more musically horrible, with far uglier and less-considered messages. Also, a lot of the worst songs were really  , whereas the Hozier one seemed like it had some actual work put into it.
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Jan 19, 2015 23:15
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KayTee posted:Did you know that the favorite movie listed among EDL/BNP/National Front types over here is "This is England". This whole thing reminds me of that little factoid. Wow, sounds like they really didn't understand This Is England. That movie didn't portray the racism as anything other than a bad thing, and had a pretty good contrast between the more moderate and racially diverse skinheads, and the full on neo-nazi styled skinheads. Much like how lots of people love Fight Club but really take Tyler Durden's ridiculous analysis of masculinity and anti-authority seriously, and think it'd be a great idea to have fight clubs. Then again... KayTee posted:If you think the core audience for this film is going to see anything much beyond "Kill the forrins" then I've got some depressing news for you: Humans are poo poo and also dumb. Jay O posted:You may also come away from the film with "what a boring slushpile of barely-directed nothing," but you know, Clint Eastwood movie. Ugh, it's a Clint Eastwood movie? That explains a lot. Clint is TERRIBLE at making movies that don't star himself. Take Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which cast John Cusack as some gape-mouthed boring nobody and yet made the whole movie revolve around him - and let's not forget J.Edgar, which took a very weird view of homosexuality (similar to The Imitation Game, actually!) i.e. a very sympathetic hand-wringing understanding of it. That sort of thing was acceptable and progressive in the 60s, when most movies and TV hadn't moved beyond comic relief effeminate guys and evil gay people - but nowadays, that sort of grovelling, cringing view of gay people just seems really out of touch. Well, that aside - good luck with the new project Alison! I love the neon set. Great sets are always great fun, and since not everyone can do them, I totally appreciate one whenever I see it.
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DStecks posted:Hey, I've been archive binging your stuff, and I gotta ask, where the hell do you find this poo poo? How does one stumble onto Still Flowin The Movie? Like, do you just go to the YouTube search bar and type "make me hurt"? Oh my god, I didn't even know Cheapskate did Still Flowin! (Released when I was overseas and had sporadic internet.) I found out about the glories of RAED several years ago, when a video of his was posted on Something Awful, and I still maintain that "I DONT CARE WHO YOU ARE" (the actual title) is the worst song of all time. There are songs that are possibly more annoying, but in terms of musical skill and general all-round quality, it truly is worse than anything else I've ever heard or witnessed before. I've mentioned this to people who didn't believe me, until I played it for them. In a sense, I'm exceptionally glad that he exists, because it's really nice to be able to definitively, confidently say that something truly is the worst. I had no idea RAED was a stalker. That's hilarious. God, Raed is a gift from god. He really is the Tommy Wiseau/Sam Mraovich/Chris-Chan of music. Oh no....Raed was in a church at some point in this movie. That's giving me terrible Ben and Arthur flashbacks. I decided not to watch the film myself, as...well, I knew it would be terrible. And i'm glad to see that it delivered, by being probably more terrible than Ben and Arthur. Amazing. AHAHAHA, SCHAPELLE CORBY. I just....I don't even know what to say. But if he is seriously mentally ill, then I feel a bit bad for laughing at him. Excellent review and I'm sorry I missed it before.
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Jan 27, 2015 23:18
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Violet_Sky posted:Infamous Sphere, did you ever do "Boys Don't Cry" on your show yet? Nope - not yet. I've been hesitant to approach it, because it's not exactly...well...fun. I usually do a Trigger Warning Trilogy during the turn of the year, so if I were going to do it, right now would be the time. I'm just not sure what to say about it. also I have a nasty cold, I just had an exhibition and I really should be job hunting at the moment - unemployed since April - so the videos aren't really coming out that quickly at the moment.
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Jan 28, 2015 11:13
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DeCoteau movies are impossible to talk about for any length of time usually (A Talking Cat?! may be an exception) because they're just some lame horror elements and a lot of softcore male nudity of gay porn stars walking around. Well, I haven't sat through one, but I've watched Dante's Cove and I'm assuming it's pretty much the same thing. First 7 minutes are amazing, the rest of it's mind-numbingly boring.
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Jan 30, 2015 21:43
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Film Brain has put up his review of best and worst of 2014.DStecks posted:I made another Sonichu review, a bit on the quick and dirty side (no pun intended). Bad Reviews 15.5: KCWC Epilogue Uh..congratulations on your signed photo!
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Hey Dstecks, was KCWC better or worse than Chym FM? Even if the snowballs are referring to some random snack, why did he just randomly bring them up? As far as I know there were no snacks depicted in the comic. (In Australia a snowball is/was a marshmallow thing covered in chocolate and coconut - sort of like a marshmallow lamington now that I think of it.)
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Feb 7, 2015 07:50
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Ebert also didn't like Blue Velvet. I maintain that he seriously misunderstood that movie (he thought it was misogynistic - whereas I think it's a very interesting comment on gender roles.)
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Tracula posted:Since I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin I just like to imagine that Plinkett is literally my neighbor and that I have a psychopath who tortures women and reviews the Star Wars prequels just a stones throw away Well, I hate to say it, but for a long time this was the only thing I knew about Milwaukee. In fact, being as I'm not an American, it's still just about the only thing I know about Milwaukee. I like some of RLM's stuff, but to be honest I only really watch best of the worst and wheel of the worst. I've never been that interested in watching a vlog with little in the way of visuals, rather listen to a podcast, so Half in the Bag doesn't hold much draw for me, and I've never bothered with Plinkett. But other people like that stuff, and that's great. But a good BOTW/WOTW is usually the funniest thing I've seen for quite a while.
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JB50 posted:Ya but Cinema Snob isnt totally annoying, and actually offers pretty good critiques. I'm not entirely sure about that. His reviews are so insanely self-referential that if you watch a random one without watching the five hundred ones that came previously, you won't be able to understand what the hell he's talking about. I'm sure he's a nice guy in real life and everything, but I don't think his reviews are accessible.
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For once an advantage to being in Australia! Usually the stuff's blocked here and not in the US. It's.... it's raining dykes. Every single time I think that Chris-Chan has reached the limit of his insanity, there's something even greater and more terrible than ever before. Thank you Dstecks for reviewing this. I appreciate your insane level of commitment. Although the end of the review is making me terrified that you'll eventually be a professional Chris-chan impersonator. poparena posted:Threw up a quick review of Redwall by Brian Jacques, the medieval-light-fantasy-but-with-rodents book where mice are white people and rats are the Huns. Wow, 1986? I had no idea it was that old! I thought it came out in the mid-to-late 90s for some reason. I always thought it was pronounced "azmo-day-us". Redwall is...I'm ashamed to admit how much I liked it. There's something comforting about the formula. However, it's extremely, punishingly formulaic and kind of racist. Redwall as a series also frequently suffers from what I'll call "ensemble television show syndrome" - where the main character is always the most boring one, and you wish one of the supporting characters were the protagonist instead. I didn't reread Redwall that much myself because Matthias is so dull. Oh and holy poo poo I hated anything involving those stupid babies/"dibbuns". Throw them into the sun, I say! Much like how Matthias can do whatever the plot requires him, the animals are always the size that the plot requires them to be. It's amazingly inconsistent. Although I will note that Redwall is the first book of the series (even though chronologically it's somewhere in the middle), and it's the only book that has a horse in it. I think Brian Jacques realised that horses were just too amazingly out of scale to the rest of the story, and they were never mentioned again. There's a couple of characters throughout the series who aren't really good or evil - Mossflower features an eagle who preys on both the bad guys and the good, but doesn't seem to do so out of particular malice, more because...well..he's an eagle. And that's another thing that doesn't make sense. Some of the characters have motivations which are more human, and other characters act far more like animals and don't have a morality, like the eagle. It's kind of embarrassing to compare Redwall to Watership Down, for instance, or even those slightly absurd "the prophecy!" David Clement Davies books about wolves and deer. They're lower on the anthropomorphism scale (the animals are basically...animals in their pure form, but can communicate with each other and sometimes with other species) but they really do use the animal's biology and social structure and relationship with humans as narrative tools. I haven't read the guardians owl series but I'm sure, as an animal loving kid, I would have loved it.
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Rebochan posted:New Baywatching went up on Patreon. I'm going to be very sad when Billy Warlock finally leaves the show and I lose my regular dose of Eddie abuse. The actor's name was Billy Warlock? BILLY WARLOCK?
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Feb 24, 2015 06:25
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Leal posted:Don't know if it was mentioned in the recent shitstorm, but Jon Tron uploaded a video about barbie video games I've never watched Jontron before and I don't have a massive interest in games in general, but that was genuinely very entertaining.
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Feb 27, 2015 08:15
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Did Eddie's face suddenly transform or is he no longer played by BILLY WARLOCK? Or do I need my eyes checked? Haha, they put Mitch in a Tommy Wiseau wig.
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Mar 7, 2015 23:35
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High Warlord Zog posted:You know, for an internet critic Doug sure doesn't internet very well. Maybe I'm being disingenuous, but considering his non-existent social media presence, and the absolute lack of fucks given re: managing his website and the community it attracts, this seems a fair assumption. For some reason, I couldn't get past the fact that Doug was never bothered to check his spelling. Granted, not everyone in the world has a fantastic time with spelling, but he continued to make incredibly obvious errors of the sort that couldn't be caught with spellcheck - such as homophonic pairs, like substituting "pair" for "pear" as in "partridge in a pair tree." But yes, I do get the feeling he doesn't know how to use the internet or technology to its best advantage.
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CATCHING UP ON THE THREADpoparena posted:My newest requested review is up on "Who is Bugs Potter?" by Gordon Korman, a book whose main protagonist is completely blind to everyone's feelings and get's everything he wants without consequence. I hate you, Bugs Potter. Wow, it'd be quite something having commercial writing success that early in life. That's even earlier than S.E Hinton. I didn't really experience much of that kind of children's literature - Judy Blume wasn't that big in Australia, although I read a few Ramona books. Never heard of Gordon Korman before. Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching is up: The Fabulous Buchannon Boys! Mitch's sleepy brother shows up with his kid. Meanwhile, shoddy bikinis. What the HELL is Kay wearing when she photographs the pier? Also, RE the Puss 'N Boots review - a Christmas Puppy *isn't* by David DeCoteau? Shatner's actually from Montreal, so one would think that he might know how to speak French outside of just reading off cue cards. However, he's from an English bit of Montreal, before all the Quebec separatism made most of the city as vehemently French as it is now, so..maybe he just managed to escape learning it beyond the half-arsed high school French most Anglo Canadians get. Well, that movie looks terrible - although I'll agree with you that when compared to Food Fight, the animation/character design isn't that bad. They at least know how to do textures like velvet and wood, instead of just shiny globule shitweasel everything. I'm also beginning to realise that really lovely animated movies tend to fill time with the characters just...dancing around and making pointless noises (see also Ratatoing.) Because kids won't care! The monkey's accent is half-Jamaican, half-Welsh. How the gently caress did they manage that? Excellent. Can't wait for the next part. Infamous Sphere fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Miss Wallace posted:Well a lot of the time when something is dubbed into English, they tend to fill in gaps with random noises so that the lips fit. It's a combination of a) laziness because they don't want to edit, a b) space-saving on the DVD. They only need one copy of the video file, and just switch the language track. The end result is annoyance, mostly. That makes a lot of sense! High Warlord Zog posted:On the other hand we did have authors like Robin Klein (who I never much cared for) and Morris Gleitzman was and continues to be awesome. I liked Robin Klein, Morris Gleitzman was often a little too cringeworthy embarrassing for me (which was the point, but I felt too much secondhand embarrassment reading those books), Gillian Rubinstein, Emily Rodda, Elizabeth Honey etc. And they were all great. (Although Gillian Rubinstein's Space Demons series wasn't exactly slice of life, more of a sort of...speculative fiction?) Oh, and also Phillip Gwynne. Deadly Unna/Nukkin Ya were really great books. I never read Lockie Leonard, but I did read the Bugalugs Bum Thief! Hey-o!
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New episode! (It's been a long time coming but I've been rather busy with a new course of study.) I reviewed the Wachowskis' first film, Bound!
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Oh my, baby RLM.poparena posted:After seeing Bound, I had this image in my head of the Wachowskis watching Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa and going "this story is totally being told from the wrong perspective." That was partly why they didn't want to make Corky a dude, because that story..is hardly new. It's not exactly a unique plot, but there's nothing wrong with doing "Basic movie plot...WITH LESBIANS/GAY GUYS/TRANSPEOPLE!" once in a while, because...after all, it's good to have some LGBT movies that aren't *just* about being LGBT. Bound is silly, but it strikes a pretty good balance between not ignoring the characters' LGBT status, but also giving the characters an actual storyline that doesn't necessarily just fall into LGBT cliches. Which is not to say that you can't make a good movie about coming out or facing homophobia or whatever, but one doesn't necessarily want all LGBT movies to be about that.
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loving Amal is great, certainly the truest-to-life of my coming out experience. I'm not sure how I should read into it, but Lukas Moodyson is really good at writing well-rounded and realistic teenage girl characters. I loved We Are The Best for the same reason.
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From what I can tell, Youtube are inconsistent as hell. They'll mute the sound in a video because it's got a short snippet of some copyrighted song, used in a context that's clearly parody/entertainment/not trying to claim that it's your song, or they'll shut you down for having an edited clip of a movie (for some reason they HATE anyone putting up footage of that terrible movie Closer - it gets flagged immediately, almost as if the creators of Closer don't want anyone to see bits of it and realise how bad it is) - but then they'll go right ahead and leave up videos that are the whole of a movie, or people posting a whole CD's worth of music by a known musician/artist. It's almost like they don't care about having someone else's content up there for free, as long as you don't edit it/alter it in any way. So the whole of Titanic can be up there for ages, but a Youtube poop of that guy hitting the propellor or whatever gets taken down immediately. As a consequence I haven't yet put my stuff up on Youtube, even thought it might reach a greater audience/get me a little bit more pocket change through ad revenue, because I can't yet bring myself to face the headache of having videos muted or flagged.
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Miss Wallace posted:The best episode will always be Space Mutiny. I LOVE Space Mutiny, and Danger: Diabolik. I have no idea why but the comment about the game of simon stuck to the ceiling had me practically in tears. I think I just can't get enough of John Phillip Law - the first movie I ever saw him in was The Sergeant, which I reviewed. It's a very serious sort of movie about a tortured closeted gay military commander who hits on an unaware young private - and so it was bizarre to see that most of the rest of his career is just weird campy b movies. Pod People, Werewolf, Laserblast, Merlin's shop of mystical wonders, even stupid stuff like the Girl in Gold Boots - there's a lot of great MST3k movies. I watched a lot of them last year while I was knitting a whole bunch of shawls. I can't remember how I heard of them - TV tropes, probably? (I'm definitely too young and too not-American to have gotten them the first time around.) First episode I watched was Manos, which was DEFINITELY not the best one to start with. Later I watched Werewolf and Laserblast and enjoyed them a lot more.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I know it's... counter intuitive, but are there any episodes that aren't so good? They couldn't really make "Racket girls" very entertaining. I struggled through that one. I slightly prefer Mike - can't remember who I started watching, but when I was lent someone's MST3k DVDs I thought "wait a minute, why is the main guy a different guy now? I thought he was called Joel? Or is he called Mike?" But I think they're both great hosts. I didn't grow up with the show or watch it on-air, so I don't really have an attachment to one host over another.
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Clearly, the next 1 hit wonderland Todd does should be on Shaddup You Face As an Australian, I feel embarrassed that that's one of our main cultural contributions to the world 
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I must be missing something/maybe there's a cultural divide, because..I just don't get what's amusing about that video? I mean it's Ok, I guess....but it's just a guy eating a biscuit.
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Apr 3, 2015 02:06
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Jack Gladney posted:Luckily there aren't any left. Infamous Sphere's videos are good too. I hope she didn't get chased out by all this nonsense. Oh thanks! I'm working on a video right now actually, it's about portrayals of bisexual men on TV. I visit this thread frequently, but it isn't...really going in the direction that I'd like it to go in, to be honest. I usually skim read it.
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I know people aren't always fond of Film Brain, but I think he's a genuinely good person (he's always been absolutely lovely on Twitter) who always puts in a lot of work into his reviews and opinions, and whenever he releases a video you know it's going to be really thorough. I rate him. DStecks posted:Any discussion of Trailer Park Boys? Ricky? Hmm, I only watched a few episodes of that show - when I was in Canada, prompted by the fact that I was at an artist's residency with the guy who played Jacob Collins. It's not really my thing so I wasn't particularly interested in watching the entire back catalogue. For some reason, TPB makes me feel depressed. TBH usually when I say "I'm discussing this subject!" it means I'm discussing it in reference to a couple of pieces of media, much like how Rantasmo does videos like "Chasing Amy and bisexual erasure" where he discusses bisexual erasure as a general concept, and more specifically how it relates to Chasing Amy. Good suggestion though. Benny the Snake posted:Or Rescue Me? Oh, I've never heard of that! I always like to hear about other characters I haven't thought of - but no, my video won't be mentioning either of those things. It'll hopefully be out by the end of the week.
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I'm not even bothered by the way he talks, it's fine. Also, while he might have a..distinctive speech pattern, sometimes he's criticised for the dumbest reasons. If you're stupid enough to read the comments on tgwtg, there's people there that tell him that they can't stand his (perfectly normal Southern English) accent, and tell him to do his videos in Microsoft Sam or fake an American accent instead.
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Miss Wallace posted:New Baywatching: Point of Attack! Eddie inspires a troubled youth to be as least like him as possible. That sidewalk montage is like the creators saw the "Streets of philly" opening sequence from Philadelphia, and, like me, they realised it was the only good part of the movie. Which is unlikely because that episode came out before Philadelphia. Unless Jonathan Demme got the idea FROM Baywatch....OH NO. Wow, almost everyone in this show seems as if they're completely unlikeable. Thank god Eddie's getting stabbed next episode, hooray! poparena posted:From personal experience, people rarely request things they think are bad. I think the only time it's happened for SFDebris was with Howard the Duck and Battlefield Earth, and it's never happened to me. 99% of the time, these people are looking to get their positive views on a work vindicated. Oh I dunno, I think I've had people request bad things, although usually it is something they want me to like. Naturally if the premise of the show is "I review bad things!" then people are going to request only bad things.
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DStecks posted:I finally did it. After seven drat months of on and off production, the first half of my review of Sir Billi is finally done. (Skip to the 4:30 mark if you don't follow or give a poo poo about the finale storyline). Hey Dstecks, where did your brother(?) get that sweet Canadian Tire shirt he was wearing in like....Sonichu episode 7 or 8? When I was in Canada I asked at Canadian Tire if they had one and they were like ".....uhhhhh" Me: "But I saw one in this video!" Them: "Uhhhhhhhh...." Sir Billi looks almost as hideous as food fight.
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Apr 12, 2015 00:52
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DStecks posted:Well, see, my dad's cousin is Scott Steckly, and Canadian Tire is his primary sponsor; the shirt is promotional swag for the race crew. My dad is his crew chief, and David (my brother) hangs out with the crew a lot. Yeah, shipping to Australia from Canada isn't...great  although unlike the US you've still got sea mail. I sent some books home from Montreal for about... $10? Maybe it was more. "Small packet international surface" ended up being $7.45 or something, just from calculating using a random Ottawa postcode. I'm glad to solve the mystery of the shirt though! I asked them in Canadian Tire and they said that the only way anyone could have gotten one, is if they'd worked there. I did get some Canadian Tire money though, and that was pretty excellent.
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Miss Wallace posted:Phelan, Brad, and I watched the show for the first time together and it was a beautiful experience. The dog falling out of a hospital window at the end of an episode made us lose our poo poo. I'm now wondering whether you've seen Inspector Rex, a show with possibly the best worst theme song ever. Holy poo poo, Eddie's actor sounds like a creep.
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