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What's everyone's opinion on Bennett the Sage? He reviews schlock anime from the 90s and early 2000s, and occasionally dips into some weird sketch comedy. He can strike a good balance between letting terrible OVAs speak for themselves and actually having some quite insightful moments. Unfortunately, this can also be frustrating, when he's discussing a show you might want a more in depth look at, and instead he goes for the poop joke instead.
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Jan 15, 2015 00:57
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e X posted:That sums up my option of him pretty well. he really seems to know his stuff and it is really interesting when he goes into detail with it, but sadly his show is often too routed into the Nostalgia Critic formula. I mean, occasionally his jokes are legitimately funny, but overall, I have the feeling there is a lot squandered potential in his reviews He tends to be more in depth on shows he actually likes or vehemently hates. His recent review of Tokyo Godfathers was excellent, whereas his Night of the Cockroaches review was a godawful parody of The Critic. Also, the angry commenter video after his Critic crossover was legitimately funny.
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Jan 15, 2015 01:08
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He really sold me on some films, especially Royal Space Force and Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Goddamn those were some good films.
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Jan 15, 2015 01:33
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Metal Loaf posted:I'm not much into anime so I'm not especially familiar with Sage's reviews, but I did enjoy his video on the best Hot 100 number-one singles of all time. Hard to disagree with "Georgia On My Mind". poo poo I forgot about those specials. I'd love to see him do another show talking about music, because those videos talking about the best and worst chart leaders and the worst covers were fantastic. Guy really does know his stuff.
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Jan 15, 2015 01:58
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Mraagvpeine posted:I was skimming the older thread and noticed that no one talked about his Inuyasha review. I would've thought there would be some reaction to his... skit in there. Was that the video where he blasted his editor with semen? Or was that the one where the Editor hit the fast-forward button and ended up fifty years in the future?
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Jan 15, 2015 02:12
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Hey so I watched the Foodfight review Phelous, Lupa, and Brad did, and have decided Phelous's sense of humor is something I want more of in my life. What are some good reviews to check out? If you can stomach some of the images, I rather enjoyed his Human Centipede 2 review.
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Jan 15, 2015 16:12
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Thanks to whoever brought up MrBtongue in the previous thread. You never know how much you needed a gamey talky youtube person who's actually read books until you get one. Seriously, even if you don't care for his Mass Effect 3 dissection, watch his videos. The Shandification of Fallout made me realize just how much thought and planning went into New Vegas over Fallout 3, and not just because former Black Isle developers were on the case.
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Jan 26, 2015 06:54
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Jay O posted:But a bad year for animated movies. Apart from The Lego Movie, which I loved, I can't even remember much about the animated films that came out last year. Was anything else actually worth watching?
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Feb 2, 2015 19:31
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2014 is best left in the past as far as internet and pop culture goes, truth be told.
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I'm iffy on Takahata's filmography as well, though that includes Grave of the Fireflies. I'm kinda with Sage on this one, I don't really like seeing a man's apology letter to his dead sister being turned into a "shut the gently caress up and obey your parents" message. Really pretty to look at, but not without problems. lovely to hear about Monty. I may have hated what he did to the last few Red vs Blue seasons and RWBY is a trainwreck, but I can't say I didn't enjoy some of his early stuff like Haloid. Poor guy.
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Feb 2, 2015 22:27
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Holy poo poo someone else remembers The Strangerhood.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:38
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The thing about Sage's review of Fireflies is how he mainly reads things from a westerner's interpretation of anime. He doesn't so much go into the detail of what was going on in Japan at the time (though he does bring it up, mind you) as he criticizes the film for shortcomings involving character development and changes done in the adaptation. I don't have a problem with a film that wants to educate people, but I agree that it shouldn't have been done based on someone's personal memoirs. But again this is being taken from an outsider's perspective, where the rest of the world sees an anti war film that Takahata has vehemently denied allegations of.
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Feb 3, 2015 03:58
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MrBtongue has a new video out about Django Unchained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEgETtPBDI
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Feb 5, 2015 17:51
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John Goodman is in Speed Racer? poo poo I might have to stop ignoring that movie. Wachowski-fied anime featuring one of the biggest hams this side of Brian Blessed sounds crazy enough to watch.
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Feb 14, 2015 04:50
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http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-ninja-resurrection-7160063 Sage reviews an anime where Jesus is reborn in Japan, turns into a Terracotta dragon, fights an historical figure and proceeds to be reborn as Satan by ripping himself out of a woman's womb.
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Feb 14, 2015 06:41
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The Escapist has been imploding for a while now, and the big issue seems to be the people upstairs. Jim Sterling quit after his boss at the Escapist willingly let the Gamergate debacle engulf the site, and then even hosted the opinions of a developer/journalist/somebodycan'trememberproperly who had publicly slandered Jim. Recently, they had a huge number of layoffs at the site for longtime employees, and they have been bleeding content for years without replacing it. There is almost nothing on the site anymore that hasn't been rehosted somewhere else first. Any time one of their big draws leaves or gets shitcanned, they just throw more Top Ten lists or repeats of old Game Theory episodes. Most of LoadingReadyRun's stuff is on Youtube already, and even the Critical Miss guy, douchebag he can be, is considering leaving the site and just going to patreon. If there's a trend I've noticed over the past year it is content producers striking out on their own. People breaking away from Machinima, The Escapist burning off all its talent, and Channel Awesome being pretty much irrelevant anymore, these hosting sites are on their last legs.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:11
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Reminder that The Escapist tried to claim the majority of Extra Credit's profits from a charity drive intended to help pay for their artist's surgery.
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Feb 15, 2015 07:00
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Tracula posted:Wasn't it more on the writers making JJTrek 2 awful than Abrams himself? It was a Kurtzman and Orci script, the guys also responsible for the Transformers movie scripts and the Amazing Spiderman Series. Abrams is a good director, but he gets saddled with bad writers and his own writing is mediocre at best. That's why I'm cautiously optimistic for Episode 7. While Abrams co-wrote it, I'm hoping that Lawrence Kasdan (Empire Strikes Back and Co-EP7 Writer) slapped the pencil out of Abrams's hand whenever he wrote something stupid.
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Feb 15, 2015 15:02
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Now, I may find TB to be a hyperbolic dude that I rarely agree with, but I don't see how people linking to an eight year old idiotpost he put up here is any different than the people who dug up Hope Chapman's internet history from when she was younger. It's disingenuous and rather petty. Hell, I like Moviebob but his first stuff he did for the Escapist was loving terrible. Guess what, though, people change and opinions can change over time.
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Feb 16, 2015 14:57
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Mraagvpeine posted:How do you feel about Bennett the Sage? I like him. When he's on his game he can absolutely nail a review. And when he isn't, usually the stuff he's reviewing is weird enough to make up for it.
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Feb 16, 2015 19:16
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So Moviebob reviews 50 Shades of Grey and enjoys not needing to affect a sophisticated accent anymore. The Boston is in full swing.
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Feb 17, 2015 22:49
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Ugggh, I've been rewatching some of Nostalgia Critic's crossover videos, and dammit they are annoying whenever the guest star knows a hell of a lot more than Doug does. Any time someone might have something insightful to say, the script has NC shutting them up because they're "boring". See all of his Star Trek reviews, especially his one with Linkara, or the Digimon Movie with JO where she tried to go into detail about the animation and got shut up. Maybe I want to hear something interesting rather than needless nitpicking once in a while.
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Feb 20, 2015 18:24
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I actually stopped watching NC a while ago after his skits became unbearable. I only came back to look at some of the crossovers again because I got thinking about Star Trek and how much his reviews of the bad movies annoyed me.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:40
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Genetic Toaster posted:Dominik Diamond is a national treasure. Doesn't he do radio segments on a Toronto radio station now? I remember Q107 having Dominik Diamond the Scot that Rocks.
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Feb 22, 2015 05:14
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The only Redwall book I can really stand to read anymore is The Long Patrol, mainly because the book is a loving bloodbath for a children's novel. Yes, let's have a Berserker Badger cleave a rat's skull in or have a hare pinned to a tree with a spear through his gut, that'll give the kids some good reads!
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Feb 23, 2015 02:14
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Or just post actual content. For example, Sage just reviewed another Ninja Anime, Ninja Cadets. It's poo poo. http://blip.tv/sagereviews/anime-abandon-ninja-cadets-7163406 Meanwhile, SF Debris covers Sub Rosa, also known as the Star Trek episode where Crusher gets boned by the ghost of her grandma's lover. http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t266.php
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Feb 23, 2015 03:32
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Jumping off the Redwall discussion, has anyone here read the book Raven Quest? It was nominated for a Silver Birch award about seven or eight years ago (its an award given out to Canadian YA literature) and I thought that it handled talking animals rather well. Its generic as all hell when it comes to plot, but the difference between the super smart ravens, the less clever city dump crows and the wolfpack were pretty well written. I also liked how it treated human interaction and interference as this destructive alien force, where the Two-Legs are mysterious killing machines that invade the wolves territory yet tempt them with their livestock.
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Feb 23, 2015 20:46
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D&D with Porn Stars, collaborators with the Escapist to make "I hit it with my Axe", have declared they will never work with the company again after they hired transphobic douchebag Brandon Morse. The content implosion continues. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Feb 24, 2015 03:42
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Spiritus Nox posted:So are they just firing/driving away everybody but Yahtzee? Because I'm pretty sure it's him, LRR, and Critical Miss left at this point. Surely the Escapist isn't stupid enough to think people actually go there for articles. I dunno, Critical Intel was usually a pretty good article. Granted they did just fire him though...
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Feb 24, 2015 04:03
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lornekates posted:Plinkett should review the Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars prequels. He did do a "special edition" of his Phantom Menace review when it was rereleased in 3D.
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Feb 24, 2015 06:06
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Sage finishes off Ninja month. And he brings up a good point. How many drat times do anime just throw the line "you bastard!" in as filler dialogue?
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Feb 28, 2015 07:04
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I liked Rorschach's psychiatrist. In the end even after he turned into a cynical bastard, he realized he still needed to help people just because it was the right thing to do.
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Feb 28, 2015 08:34
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He also thought that Human Revolution had nothing meaningful to say about transhumanism because it presented multiple themes and arguments rather than coming down hard in support for one side or the other. Or how Star Wars games aren't good unless they're constantly making new game mechanics. Errant Signal is kind of weird like that.
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Feb 28, 2015 16:14
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My favorite grey choices in KOTOR 2 are the Ithorian/Czerka and the Talia/Vaklu conflicts. General Vaklu is a very charismatic leader and a powerful ally to have, but unfortunately his second in command is in cahoots with the Sith. But Vaklu himself just wants what is best for Onderon and who can blame him? The Republic is falling apart and the planet is still recovering from the aftermath of two wars. Talia is the true leader, but she follows the word of the Jedi who haven't been making the best decisions lately and have a bad habit of bringing the life eating Nihilus down on them. The Czerka Ithorian split isn't quite as good, but it does have a nice payoff in the end. Again, the split isn't so much about good/evil, but about pragmatism/optimism. Czerka definitely have shady business practices, but so does every corporation in Star Wars. And while the supposed agenda of the Ithorians that Kreia posits never actually comes true, she makes a good point about not trusting them. Czerka is up front, they will pay you for services given. The Ithorians are a long term investment that might not even work. Again, in the postwar galaxy, can you really blame people for looking out for their own. Also, Angry Joe reviews The Order: 1886 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6NHKDh-Mo One of his better reviews. I like Joe a lot better when he tones down the screaming and flailing. He still gets emphatic, but when he reels it in he gets a lot tighter. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 06:41
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Arbite posted:It's amazing what an extra year in the cooker does to one's QA. Also not having your QA be done by Bethesda so they can screw you out of royalty bonuses by their sheer bugfixing incompetence.
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Mar 4, 2015 19:18
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The thing is, I don't know why Obsidian didn't do the QA themselves. When given proper development times, they tend to fix their bugs. See Stick of Truth and Dungeon Siege 3. Both relatively bug free. And Ropekid has said on this forum that a lot of stuff that was broken on release was functional when they sent the game off to Bethesda for QA. But Obsidian gets poo poo for bethesda's failure at bug fixing.
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Mar 4, 2015 20:45
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It's like Star Wars, there's just some music that is so completely ingrained in the scene that you cannot imagine it without the music playing.
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Mar 5, 2015 04:19
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Jay O posted:Yeah, I definitely considered the boat chase set to "Elm," but it was a little too similar to both the #10 and #9 spots for different reasons, (ironic use of a mellow tune + Jet-focused piece) so it didn't quite make it. It's Bebop, I could have made a Top 30+ without stretching for content. Like you said, you could have filled the entire list with music from Knocking on Heaven's Door alone. That soundtrack is insane. And I like that you put Cowboy Andy's riff in there. Someone apparently liked Ennio Morricone soundtracks. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mar 6, 2015 06:20
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Hey, maybe Doug should try reviewing anime then, as a new show. Because his Sailor Moon video was so well done, or his Porco Rosso Disneycember where he didn't understand that Porco was a goddamn pig.
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Mar 7, 2015 22:01
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Testekill posted:Her last movie was in 2000 in the Thomas the Tank Engine movie with Doug did review. Oh god the Thomas the Tank Engine review. Now the movie is poo poo do not get me wrong, it is just awful. But as is my right to be a massive sperg, could Doug have at least loving watched a couple episodes before going off on the show? Every single complaint he had amounted to "Its Thoooomaaaass the loving tank engine!" Every time. Now admittedly i stopped watching Thomas after that movie came out, but the three first seasons hold a special place in my heart. I've got all of them with both the Ringo Starr and George Carlin narrations, and, as weird as it sounds, they are some of the best examples of world building I've seen in a children's television series. The treated the viewer with respect and didn't talk down to them because it was aimed at kids. It helps that they were based off of the original stories written by Awdry, but for five minute long vignettes, there was a ton of character development and plot progression. And for god's sake, they're trains that talk. Trains are awesome and miniature sets are awesome and Doug Walker knows gently caress all about half the poo poo he reviews. This has been my detour into the spergy world of Thomas the Tank Engine, back to you, bob. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Mar 8, 2015 06:08
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Bennett does have something of a character schtick, but he usually reserves it for sketches nowadays where he abuses gabe. During his reviews he's pretty much himself from what I saw when he was at a con in guelph a few years ago. And he's definitely been getting better at his reviews since mike the engineer got more involved. I hope the guy gets better. Back pains would loving suck.
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Mar 8, 2015 15:39
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