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Bat the animated series managed to balance the fun aspects of batman with the grimness of his character. Like harley quinn being a complete goofball but stustill indicative of a abusive relationship between her and the joker
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People overthinking a bad movie ITT.
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Mar 10, 2015 15:39
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To get this back on track, I watched on of Doug Walker's video reviews, this one for Small Soldiers. So, okay, he spends half the review making comparisons to Gremlins, and then gets confused when the "family film", as he puts it, ends up with some extremely hosed up imagery in it. It's loving Joe Dante. The guy basically lived on skewering American capitalism and nuclear families. How can you be so aware of what is happening and yet so tone deaf at the same time? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Mar 12, 2015 04:30
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I have a feeling he just doesn't get satire or parody, which both of these particular films thrive on. How he also missed out on the fact that the Commando Elite were supposed to be exaggerated caricatures of "heroic" army worship action figures is beyond me.
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Mar 12, 2015 14:09
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Puppy Time posted:This would explain a lot about the movies... Again, Small Soldiers is a Joe Dante film. I'd be more surprised if it didn't have satire. But the bery fact that the GI Joe and Barbie knockoffs in the movie are the bad guys should have made it obvious. Doug says that the commando elite made the gwendy dolls alive to be their sex slaves, when the first thing out of their mouth is declaring themselves cannon fodder gwendies. Joe Dante does NOT like the american toy industry's promotion of military toys and barbie doll ideals.
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Mar 12, 2015 19:18
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stillvisions posted:Was coming in to say the same - LAH fell into the trap of pointing out how silly an action movie cliche is, and then resorted to doing it over and over again. You can do this, but it's tough to do it well and generally needs something to subvert expectations and prove to the audience that the movie was doing it intentionally. Making a joke about how action movies are cookie-cutter and then following cookie-cutter action movie rules makes the joke fall flat, and I think that was part of why LAH missed the mark, though I did find it entertaining to watch as a kid. Hot Fuzz immediately springs to mind as a parody of action films that managed to pull this off. Because it takes the first three quarters of the film tearing down action movie cliches, only to rebuild them in the most gloriously silly way possible for the final shootout.
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Mar 12, 2015 22:39
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Shut up and go away you insufferable putz. You're annoying and you poo poo up the thread with five page long derails about how everyone who disliked Man of Steel is apparently an idiot.
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Mar 13, 2015 13:40
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The CarnEv I'll review isn't as good as his other ones because he was trying to do commentary while playing it live, and ross has already admitted he's terrible at improv. Watch some of his other reviews like Strife or the snowmobile game. In the latter, he comes up with a crazy theory about how the band Point Defiance are actually time travelers to explain how their album that wasn't released for years ended up in a shovelware snomobile game that was created before the band was even formed.
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Mar 14, 2015 19:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsk6oZm1EEA Extra History comes out with their second video detailing the South Sea Bubble. I have to say I really like these Extra History videos. They aren't exactly in depth (Knowing a lot about WW1 and the Sengoku Jidai had me tearing my hair out at times because of some of the major players they omit), but as a broad overview, they do encourage people to search out the finer details.
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Mar 15, 2015 00:48
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Outcast of Gor will always be my favorite. Cabbot, Cabbot, Cabbot, Cabbot, Cabbot! Though I'm also fond of the mexican Santa Claus one where he fights Satan.
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Mar 19, 2015 14:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZDVr3mZzg AngryJoe does not like Battlefield Hardline. So how long before EA shitcans Visceral?
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Mar 24, 2015 01:44
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Apparently the escapist approached lrr and told them unskippable wasn't making enough money, so they were going to cancel it. They offered lrr the chance to make another show, but since unskippable was the only property they owened, lrr turned them down and left. They still own feed dump so that's going up on their youtube and is open for patreon support. But unskippable was owned by the escapist, so mst3k gaming edition isn't coming back and lrr can't make another show in the same format without tempting copyright.
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Mar 26, 2015 19:55
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I do enjoy how the Rebuild movies teased people with a more upbeat and grounded version of the show before pulling the rug out from under them and going head first into what the gently caress territory. Anno is a master troll to his audience.
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Mar 27, 2015 18:06
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I'd love to see Chuck cover The 8th MS Team. His review on War in the Pocket was really good and drat depressing. Gotta love a show that rips apart the toy driven Gundam Franchise like that. I get that Gundam is primarily about how War tears people apart, but I find it ironic that a show focusing so much on military horrors makes most of its money selling model kits to children. War in the Pocket poo poo all over that entire notion and I loved it.
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Mar 27, 2015 18:45
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Mainly the complaints about superbowl commercials blocked in canada comes from our Telecommunications companies being complete twats who complain about not enough people watching Canadian content. Except most of our homegrown shows are garbage.
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Mar 28, 2015 14:15
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I should clarify that I feel you shouldn't completely dismiss people who dislike EVA based on their opinion of the characters. Hating Shinji for being a whiny bitch or Asuka for being a petulant rear end in a top hat who abuses everyone around her might be the point, but intentionally lovely characters are still lovely. It's a relevant criticism of the show if you find the characters so hateful and pathetic that you can't continue watching. It just means you have basic human empathy.
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Mar 28, 2015 14:40
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Speaking of SF debris, DS9 and people who hate it, you should try watching Confused Matthew's "review" of Season 7 of DS9, by which I mean he has a temper tantrum about the finale of season six and space satan Dukat. Or you could check out any of his other videos as well if you want to see a person so tone deaf he makes Nostalgia critic sound like Mozart. Lion King, The Incredibles and Up! Are all apparently terrible children's films because they deal with death at some point.
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Mar 29, 2015 19:03
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I find it weird that he and SF debris are colleagues when Chuck does research and generall knows what he's talking about (self professed anime ignorance excepted), but Matthew just shouts and complains ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET KIDS?
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Mar 29, 2015 19:31
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echopapa posted:Also, it's not like Channel Awesome has a lot of assets you could collect if you won a judgment against them. Maybe you could seize the green screen and the general's costume? Doug's M. Bison Hat is provided as collateral. And his loving toy pistol.
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Apr 1, 2015 05:27
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CA moderators deleting and downplaying viewer backlash does not surprise me in the slightest.
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Apr 1, 2015 18:40
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I suppose I have bad taste because I enjoy Boondock Saints. I'm not going to call it a great film or hold it up as any sort of artistic masterpiece. I just enjoy trashy films, and I found it pretty entertaining. Though I assume you're talking about people who cling to the movie as some great achievement in cinema and totally an underrated gem. and not just people who like dumb schlock every now and then.
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Apr 2, 2015 17:58
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Take note of the initials and move on without further comment
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Apr 2, 2015 23:18
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I first heard about Trumbul watching Jodorowsky's Dune. He's definitely a technical wizard, though now that you mention the other films he's worked on, I can definitely say he's a very sterile effects artist. Everything is crisp and clean, even the flying shots in Blade Runner.
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Apr 3, 2015 01:13
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I looked up Samus's wikipedia entry and immediately regretted it. For a character touted as one of the better portrayals of women in video games, more words are dedicated to talking about her tits and two dozen top ten "sexy" characters lists than her actual game portrayals.
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Apr 4, 2015 19:39
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NutritiousSnack posted:sexy women are bad portrayals of women, especially when it was gaming magazines and a joke G4 miniseries that are the only real source of that sexualzation, as opposed to the games. I wouldn't say having sexy characters is a bad thing, technically, but rating a character's quality based on fan art and porn of said character is misrepresentation at its worst.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:49
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Okay, I'm confused now. Is the thread coming down in favor of the zero suit or against it? Because I'm still not sure if the guy responding to me being annoyed that more people focused on Samus's tits than her personality was arguing against me or supporting me. Personally I've really got nothing against the Zero suit and just think its kinda dumb, my issue was more with how the reception of samus by the gaming media has everything to do with "dude she's hot" and not "she's a stone cold bounty hunter".
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Apr 4, 2015 23:27
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So I watched that Angry Joe video about him abandoning Nintendo videos. I gotta say I love Joe when he's more reserved like this. He still gets his seething anger across but he's not flailing his arms and screaming.
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Apr 5, 2015 05:23
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Just because I don't think I've seen these dudes brought up in this thread, Matt Sloan also does Beer and Boardgames with assorted friends and it's a great 'what is this stupid boardgame, let's get drunk and play it' show. They put all their stuff for free on youtube in basically a highlight reel but if you pay a decent donation you get access to the whole usually 3ish hour long episode of the entire playthrough. Isn't Matt Sloan the guy who did those Chad Vader videos and then someone at Lucasarts thought his voice was good enough to actually BE Darth Vader?
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Apr 6, 2015 06:19
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Mr. Fowl posted:Yes, he is. I think he mentioned meeting George Lucas. I thought I recognized the name. Matt Sloan did the voice of Darth Vader in the Force Unleashed games. Unfortunately while he's good at parodying james earl jones he's pretty terrible at emulating him in a serious situation. It was part of the reason I disliked force unleashed, because I kept expecting vader to start chasing dogs through the shopping aisles.
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Apr 6, 2015 12:09
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Yep he's done toasts and poo poo in Vader's voice and when they did the Star Wars lovely VHS game since they couldn't use the audio for youtube flagging problems he completely dubbed over Vader. The best Vader impersonator I've heard is still Scott Lawrence, the dude who did his voice for Battlefront 2, Dark Forces and Tie Fighter.
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Apr 7, 2015 03:02
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I really miss Welshy. Did anyone manage to save his videos before Blip purged his channel for being inactive?
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Apr 7, 2015 06:12
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I am always astounded at how much money nerds are willing to throw around to have someone vindicate their guilty pleasure rape/incest/lesbian/ fetish shows. I'm pretty sure it was probably only one person asking sf debris to cover kannazuki no miko, and cover the entire series. Let me put this into perspective for you: getting Chuck to do a review of an episode for you is expensive. Like, really loving expensive. Fifty bucks will get you a review of a one hour long television program, with the review ranging from 14 to 30 minutes. Animated shows or 30 minute episodes cost about half of that, while full movie reviews are 150 to 200 bucks. So I'm assuming kanazuki is a regular 24 episode season, somebody spent at least 600 dollars for sf debris to validate their lesbian romance obsession.
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Apr 7, 2015 19:38
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I remember one of Linkara's anniversary videos where SF Debris made a surprise cameo, sounding very confused that he was dragged away from his reviews to try and appease a bunch of strangers.
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Apr 8, 2015 02:23
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Oh god why have I not watched Baywatching before now? This poo poo is incredible. Edit: Also, the cousin in The Drowning Pool who looked like Cumberbatch played Eddington the terrorist on Deep Space Nine. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 05:36
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Robotech and Macross Plus are all I need to scratch that itch. And Gifs from Frontier where a city sized battlship robot sucker punches an equally large robot and then disgorges starfighters inside it like a swarm of angry bees.
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Apr 11, 2015 06:19
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Because Garzey's Wing is batshit insane at the same time as being incompetent. And it has some fantastic line reads.
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Apr 11, 2015 07:14
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Canada Gundam was a robot lumberjack called Grizzly and it was piloted by a soft spoken manly man with a badass moustache. Best representation of Canada in anime, imo. At least the Canadian wasn't a draft dodging cyborg fetishist like in Ghost in the Shell or a wimpy bishi gently caress like in Hetalia.
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Apr 11, 2015 20:50
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Mr.Radar posted:I just got a Patreon backer message from SF Debris which mentioned today is his 42nd birthday. Does that make him the oldest "internet critic"? Do any of the "internet critics" who frequent this thread see themselves still doing it at 42? Chuck has been doing Star Trek reviews for almost a decade. I believe he used to upload them to Youtube before he moved to his own website.
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Apr 13, 2015 05:13
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Moviebob has another "Really that Good" video up, this time for Die Hard. I'm not watching it because I can't see how that man can ramble on for thirty minutes about a film he likes without repeating "this is amazing go watch it."
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Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles was a surprisingly good show. How come more people haven't covered Starship Troopers? It was a miniz craze in the late 90s, with a good movie and a decent tv series, and its been popular enough to have three sequels and an OVA ripoff based on the film version and the book, respectively. The only internet critics I've seen touch it are Mike J and Decker Shadow. By the way, check that second guy out. He's a fairly standard critic, but he's covered a lot of interesting sf and horror films on his channel.
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