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EDIT: Okay, nevermind then. Instead, I'll just second Poparena's self-recommendation. Everything he puts out is super well-researched and very funny. He goes one step beyond most other critics and actually tries to get the creators of the various works he spotlights in whatever way he can for added clarity or context if he can get them.
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BigRed0427 posted:I'm watching Phealos, Brad and Lupa's review of foodfight. I keep losing it when ever Lupa gets mad at the food puns. You can tell that one's gonna be a good one because from the moment she pops up in the video she's holding a 40 of Jack Daniels. Lupa, your's and Phelous's sight gags are always great. 
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At this risk of turning this into a PYF webcomics derail, I'll just throw Monster Pulse and Kiwi Blitz out there as a pair of "positive" web comics for young readers and move on.
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Jan 15, 2015 07:19
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Heh. It's funny that you'd expect a film as notorious as Ishtar to be a career destroyer, but Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Isabelle Adjani, and Elaine May all walked away from it with their careers intact. It's mindboggling. 
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Jan 15, 2015 22:05
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If that part about him just up and going to New Orleans and shooting Katrina victims who were looting stores is true, then HOLY gently caress  .And this movie is #1 at the box office right now too...
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Jan 21, 2015 20:17
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OldTennisCourt posted:You realize it's a really garbage time for movies right now right? Like, what else is there to see? gently caress You, It's January! really does bring out the very best in people, doesn't it?
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Jan 21, 2015 20:58
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Cyron posted:also on the subject of brad, he and jake posted their worst movie list (on patron atm it was put up with a bunch of other videos to be droped when he is gone this weekend) with brain, dave and Sarah on their worst after magfest. i am sure they will all have the same number 1. Saving Christmas is going to be one of those movies that Brad will never shut up about, and god-willing he never does. Here's hoping for a 2015 chock full of bizarre Christian movies for him to review.
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Jan 22, 2015 01:15
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OldMemes posted:Joe went to Congress in costume? I like the guy for his goofball charm, that's pretty unprofessional. Are members of the public just allowed to go to congress, or do you have to be invited/jump through loads of hoops? He did an anti-SOPA skit with Spoony on the capitol steps as Corporate Commander. And, yeah, I think it's actually quite easy for members of the public to get in to the capitol building and (try to) have face-to-face meetings with Congressmen/women and Senators. Immigration reform activists and DREAMers routinely pull stunts like sit-ins in or just outside of congressional offices to try and force legislators to meet with them. They're usually just dragged away by Capitol Police, but the point remains. Though it sounds like Michaud and the Walkers had worked out this meeting with whatever legislators they were there to meet well in advance, so they were expected. But yeah, if Joe actually went inside the US Capitol building and met with Lamar Alexander dressed like this, then that was incredibly tone deaf on his part. ...Even if Lamar Alexander is a colossal shithead who tables assholish bills like SOPA and doesn't deserve a tinker's drat of respect in 99% of all other circumstances.
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Jan 23, 2015 13:22
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Kunster posted:I really enjoyed the latest Prev_Recorded stream with Rich Evans's fiancee. It sorta shifted the dynamic a bit from "uninterested/contemptuous" to "Hey let's bounce words with someone who both seems to have fun with games and knows quite a fair bunch about this other stuff". It's too bad she says she doesn't like bad movies, because I wouldn't mind seeing her as a Best of the Worst guest panelist.
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Jan 23, 2015 23:56
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Jimbot posted:So, where can you find buff guys in LA? That had to have been one of Mike's best zingers in a long time.
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Feb 19, 2015 06:59
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Mar 24, 2015 02:41
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Brad tackles Miami Connection too this week. Here's Lupa's and Red Letter Media's reviews of the film too for posterity.
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Mar 26, 2015 04:21
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Jack Gladney posted:How is it that video games wreck up this thread so much? I dunno, but it sure as hell was the reason I unbookmarked marked this one. Well, that and the Channel Awesome gutter politics reveal. That was a real interest killer for any non-Brad/Lupa/Phelous/Chez Apoc/RLM critics for me.
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Apr 5, 2015 05:30
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Rebochan posted:I think it's wonderful. I have put a price of 20,000 dirham on its head.
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Apr 5, 2015 06:46
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Beefstew posted:The first Mortal Kombat and Masters of the Universe both own. I'd also add Street Fighter to that list. Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, JCVD and the two guys who played Deejay and Zangief save that movie 100%.
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Apr 30, 2015 08:53
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Mokinokaro posted:But that film is Annointed posted:Whoever made that and those who paid for it deserve to be put on a pedastal. Nelson Mandela from the Cinema Discusso Fury Road thread did.
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Chromatic posted:This is the top post in /r/cringe right now. I don't have the stomach to actually watch the video, but I scrubbed the YouTube preview of it and holy gently caress you can literally see Doug getting progressively more uncomfortable as it goes... and then the guy starts following him around 
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May 23, 2015 09:14
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Mokinokaro posted:It's a bit sad as apparently Lindelof is an extremely nice guy. He's just kind of an average writer and gets onto a lot of big projects without the extra help needed to make a great script. The sadly ironic part is that Lindelof actually gets called in to scriptdoctor a fair deal of already flagging material; Prometheus, Cowboys & Aliens, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and World War Z being the ones studios have felt comfortable with publicizing. And well true, he has the tallent to lift material out of the mud slightly--all four films are at least watchable, to an extent--he just doesn't have the skill to truly salvage them. TheMaestroso posted:Orci and Kurtzman were also writers on that script. I don't think you can reasonably blame that film's problems on Lindelof over those two knuckleheads. This is why I'm actually optimistic about The Force Awakens, because JJ Abrams finally cut the both of them loose and didn't let them, Lindelof, or even George Lucas anywhere near the film.
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May 24, 2015 07:41
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Holy poo poo Brad has had a rough 2015 so far. I think he's pissed off God by talking poo poo about all those religious movies. So was that the thing he went into the hospital for last week? Or is this something new? I really hope he's okay. 
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May 25, 2015 19:54
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Mokinokaro posted:Wheel of the Worst #8 I love how they're all perplexed and horrified by Mike's sudden burst of altruism at the end.
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May 28, 2015 20:18
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Do not even ask posted:Help, I can't stop laughing at "Now he may say that you can fly; you might fly right out a window!" I saw the Multiplication Rap video on the wheel and cringed. I watched it in elementary school during a math class and even back then, as a literal ignorant child I thought it was painfully awkward and terrible. Even with that lovely sing song tape and two hours of grannies shifting about on stage, they still dodged a loving bullet there.
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May 29, 2015 00:29
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Jack Gladney posted:He subjects himself to a much worse strain of cultural detritus to get those jokes too. It took his health. And his hair. I'm pretty sure the Springfield State Fair has had a more adverse effect on Brad's health and longevity than any given exploitation flick he's ever watched 
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Wow. He picked a doozy. Well, it was either that or Ishtar, and, well... Three two three four, four two three four...
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LordZoric posted:Heck yes, 2007-2010 was great for Spoony's output. His Phantasmagoria LP is just masterful, and SWAT 4 made me and all my friends go out and track down copies of the game to play ourselves. SWAT 4 was probably one of the better things Spoony ever did. It was great seeing how much he got into it and played along with it despite its flaws. Hell, any time I accidentally flashbang myself or get flashbanged by an AI or co-op player in a game or an LP of my own, I still shout out "AAAAH, YOU FOOLS!" Its a shame to see how far he's not just fallen, but is still falling.
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Annointed posted:I have heard of it, in fact I've been watching the Let's Play on the forums. I do hope to play it one way or another, simply because the combat looks nice and the characters seem to be people I'd hang out with. That and I can basically make everyone look like JoJo characters. The story wasn't that great, ironically for a game called "The Last Story", but it is 100% the main cast that lifts it into something grand. My only real gripe is that it feels like only half the game it should be, in terms of over all length. Like it was Mistwalker was planning something much more expansive but had to pare back because the Wii just couldn't handle it and because they were making essentially an end-of-system game for it, so they probably didn't have the time to do what they wanted either. Oh, and New Game+ is literally impossible because you're capped at Lv. 100, while bosses are scaled up to like Lv. 160 near the end of the game. That's a real nadd kicker. But beyond that, holy poo poo, play The Last Story, please.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Ian Malcolm and Roland Tembo. I'd also like to add Julianne Moore to that list. Not the character she played in The Lost World, mind you, just Julianne Moore in and of herself.
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Jun 11, 2015 05:40
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BigRed0427 posted:I finished going through all of Dragonball Z Abridged and holy poo poo, why did I put that off for so long? Their versions of Krillin and Vegeta are just so much fun. The TFS Dragonball characters have pretty much overwrote my memories of the actual DBZ characters. What's been really great is seeing the guys interactions with the actual dub voice actors Its cool that they've embraced it so much. Hell, Takahata101 is actually one of the Dragonball Xenoverse avatar voice options, and half his quotes are things from DBZA.
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:You could probably make the argument that the Joe/Keighley interview ruined Channel Awesome's chances at being taken seriously. They got invited to a press event, and their representive tried to pick a fight with the producer. And spent their entire coverage making GBS threads on the show. And everyone who invited them. It's not even that he was wrong about the VGAs. He just went into the them in character, when that was the last thing CA should have been sending to their first mainstream(ish) event. That's not even the first time Joe's done something like that either. There was a post in the previous thread quoting a tell-all blog post on what a debacle Michaud and Rob turned the Channel Awesome anti-SOPA/PIPA visit to Congress back in 2011 into behind the scenes, and one of the highlights was how Joe showed up to meetings with congressmen and senators like SOPA author Lamar "I wrote an anti-piracy bill yet steal peoples' copyrighted photos to use on my website without permission" Smith in costume and character as Corporate Commander.  I like Joe an awful lot, I really do, he's an incredibly passionate and genuine guy, but that genuineness also means he's not really ever been up on that whole "professionalism" thing.
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Miss Wallace posted:Hahaha, okay, here is the actual script excerpt, I screen capped it because it needs to be seen to be believed:  I'm suddenly glad I've never watched To Bodly Flee..., even as a cringewatch like I did Kickassia, and now I most certainly never will ever. Thanks, Lupa!  And, I'm immeasurably sorry you and Phelan (EDIT: and, Lindsey, and Todd, and FilmBrain, and Brad, and Linkara, and Joe, and Kyle, and JO, and Paw and Maven, and... hell, EVERYONE) ever had anything to do with that whole shitshow.
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Miss Wallace posted:Btw, if you haven't seen him in Galactica, he gives one of his best performances. There's this speech he gives about being angry at his creator that gives me chills. So good. His rant against the limitations of physical existence was so good they ended the series on it. Here's the audio-only version of it for those interested.
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Jul 5, 2015 05:57
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Miss Wallace posted:I literally have zero interest in Battlestar Galactica, but I know what happens, so I only watched Dean Stockwell's parts. Just as much enjoyment, less of the boring bullshit! The miniseries was good, season 1 was great, season 2 was AMAZING, and then everything that followed was the writers desperately flailing about to try and salvage the show after the big cleaver twist they ended the second season on actually wound up breaking it irreparably. Sadly, 90% of Dean Stockwell's scenes come during the show's decline into "gently caress it, I guess Literally God did it" territory. But he was never not incredible while on the show.
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Bad Wolf posted:I've been going over Anime Abandon again recently, and I'm sorta bummed they stopped doing the crossovers with Spoony. Space Thunder Kids, Garzey's Wing and Diatron 5 were fun to see. The first two have the bonus of Ed Glazer as a literal asswipe. (no, that's not an insult in context) By the way, if there's an hour and a half of your life you never want back, the whole Space Thunder Kids movie is on youtube. I remember about a year after I saw the Garzy's Wing review for the first time I stumbled across a clip of Crispin Freeman at some anime con doing some kind of "Terrible Anime Voice Acting 101" panel and the clip he used to start the panel was from Garzy's Wing. So it made me chuckle and go "hey, I know that piece of poo poo!" I don't know why Sage and Spoony stopped doing their yearly crossovers either, especially because Bennett was one of the few TGWTG people (outside of Brad and Hagan, really) to stick by Noah after Spoonygate. I guess Noah moving to Illinois must have made things more difficult. Still, Sage has always been spot on with his videos, but if you want to see him at probably his absolute best, watch his Wings of Honnemise and Macross Plus reviews.
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Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrreeeeeeeeee paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnnnsssssss.
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kaleidolia posted:Reminds me of "I was frozen today", which he also tried to make into a meme for some reason. He tried to make it a meme on the power of Christopher Lloyd screaming I WAS FROZEN TODAY!  seemingly apropos of nothing in his most Christopher Lloyd of ways.
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Miss Wallace posted:omg okay so I have to share this story now: Rapidly Going Deaf > Internet Critic Discussion Thread 3.0: 0 Days Since We Learned Something Groan-Worthy About Doug Walker
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Mraagvpeine posted:Brad does a lot of callbacks in his reviews, but he also makes references to other movies/TV shows, actors, and current events that he's aware of. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't, but I don't let that stop me from watching his videos. Brad usually drops them mid-sentence and keeps going, though. Doug tends to figuratively pause, jazzhand it, and grin before moving on.
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FirstAidKite posted:Maybe he'll be there to talk about that time bennet made him watch anime porn Maybe that's where the "Sage is literally the devil" gag came from
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KKall posted:If that's how people will react to any toy skull, I'm worried about how the toy skull I've been working on for the past month is going to be received. Did you cover your bases and put a fedora on it?
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I'm actually surprised that no one's really taken a whack at the Eragon movie in video review format yet. It's the kind of incompetent, goofy faceplant of a movie that would be rife for a Best of the Worst episode if it was ten years older and you shaved like three or four 0's off its budget. I know there's been an ungodly amount written about it and the books it was based on, but I'm still surprised no one's tackled it yet in video format.
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Celery Face posted:I saw that movie when I was going through a dragon phase in elementary school. It was dumb but the dragon looked great and Jeremy Irons and Robert Carlyle were really entertaining (as they are in pretty much everything). John Malkovitch is in there for like five minutes but he's hilarious too. I just know it pretty much critically wounded the careers of everyone involved in it who weren't Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle, or John Malkovich. Even Rachel Weisz and Djimon Hounsou dropped off the radar for a while for a while after Eragon and they were in it for like five minutes, each.
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