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Goon critics for the OP include my show, Cheapskate Reviews, which covers freely-available film; http://thezerolevel.com/series/cheapskate/ and Infamous Sphere, who talks about queer film and period dramas. http://blip.tv/infamoussphere
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Obscurus Lupa returns to Cheapskate Live! This time we’re watching the pilot to the action series that’s inspired by, and sillier than, Baywatch. It’s Acapulco H.E.A.T.!
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Jan 17, 2015 22:46
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Allison, your new set is fantastic. I wish I had neon 
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Jan 21, 2015 08:37
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I’ve got a new episode, in which I watch one of the first spaghetti westerns scored by Ennio Morricone, A Pistol for Ringo.
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Jan 25, 2015 21:53
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Ghostpilot posted:Nice find! My mother's a huge Western aficionado, I should ask he if she's seen this one the next time I visit. Morricone is one of the winners of the dreaded Lifetime Achievement Oscar for Getting Screwed in the Real Oscars. I picked The Man With The Harmonica and Il Triello for the soundtrack of this episode as an attempt to show off the extent of his work in westerns: everybody knows The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and The Ecstasy of Gold from the same film is almost as famous. A Pistol for Ringo was popular enough to spawn a sequel, so if your mom enjoys Italian westerns, she might have seen it.
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Jan 26, 2015 10:51
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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"? I decided I wanted to watch a movie from Australia and went to a blog that talks about Australian cult films, which mentioned Still Flowin The Movie. I usually get the rest of my movies by putting some sort of keyword into Youtube or the Internet Archive and seeing what comes up.
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Jan 27, 2015 21:56
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Miss Wallace posted:The premiere of Movie Nights, Kindergarten Ninja, is now public! The ghost of Bruce Lee must set a NFL superstar on the right path. There are also children. Is Movie Nights improvised? The style reminds me a lot of an episode of Best of the Worst (which is a good thing).
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Jan 30, 2015 08:41
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If you follow my show, you may enjoy my guest appearance on the F Plus Podcast. Or maybe you won’t, because we’re reading stuff from an mpreg forum.
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Feb 3, 2015 08:40
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Sofie Liv joins me on Cheapskate Live! to watch Supergirl and the Bloody Traces of Stargirl, in which we learn the secret of Supergirl’s greatest power: watching the news.
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Feb 15, 2015 23:04
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If you liked Jill Bearup’s discussion of her video income, you’ll like Lindsay Ellis’ video about her tax situation.
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Feb 19, 2015 09:01
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I hope I don’t restart the terminology debate by saying “midget.” Because my most recent review is about a midget spy from the Philippines. It’s For Y’ur Height Only.
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Feb 21, 2015 22:49
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Miss Wallace posted:The Mary-Kate and Ashley Triple Feature Movie Nights is public now! I had a blog about ten years ago in which I made a joke about Mary-Kate and Ashley movies. Some dude I’d never heard of came to my blog and explained (in ten paragraphs) why I shouldn’t joke about the Olsens, who were basically the embodiment of wicked capitalism because of Wal*Mart or something. I wonder if that guy is still out there, still fighting. EDIT: Oh, and this Olsen-related Plinkett video ties the thread together nicely. echopapa fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Feb 24, 2015 08:50
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FrankenVonVogler posted:Somebody I know is making a short series about film appreciation and elitism, thought some people in this thread might be interested. I liked the script and the editing of this show, but your friend should work on her voiceovers, which are too fast and mumbly. In other news, I commented on a Supergirl fanfilm on Cheapskate Live! a few weeks ago, and the creators of the fanfilm sent me an angry message and a DMCA takedown notice. Pot, kettle, glass house.
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Feb 27, 2015 22:49
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You ever see a small kid with a toy and they take it up to their mom and say, "Look, mommy! Look at the toy!" and then they just sit there waiting for their mom to confirm that it's OK for them to like that toy? Sometimes I think TGWTG fans are like that. Just sitting there with their opinions, waiting for someone with a camera to be parental substitutes and tell them their opinions are OK. And occasionally trying to impress their video parents by doing things they think will impress them. So harassment campaigns are just a hosed-up version of a toddler setting the house on fire while trying to make eggs for Mommy's birthday.
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Mar 8, 2015 08:24
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PresidentBeard posted:It would but it seems like stalking period isn't taken seriously let alone stalking on the internet. Most Internet celebrity stalking incidents haven't included most of the factors law enforcement use to determine if a stalker is likely to become violent, but it's only a matter of time until somebody gets hurt. (Source: I spent four years representing people in restraining order cases.)
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Mar 11, 2015 09:03
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Asuron posted:It's actually a subtle representation of the bourgeois keeping the proletariat's down and that by breaking free of the colour blue, which is just putting the lower class into a state of tranquility where they don't rebel against the system, we will have a truly classless society. Not quite prolix and obfuscatory enough to be an effective Hbomberguy parody.
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Mar 14, 2015 00:10
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And in the realm of less-successful serious sci-fi, I tackle a very cheap thriller about the then-new concept of “cyber space” featuring Jeffrey Combs. It’s Digital Prophet on Cheapskate Reviews.
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Mar 15, 2015 21:50
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Thunder in Paradise comes to Movie Nights. I have fond memories of watching this with some friends in college and imagining Hogan doing his no-sell finger-wave to such formidable enemies as the Cuban Army and oxygen.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:53
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Vimeo ruled in favor of a complainant who demanded I take down commentary on their Supergirl fan film, even though their film starred a character they don’t loving own. I think this says more about the thin-skinned hacks at Jimbo-Fail Exchange Productions than it does about Vimeo.
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Mar 17, 2015 09:08
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Jake is leaving the Cinema Snob site.
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Mar 17, 2015 21:49
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I was 12 years old when I saw MST3k’s version of Hercules Against the Moon Men, and I was immediately hooked. I watched through the Comedy Central seasons, but because we didn’t get SciFi in my hometown, it wasn’t until after the show was off the air that I saw any SciFi episodes. In addition to the ones everyone points to as their favorites, I have soft spots for Cave Dwellers, Eegah, Danger!! Death Ray, and Escape 2000. My picks for best shorts are Mr. B Natural, The Home Economics Story, and Last Clear Chance. (When I moved to Idaho, I drove around Meridian looking for the intersection where Frank Jr. met his grisly end, but the countryside from the film is all suburbia now and I wasn’t able to find it.)
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Mar 19, 2015 08:57
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Are the American messengers of God dead yet?
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Mar 23, 2015 21:54
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achillesforever6 posted:I bet Lupa would like this one since it has a Cynthia Rothrock movie Cynthia Rothrock and Richard “Gordon the Ninja” Harrison!
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Mar 24, 2015 07:57
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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?
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Apr 1, 2015 03:14
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Tae posted:There is a whole white list program thingie that basically involves a poo poo ton of paperwork when the end result is Nintendo getting some percentage of revenue regardless. That's why most sites stopped doing it on youtube and link to their twitch stream for the VODs at this point. I think the combination of copyright takedowns and the improved illusion of intimacy offered by streams will probably result in the Internet critic of the near future running their show as a stream instead of a preproduced video.
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Apr 4, 2015 21:38
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Infamous Sphere posted:There's another thing to consider - Australia is not a huge creator of content. We do create content, and we do have a content law similar to Canada (I think it's 55% content) but we've got something like 7% of the US' population. So we import a lot of TV and movies. BBC stuff goes to ABC (our public broadcasting, government funded), American stuff usually goes to commercial television because it's more expensive and commercial channels are more likely to pay for licensing, and SBS (also public broadcasting, but it has ads now unfortunately) takes most of the subtitled and/or sexy stuff. I'm not sure how frequently the average Australian watches subtitled content, but the average Australian most definitely watches non-Australian content on a regular basis. SBS shows subtitled Asian game shows and is, therefore, objectively the best channel on television. When I was in Australia, I caught a couple of episodes of If You Are The One, China’s most popular and most brutal dating show, on SBS and I was hooked.
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Apr 15, 2015 08:50
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Miss Wallace posted:I think the franchise thing is really a spin-off from TV doing so much better nowadays. It used to be TV was kind of looked down on, "real actors" stuck to movies. But now that TV has stepped up its game and been given opportunities that weren't present before, lots of bigger actors are involved and the storytelling is far more satisfying than what can be told in one movie. And comics/superheroes are the perfect venue for franchises because they have pre-existing extended universes and name value. And more movies = more money, so hey. Plus, superhero movies translate well across cultures, making them easy sells in non-US markets, which make up a huge portion of Hollywood’s revenues these days. They also have lots of opportunities for marketing tie-ins, and the nerd market is so desperate for validation of their interest in comics that they’ll use a huge chunk of their disposable income to buy up graphic tees and statuettes.
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Apr 15, 2015 22:00
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Farewell, FamiKamen Rider is here. Considering all the limitations the team was working with (first-time writers/directors, miniscule budget, limited footage of JewWario), it’s all right. I’ve seen worse amateur films, and it’s definitely got heart. I’d be touched if my friends put so much time and effort into remembering me.
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Apr 17, 2015 12:27
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Speaking of Yahtzee, one of his videos is on display at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne as an example of Australian digital media. I bet they also have one of Infamous Sphere’s videos in the rotation and I just didn’t happen to see it. Anyway, I’m back from my vacation and I’ve got a new review of a film featuring the wacky antics that surround a dead stripper. It’s Lady of Burlesque on Cheapskate Reviews.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:55
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Infamous Sphere posted:I always loved the chance to really think about the history of something, or the implications of it, rather than simply making jokes. Along these lines my next series of videos are all going to be about Dirk Bogarde movies. Unfortunately, I don't think many people are particularly interested in Dirk Bogarde movies (let alone know who he is.) However, it's nice to have the freedom to run with an idea when you have it. Because there's a lot of legal history and societal attitudes that I can talk about, as well as film analysis and..possibly even some jokes! I realize that, say, Kyle’s show is infinitely better than mine, because he’s got a lot more experience in the medium. I try to center my show around the things I have experience doing: improvisation and writing. The jokes in my episodes are written down the first time I see the movie, and the criticisms I offer are usually based on the movie’s plots. I think the Internet video audience tends to prefer reviews of stuff they’ve already seen because they’re not really looking to hear someone else’s opinion, they’re just looking for someone else to validate their own opinion. I almost never cover well-known movies, so the most popular ones for me have always been the ones that have boobs in the preview image.
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Apr 20, 2015 11:19
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The wonderful thing about a country with as few major cities as Australia is that you can come up with a reason to hate every single city except your own. I mean, as an American, I can hate Boston and Chicago and Houston and all the obvious choices, but I’ll be damned if I can find an excuse to hate Kansas City. (Also: I’ve been told that Canberra is the best city in Australia for tabletop and live-action RPGs. The theory is that there’s nothing else to do in Canberra but play tabletop and live-action RPGs.)
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Apr 21, 2015 10:35
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These men are pawns!
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Apr 22, 2015 21:53
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OrangeKing posted:I got...Betty Davis Eyes, by Kim Carnes. Not a favorite of mine to be sure, but not embarrassing either. We were born within a few weeks of each other, then. I got Air Supply’s “The One That You Love,” which sounds like the most generic karaoke track you’ve ever heard.
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Apr 24, 2015 09:33
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It’s May (at least in my hemisphere), which means it’s Mental Health Month in the US. Every year I make a short video about coping with mental illness, and I encourage other Internet video people to write or vlog likewise. My video this year is entitled “Don’t be a Jedi.”
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Apr 30, 2015 21:38
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The problem is especially acute where I live now. We have a very traditional culture here in Micronesia, where you’re expected to let your family solve your problems. (Because your family couldn’t possibly be the problem, now could it?) As a result, for an island of 55,000 people, we have one psychiatrist and one counselor. I keep seeing people post about how watching Internet critics got them through tough times in their lives, so I figured it would be a good idea to have those critics point people in the direction of more active coping skills.
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May 1, 2015 10:36
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I can vouch for the quality of Lego Star Wars. It's ridiculous light-hearted fun. The combination of a story told without dialogue and slapstick comedy reminds me of a silent film.
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May 5, 2015 21:49
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Wheat Loaf posted:
As a practicing lawyer: yes, yes you are.
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May 6, 2015 21:25
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm being a sucker for making law school my target...
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Infamous Sphere posted:DRUZE STRUZON. Maybe he’s looking for a promising Lebanese artist.
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May 9, 2015 21:53
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In the newest Cheapskate Live!, we watch Toyland Casino, a children’s talent show from the 1930s that contains neither toys nor gambling.
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May 9, 2015 23:55
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Infamous Sphere posted:That was surprisingly...not as bad as I expected. That MC kid had some game. Nice Gangs of New York tap number as well, but when most of the kids sung it sounded like air being let out of a balloon. I don’t think movie sound quality in the 1930s was quite ready to handle children’s voices, especially not the kind of sound quality they were using for a skinflint twenty-minute short.
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