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Vargo posted:Also regarding "Legally Sane" (Don't scroll if you don't want everything ruined.) That hasn't stopped Donovan Laird from contributing from beyond the apocalypse 
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Sep 2, 2010 04:35
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Vargo posted:I'd actually like to hear more about this idea. Do other people feel this way? What exactly is it that make it seem out of place with the rest of the site? Off-hand, I'm guessing it's that the Current Release page is (somewhat) straightforward, but I don't think you can even say that when this week's ends with Jay Dub telling a (assumedly fictional) director's assistant "MAKE BETTER HORROR MOVIES rear end in a top hat!" A while back I remember seeing Current Releases described as "Relatively straightforward reviews (for Something Awful standards)" or something like that. It's a tough balance to strike. Go too far in one direction and we're just reviewing movies like every other toolbag on the Internet. Too far in the other direction and we're a bunch of braying jackasses with nothing interesting to say. This week I tried something a little different because I didn't have too much to say about The Last Exorcism other than "Yeah it's pretty good, check it out." Ironically, it's probably closer to what we ought to be doing more of anyway. V  V
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Sep 3, 2010 02:56
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ProfessorClumsy posted:1) That was Vargo, not Jay Dub. I wasn't gonna say anything... 
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Sep 7, 2010 14:33
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Johnny Walker posted:On another note, I now want to see Winter's Bone, a film until now I had never heard of. Maybe you guys should work in more lesser-known movies every once in a while. Not every week or anything, since I doubt many would find that all that entertaining, but it's something to consider. I'd love to review more of the lesser-known stuff, but that's entirely up to the theater managers and whether or not they decide to schedule a talking animal movie that week. Speaking of which, the only reason RE: Afterlife is numerically worse than Marmaduke is because...um...well I guess I was feeling generous that day?
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Sep 13, 2010 04:01
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Dear real film critics, It is entirely possible, and indeed quite easy, to write a full review of Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole without making a single owl-related pun. Yours Truly, Current Releases
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Sep 26, 2010 18:53
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Vargo posted:A message from the future from Donovan Laird What the gently caress, how the hell do you know that? Is Gmail's time-o-gram feature out of beta yet or something? I thought I was special. 
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Nov 21, 2010 21:10
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Dec 3, 2010 03:32
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From where I'm sitting, it's smooth sailing until at least August. I've got a bullseye painted on the back of my head with the word "Smurfs" in the middle.
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Dec 19, 2010 17:17
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I noticed this on GBS last night...FlamingLiberal posted:[The Nostalgia Critic] just released his Christmas special, and it was actually pretty funny. It was a sendoff of the 'It's a Wonderful Life' trope, except in reverse. Even though the end results aren't quite the same and they're different mediums and blah blah blah, I'd just like to state for the record: Goddamn it.
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Dec 22, 2010 17:44
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CowOnCrack posted:This one: Yes, that sure was a good article I wrote. Yes, indeed.
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Dec 23, 2010 01:04
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Now watch me hate on True Grit.
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Dec 28, 2010 01:39
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:You didn't like it? Nah, I'm kidding. It's good. Wouldn't that be a bitch, though?
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We started doing reviews well after The Wrestler left theaters. For my part, I really dug it. In terms of Aronofsky's resume, it does a lot of the same things that Black Swan does, albeit not necessarily to the same effect or for the same purpose. They both really feel of a piece, but I think I might prefer The Wrestler. Then again, that may just be because I watched a lot of WCW wrestling as a kid. And of course, Mickey Rourke 100% loving owned that movie. And Marisa Tomei?  Also, positive reviews are hard to write and even harder to make entertaining (see above). e: "see above" regarding me, not Vargo.
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Jan 10, 2011 23:44
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Let that be a lesson. Ask us to talk about a good movie, and we'll loving pounce on it and never shut up.
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Jan 10, 2011 23:47
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Vargo posted:I think I prefer Black Swan, but that may only be because I've seen it more recently, and it's much more the kind of film that stays with you. Of the two, sure, Black Swan is the more visually distinct. The Wrestler seemed much more like a docudrama about an aging wrestler. It was shot much more in the style of, well, a crappy pro-wrestling program. Black Swan is far more of a cinematic experience, but The Wrestler seems much more grounded in reality. Then again, it's also less of a body horror movie. Oh well.
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Jan 11, 2011 00:01
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It's okay, you can say it.
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Jan 12, 2011 03:56
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Honestly, is there anyone we don't have a fake longstanding rivalry with?
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Jan 15, 2011 06:17
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Typo correction: "I may not be a fan of Kevin James' comedy, but I'm now jealous of the man for doing something I'll probably never get the chance to do."
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Jan 16, 2011 19:52
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Last week, TheBigBudgetSequel drew up an awesome fake poster promoting a fake podcast that ProfessorClumsy, Vargo and I would fake record every week. Then I made this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tt-uw9WgqA And now it looks like it may actually happen. 
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Jan 22, 2011 19:14
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Clamknuckle posted:You should do custom banners because they're cool. The review of Son of the Mask reminded me of that "documentary" Jamie Kennedy did which was basically him crying for an hour and a half because no one liked the movie. Kickin' It Old School?
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Jan 24, 2011 15:55
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I still stand by my review of Easy A. 80s nostalgia can officially go gently caress itself. (I'm looking at you, Take Me Home Tonight.)
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So 80s nostalgia is totally awesome and writing a script where the main character goes "John Hughes this! and Cameron Crowe that!" is something people actually like? Okay, fine. If that makes me wrong, I'll be happy and wrong until the day I die.
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Jan 25, 2011 18:18
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:This. This is why you get to see movies like The Smurfs. Yes, that's the reason. It has nothing to do with ProfessorClumsy being a sick bastard sadist who likes wasting my money for the sake of comedy.
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When I say it out loud, I can't help but pronounce "Awfilm" like I'm saying "Awwwww yeah..."
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Feb 3, 2011 19:47
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Hey Jay Dub, what movies are you guys doing this week? I assume Drive Angry, but anything else? I've got a thing or two to say about Hall Pass. Also, this week's reviews will be up on Wednesday due to circumstances
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I wonder if he likes the photoshop banners What the hell's all this photoshop crap? That's what Phridays are phor!
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Vargo posted:Martin R. "Circle-Jerking human being" Schneider. The Planet's HarshestTM Film Critic
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Mar 7, 2011 20:52
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I'll take these things into consideration this week, because Sucker Punch looks completely loving stupid.
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Mar 22, 2011 14:46
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King of Bleh posted:SA has a long, long history of reviewing things, and, yes, Current Releases is probably the least funny, least spiteful, and most sincere of these features, but the difference isn't as great as you're making it out to be, and to a certain extent the change does reflect the changing tastes of a certain subset of the community. Trust me, we're acutely aware of this. It's not easy trying to marry the SA brand of humor and serious film criticism, and sometimes we may not make it work, but it's an ongoing experiment that we enjoy doing and some people seem to enjoy reading. Where I think The Ace is wrong is that, yes, we do still try to poke holes in our own corner of the internet. Look at how often we call out "real" film critics for doing some of the stupid poo poo they tend to do. Taking potshots at blurb-whoring critics like Peter Travers and Ben Lyons is kind of our thing. Sure, we could probably call Vince Vaughn an assbutt more often, but would that really make what we do any funnier or more thoughtful? (It might, what do I know?) I try not to say a whole lot in this thread because I don't want to give the impression that I'm desperate for attention, but this is the kind of feedback that really keeps us focused. We appreciate it, really (you too, The Ace).
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Mar 25, 2011 04:28
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I'd like to thank Vargo for asking me to write the foreward to his upcoming tell-all memoir Making Babies with Vargo. Lord knows he didn't have to, especially after completely ignoring my advice on not making babies with strange women in truckstop bathrooms.
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Hahaha, that is awesome. At least the guy's mixing it up a bit.
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Dectilon posted:That was a much more apologetic review of Atlas Shrugged than I expected. Honestly, there is nothing less interesting to me than political discourse. I understand why the political Right would want to make such a movie and I understand why the political Left would hate such a movie. None of that bullshit has anything to do with Atlas Shrugged as a piece of cinematic storytelling. It's political intentions are amazingly childlike in their simplicity, but the film itself is only somewhat incompetent. It would be perfectly at home on the Hallmark Channel or Lifetime or one of those other stupid TV channels that think they can make real movies.
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Y-Hat posted:Would you say that the movie is very heavy-handed with its agenda or is it overshadowed by boredom? There's plenty about the film that is definitely boring, but the moments where it starts to beat on the Agenda Drum are some of the most comically heavy-handed bits in the whole film. Like there's a scene where Congress passes a bill limiting the number of businesses a person can control to one, and Rearden acts like this is the end of the world because he's been building his business empire all on his own and blah blah blah. So it comes down to this silly emotional scene where he signs away all his mining and oil companies one by one to family and friends, when as far as I could tell, nothing was stopping him from simply consolidating all his companies into one. But because this is a capitalist fantasy, there's no such thing as loopholes or anything that would make Rearden and Taggart's mission any easier. The way the movie pares down its conflict into "Business Good, Regulation Bad" is really only done to make the government look like a pack of meddling children pitching a fit because the rich kids won't share their toys.
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Dectilon posted:Something I'm hoping you'll do some time is have a 'round table' discussion about movies in general, the health of the medium and maybe even the state of professional criticism. This right here is exactly why we need a podcast or something.
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Vargo posted:The truth is... I didn't think Thor was great either. It's not as bad as Clumsy says, but it's not that good. I guess I'm gonna have to be the white knight on this one. I had a lot of fun with Thor. Granted, that might be the 2AM daze of the midnight screening talking, but I really dug how thoroughly the film committed to the combination of Branagh's Shakespeare-crazy and Jack Kirby-celestial crazy. The film goes balls-out nuts in the design work and the silly operatics, and I really think that makes the film as a whole more palatable. It could've easily fallen into parody or drab/grittiness if it tipped its hand too far in either direction, but I thought it toed the line nicely. I'll admit that character development really isn't the film's strong suit, but I'm willing to forgive it because of how ultimately simple the story is. Some of the action sequences aren't shot particularly well and parts of the plot seem like pure happenstance, but otherwise I found Thor to be a perfectly serviceable superhero flick. It's a far sight more fun than most of the recent superhero films, anyway.
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Y-Hat posted:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/priest-something-borrowed.php Vargo let me choose. I chose. Wisely. And I realize it's no big deal to talk about the Obama comparison, I just figured it'd be a little funnier to pretend to make a big deal about it. Oh well. V  V
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Vargo posted:I actually escaped my captors long enough to get access to a laptop. This is what I chose to do with that time. I told those idiots to password-lock that poo poo.
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ThemeMusicC posted:You know, if the highest rated movie for a week is a 6/50, I think it's okay if you guys don't have a Movie of the Week. But if you're under extreme duress and must choose between Priest, Something Borrowed, and Jumping the Broom (for example, in the event that you find yourself in a Saw-esque cinematic death trap), how will you know what to choose?
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