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Rebochan posted:Noticed there aren't a lot of Phelous links. I've very much enjoyed his Bootlegs Zone series, where he's talked about counterfeit action figures from around the world. I don't know why, but seeing what bootleggers produce is really entertaining.
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Miss Wallace posted:It's not Busy Street... I had no idea what this was, and had to do some searching. I suppose this answers the age old question: "But who will review the reviewers?" Mind you, it's not a very good answer. OrangeKing fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jul 7, 2013 |
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Jul 7, 2013 20:13
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I also really enjoy Cecil's reviews. I kinda regret that I only "discovered" him after the bad movie book was completed but before it was shipped out to the Kickstarter backers, because there were a few movies that he covered that were new to me and would have been great additions. He seems like a nice guy, too, at least over the handful of tweets I've exchanged with him. Obligatory link to his site!
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Jul 8, 2013 05:36
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Benne posted:New Cinema Snob midnight reviews: Pacific Rim and Grown Ups 2 You know, I get the impression that Grown Ups 2 wasn't very good.
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Jul 12, 2013 20:30
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toanoradian posted:Do you like board games? No? Watch Shut Up and Sit Down. If you actually like board games, watch Shut Up and Sit Down. Great recommendation! They're very entertaining while also giving you a good idea of what each game is about and what your play experiences are likely to be like. Also, if you're just getting into board gaming as a hobby, or wondering why board gaming has had such a renaissance over the last decade, their video on The Board Game Golden Age is an excellent (though 40 minutes long) video to watch.
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Jul 21, 2013 17:29
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I briefly wondered why they went with the less-frequented Indiegogo over Kickstarter, as this project has a tangible end point, but I suppose the answer to why is "flexible funding." That said, there's nothing wrong with fundraising for a project ("e-begging?" Really?), so all the best to them.
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Jul 30, 2013 16:02
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I really enjoyed this review. I enjoy both of their work individually, and they happened to compliment each other very well here. Two great tastes that taste great together!
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Aug 15, 2013 01:09
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LateToTheParty posted:As brought up earlier Blip was never a super successful website and is estimated to worth about $512,771 dollars. To give some perspective, Dailymotion is apparently worth $29.4 million dollars, Vimeo is worth $17.1 million dollars, Veoh is worth $990,136, and Viddler is worth $969,416 dollars. Yes even loving Viddler is worth more than Blip. So even if content creators do get a bigger cut of revenue from Blip than YouTube they will still get less money due to the fact that YouTube is a much more profitable site than Blip. Just out of curiosity, where are these strangely precise estimated values coming from? It's unusual for anyone to estimate the value of a company down to the dollar, to say the least.
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Aug 22, 2013 21:01
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LateToTheParty posted:I checked it out on Freewebsitereport.org. The website seems legit and thorough with its calculations for the most part. The actual values of those website are most likely not the same as the estimated values from Freewebsitereport.org but the values should at least be somewhere in that ballpark. I'm not so sure that site has accurate information. For instance, it says it valuates websites based on traffic and ad revenue only, which gives a pretty limited picture of a site's worth; even within that limitation, the site estimates that Blip takes in $702 in ad revenue a day. I know little about the internal workings of Blip, but I would still feel pretty confident saying that this must be off by an order of magnitude, as that would only be a little over $250k per year, and if half of that goes to content creators, it would mean that they all make about $128k a year...combined. I know there are relatively few people who post videos on Blip as their full time job, but still, that number is impossibly low (or so I imagine).
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Aug 23, 2013 00:04
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Lupa's Kickstarter-exclusive bonus chapter for my book was also about The Amazing Bulk. She rated it as "fantastiballs," which sounds about right to me. Edit: My own personal opinion on the movie isn't that far from the Red Letter Media team, only not as harsh. I think it stays entertainingly ridiculous for most of the film, with the exception of the parade of stock images towards the end, when it feels like there's no longer even an attempt at a movie there. But like 80%+ of the movie is fun, and it's definitely worthwhile for bad movie fans. OrangeKing fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 29, 2013 |
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Aug 28, 2013 23:51
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Jay O posted:Read 50 Shades of Green, erm, ah, "Awoken," on my livestream last night. I'm nearly done with the book, and this was my favorite chapter so far. "Consume not of the Tylenol in excess."
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Sep 1, 2013 16:40
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You guys seriously have no idea what's awaiting you on Baywatch. Orangutans! UFOs! Lifeguards reincarnated as dogs! Hulk Hogan! And so much more!
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Oct 11, 2013 00:26
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Miss Wallace posted:Thanks! Glad you liked the review. May I suggest condensing all of the "rookie training" episodes into one 3-minute rant? Alternately, write one script and just change the clips running behind it for each episode.
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Oct 13, 2013 17:44
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Elmyr posted:If you perhaps don't want something that's too personal, there's also a little "Cold War" trio of vids that I made, comprised of Balance of Power, Floor 13 and Papers, Please (I won't be offended if you skip the 2 ancient computer games and click the new one you might have actually heard of, no worries!). 'Twas a fun excuse to prattle on about communist TV/film, assorted books, amusing old footage, and perhaps even talk about games every once in a while (still, it only took me about 2 minutes into the first video to chuck in "Hell March" from Command & Conquer - some rules must be obeyed). Interestingly, Papers, Please was the only game of the three I hadn't heard of - probably because I don't game nearly as much now as I did when I was younger. But your review was great! It made me purchase the game, and playing it has been a really interesting experience. It's certainly not the most fun I've had playing a game ever, but it's a unique experience and really evokes the theme well (it very much feels like you're playing the role of a border guard). I'm surprised at how long my play sessions end up being considering how monotonous the game "should" be.
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Oct 20, 2013 00:32
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Gonzo McFee posted:New Best of the Worst is out. This video has inspired me to watch the great films of Len Kabasinski.
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Nov 1, 2013 05:43
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Doctor Reynolds posted:The waaaaaaahmbulance is going to be getting a lot of overtime soon with all the stupid angry nerds coming out the woodworks again. She allowed ratings on this video, and reported that there were over 100 dislikes before it was possible to have finished watch the video. I, for one, am shocked! On the other hand, someone came up with this great example of how you could change the gender signifiers and come up with Pac-Woman and Mr. Pac-Woman. I have to say, Mr. Pac-Woman looks quite dapper indeed!
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Nov 21, 2013 22:16
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Mokinokaro posted:I'd be careful taking everything she says as fact, mind (gaining attention is important to her series.) Not that I doubt it could have happened. Of course, that's always possible...though as others have said, it seems pretty likely given the way the internet reacts to her stuff. As a funny aside, I sometimes don't realize how much my journalism background slips into my posts -- you'll notice I only said she reported getting the dislikes, not that she got them. 
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Nov 22, 2013 06:13
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Lupa and Phelous review a movie called The Time Machine (I Found at a Yardsale [sic]). It's only part one of a longer review, but it encouraged me to watch the whole movie with some friends tonight. It's one part Birdemic, one part After Last Season, one part The Incredible Bulk, a dash of Valor's Kids and a helping of Star Wars. And it's all hilarious. Anyway, the review is great (and features lots of cameos), and the movie is terrible in its greatness. Watch both! My favorite part of the review: the beautiful reference to Soap at the end.
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Nov 28, 2013 07:52
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BreakAtmo posted:
It's important to remember that fair use is a defense to an infringement claim, not something that stops claims from happening in the first place. Which means that with YouTube using an overly aggressive system like this, it's going to flag everything (on behalf of copyright holders, even though they didn't ask for it, I suppose) and then require the video owners to dispute the claims based on fair use (which Joe's reviews fall under even more clearly than many other internet reviewers' material) or other grounds. Incidental to all this, I'd be fascinated to see a copyright case go to court within this little industry, though I wouldn't wish that on any of my friends who do this themselves. That would only happen after a copyright owner claimed a violation, the reviewer/critic filed a counterclaim, Blip/Youtube/whoever sided with the reviewer, and then the copyright owner decided to press on by suing the site and/or the individual (which explains why nothing has gotten that far yet - it's hardly worth the trouble). No single case would seriously shake up what's going on now - copyright claims and fair use defenses are all about the specifics of each case - but it might provide some guidelines specific to this kind of content that don't exist yet. Edit: I'm not a lawyer, I just OrangeKing fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Dec 13, 2013 |
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Dec 13, 2013 19:37
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CelticPredator posted:New Half in the Bag. I enjoyed the parody ad that comes right after the ad break. Which, at first, I thought was just a really odd Denny's ad.
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Dec 16, 2013 22:07
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I've known about this one for a year or so - I've made my bad movie watching friends watch it twice, and it's becoming an annual tradition for now on. It's on YouTube in its entirety!
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Cannot Find Server posted:The editing in these is awesome and hilarious. Also this show seems a good bit weirder than I imagined it would be. I thought it would just be lifeguards saving people. You're not even into the peak years of Baywatch yet. It will get much weirder, and much more amazing in a few seasons. We haven't even seen any spontaneous music videos or alien abductions yet!
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Jan 2, 2014 21:28
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Metal Loaf posted:It has been many a year since I watched Friends, but I recall a joke from the flashback episode where Joey introduces Chandler to Baywatch and there's a line like, "I have to go; one of the lifeguards was about to defuse a nuclear bomb." I know Mitch had to disarm a bomb at least once on the show. These things happen when you're a lifeguard.
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Jan 3, 2014 01:24
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Ghostpilot posted:Branching out from the Good Bad Flicks, Cecil tries a Good Bad Game: Manhunter New York. This was one of my favorite Apple IIGS games, despite the incredible difficulty level (and the stupid ways in which that difficulty level was achieved, though that was somewhat typical for that era of gaming). I remember that as a kid, I eventually broke down and bought the hint book. I think it was the theme and story that kept me interested, even if the gameplay was...wonky.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:He can't topple the king, but drat if he doesn't try. Dare I ask...who is the king?
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Jan 10, 2014 07:25
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Ghostpilot posted:Strange that a guy who once said that cynicism was his least favorite quality and that it doesn't lead to anything releases a video that's nearly half an hour of pure, undiluted cynicism. That was a direct quote from Conan O'Brian's farewell speech on NBC (it was probably more recognizable as such at the time than it is now).
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Jan 13, 2014 02:02
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Some of you might remember that I wrote a book on bad movies (So Bad, It's Good). I'm working on a sequel that features contributions from a couple people who have posted in this here thread, and while I'll be sure to plug that more when the Kickstarter goes up, I bring it up now only because I just recently finished the first draft of an entry for a Lifetime/Asylum co-production called Social Nightmare. It's the story of a high school girl who has it all, until someone starts hacking her social media account and posting mean things about other people. Since we're talking about Lifetime movies, I threw it up as a "preview" of the upcoming book on my site. I mean, it's The Asylum making a movie for the Lifetime Network -- how can you go wrong? Or right? echopapa posted:Following my rules for naming Lifetime Movies, I'd call that one "A Stolen Friend." (Although really, nobody at Lifetime can compete with the all-time champion in exploitative TV movie names, "Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?") Mother, May I Sleep with Danger is a movie that could have lived on that title alone, but it was pretty hilarious in execution, too.
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Metal Loaf posted:Here's a distillation of Lifetime Original Movies. That would be Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life! My favorite part of that one is that (before the kid clearly has a problem later in the film) the dad's reaction to mom finding out that their son looks at porn is "umm...you do know he's a teenage boy, right?" There's also a weird subplot about a cam girl who turns out to be insane or something.
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OldTennisCourt posted:The mom acts like her son was doing heroin straight into his eyeballs when she finds he watched porn a few times. But it will ruin his swimming career!!!!!
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Infamous Sphere posted:I actually think Ben and Arthur is more deserving of a status as a bad movie. For one thing, unlike The Room, it's not pretty much..a clipshow of itself - each stupid thing only happens once. For another thing, the plot is just way more insane, and the production quality is a shitload worse. I just wish it'd be more well known. Guess Sam didn't have the advertising budget that Wiseau had. I don't know that I like Ben and Arthur more than the room, but it's definitely up there. And I agree that the movie is perfectly entertaining without commentary - my friends and I have watched it several times, and everyone I know who has seen it has cracked up at all the parts you'd expect them to.
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Tangentially related to this thread, as it is on the Internet and involves criticism: the Kickstarter for my second So Bad, It's Good book is up and running. It features content from two people posting in this thread (thanks Cecil! thanks Allison!), and there's even a little something from Greg Sestero (though I'll let you guys in on the fact that he didn't have time to write something new, so it's a reprint of something I believe he wrote while promoting The Disaster Artist). Anyway, enjoy the project, be marveled by my super-professional project video (like all the greats, I made it in Movie Maker), and share it if you think others might be interested. Thanks!
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Lupa covered almost all of the Baywatch plots I would have mentioned, but I'll also throw in the fact that there's a Gillian's Island crossover episode that features Bob Denver and Dawn Wells reprising their roles. Mind you, it's about 25 years after Gilligan's Island went off the air.
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BigRed0427 posted:
I've seen it. It's all too real.
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MadScientistWorking posted:According to the AVGN thread in games it was an organized crime front to launder money. Wikipedia says that the people in charge went with the cheapest development studio they could find, and they pretty much got what they paid (not much) for. The fact that they at least made a couple of not-very-effective patches would suggest it was a little bit more than a front. A little bit.
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CynCyanide posted:Eric Roberts has a pretty hosed up face from some car accident he was in in the 80s, so I assume that's why he's always a bit slurred. Well, that explains why he sounds drunk in a lot of the stuff he does. Drunk Eric Roberts (or DER) has become a bit of a meme among my bad movie group.
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echopapa posted:The thing you will see in every other 1313 film is briefs. Lots and lots of men in tighty-whities for no particular reason. I've had the "pleasure" of seeing 1313: Bigfoot Island. The movie feels incredibly bloated at 75 minutes. The entire movie is as follows: frat boys want to party on an island they've previously been to. One by one, they arrive. They then walk towards their cabin. One makes it there and showers. The others get there, walk around, eventually take their shirts off, then get attacked by a man in a Bigfoot costume. Each of these sequences takes 10-15 minutes of your life. In the en, it is revealed that the Bigfoot is controlled by a girl who the frat boys attempted to sexually assault last year (except for the one who made it to the cabin successfully, who is spared because he stopped them from actually doing it). I've seen way too many DeCoteau movies. I've seen two movies from the Brotherhood series, A Christmas Puppy, A Halloween Puppy, Badass Showdown, Hansel and Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft...the list goes on. 
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DoombatINC posted:A Halloween Puppy is great, insofar as it's just A Talking Cat!?! -- same cast, same house, same story beats -- but there's a puppy and it's aroud halloween What I remember most from this film: someone trying to say "Necronomicon" but actually saying "Necromicon."
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Miss Wallace posted:They made a movie called H E Double Hockey Sticks that was literally about a guy selling his soul to the devil to be a great hockey player. I believe there are several trips to Hell in that one. I've seen this one. It's no Mighty Ducks, that's for sure. 
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cubs2084 posted:
I think I remember this one because of the hilariously stiff stunt work in one of the skating scenes. Like, a semi pulls into the road and then hits the breaks for no apparent reason and stays there for several seconds, after which a kid slides under it. Seamless, guys!
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Max Wilco posted:They also used 'Hold On To The Vision' from No Retreat, No Surrender. Hold On To The Vision has become one of my go-to pump up songs ever since I rewatched No Retreat, No Surrender for my next book. I am not ashamed of this. INSPIRE ME, SENSEI LEE!
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