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 Spoony goes off on a two hour rant about After Earth.Say what you will, this dude is entertaining when he's off the cuff.
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Jun 4, 2013 15:17
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Jesto posted:And now with After Earth he's wasn't even listed as the director in any of the trailers. He's likely going to kill Jaden Smith's film career as well and end up on Will Smith's shitlist. He's gone from being "The guy with all the twists" to "The guy with the reverse Midas touch where everything turns to crap" and with any lucky he'll never find work in Hollywood again. Man, I was wondering why that movie was so poorly received despite the Smiths being pretty talented. I really doubt he'll stop getting work, though. TLA was a $150 million project that barely managed to make a return via overseas box office sales, and someone thought it was a good idea to put him on the helm of yet another Summer blockbuster. Directors are like CEOs; you can be the absolute worst but never stop being put in charge of things.
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Jun 4, 2013 15:39
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Jesto posted:He's likely going to kill Jaden Smith's film career Hahahaha. That's rich. Nepotism goes a long way.
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Jun 4, 2013 16:11
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Jesto posted:He's gone from being "The guy with all the twists" to "The guy with the reverse Midas touch where everything turns to crap" and with any lucky he'll never find work in Hollywood again. There's only one response.
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Jun 4, 2013 16:16
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Benne posted:Doug's schizophrenic reaction between "The Great Divide" and "The Storm" may be the highlight of the whole experiment. The Great Divide was pretty ho-hum but it at least showed what kind of problem solver Aang was and brought two warring peoples together. It at least had some of that character building.
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Jun 4, 2013 16:26
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Bad Wolf posted:I can recommend watching the crossover review a bunch of the Channel Awesome team did on the Last Airbender movie. This one, as well as the previous year's Dragonball movie review, are two of my favorite ones on the site.  Unless I am mistaken of course didn't Rollo and Y Ruler of Time had a falling out with Lordkat?These reviews also gave us the infamous Strawberry video. http://www.lordkat.com/strawberry-video.html achillesforever6 fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jun 4, 2013 |
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Jun 4, 2013 19:24
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miscellaneous14 posted:Man, I was wondering why that movie was so poorly received despite the Smiths being pretty talented. Will Smith and him are apparently good friends. That's how he got this project.
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Jun 4, 2013 19:32
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Mokinokaro posted:Will Smith and him are apparently good friends. That's how he got this project. That and he was the only director left to actually risk their career on a terrible actor to lead the film (This is about Jayden Smith).
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Jun 4, 2013 20:56
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Jimbot posted:The Great Divide was pretty ho-hum but it at least showed what kind of problem solver Aang was and brought two warring peoples together. It at least had some of that character building. There are only two episodes of that show that I ever skip on rewatches. "The Great Divide" and "The Painted Lady." Because nothing of value happens. Even "Avatar Day" provided a crucial moment in the Zuko arc and some badly needed backstory on how other Avatars in the past solved problems. Even "Appa's Lost Days" was a fantastic character spotlight episode (and that's saying something when the character is a non-speaking Bison.) Even "The Beach" gave us the only look at a group of characters "off the job" and showed aspects of them that set up their final character arcs. "The Great Divide" just...contributes so little and requires getting through so much forced moral crap (though they do get some props for ultimately flipping the moral the bird at the last second) that it's almost impossible to watch. To their credit, they took a beautiful shot at it in The Ember Island Players - at least they got the problem with it immediately.
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Jun 4, 2013 21:44
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God, "The Painted Lady" is unwatchable. Who the hell let the Captain Planet writers do an episode?
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Jun 4, 2013 22:27
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I couldn't help but notice that "The Painted Lady" was another one called out like "The Great Divide" was in "The Ember Island Players." Somehow I feel like they needed a filler episode and couldn't come up with an idea that week.
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Jun 4, 2013 23:22
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I didn't mind "The Painted Lady", however "The Swamp" however was something I couldn't stand. That new-age spiritual nonsense about Time was insufferable and didn't make any sense. Edit: The whole point is that it'll be interesting in seeing Doug's reaction to a lot of these episodes. May are coveted and others are disliked a whole lot.
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Jun 4, 2013 23:30
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New Cinema Snob http://thecinemasnob.com/2013/06/04/my-baby-is-black.aspx
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Jun 5, 2013 00:52
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Jimbot posted:I didn't mind "The Painted Lady", however "The Swamp" however was something I couldn't stand. That new-age spiritual nonsense about Time was insufferable and didn't make any sense. ...I just liked the Foggy Swamp Tribe. Also, the callback Mr. "Death is an Illusion" got in Season 3 was worth it.
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Jun 5, 2013 00:54
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So much is indicated just by the title.
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Jun 5, 2013 00:55
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Nostalgia Critic: Are Video Games Art?
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Jun 5, 2013 03:05
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Maremidon posted:So much is indicated just by the title.
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Jun 5, 2013 04:49
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Spoony does a
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Jun 5, 2013 08:58
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Rebochan posted:Nostalgia Critic: Are Video Games Art? Didn't watch because I don't see him in any way qualified to talk about this. Anyone, please inform me if it somehow manages to be worth watching anyway, tia. (That's why it would be nice if the human RSS thing could be accompanied by at least a few comments by the way)
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Jun 5, 2013 11:06
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Comrade Question posted:Didn't watch because I don't see him in any way qualified to talk about this. Anyone, please inform me if it somehow manages to be worth watching anyway, tia. His position is basically: Let's rephrase the question as "are video games high art?" If they aren't now, they're bound to be. Also, the last games he's played to completion are New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Metroid Prime 2. And his most referenced games during the video are The Sims, World of Warcraft, and Bioshock Infinite. He shows that he's thought a lot about the issue but his position still never progresses out of the kiddie pool.
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Jun 5, 2013 11:14
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Dinosaur Satan posted:His position is basically: Let's rephrase the question as "are video games high art?" If they aren't now, they're bound to be.
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Jun 5, 2013 16:33
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New Needs More Gay: Game of Thrones http://chezapocalypse.com/episodes/game-of-thrones-needs-more-gay/
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Jun 5, 2013 18:10
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Comrade Question posted:Didn't watch because I don't see him in any way qualified to talk about this. Anyone, please inform me if it somehow manages to be worth watching anyway, tia. Boy, sound more stuck up why don't you.
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Jun 5, 2013 19:08
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Dinosaur Satan posted:His position is basically: Let's rephrase the question as "are video games high art?" If they aren't now, they're bound to be. It's impossible to leave the kiddie pool when you're talking about 'are games art'.
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Jun 5, 2013 19:55
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achillesforever6 posted:Just curious what would he bring up or talk about that would progress out of the kiddie pool? Then again I think judging by Doug's audience it was pretty insightful and doesn't probably need to go deeper. I think Oancitizen also did a video on "Are Video Games Art?" a while back. The main problem is he never explores the titular question. He could discuss the issue of classification, the art of disparate elements that make up a game vs the the art of a game as a whole, must art be presented or can it exist independent of display, and Conceptualism. When he talks about the possibility of video games being high art, he doesn't talk about what sort of criteria would qualify a game as high art. After all, a video game is not a film, so the same parameters that would qualify a film, like cinematography, story, and score, may not apply. I know some people think a game like Crusader Kings 2, where you have a sandbox and create your own story, is as close as games get. Other people think a game like Bioshock Infinite that mirrors a film's elements is the way forward. Still others think finely tuned gameplay like you'd find in Tetris makes a game glorious. Oancitizen sticks his toe in when he talks about Shopenhauer's definition of art vs Dewey's, but I'd love to see a more detailed analysis.
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Jun 5, 2013 20:15
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Dinosaur Satan posted:The main problem is he never explores the titular question. He could discuss the issue of classification, the art of disparate elements that make up a game vs the the art of a game as a whole, must art be presented or can it exist independent of display, and Conceptualism. When he talks about the possibility of video games being high art, he doesn't talk about what sort of criteria would qualify a game as high art. After all, a video game is not a film, so the same parameters that would qualify a film, like cinematography, story, and score, may not apply. I know some people think a game like Crusader Kings 2, where you have a sandbox and create your own story, is as close as games get. Other people think a game like Bioshock Infinite that mirrors a film's elements is the way forward. Still others think finely tuned gameplay like you'd find in Tetris makes a game glorious. Oancitizen sticks his toe in when he talks about Shopenhauer's definition of art vs Dewey's, but I'd love to see a more detailed analysis. I'm really not sure you are going to get that if you are looking at it from people who make a living talking about how lovely The Room is while making dick jokes.
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Jun 5, 2013 21:45
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Comrade Question posted:Didn't watch because I don't see him in any way qualified to talk about this. Anyone, please inform me if it somehow manages to be worth watching anyway, tia. ...did you seriously just TL;DR a video that's ten minutes long?
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Jun 5, 2013 21:45
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Rebochan posted:...did you seriously just TL;DR a video that's ten minutes long? I asked if the video was worth watching since I had reasonable doubts and you provided no info beyond a link. Neither unreasonable nor hard to grasp.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:02
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Comrade Question posted:I asked if the video was worth watching since I had reasonable doubts and you provided no info beyond a link. Neither unreasonable nor hard to grasp. In the time it took you to wait for a summary, you could've watched the video and then went to Egypt to get a hotdog.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:16
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Maremidon posted:I'm really not sure you are going to get that if you are looking at it from people who make a living talking about how lovely The Room is while making dick jokes.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:17
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Benne posted:New Needs More Gay: Game of Thrones That...was the most pointless episode ever. I generally really like Needs More Gay, but here..basically all Rantasmo said was "Yeah, Game of Thrones...people who don't like fantasy like it. And there are gay people in it. And they do gay stuff." I still have very little idea of what the show is actually about, who the gay characters are, what function they perform in the story, why it's good to have queer visibility in shows like this, whether they're good portrayals....am I asking too much? I am, after all, someone who spent 30 minutes talking about a TV show which I don't really think has that wide an audience range, (Bomb Girls) and a reasonable chunk of that was talking about why they have one of the best lesbian characters I've seen. Still, I suppose he only took 4 minutes to say nothing.
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Jun 5, 2013 22:55
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Infamous Sphere posted:That...was the most pointless episode ever. I generally really like Needs More Gay, but here..basically all Rantasmo said was "Yeah, Game of Thrones...people who don't like fantasy like it. And there are gay people in it. And they do gay stuff." I still have very little idea of what the show is actually about, who the gay characters are, what function they perform in the story, why it's good to have queer visibility in shows like this, whether they're good portrayals....am I asking too much? I am, after all, someone who spent 30 minutes talking about a TV show which I don't really think has that wide an audience range, (Bomb Girls) and a reasonable chunk of that was talking about why they have one of the best lesbian characters I've seen. Still, I suppose he only took 4 minutes to say nothing. I don't know if Rantazmo's incredibly short videos are a self restriction or not but if they are he really needs stop it. I mean there's being concise and then there's "HEYGUYSHERE'GAGAYTHINGOKAYBYE." All these short videos do is make it seem like he has literally nothing insightful to say on the subject, which I know he does because he's said insightful things before. On the other hand, he may actually be going for something like "Tropes vs. Women" where everything is intentionally dumbed down and is essentially babby's first primer on gay culture; his target audience being non-gays who are only dimly aware of these individuals known as "homosexuals". I mean, one of his episodes was on what Twinks and Bears were for chrissakes. dijon du jour fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jun 6, 2013 |
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Jun 6, 2013 00:03
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dijon du jour posted:I don't know if Rantazmo's incredibly short videos are a self restriction or not but if they are he really needs stop it. I mean there's being concise and then there's "HEYGUYSHERE'GAGAYTHINGOKAYBYE." All these short videos do is make it seem like he has literally nothing insightful to say on the subject, which I know he does because he's said insightful things before. Rantasmo is always going to be more popular than me purely because he's accessible, and concise (there are probably a variety of other factors, but these two have to weigh fairly heavily.) I liked his fight club and action movie analysis, because he actually presented a theory, and went into a reasonable amount of detail about it - but many of his episodes are just like "look at this thing! It has gay characters in it! They're not perfect, but they're good!" For me, I prefer to go into things in a lot more detail - how they are as cinema, how they were received by the world in general, how the LGBT characters are represented, etc. Significant levels of analysis. I do tend to do a little bit of a short explanation on what I'm talking about, and what significance it has in the world, so I think my episodes are fairly accessible. About the only pre-requisite is that you know what terms like "LGBT" and "Queer" and "Transgender" mean, nothing more insanely insular or specific than that..but many people just aren't willing to watch a 25 minute commentary and analysis on something they haven't heard of. The Game of Thrones episode was especially odd, because it didn't really seem to work for any demographic. It had very little to offer for people who didn't know anything about Game of Thrones, since he didn't really explain much about the show, or what significance the characters had, let alone who they were. It also had very little insight for people who were Game of Thrones fans, since he didn't really say much. All it really was was an acknowledgement that Rantasmo had watched the show, and that there were gay characters in it. I think he should at least stretch the videos out to 7 minutes, if it means that he'll provide more insight or opinion.
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Jun 6, 2013 10:54
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Half In The Bag talks about Hangover Part III and After Earth http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-the-hangover-part-iii-and-after-earth/
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Jun 6, 2013 15:09
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Benne posted:Half In The Bag talks about Hangover Part III and After Earth I love their absurd set ups for reviews.
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Jun 6, 2013 15:33
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Blip had decided this week I need Real Housewives of New Jersey commercials before every video. Annoying? Sure. Solution? Hit the mute button for 30 seconds. Bam. Person I'm watching gets their 27 cents or whatever from my view, and I don't have to listen to that crap. Frankly it seems like MORE effort to get an ad blocker for the thing.
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Jun 7, 2013 04:52
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I can't leave a video on fullscreen without the midroll ad glitching out and leaving the screen blank.
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Jun 7, 2013 05:20
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cubs2084 posted:Blip had decided this week I need Real Housewives of New Jersey commercials before every video. Yup, same here >_< I also had one video glitch out on the volume controls during the midroll ad...forcing me to reload the video and watch the ad again.
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cubs2084 posted:Bam. Person I'm watching gets their 27 cents or whatever from my view, Ha ! If only it were anywhere near that much.
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