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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah he started by doing reviews of bad Voyager episodes and then moved on to do all of Trek, as well as other Sci Fi. This I will have to check out.
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Miss Wallace posted:Hey all, Lupa here. Ah, Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Sorry if I was a little uninformed, and I know how that can be annoying - say, if someone watches a really old video of mine and tells me I need to improve something that I've already worked on, or change something that I've already changed. I know most of my comments in this thread have been more critical ones, so I need to start mentioning the positive ones as well, and there have been episodes of yours that I did very much enjoy (I don't mean to make this a backhanded compliment in any way, I find your episodes very fun a lot of the time, they just don't always necessarily align to my taste). Like you and Rantasmo, I did a review of Ben and Arthur, and it's interesting to see how we both interpreted the same movie. I didn't even pick up on the fact that Tammy was kind of an offensive female character, since I was just too focussed on how bad the rest of the movie was - so that was a really good call. I was a bit hesitant to release a review of Ben and Arthur after you'd done yours, but Diamanda Hagan told me to go for it and I'm glad I did. As an LGBT reviewer, missing out on that movie would be a pretty grave omission. I think it deserves to be known at least as much as The Room, since it really is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. Also, the Cine-Masochist and I are really happy about you working with Cecil from Good Bad Flicks  Leelee posted:Infamous Sphere- I forgot if you said you wanted to review only historical LGBTQ films, or all time periods? I haven't browsed all of your reviews, but a few that have popped into my head are Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson, I Can't Think Straight, a sort of Bollywood film. I review LGBTQ movies, AND period dramas. Sometimes there's an overlap, but I review stuff with a modern setting as well. I haven't yet gotten around Heavenly Creatures, since I've been a little apprehensive about lesbian murderers and all - and I haven't really looked into I Can't Think Straight. I watched an Indian movie with a lesbian character in it, Turning 30!!!, but that was one of the most dull movies I've ever seen in my life. I've got a few movies cooking around that I'd like to look at, and that I'm going to be reviewing - and I am making a bit of a concerted effort to have more female LGBT stuff there, but there's a few male LGBT flicks I'm going to be looking at too. There's one where Kyle MacLachlan plays the spirit of Cary Grant, and I'm watching Twin Peaks right now and enjoying the presence of the MacLachlan far too much, so I should probably give that one a watch. I also watched the Liberace movie, but I won't be touching that one since I don't have much to say about it that couldn't be summed up in a sentence (wow, Liberace, you narcissistic, hypocritical man.) It all just depends on time pressures, what scripts I have shelved, what time I have to film etc.
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Linkara posted a video of a live show he did at a Con. Fair warning to all viewers: there's a guy in the front who does not shut up throughout the entire show. He shouts out awful memes and his own brand of unfunny MST3K humor constantly. I couldn't last through the whole thing.
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Infamous Sphere posted:Ah, Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Sorry if I was a little uninformed, and I know how that can be annoying - say, if someone watches a really old video of mine and tells me I need to improve something that I've already worked on, or change something that I've already changed. I know most of my comments in this thread have been more critical ones, so I need to start mentioning the positive ones as well, and there have been episodes of yours that I did very much enjoy (I don't mean to make this a backhanded compliment in any way, I find your episodes very fun a lot of the time, they just don't always necessarily align to my taste). It's all good. And thanks about Ben & Arthur. What's the link for your review of it? I watched Rantasmo's and I enjoyed his take on it, I'm sure yours will be good too. It's always good to get a different perspective.Glad you were happy with the team up with Cecil, he's a great guy and far more informed than I am. I hope he gets lots of new viewers now that the video is up.
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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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Miss Wallace posted:It's all good. Here's my take on Ben and Arthur. It's an older review so it's probably a little rough around the edges. I've done a couple of more recent reviews of terrible schlocky films about terrible gay people if you're interested - The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (a no-budget film made about...Jeffrey Dahmer) and most recently, Windows, which is about an evil lesbian stalker. Both of them are not much better than Ben and Arthur, but I'll give The Secret Life points for heart. The main actor/director/man responsible for that film, Carl Crew, got very excited when he realised that fellow reviewer The Cine-Masochist and I were talking about his film on Twitter, and I felt a bit bad that I canned his film so much. If there's one thing I've learned, it's a lot easier to be negative when you don't think it'll get back to the person responsible.
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Infamous Sphere posted:I review LGBTQ movies, AND period dramas. Sometimes there's an overlap, but I review stuff with a modern setting as well. I haven't yet gotten around Heavenly Creatures, since I've been a little apprehensive about lesbian murderers and all - and I haven't really looked into I Can't Think Straight. I watched an Indian movie with a lesbian character in it, Turning 30!!!, but that was one of the most dull movies I've ever seen in my life. I've got a few movies cooking around that I'd like to look at, and that I'm going to be reviewing - and I am making a bit of a concerted effort to have more female LGBT stuff there, but there's a few male LGBT flicks I'm going to be looking at too. There's one where Kyle MacLachlan plays the spirit of Cary Grant, and I'm watching Twin Peaks right now and enjoying the presence of the MacLachlan far too much, so I should probably give that one a watch. I also watched the Liberace movie, but I won't be touching that one since I don't have much to say about it that couldn't be summed up in a sentence (wow, Liberace, you narcissistic, hypocritical man.) It all just depends on time pressures, what scripts I have shelved, what time I have to film etc. Ugh, the Liberace movie was so awful, and boring to boot. Such an interesting person and such a crappy mini-series.
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Leelee posted:Ugh, the Liberace movie was so awful, and boring to boot. Such an interesting person and such a crappy mini-series. It really was...well, definitely not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it didn't really make me feel satisfied for having watched it. With the risk of Steven Soderbergh showing up in this thread (since I'm about to say bad things about him), I get the impression that Steven Soderbergh is..uh...his films seem to be grinding, and pointless. And this is a judgement made mostly on hearsay, since I haven't really watched many of his films, so it's probably not a very good judgement, but in terms of what I've heard about The Girlfriend Experience and Magic Mike, both of them sounded awful, boring and devoid of a purpose. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the Liberace film didn't seem to have much to say, when it came down to it. Could it have been better? I don't know. I don't know enough about Liberace to be able to say so. Speaking of Magic Mike, I know it's a bit of a derail, but I seem to have noticed a tendency..when films focus on male sex workers catering to men, they are often quite decent. When films focus on male sex workers catering to women, they're shallow, and awful. I discussed this on my show page, and about the only exception we could think of was Boogie Nights, which is great, and has Dirk Diggler performing scenes with women (but I suppose porn actors are a whole different category of sex worker to prostitutes and strippers.)
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OldTennisCourt posted:Linkara posted a video of a live show he did at a Con. Fair warning to all viewers: there's a guy in the front who does not shut up throughout the entire show. He shouts out awful memes and his own brand of unfunny MST3K humor constantly. I couldn't last through the whole thing.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Someone was doing the same thing at Spoony's panel while he was trying to riff on videos. That seems pretty common though, based on the other videos I've seen of Linkara doing cons. It seems way worse in that particular video for some reason, I think he may be too close to the microphone or he's particularly obnoxious but he's by far the worst I've ever heard in any Con video.
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quote:Speaking of Magic Mike, I know it's a bit of a derail, but I seem to have noticed a tendency..when films focus on male sex workers catering to men, they are often quite decent. When films focus on male sex workers catering to women, they're shallow, and awful. I discussed this on my show page, and about the only exception we could think of was Boogie Nights, which is great, and has Dirk Diggler performing scenes with women (but I suppose porn actors are a whole different category of sex worker to prostitutes and strippers.) Did you consider Midnight Cowboy? Granted he does end up with some guys, but he aims for a female clientele, and it's a fantastic, albeit depressing, film.
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OldTennisCourt posted:It seems way worse in that particular video for some reason, I think he may be too close to the microphone or he's particularly obnoxious but he's by far the worst I've ever heard in any Con video.
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Holy poo poo this sucks so loving bad Christ, he was 34 and just married. This is so god drat sad. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Whoa...that's...sudden. I think it's also destroying their site since I can't even get the comments to load. I noticed its trickled to the rest of the gaming press, but nobody has a cause of death. His last tweet was the day he died...
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Infamous Sphere posted:Speaking of Magic Mike, I know it's a bit of a derail, but I seem to have noticed a tendency..when films focus on male sex workers catering to men, they are often quite decent. When films focus on male sex workers catering to women, they're shallow, and awful. I discussed this on my show page, and about the only exception we could think of was Boogie Nights, which is great, and has Dirk Diggler performing scenes with women (but I suppose porn actors are a whole different category of sex worker to prostitutes and strippers.) As someone who actually watched Magic Mike, it's pretty much the opposite of shallow and awful. And I don't believe it's meant to cater to any specific gender. E: Current Releases has a pretty good take on the movie http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/magic-mike-ted.php Benne fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Benne posted:As someone who actually watched Magic Mike, it's pretty much the opposite of shallow and awful. And I don't believe it's meant to cater to any specific gender. As someone who also watched Magic Mike, the advertisements for it way overplayed how much of the movie would be sexy men taking their clothes off.  Also way underplayed how much of the movie would be somewhat depressing cautionary drama. You know that scene in the trailers that shows the two stripper-cops? That very same scene one of the strippers feeds a girl some illegal narcotics and is almost killed by a group of angry men. Woo! Girls night out! Fun, fun, fun! 
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In regards to Magic Mike - ok, I really should actually watch the film, and decide for myself - I was just a little put off by the whole...idea that there was random fanservice lesbianism/threesome stuff thrown in. Two queer friends of mine (one male, one female) saw it, and said it was "Ok - and very straight." I won't necessarily like it because it's got dark elements in it - after all, I hated Black Swan, but I probably should give it at least a try. By "catering to women", I didn't mean that the film catered to women, I meant that the sex workers in the film catered to women. Sorry, that was probably phrased in an unclear fashion. So, My Own Private Idaho, Mysterious Skin - sex workers catering to men. Spread, Deuce Bigalow - sex workers catering to women. But I agree that it's a pretty blanket, silly statement to make - I suppose in my broad sweeping generalisation, films portraying hustlers who sleep with men tend to be more likely to be art films, or more serious pictures, whereas since "getting paid to sleep with sexy women" is seen as desirable, films about hustlers who sleep with women/strippers who strip off for women are a lot more likely to be shallow and bad. Ronk a Donk posted:Did you consider Midnight Cowboy? Granted he does end up with some guys, but he aims for a female clientele, and it's a fantastic, albeit depressing, film. Midnight Cowboy is an excellent film! I did a double review of Midnight Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. Joe Buck was mainly aiming for rich women, but when I was in the editing suite, I realised that he says "All the women are rich and begging for it, and all the men are tutti-fruities" - which I suppose could be taken two ways. Either the women in NY are desperate for sex cause no one will sleep with them, or he can sleep with just about anyone in NY cause the men like men as well. All of his male tricks end in disaster though. What I find funny about Midnight Cowboy - is that it had an x rating, and now, in Australia, it's rated M = probably our rating equivalent of PG 13. Anyway, I'll try not to derail any longer.
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Infamous Sphere posted:In regards to Magic Mike - ok, I really should actually watch the film, and decide for myself - I was just a little put off by the whole...idea that there was random fanservice lesbianism/threesome stuff thrown in. Two queer friends of mine (one male, one female) saw it, and said it was "Ok - and very straight." I won't necessarily like it because it's got dark elements in it - after all, I hated Black Swan, but I probably should give it at least a try. Why does dark film content bother you so much?
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You know you don't HAVE to see the movie, right? Like if 'dark things' turn you off that bad you could just not see it, you should just stop making broad judgement on it with only trailers and word of mouth to go on. I don't watch torture porn, I don't like the genre, so I just don't make sweeping judgments of them and when it comes up say 'nah not my thing'. No one's ever, ironically, put me in some kinda Saw machine and forced me to watch.
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Infamous Sphere- I checked out your review, it was pretty good. I remember now I watched your review of Virtual Girl (I think that was the name?) and I enjoyed that one too. One thing I'd watch is the sound balance. You were much quieter than the music or movie clips, so if I turned it up to hear you I'd get blasted by the other audio when it switched.
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I was going to come here to talk about Block buster busters reviews of fan films and probably use it to make fun of that terrible superman movie again. Though because of this thread I now know Ryan Davis is dead. Now I am too sad.
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cubs2084 posted:Why does dark film content bother you so much? Ah, let me rephrase. Dark film content doesn't bother me. But I don't things necessarily BECAUSE they're dark and edgy. Anyway, I'll stop talking about movies I've never seen. Miss Wallace posted:Infamous Sphere- I checked out your review, it was pretty good. Thanks! I'm assuming you were referring to "Virtual Sexuality." The sound balance issue was something I had more in my earlier work, and I've since been a lot more conscientious about careful editing and audio balancing. I sometimes look at my older stuff and really want to just...re-do it, get the framing better, the editing better, the sound levels better, everything!
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So we finally got some word from JonTron himself as to why he left, albeit a bit against his will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc5N5wcX3nI&feature=youtu.be As he put it, he went to New York for his own career reasons, not just to be with his girlfriend. And that's totally fair.
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cubs2084 posted:So we finally got some word from JonTron himself as to why he left, albeit a bit against his will: Pretty legitimate reasons. Honestly, although game grumps was a nice distraction that put out regular content, I always enjoyed the solo Jontron videos more. It was too bad he couldn't seem to strike a balance between the two.
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Hey all, would you folks be willing to throw any support Nash's way? He's been having some really hard times lately. http://blip.tv/radio-dead-air Maybe just through watching his videos or sending a message his way. Thanks.
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I watch Nash's stuff every week. If I wasn't a wrasslin fan I'd probably also watch his show live. If you're reading this, Nash, thanks for being consistently entertaining.
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I miss Nash's scripted stuff. I find it much better than his live show. Also, I find Spill.com's Let's Do This!!! a better venue.
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cubs2084 posted:So we finally got some word from JonTron himself as to why he left, albeit a bit against his will: What kills me is how people are still butthurt over him leaving. Danny is so much more fun to listen to in the Game Grumps format, and doesn't constantly cough himself half to death either.
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ZeeBoi posted:What kills me is how people are still butthurt over him leaving. Danny is so much more fun to listen to in the Game Grumps format, and doesn't constantly cough himself half to death either. Danny also loving destroyed the three games he's played so far. (Punch-Out, SMB2, and Karate Kid, the last of which was described to be notoriously frustrating and difficult by the AVGN and Danny beat it in like 12 minutes). Arin has been playing Mega Man 2 exclusively so that's why they're floundering there. In all fairness he did mention that they started off by playing the three games he's best at, but Jon was never even close to as good at any game we ever saw him play. And from a humor perspective I don't see how anyone wouldn't be on board with Danny after the whole Luigi "It's a fine day for mayoring!" discussion they had in one of those SMB2 episodes. That's probably the hardest I've laughed at Game Grumps since floating Knuckles. And this is coming from someone who started watching Game Grumps because of Jon and not Arin. I wasn't even sure who Arin was, I had seen some of his flashes on Newgrounds (which I only figured out after Game Grumps was announced) but never really keep track of the artists on those. bbf2 fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Edit - Eh.  I used to dislike Sci-Fi debris (to be honest, mostly because he had some opinions I disagreed with) but I recently had the chance to compare and contrast his full series reviews with Doug's and... holy poo poo, he thinks about what's happening and why! He has a basic understanding of what themes are and how to find them! He can follow a narrative as a coherent whole trying to say something rather than just a bunch of things that happen! And when he over thinks or overrates certain episodes it's because... well, it's because he at least thinks about what's happening. The relative improvement is astounding. Xander77 fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Xander77 posted:Edit - Eh. Speaking of which, I think SF debris's Last Airbender series review is on a whole different level than Doug's episode by episode look and I think it's better overall (and one of my favorite opinionated looks he has done). Just about every episode Doug spends about one or two minutes talking about "how does it tie into the story?" or whatever and glosses over character moments and other fun or important things. He's speculation bits are great fun, but him worrying over if the episode is filler or not is just unnecessary. Plus, as it has been pointed out here and in the Avatar thread, some pretty obvious character moments and actions fly over his head, but he does pick up on the subtler things. It was just weird to me, especially from a fan of Tom and Jerry unable to spot a visual gag.
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Is there a video games Awesome style of show that isn't VGA? I know about Continue?, I mean a show where they long play a game as a group of buddies. I really really REALLY want to like VGA because I love the idea of the show, but I can't take Fraser being a gigantic douchebag anymore.
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Game Grumps is playing Civ 5 and it's actually pretty hilarious. They do their typical 'we have never even googled this poo poo before WHAT'S HAPPENING' thing but for a game like Civilization it doesn't result in death and repetition like normal, it just results in huge Civilization nerds like me going 'you fools you're not optimizing your research order!' Also their Caesar voice and constant assumptions that there's a vast Australian empire is great.
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