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New Brows Held High reviews "Shame", starring Michael Fassbender and Michael Fassbender's impressive dong http://t.co/AB1m9Yl5Lf
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Benne posted:New Brows Held High reviews "Shame", starring Michael Fassbender and Michael Fassbender's impressive dong Oh man, SHAME. I am SO glad he reviewed this, as I felt tempted to do so myself, just to talk about how much I hated it. And I did..HATE it. It's a great review, that really gets down to the heart of my problems with this movie, except expressed in a way that is less..viscerally enraged to my reaction to the movie. The thing is, when you're sold on a movie being incredibly depraved..you go into it, expecting it to be depraved, only to find out that it's just a hollow heap of nothing with a layer of "depravity" slathered on top, with absolutely no context for the depravity. Brandon doesn't have any life OTHER than his sex life, so we can't really say that his sex life is interrupting his life since he doesn't have a life. Also, the sex acts that are performed in the movie...while there are a lot of them, and they're relatively explicit, aren't exactly depraved sex acts in and of themselves. My friend and I watched the whole movie waiting for him to do something that would actually be seriously morally bankrupt or illegal. We thought he was going to have sex with his sister. He didn't. We thought he was going to rape someone. He didn't. All that he did...was go into a gay club and get a blowjob...which is an incredibly stupid thing to represent his lowest ebb, since getting oral sex from another man isn't depraved in and of itself. Brandon wasn't established as a homophobe, or someone who was struggling against his homosexual desires, so..who cares if he got a blowjob from a man instead of a woman? The movie had one premise - to shock, and it failed! In terms of being shocking or affecting, I think American Psycho is a much more effective movie (Brandon seems to have an American Psycho job in the movie too - he doesn't do anything.) That's also another interesting point, in terms of "romantic attraction being a turn off." Brandon can only have sex with people he's not interested in as people, only as sex objects. Patrick Bateman can't seem to bring himself to kill anyone who truly loves him, which is why Luis, Chloe Sevigny's character and Reese Witherspoon's character all escape the movie unharmed. If you want an art movie about a man struggling to control his sexual desires, then the South African film Beauty is as much better pick, seeing as it actually has a shocking and jarring sexual conclusion in it - a brutal male/male rape, as opposed to "one random blowjob." Also, the long unbroken take where Michael Fassbender jogs through the streets dressed like Eminem to the strains of silent movie piano....why? Sorry for going on so long, I just hate Shame. I get the feeling that Steve McQueen is a really wanky director, but maybe he's like Van Sant, in that he does some good, mainstream movies, some horribly pretentious movies, some excellent art movies and a few horrible missteps. I haven't watched any other of his films so I can't say for sure.
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Dec 7, 2013 07:23
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Game Grumps' fifty minute look at Endless Ocean is pure art. "This game is like one part gorgeous dreamland and two parts nightmare I can't wake from!"
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Dec 7, 2013 19:46
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Game Grumps' fifty minute look at Endless Ocean is pure art. The ending is magical.
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Dec 7, 2013 21:25
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Seriously I think that is probably one of the funniest things they've ever done. My face hurts from laughing at every minute of that- was not ready for the ending. The dude who donated them that game has to feel pretty accomplished right now 
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Dec 7, 2013 22:08
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Here's another review of an episode of The Secret World of Alex Mack for ya'.
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Dec 8, 2013 00:59
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JesuOtaku I'm honestly curious, what's the plans for the Summer anime look? Are you going to try and switch formats or something? It seems like in order to manage it the episodes might need to be shortened.
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Dec 9, 2013 19:10
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I hate to be the bearer of bad new but Spill.com is shutting down by the end of this month. Link:http://my.spill.hollywood.com/profiles/blogs/thank-you Korey posted:
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Dec 9, 2013 21:38
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Yeah it sucks, seems like Hollywood.com couldn't figure out how to use that site properly.
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Dec 9, 2013 21:48
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Seriously that absolutely blows. Spill was amazing before Hollywood and it's downfall was loving awful. It was so clear they loved the site. gently caress that's sad. In all fairness though, this could be a blessing. Tons of people are saying they could pretty easily get in with Rooster Teeth as a movie division and those guys seem way way way way less likely to gently caress them as Hollywood did. OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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Dec 9, 2013 22:08
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That would be great if they joined RT.
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Dec 9, 2013 22:34
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What happened with Hollywood.com? I listened to spill.com's reviews but never kept up with the background of the site.
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Dec 9, 2013 23:54
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BigRed0427 posted:What happened with Hollywood.com? I listened to spill.com's reviews but never kept up with the background of the site.
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The biggest contradiction that rubbed Korey wrong it seems was them trying to push a video game section for years, then when the Loading Bar was made and was doing its job pretty well, they cut the cord on it. It's not like content was lost, at least. Rage Select rose from the ashes and it became obvious real fast that they were restricted by Spill on how much content they can put out. LEOG also has its own website now, and apparently they are big sport fans which confuses the poo poo out of me.
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Dec 10, 2013 13:48
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Tae posted:The biggest contradiction that rubbed Korey wrong it seems was them trying to push a video game section for years, then when the Loading Bar was made and was doing its job pretty well, they cut the cord on it. What's the LEOG's new website?
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Dec 10, 2013 14:18
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OldTennisCourt posted:What's the LEOG's new website? http://oneofus.net/
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Dec 10, 2013 15:20
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The Nostalgia Critic did Eight Crazy Nights. http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/41613-eight-crazy-nights He seemed to really, really hate it. A lot of his gags seemed a lot more mean-spirited than usual.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:02
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Supersonic Shine posted:The Nostalgia Critic did Eight Crazy Nights. Given that he declares it one of the worst movies he's ever seen during the end summary, your assumption would be correct. What's interesting is that there's an end teaser saying that he'll review something even worse on Christmas Eve. I honestly can't think of anything worse than this or the Star Wars special, so it might be kind of obscure.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:22
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Supersonic Shine posted:The Nostalgia Critic did Eight Crazy Nights. Its nothing new, honestly. Red Letter Media did a full hour-long Half in the Bag episode dedicated to systematically demolishing both Jack & Jill and Adam Sandler's Hollywood Ponzi scheme of a production company. I honestly think he used Jay Bauman's "Adam Sandler Movie Trope" list to inform his review because he hits just about every point highlighted on that list in his review. And as for mean spirited? poo poo, I was dragged against my will to That's My Boy last year, and the movie itself was so mean spirited and awful that both me and the person who took me to it were honest-to-god enraged after watching it. It's not Doug being pointlessly spiteful, it's Doug reflecting the soul of the film itself through the Nostalgia Critic. nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Dec 10, 2013 21:30
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I probably would have understood more if I actually watched any of the Happy Madison films. There are probably people who consider me lucky, and just be safe, I'll consider myself lucky too.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:41
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Supersonic Shine posted:I probably would have understood more if I actually watched any of the Happy Madison films. There are probably people who consider me lucky, and just be safe, I'll consider myself lucky too. Waterboy, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison are okay comedies. Everything else Happy Madison outputs is dire.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:55
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Supersonic Shine posted:I probably would have understood more if I actually watched any of the Happy Madison films. There are probably people who consider me lucky, and just be safe, I'll consider myself lucky too. The irony is, the two namesake films of his studio, Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, are actually genuinely good. I can go back and watch Happy Gilmore any time and enjoy it through and through because it actually has a heart. Happy has a noble goal throughout the film, and while he has anger issues, he's generally a likeable guy and finds a way to channel his rage into something productive; golf, ironically, and he triumphs because of himself as opposed to in spite of himself like the human monster protagonists of nearly every other modern Sandler film like Eight Crazy Nights, The Longest Yard, Jack & Jill and That's My Boy. The main thing that pisses a lot of people off about Sandler is that he's a very talented actor and comedian and the stuff he does like Eight Crazy Nights, ect. comes off as a conscious choice brimming with nothing but disdain for the audience in how utterly mean spirited the final product is.
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Dec 10, 2013 21:57
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nine-gear crow posted:Its nothing new, honestly. Red Letter Media did a full hour-long Half in the Bag episode dedicated to systematically demolishing both Jack & Jill and Adam Sandler's Hollywood Ponzi scheme of a production company. I honestly think he used Jay Bauman's "Adam Sandler Movie Trope" list to inform his review because he hits just about every point highlighted on that list in his review. We Hate Movies did an episode on ECN too and they loving savaged it declaring it "Disc 12 of a 300 disc box set of Sandler sucking his own cock"
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Dec 10, 2013 22:00
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nine-gear crow posted:The main thing that pisses a lot of people off about Sandler is that he's a very talented actor and comedian and the stuff he does like Eight Crazy Nights, ect. comes off as a conscious choice brimming with nothing but disdain for the audience in how utterly mean spirited the final product is. One of my big issues with his recent movies is that he constantly writes himself as a Mary Sue character. He's super rich, super successful, if he's married his wife is always gorgeous and if he's single, women are throwing themselves at him. The end result always feels lazy and pandering, like he's hitting only the most necessary beats to release the movie.
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Dec 10, 2013 22:38
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Behonkiss posted:Given that he declares it one of the worst movies he's ever seen during the end summary, your assumption would be correct. It's the voices. The usual mean-spirited lazy stuff is bad enough, but when a main character has Adam Sandler's falsetto, it adds an extra level of pain. Jack and Jill was the same way. I can think of worse Christmas movies, but that statement is coming from a dude whose job is to entertain. It's all relative, really.
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Dec 10, 2013 22:40
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Wait, am I a bad person for liking Big Daddy?
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Tae posted:Wait, am I a bad person for liking Big Daddy? Nope, that's still pretty good.
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Is Doug really unselfaware enough to not realize he always runs his jokes too long/into the ground? The Adam Sandler phone call is a good example. I liked it better when he didn't have to shoe in the demo reel actors into a worse than MadTV level sketch every episode as well.
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Dec 10, 2013 23:50
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RustyTrombone posted:Is Doug really unselfaware enough to not realize he always runs his jokes too long/into the ground? The Adam Sandler phone call is a good example. Surprisingly, no. He willingly admits in a lot of his commentaries that he intentionally lets some jokes overstay their welcome. I think his reasoning behind it is that he thinks the joke overstaying its welcome becomes a joke in and of itself, but I've never actually had that happen to me yet where I laugh at how laboured it gets. Even in this one, I zoned out after about 10 seconds and just skipped ahead by the 20 second mark.
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I'm a casual viewer and I don't really understand why any of them do these jokes/skits. Especially RLM. I watch them to say funny poo poo about movies, what is this Plinkett stuff? I usually just skip over it. RLM's Best of the Worst, Cinemasnob and Obscurus Lupa are my favourites.
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm a casual viewer and I don't really understand why any of them do these jokes/skits. Especially RLM. I watch them to say funny poo poo about movies, what is this Plinkett stuff? I usually just skip over it. RLM's Best of the Worst, Cinemasnob and Obscurus Lupa are my favourites.
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Dec 11, 2013 01:27
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I usually hate skits in these sorts of reviews, but the RedLetterMedia guys are consistently funny enough that I don't mind when they do it. In any case, Game Grumps are making an album because why not, I mean Danny's already done this sort of thing I think.
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm a casual viewer and I don't really understand why any of them do these jokes/skits. Especially RLM. I watch them to say funny poo poo about movies, what is this Plinkett stuff? I usually just skip over it. RLM's Best of the Worst, Cinemasnob and Obscurus Lupa are my favourites. This is pretty much why Chuck Sonneburg of SF Debris is one of my favourite internet critics. He rarely lets a joke run on too long, and never lets them get in the way of the criticism. Same with what little I've seen of the Cinema Snob. I like Linkara too, because his skits and storylines are easily skippable, in such you don't have to wait through them like you would with a Critic video.
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Is it some kind of thing to do with having a certain percentage of "original content" as a way to fend off copyright issues?
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm a casual viewer and I don't really understand why any of them do these jokes/skits. Especially RLM. I watch them to say funny poo poo about movies, what is this Plinkett stuff? I usually just skip over it. RLM's Best of the Worst, Cinemasnob and Obscurus Lupa are my favourites. Sometimes on half in the bag it's a meta commentary alongside their reviews... The rest of the time it's just filler, but I still like it.
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Spark That Bled posted:This is pretty much why Chuck Sonneburg of SF Debris is one of my favourite internet critics. He rarely lets a joke run on too long, and never lets them get in the way of the criticism. Same with what little I've seen of the Cinema Snob. I like Linkara too, because his skits and storylines are easily skippable, in such you don't have to wait through them like you would with a Critic video. SFDebris is probably the most consistent of all the critics I watch. He's definitely got things down in the best way; his review are the length and packed with jokes. Never overstays his welcome, either and he seems to know which gags work and which ones don't. Seems like faint praise but when we're dealing with internet critics, it's a godsend.
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm a casual viewer and I don't really understand why any of them do these jokes/skits. Especially RLM. I watch them to say funny poo poo about movies, what is this Plinkett stuff? I usually just skip over it. RLM's Best of the Worst, Cinemasnob and Obscurus Lupa are my favourites. RLM were a movie making group before they did any review stuff, so of course they're gonna have intentionally cheesy skits in most of their stuff. It's usually entertaining enough, or in the case of the Jack and Jill episode, just downright magical.
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Mr. Fowl posted:SFDebris is probably the most consistent of all the critics I watch. He's definitely got things down in the best way; his review are the length and packed with jokes. Never overstays his welcome, either and he seems to know which gags work and which ones don't. Seems like faint praise but when we're dealing with internet critics, it's a godsend. Yeah a little bit of a disclaimer for people who are just now going to check out SFdebris: Yes he has reviews of My Little Pony on his site, but he will do reviews for whatever stuff people who donate to him ask for and that is why. He's a really good reviewer.
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RustyTrombone posted:Is Doug really unselfaware enough to not realize he always runs his jokes too long/into the ground? The Adam Sandler phone call is a good example. Yeah, I think part of what makes something good, is knowing what to cut out. If you're going to make a diversionary joke it should be quite brief - back around the time he did the Odd Life of Timothy Green episode, I made a review that had a fake advertisement in it. Doug's review also had a fake advertisement but his went for about five times as long as mine. Now yes, that's a personal example, and I'm not exactly a well noted internet reviewer..but yeah, he really could edit those things down. With the ad example in Timothy Green, it was funny enough at the start and he could have just..chopped it off after 30 seconds or whatever - since the joke was established and the viewers had already gotten the point. I tend not to enjoy reviewer plots that much, so it's good when you can skip them. With Linkara, you can turn off the review after the review credits roll, and skip the skit.
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RustyTrombone posted:Is Doug really unselfaware enough to not realize he always runs his jokes too long/into the ground? The Adam Sandler phone call is a good example. I really, really, really want to know what school of comedy says this is a good idea. It almost never is. Doug has a big problem with letting stuff run too long in general. His reviews are always way longer than they need to be, his jokes are often way longer than they need to be, his skits are probably the worst offenders but overall I'd say his best choice to improve his comedy is to cut the fat. His good jokes are always the shortest ones, and his Bum Reviews are easily the most consistently entertaining stuff he puts out.
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