Arivia posted:

who the hell is the other one?

HOLY gently caress posted:

I don't know why this suddenly popped into my head yesterday but I just remembered my favorite mod challenge of all time- THE MASTER PLAN in which Ruttiger got assigned the task to make a shot-by-shot remake of the dirty cowboy video (which has apparently been taken off youtube which is a loving crime because I can't find it )

challenge update thread

Ruttiger's remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_IQA9Zbow

sweet geek swag posted:

Fojar

Crowetron posted:

Does anyone have the thread that got the front page movie reviews shut down? Current Releases or something similar. I remember it being pretty crazy, with stuff about "what female airplanes look like" and I think some sort of Duck Tales thing got brought into it?

Crowetron posted:

Does anyone have the thread that got the front page movie reviews shut down? Current Releases or something similar. I remember it being pretty crazy, with stuff about "what female airplanes look like" and I think some sort of Duck Tales thing got brought into it?

Triticum Guzzler posted:

The essence of the criticism of the criticism that has been ongoing, at least on my part, is that it is bad. It is not good. It is really not very informative. It is not that it is bad to "care".

If you actually legitimately care about film, there is a good chance you do not post about it on this web site, because if you look at the movie forum (or the book forum, etc) you see that largely there's an incredible fixation on really childish products (and they are usually products rather than films) with a corresponding lack of taste. I'm sure it's an idea that's unfamiliar to you, as a grown man who wants to surgically replace his dick and balls with a coin operated motorised Donald Duck ride who is about 3 wispy chin hairs away from being a convicted rapist, but when criticism is coming from a really juvenile place about a less-juvenile subject it can seem very superficial and difficult to respect. Like when they allow kids to do news reports on the actual news.

This is one side of the coin here. Some of the reviewers present as, essentially, children of varying extreme largeness. But even if you read what they have to say about children's movies, it's still incredibly basic analysis of a film seen through a lens of a culture who are obsessed with identity politics in all things.

For example, if you read this week's review of The Boxtrolls, all you will learn is:

- The reviewer liked Coraline and Paranorman, but this film has a worse story
- There are trolls who wear boxes, also there are two characters who have names
- The film is nominally about the trolls who wear boxes, however it focuses on one of them who isn't REALLY a troll, but is actually a boy. This is a "big problem".
- The villain is avaristic and ugly. He pretends to be a woman, this is also a big problem, but we're not told why. Just that tumblr dislikes that and they're right to do so.
- The animation is good, kids will like it.

The only thing gleaned from this review that you won't get from the trailer is a number score and at some point a man wears a dress. It's an 800 word sideways glance at a movie and it really does not do a good job reviewing it outside of conveying the general sentiment that it's sort of not bad. I don't respect this, and I don't much care what this person has to say about other movies especially if they're more complicated than this movie for 6-year-olds.

On top of which the reviews are completely joyless, on a comedy web site. It's not just that it's really out of place, it's poorly executed in its own right. I'm not trying to illegally troll or insult them so please do not electronically beat me up, but I don't think they're cut out for this.

Thank you for reading this wearying post. As a reward, here is a picture of the cast of Duck Tales taking public transport so you can finally blast the biggest load of your life you mewling piece of poo poo idiot

some plague rats posted:

Here you go! The fun stuff starts on page 51 when g0m's review is posted, don't read anything before that

The MSJ posted:

Not Twitter, but:

Here's a list of all the currently known CD Goon Blogs and Podcasts, (thanks TarsTarkas!)
Turban Decay (CloseFriend)
TarsTarkas.NET (Tars Tarkas)
Pre-Code.com (Sheldrake)
ShotContext (penismightier)
Matthew Clark (echoplex)
Alcohollywood (Hewlett)
The Professor Clumsy Variety Hour (ProfessorClumsy)
A Visual Medium (Vargo)
—automaticcinematic (Jeff Wiiver)
Wag The Movie (BigBudgetSequel)
Club Parnassus (Maxwell Lord)
Martin Teller’s Movie Reviews (FitFortDanga)
Comics Chat (Dickeye)
the film ghost (BOAT SHOWBOAT)
GONE TO STRANGE COUNTRY (timeandtide)
Umney’s Alley (ClydeUmney)
chewable newt (wyoming)
Ryan Swartz (Bugblatter)
Ticket Stub Memoirs (Jay Dub)
Turn Off The Limelight (TrixRabbi)
Movie Musings (Criminal Minded)
matt mcdaniel (Aorist)
Game and Watch Reviews (axleblaze)
How did I get here? I am not good with blogs (Adrianics)
10 Reasons Not To Kill Yourself (Geekboy)
Nerd Kryptonite (Geekboy)
Political Theater (Vargo)
LondonCityNights (Mr. Flunchy)
Secret of the Sailor Madness (unknown but goon guests)

Herpes. posted:

some plague rats posted:

Here you go! The fun stuff starts on page 51 when g0m's review is posted, don't read anything before that

Triticum Guzzler posted:

WHo is this supposed "Sarah Connor", why do we spend so much time fixated upon her, and the man from the future who later fucks her? How comes it that The Terminator is sidetracked in his own movie? All this brings me to an issue I've been having with "The Boxtrolls". The title is "The Boxtrolls" yet it primarily follows the story of one of The Boxtrolls. This is hosed up and wrong.

And why does the Terminator itself speak with a thick Austrian accent. Can we not "get over" the capacity of an Austrian man to kill millions? Extremely distasteful.

Count Uvula posted:

That was Redline IIRC which tbh does have a dude with a massive phallic pompadour and a ton of long slender cars.
But I think his post was also the post where someone called it one of the most incredibly misogynistic movies they had ever seen when its misogyny is like... less than the average The Fast & The Furious movie, much less the average anime

CommonShore posted:

Seeing the old posts by Duncan got me thinking about the MMA threads...

Is Oildome a known thing outside of the MMA threads?

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Is that the guy in prison who slicked his cell up in baby oil?

CommonShore posted:

Yesss. Should I dig it up and link it?

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Please do.

Untrustable posted:

My brother was in prison for 9 years and told me he would microwave baby oil and put it on the floor of his cell except for the place he was standing. He'd then call out someone in the common area and when they came running in they'd slip and slide and he, standing in the only dry spot, would just pummel them while they tried to gain traction. That's the best base for MMA.

Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:

the opposite of being chain probed is when you catch a sixer and if you don't try to view the forums during that time you can go weeks before noticing you got probed. always feels like a nice private counter-own on the mod

Nuns with Guns posted:

Orangutans are so tranquil though, they simply want to sit in trees and eat whatever it is orangutans eat in the wild.

Nuns with Guns posted:

Orangutans are so tranquil though, they simply want to sit in trees and eat whatever it is orangutans eat in the wild.

some plague rats posted:

Here you go! The fun stuff starts on page 51 when g0m's review is posted, don't read anything before that

Twitch posted:

I quit reading Current Releases from the double whammy of that Gone Girl review that spoiled every twist in a thriller because they were offended, and I participated in one of their "everyone puts a movie and a topic in a pile then writes an essay on a randomly selected movie/topic" and they were way too serious about it. Also the giant baby who got my movie selection refused to watch Leprechaun in the Hood.

some plague rats posted:

Here you go! The fun stuff starts on page 51 when g0m's review is posted, don't read anything before that

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

they live off good bust rodd posts, it's why they're so critically endangered

Lor posted:

Stupid question potentially, but what _is_ a chain probe?

Is it queuing up multiple 6 hour probes that then run consecutively? A way of IKs getting around not being able to probe for more than 6 hours or is it something more?

Lor posted:

Stupid question potentially, but what _is_ a chain probe?

Is it queuing up multiple 6 hour probes that then run consecutively? A way of IKs getting around not being able to probe for more than 6 hours or is it something more?