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Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
Very good review by g0M.

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Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

effectual posted:

It was very confusing for a non-brit who hasn't heard of that character.

Agreed, I think it leaned a little too heavily on aspects of this "Hitler" character that's just downright impenetrable to a non-brit

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
It seems to me that after the fall of the Franco regime they wouldn't be able to keep something like him eating turds, much less miles of them, a secret. I highly doubt it's the kind of thing he'd say.

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
I'm glad you don't get paid

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

Judge Clayjar posted:

have you ever heard of priscilla queen of the desert

No... Marvel or DC? What are her super powers?

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002
rename current releases The Importance of Seeing Ernest

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

Senior Woodchuck posted:

Nah, he just whines and spouts gibberish from a teenager's half-assed theory of comedy. I guess it's kinda funny, in a "kid with the helmet can't open his juice box" way.

But back to the topic of movie reviews: Isn't caring about stuff the worst, you guys? And having thoughts and opinions? And like, expressing them? As if it's a reviewer's job to tell people what they thought of the movie they saw, amirite?

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

Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

no they will not posted:

I think it'd be pretty cool if lyle did a review - something for the authors to consider.

if they replaced the "minority report" bits with anything written by lyle, regardless of applicability to the subject, it would be good

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Triticum Guzzler
Jun 16, 2002

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.

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