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OldTennisCourt posted:Has Phelous slowed to a crawl at releasing content? He seemed to be on a huge roll of releasing stuff and he seems to have gone quiet.
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Red Letter Media just did a new episode of Best of the Worst where they looked at three movies I think a lot of people here are familiar with: "Deadly Prey", "Hard Ticket to Hawaii", and "Miami Connection". All three of these movies are well worth watching on their own if you like bad movies, but be warned, they do spoil some of the most batshit/funny parts in this video. EDIT: I'm kind of amazed they didn't mention the alternate ending to "Miami Connection". Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Mar 24, 2013 20:19
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Phelous reviewed "Jason Goes to Hell" in two parts. What a strange, strange movie.
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Mar 30, 2013 19:26
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Benne posted:I first discovered TGWTG back in 2010 when they were playing those loving Metro PCS ads with the Indian stereotype dude I too have turned off AdBlock on Blip and reviewer sites only. It is amazing how much of a difference AdBlock makes for sites like The Onion though. Looking at that on someone else's browser as it just chugged along because of the massive amounts of obnoxious, intrusive ads was just painful. Srice posted:And yeah Rifftrax gets around all that legal stuff by just selling the audio track. They certainly wouldn't be able to afford to do commentary on stuff like The Avengers if it was MST3k style, that's for sure. Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 03:57 on May 20, 2013 |
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A good poster posted:Did they get into some kind of legal trouble, or is there just a bigger profit margin on these ten-dollar movies after paying the license fees?
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May 20, 2013 19:20
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achillesforever6 posted:Also Doug said the next Editorial is going to be about why so many women find Loki in the Avengers/Thor so attractive. Cartoon Violence posted:That should be really interesting. I get that Loki's actor is an attractive guy and the character is written to be a very likeable bad guy, but I can't wrap my head around that subculture that not only obsesses over him, but obsesses over incest stuff between him and Thor, or weird rape-y stuff between him and Thor. Actually, I take that back. I once saw a woman on the subway with a school binder that was nothing but printed-out screengrabs of Tom Hiddleston as Loki. She was with two friends who were chatting amongst themselves as she stared intently at these pictures. To make this even stranger, this was when "Avengers" was just in theaters, so these were screengrabs from a bootleg. 
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May 21, 2013 05:50
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I think the whole Tropes vs Women series isn't terribly great, but I do love that the ugliest, most backwards-thinking people put themselves right into the spotlight for all to see. The creator accomplished something that even SA has done only rarely: put a massive amount of attention onto a truly heinous bunch of people. I really hope that the reaction to the videos causes some kind of massive rethinking of the rampant, absolutely unforgivable amounts of misogyny and homophobia present now in gaming culture. Maybe get companies to very publicly distance themselves from the worst of them. But that's asking morality to trump money.
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May 29, 2013 05:16
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Benny the Snake posted:I hated Sucker Punch too but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.[...] The way I see it, JO's still not over Sucker Punch[..] Tatum Girlparts posted:I remain 100% if this was anyone but Snyder there'd be at least a decent number of less bad reviews.
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Jun 16, 2013 06:05
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Why is anyone on here still watching Spoony? He's loving garbage.
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Pirate Jenny posted:You are allowed one f-bomb in PG-13 movies depending on the context/how obscured it is by the sound/visuals.
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Jun 21, 2013 16:56
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Actually they just cut that scene so that Colin Firth only says 'gently caress' twice instead of several times. Even the UK, which has a similar policy regarding the word, passed the film uncut with a 12 rating because of the context of the scene.
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Jun 21, 2013 22:26
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dijon du jour posted:Brad seems to be trying to wage some kind of stupid war against movie critics, defending his schlocky horror flicks against all who would speak ill of them, while aggressively attacking all artsy films that critics love.  non-joke.Also I got sick of hearing, "That was a bad movie because the actress didn't show her tits."
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I'm surprised that the guy who talked passionately about how a series of movies should be consistent in tone, not rely on incredibly stupid plot contrivance, have good scene blocking and pacing, and at all costs avoid excessive, lovely-looking CGI, liked the first Wolverine movie.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, what? Is it kosher to discuss that here(do they count as internet critics?) because I have no idea what happened here and am really curious. EDIT: gently caress, beaten.
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Oct 8, 2013 20:40
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achillesforever6 posted:Is there a gif of this showing the cart actually moving?
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Oct 29, 2013 17:10
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The people doing that press junket should've known that the only way to get Bruce Willis to give an enthusiastic interview is to get him hammered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxXMTM3EMaM
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It took me 10 seconds of Google to find three different ads, done by the National Guard with Warner Bros. using "Man of Steel", which were played endlessly last summer whenever I went to a multiplex. The National Guard's YouTube page also hosted making-ofs for "Man of Steel", which you can see the first part of here. It was a real missed opportunity that she could have used more footage from these, especially Snyder's comments in that third ad, explicitly saying "y'know the National Guard is a lot like Superman." That said, the whole thing about DreamWorks making "The Fifth Estate" strictly to please the DOD for further "Transformers" movies felt like a very, very misguided and poorly thought-out bit of editorializing. "Estate" wasn't just a DreamWorks project, it was a co-production between DreamWorks, Disney (under Touchstone), and three other production companies, with worldwide distribution split between several companies as well. I seriously doubt the reason it sucked and portrayed Assange badly was because someone wanted Michael Bay money. EDIT: I should say that if you were outside of the US, you probably didn't see these ads as they'd have no point, since the National Guard is an organization that only recruits in the US. Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 18, 2014 |
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Kunster posted:I do recall Kyle saying Crispin Glover was polite when requesting his removal of the What Am I review, and it was more of a courtesy case rather than a major lawsuit threat.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Latter era Orson Wells should be a tragic figure but he was such a hilarious rear end in a top hat about everything he just makes you smile. Case in point... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s
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Feb 23, 2014 05:41
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The article doesn't mention it, but one of the big reasons why these guys tend to look at films from a nitpicky, 'missing the forest for the trees' kind of way has a lot to do with how they watch a movie repeatedly specifically to scour for funny or relevant clips, as opposed to sitting down in a theater, watching the film all the way through in a single sitting, then writing a review.
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May 6, 2014 18:56
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Infamous Sphere posted:Huh! I actually had no idea about Mad Dog Morgan - just looked it up, and...it's practically an exploitation film? Well that would certainly be interesting to watch. I haven't seen enough Australian cinema. However, I did a review of a whole movie about prison rape a couple of months ago, so maybe my show's prison rape quota is maxed out for the time being. I've certainly had a few people get depressed by my tendency to cover rather bleak movies with bad endings. Another Austrailian movie from the 70s I'd recommend is "Wake in Fright", which is an existential nightmare of binge-drinking and kangaroo hunting. Not exactly cheery, but it does have some points of interest for your show. A big part of the ending is a character attempts suicide, and part of what brings it on is that he may or may not have had drunken sex with another man. What's also interesting is that the sole straight relationship is just about the most skeevy and depressing thing in the movie. Benne posted:The RLM crew watches all 3 Transformers movies at the same time. It goes about as well as you'd expect. Oh, sorry... don't know what came over me there. Infamous Sphere posted:That was pretty amazing -a great thing to start the day with here, and it made me ever so glad that I haven't watched a single Transformers movie. My brother and his friend were going to watch the second one together, and I was going to go, only to decide not to at the last minute. It's apparently the worst of the three, so I had a very lucky escape.
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Back when Vanilla Ice was trying to make a comeback (early 2000s-ish), a friend of mine (who was in a band playing at the same place) hung out on his tour bus and was regaled by Ice telling stories of 'the good old days' when he would snort cocaine off of 12-year-old girls. Yeah, he's a loving awful human being.
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Jul 22, 2014 23:27
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New Best of the Worst! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgbB9ORqRg Odd that this is on YouTube and not Blip. Also odd is that none of them have heard of "Space Mutiny" before. I can't remember if I heard it from this thread or not, but aren't they doing "Street Trash" on a future episode?
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Any of the Soviet fantasy movies would be up there for me ("The Day the Earth Froze" is gorgeous). "The Magic Sword" and "Gorgo" are fun on their own as well. On topic, SFDebris did a pretty interesting review of "Logan's Run" and has started reviewing "Exosquad" a series I have never heard of that has an interesting history to it.
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Its always disheartening to me to see grown men and women automatically dismiss something because it’s critically acclaimed or ‘arty’, so Mike's reaction I found pretty grating. He was acting like someone in a conversation who wants everyone in the world to know in no uncertain terms how much they hated [thing that's popular right now]. Jay at least gave the thing a chance. Linklater for some reason can really rub people the wrong way. I know several people who think "Waking Life" is one of the worst movies ever made. Hopefully this doesn’t become a running thing on RLM, because hating on arthouse stuff for the hell of it got run into the loving ground by The Cinema Snob. Infamous Sphere posted:So the film ends up being an interesting social document - and also a sign of just how damned obvious you could be about your LGBT characters in the production code era. Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Endorph posted:I unfollowed her because she got really mad about RWBY for some reason and kept yelling NERDS over and over at the people who like it and the people who make it. BigRed0427 posted:Wait, what? I mean I have heard people say they don't like the Marvel films because they are either too kiddie or don't like the idea of multiple franchises having a single continuity. But how does the MCU kill movies as an artform? e X posted:Seriously, you can label a lot of criticism at Marvel, but fundamentally their movies are no different from most other summer blockbusters. Also “Guardians of the Galaxy” in particular is getting flack because James Gunn, its director, has said some outrageously stupid things like “Why is committing rape such a taboo in video games when murder isn’t?”, has said some pretty homophobic things on his website, and has been accused many times of misogyny, which extends into a couple of scenes in “Guardians of the Galaxy” apparently.
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Violet_Sky posted:Apparently, the next Tropes vs Women is going to involve Alien somehow. The poo poo is already flying. Again. I actually just rewatched "Alien 3" recently, and Ripley's character is quite interesting in that one. Sigourney Weaver really sells her as trying to hold onto some semblance of sanity after everyone she's met in the last two movies has died horribly, and her love interest gets killed off less than halfway through.
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OldTennisCourt posted:Let's move on at this point:
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Great retrospective, and a nice way to say goodbye to your video content. I don't know how much you follow ADTRW, but everyone else here had about the same reaction to "A World With No Sadness, Baby" as you did, in that everyone was just floored by it. My only real complaint with the series is that I wish they'd done more with Honey, especially since early in the series there were rumors going around that her character would turn out to be a secret agent of some kind (and this started to gain credibility when she showed up out of nowhere at the end of the race episode). Did not know the director of "Michiko and Hatchin" and "The Woman Called Fujiko Mine" had so much involvement with the show.
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Armond White is very much out of favor and basically banned from critics' circles and any awards ceremonies because he repeatedly heckled filmmakers he didn't like in person at awards ceremonies and film screenings, such as calling Steve McQueen "an embarrassing doorman and garbageman" last year. That was an interesting downfall to watch happen in real time, because it went from his interpretations of films being funny and bizarre, to the realization that he was 100% serious, to his behavior becoming increasingly batshit crazy, followed by every critic and filmmaker on the east coast just ignoring him until he went away. Shockingly he's laid low since the New York Film Critics' Circle voted to expel him because of his behavior.
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Agreed! I love the "Alien 3" assembly cut, and actually rewatched it recently. Weaver is fantastic in it; everything's fallen apart for her for the third time and she gradually starts to just grudgingly accept her fate. It's also gorgeously shot and has a great musical score by Elliot Goldenthal. That said, you can really tell they were rewriting the script on a daily basis because even in the theatrical version there are scenes of dialogue that just kind of repeat themselves in the next scene. Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 12:59 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Jimbot posted:SFDebris starts reviewing Escaflowne
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Fox Kids only aired ten episodes before the heavily edited version got shitcanned. If you look on YouTube you can find bits and pieces of it; its pretty awful. The same thing nearly happened to "The Slayers"; in fact that one got far enough that a few of the episodes were redubbed to fit what was allowed of Saturday morning cartoons. This was back around 1999-2000, and the reason for all of this was the runaway success of "Pokemon", and the minor success (at the time) of "Dragonball Z".Jimbot posted:Oh and another thing I remember is the movie they did. I also remember thinking "wow, the music and animation in this movie is great" and "wow, why are all the fun, complex characters from the series a bunch of bloodthirsty assholes who hate each other now?" at the time.
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edrith posted:New Brows Held High. Well, new-ish. BreakAtmo posted:Well this was loving awesome. I NEVER would have seen that inspiration coming, yet it makes so much sense. BreakAtmo posted:Thank gently caress that documentary was made.
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Miss Wallace posted:I talk about it in the Tumblr post there, but the short version is it's just too exhausting to try and make them alongside my regular workload.
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echopapa posted:I can’t shake the feeling that Foodfight was made as some sort of financial scheme. I think the creators took the sponsorship money, over-insured the film, ran off with the cash once the first version was “stolen,” then let the film go bankrupt.
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BigRed0427 posted:I know these have existed for a while but it just dawned on me...no one is buying and reading these because they wanna jerk off to them, right? It like watching Aslyum movies, you wanna see how crazy they get.
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Tracula posted:Isn't John Carpenter's The Thing pretty much a totally different movie than The Thing from Another World?
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Seems like internet content has just been one story after another of "Laws? Regulations? Standards? Common sense? Basic decency? What are these strange words you speak of in the context of running a business?" Jesus Christ. I was wondering why you were so "NOPE. DONE. NO MORE TGWTG. NOT HAPPENING ANYMORE." once you left on what seemed at the times like amicable terms but now I know why and I'm just kind of floored. Jsor posted:Should we do Cinemassacre? James has his own thread in Games.
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