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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
It still makes me laugh that these morons' criticism about the Star Wars Prequels boiled down to "this isn't like the OT!" Then when Disney turns the franchise into endless OT memberberries, they get pissed, especially with their Rogue One review which was them mocking it for being like the OT. They really don't understand that this is the fruits of their labor.

Like I said in the SW thread, RLM is like that girlfriend who pesters you to buy an expensive, pretty car, then when you do it, she bitches that it was too expensive.
 
Introvertigo said:
Patreon Update:

Hello everyone! We just shot a quickie Half in the Bag for Tron: Ares! Because it's that time yet again for Disney to try and turn Tron into a successful franchise. We'll hopefully have that out before the end of the weekend and then pretty soon, we'll be shooting our Best of the Worst Halloween episode! Rich has been bustling to get his props finished in time! We may even shoot a secondary Halloween Best of the Worst addendum or mini-episode before the end of the month if there's time! It depends on how much of a mess the main Halloween episode ends up being.
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Surprised they aren't talking about the One Battle After Another movie.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
these morons' criticism about the Star Wars Prequels boiled down to "this isn't like the OT!"
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Did you watch Plinkett's videos?
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especially with their Rogue One review which was them mocking it for being like the OT
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Rogue One is nothing like the OT except when it comes to surface level visuals and they never said it's like the OT.
What are you talking about?
 
Idiotron said:
Did you watch Plinkett's videos?

Rogue One is nothing like the OT except when it comes to surface level visuals and they never said it's like the OT.
What are you talking about?
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Yes.

Rogue One is literally just like the OT with a direct good-vs-evil fight, no Jedi everywhere, and it even leads up to the OT.
 
Jeff Bridges is an actor whose portrayals I aspire to be.
I equally wish to live my old age as The Dude from The Big Lebowski and Kevin Flynn from Tron Legacy or as Marcus Hamilton in Hell or High Water and Rooster Cogburn in True Grit.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
The fact that Rogue One is everything RLM wanted from the Prequels, and their response to it is to bitch.
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It really isn't. The rebellion is supposed to be a shade of grey in Rogue One. It's not a straight up good vs evil story. The characters in R1 are unlikable. I'm actively rooting for the empire to kill them all. The story makes no sense, in the original it was the arrogance of the Empire that lead to the flaw. Now it's some wanker who deliberately put it in, no one noticed, and he didn't tell anyone and just hoped they would figure it out. The movie is an excuse that that people can jerk off to Star Wars porn of Darth Vader fucking things up, and x-wings and tie fights fighting.
 
Mike admits he turned off the first Tron because he was "bored" and never watched Legacy, but he likes this movie. Not a good sign. Everything I've heard and read tells me Ares is dog poo.
 
My mom suggested that I watch Tron when I was a kid because I loved video games, and I turned it off after ten minutes because I had no idea what was happening.
 
Does Jared Leto have epstein tapes on everyone in Hollywood or something.
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Mike admits he turned off the first Tron because he was "bored" and never watched Legacy, but he likes this movie.
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When in doubt refer to the card
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khaine said:
The movie is an excuse that that people can jerk off to Star Wars porn of Darth Vader fucking things up, and x-wings and tie fights fighting.
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Isn't that what RLM wanted from Star Wars? Half the damn time they were whining that the Prequels were far too unlike the OT.

khaine said:
The story makes no sense, in the original it was the arrogance of the Empire that lead to the flaw.
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Except it wasn't a flaw. They had a guy fire with the targeting computer on, and it didn't hit. Tarkin was 99% right when he said his officer overestimated the Rebels' chances. If Luke didn't have the Force, the Rebels would have lost.

khaine said:
Now it's some wanker who deliberately put it in, no one noticed, and he didn't tell anyone and just hoped they would figure it out.
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Given that the hole was adjusted to be so small that not even a targeting computer can hit it, it seems that said weakness was patched. Only a Jedi could hit that hole, and as far as the galaxy in general was concerned, the Jedi were dead.

khaine said:
The rebellion is supposed to be a shade of grey in Rogue One. It's not a straight up good vs evil story. The characters in R1 are unlikable. I'm actively rooting for the empire to kill them all.
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Shades of Grey imply good and evil in both sides. The Empire is portrayed as laughably evil in Rogue One, where guys like Tarkin and Vader screw over their own underlings like Orson Krennic and the Scarif Garrison, or the people of Jedha, just to prove a point. So no matter how bad the Rebels are, the Empire is way worse. The "bad" guys in the Rebellion were portrayed as the kind of people that you had to tolerate to get rid of the bigger evil that is the Empire.
 
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#lurker said:
Mike admits he turned off the first Tron because he was "bored" and never watched Legacy, but he likes this movie. Not a good sign. Everything I've heard and read tells me Ares is dog poo.
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I cannot believe what I'm about to say, but they unironically should've had that faggot Jack on cause he genuinely likes the Tron movies.

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Probably too busy being 5th banana on the Escapist refugee channel complaining that no one watches his shitty videos.
 
Mola Ram said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nTj2n6XytrA
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Pleasantly surprised to see they like it. It was a pretty neat spectacle and they put a lot of money into the 3D.

Id argue Tron Legacy had more emotional depth, but as far as standalone sequels go I like the ideas Ares had and consider it a better watch then a marvel or current day star wars movie. Id recommend it. (in 3D)
 
Acoustic Virgin said:
I finally got around to watching the latest Re:View, and god, I hate that zoomer/TikTok speak. Put all the cutesy pictures of fruit on the screen you want while you're doing it, but you're just as bad as everyone else who says "grape."

It's not the word itself that is offensive, it's what it means -- the act of rape. And these clowns have been very glib about the subject in the past -- going so far as to send Rich Evans on a scavenger hunt to find VHS boxes with a depiction of rape right on the cover. Don't act like you're so offended by the topic that you can't even say the word just because now YouTube seeks out that sort of thing for demonitization.
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Folks should just use the word 'ravish', as it is an antiquated word for rape. None of this cutesy shit. Or just do what one channel does and cut the audio and put up the censored word on screen, eg, r***
 
Does it bother anybody else that whenever Jay wants to use the past tense of the verb "to steal", he says "stoled" like an 8-year-old?

He said it in at least one previous video as well where he shouted out: "Dey stoled dat!" after seeing a line or gag from a movie that he recognized from something else, though I can't remember which video it was.
 
LORD IMPERATOR said:
It still makes me laugh that these morons' criticism about the Star Wars Prequels boiled down to "this isn't like the OT!"
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Mike's general criticism was that the fun space fantasy movies based off of the old Buck Rogers serials and WW2 footage were supplanted by people sitting around talking about taxation on trade routes or CGI schlockfests that ruined key parts of the original films (eg, the Force as this mystical, spiritual thing rather than just a tool to lob rocks or have Yoda flip around like the baby from Ally McBeal or having James Earl Jones say the word 'Padme.')
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Then when Disney turns the franchise into endless OT memberberries,
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The OT memberberries you're talking about is more CGI schlock, so this is consistent with their criticisms of the prequels.
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they get pissed, especially with their Rogue One review which was them mocking it for being like the OT. They really don't understand that this is the fruits of their labor.
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It is, if you take only a surface level understanding of the criticisms levied against the prequels.

You can deride Mike's own personal tastes, his understanding of cinema, his functional alcoholism, or his inability to articulate things very well, but he's generally been pretty consistent about what he wants:

1) A good story
2) that is in-line with the themes, tones, vibe, etc. of the world it exists in.

Whether this is from a series of films (Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Star Wars) or just a singular film, that generally is what he wants. I don't think Rogue One is a particularly good story. The idea of a ragtag group going through and succeeding vs. the Empire is very much 'Star Wars' but the execution felt more like a rough draft. And honestly? Vader going in and murdering everyone en masse might be 'so kewl how it seamlessly blends into Episode 1' but it comes off as a downer even though the good guys 'won' (which, yes, we know what happens here and the whole movie is pointless as a result because the one thing it could've done -- create new characters to use in future projects -- didn't happen and, oops, they realized that as Andor is a prequel to the prequel.)

I'd argue that the closest Disney got to that was with the first 2 seasons of the Mandalorian.
 
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