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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

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marvlouslie said:
I'm still laughing at their wheel of the worst #17 and their mocking of "world wide web of deceit", and then realize with the troon / gay infiltration of the internet through Tumblr, it's not as funny anymore.
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what's funny is that after tumblr banned porn, all the degens moved to twitter and tiktok, so now tumblr is fairly based, or at least chill), and with no ((algorithm)) leading the main interface/dash it means you only see the homies you choose to see, so the whole experience is as good as you are willing to make it.
 
KrewlKween said:
TBF these 2 eps in particular have a LOT of ammo for them. I wouldn't be surprised if it took longer than usual, they were really, really trash.
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Can you enlighten everyone with how bad they are? I read a summary for one episode in the Star Trek thread and it read like something a drunken schizo with parkinsons would write.

Snigger said:
My favorite part of RLM is how much it makes some people on /tv/ seethe
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The day they posted their Half in the Bag review of The Force Awakens was the day /tv/ turned against them. RLM threads up until then were mostly chill, talking about the movie they were reviewing, sharing memes, and occasionally delving into their pasts. After the Force Awakens review where they gave it a positive review /tv/ completely turned against them. Ever since that day it has been nothing but bullshit rumors about made-up behind the scenes drama, shitting on RLM political views, and the same tired copypastas about them.

It is something beautiful that one video of theirs could generate so much butthurt. I believe their HITB review was a bad take on The Force Awakens, but its just one video, one bad judgement call, and they seem to have changed their views on the Sequel Trilogy as a whole. I can live with the fact that I disagree with something they said. Its funny that /tv/ cannot let that video go after 8 years.

By contrast people are still butthurt over their Ghostbusters 2016 videos and Last Jedi reviews. I remember reading some article from 2020 and while it mostly praised the channel it still had to insert an awkward complaint about how RLM's reviews of those two movies were bad because they didn't address the Trolls making fun of those movies and how they needed to give the movies positive scores because people on the internet said mean things about women.
 
Strange Wilderness said:
The day they posted their Half in the Bag review of The Force Awakens was the day /tv/ turned against them. RLM threads up until then were mostly chill, talking about the movie they were reviewing, sharing memes, and occasionally delving into their pasts. After the Force Awakens review where they gave it a positive review /tv/ completely turned against them. Ever since that day it has been nothing but bullshit rumors about made-up behind the scenes drama, shitting on RLM political views, and the same tired copypastas about them.

It is something beautiful that one video of theirs could generate so much butthurt. I believe their HITB review was a bad take on The Force Awakens, but its just one video, one bad judgement call, and they seem to have changed their views on the Sequel Trilogy as a whole. I can live with the fact that I disagree with something they said. Its funny that /tv/ cannot let that video go after 8 years.

By contrast people are still butthurt over their Ghostbusters 2016 videos and Last Jedi reviews. I remember reading some article from 2020 and while it mostly praised the channel it still had to insert an awkward complaint about how RLM's reviews of those two movies were bad because they didn't address the Trolls making fun of those movies and how they needed to give the movies positive scores because people on the internet said mean things about women.
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I think a good video they could do would be on how some of their initial and ongoing reactions to certain films/genres/series have changed, It's not exactly hard to figure out considering they've mentioned various aspects of it throughout their videos countless times, but there do seem to be some dunces who don't get it plus I think it is an interesting topic in and of itself (much like the geeezer teaser genre). Actually delve into howand why these giant film companies started to over use and rely on certain mechanisms such as Whedon tier quips, mystery boxes, and memberberries which are probably the big three.
 
Strange Wilderness said:
It is something beautiful that one video of theirs could generate so much butthurt. I believe their HITB review was a bad take on The Force Awakens, but its just one video, one bad judgement call, and they seem to have changed their views on the Sequel Trilogy as a whole. I can live with the fact that I disagree with something they said. Its funny that /tv/ cannot let that video go after 8 years.
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It was a bad take, but it was understandable (and the almost universal take at the moment).

After a series of shitty reboots and remakes and 'modern' sequels, they were just happy to see a movie that respected the original material, just felt fun and not cynical and bla bla bla.

They couldn't possibly know what it would lead to.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
It was a bad take, but it was understandable (and the almost universal take at the moment).

After a series of shitty reboots and remakes and 'modern' sequels, they were just happy to see a movie that respected the original material, just felt fun and not cynical and bla bla bla.

They couldn't possibly know what it would lead to.
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I don't think it was even a bad take. Had a folk singer from Los Angeles not decided to take a sledgehammer to every story hook Abrams left him, the Force Awakens would've served fine as the starter for a mediocre-to-good sequel trilogy. After the Last Jedi, there wasn't anywhere to build the story that would make sense as a follow up to both movies, so Rise of Skywalker was doomed from the onset.
 
Absolutego said:
I don't think it was even a bad take. Had a folk singer from Los Angeles not decided to take a sledgehammer to every story hook Abrams left him, the Force Awakens would've served fine as the starter for a mediocre-to-good sequel trilogy. After the Last Jedi, there wasn't anywhere to build the story that would make sense as a follow up to both movies, so Rise of Skywalker was doomed from the onset.
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It was a bad take because they went way too far into praising it when it was just a by the numbers copy paste of the first star wars movie and they were fooled by all the member berries

They didn't look at it critically, they looked at it as fan boys. Except for Rich Evans who was 100% right because he's too dead inside to be taken in by nostalgia.

I will give this to them though: they watched it at 2am, and filmed hitb at 4am while drinking. I'm sure the review would have been drastically different if they had slept on it.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
It was a bad take because they went way too far into praising it when it was just a by the numbers copy paste of the first star wars movie and they were fooled by all the member berries

They didn't look at it critically, they looked at it as fan boys. Except for Rich Evans who was 100% right because he's too dead inside to be taken in by nostalgia.

I will give this to them though: they watched it at 2am, and filmed hitb at 4am while drinking. I'm sure the review would have been drastically different if they had slept on it.
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It's funny because while superficially TFA seems a retread of ANH, when you get down deep into the structure of the story, it's actually more of a copy of TPM.

For comparison: ANH starts out telling us that the death star plans are important and they remain so all the way up unto the climax where, yes, they play a key role in victory for the good guys.

Conversely in both TPM and TFA we are told one thing is important (getting to Coruscant/the map to Luke) but then about midway through the film it takes a swerve (senate does nothing/starkiller base reveal) and the entire mcguffin/focus of the first half of the entire film is rendered entirely meaningless to the film's conclusion. We could have skipped the entire first half of the movie save only to introduce the one person who is going to be our focus for the following trilogy.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
What?? Can you spell some of those out before you start abbreviating them?
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On the RLM thread we need The Force Awakens, A New Hope and The Phantom Menace spelled out?

What kind of Plinkett fan are you?
 
Mola Ram said:
Now, now. Even as big a turbonerd as Rich Evans didn't know what "ABY" and "BBY" stood for.
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Oh your god I remember that all over my original SW encyclopedia.

We can confirm that if you don't know what those letters stand for you have known the touch of a woman. (Which Rich has.)
 
Flexo said:
Oh your god I remember that all over my original SW encyclopedia.

We can confirm that if you don't know what those letters stand for you have known the touch of a woman. (Which Rich has.)
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I want to counter your point with the fact that I learned it from the Star Wars RPG books and not the encyclopedia, but somehow that doesn't help.
 
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