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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
Corbax said:
This review is so fucking quaint that it hurts. I miss the days when the worst thing about Hollywood was George Lucas, Adam Sandler, and Michael Bay.
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I got the definitive edition lasderisc, which they didn't have. They have the 240p VHS edition that came out at the same time. The laserdisc version was the last 'pure' copy of the OT and they used that transfer for the later DVD extra copy.

It's interesting, they interview Alexandre O. Philippe. That guy went on to do, nothing at all in the film industry. How did he survive? Interview him now, did he get a job under a pajeet boss in an IT factory? He did very little in the film world, every 2 or 3 years a small release. How does someone like that live and support themselves?
 
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Yeah I've often wondered how many of those who blame RLM have seen this:
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I thought this was going to be a link to Spaced, which was a comedy Simon Pegg was on which ragged on the prequels.

I think the big thing with the prequels is that the original audience of Star Wars had grown up and there was an expectation (rightly or wrongly) in fan's minds that the series was going to 'grow up', too.

The sequels had a bunch of issues as to why they weren't particularly good. Abrams on his own wasn't going to make/break the film, but couple it with Disney, Rian Johnson airdropping in for a film, the third film's director getting replaced, etc. and it was a stew of bad factors coming together.

I hate jumping on the Kathleen Kennedy hate wagon, but I really do think the biggest issue with Disney Wars is that there wasn't a strong plan from a Kevin Feige type to really guide things. Yeah, Marvel and capeshit has really fallen off (partly due to them having a lack of bankable names and properties, partly due to oversaturation), but there was a very strong, cohesive plan leading up to Infinity War. Compared to Disney Wars which seemed to be flying by the seat of their pants.
 
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I got the definitive edition lasderisc, which they didn't have. They have the 240p VHS edition that came out at the same time. The laserdisc version was the last 'pure' copy of the OT and they used that transfer for the later DVD extra copy.

It's interesting, they interview Alexandre O. Philippe. That guy went on to do, nothing at all in the film industry. How did he survive? Interview him now, did he get a job under a pajeet boss in an IT factory? He did very little in the film world, every 2 or 3 years a small release. How does someone like that live and support themselves?
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Big Black Box CAV master race, my homie.

It's nice Alexandre has such a unique name. I also usually have curiosity when I see a person in an odd career about 'how the fuck do they live doing that?' So it seems there's a comics side hustle because of course there is. Given one of the listed works is a series for a government agency, I wonder if one of the benefits of making festival-bait quirky docs is in fact how much networking it gets you and small short work ensues.

Of course I bet it's a trust fund. He's Swiss, come on.
 
Well Intentioned said:
I hate jumping on the Kathleen Kennedy hate wagon, but I really do think the biggest issue with Disney Wars is that there wasn't a strong plan from a Kevin Feige type to really guide things. Yeah, Marvel and capeshit has really fallen off (partly due to them having a lack of bankable names and properties, partly due to oversaturation), but there was a very strong, cohesive plan leading up to Infinity War. Compared to Disney Wars which seemed to be flying by the seat of their pants.
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The house of cards that Kevin Feige built collapsed a long time ago. There's a reason nobody's been able to replicate the shared universe model: it was all illusory.

The MCU succeeded because it was a series of good films featuring charismatic actors, not because of any plan of Kevin Feige. The top down planning of the first ten films was limited to little teasers sprinkled through the films, making it easy for the Russo Brothers to put the pieces together in Infinity War (and even then, how much did they actually use from those films).

Kathleen could have masterminded some grand plan for Star Wars, but it would have been shit because she's shit and her "story group" is a joke.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
The house of cards that Kevin Feige built collapsed a long time ago. There's a reason nobody's been able to replicate the shared universe model: it was all illusory.
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I'd argue that the novelty of seeing something 'new' happen in cinema was another part of it. People don't have the time or energy to check out 32 streaming shows, a movie every 2 months, etc. like how Marvel has become.

Stab You in the Back said:
The MCU succeeded because it was a series of good films featuring charismatic actors, not because of any plan of Kevin Feige. The top down planning of the first ten films was limited to little teasers sprinkled through the films, making it easy for the Russo Brothers to put the pieces together in Infinity War (and even then, how much did they actually use from those films).
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I'd argue that there was more beyond the teasers, but as I said, 'bankable names' (ie, the actors) and properties (does the general audience care about Moon Knight or female Thor, Black Panther without Bosman, etc.? From the looks of it, no) and oversaturation.

There was a definite plan with a basic three act story structure stretched out over multiple movies (build up and establish the Avengers, then have a crisis moment (Infinity War) and then the blowoff (Endgame.) It's narrative 101 and there was a lot of freedom in between to fill in shit as they went (as well as luck, I'd argue.)

Disney Wars was a very shotgun, scatter-brained approach and made the mistake of picking no real bankable actors. Daisy Ridley is about as compelling as beige paint drying and she was the fucking lead? The mystery box shit as talked about earlier in the thread, jumping around from a Han Solo movie, to Kenobi to the sequel movies just screamed no real plan. At least with Marvel when they did shit that didn't squarely line up (ie, Guardians of the Galaxy) that shit still was important in the 'main' films.

The only real stuff that didn't ultimately factor in was the Netflix stuff (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Punisher, etc.) and it was all in its own self-contained universe. Which was fine for a third party property fucking around with low level characters.

I hate that I'm sounding like Movie Blob here, as I don't have a lot of fondness for the MCU beyond what they are: dumb popcorn movies that work on a very basic narrative level.

Stab You in the Back said:
Kathleen could have masterminded some grand plan for Star Wars, but it would have been shit because she's shit and her "story group" is a joke.
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I agree that anything that came from KK would've been shite, I'm just loathe to squarely blame her because of the idiots out there who have demonized her beyond the point of parody.
 
This one is already starting off pretty good.

”He’s not normally-brained.” -Rich “Folding Chable” Evans

It’s not a bad movie but the viewing experience was similar where I took my dad to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail. One of the guys behind us not only kept preempting every gag, but started talking about unrelated shit on top of that. Up until my dad stood up, turned around, and asked the guy if he ever shuts up. I can handle the reciting of gags and in-jokes, but the modern b-movie tourists make showings like that a waste of money these days.
 
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Now I'm hoping Colin will convince them to do a Best of the Worst special with games like Dark Seed, Phantasmagoria, and Harvester.
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“I JUST had to kill a gang of…ten kidnappers. By myself. USING my superpowers.”
 
Mesosalpinx said:
Now I'm hoping Colin will convince them to do a Best of the Worst special with games like Dark Seed, Phantasmagoria, and Harvester.
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I love the whole point and click fake look so much. Honesty makes me want to go back and watch that shitty looking fmv vampire movie (vampire bite?) they mentioned but never did with that one director... I think he made a movie about a chick doing a worm and some werewolf thing with bitching music? I don't know, I just wish the whole fmv indie movie look was more popular.
 
McMitch said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l-BxuvnTHEEThis one is already starting off pretty good.

”He’s not normally-brained.” -Rich “Folding Chable” Evans

It’s not a bad movie but the viewing experience was similar where I took my dad to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail. One of the guys behind us not only kept preempting every gag, but started talking about unrelated shit on top of that. Up until my dad stood up, turned around, and asked the guy if he ever shuts up. I can handle the reciting of gags and in-jokes, but the modern b-movie tourists make showings like that a waste of money these days.
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40:10 Jay says "nuke-you-lar." I've never noticed him doing this before.
55:45 Little Neil Breen was delightful
p.s. the discussion of the artistic, non-midnight-movie intentions of the auteur reminded me of this episode of Mission Hill:
 
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