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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
Psyduck said:
Latest vid felt like watching a funeral, poor Mike hesitating to accept Star Trek ain't coming back. He seems to be still at the bargaining stage with that last spiel about "Maybe it can come back later...! Maybe these people will be fired and they'll bring back talented workers...!"
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To be fair, he did say the odds of that happening were very slim, and he was not hopeful that things would ever turn around, especially if (God forbid) people who didn't grow up with the good stuff actually like this trash, in which case Paramount will see no need to course correct and Kurtzman will continue to keep his job ruining the franchise. Mike seems to have finally resigned himself to rewatching classic Trek until he dies.

I did enjoy Rich shutting down his attempt to say it wasn't as bad as he thought it was going to be by pointing out that yes, it definitely was that bad. RIP to the plate, glad Rich won't get more cancer from eating food off of it.
 
Briareus said:
At least he got some decent pushback from Rich. Mike's thing about there not being a "yum yum" line falls flat when they showcase the awful dialogue that could match such a dumb line perfectly. And because he wasn't really thinking when he said it and Rich is pushing back enough, he just said fuck it and wanted to smash the plate.

I think that's the way to deal with Mike's ho-hum attitude.
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Be nice to Mike. It's hard for him to let go. He still has some hope Star Trek will be good.
 
The funniest part I'm shocked nobody's showcased is them repeatedly dunking on the writer for section 31 and showcasing them as an absolute literal mongoloid.

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This movie sucked so bad they became based.
 
Evil Peter Griffin said:
Be nice to Mike. It's hard for him to let go. He still has some hope Star Trek will be good.
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I said this in the Star Trek thread, but it bears repeating. Star Trek has a serious dearth of classically trained Shakespearian actors; actors who are serious about the Craft. We don't have character actors anymore where they're good at acting despite being ugly. Combined with absolutely garbage scripts and no wonder Trek is deader than Wars.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I said this in the Star Trek thread, but it bears repeating. Star Trek has a serious dearth of classically trained Shakespearian actors; actors who are serious about the Craft. We don't have character actors anymore where they're good at acting despite being ugly. Combined with absolutely garbage scripts and no wonder Trek is deader than Wars.
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Ya know something rather bleak occurred to me just now to explain a certain phenomena in slop culture for the last decade of currentyear. All these old franchises having notable and well loved Shakespearian actors of British origin was interpreted by corporations and retarded producers as "british accent = popular" which combined with hiring the cheapest specimens they could find whom could be relied on to mindlessly do what they were told without interfering with whatever shit the producers were mandating, has resulted in all these currentyear franchises being overrun with absolute fucking mongoloid britbong soap opera rejects and random ITV extras who gave the right producer a handy during the audition process.

I also strongly suspect that Game of Thrones played a large part in this bullshit becoming rampant, which is why we saw a bunch of its younger alumni popping up in capeshit later down the line or the semi humanoid thumb that stars in The Last of Us for one especially amusing example. I don't want to go full doomer and say that there are no good British actors being carefully molested to acting perfection these days, but the ratio of good to trash weighs heavily on the side of trash now due to the high demand for cheap bonglanders for any and all slop that gets made burgerside.
 
They also lose that buff when they get directed to use American accents. AND they're still better than American actors. The most obvious example being Zendaya and Tom Holland in the same scenes. Holland is a fine actor, if limited, directed to be American while Zendaya is just plain terrible.

"See that's yor problem. You're never serious about the craft!"

-Alexander Dane
Judge Holden said:
Ya know something rather bleak occurred to me just now to explain a certain phenomena in slop culture for the last decade of currentyear. All these old franchises having notable and well loved Shakespearian actors of British origin was interpreted by corporations and retarded producers as "british accent = popular" which combined with hiring the cheapest specimens they could find whom could be relied on to mindlessly do what they were told without interfering with whatever shit the producers were mandating, has resulted in all these currentyear franchises being overrun with absolute fucking mongoloid britbong soap opera rejects and random ITV extras who gave the right producer a handy during the audition process.

I also strongly suspect that Game of Thrones played a large part in this bullshit becoming rampant, which is why we saw a bunch of its younger alumni popping up in capeshit later down the line or the semi humanoid thumb that stars in The Last of Us for one especially amusing example. I don't want to go full doomer and say that there are no good British actors being carefully molested to acting perfection these days, but the ratio of good to trash weighs heavily on the side of trash now due to the high demand for cheap bonglanders for any and all slop that gets made burgerside.
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Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! If you remember our Salt Vampire video from last year, we received a mystery reel of Star Trek TOS film and we mentioned that we were going to get it scanned and see what's on it. Well, we're finally getting the scanned footage back soon! It may turn out to be anticlimactic and just a reference print from some random TOS episode but we'll see!

Also Star Trek related, we're almost done with our project to mount a screen-used control panel (we posted a behind the scenes video about getting the prop here on Patreon a while back).

And lasty, we're currently editing a re:View episode about the 1997 thriller Breakdown starring Kurt Russell. It lead to a larger discussion about "forgotten" 90s movies, which is a topic we may elaborate on more in future re:View episodes.
 
I want them to try and make their own Star Trek thing. Something like Hot Fuzz or Blazing Saddles where the makers are big fans of what they're satirizing and make something that's a love letter while also sending it up. The last movie they did was Space Cop and the problem with that, well one of the problems, is that they were making fun of funny bad movies and trying to parody something that's already a joke doesn't work.
 
Introvertigo said:
we received a mystery reel of Star Trek TOS film and we mentioned that we were going to get it scanned and see what's on it. Well, we're finally getting the scanned footage back soon! It may turn out to be anticlimactic and just a reference print from some random TOS episode but we'll see!
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The only way Star Trek can become fresh and exciting again after decades of degrading wokeslop is if this turns out to be William Shatner's snuff film shot on the bridge of the Enterprise.
 
Judge Holden said:
or the semi humanoid thumb that stars in The Last of Us for one especially amusing example.
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Of all the incredible casting blunders in Hollywood from the past two decades, I'll never understand how that goblin-looking thing landed a lead role in a big-budget television series. Maybe she's a very nice, sweet girl and I know she can't help how she looks, but god damn she has a very unfortunate appearance and it's just bizarre they actually plopped her down front & center. Part of the mostly unspoken danger in the world of The Last of Us came from Ellie being a fairly attractive teenage girl alone and vulnerable in a post-apocalyptic world with no working law enforcement, with scavengers and other scumbags not being above committing consent accidents with her. At the risk of being crude, ain't nobody wanna give this goblin a struggle cuddle.

Either she's got an incredible agent or she gives unbeatable "services" behind closed doors.

Pagan Min said:
It's "led", therefore their entire update is invalid. START OVER, YOU TALENTLESS HACKS!!!
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C'mon, give 'em a break -- they just finally acknowledged their favorite series is dead.
 
Arthur Morgan said:
I want them to try and make their own Star Trek thing. Something like Hot Fuzz or Blazing Saddles where the makers are big fans of what they're satirizing and make something that's a love letter while also sending it up. T
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Didn't the Orville already do this? I think Star Trek parodies are pretty played out after 59 years. Trek even parodied itself with Lower Decks.
 
moocow said:
I'll never understand how that goblin-looking thing landed a lead role in a big-budget television series
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Her gargoyle mutation was not so obvious when she first appeared in Game of Thrones. Just be glad it was not a currentyear Masie Williams in the lead role because Jeeheeheesus christ....
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