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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
The prequels sucked ass, we all assumed we had hit rock bottom, but we didn't know how far down the bottom was. I saw episode 7 and was like oh. Oooooooooh no.

When it comes to art, 99% of people have no ideas. Of creative people, 99% of them have one good idea in them. What happened with RLM also happened to Lucas, they peaked creatively 10 years ago. Even Tolkien himself scrapped his own LoTR sequel because he realized it sucked ass. I wish people who had a huge hit could just turn into hit machines, but it's not so.

Mike is out of steam. He can still make ok cahntent but any more hits like the og plinkett reviews are unlikely.
 
Armageddon said:
Why does Kike Stoklasa still deny the fact that the prequel reviews were a major contributing factor into getting JJ Abrams hired/involved in Star Wars in the first place?
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This shit is like Jim Metokur haters blaming Jim's early videos about the coof for how the WORLD GOVERNMENTS handled Covid.
 
He doesn't deny it, he brought it up and concluded with "I guess I don't". The reason he brought that up in the Trek review in the first place though is that literally every other moron in the press ATT had that same takeaway from watching that dumpster fire of a film. It was already a common opinion in Hollywood that his movie was a "good Star Wars movie, not a good Star Trek movie" and so the ball naturally rolled from there probably. For example, here is Wil Wheaton:
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I didn't find the Plinkett thing offensive so much as uninteresting. It's just a better-summarized repeat of his previous iterations on that video idea, like the one he polluted with the whole ring-theory spiel that lasts like 25 minutes.

I get the sense that Mike is tired of movies, if only because the way movies used to be consumed simply doesn't exist anymore. There aren't really meaningful blockbusters, nor are there films crafted with that intent. It's all slop that'll show up on streaming services... or indie-sized nuggets that have passion but no real reach. Well, unless we count the Minecraft movie.

Seems to me like it's a matter of needing to find his footing again, not really wanting to, and going back into the old comfort-zone of yesteryear.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
Seems to me like it's a matter of needing to find his footing again, not really wanting to, and going back into the old comfort-zone of yesteryear.
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Mike ruined his life by making filmmaking and movie reviews his personal and professional brand, and continued doing so after losing his taste for both. He's too much of an introvert or weirdo to have a social life outside of leveling deadpan insults at Rich (and has kept to that rut for thirty years), is too insecure to pursue other creative outlets because he feels entitled to an audience for them, and has no grounding of family or even a life outside of that Milwaukee warehouse he films and edits in. And to make matters worse, he painted himself into a corner where everything he publishes must to be comedic, without alienating the sanctimonious audience he fostered with his own sanctimony. He's past the point where he should have grabbed a shovel and filled in the hole he dug for himself - But because he won't, any subsequent horizon he finds himself on may as well be in lolcow land.
 
Marc said:
He's past the point where he should have grabbed a shovel and filled in the hole he dug for himself
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I mean, sitting in front of a camera, burping, and talking about what parts of recent films you weren't asleep through seems like a pretty cozy gig. It's kindof similar to a James Rolfe situation, where it's like... yeah, sure, he's phoning it in, but I'd do the same thing in his place. If people will pay, and it's so much less work than a career-job, you give them what they want.

RLM just manages to sometimes whip out surprises that prove to be actually enjoyable, whereas James both lacks charisma himself and is completely bereft of chemistry with the fats.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
sitting in front of a camera, burping, and talking about what parts of recent films you weren't asleep through seems like a pretty cozy gig.
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I'm not denying it's a comfort zone which will continue to be afforded to Mike, Jay, Rich, and their repulsive friends. I'm placing a marker so that, as Mike wades even further into cringe, we can better gauge the off course trajectory he's taken to arrive there. It's telling that he hypocritically refuses leave his own creation's legacy intact (as he milked charging George Lucas with for fifteen years). As Fred Gwynne said, "Sometimes dead is better."
 
Arthur Morgan said:
I was a kid when Phantom Menace came out. I and a bunch of boys had double edged lightsaber toys because it looked fucking awesome. The CGI is dated now but at the time it did what it was meant to do: Get kids excited and wanting to play with toys and video games based on them. I went and saw the next two because of how much I loved the originals and wanted to see more Obi-Wan and Yoda doing cool shit.
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I was a kid when Phantom Menace came out. It killed my interest in Stars War DEAD. More importantly, it killed my at the time best friend's interest, and he was a SUPER STARS WAR FAN back then. He traded me a fucking amazing Batmovile toy, a bunch of Ninja Turtles and a sweet Lion-O figure for a single shitty-ass tiny SW background character toy that some relative got me. That's how much he loved SW. And Phantom Menace killed that.

Yeah Maul and his double lightsaber were cool. Yeah the soundtrack was amazing. But the movie was ass, and even kids back then were capable of realizing it.
 
Marc said:
has no grounding of family or even a life outside of that Milwaukee warehouse he films and edits in
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You have no idea whether or not he has a partner, kids, friendships, extended family relationships, or other projects and hobbies. This is all speculation. You sound real mad at some guy who posts things online that you’re free to ignore.
 
Rich Evans Simp said:
This is all speculation. You sound real mad at some guy who posts things online that you’re free to ignore.
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Unless you’re willing to present evidence to the contrary, I’ll continue to assume the least about a guy who spends his life acting miserable on camera. I’m not angry at the big goof - I’m saying I wish him a more fulfilling life than browbeating Star Wars strawmen seems to be affording him. We can at least find common ground simping for Rich Evans and his contraceptive laughter.
 
Rich Evans Ayypologist said:
I mean, sitting in front of a camera, burping, and talking about what parts of recent films you weren't asleep through seems like a pretty cozy gig. It's kindof similar to a James Rolfe situation, where it's like... yeah, sure, he's phoning it in, but I'd do the same thing in his place. If people will pay, and it's so much less work than a career-job, you give them what they want.
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You would think that, but there is always a reason why so many YouTubers ending up falling down a pit despair that they never seem to be able to crawl themselves out of. Like clockwork, I am never shocked when some popular YouTuber ends up uploading a video one day lamenting how difficult things have been for them and how they are struggling with their channel.

It is tough to some degree being a professional YouTuber because they have less of a safety net under them and more importantly unless they are the top talent on YouTube, they usually have to do all the work themselves.
Rich Evans Simp said:
You have no idea whether or not he has a partner, kids, friendships, extended family relationships, or other projects and hobbies. This is all speculation. You sound real mad at some guy who posts things online that you’re free to ignore.
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We do know to some degree a few of these points. Mind you that Mike's father died a few years ago and his obituary blatantly revealed that Mike had no kids. If Mike was married fans would have found something online. Obviously a lot of other stuff about Mike's personal life is speculation, but people aren't pulling the alcoholic accusations out of their asses. The fact that you can watch videos from the past five years and see a steady decline in how Mike talks, looks and just his general presence is evidence that he is having substance abuse problems off-screen.
 
LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2 said:
The fact that you can watch videos from the past five years and see a steady decline in how Mike talks, looks and just his general presence is evidence that he is having substance abuse problems off-screen.
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Maybe, but if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, going from your late 30s to early 40s is pretty tough on the body and for many people the first time they start to actually "feel" old.
 
Hybrid Icing said:
Maybe, but if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt, going from your late 30s to early 40s is pretty tough on the body and for many people the first time they start to actually "feel" old.
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Also worth remembering Mike is like 46 or 47 at this point; he left "early 40s" behind some time ago.
 
LordofCringe7206 Vol. 2 said:
You would think that, but there is always a reason why so many YouTubers ending up falling down a pit despair that they never seem to be able to crawl themselves out of. Like clockwork, I am never shocked when some popular YouTuber ends up uploading a video one day lamenting how difficult things have been for them and how they are struggling with their channel.

It is tough to some degree being a professional YouTuber because they have less of a safety net under them and more importantly unless they are the top talent on YouTube, they usually have to do all the work themselves.

We do know to some degree a few of these points. Mind you that Mike's father died a few years ago and his obituary blatantly revealed that Mike had no kids. If Mike was married fans would have found something online. Obviously a lot of other stuff about Mike's personal life is speculation, but people aren't pulling the alcoholic accusations out of their asses. The fact that you can watch videos from the past five years and see a steady decline in how Mike talks, looks and just his general presence is evidence that he is having substance abuse problems off-screen.
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In some videos his hands are so fucking swollen that they turn purple. The alcoholism is not a joke.
 
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