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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

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  • 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%

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    Votes: 64 6.0%
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Mr. Duck said:
How many times can they make the same video?
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Flexo said:
stories set up expectations and have an obligation to pay them off
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Respectfully, I just don't agree at all. You're (proverbial you) still trying to shoehorn art into cookie-cutter packages. At most you could say the film didn't succeed, but they go a step further than that.
The opposite end, defying expectations for the sake of it, can also be just as bad. But I just hate the idea that film should have "rules." Mike is guilty of this throughout his many film reviews and it's something that always annoyed me.

And yes, I realize the silliness of having this discussion around Jingle All the Way of all movies.

Edit: Couldn't finish that new "What Are Next?" video. Terrible.
 
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#lurker said:
Respectfully, I just don't agree at all. You're (proverbial you) still trying to shoehorn art into cookie-cutter packages. At most you could say the film didn't succeed, but they go a step further than that.
The opposite end, defying expectations for the sake of it, can also be just as bad. But I just hate the idea that film should have "rules." Mike is guilty of this throughout his many film reviews and it's something that always annoyed me.

And yes, I realize the silliness of having this discussion around Jingle All the Way of all movies.

Edit: Couldn't finish that new "What Are Next?" video. Terrible.
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Stories have "rules" in the same way cooking has "rules."

Sure there's nothing really preventing you from substituting bleach for water in a recipe, but it won't make your dish edible.

You can throw random images and sounds together and call it a story too. In which case, congrats! you are now replaceable by A.I. which was capable of that much thirty years ago.
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
Newest video is out, another ‘What are next’

https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0JNJOVG1VA
I miss ‘Fuck you it’s January’

Edit: the only decent movie mentioned is the new Besson Dracula movie, which is actually fantastic.
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Okay, this was hilarious. Best laugh I've had from one of their videos in years.

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There were a few other good "blink and you'll miss it" jokes, too.
 
#lurker said:
Cooking has very clear and defined rules, because otherwise you can be sick or dead. Art doesn't have the same rigid limitations.
We'd still be stuck watching silent black-and-whites if the rules weren't meant to be broken.
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You don't know very much about cooking and you know even less about art. All art has rules, and while they can be broken, you better know the rules before you break them, because otherwise you end up with gibberish.
 
#lurker said:
You can add all the modifiers you want, but you're literally admitting it here. Cooking doesn't have the same luxury.
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You don't think recipes can be experimented with? You don't think there are dozens if not hundreds of variations on different recipes? Why do you think that? Are you stupid?
 
Cooking is an Art, Baking is a science.

You have far less wiggle room for creatively interpreting recipes with baking vs cooking.

That guy doesn't know much about cooking and this is an autistic hill to die on for a simple throw away analogy.

Faggot.
 
I think my favorite part of the new video was them saying Kate Mulgrew was going to be Columbo again. I could see it happening, too. Kathy Bates is currently in a terrible Matlock show on CBS, so NBC could try their hand at it again.
 
Mola Ram said:
You don't think recipes can be experimented with? You don't think there are dozens if not hundreds of variations on different recipes? Why do you think that? Are you stupid?
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You guys aren't following the analogy at all and are getting bent out of shape about "muh cooking"

Your cooking experimentation is within the rules. You can't substitute water with bleach, like Flexo's example.
Art doesn't have the same rigid rules. And if it did we'd never have sound or color pictures.

If I write a film that defies your expectations, the most you can say is that it didn't work (for you). If I defy your expectations by using bleach in your next meal, you are dead.
 
#lurker said:
You guys aren't following the analogy at all and are getting bent out of shape about "muh cooking"

Your cooking experimentation is within the rules. You can't substitute water with bleach, like Flexo's example.
Art doesn't have the same rigid rules. And if it did we'd never have sound or color pictures.

If I write a film that defies your expectations, the most you can say is that it didn't work (for you). If I defy your expectations by using bleach in your next meal, you are dead.
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Wait ... your only point is meddling with the rules of cooking can have lethal consequences but meddling with the rules of art can't? That's the big thing you're hung up on?

Ok, we'll add "analogies" and "metaphors" to the growing list of things you don't understand.
 
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