Brakara
5781
Agreed, but the whole review is, what, around 70 minutes and the weird schtick is only going on in a few of them.
Mordrak
5782
You’re over reaching here trying to be apologetic. If you’re offended and/or find it unfunny, his mistake for you is a mismatched tone of the meta-joke to the primary material, not the exact same mistakes Lucas made because…
Anyway, either this guy spent 45 minutes talking eloquently about how a movie should be made and then utterly fails to make that kind of movie himself…
Hint… he’s not making a fantasy sci-fi action adventure movie.
So I don’t remember if an electric six thread was ever spawned from the interest here, but I liked this “period” cover of Gay Bar. Never heard of the show, but I’ll have to check it out.
Yeah but he is making a movie of a sort…it’s not just a straight up review. And he is making some of the same mistakes Lucas makes. He’s jamming too much into the thing, he’s making people say “what is going on here?”
I’m not trying to apologize for the bizarre and offensive stuff. That stuff is crap and the guy deserves to be criticized for it. He should really re-edit that review and keep the monotone shtick but take out all of the weirdo shtick.
Also…if you go to his other channel and watch some of the truly awful sketch comedy he does you’ll see that the guy fancies himself a filmmaker. The sketches are terrible unfortunately, and it seems to me that he’s somebody that seems to really understand what makes films good and bad, but like Lucas, seems to have no idea how to put it into practice. It’s really very ironic if you asked me.
In an effort to help LK bring this thread back on track, here is a random video from my favorites.
Cereal Commercial
Mordrak
5786
Actually, good movies should make you ask yourself, “what is going on here?” They just do so for different reasons, mainly as a way to engage the audience. His problem with the Phantom Menace isn’t that it makes the viewer ask questions, it’s that it provides few (if any) reasonable answers in a way the characters should understand internally in the film. Many of the questions he’s asking about the Phantom Menace are questions the characters should be asking themselves and the rest are questions the filmmakers should have been asking themselves.
The review is very easy to follow and comprehend as is the story behind the reviewer. Whether or not you like the latter is a separate issue.
I’m not trying to apologize for the bizarre and offensive stuff. That stuff is crap and the guy deserves to be criticized for it. He should really re-edit that review and keep the monotone shtick but take out all of the weirdo shtick.
Well, he would have to go back and reedit all his previous reviews. I’m not saying as a whole, it’s something you would like if you started from the beginning of the schtick, but what you’re asking is like going into an Andy Kaufman (or more recently, Zach Galifianakis) performance and coming out saying he should stop being so weird.
Ok, you may not like it, but it’s not internally inconsistent or ineffective at what he was trying to do… (unlike George Lucas who failed at what he was trying to do).
Also…if you go to his other channel and watch some of the truly awful sketch comedy he does you’ll see that the guy fancies himself a filmmaker. The sketches are terrible unfortunately, and it seems to me that he’s somebody that seems to really understand what makes films good and bad, but like Lucas, seems to have no idea how to put it into practice. It’s really very ironic if you asked me.
Again, he fancies himself a schlock short filmmaker if you read his about me section. He isn’t pretending to be Kubrick. In order for it to be ironic*, he would need to be characterizing himself as creating more than schlock.
*I’m still not sure if that’s the precise usage, but I’m using it the way you are.
Hahaha, awesome. I <3 Electric Six, and that was a very funny and original use for one of their songs.
Haven’t gotten there yet, but I did notice that his list of great directors included only men. That seems like a clue to this guy’s character.
Ugh. I don’t think this kid posting videos of his grandmother who is clearly either schizophrenic or suffering from age related dementia is terribly funny.
This is like that rainbows-in-the-hose video. I can see why people laugh, but it just makes me sad.
kerzain
5792
Perhaps a better place for it would have been the “Funny but not funny” thread.
Which great female directors should have been added to that list?
I googled “great female directors” and basically got this:
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/feature/2002/08/27/women_directors/index.html
Sounds like only 4% of directors are women to begin with. Personally I can only name one female director and it’s Penny Marshall.
Perhaps that says more about you.
Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola, Katheryn Bigelow, Julie Taymor, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, and Susanne Bier come to mind as fantastic directors who happen to be chicks. The list is even longer if you include bad directors and Nazi toadies.
-Tom
To be clear, not having a female director on one’s top ten favorite directors list is not really a proper evaluation of that person’s gender prejudices, right?
Athryn
5798
Less yapping, more videos!
Christmas Light Guitar Hero
A little background:
Ric Turner, a former Disney ‘imagineer’ and special effects specialist, turned his yard into a game of Guitar Hero, built out of 21,268 lights and LEDs, that plays Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover.”
Some more detail from Make.
The ultimate spud cannon
You gotta love the sound it generates.
Mordrak
5800
That’s only because you’re a huge film nerd (and couple of those names seem to be foreign directors). It’s probably sexism, but for whatever reason, the US just doesn’t celebrate female directors with as much publicity. I know I’ve enjoyed many films directed women, but except for Coppola (and recent with Bigelow because she was on Colbert), I just rarely hear their names. : /
IIRC, female directors actually used to be more common in the US until prestige started being applied to the role and then it became less common.
