Finally! The funny old guy takes on Phantom Menace
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You mean RedLetterMedia? Watching it right now.
His slow, monotone dim-witted stupidity seems to be an act but it's not a very funny one, it's got some chuckles but mostly the voice is sort of tiring. When doing a video review, especially an audio one, voice is everything and all that.
Got some good points, though. William Shakeman, indeed.
Got some good points, though. William Shakeman, indeed.
The video(s) were good, funny, and made some great, great points that I've been making for 10 years now. But I don't like the "schtick" of this "old man" character.
I'm amused by the ongoing subplot of his dead wife and the constant mid-sentence cutoffs
Yeah, having actually seen a couple of the videos of the review now, I liked them a lot. It'd be easy to beat a dead horse regarding Phantom Menace, it's been torn to shreds so many times... but a lot of his criticisms - regarding the specific logic of certain events, i.e. they have none at all - are some I'd never even considered before.
And his casually disturbing shtick as a murderous, cantankerous old man (insanely old, he mentions offhand watching the 1930s Flash Gordon serials in his forties) is pretty funny...
But that voice doesn't leave a good impression at all, it's rather annoying and is why I'd turned off most of his videos prior to this midway through.
Eh. He's one to follow now, that's for sure.
And his casually disturbing shtick as a murderous, cantankerous old man (insanely old, he mentions offhand watching the 1930s Flash Gordon serials in his forties) is pretty funny...
But that voice doesn't leave a good impression at all, it's rather annoying and is why I'd turned off most of his videos prior to this midway through.
Eh. He's one to follow now, that's for sure.
I'm through Part 4 of the video(s) and, man, this guy is nailing this movie to the wall. He makes every damn, good, point people have been saying for years.
But schtick of the "character" is wearing thin, I don't find it all the humorous and it'd be better served by just a normal, generic, "angry internet reviewer" character.
Dropping the character, maybe, but I'd prefer he avoid the 'angry internet reviewer'.
The problem with that character is the anger is seldom done well - mostly just the Spoony One, in all honesty. Some people have great difficulty making their anger funny or entertaining, and a droll, matter-of-fact style might work better.
Well, I think Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd and Spoony all do the "angry internet reviewer" schtick very well.
Granted, it;s a schitck that's a bit old, but it is also fairly common. But, generaly, a "more normal review tone" would work better than the schtick of the murderous old man intercut with the odd bits (like him going in the crawl space to recover toys, or stuffing pizza rolls into the mail.)
Yeah, that's where I disagree (obviously, not about Spoony).
Honestly, I've always found the AVGN bad. He's obnoxious, annoying and unfunny. I get that he was also the first of his kind and everyone else are imitators, but it's just not humour I find in any way diverting. It's mostly more smug and annoying than it is funny.
The Nostalgia Critic I've liked, but ye gods can his hyper-anger get annoying. His Batman & Robin review, for example, is one of his weakest simply because he amps up the anger to a completely unbearable degree. His girlish screaming and tendency to overact and oversell jokes are also a fairly consitent weakness - by this point I've found him mediocre much longer than I've considered him good.
Spoony, though, his anger never feels fabricated - it's raw, laughing, and effortlessly done stuff. His review of that Pumpkinhead 2 videogame where he just rejects the whole logic of a sketch-themed review and launches into an extended rant of how unplayable it is? That's just pure comic gold. This guy can get in front of a camera and yak off the top of his head about a movie he's just been to and still be very watchable. I'd say he's basically one of the best video reviewers on the internet right now, and I say 'one of' just because I'm also a fan of sfdebris.
Granted, but it's oddball, a trifle surreal, and honestly something I'd watch long before I ever give James Rofle another iota of my time.
Actually, TAVGN isn't always mad. He's also CineMassacre, and he does those reviews in a normal tone. I particularly like his multi-part review of the Star Wars saga.
Well, I think TGWTFG oversells his jokes a bit sometimes, but the points he makes I often find funny and agree with. Though I'm not big on his other characters he plays. (I really liked his Batman and Robin review, however.)
AVGN I've cooled on somewhat as time has gone on. For starters he's branched out into doing a lot more stuff on his website (his other stuff is far more normal and quite enjoyable) and has slowed down quite a bit on thre AVGN stuff, the only time the AVGN stuff gets to me is when he gets too much into scatalogical humor. Which I've never found funny.
Spoony, though, yeah is often very funny if long-winded sometimes. His rants are fun to listen to and I enjoyed his double-long rant on TF2, but he also ranted for almost an hour on Twilight! It was "good" and he made good points, but I think he needs to develop an editing process rather than sitting in front of the camera and just ranting for an hour.
AVGN I've cooled on somewhat as time has gone on. For starters he's branched out into doing a lot more stuff on his website (his other stuff is far more normal and quite enjoyable) and has slowed down quite a bit on thre AVGN stuff, the only time the AVGN stuff gets to me is when he gets too much into scatalogical humor. Which I've never found funny.
Spoony, though, yeah is often very funny if long-winded sometimes. His rants are fun to listen to and I enjoyed his double-long rant on TF2, but he also ranted for almost an hour on Twilight! It was "good" and he made good points, but I think he needs to develop an editing process rather than sitting in front of the camera and just ranting for an hour.
Well, to be fair, that's not the AVGN but just "James Rolfe."
The AVGN is a character who, yes, very angry and obsessed with poo.
RedletterMedia's reviews are the best!!!! 
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Lucas: "The Jedi cut them down like butter, and they're really pretty useless."
RedLetterMedia: "F#$% you!"
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RedLetterMedia: "F#$% you!"
Ha.
Yeah... the cut-off sentences are always a highlight. They really do a good job at editing it to make it look like crappy editing.
Part 6 is up, and he talks about why the big three-way duel at the end sucks. Yes.. it sucks.
Just watched part 6. The point he made about the lightsaber battles was spot on. I remember thinking the same thing earlier this year when I watched all the movies in order.
While the lightsaber duels in 1 thru 3 were more visually exciting, there was so much more at stake in each of the duels in 4 thru 6. The closest one to the originals in intensity was in Revenge of the Sith, but since we already knew how that had to turn out....
The only redeeming aspect to the prequel story is the new Clone Wars cartoon. There is a lot that can be done with that. But an Old Republic series would have even more freedom. Maybe some day.
While the lightsaber duels in 1 thru 3 were more visually exciting, there was so much more at stake in each of the duels in 4 thru 6. The closest one to the originals in intensity was in Revenge of the Sith, but since we already knew how that had to turn out....
The only redeeming aspect to the prequel story is the new Clone Wars cartoon. There is a lot that can be done with that. But an Old Republic series would have even more freedom. Maybe some day.
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