This week, former producers of Channel Awesome/That Guy With the Glasses compiled a list of grievances and complaints about their treatment, including sexual harassment and neglect. Others are seeing this and jumping ship (although I think that’s a poor metaphor–it’s more like a Klingon discommendation where everyone makes the Wakanda salute and turns their backs.) I knew about issues behind the scenes with poor management and scheduling, but I thought those were part-and-parcel of amateur film making. I’ve heard many DVD commentaries that basically consisted of “this space was available so we took it”, like Basket Case converting a hotel elevator into a lobby or Monty Python & the Holy…
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Tears of a Spoon
I’m a big fan of The Spoony One, an Internet producer/reviewer in the same vein as That Guy With the Glasses. Personally, I like him better, entertainment-wise, than Doug Walker. The Nostalgia Critic has more of the screwball Daffy Duck slapstick, but Spoony has more of the clever, cynical wit I appreciate. Recently, he just finished his compilation of the Ultima video games, started two years ago in 2010 (which is an eternity in online video). It spanned twelve games and seventeen videos, with in-between vlogs, conventions, and other reviews. Not to mention several online fights, heart conditions, personality disorder diagnoses (Bipolar II), bouts of depression and sleep disorders, and…
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No SOPA Radio
I don’t know much about making political opinions — the details are too complicated for me to process in my state in life. I’ve got to worry about kids, wife, work, and how to do anything than to find out how a bill works and who’s working with it. But people smarter and savvier than me are against SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act), a bill currently rattling around in Congress. That includes everyone under Doug Walker, Lindsay Ellis, The Spoony One, Hannah Harto, and just about every video I’ve posted from YouTube. I wish I could do something that’s a bit less “out there”, but they’ve convinced me because I…
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Things I Like: The Nostalgia Chick & Her Friends
The Nostalgia Chick (a.k.a. Lindsay Ellis) is one of the vloggers on That Guy With the Glasses. Yes, yes, I know I talk about that site too much, but hear me out. She’s more than another snarky deadpanner who criticizes 80’s movies. See, to understand her, you must understand her origins. She was taken into the site as the female equivalent of the Nostalgia Critic who, due to his penis, couldn’t otherwise target those female-centric blasts from the past. So she started with videos like “Labyrinth”, “Thumbelina”, “She-Ra”, and “The Babysitters Club”. Her specialty is compare-and-contrast, like “Cruel Intentions vs. Les Liaisons Dangerouseses” and why “When Harry Met Sally” works…
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Things You Should Know About: MarzGurl Picks Apart Twilight
MarzGurl is one of the Channel Awesome (A.K.A. Doug Walker’s That Guy With the Glasses) vloggers. She specializes in anime and the works of Don Bluth, which are a lot more comprehensive than I thought. Plust she looked smoking hot as Princess Mononoke in Suburban Knights. Channel Awesome’s more known for their videos, but right now MarzGurl is doing something I think is fairly important. She’s examining Twilight, the book, as she reads it. She was curious what all the fuss was about, as any good geek should do, and is posting a literary analysis as she goes on. I’m really impressed with the level of detail. She’s looking at exactly what…
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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Will Become Superman (1978)
Time will not be kind to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. I have come to this realization. Its the Marvel equivalent of Christopher Reeve’s Superman. It lit the fuse for superhero movies, but hasn’t nearly the explosive power its successors will (X-Men, Iron Man, etc.). The movies were a well-loved phenomenom now, but the trilogy is finished. And a reboot is months away, only ten years after the first. Why? I hardly need to say much that hasn’t already been said. Sure, they’re good movies. Sometimes great. Good casting. Well imagined. Fun special effects. And far be it from me to disrespect anything with Bruce Campbell in it. But Sam Raimi is…
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Original Movies Are Not Original
I was watching the Doug Walker’s (A.K.A. the Nostalgia Critic, That Guy With the Glasses) Top Ten Movies I Hate But Everyone Else Seems to Like (I meaning he). He had some controversial picks on both sides, but one thing kept coming up that I thought was interesting. There were several movies on the list like Avatar, Cars, Gladiator, With Honors, District 9, and Moulin Rouge. What he remarked upon was how many people keep saying that these movies are original and innovative, when they’re not. I agree, and I thought, is this really a problem? Granted, not everyone knows everything, and the kids who saw Avatar, Cars, and District…
