i've never had an opportunity to watch any karate kid movies. would this be spoiler for me?
Channel Awesome, AVGN, and other web review shows
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The critic does a short recap of all the Karate Kid movies in the beginning.
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Iam mijagi bitch!!!
good review
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Doug gives us a look back at some of his oldest, never-before-seen stuff
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/12459-flashback01
The first one he's shown is suprisingly funny, all things considered…
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The NC's review of Casper is up
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/12665-casper
The review itself was good, but the last few minutes with him at GMX were beyond epic.
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Took the words right out of my mouth.
Also, Casper's "can I keep you" line is even creepier than I remember…
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New MarzGurl is up. And its a very interesting topic.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/marzgurl/reviews/12669-animeed01
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that was a geek media expo? that sounds awesome
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I'm with Doug on the final verdict of Casper; it wasn't that bad of a movie, but to me, it was forgettable. I remember seeing it when it came out, but only remember bits and pieces. The review itself was funny, especially NC and Casper pointing out the random and pointless cameos, the return of "Pedo alert", Casper's "Can I keep you?" line, and the throwback to the Next Karate Kid review.I still think the ending with Doug dressed like a Ghostbuster chasing Casper through GMX was the highlight. I hadn't laughed so hard since the Alone in the Dark review.
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I love the new videos, but I'm getting so sick of the "I'M AN EVIL MANIQUINN! BLAH!" advertisement.
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I love the new videos, but I'm getting so sick of the "I'M AN EVIL MANIQUINN! BLAH!" advertisement.
Oh yeah. Those advertisements have been fairly annoying thus far, but this one just…...ugh.
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Another great episode, the ending had me in stitches.
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Awesome review, I wonder if he'll have Casper back in future reviews.
The end was classic, natch, but it had some other choice one-liners:
"Look out! It's Industrial Light and Magic's table scraps!"
"Timing!"
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The evil casper was great. Iceing on the cake.
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New Nostalgia Chick is out. She reviews Mulan. 'Tis awesome.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/12823-mulan
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Freaking fantastic. If a bit too short.
And can I say as a half-Chinese that I don't remember any of my family getting offended over this movie. If anything they love it. I dunno, maybe because while it's not very Chinese-Chinese, it does feel very Asian-American. Heck, Mulan felt like the quintessential modern Asian-American girl, trying to placate her family while striving for her own recognition. Even the food jokes went well.
If anything I and my family think this movie is heads and tails above everything Pocahontas, except for the music (excluding the Man song, of course).
And Nostalgia Chick rightly recognized the un-escapability of "Make a Man Out of You." It CAN'T be denied.
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the caspar-review was great..
loved that movie when i was a kid..now seeing him making jokes about the plot…he`s so right
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I guess this is the right place for this question - lately I've been looking the other video providers' work on the site and I really like especially Paw and his game music stuff but also the Let's play type of videos. Is there any other similar videos on that site or in general like Paw's King's Quest V play-through?
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that part where she climbs to the top of the tower in the training camp is my favorite part of the movie.
I've always wondered what the real story of mulan was?
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that part where she climbs to the top of the tower in the training camp is my favorite part of the movie.
I've always wondered what the real story of mulan was?
Actually the movie was based off the Ballad of Mulan, which is an old Chinese folksong. It's unknown if there's any true factual basis behind it or if it's just legend. Here's a link.
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've always wondered what the real story of mulan was?
There most likely wasn't an actual Mulan. there are actual accounts of women sneaking in to pretend to be men, but no historical person most likely. The story that its based off of however…
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Hua Mulan is a heroine who joined an all-male army, described in a famous Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan. The poem was first written in the Musical Records of Old and New from the 6th century, the century before the founding of the Tang Dynasty; the original work no longer exists, and the original text of this poem comes from another work known as the Music Bureau Collection, an anthology of lyrics, songs, and poems, compiled by Guo Maoqian during the 12th century. The author explicitly mentions the Musical Records of Old and New as his source for the poem. Whether she was a historical person or whether the poem was an allegory has been debated for centuries—it is unknown whether the story has any factual basis.The time setting of the story is uncertain. The earliest accounts of the legend state that she lived during the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) but there has been no proof. However another version reports that Mulan was requested as a concubine by Emperor Yang of Sui China (reigned 604–617). Evidence from the extant poem suggests the earlier interpretation.
The poem is a ballad, meaning that the lines do not necessarily have equal numbers of syllables. The poem is mostly composed of five-character phrases, with just a few extending to seven or nine.
There are three uses of onomatopoeia in the poem. The sound of Mulan's weaving (or her lamentations) is 唧唧 jī-jī (i.e., "click-clack"); the Yellow River babbles 濺濺 jiān-jiān (i.e., "splish-splash") to her as she departs from it; at the military encampment the horses cry 啾啾 jiū-jiū (i.e., they whinny).
The story was expanded into a novel during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Over time, the story of Hua Mulan rose in popularity as a folk tale among the Chinese people on the same level as the Butterfly Lovers.
The word mulan refers to the "Magnolia liliiflora". (mù by itself means "wood" and lán means "orchid".) The heroine of the poem is given many different family names in versions of her story. According to History of the Ming, her family name is Zhu, while the History of the Qing say it is Wei. The name Huā (meaning "flower") has become the most popular in recent years in part to its more poetic meaning. Her complete name is then 花木蘭, transcribed as Huā Mùlán in Pinyin and Hua1 Mu4-lan2 in Wade-Giles.
The Disney animated film popularised the version "Fa Mulan". This "Fa" pronunciation of " 花 " is found in various Chinese languages including Cantonese, while "Mulan" is the phonetic translation from Mandarin.[/hide]
Thank you wikipedia, I would have hated doing that from memory. And been far more innacurate, besides.
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There was Fu Hao in the Shang dynasty, except she didn't hide it at all, and was a general, and she was even the wife of one of the dynastic rulers of the time. She just really knew how to lead an army well, so I guess no one gave a shit that she had a vagina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_HaoThen there's the most successful pirate/criminal ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
This chick was so bad that the government made a deal with her that she could keep all her plunder and live freely without litigation so long as she just STOPPED. And she took it and lived to a ripe old age (for the time) rich as fuck.She is literally the biggest gangsta ever.
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Wife of the king of the SHANG dynasty, eh? I think Disney definitely used that as a reference too.
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"Shang"s are ceremonial bells too, I really doubt they took the character name from a big dynasty that had a billion other things happened during it.
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New NC Review: Superman IV
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/12918-sup4With Linkara!
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Don't have much to say other than "I love it," but I do have to agree that the thought of Gene Hackman doing several takes of that ridiculous roar is fuckin' hilarious!
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Crap, it looks like blip.tv is having issues. Can't watch the new review for now. :(
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Good thing I caught it early… >.>
Oh well, now I can spoil the ending for you guys!
! Rosebud is Linkara's sled.
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Another spoiler, though everyone probably already knows.
! Captain Scheckie sucks
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All right, sites finally working again and I just finished watching it. Awesome as always and The NC and Linkara make a great comedy combo. And by god was that movie awful.
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I'm still laughing about how the Man of Steel was weakened by metro man-nails to the face.
Speaking of Linkara:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/12887-maxclonage
I'm suprised at how much his theme song jumped up in quality! Oh, and the review was great, too…!
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Oh yeah. Love the extended version of Linkara's theme song. It wasn't just that it was extended, the acoustics sounded different too.
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I really enjoyed the Superman IV review. I though having Linkara in the review was a great idea. My favorite line has to be "In Soviet Russia, physics breaks you." That movie has way too many plot holes. I was in disbelief with the breathing in space thing. This is one of the reasons why I really dislike Superman. His later movies defy logic and insult the viewers' intelligence to the nth degree. Let's not even get into the problems with Superman Returns.:getlost:
Hopefully blip won't keep having issues.
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For those following Spoony:
…Wow. Screw E.T., THIS has to be the worst game ever made!
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For those following Spoony:
…Wow. Screw E.T., THIS has to be the worst game ever made!
Either this or Plumbers Don't Wear Ties can qualify as Worst Video Game Ever Made.
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That Pumpkinhead game would piss me off too. Losing your entire inventory and making you start over is too crule.
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The NC's review of Congo is up.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/13185-congo
The Tickle-Me-Amy part was my favorite bit. As for the movie itself, I totally agree that the ape-zapper was as cool as all fuck-out (as was the monkeys jumping into the lava). Still, it's a shame that Tim Curry had to be a part of this movie.
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How do you make a movie with Tim Curry, Bruce Campbell, and Ernie Hudson all together… in the SAME MOVIE... and make it so god damn terrible!? How does that work?!
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I just about died at the "hungry hippos" part!
The whole thing was hilarious like always, of course, but I just lost it at that part!
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The best part about that was that he played the little kid shouting "I win!" after the guy shot the hippo and killed it.
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The beginning had me in stitches.
But yeah, wow that movie sucked. I remember seeing trailers for it back in the day and thinking it was some intense action movie. WRONG!
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Wasn't there some big ad campaign and hype behind Congo when it came out? Or are my memories just hazy?
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I don't remember. I was but a wee lass at the time.
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There was.
They pushed it like it was Jurassic Park with monkeys.
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Whoa. Happy Harry's part of TGWTG.com now.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/201-hh/13301-hh01
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Holy crap! I didn't expect that! O.O
Pretty awesome! The site's really expanding now!
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Before you know it, TGWTG.com will be an all-encompassing Internet conglomerate.
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For those of you interested, Linkara has posted a review of All-Star Batman and Robin. AKA, "The Goddamn Batman" comic.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/13422-asbr01
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For those of you interested, Linkara has posted a review of All-Star Batman and Robin. AKA, "The Goddamn Batman" comic.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/13422-asbr01
You mean All-Star Crazy Steve and Dick Grayson, Age Twelve?
Excellent review from Linkara, I remember reading ASBAR when it first came out and thought "This is the worst thing I've ever read in my life."
Now-a-days… it's still pretty bad.