THAT! was nella's squee?…......not what I was expecting. and I was expecting more squee. :O not complaining though. I still liked it
I think it was the squeeing (NChick did it too) over Baby Christian Bale.
THAT! was nella's squee?…......not what I was expecting. and I was expecting more squee. :O not complaining though. I still liked it
I think it was the squeeing (NChick did it too) over Baby Christian Bale.
Bennet's new crappy anime review
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/the-sage/anime-abandon/30933-bounty-dog
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New Spoony
Another vid from the new guy, Oancitizen, Roberto Benini's Pinocchio:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/30936-pinocchio
Guh, terrifying movie. (and yes, a terrifying book cover)
It has an awesome line in it though: "The plague has arrived!"
I already saw that and I think this guy might be in the same category as Doug, Brad, Spoony and Linkara.
Did anyone else see Oancitizen's Zardoz review?
I tell ya, the "twist" in that movie was absolutely painful.
I saw that before.
Truth be told, I realy like Zardoz though.
Another vid from the new guy, Oancitizen, Roberto Benini's Pinocchio:
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/oancitizen/brows-held-high/30936-pinocchioGuh, terrifying movie. (and yes, a terrifying book cover)
It has an awesome line in it though: "The plague has arrived!"
This guy looks to be interesting. Maybe another person on this site to give a shit about aside from Doug, Chick, and Todd.
@Monkey:
This guy looks to be interesting. Maybe another person on this site to give a shit about aside from Doug, Chick, and Todd.
That's it? Just those three? I can understand not liking Spoony and Linkara (Linkara in particular has been boring me lately), but Cinema Snob and Phelous are great.
Even some of the "lesser" reviewers can be pretty good, if only watched occasionally. Paw's recent Music Movies series has been really good.
Watching Chick's latest review reminded me why I enjoy her. Sure, the ending was a bit over the top (coming from me, that's not good), but it's good to have Nella back in the reviews as normal.
Nothing will beat the Olive Garden John Malcovich acting for me, though.
The only people I pay a good deal of attention to are Doug, Spoony (in his better moments) Linkara (again, in his funnier moments) Brad, Phelous, and occasionally Todd.
Bennett has also started to grow on me, mainly because he seems to be the only anime fan on that site that's actually willing to have fun with the genre. Also, this new guy, Oancitizen, seems interesting. He certainly does need to hone his craft a bit more, but I can see him potentially becoming one of the better reviewers.
The Cinema Snob is overbearing.
@Monkey:
The Cinema Snob is overbearing.
That's the point. That's his character. He's the Cinema "Snob." The real Brad isn't that critical or self-important.
I don't like his character.
My mainstays are Doug, NChick, Angry Joe, Todd, and Paw. I would list Y Ruler of Time if he updated more.
I like Cinema Snob, but for some reason I have little motivation to watch most of his reviews. Although I thought his Caligula two-parter was awesome, and his shredding of Twilight: New Moon was absolutely hilarious.
I need to stop reading into Spoony's opinion of Mortal Kombat. It's just getting me annoyed over stupidity, and I know how much people hate arguing over Spoony here.
Anyway, I generally watch reviewers based on whether I like their work and whether I like the person. Linkara, for example, I don't think is an AMAZING reviewer. In terms of reviewing comics, he's good, but he isn't the funniest on the site. However, he's one of the nicest guys ever and is actually pretty cool with his fans, so I tend to watch his stuff. I feel the same way about Jesu, Brad, Roses, and to an extent, Lupa (though I think Lupa has quality stuff, often times). But I like majority of the folk here. I like Chick, but I just wish she wouldn't be so negative about the flack she gets. Yeah, she doesn't deserve majority of the flack she gets, but she has fans that enjoy her opinion and work. I'd kill for that.
If I had to make a negative comment…I'm not the biggest fan of stuff from Benzaie. Sorry.
I'll admit, I watch way more people on this site than I should. Reviewers I watch regularly include Doug, Linkara, Spoony, NChick, Todd, Nash, FilmBrain, Phelous, Cinema Snob, JesuOtaku, Apollo Z. Hack, Roo, MikeJ, CR, and JewWario.
I'll watch Benzaie and Angry Joe and a few other guys, but only if they're reviewing something that interests me.
It's pretty much the same for me, including Obscurus Lupa and now Oancitizen (his stuff is great, watch his stuff naough). I've even gotten into the newest addition, JonTron.
I'd say the only reviewer I really don't like is Distressed Watcher. He's just… creepy and weird.
I like Angry Joe, but I have mixed feelings about him. I enjoy his reviews on games that he was disappointed in or games that were actually good. He tends to bring up good points, and sometimes swings in a good joke. But his ANGRY reviews, where he blows up over how horrible something is? I never laugh all that much. Only exception is his Chick-Fil-A complaint video, which was hilarious. That aside, I'm not really into the "THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE…RADDAH RADDAH RADDAH!" as being a key joke.
And Distressed Watcher? Yeah, I've watched his stuff. I generally play it as background noise while I play video games (which I do with a lot of stuff like video commentaries or Spoony's hour long VLogs). I'm pretty neutral towards the guy. I don't hate him, but I'm not fond of his stuff. Biggest thing that annoyed me was his "Best Video Game Bosses of All Time", where he spent the time comparing video game bosses to 'massive dicks you have to suck to make sure you get your pay for the week'. Not that I'm against vulgarity (you all know how much I curse), but vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity isn't funny. It's redundant.
However, he's one of the nicest guys ever and is actually pretty cool with his fans
I completely support this statement. Whenever I post I always think "What would Linkara do" because I wish to be like him and be very respectful of everyone. Although like him, I have every right to get pissed off at crappy manga and other works of fiction that try my patience. I disagree about him being an only "good" reviewer. I think he's very good. But whatever.
By the way I just watched Distressed Watcher's Trailer Failure of Cop Out and that one lame Woods movie. He honestly doesn't seem that bad so far, I laughed at a few of his jokes, and he seemed decent to me. Although admittedly I've only watched one of his reviews and my taste in humor has always been a bit suspect. I mean I like Glee afterall (as a very guilty pleasure, and more for the songs than anything else).
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If I had to make a negative comment…I'm not the biggest fan of stuff from Benzaie. Sorry.
Neither am I, never cared for that dude.
@Monkey:
I don't like his character.
He reviewed ET The Porno.
Man's got balls.
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I'd say the only reviewer I really don't like is Distressed Watcher. He's just… creepy and weird.
He realy shouldn't have shaved his head.
I'm pretty much watch Snob, Angry Joe, Critic, Chick, Linkara, and Spoony. I most recently started watching Lupa's videos, which they are great.
If I had to make a negative comment…I'm not the biggest fan of stuff from Benzaie. Sorry.
@Kareem:
Neither am I, never cared for that dude.
I think Benzaie can sometimes be entertaining, but the man's got terrible taste. You know, what with him naming Lady in the Water as one of the top 10 movies of the year/decade or whatever.
Then again, he made this.
That gets a laugh out of me every time.
I never realy watched Benzai, because, as dumb a reason as it is, his accent is so grating.
Only videos I seem to watch these days are CR, Cinema Snob, Benzai, and recently that "Clan of the the Gray Wolf" guy.
I used to love Linkara but his lame Power Ranger fantasy wish fulfillment was just to damn much for me to take.
I just can't take a snarky review seriously when at the same time the critic is flailing around in cosplay, spouting out corny, dialogue at some dude in a godzilla costume.
Only videos I seem to watch these days are CR, Cinema Snob, Benzai, and recently that "Clan of the the Gray Wolf" guy.
I used to love Linkara but his lame Power Ranger fantasy wish fulfillment was just to damn much for me to take.
I just can't take a snarky review seriously when at the same time the critic is flailing around in cosplay, spouting out corny, dialogue at some dude in a godzilla costume.
As a reviewer Linkara usualy has a good opinion on what's bad and what's not (although in one of his recent reviews, I found it sort of grating that he automaticaly asumed, without any in story reference, that the Norse gods simply cannot possibly beat Jehovah because he's "all powerfull", which came from no other source then his own religion), but as far as his own ability to tell a story, especialy with the means he has, he has the tendency to succumb to childish costume fantasy exhibitions with laughably bad story twists and dialogues that realy seem to come straight out of the american Power Rangers.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mind him getting the Green Ranger costume, especialy when the fans prety much pressured him into it on twitter, but there's a time where "one person attacked by another , evil person, who , coincidentaly, looks exactly the same" just becomes laughable, especialy that one time he did it with Liz.
Also, seeing his recent youtube problems (aka Youtube interpreting Fair Use in a way in which no one may freely use it) , I'd realy like to see SFDebris move his show to the site, for more exposure.
I watch Nostalgia Critic, Phelous, TITS, Welshy, Spoony, Angry Joe Show and of course, my favorites, Awesome Video Games/Video Games Awesome
I honestly don't care much for the jokes of any of these guys except for Awesome Video Games, which are like, the only funny people on TGWTG.
The rest of them aren't particularly funny aside from some flashes of brilliance, but they are all fun to see ranting, and that's why I come to TGWTG, opinions on stuff.
Edit: Also, storylines can go fuck themselves for all I care, Linkara became a bore to me with that crap, Spoony almost ruined his FF-X video with that shit and Welshy seems to be building up a way to make sure his Scream 3 retrospective is gonna be 70% running away from a monster and 30% actually reviewing Scream 3
what exactly is going on with youtube and fair use?
I think everyone looks at the characters of the critic, and AVGN, which are really good, and try to do their own, hoping it works for them, but either they try and force it too much, or they're just not good at it.
The crossovers have begun!
The Cinema Snob and Obscurus Lupa review The Asylum's Sherlock Holmes. Holmes fighting dinosaurs and robots? Yes sir! http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/30944-the-asylums-sherlock-holmes
Y'know what vids of Linkara's I like? His "Top 10/whatever number" lists.
I think Linkara's bigest setback is his stated preference for spandex wearing superheroes.
But he's a good reviewer, and I haven't read any of his own comics yet.
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Also, holy shit , Brad realy punched Lupa !
I'm not much of a gamer so I pretty much never watch any game reviewers, like AJ or Spoony or the other. My favorite is definitely Todd in the Shadows, and I watched Critic and Linkara regularly. Linkara is starting to bore me though, at first his story is good like when Mechakara first appears, but after a while the story is getting more ridiculous and less tounge-in-cheek, I pretty much skip the Vyce arc and just watch the review. As for the rest…Snob and Lupa is okay, but mostly I'm not that interested in the shows they're reviewing. I also like Y Ruler of Time, although perhaps part of that is due to the agreeing with his opinions on manga like Naruto and Prince of Tennis. Wish he'd update more often, too.
I also like watching Larry, due to the fact him and Wez are prety funny, but I rarely watch any other game reviews on the site, unless they're by Spoony.
With Doug I watch NC and the ocassional bum review, but thats about it. None of the specials and sketches and such. Chick picks some truly horrible movies, like Teen witch, but I can't help but wish someone funnier would do them. I watch AT4W weekly, because even if I don't read american comics I enjoy linkaras incredibly thorough beatdown of them, with no plothole escaping unnoticed (though as much as I approve his scientific rants, he can take them a bit too far). However, his storylines are just embarrasing for me to watch, and I always skip them.
Todd is great, Guru is funny, Roo interestingly informative, and while I haven't watched much cinema snob yet, Brads regular reviews are highly entertaining. I'm not a big horror fan, but I just enjoy listening to people so passionate and knowing on their field of interest, which is why I go to TGWTG I guess.
Y'know what vids of Linkara's I like? His "Top 10/whatever number" lists.
I absolutely adore his Power Rangers Retrospective, hands down the best thing he's done since he joined TGWTG.
Which is oddly enough an outgrowth of that which actualy makes his storylines crap.
I stil enjoy them, even if I didn't even get to see Zeo around here.
I'm really indifferent to Linkara's storyline stuff. So I don't really care either way. I do watch his show every week though.
I keep hearing people didn't like the whole Black Lantern Spoony bit in the final part of the FFX review but I honestly thought it was pretty funny.
For somebody who hates the new Final Fantasies so much, Spoony sure does spend a lot of money on cosplay.
Personaly, I laughed my ass of when Dr. Insano wanted to vivisect Titus.
It strikes me that no matter what these reviewers do, they'll always get flack from some segment of the fandom.
And is it just me or is the TGWTG fandom kind of…just... idiotic? I mean, look at comment threads and they gripe and bitch and moan over the STUPIDEST fucking things. Spoony had to say in a recent commentary that he didn't actually MEAN we should round up FFX fans and kill them. People, he may not be your favorite person in the universe but maybe let's give him the benefit of the doubt on that one. I remember once Benzaie was dubbed a "bigot" for stating he liked the anti-religious theme of Conan (which may or may not actually be there, but it's the DUDE'S OPINION, he's not persecuting you or anything, Christ). Some people even complain that Linkara doesn't curse enough. WTF? Or how about when it was apparently a huge fucking deal when Doug happened never to have heard of the almighty Mako and instantly worship him? I love the guy too but Jesus, lighten the fuck up people. It's like they feel these reviewers owe them something.
I don't know, maybe it's just my tolerance threshold is more lenient than others. But these are internet reviewers. It is not serious business.
TGWTG fans are pretty bad. In fact they're some of the worst kinds of fans I've met face-to-face.
TGWTG fans are pretty bad. In fact they're some of the worst kinds of fans I've met face-to-face.
Try going to the forum. It's a nightmare there. I only go there to ask some of the contributors (mostly Todd) questions.
On the forum/video comments alone, Todd got:
-A freak job who hacked into the TGWTG pictures, found a picture of Todd without a mask, posted it on the forum, and offered fans more pictures if they PMed him. (Todd won't confirm or deny that it's him, though I will tell you right now…I've studied his facial structure, in and out of the shadows, that I can tell you the freak job is full of shit.)
-Fans who freaked out over Todd comment of "Why would anyone make a pop song over a dead puppy?" in his last top 10.
-Fans complaining because "Meet Me Halfway" wasn't on Billboard's Top Charts, and yet it was on his 2009 best songs.
-A lot of people gave him shit for liking Katy Perry.
-Most importantly, other TGWTG fans consider him the douche of the site, mostly because his 'character' on the site is generally the 'non-nerdy type who avoids the comic books, anime, and video games'. Read the comments of Linkara's 'KISS Comics' review. Most of the comments were deleted now, but in summary, "WHO IS TODD TO MAKE FUN OF LINKARA! HE'S SUCH A DOUCHE AND IS SO NOT FUNNY!" This is made 20x funnier, as Linkara posts about forty times in the comment section, "I wrote Todd's script, and told him to make fun of me!" What's 50x funnier? Todd couldn't have given twelve shits less.
It strikes me that no matter what these reviewers do, they'll always get flack from some segment of the fandom.
I'd be alot more freaked out if anyone anywhere made something that everybody enjoyed.
Try going to the forum. It's a nightmare there. I only go there to ask some of the contributors (mostly Todd) questions.
On the forum/video comments alone, Todd got:
-A freak job who hacked into the TGWTG pictures, found a picture of Todd without a mask, posted it on the forum, and offered fans more pictures if they PMed him. (Todd won't confirm or deny that it's him, though I will tell you right now…I've studied his facial structure, in and out of the shadows, that I can tell you the freak job is full of shit.)
We kinda had someone post a pic of him ages ago.
I just realy didn't care enough to look for it.
No but seriously i think that the only reason it might seem like the TGWT guys get more flack than other celebrities is because they have a designated place where you can reach em.
I mean god luck trying to get in touch with let's say Stallone to tell him his movies suck, but with lets say Linkara you know that he reads the comments from time to time and picks up on it.
Being a Internet celebrity gives you a lot of flack, no matter what you do.
@No:
We kinda had someone post a pic of him ages ago.
I just realy didn't care enough to look for it.
I MENTIONED it, because I actually thought it might be him and felt bad that some douchebag would screw him over like that.
I never posted it though.
I am curious to see what he fully looks like, but I'd rather support his kick ass videos and leave that alone.
Try going to the forum. It's a nightmare there. I only go there to ask some of the contributors (mostly Todd) questions.
On the forum/video comments alone, Todd got:
-A freak job who hacked into the TGWTG pictures, found a picture of Todd without a mask, posted it on the forum, and offered fans more pictures if they PMed him. (Todd won't confirm or deny that it's him, though I will tell you right now…I've studied his facial structure, in and out of the shadows, that I can tell you the freak job is full of shit.)
-Fans who freaked out over Todd comment of "Why would anyone make a pop song over a dead puppy?" in his last top 10.
-Fans complaining because "Meet Me Halfway" wasn't on Billboard's Top Charts, and yet it was on his 2009 best songs.
-A lot of people gave him shit for liking Katy Perry.
-Most importantly, other TGWTG fans consider him the douche of the site, mostly because his 'character' on the site is generally the 'non-nerdy type who avoids the comic books, anime, and video games'. Read the comments of Linkara's 'KISS Comics' review. Most of the comments were deleted now, but in summary, "WHO IS TODD TO MAKE FUN OF LINKARA! HE'S SUCH A DOUCHE AND IS SO NOT FUNNY!" This is made 20x funnier, as Linkara posts about forty times in the comment section, "I wrote Todd's script, and told him to make fun of me!" What's 50x funnier? Todd couldn't have given twelve shits less.
Having met the real life equivalents of these kinds of fans (aka when they're more "tame"), I outright refuse to go to any form of TGWTG forums. The TGWTG fanbase is easily one of the more volitale fanbases to spring up in recent years in my opinion.
No but seriously i think that the only reason it might seem like the TGWT guys get more flack than other celebrities is because they have a designated place where you can reach em.
I mean god luck trying to get in touch with let's say Stallone to tell him his movies suck, but with lets say Linkara you know that he reads the comments from time to time and picks up on it.
Doug is pretty much impossible to get in touch though. He has an acount on his own forums, but has never made a single post.
Well if he gets shit it comes around to him eventually. For instance maybe he himself didn't snap up the whole Mako bit but someone atleast refered him to it
Being a Internet celebrity gives you a lot of flack, no matter what you do.
Why even add internet. Being a professional entertainer means taking shit period.
I love how these idiots think this shit is legit. "Todd making fun of Linkara in a SCRIPTED video to his face? I'M GOING TO TAKE THIS AT FACE VALUE." Use your fucking brains, people, goddamn.
Really, getting on Todd's case over mocking a pop song about a dead dog? He's right, it's fucking ridiculous. Grow the fuck up.
Well if he gets shit it comes around to him eventually. For instance maybe he himself didn't snap up the whole Mako bit but someone atleast refered him to it
Why even add internet. Being a professional entertainer means taking shit period.
Difference is that, especialy if you're a budding internet celebrity, you can easily be reached.
There was this guy called Goranchev on youtube who got into some sort of an argument with Big Al and he so hated hearing other opinions then those unanymously siding with his that he disabled coments, rating , video responses and friend locked his inbox.