TGWTG Linkara / Lewis Lovhaug - HMMMMMMM? (Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang)

[JU 199]

Excellent point. He apparently has enough ties to get animatronics 'n shit like that so it's not like he just wouldn't know how. Besides, if the rumors are true, Doug could've just given Lewis one of the many cameras he stole from the people who rented space in his run down studio.

I don't follow Linkara and his crew enough to declare outright fraud, but criminal incompetence in on the table. How could someone with a background in video entertainment know nothing about the technical aspect of his job, especially with a budget of $50000 plus? Many short films have been shot for a tiny fraction of that and look an order of magnitude better.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

By the way, take a look at the fucking Youtube comments:

The reality:

 

[Lorento]

I don't follow Linkara and his crew enough to declare outright fraud, but criminal incompetence in on the table. How could someone with a background in video entertainment know nothing about the technical aspect of his job, especially with a budget of $50000 plus? Many short films have been shot for a tiny fraction of that and look an order of magnitude better.

James Rolfe could have done better, and written a funnier script.

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Linkara on Hulu or Netflix.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

I don't follow Linkara and his crew enough to declare outright fraud, but criminal incompetence in on the table. How could someone with a background in video entertainment know nothing about the technical aspect of his job, especially with a budget of $50000 plus? Many short films have been shot for a tiny fraction of that and look an order of magnitude better.

Because 'screaming in front of a camera while holding a comic book' does not make you a good film producer or director.

By the way, take a look at the fucking Youtube comments:

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The reality:

If this is good writing, then I am Neil Gaiman.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I don't follow Linkara and his crew enough to declare outright fraud, but criminal incompetence in on the table. How could someone with a background in video entertainment know nothing about the technical aspect of his job, especially with a budget of $50000 plus? Many short films have been shot for a tiny fraction of that and look an order of magnitude better.

Does making videos every week doing nothing but half-assed stoyline/terrible read-a-longs even count as film production in the long run?

 

[Shokew]

Does making videos every week doing nothing but half-assed stoyline/terrible read-a-longs even count as film production in the long run?

Unless he's thinking about going to school for this? Sorry; Nope. This is only something to make ends meet, from what I'm still hearing of this guy (...And I ain't about to watch any of his stuff (new or old) anytime soon, either, that's for certain.).

It would be commendable that he likes doing what he does, when it seems to be clearly, well... Otherwise.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Looking back to when I did watch his show, I remember when he started putting bumpers around the middle ads like he was a legit TV show. Looking back on it, I can't help but think what was the point? All they were was Kinky Linky dressing up as some character from someone else's work. I could understand if he had his own characters doing the bumpers, but him dressed as the Doctor or some Yugioh character? Why? Did Linkara want to write off his personal cosplays as a business expense?

Not to mention the potential copyright suit.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Looking back to when I did watch his show, I remember when he started putting bumpers around the middle ads like he was a legit TV show. Looking back on it, I can't help but think what was the point? All they were was Kinky Linky dressing up as some character from someone else's work. I could understand if he had his own characters doing the bumpers, but him dressed as the Doctor or some Yugioh character? Why? Did Linkara want to write off his personal cosplays as a business expense?

Not to mention the potential copyright suit.

I think it was because of the commercials being played in the middle of the video. But when you see a YouTube reupload of those episodes (beit from Lewis or a fan), they're rendered pointless.

Not that they had a point to begin with. Even when his characters (like the robot) showed up.

 

[Smelvin]

It's crazy how this skit business of his has evolved. I got why he did it in the beginning; he reviewed comics, so he'd do skits and bits that had the same kind of comic book cheesiness to it. Look at his "epic" battle with Mechakara. You can see the guy still has some self-awareness left. Like the early storyline bits where send-ups or parodies of what he was reviewing. He was a guy reviewing comics who lived in a comic book-y world.

Then I think the sycophants went to his head. He wants to write comics, but no one wants to read them. So all that pent up desire to be a for-reals writer started going into his review show. Compare the campy Mechakara shit to that fucking embarrassing Lord Vyce garbage. Hell, he went from a stereotypical evil robot clone to a "heralded" and ominous villain called fucking Lord Vyce. And doesn't he always mock that shit with his "because poor literacy is cool" meme? But now he's got a villain called "Vyce"?

This movie feels like that snowballing trainwreck reaching its logical conclusion. Makes me wonder where this ridiculous shit goes from here.

 

[Long Sun]

Does making videos every week doing nothing but half-assed stoyline/terrible read-a-longs even count as film production in the long run?

Does a grown man playing makebelieve and dress up count as a job ?* I kind of wonder when the first Class Action lawsuit agaist a Crowed funded production will take place because of "I don't care I have their money" production values. Perhaps like a major Hollywood movie Linkara spent around $40,000 on drugs but opps that was almost the whole budget many of the Actors look kinda of high.

*I do not count anyone who as Mr. in there name in this Mr. Rodger and Mr. Dress-up did indeed have real Jobs)

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

It's crazy how this skit business of his has evolved. I got why he did it in the beginning; he reviewed comics, so he'd do skits and bits that had the same kind of comic book cheesiness to it. Look at his "epic" battle with Mechakara. You can see the guy still has some self-awareness left. Like the early storyline bits where send-ups or parodies of what he was reviewing. He was a guy reviewing comics who lived in a comic book-y world.

Then I think the sycophants went to his head. He wants to write comics, but no one wants to read them. So all that pent up desire to be a for-reals writer started going into his review show. Compare the campy Mechakara shit to that fucking embarrassing Lord Vyce garbage. Hell, he went from a stereotypical evil robot clone to a "heralded" and ominous villain called fucking Lord Vyce. And doesn't he always mock that shit with his "because poor literacy is cool" meme? But now he's got a villain called "Vyce"?

This movie feels like that snowballing trainwreck reaching its logical conclusion. Makes me wonder where this ridiculous shit goes from here.

I get the feeling that he called Vyce like that intentionally. Which only makes him a complete hypocrite due to that "POOR LITERACY IS COOL!" joke he does.

I've noticed that when he started taking the storylines seriously, his reviews themselves became more and more half-assed as well. With him simply repeating a lot of the same running jokes of his (90s Kid, "Poor literacy...", overused Dr. Who clips) where necessary. And very rarely actually commenting on the comic in any manner beyond the read-through and jokes.

Now don't get me wrong, it's okay to have a review and make it funny (RML does this). But I can barely even call AT4W (or any of the shows TGWTG makes, sans a few) an actual review show. Or funny.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

This movie feels like that snowballing trainwreck reaching its logical conclusion. Makes me wonder where this ridiculous shit goes from here.

Back to the actual show. He is not going to cancel his show, as this is his "job". So in other words, this movie's storyline is just another stupid storyarc in his comic show.

Which considering the quality of the product begs one question: Why did he not just turn it into a part of his reviews to begin with. And the answer to that is simple: Money.

Because Lovhaug realized, if the AVGN can make a stupid movie and Anita Sarkessian gets 250k$ for not improving anything in her show, so can he. I am convinced that Lovhaug spend only a fraction of the money on this movie and otherwise called in favors by all his friends, to get the product as cheap and quickly out as possible. And where is the money? Probably on some private bank account, save for the day he turns 35 and the reviewer bubble finally busts.

 

[Bugaboo]

Have any fans questioned him on exactly what the money went towards? He should he able to collect data and make like a pie chart of the cost breakdown (considering he didn't pocket most of it, which he probably did)

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Have any fans questioned him on exactly what the money went towards? He should he able to collect data and make like a pie chart of the cost breakdown (considering he didn't pocket most of it, which he probably did)

I would like to see a spread sheet of all the shit he spent that money on but he probably didn't even keep track of that shit.

 

[Adamska]

I would like to see a spread sheet of all the shit he spent that money on but he probably didn't even keep track of that shit.

I would love to see where the money went considering he was supposed to use a fucking studio for his movie.

As an aside, something that came to me when I watched part one (besides great pain) was this: why the fuck couldn't he shoot the bar scenes in an actual fucking bar? I don't imagine the permits would be that expensive, and he could just guerrilla film it if he was that cheap.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

As an aside, something that came to me when I watched part one was this: why the fuck couldn't he shoot the bar scenes in an actual fucking bar? I don't imagine the permits would be that expensive, and he could just guerrilla film it if he was that cheap.

Linkara doesn't strike me as a person, who can go into a bar and ask the owner: "Hey can I shoot my silly movie here after business hours? We'll put your name in the credits, clean up afterwards and will have our 'After Filming Party' here once the movie is done.", without fucking it up.

 

[CWCissey]

Linkara doesn't strike me as a person, who can go into a bar and ask the owner: "Hey can I shoot my silly movie here after business hours? We'll put your name in the credits, clean up afterwards and will have our 'After Filming Party' here once the movie is done.", without fucking it up.

He seems the type who thinks even looking at a bar is naughty.

 

[Adamska]

Linkara doesn't strike me as a person, who can go into a bar and ask the owner: "Hey can I shoot my silly movie here after business hours? We'll put your name in the credits, clean up afterwards and will have our 'After Filming Party' here once the movie is done.", without fucking it up.

Well considering it took until part two to use Nash's camera, I can see that. I can also see this being a conversation between these guys:

Lewis: So Nash, you got a pretty good camera mmmm?
Nash: Oh yeah. DSLR, 1080p.
Lewis: Cool, you think you can get it for the film?
Nash: Well duh, I was wondering why you didn't ask for it earlier.
Brad: So does that mean we'll be reshooting the earlier stuff?
Lewis: What?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Well considering it took until part two to use Nash's camera, I can see that. I can also see this being a conversation between these guys:

Lewis: So Nash, you got a pretty good camera mmmm?
Nash: Oh yeah. DSLR, 1080p.
Lewis: Cool, you think you can get it for the film?
Nash: Well duh, I was wondering why you didn't ask for it earlier.
Brad: So does that mean we'll be reshooting the earlier stuff?
Lewis: What?

This is probably entirely true, since Lewis didn't bother to reshoot scenes where he was out of focus, even the ones where he didn't deliver any dialog which implies the entire film was made on first takes. If that's true then it's a miracle the movie was as good as it was.