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

[UglyOldJafar]

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.

Was as good?
We still have a couple of parts to go. I bet there is still shit adding up in the end. And one of the most glaring "continuity" issues that I came to see when watching part 2 was the first MarzGurl scene. I mean, she doesn't even look in the same direction Linkara is supposedly sitting.

 

[Shokew]

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.

Yeah... (I hate to do or say this, but...) Define "Good" here, if that's alright.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Yeah... (I hate to do or say this, but...) Define "Good" here, if that's alright.

Nash's and Brad's dialog deliveries.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

It's "good" for a bunch of dorks shooting a silly movie.
It's definitively not good for a movie with a +50k budget.

 

[Adamska]

Nash's and Brad's dialog deliveries.

The fact that some scenes are in 1080p, and that the ship set (Vyce) only looks like a 90's gameshow for kids as opposed to Popquiz Hotshot.

It's "good" for a bunch of dorks shooting a silly movie.
It's definitively not good for a movie with a +50k budget.

Nahh, it's pretty bad for even that. Doug's movies are about 3 times better on average for the same budget. It's just that the bar was set so low due to Linkara's incompetence that the fact a movie even exists and has some base structure is impressive.

 

[A Random]

This is only a 'good' movie in the sense that they haven't done anything as egregious as killing a horse or, well, anything that would require NDAs because the second someone talks Linkara would get sued a million times over by the victims.

 

[*Asterisk*]

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.

The reviewer bubble burst years ago. The only reason Lewis is still around is because he built up a fanbase in an era when you could afford to have his level of production quality and still make a living without having to stay in your parents basement or on welfare.

Funny thing is, this isn't even the first time Lewis was involved with a web-boom. He just wasn't talented enough to meet the standards of an era where Ryan Sohmer or Tim "Not-the-dead-musician-or-the-other-guy" Buckley could themselves make a living in said boom.

 

[Bugaboo]

The reviewer bubble burst years ago. The only reason Lewis is still around is because he built up a fanbase in an era when you could afford to have his level of production quality and still make a living without having to stay in your parents basement or on welfare.

Funny thing is, this isn't even the first time Lewis was involved with a web-boom. He just wasn't talented enough to meet the standards of an era where Ryan Sohmer or Tim "Not-the-dead-musician-or-the-other-guy" Buckley could themselves make a living in said boom.

Someone else said that the only other thing that keeps him around is the fact that he's really the only guy who reviews comic books (as angry an internet reviewer)

 

[Long Sun]

And Part 3 has Dropped

 

[deeman]

Why is he releasing it in smaller chunks?

 

[Long Sun]

Why is he releasing it in smaller chunks?

To get more money from more view most likely

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Why is he releasing it in smaller chunks?

This was the same format as the previous Channel Awesome anniversary films (sans the first one). I have to guess that, like @Long Sun said, it's to keep the audience coming back and to get more views.

The main issue with the Linkara movie atm is that Linkara obviously has no rudimentary understanding of film production or film cinematography at all. Shots are amateurish, sets are extremely phoned in, and altogether it feels like a rush job even when it probably wasn't. He probably operates under the delusion that a movie starts and ends with "point camera at people and press record."

This is why Doug's and James's movies look far better in comparison and why Ashen's movie blows all of them out of the water; they have people that know what they're doing actually directing the film.

 

[deeman]

I havent watched Linkara for ages... i think i rather enjoyed the Nintendo comic reviews (while stoned)... took a glimpse of the first part of his movie... Good grief he can't play drunk for shits. I cringed a little, then smirked, then said "fuck it" and changed to hardcore porn for a better acting piece.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Why is he releasing it in smaller chunks?

Simple, money.

Anyways for the video itself. It's boring, for lack of any better terms. It's litteraly almost nothing but plot-halting exposition after plot-halting exposition. Between Mechakara's inane talking about using humans as supplementary power sources, to Lewis and Marzgurl going all meta. I swear, I almost fell asleep during those moments.

If there's one thing that did shock me, it's that Brad actually swore. Something I didn't expect and assume he just did on his own accord after reading the script. Also is it just me, or are the sets getting worse with each part? Because I swear that most of the bridge was a green screen this time.

 

[RJ MacReady]

A movie, at minimum, should tell a story that's of interest to the audience. But I'm looking at Linkara's film and it just feels like a manchild on a sugar rush because he's getting to act out his childish fantasies on someone else's dime.

It says something that (despite being over the age of 10) he'd have so much pride in something like this; it's a protective cocoon of bog standard pop culture mishmash that he's woven around himself and more or less the same stunted mindset that brought us stuff like Sonichu.

 

[*Asterisk*]

I havent watched Linkara for ages... i think i rather enjoyed the Nintendo comic reviews (while stoned)... took a glimpse of the first part of his movie... Good grief he can't play drunk for shits. I cringed a little, then smirked, then said "fuck it" and changed to hardcore porn for a better acting piece.

Lewis is supposed to be one of those anal types when it comes to alcohol.

Amongst other things.

 

[deeman]

Lewis is supposed to be one of those anal types when it comes to alcohol.

Amongst other things.

Yeah, he more or less admitted shoving his favourite comic book up his entry last time he got drunk

 

[Drugschan]

Nash's and Brad's dialog deliveries.

Brad is one charming bastard, so that's not too surprising. One of the only good things to come from Channel Awesome.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Simple, money.

Anyways for the video itself. It's boring, for lack of any better terms. It's litteraly almost nothing but plot-halting exposition after plot-halting exposition. Between Mechakara's inane talking about using humans as supplementary power sources, to Lewis and Marzgurl going all meta. I swear, I almost fell asleep during those moments.

We are 70 minutes into the story and frankly, nothing happened other movies couldn't establish in half the time.
Linkara has a midlife crisis, is asked to help some government friend to find out what has gone wrong during a space mission, gets attached with his friends, finds out Mechakara is behind it, angsts about it, tries to think up of something how he and his friends can somehow get back home while being afraid what the next confrontation brings, the end.

I am actually someone who can stand Linkara as background noise and enjoyed his first storyarcs until the entity shit ended.
But even I am looking at this shit and think fuck it. I especially love the fact that despite over 50k$ at his disposal, he can't find a way to keep the camera straight at certain shots. Bad enough this guy doesn't understand basic cinematography even I would get with a handcamera, but during the Marzgurls and Linkara shots I was thinking someone was bowing their head.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

And Part 3 has Dropped

This is going to be a 2 hour movie, isn't it?
A two hour movie that looks like someone smeared Vaseline all over my screen.

This is a amateur movie made by amateurs, so no harm done, but some things really make me wonder:
Linkara had over 50k for this movie, but wasn't able to afford a single makeup artist, who could have slapped some a "Seven of Nine"-style makeup on two people? Or a cheap steady cam for some shots?

Also the writing is full of cliches like the "You haven't seen anything"-Speech upon others things. I am calling it now, that chicken-robot will blow itself and the ship up for dramatic effect.

Also, this is a film featuring a 'heroic comic book reviewer as main protagonist' that has 'wacky internet reviewer antics' from the Channel Awesome Specials as backstory, but tries to play it serious. This doesn't work at all, it's like you turn Andy from P&R into the next Heisenberg.

There is also that one scene, where Linkara plays this singer, who then underlines how great the Linkaras internet persona is. He does that in his own movie, where he also plays the hero, the villain and another side-character.
If the normal amount of vanity in a human is size of a Twinkie, his Twinkie would be thirty-five feet long and weighing approximately six hundred pounds.