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I watch everything they put out and haven't seen much in the way of political subtext. They've made a couple of very muted jokes but that's about it. Am I missing something?
Also yes, Wizard thread please. Fuck that fat faggot.
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I watch everything they put out and haven't seen much in the way of political subtext. They've made a couple of very muted jokes but that's about it. Am I missing something?
Also yes, Wizard thread please. Fuck that fat faggot.
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I knew he was a mistake to bring on with that faggy side cute and blindingly autistic rainbow hoodie. The 'jokes' of his falling flatter than his characters was just the cherry on top
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I think this thread is very mean. Max has clearly found happiness and does not deserve our mockery. He is a good man. Here he is with his boyfriend:
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It's like, painful to be looking at VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s and then being suddenly reminded that 2016 is a thing. It doesn't even matter how subtle it is. I don't think the entire cast of RLM said has said "Obama" once on camera.
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I guess, given the state of the rest of entertainment right now with regards to politics, I can give their very restrained chiding a pass. Everyone else talking about movies and games right now is just downright hysterically panicking so it's refreshing to see people at least not chimping out on camera.
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Actually after I asked myself this question, I then thought about it. Kids of celebs are born rich. They never had to work hard to get successful. What you can say about Max you can say about Kim Kardashian. You can also say this about Chet Hanks, Tom Hanks' son. Jaden Smith. For every Nicole Ritchie, Nicholas Cage and Sofia Coppola, or Giada DiLaurentiis, there is a Brody Jenner, a Tori Spelling, or in more tragic cases, a Sage Stallone or a Bobbi Kristina Brown. They are children who try to live up to their parents' name and fail spectacularly, or try to carve a lane for themselves and become successful in their own right. Max is one of our more successful lolcows, but he, like Alison Rapp, may fuck it up.
On the other hand, if Kiwi Farms gets a mention on Entertainment Tonight, we can start campaigning to get a star on the Walk of Fame.
Edit: Actually you can argue if you want to pull the SJW card, he is aware his father is a well known movie director and used that as a selling point when he had no talent nor desire to be a great director in his own right. He doesn't love the art of filmmaking. He loves the attention.
Yes, I'm trying to get him to come here.
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Max Landis wrote Chronicle and that's a good movie. It's a very good movie, it's probably my favorite found footage movie.
Everything else he's done is complete garbage and he can't desperately cling on to Chronicle and his father's name hard enough. One movie that sticks out is Me, Him, Her which is about BEING GAY, interesting in 1995 but outdated in 2015.
Literally the only reason people on the Internet care is because he was on Redlettermedia exactly TWICE and he was awkward and unfunny.
I've included the Half in the Bag episode everyone's talking about below.
His attempts at humor are forced. "Look at me I'm awkward." "LOL I'M LITERALLY ON THE FLOOR."
The biggest idiot thing here is he calls someone in one of the movies "Michael B. Jordan," the only similarity they share is that they're black. Jordan was a main character in Chronicle, and has now moved on to being the next Rocky Balboa. Is Max Landis gay for Michael B. Jordan? Possibly.
The RLM guys don't even like his movies besides Chronicle, in their last review (2016 movies) they mention his movie last and said nothing about it, shown below.
Everything else he's done is complete garbage and he can't desperately cling on to Chronicle and his father's name hard enough. One movie that sticks out is Me, Him, Her which is about BEING GAY, interesting in 1995 but outdated in 2015.
Literally the only reason people on the Internet care is because he was on Redlettermedia exactly TWICE and he was awkward and unfunny.
I've included the Half in the Bag episode everyone's talking about below.
The biggest idiot thing here is he calls someone in one of the movies "Michael B. Jordan," the only similarity they share is that they're black. Jordan was a main character in Chronicle, and has now moved on to being the next Rocky Balboa. Is Max Landis gay for Michael B. Jordan? Possibly.
The RLM guys don't even like his movies besides Chronicle, in their last review (2016 movies) they mention his movie last and said nothing about it, shown below.
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I think Previously Recorded is a piece of garbage, but on one of the new Pokemon videos they made, the first ~15 minutes are spent with Jack complaining about Trump to Rich who really just shrugs it all off. Rich even exclaims at one point, "What, do you think Trump will enact a 'Shoot All Blacks' law?"
I think you're in the right on this. You've got people like Jack and (to a greater extent) Josh who are going to be taking this stuff super seriously, while the other members of the RLM gang (read: the ones who actually matter) are just telling jokes. For every Trump joke, I've counted several 9/11 jokes, racist jokes, sexist jokes, AIDs jokes...I really don't think they care too much about politics and just see it as another vehicle for jokes.
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"And in this section, we have Ryan Reynolds who was an accomplished, outgoing, charismatic actor and producer. Next to that we have Kiwi Farms: an autistic trolling forum that stalked fat idiots known for throwing internet tantrums." - some tour guide in 2070
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All I really know about him is his below average band.
http://thehifi.blogspot.com/
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"Connections only get you so far," says everyone who has connections and nobody else.
Not only did he have his daddy helping him, but pretty much everyone his daddy's ever worked with. If you direct/produce, your closest friends will be the directors/producers you work with. Max grew up with Hollywood execs coming over for dinner every night. Nearly every job in the industry is based on nepotism, or at least going off friends' recommendations.
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A lot of movies are shit, though and a bad director or bad actors can ruin a perfectly good script. There's a lot of shitty to mediocre actors and directors who still get work and are made famous because of who they know or who they're related to or how hard they're willing to suck some director/producer/executive's cock. Leonardo DeCaprio got on Oscar for being raped by a cgi bear and sperging about climate change while flying around on his own personal mini Air Force One. M. Night Shamalamawingwong is still getting work even though I don't think a single film of his has turned a profit since Signs or maybe The Village. Comparatively, screenwriting is a far less glamorous job. The poor kid who washes out the semen caked folds of Amy Schumer's gelatinous mass probably gets more recognition and less scrutiny from the industry. Pay is probably the same too.
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Rich is what we call a foil. Jack is also a foil. Mike and Jay are very deadpan. Rich is a squealing manbaby. Jack is a high strung and emotional person who plays devil's advocate a lot and tries to understand someone's point of view.
When you have Mike making deadpan necrophilia jokes and Jay staring off into space while Rich squeals and Jack acts aghast, it works. When you take the two shrieking manbabies and put them side by side talking about fucking video games it doesn't work because they don't foil each other and neither is particularly interesting on its own.
They also don't really give particularly insightful reviews. Ben Yahtzee Croshaw gives interesting reviews because he's a very literary person. The Star Wars Prequel reviews were good because they explained from a movie person's POV what the movies did wrong - they told you why you felt like you hated the movies when at best you could just say you hated Jar Jar Binks before. A good reviewer is constantly teaching you things to help you understand a feeling more adequately. Even AVGN does this, he's constantly putting old games into perspective so you know why an old game was so bad. Rich and Jack are unable to provide that nuance with video games. Anyone can pick up a video game and give the sort of review they do.
Conversely, I don't mention two people who appear in BOTW: Jessi and Josh. Jessi has a dominating presence over Mike, who's supposed to be deadpan. Their relationship is very strongly presented through body language and it's super fucking uncomfortable. She also has an annoying laugh. Josh also has an annoying laugh. Rich Evans tops out my annoying laugh tolerance by himself. When Rich and Josh/Jessi are laughing in unison, it is physically painful to listen to. Josh brings nothing to the table besides being the person who pays the most attention to the videos, which lets him do the synopsis very well. Neither Jessi or Josh are funny.
tl;dr: fuck max landis and the wizard
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Comedy writers are still struggling to make jokes about Trump you know. Even here in the UK the rapier wits of the guys behind Newzoids just fell back on "American buffon" and turned his hair into an evil cat which secretly whispers policies to him. Watching a lot of the media empires out there honestly unsure how to respond (aside from Dave Chapelle with his standup set on SNL) and so they leap to the extremes to try and squeeze out laughs.
As for Max... I kind of feel sorry for him. He's obviously got good ideas but it just god awful at translating them into good scripts (aside from Chronicle, as others have noted) and even then, I have a feeling there were other factors at play in a stars-align-just-right for him sort of thing on that.
His semi-successful career is unfortunate evidence of Nepotism at hard work and proof that cool-aid drinking can really mess you up.
As for Max... I kind of feel sorry for him. He's obviously got good ideas but it just god awful at translating them into good scripts (aside from Chronicle, as others have noted) and even then, I have a feeling there were other factors at play in a stars-align-just-right for him sort of thing on that.
His semi-successful career is unfortunate evidence of Nepotism at hard work and proof that cool-aid drinking can really mess you up.
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His twitter feed is pretty funny:
Also, his beard in the latest BotW made me want to vomit. Holy shit he needs to either take better care of that thing or lop it off.
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Wait... what? Does Pepe learn "no means no"?
http://deadline.com/2016/07/max-landis-writing-pepe-le-pew-animated-movie-comic-con-1201791718/
http://deadline.com/2016/07/max-landis-writing-pepe-le-pew-animated-movie-comic-con-1201791718/
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It doesn't. Funnily enough though, Max insists the movie has a lot to do with Chronicle.
Although it's entirely possible they hired him in the first place to make a Chronicle-like story, this still reeks of unwarranted self-importance and a sense of false persecution. "Woe is me, Max Landis, pigeonholed into rewriting my only well-liked movie, which they then ripped off because it was so good or something."
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Yeah, that happens a lot on Hollywood. Studio hires a writer, ditches them and their script and goes and makes a different movie. Max is just different in that he's a thin skinned attention whore who screams about it from the mountain tops and we pay more attention because of his last name.