TGWTG The Spoony One / Spoony / Noah Antwiler and Rachel Baker / @RaeAngel07 - The touching romance between a washed-up videogame reviewer throwing a decade-long pity party and his delusional Canuck stalker. #weaknotsick #donttellmehowtosulk

[A Big Bumbling Black Man]

Spoony reminds me of somebody who secretly stops going to work, but still leaves the house and pretends to attend so they don't have to deal with the fallout with their family. Spending all day in town, or driving around, tingling with the excitement of getting away with something illicit.

But when Spoony stopped going to work, there was a massive error in accounting so he never stopped getting mailed a paycheck, it's just slowly shrinking every month...
And every time he gets it he laughs at how long they've been fucking up.

 

[Stasi]

It'd be simple, find a dude who looks a little bloated, give him a shitty wig and some nerd shirt, just film him in a basement tweeting angrily as he sighs and moans in between flashbacks of better times

I found the perfect guy. Minimal makeup/props needed.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I don't know about a movie, but the history of CA with all the scandals and failures would make a fascinating read.

I can't think of a better collection of cautionary tales emanating from one source before in my life. The Metokur video series barely scratched the surface.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I don't know about a movie, but the history of CA with all the scandals and failures would make a fascinating read.

I can't think of a better collection of cautionary tales emanating from one source before in my life. The Metokur video series barely scratched the surface.

TGWTG was the first large-scale expedition into internet content creation as a business instead of an emergent novelty. In that sense it was groundbreaking, and its history and ultimate failure is educational for everybody who followed afterwards like it is in a lot of fields. You can draw a clear distinction between the TGWTG generation of content creators and the wave of more professional, high-quality content that emerged in the subsequent years to eclipse them.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Five years to the day

Spoony: The Motion Picture?

Holy cow! The Patreon crowd reached the goal putting me to work on a movie! What does this mean for the site, the review show, and the DVD?

www.youtube.com

 

[GloriousRapeRabbit]

Five years to the day

Spoony: The Motion Picture?

Holy cow! The Patreon crowd reached the goal putting me to work on a movie! What does this mean for the site, the review show, and the DVD?

www.youtube.com

Hi DOES say it will take a long time though. "In this case a very long time" even...there is still hope, Preproduction can be tricky.

EDIT: ye info was atleast a bit in video i realized so fogitaboudit.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

You know? The more I think about it, if Spoony was worried about making the movie, all he had to do was write and star in it, right?

I mean, couldn't he have enlisted Brad or one of his other friends to serve as director and leaned on someone else's experience for editing and all that stuff?

As long as Noah wrote it and appeared in front of the camera as the leading man, he could have hired and trusted others to take care of the rest of it, no?

Granted, writing and starring in a film is tough in its own right, but those could have been his only jobs on the film if he knew what he was doing.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Five years later it's all the more funny that despite The Spoony Movie having been silently abandoned in pre-production soon after its announcement, it's consumed Noah's legacy as the crowning representation of everything he promised but failed to accomplish during what was supposed to be his renaissance.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but it's blatantly obvious in that video he had no plan in place and not a clue where to even start.

 

[Mango Unchained]

Easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but it's blatantly obvious in that video he had no plan in place and not a clue where to even start.

True, usually you do have a plan, a coupla script drafts and an organized list of equipment and staff ready to be executed when the funds drop in. However in typical Spoony fashion he prolly thought he could jes' wing it. Motherfucker spent so much time thinking instead of acting and listening to no one until he eventually was like "Eh, I'll postpone it. They'll understand. Them suckas love me. What's a paladin 'n stuff. Also I'm sick cough cough".

Fredrik Knudsen did a wonderful documentary on Spoony, and in the right hands a story can be formed of high rise and deep fall around the bellyacher of Aurora. Kinda like The Disaster Artist which celebrates the failure of an inept eastern european indie movie maker. And while the actor of Spoony could gain recognition for his role, the original Spoonster would angrily boycot-tweet the movie Chris Chan style.

 

[TheShortWaveCerealKiller]

TGWTG was the first large-scale expedition into internet content creation as a business instead of an emergent novelty. In that sense it was groundbreaking, and its history and ultimate failure is educational for everybody who followed afterwards like it is in a lot of fields. You can draw a clear distinction between the TGWTG generation of content creators and the wave of more professional, high-quality content that emerged in the subsequent years to eclipse them.

You could argue James was already doing this before hand, but CA was the first one to do it one such a wide scale with employees and contracts. Though a documentary would be hard to do since many people who would have THE answers are all hush hush or have shut down the ones who also have them. I bet you 1000 bucks Doug could spill some beans on shit that would make JewWario look like SomeCallMeJohnny, but he will obviously never do it, unless Mike fucks him over and he just decides to take the ship down with him. And not just Doug but others as well, Linkara, Brad, Spoony, all those guys would and could have some serious dirt on CA that could ruin them more than any Googledoc could. But, they wont ever talk, they have too much "respect" for each other, though Linkara less than others.

You know? The more I think about it, if Spoony was worried about making the movie, all he had to do was write and star in it, right?

I mean, couldn't he have enlisted Brad or one of his other friends to serve as director and leaned on someone else's experience for editing and all that stuff?

As long as Noah wrote it and appeared in front of the camera as the leading man, he could have hired and trusted others to take care of the rest of it, no?

Granted, writing and starring in a film is tough in its own right, but those could have been his only jobs on the film if he knew what he was doing.

I've said before that Spoony didnt seem like he meant to really achieve that 5k goal. He probably put it there as a joke thinking no one would ever be dumb enough to give him that much, but they did, and he had to deliver, that pressure along with his deteriorating mental health (aka his will to give a shit) played into him probably never getting past pre production, I bet you he only has 1 minute of film written down in rough draft form.

 

[BScCollateral]

He probably put it there as a joke thinking no one would ever be dumb enough to give him that much, but they did, and he had to deliver...

I'm sort of dumbfounded he made the "Spoony Movie" so easy to reach without a plan.

The original MST3K Kickstarter had a joke goal as well; they promised to actually run the experiment. They also had the wit to set that at several hundred million dollars.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I don't know about a movie, but the history of CA with all the scandals and failures would make a fascinating read.

I can't think of a better collection of cautionary tales emanating from one source before in my life. The Metokur video series barely scratched the surface.

Honestly, it's a shame CA flamed out like it did, I find myself looking back on the heyday of it with an increasing feeling of nostalgia (nostalgia for nostalgia?)

 

[RJ MacReady]

I'm sort of dumbfounded he made the "Spoony Movie" so easy to reach without a plan.

The original MST3K Kickstarter had a joke goal as well; they promised to actually run the experiment. They also had the wit to set that at several hundred million dollars.

I think Noah rather fairly didn't know how much to expect from his Patreon. It took six months to climb past the $5,000 mark and he seemingly decided from the outset that it wouldn't become an immediate priority (the milestone being described as a long-term project alongside reviews) if he raised that much, so he didn't plan in advance.

 

[GloryBoy]

I watched all of his Ultima videos a year or so back, pretty entertaining. Shame he's been washed up for so long.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Whenever I hear about these internet reviewers wanting to make movies based around their reviewing persona, the first thing that comes to mind is that awful Jerky Boys film. “This was funny for five minutes. Let’s stretch it to 90 and barely have it cover the stuff people watch it for.” The AVGN movie is probably the best one (certainly the best production values), but I would never call it good. I like to imagine that Spoony would have set out to make some lighthearted frat boy comedy and unintentionally turned out a Bergman-esque exploration of human misery

 

[RJ MacReady]

Whenever I hear about these internet reviewers wanting to make movies based around their reviewing persona, the first thing that comes to mind is that awful Jerky Boys film. “This was funny for five minutes. Let’s stretch it to 90 and barely have it cover the stuff people watch it for.” The AVGN movie is probably the best one (certainly the best production values), but I would never call it good. I like to imagine that Spoony would have set out to make some lighthearted frat boy comedy and unintentionally turned out a Bergman-esque exploration of human misery

He actually didn't want to make a Spoony movie, just a movie by Spoony. His favourite idea (which predates the Patreon) was a Satanic Panic parody about an evil DM who torments his players with black magic.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

He actually didn't want to make a Spoony movie, just a movie by Spoony. His favourite idea (which predates the Patreon) was a Satanic Panic parody about an evil DM who torments his players with black magic.

That idea has potential, just not with Spoony at the helm, obviously.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

You know? The more I think about it, if Spoony was worried about making the movie, all he had to do was write and star in it, right?

I mean, couldn't he have enlisted Brad or one of his other friends to serve as director and leaned on someone else's experience for editing and all that stuff?

As long as Noah wrote it and appeared in front of the camera as the leading man, he could have hired and trusted others to take care of the rest of it, no?

Granted, writing and starring in a film is tough in its own right, but those could have been his only jobs on the film if he knew what he was doing.

He didn't even have to write it, just give a loose outline to Brad or Doug and then talk to Ed Glaser who probably would have done it for free. And then all he needs to do is show up on set and do whatever the others told him while collecting all the money and fame.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

You know? The more I think about it, if Spoony was worried about making the movie, all he had to do was write and star in it, right?

I mean, couldn't he have enlisted Brad or one of his other friends to serve as director and leaned on someone else's experience for editing and all that stuff?

As long as Noah wrote it and appeared in front of the camera as the leading man, he could have hired and trusted others to take care of the rest of it, no?

Granted, writing and starring in a film is tough in its own right, but those could have been his only jobs on the film if he knew what he was doing.

But if he did make a movie, how would he victimize himself on Twitter day after day?