Careercow Reuben Baron - Smart Bisexual Stuttering Clever-man

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introman said:
Reuben released his film on to the internet:

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so he saw the awful Nostalic Critic movies and the amateur perrformance of the Nostalic Chick and thought
"I need her in my movie!!!"
its so sad that nobody in his little bubble of familiy and friends told him how awful this movie is because when he put this on his resume he will have a hard time with good jobs in the industry
 
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I'm really enjoying the reviews and critiques so far.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the absurd and inconsistent forced accents.

TheycallmeJudgmentBoy said:
I thought it was called watchmen not cockmen
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He also makes almost zero effort to actually satirize the source content; most mentions of the "Cockmen" is directly derivative of Watchmen. He's forgotten the mocking aspect of the mockumentary. You know those autismos and their subtlety.

that1guy said:
Take a shot every time you can see a member of the crew or a piece of equipment hanging out in the background. The shaving scene alone will have you wasted beyond saving.

ETA: This is After Last Season bad. The audio is something else because incompetent mix.
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To be fair, he was intended this to be filming this within the mockumentary genre, which actually is a clever excuse for his shitty filmmaking including his thoughtless framing, his poor audio mixing, and his general lack of directorial control over a scene. There are numerous examples of this and so much more. He is playing to his (severe) weaknesses by doing this, but absolutely ruins the charade by using such terribly-written and acted dialogue.

His arbitrary use of a digital zoom during select interviews is mindbogglingly stupid and out of place. Then for some reason, he decides to make use of shot/reverse shots for some pieces of character dialogue which is entirely inconsistent which his selected genre.

lurker1234 said:
so he saw the awful Nostalic Critic movies and the amateur perrformance of the Nostalic Chick and thought
"I need her in my movie!!!"
its so sad that nobody in his little bubble of familiy and friends told him how awful this movie is because when he put this on his resume he will have a hard time with good jobs in the industry
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Speaking of his family, Momma Baron has a cameo at ~5:40, ~10:25,

I guess if Scorsese can cast his mother, so can Reuben Baron. Pretty much: Reuben = Scorsese
 
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Kablamo said:
To be fair, he was intended this to be filming this within the mockumentary genre, which actually is a clever excuse for his shitty filmmaking including his thoughtless framing, his poor audio mixing, and his general lack of directorial control over a scene. There are numerous examples of this and so much more. He is playing to his (severe) weaknesses by doing this, but absolutely ruins the charade by using such terribly-written and acted dialogue.
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There is that, but the audio mixing is bad in places that even a documentary shouldn't be getting it bad (e.g., voiceovers/narration).

The use of a boom in the head shaving scene is unforgivable in my eyes. There's a place for an intentional boom-in shot in mockumentaries, but it has to be in a place where you'd naturally have an actual crew shooting it. A behind-the-scenes shoot would use a camcorder with a built-in shotgun (i.e., it should have been shot handheld with the camera visible in the mirror), and dialogue recorded on a lav mic and sfx either dubbed in later or recorded with something decently concealed.

Kablamo said:
His arbitrary use of a digital zoom during select interviews is mindbogglingly stupid and out of place. Then for some reason, he decides to make use of shot/reverse shots for some pieces of character dialogue which is entirely inconsistent which his selected genre.
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Yes, exactly. Shots like that should be done handheld and, if absolutely necessary, with a pan-over to the other speaker.

ETA: I'm reminded of an exchange in Boogie Nights (which is a great film by a real filmmaker), where two characters are discussing the setup for a porn shoot:

—I wondered if we'd be able to look into getting some more lights, too, y'know—
—Jack wants a minimal-thing—
—Right, well, very often, minimal means a lot more photographically than I think, well . . . then I think most people understand . . .
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Reuben, unfortunately, seems to fall within the crowd that doesn't understand that simulating minimalism is far more challenging than just forgetting you know anything about cinematography.
 
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Hey @HoloSkull you got recognized. SWEET MEME.


He has also been aggressively pimping out his movie on twitter (which has 43 followers)

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P.S. - Hi @Reuben G. Baron ! When can we chat again? I'd love some more insight into your film-making process. I stick by what I said that even some of the most notoriously bad filmmakers have endeared themselves towards an amicable cult following.
 
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@Reuben G. Baron allow me to help you make your film into a memetic sensation that is sweeping the nation.
A new kind of cross promotional penetration for a new generation.
You see Gaiman is Glycon.

Dating all the way back to Good Omens, Gaiman has been cynical towards the Hollywood process.
Glycon's own disdain for the Clockmen adaptation is self evident and reflects Gaiman's.
It's deep dude.

Post this everywhere:
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Everyone must be made aware of this movie.

blackie toy said:
Wow. He's hotlinking? Someone needs to fix that.
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I'd also like to note that Reuben G. Baron's twitter handle, "Andalusiandoge" is a cute play on the title to one of the classics of experimental film, Un Chien Andolou (French for An Andalusian Dog), inserting "doge" into it because, apparently, why the fuck not. This film is probably best remembered for being that one where they slice open an eyeball with a straight razor on camera, which they show on the first day of pretty much every 100-level film class in order to get all the wimps to drop. I'm sure, of course, at Bard they practically saturate the syllabus with trigger warnings.

I'm actually a little disappointed though. I'd have hoped our man Reuben would have gone with a Kenneth Anger-themed Twitter handle. Or at least something referencing Scorpio Rising.
 
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How misogynistic you have to be if you base your alias on a movie in which a WOMAN'S eye is sliced open?

blackie toy said:
I'm actually a little disappointed though. I'd have hoped our man Reuben would have gone with a Kenneth Anger-themed Twitter handle. Or at least something referencing Scorpio Rising.
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I am thinking Glen or Glenda.
 
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blackie toy said:
Reuben's YT Comments are already turning a bit hostile. And repetitive.
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>tfw Reuben-senpai notices me
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I keep thinking that Reuben might've learned his lesson about how to behave on the internet if he wants to develop a career that people will take seriously, but then he does shit like this.

Rubles, just imagine Gaiman recalling that he charitably offered some weird autistic student a cameo shot in the campus bathroom, and when going to watch the adorable student film he saw the project lead spamming comments in a YouTube slapfight referencing a strange troll forum that has google bombed his name into oblivion. What do you imagine he would think? What do you imagine a potential employer or investor would think?
 
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Gangster Talk said:
Rubles, just imagine Gaiman recalling that he charitably offered some weird autistic student a cameo shot in the campus bathroom, and when going to watch the adorable student film he saw the project lead spamming comments in a YouTube slapfight referencing a strange troll forum that has google bombed his name into oblivion. What do you imagine he would think? What do you imagine a potential employer or investor would think?
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That's a good point, I hadn't thought about that. Reuben got Gaiman to do something cool for a student. Watch him never do anything cool for anyone else ever again. Imagine how anybody who ever worked with Derek Smart feels about having done so now.
 
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