That Guy With the Glasses/Cinemassacre Thread

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I like Nostalgia Critic, Nostalgia Chick, Linkara, Phelous, Snob, Lupa, Film Brain, Nash, Diamanda Hagan, and Todd in the Shadows. Been a fan of the site since 2008.

I used to be hypersensitive about people not liking them, but now I'm just "whatever" about it.
 
snowkitten91 said:
Doug Walker's almost done watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I can't wait for him to finally see Shyamalan's live-action fiasco and tear it apart!
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Pretty glad that the Nostalgia Critic now reviews movies which are widely panned (e.g. Son of the Mask, Master of Disguise). Hope he does more like that.
 
bradsternum said:
Give me RIfftrax over these idiots any day.
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I'd rather have A-Rod on my baseball team than a little league team.

Not for nothing but there's a huge difference between the two.
 
I like their videos about certain tropes. The reviews are usually too loooooooong for my attention span. I love Lindsay's 50 Shades of Green series the most.
 
Why did this thread get such a huge bump?
 
spaps said:
Why did this thread get such a huge bump?
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Blame me whining aout Film Brain's horrible, horrible voice,
 
Well I haven't been watching those guys as much as I used to. But when I do, it's usually the Nostalgia Critic, Spoony, or Linkara.

I especially like Linkara's videos on Marville. Holy crap that comic series is trash.
 
People I like:

- I like Dena Natali even though she doesn't do videos very often. She reviews older video games and movies. You should check out her two part Catwoman review because she hilariously tore that movie to pieces.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/dn/ ... man-part-1
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/bt/dn/ ... ino-part-2

- I also like Dark Maze. The guy running it made a long series of videos called Press Start that parodied video game tropes in real life.

- Video Games Awesome. A group of gamers that sit on a couch and play random games while providing commentary and interacting with the chat room. I prefer watching these live instead of watching the rerun recordings.

- James and Mike Play. This is a Cinemassacre series similar to Video Games Awesome except it isn't live and there is no chat room. The two main CInemassacre guys James and Mike sit on a couch and play games. Most of the episodes are good, but I like their ongoing Atari 2600 episodes the best.

People I don't like:

- Nostalgia Critic. I'm tired of the angry critic persona.

- Angry Video Game Nerd. Again, I'm tired of the angry critic persona.

- Spoony Experiment. I used to follow this guy before he was on That Guy With The Glasses. He used to be really funny, and I posted on his chat forum every single day. I got tired of his angry geek fanbase and moved on. I eventually returned and didn't like Spoony's new videos. This guy spends an hour a week bashing the newest movies in theaters. How can anybody hate a movie like Iron Man 3? This guy has a major depression problem and needs serious help.
 
My opinion is as follows:

I'm actually a fan of Snob (and especially the type material he riffs on) and to a lesser extent Todd. The latter has some very nice insight in his One-Hit Wonder videos and I love seeing him trash today's pop music (and I'm still waiting on his "Top Ten Worst Songs of 199-Something" video).

I used to watch NC and Linkara (key phrase being "used to", and mostly out of habit), but I outgrew it. If I had to pick favorites, it'd have to go to NC's Commercials specials and Animaniacs tribute & Linky's "Miller Time" and "Batman: Fortunate Son" episodes. Don't really follow any of the other reviewers and never watched the specials. Guess I should be lucky on that front.

As for AVGN, it was fun for the first two years. But it got old really fast. I'm not too keen on the upcoming movie either. Don't have any beef with James himself though, seems like a cool guy and knows his old monster movies at least.

Now Mike on the other hand...
 
I thought when Spoony left TGWTG he'd get more active, but he's gone back to being really lazy and hasn't been producing reviews for a while. I'm predicting that he's going to have another dry spell of reviews where he only reviews a single game a year and does vlogs of movies for the rest.

It's especially bad considering he started a review series and left it unfinished, and stopped when people said they liked a smaller review he did. He doesn't even do upscale reviews of movies anymore, he prefers to do these really cheap vlogs of them.

He still has the reputation of being a "legendary reviewer" but his fanbase is gradually dwindling. To the point where he has had to double dip and make videos for youtube. He also doesn't put out enough content on a regular basis to justify having a website anymore. Considering how his fanbase is made up of overzealous sperg rejects that worship the guy there'd be hardly anything of value lost.

It reminds me greatly of Red Letter Media with how they only put out a Plinkett review whenever they feel like it. But at least with Red Letter Media they actually put a lot of effort into them. Plus they do films which sorta justifies the long wait (to a certain degree anyway.)
 
Sorry to necromance, but word is that Jew Wario died:

It is with a very sad heart that I must confirm my husband, Justin Carmical, sometimes known as the Jew Wario died on Thursday, January 23rd.

I also have to confirm he shot himself, but he was not alone, he locked himself in the bathroom and I was on the other side of the door talking with him. He knew I loved him, HE KNEW ALL OF YOU LOVED HIM. You all made him so happy, every time he was recognized from his videos, it made him giddy with joy.

His last recording was a song with Johnathan Mann, I don't know if Johnathan knows. He recorded it the night before.

I am surrounded by family and friends, and am taking this one moment at a time, remembering to breathe. I want to share with you what the Chaplain said to me, it was a momentary mistake, hold on to the good memories. I will post an update once a decision has been made about funeral arrangements.

If I need anything I will let you know, just hold on to each other and love each other, and thank you all so much for loving him so much.
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pickleniggo said:
Niachu said:
Has anyone seen NChick's review of Dune? I've heard unfortunate things about it but I literally cannot find it anywhere.
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She scrubbed it from the internets. I don't even remember the reason, but probably the spergs fanbois over at tgwtg bullied her into it.
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Most of the flak she got from her Dune review was due to the fact that, even after reading the book and watching the movie, she still didn't know why the spice was so important or why people kept saying 'the spice must flow' and what the saying means.
 
Coldgrip said:
pickleniggo said:
Niachu said:
Has anyone seen NChick's review of Dune? I've heard unfortunate things about it but I literally cannot find it anywhere.
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She scrubbed it from the internets. I don't even remember the reason, but probably the spergs fanbois over at tgwtg bullied her into it.
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Most of the flak she got from her Dune review was due to the fact that, even after reading the book and watching the movie, she still didn't know why the spice was so important or why people kept saying 'the spice must flow' and what the saying means.
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and she admitted to being "drunk" while making it.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
Sorry to necromance, but word is that Jew Wario died:

It is with a very sad heart that I must confirm my husband, Justin Carmical, sometimes known as the Jew Wario died on Thursday, January 23rd.

I also have to confirm he shot himself, but he was not alone, he locked himself in the bathroom and I was on the other side of the door talking with him. He knew I loved him, HE KNEW ALL OF YOU LOVED HIM. You all made him so happy, every time he was recognized from his videos, it made him giddy with joy.

His last recording was a song with Johnathan Mann, I don't know if Johnathan knows. He recorded it the night before.

I am surrounded by family and friends, and am taking this one moment at a time, remembering to breathe. I want to share with you what the Chaplain said to me, it was a momentary mistake, hold on to the good memories. I will post an update once a decision has been made about funeral arrangements.

If I need anything I will let you know, just hold on to each other and love each other, and thank you all so much for loving him so much.
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This news is extremely sad, being that JewWario was one of the only contributors to tgwtg that seemed really genuine in what he did.
 
Yeah, JewWario was a pretty cool guy. The news that he off-ed himself was really shocking.
I was eating breakfast and I just, stopped fucking chewing and my jaw hit the floor, it's always sad when someone you know of dies even if you didn't know them.

Does anyone know why he would do that or is it a mystery? He did leave TGWTG a few months before.
 
revengeofphil said:
Does anyone know why he would do that or is it a mystery? He did leave TGWTG a few months before.
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A bunch of tgwtg staff and contributors were on Nash's live stream for hours yesterday and no one saw it coming at all. Supposedly he was bummed about finances though. I guess that's the problem with internet personalities - you are doing what you love but you aren't seeing an income.
 
pickleniggo said:
revengeofphil said:
Does anyone know why he would do that or is it a mystery? He did leave TGWTG a few months before.
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A bunch of tgwtg staff and contributors were on Nash's live stream for hours yesterday and no one saw it coming at all. Supposedly he was bummed about finances though. I guess that's the problem with internet personalities - you are doing what you love but you aren't seeing an income.
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Now that I think about it I do recall reading that on somebody's livestream he did start talking about one time were he did want to commit suicide, I don't remember if he said why though so it's not as totally out of left feild as we thought.
 
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