icemann on 14/8/2011 at 16:41
Your welcome :). Best of the internet shows in my opinion. His 3 part Castlevania special is of particular note. Even if I might disagree on which is the best Castlevania of all time (he says Super Castlevania IV where as I'm more towards Symphony of The Night but its a matter of personal opinion).
Oh and if you love AVGN you might like "Pat The NES Punk". It's along a similar vein, except that he tends to review good games and hes alittle crazier.
Here's a sample:
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http://thepunkeffect.com/?p=2201)
(Warning that particular episode contains adult content)
James Rolfe (aka The Angry Video Game Nerd) has made a few guest appearances on the show as well in the past.
icemann on 24/8/2011 at 05:11
Nearly through the Star Trek movies before I move onto DS9. Watching the movies in sequence it is VERY apparent of the huge difference in style between the original crew movies and the newer ones. Of the original movies there was only one bad movie (The Final Frontier), where as with the newer ones there's only been 2 good movies (Generations though Kirk died an undignified death and First Contact) and the rest have been very average movies. Quite odd.
The older movies had alot more laughs, better action and the crew felt more like a family, compared to under Picard where its more that their doing their jobs. The newer movies just feel like their missing something over the older ones. Shame. Still enjoyable. Yet to make it to the final movie from 2009. I recall that being very good in the cinemas.
Then onto DS9.
Muzman on 24/8/2011 at 06:06
If you're through with the Next Gen' movies you can go check out "Mr Plinkett"s reviews.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia)
You'll have to dig through the back catalogue to find them. It's worth it through, if you vaguely like his style. Or even if you don't, really. The TNG reviews are better than the Star Wars ones and alarmingly thorough.
icemann on 24/8/2011 at 13:26
Lol the Generations review was excellent. Spot on. Didn't realize all the stuff that was re-used from Star Trek 6.
Rug Burn Junky on 10/9/2011 at 16:26
In a vain attempt to fight back against the 1000+ (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128127) megathread, I'm putting this here.
Wilfred is fucking brilliant.
Just finished watching the first US season, and it may be one of the darkest, most twisted comedies I've ever seen. The jokes revolving around "hey, this guy in a dog suit is doing inappropriate things," are enough to carry the show (every time he breaks out the gatorade-bottle-bong I pretty much lose it), but the unspoken premise of Elijah Wood's character (Ryan) being so troubled and insane and struggling with that through his relationship with Wilfred takes it to another level entirely and is the real strength of the show. In fact, I would love to see it done with all of Wilfred's dialogue replaced by dog barks, just to highlight this aspect of the entire relationship occurring in Ryan's head*. Just watching the show through this cognitive lens in the first place makes it truly poignant
I just downloaded the AUS version, and I'm watching through that now (my excuse for posting to this thread). You can see that the original premise was the inappropriate dog-man concept, without Adam's (The aussie Ryan) depressive struggles. It's still brilliant in its own way, and Jason Gann as Wilfred is perfect in both versions but you can tell that they'd perfected the concepts and learned how to present Wilfred as more dog-like by the time they adapted it for the US (Adam's dialogue still sounds like he's talking to a person, whereas most of Ryan's dialogue could work with a real dog). It gives the US version a little more subtlety when you see the concepts fully formed, but it's really interesting to see them hammering out the strengths of the character/relationship.
Without giving too much detail, Gann plays the part of a provocative trickster to a tee, where you are never sure whether you can trust him, and he drives things into pretty dark territory. You really can't tell whether Wilfred is a coping mechanism for Ryan as he tries to get healthy, or an excuse to make his own life worse, or a genuinely evil presence. Add that to the absurdist concepts, the buddy comedy aspects, the stoner jokes and Ryan's seeming devolution into madness and you've got a pretty much perfect stew.
So yeah, amazing, multilayered show.
*If I weren't so lazy, I'd edit this together myself.
icemann on 10/9/2011 at 16:45
In my case I finished off the Star Trek movies which weren't as bad as I'd remembered them, the original cast ones were still better though, and have since moved onto Star Trek Voyager. Tonight I finished off the first season which just like the last few movies was alot better than I remember it. Excellent viewing if anything.
Looking forward to watching the second season, though I recall the last few seasons being really average once the Borg kids show up. I always found them annoying.
SubJeff on 20/9/2011 at 18:05
So True Blood series 4 has come to an end and Breaking Bad has only 2 episodes left. :(
What now?
New Community starting in a few days and new Dexter next month. What am I going to do with just Community when BB ends? I've started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm which I find amusing but so damn frustrating and the 1st episode of Parks and Recreation really, really didn't hit the spot for me.
Suggestions?
Shakey-Lo on 21/9/2011 at 07:09
There is a new show called Terra Nova premiering in the US on FOX on Monday at 8pm. Everybody here should watch it (on TV!) and get all their friends to watch it and then buy all the boxsets and merchandise. I work on the show and it would be nice to have a job next year :D
Matthew on 21/9/2011 at 09:57
Coming soon to Sky One in the UK too, according to the adverts. It did look interesting so I'll give it a go (even if it does sound a bit like Primeval so far - good amount of British, erm, talent in it).
So how is Steven Spielberg, did you meet him, have you touched him?
Aerothorn on 21/9/2011 at 18:03
Am four episodes into The Mind of the Married Man, one of HBO's first original series and (AFAIK) their only sitcom.
The thing is I don't like sitcoms as a genre, and yet I'm loving this. It really shouldn't work: it's incredibly narrow, and is almost exclusively about married men lusting after other women and various other Issues Involving Sex. But the writing is so, so good, and everyone is perfectly cast (including American Gothic's Jake Weber and Taylor Nichols playing his Metropolitan/Barcelona character). Not sure why this is as obscure as it is.
