Channel Larry (EDIT: Channel Awesome renamed to just Nostalgia Critic)

[Nel_Annette]

It's still some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a movie. No one I have ever met in my life talks like that. All I ever got out of it was "hey, let's try way too hard to make these characters quirky and memorable."

[ElricJC]

It's still some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a movie. No one I have ever met in my life talks like that. All I ever got out of it was "hey, let's try way too hard to make these characters quirky and memorable."

Fully agreed. I have so many people around me who say I have no taste in movies because I thought Juno was shit. When I try analyzing it they say I'm "thinking about it too hard." My nuts I am, bad writing is bad writing, period. I hated the characters, they didn't feel natural, and they just tried so hard to make them "quirky" because to some people that = interesting characters. Not enough on its own, sorry.

[Avaitor]

The answer is no.

[Daxdiv]

I haven't watched Juno in years and all I remembered from it was that it had Ellen Page and Michael Cera in it. It didn't leave that much of an impression on me.

[Foggle]

It's still some of the worst dialogue I've ever heard in a movie. No one I have ever met in my life talks like that. All I ever got out of it was "hey, let's try way too hard to make these characters quirky and memorable."

Fully agreed. I have so many people around me who say I have no taste in movies because I thought Juno was shit. When I try analyzing it they say I'm "thinking about it too hard." My nuts I am, bad writing is bad writing, period. I hated the characters, they didn't feel natural, and they just tried so hard to make them "quirky" because to some people that = interesting characters. Not enough on its own, sorry.

100% agreed!

[Avaitor]

Groove is in the heart in this OWC!

I love this song. And yeah, Barney and Robin's dance to this song is one of my favorite HIMYM moments.

[talonmalon333]

I feel like Doug's editorials are starting to become a little hit or miss.

[No-Personality]

Agreed.

They used to all be misses. I was extremely impressed by his one about "stupid being funny," that was just perfect.

[Avaitor]

This week, Doug takes on Blues Brothers 2000.

[Avaitor]

New Todd!

[LumRanmaYasha]

This week's NC is Jurassic Park 3.

[No-Personality]

Haven't posted in awhile. Though there've been enough interesting things to post. Diamanda reviewed a couple of "classic" fringe torture films. Doubt anyone would be interested in those. But she did do a typically excellent animated film review (this one is LONG, but as I've previously stated, along with Kyle when he's on-fire, she is THE best video reviewer out there). For Rock and Rule:

http://blip.tv/diamanda-hagan-lecher-bitch/05-10-rock-and-rule-review-sd-6894615


Nostalgia Chick is ... back, again. With True Lies, a heavily redundant review. Not even close to being her at her best (those Game of Thrones vlogs are a bad distraction):
http://blip.tv/nostalgia-chick/nostalgia-chick-true-lies-6929381


Not one I would have expected from Cinema Snob, but... Mommie Dearest:
http://blip.tv/the-cinema-snob/mommie-dearest-by-the-cinema-snob-6874796


Now, this is not her best work but... I've already watched it twice in the last week. And I just want to watch it again. And probably again, after that. It's well-known in critical circles as being one of the most Have to Have It Described to You to Believe It sequels in the history of horror. Obscurus Lupa reviews Creepshow 3:
http://blip.tv/OLPresents/olp-creepshow-3-part-1-6928773 (Part 1)
http://blip.tv/OLPresents/olp-creepshow-3-part-2-6929091 (Part 2)

She also reviewed the Teen Wolf films and I have to recommend this review because it's a pretty important departure from Lupa's usual shtick. She's very sober about these movies, which is actually appropriate:
http://blip.tv/OLPresents/olp-teen-wolf-teen-wolf-too-6898914


Todd has a new One Hit Wonderland, on Biz Markie. I haven't watched it yet but:
http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/one-hit-wonderland-just-a-friend-by-biz-markie-6943586


And PushingUpRoses did a couple great reviews last month. Of clearly contrasting subjects. One girly, for the Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover:
http://blip.tv/pushinguproses/cosmopolitan-virtual-makeover-6901257

and the biker game, Full Throttle, which looks like fun (with a cameo from Needles riding a motorcycle...sort of):
http://blip.tv/pushinguproses/full-throttle-6873532


And I don't see anyone else having mentioned it, Nostalgia Critic did a pretty neat little video on Top 18 "did you notice that?" things from the Gremlins films:
http://blip.tv/nostalgiacritic/nostalgia-critic-what-you-never-knew-about-gremlins-6922437

As someone who literally grew up with these films, I feel compelled to basically answer back to Doug's list with which bits he pointed out that I actually didn't notice and which I've known about for years.

#18: The cameos. Yes. Thanks to Joe Dante's audio commentaries with cast & crew on both, I know very well all the cameos. Although, there's also an actor Joe brought back for Gremlins 2 that he worked with on Piranha and I still don't know the guy's name (IMDb later). He also brought in, I think he mentioned, one of the kids who starred in his 1985 film, Explorers, who plays the male health food server. He also forgot to mention that Haviland Morris was in Sixteen Candles. He also forgot to mention the references to Piranha and The Howling in the first film, a drawing of a killer fish can be seen in the scene where Billy shows the mogwai to Pete's teacher and Billy has those smiley-face stickers on his refrigerator.

#17: Kate's childhood trauma monologues. Yes.

#16: Pete's science teacher. This one actually caused me to wake up the next morning with a brilliant observation: was Billy INSANE? Give one of these Mogwai's to anyone else on Earth and what's to stop them for cloning it to make hundreds of them? Even if he thinks the guy's a scientist and that that means he can trust him, there is still a kind of power that would probably go right to his or anyone's head- I wouldn't trust anyone to have / take one of the mogwai's out of my sight. (If it was a matter of trust.) But, as for Doug's observations, the film of course had a very different original script and in that script, the Gremlins actually murdered both Billy's dog and his mother by cutting off her head. There was also a scene at McDonalds where Billy and Kate went inside and found the remains of dead people in the booths where they had been chewed to bits... but all their burgers and fries on the tables hadn't been touched.

#15: The voices behind the Gremlins. Yeah, I knew about this. Thanks to Leonard Maltin's old review guide, actually. Who Doug doesn't exactly mention as a cameo in the 2nd film but he notoriously gave the first film a negative review and Joe Dante and co. remembered him and asked him to be in Gremlins 2 in a scene where he'd be attacked for not liking the movie. In his review for the sequel though, he singles out all the voice actors.

#14: The string over melting Stripe in fountain. No. I didn't notice this one.

#13: Steven Spielberg's working title in-references, Watch the Skies and A Boy's Life. Yes. Again, thanks to the audio commentaries.

#12: The John Wayne VHS/TV interlude replacing the Hulk Hogan theatrical interlude. Yep. I actually didn't see the Hulk Hogan version until I bought the film on DVD. HBO showed the John Wayne version and so did the official VHS versions. Doug also neglected yet another cameo: Paul Bartel, who plays the usher. He was not only an actor in Piranha, but was a director too who made some excellent exploitation comedies, Private Parts (1972) and the famous cult film, Lust in the Dust (1986) which romantically paired 60's heartthrob Tab Hunter and drag superstar Divine.

#11: Why does water make the Gremlins multiply but not beer and snow? I actually noticed the beer one... but completely didn't think about the snow. So, half yes and half no.

#10: Billy's boss has everyone wait on her... Uh... there's not much to see here. I assume chocolate moose tastes like chocolate Anything.

#9: How can Gizmo drive the toy car; how does the car drive? Actually, I never thought this one through. So, I guess I have to say I did miss this one.

#8: Vectorscope Labs. I missed this one. But I don't remember Innerspace at all. And the Octopus monster movie Rick Baker worked on... I've actually seen this clip used in another movie but I can't for the life of me remember which one. It could be another Joe Dante or it could be something like Humanoids from the Deep- I don't know.

#7: Does it look like Mrs. Deagle's husband was watching her being killed and was he happy about it? I can pretty much confirm through the deleted scenes and the deleted subplot about Mrs. Deagle trying to force Billy's family, the Futtermans', and everyone on their block out of their houses, that her and her husband were actually in-league and had similar evil plans. The news report at the end of the movie mentions that her husband was a convicted stock swindler and a deleted scene has her looking at a photo of him on her table with love and a little sadness. I think they probably had a good marriage and were being paired up as Evil + Evil.

#6: The cops never help Santa. I think we all noticed that. And thought it over. Again, chalk this up to the original script being darker and less family-friendly.

#5: Stealing flowers from Mimes. Why Mimes? I have no clue (I don't think the commentary stopped to talk about it). As for Billy stealing the flower, it was clearly one of those actory things they like to do to always be doing some small thing to keep busy and "enhance" their performance. Did he actually expect Kate to feel romantic when he gave it to her? No. He was too busy talking about how they needed to get the hell to work to stop the mogwai's before they became Gremlins.

#4: The note on the film projector. No. Who's going to be able to see that anyway, unless they own the Blu-Ray. I'm poor: I can't afford Blu-Ray!!! Thanks for rubbing it in, Doug!!!

#3: The silly channels on the Clamp Cable Network are all real now. Not much to see here either, but these are confirmed in the audio commentary.

#2: The car outside the gas station is a "Gremlin." I don't remember if I noticed. It was probably mentioned in the commentary.

#1: The sci-fi film references. Yes: Joe Dante points all of them out in the commentaries.

[Avaitor]

Heh, you gotta admire Joe Dante. He's just a big nerd who got to break big into the industry, the kind that rarely makes it as far as he did. But being friends with Spielberg has its perks...

I did see the Cinema Snob and Todd videos. The Biz Markie one is fun, but his OHWs usually are when he's overwhelmingly positive or negative, yet not afraid to call out their weaknesses when necessary, on the subject. Mommie Dearest... is a movie that I still want to see at some point, but I'm kind of afraid to. At some point I'll get to it, though. And the Snob was surprisingly fair to it.

[Avaitor]

Todd reviews that song that's supposed to be really big but I still haven't heard.

[Peanutbutter]

Oh it's getting there, I know because it came on the radio the other day. It was the first time my mom ever heard it, she let the whole thing play trying to get a grasp on it. The whole time she had a "WTF?" expression. 



But yeah, this song SUCKS. I hope Todd's optimism about Iggy is rewarded because it would be pretty cool to finally have a prominent white female rapper. But like he said, it doesn't seem likely at the moment.