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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 2, 2022 9:58:11 GMT -5
While they're still there I've noticed he's cut WAAAY back on the fanfiction skit stuff over the last couple years. Probably for the best, it was easily the worst part of his show. Smartest thing Lewis did was put a lot of that at the end of the videos for those who did want to stick around for the storyline stuff. I was not one of them and always found them too jarring to have after a 20 minute review of something else. oh I agree. it could be worse, he could have done like Doug Walker and thrown a bunch of unfunny sketch comedy all over his reviews (which, lets face it, is the thing that REALLY killed Nostalgia Critic after Doug brought it back)
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 7, 2022 13:50:09 GMT -5
A couple days late on this, but here's a Suede video featuring Linkara -
If I'm correct this is a remake of a video that originally featured a third reviewer who's name I will not mention.
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Post by CMWaters on Jan 7, 2022 13:52:10 GMT -5
A couple days late on this, but here's a Suede video featuring Linkara - If I'm correct this is a remake of a video that originally featured a third reviewer who's name I will not mention. You're correct. They also did the first movie a while back too. Probably will do the third one and MAYBE the fourth one (after that the original plans had Linkara dipping out)
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Post by thechase on Jan 7, 2022 14:21:11 GMT -5
A couple days late on this, but here's a Suede video featuring Linkara - If I'm correct this is a remake of a video that originally featured a third reviewer who's name I will not mention. I've always considered this movie the true series finale of Pokemon and everything else is either post-script or AU
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Post by thechase on Jan 12, 2022 6:27:05 GMT -5
Ultimate Power#9 review
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Post by thechase on Jan 18, 2022 4:55:35 GMT -5
Patreon demanded Linkara look at the old Superboy show
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 18, 2022 11:36:55 GMT -5
Aw I was hoping for the Lex Luger episode
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 18, 2022 11:58:12 GMT -5
If Linkara didn't like Sherman Howard's version of Lex Luthor then he needs steer clear of predecessor, Scott James Wells, interpretation. Literally the worst acting I've ever seen on a show that wasn't originally aired on Public Access TV.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 25, 2022 1:04:00 GMT -5
Language Warning.
well here comes the pain >_>
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 25, 2022 1:29:30 GMT -5
I forgot how bad this adaption was...
Also Bruce Timm is really dumb... with his statements at the end.
and yeah, Batgirl being part of the amusement park investigation is probably the way to go if you wanted to actually fix the fridging issue... as stated it's not like this is part of some grander continuity.
Hamill really sounded his age during this movie in some parts... but I do have to think that some of the issues are the direction, cause the animation was more subdued than... well the Joker should be in like any of this...
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 25, 2022 1:45:48 GMT -5
I like how I can think of three separate ways to actually try and to some degree fix the Barbara thing in the adaptation and they just couldn't be assed to do either of those and instead made her an incompetent clingy girlfriend who still has nothing to do with the actual plot.
1 - Tie her more directly into the plot. Have some particularly harrowing fight with the Joker to start with where she bails out Bruce. Kind of put over the idea that she's an essential component of things and kind of add an extra layer of tragedy to what she goes through, maybe add a bit of a subplot with her wondering if maybe this whole situation with her and her dad is her fault from antagonizing Joker when she captured him to drive him to this excessive point.
2 - Have her injury happen more directly as a direct consequence of the narrative instead of just being a speedbump to further the guys' stories. Like maybe instead of being shot when she opens the door she tries to stop Joker from taking Gordon and gets shot doing it, but in the process manages to snag something off of Joker or get him to divulge something or whatever to at least have her really contribute to what happens and give her more agency in the whole exchange.
3 - Cut her entirely and replace her role with killing a friend of Gordon's or something. At least then you aren't just fridging her.
I still don't think this would be a good adaptation regardless, because it's cheap as hell and shoddily acted and directed, but it certainly could've been better than what they did.
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Post by eJm on Jan 25, 2022 5:58:05 GMT -5
I usually skip the “Patreon request of bad thing that goes long” reviews because man, they’re not that interesting to watch.
Like, I saw Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice and I know it was bad so I don’t really need to see Linkara tell me it’s bad for, like, an hour+. Same for this and I didn’t even see it.
EDIT: Next week seems to be another Stan Lee DC one so that should be fun, those are always fun.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 25, 2022 6:19:25 GMT -5
The fact that internet content featuring Legos & fan voice actors did more justice to the big Joker monologue than a movie (featuring Mark Hamill no less) is telling of what a letdown the whole production was:
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 25, 2022 10:50:49 GMT -5
I completely agree with him about animated adaptations of comic book stories. If I wanted to know about The Killing Joke, or The Long Halloween, Hush, The Death of Superman, The Judas Contract, etc., I'd read those comics. They're not hard to find. I'd rather see creators actually create, not adapt, and make their own original Batman stories, whether in comics or animated.
The voice acting has been a big problem on a lot of the DC animated movies they've put out over the last decade. For some reason the characters have a tendency to speak in this meandering dull monotone. Considering almost all the VA's are either experienced, talented VA's or actors, I have to assume it's an issue with the direction.
Something that always bothered me about the movie that Linkara never got into was how tonally different the "prologue" was to the main story. If you watched the second half of the movie separately from the first half with no knowledge it was supposed to be a continuation, you'd have no idea they were the same movie, or even that they were supposed to take place in the same decade. The beginning Batgirl stuff feels like it comes from a slick, stylized modern Batman story, the second half feels like it comes from the gritty 80's story it came from. They are a very awkward fit.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 25, 2022 13:29:34 GMT -5
Aaand it's copyright claimed.
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Post by eJm on Jan 25, 2022 14:09:42 GMT -5
Aaand it's copyright claimed. He says it should be up in the next hour or so. EDIT: Or now, in fact
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 25, 2022 15:02:33 GMT -5
I completely agree with him about animated adaptations of comic book stories. If I wanted to know about The Killing Joke, or The Long Halloween, Hush, The Death of Superman, The Judas Contract, etc., I'd read those comics. They're not hard to find. I'd rather see creators actually create, not adapt, and make their own original Batman stories, whether in comics or animated. The voice acting has been a big problem on a lot of the DC animated movies they've put out over the last decade. For some reason the characters have a tendency to speak in this meandering dull monotone. Considering almost all the VA's are either experienced, talented VA's or actors, I have to assume it's an issue with the direction. Something that always bothered me about the movie that Linkara never got into was how tonally different the "prologue" was to the main story. If you watched the second half of the movie separately from the first half with no knowledge it was supposed to be a continuation, you'd have no idea they were the same movie, or even that they were supposed to take place in the same decade. The beginning Batgirl stuff feels like it comes from a slick, stylized modern Batman story, the second half feels like it comes from the gritty 80's story it came from. They are a very awkward fit. But adapting the stories opens them up to a far greater audience that may want to check out the source of what was adapting. And hey more people enjoying a good story is better even if they only know of it from the animated version. Hell I'd argue some of the animated versions of the stories are better than their comic counterpart. Not that I think that one medium is inherently better. That said especially with some of the Hamill stuff in here it is 100% on the direction because it's been shown he knows how to be a manic Joker through like all of his takes... so them giving these speeches as slow and methodical make like no sense unless that's how he was told to do it (And since it was animated with him all dour I can only assume that.) his laugh not hitting the highest notes might have been an age issue... but... I think if they told Mark to go all out he'd have knocked it out of the park. Conroy... while I do think his version is probably the best adaption of Batman... his Batman was always mostly even toned... and the Killing Joke requires him to fluctuate between anger and pleading a lot... and I'm sure given the chance could have pulled it off... but again they kept his flat even toned delivery which doesn't entirely fit.
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Post by Mike Strike on Jan 25, 2022 15:15:53 GMT -5
I like how I can think of three separate ways to actually try and to some degree fix the Barbara thing in the adaptation and they just couldn't be assed to do either of those and instead made her an incompetent clingy girlfriend who still has nothing to do with the actual plot. 1 - Tie her more directly into the plot. Have some particularly harrowing fight with the Joker to start with where she bails out Bruce. Kind of put over the idea that she's an essential component of things and kind of add an extra layer of tragedy to what she goes through, maybe add a bit of a subplot with her wondering if maybe this whole situation with her and her dad is her fault from antagonizing Joker when she captured him to drive him to this excessive point. 2 - Have her injury happen more directly as a direct consequence of the narrative instead of just being a speedbump to further the guys' stories. Like maybe instead of being shot when she opens the door she tries to stop Joker from taking Gordon and gets shot doing it, but in the process manages to snag something off of Joker or get him to divulge something or whatever to at least have her really contribute to what happens and give her more agency in the whole exchange. 3 - Cut her entirely and replace her role with killing a friend of Gordon's or something. At least then you aren't just fridging her. I still don't think this would be a good adaptation regardless, because it's cheap as hell and shoddily acted and directed, but it certainly could've been better than what they did. Hell, make Gordon himself the paralyzed one. Would make him that much more defenseless against Joker later.
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Post by eJm on Jan 25, 2022 15:25:07 GMT -5
But adapting the stories opens them up to a far greater audience that may want to check out the source of what was adapting. And hey more people enjoying a good story is better even if they only know of it from the animated version. Hell I'd argue some of the animated versions of the stories are better than their comic counterpart. Not that I think that one medium is inherently better. That’s sort of where I stand with it. Sure, I can get the comic and sometimes the comics do it better but I also feel like these things have the opportunity to be expressed well in different mediums or given a chance to be fine tuned to fix the problems of the original. Admittedly, I haven’t watched enough of those films to find that out but the MCU version of Civil War is a thousand times better than the comics because the movie didn’t have a robotic Thor killing people or Captain America surrendering by default because of collateral damage that he was suddenly aware of.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 25, 2022 15:45:09 GMT -5
But adapting the stories opens them up to a far greater audience that may want to check out the source of what was adapting. And hey more people enjoying a good story is better even if they only know of it from the animated version. Hell I'd argue some of the animated versions of the stories are better than their comic counterpart. Not that I think that one medium is inherently better. That’s sort of where I stand with it. Sure, I can get the comic and sometimes the comics do it better but I also feel like these things have the opportunity to be expressed well in different mediums or given a chance to be fine tuned to fix the problems of the original. Admittedly, I haven’t watched enough of those films to find that out but the MCU version of Civil War is a thousand times better than the comics because the movie didn’t have a robotic Thor killing people or Captain America surrendering by default because of collateral damage that he was suddenly aware of. and Hank Pym wasn't telling Spider-man that McCarthyism was a good thing actually... and like millions of other problems with Comic Civil War... I stand by literally every adaptation of Civil War is better than the comic. and that stands true for almost all of Millar's Work as a whole...
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