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The Nerd Crew: A Pop Culture Podcast by Red Letter Media
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Mike's hand and facial motions when saying "cultural phenomenon"... rofl.
A year or so ago, everyone on YouTube and Podcasts was shilling Audible. This past year everyone's shilling Lootbox. It's a cheap, yet very effective marketing tool that is way underused. The latter also being the cause of the same sponsor seemingly partnering with everyone.
ronaldthump
Member
so fucking brilliant. i love them.
Neoriceisgood
Member
If you made a parody of RLM like this, would it just be drunk Mike making fun of other corporate reviewers instead of discussing the movie & Rich Evans saying absolutely nothing just to make self-deprecative jokes once every 10 minutes?
Fox Mulder
Member
Views.
No, because when Mike discusses a movie he discusses a movie and he never seems to be actually drunk. Parody of Rich Evans is the same as he is now except no-one humours him.
Zelenogorsk
Banned
I loved every second of this video.
Rich at the end killed me.
Rich at the end killed me.
Sapiens
Member
Eeeeeeeeeeccccks-wings!
Loved the confirmation that you tubers and pod casters are full of paid shills.
Remember people, LUCASFILM not disnee!!
Lifejumper
Member
Is there something wrong with this statement?
bengraven
Member
Yep
Yes. Yes.
theCalamity
Member
People just want to be extra correct for some reason.
Air Zombie Meat
Member
That was hilarious. I see nothing wrong with hitting back at their critics if it gives the rest of us a good laugh.
Sapiens
Member
Only if you insist on it obsessively.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
If it ticks two or more boxes from the Plinkett Rogue One review (those boxes being Story, Characters, and Emotion), most people will like/love it while a vocal minority will despise it. Like with TFA.
Then a subpar stand-alone will come out and be loved by those same people. Cuz it's dark. And asplosions. And vistas.
cubicle47b
Member
This is fantastic.
Can Crusher
Banned
Slaughtered half the youtube community with this video. Hilarious.
I strongly disagree with the idea that Rogue One doesn't tick any of those boxes, though.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Did no one else notice how they put an emphasis on the word "film" every time they said it and only said the word "movie" like, two or three times?
"Film" implies a level of sophisticated art and scholarship that these movies don't deserve. You're not Fellini, and you're not Godard. Get over it.
Cymbal Head
Banned
I started cackling like Rich just reading this.
Back-In-Black
Banned
Here, have a Geek Box.
Exactly. I thought those two Plinkett videos were pretty poor, especially the one where he reacts to all the comments. It felt really out of character somehow. But this? This is perfect and what they should have done from the beginning.
It all honestly looks like cheap tat you'd give to a six year old nephew, not something a grown adult would actually pay for.
Count Dookkake
Member
The GeekBox stuff is killer.
I am so glad I escaped the collecting urge before such nonsense came into existence.
I am so glad I escaped the collecting urge before such nonsense came into existence.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Going back to your first post about that, the word film is just a lot more common than movie outside of the US. It has nothing to do with "internet nerd-dom" nor does it have any implication of sophistication. It's just a word people use.
And Godard is overrated anyway, hasn't made a decent film in decades.
Michael F. Assbender
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I'd argue it comes closest to ticking the Story box, but being so reliant on other movies without being a direct sequel or prequel (it's kind of a prequel but as Disney has made very clear, it's a side story) while simultaneously not doing much to fill in key plot points for those who aren't up on everything Star Wars is what damages it in that area. As many have said since release (and I thought in the theater), if this weren't Star Wars related, would anyone know what's going on? Would they care?
As for the other two boxes, it tries to tick the Emotion box
(mostly by killing everyone)
But I'm off topic here. The film was fine but missed a lot of what makes a really good Star Wars movie (or even a really good movie, period) good (again, IMO). RLM just continues to poke the beehive by pointing that out.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
It wouldn't be funny. They're already self deprecating to the Nth degree and poke fun of themselves constantly.
Anyone trying to parody Rich would more likely than not come off as mean-spirited.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Sure I don't begrudge that. But the vast vast vast majority of these American fanboy podcasters don't have that excuse, do they?
The fact that it's called Film School, not Movie School says something about the subtle difference between these two words
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I disagree a bit with the "not deserving" claim.
I think blockbuster movies and the cultural phenomena around them absolutely deserve scholarship and attention even if they're not "sophisticated" art. The problem is that the people with these mediocre fan-geek podcasts putting on airs talking about "film" are rarely if ever people who can actually synthesize that adult scholarship.
You can make fun of something without necessarily thinking it's wrong. But they were just making fun of the fact that they were "shilling for a crappy product" within a video about "shilling for a crappy product".
clearacell
Member
I wanted to quote this because of all the other posters giving you shit, because I agree with you.
What RLM was critiquing by saying "film" over and over was the tendency for the geek fandom to use that word to give more importance, maturity, and credibility as opposed to calling them "movies". it's like when people say comic books are "graphic novels" or "animation" or "anime" aren't cartoons.
yeah I agree this rubs me the wrong way too
not really comics vs. graphic novels because I see those as distinct things that are definable. a comic book run doesn't suddenly become a graphic novel when it's collected so I feel that distinction is pretty objective.
clearacell
Member
oh I get that there is a distinction, it's moreso that a lot of the fandom actually get offended if you dare call things the *wrong* name.
Off-loaaaaaded plaaasastic gaaaaarbaaaage!!!!!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
There was already the RLM porn parody, so they already went there. lol
It's too late now, but if they were clever, they would have shot an episode of Half in the Bag with female actors acting as their counterparts during the Ghostbusters fiasco. They could have the actresses make jokes about how they're not as funny because they're women or something.
It could also work if they had an all black version of RLM, to address the fact that they keep saying how minority representation doesn't matter, but I don't think they'd ever go there since they're pretty iffy on race issues these days.
Wait, what?
Strangelove77
Member
firehawk12
Subete no aware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzdMOa9hEc
Someone asked 4chan to write a porn, and this was the result.
Apparently they even recreated the VCR repair shop set. lol
Collider/Schmoes discussed last night on their show about how they loved The Nerd Crew video.
https://youtu.be/lrYeQoA5n98?t=5m54s
The best part is there's a Loot Crate mention before the discussion.
https://youtu.be/lrYeQoA5n98?t=5m54s
The best part is there's a Loot Crate mention before the discussion.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
I will never forgive you for making me aware of this.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Ok this is the best thing they've done since the Titanic review
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Collider/Schmoes discussed last night on their show about how they loved The Nerd Crew video.
https://youtu.be/lrYeQoA5n98?t=5m54s
The best part is there's a Loot Crate mention before the discussion.
Fittingly enough they've become such fanboy robots that they can't even respond negatively to a direct attack on their character.
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