the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

be fair, no one would have given it a fair shake if instead of a mumbling psychopath it was kevin smith doing it.

What makes you think he has friends.

in all honesty i prefer this persona to the zero punctuation guy and um.. armond white i suppose.
really, the only people giving opinions on youtube i could stand was that elderly couple that gave film reviews.
there is no way out of the inherent narcissism of such a venture, so why not make a psycho-killer persona to deflect it?

xp There are other people in his videos, for one thing.

ya i think it is so dumb its funny, wtv

I think it's pretty squicky.

They also act as an excuse to break every once in awhile -- they're pretty long.
Also, if you've seen similarly styled videos where the dude isn't adopting a schtick, but it's just them narrating, they come off as pretty smart-alecky.

I know, but why THIS gimmick?

The crimes of Red Letter Media

maybe he's going for a "lucas is so manifestly terrible that even a deranged mumblecore killer can lucidly outline how" sort of thing?

I have to say, my sensibilities might be jaded from a lifetime of brutal, misanthropic and malevolent cinema, but I find the "serial killer" sections objectionable not because they're offensive but because they're boring, unfunny, and predictable. But the voice is 100% essential.

Agree about the voice.

ok it might take awhile but i'd be up for splicing the horror-comedy sketches out of one of these reviews and uploading them to youtube to see if they hold up as well without them. which one of these would you guys stand to watch again... for science?

would watch

you know i can think of no cogent defense for the "serial killer" parts and yet somehow... i think they're good...?

i mean it just kind of pre-empts the any flack you might get for doing a 70-minute phantom menace review pretty neatly

Why not 60 minutes without rape and murder?

cause the rape and murder breaks up the montony, maaaan

A lesson Lucas could have learned, eh?

As Yoda would say: Circles, we go in.

You know that episode where Picard thinks he's dead and Q offers him a chance to fix it so he doesn't pull a barfight with a 7-foot warthog in his youth? So he does it because obviously that's a stupid, regretful thing worth fixing, but it wrecks the rest of his life, and he ends up a loser ensign instead of Captain of the Enterprise?

I think that's what these horror-com sketches are to this. Let me know which of the reviews you want the sketches excised from, and we'll see if that's the case.

You're Q! That's awesome!

Q was an idiot.

Don't take me there, for real.

Everyone can be Q now with Q...uicktime

irl lol

can u edit natively in whatever codec youtubez uses or are you going to have recompress it again and make it look even worse

I think iMovie will edit an m4v.

And if not, you can save "up" from Quicktime, to an unnecessary bitrate, and encode in .mov, and then edit down from there. Yeah, it'll be lossy, but less so.

RIP

youtube apparently lets you download the original file or something close to it.

Did he do one for Indy 4? I'd be more keen to bowdlerizing one I haven't seen yet.

xp Ha! Exactly.

I'm amazed you guys can even sit through this much commentary about movies that are so bad. these youtubes are SO LONG

hey while you're editing it can you change it so one of those girls in the basement shoots him first, i think that would make his actions more sympathetic

I'm amazed you guys can even sit through this much commentary about movies that are so bad. these youtubes are SO LONG

Yeah, but two things. First, he loves the original movies, and obviously movies in general, and understands their inner guts, and feels he needs to point out precisely how and why the prequels are SO bad. Because they are SO bad. Second, he's funny and entertaining. Mostly. But a woman tied up in a basement and begging for a glass of water is not very funny. Maybe I'm one of of those guys who doesn't get internet irony. Litigate against me, if you think that's necessary.

the psycho thing is there to defuse the clearly psychotic endeavor of putting up a ridiculously long critique of the star wars prequels. it's not funny (and when it goes on longer than 5 seconds it's really really bad) but it's not exactly like when russ meyer movies just suddenly go 'btw RAPE'S HILARIOUS'.

Where's Kate to rant about how disgusting this is? Oh, right.

That whole schtick did irritate me. IIRC in later ones those bits just go on *longer* with more and more footage of crying women in his basement. It's made less disgusting by the fact that the women are really terrible actresses & consequently there's no actual feeling of duress. Also, it just has this feeling of having to drive your younger brother & his friends around all day while they have grossout competitions to make each other laugh. It's hard to take seriously, but it's also annoying.

I wish he would have just stuck to the jokes about pizza roles, which I actually thought were funny.

I mean pizza rolls.

It wasn't like *trigger alert* or anything though, it was just poorly executed joking.

Yeah, the pizza roll thing is def. better.

And I think this is a sort of generalizable problem where the things I find entertaining in internet videos that deconstruct pop culture are actually not what the target audience leaps for. Like it's the same as how Angry Video Game Nerd is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy funnier when he's just playing the game and getting deep into the minutia of why it doesn't work and isn't fun, rather than doing toilet jokes and stringing swears together.

Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today that the live-action Star Wars Saga will be converted to 3D! There are few movies that lend themselves more perfectly to 3D; from the Death Star trench run to the Tatooine Podrace, the Star Wars Saga has always delivered an entertainment experience that is completely immersive. Presented by Twentieth Century Fox and Lucasfilm Ltd., the cutting edge conversion will take that immersion to the next thrilling level, with Industrial Light & Magic supervising the project. Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace is expected to be released theatrically in 2012. A release date has not yet been determined.

"Getting good results on a stereo conversion is a matter of taking the time and getting it right," said John Knoll, Visual Effects Supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic. "It takes a critical and artistic eye along with an incredible attention to detail to be successful. It is not something that you can rush if you want to expect good results. For Star Wars we will take our time, applying everything we know both aesthetically and technically to bring audiences a fantastic new Star Wars experience."

at this point there's really nothing that can be done to ruin star wars further than it already has been. 3-D is way less offensive than shitty tacked-on cgi. but who the fuck would wants to see the phantom menace again?

or indeed at all

i think everyone should be made to see it, just to spread the pain around

Maybe as well as 3D, Lucas could also revive Smell-O-Vision, so that the stench of manure could waft through the cinema.

literally! remember that scene where Jar Jar's steps in some shit? or when the space camel farts in his face?

i can't un-remember that. the world must suffer.

Han shat first...