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I love that they generally never review actual hits, tentpole pics, oscar winners etc. not even huge mainstream garbage (MCU, Star Wars, Pixar etc) its almost always b-list shit that instantly vanishes from the public consciousness.

they do do plenty of hits and tentpoles, bcz they have to choose flicks whose release dates aren't going to move by the time the episode comes out months later - they just never say anything memorable about them bcz the movies don't exist when they tape

If the mispronunciations are tickling your funny bone, watching Decker might actually kill you. Exercise caution!

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:04 AM (two hours ago)

I think it's fair to say that Tim Heidecker is the unparalleled master of awkward, error-prone, completely unearned arrogance.

― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:12 AM (two hours ago)

Well theres trump

― Οὖτις, Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:13 AM (two hours ago)

if Tim being reminiscent of Trump tickles your funny bone, Decker will definitely kill you

oops didn't see your post there

at least one other person noticed it I guess

they do do plenty of hits and tentpoles, bcz they have to choose flicks whose release dates aren't going to move by the time the episode comes out months later - they just never say anything memorable about them bcz the movies don't exist when they tape

idk I'm through season 9 and so far they haven't reviewed a single MCU movie apart from Ant-Man

and we all know why that happened

they reviewed guardians of the galaxy

and one of the fast and the furious movies - which is in the top 10 highest grossing movies of all time

that's just off the top of my head

a quick scan at the first two series includes Skyfall, Lincoln, Twilight, the Hobbit, Les Mis, Monsters Inc, Jack Reacher, Die Hard #x, Jurassic Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uim2th2Hm78

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_The_Martian_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Sicario_(2015_film)

the Hobbit

great movie, my oscar pick

we'll be seeing many more films about bilbo baggins in the coming years

"This isn't your grandparents' Expendables" really got me

lol

Skyfall, Lincoln, Twilight, the Hobbit, Les Mis, Monsters Inc, Jack Reacher, Die Hard #x, Jurassic Park

yeah idk this is all forgettable garbage to me lol (granted, some more than others). Maybe in the decade plus since this movie started I just expect review shows to cover nothing but multibillion dollar franchises

it just feels to me like more often than not they're reviewing something that was completely forgotten within a few years (and there are a shitload of these movies)

we'll be seeing many more films about bilbo baggins in the coming years

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 3:23 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm kind of a hobbit freak

Skyfall, Lincoln, Twilight, the Hobbit, Les Mis, Monsters Inc, Jack Reacher, Die Hard #x, Jurassic Park

yeah idk this is all forgettable garbage to me lol (granted, some more than others). Maybe in the decade plus since this movie started I just expect review shows to cover nothing but multibillion dollar franchises

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 3:37 PM (forty-four minutes ago)

i don't know, every single one of those seem like solid oscar picks to me

esp the hobbit

I'm a couple Oscar specials behind. Did a Hobbit film win best picture in the last year or two?

OMG @ 'lucky' season 7 finale.

I love that they generally never review actual hits, tentpole pics, oscar winners etc. not even huge mainstream garbage (MCU, Star Wars, Pixar etc) its almost always b-list shit that instantly vanishes from the public consciousness.

aka popcorn classics!

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 11:49 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love that Gregg's expertise seems to stem from watching the Prevue Channel obsessively in the late '90s

also love when Gregg gets his facts wrong in a super on-the-nose way, like saying "Rosebud" is the last line of Citizen Kane

There's a part of an On Location when Gregg goes to SF to prove to Tim he's at the exact intersection where a scene in Star Trek 2 was filmed, but he is exactly one block off. That level of commitment is pretty lol.

Oh shit Gregg just broke HARD in the 4th Oscar special. TBF, though, Kuffs really is a funny movie.

I plowed through the whole series about 1.5 months ago and all this discussion/quotes being thrown out here really has me wanting to rewatch it again.

i went backwards into the podcast which is very boring but wow @ this episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBpfO_gFzk

omg and the james bond episode right after

my favorite little tidbit from the ginormous On Cinema universe is the two seconds of crappy cellphone video footage of the outside of a Yoshinoya from inside a moving car that Gregg chose to use, along with the Hollywood sign from five miles away and a blurry self-storage facility, to showcase Hollywood, California

ok last one but i learned so much about the pink panther from this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBpfO_gFzk

noooo i did it wrong! anyway the pink panther podcast episode is great

I love that they generally never review actual hits, tentpole pics, oscar winners etc. not even huge mainstream garbage (MCU, Star Wars, Pixar etc) its almost always b-list shit that instantly vanishes from the public consciousness.

aka popcorn classics!

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 11:49 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

as gregg says, "today's new movies are tomorrow's classics, so these episodes will never get old"

i hereby nominate for the new santa claus... gandalf

along with the Hollywood sign from five miles away and a blurry self-storage facility, to showcase Hollywood, California

this is exactly what Hollywood looks like, Gregg otm

anyone ever notice that the on cinema on location music is b-bone's intro music from the supa hot fire video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfCsRhscK9s

looool going way back for that connection, how in the hell did you do that?

they do an excellent job of embracing the genericness of royalty-free stock music, stuff that makes the oscars specials slideshows so pre-feature presentation theatre authentic

finally made it through the first oscar special which holy shit did tim ever get drunk on champanguh

gregg bringing his enormous collection of oscar winning vhs tapes but accidentally bringing remember the titans instead of titanic... how did they leave that joke for the last 15 minutes, well after tim got incoherently twisted

i'm a big x-head. that's what we call ourselves, us x-men fans

tim trying to pronounce david bautista’s name: “david babusta... barista... bahusta... bayusta... bustadida... bahas... david bayoust”

So... i was waiting for a big mystery reveal about the jury. Does that ever come?

who's gonna win
who's gonna lose

does anyone want to hear a reprise of "Oscar Fever"

filllllllllll me up again

we'll let you know which films you gotta see - and which ones you can skip

does anyone want to hear a reprise of "Oscar Fever"

― frogbs, Monday, July 15, 2019 6:24 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the full marching band "oscar fever" that starts off the third oscars special had me simultaneously howling and thinking this is the best show i've ever seen

the "tribute to our fallen actors" bit on the 2nd special that starts with a crossfade of Steve Harvey is one of the series' best moments, I was dying from laughter the whole time (and you can see Tim breaking when they cut to him), but if you showed that bit out of context to anyone unfamiliar they'd think you were nuts for laughing at it

the crossfades in the oscar specials are like their own comedic language, kudos to the producers of this show for discovering the worst possible stock images of peter jackson and billy crystal

The crossfades feel like the equivalent of Mulaney writing those last-minute Stefan jokes that would make Hader break when he saw them for the first time. Like whoever's selecting those images seems to have a very keen idea of what's gonna make Tim and Gregg have to stifle a giggle.

gregg's tour of middle earth in the third oscars special, holy shit

Middle Earth, the setting and the place where they filmed not only the Lord of the Rings trilogy but the Hobbit trilogy as well, and as you can tell it's quite a beautiful place to be!

this is every cinema buff's dream and i'm living it now