Brad Jones, The Cinema Snob

[Whybother]

Red Letter Media is the only one of the reviewer sites that really continues to flourish or at leaat maintain their audience and a lot of their success has to do with what you're talking about, Jowski. Instead of developing a shtick and staying with it RLM built a reputation for delivering genuine analysis of the movies. Not just "clip, react, repeat." They actually gave substantive reviews. Beneath their sarcasm and their sense of humor, essentially, they created a 21st Century version of Siskel and Ebert.

[AlexJowski]

Red Letter Media is the only one of the reviewer sites that really continues to flourish or at leaat maintain their audience and a lot of their success has to do with what you're talking about, Jowski. Instead of developing a shtick and staying with it RLM built a reputation for delivering genuine analysis of the movies. Not just "clip, react, repeat." They actually gave substantive reviews. Beneath their sarcasm and their sense of humor, essentially, they created a 21st Century version of Siskel and Ebert.

Yeah, that's why I like RLM. Sure, their initial gimmick was Plinkett, which was character+sketch. But they don't really do that anymore. They just focus at normally looking at movies.

[Whybother]

The biggest compliment you can give to RLM is that if you edited out the comedy from their reviews you would still be left with an interesting critique.

[rabidtictac]

The Fly is my favorite Cronenberg film. I think with that film he successfully went full genuinely disturbing. Videodrome, The Brood, Scanners and his other body horror films are also great but you're right that some of them at times come dangerously close to camp. The end of The Brood is probably the biggest example of Cronenberg accidentally falling into camp, it becomes hilariously obvious that the evil mother represents Cronenberg's ex-wife.

Brood is the perfect example of a movie that can go from creepy to camp in about a second. Sometimes that movie is fucking terrifying, such as when the kids are out murdering grandma or whoever the hell that was. Other times, like the weird vaginamonster shit at the end, the movie goes bananas.

But he's probably my favorite horror director. He's very consistently entertaining. Videodrome is the least campy and most disturbing IMO. ExistenZ, Brood, Scanners are all great fun but kind of have moments here and there that are a bit silly.

When speaking of favorite horror directors, I'm ALMOST tempted to nominate that guy who made Event Horizon. Never has such a fucking brilliant, A+++ movie come from such a hack director. Nobody likes any of that guy's movies OUTSIDE OF EVENT HORIZON, which most science fiction horror fans love. It's so fucking good. How the hell did he even make it? That's like Uwe Boll coming out with Alien.

In terms of cultural impact, I'd rank Event Horizon right up there with the greats of the genre. There are so many little brilliant bits in that movie. It couldn't have been an accident. How the hell did Event Horizon get made?

[drisko]

Like all the best movies

the thing so many kahntent 'creators' miss is that they bring their own baggage to a project

i luv cronenberg's SHIVERS n think it is a sly satire ala DAWN but it AIN'T art...it got problems

i can just live with those problems

ppl like josh insist those problems don't exist

There are a lot of people online who seem to have this 'all or nothing' attitude towards how much they love something. Moviebob is one of the worst examples, he refuses to hear anything bad about the Raimi Spider-Man flicks and nothing positive about the Amazing series.

Hadley struck me as one of those guys who grew up with these shitty movies, enjoyed them, and made them such a part of his identity that any criticism of them is automatically assumed to be an attack on him. Like when he goes on rants about Siskel and Ebert saying slasher movies are sexist THIRTY FIVE years ago. At that point, it's time to let go, especially since both of them are dead now.

[AlexJowski]

Hadley struck me as one of those guys who grew up with these shitty movies, enjoyed them, and made them such a part of his identity that any criticism of them is automatically assumed to be an attack on him. Like when he goes on rants about Siskel and Ebert saying slasher movies are sexist THIRTY FIVE years ago. At that point, it's time to let go, especially since both of them are dead now.

There was a recording of Radiodrome once where the movie 'Summer of Sam' came up. Both Brad and I said we liked the movie. Hadley brings up that he absolutely hates and despises that movie. His reason was that in one shot in a scene at a club there is an extra with a tongue piercing. Hadley said it was anachronistic and made the entire movie worthless. No matter what Brad and I said about 'Summer of Sam' were shouted down as being wrong because of that one shot in the movie.

Separately, what's worse than the absolute statements of such "critics" is the desperate fanboys that carry on their idol's gospel. I've seen FAR too many autistic fans talking trash about movies they've never seen simply because Doge or Movieblob or Hadley or someone else made a rant video about it.

[RAPEMAN]

When speaking of favorite horror directors, I'm ALMOST tempted to nominate that guy who made Event Horizon. Never has such a fucking brilliant, A+++ movie come from such a hack director. Nobody likes any of that guy's movies OUTSIDE OF EVENT HORIZON, which most science fiction horror fans love. It's so fucking good. How the hell did he even make it? That's like Uwe Boll coming out with Alien.

Probably the George Lucas scenario, he was working with good people. Now, how Ridley Scott pulled off his classic filmography despite being a spazz is puzzling.

[da PAC Nigguh]

So what's this shit about Faggot Josh's Go Fund Me being a scam? I remember talking about it a couple years ago on DHI 2.0.

[PassTheRemote]

Hadley struck me as one of those guys who grew up with these shitty movies, enjoyed them, and made them such a part of his identity that any criticism of them is automatically assumed to be an attack on him. Like when he goes on rants about Siskel and Ebert saying slasher movies are sexist THIRTY FIVE years ago. At that point, it's time to let go, especially since both of them are dead now.

There was a recording of Radiodrome once where the movie 'Summer of Sam' came up. Both Brad and I said we liked the movie. Hadley brings up that he absolutely hates and despises that movie. His reason was that in one shot in a scene at a club there is an extra with a tongue piercing. Hadley said it was anachronistic and made the entire movie worthless. No matter what Brad and I said about 'Summer of Sam' were shouted down as being wrong because of that one shot in the movie.

Separately, what's worse than the absolute statements of such "critics" is the desperate fanboys that carry on their idol's gospel. I've seen FAR too many autistic fans talking trash about movies they've never seen simply because Doge or Movieblob or Hadley or someone else made a rant video about it.

That Radiodrome story is amazing, the autism is weaponized to a point I have never seen before.

As far as fanbases defending their idol, I'd add CinemaSins to that list. I shudder to think what happens in 20 years when these folks are people's inspiration.

[Charlar]

Cinemasins sucks, i wonder if Cinemawins was a parody made to mock him