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#219 - Not So Awesome (w/ Alex Ross) (Patreon)

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2021-03-21 05:38:06
Imported:
2024-06

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Several months ago, we watched KICKASSIA, the first of several horrific movies directed by internet comedian Doug "The Nostalgia Critic" Walker as part of his "Channel Awesome" empire. The experience nearly drove us mad. This week, our old friend Alex Ross subs in for Luke and heroically wades through SUBURBAN KNIGHTS (2012), the 130-minute (!!!!!) sequel. Nearly everyone involved with this movie has since disowned it, and we discuss how this mind-melting movie has become a fascinating time capsule of a long-gone internet subculture AND of a plainly toxic workplace. PLUS: Homer Simpson is a millennial now???

"The triumph and tragedy of Channel Awesome" by Matthew Rozsa - https://www.salon.com/2018/04/22/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-channel-awesome/

Listen to Alex on Junk Filter - https://open.spotify.com/episode/07izLSeHuWQImHUmbsNf31?si=w0a0vXlqRH2it8vG3J5GtQ

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y2kpodcst

so too quick things that i wanted to add will kept insting that these reviews are lost to time but that could really be father from the truth almost all got reuploaded to YouTube once blip got shut down or just got reuploaded by a third party many years earlier that how me and many other saw nostalgia critic for the first time also if you're gonna do the atop the forth wall movie i really do suggest that you watch the several hours of lore videos in which it cuts around the reviews of comics and just has the lore elements stitched together really the angry video game nerd movie would be a better follow up that one at least has some what of a budget and you can tell what James Rolfs influences and what he likes are on the screen and not just reference the most direct thing in the world still not good but better

Tomás Grau

Full disclosure: I was one of those fans. The type that would obsessively comment on every video, go to TGWTGSecrets (don't ask) weekly, and the type that would pay full price for the DVDs and the fake indie go-go campaign that promised a bunch of goodies I never got. So I think I'm pretty qualified to say that I knew my stuff when it concerned Channel Awesome. So to answer something that I think Sloan said, I think that the one thing that made me like Walker's stuff so much was, in part, feeling superior to the stuff we consumed (or better yet, validating my taste on the stuff that The Critic and I liked), but also because there was this feeling with their videos that was like you could jump anytime and join them with your own material. I'm from a place where not a lot of stuff uses to happen, and because of that (and the idea that anyone could become a Youtuber if they wanted to), I was inspired to follow them and use them as reference point. The fact that their videos looked like they were recorded on a convention with shitty equipment (and they were), only made them more relatable to me, if that makes any sense. To compare, I had a very similar attraction to a concurrent phenomenon in Youtube, the Abridge series that was just beginning to take off. The main difference is that one side became more and more professional and tried to do more ambitious things, while the other got lost up its own ass. So it felt less closer to me than the guys that put themselves on camera and, apparently at least, seemed to just be themselves and sharing their opinions. I hope this helps to clarify why Channel Awesome had such a fandom at the time. Anyhow, great conversation as always, guys, and best wishes for Luke!