Was literally just about to post Lindsay's vid, it's really weird that both came out at the same time with apparently no communication between the two. Also tbh, without seeing Lindsay's video I probably wouldn't even have realised just how much NC missed the mark on this one.
I really wouldn't rank the bad guy from Night on Bald Mountain higher in memorability than Randall as he seems to, or even Dr Facilier or the Horned King.
[QUOTE=Jackald;51896233]Superior video. [sp] this came out literally the day before, that's kinda weird 'n spooky[/sp]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doQB5d3Gggw[/media][/QUOTE]
this video is really odd. She knows her disney villains 100%, but I think she's so fixated on it that she feels obligated to gripe about anything that breaks that nostalgia-laden norm. I personally could totally go for more over the top villainous types into the future, but why should it remain a staple of EVERY movie? [i]That[/i] feels like it's missing out on great opportunities, not the other way around
and then her prediction for Gigantic was so incredibly... Dreamworksy. I'm not sure how you could miss the mark on what disney would do, nor what the cover art she showed might imply at all
I'm personally enjoying the fact that it seems more people in the entertainment industry understand we can [i]and should[/i] be opening more complicated dialogues about society in the mediums. Kids are smart and pay attention, sometimes adults do too.
[QUOTE=dai;51897148]this video is really odd. She knows her disney villains 100%, but I think she's so fixated on it that she feels obligated to gripe about anything that breaks that nostalgia-laden norm. I personally could totally go for more over the top villainous types into the future, but why should it remain a staple of EVERY movie? [i]That[/i] feels like it's missing out on great opportunities, not the other way around[/QUOTE]
She's right though, if tropes are subverted too many times in the same way, those subversions become the new tropes. That's what Disney needs to be careful of. Making villains have sympathetic backstories used to be a subversion and now it's becoming pretty much a cliche.
I'm always amused by Lindsay's videos because she knows her shit film-wise just as well if not better than the other great youtube contemporaries (such as [url=https://youtu.be/zz6KOsePEHs]Chris Stuckmann[/url] or [url=https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting/featured]Every Frame A Painting[/url]), but she started out as a bad Nostalgia Critic knockoff. Yet, while she actually studies her stuff fairly well and tries to be academic in her videos her ex-boss just acts like a child doing a book report that he didn't study for. Granted, he's a smart child seeing as he has plenty of movies under his belt, but he doesn't understand or use terminology very well and is blinded by his own nostalgia (what a shock).
I personally really like the new, more vague villain system. The classical "hurr me evil watch me do evil things" old school villains are quite boring and so overdone they're dully predictable. World isn't black and white and I love that Disney is going more towards that idea rather than the typical good vs evil scenario.
I actually like both of them, I just like Doug's more. More entertaining and to the point. It's funny how Lindsay was just a NC rip-off, but after breaking apart from Channel Awesome she has some good quality videos. None as funny mind you, but informative.
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