You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm kind of amused that the snowman's actual voice is so similar to the voice Phelous does while mocking him.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I don't like these Nostalgia Critic recap-style reviews anymore. I haven't for quite a while.
After I watch these things, I don't feel the need to watch the movie, and being what it is, each video has to go on for lengths that I find intolerable.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See, I agree with you to an extent, but I don't mind it when the movie is either (a) something I've already seen, or (b) something I would have no interest in watching in full anyways (like the cheap cash-in cartoons Phelous seemed to do a lot of last year)
^^ You have the strangest taste, Jane. Not in a bad way, but I am... puzzled. (I don't even particularly dislike "Afternoon Delight", but I completely get why people do, and "Marvin Gaye" lacks its camp value.)
^ Oh, so very much so. This song maybe could have worked were it performed by people with some fire and solid production—although it would still be hella silly—but they're so serious about it. It only really works to me if it's taken completely ironically, and I don't know if I approve of that.
If it was a performer who embraced irony, that sort of approach would be appropriate, but Marvin Gaye was about as painfully sincere as one could get playing pop music.
If it were any more sincere it might actually work, but the tiny amount of winking and nudging with respect to the subject matter actually makes it worse. But honestly, I'm not sure whether it's more or less repulsive with or without the video.
^^ You have the strangest taste, Jane. Not in a bad way, but I am... puzzled. (I don't even particularly dislike "Afternoon Delight", but I completely get why people do, and "Marvin Gaye" lacks its camp value.)
Well I only heard it once.
Sincerity in pop music doesn't really bother me (I kind of suspect such cheese actually).
Probably, I will get sick of it if they start playing it constantly. That is the usual pattern with me for Trainor's songs.
By the way, I know people have mixed feelings about Folding Ideas guy (mainly because of the Cremaster Cycle review, I think?), but for Christmas he did a lengthy series of videos about Undertale which, because I have not finished it yet, I have not watched. They might be good, they might be bad, but they are indeed out there and the most recent thing he's put up (and by far the most extensive) outside of progress updates on the short film he's co-directing.
Really weird list. I didn't disagree with any entry necessarily but his placement was pretty damn odd. Putting Downtown in all of its awkward, dopey, shambling glory at number 10 left me pretty miffed right off the bat.
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That's fine.
I just facepalmed at that and moved on.
^^ I used to think that about the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
The Manic Pixie-ness of it was immediately off putting and aside from that I just found it dull as all hell.
I really feel like #1 should've been Downtown or FourFiveSeconds.