Rise of NC: Part 2

Tom and Jerry, the Movie: Yes, Tom did talk in one shorts but that voice is just idiotic and this falls into a symptom of bad plot + famous characters = Win! which is absolutely false. Music is misplaced and Tom and Jerry being friends, for the rest of the movie, is just insulting. I mean moviegoers won't expect a musical because they didn't advertised it that way, did they?, and the words are Randy Newman-like. (Although I like Randy Newman.) Memorial piece was great. First kill was good. Actually bad plot? Bad plots! There's like five plot lines that culminates in a mind screw car chase! Then they kill Tom and Jerry! Like a serious one. No, they chase like they supposed to do that after adoption. As the Critic says, It sucks a lot...it's just crap.
Top 11 Saddest Moments: Jim Henson! Don Bluth! Disney!!! Why you give emotion to us? To grow up? Even Star Trek cry us a little. But that Bambi contrast... scholars talk about that for years. What does the winter scene of death and cheerfulness of spring had to come together?
Surf Ninja: Yes, I am jumping to the satirical review. Leslie Nielsen and Rob Schneider is genius. (not) Assignment forgetfulness and 'Barbara Ann' is genius. (not) Lazy editing and psychic power is genius. (not)
 80s cliches and gun non-usage is genius. (not) Powerful warrior and Surfing lesson is genius. (not) Yellow Flags and Jerking off is genius. (not) Great speech and Another rendition of 'Bob Bob Duran' is genius. (not) The review of flattering praising seguing into Wizard of Oz style ending renouncing the praise is... GENIUS!!!! (not) (of course, it is!) WWOPD?
Top 11 Nostalgia Cartoons: First of Two Prev. Recorded Episode. (Vengence!) Those shows I need to watch. Animaniacs and Batman: TAS love began here. (Well, I think.)
Kazaam: Second of Two Prev. Recorded Episode. (Vengence!) Shaq corporation ploy about a genie inside a boombox and face-making kid with weird bullies. The genie is... a rhyming one and dies. Oh good, I thought he  ... does appear again and pedophilically follows him and does some bike chase going all flashy. Mike says his first wish and says he owns him. Um, a white child owning a big black muscular man reminds me of...slavery. Anyway, introduction and continuation of I'm-in-a-commercial in-joke aside, His father finally realize his fathership and get Shaq to rap, I guess. Pedophile moment later, brakefast acting and another rap sets in. Deep personal conversation commanded by the critic makes no sense the third-act kidnap scene occurs; Shaq gets a recording deal and the thick-mustache villain gets the boombox for evil doings and Mortal Kombat theme Shaqgasm to I will love you death scene, then I wish he wasn't dead and not he isn't dead moment culminating the cliche that is Kazaam. Oh sorry, Citizen Kane. What's up with rapping genie and Shaq? Who wrote this?
Drew Struzan: Album and Poster extraordinaire Drew Struzan was famous for putting lots of people and having an epic scene in nost of their posters, contrast to now one-face dominance thae the now permeates the posters, and tribute is good. Blown off by Struzan! Awesome.
Teddy Ruxpin: Tape automated bear is scary. Espically one that wants to kill you, and bites your balls! Nostalgia's great screenwriting shows up here, and it serves me well, very well.
Double Dragon: Senseless violence beyond its popularity and senseless cameo and plots make this review great. It's not the best review but little jokes really ties it up. Patch uped future, Patch uped dialogue and Patch up fight scenes really make this really bad. Belch, of course. (I really have problems)
Top 11 Underrated Classics: After surviving another death, we look at overlooked movies. Only sequel upgrade in Disney, straight-to-video genius, Jennifer Connelly's rise, a biblical epic re-imagined, plausible silly idea, subtle relationships with Vin Diesel, Boy who never grow up... with a spaceship, creepy and cool sequel (?), happily sad sequel, animated film treating us like grown ups unlike the grown up movie, three way battle that is powerful and intense. All this you forgot?
Howard the Duck: George Lucas did crazy things but this Duckworld and Duckboobs is too much. It happens on Earth, I think, or least Earth in the 80's and there's this duck and came from a parallel dimension and... Okay now I feel crazy. This is a freak, people making up without noticing the duck and duck fights, weird babbles, desperate band members (like really desperate), and cobra commander + exorcist character that hates condiments, Harry Heusen vomit that it transforms into, and lot of mean-spirited and amusing review.
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: Yes, sequel was made for Mortal Kombat and the Critic lost his beard. First movie credit and CGI later and new actors, too the moive's villain comes with sideshow rejects and call himself Kahn. And Katana was born when her mother was two? Too much Kahns later, most awkward amusement ride appears to take the our heroes... somewhere. And Sub-zero('s brother) is back! Happy Meal Robot and green screen explosion later, we see Lu-Kang making no sense, and girl on girl action! OH YEAH!!! Anyway, Billy Idol Raven later mortal ballet commence and a off-screen battle and some cage  scene later more explaining! Um, let's go to the final fight scene (best death ever) and the MORTAL KOMBAT later we restore the world peace. Well, review was satisfactory.
Godzilla: Roland Emmerich version. Ailen invented pyramids? President of US on a jet plane? (more on that later) How do we came up this questions? With clever advertising that tricked us to watching Roland Emmerich films! And today, it's mysterious monster that they never show called... Godzilla. Sigh and Matthew Broderick is in this movie so it'll be great... so, he studies earthworm and now big footprints and character all line up and introduces themselves including Siskel and Ebert. Why? I mean the real Siskel even points and criticized it. Being criticized by a critic you are criticizing because you didn't criticized them enough, that's sad. Simpson reunion and [JOKE ABORTED] later, Godzilla disappears out of thin air. To lure them, they put large amount of fish. Really? That's a lotta fish. See, it doesn't make sense!  Unconvincing   pixelation and every flying scene later Godzilla disappears, again and it turns into romantic movie of a stalker and a whore, and Godzilla is egg laying asexual. Fun! Eleventh day of rain and nest of egg which hatches to keep this movie going, they steal Jurassic Park, gumball works again, and one run-on sentence later, they're out of there! Movie... continues as Godzilla Resurrection himself and military just blow him up again. Movie sucks and review was great, the fish in-jokes and yeah...
Top 11 Disney Villains: Disney is messed up. Just look at the villains! Classy and maniacal, the villain cuddles hatred and illogic. You know, for kids! (Also bulletproof!) I like how devil is #1, it kinda showed his Christian ideology of how it all work through them and other stuff. (Ghostbusters!)
Super Mario Bros. Super Show: One of those poor ideas to cash by Nintendo and DiC, the show had two awful parts that doesn't mesh well, the Mario part had a real-action segment (of horrendous jokes) and animation segment of ripping off everyone else living in _____land talking pasta puns and no face Indiana Jones. Zelda portion well... 'Excuse me, princess!' and nothing else. Just that. Bumbling Link and Zelda who is awesome and doesn't know it! Ganon with teleporting disorder is there, too. Show is lazy, review is insightful and critic is out to find potland. Good Luck!
Top 12 X-mas Specials: Christmas is greatest task for media. Limited thing to play for any situation the series is in. Whether it's South Park, Mr. Bean, jackass of a brother, or those classic, poorly done or not it tugs with your heart and laugh with your belly and your brain slowly walks into memory lane. Good list with a surprising effect, too!
Jingle All the Way: Arnold's first review! And a horrible movie to review! It even has Jake Lloyd! Oh, the crap is to the max on this one. Turboman is crap, Arnold just doesn't fit and antic aren't that funny, just insane. Touching moment is too scary. Sucking the comedy Sinbad and psychotic episode later, slimy over-the-top voice Hartman comes and 'put that cookie down!' Anyway, our romp idiotland continues as Sinbad comes and annoys and a funny moment ... disappears. Arnold suits up as Turboman at the parade and gives Jake his Turboman action figure and movie ... continues as Sinbad dress up as the villain, and get this, climb a tall building for his little toy! And jetpack really works! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Movie gives up at this point.  Anyway, boy is saved. The family relize Turboman was Arnold, because there's so many Arnold looking man out there, and everybody goes happy in commercialism. I mean this is the moment the Critic just goes all out because he cherish Christmas the most and this ruins it badly. I like it. One of the Best!

Rise of the NC Part 1

Pokemon: The First Movie: As Nostalgia Critic move away to bilp.tv, one of the thing he enjoyed was more airtime. And as we  go back to the roots, it's striking to review another fan-based exploartory review; this time on Pokemon. As anime give adult Americans nausea, intro we could skip(except for how Pokemon is such a movie machine 14 in all! Is this Land after Dinosaur?) After an in media res opening, which i think more of an cliche..., after an frustration about the name Pokemon, which to me seems obvious, and our running gag which come back in save by the bell -last of our post- There's also 'You know for kids!' joke used frequently in Nickelodeon month. Overall movie is all just bland, just nerdgasm of fighting (nice Barber) and corporationgasm of morals and cliche tear scene(nice stoned joke), which leads moral contradiction that loses all meaning.   Review itself gets stale sometimes but it's a good watch.
Wizard: It's that classic review. From flawed advertisements and morals to boring opening to 'great' plot holes (runaway teenager or adult with growth disease and adults with some premature brain disease, weird subtext of the subplot, wrong people playing video games, instant romantic interest, weird background and reference, and bad video games.) combined with Critic's awesome references (60's Batman, Nintendo 'playing with power') and ... Lucas. Ohhhhhh.... Lucas. and NERDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, all emotion aside this review shows how interactive he is with the movie and how he's just great. I LOVE YOU, DOUG!
Top 11 naughtiest Animaniacs moments: Love of Animaniacs is clearly shown here in this short list video. What could I say but... censors don't know anything.
Batman and Robin: Just Amazing. Starts with a great overview, and horrible one-liners, that is 60s bad (not the review, the movie) NC trying to kill himself, 'Of course' jokes, and American British, openly (gay) Batman, then... bat credit card madness that lasts for one minute. Robin is too annoying, Barbra is nice, then bad then whatever... and Alfred is dying. No wonder he gets the dummy to do the job. Batgirl and cliche lines later, tranquilizer to the rescue... bad morals, whatever. Movie's awful, review's great.
Top 11 catchiest theme song: Great nostalgia. Although short remark is also great. Now to researching Richard Stone.
90's sports movies: One of the last 'group movies' reviews (along with drug specials) It's exploration review of different cliches of sports movies and this is why I like the Nostalgia Critic. It's the interactions of slow clap cliche and turning perspectives using out-of quote clips. It shows that Doug really got along with the subject.
Top 11 Drug PSAs: Be an original, Dead boy lecture, drug promotion? Well the Drug PSA is quite crazy, just like the drug they said to avoid, well this shows all kind of crazy stuff, like songs that doesn't do much, avant-garde piece of What?, Shamalyan twists and unlikely promoters.Overall, they shouldn't be on drugs when writing anti-drug message. Review is cosmic!
Captain Planet: What could I say? Magic Rings and Wheeler. Voice-activated power and What kind of lame power is heart anyway? Leading up to introduction of Ma-ti, or Bhargo. Soon later Captain Planet comes and he's not much good. Gaia is a chicken (and I'm turkey). Different topic is too much. Just too much. Real educating.
Double Dare: Another positive review, this one I sincerely like.This game show was revolutionary in its showing kids' dreams of getting messy and traditional gameplay of Double Dare, which was high academical quiz show, with sense of humor, in the 1970's by most assuredly second best game show host, Alex Trebek (with mustache). Now Marc Summers might be the best after that splodge of game show that came in 1990s. I've seen Marc Summer in  other game shows like a prototype of 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?', and contestant/guest host of Scrabble, and I think he had great sense of enthusiasm to do whatever producer throw at him, although his OCD was severe. I mean you'll never see Howie Mandel do Double Dare. Overall, he made lasting contribution to game show and deserve its spot in game show hall of fame.
3 Ninjas: The intro seamlessly go into the review of everything just mixed together. Is this kid's movie, a heist movie, or a I don't know Cake? Jelly Beans? The movie is convoluted and review shows that clearly. Good review.
Top 11 Hot Animated Women: As with all top 11s, this is short. Thick accents, Transformation remarks, Cardboards, and many sexual innuendo, and navels.  What more than HOTHOTHOTOHOTHTOHTHO...
(Sorry, Video game Review AVGN combo review and other reviews will be relegated in the bonus section. Sorry, Wikipedia made me do it!)
He-Man and Master of the Universe: Gay overtones galore in this awful movie. With John McCain trying to take over the world blocked by Ralph Laugrad and Courtney Cox...in settings of New Jersey. It's mixed-up and weird and...gay. All good and that in the review with turntable sub-titles and moral mishaps. It's a great one in terms that the in-jokes are piling up a bit.
Follow That Bird: When Nostalgia Pang hits The Critic, it's Bum to the rescue! Bum as a whole, it's pretty great. Lines gets repeated a few times but it's improv so silly mistake like that is fine. Most reason why I don't see bum is that I didn't saw the movie and since there's no movie cut, I don't know what movie was about. Anyway, the great segway and overall good review.
Saved by the Bell: Last review for today. First fictional TV series review. We are quite skeptical about how could a movie reviewer could pull off a TV show, but he did. With the solid background, character, episode structure the review seen as the expansion point of the Critic. The show is campy and wow should be put back to 50s where racism and awful messages. And Critic's weird background adds to the... AHAAAHAHAHAHAHA... sorry, that was just... wow. A great review!

YouTube Era

Cartoon All Stars Drugs Special : This is the first cynical Nostalgia review. I continue to stand by the view that at first Doug was trying to portray a depressed middle age where he thought he could find hope in the past, but found horribleness instead. In all, he's really pissed that meeting of all these character was all for a stupid government crap.He's not angry, he's not 'Why do I live?' shouting, just pissed. But it's going to changed soon.

Cloverfield Trailer: Of course at that time (August 2008) it was called 1-18-08. Oh you think you are so clever, JJ Abhrams. But the point here is Nostalgia Critic moving away from Depressed Middle-age  man to just an Man of Anger as critic freaks out at the nonsense of ambiguity that is the trailer, also Donkey Kong scenario fit into the famous detour that Critic is known for.

Power Rangers: the Movie: As I saw this first 'real' review of the Critic, I saw two things. Voice, which turns from calm voice of middle-aged man to the angry Daffy Duck (slightly) at the end. The style is almost there. But  sadly the review is done calmly with no accents and nothing to take from. In all, the joke passes by, not saying hello. So most jokes are aren't laughed until second later. But it was good.

HP7 Book Launch: What if Nostalgia Critic got into the way as comedic interviewer, like Mediocre Films, instead of a reviewer. Congrats! This is the video. Nothing more to say, because it just shows how good Doug Walker is at comedy than anything else.

Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles: He's kind of  explaining into his final form... change of mind have been done. It's definitely a mid-point. Geek out mode over, funniness of his most cherished series start. The review becomes more and more angst till 'horriblef--kus'. Now we know we're getting somewhere.

Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moment: Yes, first top 11, and it's standard. it's too quick, but they had fit the time limit back then. (and no. 11 in Wikipedia is wrong, just saying.)

Super Mario Bros: The Movie: This is the earliest movie that has running out-of-video jokes. For the movies , What? To me, first 'standard' review.

Cloverfield: Let's get this recent review over with. Also, yes Donkey Kong Jesus was referenced again in the first anniversary, but that's outside the reviews...SO IT DOESN'T COUNT! Bum is slowly forming... INTO A GIANT MONSTER! No, I'm kidding. I guess this is the all caps review...

Street Fighter: OF COURSE! Skull and Guns. Entirely Pointless. I feel satisfying. Very best of reviews. Hmmm... This is audience suggested. That's why he is not the way he was? Does he just doing it for his job?
(pointless action sequence)
Mortal Kombat: Well, nostalgia is annoying. This is also great!  Trumpet shrug is there, too, but it belongs here. It happens. Some stock Aesop and chickification later, the movie hangs out, and we clear our eyes.

Space Jam: Yes, first movie I saw he reviews! I thought it sucked, but as it was commercialized 90's movie so I thought it should suck and I'll just enjoy it. (Wow, I never thought young me acted like Lupa) But with Lola, I didn't care because I believe Lola was in Baby Looney Toons... (searching) She was! Anyway, fun fact: Lola Bunny is voiced by Katie Soucie which also voiced Princess Sally in Sonic SatAM, and that's her natural voice! Get her the Furries hotline stat! But yeah... she described as Hawkisan women, Tomboy and Femme Fatale. And what do you get if you mix red, blue and yellow?  Brown! you get brown. Don't mix conflicting characteristics! I mean, how fractured your mind is when you're part tomboy and part femme fatale?! anyway, a classic review and one I show to my newcomers.

and that's it for Youtube era. We'll shelve more into Nostalgia Critic's greatness with review such as 'The Wizard', 'Batman and Robin', and 'Captain Planet' as we go to Part 1 of Rest of 2008. See you guys there.

Intro and the transformers

Our first total rewind start in a quaint little town of Naperville, IL where young 30s man working at Circuit City decide he wanted his childhood back. He just started to watch some old cartoon and movies from his childhood when he realized passage of time did some nasty things to them. He was aspring filmmaker named Doug Walker, and with his brother Rob Walker and his co-worker Mike Michaud they decide to knock on the doors of web entertainment, mostly because they were laid off.


First video of Nostalgia Critic seems more like a Bum review than anything else. But mostly it took the form a character that much like himself, excited and happy for the moment of childhood, into the Critic than the tortured soul that slouch to review a horrible movie, that Critic had become. It was way of showing that Transformer was bad, but it was just childish fun; something that most critic didn't figure out till the third movie. It was till second review that the he review the horrible stuff but it felt more like a warning that pure anger. 


So my not-so-good review continues as we see a gradual move from man in the 30s who wanted his childhood back and got bunch of crap to pure bile of anger and emotion that is the Critic today. See you next time on the YouTube era.


(This review will cover from Transformer to Transformer 3. Anything farther will be reviewed next July as part of my yearly recap.)

Update...

Sorry, but unfortunately the 'total review' is dis-abandoned in the the second blog, but the'total review' is moving to the this blog with the Nostalgia Critic.


Introduction and/or First update sometime this week.

Late Announcements

After a long delay of schoolwork, I announce that in Oct 7th, or few days later, I'll be opening a second account on Korean Entertainment. So, if you have an interest in  that kind of stuff, I'll write one in KEntertainmentFTW.blogspot.com or some variation thereof. Also in that second blog, I'll starting my tentative year-long project called ' Total Rewind' which I review every episode/video/comic within a specific content. List are changing, so I'll update soon.

On the Web

I lay down on the web
The web of lights and currents 
The information slowly ebb
in a wash of slutty comments


Who are you to say
You suck, everything is wrong
You're fake and gay
The words which makes the weak strong


You can find every secret
Security always comes up short
There's everything on the net
Every fact you can contort


It's sucking the life of all
The imprint is there to see
The chats, the merchandise, it's a mall
You could get everything you could perceive


Why we forsake freedom
So we can slouch in the dark
Why do we sell our life to the modem
When you can just go to the park


Web is made for the spider
It could catch the pest and save the gardens
but as a tortured soul, it's a biter
that poison you into the heavens 


I lay down in the net
in the home of over a billion people
I throw myself as a bet
but I couldn't follow...but an apple

Hips taking over youtube... and other stuff

I was reading Alex Day's blog about Youtube Advertising, which I was interested not because I want to advertise on youtube but 'interestness' of Ad companies trying to play with the new media, and how's that working out for you, then when he said something about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I realized that the 'advertisers' were not like Shaycarl or Lisa Nova but Kristina, Luke and rest of the Wrock or more generally the Hips. This was the first attempt to make hip something of a media producer, something that can sell ads or products. Going big. 


This leads to some concerns. Of course, people still watch Shaycarl, who recently gained one million subscribers, but to people with taste Shay has fallen down quite considerably over the years. The question is that will the Hips fall into the same pits as far-right did in 2010 or so, or will they make creative content, whilst selling product, that is both entertaining and profitable, like Wheezy waiter or Alex Day.
(Strange thing happened in the Fiesta Retrospective, where the original participants - the first where famous backgrounders made their pitch - talk about the fiestas after one year, the comment in all of commercial were mean and trollish, - more specifically, the zombie one was plain stupid, the one guy I didn't know, Brittani Louise Taylor was interesting but let's face it she's annoying for most, LilyLuay was bland, and Wheezy Waiter... wait - except for Wheezy. I take that account into proving that Wheezy was an evil overlord, and therefore proving that Dan Brown (the vlogger) is a psychic.)


So put your thought about Hips first foray into blatant ads and how it might decrease their quality.

Weird Connections

Quick sidenote to my last post. There has been weird connection that have defying the chart, but I still like. Here's three connection.

Nerimon and Wheezywaiter
It feels weird to me that these two have been collaborating for so long, but 20 year old British kid who sings about Doctor Who and 30 year old Chicagoan man who sings has a nice combo. They met once a year for 3 years.
2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2LuaECQOU
2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kf6yobal40
2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpRxoST6GJE
Hank Green and Mark Douglas
Really just a questioning moment. How could these two come together? Anyway, as Barely Political are the vagabonds of the chart, I think I can give him a break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9RMW9kULk
I think it's because John coined Key of Awesome before Mark did and needs Green's approval. Proof here.
Winter Spring Pro
It's just an anomaly rather than weird. Working with Barely Political, then just moving to LA then joining the station? I don't know... 

Vidcon! and youtube chart update

This week was vidcon and to commemorate this occasion, I'll talk about how vidcon change the youtube chart. Unfortunately, the chart project itself is abandoned and probably will for a long time. But the idea is there on the prototype.


Youtube chart started in 2006-7 when Renetto started to collaborate with other people, like FilthyWhore and Nalts, and when SMPFilms held the first youtube gathering, but the today's chart wasn't created till second generation formed with the Youtube Live, in November of 2008. Youtube Live gave us some kind of equal platform between the celebrities and the youtubers for the first time and led the youtubers to manage themselves in a more high quality. By 2009, two distinct group formed. The Cools, held by the station and their allies and the Nerds, spearheaded by Vlogbrothers and its friends. As demonstrated by this video, the Nerds have been known as the Other Side of Youtube, not actually called that but you know... felt like, the guys and gals who are more interesting than the Cools, who have falling steadily in their laughs, but not seen by  causal viewer, who whiff through front page and never dig deep. But in June of 2010, that changed with Vidcon. Vidcon, like Youtube Live gave the Nerd chance to be equal to the Cool, and Cool saw it they potential, unlike the rotten fest they had then. The integration of Nerds and Cools  led to a new group, the Hips.  Making of Hips was agitated by two factor from each side. For the Nerds, Wrock was giving out. People didn't had much fervor about Harry Potter as before and the formerly wrock group started to write nerdy songs. Which piqued Cools' ears. For the Cool side, ShanePhil incident led the Station to be isolated, and when the Station net broke out, they broke out big. Olga Kay and her friend grabbed viewers, Fine Bros finally found the success formula, along with DaneBoe. If it weren't for Totally Sketch and Nice Peter, the Station might have been long dead. Anyway, by the start of 2011, Hips fully formed, along with new interesting people who didn't make side and enjoyed both side equally, like Winter Spring Pro and Tobuscus. Now, ideas pass like crazy throughout  the chart, leading to happy homogenization that Youtube can market, it's seen as renaissance of youtube, despite the haters. 

It's been a long time, but

      Nerds                          |                        Hips                        |                                   Cools

Here it is. The Youtube Chart. Least the cruel version of it. 
Link to see it in full size. https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=1GnwoiSF39rtSZRWI8L7QxgwwrHQK5y32KlY2f6hCv88&w=1574&h=724

It's been a hard work putting this together and maybe a better one will be made soon. At the of Vidcon, Perhaps?


Disclaimer: any wrath of people included or not included will be incinerated taken to considered in the next edition of the chart.

Tv Tropes preview No. 1

Disclaimer: this is a preview of my new idea, where I talk about tropes. Viewer discretion is advised. visit www.tvtropes.org !

Today, I'm going to talk about Nostalgia Chick's three 'controversial' tropes: Big Lipped Alligator Moment, MacGuffin, and The Smurfette Principle.

1: Big Lipped Alligator Moment or BLAM

This trope is commonly defined as moment that comes out of nowhere, go all crazy upon us and leaves without mention afterwards. Now most people are confused to which crazy moment is a BLAM, but I have an simple answer. Ask this question, is it a show stopping moment that feel out of place and taken out of the media without ruining any details. If you said yes, then it's a BLAM.

Let's take an example. Original BLAM from All Dogs Go to Heaven. Is it a show-stopping number (yes) that feels out of place (yes) and taken out the media without ruining any detail (well...) It's an debate. I mean, in term of screenplay, it's fine to take it out, but in the feel of the movie, it establishes the Alligator as a character to look out for, which make the final scene appearence seem like an AH than a HUH?. In other terms, Siskel will say yes but Ebert will not. Siskel- anayltical, Ebert- artistic. Depending on other examples, Siskel will be fine, but maybe we should give a special term for full critics yes, like the Ferngully lizard moment.

2: MacGuffin

One-use plot device. Or is it? the MacGuffin in the Nostalgia Chick seems little different than Tvtropes one but I could find the video so let's skip that and move to...

3: The Smurfette Principle

Not much of a controversy as unfortunate trend. What I think about the principle is that most male just don't go around females. Having a female buddy is awkward for some, any annoyance for others. Personally, I think females are great friends, but most boys doing boy stuff, girl doesn't fit in and most non female dominated shows is basically look into boys night out. I think it's hard to avoid circumstance, and thing in mind while writing.

So that's it. I hope you like what I'm trying out and I'll get back as soon as the project gets over.

Sorry.

But here's a riddle for you.

What is a state, a country, a strait, and a female name?

Answer is in the question.

anyway, while searching this, I found that there's was a show about Alaska hosted by former governor of Alaska. That is not Sarah Palin's Alaska. WHAT?

Turns out Jay Hammond, guy apparently opposite of Palin, that did a show called (you guessed it) Jay Hammond's Alaska from 1985 to 1992. Proof that whole state of Alaska is crazy.

I'm doing a big project for this blog that ties a lot to my blog, so little less on posting for a while.

First thought for thoughts...

... cannot be found. Sorry, rummaging through my pile gather up nothing. recap is that music uses three different brain signal: heart, and regulatory beats for rhythm, muscle memory for tone and brain for everything else. Second one was that neuroscience and psychology can is vital for solving  much of the problems we face today.


( Sidenote: I decided to move my Youtube plan into the blog, so please leave me your favorite youtuber so I can talk about it/him/her.)

Thinking about Thoughts

Few month ago, I wrote a piece in my notebook called "Thinking About Thoughts". I have continue my thoughts about thoughts and I going to share with you a piece of it. And also the original piece, which will coming later.


Imagine you woke up, or realized during the day/night but it doesn't matter in a different person's body, any body except yours. You could be shorter, you could shorter, fatter, more slender, stronger, weaker, in an opposite sex, or even you physically look the same. The crux is that no one knows you had this life, and instead had the other life. You could persuade people is acknowledge the fact 'you' are a misplaced being, and some do the near opposite, they knew that you're misplaced. But you can't go back, least for now. But now is forever, so you can't ever escape! (The First law of TG, but it'll work in this perspective.) You need to act like this new identity, think like the identity, meeting people you don't know, and some you might know but act and think differently. (The Third law of TG, although I skewered around a bit.) Then, you get familiar with your new identity, so familiar that you can't recognize which is which anymore.(The Second law of TG, though I took out a will there.) It makes sense in context. Richard Dawkins, I believe, said there's five different force which shape you. Your gene, your hormone, your immune system, your brain, your environment. You can't change your genes, a la first law (probably), you could change your hormone, but keeping it takes inconsiderable amount of surgery, and mental training. Just ask any transgender. you could change your immune system, with a flu shot or antibiotics, your brain is already different, and your environment? Well, it'll take long time for people to settle on you being a different person. Imagine you're on that situation. So, what? One against four and only one you effectively change without trouble, other than getting a shot? That's poor bet against you, and no matter because you are actually that person! Turns out your imagining your other stuff. You're all fine...


wait. That last three sentence rings a different bell. I mean you're saying that life I live in with all my friend and family, all my achievement and possession, all my memories and belief is product of my imagination/hallucination/dream/virtual reality/act/conspiracy? Then you realize, what if you're right? What if life was just a ruse and this weird life I think of is me? Or another life? Am I reading this right now, or is it just all in your mind? I think, therefore I am, but what if what I think isn't actually who I am? Do I ignore completely and enjoy the show? 


Now think about this, if I inject your mind with memories, is that part of you? Let's say I gave you memory of you in super strength. You surely use the power, the muscle remember the injected memory. But is that part of your life? What if you lost your memory, but instead giving back, I give you a new one. Is that part of you? Oh, surely not, but remember, you don't remember your life. Only thing in your brain is what I injected. Sure, it's all about perspectives. I resurrected you with memory you bestow, but only because I secretly live streamed your brain signals, and copy and paste that to your own body? Is that you? 


You're only confined by your thoughts, and you can't venture outside of it. It's like you can't venture out of the universe, or the multiverse. If you say, "Well, my soul can come out of your body, so what's your saying is false." Well, your thought IS your soul, at least in this explanation. "But my soul IS me, how it could not?" look at the second paragraph. "But, but.. that's impossible, how that..that.... I give up!!! (cries)." Well, actual comment will discuss more about my topic and many other topic I scrawl on this electronic pages. So, look forward to two more topics and other thing as well. Till next time...

Just an Update

Sorry about yesterday, here's a new font for you.
The girls are out for few day, but us boys have been sitting around... and nothing.
As any summer day, we look outside, eat and lie down with the laptop
Reading magazines, playing solitaire...
It's quite boring, I say.
Nothing to do, nothing to need
Grey sky overwhelm us while we long for the yesterday's sun.


Anyway, apologies to the mean spirit in the last post,
That was a character I was trying to do. 


There has been no much readership in here.
How I suppose to bring viewers?
Everything about me is a sham.


Composing a blog post
Obscure as I, this gets lost
Making a statement or two
Perhaps picture and video, too
Useless ideas plague my brain
Trite thought, It's hard to obtain
Entertainment I seek.
Retain your vigor, my friend...Aren't I a geek?

About sigularity

You know what I hate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4&feature=player_embedded

NYAN CAT.

It's somewhere between Rebecca Black and Rick Astley, but Hatsune Miku's constant singing of nya's (or rather its cover of it) pierce the brain of over 120 million people world wide as of July 5th.
But who is Hatsune Miku?


No, really who is the signer of the nyan cat?



Oh. Turns out it's wasn't a real person. Anyway, Hatsune Miku is a vocalcoid program that people use to make songs with and appearently did well enough to do a live concert. With an hologram.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6udITI9IQ&feature=player_embedded

Which is good because is some crazy fan rips out an hologram, the company can still use it. like the song they ripped from them. (Maybe. I don't know. You know much better than me!)
Another song they ripped covered, the first one in fact, was Lotiuma's 1986 finnish hit "Levan Polkka" which of course turned into...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJaripp6-g
Leekspin. This gal has 2 meme under her belt, and she's not even real!
Anyway, let's go to a commercial break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnWFbh69Hzg&feature=related
That commercial was from AKB 48 who has released their 62nd member, do they have one for every prefecture of Japan?, Eguchi Aimi. listen to her announcement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ji3R_gVWDw&feature=player_embedded

So, what do you think of her? Well, too bad she's not real. It's was just an advertising ploy for a candy commercial. What a waste. She might be the first one to jump over the uncanny valley, and it's just for a candy commercial.

Here's how they did it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpYpRobez4
is it me or I feel like whole country of Japan is not real?

This photoshop pop star and vocaloid signing sensation reminds me of our fisrt review, and yes I wrote an 500 word prelude for this, Pixel Perfect.

Pixel Perfect is Disney Channel Original Movie made in 2005, starting Ricky Ullman. The story starts with Ricky Ullman or Roscoe  showing a virtual cat to his UST friend, Samantha. Well, this has an another meaning in our time, but here it's holographic cat. I don't know where's the light source, but it turns plaid. Scene cuts to an club where Samantha has an band called Infectious Measles. Really? Where the club manager shuns them for not being flashy, because sound is soooo not important anymore.  Being distraught, the band looks for a new frontrunner, in a sequence a la that other more famous DCOM, and finds Loretta, girl with acrobatic moves and... singing. The group quickly finds out Loretta is an hologram made by Roscoe, which mades me wonder how did Roscoe put the laser up there without the girls noticing.

Anyway, with Loretta armed Because her right hand is unfinished and now it is and ready the band, now called Zetabytes, wows the boring audience and get Sam jealous. With Roscoe and Loretta now shipping, Roscoe and his friend go on a double date with Sam and Loretta in a diner with a conviently placed laser. Unforunately the computer has a meltdown, which leads to all kind of visual hi-jinks of Loretta until the program is saved. After that pointless scene, the band gets a new song and gets the approval of the club manager with Sam being jealous, when Sam finds out Loretta is actually part her!Specifically, her eyes and ears. In other news, the club finds out Loretta is an hologram, and they are... quite fine. After our compulsory girl go out montage, the band recording with Loretta?! Geezes, could they have just downloaded her singing? Oh sorry, you needed another 'Sam is jealous' scene.

So Sam is umpteenly jealous, because 'things don't go way I want to' and Loretta goes to our standard is AI human? and stupid copyright laws. Then Loretta uploads herself to the internet, and finds the whole new world, because that how programs look at internet. Whole scene is just weird, There's a trucker, who's that suppose to mean, and server is a black hole and and email and blurry security dogs, and what the heck is this? How could a programs expect there's going to be holographic AI singer who might need assistance, I mean there's no else to speak to!

Anyway, Sam gets Loretta, how the hell does she know that?, and Sam finally blows up the love interest and after some pointless scenes, Loretta uploads to the internet again, and Sam fills in for Loretta, which inevitably leads to Sam in the hospital. Loretta then decide to go inside the ECG, but Roscoe says "you can't go out." I Have a problem with this, the ECG only output information, there's no way you override into the person's brain, and... Loretta's already there. Instead of seeing neurons, Loretta sees an barren landscape with an starving Sam, and this weird scene, Sam becomes Loretta (what?),mentally, and enjoy the rain before... dying, I suppose. In all, Sam's memorial song becomes a hit and.. Loretta bcomes Zetabytes's guardian angel? How the hell does a program an guardian angel, of all gods?

This movie is bad, not bad as other DCOMs, bad nevertheless. It's has loose plot, producer and Max for example, and has some unnecessary scenes. But overall, It's a good approach to imagining AI singer scenario, least better than s1m0ne, which became a virtually reality in just 5 years.

Thanks for reading this review of Pixel Perfect, I hope I'll do more soon, and leave some old Disney or Nick movie or series in the comments. This is been Davidkkimlive production, bye!

Start Here

Hello, and there's no better time to start the blog than anniversary of United States of America! Sidenote: Those who say that America is based in Christian belief are more wrong than saying America is based on Islamic belief.(least it'll bring some trolls.) Basically, this is a backup from my youtube stuff, www.youtube.com/davidkimlive, and I'll probably post review of other media other than the web. But for now, post of stuff I was going to do, before technical difficultity is cleared.