The Walking Dead part 2 review is out now on yourmoviesucks.org.
It'll be on YouTube within a week but you can watch it there early.
So I just watched Bad Grandpa and even though I didn’t have that high of expectations for it
I was still left disappointed.
For a movie that's a cross between Jackass and Borat slash Bruno,
it's nowhere near as good as any of those things.
It had some funny moments. I chuckled.
Highlights of the movie were the dick in the vending machine,
and the child beauty pageant. But even though I consider that
second scene to be a highlight, by the time it hit that point in the movie
I found myself unable to laugh at it. The cash throwing, the woman's face,
and the hesitant single clap were all in the trailer and I had already seen them before.
Having the restraint to keep just one of those shots from appearing in the trailer
would have granted me an extra laugh. But you gotta sell this movie somehow.
The child actor might have been okay for a child actor but that's just another way
of saying he sucked.
I'll give him props for keeping his composure when he needed to
and maybe that's what matters most in this type of film.
But absolutely nothing was convincing. Part of what made Borat and Bruno
is that the touch ups and re-shoots were done convincingly enough to make them
seem like they were actually a part of the scene but over and over in this
movie I just kept hearing Jeff Tremaine in my head shouting to that little kid
"yeah, just turn around in your seat and act as if Johnny Knoxville is
doing something really funny right now.
Just pretend he is there so that we can edit this shot into his scene later and
we can pretend that this is your reaction to what's actually happening
even though we filmed this separately."
And it happened so fucking often. Every time they did a re-shoot or touch up
it was glaringly obvious.
After he parks after crashing into the penguin and hes like
"sit back kid, watch me argue with those people."
That's a re-shoot!
When he knocks over the biker gang's bikes,
That's a re-shoot.
Like, how obvious was it that they got them to react that way after
they revealed they'd been shooting a movie.
"Hey, could you all look outside and act as if your bikes got hit for us?"
So for a movie that sells itself as "this is funny because it's actually happening,"
is it not then a legitimate complaint to say that so much of it didn't feel genuine?
Don't get me wrong, there were some funny reactions.
That one lady at bingo looked like
she was having the time of her life.
But this movie is just so underwhelming in every single way.
Nothing shown was really that extreme or outrageous.
I mean, the 14A rating here in Canada was already a little telling.
Fart jokes and people falling over can be funny but it's best to make sure that
that's not just the whole movie.
Johnny Knoxville did not do a bad job acting in this movie
and his performance was pretty funny.
But he is nowhere near the level of improv genius as Sasha Baron Cohen.
And that's fine, his main speciality it hurting himself.
But even that was underwhelming.
He flew through a window onto a mattress, great. And you know what I thought
Jackass number two was fantastic.
It was definitely not a movie where I felt underwhelmed and in that area
I would say Jeff Tremaine mastered his craft.
And ya know, it took him a while to get to that point. So it's possible that if he keeps
doing these types of films he might get better at that too.
But for now, I would say, Stick to jackass. If you think that Johnny Knoxville being
rude and mildly annoying people makes for a great movie then go check it out.
But, as for me, I'm giving this one a five out of ten.
So part two of the Walking Dead review is out
If you want to see it, click the link right here. It'll be on YouTube within a week
if, for whatever reason, you want to see it on YouTube instead. I changed from Blip
to Springboard. So now it should work fine with everyone's computers.
Try it on mobile. That works well too.
Uhh, the only thing is they do have an upload size limit
similar to Blip. So I've noticed with the longer reviews like
the Walking Dead parts that there is a slight quality difference.
Like, the quality's slightly worse than uhh, video uploaded that would be fifteen minuets
or less inglen- in length. So if you guys could
test the videos out, see if they work for you, give me some feedback
uhh, 'cause there's also the possibility of, if
you guys wanted better video quality in the videos, I could always split up
the longer videos. Like, the half hour one into two fifteen minuet segment videos
and then just have one on top of the other.
That's a possibility but right now, the way it looks,
I say its fine. So I've changed all the videos on my site right now to
Springboard instead of Blip.
So if there's ever a time that you wanted to do a
YMS marathon and just watch all of them, now's the time.
Test them out for me. Also, Springboard, they actually fucking called me.
What kind of customer service is that? They actually called me.
That's great! I've been, like, ignored by Blip and YouTube for forever
and all the sudden this company is just like
"hey. Hows it going? So... tell me about- bout your thing.
and uhh, this is what our company does blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
And I actually like, it- I got treated like I mattered so...
honestly if you guys think that that deserves a little bit of attention,
I think it does, so just watch however many videos you- you can (chuckles)
on the site right now. And just give them a
little friendly hello and they can be like,
"oh wow, this guy's getting a bunch of views.
Let's treat him even better." Also, I'll be releasing one thoughts on
video before the end of the month.
Hopefully I can get part three of the Walking Dead review
out before, like, within the first half of November.
That's what I'm going to try to do.
Hopefully that works out because if I'm-
if my deadline for making a YMS video
with Patreon, and those of you who don't know about Patreon click that link below.
It's what's paying my bills right now. AKA, you guys.
Uhh, if my deadline is monthly
with that, I kinda want to transition myself to be
putting YMS videos out near the beginning of the month and not the end.
Because I've been kind of scrambling for time the past two months.
Now, I did have Vancouver film fest and Canadian Thanksgiving in October
so that's why I'm assuming I can get part three done
in a shorter amount of time.
'Cause I was fuckin' pulling, like, ten hour days
In my room, repeatedly, just to get this part two out.
Ya know? It got released and
It's released in time for me to be able to pay my bills
but had I needed an extra week, I wouldn't have been able to do that.
So that's why I'm going to try and bring
YMS videos closer to the beginning of each month rather than the end
So I'm not completely fucked if I need an extra week.
Uhh, Also I'll be continuing to do thoughts on videos, although I'm not gonna
pay as much attention to when in the month.
I'm just gonna try and be releasing frequent content.
Uhh, also uhh,
November second at three PM is my ten dollar plus
patrons Google Hangout.
Uhh, three PM Pacific time. And...
yeah. Uhh, anybody that donates over Paypal
will be able to claim the same perk and I'll invite you guys over
whatever email you donate with
and we'll chat and have fun... laugh at people that are different.
Also, new comment section on the website yourmoviesucks.org.
Uhh, much better than the blogger default, uhh, comments.
So now it's like Disqus which a lot of websites seem to be using now.
It's kind of like Reddit comments section. I think it makes sense.
You can vote and stuff. It's good, it's good.
Anyway, watch a bunch of videos on the site, test it out, let me know if there's
noticeably distinct difference in quality between videos
dependent on length, etc, etc.
Leave your feedback, leave your comments
and uhh, part two will be on YouTube within a week.
And I'll be getting part three out as soon as I can.
Working my butt off and I'm exhausted right now.
Good night.