yeah I loved this too. I don't know why there are not a million comments. I have read it five times and watched it four times and I am gong to send it around-- I feel like it captures my condition. I hope they took the penguin home and dressed it in little suits and walked it on a leash and snuggled it at night and fed it oreos with herring sauce and didn't make it go out into the wild with killer sharks. Go Kelly.
LOOOVE trailers, love trailers every day, love trailers on Friday, love cat farts, love videogum, love GIFS. There was only one complaint I agreed with-- NO FATTYS!! i hate hate hate to think that other other posters might be anything but svelt.. It ruins the whole blog reading experience. UGGGGH.
ok fine and I don't mean to attack you capu flapu so apologies in advance if this seems that way because your comment is fine I just worry about the timing and I am thinking can we have a bit less constructive criticism for like 2 minutes just in view of what a grueling week its been for the editors? We asked for more WMOwhatever and a million other things and Gabe and Kelly are trying to do all we asked for as much as 400 posts can really be distilled into meaningful directions so maybe we can just enjoy the lovely review. I like the movie reviews and I like things that Gabe hates and I really don't even dislike GIF's or cat farts or cute things and I am worried that too much complaining really might have a deleterious effect.
I like videogum a whole lot. I don't comment more because I am new (at commenting) and shy and the thing someone already said about when I finally think of something funny enough to say someone already said something better. Gabe is the best. I am terribly jealous of Kelly and will be for maybe one more month but she is obviously awesome and is doing a great job and soon we won't even be able to comprehend a time when we didn't have a Kelly and how we got by.
Just once I found the url for the chat and the password at the same time and went and no one was in the room and I suddenly felt terribly embarrassed and vacant and pathetic and like everyone else had stuff to do so why am I trying to chat? So I left suddenly and now I don't know where the URL or the password is.
General- Videogum best place on internet, ever. . Oh ok, just one thing. Someone once said something about all of us watching Buffy together, episode by episode and discussing it in depth, as a family, even though it will take forever? This may have been a joke but it really stuck with me and now I have to be honest, I don't think I will be truly content unless that happens. Just saying.
I did not make it through the whole thing. It seemed so long and weird and *intimate*, and not funny like the dad clearly thought it would be. The woman stage whispering 'no, Sean, FUCK' around 1:07, what? Get some editing software, you affluent little attractive and slightly awkward family with your lovely back yard!! I felt like I was watching a private home movie and shouldn't be. I have a feeling they will wish they did not put this on the internet. I feel like maybe they have important jobs and maybe their co workers will feel funny about their so free little girl fondling dead animals? Not that there is any thing wrong with that! I just want to close the drapes of the internet so they can be alone and won't be misunderstood or juged or watched any more.
Team dog. I can put my tiny dog on the dashboard while I drive. I don't think that can be done with a cat. Or maybe it shouldn't be done with a cat? Or maybe I shouldn't be doing it to my dog either? i am getting lost here.
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GREAT job today Huckabeast!
i was so hoping SNL would still be covered by guest bloggers and was so happy to see this post (but that is not the only reason why you are doing great, there are many).
But I completely agree about the MEH factor with SNL this weekend.
The baby duet monologue was just annoying and weird. Pregnancy is not that funny, inherently, I don't think, or maybe the idea of the juxtaposition of 'you are precious'/ 'we had sex' was actually doomed to be stale no matter how much you like those two actresses.
And the Under the Sea was fine but a missed opportunity. they seemed to just be saying random facebook stuff people said about osama while being the little mermaid and that was like 'ok, but....'
I needed them to do something more with it. something funny maybe?
The Gaddafi friends sketch was really one of the few I got any pleasure from, and even then, what I felt was shy of delight.
Overall pretty darned disappointing. And I enjoy current day SNL and really don't have high expectations, I don't think, although maybe Fey's presence got me a bit more excited than normal.
Article was good. Good/sad explanation of the dumbing down process-- how an ok projet becomes a homogenized crap sandwich by the incremental taking out of interesting elements.
And we are saying her movies suck? We are all pretending that 'house bunny' wasn't a totally enjoyable guilty pleasure? Ok. Hated it! I only like smart movies!! No glossy B minus hollywood trash for me. No sir!
The only thing that matters to me is the tragedy that I may not get my Jeremy Renner meat (no homo) on my The Master PT Anderson antiscientology Sandwich. Bourne Shmourne.
My favorite memories where when she was really pretty, and then she had plastic surgery and got even prettier, and then got plastic surgeries and got even prettier, and then got even more plastic surgery and got EVEN PRETTIER. And it seemed like she was the prettiest person EVER. And she was kinda stupid in interviews but it was fun that she wasn't all fake and like 'i like bunnies' in that horrible trying too hard not to say anything real female movie star way even though she was just as affected in own tragic forced 'i really don't give a fuck, I don't, see?' way. And then she did Jennifer's Body and she wasn't as bad as what people said and she said she wanted to learn to be a good actress and it was like 'wow, what if this really happened just a little bit for her? Would the world be able to let that happen or is she already too too what she is?' But then everyone was too sick of her for reals and there was a backlash and then she got plastic surgery like four more times and now she looks like a sad robot plastic 40 year old who got wonderful surgery to look like she is a lovely 20 years old and the world is done with her and it was all so predicable but still a tiny bit sad somehow.
STFU-eth Paltow was EVERYWHERE this weekend. Everywhere. I am done. The New Yorker used to occasionally have interesting articles about interesting things. I turned OFF all sources the interwebs last night and curled up with the new New Yorker expecting to have my psychic universe expanded in some minute way. Instead I was confronted with her horribleness in this ridiculous puf piece where has-been celebs were brought out of their dusty closets to wank all over her Turduken. The Goopy take over of all media is ridiculous and intrusive and I want it to end!!!!
I am going. I may have just commmented once but I have been the loyalest and least creepy of lurkers since the dawn of time (before videogum happened I was just patiently waiting for it to occur).
I am also concerned about choosing between the two evils of bringing friends who don't get it vs. being alone and awkward. I will hang out with you Cat Smack.
I love this review and I love videogum. There was once a (different) blog I really loved and read for years and years and finally got up the nerve to comment (yeah, I know how sad that sounds, shut up), and a few people were like 'screw you, NEW PERSON', so that sucked and I never commented again. And now I have been reading Videogum for quite awhile and my very first comment was a suggestion that Gabe review EAT PRAY LOVE, and he fucking reviewed it (GREAT REVIEW! HORRIBLE MOVIE!) and no one was awful. So this has been a totally corrective emotional experience.
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