I signed in to upvote this, cause yay! they're unbelievable.
but also that is really the extent of my Olympics enthusiasm. I'm holding out for June and the World Cup.
though I have no real idea of what may have prompted this post, I just want to say regardless I love all of you and I wish it was Videogum Valentine's Day everyday so I could make e-valentines for you i-monsters all the time. this place is one of the few where I look forward to reading the comments just as much as whatever awesome stuff Gabe might post, and it's great, even if Dale Snitterman may get us down from time to time.
aw shucks! though the real glory goes all to Topher for being everyone's Perfect Man forever and always, I express my thanks in another valetines that did not make the cut (sorry, Gabe, I didn't know 2 was the limit! I'm relaxed!): http://i48.tinypic.com/kben0w.jpg
Jian! Louis CK! Lots of Love.
(though, it says this video only got put up yesterday, but I'm pretty sure this interview is from, like, October or something? because I definitely remember the Robert Carlyle interview he mentioned at the beginning)
you know, the Sawyer stuff may have been cheesy, Gabe, but man was that cheese ever RAINING on my FACE (wait, what?)
also, and I hate myself for this, but minor nitpick? this was actually episode 3, LA X, Part 2 was episode 2.
Even though it's a category no one really cares about, I am SUPER happy to see In The Loop there for best adapted screenplay. Though if they don't win I am going to go all Malcolm Tucker on my TV screen as if the Oscars actually mattered.
you know, I also know quite a few people who didn't like this movie, which I get. Yeah, it was very conventional re: movies/comedy etc. (double ugh, re: the Indian landlord), but it was also kind of really cute and funny? And Simon Pegg, obviously, and Dylan Moran (!!!). It wasn't anywhere near the level of Pegg's other work, but I can single out so many worse romantic comedies (though many of which I also love? this does not help my case)
I feel like there was a missed opportunity for some awful "Hamm Jerky" food pun, Gabe, but what do I know, I'm not Professor Puns over here.
also, has Jesse Eisenjerk always been that attractive? I'm just saying that was a Very Nice Picture
So adorable that Pete Docter was wearing a pop cap badge like the one from Up! I know V-Gum is very much Team Fantastic Mr. Fox (which is fantastic, obvs), but Up was so good!
You know, even as a twelve year old girl, completely ready to believe in alzheimer's-overcoming ice cream love, I still remember not really liking this movie? Like, I cried at all the right places, but I cried way more during Serenity (STILL DO, D: D: WASH).
And as for more impossibly tiring and absurd love stories, I challenge you to watch Silk, Gabe. First movie I ever returned without finishing.
OMG 1000 UP VOTES PLEASE.
god, I actually used to be terrified when those rock faces blew your Zoombinis off the bridge (and that challenge when you have to get them up trees). I also remember playing this game in French? (side-affect of living on the border of Quebec?)
YES. DO IT. J.J. Abrams actually had little to no involvement after season 1 (and even then really only the first couple episodes), if it's truly him that's turns you off. Though 5 seasons is a lot to watch in a month!
Season 3 is a little "meh" (though there are great parts!) but after the first two seasons you come to love the characters so much that it almost doesn't matter, and seasons 4 and 5 are craaaazy in the BEST way. Though if anything you have to watch Lost just for the !!!!-ness of Benjamin Linus/Michael Emerson. (and TIME TRAVEL, of course)
Gabe, that might've been the laziest and most obvious remix ever, but it was also the FUNNIEST and BEST. (though I'm very glad I was alone in the house when I literally fell off my couch laughing at this)
Oh! Besides all the great stuff that's been mentioned, I'd really love to have a way to be linked directly to the most recent comment on a post? Cause sometimes in posts with 100+ comments it can get tedious going through them all to find new replies.
I like to stay perpetually signed in to V-Gum, mainly cause I'm super lazy, but also cause I like to be able to read a post and browse and vote in the comments without having to think about signing in first every time. Maybe this is just a "my computer" problem rather than a "videogum" problem (I'm not Professor Technology over here!), but whenever I decide to actually comment myself, it makes me sign in again? Which confuses me, because before trying to comment it appears that I'm signed fine and I can vote and everything? I dunno, this was a minor technicality complaint, otherwise Awesome Show, Great Job!
Also, someone mentioned this in another post, but it'd be nice to see some more British tv coverage! Which I know is difficult because North American accessibility and all that, but when I watched the series finale of The Thick Of It I had so much flail and !!!!!! in me and no where to turn to!
I spent more time catching up on TV rather than films, mainly a Jeeves & Wooster (it's great, guys) marathon and a Doctor Who rewatch of all 4 series in preperation for the finale (SHAKING AND CRYING) . Sherlock Holmes was actually the only film I saw all holiday! And it was great! Yeah bits of plot we're kinda "what, really?", but RDJ was RDJ-rific obvs, and minority opinion alert: Jude Law was fantastic! (hated Rachel McAdams though, kinda hope they replace her or do without in the event of another film)
(Actually, I lied. I also saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and it was expectedly Gilliam-y!)
I can't even remember how many times my dad and I had to rewind and rewatch bits of Primer to try and get it straight. Crazy mindfuck! And summed up pretty well in this xkcd comic.
You know, I love RDJ, I really do, and he was pretty great in Sherlock Holmes, which was all around a pretty good and fun movie! But now that you've put the idea of David Tennant as Holmes in my head it won't go away! Like, in addition to having perfect charisma and acting ability (obvs), and being the champion of my heart, he's even almost an exact embodiment of how Holmes is physically described in the books. !!! Mind blown. Why did this not happen???
So I realised only last week during my annual christmas movie binge that January Jones is actually (haha) in Love, Actually? I don't know why this is such a revelation! But since we're talking about January Jones I'd thought I'd mention my admittedly spare anecdote!
As for additional awesome people, I don't know what The Videogum Stance on Doctor Who is, but David Tennant has been fucking brilliant this year and the last 3 as The Doctor. So that's the posish (I got the Jeeves & Wooster box set for Christmas).
Happy Holidays monsters!! Imagine Christmas wishes shooting out of your eyes!
Christmas morning, after all the presents are opened, and what movie does my family decide to watch? Inglourious Basterds, obviously. This Is Your Christmas.
I was also 10! And I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. Weird that 10 year old me was one who loved stuff like Cats & Dogs, but also Made In Canada (any other canadians remember that show? it was my favourite thing ever!) and The West Wing (how much of that stuff went way the fuck over my head?).
I decided after reading what it was actually about that I had zero interest in seeing Avatar at all, so I went to see Up In The Air instead! And it was pretty good! Although one thing I can definitely say it lacked was $300 million special effects! (though I totally lots of loved all over that opening credits sequence)
Though having not seen Avatar, and kind of not planning to anytime soon, can I just say that the naming of the planet as Pandora really annoys me? Like, you spent how long coming up with a whole world in Tolkein-esque detail, but you still named your planet with a weak and overwrought metaphor? (this is a very nit-picky complaint, I apologise. that is all.)
I only realised on a trip to New York this summer that pastrami is actually the same thing as smoked meat? Americans are weird! And that said, as a loyal Canadian and professor food over here, Montreal definitely has superior smoked meat.
I'm definitely gonna see this, cause Alan Doyle is playing Alan-a-Dale, and god help me if my childhood love of Great Big Sea doesn't trump anything remotely questionable about this movie.
also, and I hate myself for this, but minor nitpick? this was actually episode 3, LA X, Part 2 was episode 2.
[witty comment about who this might look like here]
He knows.
we need some Poster Boy up in here:
also, has Jesse Eisenjerk always been that attractive? I'm just saying that was a Very Nice Picture
"Cut off the head!"
And as for more impossibly tiring and absurd love stories, I challenge you to watch Silk, Gabe. First movie I ever returned without finishing.
god, I actually used to be terrified when those rock faces blew your Zoombinis off the bridge (and that challenge when you have to get them up trees). I also remember playing this game in French? (side-affect of living on the border of Quebec?)
Season 3 is a little "meh" (though there are great parts!) but after the first two seasons you come to love the characters so much that it almost doesn't matter, and seasons 4 and 5 are craaaazy in the BEST way. Though if anything you have to watch Lost just for the !!!!-ness of Benjamin Linus/Michael Emerson. (and TIME TRAVEL, of course)
Also, someone mentioned this in another post, but it'd be nice to see some more British tv coverage! Which I know is difficult because North American accessibility and all that, but when I watched the series finale of The Thick Of It I had so much flail and !!!!!! in me and no where to turn to!
Sherlock Holmes was actually the only film I saw all holiday! And it was great! Yeah bits of plot we're kinda "what, really?", but RDJ was RDJ-rific obvs, and minority opinion alert: Jude Law was fantastic! (hated Rachel McAdams though, kinda hope they replace her or do without in the event of another film)
(Actually, I lied. I also saw The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and it was expectedly Gilliam-y!)
As for additional awesome people, I don't know what The Videogum Stance on Doctor Who is, but David Tennant has been fucking brilliant this year and the last 3 as The Doctor. So that's the posish (I got the Jeeves & Wooster box set for Christmas).
Christmas morning, after all the presents are opened, and what movie does my family decide to watch? Inglourious Basterds, obviously. This Is Your Christmas.
Though having not seen Avatar, and kind of not planning to anytime soon, can I just say that the naming of the planet as Pandora really annoys me? Like, you spent how long coming up with a whole world in Tolkein-esque detail, but you still named your planet with a weak and overwrought metaphor? (this is a very nit-picky complaint, I apologise. that is all.)