"Wreck-It-Ralph" Review
Brad and Jake review "Wreck-It-Ralph." I hear in Ebert's review, he mostly talks about how the movie isn't art. I kid.
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Looks like I'm waiting until this makes the eventual run on cable tv. I was hoping Silverman wasn't going to be in the movie all that much as well. She's up there with Adam Sandler at the top of the most annoying list.
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Sarah Silverman shows her vag in the movie "Take This Waltz." It's on screen for like 20 minutes, and she spreads 'em too. It's lovely.
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Brad's face was bare until after the ad-break when suddenly he was be-spectacled! From this I can only determine that during the ad-break shit got frisky but while Brad was sucking Jake off he got a little bored and decided he wanted to read Jake's shirt, thus requiring his glasses.
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HWAT? :p
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I was annoyed by the Silverman character at first, but I really started to warm up to her as the movie went on. I actually got emotionally invested in her and Ralph's story. I feel like they both get equal weight because they're two outcasts in their world working together to fit in. I thought the movie was fantastic overall, though I would have appreciated more game hopping and fewer corny jokes.
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Nice Adventure Time shirt Jake. You a fan?
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I had a feeling when I saw the trailers the movie would end up squandering it's premise and focusing on the annoying character. My pessimism isn't always wrong.
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I expected to hate the parts with Silverman as well, but surprisingly I thought the movie became better once specific references were out of the way.
I expected to like the Bad-Anon meeting the most, but aside from Zangief's lines and Satan saying "It's Satine, actually" I was wondering why they gave characters with no personality in their respective games dialogue, but not characters like Dr. Robotnik with huge personality. I'm hoping there's a deleted scene with him talking. And I'm guessing Sonic being the voice of caution against "going turbo" was supposed to be an ironic in-joke, but I was a little dissapointed you see his character so much (rings joke, which I too liked, at the house party, end credits, caution kiosk, etc.) but don't get that much of his personality. I'm a bit biased, I've been playing those old Sonic games recently since all we had was Nintendos when I was little.
The recurring Q-Bert reference was a nice touch, and I smiled whenever the Felix characters had that jerky 8-bit movement, but the references I thought were more cute than laugh-out-loud funny.
I did think Jane Lynch's character was the best part, I laughed out loud whenever she was on-screen (you forgot to mention what happened to that wedding bug, which was the biggest laugh I had), but I actually did care and feel bad for Silverman's character, so I got that out of it, too.
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Not sure if you're aware, but for the Japanese release, the movie is actually TITLED "Sugar Rush", and all the marketing is focused on the racers.
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Liked this a lot. I thought Silverman was going to sink this, but add me to the ones who thinks her character actually became more and more likable as the movie went on. And yeah, they did a great job using all the established characters.
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Forgot to ask if we could expect a Man With The Iron Fists review. I demand Kung Tai Ted themed review of it!
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I was wondering about that, too. I thought Brad would be all over it, seemed like his type of movie (from what I know of him never having been even within a 30 mile radius of the same room).
I saw the WhattheFlick review for it, and apparently it was cut from 4 hours to be 90 minutes or something ridiculous. Sooo... not looking good before the director's cut is out, although the editor in chief of Rottentomatoes, Matt Atchittie (sp?) gave it 7.5 anyway.
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it doesn't matter what the director says about his film, its called death of the author bro
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I guess it's just taste, I don't mind Sarah Silverman's performance for the most part so I pretty much enjoyed the entire flick. There was a period during the 2nd act that felt kinda slow, but I was thoroughly satisfied by the end.
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I was one of the people who didn't mind Sarah Silverman's character, but you guys have a point that it lost its focus once it went to sugar rush. but for the most part, for me personally, I thought it was a great movie. It couldve been better, it shouldve had more to it...but even after some disappointment, it isnt a bad movie and I do recommend it to anyone even remotely interested. and the 3D was good, too.
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You guys forgot to talk about your thoughts on the short film Paperman. Did you like it?
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They did, like at the tail end of the video
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They said they liked it I thought. Pretty sure they talked about how they liked it more than the actual movie, and how the mix of animation styles was cool, unless that was a different review I watched (I did watch a few just today).
Other than the assertion about it being better than the movie, I agree with them. I think. That or I agree with whatever review I was watching, but pretty sure they covered it.
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Anything that has sarah silverjew in it is unwatchable.
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Shut your Nazi mouth.
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Dude. All the guy said is that she's a Jew, which is true. That does not automatically mean he's a Nazi. And he didn't say "send her to the showers" or "throw her in the oven", he just put the word "Jew" in her name. You know, like author "Jewdy Blume", that kind of thing. And I also like to say if a famous person is Jewish if I see them in something. I also say "British Babe!" or "Aussie Babe" if I happen to see one. How the hell does that make him, me, and others like us Nazis?! Christ, people like you are so fucking narrow minded. I hate it when people make statements like that. Oh well. Enough about that. I liked this movie and that's what matters. SS did not ruin it for me, either, but she is normally arrogant and obnoxious and usually goes out of her way to be offensive. And that sucks. She is overrated, one-track-minded, and has completely sold out. And that also really sucks!
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So thus far, most comments I've seen hold my opinion and have basically just respectfully disagreed, as I did, with how annoyed you were with Silverman's character, but more or less seen where you were coming from.
No mentions of TDKR or Tree of Life yet. Brad, I think your commentors so far have received at least GEDs or higher. ... and because of that, I'm a bit bored with these comments. I hate to say it but I hope Josh covers this in the next Radiorome so I can laugh at troll comments again, or see you guys make another nerd rage video.
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Sarah Silverman wasn't nearly so annoying in this as she might have been.
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Suddenly, I want a AMC theater in my town!
I just saw Argo tonight, and Brad, I think you'll love it. It's a very late-70s and early-80s feel to it. Plus, it's a little affectionate toward the Star Wars rip-offs of the era. Plus, it's part spy-drama and part Hollywood-comedy.
I can't wait to see Skyfall next week. Judging by all the good reviews it's been getting plus its box office success in the UK, it might be Daniel Craig's best Bond film since Casino Royale. Thought I might ask you this Brad so I don't forget. Have you heard Adele's title song yet and what do you think of it? I don't listen to her music a lot even though my Dad enjoys listening to her music, but I thought the song was damn good and it harkens back to the early Bond music of the 60s and 70s.
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I really enjoyed this film; Silverman wasn't as annoying as I figured she was going to be. It played to her character, and I foudn the whole movie to be plenty enjoyable.
(Though when Turbo shows up fused with the bug, I kept expecting him to brag about creating a master race of spiiiiderrrrs...)
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Haven't seen the flick. Have no idea what you're talking about, but perhaps when we aren't completely broke we might get to see it. I have kids; my life at the movies has mostly ended, at least for a while. They've gotta hit Netflix before I see them. And if I didn't just look up the movie and see its PG-rated, I couldn't tell if anything here is kid friendly or not, knowing your previous track record.
Just thought I'd investigate what you were up to, Brad. Now I know. I think I may check in from time to time. Hope you're doing well. Never met you, Jake. Best wishes.
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Skyfall is showing a midnight around the country on Wednesday night in IMAX. Not sure if it's also doing theatre midnights.
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I'm glad to see yall have pretty much the same out look as I do on Sarah Silverman! I'm sure she'd be the only thing that's make this movie annoying for me as the trailers look awesome but the one released scene that has her introduction gave me a headache!
I can't wait for you 2's review of the Crudes! Nic Cage in a CGI animated movie! This will be legendary!
I've Seen Despicable me and yeah the little yellow minions are the funniest characters next to the main character's assistant the old Cockney mad scientist! The main guy is like a really subtle Dr. Evil so out side showing him being annoyed by some one there isn't much they could show of him with out just showing clips from the movie which would give away plot points and they seem to still be in the teaser phase!
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Hey Jake, actually, the movie is called 'Sugar Rush' is japan and is marketed more with the Silverman character as the focus. I'm not sure if that makes Japan more honest or more perverted though...
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Capcom actually made them take Dr. Wily out of the self help scene. I don't know why but there's pictures from the original version.
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However, they did have Dr. Robotnik in the self-help scene. Since Wily is kind of similar to King Candy, both being old bald guys with crazy hair, maybe the film-makers were worried about the younger audience members getting confused between the two?
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Jerrid's Voltron ringtone going off was AMAZING.
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And count me in as another who cannot stand Sarah Silverman. Knowing that she's much more prominently featured makes me far less interested in this film than I had been.
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Reminds me of the Jackie Chan cartoon in which he was the hero of the show in the beginning had fun action scenes but it later became a show about Jade the little girl that never listened to him in latter season it was her and Uncle that kept beating all the demons while Jackie fought off the 3/4 same mooks.
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Guys...Brad...Jake...looks like you can't say it...then I'll say it for you:
This movie wasn't bad. It was a wasted potential. Here, a full description on one sentence. Wasted potential.
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Jakes an Adventure Time fan? Awesome
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Sarah Silverman ruining what could have been a good movie? BIG SURPRISE.
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Tommy: are there people out there who sincerely don't like Adventure Time? It's time to burn the sinners!
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I love Jake and his big buttery nipples.
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pfft tim and eric are hilarious i don't know what your talking about XD
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I thought the movie was fine. The Sarah Silverman character wasn't as annoying as I thought she would be, in fact the character gets reigned in a lot before she goes overboard. It's a matter of preference. I thought the character was harmless. Overall, I thought the movie was a great love letter to gamer culture and I want this movie to succeed so they make a sequel. If the movie does well maybe the real video game companies will license more content from their franchises and we'll see more in-depth interactions with established game characters. Definitely recommended. 3D was good as well.
Also, the short film 'Paperman' at the beginning was really good and beautiful to look at.
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I can't stand Sarah Silverman either. I have no idea how she was picked for this role. On a list of actresses to play a little girl in a Disney movie, Silverman should not even be in the top five thousand. That said, I tolerated her in the movie better than they did, though I do understand their views about the second half of the film. I do recommend it. All the bits and cameos from classic arcade games were fantastic.
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The Tim and Eric movie wasn't any good, but I really like the show. I don't think it's something you can "not get" though. I like Tim and Eric stuff in the same way that I Youtube Poops. They're stupid as hell on purpose, and I'm ok with that.
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to me that Heros quest game seams more like a stab at Starcraft, how is it more like gears? because the girl looks like the one from gears?
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I thought the movie was enjoyable. If nothing else my inner fanboy is happy with the Metal Gear Solid reference they threw in.
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Agreed, I really wish that the whole movie didnt take place in one machine. I was hoping for more of a movie with Ralph jumping through all of the machines. Japan really do the right thing by calling this "Sugar Rush"
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If the director tells you what the movie means, the discussion is not necessarily over, because the thing about art is it can get away from you and mean things you never intended for it to mean. Sometimes as an artist, you're telling a story that you don't fully comprehend — maybe because you're adapting someone else's work, maybe because you don't fully understand yourself (or in dire circumstances, you're just a shitty communicator who doesn't understand the language of film) — and it isn't until later that you discover what you were instinctively trying to communicate the whole time; your movie means something different than you thought it did. And sometimes the movie successfully conveys the message, even though you didn't realize what that message was when you were making it; your instincts carried you through.
Oh, shoot! I forgot this review was for Wreck-It Ralph!
Dino-tastic. That's not even a pun. It's just an uninspired portmanteau.
Really, is Monsters, Inc. a 3-D conversion? I wouldn't think they'd do a conversion. I'd think they'd just go back to the original 3-D project files and render an authentic 3-D version.
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Thanks, Malick.
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How is that Malick? This is a very real thing. It's known as the Intentional Fallacy. The author's intent does not hold the actual meaning of a work: the work itself holds the meaning. And the director can think his film means one thing when it actually means something totally different. With /Black Swan/, for instance, Aronofsky was trying to make his own version of a film called /Perfect Blue/. He had the pieces available, but he wasn't really sure what they meant or how they were supposed to fit together, so a lot of the plot elements carry a subtext that the director does not comprehend and ends up abandoning by the end of the film, various plot threads get dropped, and it's a mess.
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As my old English teacher once said to my class, "People are so used to reading between the lines they start to not read the lines anymore."
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You really don't get it though, you think it's just "anti humor" nonsense but tim and eric are consistent in their absurdity and parody every form of media, maybe you should read the following for a better understanding:
http://www.cathyafisher.com/2011/12/i-dont-get-it-a-guide-to-tim-eric-for-mem-mems-and-pep-peps.html
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Well this type of comment took longer than I thought it would.
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It's not that they don't get it. It's that the humor isn't funny. At all. Ironically or actually. If you like it, fine. But saying "You don't get it" because another doesn't find it funny is inaccurate. They get the joke. The joke isn't funny.
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Eh, I didn't mind the Silverman character. They were going for the annoying-but-sympathetic approach, which did fine for me but not for you or Jake. From the trailer, I actually got the impression from the trailer that Ralph would spend most of the movie in "Hero's Duty" where he learned to fight and adjust to "modern" gaming. But a sequel where he explored more arcade machines would be awesome.
I liked "Paperman" and its unique animation style, but I wouldn't call it better than the film. I'd place it more than "mild recommendation."
No mention of the scene with the Laffy Taffy? Take the dialogue out of context and... dang.
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To be honest, I didn't find Sarah Silverman's character to be annoying in the least. This tiny annoying little kid felt like a good foil for Ralph, and it was the source of a lot of heart in the movie. Additionally, her problems in her own game served as a good contrast to Ralph's stuff and showed that he doesn't have it so bad.
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Like many of the others here, I actually thought the film was pretty good. I have no background regarding Sarah Silverman so I just followed along with what the film was conveying to me was her character.
What truly makes this unfortunate is there will be people like you who hate Sarah Silverman so much that no matter what she's in or how good it actually could be, you can't enjoy it. You just can't get her real persona out of your mind.
And because of that we don't get real opinions on the heartfelt moments or the 'twist' at the end of the film from you guys. Oh well.
Looking forward to more of your theatrical film reviews!
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Um, no, I liked "School of Rock," I liked her on "The Larry Sanders Show," her show made me laugh a couple times. I never said I hated her. I said she's hit or miss for me. That's hardly saying that I hate everything she has to do with.
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Wow.... I'm amazed at how shallow so many people are that they think "This person is voicing a character? Well this movie just became lame."
People going in with expectations seems to be one of the biggest killers of a good time.
Seeing a movie like this that is an actual movie for gamers that has references and terms that a gamer knows about, and with a plot that actually has a heart to it, and seeing it get called things like "wasted potential", is heartbreaking for me. And not heartbreaking because I love this movie, but heartbreaking because people really are that jaded and hard to satisfy.
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Hey dude. I've liked plenty of movies Sarah Silverman was in, and I even laughed a time or two at her show. I found her character in this movie annoying, and I would have found the character annoying regardless of who was playing her. Not once in this review did I ever say "this movie sucks just because Sarah Silverman is in it." In fact, I still recommended the movie, despite that character.
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It's amazing what some people chose to hear. Somehow "this character was annoying, but I still recommend the movie" turned into "I dislike this movie just because Sarah Silverman is in it."
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I found it kinda weird that a movie with obscure references to Tapper and Metal gear solid had groan inducing jokes like Silvermans character making fun of the name "Hero's Duty" (duty, doody, get it?
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I found it kinda weird that a movie with obscure references to Tapper and Metal gear solid had groan inducing jokes like Silvermans character making fun of the name "Hero's Duty" (duty, doody, get it?
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I personally loved Wreck-It Ralph. I like all the characters. Even Gene though he's a dick. I thought the movie was great. Silverman's character didn't bother me because she was supposed to be a childish and juvenile character. It worked in the context of her game and in her character and Silverman does pull off the childish juvenile humor. I would have liked more exploration of the other games as well but I don't think the Sugar Rush aspect ruins it. I also don't think it becomes focused on Vanelope either. The story follows Ralph's journey and I would have prefered a longer journey but I loved what I got. Could it have been better? Yeah. Was I disappointed? No. I thought it was great.
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I never listen to what the director says because they could be lying.
Also, the badguys actually being nice is art imitating life, people who play villains are on average way nicer, which makes sense if you think about it, you have to be a good sport to accept the scumbag role.
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You obviously haven't been to many theaters. I went to one in Humboldt county. The exit, right under the fucking screen. you had to walk down a ramp to get to it. lol
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Had the movie gone the jumping through games route, it would have been extremely boring in a hurry. It probably needed more of that, but too much would have annoyed me to no end.
Honestly, Sarah Silverman did not sink the movie for me the way it did for you. Her character provided a enough complexity to an otherwise dull movie.
I think Vanellope is my favorite character in the movie. She showed more growth and complexity than Jane Lynch's character ever did.
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On Tim and Eric, I won't sit here and say you "didn't get it" because it's not for you to get. It's not for anyone to "get." You watch Tim and Eric the same way you would watch a YoutubePoop. Of course it's stupid and pointless, because it's "absurdist" humor which has been since the early days of theater. It's just not your taste, fine. Doesn't mean us fans can't laugh at a bunch of dudes making assholes of themselves
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THANK YOU! Someone understands that Tim and Eric are a fucking abortion to comedy! Those two fuckbags dont belong in front of a camera or even in contact with people! That "anti-comedy" bullshit isnt funny at all!
I wanna see Wreck it Ralph, and Despicable Me, so the review gives me confirmation. Still good to see some sense in the world!
I encourage you guys to insult those walking abortions tim and Eric constantly! Please do a video where you just slam Tim and Eric as the walking abortions they are! The more those two fucking morons get insulted the better!
Great review guys! I liked it!
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