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koolmoecraig:

Well we are definitely mediocre and personality challenged, no borderline about it.  Also, we weren't nervous so it must be the chemistry.

Thanks!

shmokes:

If I'm not mistaken borderline personality is a diagnosable personality disorder, like obsessive compulsive personality disorder or bipolar personality disorder.  I don't remember any specifics about it, though.  It's been years since psych 101.

koolmoecraig:

I am mildly obsessive compulsive as well.

shmokes:

I finally watched it and, frankly, I thought the first half was hilarious.  Then you started arguing about the uninteresting details of your lives and how one or the other wasn't taking your new project seriously enough, and that was just boring.  It's the type of stuff that is funny when you watch it, or when your personal friends watch it, because you all have a personal connection to the material, but everyone else is left scratching their heads.

Also the gimmick doesn't really do it for me.  I don't love the title, but it's memorable at least.  I personally think you ought to come up with something a bit cleverer, but if you keep the expletive, at least ditch the bird.  The flipping the camera off thing just comes off as hackneyed.  And it just looks really dumb.

Here are my suggestions:

1- Stick to reviewing movies.  The Man of the year and Marine reviews were really good.  If you kept that kind of quality up throughout you'd gain an audience. 
2- Consider changing the name.
3- Ditch flipping off the camera.  I know that it's a play on the Siskel/Ebert/Roeper thumbs up/down mechanic.  But it's dumb.  It falls completely flat and the only thing worse than not being funny is being unfunny.
4- Don't say "---fudgesicle--- this movie" about every ---smurfy--- movie.  Save it up.  You should be going through whole episodes of ---smurfy--- movies where you don't say it a single time.  "---fudgesicle--- this Movie" should be a privilege reserved for maybe the 10 worst movies of the year.  When you say it after every movie you just numb your audience to it.  Think about it -- you are saying it to be funny . . . but what's funny about a punchline that is always expected? 
5- Don't necessarily consider changing the name.  I don't know.  It's kind of growing on me.  But ditch the flipping off thing.  Seriously, it's lame.
6- Get rid of the harp too.  It comes off as canned.

shmokes:

Oh yeah . . . I meant to mention that you also look like Kevin Spacey.  You should learn to do a great impression of him if you haven't already.  I know you do stand-up and seeing you do Kevin Spacey would kill every time.  It's the sort of cheap joke that would piss the other comics off because it wouldn't even have to be very funny and it would always get the audience roaring.

Come to think of it, when you review Kevin Spacey movies in future episodes of ---fudgesicle--- This movie, you should talk about the movie as though you were in it.  You're partner should berate you for making such a lame movie.And considering the quality of recent fare like K-Pax and Life of David Gail and Pay it Forward, you will probably have plenty of opportunities to review Kevin Spacey movies.  But at any other time you shouldn't even mention your likeness to Kevin Spacey.

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