To Boldly Flee is the four year anniversary of the website thatguywiththeglasses. While its predecessors, Kickassia and Suburban Knights were parodies of War and Fantasy genres To Boldly Flee now taking away from everything Science Fiction. The plot is one of the most meta things I've ever watched, so it maybe a little hard to understand from my description, but I'll try my best. One year after the death of Ma-ti in the last movie the Nostalgia Critic is still in mourning. The Critic, after consulting with several people, learns that Ma-ti may be dead but his character (Who he was, his soul) is still out there. Namely in the mind of Spoony and in space. At the same time various other reviewers learn that something really big has appeared in space. The plots converges and we learn that the thing in space is the Plot Hole. A strange force that is making inconsistencies throughout the world. NC, along with many other Channel Awesome celibates, head to the Plot Hole to try and stop it and hopefully figure out what happened too Ma-ti. But throughout this adventure they must face off the Executor, the man who wants to control the Plot Hole and everything else really.
I just can't bring myself to not love this movie. Science Fiction is one of my favorite genres and I love referential humor so this made me laugh a lot. Sadly if you don't know the movies they're playing off of then a lot of the humor may fall flat on you. But don't get me wrong, I still don't know what that Edward thing JO was doing is from, but I still think it's hilarious. So I guess it really depends on the person.
As said earlier the story is very meta with the movie having an actual Plot Hole in it. I can understand why some people may be turned off by this idea because, let's be real, it's weird concept. I personally think it's a really cool idea, the characters trying to fight the writing problems in their own story. One of the big idea To Boldly Flee talks about is the place of reviewers in the film industry. And to my shock as the film goes I slowly begin to question it too along with the characters of Luke and Cinema Snob. It really engrosses you into there problem.
The acting was all around good, and all the characters got to do something big in the movie. Some characters are mostly in the background aside from their five minutes of fame like Micky and Sage, but they're always there so that's good.
Don't expect much in the way of special effects, but I will say as a big AT4W fan seeing a higher budget Mechakara was wonderful.
When I had first watched Kickassia I had only known the Nostalgia Critic. Because of that movie, I learned about all of these other great funny people out there. Seeing the people I've watched for years come together always makes me happy so I can't give it a negative review to this. If you don't like the genre and the concept sounds too stupid then don't watch this movie. If you do like the way it sounds then go and watch it. I can't recommend To Boldly Flee enough.
To Boldly Flee was released in 8 part which you can watch down below.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Review: Transformers Age of Extinction
Warning: This is just my option from one viewing of this movie. If I watch it more then I may get a different option but this is what I think right now. If you have a different option then leave it in the comments.
I just got back from seeing the new Transformers movie. Before I get into my thought's let me just say my history with this movie series. I watched the first one on dvd and thought it was a fun, stupid, action movie. I watched the seconded one in theaters and really disliked it, to the point that I didn't even watch the third. So why did I see this one? The Dino-bots. Really, that's the only reason.The fact that Sam Witwicky was not in this one was also a big selling point.
So my thoughts: it could have been so much better. It would be one thing if it was just bad but it wasn't. It had so much possible good in it. The idea of have greatness coming from mistakes is a good theme but it could have been better executed. Mark Wahlberg was a good actor in this movie and I understand why he is helping the Auto-bots and why they help him back, but we did not need was daughter and her boyfriend throughout the whole thing. The sound track was not all well done either. The biggest example is when the Dino-bots come in to the big final fight to save the day. The music should have big and bold to make the audience get pumped, but it does not. It the hero's are losing music. You know what I'm talking about. The slow, loud, booming sound that plays when the hero starts to lose before the big win. That song was played through most of the fight even when the good guys were winning. This movie also took 3 hours too sit through. Now I have nothing against long running times. A movie should take as long as it needs. This movie takes the time it needs and then another hour and a half. Like the movies before this their is way to much comic relief. The action is cool sometimes, but it has one main problem. The camera is to close to the action so we can't actually see what is going on. Now I know this next think sounds hypocritical but hear me out. The Dino-bots were just a gimmick to put people in the seats. The movie had a great build up to were the Dino-bots will come from but they don't go that route. After watching the whole movie I still don't know were they came from or why they transform into dinosaurs instead of cars. And even when they do show up their just kind of there. Kill a few bad robots and then leave is all they do. So anyway if you were planning on going to see it just to see some robot dinosaurs be in a huge awesome fight, you'll just be disappointed like me.
I just got back from seeing the new Transformers movie. Before I get into my thought's let me just say my history with this movie series. I watched the first one on dvd and thought it was a fun, stupid, action movie. I watched the seconded one in theaters and really disliked it, to the point that I didn't even watch the third. So why did I see this one? The Dino-bots. Really, that's the only reason.The fact that Sam Witwicky was not in this one was also a big selling point.
So my thoughts: it could have been so much better. It would be one thing if it was just bad but it wasn't. It had so much possible good in it. The idea of have greatness coming from mistakes is a good theme but it could have been better executed. Mark Wahlberg was a good actor in this movie and I understand why he is helping the Auto-bots and why they help him back, but we did not need was daughter and her boyfriend throughout the whole thing. The sound track was not all well done either. The biggest example is when the Dino-bots come in to the big final fight to save the day. The music should have big and bold to make the audience get pumped, but it does not. It the hero's are losing music. You know what I'm talking about. The slow, loud, booming sound that plays when the hero starts to lose before the big win. That song was played through most of the fight even when the good guys were winning. This movie also took 3 hours too sit through. Now I have nothing against long running times. A movie should take as long as it needs. This movie takes the time it needs and then another hour and a half. Like the movies before this their is way to much comic relief. The action is cool sometimes, but it has one main problem. The camera is to close to the action so we can't actually see what is going on. Now I know this next think sounds hypocritical but hear me out. The Dino-bots were just a gimmick to put people in the seats. The movie had a great build up to were the Dino-bots will come from but they don't go that route. After watching the whole movie I still don't know were they came from or why they transform into dinosaurs instead of cars. And even when they do show up their just kind of there. Kill a few bad robots and then leave is all they do. So anyway if you were planning on going to see it just to see some robot dinosaurs be in a huge awesome fight, you'll just be disappointed like me.
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