On Cinema at the Cinema on ilxor.com

which as Trekkie and non-Trekkie alike knows, takes place in San Francisco

haha

This playlist seems to comprise the definitive chronology of the On Cinema-verse (countdown to exasperated sic post detailing, at length,what's missing from said hi playlist): https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT5PdjVF-ipL5SPXbmZXzfBchXVR8JTo

(No idea where that rogue 'hi' came from so that would be sic gripe #1., I'm sure.)

I graciously accept your thanks for my recommending that playlist to you

I completely don’t get this

Popcorn Classic is a really useful term for a certain kind of movie.

I thank u, sic, although I spent a long while watching a different, much less complete YT playlist (after starting on the even less complete playlist on that one website) so I just wanted to make sure no one else made my stupid mistake. I give this latest playlist five bags of popcorn and a hundred cups of soda.

The later seasons of Decker aren’t on youtube btw, but iirc they stop interacting directly with On Cinema episodes so it doesn’t stand out badly

(The two Ant-Man movies also don’t appear in the playlist, but do very much affect On Cinema video and twitter content )

forks if you were starting at an early point, try dropping in on a S4 or 5 episode, when the Tim vs Gregg tone is better established & there’s loads of backstory, to see if it pings any better with you

eh I think starting in the beginning obscures what a slow build this show is

er starting in the MIDDLE

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

"Tastes like a mouthful of dirt."

Todd Rundgren appears in the last episode of Decker...I knew that voice was familiar!!

"Why was he fired, did he forget to wipe down the microwave?"

if someone "completely doesn't get" the show at the beginning, pushing on through twenty episodes of more of the same is probably going to bore and annoy them

oh yeah, the full real-time Trial Of Tim Heidecker coverage isn't on youtube either, just 10-15 minutes highlights from each day (iirc that's all I watched, then switched over for the full verdict)

all 5 hours right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJ

oops. I meant right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWJcqISKJQ

the trial is astonishingly great. you HAVE to watch the full thing and not just the highlights.

the whole of season 9 seems to be an extended satire on how annoying having dinner service at the Alamo Drafthouses is

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 11:24 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)

the satire of the kind of fake fancy junk food you get in north america - e.g. everything coming with truffle aoili - was very good

I would say you can watch highlights of the trial until Tim fires his attorney and starts defending himself, then switch to the full thing

no!!!!!!!

a couple of my old acquaintances recently started a video game podcast. I listened to one episode and thought about On Cinema the whole time. one of the guys has probably played 20,000 hours of video games but has absolutely nothing insightful to say about them, it's so spot on that I've almost come to view Tim & Gregg as real people

Has anyone started an On On Cinema at the Cinema podcast yet

lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK_iydsYSiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA&list=WL&index=5

I just watched shakey's clip the other day. It wouldn't be nearly as beautiful without the interviewer's overt lack of interest in Gregg's banalities.

Can you guess which album changed Gregg's life?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4ZLquouHc

kurt roder

trying to get into this... its humour is not completely lost on me but it’s also extremely fn boring... hmm

It's probably okay to just stop if you don't feel like it's a five-bagger.

"Do you find yourself struggling with..."

"...mental health issues?"

think ill stay at it for a lil longer

What have you watched / listened to so far?

Me, I just bore witness to the cancellation of Decker season 3 this evening, so it's difficult to put myself back in the headspace of several years ago when I watched a handful of On Cinemas and said 'IDGI'. Suffice it say, I'm glad I got over myself.

now we will never know if Agent Kington would have defeated Dracula

The effects at Dracula's castle were a whole 'nother level of special. I particularly liked the table that followed Gregg around for a while.

On Cinema On How To Behave At The Cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuw80sbFZA

hey guys

"as we all remember so many years ago, a couple of years ago we had the death of osama bin laden, killed in action after we spent years hunting him for the murder of 9/11"

I would've liked to see Sasha Baron Cohen play the Osama role

this is already amazing by episode 9

omg I am on the trial now

"What led to your prior arrests?"
"... Misunderstandings"

"Objection! ... Tonguetwister?"

i'm pretty much where brad is, i think - i watched all of S1 in one sitting and loved it. absolutely drove my partner crazy though, i think.

i love all the talk about how good it is to see some famous, sometimes washed up, actor "back on the big screen"

i love all the talk about how good it is to see some famous, sometimes washed up, actor "back on the big screen"

― i was once Z S, but now i am larry buttz (Karl Malone), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:32 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

we haven't seen russell crowe in a while

"It's great seeing Brendan Frasier back in a movie again, I've always loved him, and I love looking at Katherine Heigl, she's just the kind of woman I like, in terms of beauty, and sex appeal, she is hot, she is a 10, actually"

"If you've seen the movie, you'd know it's an animated movie about a squirrel"

"You have to admit the technology now is so good that some of these animated movies look like real life"

"Some of them do, but when a squirrel starts talking, you generally know it's an animated picture"

You imagine there ought to be a real life Gregg out there, absolutely ecstatic about the selection of dusty old extremely forgettable VHS movies in some bin at a thrift shop, next to a some CD cases of old computer software, AOL trials, Yanni, baseball games for PS2 etc.

Thank u for reminding me of the Nut Job review, frogs. Tim's overreaction to Gregg's joke about it being the name of Tim's autobiography was my first big On Cinema laugh.

Just recently saw some Neil Hamburger footage for the first time since I started watching this show. I don't know how I'd forgotten the extreme disparity between the two sides of Turkington, but it was a stark reminder.

I love that they generally never review actual hits, tentpole pics, oscar winners etc. not even huge mainstream garbage (MCU, Star Wars, Pixar etc) its almost always b-list shit that instantly vanishes from the public consciousness.

aka popcorn classics!

he's the only person in the show's history to give actual movie reviews lol

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107954

Return of the Roller Blade Seven
starring joe estevez, frank stallone, and more.
1.9/10 bags of imdb popcorn.

211 people voted. 33 people gave it 10 bags of popcorn, including the review below. unfortunately 102 people gave it 1 bag of popcorn.

This is a Great Film!
uscfilmgrad200021 February 2004
I am always amused when anonymous reviewers attempt to criticizes actors and filmmakers here at IMDb.com. Most of the time I simply read the reviews and chuckle. But, in regard to this film, I feel like I really need to put in my two cents, because it seems that most of the reviewers are either missing the point of this film or simply want to attack the filmmakers, (for whatever reason).

First of all, I am grad film student at U.S.C. In one of my classes we went through the three films associated with the project, THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, RETURN OF THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, and LEGEND OF THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, frame by frame. So, I believe I know these films as well as anyone, expect maybe the filmmaker. And, 'Yes,' I have gone to both Scott Shaw's and Donald G. Jackson's websites and have read what they have had to say about these films. What I have to say is that they accomplished exactly what they set out to do; to make a completely nontraditional, art based, film.

Now, I am not saying this is the greatest film every. What I am saying, however, is that the filmmakers used every element at their disposable to, as they put it, 'Push the envelope,' of film-making.

If you look at what Donald G. Jackson and Scott Shaw accomplished in this film, with out any of the computer technology which became available after this film was made, they did one hell of a great job. The camera work is great, the editing is great, the story line, (or lack of one), is also great. What I think they really accomplished is to be the first to bring an MTV style of edit to a full length feature film. Or, three in this case.

Not only are these films visually inspirational, but they brought together a great cast. I mean look at the acting careers of Karen Black, Don Stroud, and William Smith. If actors of that caliber embraced this film, how is a person who has no background in either acting or film-making qualified to criticize it. I mean you may not like Indy Art Films, but a Scott Shaw says on his website, 'You may not like the art of Picasso but you can not say it is not art!'

There are a lot of reviewers who claim they could make a better film. As I always say to people who make this claim, 'Let's see it.'

I briefly met both Scott Shaw and Donald G. Jackson when they gave a lecture at the DGA, Director's Guild of America, a couple of years ago. They were both very nice men and have held true to their ideal of pushing the boundaries of traditional film-making. I believe they are both an inspiration and the nonsensical criticism of this film should cease. People should open their eyes and see this movie for what it is, an inspiration to Indy Filmmaker that you can make a nontraditional film and push the boundaries of the accepted and the expected.

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just the other night i was just watching beach babes from beyond starring joe estevez

there was some episode of on cinema (or an oscar special) where they listed out dozens of joe estevez films, and at the time i thought it was a gag, but...those movies are real

i'm finally watching a bunch of seasons i missed and worked my way back to the Trial-era. amazing to see greg and mark spend an entire episode shittalking tim, only to have joe get a call from tim and reveal that he'll be out of jail tomorrow. joe was so genuinely happy, too. :)

that slow zoom in on their faces when he says he's getting out of jail is one of the rare times this show actually works in a real punchline

TWO POTATOS?!?!?

Someone up above said it but Joe kills me how he announces “potatoes”.

You’re not ready for this . pic.twitter.com/ktHLdMEw29

— Axiom of Rock House (@axiaofficial) June 11, 2024

Kinda looks like Harmony Korine but I know it’s not…. Who is the new colab?

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Trauma informed massage therapy

Is that Joe Estevez narrating

Oh Toni no

oh my god it is just impossible to ever figure out where this show's gonna go

human skin is made of electricity, and it's how we communicate through touch.

someone save toni

our bodies need to be clean

I genuinely feel bad for Toni. I know she's played by an actress. I still worry for her.

gotta say I am not looking forward to how the thing about the photos of Toni on Tim's phone is gonna resolve itself during the next Oscar Special

You can’t delete them,they’re in the cloud

11 years ago:

on a side note i've been enjoying those tim heideker at the movies videos he's doing with the neil hamburger guy.

― Spectrum, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:09 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Greg Turkington... I totally did not make the connection! Of course that's Neil Hamburger, right? He is so so reserved on "On Cinema, At The Cinema" I didn't even realize it.

― Evan, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:12 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

The other day my girlfriend and I almost sat through the entire Oscar coverage by them. It's so great.

― Evan, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 4:13 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I feel so old

watching this trump NABJ appearance in full strongly reminded me of a mini oscar special with trump as on cinema time obv... the chaos that's there from the start and only escalates, the open resentment and petty little jabs, and most of all, the microphone issues

*on cinema tim

and in the end, Trump doesn't win the 2018 Charger

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) 104m pic.twitter.com/EgwZnvObXp

— On Cinema at the Cinema (@OCATCOfficial) September 16, 2024

Not sure I can get out to see the new Beetlejuice flick but now I know I don't have to! Greg with the film hacks

Some surprising news for Michael Keaton here as well, but that's what buffs will do; surprise you.

perfect