'Idris El..bow'
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
the way he struggles to pronounce "dakota" in season 7 ep 2 kills me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
Personally for me I get a lot of humor out of the juxtaposition when he reads the synopsis. Something about the way the clips are always of a movie that takes itself very seriously with lots of drama and action, and yet completely undercut by the voice of this disengaged illiterate idiot painfully trying to get to the end of a blurb.
― Evan, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
Oh and during the Suicide Squad review when he said 'Jared Lego'.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:51 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Haha, he did. Right after 'Caredegli, Cara Devliredge' lmao.
Tim's in a right state!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
Love how most of Tim's season 8 reviews consist solely of a hastily-muttered 'five bags of popcorn' with zero additional commentary. Dude's got vapin' to do.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
I need to review so that I can precisely quote the thing he says about having to talk in some weird voice so the thoughts in his brain don't come out his nose. I honestly about died.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:50 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
At 5:43 right here!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
And just every time he hungrily vapes like a dying man who's discovered a desert oasis (read: every time he vapes). Fuckin' kills.
Season 8 just might be the eye of the duck.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Absolutely. Right after the nose thing there's this moment where he just inhales and inhales and inhales and it kills me.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
it was watching a few episodes of season 8 that inspired me to go through the whole thing so i think y'all are onto something
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
Another thing I've noticed since I got sucked into this show's orbit is just how common a construction 'hey, guys' is, and how it's begun making me laugh pretty much every time I hear it. Which I'm sure, to normal people, seems like lunacy.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
― Evan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 2:08 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
his reading of the Storks synopsis makes me fall out laughing every time
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
'Next up, The Wall, starring John Semen...uh, duh, I'm sorry...John Cena, directed by Doug Semen...Lyman......Liman.'
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
does anyone have any theories about how Tim got Axiom and Manuel under his thumb?
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
I always thought of them as LA music scene equivalents of Greg - pathetic mediocrities who nevertheless cling to Tim because he has access to a tv show, and also that Tim always pays for everyone’s drugs
― One Eye Open, Thursday, 18 July 2019 02:51 (five years ago) link
there’s this little smirk Greg makes sometimes when he’s making some banal long winded observation that kills me for some reason
― brimstead, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
Gregg: and i would say it's about time because those of us who are Oz-Freaks have been waiting since 1939, which is when the last Wizard of Oz movie came out - it was a MGM picture starring Judy Garland
Tim: Oh!
Gregg: and to wait this long to find out the next chapter, it's kind of a burden. a lot of people have passed on who saw the original and never got a chance to see the next chapter, so that's kind of a shame.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:20 (five years ago) link
ok, i know i'm still early on but S2E5 is my favorite so far. the oz review and then the stuff about Colin Farrell was enough to make it a classic, but this made my side hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiYcJvDvzZQ
the clip doesn't even include the bit before where he suddenly announces that he's going to do this segment for the first ever time, or the conversation they have in the dark afterwards, as the credits roll, about how gregg made tim promise to never "do the political stuff again" after the podcast
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:28 (five years ago) link
idk why but every time tim mispronounces an actor's name i completely lose it, thankfully it happens in every single episode
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:57 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
When not in character on the Office Hours podcast he tends to do this legit accidentally, and he told a caller some months back that he is always mangling names and words irl but for On Cinnema just kind of leans into it
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
It's another great Colin Farrell movie. I feel like this guy doesn't know how to make bad movies.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:31 (five years ago) link
xp Cinnema!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 18 July 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
"we're not in kansas anymore, toto"
― Vape Store (crüt), Thursday, 18 July 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, July 18, 2019 3:01 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink It’s like a side-eye scoring one for himself.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:30 (five years ago) link
Greg's smirk is a meme in our household
― imago, Thursday, 18 July 2019 07:04 (five years ago) link
the laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn
This single sentence echoes through my mind at least two times a day!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 18:28 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
This is probably my favourite line from the whole series.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 18 July 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
I was shocked last night to see him defy physics in giving zero bags to Snowden!
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
i can already tell that decker vs. dracula isn't going to last for a whole season, regardless i really respect the direction gregg took it in
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
My new favorite is manifestations of Tim's massive dysfunction that unfold right there onscreen but that no one ever explicitly calls attention to. Things like Tim's ongoing physical abuse of Mark and his serial arson are mentioned offhandedly if at all.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
Oh hey, Mark once again has facial trauma no one is talking about. And hey, yet another building has been destroyed by fire. Weird.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
does anyone know what Tim is doing here, I assume this is in reference to some Oscar moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHebKoIFRKE&feature=youtu.be&t=1h52m16s
can't believe Gregg doesn't break character
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
can you try posting again
― Evan, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
maybe the embed doesn't work. I think you can just click on the link
its 1:52:16 into the 2nd Oscar special
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:21 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48O1DEdMYKw
this song will be stuck in my head all day
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 July 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link
omg the dekkar "oscar fever"/"empty bottle" mashup at the start of the fourth oscar special
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
dekkar the only band that deserves five bags of popcorn
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 20 July 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
RENEVANT
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
i'm standin' on a bridge of spiesi'm sick of hearin' all your goddamn lies
― Vape Store (crüt), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
^ goes through my head at least once week
The Relevant
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 July 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
I was bored this afternoon so I searched and found an old tweet of mine from 2011 astro-turfing the OG podcast lol.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 21 July 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
Should I post it here? Then y'all will know my notsoweird twitter.
mad maxhe gives the ladies heart attacks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 05:39 (five years ago) link
oh my fucking lord the cgi tom cruise jr.
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 06:03 (five years ago) link
mark proksch is a gift
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
feel like i gotta talk to my therapist about the whole james dean subplot
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
I've been watching the trial in bits and pieces over the weekend (which is a must for any On Cinema head, as the highlights don't fully capture the awe-inspiring magic) and just got to Tim calling Nicholas Meyer (co-writer of Star Trek IV) to the stand. OMG, I must've laughed for a solid minute at Gregg's muttering 'no...no...' from the gallery as Meyer describes the plot of the movie he wrote. This is really the culmination of every ridiculous thread of the On Cinema universe, just astounding.
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah that was an amazing capper to that running joke
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
the best part is that Gregg gets escorted out of the courtroom believing he's been proven right
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Believer interview with Tim:
JP, our tour manager, who I’ve worked with for many years, and who I’m very close with — we are picking up some VHS tapes for Gregg, which we sell at the show, and Gregg is finding them at various thrift stores as we drive all over. And Gregg really gets into it, and he’s going on about some horrible movie we found, and I look at JP and say, “The funny thing is, there’s a lot of Gregg in Gregg.” And he looks at me and goes, “There’s a lot of you in Tim!” And I go, “Really?” And he’s like, “Yes.”
also, a real review:
I’m not kidding when I say that Paddington 2 is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s so clever and funny. I’m not kidding. Watch it. First of all, everyone in the movie is a great, accomplished actor. It looks like Wes Anderson, but without being so heavy-handed. I liked this way more than I liked Isle of Dogs, which I feel is so in on its own joke. Paddington 2 has great British humor; it’s unpretentious, genuinely funny. Emotional. Very emotional. And [the first] Paddington is also good, but this one is better. And I wept.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 22 July 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
I read a few years back that Gregg's character is based largely on his 12-year-old self.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
With that in mind, how much do you identify with your character on On Cinema?I think when I was 12 or 13, that was probably about where I was at. It was really before I got into punk rock, which was something I was only into for about a year before the corruption started to become apparent and I moved on. I was super, super into watching movies when I was a kid, and this was before home video was really readily available—or at least not readily available to me, because we didn’t really have any money for that—but I didn’t know anyone who owned a VCR or anything, so I was really into going to art house theatres and going to the multiplex and paying for one movie and then trying to stay there all day, slipping from one to the next trying to see as many movies as I could. I had a little book where I kept track of everything that I saw and rated them all. I was super into it.I think that I kind of lost that interest at some point. I still like movies, but I might watch a couple a month—as opposed to that point, when I was 12 or 13, when I would watch, like, 40 a month and document them all. But I think that that character on On Cinema is less like me than Neil Hamburger is like me.
I think when I was 12 or 13, that was probably about where I was at. It was really before I got into punk rock, which was something I was only into for about a year before the corruption started to become apparent and I moved on. I was super, super into watching movies when I was a kid, and this was before home video was really readily available—or at least not readily available to me, because we didn’t really have any money for that—but I didn’t know anyone who owned a VCR or anything, so I was really into going to art house theatres and going to the multiplex and paying for one movie and then trying to stay there all day, slipping from one to the next trying to see as many movies as I could. I had a little book where I kept track of everything that I saw and rated them all. I was super into it.
I think that I kind of lost that interest at some point. I still like movies, but I might watch a couple a month—as opposed to that point, when I was 12 or 13, when I would watch, like, 40 a month and document them all. But I think that that character on On Cinema is less like me than Neil Hamburger is like me.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link