On Cinema at the Cinema on ilxor.com

Want to see this “delusional dunce failing, and dragging others down with him” thing done better? Hunt up the Steve Coogan Brit-series about Alan Partridge, whom we meet as he launches his national TV talk and variety show

we met him as a radio sports announcer and followed him for four radio and TV series, an Edinburgh Festival show, an Arena appearance and a presenting gig at the BAFTAs before he launched his national TV talk and variety show, which Roger would know if he actually cared about comedy. this is why people get frustrated when they come to Roger's Movie Nation, they want real expertise, not someone bloviating about a topic they hardly know about

For the trial of Tim Heidecker, did you have actors with legal experience involved, or a legal procedure consultant? I was impressed with how accurate the procedural elements were during the trial.

TimandGregg

T: Yes, most of the lawyers and the judge were actors with legal experience. They added a lot of their actual expertise and knowledge of the legal process. We are infinitely grateful to them for their contributions.

G: The same was true of the police, medical, and emergency response witnesses

always suspected this was the case but nice to see it confirmed. i'm still in awe they were able to pull that off so convincingly

I've wondered the same thing! An astoundingly wise approach that paid off in spades. I love the amount of real-world attention and care that goes into making a work of such deep stupidity.

ScaryDebbie

What are your thoughts on people who review movies without watching them?

TimandGregg
G: Some of them seem to be reviewing our movie currently

lmao

I suspect it will be a one- or two-bagger for Greg

― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Monday, October 7, 2019 3:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

OTM. At the show the other night Gregg said that Mr America was "a one-or-two bagger at best". When Tim challenged him that he hadn't seen it he replied "I don't need to see it - I was there the whole time it was being made!"

Do you ever regret using your real name as your character’s name?

T: Sometimes I wonder if it would've been easier or more helpful to come up with stupid names but these are the choices we've made and we have to live with that every single day of our lives.

G: It definitely leads to schizophrenic tone to Tim's twitter account. As my Twitter account is only OnCinema related, definitely doesn't cast me in a good light overall.

laughed at this, out loud

xp lol hand on heart I was not at that show!

worth a rescreen imho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e1txr5XloM

Siskel screaming "Michigan City, Indiana" while eyeing the camera, knowing he's kinda giving away a secret location.

my wife is sick and bailing, if anyone needs a ticket to the 4:15 metrograph screening it's on me.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/9/20905359/tim-heidecker-interview-on-cinema-mister-america

Q: To what extent does someone need to know On Cinema lore to dig into this movie?

A: When we started this, we weren’t thinking about a theatrically released movie. It would just be something we put up on the Adult Swim website, as maybe a half hour. But as we were doing it, we realized it was working. It felt right. Our editor gave us a rough, two-hour cut and said “I don’t know, this feels like a movie.”

Nathan Fielder [of Nathan for You] looked at it early on and said “guys, this isn’t just for the website. This needs a poster. It needs to get reviewed.” So then we looked to restructure the first half for people who hadn’t watched anything from us.

If you watch, say, Making A Murderer or any of the thousand murder documentaries on Netflix, you don’t know everything about these people. A good documentary feeds you the backstory and moves you along. We don’t bombard you with “a film critic who started an EDM festival — “

about to head into my screening, i’m sooooooo excited

Seattle screening sold out

From a New York Times article interviewing people who dressed up as the Joker at Comic-Con:

Cruz was so set on playing Phoenix's version of the Joker that he bought the movie-specific costume on Amazon just for the occasion.

"I was the 'Dark Knight' Joker previously," Cruz said. "I’m just a Joker-head. This is one I wanted to take on."

i give that movie five bags of popcorn and a tiny glass of red wine filled almost to the brim

i envy you

a lot lol

will have to wait for the vhs

Nick Newman (! of The Film Stage) with Gregg out of character:

https://thefilmstage.com/features/gregg-turkington-the-worlds-1-ranked-movie-expert-on-film-bloggers-and-mister-america/

Or should I say "The Film Stage: Your Spotlight on Cinema"...

This was fantastic, I never stopped laughing

i laughed especially hard at one of the interview scenes with gregg turkington because i remembered this:

https://i.imgur.com/hTK71jw.png

Hahaha that’s great crut

great episode this week

gregg killed me with that extra star business

I still miss Tim’s ‘I love this movie!’ from the previous theme song. Simpler times :(

Joe on the board, having to take notes and write financial reports, that will not go wrong at all.

you've had bicentennial man, now you have gemini man, and may its flag wave forever

the screening here played Dekkar videos & Our Values Are Under Attack and trailers for Oh God! and The Shaggy D.A. beforehand, had a certified popcorn classic on every seat, and gave away a movie hat after a game of Stump The Buff

https://i.imgur.com/hJB3DCV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ttHFr1H.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ttHFr1H.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4u8dOMh.jpg


note the VFA codes added to every spine

third one should have been

https://i.imgur.com/Bm4haH0.jpg

Bless <3

omg sic

of course k-pax is a popcorn classic

just started laughing at an inappropriate time because I randomly remembered that Tim wanted to publish a book called "Hog Shots"

i hope he gets to make whaleman

Discovered this a little while back: hogshots.tumblr.com

https://hogshots.tumblr.com/

VOD available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MbAw9qeTOQ

imo the movie is incredibly awesome if you're an on cinema-head. i went with someone who doesn't know on cinema that well but is a tim heidecker fan and she wasn't quite as enthused as i was but also it must be weird to be in a theater full of people laughing very loudly at in-jokes you haven't heard before

i went with someone new to On Cinema and she loved it, but she likes Tim & Eric and i'd shared a couple episodes with her beforehand that i thought offered a good window into the universe (S4E3 and S6E2)

Would watch when my brother and friend get to town this weekend but they are among the T&E heads who have yet to become On Cinema heads so it seems like they need a proper immersion first. Maybe I can convince them to spend 84 hours binging everything that's happened thus far.

how many times do you get to hear "Empty Bottle" during those 84 hours

tim is on the newest ep of chapo trap house. is in character as "tim heidecker" for the first 10 minutes or so

speaking of in character and not: IRL Axiom and Manuel covering Shallow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9HY6o_3xE

wow!

xp re: chapo

ah it's subscription only - never mind then!

The Dekkar guys are wise to cover something so closely tied to cinema.

Who was it who said "Reboots are always better"?

yeah, let's imagine they worked it up for the On Cinema Oscar Special, and presented it earnestly to Tim & Gregg at a meeting, only to be let down politely & gently

"unfortunately we have to do a horrible cover of bohemian rhapsody instead"

the footage from the end of The Trial in the movie, with Axiom & Manuel lightly corpsing behind Tim's victory speech, was a sweet reminder that they get at least a little bit of the joke