Clones of Bruce Lee Review (Commentaries)

Also I really don’t think the obvious split screening is a problem, I mean if anything it adds to the camp of it all and its free entertainment anyway. I rather you have fun entertaining us, rather than stress out over lighting. Also maybe I’m blind but the first viewing I didn’t notice until you mentioned it on the commentary.

Listening to your commentaries is often as entertaining as the reviews.

I hope you will keep this format in the future!

Could the next movie be another Reb Brown flick?

I really didn’t notice the splitscreening problem until you pointed it out. I’m also not a very observant person, but that’s not the point.

Sponny dont ever forget your humble beginnings at gamespot and keep up the good work.

Also, Dr. Nye is a genius. What is less threatening than stealing all your water supplies? Stealing all your food by killing all the plants. (No honestly, it’s almost more cruel than a Deathray.)

Hey Spoony, great vids as usual and the offer is still open, I’d be happy to volunteer some time to help with production of your videos and I’m nearby your folks place if that helps give a vague location =P. Keep up the great work and get back to some of your old school round table friends some day. You could have had help moving =P

I love all the special effects you do! You don’t have to do them, we didn’t ask you to do them, but the fact that you went the extra mile (or seven) really shows that you want to give us a great show! And I appreciate that. And as one film maker to another: you did a great job! Seriously, I didn’t notice the splicing until you mentioned it. I really don’t mind the effects and splicing and what-not you do. I actually find it more entertaining than you sitting in front of a camera (not complaining, those are great too!). But, yeah, I know those can be time consuming and difficult.

The Spoony Experiment to me is like Mad Magazine smashed with a VH1 special (and the debris wiped away). It’s very entertaining, and always look forward to the next episode. I know you hear this a lot, but you really should have a spot on tv!

Thanks for all your work and effort, Spoony!

I saw the seams in the split screen but I didn’t care. Since you were doing a review of Clones of Bruce Lee with actors who are obviously not Bruce Lee, I just chalked it up as another dig at the movie: where you have clones of you who obviously aren’t clones of you.

Regarding something that was only briefly mentioned somewhere here, one thing that I think Spoony should never worry about is trying to make Dr. Insano or any other characters make sense or fit in a larger context. They’re fun to see, and it’s all the more fun if I don’t know their detailed biography and how they fit in the timeline.
Same goes for generally everything. I view each new video as standalone work, that way the recurring jokes and characters are also somehow even funnier, but if every video was a part of one big story and everything was tied together and explained thoroughly, it would all lose one layer of fun.
The cloning thing fits in right after the “death” (even though I wouldn’t mind a completely unexplained fresh start either, the unanswered question is usually the most intriguing) and it works especially well with the Clones of Bruce Lee review, but overall I’d hate to view the rest 23,000 upcoming videos as episodes of The Clone of Spoony Experiment.

Anyway, it doesn’t matter all that much what Spoony does, just as long as he does something.

I’ve got it: The Clones of Jack Bauer. The terrorists have taken the president… and this job is too big for just ONE Jack Bauer!

MK

It is good to see that you’re so hard on yourself. I admire the fact that you are struggling to do a better product. Don’t over do it but dont be lazy either, try to find the right middle. Also, hearing you rambling about stuff is just fine and seeing you riffing movies is always a pleasure.

Insano was pertinent in the last review (clones of Bruce Lee) since there was so much stupid mad science going on, but I think your Squall was more called for than the bum as a second clone. It would have been more fitting since you share such a hate/hate even more relationship with FF8 and you kinda made your mark by bashing that game. FF8 is now, thanks to your hate toward it, part of you and will be associated with you (Forever and ever and ever…). Also the bum is not one of your own creation and quite frankly I always found the character to be mean spirited. He’s not really funny and make fun of the tragic reality of today’s poverity.

The commentaries are always a great addition, hope to see/hear more for other videos.

What I really liked about the entire CoBC review is that you didn’t get out of hand with the characters and kept them on a perfect scale. They didn’t steal the show and they weren’t entirely apathic either. I do agree that the AVGN sometimes took the focus away from the games.

I know you just got through completing this and FF8, but remember you still have to do The Ripper as well! Although for that, I don’t mind waiting a while longer considering all the stuff you have lined up already.

By the way, I wouldn’t mind if you ended up doing that Read-aloud novel with the WWE wrestlers as secret agents. I’m sure someone would call it self-indulgent but eh, it’s unique and fun!

A posthumous (sp?) movie with clones of Stallone? I would SO pay to see this! You could have like, John Rambo, Rocky “The Italian Stalion” Balboa and erm… John “Demolition Man” Spartan (just coz I wanna hear him say “Feeniiks!!”).

The Staclones! Think about it, it could work! Bring on the Slysploitation!

I could never quite understand, just why you can’t show tits or even nipples. I know it’s not just an american thing, what with all the censoring and the prudery (prudity? prudeness?) in the media, but here in germany no one would lift an eyebrow over a couple of scenes with (or a scene with a couple of) nude women.

THREE Eddie Van Halens? With a performance of “Eruption” that will destroy the entire universe?

Mind blowing, Spoony. Just mind blowing.

I like the introduction of the Bum-Clone and the Dr Insano bits – felt liek it added to the reviews more than it distracted from the real thing.

Spoony, the single greatest thing you’ve ever done is phantasmagoria, I admit.

But sometimes its nice to have the smart-alecky family feel of MST3k. I think you’re really doing yourself a disservice by deciding to go more low-tech from here-on-out.
ANyways, just my opinion.

“Gen August 1, 2009 at 11:54 pm

I could never quite understand, just why you can’t show tits or even nipples. I know it’s not just an american thing, what with all the censoring and the prudery (prudity? prudeness?) in the media, but here in germany no one would lift an eyebrow over a couple of scenes with (or a scene with a couple of) nude women.”

This is pretty simple Gen. Spoony’s hosting these videos on Blip. They dictate what content they’re willing to host and nude woman isn’t one of them. So if he wants to keep the videos (and his account) he has to cover it up. Also, Spoony is a classy guy

*Woman get’s hit in the neck.*

“Hahaha, I’m sorry, but I have to laugh at that scene.”

…I stand by what I said.

Do you realize what would HAPPEN to the world if we had three more Chuck Norrises running around?! LOL.

And for the record, some of us like it when you get ’self-indulgent.’ I always find Insano hilarious.

really this is the best way to use the doctor insano character, use him to riff on the stupid ideas of other made scientists

I love this stuff. It’s always interesting to hear about what goes on in creating these videos. I kind of feel like the self criticism was a bit much. The special effects usually fit in, and rarely feel forced. Plus pointing out the seams is like looking at a Power Ranger show and going, “hey, that’s not a monster, it’s just a guy in a rubber suit!”

Your commentaries are as entertaining as your vids, Spoony.

I’m not sure why anyone has a problem with the videos or label some of them as self-indulgent. They’re your videos and your creativity, you don’t get paid for doing them, be as self-indulgent as you want.