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This one really made my day here in grey Glasgow, thanks Spoony! Keep up the good work!
The short story was cool, but the movie was a total letdown. Ghostbusters = one of my all-time favorite movies!
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t get enough of the Zhoul gag. :)
ZUUL MOTHAF*CKA ZUUL!
It just refuses to go out of my head. I sometimes find me chanting it to myself for some reason. :D
I remember this show and it was pretty good right up until near the end imo.
Well, that was weird, and it didn’t look good. I wonder who he could call…
this is too much. XD
ZOOL MOTHERFUCKER ZOOL.
….What just happened? o.O
What does “ZOOL MOTHERFUCKER ZOOL” come from?
Congratulations! You’ve actually used this joke properly! Since it wasn’t zuul who chased down Rick Moranis, but rather Vinz Clortho, the keymaster. I know it’s just a gripe like the ’sonic boom’ somersault kick, but I’m glad some one managed to actually remember the difference between the two of them. Kind of like your Deegal, not Bilbo realization in Knightmare.
LMFAO! I just can’t get enough of this :) One of – if not The – best 5 second movies I’ve seen. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but when I do, I know this will run through my head the second the scene starts hehe
‘ZUUL, MOTHERF**KA! ZUUL!’
Congratulations, you’ve used someone elses joke to good effect once again. I look forward to seeing you’re own material when it;s finally used to good effect!
I JUST watched this movie for the first time last night. It was on Charter on demand, if you haven’t seen it. And have Charter cable.
It starts off strong, but falls apart into little goofy CGI chunks when he actually gets to the goddamn room.
Ha, ha, ha.
I too, want a drink.
It’s not just you Fayzer. I too can’t get enough of the Zuul gag
Zuul.. The other white meat..
I want your drink too, let me know when you find it
I actually liked 1408. It was better than most Stephen King adaptations. Hell it was better than most Stephen King books.
I really hate “In Five Seconds” junk. It’s gimmicky, it’s dull, and most of the time it’s too blunt. It’s about as subtle and funny as hitting someone over the head with a baseball bat.
Spoony, you’re better than this. You really are. You don’t join internet trends and help pollute the net with their garbage… YOU START THE TRENDS!
Besides, I’m beginning to think you’re lazy. It’s not hard to splice together five seconds (or in some cases up to ten) of some frames of footage in an attempt to get someone to laugh.
Do you have anything else, other than this junk?
Sorry for thinking Spoony was above all the sub-standard internet garbage. I’m sorry you think he shouldnt’ be above it.
Maybe he should start yelling “The Cake Is A Lie!” every ten seconds too?
Or maybe stealing lines from AVGN like a lot of other people have been doing lately?
I’m sorry, but I think stuff is rather annoying and pointless, especially when anyone with the proper program can put it together. You could actually steal it from other people and slap your own name on it if you wanted.
It takes no thought to create or distribute. And rarely, is it ever funny.
I, personally, think Spoony is better than this stuff. He’s more creative than “five second movie! five second game! five second book! five second existance!”. I look forward to the crazy and funny stuff he comes up with. I sometimes even look forward to having to go LOOK UP just what he’s talking about, so I can understand the joke.
And really, if people wanted to see “five second” anything, you could simply YouTube it. Why waste site-space on it? YouTube has the market cornered. You want to see it in five seconds, go to the site and type it in. Endless laughs for the people who enjoy that sort of thing.
I like a little originality. I like for Spoony to have his own personality and originality, instead of following everyone else. Sure, he’s not the first game, movie, book, etcetera reviewer to ever exist. But when he sets out to do it, it’s unique in a lot of ways. And sometimes, he doesn’t even have to use flashy effects to get his points across, or to be delightfully campy and/or hilarious.
Is it REALLY that bad to say Spoony is above such nonsense that already pollutes the internet? Is it really so bad to tell him that he’s above it? To say that he’s better than that?
Everyone with creative talent, at some point, needs to be told that what they are/were doing is/was a bad idea. It’s part of the creative process. It’s also why Spoony does reviews, it’s because he knows that too.
Now, I really doubt he’d take my complaint seriously… I hope he does, but he probably won’t. After all, I’m Joe Nobody like most everyone else. As long as what he does generates traffic for his stuff, he won’t think he’s doing anything wrong. And, maybe he’s not. But if this site degenerates into the nonsense that so many other websites and channels on YouTube have degenerated into… Well, I’ll leave and not look back.
I’ll look back on my time at Spoony’s fondly. Much like I look back on my time with X-Play before they became mindless sell-outs who do the same thing every other publicly paid reviewer does.
And I’ll say to my friends, “Remember when Spoony used to be great?”
I actually enjoyed this movie! It got a bit dull, but overall I liked it.
Considering how this was made to be shown at the TGWTG, I don’t see how an allusion to the eponymous guy is “theft”. “DURR Falkner like ripped off the bible, the guy who wrote Chronicles already had that brother-sister-incest-rape-revenge thing.” Besides, paying your format dues to your collaborators is part of the TGWTG business plan.
Hate what he’s doing? send him a spec script and a check (a big one).
Can someone tell me why the Carpenter’s “We’ve Only Just Begun” is used in the credits?
@Jim:
Because it’s used in the movie as a taunt.
A friend of mine says this movie was struck him at a very emotional level. He lost his 4-year-old son years ago, and he said this John Cusack’s performance was just how he felt after his death. He told me he Cusack must’ve interviewed people who’ve lost their children, because he says there is no way he could’ve pulled off that conflicted and emotional performance without having talked to people who have lost their children face-to-face.
http://www.flurl.com/video/43865134_most_ridiculous_fight_scene_of_all_time.htm
This is the most rediculious fight scene of all time!
@Tai MT:
Did you just write that half-hour troll-rant thing about a 5 second movie? For heaven’s sake. It’s one thing to give constructive criticism about a review or video, it’s a whole different category to whine that Spoony’s not making reviews fast enough and his other videos don’t live up to your standards. So what if he makes a 5 second movie every once in a great while? Stop whining about it and move on.
Fantastic. The fake ending seals it.
@Tai MT
jeez man. lighten up. no there’s nothing wrong with you saying you think spoony is a lot funnier than the 5 second gags, but there is something wrong with crapping on him and everyone else posting for paragraph upon paragraph basically threatening “do it MY way or i won’t patronize your site anymore” and sort of (not so) subtly saying anyone who DOES like the 5 secs jokes is a dumbass droogie. that’s kind of insulting to him and to his fans. and to answer your question…uh yeah he has other stuff, pages and pages of it. video and print. hours of it in fact. there’s a list on the home page ya know? and besides that…if you don’t like it…uh, i know this is crazy so stay with me…but DON’T WATCH IT
besides, as you say, if anyone with the program can go do it, if you feel this is wasting your time, why don’t you spend it making your OWN site and videos and do it however you please? then snooty people who don’t know balls about what you do or how hard you worked to make it can come and shit all over all your time consuming effort that you poured hours to days of your life and effort into making FOR FREE just so that those same snooty people can enjoy it ALSO FOR FREE. argue with me if you feel like it, but spoony works hard to make us laugh and he gets fuck all out of it, so the least we as his fans can do is keep the feedback positive so he doesn’t feel like he’s wasting his time trying to do it for us
just a thought ;)
@Cheesecake
Wasn’t a half hour. Took me about five minutes to write it out. Also wasn’t a rant, nor trolling. Even if it WAS trolling, why are you feeding the troll? If it was trolling, you just did the equivalent of saying, “I know it’s stupid, but I’ll do it anyway!”. I never whined that Spoony didn’t make videos fast enough (STEEEE-RIKE ONE!). I never said his other videos “didn’t live up to my standards” (STEEEE-RIKE TWO!). And, this isn’t “once in a while, this is two in a relatively short amount of time (STEEEE-RIKE THREE, YOU’RE OUTTA HERE!). I’m simply saying that the five second gags are pretty lame by Spoony’s standards. I’ve been through all of his stuff. I’ve read every movie review at least three times and some of them still make me laugh. I’ve watching his video game reviews at least a dozen times a piece and some of those still make me laugh. And the five second gags in no way measure up to that stuff.
@Zack
In no way did I crap on Spoony or on his users. Did I? Nope. I didn’t say one unkind thing about him or about the community. I simply said that he’s above the “five second junk” and that I wish he’d stop doing it. And what I alluded to, was he becoming just the equivalent of what X-Play became. I didn’t threaten to leave his site. I said that my threatening to leave his site basically didn’t matter, even if I did. Because even if I did leave his site and his viewership remained high, it wouldn’t make a difference. I said I’d leave and never look back. Which basically means, the site would have nothing for me anymore and there’d be no reason to come back here. I’d even tell my friends “Remember when Spoony used to be good?” like I do with so many other shows these days.
Also, I never said that people who liked the five second gags were druggies or stupid or anything of the sort. I merely said that it takes no effort to make such things, they’re about as funny as getting your dog run over, and about as subtle as being hit in the face with a baseball bat. I said that Spoony was above such things, and that if people really wanted to see five second gags, they are quite literally EVERYWHERE. You can go to TGWTG, or go to YouTube and type in “five seconds” and get a myriad of results, which indicate just how easy it is to do.
And the old, “because you don’t do it, you have no right to critisize it!” response. This is the best indicator of an intellectually bankrupt person. Well, if you want to pull that on me… Because YOU don’t do it, you have no right to PRAISE HIM for it. Now do you realize how silly and childish that kind of argument is? It’s right up there with that nonsense “let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. Well, if we did that, then no punishment would ever be given out. Evil and bad things would never be kept in check. It’s an argument made to simply shut up the other party instead of trying to actually DEBATE the ideas at hand.
And what is this argument about it being for Free? Yes, I know it’s free. That’s why I’m here. Because it’s free. If I had to pay to watch five second movies, I wouldn’t be here. Nor would you. Also, the REAL WORLD is full of your particular scenario. Where nobody appreciates the time and effort you put into something. I realize you’re probably a little kid, but seriously, grow up. News flash. Not EVERYTHING is GOLD. Sometimes, people make mistakes or do sub-par things. If you like the five second gags, fine, great for you. I’m not faulting you for liking them. But you, my friend, are faulting me for not liking them. You are faulting me for bringing valid criticism against them. Spoony is pretty awesome, but nobody deserves blind worship. Seriously, nobody deserves it.
And yes, we’re fans of him, but why do we HAVE to say nice things to him? We don’t. That’s more of that blind worship crap again. If Spoony makes something terrible, or just unlikable (even by as small a margin as me), it should at least be addressed. Maybe he’ll decide my complaint doesn’t matter in the large scheme of things. Maybe he’ll decide it doesn’t matter in the large scheme of things. But, I know he wouldn’t want me to simply be silent, offer no critism at all, and just let it slide by. How can a person know they’ve made a mistake, unless it is addressed?
I don’t expect Spoony to take me seriously. I don’t even expect him to stop doing five-second gags. In fact, I don’t even expect him to read my comments left in here. I just wanted to make my opinion known, in case others felt the same way, or someone wanted to intellectually debate it.
I mean, if you ran a website that was based on viewership, and a segment of it just dropped off your list without an explaination given (as you’ve suggested I do), wouldn’t that be worse than knowing just what you did to drive them away?
I always find that giving an explaination is much better than remaining silent. This is true of all relationships, including those of the fans.
If someone hands me an excrement sandwich, I’m not just going to eat it and falsely enjoy it (or convince myself that I enjoy it) just because I like the person who handed it to me. That’s ridiculous and stupid. Don’t be so quick to hand over your free will to someone else, or to not pass judgement on people or their work. Spoony knows it better than most, that there should be SOMEONE around to point out bad movies or bad games. He’s a critic after all. And if a critic didn’t want to be criticized, then they should’ve picked a different hobby/lifestyle.
Oh, and I just remembered… The argument about “Well, if you don’t like it, don’t watch it”. I didn’t watch it. I read the title and immediately posted a comment.
Perhaps you could do the same? If you don’t like my criticisms, don’t read them. You’re telling me that Spoony isn’t forcing me to watch his five second gags, so I’m telling you that I’m not forcing you to read my criticism.
@ Tai MT
Mimimimimi
@Tai MT
If you didn’t watch it, how can you comment on the mediocracy of the joke(s)?
@Tai MT,
If you’re gonna crap out about a 5 second movie, try to make it a 5 second troll rant. And I know I’m feedin the troll, but you did crap on spoony
“Besides, I’m beginning to think you’re lazy. It’s not hard to splice together five seconds (or in some cases up to ten) of some frames of footage in an attempt to get someone to laugh” – Said by you.
Let’s see, the man does all this for practically free. He doesn’t really get that much outta this other than making people laugh, practically no money. He said before when he was transitioning from DreamHost that he would need a server for this site and he doesn’t get enough from here. A server’s like 200 – 300 (Unsure if that’s the pricing spoony, so if I’m wrong you can sick Curtis on me), and very few people will donate and support spoony. There are people out there, but still very few. And you’re bitching about something that’s free, callin the man lazy. He has a life bro, and he posts about it on his WP at times. His life isn’t about keeping every troll-fan-boy happy, it’s about him doing what HE wants to do; Saying what HE wants to say. I know I’m trollin on right now so I’m gonna quit, but a person complaining about what someone does for pretty much free just rubs me in the wrong way.
Anyways, I fueled the fire and fed the troll. Here trolly trolly, come and get your boomstick!
And this rant took me 2 minutes to write, not 5 seconds. So I eat my own words there, with ketchup and honey mustard.
@NyhtShade
Ha. Ha. Ha.
You’re pretty funny.
I liked 1408. Due to this movie I now know that The Carpenters are evil. Though both endings werent that good.
@Tai MT
Did you seriously use “STEEEE-RIKE ONE” to back up your side of a debate? I’m sorry, you’re not a troll, your a six year old having a temper tantrum. I’m done replying to you. I think everyone’s said what needed to be said and please, continue your tantrum if you makes you feel like the bigger person.
That was pretty darn funny Mr. Antwiler. I liked it. Haven’t seen the movie but that’s exactly what I would’ve thought at that scene.
Anyway, ZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL!
@Cheesecake
You lose.
lol zuul motherfucka zuul, priceless
Holy crap.. I figured it out. Maybe this Tai MT is actually in disguise, The Angry Movie Dork from TGWTG. He could be using cryptic means of trying to tear down TGWTG by targeting the members. Next your gonna see him attacking Linkara. But Tai MT, doesn’t match his name… I know, he’s The Angry Internet MONKEY TROLL!!
I just wanted to act like a 6 year old for a minute and feed the trolls some more. I’m done, and I put the “Please Don’t Feed The Trolls” sign back next to the bridge. So if you want to feed the troll/shoot the troll/lick the troll/answer the troll’s riddle so you can get to the top of windy mountain; Please do so at your own risk.
This… this just made my day. I am spreading this around to anyone who can appreciate it like the plague.
But a good, funny plague. =)
Tai MT’s right, well to an extent. I don’t think that the problem here is with the “5 second movie” bit (though that doesn’t help, but this video is lazy. Now don’t take that to mean I’m saying Spoony is lazy. I presume he was just pissing around on the computer and gave it no real thought. Nothing wrong with that. But this isn’t creative beyond the technical proficiency to use the software it was made with. This video is an in-joke and in-jokes aren’t funny in themselves. In-jokes are calls to jokes made previously and remembered with some fondness and therefor only funny if the origin of the joke is known. (I wonder how many people actually know the origin of this joke? I don’t?). So with that said this video is as creative as using his memory, which by definition isn’t creative in the slightest. Furthermore placing that “memory” within an already existing format means that this video has no creative worth what-so-ever, beyond, as mentioned already, the abillty to use the software. I suppose it could be argued that spotting the chance to re-tell the in-joke is valid, but that’s more to do with comady timing than creativity.
i was told by my mates this film sucked but i love the zule joke, its great. nice one spoony
If you dont like the 5 second reviews dont watch em. So what if they are lazy or not, if they entertain does it really matter? If your opinions mattered there wouldnt be these videos so keep crying no one really cares.
ZUUUUUUUUUL MOTHERFUCKA! ZUUUUUUUUUUUL!!!
God I feel old looking at all you little kids who don’t know who Zuul is. Ever heard of Ghostbusters? Seriously people. It’s an awesome movie. Zuul is hardly an inside joke, or whatever you all think it is.
@Geonosis: OK, your right, I should bury my head in the sand. If you see something you don’t like, pretend it isn’t there. What a friggin wonderful world this is with our eyes shut.
Seriously, did you read any of the negitive posts on this page or did you just see that they were negitive and go on the defensive. If you are going to reply, make a point, argue your case and perhaps people will learn something. Ignorant statements will get you, nor anyone else, anywhere.
People like stuff, people hate stuff… say where you stand, but don’t expect anyone to hear you over their own opinion.
“If you dont like the 5 second reviews dont watch em. So what if they are lazy or not, if they entertain does it really matter? If your opinions mattered there wouldnt be these videos so keep crying no one really cares.”
Ladies and Gentlemen, idiocy at its’ finest. The correct statement would be, “if opinions DIDN’T MATTER, we wouldn’t have these videos or any of spoony’s OTHER videos/reviews.” That is to say, that if people didn’t have a high opinion of what he does, you wouldn’t watch his stuff. Likewise, I’m the same way.
And how can you take, “I’m beginning to think you’re lazy” as an assault on someone? How is it even an insult? Any of you trying to lambaste me have yet to prove how it’s NOT lazy, and how it IS original and creative content. So, I guess you can’t prove it, and that means you have to resort to name-calling.
“You’re five years old! That’s something a five year old would say!” Nevermind you can’t come up with a retort other than a flat-out insult (which IS something little kids do, and not something mature adults do). “You’re a troll!”. No, I’m not.
If I were a troll, I’d be attacking you guys personally for disagreeing with me. I’d be attacking the people who ENJOY this sort of thing. Instead, I’m not. I’m merely telling Spoony that I don’t like this kind of content and I wish he’d stop it, before he ends up like X-Play did.
See, I love Spoony. I visit the site daily to check for updates. I don’t want to see him find his “jump the shark” moment. I don’t want him to start catering to the “LCD” of the internet. I want him and his content to remain strong and fun. I don’t want it to start relying on really cheap and annoying gags like so many others have started to do (AVGN does this from time to time, which makes his episodes hit or miss).
You see, I have such a high opinion of Spoony, that I don’t believe he should have to resort to this kind of content. I don’t mind waiting a week, waiting two weeks, waiting four months for new content from him. But, I do mind when I feel that his content his sub-par in a lot of ways. Such a thing makes me die a little inside.
I also don’t mind being criticized for critisizing Spoony. It’s a natural (albeit fanatical phenomina) response when you see your own personal hero or idol attacked on some level. Now, I’m sorry folks, but Spoony is a big boy. He can defend himself. He is capable of that. In fact, if he wanted to, he could probably ban me from the site entirely. In no way does he have to put up with me, if he doesn’t want to.
But, what I do mind, is people going out of their way to avoid an intellectual debate, and jumping right to flaming. Agree with me or not, that’s fine. But ignoring my claims and then trying to pass them off as “irrelevent” simply because you don’t want to, or can’t, address them, is beyond stupidity.
“You attacked Spoony by saying you think he’s getting lazy!” Seriously, read that again. Read it again and again, until you understand just how childish and idiotic that sounds. So what if I think he’s getting lazy? Why is that of any consequence to you? The only way that affects YOU is if you know it’s true but don’t want to admit it’s true. Otherwise, you would’ve had a constructive argument to rebuttle my complaints. The only person such a thing should affect, should be Spoony himself. It’s not a criticism of anyone BUT him. And if it affects YOU PERSONALLY, then I highly suggest you reevaluate your life, as you’ve become an obsessive fanboy and need to be shot.
I mean, you could’ve come up with any number of things to rebuttle me. But instead, we get the trademark “Well, don’t watch it if you don’t like it”. I didn’t watch it. I jumped straight to comments. You’ll notice my comments aren’t about the content of the Five Second Gags, but about the Five Second Gags in general.
And seriously, even Spoony has basically said what I’ve said to you guys. Just because the person creates Gold a lot, doesn’t mean they’re not capable of creating complete and utter garbage. For a great example of this, go read his reviews on the new Star Wars Episodes. He likes the old trilogy, but not the new trilogy. He likes the old Indiana Jones, but not the new one. Well, for me, these Five Second Gags are Spoony’s Episodes I, II, and III. They are my Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
It doesn’t mean I don’t like his other work what-so-ever, I just think this new work is sub-par, boring, and a waste of time. Maybe you don’t agree. That’s fine if you don’t. But at least have the forethought to include reasons why you disagree, instead of a blatant attack on me.
I swear, some of you have developed a cult-like following, and just declare Ji’Had on anyone who dares to say that something your messiah has made, isn’t all that great.
It’s stunning how many of you hop on the brown nosing bandwagon when it comes to any kind of negative feedback for the sake of Spoony’s feelings, ease up, I’m sure he can handle it.
Before I get flamed for hating, let me just state: I have been a fan of Spoony for a long time, perhaps longer than most of you, but I know not all of you. I’ve seen all of his movies, read most of his reviews, and I will continue to keep the faith. I started watching his stuff ever since I found his “Heroes of the Lance” video, when he had just a handful of crappy game reviews. I started with Spoony, so Ill always favor him over the Nerd or the Critic, despite (I think) being less popular. I’ve linked countless cideos to friends, and even got a couple people to keep an all seeing eye on his updates even better than I have, but lets get down to business.
You cant honestly use the “Stop complaining, its not like you could do better” argument, despite how badly people want to believe in it. If that were the case, We would have to sift through an even more massive pile of shit to get to any quality entertainment, be it movies/games/music/whatever, I see that half-assed excuse countless times in poorly made art and webcam youtube videos too many times. People can tell when something is good or bad, and for what Spoony does, I can safely say its good or else he would have stopped trying long ago (Due to no motivation, donations, compliments, CRITICISM, etc.).
Also, if I remember right, upon reading Spoony’s “Star Wars: Episode III” review. I’m pretty sure in multiple locations throughout the review (and if I’m wrong, the opinion I’m about to state is WIDELY shared) Spoony favors the older Star Wars movies. Now why would this be, Perhaps its proof that despite how good at something someone is, they can make poor material? That you don’t have to be required to like every single thing someone makes? And perhaps just as important, Flashy effects doesn’t make a masterpiece (though I still don’t see where you guys get the basis to say a “In 5 Seconds” review takes hours to make).
There has been an obvious change ever since the “TGWTG TEAM BRAWL” video came out in the content of reviews. You have all noticed the crossovers, people paying homage to others jokes (ACHUCKANORIIIIIIIS!! ring a bell?). Now obviously its not all bad, the “Robowar” was one of the best reviews Ive seen in months, but that doesn’t mean I want to see each critic fall to the point where they just play off of each others puns. That would only lead to the problem, as Djinn8 above said, of using inside jokes. Meaning that unless someone has extensively watched all of each critics movies, its impossible to get them all, and God forbid if you were a new viewer.
Fact of the matter is, don’t get butthurt because someone is knocking a role model of yours. Hell for all you know Spoony actually accepts the criticism with open arms, why would you deny him a chance to read something and think about it, before getting to your asinine posts (looking at you Nyteshade, despite how clever you think you are, your attempt at making Tai MT look juvenile only backfired for anyone that has the sense to see it.) about how Spoony worked so hard he is above any and all criticism.
To Spoony (assuming he uses the comments for anyhting more than eating popcorn and laughing at flamewars): Keep up the good work, been a fan for a long time, and I hope you continue to fight your way to crappy game/movie critic fame. I will keep watching.
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