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Oh and thanks to you, the flow to the Pumpkinhead GameFAQ has multiplied
Great job as always spoony!
Garak the Cardassian Barber in Deep Space 9….. what?
You’re confusing two characters.
In Star Trek: TNG There was a Bolian Barber named Mott.
In Star Trek: DS9 There was a Cardasian Tailor named Garak
Is it possible you just forgot or mixed up his profession?
i have to say dude your always sick what the hell (i understand if you have a weak body system) just saying
I have been a fan of Noah’s for awhile now, but have never taken the time to comment. I always enjoy listening to Spoony’s commentaries, and this one was no different.
Oh and I would love if people who visit this site to watch my videos on you tube, type in Mikie Lavery, and you can see some of the videos that I have uploaded.
Spoony, I really love your work, and I really love watching these commentaries.
You get sick an awful lot; have you considered that you’ve got an allergic reaction to something deceptively common? The reason I bring up allergies is that a couple of friends of mine used to suffer cold/flu-like symptoms a lot more than seemed normal, and it turned out, in one case, to be due to a dust allergy, and in another, due to a wheat and gluten allergy.
I’m going to be a nit-picky jerk and point out that Garak was a tailor, not a barber.
Anyway, great commentary as always. Thanks for keeping us entertained!
The trekkies are gonna get you Spoony!
im trying to resist going all nerdy on you noah but fuck it. the movie order is Pumpkinhead, then Ashes to Ashes, then um. what was it called. oh right Blood Feud. ignoring the second movie entirely thank god. Lance Henriksen is in the two movies from the sci fi channel because in Ashes to Ashes hes the next pumpkinhead since thats how the first movie ended. so for the other one he’s kind of just a tortured ghost that cant find rest. the only downside to the 2 newer movies is crappy cgi but it was a god send compared to Blood Wings. funny thing about blood feud is that the pumpkinhead in it is technically a girl because of the end of Ashes to Ashes. just found that amusing. okay. nerdiness over. ^^
I was surprised you didn’t mention the Sherrif from Pumpkinhead 2 was Larry/Frank in “Hellraiser”
Yo Spoony, people like your videos. You talk about media, and people listen to your opinions, and like how you express them. If you want to get in front of the camera and say “hey, I got this really crappy game”, do so. It would be good. People want to hear you talk about the game and how bad it is, and even better, why it’s bad. What makes a game bad? What makes a movie bad? A lot of these things are taught by your reviews, so just talk about stuff man. You don’t have to worry about releases, time, stories, and all that. If people like your material, they’ll come on and watch your stuff when you release it cuz they’re addicted to game/movie reviews, and you have some of the better ones on the internet.
So yeah, just sayin.
Hopefully we get that Little Miss Gamer cameo in another review.
DS9’s first season was atrocious. Actually, the whole show was uneven, but there were enough awesome obscure actors on the show every now and again to make you keep watching. (Andy Robinson was definitely one of those guys)
This really made my 18th Birthday
My dad had to do Parent Teacher Conference at the school he teaches
My mom is going to the ones at my school
They took the two only cars so I can’t go out and celebrate with my friends
Actually, I thought this was your best review.
I LOVE YOUR COMMENTARIES.
SOOO MUCH.
SOOOOOO MUCH.
oh god i’m tired
Hey spoony, love your commentary. I was thinking the black ol’ could be your computer and your hard drive is full of cruddy games. Since most FMV are first person just take on the persona of the characters (Sort of like a captain N esque deal). Just throwing in my 2 cents of ideas while you have a writing block =)
Dude! Neither Spoony nor anyone else remembers the guy who played the sheriff in Hellraiser. I bring it up cause that was a fucking classic!
Look, Spoony. Little Miss Gamer knows you like her.
That’s probably why she wasn’t “available.”
@ #18:
“Look, Spoony. Little Miss Gamer knows you like her.
That’s probably why she wasn’t “available.” ”
But really, who doesn’t like Little Miss Gamer?
Spoony, I love your reviews, I love your commentaries, and now I like you even more because you prefer Babylon 5 to Trek and Wars.
I’m a Trek fan…Deep Space 9 was far better than either Voyager/Enterprise….but I would agree with you, Babylon 5 is better.
i know u probably dont want to but u really could do a great pumpkin head revisited down the road i am very curious what the rest of the game is like. This review was great
I have to say, these commentaries of yours have really grown on me. It’s great seeing your process. Sadly, though, what inspired this comment was your comments on DS9. For whatever reason I feel compelled to say that it wasn’t that the show was horrible for the first two seasons. Rather it was more of an issue of the show lacking the kind of cohesion that characterized the remaining 5. Up until the latter half of season 3, most of the episodes were basically stand alone stories that followed the tried and true TNG formula of everything going back to normal by the end of the episode. By season 3… well, they basically started borrowing even more from Babylon 5.
Still does have moments of brilliance though, and it’s certainly got the best supporting cast of characters out of any of the trek series in my opinion. Of course since most of the other series didn’t really have recurring secondary characters, that may not be saying much.
And Garak was awesome.
DS9 was ok, only the basic concept was ripped off from B5, at least that was the only thing that was leaked, B5 starting to air AFTER DS9 started. Anyway, people always have nostalgia goggles on concerning TNG. TNG had an atrocious first two seasons, so bad. And in general, most of the cast is just bad, only good characters really being Data and Picard. Worf just being a weird barbarian and Troi n’ Crusher just being dumb and annoying. Worf got so much more interesting in DS9…
It may be just me, but I think the Blip video keeps buffering and crashing on me. Has anybody else experienced it, or should I just get a faster internet connection? I have Road Runner High Speed connected to my Dell computer, so I don’t know if I have to change any of it!
Wait… “Punky” was the boyfriend?! Jebus man, how far down did those titties get reduced! O_O
Giving Pumpkinhead the Blair Witch doll and jetting?!?? Sounds like in Pokemon games where using a Pokemon Doll allows you to (confusingly) run away from a battle…
Why, yes, I AM a PokeNerd.
Why, yes, this had little to do with this besides that one comment that he’d made about the final level.
You know what’s interesting about Pumpkinhead? It was apparently, I think, Stan Winston’s directorial debut who did the special effects for Jurassic Park, Aliens, and The Terminator movies.
Watching Spoony do his own commentary reminded me an awful lot of the SNL sketch about the Libyan president’s UN speech last month oddly enough.
I was mostly surprised that you bothered. I mean, as amusing as it is, you could’ve moved onto the different games instead of focusing on this.
Apparently no one remembers Andrew Robinson was also the big bad in the first Dirty Harry movie.
And yes, DS9 did VASTLY improve as it went on.
But I digress.
Well, whatever I was actually going to say left me after those three sentences, so I’ll be back if it ever returns.
I love your commentaries .
I too was one of those assholes who sided with Babylon 5. There are some episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 in the seasons set during the Dominion War that I quite liked (e.g. “In The Pale Moonlight”), although there are some that I detested (“One Little Ship”, those tedious episodes on the holodeck with Vic Fontaine and, of course, the damned Ferengi episodes). Sometimes it seemed as though the legacy of episodic episodes interfered with the telling of a larger story and drove them to interject with meaningless diversions. The writers never quite committed to the arc the way that J. Michael Straczynski, by design, did. I also don’t think that the cast was as good, on the whole, as the cast of Babylon 5. Andrew Robinson, however, was one of the highlights of the ensemble, although he was, as I recall, only a frequently recurring character, not a regular lead. (I did not intend to write so much about Star Trek: Deep Space 9; even worse is that I could’ve written more)
I somehow understand the Spoony One’s desire to maintain continuity within his reviews and to provide some sort of structure to them. I’ve really enjoyed that approach and it makes the reviews memorable. Doing more than sit in a chair and jabber for half of an hour, even though that can be done well, can make a review more memorable. I especially appreciate them because these reviews are, or so I think, meant chiefly for entertainment, not to inform opinion, I think that the sketches and ‘theses’ are quite appropriate. I also greatly enjoy the cameo appearances by other reviewers from That Guy with the Glasses; they’re quite amusing and just nice to see.
I even hope that he at least considers finding some way to reconcile the end of the Nightmare review with how awry the Pumpkinhead review went and with whatever comes next. That would hardly be necessary, but it could be wonderful.
Strangely if memory serves in DS9 didn’t the commander of the station wind up becoming (or all along being) one of the “Prophets” and thus annoyingly god like in his own way at least that is what I personally remember from season 7 of DS9. Have to agree that B5 is awesome, though I must admit that I had thought that B5 was the rip off of DS9 back in the day when after watching B5 it seems that DS9 is the cheap ripoff. As for the review, awesome as always Spoony :) then again I’ve enjoyed seeing your reviews ever since Gamers Rant on Movies in KODT. Honestly I have to say that I personally am not impressed with the people they have working on the new movies section in the magazine. Keep up the great work always, and game on :)
I actually liked Star Trek Voyager, but maybe that was because it was really the only Star Trek I actually watched fully. But anyways, I didn’t mind this review. The blind rage was actually very entertaining.
Beary the polar bear is so cute
These commentaries are always an interesting listen and we’re grateful for these, but have you considered moving to something like an MP3 podcast format for future commentaries, v-logs, impromptu reviews and stuff like that? Most of the time the visual component in the average v-log video is kinda negligible, to be honest, so maybe you could save yourself a little editing effort and do audio-only versions of that sort of thing in the future?
Me personally I would either have pulled a mea maxima culpa and finished the sucker in November, or just posted a 30 second clip where I would scream out “THIS GAME HAS NO SOUL, SO IT’S STEALING MINE!!!!” and then never talk about Pumpkinhead again. BTW Spoony, if you want a really obscure FMV there’s this game with Donald Sutherland called “Conspiracy!”; it was released in 1990 or 1991 and it’s about some political shenanigans in the late USSR. I don’t think the video bits are even on CDs; instead the entire game is on floppies, so I’m guessing the video clips are tiny, grainy, and ten seconds long. I don’t have a copy, but if one floats my way I’ll send you the thing.
A point of interest actually, if you like Babylon 5, you’d probably like DS9- a lot of the writers went off to work on the show.
I’m going to throw my 2 cents in and also suggest you give DS9 another look. Post season 3 the show really picks up as it basically stops being the usual episodal claptrap and begins a single story arc in the form of the Dominion war.
And let’s keep it real, B5 season 1 was fucking horrid in terms of both writing AND production values and I loves me some B5! Also it’s worth remembering that there was a 6th season of B5 (with Captain “Buns-n-thighs” in the C’n'C) that was complete ass.
More than Andy Robinson being in DS9, he was the Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry. He’s the recipient of the “do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk” line.
Honestly I thought the “see-through” Linkara was part of the joke/scene. Looked fine to me.
Also, I think the reaction to your partial “genuine frustration” by the end of the review is a testament to how convincing it was.
Happy Belated 5th of November!
Apparently I found some info on this game.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182839/
Kind of disappointing game when I read the review.
I actually grew up as a big TNG fan (and to a lesser extent TOS) and I agree with you that Voyager and Enterprise were subpar (with the exception of the final season of Enterprise when they let Manny Coto produce it. If you never saw Season 4 of Enterprise, it’s worth watching with the exclusion of the horrid series finale). I didn’t see Star Trek: Deep Space 9 during it’s original run because, like you, I was turned off by it’s slow start, but it’s now easily my favorite Star Trek series and one of my favorite series of all-time (it’s up there with the West Wing for me).
It’s a lot darker, more character driven, and much less episodic than any of the other Star Trek series. There are similarities to Babylon 5 but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. To be honest, I also disagree with the belief that DS9 doesn’t get good until Season 4. Season 1 wasn’t particularly good, mostly because it tried to be a TNG clone minus the exploring, which didn’t work. However, I’d say it actually starts to pick up as early as Season 2. I definitely agree that it’s a series that gets better as it goes along, with it peaking for me with Season 6, but I don’t think the previous seasons were bad. Besides, it’s not as if the first two season of TNG were gold either. That series didn’t really hit it’s stride until Season 3.
Yeah, with DS9 it does start gelling in season 2. Not a lot is happening in terms of action, (I never cared for the whole DMZ settler vs Cardassian stuff that was supposed to pass for tension until the Dominion appeared) but the characters really start taking off, and it’s the characters that make DS9 so interesting.
I never took a side on the SW vs ST vs B5 stuff, but I always thought of B5 as Lord of the Rings in space. DS9 was more of a wild west show in space.
For what it’s worth, I thought your Bloodwings review was one of the funniest, most insightful, overall best reviews you’ve done recently. I’ve always thought your reviews were better when you just sit down and examine the movie or game, or relay your personal experiences with it and get progressively pissed off. Skits and sketches have never entertained me, and rarely make me laugh like your or anyone else’s strongly-delivered opinion (I was probably the first to think that Dr. Insano was taunting the shark, so to speak; Family Guy kept popping back up in my mind during the later FFVIII reviews). Just thought I’d put that out there.
I actually think this review turned out fantastically well, so it was interesting to me you didn’t seen as happy with. I was sold the moment you interrupted your own opening video and then discarded the sketch material for some raw, hilarious rage. Excellent stuff really.
Also, if you were going to give DS9 another shot, I’d recommend checking out the last two episodes of the first season, ‘Duet’ and ‘In the Hands of the Prophets’. It’s true the series gets a lot better at the fourth season, but there are some excellent episodes and stretches of the show prior to that, and those two are a good example from early on in the show.
As far as Garak the tailor goes, S2’s ‘The Wire’ is probably his best episode in the series (and one of the best in general). Not that the opinion of an anonymous, preening internet geek adding his voice to the chorus matters, but I figured I would anyway.
Thank you for reopening the dank door of the B5- DS9 debate. I didn’t like either of them…lol….Anyway, the commentaries are actually my favourite thing of yours to watch, I love seeing how these reviews are made. I actually loved the Pumpkinhead review because it was a review about failure, which is hilarious. Ask the guys who make the Venture Bros., the entire theme of their highly successful show is ironically “failure”. As Mel Brooks said, “Tragedy is when I prick my finger, comedy is you falling down a sewer and dying.”. In comedy, failure IS an option.
I don’t think that continuity and “story” with each review is a big deal. In fact, I think that some online reviewers fell into a pitfall of wanting to make something that is more then a simple “review”. For example, I remember James Rolfe saying heput a LOT of effort into filming that AVGN vs Bugs Bunny fight, and in my opinion it is one of the worst reviews he ever did.
People don’t tune in because of the special effects or “stories”. They are just flavor. The entertaining and unique reflection on some movie/game is what keeps us coming back. I enjoyed this FMV Hell Pumpkinhead review a lot and I think it was one of the best yet; hearing that it is basically a result of a desperate writer’s block is astounding to say the least.
Mention Star Trek in a video and all the Trekkies will crawl out of their wormholes… me too!
Yeah, DS9 wasn´t perfect. In fact, I genuinely hated two of the characters! Kira and Sisco´s son (such an annoying brat!). But the show really made up for it. For once, Garak was awesome! And Morn… oh Morn, you chatterbox, your voice was NEVER heard! Just thinking of him makes me laugh! And the ongoing war between Quark and Odo, it´s really like a love-hate relationship. The show DID mostly live from its characters, but they weren´t well developed in the beginning, so I guess that´s the problem with the first seasons.But it was cool to see O´Brian with Keiko and Worf live on the station, because they were familiar faces. It was like watching a home video of good friends who moved to the other end of the world, seeing their daily life. I really liked that part.
Just on a side note: The last season is great and sucky at the same time. The story gets all better but the way they get rid of some characters is just stupid. And some the character´s decisions that are made… No, I´m not gonna spoil it for you. But some are a let-down. At least they were for me. Still, give it a watch, Noah, I think you might like it. Just don´t compare it to B5, that show had a storyarc to go with right from the beginning.
I watched the first season of B5 back in the day, and I liked it A LOT! But I missed the start of the second season and… pretty much all of the second season. So with the start of the third season, when I returned to watch it, I was like “Huh? What´s going on? Why? Who?”. But I should definetely go and give it a watch again, so many people tell me it´s awesome.
I wish you good health in the future!
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