I thought Klytus was cooler than Emperor Ming in Flash Gordon. He looked every bit the evil conniving sorceror, and spoke like a snake when complimenting his boss and subtly tempting him to cause more mischief. The real power behind the throne.
Wow, that “review” was even more retarded than the drunk narrator sounded, which is quite a feat.
Just because it’s on Youtube doesn’t make it brilliant.
You can be my new best friend. I hate that guy, and the adoration he gets makes me hate him even more.
What do you think was wrong with it?
For that matter, I think Count Rugen beats Prince Humperdinck.
Where did you get the idea that anyone was connecting that it was on youtube to it being brilliant?
Bond henchmen are almost always cooler and more interesting than the prime megalomaniac. (In the movies, anyway.) Just think Jaws, Xenia Onatopp, Fatima Blush, Bambi and Thumper, May Day (Grace Jones), and of course the afore-mentioned Odd Job.
The only Villain who might be considered cooler than his henchman was Scaramanga vs. Nick Nack, but then how hard is it to be cooler than someone half your height?..TRM
Excel was cooler than Il Palazzo (though he was still pretty cool).
Darth Maul looked like a Mexican wrestler, and was badly under-developed as a caracter. We were supposed to accept him as being the epitome of badass just becuase he stood around and glowerd with his arms crossed. Bad directing by Lucas. the first we saw of Dath Vader he was breaking necks, the first we saw of Darth Maul he was striking a pose. We were suppsed to accept Maul as evil becasue, ooh, scary tattoos. Vader was a better villain because he’d killa nyone who annyed him. But Maul only picked fair fights with either one Jedi or a pair of Jedi. That might ahve worked if Lucas had develeped the character, like he scorned to kill if it wasn’t a challenge, but as it was it was just contradictory with “wipe the out, all of them”. Lazy writing, lazy directing.
Nemesis Enforcer was way cooler than Golobulus.
Emperor Dornkirk is a shriveled up old mad scientist constantly peering through a telescope. Dilandau, however, was a kick ass psycho nutjob
Dr. Wily is less cool than all of his robots, even Wood Man, yes Wood Man! A robot with a log for a body, throws leaves, and has a name you can’t say without snickering is cooler than Dr. Wily
I am no fan of Darth Maul, but he was still cooler than Darth Sideous. And Count Dooku, despite the stupid name, was much cooler than Darth Sideous.
Among the Bond villains, my vote is for Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, who were much cooler than [del]the man with no neck[/del] Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever.
I always found Miss Gsptlsnz much cooler than Mr. Mxyzptlk.
Red Grant was very awesome. I’d love to see him vs. Daniel Craig Bond. I think it would be a great fight.
From The Rundown: The guy with the whip was much cooler than Christopher Walken.
OP: SheGo was who I thought of, two. I think Goldar on Power Rangers was cooler than Rita. And Krang was technically in charge on Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, even though Shredder was always much cooler, to the point where new versions make Shredder the main villain.
That’s all I can think of for now.
That’s just it. So far, all the people I’ve ever seen that have such a visceral reaction to the content (and not just the voice) never seem to be able to actually tell us what they find wrong with it.
I personally don’t care for the voice, and none of the serial killer stuff is remotely funny. But I think the review content is as good as any. I may or may not disagree with him, but I do think he makes cogent points.
Anyways, this is a personal request to you guys: Want to rag on something someone else likes? How 'bout you tell us what’s wrong with it? If you can throw shit around about it, surely you have a good reason for not liking it.
And no cheating by saying the voice/style, since you guys keep listing that as separate.
True, though part of it was having Drakken’s fecklessness to play off and snark at.
What did you think was brilliant about it? You said it was, and you note a “cool bit where [Maul] is presented as the first homosexual in Star Wars.”
There was nothing original in the whole thing. Anakin’s owner is a Jew! How insightful. It had blacks! It was all about diversity! He doesn’t like Darth Maul, so… look, homosexual!
That’s brilliant? Only to a 3rd grader. Maybe.
What was funny or in the least bit original about it, except he sounds like a drunk retard?
If you genuinely feel that was high comedy somehow I’d like to know why. If I hurt your feelings I’m sorry, but I see links to Youtube videos all the time with no other information or explanation than things like “brilliant!” At least you stated one reason you thought it was brilliant. Maul=homosexual! Ha, ha, ha!
Nope, don’t see anything brilliant about it. Quite the opposite.
I think the entire point of Darth Maul was not to develop him as a character. You can criticize Lucas on many grounds - but he always charcterized people, though usually in fairly simple and iconic ways. Maul is basically the lack of doing this: he’s utterly mysterious, never explains anything and no one cares to explain him. I think that’s the major reason the character really did stick around in the popular consciousness, as let’s face it: he’s a minor villain. But everything you know about him is inference. H’e sbasically the Anti-vader. Like Vader, he starts out being a mysterious but dangerous foe. Unlike Vader, he stays that way.
I don’t think it was “high comedy”. Mostly just a very accurate review, with some funny bits.
Yes, he points out that Anakins owner is a middle eastern stereotype. But it’s only a small bit, he doesn’t labour on it. It’s not stupid in itself to point out, is it?
Most of his criticism is about broader themes. How the people have no memorable characteristics, and how that is opposite of the original Star Wars. How the overall plot made no sense, and how the individual players in the plot, performed actions that made no sense for them. How there is no main character. Etc, etc. All things I can see that he is right about, but that I didn’t think about when I saw the movie.
He doesn’t really critizise Darth Maul for being a homosexual, that is just a bit, that maybe more was in connection with his criticism of the highly choreographed fight scenes.
Mostly what I’ve heard people complain about is that they didn’t care about the characters, and Jar Jar Binks. About the characters he explain why we don’t care about them, and he actually hardly goes into Binks at all. Instead he focuses on a lot of other aspects, that are also terrible, but that I haven’t heard anyone point out before. Which is what originality is in this regard, isn’t it.