Video Essays + Every Frame a Painting

[Philip J. Fry]

[TGM]

[Dukefrukem]

I finally learned what this was called!

[amberlita]

I absolutely did not have a feeling of relaxation during that scene from The Witch.

[Ezee E]

I absolutely did not have a feeling of relaxation during that scene from The Witch.

Which video essay is this in reference to?

EDIT: Nevermind.

Wait a second, that's anything but ASMR...

[Grouchy]

The Inglourious Basterds one, too. Some of those scenes are filled with tension.

[Philip J. Fry]

I know this isn't a video essay or anything, but if you ever feel down, watch this clip of Orson Welles interviewing Andy Kaufman.

[Philip J. Fry]

[Dead & Messed Up]

This was a long time coming, dealt with computer crashes and audio challenges, but here we are:

[Skitch]

Oh I'll be sharing this all over.

[Dukefrukem]

LOVE that. I remember you've been working on this for a while.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Oh I'll be sharing this all over.

Thanks! Glad you dug it.

LOVE that. I remember you've been working on this for a while.

Yeah, set it aside for almost a full year, gag.

[Philip J. Fry]

[Dukefrukem]

Thanks! Glad you dug it.



Yeah, set it aside for almost a full year, gag.

There's a "footage not found" towards the end. Not sure if you're aware?

[Dead & Messed Up]

There's a "footage not found" towards the end. Not sure if you're aware?

That's deliberate. There's no footage in the movie that dramatizes the moment, so I stole that black text on white title card from an Arrested Development joke.

[Ezee E]

[Dead & Messed Up]

I honestly think this is one of the best bits of YouTube criticism I've ever seen, not least of which because I know enough about the subject in question that nobody's watching this more closely than I am, which makes its excellence, coherence, and relative concision all the more impressive - in 30 minutes, the author...

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rehabilitates 2008's CTHULHU, comes out as bisexual, unpacks Lovecraft's bigotry, connects it to his cosmic anxieties, and brings it all home.

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[Dead & Messed Up]

This is awesome - after posting the Lovecraft video above, Hbomberguy heard from the director of CTHULHU, Dan Gildark, who linked to a director's cut of the film he'd uploaded to YouTube for free viewing.

This is straight-up awesome, because now it means none of y'all have to find the DVD under its previously-licensed distributor of OutNow!

It was a terrible DVD. You couldn't skip through the fistful of trailers at the start.

So anyway, if you're curious to watch, CTHULHU, a movie that's more accurately THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH with a more marketable title and a strong emphasis on homosexual anxiety (in that it's, like, the driving motivator):

[Philip J. Fry]

[Philip J. Fry]

This video discusses the history of arguing and ways to make it more effective.

"A man convinced against his own will is of the same opinion still." -Dale Carnegie

[Philip J. Fry]

[Philip J. Fry]

[StuSmallz]

[amberlita]

I'm very partial to lists of musical moments.

But this video exemplifies what drives me nuts about how these youtube videos are made most of the time. Be it a list, or film commentary, or video essay, the voice-over is constant and rapid and basically just describes what I'm seeing on the screen. It's particularly annoying with something like this - a video about musical moments where I hardly get time to appreciate the actual music! Rather than practically b-rolling the scene, why not let more of it play out so we can appreciate it, rather than drowning it out with vapid, lightning-speed voice-over?

[Philip J. Fry]

S4 spoilers.