>Bro did you ever notice the monolith looks like a movie screen >For more amazing insights buy my DVDs >Haha no you can’t just get this kind of incisive analysis on YouTube you gotta buy my DVDs >That’ll be 20 GBP plus a tv loicense fee
To be fair, he's been at this since 2006 so he there must be some payoff. I remember watching back then when I was 13, rediscovered him a couple of years ago, couldn't believe he was still at it.
He's put out tons of free content. I've never given him a cent but he could have monetized his channel with a million ads like everyone else and didn't.
The one thing I'll never forgive him for is taking down his Elephant video. That's something they should show in schools because it's the only content about Columbine or other school/office shootings ever that highlights the fact that the perpetrators shit all over the pain of other people like the ugly girl who got shot in the library in Elephant.
>the fact that the perpetrators shit all over the pain of other people like the ugly girl who got shot in the library in Elephant.
Huh? Like mocking others who are in pain?
I don't know if you remember or were alive at the right time to remember the discourse, but the going conversation was that the perpetrators of Columbine were bullied and troubled which led to shooting their classmates. No matter what kind of bullying or angst they were suffering from, using it as an excuse to kill other students who also may have been suffering from bullying or other troubles themselves was horrible, and I've never seen another piece of media touch on this besides Rob's video on Elephant. Not one. Not mocking others who are in pain, but the snuffing out and preventing of someone like the ugly girl in Elephant from becoming something greater than her teenage pain.
That's not really interesting discourse anon. Do you have something specific you disagree with so that we can all participate in some discussion and learn more about a film together?
To be fair, he's been at this since 2006 so he there must be some payoff. I remember watching back then when I was 13, rediscovered him a couple of years ago, couldn't believe he was still at it.
But then he got autistically bent out of shape by the Wendy Theory, because the guy who came up with that said it occurred to him while he was watching one of Ager's videos.
His sperg was so strange that I started taking the Wendy Theory more seriously and wondered if Ager isn't some kind of limited hangout guy, whose "real" job is to drop tidbits (peekaboo) here and there about what media has been up to for the past 5 decades, but not ALL the stuff it's been up to (and still up to).
In a movie where he entertains ten billion different potential/intentional readings, it was odd that it was that one that really triggered him and he gave such a shit tier take-down of it. Why WOULDN'T Kubrick add a layer like that? It basically makes the movie his sneaky version of Kurasawa's Roshomon. It's an entirely valid angle of analysis, and would even work as a sly sideways glance at the then massive popularity of Star Wars. SK was always commenting on current trends in cinema in his work.
I only listen to Mark Kermode. Sometimes I read Peter Bradshaw for amusement. I don't want an analysis or an interpretation: the people in Room 237 were oddballs, not demonstrating how one is supposed to properly peruse art, m'yes.
I don't think he tries to sound intelligent nor think he's THAT intelligent himself. But he knows he's great at conceptualizing analytic takes based upon certain combination of elements (plot, photography, sound, acting, etc) which could be viewed as sublime and not as obvious as they seem when they're brought up.
He's brilliant but many of his observations are based on bad logic. He's an eccentric mind, but absolutely valuable and certainly entertaining. He bases a lot of his observations on weird crackpot ideas like NLP. He's just finding meaning where there isn't any, sometimes.
Weirdest one he ever did was a deep dive into the prodigy.. like the techno band. Totally bonkers
>prodigy
I think that was from his period where he was attempting to suss out trending subjects/words in the algo to see if he could bump his channel up the recommends.
"Prodigy" was a word that was everywhere for a while. Probably some artificially bumped comms related thing. Possibly the name of the new Echelon/Carnivore system (maybe even the replacement for whatever Kraken was).
He also tried clickbait titles and fake drama/controversy theming some of his videos. He must have discovered the system is fixed because it was right before he switched over into making his game.
That sort of effortpost is completely wasted and anons were right to let your threads die. That effort is better spent in a video essay, or blogpost article.
I know it goes against the spirit of an anonymous message board but I have made some damn good schizo posts and they've just floated into the aether. It's not like I can/will ever publish them, become a weirdo like Ulililia or someone.
As far as I know the molestation stuff is only in the The Shining videos.
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Haven't heard of this guy or seen the video, but isn't this a pretty common theory? Not even one of the stranger ones. I assumed it might be from the novel, or something (like how Jack's alcoholism is downplayed).
watch his exorcist vids. he's autistic about molestation for some reason. It's just kinda funny lol idk I like him though
the Danny was molested video is the most airtight thing he has produced
Haven't heard of this guy or seen the video, but isn't this a pretty common theory? Not even one of the stranger ones. I assumed it might be from the novel, or something (like how Jack's alcoholism is downplayed).
I think he makes way too many videos on The Shining, but I really like his video on the first NoES. He makes a ton of insightful observations that I never see from other critics. Though I'm never going to buy his commentaries.
His video on political ideologies was a complete and utter embarrassment.
He essentially made a very stupid etymological analysis of the terms 'conservative' and 'liberal' and it boiled down to: >So yeah 'conservatism' is like when you don't do a lot of things and 'liberalism' is when you like do a lot of things yeah.
Just no sense of the history of the terms and an understanding of how usage determines meaning far more than some little synopsis written in a fricking dictionary.
Also, screen by screen symbolic analysis is anti-art. Frick this complete waste of time. Kubrick fans will never ever understand film.
I sort of miss those videos of Ager narrating in an earthy, semi-civilised tone of voice about obscure messages in opulently crafted films. The sitdown discussions from his office are such a world apart from what came before, but they're good in their own way.
I've bought his Mad Max 2 -analysis, and it was quite OK. A good watch and some insightful things I hadn't seen in the movie. I haven't bought anything else from him, though.
The Kinetic House-Tree-Person drawing videos were interesting enough that I bought it when it first was released, after that he studied a really interesting English Symbolist painter who made covers for a lot of like prog rock albums. I'd like to see studies of late Picasso drawings or something else in that vein, like maybe the drawings and journals of Delacroix. He teased the idea of studying games for awhile but then we had 10 years of COD so I guess he ditched the idea and made a SHMUP instead.
Studies of horror or British giallo films would be nice. He's looked at Wes Craven's Nightmare On Elm Street and some compilation films, like Creepshow I think it was, but never went full-on with horror. He looked at some Clint Eastwood films but never went too deep into Westerns either... nevertheless, he could build up a solid genre study if he wanted to.
After reading some Kubrick interviews and biographies I'm pretty sure 80% of his observations are big reaches or just wrong. He's very selective about what he backs his claims up with and paints a fairly narrow picture of how Kubrick worked as an artist. After a certain point you have to realize his living is based on finding "hidden" details so it's in his best interest to ignore anything that discredits the narrative he comes up with.
If you actually look at the colouring of the bricks behind him, you can see the director was suggesting Rob is the red brick, distinct from the others, on the edge of them all, the white contrast to black showing how although the other bricks are all the same they're also very different. The subliminal messaging is really top stuff and we don't see it in modem cinema anymore.
Hes calmed down from it now, but I remember when I first saw him years ago all of his videos were about how movies are secret illuminati/conspiracy theory slop.
I think he watched that Room 148 movie and saw how embarrassing those schizos are and started to back away from it.
>so yeah basically Kubrick searched endlessly for a photo specifically full of people that looked like Woodrow Wilson's cabinet but they aren't actually them because he wanted to maintain plausible deniability, also all of these politicians I'm seeing would've been in their 70s by the time this photo was taken and not young like the people in the photo but it's still intentionally enigmatic that was Kubrick boy I've sure cracked the code on this one finally
is Jack Nicholson edited into a more fuzzy old photo on purpose? because it's ALL fake? (Kubrick was a perfectionist, he wouldn't allow this by accident.)
Anyone know much about his personal life? I always thought this dude was like an investigator or psychologist or something. I think he went to school for psychology. I also remember him mentioning how he was dragged into court for someone accusing him of false accusations (I think it was some shit like someone falsly called him a racist or something kek).
I don't think he's done any higher education, he's stated numerous times he worked (volunteered?) in a community outreach thing that worked with homeless, drug users, ex criminals etc. I think he might have been one of those people psychologists use so they don't have to be around all the time.
neither are you
Fair point.
is he related to Paul McCartney?
Scouse phenotype.
>Bro did you ever notice the monolith looks like a movie screen
>For more amazing insights buy my DVDs
>Haha no you can’t just get this kind of incisive analysis on YouTube you gotta buy my DVDs
>That’ll be 20 GBP plus a tv loicense fee
I wonder how much he actually sells.
To be fair, he's been at this since 2006 so he there must be some payoff. I remember watching back then when I was 13, rediscovered him a couple of years ago, couldn't believe he was still at it.
Yeah lots of people have futile hobbies..
He's probably independently wealthy
He's put out tons of free content. I've never given him a cent but he could have monetized his channel with a million ads like everyone else and didn't.
The one thing I'll never forgive him for is taking down his Elephant video. That's something they should show in schools because it's the only content about Columbine or other school/office shootings ever that highlights the fact that the perpetrators shit all over the pain of other people like the ugly girl who got shot in the library in Elephant.
Why did you point me at him.
Because I thought you'd be cute together.
>the fact that the perpetrators shit all over the pain of other people like the ugly girl who got shot in the library in Elephant.
Huh? Like mocking others who are in pain?
I don't know if you remember or were alive at the right time to remember the discourse, but the going conversation was that the perpetrators of Columbine were bullied and troubled which led to shooting their classmates. No matter what kind of bullying or angst they were suffering from, using it as an excuse to kill other students who also may have been suffering from bullying or other troubles themselves was horrible, and I've never seen another piece of media touch on this besides Rob's video on Elephant. Not one. Not mocking others who are in pain, but the snuffing out and preventing of someone like the ugly girl in Elephant from becoming something greater than her teenage pain.
That's not really interesting discourse anon. Do you have something specific you disagree with so that we can all participate in some discussion and learn more about a film together?
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Anything, OP? Anything at all specific you wanted to bring up? Or were you just shitposting.
>not as intelligent as he thinks he is
All scousers are like that
Also never as funny as they think they are.
Yet he's still better than most movie 'critics' today.
That he gave up and went back to making video games? kek
At least he's smart enough to pass up the chance to be interviewed for that Room 237 movie.
But then he got autistically bent out of shape by the Wendy Theory, because the guy who came up with that said it occurred to him while he was watching one of Ager's videos.
His sperg was so strange that I started taking the Wendy Theory more seriously and wondered if Ager isn't some kind of limited hangout guy, whose "real" job is to drop tidbits (peekaboo) here and there about what media has been up to for the past 5 decades, but not ALL the stuff it's been up to (and still up to).
In a movie where he entertains ten billion different potential/intentional readings, it was odd that it was that one that really triggered him and he gave such a shit tier take-down of it. Why WOULDN'T Kubrick add a layer like that? It basically makes the movie his sneaky version of Kurasawa's Roshomon. It's an entirely valid angle of analysis, and would even work as a sly sideways glance at the then massive popularity of Star Wars. SK was always commenting on current trends in cinema in his work.
I only listen to Mark Kermode. Sometimes I read Peter Bradshaw for amusement. I don't want an analysis or an interpretation: the people in Room 237 were oddballs, not demonstrating how one is supposed to properly peruse art, m'yes.
I don't think he tries to sound intelligent nor think he's THAT intelligent himself. But he knows he's great at conceptualizing analytic takes based upon certain combination of elements (plot, photography, sound, acting, etc) which could be viewed as sublime and not as obvious as they seem when they're brought up.
He's brilliant but many of his observations are based on bad logic. He's an eccentric mind, but absolutely valuable and certainly entertaining. He bases a lot of his observations on weird crackpot ideas like NLP. He's just finding meaning where there isn't any, sometimes.
Weirdest one he ever did was a deep dive into the prodigy.. like the techno band. Totally bonkers
>prodigy
I think that was from his period where he was attempting to suss out trending subjects/words in the algo to see if he could bump his channel up the recommends.
"Prodigy" was a word that was everywhere for a while. Probably some artificially bumped comms related thing. Possibly the name of the new Echelon/Carnivore system (maybe even the replacement for whatever Kraken was).
He also tried clickbait titles and fake drama/controversy theming some of his videos. He must have discovered the system is fixed because it was right before he switched over into making his game.
If only Cinemaphile had his creative ability to put out a few dumb troll-analysis every month or so, then this place would be much better.
I've tried myself but anons are simply too ignorant to participate in the discussion
That sort of effortpost is completely wasted and anons were right to let your threads die. That effort is better spent in a video essay, or blogpost article.
I know it goes against the spirit of an anonymous message board but I have made some damn good schizo posts and they've just floated into the aether. It's not like I can/will ever publish them, become a weirdo like Ulililia or someone.
please share some of your best ones
No, you've put me on the spot. Next time you see an effortpost you like, please just assume it was me <3
oh come on, I'll share my schizo-posts if you share yours, then perhaps, if yours are good enough, we could team up to schizofy Cinemaphile
I am pretty sure he posts on Cinemaphile at times.
He does, I think, I remember he posted about Kim Novaks butt a while ago
here it is
He is autistic as frick, but also brilliant. Overall he is a gud lad
he's obsessed with molestation it's weird
I've seen all his free videos and even bought a couple from his site. I dont know what you mean. Because of his shining videos?
As far as I know the molestation stuff is only in the The Shining videos.
watch his exorcist vids. he's autistic about molestation for some reason. It's just kinda funny lol idk I like him though
I live in washington
the Danny was molested video is the most airtight thing he has produced
Haven't heard of this guy or seen the video, but isn't this a pretty common theory? Not even one of the stranger ones. I assumed it might be from the novel, or something (like how Jack's alcoholism is downplayed).
Do you live on Sri Lanka or what?
Okay, but what about the triangles? The diamonds?
Anyone okay his top down shooter?
Gameplay seems fun but graphics are atrocious.
I think he makes way too many videos on The Shining, but I really like his video on the first NoES. He makes a ton of insightful observations that I never see from other critics. Though I'm never going to buy his commentaries.
forgot this guy existed
i stopped watching his stuff years ago
does he still make videos?
he does but their quality is of a more varied sort
he has very similar tastes to me but he talks a boatload of nonsense shit
his daughter is pretty hot
Pics?
Would you cum in her pussy?
I hate how much he dislike french and japanese movies, he never analyzes them
asiatic lover, you're spiritually brown
His video on political ideologies was a complete and utter embarrassment.
He essentially made a very stupid etymological analysis of the terms 'conservative' and 'liberal' and it boiled down to:
>So yeah 'conservatism' is like when you don't do a lot of things and 'liberalism' is when you like do a lot of things yeah.
Just no sense of the history of the terms and an understanding of how usage determines meaning far more than some little synopsis written in a fricking dictionary.
Also, screen by screen symbolic analysis is anti-art. Frick this complete waste of time. Kubrick fans will never ever understand film.
Please define conservative or liberal in fewer than 5 words.
>not as intelligent as he thinks he is.
well yeah, he's a Kubrick fan, what did you expect
>His Patreons receive dating tips
what on earth
>dating tips
really?
I sort of miss those videos of Ager narrating in an earthy, semi-civilised tone of voice about obscure messages in opulently crafted films. The sitdown discussions from his office are such a world apart from what came before, but they're good in their own way.
Yeah he was terrific at writing and reading narration up until about 2015.
I've bought his Mad Max 2 -analysis, and it was quite OK. A good watch and some insightful things I hadn't seen in the movie. I haven't bought anything else from him, though.
The Kinetic House-Tree-Person drawing videos were interesting enough that I bought it when it first was released, after that he studied a really interesting English Symbolist painter who made covers for a lot of like prog rock albums. I'd like to see studies of late Picasso drawings or something else in that vein, like maybe the drawings and journals of Delacroix. He teased the idea of studying games for awhile but then we had 10 years of COD so I guess he ditched the idea and made a SHMUP instead.
The Psychology of Film Extras is such a great conceptual video, I'll bet he has dozens more ideas like this too
Never buy anything from him, but seems like he knows what he's talking about most of the time
I don't know jack shit about him I just like his videos.
Frankly, I just enjoy listening to whatever he talks about. Dude could read a phone book and it'd be comfy to have on.
Studies of horror or British giallo films would be nice. He's looked at Wes Craven's Nightmare On Elm Street and some compilation films, like Creepshow I think it was, but never went full-on with horror. He looked at some Clint Eastwood films but never went too deep into Westerns either... nevertheless, he could build up a solid genre study if he wanted to.
He should "anal"-yze classic porn movies like "Depp down the throat" and "I'm a texan prostitute and I just happened to turd you bed"
his latest video was an embarrassing cope about being lonely
Whats wrong with it?
After reading some Kubrick interviews and biographies I'm pretty sure 80% of his observations are big reaches or just wrong. He's very selective about what he backs his claims up with and paints a fairly narrow picture of how Kubrick worked as an artist. After a certain point you have to realize his living is based on finding "hidden" details so it's in his best interest to ignore anything that discredits the narrative he comes up with.
2001 monolith tilted movie screen theory is kino and correct but he never managed to reach that high again
his top 200 music album rating is pure eminence
If you actually look at the colouring of the bricks behind him, you can see the director was suggesting Rob is the red brick, distinct from the others, on the edge of them all, the white contrast to black showing how although the other bricks are all the same they're also very different. The subliminal messaging is really top stuff and we don't see it in modem cinema anymore.
If you think about it, the hotel is a character too.
Hes calmed down from it now, but I remember when I first saw him years ago all of his videos were about how movies are secret illuminati/conspiracy theory slop.
I think he watched that Room 148 movie and saw how embarrassing those schizos are and started to back away from it.
He almost got suckered into that documentary actually. The filmmakers contacted him and he declined.
>so yeah basically Kubrick searched endlessly for a photo specifically full of people that looked like Woodrow Wilson's cabinet but they aren't actually them because he wanted to maintain plausible deniability, also all of these politicians I'm seeing would've been in their 70s by the time this photo was taken and not young like the people in the photo but it's still intentionally enigmatic that was Kubrick boy I've sure cracked the code on this one finally
is Jack Nicholson edited into a more fuzzy old photo on purpose? because it's ALL fake? (Kubrick was a perfectionist, he wouldn't allow this by accident.)
he does have good taste though.
gave jack reacher (2012) and upgrade (2018) a chance and was blown away.
two very competent and fun action movies.
Anyone know much about his personal life? I always thought this dude was like an investigator or psychologist or something. I think he went to school for psychology. I also remember him mentioning how he was dragged into court for someone accusing him of false accusations (I think it was some shit like someone falsly called him a racist or something kek).
I don't think he's done any higher education, he's stated numerous times he worked (volunteered?) in a community outreach thing that worked with homeless, drug users, ex criminals etc. I think he might have been one of those people psychologists use so they don't have to be around all the time.