Mr. Coat

A new editorial where I rebut comments made in the Vaulting review for Seth MacFarlane's variety show.

http://ryan-hipp.blogspot.com/2010/05/d ... leger.html

A little too much nitpicking in my opinion, since everyone is entitled to my mistakes (after all, I've done a couple myself. I'm still kicking myself for saying Mel Blanc voiced Popeye), but I will give you credit for not resulting name-calling and insults, but writing a thoughtful, non-trollish response.

If you haven't, I highly recommend listening to the commentary Morgan recorded for the video, which is currently on the front page.

Back from a terrible vaction and this is top on my list to respond to.

Prior to people reading this comment, I want you all to know, I am NOT a troll.

Honestly, the commentary didn't help at all.

One thing I do plan on doing soon is a video in which I look at how Morgan, despite his frequently expressed disliking for being called a rip-off or copycat of the Nostalgia Critic, sort of is one. In one video, he said that him reviewing the Star Wars Holiday Special would result in the "rip-off" label. Again, no offense to Morgan, but it isn't him reviewing the same things that results in this, but him stealing jokes from the NC. Whether it be the "Bat credit-card" joke or how the last line in the intro to his Bruno review is nearly identical to that of the NC's intro to his review of Bio-Dome.

If and when this happens, I plan on ending said video with a Keith Olbermann style commentary. Don't know why I felt the need to point this out, but I did anyway.

And if Morgan does read this comment, I want to speak to him directly:
You've potential with your shows. If you wrote out a script or did research, you could have something great. Maybe, sometime, you could let me write a script for an episode of "DVD Talk" or co host an episode with you. Not only could this possibly improve the show, but it could give my, as of now, not yet produced show That Show w/ Ryan Hipp.

Again, no matter what I say about the crew here, I want you all to know that I do respect you all for your ambitions and talent, and that I in no way wish to put anyone down. If I do, I'm very sorry.

I wish you all the best of luck, and, given that Mr. Leger replies, you might here from me again soon.

- Ryan Hipp

Okay, I have to leap to Morgan's defence here.

KRHbacon wrote:Whether it be the "Bat credit-card" joke or how the last line in the intro to his Bruno review is nearly identical to that of the NC's intro to his review of Bio-Dome.

Honestly, it's so vague that it's a line anyone could deliver. Never mind, he likely filmed it before the Bio-Dome review was released. I even saw a work-print version of the video a number of days before release.

As for the Bat Credit-Card, that's an early episode and if you were to look at any of our earlier episodes, you will see us using the Nostalgia Critic formula (myself even more than others). It's just us trying to find our footing.

If you wrote out a script or did research, you could have something great.

Umm, he does write a script and do research. In fact, I don't know anybody with a more impressive knowledge of Jim Henson and the Muppets and 80s cinema and frankly, he probably does more research than the NC who has proven he doesn't do much more than look up a couple of things of IMDb (and even that he's prone to doing mistakes with).

The reason I feel that he doesn't do a whole lot of research is how in his Bruno review he implied that Borat was non well-received critically, despite holding a 91% "certified fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay (also, how he called Sacha Baron Cohen "Sacha Bonan Conan"). Then there is the T2 review where he claims that the Extreme DVD is a reissue of the Ultimate Edition DVD, despite the fact that the Extreme DVD was intended as a companion to the Ultimate DVD (note how the Extreme DVD actually has a hidden trailer for the Ultimate DVD). In the FernGully review, he and Hewy Lewis say that the reason the movie is widely panned is the environmental message. The message wasn't the problem, the problem is the rather blunt way in which the message is told.

About the script, I inferred this through his sometimes slurred speech and redundancy. Like in his review of Mac And Me, he is trying to say that some of his favorites deserved to be on the Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Underrated Classics video, but ends up with something along the lines of "those films deserved to be on that num...number 11 list, and you know it!"

Again, and I just feel obligated to point this out every time I make a post like this to make this isn't taken the wrong way, this is just constructive criticism. Don't be offended, guys. I always try to be the nicest and most civil person that I can possibly be.

And the reason I'm doing this whole thing is because I see Morgan Leger and see a great amount of potential in this guy. He has the opportunity to create a superb video series, but something subpar (far from being bad, mind you) comes instead. I'm just trying to be helpful.

KRHbacon wrote:The reason I feel that he doesn't do a whole lot of research is how in his Bruno review he implied that it was non well-received critically, despite holding a 91% "certified fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay (also, how he called Sacha Baron Cohen "Sacha Bonan Conan").In the FernGully review, he and Hewy Lewis say that the reason the movie is widely panned is the environmental message. The message wasn't the problem, the problem is the rather blunt way in which the message is told.

Don't you mean Borat? Bruno's reviews were more mixed and it wasn't close to being nominated for any awards, let alone an Oscar.

As for the Ferngully review, Morgan can probably clear this up, but I believe most of that script was written by Hewy. It's also worth nothing that Mac & Me was one of the original pilots that was ultimately later aired, to have something to show on a hiatus the series was having last summer. So, technically, that was when he was still testing out the format.

But, there's nothing wrong with voicing an opinion and I do admire you going at it in a non-trollish and eloquently written way. But, in my opinion, I've never found the show subpar. Frankly, if a show was subpar, it wouldn't be on here especially since I'm genuinely very critical of Internet videos. And frankly, all of us make simple, little errors. I said Mel Blanc was the voice of Popeye one time, I also called Ariel's daughter the wrong name. Heck, the NC even felt compelled to make a list of his biggest mistakes. These things happen, but if the show as a whole is entertaining and when we do get something right, people learn something, I think we've done our job.

Yeah, I did mean Borat. Oops.

KRHbacon wrote:Yeah, I did mean Borat. Oops.

Seems now you realise just how easy it is to make a mistake.

I have never denied making mistakes. And the reason I pointed out the errors I did was because they were very annoying to hear. You hear a big error presented as fact, you know it isn't true, so it bothers the crap out of you. You know what I'm getting at?