What ever happened to LKBAP? He was one of the OG virtue signalers on GAF but I haven't seen him post in forever. Maybe I e simply gotten better at avoiding him? Last I remember seeing of him, he seemed like he was actually starting to feel a little hung over from all that socially justicey brown liquor. Did even he have enough of GAF?
These are the things I think of when I have sightly more than usual regular brown liquor. Can I get some pity likes?
edit: HA! Take THAT, word filter!
He actually popped up in an outrage of the week thread after nearly a year absence from the forum and posted something like "holy shit you people have lost your minds while I was gone" somebody linked it on here.
I don't know if he ever worked his way back in with the new mob that runs OT or anything though. Adjusted his views properly, etc.
Bobby Roberts is easily the most fascinating character in all of GAF. The ego, the insecurity, the fake black. Very intriguing guy, would watch a prestige drama based on his life.
Okay, but you would watch a prestige drama that he wrote and directed and starred in?
Because I'm only seeing this working if we grant him all that to get the definitive cut, and then like I or Atra (or both of us) step in and edit it afterwards for normal human consumption.
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=249803175
Seen this posted on Twitter, Harry's review of Urban Legend (1998) and not that I want to pile on, but how was this tolerated as film criticism?
Not that the review is not horrible, but reading remarks like that or those of Bobby Roberts earlier leave me dumbfounded, as if "film criticism" was run like an actual industry with mandatory standards or some entity monitoring who gets to have a paying gig.
It's even worse than that, Harry's review in 1998 would have been something he posted on his website and was only paid attention to within circles that came off of newsgroups. He didn't "ascend" until the dot com boom made him into the normal media's "INTERNET GUY" they'd bring on for that specific role and it'd be a few more years before he was anything but an ascended newsgrouper/forum poster/fanboy/etc. (I mean, to the guy's credit, he's never really tried to be more than that, but I mean in terms of how the rest of the industry treated him.) That was how he wound up on Ebert's show after Siskel died and they were rolling through a different guest host every week until they decided on Roeper and he was one of the LOOK, FROM THE INTERNET!!! guys they brought on along with a few other "outside the published film critics" people they tried.
But he's always been more of an internet presence, I don't believe he's ever published outside Aint It' Cool News? Maybe a brief syndicated run as a test in those free papers every city has like Bobby Roberts works for?
Ain't It Cool News was launched in 1996, and its name is attributed to a quote from John Travolta's character in the film Broken Arrow.[2] Knowles began surfing the Internet while recovering from a debilitating accident in 1994. He spent a lot of time in newsgroups exchanging gossip and rumors about upcoming films, eventually creating his own Web site as part of his Internet hobby. A principal offering was Knowles's colorful movie reviews, but the primary distinction from other sites was the (ostensible) insider news articles. Production Assistants, people in the industry, secretaries and other behind-the-scenes folk would submit news such as casting decisions, scripts and release dates, though Knowles himself has admitted that in the beginning, some of the articles from these alleged "spies" were his own work generated from scouring the newsgroups.
The website garnered national attention in 1997 with the release of Batman & Robin. Knowles posted several negative reviews from preview screenings.[4] When the film performed poorly at the box office, studio executives complained that it had been sabotaged by the leaks to the Internet.[5] However, negative reviews from other, more traditional media confirmed what Knowles had posted.
According to an April 5, 2013 article in The Hollywood Reporter, Knowles' site made $700,000 per year in revenue in its early 2000s prime.[14] However, by 2013, traffic had dwindled and ad revenue had dropped to the low six figures.[14] The Hollywood Reporter also noted that Knowles owed $300,000 in back taxes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service by that point and that the inability of AICN to adapt beyond a dated 1990s web template, being outpaced by newer sites and its continuing difficulty generating the scoops and headlines it was known for in its prime.[14]
