Tag: Anthony Gramuglia

Star Wars: The Acolyte has been making huge waves online. Fans online have review bombed this show on Rotten Tomatoes (and every other movie with a similar name) and the Star Wars fandom appears united against Leslye Headland and this woke new world of pronouns and space witches.

But is it? Is The Acolyte worthy of this backlash? In this Star Wars video essay, let’s look at the hate Star Wars The Acolyte has gotten. By examining the way we react to Star Wars: The Acolyte, it becomes clear we aren’t really criticizing individual pieces of Star Wars….not anymore.

Did you ever notice children’s horror as a medium known in the 90s is gone? Or at least, kind of EXTREMELY different? The genre started as something born of the old comics, EC Comic’s Tales from the Crypt, before evolving over the decades into a thriving medium from countless talented creators, like George Romero, Steven Spielberg, RL Stein, and even Tim Burton.

But something happened. As quickly as children’s horror materialized, it faded away. Why is that? Well, there are several reasons, but the question is: did horror for kids really disappear or did it simply change form? And how does Five Nights at Freddy’s fit into all this?

Many critics online claim to be objective. That they remove emotion from the process and are able to determine the quality of a film based on consistent, logical scales. The chief architect of this model of review is MauLer and EFAP, who claim that they are completely objective when reviewing anything.

Anthony Gramuglia disagrees. Fundamentally. In this episode you can see his arguments:

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are some of the most iconic comic book characters of all time. They’re often regarded as one of the best romantic couples in comics…but according to YouTuber JesterBell, they’re the worst relationship of all time. Worse than Mary Jane and Paul. Worse than Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

So…WHY? Why does JesterBell feel fans and writers have ruined this character? And why is the runtime for this video so long?

Star Wars has the Empire, a territory reigned by Emperor Palpatine. But the government of the Empire is run by some of the most pathetic, weaselly fascists around. Andor illustrates the full extent of how pathetic and weaselly these losers are.

Thor and Wonder Woman are both heavily inspired by Norse and Greek mythology. Yet while their iterations of Loki and Ares draw from ancient beliefs, they took several deviations. But don’t worry, as it turns out, even what we think of as “mythology canon” isn’t really canon. It’s gonna take an expert to explain.

Special thanks to ‪@OverlySarcasticProductions‬ for joining in this detailed diatribe about Thor, Wonder Woman, King Arthur, and mythology in general.

Channel Awesome was a coalition of internet critics in the early days of YouTube. With Doug Walker standing at the front, they dominated the internet movie analysis landscape. While many of these critics either evolved, like Lindsay Ellis and Linkara, or faded from memory, like The Spoony One, The Nostalgia Critic remains an unmovable column of internet pop culture.

This is Anthony Gramuglia. He thinks these critics shaped my development as a critic, but were they…actually any good? Or did they have their own sorts of problems that need addressing? He went to the past to look at their earliest reviews to see where they went.

A few years ago, popular true crime/horror guy Wendigoon read Dante Aligheri’s Inferno and made a summary of it. A few years later, an Italian guy who read this poem an uncomfortable number of times watched Wendigoon’s video about Dante’s Inferno and had thoughts. This is a critical response to Wendigoon, evaluating his review of the text in comparison to the text itself, to determine if his review is accurate to the text.

This is not a personal attack on Wendigoon at all.