Reel Layers Ep. 101 - Twister’s Hidden Protest

Bewildering and weird yet entertaining.

This is very good but I have no idea what is going on. This is a bit but who is behind all this? Who is Bryan Stills? We need answers people!

I am dying

I love real person Bryan Stills!!!

@yankeesmcav1: A bit? Bryan is a well-known critic, everyone knows him, and has seen him in public. He's a real human. I can vouch for him, I know half his social security number and it's legit.

This does not make sense. Is this what the British refer to as "taking the piss" ?

it’s about time we had REAL criticism back on Giant Bomb. thank you, extremely real person Bryan Stills, for your insight and candor!

Even as a bit, this is lousy.

I love Gary Films and everything he does!

Well, that was weird and wonderful and...weird.

Did you guys run this by Rorie first? Seems awful mean to let noted real person Bryan Stills take over media criticism without letting Rorie have a wack at it first.

fantastic.

This is... good? I think?

I enjoyed it, anyway.

This site is getting weird and I'm here for it.

Written and Directed by Hideo Kojima

This joke is like 70% there. Even as satire, there needs to be acts that alternate the tempo of the video to keep it engaging.

Bryan Stills is one of the leading academic minds of our time. His insights and viewpoints will one day be lauded in the same breath as Joakim Mogren and Alan Smithee.

Bryan Stills is my favorite raving derelict of Park City, Utah. Thank you for this, Bryan.

(Also holy shit that ending killed me)

@bisonhero: Alan Smithee, now there's a reel genius!

I love how fucking weird this is whole thing is

His name is Bryan Stills but he talks about moving pictures??? I'm not buying it........

I must have missed a joke somewhere about Bryan Stills

In loving memory indeed.

Eh.. this ain't it.

The more weird the better!

Can't believe they got Bryan Stills. I remember when Stills was just starting out and posting reviews on LiveJournal

Been seeing speculation that this may be Brian David Gilbert. Maybe, but who knows!?

Thank you, Bryan Stills, for opening my eyes to true art.

I think that's the joke. Adult swim esk, like the good old days, weird GB is bACK BABY. Fans seem to like it so get on board or i don't know.

This was pretty good. it was pretty obviously a joke but at the same time the analysis made perfect sense

This is extremely funny. Great work. I hope people stop speculating who this is because it's more funny to be unknown it says right on the thing that it's Bryan Stills.

For goodness' sake

This is most definitely it.

I swore to god I was the only one who mixed up Bill Paxton and Dennis Quaid

Not sure why I'm mentioning it here though

Not funny. Bit is dead before it even began.

There's roughly a million of this same bit on Youtube and has been for over a decade.

@snaketelegraph: I was in the camp of frantically trying to figure out the real identity, but I gotta say I'm loving how people are buying into the bit. I'm just going to enjoy the ride!

Is this Tate from Numwater, WA?

After one episode, I've seen enough

oh well if there is something else like it, it must be bad. youtube is also as far back as my references for derivative work goes.

The problem is, it isn’t good. And that makes the bit not funny.

I don't really get it, but if it's a one-off experiment then it's an ok try. This kind of satire isn't sustainable for multiple episodes though.

I think Bryan Stills is friends with Jackie Daytona, regular human guy.

Well, this is unbearable.

I am sure this is all part of the "great joke", but the stilted halting and (intentionally, I am sure) overbearing delivery causes me physical discomfort.

I have finished one of these, I will not watch another.

I do not get the point of this. It’s not funny, but then I guess (?) that’s what’s funny. Poking fun at earnest if feeble and idiotic attempts at film-criticism.

Hahaha, a deeper meaning in a brain-less action flick from the late 90s, hahaha?

Anyway. If anything, it reminded me what a ridiculous cast that movie had and how for once we were spared sequels (even though it got its own "ride" at Universal Studios).

Not funny, not original, not worth me writing this, really… uch…

Okay so the joke is, " let's do that guy with the glasses/Channel awesome content producer satire circa 2008-2011 era" right?

Like this is a take off of the Cinema Snob, or some of the Nostalgia Critic kind of stuff? That's fine I guess, I will freely admit that if there's some deeper or more up-to-date kind of humor here I've either grown past it or flown over my head.

"Bill's seed"

I'm a little behind on the podcasts so this kinda comes out of nowhere. This is satire, right? It's weird and...not great?

Is this a bit?

I hate it.

I don't get it.