Reel Layers Ep. 101 - Twister’s Hidden Protest

Boy, this has certainly divided opinion.

On more reflection I think it's excellent. The way absurdity comes on slowly until Bill's Seed enters the picture... *chef's kiss*

Waiting for the previous 100 episodes

Very amused by this whole thing.

I think the Dennis Quaid pic was where this went too far

I made it two minutes and thirty seconds. I'm done.

I hope you guys take that survey seriously.

This is a weird website.

Directed by Hideo Kojima

Had me at Onward Ignorant

I felt like I was waiting for the actual thing to start the entire time, whether the "thing" was a show or a punchline or whatever it was meant to be but then the video ended.

I didn't hate it or love it, it just didn't do anything for me. And I guess it doesn't need to?

To be fair, this show is merely a symptom, not the cause.

Love it had no idea cum was so important in twister

Well...I got it, but it didn't work for me, by the end I kinda couldn't wait for it to be over. Felt like a 3 minute joke stretched out.

Oh, REEL Layers. Wow. There's so much depth in film.

what

is someone gonna play a video game or...

No thanks. This is weird but not in a good way.

Giant Bomb is trying too hard.

I'm glad people like this but I reallyreally don't. I get the satire, but the combination of being 3x too long and the cadence of the narration is too much to bear. I'll actively avoid this.

/golfclap

Looking forward to future episodes.

Ep 102 - Red Sonya, Giving yourself permission.

Ep 103 - Mr. Mom's Anti-Unionization propaganda examined.

I want this show but with out the bs.

Reel Layers is GB's meta-reaction to people saying that new stuff "isn't video gamesey enough" for their tastes, and nobody can convince me otherwise.

This was fantastic!

Perhaps this is a bit too avant garde for the GB community? I'm down for another go though.

That joke at the end was stone cold....

good! silly! i like the cadence in Stills' delivery.

it's no wonder that almost all of the staff that used to work at GB have said that they stopped reading the comments very early into their jobs here. all criticism here is strictly destructive. i honestly dont know what some of you are even doing here at this point. are you masochists? sadists? both? you're too old to be this fucking rude.

Absolutely love this. Wow

Those do sound quite good!

Eh, just not my type of humor. At least I know I can ignore future episodes of this one.

I did laugh at the end bit.

what

I appreciate the intent behind this, I just have very little knowledge of film and movie, so most of this just goes straight over my head.

this is the only good thing on the site right now idgaf

Really did not like that, yeah I know it’s trying to be humorous but to me it was just trying

Brilliant work Bryan Stills! Thank you Janina Gavankar and Giantbomb for recognizing and promoting true genius.

This is GB to a T. Incredible.

I don't know what the hell this is, but I'm here for it.

I feel like this is the Blood Dragon ”tutorials suck” thing. You can’t make fun of something that is stupid but still force an audience to suffer through that same thing.

Please make subsequent episodes weirder and weirder. Please make it Frog Fractions: Internet Vlog Edition, because as it is this is like somebody intentionally making The Room.

I was very conflicted as to what I was watching and how to laugh at it - and then the ending got me real good. Well done.

This guy almost has the cadence of that guy from the Wrestling News Now youtube channel.

I hope he says at some point, "Daboo daboo eeeee".

Bryan Stills is Dan Ryckert using his film degree.

@doctordonkey: Could you point out a couple? As a film professor, this kind of earnest nonsense appeals to me and nothing I've stumbled into on Youtube really takes this tack.

Bill's seed

Love it and need more. Can't wait to see what movies are next and what deeper meanings they hold.

I enjoyed this very much

Listening to the narrator just makes me wish I were listening to Tim Rogers instead lol. I'll listen to him ramble about anything for hours.

So he left his girlfriend to go back to his ex?

Always love seeing someone whose comment adds up to: "I'VE HAD ONE CHEESEBURGER, WHY DO I NEED TO TRY A SECOND ONE?!" As though something being done once before means it's off-limits forever.

Also hate to see two doctors fighting. 4 years of med school, can't you all get along?!

I love Janina, but no.

Neither this nor the poking fun at bad albums thing is gonna make me pay for premium again.

Brian Stills is up there with Bazin as practically required reading for any serious cinema studies program, and it's not hard to see why. Just look at his cutting analysis of Bill's seed... mindblowing.

This stinks for me. I have to be missing something. I love giantbomb so much too. I hope there is more to this.

I don't know what's going on but I'm here for it. The ending killed me.

@poundkeeper: "Injected"