The wait is over! The Sarkeesian Effect Trailer is out at last! So, without further ado, here it is:
Sorry for any confusion. “The Sarkeesian Effect Trailer” is the name of my new 43 second long film, starring the top of my head, and a very special guest I was lucky to be able to have the opportunity to film: my cat Sweetie Pie Jonus. (My other cat, Pantz, was in the other room.)
I handled the audio and the cinematography. My cats helped with the set dressing.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Oh, and by the way, The Sarkeesian Effect: Official Trailer #1 is also out as well. You know, the one put together by those other guys. You’ll be pleased to see that The Empty Pizza Box made the final cut!
I have to say, those guys don’t really seem to know what they’re doing.
House spiders!
It took me a second, Katz, it took me a second.
Misseb47
They are actually kinda cute
Skybison
Aww! ::waves back::
Panda pool
Sparklemuffin!? So cuuuute! <3
I'm playing vogue by Madonna in my head while watching these little guys dance
Me:
-attempted gardener
-mosquito victim
-appreciator of 80’s music
-picky eater
-occasional cloud observer
-infrequent liar
-colour vision haver
-appendix owner
Wait…
The entire movie is just going to be them interviewing people from the manosphere whining about how awful Anita Sarkeesian is, plus one bit where Jordan Owen appears to be hoping that he can find her house? I mean, I didn’t expect more, but I’m surprised that the trailer is being so honest that that’s all that there is. Also, seconding everyone who was terrified by Paul Elam’s stare.
Where to begin…
They decided that sitting sideways in an awkward manner in front of the camera was the way to go. Hmmm… See, they could have been off screen asking questions like the family segments in Intervention, but I guess they really wanted to be in the film as much as humanly possible. If that was the case, they could have interviewed like a news program in shot-reverse-shot, but then they would have needed two cameras… Too pricey? I guess Davis needed that car more…
Meanwhile, little to no set-dressing (Davis, where is your pet skull, McArthur?!) proper lighting, or the use of microphones (I can’t tell if Karen is talking or croaking.) And what is up with the background music?! Herbie Hancock did it a trillion time better with lesser technology 30 years ago!
So, MRAs, red-pillers, anti-feminists, GamerGaters, Sarkeesian haters, this is what you get when you hand over your hard-earned cash to slack-jawed yokels: a mess!
….And here’s a contextless soundbite from Paul Elam. Paul?
Is he talking about Sarkeesian? Gamergate? His philosophy behind operating AVFM?
Pandapool-Sparklemuffin is too adorable for words. XD
I once LOLed at a guy boasting that he was “published by The Spectator almost every day”. You can probably guess what this means – and I’ll give you a clue: it didn’t involve formal commissions of pieces intended for the print edition. In fact, it was the exact equivalent of claiming that my writing is regularly featured on We Hunted The Mammoth.
As for the trailer, dear oh dear. I was so mesmerised by the interviewers’ various tics and their bizarre dress sense that I barely took in what their interviewees were saying. I shoot a lot of interviews for my day job, and I never, ever appear on camera if I can possibly help it – indeed, my first job when I get into the edit suite is to scrub all evidence of my involvement from the soundtrack as well. And this isn’t just out of demure modesty, it’s because the interviewee is the most important element and so I need to concentrate the viewer’s attention entirely on zir. Underlighting aside, the Paul Elam segment is one of the only ones that looks as though it belongs in a proper documentary.
Did anyone else notice the not-so-subtle interviewing of two women and a black guy before interviewing like 10 guys in succession of each other?
Oh, and I thought that GG had nothing to do with women or feminism? Lol
John the Otter.
@panda – I farkin love Sparklemuffin ♡
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I came to appreciate (most) spiders when we moved into some mitary housing in Alabama that had a yard overrun with black and brown widows* (really…it was horrid…if I were to describe the horror movie levels you wouldn’t belive me) and began a systematic campaign to help other wildlife reclaim the space.
Are you any spider but a widow?
You may live.
Are you a different predatory bug (praying mantis, etc)?
In the back yard for you.
Anole? Are you an adorable little lizard?
I have just the garden for you.
I also learned that certain household chemicals make their egg sacks melt.
We were there for three years. By the time we left, I’d gotten the widow population down to non-horrific levels.
There are still only three (local) spiders I’ll kill around our property:
Black widows.
Brown Recluses.
These wispy little spiders that were never around when I was a kid and I’m 95% sure are a foreign invasive.
Even wolf spiders as big as my hand get to a pass.
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/random tangent
Maybe the skull boys should make a documentary about the Sparklemuffin spider.
The travel expenses would justify the funds they’ve raised and even raw footage of this spider would be more interesting than their pontificating.
Awesome.
BTW, in my country the kind of self-promoting person who hangs gratuitously in front of camera is called a “lens louse” or “louse on the lens” 🙂
@David For her to even call for a boycott would see these guys buying multiple copies.
Plus, she even had a bit of a disagreement with other feminists about the movie. She received criticism which didn’t involve rape/death threats.
Sorry, typed this up on my phone last night and fell asleep before submitting. More tired than I thought.
“A Critic Who Cannot Be Criticized”
Lolwut? Anita has been criticised incessantly since the moment she created her Tropes kickstarter. Countless articles and videos have criticised her work (mostly very poorly). Nobody’s freeze peach has been curtailed.
How much did they get in that kickstarter/patreon? That was some of the WORST audio I’ve ever heard. I mean it would be ok for a “I’m putzing around in my basement” youtube vid. But this is supposed to be their “professional” production.
I mean they even claimed on their patreon page “We already have the equipment to do this properly, but this will allow us to have a full stable of movie making equipment”
Hell, there’s people on youtube making vlogs with a $150 camera and $30 mics that provided better video and sound quality than these two ass-clowns
The professions of some of their sources seem a little… weird.
“Sex worker/PhD candidate”? Whaaaaat.
Listing yourself as “Ex-attourney” kind of gives the impression that someone has been stripped from the bar.
“Economist.” Okay.
“Wikipedia editor” is about as valid a “profession” as “Pigeon fancier.”
OMG
One of your kitties is named Sweetie Pie Jonus?! You get so many awesome points for that awesome reference!
I know people buy and sell homing pigeons; but how does that work?
Can you just keep selling the same one over and over as it keeps coming back?
I used to know someone who fancied pigeons. But, sadly, they didn’t fancy him.
Moggie’s in town all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip your waitress! 🙂
I actually agree with them about something.
Anita Sarkeesian’s videos are about ideology. Critically examining media with the context of a specific ideology, which is something she totally fronted way back before she even started producing the videos.
They’re trying to make this out to be something she failed to disclose or carefully hid. Which is baffling.
Wow.
I went into that video quite skeptical but seeing the interviewers so vigorously nodding along to the statements of the interviewed really made everything they said seem obviously true and believable.
Hey Owen & Aurini, you got me! I’m convinced!
Me: (because i don’t want to miss the fun)
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