I saw this in theaters. I was so fucking pumped to see this film. My old man had played Wing Commander III, I had played all of them, and he asked me at the end "What the hell just happened?" and I couldn't answer him.
I'll forgive this movie for having "loud" ships. I mean, in Star Wars, the sound of the blaster that the Tie Fighter, X-wing, or the Millennium Falcon are iconic, as are the sound it's thrusters made. BUT, yes, the whole "be quiet, there's a destroyer hunting us" is asinine, and is a bad move on part of the movie.
What I won't forgive is capital ships moving in opposite directions sliding slowly past each other like they were freaking sailing ships when they're ostensibly traveling at thousands of miles per hour, and at such close distances that their crews could shoot spitballs at each other. Star Wars also did this and it drove me nuts there too.
@@graemesmith6721 hey at least when star wars does it it's so they can actually hit there targets here there just incompetant cause neither of there ships are built for this
I was extra and double of Freddie Prinze Jr. For a month of shooting in Luxembourg, Karyo was the coolest man on the set! It was a good personal advnenture, but yes the film is not good!
I just realized, I've also heard the name "kulrathi" from a recent indie video game developed by an independent programmer. It's called Stardrive, and the Kulrathi in it are a race of sentient Space Bears with a samurai theme. Great game overall!
Funny thing Spoony even Freddie Prinze Jr hated this film, and I quote: I can't stand Wing Commander. I can't watch one scene of that movie... I read the script and loved it. So did my buddy Matthew Lillard. We both got the parts. We went on location and they said, 'Here's the new script.' It was a piece of shit.
sad that spoony shut down his comments and we have to go to a russian mirror for this... but yeah what a sad film. I remember seeing it in theaters with my brother when we were maybe 13 and 11, having loved the PC games for so long...Needless to say we were very, very disappointed. Even at that age, we knew it was total shit. Looking back, it's one of those movies you should of gotten a refund for, just out of principle.
Part of the problem is the games didn't need a movie version. They were already movies. It didn't help that they didn't have nearly the budget to do what they wanted to do, the casting was abysmal and one of the most important plot elements (a human traitor, you know, the plot point that would explain why everyone keeps suspecting Blair of being a traitor) was cut out for no apparent reason leaving the plot a complete mess. Let's not even get started on the Pilgrim crap that comes completely out of left field and seems to exist only to make it more like Star Wars. Even worse the art design is inferior to a game from 1990. Then there's just the basic polish problems like all of the spelling errors (right down to the freaking iconic Tiger's Claw becoming the Tiger Claw). It's atrocious that the people working on this film cared so little and even more disconcerting considering Chris Roberts was in charge. It was very obvious he wasn't ready to take on a Hollywood gig and he let people walk all over him. Between this and not fighting hard enough for money to fix mistakes there's no other explanation. That orchestral soundtrack is sweet though. 1999 me was completely stoked for this movie and when I first saw it I had what I like to call "Star Wars Episode I syndrome" where I was in denial that it was bad. After my second viewing the disappointment finally set in. Though as a really generic B-grade sci-fi film it's not the worst thing ever. As a Wing Commander movie it falls flat on its face. And yet I still own it on VHS and DVD like the gigantic fanboy I am.
I'll now make the ultimate generic line: An Action Packed, Fast and Furious, No Holds Barred, Rollercoaster Thrill Ride. Actually if I DID see that on a movie poster, I'd remember it. Mainly for being desperate but I'd remember it.
16:12 Might actually be possible to measure vibration by a laser beam touching a surface through a vacuum. It's sci-fi. Well, Spoony is right in that sound doesn't carry through a vacuum. I am a little bit annoyed that Spoony didn't riff on the "there's over a thousand singularities inside that Quasar" comment as much as the above because there's so much wrong with it.
+Cao Cao Pretty much since a Quasar is feeding super massive black hole at the center of galaxy (there is only one Quasar like object in our galaxy 'El Monstro' the nick name of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, but it is currently not feeding or feeding on anything substantially enough to be considered an active Quasar). But it may since this movie was made before that was discovered he may be ignoring that for because it has other problems.
+Cao Cao Fun fact: sound _does_ carry in space. It's just that molecules that carry it are so sparse in outer space, that sound travels at an incredibly low frequency, so the human ear can't hear it, but a powerful microphone could.
Watching this right now on Netflix. Never heard of this before but I strangely like it. Never heard of this before or the games so that's probably why I have no emotional attachment.
+SMAXZO Pretty much. Wing Commander IV toys with the idea of genetic superiority as the reason for unbelievably talented ace pilots but this movie goes full out "rip off Star Wars and Gundam."
There is one thing he missed his chance to nit pick on. the captured NAVCOM, why in the hell did a space asteroid base even need a NAVCOM in the first place, other then so it could be captured by the bad guys. WTF does the asteroid base without engines or any need to navigate itself anywhere, need with a NAVCOM, HUMMMM????
It is pretty rare that the IN-GAME movie from a game has a better plot, script, effects, and, MOST importantly, a talented cast of great actors, younger and older. Actually, I am not entirely sure, but, in this case, the in-game movie is WAY better.
Skyswindler Officially it is because he was being abused by trolls - and in fairness, he WAS. But to be just as fair about it, and I say this as as someone who has been a fan of his since before he joined Channel Awesome, he has always been someone who doesn't sugarcoat his words when he doesn't like someone or something. That sort of attitude makes you just as many fans as enemies.
The destroyer could actually "hear" them if it was using a very powerful laser microphone to detect sound vibrations on the surface of their ship, although admittedly that would require an unobstructed line between the two ships.
I'll give this movie one thing: it makes me wanna try out the original Wing Commander games. Anyone know if there available for anything if the modern systems?
It's funny that Wing Commander is basically The Man-Kzin Wars with the serial numbers filed off. Seriously, Kilrathi, Kzinti....not exactly a subtle steal. And I love how--just like in Star Wars--capital ships moving in opposite directions slide slowly past each other when they're ostensibly traveling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Not to mention they're close enough so their crews could hit each other with spitballs. WWI battleships fought at greater distances.
Does anyone know why spoony stopped doing film and game reviews like this. The last one he did was about 5 or 6 years ago. It's a shame he doesn't anymore. I'd just like to know why he stopped. He was good at this stuff
I feel your pain, Spoony. I feel your pain. I've watched it twice. The first time I was sober and just thought 'Dafuq???' The second time I was three sheets to the wind and you know what? Even seen drunk it sucked.
So.... when someone dies hey never existed....but if you sit in their old ship they get pissed at you......so there are ships on deck that are completely useable that never belonged to anyone but if you sit in no one's old fighter they get upset about it......ok
The worldbuilding was very bad. The idea of dying and being forgotten could have been an interesting commentary on the huge losses sustained in the war and how desensitised everyone was. But of course they made it confusing.
22:08 Annnnd now the Illumination Super Mario bros movie is banking about a billion dollars by this point and everyone is pumped for a third, I repeat a THIRD Sonic the hedgehog movie and awaiting a second season of The Last of Us. Funny how things change in a few decades isn’t it?
After the Baby Genuises movies, this movie has the worst main heroes in the history of movies, well, not in the entire history, but one of the worst in a LONG TIME. And just what Jurgen Prochnow, David Suchet and Tcheky Karyo are doing in this movie is beyond me. Unlike Lillard and Prinze Jr., they deserve WAY better roles and movies. Even Miss Burrows deserves better. I hope they got well paid for this shit, at least.
Roberts recently spoke out in a relatively recent interview that the abysmal failure of the Wing Commander movie was the result of a combination of his lack of experience at the time when it comes to making a movie (cuz apparently making a full motion picture in game & making an actual movie is two different ball games), as well as the lack of funding & support from the studio & the co-workers who worked with him. It was basically a really overly-ambitious project which wasn't given a lot of funding or time allowances by 20th Century Fox, & wasn't given a very competent film crew to support Roberts in his project. For example: One of the things that gave Wing Commander its appeal was that it was able to recreate the magic of the origional Star Wars. But when the movie was being released, it was around the same time as Star Wars; Phantom Menace. Roberts didn't know that Phantom Menace was going to be a blockbuster flop, so in order to differentiate his movie from the upcoming Star Wars film, he decided to go with a "WW2 in space" aesthetic, which in retrospect he admitted was a mistake. But I think that now that Roberts is back on the scene with a new game, & JJ Abrams is taking a shot for the new Star Wars movie, if Force Awakens & Star Citizen does well, I think that Roberts & Abrams should team up & give the Wing Commander movie a 2nd shot.
koyzish I just remembered that they had a TV show; Wing Commander Academy that I remembered watching as a kid; cuz that game was THAT successful. Now, no one remembers the series. None of the kids these days heard of it.
+C.S. K. Have you revisited the show again? It's not half bad for what it was, apparently the makers were also fans so it remained faithful to the game.
I guess there will only be one sure way to know how much of a hand JJ had any project...just look for lense flares, lense flares galore...if you see a big part of the movie containing that weird fetish JJ and Spielberg seem to share, then you know very well that JJ had a big hand into any project XD
SpeedyEric1 Could be. Just such a waste. He could be doing large roles in major movies. He's just such a really good actor, especially in bad guy roles but even when he's not. I recall one episode of the new "Outer Limits" he was in where he was playing a police detective investigating the ripper murders (ironic since he played the Ripper in "Time After Time") and he was great as just this detective trying to solve the murders. You kind of expected a twist where he was the killer or something but no he was just a guy. :)
To be fair, Spoony, with the exception of Origin FMV's, I can name one more that was by far and away another "rare exception" to the rule that all of them were bad. Star Wars: Jedi Knight.
anuvis raa Command & Conquer wasn't really an "interactive movie" type game and its briefing FMVs are nowhere close to being in the same league as the FMVs of the Wing Commander series. Pretty sure Spoony was referring to "Interactive Movie" games, where you could make decisions during the FMVs - Wing Commander was primarily a Space Sim, but you had to make important, game related decisions during the inbetween FMVs that affected both the story and the missions. I never really did bother much with "Interactive Movie" games, due to the sheer amount of CD ROMS you needed for them and because I preferred games where the graphics were hand-drawn (because it helps you escape the real world better, when it doesn't look like the real world), but my younger brother acquired Wing Commander IV and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least mildly impressed by the game.
Funny how things go in cycles sometimes; now Freddie Prinze Jr as been in a great sci-fi game series that I'm sure will be ruined by a film. Mass Effect, if you're wondering.
Lassi Kinnunen I consider the very concept flawed; Mass Effect has too much story to be crammed into a film, even if you only do one game at a time, and there are too many different ways to play the game so no matter which version of the story you pick you'll be pissing off the people who went the other way.
На телефоне не дает запустить, на телевизоре не отображается в списках. Но можно с телефона добавить в очередь просмотра на телевизоре. Так вот обманул систему. :)
In terms of storywriting and voice acting? Oh I wish. But really I'm just a normal player who criticize the guy and I don't really understand your point of the question.
For those of you wondering exactly why this movie crashed and burned despite having the same guy directing that directed the movies in the games, well simply put Chris Roberts had just gotten done pissing a lot of people off. You see, the last game with Origin, Wing Commander 4, as well as his games with his new studio Anvil named Free Lancer and Star Lancer he was making with money from Microsoft were ungodly expensive to make, took way too long to make, and were financial bombs. So when Chris Roberts was given the very short reigns on an even shorter leash to direct the Wing Commander movie, they weren't about to give him to the money to cast such valuable actors.
It's called "Gata Flora" syndrome, a term devolved in Argentina that basicly states "Cuando se la ponen grita, cuando se la sacan llora" which roughly translates to, when they put it in, it screams, when they pull out, it cries Simplily said, they just a bunch of assholes who don't know themselves what they want, and the script just wants a reason for everyone to be cruel to Blair and make us feel bad for him. Seriously I still can't get over it, is it me or assholes in spaces will always find a reason to hate on the poor rookie? XD
@@NekoSoren funnily enough there pilots there suppossed to fuck with eachother anyway so they coulda just messed with the new guy he gets them back later it's how it goes
Unfortunately, the Wing Commander series was the best thing Mark Hamill worked on post-Star-Wars. He just never got out of being typecasted. Hopefully, things will change when they have the new Star Wars come out.......but that's doubtful.
***** Yeah, but it's still not the same. It's not like he has a lead role in a big blockbuster movie by voicing the joker like the way he did as Luke Skywalker, or possibly as Col. Christopher Blair if the Wing Commander movie was done right.
Xenoforge78 Sadly, you are correct. Hamill decided to quit voicing the Joker, while he was still doing his A game, because he wanted to end it on a high note (which I can respect, but I'm sure a lot of fans are heartbroken over it, so it's still rather sad).
Действительно, в одном из моих роликов в котором материалы копирастов есть, написано в настройках: Syndication No, this video should not be available on mobile phones and TV. А в тех где нету, написано Syndication Everywhere.
Schwarzer Ritter I guess you could say it's slight irony that he started acting in a shitty Star Wars wannabe, and is now acting in a shitty star wars wannabe. Seriously though, he's still doing Shaggy's voice in the scooby doo cartoons.
It wasn't some supernatural gift it was simple evolution the pilgrims evolved to become sensitive to the anomalies in space same as how birds developed a natural compass
As for In the Name of the King, as far as movies go, it was not THAT bad, not as bad as people think. And, as far as Boll's movies go, it is actually ok. Seriously. Well, almost serious(ly).
+Ralph Wiggum It's a shame because the Tannen actor in the game sounds really off (while the Marty impersonator is amazing). I get he's pretty frustrated about how the role overshadowed his entire career though.
He was a lead actor in a blockbuster trilogy as one of the most memorable characters ever who's still loved 30 years later and will be loved for 30 more. He's done better than 99.99% of Hollywood actors.
I know this is a 7 year old comment but in case you are still curious most fighter pilots don't make their callsigns, they are given them by fellow pilots.
Fun fact; you can live in space for about 10 minutes without any suit or any protection. It'll hurt like hell and it's best to not hold your breathe, but it's doable.
gh0s7walk3r No cosmic radiation is actually fairly minor compared to what it takes to kill a man. You would instead though get burned (hence the 10 minute remark).
And I thought any of these actors will not have any redeemable careers. Yeah, that until I found out that Freddy Prince Jr. got a role in Mass Effect 3 as one of the least bit interesting characters of the whole series.
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You know what I miss about Spoony?
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This right here.
This scream.
Oh my god, I loved this scream.
You just made me so sad.
glad someone still watches Spoony, he might have destroyed himself but will not be forgotten.
He's actually coming back to center. Very happy to see that.
Just don't ask him about Scarlett.
Funny that she gets pissed off that Blair sat in his ship as they have a policy of forgetting that the dead ever existed.
I saw this in theaters. I was so fucking pumped to see this film. My old man had played Wing Commander III, I had played all of them, and he asked me at the end "What the hell just happened?" and I couldn't answer him.
One of Spoony's best reviews.
I watch these and I'm not even russian. Ah the glory days of Spoony.
Jo Ordinate i the old days
@Necroglobule Oh, we knew
Its the only place you can leave a comment for a Spoony video.
@Necroglobule Yeah and he actually made videos instead of spazzing out on twitter.
He still crazy, right?
I miss you, Spoony.
There's a character in this movie named Paladin? What's a paladin?
I'm not entirely sure.
Your knowledge of the land shall be great
@@shadowangel6359 You don't know yet!
"Wing Commander... fucking Freddie Prince Jr couldn't command fucking wings at a KFC"
"You know the old saying Don't judge the book by it's cover? Well FUCK YOU, because that's books, not movies". classic
I love how some of the Battlefield Earth segments have the backdrop and the camera tilted in opposite directions.
I'll forgive this movie for having "loud" ships. I mean, in Star Wars, the sound of the blaster that the Tie Fighter, X-wing, or the Millennium Falcon are iconic, as are the sound it's thrusters made. BUT, yes, the whole "be quiet, there's a destroyer hunting us" is asinine, and is a bad move on part of the movie.
What I won't forgive is capital ships moving in opposite directions sliding slowly past each other like they were freaking sailing ships when they're ostensibly traveling at thousands of miles per hour, and at such close distances that their crews could shoot spitballs at each other. Star Wars also did this and it drove me nuts there too.
@@graemesmith6721 hey at least when star wars does it it's so they can actually hit there targets here there just incompetant cause neither of there ships are built for this
Holy fuck...I saw the Wing Commander movie and 20 years later I still can't get the searing pain out of my eyes.
I just love how much fun he has making these vids
One of Spoony's funniest fucking reviews
It is 2019 and I still remember Spoony's famous Wing Commander scream.
I was extra and double of Freddie Prinze Jr. For a month of shooting in Luxembourg, Karyo was the coolest man on the set! It was a good personal advnenture, but yes the film is not good!
I still find it amusing they shot it at soundstages in Luxembourg, of all places.
@@ZemplinTemplar Fiscal benefits!
How did you survived outer space?
@@paulmajano the space suit ! And the Luxembourg
It's like shaggy saw Aliens and thought he could do the Bill paxton role!
Game REALLY over, Man
I just realized, I've also heard the name "kulrathi" from a recent indie video game developed by an independent programmer. It's called Stardrive, and the Kulrathi in it are a race of sentient Space Bears with a samurai theme. Great game overall!
Funny thing Spoony even Freddie Prinze Jr hated this film, and I quote:
I can't stand Wing Commander. I can't watch one scene of that movie... I read the script and loved it. So did my buddy Matthew Lillard. We both got the parts. We went on location and they said, 'Here's the new script.' It was a piece of shit.
Any idea what the original Script was like and whos decision was it to change it?
@@smithgdwg no I don’t
The production of this movie has always confused me so much, I'll have to look into it more.
Apparently, in the future, starfighters will sound like FUCKING STUKAS!
sad that spoony shut down his comments and we have to go to a russian mirror for this... but yeah what a sad film. I remember seeing it in theaters with my brother when we were maybe 13 and 11, having loved the PC games for so long...Needless to say we were very, very disappointed. Even at that age, we knew it was total shit. Looking back, it's one of those movies you should of gotten a refund for, just out of principle.
Given how insane his fan base got, i can't say I blame him
@@PhoenixFireZeroNoah being a psycho magnet attracted some weirdos. Being a chronically difficult person himself didnt help that.
Mathew Lillard said he could have done without making this movie
Freddie Prinz Jr. couldn't command a pair of wings @ KFC. Muahahaha, good one there!
Part of the problem is the games didn't need a movie version. They were already movies. It didn't help that they didn't have nearly the budget to do what they wanted to do, the casting was abysmal and one of the most important plot elements (a human traitor, you know, the plot point that would explain why everyone keeps suspecting Blair of being a traitor) was cut out for no apparent reason leaving the plot a complete mess. Let's not even get started on the Pilgrim crap that comes completely out of left field and seems to exist only to make it more like Star Wars.
Even worse the art design is inferior to a game from 1990. Then there's just the basic polish problems like all of the spelling errors (right down to the freaking iconic Tiger's Claw becoming the Tiger Claw). It's atrocious that the people working on this film cared so little and even more disconcerting considering Chris Roberts was in charge. It was very obvious he wasn't ready to take on a Hollywood gig and he let people walk all over him. Between this and not fighting hard enough for money to fix mistakes there's no other explanation.
That orchestral soundtrack is sweet though. 1999 me was completely stoked for this movie and when I first saw it I had what I like to call "Star Wars Episode I syndrome" where I was in denial that it was bad. After my second viewing the disappointment finally set in.
Though as a really generic B-grade sci-fi film it's not the worst thing ever. As a Wing Commander movie it falls flat on its face. And yet I still own it on VHS and DVD like the gigantic fanboy I am.
I'll now make the ultimate generic line:
An Action Packed, Fast and Furious, No Holds Barred, Rollercoaster Thrill Ride.
Actually if I DID see that on a movie poster, I'd remember it. Mainly for being desperate but I'd remember it.
You forgot to add "for the whole family" at the end. lol
Спасибо большое!
16:12 Might actually be possible to measure vibration by a laser beam touching a surface through a vacuum. It's sci-fi. Well, Spoony is right in that sound doesn't carry through a vacuum.
I am a little bit annoyed that Spoony didn't riff on the "there's over a thousand singularities inside that Quasar" comment as much as the above because there's so much wrong with it.
+Cao Cao
Pretty much since a Quasar is feeding super massive black hole at the center of galaxy (there is only one Quasar like object in our galaxy 'El Monstro' the nick name of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy, but it is currently not feeding or feeding on anything substantially enough to be considered an active Quasar).
But it may since this movie was made before that was discovered he may be ignoring that for because it has other problems.
+Cao Cao Fun fact: sound _does_ carry in space. It's just that molecules that carry it are so sparse in outer space, that sound travels at an incredibly low frequency, so the human ear can't hear it, but a powerful microphone could.
Watching this right now on Netflix. Never heard of this before but I strangely like it. Never heard of this before or the games so that's probably why I have no emotional attachment.
Wait....spacers who developed some special powers that make them superior to normal man? Fuck me, the Pilgrims are sucky version of Newtypes.
+SMAXZO Except Newtypes have a power that's actually useful.
Kevyn The DevylMan
That's why I said they are the sucky version of Newtypes.
+SMAXZO Pretty much. Wing Commander IV toys with the idea of genetic superiority as the reason for unbelievably talented ace pilots but this movie goes full out "rip off Star Wars and Gundam."
I wish this was longer.
Is...is he playing music from fucking Crash Team Racing? At 2:50...I swear that's music from one of the early tracks from CTR.
3:57- At least The Phantom Menace made more money than this POS movie could imagine.
There is one thing he missed his chance to nit pick on. the captured NAVCOM, why in the hell did a space asteroid base even need a NAVCOM in the first place, other then so it could be captured by the bad guys. WTF does the asteroid base without engines or any need to navigate itself anywhere, need with a NAVCOM, HUMMMM????
I CAN'T GO FOR MORE THAN 2 MINUTES WITHOUT AN ADVERTISEMENT!!! FOR A 23 MIN VIDEO!
It is pretty rare that the IN-GAME movie from a game has a better plot, script, effects, and, MOST importantly, a talented cast of great actors, younger and older.
Actually, I am not entirely sure, but, in this case, the in-game movie is WAY better.
His Terl is great!
Anybody know where to find the original privateer review? I can only find his review for privateer 2
Are those old TSR boxes of PlaneScape? Do a review on them....old school DnD modules
This was the final nail for game-movies? Apparently it wasn't hammered in well enough, what with the WoW movie looming.
With all due respect, mr. Kenobi. But Warcraft movie was pretty good! Worst part was characters who were as well rounded as a sack of turnips.
11:43 Did she voice act in Skyrim?
OMG I just found my new favourite youtuber!!! I lost it with the man animal reference.. Subscribed!!!
+Pong The Boy His name is Noah Antwiler. This channel is just re-uploading his video. You should subscribe to Noah as well.
I would agree, but seeing as you can't comment on Noah's videos any more you might as well stay here.
+clearspira why does he keep comments turned off?
Skyswindler Officially it is because he was being abused by trolls - and in fairness, he WAS. But to be just as fair about it, and I say this as as someone who has been a fan of his since before he joined Channel Awesome, he has always been someone who doesn't sugarcoat his words when he doesn't like someone or something. That sort of attitude makes you just as many fans as enemies.
clearspira he still on Twitter but no original videos for over year.
Doesn't anybody else find it weird that spoony never points out that Kastagir from Highalnder is in this movie even when he's seen in close up?
2:15-2:47
This was many a fan's response to the new design of Conker...and my own.
At the beginning of the video, is that the lead singer of the Irresponsibles (with red hair)?
Fun fact. Freddy's Jr plays Iron Bull in Dragon age Inquisition.
The destroyer could actually "hear" them if it was using a very powerful laser microphone to detect sound vibrations on the surface of their ship, although admittedly that would require an unobstructed line between the two ships.
and they'd probably be able to see the ship in order to know that
I'll give this movie one thing: it makes me wanna try out the original Wing Commander games. Anyone know if there available for anything if the modern systems?
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I'm pretty sure that's music from Crash Team Racing. That Coco track, if I remember correctly.
It's funny that Wing Commander is basically The Man-Kzin Wars with the serial numbers filed off. Seriously, Kilrathi, Kzinti....not exactly a subtle steal. And I love how--just like in Star Wars--capital ships moving in opposite directions slide slowly past each other when they're ostensibly traveling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Not to mention they're close enough so their crews could hit each other with spitballs. WWI battleships fought at greater distances.
What's 0:11 from?
anybody know where the mens room is?
12:51 VERY odd that he decided to use this really short clip as part of one of his intros..
Does anyone know why spoony stopped doing film and game reviews like this. The last one he did was about 5 or 6 years ago. It's a shame he doesn't anymore. I'd just like to know why he stopped. He was good at this stuff
Twitter happened
He couldn’t handle criticism and he went over his head with the fame he got
Terl got both of those elevations wrong. Mexico City is 2,420 m or 7,940 ft above sea level.
"Pilgrims?" hah. Don't you mean Newtypes?
hail ZEON
Prepare the mobile suit
In battle, you always have to think 2 steps ahead of your enemy
Rofl!!! Dat scream!!! You're awesome spoony!!!
If these guys are the best humanity has to offer
Just let the cat people kill us
There is clearly no hope
Or maybe just reverse the natural order of things
I will chase string and sleep all day
Sure why not
Also, these ship designs are lame.
Is there a version of this review WITHOUT subtitles?
Yes, it is on the Spoony website.
@@bwarrior83 Oh boy this didn't age well.
@@thisguyyoudontknow4653 LOL I know, right?
Pure UA-cam gold.
I feel your pain, Spoony. I feel your pain. I've watched it twice. The first time I was sober and just thought 'Dafuq???' The second time I was three sheets to the wind and you know what? Even seen drunk it sucked.
So.... when someone dies hey never existed....but if you sit in their old ship they get pissed at you......so there are ships on deck that are completely useable that never belonged to anyone but if you sit in no one's old fighter they get upset about it......ok
The worldbuilding was very bad. The idea of dying and being forgotten could have been an interesting commentary on the huge losses sustained in the war and how desensitised everyone was. But of course they made it confusing.
kan i get jor kopi of Wing Commander i kant find ti in mig on movi shop ? :)
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Annnnd now the Illumination Super Mario bros movie is banking about a billion dollars by this point and everyone is pumped for a third, I repeat a THIRD Sonic the hedgehog movie and awaiting a second season of The Last of Us.
Funny how things change in a few decades isn’t it?
After the Baby Genuises movies, this movie has the worst main heroes in the history of movies, well, not in the entire history, but one of the worst in a LONG TIME. And just what Jurgen Prochnow, David Suchet and Tcheky Karyo are doing in this movie is beyond me. Unlike Lillard and Prinze Jr., they deserve WAY better roles and movies. Even Miss Burrows deserves better. I hope they got well paid for this shit, at least.
Johnny told me he was in economical strais when they filmed and he was the one who got David on board.
2:15 I wish I could make noises like that.
"It's a singularity of suck!"
So it's a suckularity? :P
Also, they messed up the ship name. It's Tiger's Claw, not Tiger Claw.
Saffron Burrows sure aged between Wing Commander and Agents of SHIELD.
To be fair it was like 20 years in between
At least he can't disable the comments here.
Roberts recently spoke out in a relatively recent interview that the abysmal failure of the Wing Commander movie was the result of a combination of his lack of experience at the time when it comes to making a movie (cuz apparently making a full motion picture in game & making an actual movie is two different ball games), as well as the lack of funding & support from the studio & the co-workers who worked with him.
It was basically a really overly-ambitious project which wasn't given a lot of funding or time allowances by 20th Century Fox, & wasn't given a very competent film crew to support Roberts in his project.
For example: One of the things that gave Wing Commander its appeal was that it was able to recreate the magic of the origional Star Wars. But when the movie was being released, it was around the same time as Star Wars; Phantom Menace. Roberts didn't know that Phantom Menace was going to be a blockbuster flop, so in order to differentiate his movie from the upcoming Star Wars film, he decided to go with a "WW2 in space" aesthetic, which in retrospect he admitted was a mistake.
But I think that now that Roberts is back on the scene with a new game, & JJ Abrams is taking a shot for the new Star Wars movie, if Force Awakens & Star Citizen does well, I think that Roberts & Abrams should team up & give the Wing Commander movie a 2nd shot.
***** Great info. thanks.
Thanks, heres hope that Hollywood and its recent remake craze will lead to a movie deserving of the title Wing Commander.
koyzish I just remembered that they had a TV show; Wing Commander Academy that I remembered watching as a kid; cuz that game was THAT successful.
Now, no one remembers the series. None of the kids these days heard of it.
+C.S. K. Have you revisited the show again? It's not half bad for what it was, apparently the makers were also fans so it remained faithful to the game.
I guess there will only be one sure way to know how much of a hand JJ had any project...just look for lense flares, lense flares galore...if you see a big part of the movie containing that weird fetish JJ and Spielberg seem to share, then you know very well that JJ had a big hand into any project XD
Jeeze why can't poor David Warner ever be in anything really good?
It could be because he had a really crappy agent who should have been fired.
SpeedyEric1 Could be. Just such a waste. He could be doing large roles in major movies. He's just such a really good actor, especially in bad guy roles but even when he's not.
I recall one episode of the new "Outer Limits" he was in where he was playing a police detective investigating the ripper murders (ironic since he played the Ripper in "Time After Time") and he was great as just this detective trying to solve the murders.
You kind of expected a twist where he was the killer or something but no he was just a guy. :)
RIP spoony
To be fair, Spoony, with the exception of Origin FMV's, I can name one more that was by far and away another "rare exception" to the rule that all of them were bad. Star Wars: Jedi Knight.
comand & conquer
anuvis raa
Command & Conquer wasn't really an "interactive movie" type game and its briefing FMVs are nowhere close to being in the same league as the FMVs of the Wing Commander series.
Pretty sure Spoony was referring to "Interactive Movie" games, where you could make decisions during the FMVs - Wing Commander was primarily a Space Sim, but you had to make important, game related decisions during the inbetween FMVs that affected both the story and the missions.
I never really did bother much with "Interactive Movie" games, due to the sheer amount of CD ROMS you needed for them and because I preferred games where the graphics were hand-drawn (because it helps you escape the real world better, when it doesn't look like the real world), but my younger brother acquired Wing Commander IV and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't at least mildly impressed by the game.
In that conseption i agree whit you
Funny how things go in cycles sometimes; now Freddie Prinze Jr as been in a great sci-fi game series that I'm sure will be ruined by a film. Mass Effect, if you're wondering.
***** He was. The Iron Bull as well.
Lassi Kinnunen I consider the very concept flawed; Mass Effect has too much story to be crammed into a film, even if you only do one game at a time, and there are too many different ways to play the game so no matter which version of the story you pick you'll be pissing off the people who went the other way.
+GriffinPilgrim He also voices Kanan in Star Wars Rebels. On screen he was a trainwreck but as a voice actor he's pretty damn good.
Christopher Blair He also married Sarah Michelle Geller, the jammy git.
Почему у вас запрет просмотра на мобильных устройствах стоит?
Не могу из-за этого на телевизоре запустить ролик.
На телефоне не дает запустить, на телевизоре не отображается в списках.
Но можно с телефона добавить в очередь просмотра на телевизоре.
Так вот обманул систему. :)
My only issue with Wing Commander IV is that you can't actually join Talwyn
I'm ashamed to say that I've seen this in theatres.
I remember playing Wing Commander III on my PS1 back in the day, I almost had it beat....then the game crashed and I forgot to save
In terms of storywriting and voice acting? Oh I wish.
But really I'm just a normal player who criticize the guy and I don't really understand your point of the question.
For those of you wondering exactly why this movie crashed and burned despite having the same guy directing that directed the movies in the games, well simply put Chris Roberts had just gotten done pissing a lot of people off. You see, the last game with Origin, Wing Commander 4, as well as his games with his new studio Anvil named Free Lancer and Star Lancer he was making with money from Microsoft were ungodly expensive to make, took way too long to make, and were financial bombs. So when Chris Roberts was given the very short reigns on an even shorter leash to direct the Wing Commander movie, they weren't about to give him to the money to cast such valuable actors.
Just because it has 2/5 of the cast of Scooby-Doo doesn't mean it will be bad.
Gotta give credit where it's due. Matthew Lillard replicated Shaggy's body language perfectly.
Yeah, case in point: FPJ kicked ass as Kannan in Star Wars Rebels.
How can they get mad at Blair for sitting in the starfighter of Bossman, who by their own practice "doesn't exist"?
It's called "Gata Flora" syndrome, a term devolved in Argentina that basicly states "Cuando se la ponen grita, cuando se la sacan llora" which roughly translates to, when they put it in, it screams, when they pull out, it cries
Simplily said, they just a bunch of assholes who don't know themselves what they want, and the script just wants a reason for everyone to be cruel to Blair and make us feel bad for him. Seriously I still can't get over it, is it me or assholes in spaces will always find a reason to hate on the poor rookie? XD
NekoSoren oh...so feminists then.
kinda more like feminazis but yeah XD
@@NekoSoren funnily enough there pilots there suppossed to fuck with eachother anyway so they coulda just messed with the new guy he gets them back later it's how it goes
What's Spoony's best video?
Kanan Jarrus?
Unfortunately, the Wing Commander series was the best thing Mark Hamill worked on post-Star-Wars. He just never got out of being typecasted.
Hopefully, things will change when they have the new Star Wars come out.......but that's doubtful.
***** Yeah, but it's still not the same. It's not like he has a lead role in a big blockbuster movie by voicing the joker like the way he did as Luke Skywalker, or possibly as Col. Christopher Blair if the Wing Commander movie was done right.
***** He's not actually voicing Joker anymore. At least that's what I recall.
Xenoforge78
Sadly, you are correct. Hamill decided to quit voicing the Joker, while he was still doing his A game, because he wanted to end it on a high note (which I can respect, but I'm sure a lot of fans are heartbroken over it, so it's still rather sad).
Действительно, в одном из моих роликов в котором материалы копирастов есть, написано в настройках:
Syndication
No, this video should not be available on mobile phones and TV.
А в тех где нету, написано Syndication
Everywhere.
Ironically, Freddie Jr. is now voicing a character in Star Wars Rebels.
A guy from a space epic is now acting in a space epic.
Pure irony.
Schwarzer Ritter I-It's something. I believe.
Schwarzer Ritter
I guess you could say it's slight irony that he started acting in a shitty Star Wars wannabe, and is now acting in a shitty star wars wannabe.
Seriously though, he's still doing Shaggy's voice in the scooby doo cartoons.
At least anything in Star Wars is better than this POS movie, and I love Rebels.
The Avatar Fuck Kanan Jarrus, Ahsoka Tano is a Better Character than Him.
It wasn't some supernatural gift it was simple evolution the pilgrims evolved to become sensitive to the anomalies in space same as how birds developed a natural compass
5:10It's times like this I wish I could read Russian...
Osterochse
Thank you for the clarification :3
As for In the Name of the King, as far as movies go, it was not THAT bad, not as bad as people think. And, as far as Boll's movies go, it is actually ok. Seriously. Well, almost serious(ly).
isn't it kinda silly to name your ship Tiger's Claw when fighting against space cats? Call it pitbull or whatever
More games need Biff from Back to the Future
+Ralph Wiggum It's a shame because the Tannen actor in the game sounds really off (while the Marty impersonator is amazing). I get he's pretty frustrated about how the role overshadowed his entire career though.
He was a lead actor in a blockbuster trilogy as one of the most memorable characters ever who's still loved 30 years later and will be loved for 30 more.
He's done better than 99.99% of Hollywood actors.
I should have known sooner, but I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt
Why would someone calls himself ''Maniac''?
Because Subtle was too smart a joke.
I know this is a 7 year old comment but in case you are still curious most fighter pilots don't make their callsigns, they are given them by fellow pilots.
Did you get a role in Mass Effect 3? No?
Fun fact; you can live in space for about 10 minutes without any suit or any protection. It'll hurt like hell and it's best to not hold your breathe, but it's doable.
wouldnt you get fatally irradiated by then?
gh0s7walk3r
No cosmic radiation is actually fairly minor compared to what it takes to kill a man. You would instead though get burned (hence the 10 minute remark).
And I thought any of these actors will not have any redeemable careers. Yeah, that until I found out that Freddy Prince Jr. got a role in Mass Effect 3 as one of the least bit interesting characters of the whole series.