Revisiting My First Review After 15 Years...

Hello Everyone and welcome to my editing
bay or as I like to call it my laptop.

Now I've been doing this now for 15 years
which is an absolutely frightening thought.

My videos go all the way back to 2009 and
even a couple a little bit beyond that,
but technically

that is where the first bad movie
beat down episode originated

Not on You Tube though, lots of you don't
seem to realize that I've been around longer
than you the You Tube Channel

because back in the day, THE OLDEN
DAYS, I didn't post things on You Tube

I posted on blip.tv that got bought out
by Maker which got bought out by Disney

who then strip mined it for parts,
and then shut it down.

AWWE, the internet....
I don't feel very comfortable celebrating

milestones on this channel because
I feel like it's a bit self-congratulatory.

And when the 10,000th story rolled around
I just left the old website about a year or so

ago prior and I didn't feel I like I had especially
much to be proud to celebrate at that point

in time, but 15 years is enough for a celebration,
I think, especially since I did not acknowledge it

back in 2019. But of course, I don't want
to be too egotistical. So I've decided to

punish myself by watching my first bad movie
beat down video. This isn't my first video, but

it's close enough. So we are going to go
right back to 2009 and watch me

absolutely squirm at my younger self.

Oh God, here we go.

I'm about to press play..... Now.

"Hello and welcome to bad movie Beat Down"

Oh My God, so much hair, so much hair

and unfortunately, mate, you are not
keeping any of that.

WOW, not in the long run anyway.

Appreciate it while it lasts.

You might notice by the way that I
deliberately decide to wear the exact

same t-shirts that I was wearing back in 2009,
arguably it has aged better than I have.

I'm not wearing the same jacket,
however, because I think I threw that out

at some point. So I've deliberately worn

something that is close enough to the
clothes I was wearing back in those days.

"the bad movie Beat Down is for everyone
that went to see"

Oh man, I drew these in MS paint.

MS Paint.

chuckles

Man, that's fantastic.

Oh, and I've paused on a still frame
of myself.

I need to contextualize this, a little bit
I think.

Somehow when I was doing my early videos,
I actually edited those in Windows Movie

Maker. That's right.

Windows Movie Maker.

Always known for its high-quality
production standards.

This still frame here is literally pulled
from out of the video somewhere. I've

apparently, pulled the most embarrassing
image of myself humanly possible.

So I did all of my editing in WMM for
a long time,

An embarrassing amount of time.

It was kind of split between WMM and

Vegas, everyone had a crap version of Vegas
in those days. I still use Vegas

to this day, obviously
a much later version.

What I would do a lot of the time
is that I would edit the movies in WMM and

then finalize them in Vegas
especially if they were in wide screen.

WMM was incapable of putting out a purely
wide screen file, it would in (?)

and anytime you would upload it directly
like that it would be squished and stretched.

But it proved to be a good learning ground.
And eventually, longer than perhaps it

should've been I did eventually
stop using WMM.

"Here's where I unleash
my good friend PAIN"

The MR. T thing, what on earth

"Now you must be wondering, isn't this a
bit nostalgic like?

Well, right you are. But no one in their
right mind would consider any of these

celluloid feces be nostalgic?"

I know what you are thinking at that point

Isn't that an ipod touch?
It is an ipod touch!

Ok, being serious now, yes, that is Doug

on there are you know he gave my big break
back in the day but

effectively bringing me onto the website
and I didn't start out by making videos

I was actually writing articles, people
were looking at the videos there, they

weren't reading the articles, so I very
quickly pivoted towards that. And I

do have to admit that I am grateful
for the opportunity that was afforded

for me. It opened doors that would not
have happened, otherwise.

And I got to meet some fantastic people
that I still call my friends to this day.

I just wish it wasn't so conflicted in my
mind because of what happened afterwards

and the way things panned out.

It didn't have to be that way. I try not
to be bitter about it.

It is a shame unfortunately.

Now I was talking there about the fact that
when me and my friends Chris and Lewis

were conceiving of the show, we were
trying to think of ways to seperate it

from what Doug was doing as the nostalgia
critic, originally the conception of the

show was that there was originally going
to be a 3 man show, that it was going to

be split duties between us. But Chris and
Lewis weren't really into the idea of kind

of co-hosting and so I end up becoming
the main host purely because I was the

one that most wanted to do it.
And so the early scripts, and

certainly the early episodes, me and Chris
would kind of split duties on editing them.

So there were some that were edited by me
like this one. There were some that were

edited by Chris, and we'd kind of pitch
in all a little bit when it came to the

writing. But there were other influences
on the show aside from Doug.

Harry Hills TV Burp was a big one
especially the kind of surrealism to

some of the humor but especially
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe, those

were kind of my influences, I know a
lot of my peers would kind of say things

like angry video game nerd or
mystery science theater, those weren't

really things that I was into. Those were
the American centric ones and as you can

tell, while my influences are very British

"if things would be a little bit ran
different! Grand, great! Now I'm"

Seamless edit there!
Absolutely seamless edit.

You will notice incidentally throughout
this entire review, that white balance

changes quite considerably, you'll also
notice the camera moves a little bit as

well. There is a reason for that.

We didn't film this on a tri pod.

You see, one of our brilliant ideas
when it came to the show was to film it

shaky cam. A lot of this is actually shot
handheld. The reason that I came up with

this stupid idea that we abandoned almost
instantly, was again we were trying to

make ourselves look visually distinct
from Doug, how about we do an edgy style?

No, it just looks stupid. Buy a tripod,
Matthew. And you did.

And you still use it to this day.

Because tripods hold value.

"Let's hear it for the first film that
I'm going to be reviewing. Drum Roll

please drum roll"

"Pluuuuto Naaash"

Okay, so the reason I chose Pluto Nash was
actually because I'd found the DVD in the

99 P store. And that was literally the
origin store behind it. Although I suppose

there is a little bit more to it. You
remember Quick Time Movie Trailers?

I remember seeing the trailer for Pluto
Nash back in the day and I always wanted

to see it, and so kind of became
fascinated when I found the DVD in the

99 P store and I remember watching it
and thinking this is absolutely terrible.

And that's why I chose it because I
chose it as the first movie because

I did have that connection to it as
someone who wanted to see it and

was kind of into Eddie Murphy as a kid
growing up with things like Nutty Professor

and Dr. Dolittle and Shrek and finally
seeing it and going 'oh this is bad'.

'This is really bad'.

"Since then, Murphy's career has been
a real roller coaster"