It probably belongs in Video Games, but I'm going to go back and do a review of Pong. Why? Because I'm a pretentious douche who thinks that nobody else in the world has played it, even though it's been around for decades. That's what I think of when I see people doing things like reviewing old movies or games that've already been reviewed to crap and back.

So if someone decided to review Constantine or Capote or any other film from 2005 now, wouldn't that still make it at least somewhat superfluous?

Well, Hell, I'ma put on my hipster glasses and get a little snarky on some movies from the past decade(s) then. Look out world.

I've watched the video, Optimist, but I'm using it as a larger ranting platform against a trend. Start locally and expand globally has always worked for me.

Klimbatize wrote:

aeonic, you must hate virtually every article on this site. Syd reviews shit that's been out for decades. As Optimist points out, if there's a unique take on it I don't see the problem.

And I'm totally cool with people not seeing the problem about it. If it works for you, go with it. Solve et coagula and all that good stuff, right? Hell, I can even agree with it, to some extent. Syd's stuff, by and large, is really funny to me, and I wouldn't even say he necessarily 'reviews' stuff so much as lampoons it, but I'd prefer not to get into a semantics argument on the matter. Personally, I've encountered many, many sites, including that one, that just rubbed me the wrong way in terms of their reviews, especially on older media. I guess it's a 'to each his/her own' thing, I don't know.