If you're like me, occasionally you have nothing better to do than watch G4TV. Lately G4 has been going downhill. The channel is quickly becoming to video games what MTV is to music videos. Last night, Fastlane was on. You know, the short-lived buddy cop show that starred Tiffani-Amber Thiessen as the sexy boss. It ran on Fox for almost a whole season before getting axed. And it has absolutely NO business being on G4.

   But enough of that. This specific anti-G4 rant deals with Cinematech. Cinematech was previously one of the most watchable shows on G4, mostly because it didn't have hosts. Unfortunately, some genius decided it would be a good idea to let GameSpot co-produce some episodes. Predictably enough, the first thing GameSpot did was stick some of their obnoxious writers on the show to do commentary. Led by two uncharismatic fat sweaty guys (above), the Gamespot staff has systematically ruined the show. These people have no oratory skills whatsoever; they sound like they're reading off cue cards and they don't emote at all. I'm sorry, but if you can't at least PRETEND that you fucking find Legend of Zelda and Metal Gear exciting then you have no business being on a TV show about video games. There are at least 20,000 people out there who would love to have your jobs and who could do it a lot fucking better. G4 currently doesn't even bother to list the names of these GameSpot fuckheads anywhere on their Cinematech page, so it would seem that even they are ashamed to have these fuckwads on their channel. Or maybe they're ecstatic to have them; Adam "Do I Fucking Have A Neck?" Sessler looks like Johnny Carson by comparison.

   As of yet, only four "very special" episodes of Cinematech have been produced with the GameSpot assholes. I hope to God that it reverts back to its classic format once they're done with these.

Tebor wrote:

Dude, Fastlane is the Miami Vice for our generation.

Honestly, I have nothing against Fastlane. It was a pretty good show, especially the eps where Jay Mohr was a guest star. But it's out of production and G4 doesn't really gain anything but showing it. It's entertaining enough, but I don't see it as something that would appeal to techies, dorks, and other assorted G4 watchers the way that Dark Angel would. I would like to see Dark Angel go back into production because Jess's good movie to bad movie ratio is about 1:1. Idle Hands and Sin City were pretty kickass, but you could't pay me to sit through Fantastic Four or Honey.

I probably would have seen it, but the Dr. Doom costume really bugged me. I know it would have been damn near impossible to recreate the comic book costume exactly, but the Doom outfit didn't even look as good as the one from the unreleased and unwatchable 1994 Roger Corman production of The Fantastic Four. I'm kinda particular about stuff like that, so I probably won't watch the movie until it's on TNT in another few years. The casting was excellent though.