Revisiting My First Review After 15 Years...
Rather upsettingly, it turns out I've been doing this for 15 years. I revisit one of my earliest videos, and conclude that the past makes cringe of us all.
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00:00Hello everyone, and welcome to my editing bay, or as I like to call it, my laptop.
00:05Now, I have been doing this now for 15 years, which is an absolutely frightening thought.
00:10My videos go all the way back to 2009, and even a couple a little bit beyond that,
00:15but technically, that is where the first Bad Movie Beatdown episode originated.
00:19Not on YouTube, though. Lots of people don't seem to realize that I've been around longer
00:24than my YouTube channel, because back in the day, the olden days, I didn't post things on YouTube.
00:30I posted on blip.tv, which got bought out by Maker, and then got bought out by Disney,
00:36who then strip-mined it for parts and then shut it down. Ah, the internet.
00:40I don't feel very comfortable celebrating milestones on this channel. I feel it's a bit
00:44self-congratulatory, and when the 10th anniversary rolled around, I just left the old website about
00:50a year or so prior, and I didn't feel like I had especially much to be proud of or to celebrate
00:56at that point in time, but 15 years is enough for a celebration, I think, especially since
01:02I didn't acknowledge it back in 2019. But of course, I don't want to be too egotistical,
01:09so I've decided to punish myself by watching my first Bad Movie Beatdown video. This isn't my
01:15first video, but it's, you know, close enough. So we're going to go right back to 2009 and watch me
01:22absolutely squirm at my younger self. Oh god, here we go. I'm about to press play now.
01:29Hello and welcome to Bad Movie Beatdown!
01:33Oh my god, so much hair. So much hair. Unfortunately, mate, you aren't keeping any of that.
01:41Well, not in the long run anyway. Appreciate it while it lasts. You might have noticed, by the way,
01:45that I have deliberately decided to wear the exact same t-shirt that I was wearing back in 2009.
01:52Arguably, it has aged better than I have. I'm not wearing the same jacket, however, because I think
01:57I threw that out at some point. So I've deliberately worn something that's maybe close enough to what
02:03I was wearing back in those days. The Bad Movie Beatdown is for everyone who went to see it.
02:08Oh man, I drew these in MS Paint. MS Paint!
02:14Man, that's fantastic. Oh, and I've paused on a still frame of myself. I need to contextualize
02:21this a little bit, I think, somehow. When I was doing my early videos, I actually edited them
02:28in Windows Movie Maker. That's right, Windows Movie Maker, always known for its high quality
02:35production standards. This still frame here is literally pulled from out of the video somewhere.
02:41I apparently pulled the most embarrassing image of myself humanly possible. So I did all my editing
02:49in Windows Movie Maker for a long time, an embarrassing amount of time. It was kind of
02:54split between Windows Movie Maker and Vegas. Everyone had a cracked version of Vegas back
02:59in those days, and I still use Vegas to this day. Obviously, a much later version of Vegas. But what
03:06I would do a lot of the time is that I would edit the videos in Windows Movie Maker and then finalize
03:12them in Vegas, especially if the videos were in widescreen. Windows Movie Maker was incapable
03:18of putting out a purely widescreen file. It would always put in an anamorphic flag, which meant that
03:24any time you uploaded it directly like that, it would be squished and stretched. But it proved to
03:29be a good learning ground, and eventually, longer than perhaps it should have been, I did eventually
03:35stop using Windows Movie Maker. Here is where I later on my good friend... The Mr. T thing, what on earth?
03:43Now you must be wondering, isn't this a bit nostalgic-like? Well, of course you are, but no one in their right
03:48mind would consider any of these pieces of celluloid feces to be nostalgic. I know what you're thinking
03:53at that point, isn't that an iPod Touch? It is an iPod Touch! Okay, being serious now, yes, that is Doug
04:01on there, and you know, he gave me my big break back in the day by effectively bringing me onto
04:07the website. And I didn't start out making videos, I was actually writing articles. People were looking
04:13at the videos there, they weren't reading the articles, so I very quickly pivoted towards that.
04:18And I do have to admit that I am grateful for the opportunity that was afforded for me. It opened
04:25doors that wouldn't have happened otherwise, and I got to meet some fantastic people that I still
04:32call my friends to this day. I just wish it wasn't so conflicted in my mind because of what happened
04:40afterwards, and the way things panned out. It didn't have to be that way. I try not to be bitter
04:46about it, but it is a shame, unfortunately. Now, I was talking there about the fact that when
04:54me and my friends Chris and Lewis were conceiving of the show, we were trying to think of ways to
04:59separate it from what Doug was doing as the nostalgia critic. And originally the conception
05:04of the show was that it was actually going to be a kind of a three-man show, that it was going to be
05:09split duties between us. But Chris and Lewis weren't really into the idea of kind of co-hosting,
05:16and so I end up becoming the main host purely because I was the one that most wanted to do it.
05:23And so the early scripts, and certainly the early episodes, me and Chris would kind of split duties
05:28on editing them. So there were some that were edited by me, like this one. There were some that
05:33were edited by Chris, and we'd kind of pitch in all a little bit when it came to the writing. But
05:38there were other influences on the show aside from Doug. Harry Hill's TV burp was a big one,
05:44especially the kind of surrealism to some of the humour, but especially Charlie Brooker's
05:49screen wipe. Those were kind of my influences. I know a lot of my peers would kind of say things
05:54like angry video game nerd or mystery science theatre, and those weren't really things I was
06:00into. Those were very much kind of American-centric ones, and as you can tell, a lot of my influences
06:06are very, very British. Oh, seamless edit there. Absolutely seamless edit there. You'll notice,
06:16incidentally, throughout this entire review, the white balance changes quite considerably.
06:20You'll also notice that the camera moves a little bit as well, and there's a reason for that. We
06:25didn't film this on a tripod. You see, one of our brilliant ideas when it came to the show was to
06:31film it shaky cam. A lot of this is actually shot handheld, and the reason that I came up with this
06:39stupid idea that we abandoned almost instantly was, again, we were trying to make ourselves look
06:45visually distinct from Doug. How about we do an edgy style? No, it just looks stupid. Buy a tripod,
06:52Matthew. And you did, and you still use it to this day because tripods hold value. Let's hear it for
06:58the first film that I'm going to be reviewing. Drum roll, please.
07:06Pluto Nash. Okay, so the reason I chose Pluto Nash was actually because I'd found the DVD in the 99p
07:16store. That was literally the origin story behind it, although I suppose there is a little bit more
07:21to it. You remember QuickTime movie trailers? I remember seeing the trailer for Pluto Nash back
07:27in the day, and I always wanted to see it. And so I kind of became fascinated when I found the DVD
07:33in the 99p store, and I remember watching it and thinking, this is absolutely terrible. And that's
07:39why I chose it as the first movie, is because I did have that connection to it as someone that
07:44wanted to see it, was kind of into Eddie Murphy as a kid growing up with things like Night Professor
07:49and Dr. Doolittle and Shrek, and then finally seeing it and going, oh, this is bad. This is
07:56really bad. Since then, Murphy's career has been like riding a roller coaster. So Lewis actually
08:02did the animation for this section. This is something that we wanted to do more of, but
08:06as anyone who has tried to do animation will quickly tell you, it takes a long time. And so
08:11this became something that we very quickly dropped. They've had 20 years to perfect this script,
08:16apparently, so it must be good, right? Wrong! You might have noticed that the audio quality
08:22is quite abysmal. I mean, that's just standard for an online video in 2009 because no one had a
08:29clue how to record audio, and arguably looking at this video, that might still be the case,
08:34even though I'm using a wireless microphone here. But I literally have the camera that I use to
08:40record this. This is a mini DV camera, and what you're hearing a lot of the time is the tape
08:46noise from the actual mechanism inside here. The battery in here is dead, so it's not going to
08:51spring out, unfortunately. But, uh, yeah. This camera was a cheap JVC model that I think was
08:58bought for me down Asda as a Christmas present. There's one big problem with this camera that
09:04really annoyed the piss out of me for the first couple of years that I used this before I traded
09:10up to an actual, you know, SD card camera. You can't actually see yourself filming with it.
09:17Its unique feature is that the screen slides up and down, which is functionally useless in most
09:23applications, unless you were doing like this, like, oh, oh, I'm doing a lot of low shots, oh,
09:28I'm going up and look at the top of the skyscraper. Unless you were doing that, if you were trying to
09:34frame yourself or doing any kind of vloggy stuff, that ain't happening with this. That became a bit
09:40of a nightmare to try and frame myself, as you can again tell in several of my episodes where there's
09:45way too much headroom. Oh, and while I look at this pause frame, what's wrong with it? I'll tell
09:51you what's wrong with it. It's got a dead pixel in the bottom third of the frame. That little red
09:56dot there? Yeah, that is a dead pixel on the camera's sensor that has always been like that.
10:01It literally came out of the box new with a dead pixel. And so, in all my old videos, have fun
10:08spotting the little red dot that periodically pops up and is especially identifiable against
10:14dark backgrounds like, say, my black jacket in this review. And you know what? These effects are
10:20pretty good, but they're not really funny, are they? Oh, prepare for lunar gravity. That's hilarious!
10:28That's really not. And that we call straining for a criticism. The detail there of the world
10:35building, the prepare for lunar gravity, is not meant to be a joke. Some of it is in Pluto Nash,
10:40but it's not actually a joke. So I'm just reaching. And I did get better at this as I
10:45went along, as I realized, you know, you don't have to make everything into a joke. If you can
10:50try and find a legitimate criticism and then turn that into the basis of humor, you know, that tends
10:56to be how the joke actually works. Sometimes the joke lands better if you have a legitimate
11:02observation. I'm just saying. Can you tell which bits I shot considerably later with a tripod? Is
11:11it the bits that have the correct contrast because the camera isn't panicking because it's being
11:18thrown around like a ragdoll? It's these bits right here. And the reason behind these new insert shots
11:25is that I actually sent it to people before it was released to try and get their opinion on it,
11:30and I sent it to Angry Joe. Yeah, that Angry Joe. He sent it back and he said, oh, I like the review,
11:37but I didn't like the camera shaking. You need to reshoot the shots with the worst shakiness.
11:44And he was absolutely right on that. So Joe, you saved the video, partially.
11:50But he gave me some sound advice. Use a tripod. So in the intervening time since this review,
11:57many people have covered Pluto Nash, one of them being my friend Alison. I think that her review
12:02of Pluto Nash is much better than mine for the obvious reason that it's not her first video,
12:08but also because she had more info to deal with at that point in time because people had spoken to
12:15some of the people involved with it. One of them was the guy that was hired to rewrite and kind of
12:20save the movie, except he didn't. But one of the things he suggested was writing a new opening.
12:26Knowing what I know now, it's very obvious to see that this opening portion of the movie is a total
12:32reshoot. That is something that they came back and did later because they needed a way of introducing
12:38the characters. I think that this reshot opening is also terrible. It's got no energy to it
12:44whatsoever. In fact, it feels really odd, the kind of Scottish crooning thing. It's a gag that
12:50dies completely on its ass, and if I was reviewing it now, I would have said that. But of course I
12:56don't say that in this video because I didn't know it at the time. But you know, that's the sands of
13:02time. Pluto has now turned the bar into a new nightclub imaginatively titled Club Pluto. You
13:08might have also noticed there those kind of clanking sounds. That's because all the narration
13:13is actually filmed in camera, and this was a piece of quite bad advice that I took from Doug. Doug,
13:19back in the day, and perhaps still does, I don't know. He used to record all his voiceover directly
13:25to camera using the camera's microphone, which in one way, yes, that does make sense because you've
13:31got continuity of audio. But also, if your camera's got terrible audio, that means your voiceovers
13:37also got terrible audio at the same time. And it seems to me from those clacking sounds that I
13:43decided to record my voiceover while we were hand-holding the microphone so you can hear the
13:48lens cap scraping against the body. Fantastic! She's come to see Pluto because her plot device,
13:55sorry, moon card has expired. I've been saying not a lot of very nice things about my work from 15
14:02years ago, so I'm going to level that out and say I'm actually surprised at how fully formed in some
14:08ways that this video is in terms of its kind of commentary, and especially the way that it's
14:14airted. You can tell that there is a kind of attempt at pacing and rhythm, and one of the
14:18things that I would always do when I was cutting my videos together is I'd always pace it to match
14:22what I was saying in the voiceover. There was a comedy promo way back in the day that was like
14:27precision-engineered comedy, and I believe that when it comes to airting because airting is all
14:32about timing, and it's all about, you know, getting all the cuts in the right places. If you have like a
14:37split-second pause between a punchline, you know, where it hangs in the air, that really can deflate
14:43a joke. The other thing that I'm actually going to be positive here is that in terms of recapping,
14:48it's not actually going, and then this thing happened, and then this thing happened, and then
14:52this thing happened, which was a really common trend. I always thought, okay, I need to just make
14:57the way that I'm describing things funny. I can't just be describing exactly what's happening on
15:01screen, otherwise it's just going to be boring, and it's really nice to see that I was doing that
15:06even in my very earliest review video. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, God. Oh, man.
15:15The shot isn't even in focus. That's how bad the screen was on that camera. I couldn't even tell
15:20that it was completely out of focus, and I had no way of adjusting it. Oh, man. Oh, okay. So,
15:27a lesson that I very quickly learned, and you'll see this as the video has progressed over time,
15:32there was less and less skit-based comedy, and the skits in themselves were an attempt to
15:37differentiate themselves away from what Doug was doing, but I very quickly realized two things.
15:43One, I was very bad at them, because sketch comedy is incredibly hard to do, let alone when you're
15:49working on a not even shoelace budget, strawberry shoelace budget, but also, two, they really
15:56affected the pacing and rhythm of the videos. It stops the video dead, in my opinion, and it really
16:01doesn't work, and so over time, I moved away from doing the skits and realized just present it
16:08straight. I probably have had to replace the music in that last section of the video, because I'm
16:14using the Indiana Jones theme. See, this is the thing with being on Blip TV back in the day. It
16:18was a Wild West. You could use as much footage from the movie as you wanted to. You could use
16:24copyrighted music like I used to for my theme song. Now we're on YouTube, you know, you have content
16:29ID to worry about. You know, I'm very, very rigorous about cutting down movie clips, being
16:35very cautious about the way I use footage, and also not using copyrighted music, because nothing
16:41will get your video demonetized faster than that, and I'm certain I must have replaced this
16:46in the re-upload. I'm actually watching the original cut of the video. Contrary to what
16:52stated in a certain film, it was not my first episode reviewing Equilibrium. It was Pluto Nash
16:59that was my first episode. Equilibrium was actually the third one released, but the second one
17:04shot, and so I did that review, and it went down like an absolute lead balloon at the time. I mean,
17:10the backlash was really bad, and I actually remember at the time I was genuinely considering
17:17just stopping at that point. What I took from that video is that my attitude was bad, in that I
17:25was making fun of the movie, but I also made fun of the fans in that review, and I feel like that was
17:32the wrong thing to do. Even if you don't like a movie, you shouldn't really be making fun of people
17:37because they like something, so that's what I took away from it. I think that was a good lesson to
17:42learn. I remember actually being told years later that when the old site hired people, they literally
17:51put in the manual, don't do anything contentious, in reference to that specific video. I was literally
17:59in the manual. Oh man, I am super young in this video. Super duper young. I was 18 in this video. I am
18:0833 now. I look so baby-faced in the video. Pluto rejects their offer. How surprising. So the gangsters
18:16decide to blow up his bar. Wait, what? I love that plot point, by the way. Still doesn't make any sense. It still
18:23makes no sense why they would destroy the property that they were planning to purchase in the first
18:28place, and it's one of those plot holes that is so glaring. You can tell it's something that came
18:33from the fact the movie is rewritten over and over and over again, to the point where, you know, plot
18:38points don't line up anymore because they were associated with different things in earlier drafts,
18:43and it just ends up being weird vestiges of things that don't make any sense. After a boring chase,
18:51Pluto manages to follow the hapless goon into an obvious trap. Obviously the way that I approach
18:56reviews on Projector and the way that I cover a lot of things now is quite different to how I
19:01did in this period, and that, again, that's because of the content ID, but also there's two different styles
19:06of kind of doing a review like this that, and this one is kind of like doing like a blow-by-blow of
19:12the entire movie and kind of talking about the plot, and there is advantages to that because if
19:16people haven't seen the movie, they can follow along with it and there's kind of this nice sense of
19:20deconstruction, but also you're kind of locked into the movie's own pacing and its story rhythms. If
19:27the movie has a lot of stretches where not all that much is happening, that makes it very hard
19:32for you to actually glean material. The way that I approach things now is I kind of address things
19:38more by theme than by story and plot directly, especially because on Projector, I'm aiming it
19:44towards people that haven't necessarily seen the film yet but don't want to have all the plot
19:49details spoiled for them. The way that I'm trying to do it on Projector is make it work so that if
19:54you've seen the movie, you know exactly what I'm talking about, but if you haven't seen the movie,
19:59you get a gist, but also I just think that it's a better way of analysing something, kind of
20:05tackling, no, it's not just what it's literally about, it's what it's about about.
20:14Wait, where the hell did those guys come from? Were they in there a second ago? Then why didn't they
20:18shoot Pluto in the back while he had the guy in front of him? This movie is so stupid! These
20:23activities are so poorly planned out! You can definitely tell that I'm very inexperienced in
20:29front of the camera. I don't know how to deliver the lines properly and so I'm kind of a bit awkward.
20:34I'm still not great in front of the camera, as you can already tell, but I do think I have
20:39improved on this. Certainly, I made it a point to try and get stronger with delivering my dialogue.
20:45Again, I don't think it helps the camera audio is so bad. One of the things that I'm noticing
20:48actually is the movie clips just in general are too long. Again, it's all about pacing and timing
20:53and it's not just because of content ID, the clips are just too long. It's meant to be a review,
20:57it's not meant to be a replacement for the movie, it's meant to be focused on my criticism of it.
21:03Putting more emphasis on me as opposed to showing movie clips is a way of prioritizing that.
21:09With a briefcase that had the letters WCW on it, I've got that briefcase here!
21:13More sketch comedy stuff that doesn't need to be there. It just slows down the video because
21:19there is no insight at the end of the joke. It is just simply a gag for me to do prop comedy.
21:24And who likes prop comedy? This is very TV burp. Very TV burp.
21:33Yeah, I'd better not open that again.
21:34I don't even know what that object is I'm pulling out there. I don't know what I just pulled out of
21:39that briefcase. It's not visible very well on camera. I think it's a sock. I think.
21:45The couple returned to find Pangrea inside. She's his mother? I'm having a hard time that
21:51Eddie Murphy came out of anywhere as cool as Pangrea's womb.
21:54That's a weird thing to say, Matt. That's a weird-ass thing to say. Wow.
22:00Good evening, Mr. Banford. James here. Aren't you early, sir?
22:04Oh, come on, John! What are you doing? What are you doing here?
22:09Remember when this was considered to be an embarrassing thing for John Cleese to be in?
22:14Remember those days? Those innocent days?
22:19A gag so nice they did it twice. They're really mining the comedy gold here.
22:24Actually, can I see that again?
22:26Oh, don't stop me.
22:32With apologies to Dan Olsen. Cringe. There's no other word for it. This makes me cringe.
22:38It's embarrassing. I'm pretty certain I must have heavily edited that for the sake of my own
22:43dignity out of the YouTube repost. I think that's a Charlie Brooker gag I'm copying there.
22:49It didn't work for him either. I feel like there was a thing at this point in time that
22:53everyone had to kind of prove they were kind of manly by being like,
22:57oh, I'm really horny and hyper-sexualized. Isn't that funny and hilarious?
23:02No, it just makes you look like a creepy perv. It's not funny. It's just gross.
23:07Just really gross. And I very quickly learned to never do that again.
23:13Registered to Lunar Grand Hotel.
23:15Isn't it nice of the gangsters to not only use a car that can be easily identified,
23:19but easily tracked back to them as well? Isn't that convenient?
23:24And unbelievably stupid!
23:26Yeah, I feel like yelling in front of camera, it's very much of its time.
23:30I feel like as I've progressed, I've kind of moved away from that format.
23:34You might say that kind of style of reviewing hit a wall at a certain point.
23:39And I feel like people want kind of a much more kind of natural style of delivery.
23:44And I can understand why people still hold, you know, sell my old videos against me.
23:48I didn't really know what I was doing in some respects.
23:51And I do think that I was a bit overboard in my delivery. And that can be quite off-putting.
23:56I like the way the car drifted back to the surface as if there's full gravity on the moon.
24:02Wow, there's some weird editing on that line. I must have really screwed up in the recording
24:05and hadn't realized until I was actually editing the video.
24:08And then I just had to chop it up just to get the line correct.
24:13There is no sound in space!
24:22Okay, genuinely a good joke there. Genuinely quite a funny joke.
24:26But wow, I really got close to the camera. I'm very sorry for that.
24:30Bruno gets arrested because the plot says so.
24:34Oh, I was even doing because the plot says so at this point.
24:37That became one of my little catchphrases,
24:39but didn't really catch on as much as, say, symbolism did.
24:43Yeah, I would often, as a point in my kind of voiceover narration,
24:47I would say, because the plot says so,
24:49just to offhandedly mention something that makes no sense unless it was purely for a story reason.
24:56A pleasure to meet you, Bruno and Dina.
24:58I met the perfect woman and then I had a clone.
25:00Which one's which?
25:01Who cares?
25:04Oh my god, sexism is hilarious.
25:07There's a couple of gags in this original version of the video that really don't stand up,
25:12but hey, at least that one does.
25:15Rex's goons are waiting for him, which makes this bit entirely pointless.
25:20Because Windows Movie Maker did not allow me to add a caption pointing in the air like that,
25:26because it only puts text captions down there.
25:30Such was the limitations of that time.
25:32I realized I haven't actually mentioned that that laptop you saw earlier in the video
25:36was my actual laptop that I was editing things at that point in time,
25:40and it had less than a gigabyte of RAM.
25:43I'm not joking.
25:44How much RAM do you think it has in it?
25:47765 megabytes.
25:49When I was rendering out a video, it would take six hours for it to render.
25:55I'm amazed I got anything done, let alone that many videos.
26:00And are we going to find out who Rex is?
26:06No.
26:08So you got it all figured out, huh?
26:10This twist, by the way, was the entire reason why I reviewed the movie,
26:14because it's an awful twist.
26:17It's a terrible, movie-breaking twist.
26:19Not only does it make no sense, and not only is it just there for Eddie Murphy
26:23to play multiple characters, but also, just, like, what an absurd twist to end the movie on.
26:30It's so bad that they have to spend 10 minutes explaining how the twist came to be
26:37in such laborious and extended fashion.
26:40Even if you were watching the movie,
26:42you wouldn't have been able to guess that the clone was that of Pluso.
26:46There was no hints beforehand.
26:47When Eddie Murphy swings around in his chair, you just go,
26:51oh, piss off.
26:53The inept goons then bring in Dana and Bruno,
26:56and soon get killed off because the plot requires them to.
26:59Why does Rex kill those guys?
27:01I have no idea why he does that.
27:03Never leave home without an undershirt, right boss?
27:06Oh no, not this lazy cliche.
27:08Isn't that what you always say?
27:11It's all the bad cliches.
27:13It's all the terrible ones with the, like, the bulletproof vest.
27:17Fight starts up yet again,
27:19but eventually it comes to a very quick end once Rex gets thrown out of a window.
27:24Eventually it comes to a very quick end.
27:27Eventually and quickly probably don't belong in the same sentence, Matthew.
27:32I'm Film Brain, aka Matthew Burke.
27:36Good night.
27:37All right, I've given myself a lot of shit over the course of this video,
27:40but actually what I took re-watching this is
27:43I'm surprised how much of my style was already there.
27:46I clearly learned some good lessons about, you know, timing and the writing in particular.
27:51My delivery definitely wasn't great,
27:54and the technical side of it is absolutely abysmal,
27:58but it's nice to see that I was actually doing a reasonably good job from the start
28:04once I got rid of a few things that definitely didn't work,
28:07and I feel like I did eventually find my stride.
28:11The earliest episode that I think is really one that holds up
28:15is actually the On Deadly Ground video,
28:17which I think was fourth or fifth, somewhere around that.
28:21This isn't as embarrassing as I thought it would be.
28:24If I did have something to tell people if they were getting into videos,
28:29not only would I tell them,
28:30just accept the fact that your early videos are probably going to suck,
28:34I would also say that you don't have to post them if you don't want to.
28:38No one's forcing you to post a video online.
28:41Just send them to your friends, get the feedback,
28:44and then when you feel like you've gotten to a good enough quality
28:48to actually show the rest of the world,
28:50you'll look like you've come out fully formed and know exactly what you're doing,
28:54and that's brilliant.
28:55It's more than what I did, which was effectively learning on the job,
28:58but considering that, I think I did pretty well for myself.
29:03And I just want to say a big thank you
29:05to all the people that have followed me through the years,
29:08whether you were here right at the very beginning
29:10or you just followed me fairly recently.
29:13It means the world to me, in all honesty.
29:16I mean, I wouldn't be here if I didn't have an audience,
29:19and I think I've got a pretty great one.
29:21I've received plenty of great insights and advice over the years from them,
29:25and it really is appreciated.
29:28So thank you so much.
29:30I genuinely cannot express how much you guys mean to me,
29:34and I hope that I've repaid your generosity with plenty of entertainment.
29:40No, I'm not as big as some of my other peers or even other people on the platform,
29:44but honestly, that doesn't really matter to me
29:47because success is how you personally measure it.
29:50The fact that I have an audience to begin with means that I'm a success,
29:54and that's all that I'm after.
29:56I wasn't into this for fame.
29:58I wasn't into this to become an internet celebrity or whatever.
30:02I just wanted to entertain people
30:04and to make people think critically about movies,
30:07and I feel like I've achieved that.
30:09I feel like I've done that.
30:10Thank you again for watching,
30:12and I hope to be back creating more great videos in the future.
30:16I don't know how long that will last,
30:18but I'm here for the ride.
30:20I'm Matthew Buck, fading out.