The On Cinema cinematic universe is a hilarious satirical cycle/storyline about 2 extremely egoistic faux movie lovers in an exurban Inland Empire town clashing with each other and the various hijinks and mediocre attempts at producing media that result in

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Anonymous 31-07-22 15:50:34 No.27431

The On Cinema cinematic universe is a hilarious satirical cycle/storyline about 2 extremely egoistic faux movie lovers in an exurban Inland Empire town clashing with each other and the various hijinks and mediocre attempts at producing media that result in between
You can follow it here https://www.oncinematimeline.com
It's genuinely a very deep metatextual satire of a weird kind of zeitgeist in the YouTube era

Anonymous 31-07-22 15:56:42 No.27432

Also, I came across this channel that seems to extend the lore a bit
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7d0QGwPdNd8zIP5jn0rPA/videos
https://www.heinetwork.tv/

Anonymous 31-07-22 16:38:47 No.27434

>extremely egoistic
“circlejerk-y” would be more apt

Anonymous 01-08-22 16:56:29 No.27467

Anonymous 03-08-22 14:08:29 No.27502

average letterboxd user

Anonymous 03-08-22 18:15:34 No.27506

I like tim but he doesn't need anymore money. Where can I pirate these now that they're off AS?

Anonymous 04-08-22 04:57:08 No.27520

>>27506
rarbg dot to slash torrents dot php?imdb=tt3908868

Anonymous 08-08-22 02:44:19 No.27645

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cinematic parallels

Anonymous 13-08-22 22:26:20 No.27875

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Anonymous 14-08-22 07:28:35 No.27886

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Anonymous 16-08-22 17:08:29 No.27924

>>27886
75mb wtf are you thinking

Anonymous 27-08-22 14:19:37 No.28202

>>27924
the people deserve the truth

Anonymous 27-08-22 14:20:44 No.28203

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Anonymous 27-08-22 19:32:50 No.28209

>>27886
just realized the code is 555 because he could only find clips of gregg saying the number 5 because that's the only rating he ever gives out

Anonymous 29-08-22 02:27:33 No.28253

https://letterboxd.com/randy2themax/film/the-2nd-annual-live-on-cinema-oscar-special/
>I'm only four seasons into the On Cinema-verse and I know it will get weirder as the seasons go by, but based on the first few seasons, the "Tim Heidecker" character is possibly the most realistic 21st Century character ever put on any kind of screen, big or small.
>He is the perfect media consumer, entirely uncritical and willing to watch whatever is put in front of him by the corporate overlords of popular culture. He is also desperately hungry for fame and media validation, yet incapable of understanding the industrial machinery behind YouTubers, musicians, filmmakers or even film critics. (Thus, as a Fox News-watching reactionary, he neatly predicts the rise of marginal entertainers-turned-alt-right personalities during the 2016 election campaign.)
>Unlike Gregg, however, Tim is capable of admitting, on rare occasions, that he is wrong and (even more rarely) recognizing his pathetic existence at the margins of an all-consuming media environment.

Anonymous 30-08-22 23:08:48 No.28314

>>28253
>average perspicacity of a letterboxd review

Anonymous 30-08-22 23:39:15 No.28318

>>28314
no way

Anonymous 31-08-22 22:04:35 No.28359

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Incisive and principled critique from Tim
Say what you want about him but he knows when to tell Hollywood "no"

Anonymous 01-09-22 09:30:27 No.28376

>>28359
3rd time u post something with incompetent compression. we have data caps out here

Anonymous 01-09-22 19:33:44 No.28403

>>28376
oh i think the bitrate is fucked up from the source video files i downloaded using some youtube download website

Anonymous 01-09-22 19:40:57 No.28404

bitrates are*

Anonymous 03-09-22 00:18:42 No.28443

i wonder how this'll end
maybe a ruby ridge/waco/bundy-esque standoff on the ranch

Anonymous 07-09-22 02:27:28 No.28615

Probably the best Oscar special out of all of them and a masterpiece of satiric slow cinema
It captures the utter apathy and amateurism of the hosts at its rawest, probably because they don't have a bunch of money to splurge on useless gimmicks this time

Anonymous 07-09-22 11:37:40 No.28634

Where do I torrent the last oscer special

Anonymous 07-09-22 13:16:56 No.28640

>>28634
maybe on a private tracker somewhere
or just shell out the $5 for a month

Anonymous 07-09-22 13:22:46 No.28641

>>28640
if you don't know don't answer

Anonymous 07-09-22 14:08:09 No.28644

>>28641
i can do whatever i want
it’s not on every public tracker i could think of

Anonymous 09-09-22 16:33:05 No.28705

Just someone asking for a torrent and complaining about file sizes?
Guess I might offload another essay
I think a central theme of the series, and the reason why it’s poignant enough to keep attracting a dedicated audience nearly a decade into it, is because it captures a sort of dream of a white middle class family dynamic that can’t seem to realize itself no matter how hard it tries. Tim is a paternalistic figure that Gregg and Mark just can’t seem to separate themselves from, being attracted to him out of a sort of slavish devotion to the ideals that Tim represents to them; however there are breaks, as momentary as they are, from this delusion whenever one of them really snaps. It also explains Tim’s feverish need to marry, before divorcing to marry again and then divorcing again to marry again, etc. Most of the other characters are indifferent spectators to this drama hired by Tim, although sometimes facing his stray wrath
It’s a tale of American conservatism filtered through cynical online fame-seeking

Anonymous 26-09-22 06:46:50 No.29400

>>28705
Don’t know what you’re on about, On Cinema is a show about reviewing movies only. They stay family-friendly but not all the time.

Anonymous 26-09-22 20:34:47 No.29427

Tim Heidecker is big fish in small pond.
Gregg stays with Tim because he realizes Tim is a IRL fi noir character with all the pomp and circumstance.

Anonymous 27-09-22 09:56:46 No.29448

The timeline website doesn’t include these but this first one takes place after season 7

Anonymous 27-09-22 09:58:16 No.29449

>>29448
This one while Decker: Unclassified episodes were being released

Anonymous 07-11-22 06:13:34 No.30951

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>>28203
>>28359
Non-bloated versions

Anonymous 10-11-22 04:30:18 No.31032

I love the badly affected faces that Tim makes whenever he's being catty towards Gregg, they're always such a perfect touch

Anonymous 15-02-23 15:12:01 No.32482

bump

Anonymous 08-07-23 13:41:54 No.35095

>>28705
I think the thing is, Tim is supposed to be like this bourgeois who came up with this vanity project to give himself something to do, and Gregg is some self-billed cinema "expert" that Tim falls for because he's that incurious who ends up being the only consistent guest on Tim's project and manages to wheedle his way in so that he gets a professional seeming soapbox for all of his "expertise"

Anonymous 01-11-23 05:15:34 No.37328

>>27431
On Cinema is so good. I think it's literally like the Infinite Jest tape IRL. Everyone I know who gets into it, it's just consumed their entire mediasphere.

Anonymous 01-11-23 05:22:29 No.37329

On Cinema, through the Trump admin was basically a biopic about the American right wing over the past decade. Tim just keeps evolving as a mirror to all the horror around him.

Anonymous 01-11-23 19:49:15 No.37334

>>37328
holy shit a bump from someone that isn't me
it's pretty time intensive so that's probably why
i managed to binge through all of it up until it went over to that special streaming service in under 2 months tho

Anonymous 05-11-23 21:40:29 No.37441

I notice that a lot of on cinema viewers have experience with abusive people, many that I've talked to. Tim's character is a classic abuser but he is made into a silly and harmless villain that we can laugh at.
People tell me about on cinema being relaxing to them, even though it's ostensibly one of the most chaotic and dramatic shows plot-wise, and again I think it's because they are enjoying the catharsis of seeing a Boogeyman that they dealt with in the past (or sometimes are dealing with in the present) get egg on his face again and again

Anonymous 05-11-23 21:46:00 No.37444

>>37441
true af lol
add on top the political stuff about him being a paranoid reactionary that makes cringey racist spy movies, goes anti-vax, etc.

Anonymous 05-11-23 23:12:16 No.37446

>>37444
Yeah
I want to show it to a Chinese audience and see what they think, because it seems in line with their picture of America

Anonymous 06-11-23 06:44:01 No.37462

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Seeing this graphic is the hardest I've ever laughed in On Cinema, the way it gently slides into view right after Tim explains to Gregg how his feeding tube supplies him with a constant flow of milkshake. It's the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen.

Anonymous 07-11-23 06:53:23 No.37491

I love the extremely underplayed references to marijuana sprinkled throughout the show, guaranteed to freak you out when you least expect it, e.g.
>the TCH vape system
>The HEI Network
>"I'm happy, I'm healthy, I'm HEI"

It's like he's pointing his finger right at you

Anonymous 07-11-23 07:00:27 No.37492

>>28634
yeah does anyone have public access to the stuff since they moved to the website?

Anonymous 07-11-23 07:06:11 No.37494

>>37492
It's sadly hard to find, however as a current subscriber you're not wasting any money subscribing. The only unalienated streaming service.

Anonymous 07-01-24 16:26:50 No.38672

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I fucking cannot with Tim's characters anymore lol
He's blending together so many different people into one character, Bill Maher but also JP but also Steven Crowder maybe? It's surreal, like one of those DJs that plays with 4 decks at once.

Anonymous 30-05-24 21:12:44 No.42355

I watched the first three seasons recently, it's funny and laudably captures a very common Type of Guy, but not gonna lie I kinda feel like I don't need to watch any more, I feel like they're running out of ideas already. Do they shake things up in any way later?

Anonymous 30-05-24 22:32:07 No.42358

>>42355
I guess if you like Tim and Eric Awesome Show humor and are invested in the character arcs enough, then you can keep watching
I like seeing their warped takes on movies that I've watched sometimes

Anonymous 30-05-24 22:34:18 No.42360

I love how the "After The Episode" column has presumably been broken by Elon Musk's fuck-up of Twitter. It's an amazing new dimension to the whole thing.

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