I've said it before, so this may sound like a broken record*.... The site needs a central catalog that is easily browsed, with nice, big pictures and a log line for each.

As for the front page, I don't think anyone has it really figured out yet—not other commentary sites, not Rifftrax, not Hulu, not YouTube.... Ideally, I think listeners would best be served by a Recent Releases section of images (posters or frames from the movies) with the movie title and a snarky log line. Then a Fan Favorites section below that would have the most popular entries, like the Star Wars stuff.

Then maybe the whole other half of the front page should have an embedded video with short clips from various movies (fair use for parody) with your audio quotes over the top, mocking or explaining. That would give new visitors a really good idea of what to expect and would only need to be updated every month or so with a fresh clip stuck at the beginning.

* There used to be these things called "records", which were analog audio disks. When they got badly scratched, the playback device would hop when it hit the scratch, often causing the same few seconds to play over and over again.

Last edited by Zarban (2011-08-19 19:16:30)

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You know what would be cool?  Get someone who can draw to do DIF versions of the movie posters in question.  Nostalgia Critic does something kind of like this, but slightly more crudely (IE, a drawing of himself cutting the head off a care bear with an axe).

I'm thinking like instead of having the Jaws poster as the icon for the episode, it's a drawing of Trey looking up with his mouth wide the fuck open, a little tiny red headed man in a bikini treading water unsuspecting above.

Not really HELPFUL, but it would be pretty funny, it'd be unique, and it might prevent retards (I'm keeping that word, bleeding heart scum) from leaving reviews saying "DURR I THOUGHT IT WAS DA MOVIES!"

Last edited by Kyle (2011-08-19 19:49:43)

Zarban makes good points and quite frankly, it's annoying

I visit the homepage every week to download the episode.

A rating system seems like kind of a Pandora's box to me.  I know we all have our favorites, and I know that behind the scenes we have a feel for which are our strong and weak episodes, but do we really want to see a concrete public representation of that?

Of course on the other hand, we could use the data for an anual "People's choice awards" thing come the next anniversary show.  Other than that I really can't see myself going through the entire back catalogue and objectively giving each episode a yeh, ney, or meh.  I think we'd see most folks just marking their favorites, and a lot of unrated episodes.  Might just be me though.