https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movie-sounds/quotes-with-sou...
Aside: I was so worried it was going to be an AI voice generator based on his voice. I sadly think it's inevitable but I can hope he didn't make enough recordings to be able to reliably synthesize his voice.
I have bad news about the state of voice cloning...
Michael MJD just did a video on it. Still contains Elwood's classic soundbites, along with some snazzy images of current pop stars like Avril Lavigne.
Like tbh I think the movie is some kind of creative genius. Because it also has a crazy aesthetic. This weird vhs aesthetic that also has this kind of vision of the future where everyone is forced to wear grey suits in some sort of Orwellian capitalist nightmare. But everything is shot like it’s a two camera television studio setup. Interspersed with on location shots. So the studio has this weird soft lighting and the location shots all look like they are natural light.
The only thing I can compare it to is Twelve Monkeys. Yes I just equated Overdrawn at the Memory Bank to Twelve Monkeys. But I love this movie and I feel like everyone gives honest performances and it creates something totally unique. The world that exists inside of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank exists no place else.
I downloaded a torrent long ago (missing the KTMA episodes) so I have nearly all of them. During the pandemic lock-down Joel/Mike, the bots and the mads kept me company. When a close friend was deployed in Iraq in the 00's I would burn episodes to DVD and send them to him in his mothers care packages and he had the whole platoon watching and laughing. There are so many good episodes but Time Chasers, Overdrawn, Space Mutiny, Death Stalker, Bride of the Monster, and Devil fish are my favorites.
I really like time chasers because David giancola films are not what you want to see. I lived near where David giancola lives in Vermont during high school and he was considered a real movie maker. Like people would talk about him like he was mr Hollywood. It was wild. It’s true, he has made a lot of films. But for some reason he refuses to leave Vermont no matter what the subject of his films are. This is why futuristic cities look a lot like back alleys of Rutland or middlebury and big company offices look like the corner of a library in time chasers. I used to think this movie is the best episode of mst3k but actually I think the movie makes more sense if you watch the original and not the cut up one. Some of the scenes that are left out explain some of the plot more. David giancola definitely cornered the market on being a filmmaker in Vermont. Nobody else is making as many feature films there as a setting for anything but Vermont. But that may not be a recipe for a good movie. That’s always the problem with a David Giancola film. For some reason it wants to leave Vermont but David Giancola does not. So everything feels a bit Vermonty.
I think a lot of movies like space mutiny are really fun but end up being so lazy. It’s like they had access to some kind of facility to shoot in plus some cardboard sets and Cameron mitchell. Movies like that are campy and fun but at some point you ask yourself what was the vision here? Like their vision for space mutiny was literally battle star galactica but without the cylons. So they wanted it to be more boring?
That’s why I always return to Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. I continue to see a filmmaker’s vision even though I don’t understand it.
Elwood Edwards, voice of AOL's 'you've got mail' alert, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087087 - Nov 2024 (41 comments)
with additional comments by jgrahamc, starting here:
Not sure if there are any older examples.
Early 2000's version was simply putting ".com" or ".net" in your company name so you sounded enticing to investors, or when everyone added "crypto" and to their company names.
Of similar vein I expect current generation "Artificial Intelligence" will likely be renamed and thought of as quaint or audacious, like the renaming of "Modern" furniture aesthetic to "Mid-Century Modern".
Quantum Mysticism is Stupid (Deepak Chopra, Spirit Science, Actualized.org):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQTWor_2nu4
Deepak Chopra Faces a Real Theoretical Physicist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFGs-SIWB4
>How does Deepak Chopra respond when confronted with an actual Theoretical Physicist? Why, he maxes out the nonsense generator and gibbers whatever random jargon pops into his head.
Professor Brian Cox Enraged Deepak Chopra | CONAN on TBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajO5MvL9pVE
>"I'm going to shove my cosmic consciousness up your ass!" -Enraged Deepak Chopra
Might have? The number of things with Turing slapped on them recently is out of hand.
They were a tape drive and hard drive manufacturer. I guess they still have the tape drive section, but they sold their HDD division to ... Maxtor, which then got bought out by Seagate, I think?