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post #1 of 68
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CHUD is The Pixies of movie sites. Respected within the industry, but not quite the commercial juggernaut. Probably for snobs.

JoBlo is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Working class, common man, appeals to a wide variety of people.

Corona Coming Attractions is an old blues guy. Paved the way, now dead.

Aint It Cool is the Rolling Stones. Hey, did you see them way back when? Man, it was great back then!

Others? Thoughts?
post #2 of 68
IMDb is U2. Whatever cache it had is now gone, but they're still really big, and hard to ignore.

Box Office Mojo is Nine Inch Nails. The beats tend to be good, but the writing's for shit.

Movie City News is The Smiths. The frontman is bit wonky, but everything else is usually interesting.

Dark Horizons is Iron Maiden, because they look good in Leather Pants.

Hollywood Elsewhere is The Carpenters. You can't change the channel when it's on, but you kind of feel guilty about listening.
post #3 of 68
In keeping with your definition, could Corona be Stevie Ray Vaughn? Unstoppable in its prime, cut down suddenly and before its time.

Coming Soon is Weezer. Solid most of the time, obnoxious other times, and while they get the girls, they can't escape the fact that they're squares (full credit to whoever made that comparison on the front page.)
post #4 of 68
CHUD is the MC Paul Barman of movie news and gossip sites.
post #5 of 68
FirstShowing.net = Insane Clown Posse
post #6 of 68
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Corona invented the game. Stevie Ray Vaughn is some other site shamelessly ripping off the guys who invented the game.
post #7 of 68
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Latino Review is Santana. Because who else could they be?
post #8 of 68
TheForce.net is Devo. At first enjoyable yet their appeal died off after a couple of years.

Cinema Confidential is Lenny Kravitz. Tried so hard to become the next big thing but somewhere along the way got lost.
post #9 of 68
Rotten Tomatoes is USA For Africa: a cacophony of voices, some amazing, some shrill and unpleasant.
post #10 of 68
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Well duh.
post #11 of 68
Deadline Hollywood Daily is Rage Against The Machine, always speaking its mind and can get extremely righteously angry against the top dogs, but is 100% part of the system.

The real question is what is IGN? What commercial (and commercial-laden) juggernaut with casual consumer appeal compares?
post #12 of 68
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The real question is what is IGN? What commercial (and commercial-laden) juggernaut with casual consumer appeal compares?
IGN is American Idol. Not quite a movie website (not quite a band.) Owned by Rupert Murdoch.
post #13 of 68
CHUD = Wu-Tang: Known old-schoolers, not the hugest, but the most rock solid of them all

Nick = RZA, Backbone of the group, the madman behind it all

Devin = GZA, Strongest science, bringer of the motherfuckinest of the ruckus

Russ = Raekwon, not the flashiest, but among the most powerful

Jeremy = Method Man, can't beat the lyrical strength, but has some unfortunate associations

Dellamorte = Ghostface Killah, Energy and verve to spare, undeniable style

Justin = Mastah Killah, not always around, but gold when present

Eileen = Old Dirty Bastard, because I fucking say so
post #14 of 68
IGN - Nickelback.
post #15 of 68
Cinema Blend - Limp Biskit then? Stealing shit and thinking to rise like the next big original thing. Though the "career" of Limp Biskit lends us all some hope.

ETA: And Renn wins hands down.
post #16 of 68
LordoftheRings.net - The Grateful Dead. Essential in their time, but now they're just riding along on past glories with some fanatical fans following along.
post #17 of 68
Variety is Bjork. Cos you know its interesting and you should pay attention, but a lot of the time you can't make sense of what the fuck's being said.
post #18 of 68
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Aint It Cool is the Rolling Stones. Hey, did you see them way back when? Man, it was great back then!
Ouch. That hurt. Not over AICN, but over the Stones. I do get your comparison, though.
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Eileen = Old Dirty Bastard, because I fucking say so
Excellent.
post #19 of 68
IGN = Korn.

Once loud, angry, and fresh, now just kinda irrelevant. Occasionally they tweak their sound enough to make someone perk up their ears, but listen for more than a minute, they just fucking grate on the nerves. Still, if you're 13, they're the fuckin' shit.
post #20 of 68
Greencine Daily is like Sonic Youth. A good calling card to play, but I'm never going to listen to Washing Machine again.

Roger Ebert is like Prince. The last couple years have been interesting, but the body of work is there that he's earned it.

Armond White is like Michael Jackson. The crazy is in check no more.
post #21 of 68
Cleanflix: Gary Glitter?
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Nikki Finke is Brittany Spears. Everybody pays attention for what a train wreck she's become, not for her music.
post #23 of 68
SuperHeroHype is Abba. They found a niche, and they ain't leaving.
post #24 of 68
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Aint It Cool is TAD

Others? Thoughts?
Fixed.
post #25 of 68
robzombie.com is Rob Zombie.
post #26 of 68
With all the trouble I'm having getting into the site today, I'm starting to think of CHUD as Buddy Holly.

I kid because I love.
post #27 of 68
Twitchfilm = Asian Kung Fu Generation.
post #28 of 68
A.V Club is one of those hipster bands. Man I don't know shit about music.

And MoviePoopshoot is Blink-182.
post #29 of 68
What's the A.V. Club?

Edit: Same time, ha!
post #30 of 68
The Entertainment section of The Onion. Home of Nathan Rabin's Year of the Flops and other sorts of things. They do great interviews also.
post #31 of 68
AV Club would be The Arcade Fire, or Radiohead.
post #32 of 68
Shit, I had originally said they were Radiohead but backed off because I couldn't really justify it.
post #33 of 68
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Shit, I had originally said they were Radiohead but backed off because I couldn't really justify it.
In another sense, they're like "what if Jon Stewart also made music, and, goddamnit, it just so happens that he's also Radiohead."
post #34 of 68
Entertainment Weekly is the Warped Tour. Here's a whole bunch of stuff, some of it good, some of it shit, we'll change the lineup whenever we feel like it, and we have no idea how it all fits together.
post #35 of 68
Mr. Cranky would be Weird Al Yankovich.
post #36 of 68
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Variety is Bjork.
I was thinking Milli Vanilli.
post #37 of 68
Trying to think of one for filmfreakcentral.net (Disclosure: Walter Chaw is my wife's cousin) and drawing a blank. Chud as Wu Tang is the best thing in this thread so far.
post #38 of 68
Variety is Pat Boone (Old and irrelevant)

Rolling Stone is 30 Seconds to Mars (Irrelevant and trying too hard)

Richard Roeper is Clay Aiken
post #39 of 68
oh and Vern is Frank Zappa
post #40 of 68
Daaamn straight, which makes Neil Cumpston (who was he, really?!) Captain Beefheart.
post #41 of 68
It's been said that Cumptson is Patton Oswalt. I've heard this many times.
post #42 of 68
Reelviews/James Berardinelli - Elvis Costello
Not as flashy as some of the others, but reliably solid, accessible, generally well-regarded, and literate.

CapAlert - Creed
Religious, self-righteous, unintentionally hilarious.
post #43 of 68
The Oswalt as Cumpston rumor makes a lot of sense, and makes both Oswalt and his "alias" even funnier. (Although I think everyone goes through and grows out of a Cumpston phase.)
post #44 of 68
Actually, Cumpston is the name of a real street in North Hollywood. I've always thought Oswalt just came up with after driving through the valley one day.
post #45 of 68
Dark Horizons = Men At Work
post #46 of 68
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Variety: I was thinking Milli Vanilli.
Perfection. They sing, but its using everyone else's voices. And then they try to act like they're originals
post #47 of 68
SHH is Numa Gay.
post #48 of 68
Can AICN be Smashmouth? Where every now and then you catch yourself with one of their songs stuck in your head and you hate yourself for it?
post #49 of 68
Remember when Byrne was done with Talking Heads and we got just The Heads? That's The Fake Life.
post #50 of 68
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