- Ruthlessreviews.com
Ruthless Reviews is a website based in
Los Angeles, California that features several American film and media critics.About the Website
Ruthless Reviews was founded in 2001 by Jonny Lieberman and Erich Schulte. The site's tagline is "Ruthless Reviews: Where Nihilists Debate Pornographers About Pop Culture." Ruthless features
review s of movies, TV shows, and music (especially heavy metal), along with aninternet forum for the discussion of a wide range of subjects. Opinions expressed on the site lean towards strong atheistic,libertine , and liberal (in the U.S. political meaning of the word) ideologies.The reviews
Ruthless features reviews of movies, television shows, books, radio shows, and hardcore pornography. It also provides interviews with celebrities, NFL picks, and rants covering current events and culture. The reviews are highly opinionated articles containing a blend of viciousness, humor, sarcasm, satire, biting insults, self-deprecation, and misanthropy. Critical or insane
letters to the editor are subsequently reposted in, and publicly ridiculed by the forum. The site's reviews are often referred to as "vulgar" by other websites;cite web| last= Strom| first= Ron| date=August 9, 2005 | url= http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45663 | title="Satanist" dances on Reagan's grave - Posts photos on Net, presidential library mum about incident", | publisher=" WorldNetDaily " | accessdate=2006-09-27 ] theInternet Movie Database , for instance, labels the reviews as "potentially offensive".Matt Cale
Ruthless' most prolific contributor and author of hundreds of reviews, Matt Cale offers readers a scathing analysis of movies and popular culture. Cale is the author of "Matt Cale's Shithouse Cinema" [http://ruthlessreviews.com/movies/msc.html] and "Matt Cale's DVD Club" [http://ruthlessreviews.com/dvd/dvdindex.html] . Cale is also a vicious essayist and a major contributor to the "Ruthless Guide to 80s Action". Since 2003, Cale has provided annual coverage of both the
Telluride Film Festival- 2008 excluded and theDenver Film Festival .Black Metal Pics
One of Ruthless Reviews' most linked-to features is its 2004 feature "Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time". Mike from Hobart, author of the feature, claims in response to the list to have received
death threat s andhate mail fromblack metal fans, and thank you letters fromrecord label s. In 2005, Hobart followed up with the features "10 Most Ridiculous Rap/Hip-Hop Pics of All Time", "(The Other) 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time", [http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/1055/page/the_other_top____most_ridiculous_black_metal_pics_of_all_time.html] and Matt Cale contributed "The Top 10 Ugliest Men in Heavy Metal History". [http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/reviews.cfm/id/1079/page/top____ugliest_men_in_heavy_metal_history.html]Ruthless Guide to 80s Action
Another central feature of the site is the "Ruthless Guide to 80s Action", a collection of reviews covering the era of sweaty, and arguably homoerotic American action films from 1980–1992. [http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/80actionguide.cfm] Each review takes note of what Ruthless holds to be the genre's common themes: pervasive albeit closeted homosexuality, thinly-veiled
fascism , as well as an enormous "body count ". Notable films of this era include "Commando", "Predator", the "Rambo " series, and the "Death Wish" series. Prominent actors of this era includeArnold Schwarzenegger ,Steven Seagal ,Sylvester Stallone ,Chuck Norris ,Charles Bronson , and Jean-Claude Van Damme.The Ruthless Forum
The Ruthless Forum [http://www.theruthlessforum.com] consists of over a thousand registered members. Discussions focus on current events, politics, culture, pornography, films, and television.
Media coverage
Ruthless Reviews received national attention in August 2005 when the conservative website
WorldNetDaily (WND) reported that a Ruthless Forum member by the name of TheFreakKingdom posted photos of himself in the forum that showed him dancing on the grave of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The WND report labelled TheFreakKingdom as a "Satanist", due to the user title (or rank) he possessed at the time. cite web| last= Strom| first= Ron| date=August 9, 2005 | url= http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45663 | title="Satanist" dances on Reagan's grave - Posts photos on Net, presidential library mum about incident", | publisher=" WorldNetDaily " | accessdate=2006-09-27 ]Notes and references
External links
*http://www.ruthlessreviews.com Ruthless Reviews
*http://www.theruthlessforum.com The Ruthless Forum
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