For those of you who were fans, or just enjoyed the coolduder channel on youtube, you may look past much of the laziness of this product. And yes, it is a product. I am disappointed I paid to see this. Some may claim that it is just a feature length "Around the Town" vlog.
But we were always able to view Around the Town vlogs for free...some of these vlogs were even 30 minutes or more on the coolduder channel. But if you are a fan of the coolduder channel, you were expecting Shawn and MJ's alter ego's, Don and Murph. They never make an appearance. There was no intro, no music, not even real editing.
No stories were told. We find out nothing about Shawn and MJ...we hear nothing about their adventures in film making or being a part of other projects. Instead, we sit...and watch a lazy production, almost 70% of it boring. And its pathetic and sad. Pathetic because we realize Shawn is just a large spoiled man child, still sucking off of his parents at the age of 26, and sad, because we know this will be the end of the duo of Shawn and MJ/Don and Murph.
We know Shawn will start his new life, financial backed and secured by his enabling parents, and we know MJ will retreat back to the east coast, probably get a job, get married, and we will never hear from him again.
Everything that drew me into the coolduder channel was this duo. It was don and murph, and their skits. Now its all over.
There was no big send off. No big bang for the fans. They should've had a simple story...like they were being chased or stalked. They could have done this film Blair Witch style, like had a fictional story going on, while we watched them do non-fictional things. Something. Anything. Instead, it was like finding an old tape of your aunt traveling to Pennsylvania, and watching it.
"Oh, look at that. Look at this. OOO...they sell hats here." Seriously. Its that boring, that bad. The film starts off with obvious planned pranks, but that's OK. Its still entertaining. But then, shortly after, it all stops. The fun dies out, and instead we just watch a tired Shawn and MJ, bitter and obviously sick of each others presence...and there's still 800 more miles of traveling ahead of them.
This film should have been broken up into parts and placed on youtube for free. It was very unethical to have been sold. This product deserved no profit, save for some ad revenue. It was marketed and promoted on the coolduder channel, and the details of it were kept pretty secure, so the film would sound more enticing. Shawn even brought up how it was "not for kids" over and over again.
The potential customer/fan was led to believe we'd see a very adult side of the duo. Instead, we see a very typical same as always PG-13 side of them, as we have been seeing on youtube for years.
It would have been nice to have seen a very genuine side of the two...really heard their opinions, their feelings on subjects and things...but instead its just two grown adults talking and acting like scared children, and too afraid to open up in any way to their fans.
In closing, this product is a sad, pathetic, depressing nail in the coffin of the now defunct youtube duo that never really launched or got off in the first place. It was made publicly clear that after this trip, Shawn and MJ barely speak to each other anymore.
But we were always able to view Around the Town vlogs for free...some of these vlogs were even 30 minutes or more on the coolduder channel. But if you are a fan of the coolduder channel, you were expecting Shawn and MJ's alter ego's, Don and Murph. They never make an appearance. There was no intro, no music, not even real editing.
No stories were told. We find out nothing about Shawn and MJ...we hear nothing about their adventures in film making or being a part of other projects. Instead, we sit...and watch a lazy production, almost 70% of it boring. And its pathetic and sad. Pathetic because we realize Shawn is just a large spoiled man child, still sucking off of his parents at the age of 26, and sad, because we know this will be the end of the duo of Shawn and MJ/Don and Murph.
We know Shawn will start his new life, financial backed and secured by his enabling parents, and we know MJ will retreat back to the east coast, probably get a job, get married, and we will never hear from him again.
Everything that drew me into the coolduder channel was this duo. It was don and murph, and their skits. Now its all over.
There was no big send off. No big bang for the fans. They should've had a simple story...like they were being chased or stalked. They could have done this film Blair Witch style, like had a fictional story going on, while we watched them do non-fictional things. Something. Anything. Instead, it was like finding an old tape of your aunt traveling to Pennsylvania, and watching it.
"Oh, look at that. Look at this. OOO...they sell hats here." Seriously. Its that boring, that bad. The film starts off with obvious planned pranks, but that's OK. Its still entertaining. But then, shortly after, it all stops. The fun dies out, and instead we just watch a tired Shawn and MJ, bitter and obviously sick of each others presence...and there's still 800 more miles of traveling ahead of them.
This film should have been broken up into parts and placed on youtube for free. It was very unethical to have been sold. This product deserved no profit, save for some ad revenue. It was marketed and promoted on the coolduder channel, and the details of it were kept pretty secure, so the film would sound more enticing. Shawn even brought up how it was "not for kids" over and over again.
The potential customer/fan was led to believe we'd see a very adult side of the duo. Instead, we see a very typical same as always PG-13 side of them, as we have been seeing on youtube for years.
It would have been nice to have seen a very genuine side of the two...really heard their opinions, their feelings on subjects and things...but instead its just two grown adults talking and acting like scared children, and too afraid to open up in any way to their fans.
In closing, this product is a sad, pathetic, depressing nail in the coffin of the now defunct youtube duo that never really launched or got off in the first place. It was made publicly clear that after this trip, Shawn and MJ barely speak to each other anymore.
