Saturday, December 21, 2019

Top 10 TLOTA Moments of 2019

(Opening begins at the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” on it before cutting to James in his office)

TLOTA:
I'm James Faraci The Last Of The Americans and the views that I'm about to express are that of my own and some of yours. You know something 2019 was trying to kill me, in more ways than one! (Cut to clips of certain clips from reviews from "The Last Of The Americans" as James does a voiceover)

TLOTA (Voiceover):
Between having to escape from my old studio after a mob of John Cena fans surrounded the studio wanting my backside, then being forced out by the landlord because raised my rent and I can honestly say I wasn't surprised after all I've done there, I nearly died in a foreign city in the past, Not to mention all the delays which nearly cost me dearly and not to mention time and space nearly being destroyed. I barely made my quota as an Internet Reviewer
, However, I did have something good happen which may affect next year lord willing and the crick don't rise! While everything came together quickly, everything was delayed to well personal reasons. Mainly the fact I've been having family issues as my brother having suffered a stroke a few months into this year and didn't make it to the end of the year. (Cut to James physically)


TLOTA:

But even though they have slowed me down, I still did this year's work and got it in by some grace of god, I've got my five and five from my viewers. (James pulls out his morpher and De-Morphs back to James Faraci)



James Faraci:
So here we go The Top 10 TLOTA Moments of 2019


(Scene begins as James Faraci pulls out of a card with the statistics of The Last Of The Americans while putting it into the Robo Knight Robo Morpher and punching in the code 428 then cut to James jumping down a cliff from the 0:00-0:03 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run. 0:04 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators shows James Faraci landing and fully morphing into James Faraci The Last Of The Americans basic mode with his Long sleeve Tee-Shirt with the American flag design on it, Blue cargo Jeans and Black Work boots until 0:07 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run as scene cuts to James fighting alongside the 2017 Power Rangers, 2016 Ghostbusters and warriors of Wakonda from “Avengers: Infinity War” at the 0:13 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run. 0:14-0:17 show Rebecca Yaun as Wonder Woman and Nick Yaun as Steve Trevor charging the screen before cutting to John and Mike Santos peeling out in The DeLorean From “Back To The Future” before cutting to the 0:17-0:19 mark as it shows Paulo & Brenda Fonseca taking a joyride in KITT from “Knight Rider” in Super Pursuit Mode before cutting to the 0:20-0:28 mark as we see Eric Kurtzke, Ed Champion and Andrew Beach flying the USS Enterprise from “Star Trek” (2009) and Olivia Horvath flying The Orville as it cuts to the 0:28 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators shows when James stands on top of his Time and Space device and tosses his sonic screwdriver then cuts over to multiple clips from “The Last Of The Americans” reviews moments of 2018 as the Sonic Screwdriver flips end over end as the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” and on top of the slab are the words "Top 10" and on the bottom of the slab of 2019" The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):

Number 10
(Cut to clips of "Connect The Plots: Birds Of Prey & Gotham" as James does a voiceover)


James Faraci (Voiceover):
Yeah while the ending of it set up something better on the list this to me was basically a filler and I hate doing a filler review. I want to leave my audience more sustained with better knowledge on subjects than I did before hand and while yes seeing both series was a chore, I got through them and thanks to some ideas I had, I came up with review, I got it done and I am glad. However to my surprise, people actually liked it! They were amazed at what I had done even though it was not my best work. I guess the audience knows a lot more than I give them credit for and I give them the credit for being that intelligent. To that I thank everyone, but again for me, not my best, but I am glad everyone enjoyed this. (Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)


James Faraci (Voiceover):

Number 9
(Cut to clips of "The "World" according to "Spice"" as James does a voiceover)

9) The "World" according to "Spice"


James Faraci (Voiceover):
Admittedly, I needed a bad movie that I enjoyed, that hasn't aged well and it was something so bad that it deserved the reviewing it rightfully deserved. It wasn't until I was at the Supermarket when I heard the song "Stop" by The Spice Girls when I had a Primate touch Monolith in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" moment. Their only big cinematic outing. Fortunately a friend of mine who also helped me with what was at the number five spot had a copy of the movie and as we watched we reminisced about what it was like for us when we were younger and we also talked about a certain site which has become so toxic that we had to do something to the trolls that support them! And this movie was just right to use as the forum to let those Jackasses have it with both barrels. The end result a satisfactory review with enough power.


(Show ending of "The "World" according to "Spice" as the troll defending "C.A." and gets  bombed by the Flaming bus wreckage. Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 8
(Cut to "The Room For "Venom" as James does a voiceover)

8) The Room for "Venom" 


James Faraci (Voiceover):
From the second I saw Eddie and Anne, the setting of San Francisco a flood of jokes from "The Room" hit me like a ton of water! It was so awesome, I also wanted to show my musical abilities in the opening by making a musical video something in the same vein as Alice Cooper's "Poison" video and I thought it was good. However, I think I had a little too much fun because if I were to show you the blooper reel from this review, it'd take quite a while to get through. Plus I needed to set up the one review, I thought and hoped would be at Number One but unfortunately, I felt while it is list worthy, I felt I would be dishonest for what happened from a behind the scenes perspective to put it at number one. But I digress, For me this was a fun review and the fans were glad I did it better than a certain bald headed Jack-Ass from Chicago and to me it will be a personal best.


(Show ending to "The Room for "Venom".Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 7
(Cut to different reviews with John Cena)

7) Cena Warrior Actor & Reality Checkout: Wrestling With Wreality


James Faraci (Voiceover):

This was one idea that I had worked with my friend and team mate Renee Miller who is not only an Uber Fan of WWE but also John Cena. I informed her of my idea back in November of last year. While the movies and storyline was awesome for the Cena Trilogy, I also decided to talk about certain things involving either WWE or John Cena. Specifically the XFL and The Reality Series WWE support. And in the case of a certain series involving the Bella Twins it allowed me the opportunity to just go for Cena's throat especially seeing him sabotage a perfectly amazing relationship.  (Show clip of James taking off his glasses and going for John Cena's throat!) Yeah, it had been building up in me since he asked Nikki for her hand in marriage back in WrestleMania 33 all the way through the break up between Cena and Nikki. And it pissed me off so much that if I didn't say something I think people would've been wondering what my thoughts on what happened  for a long time. But for me the best/craziest moment was in the Blockers Review. When I was watching Kayla's eyes pop out of her head when she had that drug laced Macaroon, I paused it and automatically had a Vietnam flashback to when Judge Doom revealed himself to be a Cartoon. Not just any Cartoon, The toon that killed Eddie Valliant's Brother. I had nightmares about that moment for years and while the nightmares subsided and I got to enjoy the moment. But when Kayla had her cartoonish eyes, I was taken back to being a kid scared by Judge Doom. Good enough for me to put it up on the list.

(Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 6
(Cut to Clips Of "Aladdin and The Six Year Stretch" as James does a voiceover)

6) Aladdin and The Six Year Stretch

James Faraci (Voiceover):
The fact the 2019 movie exists is a surprise in itself so when I incorporated it towards my anniversary as much as I incorporated the 1990's animated classic. Okay while I took some liberties and what not from a story point in terms of my character, I thought about making some changes which is what I planned for a while, like a change in location. Thankfully everyone took to the new studio idea like a duck in water. I also liked how interesting I was able to take the story of the 2019 movie and tell the pros and cons of them and find the classic version the better one. And personally I was glad to get it out.

(Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 5
(Cut to clips of "Live to win in the "Endgame" as James does a voiceover)


(Cut to James physically)
James Faraci:
Let me explain why it is here instead of the number one spot where I had HOPED it would be. I disqualified it from that position because I didn't get a chance to see the movie until literally back in September when it had reached the home market. I actually had a friend of mine go and under penalty of death forced me to not reveal either the friend's identity but also the ending to the movie.(Cut to clips of "Live to win in the "Endgame" as James does a voiceover)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
I feel so guilty for not watching it in theaters and having to rely on someone who had seen it and gone by that person's thoughts that I thought of not putting it on the list at all but I did tell certain people and they said to me, "Release it and then come clean later" I wish I had come clean about it sooner. Nothing left to say except I await the Karmic Bitch slap I rightfully deserve from it and... (Cut to the clip where The Avengers "A" Logo misses him and his destroyed desk and James shouts "GODDAMNIT!" and James' voiceover says "Indeed"
Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 4
(Cut to clips of "Law & Order: SVU" as James does a voiceover)

4) The Longest editorial I EVER did on Law & Order SVU


James Faraci (Voiceover):
This editorial nearly killed me, I had to sit through two decades worth of one series! But thankfully I got through it to make it just in time for the 21st season premiere and so far the 21st season has had it's hot and cold moments, which I might go into next year. But I also enjoyed a lot of the seasons as a fan of the series and while some people had commented that the series has been on 21 seasons longer than it should be. However I wanted to thank the series for all these years of entertainment and serialized drama. While I hope the series does continue for a few more seasons, I do feel it has survived rollercoasters of good and bad seasons but if it continues on, I will do a mini-review if I think of it. But again the editorial is just as great as I could do

(Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 3
(Cut to clips of "A Not so strong "Supergirl" co-written by KiraKennedy)

3) The Supergirl 1984 Crossover with KiraKennedy

James Faraci (Voiceover):

I am ETERNALLY beholden to KiraKennedy, He is an awesome dude, while I had originally planned a review of the Live Action Kim Possible Movie. We eventually came to try and see if we could do the 1984 Cult Cheese Fest known as "Supergirl" which as I have stated was an idea that was aborted from "Superman III" in past reviews. What makes this one so high on the list was how much fun me and KiraKennedy had while working on this. The whole Coconut gag was a callback to my first review "The Even Stevens Movie" and the Demonically High Face of Kayla and putting it on the Shadow Demon from this turkey is a callback to the "Blockers" review and I was glad that people were in on how much fun this bad movie was that for me. I was so glad everyone loved this review. And all I can say to thank everyone is... (Show clip of James and KiraKennedy going on about a coconut. Fade to black. Cut to the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)

James Faraci (Voiceover):
Number 2
(Cut to clips of "Clerks" of A New Order & The Work Of "Clerks" as done by Jerks as James does a voiceover)

2) "Clerks" of A New Order and The Work of "Clerks" as done by Jerks 


James Faraci (Voiceover):
I wanted to celebrate the 25 year career of one of the greatest Indie Directors to never have won an academy award in his entire career. For me the best way was to do anything to do him justice. One idea was a failed pilot that was so loosely based on the movie that it didn't surprise me how badly the project failed to re-capture the magic. Originally I had a top 10 best moments of "Clerks" planned but that never panned out because it would've been following the story of the movie beat for beat. Thankfully the movie "Clerks II" was there and I knew it was up until "Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" the last time I'd be seeing "Jay & Silent Bob" and the View Askewniverse ever and I truly wanted to say to Kevin Smith, Thank you. I only hope he heard me. 


(Cut to the ending of "The Work of "Clerks" as done by Jerks" Fade to black, Cut to James as he pulls out a card with the statistics of The Last Of The Americans while putting it into the Robo Knight Robo Morpher and punching in the code 428 then cut to James jumping down a cliff from the 0:00-0:03 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run. 0:04 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators shows James Faraci landing and fully morphing into James Faraci The Last Of The Americans basic mode with his Long sleeve Tee-Shirt with the American flag design on it, Blue cargo Jeans and Black Work boots until 0:07 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run as scene cuts to James fighting alongside the 2017 Power Rangers, 2016 Ghostbusters and warriors of Wakonda from “Avengers: Infinity War” at the 0:13 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run. 0:14-0:17 show Rebecca Yaun as Wonder Woman and Nick Yaun as Steve Trevor charging the screen before cutting to John and Mike Santos peeling out in The DeLorean From “Back To The Future” before cutting to the 0:17-0:19 mark as it shows Paulo & Brenda Fonseca taking a joyride in KITT from “Knight Rider” in Super Pursuit Mode before cutting to the 0:20-0:28 mark as we see Eric Kurtzke, Ed Champion and Andrew Beach flying the USS Enterprise from “Star Trek” (2009) and Olivia Horvath flying The Orville as it cuts to the 0:28 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators shows when James stands on top of his Time and Space device and tosses his sonic screwdriver then cuts over to multiple clips from “The Last Of The Americans” reviews moments of 2018 as the Sonic Screwdriver flips end over end as the 0:36 mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run plays when James grabs it while on top of a slab while doing a heroic pose with Paulo & Brenda Fonseca, John & Mike Santos, Eric Kurtzke, Olivia Horvath on his right and Rebecca & Nick Yaun, Renee Miller, Andrew Beach & Ed Champion on his left doing their own heroic poses on a black background the 0:36-end mark from the theme from the final season of American Gladiators original run play the camera pulls back to see James and everyone else on top of a slab with the words “The Last Of The Americans” .The Number appears as the title card becomes slightly out of focus and James does a voiceover.)



James Faraci (Voiceover):
And THE Number One moment of "The Last Of The Americans" is...

(Cut to The Different Cuts of: X-Men Days Of Future Past as James does a voiceover)






James Faraci (Voiceover):
I knew I had an idea for how I wanted to add a story showing how my life would be if I lost everything except for my Internet Reviewing persona. Plus by late November last year, I was writing the first draft of the script of the movie I've been wanting to make Tie-Ins for the movie for a while and I knew I had to do a Different Cuts. It was just right for all the elements for both versions of "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" and having that all come together makes it worthy of the only spot I thought it deserved especially with how things with my "Avengers: Endgame" review happened to make it unworthy of the number one spot. Put this one as the Number One moment of The Last Of The Americans in 2019. And people are excited for what will happen in 2020. (Cut to the moment in the ending of the Different Cuts of  "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" as the scene has faded to black Julia Alexa Miller says“Oh My God! James!” The words “To be continued in 2020… In… “The Last Of The Americans: The Movie”. Cut to James physically)

James Faraci:

Now with the exception of the movie, what else can you expect besides more great reviews, Top 10s and all my other content? Well... (James morphs back into "The Last Of The Americans")

TLOTA:

Then let me give you a clue.... (James pulls out an Apple Pie and uses his thumb to point at his shirt and his pinky at the pie) Want some pie? I'm James Faraci The Last Of The Americans and that's my opinion.