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A note on Rogue Elements

I estimate about 2% of people raise this point in good faith, but the catch-all response to the "why didn't you cover it" question is as follows:

Rogue Elements was covered, briefly, on stream and on this channel on the day it released. I gave some headline thoughts and offered a couple of criticisms, looking mainly at the writing. The reupload of that stream is on the BSUP channel.

I also explained why it wasn't going to get a video. The reasoning comes in 2 parts.

1) It was a fan-funded proof of concept short indie film. I have never covered these on this channel, from anyone. Spiderman Lotus was not covered for the same reason. Shelby Oaks is a studio movie with a theatrical release. These things are self-evidently different in scope, scale, ambition, industry support, expectations, and - frankly - relevance.

2) Reviewing anything made by oneself or a friend is a clear conflict of interest. The majority of people asking this question confirm the point. The motive has nothing to do with the work itself, the motive is doubting my motives.

This would inevitably occur were I to praise any aspect of a friend's work, and were I critical, I could never be critical enough.

George Orwell would refuse to meet anyone whose work he was due to review. The same principle holds here, and applies to anything my friends work on, and anything I work on. I am writing for Judas, so I will not be reviewing Judas, for example. No amount of miserable idiots in a comment section will change my mind on these points. Other people are better placed to make Rogue Elements videos, many have done so.

I don't particularly care if this explanation satisfies the questioners, because they aren't really questioners and they will never be satisfied. This explanation stands simply in order that the point be publicly addressed.

To paraphrase something Jeremy Jahns said in his review, "Shelby Oaks has a lot of cheap jump scares in it, because I guess Chris forgot that he doesn’t like when movies do that".

Remember everyone: toxic positivity is the death of good art

I remember when he started bootlicking every tragically bad movie because he really wanted these connections in industry

In a kidnapping case, the death of the alleged kidnapper is a huge problem if the victim hasn't been recovered, because 3 days without water is lethal. So Mia should be panicked by the fact that the guy is dead, because now there's a ticking clock to find her sister before she dies of thirst.

He sat on this for 10 years!? this is a plot you make up in an hour, when your twelve, around the cafeteria table, and one of your friends is snorting sour skittle powder.

“There is a nice person in me somewhere.”

So what you’re saying is that you admit to cannibalism?

It's funny that you opened the video with the exact clip that made me stop respecting Chris. Imagine being a critic that refuses to criticize film makers.

"Riley is missing!"
"Should we look for her?"
"Yes but let's wait a few months"

I didn’t actually mind his videos for what they were, but that day he released a video explaining that he wasn’t going to criticise film makers anymore I just rolled my eyes and never watched him again.

Chris Stuckman wants to be SEEN as a filmmaker not BE a filmmaker.

Can you imagine how much better Tarantino's movies could have been if he had frequently walked around in an "I'm just here to make films" T-shirt?

I'm not surprised at a bad film from a critic who appears fundamentally incapable of insight or original thought.

I think Chris Stuckman was doing reviews/summaries that sound like A.I. wrote them before A.I. was even a thing.

"There's a nice person in me somewhere" Im glad Platoon has found a nice boyfriend 😂

If my kid was having night terrors and her sister sleeping in the same room instantly solved it, you can bet that they would be sharing a room forever.

Shelby Oaks is certainly one of the films of all time.

I just want to point out the intro exsplaining what happened to the Paranoids was just a long recap of the Youtube series that they used to advertise the film, thus making it more pointless as most people hyped for this film have already seen it.

Little Platoon premiere?!

Let’s get Stuckmannized!

That last comment is brutal, considering it comes from his lifelong friend. He's right, and I respect that he had the stones to say that publicly, but ouch. I bet Chris'll feel that one in the morning.