I am so, so over the whole “ironic” ’50s educational filmstrip parody thing. We get it: they were simplistic and naive. The Atomic Cafe already made that clear back in the ’80s.
But making fun of ’70s educational films? Whole new ballgame. Slightly. And I like it.
It’s too bad the mandatory rating at the beginning gives the “game” away, so to speak…
Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.)
Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist