![]() ![]() References alone are not themselves jokes, especially when they are closed loops to past videos of this character in different contexts. Making a feature is hard enough and this only made it that much harder as it feels like it was hamstrung by lackluster material already worn thin.Īll the times when Onyx says a line that was lifted directly from one of his videos may offer a jolt of recognition to those who have them already memorized, but anyone else watching will be left perplexed about what exactly he was playing at. He just has tried to take something that worked in bite-sized doses into a full movie that never finds consistent humor. ![]() It isn’t even necessarily that Bower’s videos were not kind of funny or at least silly enough as they were. Rather, they made something that had its own world to play around in that wasn’t premised upon short skits that first went viral several years ago. What made it work was that they weren’t attempting to stretch out concepts or characters from their prior videos. Take the delightfully nasty Talk To Me, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival along with Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, which was made by two former YouTubers. If anything, it shows the value of distinguishing film from Internet “content” that people will seek out and watch no matter how good it is. There has been everything from the genuinely painful Smosh: The Movie creators to the misguided science fiction spoof Space Cop in the graveyard of such failed features. Of course, this is hardly the first time that a film made by an online creator has fallen woefully short of coming together into something salvageable. Save for some interesting creature effects scattered throughout that deserved a better movie around them, there is nothing for us to grasp onto. In execution, the experience of Bowser’s feature debut just never has the comedic energy or cinematic spark to justify its runtime. As a premise, this could work just fine as there is fun to be had in getting to know a random collection of people right before peril takes hold. Instead, it tries to coast off of the eccentricity of him and the other quirky cast of characters that find themselves invited to the mansion of their mysterious idol Bartok the Great for a planned resurrection of a spirit. The jokes he throws out, such as a recurring one about Onyx being a virgin, are never silly or clever enough to get anything approaching a laugh. For all the ways Bowser clearly has a lot of love for this character he has created, spending almost two hours with him proves to be exhausting. It is a horror comedy that feels like it is grasping at trying to be something like Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, though without the wit and wackiness required to pull it off. Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is a film that is about as overlong as its title. However, in further proof that not all small sketches should be made into nearly two-hour-long feature films, taking this character and putting him on a bigger canvas exposes how one-note he is. No matter which one you watch, in the end, you’ll likely close your computer and get up to go about your day without any particularly lasting memory of what can loosely be called a web series. If you watch any of these videos, you may find yourself lightly chuckling along at the absurdity of his bizarre proclamations and the manner in which he says them. Trillbury AKA Onyx the Fortuitous who is the creation of and performed by Andrew Bowser. The specific character I’m referring to is the “weird guy” AKA Marcus J. If you’ve been around the Internet long enough, you may have stumbled across videos of a bearded man parodying news coverage of bizarre events with a goofy character intercut with normal people being interviewed. ![]()
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