Brows Held High/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Cargo Ship: Oancitizen+Trashcan FOREVER!!!
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Oancitizen's conversation with the NATO representative at the end of his review of A Serbian Film. Hearing Oan demand that NATO wipe out Serbia is a little uncomfortable at first...until you get to the "fictional bombs" part.
    • From the same review, his stickman representations of some of the more graphic scenes.
  • Ear Worm: The opening theme. It's called Procession of the Nobles by Rimsky-Korsakov.
  • Fridge Brilliance: In the Trash Humpers episode, Oancitizen declares that "our words are backed with nuclear weapons!" Of course, this is a quote from Civilization, but keep in mind what happened at the end of the Ken Park review.
  • Genius Bonus: Many of the jokes are references to non-mainstream plays, figures, and organizations.
    • During the Exterminating Angels review, Oancitizen mocks the incomprehensible radio messages by replying with what sounds like trucker slang; one of these phrases refers to "an Andalusian doggie".
    • The way he called Goldmember out in Dutch is offensive enough translated literally, but he also calls him a cancer victim. "Kanker" (the Dutch word for "cancer") is the worst expletive in the language, worse than the English "fuck."
    • In the Antichrist review, he made a reference to Farinelli, a castrato singer.
  • Hate Dumb: From a few Cinema Snob fans that only see him as an inferior knock-off, completely unaware their styles and movie targets are different (He does art films, not exploitation films). One even signed under his name, claiming (as him) to be an unofficial sequel to the Snob.
  • Likes Older Women: From his love of Emma Thompson, to his outraged disbelief that a teenaged boy in Ken Park managed to seduce an attractive older woman, to his insistence that Sasha Gray looks like a 14-year-old, he gives off quite a vibe of this.
  • Moe Moe: The drawn title cards has his character as rather "moe"-like, particularly in the Sabastine review.
  • Squick: A vast majority of the films he's reviewed tend to be full of this. And he endures all of it... sort of.
  • Unfortunate Implications: The Girlfriend Experience was (albeit accidentally) incredibly misogynistic.
  • The Woobie: Considering he subjects himself to so many horrible things, Oancitizen is often the first to cry. Alice makes him break down in tears of terror, and The Fall causes him to cry inky mascara tears, even though he wasn't actually wearing any makeup at the time. Not to mention he suffers through so many disturbing films. You just want to give him a hug.