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Stardust
- "It's got a talented cast, stunning landscape porn, sword fights, a fun villain, and Ricky Gervais getting stabbed."
Starship Troopers (do-over)
- A riff on the scene where Rico is punished with a public lashing, sees Dominic as Rico starting to moan and bite his lower lip in ecstasy as he is whipped.Officer: Alright! Stop the punishment. He's enjoying it.
Rico: Wha— No, I'm not! I'm not! Daddy— Uh, Sarge! Tell them! - He explains that in the book Rico's father survived the bombing and joined the military, but never contacted his son to let him know he was alive and Rico only found out when they ran into each other. This is represented by a skit of Rico walking down the hallway greeting his fellow soldiers.Rico: Yo Sarge, how's the knee? Ace, stop checking your mail, you know she's not gonna write you back. Captain, good to see you. Oh, hello, my estranged father who died two years ago. *keeps walking, then stops as the truth dawns on him*
- When discussing his original review of the film, he has three particular complaints: that he missed nuance, got facts wrong, and pretended to shoot a gun because he thought that was what Youtubers just did.
Casino Royale (2006) ~ Lost in Adaptation
- Dom plays a Bond villain holding the love interest hostage and sends James Bond a ransom call. The book-accurate Bond replies with a misogynistic rant that horrifies even the villain and makes him wonder what the love interest sees in Bond.
- Sir Terry is playing Dom's Right-Hand Cat and leaves in the middle of Bond's rant, as if being so disgusted he says Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
- Il Neige's outro music, a parody Bond theme called "Ballscratcher", referencing the movie's infamous testicular torture scene.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) ~ Lost in Adaptation
- The intro is Dom playing Hercule Poirot and several suspects in a typical murder mystery. "Poirot" says the murder victim is Murder on the Orient Express and the killer is Kenneth Branagh.
Gender Swapped Twilight
- In the Audible ad, Dom says he'd rather listen to an audiobook than the Elizabethan-era ghost who follows him around detailing the Queen's secret fetishes.
- Dom criticizes Meyer for writing a straight teenage boy who never once thinks about the female lead sexually. Instead, Meyer makes Beau obsess over her dimples.Dom: "Aww, but maybe he's a hopeless romantic!" You can do both! You can picture your wedding day with someone and them [overly long censor beep].Caption: Turns out Dom's kind of nasty.
- Dom believes that Meyer ultimately wrote the book because it was an easy way to make lots of money, which he grudgingly respects.
- If his channel fails, Dom imagines getting a job at a British pub in Los Angeles and having to spend his days convincing customers that his accent is real.
The Sequel to Ladies First
- The narrator marvels at how the male romantic interest takes charge of difficult situations without asking permission. From here on out, Dom calls him Doctor Take-Charge Guy.
- Dominic comes across the phrase "Women anymore are these Ivy-League feminist something-or-others" and adds a caption "See me after English class, Ms. Adams."
- Dominic points out the male lead's contradictory view that feminists are gold-diggers but also hate being kept women.
- This book is so much worse than Ladies First that Dominic goes back and re-reads it just to be sure they're the same author. He then praises Ladies First for at least being coherent, if not good or well-written.Dom: I willingly re-read Ladies First, people. Marvel at my dedication to my craft! Marvel HARDER!!
- Dominic wonders if people who are into old-fashioned family dynamics are really just looking for a dom to call them a "good girl".
- Dom theorizes that this book is so much worse than the last one because it must have been written between 2020 and 2021, meaning the author's tears at Trump's loss were obscuring her vision.
"MAGA Hat" Romance Is So Cringe
- This is the first Liberty Adams book that Dom paid for. Adams now has 99 of Dom's hard-earned cents, minus Kindle's cut.Dom: Spend it wisely, you red hat-worshiping nutjob.
- While meeting Mary Beth, Justice fears letting go of his shotgun as this would give her "power" over him. Dom points out how incredibly insecure he must be.
- Mary Beth has no issue with a shotgun being pointed in her face but panics and drives away in a hurry when Justice asks her out.
- Justice's idea of a first date is taking Mary Beth to bury his mother's ashes.
- Dom's incredulity at how quickly their romance progresses. Before Justice's declaration love, their longest conversation was a five-question survey.
- Donald Trump is an actual character in this book and Dom reads several of his lines, complete with a Trump impersonation.
The Last Narnia Book Was Super Dark
- The summation of the lead up to the Last Stand, where Narnia and its armies was pretty thoroughly trashed by the invading Calormenes, while our heroes were occupied with a rescue mission:Dom: Yep! After thousand of years and generations of heroes laying down their lives to protect it, the Kingdom of Narnia is completely destroyed off-page while the king was busy wearing blackface. A somewhat ignoble and anti-climatic end, I have to admit.
Rating Erotic Novels Called Dominic
- The first novel has no jokes about the title character's name. Dom speculates it's because "he'd heard them about a thousand times by his mid-twenties and was getting sick of it" before taking a drink.
- Dom mistakenly thinks a "Dark Mafia Romance" has something to do with dark wizards in organized crime. Not helped by the fact that the guy on the cover looks like a magician on a Las Vegas poster.
- Dom mocks a book's Tangled Family Tree.Book: My uncle had hired the man who had fathered me to kill my half-brother.Dom: To make matters worse, my nephew paid my second cousin to beat up my grandmother's stepsister so Thanksgiving is going to be really awkward this year.
- Dom reviews a book centered on a Dominic who's a rapist and human trafficker. He finishes by revealing that this still isn't his least favorite Dominic.
- Dom expresses reluctance to review a book by an Irish author because there are enough historical instances of the British shitting on the Irish. He also says that because the author frequently uses "me" instead of "my", this book needs to be read with an Irish accent or else she sounds like a caveman.
- Dom is appalled when a book centers on a seventeen-year-old girl being forced to do a kissing booth against her will and her customers being thirteen-year-olds. What's more, she only charges two euros, which is "less than a portion of fish and chips."
- The worst Dominic gets 0 Dominics for story, -2000 Dominics for for the super awkward sexual moments between a barely legal girl and her abuser, and -2864210 Dominics for the main character who has brought shame upon their name. He then takes a long drink and expresses his gratitude that this episode was sponsored by a wine company.
