Red Letter Media

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account

Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Pissmaster said:
You know, I didn't even know ticket prices had soared that high, but I haven't been to a movie theater in ages. I think the last ticket I ever bought was $12, and that seemed unbelievable. So after RLM's new video, I checked my local theaters, and yeah, $20. Holy shit.
Click to expand...
The most I've paid equates to 35 USD, and that was a few years ago too, in the middle of the day, on a fucking Tuesday. Then we moved somewhere out of the way for a bit where they were still $5 and started going at least once a week, and I got to see actually full theatres again.

I'm not a cinema scientist but taking $5 from 200 people sounds better than $20 from 6 (plus coke and popcorn), before you even consider adapting the service itself.
 
Last edited:
Peaches the Wonder Cat said:
"And people want to go to a concert to see The Foo Fighters" - Mike's dementia is setting in and he thinks it's 1994.

"It's prestige TV!" Mike's dementia continues and he thinks it's 2004.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I agree this video was kind of dumb. Also I think movie theatres are dying because of Bidenomics. Hear me out: Biden becomes president in 2021, pandemic ends in March of 2022 (although COVID isn't real, but again my opinion) economy has a weird shift that hits hard in 2023, hence why lots of summer blockbusters and other movies flop at least in the states, because elsewhere in the world, movie theatres aren't dying. How else do you explain movies doing well overseas (that doesn't even include China because they are connected to Hollywood) last year. So basically, if movie theaters want to still be around, people should vote for Trump. I mean Avengers Endgame was released in 2019, and you know who was president that year...Trump. I am just saying that's all. Also can RLM make a new BOTW, I mean for God's sake for four videos in a row, there hasn't been a new one since !!!


Edit: Or heck maybe the movie industry should get rid of opening weekend, seeing how almost all opening weekend's in the fast few years, are box office failures. Like maybe put out a movie on Monday or even Wednesday for that matter in the afternoon no less.

2024_06_04_19.21.09.jpg


 
Last edited:
I want to be a Positive Polly™ for once and mention re-watching the HitB for Mandy. I loved both Mandy and Beyond the Black Rainbow, as well as The Viewing, which was an episode of anthology horror; I can say that I agree with Jay about Cosmatos -- he's yet to let me down.
image_2024-06-05_013609079.png
[and even though I didn't care about the Pred. reboot, the whole episode was enjoyable]
 
Involuntary Celebrity said:
They could adapt in any number of ways. They're idiots who had a golden age and cranked up prices and forgot how to not just print money. We have other options for movies, but we're now in an age where all our entertainment is screen-based and they have giant screens and sound systems and seats and air conditioning, and they let them sit empty.
It's an industry that grew out of the depression era, it's not like premium ticket/concessions for screening individual blockbusters or nothing are the only two options.
Click to expand...

It's an experience. Leave the house, see a circus. Alamo Draft house does a great job. They have tie ins, food, memorabilia.

yeah modern Hollywood is shit and one good movie a year from Chris Nolan or Denny Villanuva isn't good enough to support the theater business. But you can supplement that by doing showings of movies that are MEANT for big screens. By making them events. The Dune popcorn buckets are exhibit A of the way to go. It's something special you go to.

You're not going to make it with the state of Hollywood and streaming services competing. You aren't selling just a film. A 10 to 12 dollar movie ticket isn't worth it to sit in a crappy room with loud teenagers in current day.
 
I'm a Silly said:
I want to be a Positive Polly™ for once and mention re-watching the HitB for Mandy. I loved both Mandy and Beyond the Black Rainbow, as well as The Viewing, which was an episode of anthology horror; I can say that I agree with Jay about Cosmatos -- he's yet to let me down.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTwXQR9ku5cView attachment 6055854
[and even though I didn't care about the Pred. reboot, the whole episode was enjoyable]
Click to expand...
How can you possibly like Beyond the Black Rainbow?
It's one of the worst, if not THE worst movie I've ever watched.

Granted, 90% of the worstness is because of the ending. Had it ended any other way, it'd be an overlong, pretentious but somewhat interesting experimental film. But with that ending, it's FUCKING GARBAGE.
 
Nick Obre said:
How can you possibly like Beyond the Black Rainbow?
It's one of the worst, if not THE worst movie I've ever watched.

Granted, 90% of the worstness is because of the ending. Had it ended any other way, it'd be an overlong, pretentious but somewhat interesting experimental film. But with that ending, it's FUCKING GARBAGE.
Click to expand...
well, that's what I get for being Positive Polly 😹
 
Introvertigo said:
Yeah, I agree this video was kind of dumb. Also I think movie theatres are dying because of Bidenomics. Hear me out: Biden becomes president in 2021, pandemic ends in March of 2022 (although COVID isn't real, but again my opinion) economy has a weird shift that hits hard in 2023, hence why lots of summer blockbusters and other movies flop at least in the states, because elsewhere in the world, movie theatres aren't dying. How else do you explain movies doing well overseas (that doesn't even include China because they are connected to Hollywood) last year. So basically, if movie theaters want to still be around, people should vote for Trump. I mean Avengers Endgame was released in 2019, and you know who was president that year...Trump. I am just saying that's all. Also can RLM make a new BOTW, I mean for God's sake for four videos in a row, there hasn't been a new one since !!!


Edit: Or heck maybe the movie industry should get rid of opening weekend, seeing how almost all opening weekend's in the fast few years, are box office failures. Like maybe put out a movie on Monday or even Wednesday for that matter in the afternoon no less.

View attachment 6054863

Click to expand...
I love how it’s never crossed any of these peoples' minds that you can like RLMs videos but still disagree with them sometimes, they literally see everything through the lens of if it's owning the chuds or not.
 
Commander X said:
I love how it’s never crossed any of these peoples' minds that you can like RLMs videos but still disagree with them sometimes, they literally see everything through the lens of if it's owning the chuds or not.
Click to expand...
Woefully ironic too, that they have a pfp from an anime that shows both sides doing horrid things, whilst looking at everything through a black or white lens.
 
Commander X said:
I love how it’s never crossed any of these peoples' minds that you can like RLMs videos but still disagree with them sometimes, they literally see everything through the lens of if it's owning the chuds or not.
Click to expand...

However simpatico I am with the chuds, and however I disagree with RLM or find them occasionally shockingly ignorant about stuff they should really know, they continue to discuss new things, either new releases or weird old bad movies, and that is so infinitely preferable to the 10,000th primal scream about how bad Star Wars sucks these days I really don't care about the rest of it.
 
BetterFuckChuck said:
its so weird that furiosa flopped so hard they have to cope that "well the chuds were wrong about rlm" or "well fury road didnt have mad max as much in it!"

garfield won get over it
Click to expand...
That applies to RLM too.

Garfield is a case of sound fiscal management running a production, which Furiosa just doesn't have. Warner Bros. producers should have looked at the past performance of Fury Road and come to the conclusion that the next movie is going to do as well or worse than it and budgeted accordingly. If Furiosa was budgeted like Mad Max 1 (i.e. no budget), it would have succeeded no matter what even if it was just Anya Taylor-Joy walking around in a desert for 2 hours. Instead, it was budgeted like an MCU movie and failed to hit even Fury Road numbers.
 
jspit2.0 said:
Mel Gibson was SUPPOSED to be in it. Miller blamed 9/11 and then by 2009 went with Gibson being too old. By the way, he was 53 in 2009, He could easily have passed for forty.
Click to expand...

Nahp. Gibson has always looked older than his age. He was 28 when he filmed Thunderdome! He looked late 30’s in that. Boozing since grade school takes a toll. No way would he have passed for 40 at age 53. In his 50’s he looked like he was in his 60’s, and that Russian golddigger on his neck accelerated it. Even Mel himself said he was getting too old for that shit.

2011 (Fury Road began filming in 2012)
11AF1CCC-F089-49A2-BA55-06FC98DE3AD1.jpeg

RDJ & Jodie Foster weren’t able to get Mel $180M leading man projects. Miller couldn’t have either, he’s never had the industry pimp-arm of superjews like Spielberg or Bay. Most of Miller’s movies have been critical successes but box office disappointments. Fact is, Mel would’ve had it rough on the shoot at his age AND they wouldn’t have gotten funding for it if Miller had insisted Mel star in it. Everyone should’ve gone down with Mel’s ship because he traded in his attractive older wife for an untested newer model & lost his gourd? A wife that paid the bills back when he was an amateur, gave him several sons, and made him sober up & go to AA. I could understand if his ex-wife let herself go, but go look up pics. She also told the press Mel never hit her in their 30 years of marriage when the Russian whore was running around telling them he beat her & knocked out her teeth. Poor choices are costly, and the more you have to lose the costlier they are.

Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Warner Bros. producers should have looked at the past performance of Fury Road and come to the conclusion that the next movie is going to do as well or worse than it and budgeted accordingly. If Furiosa was budgeted like Mad Max 1 (i.e. no budget), it would have succeeded no matter what even if it was just Anya Taylor-Joy walking around in a desert for 2 hours. Instead, it was budgeted like an MCU movie and failed to hit even Fury Road numbers.
Click to expand...

Furiosa should’ve been a Mahiro Maeda anime as originally planned. That guy made the primary reason to watch The Animatrix: The Second Renaissance 1 & 2. There was too much on the line to gamble on an expensive movie about side characters from a movie 9 years past. All the Oscars/acclaim went to their heads & they forgot FR barely made a profit. I liked the new film, especially in Dolby, but an anime would’ve reminded people “Oh yeah, this kino exists” & it would‘ve made it safer to do a proper film. Anime features do great box office in Japan alone. Will be interesting to see if LOTR: War Of The Rohirrim proves my theory.
 
Last edited:
Null said:
Is there an archive of the original RLM Episode 3 review? They definitely copystruck that for the fucking music and the new outro really ruins the whole thing.
Click to expand...
Years ago they talked about how George Lucas rarely enforced copyright against fan made content, whether it was art, short films like troopers, or people just using sound effect clips. The amount of shit George Lucas got from fans and now he's gone , they've got Disney.

I think it was in this episode.

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom