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Basically this. There were moments in the war which weren't soldiers charging into MG meat grinders. This movie is about the looming threat of annihilation, not the act itself.
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Basically this. There were moments in the war which weren't soldiers charging into MG meat grinders. This movie is about the looming threat of annihilation, not the act itself.
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So I was reading the RLM salt thread and it kinda hit me why RLM works and so many other youtube critics/shows/etc don't. Its not about the subject matter of the hosts, its actually about the hosts themselves and how they interact. You watch RLM with the same part of your brain you watch Top Gear with. Just some dudes who get along, have probably come to blows more than once in the past and aren't afraid to just throw jokes at the others and see what sticks.
Finding shows where they can actually make it be about how entertaining the actions and thoughts of the people making it is exceedingly rare now, where it relies on chemistry and wit on the performer/presenter's parts instead of a room of writers trying to hammer down something that really only works in a fluid state.
Finding shows where they can actually make it be about how entertaining the actions and thoughts of the people making it is exceedingly rare now, where it relies on chemistry and wit on the performer/presenter's parts instead of a room of writers trying to hammer down something that really only works in a fluid state.
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The Top Gear hosts filed formal complaints about each other all the time, mostly they constantly almost kill each other during their "pranks".
Of course now I just want a BotW where Mike almost squishes Rich Evans by accidentally tipping a crane truck over do he could make a penis joke.
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I think if this ever happened it would be during a tape destruction going terribly wrong because Mike was too drunk.
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*Off-screen Jay and Jack laughter intensifies*
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Which is fine, as Hammond now seems fairly determined to kill himself off:
But I also totally agree, you watch RLM with the "Top Gear/Grand Tour" bit of your brain. They have the chemistry and the feeling their discussions are semi-scripted at best just to keep the show rolling. And it works.
It just works.
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Poor Susan.
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the Virgin Bauman vs the Chad Stoklasa
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I haven't seen Dunkirk the movie but I saw complaints that it was giving people the perception that a lot of British civilians were involved in the rescue operation. While in reality the vast majority of civilian vessels used were commandeered by Royal Navy officers on the spot, often without notifying the actual owner.
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The Virgin Bauman
--Ignored obvious hints from woman who was interested in him
--Works out to hide lack of masculinity
--Hipster beard
--Hitler Youth sidecut
--Big ol' buck teeth
--Wears Converse shoes like he's a teenaged goth girl
--Doesn't watch Star Trek
--Wrote an e-memoir about how torture porn influenced his sex life
The Chad Stoklasa
--His girlfriend was a major participant
--Comfortable with his body
--Manly, rugged stubble
--Neat, professional haricut
--Perfect teeth
--Wears running shoes for comfort and concern for foot health
--Encyclopedic knowledge of every Star Trek episode ever made
--Normal, well-adjusted human being
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Usually by mealie mouthed arseholes who want to kill off every single myth and legend of the second world war without fail. Same as there was "no blitz spirit" and the RAF "Didn't really drive off the germans, the royal navy did" during the Battle of Britain.
There was a large mixture, some vessels were taken without permission, some were requisitioned using royal navy personnel and a surprising number of the ships were crewed by their civilian crew who insisted they knew the vessel better than (badly trained) men who hadn't touched a sail in probably five years or more. Dunkirk just shoves a bunch of those civilian crewed vessels together. All of which actually were there in 1940.
The main focus for a good part of the movie is that of the Sundower which was crewed by her owner, Charles Lightholler and former second officer of the RMS Titanic. Their story was interesting enough to be the focus for Nolan's storytelling and worked well as a device to get people into the film.
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I guess I can say it here because I've been dying to tell someone...
Dunkirk was boring. Deal with it nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dunkirk was boring. Deal with it nerds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is a joke right?
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With all due respect to the work that went into this, the only Chad in RLM is Rich Evans. All others are virgin by comparison.
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By the time Jay would be that old, Mike would be dead from Liver sclerosis.
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Rich builds the sets, Plinketto, The Wheel of Misfortune, The Wheel of the Worst (RIP In peace) and Harry Plinkett's house set, all Chad Rich Evans.
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I've been watching RLM recently (Wheel of the Worst) and one of the things that really separates them from Channel Awesome is the fact that they do things as a group. With the TGWTG productions, there was just one person talking and occasionally someone else for a dumb skit, but RLM has multiple people. Mike and Rich are clearly talented in the humor department but a large part of that is watching everyone's personality bounce off of each other.
RLM also has vastly better cinematography and editing, something Channel Awesome had the resources to do but never really did.
RLM also has vastly better cinematography and editing, something Channel Awesome had the resources to do but never really did.
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VERY true! The similarities are pretty eerie when comparing RLM to Doug Walker's circus shit show. They both shoot everything inside a studio or a warehouse in RLM's case. RLM actually builds sets for Half in the Bag and the occasional set for Best of the Worst (mostly the Halloween episodes). The tape destruction bits are actually creative. The tape destruction bit at the end of this one episode outmatches EVERYTHING Doug and Rob Walker have done with their studio:
Doug and Rob are just incredibly exceptional. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a studio and they just shoot in the studio without any sets with 1 camera... Which is what they could have continued to have done if they shot at their home. Or, they could have rented a studio for a day shoot with their little acting troupe and get all the sketches shot in a day.
"Oh shit. I have to bring back the Nostalgia Critic character to save my floundering career! Let's bring the character back with this big and elaborate montage celebrating the history of the character. But let's continue to shoot in front of a white wall with 1 camera." The genius Doug Walker.
I think, god forbid, IF Doug had a chance to do a collab with RLM that he fears that they would rightly call him out on his lack of knowledge on everything. Could you imagine Doug trying to shoot anything with Mike and Jay?
Doug Walker: okay, I have my DV cam with shotgun mic. Let's shoot some sketches guys!
Mike: a shotgun mic? The audio is going to be terrible and you want to shoot outside?
Jay: where's your lights? Where's your other camera? What aspect ratio are you shooting this?
Doug: what's aspect ratio?
(Mike shuts down and begins drinking heavily while Jay can't stop laughing)