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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
stuffandthings said:
I disagree that there are few movies that justify a HitB.
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They used to be way more HitB before covid. Since covid hit, there's been far fewer stuff justifying it. I agree with the movies you've listed by the way, and I'm glad they are not doing mostly mainstream stuff, I'm just saying that overall, cinema has been shitty over the last couple of years.

Actually I just found one example of a movie that would be perfect for HitB.


I... I can't think of a more perfect movie. I'm not even gonna describe the trailer, you have to watch that shit. It's the most insane idea for a movie I've ever heard I think.
 
I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once blind with a group of friends. First I felt REALLY old when Short Round was the male lead.

Then the start of the story hit me with the sads, the middle had me wondering what the fuck I was watching, then then I was fucking gut punched and crying like a god damn baby by the end of it.
I've had the unhappy relationships, the kids who you don't understand and you constantly worry about and don't want to let go but know you have to.

I get where they are coming from where they could cut 20 minutes or so to make it flow a bit smoother and make it feel not as long, I just think they sprinkle just enough in every scene to make that hard.
Even HotDog Finger Evelin ended up paying off with her bonding with Jamie Lee Curtis at the end.
 
Saul Goodman Fan said:
I love the guys and think they’re really informative for YouTubers but it’s obvious their Knowledge of film history drops off a cliff when it comes to anything before 1970.
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Almost makes you feel sad for the fans that have a parasocial relationship with RLM, where they'd rather spend all day online instead of just hanging out and watching Turner Classic Movies with ol' dad.
 
Goyaanisqatsi said:
Almost makes you feel sad for the fans that have a parasocial relationship with RLM, where they'd rather spend all day online instead of just hanging out and watching Turner Classic Movies with ol' dad.
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...darn I miss Papa Ram. :(
 
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I'm glad it was with Rich and not Beardfat for the RE:View. Although the "ugly" joke would have been appropriate.
Goyaanisqatsi said:
Almost makes you feel sad for the fans that have a parasocial relationship with RLM
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From Previously Recorded I feel the RLM guys would not be fun to be around for long IRL.
 
Previously recorded was the most thorough character assassination ever completed all to destroy Rich Evans. The streams showed that when he wasn't being edited around, laughed at, or bullied he was the most insufferable fedora reddit intellectual stereotype you could possibly imagine. Jack seemed off so it wasn't a real surprise when he was mugging up to the camera and being pseudo intellectual that he was a loser (oh I have had no problem not drinking in the past year but that's how I know I'm an alcoholic). Rich before they started PreRec was just a stupid funny guy. I only remember 1 stream that Mike appears on where he played Don't Shit your Pants, I think Jay stops by a few times but they both seem fine as far as I can remember. I got Rich to sperg out a few times though which was funny.
 
I had never seen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly before so I watched it on their recommendation, it really is great. It was a much funnier movie than i had expected, even after watching their review. I'm definitely going to check out the other two Dollars films.
 
Kit Marz said:
I had never seen The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly before so I watched it on their recommendation, it really is great. It was a much funnier movie than i had expected, even after watching their review. I'm definitely going to check out the other two Dollars films.
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The Dollars trilogy is pretty good if you got time to watch it. Though, IMO, I think GBU is the height of the three.
 
Other Euro-Westerns from the period I recommend:

A Pistol for Ringo & The Return of Ringo starring stuntman Giuliano Gemma as a wily, roguish gunfighter - in the first film after being arrested, he's asked to infiltrate a hacienda where an outlaw gang fleeing a robbery gone bad have invaded and taken hostages. In the only official sequel , Ringo returns from having served in the Union Army and been thought KIA to discover an army of Mexican banditos have taken over his home town, in a storyline that was inspired by Ulysses' homecoming in the Odyssey.


Gemma also starred in Day of Anger, along with Van Cleef. Gemma plays a street sweeper who ends up the protégé of Van Cleef's master gunslinger.


God Forgives -- I Don't!


The first film Terrence Hill (Mario Girotti) and Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli) co-starred in, leading to their appearances in increasingly comedic Westerns like the Trinity films and eventually buddy action-comedies like Look Out, We're Mad!

Ace High

Hill & Spencer return and face off with a wily criminal, Cacopoulos, played by Wallach and they end up in Mexico during a time of revolution and it gets into grim Zapata Western (i.e. spaghetti westerns set usually during the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s) territory.

My Name Is Shanghai Joe - a Chinese immigrant must utilize his kung-fu after he discovers the ranch he's found employment at isn't involved in moving cattle but Mexican laborers being sold essentially as slaves. A gory, trashy vibe but with a beautiful Bruno Nicolai soundtrac.


Four of the Apocalypse - one of Lucio Fulci's offbeat Westerns as a quartet of petty criminals wander the wilds of Utah together and run afoul of a sadistic bandit played by Tomas Milian.



The Sabata trilogy directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Starring Van Cleef as a professional gunman in the first and third installments. The second was originally to be a film entitled Indio Black but swiftly turned into a Sabata film to capitalize on the popularity of the first which had inspired lots of imitators. It starred Yul Brynner (Van Cleef was already committed to starring in one of the Magnificent Seven sequels).

 
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Sincere Irony LLC said:
Jack seemed off so it wasn't a real surprise when he was mugging up to the camera and being pseudo intellectual that he was a loser (oh I have had no problem not drinking in the past year but that's how I know I'm an alcoholic).
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Even before PreRec Jack's only purpose was to get utterly blitzed on shitty beer and then make an ass of himself. He had a good ability to segue into different subjects and was so pathetic that even Rich could bully him, so the dynamic worked. PreRec only made it more apparent that without the booze in him he's basically an empty husk of a nu-male with cookie-cutter internet nerd opinions. He'd say something obnoxiously stupid and political about the game they were playing and then Rich would default to his typical centrist internet nerd opinion as a "push back" but it never led anywhere interesting and only served to show how superficial their political stances are. In a stream about shitty video games where Rich barely knows how to play.

I don't really care his reasons for quitting the booze since it's probably something personal. I somehow remember rumors that it was because he was starting to be abusive to his wife and kid so I'm assuming it's for the best. The problem is that without the booze he's basically just an empty chair in BotW - he has all the boring opinions and fall-flat jokes as Beardfat, but without any of the esoteric hipster knowledge. He doesn't really roll with the punches either whenever jokes are made at his expense. During one of the sober Jack episodes he makes a joke that actually lands for once and Rich goes something like "Did you actually do something funny?" Jack then freezes for half a second with an offended look on his face before turning right at the camera and doing that typical open-mouthed enormous fake laugh as if he's actually laughing at himself.

I dunno, I'm glad he's fucked off to tag along with Yahtzee's sinking ship, I hope he stays there and we get more Tim.
 
Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! In the last few days, we've shot both a new Half in the Bag and Best of the Worst! The Half in the Bag is kind of a smaller/indie movie catch-up featuring I Love My Dad, Watcher, and Vengeance. Three movies you may or may not give a shit about! But we felt like talking about some smaller stuff.

And the Best of the Worst episode is the return of the VHS cover scavenger hunt gimmick, which we've only done once and it was already something like two years ago. Crazy! This time we picked a full three movies instead of just two like we did last time.
 
Introvertigo said:
Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! In the last few days, we've shot both a new Half in the Bag and Best of the Worst! The Half in the Bag is kind of a smaller/indie movie catch-up featuring I Love My Dad, Watcher, and Vengeance. Three movies you may or may not give a shit about! But we felt like talking about some smaller stuff.

And the Best of the Worst episode is the return of the VHS cover scavenger hunt gimmick, which we've only done once and it was already something like two years ago. Crazy! This time we picked a full three movies instead of just two like we did last time.
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I was just thinking about how they only did that cover scavenger hunt thing once.
 
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