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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
xXx: State of the Union said:
What's this gay shit now?
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why this gay shit of course

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Rich Evans Simp said:
I watched Late Night with the Devil after I saw the Half in the Bag. I was kind of bored by it. Not sold on the lead performance at all. He was great at being the glib showman, but in his vulnerable moments, I didn’t see any real vulnerability, fear, grief, sadness, devastation - I was feeling like “am I supposed to think he’s insincere through and through, or am I supposed to empathize with a real human who made some bad choices?” Idk I just feel like he’s not a strong enough actor to show that range.
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Saw Overlord on their recommendation too. Aside from the fact that it was a Bad Robot production, I find RLM's recommendations to be mostly miss for the same kind of reasons. Modern Indie movies just aren't that good relative to the cost of going to the theater. Arguably a lot of mainstream studio movies too. Modern movies are more like okay streaming content rather than event movies to set aside a weekend for, and even then, they're competing with shows from 30 or 40 years ago.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Saw Overlord on their recommendation too. Aside from the fact that it was a Bad Robot production, I find RLM's recommendations to be mostly miss for the same kind of reasons. Modern Indie movies just aren't that good relative to the cost of going to the theater. Arguably a lot of mainstream studio movies too. Modern movies are more like okay streaming content rather than event movies to set aside a weekend for, and even then, they're competing with shows from 30 or 40 years ago.
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The fact they haven't fallen over themselves to recommend The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a symptom their lousy taste in movies and failure to recognize films that are actually entertaining is getting worse.
 
Mola Ram said:
The fact they haven't fallen over themselves to recommend The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a symptom their lousy taste in movies and failure to recognize films that are actually entertaining is getting worse.
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Then again, they recommended shit like HBO's Last of Us. Their taste in movies and TV, as stated by someone prior, is a mixed bag and it comes across as "we're offensive but we're not offensive"
 
TVB said:
Then again, they recommended shit like HBO's Last of Us. Their taste in movies and TV, as stated by someone prior, is a mixed bag and it comes across as "we're offensive but we're not offensive"
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That's a case of them being way behind the times, as the game itself is a movie that pretends to be a game.
 
I liked Late Night with the Devil well enough. I do think it should've ended about 10 - 15 minutes earlier, when the host Delroy escapes off the stage. Maybe bookend it with a narration similar to the opening, about how they covered it up or whatever.

Ghostwatch was decent. I think it was too dry for its own good for the first half, and that it went too over the top at the end.
 
Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! We're currently working on a new Best of the Worst. It's a standard 3 movie episode and it features one of the unironically BEST movies we've ever done on the show! Maybe THE best movie. Everyone liked it except for Rich, who was incredibly creeped out and uncomfortable through the whole thing.

Also I guess, Dune Part 2 will be part of the 2024 so far catch up video.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Saw Overlord on their recommendation too. Aside from the fact that it was a Bad Robot production, I find RLM's recommendations to be mostly miss for the same kind of reasons. Modern Indie movies just aren't that good relative to the cost of going to the theater. Arguably a lot of mainstream studio movies too. Modern movies are more like okay streaming content rather than event movies to set aside a weekend for, and even then, they're competing with shows from 30 or 40 years ago.
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I don’t trust their takes on modern horror at this point, I think they might be tired of their own cynicism and try to convince themselves something new is better than it really is. I had a phase like that a couple years ago and I got over that pretty quickly lol.
 
Ingmar Aspergman said:
I don’t trust their takes on modern horror at this point, I think they might be tired of their own cynicism and try to convince themselves something new is better than it really is. I had a phase like that a couple years ago and I got over that pretty quickly lol.
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Modern Horror is in a weird rut too. It can't take place in the 21th century because everyone's got a phone, any time before than always looks like a pastiche of the period it's set in, and American horror doesn't like to have characters in it, so the drama is lacking. I know I saw Overlord in a theater and I can't remember anything about it. For $13, an unmemorable experience is just as a bad as an actual bad experience.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
It can't take place in the 21th century because everyone's got a phone
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Say's who? True, a lot of old-school scenarios are rendered somewhat null and void with the emergence of smart phones but you add a throw away line "Oh man, no signal, yadda yadda." And boom, we are right back to where we started. Plus, it opens doors to tell different kinds of stories. Having a smart phone didn't mean jack shit in It Follows or something like Green Room was all about trying to get access to a phone.
 
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