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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
Best of the worst used to be something I really looked forward to. Now, I feel like the format is tired. None of the episodes from like since the pandemic started have been really memorable. Like compare a recent BOTW episode, and one of the earlier ones and its night and day the energy level they have.

I do like some of the gimmicks, like vhs jenga was great, but many of them fall flat. I don't what they need to do to re-inject some energy into BOTW, but they need to do something.
 
khaine said:
Best of the worst used to be something I really looked forward to. Now, I feel like the format is tired. None of the episodes from like since the pandemic started have been really memorable. Like compare a recent BOTW episode, and one of the earlier ones and its night and day the energy level they have.

I do like some of the gimmicks, like vhs jenga was great, but many of them fall flat. I don't what they need to do to re-inject some energy into BOTW, but they need to do something.
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Might not be possible to turn around. Between the number of fantastic movie options dwindling, them getting older and their energy dropping slightly, and us having already seen them watch, review, and riff on several hundred movies... It's inevitable.
 
ddlloo said:
Might not be possible to turn around. Between the number of fantastic movie options dwindling, them getting older and their energy dropping slightly, and us having already seen them watch, review, and riff on several hundred movies... It's inevitable.
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Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. Either, they aren't aware of the decline in quality, or don't know how to turn it around.
 
khaine said:
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. Either, they aren't aware of the decline in quality, or don't know how to turn it around.
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I think the point of Re:View is to turn it around. Instead of talking about how cheap B movies from the 80s suck, let's talk about interesting movies. Like really, 80s B movies are bad because they're cheap tax write-offs with small direct to video audiences. If they have to watch B movies, they should open up the era a bit more to cover 50s B movies too, which were meant to be seen by everyone, but weren't big enough to be feature presentations.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I think the point of Re:View is to turn it around. Instead of talking about how cheap B movies from the 80s suck, let's talk about interesting movies. Like really, 80s B movies are bad because they're cheap tax write-offs with small direct to video audiences. If they have to watch B movies, they should open up the era a bit more to cover 50s B movies too, which were meant to be seen by everyone, but weren't big enough to be feature presentations.
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Re:View is hit or miss nowadays. With BOTW, one bad voice is overidden by Mike, Rich, or Jay. In Re:View, a bad guest kills it.

Someone on here said Mike should read a few books and he's right. They are too tired. A different medium might wake them up.
 
Hazel Motes said:
Re:View is hit or miss nowadays. With BOTW, one bad voice is overidden by Mike, Rich, or Jay. In Re:View, a bad guest kills it.

Someone on here said Mike should read a few books and he's right. They are too tired. A different medium might wake them up.
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Except their greatest strength in media is understanding how the sausage is made. They aren't novelists or musicians (it's just as well, music theory is all over the place and requires comparison with other works) so their opinion could lack that kind of insight.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Except their greatest strength in media is understanding how the sausage is made. They aren't novelists or musicians (it's just as well, music theory is all over the place and requires comparison with other works) so their opinion could lack that kind of insight.
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I wonder if the problem is as simple as they should stop uploading hour-plus videos and occasionally do a 45 minute BOTW or even under a half hour, like the earliest episodes. Sometimes it feels like they're leaving in entirely too much cruft.
 
Mola Ram said:
I wonder if the problem is as simple as they should stop uploading hour-plus videos and occasionally do a 45 minute BOTW or even under a half hour, like the earliest episodes. Sometimes it feels like they're leaving in entirely too much cruft.
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The biggest issue is it's often random chance what movies they're watching and the odds are heavily stacked against them.

It's sticking your hand in an ocean of boring garbage and hoping to find the next Miami Connection.

If there was a way to vet the movies beforehand that might help but that goes against the spirit of the show.
 
I wonder if the reason there is so much "random chance" now is because they've pretty much gone through anything they had any sort of idea or inkling about?
 
I would like to see them continue the Next Generation talk, because Mike and Rich talking about it is more interesting than many modern sci fi shows.
 
ProblematicUser420 said:
I wonder if the reason there is so much "random chance" now is because they've pretty much gone through anything they had any sort of idea or inkling about?
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Doubt it. Jay has roughly the same taste as myself and there are shitloads of obscure and insane trash that could keep them occupied for years to come.

I think they're slowly getting burnt out on the whole YT thing.
 
My theory is that while they talk about liking not going to theaters, doing so keeps them aimed and focused. You are investing hours driving/paying/eating to see a new one. Having a lot of movies on demand the past year has made them a bit lazy and that's speeding up the burnout.

Autism check, before they did the 2021 catchup the standalone movies reviewed were:
Snyder Cut Justice League
Godzilla vs. Kong
Army of the Dead
Censor
Black Widow
Pig
The Suicide Squad
Demonic
Malignant
Halloween Kills
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Matrix Resurrections

9 of those 12 were likely watched streaming given their release dates for the videos and how a movie like Demonic was in theaters for a week then immediately went to streaming.
 
Forgive me if this has already been shared here but I just found this and thought it was interesting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040816024644/http://orangecow.org/gorilla/moronkombat.html
This too.


stuffandthings said:
This is my opinion of Canadian Jim. Apparently he's a massive Twitter sperg, but I still adored his Scottish Pizza gag from the Strange Brew Re:View.
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What's up with so many RLM guest panelists being Twitter grifters? They're the types of people you'd expect to label RLM as alt-right or something.
 
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