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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
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I want to add that we'll never have something like VHS ever again. Wide spread personal ownership of non-modifiable content without explicit permission from the owners is antithetical to modern "you will own nothing" and media revisionism.
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Hard drives are in the $15/TB range nowadays. Anyone can use yt-dlp to archive videos and livestreams from nearly any source. Any form of digital media you want is saved and distributed through archive sites, torrents, and numerous other file sharing services. The only thing I'd say you can't take personal ownership of are live service games that haven't been cracked or reverse engineered by fans.

It's never been easier to own your own media, but there is so much of it being produced that I'm sure a greater percentage of it is being lost than back when all you had was cable TV and a few local channels. I also agree with you that the attitude is not as widespread anymore. Everyone used to tape Christmas specials to watch next year; hardly anyone is going to download their favorite Youtube video because they expect it to just always be there.
 
Good video, I like when they do non-review discussions and would like to see more uploads like it.

The wood chipper made much more spectacular debris than anticipated.

I wonder if it's the same group that created fraudulently inflated speculation markets in the coin and retro game collecting communities.

A good video by Karl Jobst about the retro game bubble (despite him hating us for obvious reasons)
 
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Thomas Talus said:
It's hard to say, a lot of the elements of the movie are cribbed from cheesy-bad movies, possibly including Breakin' 2, what with the deliberately over-acted corporate villain and the community-fundraiser plot.
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I'd say it's a bit simple and cliche but there's a difference between deliberately using a handful of tropes in service of an actual plot and a Sharknado which is deliberately banking on "woah! The sharks are in a tornado!"

Another example of so bad it's good on purpose but working is Black Dynamite which tries to be an old over the top blaxploitation movie complete with bad acting, continuity errors, and cheesy action, but pulls it off.
 
Jack Awful said:
UHF isn't even designed to be bad, it's unironically great

I'd argue that Freddie Got Fingered is so bad on purpose that it's great because it tries to be as abhorrent and unwatchable as possible to the point it becomes fascinating.
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X-RAY CAT

HE CAN SEE THOUGH WOODEN DOORS
 
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Can we talk for a second about how Rich Evans has finally got his revenge on Mike by transferring nearly all his fat over to Mike

And the rest over to Josh. Not that Josh ever stole Rich's diabeetus medicine or anything, he just deserves it anyway
 
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Arthur Morgan said:
They talked about that in the video, pointing out how if you open the sealed tape to see if it works, it loses value, so you could have something that's been wiped by a magnet, like in "Be Kind, Please Rewind" but think it's worth thousands because the box is in good condition.

I did like that they sent in the fake movie to see what would happen.
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I'm honestly utterly shocked they didn't grade the fake movie. Though, I have super low opinions of all those grading businesses which are just blatant fucking scams.

RLM potentially could've sent in the same videos again and gotten higher scores on each as well. Would've liked if they'd have done that too.
 
Jack Awful said:
I'd say it's a bit simple and cliche but there's a difference between deliberately using a handful of tropes in service of an actual plot and a Sharknado which is deliberately banking on "woah! The sharks are in a tornado!"

Another example of so bad it's good on purpose but working is Black Dynamite which tries to be an old over the top blaxploitation movie complete with bad acting, continuity errors, and cheesy action, but pulls it off.
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I find Black Dynamite works because it's only intentionally bad on a surface level. it's well written and a lot of the gags are quite subtle (one of my favourites is whilst the militant is reading his stage instructions with his lines, you see him quickly glance off camera to see if they should keep shooting). Just having the gag be your effects are crap doesn't work unless there's something to back it up.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
I find Black Dynamite works because it's only intentionally bad on a surface level. it's well written and a lot of the gags are quite subtle (one of my favourites is whilst the militant is reading his stage instructions with his lines, you see him quickly glance off camera to see if they should keep shooting). Just having the gag be your effects are crap doesn't work unless there's something to back it up.
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I feel that to make a good parody of something, you have to know it well and have a genuine love of it. You're writing based off of a passion for what you enjoy, and you have a well of knowledge to draw from for your jokes. Movies like Airplane! and Blazing Saddles work because they're written to the conventions of their respective genres, taking them in an absurd direction but played straight. The result is some of the best comedies ever written.

Not having seen Space Cop, I think the guys more or less stopped at the initial concept, shelved it for a few years, then when they picked it up again they still didn't know what to do with it. So they just wrote whatever came to mind, added some of their typical jokes, and released it so they could put it behind them. I don't feel like there was a huge desire to do it, it was more like "we have the money to actually do this now, let's see what happens." Thus, while on the surface it might seem to be an attempt at parodying sci-fi or buddy cop B-movies, it doesn't really work as anything but a feature-length RLM in-joke compilation.

I could just be talking out of my ass here, but that's the vibe I get from hearing them talk about it. Clearly they do like those kinds of movies, but I don't think they knew how to write an effective parody of those genres, nor did they seem all that interested in trying.
 
I have watched space cop, and it has individual scenes that are good and funny, but the thing as a whole falls apart.

The first and biggest problem was that it had an unnecessarily complicated story. This clunky story ends up dragging down the movie. The pacing is bad, the audience has to do too much work following the plot, and it's hard to remember all the details after one viewing. Maybe if you're trying to do a comedy and it's your first 'real' movie, keep it simple to ensure you get it right?

Does it need to be a buddy cop film, sci-fi, mystery, creature feature, noir, AND time travel? Creative diarrhea is an amateur mistake.

There are also a fair number of scenes that completely failed and needed to be rethought. The movie ends with space cop getting a key to the city from the mayor in front of a cheering crowd. It is the most cringe scene in the movie because the 'crowd' is clearly just a couple dozen fans who showed up to be background extras and they are clearly in some sort of public park. Truly Channel Awesome tier stuff, and a terrible way to end the film. I would've thrown that scene right in the trash and maybe just had space cop get a commendation from the police chief instead, in the police station, the one somewhat believable location.

I could go on but anyway, happy new year.
 
I couldn't watch the movie the moment i saw the trailer and mike has that 40's actor voice, it seems like it would get really old
 
I enjoy Space Cop as a bad movie, same with Kickassia. It's at the level where it's not painfully bad and can be enjoyable if you know what you're getting into. But I do wish they'd done something with a bit more thought and in a genre they actually cared about. Mike and Rich could probably come up with a solid Star Trek style comedy.

Space Cop... Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the low-budget schlocky action movies they watch, but it didn't seem like a send up of them, or anything. It's just Austin Powers, but the guy's an asshole slob from the future instead of a sex-manic spy from the sixties.
 
Do you need to verify funds before making a large bid on ebay?

I'd hope that since the final sold for amount is going to charity that people aren't artificially driving the price up with fake bids that they have no means of actually paying, but since rlm's primary audience is redditers it's possible 90% of the bids are fake.

I assume worst case scenario that it's all fake reddit-bids Justin Roiland will come in at the last minute and buy the tape, saving the day, helping the charity, and redeeming himself in the eyes of kiwi's around the world.
 
The Penultimate Warrior said:
I find Black Dynamite works because it's only intentionally bad on a surface level. it's well written and a lot of the gags are quite subtle (one of my favourites is whilst the militant is reading his stage instructions with his lines, you see him quickly glance off camera to see if they should keep shooting). Just having the gag be your effects are crap doesn't work unless there's something to back it up.
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An even better example would be Garth Marigini's Darkplace.

Which has looped back around to the makers putting in deliberate effort to make the show bad. To the point it becomes a game on rewatches to see if you can spot all of the errors that have been smuggled in scene to scene.

urr13 account said:
I assume worst case scenario that it's all fake reddit-bids Justin Roiland will come in at the last minute and buy the tape, saving the day, helping the charity, and redeeming himself in the eyes of kiwi's around the world.
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No the worst case scenario will be Justin Roiland buying the tape for charity...

and then using that to land himself a BotW gig where he will then have an over-long sketch at the end of the episode of him returning the tape to the crew.

No wait. The worst case scenario is all of the above... but it's Max Landis.
 
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