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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
Patreon Update:

Upcoming re:View(s)

Getting ready to take another trip to Camp Crystal Lake...

Looks like the next Re:Views are on something Friday the 13th-ish probably coming in October, because you know Halloween movie.
 
Introvertigo said:
Patreon Update:

Upcoming re:View(s)

Getting ready to take another trip to Camp Crystal Lake...

Looks like the next Re:Views are on something Friday the 13th-ish probably coming in October, because you know Halloween movie.
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They'll probably cover the remake and the many projects that followed after the remake that never went anywhere because of Paramount being assholes and then the lawsuit put the kibosh on any new Jason shit coming out until next year where we get a TV show. Jury is out on that show.
 
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I've been watching some Jason Brant videos in the background since he's been recommended here, and he's a nice compliment to BOTW, but looking at the videos he watches or his audience send him to watch it's very clear there's overlap with RLM's archive, and it always seems weird how he doesn't mention this. Honorable Men, Twin Dragon Encounter, LA Wars, etc., it's pretty obvious.

One thing he does win with is getting actors like Cynthia Rothrock to sit down and commentate on her movies like Rich Evans is Defeatable.
 
tehpope said:
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I am curious as to what is their end goal? Mike is clearly having some sort of early elderly dementia symptoms where he lost all his wit and snarky humor and is just coming up with random nonsense and presenting it as "content". His cynicism is completely gone too judging from all the trash films he unironically likes. Jay is there because he is a failed filmmaker and he knows he can't be employed anywhere else after all this time. Rich has some impressive craftsmanship skills that he could use to start his own workshop as a business, but he is Mike's longtime friend so it's unlikely he will leave him after all this time. Jack has fucked off to another full time job at The Escapist. So what's left of the old RLM now? they just don't review movies anymore, and when they rarely do, the reviews always feel half-assed and it just devolves into Mike reading google or imdb reviews and making fun of them while Jay drinks his coffee and laugh at every single sentence. It just feels like the type of content where they will announce RLM will be bought out or something by the end of the year and this content they did because they felt obligated to their patreon supporters.
 
Armageddon said:
I am curious as to what is their end goal?
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To have an extremely stable and lucrative source of income? The main three are probably getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 200k-300k each a year (assuming a fair split) and I feel like I might be being conservative in assuming overhead costs and average Patreon donator amount. I've done some complaining about how the good ol' days of the channel where better myself including the idea that they just handwave modern slop when they would have been harsher in the past but I feel like you're coming at this at the wrong angle. Personally, and I assume this is true for a big portion of the audience as well, I don't care about movies at all. If I watch 5 movies a year that is a lot and I have gone full years without seeing a single one. The reviews have always been more the framing device of their awkward and silly comedy to me. This is why Best of the Worst is the primary reason I watch them and why stuff like these trivia is just doing away with the pretense and focused mostly on the content I want to see. Having them be a bit more in-depth in Re:View fills the niche of more thorough commentary they seem to lack in modern Half in the Bag since they actually care about the films they talk about there.

I feel like it's the opposite of what you're saying in that instead of this being them phoning it in it is actually them breaking free of the expected structure to just do something different and fun to get out a routine they've been in for a decade.
 
I'd like to see the guys do more Gen-X specific humor like this. Let's face it, they've aged out of being able to credibly comment on current social trends beyond doing the old-men-yelling-at-clouds thing. I think the Nerd Crew was their last hurrah when it comes to trendy relevance. They should fully embrace their aging Gen-Xer selves and mine it for new content.
 
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