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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
Psyduck said:
I gotta take issue with some of the guys' "boomer men writing dialogue" takes here.

"Lmao this old man thinks women talk about food and their nails! So out of touch!" Nigger, have you been around women in a casual setting? Food will never not come up in the conversation. If they got their nails done recently, guess what the big topic is gonna be for a couple days.

There was a similar thing going on in the Wish Upon BotW, "the way boomers think teenager speak is so embarrasing"
Nigger... Have you heard zoomers talking among each other? Have you read zoomer writing?

Sometimes reality is even more ridiculous than fiction
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we've seen their pitches for movies they cant complain
 
Hybrid Icing said:
Pitches are easy, monday morning quarterbacking is easy.

Actually executing on making a good movie is hard, and we've seen their failed attempt at it.
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agreed, pitching is easy making the entire movie is hard.
but i will defend them on feeding frenzy and gorilla interrupted. i actually like both of them.

feeding frenzy is a competent, and at times funny, low budget rubber monster movie. i think considering the budget and they filmed it out of jay's apartment and a local a hardware store, it holds up pretty well.

gorilla interrupted is a good movie for something they threw together while goofing off as a group of friends. plenty of people have attempted to do that and failed, but RLM did a good job at it. not the greatest movie, but i enjoy it.


spacecop on the other hand, that was a huge let down. if i didnt like their other stuff so much i would feel bad for buying it.
 
NewFagWhore said:
Speaking of “people” at cinemas. I was watching Napoleon (shit movie btw) and there were retards sitting behind me going “brooo what is he WEARING broooo” “broo look at they hats BROOO”

I live in the 3rd world so it wasnt like when western zoomers think theyre being ironic and nihilistic by making fun of things, it was genuine nigger tier ignorance and incomprehension of the fact that people wore different things.

Anyway, i’ve found that if you demand of them to be quiet most people will stop.
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Maybe it's just a big city thing to have routinely shitty moviegoing experiences, but I can count the number of issues I've had with bad patrons on one hand. At my local theaters, people are almost always quiet throughout; at most you'll get a bit of popcorn munching, but that's about it. When that's my average time at the movies, I can see why other people with similar lack of problems are also flabbergasted when they make a huge deal about how awful it is to go to the theater.

Though I can't for the life of me fathom why a woman would take her daughter into an R-rated theater after their movie let out and then just sit there being loud and obnoxious for an hour instead of, I dunno, going home? Then again, I was also raised to be a generally decent person.
 
King Dead said:
Maybe it's just a big city thing to have routinely shitty moviegoing experiences, but I can count the number of issues I've had with bad patrons on one hand. At my local theaters, people are almost always quiet throughout; at most you'll get a bit of popcorn munching, but that's about it. When that's my average time at the movies, I can see why other people with similar lack of problems are also flabbergasted when they make a huge deal about how awful it is to go to the theater.
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Oh i was more complaining about the movie watching consumers really, cinemas are fine where i live and My city has a populaton of 1.4 million, but some stories that i hear from my american friends about theaters are basically horror tier and everyone wouldve physically thrown out the mom/daughter from the room here. My point was more about how retarded the audiences are today, their nigger-brain commentary wasnt obnoxiously loud and didnt take away from my enjoyment cause Napoleon is already really really bad.

on good and/or niche movies those people dont even show up so it kinda self regulates, you get trash mid iq people if you make trash mid iq movies.
 
Neo-Nazi Rich Evans said:
spacecop on the other hand, that was a huge let down. if i didnt like their other stuff so much i would feel bad for buying it.
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I think Mike as an actor is the biggest reason why Space Cop doesn't work. His character just doesn't work because he doesn't fill the Noir Cop trope; grumpy, hard-boiled, hard drinking investigator. I get, conceptually anyways, that he needs to be the opposite of Space Cop, who is also grumpy and hard-boiled, but the difference between these two characters is their approach to problems. Since Space Cop favors using his giant gun, Noir Cop should be about guile and drunken diplomacy. It would be a way to cut down on visual effects too as Noir Cop could have been the one to advance the plot in Act 2 since the Chief isn't happy with Space Cop's approach to problems.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I think Mike as an actor is the biggest reason why Space Cop doesn't work. His character just doesn't work because he doesn't fill the Noir Cop trope; grumpy, hard-boiled, hard drinking investigator. I get, conceptually anyways, that he needs to be the opposite of Space Cop, who is also grumpy and hard-boiled, but the difference between these two characters is their approach to problems. Since Space Cop favors using his giant gun, Noir Cop should be about guile and drunken diplomacy. It would be a way to cut down on visual effects too as Noir Cop could have been the one to advance the plot in Act 2 since the Chief isn't happy with Space Cop's approach to problems.
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It would have also improved things if Mike hadn't used that annoying voice/accent, whatever it was supposed to be. It was like a combination of a Mid-Atlantic movie accent and a little old lady.
 
Smashing Young Man said:
It would have also improved things if Mike hadn't used that annoying voice/accent, whatever it was supposed to be. It was like a combination of a Mid-Atlantic movie accent and a little old lady.
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Jay does the same thing too. I think it's their "acting" accent, which is strange because actors only put on accents when portraying specific archetypes. Mike used his to play a goofy character, so when you have a goofy character be in jokes that intentionally go on for too long, it just becomes annoying.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I think Mike as an actor is the biggest reason why Space Cop doesn't work. His character just doesn't work because he doesn't fill the Noir Cop trope; grumpy, hard-boiled, hard drinking investigator. I get, conceptually anyways, that he needs to be the opposite of Space Cop, who is also grumpy and hard-boiled, but the difference between these two characters is their approach to problems. Since Space Cop favors using his giant gun, Noir Cop should be about guile and drunken diplomacy. It would be a way to cut down on visual effects too as Noir Cop could have been the one to advance the plot in Act 2 since the Chief isn't happy with Space Cop's approach to problems.
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You know, from time to time some shocking gaps in RLM's film knowledge become apparent. Rich's total unfamiliarity with the Man With No Name trilogy is the first one that leaps to mind, but it's struck me that they often have very little appreciation for or familiarity with lots of older genres and styles. Is it possible they screwed up the depiction of a Noir detective because they just don't know what they're supposed to be like, beyond the most facile stereotypes?
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Jay does the same thing too. I think it's their "acting" accent, which is strange because actors only put on accents when portraying specific archetypes. Mike used his to play a goofy character, so when you have a goofy character be in jokes that intentionally go on for too long, it just becomes annoying.
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I think it might because they lacked the confidence to try anything even approaching actual acting. It's safer to just do cartoon characters, because you really can't critique a person's acting who isn't even attempting to act.
Mola Ram said:
You know, from time to time some shocking gaps in RLM's film knowledge become apparent. Rich's total unfamiliarity with the Man With No Name trilogy is the first one that leaps to mind, but it's struck me that they often have very little appreciation for or familiarity with lots of older genres and styles. Is it possible they screwed up the depiction of a Noir detective because they just don't know what they're supposed to be like, beyond the most facile stereotypes?
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The guys definitely have their wheelhouses, and the only time they leave them is when they visit one another's wheelhouse, and that's about as far afield as they'll go.
 
"We only talk about the stuff we know about" isn't the stupidest strategy for a movie criticism show, but they probably should stretch a bit.
They once complemented the special effects in a bad movie, without noting the effects were lifted from Gerry Anderson's UFO. A very weird blind spot indeed, given their focus.
 
Mola Ram said:
You know, from time to time some shocking gaps in RLM's film knowledge become apparent. Rich's total unfamiliarity with the Man With No Name trilogy is the first one that leaps to mind, but it's struck me that they often have very little appreciation for or familiarity with lots of older genres and styles. Is it possible they screwed up the depiction of a Noir detective because they just don't know what they're supposed to be like, beyond the most facile stereotypes?
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I remember when they talked about The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and how Jay said something about John Ford impling that he was a hack who made schlock. It became apparent that he must have never seen any of his films or at least saw them at a young age and didn't appreciate them because it wasn't Robocop or Ghostbusters.
 
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