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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
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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Even the facile stereotype is enough for parody purposes and it's not even that hard to find Noir trope characters. Since this is an RLM thread, I will mention Star Trek, particularly A Piece of the Action or that time Kirk and Spock had to be on the Mobster planet. Literally do whatever Shatner is doing and Noir Cop works.

 
Of course Jay would be the one watching films on his phone.
 
Mola Ram said:
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 think so. I'm not sure what their intentions were, but a Noir Detective is a very different animal from a Noir Police Detective, and neither are "real" 1950s Police Detective. A "real" 1950s police detective might well be an overt racist, but a 1950s TV Police Detective would almost certainly not be.
 
I'm stoked that the Nerd Crew is back in a way that is probably unhealthy.
I had figured they retired that schtick once the Collider guy threw a tantrum about feeling seen, like he was the only problem with nerd-related media
 
Absolutego said:
I'm stoked that the Nerd Crew is back in a way that is probably unhealthy.
I had figured they retired that schtick once the Collider guy threw a tantrum about feeling seen, like he was the only problem with nerd-related media
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Also they've mentioned that the set was completely dismantled and thrown away.
 
NOT Sword Fighter Super said:
Also they've mentioned that the set was completely dismantled and thrown away.
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Let's not pretend that 3 white walls and assembling a couple of IKEA shelves are beyond these guys' ability. The most time-wasting part of it would be setting up all the action figures I'm sure Rich has in a plastic tub somewhere, it's not like they used paint thinner to dissolve them.

Though, upon reflection, maybe they should. It'd be a pretty good experiment to test whether Millennial MCU fanboys are as thin-skinned and easily upset as their Gen X Star Wars equivalents.
 
Nerd Crew is the best thing they make, doing it in the podcast livestream format is even better.

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Rich looks more presentable as a joke than MovieBlob does in real life. I also can't help but feel like RLM is being inspired by Sam Hyde with these commercials they do.
 
Commander X said:
Everyone’s already kicking Madame Web while it’s down, and it is deserved from all accounts, but I wasn’t expecting it to get as far as “RLM suddenly revives the Nerd Crew to mock it".
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It really is like the Supergirl of the new millennium. No one asked for this. No one wants it. It's based on an obscure and unpopular character. Unlike Supergirl you could at least appeal to the cheesecake crowd that jerked off to the Halle Berry Catwoman movie. You can't even do that with the girl boss woke shit. And it's not even remotely accurate to the character in the first place (just like the Catwoman movie and the Supergirl movie before that).
 
The Honeyed Cat said:
New Nerd Crew

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L9zXv4TfMUg
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They're making fun of Nerdotic, Drinker, EFAP, Collider, and every other nerd culture channel out there while they are the:
>same faggots that defended Picard season 3 and called it a masterpiece
>same faggots said "The Force Awakens is the best thing since Empire"
>same faggots that called Rogue One "Boring"
>same faggots who suck off every worthless z-tier kike celebrity that bothers to come their way
>same faggots who went on multiple 10 minutes rants on how LE ORANGE MAN IS LE BAD and how his army of "Incels" and "Chuds" are the number one enemy of the United States
>same faggots who praised Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel
 
mandatorylurk said:
Nerd Crew is the best thing they make, doing it in the podcast livestream format is even better.

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I thought they were doing the same shitty video call joke that everyone did three years ago but the way they portrayed the audio and technical issues was really funny.

I am fully convinced they could make a shitty nerd culture podcast as a joke and it would take a few people a while to catch on, Jay especially has his condescending youtube host man voice down pat.
 
Madam Web comes off like a project where they had a basic idea (in this case trying to latch on to the Spider-franchise) but as time passed and "complications" cropped up they lost sight of why they were STILL trying to go ahead with it, but lurched forward with it anyways out of sunk cost fallacy, or whatever.

From what I've heard, Catwoman had similar problems. A project that had been shuffled about for years, Warner had a title and a story treatment--namely Tim Burton's, from twelve years before-they just didn't have a clear vision of why they were still trying to go ahead with it, besides studio pride and a desire to produce some sort of Batman content, maybe.

As a result, there were a lot of ideas thrown around re "Uh, wait, why're we selling this again?--She's in leather with a whip, right?...well, hold it a sec, did this Catwoman character have her own comic book or not?...", all struggling to agree on an alibi they could sell to the promotional department. Over the years, Catwoman had sort of floated in development limbo, going through several scripts, and you can tell how the story transformed from Burton's original treatment after going through a game of telephone with a few dozen hired writers before it mutated into the ninth or tenth Warner configuration and eventually Catwoman (2004). You can almost see the progression.

Writer 1: "The character is a secretary who discovers her boss's plot, gets pitched out of a window, and cats revive her from her concussion..."

Writer 2: "The character is a mousy secretary who uncovers secret evidence of her tyrannical boss's plot, almost suffers near-drowning, and her connection with cats brings her back as a super-antihero..."
....

Writer 14: "The character is a wimpy secretary with no life who set out on her own to dig up the secret files of her cosmetics magnate boss's evil plans involving toxic cold cream, dies and returns from the other side with mystical powers, because of an ancient Egyptian prophecy that cats will bring back the spirits of the dead for revenge..."

I think a lot of these failed attempts at superhero film spinoffs or not-quite-sequels and reboots and so on and so forth go through a process like this, where they try to make something without having a clear idea of why, or how, with a lot of stumbling and bumbling.
 
Armageddon said:
They're making fun of Nerdotic, Drinker, EFAP, Collider, and every other nerd culture channel out there while they are the:
>same faggots that defended Picard season 3 and called it a masterpiece
>same faggots said "The Force Awakens is the best thing since Empire"
>same faggots that called Rogue One "Boring"
>same faggots who suck off every worthless z-tier kike celebrity that bothers to come their way
>same faggots who went on multiple 10 minutes rants on how LE ORANGE MAN IS LE BAD and how his army of "Incels" and "Chuds" are the number one enemy of the United States
>same faggots who praised Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel
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Someone saw themselves in the parody and is super assblasted about it.
 
Armageddon said:
They're making fun of Nerdotic, Drinker, EFAP, Collider, and every other nerd culture channel out there while they are the:
>same faggots that defended Picard season 3 and called it a masterpiece
>same faggots said "The Force Awakens is the best thing since Empire"
>same faggots that called Rogue One "Boring"
>same faggots who suck off every worthless z-tier kike celebrity that bothers to come their way
>same faggots who went on multiple 10 minutes rants on how LE ORANGE MAN IS LE BAD and how his army of "Incels" and "Chuds" are the number one enemy of the United States
>same faggots who praised Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel
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lol calm down nigga.
 
Commander X said:
From what I've heard, Catwoman had similar problems.
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And in the opening credits, they took a picture of a canine-headed Egyptian god (probably Anubis) and did a crude photoshop to make it look like a feline-headed god. As though there aren't dozens of actual feline-headed Egyptian gods they could have used.
I'm sorry, but that sort of pointlessness just makes my blood boil.
 
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