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[Mussolini’s Merkin]

I mean to be fair, I also had that complaint and its because most movies it wouldn't be a problem, but with Robert Eggers, he usually tries to be accurate to the time period and location. So having a movie take place in Germany and a good portion of the characters speak with posh british accents can be a bit distracting.

So I haven’t seen the movie yet (definitely on my list though, Eggers is usually great), but one way around this could be using something like RP (Received Pronunciation) for high class characters, and use regional accents for your lower class characters. Only problem I see with that is that in my experience most Americans hear an English accent and think it’s ‘posh’ even if it’s a Yorkshire or Scouse accent.

 

[Mola Ram]

So I haven’t seen the movie yet (definitely on my list though, Eggers is usually great), but one way around this could be using something like RP (Received Pronunciation) for high class characters, and use regional accents for your lower class characters. Only problem I see with that is that in my experience most Americans hear an English accent and think it’s ‘posh’ even if it’s a Yorkshire or Scouse accent.

Amadeus handled it fairly well. Every Austrian / German character spoke unaccented English; some but not all of the Italian characters spoke with Italian accents; Mozart's German operas were translated into English while his Italian operas were left untouched. I don't know enough about late 18th / early 19th century European nobility to say if the members of the Emperor's court should have been speaking French instead of German, but that's probably making things needlessly complicated.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I disagree. In the Vvitch or Lighthouse actors spoke like they did because that’s how people in that period and area would talk. Germans in 1800’s wouldn’t talk English in the first place and from their perspective they would sound normal to each other. There’s no perfect solution to this problem, but if you're going for accuracy, you get actors to speak period accurate German and subtitle it. Otherwise, it is just a pedantic fart sniffing without a full commitment to the bit. Having actors speak with German accent would (like Jay pointed out) make them sound like cheap carnival attraction or Mel Brooks movie.

One of the better solutions to that kind of thing is how the series Warrior handles it. When two Chinese charaters are talking to each other, they just speak normally for how the actors would converse since they are speaking the same language, but when a Chinese character is talking to a white one, the Chinese character speaks with an accent as they would when speaking English.

If both characters speak the same language, using dialects isn't necessary.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Death to Stalin did it like Eggers did, and it was great. Like the poster above says, they should sound normal to each other and only outsiders/people of different origins should have different accents.

 

[The Paleblood Vessel]

Holy shit, it took them over 10 minutes to actually start fucking talking about Nosferatu instead of their crappy theater or how gay The Lighthouse is, and even afterwards they went on all sorts of tangents like reading half star reviews. Maybe it's because I already saw the movie, but I feel like they barely actually talked about the movie itself and instead spent their time waffling around on other shit, which is disappointing.

Oh, and I'm 99% sure "Boat" in the "he looks like boat" user review meant "Borat" given the mustache Orlok has, which goes along with a complaint I've seen around from people (as mentioned in the video also) that Orlok has a 'stache.

despite how good Mike is at mocking retards, his tastes are literally cable network tier, like how he wanted Rogue One to be an ocean's 11 knock off or his idea for some movie involving the villian being spanked and being naked and bound like a turkey at thanksgiving or for Multiverse of Madness he demanded a shitty montage of our heroes going through different multiverses like a fucking Rick and Morty episode.

Multiverse of Madness is a pretty bad movie to be gentle about it, but I will say that it would have been ever so slightly less bad if the alternate universe that most of the movie took place in was something more creative and visually interesting than "earth, but you stop when the light's green, pizza are little balls, and they have convenient memory exposition machines". What a maddening multiverse that we see!

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Yeah, conplaing about the theater experience and continuing to go is consumer behavior. Especially since theaters can't fix it anyways. If the experience is bad, don't go. I haven't been to the movies in years.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Seriously. They live in or near a big city, and have no real jobs. Go to the fucking white people theater at 1pm on a Tuesday or quit complaining, because the option to have a good experience is there and you choose not to do it.

 

[khaine]

Since Covid, they have felt just flat. It's like they have no energy for anything they do any more (except the trivia). I started watching the corridor crew vfx reacts recently, and their positivity and energy has been a breath of fresh air. It's been really interesting to learn about how particular shots were achieved in modern and even old films. Sure, they do annoying shit with the subscribe and corridor digital shit, and they are always overly positive on shit cgi. But I get that, they don't want to shit on fellow artists, particularly if the jank was caused by time or cost issues not the capability of the artist.

 

[Travoltron]

Seriously. They live in or near a big city, and have no real jobs. Go to the fucking white people theater at 1pm on a Tuesday or quit complaining, because the option to have a good experience is there and you choose not to do it.

I agree with them about theaters. I only go maybe once a year anymore, and I almost always regret it. Even if by some miracle I don't have any crunching, talking, or screaming children in my theater, I'm still assaulted with at least a half hour of advertisements before the trailers even start.

 

[The Paleblood Vessel]

Yeah, conplaing about the theater experience and continuing to go is consumer behavior. Especially since theaters can't fix it anyways. If the experience is bad, don't go. I haven't been to the movies in years.

I honestly don't know what type of knuckledraggers have to be living in Milwaukee or what type of bootleg theaters they're going to for me to be hearing all this shit from Mike, Jay, and Rich on a consistent basis, the worst I can recall ever getting it in a theater was when I saw a capeshit movie opening day, which is unsurprising because those types of people are a special breed. But the way they describe it, especially Rich's Oppenheimer story of the Millennial watching Tiktok videos while her spawn praises Barbie loudly after the two danced in halfway through the movie, makes it sound like Milwaukee is a city housed solely by degenerates.

 

[Saul Goodman Fan]

I honestly don't know what type of knuckledraggers have to be living in Milwaukee or what type of bootleg theaters they're going to for me to be hearing all this shit from Mike, Jay, and Rich on a consistent basis, the worst I can recall ever getting it in a theater was when I saw a capeshit movie opening day, which is unsurprising because those types of people are a special breed. But the way they describe it, especially Rich's Oppenheimer story of the Millennial watching Tiktok videos while her spawn praises Barbie loudly after the two danced in halfway through the movie, makes it sound like Milwaukee is a city housed solely by degenerates.

My city used to have this really crappy cheap theater where you could see movies for like 7 bucks a ticket three weeks after they came out in regular theaters and I don’t think I’ve ever had an experience there go nearly as bad as they’ve had with their theaters, at least when it comes to other people.

They must just pick the absolute worst time to go. Like the other user said, any weekday at noon is usually perfect if you want to avoid people.

 

[NomineNemo]

I honestly don't know what type of knuckledraggers-

 

[I'm a Silly]

I honestly don't know what type of knuckledraggers have to be living in Milwaukee or what type of bootleg theaters they're going to for me to be hearing all this shit from Mike, Jay, and Rich on a consistent basis, the worst I can recall ever getting it in a theater was when I saw a capeshit movie opening day, which is unsurprising because those types of people are a special breed. But the way they describe it, especially Rich's Oppenheimer story of the Millennial watching Tiktok videos while her spawn praises Barbie loudly after the two danced in halfway through the movie, makes it sound like Milwaukee is a city housed solely by degenerates.

Milwaukee is only 36.5% White [archive] and the median income is ~50k.

Poor Whites living with poor everything else? Don't* move to Milwaukee**. [*archive1 | **archive2]


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[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Multiverse of Madness is a pretty bad movie to be gentle about it, but I will say that it would have been ever so slightly less bad if the alternate universe that most of the movie took place in was something more creative and visually interesting than "earth, but you stop when the light's green, pizza are little balls, and they have convenient memory exposition machines". What a maddening multiverse that we see!

oh the movie sucks, but Mike's idea was retarded. thats the point i was making, Mike's ideas bring movies up from a D- to a D, but they're still not good.

Yeah, conplaing about the theater experience and continuing to go is consumer behavior. Especially since theaters can't fix it anyways. If the experience is bad, don't go. I haven't been to the movies in years.

people forget they're boomers. plenty of people just pirate the new releases and tolerate the shitty international quality.

 

[Shartavius]

Speaking as someone who became hip to RLM when the Episode I review was hosted on their site: They're not film critics - They're Gen X backseat filmmakers who complain about how they would have done it. Mike and Jay may have gone to film school, but they never gained objectivity or the grace to limit their criticisms to "This is what the director was attempting; this is why it fell short; and this is what could have been done to course-correct." Because that's something film critics are capable of.

If Mike and Jay are capable of more than "JJ Abrams should have directed this" or "This torture porn film did it better a few years ago", they don't think anyone wants to hear it. They don't even have the power of hindsight - It's just "the film should have been different; with more of the stuff I like."

So I don't fault their film criticism to the extent others do - They're just a couple of mid-forties alcoholics who would have died of AIDS in any other era, instead of being as lucky as they were. And I derive a certain amount of entertainment from that, while always lowering my expectations. Imagine how horrible they're going to be in ten years, when Mike has a Rich soundboard to replace his dead friend, and interrupts MTF Jay in every video by pressing the "OH MY GAWWWWD" and "AIIIIIIIIDS" buttons.

 

[mlanguishi]

To @Marc they aren't just alchy losers, the top 3 are talented guys. They come and go on quality for sure but not many can last this long at all.

 

[genericwhitemale]

I find Mike's "why don't you just use these hundreds of millions of dollars to help starving Africans" comment in the recent year end recap video to be very obtuse. Same as the remark he made in the Star Wars Acolyte re:view but it comes across as especially lousy when his catch all criticism of the film is "why don't you do something meaningful and help people?" It's not an argument that hasn't been made before. Jay has also made arguments about films being far too expensive these days but his criticism has been that it's a bigger budget at the detriment of quality; a horror movie does not and should not have a budget exceeding $100 million because horror generally relies of subtlety and pumping millions into ridiculous set pieces and visual effects tarnishes that.
In particular it feels a little out of place to complain about that for Megalopolis. I think Megalopolis is a mess and Coppola has gone up his own ass but I also have a slight respect for an auteur putting $100 million of his own money into a passion project, even if he knows it won't have mass market appeal and is just a weird personal project for himself. That aspect of auteurism is admirable if nothing else. So hearing Mike speak in such a condescending, Gen Xer "what about poor people who could use that money?" tone was disappointing.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I understand that the theater experience can be miserable at times because people can be inconsiderate jackasses, but complaining about people eating popcorn? Really now? It's a movie theater, not a fucking classroom, library, or church.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Will say even though I liked their review, the bit where Mike and Jay ramble off on how it would be a genius idea to have two separate theaters one without food and one with food was so dumb.

At that point, why not just build a home theater or see these movies when no one would be around, it would be a very complicated procedure to try that.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Will say even though I liked their review, the bit where Mike and Jay ramble off on how it would be a genius idea to have two separate theaters one without food and one with food was so dumb.

At that point, why not just build a home theater or see these movies when no one would be around, it would be a very complicated procedure to try that.

Theaters would probably lose money by doing this too.

Movie theaters make a lot of their money from the food and drinks ... Why would they provide something that discourages people from buying more stuff?

Dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Incredibly entitled, too. The RLM guys should just wait to review movies when they're on streaming at this point. Then they can sit in total silence and force whatever families they may have to not dare to eat a snack or sip on a drink while watching a movie.