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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
Flexo said:
I mean... Paul. Fucking Paul almost makes us miss OMD.
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I haven't read a new comic book in well over a decade (I think the last thing I read was The Boys, which I kind of hated), so I only know Paul from the endless memes.

Rich is right. American comics did this to themselves because while the current crop of comic writers and artists are many steps down from even lesser periods, the insistence on never retiring flagship characters inevitably led to the kind of stagnation he complains about and the absurd storylines used to justify it.
 
Mola Ram said:
I haven't read a new comic book in well over a decade (I think the last thing I read was The Boys, which I kind of hated), so I only know Paul from the endless memes.

Rich is right. American comics did this to themselves because while the current crop of comic writers and artists are many steps down from even lesser periods, the insistence on never retiring flagship characters inevitably led to the kind of stagnation he complains about and the absurd storylines used to justify it.
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Absolutely agree.

On a friend's insistence I'm watching through the final season of My Hero Academia and it is so damn good....

Because it 100% learned all the right lessons from American comics: END. Give a satisfying conclusion, wrap stuff up. And if you want to do more, leave things open for new stories, adventures, characters, etc. But then the entire series was built on the idea of legacy and what it means to pick up a torch and carry it on the next leg of the journey. (Anyone else remember Spider-Girl?)
 
The feeling when neither Jay nor Rich were able to pick up that Joey King, the lead actress from their favorite horror comedy of the 2010s that was worthy of a Best of the Worst Spotlight, was in Oz the Great and Powerful.

Also, in no fucking way did Spiderman 3 just "tell one story", Sam Raimi himself can tell you that he wanted to make a Sandman movie but then had to make it about a character he hates- sorry, he was "convinced" to make it about Venom, because of fucking Avi Arad.
 
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"Unlike Spider-Man 1 it tells one story"
Was Rich fucking drunk when he said that? Like I get hating the first Spiderman movie but goddamn Spiderman 3 was a mess. His reasons for elevating Doctor Strange and Oz the Great and Powerful over Evil Dead was also lame.
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I don't know either. He just started spouted tons of just outright incorrect shit. Like he brought up the Alex Ross design trivia. Which are these:

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Which did get used as a bonus on the Spider-Man 1 video games:


But the design was NOT used for Superior Spider-Man which looks like this:

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You could argue it's influenced, but it is not Ross' design (Marvel would NEVER pay for the rights to it). I guess he's just trying to show his "nerd knowledge?" I don't know.
 
I wouldn't get too bent out of shape over anything said at any of these rankings.

For one thing, of course, controversy is good for engagement. If one of these hack frauds were to say something outrageous like defending an objectively bad movie, it encourages people to watch the video, to comment on it, and to encourage others to do the same. It's in their best interests to say deliberatively provocative things.

Another point is that whenever Rich does one of these ranking videos, I feel like he's constantly looking for the approval of his cohost. His attitude seems like he's asking: "Did I do it right? Was my 'take' interesting enough? Am I cool enough? Did I answer correctly?" I feel like he is focused too much on putting on a show and not just giving his honest opinions.

And it's only in the ranking videos that I get that out of Rich. In a regular Re:View he's great! He has really good insight into films when he's just analyzing one at a time. And he's an absolute delight in Best of the Worst! I love the fact that he's better at both predicting plot points and suggesting what the filmmakers should have done than the other RLM members who actually went to film school.
 
Acoustic Virgin said:
Another point is that whenever Rich does one of these ranking videos, I feel like he's constantly looking for the approval of his cohost. His attitude seems like he's asking: "Did I do it right? Was my 'take' interesting enough? Am I cool enough? Did I answer correctly?" I feel like he is focused too much on putting on a show and not just giving his honest opinions.
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I feel like I'm about to swim against a powerful current given how popular Rich is, but I've felt like his opinions have slowly become more Redditor-ish in recent years. I'll take him over Moby or Beardfat any day of the week, but I feel like a Raimi tier list would have been better served by having someone like Freddie Williams there.

That said, I will agree that the hospital attack scene in Spiderman 2 was brilliant.
 
Zyklon C said:
I feel like I'm about to swim against a powerful current given how popular Rich is, but I've felt like his opinions have slowly become more Redditor-ish in recent years.
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Given how people have been shitting on Rich in this thread I have to say that this is incredibly brave and stunning of you to share. Thank you.
 
Well Intentioned said:
Given how people have been shitting on Rich in this thread I have to say that this is incredibly brave and stunning of you to share. Thank you.
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Sometimes it feels like the people who still mostly enjoy RLM while occasionally popping them for a shit take have abandoned this thread.
 
Mola Ram said:
Sometimes it feels like the people who still mostly enjoy RLM while occasionally popping them for a shit take have abandoned this thread.
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I don't understand why there's all this rage towards a bunch of schlubs from Milwaukee talking about shit they like and aren't saying nigger 500 times in a video.

They've always had dumb or weird opinions, but you're going to get that with anybody when talking about subjective shit. I do think their attempts at trying to pivot into Hollywood are kinda silly and can't fault them for trying, but that does open them up to ridicule. But they've been pretty consistent in what they like and are vocal about and I don't get where the ire comes from.

I don't think they've ever really positioned themselves as cinephiles, but rather just passionate guys who care about a very specific segment of film and have a pretty good understanding of Hollywood as a business. Even if they did do that, guys like Roger Ebert had 'wrong' opinions, too, and also sucked when they tried to venture into the realm of filmmaking.

On going back and watching some Re:Views I skipped, I do find Jack more annoying as he doesn't really bring anything to the table beyond making goofy faces at the camera. Fine for BotW, but horrible for Re:View or I guess his forays into streaming. The Puppet Master retrospective is a good example, as whenever Jay prompts him for something more interesting or to provide some insight he just goes 'LOL MY HEAD IS FULL' multiple times.

But I just don't watch Re:Views with Jack in them.
 
One More Day is just horrible on every level, even by comic story standards because I remember I had that Amazing Spider-Man 400 issue. Aunt May dying and Ilyana Rasputin dying a year or two earlier in Uncanny X-Men were good, sad stories that felt permanent to me reading them as a kid.

But One More Day, a villain who Spider-Man doesn't deal with magically showing up to save the life of a woman who should have been healed by any of the smart super heroes or even mutants in the world, taking away the youth to save the old. I've seen this Quesada guy, and he's some Gen X fag yet that story reads like a Baby Boomer wanting to fuck over future generations. Apparently they tease Peter and MJ being back together all the time now but never actually do it because there's some rule they can't get back together, but everyone wants them back and some reboot of Ultimate Spider-Man has them happily married and it sold more than the regular Spider-Man issues. Then they wonder why they lose to manga at every turn.
 
I don't want to feel this way about Rich, and I don't go after him as much as Mike and Jay, but this last episode made me understand bullying. I mean to say that I understand bullies by being annoyed by Rich. Is it his high-even-for-a-woman voice pitch? Maybe. Or perhaps it's his way of presenting information that makes it seem as though he rarely gets to talk to adults.
He seems like the "fresh meat" in a prison movie who is doomed to stepping on the toes of a gang leader and getting his neck broken; his character is merely fridge fodder for the main character's rise to action arc. He's a real-life woobie. I hate woobies.
If for some reason I met him IRL, I'd never let on, but observing him for so many years has led me here.
 
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It seemed to me that Rich ranked Drag Me to Hell as low as he did because he didn't think the girl deserved to be dragged to Hell. I think he missed the point of the movie.
 
Drag Me To Hell is ... Underrated as hell. It doesn't get nearly as much love as it should.

Also, the first two Spider-Man movies are basically my favorite popcorn movies ever, with Spider-Man 2 being one of my favorite movies ever.

And the Dr. Strange movie should hardly even be considered a Sam Raimi movie, lol. We all know that was a studio-made film, with very few exceptions here and there. Hell, is it even a movie? It's god awful.

EDIT: Also, Rich Evans saying that the first Spider-Man movie didn't tell a story blows my mind. It's literally the Spider-Man origin story? There's literally a first, middle, and final act? Has he never seen the movie? lol.
 
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