Red Letter Media

[BobsSpergers]

The opening is the nastiest they've ever been towards their home state. They must have gotten fucked by the tax man or something. Or perhaps a bum took a shit outside their warehouse/studio for the last time?

Are they from Wisconsin? I thought they moved there from Arizona.
When they kept ragging on Wisconsin I thought it was one of their joke videos where they don't review the film and just go off topic the whole time.

 

[Kyria the Great]

Two schlubby white guys shit on the white guys who love the movie, and hate the movie, for half of the review. Then say “it’s ok.” Truly the be-all-end-all voice of reason we need.

Well truly a meh from the two hack frauds really sums up the movie and honestly they are right that if this didn't ahve the Marvel Stamp, this film would have been more like a 30-60% with the professional critics.

 

[samuraicrack]

Two schlubby white guys shit on the white guys who love the movie, and hate the movie, for half of the review. Then say “it’s ok.” Truly the be-all-end-all voice of reason we need.

I like Mike and Jay for the most part but I’d be lying if I said they didn’t get a bit self-righteous and preachy from time to time, even if I do agree with them.

I mean your entire point about diversity being a good thing and how different perspectives about film criticism are great when you can’t bother remembering the name of Brie Larson’s black woman best friend in the movie lol

 

[An Ghost]

go on twitter to check on cows
see this

fuck this movie
jay and mike were right

 

[BrunoMattei]

Are they from Wisconsin? I thought they moved there from Arizona.
When they kept ragging on Wisconsin I thought it was one of their joke videos where they don't review the film and just go off topic the whole time.

Jay is a Wisconsin native. Rich and Mike lived in Chicago and Mike lived in either Arizona or California for a while where he formed Red Letter Media as his production company.

 

[Absolutego]

https://youtu.be/9pQNYeOEFJc?t=374

Jay is my spirit animal when it comes to summing up these woke marketing controversies.

 

[Truthspeaker]

I doubt Captain Marvel could've hoped to be as bad as Fembusters, but even Feig's disasterpiece looks admirable in comparison.

Sure, it was also a souless corporate product designed to monetize consumer guilt for the benefit of the least deserving people on Earth, but at least it wasn't created to undermine an upcoming movie that has actual merit.

It didn't even undermine the original too egregiously. At least Ghostbusters '84 wasn't unfortunate enough to be put in the same continuity as Answer the Call.

Brie Larson is nearly as embarrassing a shill as Bryan Young. Bitch, less than five years ago, you were in a real movie that won you an Oscar you actually deserved, and now you're making glorified school-cafeteria porridge so you can buy your own Caribbean island before you're old enough to run for POTUS. Go blow your high horse.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Sure, it was also a souless corporate product designed to monetize consumer guilt for the benefit of the least deserving people on Earth, but at least it wasn't created to undermine an upcoming movie that has actual merit.

I know the hot take right now is Captain Marvel is gonna killpoach Thanos in the name of feminism but I'm willing to give the studio the benefit of the doubt on this one. Yeah she'll undoubtedly have some importance. But after ten years of pretty solid movies, Marvel's earned my trust by this point. James Gunn controversy aside this studio has made a lot of very smart decisions. I'm ready to believe Kevin Feige is well aware movie audiences will not react positively to an 11th hour nobody completely invalidating all the characters they've spent years watching.

I could wind up eating these words soon enough, but Captain Marvel was nowhere close to the disaster people who never saw it are claiming. I'm reasonably confident Endgame will be satisfying.

 

[RockVolnutt]

Endgame is probably the last time they'll talk about any capeshit barring major disasters worth seeing.

TBH I'm not sure why they bothered with an Aquaman review, they clearly are done with the genre.

Not going to lie, I couldn't make it through the Aquaman review. I usually like RLM's reviews but a chunk of it was just family guy tier Superfriends jokes and acting like it's an edgy reboot of some gag character.

It'd be like doing a Batman v Superman review where you keep bringing up that Adam West Batman is goofy and therefore that movie is bad.

 

[frozenrunner]

Mike and Jay were far nicer in this video than they needed to be. For example, they didn't really call bullshit on claims that it's "important" for "marginalized voices" to be "represented" in any field, much less movie criticism. That's all identity politics, "equality of outcome" hokum.

Their take on the film itself seemed evenhanded, though. Larson was a terrible fit for this movie.

 

[Truthspeaker]

I know the hot take right now is Captain Marvel is gonna killpoach Thanos in the name of feminism but I'm willing to give the studio the benefit of the doubt on this one. Yeah she'll undoubtedly have some importance. But after ten years of pretty solid movies, Marvel's earned my trust by this point. James Gunn controversy aside this studio has made a lot of very smart decisions. I'm ready to believe Kevin Feige is well aware movie audiences will not react positively to an 11th hour nobody completely invalidating all the characters they've spent years watching.

I could wind up eating these words soon enough, but Captain Marvel was nowhere close to the disaster people who never saw it are claiming. I'm reasonably confident Endgame will be satisfying.

I doubt it's a disaster. I'm sure it's at least adequate, perhaps even good. From what I heard, Aquaman was also at least adequate, perhaps even good.

But I don't give a shit about "adequate, perhaps even good". These people aren't my friends. They're conglomerates. They're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on what, for the most part, is "adequate, perhaps even good", and then they have the temerity to try and guilt most of their consumers like they're Rosa Parks and they've just refused to give up their seat?

I've already missed movies this year that were actually good, perhaps even great. I've already missed Marvel movies that were actually good, perhaps even great. God won't judge anyone negatively for refusing to shovel money at the feat of an empty-headed, pretty, white gazillionaire who's co-ordinating her virtue signaling with her marketing department; at least 'til 2030, when Disney finally earns enough money to buy Mecca, Medina, and The Vatican.

By then, I'll happily take Hell.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Haven't seen the movie, but have read all of the spoilers. The spoilers point to a flat-out disaster of a movie for me.

Spoiler

I hate the twist with the Skrulls, I hate what happens to Fury's eye, I hate Captain Marvel's "character arc" (if you can even call it a character arc), I hate the multiple instances of retconning, I hate the cringey-ass music, the editing looks like a fucking nightmare (based on that train scene), etc ... Yeah, I'm pretty sure I hate the movie already.

Granted, Brie Larson and Marvel made this movie political, however, it doesn't even deserve the controversy around it. I feel like this "culture war" nonsense is overshadowing the genuinely shitty things about the shitty movie. As I said in the Captain Marvel post: Feminist agenda or not, the movie is garbage.

Loved Jay's evisceration of the controversy on both sides-- especially about the charity. While I do agree with many angry nerds that there's a feminist angle with Captain Marvel, I also acknowledge how very cringey it is for some people with a YouTube channel to be making multiple videos per day, saying the same shit over and over. They're profiting off the controversy too, I'd say.

 

[frozenrunner]

Granted, Brie Larson and Marvel made this movie political, however, it doesn't even deserve the controversy around it. I feel like this "culture war" nonsense is overshadowing the genuinely shitty things about the shitty movie. As I said in the Captain Marvel post: Feminist agenda or not, the movie is garbage.

I basically agree with the people at Midnight's Edge: the "controversy" was completely manufactured by Disney's marketing people once it became clear they had an unremarkable film on their hands. I think they figured they could head off bad reviews and squeeze out a few more ticket sales by positioning this wet fart of a film as a political statement.

And I can't be too mad at them for trying it, because it worked with Black Panther. But it helped that that wasn't a bad movie.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I basically agree with the people at Midnight's Edge: the "controversy" was completely manufactured by Disney's marketing people once it became clear they had an unremarkable film on their hands. I think they figured they could head off bad reviews and squeeze out a few more ticket sales by positioning this wet fart of a film as a political statement.

And I can't be too mad at them for trying it, because it worked with Black Panther. But it helped that that wasn't a bad movie.

The promotion for Black Panther, while just a tad "virtue signal-y," wasn't exclusionary. I don't recall people from the Black Panther cast saying "This movie wasn't made for white people." For the most part, the exceptional people behind Black Panther were its hardcore SJW fanbase, and not so much Marvel. The same thing kind of happened with Warner Bros. and Wonder Woman: WB didn't act exceptional for promo, but some of the SJW fans acted exceptional with the movie.

And, yeah, I'm pretty certain that Marvel Studios and Disney knew that they had an underwhelming and weak movie with this one, hence the release date being so close to Endgame, the promo saying that we all needed to watch this before Endgame, and the pandering (and self-congratulatory) feminism angle.

Disney made sure they weren't going to have another Solo on their hands, and so they took the proper steps to prevent that from happening again.

 

[Susan Fumiko Tanaka]

I appreaciate every time RLM make segments showing bits of interviewes with actors. I get so embarassed I can't look at most of that stuff, especially when some journalist forcibly prods for deep thoughts or incredible true stories from the set from miserable actors that had 5 minutes to spare for an interview.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I appreaciate every time RLM make segments showing bits of interviewes with actors. I get so embarassed I can't look at most of that stuff, especially when some journalist forcibly prods for deep thoughts or incredible true stories from the set from miserable actors that had 5 minutes to spare for an interview.

I skipped 30% of the video because of those. How can anyone famous be that delusional?

When did listing off percentages convince anyone? If something is fundamentally wrong, you don't need to nitpick numbers to justify it. State a personal opinion to be debated or agreed upon. Oh wait, it's about race, so you just need to say white man bad.

 

[samuraicrack]

Hearing Mike talk about Endgame makes me think that it’s gonna be the last MCU movie they bother seeing or reviewing. In all honesty I think I might be done with Marvel movies after it too. I don’t even think I’ll go see Spiderman unless people go apeshit over how great it is.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Not going to lie, I couldn't make it through the Aquaman review. I usually like RLM's reviews but a chunk of it was just family guy tier Superfriends jokes and acting like it's an edgy reboot of some gag character.

Their joke about "Jango Fett's hairpiece" was pretty funny.

I think there just isn't much to talk about with Aquaman. It was a boring, serviceable action fantasy movie where things happen to characters who do stuff. The only thing remarkable about it was its $8 billion special effects budget. The most poignant criticism Mike and Jay could make was the early 2000s rom-com music.

Sort of like with Captain Marvel. If they were only talking about the movie their review would've been ten minutes long. That's why most of this video was them making fun of Brie Larson's sneering rants instead of anything actually in the movie.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Hearing Mike talk about Endgame makes me think that it’s gonna be the last MCU movie they bother seeing or reviewing. In all honesty I think I might be done with Marvel movies after it too. I don’t even think I’ll go see Spiderman unless people go apeshit over how great it is.

Can't say that I don't have the similar feelings.

I think the Spider-Man movies are going to be the only MCU movies I'll go see in theaters after Endgame. I am admittedly biased for Spider-Man. I'm at least going to see Far From Home.

For a while, after how much I adored Infinity War, I told people that when this storyline was done, that I'd also be interested in checking out any Thor movies (because Ragnarok and Infinity War rejuvenated my interest in Thor), and any Guardians of the Galaxy sequels. Now that I'm more convinced that Chris Hemsworth is done with the MCU, and now that James Gunn is gone, my interest for those movies is now gone.

If Captain Marvel is any indication of how the "cosmic stuff" is being handled without James Gunn at the helm (as it was originally planned before he got exceptional on Twitter and got fired from Disney), then the MCU is in big trouble.

 

[Cosmos]

As usual, Jay shows himself to be the only guy ever to approach Current Year culture war shit with a clear mind and level head. It's nice seeing him tackle the "controversy" without coming across as some buttmad sperg.

I was so happy to hear Jay's take on it. He's completely right, both sides of the Captain Marvel "debate" are idiots. The idiots who are championing it as the greatest thing for feminism since women gained the right to vote are deluded, and the butthurt neckbeards who are taking it as an attack on men everywhere are morons.