Half in the Bag: Doctor Sleep and Parasite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.พ. 2020
- Mike and Jay realize there are no newly released movies worth wasting any amount of air on and discuss some recent-ish movies instead! The Academy Award-showered Doctor Sleep, and the box office bomb that nobody saw, Parasite!
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Parasite: a ground breaking movie about rich evans living in Mike stoklasa’s basement.
Bong Joon-ho was a hack.He copied the plot directly from Half in the Bag. Mike and Jay are the parasites.
Parasite! It took 12 months to make!
More liek "Parasite: A ground breaking movie about Red Letter Media living off the comedic genius celebrity Rich Evans."
It's quite well furnished
shouldn't it be rich stoklasa and poor evans?
“There are many injustices in the world, but Hollywood celebrities feel none of them” Mike always coins the most profound phrases.
@5,ooo LightYears Away there are people with no clean water but yeah lets not be too harsh on hollywood celbrities :/ boo
@5,ooo LightYears Away >defending the upper class :/.
Never said your opinion didn't matter. But with all the other and more terrible problems in the world I think it's pretty dumb to be defnding people that's not suffering will never suffer the damage of not having clean water, nor food, nor economic sustain :/but hey let's not be too harsh on famous people with no real problems!
@@JavierSly Charlize Theron's mom killed her dad in self-defense, Joaquin Phoenix' brother overdosed and Joaquin witnessed it and had to call 911 and the audio is on TH-cam. Does that sound like privilege to you?
5,ooo LightYears Away feel =\= felt. It’s not that absurd.
5,ooo LightYears Away okay Weinstein we see you 🙄
I really liked that the overlook hotel felt smaller in Dr Sleep, it gave me the same feeling of returning to a place I knew as a kid and nothing is as big as you remember it being. As well as making the sets feel a bit more claustrophobic, like the walls of the hotel are closing in.
In The Shining the whole idea is that this place is huge and there's everywhere to go but nowhere to hide when everything goes wrong, you could run forever and still be in the hotel. But in Dr Sleep it's a trap, there's nowhere to go, it's a literal dead end where they have to make their stand.
That's absolutely brilliant.
Agreed, wonderful way of putting it.
Daniel Armstrong yes!
I like your brain.
Holy crap that first sentence was so profound. The rest of this is great analysis too but I love that comparison
What makes Parasite so great especially to a Western audience is exactly what you guys hit on in this review. In the hands of Hollywood, this movie would have been a cheese fest with stereotypes everywhere. The poor would be good only doing crime to stay alive and the rich would be evil and horrible. This movie with it's incredible depth had so much more realism that highlights the difference so much more accurately, and I'm so glad it won best picture among all the nominees.
brace yourself, the hollywood remake is brewing. Seriously they are doing it at HBO
... you mean exactly like his last film, Snowpiercer? Ya know, the communist-book-turned into-movie movie where the multiracial low class revolts against the all white Nazis sociopaths?
Vanilla Knight the director is very anti-capitalism. Ironically that his movies are funded by mega corporations because the anti capitalism sells.
@@xUrsusxXX fuck off with your communist propaganda shit
@@xUrsusxXX You mean the sequel to 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'?
Bong Joon Ho: "I will drink till morning"
Mike: "this guy speaks to me"
I hope he drank from his best pitcher.
Spooky!
@Sean m I don't but my comment was about the op's avatar. Its squeeze toy named spooky.
@@davidmeans9505 the thing what squeeks!
@@deltav864 OH SHIT
I feel so comforted and relieved to learn that Jane Fonda and her friends are using jewelry made from ethically harvested gold and diamonds. They're just like us!
that tweet alone completely encapsulates the Hollywood mentality in a nutshell
I always ethically source my gold and diamonds. By which I mean, I always say cheers to the cashier when I buy more cigarettes and biscuits
There's something about the words "ethically" and "harvested" that makes me think they aren't supposed to be used in sequence.
Ricky Jervais had the perfect monologue about this virtue signaling at the Golden globes
Yes, "harvested" gold because the expensive PR firm that helps her write her tweets knew the word "mining" might have sent the wrong message and ruined the analytics.
"THE JOKER: A MOVIE ABOUT THE RICH LOOKING DOWN ON THE POOR"
damn, I wish a movie like that had won the Oscars
To be fair, I would say that parasite is more about the codependent parasitical relationship between classes and not so much a commentary on just how one class looks at the other. Which is good, because we already have enough movies that boil down to rich people evil and poor people good.
@@Y-two-K Sort of... the prevalent depiction Hollywood has is rich people don’t do crimes, whereas the ultra-rich are either driven to ultra-violent crimes or sometimes being crime-fighting vigilantes. This is all unrealistic, and usually lazy as they are rehashing old characters.
Personally, I loved Parasite for the soundtrack most of all. Luckily I got to see it in theaters just before the lockdown.
The joker was not about that lmfao
@@justsomeguywithsunglasses8418not totally about that. There are many different themes and motifs in Joker but one is rich looking down at the poor or less fortunate. Literal climax is when he realizes that the Waynes are looking down on his mom and him. That triggers something in him.
@@Airwr3ck My comment was directed at someone who since deleted their comment. I don't remember what it was...but I remember it being VERY stupid.
Parasite is the perfect example of how telling your metaphor purely through visuals is SO much more effective than through dialogue. I loved how Parasite was shot.
yeah, that's what 90% of non hollywood movies does it
@@JoeSarasa Trust me, I know. I've gone deeper than just Bong Jun Ho lol been on a Bergmann kick lately.
"How many people in America have seen Parasite?!"
Ironically, more people than have seen Doctor Sleep.
Not to give him undeserved attention, but how do I searc for him? ''Dumb bearded weirod ranting about Parasite'' Or something like that?
Benjamin Abramowitz fuck parasite
hungarianbeast The name of the video is "Oscars Goes Full WOKE.....Parasite Wins BEST PICTURE!!!!"
@hungarianbeast Just try to listen for a sound of someone sucking Joker's D and follow it to the source...
@@annabanana7659 Why do people adore Joker so much? It is a mediocore movie, saved by a good performance!
The real parasite was the friends we made along the way.
If a person can only believe in the magic of Parasite, then they can accomplish anything.
I think that's a parasite beat we can all dance to.
Because friendship is the greatest lesson of all
i really like this comment
I like that they didn't make the poor family out to be always depressed. There was joy and laughter in their lives
Birds of Prey was _truly_ astonishing.
Also how they didnt make them just outright "victims" or "pure". They were assholes too
Parasite had an escalation of awfulness, which i hear is kind of a thing in korean cinema, where it started as a somewhat goofy comedy about a family of scammers " parasiting" on a richer but clueless family, ending into a tragedy with an hard hitting social commentary. The scene where the part of town in which the poor family lived gets flooded is one of the better metaphors i've seen in movies in years. It makes you think but it's also a great scene. Almost a perfect movie, imho. It has some issues, but it's the only movie i've seen in theatres in the last 10 years that made me think about it for weeks. The cinematography is great too, the actors are great, just a good movie all around. Is it the best movie ever made? No. Is it leagues better than most of the horrible movies that come out every year? Heck yeah
"At the end of the day, Parasite is all about family...
And that's what's so powerful about it."
~ Han Solo, 2020
Just like Pink Flamingos
I think you mean Han Seoul-Oh
The outrage against Parasite is so odd. Foreign language films -and foreign-produced films - have been nominated for best picture (or equivalent) since 1938. Clearly there’s no rule that requires an American movie to win.
Yeah it's completely baseless. If you look at the qualifications needed for BP online nowhere does it mention anything about language
@Nilly Sigger Thank (insert deity) it's only your opinion, and those are countless on the interwebs.
Most were just upset that Joker didn’t win.
@Nilly Sigger yup
@Nilly Sigger Sure, but that's hardly anything to get worked up about. Oscars get awarded to movies and actors I don't think should have won all the time.
The rant about celebrities was beautiful.
it's perfect especially about that tone-deaf woman brie larson. I really don't think ive ever seen someone burst onto the scene and turn into a finger-wagging twat so quick.
Scerttle the only celebrities I think still face serious shit are any dark skinned black actors, like look at any black lady in a film recently, she’s light af. That’s not an injustice but it’s definitely because of one
@@kingcosworth2643
yes, clearly 2 billion people have no talented people among them, and that's why they're excluded from cinema. because we live in a meritocracy! that's why everyone at the top of the hierarchy is competent!
you fucking idiot
couldn't agreed more
@@Liliputian07 just give him some examples
I got to meet Mike at a bar about a week ago. Great guy! He broke a beer bottle over my skull in a drunken rage then threatened to murder my family.
I searched "Pathetic loser rants about Parasite" and found the video. Thanks RLM!
lololol it actually works. dude is pure cringe.
Still is the 1st search result lmao
Apparently the same guy defended the guy who ranted about not being invited to a Star Wars event on Collider Live.
LOL I was searching for it too.
That guy reminds me of when the town folk in south park rable outside city hall whenever their upset about something.
Bong Joon Ho's class politics have always been clear across all his films. Parasite does a great job of pointing out class structure and by avoiding painting the poor people as noble and morally good and the rich as evil, moustache twirling villains the criticism stays leveled at the system. The class structure ends up producing that ending and those people, not some internal moral failings. Good film.
Yeah, while I really enjoyed the grift that was being pulled on the rich folks, at no point was I ever thinking they were anything more than just.... not entirely present? That's kind of the extent of their contribution to the conflicts of the movie, they don't think or care about anything outside their bubble, not in a mean way, but just in the same way I don't care about stuff that rolled under my couch. They are just kind of a group of harmless dinguses.
Didn't he make another movie with similar themes? It was on a train, had the dude who played Captain America, lot of people dying, bunch of crazy shit happens it was great. (I'm drawing a blank on the name, if anyone can help I'd appreciate it)
@@macrussell78 Snowpiercer
they were kind of assholes in the ending by completely not caring about the girl being stabbed
@@BlindErephon That's the thing, they SEEM harmless on a personal level (mostly) but the things that allow them to live the lifestyle that they do is anything but.
It's weird to see real people that The Nerd Crew archetype parodies.
@@stealthy9599 Hey, I recognize that funny joke!
Apparently the Nerd Crew isn't based on Screen Junkies. Just a really uncanny coincidence.
@@saxbend really ?
@@JaySeal108 same difference
Yeah... it's bizarre to me when Nerd Crew has hundreds-liked comments about how such-and-such channel is going to be real mad about this, a peek into some corrupt, stinking sewer I can't fathom. Everything I ever needed to know to understand Nerd Crew, I got over a decade ago when I flipped a hotel room TV to something called "G4" for a few seconds. It boggles the mind that any RLM subscriber would even watch that stuff.
Since my first language is not English, I feel strange when I hear someone complaing about "reading subtitles", because I always watch movies with subtitles. And Honestly, It's not that difficult thing to do. Anyway, Great review!! (as always)
Mike's making fun of the typical, ignorant general moviegoer that can't stand watching a movie with subtitles, a Director's Cut or an artsy movie, like Jay would do.
@@adamlewis5765 I know Mike and Jay are not complaining about reading subtitles.
I'm glad they enjoy watching parasite.
English IS my first language, and I PREFER watching movies with subtitles! Sometimes people mumble or are incoherent, like some actors with big bushy mustaches, and you don't quite catch everything! And sometimes even, what they said isn't what you're reading AT ALL, and it makes for a good laugh! 😂 But yeah, I can easily focus on the movie and read at the same time! It isn't hard, indeed! 🤨
I've always found subtitles distracting. Especially in English language films. I'm a slow reader and I find myself only watching the bottom third of the screen, missing what the actors are doing.
@@Riley_Mundt I'm a slow reader too. So I get what you're saying. If I've seen a movie many times, I'll watch it without subtitles.
Actually, it's "The shinning". my Scottish groundskeeper told me so.
Parasite is proof you can "teach or preach" without overdoing. I think it's because the director understands the film he was trying to make.
hollywood and many of the movie going audience needs stories with clear messages that tell people how they should feel and think
Ronin Dave not generally. It might be the case for blockbuster/popular movies because those are sociological events, but people aren’t always the mindless sheep that most reactionaries frame them to be. Sure, it’s easy to control masses, but individually, films like parasite and of lesser popularity weren’t made with the intention of creating drones. It got popular mostly due to its merits. I’d argue that Joker was intended as a strict change in the moral and philosophical landscape, although it is more likely a depiction of such. Besides, no one really takes the Oscars that seriously after a few days it passes. Anyone remembers Moonlight, a so-called woke film (a great one at that)? Any impact it had on the culture of America?
Parasite feels like the type of film Danny Boyle could have made (with Scottish characters) in the 90s.
Art-ificial Blon-die
Liberals and conservatives are both obsessed with controlling politics through culture, but it doesn’t work that way.
A Marxist would tell you that Parasite is a pretty great film, and a product of the world we live in, and not much more than that.
@Emperor lol . It's less direct and people act normal????? Are you serious???? Do you even think sometimes for yourself ? Parasite is ridiculous pile of crap .
This two movies everybody have seen in Mexico. A lot of people bought the publicity in Dr Sleep so people were exited to see it.
Parasite on the other hand, everybody was talking abut it and went to see it, subtitles are not a problem, remember , in any other country Parasite is as foreign as Dr Sleep, which we also saw with subtitles!
That's not really true, in my country at least people are way more likely to watch american movies than they would be watching a movie from a non-English speaking country. I don't really know why, but some movies are definitely more "foreigner" than others, maybe because American culture is a lot more similar to my country than from other countries.
@@josemarques2304 Jose Marques While this is true, I think the argument was that outside of english speaking countries, there is no real barrier or annoyance of subtitles, its just the way movies are consumed for the most part. Its not that people are way more into american movies, there just is way more american movies, and in general higher quality because of the amount of money in American cinema. As for the similiarity to America, its the same thing. Most popular media comes from america, which shapes the culture of most of the world
@@makeitbetter659 I think in my country it's a little different because literally anything that's remotely popular gets dubbed in here. Movies, anime, tv shows, video games, etc. So there is some annoyance of subtitles (much less than in the US of course) i would say most people of my country would rather watch something dubbed than watch it in it's original language and with subtitles, if something it's not dubbed here it is less likely to be popular. But in general i think you are right.
Tis a great comment!
*which
Witch is a sorceress
Hope that helps
It's ironic how the guy claimed Parasite's success was due to Hollywood's woke culture, and yet Joaquin Phoenix from the Joker was the one who got on stage and gave a woke speech.
He probably wanted Joker to win so he can say that DC won Best Picture to Marvel fans.
Late response, but I still don't even understand how Parasite winning had anything to do with "wokeness" in his mind. Like, just because it was Korean made and casted? lol. I swear "anti-wokeness" goes so far the other way so often.
@@moonbeamscream I guess the point was that people just had it in their minds that best picture actually means best American picture for some reason so Parasite winning had to be just for wokeness i guess
@@JAy-vx3vwWow that's messed up.
@@unityofvitality-5875 so the guy in the video yelling about wokeness didn't even watch it or know what its about. I feel like these types of people just label anything they don't understand as "woke" cause it's easier to look at things as enemies than as strangers.
As Johnny Depp's Ed Wood would say about Doctor Sleep, "It's not a horror movie. It's a supernatural thriller," which to my mind, it does fantastically.
I think the hotel sets look smaller on purpose. It gives it that sense of revisiting a place as an adult that you were at as a child. When we are children everything seems so big and vast, and once we are grown we are able to see them proportionally. I think that was a genius touch.
Or the studio just cheaped out on the budget.
Your avatar with Communion visitor portrait is mirrored.
It may be based on the actual Stanley Hotel here in beautiful Estes Park, CO. It inspired King's Overlook and is much cozier than
Kubrick's version.
That was the sense I got as well! That it felt smaller to us because it felt smaller to Danny.
It was like a bad haunted house attraction.
Whenever it goes to the wide shot, that skeleton in the doorway scares me.
Los Espookies
Huh strange, I’m always relieved it’s still there
That's Rich Evans, he's lost alot of weight
theres nothing there
...boo!
IF YOU'RE GOING TO WATCH PARASITE, DON'T WATCH THIS REVIEW, the review is filled with spoiler clips, watch it audio only if you havent seen the movie
Jokes on you. Half in the Bag is a podcast to me
why attempt to warn retards that would be too stupid to just stay away from the video? lmao? yes lmao.
@@SobeCrunkMonster Cause the review itself doesn't have spoilers but the clips do sadly, so someone on the fence might wanna see it. I do see what you mean tho
It took me nine months, but I did get around to watching Parasite. It was pretty good
🆗
My first remark upon exit the theater after watching "Doctor Sleep" was the hotel felt smaller.
Then here I am, three months later... @19:10 ...fucking thank you, I thought I was crazy
although I kinda think it may have been on purpose the way you remember places from your childhood as larger than they actually are.
"also starring Rich Evans"
I knew he was the skeleton in the background! He's definitely looking a lot better these days.
A tad bit thinner.
I thought they just forgot to feed Culkin.
Wasn't he the one yelling about Parasite?
They are reusing the same title cards. I recall someone explaining this type of errors.
Jay: "How about Cats?"
Mike: "Nyaa."
Well done.
Man, I thought Jay is the weeb.
Delete this.
@@arditeider2812 You're thinking of Roger Ebert
Mike: y'know, like... nya?
I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Sleep, both the book and the movie. It's a shame that more people didn't see it.
The audiobook is fantastic as well
Interesting note about the scene in Doctor Sleep where the True Knot torture the kid: Mike Flanagan on the King Cast pod said that the version they filmed was actually even longer, and when they ran the movie by King, Stephen was basically silent apart from punching the air when he saw the kid's jersey was number 19 (one of many Dark Tower references), and the torture scene.
During it, he turned to Flanagan and said "I know why you need (the scene), but that's a little much, isn't it?" Flanagan agreed, and cut it down from the longer version which was even more intense.
The edited version is what's in the director's cut and the theatrical, and I don't wanna know what watching the original's like because goddamn, the toned-down version's already fucking hard to watch.
Stephen king was right lmao
That was not an easy watch, especially if you have kids or young loved ones and have intrusive thoughts because of this scene.
How strong you are in the Shining depends on your midiclorians
Midiclorians Duke
Ewan was more powerful than I could possibly fanmagine.
He is the chosen one!
You were the chosen one Doc!
MrEW1985 Danny has an even higher midiclorian count than master yoda
Parasite is a film that is elevated by going into it blind and having no idea what its about. Because of all the hype I'm worried people are going to be so informed and have seen so many clips that it might not hit as hard for some.
When I reccomend it I basically only say that a poor family tricks a rich family to get hired by them, and that complications arise.
Yeah. American audiences will be turned off when they find out it's a scathing criticism of wealth inequality and capitalism that says only violence is the answer.
We love the taste of boots here in the US.
Parasite is marxist art. Gonna piss off a lot of Americans when they watch it lol
All I knew was that there was a crazy twist and through the whole movie I though, okay that was a twist but it's not craz..ohhhhhhhh. lol
@@Snowsnaype youe like those people that say rick and morty is bad because it celebrates a nihilistic psycho murderer.
"Is this how you eat KitKat?"
"Well I take a KitKat bar and I dip it in hot butter...
"Oh, of course."
"...then I dip that popcorn...
"Yeah, yeah."
"...and then I drizzle caramel on that..."
"It's a whole process."
"...it's a whole process."
I love how every episode they eventually ask “should we talk spoilers?” After they’ve been talking spoilers the whole time lol
I learned a long time ago to never watch a rlm video about a movie I’ve yet to see
Shoot, I am glad I didn't even see the trailer for Parasite before watching. It showed so much 😂
11:27 you can literally see how Mike Stoklasa thinks: the eyes just scanned the film in fast forwarding.
I guess that Black Mirror implant that let's you re-watch memories is real after all.
He was shining
hes like those old 90s rewind machines that you would stick your damn VCR's into and wait an eternity till it finally rewound completely.
i just tried to move my eyes side to side that fast and I can't even do it
Mike the Mentat
“An injustice is not being able to put food on the table for your family. Or get medicine you need when you’re sick.”
I know you said this as a throwaway thought in passing but I thought that was really profound. Thanks for sharing that, Mike.
grt002 that was profound no doubt best moment of the episode .......“There are many injustices in the world but Hollywood celebrities feel none of them”
23:37 Actually, he's not wrong. It took 4 oscars for our theatre in Oxford to even play Parasite and JoJo Rabbit. I'm glad I didn't have to pirate this one though after I got to see it last night with my brother.
Mike at 41:28 is savagely honest. The honesty from these guys is so refreshing and the reason I continue to watch.
41:15 too
Regarding the celebrity rant, I'll just quote Parasite: "They're nice because they're rich."
You do realize that both families were extremely biased and narcissistic, so we're not supposed to take their aphorisms as gospel, right?
Or were you dumb enough to think the crooks were the heroes?
It's like that episode of Star Trek were Quark explains the Federation to Nog on a battlefield. The people of the Federation are wonderful people. They are safe, trustworthy, and will help you the best they can. Take away their nice stuff, and they become savage killers. To paraphrase the fuck out of that scene.
But just like in the movie...they are not nice
They're nice?????
@@mfs9470 Yeah they were nice. If you want to see rich people being evil to their house employees, there's another South Korean movie for you: The Housemaid (2010).
31:00 HOW THE OSCARS ACTUALLY WORK: A bunch of retired people from the industry (mostly actors), get free dvds in the mail and trade them like Pokemon. This isn't an exaggeration, and explains why films about older characters and holocaust documentaries always make the list...as well as why Best Cinematography always goes to "best natural vistas" and Best Editing goes to "most obvious editing". Even more amazing that Parasite won, honestly
it's almost like the old testament followers are becoming cultured.
He probably payed them.
it's probably like moonlight. now they can say "look! we're progressive now" and go back to play golf or whatever
They're not just retirees. It's active people, too. Everybody gets to vote for Best Picture. Only Screenwriters Guild members vote for Best Screenplay, only Cinematographers Guild members vote for Best Cinematography, etc. You have to be an active guild member to be in the Academy and get to vote.
@@7superdaimajin Sort of. Editors and cinematographers are the only ones who can nominate in their respective category, but any academy member can vote for the oscar, regardless of category. And proportionally, voting actors outnumber every other field. And my experience working with a producer trying to come out of retirement (and lunching with all his friends of the same age for a year) was very illuminating about just how large the retiree voting body is. Just sayin'
I've heard this observation before, that the overlook hotel doesn't feel grand and large the way it does in The Shining. I actually appreciated this. In The Shining, Danny is a child. Everything would feel huge and expansive. When he returns as an adult, the hotel being scaled down reflects an adult perspective. He is a man now and the overlook is just a hotel. The ghosts are no longer tormenting a vulnerable child, but a powerful adult who has fully grasped his power. Whether these scaled down shots were intentional or not, I appreciated the affect. Besides we still got the epic reveal pulling up to the hotel with that iconic original shining score. I am satisfied.
Doctor sleeps probably one of the better films I've seen in the last few years.... criminally underated
personally i hated it. felt like a bad movie wearing the skin of a good one.
Rich Evans. Only Child. Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
Are these crossword clues?
I UNDERTAND THAT REFERENCE
*I clapped*
Christ, even the number of syllables is the exact same. Pat yourself on the fucking back, mate.
rich evans. dying inside. at-st. wisconsin.
Finally, the Parasite review. I hope it didnt hit too close to home considering how long theyve been leeching off of Rich Evans.
Oh my god why haven't I made this connection yet
The Wendy actress sounds EXACTLY like Duval, uncanny. Btw, it was Terminator: Dark Phoenix, to be exact
No it was Terminator: rise of the dork fighter day of salvatatioln of judgementation-genysis.
I watched Doctor Sleep with my friend because of your recommendations. It was really entertaining and I would have missed it if not for your review!
Ah, Valentine’s Day shall be a tiny bit less lonely than I assumed
Don't worry, you have Rich Evans to always keep you company...
I like how my joke was more popular even though yours was vastly more clever and intelligent
Don’t listen to Adam, do it and then in your suicide note say that Rich Evans needs his own Netflix special.
Valentine’s Day is a fake holiday anyway
Be my valentine!
No homo, though.
Mike "who gets angry over Oscars?"
Willem Dafoe and Everybody who watched the LightHouse: "hold my beans"
He lost because of his god damn farts.
Ah I spilled his beans
He lost cause Pattinson didn't get to fuck his steak
@@TiciTotyTony "Yer fond of me lobster aint' ye? I seen it - yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it!" - Dafoe to Pattison.
But in all seriousness. Why didnt The Lighthouse win best picture?
It's Willem, not William, you mong.
Ford Vs Ferrari is about friendship, accomplishment, adversity, and cars.
Don’t forget family
And a father and his son.
It now strikes me as Oscar bait.
@@MegaMacReal Even if, I was enthralled
It was so meh
I wish they had talked more about Parasite itself, instead of digressing a lot, but I am glad they reviewed it nonetheless.
@Rie Ta well they immediately show a spoiler with one of the first clips they use
@Rie Ta
____________They didn't say too much because the movie didn't deserve the awards and they both know it. If they went into it any more than they did it would be obvious it wasn't such a great film. It had potential but it was nowhere near Best Picture material. They know it, you know it, we all know it. It was a purely political based award and had nothing to do with the merits and everything to do with awarding someone simply because they're not a white male. Everyone knows this. You must be blind and deaf if you don't at least sense it. The director should have stood on the principle of meritocracy and refused the the award for Best Picture. That would have made him one of the most respected and honorable ppl the world has seen in very long time. It would be a historic move, a genuinely epic step for the good guys. His name would live forever. A true legend.
@Rie Ta
"But I think it’s kinda offending to take away anyone’s right to have their own opinion" - Where did i try to do that? It's not even possible.
@Rie Ta
"“They know it, you know it, we all know it." - This is an opinion too. This is what i think represents the truth. Of course i can't say for sure, but 'in my opinion' it does. You don't have to take it to heart. Think whatever you want to.
"You take away my freedom of speech and claim to know my opinion while my real opinion is ignored." - lol It's not possible to take anything away from anyone unless we were face to face. It could only be done physically, by holding your mouth shut as you tried to speak. That would be taking away your freedom of speech. You have an odd understanding of freedom of speech. (Do i need to end that sentence with "IMO"?)
"It appears like my right of having my own opinion is denied." - Again i don't see how, but you seem to know that on some level as you say it only "appears" that way.
...IMO? lol
@Rie Ta
"Your comment came off rather condescending to me, too. That was another point.
But it’s just my personal perception."
You mean this: "Everyone knows this. You must be blind and deaf if you don't at least sense it." - This is another opinion, it's irrelevant. Don't take things personally on the internet. I could be an AI program for all you know. And opinions don't mean squat. You don't have to respect my opinions. Just make sure to respect our ability to formulate, have, hold and express opinions without fear of being punished or silenced by the government/police. That's the important thing. The content of an opinion is irrelevant. Disrespect the content all you want, that's fine. It's even okay to have no respect for me as an individual. Really it's okay. It's not going to paint you in a negative light for not liking someone or their opinions. Argument is healthy so long as it doesn't turn into physical violence. Call it like you see it, always look for the truth (not "your" truth, not "my" truth, THE truth), and always do your very best not to lie. You stick with that and the rest is cakewalk. lol
Could it be that you don't live in the US? That would explain a couple of things. You don't have to answer, i was just curious.
"ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds"
Lmao
Are they rationing heat carbon and pressure for the diamonds dafuq
I mean we can just grow diamonds now
All diamonds are sustainable because the demand is far less than the supply. We just have to arrest the Debeers for international market fraud and make them release the huge diamond stocks they have.
"only 12 African children died for this" (thunderous applause)
Dalf33 fucking lmao
“She’s not as funny looking as Shelly Duvall”. 😂
I actually think Shelly looks better
Shane Green I liked because I know what that is
@Shane Green or just mention Rich Evans in a clever yet somehow familiar way.
@Shane Green It's a fucking youtube comment mate, calm the fuck down.
@Shane Green Hi, you must be new here. Half in the Bag isn't after likes. That should be obvious to everyone yet here we are.
I think that the rose the hat astral projection scene was pretty awesome
Mike: "I guess (Parasite) was a little overt"
A little? The movie literally hits someone over the head with the metaphorical rock.
Jammonstrald the movie was super obvious about its themes of class inequality and class warfare but it was kinda subtle regarding its anti rich and anti capitalist messages. An inferior, less subtle anti rich movie would paint the rich as pure evil and the poor as saints but parasite had enough nuance to paint both of them as morally ambiguous. Some people even missed the fact that the movie was anti capitalist. I’ve seen people erroneously think that the movie was criticizing both the rich and the poor equally. Look at Elon musk, who said parasite was his favorite movie of the year, despite the fact that his life is a captialist’s wet dream. And if anyone is skeptical of the movie being anti cap, the director himself has said in interviews that the movie, along with other movies he has made, are critical of capitalism.
@@rashotcake6945 You can watch anti-capitalist stuff and still think it's an amazing movie/series/show/game. I love capitalism, but i also love cyber punk themed stuff, and they're 90% of the times highly anti-capitalist and most of the times really on your face about it. But i do agree with your opinion, the movie was quite subtle about it's critique on capitalism, which is why i think, along with being South Korean (tons of young people, 30 and lower, highly obsessed with Korean culture, hypocrites who hate on people who even midly like japanese culture) are the reasons for why it got so much love from hollywood.
Definitely a good movie, but not as good as to deserve all those awards.
@@One.Zero.One101 So like, the poor people would say cheesy lines like "they're nice because they're rich" or "if there's one lesson to learn, it is to never make plans"? And the wealthy people would say evil things like "the smell of poor people makes me nauseous"?
@E M One can like the movie without pretending it's something that it is not. It's not subtle, it's over the top; it's not nuanced, it's reductive; it's not revelatory, it's reactionary; it's not clever, it's an appeal to emotion.
It's beautifully shot, well paced, and decently performed. But the writing sacrifices character, plot, world building, and internal consistency for the sake of really hammering its metaphor/message, while being unsure of what it really even wants to say about the ideas and people it is upset about. Being an overt, heavy-handed film doesn't make it bad. It just makes it overt and heavy-handed, which Parasite is. One can make the argument whether delivering the message in such a way is necessary, but one cannot argue that it is being delivered in that way.
The person I responded to was making the claim "if the movie were what you were saying it is, it would contain things like (examples)", when it in fact does contain things like that. Saying that "those lines aren't actually cheesy though" does nothing to dispute that the movie uses simplistic ideas, language and imagery to tell the audience how they should feel and think. It's the difference between having the rich family in the movie act nice towards the poor family, and letting the audience decipher if and how much that nicety is a product of the family's prosperity through the expression of their character behaviors, versus having a character outright say "this is what is happening and how the filmmaker wants people to interpret this". Parasite does the latter throughout the movie quite pointedly, and it's cheesy.
Mike: "What's the story where the prince goes undercover as a pauper?"
I think it was called "The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down"
billy and the Cloneasaurus?
This comment is deep cuts
It's called Trading Places.
It's like Speed 2, but on a bus.
Henry Thomas did an outstanding job. He was playing Jack Torrance, not doing a caricature of Jack Nicholson.
In the director's cut it's a lot more distracting, there's a second scene in the bathroom where he's got a lot more front on scenes which don't look so good. And he's definitely meant to look like Jack Nicholson.
@@brentonbell1014 it never bothered me. Why people have such a problem with him?
it's nice to know that C Thomas Howell is still getting work
The best part about Dr Sleep is the fact that my local cinema showed the Shining as promotion for it
Jay and Mike are the Syskel and Ebert of this generation...with celebrity Rich Evan sprinkled in.
...but good
i guess because they’re talking about Parasite, Rich wasn’t allowed to be there
Speak of the Devil and all that.
What? I enjoyed Rich's commentary a lot whenever they cut to him in those short video clips, very elegant and thought provoking opinions.
*WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO OUR CULTURE THAN THE JOKER?*
You’re asking a rhetorical question
Rich Evans.
What more can you want when you *_LIVE IN A SOCIETY_* ?
Toilet paper
Martin Scorsese
Subtitles are basically essential for me to watch movies, and I kind of hate it when that isn't an option. There are legit actors who do mumble incoherently, like Sam Elliott and Jeff Bridges, so it can really be a lifesaver. Plus, let's not forget certain films, like Nolan's, when the score is blasted into your eardrums while everyone is basically whispering, and you feel like an old person, wanting them to turn it down just a bit, as well as fast paced thinker movies where the dialogue is absolutely critical and essential too. So, yeah, #teamsubtitles!
“Terminator: Deep Fake” caused me to choke on my croutons
Samson Rosan me on my pizza rolls
I like that the hotel felt smaller, in the shining the hotel is the "villain", so it needed to be intimidating and imposing. But here Danny's wise to it's shit, and doesn't fear it, and it's "weaker" anyways. Idk, it felt intentional, and it worked for me.
If they shot it like that intentionally then that's genius
@@alexsilva28 Flanagan is a sharp enough writer for me to believe it.
Fuck you too
I think he fears it but that larger imposing take in the shining seemed important because he’s a child and the world looks much larger than when he’s an adult.
It's just like in Hook...
"I remember you being a lot bigger"
"To a 10 year old I'm huge"
Also a famous Kevin Spacey quote.
It took me a while to realize the footage of the guy ranting about Parasite was not, in fact, a drunk Rich Evans in disguise
He had none of Rich Evans' poise or elegance
More like a test tube Seth Rogen.
Imagine being that guy, and finding out that RLM thinks you're a dumbass.
Correct. Rich doesn't drink. It was a sober Rich Evans in disguise.
The way Mike says Ghost is so Midwestern, it gets me every time 🤣
Can you redo this episode without the skeleton please, its scaring me.
The cutaways to reactions to eminem while Joaquin's speech is deserving of an Oscar for best editing
I saw parasite in theatres the same day I saw the lighthouse... that was a pretty good day
Hey, same here!
Ryan Mudd The theatre cancelled the showing of The Lighthouse that I was gonna go to because I would’ve been the only person watching it. Had to wait to buy it on DVD >:(
Saw 1917 same day. Good day
I saw those films a week apart, both absolutely phenomenal
I really loved Doctor Sleep (at least the director's cut). So underrated.
36:42 How nice it is of Mike to not spoil the plot. After showing crucial scenes of the climax of course.
Every movie trailer
13:00 Danny Lloyd is a professor at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College here in Kentucky and apparently gets super aggravated when asked about The Shining.
He especially hates when people bring up his role as Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace.
My best friend's mom has had his kid in class. I've been trying to get him to ask her to ask him if I can film an interview with him but I don't think it'll do anything.
Also, I think if he hated the movie that much, he wouldn't have agreed to be in Doctor Sleep.
@@wright96d There was an interview with him a could years ago and, as I recall, he has fond memories of the shoot and Kubrick. Kubrick sent him the tricycle buggy after filming wrapped.
@@Garthdon Jar Jar was the key to all that.
@@wright96d He only agreed to be in Doctor Sleep so he could renew his SAG membership
SPOILERS FOR PARASITE START AT 24:50
(yes the hack frauds don't warn about it at all)
THAT ONE WAS KINDA A HUGE SPOILER
warning 10 minutes after showing a pivotal scene lmao
I'm glad I waited 2 weeks to watch this and watch it after I saw the film (which everyone should do anyway) but I laughed hard to see such an important scene which could ruin the whole film used straight away lmao
the whole reason I went and saw Doctor Sleep was because Flannigan was directing it. Didn’t even know it was a sequel to The Shining until I was in the theater with 2 other people
Mike knows truly how to milk his Milwaukee accent for all the charm it has when he's making jokes.
Mike trying to describe the history of class conflict and storytelling is gold.
I reaaaally hope him calling it a "timeless non-political fairy tale with no connection to modern economics" was just some super dry humor because that's some next level galaxy brain shit
@@LordoftheStrings109 are you new to this channel?
@@LordoftheStrings109 It wasn't a joke, but like... did you pick up on the context of the conversation?
27:10. You don't even have to get to the 28:00 mark before Jay clarifies Mike's comment FOR you.
Mike's humor is fairly dry, but not that dry or super subtle. He's just a crazy, ghost chasing, early-senile fraud who can't word good no more.
I would love nothing more than a re:View of The Lighthouse.
Its just Jay talking to a seagull and occasionally Rich walks by and farts.
Yer fond of me pizza rolls ain’t ye?
@@hexipolar8158 Bad luck to watch a Breen film. It in is the lost souls of filmcrews.
Didn't they already do a Half in the Bag?
@@NecromancyForKids Yes but a deep dive would be appreciated.
Imagine being Robert Storm, getting an endless storm of backlash, hate, and condemnation on your video, and then having Red Letter Media directly call you out in their review on your hypocrisy and idiocy. Life is good.
I was waiting for Dan to write "Hello there" on the blackboard wall.
"what's the story where the prince goes undercover as a pauper?" lol
A little film called "Purple Rain." You should see it.
Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties
Frank Stallone
it was weird having rich just hanging out peaking around the corner the whole time
I've done it!!! I've finally caught up with every HITB episode -- now, where's my treat?
Fun fact: Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong IL, was a large fan of American films especially James Bond films, he directed several propaganda films and his love of film making went to the extent that he kidnapped a South Korean movie star and forced to to be in his own movies
"If you make a really good movie, then people will see it!"
-Jay Baumann
"Now that's a pull-quote!"
-Rich Evans
It sounds good in theory but sadly not true.
A lot of good films bomb at the box office all the time.
It's like that South Park episode with Rock bands where at the end of the episode Trey and Matt tell the viewers "just make money from Live shows", and that being true for VERY VERY FAMOUS bands, 99% of the artists in the industry cannot survive that way.
A great example of a intelligent person not really thinking it through before giving his conclusion.
And it's not even nitpicking or pointing out exceptions.
Hey man.. I'm just pulling quotes. So that's just like.... Your opinion man.
Also *An Intelligent person. 😀
It sure was nice of them to let Jack listen to their discussion from the doorway.
I caught on late and just recently started watching you guys. Please keep doing this.
My wife watched Parasite on some probably illegal streaming service, and when I walked by the living room I could tell she was really into the film and not just passing the time. As soon soon as it was over, she ran over to me excitedly and said I “have to watch this movie!” She watched it a second time, and I too was glued to the screen so reading the subtitles didn’t feel like much of a burden.
It's a really good movie and very entertaining. It moves from dark comedy to horror to tragedy rather seamlessly.
Mike's Wisconsin accent while saying "ghosts" is worth the price of admission
Fun fact: yesterday I saw rich evans cosplaying sonic while screaming gotta go fast
Fun fact: yesterday I saw Sonic cosplaying as Rich Evans while screaming need my diabetes pills
@@justindavis3623 Fun fact: yesterday I saw diabetes cosplaying rich evans while screaming who let the dogs out
@E my mind easily created a mental picture of this... too easily...
I loved Doctor Sleep. I read the book and saw the movie and as a child of an alcoholic father whom I know loves me despite his own issues the story really resonated with me. I found it deep and profound, much like The Shining, which is a horror but there’s a whole family drama surrounding that horror, and love keeping the horror in check. Anyway. I thought Dr. Sleep was a great conclusion to The Shining. I’ve read it twice and am about to go read it again after watching this review.
Saw Dr sleep last night and I loved it! You guys reflected my thoughts
I only watch this channel for the VCR repair tutorials.
I actually think the fact that The Shining sets feel smaller now works great. Because if you view it from the point of view of Danny, the last time he saw this place was when he was a child. So now that he’s grown up it would seem smaller. Not saying this is the intention, but it does work really well narratively.
Doctor Sleep is gonna get a large following over the years I have a feeling.
15:15 jay synced up with jack nicholson drinking at the bar lol
If the Joker had nothing to do with comics that neckbeard would have never seen it, as demonstrated he didn't see Parasite.
Honestly, if he didn't see Parasite, then he has no right to decide whether or not it deserves its awards less than other movies. I didn't see Parasite, and I did see Joker, but I'm not gonna say one is more deserving of an award than the other for the same reason I wouldn't say my local pizza place has the best pizza in the area.
He also hasn't seen Taxi Driver or King of Comedy.
or a vagina
or the claws of doom as extended by the bio mech bastard lord of kroleth
That dude looks like the type where you just smile and nod and move on. No need to further humiliate him because he's doing a great job doing just that himself.
Best Valentine's Day EVER
it's true
Library lovers day thank you
what social problems did joker touch upon? the need for more comprehensive healthcare coverage for the poor? something im sure affliction tshirt guy would be against.
Exactly
No idea who that screaming microphone guy was, but that's all I ever need to see of him in my life. Great reviews though. Somehow I missed this one back when it came out, and based on your review I'll definitely seek out Dr. Sleep.