Half in the Bag Episode 116: Blair Witch and Don't Breathe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2016
- Mike and Jay are back at Mr. Plinkett's house, discussing two recent horror films: The rebootquel Blair Witch and Don't Breathe, a movie that isn't a sequel, reboot, or the first entry in a cinematic universe.
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So Don't Breathe is a story about how a bunch of idiots try to rip off a blind, disturbed old man. Wonder where they got that idea from. . . . .
The People Under The Stairs.
"Its about family"
redlettermedia should sue the bastards who made blare bitch
Milo didn't even get it lol
Is Mr. Plinkett blind? Don't think so, bud.
"Mike what did you think of.."
"I HATE YOU"
Classic Mike bantz.
He's such a playful guy
"Mike let her go, no more innocent people have to die"
"FUCK YOU"
What did Mike mean by this
"So, Mike, would you...?"
"NO!"
"Bantz isn't a word"
Oh my sweet Summer child.
References.
Someone's gonna make a movie thats filmed vertically and all of the footage is a bunch of 10 second snapchat videos cut together.
I would watch that.
I'm pretty sure this exists already, a horror called sickhouse? Jesus I hope it isn't vertical.
I could see that being done by some pretentious indie studio
There's an awful film from fullscreen that's got the exact same concept as that, it was filmed with a female's snapchat, I think it's called sickhouse
That already exists, it's called boyhood. Did you know boyhood took TWELVE years to make!
2:58 I love that Mike says, "it had great sound" at the same moment his audio gets fucked up.
It's like poetry, it rhymes
I would watch a movie where a bunch of VCR repairers try to break into Mr Plinkett's House and steal his money and plinkett has to defend himself.
@@janesmith1840 what about space cop 2
"You can't amp up subtlety"
I don't know if that is a well known expression or if it was something Hitchcock or someone said once, but that's kind of a brilliant statement.
Hitchcock is far to sophisticated to say "amp up".
Lil' Connor Peterson
Gotta pay the toll ya know
I often wonder if Mike and Jay actually know how to fix VCRs.
Given how many movies they watch on VCR for best of the worst etc. I'd say all the team have a fairly good grasp
Josh the Wizard repaired a damaged VHS tape in an episode of Best of the Worst.
Wait, you don't just stick an unsharpened pencil and spin it around? Fuck, no wonder my local lightning fast repairs stopped getting business
they forgot how
It would take 12 hours to develop the film!
They SO need to make Silent Screams. It's a better idea than Space Cop.
No, some fan of theirs needs to make it and gift the rights to them. I woul do it, but I am in the middle of 7 projects.
+nightowl685 Is Silent Screams replacing Space Cop?
This channel almost makes it worth continuing to live
Cerwiggle almost
Suicide is a serious matter call 1(888) 938-3825 if you or anyone you know is considering suicide
Why do you think life is worth continuing ? What are you happy
@@orlandomoltar on my country there is no such thing as a hotline for mental healt xd. Nice.
Idk man it’s a great channel but fuck life sucks
I knew one of the cats that survived 9/11.
He managed to get a good job, nice home money in the bank...
Yeah, he landed on his feet.
Did he buy a boat?
Boooo!
File that joke
yeah we call em Lucky Larry Silverstein.
This was perfect
yep found it and just commented it lmao "Sept. 28, 2001 -- Talk about having nine lives, Tweety Pie is one very lucky feline survivor of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. When terrorists crashed two hijacked planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, they did more than leave 6,000 people either dead or missing."
How did I not know they made a movie based on Mr Plinketts life?
LOL😂😂😂
All I'm thinking about now is how awesome an early 1900 found footage movie would be. Grainy sepia film, no audio. Would be creepy as hell. I wanna see it!
Like Nosferatu with shaky-cam
With Rich Evans.
You couldnt really move cameras around so it would make no sense
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the novel) is actually a found footage, or found document or whatever, book. The whole thing is diary entries and similar things.
I suppose no sound would be better than a horror film louder than Saving Private Ryan but silent horror? I guess so.
Found footage within a conventional film can be very effective, like the characters find film within the film's world. Gives you an opportunity to tap the advantages of both genres and a lot more freedom creatively.
this is the best thing to come home to
This is the best thing to come to at home
did you mean cum?
AAAAAAAAAIDS?
I go to the woods to watch this, then I watch bears.
Other than a loving wife?
A 9/11 movie about cats could quite possibly be the worst and the greatest ever.
Never Fur-get.
Never purr-get
Fur-get bout it
How can you guys joke about that cat-astrophe?
@@casinoroyalewcheese "It's a kitten calamity." -The "man" who hates Halloween, Rich Evans.
9/ives11
The sequence from the original with Mike in the corner and Heather screaming like crazy still gives me goosebumps, even when it's shown in this episode for like 2 seconds.
The thing about every horror movie from the past 20 years is that they all have the same sound effects.
For example jump scares are all accompanied by 'Girl screeching + metallic thud'.
I remember the "scary monster pops up" scare memes from early internet used to scare children. Who would've known those scares would grow up to star in big budget Hollywood movies.
@The Smoking Salmon Do you mean the cliche of: POV shot of darkness, or monster standing still, usually with creepy childrens music, and then the herky jerky, like, stop motion of only a few frames, accompanied by a cacophony of screams/screeching/metal machine music, where the monster zooms up to the camera and is in your face? I'm so tired of it. Any movie that relies on jumpscares has at least one of this variety, and you can't not see it coming
After I left Don't Breathe I thought to myself, 'I can't wait to see if Jay and Mike make a video about this'
Then I sat and stared at my computer for three weeks. Thanks RLM time to eat.
A watched toaster never boils, because toasters aren't used to boil liquids, they are used to toast things.
"I like horror movies that are firmly grounded in reality."
- Mike "I believe in ghosts" Stoklasa
You are a fucking idiot.
There is a huge difference between an interest in the paranormal and believing in ghosts.
The Blair Witch are aliens watch the third Blair Witch movie that's made in 2016 you find out.
Peregrinus Oblivione you don’t enjoy obvious jokes too much, do you?
@@caleb3909 *NO ONE* talks about my buddy Mike like that
Ironic that there were audio problems just when Mike talks about how good the sound was in BW
i thought it was my headphones
I think that was intentional
Yay. It wasn't only me that noticed!
Arcrombie stop, that's so old.
Thank goodness, I thought there was something wrong with my headphones.
Mike has watched so much Star Trek he has actual Vulcan ears now.
How bad are movies these days that you'd rather watch people talking about them than the movies themselves.
Or people like to watch them talk about movies because they are avid movie fans.
Or people like to watch them talk about movies because these guys are fun to listen to.
Not that movies haven't been fucking awful lately.
pwrightrocks
That's pretty much what I meant.
pwrightrocks
Did my comment come off as critical against the show?
Nah, I was just agreeing, mostly, and kinda replying to the previous comment. TH-cam changed replying on mobile and I don't know if I can reply to specific comments any more.
A silent found footage horror film with camp 1920's piano music would be pretty entertaining. Hopefully it's been done before so that hollywood can remake it.
Although there is already a movie called "Silent Scream" so they missed the boat on the title.
"You can't amp up subtlety." - Such a great quote.
What I found funny was that Blair Witch 2016 pretty much did EXACTLY what Mike wanted out of the first movie:
-Giving the audience something specific to be "scared" about
-Tying the Blair Witch plot with the serial killer in the 1940's
-Technically faster pacing since all the shenanigans started EARLIER despite the movie's running time being 10 minutes LONGER than the original.
no wonder he liked it so much better!
You know, headset cameras aren't a bad idea for a found footage horror movie. You can make one about adventurers wearing Go-Pros, and a movie that takes place in real time, something in the vein of The Descent, maybe?
watch VHS
I don't disagree, but opening with "You know" harms your credibility in context with this video.
Thom R Shit.
Go-Pro batteries run out after an hour though. So the ghost needs to hurry the hell up.
VHS is one of the only found footage horror movies that I actually enjoyed. Not saying it's perfect, but some of the stories were interesting, and the camera work was cool. A few of them I didn't care for too much, but the succubus...
It wasn't a rape dungeon, it was a fertilization basement.
panteradeth lmao It's all about branding, I guess.
"It's not a pyramid scheme, it's an upside down funnel scheme"
The newly renamed Emperor Palpatine's Fertilization Center.
A fertilasement
@@bagel_bitez1 Sounds french!
I couldn't find cats dying in 9/11 (just a dog) but I did find a blind cat named Homer that had to wait for two weeks for her owner to get better from her injuries. He got a book written about him.
I enjoyed watching "Don't Breathe" a lot more when I imagined it was Mr.Plinkett's brother.
> "Skip to this time code"
> (No time code provided)
I could tell it was gonna be abhorrent when the trailers were louder than a goddamn Meshuggah concert
Hey I know that band, you're right they are loud!
Lmao same!
luke666808g
You're right, I'm the loud obscure band boy, that's me!
yeah but who are you?
"Meshuggah" is Hebrew for "crazy"
10:50 "You can't amp up subtlety" damn that's like some poetic shit, Mike.
Sadly Im pretty sure the plot for the movie Don't Breathe at its core is taken from a real life case. A man from Minnesota named Byron David Smith killed two teens who broke into his house looking for pain pills and other stuff to pawn to support their opiate addiction. It was an extremely sad case where the male cousin went inside to attempt the burglary and was shot and killed quickly. The female cousin waited for a while and then went in to get the male out of the house. When she entered the house the man shot her in the stomach. Unlike the male burglar the female did not die when she was shot. Mr Smith dragged the dying teen girl into another room where he recorded her crying and pleading for help. Mr Smith had decided that once the kids broke into his house that it didnt matter what he did to them or their bodies..kind of they broke onto his property and forfeit their lives.. so anything goes. He slowly watched her die for a while, but decided that she wasn't dying fast enough. He told her it was her time to die and walked up to her with a small handgun and placed it under her chin and shot her through the top of her skull. He waited for about two days before calling the police, and when they asked him how the girl died he told them "it was a good clean kill".
The case was a fairly big deal politically with gun and property rights advocates claiming once the teens entered the house it made no difference how he killed them or what he did with their bodies, while the other side felt because the teens were unarmed the man didnt have the right to shoot them. The court eventually kind of split it down the middle, finding the man not liable for killing the male when he entered the house, but finding Smith guilty of murder in the case of the female teen. Once she was shot she was determined to no longer be a threat and the police should have been called immediately. Homeowners do not have to right to Coup de Gras 19 year old girls who are no threat. This was the center of the idea, and the movies writers went from there.
*praising audio in Blair Witch*
*video makes buzzy/static noise*
that's the joke
Fucking hack-frauds. They finally got me.
Classy sleaze is rare and underappreciated. Crank comes to mind!
I don't see how fucking someone on horse race track comes anywhere near classy.
"Ah...leisure."
"You better not shout, you better not cry, or sharp hand joe gonna poke out your eyes"
Victim 1: Blair Witch
Victim 2: Death Note
Victim 3: Godzilla vs King Kong
Wingard needs to be stopped.
WatchJim lmao he directed death note?! XD
thank you for saying this because nobody addressed this at all
Agree. He wasn't my ideal choice to directed Godzilla vs. Kong, but I'm interested to see what he will do with it
g
@@kirbysauce Oh, that's a healthy piece of real estate.
20:01 mike is so proud of his joke that he temporarily regresses to age 3
"Australiaing" - A character climbing something perilous for no reason, and then dying for the purposes of contrived tragedy.
No cats died in the making of 9/11.... A lot of birds and some service dogs though. RIP
Silent Screams, written by Max Landis, starring Rich Evans as Space Cop and Mike Stoklasa as alien monster Palpy, shot using 1920s film stock. Take my money already!
DON'T BREATHE has more plot holes than a piece of Swiss cheese...But everything happens so fast you do not get a chance to think about the holes...The audience I saw it with really enjoyed the movie...
I think this movie should have been an action movie. They DO find his sister, and she is the rambo of the woods. She's been hiding out for years, hiding and surviving. They're sitting around her campsite that has a protective barrier around it. She says in a really gruff voice, "Finally, we have enough to fight back. Here, take this AK."
Somewhere between 2 A.M and 3 A.M I realised Mike is exactly how Trent Reznor would have turned out, had the latter born in 80's and never made any music.
I can't tell if that's an insult to Trent Reznor or Mike
I woke up gay.
why the fuck do I keep seeing you everywhere.
what are you jay?
You went to sleep gay too.
Still sitting in here makin comments by yourself? Why don't you come inside play a little man's game, ya know, little _video games_ turbo?
Shirai must be responsible
Don't Breath seems like a very big rip off of People Under the Stairs. Burglars breaking into a house with a hidden treasure, getting trapped in the house with an unsuspecting person being a bad ass, hidden tortured people.
Well, that's basically how I felt. As soon as the stick figure hoax was revealed, I was like "Oh shit, here's our element of doubt!" Then they immediately discard that and confirm the witch is an unstoppable, supernatural entity. I like to hope for the protagonists in these movies, but they felt doomed as soon as it was confirmed they were magically trapped in the woods with no chance of escape. Yaaaaawn! The tunnel scene was very tense, I would most like to NOT die in a situation like that - but that's all it was, a good setpiece inserted into a half-baked movie.
The "it's soooo cooooold" line toward the end (whilst in the presence of the witch) was creeeepy & evocative
Oh god please oh please will someone greenlight and fund RLM's "Silent Screams" film? This must be made.
The kids in Blair Witch weren't poor college students, they were all there through the "John Hughes Scholarship".
I looked up "How many cats died" and the first fucking suggestion was "in 9/11". Not even kidding.
I know this comment is 4 years old but I wanted to ask how many and then saw your profile pic and feel bad that I know what that is
A found footage movie I found to be super-effective is JeruZalem, much of it filmed guerrilla-style without permits. I enjoyed it for what it is: a movie which substituted inventiveness for budget; the film costing $300,000... this I saw the same day as I watched Batman v Superman, a film which cost $300,000,000+ and is totally creatively bankrupt.
If you type "how many cats died" into google the second suggestion is "on 9/11"
YAAAAY I don't have to kill myself.
It's funny because it's true 😢😂
Would you trust someone else to do it?
So fkn true
It's been done, i'm typing this from the void.
HA - never heard that one before.
When the cats jumped from the burning twin-towers...
they fucking landed on their feet!
As a guy who spends time camping in the woods, the thing about this movie that really disturbed me was the fact that the sun didnt come up. Imagine that for a second.
REVIEW THE FORCE AWAKENS ALREADY!!!
Are menial questions going to replace Rich Evans?
Why is everyone waiting for the TFA review? I'm still waiting for the next Gamestation episode!
What are u talkin about? They already have.
he's talking about the plinkett review of force awakens. i'm sure they're working on it
More like the Farce Awakens directed by Jar Jar Abraham's produced by Di$ney
1920`s Blair Witch = Jack Black in King Kong?
That spiel about the 1800's found footage had me dying. Spot on, funny shit.
I want a show that's just Jay and Mike pitching movie ideas.
Stumbled across this comment all these years later, and I've got good news for you.
The scares on the original were so simple yet effective, this reboot feels like it's on steroids I chuckled a few times.
"The witch" is the prequel to "the blair witch"
Mike talking about the 1900s found footage movie he and Jay concoct towards the end of the Blair Witch review, Silent Screams, is probably the most animated and most happy I've EVER seen him in any of these reviews and videos.
I felt so much nostalgia seeing all of those VCRs. Thanks!
When you said... *"Plinkett...Coming Soon."* ....at the end of your last video, this is what you meant, isn't it?
I was expecting another review tease, but it appears they're just trolling us
Make Silent Screams.
I'm serious. Fucking do it.
I think those VCRs look gorgeous. I love the look of 80s/90s technology.
Through my extensive research I have found and concluded that "some" cats died on 9/11.
Anyone else notice some mic/audio problems with the commentary?
Yup, Mike's mic was pretty noisy.
Nope! What do you expect from a YouT video.
It's interference.... From the Blair witch ???????
That's actually called "electro voice phenomenon", you should look it up.
Or... drunk?
Is no one wondering how a blind guy kid napped a women who has sight in the first place?
I don't think you know how DMT works.
+Bungis Albondigas
A 10/10 movie! Fun for all the family, my kids absolutely loved it!
because she's a woman
CheetosForBreakfast
XD
Obviously a blind date
“You can’t amp up subtlety” -Mike Stoklasa
That statement sums up this review beautifully.
I Always love Mike angry with a movie.
The turkey baster down the throat was actually some of the most poetic justice ever put to film:
>old man shoots money with his own gun
>old man gets the moneyshot from HIS own...gun
Basically what i'm getting out of this is that they took Blair Witch and added a bunch of sledge hammers. They crushed the subtlety that gives the original any of it's effectiveness.
yes because thats all that adam wingard knows what to do
With "Don't Breathe", it is established that they gain entry through the one window which isn't barred. Maybe it's the only unbarred window on the ground floor, but the group I saw the film with all understood from that scene that it was the only unbarred window in the entire house. This would explain why they try to exit through the ventilation shaft in the upstairs room rather than the window and why they conclude that their only hope of escape is to unlock the front door.
This all makes consistent sense apart from the scene where the dog pushes one of the characters through the window of that same upstairs room. OK, maybe the burglars thought up until that point that all the windows were barred, but have I missed something which would explain why they never attempt to escape through the broken window?
The window the dog knocks that guy through was boarded up, not barred, if that clears up any confusion. Anyway the girl is kidnapped almost immediately after (she's in the vents by that point) so she doesn't know about the window and I guess you could argue the guy doesn't know about it because he was immediately knocked unconscious?
There's no actual reason he doesn't take her up to the now-broken window after rescuing her though.
Or the fact that when the chloroform bomb was set in the old mans room and he didnt pass out from it. Now if he knew that the chloroform bomb was in the room and held his breath, why the fuck would he go downstairs unarmed and try to see who it is when he has a gun under his bed? Under extreme luck(oh sorry I mean writer bullshit) he figures he won't get shot getting that close to the guy and then disarms him. If money wasn't such a fucking idiot he would've shot him or if it was a different guy he would've shot him and bam no movie.
To be fair, most people are incapable of killing other humans (at least without hesitation or previous training/desensitisation). Money may have been an idiotic character, but not for that reason.
It was a bit strange how the homeowner avoided the c/f bomb. We did see over Money's shoulder as he exited the bedroom that the bed was empty. We can only speculate as to what motivated him to get up and leave the room - something made him suspicious, it seems, but not enough to get his gun.
Many self defence systems teach that approach to disarming someone. Sure, it's a contrivance, but one I was willing to accept on first viewing.
Brocklebury I know that doesn't necessarily make him idiotic, but what I meant was to shoot him in the shoulder or leg to keep him from advancing, not kill him.
I know that it was a self defense, and playing on his own disability and making him appear like "a poor old blind man" was smart. Im saying that if it was a more ruthless man then e would've been dead on the spot. It was the fact that he didnt know and still tried instead of calling the police the first thing he knew something was up(chloroform bomb).
Mike laughs about it, but set designers really work their best no matter what job they have. A set designer can't have a vanity project, it's unfair to them to sink them with the movie when they did a good job.
I scrolled down a lot, but I couldn't find anyone who pointed out that a movie called "Silent Screams" already exist.
It was directed by Vitaliy Versace...
It's like poetry.
Was it about.... AIIIIIIIIDSSSSSSSS?????
This makes me forget I can't produce quality man milk.
Talk about subtle sound editing. Borderline experimental mixture of art and medium. Well done, sirs.
Just watched 'You're Next' - really good, thanks for the recommendation
36:04 Jay is supremely unconcerned with that VCR about to topple onto his head, doesn't even flinch
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@@mcrancher4587 yeah
phhhhhhthhhthppht "It had good sound" phhhhhhthhhthppht
The rules and specific answer to how to escape is exactly the reason I love Japanese films like Ring.
I keep revisiting this episode in particular for that opening attack by Mike
Yay! Dual Half in the Bag is back!
One week of pre-production for a RLM film? That's a new record!
"Why do they keep making movies?" four seconds in and I'm laughing my ass off. Thank god for RLM
These videos are always entertaining but the rapport between Jay & Mike in this review was particularly great. I cackled at the thought of silent-era film found-footage (sounds like a SNL skit) as well as the alternate ending suggestions for "Don't Breathe". Hilarious shit. Fantastic video guys.
YOu didn't go on enough about how inconsistent his senses were. Dude's got no sense of smell at times.
I always wonder if in a Blair Witch situation it is good solution to set forest on fire.(?)
It's the only way to be sure.
Please, enough of this shit already.
I always thought I was the only one with this idea lol
MeToo :D
Being in the woods is being caught in a loop. They would burn with it.
Good review. I was hoping with Don't Breathe they would bring how there is no reason this old man would want a security system that brings the cops to his house. Also how when the cops do show up they obviously don't even go into the basement. Felt like a movie breaker. Love RLM. Keep it up
Another entertaining episode. Thank you.
That last VCR, the Orion, brought back some memories. It was the last VCR I ever purchased. How's that for an interesting and profound comment?
It's not bad.
Why Mike is talking about great sound, Mike's Mike is just not sounding so great. FIX IT YOU LOSER
I love you guys.
Plinkett should review the dumpster fire named "The Martian".
"Spoilers! Skip to to avoid" wow, thanks. That was very helpful.
holy shit a new half in the bag on two movies I've actually already seen! holy fuck
The horror genre is in major need of a revival. More Babadooks and It Follows's (not sure how to pronounce that) please, and fewer Blair Witch reboots and Paranormal Activities.
is the Babadooks any good?
it's good but much more psychological terror than monster terror.
babadook and it follows are so great
@@LuckerW3 yes it's amazing
it follows was pretty bad and could´ve just been an anti std ad because that´s what it basically was.. the babadook was good but not great.. it had its really good horror moments.. e.g. when the mum sees the report on tv about a mother stabbing her son and she sees herself smiling in the window of the house in the background with a knive in her hands.. that was scary stuff. the kid was just too fucking annoying and i hated him so i can never watch the movie again because he is just obnoxious..
i personally liked the first paranormal activity.. the following ones where bad, the first one was so simplistic.. it follows a good rule of true horror, don´t show too much.. because what terrifies people is when they can´t see what´s after them.. e.g. insidious was decent but i laughed out loud as soon as i saw the darth maul looking guy in the first jumpscare.. the dancing boy on the other hand was scary..
for me, the real gem of the last few years was hereditary as it has an amazing visual style and made me sleep bad for 3 days.. i loved that one.. and i wish for more movies like that.. not the jumpscare kind of shit where a bunch of teenagers do something and one at a time dies.. thats not horror, that´s boring as fuck
Silent Screams? Rich Evans in the woods? Sign me up!
If the movie really has great sound, it should win the Oscar for Sound Design.