It is amazing how humble Mike is to continue to appear on his TH-cam shows after his disastrous and humiliating loss to Hollywood A-Lister Rich Evans at TNG trivia night.
To be fair, fixing issues someone else made is very different to making something yourself. It's why many software dev companies practice peer programming - you write something, then have someone else look at it to see if it makes sense. You're both equally good and are fixing large issues with each others' codes. When you work on something from start to finish it's easy to become over-focused on certain elements and overlook others, even though you're normally super aware of them when looking at other peoples' work.
In a TH-cam where nearly everyone just puts links and bios in their video descriptions with maybe a line about what the video actually is, if you're lucky, I truly appreciate RLM's video descriptions where it's just a giant block of text, most of the time becoming more and more unhinged because they know that no one is going to read it. That's where the true comedy lies. Thanks for having something entertaining even in the video description, it's the first thing I read.
"I killed a serial killer and I wish I'd never been born" They could've had her kill someone and not known it was a serial killer, which would also set up a tiny bit of mystery as she tries to figure out what's changed.
Seriously, how is the fact that she killed a known serial killer not one of the most essential things in her life? You'd think she'd be a local celebrity, not just some rando.
Playing Devil's Advocate, while I acknowledge that your idea is better, killing someone regardless of whether or not you know their motives is pretty traumatic. I could see it leaving scars.
Oh my god, you are so right. That would be genius. If you really wanted to go crazy, don't market the movie as a slasher. Market it as a "It's a Wonderful Life" parody, and then have a really horrifying slasher pop up, with no warning other than a PG-13 or R rating. (and of course you bury the lead with those by having people use the appropriate amount of swearing in the first 15 minutes).
Hey! I actually played the news reporter Hank Morton in Thanksgiving! So stoked to see Mike and Jay saw (and liked) the film! Been a fan of you guys for years! Pinching myself 😮
AHHH i worked on santastein (3:59) as a little baby sophomore in film school hahaha. i can bravely say that one’s not a cash grab just a low budget labor of love from two young UMiami grads who love camp horror. by no means the most Moobi freevi tubi movie i’ve worked on. check out Bezos: beginnings if you want a truly soulless money laundering scheme of a movie with an egomaniac at the helm. THAT was awful to work on. CRAZY that these horrible films are like seen as viable things for us young film school grads to work on because usually the sets are so manipulative and honestly dangerous (tho SANTASTEIN was not, different vibes cuz was all pretty much friends). My friend was like the young co lead in Mega boa if anyone remembers that haha another RLM example
I'm not sure that it was your decision, but I certainly hope that after the film was released somebody woke up screaming "we should have called it FrankenSanta!"
You mean the TNG wannabe fan that doesn't even know the difference between TNG and TOS? It's a good thing that William Shatner was able to call him out.
S/o Tim Dillon as the severed head @ 42:49 he was joking about this movie before it came out for months and had Eli Roth on his show to talk about shark depopulation for some reason because Eli is a nutjob
When Jay described the plot of Thanksgiving I was thinking to myself "Man I would love to hear Jay and Mike's thoughts on this film", only to realize I was already watching them. Their dementia is getting to me.
I feel like this is the perfect place to announce my new horror movie! It's called "Space Cop but also there's a Killer". It's just like the classic film but somehow lazier.
After all, everyone knows that an optimist is just a person who doesn't have all the facts. And Mike is the most well informed studio executive in Hollywood.
I did background in Thanksgiving, was one of the blackfriday shoppers, and I can tell you Eli Roth was having way too much fun with this movie. He was just so down to earth, hilarious and the practical effects were so much fun. It was 4 long nights of shooting but it was the most fun I have ever had on a set. There is just something so surreal about watching a woman get scalped by a shopping cart in person. I would work on an Eli Roth set anyday.
I had so much more fun watching Thanksgiving than I've had in many years of mainstream horror releases. It really was exactly what I was hoping it would be.
@lrgogo1517 It was just a practical effect Eli used in the movie. They had makeup with a detachable prosthetic. There were 3 people killed in the black friday scene plus the one guy who gets stepped on and his arm broken, all were practical effects. The coolest being the candy glass door they rigged to come down and crush the security guard before we trampled him to death. I wish I had been available during the parade scene, I heard Eli was having so much fun spraying blood everywhere! It was definitely his over the top kills and use of the practical effects that made thanksgiving such an enjoyable film.
He feeds off of the follicles of the other members of RLM. Josh and Rich are almost sucked dry, Mike is resisting. But nobody can resist Jay, The Norwood Reaper, forever.
Growing up in Jersey, I'm very familliar with the New York Guido stereotype. But watching Mike do it with a fake Chicago/Milwaukee/Wisconsin/Canadian accent, really puts a new black light on it. Although seeing all of Jay's stains under the black light kind of ruins it... kind of.
@@pogglywoggly3292 It's extra funny with the fact that Mike either grew up or at least lived in Chicago and is now living in Milwaukee. It's him using an exagerated accent... From the places that already influenced his accent.
I like how Roth described Thanksgiving "The Grindhouse trailer was from a movie so bad all prints got destroyed but somehow a trailer survived and made it's way onto the darkest parts of the internet, The movie is a clean hollywood remake"
It's a real shame they changed the trampoline kill. That was the best and most memorable part of the entire trailer. What they changed it to was pretty bland.
@Belgand I accidentally skipped to the part where jay describes the trampoline kill and are showing the clip, yeah definitely memorable for all the wrong reasons lol, is it fucked up for me to say I wish it was a dude who got that instead? Whatever, I’m guessing the kill in the actual movie was repeated throat or gut stabbing?
Seeing "barn-elves" being portrayed as gremlins is just weird to me. A nisse/tomte is believed to be the spirit of the person who originally built a farm who simply cannot find rest in death and needs to see his farm is being maintained. They are basically rarely seen small grumpy old men that can help you out around your farm if you are taking good care of it and give them some food (usually porridge). They are grumpy and old, so they can be vengeful if you don't respect what they built, but they would never kill you, and they wouldn't get angered by light or noise. A tomte would do things like missplace tools, curse you with bad luck, or even kill your animals if you particularly angered him, but that's as severe as he'd get. I could see a tomte drink your booze and mess up your house with a party, but he wouldn't call in every other tomte to also trash your place. They are too busy with their own farms. Interesting fact, Santa Clause in Scandinavia is believed to be a tomte, and his elves too, which explains why that is a christmas movie, but it also makes the translation choice of "barn-elf" strange as tomtar and nissar by most people's reckoning are different to elves.
Also Mike thinking that christmas ham would be anathema to a Norwegian but nonchalantly throwing out stuffing as a food staple when I could just guess at what it is was rather funny to me. Different cultures always surprise in what seemingly unique behaviors or items being shared, and what seeming mundanities not being so.
If they did the Ben & Arthur spotlight now, instead of slipping away to buy a dollar picture of Jesus, Jay could have just pulled out his phone and taken a selfie.
Yeah, what the hell? What a disrespectful way to refer to a legitimate, struggling business. I wouldn't show up to your job and call it a "skit." Unbelievable...
Like honestly? I've done exactly the same thing so many times through the last 4/5 years and it's become such a sentimental habit for ne. I love the idea that however many other people are doing the same and. Yeah
"It's only a matter of time until Jay..." should be a recurring bit on the show. "...starts drinking fruit-flavored IPAs he brews himself" "...starts wearing lipstick." "...stops showering." "...puts the lotion on his skin." "...starts showering." "...stops wearing pants while on the clock." "...initiates an inappropriate relationship with that one intern they usually parade around during Christmas specials, and skits about old family comedies starring child actors for some reason."
On the topic of the relationship of It's A Wonderful Knife, to me, it's not the sexuality revelation that's the problem, it's the idea that she's suddenly in another relationship after a couple hours. It'd be the same problem if she'd met another guy and suddenly fell in love with him. It's always a sign of bad screenwriting. I think that's what Mike and Jay were trying to get at, but kind of got hung up on the sexuality reveal. I can easily accept her being bi without the movie flat out saying it, but if you take the build up of her falling in love with any character out, why should we as the audience care?
@@cloudwaves1648 They seem fine with rep, but there's so many odd stipulations they have and it's kind of weird. Like a gay story having to be told a certain way is a wonky way to word what should be a very easy "no build up" critique. The one thing I've always kind of praised Mike and Jay for is just coming off like two dudes who enjoy movies with a love for the craft and no real expectations except to be entertained. They've definitely had a couple old man yelling at cloud takes though and when they happen, it very much sticks out.
Mike, as a Wisconsonian Lutheran, you SHOULD know that the "little area between Christmas and New Years" is called "Christmas". It's a season, not a day. We missed you at the potluck, by the way. Grandma Schmeckenpepper made a wonderful Jello Salad, your favorite.
You can tell the description of the video was written by Mike as an outlet for his frustration after his humiliating trivia defeat against international superstar and world's greatest Star Trek: TNG connoisseur Rich Evans.
Rich playing dumb and swooping in for the last minute kill was masterful genius. Sobriety has unleashed his potential. He will be the alpha in the pack.
Plenty of old stuff out there that's even worse than the gems that RLM watch every now and then. Some youtube channels really deep dive on low budget foreign 80s action movies and no matter how far deep you think you've dug, it keeps going. If "Stone Cold" is surface level and "Miami Connection" is just beneath, look up "The Stabilizer". The poster is a guy who's a combination of Rambo and Cobra. Kick ass theme song too.
@noone3216 I remember seeing clips of that guy in sunglasses and a trench coat that's super strong and fast and there's thousands of him and he basically becomes a giant ball or a transformer lol. I still haven't seen it yet but I've seen clips of those movies of fat middle aged guys being Hollywood badasses that woo the ladies and it's hilarious.
I’m in a masters class for professional writing and in one of my classes we had to write short stories… at least 2 classmates 100% used AI to make their stories (never admitted and I never confirmed) but I really knew they were AI… AI doesn’t know things. It can’t think about story and in paper it doesn’t know adjectives or adverbs. It is super weird to explain but you know it when you see or read it. “Stoically, Batman extravagantly flew off the immaculately tall skyscraper in the ebony night.” Weird crap like that, there is more to writing than adjectives and adverbs. Also the story will make no sense neither will character motivations or dialogue lol
I know Mike was being funny but his point is good. I mean 'it's a wonderful knife' sounds terrible overall, but them not making a fuss about the main character being bi is actually really nice. I'm tired of the oversexual bi stereotype where you can tell the character is bi (sometimes before they even get to their name), because they're being overly h*rny often in public, it's often how they're introduced to the audience. It becomes their one character trait almost always. It's such a thing *especially* with bi people overall, we're so constantly assumed to be super sl*tty and confused -- but for a lot of us it's not that big of a deal. So yeah I prefer a character to just BE bi without it fussed over (especially when not integral to the plot, which seems to be the case here cuz there is no plot).
cool. I mean i knew that... hence my whole comment being a counter-response to Jay's complaint. Basically using her being bi as a plot device, simply because they didn't bother making a decent story, is the laziness I'm tired of in media and glad this one didn't do (for reasons listed in the original comment).
@@supermaryg He complained that there was no set-up when there should have been some sort of story, maybe about her discovering her sexuality. Then you complained about depictions of hyperhorny sexual omnivores, which has nothing to do with anything he said. So no, it wasn't a counter-response and I don't think you do know.
I'm fully aware of what he's saying, and my comment has everything to do with what Jay is saying, and I don't know why it's so hard for you to understand. I'm literally agreeing with Mike's counterpoint 'joke' to Jay, and elaborating on why we don't NEED what Jay is asking for. It's not that complicated or deep. But fine I'll break it down. Sure I have nothing better to do than to explain what exactly 'negative stereotypes' are and how the media perpetuates them. Why do we need a backstory of her being bi? Can we not tell in the story? He did. Was it a surprise? Sure (for him, I assume everyone's bi until told otherwise), but isn't that fine? Can't we fill in the blanks? He said, "oh I guess she's gay" boom, he figured it out. Why does her s*xuality matter to the plot? How would seeing a flashback of her being younger and also attracted to women help elaborate on that? We know she's bi by this point, it's just more of the same. If it was another guy, we wouldn't need a backstory showing she's, in fact, straight. If she had a random scar on her leg that didn't do anything to the plot, would we need a backstory for that as well? Even tho we can see it sometimes? No she can just exist with the scar can't she? What more would her s*xuality backstory add to the plot of the movie? Nothing. Going further, using that specifically AS a plot device when you have no plot is just pandering and also bad. Especially when you add in the fact the representation is almost always negative. In fact, everything Jay was asking for is exactly the crap I'm tired of. "it came out of nowhere" "it should be her whole thing" "did she know this" (love that) "it just happens" (phrased as a critique) Yes bi people just exist. It's really not a big deal. Needing a backstory MAKES it a deal. I don't need a straight person's flashbacks showing them that they had a gay confused moment but got over it, so I definitely don't need it for the bi/gay people. Because when they DO all those things that Jay is asking for - it's all the things I listed above that you're glossing over. Do you get the connection now? My complaint is media "solves" jay's problems with ONLY the things I listed above. "What makes a person bi? Well they're just h*rny and confused". Nearly. Every. Damn. Time. These depictions that I'm complaining about are the DEFAULT in all media. Heavily. We don't get "regular" bi people, we have to have some weird backstory that focuses on our "sl*ttiness" to excuse it (what Jay was basically asking for) -- tropes associated with bi people IRL that are extremely harmful. You very likely do not know this, but even the gay community, there's a lot who won't even date bi people because of these preconceived notions. "Bi people cheat" (because we're h*rny and confused) is a discussion I still hear all the damn time. Media has never done us any favors before and I have no faith in them to get it right. So, yeah having a woman just be bi without any fanfaire, is actually doing us a huge service. No montage of her hooking up with people left and right, her looking at women going "who am i?". Dude some of us were into women before men. I mean, wouldn't it be crazy if they actually showed a flashback with her happily gay and then having a straight confusion moment and then realizing she's bi? I bet some people would still have a problem and need more explanation... for some reason.... hah. Honestly the "explain why she's bi" and calling it "character growth" just has this straight justification (also: straight is "normal") energy to it. Like there has to be an excuse or reason, and it does not sit right with me. Uh I wasted like 10 minutes on this how lame. especially with likely getting a "too long" response back. I tried to keep it short before but here we are... If you don't get it at this point that's your problem man. Your attitude sucks anyway and it's wild you're ignoring how many likes my random ass comment (that even I expected to get zero traction on) got, and instead you're boldly stating "I don't think you know" to the situation I'm fully aware of already of, and many other people understood my points fine. So clearly *you* are the one who needs to do some learning here, ok? rewatch the video and re-read these comments and take a walk. I'm going to go do literally anything else because even staring at a blank wall is more productive than continuing this further.
@@supermarygwhy would you just assume everyone you meet is bi? How is that better than assuming everyone you meet is straight or gay? What kind of a weirdo meets someone and is like “I’m going to assume what they’re sexually attracted to”? You people are so phony and full of yourselves it’s not even funny.
About the strange rating of There is something in the barn as a Norwegian I think I can explain. Its cultural basically, in Norway this rated 12+ "no kids under 12 without parents". We are usually just more lenient on ratings like that. Swearing is usually no big deal so its usually the amount of violence, gore and nudity along with tone. So this meant as a funny movie made for an mainly Norwegian audience hence the rating. Fun fact: Norwegian reviews found the here in Norway jokes grating and it is indeed meant to be a riff on Gremlins
Think there was a TikTok of an American mom taking her child to see this in Norway and demanding a refund because she thought it’d be a kids movie because of the rating
To add to this and give an example, Deadpool, an R-rated film, was 15+ in Norwegian cinemas, meaning 12-year olds could go see it with their parents (or a guardian).
Their English language skills are fine, it's just nearly impossible to remove all remnants of an accent if you are trying to portray a native of a country you weren't born in.
@@MGW27it's not impossible. It's called *acting* . And before you say anything, i live in Sweden. Also Norwegians being like: "oooh look at us, we're Norwegians! We're so quirky and special!". God damn Norwegians... They ruined Norway!
Right after the guy on the bridge in Blood Rage delivered his second "That is not cranberry sauce", you can see a crew member behind a tree in background!
The classroom with the mannequin heads is likely for teaching aesthetics. We had one at our high school for Poors, along with a few other trade school staples, because grads were expected to go straight into the workforce.
I watched an actually good Xmas horror, yesterday. Rare Exports: A Christmas Story. It's weird and wonderful, and from Finland. And Scandinavia has some crazy ass Christmas traditions.
I feel like anyone considering it should watch the short first, then decide if they feel like it needs a feature-length prequel that explains the backstory to how the business got started. I really disliked it.
To be fair, it's easy to be distracted away from Jay being confused about eschewing default heteronormativity when your brain is reading the green prop behind Jay in the yelling voice of Rich Evans.
In a dystopia Orwellian-like future, set in an even *more* myopic and hopeless 1984, poor, soulless and wretched human beings representing the reduced role of the common mortal being in a society bereft of joy; these bastards comprise the foundation of all that humanity has left. In this future people like Mike are called therapists.
I did it in his phoney-baloney "these are actual movie reviews im reading". Which I'm going to guess is the same voice he uses when trying to explain how the remote works to *"ANYONE THAT TOUCHES THIS PIECE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BETTER KNOW HOW TO USE THIS!"*
13:04 I really appreciate Mike trying to understand other people's perspectives. As someone who is bi/pan, seeing a character who just happens to be bi in a movie without a big deal being made of it feels really nice. People can be gay or bi and not have it be their whole personality. I think this discussion points to the common misconception that a lot of people have that people are either gay or straight. I was a bit worried at first, but this was a very good conversation. Thanks
Look at Talk to Me for example. It was completely incidental that a character was trans and it was refreshing to see. Like, big deal who cares? What is their character about? Now look at It’s A Wonderful Knife and they’re literally yelling weirdo to their face. This character was a vehicle for the writers to pat themselves on the back for being so inclusive and accepting. That “you matter” line wasn’t deserved at all. Bunch of hacks.
There might be augments on which one is hotter: pre-covid "blow-dry pomade" Jay or post-covid "fabulous lumberjack" Jay But one thing is absolutely irrusufable: Rich Evans is the undisputed champion of the Star Trek TNG Trivia forever and ever!
Wisconsin and Michigan are probably the two states that are THE most compatible with Norwegians and nordics in general. All drink copious amounts of beer, have weird cheese and dairy traditions, it's cold and play hockey
Thanksgiving is based on the mad Magazine feature from 1980 called "Arbor Day". At least that's what Eli Roth used as a blueprint for the grindhouse trailer.
I want a holiday horror movie that you don't know is a horror movie until 1/3rd or half way through. Think of your generic Hallmark Christmas movie that turns into a slasher. That would be quite the surprise for middle aged moms!
I've always loved that idea. No one has the guts to actually do it though. I was going to ask how it could even be done with marketing the way it is, but right now, they could just drop it on a streaming service with no trailer and a vague description, and let word of mouth spread it around.
It's sad but companies would rather use AI than pay a writer. They can't even notice how bad AI is fucking up because the people in charge are soulless drones themselves.
Their issue is that it's not established so you don't know if its an awakening or just a fact. I feel like the brother or boyfriend should have had a throwaway line about her being bisexual.
11:41 Mike was (although perhaps sarcastically) 100% right about that bisexual woman. Jay was wrong. It is actually refreshing to see that they just make the main character bisexual without explaining it, because it is just as normal as being heterosexual (or homosexual)
@@AntonioCardenasTnah, that was not necessary. Because it doesn't matter. Why would she need to say in the movie that she is bisexual? Jay was in the wrong here. Furthermore, the movie still sucked though
the point is it doesn't matter whether its an awakening or just a fact. i get the wider point about characters not having any development or arc, but as it stands there's nothing wrong with letting her be bisexual without stating it explicitly.
@@trueblade3636 because they established she had a boyfriend and didn't show any interest in girls. I think they sorta hinted weird liked her at the start with the sorta flirty waving, but she throws no signs. And yeah the movie is pretty mediocre, but I do like how the ex-boyfriend and best friend make a nice couple despite him being a terrible boyfriend to the main character.
Mike is preaching the Gospel According to Roddenberry RE bisexual relationships. In an ideal future two consenting adults can have a relationship without justification or conflict, but then you hit the TNG problem that a show without interpersonal conflict or drama isn't very interesting to watch.
But I thought they solved that by allowing a woman (dressed in a tight sock) to sit next to the captain during the day, and eat all the chocolate ice cream she wants at night...
Lack of drama and conflict is a possible problem that can occur from the choice to show that a character is gay or bisexual in a "matter of fact" but irrelevant (to the story) sense, but that can be supplemented for and worked around when a writer wants to be inclusive without the story being ABOUT the characteristic being represented. A more difficult issue when trying to include a gay or gender non-conforming character in a story that's not about sex or gender is good ol' "Chekhov's gun". Because if the character's sexuality or gender is not relevant to the story, then bringing it up adds extraneous detail, which risks watering down the impact of things that do contribute to the story. Obviously, like with Chekhov's gun you can break that rule, and show an unrelated factor as misdirection, non-sequitur, etc, but that only works when it is the rare exception to the rule, so most of the time it should be avoided. This Chekhov dilemma mostly concerns more thrilling genres like horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and action, where rising tension, and its eventual relief are the entire point. Effectively conveying tension is all about playing with the audience's expectations, which by necessity means predicting how your audience will interpret a story event, and what they expect to happen next. Any extra details a writer adds increases the number of ways an audience can interpret and predict events, reducing their own ability create tension and a satisfying payoff. When it comes to character driven genres like drama and slice of life this dilemma shouldn't really be an issue though, since those stories are more about painting as complete a picture as possible of a character or their life so the audience can relate or empathize. I understand the desire, and I am also in favor of lgbtq representation, especially in stories that are not actually about sexuality or gender. But since gender and sexuality are not solely visual characteristics, there needs to be an effort to tie them into the story or a character's development, otherwise you're muddying up your story, and risk having your genuine efforts to make people feel included appear as a cheap cynical trick to try to appeal to more demographics without actually relating to them.
I’ve taken to calling these types of movies “Santa Slashers” for conciseness and they’re my favorite movies to watch between Halloween and Christmas no matter how much they suck
‘Christmas with the campbell’s’, also starring Jason Long, has dialogue that was absolutely written by AI. He uses some of the most insane aphorisms I’ve ever heard in the first half of the movie, but halfway through they stop because I think their chat gpt subscription ran out and the free version just wasn’t cutting it.
Who the heck is Jason Long’s agent? One of those drinking water birds with a “Yes!” Stamp tied to its beak? That dude just does like 47 movies you’ve never heard of before each year these day. It’s like he’s got gambling debts to pay off or something.
i've never felt anything but 'meh' over eli roth movies. but i really liked thanksgiving. btw, eli roth has a passion project documentary on protecting sharks, called FIN. and no one has watched it. he did an interview with tim dillon (who played the security guard) where he talks about it.
If RLM we're a grunge band, Would it be Jay on rhythm guitar and vocals? Maybe with Mike on bass and Rich on drums? Jack and them could be the soulful backup choir sisters. Could they even maintain the strict drug regimen required?
On the question of the Barn film's age rating, I think it is just a difference between countries. From what I could find, in Norway it is rated 12+ (here in the UK it's 15).
31:18 It's always jarring to hear that they don't watch everything together in that living room and live in the warehouse together as one big happy family
interesting thing about the cranberry thing; considering that directly south of this of Plymouth, MA is the town of Carver, MA... which is populated mostly by cranberry bogs. 🤷🏼♀️😅🖖
Oh my god Thanksgiving is based on the fake trailer for it in Grindhouse? :D I can't believe there have been 4 more movies made from these trailers that were originally made as jokes
i watched thanksgiving with some friends last week. i expected it to be crap (didnt know it was eli roth) but it's a fun movie! im glad you guys talked about it
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Jay now looks like the guy who turns up at your 20 year school reunion, and when you ask him what he's doing now, replies 'keeping it real'.
He looks like he auditioned for a band, was hoping to go on tour and leave RLM behind, but it didn't work out.
… and then he gets a bit too cozy with your girlfriend.
I'm stealing that one for my reunion
Then he asks if he can sleep on your couch for the night while he's in town.
@@randomfools808that's pretty real
It is amazing how humble Mike is to continue to appear on his TH-cam shows after his disastrous and humiliating loss to Hollywood A-Lister Rich Evans at TNG trivia night.
Well, what else is he supposed to do? I mean… would anyone hire him?
rich evans? from the ellen show? can't believe mike even got to be on camera with him!
What a loser
Im waiting for the rematch
@@Ramenchakra He has to get past "Big Bran Jay" again to qualify for Q Tier Rich.
These guys really know how to write a script. I bet if they ever decided to make a movie of their own, it would be one of the greatest films ever.
It was called Space Cop
r/whoosh
Yeah, about that...
Rated best film in Uganda, even.
"but it wasn't one of the greatest films ever," said the narrator
"Here's me lending my screenwriting services" - Mike Stoklasa, Screenwriter for Space Cop (2016)
Still better than Morbius!
He’s excellent at polishing OTHER people’s scripts
I am so happy that everyone looks back on that and laughs at it. Even RLM.
Rich Evans won an Oscar for that movie. I don't see what your point is.
To be fair, fixing issues someone else made is very different to making something yourself. It's why many software dev companies practice peer programming - you write something, then have someone else look at it to see if it makes sense. You're both equally good and are fixing large issues with each others' codes. When you work on something from start to finish it's easy to become over-focused on certain elements and overlook others, even though you're normally super aware of them when looking at other peoples' work.
Nice to see Jay’s the new L’Oreal girl, and Mike’s Orson Welles phase is coming along nicely.
The latter market has been cornered by Jonathan Frakes...
It's not a phase. It's a lifestyle
Mike yelling at his Grandma is the only way he can release his anger from his recent defeat from Rich Evans.
Mike is defeatable.
This is lies.
That explains his fascination with Nanoo
You mean his MOST recent defeat.
@@RetroGeeksGaming How are we, mere mortals, to know the cosmic struggle between the Old Ones?
In a TH-cam where nearly everyone just puts links and bios in their video descriptions with maybe a line about what the video actually is, if you're lucky, I truly appreciate RLM's video descriptions where it's just a giant block of text, most of the time becoming more and more unhinged because they know that no one is going to read it. That's where the true comedy lies. Thanks for having something entertaining even in the video description, it's the first thing I read.
THIS ! ! !
I can't wait to watch my favorite film reviewers Jay Bauman and the guy who got second in Star Trek trivia to Rich Evans!
Yeah, what's his name again, Kevin McAlistocklasa or something?
I think I read somewhere else in the comments that it might have been a camera man
He got the silver though.
"I killed a serial killer and I wish I'd never been born"
They could've had her kill someone and not known it was a serial killer, which would also set up a tiny bit of mystery as she tries to figure out what's changed.
Seriously, how is the fact that she killed a known serial killer not one of the most essential things in her life? You'd think she'd be a local celebrity, not just some rando.
That would be far too clever for the film.
That actually would've been cool, because it would also be a way better explanation for why she wishes she'd never been born. Damn.
Playing Devil's Advocate, while I acknowledge that your idea is better, killing someone regardless of whether or not you know their motives is pretty traumatic. I could see it leaving scars.
Oh my god, you are so right. That would be genius.
If you really wanted to go crazy, don't market the movie as a slasher. Market it as a "It's a Wonderful Life" parody, and then have a really horrifying slasher pop up, with no warning other than a PG-13 or R rating. (and of course you bury the lead with those by having people use the appropriate amount of swearing in the first 15 minutes).
Hey! I actually played the news reporter Hank Morton in Thanksgiving! So stoked to see Mike and Jay saw (and liked) the film! Been a fan of you guys for years! Pinching myself 😮
Sweet bro!🎉
Wait. Can we ask if you took cash or % box office ?
@FreddieLasagna arcade tokens, gift cards, and parking validation fall under cash, I presume?
I didn't want to say discontinued Chuck E. Cheese tokens but you def understood me...@@pogglywoggly3292
But my sweet bro was not sarcastic. That is cool.
AHHH i worked on santastein (3:59) as a little baby sophomore in film school hahaha. i can bravely say that one’s not a cash grab just a low budget labor of love from two young UMiami grads who love camp horror.
by no means the most Moobi freevi tubi movie i’ve worked on. check out Bezos: beginnings if you want a truly soulless money laundering scheme of a movie with an egomaniac at the helm. THAT was awful to work on.
CRAZY that these horrible films are like seen as viable things for us young film school grads to work on because usually the sets are so manipulative and honestly dangerous (tho SANTASTEIN was not, different vibes cuz was all pretty much friends). My friend was like the young co lead in Mega boa if anyone remembers that haha another RLM example
That's actually super wholesome to know!
I'm not sure that it was your decision, but I certainly hope that after the film was released somebody woke up screaming "we should have called it FrankenSanta!"
@@RumbleRed It's doubly funny if it happens like, five years later.
The content in this video reminds me of that time Rich Evans humiliated that TNG wannabe fan in a game of Star Trek: The Next Generation trivia .
You mean the TNG wannabe fan that doesn't even know the difference between TNG and TOS? It's a good thing that William Shatner was able to call him out.
Who? Are you talking about another member of the RLM crew? Like a cameraman?
S/o Tim Dillon as the severed head @ 42:49 he was joking about this movie before it came out for months and had Eli Roth on his show to talk about shark depopulation for some reason because Eli is a nutjob
When Jay described the plot of Thanksgiving I was thinking to myself "Man I would love to hear Jay and Mike's thoughts on this film", only to realize I was already watching them.
Their dementia is getting to me.
As a director of ‘the Christmas tapes’, it’s an honor to be mentioned.
As a director of RLM youtube comments, I approve
everyone talks about jay's hair, nobody talks about mike's great eyebrows
You mean Mike’s Marvel Shillbrows ?
theyre pretty good
@@FearOfTheNormMike's Magnificent hack-frauders?
@@parisulki729 Are you talking about Mikes big bushy contrarian sweat catchers?
Mike who?
I feel like this is the perfect place to announce my new horror movie! It's called "Space Cop but also there's a Killer". It's just like the classic film but somehow lazier.
It's called "$pacecop Too YOU"
But somehow Amityville is involved.
Maybe we can throw in a shark.
And an exorcism
And make someone gay halfway through without any emotional pay-offs
I'm also going to add Mcauley Culkin for 2 minutes before killing him so I can put him in the trailer.
I had an ex who called me Porky Fartbag. Still don't know why she left.
I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Fartbag.
You probably couldn't beat Rich Evans at Star Trek TNG trivia
My nickname is Porky and my farts are legendary.
I did, too! Still has my wallet.
What more could she have wanted?
Mike has gone full pessimist in the video description
haven’t we all? -sliding whistle-
After all, everyone knows that an optimist is just a person who doesn't have all the facts. And Mike is the most well informed studio executive in Hollywood.
This is what losing at Star Trek trivia does to a man.
He mentions a "fireplace". What's that?
Mike took the “blackpill” before writing that description.
I did background in Thanksgiving, was one of the blackfriday shoppers, and I can tell you Eli Roth was having way too much fun with this movie. He was just so down to earth, hilarious and the practical effects were so much fun. It was 4 long nights of shooting but it was the most fun I have ever had on a set.
There is just something so surreal about watching a woman get scalped by a shopping cart in person.
I would work on an Eli Roth set anyday.
I had so much more fun watching Thanksgiving than I've had in many years of mainstream horror releases. It really was exactly what I was hoping it would be.
“scalped by a shopping cart in person” like, that happened to her in real life??
@lrgogo1517 It was just a practical effect Eli used in the movie. They had makeup with a detachable prosthetic.
There were 3 people killed in the black friday scene plus the one guy who gets stepped on and his arm broken, all were practical effects. The coolest being the candy glass door they rigged to come down and crush the security guard before we trampled him to death.
I wish I had been available during the parade scene, I heard Eli was having so much fun spraying blood everywhere!
It was definitely his over the top kills and use of the practical effects that made thanksgiving such an enjoyable film.
As an old man, I find watching Jay turning grey-haired along with Rich and Mike highly amusing.
Hey, it might be going gray finally but at least it's doing so _fabulously._ Man's lookin' like a slightly younger American James May.
Yeah, one might say it's a silver lining throughout the most recent videos... Sorry, I'll be seeing myself out.
Can we please keep The Batman running gag going for another 5 years please? Thank you.
Why not! It took 12 years to make!
@@0blivionvoid139 "How come he don't want me, man?" - Matt Reeves
You think Mike and Rich have 5 years left in them?
The who?
@@imitationcrabmeat9901 😎 won't get fooled again
I need 3 hours video with Jay explaining his week routine. Food, hobbies, care etc . I need to know how he gets this good hair
Vo5 Hot oil and Beeswax.
Trust me.
He feeds off of the follicles of the other members of RLM. Josh and Rich are almost sucked dry, Mike is resisting. But nobody can resist Jay, The Norwood Reaper, forever.
It's a wig.
Jay's bald.
@@SgtGoofass i dont know what yer smoking. Richs hair is luscious, full, and flows like rivers of silk
@@SgtGoofass It's funny you forgot Jack. He was the first victim!
"It flopped like a fish on land". That's the best way to describe Aquaman 2's success. 👏 Bravo Jay
Nah, I saw Aquaman, and that movie was all wet.
Mike's attempt at a Norwegian accent quickly turned into Palpatine light
Growing up in Jersey, I'm very familliar with the New York Guido stereotype. But watching Mike do it with a fake Chicago/Milwaukee/Wisconsin/Canadian accent, really puts a new black light on it.
Although seeing all of Jay's stains under the black light kind of ruins it... kind of.
@@pogglywoggly3292 It's extra funny with the fact that Mike either grew up or at least lived in Chicago and is now living in Milwaukee. It's him using an exagerated accent... From the places that already influenced his accent.
I like how Roth described Thanksgiving
"The Grindhouse trailer was from a movie so bad all prints got destroyed but somehow a trailer survived and made it's way onto the darkest parts of the internet, The movie is a clean hollywood remake"
It's a real shame they changed the trampoline kill. That was the best and most memorable part of the entire trailer. What they changed it to was pretty bland.
@Belgand I accidentally skipped to the part where jay describes the trampoline kill and are showing the clip, yeah definitely memorable for all the wrong reasons lol, is it fucked up for me to say I wish it was a dude who got that instead? Whatever, I’m guessing the kill in the actual movie was repeated throat or gut stabbing?
That makes sense, because a "clean Hollywood" soulless product is exactly what Roth made.
Seeing "barn-elves" being portrayed as gremlins is just weird to me. A nisse/tomte is believed to be the spirit of the person who originally built a farm who simply cannot find rest in death and needs to see his farm is being maintained. They are basically rarely seen small grumpy old men that can help you out around your farm if you are taking good care of it and give them some food (usually porridge). They are grumpy and old, so they can be vengeful if you don't respect what they built, but they would never kill you, and they wouldn't get angered by light or noise. A tomte would do things like missplace tools, curse you with bad luck, or even kill your animals if you particularly angered him, but that's as severe as he'd get. I could see a tomte drink your booze and mess up your house with a party, but he wouldn't call in every other tomte to also trash your place. They are too busy with their own farms.
Interesting fact, Santa Clause in Scandinavia is believed to be a tomte, and his elves too, which explains why that is a christmas movie, but it also makes the translation choice of "barn-elf" strange as tomtar and nissar by most people's reckoning are different to elves.
Also Mike thinking that christmas ham would be anathema to a Norwegian but nonchalantly throwing out stuffing as a food staple when I could just guess at what it is was rather funny to me. Different cultures always surprise in what seemingly unique behaviors or items being shared, and what seeming mundanities not being so.
@@elloo98 Fuckin cranberries, how do they work?
@@d3nza482 They don't, that's why they're in those cans.
Very informative comment thank you
They should be called barn-gnomes rather than barn-elves
Jay starting to look like Moses as he parts the sea of trash films to guide us.
If they did the Ben & Arthur spotlight now, instead of slipping away to buy a dollar picture of Jesus, Jay could have just pulled out his phone and taken a selfie.
You need Moses-level divine magic to part that hair
Wait... he's not leading us to the hole in the bathroom my Uncle Richie uses is he?
Jaysus
Mike resurrecting the VCR repair skit at the end is the best.
Skit? If they don't repair the VCR by Christmas they will lose everything.
Yeah, what the hell? What a disrespectful way to refer to a legitimate, struggling business. I wouldn't show up to your job and call it a "skit." Unbelievable...
For real. VCR repair may be dead-end layman's work, but at least it's not like they're scamming millions by hosting cheesy videos on the wifi web
Sometimes you can't beat a cup of cocoa in bed listening to these two and when you wake up you figure out at which point you fell asleep
Like honestly? I've done exactly the same thing so many times through the last 4/5 years and it's become such a sentimental habit for ne. I love the idea that however many other people are doing the same and. Yeah
@@ArkadianDream Been almost 10 years for me!
Took me 3 tries to finish , but I did. ( that's what she said)
It's only a matter of time until Jay ties his hair up into a man bun.
He's one craft beer away from telling us all about the joys of veganism.
I Just tied my hair in a man bum 😂
I encourage this
And I'm here for it! 😂
"It's only a matter of time until Jay..." should be a recurring bit on the show.
"...starts drinking fruit-flavored IPAs he brews himself"
"...starts wearing lipstick."
"...stops showering."
"...puts the lotion on his skin."
"...starts showering."
"...stops wearing pants while on the clock."
"...initiates an inappropriate relationship with that one intern they usually parade around during Christmas specials, and skits about old family comedies starring child actors for some reason."
Jay and Mike debating how to recognize Artificial Intelligence from Genuine Stupidity.
THIS..THIS COMMENT IS THE EPITOME OF CRITICAL COMMENTS FOR CRITICS! I love it!
Didn't expect another RLM this year. What a great closure.
You need keep those TH-cam revenues coming, specially during the holidays!
@@indauroleal7953 given their production costs and jay's shampoo budget, they basically make no money on these episodes
Another youtube miracle!
On the topic of the relationship of It's A Wonderful Knife, to me, it's not the sexuality revelation that's the problem, it's the idea that she's suddenly in another relationship after a couple hours. It'd be the same problem if she'd met another guy and suddenly fell in love with him. It's always a sign of bad screenwriting. I think that's what Mike and Jay were trying to get at, but kind of got hung up on the sexuality reveal. I can easily accept her being bi without the movie flat out saying it, but if you take the build up of her falling in love with any character out, why should we as the audience care?
Yeah, that genuinely makes way more sense.
I honestly think their attitude towards any sort of lgbt representation in movies is very odd and missjudged lately
@@cloudwaves1648 They seem fine with rep, but there's so many odd stipulations they have and it's kind of weird. Like a gay story having to be told a certain way is a wonky way to word what should be a very easy "no build up" critique.
The one thing I've always kind of praised Mike and Jay for is just coming off like two dudes who enjoy movies with a love for the craft and no real expectations except to be entertained. They've definitely had a couple old man yelling at cloud takes though and when they happen, it very much sticks out.
Mike has had a few "kids these days are so easily offended" takes recently. I think it's time to put grandpa in a home 😂
@@TheBBQify Don't forget his BOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mike, as a Wisconsonian Lutheran, you SHOULD know that the "little area between Christmas and New Years" is called "Christmas". It's a season, not a day.
We missed you at the potluck, by the way. Grandma Schmeckenpepper made a wonderful Jello Salad, your favorite.
He was brought up Catholic
@@Eamonshort1 That's not very Wisconsin of him....
@@ChristianCombatives yeah but he's of polish descent and from Chicago
@@Eamonshort1 Then he truly is a lost cause... 😟
@@ChristianCombatives Mike was the chosen one Anakin!
You can tell the description of the video was written by Mike as an outlet for his frustration after his humiliating trivia defeat against international superstar and world's greatest Star Trek: TNG connoisseur Rich Evans.
Rich Evans? From the Ellen show?
Rich playing dumb and swooping in for the last minute kill was masterful genius. Sobriety has unleashed his potential. He will be the alpha in the pack.
I wish all the schlock isn't just in horror. I want schlocky action movies again.
Finally got around to watching "Hard Ticket to Hawaii" and I can confirm, action schlock is what's missing from all our lives.
Plenty of old stuff out there that's even worse than the gems that RLM watch every now and then. Some youtube channels really deep dive on low budget foreign 80s action movies and no matter how far deep you think you've dug, it keeps going. If "Stone Cold" is surface level and "Miami Connection" is just beneath, look up "The Stabilizer". The poster is a guy who's a combination of Rambo and Cobra. Kick ass theme song too.
Sounds like you're on the precipice of diving into bollywood.
@noone3216 I remember seeing clips of that guy in sunglasses and a trench coat that's super strong and fast and there's thousands of him and he basically becomes a giant ball or a transformer lol. I still haven't seen it yet but I've seen clips of those movies of fat middle aged guys being Hollywood badasses that woo the ladies and it's hilarious.
MONEYPLANE
Glad to see Jay's hair is still trying to audition for his role as Jesus in Passion of the Christ 2: Reloaded.
Jesus: First Blood Part II?
Jesus: Double-crossed@@preduw
Passion of the Christ 2: resurrections
For part 8: Jesus takes Manhattan.
"Jesus Christ TH-camstar"
I’m in a masters class for professional writing and in one of my classes we had to write short stories… at least 2 classmates 100% used AI to make their stories (never admitted and I never confirmed) but I really knew they were AI… AI doesn’t know things. It can’t think about story and in paper it doesn’t know adjectives or adverbs. It is super weird to explain but you know it when you see or read it.
“Stoically, Batman extravagantly flew off the immaculately tall skyscraper in the ebony night.”
Weird crap like that, there is more to writing than adjectives and adverbs. Also the story will make no sense neither will character motivations or dialogue lol
The adjective noun verbed adverbly!
I know Mike was being funny but his point is good. I mean 'it's a wonderful knife' sounds terrible overall, but them not making a fuss about the main character being bi is actually really nice. I'm tired of the oversexual bi stereotype where you can tell the character is bi (sometimes before they even get to their name), because they're being overly h*rny often in public, it's often how they're introduced to the audience. It becomes their one character trait almost always. It's such a thing *especially* with bi people overall, we're so constantly assumed to be super sl*tty and confused -- but for a lot of us it's not that big of a deal. So yeah I prefer a character to just BE bi without it fussed over (especially when not integral to the plot, which seems to be the case here cuz there is no plot).
"especially when not integral to the plot, which seems to be the case here cuz there is no plot"
That's exactly what he was complaining about.
cool. I mean i knew that... hence my whole comment being a counter-response to Jay's complaint.
Basically using her being bi as a plot device, simply because they didn't bother making a decent story, is the laziness I'm tired of in media and glad this one didn't do (for reasons listed in the original comment).
@@supermaryg He complained that there was no set-up when there should have been some sort of story, maybe about her discovering her sexuality. Then you complained about depictions of hyperhorny sexual omnivores, which has nothing to do with anything he said. So no, it wasn't a counter-response and I don't think you do know.
I'm fully aware of what he's saying, and my comment has everything to do with what Jay is saying, and I don't know why it's so hard for you to understand. I'm literally agreeing with Mike's counterpoint 'joke' to Jay, and elaborating on why we don't NEED what Jay is asking for. It's not that complicated or deep.
But fine I'll break it down. Sure I have nothing better to do than to explain what exactly 'negative stereotypes' are and how the media perpetuates them.
Why do we need a backstory of her being bi? Can we not tell in the story? He did. Was it a surprise? Sure (for him, I assume everyone's bi until told otherwise), but isn't that fine? Can't we fill in the blanks? He said, "oh I guess she's gay" boom, he figured it out. Why does her s*xuality matter to the plot? How would seeing a flashback of her being younger and also attracted to women help elaborate on that? We know she's bi by this point, it's just more of the same. If it was another guy, we wouldn't need a backstory showing she's, in fact, straight.
If she had a random scar on her leg that didn't do anything to the plot, would we need a backstory for that as well? Even tho we can see it sometimes? No she can just exist with the scar can't she? What more would her s*xuality backstory add to the plot of the movie? Nothing. Going further, using that specifically AS a plot device when you have no plot is just pandering and also bad. Especially when you add in the fact the representation is almost always negative.
In fact, everything Jay was asking for is exactly the crap I'm tired of.
"it came out of nowhere"
"it should be her whole thing"
"did she know this" (love that)
"it just happens" (phrased as a critique)
Yes bi people just exist. It's really not a big deal. Needing a backstory MAKES it a deal.
I don't need a straight person's flashbacks showing them that they had a gay confused moment but got over it, so I definitely don't need it for the bi/gay people. Because when they DO all those things that Jay is asking for - it's all the things I listed above that you're glossing over. Do you get the connection now? My complaint is media "solves" jay's problems with ONLY the things I listed above. "What makes a person bi? Well they're just h*rny and confused".
Nearly. Every. Damn. Time.
These depictions that I'm complaining about are the DEFAULT in all media. Heavily. We don't get "regular" bi people, we have to have some weird backstory that focuses on our "sl*ttiness" to excuse it (what Jay was basically asking for) -- tropes associated with bi people IRL that are extremely harmful. You very likely do not know this, but even the gay community, there's a lot who won't even date bi people because of these preconceived notions. "Bi people cheat" (because we're h*rny and confused) is a discussion I still hear all the damn time. Media has never done us any favors before and I have no faith in them to get it right.
So, yeah having a woman just be bi without any fanfaire, is actually doing us a huge service. No montage of her hooking up with people left and right, her looking at women going "who am i?". Dude some of us were into women before men. I mean, wouldn't it be crazy if they actually showed a flashback with her happily gay and then having a straight confusion moment and then realizing she's bi? I bet some people would still have a problem and need more explanation... for some reason.... hah. Honestly the "explain why she's bi" and calling it "character growth" just has this straight justification (also: straight is "normal") energy to it. Like there has to be an excuse or reason, and it does not sit right with me.
Uh I wasted like 10 minutes on this how lame. especially with likely getting a "too long" response back. I tried to keep it short before but here we are...
If you don't get it at this point that's your problem man. Your attitude sucks anyway and it's wild you're ignoring how many likes my random ass comment (that even I expected to get zero traction on) got, and instead you're boldly stating "I don't think you know" to the situation I'm fully aware of already of, and many other people understood my points fine. So clearly *you* are the one who needs to do some learning here, ok? rewatch the video and re-read these comments and take a walk. I'm going to go do literally anything else because even staring at a blank wall is more productive than continuing this further.
@@supermarygwhy would you just assume everyone you meet is bi? How is that better than assuming everyone you meet is straight or gay? What kind of a weirdo meets someone and is like “I’m going to assume what they’re sexually attracted to”? You people are so phony and full of yourselves it’s not even funny.
About the strange rating of There is something in the barn as a Norwegian I think I can explain. Its cultural basically, in Norway this rated 12+ "no kids under 12 without parents". We are usually just more lenient on ratings like that. Swearing is usually no big deal so its usually the amount of violence, gore and nudity along with tone. So this meant as a funny movie made for an mainly Norwegian audience hence the rating. Fun fact: Norwegian reviews found the here in Norway jokes grating and it is indeed meant to be a riff on Gremlins
Think there was a TikTok of an American mom taking her child to see this in Norway and demanding a refund because she thought it’d be a kids movie because of the rating
To add to this and give an example, Deadpool, an R-rated film, was 15+ in Norwegian cinemas, meaning 12-year olds could go see it with their parents (or a guardian).
never underestimate a Scandinavians overestimation of their english language skills
I'm from Norway and the trailer alone is a cringefest. No way I'll watch the entire movie.
or underestimate the inbreeding of the film industry
Their English language skills are fine, it's just nearly impossible to remove all remnants of an accent if you are trying to portray a native of a country you weren't born in.
@@MGW27it's not impossible. It's called *acting* . And before you say anything, i live in Sweden.
Also Norwegians being like: "oooh look at us, we're Norwegians! We're so quirky and special!". God damn Norwegians... They ruined Norway!
@@MGW27 Hell, Stellan Skarsgård has been acting in English for over 30 years and even he's still got an accent.
Right after the guy on the bridge in Blood Rage delivered his second "That is not cranberry sauce", you can see a crew member behind a tree in background!
Thanksgiving is straight up I Know What You Did Last Summer. They even recreated the IKWYDLS parade where everyone was wearing slickers and rain hats.
Yeah I was surprised Jay never mentioned that similarity. That also took place on a holiday.
Jay is starting to look like 90's Aphex Twin now : )
Richard D. Baumen
The classroom with the mannequin heads is likely for teaching aesthetics. We had one at our high school for Poors, along with a few other trade school staples, because grads were expected to go straight into the workforce.
Just a shoutout to Porky Fartbag. They have real talent and are going places, St Paul most likely.
Sounds like a callback to Rich Evans' term for generic whoopee cushions.
RIP Porky's
An underpass in a suburb of St. Paul. WHERE HE BELONGS.
If Jay removes his beard, we have Suzanne Somers back.
He's got some lush looking hair right?
Rather have her front
I watched an actually good Xmas horror, yesterday. Rare Exports: A Christmas Story. It's weird and wonderful, and from Finland. And Scandinavia has some crazy ass Christmas traditions.
We all seen it. It's ok but kind of overrated imo
The shocking thing to me was the little boy going out in the freezing cold just in his underoos and a shirt. Finns are built different i guess 😅
I feel like anyone considering it should watch the short first, then decide if they feel like it needs a feature-length prequel that explains the backstory to how the business got started. I really disliked it.
Holy cow, Mike teaching Jay about sensitivity around romantic preferences should count as character growth
He BROKE NEW GROUND!
I clapped!
To be fair, it's easy to be distracted away from Jay being confused about eschewing default heteronormativity when your brain is reading the green prop behind Jay in the yelling voice of Rich Evans.
Yeah, Mike was (although perhaps sarcastically) 100% right about that bisexual woman.
In a dystopia Orwellian-like future, set in an even *more* myopic and hopeless 1984, poor, soulless and wretched human beings representing the reduced role of the common mortal being in a society bereft of joy; these bastards comprise the foundation of all that humanity has left.
In this future people like Mike are called therapists.
I like when the boys suggest their own screen writing services. Always on point and way better than the original one.
Also much better than their VCR repair service
Yeah, we can see how good screen writers they r by the quality of their skits
Lightning Fast script repair services, they wouldn't even need to change the uniforms.
@@sonnyjimbodor start working!
Mike and Jay the masters of blue balling.
Jay rocking the Alan Wake look, nice, suits him.
Man, the new guy they got to be Jay is really knocking it out of the park, so much better than the old one.
Gremlins is the only Christmas "horror" movie I repeatedly watch.
Eli Roth was indeed influenced by Happy Birthday To Me, Jay. He talked about it on Tarantino's Video Archives podcast with Roger Avary.
Jay should make commercials for L'Oreal shampoo
or Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific...
or Faberge Organics shampoo
or Prell
or whatever the hell that hair monster Bugs Bunny defeated uses
Prell was the official shampoo of countless Bible Camps.
Santastein sounds amazing.
Such an obvious and fun concept that I can't believe hasn't been done before.
....unless you count Frankenhooker
but that's different enough.
From certain angles Jay's hair is starting to look like Lord Farquads.
I was wondering what the hair style reminded me of
Yes, but that has less to do with his hair and more to do with his short stature, and consistent need to compensate for…something.
I can easily imagine him as a failed Pixar idea
I enjoy reading all of Mike’s eloquent video descriptions in a Plinkett voice
I did it in his phoney-baloney "these are actual movie reviews im reading".
Which I'm going to guess is the same voice he uses when trying to explain how the remote works to *"ANYONE THAT TOUCHES THIS PIECE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BETTER KNOW HOW TO USE THIS!"*
Martin Starr did Dead Snow 2 that was filmed in Norway. So he probably had ties to the producers of this film and probably loved norway.
Dead Snow 2 was actually filmed in Iceland but is set in Norway.
Source:
I was a few of the zombies.
Love the bait and switch opener. The title made it obvious what was going on, but the real tell came with the mentions of “The Batman” 😂
If you never read the descriptions for RLM videos, you really should start. They’re always worth the read 😂
I don't even watch the videos. I'm just here for the description
The Batman review that we didn't need and didn't deserve is finally here!
These guys have been entertaining me for so many years. They should have at least DOUBLE the subscribers. Thanks RLM X
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I really appreciate Mike trying to understand other people's perspectives. As someone who is bi/pan, seeing a character who just happens to be bi in a movie without a big deal being made of it feels really nice. People can be gay or bi and not have it be their whole personality. I think this discussion points to the common misconception that a lot of people have that people are either gay or straight. I was a bit worried at first, but this was a very good conversation. Thanks
Exactly!
Look at Talk to Me for example. It was completely incidental that a character was trans and it was refreshing to see. Like, big deal who cares? What is their character about?
Now look at It’s A Wonderful Knife and they’re literally yelling weirdo to their face. This character was a vehicle for the writers to pat themselves on the back for being so inclusive and accepting. That “you matter” line wasn’t deserved at all. Bunch of hacks.
Just imagining a friend of theirs comes out after a few months and they're like "oh weird, that seems like it should be your whole thing, you know?"
I would like to give thanks to Rich Evans for the nightmare of the year 2023
Well he did earn the 2023 RLM Star Trek Trivia Medal
You know what? I’ll take this as our Batman review
was just looking for something to watch with breakfast. a christmas MIRACLE
This is a Jay and Mike do best of the worst but it’s Half in the Bag
Yeah! You know it's a good one when Mike whips out The List!
There might be augments on which one is hotter: pre-covid "blow-dry pomade" Jay or post-covid "fabulous lumberjack" Jay
But one thing is absolutely irrusufable: Rich Evans is the undisputed champion of the Star Trek TNG Trivia forever and ever!
Derivative Holiday Horrors, sounds like a great movie title
Totally. Very tongue in cheek, like the metal-band-name version: Verb the Noun.
It's Mr Bauman and the guy who lost against Rich Evans in Star Trek trivia
Wisconsin and Michigan are probably the two states that are THE most compatible with Norwegians and nordics in general. All drink copious amounts of beer, have weird cheese and dairy traditions, it's cold and play hockey
The best thing about these videos is the way the guys discuss movies they have watched.
Like The Batman
Thanksgiving is based on the mad Magazine feature from 1980 called "Arbor Day". At least that's what Eli Roth used as a blueprint for the grindhouse trailer.
I want a holiday horror movie that you don't know is a horror movie until 1/3rd or half way through. Think of your generic Hallmark Christmas movie that turns into a slasher. That would be quite the surprise for middle aged moms!
I've always loved that idea. No one has the guts to actually do it though.
I was going to ask how it could even be done with marketing the way it is, but right now, they could just drop it on a streaming service with no trailer and a vague description, and let word of mouth spread it around.
That sort of summarises the plot of Better Watch Out (2016)
The big city gal slowly falls in love with the small town guy, who just so happens to be a serial killer.
Didn't the Too Many Cooks guy do this with a Yule Log video that turned out to be a slasher Christmas movie?
I think From Dusk Till Dawn was basically this. I know I wasn't expecting the twist
It's sad but companies would rather use AI than pay a writer. They can't even notice how bad AI is fucking up because the people in charge are soulless drones themselves.
Also the writers are so terrible and formulaic that they actually can be replaced by the sixth rate algorithms that marketing dirtbags call “AI.”
@BlisaBLisa Yes, in their contract, all writing must be done by a human and if AI was used as an aid, it must be noted.
Yes, but so are most consumers. It's a full circle.
Woah. I did not expect Mike to have more of a handle on how bisexuality works than Jay 😂
Their issue is that it's not established so you don't know if its an awakening or just a fact. I feel like the brother or boyfriend should have had a throwaway line about her being bisexual.
11:41 Mike was (although perhaps sarcastically) 100% right about that bisexual woman. Jay was wrong.
It is actually refreshing to see that they just make the main character bisexual without explaining it, because it is just as normal as being heterosexual (or homosexual)
@@AntonioCardenasTnah, that was not necessary. Because it doesn't matter.
Why would she need to say in the movie that she is bisexual? Jay was in the wrong here.
Furthermore, the movie still sucked though
the point is it doesn't matter whether its an awakening or just a fact. i get the wider point about characters not having any development or arc, but as it stands there's nothing wrong with letting her be bisexual without stating it explicitly.
@@trueblade3636 because they established she had a boyfriend and didn't show any interest in girls. I think they sorta hinted weird liked her at the start with the sorta flirty waving, but she throws no signs.
And yeah the movie is pretty mediocre, but I do like how the ex-boyfriend and best friend make a nice couple despite him being a terrible boyfriend to the main character.
Mike is preaching the Gospel According to Roddenberry RE bisexual relationships. In an ideal future two consenting adults can have a relationship without justification or conflict, but then you hit the TNG problem that a show without interpersonal conflict or drama isn't very interesting to watch.
But I thought they solved that by allowing a woman (dressed in a tight sock) to sit next to the captain during the day, and eat all the chocolate ice cream she wants at night...
Lack of drama and conflict is a possible problem that can occur from the choice to show that a character is gay or bisexual in a "matter of fact" but irrelevant (to the story) sense, but that can be supplemented for and worked around when a writer wants to be inclusive without the story being ABOUT the characteristic being represented. A more difficult issue when trying to include a gay or gender non-conforming character in a story that's not about sex or gender is good ol' "Chekhov's gun". Because if the character's sexuality or gender is not relevant to the story, then bringing it up adds extraneous detail, which risks watering down the impact of things that do contribute to the story. Obviously, like with Chekhov's gun you can break that rule, and show an unrelated factor as misdirection, non-sequitur, etc, but that only works when it is the rare exception to the rule, so most of the time it should be avoided.
This Chekhov dilemma mostly concerns more thrilling genres like horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and action, where rising tension, and its eventual relief are the entire point. Effectively conveying tension is all about playing with the audience's expectations, which by necessity means predicting how your audience will interpret a story event, and what they expect to happen next. Any extra details a writer adds increases the number of ways an audience can interpret and predict events, reducing their own ability create tension and a satisfying payoff. When it comes to character driven genres like drama and slice of life this dilemma shouldn't really be an issue though, since those stories are more about painting as complete a picture as possible of a character or their life so the audience can relate or empathize.
I understand the desire, and I am also in favor of lgbtq representation, especially in stories that are not actually about sexuality or gender. But since gender and sexuality are not solely visual characteristics, there needs to be an effort to tie them into the story or a character's development, otherwise you're muddying up your story, and risk having your genuine efforts to make people feel included appear as a cheap cynical trick to try to appeal to more demographics without actually relating to them.
I’ve taken to calling these types of movies “Santa Slashers” for conciseness and they’re my favorite movies to watch between Halloween and Christmas no matter how much they suck
‘Christmas with the campbell’s’, also starring Jason Long, has dialogue that was absolutely written by AI. He uses some of the most insane aphorisms I’ve ever heard in the first half of the movie, but halfway through they stop because I think their chat gpt subscription ran out and the free version just wasn’t cutting it.
Who the heck is Jason Long’s agent? One of those drinking water birds with a “Yes!” Stamp tied to its beak? That dude just does like 47 movies you’ve never heard of before each year these day. It’s like he’s got gambling debts to pay off or something.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe “Drinky Bird: Agent to the Stars 🦅⭐️”
i've never felt anything but 'meh' over eli roth movies. but i really liked thanksgiving. btw, eli roth has a passion project documentary on protecting sharks, called FIN. and no one has watched it. he did an interview with tim dillon (who played the security guard) where he talks about it.
Jay's midlife crisis is just growing nineties grunge hair
All Apologies
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care...
Come as you are, as you were...
HEEY...YAY
I got a new kumplaynt
If RLM we're a grunge band, Would it be Jay on rhythm guitar and vocals? Maybe with Mike on bass and Rich on drums? Jack and them could be the soulful backup choir sisters. Could they even maintain the strict drug regimen required?
On the question of the Barn film's age rating, I think it is just a difference between countries. From what I could find, in Norway it is rated 12+ (here in the UK it's 15).
Squeaking one last one before the year ends! Merry Christmas guys.
It's a New Years miracle from my favorite drunks from Wisconsin
Watching this channel makes me feel like I have friends
Mike who?
i will never tire of the still-frame gag
31:18 It's always jarring to hear that they don't watch everything together in that living room and live in the warehouse together as one big happy family
The scariest Christmas movie of course being Jingle All The Way
I see that Mike put Rich Evan's credit card number behind Jay.
Jays luscious locks and beard are combining nicely into a full on Zardoz tribute
was hoping for a casual mention of godzilla minus one in the opening, i think they'd both love that movie
interesting thing about the cranberry thing; considering that directly south of this of Plymouth, MA is the town of Carver, MA... which is populated mostly by cranberry bogs. 🤷🏼♀️😅🖖
The Holdovers is such a gem!
Oh my god Thanksgiving is based on the fake trailer for it in Grindhouse? :D I can't believe there have been 4 more movies made from these trailers that were originally made as jokes
Only other one I can think of was Machete
Hobo with a shotgun
@@ricky93100Also Hobo with a Shotgun
While I am glad Machete was made, the one I really want is Rob Zombie’s Werewolf Women of the SS. Especially Nick Cage as Fu Manchu.
@@captjc Oh yes I want to see that one too! They always say they have 45 minutes of footage, that would be a killer short film
I really liked Freaky. Vince Vaughn acting as a teenage girl taking to her crush was funny to me.
i watched thanksgiving with some friends last week. i expected it to be crap (didnt know it was eli roth) but it's a fun movie! im glad you guys talked about it
God damn, Jay, could you please stop making me jealous of your glorious hair? xD