Popeye - re:Visit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- It's the moment you've all been waiting for! No we're not talking about some Star Wars thing or that other new thing with the guy from that show in it! It's Rich and Jay talking about the live action Popeye movie starring Robin Williams. For some reason.
Toot toot.
I can envision a 4 year old Jay muttering "the tone of this film is throwing me off"
Now imagine a 4-year-old Jay saying "This is borderline experimental"
A supercut could be made of Jay claiming to have had incredibly precocious powers of incisive critical discernment. If so, he seems to have aged in reverse.
Kyle Gallner will play him in the RLM tell all Netflix film.
@@DeltaSpark8 But he wasn't four years old in 2001...
but can you imagine it?
TH-cam, Show me a man who enthusiastically retells the origins of Popeye wearing a Nirvana T-shirt.
Popeye wore a Nirvana t-shirt??
"Come as I yam,
as what I yam,
all what I yam,
is aaaall I evers will be.
*random mumbling*"
Popeye mumbled so Nirvana could grumble
rich evans is the main character
Your program is ready. You may proceed. *Holodeck doors open*
This channel is the Death Note of TH-cam.
Who else did they kill?
@@hopefullynotbutprobably6643 From the top of my head, Jerry Springer and Betty White. Those two young upstarts.
@@hopefullynotbutprobably6643 Shelly Duvall
@@r.j.stanford7435 Hey Ordinary Things posted a video calling Henry Kissinger an immortal lich.... an HOUR before he died.
@@r.j.stanford7435Wilford Brimley.
I was scared of this movie as a kid. I thought Popeye's arms were real and that it could happen to me
sup Vinny. Get on BOTW already
Did you thought If you work out hard enough that you’ll have massive Popeye forearms?
Binty pls plae Popeye for Switch, is best in game
Completely understandable. I watched Pinocchio 3000 as a small lad and lived with the fear of becoming like those horribly distorted, metallic looking characters.
if you swing around the Buster sword enough itll happen to you!
Jay sounds like he's secretly actually really into Garfield
I honestly thought that picture of the collection was his, no lie.
Aren't we all?
Jay probably didn't want to get dogpiled for his Garfield love the way Mike was for believing in ghosts. His attempt has backfired, as you can see. The Streisand Effect in full force.
“Secretly”?
Really into Garfield or really INTO Garfield?
I can't belive RLM killed Shelley Duvall
Not Lily Tomlin though. Or Jane Fonda.
Yet.
Someone had to….
I mean, Popeye muttering nonsense is actually part of the character. I recall distinctly, in Popeye meets Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, he says, "Awful lot of sand around here, if I had some bread I could make a Sandwich, course then I'd need a witch."
OMG I had this movie on VHS when I was a kid!!
The old Popeye cartoons had some bangers. Betty Boop too! Male bothering her: "Mind if I smoke?" Betty Boop: "Don't care if ya burn."
OOOOOOO GURRRRRRL GET ON WITCHYOSELF
Part of the character yeah, but paying several dollars to see a real person incoherently muttering while ten other people talk over them doesn't really translate well.
@@ND-nr6mx When I was a kid I loved the Popeye movie. They used to play that thing on HBO all the time.
Another great muttering moment from that same cartoon: Abu Hassan/Bluto is stalking menacingly around Popeye while Popeye does very fey, effeminate poses, muttering "Do you think I'm a nice model? For a $1.98 you can take me home with you"
Robin Williams once said if you watch this backwards it has a happy ending.
If you play it backwards and listen closely, you can almost make out the characters' dialogue.
No, he said if you watch it backwards, it has an ending (as in watched forwards it just sort of peters out with no logical conclusion). He's often misquoted as saying if you watch it backwards, it has a plot, which I think gets the idea across a bit better.
I miss him. What a brilliantly bright person he was. RIP
@@Su_aSpontehe went out like david carradine.
It's a film about a man losing his love for spinach.
A timeless story for the ages.
Curse of the Worst strikes again. RIP Shelley Duvall two weeks after this video's debut.
It’s so cute when Rich gets to talk about watching his childhood cartoons. It really puts The Great Depression in perspective!
Is that what we're calling him now?
Those Americans were lucky. All we had in England in the early 80s were documentaries about telegraph poles and VHS tapes cost £2 and 3 shillings, which is $3,672 USD in today's money.
Rich Evan's autobiography's working title
@@Benjamin.Jamin. Shillings? Decimalisation took place in the early 70's.
Thanks for making me feel old, despite being born in 1986, wait, that's considered being old nowadays by those damn Zoomers too isn't it?
Either way, Here in Germany Popeye was HUGE. In fact, pretty much everyone from my Generation still eats Spinach at least once a Week. More so because of the Cartoon but the Movie always played on Christmas Eve here in Germany for some Reason.
And yes, i'm still a huge Spinach Afficionado, fight me!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Popeye is one of those movies where you can see it once, and then sporadically through the rest of your life you’ll remember it out of nowhere and think ‘did that really happen, or did I dream it?’
Facts dude. I watched the first 2/3 of this movie like 3 months ago. I turned it off before it ended because it felt like it was giving me a fever. Ever since then I'll think of some bit from it and it feels like a distant childhood memory. Like it went back and inserted itself into my childhood.
The whole movie has a very fever dream quality. One of the reasons I love it so much.
For me that's the 1958 Tom Thumb movie which I watched as a 7 year old in 1997, because it was randomly on BBC 2.
Like, what the hell was that.
It's worth watching again decades later.
I think his last movie before Popeye was 3 women. Switching from the head space of directing a semi-surrealistic drama to a family movie based on a famous cartoon may have contributed to that lol.
Rich's favorite movie as a kid was about incomprehensible mumbling characters. Interesting...
He picked up every detail and analyzed every word... huh...
It's why he's so gifted at predicting terrible movies
No character is more needed in these uncertain times than a weird sailor that smokes a pipe, grumbles incoherently, and eats spinach. Thank you gentlemen. Your work on Earth is complete.
The modern remake will have him using Gen Alpha skibidi slang, eating kale, while ripping fat vape clouds.
@@aremel42 you have my attention...
@@aremel42oh please popeye was a vegan way before it was cool. He literally only eats spinach
"Damn Right Brother!" as i imagine Americans talk like.
But seriously, here in Germany Popeye was HUGE. In fact, pretty much everyone from my Generation still eats Spinach at least once a Week. More so because of the Cartoon but the Movie always played on Christmas Eve here in Germany for some Reason.
And yes, i'm still a huge Spinach Afficionado, fight me!
Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
@@aremel42 doesnt Popeye already say "skibidi"
Rich isn't an expert on Popeye. He just knows everything about it.
You can say about that movie what you want (as you already did), but there is something so magical about building a harbor village, having silly puppets as "stuntmen" and just people running around. They don't make movies today like they used to.
Finally, they reviewed the 1980 live-action Popeye film. Now I can unsubscribe.
It’s the end, boys; last one out turn off the lights.
Don't forget to cancel your patreon subscription too and send them back all their hackfraud merch.
And so my watch now ends...
I'm returning all of my Space Cop merch. It'll leave a Rich Evans-sized hole in my heart, but it'll be worth it.
I actually had Popeye on my RLM bingo card. Can't believe you didn't see the signs.
"Everything's kind of great... Except for the movie"
What a great pull quote for the back of the box
That was the most Redlettermedia line ever spoken.
Shelly just passed. The RLM curse continues
Which other actor did the curse struck? I'm curious
@gabroy3371 Kirk Douglas, I think. Eventually, they got the diabetes guy, too (I'll come back and edit this if I find his name)
@@gabroy3371 shelley Duvall
Leslie Jordan
Jerry Springer
Bernard Hill
betty white
henry kissinger
Mr.Smash Mouth steve harwell
Dan Haggerty
Prince (deathstalker)
Bill Paxton
Don Rickles
the goat Wilford Brimley to name a few
Betty white
Damm their closet huge
The chaotic nature of the scenes with a bunch of characters and everybody talking and Popeye mumbling and occasionally laughing and Olive saying, "OH!" and all the goofy slapstick humor is right out of the 1930s black and white Popeye cartoons. They actually achieved that very well. My grandmother took me to see this in the theater during its original release. She was absolutely stunned that live actors could be as goofy as cartoon characters.
Exactly. This movie is brilliant because it nails the cartoons perfectly. When Jay says he doesn’t expect a Popeye movie to be mumble talking and brown drab shacks, what is he expecting and why? Those cartoons were all mumbling characters in a town of beaten up drab shacks. It’s perfect.
I wonder if robert altman was picked to direct this movie because of that.
But something that works in a cartoon has no guarantee of working in live action, so they can recreate it perfectly with zero artistic payoff.
Whether by accident or design, when you hire Altman to direct a film you're going to get a cacophony of people talking over each other and bad audio editing.
@@mattneylon1321 I feel like Jay really didn't get a lot of what was going on with this movie.
God bless Rich Evans for going to bat against Jay's "nobody likes Popeye" opening statement. I had DVD collections of Popeye cartoons as a kid. Back then, I liked him because he made silly noises and looked like my grandpa. Now I like him for those same reasons + nostalgia + genuinely amazing animation and physical comedy. Popeye rules.
That caught me SO off guard. Like what hipster-ass thing to say (which considering it's Jay we're talking about lol). The slapstick in those classic Fleischer shorts alone makes him a character worth remembering and the whole world is such an endlessly charming one.
First of all me and my brother LOVE this movie and Popeye 😂 the mumbling is how they spoke in the cartoon
Popeye is great, but I think Jay was more trying to say that nobody cares about Popeye or thinks about popeye. Nobody is out there screaming that a bad Popeye video game ruined their childhood.
This contrasts with a cynical marketing mascot like Scooby Doo, which people think about and get mad about all the time. Even though in 50 years and like 100 different series and movies, there's only like a cumulative 10 hours of Scooby Doo content that's actually good.
People like Popeye but don't care. People hate Scooby doo, and care a lot.
Pretty much everything that Jay says against this movie underlines not only why I loved this movie as a little kid but why I still love it today. It's unexpected for him to take such a critical stance against this movie because it's so unusual as a kid's movie. Perhaps he really didn't know what to say for this one.
@@QualityCandor Agreed. Jay's tone and stance here is so jarring, and more than a little cringey unselfaware, given how niche his own interests are.
I think "He's Large" is a genuinely funny parody of insipid love songs in musicals. I just don't know if it was supposed to be.
there was alotta weirdness and undertones with the movie and musical numbers/songs if you can even call them that.
Yeah that's the one that feels the most "on purpose", and it still doesn't really feel like it was on purpose 😂
Yeah, Olive is trying to figure out *GOOD* reasons to like Bltuo but the only positive she can come up with is 'he's large'.
@@crokkadoodledoo9956 I honestly liked the Oxblood Oxheart Sweet Haven one... it was like a boxer coming out to somber funeral music with a procession
Look at it this way:
They supposedly shot footage of Olive Oil sitting on a bed and repeatedly saying things like "He's large" and "He's Virile" before they had decided those were going to be lyrics in a song.
How does that even happen? Was she just doing multiple takes and they strung them together?
Regarding the Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye footage, it's even worse - It was rejected in favor of The Emoji Movie
Um…wow. This timeline sucks.
@@russellharrell2747 wow thats so deppresing. All these hollywood studios suck ass.
Amy Pascal logic
Ghostbusters reboot
Madame Web
Venom
Morbius
So on
@@JoeChillton She's the reason why David Fincher and Rooney Mara never got a chance to finish off their plans for a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.
What a great business decision.
Jay being confused by the tone and style _as a child_ is the most Jay thing imaginable.
Hearing Rich say the word “banger” aged me about 20 years.
Now you are the same age!
Ham Gravy is goated with the sauce, no cap.
I am bumping that shit, respectfully, no hesi
The "Baby Oyl" line is legitimately hilarious. 😂
Goat line 😂
RIP Shelly Duvall
Hey so I live in Malta (the country where the set was built in and the film was shot here) and the set is now a glorious tourist trap, I have distinct memories of visiting it when I was young and it had a fairly glum atmosphere which is fitting considering the tone of the film, you can still visit it today and it's a pretty big "historical" landmark here, everyone has at least a few memories of visiting it when they were young.
Coool
I've spent 4 of the last 5 Christmas holidays in Malta (and a few other visits as well) and I've so far resisted the urge to see the Popeye Village (though once was on a bus that stopped there).
Midnight Express was also filmed in Malta. Can I tour Fort St. Elmo which served as the prison set?
Oh shit, im in Malta right now
I remember visiting it when I was a kid. Magical islands.
They can’t keep getting away with it
Jay: You know the average person knows of Popeye in passing
Rich:I have no idea what you are talking about *drops the deepest lore about Popeye*
Rich's ability to both remember comic book lore perfectly and also sum up an entire comic book run into one disparaging remark, is superb.
As far as I'm concerned, RLM killed Shelley Duvall RIP
Popeye is why canned spinach was my favorite food as a child. My friends in school thought I was a weirdo. Which I was. And am.
You're strong to the finich now though.
You yam what you yam. Bad joke aside it was the same for me. I still love spinach.
Haha, perhaps we should form a club of spinach eating Popeye watchers. That was my childhood too... still love spinach.
The pipe probably weirded them out more tbh
Spinach was thought to be a super-food for many years due to a misplaced decimal point by Erich Von Wolfe, saying it contains 10x more iron than it does.
This is so strange. I've been an RLM fan for years, and literally the week I've come to Malta and visited the Popeye Village (the set is now a tourist attraction with walk-around characters and exhibits/shows in the buildings) is the week they've released this. I thought I was hallucinating from the heat when I saw Rich's face in the thumbnail.
They have some pretty greate icream over there i remember.
@@treesoul00 Haha! What were the chances? Small world.
How was the Popeye Village?
@@Karma20XX Pretty good, I thought. Most of the shows and activities during the day are very child-oriented, but if you enjoy the film (which I'm embarrassed to admit I do), it's interesting simply to walk around and explore. It's in a lovely location. If you ever find yourself in Malta, it's a decent way to spend an afternoon, although unless you're a hardcore fan (which Rich might be lol) it's probably not worth travelling abroad solely to visit it. My biggest complaint is that one of the buildings is meant to be a shrine to Robin Williams, but it's still unfinished and apparently has been for a few years now.
*The Curse of the Worst strikes again! RIP Shelley Duvall!*
"I kind of remember watching it on cable" perfectly sums up the movie lol
I think Shelly's performance is the single best representation of a cartoon character that will ever be in a movie
Holy shit! Shelley Duvall just died. The Red Letter Media curse strikes again.
I like it when RLM reviews movies. Reminds me of the good old days.
Seriously, what happened? Where are the reviews for Godzilla Minus One and Dune 2?
@@mattturner5429"talk about things i want you to talk about"
@@Around_blax_dont_relax More like "Go back to doing the thing that grew your channel and made you popular to begin with, which was reviewing movies."
@@mattturner5429 Do you remember it?
@@mattturner5429 or how about you get over being 11 years old and realize they are gonna do what they want and you dont control them? You know what made them popular? Doing whatever they want
Shelley Duvall would've been outstanding as Olive Oyl in The Shining
I'm trying to imagine Jack Nicholson as Popeye...
@@BenDowdy Or, he could start as Popeye and transform into Bluto when he loses it.
Also, Nicholson was a sailor in The Last Detail; just give him a pipe, squint, spinach, and thigh-forearms.
Psychic Rich Evans putting this out before she passed.
Popeye, Salem's Lot, and the Elephant Man. The holy trinity of Showtime movies that helped shape my initial comprehension of the universe.
Did you have showtime when it was just one beige box with two buttons?
I'm having bizarro flashbacks after learning Jay isn't in his mid-50's and nothing makes sense anymore.
Aerobicise didn't make the cut?
@@wingitprod I didn't fully appreciate that until later, but I did dig all the nudity in Ghost Story (1981).
Every person above 30s was traumatized by at least one of those movies.
@@bloodgourd Ah! The fluttering, plummeting tally was quite memorable.
The curse strikes again😢... RIP Shelly Duvall...
Who else fell victim to the curse?
My uncle is one of those old popeye-heads who's been collecting Popeye stuff since long before I was born. His garage is setup like a Popeye museum. It was actually kinda neat because I was a fan of the cartoons then but it also kinda sucked because he has all these great Popeye toys that I wasn't allowed to touch. I also saw this movie for the first time with him and my aunt on an old vcr that had a corded control.
Big Bad Toystore sells a sick ass high end Popeye action figure, so if you got 100 dollars to spend, you can get the sickest ass Popeye toy the world has ever seen and make your childhood dreams come true.
When your uncle eventually passes, you grab those toys and smack them together like they were intended.
Jay got BTFO'ed by Rich within the first two minutes.
wtf Rich, stop claiming lives
Get bent Jay. There are few fictional characters that could match Popeye's Power Level.
Dude's basically American Saitama.
Jay tries to be Mike. Fails miserably.
He's the perfect example of guys who drop out of the Fandom but still think they represent everything about it. Let's see him attend any local anime con and say that shit out loud, he'd have every Popeye cosplayer in the tri-state area lined up wheeling their fists at him.
@@My-cat-is-staring-at-you Death Battle did a Saitama vs Popeye video a couple of years ago. Popeye won. lol
@@JacobPaul-ix7oc not surprised, tbh. Popeye is build different.
Massive cartoon nerd here, the constant character mumbling over each other/improv seems to be like a callback to the original Fleschier shorts of the 30s and early 40s where the voice actors didn’t necessarily have a script or boards of the cartoon but recorded their lines while watching it. This led to a lot of scenes of the characters talking over each other while their mouths weren’t lip-synced.
I'm seriously wondering whether Jay doesn't realize how much Popeye mumbled in the animated cartoons.
Spot-on! The screenwriter, Jules Feiffer, hated the Fleischer cartoons but loved the E.C. Segar comic strip. That's why we have the presence of so many characters you never saw in the Fleischer cartoons. The producers and director, however, very wisely, I think, saw this as an opportunity to combine both what was lovable from the cartoons (the muttering and constant movement) and what was lovable from the comic strips (the Dickensian characters, plotting, and lower-middle class setting)
@@davidlevy706 He's an anti-cartoon snob. It becomes very apparent the longer you watch RLM. The only cartoon he's given a chance in the last twenty years is the most recent TMNT film.
@@davidlevy706 I don't think he did- - the stream-of-consciousness mumblings and overlapping dialogue were part of the original black-and-whites, much less so in the later color cartoons that folks are more familiar with. I can actually imagine Robert Altman watching the original cartoons and saying "I can do this ".
@@47drifthe’s a fan of the spiderverse films.
You guys just had to talk about Shelley Duvall, huh?
Rich Evans is an absolute LEGEND, we are blessed every time we get to see him.
Rich was the true hero, here, today - standing up for Popeye :-)
I was impressed by his knowledge
Richard Malcom Evans! You knew you had this power yet you willingly chose to use it. Murderer!
I actually worked for Missouri Meerschaum Company from 2019 to 2023. MMC is the last corn cob pipe company in the United States, and one of MM's "achievements" was making the very corn cob pipe that Robin Williams uses in the film. We also sent plenty of pipes to the Popeye Museum in Chester, Illinois, so I have a soft spot for the Ol'Sailor.
My parents grew up in the depression and I grew up watching Tom Hatten's Popeye and Friends on KTLA every single Sunday. This movie was a big deal to us when it came out and saw it first run in the theater. Never even considered it to be bad, weird, but never bad. loved it. Then as an adult shocked to discover that it was Robert Altman, loved it even more. And it his defense, he was taking from the early, black and white era of Popeye mostly. There was a lot of mumbling in those.
[Southern California gen-xer exchanges a knowing nod, and then gives a brief moment to remember Family Film Festival.]
@@greggersden As soon as Popeye was over I'd wait and hope to see if the 'Little Rascals' or '
'Pippi Longstocking' were on the Family Film Festival roster that day. If not, it was outside to play.
RIP Shelley Duvall, killed by Jay and RIch
That lone Popeye merch collector is most certainly a 40 year old Brazilian. Popeye was HUGE in Brazil in the 90s
There’s a Popeye museum in Illinois. I’ve been to it. The owners are not Brazilian.
...why
@@Aloysius2113 brazil
I find that with a lot of American cartoons that they tend to be more popular in countries other than America. I'm from India and Popeye was one of the most popular cartoons here in the 90s - along with almost all of Hanna-Barbera cartoons dubbed in Hindi.
As a Brazilian I can confirm that. SOME of the reason is that making our own cartoons was out of the question since its very expensive and old and out of style cartoons were cheaper to license so Brazilian TVs bought these cartoon licenses for cheap and re-ran them over and over again. Thats why we are obsessed with Woody Woodpecker, a forgotten cartoon that lost to Loney toons even back then.
I like that Rich puts in effort to do background research on what they’re talking about. Good work, Rich!!
that's right, jay!
Meanwhile, Jay comes off as the sort of ill-informed, smug hipster who would say things at parties like, "Have you ever actually met anyone who's read Dickens? Like, who cares, right?"
@@ianpatrickmchugh787 Eh, Popeye really was just kind of left behind in the 80s and 90s. Though I think Jay forgot about how it would play on Cartoon Network, along with 1940s and 50s Looney Tunes.
The RLM curse strikes again. RIP Shelly Duvall
Jay's befuddlement at the mumbling tells me he probably didn't watch much of the Popeye cartoon either lol
Jay loves the artsy fartsy shit. He's the boring type of audience. He definitely has the worst takes out of all the guys.
The fact that Rich acts like doing a musical with Popeye is such a ridiculous concept on the face of it suggests to me that he doesn't remember the original cartoons very well either. Popeye and Olive sang all the time. They were full of original music. Maybe he'd have an issue with it there also.
Guys! I'm one of those weird Popeye people! This being Revisited is like a dream for me. I have basically the same feelings as Rich here and I'm just shocked that more folks don't "get" this movie. It's such an anomaly of a film. Thanks for doing this guys!
Fun Fact:
Popeye is already pubic domain in the UK, and will go pubic domain in the US in 6 months.
I look forward to the inevitable slasher film, _Popeye: Blood and Spinach._
Nintendo can finally make the platformer they always wanted
@@stevenapkins6460maybe that’s why Mario odyssey 2 is taking so long, Bluto is going to be the villain and Nintendo want to wait for Popeye to go public domain so they don’t have to pay anyone haha
@@Starbladesarcane Bluto won't be public domain until 2028. But Disney's equivalent, Pete, has been free for several years.
If you keep misspelling everything I'll put you in my pubic domain in 14 seconds
Fun fact: Popeye actually grossed more than Annie, and because Annie's budget was bigger, Popeye also netted more money. It's a hard knock life.
How is it possible that Annie’s budget was bigger than this movie where they built a town?
I'm going to um ackthually you and tell you how much Annie grossed
This is one of my favorite films of all time. One of the most faithful comic movies ever made.
Rest in power Shelley Duval
I don't care what anyone says, I'll always have a soft spot for this movie. Nostalgia definitely plays a part, but it has such a unique identity and charm about it that I appreciate as an adult.
You don’t have to make excuses for loving this movie. It’s brilliant and misunderstood, even by these arbiters of film criticism at RLM
I think it's a movie that just gets better and better with repeated viewing.
Hmmm, I viewed it as a kid once, and while something clicked because the production value was so amazing.... I also get reminded in this review why I could barely handle watching it because NOTHING HAPPENS!!!! I don't think I will ever watch it again, tbh.
I agree. I really liked this movie as a kid, and now that I'm an adult, I still really like it. Even as a kid, I remember appreciating the Altman-esque overlapping dialogue and the work that obviously went into making Sweethaven feel like a real (albeit somewhat surreal) environment.
Strange movies like this fit right into the era of early video rental, when the whole process felt very dark and mysterious.
Can’t believe you put the RLM curse on Shelly. 😢
Even if the movie isn't that good, you can tell that the people behind it love the cartoon, wanted it to feel like an live action cartoon, as well as add some elements from the comics. Its not like today where people don't give a shit.
Make sure you eat your spinach every day, and you can grow as big and strong as Rich Evans.
If you don't, you'll wind up an undersized hipster like Jay
Rest in Peace Shelley Duvall! I had never seen this movie and watched it only to enjoy this revisit more, being a huge fan of the Shining and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, I was really happy to see her in this. As they say in the video, she really knocked it out of the park, I can only think of JK Simmons' J.Jonah Jameson as someone who equally could find no equal to embody a specific comicbook character. Also really happy I got to see it before she passed so I wasn't bummed out about it. Thank you for the great revisit with fortunate timing to the redletter gang and thank you for your vibrant inspiring performances Mrs. Duvall.
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a movie review today.
Wimpy.
I'm GenX. I first saw this (heavily edited for television) on NBC in the early 1980s. I was only 11 or 12 but its the first time I felt I was watching a masterpiece of comedy and performance that NOBODY was going to appreciate!! I have loved this film forever and THIS film made me a life long fan of Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall who perform as if trained in the ancient European tradition of Troubadour Clowns/Pantomime. Masterclass performances.
100% right there with you.
I saw it twice as an early teen during its initial theater run and laughed throughout (I was already a big Robin Williams fan from Happy Days and Mork and Mindy). I started singing the movie’s tunes around the house so my parents got me the soundtrack record as a Christmas present that year. I still have the songs with me on my iPod when driving around and rewatch the blu-ray on a regular basis when I need a mood lift. Now off to listen to I Yam What I Yam and I’m Mean. PS: The OST deluxe version with theatrical versions and Harry Nilsson versions is on Apple Music.
The film is dogshit, pal.
The red letter media curse strikes again. RIP Shelley Duval :(
0:36 I keep forgetting that Rich Evans is a Hollywood A-list Actor who's married to Karen Gillan of Guardians Of The Galaxy and Doctor Who fame. He's just so humble. And wise.
No, he mean the skeleton of Karen Carpenter.
Are you rlm all guys brain damaged? Is this supposed to be funny?
That’s a nice rack of ribs
Came right back when I heard the news.
Shelley Duvall was a treasure.
I couldn't sleep this morning and watched a "not as bad as you remember" retrospective on this movie at 6am and then you guys dropped this an hour ago... I'm pretty sure this is a sign of the apocalypse.
It's the Popeyecalypse.
I would have never believed I'd see RLM call Quinton Reviews a weirdo, but man I'm glad to see it happen
Glad I'm not the only one that caught that.
Wait I think i missed that, when in the video do they say that?
@@trash2958 Early, and Jay doesn't call him by name he just says there's one weirdo who's collecting all the Garfield merchandise.
@@hosvet_animationhe's buying it to impress Nostalgia Chick
>No one remembers Popeye
You know Rich, now I suddenly feel all the bullying from Mike is deserved
le epic maymay arrows ebin win
@@ShennyIsLiveshhhhhh be quiet weirdo
@@ShennyIsLivebestie u made it worse :(
@@ShennyIsLive muh sekrit club
It makes me INCREDIBLY happy that they still think about Robot in the Family. That movie is completely insane.
I like the clip of Jay yelling "SHUT. UP." at the movie. It's his inner HS bully leaking out.
The RLM Curse strikes again. R.I.P. Shelley Duvall.
The Popeye Fleischer cartoons explain everything about this film that baffled you guys. The set design and Popeye voice come from those cartoons. There's something adorable about the film that is not strictly in line with proper filmmaking.
those original cartoons, with mumbly popeye, were the best. a pity they over dubbed them in the late 70s to be more in line with modern popeye
They also recorded the voices after the animation and Popeye’s actor would make mumbly ad libs while his mouth wasn’t moving, which probably influenced the movie’s use of ADR.
The one with Sinbad had some good ass animation. The fight is top notch.
That's the thing, it is pretty close to the early cartoons. But it's too slow and moody for a kid's film. It's made for classic Popeye aficionado adults.
They 100% mention the mumbles in the cartoon here, but it just doesn't WORK in live action when you're trying to have a 90 minute plot as compared to a 4 minute toon.
I was born in the year 2000, making me 64,998,000 younger than Rich Evans, I still remember the Popeye movie, especially the awkward Octopus fight scene.
They were - naturally - out of money. The octopus prop - naturally - broke and wouldn't work right and the fight with it had to be laregly improvised. Finally: in the cartoons, when Popeye powers up with spinach, he rarely needs more than one punch to defeat any enemy.
Well done to the hack frauds. You did it again.
Rest well, Ms. Duvall. You had a hard life.
I watched Popeye in the theater as a double feature with the Dark Crystal. Nickle pop corn. I miss the 80s
The RLM curse strikes again!
RIP Shelley Duvall
Hey RedLetterMedia could you make a re:visit on Home alone 2? uh and Two Weeks Notice? maybe The Apprentice show? like before November ish would be great?
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LMAO! 😆
@@lithographer Why you gotta bring your political beliefs into this?...
@@tmac326 i don't know what the heck your talking about. I'm simply requesting movies and shows to get reviewed
Growing up my dad was a comic geek and had big book collections of all the original popeye strips. Popeye was awesome, he was also a huge jerk which made him even more awesome.
yeah, his introduction was so awesome he basically robbed the damn news strip with a single phrase
This Star Wars Acolyte commentary was really good! Some insights to things I never thought of... Wookie Jedi's are so cool...
Thank you Rich
The RedLetterMedia curse strikes again... RIP Shelley Duvall
Fun fact, Popeye is the reason the Mario franchise exists. Nintendo was going to make a Popeye game where Popeye tried to save Olive from Bluto. For reasons I'm not quite sure why, they couldn't get the licensing finished in time so they had to replace Popeye, Olive, and Bluto with what became Mario, Peach, and Donkey Kong.
there was a popeye video game after tho. remember playing it in arcade and on Colecovision
The first Mario Brothers game kinda made sense. Mario was an Italian plumber in New York navigating the city’s sewers (not exactly what plumbers do, but hey, we’ll let it slide.) In Super Mario Brothers, for some reason, this New York City plumber was transported to a medieval world of princesses and castles.
Nintendo did make a Popeye arcade game that's similar to the original Mario Bro's game. They also ported it to the NES.
sorry for the pedantic comment but in donkey kong the damsel in distress character is pauline, not peach
and another connection, In the Mario movie he doesnt like Mushrooms like Popeye with spinach, and both are forced to eat it to get stronger.
Jay is aging... The world, is changing.
Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!
It's contact aging...as he is the caretaker for all the OLDS at RLM
This truly is the bad timeline
Evolving into the silver fox stage
It's all the booze
Looks like the curse of the worst continues...Shelly Duvall passed away now....
as a popeye head im very glad to learn that rich evans is a fellow popeyehead
Thank you so much rich for defending popeye
Here here!
Irrationally mad when Jay compared Popeye to Garfield when Popeye stayed relevant because he was a beloved cartoon that continued to stay popular even when he didn’t get a bunch of revivals and reboots. Meanwhile Garfield is well remembered because he was in every piece of merchandise you can think of.
@@gulorful8488 I know, he has no idea about cartoons. No interest I guess, but it reflects poorly on society I think that a lot of our most beloved art from the past is just being forgotten like this. Cuphead brought back interest in the old fleischman cartoons, but there's been very little interest besides. They really ought to be showing kids those instead of a lot of the brainrot they watch on youtube now.
@@bajaxbajax910 I think Jay has some knowledge about animation, as he mentioned Genndy Tartakovsky and Spider-Verse, but I do agree we should show kids as many old cartoons as possible. My parents showed me lots of old cartoons along with new and I’m so glad they did. It helped broaden my tastes, especially as an adult. And it’ll make you appreciate them more instead of just seeing them as something novel like Garfield.
Yeah Jay is out of his element in this one.
I hope it was worth it making the RLM curse take Shelley Duval from us, for you to review this film
rich evans comic lore knowledge makes so much more sense after watching his animations in the last video...
Can't wait to see Quinton Review's response to that statement at 4:14.
Right 😂
RIP Shelley Duvall, merely two weeks after this re-view...
What a great tribute....🙏
Shelley Deval is just PERFECT as Olive Oil. The casting throughout the film is amazing, but Shelley is doing master work mimicking the cartoon antics of Olive.
God I love this movie
Agreed with everything said, but Robin Williams mumbling throughout the entire movie is hilarious and I still hear new stuff that makes me laugh on rewatches.
You might’ve just sold me with that
Holy shit, the curse of the worst strikes again. RIP Shelly Duvall
Loved this film as a child, even visited the set in Malta
All I'm saying, is that she was fine before this came out.
What's the body count now?