Half in the Bag: Demonic
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- čas přidán 1. 09. 2021
- Mike and Jay watch Nelly Bloomcramp's new film "Demonic" about a lady who uses some kind of motion capture rig to talk to her demon-possessed mother in a coma.
Mike continues with his new scheme to steal Mr. Plinkett's blood in a much more compelling story. - Zábava
Ah another 40 minute review to enjoy, about a movie I'll never watch
Good, don't watch it. It's just terrible
I literally dont watch more than around 2 new movies a year but I've watched most everything on this channel
Right?
Hypothetically; if these guys have reviewed 100 movies then I have watched 100 reviews. Meanwhile which of those 100 movies that were reviewed have I actually seen or want to see? Around 7.
'Half in the Bag' is the best paradigm for experiencing modern cinema.
in all honesty, i hadn't even heard of it.
I don’t watch ANY movies anymore, but I never miss an RLM review.
Oh, poor Jay. He gets Mike's Star Trek references now.
Resistance is futile.
Prepare to be assimilated.
Mike finally groomed him
Shaka when the walls fell
Jay is ready for Star Trek trivia for those who have never watched Star Trek - I bet he would do well at this point.
So do we…
I’d love to see David Lynch’s reaction to someone trying to interview him on their iPhone while they’re going through a Chick-fil-A drive through.
Or being pulled over for a traffic violation.
“You are interviewing me…oN a fUcKiNg tElEpHoNe?!?”
"You won't understand my answers, not in a trillion years!"
If you watch it on a fucking telephone you'd love it even more.
*yelling the whole time* “WHY ARE YOU USING A FUCKING PHONE? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE NO RESPECT?”
"Militarized catholic priests with giant guns" Jay accidentally describing Warhammer 40k
Emperor protects!
I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME
Knowledge is power. Guard it well.
I mean why do people who like Warhammer think everything's Warhammer
@@murphy7801 Same reason why Mike compares everything to Star Trek.
Imagine interviewing a filmmaker and instead of setting aside time in your schedule, you do the interview in your car. Professional stuff!
He even was like “I had to pull over” which implies that he was busy doing other things and just went “oh fuck yeah I guess I’ll do this interview or whatever.”
@@ravenkarlin "Oh uhhh hey uhhhh District 9 guy. I loved uhhh whatever your demon movie is called. Anyway, I gotta get back on the road!"
@@victorolosaurus Good point, and I think that would have been better. But problem is, a lot of folks would look down on that, too.
Yeah, WTF???
that's on the filmmaker for accepting to be interviewed by youtubers/influencers/bloggers/narcissist spoiled man-children with no real jobs.
Anyone that is desperate enough to agree to get interviewed for one of those youtuber/blogger sites or pull social media populist stunts deserves any embarrasment that results from it
“So we’re following through on this full storyline” lmao
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear jor
Love when he gets meta on it and sounds disappointed. Lmfao.
Love how they come up with convoluted stories to give some continuity to the movie reviews and then make fun of the convoluted story line. They are good at what they do!
They'll always be the best because of that.
@@scottieman2 I love their sense of humor.
I love the guy who said, "It's an honor to talk to you, sir," and then he's literally in his car.
Looked like some loser driving home from Star Wars Celebration in his mom’s car. Truly sad on so many levels
@@itsd0nk You're so cool 😎
@@itsd0nk want to get something off your chest bud that was oddly specific?
@@itsd0nk sees guy in car "what a loser. i dont even want a car, they probably just go to star wars in them. nerds"
@@itsd0nk
Sad to be driving a car?
I accidentally pressed pause and sat there waiting for a minute thinking this was one of their bits.
I think we've all done this at one point lol.
@@AltoStratusX1 yup been there done that
Better than the movie their reviewing...
funnier than the intro skit, thats for sure.
Thank you for the chuckle
This is probably the third strangest iCarly fanfic I’ve ever seen.
I had to rewind the video just to make sure they said her name is Carly and her best friend’s name is Sam..
Did my story of the iCarly + Kim Possible crossover rank? I know it being set as a Mission: Impossible prequel/spinoff was iffy. But I felt the exploration of motives, personal security & boundaries, as well as the nature of trust in the government was well explained.
I'm glad I found this comment. I did a double take when I heard Carly and Sam.
@@fearanarchy unironically want to read that story now lol
It's better than the sequel series Only Carly. I can't believe -Disney- Nickelodeon thought that was a good idea.
Mike's ghost obsession has led to him knowing a lot of interesting things about architecture and history.
My weird RLM obsession has led me to know something new about architecture and history
That's what we call tangential learning!
Cheers to that.
Me is smart now
Mike's probably been possessed by an alcoholic ghost for years
7:06
*"It is an honour to talk to you, sir. I apologize for the weird background. I had a very large meal earlier with incredibly spicy food."*
He video chats from a bathroom stall at a truck-stop, the reverberating poop sounds, running water, and doors opening and closing not quite removed by his smartphone's noise cancellation.
*"I'm a huge fan."*
A flickering light is his only source of illumination through the inch-wide gaps in the stall door making his face barely perceptible.
*"I absolutely loved this film."*
The signal is so weak that he's getting 6 frames per second at best in between completely frozen frames. He drops his phone from all his hand sweat as the cheap spicy food wreaks havoc on his insides and bowels.
*"Can you tell me a bit about how you came up with your ideas? I'm actually an aspiring director myself."*
Neill Blomkamp's eyes glaze over as he plays over all the decisions that's lead him to this moment.
Thank you for this. I needed this laugh.
@@wolfspider1628 You're very welcome. I'm now more glad I took the time to write this long comment.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I fckin died here
Oh god this killed me, perfect before a long zoom meeting
You wrote a better scenario than both the original interviewer and interviewee are capable of at this point in time.
I'm not a Neil Blomkamp fan, but man, seeing him be interviewed by random dudes in their car on youtube about his movie made me feel legitimately bad for him. Dude just wants to make movies people like, hopefully he makes another good movie soon.
Not even District 9? I agree, though.
Hopefully gran turismo is good, cannot believe they let him direct that after this
Holy shit the cut to that guy's literal roadside interview was incredible, Neil was probably thinking, "What the fuck did I just get into?..."
I love that the people he invited are so popular everyone refers to them as "some guy". He'd get better advertisement if he talked to Rich Evans.
Right?! Honestly the most awkward thing I've ever seen! I felt bad for Neil! Who the heck vetted that interview??
Oh my god I cackled.
It’s weird trend that people record videos from their car. I’ve never understood it.
that was a really incredible moment, I couldn't believe this was real life but it is
The line between Half in the Bag and Best of the Worst spotlight edition is diminishing. Thanks, Hollywood!
😂🤙 True
The Best Is The Worst.
Thought the same thing watching their review of Malignant!
I have seen more Best of the Worst movies than Half in the Bag. Maybe that says something about my taste in movies.
Mike's funfacts about sanatoriums were legitimately interesting. Just give Mike his own video series where you just let him loose to talk about ghosts please.
A red letter media ghost hunter show.
*Skosts™️
It's just Buzzfeed: Unsolved, but with Rich and Mike.
@@celebalert5616 I think a lot of people did. I wonder how that started. There's even that Metallica song that's clearly about a psychiatric hospital but it says sanitarium in the title. I wonder if it just makes people think of the term "sanity"
@@richardtheconquerer I mean they do have some overlap. Sanitariums were just specialized long term care facilities for diseases without cures, mostly for TB and rheumatism but not always. However, they threw plenty of mentally ill people in there they didn't know what to do with, they were considered incurable long term ailments as well.
Man… all those computer noises made me nostalgic for The Nerd Crew, William Shatner’s favourite podcast :(
After RLM clarified the Shatner confusion, is the guy still screaming at them?
IKR? I hope we'll see their triumphant return one day
The only Mike in existence to Shatner is Mike Tyson apparently
I can't believe this movie used rogue, militarized Catholic exorcist priests with guns and fucked it up.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fear. Fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise - and ruthless efficiency! Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Our four, no, among our weapons are such elements as fear, surpr- I'll come in again." ~ Monty Python's Flying Circus
... can't be the only one who immediately thought about a whole selection of manga/anime that do that crap.
The wonders of cinema
Fate/Stay Night moment
Yeah... What is this, Hellsing?!
Historians will look back and study these episodes of Half in the bag to analyze the effects if Corona Virus on the lowest of society
I unironically agree. This is satire but it really catches the spirit of these days.
@@ELEKTROSKANSEN i know. lets hope thos video survives the purge.
That actually has a high chance of becoming true
The "lumpencommentariat".
@Glib Happensoos the scam part is the anti-science, I hope you understand lol. Trump found an untapped gold mine in uneducated boomers making contributions in the hundreds of millions, then other scum bags caught on and jumped on the gravy train. Say stupid contrarian nonsense in the name of liberty; dim witted contrarians donate their ex-wife’s child support checks to the guy who “he talks like meeeeee!”
Neil Blomkamp started out as a VFX guy, essentially. I remember seeing his little indie shorts back in 2007-2008 when he was being tapped to make a Halo film for Bungie. District 9 was a short film back in ‘07. They even used pretty much the entire short film in the feature length one, as the whole intro. The other big short he made was basically a pilot screen test for Chappie as well. His shorts he made for Halo were really dope looking too. It was all extremely well done and it was basically all just him. Very ambitious and talented. Seems like he really needed to find a good squad of well rounded people to surround himself with to really elevate his great visual ideas into something great.
Lynda Carter's brief role in Tempbot lives rent free in my head
Is VFX South African slang for "boring overrated hack"
I feel like District 9 turned out the way it did because Peter Jackson held his hand. When he wasn't around, his career went to shit.
@@KingThrillgore Still, let's thank Neil for Sharlto Copley.
Blomkamp is currently in talks to do adaptation of Blindsight by Peter Watts, a great hard sci fi novel. I'm sure it will be much better than this.
I know Mike edited this, cuz Jay said "the Devil's son" and it wasn't immediately followed by a Hack-O-Lantern clip.
That guy deadass interviewed Nelly Bloomcramp from his fucking 1996 Dodge Caravan. The absolute state of that man.
Did you expect him to delay a Home Depot run just to interview a director?
In the span of a year the prestige of Hollywood was reduced to CZcams interviews and guest podcast spots. Probably a lot of actors wondering what the hell they’re doing… the ones in it for fame anyway.
@@MrSkeltal268 Dont forget big budget films are now short season tv shows for $12/month subscription services.
@@MtD021 He probably left his home because his mother was having a mental breakdown and his father got drunk to cope with it. It's pretty optimistic to think he's not conducting the interview on the highway BECAUSE it's the best place he could possibly find to do it at and just came up with a "likely" excuse for that post-fact.
Think about it backwards: what other reason would he have to do that? Coming back home from a trip or family get-together? During COVID?! Yeah like I'm buying that for a dollar...
Neil’s face was incredible. He couldn’t hide his discomfort.
If "Demonic" really was like "The Sims," viewers would be charged $40 per each new scene in the movie.
And the ending will be DLC.
And everyone would have died in a swimming pool they couldn't get out of.
That or her mom's life support equipment spontaneously bursts into flames and burns down the house.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs imagine if the game was a product of Bethesda.
@@thecryptidkeeper9913 bwahahahaha!
It's weird how this review will probably be seen by more people than the movie itself
And make more money.
Oh absolutely. Most of us are insulted by the same tricks and just want the dignity of truth. It's why Hollywood hates us.
"Meet me at the patio for coffee?"
She has coke, he has beer.
Blend them together and you get coffee
If you mix coke and beer together you get coffee.
If you pause and read the texts, they don't say "for coffee". That came from Mike.
Can I make it any more obvious
To be fair, the text said nothing about coffee.
I cant stop staring at Jay's rogue hair floppin around in the wind.
Jays flop
I can’t stop
Looking
Mike undoubtedly saw that hair the whole review and didn’t say anything.
Drivin' me crazy!
I like it. It’s like he’s trying to rekindle that 2001 Burger Barn edge he once had.
I can't stop staring at Jay.
That's it.
At first on those Zoom interviews I thought he was sitting on a chair made of peacock feathers and then I realized it was a head from the movie poster
Or a hair trash bean bag
There are many other video/telephone call apps.
Same here, ..but I kept thinking that until they pointed it out
Wouldn't a demon being stuck in a comatose lady be like the best possible scenario already? I mean it's right up there with that ghostbusters ghost trap. It's not like if they get it out the old lady's brain damage is suddenly fixed.
thats why theyre rogue
fired for being morons
@@electricbayonet2 I was really intrigued at the first hint they were priests. The movie had me for the first hour, then we find out this weird Cronenbergian clinic may be staffed by priests with a demonically possessed woman in a coma. Religion using science to progress the fight against possession, cool concept. But soon after, we see the priests with goddamned guns and body armor suiting up? What an immature twist on a potentially intriguing concept! What in the hell good is a shotgun going to do against a demon? Would’ve loved to see this concept in better hands, because it took 40 minutes of “pay off” to take a massive dump on an hour of intriguing set up.
@@stevenawalt68 "What in the hell good is a shotgun going to do against a demon?"
Someone hasn't played DOOM yet ;)
I wonder though, if they’re comatose or in PVS wouldn’t that make the Joey more pliable as there wouldn’t be resistance from a sentient autonomy? Or would they be more so zombified? Like a Dom-by | Zomb-mon?
You mean comatic?
The stereotypical "Internet guy" doing an interview with Neil in his car was pretty crackup. Like, poor Neil, how the fuck did you get here?
By earning it.
Never expected to get a short history lesson on sanatoriums from Mike. Very interesting
I thought a sanitarium was another name for an old mental hospital, but now realise the 'sanit-' comes from sanitation not sanity.
Edit: Apparently both words come from latin "sanitas" meaning health, but are unrelated to each other. Close enough.
@@user-hi4sm3ig5j Both words come from san- root that literally means "whole".
So sane means, a person did not lost his organs, body function, or mind.
Not to confuse with Sen- which meant old. (Because I once told my profesor senate may mean assembly, which was wrong I guess)
@@user-hi4sm3ig5j Easy mistake to make when in Halloween and Dracula films both michael and Renfield are placed in a sanitarium.
Metallica is ok
Mike only knows about sanatoriums because of all the haunting going on in them.
The level of awkward from those Zoom interviews is almost too much to handle for me.
that’s how all zoom interviews feel sadly
It's like being at work, except for the video cutting out, or the 400th "I was stuck on mute" utterance.
Any interview with a 2 second plus lag between questions and responses is like nails on a chalkboard.
The unsaid agression, the pain in their eyes, neither is having fun or in the moment, it's wonderful.
I lost it when Mike used word "comatic" and awkwardly looked at camera as if viewers are about to slap him for not knowing word "comatose".
Twice even. Love Mike!!
36:47 for anyone that's wondering.
19:32 Jay searches his entire memory of 19,452 films in 1.3 sec. to see if he remembers the film Mike is talking about
Jay saying "You're the Devil's Son" and not cutting to the footage from Best of the Worst is a bigger subversion of my expectations than the Rian Johnson wine short.
Truly dissapointing
I clapped because it was ground breaking
This is how I knew this episode was edited by Mike and not Jay, Jay loves that fucking song.
Everybody should have a special pair of wine shorts
This comment is one of a true RLM fan.
You can almost hear Blomkamp thinking "Is this what I've been reduced to?" during those CZcams interviews.
What have I become, my sweetest friend?
Well when you go from rubbing shoulders with Peter Jackson to this, you get what you deserve.
Maybe if he had more than one good movie/concept in him, he wouldn't be reduced to that.
I think it's kind of shitty for CZcamsrs to be making fun of CZcamsrs, but that's just me.
He must really hate Ridley Scott for getting his Aliens sequel squashed.
20:59 Mike talking about the architecture of sanatoriums is one of the best HITB moments ever. Seriously.
The cartoon sound effect is the icing on the cake.
@@GregFurey98 Those well-placed Looney-Toon sounds legitimately crack me up.
To kill a demon with guns, you need to use hallowed-point bullets.
Boooooo
Hehe not bad. U got a like from me for being creative with your bad jokes lol
You wont get a tomato from me, but im definitely tossing a slice of bread
Mike: "oh god, now I'm having Nerd Crew flashbacks"
More Nerd Crew episodes so Mike can have more flashbacks please!
Very COOL!
@@iank3924 It's BREAKING NEW GROUND!
Do the Disney shills they parodied even exist anymore?
@@btarczy5067 I think they died off after Endgame
@@badabingbing474 One of them didn't get his gift bag and had an on-camera meltdown. They got canceled the next day.
Man, you can just hear the passion coming from Blomkamp when he talks about movies. Not a shocker he makes such masterpieces.
He looked absolutely defeated in those pathetic interviews. I genuinely felt sorry for the guy. It’s a long way down
One day I hope to recreate that little painting of the two bears behind Mike’s head but with Mike and Jay’s faces on the bears 🐻🐻
2 Bears, One Cave.
OMG PAINT IT! (づ °ᗜ°)づ
Its seems based on a pretty famous picture of two cubs looking at the camera
Then we can finally conclude that the real VCR repairmen were the friends we met along the way.
I am looking up the sanatorium breakdown. I thought Sanatoriums were for people who were criminally insane.
Holy crap. Hats off! He is correct.
Red Letter Media: Not only making the mundane entertaining, but historical masters.
Well done... well done 👏
I like the fact that Jay gets a Darmok reference. He’s learning Star Track by osmosis.
Jay, his eyes uncovered.
Oh no soon rlm will be all star trek
Står Trackz!
Mike and Jay, on the Ocean.
Mike and Jay, with the broken VCR.
The brief Nerd Crew mention brought back wonderful memories. I miss The Nerd Crew.
Where is the mention? I must have missed it and can't find it
Very cool
I clapped when they mentioned Nerd Crew!
@@samueldavidovich1534 8:02
We need a new Nerd Crew Episode for these COVID times please.
Is there a convincing reason Mike doesn't have his own ghost hunting show at this point? Serious question. They already have the skeptic in Jay. If you're going to be hack frauds, commit to it.
You could call it.....Half in the Grave.
Half in the Bog.
All the camaraderie of Mulder and Scully, with twice the sexual tension
Half in the Body Bag
@@griegomas sort of like, one foot in the grave
Mike's trying so hard to not reveal the body-chute beneath the RLM studio.
He had to install it after all the black-spine debacles
RLMs COVID coverage is so (embarrassingly) accurate and when someone eventually makes a tedious documentary about this time in history, I hope clips from Half in the Bag are included.
it won't be for 100 years though. assuming the information lasts that long.
I hope Mike gets his credit for the "deja flu" comment in the history books
@@Scribbled_Death lol. "Deja flu". That's a good one
He'd go 6 feet two inches, even though it isn't currently recommended by the CDC.
Yeah they’re the rare breed of American that actually understand both sides of the COVID argument
When you said "Neil Blomkamp" my mind said, "Neil Breen".... And for a second I thought, "Those are pretty good effects for a Neil Breen movie..... Oh"
I'm sorry sorry Mike, your dementia is kicking in. Jody Foster's character in Silence of the lambs was HUNTED by someone using night vision goggles not hunting my dude.
'someone'
I guess Jay understands Darmok now. Nice.
Leadhead
what?
He got banished to the Darmok planet for a little while for losing the Stark Trek trivia showdown, so he picked it up
Jay, when he understood Darmok.
My reaction after Jay summarizes the movie at the beginning:
"What?"
I love the fact Mike was trying so hard to not laugh as he went "Beep Boop" when he hit the keyboard.
It's like he forgot they normally add the sound effect in in post.
@@pootahg they are getting old, just like my grandma last weekend forget her way home
I love how Half in the Bag morphed into an ongoing satire of the response to Covid.
I don't, and neither do you. Unless you do come to RLM for half assed first takes on politics.
It reminds me of how stupid that situation was, and that’s not even a political statement, it was just terribly handled by everyone.
Hope RLM cover The Green Knight, I'd love to hear their thoughts on that very divisive movie. (For fun, go and read some of the 1 star reviews it has)
It’s easily the best fantasy movie in a HOT minute
I think they’ll mention it at some point because David Lowery also directed “A Ghost Story” which was their favorite film of 2017
@@zorth42 I think that description is a huge part of the problem the movie had with general audiences. It's been billed and advertised as a fantasy movie, but I would describe it more as a period drama with fantasy elements. If you took out the weirder parts of the story, like the fox and the giants, it would still work. If you took those elements out of LOTRs (the orcs, the Ainur, the One Ring, Hobbits, and so on) it wouldn't. I loved the Green Knight but I can see how people who expected, based on the advertising, a violent fantasy movie would be either confused or disappointed. Regardless, I'm glad someone is making weird movies again instead of only straightforward blockbusters. It was a great film. I hope Dev Patel keeps getting great roles.
You’d think that over a hundred years of American cinema that audiences would get smarter but alas
Oh hey you’re that Dark Souls guy! Man, you never know who you’ll run across in RLM comment sections.
As someone living in the Okanagan, I never thought in a thousand years you'd talk about it. Also, I had no idea that NEIL BLOMKAMP made a movie here. We usually get VERY EXCITED when movies are filmed here, because we're not that big. I remember when Fido came out, everyone was very supportive and proud. It's pretty funny to me that the Okanagan doesn't care about Demonic, since the director is such a recognizable name.
Also, Kelowna (a town in the Okanagan) is one of the last places you can see the Showbiz Pizza Bear perform. COINCIDENCE? Yes. I'll host Rich Evans if he ever wants to come see it and relive some memories.
When I helped make Zygote on the other side of the country at the diefenbunker, we were told specifically not to approach Neil or talk to him, fair enough. We had to sign NDA’s and couldn’t breath a word that he was in the city making the short film and no one knew. So I can see how nobody knew this was happening where you are. Even now most people don’t know Zygote was filmed just outside Ottawa. It was a great experience though. I’d like to think the crew here was the difference, no offence. We were a tight knit experienced film crew. A good crew is the difference between Zygote and Demonic.
@@redbaron8130 Did they not want you to speak to him, in case you'd accidentally give him better ideas for movies?
@@Corbomite_Meatballs lol! No, I think he didn’t want to be bothered with the crew. Didn’t say a word to any of us, just his key people he brought to the city. He did reserve a whole restaurant for the the wrap party and was actually there so that was cool, nothing bad to say about him really.
Hey fellow Kelownian. The exterior shots looked like Lake Country
Fido was made in Okanagan?! That's a great movie! Looks like a beautiful place
"Holy bullets blessed by a priest" *The Emperor protects*
Ah, i see you are a man of culture aswell
Best not question the divine faith
@@nickkangtaylorb inquisition: *suspicion intensifies*
Demons from the warp? Holy lance? In my time the Inquisition came and nuked the f planet.
Sounds like you ALL need to be introduced to the galaxies true gods...be praised the four-armed emperor!
Interestingly enough, ASL for "digital grain" is also the ASL for "it's raining".
The way Mike says "Thats a proper suicide cut there" made me smile so much
"Admirable in its attempt" is the best way to describe Neill Blomkamp's career.
Worst thing is, if he just made bigger versions of his short films from his youtube channel, he’d actually produce a half decent film.
They NEED to bring back the NERDCREW. Sponsored by Nerd Crate.
Haven't all of those subscription box services died now?
I mean, "that would be VERY cool".
@@padmelotus Me personally don't think those subscription boxes will ever die.
Nah, to make it more topical they should be sponsored by a VPN. NerdVPN.
Me personally, I LOVE Nerd Crew.
Nerd Mask
This, The Mummy, Money Plane, Malignant, Moonfall, etc... BOTW episodes disguised as HiTB episodes are so rewatchable!
That face at 28:21 is the greatest face of all time.
was looking for this comment..!
I felt so embarrassed during the car interview part.
haha yeah i had to skip thru, it was too much.. you can tell neil felt disrespected
Show should be renamed "The Much More Entertaining Movie They Could've Made"
That IS what it IS. As a name it would be too on the nose.
Now you know! And knowing is Half in the Bag!
This should be a literal series, where people come up with a new and better storyline on the spot using elements of the movie.
For the record, I would love to see a Re:View of Wet Hot American Summer.
I totally forgot about it and now want to rewatch.
If you cross your eyes while watching this, it looks like Jay is sitting on Mike’s lap.
Hot
Holy crap, the second guy from those Zoom Interviews looks exactly like one of the characters from Nerd Crew!
The line between satire & reality is getting more and more blurry.
@@SpaceCop
No need to be condescending
Screen Rant is like half of their inspiration for Nerd Crew. Them and Collider are basically what they’re copy-pasting as satire in those Nerd Crew episodes. People thought they were just wacky exaggerated jabs at people, but they’re basically forensically recreated scenes of real episodes.
@@itsd0nk Tell me about it. I used to be hooked on shows like that but grew out of it eventually
I still can't believe they did nothing with the Vatican Black Ops. That was the moment when my ears perked up and I thought "finally, this movie is going somewhere". Nope, they all die off-screen.
Thanks Jay
w h a t i a m a b o u t t o d o h a s n o t b e e n s a n c t i o n e d b y t h e v a t i c a n
@@j.yossarian6852 m o r t i s
It definitely is a wasted opportunity. That could be a whole film of these people killing/saving people, and the way they justify their actions.
I h a v e t o f i n i s h w h a t i s t a r t e d
RLM's irreverence during Covid has been so refreshing. Thank you guys.
The intros with long lists of directly contradicting and ludicrously arbitrary recommendations in the form of heated Mike-Jay arguments is especially on point.
It looks like they're becoming anti-vaxxers now and it's a little troubling.
@@Alwaysaspy itsjoke.jpg
@@the.seagull.35 it's an illegal joke so, like, maybe it's a terrible thing to "joke" about.
@@Alwaysaspy Im genuinely not trying to be mean, but this may be the wrong channel for you. RLM has an extremely dark sense of humor sometimes. Its not for everybody.
I could watch an entire episode of Jay asking questions and it cutting to the freeze frame of Mike at 28:20
I fucking love this gag Mike puts into almost every video he edits at some point. It never fails to get me to chuckle.
Mr. Plinkett has ascended and become one of the Chaos Gods
Is it Nurgle? I bet its Nurgle.
@@Kubyashi Nurgle would be in awe of Mr Plinkett
@@kongfeet81 papa nurgal would welcome Plunkett with open arms
@@PALACIO254 Nurgle “ COME MY SON, TELL ME MORE OF THESE PIZZA ROLLS YOU ESPOUSE SO FREQUENTLY “
40k fans are everywhere
We are legion
Neil should've just doubled down on the Catholic Church idea. Commando Catholics Save The World sounds like a great idea for a cheesy 80's schlock action movie.
Sounds like a fateful finding of an idea
So.....Warrior Nun?
@@cameronjones9092 A great idea just wasted to tell yet another demon possession story. Those are a dime a dozen. Can't throw a stick without hitting one these days.
@@soulknife20 They could have those. Nunchuk Nuns maybe?
As a Warhammer 40,000 fan, that piqued my interest. As long as the creators didn't pull a Starship Troopers and refuse to make a good faith adaptation out of spite, I'd watch it.
omega = omicron. We need Plinkett's blood.
Really never thought the Cyber Monks from Double Team would come back.
If Jay isn’t even remotely upbeat about a horror movie you know it has to be bad.
I just want to commend you for your eyelash image. I tried to wipe it off my phone screen twice.
I blew on my screen you hack
I blew *and* wiped!
Damn you
Jay enjoys a wide variety of obscure pervert movies of varying quality; he truly is the standard for whether a horror movie has any merit.
Hearing Mike and Jay try to make heads or tails of the confusing Covid rules and counter-rules makes you realise just how much pre-pandemic movies downplayed the bureaucratic nightmare that any Apocalypse brings while primarily focusing on the big disaster scenes. At this point people have been desensitised/numbed to mass death but the rules that keep changing by the hour are genuinely exhausting.
This is why I love Shin Godzilla; it’s basically just the bureaucracy. It almost feels like it was written about COVID.
You should watch Dr. Strangelove, that’s very focused on the bureaucracy and bickering involved in preventing a nuclear disaster set in motion by a conspiracy theorist general who goes rogue and launches an attack against Russia
If you want to read about bureaucratic horror, Annihilation the movie is based on the first book of a trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer and the books follow the same premise of the movie but focus on the horror and inhuman nature of the sprawling chaos and disarray of the bureaucracy of the government agency assigned to deal with the Shimmer. The agency (called Southern Reach) slowly falls apart under the weight of confusion and miscommunication. "Annihilation " in the books refers to both the theme of the movie, which is how grief can annihilate us by changing us into people that are no longer recognizable, but also (spoilers) it's a trigger word that the psychologist on the expedition can use to make any one of the expedition members immediately kill themselves. It's revealed that before the expedition, the psychologist used hypnotherapy to be able to control its members; that's why they forget their previous memories at the start of each new day, she's making them forget. The psychologist is doing it because it's protocol, and the protocol is stupid, pointless, and self destructive, prioritizing complete control over actually containing the Shimmer. But the Southern Reach is an organization so bureaucratic that it is unable to make logical choices. Every decision is filtered through so many different people and rules that it becomes incoherent madness.
In the book, each expedition member is given a notebook to record their experiences. Lena's team is told that they're the seventh expedition I think (can't recall the exact number but it doesn't really matter) and one of the most horrifying scenes happens when Lena gets to the lighthouse. In it, she finds an enormous pit filled with hundreds of notebooks, indicating that the Southern Reach had lied to her about the number of previous expeditions and has just been mindlessly throwing people into the Shimmer for years and years, not bothering to change strategies and futilely killing people while the Shimmer continues to spread.
There's a bunch of other disturbing scenes that relate to bureaucracy in the books too, I'd really recommend them.
@@julesmallow Wow! You sold me!
@@julesmallow that sounds both more and less interesting than the movie - more stereotypical but trying less hard to be impressive with metaphor. Not sure how I feel about that.
Gotta love how characters in movies are even starting to dream horror movie cliches.
Every Nurse/NP I know is covered in tattoos. That may actually be the most realistic thing captured by the movie.
Same in the veterinary field
Pretty much every single career these days. If my dentist doesn't have a throat tatt, I get concerned.
When Mike said that "this exposes Blomkemps weakness which is...." I was ready to say "making movies?" and felt it would have been the perfect Mike comment.
"It means you have to wear a mask but I don't." Lol. Mike confirmed to be a politician.
I love how jay is like so we are following through this whole storyline
Jay’s theory doesn’t hold water: Jodie Foster never put on the night goggles in Silence of the lambs.
Correct. Ted Levine's character was watching her with them, she couldn't see anything.
"I wanna renovate this sanitorium for some reason... No one would ever do that."
Zak Bagans: *Furiously takes notes
Mike's idea at 34:20 was so much better than what actually happened, that the patient would need to think they're back in the real world or they're going to reject compatibility with the virtual world. So show them a crappy version, then pretend to pull them out and make them think they're back in the real world so the exercise can run.
Isn't that more or less what happened in Cronenberg's Existenz 22 years ago?
@@Studeb But in that movie everyone was in on it, even though they didn't remember that
Yeah just like that Rick and Morty episode
Except the whole "am I still in virtual reality/dreamland/drugland" thing is super overdone.
So basically what should have been the beginning plot of Matrix 3. Instead we got "Love is a world. It's what the word means that's important."
Man, it sounds like they had a perfect set-up for an interesting movie where Martin follows his dreams to become an illustrator and then completely missed the landing :(
got lucky with the omega variant gag
I like how RLM doesn't have like a set day when they publish videos its just usually about once a week, makes it kinda exciting when they do!
after finally realizing that Neill Blomkamp made this movie and not Blumhouse all I could say was "What?"
"So we're following through on this whole storyline, huh?" - my favorite quote from this HINTB
This was a rare instance of a film I watched BEFORE the Hacks reviewed it. Wish I had waited. Good Lord.
"An extended break" since Chappie? but that JUST came out!
Oh. Oh god. Oh god i'm getting so old.
You have much worse problems if you set your watch by the release date of Chappie.
This is probably the strangest way for the iCarly revival to introduce her mom, but I guess it explains why she was never seen or mentioned before.
I can’t wait until Jay, Mike and Rich are all 70 years old and still filming skits where they pretend to wrestle each other into wheelchairs.
Rich Evans needs to be rescued from his RLM captors. Kidnapped as a child from his birthday party at Shakey's fun time pizza emporium, (confirmed with photographic evidence) he has endured these guys' unique brand of emotional torture every day since that one.
His signature hyper sonic laugh we all find so endearing? Yeah, that is a desperate cry for help.
I know what you're thinking, and to that I say:
He doesn't make a break for it while suited up as "Space cop" for one reason. That being the two exploding ampules that Lee Van Cleefe injected into either side of his neck at the beginning of that production's shooting schedule.
-These super villiains dressed up as working class shlubs from the mid-west have thought of EVERYTHING when planning this life - long heist upon Rich Evan's' personal sovreignty.
If This human trafficking extravaganza is allowed to carry on to it's impending grizzly conclusion then it is we who are complicit. As witnesses to these flagrant human rights violations we are ALL accessories to this open ended crime spree.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"
- Edmund Burke
This discussion of Neill Blomkamp reminds me of Mike and Jay's discussion of Dan Akroyd. He's an "idea guy", but if you leave him to his own devices you get an over-reaching, bloated, mess. Mabey Blomkamp just needs to get with other writers. Neill can come up with these strange ideas, and then have a normal writer bring them back down to Earth and see if they can get a workable script. He has interesting ideas, which is great, however you need to make a good movie.
ego is a helluva drug
His special trait is not the social ideas (them being pushed onto audience is always risky), but the esthetics he achieves. Especially- the mix of absolute poverty and latest tech, blended into unsettling look that is unique to his movies. He has his place in cinema history just for that, only needs to consistently have some $30-50mln. budgets sufficient for good quality computer generated graphics and special effects to work with.
@@NeblogaiLT District 9 and Elysium do come to mind with amazing tech mixed with dirt and grime.
Reminds me of the game Cyberpunk 2077. A dystopian future with amazing cybernetic advancements in a world of widespread poverty and depravity. When done right it creates an interesting world in which to tell a story.
So he is a not funny version of Dan Aykroyd?
His films would really benefit a haunting by Harold Ramis.
I guess this confirms that district 9 was kind of a fluke that was mainly carried by the fantastic acting and improvised scenes. What made that movie compelling was the arc of Copley. His acting and the guy who played the alien carried that film. And honestly the 3rd act almost devolved into something a little too simple basically becoming an action film. Blomkamp could be a good director but it almost feels like he was destroyed by Hollywood
I think it was less of a fluke and more that it had the Jackson/Walsh/Boyens dream team helping to guide it every step of the way. Perhaps their influence has been the key missing ingredient in Blomkamp's work since District 9.
"Possessed by Chicken" would have been a better Title indeed.
Seeing an ad for 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' was unexpectedly hilarious.
I thought they were talking Neil Breen and was like: "Wow, his movie making stepped up a lot!"
Took me longer than I'd care to admit that I got the two mixed up...
21:27 sweet, Waverly Hills Sanatorium. Literally visible from my house (in the winter, when all the leaves have fallen). Used to sneak up there during high school when it was in disrepair and creepy as hell, getting run off by security guards, and then a few years later I'm up there watching GWAR and Lamb of God at a metal festival. The newest owners put a lot of work and money into cleaning it up and turning it into a haunted tourism destination. Yes, it sucks now. It was such a part of local folklore, and sneaking up there was a rite of passage. Now, it's been in movies and on every single haunted place show in existence. You can't sneak in anymore, but you can pitch in your $25 or whatever for a group tour. Cool story, bro.
"You can't sneak in..." - Challenge accepted!
@@voltijuice8576 Heh, you can try hiking up through the woods I suppose. But all the normal entry points, and the hospital itself, are kitted out with surveillance equipment and on-site security.
@@wuhteva9805 Yeah, creepy place. It was mainly for the patients' psychological benefit. They never had to see the hearses hauling off their friends.
Hearing Mike describe my hometown of Kelowna, B.C. as A) Vancouver, and B) a beautiful paradise, is maybe the funniest unintentional joke I have ever heard in an RLM video.
Now I want a 40min video of Mike explaining the architecture of haunted buildings