Best of the Worst: Deadly Prey, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, and Miami Connection
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2024
- To mentally escape the Hell that is Wisconsin winter, the gang watches three films from 1987 that all take place in warm climates: the Rambo knockoff Deadly Prey, the Andy Sidaris action classic Hard Ticket to Hawaii, and the recently rediscovered Miami Connection.
I love that they don't yet realize Cameron Mitchell is Cameron Mitchell.
To be fair, I'm not sure i"ve seen him be so active in a movie before. They might have assumed it was someone else?
yeah when he showed up, I was like "wait, isn't that Cameron Mitchell???" and they didn't comment on it
Only through the elimination of Cameron Mitchell can we achieve Cameron Mitchell.
@@TheeGrumpy id like to achieve cameron mitchell..... If you catch my drift
@@oneopinion6806 I believe this is their first Cameron Mitchell feature on BotW. Terror in Beverly Hills is when they really fell in love, because he wanted those fucking doors closed!
This may be the greatest lineup of movies this series will ever have.
Would be incredibly hard to beat. Three honest-to-god classics of bad film - usually they're lucky if even one is truly funny.
No joke, and this is how I heard about all of them for the first time. For that alone I'm eternally grateful to Red Letter Media.
*Wheel of the Worst #16, with Jimmy the Scot and Surviving Edged Weapons* , is a contender. Or maybe the one with Creating Rem Lazar?
Indeed it is. At this point they should probably do a "Best of the Best of the Worst", including winners not featured in the pannel, like The Room, Hobgoblins, Street Trash, Manos, Mac & Me, etc
Incidentally, does anyone know why they NEVER do Troma movies?
"Where did you find this guy?"
"He's a friend at school-"
"A FRIEND?!"
Joaq Wizard Phoenix there's a TV show in the 1990s that he's going to hate
@@RustyMuck The RiffTrax commentary makes the same joke... two years after you. Good work! 👍🏻
No shit? I read the comment and thought he was making a reference to the Rifftrax track.
I only started really getting into rifftrax a year ago, so release dates are a blur and I didn't know which comment was made first.
Thanks for clearing that up, my friend! ;)
"YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE THOSE!"
Jay just got back from playing some alley football.
room
Oh. Hi Mark.
WHAT!!!
C'mon, cheep cheep cheep.
You must be kidding aren't you?
Thanks for sharing Miami Connection. Been working at a Deli for like 8 months and this guy with a high pitched voice yells back to my coworker "see ya"; I thought something about the sound of him was familiar. It hit me after thinking about it, he sounds like Oh My God guy from Miami Connection. Ask the lady who has been serving him for years what his name is. Look up the cast of Miami Connection, same first name as the customer, wut. Text lady I work with at 10 oclock at night, send her link of Oh My God scene. 90 percent sure its him. She calls him Hollywood next time she sees him, he says what, how did you know. She credits me, and gives me his business card. I call one day and he gives me a signed printout poster and talks with me about Miami Connection for like an hr, cool guy. Lots of insight and laughs.Gives me a downloaded bluray of it a month later signed to my biggest fan, accidentally became his biggest fan, sweet. He comes around often, but never would have known who he was without Red Letter Media.
nah
nah what
***** imgur link
This is freaking amazing
wholesome af
And we see our first appearance of our beloved Cameron Mitchell
Fritz Imperial wish they noticed him but I guess there wasn’t any novelty at this point
The patron saint of BOTW displays his holy visage. Today the viewers that made him a hack are going to win.
Edit: RIP, you son of a bitch.
@@sweatyzeusgaming Chekhov's Cameron Mitchell.
Funny enough his first appearence seems to be the most active Cameron Mitchell has ever been on any of the movies they watched on Best of the Worst.
If you introduce a Cameron Mitchell in the first chapter you'd better close the fucking door in the third chapter.
Jay clapping like an excited kid when sunglasses guy gets beaten with his own arm is really endearing
I love the clip of them watching Mitchell's speech from deadly pray, because rarely is the moment someone falls in love ever caught on camera.
"I'm a friend!"
"You're a liar!"
Probably one of the best movie quotes I’ve heard.
@@luisgaroz8856 Little did they know, how important Cameron Mitchell would be in the crux of their lives.......
Story of my life.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Only through the elimination of violence, can we achieve world Peace.
If a lot of people love each other, the world will be a better place.
There is a documentary about the topic that comes to mind it is called "Demolition Man".
Funny thing about Demolition Man is that it might've predicted the future. Demolition Man's 100% PC culture actually seems possible now, with how pussified the world is now, whereas when the movie came out, people found that idea absurd and laughable. I hope it never actually gets to the point of getting a citation for cursing, or VR fucking being the only fucking. Also, god help us if it ever gets to the point that we have to use the 3 seashells.
I still think "the three seashells" sounds like an awesome sex move
It kinda does. Maybe in Demolition Man's universe they'd have something like the 3 clam shells, being some kinky VR shit.
My aunt’s ex husband, Joseph Diamand, actually wrote the screenplay for Miami Connection. Been a fan of RLM for so long and only just found out a couple of weeks ago that I used to be related to him.
@@Pocketrocket-pj1us Should’ve used the term family instead of related. He married my Dad’s sister, but they got divorced so he’s not apart of the family anymore.
@@unknown-zw1np Wow, you really had to explain affinal kinship to someone, huh? Yeesh.
I've watched this video a few times and this is the first time I noticed the Miami Connection dvd cover features the black guy getting a letter about his father while an explosion happens behind him.
That poster can't be from the original release. It's too self aware, and a great job by the distributors.
Does anyone know if there was a poster for the theatrical release? Or if it showed up for rent? I think the answer to the 2nd question, is no because a copy would have surfaced by now.
I wonder who the ebay seller was?
A theatre owner, a collector, part of the o.g. crew?
So many questions. Any answers out there?
Cheers from Canada
@@steveharvey2102 - From the information I can find it only got a brief release at 8 theaters in Orlando, done on YK Kim's dime. Someone at Alamo Drafthouse bought a 35mm copy on eBay and distributed it decades later, I'm guessing it never actually had a poster before then.
Josh's confused grimace at 35:32 is still one of the most hilarious BOTW moments to me all these years later. He's usually so chipper and chatty, but that's a rare moment where he's completely bemused and at a total loss of words. Along with Jack, he's usually the one who understands what's going on in these terrible movies the most, but "Miami Connection" was too inexplicable for "the Wizard." He's reacting like he just walked in on Gregor Samsa turning into the giant insect.
6:40 - I love that Josh uses the somewhat archaic but correct term here: a ‘brace’ of grenades. Yay very specific words!
R u not called a wizard, for no reason.
"We had a snake delivered here for the Department of Health, now that snake has been infected by deadly toxins from............. cancer-infested rats."
***** especially when he starts to say "cancer-infested rats" he looks like he has to pause for a second to get it out without laughing.
+KEYSERSOZE1965 Funniest part of this video, I revisit this video just to watch that sequence and their reactions. Can never stop laughing. :D
+KEYSERSOZE1965 I was drinking coffee when that line came up and I actually spit my coffee all over the place.
At least he wasn't infected by AAAAIIIIDS!!!
Are they related to the deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters?
I watched Miami Connection with my mom and it was the best bonding experience we've ever had. And yes, she loved it.
& you turned out fine, right Zodiac?
Weird to see Cameron Mitchell moving and actually doing something.
Keep forgetting how well Jay can hold his own comically for the show whenever Mike is gone, he’s great with everybody in the group.
One of the most essential episodes of Best of the Worst imo. A classic!
3 films so good there's never even a consideration about destroying one of them. One of the greatest BotW lineups ever.
"It's like somebody without any understanding of human language or culture watched the first two Rambo movies, and they made a cross-breed of these two things they don't understand, but they put them in a movie" - Rich Evans (THE ONLY CRITIC THAT MATTERS ANYMORE)
3:43 I just realized that the scene with the guy getting a letter from his long-lost dad was illustrated on the cover. And it's in front of an explosion. Amazing.
This was THE best movie lineup in BOTW history, period.
3 absolute classics.
10:53: Epic Cameron Mitchell scene.
I like how that toilet was a portal to the snake dimension. It was glowing green and smoking when the snake came out of it, so it HAS to be some form of demonic magic!
I noticed that too and was surprised nobody mentioned it. They must have gotten Steven Spielberg to direct that scene.
Somebody flushed a Silver Shamrock mask a couple days earlier.
It reminded me of the glowing blue bed in Nightmare on Elm Street when Freddie kills Nancy's mother near the end of the movie, and the mother's skeleton slowly descends into the blue mist.
If pure entertainment is the measure of a good movie, then Miami Connection has to be one of the best movies ever made. It is SO DAMNED FUN. It's not so bad its good, it's so atrocious its fucking awesome.
"Tara we need to stop and figure out how things happened"
*Ponders for two seconds*
"Let's unload and hit the jacuzzi"
Now too be fair I think a jacuzzi is a pretty good place to piece clues together to figure out what just happened to you... but mainly just a convenient excuse to put your 2 main actresses in bikinis because why else did you buy this movie in 1980.
I sure didn't rent this movie to watch hot girls think.
Coincidence level: WHOA. I literally woke up this morning with vague memories of a weird cheesy 80s movie with ninjas fighting in some scraggly Florida backwater and it was one of those things that I wasn't sure if it was a real memory or just a fever dream. This evening I get bored and start "Best of the Worst" from the beginning for the first time, and BOOM there it is just a few episodes in: MIami Connection and the memories come flooding back of seeing this one wine-soaked night many years ago. It REALLY is a passion project, Tommy Wiseau eat your heart out, in the best way possible really!
Is anyone else surprised that Deadly Prey actually has some legitimately great looking shots in it? 10:10 legit looks amazing (it's not a complicated shot at all, but it's an effective one)
It's those tiny, momentary sparks of legitimacy that amplify the hilarity of everything else, because it reminds you that they were _seriously trying_ to make a good film.
@@Zeuts85great point
The dad’s monologue in Deadly Prey is the greatest thing I have ever witnessed.
“There ain’t no music down there.”
Sheer poetry.
I finally saw Miami Connection this weekend. It was so much more horribly glorious than I ever expected.
Also, I can't believe they didn't make mention how the Jim character gave a very Rich Evans-esque "OH MY GAAAAAAAAD!" during that mailbox scene.
Miami connection is my favorite movie of all time
It's an interesting moment when you're laughing along at this and then you see the Skateboard Guy from Hard Ticket To Hawaii and remember that you've seen that fucking movie before.
vote like you love people
so this is basically hard ticket to hawaii when?
Were you smoking heavy doobies
*vote.*
So.... is there really no explanation as to why Jay is wearing a tux?
I laughed way too hard at this
Mike's funeral, didn't you pay attention?
Ben Wenger f
Because he can?
He looks like a really well-dressed Leprechaun
This is one of those episodes where I wish they talked about the movies more, especially Miami Connection.
I had the pleasure(?) of watching Miami Connection on VHS about a decade ago. Never thought it would end up on Blu-Ray and spawn it's own action figures.
I love that they used to refer to Josh exclusively as Wizard.
All 3 of these movies look absolutely incredible
This is the birth of so many legends it’s unreal.
The best lineup of movies they ever had on BTW
Using a Bazooka on a dude point blank range and his blow up doll is the definition of overkill. I love it.
You guys should just watch three movies off of the Andy Sidaris collection and call it "Breast of the Worst"
Kannen Farris haha definitely!
This is the type of pun that Mike would definitely base an entire episode on.
Him and Roger Corman should have teamed up for the ultimate best worst movie.
I love that in spite of this being a super early episode, because of the fringe hair, Jack Packard looks so much older.
Shoutout to Farcry: Blood Dragon for using Friends Forever.
I've watched every episode of BotW and I can honestly say this episode was the best these guys have done. An instant favorite, totally hilarious, and they got the four best guys to do to the discussion.
Friends forever is an amazing song.
For the record, what the crowd chants during "Against the Ninja" is "tae kwon, tae kwon!' At the end of the song, they finally shout "tae kwon DO!"
That shot at 19:15 of how the guy is outrageously freaking out about a snake on a plane 20' away from him is totally me any time I see even a tiny snake anywhere near me. LOL. I have a totally unreasonable fear of snakes that I can't do anything about no matter how hard I try. It makes living in the woods in Florida kind of loaded with anxiety.
This was the best episode of Best of the Worst ever.
This was the worst episode of Worst of the Best ever.
Though I know Miami Connection is just a (un?)forgettable B-movie flick, as I'm Korean, I can see what was going on in the Asian guy's (who's co-directed and wrote this shlock) mind, because he's Korean, too: insane rivalry about practically anything about Japan (that's why movie's main villain is ninja, and one of the theme song is called "Against the Ninja"); devotion to parents (that explains why the Black guy cries and acts hysterically about the parents' letter); desperate attempts to be recognized as KOREAN worldwide, whether the foreign people cares or not... Those are the (quite nationalistic, I admit) frequent motifs that you could find in Korean fictional works or any of the cultural artifacts. They're today less frequently met in there (because the nationalism is not "in" anymore, particularly between the younger people), but when I was little (80's and 90's), those things were quite rampant - almost inescapable. I think this Taekwondo master is a product of its time. Well, at least, he tried and I completely respect that. (especially when I found out he practically was bankrupted due to the movie's failure) But it's also true that he's obviously a horrible translator of Korean cultures into American cinema; and budgetary problem, practically know nothing about how to make a movie, and he didn't have much charms neither as Bruce Lee nor as Jackie Chan - and, last but not least, just blindly following his own country's fad (nationalism) in a foreign country whose people didn't know anything about it.
Interesting reply! I like how glaringly obvious it is that the black guy is not half Korean.
It's kinda sad that the whole thing is literally lost in translation. However, it doesn't help that he found the WORST actors.
This makes great sense. Thanks for the info!
*That is fascinating to hear. If you still are here, can you tell me if you saw the film Burning and what you thought of it?*
@@xtzyshuadog Thanks for the comment! Well, first of all, Miami Connection and Burning are entirely different beasts, so it's a little tricky to answer here. But anyway. The latter was a critical darling and I think it DOES deserve. The director, Changdong LEE, is one of the most critically acclaimed director in South Korean movie history and he is rightly so. What I found in Burning is that this movie follows much closely and intelligently international arthouse's trend - being blunt, realistic AND fantastic at the same time. I find my impression confirmed specially when I had found the movie is based on Barn Burning, a short story of Haruki Murakami in 1983 which draws its inspiration from 1938 William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" - hence Lee's film title clearly is referenced to. All the characteristics which are miles away from Miami Connection apparently... Miami Connection is to me an "orphen" (pun intended) just like the black guy in the movie - the movie was made in English and in America with so many ideas which however are completely out of place there. I tell ya, while Changdong Lee is one of the best translator of Korean cultures into an international film language, J.K. Kim of Miami Connection is NOT.
You'll be glad to know that, according to the wiki page, the shirtless black guy survives that gruesome wound and lives to meet his long lost father. This film is a winner! A Special Olympics winner, but still...
Wait... so the killing rampage really was completely out of nowhere?
I had been under the impression that the massacre was in response to the black friend getting killed... This movie makes even less sense than I thought.
+Marisa Kirisame It was orginally. But when they did a test screening, the audience was too saddened by the black guy dying, so they added the scene in the Hospital where he survived and met his dad.
"Test screenings"?!? LOL Who, YK Kim? He barely had regular screenings!
Brother Malachai
My apologies -- it turns out you were right and I was wrong.
Brother Malachai holy shit
Fun fact - the black dude in Miami Connection is Maurice Smith, an MMA legend who went on to compete in some of the earlier UFC's and made a name for himself by winning against Mark Coleman.
Couldn't believe that was him in this movie. Small world. I guess he has some other acting credits, too??? Shit's crazy.
This might be the greatest Best of the Worst episode that we will ever see.
Surviving Edged Weapons.
lol this is more of a "best of the best" episode. These are three of my favorite terrible 80s action movies and I bet a later Mike and Jay would've spread these out a bit. lmao
A later Mike would have voted to destroy _Miami Connection_ and declare _Deadly Prey_ the winner.
Did yall know that Hard Ticket to Hawaii is part of an extended universe and is actually a sequel and not a stand alone film. And yes there is a 3rd film to back up Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
Picasso Trigger is the sequel to Hard Ticket to Hawaii just remembered today 🤣
He everyone we need to figure out what we just watched, Lets unload and hit the Jacuzzi!
Jay managed to shoot this episode on his Prom night
I LOOOOOVE how Rich occassionally complains about Mass Effect 3.
I will always occasionally complain about mass effect 3.
YouSoSpice I actually sat through Deadly Prey though whereas I turned ME3 off after fifteen minutes.
ME3 ending is arguably the most disappointing and idiotic thing to happen to an amazing video game franchise ever. I know it will haunt me forever. I wish I had the patience, skill, and temperament to explain (beyond a reasonable doubt) that the ME3 ending is by definition, stupid. Not as an opinion, but as fact. I know I can prove this, but my heart aches at the thought of shredding the series asunder to uncover the truth. Fuck you, EA.
derlich09 it's the reason I'll go buy complete it once, and then I'll leave it half finished. Not that the second game had a very good ending.
Miami Connection should have been a cartoon in the late 80's, a "for boys" version of Jem and the Holograms.
This idea is brilliant!
That would be truly outrageous
Just found Miami connection soundtrack on Spotify and it's gloriously 80s
The cover of Deadly Prey looks like a Sega Genesis game!
34:13 The most bizarre aspect of this 'tearful' scene is how the guy is dressed for what is supposed to be an impactful emotional moment - he's shirtless, has a towel draped on a shoulder, and his pants are undone. Why?!
Did they win Jay at a budget bachelor auction?
@@janesmith1840 I'd Frick jay any time of the year and I'm not even gay.
This was right after Mr. Plinkett and Jay's GAY WEDDING
Nah man, he came up short...
"Everything's fine. Everybody just carry on like I'm not wearing the tux"
Incase you were still curious about the gang chant in the "Against the Ninja" song, it's "Tae Kwon, Tae Kwon"
i love how Jay is wearing a tuxedo out of spite
Spite?
I saw Hard Ticket to Hawaii as a young teen, I didn't remember the snake, I didn't remember the bewbs, but I remembered the hand stand skateboarder and his excessively hilarious death.
A legendary line-up for BotW and a classic episode.
A 7 year late bit of trivia : They're shouting "Taekwon! Taekwon!" during the chorus of the song "Against the ninja". Which is a common things to shout while practicing taekwondo.
Huh. We don't do it in my class.
@@cacophonousantiquarian8803 Your instructor is a hack fraud.
I've watched this episode so many times, but I only just realized that the back story of the only black character in Miami Connection is that his father left him.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so damn stereotypical 😂😂😂😂
Ive watched this episode so many times too over the years and it took someone in the comments pointing out Jay is wearing a tux for me to notice after years of rewatching so dont feel too bad
Technically, Sunglasses Guy’s death was a suicide…he died by his own hand.
"It's like 'Prometheus.' Just run to the side and you'll be safe!" Ooh, burn!
"I just cat a jaw from Asian. Don't bottle oz." - Y. K. Kim
I am inspired.
28:46
I just want to let you guys know that I go back to scenes with Rich Evans laughing and rewatch them again and again so I can hear his amazing laugh.
"Only through the elimination of violence can we bring about world peace" I was on the floor for 8 minutes, laughing uncontrollably.
This is one of my favorite RedLetterMedia Best of the Worst episodes, I've watched it like 4 times now...
This is my favorite episode in the series. In many episodes every movie they watch is a flop. In some like Ryan’s Babe you get a a single quality movie. This one all three movies are epic!
A legendary episode and maybe the luckiest combination of movies to date on "Best of the Worst".
I first heard of Hard Ticket to Hawaii on the site Ninjaculture, where one of the site's two writers declared it was his holy grail to find for their Crappah Moovah Fridah series. Never thought I'd come across it again.
I'm so glad that "Friends to Eternity" song from Miami Connection is the end credits theme to Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.
the whole sequence starting at 24:22 ending in the blowup doll exploding had me in tears
I love how Cameron Mitchell got top billing in Deadly Prey. Even they knew his brilliance.
that Cameron Mitchell speech gets me fucking pumped up
“… and there ain’t no sunlight down there” is some serious Raymond Chandler level noir energy
Can you guys go back and CGI jack's hair out of this video thank you
@@stanlee5465 Meanwhile, at this point in Jay's life he appears to have gone for the "I just woke up and this is probably fine" look.
Jack and Kenny Rogers agree - you gotta know when to fold 'em.
It really is a major difference for him when he shaves it. Josh looks like every DM I've ever played a campaign with, and that's okay.
How rude.
Jack with hair looks like Stewie on Family Guy when they do cutaways to him as a grown-up.
So, Y.K. Kim has also published a book. It's... interesting. It's a martial arts instructional book but it also has some crazy messages in it that border on religious rhetoric. Everyone that appears in Miami Connection is featured in the book too. The pictures in the self defense section are especially choice.
Used to train under his chain of schools. It was an incredible experience.
Kathryn N can you elaborate?
I think I read that 20 years ago. Lots of interesting drills and training methods. Or maybe I was just young and impressionable. Does it have a chapter on squeezing tennisballs?
not to generalize but S Korea is pretty heavily Christian, so the religious rhetoric is not really surprising
god I love Rich's laugh so much
Well, it WAS a blow-up doll.
Bro this comment was 5 years old but I just wanna say this is the funniest comment on this thread and thank you
it's like poetry.
@@atom_gray IT RHYMES
they should put out the full video of them watching each movie so I can watch it with them at home.
Like an extended commentary track or smth :P
They have those on their website!
patreon!
Miami Connection is the most underrated bad movie ever, I wish that it would've gotten the same kind of exposure that movies like The Room or Troll 2 did.
I love that you can see the afternoon progress in the "screening room" shots
If you’re reading this, you are beautiful. Things will get better for you. Stick to it and never give up ❤️
"My mother was Korean" I wonder how many times they had to redo that scene until they could do it without laughing.
jay looks more adorable than usual in this episode. just an important remark.
The ending of Miami Connection is the most out of the blue murder spree thrill killings that I have ever seen... It's perfect!
RLM = Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty.
We'll stay together, through thick or thin.
Friends forever, we'll be together.
We're on top 'cause we play to win
11:37 Cameron Mitchell's amazing monologue
My brother in law is Y.K. Kim's right hand man. He spent every dime he had making this movie.
Making my way through Best of The Worst. Almost at the beginning now. So great to finally see the gang's take on Miami Connection
Fun times. I'm trying to stab my brain with an icepick so I'll forget them and go through for the first time again.
The skateboard assassin part (24:25) is one of my favorite scenes in film history
Best episode yet! Seriously, I have watched this particular episode easily 10 times now, either on your site and youtube, and it never stops being funny. More please!
That blow up doll scene killed me for 5 minutes.
A wild SJ appears!
Hey!!! You.....what's up??
My B-Team movies list i want to see riffed.
Miami Connection? Or Hard Ticket?
Joecbg100
Definitely Miami connection.