Half in the Bag: Vast of Night and Aquaslash

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  • čas přidán 9. 07. 2020
  • Stuck inside the VCR repair shop, Mike and Jay decide to talk about two movies they've seen recently on streaming services because movie theaters are still closed and Hollywood is burning.
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  • @TheLeggedOne
    @TheLeggedOne Před 3 lety +4014

    Why do I have a feeling the lock down had little to no impact on the VCR repair industry

    • @JohnnyZenith
      @JohnnyZenith Před 3 lety +87

      They're getting some serious mileage out of it lol.

    • @MrRedLimbo
      @MrRedLimbo Před 3 lety +28

      What industry

    • @benwatford3068
      @benwatford3068 Před 3 lety +26

      I bought mine during quarantine lol

    • @spethmanjones2997
      @spethmanjones2997 Před 3 lety +43

      Pffft I bet these hack frauds don’t even know _how_ to fix a VCR

    • @Trowa71
      @Trowa71 Před 3 lety +18

      Right, they've always done curbside pickup since the stores are in the gutter.

  • @olo9127
    @olo9127 Před 3 lety +686

    Every time RLM uploads, an angel develops a drinking problem.

    • @sebastiansochanski
      @sebastiansochanski Před 3 lety +11

      How is that star dust working for you Carl?

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety +9

      @@sebastiansochanski It makes you look like a pale blue dot, it does.

    • @JRSanchez93
      @JRSanchez93 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I hope this doesn’t get another like because it just reached 666

  • @davidmenty611
    @davidmenty611 Před 3 lety +237

    I used to work at a waterpark. One day my boss told me this story about this weird horror movie they wanted to film there. We couldn't allow it because they wanted to modify the slide to have tubes fall off the slide and it made it really not worth it. That was about a decade ago, but I would like to believe Aquaslash might have been that movie. Just a real labor of love that they finally got made.

  • @OMGWTFBBQRLY
    @OMGWTFBBQRLY Před 3 lety +2223

    I'm in 'The Vast of Night!' (That's me in the bad sweater) It was a really neat filming experience, and seeing it covered by Red Letter Media is pretty surreal, and really cool.

    • @TheMediatorOfChaos
      @TheMediatorOfChaos Před 3 lety +36

      Nice!

    • @sn4831
      @sn4831 Před 3 lety +291

      I was in Aquaslash. I played the water slide

    • @freeshaable
      @freeshaable Před 3 lety +63

      I started watching it and I was perplexed that woke Amazon would be part of a movie that dosen't shit on 50'ties america. Then halfway thorough they shoved in the woke and I could finally relax and I felt like everything was like normal again

    • @BeczaBot
      @BeczaBot Před 3 lety +29

      Very cool.

    • @ReadyF0RHeady
      @ReadyF0RHeady Před 3 lety +2

      You can Tell me about the Violin Soundtrack used ?

  • @josephlynch4532
    @josephlynch4532 Před 3 lety +2094

    4:47 Cannot unhear this as Rich Evans' voice

  • @kahlbutomacfarland
    @kahlbutomacfarland Před 3 lety +2755

    “It’s basically a case where everybody has to be as stupid as possible for the events to happen”.
    -2020

    • @Captroop
      @Captroop Před 3 lety +92

      As far as what to call that, I think that should be called "Jurassic World-ing it." I never have seen such a major release where plot advancement hinges on every character making the dumbest choice possible at every opportunity.

    • @BabusMcGowan1
      @BabusMcGowan1 Před 3 lety +79

      Scott Kaptur iirc Roger Ebert coined the term “Idiot Plot” to describe movies that do this. I mean he probably wasn’t the first one to use that but there is a term that exists for it. I do agree that Jurassic World drastically suffers from this.

    • @stefanforrer2573
      @stefanforrer2573 Před 3 lety +17

      @@Captroop and the superlative is "fallen kingdomed it"....

    • @landphil7535
      @landphil7535 Před 3 lety +32

      This needs to be put on 2020's tombstone.

    • @codywilson682
      @codywilson682 Před 3 lety +13

      @@XZ-III I'm working on it. I'm going backwards from 2019. I should get to 1776 by November.

  • @spooplegeist5260
    @spooplegeist5260 Před 3 lety +1027

    I’m loving this new RLM timeline where rather than the big blockbusters, Half in the Bag is nothing but movies just barely too good for BotW and a bunch of artistic independent films.

  • @alexanderforbes1452
    @alexanderforbes1452 Před 3 lety +184

    My grandma worked a switch board and she's not 90, she's 87.

  • @mx.sarcastiblaster1170
    @mx.sarcastiblaster1170 Před 3 lety +210

    Had the opportunity to see The Vast of Night at my local drive-in. The admission price per car was 50 cents to fit the 50's setting. It was such a great film and seeing it at the drive-in was a very neat way to experience it!

    • @Shmandalf
      @Shmandalf Před 3 lety +8

      Yeah this movie is perfect for Drive in. Its only like an hour and twenty minutes too.

    • @blakehawes8327
      @blakehawes8327 Před 3 lety +7

      Where the fuck do you live that’s amazing!

    • @explodingtomahawks7589
      @explodingtomahawks7589 Před 2 lety +4

      AW MAN that's so fucking cool!!!

  • @zapcoolman8816
    @zapcoolman8816 Před 3 lety +502

    if jay's hair gets any more out of control, he will literally become prequel obi-wan kenobi

    • @notyou8716
      @notyou8716 Před 3 lety +17

      He has great hair, but he's still not manly enough.

    • @vulture8298
      @vulture8298 Před 3 lety +23

      He's more than halfway there I'd say

    • @Mcrclerk
      @Mcrclerk Před 3 lety +33

      Great observation. Mike may become ?? Watto?

    • @zapcoolman8816
      @zapcoolman8816 Před 3 lety +56

      @@Mcrclerk mike becomes fan favourite character dexter jettster so they can keep their dynamic as old friends

    • @oreo507
      @oreo507 Před 3 lety +8

      I can't fucking wait 😍

  • @brucecoleman5379
    @brucecoleman5379 Před 3 lety +388

    The Older Woman is my friend Gail Cronouer. She is a local Dallas Acting Legend.

    • @Raindropsontheglass
      @Raindropsontheglass Před 3 lety +19

      She was so good, I just watched the movie and her scene was so haunting. I can't stop thinking about her character!

    • @a.g.m8790
      @a.g.m8790 Před 3 lety +7

      She was great and her performance got me so invested that I was like take her too take her too! She’s waited all this time and can finally be vindicated please take her to the ship lol! 😭😂

    • @rosshooper5162
      @rosshooper5162 Před 3 lety +38

      Thought you meant the "older" woman from Aquaslash for a second there haha

    • @prakharpaliwal8536
      @prakharpaliwal8536 Před 3 lety +2

      Her delivery was chilling. Great performance.

    • @firesidesmarmy6918
      @firesidesmarmy6918 Před 3 lety +2

      I thought you were talking about the old lady who burned to death from the drone explosion

  • @RavenDumpster
    @RavenDumpster Před 3 lety +71

    I was very confused about the accent comment cause i was like "what accent?" and then I remembered I'm Canadian

    • @explodingtomahawks7589
      @explodingtomahawks7589 Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah I'm from Oregon and it's strange to think I have an accent to someone in the world. Pretty neat.

  • @joeinzinga6123
    @joeinzinga6123 Před 3 lety +175

    You know it’s 2020 when a movie with a budget of less than one million dollars is the best movie of the year so far

  • @AMac-qd6ft
    @AMac-qd6ft Před 3 lety +269

    My wife was doing something else in the other room when I watched Vast of Night by myself. The dialogue & sound production alone caught her attention and dragged her into the living room like a radio play or podcast, and by the end she was right there with me, watching on the edge of her seat. That's the power of good storytelling.

    • @ShockinglyLiterate
      @ShockinglyLiterate Před 3 lety +56

      That's nothing! My wife was doing somebody else in the other room when I watched Vast of Night by myself.

    • @vikiai4241
      @vikiai4241 Před 3 lety +8

      @@ShockinglyLiterate I feel you may have got the better deal, though!

    • @Shmandalf
      @Shmandalf Před 3 lety +1

      Because of the way that story started, I couldn't help but read the rest of the OP as Borat.

    • @LosBerkos
      @LosBerkos Před 3 lety +2

      That's the power of STORY, people!

    • @hv3115
      @hv3115 Před 3 lety +4

      Cool story. So basically your wife watched a movie with you. It's good you felt compelled to share this amazing story with the world.

  • @GolemAvalanche
    @GolemAvalanche Před 3 lety +272

    "Aquaslash" just sounds like a video game attack, like something your spellblade equivalent would have in your standard JRPG.

    • @SuperSaiyanGuyver
      @SuperSaiyanGuyver Před 3 lety +18

      Something from a Justice League fighting game. If you're playing as Aquaman, do a quarter circle forward and press a punch button.

    • @SuperSaiyanGuyver
      @SuperSaiyanGuyver Před 3 lety +6

      @@DMCMaster550 There's always Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia.

    • @TheCrystalShield
      @TheCrystalShield Před 3 lety +11

      Pretty sure it's a Pokémon move.

    • @adscott27
      @adscott27 Před 3 lety +6

      Sounds like a water type Pokemon move

    • @stevenc2149
      @stevenc2149 Před 2 lety +3

      But the ability to create swords inside waterslides sounds like a JoJo stand power tho

  • @bachno4
    @bachno4 Před 3 lety +575

    So I started watching this video. And a few minutes into the review, Vast of Night, sounded like a movie I would like. And it sounded like Mike and Jay, not only liked it, but were really singing it's praises. So I stopped watching, hopped on over to Prime and watched Vast of Night. And I absolutely loved it. Thanks RLM for letting me know about this really good movie.

    • @BoyGhost
      @BoyGhost Před 3 lety +18

      Same! Awesome cinematography!

    • @heavyharris5580
      @heavyharris5580 Před 3 lety +9

      I literally did the same thing lol

    • @iroveashe
      @iroveashe Před 3 lety +4

      The sound of it is so good.

    • @MiqelDotCom
      @MiqelDotCom Před 3 lety +10

      It was refreshingly non-epic, if that makes any sense. Beautifully shot, too.

    • @the-real-Lovefist
      @the-real-Lovefist Před 3 lety

      Same here

  • @mh9545
    @mh9545 Před 3 lety +1030

    Finally! Another review of a couple of movies I will never see but somehow still find enjoyable.

    • @atk_ogre2185
      @atk_ogre2185 Před 3 lety +51

      It's kind of a well known fact that most reviews from RLM are much more enjoyable and entertaining than the movies they are doing an episode.
      Also much more rewatchable XD

    • @ivsalimeni3049
      @ivsalimeni3049 Před 3 lety +36

      haha i havent seen a movie in 7 years and i dont even watch movies anymore but i love watching these guys..more entertaining then movies for sure

    • @kevincarvalho4018
      @kevincarvalho4018 Před 3 lety +16

      Yeah I'll never watch these movies and I still watch their review

    • @Jaws-zb1cg
      @Jaws-zb1cg Před 3 lety +13

      Julio Gulio ikr I can’t imagine just writing off movies for no real reason and just watching movie reviews

    • @cptrelentless80085
      @cptrelentless80085 Před 3 lety +33

      The Vast of Night is a great movie, you should watch it.

  • @davidstarr868
    @davidstarr868 Před 3 lety +575

    Waiting for Mike's Masterclass wheres is 3 hours of drinking a beer and yelling at Rich Evans

    • @dallasdandigitalproduction393
      @dallasdandigitalproduction393 Před 3 lety +52

      id watch that for a dollar

    • @SethTheXenocide
      @SethTheXenocide Před 3 lety +42

      "And remember students, always listen to your director. He will give you insights on how to best convey your character's internal thoughts and emotions to the audience. Like so:
      ...RICH! BUMBLE HARDER YOU FUUUUCK!"

    • @DreamwalkerFilms
      @DreamwalkerFilms Před 3 lety +12

      "If you wanna be an actor, remember your lines"

    • @wokerdomelamestream4647
      @wokerdomelamestream4647 Před 2 lety +3

      *Three hours of Mike yelling at Rich about Star Trek

  • @adamcline8728
    @adamcline8728 Před 3 lety +49

    Soon as they said it was from Canada, I immediately corrected them in my head, "Oh no, not just Canada. French Canada..."

  • @outis-aka-nobody1064
    @outis-aka-nobody1064 Před 3 lety +38

    The way Mike said "time code" was so painfully Wisconsin. Love it.

  • @moonjelly5
    @moonjelly5 Před 3 lety +95

    "I like that Spooky"
    "Don't hurt that Spooky!"

  • @rhystaylor6939
    @rhystaylor6939 Před 3 lety +84

    the 'Oh yeah, would a virgin do this?' scene is comedy gold and you can't change my mind.

  • @rrmenton8016
    @rrmenton8016 Před 2 lety +282

    "We'll probably lose Betty White..." Well yeah, but not to covid. Good for you, Betty White, you show those drunks. Good for you.

  • @TGWhitta
    @TGWhitta Před 2 lety +6

    That Betty White comment hits different in 2022.

    • @XZ-III
      @XZ-III Před 2 lety

      eh tbf we've been saying she's been on the fritz b4 the lead up to that

  • @A_Hey
    @A_Hey Před 3 lety +515

    Y’all forgot about Trolls: World Tour. Every Oscar will be a battle between it and Bad Boys. I’m very excited to see who lives.

    • @bensmith6554
      @bensmith6554 Před 3 lety +5

      That movie was so bad

    • @lordbobert4029
      @lordbobert4029 Před 3 lety +27

      This is sonic erasure

    • @at0micl0bster
      @at0micl0bster Před 3 lety +15

      Whoever wins. We lose.

    • @chucklebutt4470
      @chucklebutt4470 Před 3 lety +2

      @@bensmith6554 You're kidding, right? It's easy to judge a movie by how silly it looks but T:WT was actually an amazing movie. Don't be so stuck up!
      ..i'm kidding

    • @Aapaatsanski
      @Aapaatsanski Před 3 lety +5

      Ben Smith Trolls is a great movie to watch with your kids. You have to remember these movies are not made for young adults who are single.

  • @ItismeJacobG
    @ItismeJacobG Před 3 lety +65

    Aahahahahaa...
    I know EVERYONE in Aquaslash! I worked for a Montreal casting director for years. They're all wonderful people and great actors in their own right, but holy moly what a flick.

  • @ERNSTmusik
    @ERNSTmusik Před 3 lety +44

    When Mike "acts", he totally sounds like he's channeling David Lynch's Gordon Cole from Twin Peaks.

  • @RevokCronenberg
    @RevokCronenberg Před 3 lety +77

    The phrase you need was coined by a British author Terry Pratchett: 'Narrative Imperative'.

  • @RJiwatram
    @RJiwatram Před 3 lety +93

    I really enjoyed Vast of Night. The world building, the atmosphere, the tension, had me totally engrossed. Only after the movie finished I realised the story was lite, but still satisfying.

  • @ignorethismessage
    @ignorethismessage Před 3 lety +382

    Jay nailed the name for useless scenes that just happen. "Hidoggie." A movie filled with hidoggies.

    • @necromech_
      @necromech_ Před rokem +3

      see but "hidoggie" adds so much personality to the movie. compared to most modern films, i've yet to see something that conveys the tone so succinctly.

    • @ignorethismessage
      @ignorethismessage Před rokem +3

      @@necromech_ Ha! I was confused! I had to re-read this to get that I made this comment 2 years ago. Hats off to you for exploring. RLM is well worth exploring.

    • @ManOutofTime913
      @ManOutofTime913 Před 8 měsíci

      Hidoggo

  • @shivamib
    @shivamib Před 3 lety +29

    Jay's Infinity War Captain America cosplay is on point.

  • @lauramitrea
    @lauramitrea Před 3 lety +87

    My favourite part was Billy's story - I loved how they cut to black as he was speaking. It made it really feel like you were listening to a radio broadcast, focusing just on his words.

    • @theeternalnow6506
      @theeternalnow6506 Před 2 lety +8

      Great part indeed. I didn't think the old woman scene worked that well for me. I didn't get sucked into the story as much and the pacing didn't work for me right after a more uptempo part before it, but Billy's story and scene worked very well. Very well acted and told by the actor playing Billy and I liked the fact it went to black as well. Great directing choice to make.
      I got chills at the car scene after though once I realized what was going on. Gave me chills for a good bit.

  • @supersomething951
    @supersomething951 Před 3 lety +1089

    “With California closing, who will make all the terrible movies now?”
    *Atlanta enters the ring*

    • @Idunnoyouguessit
      @Idunnoyouguessit Před 3 lety +19

      They're effectively shut down too

    • @Hopeofmen
      @Hopeofmen Před 3 lety +51

      Atlanta: *burning...again*

    • @t.c.bramblett617
      @t.c.bramblett617 Před 3 lety +18

      @@Idunnoyouguessit Yeah, but there's always VENEZUELA!

    • @reflectingh9997
      @reflectingh9997 Před 3 lety +16

      I can't even imagine the number of Shining-ripoffs currently being written

    • @supersomething951
      @supersomething951 Před 3 lety +14

      reflecting H Funnily enough Doctor Sleep was filmed in Georgia/Atlanta

  • @ApesAmongUs
    @ApesAmongUs Před 3 lety +352

    I laughed so hard at the "wash your hands after touching your genitals" joke that I started coughing, so I have concluded that Mike gave me the Coronas.

    • @hannibalburgers477
      @hannibalburgers477 Před 3 lety +7

      THERE ARE MULTIPLE VIRUSES?!?!

    • @deathsyth8888
      @deathsyth8888 Před 3 lety +6

      According to Ghost Adventures, spirits or demons can haunt you through electronic devices. Maybe you can get viruses and other infections by watching this video too! The only thing I'm afraid of catching "The Dumb". I hear that's been going around for ages.

    • @xboxlive6
      @xboxlive6 Před 3 lety +2

      That Jeff Sessions gag had me on the floor.

    • @AntonisTsagaris
      @AntonisTsagaris Před 3 lety +3

      The Dick Coronas. Also incidentally the name of my band.

    • @davidgomez7882
      @davidgomez7882 Před 3 lety +1

      @Teeb 7 I laughed more than I should've. What the fuck is wrong with me?

  • @Potato_Gnocchi
    @Potato_Gnocchi Před 3 lety +87

    In “Saving Private Ryan,” the sound goes out to replicate the deafness experienced soldiers who are being shelled. It’s very intentionally taken from “Come and See,” a great 80s Russian movie about the Eastern front.

    • @jacksonlarson6099
      @jacksonlarson6099 Před 3 lety +12

      I feel like I have been seeing a lot more recognition of "Come and See" as of late, which is, of course, a good thing.

    • @DennisJDoesVoice
      @DennisJDoesVoice Před 2 lety +1

      @@jacksonlarson6099 I believe Criterion added it to their collection just a bit before you commented.

    • @Homvncvlvs
      @Homvncvlvs Před 2 lety

      I always hate when movies do the high pitched noise cause tinnitus

  • @Heliosphan15
    @Heliosphan15 Před 3 lety +203

    When I was like 12, I came up with the idea for a slide when I was at Noah’s Ark called Sui-slide, where you come rocketing down and there’s a brick wall at the end. And then a hatch opens and dumps the body. Homislide would be an ok title for Aquaslash. I was a weird kid.

    • @DanielDavidAllenChannel
      @DanielDavidAllenChannel Před 3 lety +41

      Homislide is still a better title than Aquaslash

    • @poopoo7705
      @poopoo7705 Před 3 lety +23

      @@jobdylan5782 right next to the holocoaster and the lake of acid

    • @Ronkyort0dox
      @Ronkyort0dox Před 3 lety +11

      Homieslide is the black remake of Aquaslash.

    • @FanboyFilms
      @FanboyFilms Před 3 lety +3

      You just gave them the titles for Aquaslash 2 and 3.

    • @7r3v0r
      @7r3v0r Před 3 lety +2

      I had a vivid nightmare as a child about a waterslide with a hatch that opened up and dropped people straight onto the tiled floor. Maybe this Aquaslash director has discovered an archetype.

  • @TwiIight0ne
    @TwiIight0ne Před 3 lety +553

    That lobster scene was like straight out of Tim and Eric.

    • @pyramear5414
      @pyramear5414 Před 3 lety +16

      I thought the exact same thing.

    • @torperator1555
      @torperator1555 Před 3 lety +16

      Except it was funny.

    • @Ripcookiethief
      @Ripcookiethief Před 3 lety +1

      And she didn't say shit about it!
      No "Dude use a fucking fork." Or anything.

    • @ZeroBeat1
      @ZeroBeat1 Před 3 lety +25

      It was borderline experimental.

    • @frankmerker630
      @frankmerker630 Před 3 lety +7

      Its resemblance to the Cinco Tube commercial is uncanny

  • @alexandercassidy3794
    @alexandercassidy3794 Před 3 lety +116

    I saw Vast Of Night at Edinburgh film festival last year. The director said they gave the girl a switchboard replica in her hotel room and she spent days practicing the routine. He was a cool guy like the clip you showed

    • @operator7585
      @operator7585 Před 3 lety +3

      Honestly, who's going to know that she was doing anything correctly?

    • @alexandercassidy3794
      @alexandercassidy3794 Před 3 lety

      @@operator7585 fair tbh

    • @billhicks8
      @billhicks8 Před 3 lety

      @Luigi Nastro
      ""Operator""

    • @OMGWTFBBQRLY
      @OMGWTFBBQRLY Před 3 lety +2

      There was a small piece of the studio that was just for her switchboard setup. Sierra spent a LOT of time just running lines from that scene, from what I remember.

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety +3

      @@operator7585 Some film nerd, or telephony nerd, or someone else on the internet that's obsessed with how ye olde tyme switchboards functions. It's the internet...at least 3 people will nerd out about it being done properly.

  • @patrickarellano8073
    @patrickarellano8073 Před 3 lety +146

    There's already a term for what Jay was talking about. it's called an idiot plot and it was coined by James Blish
    . "The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot."
    -Roger Ebert.

  • @TheVGC
    @TheVGC Před 3 lety +50

    I got to work on Vast of Night, glad you guys liked it!

  • @jamescorck
    @jamescorck Před 3 lety +105

    I tried to watch this episode, but I had to download a North Korean app to do so. Now all the food in my fridge is gone.

    • @MustafaTurgutDenizer
      @MustafaTurgutDenizer Před 3 lety +4

      I guess it's true when they say you can't have shit on Detroit.

    • @justincoleman3805
      @justincoleman3805 Před 3 lety +1

      I’m so confused. Are you guys trying too hard? Or not trying at all?

  • @LeninhawkD
    @LeninhawkD Před 3 lety +78

    Vast of Night, a radio play masquerading as a motion picture.

    • @Orangefan77
      @Orangefan77 Před 3 lety

      WOTW radio station manager Orson Welles doesn't know what you are talking about... ha ha

    • @doublep1980
      @doublep1980 Před 3 lety +4

      ''We don't have the budget to make a proper movie,so we will just film some girl,talking on the radio.And all the pretentious -hacks- cinephiles will love it,because it's different and non-conventional filmaking and shiiieeet."

    • @jamstonjulian6947
      @jamstonjulian6947 Před 3 lety +16

      @@doublep1980 They can't all be Aquaslash

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety

      @@jamstonjulian6947 Praise be to Rich Evans that they can't!

    • @TomatoBreadOrgasm
      @TomatoBreadOrgasm Před 3 lety

      Exactly what I thought as I was watching, until the last act. That was purely visual.

  • @YayapLives
    @YayapLives Před 3 lety +146

    "I, for one, liked the UFO ending."
    Mike confirmed fan of Silent Hill franchise.

  • @BlazingOwnager
    @BlazingOwnager Před 3 lety +158

    Jay's not kidding about audience attention spans. I am not joking when I say when I saw Blade Runner 2049, half the theater walked out over it. A dozen+ people, not together. It was depressing because it was an actually good sequel to Blade Runner, I think these people thought it'd be a Marvel action romp.

    • @SkigBiggler
      @SkigBiggler Před 3 lety +17

      It's weird. I skip through half hour episodes of stuff, but I'll happily watch an hour of someone restoring an old table, or machining something. I guess I find practical stuff more worth my time.

    • @nickchavarria8052
      @nickchavarria8052 Před 3 lety +32

      Godamn people are impatient. I guess they were expecting action scenes every 10 min and tons of one liners

    • @Nardypants
      @Nardypants Před 3 lety +7

      I beg to differ, it was a terrible sequel. I could go on and on about tons of things that were really annoying, but comments isn't really the place.

    • @paulpsycho78
      @paulpsycho78 Před 3 lety +7

      I love blade runner . But that new one was garbage

    • @nickchavarria8052
      @nickchavarria8052 Před 3 lety +30

      Nardypants i beg to differ your uhh... differ. Blade runner 2049 is way better than the original

  • @Wandering_Chemist
    @Wandering_Chemist Před 3 lety +25

    “It’s been 35 years since the murders.”
    “Fuck that we just want to slide.”
    Best worst line ever! Lol

  • @mariamoreno127
    @mariamoreno127 Před 3 lety +443

    I just want to inject RLM content directly into my veins

    • @DrLennieSmall
      @DrLennieSmall Před 3 lety +42

      I want to snort Rich Evans.

    • @JohnnyZenith
      @JohnnyZenith Před 3 lety +5

      English Breakfast, Roast Dinner, or fish & chips. Eat them and experience the same feeling.

    • @hannibalburgers477
      @hannibalburgers477 Před 3 lety +13

      I wanna take quick bites of Mike Stoklasa

    • @KillahMate
      @KillahMate Před 3 lety +3

      Чингиз Сабденов You can call Brandon Cronenberg and discuss your idea for the sequel.

    • @EstParum
      @EstParum Před 3 lety +1

      THEY ARE A BANCHA HAAAAX

  • @TheIslandDivision
    @TheIslandDivision Před 2 lety +3

    Mike called it. RIP Betty.

  • @PatFlanigan
    @PatFlanigan Před 3 lety +77

    So it looks like this movie was shot at Super Aqua Club in Pointe-Calumet. A busy and popular water park about 30 minutes from Montreal. The feature was presented at Fantasia Festival here in Montreal, which loves this kind of stuff. The crew was mostly Québecois, including the director. But the majority of us are bilingual so everybody probably understood everybody else. The wanna-be American setting feels “off” probably because it’s a bunch of quebeckers trying to immitate America and we never can quite get it right. You should listen to French-Canadian/Québecois Rock, perfect example 🤣

    • @choreomaniac
      @choreomaniac Před 3 lety

      And most water parks are closed most of the year so it would be pretty easy to close the park every M-Th in August.

  • @wyldride
    @wyldride Před 3 lety +127

    "... And that's when the water park customers slide down the slide and into the rotating knives. Oh, sorry, I normally design abattoirs, not theme parks."

  • @notyourname4425
    @notyourname4425 Před 3 lety +64

    This video had my top three fears in it. They were: getting decapitated at a water park, getting stabbed repeatedly, and breaking my ankle so that it hangs at a grotesque angle...in that order. I'm going to go wash my brain out now. Thumbs up.

    • @strawberrylotlizard
      @strawberrylotlizard Před 3 lety +4

      Alright don't leave a mess

    • @toweypat
      @toweypat Před 3 lety +5

      My top four fears are those three plus Rich Evans.

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety +2

      @@strawberrylotlizard Wash your brain out with Rich Evans. I hear that helps...or hurts. I forget which.

    • @Neitenth
      @Neitenth Před 3 lety +2

      I had the ankle thing happen. It really wasn’t that bad.

  • @wilsterwonkels7384
    @wilsterwonkels7384 Před 3 lety +27

    My grandma used to work a switchboard like that... seeing it in Vast of Night really swooned me in a weird way, like I felt like the movie had a more specific connection to me.

  • @bryal7811
    @bryal7811 Před 3 lety +32

    I'm amazed they didn't talk about signs at all during Vast of Night.

  • @Otamie
    @Otamie Před 3 lety +79

    ah man I didn´t want to see that scene from the zodiac killer ever again but here we are...

    • @rosefaceFGC
      @rosefaceFGC Před 3 lety +6

      Its stomach churning

    • @ComicBookCovers
      @ComicBookCovers Před 3 lety +6

      At least they HAD to blur the scene from Bone Tomahawk.

    • @LadyTylerBioRodriguez
      @LadyTylerBioRodriguez Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks Jay for reminding me of that harrowing scene out of the blue.

    • @DruidicVixen
      @DruidicVixen Před 3 lety +37

      @@Shenaldrac Probably more to do with how well that Zodiac scene is acted out. In Aquaslash, idiots played by very poor actors slide down into tom-and-jerry-eque blades that neatly cut humans into very obvious rubber blocks with a cartoonish level of blood. In Zodiac, a couple are violently stabbed to death in broad daylight by a psychopath while the husband tried in vain to reassure his wife that they would be fine before the murderer stabs him and then her repeatedly-and are acted brilliantly and gut-wrenchingly. It's a helluva lot more real feeling, no real spectacle; it's a more grounded and realistic piece of cinematic violence, made stronger by the fact that it actually happened.
      I am not a 'gore movie fan', but I feel it's disingenuous to simply compare the two scenes 1-for-1 when they are such polar opposites. The insane violence is the point of the scene in Aquaslash, while the desperation and hopelessness of the couple is the point of the scene in Zodiac.
      (Sorry for the wall of text, I am bad at short form writing)

    • @alanbossdon1386
      @alanbossdon1386 Před 3 lety +2

      Also that shooting scene in The Irishman

  • @CiriliaRose
    @CiriliaRose Před 3 lety +27

    The Aquaslash discussion made me want to revisit 2010’s Piranha 3D, which I remember pretty fondly.

    • @7superdaimajin
      @7superdaimajin Před 3 lety +3

      That's a surprisingly good movie. And Elisabeth Shue!

  • @mischiefandmayhem8409
    @mischiefandmayhem8409 Před 3 lety +50

    Vast of night was fun. It was like hopping into a time machine and taking a silent tour. even if nothing at all of consequence had happened it still would've worked just as a slice of life.

  • @AB-ub9nd
    @AB-ub9nd Před 3 lety +42

    Saw the Vast of Night a couple of months ago. I’m so happy you guys liked it. An extremely simple story and yet it reawaken those childhood feelings of what is unknown and being mystified.

    • @theeternalnow6506
      @theeternalnow6506 Před 2 lety

      Just watched it and yeah. It triggered that sense of wonder and mystery. I think Close encounters of the third kind did somethign similar for me. I love the more realistic UFO type movies.

  • @youngkingdom8131
    @youngkingdom8131 Před 3 lety +44

    I love watching HITB in order to form a strong opinion on a film before ever seeing it.

  • @PumpkinPieAlamode
    @PumpkinPieAlamode Před 3 lety +53

    thank god RLM is considered an essential business!

  • @kevinpistilli2593
    @kevinpistilli2593 Před 2 lety +11

    I actually live near the waterpark they filmed aquaslash at. It’s called quassy amusement park and it’s still operational. They actually made a big deal when this was filming. Ironically it’s one of the safest amusement parks in CT

  • @stargate12
    @stargate12 Před 3 lety +20

    I watched Vast of Night because of the review, and I loved it.

  • @CinemadeSous-sol
    @CinemadeSous-sol Před 3 lety +51

    Park still open it's the "Super Aqua Club" in Pointe-Calumet, Quebec. Every time I go there I imagine myself falling from these crazy scaffolding structures and how it would feel. I guess I have the answer to this question now.

    • @axolotllan
      @axolotllan Před 3 lety +9

      thank you! because when they wondered why the guy struggled like he knew there was swords but didn't or whatever i had this weird flash of "no I feel like I've done that before at a waterslide just like that because I'm a chicken and panicked...." it was that same damned waterslide. Thank you for reminding me that place is real and reminding me of both the discomfitting nature of the waterslides themselves and the foot fear of like what if I fall climbing up.

  • @martojacinto107
    @martojacinto107 Před 3 lety +188

    I was having breakfast and looking for something to watch and then you blessed me with this garbage

    • @sebastiansochanski
      @sebastiansochanski Před 3 lety +2

      Did you had Scotch eggs and canned pineapple slices for breakfast?If you had that would be uncanny.

  • @Kijinn
    @Kijinn Před 3 lety +33

    "Pontypool" was the last movie I saw that tried its best at creating tension primarily through audio transmissions sent to and from a radio station.

    • @EpicFelinski
      @EpicFelinski Před 3 lety +6

      I was thinking about Pontypool when they discussed Vast of Night. Great movie.

    • @explodingtomahawks7589
      @explodingtomahawks7589 Před 2 lety

      Is it good? I admit I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to horror.

    • @Kijinn
      @Kijinn Před 2 lety +1

      @@explodingtomahawks7589
      I certainly liked enough elements of it, that I would watch it again. But it is more of an independent film, made with an indie budget.
      The atmosphere is mostly created through audio. If you prefer visible action, this might bore you.
      The horror part isn't anywhere near as graphic or aggressive as you would find in modern horror movies with bigger budgets.
      I'd recommend it.

  • @AdeleKThomasIllustrator
    @AdeleKThomasIllustrator Před 3 lety +10

    When Mike said, "Timecode", its the most strongest I have heard his accent, without him putting it on...unless he was.

  • @simialogue
    @simialogue Před 3 lety +54

    Aquaslash - welcome to la sensibilité d'ironie des Québecois.

    • @Emrod82
      @Emrod82 Před 3 lety

      Quebec had a niche for slasher stuff via B movies, so it is explaining why this movie ended up be directed by one of them. Obviously, I am not saying they are good slasher movies though...

    • @GodlessXVIII
      @GodlessXVIII Před 3 lety +2

      Hé tabarouette

  • @pickagreatname
    @pickagreatname Před 3 lety +57

    "sending the kids down the waterslide" works as a phrase for "characters acting dumb to enable the script"

  • @AustinArtypants
    @AustinArtypants Před 3 lety +24

    Baby Frankenstein looks like it could be the "I like turtles" kid biopic.

  • @patty1h
    @patty1h Před 3 lety +71

    Fun fact for Supernatural fans: the female lead in "The Vast of Night" is the same actress who played blond little girl demon Lilith - she was in the episodes "No Rest for the Wicked" and "Yellow Fever".

    • @fsikijelfes8660
      @fsikijelfes8660 Před 2 lety +8

      As a fan of supernatural... I fucking hate supernatural

  • @hb2425
    @hb2425 Před 3 lety +35

    I find it reassuring in this lockdown environment with all the forcible positivity that is circulating, to be able to listen to these hacks rag on all the same things I hate. It warms the cockles of my stone cold heart.

  • @IHADTHECAKE
    @IHADTHECAKE Před 3 lety +13

    Jay's quarantine hair is pretty epic.

  • @cranberryjuicer
    @cranberryjuicer Před 3 lety +65

    A far superior film would be 71 minutes of Rich Evans repeatedly going down a water slide called "Aqua Rash"

  • @sundermania
    @sundermania Před 3 lety +72

    I saw The Irishman in a theater. I was the youngest person there. I am 35 years old.

    • @ftyiogtyre7769
      @ftyiogtyre7769 Před 3 lety +1

      Horace Gentleman wow edgy

    • @JohnnyZenith
      @JohnnyZenith Před 3 lety +3

      It goes on for so long you're still seeing it.

    • @JohnnyZenith
      @JohnnyZenith Před 3 lety +4

      @@ftyiogtyre7769 It was boring and maybe the most uninteresting gangster film I've yet seen.

    • @nouh3053
      @nouh3053 Před 3 lety +6

      @@horacegentleman3296 I was 18 when I started watching the Irishman and I'm now 47. Idk what this means.

  • @aspatuarymax1470
    @aspatuarymax1470 Před 3 lety +41

    i predict that this decade will be the first decade that doesn't get any nostalgia retrospectives, ever. because we'll all be dead

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety +6

      When we have a functioning government again, speaking about or referencing this year will be banned, and the calendar will just be 2019, 2021, etc. and no one will ever know why...except for the conspiracy theorists on Myspace.

    • @nifftbatuff676
      @nifftbatuff676 Před 3 lety +1

      In any cases there will be only remakes and reboots.

  • @DeathSquadDesign
    @DeathSquadDesign Před 3 lety +188

    "LET 'EM BURN!!!" - Saving Private Ry...errr, movie theater teenager

    • @RobotReg
      @RobotReg Před 3 lety +4

      Underrated Comment

    • @kyledelabear7091
      @kyledelabear7091 Před 3 lety +8

      "Look! I washed for supper!"

    • @joeymobb8438
      @joeymobb8438 Před 3 lety

      Matthew McConaughey in Texas Chainsaw Massacre the next Generation?

  • @lowtdave
    @lowtdave Před 3 lety +20

    These two are so good at playing off each other.
    Seriously love this channel

  • @jmalmsten
    @jmalmsten Před 3 lety +27

    I saw this video. Stopped at the spoiler warning to watch Vast of Night. Yup. I do agree. It was a good film.
    Also I noticed that the radio station that s in the town is named WOTW. I assume that's short for War of the Worlds. Which would be appropriate as they uncover proof of aliens during a radio broadcast.

  • @Jon-ey4el
    @Jon-ey4el Před 3 lety +35

    I purchased the Stoklasa acting school videotape & all I got was this lousy drinking problem.

    • @mrman6035
      @mrman6035 Před 3 lety +5

      *slide whistle*

    • @john_blues
      @john_blues Před 3 lety +5

      Don't worry. Some Tums will clear that right up.

    • @Corbomite_Meatballs
      @Corbomite_Meatballs Před 3 lety +3

      Wait, there was only one? I thought they were shipped in a large, Junka like assembly?

  • @NYCINYOURAREA
    @NYCINYOURAREA Před 3 lety +15

    14:36 Mike's Wisconsin accent coming through on "Time Code"

  • @TJGibson0
    @TJGibson0 Před 2 lety +10

    I went and watched Vast of Night based on their non-spoiler recommendations and absolutely loved every second of it. Such a refreshing film and tense the whole way through. Definitely recommend.

  • @thegreatlionfish7409
    @thegreatlionfish7409 Před 2 lety +4

    RLM claimed another life. RIP Betty White

  • @hebablo
    @hebablo Před 3 lety +10

    Still the best CZcams Channel Around. Quality, Quality, Quality Videos. Humour, knowledge and entertainment coming together in one.

  • @Skullgrin.
    @Skullgrin. Před 3 lety +40

    Aquaslash?
    C'mon, SLAUGHTER PARK is right there!!

  • @28Pluto
    @28Pluto Před 3 lety +8

    If you like "Vast of Night" I highly recommend the Canadian movie "Pontypool"
    Similar premise where the main characters are just hearing horrible events unfold over the radio, and it's very well done.

    • @salomaonplanetsaturn
      @salomaonplanetsaturn Před 5 měsíci

      Thank you for recommendation! 🧑‍💻
      Going to watch it right now 🤓

  • @MrThatguyuknow
    @MrThatguyuknow Před 3 lety +106

    Mike: "I say we just all get corona virus and get it over with"
    "But what about the elderly?"
    Mike: _Rubs hands together with evil intent_

  • @stephanieroth4942
    @stephanieroth4942 Před 3 lety +88

    The depression in both of there eyes at this point, is a cry for help.

  • @bfg9k_
    @bfg9k_ Před 3 lety +7

    That cut to Mike with the eye patches on was the funniest thing I've seen all year.

  • @halcyon5zippo
    @halcyon5zippo Před 3 lety +64

    They used Red Letter Media’s “Red Herring” character from their film “Old Lady in the Wall with Grandpa’s Bones.” Copyright infringement?

    • @frankmerker630
      @frankmerker630 Před 3 lety +1

      It’s a really old concept, probably started around the time of Charles Dickinson so it’s public domain most likely

    • @Egalitariat-likesecretariat
      @Egalitariat-likesecretariat Před 3 lety

      You're talking about the Japanese title. Here in America we call it by the English title:
      'scratch scratch who's that ratch'

  • @wazoheat
    @wazoheat Před 2 lety +6

    RedLetterMedia predicted that Betty White would eventually die, such prophets

  • @reallybigkid7269
    @reallybigkid7269 Před 3 lety +22

    Ha! My mother is 82 and she was a an exchange operator when she was young.

    • @Redmanticore
      @Redmanticore Před 3 lety

      imagine that you had to manually connect every call. just another job that got automated that conservative people would have opposed to. " this is going to cost our economy in millions of lost jobs! what will they do! look at the temporarily lost tax revenues! think of the unemployed! our economy, society and the people cannot survive this!! our families and american way of life is in danger, we need special laws to protect our exchange operating industry..."

  • @Skabanis
    @Skabanis Před 3 lety +53

    I wish more movies like Vast of night were made, where we don’t get hit over the head everything.

    • @Nicdehouwer
      @Nicdehouwer Před 3 lety +2

      watch Pontypool :)

    • @morerobotwarscontent1476
      @morerobotwarscontent1476 Před 3 lety +2

      Just listened to a Tom hanks interview about why he is the producer in a lot of his movies and it's because he has been asked 'whats the stakes here' in movies set in WW2.....

    • @christopherlyons4923
      @christopherlyons4923 Před 3 lety

      Try Cosmos (2019) on Prime. Does a great job being clear but subtle

    • @Gardosuro
      @Gardosuro Před 3 lety

      I wish more movies like both were made. One side is really good and the other side ensures that we will have Best of the Worsts forever.

  • @__Andrew
    @__Andrew Před 3 lety +15

    I really loved the Vast of Night. It reminded me so much of the old sci-fi novels of the like 40's and 50's and im actually glad they didnt really show anything till the end; and when they did it was very little. The movie was about piecing together a story, a mythos or urban legend and the most enjoyable parts was the amazing acting and dialog exchanges between the two leads. Sierra McCormick in particular blew me away and im excited to see what she's going to do in the future.

    • @theeternalnow6506
      @theeternalnow6506 Před 2 lety +1

      I feel the exact same way about everything you said. It was wonderful and gave me chills multiple times near the end. The actress who played Fay was really good as well.

  • @thehellpersmtl
    @thehellpersmtl Před 3 lety +9

    I'm from Montreal and I've been to this water parc. 30 minute drive. It's called Super Aqua Club.

    • @thehellpersmtl
      @thehellpersmtl Před 3 lety +2

      Pertinent information, lost in a pile of comments, yummy!

  • @AnishChari
    @AnishChari Před 3 lety +30

    25:15 Jay is total right here. I hate when movies have to reach some specific minute mark to feel like they're a movie. Nothing worse than padding or character building in a stupid movie.
    "The food here is terrible, and the portions are so small."

  • @neon1321
    @neon1321 Před 3 lety +35

    “The name’s Herring. Red, to my friends.”

    • @stuartherrera
      @stuartherrera Před 3 lety +1

      THE RLMEU JUST KEEPS GROWING! IT'S SO DENSE

  • @IsaacRifkin
    @IsaacRifkin Před 3 lety +5

    I love the consistent editing choice to cut off the last bit of whatever Mike says at the end at the episodes.
    That little thing makes me smile every time

  • @Notsram77
    @Notsram77 Před 3 lety +3

    The music from Vast of Night hasn't left me since I watched it.

  • @matthewbond375
    @matthewbond375 Před 3 lety +34

    "Hey fah-Q"
    Certified Canadian

  • @StephenSchaal
    @StephenSchaal Před 3 lety +78

    Make an episode everyday guys, my life is miserable

    • @googlesucks6029
      @googlesucks6029 Před 3 lety +2

      I bet it isnot half as miserable asmine you f***ing casual.

  • @themorrigan7224
    @themorrigan7224 Před 2 lety +3

    That Betty White Joke hits harder now in Jan 2022

  • @valedictwhoreian
    @valedictwhoreian Před 3 lety +8

    Surprised they didn't mention the sequence when the screen is black for like an entire minute while listening to the radio caller's story. Such a simple thing but so effective.