The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

Dr.Retarded · Wednesday at 12:32 PM

Chukzombi said:
i watch a lot of those nerd rage videos, i know they're nerd rage. the Angry Video (NIntendo) Game Nerd was nerd rage back in the day before everyone, before he lost his hair. i watched his videos for the same reason i watch these, for the same reason i watch RLM vids. entertainment and some information. does anyone actually watch these videos because they they think this is a straight up newscast and everything they say is expected to be followed? does anyone actually get all raged up? for me Star Wars ended in 1983. they tried to bring it back many times. they puped enough money into the franchise where some actually do enjoy it. but watching Vader's corpse burn on a funeral pyre was it for me. this is all just the last dying embers to rise up into the sky.

I'm not losing any sleep about a movie being crappy, or Star Wars crashing and burning.

Probably laugh about it or might be a little bit disappointed that hey something looked interesting and it turned out to be a pile of shit, but there are other things I can do. I get more angry about assholes being retards when I'm out fishing, I'm not showing proper fishing etiquette, or harvesting in catching release ponds.

That's the sort of thing that really pisses me off, that and illegal aliens all over the place, and the economy.

Movies and TV shows, ehhh, whatever. Over the past couple years I found that there's all kinds of great older movies that I never saw growing up, things out of the 40s-70s I never saw, probably because as a kid that didn't look interesting. Now that my taste have changed I can go back and watch them with a completely different perspective and a newfound appreciation.

I watched One flew over the cuckoo's nest for the first time last week, and yeah my ones have it or a little bit cheesy, but God damn is it a great film. It's a famous film and I was hurt about it but had never seen it. But I can remember characters and scenes from that movie fairly vividly, but I watched or tried to watch some movie with Chris Hemsworth where they're riding horses in Afghanistan, and I don't remember a goddamn thing about it or what it's even called.

You're right though that most of it is just a weird niche money making gimmick for YouTube which I still sometimes can't wrap my brain around, because my first thought is you're not creating anything of value, but when you just look at making money I guess obviously doing okay.

Lookout man don't you know it's a creepy world...

Chukzombi · Wednesday at 12:37 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
I'm not losing any sleep about a movie being crappy, or Star Wars crashing and burning.

Probably laugh about it or might be a little bit disappointed that hey something looked interesting and it turned out to be a pile of shit, but there are other things I can do. I get more angry about assholes being retards when I'm out fishing, I'm not showing proper fishing etiquette, or harvesting in catching release ponds.

That's the sort of thing that really pisses me off, that and illegal aliens all over the place, and the economy.

Movies and TV shows, ehhh, whatever. Over the past couple years I found that there's all kinds of great older movies that I never saw growing up, things out of the 40s-70s I never saw, probably because as a kid that didn't look interesting. Now that my taste have changed I can go back and watch them with a completely different perspective and a newfound appreciation.

I watched One flew over the cuckoo's nest for the first time last week, and yeah my ones have it or a little bit cheesy, but God damn is it a great film. It's a famous film and I was hurt about it but had never seen it. But I can remember characters and scenes from that movie fairly vividly, but I watched or tried to watch some movie with Chris Hemsworth where they're riding horses in Afghanistan, and I don't remember a goddamn thing about it or what it's even called.

you want some old fart recommendations, go watch Runaway Train, Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3 (the Sidney Lumet version) and 12 Angry Men (the one with Henry Fonda.)

Dr.Retarded · Wednesday at 12:51 PM

Chukzombi said:
you want some old fart recommendations, go watch Runaway Train, Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3 (the Sidney Lumet version) and 12 Angry Men (the one with Henry Fonda.)

I watched 12 angry Men maybe 3 months ago for the first time, and it's fantastic.

I have YouTube premium and I guess you get a whole bunch of different movies for free, and there's a ton of these old world war II classics, westerns, all kinds of good stuff. I can typically jump on there and watch some really good movies anytime I want.

Sometimes it's movies I've seen before that I love, but there's a lot of stuff I just have never seen and I would have never rented or bought, but now being a bit older and having access to it, you can fire it up and I find 90% of the time it's great, even if it wasn't the best movie I've ever viewed.

I guess especially in the past year watching all of these older films, I'll become a hobble lot more critical to any of the new stuff that comes out. Doesn't mean that they're still not good cinema especially in the Indy area, but these giant quote unquote Blockbuster films, I just have no desire for.

I want to watch that new Mad Max movie even though it doesn't have Mad Max, was I going to go see that in the theater, hell no. I just rewatched the original trilogy, along with Fury road and figure I'll check it out when it comes to streaming. I know people with been kind of on the fence about whether it's good, and I'm sure it's entertaining, but I don't believe it'll be a movie that'll stick with like The Longest Day.

Dr.Retarded · Wednesday at 1:02 PM

Chukzombi said:
you want some old fart recommendations, go watch Runaway Train, Taking Of Pelham 1,2,3 (the Sidney Lumet version) and 12 Angry Men (the one with Henry Fonda.)

The Bedford Incident there's another great film with Sidney Poitier but I watched in the past handful of months. Never knew it existed but it's wonderful.

TomServo · Wednesday at 1:03 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
I watched 12 angry Men maybe 3 months ago for the first time, and it's fantastic.

I have YouTube premium and I guess you get a whole bunch of different movies for free, and there's a ton of these old world war II classics, westerns, all kinds of good stuff. I can typically jump on there and watch some really good movies anytime I want.

Sometimes it's movies I've seen before that I love, but there's a lot of stuff I just have never seen and I would have never rented or bought, but now being a bit older and having access to it, you can fire it up and I find 90% of the time it's great, even if it wasn't the best movie I've ever viewed.

I guess especially in the past year watching all of these older films, I'll become a hobble lot more critical to any of the new stuff that comes out. Doesn't mean that they're still not good cinema especially in the Indy area, but these giant quote unquote Blockbuster films, I just have no desire for.

I want to watch that new Mad Max movie even though it doesn't have Mad Max, was I going to go see that in the theater, hell no. I just rewatched the original trilogy, along with Fury road and figure I'll check it out when it comes to streaming. I know people with been kind of on the fence about whether it's good, and I'm sure it's entertaining, but I don't believe it'll be a movie that'll stick with like The Longest Day.

You might be a fag in my book if you don't watch Pelham 123 right meow!

Chukzombi · Wednesday at 1:04 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
I watched 12 angry Men maybe 3 months ago for the first time, and it's fantastic.

I have YouTube premium and I guess you get a whole bunch of different movies for free, and there's a ton of these old world war II classics, westerns, all kinds of good stuff. I can typically jump on there and watch some really good movies anytime I want.

Sometimes it's movies I've seen before that I love, but there's a lot of stuff I just have never seen and I would have never rented or bought, but now being a bit older and having access to it, you can fire it up and I find 90% of the time it's great, even if it wasn't the best movie I've ever viewed.

I guess especially in the past year watching all of these older films, I'll become a hobble lot more critical to any of the new stuff that comes out. Doesn't mean that they're still not good cinema especially in the Indy area, but these giant quote unquote Blockbuster films, I just have no desire for.

I want to watch that new Mad Max movie even though it doesn't have Mad Max, was I going to go see that in the theater, hell no. I just rewatched the original trilogy, along with Fury road and figure I'll check it out when it comes to streaming. I know people with been kind of on the fence about whether it's good, and I'm sure it's entertaining, but I don't believe it'll be a movie that'll stick with like The Longest Day.

try to catch up on your Burt Reynolds movies, all the ones before he became The Bandit.

Dr.Retarded · Wednesday at 1:05 PM

TomServo said:
You might be a fag in my book if you don't watch Pelham 123 right meow!

I think I've seen the remake a long time ago, but as Chuk suggested, and I guess you now, I'll definitely put it on my list.

Didn't the remake have Denzel Washington or something?

Dr.Retarded · Wednesday at 1:07 PM

Chukzombi said:
try to catch up on your Burt Reynolds movies, all the ones before he became The Bandit.

Trust me I've watched most of his films. I remember the first time I watched Deliverance. Was maybe 10 years old, and I know we were talking about scary movies the other day in another thread, but that whole squeal like a pig scene was frightening. I guess you could qualify Deliverance as a horror film, or almost a slasher, but God damn, that's up fucked up film.

I think it's based on a book if I'm not mistaken.

Chukzombi · Wednesday at 1:24 PM

Dr.Retarded said:
Trust me I've watched most of his films. I remember the first time I watched Deliverance. Was maybe 10 years old, and I know we were talking about scary movies the other day in another thread, but that whole squeal like a pig scene was frightening. I guess you could qualify Deliverance as a horror film, or almost a slasher, but God damn, that's up fucked up film.

i cant emphasize how different he was before he did Smokey and The Bandit. all his movies for years and decades after, all his movies he played them like The Bandit was a character. the only movie i can think of where old Burt came back was in Boogie Nights as the porn director and finally serious Burt Reynolds returns.

pysek · Wednesday at 1:37 PM

Caliane said:
ooph these guys are so out of touch. Struggling to get through this.

"let me give my take on the cutlure war, without actually doing any research on what anyone is saying" "the poliltics don't matter as long as its good". seriously. they are 10 years behind the times. yes we know that guys... but the politics ARE getting in the way of being good. how many times do the showrunners, studios, netflix, etc ahve to say, "representation matters" over and over, and blast about DEI quotas as the ONLY promo material for you to listen to them?

"we don't get any post apoc sci fi anymore, that was all boomers". bro what? not only is most tv/movie sci fi still post apoc, like 99% of video games are post apoc. even shit you wouldn't think should be, like fantasy games. huge quantities of storytellers have moved to video games as a medium.

"hollywood isn't leftist. its just the writers are." what a brain dead take. not only has hollywood ALWAYS been leftist. but, again, look at shit like netflix creating quotas for its programing. disney doing the same shit. its the STUDIOS, and industry forcing this shit. not just loose canon writers.

Think im about to call it. too rough to get through. about 20min in.

any id all the "outrage critics"? I noticed shad/knightswatch and itsagundam.

One of the few RLM productions I couldn't sit through.

The other being Space Cop.

ShakyJake · Wednesday at 1:59 PM

All I know is, on IMDB The Acolyte has a 3.something rating and Andor is 8+. Explain that. It's not like viewers are shitting on all Disney Star Wars works.

Lightning Lord Rule · Wednesday at 2:06 PM

Caliane said:
ooph these guys are so out of touch. Struggling to get through this.

"let me give my take on the cutlure war, without actually doing any research on what anyone is saying" "the poliltics don't matter as long as its good". seriously. they are 10 years behind the times. yes we know that guys... but the politics ARE getting in the way of being good. how many times do the showrunners, studios, netflix, etc ahve to say, "representation matters" over and over, and blast about DEI quotas as the ONLY promo material for you to listen to them?

"we don't get any post apoc sci fi anymore, that was all boomers". bro what? not only is most tv/movie sci fi still post apoc, like 99% of video games are post apoc. even shit you wouldn't think should be, like fantasy games. huge quantities of storytellers have moved to video games as a medium.

"hollywood isn't leftist. its just the writers are." what a brain dead take. not only has hollywood ALWAYS been leftist. but, again, look at shit like netflix creating quotas for its programing. disney doing the same shit. its the STUDIOS, and industry forcing this shit. not just loose canon writers.

Think im about to call it. too rough to get through. about 20min in.

any id all the "outrage critics"? I noticed shad/knightswatch and itsagundam.

Concur. It gets a little better as it goes on, but they're trying to take a center position when they really just aren't center in their worldview and opinions. They've been creeping leftward for years and it's really starting to reach a critical mass in their overall opinions.

I'm glad they referenced the Fonz, because I'm not sure they've officially jumped the shark with this vid, but Mike's putting on the skis.

Caliane · Wednesday at 2:15 PM

I don't think its creeping left, or fence sitting. I think its just they are so out of touch. they are so laser focused on movies, and insider shit, they don't see the bigger picture. they don't play games, don't read comics. even barely watch tv shows. They don't see or hear what anyone is actually saying. they don't see the push across everything. so end up just being the "normies" that eat up their mainstream "oh its just incels screaching about women making movies". but also don't see the netflix shit, the propaganda. don't see amazon doing the same thing. the blatant and stated quotas in their media.

Lightning Lord Rule · Wednesday at 2:44 PM

Caliane said:
I don't think its creeping left, or fence sitting. I think its just they are so out of touch. they are so laser focused on movies, and insider shit, they don't see the bigger picture. they don't play games, don't read comics. even barely watch tv shows. They don't see or hear what anyone is actually saying. they don't see the push across everything. so end up just being the "normies" that eat up their mainstream "oh its just incels screaching about women making movies". but also don't see the netflix shit, the propaganda. don't see amazon doing the same thing. the blatant and stated quotas in their media.

I think that's part of it, but it's also a case of being steeped in an environment that they consider to be neutral, really isn't neutral. Jay talking about how problematic things in old movies are for instance. Eli Wallach playing a Mexican in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly for instance was unironically mentioned as being not just something that is an artifact of the times, but something that should never have been done and it's shameful that it happened. "We've evolved for the better since then!" To paraphrase his thoughts. One of the best performances and characters of all time would have been denied us because the actor was the wrong race, you see. Jay is usually the culprit with those kinds of comments, but it's creeping into more and more of their collective reviews and opinions. I don't think it's a conscious thing on their part, they just don't see it because it's 'normal' to their world now.

They're also severely misrepresenting how other channels like Nerdrotic and Drinker go about their reviews. Those guys have given 'diverse' shows good reviews if they're actually good, but those cases have become so few and far between that it's become the exception rather than the rule. They also talk about story elements, writing, and canon faithfulness more than most other aspects of shows... you know like a movie/tv reviewer should be doing. It's almost like if you have a given set of standards, and those standards violate the 'standards' of the raging turbo-lefties who run the Hollywood cesspool, you're automatically going to shit on all their products! Weird! For sure they're out there trying to make money with clicks and views, but isn't that the point of having a Youtube channel? Isn't them throwing stones at these guys for making content like this and mocking anyone for making anal objections about lore while showing starving Africans in the background when they've done multi-hour Star Trek vids on the same thing the height of pot meets kettle criticism?

Also, I agree with Rich's takes on a lot of things, John Carpenter's Ouvre, for example. But he is so catastrophically wrong about Luke Skywalker, The Last Jedi, and Star Wars in general that it's not even funny. That prediction they linked to from 2015 is the kind of thing you hope happens to someone you hate and then call it 'interesting'. Ironic, considering RLM made their bones with Star Wars reviews.

Furry · Wednesday at 2:58 PM

I think a lot of people here forget that Mike doesn’t care much about Star Wars at all, even though that’s what made RLM/him popular. He repeatedly says that anytime it comes up. For anyone not invested in the lore, all the lore trashing this show does has little meaning.

Daezuel · Wednesday at 3:02 PM

They should have just skipped this topic if this is the trash they're going to put out.

pysek · Wednesday at 3:10 PM

As soon as the hollywood types and their 'handlers' showed up, it was easy enough to see RLM was Stuckmanned.

Caliane · Wednesday at 3:17 PM

Furry said:
I think a lot of people here forget that Mike doesn’t care much about Star Wars at all, even though that’s what made RLM/him popular. He repeatedly says that anytime it comes up. For anyone not invested in the lore, all the lore trashing this show does has little meaning.

yeah, thats going to be one of the other points I was going to mention.

They talk about the inspiration of Starwars during that "old stuff was written by boomers" talk. ww2, korean, "rebels are viet cong", etc.... which idk, citation for that viet cong bullshit, that isn't George just making up shit recently.
But beyond that, no mention of The Hidden Fortress. no mention of Dune. Now, sure these are also inspired by the wars.. but it so bizarre or illiterate to skip over the direct influences.

Deathwing · Wednesday at 4:08 PM

Help me out, I've heard "Stuckmanned" on EFAP but my googlefu is failing me. I know it's a reference to Chris Stuckman, but I don't know enough about him to intuit the meaning.

Caliane · Wednesday at 4:19 PM

Deathwing said:
Help me out, I've heard "Stuckmanned" on EFAP but my googlefu is failing me. I know it's a reference to Chris Stuckman, but I don't know enough about him to intuit the meaning.

Stuckmann had "get stuckmannized "as a "catchphrase" for awhile. which of course, itself lead to memes. But then as Stuckmann became a joke about selling out and a pathetic reviewer, who refused to actually do reviews after "becoming a movie creator himself". it took on even more meaning.

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