Half in the Bag Episode 140: The Cloverfield Paradox and the Netflix Conundrum (SPOILERS)

[@foxdie8302]

I love how Mike only realized his mistake in "The Room" vs "Room" when he uttered the sentence "The Room is a great film". Like somehow saying that made his mouth burn and he realized something was wrong.

[@HotKakez]

I hope that Gugu Mabath-Raw and Lady Gaga team up in a buddy cop film called Gugu Gaga.

[@markiefella]

I would definitely watch that.

[@lukefraser5727]

What a comment nicely done sir sorry im 3 years late

[@thedude1562]

If she were to have a child, would she call it Baby Goo Goo?

[@TheRealSplitterguy]

"This whole premise reminded me of an episode of Star Trek Voyager..." Credits could have rolled right there.

[@romankushniriuk1504]

Jason in another dimension/earth they did

[@eldebo99]

da, da-da, da-da, da-da. da. da!

[@RossTheNinja]

Not seen it yet but going to guess the one with Clarence Boddicker

[@MrNexuscorre]

I just stumbled upon this review randomly and now I’ve watch hours of Red letter media. Where has this channel been my whole life?!?!

[@Xpwnxage]

Welcome to the fold

[@pravkdey]

@@Xpwnxage we've been stuck in Rich's folds for a long time

[@TheElectricMayhem]

I’m you, 2 years later

[@joshuataff4911]

Ive been watching them since 2012. Welcome young cynic, we have such sights and years old inside jokes to show you.

[@theeternalnow6506]

I really like the fact that people are coming to this channel and finding out there's hundreds of hours of material still to enjoy. I think I got here around episode 23 or something. Phantom Menace review probably what got me here, but I'm not a 100% sure anymore. It's been a long ass time and I realize these days that there will be a time where the (or one of the) guys are done and there won't be any new ones. That will be a sad day.,

[@c1v1lwar24]

Coming soon to dumped to Netflix, Space Cop 2: Cloverfield Cop.

[@AdamLeuer]

_Space Cop_ was _always_ part of the Cloverfield® Cinematic Franchise.

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

I'd watch that.

[@Marcelo_DBZ_Music]

Mike introducing himself as "Redlettermedia" will always be one of my favorite little gags

[@BobJones-xm1ll]

It's January! 12 years to make!

[@Philernator]

Ahh. The start of a new arc.

[@thevoxdeus]

I grew up about a mile from Fermilab, and I can confirm that it makes detached arms have a mind of their own and summons giant monsters from space.

[@matthewlennhardt8408]

thevoxdeus thing from Addams family is from batavia

[@InternetDog_]

19:03 "I feel nothing, I should feel something, but I feel nothing" - Mike

[@Bloodynine606]

I feel the same way except about life.

[@mrcristaldo]

Internet Dog That's what she saaid

[@087Alfred]

"The room was a great film" -Mike Stolklasa, 2018

[@williamstewart8149]

Franki E. bro....... chill

[@Dan-zj1hg]

Why is Jay drinking from a star trek mug? Is this a parallel universe? Is half in the bag the next cloverfield movie??

[@Hip0lit0]

Or it might be just a mug

[@gevgnek]

Cloverfield in the Bag

[@CaptTerrific]

Lost opportunity, Dan... perfect opportunity to ask if HitB is replacing Cloverfield

[@sean361]

Is half in the bag replacing Cloverfield?!

[@alesin1992]

The Rich Evans Paradox

[@mixedreactions714]

Jay's death from Space Cop is basically the climax of this movie.

[@ayylmao4806]

Jay's wide eyed enthusiasm is the perfect folly to Mike's bitter depression, cynicism and alcoholism

[@steponmy92]

You got your wish Jay. Theatres are dead.

[@cara2467]

Thank god

[@Talesfromtheshelf]

Spider-Man disagrees

[@frankmerker630]

Goes even more along their prediction, only superhero movies can succeed in theaters now

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

​@@frankmerker630 Oh, well here's another dated comment. 😅

[@PlasmaKong2]

I watch Half in the bag for the plot

[@GigaWhitArtandStuff]

I watch for the dirty pictures and I'm not afraid of to admit it!

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

PlasmaKong2 I honestly really enjoy the side plots because Mike and Jay in any situation is just hilarious

[@turtleanton6539]

Its better then this movie.

[@joeschmoe3665]

I watch it for Mike's loosely connected Star Trek parallels

[@AnAlbanyExpression]

"Hi, I'm Red Letter Media." -Mike Stolkasa Eh, close enough.

[@Largentina.]

He literally is though. He's the founder and created the first few RLM reviews by himself.

[@gizzylaserfoot2604]

This was a great episode to follow up the gay wedding story arc. I wonder where this season is gonna go.

[@Protagonist]

They continue to break new ground as they create new grounds to break. They trully are the greatest creative minds of their generation.

[@Lanterns_light]

Not clickbait

[@Bloodynine606]

The gay wedding arc is really about family.

[@GreenPiCat]

“As long as there are writers out there writing quality scripts we’ll be okay but there are not” was perfect deadpan I burst out laughing

[@Nightstalker314]

Is Star Wars EP 9 gonna be sold as a Cloverfield movie?

[@tomlion0116]

On Netflix??? :D

[@oscarsantana9983]

The Clover monster is actually going to be retroactively CGI'd in place of the Rancor in Return of the Jedi.

[@DeadlyDre]

Nightstalker314 I'm sure there will be some lose, ridiculously hard to find, convoluted, inverted pause and play Slowly while watching it upside down in a mirror on Tuesdays @ exactly 4:49am thing that will related to Cloverfield

[@Nightstalker314]

Cloverfield is the key to all of this! If we could only get it working!

[@mikewrobproductions]

Nightstalker314 ha ha... Oh wait, could happen...

[@collegeman1988]

Wow! This is the strategy Abrams and Company should have used when releasing The Last Jedi. They could have retooled this movie to tie it in with the Cloverfield universe and titled it The Cloverfield Jedi.

[@HistoryandReviews]

collegeman1988 Abrams SUCKS GIANT EAGLE SCOUT FARTS

[@PorkKnightProduction]

this joke falls flat because Abrams has barely anything to do with The Last Jedi.

[@dr.strangelove4450]

You'll get all this and more in The Last Jedi part II: The Search for Plot.

[@_Stalc_]

kaiju jedi, kajedi

[@samhammich7993]

Call it a rancor, then have it devour everyone. Movie fixed.

[@ryanfrantz8994]

"Just tricking em'" is really about family. That's why it's so powerful.

[@holben27]

"Just trick em'" is the key to all this

[@H0TR0B]

Every trick is so dense, there's so much going on.

[@thenaughtyavocado3326]

It took 12 years to make!

[@samuelG009]

Ryan Frantz lol

[@Bloodynine606]

It's stylistically designed to be that way.

[@krenwregget7667]

ultimately it's a film about family.

[@JoeySocko]

Finally.

[@wheeliebin18]

*Vin Diesel nods in approval*

[@yurihageshi8008]

What kind of "family"?

[@360.Tapestry]

@@yurihageshi8008 a cloverfield monster family

[@turtleanton6539]

Every movie is

[@stazz316]

Hi, im red letter media ffs mike youre a god amongst men

[@BretHammond1967]

The Netflix target audience is people under house arrest.

[@loveshack6880]

💀💀💀💀💀

[@atomic_wait]

And now it's the entire human population sheltering in place.

[@GustheOttsel]

Boy did you hit that nail on the head.

[@narc8835]

This comment aged well lmao

[@Olebull93]

2020 stocks go stonks

[@Simon74]

Atleast no one was tricked into paying money to see it.

[@jkj420]

Exactly. Even if someone isn’t subscribed yet, there is a trial period available.

[@MilkLegScoop]

Shit! Where do I get free Netflix?!

[@Simon74]

Richard Vasquez Then they can still watch a million other movies or series on Netflix.

[@g.e.o.r.g.e...]

I don’t get how these movies are a good proposition for Netflix... I feel like they’ve basically reached peak saturation, spending $150 million for a Scorsese movie might get a few more people... but not as much ROI as a theatric release, probably.

[@g.e.o.r.g.e...]

Well yeah, no shit. How does Netflix intend to rake back the hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve spent on big budget movies? You’d have to consider how much content they can lease the rights to for the money they’re putting into this type of original content... If they have 500,000 people searching for let’s say Jurassic World before the new one comes out... Isn’t it a better deal to just pay Paramount or whoever the licensing fee and hit those customers with a notification that the movie is now available?

[@racewiththefalcons1]

"...the arm stuff, but they treat that more humerus." Nice one, Jay.

[@thomasbrundigejones5780]

Wait so, they open up a portal to another dimension in the hopes of siphoning its energy and monsters come out... this movie has the same plot of DOOM 2016

[@Whitexican1301]

No, their plan was to build an infinite energy source which ends up combining all dimensions together. It shouldn't be classified as a portal.

[@FSM1138]

@@tverdislavrolensky3597 actually, in half life they didnt mean to open a portal, but breen being the dickhead that he is sabotaged the sample to open the door for a future combine invasion

[@arenkai]

@En' Peacee Shekelstein Oooooh... That's why Luke went out like an old fart... He was Doomguy's old fart !

[@TheTrueCaptainAwesome]

Someday, a child being born within the last and next month is gonna make a movie about how we opened up a portal to solve the pandemic, and this will be the historic evidence that the idea was unoriginal 30 years prior.

[@RobTunes]

Doom 2016 has better characters though.

[@junkytboy]

If the Cloverfield franchise was Friday the 13th. They just jumped to Jason X already

[@steffanofumo]

This scene from Jason X is much better than anything in The Cloverfield paradox lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3eZY2x5aryFp7c

[@tastyloaf5487]

@@steffanofumo That scene helps to make up for all the overzealous censorship in F13 VII .... I wanted that chick pummelled into the tree over and over, gosh darnit!!

[@jrenderos4]

Cloverfield is a long con to get the rights to Ultraman.

[@dr.s8972]

Jonathan Renderos OMG THAT SOUNDS GREAT

[@joemitchell1796]

PLEASE

[@TitenSxull]

I'm very much okay with this

[@romejanairo4926]

Only ultraman can saved us from the cloverfield monster

[@rcdotjpeg]

I'm still hoping these are all setting up for the ultra man movie I've been waiting for for 10 years

[@jeffjensen8]

Maybe they'll do a George Lucas move and release an "Enhanced" version of the original Cloverfield with added scenes of protesters of military buildups, and maybe a few CGI creatures farting too!

[@alesin1992]

There's a scene on Tattooine where Gugu steps into shit and then gets elected into the Galactic Senate.

[@ArcturusMinsk]

Hey, why doesn't RLM just make a bunch of movies and sell them to Netflix? They'll buy anything, so might as well make some cash off it.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

It is far easier to criticize (bad) movies then to create (good) ones. With the way Hollywood keeps turning out crap RLM will never be out a job.

[@mintcoffee6030]

Because they don't have the ability to create anyhing of substance. It's the whole "if you don't try you can't fail". Like that kid in elementary school who didn't want to try in class out of fear of ridicule. They should stick to shitting on movies, I like when they do that. Also yes, I am aware I'm a hypocrite ;*

[@Wishuna]

Mike and Jay are like yin and yang. They work of each other so well.

[@have_a_good_day420]

Wishuna They 69 each other

[@armybirds]

@BK Beatty old

[@IdkMaybeShawn]

There's really nothing wrong with the release strategy. If it had been a really good movie, we'd all be talking about how the marketing decision was brilliant and how this is the future of film.

[@Howhaveyouben]

the problem is that netflix didn't commission a film that would make a good case for ending theaters... they took some piece of shit off the shelf and tried to trick people... Like if Netflix financed a back to the future remake that would be a move to end theaters... if they bought a student film that vaguely deals with time travel with a cameo from christopher llyod they're fucking red box...

[@mrcristaldo]

IdkMaybeShawn Its a hit or miss tactic

[@dantealighieri8403]

IdkMaybeShawn What marketing was there? The only 'marketing' was showing a single trailer in the Super Bowl and saying it was released on Netflix. When I saw that, all I thought was: this movie is going to be so bad, they can't muster a campaign to hype it.

[@99luc10]

Open House is legitimately the worst horror movie ever. It's not hilariosuly bad like The PeePee PooPoo Man, just the cinematic equivalent of blue balls.

[@frankmerker630]

Is it a remake to the one made by Jag Mundra?

[@abdishakurmahboub3696]

More like the The Cloverfield Parahoax

[@ethanellis2453]

I need healing

[@mJC4698]

Haaaaaaaaaaa got em.

[@easyemu1511]

very cool

[@PraiseSteezus]

Wake up sheeple!

[@ficha13]

The Cloverfield Pair of Hacks

[@KJCollections]

more like, "How is JJ Abrams still employed paradox"

[@undeadMonk]

Because the money's still rolling in. Capitalism strikes again!

[@awonoto]

TFA alone provides 2 billion reasons.

[@Arkaskas1]

What does Capitalism have to do with anything? People go watch his moves that's why he is still around. He makes money because general population likes his movies not because he makes money.

[@bwgti]

Yes the. The billions of dollars reasons...

[@Avocado11]

Makes tons of money and is very nice so people want to work with him.

[@subj3ctt0chang3]

Remember when JJ Abrams had a bunch of websites created that were supposed to be related to and drop hints about the origin of the Cloverfield monster? Its cool to see that was all pointless. "Mystery boxes."

[@qetuo8446]

And now every movie has an ARG meant solely to market it.

[@gearheadliz947]

Jay: "I haven't seen Event Horizon-" *!!GASP!!* "-in a very long time..." *phew*

[@SMATF5]

I rented Event Horizon 5 or 6 years ago, but the dvd was scratched, so I had no idea how it ended until seeing this video just now.

[@TheColonelKlink]

Netflix. The new VHS.

[@reefchiefer]

The only difference is, all of the good movies came out on vhs along with the direct to vhs

[@AenysCrabb]

So Mike and Jay need to upgrade to a Netflix repair shop

[@kjrobinson4105]

Factz

[@duderanch18237]

I've noticed in the past year or so it's gotten BAAAD. Like alot of the direct to's are beyond awful, as are alot of the shows that got cancelled from TV that make it on. Caveat - I'm from Canada, and our Netflix sucks compared to yours.

[@deeperthanthedeepest]

Bright seemed to have done well off the back of Will Smith's sheer likability. Many of the things that were forgiven (the bad writing, the excess cheese, the Gary Stu ending, the lack of payoffs to things set up early on, etc.) become unforgivable if you take Will Smith out of the equation.

[@toddHoward_]

You always seem to upload right before I tighten the noose

[@grekohmoobybah8284]

Holy shit lol that's hilarious

[@alastair6320]

Todd Howard Port skyrim to Netflix already

[@999monsterjam3]

Mine came pre-tightened.

[@tinyfunnylilcritter1525]

Blat *I T J U S T W O R K S*

[@revelationreflection]

Todd Howard haha you're just checking your phone 'til the very end, tightening the noose with one hand while swiping with the other lol

[@devilslettuce1064]

Beast of no nation is an amazing netflix movie

[@aadityabhattacharya]

Devils lettuce It was independently produced and then sold to Netflix

[@alicep2656]

So the fictionalized version of Jay is single again???? 😍😍😍

[@rossross9281]

Alice P wooo oooo yooou looove jay 😘😘😘😘😘

[@alicep2656]

How has a porno not been made with a chick calling over a VCR repair man? Or has one?

[@rossross9281]

Alice P lots of times

[@maxmote23]

Alice P I mean a vcr repair man porn in 2018 is hot enough to be its own category

[@MooseCastle]

I'm sure it's one clips4sale somewhere. Probably requested by Rich Evans.

[@jamesmills2163]

I think it's time for Half in the Bag to go into an alternate dimension. One where Jay sits on the left and Mike sits on the right.

[@Jakeinlivincolor]

But they already do.... Oh u mean the opposite from our view

[@mr.battle20]

They did that already, in the Evil Dead episode.

[@gifgoldblum7940]

See also: their Thor Ragnorok review

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

You liberals have finally gone too far! 😱

[@ImInGoodNick]

Oh boy

[@trtx84]

I'm with Jay in that I loved the idea of Cloverfield being loosely related anthology films, which is why I hated how you can *see* the seams of where the Cloverfield stuff was stapled on. In 10 Cloverfield Lane, the brand is what kept me in the audience wondering if John Goodman was crazy or telling the truth. So when Winstead gets out of the bunker and you see that alien ship in the background I had the same reaction as her. It used the brand but was still it's own movie. This was definitely not that.

[@RevokCronenberg]

The Cloverfield Paradox feels like it was written by an algorithm.

[@diesenutss]

More like a shitposting bot

[@Amateur0Visionary]

Or an algorithm.

[@Yusuke_Denton]

@@christophzeit6282 Your reply feels like it was written by an algorithem.

[@turtleanton6539]

Probably was

[@Sorakeyblademaster37]

That’s basically every Abrams film, isn’t it.

[@TotesMagee]

Are Mystery Boxes replacing Lootboxes?...

[@gingerbread648]

I hope so.

[@SilvarusLupus]

What are loot boxes but mystery boxes?

[@iAmNovaFilms]

Are mystery boxes replacing ACTUAL MOVIES AND TRAILERS

[@RGDcommentnode]

Please don't give EA any ideas!

[@ErebosGR]

I'm surprised how they haven't started selling lootboxes in theaters already.

[@BigHank75]

Jay hanging up the phone brought me so much joy.

[@dym321]

one thing writers need to learn is that "quantum physics" does not mean "anything goes"

[@jeremyshaw1]

Writer's don't need to learn that, audiences need to learn it. Until that happens, the magic of quantum physics will solve everything.

[@dym321]

jeremyshaw1 well they need to show what is good so they know what they want... but then again there are good movies with the same theme and nobody cares. so yeah... that sucks

[@dym321]

Arlo Steiner i only ask for common sense, a thinking arm that somehow knows that the stupid ball is inside the crazy dude makes no sense at all and they provide no explanation in any shape or form... is fine to be a little magic, thats where sci-fi gold is!

[@nathane5287]

Hell, you can go further than that and say precisely because of quantum physics, quantum field theory, all the work and understanding we as a species have accumulated by now, we know everything there is about the physics of everyday life, physicists have been smashing particles together obsessively over a hundred years or so, discovering all the common ones and the ones that can interact on any meaningful level with stuff that matters on earth, what's left is either the so weak that in doesn't interact with matter or the stuff that can't exist for longer than a zeptosecond before decaying into more stable mundane particles. Shit like Dark matter or Dark energy? That has no bearing on our brain activity or something that impacts our daily life, because otherwise we could have already created and tested it, the reason why it remains elusive is precisely because of how little to no direct interaction it has with matter. Particles smashing together creating meaningful black holes or dimensions? Would have been done ages ago if true (also silly if you know a bit about physics). If a lazy hack writer needs some black box explanation in their space fantasy for some exotic powersource or whatnot, then resorting to chemistry is safer, simply because of the nature of chemistry allowing potentially infinite different combinations of our regular old atoms and molecules, that can have novel properties to them. Though even there, as you say, it doesn't suddenly mean that anything goes.

[@lukeboy61]

What they really made was the Infinite improbability drive.

[@fncsp8466]

*"her parents texted thanks"* lmfao.

[@vallytine]

Huh, that'd explain why I never even knew this movie existed. I'm a filthy filthy foreigner so we don't have the superbowl to watch the Ad Marathon for.

[@carolmitchell5328]

You foreigners get out of our comments section, and take your GuGu with you

[@moofy69]

"Hoping for the death of theatres" A couple years later and yall got your wish

[@Emem0r]

An Event Horizon re:View would be nice.

[@jeremyshaw1]

They showed nearly every interesting clip from Event Horizon in that 5 second Event Horizon scene. That is the primary problem with that movie.

[@Kleinfurkon]

It would go something like; 'hey there's Morpheus! I applauded when I saw him, coz I reckernized him from another film.' Shot of Brit chick splattering all over the place. The End.

[@ericjamieson]

I think there are like 6 people in the world that like Event Horizon (I'm one of them). It's not perfect but I think it's pretty legit sci-fi horror. It's also amusing to pretend that it's a 40K prequel.

[@Bloodynine606]

Event Horizon is an amazing Paul WS Anderson movie. But it's Paul WS Anderson so by any other director's standards it's terrible.

[@josephmayfield945]

They only do review of movies that are good.

[@templar19]

I love how Mike didn't realize he was talking about the wrong film until he said "It was a great film..."

[@joeydavis101595]

"The Room was a great film," -Mike Stoklasa 2018 well, you heard it here first ladies and gentlemen

[@m0nk3yl0v3r]

This was barely passable as a TV movie, until Chris O'Dowd's arm fiasco, then just went to a shit pesudo Red Dwarf type affair

[@mcayea]

This movie was a worse version of Event Horizon

[@steverogers8163]

I will point out that Bright has a divergent critic to viewer score. 27% to 86%. Which makes sense for a genre movie, only certain people will like it at all. Cloverfield seems to be more straight bad with a 16% TO 51%.

[@TheNejD]

i honestly dont see where a lot of the negativity towards Bright is coming from, like i understand some of the criticisms of the film and i agree with some of them i dont think its a great film it obviously has some problems but for the amount that people are shitting on it seems largely undeserved.

[@sciencefantastic]

Oh GOD Paradox was bad.

[@DjAirsurfer]

Cloverfield Paradox is like fun-bad but Bright is just bad-bad, Bright tries to do some weird like "what if racism was real BUT AGAINST FANTASY CREATURES INSTEAD" weird like... idk. It really seems like such a galaxy brain movie, in the ironic sense, that it's trying to be sophisticated but just comes out looking like a fucking lobotomized tree trunk

[@Marrss____666]

Hey RedLetterMedia, come to visit Fermilab! We can give you tours and maybe a new set for Space Cop 2 ;)

[@johnstephenalbert]

Josh's band Ifihadahifi did a tour of Fermilab a few years ago.

[@Marrss____666]

I had no idea, that's really cool. BTW, I'm serious about people coming over, I work in the lab and besides research I do the underground tours =D

[@superfurryfox1]

Remember first seeing this and being surprised to see Roy from the I.T Crowd

[@smjaiteh]

*MYSTERY BOX* 🎁💣

[@crosseightyeight]

Sambou Jaiteh what's inside💥Aw fuck

[@smjaiteh]

Cross88 Surprise, it’s a box office bomb!!

[@Randomcorpse]

I remember watching this. Excited by the cast and premise, then it opened a bunch of threads and closed none of them. This movie went so off the rails. Then I immediately forgot it existed, then woke up this morning, six years later, and suddenly remembered it existed for no reason and thought it was strange I never watched a youtube video of people tearing it to shreds.

[@turtleflipper9935]

Hello, IT department? My particle accelerator isn't working properly. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[@Sp4mMe]

The issue was only hiring Chris O'Dowd. Had the movie also included Richard Ayoade ...

[@jasonfenton8250]

Gugu's children died in a fire. Oh, I'm sorry that's horrible. Yeah... It was a fire at, uh, Seaparks. A fire? At Seaparks?

[@michaelharvey75]

It would have been such an easy fix, just turn it off and on again. .

[@mick6915]

1:45 'Hi, I'm RedLetterMedia'

[@rebolt14]

Crazy how right you guys were about Netflix looking back…

[@Will-nq3fo]

Netflix should bring back "Carnival". the show runners always said that they could do more seasons

[@kenny7593]

I hope Lightning Fast VCR Repair is also a rental shop because I'm going to need to stop by to rent The Day the Clown Cried from you guys.

[@frozendilemma]

A Cloverfield crossover with zombies: Night of the Living Cloverfield

[@roneckler6235]

When Mike suddenly comes alive with enthusiasm with a Voyager analogy, and the light from Jay's eyes fade in this moment.

[@BensGamingBlog]

Cloverfield 1: Found Footage Cloverfield 2: Thriller Cloverfield 3: Sci-Fi Horror So Cloverfield 4 should be a Buddy Comedy Romance Film if J.J. Abrahams milks the Cloverfield Cow dry?

[@TJTaylor1996]

BensGamingBlog the next one is a period piece based in world war 2

[@Emanresu56]

Is J.J. Abrams the new M. Night Shyamalan?

[@Prof_Tickles92]

Emanresu56 HE ONLY PRODUCED THE FUCKING MOVIE! His involvement was minimal

[@TheZbobcat]

That would actually require him to make some movies and not steal movies to make his own

[@CineRanter]

Shyamalan has more creativity in his left testicle than JJ has in his entire filmography

[@fallingintime]

The only thing that is great that is associated with his name(by producer credit) is person of interest. His other shows have a spot in tv pop culture like Lost, alias etc but are ultimately disappointing and dated. Sort of like Joss Whedon

[@linusdn2777]

M. Night is at least unique and interesting...he may not be a consistently great filmmaker...JJ is just the blandest filmmaker ever

[@WattieWasTaken]

Everybody's commenting so fast in a bid to come up with a truly insightful, witty, but also somewhat polarizing comment in hopes of achieving their brief moment of internet fame that no one will notice that I'm gay.

[@usoap141]

Wattie THIS GUY IS FUCKING GAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

[@allycliftonsucks]

YOU BROKE NEW GROUND

[@vfxninja5503]

Wattie that formatting

[@roundabout468]

Hey, you're gay!

[@dougwright4542]

We noticed. Just didn't mention it.

[@JCHauntsman]

Netflix has been the new "straight to video" for a while.

[@JesuSoup]

Haunter! They have had some good shit thought like Strangers Things and Bojack Horseman which is the best animated show I've ever seen also Matt Groening the guy who made the Simpson and Futurama has a new show coming out on Netflix that looks great

[@tastyloaf5487]

@@JesuSoup Ehh, I watched _Disenchantment_ .... it's mediocre at best and unfunny at its worst. Problem is, Matt Groening is no longer the young guy sticking it to popular culture .... .... nowadays, he is popular culture. Bojack Horseman, on the other hand, is fantastic. The perfect way to decomstruct all the "I wanna be famous" crap that reality TV and Social Media have kept alight for over ten years, now.

[@MrJohnlennon007]

F Is For Family and Paradise PD are awesome

[@DanArnets1492]

I don't think I see The Irishman as a direct-to-video film...

[@elobiretv]

​@@DanArnets1492 it was also boring as fuck though.

[@matthewlin4053]

That opening.

[@PurposefulPorpoise]

Event Horizon is the prequel to The Matrix and its about Morpheus's crew and how they freed themselves from the matrix by entering the "hell" dimension, which is actually a glitch that once u enter wakes u up

[@PurposefulPorpoise]

scockery i came up with the theory couple years ago but i had it down, ill have to rewatch and get back to u guys. Basically people were going insane from crossing over into The Real and coming back, and agent Smith took control of sam neils character when he went in

[@FrancoisDressler]

That's pretty good. Aren't Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving actual neighbours in real life?

[@commanderkruge]

Above everything else Event Horizont is the reason the Doom movie sucked so much ass. Because when they made Doom some exec went "What do you mean Mars gets invaded from hell via jumpgates? We just did a movie with a warp drive that leads to hell, we can't do that again - change that to genetic experiments at once! And no, I don't care about who did it first!"

[@commanderkruge]

Warhammer did it, Stephen King did it in a short story too - but I really believe the Doom plot for the movie was changed to genetix nonsense, because otherwise it would have been "too similar" to EH for someone.

[@johntrains1317]

Kay

[@--2346]

Bright? Do you mean the remake of Theodore Rex?

[@lolidk2179]

Nils Ein holy shit...you've figured it out! YOU FUCKING DID IT

[@berserkasaurusrex4233]

Nah, Jurassic World 2 is the Theodore Rex remake. Bright is a reboot of Alien Nation.

[@198EE4]

New idea for a RLM series ... Mike explains different scientific theories to the best of his abilities. Hilarity ensues. Keep these videos coming! Can't get enough of you guys!

[@TrustySquire]

I described it as "a bad remake of Event Horizon"

[@Luvie1980]

Matt Keller that's exactly what it was

[@goodwithastain]

That's almost exactly hiw I described it to a coworker the next day. "Have you seen Event Horizon? It's that but bad"

[@samuvahakangas4895]

But Event Horizon is already bad.

[@fifzeppelin]

@@samuvahakangas4895 which really speaks to how fucking terrible this movie is.

[@adamjung6104]

Thanks for showing only tbe best clips of event horizon... You know the ones that gave me permanent nightmares when I was 10 years old.

[@Martin-tz4kz]

They actually made a review of it? Awesome!

[@remyd.s2286]

Mike talking about the perspective of characters in that Star Trek episode reminded me of Soma. The scene in which your character copies their consciousness, thinking it will save them, then watches it leave as they are doomed to die is really effective. You think it's going to be you, then it's revealed that your consciousness 'lost the coin flip' when it was copied.

[@supersloth7314]

J J Abrams “Lost”ed it again

[@alexa1591]

Leif Hazelwanter he's such a hack

[@theodorvepper]

I'm listening to this as a podcast, out of nowhere mike says "the room is a great movie" and I had to do a double take to see if he was joking around before they continued.

[@FelipeAlmeidaM]

The arm moving on its own is a ripoff of Galaxy of terror, kinda disappointed you guys didn't mentioned that.

[@crsmyth4428]

Pandorum is a great space horror movie. Maybe not as focused as something like Alien, but it mixes so many genres and actually pulls it off to some degree.

[@Citrus3000]

So now that Jay just casually disses Bright, does that mean that after sexual assault allegations their relationship to Max Landis is now officially broken beyond repair and they will never watch the new Neil Breen film on Best of the Worst Spotlight?

[@iamdylanavery]

I think it's safe to say

[@ChechiDLR]

Was Max Landis accused or what happened?

[@Citrus3000]

Chechi De La Rocha well, its weird non definitive accusations he is getting. I recommend google

[@Citrus3000]

john doe yea but never so bluntly and on the side

[@tinabrandt1571]

Jesus, somehow I hadn't heard about this. Max Landis too? I remember someone on youtube a few months ago making the joke that with all the sexual harassment/assault allegations coming forward, in a year Hollywood would be reduced to just Kirk Cameron and Scott Baio... then last month Scott Baio got accused. So, who wants to start taking bets on what fucked up shit Kirk Cameron gets accused of? I'm betting he groped the crocoduck.

[@Dardessia]

Half in the *_MYSTERY BOX_*

[@phillanderson434]

« Death of the movie theater » boy we really had no idea

[@dutchyofdutchland]

1922 was FANTASTIC! So glad you guys saw it

[@sada0101]

All hail our lord and savior Plinkett and his fuckboi Xandu!!

[@toyfreaks]

Nice GWB reference, Mike! I caught it. But the Bush quote was actually even more sublime than you remember: "Fool me once, shame on... [long pause as he waits for his audio prompter] ...you. [Another prompter pause, ahhh fuck it, I'll just ad lib the rest] Fool me, we can't get fooled again." [Cue Pete Townsend scream]

[@timmd8766]

I couldn't stop wondering when watching this movie how a planet is supposed to run out of energy. I mean, the planet looked pretty much the same as it is now and the sun was still there so... What are you running out of? Just put up some more solar panels or wind turbines or nuclear power plants or dams or anything. There's so much potential energy all around you're not going to run out of it anytime soon. And if you're running out of energy don't fucking waste it by driving around the city or let giant window teve screens run while you're moping and not even watching it anyway. Have these people ever heard of bicycles and photos? Geez!

[@timmd8766]

Oil? Oh, is that why they stood in line for gas in the beginning of the movie? They think oil is our only form of energy. Now it makes sense... in a stupid way. Thank you. Now I at least know what the writers were going for even though it's completely idiotic.

[@toweypat]

Tim MD yeah really. Don't they know how to make solar power plants?

[@timmd8766]

Patrick Towey It's the future. They should have SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS! Put those solar panels on the road and drive all over them. Energy crisis solved!

[@SDF_Gamuru]

I liked it. The distribution was pretty sweet. I def agree that it feels like direct to video, but it was a pretty good sci-fi type movie. Also the room/room thing was hilarious. You got a subscribe from me for that.

[@lawvos1]

That Disney prediction was on point!

[@scarythingsarescary6493]

The vcr repair shop is my favorite set piece in the ever expanding Letter-verse.

[@MsStack42]

" I think my arm's trying to write something..." is it a decent screenplay ?

[@JadeReloaded]

Underrated comment

[@thetramp123]

Okja and Meyerowitz Stories are good Netflix movies. Mudbound is okay. I'm not quite as big of a fan of it as most but it tends to be pretty well liked. In the last year Netflix has actually started to put out some solid original films, though they're still dropping some stinkers too.

[@sjbrooksy45]

I'd rather support them taking risks then the next formulaic Summer Blockbuster.

[@CineRanter]

They have The Irishman coming out next year

[@andrewhudson9538]

Another netflix review? this really subverted my expectations

[@uselessslippers8866]

Andrew Hudson would you say that they are breaking.... the conditioning

[@Severi1996]

I didn't expect expectations so this subverted my expectations. Brilliant!

[@volbla]

Well played, my friend. Well played.

[@reefchiefer]

Not clicking, don't care.

[@TomJones-op9nj]

Wasn’t the large hadron collider on line when this review came out? It would have been a better reference….but you guys kill it….keep it up….would love to see some more Mr. Plinkit reviews …the character is brilliant and the humor is highbrow presented in a lowbrow way ….awesome