Half in the Bag: Fool's Paradise and The Corporate Product Biopic Trend

Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wrote, directed, and starred in a movie that just came out that you've never heard about! Is this gigantic flop as bad as it's Rotten Tomatoes score would suggest? Also WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET THE RUBIK'S CUBE MOVIE???

[@Conspirachu]

I love how Half in the Bag started as two men with a failing VCR repair shop exploiting an old man with dementia, but now, VCR is hip again and the hosts are the ones with dementia.

[@Avengerie]

Biopic-worthy.

[@Alkatross]

I can rest easy knowing VCR will always be terrible. The only reason anyone would like this is if they haven't experienced it.

[@TheColbyPflueger]

It took 12 years to subvert your expectations!

[@Azune783]

VCR is hip now? Lmao

[@Big_Chef_Dawg]

​@@Alkatrossdrives me nuts when people tell me they prefer watching a movie on a VHS. Like the quality was shit then, and it won't look better upscaled to your 4k tv.

[@swagromancer]

I love it when Mike specifies that he's not trying to be a contrarian every time he's being a contrarian.

[@Mrphilipjcook]

He's not trying, it just comes naturally.

[@IrenicusFTW]

half in the bag is becoming bland and repetitive with these two

[@PattyOflan88]

​@@IrenicusFTWyou must be new here

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

@@IrenicusFTWit should just be Rich

[@Belgand]

Like preferring The Darjeeling Limited. Pretty much nobody's favorite Wes Anderson film.

[@Madkalibyr]

The whole movie could’ve been a minor subplot on an episode of Always Sunny

[@Belgand]

Have Charlie glue his mouth shut or something. Maybe take some drugs if they really need an excuse for why he's more child-like and out of it than usual.

[@lopiklop]

it could have just been an episode. they do those theme episodes now

[@lopiklop]

it's like kramer goes to hollywood

[@AlejandroSilva-mr7yy]

I feel bad for Charlie Day cause he will never live down that role but yeah

[@SnoopyReads]

​@@AlejandroSilva-mr7yyHe was great in Horrible Bosses

[@HOGuru]

'All-Star' is actually a good source for that type of biopic because it allows you to have a scene where their producer warns them that they may not want to release the song because it's 'too good'. Specifically he warned them that if they released it that it would become so ubiquitous that they would never be able to escape it and would only ever be remembered for the song, because they'd never be able to make anything better. Which is exactly what happened.

[@Zerklass]

I think walking on the sun is also a massive banger and even better than all star.

[@douggaudiosi14]

What's all star

[@NoriMori1992]

@@douggaudiosi14 A song by Smash Mouth. It's used in the beginning of Shrek. It's referenced in this video, at 32:25.

[@christiangomez320]

@@douggaudiosi14the song from shrek

[@choggi]

@@christiangomez320 Beautiful

[@MrMinorMorris]

Finally a compelling video to watch while I avoid my stupid job.

[@FriendlyTampon666]

im in a useless meeting as we speak

[@Soviet20]

*"DAMN IT MORRIS! Finish my TAX RETURNS they were due A MONTH AGO!!"*

[@ace15Nura]

I'm watching this in the bathroom avoiding my useless job as we speak

[@kevinworthy6527]

Or the bus to stupid job 😅

[@mdihero]

My thoughts exactly

[@hotcoldman]

The corporate biopic feels like the last desperate gasps of a popular culture that’s been cannabilizing itself for decades

[@seamusthatsthedog4819]

Don't worry, it'll get worse

[@d3nza482]

It's a product about a product. Next up - product about a meme, catchphrase, trend or "thing". Say... I Herd U Liek Mudkips...

[@completetotalgoodness4786]

But Tetris was good. And Air (about Nike) was much better than it had to be.

[@lachiripiolca]

@@completetotalgoodness4786 "But good product about good product was good" come on now

[@WeaponOfMyDestructio]

So propaganda?

[@antiichristie]

I think as a society we are completely over being “fascinated” by hollywood in the way Hollywood people are fascinated by Hollywood. We got Birdman and La La Land and all collectively groan when another rehash comes out.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

I assume you meant *groan.

[@uselessgarbagehandler]

GROAB

[@hayleylongster4698]

I also hated La La Land, but yeah lol

[@KClouisville]

Shit, Robert Altman gave it a good killing blow with The Player way back in the early '90s. He was actually taking shots at it long before that too (view the ending of The Long Goodbye for instance). Robert Aldrich was doing it with stuff like The Big Knife in the '50s.

[@DrOstentorious]

@@KnuckleHunkybuck no my friends and I actually physically enlarge when we get annoyed with some Hollywood circlejerk disguising itself as a movie

[@redtexan7053]

This feels like a movie that Charlie (his character from Always Sunny) would have made. It’s Day Man with a Hollywood budget.

[@IDHLEB]

He really needed Dennis's creative input

[@Big_Chef_Dawg]

​@@IDHLEBthe movie needed full penetration

[@mountainman211]

Based on listening to the Always Sunny podcast and his visit to the Criterion Closet, I do believe Charlie Day genuinely tried to make a movie based on satires he liked but was way out of his depth and failed

[@AbbeyMarieEsp]

Yeah. He also said he has been picking and working at it for years. I think he should have made it smaller and cheaper. He likely over worked it.

[@trickster721]

Sounds like maybe he should have picked one or two, instead of trying to do them all at the same time.

[@wuffie87]

From the way the guys are talking about it, it sounds like he was trying to make his version of Being There

[@dethburger1]

@@wuffie87 he was. I heard him say it in an interview.

[@DrummerDucky]

Saw the Criterion Closet episode with Charlie Day, and he didn't seem to have anything to say beyond the mundane and superficial about the movies he picked. I bailed halfway, it was painful to watch.

[@TheChach]

I can't wait for the Red Letter Media Corporate Product Biopic.

[@MrJustinOtis]

Yes, but who will they get to play Rich?

[@TheChach]

@@MrJustinOtis Timothée Chalamet, naturally.

[@michaelharvey75]

They'll need some up and coming has-beens to play them, or are you thinking of using amateurs? .

[@karlscher5170]

@@MrJustinOtis Patton Oswalt

[@iamajay1]

@@TheChach just what I was thinking 😂😂

[@keeblergraham211]

Reminds me of "Being There", where a simple, childlike gardener just goes with the flow, lets others project their own ideas onto him, and ends up being among the rich donor class and a possible presidential candidate.

[@MarkDalderup]

its amazing they talked for 40 minutes without referencing "being there" or "the player" from Robert Altman because this movie seems to be a mix of those two movies

[@DocEonChannel]

That was my first reaction, too.

[@albuerum]

There's also quite a bit of Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot.

[@TheJ_G]

I feel like Charlie Day has heard producers talk about his unique “voice” for so many years that he got a wild hair to make a project where he doesn’t speak.

[@theactualTVB]

Does that mean we’re getting Charlie Day for a future BOTW episode?

[@dwaynezilla]

Put it on the wheel and OHHHH every time it almost stops on it

[@SpetalskBKHSBS]

Honestly I got a KZbin recommendation for a podcast Charlie did with a channel with barely any subscribers so... it's not impossible!

[@arunalukariyawasam]

Man I thought you were talking about Zelda

[@janefkrbtt]

​@@arunalukariyawasamhow have I never made that connection until now wtf

[@psykomancer4420]

@@janefkrbtt Jay himself made a joke about that in one of the BOTW episodes.

[@thatguywade5384]

Ill give Blackberry this, At least that's about a complete collapse of a company. Rather than a generic rise of a corporate monster company.

[@SofaPop.]

Blackberry is anything but a standard biopic

[@soniccinema93]

Honestly, BlackBerry was excellent. I feel like RLM would be pleasantly surprised if they watched it.

[@vaclav4435]

In fact, for _Blackberry_ they don't even bother showing the rise at all. The first half of the movie is about how the Blackberry was invented and RIM was founded, then for the last half they skip about a decade to focus on the company's death spiral. It makes sense in a way. All the flaws that destroyed the company were there from the beginning; all time and success did was reveal what was already there.

[@tehbeernerd]

I’ll give one thing to Tetris: they certainly had Ghislane Maxwell’s father in a prominent role

[@nukeninmgt1504]

​@@vaclav4435 I like the way you put that

[@koolaidjunkie1]

Watching Mike and Jay describe a theoretical movie that actually exists and is actually very famous will never get old. The better version of the movie they describe is called “being there” and I cannot fucking believe they didn’t mention that in this.

[@eraserhead-prime]

I kept waiting for them to mention Being There!

[@ludilka]

I suppose they didn't mention it because they hadn't seen it.

[@eraserhead-prime]

@@ludilka Fucked up if true

[@Mattrick360games]

I was wondering the same!

[@EkiToji]

Their description definitely started to remind me of Being There but Charlie is no Peter Sellers.

[@rorschach36]

Don't worry people, in a few years we'll get the social media app biopics. Can't wait for the Snapchat and TikTok films

[@davidr2421]

Don't forget we already have The Social Network, which is actually awesome

[@wilsonwijaya.design]

Wow, TikTok film would be great with an ALL ASIAN AMERICAN CASTTTTT!!! AREN'T YOU EXCITED?

[@mickeyconnor830]

​@@wilsonwijaya.designUnderrated shitpost. 🖤

[@andrewgrant-ue7bk]

And soon we will have a biopic about the origins of the MCU

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

The thing about these biopics is that they're like anecdotal footnotes in a company's history. Like a five minute story you'd tell a friend. Not a two hour movie you'd suffer through.

[@tmsplltrs]

When I saw the trailer for that nike movie I legit thought it was some weird joke

[@jackelewish1568]

Exactly, nerds (such as myself) got mad when they made _The Hobbit_ (a single short book for children) into a series of 3 full films. When _Lord Of The Rings_ (a MASSIVE epic told over 3 much longer books, over 1300+ pages, aimed more for adults in its prose as well as it's themes) was adequately told in 3 full movies. Then you got Hollywood now going *"Hey, you know that story you told me on your linch break about the guy who invented the Segway?"* ....yeah... *"Let's stretch that into a feature film!"*

[@isekaiguy9113]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 That's fun because Tetris is a very good movie

[@DIEGhostfish]

And this one wasn't even true.

[@mrmcomics9488]

Ignores the sweatshops every company uses to manufacture said product… but its so awesome how this product you love got started in the most sanitized pr way possible

[@mateunio666]

Funniest thing about Flamin Hot is that entire story was fabricated, the guy was fired from Frito Lay for fabricating it, but Eva Longoria decided this will not stop her from doing her aspirational motion picture debut.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

That's because no one's ideas are ever really gone...

[@SunnyDiegoProduction]

True, because as we all know every single motion picture ever created has been factually accurate! My favorite factual accurate motion picture ever, is the one about the elf who’s too big for Santa’s workshop, so he goes to New York in search of his father who turns out to be some big children’s book executive. My favorite true story ever told on a motion picture, unlike this Hot Cheetos BS!!!

[@johnfriscia1731]

He wasn't actually fired for it. He had a lengthy career in the company before leaving. But yeah, the movie's existence is pretty silly.

[@RxYouth]

​@@SunnyDiegoProduction You do realize what biopic means right? Maybe look up the definition before comparing it to a fictional christmas comedy.

[@DDd-gm8uz]

@@SunnyDiegoProduction Oh, yeah, did they claim Elf was "based on true events" and screen it at the White House?

[@theblobconsumes4859]

I want them to actually watch Blackberry, since it's pretty much the opposite of what they assumed it to be.

[@simonamorim8178]

Yeah, it's more along the lines of The Big Short or the 2015 Steve Jobs movie.

[@theblobconsumes4859]

@@simonamorim8178 I guess they assume all things are exactly like the 2013 Jobs film, but then again, it's RLM.

[@FrankMcFuzz1]

32:25 Well guys, you killed Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell

[@analogskullerosis5056]

It almost feels like Charlie Day was trying to go for something kinda similar to Hal Ashby’s 1979 film “Being There,” which is a movie about a guy named Chance who only knows about the world through what he’s seen on TV and is taken in by a wealthy family only because they hit him with their limo by accident. He has no past and he’s a blank slate that people project themselves onto. They make Chance into whatever they want him to be and they see whatever they want through him. He doesn’t object or really say much of anything for most of the movie. It feels like Charlie might have been going for a little bit of that, but it just didn’t hit the mark. That would be my guess, anyway.

[@gnalkhere]

I remember him pulling it out in his Criterion Closet video

[@ronme68]

That what I thought they where going for..... And I knew they would fail.

[@medes5597]

This comment section doesn't need you to explain what Being There is. I assure you.

[@itsd0nk]

Wow, technology is amazing 😐

[@the81kid]

That was my first thought too. Instead of Charlie Chaplin.

[@Microfoot]

Glad someone’s talking about this weird “product biopic” trend.

[@michaelwebster-clark9865]

It's the inevitable consequence of the musician biopic which themselves are just corporate biopics

[@jodikirsh]

@@michaelwebster-clark9865 I'm ashamed I didn't see it coming. It's really kind of tragically lame.

[@_SpamMe]

That Tetris one seemed kinda understandable since the story behind it really is bizarre. That it's about a product feels more incidental than anything. But the other crap ... ?

[@i-never-look-at-replies-lol]

what do you expect? westerns are consumers. it's part of their identity.

[@DanArnets1492]

@@_SpamMe - There have been "movies about products" before, "Air" only happened because they wanted to make a movie and knew that THE URBAN MARKET would watch it because of MJ23

[@BlazingOwnager]

The thing about the Tetris movie is that the story is legitimately completely insane. One of the people involved in creating Tetris eventually went on a killing spree with a hammer & sickle, I believe. Like there's a good legitimate reason to tell that story.

[@memento81]

and the movie itself was surprisingly good in terms of script, pacing, acting and tone. I didn't expect to have such a good time with it and it made me legit interested to learn about the full real story.

[@Xomage999]

Yup. One of the few times where the reality is more crazy than the sensationalized dramatic retelling.

[@user-lf6lk9gz2l]

@@memento81 lools like "adventures in fu man chus castle" in the trailer, complete with star wars new order sets

[@sinenomine6074]

I think the chances of this being read are pretty low at this point, however fun fact; most of the jokes, such as the "bouncing jug" gag, are lifted straight out of Monsieur Hulot, a silent comedy protagonist from France! (that particular gag was from Mon Oncle, in the kitchen scene, almost shot-for-shot 🙄)

[@saliv88]

Fool’s Paradise could’ve been amazing if it was written and directed by Charlie Day as Charlie Kelly.

[@commaJim]

Crime stinks: the smell of penetration

[@saliv88]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ You misspelled “Rich Evans.”

[@RPGDesignatedPaladin]

@@saliv88 😂

[@cooperjudson5807]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ I let anyone go down on me

[@dickheadrecs]

“so doo”

[@thomasgiles2876]

I, personally, would like a biopic about the guy in the 90s who convinced Taco Bell to make their mascot a tiny dog who says in spanish "Long Live Fat Chicks".

[@omarsabeur9039]

Viva la Gordita!

[@L33Reacts]

Tommy???

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

I want a fictionalized biopic of that man where the chubby-chasing spanish-speaking dog is an actual character and his pitch is based on his real-life talking dog buddy. Would it be stupid? Absolutely. Would I watch that all day? You betcha.

[@thomasgiles2876]

@@noesunyoutuber7680 The scenes with the dog are all like Son of Sam, but the executives reaction to his ramblings are just🤑

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

​@@thomasgiles2876Yes, exactly!

[@CaffeinatedKing]

There was a very recent episode of the Always Sunny podcast about Fool's Paradise, the impression I get is that it's a bit of a passion project he has been working on for a very long time. It's a tad unfortunate that it turned out the way it did because I do think Charlie is quite talented, but not everything is going to be a hit I suppose.

[@Rex-qf7en]

It does feel like Charlie Day wanted to play a silent movie character, and he got to do it. Everything after that was contrived. You definitely couldn't get a silent movie made today normally, so he built an easy narrative around it to help make it more appealing and give it some more direction. It feels bad, because it definitely feels inspired, Charlie Day is really likeable and talented, and people are going to be questioning how he ended up putting something out there that was so misguided.

[@sketchyjulia]

He did say in interviews he wanted to make a film that doesn’t really get made anymore nowadays Genuinely do feel bad that it was panned/bombed since this was kinda his passion project and I also really love him as an actor/Sunny’s one of my favorite shows

[@eldenringer6466]

hubris?

[@hardy83]

They need to do a serious biopic of the Rickroll song, BUT, set up the film to have it seem obvious the audience is going to get trolled every, like, 15-30 minutes, but never do it. Then the final tease, smash to credits. Never play the song once. lol

[@L33Reacts]

Absolute genius. Everyone will hate it, obviously.

[@lukeshioshio]

Yeah they're gonna make a biopic about a song but never play the song sure kid

[@JM-vp8zc]

Rian Johnson is set to direct

[@mariecarie1]

It’s Hollywood. They’d be unable to resist Rickrolling during the credits. They’d HAVE to do it at least once

[@Otis_.]

Have the joke movie soundtrack that has the melody of the rickroll. So it’ll be a serious scene but it has the slow dramatic rickroll.

[@BackdoorBarnyard]

Someday they'll make a corporate biopic about the underdog film executives who revolutionized the film industry by making a corporate biopic. Then they'll make a corporate biopic about the underdog media company who tried to make it big in the media industry by paying a team of underdogs to review the corporate biopic about the cooperate biopic. Tom Hanks is already slated to costar.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

By the time they get to this, it'll be the AI-generated Tom Hanks, because the fleshy Tom Hanks will be too costly to de-age via AI-CGI.

[@fonkyfesh-old]

ENDLESS TRASSSHHH

[@derek937.2]

​@@firmamentsyndicateAre you Dan Harmon?

[@jakekeys88music]

How meta. Is that word trite yet? In this case (or perhaps very soon), I think it will be replaced with the word "inane".

[@crushycrawfishy1765]

THis kind of already exists. The movie SIlent Movie is a silent movie about making a silent movie.

[@geoffreybrockmeier9218]

Since we're talking about biopics... I want to see a sequel to "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." Since it was revealed that Billy Mitchell was lying his ass off and Twin Galaxies was shown to be totally corrupt.

[@rfrolicarts]

My reaction to Flamin' Hot was "Hey, this is pretty cheesy, but I think it will play really well in middle school classrooms. Maybe it just wasn't made for me" Then I learned the story is 99% false and it kind of took the wind out of my sails.

[@noahmay7708]

Pretty "cheesy", huh?

[@rfrolicarts]

@@noahmay7708 pun not intended but happily accepted

[@Belgand]

It got a lot of press for a while, eventually becoming one of those "fun fact" stories that people repeat without any actual sources. Then in 2021, The LA Times put out a long-form article investigating the story and finding a ton of holes in it.

[@eldenringer6466]

I too thought it was cheesy but i found the lead hot also flamin

[@lucystoner]

​@@noahmay7708 some may say it teeters on dangerously so

[@themorrigan7224]

Since corporations are people too, that means they deserve their own biopics

[@randomjunkohyeah1]

Mitt Romney, is that you?

[@Trendyflute]

Thanks Lewis Powell... /s

[@newusernamehere4772]

If corporations had biopics they'd all be shut down lol

[@ACey96]

But corporations aren't people, they are made by people But they are not actual people They are by definition and metaphor soulless

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

Does that mean they'll pay me to see them, since I'm "people" (allegedly) and my time is money?

[@TB-jh2ie]

Charlie Day bouncing the carafe and then breaking a glass is a straight lift of a classic scene in a Jaques Tati movie (Mon Oncle).

[@denzelelysium]

Hell, the whole movie just stinks of being a shittier remake of 'Being There'. Peter Sellers already knocked this out of the park.

[@Kijinn]

Yeah...and much of that type of humor depends on the performance and the mood that is being set up. Tati was brilliant with both. The short scene as it's shown here, was neither well performed nor set up.

[@stephengibbons2260]

Jacques Tati

[@Belgand]

I was surprised they didn't mention either Being There or Jacques Tati since they felt like significant influences on it as well.

[@duscodick]

Omg I was getting Tati vibes this whole video.

[@AppleJackApple]

So relatabe and so heartbreaking seeing Jay trying to find nice things to say about a terrible movie recommended by his elderly demented friend, who is so cutely enthusiastic, even if aloof, about it

[@padendubois5205]

I miss the skits of Mike and Jay wandering around Milwaukee as hobos.

[@joshm8348]

The world needs the Smash Mouth biopic. Now more than ever. "Smash" *stealing a better title from below

[@Ozhull]

That's a terrible name, the real name would be "Only Shooting Stars..."

[@MrSkeltal268]

With a cameo from Guy Fieri

[@littlekingtrashmouth9219]

“Somebody Once Told Me…” “All Stars.”

[@robertgaudet7407]

Didn’t QuintonReviews make that and it was also a two hour Bee Movie review?

[@d3nza482]

Nah, nah, nah... Youse fellas are going about it all the wrong ways. I's got the title for ya. Ready? 🌟SMASH!🌟 It's a guaranteed hit! $600+ mil, in the bank. BUT... And here's the catch... make it a cartoon with lotsa stars doin the voices! Make it a fronchoise! Meoichondise the shit out of it! BILLIONS!!!

[@ChrisB_517]

I just read an article sayin' the dude didn't even invent Flamin' Hot Cheetohs. They were made in 1989 in Texas by Frito Lay marketing/lab people, but he started taking credit for it. The producers knew this - - - but made it anyway.

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

I don't remember who exactly said "never let the truth get in the way of a good story," but it seems apt here.

[@haydenjacobson6821]

I really hope you guys talk about the Bert Kriesher movie “The Machine”. When it comes to vanity projects I feel like this movie took the cake haha

[@UltimaPowers]

That dude has made a whole career from that story and taking his shirt off. He is a terrible comedian who laughs more at his own jokes than anyone else does.

[@ronniethornley7302]

@@UltimaPowers terrible comedian and terrible movie, I wanted to walk out the entire time.

[@fancymortimer3247]

yes please!

[@tristanmayer5373]

​@@UltimaPowers One of the most annoying people to ever exist

[@LT1]

The more famous he gets the more I can't stand seeing him

[@henkman00]

Red Letter Media is a popular KZbin channel that reviews movies, and one of its most famous videos is a review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The channel, which is known for its humorous and insightful reviews, coined the term "fool's paradise" to describe the hype surrounding the film. In a separate video, the channel hosts make pancakes with a George Lucas pancake mold and discuss their admiration for the Star Wars creator. They also analyzed William Shatner's singing career and commented on his unique style.

[@MrMr-ws3tv]

THEY BROKE NEW GROUND!

[@uselessgarbagehandler]

chatGPT is that you?

[@Aaron-kj8dv]

You'd think they'd be more known for dick the birthday boy over fools paradise

[@martins7385]

You know how Mike whips out a piece of paper with a list on it? Jay should have one too, but it's just a long, detailed list of his hair care routine and the products he uses.

[@joshuabrien2970]

It would just be a list of all the horrific pervert stuff he likes and evil dead trivia

[@cameronmattingly8802]

@@joshuabrien2970the name of every cat he’s strangled.

[@anonymoushumanhi]

@@cameronmattingly8802goodnight sweet cats

[@anonymoushumanhi]

Yes please

[@thecluckingassassin]

Hahaha I get it

[@Mcfly5ful]

You should listen to the episode of the always sunny podcast where Charlie Day talks about Fool's Paradise, then you'll see he's not being self-aware at all with this movie.

[@FyreNail2]

Yeah, unfortunately it's just a complete miss script-wise. Tried to be funny and satirize Hollywood, ended up barely doing either

[@willliam658]

I would un-ironically love to see someone make a corporate biopic about the creation of All-Star because that would force someone in Hollywood to acknowledge that Mystery Men exists.

[@lonefinch2127]

The BlackBerry movie is awesome. It’s definitely poking fun at the whole genre of corporate biopics

[@insertaccountnamehere9505]

Blackberry isn't about the rise of this company, it's about the awful missmanegment that tanked it, it's a cautionary tale

[@ferrytoldburger6582]

an exploration, not of what is gained by learning, but of what is lost by staying ignorant

[@eldenringer6466]

i enjoyed it and there will be an extended tv series which prob be even better

[@j.2512]

a cautionary tale where everyone ended up as a billionaire anyways

[@insertaccountnamehere9505]

@@j.2512 true lmao

[@MSCCA]

So the message is don't compensate board members and executives with stocks, don't legalize short trading, and don't allow neoliberal captilaism to exist?

[@nukeninmgt1504]

I can't believe Mike straight up soiled himself at 7:38 classic RLM

[@janefkrbtt]

Thank God for elderly diapers

[@McChopper2000]

elderly people dont care about spoilers because they cant follow the story anyways

[@samusaran4948]

Classic

[@barstow_]

And just powered through like a professional

[@MrSkeltal268]

The elderly sometimes do that

[@FilmflickerCinema]

The silent movie character in modern day movie concept is done 10/10 PERFECTLY with Dougie Jones in Twin Peaks

[@landondonovanify]

Great point

[@bencarlson4300]

Which was also already done incredibly well with Peter Sellers in Being There

[@luiginastro8831]

"Jade give two rides"

[@ControlVee]

Hollywood has decided to just put characters into films about products, rather than the other way around. It's been their motivation for years.

[@balexzander922]

The IASP guys have a pod cast and they talked about the origin of this idea on there. According to them Charlie pitched the idea of someone Mistaking his name on his coffee order as Latte Pronto when he asks for a "Latte Pronto" get it. Then Charlie would spend the episode being mistaken for Latte Pronto. The IASP crew flatly rejected the idea so Charlie took it to film. XD

[@LadyUnderhill]

What a hugely public way to demonstrate that it was a weak concept and prove the IASIP crew right. Oof.

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

@@LadyUnderhill And to sound kinda douchey when you're ask for something "pronto".

[@WolfDevastator]

Somehow this made the movie seem funnier.

[@martins7385]

The Flamin' Hot Cheetos origin story they mention had been debunked even before that stupid movie was made.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

Its so weird and kind of cruelly corporate, strange that Eva Longoria was promoting this film as ‘Latino Pride’ when its a FAKE corporate reinvention of a product to pretend like it came from the Latin community and an underdog story of a guy who works there when its really just a product launch with nothing special behind it. How fucking insanely deluded or mean do u have to be to make up a story celebrating Latin American community and sell it off as such when its 100% proven to be fake

[@JuraIbis]

The first thing I did when I was a kid on my MS-DOS PC was to format a box of diskettes one by one. I would gladly rewind all of those beta tapes. It's like meditation to me.

[@hayleylongster4698]

I LOVED the sound it used to make when you did that. I too would just format disks because.......

[@JuraIbis]

@@hayleylongster4698 Formatting UDF 1.68MB disks was dangerous. I loved expanding floppies later.

[@Penlager]

32:23 RIP to the lead singer of Smash Mouth

[@MrTables]

If you watch the Criterion Closet video Charlie Day did recently, he picks out the movie Being There and says it was an inspiration for him. That is a movie where Peter Sellers stumbles his way to the top, wears a top hat, has the emotional intelligence of a child, doesn’t talk often, and does what everyone tells him to do as he faces major success. There is no character growth and the one joke that everyone is projecting onto him gets old extremely quick. It’s a very acclaimed movie but I couldn’t stand it so to see Charlie Day basically do a remake of it and it receive the reception I thought Being There should have received is fascinating to say the least.

[@KingThrillgore]

This explains so much about the character he plays on Always Sunny.

[@rigsby1454]

Being There is a classic

[@andrewosbaldeston3893]

Dude, Being There is an existential masterpiece and a highly thought provoking film.

[@alasdairwatson712]

When I saw the trailer for “Fool’s Paradise” I immediately thought of “Being There”, however, I enjoyed “Being There”. I liked, among other things, the way that he said simple things, which everyone else interpreted as metaphors and therefore he was saying profundities eg Chance the Gardener is sitting on a chair and the USSR ambassador sits on a chair next to him and talks about how he would like to see “us” (meaning the USA and the USSR) being closer, but Chance thinks he means the two of them (Chance and the Ambassador) and replies, referring to the chairs, that they are almost touching, which the ambassador interprets as the USA and the USSR are in agreement. I liked how people interpret what they hear to say what they want to hear.

[@mrb152]

Sellers does actually talk in Being There, though. They just take his gardening tips as pearls of wisdom, plus there is a level of character growth in Being There in that at the start he had never been anything but a gardener but does actually learn to navigate the world, he has some amount of agency.

[@AndyAtHome]

20:51 The bouncing jug scene is a direct recreation of a bit from Jacque Tati's Mon Oncle (the kitchen scene specifically) Thank you to MY uncle for showing me that movie as a kid!

[@HentaiMcToonboob]

Thank you. I posted this too because I couldn't find anyone mention it. So good.

[@d3nza482]

Now we're three.

[@Guyote_]

Thank you to Andy's uncle.

[@domakesaythink00]

Surprised Jay didn’t catch that!

[@john_michael97]

And four 😅

[@pronkb000]

The toothless, fairly lighthearted satire of this movie brings to mind something I heard Larry Miller say once: "Good comedians look at the world and see a funny place. Great comedians look at the world and don't."

[@hurr48]

judging by the mountain goats avi you seem like a george carlin fan and he was a fucking terrible comedian so i'm not really going to trust your judgement

[@DandyRaytona]

Hehe depression makes people funnier

[@pronkb000]

@@DandyRaytona Not out to romanticize mental illness. Depression generally doesn't lead to art--*sadness* leads to art. Depression leads to somebody just staring at the wall all night.

[@TheMarshmelloKing]

people jack off to their own sadness and shame the guy who's just a good comedian

[@cashmilla]

@@pronkb000i’ve made it my life mission to walk that line

[@BananaMonstaaaa]

I would love to see a Walk Hard re:View, that movie is criminally underrated

[@Paranoid_Alchemist]

"Never once paid for drugs...." "Not once"

[@RealHistoryBuff]

I want a biopic about Mike, Rich and Jay meeting each other.

[@anonymoushumanhi]

Wait we need this…You’re right!

[@d5uncr]

It's already here. It's called "Space Cop".

[@EricLefebvrePhotography]

@d5uncr I've been on a BTS binge lately watching bts from Adyax amd others and I've watched the Space Cop BTS like 15 times in the last week. lol

[@rurimuni2937]

Oh oh! and Mike is blind and deaf but can talk, Jay can hear but can't see or talk and Rich can only see. :P

[@Shinkajo]

@@EricLefebvrePhotography for sure, BTS are the best, sometimes she even sucks the cameraman off in a hallway or something.

[@morgue_file]

Mike creating and acting out trailer concepts in real time, complete with score and sound effects, is my favorite RLM gag ever.

[@Boonehams]

The fact that it's now a running gag is almost impressive.

[@morgue_file]

​@@Boonehams Definitely impressive. I mean it's comical to us, but studios seemingly green-light trailers just like the ones they come up with off the top of their heads all the time.

[@wildcherrypepsi]

Their Snow Falls video is one of my favorites

[@morgue_file]

@@wildcherrypepsi lmao that's the one I was envisioning as I typed the comment - "we don't know what's in the snow...!"

[@noctisocculta4820]

I know it's almost certainly scripted and rehearsed, but I love it all the same. Even if this is scripted, Mike seems like the type to genuinely do random riffs like this.

[@librarynerd37]

Smash Mouth!?!?! RLM strikes again!

[@NewNormalWorldOrder]

I heard the Sunny guys talking about this movie on the podcast and the way they were talking about it is pretty funny in hindsight. Especially what they said about Ken Jong’s character; like they were basically saying it was his greatest performance ever lol

[@shelbyvillerules9962]

One of the recent Corporate Product Biopic's I actually enjoyed was The Founder, although that was probably because it wasn't just a fawning recount of the origins of McDonalds but rather a story of how the original owners were screwed out of their business by a greedy money man.

[@vladgina]

I went to comment this. The Founder was in 2016 though!! Pioneer of the trend?

[@Souldestroy199]

@@vladgina No - what about The Social Network in 2010? Heck, even Pirates of Silicone Valley was a thing in 1999. Obviously it's overblown and corporate autofellatio now, but company biopics aren't super new.

[@goldengrill769]

@@Souldestroy199 Tucker - A Man And His Dream was kinda boring but it was decent too.

[@BullockDS]

@@Souldestroy199 But it becoming a common style of movie/show is. That's like saying games like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time weren't influential just because other 3D games existed before them.

[@poudink5791]

​@@BullockDSWhat a dumb comparison. There was no 3D game that was anything like SM64 before that game released. What The Founder did had already been done before by better and more successful movies like The Social Network.

[@sameoldsameold9239]

My theory is all of Charlie Day's good ideas were reserved for Always Sunny.

[@angrygamingdad9155]

Denim Chicken.

[@luiginastro8831]

They got chicken in Philly?

[@davestier6247]

The first 12 1/2 seasons, sure. How many seasons are there now? Oh. Oh no.

[@FredCracklin]

@@davestier6247 You must be out of your mind if you think they peaked in the first 2.5 seasons.

[@Mister_Clean]

@FredCracklin Agreed. The show accelerates exponentially after every season. It gets even more wild after S2

[@danielsliwa1045]

Just back here to point out… Redlettermedia took out Smash Mouth now!! You monsters !!

[@Dustooned]

I actually knew and met the artist that drew the little mermaid dick pic. I was in college at the time and we had a comic artist named Bill Morrison come to do feedback for some work for the students. Turns out he painted it because he only has 48 hours to illustrate the entire cover (typical with Disney) and that he was pretty much delirious so he couldn't even notice what he did. Last I checked, he was working for the Simpsons official comic company called Bongo Comics and then left to work for Mad Magazine's failed reboot from 2018 - 2019.

[@peteyoung3124]

I'm glad they're commenting on this trend. Out of all the bizarre biopics, the one that makes the least sense to me is the "Flamin' Hot" one. There was an article in the LA Times like 2-3 years ago that debunked the guy's story. It's barely got a story, so why make it as a biopic if it's mostly a lie?

[@BromdenChief]

They made it because it is a movie-length ad that people pay to watch.

[@d3nza482]

"Print the legend"

[@peteyoung3124]

Okay, yeah, I gotta agree with both of these comments. Fair enough. 😂

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

A bad pre-existing story is still a story you don't have to come up with yourself.

[@jaxonpallone4377]

@@BromdenChiefexactly like the garbage gran turismo movie that seemed to buy all the ad space during the nba finals

[@sureofcourse2792]

I've got my stopwatch to time the demonetization

[@andrewthompson6908]

One minute and twenty six sceconds

[@ronanm4418]

@@andrewthompson6908 how can you tell it's been demonetized

[@itsd0nk]

I too am curious how you can see when it’s been demonetized

[@sureofcourse2792]

​@@itsd0nkit's pretty much guaranteed if you can't watch it on any other site using an embedded player

[@fahimfahimvai2611]

What?

[@stradius]

I was really hoping one of them had seen Blackberry, it was almost like a satire on the modern pop culture biopics. It definitely doesnt paint the company in good light, and it was also super entertaining end to end. Here's hoping for Nirvanna the Band the Show season 3 soon!

[@newjack900]

I love these guys and the whole production set-up. In the way people love to go back and watch whatever favorite show they're nostalgic for, these guys are able to capture that magic for me while still releasing great stuff. I had 0 interest in this movie, but still loved hearing their opinions on it.

[@GoetiaTV]

Fool’s Paradise looks like a 90s first directorial effort from Bobcat Goldthwait in an alternate universe where Shakes the Clown never existed.

[@JM-vp8zc]

Those poor people

[@KSignalEingang]

I'm still a little pissed Bobcat never got to make the "Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman" movie. I mean, it probably would have been a disaster but I'd still love to have seen them try.

[@brendonross5774]

Shakes needs a spotlight review... Mike gives clown energy, Rich will definitely be forced to be a mime.

[@painfulsilence316]

Hollywood actors making fun of Hollywood is only slightly less embarrassing than movie stars having an awards ceremony where they celebrate themselves

[@rogersam1294]

It's so important.

[@roundabout468]

And then Ricky Gervais comes in and says "you guys are stupid and rich and famous!" despite being himself stupid, rich and famous

[@noahmay7708]

@Roundabout468 lmao

[@UltimaPowers]

Or badly singing Imagine whilst sat around in their McMansions.

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

It’s like Hollywood is full of themselves or something

[@Milton_Waddams.]

The dude from smash mouth (not Mark McGrath) styled his facial hair as a perfect representation of the death of the 90's and birth of the new millennium. It's like the soul patch, the landing strip, and the jersey shore look had a child on his face.

[@QuantumElectricians]

It's great that they love Charlie Day and are trying to look at the silver linings.

[@thatsallreviews]

Defending the Blackberry movie heavily here, it really is more about the fall of Blackberry and how easy it could've been to avoid than any underdog story.

[@mmmark___]

I don’t think they spoke negatively of it to need defending. Quite the opposite.

[@marc-antoinemarcoux697]

@@mmmark___ but the Blackberry movie is a parody of the corporate bipopic that also delivers a real story.

[@phlipclip5097]

@@mmmark___ They quickly moved on to talking about the Air Jordan movie lmao

[@baldman7738]

I would say the key difference is that Blackberry doesn't feel like it's trying to sell you Blackberries. Air, Tetris and the fucking Cheetos movie at the end of the day are trying to make your brain go "I want to buy that", while Blackberry ends by saying "this company has basically lost everything and blackberries suck ass now."

[@thatsallreviews]

@@baldman7738 definitely, the final shot before the where are they now text in BlackBerry sums up this point perfectly.

[@jasondunken]

Hans Zimmer scoring the Smashmouth biopic was something I never knew I needed until now.

[@Arbiter099]

I said yep, what a concept

[@patrickstonecrusher]

If they dont get Niel Cicierega to do the soundtrack l riot

[@TheTripleB]

I had a stroke Wednesday and I'm sitting in the Lake Forest ICU and this HITB brightened my night. Thanks guys

[@ethicalcheeze1407]

Hope you're doing better stranger. Be well

[@joshuagiordano593]

Best of luck to you dude. Godspeed

[@tubeguy4066]

I'll pray for you dude. Get better

[@sanachanto]

Wishing you a speedy recovery

[@burningtoys5519]

Im having a stroke how.. im almost there.... got it!

[@snackplaylove]

Corporate Biopics exist because America has run out of history to remake where they aren’t the baddies or don’t exist. Cant wait for the biopic about the making of some of the classic biopic movies.

[@QuintessentialWalrus]

I think the main reason "product biopics" are becoming a thing is because Hollywood has run out of recognizable brand names to milk, so now they're scraping the bottom of the barrel for ANY name that audiences will recognize.

[@sebcubille]

didnt they already start doing that? the godfather show with miles teller

The bouncing jug joke is from the Jaques Tati movie Mon Oncle.

[@EvanLemole]

copied beat for beat

[@ThirdSpectrum]

I'm surprised they didn't mention how the Charlie Day movie is a complete rip-off of the Hal Ashby movie "Being There" with Peter Sellers. It's exactly the same concept and story beats.

[@booneh]

The suggestions they made to improve this movie would make it even more like Being There.

[@c.nelson3747]

They probably just haven't seen it

[@guyjperson]

Whew. I was listening while cooking and kept listening for a Being There reference. Can it be that they don't know about that movie?

[@Virolaxion]

"Rip-off" is a bit far. There's an underlying thread of a sinister nature weaving throughout Being There which makes it so powerful, IMO. Charlie Day obviously had no intention of replicating that.

[@GrossNational]

Also, the original Robert Morse film of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying = another famous "failing upward" film that got there first.

[@localwaterchamp7712]

Drinking energy drinks as you bring up somebody having a heart attack from energy drinks was a nice touch, worth the editing in my opinion.

[@GrayFox_74]

Tom Holland is only picked because he’s a shy cute little twink teenager. He can’t act he’s only wanted for his looks. That’s why he was picked to play Nathan Drake, because Nathan is handsome. But people don’t like Nathan for being good looking they like him because of his Indiana type wits and charm, which Holland is completely lacking in.

[@bingusman69]

Anime PFP: "Famous actor can't act" Please update your Linkedin and get a damn job LMAO

[@zzzzzzz88]

@@bingusman69 Tom isn't going to date you.

[@sirlimen333]

​@@bingusman69cringe

[@ItDoesntMatterReally]

That ChatGPT review on Rotten Tomatoes sounds like something Charlie Kelly would write in his dream journal.

[@3RNR3]

Sad to see Mike unironically calling it AI reviews lol

[@Guyote_]

"Fool's Paradise" starring Hans Wormhat.

[@adder2488]

I just commented basically the same thing. The weird grammar has all the hallmarks of Charlie Kelly. I was almost waiting for Mac to say “Charlie wrote that bit.”

[@AntonioSegali]

the straight up "borrowed" jacques tati empty pitcher scene is crazy

[@TheZerocrossings]

wow you weren't kidding

[@psykomancer4420]

Damn, that is some blatant "borrowing".

[@d3nza482]

Copying others being considered as a "homage" is a proof of being considered as an established "artiste" yourself. Otherwise, they call it copying other people's work. Assholes. Like... Who gave them the right to teach anyway?

[@jpgabobo]

1,000% came here to say this. Jaques Tati's "Mon Oncle" is brilliant, this movie is not.

[@prashman]

@@jpgabobo Same. Glad we're not alone.

[@garrettkajmowicz]

From just the clips show, it looks like there's a major contrast between Day's character who doesn't speak and thus says nothing, with Jeong's character who speaks much, but also says nothing.

[@ethanconnell3536]

27:40 been watching these guys for over a decade & it’s an honor to have finally made it to the point where a show I crewed on got made fun of by Mike

[@stevenlannister184]

4:00 Only Mike could say "I'm not trying to be a contrarian" before immediately disagreeing with himself

[@mbag3266]

Ahhh man they should have watched Blackberry. It's like the anti air Jordan film. Plus Glenn howerton is incredible in it.

[@spocko2181]

“I’m from Waterloo, where the vampires hang out!”

[@DanielLewycky]

Yeah I really liked it. I think being a CBC production helped it avoid some shmaltz and insane embellishment.

[@JR-kx3jr]

Probably best for Charlie Day that this film has immediately faded into obscurity.

[@localwaterchamp7712]

You guys are nailing it, Wes Anderson had to be a huge inspiration for Charlie’s movie

[@vincenttapia2037]

I think a product biopic about Bill Finger. The guy who really created Batman. Bob Odenkirk would be great to play him.

[@sir0nion]

At the end when elderly Bill Finger dies penniless, Mike will laugh hysterically.

[@d3nza482]

@@sir0nion But first call up Michael Keaton and offer him the part on account of him playing the Batman. Then make a movie about that interview. Starring Christian Bale. Directed by Ben Affleck. With right campaign, I guarantee at least two Oscars.

[@emmy9345]

Kid named bob odenkirk

[@Misadventures_85]

neat idea. and I recommend the documentary Batman and Bill

[@theglitch1815]

The one bit they talk about liking at 21:00 is basically directly taken from a scene in the 1958 French comedy “Mon Oncle” directed by Jacques Tati. The whole movie is basically Charlie Day trying to do a Tati film (silent bumbling protagonist who gets himself in many wacky situations)

[@rareosts5752]

Also Buster Keaton, also Charlie Chaplin.

[@Ev.McAfee]

The Hudsucker’s Proxy i feel like is a perfect example of the corporate biopic satire

[@Martin0]

Very cool review format, I loved the sketch at the beginning that kind of went on throughout the show? I like the idea of video tape rewinders for people who are too lazy to rewind. And the beta tape jokes were real clever. Really refreshing stuff guys

[@supermario0527]

They stole that pitcher joke at 21:00 from a french comedy called Mon Oncle (1958).

[@TheColdKids]

Just chiming in to say “Blackberry” was actually really great and much more of a comedy than a drama.

[@philip14m]

I think these guys had something to do with the smash mouth singers death so they could copyright the movie idea in this video

[@WormyJester8]

Curse of the Worst strikes again

[@lightsideendings5815]

"You know, daddy, there was a time when I was ready to give up. Remember what you said to me? Well I am NOT gonna let you quit now!" "You're right, Wendy." "Hey, what are you drawing over there? "Oh. Turtles." (Music stops) "I thought they were teenage mutants." "I'm calling it: In-N-Out Burger." ("One Week" stops, record scratch.) "I thought that's what they all were." "Okay, so you're calling the website that because you're supposed to Chat while you...go over this again?"

[@JonnyMaxximum]

Mike knowing about The Food that Built America is not the least bit surprising. The dramatic acting and music is absolutely hilarious.

[@larrylaffer3246]

Those History Channel documentaries aren't half bad. They're on Hulu and are great to have on in the background while you're doing something else. I had them on while I was doing work on my Animal Crossing Island and/or waiting in a Turnip Island Que.

[@rareosts5752]

​@@larrylaffer3246 lol I really enjoyed that brief and out of left field glimpse into a moment of your life, as a fellow AC appreciator, an enjoyer of strange combos, and a lover of kinda odd uses of "and/or".

[@Belgand]

Although not overtly comedic, The Founder was a really solid biopic on Ray Kroc and the rise of McDonald's. Not to mention an excellent satire.

[@larrylaffer3246]

@@rareosts5752 What can I say Animal Crossing is fun. My favorite part is home design. Getting that fung shuy just right is just "Chef's Kiss".

[@kingsleycy3450]

I think Charlie Day obviously has problems with the Hollywood system and it's just been eating away at him for years that he had to make a movie about it. It has all the hallmarks of a passion project

[@ThePhantom4516]

It's just a shame it sucks ass

[@MegaZeta]

Yeah, "The Gang Tries Desperately To Win An Award" is one of the most laid-bare episodes of the show, with the commentary on the industry barely disguised by the jokes. And Day's one of the credited writers.

[@phnargg]

I think you're right. Couldn't help but notice his character in this movie is mute, when Charlie Day's voice is one of his most recognizable traits.

[@leafan101]

He needed a black tank-top.

[@frogdog3600]

Yeah. The movie clearly needed Dolph Lundgren and full penetration.

[@thatguythatdoesstuff5899]

Jay: Wow! Technology is amazing! Mike: That's right, Jay!

[@thefirebuilds]

this review was a unique plot that at times left me scratching my head but i would definitely recommend a watch and the characters were engaging.