Half in the Bag Episode 119: Shut in and Arrival

Mike and Jay talk about Shut In, a new release movie that everybody has already forgotten exists, and Arrival, an intelligent science fiction drama that was beaten at the box office by an animated children's movie based on those big haired troll dolls.

[@spaceboy1313]

'Interstellar' also a one-word title about a man living inside the wall of a house.

[@sentient02970]

The Inter-Stellar

[@Bulwark1911]

*Inner Cellar*

[@briguy9915]

InnardsSeller

[@michaelding8560]

spaceboy1313 I

[@danielyakubovich4554]

He didnt live in the wall, after ejectingin the black hole, Tars sent him the Quantum Dynamics half of the equation, so that way he could send it to his daughter in form of Morse Code, so she could fulfill Plan A.

[@superfisto]

Make Rich Evans live in a wall.

[@superfisto]

Call it "The Wall"

[@superfisto]

***** nobody, just put Rich Evans in a wall and let him eat mice.

[@admiralpiett7611]

The Evans Directed by Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman. Available worldwide 9.11.17

[@SomeAssh0le]

milwaukee is protected from rich evans by a huge wall but the secret twist is that the wall is MADE FROM RICH EVANSES

[@paul-mw6pc]

mrcain make him part of the wall like in eagleheart

[@Raziberry]

Looks like Shut In was Shat Out. :/

[@doncolione7223]

David Razi I like that one

[@ericsilva4472]

David Razi nooooo Shat Out is the *sequel!*

[@ktalangaming2224]

shut up

[@dominikdomazet1231]

EXACTLY

[@l.b8896]

Nice.

[@taseerkhalid9659]

what i like is that mike makes jay laugh throughout the whole episode but when jay makes mike chuckle i can see that mike loves jay very much .

[@luiginastro8831]

A wholesome love story

[@jeremyphillips3087]

Ghey

[@Csetnikke]

​@@jeremyphillips3087Gjay

[@NabGer]

you could make a movie about some lady keeps hearing creepy sounds coming from the wall. then it turns out she lives in a duplex

[@jesussonofgod3115]

Or a movie about a guy who keeps hearing disturbing noises from his bathroom, but it turns out he forgot to turn off the shower.

[@P3t3rminator]

Or maybe in the end she figures out that she's the one living in the wall and the "ghost" is in the actual flat.

[@bl1398]

what if the wall turns out to be just a metaphor? could that work?

[@CthulhuRogers]

I can't believe they wore the duct tape shackles the entire time.

[@Pontif11]

CthulhuRogers if there is something Red Letter Media is known for is consistency with their story.

[@jammyjames6646]

IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!

[@my88110]

GlowInTheDark mmm weeds

[@mjolnirsoul9214]

that's what I was going to say! 2 years later of course but still!

[@im_Polyhedrons]

it took 12 years to make!!

[@yolech]

Kind of funny that the frame story for these reviews is Mike and Jay avoiding work, which is what I do when I watch them.

[@MastaSquidGT5]

Underrated

[@MegaZeta]

Wow, true insight in a KZbin comment. Because they didn't plan out that parallel, I'm sure, that's just what social trends encouraged more and more each year over the preceding decade as the convenient way to escape workday drudgery. Never really thought about it before.

[@MSaint]

There should be a sequel to The Inside named "The Yard". It could be a start of a new trend, horror movies hapening BEHIND the house.

[@zachdelozier2133]

MSaint I'd watch that.

[@Avocado11]

As long as we get the porn parody 'Inside Thee'.

[@prince_dogboy]

Many old 80s horror films that took place in a house, ALSO had stuff taking place in the back yard!

[@kakashi76767]

Then... The Shed, The Garage, The Gazebo, The Wash Line...

[@PPJedi69]

"trace the call!" "the call is coming from outside the house!"

[@Omenshaper]

Mike and Jay should make direct to dumpster horror movies.

[@NotAFakeName1]

Sm0ker You mean like space cop?

[@HiDesert004]

Oh wait they did!

[@DL6379R]

HiDesert004

[@PaulA-fp3vs]

Genius skip the middle man. Red box is in for some serious competition.

[@drummr1313]

"Ghost Cop"

[@julianwebb919]

Next time I do odd jobs for my neighbours, I'm going to say "Need any help with any YAAAAAAARD WOOOOORK????"

[@tinyturnip7676]

Maybe throw in a Boston accent.

[@temyi75]

Julian Webb is your neighbour Bill Burr?

[@julianwebb919]

temyi75 Actually it's Michael Rappaport

[@Fak3Cake]

Ok.

[@psyclobe]

Arrival talk begins ~26:40

[@noneya3635]

Old Grandma McGee and Redd Herring's scenes are some of Mike's best acting. Only his role as maniac chasing Jay through the studio outshines this award winning spectacular.

[@nocturnGER]

"I expected more of a 0%-Movie" - Jay Bauman 2016

[@TrisketsCheese]

I want to see the Inside so badly now.

[@frankieb9444]

That's what Harvey Weinstein said.

[@tastyloaf5487]

That's what--- No, we're not going through this again!

[@leightonpetty4817]

@@frankieb9444 ((slide whistle as it zooms on deadpan Mike))

[@KyleStoughton]

This was my favorite movie of the year. And I'm not talking about Arrival, I'm talking about Mike's horror movie pitch.

[@myopicmanatee6432]

What I love about Arrival is how you can follow the logic of the characters and the science. The twists do not feel like twists, even if it completely changes the context of the plot. One can reach these conclusions before the reveal, but it never feels obvious. Arrival is a movie that rewards paying attention.

[@StrangeDepthsAP]

Flip the script! A crazy but harmless rat man is living within the walls of his ancestral home. An obnoxious wealthy family moves in, and the rat man learns they're all plotting to kill each other and tear down the house. WHAAAAT WILL HE DOOOOO?!

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

Phantom of the Opera?

[@backalleycqc4790]

Isn’t that what the Twilight movies were about?

[@fireworksfordinner]

I actually really dig that idea

[@sadlytemporary4143]

paul coy Lovecraft's Rat-man was Welsh, and Welsh means Kimmeric, and Kimmeric isn't Anglo-Saxon, and in Lovecraft that means he's definitely evil

[@Evluket]

An anthropomorphized remake of the 1997 comedy classic Mousehunt?!

[@danielkellyuk]

"There's a house in almost every movie." Both funny and true.

[@samrhino9224]

Anyone else find Mike's fake horror film synopsis way more interesting then the actual movie(s)?

[@_V.Va_]

*than

[@Heavysweating]

@Jon Pretty sure that is Within, the one that Mike actually mentions on this video too. What an utter piece of shit it was.

[@MegaZeta]

Mike also realizes that it's very, _very_ easy to think up a quick plot summary of a movie, and a lot harder to get one made, and that a lot of mediocre or bad movies start out exactly that way: someone thinks up a better plot than the finished movie, and then deals with reality. I wish more of KZbin knew the same.

[@kahlbutomacfarland]

Mr.Herring deserves a spin off Netflix series in this new expanded universe property. Every season a new neighbor suspects him in spite of his good intentions. After multiple iterations of neighbors he desperately tries to bond with but they go insane/missing/die, the series culminates with his depression and suicide. Working title "MR"

[@madseason5614]

Rich Evans is lookin' lean.

[@NotAFakeName1]

MadSeason it's the new neckbeard

[@superfisto]

He looks lean because he's been living in the wall, eating nothing but mice.

[@eobardthawne1430]

Mister Plinkett? Rich Evans was murdered by Plinkett at the videogame repair shop.

[@ParadoxapocalypSatan]

Shoulder padding

[@adz124ps]

That was a body double, i guess

[@TortureWorld]

The way Mike says "WRONG!" always absolutely kills me, I can't stop replaying that part!!!

[@Dooperi]

I wonder if Mike has ever seen The Andromeda Strain (1972). He keeps saying he would like to see some pure science sci-fi movie. I think this one is pretty close.

[@cho-manno1485]

Excellent film, decouvert pendant la pandemie.

[@emix1010]

I saw that movie in ‘76, at a repertoire theater, as the 1st part of a double-bill. That was true science-fiction, I was captivated! The other movie was 2001. A memorable movie treat.

[@JJJackson777]

Dark Star too

[@MisanthropicMarxist]

When I initially heard about Shut In, I thought it was supposed to be about a person dealing with compassion fatigue, which would be a really interesting subject for a movie. Unfortunately, it was not.

[@stephencarroll4681]

That's a big part of the movie Triangle if you haven't seen it

[@jamends1220]

Some one please animate Mike's horror film idea.

[@l.b8896]

Yes but as a satire.

[@antipsychotic451]

@@l.b8896 No, it should be played completely straight.

[@Apemopo]

"ominous" is that like the most lazy horror movie name ever? how about "foreboding" or "the scary"

[@Apemopo]

oooh that's good

[@Apemopo]

Lee BOO! HAUNTED HOUSE

[@Khazuki_]

How about "AH!" No, wait, I got it. "D:" Seriously though, I love "The Scary"

[@Maindrian]

Don't forget "Sinister".

[@Rokiriko]

How about "Insidious" ? An actual fucking movie.

[@rburk121]

The Arrival hit me right in the feels.

[@GWSFilms]

I can't wait for you guys to be old men and still doing this. Truly.

[@Archibaldh1pp0]

So like, a couple months?

[@aw2584]

I've been watching these fuckers for like what, almost 10 years? Look at the cuts from Phantom Menace review and how they looked back then vs now... they are SOOOO OOOLD

[@aw2584]

Okay nevermind only now I realised this comment is 6 year old lmao

[@mugen3603]

"I am the pretty thing that lives in the house" is a very, very good movie. Incredibly creepy and atmospheric. Thanks for the recommendation, Jay. I loved it.

[@RyanReenBattikh]

Mike saying Arrival was the closest thing to his ideal sci fi movie actually made me tear up (I CRIED BUTTERFLY TEARS!), cuz that's how I feel about 2049 and Dune by Villeneuve- he just brings a cohesive and powerful feeling of humanity to the genre that not many other directors can pull off

[@Wiiman6186]

"Of course in the end....uh....boy in the wall....THERE'S A BOY IN THE WAAAAALLL!!!!" gets me every time....

[@DavidSmith-jj7zn]

“Is everything alright? I just got back from th- BWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH” Gets me every time

[@the8rule]

This is my favorite kind of HitB: two movies back to back, one shitty, one excellent.

[@brianbagnall3029]

This experience watching Jay and Mike come up with a thriller movie was incredible.

[@yannyvannys2638]

Mikes “The Inside” is basically the movie Barbarian😂

[@OregonCM]

I’m choosing to believe their pitch for “The Inside” planted the seed for what became “Parasite”.

[@TwoWrights]

I've been waiting for this, and a life.

[@TheMrInadecuada]

TwoWrights same here..

[@roach9397]

This IS my life

[@TwoWrights]

Rick Berman McCallum What is it with Ricks?

[@roach9397]

TwoWrights they are just great producers. They understand the importance of density.

[@jacobf3902]

*you're

[@whateveraegis3043]

The Inside, hitting theaters January 2017

[@Nightstalker314]

It allready came out www.imdb.com/title/tt1612083/?ref_=fn_al_tt_9

[@DannyChan131]

Fuck you it's January

[@dakid21ldo]

The boy is just like this haha

[@strider3322]

Its January now. Where the fuck is my movie? I want to see the masterpiece of The Inside

[@tastyloaf5487]

^^ Wrong year :p

[@gw7389]

Parasite is the someone-in-the-walls genre coming of age

[@Th3NrY]

As someone who really dug - La La Land - Manchester By The Sea - Moonlight I loved just about all these movies. It's to credit for Arrival that in the first few minutes I felt more emotion than all the mentioned films above.

[@nighttray1489]

Dennis Villeneuve is arguably the best director working in Hollywood right now.

[@langis5176]

indeed

[@SplitAxisProductions]

I still need to watch Enemy. Heard it was great.

[@nighttray1489]

Z Film Reviews It was. Slower than his other movies, but still good.

[@CrystalJupiter]

Enemy is fantastic. My favorite of his.

[@notabot835]

Fincher beats him narrowly for that title

[@roguecreed241]

Who else thought their video stopped at 3:45 ? XD

[@svengoolie1902]

Rogue Creed yup me too

[@allluckyseven]

Is pausing the video replacing jump scares?

[@AlkisenSuper]

Wow, I thought it was just my computer! How the hell did they miss that?! It's so annoying when Mike is about to say what films the director has written and the sound just stops!

[@overseastom]

AlkisenSuper That's the joke though, saying "and the writer of such hit films as -"... and then following it with silence, implying he's never written a hit-film.

[@buckaroobanzai2994]

It's been almost 3 years and I'm still waiting for The Inside movie. goddamn *HACKS*

[@CarEdy23]

I've watched the pitch for The Inside like four times and it still makes me laugh

[@DoctorZander01]

I got the notification for this upload at 9:11. Coincidence? I don't think so! Watch out Freedom Tower! Plinkett's flying house is coming for you!

[@DoctorZander01]

Jesse Curle Half-Life In The Bag?

[@8man_]

5:07 that's from the best of the worst where they watched "The Jar" for anyone who was curious

[@thewewguy8t88]

the way they are describing arrival remiends me a bit of the tng episode damark. where captain picard had to kind of learn how to comunicate with an alien captain who they could not understand.

[@josiahbahuaud2294]

Darmok* Yes! I had the same though!

[@heyyoitsmebrian]

thats absolutely it... i cant believe mike didnt mention it by name and show a clip

[@jasonfenton8250]

Mike and Jay, at the Shop! Plinkett! When the house flew!

[@explorinjenkins349]

Shaka, when the walls fell.

[@Tom_Van_Zandt]

My friend and I (incidentally, his 1st movie gig as "editor" was Joe Dirt 2) realized this same title and theme problem over 20 years ago. Movies like "The People Under the Stairs" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle". So we made "The Man Who Built the House You Live In".

[@michaelharvey75]

Have you made a sequel? . The Man Who Built the House You Live In 2 - Subsidence. .

[@vrapbrap]

One of the funniest half in the bag episodes in a long while. Thank you shitlords.

[@TalkernateHistory]

SPOILERS Housebound is also about a crazy person living in the walls

[@kevinjordan1795]

and it was good.

[@thechancan5254]

Naxwell I loved Housebound! ^_^ Brilliant movie! Yeah, same twist, but done way better.

[@porsche911sbs]

I was going to say this. It's also from 2014. And it has a comedic edge.

[@JacobHillSBD]

Half In The Bag Plinkett starts his descent to become Plinkett Prime.

[@Armagedn12]

Mike spitballing his horror movie script for 20 minutes is probably what it’s like to hang out with him in real life but it doesn’t stop

[@coyotegene86]

Eagerly waiting for Mike and Jay's next horror film. Sounds like an instant classic.

[@Cinocephalus]

The part when Mike explains his stereotypical 2010s horror movie is glorious.

[@danielstockley5631]

People that need the endings of films like 'The Arrival' explained to them are also the reason that "do not try this at home" disclaimers exist.

[@thepapschmearmd]

I think you mean Arrival. The Arrival is a completely different movie aside from them both having aliens.

[@Biring1]

Speaking of Anthony Perkins´ son.. His father died of AIDS and mother was in one of the planes that crashed into the world trade center.. Damn..

[@dogmanbitehurt8243]

RLM's favourite things: 9/11 and AIDS

[@BRUISERBROWNBRAND]

AIIIIIIIIIIDSSSS?!

[@yellowmattereyecusta]

So both were killed by government secret projects...

[@doublep1980]

Fun Fact:the writer of ''Shut In'',has been hired to write the upcoming Harley Quinn solo-film.I can't wait for this trainwreck to happen and the following Half in the Bag review.

[@doublep1980]

max larsen Fun Fact Nr2. :It's actually a she,so we could get in trouble with all the online feminazis.

[@full-metal_jacob5858]

Seriously? lol Trash fire... the movie

[@ultimatereviewer01]

doubleP Fuck!!!!!!

[@Ezio999Auditore]

By God, you fool, you just assumed it's Gender, we are done for!!!!

[@geofherb1]

Just four short months til you eat your words! jk looks bad

[@3RAXFTW]

35:50 the most perfect description of Jeremy Renner possible

[@davidmurphy7332]

Plot twist: In 2023, Mike’s favourite film of the year is a one-word title about a house with someone in the walls - Cobweb 🤯

[@JoeyD_3636_]

Everything about The Inside pitch is gold I tell ya, gold!

[@themis8534]

"in the wall with Grampa's BONES". Killed me!

[@Wilburgur]

20:46 my god this made me laugh

[@ethanhodes2348]

Heyyyy... what are you doing here?

[@Scanlaid]

Wowee it's the guy. RLM, the youtuber's youtube

[@BunnLilah]

... *YAAARDWOORK?*

[@MarshmellowFluff]

"I've been waiting since twenty-twenbmt -twelve -ten." >Barely doesn't laugh. I lol'd

[@BobJones-xm1ll]

The highs in this video, the yells, are on point. Excellently executed.

[@NealX]

Hey Mike, remember: "Darmok and Jalad... at Tenagra...?"

[@ThePoshboy1]

Shaka when the walls fell.

[@brianmitchell2780]

@@ThePoshboy1 ...his arms wide.

[@Viceroy_Sundercles_III]

“You talk and you talk, but you have no grandma.”

[@Unforgiven11]

It Follows isn't about a house and I wouldn't lump it in with other generic horror movies. It actually had a unique feel and didn't rely purely on dumb jump scares. It was good as fuck.

[@Unforgiven11]

Karl Karlos Yes, precisely

[@Unforgiven11]

Mario Cesar Lerma Argueta Right im butthurt for pointing out the same thing that Jay said "it isn't about a house" and then saying its a dank movie

[@interrobang5785]

Can't believe that Mike didn't mention how the aliens in Arrival experience time in a way reminiscent of the Bajoran Prophets

[@TheReactorSings]

Jay's enthusiastic mispronunciation of Denis Villeneuve is just adorable.

[@panchospub]

At this point in my life I just want to see Mr. Plinkett watch that fucking Night Court tape

[@SS3Jake.]

16:35 Mike in 2017: "Theaters are done!" 2020: "You rang?"

[@xen0bia]

Imagine Denis Villeneuve tackling a huge sci-fi classic and making a masterpiece of it...

[@severeign2987]

The pitch for the trailer of ‘The Inside’ might be one of my favourite internet things of all time 😂

[@kylanfedje3358]

I feel like during the Arrival section there were several underhanded knocks at Independence Day

[@kylanfedje3358]

Then there are the overhanded ones

[@who7063]

@@kylanfedje3358good

[@XxSwiftDemisexX]

19:38 It was pretty hilarious listening to them basically describe the movie The Intruder (2019) three years earlier.

[@milkbox103]

i love that they wore the restraints the whole time

[@demonfox7875]

I would legitimately watch The Inside if RLM made it.

[@atree88]

Technical request: can you turn down the lights by one notch? Thanks, I'm worried you two will melt.

[@tinyturnip7676]

Mike loves that TNG brightness.

[@ydna]

they must enhance the waxy complexions. ENHANCE

[@atree88]

***** Black don't crack?

[@stephencarroll4681]

For 7 years on the show we were used to seeing it look one way. Nice, even TV lighting. I don't like things that are different

[@Ezio999Auditore]

The lightning is the key to all of this, without it everything would be so dense, just too much going on.

[@malvo4]

I am so disappointed in you guys. OBVIOUSLY the old lady was mad from grief from losing her child all those years ago, and lives in her former son's secret hiding place playing with his toys with a fractured personality, that speaks to the son at night. "Come play with me..." Which is why the woman and her son slowly start to think that the house is haunted by the dead boy, when in fact the old lady becomes convinced that the woman's son is her son. "MY BOY MY BOY! GIVE ME BACK MY BOY!" Explaining why she is slowly becoming more hostile to the woman. Classic Friday the 13th twist. Get it together people!

[@bellegranger7195]

I can't stop watching this episode. Not because of the movies. The editing and sound design with the music is very excellent. Mike's facial expressions and Jay's Home Alone face are just great. All except Plinkett. "That Rich Evans, he's the worst!" Perfect episode. Good work guys. I mean Hack Frauds.

[@a.digbysellers8672]

Arrival was essentially Contact but with a twist ending added. How could you not see this?

[@sparkkle2]

I loved Arrival so much. The music, by Johan Johansson, was half the movie for me. Without it, I think the movie wouldn't have had as much weight. Specially that moment when they first enter the main area of the ship, and it's just such a quiet bit and suddenly, out of nowhere, the alien appears and the music rapidly builds. It, too, reminded me of 2001. Or that long shot of the helicopter arriving on scene, the fog rolling down the hills, and a simple but eerie track plays over everything else. Incredibly ominous, sounds as if it were under the water, and just gave me goosebumps. Fittingly, the track is called 'Arrival'. And much like Doctor Strange, I think they both utterly wasted Michael Stuhlbarg.

[@hunterklein9892]

Oh my god, their plot for their made up horror movie The Inside was the plot of Barbarian. “Old Lady in the Walls and Mr. Red Herring”

[@PHANTOMZ0NE]

Duct tape chains. There's something Red Greene never thought of.

[@matthewlennhardt8408]

PHANTOMZ0NE red herring did

[@DocBadwrench]

I also found Arrival to be like the best of TNG episodes. Even used that when I told a friend. Didn't even cry when the protagonist didn't punch one of the aliens at the end.

[@Talon3000]

"[Arrival] reminded me of a very good episode of Star Trek" now THAT sounds good.

[@53knights]

@1:36 Jay smirking at Rich's 20-twen

[@adamfrazer5150]

One of many reasons I love RLM : watching Mike work, when out to prove a point or when quickly fixing issues OR doing Hollywood's job FOR it.

[@hpalpha7323]

"person in the walls" is a thing that happens in real life which is probably why there are so many movies about it, I've heard a dozen stories about someone discovering some hobo living in a hidden crawl space in their house

[@Demarcoa]

The scariest thing of all is that The Inside would probably make a ton of money.

[@SGTKeroroGunsou]

I love how he delivers "Old lady in the wall!".

[@burlong01]

The Boy worked really well for me because I was unaware of this "in the walls" subgenre and it worked as a good fake out. It does seem to be the "in" thing right now.

[@mandycat8]

So the main plot of Shut In is Busters fantasy from Arrested Development?

[@stephengrigg5988]

he was so brave

[@jaac6481]

So so brave

[@deadasfak]

Okay, kickstarter campaign for "The inside"!

[@michaelsshenanigans5637]

I wish they'd talk more about The Witch but I guess mentioning it is better than nothing : p

[@xTHHxAimiForevr]

The Witch is too good of a movie for RLM. I mainly come here for movies I already know are bad or am undecided on.

[@_Carlos]

My wife and I watched "I am the pretty thing that lives in the house" It was nice and slow, we enjoyed it

[@diehounderdoggenalt]

Housebound is actually a fantastic horror comedy. Won't spoil it but it ends on a very Peter Jackson note.

[@courtneyvaldez7903]

Denis Villeneuve is a master filmmaker and deserves to be considered on the same level as Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson and Cuaron and Inarritu and others of their ilk. With him and Roger Deakins, the Blade Runner sequel actually has a chance to be fucking great.

[@Lalanii]

Not even halfway through but still gotta pause to say this is a hilarious episode. Thanks and great job guys.

[@JDotWill]

Watching this video in 2022 is how I learned Shut In existed 😂

[@rm2kking]

The funny thing is I remember watching Pup Named Scooby-Doo as a kid. And there was a bully type character with red hair named Red Herring. And Fred would always think it was him but of course it never was. Hence the name. Funny thing is that show taught me what red herring means. It was very on the nose but as a child it’s a good way of teaching someone that concept.