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[I'm a Silly]

I don't get why some people still act like the downfall of theaters is some sort of mystery. Why would you waste your money going to the theater when most movies suck now and and there's a 90% chance it's going to be on VOD/streaming within a month? It's not like the 80s, 90s, and 00s anymore. Movies are available to watch at home pretty quickly and its pretty fucking cheap to have a nice big tv and sound bar. I very rarely watch a movie at home now and think to myself "wow, that amazing and I wish I would have paid to see it on the big screen" especially since the ones that are best on the big screen are the big budget blockbuster stuff that has been cucked the hardest by modern hollywood.

The funny part to me is how, old as they are, they act like circumventing theaters is a new thing. Home video was the real revolution, [and whenever they bring up home recording, they default to tivo/dvr instead -- VCR repair is on their patches, wtf] because even if your parents wouldn't shell out for unscrambled cable, you could watch tons of movies at home by renting, scrub through commercials by taping, and sneaking into theaters. Not everyone would do all 3 of those, but in the aggregate, it's probably what was factored into overcharging on the snacks so they could turn a profit. Duplicating tapes was a thing back then also, which gave rise to lots of corporate fuckery to 'protect' the tapes.
So why did we still go to the theater in greater numbers before? You said it here:

...the ones that are best on the big screen are the big budget blockbuster stuff that has been cucked the hardest by modern hollywood.

This is the real reason they know in their hearts.

Hooking a $200 TV to a sound system like that is like putting $2000 rims on a Yugo.

https://archive.ph/xDc0b

I've seen worse.

 

[MrSlongDong]

Hello! I have been watching RLM since 2015 and I too can't get through a single of their recent videos. The issue I have, is that every video has Mike pontificating for 20 minutes about "the death of the movie theater" instead of reviewing movies and when he gets to reviewing a movie, his opinion is usually "yes it's good I liked it" or "I didn't care for it".

For example, in the last episode, Mikey 17 review: it turns out that Jay had not watched the movie (a recurring theme) and Mike simply "liked it" (and enjoyed the little CGI monsters in it). He glossed over the 40 minutes long Trump impression by Mark Ruffalo (which torpedoed the movie) saying "I can see how it may age poorly or some people might not see it as I see it" - no shit Sherlock. And that's the whole review. We're so far away from the quality of the Old Half In The Bag episodes. Even back then, their reviews were never detailed or intellectual but at least they had genuine discussions about the films.

They went to see the Minecraft movie in theater and left after the first act... how can they pretend to make content if they don't commit to watching the full movie. Even if you are going to make fun of the movie, at least watch it entirely so that you can come up with jokes or something interesting to say ABOUT the movie.

Snow White: they couldn't bring themselves to discuss the fact that it's super woke because they are themselves super woke so instead they discussed the budget for 20 minutes (doubt they have seen the movie anyway).

Nosferatu: I was put off by Mike complaining for 15 minutes about some filthy peasant eating pop corn in HIS theater. I eventually returned to the review (I had some house cleaning to do) and the 15 minutes popcorn rant was followed by 20 more minutes of "death of the movie theater" followed by a short and superficial discussion of the movie. I got nothing from it.

They seem more interested in discussing

1. "The Death Of The Movie Theater", a theme so brilliant only the great Mike Stoklasa could come up with it
2. Whatever black entertainment movie Mike saw and loved because Black people are amazing.

I also noted that in the last episode they decided to show videos of people trashing theaters and they were very careful to only show videos of whitey trashing the theater and not blackey. I also noted that prior to that, when they last complained about bad behaviors in movie theater (I think the Nosferatu review), there were a number of comments implying that this was done by blacks. I'm going to make a wild guess and say they probably saw these comments and wanted to make a point.

Despicable whites everywhere, look at these horrible "chuds".

Then there is the complaint about China shrinking John Boyega. Who the fuck cares. Their review of that movie sucked and it was ten years ago. I swear they turned into the most "down on your knees loving dat black dick" liberals you could imagine.

Enjoy your zero percent CCP credit score, loser

I get the feeling that Mike thinks he is too good for this show and that really he should be lecturing on "the death of the movie theater" at Columbia University (to black students obviously, whites are trash).

More topical episodes like the recent Star Trek review with Rich can still be good but it's a hit or miss depending on what they decide to discuss and who is discussing the movie.

It's very strange to me that they are still getting 1M view on most of their recent videos but maybe it is turning into just the kind of content that Youtube loves. It's easy to watch, it's uncontroversial, it's peak pajeet media.

And then there is the multiplication of stuff like this. This feels like Mike deriding his own creation and forcing the others to play along. That kind of thing started with the black tapes, but at least that was funny. Now it feels like Mike is shitting out a new concept every week just to taunt the others

And in parallel to this you get more and more of no-jokes raw reviews like this, but they don't understand that they are not smart enough to make these reviews and despite their best efforts, the conversation never takes off, no matter how deep Mike is diving into his coffee cup.

Anyway, that's my rant. Sorry for the long post but the last episode pissed me off.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I don't think they're all that woke. Their opinion on anything related to politics and culture wars is whatever's in the mainstream media. I'm not defending them, as they made me roll my eyes pretty hard a few times over the years. I doubt they think about those things too much.

I agree that they haven't been trying very hard to entertain their viewers lately. Whining about theaters, talking about Rotten Tomatoes and reviews written by dimwits, multiple screenplay pitches, the quizes (????), BotW episodes being way too long, STILL watching random garbage that doesn't deserve to be put on the WotW, talking about Star Trek ad nauseam... the list goes on.

Josh 2 is likeable and I wish he would permanently replace that boring fuck Tim, who's often too tipsy to provide any insight or even tell jokes. I doubt it's going to happen because he probably has better things to do.

 

[Travoltron]

Boy this one is a slog from them, they both seemed bored an about to fall asleep and by 30 min in I almost just clicked off and I never do that.

Try the 1.5 speed video setting. It really helps these kind of videos.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

A24 and Blumhouse don't make cultural impact either.

I challenge you to find a normie that doesn't recognize Purge iconography. Blumhouse has had an unlimited cultural impact and kinda saved horror IMO. We still get the box office dumps but generally my experiences this past decade has been there are more good horror movies than there have been anything else. Even the terrible movies are at least entertaining with their fresh out of college charm. This touches on what I think is missing in many new movies produced in Hollywood; there is a lack of genuine authenticity behind it. Which is a shame, but perfect for streaming services. I would love to know their numbers. The movies that make it to the silver screen with some semblance of authentic, creative voice and subtext are all the art house films that not enough people want to see.

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If the movie industry wasn't so brutal, you bet your ass I'd run a small mom and pops theater. Fridays would have a special theater just for Kiwi Movie Nights.

 

[MrSlongDong]

I don't think they're all that woke. Their opinion on anything related to politics and culture wars is whatever's in the mainstream media. I'm not defending them, as they made me roll my eyes pretty hard a few times over the years. I doubt they think about those things too much.

I agree that they haven't been trying very hard to entertain their viewers lately. Whining about theaters, talking about Rotten Tomatoes and reviews written by dimwits, multiple screenplay pitches, the quizes (????), BotW episodes being way too long, STILL watching random garbage that doesn't deserve to be put on the WotW, talking about Star Trek ad nauseam... the list goes on.

Josh 2 is likeable and I wish he would permanently replace that boring fuck Tim, who's often too tipsy to provide any insight or even tell jokes. I doubt it's going to happen because he probably has better things to do.

Oh man the screenplay pitches... I forgot about those. That's my issue, is that they really take themselves too seriously these days. They really think these pitches are worth sharing. I also don't like Tim. The guy makes me uncomfortable and I don't want to be uncomfortable watching my comfy show.

My theory is that the show started to decline when they stopped doing the bit at the beginning of every HitB episode. It wasn't high art but it was the soul of the show. It was symbolic to have it, just like it was symbolic to not have it anymore. And I think not having it is part of the "we are too good / too big for this silly stuff anymore". That silly stuff made them relatable even if half the time it was lame and forgettable.

I also blame the failure of Space Cop. As someone who used to listen/watch the prerec streams, this movie meant a lot to them and after they released it and it flopped (and by that I mean it flopped worse than expected) they lost a lot of steam. It's also after Space Cop flopped that we started seeing a lot of Hollywood scumbags and has-beens showing up on the show. We had the Max Landis incident in the past but that remained an exception. Most of the external Guests were B movie folks.

The woke stuff has become really obnoxious to me in recent episodes. It didn't bother me before but I feel like recently they have become more political but maybe that's just me becoming more sensitive to this stuff. Maybe they keep getting pushed in this direction by their left leaning audience. I know there is a big RLM thing going on on Reddit and I also know from watching prerec that they spend time on that website, at least reading it and reading the conversations about them (maybe they'll see that too. Heya, you hack frauds)
They have reviewed really awful stuff, far left Disney garbage and they dance around the subject, they don't seem to realize the obvious: that this stuff is obnoxious and that there is no substance to it. It's brainwashing that teaches kids to hate themselves. These shows are about the ego of the people making them, that makes them bad. I feel that their inability to criticize this type of virtue signalling, left-leaning productions is making them increasingly irrelevant, because I'm not about to watch an actual review of Acolyte (it's one of the derivative Disney Star Wars shows) - either you make it funny and you shit on it because it's easy or you just ignore it. I'm not going to watch it anyway but they seem to be taking this stuff seriously which I blame on Reddit.

like seriously who cares - do they actually unironically watch this shit?

It's in sharp contrast with how they used to review things of that sort but I dont know maybe Mike was drunk when he took a massive dump of James Cameron's Avatar.

the good old time - just watch it and you'll see what I mean. They didn't give a sh*t

I'm getting a lot of stickers which is fine. I suspect what I'm saying now will become more obvious over the coming months or years. People don't want to see it because it was once the comfiest show on the Internet and it's hard to admit that the quality isn't there anymore. Hopefully Mike won't troon out like Jim Sterling.

 

[Karamanlis]

Remember when Jay barely even knew who John Ford was?

Jay "I've never seen a spaghetti western before" Bauman seems to have a narrow interest in movies. He appears to be into specific genres only. Probably doesn't watch many movies that were made before the '70s. I'm not saying anything revelatory here, but Mike and Jay are not the movie buffs some of their fans make them out to be. They've said some eyebrow raising stuff over the years.

 

[I'm a Silly]

My theory [random quote bc length restrictions]

I've weighed in on this before, and I agree with you; if you search my username, choose 'this thread' and put in "Tyrone" as a keyword, you'll probably find my rant.

 

[MrSlongDong]

This is very basic shitlib behavior. Shitlib males are afraid of getting reamed in prison by BBC [Tom from the Boondocks was a stand-in for this type] and that is why they kneel to Tyrone. They are craven cowards. Jay being a "male feminist" means he would be happy to push an old granny down a flight of stairs to protect a troon from being misgendered.

Oh man, it's worse than that. Have you seen the Dahmer episode? let me clip the relevant segment for you (I had to use Capcut for this).

Basically they make a joke about white women going missing to emphasize the point that we don't look into Black women going missing as much as we do white. Other than the fact that it's obviously wrong, I found it absolutely nauseating that they make fun of missing women and play silly clown music over the footage of actual missing women to make a shitty point about race.

That, my friend, is the single segment that revealed to me that these guys were fags all along.

I've weighed in on this before, and I agree with you; if you search my username, choose 'this thread' and put in "Tyrone" as a keyword, you'll probably find my rant.

And btw (sorry for the double post) this missing woman case that make Jay laugh so much, that's Gabby Petito. She was killed by her boyfriend during a hiking trip.

 

[Steak Tartare]

Also it's worth noting that the idea that China removed Boyega from the posters/movie which Jay claimed is a notorious myth fueled by these same freaks. Other characters, such as Poe Dameron and Chewbacca were also minimized so it wasn't racially motivated.

Here's Disney's poster for China, note that famous main character BB8 gets a lot of space. IMO Chewbacca and Poe Dameron look too brown for the Chinese audience too. Doesn't mean that Disney Japan said we hate dark skin as a belief, but that audiences in China are more likely to avoid movies that have darked skinned characters in the promo material (so yeah not China racist but Chinese people racist but whatever). All the posters for Black Panther in China had the guy's face covered too.

MrSlongDong: I also don't like Tim. The guy makes me uncomfortable and I don't want to be uncomfortable watching my comfy show.

Yeah Tim is weird and try-hard, a very uncomfortable person.

 

[Fishmalk Observer]

Jay "I've never seen a spaghetti western before" Bauman seems to have a narrow interest in movies. He appears to be into specific genres only. Probably doesn't watch many movies that were made before the '70s. I'm not saying anything revelatory here, but Mike and Jay are not the movie buffs some of their fans make them out to be. They've said some eyebrow raising stuff over the years.

Having preference is fine, and Jay clearly knows his shitty horror B movies and purposefully weird Lynchian shit so good for him. Mike meanwhile has Star trek and star wars slop. Pretty dire.

 

[MrSlongDong]

All the posters for Black Panther in China had the guy's face covered too.

They released that shit in China...?

So they want to assimilate the chinks into their negro-worshiping cult. That's awesome. And why is it that Xi allows this shit to be distributed in China. Maybe he loves the negros too. He is a commie after all.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

They released that shit in China...?

So they want to assimilate the chinks into their negro-worshiping cult. That's awesome. And why is it that Xi allows this shit to be distributed in China. Maybe he loves the negros too. He is a commie after all.

They do have a statue of a Basketball-American, after all.

 

[millais]

They released that shit in China...?

So they want to assimilate the chinks into their negro-worshiping cult. That's awesome. And why is it that Xi allows this shit to be distributed in China. Maybe he loves the negros too. He is a commie after all.

China has a strict protectionist quota on the number of foreign films allowed to screen in China each year. So actually it's the Western film distributors who get to pick which handful of foreign films screen in China each year (of course working within the constraints of Chinese censorship criteria). The Western distributors typically pick the films they think will make the most money from the Chinese cinema audience. But from this, you can draw the inference that it's the (((Western))) film distributors that are trying to push the cult of the negro on the Chinese masses.

The quota helps the Chinese domestic film industry to stay afloat, by limiting the foreign competition that their dogshit domestic films must face.

 

[MrSlongDong]

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They do have a statue of a Basketball-American, after all.

That's disgusting. There is nothing that sickens me more than seeing Americans export the worst aspects of their culture. I don't want to fed post so I'm going to try and calm down. Please don't show me this. I'm very upset right now and it's past my bed time.

 

[Pious&Platonic]

They have reviewed really awful stuff, far left Disney garbage and they dance around the subject, they don't seem to realize the obvious: that this stuff is obnoxious and that there is no substance to it. It's brainwashing that teaches kids to hate themselves. These shows are about the ego of the people making them, that makes them bad. I feel that their inability to criticize this type of virtue signalling, left-leaning productions is making them increasingly irrelevant,

People seem to forget these guys are Gen X who came up during the early internet era. Back then everyone used to laugh together when some conservative politician would scream about Disney being funded by Satan. Like seriously no one remembers them cracking up at that ridiculous anti-porn propaganda video on Wheel of the Worst? Their takes might shock younger folks today but honestly they're just rolling with the same mindset most people had back in 2013.

 

[Stoneheart]

I like their star trek game show. its the 2nd best stuff they ever did after mike eating star trek game cards in the background.

 

[MrSlongDong]

People seem to forget these guys are Gen X who came up during the early internet era. Back then everyone used to laugh together when some conservative politician would scream about Disney being funded by Satan. Like seriously no one remembers them cracking up at that ridiculous anti-porn propaganda video on Wheel of the Worst? Their takes might shock younger folks today but honestly they're just rolling with the same mindset most people had back in 2013.

That's true. How far we have gone. I'm just mad at inertia

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I also blame the failure of Space Cop. As someone who used to listen/watch the prerec streams, this movie meant a lot to them and after they released it and it flopped (and by that I mean it flopped worse than expected) they lost a lot of steam.

I was always curious about this. Did SC make any money? They never mentioned any numbers.

Basically they make a joke about white women going missing to emphasize the point that we don't look into Black women going missing as much as we do white. Other than the fact that it's obviously wrong, I found it absolutely nauseating that they make fun of missing women and play silly clown music over the footage of actual missing women to make a shitty point about race.

That part was completely tone-deaf. I wonder if they regret it.

Again, I don't think they're woke. A woke person IMO is someone who's a lot more vocal and passionate about those things. They just don't seem to understand the idea that people divide based on ethnicity and nationality and it's not in their (white guys') interest to say anything good specificially about the blacks or bad about the whites.

Remember when Like Like Stoklasa got upset because an African in Last Vampire On Earth had AIDS? "This movie is racist right off the bat!". He was 100% serious and nobody confronted him about it.

 

[draggs]

I'm just mad at inertia

^^^^^
Most of their stuff turning into slop isn't explained by Jay being a libshit or Mike being a libshit or Beardfat being a libshit or Jack being a libshit or whatever. They got a good gravy train going and someone or several someones wanted to keep that luchre flowing in an ever-increasing torrent. I blame Rich Evans of course. no it isn't Rich Evans, or I'd be a little surprised if it were anyway. I've said it before and I'll say it again, they made too much contont for too long so they're burned out and creatively bankrupt in all ways

Most of their slop. The quoteunquote political difference between the first 2/3 of RLM or so and the latest 1/3 gets more and more stark for sure. Scientist Man would have a field day explaining it