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[Idiotron]

HitB is only good when they do episodes like Jack and Jill, just completely approach a movie from a cynical corporate way because they do this way better than anybody else.
However, recently they got a bunch of Hollywood buddies and they're getting more.
They don't want to damage that, they will be more careful.
Mike from 2008 would totally roast Jack Quaid for the nepo baby shit.
Mike from 2025 is a millionaire internet celeb with connections in the movie industry.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

HitB is only good when they do episodes like Jack and Jill, just completely approach a movie from a cynical corporate way because they do this way better than anybody else.
However, recently they got a bunch of Hollywood buddies and they're getting more.
They don't want to damage that, they will be more careful.
Mike from 2008 would totally roast Jack Quaid for the nepo baby shit.
Mike from 2025 is a millionaire internet celeb with connections in the movie industry.

The yearly recaps are mostly OK, even if only 1 out of 10 movies is worth checking out. At least they don't spend too much time discussing generic mainstream stuff like in this episode.

The nepo baby shit is such a non-issue. Why can't people in Hollywood employ their children? It's not illegal and we're talking about actors, not the board of Lockheed Martin. Who cares?

 

[Tablet County]

On the subject of Half in the Bag sucking, I actually do like the skits, and prefer them to the actual reviews.
Comparing Half in the Bag with The Nostalgia Critic, Doug and Rob make better reviews but worse skits, while Mike, Jay and Rich make better skits but worse reviews.
Notice something wrong there? That's right, HitB is so mediocre that I'm comfortable comparing it to Nostalgia Critic.

 

[Idiotron]

Why can't people in Hollywood employ their children?

Normally, I wouldn't care.
However, it's 2025 and Hollywood has been lecturing everyone about representation this and representation that while practicing total nepotism and discriminating against everything and everyone they don't like.
Everyone is from a rich family, everyone went to the same 3 schools.
That's why most current Hollywood movies suck.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Mike from 2025 is a millionaire internet celeb with connections in the movie industry.

If Mike is so rich why is he fat and drinks cheap boozes?

 

[Mola Ram]

If Mike is so rich why is he fat and drinks cheap boozes?

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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[khaine]

I think the real problem is they play it too safe on so many dimensions. Just watched the BOTW Kickmass episode. It was so brutal in its mocking of Last Jedi, without being rude or crude. It feels like they wouldn't do that these days. They pull their punches. They lack their former edge.

Thats why everything they have produced since at least covid has been quite bland.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

The real problem is culture and the company they built their company on. Folks can speculate all they like on why but the reading has been clearly written on the walls for at least a decade. If you piss off someone powerful, speak frankly and honestly, or express "controversial" opinions your likelihood of getting demonetized is high either by cancel mobs mass reporting or other many ways to abuse systems to cause harm. In addition, if you use clips from the movie and give it a negative review, you run the risk of getting demonetized due to some Copyright bullshit. RLM is a company and they are beholden to the same corporate bullshit any YouTube based company has to comply with. I too miss the days I could say Fag and retard on YouTube and get a slap on the wrist.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Mike has been making offhand insults about White people being White for a while.

He doesn't seem to own a mirror, so maybe he genuinely does not know he's white.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Notice something wrong there? That's right, HitB is so mediocre that I'm comfortable comparing it to Nostalgia Critic.

Say what you will but Doug Walkers output is remarkable. He earns his dollars I'll give him that.

 

[Rabo 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I do miss the HitB skits. While I don't seem to hate HitB like some of you guys seem to, I'll admit I enjoy virtually every other series they put out more. When I see it's a HitB I'm a little disappointed. But I understand why they keep it going, it's the series that built the channel. (Yeah yeah, I know about the Plinkett reviews, those brought people to the channel, but the fact that HitB was there is why people stuck around. A channel can't subsist from a handful of videos they need constant output)

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

I do miss the HitB skits. While I don't seem to hate HitB like some of you guys seem to, I'll admit I enjoy virtually every other series they put out more. When I see it's a HitB I'm a little disappointed. But I understand why they keep it going, it's the series that built the channel. (Yeah yeah, I know about the Plinkett reviews, those brought people to the channel, but the fact that HitB was there is why people stuck around. A channel can't subsist from a handful of videos they need constant output)

They did way too many HitBs about superhero movies during the boom, which soured me on them for a while. It didn't help that they made the I R O N I C Endless Trash video in that era... only to review 90% of the movies named in it anyway. I wonder if they ever realized how insincere that made them look.

 

[Tablet County]

I think the real problem is they play it too safe on so many dimensions. Just watched the BOTW Kickmass episode. It was so brutal in its mocking of Last Jedi, without being rude or crude. It feels like they wouldn't do that these days. They pull their punches. They lack their former edge.

That one's weird to me even to this day, because their Plinkett Review on TLJ was limp-wristed to the point where people were saying a lot of the same things they're saying now. And then come Kickmas they absolutely shred the film to pieces. Even AIDS Moby gets in on it, and he liked TLJ!

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

That one's weird to me even to this day, because their Plinkett Review on TLJ was limp-wristed to the point where people were saying a lot of the same things they're saying now. And then come Kickmas they absolutely shred the film to pieces. Even AIDS Moby gets in on it, and he liked TLJ!

And they haven't even started their Rise of Skywalker review, which is even more deserving of the Plinkett treatment than TLJ. It's a movie where half of the TFA audience didn't even bother to show up and is an editing mess in its own right.

 

[I'm a Silly]

On the subject of Half in the Bag sucking, I actually do like the skits, and prefer them to the actual reviews.

This is why someone made this playlist:
Half in the Bag - Chronological https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FS9gaFTCh7n-oASzy_pg-zTvYkZXGRI

 

[Retink Retunk]

In awe at the size of this lad. The DVD cover in the middle is appropriate.

He looks like he's about to try to eat Rich Evans.

HitB is only good when they do episodes like Jack and Jill, just completely approach a movie from a cynical corporate way because they do this way better than anybody else.

When was the last time they really did that? I think they criticized Picard and the black woman Star Wars thing, but even that was much more mild than their lambasting of Adam Sandler.

If Mike is so rich why is he fat and drinks cheap boozes?

He's increased the amount he consumes, not the quality.

 

[millais]

If Mike is so rich why is he fat and drinks cheap boozes?

It's all an act for the cameras, just a constructed facade, like with Warren Buffet and all those other billionaire elites who virtue signal about how they drive a 20 year old car, fly economy-class, live in a modest suburban house, and do their own grocery shopping. That way the poors still find them relatable and not boycott them.

Mike presents himself as a bumbling, unsophisticated, Midwesterner, but in his private life, he is bidding in overpriced movie prop auctions for Star Trek relics and paying for all the streaming subscription services to watch endless trash.

It's telling that he doesn't ever seem to have pirated any movies or TV shows. He will figure out which streaming subscription service or digital download he needs to pay for, even if it's a fairly mainstream movie or show that will have an HD rip uploaded immediately after digital release.

 

[Mola Ram]

It's telling that he doesn't ever seem to have pirated any movies or TV shows. He will figure out which streaming subscription service or digital download he needs to pay for, even if it's a fairly mainstream movie or show that will have an HD rip uploaded immediately after digital release.

I don't necessarily disagree, but if these guys are pirating anything there's no way they'd ever advertise it.

 

[Well Intentioned]

I can't tell you a single thing in life Jay enjoys other than film

Oingo Boingo. I recall him and Mike getting into a mini-argument over that band.

Although considering it is a Danny Elfman project I don't know if that counts as being something other than film.