The Part where Mike just fucking snaps into a crazy laugh is the best
Something I love about RLM guys is how contagious they become when they start.
I start giggling like an idiot too because of them.
Also, holy shit. Culkin's Google ad. What a genius move! It's almost inspiring to see him rise up like that after what could be the worst time of his life.
Good for the duder!
I kinda want to see someone use that AI people use to edit faces over other people's faces in porn but instead use it to edit young Macaulay Culkin's face over the faces of main kid actors in the other home alone movies.
They're gonna need far more than some deepfake facial replacements to turn into good movies though
Just replace the rest of the cast with people from RLM, easy!
The guy in Two Front Teeth was clearly a Putterman.
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Hello, Best of the Worst?
Mike machine broke.
Understandable, have a great Christmas.
I think big part of why I like "Mac back on track" is that he actively embraces what he got famous for. When he went down the gutter in the 2ks there always was this feeling of "it's because he got sofamous" guilty feeling behind it because I am part of that.
Now that he himself is fine and embraces it I can be happy for him AND myself.
I dunno. Some pseudo-psychologist shit.
Is it just me or is Culkin kinda hot now?
Kind of. I remember when the internet lost its shit over this pic:
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Who buys three packs of darts at one time
Time to keep the tradition and watch a very Canon christmas and home alone
Someone who is prepared for Christmas alone at home.
Don't question the man, he knows what he's doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3QGyBY5-c
Glad to know my hot take on Aquaman wasn’t that far off
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As someone who fucking loves Aquaman comics, I had an absolute blast with it. But I can also totally understand their grievances and actually appreciate how this entire review wasn't "lol he talks to fish this is dumb DC is finished" (and this is coming from someone who thinks their assessments of past DC movies have been spot-on).
The only big thing I disagree with them about is how every comic book movie should follow the MCU approach of "pepper in some self-aware jokes so the audience knows we know how stupid and gay this is lol". Like, I love the humor in the MCU for the most part (my favorite Marvel movie is still Guardians 2), but there's something oddly refreshing about a superhero movie nowadays that doesn't constantly try to wink at the audience about how silly superheroes are. Levity can be a good thing when used correctly, but too much of it will kill your storyline; if the characters in the movie (and the filmmakers) aren't taking the plot seriously, why should I? Something like Arthur and Orm having their final showdown in a supermarket or Ocean Master wanting to take over Earth because he became addicted to cotton candy while on the surface would have absolutely killed the movie for me. You can have levity in your superhero movies, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the characters or concept. I'm an Aquaman fan, so ideally I'm a prime example of the target demographic for this movie; a joke where the punchline is basically "haha that thing you like is retarded, you only like it ironically, right?" is a real mood-killer, and reeks of corporate committee "we need to appeal to the broadest demographic possible" thinking (see shit like Captain America/Black Widow's character regression in Age of Ultron, all the misfired jokes in The Last Jedi, etc.)
It wasn't ashamed that it was a big weird superhero movie about a guy who wears bright orange scale-mail and trains his pet octopus to play the drums, and that's an approach I would honestly like to see taken more often in modern superhero movies. Black Manta and Ocean Master were 100% perfect spot-on representations of the characters from the comics; there's no pretension about it, no attempt to "modernize it" or "make it more realistic". Black Manta is an angry autistic pirate who wears a big lemon-shaped helmet that shoots laser beams, he literally hooks Aquaman with a harpoon gun and says "I'm gonna gut you like the fish you are", it was everything I wanted it to be as a fan of the comics.
Still agree with most of their other points (you could seriously lose like 20-50 minutes of this movie with no issue), I admit that I'm biased since I enjoy the comics, but I'd honestly hate for the superhero genre to become further entrenched in this limiting mindset of "just make everything a really safe family comedy with 3 or 4 all-CGI action sequences". Infinity War took the actual plot really seriously and it ended up being this generation's Empire Strikes Back. The key is being able to pull it off (which admittedly a lot of filmmakers can't do very well), so I get why "haha look we're just having fun, it's a comedy don't take it too seriously just turn your brain off haha" is such an appealing crutch.
tl;dr
Aquaman is basically the first 3 volumes of the New52 run condensed into one story, I really enjoyed it (despite its flaws) since I really like the character. Agree with most of their criticism, but "add more self-aware humor like the Marvel movies do" is absolutely not the direction DC should go in, you can make an enjoyable superhero movie without constantly winking to the audience about how silly comic books are.
I was kind of amused by the approach of "we're gonna take this silly-ass shit and treat it like it's the most badass thing in the world." I can't believe that they didn't point out that everytime a dramatic scene got even a little bit long, a fucking wall exploded and an action scene started. Seriously, it happened like 3 or 4 times.
New Jingle All the Way Commentary Track | Red Letter Media
What is it about this film? I remember Nostalgia Critic reviewed it, then I saw YouTube recommend me a Cinemassacre review of it of some kind.
Was it widely advertised and everybody still remembers it for some reason? Looks like a pretty generic Schwarzenegger vehicle
It's considered a classic Christmas movie by a looot of people (at least here in the US). I know I saw it a lot growing up, it's on TV every holiday season.
Considering the low standards set by Christmas films, "Christmas classic" is some pretty faint praise.
But yeah, i kinda enjoyed it, more of a guilty please than anything.
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What I decided to do on Christmas 2018! Merry Christmas to those hack frauds!
Hey maybe now Rich will be able to get medicine for his diabetes.
I love RLM.
gettoutta here
This thread keeps showing up as already read for me, even with new comments. WTH currentpunch?
Also kept seeing Culkin commercials for Google last night. The rise continues!
I'm just really glad he cleaned himself up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4iCa6h29c
whata bunch of nerds
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