Michael F. Assbender
Banned
God fucking damn it, do I seriously have to spend money on Rogue One now?
Is it coming to Netflix soon, by any chance?
Is it coming to Netflix soon, by any chance?
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Red Letter Media |OT| of Movies, Murderers, and Pizza Rolls
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TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Good plan.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You don't really need to watch the movie. Half of the time they're just basically talking about other things (that they've talked about on the review).
brotkasten
Member
Got around to watch Star Trek Beyond and the HitB episode afterwards. I was surprised to see the runtime for the episode and wondered what they could possibly discuss for almost an hour.
They got me, fucking frauds!
They got me, fucking frauds!
StopMakingSense
Member
Surprisingly it wan't a recursive Mike Star Trek reference loop.
DoctorFling
Member
Yeah I never actually use the commentary tracks as commentary tracks, I listen to 'em like podcasts while I do other stuff.
They only ever barely reference a specific occurrence in the movie itself anyways.
CloudyTuba
Member
Yeah, they rarely commented on specifics of what was happening in the movie. The majority of the time is just spent repeating what they said in HitB ad nauseam while Mike asks stupid questions that make it clear that he never paid any attention to the movie in the first place and is just waiting for his chance to bring up Star Trek again.
Alcoholic fraud. Check the real-time RLM webcam.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Don't think it don't say it
Don't think it don't say it
Don't think it don't say it
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
If anything the best bit is Rich keeps saying that one line.
Made me laugh every time
Yea, a very repetitive track if you have seen the HITB. I wish they could have tried to look up new info to talk about. Like listen to the actual commentary track to try and "respond" to some thing there or even look up Wookie Pedia stuff on the characters to poke fun at.
The only interesting thing was the anecdote about Jim's kid.
Mike and Rich raised a couple of points I don't remember thinking about when I saw it.
Why did Cassian still want to kill Jyn's dad(other than to have a "character" scene in the movie)? They saw the Death Star wipe out Jeddah and see it is operational. Cassian doesn't trust Jyn about the hologram message about the plans since he didn't see it, but kidnapping him to try and get information out of him seems like the most pertinent move at this point.
Why didn't they blow up the ship to ensure the stolen plans are destroyed (outside of having the Vader scene).
I like how they pointed out how they had a couple of spies with perfect disguises ready to infiltrate an unsuspecting Imperial base. Oh, and we also brought along a small army of Rebel soldiers who wish to blow stuff up. Okay, Team A will go infiltrate, while you soldiers blow stuff up and get yourselves killed "as a distraction" (which ultimately jeopardizes the mission). It was a make-work project to keep the Rebel soldiers happy, and give them some reason to die.
And how a better plan would have been "Team A will go infiltrate. When it looks like Team A is about to be discovered, that's when the Rebel soldiers will get a signal to launch the distraction." It would've provided some dramatic tension for Team A's sneaking, and given the soldiers' deaths some more meaning.
Of course, this a is a movie that ended with the audience cheering and applauding Darth Vader as he mows down a small army of helpless Rebel soldiers...
And how a better plan would have been "Team A will go infiltrate. When it looks like Team A is about to be discovered, that's when the Rebel soldiers will get a signal to launch the distraction." It would've provided some dramatic tension for Team A's sneaking, and given the soldiers' deaths some more meaning.
Of course, this a is a movie that ended with the audience cheering and applauding Darth Vader as he mows down a small army of helpless Rebel soldiers...
Lord of Castamere
Member
I think RLM almost killed me, just now. I was watching Rich of the Worst, and I starting laughing so hard that I was choking and coughing(which is normal), but then it felt like blood was cut off, and then rapidly put back in. Like when your leg loses circulation, and gets it back. It was scary. I knew that Rich Evans would kill me, I just didn't know when.
First you watch it, then you get Diabetes.
Literally storytelling 101 stuff. Just watched the movie this weekend and was appalled by these sorts of blunders.
DoctorFling
Member
I know RLM and others give the Vader scene a lot of shit but for me it was the most interestingly filmed scene in the film. Continuity and story notwithstanding the visuals, music and scary tone of that sequence made it really stand out. I would have genuinely preferred Edwards had make a whole film about Vader hunting down escaped Jedi than the tedious "war" movie that was R1.
BassForever
Member
The important thing is that Star Wars is now gritty and I can take it seriously.
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
Finally I can take my children's fantasy seriously cause it's now gritty
I think I can agree with that. My main takeaway was that the scene was bad because it felt jarringly out-of-place, but removed from Rogue One, it might be an excellent scene.
Looking back on it, in my first impressions post I complained that a few of the characters felt cut-and-pasted into Rogue One from a different, better movie. I also complained that the fanservice tipped a scale into something that didn't work, but thinking about it, a pure Star Wars fanservice movie could be awesome. It's the framework of Rogue One that doesn't work with these things. There are perhaps multiple good movies here, being combined in a way that doesn't seem to work.
Affeinvasion
Member
Darth Vader was cheesy as fuck. I remember actually rolling my eyes when he started moving down dudes. No wonder he was so tired when he finally boarded the ship in Star Wars... And it took him until the end of return of the Jedi to finally catch his breath, apparently.
D.Lo
Member
I feel the gritty element broke new ground.
The Scollard
Member
I also think the reason that it feels like such out-of-place fanservice is because Darth Vader is the only person in that scene we know (he's a thing I know). Nothing is really changes in that scene; it accomplishes nothing. The Rebels start out by having the plans, and also end the scene still with the plans. It also doesn't make Darth Vader seem scary because the people he's mowing down are just faceless rebels, instead making him seem "badass". It's like Han Solo destroying a bunch of Tie Fighters in a movie, we don't care about the people in those Tie Fighters, so instead the focus changes to how amazing the feat performed by the character is. I think if they were going to do the Vader scene, Vader should have killed one of the main characters. Of course, that would also rely on me giving a shit about the main characters of Rogue One, so maybe they just should have cut it entirely.
Spieler Eins
Member
Admiral Woofington
Member
The image still is amazing because I can't tell if richs face is "Dat ass" or "this shit again?"
Scrub frauds
"I think people like Bayonetta more than they like her game"
Truth bomb right there
andythinkpad
Member
I like their Mass Effect review.
Nah. Her design in the first game didn't do it for me, but the game ruled. Her design got better in the second one. She's cool but she was cooler in the sequel, too.
Their channel never was the best when it came to game opinions, so I can't say I'm mad or even annoyed.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
When are they gonna get to the Neil Breen factory?
They honestly say too much dumb shit. Like how they think Ninja Gaiden has better combat because it has fewer moves and combo opportunities. They don't even know what dodge offset is.
Plus that you can hit back button to stay in that combo practice screen.
Bullshit.
Bayonetta has the best action gameplay ever made (or at the very least top three, if you think Ninja Gaiden Black or DMC3 are better).
If anything, the hyper-sexualized tone (though comedic) has been a lazy way to dismiss the game for a lot of people.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Rich called Space Harrier Star Fox...
I mean, it's basically the same thing. Bayo 2 has an identical segment where you can pilot an Arwing instead of whatever the default skin is, so it's not like he's alone in making that connection.
They have to make sure it's the best before they can release it.
Labolas
Member
Love the character but the gameplay is what I love about the series as well. Played the best of DMC games and they never clicked with me like it did with Bayonetta.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Thats so wrong oh my God. Bayonetta rules but the game is a full evolution of DMC3
Outta nowhere!
Heh, I hate when they do movies I actually have an interest in seeing.
They liked it too. Those frauds!
broncobuster
Banned
Mike earnestly talking about movies he likes is strange. The Star Trek Beyond and Jurassic World reviews were similarly strange. It's a dog going meow strange.