Half in the Bag: Fool's Paradise and The Corporate Product Biopic Trend
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Charlie Day from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wrote, directed, and starred in a movie that just came out that you've never heard about! Is this gigantic flop as bad as it's Rotten Tomatoes score would suggest? Also WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET THE RUBIK'S CUBE MOVIE???
I love it when Mike specifies that he's not trying to be a contrarian every time he's being a contrarian.
He's not trying, it just comes naturally.
half in the bag is becoming bland and repetitive with these two
@@IrenicusFTWyou must be new here
@@IrenicusFTWit should just be Rich
Like preferring The Darjeeling Limited. Pretty much nobody's favorite Wes Anderson film.
Finally a compelling video to watch while I avoid my stupid job.
im in a useless meeting as we speak
*"DAMN IT MORRIS! Finish my TAX RETURNS they were due A MONTH AGO!!"*
I'm watching this in the bathroom avoiding my useless job as we speak
Or the bus to stupid job 😅
My thoughts exactly
'All-Star' is actually a good source for that type of biopic because it allows you to have a scene where their producer warns them that they may not want to release the song because it's 'too good'. Specifically he warned them that if they released it that it would become so ubiquitous that they would never be able to escape it and would only ever be remembered for the song, because they'd never be able to make anything better.
Which is exactly what happened.
I think walking on the sun is also a massive banger and even better than all star.
What's all star
@@douggaudiosi14 A song by Smash Mouth. It's used in the beginning of Shrek. It's referenced in this video, at 32:25.
@@douggaudiosi14the song from shrek
@@christiangomez320 Beautiful
Based on listening to the Always Sunny podcast and his visit to the Criterion Closet, I do believe Charlie Day genuinely tried to make a movie based on satires he liked but was way out of his depth and failed
Yeah. He also said he has been picking and working at it for years. I think he should have made it smaller and cheaper. He likely over worked it.
Sounds like maybe he should have picked one or two, instead of trying to do them all at the same time.
From the way the guys are talking about it, it sounds like he was trying to make his version of Being There
@@wuffie87 he was.
I heard him say it in an interview.
Saw the Criterion Closet episode with Charlie Day, and he didn't seem to have anything to say beyond the mundane and superficial about the movies he picked. I bailed halfway, it was painful to watch.
The thing about these biopics is that they're like anecdotal footnotes in a company's history. Like a five minute story you'd tell a friend. Not a two hour movie you'd suffer through.
When I saw the trailer for that nike movie I legit thought it was some weird joke
Exactly, nerds (such as myself) got mad when they made _The Hobbit_ (a single short book for children) into a series of 3 full films. When _Lord Of The Rings_ (a MASSIVE epic told over 3 much longer books, over 1300+ pages, aimed more for adults in its prose as well as it's themes) was adequately told in 3 full movies.
Then you got Hollywood now going *"Hey, you know that story you told me on your linch break about the guy who invented the Segway?"*
....yeah...
*"Let's stretch that into a feature film!"*
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 That's fun because Tetris is a very good movie
And this one wasn't even true.
Ignores the sweatshops every company uses to manufacture said product… but its so awesome how this product you love got started in the most sanitized pr way possible
I feel like Charlie Day has heard producers talk about his unique “voice” for so many years that he got a wild hair to make a project where he doesn’t speak.
I can't wait for the Red Letter Media Corporate Product Biopic.
Yes, but who will they get to play Rich?
@@MrJustinOtis Timothée Chalamet, naturally.
They'll need some up and coming has-beens to play them, or are you thinking of using amateurs?
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@@MrJustinOtis Patton Oswalt
@@TheChach just what I was thinking 😂😂
Ill give Blackberry this,
At least that's about a complete collapse of a company. Rather than a generic rise of a corporate monster company.
Blackberry is anything but a standard biopic
Honestly, BlackBerry was excellent. I feel like RLM would be pleasantly surprised if they watched it.
In fact, for _Blackberry_ they don't even bother showing the rise at all. The first half of the movie is about how the Blackberry was invented and RIM was founded, then for the last half they skip about a decade to focus on the company's death spiral. It makes sense in a way. All the flaws that destroyed the company were there from the beginning; all time and success did was reveal what was already there.
I’ll give one thing to Tetris: they certainly had Ghislane Maxwell’s father in a prominent role
@@vaclav4435
I like the way you put that
I think as a society we are completely over being “fascinated” by hollywood in the way Hollywood people are fascinated by Hollywood. We got Birdman and La La Land and all collectively groan when another rehash comes out.
I assume you meant *groan.
GROAB
I also hated La La Land, but yeah lol
Shit, Robert Altman gave it a good killing blow with The Player way back in the early '90s. He was actually taking shots at it long before that too (view the ending of The Long Goodbye for instance). Robert Aldrich was doing it with stuff like The Big Knife in the '50s.
@@KnuckleHunkybuck no my friends and I actually physically enlarge when we get annoyed with some Hollywood circlejerk disguising itself as a movie
The corporate biopic feels like the last desperate gasps of a popular culture that’s been cannabilizing itself for decades
Don't worry, it'll get worse
It's a product about a product.
Next up - product about a meme, catchphrase, trend or "thing".
Say... I Herd U Liek Mudkips...
But Tetris was good. And Air (about Nike) was much better than it had to be.
@@completetotalgoodness4786 "But good product about good product was good" come on now
So propaganda?
It almost feels like Charlie Day was trying to go for something kinda similar to Hal Ashby’s 1979 film “Being There,” which is a movie about a guy named Chance who only knows about the world through what he’s seen on TV and is taken in by a wealthy family only because they hit him with their limo by accident. He has no past and he’s a blank slate that people project themselves onto. They make Chance into whatever they want him to be and they see whatever they want through him. He doesn’t object or really say much of anything for most of the movie. It feels like Charlie might have been going for a little bit of that, but it just didn’t hit the mark. That would be my guess, anyway.
I remember him pulling it out in his Criterion Closet video
That what I thought they where going for..... And I knew they would fail.
This comment section doesn't need you to explain what Being There is. I assure you.
Wow, technology is amazing 😐
That was my first thought too. Instead of Charlie Chaplin.
I love how Half in the Bag started as two men with a failing VCR repair shop exploiting an old man with dementia, but now, VCR is hip again and the hosts are the ones with dementia.
Biopic-worthy.
I can rest easy knowing VCR will always be terrible. The only reason anyone would like this is if they haven't experienced it.
It took 12 years to subvert your expectations!
VCR is hip now? Lmao
@@Alkatrossdrives me nuts when people tell me they prefer watching a movie on a VHS. Like the quality was shit then, and it won't look better upscaled to your 4k tv.
20:51 The bouncing jug scene is a direct recreation of a bit from Jacque Tati's Mon Oncle (the kitchen scene specifically)
Thank you to MY uncle for showing me that movie as a kid!
Thank you. I posted this too because I couldn't find anyone mention it. So good.
Now we're three.
Thank you to Andy's uncle.
Surprised Jay didn’t catch that!
And four 😅
I just read an article sayin' the dude didn't even invent Flamin' Hot Cheetohs. They were made in 1989 in Texas by Frito Lay marketing/lab people, but he started taking credit for it. The producers knew this - - - but made it anyway.
I don't remember who exactly said "never let the truth get in the way of a good story," but it seems apt here.
Reminds me of "Being There", where a simple, childlike gardener just goes with the flow, lets others project their own ideas onto him, and ends up being among the rich donor class and a possible presidential candidate.
its amazing they talked for 40 minutes without referencing "being there" or "the player" from Robert Altman because this movie seems to be a mix of those two movies
That was my first reaction, too.
There's also quite a bit of Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot.
Glad someone’s talking about this weird “product biopic” trend.
It's the inevitable consequence of the musician biopic which themselves are just corporate biopics
@@michaelwebster-clark9865 I'm ashamed I didn't see it coming. It's really kind of tragically lame.
That Tetris one seemed kinda understandable since the story behind it really is bizarre. That it's about a product feels more incidental than anything.
But the other crap ... ?
what do you expect? westerns are consumers. it's part of their identity.
@@Sp4mMe - There have been "movies about products" before, "Air" only happened because they wanted to make a movie and knew that THE URBAN MARKET would watch it because of MJ23
I, personally, would like a biopic about the guy in the 90s who convinced Taco Bell to make their mascot a tiny dog who says in spanish "Long Live Fat Chicks".
Viva la Gordita!
Tommy???
I want a fictionalized biopic of that man where the chubby-chasing spanish-speaking dog is an actual character and his pitch is based on his real-life talking dog buddy. Would it be stupid? Absolutely. Would I watch that all day? You betcha.
@@drpibisback7680 The scenes with the dog are all like Son of Sam, but the executives reaction to his ramblings are just🤑
@@thomasgiles2876Yes, exactly!
You should listen to the episode of the always sunny podcast where Charlie Day talks about Fool's Paradise, then you'll see he's not being self-aware at all with this movie.
Yeah, unfortunately it's just a complete miss script-wise. Tried to be funny and satirize Hollywood, ended up barely doing either
I can't believe Mike straight up soiled himself at 7:38 classic RLM
Thank God for elderly diapers
elderly people dont care about spoilers because they cant follow the story anyways
Classic
And just powered through like a professional
The elderly sometimes do that
This feels like a movie that Charlie (his character from Always Sunny) would have made. It’s Day Man with a Hollywood budget.
He really needed Dennis's creative input
@@IDHLEBthe movie needed full penetration
The IASP guys have a pod cast and they talked about the origin of this idea on there. According to them Charlie pitched the idea of someone Mistaking his name on his coffee order as Latte Pronto when he asks for a "Latte Pronto" get it. Then Charlie would spend the episode being mistaken for Latte Pronto. The IASP crew flatly rejected the idea so Charlie took it to film. XD
What a hugely public way to demonstrate that it was a weak concept and prove the IASIP crew right. Oof.
@@LadyUnderhill And to sound kinda douchey when you're ask for something "pronto".
Somehow this made the movie seem funnier.
I'm glad they're commenting on this trend. Out of all the bizarre biopics, the one that makes the least sense to me is the "Flamin' Hot" one. There was an article in the LA Times like 2-3 years ago that debunked the guy's story. It's barely got a story, so why make it as a biopic if it's mostly a lie?
They made it because it is a movie-length ad that people pay to watch.
"Print the legend"
Okay, yeah, I gotta agree with both of these comments. Fair enough. 😂
A bad pre-existing story is still a story you don't have to come up with yourself.
@@BromdenChiefexactly like the garbage gran turismo movie that seemed to buy all the ad space during the nba finals
I think the chances of this being read are pretty low at this point, however fun fact; most of the jokes, such as the "bouncing jug" gag, are lifted straight out of Monsieur Hulot, a silent comedy protagonist from France!
(that particular gag was from Mon Oncle, in the kitchen scene, almost shot-for-shot 🙄)
Mike creating and acting out trailer concepts in real time, complete with score and sound effects, is my favorite RLM gag ever.
The fact that it's now a running gag is almost impressive.
@@Boonehams Definitely impressive. I mean it's comical to us, but studios seemingly green-light trailers just like the ones they come up with off the top of their heads all the time.
Their Snow Falls video is one of my favorites
@@wildcherrypepsi lmao that's the one I was envisioning as I typed the comment - "we don't know what's in the snow...!"
I know it's almost certainly scripted and rehearsed, but I love it all the same. Even if this is scripted, Mike seems like the type to genuinely do random riffs like this.
That ChatGPT review on Rotten Tomatoes sounds like something Charlie Kelly would write in his dream journal.
Sad to see Mike unironically calling it AI reviews lol
"Fool's Paradise" starring Hans Wormhat.
I just commented basically the same thing. The weird grammar has all the hallmarks of Charlie Kelly. I was almost waiting for Mac to say “Charlie wrote that bit.”
There was a very recent episode of the Always Sunny podcast about Fool's Paradise, the impression I get is that it's a bit of a passion project he has been working on for a very long time.
It's a tad unfortunate that it turned out the way it did because I do think Charlie is quite talented, but not everything is going to be a hit I suppose.
My theory is all of Charlie Day's good ideas were reserved for Always Sunny.
Denim Chicken.
They got chicken in Philly?
The first 12 1/2 seasons, sure. How many seasons are there now? Oh. Oh no.
@@davestier6247 You must be out of your mind if you think they peaked in the first 2.5 seasons.
@FredCracklin Agreed. The show accelerates exponentially after every season. It gets even more wild after S2
The world needs the Smash Mouth biopic. Now more than ever.
"Smash"
*stealing a better title from below
That's a terrible name, the real name would be "Only Shooting Stars..."
With a cameo from Guy Fieri
“Somebody Once Told Me…”
“All Stars.”
Didn’t QuintonReviews make that and it was also a two hour Bee Movie review?
Nah, nah, nah... Youse fellas are going about it all the wrong ways. I's got the title for ya. Ready?
🌟SMASH!🌟
It's a guaranteed hit! $600+ mil, in the bank. BUT...
And here's the catch... make it a cartoon with lotsa stars doin the voices!
Make it a fronchoise! Meoichondise the shit out of it!
BILLIONS!!!
Since we're talking about biopics... I want to see a sequel to "King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters." Since it was revealed that Billy Mitchell was lying his ass off and Twin Galaxies was shown to be totally corrupt.
I would unironically love a tongue-in-cheek movie about the making of Mystery Men and All Star.
"That's my teeeeaaaam."
@@frogdog3600
Oh Tom.
What were you thinking?
I want them to actually watch Blackberry, since it's pretty much the opposite of what they assumed it to be.
Yeah, it's more along the lines of The Big Short or the 2015 Steve Jobs movie.
@@simonamorim8178 I guess they assume all things are exactly like the 2013 Jobs film, but then again, it's RLM.
BB would been a very good movie.
Glenn Howerton elevated it to GREAT!
I want a biopic about Mike, Rich and Jay meeting each other.
Wait we need this…You’re right!
It's already here.
It's called "Space Cop".
@d5uncr I've been on a BTS binge lately watching bts from Adyax amd others and I've watched the Space Cop BTS like 15 times in the last week. lol
Oh oh! and Mike is blind and deaf but can talk, Jay can hear but can't see or talk and Rich can only see. :P
@@EricLefebvrePhotography for sure, BTS are the best, sometimes she even sucks the cameraman off in a hallway or something.
It does feel like Charlie Day wanted to play a silent movie character, and he got to do it. Everything after that was contrived. You definitely couldn't get a silent movie made today normally, so he built an easy narrative around it to help make it more appealing and give it some more direction. It feels bad, because it definitely feels inspired, Charlie Day is really likeable and talented, and people are going to be questioning how he ended up putting something out there that was so misguided.
He did say in interviews he wanted to make a film that doesn’t really get made anymore nowadays
Genuinely do feel bad that it was panned/bombed since this was kinda his passion project and I also really love him as an actor/Sunny’s one of my favorite shows
hubris?
Hollywood actors making fun of Hollywood is only slightly less embarrassing than movie stars having an awards ceremony where they celebrate themselves
It's so important.
And then Ricky Gervais comes in and says "you guys are stupid and rich and famous!" despite being himself stupid, rich and famous
@Roundabout468 lmao
Or badly singing Imagine whilst sat around in their McMansions.
It’s like Hollywood is full of themselves or something
Ahhh man they should have watched Blackberry. It's like the anti air Jordan film. Plus Glenn howerton is incredible in it.
“I’m from Waterloo, where the vampires hang out!”
Yeah I really liked it. I think being a CBC production helped it avoid some shmaltz and insane embellishment.
I would un-ironically love to see someone make a corporate biopic about the creation of All-Star because that would force someone in Hollywood to acknowledge that Mystery Men exists.
The body double that you guys found to play Mike is doing an excellent job at stringing together words in coherent sentences. I just hope that you found a facility that is prepared to treat Mike's(the real one) raging, mind-controlling fungal infection, and that one day he will be able to form thoughts of his own again.
Dude, that "body double" is just Rich. He's that good of an actor.
Charlie should've never exposed his power level. Should've stayed too cool for school with IASIP.
Who really cares tho. We are human. We all make mistakes like writing, starring and directing and having your name all over a multimillion dollar movie that makes 0 profit.
Seriously tho the amount I have laughed at his work in IASIP could never be taken away by some a shitty movie I’m never going to watch. I just feel bad his passion project flopped and he probably won’t ever get a chance to direct a big movie again.
@@numbnuts375 first paragraph is gold if sarcasm.
You can't win them all, charlie is still a funny and authentic guy, I'm glad he was given a big chance, and while the consensus seems to be that it failed, that's life, I'm still gonna follow him and see his next projects or parts, he hasn't discredited himself in my eyes
Hollywood has decided to just put characters into films about products, rather than the other way around. It's been their motivation for years.
Mike knowing about The Food that Built America is not the least bit surprising. The dramatic acting and music is absolutely hilarious.
Those History Channel documentaries aren't half bad. They're on Hulu and are great to have on in the background while you're doing something else. I had them on while I was doing work on my Animal Crossing Island and/or waiting in a Turnip Island Que.
@@larrylaffer3246 lol I really enjoyed that brief and out of left field glimpse into a moment of your life, as a fellow AC appreciator, an enjoyer of strange combos, and a lover of kinda odd uses of "and/or".
Although not overtly comedic, The Founder was a really solid biopic on Ray Kroc and the rise of McDonald's. Not to mention an excellent satire.
@@rareosts5752 What can I say Animal Crossing is fun. My favorite part is home design. Getting that fung shuy just right is just "Chef's Kiss".
The bouncing jug joke is from the Jaques Tati movie Mon Oncle.
copied beat for beat
I miss the skits of Mike and Jay wandering around Milwaukee as hobos.
What a sweet and beautiful day that these two elderly men will steal from me.
32:25 Well guys, you killed Smash Mouth's Steve Harwell
Hans Zimmer scoring the Smashmouth biopic was something I never knew I needed until now.
I said yep, what a concept
If they dont get Niel Cicierega to do the soundtrack l riot
So relatabe and so heartbreaking seeing Jay trying to find nice things to say about a terrible movie recommended by his elderly demented friend, who is so cutely enthusiastic, even if aloof, about it
They stole that pitcher joke at 21:00 from a french comedy called Mon Oncle (1958).
I love these guys and the whole production set-up. In the way people love to go back and watch whatever favorite show they're nostalgic for, these guys are able to capture that magic for me while still releasing great stuff. I had 0 interest in this movie, but still loved hearing their opinions on it.
I think Charlie Day obviously has problems with the Hollywood system and it's just been eating away at him for years that he had to make a movie about it. It has all the hallmarks of a passion project
It's just a shame it sucks ass
Yeah, "The Gang Tries Desperately To Win An Award" is one of the most laid-bare episodes of the show, with the commentary on the industry barely disguised by the jokes. And Day's one of the credited writers.
I think you're right. Couldn't help but notice his character in this movie is mute, when Charlie Day's voice is one of his most recognizable traits.
He needed a black tank-top.
Yeah. The movie clearly needed Dolph Lundgren and full penetration.
I legitimately think the conceit of this movie was "society is addicted to celebrity so much they will hallucinate meaning and disassociate from reality",
but what came out was "what if a disabled person was treated like an animal celebrity"
I actually knew and met the artist that drew the little mermaid dick pic.
I was in college at the time and we had a comic artist named Bill Morrison come to do feedback for some work for the students. Turns out he painted it because he only has 48 hours to illustrate the entire cover (typical with Disney) and that he was pretty much delirious so he couldn't even notice what he did.
Last I checked, he was working for the Simpsons official comic company called Bongo Comics and then left to work for Mad Magazine's failed reboot from 2018 - 2019.
‘The Founder’ with Michael Keaton about the creation of the McDonald’s empire is like those type of films you were talking about. It’s okay too!
I really hope you guys talk about the Bert Kriesher movie “The Machine”. When it comes to vanity projects I feel like this movie took the cake haha
That dude has made a whole career from that story and taking his shirt off. He is a terrible comedian who laughs more at his own jokes than anyone else does.
@@UltimaPowers terrible comedian and terrible movie, I wanted to walk out the entire time.
yes please!
@@UltimaPowers One of the most annoying people to ever exist
The more famous he gets the more I can't stand seeing him
That Ray Liotta intro was hilarious.
Drinking energy drinks as you bring up somebody having a heart attack from energy drinks was a nice touch, worth the editing in my opinion.
As an It's Always Sunny Podcast creep.... this is a weird crossover I wasn't ready for
cut that
Yeah, especially after just watching the episode where they talked about this movie like. . . Last week or something
listener only here. the creeps are the weird ones
I feel you, it feels like a video that AI would come up with after reviewing my watch history
@@HoopleBogart Oh but you miss so much. Creepers rise up
Walk Hard is one of the best comedies ever made
Agreed, how that movie didn’t utterly massacre the music biopic trend is beyond me
@@thatonedude9744I have never watched another music biopic after viewing Walk Hard. I tried to do Bohemian Rhapsody but I couldn't do it. All the same plot points. All the same tropes. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
@clelftintwain
Elvis movie was the same. Nothing but tropes
"And you never once paid for drugs"
@@Chvse4UNot once
A Hollywood movie about the creation of "All Star"?
My brain says "Smart," but my head says "Dumb."
It's so sad that Blackberry kinda gets dismissed in the wave of corporate biopics because its an amazing movie and Matt Johnson is one of the best filmmakers around today, honestly.
Especially since it isn't a success story, it's not selling or glorifying Blackberry (like Air for example).
Although the movie is very very fictionalised, I enjoyed it a ton.
@@marco_rocco History is written by the winners
Agreed! The movie was awesome. Great performances, too
also Tetris was well received by critics I seem to remember ...
@@letsgo6042 NOBODY HAS EVER SAID THAT ON THE INTERNET BEFORE. CONGRATULATIONS, MR INTELLECTUAL.
I heard the Sunny guys talking about this movie on the podcast and the way they were talking about it is pretty funny in hindsight. Especially what they said about Ken Jong’s character; like they were basically saying it was his greatest performance ever lol
The toothless, fairly lighthearted satire of this movie brings to mind something I heard Larry Miller say once: "Good comedians look at the world and see a funny place. Great comedians look at the world and don't."
judging by the mountain goats avi you seem like a george carlin fan and he was a fucking terrible comedian so i'm not really going to trust your judgement
Hehe depression makes people funnier
@@DandyRaytona Not out to romanticize mental illness. Depression generally doesn't lead to art--*sadness* leads to art. Depression leads to somebody just staring at the wall all night.
people jack off to their own sadness and shame the guy who's just a good comedian
@@pronkb000i’ve made it my life mission to walk that line
We’re spending most our lives livin in a Fool’s Paradise starring Charlie Day.
I've churned butter once or twice.
@@Per_SunRaised a barn on Sunday, soon I'll raise another
@@theelder4797 The roof is not my son.... but I will raise it.
At 4:30 in the morning I’m milking cows. Jebadiah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows.
I ain't never punched a tourist even if he deserved it. An Amish with a 'tude? You know that's unheard of.
I like Charlie Day but it's clear if you watch him speak in interviews that he really views himself as a super artsy film connoisseur, which makes it hard for me to believe he didn't think he was creating a brilliant satirical masterpiece.
but these are the best
where they think they make art
Like The Room and the bloke who made that?
REALLY?!?! Now I have to watch interviews with him. Beeing THAT high up on a high horse is kind of adorable 🤣😁
Huh I haven't gotten that vibe from him. I'll have to see more
He does give off an artsy film connoisseur vibe, but he doesn't seem particularly vain to me. I don't think he made this with the pretense it would be an "important movie."
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I would love to see a Walk Hard re:View, that movie is criminally underrated
"Never once paid for drugs...."
"Not once"
Mike talking about things kids these days are interested in, like blackberrys and tamagotchis
Also AI is real and creating reviews by watching the movie itself lol
35 year oldss are children to mike
@@LOLFLUSHDRAW I cant believe Mike's 70th is next year.
Just you wait until they mash a Blackberry and a Tamagotchi into one device...then you'll rue the day the landfills are even fuller because of them!
The part Mike is talking about with the bouncing jug and shattered glass is a direct pull from Jacques Tati.
Sounds like the whole movie is kind of like Jacques Tati movie.
Underrated comment, came here to say this.
Red Letter Media is a popular RUclips channel that reviews movies, and one of its most famous videos is a review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. The channel, which is known for its humorous and insightful reviews, coined the term "fool's paradise" to describe the hype surrounding the film. In a separate video, the channel hosts make pancakes with a George Lucas pancake mold and discuss their admiration for the Star Wars creator. They also analyzed William Shatner's singing career and commented on his unique style.
chatGPT is that you?
You'd think they'd be more known for dick the birthday boy over fools paradise
Audiences want nothing more than to clap when they recognize something.
Mario Movie
@Luigi Nastro I was literally going to say that.
My daughter had a sleep over so we rented that movie and I was bored for most of it but found myself excited when I recognized things from the games like when the soundtrack was I soired by the game music for example.
I then felt shame as a film editor and foley artist when I realised what I had done! Lol.
@@EricLefebvrePhotography If I haven't seen it before, it doesn't exist.
I know what that is!
@KDP what? The Super Mario Bros movie? There are 2 of them. One is a Terrible movie that actually had some ground breaking effects from 1993.
The other one just came our recently (April 5th). With Jack Black as Bowser and Chris Pratt as Mario.
The bit with the water pitcher bouncing and then the glass shattering is lifted straight from Jacques Tati's 'Mon Oncle'
Exactly
Oh, wow. I always knew the bit from a Mr. Bean Christmas episode
Smash Mouth!?!?! RLM strikes again!
Jay really has that Han Solo circa ROTJ hair vibe going on
A Smash Mouth biopic scored by Danny Elfman would be something Jay likes
Probably best for Charlie Day that this film has immediately faded into obscurity.
I'm actually surprised Jay isn't a huge Matt Johnson fan - everything Matt does seems right up Jay's alley
Definitely. Matt would be an incredible guest sometime too.
Just back here to point out…
Redlettermedia took out Smash Mouth now!! You monsters !!
Mike saying "Ray Liotta" sounded just like "Real Yoda"
"I'm not trying to be a contrarian"
* immediately disagrees with himself * 🤣
I'm surprised Jay didnt bring up the concept of the movie being really well executed on Twin Peaks The Return with Dougie
Right? It's like the first thing I thought of.
I wouldn't say it's a better-executed version of this concept, but you could definitely contrast Dougie's story where everyone watching is already so familiar with him and is desperately craving his return to normal to the complete blandness of Day's amorphous blob character in which there is no concrete emotional investment
Based on the way Charlie acts and talks on their podcast I'm going to assume this was a serious attempt
No one's saying it wasn't
@@LOLFLUSHDRAW actually, that’s exactly what they are saying. 4:20
Either it is a sincere satire or a tongue in cheek nonsense satire-like thing.
@@choreomaniac hold on now satire and mockery doesn’t mean it’s not serious
You can tell this was an honest effort, unlike certain Adam Sandler movies, but the movie falls short.
@@kegangibson5884 they are both satire but one is sincere satire, that is truly trying to highlight issues or absurdities of a particular group like Hollywood and the other option is a pseudo-satire that seems like it is sincerely making a point but is really just screwing around without a higher sim or purpose.
It's great that they love Charlie Day and are trying to look at the silver linings.
Really surprised they didn't reference Being There, given it's almost the exact same premise (and actually an incredible film)
I was totally expecting Erza Miller footage at that part of the video. Good job, emmy nominees
I had a stroke Wednesday and I'm sitting in the Lake Forest ICU and this HITB brightened my night. Thanks guys
Hope you're doing better stranger. Be well
Best of luck to you dude. Godspeed
I'll pray for you dude. Get better
Wishing you a speedy recovery
Im having a stroke how.. im almost there.... got it!
Imagine being Ray Liotta and this being the last movie you ever do before you die.
Much better than Cocaine Bear
Real greaseball shit...
Imagine being Ray Liotta and being eaten alive by bear cubs.
I had to scrub through just to check if you got Charlie Day on the show
Me-yow! Fancy seeing you here. A winner is me for finding you.
Literally did the exact same thing.
A can of Coke to you lads for the comment!
Meltzer says i'm in the key demo
Finally someone talks about Fools Paradise! Thank you, you lovable hacks!
Yeah I really liked that movie. I can see why people might not love it, but I really didn’t understand how they hated it so much. Even my gf, who didn’t really like it, still was affected by it, she was sad for Latte most of the film. And if the movie affects you, even if you don’t exactly like it, it still succeeded in a way. But I can’t see hating it, I would have thought at worst people would have thought it was “meh,” not dogshit.
@@TheRealWalkingDudeI left feeling good but I thought either the script or Latte's reactions could've had a little more oomph
@@lonnie6954 yeah I don’t disagree it could have used something more, but I still liked it
Fool's Paradise is not a good movie, most of the jokes fell flat but I was somehow captured by many likeable moments and the overall unique charme.
The funniest thing about this movie when I saw it was "This seriously looks like a movie that his character Charlie Kelly would think was a good idea, but I have no idea why he actually thinks it's a good idea.."
27:40 been watching these guys for over a decade & it’s an honor to have finally made it to the point where a show I crewed on got made fun of by Mike
Dropping the water jug then the glass joke was originally from Mon Oncle
i salute the makers of the tetris movie for having the herculean strength of resolve to have restrained themselves from having a character turn to the big businessman villain of the story and say "mr. maxwell, how is your daughter, ghislaine?"
Tom Holland is only picked because he’s a shy cute little twink teenager. He can’t act he’s only wanted for his looks. That’s why he was picked to play Nathan Drake, because Nathan is handsome. But people don’t like Nathan for being good looking they like him because of his Indiana type wits and charm, which Holland is completely lacking in.
Anime PFP: "Famous actor can't act" Please update your Linkedin and get a damn job LMAO
@@bingusman69 Tom isn't going to date you.
@@bingusman69cringe
Jay nailed it: This movie doesn't connect to the Hollywood we see right now which is a satirist's paradise, with it's cannibals and sex pests and virtue signalling psychopaths. Make a movie about _that._
Exactly, but they can't someone doing that lol.
This is the crux of it. We've already seen hours upon hours of Hollywood satire. In fact, Hollywood is Hollywood's favorite topic. Charlie and the Sunny Gang broke into the business at the tail end of Hollywood Stage 3. But now we are well into Hollywood Stage 4 (cancer.)
The problem is the white saviours would NEVER let them mock their virtue signaling.
I kinda see that running into the same problem as that moon fall movie from a while back. If you go balls to the wall "this is the level of stupid shit that ACTUALLY happens" satire, you get people saying it's "too much". Whether thinking it's too far-fetched or too political, or people saying that whole "yeah we know this thing is dumb, why did you feel the need to make this?" argument that sometimes crops up with satire.
@@montparnasse97 Stage 4 is Terminal (starring Tom Hanks, runtime 128 minutes).
From just the clips show, it looks like there's a major contrast between Day's character who doesn't speak and thus says nothing, with Jeong's character who speaks much, but also says nothing.
From what I can gather, it seems like Charlie's movie is about himself in Hollywood. He's just grateful to be in the industry and gets to explore his art and creativity in such a cynical industry. I haven't watched it though
It sounds like a ripoff of being there with Peter sellers
Didn’t even remember the All-Star movie pitch in this one. Hits differently now. Makes me want that movie more. 32:20
I hear that Charlie Day remained in character while directing the film, which explains a lot.
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They should consider selling first class tickets to these videos. You have to watch them fast before they get restricted by RUclips.
They're all uncut on their Patreon.
How do you know they are restricted?
What you described is known as Patreon.
I've heard the Blackberry movie is not at all a serious drama, I think it's also supposed to be a satire
Really? It was a pretty straight forward biopic, I think. Even if the two main roles were played by comedic actors.
@@Gear3 It's a comedy and a pretty darn funny one at that. It gets more serious during the last quarter of the film. But it's first and foremost a comedy. I saw the director/writer/co-star speak before and after the film at the screening I went to.
Jay: Wow! Technology is amazing!
Mike: That's right, Jay!