Jay Jimenez racist? How? Detroit was mismanaged into bankruptcy and ruin by whites and non-whites. The City council never heard of zero-based bugeting. You have an extremely broad definition of racism.
+Matt Otter I said this: "Detroit was mismanaged into bankruptcy and ruin by whites and non-whites." Why did I say that? I said that in response to somebody irrationally calling me a racist. He called me a racist because I laughed a joke about how dangerous and dilapidated Detroit has become. I supposed that he thought that because Detroit is about 75% non-white, that I "therefore" was disparaging non-whites. It's a ridiculous conclusion to jump to based on that one comment. My comment was not political -- I was laughing at a good joke about urban decay. What's so controversial about my response anyway? The union leaders, GM CEO, and the wasteful politicians were not only white and not only black. They were both. So, it makes no sense to cry "Racism!" when somebody jokes about Detroit falling apart. It was not a racial issue.
Regarding Mike's confusion @ 7:20 with the rules of *It Follow*'s universe: Jeff explains to Jay a couple times (when he's first explaining the rules to her after chloroforming her and again when they go to his house) that if the entity kills the person it's following, it will revert to pursuing the previous person to have passed it on. That's why he goes to all the trouble to tie her up and have her witness "It" so that she's forced to take what he's saying seriously and try to pass it on herself...without a heads up, the thing would finish her easily and then just come after him again.
He knows that, but theoretically speaking if someone managed to run from the thing for a long enough span of time, and all the people previously "cursed" die from other causes before it gets to them, then it presumably wouldn't be able to spread. How many people did the "original" kid have sex with? Probably not many, and considering it was going after him, the chain literally went from her, to him, and then presumably to the girl who gave it to him who herself couldn't have given it to that many people. I can't see the chain being so long that it couldn't be stopped with very few deaths. That having been said, that doesn't matter because this movie is a (nearly literal) nightmare: it operates on nightmare logic, not regular logic. If the movie operated on regular logic then one of the kids obviously would've thought to throw a towel over it and film it, or better yet, just demonstrate its existence doing something like that in front of a large group of witnesses. I believe one of them also brought up the "dreamlike" quality of it, and it's apt. It also explains a lot of the other weird "inconsistencies" to it, such as the near-total absence of any adults, or the indistinct time period. To be clear, I don't think the movie is literally set in a dream, just that it operates under the logic of a nightmare, and that's sort of what makes it work so well.
It's crazy how the first fast and the furious was so reserved compared to the more recent films. It was far more grounded by comparison. It was also focused more on street racing instead of international crime wars. It was about a cop befriending a criminal. They aren't really characters any more.
"Kurt Russell shows up and he's like 'I'm man. I'm man with suit, and I'm secret man.'" lmao I hope you guys review all the fast and furious movies now just to hear you try to explain everything like this.
I think the fast & furious films were made one after the other as a sort of homage to petrol cars before the inevitable electric cars, the films (unfortunately) will be watched again and again by people harking back to a time where people had freedom and you could double clutch instead of granny shifting😂. As petrol cars will be cracked down upon in the near future, but that’s just my opinion.
How did Mike miss that if the entity kills someone who hasn't yet passed on the curse it then goes back down the line to the person who gave the curse to them. That was like a major plot point in the movie.
What if they aren't alive anymore either, or the person before them. I'm assuming death from old age on patient zero would probably cause a bit of a paradox. Maybe a CLOVERF...
@@Ladylubber my solution was always to volunteer as tribute, be the end of the line, collect a heavy tax from everybody in line behind me and rent an apartment in Japan and one on the East Coast, US. I do meticulous research prior to map out the average pace of the "creature." Therefore, I should have a close enough estimate to fly between the two cities every 6months-year and keep the creature perpetually in the middle, far away from me. I live comfortably on the dime of the "line" in exchange for dealing with the curse and preventing further deaths. Pretty full proof plan, imo. Of course, i'm sure final destination will kick in and one flight will have to be grounded in some random town that just happens to be where the creature just so happens to be.
My friends and I started some sort of horror movie club (semi-)recently, where we watch one horror flick a week in empty dark auditoriums at our university. I was the one to suggest most of the movies, and we watched It Follows on our second or third week. I was scared my friends would get bored of it (some of them are only there for the scares, not really for the movies) but after 20 minutes, we were all hooked. And good lord, that tall guy in the doorway still gets mentioned in discussions about the best scares in the movies we've seen every once in a while. Really nice film.
My bf loves the Fast and the Furious movies and always has me watch them with him but then he gets mad at me if I laugh cause he takes it soooo seriously! "It's about family!! Don't laugh at it!"
I worked at a Family Video when this movie came out and witnessed a grown man cry and wine when he found out the movie was all rented out. The Fast and Furious chuds are not to be played with. I'm happy you escaped your ex.
Or it's representing a really bad STD warning message. I wonder if wearing a condom would prevent the transmission of the entity's connection? Ultimately I ended up feeling pretty bad for the girl who was forced to be promiscuous and ruin other peoples lives just to get her's back, or so she thought. I didn't think the end scene was necessary for the boy to show his devotion to her. They could've just showed them walking away holding hands without them getting intimate beforehand.
Considering this movie had an atmosphere of the 80s, I assumed "it" was a metaphor for HIV/AIDS in the 80s. How people were afraid of HIV and didn't understand it. No one could see it, but people were dying from it.
Just tuned in to finish watching the episode, then read your comment. I spent a good 5 to 10 seconds trying to work out what AIDs had to do with furious 7.
The film definitely draws on those fears of AIDS & STDs to help make the threat of "It" feel more potent, but I don't think that's the film's ultimate thematic concern
I love the soundtrack for It Follows. Also, Mike, the movie explains that after it kills the person you pass it to it comes back to you. You can never get rid of it, you can only delay it by passing the curse on each time it comes back to you.
they also have contracts stating how much can The Rock and Vin Diesel be beaten and beat other people so they're both equally strong. And they can't be in scenes together because they can't stand each other and would fight constantly. But yeah, a 1 minute montage of people smiling truly prove how great the work atmosphere is. Breaking news, Axe deodorant will not get you instantly laid with dozens of hot women.
I'm not a horror fan per se, but after the double recommendation for It Follows, I recently gave it a watch. And yeah, I hafta agree - it was unique and stylishly retro. Kept me interested even despite the electrocution "kiddie-plan." I've known of RLM for some time (since your Episode One breakdown) but only recently can I call myself a fan after falling down a rabbit hole of your shows. In some cases re-listening to shows in the background at work and still cracking up over Shaq Meat or Joke of the Show or just about anything on BotW. I think it's great you've found an audience for what you love to do without bending too much to the demands of fans and comments. Stick to your guns - everything feels genuine. One of these days I'll get around to orderin' a copy of Space Cop! Looking forward to everything - thanks a ton!
I got so mad at some guy the other day. He said he didn't like this movie because it had very few jumps scares, and when it did have a jump scare, they weren't fake out jump scare. Point being I tore him a new one.
Furious 7's title is still too long. The next one should just be "F8" or something. "The 8" will put people to sleep before they finish reading it. I can't process all those letters and shove things into my face hole at the same time.
Isaac Shemp That's not bad, but people might get confused and think it's a prequel to "9", that animated movie with the rag dolls. Then again, maybe the next one can lead into it when Vin Diesel causes the apocalypse after trying to make his own Sackboy outta car parts. Oops!
At 7:20, if "it" successfully kills its target, then it starts working back down the ladder by targeting the previous person in the chain. I'm surprised you missed this part of the logic. It was so fundamental to what makes the premise scary. You can't just get rid of the curse by having sex with someone and passing it on, because if that person gets killed by "it", then it's going to make you a target again. All you accomplish by having sex is buying time for yourself, but uncertainty is the price you pay because you won't know how much time you've bought for yourself, (if you pass the curse to a stranger for example).
You know this is really poignant thematically... You can't ever truly get rid of it without sacrificing an entire line of people. Which is never going to happen. And so your only real choice is to continue having sex and passing it on. Chastity is not an option, because then you're consigning yourself to your fate. Just like HIV/HPV/other STIs. The only way to truly live on is to produce offspring, and hope that the sons learn from the sins of the father and each generation becomes more successful. But inevitably history repeats itself.
Yes, and that explains why the guy who gives it to the main character goes to the trouble of educating her about it (after they've had sex). But one would think that the survivors would all b helping each other out such that an army of people would develop over time, all helping each other out--basically all cooperating to keep the most recent survivor moving. At the very least, a team of survivors sharing a couple of RVs always in motion and sleeping in shifts.
Glad you guys recommended this, I got to catch in in the theater. The soundtrack and the atmosphere really add a lot to this one. The ending was very sudden and felt kind of rushed, and the confrontation in the pool was a bit lame. Still I liked it a lot as well. Very well made.
OH MY GOOOOOD ANOTHER VIDEO! LOVE YOU GUYS!! I thought It Follows was very creepy and a good scary time af the movies. The soundtrack worked so good. Reminded me of Carpenter and Halloween.
I love your videos, but I just wanted to Note something: Paul Walkers death was treated as a huge deal because he is one of the main characters for the entire series (which started what like back in 2001) and died during the production of this film so they were unable to use him in many scenes. So it seems ridiculous that he was given a huge send off if you have only seen this film but for other people who have been watching the series for almost 15 years (in 2015 of course) it made sense. that being said I agree with all your other points about the movie, just thought that particular point really needed a proper explanation as to why they chose to have such a serious scene in a silly action film.
When the first fast and furious movie came out on dvd, I rented it. I got to a part where Vin Diesel says something like "I live my life a quarter mile at a time" or something like that. I got up out of my chair, took the dvd out, returned it and never watched another F&F movie since.
You guys are off on thinking the Walker memorial ending bit was too much. Yea, Paul's never been the strongest actor in the franchise but he is one of the main characters. And considering he passed away part way through the movie, and that people have practically grown up with the movies (FF1 was in 2001), it was a super touching goodbye.
***** This comment proves how regressive you are. My only comment was that you have a generic anime character as your avatar. Does that mean I hate anime? No.
C'mon Mike, it's explained by the blonde dude in the movie that if it kills the infected person, it will then go back after the one that gave it to the one that was just killed and so on back down the chain.
I liked It Follows, was creepy and had a great premise. But I kept wondering what happened if you lure the whatever in a pit and cover it with cement... If you can shoot it, can you also attach a GPS to it? What if you move to a different continent every few months... What if you fuck an astronaut, and the astronaut goes into space?
If you fuck an astronaut, he's fucking screwed. 1. Goes up into space. 2. It waits until NASA sends up supplies, then it hides in supplies. 3. CAN'T RUN IN SPACE STATION. 4. The End. Later on, it opens a window, falls back down to Earth, starts walking towards the next person in the smash hit sequel: IT FALLS
No it isn't. The character failing to come up with a clever solution isn't a plot hole. I'm sure there are plot holes in the film, but that isn't one of them. Besides, assuming It walks at 3mph, the average human walking speed (faster if it can become giant Tony Hawk whenever it wants), it would only take It ~37 days to cross the entire US East - West at the widest point. (~72 miles per day / 2680 miles). Not fast, granted, but you could never settle down anywhere for long. Even Barrow to Key West is 60 days.
It's a flaw, absolutely. It is, however, objectively *not* a plot hole. Their failure to come up with that plan in no way violates the internal logic of the movie, which is the definition of a plot hole
lessofyou What if you fuck Ellen Ripley and then she goes into space and it's like the movie Alien all over again and all the crew members die because they all fuck, but Ellen is the last one. Could she defeat it by shooting it out into space like she always does?
Guto Neto to be fair it looked like it walked about 3.5 miles an hour. so since it doesn't sleep and just always is moving towards you it would walk 84 miles a day. to put that into perspective, Texas is the 2nd largest state in the US. it is 790 miles across at it's longest distance east to west. that means it could walk across Texas in about 9 1/2 days. NYC to LA is 2972 miles it could cover that distance in a month.
Thank you, Jay, SO much for mentioning something that I have been saying for years... Jump scares are NOT scary, they are just startling (and, in my opinion, fucking annoying as fuck)... If you look at classic (and excellent...and memorable) horror films of the past (The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)), they rarely, if ever, use jump scares. Yes, there are exceptions such as the original "The Evil Dead" but I would say that film would still be just as good, intense and scary (and memorable) if you took the jump scares out. Most modern day Hollywood produced horror films substitute startles for true scares and they suck baboon ass... The most memorable and well made modern horror films of recent years are those like "The Witch," "It Follows" and "The Babadook" (all, I believe, independent BTW)... I have watched these movies multiple times (and will watch them more times in the future)... They got under my skin and into my brain and I could not stop thinking about them after my first viewing... These vomit-coated shit Hollywood horror movies are dull, annoying, not scary, and forgettable... They are roller-coaster rides that are only fun (for those that like jumping in their seats) *while you watch them* but offer little after the lights go back up...
Regarding the logic of It Follows that Mike brought up, whether or not the last person to "contract" it gives it to another person doesn't matter. The thing always goes BACKWARDS to the person who gave it to him/her. So if A gave it to B and it kills B, it then goes back to A.
7:25 They explained multiple times that if it kills somebody, it goes back to the prior person in the chain. It only ever attacks the latest person in the chain. *YOU HACK FRAUDS WEREN'T EVEN PAYING ATTENTION.*
As long as It Follows didn't set up too many rules; many horror films set up set in stone rules sometimes and they eat shit for it because they just wrote in a new rule for every place the story needed a new rule
IrishBullocks9377 It makes no sense in the context of the movie. They watch old 50's b-movies on a tiny CRT TV, while another girl is texting on a cell phone. It's definitely not realistic.
IrishBullocks9377 It makes no sense in the context of the movie. They watch old 50's b-movies on a tiny CRT TV, while another girl is texting on a cell phone. It's definitely not realistic.
SerenGetter do movies have to have absolute realism? i liked the indeterminate time period aspect. you can't talk about absolute realism in a movie where an invisible walking STD breaks your legs to death.
SerenGetter also, theres some classism to your comment. plenty of people still have 'tiny CRT TVs', especially in a poor part of the Midwest like Detroit. And yeah, liking sci-fi doesn't have an age limit, I thought.
I really liked It Follows. I'm not really scared of horror films so I don't know about that 'scary' elements, but I liked the tension and how it's going overall. (though I didn't really get why pool scene was there.) One of memorable things I liked is how they zooming in and focusing on a empty street like there's something to be noticed (Before the girl gets the curse). And props were interesting too. b/w screen TV and some clam shaped mobile phone was quite silly but weirdly fits.
Just watched it. Scared the bejeezus out of me. I just couldn't relax knowing this thing could come out of anywhere at any time. I kept scanning the screen looking for it.
I drove James Wan around a few times and he is a big dumb jerk. He also really phoned in directing for the film we were working on (Death Sentence), spending the vast majority of his time playing PlayStation and did blow in his trailer. So I doubt he made this sarcastically. The 1st AD probably made it sarcastically, though.
Maybe Mike and Jay didn't see the same things growing up but I can totally understand why those teenagers tried to electrocute the thing in a pool. So many cartoons and movies I remember watching had some scene where someone would drop a stereo or toaster in some water to electrocute someone. Whether its a real thing or not I understand where the teenagers in the movie could have gotten the idea.
wowow, you guys should have done a marathon of all the fast and furious like you did with resident evil before you saw the newest one. you would have appreciated it a little more imo
I fully agree with Mike and Jay in that Vin diesel is the least charismatic actor ever, but that's exactly what made him perfect for the Riddick movies
It's kind of hard to write a full arc for Paul Walker's character considering Paul Walked died during the filming. They obviously wanted to find a sweet, honorable way to write him out of the series USING the footage they already shot. Had he lived I think they could have made a concluded his arc in a better way. Also I feel at this point the point of the series IS to laugh at it. There is no one (or few people) who are like "yeah these guys are badass." From Fast 5 on the series has been a poking fun at itself. The Fast and Furious films are American Bollywood. They are crazy and over the top, but we love them because they're meant to feel good and be fun.
Ive always thought It Follows was a metaphor for STDs. you can pass it to others, it'll kill some, and always come back to you once you have it. but when you find someone you love, you kind of stop the spread...because you just pass it between one another. kiinda bleak, but makes sense...kinda.
mike was talking about how he didnt understand what happens if the "thing" kills someone without them passing it on. It moves to back down the line to the last person that had "it".
Joshua Barnett I believe that's the case, I've noticed certain channels that post TV shows have started using huge boarders, presumably similar to flipping or mirroring a video to avoid the copyright tracking algorithm.
Tony Midyett The problem is RUclips uses an automatic system rather than people to check so a lot of times people who are using things legally still get dinged and have to go through a process to get their video re-posted, the border is so they don't have to waste that time.
Being a child of the eighties, a me of my favorite movies were the Jack Arnold classics. As well as Ray Wise's The Haunting or It Came From Outer Space, the original Body Snatchers, Them and the first The Thing movie. So yeah, there are kids who enjoy 50's sci fi.
"It Follows was filmed in Detroit. And if that's not scary enough..."
LOL Great line
Jay Jimenez racist? How? Detroit was mismanaged into bankruptcy and ruin by whites and non-whites. The City council never heard of zero-based bugeting. You have an extremely broad definition of racism.
Jay Jimenez On a scale of 1 to George Bush, you rank at about a Dan Quayle level of stupidity.
Jay Jimenez that was actually pretty homophobic and sexist
+nothosaur I know right XD
+Matt Otter I said this: "Detroit was mismanaged into bankruptcy and ruin by whites and non-whites." Why did I say that? I said that in response to somebody irrationally calling me a racist. He called me a racist because I laughed a joke about how dangerous and dilapidated Detroit has become. I supposed that he thought that because Detroit is about 75% non-white, that I "therefore" was disparaging non-whites. It's a ridiculous conclusion to jump to based on that one comment. My comment was not political -- I was laughing at a good joke about urban decay.
What's so controversial about my response anyway? The union leaders, GM CEO, and the wasteful politicians were not only white and not only black. They were both. So, it makes no sense to cry "Racism!" when somebody jokes about Detroit falling apart. It was not a racial issue.
Regarding Mike's confusion @ 7:20 with the rules of *It Follow*'s universe: Jeff explains to Jay a couple times (when he's first explaining the rules to her after chloroforming her and again when they go to his house) that if the entity kills the person it's following, it will revert to pursuing the previous person to have passed it on. That's why he goes to all the trouble to tie her up and have her witness "It" so that she's forced to take what he's saying seriously and try to pass it on herself...without a heads up, the thing would finish her easily and then just come after him again.
GreenGretel Mike is the hackiest fraud
He knows that, but theoretically speaking if someone managed to run from the thing for a long enough span of time, and all the people previously "cursed" die from other causes before it gets to them, then it presumably wouldn't be able to spread. How many people did the "original" kid have sex with? Probably not many, and considering it was going after him, the chain literally went from her, to him, and then presumably to the girl who gave it to him who herself couldn't have given it to that many people. I can't see the chain being so long that it couldn't be stopped with very few deaths.
That having been said, that doesn't matter because this movie is a (nearly literal) nightmare: it operates on nightmare logic, not regular logic. If the movie operated on regular logic then one of the kids obviously would've thought to throw a towel over it and film it, or better yet, just demonstrate its existence doing something like that in front of a large group of witnesses.
I believe one of them also brought up the "dreamlike" quality of it, and it's apt. It also explains a lot of the other weird "inconsistencies" to it, such as the near-total absence of any adults, or the indistinct time period. To be clear, I don't think the movie is literally set in a dream, just that it operates under the logic of a nightmare, and that's sort of what makes it work so well.
Do you not realise how confusing that is
@@daftbanna7202 well no, because it isn't. Are you trying to make a joke or are you for real?
@@92brunod I'm saying I understand his confusion.
It's crazy how the first fast and the furious was so reserved compared to the more recent films. It was far more grounded by comparison. It was also focused more on street racing instead of international crime wars. It was about a cop befriending a criminal. They aren't really characters any more.
If the 10th Fast & Furious movie is not called FAST-10 YOUR SEATBELTS, I'm not fucking going.
The Fast
-10-
The Furious
no one's going, to anything :/
Yeah this comment was stolen from a Facebook post I saw months ago.
@@hans2five, I posted this 6 years ago. Are months longer than years?
@@racewiththefalcons1 yes
"Kurt Russell shows up and he's like 'I'm man. I'm man with suit, and I'm secret man.'" lmao I hope you guys review all the fast and furious movies now just to hear you try to explain everything like this.
That sounds like a Justin Roiland quote
"Every movie has problems unless you're Ghostbusters or The Rocketeer,"
Truer words have never been spoken
Mike: What will the 8th movie be called?
Jay: The8/T8
Several Years later: The ninth movie is called ... F9
"The Fast and Furious" movies were made to run constantly in jails nation wide.
As someone who works in a juvenile jail, you are not wrong.
@@williamcronshaw5262 8987
And the Transformers movies were made to run constantly in Guantanamo bay.
I think the fast & furious films were made one after the other as a sort of homage to petrol cars before the inevitable electric cars, the films (unfortunately) will be watched again and again by people harking back to a time where people had freedom and you could double clutch instead of granny shifting😂. As petrol cars will be cracked down upon in the near future, but that’s just my opinion.
@@inevitableveganfuture3915 as someone whps trapped in guantanamo bay ur not wrong
How did Mike miss that if the entity kills someone who hasn't yet passed on the curse it then goes back down the line to the person who gave the curse to them. That was like a major plot point in the movie.
i was surprised they missed it too. that's why it's so hopeless. you have to forever be on your toes.
What if they aren't alive anymore either, or the person before them. I'm assuming death from old age on patient zero would probably cause a bit of a paradox. Maybe a CLOVERF...
@@Ladylubber my solution was always to volunteer as tribute, be the end of the line, collect a heavy tax from everybody in line behind me and rent an apartment in Japan and one on the East Coast, US. I do meticulous research prior to map out the average pace of the "creature." Therefore, I should have a close enough estimate to fly between the two cities every 6months-year and keep the creature perpetually in the middle, far away from me. I live comfortably on the dime of the "line" in exchange for dealing with the curse and preventing further deaths.
Pretty full proof plan, imo. Of course, i'm sure final destination will kick in and one flight will have to be grounded in some random town that just happens to be where the creature just so happens to be.
@@OccupancyZero If you move away, does it go on a plane and follow you or does it walk beneath the ocean towards you?
@@Greendalewitch itll walk to you.
Furious 7: Age of Ultron
Wasted Potential there is so much with this comment.
derth4 Riddick: Guardian Of The Galaxy
Wasted Potential god dammit tenten!
derth4 Captain Diesel: The Only Avenger
derth4 Whenever I feel angry, I think about Vin Diesel being Batman in The Dark Knight.
As a a life-long Chicagoan, I feel I should clarify something...
It will always be the Sears Tower.
Why
@@matthillfromcollege4109 Mostly because of habit.
@@superpaul79 cool
My friends and I started some sort of horror movie club (semi-)recently, where we watch one horror flick a week in empty dark auditoriums at our university. I was the one to suggest most of the movies, and we watched It Follows on our second or third week. I was scared my friends would get bored of it (some of them are only there for the scares, not really for the movies) but after 20 minutes, we were all hooked. And good lord, that tall guy in the doorway still gets mentioned in discussions about the best scares in the movies we've seen every once in a while. Really nice film.
that’s nice
The score of it follows still gives me goosebumps
Adam Snee its a amazing score. Sad people didnt talk about it more. We need more awesome unique scores in horror
Seriously i wish they didn’t play it so much in the video, was making me paranoid
Mike's recap of the fast and furious franchise without seeing them was surprisingly accurate
"Daddy's gotta go to work!" - Mike Stoklasa
the follow up to It Came was It Left And Never Called.
I thought It Came was the prequel to Creating Rem Lezar
My bf loves the Fast and the Furious movies and always has me watch them with him but then he gets mad at me if I laugh cause he takes it soooo seriously! "It's about family!! Don't laugh at it!"
I forgot about this comment. Yeah it was a red flag I didn't take seriously enough, not with him anymore xD
CrissCrossGal good call
@@ThatCrissCrossGal I was just about to comment in hopes that I wasn't too late lol. Good for you!
I worked at a Family Video when this movie came out and witnessed a grown man cry and wine when he found out the movie was all rented out. The Fast and Furious chuds are not to be played with. I'm happy you escaped your ex.
Why are you guys still together?
You guys know what's following them right? It's boyhood.
Tony Midyett It can't suck, it took 12 years to make.
BOYHOOD IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!
Or it's representing a really bad STD warning message. I wonder if wearing a condom would prevent the transmission of the entity's connection? Ultimately I ended up feeling pretty bad for the girl who was forced to be promiscuous and ruin other peoples lives just to get her's back, or so she thought. I didn't think the end scene was necessary for the boy to show his devotion to her. They could've just showed them walking away holding hands without them getting intimate beforehand.
Considering this movie had an atmosphere of the 80s, I assumed "it" was a metaphor for HIV/AIDS in the 80s. How people were afraid of HIV and didn't understand it. No one could see it, but people were dying from it.
Just tuned in to finish watching the episode, then read your comment. I spent a good 5 to 10 seconds trying to work out what AIDs had to do with furious 7.
Let's play more David Cagee games you hackfrauds!
If thats the metaphor I dont think the movies message of "passing it on to get rid of it" is a particularly good one...
Try again
The film definitely draws on those fears of AIDS & STDs to help make the threat of "It" feel more potent, but I don't think that's the film's ultimate thematic concern
I love the soundtrack for It Follows. Also, Mike, the movie explains that after it kills the person you pass it to it comes back to you. You can never get rid of it, you can only delay it by passing the curse on each time it comes back to you.
A rock with googly eyes - Did they predict Everything Everywhere All At Once?!
I've been saying for so long now that Vin Diesel is impossible to understand, sounds tired, and is boring to watch. Thank you so much. Thank you!
It swallows!
gooseabuse it spits!
@@maw9406 it fucks
It Follows,
It Came,
It Swallows
The whole commentary by the child about the car going into the ocean kills me every time.
The montage of all the actors and stuff having fun legit made me feel happy. I wish all productions had that sort of drive.
they also have contracts stating how much can The Rock and Vin Diesel be beaten and beat other people so they're both equally strong. And they can't be in scenes together because they can't stand each other and would fight constantly.
But yeah, a 1 minute montage of people smiling truly prove how great the work atmosphere is. Breaking news, Axe deodorant will not get you instantly laid with dozens of hot women.
I'm not a horror fan per se, but after the double recommendation for It Follows, I recently gave it a watch. And yeah, I hafta agree - it was unique and stylishly retro. Kept me interested even despite the electrocution "kiddie-plan."
I've known of RLM for some time (since your Episode One breakdown) but only recently can I call myself a fan after falling down a rabbit hole of your shows. In some cases re-listening to shows in the background at work and still cracking up over Shaq Meat or Joke of the Show or just about anything on BotW.
I think it's great you've found an audience for what you love to do without bending too much to the demands of fans and comments. Stick to your guns - everything feels genuine. One of these days I'll get around to orderin' a copy of Space Cop!
Looking forward to everything - thanks a ton!
I don't think I've ever laughed at a RUclips video as much as when Mike said "This sounds like the setup for an action scene" in Vin Diesel's voice
25:39 _"Cue establishing shots / closeups of asses. Every scene."_
lol
"Brad Bird... is a cool dude"
I laughed with Jay as he said that
I got so mad at some guy the other day. He said he didn't like this movie because it had very few jumps scares, and when it did have a jump scare, they weren't fake out jump scare. Point being I tore him a new one.
jifyum07 You underestimate the stupidity of people
zachary goodwin This didn't happen
And people like him is why we get so many shitty horror movies
Adults who get scared by movies are not adults
I dig the shots with the VCR Tape playing and the clips playing on the label. Kudos to whoever came up with that.
15:14 One of the very few times on this channel anyone has made Mike laugh at a joke. It’s glorious.
Furious 7's title is still too long. The next one should just be "F8" or something. "The 8" will put people to sleep before they finish reading it. I can't process all those letters and shove things into my face hole at the same time.
Ratical but then it would be read as "fate"
I prefer 'Infuri8'
Ratical Just call it 8.
They're going to call it Fast V8
Isaac Shemp That's not bad, but people might get confused and think it's a prequel to "9", that animated movie with the rag dolls. Then again, maybe the next one can lead into it when Vin Diesel causes the apocalypse after trying to make his own Sackboy outta car parts. Oops!
00:47 - It Follows
13:45 - Furious 7
29:40 "The Chicago Bears Tower"
9:11
Are you THE Andy Bauman from Night of the Kickfighters?
This is awesome. Just yesterday I saw It Follows and I was thinking it's been a while since there was a Half in the Bag. And here it is.
Sometimes I forget they're humble VCR repairmen who wouldn't know what cable or ipads are.
Immediately after I saw It Follows, I was hoping you guys would do a review. Dreams do come true!
At 7:20, if "it" successfully kills its target, then it starts working back down the ladder by targeting the previous person in the chain. I'm surprised you missed this part of the logic. It was so fundamental to what makes the premise scary. You can't just get rid of the curse by having sex with someone and passing it on, because if that person gets killed by "it", then it's going to make you a target again. All you accomplish by having sex is buying time for yourself, but uncertainty is the price you pay because you won't know how much time you've bought for yourself, (if you pass the curse to a stranger for example).
I think they meant, what if the person is already dead. Like if theory all give up then the entity will go kill till the end and then what.
You know this is really poignant thematically... You can't ever truly get rid of it without sacrificing an entire line of people. Which is never going to happen. And so your only real choice is to continue having sex and passing it on. Chastity is not an option, because then you're consigning yourself to your fate.
Just like HIV/HPV/other STIs. The only way to truly live on is to produce offspring, and hope that the sons learn from the sins of the father and each generation becomes more successful. But inevitably history repeats itself.
Yes, and that explains why the guy who gives it to the main character goes to the trouble of educating her about it (after they've had sex). But one would think that the survivors would all b helping each other out such that an army of people would develop over time, all helping each other out--basically all cooperating to keep the most recent survivor moving. At the very least, a team of survivors sharing a couple of RVs always in motion and sleeping in shifts.
What if.. you fuck a corpse?
Holy fuck, can’t believe Jay mentioned Starry Eyes.... that’s like my favourite indie/low-budget horror movie of the decade!
I've finally watched It Follows and now can watch this whole thing.
Mike and Jay are fantastic comedians! Your shows are always hilarious!
Man Jay was super accurate when predicting that title.
One of my Friends told me Vin Diesel is very charismatic and his favorite actor. It´s my favorite joke of all time
Glad you guys recommended this, I got to catch in in the theater. The soundtrack and the atmosphere really add a lot to this one. The ending was very sudden and felt kind of rushed, and the confrontation in the pool was a bit lame. Still I liked it a lot as well. Very well made.
Mike's childlike joy is kind of a nice change of pace here, haha.
25:10 Favorite Mike moment. He is so happy.
OH MY GOOOOOD ANOTHER VIDEO! LOVE YOU GUYS!! I thought It Follows was very creepy and a good scary time af the movies. The soundtrack worked so good. Reminded me of Carpenter and Halloween.
Richard Patrick You love these hack frauds?
bbman R Patrick is not a real person, surely it's Mike or Jay trying to beef up the comments section. AS IF THEY DON'T COMMENT ENOUGH ALREADY!
I love your videos, but I just wanted to Note something:
Paul Walkers death was treated as a huge deal because he is one of the main characters for the entire series (which started what like back in 2001) and died during the production of this film so they were unable to use him in many scenes. So it seems ridiculous that he was given a huge send off if you have only seen this film but for other people who have been watching the series for almost 15 years (in 2015 of course) it made sense.
that being said I agree with all your other points about the movie, just thought that particular point really needed a proper explanation as to why they chose to have such a serious scene in a silly action film.
i love how he figured out the whole series from watching 1 of the 7 films
When the first fast and furious movie came out on dvd, I rented it. I got to a part where Vin Diesel says something like "I live my life a quarter mile at a time" or something like that. I got up out of my chair, took the dvd out, returned it and never watched another F&F movie since.
Why is Mike always in such pain when he has to say he recommends a movie
because its not star trek
If the Rock is the best actor in your film, then it is a bad sign.
He’s good
Rutger the Rock is not a good actor
Andrew Hart He get’s the job done with the roles he was casted for, and he does it better then anybody else would. Just like Arnold back in the days
He was good in Walking Tall
He's an OK actor in the right roles.
You guys are off on thinking the Walker memorial ending bit was too much. Yea, Paul's never been the strongest actor in the franchise but he is one of the main characters. And considering he passed away part way through the movie, and that people have practically grown up with the movies (FF1 was in 2001), it was a super touching goodbye.
Chad Quandt I agree Chad
***** some dude with a generic anime avatar?
***** People hate things so they can be edgy and cool.
***** RUclips comment sections are full of regressive and immature people.
***** This comment proves how regressive you are. My only comment was that you have a generic anime character as your avatar. Does that mean I hate anime? No.
Please still marathon all of the Fast & Furious movies. Promise you'll do it. Your two part video of the Resident Evil series is one of my favorites.
C'mon Mike, it's explained by the blonde dude in the movie that if it kills the infected person, it will then go back after the one that gave it to the one that was just killed and so on back down the chain.
Here I am six years later and I’ve only seen It Follows once at the theater and most people have forgotten about it.
I liked It Follows, was creepy and had a great premise. But I kept wondering what happened if you lure the whatever in a pit and cover it with cement... If you can shoot it, can you also attach a GPS to it? What if you move to a different continent every few months... What if you fuck an astronaut, and the astronaut goes into space?
If you fuck an astronaut, he's fucking screwed.
1. Goes up into space.
2. It waits until NASA sends up supplies, then it hides in supplies.
3. CAN'T RUN IN SPACE STATION.
4. The End.
Later on, it opens a window, falls back down to Earth, starts walking towards the next person in the smash hit sequel: IT FALLS
No it isn't. The character failing to come up with a clever solution isn't a plot hole. I'm sure there are plot holes in the film, but that isn't one of them.
Besides, assuming It walks at 3mph, the average human walking speed (faster if it can become giant Tony Hawk whenever it wants), it would only take It ~37 days to cross the entire US East - West at the widest point. (~72 miles per day / 2680 miles). Not fast, granted, but you could never settle down anywhere for long. Even Barrow to Key West is 60 days.
It's a flaw, absolutely. It is, however, objectively *not* a plot hole. Their failure to come up with that plan in no way violates the internal logic of the movie, which is the definition of a plot hole
lessofyou
What if you fuck Ellen Ripley and then she goes into space and it's like the movie Alien all over again and all the crew members die because they all fuck, but Ellen is the last one. Could she defeat it by shooting it out into space like she always does?
Guto Neto to be fair it looked like it walked about 3.5 miles an hour. so since it doesn't sleep and just always is moving towards you it would walk 84 miles a day. to put that into perspective, Texas is the 2nd largest state in the US. it is 790 miles across at it's longest distance east to west. that means it could walk across Texas in about 9 1/2 days. NYC to LA is 2972 miles it could cover that distance in a month.
Thank you, Jay, SO much for mentioning something that I have been saying for years... Jump scares are NOT scary, they are just startling (and, in my opinion, fucking annoying as fuck)... If you look at classic (and excellent...and memorable) horror films of the past (The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)), they rarely, if ever, use jump scares. Yes, there are exceptions such as the original "The Evil Dead" but I would say that film would still be just as good, intense and scary (and memorable) if you took the jump scares out. Most modern day Hollywood produced horror films substitute startles for true scares and they suck baboon ass... The most memorable and well made modern horror films of recent years are those like "The Witch," "It Follows" and "The Babadook" (all, I believe, independent BTW)... I have watched these movies multiple times (and will watch them more times in the future)... They got under my skin and into my brain and I could not stop thinking about them after my first viewing... These vomit-coated shit Hollywood horror movies are dull, annoying, not scary, and forgettable... They are roller-coaster rides that are only fun (for those that like jumping in their seats) *while you watch them* but offer little after the lights go back up...
Regarding the logic of It Follows that Mike brought up, whether or not the last person to "contract" it gives it to another person doesn't matter. The thing always goes BACKWARDS to the person who gave it to him/her. So if A gave it to B and it kills B, it then goes back to A.
21:53 "He takes a minigun off of a helicopter and starts shooting it"
Damn, that reminds me of Vulcan Raven from Metal Gear Solid
"Vin Diesel is like a real rock" I LOLed.
Mike was spot on with his thoughts on what Fast and Furious was about before the 7th one.
7:25 They explained multiple times that if it kills somebody, it goes back to the prior person in the chain.
It only ever attacks the latest person in the chain.
*YOU HACK FRAUDS WEREN'T EVEN PAYING ATTENTION.*
I finally watched “It Follows”. The Score/Soundtrack is TOO damn good. Just a great Horror movie.
As long as It Follows didn't set up too many rules; many horror films set up set in stone rules sometimes and they eat shit for it because they just wrote in a new rule for every place the story needed a new rule
Also lots of people enjoy watching sci fi b-movies; you don't have to be a 40 year old cynic/amateur film critic to enjoy shlock
IrishBullocks9377 It makes no sense in the context of the movie.
They watch old 50's b-movies on a tiny CRT TV, while another girl is texting on a cell phone. It's definitely not realistic.
IrishBullocks9377 It makes no sense in the context of the movie.
They watch old 50's b-movies on a tiny CRT TV, while another girl is texting on a cell phone. It's definitely not realistic.
SerenGetter do movies have to have absolute realism? i liked the indeterminate time period aspect. you can't talk about absolute realism in a movie where an invisible walking STD breaks your legs to death.
SerenGetter also, theres some classism to your comment. plenty of people still have 'tiny CRT TVs', especially in a poor part of the Midwest like Detroit.
And yeah, liking sci-fi doesn't have an age limit, I thought.
I like how Mike edited any trailer shots through the VHS tape. Looked very cool and different.
fast and furious starts at 13:42
I really liked It Follows. I'm not really scared of horror films so I don't know about that 'scary' elements, but I liked the tension and how it's going overall. (though I didn't really get why pool scene was there.) One of memorable things I liked is how they zooming in and focusing on a empty street like there's something to be noticed (Before the girl gets the curse). And props were interesting too. b/w screen TV and some clam shaped mobile phone was quite silly but weirdly fits.
"The 8" is about to premiere.
It's t9 for F9
It Follows is an instant classic horror picture.
Just watched it. Scared the bejeezus out of me. I just couldn't relax knowing this thing could come out of anywhere at any time. I kept scanning the screen looking for it.
Great review of It Follows. Very spot on. Please do a review of Ex Machina! Two of my favorite recent movies.
I drove James Wan around a few times and he is a big dumb jerk. He also really phoned in directing for the film we were working on (Death Sentence), spending the vast majority of his time playing PlayStation and did blow in his trailer. So I doubt he made this sarcastically. The 1st AD probably made it sarcastically, though.
when the Asian guy dies in a off the screen scene thats actually a full scene from tokyo drift, so what the reveal there is that IT WAS JASON STATHAM
Maybe Mike and Jay didn't see the same things growing up but I can totally understand why those teenagers tried to electrocute the thing in a pool.
So many cartoons and movies I remember watching had some scene where someone would drop a stereo or toaster in some water to electrocute someone.
Whether its a real thing or not I understand where the teenagers in the movie could have gotten the idea.
Dwayne Johnson is a jacked up Rob Schneider, and that's good somehow.
Prediction: the tenth Fast & Furious will be called *FAST10FURIOUS*
wowow, you guys should have done a marathon of all the fast and furious like you did with resident evil before you saw the newest one. you would have appreciated it a little more imo
I fully agree with Mike and Jay in that Vin diesel is the least charismatic actor ever, but that's exactly what made him perfect for the Riddick movies
I was just complaining this morning that I'd watched all their stuff, thank you RLM!
As a Chicagoan, the ending of this episode made me laugh more than it should've!!!
"I don't even know what's going on any more" - Richard Evans
Best Vin Diesel impression... ever!
It's kind of hard to write a full arc for Paul Walker's character considering Paul Walked died during the filming. They obviously wanted to find a sweet, honorable way to write him out of the series USING the footage they already shot. Had he lived I think they could have made a concluded his arc in a better way.
Also I feel at this point the point of the series IS to laugh at it. There is no one (or few people) who are like "yeah these guys are badass." From Fast 5 on the series has been a poking fun at itself.
The Fast and Furious films are American Bollywood. They are crazy and over the top, but we love them because they're meant to feel good and be fun.
Who loves them
If Stephen Kind wrote "It Follows" maybe the kids would have dogpile sex to confuse the monster.
That doesn't sound like the "K I N D" of story he would write.
_It Follows_ sounds neat. Thanks for the spoiler warning! This is your first video where I've had to use actually use it.
"The 8"
Made me laugh so hard.
Its so fun to read the comment arguments they're hilarious.
Nailed the plot of The Fast and the Furious one!!! Lol
i watched both of these movies for the first time in 2024, im 9 years behind on all half in the bags
It was nice seeing Mike cracking up at the The 8 joke.
you guys basically nailed your guess at the fast and furious plot lol
Ive always thought It Follows was a metaphor for STDs. you can pass it to others, it'll kill some, and always come back to you once you have it. but when you find someone you love, you kind of stop the spread...because you just pass it between one another. kiinda bleak, but makes sense...kinda.
Being in love won't stop it. It'll kill you, then your partner then go back down the chain again.
mike was talking about how he didnt understand what happens if the "thing" kills someone without them passing it on. It moves to back down the line to the last person that had "it".
What's with the VHS tape border on the trailers?
Is RUclips automatically taking down videos that contain copyrighted video?
Joshua Barnett I believe that's the case, I've noticed certain channels that post TV shows have started using huge boarders, presumably similar to flipping or mirroring a video to avoid the copyright tracking algorithm.
Tony Midyett
The problem is RUclips uses an automatic system rather than people to check so a lot of times people who are using things legally still get dinged and have to go through a process to get their video re-posted, the border is so they don't have to waste that time.
Joshua Barnett Content ID matches.
Its always a pleasure, seeing the greatest critics on earth sharing your personal opinions on a movie 🤗
0:00 - 14:00 It follows
14:00 Fast and furios 7
27:00 ...oh cool, I've never heard Roland Emmerich talk so candidly about one of his movies. Well done Mr Emmerich. Amazing work
Hope you guys are doing well in these weird times
Being a child of the eighties, a me of my favorite movies were the Jack Arnold classics. As well as Ray Wise's The Haunting or It Came From Outer Space, the original Body Snatchers, Them and the first The Thing movie.
So yeah, there are kids who enjoy 50's sci fi.