At first I thought you were making that up, but after a trip to the Wiki, I found that there are in fact 2 or 3 Star Trek references he's made over the past few years.
Mike praising a science-fiction film: "It was like this episode of Star Trek!" Mike criticizing a science-fiction film: "What they would've done on Star Trek is..."
@@jasonfenton8250 it's harder to reference DS9. It broke the mold. It isn't go to a place and what weird shit is happening this week. If it's a little headier he'll compare it to TNG, if it's goofier he'll compare it to TOS or Voy. Except in the review for the third New Trek movie I can't think of him ever referencing Enterprise.
Find it funny that they got Bryan Cranston for Power Rangers and he said in an interview that he was never on set or met any of the kids. They just stuck some sensors on his face and he read his lines in some room lmao.
When Jay asked Mike if he recommends “Life” it felt like Mike was thinking about real life and had to honestly consider whether or not he thought life was worth living
Yeah, but Lost isn't even that gritty. We need to see Gilligan waking up from the boat crash and seeing Mrs. Howell split in half holding her bag of cash.
My little sister has never seen let alone ever heard of RLM and when we were driving home she was making fun of people who were geeking out at the references and she even said "I went woo when the theme song played because I know it and everyone needs to know." RLM cynicism has leaked from my phone to my sister's brain, a true horror story.
I absolutely agree with your comments regarding LIFE. I worked on the movie designing and sculpting the creature from the ameba state untill its finale stage and the last look was supposed to be completely differet. The concept of the creature originally was completely different, a creature without head or end. It was fun to work on but true, they could have done better, the director changed his mind soooooo many times. you aguys are the best by the way!!
The Power Ranger convicted of murder was the Red Ranger from the 10th season, Power Rangers Wild Force. The actor's name is Ricardo Medina Jr. and his character was named Cole Evans. That season was notable because it featured a tenth anniversary special episode called Forever Red where Cole teamed up with all the previous Red Rangers to fight a group of one-off villains. He (the actor, not the character) later reappeared as a villain in Power Rangers Samurai, the 18th season. This was before he murdered his roommate with a sword. But don’t let that distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
Jay has a strange colouration around his left eye. Is Mike abusing you? Blink five times rapidly during the intro to the next BotW, and we'll contact the Milwaukee Police.
"gay wedding with a syphilitic elderly man who hasn't showered in 7 years and has disgusting genital warts on his decades old fecal encrusted taint." well I guess mike wrote the description
How can the new Chips movie be a flop? All I've heard people talking about all year was how they couldn't wait to see the new Chips movie! It was the most anticipated movie since the Bye Bye Man!
I've been told from a confidential source, that Russians definitely hacked the box office numbers...how can they disgrace the memory of Eric Estrada like that?
Mike has a good point about Star Trek: there was that one episode with the Crystalline entity. Even though the entity seemed like a monster that just consumed carbon lifeforms, the Enterprise tried communicating with it through some kind of signal and it seemed to be working until the crazy woman who had lost a son to the entity sabotaged the controls and destroyed it.
I always thought she was right to kill that thing. It was a beautiful, unique life form but straight up it had to be put down. Way too dangerous to just leave that thing wandering around a galaxy full of humans.
@@monsieurcondottiero2685 The galaxy is probably less than 10% human. But anyway even in reality wildlife control people usually capture dangerous animals and take them out into the wild, far away from civilization and back into their natural environment. So really Picard should've roped that sucker and towed it into deep deep space. Bring that shit to the Borg.
And Data had the thoughts of the dead colonists (One of which was her son) and tells her how disappointed he would have been in her actions, and it broke her. Truly great episode. lol
It's weird that this high-quality entertainment is free to watch on the internet, meanwhile to see the boring movies they talk about you need to go to a place, pay for a ticket, sit in an uncomfortable seat, and tolerate other humans for two hours. It's a miracle to me that Hollywood has still not gone completely bankrupt. I don't know what's keeping them afloat. Is it China?
Except if you buy DRM-free, in which case it's yours to keep and use forever. It's still your responsibility to safe-keep your own data, but it's yours.
I guess it really depends on the person. Some people who enjoy games like to replay them. (Just how some people like to watch old movies.) I usually play and replay games from up to 25 years ago, so buying DRM-free is important to me. It's a shitty situation that a lot of new games are Steam-dependent, but then again, most of those can be cracked.
someone already has that username If you had that many bars of gold, they would basically lose intrinsic value because gold would be as common as iron.
How can they fuck up the origin story for Power Rangers, it's right there in the intro! "Aaaaaaaaaahhh! After ten thousand years, finally I'm free!!!" "Alpha, Rita has escaped! Find me a group of teenagers with attitude!" There, done in less than 20 seconds. And yes, they are magically teleported in front of Zordon who then turns them into the Rangers. Also, since they have attitude, none of them mope or whine about being Rangers.
I actually thought most of the changes they made were tolerable and make sense given the lore. Like Rita being the original Green Ranger. That's how she has the dragon coin to give Tommy. That being said, I miss the camp. It tried to be campy in bits, but then it also wanted to be gritty, that's the real problem with the 2017 movie. It kinda flip-flops between the two. I also took most of the characters being edgy as trying to update it. The original characters didn't have much depth and were walking 90's stereotypes, so now it only makes sense to make them walking 2010's stereotypes with slightly more depth.
Another thing I actually sorta liked was that they had to like, earn the Ranger suits and powers. I liked that they put some weight behind that. But as a result it meant we really only got, like, one shitty action sequence at the last twenty minutes with a really bad CG Megazord. The design is just crap, it just looks like a Transformer. It lacks the charm of being literally 5 toys smooshed together into a bigger toy.
I saw Power Rangers in theaters and I've NEVER laughed so hard in my life. My good friend is a huge Power Rangers fan, and he was laughing just as hard as me. VERY cool.
Why get so upset about the promotional tie-ins? I thought the scene where they figure out that they can finally morph if they eat at Krispy Kreme was a brave new vision.
I don't know if anyone reads these comments, so whatever. Here's the Power Rangers explanation: A guy called Saban made a company called Saban with the idea of taking Japanese Super Sentai footage, dubbing over it, and selling this shlock on TV. (Super Sentai is just Power Rangers, but Japanese. Exactly as you'd imagine it.) But of course because you can't sell Japanese live-action non-action footage to kids, you gotta get some actors and some 90s stuff that looks like Saved by the Bell. Every episode you'd get the formula of the villains send some monster down to Earth, they beat the shit outta the monster, the monster grows into a giant, they combine their robo-animal-toys to make a giant-robo-toy and beat the shit outta the giatn monster. Rinse n' repeat. The first show, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had three seasons, but every season after it was it's own show, with a different, "storyline," and different ripped Japanese footage. Each episode follows the formula, mix it up once in a while, toss in some attractive young adult actors, toss in some over-acting incompetant bumbling fumbling villains, toss in a bit of drama, there you go. I only really know this shit because Twitch is having a marathon stream of every episode. After a long while, Disney bought the rights to the franchise, moved it to New Zealand for a cheaper budget. Then after a few seasons of that the Saban dudes bought it back. And here we are today. It's actually exported to Japan, dubbed in Japanese, and sold there. Think about that. While watching it, you can try and spot what footage is from Japan. Some of the giveaways that you're watching Japanese stuff is sudden scene changes, different backgrounds, lower quality film, and uh, the giant Mount Fuji in the background.
1:55 starts one of the greatest RLM moments ever. Mike's sarcasm is SO heartfelt and on spot, and Jay's just so happy to play along, enjoying his rant like me and probably you too
Jesus if it's Jack and Jill level of bad it should be kinda infamous LIKE Jack and Jill, but instead its forgotten utterly and completely so actually.... maybe it wasn't on that level after all, I never saw either I'm merely analyzing lol in fact I had no idea CHIPS was even based on an earlier thing....cause I'm 14! no I'm joking I'm 25, but seriously I had no clue it was based on a shitty ancient TV show... and I'm still never watching it, but when my grandma comes over I'm going to rent it for her lol maybe she'll remember it
The Power Rangers movie’s plot sounds like it came from a table-top roleplaying game, like Dungeons and Dragons. Five completely different young people of completely different ethnicities and completely different personalities who, for reasons mostly within character, meet at the same place, get some cool quest, and have completely unique powers. After trials and tribulations where their individual abilities have at least one moment to shine, they finally defeat the big bad guy and become good friends.
"I can't tell if they were self-aware of how terrible it was." In that case it's already failed as an adaptation, because the source material was quite self-aware ... for instance, here's an exchange from the first few minutes of the first episode: Zordon: It's Rita. She's escaped, and she's attacking the planet! Alpha: What do we do? Zordon: Teleport to us five overbearing and over-emotional humans. Alpha: No! Not that! Not teenagers! Zordon: That's correct, Alpha. Alpha: I was afraid of that.
It's Chekov's Gun. An object incidentally introduced that becomes vital later on. Also, considering how hard it seems to be to make a good movie with giant robots, Pacific Rim seems to be one of the most amazing feats of movie making ever done.
Those power ranger "Styled" donuts are so lazy. Power Rangers made the climax surrounding a Krispy Kreme building but the donuts are just a cream filled chocolate icing with small lightning bolts. At least filled them with like colour themed fillings. Like Raspberry Jelly for red, custard for yellow and blue berry for blue.
On the muted colors of the Power Rangers' suits: on art sites around the internet, a common critique I've seen is that bright colors are "over-saturated." "Try coloring things the color they really are, instead of the over-saturated color you think they are," is a comment I once received...from an artist who specialized in drawing gryphons. So I'm assuming that some of the people who made those comments were hired by Hollywood, and are now making colors muted in tons of movies because they believe bright colors are "unrealistic" and therefore "bad."
Laughed really hard when Mike was happy there was no action so he wasn't disturbed. I wonder how this whole movie trend of insane explosions that hurt your eyes and ears will end. Or if it will at all
"went in with such low expectations that I found the movie adequate" - yeah, I think that pretty much sums up my thoughts on P.R. too. They should put that endorsement on the cover of the dvd.
"She was getting gold to make her gold monster, that just looked like... gelatinous piss... at the end?" Jay just has such a wonderful way to express himself.
This is one of my Favorite half in the bag episodes just for that one moment when Jay mentions that the first episode was only 10 minutes long and it cuts to Mike opening a beer and having a moment of pure laughter. Always brings me joy. 4:19
1) Mike, Zordon (Bryan Cranston) told the Rangers once they Morph, their suits will connect with the big robots aka Zords. 2) I like how Jay is pretending not to know about Power Rangers when he CLEARLY does. 3) "A little bird told me." 😂
"And elderly black women" My 70 year old Jamaican mother-in-law went to see it (when she's bored she goes into the cinema and watches whatever's on). She said she fell asleep.
my favorite thing bout the power rangers is in the original rita wakes up and attacks then zordon literally just says 'hey alpha get me 5 overbearing and overemotional humans' and that is literally their origin story.
They spent so long building up to the suits because they had to establish new ground rules for the franchise. In the original show, they were able to morph in the first episode, not strings attached. They wanted to have a more concrete reason why these five random kids would be able to fight cohesively together, so they have to show them bonding. THEN, they also wanted to establish their super abilities, which they don't have in the show (canonically). I agree it was too long, and they should have spread it out, but since it's meant to be the first in a series, I think it was okay that they have. I have a bigger problem with the aesthetics of the costumes and designs, pretty much for the reasons Mike said; everything is so muddy and over-complicated.
Mike and other guy’s final ‘would you recommend it’ verdicts are so freakin’ random! Spend 20 minutes shitting on a movie. “Yeah, I’d recommend it. It’s okay. You can have an okay time watching it”
Thank you for half in bag so fresh, and an honest review please keep it up. Thx guys plse do nerd crew part 3. I need the trilogy for the RLM special edition, anniversary, HD, letter box, 4K, 3D, nintendo switch, star trek 50th, Leonard nimoy birthday, Obamacare anniversary, star trek discovery pre launch party, same sex marriage anniversary super special limited edition!!! Thanks, love everything you do!!!
an eagle-eyed viewer might have noticed how mike drops really subtle hints and clues every now and then that suggest he watches star trek.
You noticed too?
i guess you could say Mike drops mic drops
You didn't notice... but your brain did.
Poirot's Mustache stay outta my popcorn John!
At first I thought you were making that up, but after a trip to the Wiki, I found that there are in fact 2 or 3 Star Trek references he's made over the past few years.
Mike praising a science-fiction film: "It was like this episode of Star Trek!"
Mike criticizing a science-fiction film: "What they would've done on Star Trek is..."
You know, its funny, because Mr Plinkett did end up on Ellen...
Say what?
They know people who know people.
Maybe I'm kinda gay just kinda still not sure maybe not sure maybe I am
Mike sounds like a senior citizen who goes to the movies just to kill time and because he gets a discount
yes.
marco gonzalez
That's what I'm gonna do when I become an old man.
I will live in the cinema. Popcorn for breakfast and hotdogs and nachos for lunch and dinner
marco gonzalez attacked
He’s not?
Jay is completely numb to the Star Trek references says at this point. It's like maybe if he doesn't move Mike won't be able to see him.
Sometimes I wonder how many Rich and Mike make up just to fuck with Jay
Pete Wade Well none of the Trek references I've seen them make on rlm have been made up... I wish Mike would reference DS9 more.
@@jasonfenton8250 it's harder to reference DS9.
It broke the mold. It isn't go to a place and what weird shit is happening this week.
If it's a little headier he'll compare it to TNG, if it's goofier he'll compare it to TOS or Voy.
Except in the review for the third New Trek movie I can't think of him ever referencing Enterprise.
"So Mike, would you recommend life?"
"................... yes."
"I meant the movie."
"Super Sentai, or something like that."
Great cover.
lol I thought the same thing
weeb
Jay actually is full blown weaboo who just hides his power level
I think he's turning Japanese I think he's turning Japanese, I really think so.
He's gotta play that trap card face down until someone finally manages to activate it
Find it funny that they got Bryan Cranston for Power Rangers and he said in an interview that he was never on set or met any of the kids. They just stuck some sensors on his face and he read his lines in some room lmao.
He voiced monsters in the first series.
@Monty Himself
wow. I can't believe someone else is aware of that. Bryan Cranston does have that tie to the original Power Rangers.
Meeting Bryan Cranston would have been the one positive thing these actors could've taken away from this movie.
@@christophzeit6282 No one is going to say "Making this movie was a shitshow"
@@ianlinn596 Well, aside from the paycheck.
When Jay asked Mike if he recommends “Life” it felt like Mike was thinking about real life and had to honestly consider whether or not he thought life was worth living
I was expecting a Trainspotting reference.
Maybe they'll remake Gilligan's Island as a gritty survival movie.
Noah Smith That sounds terrible and amazing at the same time. I want it now.
Perfect lol
That could actually happen
liam neeson as gilligan
Yeah, but Lost isn't even that gritty. We need to see Gilligan waking up from the boat crash and seeing Mrs. Howell split in half holding her bag of cash.
Spoiler Alert: It takes 7 minutes and 28 seconds, untill Mike mentions Star Trek
7 minutes too long
lol'd
because Star Trek is the shit.
Legit thought I was watching a power rangers review till I read this comment. I was pretty confused
Plinketto #6 contains Mike not referencing Star Trek. What I'm saying is, it subverted my expectations.
"In Star Trek they would always..." Oh, Mike. Adorable.
My little sister has never seen let alone ever heard of RLM and when we were driving home she was making fun of people who were geeking out at the references and she even said "I went woo when the theme song played because I know it and everyone needs to know." RLM cynicism has leaked from my phone to my sister's brain, a true horror story.
Grayson Myers She "BROKE NEW GROUND"
you didnt notice it. but your brain did
"and when we were driving home [from the movie?]"
Oh noooooooo...
Hugo Patino-Cano me too, then I had a boner
SHE CLAPPED! SHE CLAPPED WHEN SHE HEARD IT! SHE KNOWS WHAT THAT IS!
I absolutely agree with your comments regarding LIFE. I worked on the movie designing and sculpting the creature from the ameba state untill its finale stage and the last look was supposed to be completely differet. The concept of the creature originally was completely different, a creature without head or end. It was fun to work on but true, they could have done better, the director changed his mind soooooo many times. you aguys are the best by the way!!
Is there a way to see the other designs?
What was it like to work with Daniel? i saw he just did Morbius recently
so many directer are super indecisive lol
"Life and Power Rangers" should be the title of Bryan Cranston's autobiography.
That's actually a really good title. Props to you for thinking of that.
Sigh. I'm more comfortable with Russians having access to nuclear weaponry than I am with your access to the internet.
well Bryan Cranston was in the original Power Rangers series.
Didn't he play the red one? I never watched the show but for no good reason I needed to ask lol
bullsht noprivacy he was a voiceover guy for some of the villains
They could have simplified the plot by having a Krispy Kreme in the rock quarry.
Will McGill gi
The coins are frosting decals on the damn donuts. Shit that’d be funny
I don't look forward to watching movies anymore. I just look forward to watching the reviews.
Wait until reviews of movie reviews become a thing. We won't even want to watch Mike and Jay anymore, just other people commenting on them.
Spencer Williams And then the reviews of the review reviews come out
Like reading the comments section?
Thats awfully sad...
Metoo
The Power Ranger convicted of murder was the Red Ranger from the 10th season, Power Rangers Wild Force. The actor's name is Ricardo Medina Jr. and his character was named Cole Evans. That season was notable because it featured a tenth anniversary special episode called Forever Red where Cole teamed up with all the previous Red Rangers to fight a group of one-off villains. He (the actor, not the character) later reappeared as a villain in Power Rangers Samurai, the 18th season. This was before he murdered his roommate with a sword. But don’t let that distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
That killed him! As god is my witness he is broken in half!
Reddit has conditioned me to read comments from the bottom up
GeneralNerd You started with red ranger and ended with undertaker.
I Love this comment, and Jake the Trenchcoat's reply.
Good ole J.R!
Wow it would be someone from the one season I watched
"Watch Power Rangers! It's like erectile dysfunction."
- Half in the Bag
I fucking love Vaporeon!
I love fucking vaporeon!
This foreshadowed rich actually being on ellen. Im convinced they can see the future
Jay has a strange colouration around his left eye. Is Mike abusing you? Blink five times rapidly during the intro to the next BotW, and we'll contact the Milwaukee Police.
"gay wedding with a syphilitic elderly man who hasn't showered in 7 years and has disgusting genital warts on his decades old fecal encrusted taint."
well I guess mike wrote the description
Mike's crippling star trek addiction is perhaps worse than his alcohol addiction.
Is Star Trek replacing alcohol?!
It started with a few drinks, at a party. But one thing led to another, and now, I'm a Startrekoholic.
the age old question, brain or liver
I think society falling drastically short of the ideals in Trek leads to alcoholism.
Huh. Today I learned the term "Chekhov's Gun" does not come from Star Trek. I learned this because Mike doesn't know it.
Lol
Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright.
It’s funny because it is the most commonly quoted plot device cited by obnoxious film student/wannabe film experts
@@frankmerker630 In fairness, chekov's gun goes beyond film.
Can you imagine Rich Evans as a power ranger?
lisciatoredimele89 Diabetes Ranger Go! He would die trying to put on his suit.
go go nine eleven!
Wasn't that called "Space Cop?"
His Zord would be that juicy Shaq meat he would ride that thing to deafeat an army of Monkeys with pipes and young love or something like that.
I try not to
I honestly can't believe "Murder, She Tweeted" hasn't happened yet. I guess we aren't in peak reboot yet-- and that scares me.
'Murder, She Twote'?
Murder she twoted
I think we're safe now. "Murder she X" doesn't have a good ring to it.
How can the new Chips movie be a flop? All I've heard people talking about all year was how they couldn't wait to see the new Chips movie! It was the most anticipated movie since the Bye Bye Man!
i think you mean since Ben Hur
ChimpFromSpace I had been waiting to see what modern CGI could do with Chips ever since they made Tron- uh, Legacy?
I've been told from a confidential source, that Russians definitely hacked the box office numbers...how can they disgrace the memory of Eric Estrada like that?
"Hey I remember that shit!" The movie. Unfortunately coming soon. Over and over.
TV series in need of a dark, gritty reboot:
Cheers, The Monkees, Happy Days, Keeping Up Appearances, The Cosby Show
QBG the Cosby Show Nolan-ized is just Bill Cosby's real life
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
Everybody loves raymond
Mr. Ed
Bill Cosby Hey Bill, how you been, you seeing any women you like recently? Promise I won't tattle.
Life is about humans fighting blood thirsty aliens who have no concept of morality, while Star Trek defends their civil liberties
I wonder if Mike likes Star Trek
I think he might like the first movie, he never talks about it enough.
He loves Star Trek Generations.
erichwk no, he hates it
Ohhhhh, I thought he was a fan of STAT Trek, the educational website, that makes more sense
He secretly wants to wipe it from existence
Mike has a good point about Star Trek: there was that one episode with the Crystalline entity. Even though the entity seemed like a monster that just consumed carbon lifeforms, the Enterprise tried communicating with it through some kind of signal and it seemed to be working until the crazy woman who had lost a son to the entity sabotaged the controls and destroyed it.
I always thought she was right to kill that thing. It was a beautiful, unique life form but straight up it had to be put down. Way too dangerous to just leave that thing wandering around a galaxy full of humans.
@@monsieurcondottiero2685 The galaxy is probably less than 10% human. But anyway even in reality wildlife control people usually capture dangerous animals and take them out into the wild, far away from civilization and back into their natural environment. So really Picard should've roped that sucker and towed it into deep deep space. Bring that shit to the Borg.
And Data had the thoughts of the dead colonists (One of which was her son) and tells her how disappointed he would have been in her actions, and it broke her. Truly great episode. lol
It's weird that this high-quality entertainment is free to watch on the internet, meanwhile to see the boring movies they talk about you need to go to a place, pay for a ticket, sit in an uncomfortable seat, and tolerate other humans for two hours. It's a miracle to me that Hollywood has still not gone completely bankrupt. I don't know what's keeping them afloat. Is it China?
The Stale Gamer There are so many internet movie reviewers now that they alone going to every movie is keeping Hollywood afloat.
ParanormalCacti Yep, that must be it.
Disney.
Except if you buy DRM-free, in which case it's yours to keep and use forever. It's still your responsibility to safe-keep your own data, but it's yours.
I guess it really depends on the person. Some people who enjoy games like to replay them. (Just how some people like to watch old movies.) I usually play and replay games from up to 25 years ago, so buying DRM-free is important to me. It's a shitty situation that a lot of new games are Steam-dependent, but then again, most of those can be cracked.
I wish I had someone to look at me the way Jay looks at Mike :^(
with utter disdain?
If I had bar of gold for every time Mike compares a Half in the Bag film to Star Trek I'd be the richest person on earth.
someone already has that username If you had that many bars of gold, they would basically lose intrinsic value because gold would be as common as iron.
someone already has that username what if it got transferred to him.
19:27 A threatened Mike displays a defense mechanism by spraying poisonous gas, nature is truly amazing.
I love how they talked about Power Rangers for most of the video
"Life and Power Rangers" sounds like an embarrassing documentary about power rangers fandom.
WHEN THEY PLAYED THE POWER RANGERS THEME I CLAPPED!
ZOOOOORRRDDSSSS!!!1!
Oh god, you're one of _those_ cinema goers.
IT BROKE NEW GROUND!!!
I clapped when Bryan Cranston pulled out the red power suit
stop it with all the star trek references you nerd
"We sat to some nerd in his late 20's in a Power Rangers cowel"
I think they sat next to Linkara
How can they fuck up the origin story for Power Rangers, it's right there in the intro!
"Aaaaaaaaaahhh! After ten thousand years, finally I'm free!!!"
"Alpha, Rita has escaped! Find me a group of teenagers with attitude!"
There, done in less than 20 seconds.
And yes, they are magically teleported in front of Zordon who then turns them into the Rangers. Also, since they have attitude, none of them mope or whine about being Rangers.
I actually thought most of the changes they made were tolerable and make sense given the lore. Like Rita being the original Green Ranger. That's how she has the dragon coin to give Tommy.
That being said, I miss the camp. It tried to be campy in bits, but then it also wanted to be gritty, that's the real problem with the 2017 movie. It kinda flip-flops between the two. I also took most of the characters being edgy as trying to update it. The original characters didn't have much depth and were walking 90's stereotypes, so now it only makes sense to make them walking 2010's stereotypes with slightly more depth.
To be fair, the new origin story takes cues from the original Super Sentai show.
caracatoacacepe The did mope. They bitched, moaned, and second-guessed being rangers in the first episode.
Another thing I actually sorta liked was that they had to like, earn the Ranger suits and powers. I liked that they put some weight behind that. But as a result it meant we really only got, like, one shitty action sequence at the last twenty minutes with a really bad CG Megazord. The design is just crap, it just looks like a Transformer. It lacks the charm of being literally 5 toys smooshed together into a bigger toy.
they didn't mope in the first episode. They were like "okay weird talking head in a tube, no thanks, bye" like reasonable people would react
I saw Power Rangers in theaters and I've NEVER laughed so hard in my life. My good friend is a huge Power Rangers fan, and he was laughing just as hard as me. VERY cool.
Mike's face when he's asked if he would recommenced life is the best.
Jay’s “reaction” to Chips is still the most emotive I’ve ever seen him.
Why get so upset about the promotional tie-ins? I thought the scene where they figure out that they can finally morph if they eat at Krispy Kreme was a brave new vision.
IT BROKE NEW GROUND!
Well, for me, personally, this is the best tie in I've ever seen.
1:30 wouldn’t be the first time an Ellen assistant cried.
life would have been such a cool secret venom prequel.
I don't know if anyone reads these comments, so whatever. Here's the Power Rangers explanation:
A guy called Saban made a company called Saban with the idea of taking Japanese Super Sentai footage, dubbing over it, and selling this shlock on TV. (Super Sentai is just Power Rangers, but Japanese. Exactly as you'd imagine it.) But of course because you can't sell Japanese live-action non-action footage to kids, you gotta get some actors and some 90s stuff that looks like Saved by the Bell. Every episode you'd get the formula of the villains send some monster down to Earth, they beat the shit outta the monster, the monster grows into a giant, they combine their robo-animal-toys to make a giant-robo-toy and beat the shit outta the giatn monster. Rinse n' repeat.
The first show, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had three seasons, but every season after it was it's own show, with a different, "storyline," and different ripped Japanese footage.
Each episode follows the formula, mix it up once in a while, toss in some attractive young adult actors, toss in some over-acting incompetant bumbling fumbling villains, toss in a bit of drama, there you go.
I only really know this shit because Twitch is having a marathon stream of every episode.
After a long while, Disney bought the rights to the franchise, moved it to New Zealand for a cheaper budget. Then after a few seasons of that the Saban dudes bought it back. And here we are today.
It's actually exported to Japan, dubbed in Japanese, and sold there. Think about that.
While watching it, you can try and spot what footage is from Japan. Some of the giveaways that you're watching Japanese stuff is sudden scene changes, different backgrounds, lower quality film, and uh, the giant Mount Fuji in the background.
Actually, the continuity (some cast) continue through Zeo, Turbo, and In Space (which is the proper conclusion of the story-line.)
when Mike is already drinking in the thumbnail you know it's shit
*the shit
Ryukachoo Mike drinks shit? Does he know those two girls?
All of Red Letter Media's film reviews are just treasures. That's what they are. Just. Treasures. These must live forever on the internet.
I can’t wait to be an old man falling asleep while RLM plays on a 24 hour loop on Pluto TV
WILL YA CLOSE THE FUCKIN' DOOR?!
Matthew Ness Why did you have to point that out?
They're too optimistic, it's going to be Murder She Emote.
1:55 starts one of the greatest RLM moments ever. Mike's sarcasm is SO heartfelt and on spot, and Jay's just so happy to play along, enjoying his rant like me and probably you too
That look of fear on Mike's face when he's outed as a closeted Power Rangers fan
I like how the trailer they showed for "Life" said Memorial Day at some point, boy was the studio ambitious or what? It got kicked back 2 months.
Come on Jay I know your ass was on Twitch watching that Power Ranger marathon with the rest of us.
What is your profile pick of?
dean mccoppin from the iron giant.
Thats were i remember him from...
You have to review Chips now. I remember it.
Full disclosure. I was tricked into watching Chips at a Sneak Preview. I wanted to kill myself. Jack and Jill level bad here.
Jesus if it's Jack and Jill level of bad it should be kinda infamous LIKE Jack and Jill, but instead its forgotten utterly and completely so actually.... maybe it wasn't on that level after all, I never saw either I'm merely analyzing lol in fact I had no idea CHIPS was even based on an earlier thing....cause I'm 14! no I'm joking I'm 25, but seriously I had no clue it was based on a shitty ancient TV show... and I'm still never watching it, but when my grandma comes over I'm going to rent it for her lol maybe she'll remember it
WE NEED GEORGE LUCAS SALAD UNBOXING VIDEO #2!!
unboxes a salad with a dead bat in it
The Mighty Muffin Pounder Rangers
Temmie Plays! Fifteen minutes of parody and forty five minutes of fucking
The Power Rangers movie’s plot sounds like it came from a table-top roleplaying game, like Dungeons and Dragons. Five completely different young people of completely different ethnicities and completely different personalities who, for reasons mostly within character, meet at the same place, get some cool quest, and have completely unique powers. After trials and tribulations where their individual abilities have at least one moment to shine, they finally defeat the big bad guy and become good friends.
The mother fckin power of friendship.
A gritty Mama's Family reboot. That sounds amazing.
Kingzombie35 Eunice!
Especially since the original sketches on the Carol Burnett Show were pretty darned depressing.
"I can't tell if they were self-aware of how terrible it was."
In that case it's already failed as an adaptation, because the source material was quite self-aware ... for instance, here's an exchange from the first few minutes of the first episode:
Zordon: It's Rita. She's escaped, and she's attacking the planet!
Alpha: What do we do?
Zordon: Teleport to us five overbearing and over-emotional humans.
Alpha: No! Not that! Not teenagers!
Zordon: That's correct, Alpha.
Alpha: I was afraid of that.
I Dream of Genie: The Nolanizsd Version. Coming summer 2018.
It's Chekov's Gun. An object incidentally introduced that becomes vital later on.
Also, considering how hard it seems to be to make a good movie with giant robots, Pacific Rim seems to be one of the most amazing feats of movie making ever done.
Defenstrator Unfortunately, in Pacific Rim, the characters, who took up the majority of film, were absolutely wretched.
Defenstrator
Chekhov, that's that guy from Star Trek, right?
Those power ranger "Styled" donuts are so lazy. Power Rangers made the climax surrounding a Krispy Kreme building but the donuts are just a cream filled chocolate icing with small lightning bolts. At least filled them with like colour themed fillings. Like Raspberry Jelly for red, custard for yellow and blue berry for blue.
Every time I feel a little bit bad, I come here and watch Jay’s reaction at 14:53 and I feel a bit better
Jay is having a huge giggle fit. :D It cured my bad moods for the next three months.
There's probably a Mama's Family reboot film in the works. There has to be.
Geospasmic with Michael B. Jordan in the Ken Berry role for diversity.
Erik Estrada! There he is!
Someone finally he can take care of those kids kicking sand in cool cat's face
On the muted colors of the Power Rangers' suits: on art sites around the internet, a common critique I've seen is that bright colors are "over-saturated." "Try coloring things the color they really are, instead of the over-saturated color you think they are," is a comment I once received...from an artist who specialized in drawing gryphons. So I'm assuming that some of the people who made those comments were hired by Hollywood, and are now making colors muted in tons of movies because they believe bright colors are "unrealistic" and therefore "bad."
"What did I ever do to you?"-Susan Plinkett
The one time I got pulled over by the CHP, I missed my chance to say, "You're not Eric Estrada."
Laughed really hard when Mike was happy there was no action so he wasn't disturbed. I wonder how this whole movie trend of insane explosions that hurt your eyes and ears will end. Or if it will at all
"went in with such low expectations that I found the movie adequate" - yeah, I think that pretty much sums up my thoughts on P.R. too. They should put that endorsement on the cover of the dvd.
Time to Star Trek: 7:26
Mike made it past 7 minutes? I don't believe you.
Life is a much better alien movie than "Alien: Covenant".
That's not saying much.
Meh
"She was getting gold to make her gold monster, that just looked like... gelatinous piss... at the end?"
Jay just has such a wonderful way to express himself.
I watch re-runs of RLM episodes everyday because it helps with my depression and makes me feel less alone.
I love their movie commentaries too.
Yes
Just realized I am doing the same
I think mike is on autopilot cause all these "dark" nostalgia-cash-ins are exactly the same. He's desensitized.
This is one of my
Favorite half in the bag episodes just for that one moment when Jay mentions that the first episode was only 10 minutes long and it cuts to Mike opening a beer and having a moment of pure laughter. Always brings me joy. 4:19
1) Mike, Zordon (Bryan Cranston) told the Rangers once they Morph, their suits will connect with the big robots aka Zords.
2) I like how Jay is pretending not to know about Power Rangers when he CLEARLY does.
3) "A little bird told me." 😂
That face Jay made at the end while trying not to laugh was amazing, that desperate swallow to hold back from busting out laughing.
The face of Jay when he is so tempted at the begining is 10,000% certified pure unadultered unfiltered solidified *G* *O* *L* *D* right there.
RLM predicted Rich on the Ellen show
Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
hack
~tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies~
4:18 had me on the floor for some reason
Ditto. That edit was great.
...So dense, so many rhymes.
Did your brother tear you to pieces again...because he was too lazy to throw the remains into the Nile...because your name is Osiris...please laugh!!!
Finally, friends for 37 minutes!!
I love how Jay just can't stop laughing through this whole review
Man this video had some fantastic jokes, great job you guys
"And elderly black women"
My 70 year old Jamaican mother-in-law went to see it (when she's bored she goes into the cinema and watches whatever's on). She said she fell asleep.
2:29 that spit take was flawless lol 😂
my favorite thing bout the power rangers is in the original rita wakes up and attacks then zordon literally just says 'hey alpha get me 5 overbearing and overemotional humans' and that is literally their origin story.
They spent so long building up to the suits because they had to establish new ground rules for the franchise. In the original show, they were able to morph in the first episode, not strings attached. They wanted to have a more concrete reason why these five random kids would be able to fight cohesively together, so they have to show them bonding. THEN, they also wanted to establish their super abilities, which they don't have in the show (canonically). I agree it was too long, and they should have spread it out, but since it's meant to be the first in a series, I think it was okay that they have. I have a bigger problem with the aesthetics of the costumes and designs, pretty much for the reasons Mike said; everything is so muddy and over-complicated.
I know Jay laughs a lot, but I don't think I've ever seen him laugh this much before. I guess Mike was really on his joke game today.
I think rich is possessing him
Mike and other guy’s final ‘would you recommend it’ verdicts are so freakin’ random!
Spend 20 minutes shitting on a movie. “Yeah, I’d recommend it. It’s okay. You can have an okay time watching it”
Surpised to see that Bob Newhart has beaten the RLM "Still alive" curse for almost 7 years now. What an achievement!
Thank you for half in bag so fresh, and an honest review please keep it up. Thx guys plse do nerd crew part 3. I need the trilogy for the RLM special edition, anniversary, HD, letter box, 4K, 3D, nintendo switch, star trek 50th, Leonard nimoy birthday, Obamacare anniversary, star trek discovery pre launch party, same sex marriage anniversary super special limited edition!!! Thanks, love everything you do!!!
Jay: you know that GTA 5 Is now 10 years old
Mike: *nervous laughter*
Just here waiting for Mike's obligatory Star Trek reference.
Loving that the only cut of the 'Chips' take has Jay frantically trying to hold in his laughter...