I can't overstate how entertaining it is listening to Mike and Jay make up better, more interesting movies off the top of their heads than the movie they watched.
I always think that is the litmus test for any movie, lol. If two drunk middle-aged guys can spitball better movies off the top of their heads, then you probably shouldn't invest in it
Hey, Mike! If you're going to joke-censor yourselves to please the ALMIGHTY ALGO, check out the Animated Series Metalocalypse. They use a guitar-riff when censoring their dialog. It's funny AFH. It's the 'best, funny way' to censor yourself. It usually hits better then swaring, even!
That reminds me of this other movie apparently called Frozen where people get stuck on a ski-lift and have to survive overnight. If they can do that, so can these weirdos in Snow Falls
Building a decent fire will get any room to 80F, and after chopping that wood with an axe you'll be outside in a t-shirt because you know WORK. AAAAAAAAAAH NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE
Frozen is pretty realistic compared to this. Living in a cold place (Finland) I actually could believe being stuck in a skilift could turn dire pretty quickly. It also had the element of wolves to make the characters panic and do dumb things. Being stuck in a cozy cabin is called a holiday.
A group of five 80 year olds stuck in a cabin during a snow storm, chased by a Two-Face-looking burnt up pilot that survived a plane crash sounds like something only Mike would come up with. That being said, I would love to watch that movie.
I would tweak it a bit. It's five 80 year olds with onset dementia stuck in a cabin during a snow storm. There's no pilot. They're chasing each other. But that could be the twist at the end. Or maybe it's just one 80 year old who is actually in an old folks home. The cabin, snow storm and everyone else is part of the dementia. There's a lot of fun ways to go with this.
I am a film producer/director in this hole called India in Asia, a big big fan of RLM since 2010 and I'm stealing this idea you just wrote. As a first time director shooting horror is the first choice. Setting it in a cabin with elderly cast would be very cheap. And the idea of a cast starring old folks has never been done ever. It will automatically garner attention. Thank you RLM, Matt Spade and Josh R. I am serious. This is a brilliant idea. If the film works think of me. I'll also send you folks residual checks. Rishi.
@@cornbredx How about they all just escaped from an old folks' home, they all killed a downed airline pilot, and are pretending to be someone's grandma or grandpa à la "The Visit"? No, that's lame. They're all 80-year-old former airline pilots who crash in the woods near an old folks' home, go cannibal and start eating wood off the ground because they think it's human flesh as a result of their dementia. Wait, here you go. This'll take some explaining. In Dungeons and Dragons, there's this monster called a "house hunter." It's a giant-sized relative of the mimic, those things that disguise themselves as treasure chests to lure adventurers close enough to take a chunk out of. The house hunter disguises itself as a building to lure adventurers inside for a bite to eat. And the older it gets, the bigger it gets. So there's these five ancient house hunters, see, and they get sucked into a vortex and land on earth. And they're all disguised as old folks' homes....
My best friend is a microbudget film director and a couple months after this review came out he excitedly told me he'd finished the teaser trailer for his latest film. I said, "Let me guess, it opens with a drone shot." He paused for a second, then muttered, "Shut up." To be fair, it was a drone shot of a cathedral, not a car driving down a road, but it's always fun to give him shit. Thanks, Mike!
as a doctor, i have to say medical students do tend to say the wildest shit based on assumptions from a minimal amount of knowledge, so study girl saying all sorts of inaccurate bullshit with a sense of authority is the most realistic thing in the film
That's not medical students, that's all undergraduates in any discipline. They're learning new concepts and see every situation through a new lens without any nuance to it, and it's embarrassing no matter what field you're in.
I don't think Mike and Jay realized, but Patrick Fabian has a Cameo account, meaning literally anybody can pay him a few bucks to say some lines. That is not even a Zoom call, it is literally a video that he recorded on his cell phone and sent in to the director.
I wonder if you're allowed to do that guerilla style, get some footage from a name on Cameo, put it in your movie, and voila, you have a headliner. Because the very first thing I noticed when they were introducing Snow Falls was Patrick Fabian's name in the credits, and I thought "wow, they got Howard Hamlin, is this a real movie?"
As someone with chronic insomnia, it usually takes me at least a full 48 hours with no sleep before my brain starts to go wonky, and even then it feels more like being high than being insane. The longest I've gone is 68 hours, and I can confirm that I did not attempt to cut my stomach open or any of this other crap
I used to go without sleep a lot in college. It took four nights of no sleep for me to start hallucinating, but it wasn’t the cool horror movie kind of hallucinating. I just thought the fire alarm was up to something.
My thing with being up that long is that you just kinda get “loopy” because you’re effectively sorta in a “dream state” while still awake so I start mumbling to myself because I’ll have a brief “micro-dream” for like 10 seconds where I start responding to what’s going on in the dream but I’m really just sitting in the corner looking crazy.
@@kittydaddy2023 things in the corner of your sight too. But you described it to a tee, I believe. edit: gotta say I've never been up for more than 48h, so my experience is barely an experience at all.
I can vastly improve this movie in many, many ways with one very simple rewrite: the initial radio message is not about a plane crash, it's about multiple nuclear detonations in major cities. The opening of the movie is the young adults bantering in the distance under a sunny sky while walking out of a gas station convenience store in the distance, on the radio there is an emergency broadcast that gets cut off to static right before they get back to the car. Now the movie proceeds as planned. Your tone is set as bleak horror, and there's now dramatic irony that creates tension throughout the movie: the audience knows what caused the snow and what is mixed into it, the characters do not. The characters might even behave just as the audience would if they did not know the ironic fact. That always makes the horror worse, to see people behave rationally in a way that you know will likely kill them, because you know it could happen to you. Also now the movie's title has three meanings. They do still eat the snow, they do still ask if it makes them sick--and this time they're actually correct. The snow really is scary for more reasons that just being cold. They are far enough away from the blasts to not be heavily exposed directly, but they have just ingested nuclear fallout laced water. They now experience radiation poisoning and hypothermia and paranoia.
I found a twelve pack of pumpkin spice beer by the dumpster as a teenager with one missing. I saw why they got rid of it after one can but we drank it anyway
It's the kinda beer that you forget in your fridge till some friends come over and are like hey you got any beer, and you're like well I got this pumpkin shit
The ironic thing about the entire premise is places that are constantly cold and snowy frequently have the roads open and plowed, because they're prepared for it. It's the places that rarely get snowed upon that always take a while to get up and running. I've spent winters in Alaska and despite the cold weather and the constant snow, only the most rural roads get closed for the winter.
I'm from Michigan but I was in Georgia in the early 2000s they got half an inch and every thing shut down. I was out cutting shitties and drifting cause the roads were empty
If people get 2 inches of snow in the Midwest we will just shrug and drive 20 miles for some beers. Even with roads unplowed, it's nothing, I drive a front wheel drive car and have for years in much worse conditions than that. It's always amusing when we get films like this made be people who clearly have never lived in or experienced winter.
@@-Zevin- to that end, I don’t get why some southerners are so scared of cold weather. I like when everything gets shut down over a little snow! There’s some time to breathe and enjoy the rare cold weather.
"Zoomers from california try to deal with winter: The Film". The donner party was trapped outdoors on a mountain not in a giant insulated mansion for like three or four months before they resorted to cannibalism. This movie is hilarious from the perspective of the millions of people who live in places where it gets cold for a few months. He needs to use this antique furnature for firewood. In the middle of the woods. (its got "wood" in the name)
I mean, you _do_ have to find specific kinds of wood for immediate burning, since live, wet, or too big of wood will just snuff out any potential fire. So if you're already (actually) cold without fire wood, it's quite a problem. Though with several people in a proper cabin, they had plenty of options even if they were all too cold to immediately forage for fire wood... and not sleeping is ridiculous. lol
The donner party didn't even /need/ to be eatjng people by the time they resorted to it, so people living in an actual house with more resources could probably go longer, if anything
@@ashkebora7262 Hush, no reason to make them aware of the fact that they would also be the ones freezing to death and eating eachother after a few days. They are smart and watch youtube, they got the entire world figured out.
As a 20-something, I stayed up for over 48 hours numerous times without hallucinating. In fact, the only time I've hallucinated was when, as a 30-something, I went TEN days on about 5-10 total hours of sleep due to a painful infection that doctors refused to treat. My hallucinations consisted of "remembering" having a conversation with someone who wasn't home. Like, I'd be sitting at my computer or something and vividly remember having a conversation _just now_ but then realize that person was nowhere around and no time had passed.
I've hallucinated from a terrible bout of food poisoning with severe fever, and a couple times from no sleep due to opiate/benzodiazepine withdrawal. Now I'm killing it like Colton Tran
I had a very similar experience when I got sun zapped in the tropics. I was alone in a tent and then suddenly talking to my brother. It's amazing how vivid it was. And every time I closed my eyes, it was bright light and I was outside in the sun. I had to open my eyes for it to be dark lol. Very scary and a huge relief when it had passed by morning. I thought I was going nuts.
Snow Falls. A movie made in an alternate world where winter camping doesn't exist. And as a rival state midwesterner I love Mike and Jay breaking down the fact that it can't be that cold if you're getting dumped on by snow. They're in a structure with furniture that gets them off the cold ground and seemingly plenty of clothes and blankets. Even if they do prioritize the antique furniture over building a fire they could stay perfectly warm under layers. Good lord. This would be like RLM making a movie where several people go to a cabin in the summer and it tops out at 80 degrees...but OH NO there's no AC. The campers somehow get heatstroke even though they have shelter to get out of the sun and sinks with water in them to cool down. Oh and the heatstroke makes them crazy and they kill each other. Everyone in the South would slap their forehead in disdain over the movie.
@@have_a_good_day420 "Hey, this gas stove, you can just ignite it with a match," she says while surrounded by a sea of candles. I think their brains accidentally got shipped to Hawaii or something.
This comment reminded me that I've camped in snowy woods in a sleeping bag under a wet tarp. Uncomfortable, miserable but not a horror movie. What a fucking stupid movie.
Drone shot starting at the snow man in front, up over the house, and there's a dad and his 8 year old ice fishing on the lake behind the house, and they aren't even wearing gloves, and the dad is drinking a beer.
@@AliceBowie "Wow dad, it's freezing out here!" "And if you think that's bad, you should see how my hometown was at your age! That's why you gotta be careful *and know what you're doing* when out on the snow, or you can get hurt." (House casually starts burning down in the background, parent and child blissfully unaware as they fish, roll credits.)
Here in Germany my dad tells stories how he as a kid used to wake up with his bedsheets covered in snow in winter. He slept in the attick and it wasn't properly insulated. So yeah, if you have shelter, clothes, blankets, beds and even a fire you will be fine.
Also, snow is actually an insulator! As long as it doesn't directly touch your skin: your body temperature would melt it and turn it into water, which would act as a coolant and just freeze to you. But if you've got some kind of layer between you and the snow, the snow will actually insulate you from the cold.
same in the Erzgebirge. My uncles had frozen covered plankets after some cold nights (before 1980). The most horror in this movie ist the mindet of the actual young generation.
I used to have frost inside my bedroom in winter and I would have so many thick blankets I would be nice and warm. Or living in a house without power in the cold with snow and we would just go out and chop firewood. Then you bring it inside and dry it out by the fire with the good wood. They freaked out in what I would call pretty easy to deal with, that house wasn't even nearly as insulated as the one in the movie and we stayed nice and toasty.
As someone who's dealt with it, hallucinations from sleep deprivation start to happen at around the 48-hour mark, but usually later then that. Even then, the hallucinations usually take the form of things moving around causing you to double-take and your peripheral vision playing tricks on you. For example, when I hit hour 50, I was convinced there were rats in my room. I saw "something" skittering on the floor and told people to beware of the rats. (It was most likely my eyes were drifting and unable to focus, causing the pattern on the carpet to look like it was moving.) What they were showing in the movie just doesn't happen unless there's some underlying thing causing you to go mad beyond just sleep deprivation.
Just a guy from Montana here, but they've got jackets, 3 guys and and there are trees everywhere outside that house. Considering it isn't even snowing when they go out, you go to the garage or shed or whatever, get yourself an ax and get some damn wood for that fire. A normal house like that probably already has a stockpile somewhere if you look around, some of us have one indoor for dry wood and another outside for emergencies. Pretty basic concepts proto-humans figured out the moment they decided to live in places that get cold.
They have a working gas stove in the kitchen. That's thousands of BTUs and they're eating ice martini's. Under the premise that the snow is contaminated. Characters are only as smart as their writers...
I think Rawhead Rex was the turning point- then again they have been talking about shit like Zaat on HitB way back so its always been a hack fraud scam
I was stuck in Texas during the 21 ice storm. It did get down to ~50°F (look it up/10°C ish) indoors but even the bitter cold outside was survivable with shelter and moderate heat. The worst part was when the cigarettes started to run dry.
I'm from Texas and lived through the coldest part (NOT the snowiest, and we didn't lose power for nearly as long because we're on a winterized grid we share with several other states). It was pretty cold indoors with no power, but a couple of cozy blankets and a warm pair of socks were all the extras we needed. If we had dressed like the characters in the movie, we would have been SO sweaty.
10 degrees indoors, oh no! I still go round in my boxers when its 10 degrees in the house. Without a draught it isn't that bad when its dry in the winter. letting the sun in in the day usually improves things. So long as you're well fed you're alright. I've also gotten hypothermia at 18 degrees before because I was low in calories, hey.
It's a bit silly but usually in a friend group you may have one or two people who do the cooking, the way they treat it as something they all enjoy doing is funny.
So they saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer and Mr. Burns go crazy for getting stuck in a cabin for an hour, and they basically decided to make a horror/drama out of that?
"Snow Falls" is like someone that never left southern California made a movie about what they imagine it's like to be in cold weather. Spending a single night in a massive new house that is fully furnished with an inch of snow outside.
Hey, as someone who has never left Southern California, never seen snow, and experienced actual cold weather maybe once, that’s inaccurate. Most of us would be freaking out inside a 400sqft studio apartment we have to pay $2k a month for, not a mansion!
Whats funny is there are ski slopes and snow in southern california. Big Bear is a pretty popular ski destination here and its not that far from Los Angeles.
I grew up in Wisconsin and now live in Hollywood. The idiots here think they'd love winter, it looks pretty to them, they've seen fake snow in movies before. When I tell them it sucks and I've experienced -30 temperatures they don't understand what I'm saying. And even though the weather here is usually nice, on occasion a few raindrops fall, and then all these morons fly off the freeways and cause deadly pileups because it's too much for them. So this film is actually how people from California would handle an inch of snow. They'd all die.
I spent a week in a tent with around -22F weather and was sleep deprived and lived, like the other hundreds of people do that every year. What a quality movie!
Sometimes you watch a movie and think, "Wow, I am incapable of coming up with something this intriguing." But then there are movies you watch and think, "I should be a filmmaker, there's 10,000 things I could do with this premise to make it more interesting."
I think a "half in the bag" on the movie Skinamarink would be simultaniously the most entertaining and shortest episode ever. I can just imagine Mike trying to watch it, so miserable😆😆😆😆
You know Redlettermedia is the best channel on youtube when Mike develops a metholodogy to determine what bad movies to watch. The professionalism of these hacks is off the charts.
So let me get this straight: The characters in this film A. Have a (presumably insulated) cabin B. Have winter clothes C. Have blankets D. Have material to burn in the fire E. It takes place in the continental US where the most extreme cold is like... -20C or something In real life if you found yourself in that scenario you'd have no trouble surviving the entire winter (food would likely become an issue long before the cold did). And in this scenario all the characters die of hypothermia in a week? This is just the weirdest thing... like, presumably the writer and director were taking this material seriously and were just *that* ignorant of the cold? Totally bizarre.
They freeze to death next to a _working gas stove._ The movie doesn't even bother with a "Oh noes! The gas pipes are frozen/were damaged/got eaten by badgers!"
The medical student girl is basically one of those Facebook people. Taking every mundane thing from life and attributing it to all the darkest most deadly outcomes and then insisting everyone around them indulge in the self-destructive outcomes.
Actual med student here, the only thing she got right was that alcohol shunts blood away from your core and to your extremities, which can lead to heat loss. No reason not to sleep or have sugar, as far as I'm aware. Sugar would be really good, actually, since you'd be burning so much energy from shivering.
@@SaltosAxe you know whats funny to me? It would have been really easy for them to ask someone like you basic questions about this so they didn't look quite so foolish since it sounds like the movie leaves out giving any reason for anything.
Mike and Jay admitting to not knowing or having watched Better Call Saul and choosing to watch this movie instead is the tragedy we didn't know existed until now.
I await the day for someone to animate the last 2 minutes of this video with Mike's pitch for the movie. Using the exact sound effects he masterfully provided
Couple of Star Trek Fans out there have seen P3 and to my shock most of them say it is actualy the best star trek in decades and feels like old Trek. And all of those poeple hated Discovery , Picard etc. What allegedly happened was that everyone in charge of P1 and P2 quit and a Guy Who worked all his life with old trek got a free reign in P3. I mean one can dream ? yeah?
This needs one of those 'WRONG' stamps for Mike at about 26:07. You can absolutely get hypothermia before frostbite. You can die from hypothermia at temperatures well above freezing.
I was cracking up so damn hard at that whole end where they were just pitching different ideas. "We don't know what's in the snow 🥶" Oh man Mike fucking killed my sides lol
The ice storms down here in Texas a couple of years ago were an actual case study in what would happen in this situation with people who are completely unprepared for it (hard freezes aren't unusual in the winter here, but multiple feet of snow at the same time certainly is). Temps in the single digits or below zero for nearly a week, shit nobody would've ever thought could even happen in most of TX, exacerbated by power outages that lasted for days in some places because of the shitty privatized power grid isolated from the rest of the country's. A couple of hundred people died, mostly freezing to death in their homes, but that was several days into it. Most of the people with long-term power outages realized the need to burn wooden furniture as soon as their houses started getting too cold (whether they had fireplaces or not). The majority of deaths were unfortunately folks who were elderly and/or lived alone. Otherwise, most people in the worst situations drove (slowly and carefully) to a relative's house if they could, but even the folks who couldn't leave their house, the vast majority survived using basic common sense and not letting the house get too cold, bundling up, neighbors checking on and helping each other, etc. I was stuck because my cul-de-sac was buried under ~2-3 feet of packed snow (didn't realize that lots of snow + hard freeze lasting nearly a week = the snow gets wind-packed into dense ice!) I was extraordinarily lucky that my power never went out, so I always had heat. The food situation was pretty sketchy, being the lazy bachelor that I am, so I basically had to ration out instant ramen and oatmeal. But even if I'd had no food, I could've put on my coat and waddled through the snow to get something from one of the neighbors. There was no internet, so I just tethered over USB. I could see going a little stir crazy with nothing to do, but the people without power all week had bigger concerns, so I doubt boredom was an issue. *TL;DR: the vast majority of people in these conditions, even in areas where such a weather event was considered literally impossible and had historically never happened, were totally fine.* This movie looks all the more stupid in that context. No one started hallucinating hot college chicks that I'm aware of. It's like Mike says, they treat it like they're at the top of Mt. Everest suffering oxygen deprivation.
Finally, someone dares to ask the question "What if we did the Ruins but there's no evil plant god and instead of being stranded in the Mayan rainforest they're in a exurban home?"
The movie makes sense if that med student is flunking out of school and all the information she's giving is wrong and she wont admit she's wrong, then the plot with the sleep deprivation happens.
Mike and Jay should open a consulting business - to help writers / directors improve their story / script... seriously, their ideas are ALWAYS better than 90% of the crap these days
Mike would complain that the surprise box of ingredients is supposed to come as the Act I climax on page 30 of the script, not five minutes before the end
Watching Mike make Jay chuckle by perfectly reenacting the spooky A24 screeching violin sound effect is so damn endearing and its even funnier when he does it again and again in the hopes of recreating that short moment of glee in his miserable miserable miserable existence.
As soon as I saw the trailer I immediately thought to myself “this is such a local University of Utah film student idea where the technical work is good but the writing and ideas are awful” and as soon as Mike said the director was from Utah I drove 15 mins from my apartment in Salt Lake to the campus and blew it up so it’s short film spawn can never hurt all of you like it’s hurt us ever again. Imagine Dragons are next.
Has the writer experienced cold before? In full winter attire, in front of a fireplace and under a blanket in a house you would be completely fine. That actually sounds kind of nice.
Reminds me of the great Kids in Hall sketch where Dave was the sole survivor of a 35-minute delay after eating 112 fellow passengers. “We’re not talking about a plane crash in the Andes, sir. You never got off the runway.”
Snow is used to make igloos because it has air in it, making it thermally insulative. So snow falling on the house is basically adding insulation to it. But what do I know, I'm not an insulationologist.
“Young people don’t make stir fry” is such an insane thing to say because stir fry is the only food me or any of my friends know how to make and whenever we have get together’s make stir fry
I don't know how they did it, but their year-long THE BATMAN review reaches a satisfying yet strange conclusion. So many highs and lows, peaks and valleys...just when I thought they lost me, they pull you back in with another point I never thought about. Bravo, lads, bravo!
Can I just say I am unironically mad at how many movie reviewers I follow that just seem to refuse to review The Batman, for no reason other than because they can? I don't know why this particular movie, but 3 different review channels I watch all keep pushing it off as a joke and at this point it's been so long since the movie released the joke has died. I just want to see their legit opinions on the movie god damnit lol
@@KrazzeeKane WHYYYYY are you all so obsessed with their opinion on that particular film?? its 2023 and youre all STILL going on about it! Just let it go for crying out loud!
@Pauline Gallagher because they are movie (and general media) reviewers, who aren't reviewing a very popular and actually good and interesting movie, for no reason other than just because its a running joke at this point. I wouldn't care if it was some crappy small movie that wouldnt make a good episode, but The Batman would provoke a solid episode from them with some good insight and observations as always. Also I enjoy the movie, and seeing people I like talk about it makes me happy, as I assume we all feel and it's why we watch these guys lol You can try to make me feel bad for wanting movie reviewers to review a movie I like, but you'll fail, my friend. I just want to know what it is about that movie specifically that has made all the best movie reviewers decide to make it their "joke movie" and never review it. It's so good and I love their opinions :(
The movie handwaves it away by saying they don't have any dry wood, which is just BS. If anything they could have brought some firewood inside near the hearth to dry it out some. It might smoke more but hey no hypothermia.
21:43 THERE it is. This entire time I subconsciously knew there was a Mormon element to this movie, and when I got to 21:43 it was confirmed. The “seduction” while fully clothed, the lack of sex, the lack of real partying. This is a clearly a movie concocted from the brain of a Utah man…who either grew up around a bunch of Mormons or grew up Mormon himself.
When you guys mentioned the plane crash radio scene, I thought they were going to set up that they were actually passengers of that plane flying out for their mountain cabin vacation, that they died in the crash, and the events that follow with the ever-increasing coldness they are experiencing was actually the chill of death and their slow realization/discovery of it.
If this movie was set over weeks instead of a couple days and managed to actually show the snow growing outside the house, similar to what Jay said about the snowman shot then it would have atleast gone a long way to fixing some of the believability issues atleast. It was honestly just a case of them trying to make a movie that their budget and ability didn't stretch too.
1) show them shivering at night, unable to sleep. 2) show them gathering all their food and watch it dwindle as they ration it out. 3) show them constantly struggle to build and maintain a fire. Maybe the fire goes out, maybe they get wet wood from outside and it doesn’t burn well, maybe one tries to sleep too close to a smoldering fire and burns a blanket, etc. 3) show them struggling with basic tasks of dexterity like opening ziploc bags or zipping up clothes. 4) show them unable to drink because the pipes and any standing water has frozen. These are easy things from a filmmaking perspective but they show the terror of hypothermia, which can be a real threat.
I like the idea they had about the corpse in the snow man. It could've been about the rich kids dad hiding corpses out in the snow, that would explain why he made the video call and is trying to stop them from tearing apart the house for wood. Little by little they find bodies that were hidden in the snow. The son is in on it to protect his dad and the money. Make it some sort of social commentary on the rich families or something. Anything.
A funnier movie idea would be the girl who thinks she's a medical expert, getting lambasted and questioned on risking her friends lives by her nonsensical advice. Like it would be genuinely funny to see police or something questioning her, pointing out how dumb she was, and her getting kicked out of med school or something.
Mike's understanding of kids in their 20s makes me question what I'm missing out on. The most exciting thing I've done in months is file my taxes early for a pitiful return
The hallucinations you get from sleep deprivation is random shadows out the corner of your eye, not full out scenes of people doing things. Like maybe if you got a gun and you're jumpy the real ones might make you accidentally shoot someone, but this is just ridiculous.
Not true at all... I remember the first time I hallucinated off sleep deprivation. I was on night 3 or 4 (idk, I've had a decade+ of intermittent drug use since) and was making the 2hr drive home frome college for the weekend (terrible idea). A tow truck in front of me appeared as a giant 2d cartoon rabbit until I was only a cple car lengths behind it. Scary fucking shit. Like, I knew it was a hallucination and that it must have been *some* type of vehicle. My brain just couldn't make any sense of what the shapes in front of me actually were. Not the smartest time to have been cruising on the highway. Oddly enough, I also remember driving on the same highway years later in the snow, and saw one of the coolest hallucinations ever. But that was because I was on a shitton of acid, and my gf at the time was giving me roadhead, so in that context even that creepy cartoon bunny probably would have been a pleasant memory. PS. Kids, don't do any of what I did. At least not at the same time
I remember seeing little shadowy figures dart across I-70 for a couple of miles in downtown Indianapolis after I had driven for something like 16 hours straight and was probably fried from the combo of nicotine and caffiene I had been mainlining all day. I was so happy to have had a crummy hotel room to myself that night.
When you said that the filmmaker was from Utah, I immediately imagined how I, as a tentative youngster fresh out of that hellhole, might've gone about making a horror film that wouldn't immediately prove to all my Mormon family, friends, and acquaintances that I had become an apostate, and it might go a little something like Snow Falls tbh. I'd also be super interested to find out where this was filmed, because since he's from Utah, he might have expected to be able to drive into the California mountains and immediately get tons and tons of snow, because the mountains in Utah generally do, and was thwarted. Mike and Jay might have it backward; it's not that these kids have never encountered a ton of snow, it's that they wanted to make a snowbound movie and just assumed that all mountains everywhere get tons of it and were surprised by how little they got during the shoot.
Mike has reached the stage of dementia where he should be posting awful boomer memes on fb. Zoomers don't know how to make stir fry or use weather forecasts!
yeah i felt the same when he talked about the "influencer" guy. The fact it has no relevance to the plot. It's just who he his, that's how some people are these days. It's like saying :" oh that hippie in that 80s slasher smokes pot, but it has no relevance to the plot". It's just a little piece of characterization, it's not Čechov's gun, it's not even a little bait and switch. It's just a stereotype. The movie is bad anyway, not defending it
@@Eisenwulf666 Yes, not every single detail of the script has to pay off in a major plot point, I think that would be ridiculous. Sometimes Mike is a real stickler for structure, too, like if a movie wants to do something a little experimental he dismisses it as just a braindead decision on the filmmaker's part
just a heads up, be careful if you must use a gas stove for heat during a power outage. It can cause a deadly carbon monoxide buildup if your location isn't adequately ventilated. It's a good idea to have carbon monoxide detectors in your home or cabin regardless.
If this movie were able to have digital matte paintings or vfx it would be cool to see every surface from the roads to the telephone wires covered in ice that’s both beautiful and terrifying like how my hometown in Michigan was after the Great Polar Vortex of 2013, but that would require some creativity
Mike thinking young people would be talking and having fun is adorable. Like they have the kind of mental health or positive prospects that allow for that kind of energy.
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I can't overstate how entertaining it is listening to Mike and Jay make up better, more interesting movies off the top of their heads than the movie they watched.
I always think that is the litmus test for any movie, lol. If two drunk middle-aged guys can spitball better movies off the top of their heads, then you probably shouldn't invest in it
Still waiting on "The Inside" these lazy bastards.
ikr i wanna see whats in the snow
OLD LADY IN THE WALLS
@@lrts1lrts181 whaaaaaaaatt
Mike's joy at thinking of old people is so admirable. He really does love them.
RLM geezer teaser WHEN???
You have to love yourself and the group you're in eventually
"Old lady in the walls!"
Hey, Mike! If you're going to joke-censor yourselves to please the ALMIGHTY ALGO, check out the Animated Series Metalocalypse.
They use a guitar-riff when censoring their dialog. It's funny AFH.
It's the 'best, funny way' to censor yourself. It usually hits better then swaring, even!
Patrick Fabin is in ads for Bellin Health out of Green Bay
I don't know why, but the line "only when 3 out of 5 of the main characters are dead does he start burning the antiques" completely killed me.
It wasn't the snow or the sleep deprivation that drove them nuts, the clue was there all along: it was the stir fry that made them stir crazy
Take your upvote and get the hell out of here.
You get a gold star
This comment made me audibly gasp, amazing
WOOOOOOOOOOOOAHH
... ha!
This feels like it would make a great companion piece to Frozen (2010). "The filmmaker has never been cold, so that's scary to them" collection
I don't want to watch either film but your observation inspired me to watch this HitB episode as a companion piece to YMS's review of Frozen (2010).
@@whoaitsdanny I genuinely love this idea; it makes me think of wine pairings haha
That reminds me of this other movie apparently called Frozen where people get stuck on a ski-lift and have to survive overnight. If they can do that, so can these weirdos in Snow Falls
Building a decent fire will get any room to 80F, and after chopping that wood with an axe you'll be outside in a t-shirt because you know WORK. AAAAAAAAAAH NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE
Frozen is pretty realistic compared to this. Living in a cold place (Finland) I actually could believe being stuck in a skilift could turn dire pretty quickly. It also had the element of wolves to make the characters panic and do dumb things.
Being stuck in a cozy cabin is called a holiday.
A group of five 80 year olds stuck in a cabin during a snow storm, chased by a Two-Face-looking burnt up pilot that survived a plane crash sounds like something only Mike would come up with. That being said, I would love to watch that movie.
This is the sequel to 80 for Brady.
I would watch that in a second hahaha
I would tweak it a bit. It's five 80 year olds with onset dementia stuck in a cabin during a snow storm. There's no pilot. They're chasing each other. But that could be the twist at the end. Or maybe it's just one 80 year old who is actually in an old folks home. The cabin, snow storm and everyone else is part of the dementia.
There's a lot of fun ways to go with this.
I am a film producer/director in this hole called India in Asia, a big big fan of RLM since 2010 and I'm stealing this idea you just wrote. As a first time director shooting horror is the first choice. Setting it in a cabin with elderly cast would be very cheap. And the idea of a cast starring old folks has never been done ever. It will automatically garner attention. Thank you RLM, Matt Spade and Josh R.
I am serious. This is a brilliant idea. If the film works think of me. I'll also send you folks residual checks.
Rishi.
@@cornbredx How about they all just escaped from an old folks' home, they all killed a downed airline pilot, and are pretending to be someone's grandma or grandpa à la "The Visit"? No, that's lame. They're all 80-year-old former airline pilots who crash in the woods near an old folks' home, go cannibal and start eating wood off the ground because they think it's human flesh as a result of their dementia. Wait, here you go. This'll take some explaining. In Dungeons and Dragons, there's this monster called a "house hunter." It's a giant-sized relative of the mimic, those things that disguise themselves as treasure chests to lure adventurers close enough to take a chunk out of. The house hunter disguises itself as a building to lure adventurers inside for a bite to eat. And the older it gets, the bigger it gets. So there's these five ancient house hunters, see, and they get sucked into a vortex and land on earth. And they're all disguised as old folks' homes....
Mike's A24 creepy violin note impression is gonna be my new ringtone
NE NEW WHIG NIB
Honestly sounded like the start of the Addams Family theme.
No joke, I had the exact same thought.
@@jonnowocky8179 Nib?
I thought he was doing "beaker"from the Muppets
My best friend is a microbudget film director and a couple months after this review came out he excitedly told me he'd finished the teaser trailer for his latest film. I said, "Let me guess, it opens with a drone shot." He paused for a second, then muttered, "Shut up."
To be fair, it was a drone shot of a cathedral, not a car driving down a road, but it's always fun to give him shit. Thanks, Mike!
Drone shots are prob considered big deals to directors like that too so even better 😂
as a doctor, i have to say medical students do tend to say the wildest shit based on assumptions from a minimal amount of knowledge, so study girl saying all sorts of inaccurate bullshit with a sense of authority is the most realistic thing in the film
Are you a foot doctor?
Well? Are you?
no I am not a foot doctor lmao
That's not medical students, that's all undergraduates in any discipline. They're learning new concepts and see every situation through a new lens without any nuance to it, and it's embarrassing no matter what field you're in.
Dunning kruger mfers
Mike is really firing on all cylinders with "old people in the woods", "we don't know what's in that snow", and the description of this video.
Lol right? Especially compared to what we get nowadays, they actually seem like decent ideas
I always forget to read the descriptions 😂
all the animation channels will have a field day with those
Holy shit "Loud popcorn piggies wipe boogers on their Captain America t-shirt"
The shot of Shackleton's party next to their entombed ship with "If we did it, they can too!" was genius.
I don't think Mike and Jay realized, but Patrick Fabian has a Cameo account, meaning literally anybody can pay him a few bucks to say some lines. That is not even a Zoom call, it is literally a video that he recorded on his cell phone and sent in to the director.
You apparently missed it cause it’s one of the first things Jay says about him :)
I wonder if you're allowed to do that guerilla style, get some footage from a name on Cameo, put it in your movie, and voila, you have a headliner. Because the very first thing I noticed when they were introducing Snow Falls was Patrick Fabian's name in the credits, and I thought "wow, they got Howard Hamlin, is this a real movie?"
the one piece
@@monk_0552 is real
That's what I immediately thought! The 'call' looked identical to one of the cameo videos posted on the BCS subreddits!
As someone with chronic insomnia, it usually takes me at least a full 48 hours with no sleep before my brain starts to go wonky, and even then it feels more like being high than being insane. The longest I've gone is 68 hours, and I can confirm that I did not attempt to cut my stomach open or any of this other crap
I used to go without sleep a lot in college. It took four nights of no sleep for me to start hallucinating, but it wasn’t the cool horror movie kind of hallucinating. I just thought the fire alarm was up to something.
I went 66 hours without sleep once and had no issues but tiredness.
Can confirm it takes at least 48 hours, but it's more like a creepy feeling, eye fatigue causing vision to blur/swirl, and maybe disembodied voices.
My thing with being up that long is that you just kinda get “loopy” because you’re effectively sorta in a “dream state” while still awake so I start mumbling to myself because I’ll have a brief “micro-dream” for like 10 seconds where I start responding to what’s going on in the dream but I’m really just sitting in the corner looking crazy.
@@kittydaddy2023 things in the corner of your sight too. But you described it to a tee, I believe. edit: gotta say I've never been up for more than 48h, so my experience is barely an experience at all.
I can vastly improve this movie in many, many ways with one very simple rewrite: the initial radio message is not about a plane crash, it's about multiple nuclear detonations in major cities. The opening of the movie is the young adults bantering in the distance under a sunny sky while walking out of a gas station convenience store in the distance, on the radio there is an emergency broadcast that gets cut off to static right before they get back to the car. Now the movie proceeds as planned. Your tone is set as bleak horror, and there's now dramatic irony that creates tension throughout the movie: the audience knows what caused the snow and what is mixed into it, the characters do not. The characters might even behave just as the audience would if they did not know the ironic fact. That always makes the horror worse, to see people behave rationally in a way that you know will likely kill them, because you know it could happen to you. Also now the movie's title has three meanings.
They do still eat the snow, they do still ask if it makes them sick--and this time they're actually correct. The snow really is scary for more reasons that just being cold. They are far enough away from the blasts to not be heavily exposed directly, but they have just ingested nuclear fallout laced water. They now experience radiation poisoning and hypothermia and paranoia.
Mike's Violin Effects had me in tears, he's so good at it!
Drinking shitty old pumpkin spice beer in February because its the only beer you have left in the fridge is very relatable moment from Mike
I found a twelve pack of pumpkin spice beer by the dumpster as a teenager with one missing. I saw why they got rid of it after one can but we drank it anyway
It's the kinda beer that you forget in your fridge till some friends come over and are like hey you got any beer, and you're like well I got this pumpkin shit
@@johnneveu1718 and either you find out your boy is allergic to artificial pumpkin flavour or you two start a multimillion dollar podcast
@@johnneveu1718 Bill Burr moment
Pumking is the only great pumpkin beer
The ironic thing about the entire premise is places that are constantly cold and snowy frequently have the roads open and plowed, because they're prepared for it. It's the places that rarely get snowed upon that always take a while to get up and running. I've spent winters in Alaska and despite the cold weather and the constant snow, only the most rural roads get closed for the winter.
Meanwhile texas gets half an inch of snow and the state panics
I'm from Michigan but I was in Georgia in the early 2000s they got half an inch and every thing shut down. I was out cutting shitties and drifting cause the roads were empty
If people get 2 inches of snow in the Midwest we will just shrug and drive 20 miles for some beers. Even with roads unplowed, it's nothing, I drive a front wheel drive car and have for years in much worse conditions than that. It's always amusing when we get films like this made be people who clearly have never lived in or experienced winter.
@@-Zevin- to that end, I don’t get why some southerners are so scared of cold weather. I like when everything gets shut down over a little snow! There’s some time to breathe and enjoy the rare cold weather.
@@wolliveryoutube it's just an infrastructure issue, cold weather can do a lot of damage to systems that weren't designed to handle it.
"Zoomers from california try to deal with winter: The Film".
The donner party was trapped outdoors on a mountain not in a giant insulated mansion for like three or four months before they resorted to cannibalism. This movie is hilarious from the perspective of the millions of people who live in places where it gets cold for a few months.
He needs to use this antique furnature for firewood. In the middle of the woods. (its got "wood" in the name)
I mean, you _do_ have to find specific kinds of wood for immediate burning, since live, wet, or too big of wood will just snuff out any potential fire. So if you're already (actually) cold without fire wood, it's quite a problem.
Though with several people in a proper cabin, they had plenty of options even if they were all too cold to immediately forage for fire wood... and not sleeping is ridiculous. lol
The donner party didn't even /need/ to be eatjng people by the time they resorted to it, so people living in an actual house with more resources could probably go longer, if anything
its important to emphasize that the donner party took place in california lol
@@specialk1287 An extra level of irony lol. Clearly southern california does something to the mind.
@@ashkebora7262 Hush, no reason to make them aware of the fact that they would also be the ones freezing to death and eating eachother after a few days.
They are smart and watch youtube, they got the entire world figured out.
As a 20-something, I stayed up for over 48 hours numerous times without hallucinating. In fact, the only time I've hallucinated was when, as a 30-something, I went TEN days on about 5-10 total hours of sleep due to a painful infection that doctors refused to treat. My hallucinations consisted of "remembering" having a conversation with someone who wasn't home. Like, I'd be sitting at my computer or something and vividly remember having a conversation _just now_ but then realize that person was nowhere around and no time had passed.
I've hallucinated from a terrible bout of food poisoning with severe fever, and a couple times from no sleep due to opiate/benzodiazepine withdrawal. Now I'm killing it like Colton Tran
I've been up 72 hours, due to pharmaceutical withdrawal. No snowman hallucinations.
I had a very similar experience when I got sun zapped in the tropics. I was alone in a tent and then suddenly talking to my brother. It's amazing how vivid it was. And every time I closed my eyes, it was bright light and I was outside in the sun. I had to open my eyes for it to be dark lol. Very scary and a huge relief when it had passed by morning. I thought I was going nuts.
@@aarondavis8943truly one of the worst feelings in a hallucination is that it will never end.
You need to be careful with sleep deprivation. You may be able to handle it now. But it could lead to alzheimers in the future.
Snow Falls. A movie made in an alternate world where winter camping doesn't exist. And as a rival state midwesterner I love Mike and Jay breaking down the fact that it can't be that cold if you're getting dumped on by snow. They're in a structure with furniture that gets them off the cold ground and seemingly plenty of clothes and blankets. Even if they do prioritize the antique furniture over building a fire they could stay perfectly warm under layers. Good lord.
This would be like RLM making a movie where several people go to a cabin in the summer and it tops out at 80 degrees...but OH NO there's no AC. The campers somehow get heatstroke even though they have shelter to get out of the sun and sinks with water in them to cool down. Oh and the heatstroke makes them crazy and they kill each other. Everyone in the South would slap their forehead in disdain over the movie.
There's sleeping bags that can keep you warm in -40 degrees. These characters were mentally crippled.
@@have_a_good_day420 "Hey, this gas stove, you can just ignite it with a match," she says while surrounded by a sea of candles.
I think their brains accidentally got shipped to Hawaii or something.
The final scene should be some guy off in the woods getting out of his tent and saying dang that was a chilly night.
This comment reminded me that I've camped in snowy woods in a sleeping bag under a wet tarp. Uncomfortable, miserable but not a horror movie. What a fucking stupid movie.
wow that would actually make the movie incredible.
Drone shot starting at the snow man in front, up over the house, and there's a dad and his 8 year old ice fishing on the lake behind the house, and they aren't even wearing gloves, and the dad is drinking a beer.
@@AliceBowie "Wow dad, it's freezing out here!"
"And if you think that's bad, you should see how my hometown was at your age! That's why you gotta be careful *and know what you're doing* when out on the snow, or you can get hurt."
(House casually starts burning down in the background, parent and child blissfully unaware as they fish, roll credits.)
I still haven't gotten over the fact the Mike & Jay have swapped seats AND shirts.
It doesn't feel right
This is the mirror world.
Tan is not Mike's color
This is the other dimension where they never did a collab with Justin Roiland so they gunna stay here for a while.
i know. its worse than new chairs
Here in Germany my dad tells stories how he as a kid used to wake up with his bedsheets covered in snow in winter. He slept in the attick and it wasn't properly insulated. So yeah, if you have shelter, clothes, blankets, beds and even a fire you will be fine.
Also, snow is actually an insulator! As long as it doesn't directly touch your skin: your body temperature would melt it and turn it into water, which would act as a coolant and just freeze to you.
But if you've got some kind of layer between you and the snow, the snow will actually insulate you from the cold.
You could almost believe people used to live in a snowy regions for thousands of years before invention of electricity.
same in the Erzgebirge. My uncles had frozen covered plankets after some cold nights (before 1980). The most horror in this movie ist the mindet of the actual young generation.
@@LittleSpot not really, I grew up in in Detroit. Waking up with a bit of snow on your bed ain't really unheard of down here. Toilet would freeze too
I used to have frost inside my bedroom in winter and I would have so many thick blankets I would be nice and warm. Or living in a house without power in the cold with snow and we would just go out and chop firewood. Then you bring it inside and dry it out by the fire with the good wood. They freaked out in what I would call pretty easy to deal with, that house wasn't even nearly as insulated as the one in the movie and we stayed nice and toasty.
As someone who's dealt with it, hallucinations from sleep deprivation start to happen at around the 48-hour mark, but usually later then that. Even then, the hallucinations usually take the form of things moving around causing you to double-take and your peripheral vision playing tricks on you. For example, when I hit hour 50, I was convinced there were rats in my room. I saw "something" skittering on the floor and told people to beware of the rats. (It was most likely my eyes were drifting and unable to focus, causing the pattern on the carpet to look like it was moving.)
What they were showing in the movie just doesn't happen unless there's some underlying thing causing you to go mad beyond just sleep deprivation.
This is the kind of horror movie I would have come up with in my head when I was like 12 and didn't understand how anything worked.
Just a guy from Montana here, but they've got jackets, 3 guys and and there are trees everywhere outside that house. Considering it isn't even snowing when they go out, you go to the garage or shed or whatever, get yourself an ax and get some damn wood for that fire. A normal house like that probably already has a stockpile somewhere if you look around, some of us have one indoor for dry wood and another outside for emergencies. Pretty basic concepts proto-humans figured out the moment they decided to live in places that get cold.
Bold of you to assume that the average californian is on the level of a proto human
Not only that, but even 5 people creating body heat and all those candles will warm up a small room like it's nothing.
They have a working gas stove in the kitchen. That's thousands of BTUs and they're eating ice martini's. Under the premise that the snow is contaminated. Characters are only as smart as their writers...
I wouldn't call a single one of those boys "men" 🤣😂
Sure but.... We don't KNOW what's in the SNOW
Mike breaking character to say “there’s no fucking beer left” is the most real you’ll ever see him
7:27 😂
Him talking about The Shining just moments before feels like some serious foreshadowing.
I was expecting him to make a comment about how they’re snowed indoors themselves.
High life or a weird pumpkin beer from Halloween... tough choice
the distress in his voice is palpable
Mike's imitation of popular horror sound effects gets me every time
It makes me so sleepy.
BWI BWI BWI-BWI!!!
Don't be rude. That's his normal voice.
Half in the Bag slowly becoming Best of the Worst for new releases and I love it
I wish the channel had a playlist for BOTW-adjacent episodes, like Zaat, Money Plane, and the Neil Breen 5-Film Retrospective.
I think Rawhead Rex was the turning point- then again they have been talking about shit like Zaat on HitB way back so its always been a hack fraud scam
I was stuck in Texas during the 21 ice storm. It did get down to ~50°F (look it up/10°C ish) indoors but even the bitter cold outside was survivable with shelter and moderate heat. The worst part was when the cigarettes started to run dry.
I'm from Texas and lived through the coldest part (NOT the snowiest, and we didn't lose power for nearly as long because we're on a winterized grid we share with several other states). It was pretty cold indoors with no power, but a couple of cozy blankets and a warm pair of socks were all the extras we needed. If we had dressed like the characters in the movie, we would have been SO sweaty.
10 degrees indoors, oh no! I still go round in my boxers when its 10 degrees in the house. Without a draught it isn't that bad when its dry in the winter. letting the sun in in the day usually improves things. So long as you're well fed you're alright. I've also gotten hypothermia at 18 degrees before because I was low in calories, hey.
I find Mike's utter disbelief that a group of young people would ever make a stir fry very amusing.
Unironically; what did Mike mean by this?
It's a bit silly but usually in a friend group you may have one or two people who do the cooking, the way they treat it as something they all enjoy doing is funny.
Mike's concept of this same script but with old people instead should be called: "Snow Fallen, And I Can't Get Up!!"
"Old Man Winter."
RedLetter media running out of beer is scarier than anything this movie threw at us
No good movies and no beer make Mike something something...
It's hilarious Mike's complaining about not having any when it's clear he's already had a few before starting filming.
Somebody get them a case of new glarus please
Knowing Jay's penchant for snobbery, the fact he was willing to have a Miller High-Life meant times were truly dire.
So they saw the episode of The Simpsons where Homer and Mr. Burns go crazy for getting stuck in a cabin for an hour, and they basically decided to make a horror/drama out of that?
Ohh..........wouldn't you like to know?
*screeching violin noises*
Look at his eyes... He's trying to hypnotise me, but not in a good Las Vegas way.
Be careful - I have powers!!
@@tuxxyy1 _Political_ _powers!_
@@Prodmullefc IIIIIT'S SHOWTIME!!!!
Mike and Jay's improv trailers are legitimately better than the actual ones
Mike's understanding of the tropes and pacing of movie trailers is so insane.
I mean, its simple observation.
@@voilvelev6775 maybe but he does a great air violin
"Snow Falls" is like someone that never left southern California made a movie about what they imagine it's like to be in cold weather. Spending a single night in a massive new house that is fully furnished with an inch of snow outside.
Hey, as someone who has never left Southern California, never seen snow, and experienced actual cold weather maybe once, that’s inaccurate. Most of us would be freaking out inside a 400sqft studio apartment we have to pay $2k a month for, not a mansion!
Whats funny is there are ski slopes and snow in southern california. Big Bear is a pretty popular ski destination here and its not that far from Los Angeles.
BLANKETTS ...HOW DO THEY WORK?
I grew up in Wisconsin and now live in Hollywood. The idiots here think they'd love winter, it looks pretty to them, they've seen fake snow in movies before. When I tell them it sucks and I've experienced -30 temperatures they don't understand what I'm saying. And even though the weather here is usually nice, on occasion a few raindrops fall, and then all these morons fly off the freeways and cause deadly pileups because it's too much for them. So this film is actually how people from California would handle an inch of snow. They'd all die.
This is more or less what happens when it snows in England.
I spent a week in a tent with around -22F weather and was sleep deprived and lived, like the other hundreds of people do that every year. What a quality movie!
Did you eat the crazy-snow, though?
@@Shmandalf Ah, you got me there! I was too busy playing war.
Your RUclips channel must be very popular
Sometimes you watch a movie and think, "Wow, I am incapable of coming up with something this intriguing." But then there are movies you watch and think, "I should be a filmmaker, there's 10,000 things I could do with this premise to make it more interesting."
You can learn more from watching one bad movie than 10 masterpieces
I think a "half in the bag" on the movie Skinamarink would be simultaniously the most entertaining and shortest episode ever. I can just imagine Mike trying to watch it, so miserable😆😆😆😆
You know Redlettermedia is the best channel on youtube when Mike develops a metholodogy to determine what bad movies to watch. The professionalism of these hacks is off the charts.
So let me get this straight:
The characters in this film
A. Have a (presumably insulated) cabin
B. Have winter clothes
C. Have blankets
D. Have material to burn in the fire
E. It takes place in the continental US where the most extreme cold is like... -20C or something
In real life if you found yourself in that scenario you'd have no trouble surviving the entire winter (food would likely become an issue long before the cold did). And in this scenario all the characters die of hypothermia in a week?
This is just the weirdest thing... like, presumably the writer and director were taking this material seriously and were just *that* ignorant of the cold? Totally bizarre.
At least they could have made it like, a supernatural evil storm or something. You could use that to explain everything.
They freeze to death next to a _working gas stove._ The movie doesn't even bother with a "Oh noes! The gas pipes are frozen/were damaged/got eaten by badgers!"
The northernmost states can get colder than that pretty regularly in the winter. Still doesn't explain the crap the fools in this movie do though.
The medical student girl is basically one of those Facebook people. Taking every mundane thing from life and attributing it to all the darkest most deadly outcomes and then insisting everyone around them indulge in the self-destructive outcomes.
I bet she's got rope tied to her bed to escape from home-invaders, too.
Actual med student here, the only thing she got right was that alcohol shunts blood away from your core and to your extremities, which can lead to heat loss. No reason not to sleep or have sugar, as far as I'm aware. Sugar would be really good, actually, since you'd be burning so much energy from shivering.
@@SaltosAxe you know whats funny to me? It would have been really easy for them to ask someone like you basic questions about this so they didn't look quite so foolish since it sounds like the movie leaves out giving any reason for anything.
@@cornbredx Oh, but that would necessitate the plot being less dumb, and we can't have that!
and introducing Girl as WebMD, the character.
I'm starting to think I should tell my therapist about Half in the Bag
They won't believe you.
Do it anyway
Is there any Bag in the Half in this room with us?
Right before you tell him his phone goes off and his ringtone is Rich's laugh
I find it hard to carry on, knowing that my guy Mike Stoklasa was forced to drink pumpkin spice beer. He deserves so much better
Mike and Jay admitting to not knowing or having watched Better Call Saul and choosing to watch this movie instead is the tragedy we didn't know existed until now.
Isn't Mike a big Breaking Bad fan? They would love Better Call Saul
@@rawkguy4896 its literally perfect for them what a shame
I await the day for someone to animate the last 2 minutes of this video with Mike's pitch for the movie. Using the exact sound effects he masterfully provided
We've had a 20-ish minute production of The Inside that was legitimately well-crafted so yeah. It's gonna happen.
Mike’s depression is a great subtle hint that he and Rich are already strapped in to talk about Picard S3
Edit: I WAS FUCKING RIGHT
Engage thrusters, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
@@somerandolad Inertia dampeners failure. Engaging secondary systems. Secondary systems failure. The show is too full of shit!
I'm dying to know how many dozen people Brent Spiner will be playing this time
@@kevinericsnell4092 He'll be an overweight tourist-guide / narrative glue just like in the previous seasons.
Couple of Star Trek Fans out there have seen P3 and to my shock most of them say it is actualy the best star trek in decades and feels like old Trek. And all of those poeple hated Discovery , Picard etc. What allegedly happened was that everyone in charge of P1 and P2 quit and a Guy Who worked all his life with old trek got a free reign in P3. I mean one can dream ? yeah?
I enjoy the revelation that Mike is apparently a regular viewer of baking shows.
Baking shows, and ghost hunting shows... He's basically my mom!
he loves fluffy old people shows 🤣 so cute
there was an allusion to it in some episode where they showed clips of "Chopped"
HOrNY NIGHTMARE
They're all over Discovery+. It's hard to not be aware of them on your way to watching Ghost Adventures 😄
"We don't know what's in the snow..."
*Rich Evans laughter*
Now THAT'S a trailer.
This needs one of those 'WRONG' stamps for Mike at about 26:07. You can absolutely get hypothermia before frostbite. You can die from hypothermia at temperatures well above freezing.
The opening scene with the radio has the outside air temperature at 99 degrees... brilliant.
And the AC blasting on LO
I was cracking up so damn hard at that whole end where they were just pitching different ideas. "We don't know what's in the snow 🥶" Oh man Mike fucking killed my sides lol
I really like that "what crap came out so far this year" is poop-colored letters with pee-colored outlines. I bet Mike edited this episode.
I hope they consistently use it for terrible movies. "When they use the poop and pee, you'll find out which movies you should never see."
The ice storms down here in Texas a couple of years ago were an actual case study in what would happen in this situation with people who are completely unprepared for it (hard freezes aren't unusual in the winter here, but multiple feet of snow at the same time certainly is). Temps in the single digits or below zero for nearly a week, shit nobody would've ever thought could even happen in most of TX, exacerbated by power outages that lasted for days in some places because of the shitty privatized power grid isolated from the rest of the country's. A couple of hundred people died, mostly freezing to death in their homes, but that was several days into it. Most of the people with long-term power outages realized the need to burn wooden furniture as soon as their houses started getting too cold (whether they had fireplaces or not).
The majority of deaths were unfortunately folks who were elderly and/or lived alone. Otherwise, most people in the worst situations drove (slowly and carefully) to a relative's house if they could, but even the folks who couldn't leave their house, the vast majority survived using basic common sense and not letting the house get too cold, bundling up, neighbors checking on and helping each other, etc.
I was stuck because my cul-de-sac was buried under ~2-3 feet of packed snow (didn't realize that lots of snow + hard freeze lasting nearly a week = the snow gets wind-packed into dense ice!) I was extraordinarily lucky that my power never went out, so I always had heat. The food situation was pretty sketchy, being the lazy bachelor that I am, so I basically had to ration out instant ramen and oatmeal. But even if I'd had no food, I could've put on my coat and waddled through the snow to get something from one of the neighbors.
There was no internet, so I just tethered over USB. I could see going a little stir crazy with nothing to do, but the people without power all week had bigger concerns, so I doubt boredom was an issue. *TL;DR: the vast majority of people in these conditions, even in areas where such a weather event was considered literally impossible and had historically never happened, were totally fine.* This movie looks all the more stupid in that context. No one started hallucinating hot college chicks that I'm aware of. It's like Mike says, they treat it like they're at the top of Mt. Everest suffering oxygen deprivation.
They lucked out. This is the most attention the movie will ever get and people will probably end up watching it out of curiosity now.
Rich Evan's laugh is the notifications sound on my phone. I just thought I should mention this.
That sounds horrifying and I'm gonna do it.
Very Cool
@@alanblanks Same
The Horror.
I will use it as Alarm Clock, I need to start my day with a rush of Adrenaline and Utter Dread.
Finally, someone dares to ask the question "What if we did the Ruins but there's no evil plant god and instead of being stranded in the Mayan rainforest they're in a exurban home?"
The movie makes sense if that med student is flunking out of school and all the information she's giving is wrong and she wont admit she's wrong, then the plot with the sleep deprivation happens.
That is an AMAZING idea actually!
Mike and Jay should open a consulting business - to help writers / directors improve their story / script... seriously, their ideas are ALWAYS better than 90% of the crap these days
Please make a trailer full of Mike's sound effects 😂
Neeee-neeee-neeeupp!
I always thought my dream was to watch bad movies with the guys. Now I just wanna watch baking shows with Mike.
The lore we didn't know we needed
Mike would complain that the surprise box of ingredients is supposed to come as the Act I climax on page 30 of the script, not five minutes before the end
Even The Day After Tomorrow makes the threat of cold more exciting when Jake Gyllenhaal literally runs away from frost
A much more appropriate movie for Jay's tagline: 'Look out, cold!'
And then keeps the civilization destroying cold out by closing the door.
I love when outrun the cold by inches
Only Mark Wahlberg was unimpressed, since he outran wind.
Watching Mike make Jay chuckle by perfectly reenacting the spooky A24 screeching violin sound effect is so damn endearing and its even funnier when he does it again and again in the hopes of recreating that short moment of glee in his miserable miserable miserable existence.
As soon as I saw the trailer I immediately thought to myself “this is such a local University of Utah film student idea where the technical work is good but the writing and ideas are awful” and as soon as Mike said the director was from Utah I drove 15 mins from my apartment in Salt Lake to the campus and blew it up so it’s short film spawn can never hurt all of you like it’s hurt us ever again. Imagine Dragons are next.
Has the writer experienced cold before? In full winter attire, in front of a fireplace and under a blanket in a house you would be completely fine. That actually sounds kind of nice.
It's like a comedy routine where people are ready to eat each other after being stranded on an island for only a few hours.
This is the serious version of the South Park plot where the teachers resort to cannibalism after being trapped in a snow storm for 2 hours.
Reminds me of the great Kids in Hall sketch where Dave was the sole survivor of a 35-minute delay after eating 112 fellow passengers. “We’re not talking about a plane crash in the Andes, sir. You never got off the runway.”
Snow is used to make igloos because it has air in it, making it thermally insulative. So snow falling on the house is basically adding insulation to it.
But what do I know, I'm not an insulationologist.
But you may very well be an insulation _student_.
I love the recurring meme of breaking glass noises every time the cast scrambles to grab/drop things
goddamn I'm jealous of Jay's hair. shit's luxurious.
“Young people don’t make stir fry” is such an insane thing to say because stir fry is the only food me or any of my friends know how to make and whenever we have get together’s make stir fry
I don't know how they did it, but their year-long THE BATMAN review reaches a satisfying yet strange conclusion. So many highs and lows, peaks and valleys...just when I thought they lost me, they pull you back in with another point I never thought about. Bravo, lads, bravo!
Can I just say I am unironically mad at how many movie reviewers I follow that just seem to refuse to review The Batman, for no reason other than because they can? I don't know why this particular movie, but 3 different review channels I watch all keep pushing it off as a joke and at this point it's been so long since the movie released the joke has died. I just want to see their legit opinions on the movie god damnit lol
@@KrazzeeKane WHYYYYY are you all so obsessed with their opinion on that particular film?? its 2023 and youre all STILL going on about it! Just let it go for crying out loud!
@@paulinegallagher7821 Sounds like someone hasn't seen Matt Reeves' capekino masterpiece 'THE BATMAN' starring Robert Pattison.
@@solidskrump I prefer Michael Keaton myself. Not much fussed on the pasty faced skinny vampire from Twilight
@Pauline Gallagher because they are movie (and general media) reviewers, who aren't reviewing a very popular and actually good and interesting movie, for no reason other than just because its a running joke at this point. I wouldn't care if it was some crappy small movie that wouldnt make a good episode, but The Batman would provoke a solid episode from them with some good insight and observations as always. Also I enjoy the movie, and seeing people I like talk about it makes me happy, as I assume we all feel and it's why we watch these guys lol
You can try to make me feel bad for wanting movie reviewers to review a movie I like, but you'll fail, my friend. I just want to know what it is about that movie specifically that has made all the best movie reviewers decide to make it their "joke movie" and never review it. It's so good and I love their opinions :(
It is totally unbelievable, no way those kids are listening to FM radio.
It really is the most questionable thing in the movie
The radio shows 99 degrees outside... In a snow storm
My favorite movie about snow falling is the one where it snows my parents back together.
Oh, Jack Frost. The horror one with Michael Keaton.
@@BachelorDinosaur Horror indeed.
That was canceled
A movie about a bunch of twenty-somethings and Mike somehow finds a way to make fun of old people.
I don't think young people actually know what happens at parties anymore
Some people are just lame Mike. Being in your 20s doesn't make you immune to boring stir-fry parties.
How many have you been to
I hated Snow Falls (2023). I walked out of my basement immediately after finishing my 40 piece nuggets.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282thanks for the concern but I had a 2 liter of cola to wash it down.
Did you have hunny mussy with your tendies?
Mikes violin impression is just absolutely perfect
Isn't the cabin surrounded by a forest? There's dead wood laying all over the ground if you just spend 30 minutes looking for it.
The movie handwaves it away by saying they don't have any dry wood, which is just BS. If anything they could have brought some firewood inside near the hearth to dry it out some. It might smoke more but hey no hypothermia.
I spent $5.99 on this movie just so I could fully relate to this video
"The title works on many levels, mainly two."
Thanks Mike
That felt like a possible callback to one of the Nerd Crew episodes. "This works on so many levels - mainly one."
How are they so calm? Mr. Plinkett is getting too powerful, the mediaverse is becoming unstable.
I love Half in the Worst
Well, it isn't Best of the Bag.
at least this time they got Mike Bauman and Rich Stoklasa
Boy, imagine a universe where the names are switched. That'd be wierd huh?
21:43 THERE it is. This entire time I subconsciously knew there was a Mormon element to this movie, and when I got to 21:43 it was confirmed. The “seduction” while fully clothed, the lack of sex, the lack of real partying. This is a clearly a movie concocted from the brain of a Utah man…who either grew up around a bunch of Mormons or grew up Mormon himself.
When you guys mentioned the plane crash radio scene, I thought they were going to set up that they were actually passengers of that plane flying out for their mountain cabin vacation, that they died in the crash, and the events that follow with the ever-increasing coldness they are experiencing was actually the chill of death and their slow realization/discovery of it.
You know, a decent idea. California is creatively bankrupt however.
Mr Plinket reviews: extended plot line about murdering hookers
Mike in 2023: we can’t say ‘Fuck’
To be fair, those videos weren’t originally on RUclips exclusively.
It's fine as long as you don't murder any hookers in the first 60 seconds of the video.
@@ElRook and youtube wasn't the shithole it is now 10+ years ago
I don't think they can get too many more strikes. Fucking Deaundra.
"Time to go in the refrigerator"
If this movie was set over weeks instead of a couple days and managed to actually show the snow growing outside the house, similar to what Jay said about the snowman shot then it would have atleast gone a long way to fixing some of the believability issues atleast. It was honestly just a case of them trying to make a movie that their budget and ability didn't stretch too.
1) show them shivering at night, unable to sleep.
2) show them gathering all their food and watch it dwindle as they ration it out.
3) show them constantly struggle to build and maintain a fire. Maybe the fire goes out, maybe they get wet wood from outside and it doesn’t burn well, maybe one tries to sleep too close to a smoldering fire and burns a blanket, etc.
3) show them struggling with basic tasks of dexterity like opening ziploc bags or zipping up clothes.
4) show them unable to drink because the pipes and any standing water has frozen.
These are easy things from a filmmaking perspective but they show the terror of hypothermia, which can be a real threat.
Mike's best pick-up line - "This bed will make a good sex bed."
Looking forward to "How to make a good sex bed" getting pulled next Best of the Worst
@@MrHendrix17 Does it involve using hypnosis?
Sex bed? What kinda fancy, high fallutin'...we use a bargain brand sex dumpster and we like it!
@@WildBluntHickok Where did this comment go? It was gold!
I like the idea they had about the corpse in the snow man. It could've been about the rich kids dad hiding corpses out in the snow, that would explain why he made the video call and is trying to stop them from tearing apart the house for wood. Little by little they find bodies that were hidden in the snow. The son is in on it to protect his dad and the money. Make it some sort of social commentary on the rich families or something. Anything.
A funnier movie idea would be the girl who thinks she's a medical expert, getting lambasted and questioned on risking her friends lives by her nonsensical advice. Like it would be genuinely funny to see police or something questioning her, pointing out how dumb she was, and her getting kicked out of med school or something.
Has anyone else noticed the single piano note that kicks off most trailers nowadays?
Endgame replaced Inception (or was it Prometheus?).
Mike's understanding of kids in their 20s makes me question what I'm missing out on. The most exciting thing I've done in months is file my taxes early for a pitiful return
Nah you're aight.
You're normal.
File your taxes early? Who do you think you are, Ned Flanders?
@@asmodiusjones9563 I wanted my money back
REFUND, not return! You got a pitiful REFUND!
I'm a tax lawyer and that mistake always gets me going yeesh. :-D
The hallucinations you get from sleep deprivation is random shadows out the corner of your eye, not full out scenes of people doing things.
Like maybe if you got a gun and you're jumpy the real ones might make you accidentally shoot someone, but this is just ridiculous.
Not true at all... I remember the first time I hallucinated off sleep deprivation. I was on night 3 or 4 (idk, I've had a decade+ of intermittent drug use since) and was making the 2hr drive home frome college for the weekend (terrible idea).
A tow truck in front of me appeared as a giant 2d cartoon rabbit until I was only a cple car lengths behind it.
Scary fucking shit.
Like, I knew it was a hallucination and that it must have been *some* type of vehicle. My brain just couldn't make any sense of what the shapes in front of me actually were. Not the smartest time to have been cruising on the highway.
Oddly enough, I also remember driving on the same highway years later in the snow, and saw one of the coolest hallucinations ever. But that was because I was on a shitton of acid, and my gf at the time was giving me roadhead, so in that context even that creepy cartoon bunny probably would have been a pleasant memory.
PS. Kids, don't do any of what I did. At least not at the same time
@@shutyomouthchild The difference between a hallucination and delusion is that you know a hallucination is not real.
Nah, that isn't true. Random colours or shadows etc are 'easier' to occur, but that isn't a rule.
I remember seeing little shadowy figures dart across I-70 for a couple of miles in downtown Indianapolis after I had driven for something like 16 hours straight and was probably fried from the combo of nicotine and caffiene I had been mainlining all day.
I was so happy to have had a crummy hotel room to myself that night.
When you said that the filmmaker was from Utah, I immediately imagined how I, as a tentative youngster fresh out of that hellhole, might've gone about making a horror film that wouldn't immediately prove to all my Mormon family, friends, and acquaintances that I had become an apostate, and it might go a little something like Snow Falls tbh.
I'd also be super interested to find out where this was filmed, because since he's from Utah, he might have expected to be able to drive into the California mountains and immediately get tons and tons of snow, because the mountains in Utah generally do, and was thwarted. Mike and Jay might have it backward; it's not that these kids have never encountered a ton of snow, it's that they wanted to make a snowbound movie and just assumed that all mountains everywhere get tons of it and were surprised by how little they got during the shoot.
I guessed Mormon before they even said it lmao. Yikes. She can't take that turtleneck off bc of her temple clothes
I love RLM to death but I don't think Mike understands what "young people" do. We pretty much do just stand around awkwardly and make food
Mike has reached the stage of dementia where he should be posting awful boomer memes on fb. Zoomers don't know how to make stir fry or use weather forecasts!
Boomer moment of him implying young people dont cook anymore
yeah i felt the same when he talked about the "influencer" guy. The fact it has no relevance to the plot. It's just who he his, that's how some people are these days. It's like saying :" oh that hippie in that 80s slasher smokes pot, but it has no relevance to the plot". It's just a little piece of characterization, it's not Čechov's gun, it's not even a little bait and switch. It's just a stereotype. The movie is bad anyway, not defending it
@@Eisenwulf666 Yes, not every single detail of the script has to pay off in a major plot point, I think that would be ridiculous.
Sometimes Mike is a real stickler for structure, too, like if a movie wants to do something a little experimental he dismisses it as just a braindead decision on the filmmaker's part
@@rotmgpumcake when's the last time you and your friends made stir fry
just a heads up, be careful if you must use a gas stove for heat during a power outage. It can cause a deadly carbon monoxide buildup if your location isn't adequately ventilated. It's a good idea to have carbon monoxide detectors in your home or cabin regardless.
the description was written with such disdain I guarantee Mike wrote that immediately following leaving the theatre
They get more and more deranged every video now.
They didn't go to the theatre to watch this
Mike gets more deranged every passing day
I'd say it was written by chatGPT, but that would have done a better job.
You spelled "couch" wrong. Eh, who am I kidding; Mike watches this crap in bed well nursing a New Glarus.
If this movie were able to have digital matte paintings or vfx it would be cool to see every surface from the roads to the telephone wires covered in ice that’s both beautiful and terrifying like how my hometown in Michigan was after the Great Polar Vortex of 2013, but that would require some creativity
Best we can do is Adobe After Effects snow. If it’s any consolation, we’ve changed the angle of the snow so that it snows sideways!
I miss old fashioned glass mattes...
Mike thinking young people would be talking and having fun is adorable. Like they have the kind of mental health or positive prospects that allow for that kind of energy.
The secret point of the whole movie is that young people can sometimes over dramatize events and make more trouble for themselves
Video already got age restricted. Good job RUclips, definitely not one of the most insufferable practices you guys employ!
It was actually probably the bleeped swears at the beginning. Censoring yourself is basically calling the algorithm to murder you.