It's the holiday season, yet again! Join the Red Letter Media gang as they celebrate by opening presents that contain either shitty Christmas specials or violent 80s action movies made by the good people at Cannon Films!
At this point I'm convinced that Mavalda is the good guy in the original story as well. I swear those children are of a Children of the Corn cult that worship that pine tree, corrupt the town with bizarre eyes and smiles, and speak in black speech. She gambles away the money to keep the children from having funding to their plots, and tries to arrest the mother as she's directly helping the kids. Good treatment makes them stronger.
At their current rate Disney is going to own Flamerian Farrira Films within the next few weeks, so you're probably right. I am only wondering which promising director's career they are going to tarnish for the Malvada prequel.
I really hate looking at the comments during the intro of the video because I see stuff like this and I'm just completely at a loss for what the fuck this means and what the hell is going to happen in this video.
Charles Bronson used his own personal .475 Wildey Magnum pistol in Death Wish 3. Having their obscure big game hunting pistol featured in the movie saved the company from going bankrupt. Wildey pistols are still in production.
I work at a Dollar Tree and every time I see our products used as props in your videos (and Space Cop) I'm reminded of work. Then I die a little on the inside.
According to wikipedia, that ridiculous-looking handgun in Death Wish 3 was actually Charles Bronson's preferred pistol and its appearance in the movie helped save the manufacturer from bankruptcy.
Its the perfect gun to represent him and bad action stars in general. Very big, imposing (much less so in Charles case), but ultimately about as useful as a rock with googley eyes glued on it.
34:06 weren't those dumb kids the ones that still had parents?! edit: only the blonde boy that 180'd from despair to hope had parents. that girl asking about the star is a dumb orphan.
I like how the founder of Widley Firearms basically admits that Death Wish 3 pretty much saved his company and his sales spike every time it plays on cable television.
@@michaelccozens No one buys a Wildey for practical use. Especially if chambered in the .475 Wildey magnum round. The movie even showed Bronson having to make his own bullets because its cheaper & faster than waiting on a bullet from USA Firearms Corp.
Michael Winner also intentionally made a stunt scene more dangerous than previously agreed upon/planned, causing the stuntman to not see the landing mat he was supposed to hit. Since the building was on fire, with flames higher than originally planned, because Michael was an asshole and made the pyro guys turn them up when cameras were rolling, he had to wing it when jumping off the roof. He missed a large part of the mat and broke a whole bunch of bones and ended up in the hospital for weeks, effectively ending his career. The icing on the cake was when Winner came to see him at the hospital with a journalist and photographers to document how considerate and worried he was over the stuntman's well being. When they were busy snapping pictures he leaned in and whispered in the stuntman's ear: "Don't you dare even think about suing me. You'll never get anywhere with that", then kept on smiling for the cameras.
@@RepKyle95 "Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman" is a recent documentary in which the above story is talked about. Really good doc, well worth checking out.
Didn't she say she hoped Michael Winner was rotting in hell, some 30 years after making the movie and shortly after he died? I think its safe to say she considers DW3 a low point in her life.
So here's something interesting to know about Death Wish 3 - It was filmed, in its entirety, in _London._ Not a single shot of that movie was shot in New York City _because they couldn't afford it._
God, I thought everything looked weirdly familiar and not New York at all, but I didn't believe it. Apart from certain shots, it really is all filmed in 80s London. They had to get USAF personnel stationed at Lakenheath to dub over the extra's accents and everything. Amazing.
This is hilarious because I was like "huh what part of 1980's London looks apocalyptic and run-down?". Turns out they shot in Lambeth and Brixton which makes total sense, rough areas back in the day haha.
@@Gambit771 Well, the plug isn't especially weird itself (the major visible differences are that the outlets have shutters over the top two holes and the plugs have a much longer ground prong + partially coated main prongs), but it's certainly a uniquely British thing that's weird to notice in an action movie.
On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Twelve... YEARS TO MAKE BOYHOOD THATS RIGHT YOU FUCKING INGRATES. ITS A FUCKING AMAZING. BOYHOOD. 12 YEARS. FUCKING MAGICAL. WE WATCHED A BOY GROW UP ON THE BIG SCREEN. OVER. 12. YEARS. IT TOOK THEM LONGER THEN IT TOOK THEM TO MAKE THE GREAT WALL OF CHI
+ThisIsNotLukeGodDamn On the 8th day of Christmas, RLM gave to me 8 tips on how to be cool around fire safety. 7 years to make Space Cop. 6 geese a laying 5 more years of waiting Just so they can beat Boyhood. Which took twelve years to make 3 manly looking Susans 2 click baits to fool people And a drunk Rich Evans on a tree
+Ingmar Bergman 12 years a slave to making a pointless movie. I watched Boyhood, I almost didn't like it but at least I found most of the characters fap-worthy.
+Ingmar Bergman Boyhood isn't pointless. Agreed. But aside its 12 years to make gimmick it isn't anything special. Acting was great but the characters portrayed we're mostly focused on aren't likeable. Cinematography is average. My point is that this film was nothing great or Oscar-worthy without the fact that we're watching the actors age over 12 years.
Death Wish 3 was the only Death Wish I've seen. It was basically a film version of what old folks in gated communities thought the outside world looked like.
This is the episode I feel I have seen the most. Even after all these years of rewatching Redlettermedia, just something about death wish, that animated piece of crap, and chuck Norris is just so comforting
my theory is that these are just the kind of crappy movies you might have actually watched back in the days. 14-yo me would have taped these (DW and Invasion USA) on VHS and rewatched them over and over again.
@@luna-hw9li Whaddya mean "theory"? I grew up in this era of seeing nothing but marathons of "Blood Fist IV: Die Trying" and other garbage on cable during the day, and insane Tim & Eric-esque Christian-themed infomercials and weird indie movies at night. Kinda glad those days are over.
I did check out the movie on RU-vid, I was very disappointed to learn that Mrs Mavilda survived the lightning and they let her keep working at the orphanage as an assistant. It literally makes no sense, Flamarion Ferreira is an alien confirmed
Rich Evans laugh is the greatest sound in the known universe. If you call the suicide prevention hotline it should just be a recording of his laugh, because that's enough joy to save someones life.
Art Vandelay I love Rich’s laugh, but Ive seen people in the comments section who despise it, many times over the years I’ve watched this channel. I think it’s a you love it or hate it thing with his laugh.
I never thought I was one of those "over the top" Star Trek nerds, but as soon as they started talking about Death Wish and Star Trek, I was like, "Yeah! That's the guy who plays the dad of the kid who died on that episode when they tried doing the Kolvoord Starburst!" That is when I realized...
That scene with the gun in Death Wish 3 is literally an ad for the Wildey Magnum. They're on record saying they saw a spike in sales every time the movie was on TV. The things are so obscenely expensive to buy and reload for though, so they went out of business anyway.
The illustrators for that The Christmas Tree cartoon shouldn't have made the pupils gray. It makes EVERYONE look like they have cataracts, even the kids! That coupled with the dead eyes just make them all look creepy as hell.
26:45 I feel like the writer was a gun nerd and this is his fantasy mary sue sequence where normal people are actually interested in his knowledge of weird, high powered handguns. It's also funny how he dismisses a .44 magnum, which is already overpowered against a human not wearing body armor. "No that's a pistol cartridge. This is a gun designed to kill a charging rhino. That's what we need against the creeps." Not to mention .475 Wildey ammo is like $3 a round, if you can even find it. No wonder he handloads his own ammo.
Interesting to see all these recent comments about it... at the time this episode went up, they'd just recently done the Best of the Worst with Max Landis, so everyone knew how the guys knew Culkin was watching.
@@MegaZeta dude you are so obsessed about people knowing that you know he was on botw. I've already seen 3 of your comments about it. Maybe they're just jokes, but who would ever make jokes on the internet?
I went to a Doctor Who convention years ago where two of the female guests told almost identical stories about creepy auditions for Michael Winner. Both involved being backlit so he could see under their clothes. In later years he became a restaurant critic ("Winner's Dinners") and fronted a long-running car insurance ad with the catchphrase "Calm down dear, it's only a commercial", later quoted in parliament by Prime Minister David Cameron.
My sister is in Death Wish 3. haha! She's also in a couple Chuck Norris films. You guys should watch "Lady Blue" my sis is the screaming hostage in the train scene at the end of the movie.
Did anyone else notice at around 24:05 when you can start to see Jay's breath? Like he's getting so hot thinking about creepy sex stuff that his ice cold demon soul sublimates just a bit?
Honestly, im watching through all these older episodes. and i think im going to take on something im sure all of you have done as die hard fans.. See, im a new fan. Rich evans has lured me in with his witty banter and pop culture laden bromides. And his guile, of course. And because ive fallen so hard so fast, i feel the only thing appropriate is to go on the journey together with these fine folks at RLM I think im going to attempt something they should call... THE CHALLENGE OF THE WORST im going to attempt to watch every movie they pick or spin before each episode. So i can really dive in to the shlock
That Christmas tree movie aired on the hallmark channel or a similar cable station around I wanna say Christmas of ‘93. For some reason I watched it till the end where the mom invites Mivelda to celebrate Christmas with them… which seemed like a terrible idea.
the live action remake of the christmas tree where we're supposed to sympathise with mrs malvida because the dad and the mayor are making her be evil mrs malvida - emma stone father - jesse eisenberg mother - aubrey plaza mayor - rich evans boy in the north pole - mike stoklasa lilly - jay bauman santa - himself narrator - jim from canada director - someone who's made one obscure film
@9:20 Jay unwraps this dvd like a pro, unveiling Chuck Norris’ face like that, and then carefully not covering the face as he pulls the wrapper off. I think he missed his calling as a QVC presenter, or as a bimbo from Deal or No Deal.
"Flamarion Ferreira is a graphic and digital artist who is employed by Walt Disney Television Studios Production Company. He has gained notoriety through his efforts as a background artist and storyboard revisionist on many movies and television series." They actually made it in the bizz.
I have an adult cousin who wanted to be like chuck Norris as a teen. My mom has fond memories of watching him crack himself in the nuts with his nunchucks. He wasn't the most coordinated man.
i saw Death Wish 3 in the theater when i was 8. I remember really liking it as a small child. It really is a cartoon. I purchased that DVD about 3 years ago and LAUGHED so hard . It takes 80s cheese to a new level
Look...I know I'm not the first one to say it...but Christmas or Cannon might be worth revisiting. In fact, it wouldn't have to even be a Christmas episode, I'd just be happy with another Cannon themed episode in general.
In death wish 3 when he fires the bazooka inside the pressure wave would have turned everyone on that floor insides into goo and everyone in the room would have been cooked well done in a blink of an eye I'm typing this just to point out a cut of the movie where it ends immediately after that would be fucking hilarious.
I also like how in the context of the movie the explosion happens within the building and everybody outside immediately knew that the leader was killed, when in reality there was no way to know that he was killed
Thanks for a wonderful year of hilarity, intelligent discussion, awesome guests, and great content. You are truly one of the greatest channels on youtube and maybe the greatest content creators on the internet... NOW WHEN'S THE NEXT PLINKETT REVIEW YOU FUCKING HACK FRAUDS!!!
As someone who grew up in Brookfield, CT, I've always been proud that Death Wish 3 features a gun that used to be made there. This movie is my hometown's 15 minutes of fame lol.
All the office scenes in Invasion USA are what you would expect from a thriller/horror movie about an office employee who cracked, has become some kind of emotionless robot, and is now stalking his fellow employees from floor to floor.
