The gang watches another Cameron Mitchell movie that Cameron Mitchell's barely in but lots of people get kicked, a Canadian-made road trip """"comedy"""" thriller (?), and an alien bigfoot movie. Lives are changed.
I am seriously honored that my film Ryans Babe won!! :) Was my first lead in a feature ever (no, really? lol) It's finally getting the recognition it deserves!! Thanks guys!
"Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces" IS a movie only of deleted scenes, all done by David Lynch...and somehow is still far more comprehensible than Ryan's Babe lol
We at Videonomicon put Ryan's Babe out on DVD and VHS (limited). We literally rescued this film from a dumpster, bought the licensing rights, and started a distribution company, just so the world could see this movie. Also the guy that played Star-Burns on Community wrote our official company theme song.
Fun Fact: Colin from Canada said on his podcast said that he found Ryan’s Babe around the time they released this episode and he was gonna tell Jay about it, and the morning he was going to, RLM released this episode
One of my new favorite lines: "I've been looking everywhere for you. I knew you'd be here." A writer wrote it, an actress during ADR said the lines, and an editor put it into the movie, and no one gave it any thought.
It does make sense, I think she is means that because she didn't find him at all the other places he must be at the final place she looks for...but it's phrased in the weirdest possible way and shouldn't even be said anyway! It's probably a direct translation of something that works in Hindi or something.
I re-watch this episode a ton, and people always say "Ryan's Babe" is one of the most confusing movies that has been on BotW. But, I'm still wondering "Who the hell was that bug guy, from Kill Squad? Why wouldn't he lie about 3,000 centipedes?"
Having actually watched it, it is just up on youtube if you wanna look it up, the dude was running an investment scam pretending to sell exotic animals. Then he kicked some guys. Then he got recruited to the kill squad. Then he got shot.
Ah, the little details. The reporter at 23:39 is a crew member, who at the same time also happens to be IN the diner behind us at 23:44 (after shaving the goatee)... what a crazy film to be a part of...
@@heetsees If you click on the channel, you'll see it's clearly him. Or it could be someone who has a weird obsession with the star of Ryan's Babe and collected a ton of footage of him. Whichever you find more believable.
Not the first time Mike's missed an episode where they uncover a classic. He missed the legendary Deadly Prey/Miami Connection episode too. I'm sure there's another one as well.
That Ryan’s Babe DVD is like if Silence of the Lambs was marketed as a romantic comedy. “For a woman trying to make it in a man’s world, he was the only man who really understood her...”
Since the film never had an original physical release we had to do something up for the DVD and VHS releases. We felt this cover and tagline made it clear that the tone of the movie was kind of all over the place. 😃
Kill Squad's plot structure sounds like what an old arcade beat 'em up game would look like if it was translated to a movie script. Each scene sounds like a level and the guy he recruits is an unlockable character.
It's really clear that the person who wrote that is not a native English speaker. It literally sounds like an awkward translation from another language
As the guy who did the illustration and design for the Videonomicon release of "Ryan's Babe" (DVD and VHS cases, posters, etc.), I want to thank you guys for appreciating how utterly insane the movie is. I think it may be even further "out there" than "The Room" in many ways. I'm also proud to say I came up with the tagline, "The Road Movie that Doesn't Know where It's Going" ... and I think I'd stick by that description! Thanks again and keep up the good work.
Ryan's babe is 100% shot in my city. SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN! A lot of those scenes are definitely at the University there and I'm fairly certain that the "Grand canyon" is definitely him sitting on one of the little walls around the University with a green screen.
@@RequestAssassin Yes, I live in Saskatoon as well and much of Ryan's Babe was definitely shot in and around the city, although some segments were shot somewhere else, possibly in the USA. Many of the actors still live in the Saskatoon area.
It always makes me so happy seeing Saskatoon on film. There's another great b-movie called Crisis shot here. It's a stand in for New York but at the end when emergency vehicles show up they all say Saskatoon on the side haha. Might be a city but the film's shot here have that small town everyone-chipping-in vibe going that I love.
I was lucky enough to see Ryan's Babe theatrically. With the director in attendance. It was pretty amazing. He seemed to not realize how insane his movie was. I think he actually thought he was making something good.
no, the most his mother said was that she still loves her child and can't commit to saying that he should be put to death but that he was a horrific person.
I had dinner last night with the guy who shot Ryan’s Babe. He said while filming he thought they were making satire until one day during the shoot he realized the Director was completely serious haha.
Funny thing is, the polite indifference thing is usually more what I associate with my friends in Toronto or Ottawa. The rural Saskatchewan people that I knew were hard-drinking crazy people who loved causing trouble and having fun.
I live over in Winnipeg and I dated a Russian chick who actually got mad that people were so polite and thought I was lying that I wanted to talk to people when there would be conversations with random people and are relationship self exploded on her end when she saw another guy for a day but lied about it and never told me and when I confronted her about it she was like "but we weren't boy friend or girl friend" and I was like "yeah, I don't care even if you guys fucked but I do care that you lied to me". She even was so crazy and was asking my friends if I liked her when we were at a bar and I spent the whole time with her in a room on a couch by are selves the whole night. She then continued to beg me to take her back which was a total mistake because I have a low bull shit tolerance and she good make a big deal about any thing even if it was just because she wanted to bitch and in her mind she was always right because she was a girl. First time I saw some one had a problem with people leaning towards niceness, respect, understanding and an open mind about every thing in my group of friends from feelings to sex.
I figured out the premise to Ryan's Babe: This man is constantly drugged, and attacked, by random people. So he drifts from town to town on a never-ending road trip in hopes to find a town where it doesn't happen. Finally, he's tracked down by his stalker, who Ryan realizes is the only one crazy and scary enough to drive away would-be attackers. He no longer has to drift from town to town and settles into an uneasy marriage with his stalker wife.
There really is no other reasonable explanation, so this is probably wrong unfortunately. Not to mention that he left because stalker girl’s dad wanted to kill him.
"I wouldn't lie to you about 3000 centipedes!" I almost want to believe that line was intentionally written to be that funny, on paper, it's the perfect comedic escalation to that exchange, even if the delivery could have been better.
My film teacher was heavily involved with the production of Ryans Babe. The director actually thought this movie was the next citizen cane. The entire crew knew this movie was a complete train wreck but stayed for the promised pay checks, that never came. The entire crew had a massive argument with the director about the "green" car actually being blue. But the director wasn't having any of it. Until he died, the director would defend the movie as his greatest masterpiece. My film teacher also played the newscaster, and if you look closely he's right behind the actors in the reverse shot, for some reason. Ryans Babe is fucking amazing, and should be watched with a group of friends after a few drinks. One of the best times you'll have watching a movie. Also why did they skip over the strip karate scene!? That scene was a masterpiece.
You say that as a tired old reference, but seeing their raw emotions and the subject matter of some of the films, yeah it kinda is about family in a twisted garbage way.
First time I watched this episode and saw Jack’s impression of “I’m just doin some work over hereeeOOHH I GOTTA HELP MY FRIEND” I was struggling to breathe from laughing so hard
“Ryan’s Babe”’s plot could be 8 seasons of a soap opera and it would still be too much plot. It’s astounding to me that there was an attempt to shoehorn all this into one movie. Edit: it’s like an entire movie of “Previously on...” clips from a couple of years of a show.
It almost reminded me of the telenovelas we'd watch when we went to a Mexican restaurant near the call center some friends and I used to work at. If they sat you in the right booth, you could watch 2 different one's (on separate TVs) at the same time, and it made more sense than dealing w/ customers.
Poor Kill Squad seems like quite a gem, but it was completely outshined. I will carry a torch for you, Kill Squad. I willingly conform to your universe-warping Pattern.
I keep losing my shit rewatching the guy at 2:19. The accent, the way he says his lines, the context of bringing in insects is all great and hilarious. But the kicker of "It's no bull, I wouldn't lie to you about 3000 centipedes." Just fucking SLAYS me. Also I forgot how much they completely lose their shit watching Ryan's Babe.
Somebody else mentioned it's kind of similar to being trapped in a arcade style videogames story. So maybe there's a "we're inside the game" type movie that follows that sort of formula.
As a machinist, I can tell you...it's really unsafe to have ties on near Bridgeports (the machines they were operating). But more realistically: none of us would ever expend the kind of energy needed to perform awful roundhouse kicks during the workday. If the boss found out we could do that kind of shit I can't even IMAGINE what other stuff they'd make us do.
your secret is safe with us, buddy...at least until your coworker ends up in a karate fight and the universe corrects itself and all of a sudden your feet are flying through the air and you just crushed a man's head like birthday cake...godspeed that never happens
One of Scorsese's lesser known movies is called "After Hours" and it's a dark comedy where a guy just wants to have a fun Friday night in NYC but increasingly absurd and terrible things keep happening to him. Ryan's Babe seems like somebody saw After Hours and tried to re-create it.
Is Ryan's babe a post modern retelling of the Odyssey blended with Beckett's existential ambivalence designed to discombobulate it's audience and leave them questioning the nature of purpose, or just pure dogshit? You decide.
I just have to applaud the editing on this one. The fact that the Hobbits' theme kicks in just a bit before Jay even mentions LotR and that scene gets me laughing every time.
Ryan's Babe is my favorite anime, filled with flashback-ception, a suicidal girlfriend who is obsessed with the male protag, mild drama, it has it all.
Solo is quite the underrated gem. I especially loved the part where Emelia Clarke's character revealed an 8 inch black cock to Donald Glover, it was truly breathtaking. However the part where a forth Death Star destroyed a giant statue of Donald Trump was a bit of hamfisted political commentary, although culturaly relevant, did hamper my enjoyment of the film. Overall, I'd give the film a 9.69 out of 10.
I cant believe this is the last episode of Half of the Bag. You guys had a great run and was very bold to not have Mike returning for the last episode. What masterpiece of epic conclusion.
So, to more accurately recap Kill Squad, apparently, it is a very high-brow sci-fi/fantasy film that tricks the viewer into thinking that it is a dumb predictable action film, but is, in reality, a film about an alternate self-correcting universe where its inhabitants are slaves to a pattern they are unaware of. So if a sequel were ever to be made, a character would wake up and become aware of the pattern, and attempt to fight it and free themselves from the universe, which has secretly been controlled by an alien overlord as a human experiment the whole time.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs The Matrix, but instead of speaking exposition dialogue that sounds like fortune cookies, the characters will just punch and kick all the computer programs to death! The end! No pretentious message in this one. There will be just punching and kicking, and some guns and vague references to things that happened to the characters in Vietnam.
"What?" "What?" "What?" "What?" "What?" "Wait." "Wait, what?" "Wait, what!?" "Wait, what?" "Wait..." "What!?" "But what is this?" "What?" "Where are we now?" "Wait!” “What is happening!?” "Wait, wait, wait!" “What?” "But why… Oh, God." "Whaaat?" “What’s happening?" “Why not just - “ “WHAAAT!?” What!?” “Leave ‘em alone!” "Wait, what?" “Whaaat - ” “Where is he?!” “What? Who! Huh? I… I… I…” “What is going on!?” “What is happening!?” “Why - where - how did we get here?” “But - bu - whuh - “ “Uh - “ "What?" "Wait, what?" “Why is this happening!?” “Whuh - how - “ “He doesn’t even look like he gives gives like he gives a shit!” (laughs) (dumbfounded silence)
The pattern of squads forming in kill squad is universal. The titular squad has to fight so often because its a world of squads. They're merely one squad in a world of millions of squads.These squads drift into each other from time to time, but never breaking The Pattern.
"Hello, I am Greta Van Susteren. I was recently in Canada and came across this move, which melted my cold cold heart. I laughed so hard that I nearly choked on my burrito that I was eating at the time. The makers of this motion picture should be very proud of themselves. I thought this picture was better than Casablanca, Citizen Kane, and Gone With The Wind all put together, to the power of seven billion, I mean this honestly, with no hyberbole. The male lead was a bit drab, but this was made up for by the hilarious ending and that hot little number in his car in the end scene. Whoa momma. She was pretty enough to make even me, the most heterosexual woman of all time think about changing my mind." .....This was an actual review on imdb for Ryan's Babe.
50:15 I'd say that one movie that really accomplishes "walking around in the woods" is Monty Python & the Holy Grail. 90% of that movie has got to be like 3 hiking trails in the lakes district.
So, Kill Squad is basically a horror movie structure grafted onto a karate action/revenge movie. Something bad happened to someone in the past, so a mysterious person starts picking off the people they blame for it happening. It's I Know What You Did Last Summer, Valentine, Prom Night or any number of others. Except it isn't supposed to be that kind of movie.
In ref to Ryan's Babe: It is a funny trend of foreign film-makers who's first language isn't English wanting to make a Real American Movie and doing so in a weirdly skewed way. The dir of Ryan's Babe, the dir of Birdemic, Tommy Wiseau, Vitale Versace (dir of The Last Vampire On Earth), the dir of Miami Connection, Amir Shervan (Samurai Cop), Uwe Boll, even Golam And Globus of Cannon Films infamy. But then you remember the directors of Suburban Sasquatch and Partners are Americans whose first language appears to be English...........
