Difficult to watch this while the rest of the family is sleeping. Volume at 1 and you cant hear what Mike is saying. Volume at 2 and the whole house can hear Rich Evans laugh.
I'll always wish they spent more time on the Johnson Family vampire theory: the lack of aging, sleeping during the daytime, apparently no need for regular food, the one guy constantly drinking "red wine"... the director had a vision.
@@Mechsrule1 And the Emmy nomination was for Paul Winfield who also appeared in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the episode "Darmok" of Star Trek: The Next Generation, so the two Star Trek fans missed the opportunity to point that out.
It's actually even funnier. Johnson Family Christmas Dinner didn't have the Johnson Family from the front cover, as the gang noted, they barely bothered to include Christmas at all, and they don't eat dinner.
Yeah I really don’t think anyone cares about the veracity of the statement, either it’s true and it’s marginally interesting or it’s false and this movie can just fall further into oblivion
IKR? If they had bothered to read the comic it was based on, they'd realize it's pretty close to its source material. I mean, it's obvious that the Johnson Family Movies are made for the fans and not for the critics. I'm starting a petition in Change.org to close RLM because there's a disconnect betwen them and the audience.
The fuck are yall talking about? This isn't canon JFCU it's the Ultimates timeline. The Father doesn't look like Cedric the Entertainer and the nigga smoking looks nothing like Bow Wow. I was into the Johnson Family before it was cool, yall just bandwagon phonies
I have a theory that explains why Mike is so goofy and funny. He grew up with Rich. Anyone who has a friend with a laugh like that will try to make him laugh every day and over time naturally develops an instinct for comedy. That's a free one for any psychology majors to write a thesis on.
+Who Dat Ninja Mike and Rich did grow up together. I think Rich told Vinny from Vinesauce in an interview that they've known each other since high school.
Just think: Even after that long list, it still wasn't finished, with Carrie Fischer and George Michael yet to be included. I'm further surprised Mike neglected 5th Beatle George Martin!
I think it was just a thing where someone took that picture and used it for the clickbait. I saw pictures of it a few times, so I'm not 100% certain it's real, and I think this is the first time they've acknowledged it.
Ironically enough seems like one of the most well-thought out lines of dialogue in the entire movie. If a building is rigged with a bomb it needs to be evacuated of people before exploding. Here poop is the bomb and I guess also the people
According to IMBD Repligator was made in like 2 weeks because the director had just finished another movie and wanted to "knock something out" before the sets were torn down.
I love how when Gator Face was being stomped on, the first stomp was so soft and gingerly done. Then he realizes he broke part off the tape, and committed to killing it. Like a killer who hurts someone by accident, and has to finish the job to put them out of their misery.
I know what movie ur talking about, there's a flare gun involved I think, but I think its just called "gator". I'm probably wrong, I don't care. Hack frauds.
You know, a lot of Shakespeare's works have beautiful prose describing night/the moon/stars, so people could get the *impression* of nighttime (because they didn't have electricity and all the plays were performed during the daylight). I'm sure they made the *choice* to just film during the day and let you know when it's night through dialog as homage to the Bard.
well, i think: when:the big movies used to cost in the tens of millions and today usually hundreds of millions; if you can get the right connection: getting a budget in the $100k- $1mil range is considered a low risk by a backer. Johnson Christmas Dinner was probably greenlit for $100k ( which is considered nothing in the movie biz ) and, they spent as little money as possible; pocketing the rest of the budget. It wouldn't surprise me if: the "actors" were paid under scale, or even, under state minimum wage. They wouldn't even buy a dinner to make a dinner scene in a so called dinner movie. The studio sees the movie, and, shrug it off, not really expecting anything good for $100k anyway. By hiring a distribution company to make deceptive box art, they manage to get it on wal-mart shelves for $2 a copy, and, probably trick enough uninformed lower class christian families to recoup the investment.
There has always been some sort of market for shitty movies. Many of these were made for rentals; they'd lurk on the shelves at Blockbuster and somebody looking for something different (having watched all the big movies already) would pick them up for an evening. Before that, in the USA particularly, drive-ins and the like.
THANK YOU RLM! Im a cancer patient and had to go back in to the hospital recently and wont get out till probably Christmas day. I opened my laptop and scrolled though my sub feed and said "come on come on dont let me down" and *boom* saw it! Another RLM video. A few times now a hospital stay of mine has coincided with a video release and you have no idea how much it brightens my day when stuck in the hospital. Hope you guys see this because even though your videos were just once simple entertainment for me to watch while eating pizza, it's become a whole lot more. Sometimes when i see you have a video up i purposely hold off watching it in case i go back to the hospital, so that way i have something to look forward to.
***** Stage 3. Treatable but lots of chemo and surgery. Just started growing my hair back :D But its nice when they upload since its always about an hour long. A great way to kill some time when im limited to what i can do. Hell ill even re-watch old videos of theirs anyway. Better than anything else on the hospital's basic cable.
Found this channel while going down the RU-vid rabbit hole. Now every night I pick one at random to play while I fall asleep. Such a great channel. Love it!
The writer behind Repligator also wrote and directed 'Six Dollars a Minute' - "Ex-Con Tony Knox, on the run from the cops, hides out in a photography studio used for porno movies and internet sex. Within hours, he finds himself embroiled in the lives of the girls, a greedy mob boss, a sexy lawyer, a pair of crazed thugs and a beautiful model who changes his life completely."
I've seen Gator-Face. Kids pretend to be the bigfoot type myth of the town, Gator-Face. Scaring people in their outhouses and shit. Eventually the town corners the kid in the costume into a shack in the swamp and burn it. The kids friend tells that it was them all along, but no one can get into the shack to help him. Then, the REAL Gator-Face shows up holding the kid, saving him from the shack. The townsfolk shoot him, everyone cries. Then the magic of the swamp brings him back to life and he goes away. We all learn a big lesson about not judging based on looks
To be fair, the imdb site states that the writer replaced an actor that did not show up, because they filmed it within 4 days. He probably did not intend to be in the movie (or came up with a devilish plan involving an actor that would not show up so he can replace him).
39:52 I'm So confused why they thought having him sleep standing up was a good idea. Perfectly timed vampire joke too but yeah... They made him sleep like a vampire in a coffin... Intentionally... In a Christmas family movie. That's the most confusing thing I've ever seen in a movie because I don't follow the logic of why he would do that.
I'm stretching like taffy here, but is it supposed to be some sort of joke about there not being room at the house? "We don't have any beds or couches left, so you're sleeping like a dracula"?
I think the best lineup for best of the worst is Jack, Mike, Jay, and Rich. Really Mike Rich and Jay are the most integral but I think Jack makes the best 4th member out of all the floating members.
I would love to see all the characters RLM has dug up from their flop episodes mingle in the aether of schlock. Lemro talking with Rem Lazar? That's a movie right there.
You guys really seem to enjoy each others' antics. When Rich crunched the tape, Jay and Mike's reactions multiplied the humor. It makes it very fun to watch.
I love that the creepy, overweight writer from RepliGATOR did a better job flying backwards over that desk than literally any of the stunts from all of Leo Fong's "action" movies.
What are you even saying? Leo Fong literally punched a guy in the face so hard that his entire head turned into a cake. He also once stopped chasing someone to go to another location to ask where that person was.
@@theguardian8317 You really have to wonder if that guy just did that as a joke and then no one noticed. It would seem entirely plausible, given the other blatant errors in that "film".
is it a stretch to assume that was a reference to the "whole family of draculas" line from texas chainsaw massacre (considering Gunnar Hansen's cameo at 25:11)?
Repligator screenwriter died in 2013. He also made an employee training video dubbed the "most bizarre training video ever" that was called Risky Business: Violence in the Workplace. I've been looking for it now, and think it's gone forever.
If you mean @37:41 you’re close. It is vermouth but the green label means dry vermouth. Sweet vermouths have red labels. Vermouth is a fortified wine, but no one would drink it straight out of the bottle like that.
Oda Swifteye Vivendi is a mass media conglomerate. Film is one of many types of media that they produce in addition to news, television and even video games.
Anyone else find it interesting that he got all the crap, but the women who agreed to do those things for roles got nothing. Not to mention they knew for years and said nothing. I say bring on equality. If he is to be held accountable, so should the women.
Merry Christmas Mike, Merry Christmas Jay, Merry Christmas Rich (and your jolly laugh), Merry Christmas Jack and Josh, and a special seasonal greeting to fellow Canadians Jim and Collin. For real, thank you all so much for putting out so many entertaining videos this year. everything you release is an event for me, more so than my favourite network shows, fuck... you guys have been killing it. I don't know why I like watching your reviews more than the movies you review, but I do. Much love - Grant
Heard about Carrie Fisher. This is kind of the uplifting one needs in these moments Plus it's the only Xmas gift one really ever needs. Happy Christmas to you all at Red Letter Media
I found Gatorface at a thrift store recently and I'm really sad Rich chose to destroy it. You guys would have had a blast with it. Also, why am I commenting on a 4 year old video? Fuck.
When I was 10, I got really sick for like 4 days and during that time watched Gatorface on the disney channel while having fever induced hallucinations. Needless to say I was haunted by visions of the bi-pedal man-gator creature for weeks after. Rich definitely made the right choice.
I cant believe Rich Evans would accidentally destroy Daytime Emmy Award-nominated The Legend of Gator Face and deprive us of the joys that Canadian television audiences got to enjoy in 1996!
This video is 6 years old and no one is gonna read this, but crocodilians are Archosaurs; relatives of dinosaurs, but not quite in the same clade. Dinosauria still exists today in the form of modern day birds. We are descendants of synapsid's; the Dimetrodon and other Permian period animals. Mammals descended from this group, and thus primates evolved from that, and then we evolved somewhere in there.
Aww. I thought the Alligator in the title was the John Sayles film of the same name. Seriously, John Sayles wrote a movie called Alligator about a giant alligator in LA and Robert Forster has to find it and kill it. It's actually a good film, for a film about a giant alligator.
I thought it was going to be that too! When I saw Alligator on the title, I thought "Oh, the guys are gonna have fun with this!" Then came disappointment...
I remember watching Alligator and being really surprised how good it was. I tweeted Jay about it, maybe they'll do an extra for the laser disc version.
And since he is most likely a serial killer, ha ha, he'd kill me. And I'd give you up in a failed effort to save myself, so, you'd be dead, too. Ha ha. Yeah....movies.
@AntLeonardi01 I rewound that part of this video multiple times, because as a writer myself I can't believe someone wrote that... Hell I suspect the reason the film's writer is playing that scientist is because everyone who auditioned couldn't take that line seriously enough to keep a straight face.
"Johnson Family Christmas Dinner" is clearly an unfinished vampire movie that someone incompetently edited into a terrible family movie. Which is really unfortunate because it looks like an entertaining no-budget vampire movie that these guys could've had a blast with.
Thank you guys for including the rich lottery story. when I tweeted you the details of the website at the end of November i thought "that's rich? from rlm wtf?" at least he looks happy in his mother's basement
Update: The Johnson Family Christmas Dinner sequel, "Who Shit in the Bed", has just been announced. It's starring Amber Heard, Johnny Depp, and a yorkie
44:13 Rick Evans.....so, you got Rick McCallum (ruined SW), Rick Berman (ruined ST) and now Rick Evans (ruined Xmas). We just hit the Rick Trifecta and lost our ass. What is it with these damn Ricks?
You totally missed the part when the gal was told to get gas and her response was " I'm not about to go walking in the middle of the night..." its the middle of the day. lol
