Jay's bar for "not remembering a thing" is if he doesn't remember an extra that walked past in the background for half a second 3/4 of the way through the movie and make the connection that the person also has a small part in an obscure movie they watched on Best of the Worst in 2013.
I like how Mike and Jay's psychopathies complement each other: The other enjoys the death of cute animals and infants while the other enjoys the death of the elderly.
I think their brain melted a bit ago. How can he possibly think Gen V was good in any way? It was such a terrible show, with an absolute obsession with juvenile penis jokes in every single episode.
@@IamSonyanddumb I know, I watched it too. That doesn’t take away from the fact that these two are the most jaded critics when it comes to superhero movies
I think they both should have watched it long ago, to be part of the discussion and have something to say about it. Even if they fully trash it, they can be informed about why they're trashing it and what they genuinely think about it. To me, it's odd that one or both of them doesn't watch a big film like The Flash, whether it's a trash film or not.
@@alexp601because superhero movies started becoming too same-y and they'd rather watch things they care about than jump on bandwagons. They're happy doin their own thing.
@@ND-nr6mx I totally get that. I just think that as part of their ‘job’ they should watch the bigger blockbuster films, but I know they pride themselves on avoiding the crappy ones, no matter how popular and immediately relevant they are. I guess there are enough other channels that talk about big films like The Flash.
Wes Anderson directing a Charlie Kaufman script is one of the best hypotheticals I've ever heard. I would pay good money to see a collaboration like that.
Some of Kaufman's movies remind me of Anderson, especially Synecdoche, NY. Not so much because of its narrative or visuals but more so because of the heightened "magic realism" feeling the story has.
@@lrgogo1517he’s probably saying we all know what he means by pervert movies, think of stuff with gratuitous sex scenes or excessive sexual references. They mentioned euphoria as one of them in another episode
I like that George Lucas in THE PHANTOM MENACE pioneered the technology to be able to split actors from different takes and composite them together, so that decades later Mike could wag his finger at a zombified Jay
Yes Jay, they did get Michael Shannon for The Flash, and he publicly admitted it was a bullshit role in the nicest way possible by saying it wasn't very satisfying and likening it to being an action figure as opposed to a character.
The funniest part is that he literally wasn't in Batman vs Superman. They used a rubber doll based on a lifecast he had done for Man of Steel, so he's literally been an action figure in a movie.
@@charlottecorday8494 I would have never have known except that due to watching years of RLM I obsessively read the IMDB trivia now on almost every damn film in case I run into Jay some day I might have something to add to the conversation... but ... I'm never going to fucking Milwaukee, Wisconsin.... brrr...
Yeah is Mike ok? He’s barely been in any videos for the last couple years other than the low effort “best of the worst” trash videos that aren’t entertaining
I think we have to acknowledge that it's weird Jay watched The Flash but wouldn't watch The Batman. It's like good word-of-mouth makes him run in the opposite direction.
I remember in their justice league commentary they got on the subject of Ben Affleck dropping out of directing batman. Jay suggested they get Matt Reeves because of the apes movies. It actually came true and now he wants nothing to do with it lol. Idc, just find it funny. That Twitter guy or whoever must of really got on his nerves.
I'm happy to see Jay liked The Killer. Some viewers complained about the movie feeling like an empty technical exercise. But the sly sense of humor where it's constantly poking fun at the assassin and poking holes in his neurotic precision and need for control was the extra layer that made the movie work for me.
I had no idea! The marketing is not doing it favor. I assumed it was another tired "Taken-type" franchise vehicle attempt for Fassbender (ala John Wick, Equalizer, Nobody, etc). i might check it out now.
@@juniorjames7076 I didn't pay much attention to the marketing, as I was already looking forward to it because of David Fincher directing and because of the reputation of the graphic novel it's based on. Its sense of humor is definitely low key/dry/subtle, though. I can see how someone wouldn't pick up on it and how it would be hard to convey in the marketing.
@TheBassicBassist you couldent be more wrong! everyone who is not dumb knows that the best part of the videos are the people who get into heated opinionated arguments with total strangers in the comment section over trivial subjective issues!!
The best thing about these videos is how they can take electrical signals from hundreds or thousands of miles away to your screen and turn those signals into flickering lights that represent moving images.
I love Judy Greer being in everything . Her face and voice are instantly recognizable. so regardless of the character she plays, she feels like a reoccurring character that travels from movie to movie .
I did background work for The Curse and being next to Nathan is the greatest experience of my life so far (I’m behind him and Emma the entire restaurant scene in Episode 2)
He actually did 4 of those Roald Dahl adaptations for Netflix and they're all great, people only noticed the first one but there's Poison, The Swan, and The Rat Catcher. Roald Dahl also wrote "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" which was pretty decent, but the Netflix shorts are just right for him.
Eww gross. I tried to watch that but got passed at the constant narration of what they're doing on screen. That one trick pony got old extremely quick.
Pointing out a bad Anderson movie online is like saying something bad about Taylor Swift. Except the angry mob will be slightly less psycho and a lot more pretentious.
The color palette and look of Asteroid City is very clearly evocative of a lot of old advertisements from the 50's, particularly magazine ads. It's really well done, it actually looks like that particular print style, except in motion.
I like that Jay appreciated The Killer. the entire intro was a 30-minute set up to a joke and the whole movie was a sort of farce comedy in Fincher style.
Jason Schwartzman delivers a monologue about how God hates us and wants us to suffer, in a flat monotone, while stabbing a middle aged single dad to death in a rotting pastel-colored farm house.
I watched the Ninja Turtles movie with my kids, going in with zero expectations. It was definitely charming . Had some off kilter humor-Splinter being afraid they will be milked, etc. But best part was the ending. Too many super hero movies are about having the will to overcome all the bad guys, and in this one, they just convince the bad guys to not be bad. There’s a better way to live and they don’t have to suffer under the flyguy. It was different and fun.
Funny how so many of the aspects that the 2014 had like Splinter not being Hamato or his pet or Shredder having no real connection to the team that I had problems with but here, I was very much all fine with it.
That actually sounds like an amazing resolution for a tmnt movie. Adding that with how Jay described it as playing with your toys as a kid reminds me of having a bad guy action figure and deciding he should be a good guy now.
I was a little nervous about "Suitable Flesh," but after hearing Jay's review, I'm totally stoked to go and see it! Especially after reading Stuart Gordon's posthumously released memoir.
Nah that was almost 1 for 1 Death Note, they get the power to remotely kill people in an untraceable way and go a little nuts with it. Changing the past does make it different I guess
@@NobodyEvenReadsNamesI wouldn't describe anything Light Yagami does in Death Note as "little", but otherwise 'goes nuts with it' is a pretty apt descriptor of the character. Dude can't even eat potato chips without overthinking it.
All the recent Wes Anderson films have left me feeling cold for the same reasons the guys mention. Ever since _Isle of Dogs,_ I haven't connected with anything he's done. For all the technical artistry and effort on display, they've lacked the strong emotional core his older movies had. In _The Royal Tennebaums,_ you get the feeling that Ben Stiller's character is sincerely distraught about his wife's death. It mattered to him so it felt like it mattered to us, the audience. The latter-day Anderson movies are sorely missing the bittersweet/melancholy pathos that made his old stuff so resonant.
Wes Anderson doing the movie adaptation of Kaufman's ant kind would be hilarious just because of the old film projectors and clown paraphernalia that Anderson would get excited about. Also the dialog could easily be read in the west Anderson style.
Thanks for the heads up on Suitable Flesh. That shit's right up my alley. Barbara Crampton seeing a Stuart Gordon production through to completion makes me all kinds of happy. I'm just surprised that Larry Fessenden doesn't have anything to do with it lol. That dude is a horror movie machine and was also recently in a movie with Crampton.
Rich Evans as the Bob Newhart tape was some of the finest acting I've seen to date. He was so into character, I didn't even know it was him until the credits. Keep up the great work Rich!
I went to the mall and told Santa that all I wanted for Christmas was a Half in the Bag/Re:View for Lower Decks. He told me to get the hell off his lap then to stop licking the elves and security sprayed and tazed me and I got a few criminal charges and restraining orders but hopefully he likes the infused cookies and milk im leaving him on CHristmas Eve
@@KeeseToastJay said he loved shin Godzilla! It was in the half in the bag for Godzilla king of monsters in 2019. Didn't discuss the movie much but was super positive.
I’ve wanted a Wes Anderson Fantastic Four movie for years; those characters and their world fit his aesthetic so well. (Asteroid City is the closest we’ll ever get, I guess.)
Loved this episode! Your commentary is so grounded and educative, without getting too self serious. Keep doing what you're doing! It's inspiring. Big thanks from Breda, The Netherlands!
And as someone who shares your taste(s), I really hope you get as much enjoyment out of Poor Things and Dream Scenario as I did! Also think that Jay, being a Lynch fan, could appreciate Skinamarink 😁
I really appreciate how at 34:04 Mike just drops the act, stops joking, and just delivers the truth humanity has to accept to move forward as a species.
If they kept the to e of that scene thought while thing .... We could've had a campy, silver age comic book like , and lighthearted superhero adventure. People forgot superheros are supposed to be fun.
Crazy that Seth Rogens career as a producer has so thoroughly surpassed his career as an actor. Such a surprising second act. Good on him for realising everyone had enough of his comedic schtick instead of riding it into the ground and beating a dead horse for years.
Completely disagree. He sucks now regardless of what he does, but nothing will ever top knocked up and Pineapple Express, which are classics to this day.
@@luiginastro8831 Its not my least favorite and it has good moments like the spatula snake scene. But I prefer Life Aquatica over it and most of his filmography too.
@@ZDCastle Hill House is mid in comparison for me, doesn’t hit near the same heights. The aggressively mediocre child acting in Hill House certainly didn’t help it either.
Regarding Silo. I actually read Wool beforehand, and the series still managed to surprise me. A rare example of a show building on and enhancing the material in the novels. Excellent.
Yeah the real life version of that fungus in The Last of Us does all that while the host is alive. It alters insects' behavior. In the show and the game, the victims are alive, and possibly aware or partially aware of the actions their bodies are being forced to do by the fungus. It's even more horrifying.
Just throwing this out there: the central theme of Asteroid City that brings it all together is the importance of encountering the alien to add value to your mundane life, be it fiction, dreams, death, unusual subcultures or a literal alien. I.e. “you have to go to sleep to know you’re awake”, which, y’know they say directly to the camera as a mantra
I think asteroid city is a criminally underrated movie, loved the theming and felt it carried super well throughout, though I did benefit from a rewatch
I wanted to like Asteroid City and looked forward to it. However when they said that line I thought: this movie is putting me to sleep; when does the movie start??
@@sheildingepicnessThis and The French Dispatch I think are harder for the average moviegoer to get into than his previous movies. They are more structurally complex while simultaneously doubling down on all the Wes Anderson weirdness. I think Asteroid City is one of his best, but it’s not for everyone.
Ok you guys have me even more hyped to watch The Curse. Same with Silo. It's on my list and Rebecca Ferguson is my favorite Female actress. So I'm pumped for it.
"It was fun, it was fine. When you hear like biggest bomb of all time you expect the movie to be a mess, a disaster, and it wasn't that..." 😂 they've broken Jay
It's the thing with all these bombs this year, they aren't embarrassing swings and misses, cause no-one does swings anymore with the money being thrown around, they are focus grouped to death cookie cutter CGI cartoons that cost 200m+ to make and then are simply boring and audiences don't care.
