***** i would literally never have guessed that dundy is a fan of half in the bag, or that his dunkleness would post this small, reasonable opinion on a video that has nothing to do with anything he has to do with
EoThorne What a shit Half in the Bag, I had to turn it off halfway through, so grating. This series is about Mike and Jay, it is as simple as that, not them and their friends hanging out. They have other RLM series that involve groups, this is supposed to be just the two of them, because it works. That's the only way it works; when Rich Evans joins the episodes, they're without fail lesser than a standard episode because he ruins the banter and the review, because it's not his show. There was no focus, no real reviewing, it wasn't funny, what a waste of time.
Chris Dynamo Yup, my brain was going back and forth from BOTW to HITB mindset while watching. Rich has been on HITB as himself more than Jack. Last time Jack was on he was still toying with the razor idea. The feel of HITB was lost to me this episode but I think the real culprit was them trying to logically tie up loose ends in the storyline.
@@superbit6426 they screwed Thanos over hard with those 2 movies. I would have loved to see a movie about him and Deadpool fighting over Lady Death...or literally anything else.
***** This comment was meta because it used a cliche to mock a cliche. Then again, meta sort of implies you meant to do it and I think that's giving you too much credit. I think you're just an oblivious moron who likes to tear down what other people make as a substitute for creating your own shit. AKA a hack fraud.
heavydny86 Plus, all these extra characters - each from their own separate episodic series - came together (assembled, if you will) to review the movie. Super-meta-meta-mind-blown.
Also, the Planet Hulk talk ending in a "20-25 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe". Meanwhile it ended up being a part of the Thor revival in 2017 the fuck.
22:42 all four of the guys personalities are represented perfectly. Mike: Sarcastically clapping Jack: Earnestly clapping Jay: Involuntarily chuckling Rich: Staring into the abyss
Just wait for Disney’s marvels Bob igers Kevin feiges avengers infinity war part 2 where they defeat purple space shrek and use the infinity macguffins to bring everyone back to life from Disney’s marvel Bob igers Kevin feiges avengers infinity war part 1
I remember Moriarty, Mike. Then later he went crazy and started forcing the Enterprise crew to beam office chairs around the ship, because Geordi became left handed.
Awesome! A team-up of Half in the Bag and Previously Recorded on a scale of Best of the Worst proportions! This'll be the best episode EVER!! (I have no life.)
Hahaha, yeah that whole running gag of Mike always finding a way to compare anything and everything to Star Trek and Jay being completely uninterested, to me that demonstrates how solid their relationship is, that they can have diverging interests, but still have a deep respect and appreciation for each other. Though it kinda breaks my heart to see Jay just look down when Mike is talking about the Mariarty episode in TNG, while Mike just has such a sweet look of childish enthusiasm on his face :p I know it's played for a joke, but I just want to give Mike a big hug at that point, or like, pet him on the head and praise him for being such a good trekkie :)
Jay is such a gigachad. When Mike dropped the 'get-a-life'-joke, Jay immediately played along and so well too. I always wondered whether these scenes are scripted, but given the dumbfounded reactions of Rich and Jack, it is too real. Jay best mate.
I want to comment on something in this from from 15:24 on. One of the things that pisses me off about Sci-Fi fans and people that love all this new geeky stuff is no one gives Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation the time of day. It's old and boring and most people go "Who Cares?" and the only Star Trek to care about is the new J.J. Abrams films, which aren't very good but they resemble Star Wars, which everyone loves, so people love them and don't know any better. Why is it when you bring up these wonderful, genuinely great shows and everyone goes 'Ew. Boring. I want nothing to do with them'? I wish they were as popular with people as Star Wars or The Avengers because then I think we would get more and more great Star Trek things and great Sci-Fi films as well.
The original Star Trek TV show captured people's imagination for generations. I watched it on BBC2 every week when I was a little kid, growing up in the early 90s. I found the Trek films quite dreary though, and I can't muster the effort to watch them on Netflix these days. It's not always to do with ADD or being young and dumb. They're just very different from the original TV show. There's nothing wrong with liking them. It ain't for everyone though.
***** Shutup. Its a joke. You obviously don't know the personalities of RLM, and they don't need to cater to your butthurt bullshit. If you notice, Rich seems to be interested in the convo with Mike because he is a big Trek fan as well, but Jay is darkly phasing out and Jack is binge drinking. I can't believe I need to explain humor to people.
It's so cool seeing this speculation from 2015 to see what has happened and hasn't and see how it has turned out. infinity war was an avengers movie, and it was fucking incredible and worked really damn well. planet hulk was a movie but it got fused with thor 3. mark ruffalo will be getting his own solo hulk movie.
HAHAHA I just saw Ragnarok where The Hulk was fighting in a giant gladiator arena on some planet in outer space. Then a couple days later I watch this. What else has Rich predicted?
I am so glad Jack gets it about Scarlet Witch. Her powers have always bugged me ever since I was a kid! You can either be magic or be a mutant. But magical mutant? C'mon son!
To be honest, the longer and more action intense the movie, the higher the likelihood that I just zone out mid-action and then completely lose the plot.
+EwanMakeMovies I'm a bit late to the party, but... Daniel wasn't trying to point out what it says in the comics. He's saying that it's grammatically incorrect. When it comes to Russians, females have a female form of the last name. So while a male's last name is, for instance, "Romanov," for a female, it becomes "Romanova."
James Spader as Ultron was a complete miscast. I was not intimated by his portrayal of this character at all. His casual voice-acting style paired with all of the humour in the script really sucked all of the intensity out of his character for me. Ultron (for me) should have been like an intense, cold, super-intelligent, terminator-style robot that would stop at nothing to fulfill his tainted purpose which was to "create peace on earth". His origin scene with Jarvis could have been like a complete misinterpretation of his design purpose from Stark. We could have seen him divulging his rationale to Jarvis who tries to consol him like he did in the movie, but only for Ultron to jump to conclusions and start taking over by force. Then he could continue on his quest to complete his tainted mission by exterminating a huge portion of the Human Race to create "Peace in our time" with the reason being that the world is too heavily populated. This could then be revealed in a 1-on-1 confrontation scene with Tony Stark and Ultron (adding depth to Tony's character by getting him to question his morals, motivations and role for the Human race) But instead he just get a scene where Ultron goes "oh look at all this stuff on the internet that you don't get to see on screen properly...okay I'm gonna destroy the world now i guess"
The other Avengers movies were basically the original Star Wars trilogy. Age of Ultron was Rogue One. It didn't ruin the others or anything, it just kinda existed to exist.
Anyone else get tired of the Avengers mowing down an army of worthless robots? I thought the Iron Man and Hulk fight was the most entertaining action sequence in the movie cause it was the one time one of the Avengers was fighting someone that actually seemed like a threat.
It’s funny watching this in 2019 - Infinity War and Endgame turned out better than Age of Ultron despite Rich’s predictions - Planet Hulk actually happened in the form of Thor: Ragnarok
"Nobody likes Thor" "There actually is a story called planet Hulk where Hulk fights in a giant gladatiorial arena" Two years later we got Thor: Ragnarok and now Thor is everyone's favorite xD
McDonald's portion sizes are actually going down. They'll say it's so people eat healthier, but it's really because less people are eating McDonald's, so they're charging the same amount for less food to save money.
Oh God no, Mike. The less corny shit in superhero movies, the better. Comics have evolved past the super friends era of goofiness. As for lightheartedness and brooding, I think there should be a balance. The heroes that do lighthearted stuff better, like Spider-Man and Iron Man, should get mostly lighthearted movies, and the brooding types, like Batman and Dare Devil, should get mostly movies with a darker tone. One of the things I dislike about the Thor movies is that they play it too by the numbers when their is so much potential with Thor's world.
Sloth7d The corny stuff has no impact in the quality of the movies, The Avengers was really funny and it was a superior film than trash like Man of Steel which was trying way too hard to be dark.
I'd have to respectfully disagree there. I enjoyed AoU as a dumb action/comedy but it was a really bloated film regarding plot points and despite many of the philosophical questions it raises, it never addressed any of them. But I don't think it was meant to, so I accept it for what it is, but it was some-what disappointing. Man of Steel, on the other hand, I enjoyed very much since there was an effort to say something meaningful with the story behind all of the action, and I think it did this well. And this is where I'm disappointed with Mike when he says he wishes comic book movies should be more corny and "fun" (where "fun" just seems to be mindless action). I don't care about the action unless the story and characters are interesting to me; something Mike did well in showing was what was problematic about the Star Wars prequels. So to see him here applaud that sort of action in AoU, where I felt the character motivations were pretty uncompelling (because Ultron himself was kind of a hackneyed character and not at all intimidating with how silly he acted most of the time) while looking down on Batman v Superman comes as a shock to me. But to each their own, of course.
Sloth7d Man of Steel is the perfect example of pseudo-intellectual crap, it wants to be seen as something complex and intellectual but since neither Snyder or Goyer have any idea how to do that they have to use as many superficial aspects as they can in order to fool the audience into thinking the film is mature. Example? Well every little theme the film is supposed to tackle is ony mentioned in the dialogue, none of those themes are actually executed into the film so there is a disconnect between what they're showing and what they're saying. You say that you're not interested in action yet more than half of MOS is pure action stuff that isn't doing anything substancial, not only is the action superfluos but its not even well done or fun to watch like in The Avengers. That's without even mentioning how nonsensical the villain's plan was(and everything in Krypton for that matter), how uninteresting Superman is as a character, how boring the supporting characters are, the terrible dialogue, etc. A movie pretending to be seen mature is not the same as a movie genuinely trying to be mature.
unknown unknown The problem is that Snyder is immature, so when he tries to imbue his films with mature themes, it comes off like a kid misusing a swear word.
unknown unknown We'll simply have to agree to disagree. If that's the way you felt about the issues brought up in MoS, I doubt I could say much to change your mind. Either you thought it was poignant or you didn't. I do think you factually misrepresent the amount of action in MoS. Most of it was at the end, with a little in the opening scene, while the beginning and middle of the movie was mostly set up. But I never said I didn't care for action anyway, so you misrepresent me as well. What I said is that I don't care for mindless action. As Mike has argued in the Plinkett persona, our investment in the action of a movie is dependent on how much we care about the underlying story, plot points, and themes that gave birth that action. AoU was written in such a way that I never felt invested in the action. MoS was. Even outside of the philosophical points of the movie, since you dismiss them for your own reasons, the tension between Zod fighting for the sake of his ideal vision of Krypton and Superman being forced to fight the only other Kryptonians he knows to be alive, as well as prevent the destruction of humanity at the cost of future Kryptonians played off very well. There's a lot going on there that makes you feel the plight of the characters as they battle it out. Not to mention, The Kryptonians were a real threat. There were real stakes in MoS. When the city was destroyed, unlike in AoU when the city was destroyed, you saw the fallout, you saw the consequences. And Superman had to make tough choices in his fights. He never got an out from making a tough decision like The Avengers got in AoU: he had to make that call. Real consequences like that also help make the action in movies interesting.
I dunno if the RLM guys read these comments (God I hope not), but I just wanna say that as a totally sincere critical analysis, this is one of the better episodes. The meta stuff (the bag of manchildren toys, the half-assed backstory, the incoherent debating) is funny, relevant, and subtle, while the criticism itself--including the stuff I disagreed with--was reasonable, insightful, and fun. Yeah, that's right. I just posted a sincere RU-vid comment that wasn't about how Obama did 9/11. Eat it.
the most glaring problem with avengers is that it made the classic action movie mistake. long boring fight scenes where the heroes tear hordes of minions apart like they are made of paper mache. hawkeye probably killed more robots than anyone else. headshot after headshot after headshot SO BORING.
