The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

Gravel said:

Man, hearing Rich nerd out on fucking Spiderman over and over just made my eyes glaze over. I felt bad for Jay who had to pretend to be interested.

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Hey, Rich quit reading Spiderman the same time I did with One More Day. Spiderman makes a deal with the devil to nuke his marriage so his elderly aunt can live a little bit longer. This nukes a bunch of character development and shreds several currently running plots all at the same time. Horrendous. It will never be fixed.

Rich holding the films guilty for not being more like his childhood memories is so cliche' that even in a piece of fiction it would be embarrassing to have some tubby neckbeard expouse those views. Rich and Jay both properly identify that the unending component of major comic book properties is a huge problem but neither of them make it the solution - these are stories for kids. The medium is cheap print stock stuffed with ads for bubblegum and x-ray specs. You're supposed to read them for a couple of years, grow up and move on.

I'm not saying you can't like this stuff but maintain some perspective.

I agree that Rich dinging a movie because its not a 100% identical adaptation is dumb - instead, ding the Spider-Man movies because nearly* all the kids are terrible people.

But looking at his list, Jay's Top 5 are going to be something like Evil Dead II / Spider-Man 2 / Darkman / Drag Me to Hell / The Gift, all of which above Army of Darkness.

Honestly, I am more offended by Jay grading horror / supernatural on that much of a curve vs Rich being pissy about adaptation.

*Pigtail girl is best Spider--Man girl, of course.

I don't remember if he said where the other films ended up and I'm not going back to look.

I'm going to have a hard time believing Jay would rather watch The Gift than Evil Dead 1, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, Send Help, the other Spidermens, etc.

I never once actually paid attention to the director of The Quick and the Dead, that’s what’s blowing my mind right now.

I've never seen The Quick and the Dead. And Crimewave looks hilarious to me.

Yeah, there's a lot of zooms on faces and such that look like spaghetti westerns at first glance, until you remember who did it and it turns into "I see what you did there". I have not spotted the Olds turned into a wagon yet, however.

Honestly, the bigger style departure is Raimi going full Coen with A Simple Plan, though for the Coens you could argue how unified Miller's Crossing and The Hudsucker Proxy are.

ShakyJake said:

I've never seen The Quick and the Dead.

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I thought it was the dumbest piece of shit I'd ever seen the first time and gold the second. Of all the movies I've disliked and turned around on The Quick and the Dead has the biggest swing.