Despite that, I have mixed feelings about this show. Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and Rich Evans have a very caustic "fuck everybody" style and I'm increasingly less in the mood for that these days. These guys started back when a big part of Youtube movie culture was finding "the worst movie ever". It is their work that led me to review crap like Jack and Jill because I thought bad movies would make for good content.
As a whole, movie criticism seems to be moving away from "so bad it's good" as an ethos. The Razzies got a lot of shit this year for naming the Worst Movie of 2019. Personally I have tried to cut down on the irony. If I like something, I like it for it's qualities. Even if those qualities are perhaps an unusual form of "good". Last year's Cats is a movie I actually recommend. Yeah, it is terrible on most levels but also it is also a legitimately unique cinematic experience, even if not for the reasons the creators intended. That is more positive than negative. Plus, it is clear through these last ten years that RedLetterMedia got the Star Wars Prequels wrong. They might be "bad" for these aging nerds but they're also beloved by a fanbase who have gained a lot of joy from them.
I will religiously keep watching Best of the Worst and Half in the Bag the moment those shows update. However, as for Mr. Plinkett, I can't watch him anymore. I don't care what toxic shit he has to say about the new Star Wars movies anymore. Still, as I whole, I like RedLetterMedia. They have helped me find a lot of legitimately great movies even while they have gone out of their way to find nothing but terrible things. I discovered Xtro, Chopping Mall, and Brian Yuzna's delightful Faust: Love of the Damned thanks to these guys. So this month I set to see how many of their "Worst" movies were actually great.
Five of my Top 9 were featured on Best of the Worst or Half in the Bag. The other four are just movies I saw because. I'll include show links to RedLetterMedia's opinions on the movies too.
