Ranking Every John Carpenter Movie (part 1 of 3) - re:View
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Despite having very different tastes, Jay and Rich both love John Carpenter movies. Just maybe not the same John Carpenter movies. We decided to do a ranking of every single one of them. Disaster ensues.
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Rich doesn’t see the appeal behind Halloween because for him, stalking Jamie Lee Curtis is just a regular Tuesday.
Rich looks like he's absorbed the years that Jay was supposed to have aged
@@ryannelson884 yeah, years of knowledge.
@@drewsmith3673 And food.
Little known fact: it's the other way around, JLC stalks Rich.
@@Lark1610 Rich Evan's childhood photo ended Ellen's career.
"My involvement with the Rob Zombie Halloween films, was accepting a check and returning to my spot on the couch watching basketball." -John Carpenter
Didn't mind the first Rob zombie Halloween. But the second one. That was trash.
@@FreshNews247 Congrats
Those movies are a fucking nightmare. Not in a good David Lynch kinda way.
@@kyleplatz3751 Agreed
This from the guy who called the Reagan era the decade of greed. You did pretty good those years, eh John. You got paid pretty good for the dreck you made.
One of my favorite RLM jokes is when someone fucks up a famous person's name and they show a completely random image of someone entirely different with the made-up name under it.
Their editing is great
That's Staying in!
MIKE IS WRONG!
Is one of my favourites
The best part is that occasionally they do put the correct person in the image, so if they mention someone who I know nothing about I have no idea if the image is accurate or not
Timothee Chalamet Clint Howard
12:55 I love the idea of Rich and his sister watching a movie together and laughing, because I like to imagine they both have the same laugh.
Them laughing in a room together is like sticking r2d2 in a blender
@@Jinglejangles2234 what beautiful music they make…
Funnily enough, he does have an identical twin sister.
@@connielingus8385not identical twin. But a twin
I bet they have the same voice as well.
"part 1 of 3" just warms my cold dead heart
A 3-part series in the best show on the channel is cause for celebration.
Red Letter Media is one of my favorite mundanities. Truly a set of funny guys.
This ought to be good
my identity is stolen
I'm already warming up the 24 cup coffee maker for parts 2 and 3
Rich Evans: "You are all going to hate me."
Me: Clutches heart and looks to "The Thing" poster on my wall.
Rich Evans: "Halloween."
Me: Sigh of relief.
Pretty much, mu thoughts were "Its Thing or Escape from New York", but i was still kinda shocked that it was Halloween. Good discussion to end the video tho.
Same, The Thing is my favorite horror movie.
I was just hoping he wouldn't say "In the Mouth of Madness." :-D
@@lotus-prince "In the Mouth of Madness" is a legitimately good movie even though I think it starts stronger than it ends.
@@davidjeanmougin467 I quite like the ending, though some of the buildup to it was a bit weaker.
Wait. As to Rich's theory about Adrienne Barbeau maybe having an affair, then disappearing from Carpenter's later movies. Escape From New York (1981)wasn't her last appearance in a Carpenter film. She voiced the chess computer in The Thing (1982). The chess computer that the character, MacReady, calls a "Cheating b**ch."
I mean....Rich might actually be right...somehow.
That's a really good catch, and it's now 100% confirmed for me based purely on this
holy shit
Holy shit
Sholy hit
Holy shit
"Christopher Reeve was very stiff and awkward"
Too soon, Jay.
And after his birthday..
Shhhesh
It's awful I laughed so hard at this.
@Jarred Knox Yeah I like him in Valley of the Damned I even thought Kirstie Alley wasn't that bad in it but it's still his worst movie
Village of The Damned is a bloody criminally underrated Carpenter film. I don’t have a problem with any of it.
My aunt almost quit med school because she was afraid of blood. My dad showed her “The Thing” on cable, and years later she has a job dissecting cadavers. The reason why? (In her own words). “Nothing I’ll ever see in real life can be scarier than that movie”.
That’s actually fucking awesome
Your dad is an absolute Chad. Power to them.
I'd be a bit worried around cadavers after that defibrillator scene!
It might be one of his best, if not one of the best horror movies ever made. Just about everything in that movie sticks with you
Thats fantastic!
I'm slowly coming around to the idea that Rich Evans is the main character of the world
He clearly lives in a society
I would be okay with that.
Like the main character of the RLM canon universe or just the main character of Earth?
@@NicholasAdeptus yes, both of those
Dark Star has the most accurate depiction of space travel of any film. Space ships in isolated parts of the galaxy will likely be manned by weirdos that are bored out of their mind.
... and run out of toilet paper. That is the sort of realism you don't get in Star Wars or Star Trek :)
Fun fact: Dark Star was Stephen Hawking's favorite sci-fi movie.
@@sleuthentertainment5872 yes, the only thing that actually came to fruition in 2001 was affordable long distance calls.
I'm a bit sad to see Dark Star at the bottom of Rich's list. It was one the first John Carpenter film I owned, on VHS no less. Objectively it's not that good, but I'd rate it above Ghosts of Mars. Dan O'Bannon's presence makes it much more interesting. And the existential conversation with the bomb amuses me to this day. I didn't know it was Stephen Hawking's favourite sci-fi film!! That's brilliant @@victoriajohnson4420
@@victoriajohnson4420 😂😂😂
A friend of mine is a minimalist electronic music composer who has never seen a John Carpenter movie but owned all the soundtracks and went to a horror convention John was appearing at to get his vinyl records signed. When John Carpenter heard that they were BFFs for the rest of the weekend.
I hope this is real that's real rad
John Carpenter is unironically a great composer, some of his soundtracks are lit.
“Finally! Someone cares as much about my movies as me!”
22:18 - "No, I don't hate you." - Probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said to Rich on camera.
Someone is clearly going to be fired for treating slave rich evans with respect
Someone should crochet that and send it to Rich for Christmas.
I thought Jay was going to say "I don't hate you. I fucking hate you."
Let's not even talk about what people say to him off camera.
One of my favorite bits of "Enrico Morricone" trivia is how 99% of the score he wrote for The Thing went unused for 35 years until Quentin Tarantino asked him to score Hateful Eight. Ennio pulled his unused Thing score out of a drawer, dusted it off and pretty much turned it in as-is and it won the fucking Oscar for Best Original score that year.
Lol. That is a fun fact.
That is awesome.
Had he released it for the Thing, it would not have even been nominated. The Academy loves Tarantino and detests Carpenter for some reason.
@@RettMikhal The academy are a bunch of hack frauds, and I don't mean that in the funny meme sense, but in earnest.
And it is a shame because it is a fun, but a bit trashy Morricone soundtrack. He wrote La Sconosciuta in the 21st Century. Now that is fuckin' great. On the level of his works with Sollima, Petri and Leone.
Lmao the fact that Rich thought the kid on the bike from In the Mouth of Madness was John Carpenter is amazing
It was him in uncredited role. One of the earliest attempts at cg de-aging as I recall.
I've always felt that the original Halloween was like a ghost story without a ghost. It centres on a tragic and terrifying event in the seemingly distant past, an abandoned house where the terrifying thing happened, and a scholarly character trying to fight the inexplicable evil. I love ghost stories, and that's probably what makes it so memorable for me.
Very well said!
My perspective on Halloween has totally changed.
@@somercet1 I agree to an extent. Some are literally about ghosts as much as memory or anything else, but yeah, the oppressive weight of the past is almost always a distinctive feature.
It did not give me a ghostly feeling at all. It was more of an urban legend feel, but I too did not like it. |д･)
I still think he was possessed as a child. Just look at his blank face not knowing what happened.
i am used to people being right when they hate on older films i adored as a teen cause i have meh taste i guess and grow up rewatch them and realize i was wrong even if its popular the minority with brains who were adults back then who hated on it were right or mostly right.....halloween is not one of those..if you do not love it like you should your wrong....i was right to love it....it surprised me how much more i like it now on rewatch as an adult then when i was younger...its so good....shits on friday the 13th..the only reason i liked the first friday was the twist of mrs. vorhees...the rest of the franchise is shit...even the rest of the first film is meh
Every time Rich mentions his sister, I just imagine Mike in a wig wearing a "Fanny the Birthday girl" t-shirt.
Imagining this made my day. 🤣🤣🤣
Rich does not have a sister, he just dresses like a woman sometimes. Think of Jack and Jill lol.
@@ohbejuankenobi663 I prefer to imagine it's just Mike. His parents did a gag with Mike once and now don't know how to get out of it without destroying his psyche.
Somewhere, someone is going to take your slander of Richina Evans and defend her honor!
I was wondering if he is going to talk about SW holidayspecial, since if I remember right, he first watched it with his sis
"I don't hate you, I'm just disappointed." - Jay's eyes.
I dont hate you - Jay
also jay: its one of the most famous and iconic moives, cynematography is good,etc
Jay tries so hard to hide his disappointment and disgust.
Haa
"I've come to learn I really like SynthWave" - Rich. YES!!! Gunship, The Midnight, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, Timecop1983, Kavinsky, FM-84, Laserhawk, Mitch Murder... boy howdy you have a run ride ahead Rich!
Jay found a way to get “hey Ted where’s the corkscrew” in there
Look forward to Divine and her "KILL EVERYONE NOW! CONDONE FIRST DEGREE MURDER!" speech in one of the next two videos.
Although he got which Friday its from wrong
Ah yes who could forget that famous scene from F13 part 6 Jason lives. RLM trolling is high level.
@@yewtubemike , Actually, it’s mislabeled. It’s Part 4. Can’t believe RLM messed that up
I legit gasped when Rich said prince of darkness at 14, and then when he said Halloween I audibly said "No!". Jay burning on the inside but just diplomatically saying "I don't ... hate you."
Jay's mouth said I don't hate you, but his eyes said, I will never forgive you.
I don't know if Jay will be able to contain himself if Rich says The Thing for #11.
@@SodapopKevin I will throw my computer out the window
@@jumhook6167 I will pour whiskey into my computer and call it a cheatin' bitch
@@SodapopKevin Holy shit if The Thing isn’t in Rich’s top 5, I will throw every thing in my living into my tv.
Someone once explained to me the "fear" of Halloween movies--Michael Myers skulks around being creepy and doesn't actually do anything you could call the police on him for, until he starts killing people and then there's no help. It's something resonated with a lot of people, especially women. It's the helplessness and dread of it that you know he's no good but you can't actually do anything to stop him short of killing him first but you don't know he's THAT bad yet.
Or you can buy a gun and learn to legally conceal and use it.
That's it. That's why the first Halloween works so well. It's not some fairytale monster, it's not an over the top serial killer, no. It's a guy in a mask watching you from afar, getting ever more close. He doesn't speak, you don't know what he wants, but the moment you watch outside your window at night, he is there watching you. That's terrifying. That's real, too real sadly. Later iterations they made him an invincible spirit of vengeange, which is boring horror b-movie stuff.
"Mom can we go see the new Doom movie?"
"No, we have Doom at home."
At home... (Ghosts of Mars dvd)
Uh, sounds like horrible punishment in both cases, who would want to watch doom the movie ?
@@Enkabard lol, which one?
@@lazerhosen Good question, the answer is yes.
Leave it to Jay to know the font John Carpenter uses off the top of his head.
Fun Fact: So John actually didn't use much of Morricone's score for The Thing. The classic "BUM BUM" was Carpenter's doing. Occasionally you can hear some of Morricone's score in the film, but overall he threw out much of it. Tarantino wanted Morricone to compose an original score for The Hateful Eight which is inspired by The Thing. Morricone had obligations for another film he agreed to work on so he told Tarantino he could only write 20-25 minutes of original score that Tarantino could maybe stretch into 40 minutes & then he suggested using the unused parts of The Thing score. So if you want to hear more of The Thing's score just watch The Hateful Eight.
Didn’t Morricone win an Oscar for hateful eight?
@@victorpleitez768 Only because it was in a Tarantino film instead of a John Carpenter film
@@victorpleitez768 He did, and he was nominated for a Razzie for The Thing. Awards don't make sense.
Shouldn’t Morricone have been disqualified for winning an Oscar for Hateful Eight since the academy decided that nominated scores have to be original and not based on or incorporated any previous work?
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 Well it wasn't technically ever used before so...
I can't believe Mike, in a fit of drunken rage, deleted parts 2 and 3 of this series
05:12 Dark Star
08:13 Escape from L.A.
13:53 Ghosts of Mars
19:13 The Fog
22:06 Prince of Darkness
26:57 Village of the Damned
32:18 Halloween
Good man. Thank you
Thank you man.
Indeed!
Thank you greatly.
Ghost of Mars should be lower, it's horrible.
I actually like that Rich put Halloween so low, one reason I like RLM is that I like hearing new viewpoints instead of just having my opinions regurgitated back at me.
Definitely #1 on my list is Big Trouble in Little China
Halloween is god damn boring
Right? I love that they just dont care how people will react to their opinions on movies. If he doesnt like it, then why pretend otherwise.
@@Neala01 One of my favorite things about this channel is their complete disregard for everything that almost every other UA-cam channel holds on a pedestal. One million subscribers? Video mocking subscriber-count celebration videos. UA-camrs are worried about Susan Wikiwiki taking away monetization for talking about [certain disease of unknown origin]? Constant mentions of *CORONAVIRUS* very loudly and specifically. One video ended with them telling everybody to give it a dislike. One video ended with them telling us all "fuck you" and -- if I remember correctly -- literally giving us the finger.
That being said, fuck Rich Evans for his opinion of Halloween. He's wrong.
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." - Robert A. Heinlein
I now need to know what Rich Evans sisters laugh sounds like...
Underrated comment 😂👍
No wine glasses in the room :D
The baritone to Rich’s soprano?
We'll never know because the frequency is so high, mics can't pick it up.
I got ten bucks on Michael Clarke Duncan through an amplifier.
The part of the conversation where Jay says, "It's creepy because he has no motive!" and Rich is like "Ehhhhh..." feels like a conversation my brother and I would have. It's like a I get it, but it doesn't do it for me. Like the big reveal at the end of The Strangers. My brother thought it was the greatest thing ever. I don't know why, but the "no motive/random act of violence thing" doesn't do it for me.
As someone who's also sour on the original Halloween, it's one of those ideas that's fun intellectually but makes for a boring time to sit through. "We'll never explain why this guy is doing this" is fine for a short but you'll need really interesting protagonists to compensate for that in order to sustain a feature and Laurie Strode just isn't that deep for me.
lol When you have those conversations with your brother, does he have shrill voice that can break glass like this guy? :D
I just like the Rich Evans dismissal of "he kills a couple of teenagers". Who amongst us, right?
Prince of Darkness isn't perfect, but I really like that movie. The tone, and pace of it is just so engaging to me. Even the premise is just kinda cool to me, and how certain things are framed and shot. It's not my favorite Carpenter film, but it's up there.
I agree that it's one of Carpenter's better movies. There's a lot of good stuff in Prince of Darkness. But it's also...kinda problematic, especially in its later acts. The first half of the film promises a lot more than it ends up delivering. The premise really is fascinating. A potentially apocalyptic threat that requires science and religion working together to stop it. POD starts out as a legitimately cerebral horror / thriller. I just feel like it jumps the rails and settles into something more conventional and less interesting. The ending is great though.
i thought it was amazing.
Ditto! That movie blew me away as a kid.
This is the fourth video in a row about topics that Jay loves. It's official - Mike's reign of Trekkian Terror is at an end. Is Rich Evans now free, or does he have a new master? Tune in to the next episode of RLM Adventures to find out!
Either that, or it's just the calm before the storm. What is Mike planning?
Free? Rich will never be free.
The Star Trek Wars have ended.... Now begins the Star Wars Trek.
They rush through DS9/Voyager to deliver like 10 more Trek videos
Long live Mike! May the new king rule justly and long.
Rich AND his sister "laughing hysterically together" ... grammy material, hands down
Is she hot?
I just imagine Rich Evans and Rich Evans in a blonde wig looking at each other and hyena laughing together, in the same pitch and everything. I bet it was wonderful.
@@wt_neptune54 I imagine she resembles Rich, so she must be
@@ryleedulaney this comment is so mean 😂😂
Given the upper octaves Rich's laugh hits on his own, I can only assume that Rich's sister makes Mariah Carey sound like a baritone.
One of the greatest assets in Carpenter's earlier films was the god-tier cinematography of Dean Cundey.
The award winning cinematographer from such hits like Jack and Jill?
@@radhinkabagaskara5595guess he had some bills to pay and showed up for the bare minimum
That man's career was amazing up until the mid-90's when he just apparently gave up and lost all creative drive...
Saw John Carpenter live a few years ago on Halloween night. It was awesome. He played the main themes from his films with clips from his films projected behind the band.
I love John's late-career pivot to focusing on his music. I hope he's having loads of fun, he deserves it.
The albums are fantastic.
His music is great too!
He's always looked old but now that he is old, watching him playing the intruments, he looked quite energetic for his age. Maybe that could be the basis of a new movie for him: old man gets the fountain of Youth by playing music.
He had no choice. Can't get directing jobs anymore.
yeah i didnt knew he was so talented
Immediately knew Jay’s worst was gonna be Ghosts of Mars
@@almostontimehero5415 Jay is a pretender after all.
Ghosts was going to be an escape moive but still a rumor
It's baffling how terrible Ghosts of Mars is
Ice Cube as Desolation Williams, come on it's great. I look at GOM as a sequal to Boyz In The Hood. The reincarnation of Doughboy.
Ghosts of Mars is probably on lists of worst movies of all time in general.
Once Rich reminded us that he isn’t a horror guy, I understand his low placement for The Fog and Halloween. And yes Loomis is a terrible psychiatrist lmao
I saw Rich Evans at a grocery store in Milwaukee yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
I’m 100% convinced that Rich Evan’s “sister” is just Rich Evans in drag , ala Jack and Jill.
Stay tuned for part 2, I'm hoping for a sleepaway camp type reveal! "He" has been in drag this whole time!
Maybe the Rich Evans that we see is actually his sister?
Now I have Rich Evans singing "You want creamy goodness, I'm your friend. Say hello to my chocolate blend" in my head
Rich And his sister “laughing hysterically together “…Grammy material hands down
Rich evans is beyond such silly concepts like gender. In terms mankind can understand he is living god who walks among us. Or maybe he is just a funny guy on internet. Pick your poison
So sad to hear that Mike drank himself to death after watching the trailer for Picard season two.
Oh no! Is that actually out... I don't think I can bring myself to watch it. After the last season of Discovery, Picard & Lower Deck... I just can't watch any more 'new Star Trek'. I've just ended up watching random clips of Quark on UA-cam.
Man, I love Prince of Darkness. Like you said, I can see why people dislike it, but I find it such an interesting movie. I love the slow burn, the atmosphere and the ideas he has in that movie. It's so interesting and different. The feeling of doom and the open ending, like in The Thing, are so awesome!
It's one of the very few movies I'd actually love to see remade.
They're definitely right about Halloween suffering from the movies that came after it. My experience was much like Jay's-Halloween came out the year I was born, so I ended up not seeing it until like 19 years after its release. By that time, every other 80's/90's horror movie of my adolescence had ripped it off and amped it up much that it was predictable and hard to appreciate without approaching it from a film-making mindset. So while I do think Halloween is a classic masterpiece, it reminds me of a wonderful food item from a local restaurant that gets watered down and played out once the recipe gets acquired and used by a national franchise chain.
Am I the only one currently OBSESSED with the question of whether Rich's sister laughs just like him or not? I can't stop thinking about it. Rich, help me.
Jesus Christ... Now I can't stop thinking about it too 😱
Thanks for giving me a new hyperfixation. I was rather enjoying water colour but now it's all about Rich's laugh but make it femme.
lol her laugh is pitched an octave lower.
In a twist of fate, they published this while I'm at the gym and 3 of the 5 TVs are playing Night Court reruns.
You're welcome.
that's wild... take care tonight Kellen, you might be haunted
wtf what kind of gym plays night court reruns?
Work them glutes
@Kellen Johnson. H. S. Plinkett approves!
"I'm not a horror guy" is kind of a weird place to be for someone ranking Carpenter films.
True
for October too
Same thing I was thinking. Why have Rich on this segment?
@@billsimms2511 Same reason for having a Brad Pitt or a Tom Cruise in a film. Star appeal.
@@Lultschful perfect response
I love how this ends in a push-top pen click ... so satisfying.
The theme from Halloween is so effective that one evening I came home from work. I opened my front door and stepped Into my house. There were no lights on and all I could hear was the Halloween theme loudly echoing through out the house. For a split second I instinctively felt an uneasiness and dread before it clicked in my brain that my brother was watching one of the Halloween movies.
A "splint second"? Is that you Rich?
I was walking home late one night and it was playing from
Somewhere in the darkness very loud. Rounded a corner and it was playing inside a pub whos staff and some patrons had a lock in and we’re watching Halloween with the lights off!
Rich's Halloween pick actually made me go "oh, ok, that's fine" because after all that build up I thought he was gonna say The Thing.
Same, that would have made me legitimately upset.
I'm expecting The Thing to be top 3 for both
I figured either Halloween or In the Mouth of Madness then with the buildup i was sure it was Halloween
If he did, this video would’ve never been uploaded because Jay would’ve pounced and destroyed him
Jay is right about 'Halloween'.. So many things has been said about the movie and it's brilliant direction, so I mention one subtle detail that most horror movies with big budgets don't get right. The build up.. Laurie and her friends just talk about mundane things.. There are some minor scares along the way, but it's daylight, so no problem. But it gets darker and darker... You don't need gore with this kind of talent.
Love hearing Rich talk and share opinions etc without having the piss taken out of him. Love Mike but prefer to hear rich actually speak and be confident
I need more videos like this, ranking the whole filmography of different directors.
You guys are the best!!!!
Instead of furiously typing at Rich's number 12 I just wanna say Rich and Jay videos are wholesome and I love them.
There's nothing wholesome about disliking Halloween. Rich Evans should have to give up his American citizenship for that.
I think people responding this way makes me dislike Halloween quite a bit more actually
@@KnuckleHunkybuck its a lame movie
31:58 Rich: You're all going to hate me.
Me: Oh come on it can't be that bad
Rich: My number 12 is Halloween.
Me: Oh no.....
I audible gasp’d and then started laughing at Jays reaction
Rich is right though! I DO hate him now. ;)
Carpenter is probably my favorite director ever. Even when he’s bad he’s still entertaining. All of his films have a style unique to him. He’s far from the greatest director, but there’s nothing like him
Yah he is unique :)
Enjoyed every moment of this one. Can't wait for the other two parts!
I remember watching Ghosts of Mars with my brother when I was like 9, and thinking it was the greatest movie of all time. I never intend to rewatch it, just going to keep my memory of it in my mind.
12 for me, but same.
I loved Escape from LA as a kid. But I also loved Big Trouble in Little China so clearly I had at least some taste
Good call. It's iffy to go home again.
At 12, I thought MEGAFORCE (1983) was the greatest action masterpiece ever made. Haven't seen it since, so it remains a masterpiece as well.
Yes keep it as a good memory
I love Rich and Jay together. Such great friendship and chemistry.
Yeah it's nice to have two guys who get along
"Pizza with pineapple is the best pizza."
"I don't even know who you are anymore."
a nice break from mike just verbally beating the shit out of poor rich evans
Mike must feel like when your cat and dog are hanging out together as pals.
Watching this you'd never believe that Rich has made several attempts on Jay's life.
Rich putting the film that is the reason for Rich doing this list this month so low in the list is the most Rich Evans thing ever.
And I kinda appreciate it.
Prince of Darkness is easy top 5 material for how tightly it's made. low budget, mostly single location, classic Carpenter score - a directing masterclass. not to mention returning alumni from Big Trouble.
Wow, Rich is looking great. Good for him for getting more in shape.
He ages like fine wine.
Yeah in shape to be your mom.
Round is a shape
Not into the Halloween 'shape' though.
nugenix!
John Carpenter is my favorite director. The man has no effs to give. I saw him do a Q&A in Hollywood back in 2010 and he ended it by saying, "Let's get close to wrapping up. I have to go meet my drug dealer pretty soon."
lol
Words of the wise
Post next part already what heck I waiting
"People are going to hate me"
Correct.
When Rich said he watched it with his sister, I got Adam Sandler in Jack and Jill images.
lol omgggggggggg
While reading this comment, I got Pepto Bismol flashbacks.
I LOVE this style lol. They both have contrasting taste on what they like yet still give good points that do make sense.
It also makes it interesting that for their last picks on their lists, Rich chose a sci-fi film, and Jay chose a horror-genre film. Their tastes led them to pick films where they were disappointed that the movie wasn't up to Carpenter standards.
I’d love them to do more rankings like this and the Star Trek ones.
@@mmattson8947 is ghost of mars an horror film? For me more like a shlocky action flick. But yeah i can see Rich expecting more of a sci-fi concept and being dissapointed
so glad jay got the chance to see john carpenter do his old man dance live! he came to day for night in houston several years ago and he was awesome
At some point Rich is gonna be fed up with desperately trying to pronounce the phrase "stick out like a sore thumb"
The best thing about seeing a new RLM video is dropping everything for 40 minutes to watch it; the worst is that it only takes 40 minutes until your waiting for a new RLM video.
do not joke about drops
A Pam Grier lead Ghosts of Mars is the best idea Jay has had in years.
But it would have still been a garbage movie, but with a different actor.....A Ghosts of Mars with a good script sounds alot better. Its literally the only god awful Jason Statham movie. It was also the final straw for studios actually giving him money to make movies.
This is a great format. Great way to make Jay nerd about stuff he cares about. Please do more of these.
The better re:View episodes tend to have Jay on the right hand side of the screen.
Always appreciate your eloquence and humor. Love you guys
John Carpenter, Steve Martin, and Christopher Lloyd are all stars that have looked like they are 80 years old for the last 40 years.
Steve Martin? No.
@@turtleflipper9935 all I'm saying is the dude has had gray hair since he was in his thirties.
Steve Martin certainly looked older than he was. I always remember his character in Parenthood saying "I'm 35" and thinking it was ridiculous as he seemed more like 55. (He was actually 46 at the time).
It's depressing how much of your life is spent being old.
Steve Martin is a banjo player and kills it....love his music
He should do a zombie-western and fulfill two of his dreams
"The Quick and the Undead "
A territory not tapped enough, in my opinion.
I love this idea. I really hope they do this with more directors.
Glad I found this channel! over the past month or so Ive been watching John Carpenter movies, so far I've watched Assault on precinct 13, Body Bags, In the Mouth of Madness, They Live, Dark Star, The Thing & Halloween, Dark star is the only movie I had to tap out of I just couldn't make it to the end but I can understand why after watching this video lol.
I want Jay's shirt.
I hope they make it in men's sizes.
"Better order some MILK and COOKIES boy so you can get BIG and STRONG, ah ha ha ha ha"
I saw it on amazon when looking for Halloween shirts.
@@karma_monkey Can you find it again? What was it called? I seriously want to buy it for hanging out with friends on Halloween.
@@maddestmurph I also want to find that exact shirt. I've seen similar, inferior ones, but I want this one, dagnabbit!
@@maddestmurph iirc it was for a max steel toy.
Holy fuck did I laugh hard at Rich thinking John Carpenter had a cameo in _In The Mouth of Madness_
Jay holding back from fully tearing into Rich's mistake by rationalizing it himself, is priceless
@@ZyxthePest I guess one Tums Festival was enough.
This show is 10 times better.than anything... ANYTHING you see on television. Just pure entertainment. Thank you!
I was with you guys on Escape from LA!
Could be that I’m a sucker for 80s italian horror, but Prince of Darkness is my favorite.
I love these director spotlight episodes. Jay and Rich give me huge Siskel and Ebert vibes without taking themselves too seriously
They also don't hate eachother
@@AlexG1020 some of them hate each other ??
@@salomaonplanetsaturn6038 Bald guy plus glasses is Jack. Beard plus glasses is Josh.
@@happyhammer1 really?! Wow I had no idea but now I definitely need to watch that hind the scenes stuff
@@salomaonplanetsaturn6038 Jay and Josh (guy with the beard and glasses) episodes are always some of my favourites, they are great together.
“What excuse can I come up with to rewatch all the John Carpenter movies?”
My issue with Rich's placement of Halloween isn't even on if he liked it. You have to acknowledge the impact of it. Friday the 13th would not have existed if it wasn't for Halloween. It really spawned the slasher genre, everyone was trying to make their own Halloween movie.
Super happy you're doing this, great first ep
When Jay said Christopher Reeve was stiff and awkward, I was waiting for a really dark joke to follow that.
That’s a Mike joke lol
Quit horsin' around.
@@moins_vif exactly!!
Mike wasn't there
I loved Rich Evans before, but knowing he likes synthwave makes him even more likeable!
Too bad he doesn't like Halloween.
If only he weren't an unhinged lunatic off-screen
@lietunantURNER Tycho are the tits.
I CLAPPED WHEN HE SAID IT
Jay loves synthwave AND he loves Halloween.
Part two? Your video’s are all that brings me joy in my pitiful existence🥲
really enjoyed this! looking forward to 2 and 3
Got to see John Carpenter perform on Halloween a few years ago, that was a real treat. Glad he gets to spend his elder years just playing video games and making cool music with his family
Living the dream.
Its only because studios will not give him money anymore to make movies......Ghosts of Mars was the last time a studio was willing, EVERY movie he has ever made not named Halloween were varying degrees of flop only getting a cult audience on home video.
I stopped feeling bad for the guy when he was asked what he thought about how so many of his films are now so beloved and real cult favorites. His fucking response; "I don't give a shit, Fuck the fans it didn't make me money" fuck him after that.
Pretty wholesome
@@lutherheggs451 bro I'd be salty af too if everyone hated my movies when they came out and only started liking them 40 years later
Luther Heggs EFNY, The Fog did well commercially
I remember when I realized that Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Halloween, and The Thing were by the same dude as a kid. Even if some of his stuff has been kind of weak, dude's had more influence than just about any other filmmaker for me.
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 Aliens was James Cameron, not John Carpenter. Doesn't help that their names are so similar though.
@@gasgrave5386 That might be the nicest correction I've ever seen.
But yeah, I'd say there are a couple that are arguably more influential, Lucas or Spielberg maybe. Carpenter's definitely up there though
Same here. Funnily, about half a year ago I finally decided to do a John Carpenter marathon, watched or rewatched about 12 of his movies back to back, and although there are a few duds, it was a great ride :)
I heard friends talking about Halloween in the early 80’s. I saw it on VHS at home in the day in the mid to late eighties and I was both gripped and petrified. It’s one of the greatest films ever made.
Cannot wait for part 2.Really enjoyed that.
Part 3 of Ranking John Carpenter Movies is already on track to being one of the most popular and successful videos of all time.
*VERY COOL*
They fly now?!
I see what you did there! LOL
@@RobertJRoman They. Fly. Now.
@@enricomarelli2022 Comedy's in three everyone. Theyflynow.
Seeing Carpenter live and watching him do that little old man dance Jay mentioned is a highlight of my life. In The Mouth of Madness slaps so hard live.
please do stuff like this more often. this was great :)
I NEED PART TWOOOO. This was great!
I still remember the funniest movie review I’ve EVER read in my entire life for “Escape from L.A.”. The review was “Escape from the movie theatre!”.
Escape from L.A was god awful, However Ghosts of Mars was worse. There was almost nothing good about Ghosts of Mars, atleast there were some kinda cool-ish things about Escape from L.A.
My all time favorite capsule review was in Musician magazine 30 years ago. Each album review had a paragraph or two. But then came this gem (this is the only review of any kind I’ve ever memorized):
Artist: Debbie Gibson
Album: Anything is Possible
Review:
Except me liking this.
Escape from LA is amazing from a Kojima perspective.
Fun fact about that beach ball in Dark Star: In The Thing, when the dog splits open there is a flower like appendage made of dog tongues with teeth. That prop is actually the feet of the beach ball alien in Dark Star
Wow that's awesome
Fantastic movie trivia! Never knew that…now I do. Gracias amigo. 👍🏻
Hell yeah
These parts 1,2,3 got me hooked up with an abundance of JC films, and i am very thankful for this ! im not so sure about the reviewing, you guys try too hard to analyze when you need to let go and enjoy JC's style, its that simple. Critics too often have too many benchmarks, too much judgement, when you need no comparison. A beauty of JC films is that even the more abstract ones are so easy to digest. I haven't watched part 3 yet, but i hope somewhere in your videos you express just how influential John Carpenter has been on so many. Throughout the entertainment industry, the influence on early 80's video coin op arcade games. His style being perfect for this...... etc :)
I will always love Escape From LA. One of the most satisfying endings of any film ever.
I honestly remember laughing so hard at the surfing scene. I liked it for the schlock
I love escape from LA.
I think its really bad, but I started liking it in the last few years. Its just filled with the cynical energy of Carpenter
The ending was very satisfying because it meant it was over.
Jays impression of the 'Old Man Dance' will always warm my heart from now on