Do you think anybody has ever watched this from start to end? Past the first five minutes?

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Trolling their own fanbase? That does some to be a thing with them. They seem to hate the people they rely on for cash.

This movie of theirs is worse imo btw

Was it their own money though?

They sold a bunch of crap from their warehouse and merchs to fund the movies

I did. I didn't pay for it, though. What few "jokes" in the movie were more or less in the trailer. It's was largely unfunny and the production value was low. It's not kino like Where's Deathlist? is. Did I mention Where's Deathlist is kino? It's the absolute best video Red Letter Media has ever made.

IS NICEEEE XD

This scene is the biggest turn off imaginable, its just Space Cop looking at a monitor for 5 whole minutes while Patton just adlibs unfunny lines. I think Mike was stoked to have a well-known comedian in the film so he felt like he had to use absolutely every take in the final edit, when it drags down the film so much. Its probably the worst scene in the entire film and its one of the first ones, so its a huge chore to sit through.

The whole opening is so long and uninteresting. First you have an unfunny establishing scene on the Moon which is pointless to the plot, then a long title sequence, then Patton Oswalt's unfunny, pointless scene and then Space Cop travels into the past. It takes 15 minutes to establish Space Cop going back in time, and even then it doesn't make sense because the streets Space Cop drives around on just look like present day anyway, they shouldn't have bothered with that part. It should have just started with Space Cop chasing the main bad guys in space and then travels to the past. But then it still isn't done, as main plot still hasn't been introduced; there's another pointless establishing scene in the present with another holdup and establishing Space Cop in the present, even though there's no point. It takes 20 minutes to get into the main plot of the film and introduce both main characters; Space Cop and Past Cop. This should have happened within the first five minutes at most.

Its like the 1997 Mr Bean film, where it takes 10+ minutes to get to the main plot of the film and you get so bored of it. Its not some sort of complicated character piece or film with a complex plot, its a retarded comedy film so there's nothing to engage with. In a comedy film like this the main premise and plot should be introduced in a short period of time so that the main plot can happen and the jokes can start happening. Despite taking so long, the opening of Space Cop does absolutely nothing to establish the character or film at all. Later in the film, Space Cop mentions his wife for one scene because that joke was in the trailer, but in the film she's never seen and its just a throwaway line. The opening would have been a good way for establishing Space Cop's wife and some scene with her so there would be at least something for Space Cop to care about. Instead of a boring ass 5 minute scene of Patton Oswalt failing to be funny how about his wife gets kidnapped so that he has some reason to be doing things throughout the film, instead of nothing. It doesn't have to be some serious scene either, it could be played for laughs but still give Space Cop some motivation throughout the film to do things. In the final film I didn't understand what either Space Cop or Past Cop's goals throughout the film were, they were just meandering from unfunny scene to unfunny scene.

Another serious problem is that there is no reason for there to be a time skip of 8 years other than the original trailer for Space Cop came out in 2007. Despite having lived in the present for 8 years he still seems clueless of present day culture, so the time jump should have just been a few months to a year instead. This relates to a serious problem which is that the whole film has this injokey feel to it that just makes you not care about anything. The film seems to love the idea of Space Cop but never does anything with it, or give any reason to care him, its not a character and its just Rich doing a wacky voice.

So those are a few problems with just the opening of the film, not even getting into the main part of the film.

How does Patton Oswalt seem to personify a wet burrito fart?

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Plinkett review of Space Cop when?

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It wasn't a couple million right? It looks like a shitty microbudget film.

I must be the only person who laughed at this. It's making fun of people who spout catchphrases and think it's comedic greatness and it works because Patton Oswalts laugh is totally sincere.

nice try mike

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it was patton oswalt, of course you're the only fucking person who laughed at it. the only time i ever laughed at him was that time he killed his wife, that was pretty funny.

BUT IT'S SO META

It's funny how this is much worse than any of the garbage they watch and talk about.

Couldn't finish it because gladly the stream got fucked 20 minutes before the final

For some folks that backmouth some films due to poor CGI, this is utter trash, but it seems the intention was to make a "joke" movie, one of those that get called "so bad it's good", an ironic job made with non-ironic money it seems, so i guess i will get along with that, MST3K rip-off and all aside.
Even with movies that really don't take themselves seriously and just outright don't care, like Kung Pow, the framing and screenplay resembled something made by someone who wanted to do it, but while the last example was being helped by a 70's kung fu movie, in the new scenes they had a shade of professionalism, which really doesn't appear here, some scenes just outright seem to be made by someone being taken hostage, bringing his goldfish along to be the editor, demonstrated in his chops by forgetting object and action continuities in scenes separated by mere seconds. Inexcusable really.
Some jokes don't seem to be that horrible, they are just lame or plain really, but the jarring thing is the time they take to be completed and the actual overuse of the same quips, even 10 minutes in. It reminds me of silenced and awkward moments made by the japanese, but at least they have goofier expressions and know they cannot and shouldn't complete the joke's objective before said moment. And then you have the audio clues and interruptions that just handicap all said intentions. But to be honest, from time to time, that is every 30 minutes, there's a joke that do get a chuckle
In true anti-climatic school of comedy made famous in the 10's, some scenes end extremely predictive or completely bane of any interesting or logical reason that one wonders if the movie was heavily edited to fit a certain time or the directors simply phoned it in to meet a deadline. In this case, an independent Blu-Ray made by themselves, i don't know what to say.
The atmosphere that the directors wanted to convey feels half-assed, i can see what they tried to do but they didn't know how to pull it in a tasteful manner, it just seems like they added cold sauce into a stale steak, it doesn't blend at all because the timing and technique were inefficient. The screenplay, the actual screenplay with the scene board with the framings and procedures, explaining scene development and story, along with dialogue, IF IT existed, is just plain terrible, CWC literally had better stuff than this, although he did show originality and talent unlike these fellas. Although interestingly enough the best shot sequences are when they are spending their real money inside a very real strip club

The acting is bad, plain bad or just not acting, there's not even anything quirky just to say it was different from the rest, as poor Clint Eastwood imitations have been around as long as Clint Eastwood has been alive, this is less than YT/LPer quality, excluding maybe the negro police chief (a good joke there by itself). And taking into account some literal cold blooded murderers appear in the production, one even cannot defend the moral and animical position of the staff, personal lives included.

Even Brick, Clerks, Primer and some other backalley american movies have been made for much less than single scenes here.

they keep lines from the original 2007 trailer in the final film even though they don't make sense in the context of the final film, like the dead wife that Space Cop mentions in one scene or how Past Cop uses old computers and thinks they're futuristic. It makes me wonder if they just kept the same script they wrote from back then and just changed a couple of lines, considering the quality of the final product.
The reality is that Space Cop just isn't interesting or funny enough to carry an entire film and I don't know why they made a film about this character, who gets old after a few seconds. Austin Powers took two films for them to run out of material for the character, Space Cop runs out of material in the first few minutes of one film. In order to get some more mileage to the character they needed to completely rewrite the script in order to give the characters some comedic depth to work with.

The thing is that they were asked about this in a Pre Rec stream and they said that they weren't intending to make an intentionally bad movie but a "self-aware" film. Ultimately it makes no difference because it comes across the exact same way in the final film, so even if they weren't intending to make a "so bad its good" film, that's the atmosphere and feeling that was given in the final film.

There's a lot of "it was funny in my head" type jokes in Space Cop. I can imagine Mike or Rich writing down some comedy scene or improving a line here and there and imaging it being way funnier than what ended up on camera, so a lot of the film is unintentionally awkward because the jokes fail to land as hard as they thought they would and the scenes linger on expecting the audience to find it funny.

The real core problem with the comedy is quite simple and I don't understand why RLM wrote the film this way considering first year film students could see it; the comedic duo is all fucked up and doesn't work because they both play wacky characters with stupid fake voices, so the audience really has nobody to relate to and the jokes fall flat. The relationship between the two characters is completely fake and unbelievable, which hurts the comedic timing. Its completely inconsistent; in one scene Space Cop is the wacky one and Past Cop is playing the straight man reacting to him, then the next scene Past Cop is being wacky and Space Cop is reacting to him, so the characters are completely inconsistent and it falls flat.

If I was going to suggest one thing to help fix the film's script, it would be that Space Cop gets partnered by a normal, average joe cop who would be played by a non-RLM, normal actor, and Space Cop would be the driving comedic force and the normal cop would play the straight man who would react like a normal person would to the wacky Space Cop. Past Cop would then be relegated to more of a side/bit role instead of a lead, then their scenes together would be funnier, rather than grating and tiring as it is in the final film, as well as the fact that there's. As it is, Space Cop spends much of his own film out shadowed by Past Cop in his own film. If I would go a step further, I would have Space Cop played by Mike because he has way better comedic delivery and timing than Rich does, which is possibly why Rich is overshadowed in the final film in many scenes. None of this would fix many of the technical, editing, pacing etc. problems but it would at least improve some of the basic script problems the film exhibits.

Honestly looking at the behind the scenes for RLM playlist (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ_TJFLc25JSeHaHvnLsVJjpPGbFsylAE) you can clearly see that they enjoy the special effects part of film making way more than the script writing or other stages. Also Mike and Jay have said that their real passion is editing and if they had a choice of sitting in on BotW or editing it, they'll choose editin. RLM should be production guys and editors but they should absolutely not write or direct their own films because they're a complete mess. I honestly don't understand why they bothered to go to the effort of making this film over a few years if the final product is so half-assed.

The irony.

There's a reason they're in Milwaukee and not Los Angeles.
They're antisocial and talentless.
OK, there are two reasons.

AIIIIIIIIIIIDS

Its pretty funny watching their "How Not to Make a Movie" documentary they did about their home movie footage that they call a film Gorilla Interrupted. Jay talks about the old special effects and the old film as though they had left that type of hyper low budget film making ages ago and is bragging about the new special effects they did for the film, but the effects look like garbage and they're still making the same type of shit they were making when they were young. I think these guys are delusional when they criticize other filmmakers for making intentionally bad films then do the same thing themselves.

The film had terrible editing, in terms of consistency and scene jumping, not to mention timing, as clearly mentions
And with the special effects, it's just cheap chinese powder set-ups here and there, with maybe a little cold gas cubes to propagate it organically

This was Nostalgia Critic levels of bad, and i still haven;t seen the last 20, i might as well to say i saw this completely
A shameful thing to see many comedy movies being rated lower than this heap of trash

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It's asking for it

Going into this movie, I thought it was going to be an hour and a half or so of RLM's humor that I rather enjoy from their intros and outros of their review show. Along with the Plinkett reviews and Best of the Worst, I would have thought they would have had some idea on how to make a movie, even if its pure garbage like the movies they watch on BotW.

However, they managed to make a movie so bad I wanted to die and quit once they unfroze Mike's character. There was a lot I felt they could have done but it was just awful.

I'm not saying that the effects or editing were good in Space Cop, I'm saying that RLM's main efforts were focused there rather than cinematography, story, music or any other aspect of film making. That's where you can tell their real passion is and they should focus on getting better in those areas, like joining a special effects company or editing company or whatever rather than make an entire film by themselves and having to rely on their own skills. They don't have the talent or skills or budget to make an entire film themselves.

(me)
obviously the'yre not going to quit RLM to focus on doing just editing or special effects but the point is those areas is where their efforts went. Also Space Cop is a smaller budgeted film so the bad special effects are to be expected honestly. The real shocking thing is that the editing and comedy are so bad when that's what you're expecting to be good in the film.

It was ambitious, but i don't buy that excuse even if plausible, and their efforts in those areas were horrible.
If you want edition & special effect guys who make movies and montages with no budget or only with their own funds while being "so bad it's good" at planned instances, the LasagnaCat guys are absurdly superior, along with narrative driving.
No wonder they have steady jobs at that too, if less famous than RLM.

We'll never know Space Cop's true budget so you can speculate all day about it. But yes you are right on all regards, Space Cop is a total piece of shit and LasagnaCat is pretty great.

MASTERPIECE

From playing Snake to being Rich Evans voiceover.
JUST

Oh yeah, what was up with the totally-not-snake voice impression?

Can you even make a "so bad it's good" movie if you are aware of it?
Isn't one of the running themes of "so bad it's good" movies a delusional director if a superiority complex.

I've laughed at MadTV skits before doing this sort of thing, so I think it is possible.

Those are skits, and not feature length films. It can be funny in short bursts but sitting through a feature film of that is just grating.

hey Mike

Nope, doesn't work that way.

LIVING IN YOUR HEAD!

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Whenever I see pinktext I hear pig noises in my mind.

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In this timeline they'll just say I'm a transpig and prescribe heavy mutilations so I can get turned into my inner piggo.

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