Best of the Worst: Wicked World

[Music] [Music] here here we are two crates we have nothing to say have nothing to say what speechless I was speechless during most of this film yeah I just want to examine the choices that led us here because we watch this movie for a very specific reason yeah it's because we're familiar with things Jay and I are on the record as being big fan I am Pro things yes we are anti perform that Attack of the Clones is the worst movie relative to its budget and the reason i put the disclaimer relative to its budget when i talk about bad movies is because things was the actual worst movie I had ever seen but emphasis on was why [Music] we should point out things we did that on half in the bag what the [ __ ] you talking about and then the things take over the house and our characters wander around and occasionally worry about it in between sitting in the kitchen and wanting to drink beer or take naps the things they sit on the the stove or they sit on the toilet or they sleep in the basement mm-hmm that's it long time ago we talked about things because we used to watch it on our movie nights yeah which is what led to bus that was a precursor to best of the worst yeah oddly enough that bus star that half in the bag episode we brought Palpatine into it that's right and now Palpatine is dead because Rey deflected his lightning bolts back in his face who is famously its reincarnated again in the next sequels Mike you know my point is we brought Palpatine back before Disney yeah but we said oh okay things love her hated it's a very fascinating movie and so we said hey let's do a spotlight on director Barry Jay Gillis's new film new film it just came out on blu-ray it had never seen the light of day before it was never released and I don't know why oh yeah whether we could say this is from the good people at Agfa who are film preservers what our what our active American genre Film Archive okay after this can they be now classified as a terrorist organization possibly I came prepared for this I actually wore my caliber pressed surviving edged weapons t-shirt because because I was afraid after watching this I might want to cut myself rich if we learned anything from this film it's that violence just creates more violence but don't unavoidable change but don't hurt yourself like poor Barry J Gillis at the end of this film spoilers have hope have hope for the computer chips that will remove all violence from implanted in your brains by the US government coming soon [Music] aha Oh even though today [Music] oh my god this is insane this is insane there is still hope don't commit suicide you can get a different plane to Daenerys don't help that somebody can make computer chip that will control us that's the hope do you think that was the seed of the idea cuz that's at the end of the movie Barry G Gillis commits suicide and then we get this text was that like he heard about that somewhere and that was the seed that planted the the idea of the small brain or it's a crazy going on in this yeah the best part of that though is the positive spin on having a chip implanted in your brain yeah troll your actions yeah no more violence the only usually that's the paranoid thing oh my god they're gonna put the chips in her braids no not this film yeah Barry's Achilles is like everybody relax your mind is going to be controlled and everything will be good well it's a very Canadian spent on conspiracy theory let's yes it's true well the film is not just about suicide violence it's it's generalized murder there's some lobotomies there there's a suicide packs in it there's a guy in a wheelchair who was trying to mug a guy who's walking yes what it is he mugging the guy in a wheelchair again the wheelchair was trying to mug him that's not a good idea there's attempted murder that gets interrupted by another murderer aha that's the famous opening scene of the film and a wonderful message about abstinence you tell your brother to leave that's where he lives he's definitely in the same room he's supposed to be on the other side of the tape somewhere between three feet and five miles away it could be in another house with coincidentally the same furniture sure and this actually he's watching this on TV it just looks like the exact same room oh he's got a gun here's a couple making out on a couch gets super naked the guy there's all sorts of pelvic thrusting going guys just watching and we don't know where this guy is in relation to anything yeah cuz there's no establishing shot he has a gun in his pocket for some reason he keeps taking it in and out of his pocket he's not sure when to use it the worst family reunion ever wild sex party oh that's a killer oh that's kind of girls she wants to save it for marriage so then after after his sister who's been grinding on this guy for like the last 10 minutes gets up and walks away to take a shower you know in the middle of their makeout session right party then the brother stands up and says are you [ __ ] my sister the answer is not right now yeah yeah well [ __ ] proclaims like a wolf we've gone far enough tonight she's taken everything off I've stripped completely naked in front of her friends the whole time there's a guy out wearing a gas mask just standing in the window just over there right there for everybody to see but they don't see him that's for art we see it as an audience we know it's a they don't turn around they clearly see him know but they don't know they clearly see they're very visible he's extremely he's lit very well but no they don't they don't they don't see certainly what I think is the answer here [Applause] [Music] [Music] but then michael cera starts shooting everyone in the room with a little tiny cap gun is about this big yes this is when we were introduced to the experimental editing techniques of the film the guy says don't kill her kill me shoot and then the girl pleads with him that she wants to be an actress or a singer and she said oh she wants to be an actress I got I got bad news for you honey you're in a very dangerous acting careers come to die so shooter and he's just about to shoot himself when all of a sudden the guy with the gas mask is indoors well he awkwardly kind of rubs his arms around the brother with the guns net and the amendment somehow yeah there's a googly googly noise it's an attempt at style that's what I'll say about this movie there's lots of attempts at some sort of style that's why I say this movie reminded me of like the lovechild between Ed Wood John Waters and Quentin Tarantino sure tension styles Tarantino it's not linear it's trying to be stylish I I don't know what it is but something about the nurse and the guy in the wheelchair and playing around with the handcuffs just made me think of John Waters I'm not entirely sure why well it has that like it's grungy look II find it looks like a home movie but they're trying to make a movie and then Ed Wood because it sucks [Music] well the general Detroit event in just the general synopsises the old guy he just finds groups of people and then he kills them over and over and over again intercut with the wheelchair sections and then near the end there's a crooked cop who wants revenge that's the overview yeah yeah that yeah the the Newt Gingrich is the killer Barry T Gillis is the cop his ex-girlfriend gets killed by the killer and he goes after revenge in present day and present day is the killer in the wheelchair now there are possibly two cops or three is there's there's there are definitely at least two yeah there's the berry J Gillis place the meat the frozen meat store robber [Laughter] sounds like the men DeLorean and he never takes them plastic it's a part of my code of ethics God and then he there's the cop who lives next door to Newt Gingrich and his wife and his daughter that's also very Jake Gillis it's also very jig Gillis you doing your new next-door neighbor [Music] the movies broken he's moved in just after the newt gingrich's three daughters have committed suicide we know all this because somebody in the shot says it but we don't know who the wife does she cooks she goes he's in a bad mood because last week all three of his daughters killed themselves would you like a hot dog many countries when people on our own streets are starving today what is this all are they in a crime-ridden neighborhood is that what's supposed to be happening there was like a lion or something a war zone I am [ __ ] laws I am your new neighbor give me a hot dog bye sorry all three of your daughters committed suicide last week Newt is is watering the grass and they said why did you tell him about my daughters and she's like [ __ ] you I'm leaving you and then the Nile audio from World War two is playing [Music] oh it's water it's like you just had this footage of these people in the backyard and made a scene with voiceover yeah that's that's possible what I don't know how much more of this I can take giving me anxiety he leaves after getting his hot dog many scenes later I think it's the same cop with his partner solicit a prostitute this is more social commentary yes he says something about we're gonna make a lot of money off of this thing yes and there's a person videotaping it's a police surveillance tape that the chief is showing them because he caught them in the act murdering a prostitute and taping it and taping Li yes intentionally to try to set up the guys on the roof or smoking pot is that his voice we don't want the black community what is he talking about political things the Marisa things worrying about the political ramifications of things yes somewhat who's this now but the gruff mayor whoever it is on the the voice-over is saying like we don't want the black community get him yes yeah who's mainly the black guy cuz he's the one who targeted and he was like punching up yeah so I think that was just out of context that was just also in this wicked world is police corruption yeah and police planting evidence and and being racist yeah that was one piece of this whole wicked world and it kinda had nothing to do with anything else in the movie and so that's when Barry leaves after having been fired apparently has sex with three different women option goes home and finds his murdered girlfriend he shoots Newt Gingrich like a hundred times in the chest but he survives and ends up in a mental hospital where they give him a lobotomy and then he gets pushed around a children's play again this is all explained in a nonlinear fashion oh that's what awkwardly handcuffed to a slide like painstaking Oh God they're after the other bars it's time to slide down she just unlocks the [ __ ] table and then he just slides down that was his moment to escape he's not going anywhere I guess I don't confirm though because the whole movie there's a voice-over narration and we were it's like a like a fake British accent and we were never sure who it was but I think in that scene you do hear do hear the voiceovers say I hate slide yeah and when so that voiceover is him yeah so it's yeah but he's also talking about what's going on like it's a fictional story that's not a narration of what happened yeah that's the narration of what you want to happen as told from the present about things that have already happened maybe this is a cautionary tale about the use of chips in your brain maybe he was the first recipient of it [Music] when he's in the baby swing we also get text on the screen yes that's another time that happened yeah that also and that happened initially at the when newt gingrich follows some fun heifers out to the lake yeah where they meet up with some other fun ever sad scene up that's coming up kids it's important to note that the one girl they're both wearing their bathing suits under their clothing yes but the one girl climbs onto an unstable log to in order to remove her clothes a low shot of her that's the only thing i can think of that makes any kind of sense out of disrobing on around okay now go over there and rub your friend with whiskey i was thinking it was honey they're trying to attract bears so and during this whole time by the way the soundtrack is just cranked it's all very natural extremely natural literal wildtrak because animals yeah we all get it yeah laughs laughs at my jokes court they have to find a better spot to have sex in they want to be private in the in the dirty but weeds where with ticks and poison ivy yeah they go off to get Lyme disease one girl grows off but this is just text at the top of the screen that says and she's not very faithful to her boyfriend what what was in reference to the girl who's going to get the first green dollar because they have to give a reason my Newt Gingrich is going to kill her the question is though why was it text on a spree because they didn't have line and they didn't have a way of communicating it does it even make a difference though what they have over double like he's been overdubbing everything else he could have had the British guy say she cheated on her man yeah he or she gets her comeuppance or a cheating on her man but how does he know that she does that [Music] well we have the second like party scene there's first party seeing them right party scene where they're playing the the Irish music they get done watching things yes oh yeah we see a lot of things guy is slow dancing with a girl and then a ginger kid is weightlifting yeah and this is after there was the couple that would to have sex kind of oh they were so excited bothered to try can we talk about how quiet this killer is yeah unnoticed he goes throughout the entire movie no one hears him going you know through the woods which certainly would have some sort of noises associated with its turned out by all the geese and frogs that's fair he somehow makes the the the victims quiet to when he kills the board sex couple they don't make a noise no while they're that bored he's got brand new memory foam shoes they got at the old folks home he fires guns nobody hears his guns that's right I think it's a wicked world people are so used to these sounds they don't even react to it that's true it's a wicked world huh motif in the film now can we talk about Newt Gingrich's therapist because that's a whole other ball I don't know where this is in the timeline of events either I have no clue and ideas about violence ideas about killing the deranged individual are you for six months with me coming here and tell me all these six stories or killing other people you can't go on living like that that's a psychiatrist yeah that's how you talk to a Bayesian well therapist sits on the couch with me pocket this is before this before we saw the bad cops killed with the prostitute and get fired just before we saw that this is after slide but before swing true he was in the wheelchair and the narration said wait I want to take out a scene with the cop and I want to have a scene with a psychiatrist instead do you have other patients like me or am I the only one with such wicked thoughts [Music] actually feel like I'm gonna throw up from brain trauma therapy is missing oh my god but when does the chase take place before after I know cuz he kills the hills her in a therapy session so she still had the therapy session with him even though he tried to murder her in a dirty warehouse I guess it seems that way cutting back and forth between these two events yeah the most important thing is that she's a very terrible therapist she's like your [ __ ] crazy dude the guy has no bones about shooting people no for some reason his therapist he chokes with a doctor's coat he's he's not very choosy about his methods no there's a lot of different methods and there's there's the bat there's the gun yeah he seems to prefer choking yeah oh yeah he double chokes the the couple that are dancing yeah I don't know how that works but not possible I mean he'd be protected by his hockey hair first off so we should have start David Carradine because he's such a good actor yeah hey he really was about some gravitas yeah Carradine didn't enjoy choking other people rich he enjoyed choking himself you don't know that Mike well you didn't enjoy it at the end I can never forget oh my god you're missing everything all of the things so so the killer is gonna be let out of prison or out of the Institute wherever he is mm-hmm and Barry J Gillis said he's gonna kill him okay and his Indian girlfriend son no don't kill him get over get over it and then he shot her I'm trying to think I mean the way we're explaining it it sounds like it makes sense but the or the events that we're explaining do not happen in chronological order no it's it's very confusing we find out all this stuff about the cop Barry Joe Gillis way towards the end yeah that's like in the last half-hour yeah no it wouldn't make sense if all the events were tied together I was wondering about newts three daughters and the reason oh yeah they're suicide pact is one of the tragedies it's mentioned earlier on and then later on we see a scene where there's two women in the woods one looks like she just came from the gym one looks like she just came from a corporate job she's got high heels on and like stockings and a black skirt they look she looks professional yeah and we're like and they're they're roasting marshmallows and then we discover bari jay gilles has a marshmallow fetish himself where a bee is eating a hole partially melted marshmallow yeah well then there's the other side that there's the shot of Newt Gingrich with all the pudding falling out of his oh that's the most disgusting thing in the film but anyway the three women are the two women are there at the campfire the other ones coming down the hill and we what's going on well we thought it was the prostitute that got beat up it might have been the same actor knows but yes she has a package hidden in the woods I thought it was heroin because we thought it was the prostitute turns out it was a gun no child's water gun Susie used to commit suicide turns out these are the daughters of Newt Gingrich what brought them to that point I don't know what is the scene because it's a wicked world where do we see Newt Gingrich actually snap when does that happen oh well that happens when his wife is about to leave him after he's watering the lawn that's his breaking point that's his breaking point she's going away one of his hot dogs and he talked to another she talked to another man oh he's like like usually I said you shouldn't talk to another man she's like we're leaving and then he shoots them indoors yeah you're horrible sounds coming from Alice a little girl too and oh that's the other thing is that endless crying in that scene that doesn't seem to be actually attached to little girl and every time that Newt Gingrich is chasing a woman there's just every scream sound effect that Barry Jay Gillis can conjure up that's in the random dorm room scene where he delivers a pizza box filled with guts something we can't tell because it's recorded on Thomas Edison's first recorder it's too bad the only microphone they had was a telephone that day sounds like a 9-1-1 call and then newt gingrich comes in with a pizza delivery I don't like pizza box we see the actual pizza that they the crew or whatever was in the box they took it out so they kept us in but they just left it in the shot and this is where he gets his famous gas mask it's in this dorm room kitchen for some reason he gets it halfway through the movie he was using it near the beginning of the movie now nonlinear it's a story that's where you get the Tarantino reverie yes this film is very much like Pulp Fiction in the way of that Oh what part is it where he's hacking someone up and we get like a like a green screen arm like I can't even remember what no idea what part that is but it totally happened is this yeah it's a visual that's in my brain and I have no idea I think it's one of those early early kills I know I know he's not using a knife and that's the strange thing is the arm flies off [Music] this is clearly an early like videotoaster kind of edit situation because he's doing those like just whirl effect yeah super cheap before it's like I guess it might be before nonlinear editing is 91 I I don't know the movie is pretty nonlinear he took that term too literal oh boy none you mean I have to make my film nonlinear it's the coming if you say so maybe he just edited the movie in order of the scenes that were shot Wow yeah you don't shoot a movie in order so maybe he just edited in the order that he filmed the scenes and that's why it doesn't make any sense that's a real good theory anything's possible you know it's the best theory we have well that's we should mention that Barry J Gillis he did a rough cut of this film back in the 90s when he made it and it was not up to par he did not think it was good enough and that's why I did get released until now you know what I give the man full credit for that he still made the movie though and here it is now for us to see it yeah it's so rare one of our favorite bad filmmakers is self-aware well I don't know how self-aware he is I'm mildly but even the amount he thought things was good enough to release yes murders written all over your face I have possibly the most difficult question I have ever asked I know what it is what which is worse this or things no no that's easy which is more nonsensical this or demon come [Music] [Music] demon cop is it it's very close yeah this this I mean this feels like a movie that was made in its entirety by one person unlike demon cop which is a bunch of [ __ ] edited together so this is a little more cohesive a little bit but it doesn't end with a man in a rubber suit throwing around paddy no no this is not as entertaining as the last 20 minutes of demon cub but which is worse this or things and which is a hard one to say because I think we all think things is terrible but some of us enjoy the terribleness of things in order in order to answer that question properly it's been a long time so I've seen things I would probably need to rewatch things so in order to avoid rewatching things I'm going to declare that this is worse okay that's fair I'm with rich things had through storyline ya dummies go to a cabin and there's ant monsters got it and they want to lose ya and I'm not trying to be a contrarian and doing but I like this better yeah because there is much and they're both nonsensical and they're both frustrating but this has so many more different kinds of scenes lots of different characters and locations and things going on and laughable moments things is all in that [ __ ] house Lister that's all dark and it yeah I hate things wicked world I like what it world much it has a lot going on yeah it definitely kept us engaged you're constantly trying to figure it out yeah there is no grading scale that can possibly make sense of this yeah well I know at the end of things that the credit comes up that says you have just experienced things and this is similar to that where it's like I don't know what the [ __ ] happened but it was an experience [Laughter] and a nice thing to note and it's not really a nice thing but you watch you watch something like this and you could think about how easily someone like very gigolos could make a movie about a slasher with a gas mask who just kills teenagers in the woods but very generic typical yes and and he uses the move the context of the movie to get women to get naked in the shower and then slant you know we've all seen that yeah but he's he's putting in some heavy heavy philosophical and visible society and violence and attempts at social commentary and I mean linear storytelling microchips in microchips it's a total and complete disaster but the attempt was made yeah to to creates are he Charlie tried hard and trying to say something all right well who wants to watch things again now [Music] take away [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: RedLetterMedia

Views: 1,773,936

Keywords: redlettermedia, red letter media, red, letter, media, plinkett, half in the bag, mike stoklasa, jay bauman, rich evans

Id: hoel2EiTjLU

Length: 39min 22sec (2362 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/SyrupBuccaneer]

To support Jay's theory on how Wicked World was edited, I found this on a comment about Things

When I met Barry Gillis he told me they filmed this in the order they had on the call sheet but never did edit the scenes in post to play chronologically. What you see is what you get. Terrible film.

Absolute madman.

[u/Davidellias]

"I'm Pro Things" - Jay Baumann

[u/misty_chick]

One minute in and both Mike "Shark Exorcist was new to the palette" Stoklasa and Jay "I enjoyed when she started fuckin the puppet" Bauman say this movie left them speechless... I am excited and nervous.

[u/Julian_Staples]

How long before Hollywood latches onto the technique of establishing character using random bits of expository floating text on the screen instead of wasting time with action and dialogue.

[u/Imjusthereformemes]

Poor David Carradine isn't even in this movie and he still gets roped into being the butt of their jokes.

[u/Hawkbone]

The movies audio sounds like they recorded it in a MW2 lobby.

[u/IrisVacuo]

"I am NOT trying to be a contrarian..." - Mike, starting off 2020 with his bullshit

[u/Tarlcabot18]

Barry J. Gillis is like if John Waters and David Lynch had an incredibly untalented child.

[u/thefablemuncher]

“This is unprecedented on how bad it is.”

You said it, Josh. This is truly baffling.