Thread 213613648

Why are they so unambitious?

>could have started vinegar syndrome and actually made money off selling the shit they watch
>could have bought an independent theatre and screened B or even classic films
>could have even turned RLM into an actual production company like Rooster Teeth
>instead did nothing

What was the point?

They just want to make money doing low effort garbage. Even the guy they made fun of 10 years ago has an actual movie coming out, and all they can do is ironic so bad it’s good shit like Space Cop.

>friend simulator slop
Grow up.

>>213613648 (OP)
None of those business ventures would be profitable, they make considerably more money trashing other people's movies.

>>213613648 (OP)
they submit themselves to buddhist (or daoist/taoist) beliefs such as not over reaching. a tree can wish to be a cloud but in the end of the day its still a tree. also rich evans is notoriously bad with money

>>213613648 (OP)
>actual production company like Rooster Teeth
Are they even a thing anymore? RLM is miles more successful than RT. I haven't heard anything from them for a decade.

>>213613648 (OP)
Space Cop happened. Literally killed them inside.

>>213613907
meds

>>213613648 (OP)
I can't necessarily blame them, if I was a fat, slovenly drunk from Milwaukee and I could make thousands of dollars by talking about some B-movie garbage from the 80s every two weeks, I think I'd ride that train for as long as I could too. RLM were never especially ambitious, and I think Space Cop convinced them that it was better to stay in their lane forever than to embarrass themselves further by trying to be genuinely creative
Also all of those ideas require far more work, a significant up front investment and a very high probability of failure compared to running a youtube channel and raking in Patreon money

>>213613648 (OP)
>why didnt they execute these terrible moneypit ideas?
Thats why they sell personalized jars on the secret patreon

>>213613648 (OP)
>Why are they so unambitious?

Vinegar Syndrome makes a ton of money and an Alamo Drafthouse type of theatre makes a ton of money

>>213613648 (OP)
Why was Roger Ebert unambitious? Could have started a film company. Could have opened a movie theater bearing his name.
Instead all Roger Ebert did was star in a weekly show where he trashed movies. Really low effort.

>>213613648 (OP)
all those business require something that RLM doesn't have—and apparently has no intention of ever getting: sponsors. they're better off as they are

Now that Half in the Bag is all streaming movie trash why do they still only show clips from the trailer? Will they get demonetized otherwise?

>put out 3 to 4 videos a month
>hundreds of thousands of people watch all of them
>can talk about anything they want, don't have to watch or talk about comic book slop if they don't want to
>prop up true hidden gems
>fuck around with dumb bad movies
>still make good money
they are literally living the best life

>>213615228
less chances to get a copyright strike

>>213613648 (OP)
>could have started vinegar syndrome

unironically what did he mean by this

i think Mike is mentally deteriorating they haven’t done a true high effort review in years

>>213614731
>Alamo Drafthouse type of theatre makes a ton of money
If that's true then why is my Alamo so bad about maintaining their bathrooms? Constant problems. Clean it up janny!

>>213614731
>Alamo Drafthouse type of theatre makes a ton of money
proof? there is no way they are making enough off of drinks to make up for the costs of running those theaters

>>213613648 (OP)
Too busy drinking beer

Mike has enough to buy studio garbage. I mean one of a kind original props!

>>213613648 (OP)

As this guy >>213615283 mentioned, you can't put a price on freedom. I know the the hypercapitalist amerimutt brain must commodify everything and anything but some people with actual integrity can resist the lure.

>>213613648 (OP)
Do you have any idea how poor these guys are. They live in Milwaukee and still rent

>>213613648 (OP)
Gen-X ethos

I think they're comfortable with putting out a couple of videos every month about whatever they want, all shot and edited by one of them, and collecting the ad revenue and patreon bucks from that versus trying to ramp up into a media empire where everything gradually becomes outside of their control and one flop could instantly bankrupt them like we've seen with other YT channels.

>>213613648 (OP)
they make a shit load of money doing the bare minimum. i challenge you to remain ambitious in your 40s when you're set for life just talking about movies and editing reaction videos.

>>213613648 (OP)
They are hack frauds

>>213615965
>>213615581
deepest lore.

>>213613648 (OP)
>Every movie they made is crap
>Pretending to know about movies got them money and an audience
Damn, I wonder why they went for the latter.

>>213615965
ya thats pretty bad. No house over 350k in the middle of the city.

>>213613648 (OP)
>Why has this successful youtube channel not done a bunch of other random shit that I just decided that they could have maybe done?
Why are RLM threads always full of the dumbest shitheads?

>>213613648 (OP)
>makes a bunch of money producing videos they enjoy with their friends

>"WHY DON'T THEY TRY TO DO A BUNCH OF OTHER SHIT THAT THEY WOULDN'T MAKE NEARLY AS MUCH MONEY DOING?"

Are you fucking retarded?

>>213613648 (OP)
Why is OP so unambitious?

>could have started his own shitposting website
>could have become president of the united states
>could have invented a robot and sold it for a gajillion dollars
>instead posted about RLM

>>213613648 (OP)
>instead did nothing
better to do nothing and win than end up unsuccessful, broke and the laughing stock of the internet

>>213613648 (OP)
They're making bank per month from paypigs on patreon, why would they push themselves?

>>213613648 (OP)
Space cop flopped and it killed off any aspirations.

>>213613648 (OP)
>oh I've got a comfortable life with tons of free time?
>time to become CEOs of a growing company for a few years before some whore secretary sues me for sexual harassment

what do they even do? they have a whole studio but work twice per month

they got wrekt when the new gen actually liked the prequels