Youtube: Red Letter Media

by Chris on 11 April 2010

youtube.com/user/redlettermedia A multimedia content producing serial killer comedian film reviewer? Sounds fun! #ep14

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Pros

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Tom (from episode 10) put us onto this a while ago. Tom explained it was something we had to put time into and couldn’t review in a matter of minutes. Well guess what? Over the last couple of weeks we have both been blasting through as much of RedLetterMedia’s content as possible. So what the hell does this guy do? Simple, he deconstructs films (mainly the new Stars Wars films) and breaks them down to…well nothing. The Star Wars reviews of Episode 1 & the recently released Episode 2 are easily the most hilarious/sad/interesting by far. 

But this isn’t what you might call a straight forward review of a film pointing out the funny bits and camera techniques used on that ‘bit with the jet-packs’ Red Letter Media has brought an extra angle to his review style by creating a character who goes by the name of Plinkett, think Buffalo Bill from silence of the Lambs.

This is what Matt had to say
“Watched the review of Phantom Menace. Brilliant, just the best use of youtube ever - 70min review! Such a great understanding of the film-making process and puts in words WHY it doesn’t work in ways that I never could before. Always knew there was a lot wrong but could only focus on a few bits. This is the most rational deconstruction of a film that means you can’t really do anything other than agree with him… probs Lucas does too!”

Cons

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Initially the voice is the biggest off-putting thing, but seriously, you get over it.

His website is odd though. Seems he is quite the multimedia guy and a content maker in his own right, it’s worth checking out his shorts such as ‘Oranges : Revenge of the Eggplant’ which again is a brilliant watch.

We can’t say more than just go check out his site/youtube channel and watch it, honestly you will be hooked after 10 mins.

Great stuff RLM keep it up!

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