History YMMV / HalfInTheBag

* HePannedItNowHeSucks:
** Mike and Rich received a bit of backlash from viewers when in the ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' review, they both felt that the movie was merely just "okay". It got even worse when in their ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' review, Mike stated that he found the film more enjoyable than ''Civil War''.
** Mike, Jay, and Rich giving ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' a scathing review led to many negative reactions from the site's Twitter fanbase, with many people unfollowing RLM's Twitter as a result.
** Their very negative ''Film/RogueOne'' review is probably one of their most divisive yet with much intense criticism aimed at them for it, namely because they blasted it for being full of what they saw as obnoxious ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan service and pandering when ''Film/RogueOne'' is usually considered to have ''avoided'' making such a pitfall and to be the most unique and inventive modern ''Star Wars'' film[[note]]The review came out before ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', which among many other things was ''heavily'' criticised for indulging in the PanderingToTheBase that they claimed ''Rogue One'' did[[/note]]. Their potshots at people for disagreeing haven't exactly helped.
** Due to the show's general theme of slamming big-budget tentpole franchises, many fans become angered when they give a ''positive'' review to movies they don't like:
*** Mike's glowing review of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' shocked many fans as well as Jay himself. Mike references the backlash in the ''Film/HalloweenEnds'' review.
*** Mike and Jay both gave positive reviews for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', leading many fans of RLM's ''Star Wars'' prequel reviews, expecting an epic takedown of the film, to vocalize their outrage quite aggressively. That being said, the eventual full Plinkett review of ''The Force Awakens'' came long after the initial excitement had worn off and does point out several problems they have with the movie.
*** Mike stated that he loved the critically-panned ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' and considered it a vast improvement over [[Film/IndependenceDay the original]]. Once more, this led to a lot of negative fan response.
*** He {{lampshaded}} this with the ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' review, initially starting, "You're gonna hate me, but I loved it", but quickly proved to be a BaitAndSwitchComment and admitted he despised it. He later repeated the same gag with ''Film/TheMummy2017''.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In their "review" of ''Film/Movie43'', there's a [[https://youtu.be/9IE_B3VK1mQ?t=5m17s brief moment]] where Jay is nowhere to be seen and Mike is talking to thin air, along with some creepy BackgroundMusic playing. This bit is completely disregarded in the next shot and is never given any explanation throughout the rest of the series. This has naturally led to a lot of [[{{Fanon}} fan theories]] that Jay never existed and is just a figment of Mike's imagination, or that Jay was alive at some point but later died in a tragic accident and a grieving Mike is living in a delusion that he's still alive and talking with him about movies. The joke is later used in ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' when Mike seems to be talking to an imaginary Colin and Jim.

--->'''Mike''': ''(beat)'' That's why you're not on this show.

-->'''Jay:''' That's not the only thing [[TakeThat his fingerprints were all over.]] ''([[ObligatoryJoke Rimshot]])''

** Their very negative ''Film/RogueOne'' review is probably one of their most divisive yet with much intense criticism aimed at them for it. Their potshots at people for disagreeing haven't exactly helped.

** Mike jokingly says ''Film/HomeAlone2'' "broke new ground" in their first summer catch-up episode. This was years before the phrase became a RunningGag and Meme among the fanbase as a result of ''Film/RogueOne''.

* CriticalDissonance: Discussed on occasion in the reviews for ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'' and ''Gretel and Hansel'', where Jay notes that atmospheric, JumpScare-free horror films like those two and ''Film/TheWitch'' tend to either get rave reviews (mostly from critics) or scathing reviews (mostly from general audiences), with very little middle ground in-between. Even when he finds himself exactly in the middle of those two.

*** Mike's glowing review of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' shocked many fans as well as Jay himself.
*** Mike and Jay both gave positive reviews for ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', leading many fans of RLM's ''Star Wars'' prequel reviews, expecting an epic takedown of the film, to vocalize their outrage quite aggressively. That being said, the eventual full review of ''The Force Awakens'' came long after the initial excitement had worn off and does point out several problems they have with the movie.

** Many aspects of "The Bruce Willis Fake Movie Factory" -- such as mocking Bruce's truly terrible, stilted line deliveries, and the obvious earpiece that he's being fed those lines through -- are less funny with the context that multiple former crew members provided in the video comments and elsewhere on Reddit: it's an open secret that, as of 2021, Bruce has more difficulty remembering his lines and following direction because he's getting older and is rumored to be suffering from dementia. A month after the video's release, [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bruce-willis-retiring-acting-apashia-1235219017/ Bruce's family confirmed that these rumors were true and that he would be retiring from acting due to his failing health]]. Furthermore, the episode "Pam and Tommy and Bruce Willis" discussed the rumors of his cognitive decline that emerged following the release of the previous episode, just ten days before the rumors were confirmed.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** In their ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' review, Mike jokes that Creator/LeonardNimoy, being "89 years old", only agreed to cameo in the film so he could pay for a bigger headstone. Nimoy passed away less than two years later.
** In their ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' review, they joke that Creator/CarrieFisher looked like a corpse during the film. It became a bit less funny once Fisher passed away.
** Their review for ''Money Plane'' opens with the area around the VCR Repair shop plagued by gunfire and fires started by rioters. Three days after the episode was posted, [[https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/jacob-blake/ Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, WI]]. The Black Lives Matter protests/riots that erupted in response -- one of which culminated in the deaths of two protesters -- bear more than a passing resemblance to the episode's cold open, which is made all the more unsettling by RLM's home base in Milwaukee being less than 40 miles away from Kenosha.
** Many aspects of "The Bruce Willis Fake Movie Factory" -- such as mocking Bruce's truly terrible, stilted line deliveries, and the obvious earpiece that he's being fed those lines through -- are less funny with the context that multiple former crew members provided in the video comments and elsewhere on Reddit: it's an open secret that, as of 2021, Bruce has more difficulty remembering his lines and following direction because he's getting older and is rumored to be suffering from dementia. A month after the video's release, [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bruce-willis-retiring-acting-apashia-1235219017/ Bruce's family confirmed that these rumors were true and that he would be retiring from acting due to his failing health]]. Furthermore, the episode "Pam and Tommy and Bruce Willis" discussed the rumors of his cognitive decline that emerged following the release of the previous episode, just ten days before the rumors were confirmed.

** Poor Mr. Plinkett blubbering and singing the ''Series/NightCourt'' theme song, in mourning for star Harry Anderson's passing.

** Many aspects of "The Bruce Willis Fake Movie Factory" -- such as mocking Bruce's truly terrible, stilted line deliveries, and the obvious earpiece that he's being fed those lines through -- are less funny with the context that multiple former crew members provided in the video comments and elsewhere on Reddit: it's an open secret that, as of 2021, Bruce has more difficulty remembering his lines and following direction because he's getting older and is rumored to be suffering from dementia. A month after the video's release, [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bruce-willis-retiring-acting-apashia-1235219017/ Bruce's family confirmed that these rumors were true and that he would be retiring from acting due to his failing health]].

** Many aspects of "The Bruce Willis Fake Movie Factory" -- such as mocking Bruce's truly terrible, stilted line deliveries, and the obvious earpiece that he's being fed those lines through -- are less funny with the context that multiple former crew members provided in the video comments and elsewhere on Reddit: it's an open secret that, as of 2021, Bruce has more difficulty remembering his lines and following direction because he's getting older and is rumored to be suffering from dementia.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In their "review" of ''Film/Movie43'', there's a [[https://youtu.be/9IE_B3VK1mQ?t=5m17s brief moment]] where Jay is nowhere to be seen and Mike is talking to thin air, along with some creepy background music playing. This bit is completely disregarded in the next shot and is never given any explanation throughout the rest of the series. This has naturally led to a lot of [[{{Fanon}} fan theories]] that Jay never existed and is just a figment of Mike's imagination, or that Jay was alive at some point but later died in a tragic accident and a grieving Mike is living in a delusion that he's still alive and talking with him about movies. The joke is later used in ''WebVideo/BestOfTheWorst'' when Mike seems to be talking to an imaginary Colin and Jim.

* FanHater:
** Some ''Star Wars''-related videos have featured several potshots at fans and nerd channels like Collider. This has caused a somewhat BrokenBase among those who identify with "fan culture", those who prefer RLM's cynical attitude towards the modern studio-franchise film industry, and even those who question the [[YouAreWhatYouHate hypocrisy]] of a group that makes their money off of overanalyzing nerdy movies mocking those who take the properties too seriously in a different way.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' spends the last section roasting adult Star Wars fans for dedicating time and energy to mindlessly worshiping what they consider to be a creatively bankrupt series made for children. How much of this was intentional HypocriticalHumor from the minds behind the Plinkett Reviews is somewhat difficult to discern.