Ralph Sepe, otherwise known as ralphthemoviemaker, is an American YouTuber, Film Reviewer, and Film Maker. He mainly specializes in film reviewing in a style similiar to that of RedLetterMedia but has been making short films for a few years and has recently gained attraction due to their success.
Biography
Ralph was born in Long Island, New York and at the age of 5, made his first film known as The Story of Jonah. He's been making films since then and was first recognized in 2013 for his short film Paper Bag. The film would go on to win at his school's film festival and got his first award. At the age of 16, Ralph fell into a state of mild depression and insomnia when his group of former friends turned to drug use. However, he eventually recovered and used his negative experience as an inspiration and to create his 2014 film known as The High which became an award winning film nad won the Emerging Film Maker award.
2015 soon became a rather big year for Ralph as he became rather popular at film festivals and was growing a large and decent sized fanbase on YouTube. That same year he created his next film King Candy which was based around a true story. Many people within his inner circle had thought that the film was too cynical, dark, and violent but the film would go one to become successful and was picked up by film festivals despite many others turning it down. In April, he created a KickStarter page for his next film Lover and had asked for $10,000 in donations. Despite skepticism at first, Ralph completed his mission and recived $10,141 for his film. Lover is currently still in production and is set to be released sometime in 2017.
Film Reviews
Ralph's main content, Ralph does reviews of various films and movies. Most of the time, he reviews bad films or films that he thought were bad at the minimum and would go into great detail on why the film is bad. Other times he does a short review of a film and they tent to be positive though, these types of videos are often very rare.
Reasons ____ Sucks!
Ralph's main series, he goes at various films and tears them apart where he disects them and points out why the films he reviews suck. He will also show clips and portions of the movie along the way and list various problems such as plot, characters, special effects, ect. The most popular video in the series is Reasons BATMAN V SUPERMAN Sucks!! with over 141,000 views.
REEL IT IN
REEL IT INs are short film reviews and videos which mainly lay out Ralph's overall impression of any movie that he saw. He will show clips from the film via his iphone and will usually draw pictures poking fun of the film throughout most of the review. Usually the movies reviewed in these videos are never mentioned again nor reviewed with the only exception being Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which Ralph gave a review on why it sucked.
Short Reviews
A rather minor and inactive series at that, Short Reviews are videos that Ralph does where he reviews a film in a similiar way to his main film reviews but are usually short and quick. He's only done three where he gives his overall opinion of the film Interstellar after first seeing it, Sharknado 2 and why it sucked, and a review of the first episode to Better Call Saul.
Zack Snyder Reviews
A rather new series, Zack Snyder Reviews focus mainly on Ralph doing a comedic impression of Zack Snyder, a controversial American film director, and often impersonates him as he reviews various films. Throughout the review "Zack" will often gloat about his films and the purpose of the videos is to make fun of Zack Snyder for his directing and choices in his recent films.
Short Films
Ralph is well known for making many short films. He's been doing so since he was five and one of them was hus first video (which is now privatized). Since 2013 however, Ralph's more recent films have gained him attention and have garnered him a fan base.
Paper Bag
Ralph's first major film, Paper Bag is about a highschool boy who is on medication and is a troubled individual. He's in love with a girl and one day she goes missing prompting him to go out and search for her on his own. The film however, is currently unavailable on YouTube for reasons unknown.
The High
Ralph's next film (and still available) The High is a 2014 film and is about a man named Adam who's life is filled with constant hardship and his coping method and only source of happiness is smoking marijuana. Adam soon realizes that he has put his happiness before his faimly and so he starts a career as a drug dealer. The film would go one to garner awards and helped jump Ralph into stardom
King Candy
Ralph's next popular film, King Candy is a 2015 film and follows the story of a boy named Glenn who was obsessed with trying to leave his mark on the world. In order to leave behind a legacy, he starts a charity called Aid for Africam but is really a scam for him to get money. Over the course of a year, his operation struggles but he comes out on top in the end. Despite its controversial nature, the film won awards and was featured at the Queen's World Film Festival.
HEREAFTER
Another film that came out in 2015, HEREAFTER is a film about an unnamed criminal who dresses up in a clown mask and enters into an unknown person's home. The film is rather short and minor though compared to Ralph's other movies.
Lover
Ralph's next and upcoming film, Lover chronicles the story between a man and a woman who end up hooking up and building a romantic relationship. As days turn to months, their blossoming romance soon dissolves as they realize that both of them have built the relationship on nothing but lies and is set to be released sometime in 2017.
Nutshack controversy
Sometime in late 2016, Ralph uploaded a video criticizing the infamous 2007 animated comedy show, The Nutshack. The video became one of his most popular videos, but it was taken down and was later reuploaded sometime that same year, but was also taken down again. In 2017, Ralph suffered a similiar issue and the review was removed for the third time in a row.
Trivia
- In Ralph's Q&A Video made back in 2014, he had listed off his favorite movies:
- There Will be Blood (2007)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Enter the Void (2009)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Schindler's list (1993)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- The Dark Knight (2008)
- Ralph has a second channel called Ralph Sepe, but the channel is rarely ever used, was last updated in 2015, and usually has some bloopers from King Candy and one of the actors being a good basketball player.
- Ralph originally took a break from reviewing superhero movies but went back to reviewing them following his review of the 2015 Fantastic Four movie and the release of other DC and Marvel films as well.
- Ralph appears to have some kind've relationship with the known YouTuber Armoured Skeptic having referenced him multiple times and even having him appear at the end of his Reasons God's Not Dead 2 Sucks!! video. They appear to be friends since his channel appears in Ralph's channel section of his account and he's even subscirbed to him as shown in his Patreon video.
- On December 23, 2016, Ralph did a collaberation video with I Hate Everything for IHE's review of the Fred Movie Trilogy in which Ralph reviewed Fred 2: Night Of The Living Fred.