Half in the Bag: Jupiter Ascending and Battlefield Earth
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Still at the bottom of Lake Michigan, Mike and Jay pass the time by discussing the latest Wachowski siblings flop Jupiter Ascending, as well as the comparable sci fi flop Battlefield Earth starring John Travolta.
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I think “Crap! Lousy ceiling!” was brilliant improvisation by Travolta. The “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!” of our generation.
"our generation" what are you, 52
@@AlejandroSilva-mr7yylet’s just say I’m older than Mr. Plinkett
The best part is that Travolta follows that line with “send some workers in to fix it!” And then in the same scene where Barry pepper gets shot with knowledge rays you see workers knocking down that little ridge on the ceiling with novelty mining hammers. This is not just a mere character moment, it’s important to the plot!
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Project Redfoot So... do you want lunch?
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA - *50th chin intensifies* -
*[Leverage intensifies]*
Hansel Damnfer
Guess what happened next!
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Half-man half-werewolf would mean he is just to 1/4 wolf.
That would be kinda akward, like a human with a little bit more hair.
And a beet red dog dick.
He is actually a half werewolf half cyborg who was struck by lightning and bitten by a cobra while covered in mutagenic ooze and bombarded by strange cosmic rays from another dimension which had just been bitten by a vampire which had been injected with a super soldier serum developed by an ancient godlike warrior race who made a deal with the devil after discovering a powerful magical weapon. What is so complicated about that?
Would that make a half-man half-centaur a quarter horse?
Half man, half man, half wolf? I mean of course...
Manmanwolf.
Oh, finally, movies that I _have_ watched.
Also, Battlefield Earth should get an award for the most dutch angles used in one movie.
It should get one angle for every two dutch awards
ButtonMasher try watching catwoman they have like 8 angles for every conversation
It has a whole forty degrees!!!
*Least camera angles in one movie.
He was inspired by his friend, George "over wipe" Lucas
I will now start yelling "DO YOU WANT LUNCH?!" at my kids when lunch is ready.
Now that's parenting!
Dat's their favrite food!
Wave it in front of their faces while doing it
Feed them rat. If it's raw that just makes your job that much easier.
I already do.
Jupiter Ascending, a movie so bad it didn't kill Sean Bean.
I'm sure it was filmed. Just never used.
Edit: it's on his contract.
They assumed everyone knew he would die so they didn't bother to include his death scene
Expectations subverted!!
"Do you WANT LUNCH????" is the greatest line in cinema history.
The Brazil reference really highlights the audience they were trying to reach with this movie and in doing so it highlights how badly this flopped.
A friend of mine and I used to prank call Scientology places to see how long we could keep them on the phone. Then they upgraded their call systems. One lady sent me a giant book, and 6 dvds for free. We never watched or read anything, just burned them.
That's for the best. I've read some of the books and it's batshit insane.
"How to smarten the world with fire"
So edgy 🙄
Classic Adolf
You should have send the dvds to rlm
My brain can't stop looking at the number three in Mike's face stubble.
You are awful. Now I can't stop seeing it too. Damn it. It's right there, and I never saw it.
LOL! I never noticed that when I watched it. But my brain did.
*****
Have a pizza roll!
DO NOT READ FORFLUF'S COMMENT! DO NOT LET IT ENTER YOUR MIND!
I didn't read it...but my brain did.
THE FRIENDLY BARTENDER!
John Travolta is amazing when he's hamming it up.
John Travolta's acting is like a horrific car crash I can't look away from.
@@janeeyre1990 CRAP LOUSY ACTING
Face off is one of the other few slices of the rare Travolta ham
One of the hammiest Travolta roll was for Punisher. He's pretty hilarious in that one
Can't talk, gotta poo
I've decided to watch this review, *FOR ANOTHER 50 CYCLES!!!*
+pootis spencer With endless options for replaying!
+Kev *With endless options for replaying! With endless options for replaying! With endless options for replaying! TAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!*
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@@themega10046 I like to invite someone over to watch it. Like YOUR FRIENDLY BARTENDER!!!
Not only does Terl not wonder how the primitive men smelted the gold into bars.
But he also does not question why each bar has impressed on its surface a serial number and the logo of the foundry where it was smelted.
Jupiter Ascending reminded me of a live action movie remake of an anime series. And the fictitious anime series was probably half decent, but the live action movie was weird, jumbled, and mis-cast. As I watched it, I kept thinking "y'know, as a movie this is terrible. If it were an anime, it'd probably fit."
Holy cow, I had the same thought! The normies wouldn't get it though.
@@mattrogersftw -- I think myself and the op would agree with you, not a good anime. We just said this movie reminds us of an anime, too much contrived bull$h!t to be good, however.
@@turbopokey Anime fans don't get to play the normies card anymore.
It felt like a series or show to me because of all the stuff it had on it.
So just like the Matrix? 😆
I'm pretty sure "Jupiter Ascending" is a Wachowski re-write. No one writing a script for a serious movie gives their main character a name like, "Jupiter Jones." I think the movie was originally sold to the studios as a light-hearted adventure comedy, like "The Fifth Element." And then someone thought it would be a great idea to let the Wachowskis get their hands on the script and they added all their usual, pretentious BS.
The criteria for recommending a movie should be 'will people feel ripped-off if they pay to see it or does the movie provide some entertainment value, was it interesting, worth paying to see, etc.'. 90% of movies feel like a rip-off when you pay to see them, and you feel like you're just wasting your time.
I think you're almost entirely right, except the rewrite stuff. The trailer was retarded, the casting was retarded... I think they really just wanted to make a brainless, but good looking movie - they just wanted to have fun. Thinking this in the theater, I had the maximum amount of fun this movie can provide, too.
Jupiter Jones is an incredibly good name for a 70's blaxsplotation film tho
@@NeODeLeuX Jupiter, the bitches done sniffed all the smack what we gon do? But Jupiter, I sell drugs to the community!
Yeah it checks out.
Jupiter's Ascending and Cloud Atlas have more emotional importance for the Wachowskis as they were transitioning to women rather than artistic value.
the bartender is the key to all of this
If we get him working...
Because he's a friendlier character than we've ever had before.
I really love that this reference never dies. Mike enlightening the world to George's contempt for his audience is immortalized.
Yes, dimwits copy pasting a decade old meme is truly wonderful.
Spoorple I bet you're a lot of fun to be around......
Battlefield Earth, the book is almost required reading to really make sense of the movie. The Psyclos are implanted with a chip at birth that gives a huge pleasure rush for any cruel act for male Psyclo, and female Psyclo go comatose if they try to do math. The entire movie is about 100 pages in a rather large novel. Yep.
Oh so kind of like how they did Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812... but horribly!
Funnily enough I read the book too... my excuse is I was young and I didn't know who L. Ron Hubbard was - not a reason not to read it, but I suspect I wouldn't have bothered had I known. Not a bad sci-fi novel, if in that 1930s schlock style. I went through a phase of reading 30s-50s pulp fantasy and sci-fi. Very, very, very... long. There is no way you could make a real film out of it without it being 8-9 hours long with the biggest budget of all time. I've not seen the film, I suspect Mike and Jay have already related the best bits.
You see, that’s a much more interesting bit of worldbuilding than “We’ve decided to keep you for another 50 cycles!”
The first time I heard the title _Jupiter Ascending,_ I thought it was some kind of sequel to _Mercury Rising._
I haven't seen the movie yet, but the main antagonist's performance from what I've seen ranges from soccer mom with too much botox auditions for role in Hamlet, to Jeremy Irons' performance in Dungeons and Dragons.
To Stephen Hawking...
Ugh, who's this "Rich Evans" guy? He's gonna be the Yoko Ono of this group, I know it.
OwenBruch22 Wait. A man masturbated a droid like it was his cock and put it on the internet? What kind of person would do such a thing?
OwenBruch22 How could you not like Boyhood? It took 12 years to make!
OwenBruch22
it took 12 years to make!
OwenBruch22 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty didn't take them a life to make.
+Jackmono1 Rich Evans.
Continuity error... Plinkett’s shirt had beans on it in the last episode
You think he washes his shirts???
I would expect nothing less of these *HACK FRAUDS!*
You know what always got me about Battlefield Earth? When the main character gets the knowledge ray, and he tries educating his friends about math. At one point he mentions "Euclidean geometry." What's "Euclidean" supposed to mean? It has to be some kind of coincidence, because I KNOW that the Psychlos didn't ALSO have a mathematician named Euclid.
i have an immense hatred for anything Hubbard ever did/touch, so i never liked the movie, nor do i like Scientology or the actors who pay through the nose to be a part of it's cult.
Mckenzie .Latham so you're saying you would have liked this terrible movie if L.Ron hadn't had anything to do with it?
ZylonBane
no the movie is pure trash and stupid as hell (a testament how bad a sci-fi author Hubbard was), I'm just saying on principle (and knowing the kind of writer he was) i disliked the film from the get go.
To be fair, while the movie was a raging dumpster fire (With some bright points admittedly), the book does address almost all of the issues the movie ends up with, eg. -No gold bars -No Harrier fecking jumpjets -There's actually a really well thought out backstory for the Psychlos are the way they are -There's more but I digress...
And yeah the basic premise of the book had gaping holes but hell it's not like it's unique among scifi of the time period, a trend which does still exist today in a comparatively subdued fashion.(Namely "Large part of the story is hard science but almost always hingeing on one or more small bits of almost blatant fantasy.). A lot of scifi pretty much requires suspension of disbelief to one degree or another.
Besides, the book "Battlefield Earth" kinda reads more like a "feel good super hero" sort of thing. Rather silly, but an entertaining adventure especially if you have a somewhat romanticized view of the over the top "Hero archetype", like in the old Hercules style perhaps or more recently things like 300, or braveheart etc.
In fact, it shares many similarities thematically with the StarWars franchise. Over the top action, overly dramatic framing, more than a bit of pseudo-science, generally positive with horribly dark bits throughout.
In my opinion the book is crap.
My biggest fault with it is that the heroes, are not compelling, interesting and or really have a lot of draw, we're just supposed to like them/root for them becasue they're the heroes...
I can get aorund many campy and or ridiculous sci-fi plots as long as the characters are interesting, the action and or theme is evident and that effort went into it.
Ironically the Psychlos are the most interesting characters in the book and film (i love john Travolta's character/over hamming and forest Whittaker's toady character) which went agaisnt Hubbard's entire intention...
and once you realize/learn that the Psychlos are an allegory for pyschiatrists (which Hubbard and Scientology hate and forbid any of their followers from seeing) it tuns the whole experience a bit sour.
Again you can see how much of Scientology's principles/theology was put into the book and film, it sort of falls apart in my mind, it seemed like Hubbard was trying to more establish a fictional presence of his religion in a sci fi setting then making a sci fi novel.
I don't mind campy sci fi stuff, as long as the theme and or the message is evident, the characters are worth caring for and or the story is exciting.
one example, peter Benchley's creature or even Jurassic park itself. Screamers, etc. etc.
The ending to this video was a work of art
"We watched this with our friend Rich Evans, who none of you know about, he's a guy we know."
Haha that's cute.
I'd love to see a re:View for Brazil.
I love Jupiter Ascending. Somehow the elaborate daftness of it clicks with me. I've tried to turn my friends onto this film and consistently they give up about 15 minutes in when it becomes apparent what cosmic cobblers they're watching.
"I may have gone too far in a few places..." - George Lucas
Nice touch.
That was the best thing I ever heard the US anthem being played to!
"He's an idiot." But don't you know, he graduated top of his class!
While you were still learning to SPELL YOUR NAME!!!!!
Oh God, Rich just had to say "I think I went too far in a few places" while farting into an air-balloon while the American Anthem is playng at the background.
An absolute unit of a legend that guy is.
*salutes*
I watched Battlefield Earth for the first time in a livestream. It was an experience I'll never forget. Endless banter about Leverage
It's funny they picked up on the idea of the aliens in Battlefield Earth being lazy corporate buffoons because in the original novel that's exactly what they are. Not that I recommend the book that heavily, but Hubbard apparently intended them to be kind of dumb and pathetic yet possessed of superior technology that they didn't really deserve, a lot like the Vogons would be in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For whatever reason, the people adapting the Battlefield Earth didn't realize that much of it was intended as comedy.
I think they did mean it as a comedy or at least somewhat comedic, and they failed and succeeded at the same time.
Yeah... as much as I love red letter media and think battlefield earth is awful these guy are definitely missing the basis of the movie which is a really lame and simple satirical concept. The psycholos or whatever they are called are basically our current business men obsessed with war metaphors for profit acquisition and treating their pets and families like total crap assuming they are so much smarter than everyone. Much of what the reviewers thought was done out of stupidity was actually done on purpose... the problem is the movie is still stupid because it's a weak concept that requires too much "forcing" to fit it into it's little container of sci-fi action. The one word review of the movie you could give would be "Hamfisted".
Apparently so hamfisted the reviewers here assumed that it couldn't possibly be intended to be the way it was.... which I almost understand.... Yikes!
Jackmono1 A few of the scenes between Terl and Ker are supposed to be funny, and they succeed. As for the rest of the scenes that are funny but they're not supposed to be... well that's about 90% of the movie...
Yeah, I read the book when I was 13 (the perfect age, seriously) and IIRC there was a bunch of office politics around Travolta's character being stuck on earth indefinitely. His boss saw him as someone who could indeed go far in the company, and because his own career was a dead end he wanted to spread the misery.
It sounds like the movie also dropped a major plot point of the book, the fact that the alien's "breathing gas" reacted explosively with radioactive materials. If there was radiation present there would be visible sparks when the alien's exhalations hit it, and the possibility of their whole life support mask blowing up and killing them. (yes, nothing works that way, but still...) That was the whole reasoning behind Travota's character use of human slaves, they could get at deposits of gold that were too near radioactive deposits and had been decided to be too risky to mine by the corporation.
Also I don't recall any fighter jets in the book, just some firearms the humans managed to get working, IIRC they mostly relied on stolen alien tech.
A dumb book to be sure, but from the sound of it not as dumb as the movie.
*****
The movie does mention the breathing gas thing. It's an idiotic premise, as their homeworld should have been destroyed eons ago by cosmic radiation. But it is addressed.
Finally a new episode of half in the bag!
scientology IS NOT A SCAM!
it's the greatest ruse of our time
Lord Bolton is the greatest Roose of our time.
The Mean Mongoose "Yo, El Ron, I'm really happy for scientology and I'mma let you finish but The Red Wedding was the best ruse of all time. Of all time!"
Do you want LUNCH!!!
mitrooper Thats fucked up on so many levels.
mitrooper Islam is only a 7th Century cult.
I think of jupiter ascending as "The Room" of sci fi. I thought it was hilarious and laughed all the way through.
Mike: "That character actually had flavors, aromas, reminiscent of, uh . . . "
Me: "Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element."
Me: ". . . Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element."
Me: "Gary OLDMAN in The Fifth Element!"
Me: "GARY OLDMAN IN THE FIFTH ELEMENT!!"
Mike: "Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element."
I love Rich Evans. He's a luminary
Jay's reaction at 17:14 is like reacting to your friend telling you he's taken up smoking meth
"Yeah, I tried meth"
"Holy shit, dude"
"Yeah, I was mostly bored"
30:14 From what I remember reading somewhere, the over-the-top acting was due to the fact that the director seemed to be going for a particular tone. The second half of the movie seems to have much less of it (thankfully), so maybe they were filming scenes mostly in order, and he or someone else eventually realized how bad it was coming off.
"I may have gone too far in a few places"
Oh George
Good thinking taking a Cinderella story (where the entire attraction is the unrealistic fantasy of lifting a person out of their life and into a higher up position in a class based system) and mixing it with a storyline attacking the brutal murdrous higher ups of a class based system.
Yas. Great Think. Good job.
Space socialism AND lovely dresses. Definitely a niche appeal.
Eddie Redmayne's performance is my favorite part of Jupiter Ascending! So fascinatingly crazy! I still would love to know if that voice was his idea or the Wachowskis.
Julia Kropp he blew his Oscar....
Eddie later regretted doing that movie as well with his performance in that movie
"DO YOU WANT LUNCH!"
I died of laughter when Travolta said that line.
Saw Battlefield Earth in the theaters just like Mike. A buddy and I saw it toward the end of its theatrical run, with the express purpose of mocking it out loud in full-on Mystery Science Theater 3000 fashion. We were in the theater basically alone, laughing our asses off. We repeated lines out loud, shouting "I'm a Psychlo of my word!" and "Our friendly bartender!" and "Piece of cake!" Good times!
I don't know what you guys are talking about, Jupiter Ascending was the best comedy of the year so far!
How exactly did Mila Kunis make it in Hollywood? I know she was in That 70's Show, but she couldn't act then either.
She literally tricked her way in. That '70s Show needed 18+ actors who could look and act several years younger, because actors under 18 can only work limited hours. Mila Kunis told the producers that she'd "be 18 on my birthday," and they hired her. When they realized she was under 18, they appreciated her moxy so much that they gave her the role anyway. That and voicing Meg on Family Guy were her big breaks, and once she was in, all she needed to get roles was attractiveness and recognition, because that's how Hollywood works.
Freaky big eyes and looking like a kid: it’s an Epstein thing
It's funny that RLM praised her acting in Black Swan and Oz but ripped her here. I think she's been in a series of badly-written movies (American Psycho 2) but I'm not convinced she's a bad actor.
She's got a face you want to feed taco bell to
AndrewBanishers it’s from the baby’s day out review from Mr Plinkett. Yes it’s sad that I instantly knew that lol
"This is fucking stupid" why did Jay just tell us what the back of the DVDs box says?
I love how they talk about the roof tearing off like THAT'S what makes no sense about this plan.
Not the whole "filling a balloon with air that's already trapped in the goddamn house" part.
Psychlo is a portmanteau of psycho and juggalo. It is a grim picture of our future.
Rich Evan's laugh is pure gold.
It can't be coincidence that the villainess of Leonard Part 6 was cast as The Oracle in The Matrix. The Watchowskis clearly revere that movie.
if Jupiter Ascending was made in the 80's it would be such a Best of The Worst flick, just imagine all of the aliens being practical effects and bad sets/matte paintings everywhere
I have never given Half in the Bag the respect it deserves. I always loved Best of the Worst and Mr. Plinkett for their comedy value, but I really like just Mike and Jay being sincere and talking about movies.
Would enjoy more if you could make a Rich Evans laugh track, hackfrauds.
I saw it in the theater too.. Stayed the whole time! 🥇 🥇🥇🥇
One of the many unfortunate things about the Battlefield Earth book is that the reason the Psychlos decide to use humans to mine gold is actually even dumber than it is in the movie. You see, this gold mine is near a uranium deposit, and exposure to radiation (somehow) makes Psychlo's preferred mix of breathing gases explode. John Travolta's character is just as stupid and mustache-twirly in the book, too, except that we also get his internal monologue/authorial narration which constantly assures us that he is in fact brilliant.
Actually this is covered in the book. The Psychlos come from another universe where the physical laws are different.
I laughed too hard at the "cesarean fart"
I'm so glad the slang phrase "Piece of cake!" survived into the year 3,000! "Your Friendly Bartender" approves!
The rough Wachowski movies all have the same problem. They have no restrictions so the try to run with it abd then they fly to close to the sun. Their best pieces are always with limited budgets or smaller pieces. They need likits but limits that are not editors. Editors say no but what they need is to be able to say yes but.
I always thought he was calling the ceiling “crap lousy” as in “what a crap-lousy ceiling.”
I had a boss once for whom English was a second language, and his favourite slang was “damn nasty!” It reminded me of that.
I think the Wachowski humans thought they had a magic formula with the success of the first Matrix movie, but really, every other movie they have made including Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, have all been cinematic failures of mishmashed ideas and boring info-dumps of dialogue.
'I saw it in the theater...'
'Holy sh*t, dude!' LOL!!
Jay... keep doing your hair like this. It's fantastic.
The background track is great. I loved how it fit in with the bit around 10:25. Is that a canned tune? A custom piece?
Great episode as always!
THis show its the best! Seriously I love this guys and his sense of humor, they just don't care and they do whatever they want.
same conversation works pretty much exactly for Matrix4
i really just clicked on this to hear plinkett's voice :)
"HALF IN THE BAAAGG!!!"
Getting baked before seeing Jupiter Ascending would have probably made it seem better.
Tony Midyett Depends on dosage,I suppose.
I can confirm this to be true!!
These men are pawns.
I almost just died in the gym trying to bench press w the fucking Bane talking to Eddy dialogue laughing my ass off
I love when Plinkett saids at the end "I may have gone too far in a few places"
IVE FIGURED OUT WHO JAY LOOKS LIKE. A SKINNIER PAUL F THOMPKINS.
He looks like Joe Bereta
no
Mo Lester
still no
It's the teeth... that's about it
It's the eyes too I think.
God, Jay’s laugh is absolutely hysterical!!! 😂😂😂
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I saw _Battlefield Earth_ when I was 13 years old in theaters. It was so baffling and so bad! Some of it was _so_ bad, that it was hysterical! I remember my parents being so worried that it was going to convert me into a scientologist, somehow. I couldn't understand exactly what they were getting at, and it was dumb. All I did was see an awful movie! I love this review, since it wasn't memorable.
Same here, though in my case it was a Blockbuster rental... decisive to say we didn’t rewind 😉
Jupiter surprised me. It's a solid movie with a beautifully crafted world and nice action scenes. Nothing more, but also nothing less. Time well spent.
now i'm really glad the movie flopped at the box office.
Hollywood produced a new idea?! REALLY?! And it was STILL terrible? Well at least that part makes sense.
There was one other Wachowski film worth a damn, and it was Cloud Atlas. I wanted to hate it, but it won me over.
*****
I don't count that one, because they didn't direct it.
The book they took it from by David Mitchell is quite better.
Speed Racer?
Don't you want your lunch!? that has become my new favourite quote ever!
This is the kindest 'Jupiter Ascending' review I've ever heard - good for you guys not joining the 100% negative bandwagon. I hated the movie, but it's nice to hear a balanced review
is there such a thing as a falling fetish
like you get off on seeing women falling to their doom
The answer to "is there a fetish for x" is always yes.
like tarantino and feet
Like Palpatine and feet.
A quality magenta chicken mask
Sheev?
All these pseudo-art movies have faaaalling
Or a woman springs off a skyscraper
I'm glad that people are starting to warm up to Battlefield Earth as a "So bad it's good" movie like The Room and Troll 2. It really is an entertaining trainwreck. I hope this leads to a Blu Ray release and theatrical version, because there's a scene that was only shown in theaters that is so fucking funny that it deserves to be seen to add on to the unintentional comedy of this film.
His shirt had beans all over it where this left off last time... continuity guys
I can’t believe Mike missed the chance to say that the Psychlos’ home planet was “Psychlohoma” by only one measly syllable at 22:02
For cycles now, I keep remembering that I still have not seen Cloud Atlas. And I hear it's good!
Battlefield Earth is one of the greatest films ever made I rank it right up there with classics like the Adventures of Pluto Nash 🤣🤣🤣
FIRST.
YOU'RE BOTH HACKS.
Edit: Did you guys know it took 12 years to make Boyhood? Have you considered covering it?
Yep. Took 10 years because the director wanted track the kid's age in that time span. Interesting concept. And some of the actors do a decent job. But other than that, there really is no story.
I love rich even's laugh
16:24 Spit my drink when I heard "cesarean fart". LOL
I’ve seen Jupiter Ascending. I’m not sure I got through it all. There were some unique concepts I found compelling, so much so that multiple times since being unable to sit through the initial screening process I’ve sought to revisit it.
Both times I got 10 minutes in and wonder WTF I was thinking.
Oddly I’d started feeling those pangs again in recent weeks. I’m confident this review will help me keep the wolves at bay. 🙏
Man.....Up was really good. Glad I finally saw it.😊
Watching this in 2020 and thinking you guys would have been better off right now if you had stayed under the water with your doors and windows taped shut.
The combination of words "Half in the Bag" and "Battlefield Earth"...no way I wasn't clicking on that.
1:38 The Matrix and Speed Racer, although Speed wasn't exactly a hit.
I unapologetically love every film the Wachowskis have made.
The rat gag was the funniest, best thing in the world. If it was on purpose it would have been genius.
Showed up for the Jupiter Ascending review. STAYED FOR THE RICH EVANS LAUGHTER!!!
1:37 people always seem to forget about V for Vendetta.
+Zer0Hour17 V for Vendetta is excellent - the social commentary is so well done....personally, I think it's the best comic book/graphic novel movie ever made, not as far as being the most fun/Avengers-ish, but rather as far as its depth, and the execution of its political themes and action.
+Zer0Hour17 The Wachowskis didn't direct that. They wrote the screenplay which wasn't original to them, they just adapted the graphic novel.
people forget bound
+oldmoviemusic I like V for Vendetta, but I felt a lot of the social commentary was incredibly hamfisted and straightforward.
***** Hollywood (and, from experience, liberals in general) thinks that Bush is more or less a modern incarnation of Hitler. I don't get it, either.
As for V for Vendetta- when I say the social commentary was hamfisted, I'm mostly thinking of all the religion stuff, and how every Christian (i.e. the newscaster who gives that long spiel at the start on the television) was an aggressive racist/homophobe/etcetera (which, a few hundred years ago would be accurate, but in modern times, most Christians are fairly reserved and the only ones you really hear about are the people who have gone so far off the deep end that they're at the point where they're just using religion to justify their own stupidity).
It reminded me of how every Stephen King villain is a religious nut: there's nothing clever about it, it's the most blunt and in-your-face thing in the world, and it feels like the main reason it's in there is because it's what the writer's belief/opinion is.
Which house keys wrote and directed the film?
I gave this a thumbs up (way up into a dark orifice) for the Rich Evans fart scenes, and for the adverts for old person ailment products.
I couldn't stop laughing when the Star Spangled Banner started playing. Too funny!