@@isaiahvoss I do agree that a lot of movies now do feel very much like stuff for TV (particularly during what are considered the dump months), but I have to agree with what Karsten said in that the main thing separating a home viewing and theater viewing is the immersion; why even bother going to the theater to see a movie as opposed to at home if that immersion is going to be interrupted occasionally by ads? Now, reduced ticket prices (like $8 instead of $10) for an extra 5 minutes worth of ads before the movie starts? That I would be willing to argue for. But I strongly disagree with ads interrupting the movie.
their point was about ad breaks throughout the film. i don’t agree with the idea however i reckon it would work because the ads before films are often missed or ignored by most filmgoers whereas breaks in the middle would be shown when the theatre is (theoretically) at its fullest for that showing and therefore the ad slots would be worth more. between those more expensive slots and the fact that there would still be paid showings that don’t have ad breaks i think it would work financially. they would need a system of rsvp tickets though to ensure they don’t have too many people showing up
Absolutely. What a fantastic movie and a24 fucked it. Everyone needs to just know that a24 etc. are simply companies that distribute films and are not gods.
Karsten i got an video idea; reacting to the hottakes of celebrities . For example Quentin Tarantion has been saying he does not want to watch the new Dune films. He also said Joker Folie a Deux was a great movie.
4:40 is so real. I’m all for having trust and goodwill toward a certain studio or company based on their previous works, but treating the outputs of real life corporations like a fantasy football game and pitting them against each other is just… idk I feel like there’s much better uses for your time and energy
Drives me batty how many A24 films end up getting released months later in the uk than they do in The USA, even for British productions like We Live in Time
Yes, not just A24 but films in general. I got a bitchy comment when I said All Of Us Strangers is my favourite film of the year, apparently I’m not allowed to only use the British release date to when doing my best list. Living here doesn’t have any bearing either, I Must Use US Releases 🙄
Napoleon Dynamite in my opinion is one of the best comedies ever made, and here's my take: It's a simple and a whole lot of nothing, but it's worth watching because of its quotes and it feels like the 70s more than the 2000s. Meanwhile I met Napoleon, Pedro, & Uncle Rico, the actors who played their roles in Napoleon Dynamite at a screening this year. Sometimes films out of nowhere can be the best films ever. The plot has stories that either go out of nowhere or its just a mystery except for Pedro running for class president. From Napoleon's made up stories, Kip talking to girls online, Uncle Rico's fake sales to the Time Machine Uncle Rico bought online are the best parts of the movie. The dialogue is the best because not only it's not horrible acting but it's how people talk in small towns. And I live in a small town but people use Midwest slangs at times. Besides it's a film in the middle of nowhere.
HARD AGREE!! It’s my personal favorite comedy ever. I wouldn’t say it’s the best, but it’s my personal favorite because of its simple nature and comforting tone. On a side note, I got to see the film at an exclusive screening/qna, with Jon, Efren, and Jon Gries, and after the questions everyone who dressed up for the show got invited on stage to do a dance off. I was invited by Efren since I dressed as Napoleon, and even though the other two didn’t say much Efren got to shake my hand and it made my night. I unfortunately didn’t win the contest, but at that point I didn’t care. I was on stage with napoleon, Pedro, and uncle Rico, and that was enough of a treat for me. I’ll forever cherish this movie and that memory forever.
@@indiesokuThanks for sharing that with me! I won the contest for the Napoleon Dynamite screening. I got a signed football and gum. I even got to dance next to Jon Heder himself and I dressed as Napoleon too. I'll forever cherish that memory too, man! I gave all three a handshake and a hug too.
"Past lives" and "the farewell" are both cathartic in their own right, it just depends what experience you've been through (for me, the farewell is incredibly personal and I hated past lives at first, but I've come around on it)
That scene in Shrek where Gingie gets tortured gets funnier and funnier every year I get older. I remember being scared for him as a little kid, not getting the joke lol. Now it’s one of the funniest scenes in a kids’ movie ever 💀
Here’s a weird take that I heard today outside my Anora screening. Two cinema majors from my university were calling the film the “anti-Jaws” because both focus on a chase and Anora is fun and exciting while they considered Jaws to be boring and tedious. One of them would go on to admit she refuses to watch Jaws because “it villainizes sharks.”
It's not Jaws' fault for what people took out of it and ran with tbh. The movie never pretends to be a shark documentary. If Cocaine Bear came out in pre-internet monoculture time I'm sure people would be villanizing bears too.
@@thedigitalodometer945 Honestly, it’s kind of a vibe. Normally they’re local commercials, so you’ll get some pretty niche ads that are actually kind of funny. They play them in the time leading up to the showtime, and it’s mainly on in the background while you go on your phone or talk to your friends/family while the lights are still on. Honestly, if it helps theaters stay afloat a little bit, it’s not really a bad deal. It’s not like they’re interrupting the movie with ads. That would be fucking awful.
I think video game trailers are just more exciting than movie trailers, seeing a sequel to a movie you like is far less exciting than seeing a sequel to a game you like
this is, I think, partly a consequence of the game industry's secrecy. and I kinda get that, sometimes it can take a while to see if a video game project or prototype has the juice to be worth going into production as a full release, game development is unstable, I get it. but sometimes it's like Rockstar knowing that they can and will make a Grand Theft Auto VI and announcing the game's existence years in advance, because they know it looks good to just say "it's coming, we're taking the time to make it good, look forward to it when it's ready." really, the modern standard of The Video Game Reveal is a subject that could get its own video. like, you've got the cases where a game makes it far enough along into development that its publisher puts out a big announcement trailer and the game still gets cancelled anyway. or just kinda goes silent, I'm sorry Beyond Good and Evil fans but that sequel is 100% dead. and there's also the Concord case, which I've heard discussed on Castle Super Beast among other places, where Pat addresses how the game being announced just a few months before release is what he wishes games at large could be like, but he saw how disastrous that could turn out, because that game's announcement was met with the kind of large-scale apathy and disinterest that would have led to it being revamped or reworked in some way if only it wasn't announced just a few months before its release. maybe I gotta be the one to make a video about that. idk, this comment is longer than I intended it to be, we'll see how it goes
Respect. Not my favorite of his only because of Once Upon a time in Hollywood and Jackie Brown, but the hateful eight is criminally underrated in his filmography.
@@owenstephen8317 I never really got into Jackie Brown, but I love Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His 3-hour films with a lot of dialogue resonate with me for some reason.
@@owenstephen8317hard agree with the Hateful Eight and Jackie Brown (which I'd personally consider his best) but can't say the same for Once Upon a Time, I think Sally Menke's absence is very felt in that one, the pacing really drags. I do think it's still a good movie but definitely my least favorite of his
Not a film in general, but I think more fantasy and sci-fi adaptations should be animated. The visual freedom just feels like it would work better. Also make it look like something other than Lord of the Rings. Or GoT.
I feel like the person was saying that The Zone of Interest and Sing Sing are bad movies that have tarnished A24’s reputation of making and releasing good movies, which is why they prefer NEON’s movies, not saying that NEON gives its movies better releases than A24.
It’s annoying that the Oscar’s aren’t streamed anywhere. I’ve had to just watch highlight clips on RUclips after the fact and refresh google during the night. I’m sure it’s a weird legal rights issue but a LOT of people don’t have cable anymore. I cut cable in 2012 and haven’t been able to watch the Oscar’s since then
The take on Letterboxd is 100% accurate, and you are certainly guilty of spamming cringe one liners on the platform. You also completely dodged addressing that part of the take as well in this video
“There should be a movie theater that lets u in for free but it plays ads during the movie” literally got an ad the moment karsten finished reading that tweet
Worlds fair is my favourite film of all time and Its never left my head since opening night in the cinema, still horrifying me in new ways every day. But TV glow feels like a larger expansion of that films themes themes for Schoenbrun’s filmography then add that in with the much more blatant Trans Allegory of Tv glow and the high school movie lense. Worlds fair feels like (and usually gives me) an anxiety attack and TV glow is the warm hug I crave during the ups and downs of that elongated anxiety attack.
watching self-induced hallucination, then worlds fair and then tv glow is just such an amazing viewing experience where each film builds on each other, expands on the themes of the previous films and adds new ones. it is such a flawless and stunning filmography so far
i seriously havent stopped thinking about i saw the tv glow since i watched it. i know its subjective but tv glow just hit soooo much harder for me than worlds fair did (which may be because the trans subtext was much more blatant like you said). i totally agree that tv glow was an expansion of worlds fair, very excited to see what schoenbrun does next!!
Ever since the "talking to ai" video you really have been eating with these ad read transitions. some of the best in the game honestly. Always give me a chuckle.
I agree with the one saying that bad films can be enjoyed under certain circumstances. No matter how I feel about a film, I always try to find something I can enjoy about it. It takes a LOT for me to rate something a ½ star.
I know this would never happen but here goes: Every Studio that gets nominated for a best picture gets to release one trailer of their upcoming movie not during ads but during the broadcast.
The Oscars began as a studio marketing tool (and a way to soothe the egos of temperamental Hollywood stars) and that's really all they've ever been. It's a show. In the '80s I ran a single-screen independent "art-house" theater and we used to close down for a party on Oscar night. The next shindig will be our 40th -- but we hold them at people's houses. We enjoy it -- and each other's company -- but we don't take it seriously. The kinds of first-run indie and foreign-language new releases we showed back then ("Stop Making Sense," "Stranger Than Paradise," "The Fourth Man," "A Zed and Two Noughts," "Down By Law," "A Year of the Quiet Sun," "Therese" [Cavalier], "X - The Unheard Music") probably wouldn't even get theatrical releases today -- and our kinds of movies were never up for Oscars, anyway.
I saw the tv show is one of my favourite films that is a recent release so I’m definitely gonna go watch worlds fair now, cheers for indirectly letting me know it exists :))
Hot take, with video games getting remasters, I think we need to go back and remaster early 3D animated features, heck even 2D animated features, give me a less blocky Toy Story 1 please.
9:24 Hearing this was a breath of fresh air, I absolutely agree. No one deserves to be made fun of for their opinion on a movie or anything like that. I don’t like to say “it’s just a movie” but... it’s just a movie lol. Now that I am clearly immune to this type of criticism, Wish is not only a fun and enjoyable movie but a beautiful one.
The only ads I like watching in a movie theater is trailers. Ain't no way I would want to see crashing storylines & emotions when I chose to pay for one.
There should be a offer to pay extra for a cinema viewing where people have to be silent or are thrown out. No phones allowed and there is security ready for people that break the rules. Too many times have I sat in a theatre where people just talk while the film is playing or someone's phone is buzzing constantly or there is a bright light in the corner of my eye. I'd even pay a whole £10 extra or more so we can fund the security guards salaries.
I agree that Letterboxd is bad. i try to write reviews there, but it's hopeless. I'm not saying my reviews are amazing, but I try to actually write about the movie that I'm writing about and that's pretty rare on Letterboxd. Why should I even bother if reviews that are just a Spongebob quote get 100s of likes while no one reads what I have to say? There is even a very popular reviewer over there that does "vegan warnings". "Oh this one character drinks a milkshake in the first half of the movie", 56 likes, what the fuck even is this website?
Yea, it's the same worldwide, The person probably meant Ads during the runtime of a movie. Which if I ever saw in a theatre, I would be commiting arson.
The last movie that made me physically angry was Barbarian in 2022. I remembered everyone being in love with it, and I saw it, but I just didn't understand it. Whenever I rewatch it, I just get angry. !!!!!!
I would have offered up Robert Eggers as well for best American directors. I think he’s 3/3 and there’s an incredible amount of buzz coming out of the Nosferatu screenings recently.
4:40 Is it though? I've sort of grown up being a FOX fan after being fans of shows like 24, Lethal Weapon, The X-Files and 9-1-1, and later graduated to being an FX fan. That just felt natural, especially because it was easy to know where I could watch a FOX or FX show on streaming (Hulu). I guess that doesn't apply as much to movies but I wouldn't say that's too bizarre of a way to approach media.
I took my girlfriend to watch a double feature of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Dominion on opening day. She has never seen a Jurassic Park movie though loved the first one. Then after Jurassic World: Dominion ended she tells me "how can you let me watch that garbage".
I’m not gonna say Thor: Love and Thunder was a masterpiece but I wouldn’t say it’s on same level as something like Madame Web. Also, I liked Finding Dory but better than the original? that’s a stretch.
im really surprised that the majority of people in these comments like worlds fair more than tv glow??? i liked worlds fair but damn i was surprised that karsten had that take too. i feel like it may be because tv glow is for a very specific audience where its like if you know you know type of thing, and worlds fair is more digestible for a general audience but idk
P.S. Former resident of the Fairfax district in Hollywood here (on Sierra Bonita, a few blocks from the New Beverly and El Coyote). What neighborhood are you moving to -- and are you there yet?
Personal take, Movie's may artistically and financially waste a lot by making needless sequels, but 99.9% of TV shows are arguably a much bigger waste and concern, due to the studio system. Many get made with tens of thousands of dollars and can last for months in shooting and editing. The ones that typically are critically the best are underfunded (Breaking Bad and Walking Dead ((in the beginning)) ) and the ones that seem like the biggest waste of time get the most attention and money (Reality TV Shows and Mellow Dramas). Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and Dexter are all shows that were tainted at one point or another from the studio system, they've also regained their footing, but tainted none the less. When I watch certain parts, it feels like I'm watching a pickup truck drive with a wonky axel and am told that it's got "character," before taking it home. Writing for TV is also more of a job than an artistic endeavor from the results I've seen. I watched the first three episodes of The Penguin the other day and wanted to like it so bad, but the story was distastefully humanizing. I'm not following a hero, I'm following the fucking Penguin, a ruthless, greedy, grubby mob boss. Not saying I want him one-dimensional and maybe the show gets there, but so far it isn't promising. It lacks any of the same cinematic depth The Batman movie its attached to has and makes false attempts at recreating the atmosphere. I can forgive all that, but the plot is so predictable that I had a co-worker guess almost every aspect of the show by telling him it's the most predictable and, without fail, he knew every "twist" and "turn" of a show he had never seen. It's exactly the worst version I expected it to be. The variations of "bad" that television continues to weave into the fabric of our Netflix UI makes the business of trying anything anyone recommends to me a paddle boat ride on the river Styx. TV shows, whether you direct, write, act, or watch them, are the epitome of waste and the world would be a better place without them.
The World's Fair line in the thumbnail made me watch the video and I was ready to be ever so slightly bothered by you breaking it down as a bad take... powerful clickbait
I think World’s Fair is significantly better than TV Glow. It just has such a more cohesive idea and has such a stronger tone. The fear that a guy can exploit your whole life through text over the internet while it’s as casual as looking at your phone to span time while talking a shit is more horrifying than anything TV Glow does. Yes, I understand and feel the trans narrative, I am nb, I just think strictly as a movie it didn’t work quite as well.
I can never get into any kind of film discourse because I like almost everything I watch. If I'm not liking something, I'll turn it off, simple as that. A movie is only bad to me if it is boring. Most of my favorite childhood films or even some run of the mill feel good dramas and biopics have abysmal ratings and were box office bombs, but I still like them over a lot of "good" films that bored me simply because they are not my taste.
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Saying that theaters should play the movie free with ads has to be one of the worst takes I have ever heard.
I work at a movie theater and i don't care for the ads. They're so Made For TV.
Jail time for conceiving such a horror
@@isaiahvoss I do agree that a lot of movies now do feel very much like stuff for TV (particularly during what are considered the dump months), but I have to agree with what Karsten said in that the main thing separating a home viewing and theater viewing is the immersion; why even bother going to the theater to see a movie as opposed to at home if that immersion is going to be interrupted occasionally by ads? Now, reduced ticket prices (like $8 instead of $10) for an extra 5 minutes worth of ads before the movie starts? That I would be willing to argue for. But I strongly disagree with ads interrupting the movie.
Jail time for that opinion
It was so hilarious that there was an Ozempic ad before The Substance
I hate to break it to that one guy, but we already watch ads at theaters, a couple more isn’t gonna make it free
their point was about ad breaks throughout the film. i don’t agree with the idea however i reckon it would work because the ads before films are often missed or ignored by most filmgoers whereas breaks in the middle would be shown when the theatre is (theoretically) at its fullest for that showing and therefore the ad slots would be worth more. between those more expensive slots and the fact that there would still be paid showings that don’t have ad breaks i think it would work financially. they would need a system of rsvp tickets though to ensure they don’t have too many people showing up
A24 giving NOTHING for A Different Man really bummed me out. What a good movie no one’s gonna see now
FAX
Absolutely. What a fantastic movie and a24 fucked it. Everyone needs to just know that a24 etc. are simply companies that distribute films and are not gods.
I was so excited for that film. They kept playing the trailer near me and I was ready
Then it was never in a theater near me
i almost saw it but then i saw anora instead and now it’s gone
at least you saw the best film of 2024
Karsten i got an video idea; reacting to the hottakes of celebrities . For example Quentin Tarantion has been saying he does not want to watch the new Dune films. He also said Joker Folie a Deux was a great movie.
Good idea!
Him giving an opinion on a movie that’s not like everyone else’s is bad?
@@channingbloom7125 When did anyone say "bad?"
Maybe the original comment said “bad takes” instead of “hottakes” before the edit?
@@channingbloom7125yes actually
Thanks to IStock for supplying b roll footage for this video
Robert Eggers has to be considered as one of the best American directors today.
He’s 3/3 for me so far. Can’t wait for Nosferatu!
my man
@@typing4mylife 3/3 for me also!
With the Great reviews Nosferatu is getting, looks like he is gonna be 4/4 now
Insanely based
4:40 is so real. I’m all for having trust and goodwill toward a certain studio or company based on their previous works, but treating the outputs of real life corporations like a fantasy football game and pitting them against each other is just… idk I feel like there’s much better uses for your time and energy
Drives me batty how many A24 films end up getting released months later in the uk than they do in The USA, even for British productions like We Live in Time
Yes, not just A24 but films in general. I got a bitchy comment when I said All Of Us Strangers is my favourite film of the year, apparently I’m not allowed to only use the British release date to when doing my best list. Living here doesn’t have any bearing either, I Must Use US Releases 🙄
I'd be lucky if I get to watch one A24 movie a year in bulgaria, nothing is coming here at all
"There should be a movie theater that's free to watch but plays ads" So... TV? You want a publicly displayed TV broadcast?
Tv is NOT free to watch nor has it ever been
@@flubbajubb4958 Do you have to insert coins into your TV every time you turn it on?
5:35 I was shouting PTA so loud!!
Yes, me too! Paul Thomas Anderson is definitely in the conversation for this
Jordan Peele mentioned but not PTA 🤣🤣
Robert Eggers??
@@dws0828 Yeah I don't know how you make that kind of oversight.
@cadegarrettmusic is Tarantino American?
physically recoiled at the ads in theaters one
7:25 buddy, there's already ads before the movie starts.
Napoleon Dynamite in my opinion is one of the best comedies ever made, and here's my take:
It's a simple and a whole lot of nothing, but it's worth watching because of its quotes and it feels like the 70s more than the 2000s. Meanwhile I met Napoleon, Pedro, & Uncle Rico, the actors who played their roles in Napoleon Dynamite at a screening this year. Sometimes films out of nowhere can be the best films ever. The plot has stories that either go out of nowhere or its just a mystery except for Pedro running for class president. From Napoleon's made up stories, Kip talking to girls online, Uncle Rico's fake sales to the Time Machine Uncle Rico bought online are the best parts of the movie. The dialogue is the best because not only it's not horrible acting but it's how people talk in small towns. And I live in a small town but people use Midwest slangs at times. Besides it's a film in the middle of nowhere.
HARD AGREE!! It’s my personal favorite comedy ever. I wouldn’t say it’s the best, but it’s my personal favorite because of its simple nature and comforting tone. On a side note, I got to see the film at an exclusive screening/qna, with Jon, Efren, and Jon Gries, and after the questions everyone who dressed up for the show got invited on stage to do a dance off. I was invited by Efren since I dressed as Napoleon, and even though the other two didn’t say much Efren got to shake my hand and it made my night. I unfortunately didn’t win the contest, but at that point I didn’t care. I was on stage with napoleon, Pedro, and uncle Rico, and that was enough of a treat for me. I’ll forever cherish this movie and that memory forever.
@@indiesokuThanks for sharing that with me! I won the contest for the Napoleon Dynamite screening. I got a signed football and gum. I even got to dance next to Jon Heder himself and I dressed as Napoleon too. I'll forever cherish that memory too, man! I gave all three a handshake and a hug too.
"Past lives" and "the farewell" are both cathartic in their own right, it just depends what experience you've been through (for me, the farewell is incredibly personal and I hated past lives at first, but I've come around on it)
That scene in Shrek where Gingie gets tortured gets funnier and funnier every year I get older. I remember being scared for him as a little kid, not getting the joke lol. Now it’s one of the funniest scenes in a kids’ movie ever 💀
Here’s a weird take that I heard today outside my Anora screening.
Two cinema majors from my university were calling the film the “anti-Jaws” because both focus on a chase and Anora is fun and exciting while they considered Jaws to be boring and tedious.
One of them would go on to admit she refuses to watch Jaws because “it villainizes sharks.”
It's not Jaws' fault for what people took out of it and ran with tbh. The movie never pretends to be a shark documentary. If Cocaine Bear came out in pre-internet monoculture time I'm sure people would be villanizing bears too.
Re: playing ads during movies. Don’t they already play ads before trailers and movie start? At my local theaters they do.
No theater I’ve been to plays commercials before the trailers.
same here, there's a good 10 minutes of ads before the trailers even start
Every single theatre I’ve ever been to has done that
Y'all are unlucky.
@@thedigitalodometer945 Honestly, it’s kind of a vibe. Normally they’re local commercials, so you’ll get some pretty niche ads that are actually kind of funny. They play them in the time leading up to the showtime, and it’s mainly on in the background while you go on your phone or talk to your friends/family while the lights are still on. Honestly, if it helps theaters stay afloat a little bit, it’s not really a bad deal. It’s not like they’re interrupting the movie with ads. That would be fucking awful.
I think video game trailers are just more exciting than movie trailers, seeing a sequel to a movie you like is far less exciting than seeing a sequel to a game you like
this is, I think, partly a consequence of the game industry's secrecy. and I kinda get that, sometimes it can take a while to see if a video game project or prototype has the juice to be worth going into production as a full release, game development is unstable, I get it. but sometimes it's like Rockstar knowing that they can and will make a Grand Theft Auto VI and announcing the game's existence years in advance, because they know it looks good to just say "it's coming, we're taking the time to make it good, look forward to it when it's ready."
really, the modern standard of The Video Game Reveal is a subject that could get its own video. like, you've got the cases where a game makes it far enough along into development that its publisher puts out a big announcement trailer and the game still gets cancelled anyway. or just kinda goes silent, I'm sorry Beyond Good and Evil fans but that sequel is 100% dead. and there's also the Concord case, which I've heard discussed on Castle Super Beast among other places, where Pat addresses how the game being announced just a few months before release is what he wishes games at large could be like, but he saw how disastrous that could turn out, because that game's announcement was met with the kind of large-scale apathy and disinterest that would have led to it being revamped or reworked in some way if only it wasn't announced just a few months before its release.
maybe I gotta be the one to make a video about that. idk, this comment is longer than I intended it to be, we'll see how it goes
6:00 bro forgot about Paul Thomas Anderson
Enter the Void is the best Christmas movie ever
…just me trying to think of a dumber take than ads in the movie theater
Emma Seligmann is a very exciting American filmmaker. Only two features, but they're both bangers and so different than each other.
SEEING A KEEGAN TWEET IN THIS IS CRAZY 😭😭
whos that
The Hateful Eight is my favorite Tarantino movie. So underrated and probably the best dialogue of any film.
I honestly agree with this.
Respect. Not my favorite of his only because of Once Upon a time in Hollywood and Jackie Brown, but the hateful eight is criminally underrated in his filmography.
@@owenstephen8317 I never really got into Jackie Brown, but I love Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. His 3-hour films with a lot of dialogue resonate with me for some reason.
@@owenstephen8317hard agree with the Hateful Eight and Jackie Brown (which I'd personally consider his best) but can't say the same for Once Upon a Time, I think Sally Menke's absence is very felt in that one, the pacing really drags. I do think it's still a good movie but definitely my least favorite of his
It was definitely inspired from the poem THE COLD WITHIN
I'll go out on this limb: _Finding Dory_ is the best non-_Toy Story_ sequel Pixar has put out.
Better than Inside Out 2? I didn't think Finding Dory was really anything special, like that seems gone from people's memory.
I agree with this
lmao.... not the iStock footages 😂
they kind of already do have ads, though; i mean what is a preview if not an advertisement for an impending movie?
Not a film in general, but I think more fantasy and sci-fi adaptations should be animated. The visual freedom just feels like it would work better.
Also make it look like something other than Lord of the Rings. Or GoT.
I feel like the person was saying that The Zone of Interest and Sing Sing are bad movies that have tarnished A24’s reputation of making and releasing good movies, which is why they prefer NEON’s movies, not saying that NEON gives its movies better releases than A24.
I love AMERICAN BEAUTY. It's a warning message for people who would like to live life carelessly ignoring the laws set by the world.
It’s annoying that the Oscar’s aren’t streamed anywhere. I’ve had to just watch highlight clips on RUclips after the fact and refresh google during the night. I’m sure it’s a weird legal rights issue but a LOT of people don’t have cable anymore. I cut cable in 2012 and haven’t been able to watch the Oscar’s since then
robert eggers is one of the best living directors and he's american. he hasn't made a bad movie
The take on Letterboxd is 100% accurate, and you are certainly guilty of spamming cringe one liners on the platform. You also completely dodged addressing that part of the take as well in this video
unfunny Letterboxd reviews didn't ruin film discourse, they just ruined Letterboxd
“There should be a movie theater that lets u in for free but it plays ads during the movie”
literally got an ad the moment karsten finished reading that tweet
Worlds fair is my favourite film of all time and Its never left my head since opening night in the cinema, still horrifying me in new ways every day. But TV glow feels like a larger expansion of that films themes themes for Schoenbrun’s filmography then add that in with the much more blatant Trans Allegory of Tv glow and the high school movie lense. Worlds fair feels like (and usually gives me) an anxiety attack and TV glow is the warm hug I crave during the ups and downs of that elongated anxiety attack.
watching self-induced hallucination, then worlds fair and then tv glow is just such an amazing viewing experience where each film builds on each other, expands on the themes of the previous films and adds new ones. it is such a flawless and stunning filmography so far
i seriously havent stopped thinking about i saw the tv glow since i watched it. i know its subjective but tv glow just hit soooo much harder for me than worlds fair did (which may be because the trans subtext was much more blatant like you said). i totally agree that tv glow was an expansion of worlds fair, very excited to see what schoenbrun does next!!
Ever since the "talking to ai" video you really have been eating with these ad read transitions. some of the best in the game honestly. Always give me a chuckle.
I agree with the one saying that bad films can be enjoyed under certain circumstances. No matter how I feel about a film, I always try to find something I can enjoy about it. It takes a LOT for me to rate something a ½ star.
I love the amount of Babylon footage used in this video.
I know this would never happen but here goes: Every Studio that gets nominated for a best picture gets to release one trailer of their upcoming movie not during ads but during the broadcast.
Worlds fair > TV glow
Both are great
Finding Dory ending made me bawl my eyes out but the Finding Nemo ending made me boogie bc they put 🎶somewhere 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺beyond the sea 🎶 in there
The Oscars began as a studio marketing tool (and a way to soothe the egos of temperamental Hollywood stars) and that's really all they've ever been. It's a show. In the '80s I ran a single-screen independent "art-house" theater and we used to close down for a party on Oscar night. The next shindig will be our 40th -- but we hold them at people's houses. We enjoy it -- and each other's company -- but we don't take it seriously. The kinds of first-run indie and foreign-language new releases we showed back then ("Stop Making Sense," "Stranger Than Paradise," "The Fourth Man," "A Zed and Two Noughts," "Down By Law," "A Year of the Quiet Sun," "Therese" [Cavalier], "X - The Unheard Music") probably wouldn't even get theatrical releases today -- and our kinds of movies were never up for Oscars, anyway.
How much revenue does that guy think ads generate per person that they would somehow offset the ~15$ price of a movie ticket?
My phone died right after he said “I’m gonna call it” incredible
Tbf I would argue that The Princess Bride is the Scream of fairy tale movies
Kelly Reichart was mentioned!!!!
She actually just filmed a movie in my hometown coming out in 2025 called Mastermind
I saw the tv show is one of my favourite films that is a recent release so I’m definitely gonna go watch worlds fair now, cheers for indirectly letting me know it exists :))
Hot take, with video games getting remasters, I think we need to go back and remaster early 3D animated features, heck even 2D animated features, give me a less blocky Toy Story 1 please.
7:24 Also, there's like, 20-30 mins of ads BEFORE the movie anyway.
PTA not being mentioned as one of the best American directors is devilish work mane
keegan tweet got baited into a karsten video, what a day for chronically online people
9:24 Hearing this was a breath of fresh air, I absolutely agree. No one deserves to be made fun of for their opinion on a movie or anything like that. I don’t like to say “it’s just a movie” but... it’s just a movie lol.
Now that I am clearly immune to this type of criticism, Wish is not only a fun and enjoyable movie but a beautiful one.
5:20 ummm PTA???
Karsten really giving us some light in these dark times
The only ads I like watching in a movie theater is trailers. Ain't no way I would want to see crashing storylines & emotions when I chose to pay for one.
That ad segue was wild, bravo 👏🏼
I guess you could say he ate with it.
The Finding Dory take is wild!
madame web is from 2024, crazy right?
03:27 to skip the in video ad :)
There should be a offer to pay extra for a cinema viewing where people have to be silent or are thrown out. No phones allowed and there is security ready for people that break the rules. Too many times have I sat in a theatre where people just talk while the film is playing or someone's phone is buzzing constantly or there is a bright light in the corner of my eye. I'd even pay a whole £10 extra or more so we can fund the security guards salaries.
movies already have ads at the theater. they play for 20 minutes before the film starts
I will never forgive A24 what they did to The Iron Claw. Or technically: didn't do.
I agree that Letterboxd is bad. i try to write reviews there, but it's hopeless. I'm not saying my reviews are amazing, but I try to actually write about the movie that I'm writing about and that's pretty rare on Letterboxd. Why should I even bother if reviews that are just a Spongebob quote get 100s of likes while no one reads what I have to say? There is even a very popular reviewer over there that does "vegan warnings". "Oh this one character drinks a milkshake in the first half of the movie", 56 likes, what the fuck even is this website?
worlds fair is much better then i saw the tv glow thank you!!
karsten ya gotta get offa xitter n onto bluesky my beautiful fella
I don't know about the US, but in Brazil we already have adds before the trailers on the movie theater..?
Oh yeah, that’s pretty much a universal thing, what that person meant was having ads *during* the movie.
Yea, it's the same worldwide, The person probably meant Ads during the runtime of a movie. Which if I ever saw in a theatre, I would be commiting arson.
The last movie that made me physically angry was Barbarian in 2022. I remembered everyone being in love with it, and I saw it, but I just didn't understand it. Whenever I rewatch it, I just get angry. !!!!!!
I LOVE YOU KARSTEN
8:31 I for real at first thought this guy would just rather go to the worlds fair than watch I saw the tv glow
Saying finding sorry has "decent" animation is really disrespectful
Finding Dory is really good
I would have offered up Robert Eggers as well for best American directors. I think he’s 3/3 and there’s an incredible amount of buzz coming out of the Nosferatu screenings recently.
Free movie with ads already exised.
It's called television.
crazy takes on some of these 😭
4:40 Is it though? I've sort of grown up being a FOX fan after being fans of shows like 24, Lethal Weapon, The X-Files and 9-1-1, and later graduated to being an FX fan. That just felt natural, especially because it was easy to know where I could watch a FOX or FX show on streaming (Hulu). I guess that doesn't apply as much to movies but I wouldn't say that's too bizarre of a way to approach media.
5:24 WHAT ABOUT WES ANDERSON???
tyty perfect timing as always
10:19 All I can say to this is: "Some people just wanna watch the world burn"
unpopular opinion you should rewatch the holdovers
World's Fair is way more impactful for me personally
I took my girlfriend to watch a double feature of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Dominion on opening day. She has never seen a Jurassic Park movie though loved the first one. Then after Jurassic World: Dominion ended she tells me "how can you let me watch that garbage".
How can anyone say top 4 active american directors and not say Wes Anderson. He's my no. 1 easy.
Bideo very good 👍 intresting topiks: such as: film, academic Oscar’s and hott takes!❤
I’m not gonna say Thor: Love and Thunder was a masterpiece but I wouldn’t say it’s on same level as something like Madame Web. Also, I liked Finding Dory but better than the original? that’s a stretch.
6:59 Now that's a pretty meme. Exquisite 😈.
worlds fair take is so ass tv glow is legit one of the best movies we have from this new generation
im really surprised that the majority of people in these comments like worlds fair more than tv glow??? i liked worlds fair but damn i was surprised that karsten had that take too. i feel like it may be because tv glow is for a very specific audience where its like if you know you know type of thing, and worlds fair is more digestible for a general audience but idk
P.S. Former resident of the Fairfax district in Hollywood here (on Sierra Bonita, a few blocks from the New Beverly and El Coyote). What neighborhood are you moving to -- and are you there yet?
Personal take, Movie's may artistically and financially waste a lot by making needless sequels, but 99.9% of TV shows are arguably a much bigger waste and concern, due to the studio system.
Many get made with tens of thousands of dollars and can last for months in shooting and editing. The ones that typically are critically the best are underfunded (Breaking Bad and Walking Dead ((in the beginning)) ) and the ones that seem like the biggest waste of time get the most attention and money (Reality TV Shows and Mellow Dramas). Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, Stranger Things, and Dexter are all shows that were tainted at one point or another from the studio system, they've also regained their footing, but tainted none the less. When I watch certain parts, it feels like I'm watching a pickup truck drive with a wonky axel and am told that it's got "character," before taking it home. Writing for TV is also more of a job than an artistic endeavor from the results I've seen. I watched the first three episodes of The Penguin the other day and wanted to like it so bad, but the story was distastefully humanizing. I'm not following a hero, I'm following the fucking Penguin, a ruthless, greedy, grubby mob boss. Not saying I want him one-dimensional and maybe the show gets there, but so far it isn't promising. It lacks any of the same cinematic depth The Batman movie its attached to has and makes false attempts at recreating the atmosphere. I can forgive all that, but the plot is so predictable that I had a co-worker guess almost every aspect of the show by telling him it's the most predictable and, without fail, he knew every "twist" and "turn" of a show he had never seen. It's exactly the worst version I expected it to be. The variations of "bad" that television continues to weave into the fabric of our Netflix UI makes the business of trying anything anyone recommends to me a paddle boat ride on the river Styx. TV shows, whether you direct, write, act, or watch them, are the epitome of waste and the world would be a better place without them.
The World's Fair line in the thumbnail made me watch the video and I was ready to be ever so slightly bothered by you breaking it down as a bad take... powerful clickbait
I think World’s Fair is significantly better than TV Glow. It just has such a more cohesive idea and has such a stronger tone. The fear that a guy can exploit your whole life through text over the internet while it’s as casual as looking at your phone to span time while talking a shit is more horrifying than anything TV Glow does. Yes, I understand and feel the trans narrative, I am nb, I just think strictly as a movie it didn’t work quite as well.
I can never get into any kind of film discourse because I like almost everything I watch. If I'm not liking something, I'll turn it off, simple as that. A movie is only bad to me if it is boring. Most of my favorite childhood films or even some run of the mill feel good dramas and biopics have abysmal ratings and were box office bombs, but I still like them over a lot of "good" films that bored me simply because they are not my taste.
based take although theres plenty of terrible not boring movies out there like Alien Resurrection
There's more to movies than simple entertainment value
@@artvandeIay not everybody has passion for film analysis lol
LEAN ON PETE MENTIONED 🗣️
video games in an award show?
nah that guy is fucking crazy for saying zone of interest was bad, literally top 3 from last year
My weird film take: The Lost World: Jurassic Park is better than the original Jurassic Park.
he got baited by the Keegan tweet we won
Problem Child is peak. The first two anyway
anyone who says anything bad about the first two shrek movies is ragebaiting
6:06 I wonder if he submitted this take with Karsten's EEAAO letterboxd review in mind
The Shrek hate was wild like whaaat 😭😂