One thing that doesn't make sense is that Alice is a surgeon in the real world, so people would definitely notice if she suddenly went missing, not showing up for her busy shifts. Also, if they were barely getting by on just Alice's income, then how is Jack's job managing to pay for the entire simulation fees?
That’s what I was wondering too and something I mentioned to my bf who I watched the movie with. I personally liked the movie and would love to see a part 2 explaining this
Not to mention she's a surgeon at 29. Surgeons make bank. Depending on tge type of surgery, she could be pulling between 120 to 300k a year and they're "barely making it?" LOL ok.
@@WhyWeWatch1 the bizarre imagery, the building tension, the dream sequences, touching the lighthouse (Victory Headquarters) and going crazy. The parallels are numerous and constant, just done much worse by Don’t Worry Darling.
Florence, Chris and Gemma's backs must be sore from carrying this entire movie, in spite of the mediocre script. At this rate, I would prefer to watch the Behind the Scenes drama instead! 🍿🎭
When Frank confronts Alice & says he's been waiting so long for someone to finally challenge him and how smart she is, a minute later her big reveal is to just blurt out everything she knows at dinner. After dinner Frank says he was expecting more & he's dissapointed. I agree
The screenwriters are probably millionaires and they couldn’t think through solving issues like this from a RUclips comment. It’s crazy how inept they are
@@Blue.1889 Because they are activists With a moral superiority Complex telling people how Bad they are & made propaganda instead of a compelling story.
I remember watching the end credits scene from The Eternals, when seasoned actress Angelina Jolie says a line and then Harry Styles answers. The difference in quality of the line delivery was staggering. It was like cutting from a hollywood blockbuster to a community theater play.
He’ll fail if he doesn’t start taking better lessons, if he is taking any currently. He’s not the first pop star to turn to acting and it has fared poorly in the past, so we’ll see if he can break the stereotype eventually
If alice was stuck in the simulation 24/7, this means her husband would constantly have to feed her, clean her, change her diapers (since she can't go to the bathroom), and manually exercise her so her muscles won't atrophy and die. How is this in any way better than the life he was living? Also, when she escaped, wouldn't she wake strapped to her bed next to her husband's corpse? Because this means that, if she didn't find a way to free herself, she would end up dying of starvation or thirst.
It would have been so much more interesting if the real world was in nuclear fallout and everyone was living in the simulation, but forgot they were. That way everyone could get tired and bored of it all and try to break out, but they wouldn’t be able to die. So then you could have conflict between the couples and the slow break down of the community. At least that would have been more interesting
I personally liked most of the film (I think act 2 was way too drawn out which caused act 3 to be rushed) and I think the twist wasn't that the victory project was a simulation. I think the twist is that Jack kidnapped her and he's just as much the villain as Frank. Throughout the movie, it's implied that he's innocent. But he is the reason she's in there
thought the exact same thing^ found half way of the movie to be really good & enjoyed it but at the end i was just left unsatisfied & didn’t feel like the movie was rounded off well
I feel like there was a good core here, but then it just got chopped to oblivion. To me it felt like there was no plot here, and it also felt like the writers were smug about the “plot twist.” As if they were raising their brows at me like “bet you didn’t see that coming”
I think it was doomed to fail. Wilde's controversy regarding the circumstances regarding Shia's leaving; her relationship with Styles and her lying about Jordan Peterson put a sour taste in people's mouths.
JP's response to her basing a villainous cult leader on him was legendary, though. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like "I am very flattered that I'm played by someone as attractive as Chris Pine and I hope they get my fashion sense right."
My girlfriend booked to go see this movie today, I 100% thought it was a different movie before I sat down, had heard the title but nothing more so I was very intrigued when it started getting weird as heck but ultimately left very disappointed by the unsatisfying conclusion. Glad to see my sentiments are mirrored and I wasn’t just missing some key info. Shame, honestly the first 2 acts had me thinking this was gonna be a great film by the end (sub-par performances aside)
Fantastic video that got all of my issues articulated. I fell asleep twice during the 2nd act. Biggest disappointing theatre experience I've had since the pandemic.
Havent seen it (and now I probably wont) but this also sounds a lot like the Stepford Wives movie from the early 2000's, so its not only retreading the ol' "surprise, its a simulation!" thing we've seen so many times before, its ripping off the "husband forcing domesticity on overworked wife in a simulated environment" plot, which is...very specific
You know be a good movie flip it on its head. Woman is tired of working so she plugs in her husband so he has to work while she can spend the day making art. And the reason they do it in real world is cost. (I say this as someone who loves the fact my girlfriend wants to be a housewife)
They need a remake of this, stat. It has potential as a series. Perhaps one day the film can be remade with a universally strong cast, with some major script changes. I almost wonder how it would be if a non-American/British director took a stab at it
When it comes to the eggs and window stuff, I think the "With you All the Time" song is playing in the background on a record or something and that is causing the errors because Jack is singing that to her in the real world and it is breaking through to her.
Hi friend! 2:44 Bioshock is quite distinctly (dystopian) art deco style, which is from the 1920’s, not the 1950’s. Think the Great Gatsby. Don’t Worry Darling has a dystopian retro 1950’s style, much more reminiscent of the Fallout game series. Reminds me of Fallout 3’s Tranquility Lane quest! Just a little note from a history buff 😊
Question I never really see addressed: How does this happen? Like how does an ostensibly terrible script get made and attract all this talent? I can totally understand how CGI ends up bad with all the crunch culture stuff, but I just can't get my head around this, surely the actors would read this script, think it's shit and just not want to be involved?
@@chaosasitswirls6125 Eh I think you're probably right about broke out of work actors. But for millionaires like most of the cast of this film? Doubt it
Wilde had a good directing reputation and had already worked with Pugh so it made sense they'd team up again. And once you have a star lead and director it's easy to get other stars on board too, regardless of the script or concept
9:11 my only disagreement is that it feels less like it's because he's an incel despite having a beautiful girl, and more that it's preying on the notions of masculinity he might either have prescribed to or have been indoctrinated into by the internet. He feels inadequate because he has this beautiful woman, but not only is she providing, he often feels like she thinks he's a nuisance becaude of how she responds to the prodding he doesn't realize is the actual issue for her. So he makes the "grand sacrifice" of becoming a better man and providing for her and letting her live her "dream" without her consent. It's not the inceldom, in my mind, as much as it is the push of hypermasculinity and semi-fascist feelings that both the aesthetic and the setting provide. But I paused the video to type this so you might just say something like that later lol
@@kenjyn76 But he’s based on Jordan Peterson actually. Basing him on Tate would’ve been a MUCH better idea considering how straight up misogynistic he is, and how he embodies toxic masculinity more in my opinion. JP is just more of a traditional guy in his opinions of family I think so idk if he fits the story that well.
@@Blue.1889 Dude toxic masculinity is a lie Also tate is not a supervillain I have spme issues with him But making him a villain is Lazy & politically motivated.
Jordan Peterson isn’t even the worst person in association/proximity to the manosphere so I really don’t know why they chose him, other than the optics (making the villain a older white dude).
@@EmoBearRights How is he insidious?? he Sounds like a chill guy Just trying to help People hes Not hurting women By speaking on Thimgs related To men this man Bashing has got To stop.
@@Blue.1889 The manosphere really isnt Hurting anybody this constant Attack on men & masculinity is creating sexism if anything Dont blame men blame the woke agenda.
@@elongatedmanforever1252 No he's not, he started spreading bs about that bill in Canada. His advice is mostly either obvious or bullshit. He is a collasal hypocrite in saying shut up until you've sorted your life out and then offering advice when he got addicted to benzos and almost died trying to.take the quick and painless approach to recovery. Most of what he says is pretentious right wing trad shit which is increasingly deranged as his brain has taken hits from addiction, self coma induced brain damage, COVID and too much time on X-rayed formerly known as twatter.
It all falls apart in the third act. It makes no sense that it's a virtual world. It's all visual. Here's some of my questions how did Jack trick Alice into this world, how is it possible for Jack to keep Alice disappearing from work under wraps. What was with the airplane crash in the beginning. What is Jack's job in the vr world. Who's keeping them alive in the real world. It's would be impossible for Jack to know how to keep Alice alive unless he has some kind of medical training. Why did he pick a British accent as his undercover identity. Harry styles is a bad actor. This movie has no idea how incels works. By the fact he's married he's not an incel. Why did Gemma chan kill Chris pine at the end. You can tell why Shia was casted in the movie cause he can handle every scenes with Florence. The last act throws every twist at you except for I see dead people. You can tell this script wasn't fully thought out except for the visuals
1. You see alice's feet being dragged at one point so I think that implies that he knocked her out and then plugged her up to the machine which keeps her sedated 2. Not sure how no one notices alice is missing 3. I think the plane is an meant to be a hallucination from alice linked to Alison's childs old toy 3. Jack doesn't have a job in the simulation it's just a cover for the fact that all the men have to leave the simulation to do jobs in real world to earn money to pay for simulation and maybe keep an eye on alice's physical body too 4.I think part of the program he is a part of will tell him and other users how to keep her alive and whatever she is hooked up to which keeps her in the simulation will be keeping her alive too 5. Harry styles is british i don't think he was only british in simulation 6. I don't think his acting was as bad as everyone is saying didn't take me put of the film at any point 7. Yes he is in a relationship which is not really characteristic an incel but his actions of forcing her to live in a simulation where people fulfill the traditional role that incel communities tend to think were right and they want society revert is pretty incel behaviour 8. I don't know if it's ever noted that they are married in the real world, existing relationship yes (just thought because if they had existing honeymoon why would they be given the same honeymoon locations as some others) 9. I think gemma killed chris at the end bc she believed alice and realised things were strange or she had worked it out before but was waiting for the right time to fight for her freedom bc she had seen others try and fail Also the film definitely could have had a longer act 3 and cut some of act 2 and would have benefitted from less drama from the cast!
@@rabioli6034 some pretty decent points, but then if the programme can make virtual children, then why not just set yourself up with a virtual wife? If you're a loser incel that hates women in the real world, why go to all the trouble of plugging in a real woman. The programme could let you custom make a virtual woman who will do anything you want!
This movie is like a criticism of incel culture by someone whose only knowledge of it is the secondhand info they’re told on Twitter. Wilde makes Chris pine’s character a commentary on Jordan Peterson because social media paints him as a bad guy even if they haven’t actually heard anything he’s said. All the men in the town are incels because social media says they’re evil but don’t actually know what makes them like that. Imo Riddler was a better commentary on incel culture with his “poor me” mentality, but the movie even says that people like him aren’t born in a bubble. There’s a reason why.
With the announcement of a live action Avatar the Last Airbender show coming from Netflix a few months ago. I think you should give the original a watch if you haven't. It's probably one of my favorite show of all time! Also would be nice to see a positive video from you!
3:46 It was all just a simulation is the same as it was all just a dream. When used poorly its awful. Like the matrix worked because the simulation was the premis with the two worlds not just a random twist. 6:27 Its a classic premise (like shamalan's village) or many other movies where there is a insulated and Isolated community hidden away from the world with its own priavte beliefs. The cult like attitude which would stay as it was forever if the cult leader had their way. But then an inciting incident happens (the plane crash) which introduces something/someone new to the world creating a new perspective making the people question what they knew before and driving them to want to leave or find out what was hidden. Then that natrually creates the conflict with the cult leader who wants the status quo to stay the same
One criticism I have of this video essay and lots of others is that things don’t always need to be spelled out. A twist or a reveal sometimes don’t need to be alluded to. Doing so would ruin it.
The best plot twists are the ones you don't see coming while watching, but make perfect sense when you think about it, and notice the fine details on rewatch
You are wrong. How can you hate this movie. It’s such a movie. This movie is a movie and that’s the best thing about it or any movie. It is impossible to dislike this movie that is such a movie.
This is just another in the post-mee2 "all men are bad" movies. Men (2020), Black Christmas, Charlie's Angels, The Invitation, Resurrection (2022), they just keep making them. Even TV shows like She Hulk do it as well.
I'm not sure about the Movie Men. I don't think its trying to say that all men are bad but that abusive men father abusive sons and that all she can fixate on in the aftermath of her traumatic relationship is these cycles. That's why everyone is played by the same actor, with cookie cutter toxicity behind their demeanour actions and dialogue. Because she's mentally incapable of seeing things any differently. By the end even in the face of such cycles she loses her fear of it and it is stripped down to the root cause. A cowardly man who puts his need to be loved above all else. Killing the guilt that she's been living in the shadow of when she realises that this isn't her fault frees her from the horrific events and her paranoid outlook. Granted I might be looking too much into it and giving it more depth than is there but that's what I took away from the movie. As for the rest of the movies, I haven't seen The Invitation (Thought you were talking about the 2015 movie for a second, if you haven't seen it you might like it. It's an thriller with an on the nose plot that still manages to be good.) or ressurection but I whole heartedly agree with the rest of you list anti-man hit pieces. I remember watching the advert of this and thinking "So it's the matrix / under the dome meets Stepford Houswives, pass." but the Jordon peterson stuff I came across got me curious regardless. By the sounds of it I'm glad I skipped this one.
The script was hacked into a knockoff of the original Stepford Wives (book and original 1976) and it shows when a few scenes homage the SW. Frank watches Alice having sex like how the SW villain watches the protagonist doing dishes.
0:32 - Movies based off of good trailers? Both TLT and DWD had trailers that, I felt at least, were quite bad. I could tell the jokes were bad in the TLT trailer, but remained cautiously optimistic until release because I liked Ragnarok. DWD's was just confusion, but not the good kind that creates mystery.
Wildes debut can't be all that bad. Bashing white guys off rip is not going to attract nice people. Haters maybe. The real haters in the house don't wanna be exposed.
When i saw the trailer, i thought "O'! so, its step ford wife 2 electric boogaloo" but i didn't think it would be so one to one, yet some how sounding worse executed. (disclaimer: i've not seen Don't worry Darling, i am simply going off of this review)
My partner and I spoke in such lengths about how bad this movie was. It just feels so surface level. Such a disappointing movie. I totally understand why Miss Flo didn’t want to do any promo for it.
I actually enjoyed the film but would still agree that it was disappointing. I feel like there were too many ideas that they did get to give any of them the time they need. The script should have been split into two films. I'm not talk sequel, I mean two unrelated films. Side point I don't think Harry Styles acting's bad at all.
Definition of a really good premise that is woefully underutilised as far as films go. So much potential, really interesting ideas, held together with bitten off bits of tape and dry old blue tac.
You said there’s no themes to dive into with this movie? Lol are you … do you know what misogyny is? Do you know what feminism is? Are those not obvious ? Have you not seen or heard of the Stafford wives??????? I agree with you on some points I feel like there should of been way more character development and character building and i would like to learn more about the whole entire process of the simulation etc, but it’s not a mess. It’s a great movie for many many reasons
Mad Men did it better 15 years ago, just rewatch that. You know what this movie needed? Indiana Jones to come in a climb into a refridgerator before everything blows up.
I like the performance from everyone but Harry styles, the music was alright and the cinematography was ok but the story was so weird and doesn’t really make much sense at all
I’m honestly very glad this film isn’t good. I’ve had enough of the recent Harry styles thing. The idea that he just can’t do any wrong is infuriating. As long as Florence Pugh was good then I’m beaming. I needed this vindication
Just over a year ago, I went to see a rerun of Silence of the Lambs at my local cinema with some of my friends. One had seen it recently so he just ended up playing games on his phone during moments of exposition, but the rest of us had not seen it before so we were watching intently. As it got to the scene where Hannibal was about to be transported from the asylum, the doctors leave his cell and one of them leaves a pen on the bed. The camera zooms in on the pen and only the pen for a solid 5-10 seconds, before turning up to show Hannibal looking directly and keenly at the pen for another 5 seconds. The next set piece has him breaking free from his restraints and killing the people in his new cell before going on the run. One of my friends sitting next to me turned and said, straight faced as ever, “that’s stupid, how did he even get out?” I felt the same then as I did watching this review.
This is so bad product . This is bad . Now its my time . Florence wakes up no consequences for her killing her husband makes total sense to me . Painful to watch this shit .
i just watched it, i honstly thought it was weird as fuck in acts 1 and 2 then understood it in act 3 and it was ok overall for me. but defently a WHAT THE FUCK in acts 1 and 2. Just my thoughts on the Movie
I think you missed a lot of stuff because a lot of the things you pointed out are explained in the movie, eg the thing about them all having the same holidays, meet-cutes, etc are discussed at Chris Pine’s character’s house, you said the men’s jobs werent explained but Jack explains that they have to wake up and work in the real world to pay for them to be in the victory project, etc
They are explained but for the examples I gave they had no set up or allusions to them earlier in the story. We should have been given hints that the children weren’t real for example, rather than just saying it with no prior build up
@@FullFatVideos we were given a hint that the children weren’t real - Margaret goes to HQ with her son and he disappears. She thinks they took him away but it was because the kids aren’t real.
What I love about this video essay is that it feels like a video essay.
Lol.
Like a real y'know "Go to the RUclips app" video essay
One thing that doesn't make sense is that Alice is a surgeon in the real world, so people would definitely notice if she suddenly went missing, not showing up for her busy shifts. Also, if they were barely getting by on just Alice's income, then how is Jack's job managing to pay for the entire simulation fees?
That’s what I was wondering too and something I mentioned to my bf who I watched the movie with. I personally liked the movie and would love to see a part 2 explaining this
Apparently, in the original script the men had to fake their deaths to get women in Victory.
Not to mention she's a surgeon at 29. Surgeons make bank. Depending on tge type of surgery, she could be pulling between 120 to 300k a year and they're "barely making it?" LOL ok.
@@EZ-IZZY1995 that’s what I was thinking!! They must be in bad bad debt to be struggling, but even then ✋💀
@@EZ-IZZY1995 Unless if they made horrible financial decisions like buying NFTs, they should be fine a few years
it’s like Olivia Wilde watched Midsommar, Get Out, The Lighthouse, Truman Show and The Matrix and thought, hm what if we made it bad?
the script is basically step ford wifes with Nicole Kidman. Worth to mention as well
Where does The Lighthouse fit in?
@@WhyWeWatch1 the bizarre imagery, the building tension, the dream sequences, touching the lighthouse (Victory Headquarters) and going crazy. The parallels are numerous and constant, just done much worse by Don’t Worry Darling.
@@datdude3327 I'm really overdue to rewatch Lighthouse, clearly
with a few minor tweaks this could have been a much much better matrix 4 reimagining..
The cast drama and people ripping the movie to shreds has been more entertaining than the movie itself, so at least its existence gave us something
That’s true I’m glad it was made 😂😂
Can’t say Harry Styles was wrong though. It IS a movie
Yep, he's right about that. I have to applaud Chris Pine for managing to keep a straight face during that interview! 😂
"Wait, the behind the scenes of the film is more interesting than the actual film?"
"Always has been!"
Yep, I hope that they release the behind the scenes footage soon!
Florence, Chris and Gemma's backs must be sore from carrying this entire movie, in spite of the mediocre script. At this rate, I would prefer to watch the Behind the Scenes drama instead! 🍿🎭
When Frank confronts Alice & says he's been waiting so long for someone to finally challenge him and how smart she is, a minute later her big reveal is to just blurt out everything she knows at dinner. After dinner Frank says he was expecting more & he's dissapointed. I agree
Couldn't they just create virtual wives like how they can make virtual children?
Holy shit
That's an incredibly good point!!
The screenwriters are probably millionaires and they couldn’t think through solving issues like this from a RUclips comment. It’s crazy how inept they are
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@@Blue.1889
Because they are activists
With a moral superiority
Complex telling people how
Bad they are & made propaganda instead of
a compelling story.
I remember watching the end credits scene from The Eternals, when seasoned actress Angelina Jolie says a line and then Harry Styles answers. The difference in quality of the line delivery was staggering. It was like cutting from a hollywood blockbuster to a community theater play.
He’ll fail if he doesn’t start taking better lessons, if he is taking any currently. He’s not the first pop star to turn to acting and it has fared poorly in the past, so we’ll see if he can break the stereotype eventually
You can give a good performance in a community theatre. I have. I am a good actor.
You feel this bad after watching it once. Chris Pine lived it for months. You can see how he is because of it
If alice was stuck in the simulation 24/7, this means her husband would constantly have to feed her, clean her, change her diapers (since she can't go to the bathroom), and manually exercise her so her muscles won't atrophy and die. How is this in any way better than the life he was living?
Also, when she escaped, wouldn't she wake strapped to her bed next to her husband's corpse? Because this means that, if she didn't find a way to free herself, she would end up dying of starvation or thirst.
It's a dumb movie made to trash Jordan Peterson it's not deep it's literally surface level nothing more
@@dawsonlucas369
Its literally a f-menist movie
To sh*t on men, incels &
Jordan peterson & preach
Female victimhood its
a Garbage film.
It would have been so much more interesting if the real world was in nuclear fallout and everyone was living in the simulation, but forgot they were. That way everyone could get tired and bored of it all and try to break out, but they wouldn’t be able to die. So then you could have conflict between the couples and the slow break down of the community.
At least that would have been more interesting
Sounds like something from fallout 3
I personally liked most of the film (I think act 2 was way too drawn out which caused act 3 to be rushed) and I think the twist wasn't that the victory project was a simulation. I think the twist is that Jack kidnapped her and he's just as much the villain as Frank. Throughout the movie, it's implied that he's innocent. But he is the reason she's in there
thought the exact same thing^ found half way of the movie to be really good & enjoyed it but at the end i was just left unsatisfied & didn’t feel like the movie was rounded off well
I feel like there was a good core here, but then it just got chopped to oblivion. To me it felt like there was no plot here, and it also felt like the writers were smug about the “plot twist.” As if they were raising their brows at me like “bet you didn’t see that coming”
Tbh I enjoyed it. Kinda funny that Sword Art Online pulled off a better version of this movie than this movie did though.
True, I really liked it even with its flaws lol. Could have been tweaked a bit more but oh well. I personally wouldn’t mind a second movie 😅😅
@@elisanoro a sequel could possibly fix some of the issues with the first, like what The Purge did.
stepford wives remix. feminism's darkest fear. men who have 100% control over women. in reality 99.9% of men can't be bothered. it's unrelatable.
I think it was doomed to fail. Wilde's controversy regarding the circumstances regarding Shia's leaving; her relationship with Styles and her lying about Jordan Peterson put a sour taste in people's mouths.
JP's response to her basing a villainous cult leader on him was legendary, though. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like
"I am very flattered that I'm played by someone as attractive as Chris Pine and I hope they get my fashion sense right."
it's a feminist wankfest
To me it felt like there was a lot of scenes cut from this film, especially scenes with Pine & Chan
It certainly seems that way
My girlfriend booked to go see this movie today, I 100% thought it was a different movie before I sat down, had heard the title but nothing more so I was very intrigued when it started getting weird as heck but ultimately left very disappointed by the unsatisfying conclusion. Glad to see my sentiments are mirrored and I wasn’t just missing some key info. Shame, honestly the first 2 acts had me thinking this was gonna be a great film by the end (sub-par performances aside)
Fantastic video that got all of my issues articulated. I fell asleep twice during the 2nd act. Biggest disappointing theatre experience I've had since the pandemic.
Thank God I stayed home and watched it for free. 😂
Havent seen it (and now I probably wont) but this also sounds a lot like the Stepford Wives movie from the early 2000's, so its not only retreading the ol' "surprise, its a simulation!" thing we've seen so many times before, its ripping off the "husband forcing domesticity on overworked wife in a simulated environment" plot, which is...very specific
Movie's like Don't Worry are the types of Movie's that make people not want to go out to the Movie's anymore....And Thor Love And Thunder
Harry Styles says it feels like a movie where as to me it felt like an over extended version of a Black Mirror episode
florence pugh is a fantastic actor her performance is the one good thing in the movie.
You know be a good movie flip it on its head. Woman is tired of working so she plugs in her husband so he has to work while she can spend the day making art. And the reason they do it in real world is cost. (I say this as someone who loves the fact my girlfriend wants to be a housewife)
This movie should’ve been a netflix series imo
Saved me a few quid, cheers!
Keep up the good work fella and stay safe!
They need a remake of this, stat. It has potential as a series. Perhaps one day the film can be remade with a universally strong cast, with some major script changes. I almost wonder how it would be if a non-American/British director took a stab at it
When it comes to the eggs and window stuff, I think the "With you All the Time" song is playing in the background on a record or something and that is causing the errors because Jack is singing that to her in the real world and it is breaking through to her.
Hi friend! 2:44 Bioshock is quite distinctly (dystopian) art deco style, which is from the 1920’s, not the 1950’s. Think the Great Gatsby. Don’t Worry Darling has a dystopian retro 1950’s style, much more reminiscent of the Fallout game series. Reminds me of Fallout 3’s Tranquility Lane quest!
Just a little note from a history buff 😊
Question I never really see addressed: How does this happen? Like how does an ostensibly terrible script get made and attract all this talent? I can totally understand how CGI ends up bad with all the crunch culture stuff, but I just can't get my head around this, surely the actors would read this script, think it's shit and just not want to be involved?
actors don't care abut scripts. their agents usually say "hey this would be good for you acting wise" and they go from there and audition.
@@chaosasitswirls6125 Eh I think you're probably right about broke out of work actors. But for millionaires like most of the cast of this film? Doubt it
Wilde had a good directing reputation and had already worked with Pugh so it made sense they'd team up again. And once you have a star lead and director it's easy to get other stars on board too, regardless of the script or concept
The original script the actors signed on for was not the same script that was shot. There were rewrites and changes that butchered the original story
I really hope you cover Andor, it has been REALLY good so far
When Olivia Wild said the villain was based on JBP I knew it was gonna be shit
I agree however seeing Florence pugh on screen for 2 hours is enough for me
9:11 my only disagreement is that it feels less like it's because he's an incel despite having a beautiful girl, and more that it's preying on the notions of masculinity he might either have prescribed to or have been indoctrinated into by the internet. He feels inadequate because he has this beautiful woman, but not only is she providing, he often feels like she thinks he's a nuisance becaude of how she responds to the prodding he doesn't realize is the actual issue for her. So he makes the "grand sacrifice" of becoming a better man and providing for her and letting her live her "dream" without her consent. It's not the inceldom, in my mind, as much as it is the push of hypermasculinity and semi-fascist feelings that both the aesthetic and the setting provide. But I paused the video to type this so you might just say something like that later lol
That was the vibe I got too -- Chris Pine is Andrew Tate
@@kenjyn76 But he’s based on Jordan Peterson actually. Basing him on Tate would’ve been a MUCH better idea considering how straight up misogynistic he is, and how he embodies toxic masculinity more in my opinion. JP is just more of a traditional guy in his opinions of family I think so idk if he fits the story that well.
@@Blue.1889
Dude toxic masculinity is a lie
Also tate is not a supervillain
I have spme issues with him
But making him a villain is
Lazy & politically motivated.
I've only ever heard about the movie because the villain is allegedly based on Jordan Peterson. So I knew it was going to be awful.
Jordan Peterson isn’t even the worst person in association/proximity to the manosphere so I really don’t know why they chose him, other than the optics (making the villain a older white dude).
@@Blue.1889 He's not the worst maybe but he's the insidious and mainstream.
@@EmoBearRights
How is he insidious?? he
Sounds like a chill guy
Just trying to help
People hes Not
hurting women
By speaking on
Thimgs related
To men this man
Bashing has got
To stop.
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The manosphere really isnt
Hurting anybody this constant
Attack on men & masculinity
is creating sexism if anything
Dont blame men blame the
woke agenda.
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No he's not, he started spreading bs about that bill in Canada. His advice is mostly either obvious or bullshit. He is a collasal hypocrite in saying shut up until you've sorted your life out and then offering advice when he got addicted to benzos and almost died trying to.take the quick and painless approach to recovery. Most of what he says is pretentious right wing trad shit which is increasingly deranged as his brain has taken hits from addiction, self coma induced brain damage, COVID and too much time on X-rayed formerly known as twatter.
It all falls apart in the third act. It makes no sense that it's a virtual world. It's all visual. Here's some of my questions how did Jack trick Alice into this world, how is it possible for Jack to keep Alice disappearing from work under wraps. What was with the airplane crash in the beginning. What is Jack's job in the vr world. Who's keeping them alive in the real world. It's would be impossible for Jack to know how to keep Alice alive unless he has some kind of medical training. Why did he pick a British accent as his undercover identity. Harry styles is a bad actor. This movie has no idea how incels works. By the fact he's married he's not an incel. Why did Gemma chan kill Chris pine at the end. You can tell why Shia was casted in the movie cause he can handle every scenes with Florence. The last act throws every twist at you except for I see dead people. You can tell this script wasn't fully thought out except for the visuals
1. You see alice's feet being dragged at one point so I think that implies that he knocked her out and then plugged her up to the machine which keeps her sedated
2. Not sure how no one notices alice is missing
3. I think the plane is an meant to be a hallucination from alice linked to Alison's childs old toy
3. Jack doesn't have a job in the simulation it's just a cover for the fact that all the men have to leave the simulation to do jobs in real world to earn money to pay for simulation and maybe keep an eye on alice's physical body too
4.I think part of the program he is a part of will tell him and other users how to keep her alive and whatever she is hooked up to which keeps her in the simulation will be keeping her alive too
5. Harry styles is british i don't think he was only british in simulation
6. I don't think his acting was as bad as everyone is saying didn't take me put of the film at any point
7. Yes he is in a relationship which is not really characteristic an incel but his actions of forcing her to live in a simulation where people fulfill the traditional role that incel communities tend to think were right and they want society revert is pretty incel behaviour
8. I don't know if it's ever noted that they are married in the real world, existing relationship yes (just thought because if they had existing honeymoon why would they be given the same honeymoon locations as some others)
9. I think gemma killed chris at the end bc she believed alice and realised things were strange or she had worked it out before but was waiting for the right time to fight for her freedom bc she had seen others try and fail
Also the film definitely could have had a longer act 3 and cut some of act 2 and would have benefitted from less drama from the cast!
@@rabioli6034 some pretty decent points, but then if the programme can make virtual children, then why not just set yourself up with a virtual wife? If you're a loser incel that hates women in the real world, why go to all the trouble of plugging in a real woman. The programme could let you custom make a virtual woman who will do anything you want!
@@rabioli6034 Also if Alice is restrained in the real world, then what happens to her when she wakes up all alone?
This movie is like a criticism of incel culture by someone whose only knowledge of it is the secondhand info they’re told on Twitter. Wilde makes Chris pine’s character a commentary on Jordan Peterson because social media paints him as a bad guy even if they haven’t actually heard anything he’s said. All the men in the town are incels because social media says they’re evil but don’t actually know what makes them like that. Imo Riddler was a better commentary on incel culture with his “poor me” mentality, but the movie even says that people like him aren’t born in a bubble. There’s a reason why.
I actually enjoyed it just as something to watch, as long as you don’t think too much into it
Just watch The Stepford Wives, it did this concept but decades earlier and way better
With the announcement of a live action Avatar the Last Airbender show coming from Netflix a few months ago. I think you should give the original a watch if you haven't. It's probably one of my favorite show of all time! Also would be nice to see a positive video from you!
This movie lacks nuance because it's not interested in nuance; it's interested in "men bad, all incels."
I Was Really looking forward to This! But Now Not So! But I'll still give it a Go one day? Thanks Full Fat! Cheers
I thought Harry was very great in some scenes but poor in others
You had high hopes for this movie?
So everything is not as it seems and it was all just a dream? What a novel trailblazer full of originality!
Amazed that you could be shocked that this was bad. Nothing in the trailer suggested it was going to be worth a watch (IMO).
3:46 It was all just a simulation is the same as it was all just a dream.
When used poorly its awful.
Like the matrix worked because the simulation was the premis with the two worlds not just a random twist.
6:27 Its a classic premise (like shamalan's village) or many other movies where there is a insulated and Isolated community hidden away from the world with its own priavte beliefs. The cult like attitude which would stay as it was forever if the cult leader had their way. But then an inciting incident happens (the plane crash) which introduces something/someone new to the world creating a new perspective making the people question what they knew before and driving them to want to leave or find out what was hidden. Then that natrually creates the conflict with the cult leader who wants the status quo to stay the same
This is a really interesting first act of a film. Shame it’s 2nd and 3rd acts total 15 minutes.
One criticism I have of this video essay and lots of others is that things don’t always need to be spelled out. A twist or a reveal sometimes don’t need to be alluded to. Doing so would ruin it.
The best plot twists are the ones you don't see coming while watching, but make perfect sense when you think about it, and notice the fine details on rewatch
I haven’t seen the movie but how is this plot not a reverse-gender WandaVision??
Harry gets a lot of passes for his time in 1D and his music career.
why do you have 333k subscribers and only 1k likes?:(( that's so sad it sounds like a good review
You are wrong. How can you hate this movie. It’s such a movie. This movie is a movie and that’s the best thing about it or any movie. It is impossible to dislike this movie that is such a movie.
Hell yeah! I've just started playing Bioshock, baby!
Olivia Wilde is falling out of grace, lately.
No Stepford Wives mention? Weak
This is just another in the post-mee2 "all men are bad" movies. Men (2020), Black Christmas, Charlie's Angels, The Invitation, Resurrection (2022), they just keep making them. Even TV shows like She Hulk do it as well.
I'm not sure about the Movie Men. I don't think its trying to say that all men are bad but that abusive men father abusive sons and that all she can fixate on in the aftermath of her traumatic relationship is these cycles. That's why everyone is played by the same actor, with cookie cutter toxicity behind their demeanour actions and dialogue. Because she's mentally incapable of seeing things any differently. By the end even in the face of such cycles she loses her fear of it and it is stripped down to the root cause. A cowardly man who puts his need to be loved above all else. Killing the guilt that she's been living in the shadow of when she realises that this isn't her fault frees her from the horrific events and her paranoid outlook. Granted I might be looking too much into it and giving it more depth than is there but that's what I took away from the movie.
As for the rest of the movies, I haven't seen The Invitation (Thought you were talking about the 2015 movie for a second, if you haven't seen it you might like it. It's an thriller with an on the nose plot that still manages to be good.) or ressurection but I whole heartedly agree with the rest of you list anti-man hit pieces.
I remember watching the advert of this and thinking "So it's the matrix / under the dome meets Stepford Houswives, pass." but the Jordon peterson stuff I came across got me curious regardless. By the sounds of it I'm glad I skipped this one.
Thanks for saving me the time to I would have spent watching this.
The script was hacked into a knockoff of the original Stepford Wives (book and original 1976) and it shows when a few scenes homage the SW. Frank watches Alice having sex like how the SW villain watches the protagonist doing dishes.
Soooooo... VandaVision the movie?
It feels like a book adaption done badly. There are hints of greatness that would be excellent if flushed out in a novel
Bro his acting is not borderline Tommy Wiseau. Don’t like it’s anywhere near that bad it’s just simply “meh”.
She thought she was doing “get out” but for women. But instead it’s incredibly dumbb, nonsensical, but also pretentious
0:32 - Movies based off of good trailers? Both TLT and DWD had trailers that, I felt at least, were quite bad. I could tell the jokes were bad in the TLT trailer, but remained cautiously optimistic until release because I liked Ragnarok. DWD's was just confusion, but not the good kind that creates mystery.
Olivia Wilde cheated on Ted Lasso, i will not be watching this "film"
from the trailer it felt like US rebooted the classic British Sci-Fi show the Prisoner glad I did not see this
dis movie sounds like a poorly done season 5 episode of Black Mirror
Yes it is a mess
Men dont do “this” and men dont want this. Thats the reason the movie is so baffling funny. Its ridiculous
Yeah I decided the film is actually quite amusing because it's so unrelatable!
Wildes debut can't be all that bad. Bashing white guys off rip is not going to attract nice people. Haters maybe. The real haters in the house don't wanna be exposed.
You should watch the stepford wives its basically the same concept, but way better.
Me and my daugfhter loved it. We love anything with Florence, she is a gem
Did you know Shane van dyke wrote, directed and starred in the abhorrent movie “Titanic II”
What went wrong is Olivia Wilde is dating Harry Styles and put him on a pedestal in this vanity project
Lol love the bio shock recommendation
How did she feel about directing him having sex with Florence?
When i saw the trailer, i thought "O'! so, its step ford wife 2 electric boogaloo" but i didn't think it would be so one to one, yet some how sounding worse executed. (disclaimer: i've not seen Don't worry Darling, i am simply going off of this review)
I mean considering how it turned out, maybe Shia was on to something bailing on this.
My partner and I spoke in such lengths about how bad this movie was. It just feels so surface level. Such a disappointing movie. I totally understand why Miss Flo didn’t want to do any promo for it.
Am I the only one who really like this thriller stepford wives?
my advice, just dont watch trailers, they are kind of spoilers
Guess I'll go and play Bioshock again...
I really really enjoyed it
I wish I had!
I actually enjoyed the film but would still agree that it was disappointing. I feel like there were too many ideas that they did get to give any of them the time they need. The script should have been split into two films. I'm not talk sequel, I mean two unrelated films.
Side point I don't think Harry Styles acting's bad at all.
Definition of a really good premise that is woefully underutilised as far as films go. So much potential, really interesting ideas, held together with bitten off bits of tape and dry old blue tac.
Summed up well
You said there’s no themes to dive into with this movie? Lol are you … do you know what misogyny is? Do you know what feminism is? Are those not obvious ? Have you not seen or heard of the Stafford wives??????? I agree with you on some points I feel like there should of been way more character development and character building and i would like to learn more about the whole entire process of the simulation etc, but it’s not a mess. It’s a great movie for many many reasons
Meanwhile some haters: OH GREAT NOW I LIKE THOR LOVE AND THUNDER AND SHE HULK!!! LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO OLIVIA!!!!!
I loved this movie!!!
Mad Men did it better 15 years ago, just rewatch that. You know what this movie needed? Indiana Jones to come in a climb into a refridgerator before everything blows up.
I had no interest in this movie till I saw this video. What you’re describing actually seems kind of cool.
i wanted to like this movie but harry styles' acting is so lacking it's literally impossible to care about his character
I like the performance from everyone but Harry styles, the music was alright and the cinematography was ok but the story was so weird and doesn’t really make much sense at all
Not surprised! The last decade of "talent" in the entertainment industry have been totally over hyped garbage actors!
I’m honestly very glad this film isn’t good. I’ve had enough of the recent Harry styles thing. The idea that he just can’t do any wrong is infuriating. As long as Florence Pugh was good then I’m beaming. I needed this vindication
i’ve gotten to the point where I can see a trailer and know if it’s good or trash
Just over a year ago, I went to see a rerun of Silence of the Lambs at my local cinema with some of my friends. One had seen it recently so he just ended up playing games on his phone during moments of exposition, but the rest of us had not seen it before so we were watching intently. As it got to the scene where Hannibal was about to be transported from the asylum, the doctors leave his cell and one of them leaves a pen on the bed. The camera zooms in on the pen and only the pen for a solid 5-10 seconds, before turning up to show Hannibal looking directly and keenly at the pen for another 5 seconds. The next set piece has him breaking free from his restraints and killing the people in his new cell before going on the run. One of my friends sitting next to me turned and said, straight faced as ever, “that’s stupid, how did he even get out?”
I felt the same then as I did watching this review.
This is so bad product . This is bad . Now its my time . Florence wakes up no consequences for her killing her husband makes total sense to me . Painful to watch this shit .
i just watched it, i honstly thought it was weird as fuck in acts 1 and 2 then understood it in act 3 and it was ok overall for me. but defently a WHAT THE FUCK in acts 1 and 2. Just my thoughts on the Movie
I think you missed a lot of stuff because a lot of the things you pointed out are explained in the movie, eg the thing about them all having the same holidays, meet-cutes, etc are discussed at Chris Pine’s character’s house, you said the men’s jobs werent explained but Jack explains that they have to wake up and work in the real world to pay for them to be in the victory project, etc
They are explained but for the examples I gave they had no set up or allusions to them earlier in the story. We should have been given hints that the children weren’t real for example, rather than just saying it with no prior build up
@@FullFatVideos we were given a hint that the children weren’t real - Margaret goes to HQ with her son and he disappears. She thinks they took him away but it was because the kids aren’t real.
Your room is a mess.
So basically it's just a discount version of the stepford wives?