In the category of lines a lot of people know but nobody thinks anyone else remembers, for me one that comes to mind is, "Funny! She doesn't look Druish!" A friend of mine said it out loud in the car one time and we all burst out laughing.
What's funny to me is that this wasn't even the last time Emmerich & co. did something like this - after Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert gave both _Stargate_ and _Independence Day_ negative reviews, Roland responded in _Godzilla '98_ by naming the obstructive mayor of New York City & his bumbling assistant after the pair. Siskel & Ebert's response in their negative reviews of _Godzilla '98_ was that Emmerich _didn't strawman them properly,_ with Gene saying, quote: "Why place us in the movie if you aren't going to have us be eaten or squashed by the monster?"
The best example of bringing back a critic to mock him is Leonard Maitlin, who criticised Gremlins but agreed to appear in Gremlins 2 where he is attacked by the Gremlins for rating their film so poorly.
What a lame version of the excellent way Gremlins 2 dealt with a critic who hated the first film. They put him in the movie and had him attacked by Gremlins.
There's one more interaction for the scoreboard: right after being fired, Nimziki asserts "He can't do that", and Connie shoots that down too with "Well, he just....did."
I know, right? Secret Base is suddenly so... wait a minute... this RUclips channel isn't Secret Base. It's that guy that wrote the fake Julius Levinson book to juice his Amazon sales. Oh my god! Gotta hand it to him, that's great editing and an even better Jon impression. Dude earned it.
When they announced their Patreon, Jon said that Pretty Good was a series that doesn't play nice with the YT algorithm because of its random topic selection but Patreon offers a clearer funding model allowing them to fund the series.
@@SuperNuclearUnicornseriously. I've hated people. But I've never brought Crips and Bloods together to hold a HateChella on the guy I hate. We probably shouldn't aspire to be such legendary haters but we can applaud it.
You are either genuinely blessed to have never met anyone so implacably dreadful to you that the only rational response was hate, or you've never actually set out to do anything with your life meaningful enough that meaningless petty opposition to it was enough to inspire it in you.
I really appreciate how the Forbidden Lore is boxed back up after we take a peek at it. You can't just leave that out in the open air, it is FORBIDDEN!
Jon Bois gets one laugh and proceeds to exhaustively break down the entire backstory of the punchline. 100% tracks. Jon, keep doing you, brother. Simply amazing.
@@charlesbronson2926 They are winning and are good, but they are pressing their luck refusing to open the playbook before the playoffs. They did this last year to a certain extent, but I have not seen it like this before in any sport or activity, and it damn near got Mahomes killed v. the Browns.
As dumb and senseless as the character is, he's 100% believable. The bit about specifically wanting to be president may be fanfic, but him wanting to be the hero, being in love with his own ideas and trashing anything else that doesn't go through him, completely tracks. Years ago, I had the displeasure of working with someone, and I couldn't quite put my finger on why this person was so frustrating, and then I rewatched Independence Day and jumped out of my chair going "That's him! He's that guy!!"
I really like that this video gives James Rebhorn appreciation for his career. I remember him from Blank Check and the Seinfeld finale so well. And he's the kind of actor no one really spotlights. So as fun as the research exercise is, it's also a nice little actor tribute video too 😀
David Fincher really liked him and cast him in "The Game". In an interview before he died Rebhorn said that Fincher wanted him to be in Alien 3 (probably as the "85" character); but sadly the deal fell through.
There's an art to a good 'That Guy' actor in Hollywood, the sort of actor nobody really thinks about but you always recognize when they come by. I listen to the Greatest Generation Star Trek podcast, that always takes joy in highlighting the great work of 'That Guys' when they turn up.
Two things about this video: 1) there isnt a storyteller on earth quite like Jon Bois. 2) I love how this video about a random quote from a blockbuster movie ends up partially becoming a love letter to James Rebhorn's acting career. The kind of career that can easily get overlooked or forgotten about, but one that deserves full respect and admiration from their peers.
Pretty Good is the original Secret Base. John just stopped producing them with the full sports shift. Now that they have a Patreon, John's resurrected the franchise.
This reminds me of the time I met some British people on vacation and they asked, in complete seriousness: "What is independence day? Why do you guys celebrate the day a bunch of aliens attacked?" We called them Lewis and Clark (those were not their names). Good times.
Jon, I'm always infatuated with the way you're able to tell a story. This video gives me the same vibes as your "Section 1" video. Making an entire other story and narrative out of something that's existed for decades. Thank you and the team at SB for this fantastic content. Seriously, thank you.
"Mr Nimzicki, you're fired." - I remembered his name immediately "...John Lennon, smart man. Shot in the back. Very sad." - the quote from this movie I mutter to myself frequently but don't really expect anyone besides me to know. "I'm Artie! The strongest man in the woooooorld!" - Did you make a freaking Pete and Pete reference? I love this video
At it's best the Internet is a place to connect with strangers who have the same incredibly specific and norrow obsessions and you feel delighted to discover that someone out there shares your obsession and sees the world very similarly to you. I havent had that feeling in a really long time. Thanks for this, I genuinely feel like this was specifically created for me.
Random fun fact: another great example of the love put into _Independence Day_ is that all of the various news clips are actually full-on productions, with so much dialogue cut out. They didn't have to do all that, and yet, they did
Independence Day is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time. Reading the title of the video was enough to get me to watch. And it was everything I could have hoped for in an analysis of this pillar of the 90’s!
Important note: after the prayer scene he does in the end get what he wanted when Goldblum and Smith do, in fact, nuke the mothership. Only when we give up and surrender to fate can we get what we always dreamed of.
After the attacks on the initial cities, it sounded like they evacuated other cities pretty thoroughly. In the scene where they nuke the spaceship above Houston they said the casualties should be minimal as a result.
@@UNHchabo No clue how they managed to evac entire cities like that, in reality we can get week long gridlock just from people going to work so people leaving cities in mass should have brought transport infrastructure to its knees.
The dumbest subject, the heaviest hit at the end: "are you actually ready for the day you get what you want?" Jon, come on man, how can anyone extract something that profound from a throwaway character in a silly blockbuster movie from the late 90's?, this one is a masterpiece
"We're all jigsaw puzzles with missing pieces, and they just happen to be missing the pieces that matter the most." This man has been dropping absolute bars for years and he still is as fresh and delightful with them to this day. I cannot believe how good a writer Jon Bois is.
My favorite Rebhorn role is in Fincher’s “The Game” - your descriptions of his frequent characterization in this video describe his character in that quite well
One quote from Independence Day that I keep coming back to. " You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?". I think about that quote a lot
3:09 Frozen and The Lion King are both based on pre-existing works (The Snow Queen and Hamlet respectively) so you can bump Independence Day up a couple ranks.
I’m all for this but it also makes the secret life of pets the third highest-grossing movie in America not based off of existing works and I do not think we should live in a timeline where that is the case
Frozen is technically based on The Snow Queen but it does significantly depart from the original plot. While The Lion King certainly shares some basic plot points with Hamlet, and I think those points came to the writers from there, I don't think it fits the category. It's like saying that Under Siege is based on Die Hard (which itself was based on a novel).
To think they made such an excellent sneak diss of a character like this and then faceplanted two years later in Godzilla when trying to parody Siskel and Ebert.
Pretty Good is one of my favorite series on all of RUclips. Over the past few years I have gone back to watch previous episodes at various points. I don't know how many people I've sent THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. To get 2 new episodes in the same week after all this time, this year is setting up to be a pretty good Christmas.
How does Jon Bois end a story about a personal grudge meted out in a Summer blockbuster with a morality tale: "What do you do with all of your hatred and resentment when it's run its course?" Fricking Shakespeare Bois here.
If you separate live-action movies, animated movies, and TV, this is probably the best example of a "spite character" in the former category. The best that I know of in animated movies is Lord Farquaad, who is named after a, uh, _jovial nickname_ the folks at DreamWorks had for Disney's Michael Eisner (iirc), and given character traits that resemble him. I don't actually know of a good one from TV, but I do find it funny that one of the two principal villains on Bones is named after the actress who plays the title character's daughter.
I honestly can't believe Jon went this whole video without mentioning the Roger Ebert mayor in Godzilla 1999. It's basically the same concept. I think Emerich just likes putting his critics in his movies as antagonists
To be fair the Devlin and Emmerich, Nimziki doesn’t need a motive or backstory because he’s got so much cultural cache - we’ve seen this so many times in so many movies that it feels right - as great as Rebhorn is, I’ve always suspected he got this role because William Atherton was too busy shooting Bio Dome.
James Rebhorn is one of those actors - I had no idea what his name was, but I saw his face and immediately went "THAT guy!" And Jon then said "You were always happy to see him." Damn right.
The History of the Minnesota Vikings. The Ballad of Dave Stieb. The Rise and Fall of the Reform Party. A 45 minute character analysis of a hate sink in a 30 year old movie. Jon Bois, you are truly one of a kind and I salute you.
I consistently I would watch the whole pretty good playlist monthly. The fact that there is more and they are better than ever pleases me to no end. I'll need to update my saved playlist. Thanks Jon, having my favorite series back is incredible.
I love that in the description the team is wishing us a happy early 4th of July in Mid-December, and I know it's because this was on Patreon for a while but it's really funny.
Been watching Pretty Good since my freshman year back in 2016/17. So glad to be here, still watching these cinematic masterpieces made by the Bois... I mean, Jon Bois. I remember when your Chiefs were a cursed organization. Now, everyone curses at that organization. How time flies.
Albert Nimziki is exactly the type of guy you would expect to have Roland Emmerich direct a movie about Stonewall in 2014 and assume that to turn out well
Not only was James Rebhorn iconic as John McFlemp forcing Artie out of town in the 'Farewell My Little Viking' episodes of Pete and Pete. But he also moved to the town of South Orange, NJ where the show was filmed.
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TWO JON BOIS VIDEOS IN A WEEK!?!?
what is happening??
It's truly a Christmas miracle
wtf, swear I don't see secret base in my subs page
@@JMill77They are patreon exclusives, he's making them public now
"2 FRANK OCEAN ALBUMS IN 48 HOURS???" Type energy
It's time again for my favorite genre of RUclips video: a smart person talking very eruditely about the dumbest thing ever.
Chef’s kiss
... With charts!
@@sarah_757 Improbably the existence of charts play toward both the smart and dumb halves of the equation
The effort to pointlessness ratio is simply staggering!
Erudite is a great word choice
"...Spaceballs, which remains the best and most intellectually engaging Star Wars movie"
Preach, Jon
Preach
In the category of lines a lot of people know but nobody thinks anyone else remembers, for me one that comes to mind is, "Funny! She doesn't look Druish!" A friend of mine said it out loud in the car one time and we all burst out laughing.
What's funny to me is that this wasn't even the last time Emmerich & co. did something like this - after Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert gave both _Stargate_ and _Independence Day_ negative reviews, Roland responded in _Godzilla '98_ by naming the obstructive mayor of New York City & his bumbling assistant after the pair.
Siskel & Ebert's response in their negative reviews of _Godzilla '98_ was that Emmerich _didn't strawman them properly,_ with Gene saying, quote: "Why place us in the movie if you aren't going to have us be eaten or squashed by the monster?"
The best example of bringing back a critic to mock him is Leonard Maitlin, who criticised Gremlins but agreed to appear in Gremlins 2 where he is attacked by the Gremlins for rating their film so poorly.
The bad guy in Galaxy Quest and one of the bad guys in Willow are also named for critics. Honestly, I think it's immature for directors to do that.
They were wrong about Stargate and Independence Day but right about Godzilla ‘98
@@erikabloodaxe2581 Siskel and Ebert were wrong about Stargate, and later down the line, Emmerich was wrong about Stargate being better than SG-1.
What a lame version of the excellent way Gremlins 2 dealt with a critic who hated the first film. They put him in the movie and had him attacked by Gremlins.
"Are you actually ready for the day you get what you want?" is such a raw line to close on
And the little music sting after. Just perfect!
There's one more interaction for the scoreboard: right after being fired, Nimziki asserts "He can't do that", and Connie shoots that down too with "Well, he just....did."
"I'm not Jewish"
"Nobodies perfect"
@@stevepruitt86 *Nobody's perfect* though I appreciate the sentiment of each person's physical uniqueness. Really gets to my body dysmorphia.
"the Iron Sphincter" is totally believable as a nickname for some Permanent Washington critter
this sentence is a bundle of dopamine
So let me get this right. Pretty good stays dormant for 7 years and now we get 2 Pretty Good Episodes within a 7 DAYS?!?!?!
They've been dropping on the Secret Base Patreon at a pretty reasonable rate for the past few months.
Nobody's perfect.
Ad rev in December is huge
I know, right? Secret Base is suddenly so... wait a minute... this RUclips channel isn't Secret Base. It's that guy that wrote the fake Julius Levinson book to juice his Amazon sales. Oh my god! Gotta hand it to him, that's great editing and an even better Jon impression. Dude earned it.
When they announced their Patreon, Jon said that Pretty Good was a series that doesn't play nice with the YT algorithm because of its random topic selection but Patreon offers a clearer funding model allowing them to fund the series.
Devlin and Emmerich make me realize that I have only ever mildly disliked someone. **Hate** has never truly burdened my heart like it has them.
Kendrick Lamar did that for me. If I'm not writing Grammy nominated songs about my sheer hatred for someone then what am I doing?
@@SuperNuclearUnicornseriously. I've hated people. But I've never brought Crips and Bloods together to hold a HateChella on the guy I hate. We probably shouldn't aspire to be such legendary haters but we can applaud it.
You are either genuinely blessed to have never met anyone so implacably dreadful to you that the only rational response was hate, or you've never actually set out to do anything with your life meaningful enough that meaningless petty opposition to it was enough to inspire it in you.
I really appreciate how the Forbidden Lore is boxed back up after we take a peek at it. You can't just leave that out in the open air, it is FORBIDDEN!
Jon Bois gets one laugh and proceeds to exhaustively break down the entire backstory of the punchline. 100% tracks.
Jon, keep doing you, brother. Simply amazing.
Chiefs are finally good and Jon gets bored of sports
Mahomes is dead
The chiefs are winning, but not good
It's part of Patreon. Jon does a Pretty Good episode every month. What gets released here is about... 6 or so months behind.
@@charlesbronson2926 They are winning and are good, but they are pressing their luck refusing to open the playbook before the playoffs. They did this last year to a certain extent, but I have not seen it like this before in any sport or activity, and it damn near got Mahomes killed v. the Browns.
Loved it when Jon said "That's not... entirely accurate" when talking about his sandwich shop being open.
As dumb and senseless as the character is, he's 100% believable. The bit about specifically wanting to be president may be fanfic, but him wanting to be the hero, being in love with his own ideas and trashing anything else that doesn't go through him, completely tracks. Years ago, I had the displeasure of working with someone, and I couldn't quite put my finger on why this person was so frustrating, and then I rewatched Independence Day and jumped out of my chair going "That's him! He's that guy!!"
some people simply find their natural habitat to be their own ass
lol I’m imagining you as the Leo meme from once upon a time in Hollywood
@@huckthatdish That was the same thing that popped into my head!
Yo I loved your reports from the Karl/Billy trial 🙏
@@thelionsmane3032 Haha, Thank you!! :)
I really like that this video gives James Rebhorn appreciation for his career. I remember him from Blank Check and the Seinfeld finale so well. And he's the kind of actor no one really spotlights. So as fun as the research exercise is, it's also a nice little actor tribute video too 😀
He was also very memorable in My Cousin Vinny
David Fincher really liked him and cast him in "The Game". In an interview before he died Rebhorn said that Fincher wanted him to be in Alien 3 (probably as the "85" character); but sadly the deal fell through.
There's an art to a good 'That Guy' actor in Hollywood, the sort of actor nobody really thinks about but you always recognize when they come by. I listen to the Greatest Generation Star Trek podcast, that always takes joy in highlighting the great work of 'That Guys' when they turn up.
@@EinDose Brian fkn Dennehy. Quintessential "that guy". May he rest in peace also.
Secret Base + RealJims SimpsonLore crossover event when??
Two things about this video:
1) there isnt a storyteller on earth quite like Jon Bois.
2) I love how this video about a random quote from a blockbuster movie ends up partially becoming a love letter to James Rebhorn's acting career. The kind of career that can easily get overlooked or forgotten about, but one that deserves full respect and admiration from their peers.
This isn’t really “storytelling”. You are being BAMBOOZLED by data.
I hope people's interest in his acting career are... Reborn
I remember when this was a sports channel. I'm 100% okay with the shift to wider topics
they aren’t shifting to wider topics they just host jon bois who does whatever he wants
A number of Pretty Good's episodes focused on non-sports topics. This is a revised series from over 7 years ago...and I do agree with you.
Pretty Good is the original Secret Base. John just stopped producing them with the full sports shift. Now that they have a Patreon, John's resurrected the franchise.
This reminds me of the time I met some British people on vacation and they asked, in complete seriousness: "What is independence day? Why do you guys celebrate the day a bunch of aliens attacked?" We called them Lewis and Clark (those were not their names). Good times.
“Are you actually ready for the day you get what you want?” Jon does it again
The real villain of a movie almost never being named and being a clear embodiment of a directors hatred of someone is a strange archetype
Jon, I'm always infatuated with the way you're able to tell a story. This video gives me the same vibes as your "Section 1" video. Making an entire other story and narrative out of something that's existed for decades. Thank you and the team at SB for this fantastic content. Seriously, thank you.
I read "infuriated", and I was very confused.
"Mr Nimzicki, you're fired." - I remembered his name immediately
"...John Lennon, smart man. Shot in the back. Very sad." - the quote from this movie I mutter to myself frequently but don't really expect anyone besides me to know.
"I'm Artie! The strongest man in the woooooorld!" - Did you make a freaking Pete and Pete reference? I love this video
two Jon Bois vids within a week is the real christmas miracle
At it's best the Internet is a place to connect with strangers who have the same incredibly specific and norrow obsessions and you feel delighted to discover that someone out there shares your obsession and sees the world very similarly to you. I havent had that feeling in a really long time. Thanks for this, I genuinely feel like this was specifically created for me.
My favorite Pretty Good episode is the one where Jon says “It’s pretty gooding time” and pretty gooded all over the screen
she good on my pretty till I episode 15
I just pre pretty gooded my plants
Played out
Serious cringe, BRAH
I couldn't love this any more. Beautiful work.
Thank you for reminding me of James Rebhorn. The guy played some great hate-sink characters. RIP buddy.
I probably threw popcorn at my TV for Rebhorn's excellent portrayal of the hate-sink.
My wife always asks what I’m watching and last week it was banana peels and this week it is a side character from a movie I’ve only seen once
Had an identical conversation with my wife about banana peels last week.
Had the same two conversations with my girlfriend.
That's pretty good. LOL.
I explained the banana peal video to coworkers and later wife, both were like “what the heck did you just explain?”😅
Random fun fact: another great example of the love put into _Independence Day_ is that all of the various news clips are actually full-on productions, with so much dialogue cut out. They didn't have to do all that, and yet, they did
Independence Day is absolutely one of my favorite movies of all time. Reading the title of the video was enough to get me to watch. And it was everything I could have hoped for in an analysis of this pillar of the 90’s!
Listing middle reliever Doug Brocail amongst the list of Houston greats is what makes these deepdives wonderful. Thank you Jon
35:16
"...people who have been flattened by the earth still live."
_Beautiful._
Pretty sure that line (or one very similar) was in Fighting in the Age of Loneliness. Not sure if it’s used elsewhere.
@@christophermayer-bacon1524
right you are, a great callback.
@@christophermayer-bacon1524 that's where he's cribbing it from, on purpose
Important note: after the prayer scene he does in the end get what he wanted when Goldblum and Smith do, in fact, nuke the mothership.
Only when we give up and surrender to fate can we get what we always dreamed of.
Excellent point. Strange that it was omitted from the video.
What always struck me about this film was how happy everyone was at the end.
“We won!”
Yes, but everyone is dead
10-15% of the population at most. Now the following several months? Lots more dying due to logistics falling apart.
After the attacks on the initial cities, it sounded like they evacuated other cities pretty thoroughly. In the scene where they nuke the spaceship above Houston they said the casualties should be minimal as a result.
The film isn't exactly meant to be taken seriously I think
@@UNHchabo
No clue how they managed to evac entire cities like that, in reality we can get week long gridlock just from people going to work so people leaving cities in mass should have brought transport infrastructure to its knees.
Alternate history hub I believe did a video on what would happen to the world after we won Independence Day.
the best series on the internet, i hope pretty good never stops
Okay wait, you are telling me that I get an episode of pretty good about unironically one of my favorite movies of all time? I'm so here
The movie is one of the greatest popcorn summer blockbusters ever. I will allow no debate.
It's the score by David Arnold that revs me up. Harald Kloser is cool but he doesn't come klose to David Arnold for catchy hero themes.
The dumbest subject, the heaviest hit at the end: "are you actually ready for the day you get what you want?" Jon, come on man, how can anyone extract something that profound from a throwaway character in a silly blockbuster movie from the late 90's?, this one is a masterpiece
Sick reference bro, your references are out of control everyone knows that.
"We're all jigsaw puzzles with missing pieces, and they just happen to be missing the pieces that matter the most."
This man has been dropping absolute bars for years and he still is as fresh and delightful with them to this day. I cannot believe how good a writer Jon Bois is.
"A decent number of us weren't even alive when Independence Day came out..."
Why you gotta call me old like that?
My favorite Rebhorn role is in Fincher’s “The Game” - your descriptions of his frequent characterization in this video describe his character in that quite well
One quote from Independence Day that I keep coming back to. " You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?". I think about that quote a lot
That stereotype of government wasted has been proven again and again.
James Rebhorn was a real one. He wrote his own obituary in 2014, and having just read it, I wish I could've met the guy. Sounds like a wonderful soul.
Pretty Good attacking Pointless Hub territory?! The RUclips Wars have begun.
There is no substitute. This man created a genre we didn't even know we wanted.
3:09 Frozen and The Lion King are both based on pre-existing works (The Snow Queen and Hamlet respectively) so you can bump Independence Day up a couple ranks.
Also Bohemian Rhapsody is biopic so I'd say it shouldn't count either.
@@zaneseibert And Titanic is also based on real events.
I’m all for this but it also makes the secret life of pets the third highest-grossing movie in America not based off of existing works and I do not think we should live in a timeline where that is the case
@noinfo1018 That one is definitely based on real events too. I've seen the look on my cat's face when I get home.
Frozen is technically based on The Snow Queen but it does significantly depart from the original plot.
While The Lion King certainly shares some basic plot points with Hamlet, and I think those points came to the writers from there, I don't think it fits the category. It's like saying that Under Siege is based on Die Hard (which itself was based on a novel).
To think they made such an excellent sneak diss of a character like this and then faceplanted two years later in Godzilla when trying to parody Siskel and Ebert.
13:00 PETE & PETE - thank you for mentioning this amazing show
Pretty Good is one of my favorite series on all of RUclips. Over the past few years I have gone back to watch previous episodes at various points. I don't know how many people I've sent THE DUMBEST BOY ALIVE. To get 2 new episodes in the same week after all this time, this year is setting up to be a pretty good Christmas.
"Who by his own admission, looks like a schlemiel" was a great line
“Ah, getting tricky are we?
While that line is famously attributed to the 1995 film Waterworld, it is never actually spoken in the movie”.
Your pfp is so based
I still say "Nothing's free in Waterworld" as if it's a known line that's often said. It turns out that it's not.
this episode is so good, i love this new genre of Pretty Good episode where you just describe plotlines from movies
so the writers of independence day intentionally structured the plot to look like the Atari logo?
makes you wonder who the real Space Invaders are
"He is immediately shot down" became funnier and funnier each time.
19:11 I feel seen, than you for guiding me through my misery you legend.
Jon Bois learning about the December ad bump doesn’t even make me mad. These are two bangers.
How does Jon Bois end a story about a personal grudge meted out in a Summer blockbuster with a morality tale: "What do you do with all of your hatred and resentment when it's run its course?" Fricking Shakespeare Bois here.
RIP James Rebhorn, who penned his own funny and touching obituary.
"I see something smaller" is such an incredible package of words that I will steal for occasional use
If you separate live-action movies, animated movies, and TV, this is probably the best example of a "spite character" in the former category. The best that I know of in animated movies is Lord Farquaad, who is named after a, uh, _jovial nickname_ the folks at DreamWorks had for Disney's Michael Eisner (iirc), and given character traits that resemble him. I don't actually know of a good one from TV, but I do find it funny that one of the two principal villains on Bones is named after the actress who plays the title character's daughter.
It's so weird to me that animated movies aren't seen as "real" movies. I get that they're often for children, but that seems neither here nor there
This is beautiful. A true work of art that only Jon could have created.
The real Nimziki catching strays in 2024
I honestly can't believe Jon went this whole video without mentioning the Roger Ebert mayor in Godzilla 1999. It's basically the same concept. I think Emerich just likes putting his critics in his movies as antagonists
To be fair the Devlin and Emmerich, Nimziki doesn’t need a motive or backstory because he’s got so much cultural cache - we’ve seen this so many times in so many movies that it feels right - as great as Rebhorn is, I’ve always suspected he got this role because William Atherton was too busy shooting Bio Dome.
This is one of the most entertaining character analyses I've ever seen and it's for a constantly wrong cardboard cutout with a bad case of nuke fever.
the cursed lore box was so worth the wait
We're so back
0:01 nothing better than opening a new secret base video and seeing an abstract shape on my screen
James Rebhorn is one of those actors - I had no idea what his name was, but I saw his face and immediately went "THAT guy!" And Jon then said "You were always happy to see him."
Damn right.
The History of the Minnesota Vikings. The Ballad of Dave Stieb. The Rise and Fall of the Reform Party. A 45 minute character analysis of a hate sink in a 30 year old movie. Jon Bois, you are truly one of a kind and I salute you.
Well, now we all know what Jon Bois has been up to. Reading canonical independence day books.
Jon Bois could make a video on anything and still manage to absolutely pique my interest
I consistently I would watch the whole pretty good playlist monthly. The fact that there is more and they are better than ever pleases me to no end. I'll need to update my saved playlist. Thanks Jon, having my favorite series back is incredible.
“He’s wearing his Sunday best to armageddon.” Classic!
“Welcome to earth” is my favorite quote from Independence Day. Pure movie magic.
Oh Jon, please always know you are loved by Internet strangers to whom you bring great joy every time you post.
SPACEBALLS MENTIONED! ! !
I argue that Al giving her the briefcase is an accepted assertion
I dont know what secret base is becoming
But i don't care. Make whatever you want forever. I promise to watch it all
I love that in the description the team is wishing us a happy early 4th of July in Mid-December, and I know it's because this was on Patreon for a while but it's really funny.
Been watching Pretty Good since my freshman year back in 2016/17. So glad to be here, still watching these cinematic masterpieces made by the Bois... I mean, Jon Bois. I remember when your Chiefs were a cursed organization. Now, everyone curses at that organization. How time flies.
Albert Nimziki is exactly the type of guy you would expect to have Roland Emmerich direct a movie about Stonewall in 2014 and assume that to turn out well
The best storyteller on RUclips.
Jon Bois is cooking with these video releases!
I thought my brain was melting when I realized the sports guy had made a video about Independence Day.
I'm so glad Jon Bois has Awakened.
I realize everybody gets their own advertisement experience on RUclips but you know you're a RUclips darling when you get nothing but Unskippable ads.
Fun fact, there are fewer than 150 Rebhorns on the planet.
With a name like that, Rebhorn sounds like an endangered species… 😂
And according to Forebears, six Nimzikis.
Glad I finally watched Fighting in the Age of Loneliness last week just in time to catch that reference.
The perfect Christmas special.
Pretty good is officially back?!
They’re already up to episode 19 on Patreon 👀
Never left ;)
Look's like it.
How did i almost feel sad when told he would never be able to nuke an American city ever again? How did you do that Jon?
This is crazy I just binge watched all of Jon Bois Playlist pretty good last night
I need secret base to continue just letting Jon Bois make stat illustration videos about his niche interests forever
My god, Jon Bois slaps like crazy and we want more.
Trust Jon Bois to always have the ability to find human insight in the unlikeliest of places.
Man, that hurt 1996 wasn't that long ago.
Not only was James Rebhorn iconic as John McFlemp forcing Artie out of town in the 'Farewell My Little Viking' episodes of Pete and Pete.
But he also moved to the town of South Orange, NJ where the show was filmed.
Pretty Goodmas, everyone
David: “Buh-byyye” 🚬
Steve: “PEACE! ✌️
👽: 💀💥