I've basically never agreed with your movie takes but man, I completely get the contention with reviewers right now. The problem is I genuinely haven't liked any of these movies they pick on lmao. I think a lot of them are either garbo or very flawed. Which can also be said of the discussions around them. Bad film and bad discussion; you just can't win on any front. I think we've got to be careful with our standards. Lotta bad content makes you more ok with mid content, which is not healthy for art or consumers overall. But you need to figure out what exactly it is you're looking for with your media; being constructive requires good faith. You cannot just turn up your nose at literally everything and expect to see change. Of course, that might be the idea with some of these people; if it improved it would require effort to monetize. Maybe some people should learn some more about yellow journalism lmao.
In fairness, I haven't watched anyone else's review, so this was my impression, not just repeating a narrative. Now, about the characters lacking personality, that's got nothing to do with age. The cast from Goonies have personalities, and they're in middle school. It comes down to the writing. I don't think Fede Álvarez (the director/writer) cared as much about the characters as he did the about the concept in general.
Characters have always been a weak point for the series, Aliens being the exception. Even the most glowing praise of the first film acknowledges that the characters are cardboard cut outs played by talented actors. They couldn't have done worse then having a bunch of cockney convicts you can't tell apart of remember the name of.
@@Mr.Prowl.Makes you wonder how much actual time the crew in Alien would actually spend together on a normal flight. Get aboard the ship on Earth Take off Hook up to giant refinery thing in orbit (maybe it's orbiting the moon for safety, so add a few hours to days to get there) Take off for distant planet (cryo-sleep for years) Wake up Fill refinery Set out for Earth (cryo sleep for years) Get back Detach refinery Land. The crew in Alien, from their in-universe point of view, might have only met each other 2-3 days ago
@@Mr.Prowl. Well thats the thing. Card board characters can be salvaged with good acting and writing. More important is what the character's role in the story is. A crafted story has a specific purpose that cant waste time filling in every nook and cranny of a fictional characters personality and history. The paper thin characters in Alien 1 are completely serviceable, because the story isnt mainly about them. Its about the situation theyve found themselves in. This goes for most horror. In Romulus, there's only really two characters you are supposed to care about beyond the greater group dynamic, and I think thats by design
It's not just BPCs who see an issue with Romulus, Zack. I'm not a lunatic. I personally have no set threshold for callbacks or nostalgia in movies. I'm fine with it if it doesn't get to the point of pulling me out of the movie and as long as it doesn't feel gratuitous. I don't consider pulse rifles or crawling in air ducts a problem. That said, Romulus goes way beyond that point, and Alvarez just doesn't have enough directorial and story telling chops to make a truly compelling Alien film beyond the re-creations of old shots and old quotes. Sure, it's not horrible. It's certainly watchable and there are some good ideas and moments scattered about. And while I know the BPCs hate everything sight unseen, it doesn't mean I hate movies just because I don't think Romulus is a very good movie.
The Alien series has never been the domain experienced directors. Alien was Scott's second feature film and his first commercial film. Cameron was at the start of his career and came on the project before he had finished the Terminator with his directing dependent on his successes. Alien3 was Fincher's FIRST film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was the most experienced have done two films before Alien Resurrection. Prometheus was the first time a vetren director made a film in the series. The Alien series wasn't prestige until recently and only because the first film is so mythologized in the industry and film criticism. Which is part of problem with the franchise because people try to make it something it's not.
@Mr.Prowl. I never said anything about whether Cameron or Scott were new at the time or not, and personally I don't care if they were starting their careers or if they were seasoned veterans at the time. I have no problem with hiring new directors, but just like with Fincher, it isn't always going to pay off. It didn't pay off here simply because (in addition to the fact it's a well-worn IP) Alvarez just doesn't exhibit the same directorial vision or skill of Scott on Alien or Cameron on Aliens.
Jason Priestley is great and he has been in so many Canadian tv shows, one of them is a parody called Call Me Fitz that could never be made these days because Fitz makes jokes about minorities, women and more. He works in his dad's car dealership, sleeps with any woman with a pulse and is trying not to be arrested for attempted murder.
There's a big difference between memberberries vs elements that make a good sequel or even reboot. Also a difference between memberberries and a nod or callback. The most important characteristic of a memberberry is that it feels forced. It doesn't fit or work naturally into the new material and you can feel it just ticking the box on some checklist of arbitrary things to put in the movie. Spock shouting "Kaaaaaahn!" in whichever crappy JJ Franchise-Killer Abrams Trek move that was -- that was a memberberry. OK, I'm wrong, that was a memberturd. But you get the point. Memberberries have a lot in common with jokes that just don't land. Bad setup, bad timing, forced. And they often come in an overabundance. This is not to say that some "critics" don't know how to distinguish between a memberberry vs. legit callback or sequalizing.
"Floating" is an interesting term for how you feel after seeing an excellent film in the theater. It got me thinking when that last happened to me and I would have to say Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a time in Hollywood. I remember smiling my ass off while watching that film which lasted until I got home. I bought the movie on Blu-ray as soon as it was out which I rarely do these days.
As an artist, I love movies and art enough to have standards about what qualifies as good or great. I see a lot of "competent" and a lot of "listenable" or "watchable", but I'm not going to lie to myself about what I think has genuine artistic merit. The ironic or paradoxical thing is that I honestly don't think my standards are THAT high. I also think it's a cop out to just blame things on being "middle aged." Sure, there are always going to be people who don't like anything after their teens. But it's not like I liked everything back then, either. And while there will always be great art and artists in every age, it's a fallacy to think there can't be, from generation to generation, changes in economic, social, technological and/or cultural conditions which are more or less conducive to the creation of what we, as humans, value in truly enduring "art."
I was right on the line when "Love Lies Bleeding" was playing in theaters. Ultimately, it was a little too much effort with too much "grrrl power" in the trailer. And I'd just been burned by "Drive Away Dolls".
Alien,s distortion of pregnancy was amped in my eyes by the fact of ectopic pregnancy, the uterus is an organ made for protect the mother from the baby. Having a child nested in your liver, stomach, intestine is terrifying and life threatning especially with a bad helthcare system and lack of resources. Having a creature growing unnaturally in your uppet body and torn you appart is so awful yet so vividly real.
The topic of "'member berries" is kind of interesting. I never saw the "South Park" that created the concept, but it literally cannot be "stuff that reminds you of older stuff". Because that IS the point of a franchise, and franchises are what people want. (You can't just write a book any more, it has to be a series. "Jawbreakers" does better than Narzack. You have to get to movie #16 on last year's box office to find a movie that's not a sequel, etc.) I think it's that the berries needs to be earned. The "'member berries" are what other people farmed in the past. If you're not planting new seeds, you're just a parasitic crow. You get people set up with a good story THEN you can bring out the old stuff. And it will feel new and recontextualized while also being familiar. ("Aliens" is actually a great example of this.)
Not that you need more book recommendations, but if you're keen to try a book series you might actually get to reading, try "Hard Magic" by Larry Correia. It's got a very comic book/GI Joe style to it, set in an alternate 1930s with airships and magic and stuff. Very brutal and heroic. Ninjas, machine guns, etc.
I liked JSG's review, he pointed out the really dumb stuff that were really clumsy inserts (no, not the guns), but did point out, that yeah, it's a slasher in space, it's ok. I didn't comment on his comment section though, but he probably reads this comment section more.
you know there is a scene in a book where a woman married a man she is indifferent too and is in love with her husband's 'rival'. her husband asks her if she likes him and she says "no, i don't like him" (the book;s the Fountianhead btw) well.. no i don't like movies.
Years ago, I watched the movie "Avengement" with Scott Adkins based on the recommendation of Ya Boi (awesome movie BTW). I would have never watched it otherwise, and I cannot recommend it enough since I watched it. Somehow a movie with the most basic plot and elements can be so entertaining when it's done correctly. A 90-minute throw away Scott Adkins movie on Netflix is somehow a movie that I still want to watch or talk about how awesome it is when the opportunity presents itself.
What did Romulus do that Alien and Aliens didn't already do, and do better? Nothing. That's why I didn't like it, and that's an issue I have with most major productions these days. I watched Se7en for the first time a couple of days ago (I know, I'm very late) and it blew my mind, even though in the back of my mind, I'm sure I've seen that plot told hundreds of times since then without knowing what the inspiration for them was. When people say, "they don't make em like that anymore", it's true and I wish it wasn't. Carry On was solid fun. Jason Bateman played a great villain which was a nice turn for him.
Watched that many Alien films. Played more games. Even read some trades. I get a kick out of seeing the dated tech and creatures. Aliens like Fallout had this dated future tech. I find that fun like Steampunk stuff.
That Katy O'Brian actress from Love Lies Bleeding seems like she’s on the verge of getting really big, or being someone you see in stuff and think: Hey, that’s so and so from such and such... it’s weird they aren’t bigger. She’s gonna be in the upcoming Mission: Impossible movie and that The Running Man remake Edgar Wright is doing that I guess is more like The Running Man book.
i used to work as a security guard in a finance center with 100+ cameras. large area 1 those things have awful resolution so you can barely see anything. 2. they dont always point to where things happen (there was one sexual assualt on the premises and a camera was in front of where it happened but it was looking at something else. 3. expriened criminals can figure out where the cameras are looking at and can make them not record by shining a light at them and increasing the light senstivty too much
The test of a film fan is if they've seen a weird one lately. Not some dumb Jack Black comedy, but a genuinely strange one. Will the Drinker talk about Aniara? Has he seen Crimes of the Future (the new Cronenberg film)? When it comes to oldies, does he watch anything beyond the top 100 films? Who knows.
I find it funny that I knew right away that you were talking about Brian Austin Green even though I can't name anything he's been in besides Beverly Hills 90210.
Ok, half way through (I comment as I watch), about the dialogue in cinema/TV: If you have the time … rewatch an Episode of Battlestar Galactica (2005) series. It’s edited in a very unique way with the dialogue. It’s always shows the person listening and reacting instead of the person speaking. I personally think it adds soooo much more when things are edited that way. Also … a big pet peeve of mine…while I personally HATE laugh tracks, the people saying those shows aren’t funny without them (and show a clip of friends with no laugh track), to make a point. Is the equivalent of saying special effects make a movie bad and show a clip of the Avengers with just green screen. Shows with laugh tracks are built around them, with the acting and comedic timing and editing. It’s unfair to judge something with out the laugh track when it was designed to be included. Anyways rant over. Finishing the video.
zack zack zack... the best movie reviews of my life were from Chuck Dixon's "Threadmill Theatre", (where chuck reviews movies he saw while on a threadmill.) threadmill reviews are now sanctified
I know Alien Resurrection is hated and there are valid criticisms for it. But it's the first Alien movie I saw so it has a special place in my heart and I legit enjoy it.
trying to think of the ultimate litmus test movie where if you like it, you like movies, and if you don't like it, you don't like movies... can't be so good everyone likes it, can't be so bad nobody likes it... light sleeper lol
I get you though about Drinker's reviews yet with all reviews it boils down to you yourself seeing it. Such as his Midsommar review and he panned it. And his review did give my outlook a bias. Yet one of my best friends sweared up and down that this movie had the goods so I took a leap of faith and watched it. Midsommar is one f*ckin' GREAT movie IMHO. I'm so impressed with it, it's become a fave and changed my mind about Florence Pugh of whom I couldn't stand before this.
What’s the difference between ‘member berries and homage? Is there one? You know, that quote of Lucas that gets taken out of context all the time, “ You know it rhymes…”? Lucas wasn’t being a hack, like sub-80 IQ RUclipsrs would have you believe. Homage isn’t just for shits and giggles, but to establish a link between all the great works that influenced him. There are so many references, or “‘member berries”, throughout the prequels, not just to the original OT, but Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Forbidden Planet, and numerous century old movies and serials. BPCs and YT reviewers usually don’t complain about these, because they’re too media illiterate to recognize them. All art is iterative. It is passed down and built upon by each incoming generation. If you’re too dumb to not know the difference between homage and copying your friend’s homework, then that’s your problem, not mine.
It's when a movie feels like it's literally saying ''remember THIS form the old movie?'' That's what it felt like to me watching Romulus. It wasn't organic. It wasn't just taking influence.
Love Lies Bleeding was BRUTAL. Every character is a weirdo, including the kids. Loved it. Props to Kirsten Stewart, she made this movie for me. She seems to be picking up better jobs these past few years.
what did you think of the ending of Love Lies Bleeding? overall I liked the film as well. Great grit/texture/sense of place. But when she turns into a giant, I took it to mean disassociation while she killed a bunch of people? Or was it all a metaphor for dying? Check out babygirl if you haven't already EXCELLENT cinematography
For me a movie has to be incredibly awful or boring for me to not at least have fun watching it. I didn't like Thor Love and Thunder, but I still had fun watching it in the theatre with friends. Going to see Sonic 3 today with friends, if its even just 'okay' i'll be happy.
Movies will always be subjective. Good or bad, they will always have their own audience. All citics have their own opinions, but the ones who only speak negative about modern films will always be louder because people love drama.
Recently went to rewatch the movie. I still think this movie is still good but it relied too much on the nostalgia. It's nice ro add elements (background designs, etc) from previous movies and other media and still do something new; but the newer interations shouldn't have to being back whats done before, mainly scene setups and one liners. Now the only nitpick I have is not seeing an Alien story where the "Company" does it's worst or possible get it's karma(temporary) in film.
Love Lies Bleeding is awesome, I'm lucky enough to have a good friend that I can talk about movies and music with. We are quite different but we both understand how to appreciate art and vocalize it well, so when we don't agree we can still understand each other's POV.
I kinda like the justsomeguy reaction videos it’s like two old friends actually critiquing movies they’ve actually seen and having different opinions about the things they liked and disliked
9:10 Yes, I care about my home theater setup, and getting a fraction of the full Dolby Cinema theater experience at home is magnificent. But I'm not a BPC who's making a video about Rachel Zegler every week and planning my weekly trip To Disney.
I'm reading through the Barsoom series again, and as much as I enjoy it, it poses the same problem as do comic books, music and film: I have no one to talk to about it. I have one friend who likes to read, and I've loaned her several books, but each time I ask about one of them, the answer's always the same: "I haven't even opened it yet." I'm constantly recommending music, movies and TV shows, but no one follows up. Why does no one care about the stuff that I care about? Or, perhaps more accurately, why does everyone else like stupid things?
I've learned not to ever loan out books. No one reads them even if they express a keen interest initially and I'm lucky to even receive them back. Edgar Rice Burroughs' work is a treasure, no one writes adventure like him.
not planning to watch, but, if you were looking for "new" sources, just for something different, people have been complaining about Jason Momoa being cast as Lobo: sure he looks the part, but... Heard the complaint and thought of the vids.
All do respect you give RUclips critics too much credit. I watch em even the ones who disagree with me wont stop me from watching a film. Today we have poor screenplay and writing and people without a channle can see. Moana 2 is average still going to do a billion. So no one is getting influenced if content creators have that power studios would have bent 2 years ago
@@davidletarte214 how it is discussed is irrelevant because if a film that is discussed negatively is still successful well then its moot. Cash spoke louder
@@Masterchudibut what if a film isn't successful because of it? These guys have large audiences and they're not smart people. Furiosa was most definitely hurt by this kind of discussion online, and I know it's old news but it's still pisses me off because we're probably not going to get the next two mad Max movies because of that.
@@Masterchudi ok but some of us want to have constructive, thoughtful & intelligent discussions about films, shows, comics etc that we enjoy. the BPCs have created a shield of inanity around such conversations, instead referring everyone to a few tired & lazy political talking points.
When these guys retire, I wonder if they'll admit that they were never movie fans to begin with, like that Finn Mckenty guy admitting he doesn't care about music.
Romulus was OK, I saw it in theaters and it was fine. Nothing great, nothing terrible. You looking back at the 80s films is curating the best of the era over all the garbage films you're forgetting. Carry-On was just fine. Love Lies Bleeding is one I've been wanting to see. Katy O'Brien is fantastic in Z-Nation and I know she's in The Mandalorian but I stopped watching after Gina got fired.
lots of channels i used to regularly watch are just perpetually outraged about modern media, and they dont even talk about things they enjoy anymore. it gets exhausting..
I got my doubts of the BPC from the Mario Movie. That movie wasn't meant to be deep and you can tell what the writers were aiming for and they nailed it. The BPC complained about the Mario movie not being as deep as they wanted it to be. Like Puss and boots. That specific tone was what puss n boots was aiming for and they nailed that. Mario movie was not trying to be a puss in boots movie yet got criticized for not being one. That is not judging a movie by what it is trying to give you. Also they are so clown rotted that they didn't notice Mario completed a course in a week that Peach took a decade to be ready for. But you gotta clown to get the attention, according to them.
There was the thing about how Peach did it, I think, the first time she tried. Mario had also just gotten to the world and how it worked. She had lived there and understood it's physics for her whole life. She wasn't being a girlboss because it was easier for her than Mario.
I even question if Drinker even scripts his own material anymore. I can only speak for myself but i stopped watching all of them, way too much negativity and the "woke" label was being applied to everything, start watching things for yourself and you'll be pleasantly surprised by a lot of films and tv shows out there.
You ever see Just Some Guy's review of 'Super Man Fights the Klan'? He's complaining the entire time while breaking down this comic that is obviously very good to any observer. Then at the end he praises it shamelessly. Saving the actual bottom line for the bottom line of the video is one of Just Some Guy's signatures. Take a page from Guns N' Roses and have some Patience.
I did not serve in the military, but I appreciate that you did. What I REALLY appreciate is the continued thread of dialogue you offer about health, and being a certain age and the only thing you talk about is health first, then you talk about some media thing and you steer it back to living with poor health. Saying you want the health you had years ago for Christmas was like...hell yeah brother.
You nailed it with the "do you even like movies anymore?" Cuz if I'm being honest, no I don't. Also nailed it with the "both sets of people are huge assholes"
@JustSomeGuy in the first 10 seconds of your video (which came out before any backers had received the book) you said a bunch of the JawBreakers were killed. Even if someone wanted to skip the video, they literally wouldn't have had time to not hear it.
@JustSomeGuy but you could have waited until after the book was out or at least give people the chance to change the video. The spoiler was the first thing in the video.Your video started after another one ended and before I even saw the title, the spoiler happened.
My thing is the movie critical side of RUclips literally being mostly older guys bashing on Rachel Zegler. She did make herself look dumb but its the wildest thing to see Mr. H say she has a punchable face (yeah, really) I get negativity sells but its ironic these people will sometimes call actors "adult pretenders" when they pretend to care about the accruacy of a little girl's movie (family but really for the little girls)...its wild
i think the actual problem with anti sjws youtubers and culture war grifters is that they'll complain about something being woke and then still choose to watch it & support it anyway, if they really cared about fighting the culture war, then they would stop supporting the work of people who openly admit they hate them and giving it attention/stop making rage bait videos about it.
A lot of these youtubers from this circle live off criticism and negativity about every project (Mauler, Drinker, Nerdrotic etc) There's plenty to criticise and they are right on plenty of things, but they now have to keep it up in order to maintain their audience, so they're trapped in a viscious cycle. They target projects to hate which they expect to be woke or just be bad and then review those, knowing they are safe options to criticise. But occasionally a movie surprises, like Alien Romulus, which was pretty good, and they have to commit to their original stance... and then the curtain is pulled down. Half the time they wait for others to review so that they can follow in lock step, so that there is confirmation bias, amd now suddenly Alien Romulus looks like a bad movie. They very rarely show an open mind and watch a film they've pre-determined to be crap. I think the one exception was Prey, by Critical Drinker. He changed his mind on that. Romulus was solid apart from, yes, the 'memberberries', which another commenter rightly said are badly delivered callbacks. More modern sequel movies (creators) need to have more confidence in their own projects.
Kraven got ripped apart before it even came out by the Birthday Party Clowns. My only gripe when the movie was announced is that they were trying to make Kraven an antihero that hunted poachers. That is nothing like Kraven in the comics. I was bored the other night and decided to watch Kraven. It was actually a pretty solid action film. He isn't just out there hunting poachers either. It's more about hunting down a crime lord. They could have kept with that storyline and just given him a line or two about being a big game hunter and that he has moved on from animals to humans because they are more of a challenge. That would have at least kept him more in line with the comic version of Kraven.
Adding a second comment to add that the BPCs have discovered a reason to hate Robert Eggers's "Nosferatu". This is the same Film Threat that held a funeral for the Star Wars Franchise, and no surprise that they hate Lily-Rose Depp (but they love her father wayyy too much). ruclips.net/video/d846-pEeByk/видео.htmlsi=uNVbseTRMhlqZPUw
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I've basically never agreed with your movie takes but man, I completely get the contention with reviewers right now. The problem is I genuinely haven't liked any of these movies they pick on lmao. I think a lot of them are either garbo or very flawed. Which can also be said of the discussions around them. Bad film and bad discussion; you just can't win on any front.
I think we've got to be careful with our standards. Lotta bad content makes you more ok with mid content, which is not healthy for art or consumers overall. But you need to figure out what exactly it is you're looking for with your media; being constructive requires good faith. You cannot just turn up your nose at literally everything and expect to see change.
Of course, that might be the idea with some of these people; if it improved it would require effort to monetize. Maybe some people should learn some more about yellow journalism lmao.
In fairness, I haven't watched anyone else's review, so this was my impression, not just repeating a narrative. Now, about the characters lacking personality, that's got nothing to do with age. The cast from Goonies have personalities, and they're in middle school. It comes down to the writing. I don't think Fede Álvarez (the director/writer) cared as much about the characters as he did the about the concept in general.
In fairness, dawg, you kiIIed your own channel with that “epic takedown” of Jordan Peterson in the video “Fool of a Took.”
Characters have always been a weak point for the series, Aliens being the exception. Even the most glowing praise of the first film acknowledges that the characters are cardboard cut outs played by talented actors. They couldn't have done worse then having a bunch of cockney convicts you can't tell apart of remember the name of.
@@Mr.Prowl.Makes you wonder how much actual time the crew in Alien would actually spend together on a normal flight.
Get aboard the ship on Earth
Take off
Hook up to giant refinery thing in orbit (maybe it's orbiting the moon for safety, so add a few hours to days to get there)
Take off for distant planet
(cryo-sleep for years)
Wake up
Fill refinery
Set out for Earth
(cryo sleep for years)
Get back
Detach refinery
Land.
The crew in Alien, from their in-universe point of view, might have only met each other 2-3 days ago
@@Mr.Prowl. Well thats the thing. Card board characters can be salvaged with good acting and writing. More important is what the character's role in the story is. A crafted story has a specific purpose that cant waste time filling in every nook and cranny of a fictional characters personality and history. The paper thin characters in Alien 1 are completely serviceable, because the story isnt mainly about them. Its about the situation theyve found themselves in. This goes for most horror. In Romulus, there's only really two characters you are supposed to care about beyond the greater group dynamic, and I think thats by design
@@michaelmartin9022 Idk about the constant cryo-sleep since Ripley had a daughter.
It's not just BPCs who see an issue with Romulus, Zack.
I'm not a lunatic. I personally have no set threshold for callbacks or nostalgia in movies. I'm fine with it if it doesn't get to the point of pulling me out of the movie and as long as it doesn't feel gratuitous. I don't consider pulse rifles or crawling in air ducts a problem.
That said, Romulus goes way beyond that point, and Alvarez just doesn't have enough directorial and story telling chops to make a truly compelling Alien film beyond the re-creations of old shots and old quotes.
Sure, it's not horrible. It's certainly watchable and there are some good ideas and moments scattered about. And while I know the BPCs hate everything sight unseen, it doesn't mean I hate movies just because I don't think Romulus is a very good movie.
The Alien series has never been the domain experienced directors. Alien was Scott's second feature film and his first commercial film. Cameron was at the start of his career and came on the project before he had finished the Terminator with his directing dependent on his successes. Alien3 was Fincher's FIRST film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet was the most experienced have done two films before Alien Resurrection.
Prometheus was the first time a vetren director made a film in the series.
The Alien series wasn't prestige until recently and only because the first film is so mythologized in the industry and film criticism. Which is part of problem with the franchise because people try to make it something it's not.
@Mr.Prowl. I never said anything about whether Cameron or Scott were new at the time or not, and personally I don't care if they were starting their careers or if they were seasoned veterans at the time.
I have no problem with hiring new directors, but just like with Fincher, it isn't always going to pay off. It didn't pay off here simply because (in addition to the fact it's a well-worn IP) Alvarez just doesn't exhibit the same directorial vision or skill of Scott on Alien or Cameron on Aliens.
Describes plot. Says spoilers. Still intrigued. Kudos!
Jason Priestley is great and he has been in so many Canadian tv shows, one of them is a parody called Call Me Fitz that could never be made these days because Fitz makes jokes about minorities, women and more. He works in his dad's car dealership, sleeps with any woman with a pulse and is trying not to be arrested for attempted murder.
There's a big difference between memberberries vs elements that make a good sequel or even reboot. Also a difference between memberberries and a nod or callback. The most important characteristic of a memberberry is that it feels forced. It doesn't fit or work naturally into the new material and you can feel it just ticking the box on some checklist of arbitrary things to put in the movie. Spock shouting "Kaaaaaahn!" in whichever crappy JJ Franchise-Killer Abrams Trek move that was -- that was a memberberry. OK, I'm wrong, that was a memberturd. But you get the point. Memberberries have a lot in common with jokes that just don't land. Bad setup, bad timing, forced. And they often come in an overabundance.
This is not to say that some "critics" don't know how to distinguish between a memberberry vs. legit callback or sequalizing.
The badly delivered joke is a good analogy.
"Floating" is an interesting term for how you feel after seeing an excellent film in the theater. It got me thinking when that last happened to me and I would have to say Quentin Tarantino's Once upon a time in Hollywood. I remember smiling my ass off while watching that film which lasted until I got home. I bought the movie on Blu-ray as soon as it was out which I rarely do these days.
As an artist, I love movies and art enough to have standards about what qualifies as good or great. I see a lot of "competent" and a lot of "listenable" or "watchable", but I'm not going to lie to myself about what I think has genuine artistic merit.
The ironic or paradoxical thing is that I honestly don't think my standards are THAT high. I also think it's a cop out to just blame things on being "middle aged." Sure, there are always going to be people who don't like anything after their teens. But it's not like I liked everything back then, either.
And while there will always be great art and artists in every age, it's a fallacy to think there can't be, from generation to generation, changes in economic, social, technological and/or cultural conditions which are more or less conducive to the creation of what we, as humans, value in truly enduring "art."
I've seen LOTS of movies with two lesbians, and they have ALL been good.
Drive away dolls what else from last year
Yup, 2 girls 1 cup was pretty good.....
@@bobtom1495 classic
Yeah but those are not for kids 😅
I was right on the line when "Love Lies Bleeding" was playing in theaters. Ultimately, it was a little too much effort with too much "grrrl power" in the trailer. And I'd just been burned by "Drive Away Dolls".
Gotta say, Mr. Watches-Movies-In-Five-Minute-Chunks is treading a thin line talking about how OTHERS watch things. 🤭
I don't like movies, i don't hide It when people ask me about movies i just tell them i don't like It, people stare at me as If i kicked a puppy
Alien,s distortion of pregnancy was amped in my eyes by the fact of ectopic pregnancy, the uterus is an organ made for protect the mother from the baby. Having a child nested in your liver, stomach, intestine is terrifying and life threatning especially with a bad helthcare system and lack of resources. Having a creature growing unnaturally in your uppet body and torn you appart is so awful yet so vividly real.
The topic of "'member berries" is kind of interesting. I never saw the "South Park" that created the concept, but it literally cannot be "stuff that reminds you of older stuff". Because that IS the point of a franchise, and franchises are what people want. (You can't just write a book any more, it has to be a series. "Jawbreakers" does better than Narzack. You have to get to movie #16 on last year's box office to find a movie that's not a sequel, etc.)
I think it's that the berries needs to be earned. The "'member berries" are what other people farmed in the past. If you're not planting new seeds, you're just a parasitic crow. You get people set up with a good story THEN you can bring out the old stuff. And it will feel new and recontextualized while also being familiar. ("Aliens" is actually a great example of this.)
Just as I'm about to clock out, almost spot on, now I got something to listen to on the drive home.
Not that you need more book recommendations, but if you're keen to try a book series you might actually get to reading, try "Hard Magic" by Larry Correia. It's got a very comic book/GI Joe style to it, set in an alternate 1930s with airships and magic and stuff. Very brutal and heroic. Ninjas, machine guns, etc.
I liked JSG's review, he pointed out the really dumb stuff that were really clumsy inserts (no, not the guns), but did point out, that yeah, it's a slasher in space, it's ok.
I didn't comment on his comment section though, but he probably reads this comment section more.
you know there is a scene in a book where a woman married a man she is indifferent too and is in love with her husband's 'rival'. her husband asks her if she likes him and she says "no, i don't like him" (the book;s the Fountianhead btw)
well.. no i don't like movies.
Years ago, I watched the movie "Avengement" with Scott Adkins based on the recommendation of Ya Boi (awesome movie BTW). I would have never watched it otherwise, and I cannot recommend it enough since I watched it. Somehow a movie with the most basic plot and elements can be so entertaining when it's done correctly. A 90-minute throw away Scott Adkins movie on Netflix is somehow a movie that I still want to watch or talk about how awesome it is when the opportunity presents itself.
What did Romulus do that Alien and Aliens didn't already do, and do better? Nothing.
That's why I didn't like it, and that's an issue I have with most major productions these days.
I watched Se7en for the first time a couple of days ago (I know, I'm very late) and it blew my mind, even though in the back of my mind, I'm sure I've seen that plot told hundreds of times since then without knowing what the inspiration for them was. When people say, "they don't make em like that anymore", it's true and I wish it wasn't.
Carry On was solid fun. Jason Bateman played a great villain which was a nice turn for him.
Watched that many Alien films. Played more games. Even read some trades. I get a kick out of seeing the dated tech and creatures. Aliens like Fallout had this dated future tech. I find that fun like Steampunk stuff.
Romulus was a waste of time. Watched it on an 3 hour flight so it did its job I guess.
It’s like the Terminator franchise. They just tell the same story over and over.
I found Romulus boring.
Zack... Why Food Prices Are Still So High?
That Katy O'Brian actress from Love Lies Bleeding seems like she’s on the verge of getting really big, or being someone you see in stuff and think: Hey, that’s so and so from such and such... it’s weird they aren’t bigger. She’s gonna be in the upcoming Mission: Impossible movie and that The Running Man remake Edgar Wright is doing that I guess is more like The Running Man book.
i used to work as a security guard in a finance center with 100+ cameras. large area
1 those things have awful resolution so you can barely see anything.
2. they dont always point to where things happen (there was one sexual assualt on the premises and a camera was in front of where it happened but it was looking at something else.
3. expriened criminals can figure out where the cameras are looking at and can make them not record by shining a light at them and increasing the light senstivty too much
Hi 😊. I liked this film, it was from a new point of view and I found it entertaining 💎
The test of a film fan is if they've seen a weird one lately. Not some dumb Jack Black comedy, but a genuinely strange one. Will the Drinker talk about Aniara? Has he seen Crimes of the Future (the new Cronenberg film)? When it comes to oldies, does he watch anything beyond the top 100 films? Who knows.
Zack, have you seen Watchmen Chapter One and Two??? Nobody’s talking about them. And they’re stellar!
🤘🏿Yeah, my YT feed has been a little lackluster lately.🤘🏿
I find it funny that I knew right away that you were talking about Brian Austin Green even though I can't name anything he's been in besides Beverly Hills 90210.
I thought he was good in the Sarah Conner Chronicles, but I haven't seen him in much else.
Happy new year
Ok, half way through (I comment as I watch), about the dialogue in cinema/TV:
If you have the time … rewatch an Episode of Battlestar Galactica (2005) series. It’s edited in a very unique way with the dialogue. It’s always shows the person listening and reacting instead of the person speaking. I personally think it adds soooo much more when things are edited that way.
Also … a big pet peeve of mine…while I personally HATE laugh tracks, the people saying those shows aren’t funny without them (and show a clip of friends with no laugh track), to make a point. Is the equivalent of saying special effects make a movie bad and show a clip of the Avengers with just green screen. Shows with laugh tracks are built around them, with the acting and comedic timing and editing. It’s unfair to judge something with out the laugh track when it was designed to be included.
Anyways rant over. Finishing the video.
Too much nostalgia can go way overboard but there has to be some or how else do you capture that older audience?
zack zack zack... the best movie reviews of my life were from Chuck Dixon's "Threadmill Theatre", (where chuck reviews movies he saw while on a threadmill.) threadmill reviews are now sanctified
I know Alien Resurrection is hated and there are valid criticisms for it. But it's the first Alien movie I saw so it has a special place in my heart and I legit enjoy it.
People who care about their system 😂
trying to think of the ultimate litmus test movie where if you like it, you like movies, and if you don't like it, you don't like movies... can't be so good everyone likes it, can't be so bad nobody likes it... light sleeper lol
I get you though about Drinker's reviews yet with all reviews it boils down to you yourself seeing it. Such as his Midsommar review and he panned it. And his review did give my outlook a bias. Yet one of my best friends sweared up and down that this movie had the goods so I took a leap of faith and watched it. Midsommar is one f*ckin' GREAT movie IMHO. I'm so impressed with it, it's become a fave and changed my mind about Florence Pugh of whom I couldn't stand before this.
PARTY CLOWNS SOUND LIKE BELLA SWAN IN PART 2 AFTER EDWARD DUMPED HER... those who know.
What’s the difference between ‘member berries and homage? Is there one? You know, that quote of Lucas that gets taken out of context all the time, “ You know it rhymes…”? Lucas wasn’t being a hack, like sub-80 IQ RUclipsrs would have you believe. Homage isn’t just for shits and giggles, but to establish a link between all the great works that influenced him. There are so many references, or “‘member berries”, throughout the prequels, not just to the original OT, but Sergio Leone, Akira Kurosawa, Forbidden Planet, and numerous century old movies and serials. BPCs and YT reviewers usually don’t complain about these, because they’re too media illiterate to recognize them. All art is iterative. It is passed down and built upon by each incoming generation. If you’re too dumb to not know the difference between homage and copying your friend’s homework, then that’s your problem, not mine.
There will always be a subjective element in that judgement, even for the media well-versed.
It's when a movie feels like it's literally saying ''remember THIS form the old movie?'' That's what it felt like to me watching Romulus. It wasn't organic. It wasn't just taking influence.
Dont have none to See? Try: Epic History TV, Millenial Thinker, Townsends, Kent Rollins...
Love Lies Bleeding was BRUTAL. Every character is a weirdo, including the kids. Loved it.
Props to Kirsten Stewart, she made this movie for me. She seems to be picking up better jobs these past few years.
what did you think of the ending of Love Lies Bleeding? overall I liked the film as well. Great grit/texture/sense of place. But when she turns into a giant, I took it to mean disassociation while she killed a bunch of people? Or was it all a metaphor for dying? Check out babygirl if you haven't already EXCELLENT cinematography
RUclips is still fun. You just have to find better movie reviewers. They’re out there.
For me a movie has to be incredibly awful or boring for me to not at least have fun watching it. I didn't like Thor Love and Thunder, but I still had fun watching it in the theatre with friends. Going to see Sonic 3 today with friends, if its even just 'okay' i'll be happy.
Movies will always be subjective. Good or bad, they will always have their own audience. All citics have their own opinions, but the ones who only speak negative about modern films will always be louder because people love drama.
Recently went to rewatch the movie. I still think this movie is still good but it relied too much on the nostalgia. It's nice ro add elements (background designs, etc) from previous movies and other media and still do something new; but the newer interations shouldn't have to being back whats done before, mainly scene setups and one liners.
Now the only nitpick I have is not seeing an Alien story where the "Company" does it's worst or possible get it's karma(temporary) in film.
YOU STILL DIDNT READ THE BOOK BY THE GUY WHO MADE JOJO??? HOW MANY YEARS HAS IT BEEN?
Love Lies Bleeding is awesome, I'm lucky enough to have a good friend that I can talk about movies and music with. We are quite different but we both understand how to appreciate art and vocalize it well, so when we don't agree we can still understand each other's POV.
I kinda like the justsomeguy reaction videos it’s like two old friends actually critiquing movies they’ve actually seen and having different opinions about the things they liked and disliked
9:10 Yes, I care about my home theater setup, and getting a fraction of the full Dolby Cinema theater experience at home is magnificent. But I'm not a BPC who's making a video about Rachel Zegler every week and planning my weekly trip To Disney.
I'm reading through the Barsoom series again, and as much as I enjoy it, it poses the same problem as do comic books, music and film: I have no one to talk to about it.
I have one friend who likes to read, and I've loaned her several books, but each time I ask about one of them, the answer's always the same: "I haven't even opened it yet."
I'm constantly recommending music, movies and TV shows, but no one follows up.
Why does no one care about the stuff that I care about? Or, perhaps more accurately, why does everyone else like stupid things?
I've learned not to ever loan out books. No one reads them even if they express a keen interest initially and I'm lucky to even receive them back. Edgar Rice Burroughs' work is a treasure, no one writes adventure like him.
not planning to watch, but, if you were looking for "new" sources, just for something different, people have been complaining about Jason Momoa being cast as Lobo: sure he looks the part, but...
Heard the complaint and thought of the vids.
All do respect you give RUclips critics too much credit. I watch em even the ones who disagree with me wont stop me from watching a film. Today we have poor screenplay and writing and people without a channle can see. Moana 2 is average still going to do a billion. So no one is getting influenced if content creators have that power studios would have bent 2 years ago
yeah but he's referring to how media is discussed on the internet, not whether it is successful to not.
@@davidletarte214 how it is discussed is irrelevant because if a film that is discussed negatively is still successful well then its moot. Cash spoke louder
@@Masterchudibut what if a film isn't successful because of it? These guys have large audiences and they're not smart people. Furiosa was most definitely hurt by this kind of discussion online, and I know it's old news but it's still pisses me off because we're probably not going to get the next two mad Max movies because of that.
Zack hates how popular these RUclipsrs have become. Even if I agree with some of his takes, Zack wants everyone to like what he likes.
@@Masterchudi ok but some of us want to have constructive, thoughtful & intelligent discussions about films, shows, comics etc that we enjoy. the BPCs have created a shield of inanity around such conversations, instead referring everyone to a few tired & lazy political talking points.
When these guys retire, I wonder if they'll admit that they were never movie fans to begin with, like that Finn Mckenty guy admitting he doesn't care about music.
Hey, don't cancel a yolopark order. Just paint them. I mean Gundam/ Gunpla is a billion dollar industry based upon just that. Have fun with it.
Romulus was OK, I saw it in theaters and it was fine. Nothing great, nothing terrible. You looking back at the 80s films is curating the best of the era over all the garbage films you're forgetting. Carry-On was just fine. Love Lies Bleeding is one I've been wanting to see. Katy O'Brien is fantastic in Z-Nation and I know she's in The Mandalorian but I stopped watching after Gina got fired.
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BPC: Woke factor 11.
Audience: Captain, are you sure?
BPC: Enrage!
lots of channels i used to regularly watch are just perpetually outraged about modern media, and they dont even talk about things they enjoy anymore. it gets exhausting..
I got my doubts of the BPC from the Mario Movie. That movie wasn't meant to be deep and you can tell what the writers were aiming for and they nailed it. The BPC complained about the Mario movie not being as deep as they wanted it to be. Like Puss and boots. That specific tone was what puss n boots was aiming for and they nailed that. Mario movie was not trying to be a puss in boots movie yet got criticized for not being one. That is not judging a movie by what it is trying to give you.
Also they are so clown rotted that they didn't notice Mario completed a course in a week that Peach took a decade to be ready for. But you gotta clown to get the attention, according to them.
There was the thing about how Peach did it, I think, the first time she tried. Mario had also just gotten to the world and how it worked. She had lived there and understood it's physics for her whole life. She wasn't being a girlboss because it was easier for her than Mario.
I even question if Drinker even scripts his own material anymore. I can only speak for myself but i stopped watching all of them, way too much negativity and the "woke" label was being applied to everything, start watching things for yourself and you'll be pleasantly surprised by a lot of films and tv shows out there.
r'member real thought-out critical thoughts, r'member ...?
Alien Romulus was a very watchable movie. RUclips grifters are not fans of anything.
Love Lies Bleeding was great. The Order with Jude Law came out in December and is really good
You ever see Just Some Guy's review of 'Super Man Fights the Klan'? He's complaining the entire time while breaking down this comic that is obviously very good to any observer. Then at the end he praises it shamelessly. Saving the actual bottom line for the bottom line of the video is one of Just Some Guy's signatures. Take a page from Guns N' Roses and have some Patience.
Just Some Guy has always been solid, even when his opinion is not popular, he holds to his values.
I did not serve in the military, but I appreciate that you did. What I REALLY appreciate is the continued thread of dialogue you offer about health, and being a certain age and the only thing you talk about is health first, then you talk about some media thing and you steer it back to living with poor health. Saying you want the health you had years ago for Christmas was like...hell yeah brother.
You nailed it with the "do you even like movies anymore?" Cuz if I'm being honest, no I don't. Also nailed it with the "both sets of people are huge assholes"
I stopped watching Just Some Guy when he spoiled JawBreakers God King before it was even sent.
How did I spoil it?
@JustSomeGuy in the first 10 seconds of your video (which came out before any backers had received the book) you said a bunch of the JawBreakers were killed. Even if someone wanted to skip the video, they literally wouldn't have had time to not hear it.
@@eazyrhino2768 Fair enough, but it'd be impossible to review the book without mentioning that the whole team gets offed.
@JustSomeGuy but you could have waited until after the book was out or at least give people the chance to change the video. The spoiler was the first thing in the video.Your video started after another one ended and before I even saw the title, the spoiler happened.
My thing is the movie critical side of RUclips literally being mostly older guys bashing on Rachel Zegler.
She did make herself look dumb but its the wildest thing to see Mr. H say she has a punchable face (yeah, really)
I get negativity sells but its ironic these people will sometimes call actors "adult pretenders" when they pretend to care about the accruacy of a little girl's movie (family but really for the little girls)...its wild
i think the actual problem with anti sjws youtubers and culture war grifters is that they'll complain about something being woke and then still choose to watch it & support it anyway, if they really cared about fighting the culture war, then they would stop supporting the work of people who openly admit they hate them and giving it attention/stop making rage bait videos about it.
A lot of these youtubers from this circle live off criticism and negativity about every project (Mauler, Drinker, Nerdrotic etc)
There's plenty to criticise and they are right on plenty of things, but they now have to keep it up in order to maintain their audience, so they're trapped in a viscious cycle. They target projects to hate which they expect to be woke or just be bad and then review those, knowing they are safe options to criticise. But occasionally a movie surprises, like Alien Romulus, which was pretty good, and they have to commit to their original stance... and then the curtain is pulled down. Half the time they wait for others to review so that they can follow in lock step, so that there is confirmation bias, amd now suddenly Alien Romulus looks like a bad movie.
They very rarely show an open mind and watch a film they've pre-determined to be crap. I think the one exception was Prey, by Critical Drinker. He changed his mind on that.
Romulus was solid apart from, yes, the 'memberberries', which another commenter rightly said are badly delivered callbacks. More modern sequel movies (creators) need to have more confidence in their own projects.
Kraven got ripped apart before it even came out by the Birthday Party Clowns. My only gripe when the movie was announced is that they were trying to make Kraven an antihero that hunted poachers. That is nothing like Kraven in the comics.
I was bored the other night and decided to watch Kraven. It was actually a pretty solid action film. He isn't just out there hunting poachers either. It's more about hunting down a crime lord.
They could have kept with that storyline and just given him a line or two about being a big game hunter and that he has moved on from animals to humans because they are more of a challenge. That would have at least kept him more in line with the comic version of Kraven.
Adding a second comment to add that the BPCs have discovered a reason to hate Robert Eggers's "Nosferatu". This is the same Film Threat that held a funeral for the Star Wars Franchise, and no surprise that they hate Lily-Rose Depp (but they love her father wayyy too much).
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