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I swear netflix only made it so that people would be like "this is just a worse version of the hunger games... the hunger games were good lets rewatch them..on netflix"
Yeah tbh I wouldn't be surprised if some marketing director noticed that bad movies tend to get a lot of free advertising on youtube and this is essentially cinematic clickbait/ragebait
I do understand that the point of the movie is that Beauty standards are arbitrary and change over time, and that in this distant future, what we consider to be beautiful today isn't beautiful anymore. But like... the Pretties look beautiful by 2020s standards. they fit OUR standards. The book made a big point of describing them in ways we'd find weird today. The theme doesnt work unless they look DISTINCTLY different from the uglies.
I'm reminded of an old black-and-white episode of "The Outer Limits". There was a woman who was born with a disfigured face, which was concealed for most of the episode. The faces of the attending doctors and nurses were obscured by shadows. At the end of the episode, it was revealed that the main character looked like a beautiful woman, and everybody else had saggy, pig-like faces.
I KNOW I was looking forward to seeing how creatively they could interpret the book but it’s like they purposefully ignored the most interesting parts of the book
It's been years since I read the book (2009 or 2010 back in primary school). The main thing I remember is David telling Tally that she's not ugly and is actually attractive and I think Tally is the one who's harsh on her appearance but her flaws are all normal things. Side note, I remember at the start of pretties, Tally gets injured and it leaves a small scar even as a pretty. And I feel like she had red hair or the cover of the book had red hair.
it would’ve been so easy to follow uncanny beauty, the symmetrical faces, Eurocentric features, lack of expression but no lets get sponsored by Snapchat’s makeup filter
I couldn't help but think about how insane the faces in the short film "Human Form" were. In ten minutes they made a way more compeling story, while perfectly showing the absurdirty of beauty standards.
And I get the sinking suspicion that the social commentary that is played for a joke in Cars about sponsorship and celebrity culture is much more interesting than in this movie lol
It's so frustrating that they entirely ignored the eugenics-y phrenological nature of the procedure and what makes a person "pretty" in the books. In the books, they go into each specific feature that different members of society are given to affect the "subconscious" ways others view them. They justify it by saying it's all based on science and this is why they are better than their predecessors. Also, it is explicitly said on multiple occasions in the books that the procedure makes everyone the same skin tone that is a nearly perfect middle of all human skin colors (so no one is super pale, no one is super dark, everyone is a sort of middle tan). This faulty "science" being used to justify eugenics and utilitarian power is gradually dismantled throughout the books through the eyes of Tally. I always worried that an adaptation would be near impossible due to this among other factors and this movie has proven that right.
its a shame because i remember enjoying this series when i read it as a kid. pretty sure the 'uglies' are supposed to be normal people like us, their society has just gotten to a point where even todays beauty standards aren't enough. 'pretties' were described as being beyond comprehension in their beauty iirc
I read the series while working as an assistant at a school library. I thought it was pretty interesting, and liked that it considered some important themes, especially for its audience. From the video responses I’ve seen (I’m not watching the movie, hah), the adaptation barely follows the plot of the book, like a weird fan fiction vaguely based on the characters and world. Oh well! Glad you enjoyed the books!
I know that Hollywood typically fucks up YA book -> movie adaptations, but this is egregious. I read this series throughout middle school as they were coming out and loved them! A key note is that they were coming out on the front end of the dystopian YA lit bubble, so while the genre is a bit played out after a couple of decades, the concept of Uglies was novel at the time.
Could you say the book was beautiful and the movie was....not beautiful? Almost as if it was, dare I say...disgusting? No...the fuck was that word I'm looking for... Fuck!
You're onto something because Tally/Shay drives the book plot through Specials (3rd out of 4 books, 4th book is a later timeline different characters) but the David part is extremely vital plot-wise. It's not wlw though, or if so one-directional. Don't watch the movies
With the point of the uglies not being ugly, instead of changing those actors they should have turned the uncanny beauty of the pretties up to 11. The casting director was right about one of the themes of the book being that the uglies aren’t actually ugly, but the lack of contrast kills the theme.
I met Orr irl He stole my bf and broke both my kneecaps then he proceeded to emote on my screaming husk of a body.. 10/10 experience will recommend 👍💯🔥
i think in the book, the necklace is destroyed by like. a rock. which is at least slightly more reasonable. also the way they take the cure is DEFINITELY not in the book, i think they just know someone who figures out the formula. i read it in middle school & am in my late twenties now, so who knows. i just remember that 90% of the reason i read the trilogy because it felt like tally & shay had some sort of red string of fate thing going on where they were constantly forced on opposite sides just by virtue of the politics of the world around them. baby's first tragic lesbian romance. i DO remember tally being like, incredibly desperate about being pretty in the book. like it felt like she thought her life was over because she couldn't get the surgery
he means its not that hard to get actors in their early 20s that look like teens. no one expects actual teenagers playing teenagers, just for them not to look 35
I remember reading this book series when I was younger and I know there's a whole thing of "movies based on books are worse!" but I really think that this book series was better as a book series and shouldn't have been adapted. The concept of "it'll never be enough" and "don't judge others for looking different" really sits better when the reader can imagine their own perceived "flaws" onto the main character instead of being shown a character that they have no tie to and may not have the same "flaws" as the viewer
I feel like being good at everything with very little explanation is just the chosen one trope, which usually has to do with Jungian/Campbellian reasons. It’s just that these movies don’t do much else with that framework beyond a very basic hero’s journey. Which isn’t necessarily the worst thing. Stories can be simple. I think there is a lot to be desired in execution though. At least in the movies. Usually books are better at this.
Exactly a good movie doesn't have to be over complicated but these dull movies these streaming platforms(especially Netflix) keep releasing are just to mediocre.
Laverne Cox's performance was by far the best part if this entire dumpster fire. I would love to see her in similar roles that are actually well written, she would be an iconic villain.
ayy knew that this would be about Uglies as soon as I got the notification; my dad got me to watch this with him and once he fell asleep i didn’t bother to finish it, wasn’t different or interesting enough to care, all it had was a couple pretty scenes tbh. definitely a ‘screensaver’ movie
Why the hunks always have stupid names 😭 Peeta and Gale are passable, they’re sorta cute. But Four? Nose? Like wtf what happened to Matthew, Johnny, I’d even take a Chad 😭 Shoutout to the immortal instruments for breaking the generational trauma, everyone’s got normal and/or cool names there
well weird names are meant to communicate the teen dystopia thing, to show the differences in their society and ours. in the books, david is a weird name to them
@@_edenfalls I mean, that's a good explanation, but no one forced these authors to name their hunks "Four" and "Nose" 😭 They could have cool different names. Katniss, Effie and Haymitch are cool and sorta weird names that don't really sound like any modern culture. Yet I think naming a character, and a lead at that, something downright stupid takes away from the suspension of disbelief, makes it hard to take the character and story seriously.
My favorite book series growing up and I hope that a movie being made means that people will Not watch it and will instead read the book series. If they're young because adults won't digest it as well. This series was formative for me and my interests. It turned me into a nerd before it was socially acceptable to be one. I also own the supplemental book by Scott Westerfeld detailing how he based food tech (in Extras) and nanobots and all of the worldbuilding aspects on the tech and research of [a couple decades ago].
Oh my God I forgot about the extra book! I've still got them all somewhere! I remember when Hunger Games movies came out and thinking "damn that could have been us". No hate to Hunger Games, haven't seen the films but the books were great! It's annoying that they didn't do a better job with the Uglies film considering the novels came out before Hunger Games did - but the comparison is inevitable in the genre tbh. I'm basically saying a lot of nothing. I just loved the series
I might be a little bit older than the usual demographic here, but Uglies was at least popular before Hunger Games if not totally out first, and my friends and I were obsessed with the series in middle school. I read it over and over and over. From my memory much better than Hunger Games (to be fair I haven’t read either in probably 15 years.) It’s such a bummer they wrecked an amazing book with this movie.
24:46 I figured they were gonna do the whole “I vouched for you 😢” bit but my god I don’t think I’ve ever seen such on the nose writing as shoehorning in an “I vouched for her” line lmao
Listening to A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and goddamn- It's making me appreciate the hunger games so much more, and how none of the other "teen dystopias" was nearly as good.
It's absolute lunacy someone developed this script, Netflix approved it, people filmed it and they all looked at the premise and said "yes, good, this is great" at every point of the process
Raise your hand if you have personally been victimized by the film industry because they destroy X, Y, Z from your childhood? I wish movie making companies would stop taking book series and ruining them. Do they not have original thoughts over in Hollywood anymore? (I understand that some game series and comic books have also probably been ruined, but I don't know enough to be sure.)
as someone who read and enjoyed the books as a teen i hate this stupid movie so much because the book actually had something to say and the movie couldn't have been made by anyone who cared less about the source material
my mother told me about this movie and the first thing i said was that it was literally the plot of the uglydolls movie. like exactly. despite having a soft spot for the uglydolls movie i did not, in fact, watch this one.
i didn't read this series when it came out because i was such a hipster ass tween i was like "lol that's dumb why would i read a whole book series when there's a Twilight Zone episode that does it better in 20 minutes" in hindsight its a miracle i was never wedgied by my peers
I love how this movie does kinda say "actually we should give people brain surgery and remove their personality". I really hoped we wouldn't get to this level of stupid, but here we are.
Random comment but I just have to shout out my fav horrible ADR over a crowd scene EVER, which also just happens to be a teen dystopian, and that's in episode one of the 100 when Octavia runs forward and someone shouts clear as a bell "that's the girl they found in the floor!" Thank you for the exposition random bystander lmao.
26:16 You clearly didn't take classes on how to treat deep wounds in middle school. It's also pretty safe to say that you also skipped the classes on free-soloing huge mountains.
The fact that they seemingly rebel because they are treated worse for being ugly when all of them can literally wait like 1 year and get a free surgery to solve the dividing issue of the distopia is what gets me.
I remember reading this book a long long time ago, I completely forgot about it but this video just made me remember everything. There is another movie based off this book, its not named uglies, and its got a different video style, I don't know when or where I saw it but there is another movie out there. In the other movie, they lived in the 2000's based futuristic houses, and before they left the house each day they had to get injections that made it so they couldn't do something or think something ????????? I don't remember. but in this movie one of the children tricked the injection machine by using an apple instead, and she had an epiphany about the standards of life? This could have all been a dream of mine. Anyways, good video
im remembering more now. this movie definitely was real. there was a weird old man with a library and the girl who went to go rat on the other kids had to swim through a river and camp on the other end of it, and kept having to hide from helicopters???
This made me so sad bc the book is sooo good but the movie is genuinely so bad it misses all the important parts of the book and the pacing is off and it erased all the tension the book created
I've watched 3 minutes of this video, figured that this one will be stupidly perfect to watch, watched it and came back here to hear if you had the same thoughts as I. what a ride that move was! I read what happened in other books and oh my I really hope for part 2 cause it'd be even more hilarious
i only know abt the uglies books bc of Crow Caller's videos abt it and everything ive heard abt the movie leads me to believe it very much wasnt worth making lmao
Not me sitting here thinking they have to complete a super dangerous, high stakes "operation" in order to earn a right to a different life... but you literally meant surgery :D I haven't watched this movie, but maybe the guy is a reference to Michelangelo's "David" as a token of youthful strength and beauty.
I read The Uglies in middle school and it just wasn’t a good book series to begin with, so hearing this was being made I knew it was gonna be bad. Also fun fact a big part of The Uglies is that the teens before they get “Pretty” are just regular looking teens and also they really did not care about harming themselves so they do a lot of hoverboard surfing and junk and are like “oh well we’ll have an operation later anyways”, idk this book series was bad
@@0.-.0 They literally described the first 20 pages out of 4 whole books so you're right. Also taking the weirdness of the world at face value rather than as ramifications of a dystopia
I read these books nearly 20 years ago and the only thing I remember from them is that even as an angsty teenager myself, I found the main character to be absolutely insufferable
if you (pinely watcher)’re interested in the uglies trilogy (or was it a quintilogy idr) but don’t want to read a bunch of books yourself, i recommend Crow Caller’s video on the series. content warning for major really messed up “harm unto oneself” stuff in the books though
i in fact LOVED the books as a kid and now i'm questioning if they were actually any good lol bc aside from no one being ugly it's pretty faithful to the plot
Nah you did not just compare them to Oli Lodon, you did so much damage to that character with that one line it felt like you reached out of the screen and slapped the actor who played him 🤣
I remember reading Uglies in high school as one of those mandated type books for English class. I actually thought it wasn't bad . The book. The movie is kinda shit tho
Its wild that i still don't really get why they're rebelling. Like... what is the actual problem with the pretty side? Vague reversalble brain damage that doesn't affect memory (since everyone still remembers their 'ugly' friends after yaasification)? Maybe I'll check out the book since it apparently does it well.
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Will check it out, seems like a very neat tool
I swear netflix only made it so that people would be like "this is just a worse version of the hunger games... the hunger games were good lets rewatch them..on netflix"
Oh my god you're a genius
Based on Netflix’s business model as of late, I 100% could see this being the case…
That might be true if The Hunger Games was actually on Netflix.
@@stretchmonsterDepends where you live
Yeah tbh I wouldn't be surprised if some marketing director noticed that bad movies tend to get a lot of free advertising on youtube and this is essentially cinematic clickbait/ragebait
I do understand that the point of the movie is that Beauty standards are arbitrary and change over time, and that in this distant future, what we consider to be beautiful today isn't beautiful anymore. But like... the Pretties look beautiful by 2020s standards. they fit OUR standards. The book made a big point of describing them in ways we'd find weird today. The theme doesnt work unless they look DISTINCTLY different from the uglies.
I'm reminded of an old black-and-white episode of "The Outer Limits".
There was a woman who was born with a disfigured face, which was concealed for most of the episode. The faces of the attending doctors and nurses were obscured by shadows. At the end of the episode, it was revealed that the main character looked like a beautiful woman, and everybody else had saggy, pig-like faces.
@@drewgoin8849 you're thinking of the Twilight Zone, actually, but still was a good episode with a good backstory
I KNOW I was looking forward to seeing how creatively they could interpret the book but it’s like they purposefully ignored the most interesting parts of the book
It's been years since I read the book (2009 or 2010 back in primary school). The main thing I remember is David telling Tally that she's not ugly and is actually attractive and I think Tally is the one who's harsh on her appearance but her flaws are all normal things.
Side note, I remember at the start of pretties, Tally gets injured and it leaves a small scar even as a pretty. And I feel like she had red hair or the cover of the book had red hair.
@@fadeuhhway yes! “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” good episode… much better executed than this movie lol
it would’ve been so easy to follow uncanny beauty, the symmetrical faces, Eurocentric features, lack of expression but no lets get sponsored by Snapchat’s makeup filter
I couldn't help but think about how insane the faces in the short film "Human Form" were. In ten minutes they made a way more compeling story, while perfectly showing the absurdirty of beauty standards.
That's the 2010s standard
"Rusties" made me laugh really hard because it just sounds like Rusteez, the sponsor of famed racing car Lightning McQueen.
I too thought of cars when they said that
Same universe.
@@aj7058 Before or after Cars?
@@williamcrandall beforeafter it’s cyclical
And I get the sinking suspicion that the social commentary that is played for a joke in Cars about sponsorship and celebrity culture is much more interesting than in this movie lol
It's so frustrating that they entirely ignored the eugenics-y phrenological nature of the procedure and what makes a person "pretty" in the books. In the books, they go into each specific feature that different members of society are given to affect the "subconscious" ways others view them. They justify it by saying it's all based on science and this is why they are better than their predecessors. Also, it is explicitly said on multiple occasions in the books that the procedure makes everyone the same skin tone that is a nearly perfect middle of all human skin colors (so no one is super pale, no one is super dark, everyone is a sort of middle tan). This faulty "science" being used to justify eugenics and utilitarian power is gradually dismantled throughout the books through the eyes of Tally. I always worried that an adaptation would be near impossible due to this among other factors and this movie has proven that right.
its a shame because i remember enjoying this series when i read it as a kid. pretty sure the 'uglies' are supposed to be normal people like us, their society has just gotten to a point where even todays beauty standards aren't enough. 'pretties' were described as being beyond comprehension in their beauty iirc
I read the series while working as an assistant at a school library. I thought it was pretty interesting, and liked that it considered some important themes, especially for its audience. From the video responses I’ve seen (I’m not watching the movie, hah), the adaptation barely follows the plot of the book, like a weird fan fiction vaguely based on the characters and world. Oh well! Glad you enjoyed the books!
I know that Hollywood typically fucks up YA book -> movie adaptations, but this is egregious. I read this series throughout middle school as they were coming out and loved them! A key note is that they were coming out on the front end of the dystopian YA lit bubble, so while the genre is a bit played out after a couple of decades, the concept of Uglies was novel at the time.
Ah yes, there's no history or stereotypes that could make focusing on a character's ugly nose feel charged or problematic in any way...nope...
The whole book is about this, go read it!
What are referencing? I'm lost 😅
@@awkwardotter13 Jews having crook noses is a big stereotype in antisemetic circles, and they love depicting them with exaggeratedly ugly noses.
@@awkwardotter13antisemitism
would you say the same for "squint" or is just a big nose problematic? sincerely, a heavily-bullied big-nosed not-Jewish person
"*dramatic pause* I'm David." Is totally giving the "I am Steve" from the Minecraft movie trailer
God, this makes me so sad. This was a great, great book series. It was genuinely creative and unique!! But the movie did it DIRTY
"genuinely"
Could you say the book was beautiful and the movie was....not beautiful? Almost as if it was, dare I say...disgusting? No...the fuck was that word I'm looking for...
Fuck!
I still think the movie should've been a wlw between tally and shay. I think id be more tolerable than what was forced with David 🙁
You're onto something because Tally/Shay drives the book plot through Specials (3rd out of 4 books, 4th book is a later timeline different characters) but the David part is extremely vital plot-wise. It's not wlw though, or if so one-directional. Don't watch the movies
REAL I was thinking the exact same thing when reading the book. If you haven’t read it, I’d recommend it:3
Me tooooo! I hated how forced Tally and David’s relationship was 😭
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With the point of the uglies not being ugly, instead of changing those actors they should have turned the uncanny beauty of the pretties up to 11. The casting director was right about one of the themes of the book being that the uglies aren’t actually ugly, but the lack of contrast kills the theme.
Im pretty sure this was literally the plot of a Twilight Zone episode. Except that story had actual tension and a chilling dystopian ending.
It's a 4 book series about a revolution within a dystopia, I think it gets more in depth than a twilight zone ep
@@nari5161 The book series might but a 2-3hr live action movie can easily be less deep than a twilight zone episode, or a 4 book series.
"my story today... began in the past"??? what in the ChatGPT?
nah bro our ai overlords arent that braindead...maybe we should be pushing for chatgpt dialogue instead :D
The love triangle with David feels so forced, Shay actually seems like she's deeply in love with Tally
I met Orr irl
He stole my bf and broke both my kneecaps then he proceeded to emote on my screaming husk of a body..
10/10 experience will recommend 👍💯🔥
omg how do I make this happen to me!??!?!
@hyunjinsanity I manifested him by watching a Trisha paytas podcast
evil pinely would never do this, unless he's in front of a worse backdrop
i think you met evil pinely, orrs evil twin brother
did you live?
tally x shay has tragic yuri potential
exactly
i think in the book, the necklace is destroyed by like. a rock. which is at least slightly more reasonable. also the way they take the cure is DEFINITELY not in the book, i think they just know someone who figures out the formula. i read it in middle school & am in my late twenties now, so who knows. i just remember that 90% of the reason i read the trilogy because it felt like tally & shay had some sort of red string of fate thing going on where they were constantly forced on opposite sides just by virtue of the politics of the world around them. baby's first tragic lesbian romance. i DO remember tally being like, incredibly desperate about being pretty in the book. like it felt like she thought her life was over because she couldn't get the surgery
this is like the hundredth uglies video I've watched and i still get entertained every single time
I haven’t even watched the movie and don’t plant to, but keep watching the videos about it lol
@@mayrasouza1555sometimes i think im stupid for watching movie reviews om movies I'll never watch, glad I'm not the only one who does this😂
They don't use actual teens bc they don't want to deal with child labor laws lmao
he means its not that hard to get actors in their early 20s that look like teens. no one expects actual teenagers playing teenagers, just for them not to look 35
13:05 the joke is that in a movie full of teenagers in their late 20s, Pinely's supposed 'grandmother' does not look much older than that.
Makes me feel old. 😂
I'm so distracted by your library book titles.
_"I was a work shy city train"_ ?
In particular is mesmerising.
i read it as "i want a more uniform train"
Perhaps purchases for his video on Amazon's AI-written books?
I remember reading this book series when I was younger and I know there's a whole thing of "movies based on books are worse!" but I really think that this book series was better as a book series and shouldn't have been adapted. The concept of "it'll never be enough" and "don't judge others for looking different" really sits better when the reader can imagine their own perceived "flaws" onto the main character instead of being shown a character that they have no tie to and may not have the same "flaws" as the viewer
I feel like being good at everything with very little explanation is just the chosen one trope, which usually has to do with Jungian/Campbellian reasons. It’s just that these movies don’t do much else with that framework beyond a very basic hero’s journey. Which isn’t necessarily the worst thing. Stories can be simple. I think there is a lot to be desired in execution though. At least in the movies. Usually books are better at this.
Exactly a good movie doesn't have to be over complicated but these dull movies these streaming platforms(especially Netflix) keep releasing are just to mediocre.
this was actually a book that was before hunger games
The book was quite good tbh
You couldn’t wait 56 second of the video
im so early, i have watched like 10 videos of uglies but ill eat it up every time, especially from pinely
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The premises of these dystopias just keep getting sillier. What's next, a civilization revolving around how good you are at parkour?
Don't give Netflix any ideas
ironically, parkour civilization has a much more intriguing plot line and better storytelling than most netflix movies
Laverne Cox's performance was by far the best part if this entire dumpster fire. I would love to see her in similar roles that are actually well written, she would be an iconic villain.
She’s so so good in literally everything she’s in
ayy knew that this would be about Uglies as soon as I got the notification; my dad got me to watch this with him and once he fell asleep i didn’t bother to finish it, wasn’t different or interesting enough to care, all it had was a couple pretty scenes tbh. definitely a ‘screensaver’ movie
I like that expression!
"Uglies", unlike "Alien Cake", is no masterpiece.
Why the hunks always have stupid names 😭
Peeta and Gale are passable, they’re sorta cute. But Four? Nose? Like wtf what happened to Matthew, Johnny, I’d even take a Chad 😭
Shoutout to the immortal instruments for breaking the generational trauma, everyone’s got normal and/or cool names there
well weird names are meant to communicate the teen dystopia thing, to show the differences in their society and ours. in the books, david is a weird name to them
@@_edenfalls I mean, that's a good explanation, but no one forced these authors to name their hunks "Four" and "Nose" 😭
They could have cool different names. Katniss, Effie and Haymitch are cool and sorta weird names that don't really sound like any modern culture. Yet I think naming a character, and a lead at that, something downright stupid takes away from the suspension of disbelief, makes it hard to take the character and story seriously.
3 sec in and I liked already bc man this intro... ah, Pinely, my love (in a kind of parasocial but very platonic way)
Where can I get my Pine Library card from?
“This story starts… in the past”. Yeah no sh!t! That’s how stories work though.
Lines like that are how you know you're in for a good time
Man. McG's directing career has really gone downhill since directing Smash Mouth's All Star music video
Laverne Cox is such an icon. Her performance is the movie's only redeeming quality
My favorite book series growing up and I hope that a movie being made means that people will Not watch it and will instead read the book series. If they're young because adults won't digest it as well. This series was formative for me and my interests. It turned me into a nerd before it was socially acceptable to be one. I also own the supplemental book by Scott Westerfeld detailing how he based food tech (in Extras) and nanobots and all of the worldbuilding aspects on the tech and research of [a couple decades ago].
Oh my God I forgot about the extra book! I've still got them all somewhere!
I remember when Hunger Games movies came out and thinking "damn that could have been us".
No hate to Hunger Games, haven't seen the films but the books were great!
It's annoying that they didn't do a better job with the Uglies film considering the novels came out before Hunger Games did - but the comparison is inevitable in the genre tbh.
I'm basically saying a lot of nothing. I just loved the series
I might be a little bit older than the usual demographic here, but Uglies was at least popular before Hunger Games if not totally out first, and my friends and I were obsessed with the series in middle school. I read it over and over and over. From my memory much better than Hunger Games (to be fair I haven’t read either in probably 15 years.) It’s such a bummer they wrecked an amazing book with this movie.
The cgi in this movie is giving spy kids
24:46 I figured they were gonna do the whole “I vouched for you 😢” bit but my god I don’t think I’ve ever seen such on the nose writing as shoehorning in an “I vouched for her” line lmao
Listening to A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and goddamn- It's making me appreciate the hunger games so much more, and how none of the other "teen dystopias" was nearly as good.
it's okay Scott westerfeld fans. we're getting a leviathan anime and we just have to pray it's good
It's absolute lunacy someone developed this script, Netflix approved it, people filmed it and they all looked at the premise and said "yes, good, this is great" at every point of the process
Raise your hand if you have personally been victimized by the film industry because they destroy X, Y, Z from your childhood?
I wish movie making companies would stop taking book series and ruining them. Do they not have original thoughts over in Hollywood anymore? (I understand that some game series and comic books have also probably been ruined, but I don't know enough to be sure.)
as someone who read and enjoyed the books as a teen i hate this stupid movie so much because the book actually had something to say and the movie couldn't have been made by anyone who cared less about the source material
but the books were so good, i re-read them a lot as a teenager :( slander from Netflix
Anime fans: First time?
It’s literally like the joke about the teen dystopia where dental hygiene is banned but beauty
Complete with a toothbrush pill!
if you're reading this comment before the video is 33 minutes old, what are you doing? go watch the video, its great
What are you doing writing this comment? Shouldn’t you be watching the video?
Ok
I don't watch my videos, they watch me
Take your own advice
32 MINUTES ALMOST
i stopped listening to fiona apple for this 😇 (very excited)
High praise ❤
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.
my mother told me about this movie and the first thing i said was that it was literally the plot of the uglydolls movie. like exactly. despite having a soft spot for the uglydolls movie i did not, in fact, watch this one.
19:33 its also mirrored 💀💀 great job editors ya fucked it
So they don't get auto copyright claimed
i didn't read this series when it came out because i was such a hipster ass tween i was like "lol that's dumb why would i read a whole book series when there's a Twilight Zone episode that does it better in 20 minutes"
in hindsight its a miracle i was never wedgied by my peers
Ouch! That opening line hurts.
Wait, the same McG that worked on Supernatural??? That's wild
aww his top is slaying
I love how this movie does kinda say "actually we should give people brain surgery and remove their personality". I really hoped we wouldn't get to this level of stupid, but here we are.
Random comment but I just have to shout out my fav horrible ADR over a crowd scene EVER, which also just happens to be a teen dystopian, and that's in episode one of the 100 when Octavia runs forward and someone shouts clear as a bell "that's the girl they found in the floor!" Thank you for the exposition random bystander lmao.
typical flashbang necklace... single use, soo..
26:16 You clearly didn't take classes on how to treat deep wounds in middle school. It's also pretty safe to say that you also skipped the classes on free-soloing huge mountains.
"my story today, starts in the past"
YEAH NO DUH, THAT'S HOW STORIES USUALLY WORK.
Can't believe John B is in this😭
Excellent use of Simpsons Hit & Run music, Pinely.
The fact that they seemingly rebel because they are treated worse for being ugly when all of them can literally wait like 1 year and get a free surgery to solve the dividing issue of the distopia is what gets me.
Ruffle shirt Pinely is making me Feel Things.
Also having the shallow, pro-conformity, looks-obsessed leader be played by a trans woman was. A choice.
"This is an incredibly experimental movie that dares to break Hollywood's show-don't-tell rule" 😂
pinely post my illness is cured
I remember reading this book a long long time ago, I completely forgot about it but this video just made me remember everything. There is another movie based off this book, its not named uglies, and its got a different video style, I don't know when or where I saw it but there is another movie out there. In the other movie, they lived in the 2000's based futuristic houses, and before they left the house each day they had to get injections that made it so they couldn't do something or think something ????????? I don't remember. but in this movie one of the children tricked the injection machine by using an apple instead, and she had an epiphany about the standards of life? This could have all been a dream of mine. Anyways, good video
im remembering more now. this movie definitely was real. there was a weird old man with a library and the girl who went to go rat on the other kids had to swim through a river and camp on the other end of it, and kept having to hide from helicopters???
Me: New pinely video! :D
Him: You! Are Ugly!
Me: Oh.... Evil pinely.... what are you doing here?
I love that in the heist bit the wife also wears a ski mask for absolutely no reason
5:24 idk think about how much is spent in travel alone when it comes to plastic surgery
This made me so sad bc the book is sooo good but the movie is genuinely so bad it misses all the important parts of the book and the pacing is off and it erased all the tension the book created
I remember liking these books in middle school. When I saw the poster before it even came out I knew it was going to be shit lol
Just found out I also have the same birthday as tally and Shay. Love that 👍
Its a common birthday tbh, cool birthday btw!
i remember reading uglies in like 5th grade and even back then i didn't understand how the whole mimic worked.
I've watched 3 minutes of this video, figured that this one will be stupidly perfect to watch, watched it and came back here to hear if you had the same thoughts as I. what a ride that move was! I read what happened in other books and oh my I really hope for part 2 cause it'd be even more hilarious
i only know abt the uglies books bc of Crow Caller's videos abt it and everything ive heard abt the movie leads me to believe it very much wasnt worth making lmao
Bookshelf tour when?
"My story begins in the past." Such a refreshing change from all those other stories that start in the future.
Not me sitting here thinking they have to complete a super dangerous, high stakes "operation" in order to earn a right to a different life... but you literally meant surgery :D I haven't watched this movie, but maybe the guy is a reference to Michelangelo's "David" as a token of youthful strength and beauty.
I read The Uglies in middle school and it just wasn’t a good book series to begin with, so hearing this was being made I knew it was gonna be bad.
Also fun fact a big part of The Uglies is that the teens before they get “Pretty” are just regular looking teens and also they really did not care about harming themselves so they do a lot of hoverboard surfing and junk and are like “oh well we’ll have an operation later anyways”, idk this book series was bad
Seems like you didn't read the book series at all, maybe you read the first 20 pages of the first book lol
@@0.-.0 They literally described the first 20 pages out of 4 whole books so you're right. Also taking the weirdness of the world at face value rather than as ramifications of a dystopia
@@0.-.0 I mean, the comment doesn't say they read all of it.
I read these books nearly 20 years ago and the only thing I remember from them is that even as an angsty teenager myself, I found the main character to be absolutely insufferable
The Uglies was an option for assigned summer reading going into 8th grade in my school district and I hate to say I chose it
My mom needed a name for a little pine tree she had, I knew exactly what to recommend.
I loved Uglies so much as a young teen (and everything by Scott Westerfeld tbh), I cannot bring myself to watch the movie 😂
How Joey King still has a carreer😭
31:53 onward RDR2 OST SPOTTED‼️‼️🔥 (it's the track 'outlaws from the west')
I was forced to read the book in middle school so seeing Pinely talk about its movie adaptation has inflicted me with traumatic flashbacks
3:40 missed opportunity to call them mudknights
Headcanon: That brain damage is actually a temporary brain leison done through some insanely unethical brain stimulation procedures.
the xbox bit took me out bro
if you (pinely watcher)’re interested in the uglies trilogy (or was it a quintilogy idr) but don’t want to read a bunch of books yourself, i recommend Crow Caller’s video on the series.
content warning for major really messed up “harm unto oneself” stuff in the books though
It's crazy how parkour civilization has so much better world building than this
i in fact LOVED the books as a kid and now i'm questioning if they were actually any good lol bc aside from no one being ugly it's pretty faithful to the plot
Subscribed, gotta make memaw proud!
I really thought I was already subscribed since I been watching your stuff a bit. Almost wonder if it unsubbed me.
Grandama reveal at 600k? bet
Nah you did not just compare them to Oli Lodon, you did so much damage to that character with that one line it felt like you reached out of the screen and slapped the actor who played him 🤣
I remember reading Uglies in high school as one of those mandated type books for English class. I actually thought it wasn't bad . The book. The movie is kinda shit tho
Its wild that i still don't really get why they're rebelling. Like... what is the actual problem with the pretty side? Vague reversalble brain damage that doesn't affect memory (since everyone still remembers their 'ugly' friends after yaasification)? Maybe I'll check out the book since it apparently does it well.
I thought this was Evil Pinely but then I realized it was just Pinely and the real evil is Pinely’s grandma