The opposite strat is to bullshit all the time, then no one takes you seriously and you wont get in trouble for what you say. And also you get to deal with the sadness of not being believed when you are being genuine. Oh shit I think I proved myself wrong.
@@OlCrunchy nothing like that; there’s some fascism in it, but beyond that it’s a completely different paradigm of uncomfortable from either of those, it’s black comedy. might not even bug you tbh.
I felt exactly the same way. I'm so happy for how much Adam has grown although I still hear cope here but back then I was disappointed that one of my favourite critics felt "too cool" for this show.
Wow this movie fight was the reason I first looked up YMS because he was the first one on that show who sounded normal and smart😂 been a fan of Adum ever since! Grateful he went on the show
Also burrying this into the reply tab for anyone caring : i love how adam just draws and gives them the "dis bich distracted/talkin?" glance , deserved retaliation grade on shutting down full opinions imo
Holy cow! I loved movie fights and i had zero clue adum was on it. I watched it a ton. This is a well and true treat for me. My teo favorite kovie reviewers are yms and dan murrell and i disnt realize theyve actually met.
This is the only episode of Movie Fights I have ever watched. Hearing all the tea from Adum about how the show is run, and seeing Adum react to his younger self, is fascinating.
Didn’t know adum was on movie fights, this is hilarious. Him giving these answers would have made it really funny if he did more. I still follow Dan Murrell also he’s great.
I used to really love Movie Fights, it's how I got to discover a lot of interesting creators on RUclips. Looking back at some episodes, I'm surprised at how I endured them. People like Dan Murrell and Alicia Malone were worth watching for, but most of the time it's just people wrapped up in their nostalgia and bullshit arguments . I'm glad to know I've grown as well as a film and content consumer/enjoyer. Also, I still think you did a good job defending Brazil. Genuinely great choice!
Fascinating learning the behind the scenes for this show. Never took these debates seriously they were always at their best when the crew leaned into that (i.e. Dan's Upstate New York Rant). That being said, there were some genuinely great moments (i.e. Roth Cornett accurately pitching/predicting Wandavision).
I remember watching this when it first came out! I was a big Movie Fights fan and even at the time I could see how different Adum’s opinions and vibe was to all of the regular contestants. I also recall The Flick Pick saying he was misinformed just as Adum was with his Pokémon video. Flick got his own Screen Junkies show and had at least “signed” or started filming, potentially even finished the entire series, before he knew it would all be only for Screen Junkies Plus subscribers.
This is so nostalgic for me, though cringe at fact used to watched screen junkies so much back then but remember watching this exact video and led me to watching YMS regularly as am now very grateful for. Though feel so old knowing was 9yrs ago now 😬 joining Adam in twinkdeath 😢
“You’ve heard the pitches, why is yours the best?” is such a backwards question, it’d be so much more genuine and interesting if they workshopped the pitches together instead of just blindly having to say the other ones are bad
I remember that there was an episode where three people were arguing over which Star Wars movie from the original trilogy was the best one and it was really obvious that they had assigned the opinions beforehand.
They were the product of their time. Blockbusters was booming at this period,Marvel, Star Wars and “geek” culture in general. People don’t care about moves right now.
Commenting before watching: I regularly think of that video and always wonder what the fuck was Adum scribbling so aggressively on that piece of paper 😂 Hope he mentions that. If that even was the same appearance I'm thinking about? Was he in more than one episode? Anyway, thanks for the vids Olivia!❤
I honestly thought Adum still talked like that off-camera. A lot of performers have a "TV voice" that they use. It's interesting hearing wrestlers talk in interviews and they sound nothing like they do on TV. Interesting that it isn't the case with Adum. Also, I watched Movie Fights from time to time, but mainly when Andy was the host. For whatever reason, Andy was the only one who actually judged it on the merit of their argument. Other hosts would just judge based on the choice, making the debate mostly irrelevant.
God I love how non-soy Adum is. Just such an unusual thing among online film critics, so I'm glad we get to hear from his unique perspective on this kinda stuff
I just realized this must have been around the same time he recorded the Gun Safety for Women thing, same shirt and same month of 2015 haha *"Wow, hey guys"*
Man, I hope Adum is having a good holiday season so far- he deserves it. RIP Scoot, the man, the myth, the legend. A great guy- never forgotten, always remembered fondly.
I've never cared for Screen Junkies. I hated their main show with Hal Rudnick, although I did think Honest Trailers was funny. Also I like how Adam clowned on these guys for their 80's nostalgia and then went with a Rick and Morty answer, which is very much a 2010's thing.
I recognized Mike Carlson as one of the 3 co-hosts of my favorite show, Podcast: The Ride! It’s definitely worth listening to if you love theme parks like Disney World, Universal, or other weird themed entertainment
To add insult to injury, After they wrongfully terminated Andy Signore for no reason, the people at Screen Junkies PROMISED to make all the SJ Plus content free. Instead they deleted all of it..........
Watching this after watching Andrew Garfield in the criterion closet also talking about Brazil means I know what I need to get next time there's a criterion sale at barnes and noble
The format of this podcast is absurd. Like the only response anyone should have to anyone having another favorite movie from that year is "Okay. Good for you." Like how do you even argue against someone having a different favorite than you even as a game? The defense of "Well you don't like those things but I do" trumps literally anything you could say, so technically everyone should get a point each round or no one. So dumb lol. No surprise that this channel was managed by a large corporation as Adam said, this is clearly from the mind of someone going "how can we talk about movies from a year but keep engagement up". On that being said, I will illogically refuse to acknowledge that 2015 was a long time ago. It wasn't. It was 3 years ago. It always will be.
I'd genuinely love a sincere version of movie fights, if anyone knows of anyone doing that. Like just a group of people genuinely arguing and discussing a movie topic.
That's the thing that put me off movie fights, they say "it's all about the arguments" but so often the strongest and most compelling arguments lose, and throwaway answers win
Let's not forget, screen junkies were one of many that redlettermedia made fun of in their nerd crew videos. They were exactly the fans that loved only fan service in movies
I remember watching this video and thinking "this was good, I should check out some other Movie Fights episodes" and then all of them were soy cringe shit.
I remember watching that episode and thinking Adam is out of place here just because the question they asked you expect a more mainstream answers if that make sense
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"I'm not a bullshitter. Every time I got in trouble, it was because I said something that I believed." Rarely have I felt a greater sense of kinship.
When you're surrounded by bullshitters, it's very important for them to throw the honest boy under the bus.
The opposite strat is to bullshit all the time, then no one takes you seriously and you wont get in trouble for what you say. And also you get to deal with the sadness of not being believed when you are being genuine. Oh shit I think I proved myself wrong.
@@01claudLO redbar
16:06
its called the Donald Trump technique
Dan Murrell has got to be one of the nicest, coolest guys in the online movie space. His channel is one of my favourites, dude has real integrity.
Absolutely facts, love Dan Murrell.
Love that he broke away and is doing his own thing now!😊
I hope he can go on sardonicast.
The other guy who ran screen junkies...we don't talk about him.
I don't watch any of these guys anymore, but he was also my favourite 😅
Twink death :(.
Also omg seeing that cool cat shirt brings back childhood memories omg!
Coo Cat
@@senorsnout4417 bro I did not see that typo lmao 'owo'
What do you mean "Twink death"??
Wym childhood memories??
@@HOTD108_ Phenomenon where Twinks (youthful gay men) become too old and become "unattractive"
or something like that i think
Imagine in the shift in mood around the table if Adam picked Come and See for the Best of 1985 question.
Or Shoah. I guess 1985 was just a really great year for Holocaust films, weirdly.
@@knofear8859 come and see isn’t about the Holocaust
@@knofear8859 Holocaust survivors were eating good that year
This is how I actually found and subscribed to Adam.
See I missed this and I was watching Screen Junkies stuff at that time too. I found Adum from IHE after the Cool Cat shitshow.
Same I used to watch all the movie fights, then checked out all the YMS walking dead vids after he was on
I really liked movie fights but some of these questions sucked
"Marty, we're going to Afghanistan "
12:43 Hearing Adum's 'younger' voice was a trip down memory lane.
2015 was a mighty long time ago by now.
Nostalgia (for simpler times)
Adum missed a good chance to suggest Godzilla vs. King Kong vs. Cool Cat.
Adam doodling during the whole Peewee Herman talk was absolutely hilarious
I just ordered a copy of Brazil. Thanks twink adum!
Prepare yourself. It's my favourite movie that I hate to watch.
@@jacktadash we talking Come and See and I Spit On Your Grave levels of “wow that was great and you can never make me watch that ever again”?
@@OlCrunchy nothing like that; there’s some fascism in it, but beyond that it’s a completely different paradigm of uncomfortable from either of those, it’s black comedy. might not even bug you tbh.
Even though I haven't watched it in years, I can still remember how shitposty adum was in this vid
OMG younger Adam is absolutely adorable!
He's still pretty cute currently tho ngl.
I remember this pissing me off back in the day lol
It’s weird they’re only allowed to talk about movies Adam approves of. Anything too mainstream he has to voice his disgust.
@@HyperionStars what
I felt exactly the same way. I'm so happy for how much Adam has grown although I still hear cope here but back then I was disappointed that one of my favourite critics felt "too cool" for this show.
Bee movie is my favourite movie
Twink death gets us all eventually TwT
Wow this movie fight was the reason I first looked up YMS because he was the first one on that show who sounded normal and smart😂 been a fan of Adum ever since! Grateful he went on the show
Adam trolling since the 2010s
Trolling how?
We are closer 2033 to than to 2014
dont say that
We are closer to 2025 than to 1266
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Also burrying this into the reply tab for anyone caring : i love how adam just draws and gives them the "dis bich distracted/talkin?" glance , deserved retaliation grade on shutting down full opinions imo
We are closer to our doom than finding hope
Holy cow! I loved movie fights and i had zero clue adum was on it. I watched it a ton. This is a well and true treat for me. My teo favorite kovie reviewers are yms and dan murrell and i disnt realize theyve actually met.
The horse somehow got more _and_ less gay with time
Imagine that dementia plotline, but instead, Doc wants to go with Marty into the future to find a cure for Parkinson's.
Next: Adum watches when he silently watched Funhaus play GTA 5
This is the only episode of Movie Fights I have ever watched. Hearing all the tea from Adum about how the show is run, and seeing Adum react to his younger self, is fascinating.
This is why old media never had a chance. This is transcendent.
Didn’t know adum was on movie fights, this is hilarious. Him giving these answers would have made it really funny if he did more. I still follow Dan Murrell also he’s great.
31:57 The rick and morty snub was just another parallel to 1985's Brazil
Never thought I'd see YMS and Mike from PTR in the same video, what a trip lol
im straight but young Adam..... hunka hunka
Screen Junkies died off but Adam Horse is still clopping
I can't believe I used to watch just one of those dumb movie fights. YMS has no fear.
I remember watching this when it came out. 10 years ago? Fml
*9 and a half
Mid 2025 its 10 years
respectfully how the FUCK was this almost 10 years ago?
pony hair is just as shiny though ✨
2015 Adam was my rolemodel through high school. A time where I didnt have any friends. Its a long story
I guess I’m one of the few viewers who hasn’t been around for 10 years. New content for me, not for thee.
Fanbase has stagnated since the moviefights era, it seems
I used to really love Movie Fights, it's how I got to discover a lot of interesting creators on RUclips. Looking back at some episodes, I'm surprised at how I endured them. People like Dan Murrell and Alicia Malone were worth watching for, but most of the time it's just people wrapped up in their nostalgia and bullshit arguments . I'm glad to know I've grown as well as a film and content consumer/enjoyer.
Also, I still think you did a good job defending Brazil. Genuinely great choice!
I thought it was fine people arguing from nostalgia. It was the awful "judging" of the answers that got me to unsubscribe.
Nailed it
I just now noticed that I have Synecoche New York so today Im finally gonna watch the darn thing.
As a fan of Charts with Dan, Podcast: The Ride, and YMS - what a treat this is 😂
@@jordanlayton6540 Dan is the man
Seeing this, part of me wants Adam to be in like RLM BOTW or something
Me too, but they don't seem to get internet guys, tho; you gotta make a terrible kong fu film or draw a comic book to get to be on BOTW.
This episode of Movie Fights was how I found out what Rick and Morty was
How was adam's voice much deeper then than it is now lol
He said he smoked back then
I remember when this came out. I was so excited cause I was both a screen junkies and a yms viewer and this was just a nice surprise
I honestly preferred the other podcast he was on, on screen junkies plus. Too bad it was on screen junkies plus and not the main channel.
I would love more retrospective content on this channel btw, if he does them
Damn Adum sure did age like milk.
Fascinating learning the behind the scenes for this show.
Never took these debates seriously they were always at their best when the crew leaned into that (i.e. Dan's Upstate New York Rant). That being said, there were some genuinely great moments (i.e. Roth Cornett accurately pitching/predicting Wandavision).
this video reminded me that i first started watching yms bc i had a crush on him
Shoutout Dan Murrel he’s super nice and got a cool weekly box office show
26:41 I love how Adum gets mad at a discussion that happened years ago.
I remember watching this when it first came out! I was a big Movie Fights fan and even at the time I could see how different Adum’s opinions and vibe was to all of the regular contestants. I also recall The Flick Pick saying he was misinformed just as Adum was with his Pokémon video. Flick got his own Screen Junkies show and had at least “signed” or started filming, potentially even finished the entire series, before he knew it would all be only for Screen Junkies Plus subscribers.
This is so nostalgic for me, though cringe at fact used to watched screen junkies so much back then but remember watching this exact video and led me to watching YMS regularly as am now very grateful for. Though feel so old knowing was 9yrs ago now 😬 joining Adam in twinkdeath 😢
“You’ve heard the pitches, why is yours the best?” is such a backwards question, it’d be so much more genuine and interesting if they workshopped the pitches together instead of just blindly having to say the other ones are bad
Is 12:50 the first time Adum's been aware of the valley girl accent he picked up after playing Life is Strange??
Young cringey edgelord Adum makes me glad there’s no footage of me on the internet from ten years ago lol.
I remember that there was an episode where three people were arguing over which Star Wars movie from the original trilogy was the best one and it was really obvious that they had assigned the opinions beforehand.
Come and See would have been a good 1985 film to pick
That would’ve been an interesting debate and hard to argue against. But I bet they wouldn’t have picked it since it’s a downer (to put it lightly)
Or Kurosawa's Ran
Adam looks like a teenager there. Geez.
Fuuuuuck I miss Movie Fights. Anybody know of any podcasts or shows doing a similar premise nowadays?
yeah there’s one called Sardonicast. Not sure if YMS or his fans have ever heard of it though
They were the product of their time. Blockbusters was booming at this period,Marvel, Star Wars and “geek” culture in general.
People don’t care about moves right now.
By the criteria of ?
@@True_NOON just a similar premise to "panel of guests creates premises about movies based on a prompt and a judge chooses what the best one was"
No the other guy above
Thanks for reminding me how much I hate "nerd culture" content from this time period.
Commenting before watching: I regularly think of that video and always wonder what the fuck was Adum scribbling so aggressively on that piece of paper 😂 Hope he mentions that. If that even was the same appearance I'm thinking about? Was he in more than one episode? Anyway, thanks for the vids Olivia!❤
lol he did explain it within the first 15 minutes
"I was such a twink"
Once a twink, always a twink, Adum
I honestly thought Adum still talked like that off-camera. A lot of performers have a "TV voice" that they use. It's interesting hearing wrestlers talk in interviews and they sound nothing like they do on TV. Interesting that it isn't the case with Adum.
Also, I watched Movie Fights from time to time, but mainly when Andy was the host. For whatever reason, Andy was the only one who actually judged it on the merit of their argument. Other hosts would just judge based on the choice, making the debate mostly irrelevant.
Dan Murrell is a great reviewer and seems to be a genuinelly nice guy. He's also quite knowledgeable. You greatly underestimate him.
Doodling Cool Cat while they keep talking is such a chad move....... 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
God I love how non-soy Adum is. Just such an unusual thing among online film critics, so I'm glad we get to hear from his unique perspective on this kinda stuff
I just realized this must have been around the same time he recorded the Gun Safety for Women thing, same shirt and same month of 2015 haha
*"Wow, hey guys"*
I hope back to the future is recommended on sardonicast, it’s such an immaculately written film, as well as one of the funniest comedies ever made
Man, I hope Adum is having a good holiday season so far- he deserves it. RIP Scoot, the man, the myth, the legend. A great guy- never forgotten, always remembered fondly.
I think you mean “Fondley”
Hot take: Adam was replaced at some point, because he looks and sounds like a completely different person
Smoking and quitting can change it (iirc during the later middle he said that he still smoked at that point of recording)
I would have sworn that I've heard Adum share his original pitch for the Rick & Morty scenario in Movie Fights before.
8:15 just shows how out of touch those guys were, gen z/alpha LOVES 9/11 jokes
34:32 Adam predicting the Matrix 4 and Joker 2 years
That’s so weird because I just found the old movie fights playlist, I remember getting so much entertainment value watching these back in the day lol
I've never cared for Screen Junkies. I hated their main show with Hal Rudnick, although I did think Honest Trailers was funny.
Also I like how Adam clowned on these guys for their 80's nostalgia and then went with a Rick and Morty answer, which is very much a 2010's thing.
I recognized Mike Carlson as one of the 3 co-hosts of my favorite show, Podcast: The Ride! It’s definitely worth listening to if you love theme parks like Disney World, Universal, or other weird themed entertainment
To add insult to injury,
After they wrongfully terminated Andy Signore for no reason, the people at Screen Junkies PROMISED to make all the SJ Plus content free. Instead they deleted all of it..........
The only thing different between Adam now and then is his hair is back now
It’s a shame that Adum didn’t get to pitch his Rick and Morty stops 9/11 film. It would have undoubtedly won
What did he mean by people want to cancel 2015 him? Or is it a meme I don't get?
What was your experience on Funhaus like?
Watching this after watching Andrew Garfield in the criterion closet also talking about Brazil means I know what I need to get next time there's a criterion sale at barnes and noble
The format of this podcast is absurd. Like the only response anyone should have to anyone having another favorite movie from that year is "Okay. Good for you." Like how do you even argue against someone having a different favorite than you even as a game? The defense of "Well you don't like those things but I do" trumps literally anything you could say, so technically everyone should get a point each round or no one. So dumb lol. No surprise that this channel was managed by a large corporation as Adam said, this is clearly from the mind of someone going "how can we talk about movies from a year but keep engagement up".
On that being said, I will illogically refuse to acknowledge that 2015 was a long time ago. It wasn't. It was 3 years ago. It always will be.
I'd genuinely love a sincere version of movie fights, if anyone knows of anyone doing that. Like just a group of people genuinely arguing and discussing a movie topic.
Wonder what Adam think about looking back at the episode of the PKA podcast he was on
That's the thing that put me off movie fights, they say "it's all about the arguments" but so often the strongest and most compelling arguments lose, and throwaway answers win
Let's not forget, screen junkies were one of many that redlettermedia made fun of in their nerd crew videos. They were exactly the fans that loved only fan service in movies
It's crazy how current Adum looks like a completely different person from when I first started watching him.
I'm halfway through the video hoping Adum will pick up the paper to reveal he wasn't even pressing down with his pen and the paper is entirely blank
As a ‘film guy’. I’m actually kind of shocked how many movies mentioned here I’ve never seen.
Adum is an energy vampire.
The breakfast club really gets dragged down by that god awful ending.
Wow this is an immediate nostalgic watch for mw
Movie fights as cringe as it is at times was really what got me into movies at a young age
man, throwback to when adam didn't have a gay furry voice
And now i have to find out what happened to screen junkies
I remember watching this video and thinking "this was good, I should check out some other Movie Fights episodes"
and then all of them were soy cringe shit.
The Back to the Future sequel already exists. It's the Telltale game.
I used to love watching the earlier Movie Fights!
Adam looks like grimes here
One time I won a free Screen Junkies T-Shirt but they were out of shirts so they sent me an art print of The Torrences (I lost it shortly afterwards)
Adam should have went back in time to tell himself not to go on
I remember watching that episode and thinking Adam is out of place here just because the question they asked you expect a more mainstream answers if that make sense
great now I’ll have to watch the SJ video so I can hear the rest of that dementia plot