This is probably why I like Coraline as a coming-of-age story because the moral of *that* story is that it's dangerous to dwell on imaginary worlds and that the real world really isn't all that bad.
And there was the unnerving way that he just straight up forgot people so that he wouldn't have to emotionally mature. Tinker bell dies? Who's Tinkerbell?
Wait, so let me get this straight. This series is called Cracked After Hours because it's actually about four people employed by the Cracked office to write about pop culture, after their work hours, discussing things in a diner that they get paid to write during their work hours? It all makes sense now. Seriously this has been bugging me for months but I finally get how this series works.
Sam Riggs Yes, because we really need a "Cracked and Talentless Hacks" episode. JK, college humour has some good stuff sometimes. Edit: Now I think both are talentless hacks. So fuck it.
What about Disney Pixars Up? It was about celebrating life, especially adult life. The retiring man only moved on when he realised his greatest adventure was not his childhood dreams, but living (and enjoying!) his adult life.
Does Disney really get credit for that one? Yeah, they own Pixar, but aside from getting most of the money from the movie, do they really have a hand in Pixar movies?
um no thats a story about an old man putting everything on the line to defend and fulfill a CHILDHOOD DREAM and a kid getting the paternal love he never had and the old man indulges in this because he feels that its eating up this child on the inside therefore ruining his childhood
Fox and the hound teaching you that if your friend is in a different social class you will certainly grow apart and theres not much you can do about it.
It's kinda sad that a lot of people have not read the actual book that movie is based on. The book version of The Neverending Story has a complex message that more you immerse yourself in the fantasy world, you forget who you are.
Will Lyon yup, i've read it! in the end Bastian really isn't in "the real world" anymore! he gets adventure after adventure in this new "fantasia" he created!
The Joker has got nothing on peter pan. Seriously, peter pan is fucking evil. Seriously, he calls chopping some guy's hand off an "Innocent prank". And then in one scene, he laughs at captain hook when he hears the alligator that captain hook has a huge fear of coming right for him. Even the joker would be like "Dude! That's a bit much isn't it?".
In the original storie peter pan was the only one who wouln't age, and when his friends would age he killed them and went back to earth to kidnap more untill they grew old. There has been around the possibility of captain hook being one of those children who survived being killed by peyter pan and now wants revenge. (along with other adults who might be other children that captain hook saved from peter)
Thank you! It's nice to see someone else with my point of view. Everyone else is just like "Peter Pan is sooo innocent." and I'm just like he manipulates kids into comming with him to a land where they never grow up, that's like stealing their lives. To sum it up Peter Pan is just a stubborn butthole. I'm glad that Once Apon a Time shows him in his true colors.
The Joker detonated a nuke in a largely populated city and made superman kill his pregnant wife. Both of those he thought were funny. That was in some alternative DC universe, but whatever.
Although, in arguably his three best films, the late, great Robin Williams was cast as someone very dedicated and responsible to his job--still anti-establishment--but mature and adult in his approach. (Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and Good Will Hunting, if you're wondering).
Maybe you could add THE FISHER KING to that as well. He regresses to a childish fantasy about King Arthur and play acting as a knight, until his fears (and some punks) overwhelm him and puts him into a denial (and extreme bodily damage) coma It is only when Jeff Bridges embraces the insanity and sacrifices his fear of being normal (and being caught) that he gets "the grail" and gives it to Williams, who wakes from his coma.
Monroville Yeah, I've seen The Fisher King. It's a pretty good movie, but I'm not sure I put it on the level of Vietmam, Society, or Hunting. Of course, this much is all subjective. But I think most would are those three are at least all in his top five. Unless you just flat out dislike one, as my cousin does with Good Will Hunting for some reason.
What Dreams May Come. You don't get more adult than mourning the death of your children, dying yourself, finding out your wife committed suicide, and traveling to Hell on a rescue mission.
Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire features a vampire child names Claudia. Claudia was turned into a vampire when she was a child and hence she, physically, stayed a child forever. But she grew older, 65+ years and she still stayed a child and it was devastating for her. The reason why is because, while she was a child on the outside, she was an adult on the inside. She was very clever, loved reading books, was an artist and a musician, but despite all that she was miserable. She was older than most people she met and because of her physical appearance, no adult took her seriously. She looked at beautiful women and was envious of them, because she "wanted to be them". No man ever wanted her. So the sad part about being physically a child forever, is that you mentality grows older.
Jonna Jacobsen Yeeaah I don't think a "loving pedophile" actually exists, in relation to the recipient of their desire - a pedophile would "love" (lust after) Claudia due solely to the fact she does have the body of a child, nothing more...uhgh, fucked up indeed. As if there weren't enough screwed up relationships in Interview with the Vampire
EverythingFan02 Well, Lestat does refer Claudia as his "lover" in later books... And if you read the graphic novel "Claudia's Story" by Ashley Marie Witter, Claudia refers Luis as her "lover", saying things such "Luis, lover?", "after the arrival in Paris, we were in love again", etc.
Thinking she could never find love or be taken seriously is pretty far-fetched. Hypopituitarism can cause adults to look like small childreIf you're an adult, you're an adult.
@@Noouuuuuthat's true, but also in the books vampires don't have physical sexual relationships. Mostly because of Lestat and Louis being a gay couple, but the time period it was written in it wouldn't have been received very well
"point of order, he wears tights." Well duh, thats why hes the coolest kid of them all. You WISH you could rock tights AND win all the fangirls while doing so.
Never Ending story- Death is inevitable (or however you spell it) Never-Ending story- Acknowledge death and you will wallow in sadness and sorrow Never-Ending story- core message: give up on adult reality Peter Pan- Fear the progression of time Hook- we were wrong about growing up. It sucks. Gremlins 1- Puberty is something you should absolutely fear. Gremlins 2- it's better to be dead than grown up.
I recently caught Hook on TV, which I had not seen since I was a kid. The true lesson from that movie is that everyone grows up, even Peter Pan. The important thing is not to lose the childhood spirit like Peter had, and become in the words of Wendy, a pirate.
if Gremlins is a coming-of-age movie then so isn't "Children of the Corn"a where kids get so fed up with adults messing everything up they just literally wiped them out
I would say no. Because it isn't about kids being fed up with Adults. It's one kid believing in the devil and manipulating other kids to murder people to please said devil. And when they stop doing that, the Devil possess the believer and starts killing them too.
Can I just say, the original tale of Peter Pan had Peter killing the boys when they were too old, because he thought they were going to go after him and over throw him. Captain Hook and the other pirates were lost boys that had escaped and they were trying to save the others.
WTF? In the Neverending Story the Nothing doesn't represent death; it represents depression. The entire movie is about the protagonist being horribly and clinically depressed and no-one in real life is helping him or acknowledging it. In the very beginning of the movie, we're even treated to an exposition of how since his mom died he's stopped doing homework, and lost interest in everything he used to love doing, and we see him poking at his breakfast like he has no appetite at all. CLASSIC SYMPTOMS of major depression.
Also, if you succumb to sadness, then the swamp swallows you. Bastian begs for his horse to snap out of it and feel the joy of how much he loved that horse the way you do with a suicidal friend or family member. The feeling of emptiness is the Nothing. It's worth than death. It's the lack of dreams and the lack of hope, which are what make Fantasia exist. This is what happens when you become numb to the world and give up on life.
+AcentricOm I thought the Nothing was more of just cynicism as a whole. Taking everything with a grain of salt and not allowing any sort of childish whimsy and indulgence. Unfortunately no one took that to seriously because everything is super serious now. Comic book characters, cartoons, toys, all those Bastians of hope for children are becoming darker and grittier. Except in the real world, refusing to be apart of the cynicism only has you branded an outcast and child-like. You have no choice to become a cynic and it is constantly growing.
Nepenthe Wang the nothing is cynicism and the death of imagination. Bastian is also not living in the real world, Bastian is living in the world of the movie, the audience is living in our world, which in the narrative of the neverending story is only as real as every other world in the story, with the idea that there is an audience reading our story, that’s what makes it never ending.
They had the right idea they just worded it wrong. The crocodile was ticking because it swallowed a clock. Thus the ticking sound was what Hook was really afraid of because it symbolized him being closer to death. The way said it, implied that he was just afraid of the crocodile.
Settling this once and for all. I know it's hard to tell if someone is half serious-half joking when typing,but really? I wasn't serious and you guys read way too much into these comments. Get over it already.
I absolutely freakin' love Dan's reaction when Michael says that "Rocco's Modern Life was secretly a post-modern one". It's a look of shocked realisation that Michael came up with something culturally analytical instead of him!
After Hours is the best thing on this channel, if there were any way you guys could make it a more regular feature I'm sure the majority of subscribers would very much appreciate it. I'm aware you're all far too busy and that it's likely too time consuming to be more regular, but shy bairns get nothing.
The entire point of the movie was that he was supposed to keep imagination alive. She tells him that he is inspiring imagination in someone else at the very moment (the watcher)! He wasn't in the real world.
I'm not saying I haven't seen some of their other stuff... just saying that After Hours is the only ones I actually look forward to and is the reason why I subscribed.
7? you covered 3 movies, 5 if you include Hook and Gremlins 2, but those were a part of the same argument. can't you give us 7 actual different examples?
Carefully rewatched and counts the lessons for you. Never-Ending story- Death is inevitable(or however you spell it) Never-Ending story- If you acknowledge it, you will wallow in sorrow and sadness Never-Ending story- Core message; give up on adult reality Peter Pan- Fear the progression of time Hook- We were wrong about growing up. Growing up sucks. Gremlins 1- Puberty is something you should ABSOLUTELY FEAR DOING and dread Gremlins 2- It is better to be dead than become an adult Hope this helped you find the lessons^^
Peter pan is Like a Mortal. He never Aged he always stayed a boy. He took Children from their Families,And took them away to Neverland. once he saw them trying to grow Up he would Eventually Kill them. some who escaped became Piratess, on Captain Hook's Ship. so when in the movie they said "Come Join us." they we're actually trying to save there Lives. Once again,Enemies are the Heroes. Hero's are the Enemies.
With every passing second we creep ever closer to the all encompassing abyss that with eventually envelop us, as we become one with eternal darkness. Farts are funny.
The Nothing isn't supposed to portray death. If you watch the whole movie, or read the book (SPOILERS), you find out that the Nothing is actually (SPOILERS) the absence of belief in fantasy. It's created by people not believing in fantasy anymore-- giving up on their dreams, hopes, and wishes. The Gmork even talks about it in his death scene. It's a lot like that Peter Pan fairy concept-- if you stop believing in fairies, they die. In Fantastica/Fantasia (depending on if you're reading the book or watching the movie), that's basically true for everyone and everything in it. The reason Bastian is their "savior," is because he firmly and strongly believes that they exist. That's how they get him into their world, too-- when he cares enough about them, and becomes invested enough in their story that they become literally real, he can go to them and help them. And because he believes in the wishes he makes on that bit of sand the Empress gives him, the whole world comes back alive. ….caaaaan anyone tell that it's my favorite movie? Yea, I'll creep on back out, now…
I love After Hours but I have to say this you are horrible people haha dammit you don't destroy people childhood wonderment or whatever left of it during their birthday. I'm crying and laughing in the same time goddamit that is a harsh truth. Best After Hours of the year!!!!
After a certain age women completely stop ageing or age backwards they have told me. My mom has for example been 40 for 5 years now. It's a fascinating biological mechanism. ;-D
I'm 30 but people always guess me at 19 or 20. It has a lot to do with genetics. At least that is what I'm assuming. I'm actually a vampire, I avoid the sun which probably helps. Granted my Dad is Native American and my sis is very dark skinned and looks about 10 years younger, at least she did until she had kids. Maybe that is it, if I don't have kids I will always look young.
This might explain why I like Disney's spin off series for Tinkerbell more than peter pan. You see in the Disney Fairies universe, while a fairy is born from a baby's first laugh they don't get any sort of childhood but rather they're just given their job and they work that job until they're either killed, eaten, drowned, crushed, or disbelieved out of existence. But dispite all that they remain very positive and enjoy the time they have. (granted it does help that the job they have is often something they both enjoy doing and are really good at it) It really is a good series and if you haven't seen any of it, go watch one of their movies or better yet, read some of the books.
It's been a while since i watched peter pan (almost 30 years) but i dont remember wendy being a pill popping, shroom eating, pot head. So please tell me that at 3:49 in this vid that the shit on the window sill was photo shopped. lmao... I love the subtle shit you guys do, it makes re-watching your stuff so enjoyable.
So you had a debate about what movies had the worst coming of age stories and broke down crying in a restaurant because of the pure horror that is growing older... by your self?
I work a 20 hour shift on my birthday, but then I never really celebrated it so it wasn't much different than any other day. The only day I celebrate is Halloween because it is the only one worth celebrating because there is candy involved.
ill keep my childhood with me forever but, ill keep it to myself, ill grow up but keep the hopes dreams and illusions of childhood in memory, you will grow up no matter what but you can always keep the memory and hopes of it
This is probably why I like Coraline as a coming-of-age story because the moral of *that* story is that it's dangerous to dwell on imaginary worlds and that the real world really isn't all that bad.
I thought the moral was to scare the fuck out of little kids.
That's a goal, not a moral.
Kitty Grimm For some the real world isn't all that bad, but for the rest of us. It fucking sucks, man.
Kitty Grimm I thought the moral of that story was though it would be nice there is a price for everything
+Kitty Grimm yes it is.
Fun fact: in OG Peter Pan, he murdered the lost boys when they got too old. (If anyone already commented this sorry too lazy to check)
I can confirm that this is true.
Famous movies about childhood.....
And there was the unnerving way that he just straight up forgot people so that he wouldn't have to emotionally mature. Tinker bell dies? Who's Tinkerbell?
Holy shit wtf
I read that! I also read that hook is one of those lost boys, who continues goes after Peter because he kidnaps children.
Wait, so let me get this straight. This series is called Cracked After Hours because it's actually about four people employed by the Cracked office to write about pop culture, after their work hours, discussing things in a diner that they get paid to write during their work hours?
It all makes sense now. Seriously this has been bugging me for months but I finally get how this series works.
No, they are literally fictional versions of themselves, forever trapped in the diner. These videoes are their only reality, they hint on this.
Yes
Are you still stupid?
Poor Katie. She just wanted to have a nice birthday and all the guys ruined it.
To be fair, that’s what they do.
Hello person from 7 years ago.
@@bigboris5774 cq ... cq ... is there still anyone left in the crack'd universe? cq ... cq ...
I'd leave a funny comment but what's the point... gotta grow up sometime I guess.
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Hello All. You should make a joint page between you and cracked. or at least a joint episode
Sam Riggs
Yes, because we really need a "Cracked and Talentless Hacks" episode.
JK, college humour has some good stuff sometimes.
Edit: Now I think both are talentless hacks. So fuck it.
@CollegeHumor
Oh geez, clear your browser history man, you might get fired.
Sam Riggs So a joint episode about?...joints?
Seems legit.
What about Disney Pixars Up? It was about celebrating life, especially adult life. The retiring man only moved on when he realised his greatest adventure was not his childhood dreams, but living (and enjoying!) his adult life.
Great message! Best comment on this video.
Does Disney really get credit for that one? Yeah, they own Pixar, but aside from getting most of the money from the movie, do they really have a hand in Pixar movies?
Alright then! No, Disney gets no credit for Up in my book.
um no thats a story about an old man putting everything on the line to defend and fulfill a CHILDHOOD DREAM and a kid getting the paternal love he never had and the old man indulges in this because he feels that its eating up this child on the inside therefore ruining his childhood
I WANT MORE AFTER HOURS!
After Hours is truly the gem of the Cracked you tube channel
After Hours is why I am subscribed to your channel.
After hours is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dylan Nichols Ditto
Agreed, love obsessive pop culture disorder too!
Soren: “Normal human aging is confusing”
Soren is Immortal Confirmed
Um, kind of regretting this whole 'being adults' thing now.
But then you wouldn't have your amazing TV shows we all enjoy and the world would be darker.
The irony is that all those movies are made by adults.
The only reason I'm sticking with it is to learn to assemble the childhood fantasy I had using C++ and Vulkan (assuming Vulkan is here to stay...)
Hey nerd u ain't lying
In 2022, life sucks whether you are child or adult.
Aaaaand... *PREGNANT*.
NOOOOOO :O
Getting older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
Well said. Well said.
KuroshitsujiAndMe It isn't mine, but damn I wish it was.
Kevin15047 Is it from doctor who?
Ash Ketchum No, heck if I remember.
Fox and the hound teaching you that if your friend is in a different social class you will certainly grow apart and theres not much you can do about it.
oh and another one is "it's okay for your friend to leave you behind to hang out with cooler people."
That movie made me so sad when I was little.
but at the end of the movie they make it clear that they still care for each other deeply, even if it will never be the same as when they were young
Anthony Vitera read the book
all Disney movies secretly teach a fucked up moral
I'm looking over the comments and thinking that no one has noticed that at 3:50 there was mushrooms, pills and weed in the background.
I love the detail of Michael not chipping in for cake and Daniel being so petty that he says it's only from him and soren
It's kinda sad that a lot of people have not read the actual book that movie is based on. The book version of The Neverending Story has a complex message that more you immerse yourself in the fantasy world, you forget who you are.
Will Lyon yup, i've read it! in the end Bastian really isn't in "the real world" anymore! he gets adventure after adventure in this new "fantasia" he created!
But when everytime Bastian makes a wish, he loses his memories which makes him go mad with power.
...How is that a bad thing?
The Joker has got nothing on peter pan. Seriously, peter pan is fucking evil.
Seriously, he calls chopping some guy's hand off an "Innocent prank". And then in one scene, he laughs at captain hook when he hears the alligator that captain hook has a huge fear of coming right for him.
Even the joker would be like "Dude! That's a bit much isn't it?".
Innocence can be a dangerous thing.
Maybe that is why he was portrayed as a villain on the TV series Once upon a Time
In the original storie peter pan was the only one who wouln't age, and when his friends would age he killed them and went back to earth to kidnap more untill they grew old. There has been around the possibility of captain hook being one of those children who survived being killed by peyter pan and now wants revenge. (along with other adults who might be other children that captain hook saved from peter)
Thank you! It's nice to see someone else with my point of view. Everyone else is just like "Peter Pan is sooo innocent." and I'm just like he manipulates kids into comming with him to a land where they never grow up, that's like stealing their lives. To sum it up Peter Pan is just a stubborn butthole. I'm glad that Once Apon a Time shows him in his true colors.
The Joker detonated a nuke in a largely populated city and made superman kill his pregnant wife. Both of those he thought were funny. That was in some alternative DC universe, but whatever.
“The Never-Ending Story” is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my childhood.
Yes. It should have been at least 3.4 billion hours longer if it even wanted to come close to being considered never-ending.
Although, in arguably his three best films, the late, great Robin Williams was cast as someone very dedicated and responsible to his job--still anti-establishment--but mature and adult in his approach. (Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and Good Will Hunting, if you're wondering).
Maybe you could add THE FISHER KING to that as well. He regresses to a childish fantasy about King Arthur and play acting as a knight, until his fears (and some punks) overwhelm him and puts him into a denial (and extreme bodily damage) coma It is only when Jeff Bridges embraces the insanity and sacrifices his fear of being normal (and being caught) that he gets "the grail" and gives it to Williams, who wakes from his coma.
Monroville Yeah, I've seen The Fisher King. It's a pretty good movie, but I'm not sure I put it on the level of Vietmam, Society, or Hunting. Of course, this much is all subjective. But I think most would are those three are at least all in his top five. Unless you just flat out dislike one, as my cousin does with Good Will Hunting for some reason.
What Dreams May Come. You don't get more adult than mourning the death of your children, dying yourself, finding out your wife committed suicide, and traveling to Hell on a rescue mission.
Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire features a vampire child names Claudia.
Claudia was turned into a vampire when she was a child and hence she, physically, stayed a child forever.
But she grew older, 65+ years and she still stayed a child and it was devastating for her.
The reason why is because, while she was a child on the outside, she was an adult on the inside.
She was very clever, loved reading books, was an artist and a musician, but despite all that she was miserable.
She was older than most people she met and because of her physical appearance, no adult took her seriously.
She looked at beautiful women and was envious of them, because she "wanted to be them".
No man ever wanted her.
So the sad part about being physically a child forever, is that you mentality grows older.
That is kinda fucked up...
Jonna Jacobsen
Yeeaah I don't think a "loving pedophile" actually exists, in relation to the recipient of their desire - a pedophile would "love" (lust after) Claudia due solely to the fact she does have the body of a child, nothing more...uhgh, fucked up indeed. As if there weren't enough screwed up relationships in Interview with the Vampire
EverythingFan02 Well, Lestat does refer Claudia as his "lover" in later books...
And if you read the graphic novel "Claudia's Story" by Ashley Marie Witter, Claudia refers Luis as her "lover", saying things such "Luis, lover?", "after the arrival in Paris, we were in love again", etc.
Thinking she could never find love or be taken seriously is pretty far-fetched. Hypopituitarism can cause adults to look like small childreIf you're an adult, you're an adult.
@@Noouuuuuthat's true, but also in the books vampires don't have physical sexual relationships. Mostly because of Lestat and Louis being a gay couple, but the time period it was written in it wouldn't have been received very well
That girl's got the best friends in the whole world.
Did anyone else see the weed and prescription drugs on the window sill when Wendy is shown waking up?
mikeyh0 At 3:52.
AKA adult life
+mikeyh0 i did lol
I guess the point is that adulthood sucks so Wendy has drugs to help her get through it? Lol
"Is she comparing herself to Jesus?"
This is the moment I started dying 😂😂
haha love the "and....pregnant" "*gasp* noooo" bit xD
The edited in pills next to Wendy. Goodbye childhood
hell totally missed that,but she dose look trashed when see woke up
Children's movies are gateways to the realities of life.
"point of order, he wears tights."
Well duh, thats why hes the coolest kid of them all. You WISH you could rock tights AND win all the fangirls while doing so.
I must be terrible at counting. What were all 7 lessons?
do they need to number them for you?
RomrotMechanikos I only heard like 4 to be honest
Never Ending story- Death is inevitable (or however you spell it)
Never-Ending story- Acknowledge death and you will wallow in sadness and sorrow
Never-Ending story- core message: give up on adult reality
Peter Pan- Fear the progression of time
Hook- we were wrong about growing up. It sucks.
Gremlins 1- Puberty is something you should absolutely fear.
Gremlins 2- it's better to be dead than grown up.
Kyoko Kanzaki I just wanted to say I love your name and picture o_o
I've watched all of these many times over and over again. You need to make more of these.
I recently caught Hook on TV, which I had not seen since I was a kid. The true lesson from that movie is that everyone grows up, even Peter Pan. The important thing is not to lose the childhood spirit like Peter had, and become in the words of Wendy, a pirate.
if Gremlins is a coming-of-age movie then so isn't "Children of the Corn"a where kids get so fed up with adults messing everything up they just literally wiped them out
I would say no. Because it isn't about kids being fed up with Adults. It's one kid believing in the devil and manipulating other kids to murder people to please said devil. And when they stop doing that, the Devil possess the believer and starts killing them too.
Ah, I only got about 15 minutes into Children of the Corn because it freaked me out a bit too much. I live in a farming community.
I agree with other comments: after hours is the best thing on Cracked right now.
Miss this channel so much
Kinda depressed about being 28 now. Mission accomplished Cracked...
Can After Hours be weekly? Seriously, this is the only thing I watch on Cracked.
That would take too much work and it would make it depreciate to fast and go stale.
Can I just say, the original tale of Peter Pan had Peter killing the boys when they were too old, because he thought they were going to go after him and over throw him. Captain Hook and the other pirates were lost boys that had escaped and they were trying to save the others.
WTF? In the Neverending Story the Nothing doesn't represent death; it represents depression. The entire movie is about the protagonist being horribly and clinically depressed and no-one in real life is helping him or acknowledging it. In the very beginning of the movie, we're even treated to an exposition of how since his mom died he's stopped doing homework, and lost interest in everything he used to love doing, and we see him poking at his breakfast like he has no appetite at all. CLASSIC SYMPTOMS of major depression.
Also, if you succumb to sadness, then the swamp swallows you. Bastian begs for his horse to snap out of it and feel the joy of how much he loved that horse the way you do with a suicidal friend or family member.
The feeling of emptiness is the Nothing. It's worth than death. It's the lack of dreams and the lack of hope, which are what make Fantasia exist. This is what happens when you become numb to the world and give up on life.
+AcentricOm So the end of the move is him succumbing to the depression indefinitely and losing touch with reality? damn
+AcentricOm I thought the Nothing was more of just cynicism as a whole. Taking everything with a grain of salt and not allowing any sort of childish whimsy and indulgence. Unfortunately no one took that to seriously because everything is super serious now. Comic book characters, cartoons, toys, all those Bastians of hope for children are becoming darker and grittier. Except in the real world, refusing to be apart of the cynicism only has you branded an outcast and child-like. You have no choice to become a cynic and it is constantly growing.
Nepenthe Wang the nothing is cynicism and the death of imagination. Bastian is also not living in the real world, Bastian is living in the world of the movie, the audience is living in our world, which in the narrative of the neverending story is only as real as every other world in the story, with the idea that there is an audience reading our story, that’s what makes it never ending.
Damn. The Gremlins bit was a minor mind-blow
In the book, Captain Hook was afraid of the ticking noise because the sound of the clock symbolized getting closer to death, but you were close.
That's literally exactly what they said.
They had the right idea they just worded it wrong. The crocodile was ticking because it swallowed a clock. Thus the ticking sound was what Hook was really afraid of because it symbolized him being closer to death. The way said it, implied that he was just afraid of the crocodile.
Shwah Gamer were you watching the same video?
Shwah Gamer
you should try paying more attention to the video next time.
Dude, I'm watching this right after Robin Williams died and just them putting him down is enough for me to hate them for the rest of this segment.
***** exactly, you can't get angry at them for a video that came out in March.
Hate for no reason. . A problem of this society
This was made before he died... Your reasoning makes zero sense.
Settling this once and for all. I know it's hard to tell if someone is half serious-half joking when typing,but really? I wasn't serious and you guys read way too much into these comments. Get over it already.
Carson Baxter well if you know people might not take it as a joke, then why post it
In Jumanji he actually faces his fears and embraces adulthood.
Oh my God, that was so fantastically depressing
the bag of pot on wendy's window sill haha!
And the pills
Don't watch this during an existential crisis...
Ultimate win is growing up to love your job, making a good living, and being happy despite what the world tries to do to you.
that stupid commercial keeps screwing up RUclips every time I try to watch a cracked video.
I absolutely freakin' love Dan's reaction when Michael says that "Rocco's Modern Life was secretly a post-modern one". It's a look of shocked realisation that Michael came up with something culturally analytical instead of him!
After Hours is the best thing on this channel, if there were any way you guys could make it a more regular feature I'm sure the majority of subscribers would very much appreciate it. I'm aware you're all far too busy and that it's likely too time consuming to be more regular, but shy bairns get nothing.
The "nothing" wasn't a metaphor for death, but for the lack of imagination and creativity in the minds of the children.
The entire point of the movie was that he was supposed to keep imagination alive. She tells him that he is inspiring imagination in someone else at the very moment (the watcher)! He wasn't in the real world.
Cherisse Scott That's exactly my thoughts about neverending story!
Yeah, they totally missed the message of that movie.
Dead dammit on a pogo stick, Cracked! Why must you always lour me in with hopes of funnies then spit a depressing epiphany into my eyes! Why?!
This is my favorite cracked episode!!! Some real psychological analysis is going on here.
It's like you guys are discussing literature, but in a fun way. Mind=blown once again.
I have watched this video about five times and it just gets better! MAKE MORE!!!! Please?
The crocodile = time thing blew my mind.
I have been watching this playlist for like 2h now.. these guys are the best
Her sad face at the end is perfect.
This was a pretty fantastic watch. Very well written and delivered.
Brb, I need to go to the doctor for some anti-depressants
I know this was made before Robin Williams' suicide, but it still gives the comments about his movies a much darker edge.
WE ALL NEED MORE AFTER HOURS!
Love the Gremlins analysis! It's way too on point.
I will never look at Gremlins the same again
Dan reaction to "Rocco's post modern life " is priceless.
I pretty much only watch After Hours
that is a big mistake
I'm not saying I haven't seen some of their other stuff... just saying that After Hours is the only ones I actually look forward to and is the reason why I subscribed.
I like anything with Michael Swaim, Does Not Compute and Cracked TV (which came out long before Tosh.0 despite what people may claim.
That "big strong hands" scene by the Rock-Biter still gets me to this day.
7? you covered 3 movies, 5 if you include Hook and Gremlins 2, but those were a part of the same argument. can't you give us 7 actual different examples?
3 movies, 7 lessons. learn to listen and learn a bit of analysis that way you won't get so anal over the title.
why don't you explain these 7 lessons then because i only got 3
Carefully rewatched and counts the lessons for you.
Never-Ending story- Death is inevitable(or however you spell it)
Never-Ending story- If you acknowledge it, you will wallow in sorrow and sadness
Never-Ending story- Core message; give up on adult reality
Peter Pan- Fear the progression of time
Hook- We were wrong about growing up. Growing up sucks.
Gremlins 1- Puberty is something you should ABSOLUTELY FEAR DOING and dread
Gremlins 2- It is better to be dead than become an adult
Hope this helped you find the lessons^^
.....I only counted 3 lessons....and 2 were mostly the same basic idea.
WOOOOOO After hours!
"Send us your ideas for After Hours... nevermind!'
I miss this shit so much.
So....I'm kinda depressed now.
I haven't watched Cracked in ages and I was worried these wouldn't still exist. They do and I am so happy...
Peter pan is Like a Mortal. He never Aged he always stayed a boy. He took Children from their Families,And took them away to Neverland. once he saw them trying to grow Up he would Eventually Kill them. some who escaped became Piratess, on Captain Hook's Ship. so when in the movie they said "Come Join us." they we're actually trying to save there Lives. Once again,Enemies are the Heroes. Hero's are the Enemies.
The term is "Immortal," If he never ages.
OKAY I MADE A MISTAKE. (There arecaps for a reason)
Marceline Fallen And... what is that reason?
T-T I Dunno!!
That actually the original story, but it changed.
That thesis of about every Robin Williams movie ever made was a nice love letter to the late Robin Williams. Nice touch.
Rest in peace Robin Williams.
this is the first after hour I've ever watched. it is amazing
Crazy that she just turned 25...I would have figured 28 also.
"Happy birthday Katie"
That part just got me Hahaha
With every passing second we creep ever closer to the all encompassing abyss that with eventually envelop us, as we become one with eternal darkness. Farts are funny.
The Nothing isn't supposed to portray death. If you watch the whole movie, or read the book (SPOILERS), you find out that the Nothing is actually (SPOILERS) the absence of belief in fantasy. It's created by people not believing in fantasy anymore-- giving up on their dreams, hopes, and wishes. The Gmork even talks about it in his death scene. It's a lot like that Peter Pan fairy concept-- if you stop believing in fairies, they die. In Fantastica/Fantasia (depending on if you're reading the book or watching the movie), that's basically true for everyone and everything in it. The reason Bastian is their "savior," is because he firmly and strongly believes that they exist. That's how they get him into their world, too-- when he cares enough about them, and becomes invested enough in their story that they become literally real, he can go to them and help them. And because he believes in the wishes he makes on that bit of sand the Empress gives him, the whole world comes back alive.
….caaaaan anyone tell that it's my favorite movie? Yea, I'll creep on back out, now…
I'm glad you got her cake, she looked so down.....
Man I miss these.
I love After Hours but I have to say this you are horrible people haha dammit you don't destroy people childhood wonderment or whatever left of it during their birthday. I'm crying and laughing in the same time goddamit that is a harsh truth. Best After Hours of the year!!!!
I love this show - can't believe I'm so late to the Cracked RUclips channel.
Yeah, she does look older then 25 tho. I am 26 and don't look as old as she does. I woulda guessed 28...
After a certain age women completely stop ageing or age backwards they have told me. My mom has for example been 40 for 5 years now. It's a fascinating biological mechanism. ;-D
I know right!? I'm 26 and I thought that chick was at least 30.
Tim Lavey
This goes double for asian women, until they reach a specific age where they loose 30 cm's and get ALL the wrinkles
I'm 30 but people always guess me at 19 or 20. It has a lot to do with genetics. At least that is what I'm assuming. I'm actually a vampire, I avoid the sun which probably helps. Granted my Dad is Native American and my sis is very dark skinned and looks about 10 years younger, at least she did until she had kids. Maybe that is it, if I don't have kids I will always look young.
I love Dan's look at Michael when he say the thing about Rocco's Modern Life
when this was made none of us realized this was Robbin William's last year on earth...
now I'm sad
I love the editing in these videos
Mowgli not only killed adults, he essentially killed his own children!
+PeeboTyson Gizmo is the main Mogwai's name. Mowgli is the kid from The Jungle Book.
There were NO wolves in Gremlins!
purgruv
And no sharks or aliens.
Kates hair looks good here, keep it!
Also, fun banter, you guys are great.
Mind is blown.
This might explain why I like Disney's spin off series for Tinkerbell more than peter pan. You see in the Disney Fairies universe, while a fairy is born from a baby's first laugh they don't get any sort of childhood but rather they're just given their job and they work that job until they're either killed, eaten, drowned, crushed, or disbelieved out of existence. But dispite all that they remain very positive and enjoy the time they have. (granted it does help that the job they have is often something they both enjoy doing and are really good at it) It really is a good series and if you haven't seen any of it, go watch one of their movies or better yet, read some of the books.
anyone noticed the drugs in the windowsill and when he was talking about Wendy waking up and coming back
Gremlins? Really? Haven't you heard about The Children of the Corn?!
That's not a coming of age movie...
Kevin O'Connell
"maybe not for the humans"
It's been a while since i watched peter pan (almost 30 years) but i dont remember wendy being a pill popping, shroom eating, pot head. So please tell me that at 3:49 in this vid that the shit on the window sill was photo shopped. lmao... I love the subtle shit you guys do, it makes re-watching your stuff so enjoyable.
Oh god, my sides
Happy birthday, Katie!!! (6 years too late, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
I hope these guys still get a portion of profits for watches, as this is the only thing by Cracked that I watch. 2023.
Katey's birthday is like exactly like mine... Except i was alone.
Allow me to hug you.
- \**Hug**/ -
So you had a debate about what movies had the worst coming of age stories and broke down crying in a restaurant because of the pure horror that is growing older... by your self?
i know that FEEL bro ...
In some level... we are all alone.
:(
I work a 20 hour shift on my birthday, but then I never really celebrated it so it wasn't much different than any other day. The only day I celebrate is Halloween because it is the only one worth celebrating because there is candy involved.
ill keep my childhood with me forever but, ill keep it to myself, ill grow up but keep the hopes dreams and illusions of childhood in memory, you will grow up no matter what but you can always keep the memory and hopes of it
I counted three horrifying lessons... Where were the other four?
They got too depressed to go on.
what u should do next is keeping these videos I get a kick out of every video u rock
Forgot "Kids Next Door" XD