this is like what if the christmas carol was made for people who write op-eds about how scrooge was right, written by goldfish that could only remember the last two scenes
I heard the premise for this and thought oh, this is kind of silly but whatever, until it dawned on me that the board members who were trying to gaslight were the ones portrayed sympathetically and got their way. Insane.
I never thought I'd hear of a plot that combined the "corporate espionage via mind hack" element of Inception with the "Christmas spirits change someone's life" trope, which ends up played straight in a last-minute twist. On paper, that concept does sound way cooler than the actual movie. Could you imagine? A Christmas Carol where the dreams are an Inception-style heist planned by certain concerned individuals in Scrooge's circle.
I had long thought that this movie was something my brain had conjured up, like it had been digitally removed from the iphone footage of my life. Now I can recommend this video as evidence of its existence. Thank you, Academy Award nominee AdequateEmily. And also Michael Pena.
The worst part is, this movie could have worked if it had been a thriller or a satire mocking the false sentimentality in commercialized Christmas. It could have shown the board members as firmly in the wrong, acting on greed and willing to gaslight their friend, and the actors playing Time, Death and Love becoming reluctant to go through with the plan until one of them snaps and tells Howard the truth. He feels betrayed and fires the board members, but the whole experience does work as a wake-up call for him and he starts therapy. Then maybe there's a time skip and we see Howard much better. He runs into one of the actors, and they engage in friendly chatter. The end.
This plan feels like something the gang from it's always sunny in philadelphia would come up with only that would be intentionally dark and funny and this isn't.
I think your passion is what makes your videos so great. You make a 40 minute in depth critique of a terrible film but also can't suppress your passion for Boston sport to throw in some jibes at the Knicks being terrible. That's Emily magic right there
Fully mouth agape at the scheme reveal at 14:59 🤣🤣 amazing, no notes, def something sane people would do to sus out if someone else is having mental issues
This is kind of how I feel about Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor. They spent the whole movie laughing at Buddy, not with him, teaching you a horrible lesson that he's discusting because he's fat, by just making fun of his weight over and over again, and then expects you to feel sympathy for him at the end and want the best for him, sympathy that the movie hast earned. You're supposed to think Buddy Love is suave and cool, at least at first, but you can clearly see that he's a complete jerk after five seconds. I don't buy that he'd want to be Buddy Love again after the first time, and I don't buy that the love interest would want to go out on a second date after how the first one went. The whole premise of this movie is ridiculous. I get how Jerry Lewis' shtick isn't for everyone, but at least Lewis' version had a variety of jokes, didn't repeat only two jokes over and over the whole movie, spent some time laughing with the Nutty Professor and sweet moments to feel sympathy for him, and had a working story arc.
Jerry Lewis understood the importance of the Buddy Love scenes to the story, that Buddy Love needed to contrast with the Professor, so he gave Buddy Love a different tone, he wasn't goofy like the Professor, so those were scenes more serious, because that's what was needed to setup the story. You get that wrong, the whole movie doesn't work. Even so, Lewis managed to get two moments in the Buddy Love scenes that are genuinely funny, they are subtle and they work for the tone of those scenes. That's something that the Buddy Love scenes need, and the Murphy version doesn't have, subtlety. Eddie Murphy just keeps being goofy and loud throughout the Love scenes. No contrast between the two characters/transformations. It so completely fails to serve the story.
This video is the best gift I could ask for. I loathe this movie with a passion. I first found out about it because the trailer used one of my absolute favorite songs, Remember Me by Thomas Bergersen. I ended up watching the movie as well and it pained me to no end that the song I walked down the aisle to at my wedding is tied to this trash can of a film. Your review was everything and more. I'm so glad you covered the deception in the trailer and how the 3 themes of the movie are not part of some greater idea but just shallow marketing terms. I seriously considered writing my own video essay about this movie but you hit every point I would have made with one exception. The movie tries to convince you that you're connecting to it on an emotional level by having these moms tell stories about their dead kids, but all this is, is just the emotional equivalent of a jump scare. Just a cheap way to draw emotion from the audience. Thank you for making this, I'm so glad that this movie is still getting dunked on to this day.
I knew this had a wild twist because I saw a review years ago but having my memory jogged while watching this and then getting the rest of the movie was a wild ride
I remembering being genuinely interested in this movie because of the trailers, and I am so glad I listened to reviews once it came out. I would've been piiiissed if I had paid money to see this movie.
idk why anyone hates on this film-such a funny concept to play straight, I liked it, great wacky premise (provisional thought; don’t stand by it after posting) film is borderline camp
Here because of a recommendation from Renegade Cut, with a good faith critique. Maybe consider quickening the pace of your speaking pattern? The uneven pauses affect the rhythm of the video to my ear.
this is like what if the christmas carol was made for people who write op-eds about how scrooge was right, written by goldfish that could only remember the last two scenes
This feels like three movies crashed into each other. There were no survivors
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When you can guess every plot twist by asking “how can this movie make me madder?” that’s a special thing you’ve got there
I heard the premise for this and thought oh, this is kind of silly but whatever, until it dawned on me that the board members who were trying to gaslight were the ones portrayed sympathetically and got their way. Insane.
I was shocked by the callousness of the scheme to get Howard to step down.
I never thought I'd hear of a plot that combined the "corporate espionage via mind hack" element of Inception with the "Christmas spirits change someone's life" trope, which ends up played straight in a last-minute twist.
On paper, that concept does sound way cooler than the actual movie. Could you imagine? A Christmas Carol where the dreams are an Inception-style heist planned by certain concerned individuals in Scrooge's circle.
Ok , now i want to see it
Central Ohio Film Critics Association Best Ensemble Award Winner - Michael Peña (American Hustle)
I had long thought that this movie was something my brain had conjured up, like it had been digitally removed from the iphone footage of my life. Now I can recommend this video as evidence of its existence. Thank you, Academy Award nominee AdequateEmily. And also Michael Pena.
As I recall, watching the last 15 minutes of this movie caused me to scream profanity at the screen until the credits rolled.
This movie sounds like an Always Sunny episode
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The worst part is, this movie could have worked if it had been a thriller or a satire mocking the false sentimentality in commercialized Christmas. It could have shown the board members as firmly in the wrong, acting on greed and willing to gaslight their friend, and the actors playing Time, Death and Love becoming reluctant to go through with the plan until one of them snaps and tells Howard the truth. He feels betrayed and fires the board members, but the whole experience does work as a wake-up call for him and he starts therapy.
Then maybe there's a time skip and we see Howard much better. He runs into one of the actors, and they engage in friendly chatter. The end.
This plan feels like something the gang from it's always sunny in philadelphia would come up with only that would be intentionally dark and funny and this isn't.
Feels appropriate to call this movie capitalist propaganda
Renegade Cut sent me here, and I’m delighted! Subbed so fast!!
Wow, that movie sounds like agony
You have a new subscriber in me! 💖
Thanks Renegade Cut for sending me here!
Oh God. This movie. I read/watched reviews of it back when it came out and they broke my brain. Watching a deep-dive into it is going to be WILD.
I think your passion is what makes your videos so great. You make a 40 minute in depth critique of a terrible film but also can't suppress your passion for Boston sport to throw in some jibes at the Knicks being terrible. That's Emily magic right there
This essay is a gift
It's like a film that was designed intentionally to make a worst twist than bad Shyamalan movies.
Fully mouth agape at the scheme reveal at 14:59 🤣🤣 amazing, no notes, def something sane people would do to sus out if someone else is having mental issues
I was honestly intrigued by this film from the trailer. Then I heard what it was really about.
This movie would have done so much better if it had come out in the 90s when yuppies were getting all new age-y.
After hearing that autotuning it would be very funny if the only oscar this got was for sound design
Wow I still can't believe this is a real film. It's so bad everyone seems so embarrassed that the entire culture wants to pretend it didn't exist
Just came here to say that all of the sports references from Madden's Turducken to the Knicks were hilarious
This is kind of how I feel about Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor. They spent the whole movie laughing at Buddy, not with him, teaching you a horrible lesson that he's discusting because he's fat, by just making fun of his weight over and over again, and then expects you to feel sympathy for him at the end and want the best for him, sympathy that the movie hast earned. You're supposed to think Buddy Love is suave and cool, at least at first, but you can clearly see that he's a complete jerk after five seconds. I don't buy that he'd want to be Buddy Love again after the first time, and I don't buy that the love interest would want to go out on a second date after how the first one went. The whole premise of this movie is ridiculous. I get how Jerry Lewis' shtick isn't for everyone, but at least Lewis' version had a variety of jokes, didn't repeat only two jokes over and over the whole movie, spent some time laughing with the Nutty Professor and sweet moments to feel sympathy for him, and had a working story arc.
Jerry Lewis understood the importance of the Buddy Love scenes to the story, that Buddy Love needed to contrast with the Professor, so he gave Buddy Love a different tone, he wasn't goofy like the Professor, so those were scenes more serious, because that's what was needed to setup the story. You get that wrong, the whole movie doesn't work. Even so, Lewis managed to get two moments in the Buddy Love scenes that are genuinely funny, they are subtle and they work for the tone of those scenes. That's something that the Buddy Love scenes need, and the Murphy version doesn't have, subtlety. Eddie Murphy just keeps being goofy and loud throughout the Love scenes. No contrast between the two characters/transformations. It so completely fails to serve the story.
I hope if I ever fall into deep depression my coworkers will pay the concepts of Love, Death, and Time to play themselves and talk to me....
This video is the best gift I could ask for. I loathe this movie with a passion. I first found out about it because the trailer used one of my absolute favorite songs, Remember Me by Thomas Bergersen. I ended up watching the movie as well and it pained me to no end that the song I walked down the aisle to at my wedding is tied to this trash can of a film.
Your review was everything and more. I'm so glad you covered the deception in the trailer and how the 3 themes of the movie are not part of some greater idea but just shallow marketing terms.
I seriously considered writing my own video essay about this movie but you hit every point I would have made with one exception. The movie tries to convince you that you're connecting to it on an emotional level by having these moms tell stories about their dead kids, but all this is, is just the emotional equivalent of a jump scare. Just a cheap way to draw emotion from the audience.
Thank you for making this, I'm so glad that this movie is still getting dunked on to this day.
I'm so glad you created this video because the premise is so diabolical and needs to be called out!
I knew this had a wild twist because I saw a review years ago but having my memory jogged while watching this and then getting the rest of the movie was a wild ride
So, that was an adventure I didn't know I needed to go on.
I only learned about this movie from Hevesh5's videos about making the domino sculptures! Naomi Harris deserves better material.
Oh no, it is the Book of Henry of Christmas Movies!! 😂😂
I love it when a trans-woman drags a terrible film over the coals at Christmas, especially when it's absolutely bananas.
I actually watched Christmas Freak, it's so unhinged it was actually really funny
What a twist.
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I remembering being genuinely interested in this movie because of the trailers, and I am so glad I listened to reviews once it came out. I would've been piiiissed if I had paid money to see this movie.
15:00 WUT?! This had to be written by an 8th grader.
Love your channel
Thanks, I hated it.
I can see dead p… Death, Love and Time.
I don't bother with christmas movies, I just had a good time watching The Omen with my best friend yesterday
This movie is a movie alright.
@8:17. I think Thor:Love and Thunder took that title.
why is this movie darth love actually
Thanks Obama
idk why anyone hates on this film-such a funny concept to play straight, I liked it, great wacky premise (provisional thought; don’t stand by it after posting)
film is borderline camp
Wonderful vid, anyone have the picrew link from her pfp
My friend drew this actually
Ok. Ok. Ok.
Bro.
The gaslighting went too far
You look so beautiful 🥺🥺🥺
This is really boring. What is the point of this video?
This is really boring. What is the point of this comment?
Here because of a recommendation from Renegade Cut, with a good faith critique. Maybe consider quickening the pace of your speaking pattern? The uneven pauses affect the rhythm of the video to my ear.
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