“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
I remember having a very poor sense of how long credits were as a kid. I thought they make up about 1/3rd of a movie's runtime. It wasn't until my family got a DVD player with a progress bar that I realized just how wrong I was! When I saw this comment, I at first thought "that's some short credits!" I guess I haven't been able to get that incorrect idea out of my head!
Oh yeah… that kind of people who unironically look with disdain on philosophical discussions that are centred around subject matter that already was questioned by said individual Classic part of many discussions
what baffle me is the desdain part if you are in a position of knowledge (as musch as you can know) you should be pleased to see people getting closer , it a great way to lead them further and yet some people take it as a an ego trip
That said I can get kind of annoyed when someone tries to convince me something is super deep like nothing else, when it is a bit basic. Like I have no problem with discussing it, but also this is not close to the end point you can arrive at. One time I got recommended what is essentially a self help book, as the greatest book ever, and while I get what someone could get out of it, it did essentially just tell you what to think with no real questioning of those thoughts.
That's not the worst part. The part that's truly pitiful is that they'd never had these thoughts before up until they became grown adults. That's what's so offensive. Of course, the sunglasses dude was a prick, but it's not like the other two characters weren't (up until the reveal).
i am very upset that this feels relatable, and i love it "if i couldn't share my realizations when i had them, you can't do that now and feel good about it, it's unfair!"
Saying we are insignificant next to the cosmos has always been a lazy form of nihilism. As Chesterton says, “Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a whale? If mere size proves that man is not the image of God, then a whale may be the image of God; a somewhat formless image; what one might call an impressionist portrait. It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
While I personally don’t disagree and prefer the post-nihilism viewpoint of “nothing matters” doesn’t matter, to play devil’s advocate to Chesterton and be the voice of the small man, I guess small man’s advocate would be more succinct, the small man can chop down the tree, kill the whale, climb the mountain, circumnavigate the globe, plunge the deepest depths of the oceans, even step foot on the moon, but not even an infinite lifetimes can the small man cross the universe. The small man is made to feel big by conquering, and he cannot conquer the universe, it is too vast. What makes the small man truly small however is not the limitations of his deeds, but the limitations of his insistence that deeds make the man. Understanding makes the person, he can learn about the tree, the whale, the universe. People are of the universe and its way of seeing itself, we are how the universe can self reflect and understand its own beauty. We can plant the tree, save the whale, discover the origin and age of the universe and its vast complexity. We are infinite, so f that little shit of a small man.
i think tying it to religion waters down the point, but i agree. size doesn't matter, it's how you use it. that sounds funny in this context, but i think it kind of works. it doesn't matter that we're dwarfed by the scale of the universe, it matters how we experience said universe. how we use "it" (our lives)
@@genericallyentertaining It's very different. Me, personally (and I was here when you had between 700 to 1000 subscribers, not the biggest achievement, but still), and many others of your subscribers would like to hear your thoughts on it. Since it's a popular show, and most of us would 've seen it.
" There is not a single thought you have had in your entire life that I had not had by the age of ten "- Next time my friends try to say something deep, I’m definitely throwing this at them
But like, the person using that was portrayed to be a bit closed minded: Got one ‘deep’ thought and stuck with it his whole life without any optimism at all. Even ignoring the optimistic takes(different thoughts) the other guys were saying
You see, this is the sort of thing you discuss in your youth, and then somewhere around 35…give or take, you realize no matter what the deeper meaning of existence is, it really doesn’t matter. You’re here, so you might as well try to enjoy it.
Agreed. You also learn different people have something else of value to offer. So what if sometimes you wonder (in silence) 'am I the only one who knows how to think here'? Those people in your life who 'don't know how to think, often surprise you and enrich your life.
I’ve been watching a lot of films and shows with my younger brother lately. Our lives have been a bit different and so lot of the philosophical or gory scene in shows wow him while I’m somewhat used to them. I enjoy watching these thoughts play out on his head so I do my best to shut this attitude up.
I kept thinking that he was either going to start speaking in a French accent or a Tarantino accent, like the guy in the “joke about polar bears” video.
I was expecting him to paraphrase Descartes with the famous candle bit too and instead he went on a totally different tangeant, pretty amazed at how subverted my expectations were.
mustache man's existential crisis slightly matches my own existential crisis at church when I was about 8 years old and I questioned everyones life choices that were against everything they were trying to teach us. Like so what... I just loosely follow these rules 1/2 the time? What is the point of all this?! Why must I wake up on a Saturday morning forced to be here at 8am when no one even follows these rules?! I think mustache man would love the movie I heart Huckabees.
The crazy thing is the hater friend came *this* close to experiencing enlightenment in 2nd grade, if he only didn't ascribe meaning to "being lied to" once he saw through the veil of interpreted reality.
The CGI mustache adds depth I didn't know could exist. The Mariana's Trench of generic entertainment, if you will. Wait. It's not CGI? It moves as if it is. I'm legitimately impressed.
I love this one. I can already tell "There is not a single thought that you have had in your entire lives that I had not had by the age of ten." is going to be one of the lines that I just randomly think about every so often. It's... I know what it's meant to mean but I just keep imagining it as a claim that every single thought they've had ever, he had already had. Including things like "I really like pastrami but the local grocery store never has it in stock", "Oh wow it's 2024 already?", "I feel like I've never seen a movie like that before, the way it forces you to adopt a new perspective", and "Did I really just get spoiled on It Has Been Said by the actual fucking book?"
Sometimes the prose in your dialogue makes me feel like Will Ferrell watching Mark Wahlberg in the Other Guys. “Wow, you learned to do that ironically? That was beautiful.”
"There is not a single thought you have had in your entire life that I had not had by the age of ten." "Tell me then, how did you conclude your contemplation of your very own obnoxious nature? I have yet to come to a conclusion."
The title of the video, "When your friend wasn't impressed by the movie" states that "the friend" wasn't impressed by the movie. But the person who choose the movie, lets call him "pretentious asshole that sounds like me at 12" for no reason at all, just a randomly generated name- This man seems to be the only person in the couch disappointed by the movie. This seems to imply that the friend in fact is neither of the two other gentlemen watching the movie, who were severely impressed and impacted by it, leading us to the conclusion that "the friend" of the movie selector was in fact, the movie selector all along. This undeniably proves he boasts about his intellectual feats and supposed outgrowing of simple philosophical conclusions due to his lack of friends, and the deep, unfillable hole in his chest, left by the utter lack of new accomplishments in his adult life- A life which is a non-life, a mere shadow of his past self, a "genius prodigy" wondering the deep truths of life, who might have been one of the great polymaths of history, if not for him being born in a era were all these deep truths have been uncovered centuries earlier, leaving him nothing but dust and lonelines.
I'll be honest, I literally looked up "movie end credits" on RUclips and used the first thing that came up to get that shot. I don't even remember what movie it was, lol.
the facial hair must have itched like some horrible truth that you can't fully understood but only accept as the explication of this all wronged geometry of this acursed place
Lmao, this guy discounts the evidence of his own senses out of a misguided Platonic idea that higher meaning exists beyond his perception. He doesn’t even realize that meaning is itself a human construct and that the only things upon which we can bestow the title of “reality” are those which we can perceive in some form. What a noob.
Mr Mustache Sunglasses, I have a question for you: How do you know you're real? You could just be a construct created by another being. You're whole purpose might just be "Nilhistic Asshole who refuses to improve themselves or find hope", either by accident or as part of a lesson for someone, somewhere. Like imagine if you were Generic Entertainment for someone. You're not based, you're not based on anything. *Drops the microphone*
I agree with the unimpressed guy, but for different reasons. Not everything is short lived and beautiful, because those concepts are only meaningful in a comparative frame work. If something is short lived, then something else is long lived. If something is beautiful, then something else is ugly. "There is no point to anything we do. But that is the point." Is a statement with no philosophical basis that I can see. Its the point, for whom? us? There is no point to anything that we do. So us understanding that would be pointless. Is the pointlessness of our actions the point for God? why? The whole sentiment is childish. If you really believe that life is pointless, then why are you still alive? If you believe that its not pointless, then you should be able to tell us what the point is.
You're the guy the video is critiquing. Nothing in this video was about the validity of the statement they made. It was about him being a pretentious asshole who thinks everyone is below him. He criticizes his friends' 'inability' to perceive the world at the level he does for just enjoying a movie because in doing so he raises himself above them. You're not agreeing with him because this wasn't a point he ever made Totally misreading the video just so you get an opportunity to display your 'philosophical thought' seems awfully fitting.
@@whazatt236 "You're not agreeing with him because this wasn't a point he ever made " Good point. I should have said "I am not impressed by that message either."
And that's why you don't invite someone who wears sunglasses, a scarf and a floating mustache inside
Don't forget the bald cap.
I am like number 301 on this comment
The floating mustache people are so pretentious. And they always complain about being cold.
It’s disgusting Descartes would steal the thoughts of that little boy centuries in the future
“I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tangenting here but one of my favorite lines from The Maxx (then animated MTV show from the 90s) was "You want the truth? Talk to Descartes, toots!"
According to the signing, the movie credits are over 6:48 minutes long.
It must have a sizable staff.
Meanwhile LOTR credits were like 15-20 minutes long each
Or going reeeaally slow
I remember having a very poor sense of how long credits were as a kid. I thought they make up about 1/3rd of a movie's runtime. It wasn't until my family got a DVD player with a progress bar that I realized just how wrong I was! When I saw this comment, I at first thought "that's some short credits!" I guess I haven't been able to get that incorrect idea out of my head!
The secondhand embarrassment... this is too painful to watch. Congrats I guess
Oh yeah… that kind of people who unironically look with disdain on philosophical discussions that are centred around subject matter that already was questioned by said individual
Classic part of many discussions
what baffle me is the desdain part
if you are in a position of knowledge (as musch as you can know) you should be pleased to see people getting closer , it a great way to lead them further
and yet some people take it as a an ego trip
I just like talking about stuff, I don't have many people who are willing to discuss deep philosophy with me.
That said I can get kind of annoyed when someone tries to convince me something is super deep like nothing else, when it is a bit basic.
Like I have no problem with discussing it, but also this is not close to the end point you can arrive at.
One time I got recommended what is essentially a self help book, as the greatest book ever, and while I get what someone could get out of it, it did essentially just tell you what to think with no real questioning of those thoughts.
@@RomapolitanLet me guess, The Alchemist?
That's not the worst part. The part that's truly pitiful is that they'd never had these thoughts before up until they became grown adults. That's what's so offensive. Of course, the sunglasses dude was a prick, but it's not like the other two characters weren't (up until the reveal).
The idea of a seven year old thinking to themselves "I've been duped" is just wildly hilarious to me.
Read Calvin and Hobbes!
@@jiminyhickerbottoms1846 oh absolutely great example
“Tooth bunny” 🤣🤣🤣
Wait... The Tooth Bunny is FAKE?!?
Sorry for ruining it, but we all have to grow up someday.
There is no Tooth Bunny, there is no Easter Fairy, & there is no Queen of England!
@@lawrencecalablaster568 That last one was savage!
@@camelopardalis84 -Titan- Tighten from Megamind was ahead of his time
Nah, the Tooth Bunny is definitely real.
I love how reincarnation of René Descartes wears star wars t-shirt through whole speach
i am very upset that this feels relatable, and i love it
"if i couldn't share my realizations when i had them, you can't do that now and feel good about it, it's unfair!"
Saying we are insignificant next to the cosmos has always been a lazy form of nihilism. As Chesterton says, “Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a whale? If mere size proves that man is not the image of God, then a whale may be the image of God; a somewhat formless image; what one might call an impressionist portrait. It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
While I personally don’t disagree and prefer the post-nihilism viewpoint of “nothing matters” doesn’t matter, to play devil’s advocate to Chesterton and be the voice of the small man, I guess small man’s advocate would be more succinct, the small man can chop down the tree, kill the whale, climb the mountain, circumnavigate the globe, plunge the deepest depths of the oceans, even step foot on the moon, but not even an infinite lifetimes can the small man cross the universe. The small man is made to feel big by conquering, and he cannot conquer the universe, it is too vast.
What makes the small man truly small however is not the limitations of his deeds, but the limitations of his insistence that deeds make the man. Understanding makes the person, he can learn about the tree, the whale, the universe. People are of the universe and its way of seeing itself, we are how the universe can self reflect and understand its own beauty. We can plant the tree, save the whale, discover the origin and age of the universe and its vast complexity. We are infinite, so f that little shit of a small man.
Good point. Gonna start a Whale based religion
@orterves kind of the opposite of Chesterton's point
@@JPKloess (that's the joke)
i think tying it to religion waters down the point, but i agree. size doesn't matter, it's how you use it. that sounds funny in this context, but i think it kind of works. it doesn't matter that we're dwarfed by the scale of the universe, it matters how we experience said universe. how we use "it" (our lives)
I don't know why this was the video that made me realize this, but I really think this channel could get big.
I was feeling sad today. Thank you I just laughed so hard I was crying through the last half of this. It's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
After watching Arcane Season 2 I really needed even more existential dread.
Oh man, I need to watch that. I really liked the first season.
@@genericallyentertainingI’m terrified because I know it’s going to emotionally destroy me, and when it’s over I’ll need more and it’ll never come
@@genericallyentertaining
It's very different.
Me, personally (and I was here when you had between 700 to 1000 subscribers, not the biggest achievement, but still), and many others of your subscribers would like to hear your thoughts on it. Since it's a popular show, and most of us would 've seen it.
" There is not a single thought you have had in your entire life that I had not had by the age of ten "- Next time my friends try to say something deep, I’m definitely throwing this at them
Don't be that fucking guy 😂
But like, the person using that was portrayed to be a bit closed minded: Got one ‘deep’ thought and stuck with it his whole life without any optimism at all. Even ignoring the optimistic takes(different thoughts) the other guys were saying
Your friend be like: "something deep"
I had my first existential crisis at 10
I had my at 9
Kinda late, tbh.
You need to read Howard Buten's "When I was Five I Killed Myself"
same somewhere about there
I had mine at 6. Not because I was some smart kid, but because of the crippling fear of hell caused by my christian upbringing.
I know that guy. He uses the phrase "And the depths of their ignorance is appalling" a lot.
You see, this is the sort of thing you discuss in your youth, and then somewhere around 35…give or take, you realize no matter what the deeper meaning of existence is, it really doesn’t matter. You’re here, so you might as well try to enjoy it.
Agreed. You also learn different people have something else of value to offer. So what if sometimes you wonder (in silence) 'am I the only one who knows how to think here'? Those people in your life who 'don't know how to think, often surprise you and enrich your life.
@@Anil18834Quite right!
I’ve been watching a lot of films and shows with my younger brother lately. Our lives have been a bit different and so lot of the philosophical or gory scene in shows wow him while I’m somewhat used to them. I enjoy watching these thoughts play out on his head so I do my best to shut this attitude up.
Dude, it's okay, you can just say you didn't like LEGO Movie
A perfect depiction of, "having no hope and without God in the world", as described in Ephesians 2 in the Bible.
I kept thinking that he was either going to start speaking in a French accent or a Tarantino accent, like the guy in the “joke about polar bears” video.
I was expecting him to paraphrase Descartes with the famous candle bit too and instead he went on a totally different tangeant, pretty amazed at how subverted my expectations were.
I like his pretentiously incorrect pronunciation of "impasse".
Impass-ee'd THEZE NOOTS NOOTS
holy cow. and i mean it when i say it. good video. really. truly. i applaud you. it was a good video.
need i say more?
You needed this video to make you feel something?
@@tomraineofmagigor3499 You needed this comment to make you write something?
@@PrismMime47 I can't tell if you're joking or not
@@tomraineofmagigor3499 Don't worry, you're cool, I was only joking. 😅
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."
Jean-Luc Godard
mustache man's existential crisis slightly matches my own existential crisis at church when I was about 8 years old and I questioned everyones life choices that were against everything they were trying to teach us. Like so what... I just loosely follow these rules 1/2 the time? What is the point of all this?! Why must I wake up on a Saturday morning forced to be here at 8am when no one even follows these rules?!
I think mustache man would love the movie I heart Huckabees.
How did we both have similar realizations?
Each rule violation has a chance of causing trouble. Eventually, if you go whole-hog violating rules, you'll hurt yourself &/or the folks around you.
Yeah. Teaching Christianity or Islam is a form of grooming
The COMMITMENT to such a long build up for the punchline, 11/10. Haven't had a joke hit that hard since Nichijou!
Excuse you the tooth bunny is absolutely real!!
The ending is so spot on
Dude. . . You chose the movie.
me when my high school english teacher said we'd have our first existential crisis in our 20s
Why do i think that the sunglasses friend was kind of spitting.
"So, you want to watch another movie ?"
Oh my god he's an existential crisis gatekeeper 😂
6:24 Worst part is that this is the most realistic part of it all 😭😭😭
6:48 really want to see this film with Will Ferrell, Helena Bonham Carter, David Ogden Stiers, etc.
Happy to see that Anthony Fantano has expanded to movie reviews now. You love to see the growth.
I checked out after he started talking about the candle
The crazy thing is the hater friend came *this* close to experiencing enlightenment in 2nd grade, if he only didn't ascribe meaning to "being lied to" once he saw through the veil of interpreted reality.
Not impressed by this video.
😂
The overall joke might have been improved just a bit of that was a 24 hour funeral candle
thats a lot of word salad to basically say your a arrogant nihilist
My question is… why are you friends again?
Man Carrying the Existential Burden of Metacognition
(he can be a little condescending just give him space)
The credits are going on for way too long for how old the film seems to be
The CGI mustache adds depth I didn't know could exist. The Mariana's Trench of generic entertainment, if you will.
Wait. It's not CGI? It moves as if it is. I'm legitimately impressed.
I love this one. I can already tell "There is not a single thought that you have had in your entire lives that I had not had by the age of ten." is going to be one of the lines that I just randomly think about every so often. It's... I know what it's meant to mean but I just keep imagining it as a claim that every single thought they've had ever, he had already had. Including things like "I really like pastrami but the local grocery store never has it in stock", "Oh wow it's 2024 already?", "I feel like I've never seen a movie like that before, the way it forces you to adopt a new perspective", and "Did I really just get spoiled on It Has Been Said by the actual fucking book?"
That mustache, is really distracting for a philosophical monologue of a disgruntled lack of impress friend.
This is what it's like to be slightly above average intelligence
This sounds like it’s about Everything Everywhere All At Once (incredible movie)
But who lit the candle?
I am confident that mustache guy was planning this whole monologue and lit the candle just before going off
I have an existential crisis every alternating day. I do not recommend it.
Wow, looks like Mr. Mustache really didn't like 'Swiss Army Man' here
Mustache man looks and acts like Jreg. But im also disappointed he's friends with NPC's.
Sometimes the prose in your dialogue makes me feel like Will Ferrell watching Mark Wahlberg in the Other Guys. “Wow, you learned to do that ironically? That was beautiful.”
this is how i felt about everything everywhere all at once lmao
This is so good and so uncomfortable I actually had to skip to the end
This is my new favorite character
Never been this early to an upload
I love comedy that makes me feel smart, but also tells me I'm stupid, but I still feel smarter, another smashing success my good man.
Okay. But this guy would never wear a Star Wars shirt. And would be angry even at the mere suggestion that Andor or The Last Jedi weren’t pretty good.
That is a quality burp!
Dude, that ending was so damn good! XD
"There is not a single thought you have had in your entire life that I had not had by the age of ten."
"Tell me then, how did you conclude your contemplation of your very own obnoxious nature? I have yet to come to a conclusion."
incredible how you shaved your head and grew a mustache just for this video
but what is a candle
Your stuff is always good but to this I must say…very impressive.
So… who did you show Everything Everywhere All at Once to
Double sided scotch tape with sticky on both sides would work perfectly with your mustache. I kept waiting for it to fall off.
The title of the video, "When your friend wasn't impressed by the movie" states that "the friend" wasn't impressed by the movie. But the person who choose the movie, lets call him "pretentious asshole that sounds like me at 12" for no reason at all, just a randomly generated name- This man seems to be the only person in the couch disappointed by the movie. This seems to imply that the friend in fact is neither of the two other gentlemen watching the movie, who were severely impressed and impacted by it, leading us to the conclusion that "the friend" of the movie selector was in fact, the movie selector all along. This undeniably proves he boasts about his intellectual feats and supposed outgrowing of simple philosophical conclusions due to his lack of friends, and the deep, unfillable hole in his chest, left by the utter lack of new accomplishments in his adult life- A life which is a non-life, a mere shadow of his past self, a "genius prodigy" wondering the deep truths of life, who might have been one of the great polymaths of history, if not for him being born in a era were all these deep truths have been uncovered centuries earlier, leaving him nothing but dust and lonelines.
No david foster wallace was pynchoned here in this video. Only michal chabon
One of your best videos. 😂
Why do I know this person
This is how I felt about Arcane season 1, I like it a bit more after season 2 though.
instar after instar lol
Is he bald, or is he wearing a hairnet in-character?
Yes
@@genericallyentertaining😂😂😂
Ironically, Descartes used his philosophy to, eventually, defend the existence & goodness of God.
I do and say such things.
I'm also balding and growing a mustash.
I get the idea but man, I feel like meaninglessness has come up a lot here lately.
Did his sunglasses turn into glasses, or did he switch at a point & I missed it?
Clip-on
You can see him taking them off at 4:24.
Wait.. Was that the credits to old school. Will ferrel as frank
I'll be honest, I literally looked up "movie end credits" on RUclips and used the first thing that came up to get that shot. I don't even remember what movie it was, lol.
Pshhht, you THOUGHT this video was GOOD??
*When your friend wasn’t impressed by the Generic Entertainment video
Wait, this guy is in elemantary school?
the facial hair must have itched like some horrible truth that you can't fully understood but only accept as the explication of this all wronged geometry of this acursed place
Lmao, this guy discounts the evidence of his own senses out of a misguided Platonic idea that higher meaning exists beyond his perception. He doesn’t even realize that meaning is itself a human construct and that the only things upon which we can bestow the title of “reality” are those which we can perceive in some form. What a noob.
Mr Mustache Sunglasses, I have a question for you: How do you know you're real? You could just be a construct created by another being. You're whole purpose might just be "Nilhistic Asshole who refuses to improve themselves or find hope", either by accident or as part of a lesson for someone, somewhere.
Like imagine if you were Generic Entertainment for someone. You're not based, you're not based on anything.
*Drops the microphone*
How did you keep your transitions dark that long indoors??
Existentialism is so childish
Lol tooth bunny
Who the fuck is the tooth bunny
oh. oh no.
Impassé
Bald cap (bad)
Thats pretty tru
I agree with the unimpressed guy, but for different reasons. Not everything is short lived and beautiful, because those concepts are only meaningful in a comparative frame work. If something is short lived, then something else is long lived. If something is beautiful, then something else is ugly. "There is no point to anything we do. But that is the point." Is a statement with no philosophical basis that I can see. Its the point, for whom? us? There is no point to anything that we do. So us understanding that would be pointless. Is the pointlessness of our actions the point for God? why?
The whole sentiment is childish. If you really believe that life is pointless, then why are you still alive? If you believe that its not pointless, then you should be able to tell us what the point is.
You're the guy the video is critiquing. Nothing in this video was about the validity of the statement they made. It was about him being a pretentious asshole who thinks everyone is below him. He criticizes his friends' 'inability' to perceive the world at the level he does for just enjoying a movie because in doing so he raises himself above them. You're not agreeing with him because this wasn't a point he ever made
Totally misreading the video just so you get an opportunity to display your 'philosophical thought' seems awfully fitting.
@@whazatt236 "You're not agreeing with him because this wasn't a point he ever made
" Good point. I should have said "I am not impressed by that message either."
Crazy
Wow hi
Now do a version of when your gf isn’t impressed by the movie!