The Ben Shapiro Cinematic Universe / Part Two: Lady Ballers - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Hi. Last week, we looked at why The Daily Wire is putting out original content that they claim is apolitical. This week, we're doing a deep dive on Jeremy Boreing's magnum opus: Lady Ballers.
Note: Some of the clips included in this video are shorter versions of what we wanted to show. An extended version of this episode is available on our Patreon ( / 100604962 ) and in audio form on our podcast feed.
Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by John Conway
Written by David Christopher Bell
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell
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00:00 - Intro
03:12 - The Basic Elements of Filmmaking
12:27 - Lady Ballers is a... comedy?
16:34 - Their political obsessions undermine the film.
26:07 - The character arcs are all over the place or nonexistent.
44:44 - They don't understand what they're attempting to satirize.
51:28 - Lady Ballers is bad even at being propaganda.
58:45 - This movie really hates women.
1:03:21 - The whole thing is based on a false premise.
1:07:36 - Here's some other dumb shit in the movie. 
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As a trans woman, con confirm that this movie isn’t offensive. It’s actually so comedically off base that it feels more like a meta joke about how little people understand what trans experience is like
Imagine being so hateful your honest feelings appear as parody to those you hate ❤
Edit: clownapiro
You are a man. Everyone just goes along with your fantasy when you are around to be nice. No one actually thinks you are a man.
They delude themselves into thinking they are "triggering" everyone by repeating the same lame jokes over and over again.
It's like the school bully that was never smart enough to cut deep, but becomes annoying through repetition.
It's weirdly self-disarming. Like, "oh, that's what they think I'm like? Ok, phew, they'll never be able to spot me then". Like, transmisogyny, as with all misogyny, has a way of making me feel very self-conscious about myself as this fear of sticking out or being "illegitimate", even if I know the people it's coming from aren't worth 2 nanoseconds of my time, but they made it so ridiculous that it truly hammered home that there's absolutely no reason to take anything any of these people say seriously, ever. It's like they parodied conservative transphobia and misogyny in some like weird meta commentary by showing us exactly what's going on in their own little main character complex headspace.
Also them completely dropping the pretense that they're on the side of cis women who are "the real women", and instead just going "no actually we think all women are useless and women's sports is dumb", like OK, now I really don't have to listen to you.
No surprise Helldivers 2 isn't satire for them, even tho it is superior and more explicit Starship Trooper movie, because they barely smart enough to come up with insults about trans women.
“Trans women become women to have it easier in life” is just so… offensive coming from the crowd that tries very, very hard to make trans women’s lives hell
And it's not like being a cis woman is easy either.
@@brook_angel very true
Conservatives just don't know the meaning of...Minding their own busyness.
My basic life policy: Somebody does something. It does no harm to anyone or anything...Ok, so leave them be. Who cares?
@@KitCatsx10yes! My nephew is a trans man and he says the way he’s treated is night and day. Couldn’t believe how respectful people are to him post transition.
Wanting to make ALL women's lives hell, really.
I feel like by coach straight up telling Alex they're wrong, and then physically assaulting them, he kind of validated Alex as a woman. Because what is the female experience if not a man telling her she's wrong and hitting her if she talks back?
Duuuude truuue
Exactly
Mind... Blown 🤯🤯
Transphobe tries to deny trans woman's identity, inadvertently treats her exactly how he'd treat a woman
Damn! So on point!
Every progressive commentator can realistically imitate a conservative. There isn’t a single conservative commentator who can realistically imitate a progressive.
Without being condescending
gee gotta wonder why that is
Conservative commentators, and nowadays many politicians, are basically caricatures already.
Because having basic human emotions isn’t attackable lol
It’s weird how coming from the general direction of “I can imagine how lives unlike my own might be bad and want to push legislation that helps that” makes people better at putting themselves in other people’s shoes
"Conservatism has only ever consisted of a single proposition: That there should be an in-group, whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group, whom the law binds but does not protect. It has never meant anything more or less, in any time or place." - Frank Wilhoit
Never heard this quote, thanks for sharing! Such a nice succint explanation
I completely agree with the quote, but it’s funny to me that many people seem to believe this quote comes from the political scientist Francis Wilhoit and not the musical composer Frank Wilhoit, who actually said it in the comments of some forum or another six years ago. Again, 100% correct quote- it’s just a really funny misconception to me.
Based Frank.
@@jessehammer123that is actually hilarious thanks for the context😂
@@jessehammer123Francis Wilhoit must be so annoyed to have to go “Yah that’s a great quote but that’s from the music frank, yah yah the irony is not lost to me”
The reminder that more than half of the Daily Wire crew's supervillain stories involve them being rejected by Hollywood is funnier than anything in Lady Ballers.
I think what’s weird about it is how easily they gave up. It’s like they expected success and accolades right out of the gate. Instant successes are rare, it’s far more common to be a ten-year overnight success.
@@toglizThey wanted it handed to them. The irony considering how often they criticize welfare for being ‘hand outs’.
@@Waspinmymind welfare should be only for conservative white cis men obviously, don't you even know econ 101? 🙄
@Waspinmymind of course they wanted hand-outs. They're literally all products of their parents nepotism.
@@TurbopropPuppy Ooh, I remember this class!
Bootstraps! Welfare queens! Taxes! Umm... gas prices!
Do I get my degree now?
They didn't give Jordan Peterson lines because it would cost them a fortune to pay Jim Henson's estate to licence Kermit's voice.
😂😂😂
They would have had to subtitle it because of the bizarre vowel sounds.
They'd also have to make the movie two more hours as Jordan Peterson goes through his word salads and redefining the entire English language.
Kermit would have a meltdown if he read that 😂
@@Rawnblade13that’ll be the director’s cut. Or they let him rant for a couple hours, waited for him to run out of breath, then went “okay, shoot the scene now while he’s falling asleep!”
Can I point out that a gag revolving around the idea that squirrel is so gross to eat that you spit it out even when you thought it was delicious is an *incredibly* soft-handed city boy take? Make it roadkill or at least like armadillo or something, squirrel is such a normal thing to eat if you live in an even remotely rural area.
It's yet another example of how disinterested these people are in other people's perspectives and ways of doing things, or basically anyone who lies outside of a narrow set of parameters.
God, it's such baby shit. Isn't it more "manly" to just not care? You could have even just made a better joke by having him be grossed out, then like whatever and keep eating it anyway
Yeah I noticed this too, thought they'd know their own audience better
theyre the breed of faux blue collar conservative that owns a pair of pristine cowboy boots, a luxury 120k lifted truck, and 300 acres theyve literally never actually seen.
@@trippingthelight that's the thing about conservatives, they only really know their own opinions on things and think everyone who thinks even slightly differently is the other.
So the inciting premise of the film is "The whole world has moved on from me and left me behind" and the resolution is "The whole world should regress until I am comfortable again"
Which really just is the plot of any of these right wing or christian movies.
Nice distillation.
😂😂😂 💯🎯
I love this because they also have the "don't be so sensitive" narrative about people who want to see any progress. So essentially the world should care about "my" feelings and comfort but not anybody else's.
This comment inadvertently reminded me that the “Left Behind” series of books are a thing that exists.
With a side order of "a person who learns something about themselves and feels happier and more fulfilled as a result, but the main character doesn't like that, is WRONG and it's funny to hurt them".
This movie: "Women civilize men." Also this movie: "Women can't civilization."
This movie sees women as a _helpmeet_ , i.e. a supporting figure, not a leading figure.
"Men are too dumb and emotionally stunted to do things, so they should be in charge" is what I got from it.
Men are more rational and less emotional but also they need emotional support mommies to keep them from being angry and destructive all the time.
@@BlackCover95interesting that word helpmeet exactly like in their heavily changed through translation Bibles
@@user-vf9ri2xq4i
Where did you think I got it? I use that word for a reason.
I'm not entirely sure why no one's pointing out that getting rejected from Hollywood is essentially the modern equivalent of getting rejected from art school.
My god... You're right !! Thats pretty much it 😂
What?
I thought of that instantly
@@caitlinjopepe541A certain well known fascist was rejected from art school and it's become a bit of a meme that that was what made him so bitter
Holy shit. In the 2030s the next Hitler will be a failed livestreamer or tiktok "star"
"This movie committed the worst crime a movie can commit. It's not that it was bad, bad can be fun - *it was **_boring."_*
ahem, i think you mean it was *boreing*
Jordan Peterson on “Lady Ballers”: “You ask me, ‘Do you think that “Lady Ballers” is funny?’ Well, before I answer that I have to ask, What do you mean by ‘do’? What do you mean by ‘you’? What do you mean by ‘think’? What do you mean by ‘that’? What do you mean by ‘lady’? What do you mean by ‘ballers’? What do you mean by ‘is’? And what do you mean by ‘funny’?”
"Its sad that so many young men do not-- Cannot related to the public.. Because the all know moral compass is always shifting to the north! The south is where the boys are because the carnal lust of desire is truely the father of the mentality of boys! [Interruption for crying] the woke agenda has abondoned all the poor and scared boys. Who haven't found god! The left isn't even the north!! How does that make SENSE?"
And lastly have you heard of lobsters?
Follow up question, did you suffer heavy brain damage or severe brain damage when you were put into a coma to deal with drug withdrawals from all the benzos you abused…
I’m a simple man. I see Jordan Peterson being mocked and I like it.
there are balls everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
Lady Ballers did have one good running joke:
The idea that the media actually talks about trans rights.
Well said.
OMG
Oof! So true. The only media that talks about trans rights is the right-wing media when they complain about how trans have too many rights (including non-existing rights).
Thinking about how even in a movie explicitly “about” woman athletes, they still didn’t bother to call up Gina Carano, an MMA fighter.
She was cancelled, so they couldn’t… obviously lol
finding out Ben Shapiro is basically a stay at home dad really took me out
Doesnt his sister has a whole chanel where she crows about how superior of a woman and mother she is for being a stay at home mother while also doing poscast/youtuber stuff as a full time job.
Because online jobs seem to be Schrödingers job for these conservatives, you're either a hard working breadwinning man, or you're a stay at home wife with a little side hobby tee hee
Actually was that his sister? I remember her being called something like miss shapiro but that mightve been cos she looks a bit like him and is also an online conservative...
@@guggelguggel7491 Classically Abby is his sister, yeah
@@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868they have combined Brett Cooper and Abby
Stay at home dad would imply he's doing the share of the housework. Instead he brags about he and his wife (a doctor who works full time) trade off days to take care of the kids, meaning there's days where he's at home but does absolutely nothing so he can do his "job" of complaining on the internet.
He's a stay at home dad and he looks like a mug shot of a school shooter.
The liberal lady leaning in and whispering "I'll cancel you" is kinda funny since it's a conservative's biggest fear. I'm sure the audience shrieked or shuddered.
Or got boners. I maintain that conservatives have a humiliation kink 😅
I hope so. It probably also accidentally incited a lot of empathy for the lady, since it's vindictive and a power play and conservatives love controlling and punishing others and it's what they do. Cancelling has been their thing to threaten with since America was founded, which was in 50 AD, right, being a christian nation and all and being loved by Jesus and his daddy, the ultimate vengeance advocates.
THAT was actual the kinky scene, like they get off on the idea of being cancelled by the hot girl that doesnt wanna fuck them. very weird
Oh...I'm sure they shuddered
Damn, I wish _I_ had a liberal lady leaning and whispering "I'll cancel you". Sounds hot.
For a man who decries Hollywood movies for pushing “agendas,” all of Shapiro’s conservative films are ham-fisted political statement first, semi-cohesive story second. Comedy… never.
Ben's the poster boy for "all art is political."
It’s also funny because very often the ‘agenda’ being pushed is literally just groups other than cis white males exist!
Like you take a pro capitalism or patriarchy or patriotic film or a completely apolitical movie and put a black woman in it and conservatives claim it is pushing an agenda
@@awandererfromys1680 cept bens version would read
"My art is all political"
There's pushing an agenda and then there's featuring serving politicians in your movie
He thinks he’s providing an equal and opposite counterpart for good measure, or something.
I teach a film class to high school students
Eye-line is literally one of the first things I teach to demonstrate that “some films are objectively better than others, it’s not all entirely opinion”, showing them examples of clumsy formal technique of different kinds
Every time I see that scene where he tells his daughter she’s supposed to be better at having nebulously “feminine” traits I hear the voice of Beatrice Horseman going “Now why don’t you sprinkle some sugar on a lemon? That’s a nice tasty Girl Snack.”
Oh my god YES, That was my first thought too (even if that was actually Beatrice’s mom but whatever)! That or for me that Joseph saying “Reading takes away from the breast and hips”
@@SiRenfield Basically any Joseph Sugarman quote applies here 😭😭
Funnily enough, my sister actually used to enjoy licking salted lemons.
Even when Jeremy Boreing is cast as the lead protagonist, in a screenplay he wrote and directed, he still comes off as the villain of the movie.
To the Conservative, being an asshole forever on the wrong side of history is a virtue.
That's the worst thing about this movie, they try painting the abusive egotistical misogynists as heroes, but they are just villains from beginning to end.
in general, having the writer and director also being the main protagonist should be the reddest of red flags
at that point, it's basically a self-insert fanfic
@@thejuiceking2219 Felix: u r a god among men coach.
The whole movie is just a massage for his ego.
@@maxxymrice6200 like Cody said, this whole movie is a divorced guy fantasy. The world just wakes up, notices it has "made a mistake" what it comes to main protagonist and then magically rearranges itself to his needs. No effort, no sacrifice, no work required.
Just poof and everything is alright.
As a trans woman who has zero interest in watching Ladyballers, I made it over an hour into this episode before anything actually offended me. No physical courage. Sure guys. It takes no physical courage to walk down the street alone at night as a woman. Nevermind being trans - being ANY woman requires acts of physical bravery these "people" never will understand. And it's far more dangerous for trans women than cisgender women.
NOOO you're so MAD and TRIGGERED by REAL comedy!!!!;!!;
@@stringflame503very very false
@@stringflame503 Women report feeling unsafe alone in public spaces much more frequently than men
Where courage is concerned, that's what's relevant
Like we're supposed to be the main target of this movie, but I honestly felt like this whole movie was more about how much these dudes hate cis women.
As someone who watched it to make fun of it. I can assure you the transphobia is surface level shit. Think, Juana Mann or Sorority Boys level shit. Sure it's there, but it's not the core concept. But it doesn't discriminate in it's discrimination of all women.
To be fair. In RoboCop. It does take a long time for RoboCop to appear. But until that moment... we have giant robots blowing people away in boardrooms. High speed high octane cop-car chases, fun and engaging banter between all characters, and more gun violence than most gun nuts can handle. So when he finally does appear, we're rooting and hollering for him to kick butts and not chew any bubble gum. Because he's all out of gum and I might have misplaced this movie reference.
Truth!
Robocop is not a down the middle, sports comedy. Not all films need to be paced by numbers, but most should unless in the capable hands of a writer/director with a unique and interesting vision.
Indeed, while RoboCop takes a while to appear, his constituent elements - Robots and Cops - features from the start, and the process establishes characters, motives, and the basic narrative arc.
You know, Creative Writing 101, which the morons behind this travesty presumably failed. Repeatedly.
“More strawman than an atheist in a Kirk Cameron movie.” is such a bar.
It is such a low bar even worms have a hard time getting under it, but unsurprisingly they have no problem getting over it.
Props for showing the real WNBA players vs regular fit men. The number of dudes honestly thinking they'd stand a chance against a professional female athlete is too damn high.
The amount of dudes who reckon they could take a point off of Serena Williams is fucking astounding.
@@HerrCronwho? I know a ton of guys that play tennis regularly and literally none of them think this, last time I heard it brought up they were joking about how dominated they'd be.
@@jackdanson2 That's because they play tennis. Never underestimate the unearned confidence of distinctly average men.
@@HerrCron hah, yeah I guess that's right.
What is that number?
I think their issue is that they are so steeped in their echo chamber that they don’t see their political views as being political. So when you point out how much of the movie is just political grievances, they say, “That’s not political, it’s just common sense.”
That's less of an echo chamber thing and more just a tenant of consevatisim. If you focus in on any era of conservatism the basic premise will be that how things were 20 yrs prior is the natural correct state of being, & the people of today just go too far. MLK is a great example of this. With a few exceptions, and of course not actually knowing much, conservatives largely hold him up as a model of what demonstration & resistance should be. Yet the conservatives of his time said he was literally word for word all the things they say orgs like BLM are today.
I've seen it phrased this way somewhere: "There are only two genders: Male and political. Also, there are only two races: white and political."
Underrated point made here.
I think that's too generous. While all of these people are pathetic characters with weird complexes stemming from their refusal to recognise their own limitations, they are also well-paid propagandists. I think they know very well that they are being political, it's their audience whom they want to deceive with the "it's not political, it’s just common sense" nonsense.
@@joshuapowers4623 The problem is that would imply that conservatives now agree with MLK then, and they do not. They only misinterpret his only quote they know because the man was basically a socialist demanding for direct action. My guess is that society, and particularly capitalism, is like Carpenter's Thing, it assimilates and devours anything depriving it from any content other than what it needs to maintain itself. In fact, that's what wokewashing is.
It's interesting that @The Critical Drinker criticizes a lot of Hollywood movies for female characters not having much of an arc or needing to change because the world changes for them, yet it's apparently not such a big deal when the male protagonist in Lady Ballers is exactly this.
I use to watch CD in the early days but lost interest when he kept harping on about woke storylines. Was mortified to find out he’s entered the alt-right sphere
Critical Drinker is a sexist loser, of course he'd be fine with dudes not learning anything.
Because his definition of "arc" relies solely on one iteration of it. He also misses how the world is not "changing for them," especially take Captain Marvel. The world doesn't change for Carol Danvers, she DOES change for it, especially when she tears the chip off and comes into who she's meant to be, without the handicap. If a man did that, this "reviewer" would cream himself.
"We all get confused sometimes" giving "Everybody's gay once in a while!" energy.
It's not trans if you're wearing socks 😂😂😂
@@nobody08088it's not trans when you're wearing thigh highs
@@randominternettoaster7859 it's not trans if your wearing a binder, or if you're taking estrogen
I truly can’t stand how the daughter’s claim that men are better at “most STEM fields” goes unchallenged. What kind of father would be like “Well, that’s true, you can never be as smart or successful as a man no matter how much work you put in” ??? Most STEM fields are about innovation and inventions, of which millions come from women and other folks with marginalized identities. It’s not a “ranking” system where we’re competing based on IQ or some bull… but nvm, I’ll go trade my degree in for a diaper changing station or something
Imagine a ten year old describing being a scientist as “STEM fields”
@@cactus_judy3929 Jeremy is unable to win the ‘Write Human Dialogue’ competition it seems
That stuck out to me too, like “men are better at science” is a natural law of the universe and not the product of historical and social factors, and something that can be improved. I get conservatives are generally against change, but this came across as not even having the fleeting thought that the world exists the way it does today because of what came before, and it might change in the future for any number of reasons.
The only person to ever have won a Nobel Prize in two different fields was Marie Curie in chemistry and physics, despite the misogyny she faced.
EDIT: special mention to Rosalind Franklin who did much of the heavy-lifting in the determination of the structure of DNA, only for Watson & Crick to take much of her work and add a twist, all while disparaging her.
@@lukisprieston477 In The Netherlands, girls and young women are out-performing boys and young men in the skill called 'learning'. To the point that in some traditionally male fields, like medical doctors, the majority of the people finishing this 6 year course followed by even more years training to be a specialist, there are now more women MD's than men MD's.
Of course once that became known the far right started crying about how girls / women were somehow 'getting an unfair advantage' through the schoolsystem when basically all that was changed was teaching girls that yes, if you put yourself to it, you can become an excellent [fill in traditional male profession of your choice].Now there's more and more traditional male tech jobs going to women.
And we still have a labour shortage so i don't know what the far right is complaining about, it's not like women are preventing men from finishing their education.
The funniest part of this whole video was seeing Matt Walsh claim they would appreciate criticism. Nobody at the Daily Wire will listen to any of this criticism and just brush it off as "triggering the libs" or some bullshit despite all the precise points on why the movie is objectively bad.
They also copyrighted dead domains video so you know it's a bunch of horsecrap
@@Lovefortea448 Being a lying hypocrite is like breathing to a conservative.
"Please criticize my film. I welcome it."
Makes some mild, general criticism.
"HOW DARE YOU!!! YOU'LL BE FIRST IN THE FURNACE WHEN I GET POWER!!! JUST YOU WAIT!!!"
Conservatives are unable to argue in good faith.
I have a theory that "Mr. Birchum" was specifically written with Nic Offerman in mind because they didn't understand Ron Swanson was a caricature and were surprised when their libertarian hero turned out to be a "big gay lib" in The Last of Us
People not understanding both Ron Swanson’s arc and, just, the overall existence of Nick Offerman as a human will forever be a nonstop source of hilarity
That was my thought exactly! It was totally written to be for Nick Offerman and Nick Offerman would NEVER have anything to do with something like that
Conservatives don't get that masculinity doesn't have to involve bullying other people. I know a lot of guys who are into stereotypical manly men things who are that way because they find it joyful and fulfilling, and they're a lot happier than the people who are that way because they hate or fear femininity.
I feel like we don't dwell enough on b-shap's interview where he says "originally, it was a documentary, but everything about our premise was false, so we had to make it a fictional story."
Like - what is their purpose? It was shown to them, in painfully clear terms, that their ideology is incompatible with reality, and so they decided to build a fictional world where they're right, actually? Who does that? And Why?
That’s kinda their (the DW and right-wingers as a whole, but especially Ben’s) whole deal. They try and look at reality, then when reality goes against their biases, they invent a scenario where it wouldn’t and pitch that as their argument. It’s the reason behind the “let’s say” arguments. It’s why they act like expertise in a field is a sign of bias. The right will always start from their premise and work backwards to find things to support it, because they know just trying to find the truth won’t serve them.
One of the weirdest things about this movie is that it’s clearly unfunny, and they made it believing that people who think it was unfunny were instead “triggered” by it, so that’s a win in their book. Imagine making *a full length movie* to troll the libs? That’s completely insane.
The entire political stance of non-millionaire right wingers is just "Owning the libs".
Like... Daily Wire... Made a DIE HARD RIPOFF ABOUT A SCHOOL SHOOTING!!
Don't worry in a few months they will swear they didn't make it and must be an inside job to make the right look bad.
That's conservative media and politics. It's not about making things better, but making other people angry.
It's not even a new form of failed comedy coping... I think the most depressing thing to see at a comedy show/open mic/whatever is someone trying to recover from their joke not getting a laugh by blaming the audience for being "too sensitive"
The funniest part of "Lady Ballers" is that the realistic outcome of average men competing against professional athlete women was highlighted years ago in an episode of "South Park" where Cartman competes in the Special Olympics and comes in last in every event.
And around that time, The Ringer, which is basically a nicer version: a guy enters the Special Olympics so his friend can bet a bunch of money on him and they'll win, but then he realizes they're good athletes, because of course they are--and the other competitors almost immediately peg him as a phony.
Watched a video of a dude who was way too up on his toxic masculinity trying to outrun a professional women's 400m runner during her practice and even with her going slow for half the run he was still about ready to pass out from trying to keep up with her at the halfway point XD
Conservatives really gotta quit giving these boys delusions of grandeur.
Right. Also Ben Shapiro and the whole beard, closeted, white supremacist, scardy cat crew, ( no offense to cats or people who get scared) have zero athleticism. Also in the scene where the trans woman is traveling, her handles are trash. Not a real basketball player.
@Quintus468 The Ringer was a masterpiece compared to Lady Ballers because, unlike Laby Ballers it wasn't made out of spite.
Jeez! Even South Park is woker than Daily Wire!
"[Men are better at] most of the STEM fields!"
_What?_ This is some real segregated chess league braining.
“Don’t worry, little girl, you can be a housewife”
What the fuck were they on about?
Its always funny how these people think that five ex-high school basketball players now around 30 years old going against a professional women's team would not be absolutely humiliated on the court.
Or that five players is enough to make up a competitive basketball team.
Although the US (adult!) Women's National Soccer Team did lose to a group of under-15 boys from an MLS team's training academy, so there is that...
@@BizzeeB Im not sure if you think its an own to essentially say "A womens team trying to gain match fitness and cohesion lost to a MLS youth team who pretty much all had a foot on them height wise". Its almost like a team who plays together daily and is more physically imposing can take advantage of a more technically team that is not used to playing off each other.
@@BizzeeB
I mean, people always love to handwave the fact that the game the women’s team and the MLS team played was an informal scrimmage that the women’s team played to get warmed up and build rapport for a team against Russia and weren’t really playing them that seriously.
@@guldmattbb473 I know right? I think about once a season I watch the Colorado Avalanche get beat by a local peewee team. Crazy thatunder 12 children can beat a professional team of men!
It hit me after the “Jeremy sure loves winning“ segment that his daughter’s name is “Winnie.“
And I didn't realize this connection until reading your comment just now.
Thank you.
I don’t think I’ve ever so pitied a man otherwise less deserving of pity. When you’re so insecure you name the fictional proof that you had relations “winning” you must not have a fulfilling life.
It is a shame if that's not purposeful, bc that might be the only good gag in the movie
I mean shit, that's actually pretty funny.
This is genuinely funny
Can't get over how the "murse" is a fanny pack instead of a purse.
They couldn't even do a bad recycled joke right!
As someone named Koty, who constantly got called Katy, your ads sometimes feel like a fever dream I had once.
I hope this won't offend you but I have never come across the name Koty before. Even so, I swear he called himself Koty at least one in the ad reads here, and felt so vindicated by your comment!
Thanks for my something new learnt today - Koty is a cool name and I'm sorry you probably spend a LOT of time correcting people who assume it's a typo or something. I'm off to Google it - I'm wondering if it's got celtic or gaelic origins.. Nice to meet you, Koty! 😊
@helenl3193 Thanks! It's just a weird way of spelling "Cody" cause my mom liked cowboy stories and wanted me to be unique, so no cool origin sadly.
Ben Shapiro: “The play was awful, Godot isnt even in it!”
"I just kept waiting...forever."
Spoiler alert!
- Where does it say Godot should be there ?
- In the title...
He loves that he can just call her Gal because it feels like not learning her name
This just makes me want to rewatch Dodgeball and The Ringer again
Also during the section on Character Arcs, I had a major revelation: South Park more or less already did this story 20 years ago with the Special Olympics episode.
Cartman fakes being disabled to get into the Special Olympics (in the most offensive way possible) thinking he’ll clean house and win every event, but gets absolutely floored by the other competitors who, despite being physically or mentally handicapped, are STILL ATHLETES that trained for the competition.
Maybe if Lady Ballers went in a similar direction it would actually be a fully baked movie beyond trying to “trigger the Left” or something
Good point. And it's also worth pointing out the creators of South Park are right-wing and even they are self-aware enough to make that kind of plot at the expense of Cartman instead of trying to twist it to make him right at the end.
@@TheDoomSheepthey’re not right wing. They’re more like aggressively centrist. For basically every issue with very few exceptions, they always conclude that the best solution is in the middle.
I wouldn't call them right-wing so much as I'd call them emphatically centrist.
@@JohnEusebioToronto I was sure one of them admitted they vote republican because they're rich. Can't remember which one.
Centrist where they're terrified to connect Cartman and MAGA, or accurately portray trans women.
I'm glad you touched on the fact that the team in the movie would absolutely get wrecked by a professional women's team. I don't particularly enjoy watching women's basketball but it is a simple and completely undeniable fact that the worst player in the WNBA would absolutely smoke me at basketball. A team of the five worst players in the WNBA would completely decimate a team of former high school men's basketball standouts. I think average people don't fully understand how much better professional athletes (men and women) are at their respective sports than the average person.
This movie: "women congratulate eachother on tasks that require no physical bravery"
Women: pain and bleeding every month, organs being displaced during pregnancy, casually being ripped apart during birth. Taking on most of the emotional and physical labor in their relationships, etc. 🤨
And that's assuming that there's no health risks involved in giving birth that could kill a pregnant person.
Ay, then you get to trans women and we have our fair share of terrifying challenges too
I don't even need the audio for this episode, just watching Cody having a meltdown on mute already represents how I feel about Shapiro Boy.
Cody is the most sane of all of us who are living this insanity, he puts my inner screams into coherent words
I'd call it a meltup
@@FussyPicklesI think most of the viewers are sane. That's why we are here. He absolutely encapsulates how we are all feeling. Thank the universe for Cody and his little showdy
@@yasuke9317that's my pt mate ^^
@@yasuke9317 don't forget to give credit to the writing team
I am unreasonably excited to spend my shift listening to a 1-star review of Nazi Grown-Ups.
I thought you said "nazi glow-ups"
granted, the 4chan nazi to transfem reverse pipeline is a glow up
Not Nazi Grown Ups 💀
I got two more:
White Juwanna Mann
Fascist Sorority Boys
@@manic_girlja, dis ist ein gutt point! Zey are NOT zi adults. Nein. Zey are zi manbabies.
Same actually
We on the left get our science from scientists.
You on the right get your science from failed actors and other Hollywood rejects.
This debate is so done.
The sheer spite of Cody's "I carved it into your car" had me howling. Those six words are funnier than Daily Wire's entire catalog.
The Alex character coming out, who was presented as a very kind and relatable guy, is so heartfelt and honest that I think it had the exact opposite effect on the audience to the one DW intended. I guess they wanted to say that no matter how they feel trans women aren't women, and accidentally just showed how despicable that idea is.
Yup. They really showed their hand in that his response to Alex trying to come out as trans is to physically assault him; because kicking someone in the nuts is funny. But really they just think that they can and should force people to conform to their worldview through punishment.
I know!!! It felt so sweet when he seemed genuinely happier coming out as a trans woman, and then they ruined it, because they sacrifice "good" for "fits our worldview"
The only spec of a silver lining I can see in this movie is that an insecure right leaning guy just *might* see that character and go "huh..."
Its honestly terrible they depict people who love and accept transgenders are evil and exploitive, while people who abuse and commit violence against them are the supportive ones.
In a weird way the ending almost feels cautionary. Like the film gets so close to Alex recognizing themself as trans but then yanks it back at the last moment to show Alex getting conversion therapy from Jordy Peet. I know they meant it differently but if I saw it out of context I would think it’s a trans-inclusive commentary on the experience of coming out but not being accepted by your loved ones.
As a cis-het woman, I've been kicked in the groin at age 14 by my 7 year old cousin, about 7 years ago. Hurt like hell, the worst pain in all my life. So, no Ben, a woman getting hit down there actually really hurts as well.
Getting hit hurts ö
@@user-vf9ri2xq4i wild concept
No doubt, but I do suspect it’s worse with testes. I remember like yesterday bonking my pills on the corner of a desk in second grade. I thought I was gonna puke and I wished I had. Made my hair hurt. I cursed my ancestors and descendants. And now I’m 50 and still sad about it.
Hurts like hell. I fell on my bike bar between my legs.
Yeah but vaginas are built to take ungodly punishment. They're like the most durable part of a human body. Testicles are _muy_ fragile, _frágiles como huevos._ I'm sure, in terms of sheer magnitude of pain, getting nutted is not as bad as childbirth. But it's a special kind of pain where your whole body feels sick and you just want to die. It's like the your funny bone, but funnier. (Funnier for everyone else, not you.)
I have to say, I really appreciate the easy Cody described, basically the fake chivalry of the right. I was raised in a very conservative family and community. There was always a lot of talk about protecting women and treating them with respect. The 3 roles or tropes I was raised to believe women fulfill, always in relation to men: 1) pure and innocent, and to be protected by men, first their father and brothers, then by a gentleman/husband, 2) flirty, fun, and basically for entertainment, too much though is slutty and de-valued, but not flirty enough means not feminine or desirable, so find the right balance so a man will actually want you, and be happy enough to protect, provide, and not cheat on or abuse you, 3) the ball and chain. The wife/mother figure conservative men love to treat as crazy, to be feared, or force to reckon with, and yet, somehow, this pseudo powerful woman is still someone to be dismissed if she is too crazy/unreasonable, and really, the men are just humoring her to keep the peace.
I always vehemently hated all of those positions. I saw my mom fit into all of them, and I didn't want any of it. She was not actually valued or respected, and she would change to try and elicit certain treatment, being flirty, it playing the helpless woman, or occasionally making some bills claim about how men should treat women with respect... But I never actually saw anything that felt like respect.
It's still hard to articulate how it felt, but I liked how Cody put it. It's a vaneer of protecting women and women's spaces while actually excluding them from their spaces. It's infantalizing. It's not real respect, and it doesn't actually protect women from anything. These are the kinds of men we typically need protection from.
It's crazy (but not surprising) that they discovered the premise was fake in the course of making this, and it didn't register as important.
And the lesson we learned today: The Vienna Art School shouldn't have rejected the Daily Wire staff
The "failed artist" to "conservative/fascist" pipeline is concerningly short
As an Austrian I was just about to say something similar...
I already wrote under the last video that we have to take care of these failed artists so they don't become something worse... Maybe we need a special therapy program
This is the best hitler joke i've ever seen
Fun fact: Joseph Goebbels was also a failed screenwriter.
i feel like this has made me really appreciate the craftsmanship and creative sensitivities of Adam Sandler films for the first time
Much and more can and should be said about what the Adam Sandler movies do, but at least they do it with technical competence. Like, they know how to make the movies they're making.
@@miramosa7768 Lol, right?
Say what you like about Sandler, I at least believe the guy's seen movies before and understand how the basic flow of a movie should go.
TDW does movies like an alien species that only found out yesterday what a film was and decided they'd give it a shot.
Cody... You missed one huge fact. These people think their views aren't political. They think their views are the world default the way things should be or are.
So while people who think critically can see that they are guilty of the same thing they complain about, their viewers won't care because it doesn't challenge them. It is only "political" if it is something you don't believe.
Ben and his fellows believe their way is the right and only way, so to them it isn't political. They are wrong because society is made up of more people than just them, but I am surprised you didn't mention this.
If you did and you see this, 1) thank you for reading my comment Cody. You are awesome. 2) let me know where, so I can review and check.
Love the show! Please continue
33:25 This genuinely breaks my heart. Because it shows that they really can see the perspective of trans people, of us feeling comfortable with ourselves for the first time, and they just do not give a shit. No attempt at a middle ground, at understanding, at recognizing that maybe someone has different life experiences (though, that "everyone gets confused" line...). They truly don't see us as people. We're charicatures to them. Our happiness doesn't matter to them.
They also regard violence against us as a joke.
It's armchair psychology, but I get the impression that there _is_ a sense in which it's egalitarian: they generally _also_ deny _themselves_ any opportunity to explore or understand who they are _beyond_ the roles society has prescribed for them. The cruelty they show others is a reflection of the cruelty with which they repress themselves (hence that line about confusion).
my favorite thing is that they tried very hard, repeatedly, to get their team to compete in women's sports to prove a point to help promote the movie. Tragically they couldn't find a single place where it worked.... Because sports organizations require at least three full years of HRT first. They're literally making up problems they imagined in their head.
How long has Fallon Fox been on HRT?
@@guyincognito8440 Hi. She has been on hrt since 2002/2003, long before she began to fight competitively. She had also undergone gender affirming surgeries in 2006, again, long before her debut professionally. The fact that she achieved such heights in her career despite at times permanently debilitating physical side effects (such as a decrease in muscle mass and battling the body fat increase when trying to make weight, both active side effects of taking hrt), is a testament to her character and determination. Also, she is one person that fought only 6 pro fights more than 10 years ago. She didn't even fight professionally before she transitioned and you probably would have never known her name if she didn't come out herself as trans. 👍 Very cool and good argument that doesn't seem regurgitated from whatever epic right wing talk piece you learned it from, sheep
Their argument blew up in their faces, but they still try so hard to act like they won.
@@guyincognito8440 At this point, 22 years. She'd been on HRT for a decade before her first professional fight. She's also been retired for a decade. And all of her supposed records have been smashed by cis women. And she once lost a fight to the same cisgender woman opponent by TKO twice within about five minutes. Was there any particular reason you brought her up, or are you just a fan of sports trivia?
@@guyincognito8440 since 2006
I find it bizarre that less than a year ago they were annoyed at the Basketball player Brittany Griner who is 6ft 10 and now they are claiming the average man who in the US is 5ft 9 will just boss women's Basketball.
Never expect consistency.
Except in the arrogance of some substandard men asserting that they absolutely could beat all women, including pro athletes, in a sport that that haven't even played. Because of biological advantage. 😂
A lot of this comes from profound ignorance in presuming just because you are "male", like hunky he-men Benjamin Shapiro and Matthew Wash, you would destroy any woman in honest athletic competition. Anyone who's not an idiot knows that even a year or two of training in a sport makes you absolutely superior to someone who's never really picked up the proverbial ball; yet alone a _professional-level_ athlete. Britney Griner would absolutely stomp either of these wispy, shrieking nerds in a game of one-on-one.
I would pay untold riches to see Ben Shapiro get body-checked trying to dunk on literally anyone from the WNBA
highscholl boys beat pro womens teams. even serrina williams got beat by a drunk 200th ranked man ...and the women soccer tem was beat by highschool boys.
yes a group of 5'9 men will destroy any team of women. hell ... if they are a pro, like spud web, it would only take 1 5,9 man to beat the team
@@jeremiahtaylor5685 calm down Jeremy. Your power fantasy is poking out of your zipper and it's making everyone uncomfortable.
"""no physical courage""" meanwhile nurses working around the clock through plagues and wars and dying in droves yet still pressing on
Or just like... existing around men.
So, let me get this straight... It's a movie about a bunch of former high school sports idiots who are bitter that they don't have what it takes to succeed further then that and blame it on other people... Written and "acted" out by a bunch of people that never grew past their high school years mentally, who are very obviously bitter that they can't succeed the way they wanted to and that they don't matter as much as they thought they did, and who are convinced that the problem is other people because they were fine to begin with?
Holy shit, that makes so much sense! Especially when you conceptualize it as, they equate women's sports with "easy street." Perhaps a subconscious metaphor for conservative punditry and filmmaking?
The fact that they bleeped out the curse words in a comedy, and didn't even have the creativity of having the game horn, or a fan with an air horn, or some other kind of noise interrupt... Just regular bleeping. Because why lampshade the fact that you're skirting around the censorship, when you can break immersion? That might actually resemble comedy. And we can't have that!
That is an incredible indicator of how creatively bankrupt everybody involved with this project is
Like holy
The funny way to do this is javing a fan yell something even worse than what ben was saying
It's funny how the Critical Drinker despite being obsessed with "bad writing" didn't pick up on any of the character arc flaws in his review.
Well that's Critical Drinker for you. He's kind of an alt-right hack himself. Have you ever voiced an opinion that went against the grain in his comment section?
guess he drank too much and missed it
Did he actually meaningfully critique the film or just say "it has its flaws but it's still a fun watch"
@@airplanes_aren.t_real the latter, it’s like he was scared to be harsh to the film from a company he started simping for.
Only watched a little of him, but isn't the Critical Drinker just a hack who thinks he's smart? That's at least the impression I got when I watched him 😅
A character arc means admitting you were somehow wrong. The creators do not want that.
And maybe somehow needed to change, which is they reject to do so
Historically, the most common reason for creating a women's category in a sport is literally women beating men and men getting upset about it, then claiming women can't compete. Women's Chess is one example (and no longer strictly segregated -- women still mostly play women's chess, but aren't *required* to), but it's actually one of *many.*
Is there a source to this claim?
For Women's Chess, I think the history is a little different. I think the issue was that mostly men were playing it, and they created Women's Chess in order to encourage more women to play chess.
@@Dragonite43 Really? The story this doll recalls was that it was formed not *too* long after a case of a woman beating a man at chess, but it sadly can't remember the specifics.
I know "every accusation is a confession" is a worn cliche, but good lord. I seem to remember so many conservatives complaining that Millennials believe that they should just get everything they want in the end because of who they are, then they turn around and make a movie where their "hero" does exactly that
The scene where the Jeremy Boring character rebukes Daniel Considines’ character’s realization that they are trans is really telling. Jeremy Boring justify’s his rejection uttering “we all get confused sometime”. Implying that every straight cis male has trans intrusive thoughts. No Jeremy, everyone does not have trans intrusive thoughts. A lot of people know who they are. Some are confused. And that’s ok. Just be what makes you happy. But it sounds like you, Jeremy, are the one who is confused.
Jeremy Boring egg arc
Right! I was never confused. I’m a cis female. Always felt that way.
It's the same mindset that says homosexuality is a choice and straight men are seduced into the hedonistic gay lifestyle. Like, really, my guy? It's an act of willpower and devotion on your part that keeps you from giving into the sweet siren song of man-on-man action? Because for most of us straight folks, we just don't want to and that's enough.
I really hate that scene because it feels like Daniel Considine is really selling what a huge realization it’s been and how things are so much better now. And then the coach punches them. I tend to overempathize but I find it really upsetting, probably because Daniel Considine’s character is the only person who seems like a person in the movie.
@@ruthdubb3274 I'm also a cis woman and I did get confused as a kid, but it turned out to just be internalized misogyny telling me I couldn't be a leader, smart, aggressive, or capable as a woman.
The scene where the our lead explains to his daughter that, sure, men get to do all of the stuff that is cool, fulfilling, financially rewarding, world changing, powerful, ect, but honey! You get to take care of us, and "tame" us (aka be a mommy maid and help us drain our balls), is just...fucking wild.
Oh God, you're right, he's LITERALLY grooming his child to be a sex object. Every conservative accusation....
Ya know,in a better written movie with character that's supposed to be disliked,that could actually be a funny scene of a sort of satire of the pathetic alpha male types mentality
But is pretty obvious the Boering is supposed to be the hero in the movie and this is just what both the character and Boering believes
i had an idea for an alternate framing of that scene, with the idea that at the end of it all, all that men's stuff doesn't really matter, that if all that were to disappear humanity would still function fine, and the idea that these traditionally feminine roles have been taken for granted and trivialised by society
i think that could be cool, hell, you could even translate it into an anti-trans message like 'of course women will want to be men if we make them out to be chumps'
The part where Jeremy's character hits Alex was so disgusting, the fact they feel they can frame this moment as a joke just hurts so much
It's a _punch_ line alright
My main takeaway from this is conservatives actually have a fetish for getting cancelled. You know they had to retake that scene where she whispers "I'll cancel you" in his ear so many times
Conserative talking heads think being cancelled will be their "Obi-wan moment" "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"...
The way they made the evil liberal lady so hot and dommy was certainly interesting
@@OfficerDva444Yeah, they really think that if they’re cancelled they’ll just pull off a Jigglypuff Down B and counter the canceller in such an epic fashion that it leaves them looking like the good guys after all, when in reality they get “cancelled” and then either do nothing or fade into obscurity
It's a persecution fantasy, they want to feel like some glorious martyr
I like how the movie casually states that women are bad at parking and it's glossed straight over. I'm not even sure it's supposed to be a misogynistic joke, it's just stated as a casual fact.
The same dudes who probably think they're better drivers than Danica Patrick because woman
It is a long-lived joke. Is old and no longer relevant. Stating/framing it as fact is just so them. These people are so out of touch that it is really sad. Meh...
STEM fields was also in the list. How any woman on the right can think their ment respect them is beyond me.
To add to your point: If women are bad drivers why do insurance companies (which track these sorts of things so they can mold their policies to maximize profits) generally have women pay lower premiums than men?
Brought to you by the people who park in multiple spots, because lil Ben needs a giant SUV or he feels inadequate while driving.
I enjoyed that they couldn't even get the "real love interest is won back over because she was secretly listening to the heartfelt message the whole time!" trope right. She walks into the shot halfway through and sure, she probably realized what he was saying but the acting suggest she somehow was hearing it the whole time, even though she CLEARLY was not hearing it until she stopped.
Just show her being there the whole time, you dolts! Or show her walk up and suddenly realize what she's accidentally overheard earlier in the damn speech. Holy shit is it badly done.
I recently saw the Bill Burr movie on Netflix because I thought it would be funny. For most of the runtime it was the same “Bill is angry at soft people” joke over and over again, but even it recognized that the main character needs to grow and change.
Early in the movie Burr cusses out a guy on Bird scooter, then at the emotional climax of the film, in one of the few parts that actually made me laugh, Burr is trying to make to the birth of his daughter, but his Uber is stuck in traffic, and he realizes he’s going to have to take a Bird to get there on time. At which point he realizes it’s actually a lot of fun and proceeds to do everything he previously criticized.
His emotional growth by the end is that he learns to control his outbursts for the sake of his family and just cusses at people under his breath, which actually feels pretty realistic.
I guess my point is that it’s not a particularly good movie, but even so it’s leaps and bounds better than lady ballers
Bill Burr ripping a loud, wet fart is better than anything the Daily Wire will ever do.
Imagine buying a bunch of expensive film equipment and making a movie without any experience. Who do these people think they are, Tommy Wiseau?
Ha! What a story
@@garbour456 Anyway, how's your sex life?
@@garbour456"I did naht hit her! This is bullshit! I did naht hit her! I did naht!" - Crowder
Least it was clear tommy was having fun
@@SpoopySquidthat’s my favorite!! “Oh, Hi Mark 😶”
Now feels like a good time to bring up "we need women to civilize men" is strikingly similar to the 'moderate' position that "slavery was necessary to civilize black people" in the confederacy.
Ah the old trope of "we need to let kids in china to work in factories so that they can eat".
@@MarkkuSwhat do mean China? We do that here too.😂
Conservatives always create unholy marriages between hatred for women and hatred for men lol
"Civilize" is a code word usually meant to denote infliction of violence to the end of docility.
Just not in government! That's too much civilization.
I find it telling that in the ads they use violence to convey their disapproval - buring the razors, burning the barbie, and at the peak of the trans player's arc the coach just ball taps the player - I'd argue it's not simply to make a point about having balls makes you a man, because they are juveniles that react petulantly to what they disagree with. This movie is a fascinating piece of projection about failed basketball people made by failed entertainers, both who pretend to be something they're not for their selfish profit at the expense of others.
Know what other jobs require multitasking, taking care of multiple other people, and communicating? Being a manager, any manager, in any industry, ever. You know leadership roles. Jeremy is obviously saying that women are better in leadership roles.
Yeah, I thought that "damn, he's really hitting on the compassion and empathy stuff because he thinks that will insinuate 'mother' very specifically and not 'leader' to his shitty audience."
Multitasking and people skills, clearly this person is unemployable.
I'm a little surprised nobody is talking about how the monster that is this film's main character (Rob) shows drippingly insincere "compassion" to Alex when (s)he confesses that (s)he's trans, telling Alex that (s)he "needs help" when (s)he does (I literally growled to myself "this is the only time I've *ever* seen a right-wing pundit bring up/imply therapy in a context where they're not denigrating it or mocking it, how telling), followed by Rob ASSAULTING Alex, the very person he was JUST disingenuously and "compassionately" saying he wanted to help. Sums up these people pretty perfectly, I think; instead of compassion or empathy, they just have authoritarianism, sadism, and cruelty.
Rob cares about Alex, only as long as Alex conforms to Rob's ideologies and tosses aside their own sense of identity, regardless of how that'll actually affect Alex.
Honestly it's just such a horrible reaction to such a heartfelt confession that it might just open some people's minds
Even if we take the movie at face value and accept that Alex is just confused (because they desired an easier life, which this movie falsely says women get), the correct response to hearing Alex's confession would be to realize how they were mistreated as a man and take steps to undo that harm. Not assault them and humiliate them for being confused.
The only therapy they believe in is conversion therapy.
OK, that probably isn't entirely true, they just use the idea of mental health in a pathologising way against othered groups and see it as being of no value to men such as themselves.
when he says "therapy" my guess is that he means "church counseling"
I had a comment about the film, but I was so shocked by the news that Ben Shapiro is a high-powered hard-working mother who doesn't get enough sleep that I deleted it all.
Him describing his typical workday challenged my worldview more than the entire LadyBallers film... like, you mean to tell me Ben is aware/accepting of men being capable of taking care of children? And women having jobs?? Interesting
@@nicki___he WHAT?
@@nicki___
I wonder if he gets clowned on by his peers for that.
@@nicki___ Yeah that bit absolutely hit me like a truck.
Like, I just would have NEVER expected in a thousand years that he'd actually be what sounds like a genuinely good caring dad-he comes across more as the "just hit the kids until they stop crying" type.
So that leaves me wondering if he's
A) Genuinely just completely delusional. He can somehow go and proselytize incredibly gendered roles in society and how men can only be manly or cowards...and then go home and do those things without feeling even the slightest bit of his massive hypocrisy
or B) He's a jackass who *knows* that being a caring person and actually balanced human is for the best, but leans into the grift for the greed
@mafiacat88 I'd guess it's a mix of both. Too many people I know allow nuance for their OWN situation but have a rigid view for the rest of society. "It *should* be this way, but I don't have to follow it because [extremely normal situation]". My personal example is my family of Viet immigrants who lived in a refugee camp before they were allowed in the country, but now have really twisted views on OTHER immigrants waiting for their chance.
I'm sure a part of Ben plays it up for the camera- he is very aware of how profitable it is to sell shit like "leftist's tears" mugs or whatever. But another part of him probably does believe in conservatism and rigid gender roles. It's just different for him, you see, because his doctor wife can't be home all the time. Women can be doctors because... its nurturing!! And so it's only natural for him to take on family duties. And I'm sure he views his job as very heroic and manly, standing against government.
This is all just speculation, but I imagine this sort of job requires a ton of compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance
I think every discussion on this movie should start with the clip of the Daily Wire staff talking about the movie, and they admit (without realising how this discredits them completely) that this was originally going to be a documentary, but that the amount of work they would have to go through (CRT, living socially as a woman, etc.) to actually get into womens sports in America was too much. This single point invalidates everything they say about trans women in sports.
I think the reason conservatives think this is a comedy as they think this could actually happen, and they are laughing at how weird and silly the world has become, despite being based on a false premise...
*C* RT? Crtical Race Theory?
This video made me realize the one thing I think I find funny about this movie, which is that Jeremy Coachman is so obsessed with winning he literally named his daughter Winnie
The essence of satire is examining truth in a new and unexpected way.
When your "truth" is a convenient fiction you craft to justify your prejudices (and deep down, they KNOW this), what you get isn't satire. It's an applause sign for all the people trying to convince themselves that their prejudices are true.
^ truth
@bangormc3rd562: That reminds me of Rger Ebert's review of andrew dice clay's movie of dice's standup "comedy". You can read it in Ebert's book _I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie._
Mel Brooks does satire.
South Park does Satire too, even though I get “we are the smartest ones in the room” vibes
@andu1854 its libertarian satire, but at least its satirizing reality and not a hyperbolic strawman of people that dont exist lol
I like that Jeremy Boring writes a movie where he's the main character and using his complete creative freedom has his fictional wife getting down with someone else. Just really a thing he wrote for himself there.
@@ArmanIRLbetter swish than any from the movie
Every right wing accusation (the left are beta cucks) is (not so) secretly a confession.
That's the tell that the true object they're intent on protecting is the patriarchy, not the sanctity of women's sports.
@@ArmanIRL I'm half surprised Boreing didn't have half the female characters state directly to the camera that 'three inches isn't below average.'
Lotta talk about what direction people are standing on the screen, but it looks to me like every character is always on the far right
ha-ha!
Thought slime RUclips channel 100
why are you commenting on this you should be busy dominating in the wnba
Nice
You watch the showdy too
"Lady Ballers is mostly made up of non-actors robotically speaking right wing grievances that have been halfheartedly reshaped to sound vaguely like dialogue" perfectly sums up this movie -- wouldn't know haven't seen it (TM).
"Her lines are more strawman than an atheist in a Kirk Cameron film," almost made me spit my water. Well done.
"Why do you hate God, professor?"
"Because he took everything from me!"
He'll always be Crocoduck Boy to me.
@@PatrickWDunne "He broke my microsoft dinosaurs CD and cut me up all over my body!!"
"Because he killed my grandma, ok!!!"
@@PatrickWDunne
More like:
“Why do you hate God, Professor?”
“What? I’m an atheist, I don’t even b-“
“ _Why do you hate God?_ “
“BECAUSE HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME!”
The manner in which this movie undulates from TERF talking points about how bad men are to neocon talking points about how women are the inferior sex is both jarring and makes me feel like this film was written by a room of writers that all fucking hate each other
That image is hilarious. A movie about the making of a movie like this would unironically be really funny, in a very dark and depressing sort of way. Like if American Psycho were about right-wing filmmakers instead of stockbrokers.
They hate themselves at least as much.
That Eye Line fuckup is extra fucked up because I literally learned that shit in HIGH SCHOOL and I wasn't even taking film-specific classes
In the future, people will look at Lady Ballers the way that people of the modern day look at minstrel shows.
Having every clip of the movie with SLOTS JIZZ (POOL BALL) NET in the corner was absolutely inspired. Incredible work.
Wait, it that a SMN thing?
@@BlackCover95 It's either a SMN joke, or it's the overlay from the completely legal site they got the movie from and SMN made the excellent choice to leave it in for the clips
@@BlackCover95 I don't think so. I think it's a watermark from the "COMPLETELY LEGAL" copy they used to make this video.
Also it helps with preventing copyright claims
I ONLY JUST SAW THAT I WATCHED THIS VIDEO SEVERAL TIMES
Amazing that they wrote, proofread, and then shot the scenes of them dismissing the trans friend and not encouraging his daughter, and thought "Yes! Surely this is something a hero who is right would say! Not an unfeeling unlikeable villain!"
to quote linakra: OUR HERO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
"Any man can beat any woman at any sport"
Jackie Mitchell and Billie Jean King are on the phone. They can't stop laughing.
Ben doesn't understand movies.
If you add all of Ben Shapiro's producer credits up, they make up half of the experience you need to STILL get your screenplay rejected!
I'd pay $10k for the opportunity for you to tell him that in person. Would be gold.
@@user-account-not-found send it my way, I will literally go to the next Ben Shapiro event and make it into a tiktok for you to enjoy lmao
Matt Walsh going after John Oliver...He's punching way above his weight class. If John ever does a segment on Walsh he'd rip him to shreds. 🧏🏿♂️🙆🏻♀️
i think he at least acknowledged him in the trans video from a few months ago when talking about that boston childrens' hospital debacle.
Oliver vs Walsh sounds like a fight between two British cartoonists. That being said, I'm putting all my money on Oliver having pitched multiple episodes on Daily Wire projects before and it being shot down
Matt Walsh isn't even in hbomberguys weight class
Ant kicks elephant.
and what is a weightclass and why are they a thing?
I really did actually love the badger joke that had trey parker energy
The main characters daughter thinks boys are better at everything, so he reassures her by saying that she can be a housewife
What the fuck
I think you might have hit the nail on the head on why conservative media so often sucks. They make the mistake of saying "well, the hero shouldn't change- conservatives don't change. Everyone else should bend to meet them." And that's not a compelling story. It's silly, because they could make it about a liberal-leaning person who learns conservative values, but they won't do that, either. That would require them to empathize with people who have different views, understand their views, and make an argument that would actually change someone's mind, and if they could do that, they wouldn't need to be two-bit talking heads spewing pathetic propaganda.
The conservative goal is never "change the way we want you to" the goal is "undo all change we dislike then stop changing". The entire party is built upon never advancing society in any way because its the only way they can maintain their control.
The closest thing Conservatives have to "good movies" are old-school action movies (or even older-school Westerns). The hero starts out cool, a bunch of obvious black-and-white villains show up and do bad things, the hero beats them up and proves how cool he is. Predator, Commando, Bloodsport, Under Siege.
Of course, those tend to be well-made, by people who actually know how to tell an exciting story, with casts who can act, or at least exhibit physical talent based on years of hard work and dedication. You can make a good movie about a powerful, masculine dude who wins the day and becomes accepted by others for it, but you still need skill, something sorely lacking in cheap, lazy productions like this one.
either that or boreing just couldn't handle the idea of even pretending to be a liberal
ultimately this movie is just his self insert mary sue fanfiction
"I stayed the same and the world moved on" is the same act 1 character thesis as Alan Grant from Jurassic Park. The whole point of that being the protagonist's starting point was that over the story he'd realize his need to learn to embrace or make way for the future and find his place in a new world. It's summed up by his line "I guess we'll have to evolve as well," but also by the fact he says this while caring for children - a trait he didn't have at the start, and symbolic of a growing softness and regard for an unfamiliar and uncomfortable world.
Because that's how a character arc goes. Not bonking your "friend" in the junk and end the story knowing you were right all along for never growing or changing as a person over the course of a story. I cannot for the life of me imagine how that would be a story worth telling or a character worth following.
Crazy how they can't even pretend that they tried.
It's because to them, a life well-lived is one in which nothing EVER changes. It really seems like, to them, ball-tapping their "friends" and holding hate in their heart would be a great deathbed.
That 'joke' was literally "if a man thinks he's trans, hit him in the balls". Because encouraging violence towards someone for being queer (or even just questioning) is suuuuuch a knee-slapper.
Even South Park episodes have more character development than that…usually for the worse, but development nonetheless!
And the funny thing is that the book Jurassic Park was written by a conservative and can be read as having a conservative message.
I remember hearing about this guy who wanted to be an artist, but he failed at being an artist and so he became a politician. And became really good at yelling at people about his conservative ideologies. And he disliked one particular group of people so much that he made them the butt of jokes, the target of polemics, and the real villains in all his stories.
But that guy ended up killing Hitler. What a twist!
Just going to leave this here. Found your video on Elon musk's Hitler problem and honestly I've kind of just been watching ever since🎉🎉🎉
36:02 This "movie" claiming that women aren't as good as men at Rock & Roll just proves that no one involved in it has ever heard any female rockers, possibly not any female musicians, period!
Not to mention, a lot of old rock and roll musicians would basically dress in drag
@@briannoel7398my dad was obsessed with how cool and manly Mic Jagger was. And one day, I was like 8, he played a vhs of their concert and I was like.. that’s a dude? Hmm 🤔 and my dad got so offended he turned it off and sent us to bed without dinner. 🤣
Also rock music more or less exists because of a black woman!
I mean Ben also doesn‘t think Rap is real music, and then there‘s the whole WAP fiasco. I don‘t think he could listen to rock by a woman without either exploding or murdering someone on air.
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095: "A woman not in th kitchen?! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
--ben "bigboy smartpants" shapiro, probably