Promising Young Woman’s plot twist hits particularly hard due to the casting of Bo Burnham. It was an intentional choice to cast a lot of well liked male actors mostly known for being comedians or acting in comedy films, as the villains, making it all the more shocking when their true nature is revealed.
It’s so lazy. This is overdone all the time. Demonizing the nice guy is so played out but it go on until we decide misandry is a thing. North America really stinks sometimes.
What’s frustrating about dear Zachary is that Andrew’s parents fought very hard to get custody of Zach but because his mother was still around, it was denied which directly led to what happened One of the most depressing ends to a real life horror story
I'd swap 1 and 2. No matter how messed up a movie is, at the end of the day it's still just fiction. Dear Zachery actually happened. That's 2 people that lost their lives, no amount of rewinding or starting the documentary over is going to bring them back.
That’s just it, Ryan’s NOT the antithesis of the toxic guys. On rewatch, all the signs are there, but we are charmed, too. He won’t take her “no” as final when he asks her out, he takes her to his place and plays it as a joke on their first date, and he’s still in contact with the obviously bad dudes. It’s a subtle rebuke for all those who say, “You should have been more careful/ you overlooked red flags.” It’s completely brilliant. We can’t blame the victims as the audience because we just got duped ourselves.
Or it's called courtship. There are literal articles written by women with your same mindset wondering why men "don't try harder" when they are rejected. Like what the fuck do you want?
@ Dude… in case you haven’t seen the movie, you’re siding with the rapist. Just a head’s up. I’m not gonna speak for any toxic ass women who say they want men to ignore a “no.” They are their own giant red flag.
@@codynoth4183prove it. Prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that these articles are written by women. Video? Not good enough. You can make anyone say anything with a 10 second clip. Profile pics? Not good enough - catfishing is a thing. You have absolutely no proof that those articles are actually written by women, but you still believe it - hook, line, and sinker - because it's exactly what you want to hear. And men like you are why I always carry mace. My no sounds like a yes? Let's see if a face full of pepper spray does.
@nmweagley Everyone including Teddy and himself were manipulating Leonard. Teddy was still manipulating Leonard as they already "got the guy" long before the movie. Teddy was still using him. My point was that Leonard was manipulating himself above all else.
And none of it even 100% true, I personally think Teddy told Leonard his wife survived and he accidentally gave her too much insulin to screw with him. He knew every intricate detail about his wife, why would he forget she had diabetes?
@@davidwiley4953 it's been a few year's, but wasn't Teddy just following him and getting him info on the people Leonard kept identifying. "Remember Sammy Jenkins...." lol He was helping Leonard, right?
@@abselby good point, but Leonard himself isn't even a reliable story teller if we're getting that deep. He thinks he remembers, you saw how quick he forgot when that psycho beat herself in the face in front of him.
Dear Zachary was paced in such a way that I think about it every now and then. Hauntingly gripping. Just tears through the first half, like why are you rushing dude, and then, oh!
Oh how naive I was going into this video and how in 2 hours I am weeping like a baby. Dear Zachary is an amazing, heartbreaking documentary. This was a film on my radar, but I kept forgetting about it for some reason. I skipped your number 2 purposely and immediately went to watch it. JFC. No matter what, I hope David and Kate Bagby continue to receive the love and support that was shown.
Dear Zachary is one of the few movies on my ‘Never Rewatch’ list. I’d argue the two twists in “3 Identical Strangers” are also shattering, though the first one is somewhat anticipated, if you’ve been paying attention to the interviews. The second has such deep historical and cultural implications that it’s so hard to fathom how it could ever have happened.
@ Oh yea, it’s absolutely deplorable. I can’t imagine how it even happened…. Someone had to have the initial idea, they in turn had to think that ‘sharing with the group’ was a good idea, and then the group (or majority of the group, I can’t recall if they tell us if any of the decision makers disagreed, but I want to say there wasn’t any real protest from those in charge) had to collectively agree it was a good idea. It’s kind of like (kind of, but it’s a whole other moral spectrum) when a movie like Madam Web or Cuties or Night Swim comes out and you start to wonder how the people involved collectively went “Yea, we should do this, great idea, what could go wrong?” (I know the movie thing is a horrible correlation but illustratively makes the point) I also picked up early on at who wasn’t being interviewed and how others were talking about them and immediately got that “oh that really effing bad” sour stomach feel (sorry, being vague to try to avoid spoilers as best I can) Most horrific is the realization that the decision was made by a Jewish organization to Jewish triplets in a post WW2 world. It’s just an extra kick to the balls that nobody needed.
The most horrifying thing about Dear Zachary, apart from of course THE most horrifying thing, is the parents being forced to interact and make small talk with their child's murderer, just so they would be able to see their grandson.
It's also a garbage bag full of lies written by an Irish YA writer with no understanding of the Shoah and based on maybe ten minutes of Googling, that focuses on a f***ing Nazi camp commandant's kid and tries to "there were good Germans" an actual straight-up SS officer's family. Ideally it should be ignored, if not outright pilloried.
Dear Zachary was and will be #1 twist. It was such a gut wrenching ending. I was so worried thats where the story was going but had faith in Zachary's family and community. But the system failed them. I avoided looking up the film as my friend and i heard about it being so good. So we went into it blind. We ended sobbing.
I am surprised how many audiences just accept the villain's final confession as the absolute truth. At @1:00 - Willford _claims_ that Gilliam was his agent. Conveniently, this is well past the time when Gilliam was around to confirm or refute this claim.
It would make sense though. He was stopping people from giving up, offering words of encouragement, advice and wisdom. If it wasn't for him, the rebellions may not have ever happened, even if they weren't orchestrated.
We watched Dear Zachary in Documentary studies in film school and when it ended I went to the bathroom and just bawled my eyes out. Today even the mention of it weighs on my chest like a brick
@@antoniacosta6221really? I was waiting for the sister’s death the entire movie. I hadn’t expected the father, however, given his relationship and defense of Kevin throughout.
5:07 I guess I thought this was more obvious but, he did put it together earlier. You have to think about the way exactly how he words his cursing of humanity. “You REALLY did it didn’t you? You blew it up!” I could be wrong, but I always took that as him figuring it out much earlier but being in denial about it until the proof is staring him in the face
If you read atonement you see that she genuinely thought Robbie was the villian. She lied about seeing him but after witnessing the fountain scene from a distance and misunderstanding the library scene she thought he was abusing her sister so not a huge leap to think he was the one to attack Lola. It's not until much later she realises she is wrong. Her little crush was over by the events of the film. It passed once she confessed her feelings.
If you read it you'll know that she's an incredibly unreliable narrator who admits to moulding what she sees into what she already believes. It wasn't a genuine mistake.
Y'all, Dear Zachary GUTTED ME. I randomly landed on it while channel surfing in 2011-ish & had no idea of what I was really watching. I just saw documentary on the description & decided to watch it. My heart was broken and I just squalled. His poor parents and friends 💔 I would really like more backstory on Shirley Turner to attempt to understand what a wretched & psychotic person she became.
I’ve heard about Dear Zachary since it came out, but I never saw his face until now. I have a lot of mental issues including manic breakdowns where I can get violent and dangerous. Even in the deepest psychosis I’ve been in, my aggression is directed towards adults and sometimes objects. I could never hurt a kid or animal. My heart breaks when I think about whatever must have happened to that woman to make her do something so horrible. I’ll never understand how evil humanity can be. The brain is so terrifyingly powerful. Her’s must have been so so broken.
Promising young womans twist was kinda obvious, if you payed attention and I loved it cause it playes soo well into the whole point, how we tend to turn blind if someone is just likable . . .
It’s actually a pretty evil thing to keep trying to perpetuate. So no decent people exist and can’t be trusted by their actions even. Really smart and true. Not fear mongering and misandry at all.
@englishatheart You're right, it does say something about me; it says I'm bored of the 'not all men' rhetoric that gets dragged out every time sexual assault comes up. It's not misandrist to be tired of boys whinging about being painted in a negative light when they refuse to grow a spine and do something about their predatory 'bros'. But sure, rolling my eyes is the problem. Be less of a pick-me maybe.
People concentrating so much on the documentary needing to be number one due to it being real, but are really overlooking how underrated a film maker Almodovar is. He was also the one that really introduced Antonio Banderas to the world, that how Robert Rodriguez found him, and he's always been great in Almodovar's movies. Partially due the films being in his native language, but also because the quality of roles were much better than most of what Hollywood presented, but he is a good actor.
Never forget that time my middle school corralled everyone into the gymnasium for a school wide viewing of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Just casually traumatizing a bunch of kids on a Tuesday afternoon.
I'd add An American Crime, starring Elliot Page & Catherine Keener. It's based on a true story, and they used some of the actual court transcripts in writing the movie. However, I personally consider it a horror movie so it might not count here.
Let’s talk about Kevin/we need to talk about Kevin was such a disturbing movie within itself. I remember watching this movie before I became a teenager and I thought to myself like how could a parent not realize that their child was evil until it got to that point. Now that I look at like clips of that movie it’s very easy to see that Kevin was going to kill his father and his sister. It seemed as though throughout the movie that Kevin absolutely loved his father, but hated his mother, and there was no real reason for his hatred towards his mother. Even at the end of the movie when his mother asked him why he did what he did, he could not for the life of him remember why he hated His mother or even why he did what he did in the movie. One major thing that pissed me off was the father being so almost passive aggressive towards his wife because she would mention some of the things that Kevin would do or feel towards her and he would kind of brushed it off. Like Kevin was not potty trained for a long time even though he knew how to go to the bathroom. It was such an emotionally manipulative tactic that Kevin did to make his mother change him every single time. I also remember this one time that Kevin was actually nice to his mom within the movie and it was because he was sick. It was of course a huge shock to his mother and his father because he was like a daddy‘s boy but I feel so that was just a ploy to make his mother miserable and make his father stay on his side. I already knew that he was probably gonna kill his little sister because of him pouring a dangerous liquid in her eye when she was younger and she had to get a glass eye. I felt so bad for his mother and his sister because his sister actually loved him and his mom tried to love him, but he was just an ass. There was so many other things within the movie that as a parent, it probably would have been better to get my child therapy to see why he hates me that much because he was basically like a little demon for no reason.
I have two siblings with LD's and Dead Man's Shoes absolutely wrecked me. Not a lot things get to me but that film really, really got to me. Its also worth noting that Paddy Considine, the actor playing Richard, is autistic IRL.
The planet of the apes twist is made better because it’s not just Taylor excusing how earthlike the planet is. The audience is too. But we let it go because really how alien could it be on a budget. Until it’s revealed that filmmakers were making no effort to conceal it, we were simply deluding ourselves as viewers
With the boy in the striped pajamas the book is actually darker than the movie as you don't know the fate of the boys. its just the father figures out what happens then ends
@SerbAtheist no, and that's a problem...To say that Memento is the high point of Nolan's career when The Dark knight is one of the most well loved Superhero movies ever, won Oscars, and is in the top 100 of the best movies ever made is just false and ridiculous on a massive level. It's like saying American Graffiti is the high point of George Lucas's career.
The last one is SO STUPID. *SPOILER* What are the odds that the person you think attacked your girl looks so much like her that a few surgeries make her look identical…ya, no. I can step away from logic depending on the “logic” but that coincidence, when you so happen so be a surgeon and can do the procedures by yourself, makes it laughable. Ya, this “girl” didn’t notice ANY SCARS or healings of her procedures at all…sure. Dumb.
Dear Zachary….absolutely heartbreaking. I will never, ever forget that documentary. Those amazing grandparents deserve all the accolades. The Skin I Live In, I could’ve sworn Vincente left some event with the daughter & he committed or tried to do SA that’s why he sought revenge by kidnapping then molding him into his dead wife. I could be wrong. The Kevin movie….wow wow wow wow…what do you do when a child is innately anti-social no matter what you do?? There are those times where I watched documentaries & even the psychiatrists said they don’t know how to help the child. Serial k!llers were babies 🤷🏽♀️
7:42 - A film that depicts a completely false story and insists that a. Germans didn't know what was going on, and b. even more remarkably, an SS CAMP COMMANDANT didn't know and is a sympathetic figure, is not "largely solid historical film-making." Surely you can produce clickbait lists without endorsing a movie that openly encourages sympathy for the Nazis? Deeply disappointed in What Culture and especially Sean, who should know better (you're a Trekkie, dammit! Be better!).
So... The whole Memento story could have been prevented, if Lennards wife used her brain and thought "I should not let a man with amnesia take care of the medication for my life threadning disease." 🤷♂
It's been a really long time since I saw it but I think it was said she thought he was faking his memory issues and it was like the worst 'test' to try and force him to confess by having him give her insulin shot twice.
I'm not sure how we're recognizing genre anymore. How is We Need to Talk About Kevin not horror? Is it because what happens in the movie is actual reality for a disturbingly large group of people that keeps getting larger?
Kevin is definitely a wild ride, but I think Kevin’s mom is the real villain. Kevin is the victim of his mother and a reflection of her abuse. She was neglectful, distant, and violent towards him. His father was super wary of her. There’s several cases where she proved an unreliable narrator she claimed that her 4 year old son broke his own arm just to fuck with her?? When you go back and view, notice how she always frames him as antagonizing her…no one else noticed his behavior? I think she was a narcissistic and reframed the narrative because she is lying to herself. I tink the film is heavy with subtext. The father is strained and watchful with her and we only see it from the mother’s perspective not anyone else and while Kevin does go on to act villainous she still goes see him in the end. The film successfully manages to misdirect the audience so many times that in the end we the audience continue to abuse Kevin by not believing what we see before our own eyes and continuing the mis perception. Not all caping for Kevin but acknowledging that he too was a victim.
Half of the people writing about this movie say it's about a bad mom, the other half say it's about an inherently evil child, and I'd say the split is exactly even. Mamet's "Oleanna" gets the same split response. I think that's rare for a movie to achieve.
Promising young woman is actually a super lazy twist. They always do the nice guy is evil thing all the time. This is like the classic Law and order SVU twist.
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Promising Young Woman’s plot twist hits particularly hard due to the casting of Bo Burnham. It was an intentional choice to cast a lot of well liked male actors mostly known for being comedians or acting in comedy films, as the villains, making it all the more shocking when their true nature is revealed.
It’s so lazy. This is overdone all the time. Demonizing the nice guy is so played out but it go on until we decide misandry is a thing. North America really stinks sometimes.
@@floatinrocktubetalk3768 You need to cry harder.
@@floatinrocktubetalk3768 The movie itself is excellent.
@@floatinrocktubetalk3768guess you're one of these "nice guys"
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What’s frustrating about dear Zachary is that Andrew’s parents fought very hard to get custody of Zach but because his mother was still around, it was denied which directly led to what happened
One of the most depressing ends to a real life horror story
I'd swap 1 and 2. No matter how messed up a movie is, at the end of the day it's still just fiction. Dear Zachery actually happened. That's 2 people that lost their lives, no amount of rewinding or starting the documentary over is going to bring them back.
Then with respect, I don't believe movies true to real life have plot twists. They are already set unlike fiction where anything can happen.
Dear Zachery is heart shattering. I remember watching it just sobbing in complete disbelief 💔
@@raphaelnixon7852 no.
Dear zachery is a horrible, gut wrenching watch. Worse than any horror films
Agreed
That’s just it, Ryan’s NOT the antithesis of the toxic guys. On rewatch, all the signs are there, but we are charmed, too. He won’t take her “no” as final when he asks her out, he takes her to his place and plays it as a joke on their first date, and he’s still in contact with the obviously bad dudes. It’s a subtle rebuke for all those who say, “You should have been more careful/ you overlooked red flags.”
It’s completely brilliant. We can’t blame the victims as the audience because we just got duped ourselves.
Or it's called courtship. There are literal articles written by women with your same mindset wondering why men "don't try harder" when they are rejected. Like what the fuck do you want?
@ Dude… in case you haven’t seen the movie, you’re siding with the rapist. Just a head’s up.
I’m not gonna speak for any toxic ass women who say they want men to ignore a “no.” They are their own giant red flag.
@@codynoth4183most women literally want no to mean no and men not to support other men they no are rapists. This is not that difficult.
@@codynoth4183 lmaaaao no. you're incapable of understanding basic societal norms, apparently.
@@codynoth4183prove it. Prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that these articles are written by women. Video? Not good enough. You can make anyone say anything with a 10 second clip. Profile pics? Not good enough - catfishing is a thing. You have absolutely no proof that those articles are actually written by women, but you still believe it - hook, line, and sinker - because it's exactly what you want to hear. And men like you are why I always carry mace. My no sounds like a yes? Let's see if a face full of pepper spray does.
The big plot twist in Memento was not that Leonard was manipulated by Teddy. It was that Leonard was manipulated by himself.
Came to say the same. Teddy was actually trying to help. The "gf" was manipulating.
@nmweagley Everyone including Teddy and himself were manipulating Leonard. Teddy was still manipulating Leonard as they already "got the guy" long before the movie. Teddy was still using him. My point was that Leonard was manipulating himself above all else.
And none of it even 100% true, I personally think Teddy told Leonard his wife survived and he accidentally gave her too much insulin to screw with him. He knew every intricate detail about his wife, why would he forget she had diabetes?
@@davidwiley4953 it's been a few year's, but wasn't Teddy just following him and getting him info on the people Leonard kept identifying. "Remember Sammy Jenkins...." lol He was helping Leonard, right?
@@abselby good point, but Leonard himself isn't even a reliable story teller if we're getting that deep. He thinks he remembers, you saw how quick he forgot when that psycho beat herself in the face in front of him.
Dear Zachary was paced in such a way that I think about it every now and then. Hauntingly gripping. Just tears through the first half, like why are you rushing dude, and then, oh!
Same.
same. one of the most impactful movies i've ever seen.
I can’t even watch it after reading about it in the comments. It would be too traumatizing to watch. My heart breaks for that family. 😢
Dear Zachary has haunted me since I watched it in 2009. It's one of those documentaries that will stick with you forever.
Oh how naive I was going into this video and how in 2 hours I am weeping like a baby. Dear Zachary is an amazing, heartbreaking documentary. This was a film on my radar, but I kept forgetting about it for some reason. I skipped your number 2 purposely and immediately went to watch it. JFC. No matter what, I hope David and Kate Bagby continue to receive the love and support that was shown.
"We need to talk about Kevin" is such a great movie, it is disturbing in ways that most horror movies today simply can't make you feel
Dear Zachary is one of the few movies on my ‘Never Rewatch’ list.
I’d argue the two twists in “3 Identical Strangers” are also shattering, though the first one is somewhat anticipated, if you’ve been paying attention to the interviews. The second has such deep historical and cultural implications that it’s so hard to fathom how it could ever have happened.
3 identical strangers DESTROYED ME😩
I'll never rewatch it either.
@@loyalbeta I just read the synopsis on "3" and Fuck that is awful
@ Oh yea, it’s absolutely deplorable. I can’t imagine how it even happened…. Someone had to have the initial idea, they in turn had to think that ‘sharing with the group’ was a good idea, and then the group (or majority of the group, I can’t recall if they tell us if any of the decision makers disagreed, but I want to say there wasn’t any real protest from those in charge) had to collectively agree it was a good idea.
It’s kind of like (kind of, but it’s a whole other moral spectrum) when a movie like Madam Web or Cuties or Night Swim comes out and you start to wonder how the people involved collectively went “Yea, we should do this, great idea, what could go wrong?” (I know the movie thing is a horrible correlation but illustratively makes the point)
I also picked up early on at who wasn’t being interviewed and how others were talking about them and immediately got that “oh that really effing bad” sour stomach feel (sorry, being vague to try to avoid spoilers as best I can)
Most horrific is the realization that the decision was made by a Jewish organization to Jewish triplets in a post WW2 world. It’s just an extra kick to the balls that nobody needed.
i finished reading atonement in a restaurant. i cried so hard the waiter brought me a free cocktail
The most horrifying thing about Dear Zachary, apart from of course THE most horrifying thing, is the parents being forced to interact and make small talk with their child's murderer, just so they would be able to see their grandson.
We had to watch boy in the striped pajamas in highschool. It was so sad.
I hope that was in gym class, and not history or social studies class.
It's also a garbage bag full of lies written by an Irish YA writer with no understanding of the Shoah and based on maybe ten minutes of Googling, that focuses on a f***ing Nazi camp commandant's kid and tries to "there were good Germans" an actual straight-up SS officer's family. Ideally it should be ignored, if not outright pilloried.
I had to watch it in middle school :/
Dear Zachary was and will be #1 twist. It was such a gut wrenching ending. I was so worried thats where the story was going but had faith in Zachary's family and community. But the system failed them. I avoided looking up the film as my friend and i heard about it being so good. So we went into it blind. We ended sobbing.
I watched Dear Zachary for the first time a couple months ago, and I was bawling by the ending. Even a month on and I’m still thinking about it.
I am surprised how many audiences just accept the villain's final confession as the absolute truth. At @1:00 - Willford _claims_ that Gilliam was his agent. Conveniently, this is well past the time when Gilliam was around to confirm or refute this claim.
It would make sense though. He was stopping people from giving up, offering words of encouragement, advice and wisdom.
If it wasn't for him, the rebellions may not have ever happened, even if they weren't orchestrated.
We watched Dear Zachary in Documentary studies in film school and when it ended I went to the bathroom and just bawled my eyes out. Today even the mention of it weighs on my chest like a brick
Dead man’s shoes is a classic film found it by accident when u was younger and could go back a watch it over and over
I dunno if I'd eay the plot twist in We Need to Talk About Kevin was at all unexpected. It was heavily foreshadowed.
Was it? I didn’t expect Kevin to murder his dad and sister, especially since his dad was the only person he seemed to tolerate
@@antoniacosta6221really? I was waiting for the sister’s death the entire movie. I hadn’t expected the father, however, given his relationship and defense of Kevin throughout.
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Ending the sister was definitely foreshadowed but I was surprised about the father.
Yeah, I thought so too. Everything he did was to punish his mother
The boy in the striped pajams was seriously heartbreaking
I'm not watching this or any of the past ones, but man did Patch Adams have the darkest twist that depressed me as a child.
5:07 I guess I thought this was more obvious but, he did put it together earlier. You have to think about the way exactly how he words his cursing of humanity. “You REALLY did it didn’t you? You blew it up!” I could be wrong, but I always took that as him figuring it out much earlier but being in denial about it until the proof is staring him in the face
If you read atonement you see that she genuinely thought Robbie was the villian. She lied about seeing him but after witnessing the fountain scene from a distance and misunderstanding the library scene she thought he was abusing her sister so not a huge leap to think he was the one to attack Lola. It's not until much later she realises she is wrong.
Her little crush was over by the events of the film. It passed once she confessed her feelings.
If you read it you'll know that she's an incredibly unreliable narrator who admits to moulding what she sees into what she already believes. It wasn't a genuine mistake.
Dead Man's Shoes caught me off guard on my first viewing it was so sad seeing that plot twist.
Promising Young Woman is my favorite movie of the past 10 years.
Y'all, Dear Zachary GUTTED ME. I randomly landed on it while channel surfing in 2011-ish & had no idea of what I was really watching. I just saw documentary on the description & decided to watch it. My heart was broken and I just squalled. His poor parents and friends 💔
I would really like more backstory on Shirley Turner to attempt to understand what a wretched & psychotic person she became.
Wait! A lot of sources consider The Skin I Live In to be a horror movie. Would the last one not count?
According to google it’s technically a thriller, but a lot of thrillers can be horrors too so I guess it depends on who you ask
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Sophie's Choice. When she had to make said choice and her reasons behind doing so will break your heart.
I’ve heard about Dear Zachary since it came out, but I never saw his face until now. I have a lot of mental issues including manic breakdowns where I can get violent and dangerous. Even in the deepest psychosis I’ve been in, my aggression is directed towards adults and sometimes objects. I could never hurt a kid or animal. My heart breaks when I think about whatever must have happened to that woman to make her do something so horrible. I’ll never understand how evil humanity can be. The brain is so terrifyingly powerful. Her’s must have been so so broken.
Incendies is another brutal one.
Good list 👏 🖤
Dear Zachary is such a heartbreaking documentary. That poor family!
Promising young womans twist was kinda obvious, if you payed attention and I loved it cause it playes soo well into the whole point, how we tend to turn blind if someone is just likable . . .
It’s actually a pretty evil thing to keep trying to perpetuate. So no decent people exist and can’t be trusted by their actions even. Really smart and true. Not fear mongering and misandry at all.
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@@MsIvalane They're not wrong, and you rolling your eyes says so much about you.
@englishatheart You're right, it does say something about me; it says I'm bored of the 'not all men' rhetoric that gets dragged out every time sexual assault comes up. It's not misandrist to be tired of boys whinging about being painted in a negative light when they refuse to grow a spine and do something about their predatory 'bros'. But sure, rolling my eyes is the problem. Be less of a pick-me maybe.
The Voyeurs first twist literally had my jaw dropping!
People concentrating so much on the documentary needing to be number one due to it being real, but are really overlooking how underrated a film maker Almodovar is. He was also the one that really introduced Antonio Banderas to the world, that how Robert Rodriguez found him, and he's always been great in Almodovar's movies. Partially due the films being in his native language, but also because the quality of roles were much better than most of what Hollywood presented, but he is a good actor.
Never forget that time my middle school corralled everyone into the gymnasium for a school wide viewing of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Just casually traumatizing a bunch of kids on a Tuesday afternoon.
Dead Man Shoes is haunting. I thought Paddy Constantine was going to blow up after that.
Dear Zachary absolutely destroyed me.
I'd add An American Crime, starring Elliot Page & Catherine Keener. It's based on a true story, and they used some of the actual court transcripts in writing the movie. However, I personally consider it a horror movie so it might not count here.
Let’s talk about Kevin/we need to talk about Kevin was such a disturbing movie within itself. I remember watching this movie before I became a teenager and I thought to myself like how could a parent not realize that their child was evil until it got to that point. Now that I look at like clips of that movie it’s very easy to see that Kevin was going to kill his father and his sister. It seemed as though throughout the movie that Kevin absolutely loved his father, but hated his mother, and there was no real reason for his hatred towards his mother. Even at the end of the movie when his mother asked him why he did what he did, he could not for the life of him remember why he hated His mother or even why he did what he did in the movie. One major thing that pissed me off was the father being so almost passive aggressive towards his wife because she would mention some of the things that Kevin would do or feel towards her and he would kind of brushed it off. Like Kevin was not potty trained for a long time even though he knew how to go to the bathroom. It was such an emotionally manipulative tactic that Kevin did to make his mother change him every single time. I also remember this one time that Kevin was actually nice to his mom within the movie and it was because he was sick. It was of course a huge shock to his mother and his father because he was like a daddy‘s boy but I feel so that was just a ploy to make his mother miserable and make his father stay on his side. I already knew that he was probably gonna kill his little sister because of him pouring a dangerous liquid in her eye when she was younger and she had to get a glass eye. I felt so bad for his mother and his sister because his sister actually loved him and his mom tried to love him, but he was just an ass. There was so many other things within the movie that as a parent, it probably would have been better to get my child therapy to see why he hates me that much because he was basically like a little demon for no reason.
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Once saw _The Boy in the striped Pajamas_ in School
Never ever again have I watch it since
Too Traumatizing 😢
I just watched an ad get interrupted by another ad
The real unexpected twist
Love the content of your videos but the audio drop off sometimes irritates me to no end haha
Memento is so underrated!!
I have two siblings with LD's and Dead Man's Shoes absolutely wrecked me. Not a lot things get to me but that film really, really got to me.
Its also worth noting that Paddy Considine, the actor playing Richard, is autistic IRL.
what I’ve learned: Tilda Swinton is indicative of a plot twist
we need to talk about Kevin should have been in the top 3.
Bryony is pronounced like Brian with a Y at the end.
The skin I live in blew my mind that one was wild.
The planet of the apes twist is made better because it’s not just Taylor excusing how earthlike the planet is. The audience is too. But we let it go because really how alien could it be on a budget. Until it’s revealed that filmmakers were making no effort to conceal it, we were simply deluding ourselves as viewers
I just watched snowpiercer recently it was a good movie had some plot holes though
How big is that bucket you are in?
The Skin I Live In is easily one of Almodovar's best films.
We need to talk about Kevin was a hard watch. It was really good but O.M.G it was difficult in parts
Thanks for letting me know all the movies I will not be watching.
Well. I mean. Those are all thrillers. A genre of movies that features gruesome plot twist far more often then horror.
holy crap. Dear Zachery.
I made my mom watch Oldboy...lol.
Also, is this Qxir narrating?
With the boy in the striped pajamas the book is actually darker than the movie as you don't know the fate of the boys. its just the father figures out what happens then ends
Did you just say Memento is the High point of Christopher Nolan's career when The Dark Knight and Inception exist?
Did he stutter?
@SerbAtheist no, and that's a problem...To say that Memento is the high point of Nolan's career when The Dark knight is one of the most well loved Superhero movies ever, won Oscars, and is in the top 100 of the best movies ever made is just false and ridiculous on a massive level.
It's like saying American Graffiti is the high point of George Lucas's career.
Dear Zachary should not be on this list. This wasn’t a plot twist. It was real life.
And dear Zachary was a DOCUMENTARY based on real life.
Mulholland Drive could be on here. I think? Probably.
I mean, I have no idea what's going on in that movie, but it seems bad.
So, is number 1 basically just what happens when you throw Sleepaway Camp, Dr. Giggles, and a shitload of arthouse films into a blender?
I’m just glad you know what Sleepaway camp is ❤️
I needed therapy after Dear Zachary. Also not in your countdown, the Chris Watts story.
Oooooh the way Chris Watts makes my blood boil…
No Bridge to Terabithia?
I HATE Atonement. I don't know that I've ever been so mad at the end of a film.
I've only read the book, many years ago, but the main character is so unlikeable from the get go and only becomes worse.
How do you call one of the most recogniceable spanish directors ALMONDEVAR, please atleast look how things are pronounced this is embarrassing
Remember Sammy Jenkins
Not sure if it's you speaking with fast choppy editing or AI but it's really hard to follow along with the pacing of the speech
Is your pop filter a soda can?
The last one is SO STUPID.
*SPOILER*
What are the odds that the person you think attacked your girl looks so much like her that a few surgeries make her look identical…ya, no. I can step away from logic depending on the “logic” but that coincidence, when you so happen so be a surgeon and can do the procedures by yourself, makes it laughable. Ya, this “girl” didn’t notice ANY SCARS or healings of her procedures at all…sure. Dumb.
What are the "flaws" you speak of about Atonement? This movie is perfect
In films history? Uhhh no.
Dear Zachary….absolutely heartbreaking. I will never, ever forget that documentary. Those amazing grandparents deserve all the accolades. The Skin I Live In, I could’ve sworn Vincente left some event with the daughter & he committed or tried to do SA that’s why he sought revenge by kidnapping then molding him into his dead wife. I could be wrong. The Kevin movie….wow wow wow wow…what do you do when a child is innately anti-social no matter what you do?? There are those times where I watched documentaries & even the psychiatrists said they don’t know how to help the child. Serial k!llers were babies 🤷🏽♀️
2:50 when you said "We need to talk about Kevin's victims" I thought you meant Marv and Harry......
7:42 - A film that depicts a completely false story and insists that a. Germans didn't know what was going on, and b. even more remarkably, an SS CAMP COMMANDANT didn't know and is a sympathetic figure, is not "largely solid historical film-making." Surely you can produce clickbait lists without endorsing a movie that openly encourages sympathy for the Nazis?
Deeply disappointed in What Culture and especially Sean, who should know better (you're a Trekkie, dammit! Be better!).
So... The whole Memento story could have been prevented, if Lennards wife used her brain and thought "I should not let a man with amnesia take care of the medication for my life threadning disease." 🤷♂
It's been a really long time since I saw it but I think it was said she thought he was faking his memory issues and it was like the worst 'test' to try and force him to confess by having him give her insulin shot twice.
@@moonsalsa6860 Fair, but at the same time, why would you put YOUR life in danger to prove a point about someone else? 😂
I'm not sure how we're recognizing genre anymore. How is We Need to Talk About Kevin not horror? Is it because what happens in the movie is actual reality for a disturbingly large group of people that keeps getting larger?
Snow Piercer is super overrated an incredibly hamfisted. This plot twist did make the movie a bit better.
Kevin is definitely a wild ride, but I think Kevin’s mom is the real villain. Kevin is the victim of his mother and a reflection of her abuse. She was neglectful, distant, and violent towards him. His father was super wary of her. There’s several cases where she proved an unreliable narrator she claimed that her 4 year old son broke his own arm just to fuck with her?? When you go back and view, notice how she always frames him as antagonizing her…no one else noticed his behavior? I think she was a narcissistic and reframed the narrative because she is lying to herself. I tink the film is heavy with subtext. The father is strained and watchful with her and we only see it from the mother’s perspective not anyone else and while Kevin does go on to act villainous she still goes see him in the end. The film successfully manages to misdirect the audience so many times that in the end we the audience continue to abuse Kevin by not believing what we see before our own eyes and continuing the mis perception. Not all caping for Kevin but acknowledging that he too was a victim.
Thats possible but also thetes a lot of subtext that implies that Kevin was infact a psychopath
Half of the people writing about this movie say it's about a bad mom, the other half say it's about an inherently evil child, and I'd say the split is exactly even. Mamet's "Oleanna" gets the same split response. I think that's rare for a movie to achieve.
Promising young woman is actually a super lazy twist. They always do the nice guy is evil thing all the time. This is like the classic Law and order SVU twist.
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Wait wait wait hold on. Some dude sees an act and decides to not get involved and that makes him a bad guy?
In that case yes.
I had to stop the video and go play another one just to see if my headphones were broken. Sounds like he's recording in a bucket.