"True Story" Movies that Were Basically Just BS

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  • @brainblaze6526
    @brainblaze6526  3 года назад +19

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    • @michaelmayhem350
      @michaelmayhem350 3 года назад +3

      You should say Wunderbar! Instead of wonderful. Say with your best nazi accent 😂🤣

    • @chillcannongames5758
      @chillcannongames5758 3 года назад +2

      Dislike buttons going away to protect biden as videos related to him are spam disliked unless they are about how bad he is. The dislike button will still be in the algorithm. So RUclips's just fucking every ones free speach for the safty of dumb peoples feelings.

    • @robertaviles8451
      @robertaviles8451 3 года назад +3

      "Smash The DISLIKE 👎 Button" shirts will become obsolete!

    • @nomdeplume7537
      @nomdeplume7537 3 года назад +1

      A really fun Coen Bro film, with a kick ass soundtrack is ...
      O' Brother Where Art Thou'

    • @dschlie6669
      @dschlie6669 3 года назад

      Blain Braze best RUclips all time

  • @delseywitt398
    @delseywitt398 3 года назад +307

    I have a topic suggestion. The most common occupations for psycho/sociopaths. Or do the videos in two parts. This would suit many of his other channels as well. The introduction...perhaps Danny and Sam are seeing some concerning behavior from Simon?

    • @zeroryoko1974
      @zeroryoko1974 3 года назад +26

      HOA president, or politician

    • @HovektheArtist
      @HovektheArtist 3 года назад +18

      Ceo and company presidents/wallstreet are common occupations for psychopaths and sociopaths as being ruthless and insular leads to greater benefits in those occupations

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 года назад +8

      Police

    • @jakepearson1254
      @jakepearson1254 3 года назад +4

      With all my mental issues? I’ll claim first like when it comes out. I need a heckn job 😂😂😂😂

    • @AvB.83
      @AvB.83 3 года назад +11

      Not every manipulative, sociopathic shitcunt is a succesfull politician. But most of those... seriously, which person in their right minds would want that job? All the downsides of being a famous rockstar with none of the benefits.

  • @tychi8826
    @tychi8826 3 года назад +194

    Simon ought to create a channel just labeled Big Brain Tangent… just videos of his best tangents among all his channels compiled into 10 minute videos. His tangents and bloopers lately are so entertaining

    • @danelisslow3269
      @danelisslow3269 3 года назад +31

      Just give Simon a script with one sentence and let him rant about it for the entire video

    • @KatelynDombach
      @KatelynDombach 3 года назад +3

      Yessss

    • @theUglyGypsy
      @theUglyGypsy 3 года назад +11

      Release the footage for open use. Then let us remix the nonsense.

    • @TAT4guitar
      @TAT4guitar 3 года назад +11

      Tangent Blaze

    • @bearguy7429
      @bearguy7429 3 года назад +7

      Also a video dedicated to all of his ad reads especially THE EPIC MAGIC SPOON read

  • @wigglyjiggly4498
    @wigglyjiggly4498 3 года назад +27

    TERMINAL! About that dude who lived in an airport for like 10 years or something. It was all completely his own doing, and he could've left whenever he wanted, but he refused unless they'd grant him the English title of Lord.

  • @UncleBadT
    @UncleBadT 3 года назад +211

    danny, next script, make page numbers ascending yet random numbers left out between pages, eg: page 4-8 are totally missing yet 3 and 9 go together

    • @z31drifterlf
      @z31drifterlf 3 года назад +27

      Counter argument, do the correct numbers in random orders.

    • @ladykoiwolfe
      @ladykoiwolfe 3 года назад +31

      Well, I see we have two applications for the next Satan.

    • @khristelle6383
      @khristelle6383 3 года назад +27

      It’s comments and replies like these that make this channel just that bit more legendary. 🤣😂🤣 #confuseSimon

    • @z31drifterlf
      @z31drifterlf 3 года назад +2

      @@ladykoiwolfe Thank you.

    • @Ixidora
      @Ixidora 3 года назад +21

      Or write them in descending order and vary the font size between pages so it's impossible to tell how long it really is.

  • @Saffron-sugar
    @Saffron-sugar 3 года назад +17

    I'm old. I remember Live Aid, in the summer of 1985.
    David Bowie was crazy famous at the time, his career was not "flagging".
    David Bowies 1983 Album "Let's Dance" nominated for Album of the year Grammy in 1984, had enhanced his career even more, adding on a new younger audience. Bowie had remotely participated in Bob Geldof's 1984 Band Aid, released another album "Tonight". In 1985 his videos for China Girl and Let's Dance were on regular rotation on Mtv in the US.
    However, children (like myself at the time) were not as aware of Queen, just that they were legends and kids at university liked them (although "We will rock you" was chanted at every sporting event) and I loved the Radio GaGa video.
    Most under 16 regarded The Who as a band their parents listened too, but too 70s to be Rolling Stones cool. I recall my mother watched them play and I went and played Atari with friends in a different room. Shame.
    Queen and The Who were definitely coating on past glory (glorious as it was) at the time. But, not Bowie.

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 3 года назад +105

    Speaking as a Scot, when I first saw braveheart I thought it was great (I know!) but it inspired me to go back to the real history and I learned more than school ever taught me about my own country’s history. So I guess thanks Mel for having such an anti English hardon (looking at you too “The Patriot”) that you led me to finding out your own movie is total bs and the real history is way more interesting.

    • @taranullius9221
      @taranullius9221 3 года назад +7

      It usually is more interesting. Braveheart triggers the crap out of me more than just about any movie, other than Elizabeth which is just inaccurate and with no reason. Like why you make Robert Dudley a traitor? Why do it? Her life was wall to wall action and intrigue and you gotta make stupid shit up?

    • @taranullius9221
      @taranullius9221 3 года назад +1

      OK no it's Braveheart not Elizabeth. Just hearing Simon talking about it again is deeply traumatising.

    • @wertiaaudit5746
      @wertiaaudit5746 3 года назад

      Understandable

    • @razz1166
      @razz1166 3 года назад

      Gibson’s movies are more about fetishizing ideology than about sharing compelling history, which makes sense because they’re devoid of history.

    • @justinkashtock333
      @justinkashtock333 2 года назад +1

      The movies themselves are absolutely amazing movies that are well shot, well acted, and have great scripts with dramatic tension and emotional impact.
      Unfortunately, the history is utter garbage. Braveheart and The Patriot are immensely entertaining movies, but there should be some MASSIVE disclaimers at the start of each movie for sure.

  • @InAmOrAtA1983
    @InAmOrAtA1983 3 года назад +17

    "Based on a true story" is code for "Kinda sorta maybe happened to less attractive people."

    • @carnuatus
      @carnuatus 3 года назад +4

      "And probably ended up way more depressingly than the film postulated and the 'protagonists' were pretty awful, too."

  • @timothyoswald8618
    @timothyoswald8618 3 года назад +12

    You did at one point refer to Braveheart as being directed by Mel Brooks. Now, that's a movie I would watch.

    • @jimmyroberts9528
      @jimmyroberts9528 Год назад +2

      Sign me up for that..

    • @o.mcneely4424
      @o.mcneely4424 10 месяцев назад +3

      Now THAT would be a work of art I could enjoy. And I wouldn’t have to answer stupid questions when I’m working at Scottish reenacting events. Ironically, Brooks would probably have adhered closer to the history than Gibson did. 🤣

  • @dmlarsen301
    @dmlarsen301 3 года назад +7

    I've shared a cab with a woman in NYC during rush hour. Sometimes it's faster, if you're both going the same direction and the demand for cabs is very high. But yeah, it's not something I've done often.

  • @jazzerzzz22
    @jazzerzzz22 3 года назад +73

    Was talking to my bf about Simon and all the channels, and we want a Blaze Theories, where Simon just shits on conspiracy theories

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 3 года назад +6

      His new channel is a bit like that.

    • @jazzerzzz22
      @jazzerzzz22 3 года назад +4

      @@sandybarnes887 I've noticed that, sometimes I get behind on RUclips and catch up a week or two later and so I just started checking the newest one out.

    • @SpencerGD
      @SpencerGD 3 года назад +4

      @@sandybarnes887 for sure. Sounds like Decoding the Unknown. Katy (the author) is a fine addition to the basement club.

    • @amandajones661
      @amandajones661 3 года назад +1

      He has one. 😅😅😅

    • @jazzerzzz22
      @jazzerzzz22 3 года назад

      @@SpencerGD didn't even think of that, brilliant.

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas 3 года назад +36

    Simon hating the dislike removal fills me with joy.
    Can we get new "Smash the Useless Button" shirts?

    • @mitchellpatterson1829
      @mitchellpatterson1829 3 года назад +2

      That, or modify the current smash the dislike button shirt, and put dislike in a blue oval to signify it's new found impotence?

    • @emmasanimals3x8x
      @emmasanimals3x8x 3 года назад

      Or he could just make a post saying dislike and then everyone who likes that post dislikes the video. #bigbrain

  • @mitchellpatterson1829
    @mitchellpatterson1829 3 года назад +119

    I'm sure Simon is not too invested in it, but Gandalf (originally Mithrandir)is not a wizard, he is a Maiar. They are a form of demigod in the Tolkien universe.
    Que the "NNEEERRRRDDDDD!!!" Homer meme.

    • @Thyranel
      @Thyranel 3 года назад +7

      I robot looks at you...... no

    • @havokvladimirovichstalinov
      @havokvladimirovichstalinov 3 года назад +5

      NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD

    • @DarkWolfseternalfire
      @DarkWolfseternalfire 3 года назад +13

      Ahhh a fellow lotr nerd, good man

    • @adambielen8996
      @adambielen8996 3 года назад +23

      I mean he and the others are referred to as wizards all the time in the books. So it isn't wrong to call him a wizard. It might not be the best technical description but it is still correct from the view of the majority of the characters in universe.

    • @harrisonjodeit4340
      @harrisonjodeit4340 3 года назад +5

      Based on a true story.

  • @The1trueJester
    @The1trueJester 3 года назад +18

    RUclips got me here in Seconds, not minutes. Let's blaze it up!

    • @HughZantu
      @HughZantu 3 года назад +4

      Hell yeah, 5 bowls for breakfast, 1 is magic spoon

    • @deansheets
      @deansheets 3 года назад +1

      @@HughZantu all 5 should have been magic spoon cause it's delicious.

  • @BainesMkII
    @BainesMkII 3 года назад +15

    Sacha Baron Cohen wanted to make a movie that showcased the over-the-top insanity, using examples such as Mercury having quickies mid-concert and a party that had "little people" carrying plates of cocaine on their heads. Cohen claimed the band members instead wanted to protect their legacy, and wanted the latter half of the movie to be about them after Freddie's death. Roger Taylor later said Cohen didn't take Freddie or the project seriously enough, and seemingly tried to imply that Cohen was never a workable choice.

    • @MAGGOT_VOMIT
      @MAGGOT_VOMIT 3 года назад

      The hole thing is really effed up. I mean, just knowing that Freddy was spewing a pelt of pubesandaids on the mics.

  • @lekiscool
    @lekiscool 3 года назад +30

    “There must be musicals about serial killers.”
    So you haven’t seen Sweeney Todd then?

    • @mitchellpatterson1829
      @mitchellpatterson1829 3 года назад

      How about the musical "Assassins" by John Weidman, appropriately based on a true story (actually several)?

    • @Erika-us2ws
      @Erika-us2ws 2 года назад

      Sam has lol.

    • @caittails
      @caittails 2 года назад +1

      That’s a myth. Sweeney Todd is based on a true story the same way Fargo or Dan Brown books are “real”, and it’s kind of based in “real” legend the same way as King Arthur.

    • @chawnadams9648
      @chawnadams9648 2 года назад +3

      Little shop of horrors is about a killer plant.

  • @Winterydee
    @Winterydee 3 года назад +44

    Fun facts for factboi: Schedule 1 drugs in the USA are the most regulated... it includes Heroin and Marijuana... but not Cocaine!
    Side note: I love how every now and then factboi still refers to the channel as Business Blaze! See in his heart he knows that this channel will always be Business Blaze! Long Live BUSINESS BLAZE!

    • @badluck5647
      @badluck5647 3 года назад +1

      Weed and heroin are worst, because it doesn't help Simon make RUclips videos...allegedly

    • @ajstevens1652
      @ajstevens1652 3 года назад +1

      Weed is more regulated than cocaine!? I guess that's good news for Simon.

    • @TheBlueB0mber
      @TheBlueB0mber 3 года назад +5

      I was looking for this comment, thanks! The US govt in it’s infinite wisdom placed heroin & marijuana in the same class because they both have “no currently accepted medical use & a high risk of abuse.”

    • @Winterydee
      @Winterydee 3 года назад +4

      @@TheBlueB0mber - It is very hard to have a medical use when the drug in question is only studied for its negative properties for decades.

    • @thomasdimlad8112
      @thomasdimlad8112 Год назад

      There are all kinds of conspiracy theories about why weed is schedule 1 & cocaine is schedule 2.

  • @madelinevanderbunny607
    @madelinevanderbunny607 3 года назад +38

    Just a hatch? So Danny is less trapped in a basement and more held captive in an oubliette. And yes I wrote this comment just to use the word oubliette. Because when does one ever get to use the word oubliette. Basically never and it's a fun word so you gotta take advantage when you can so... OUBLIETTE OUBLIETTE OUBLIETTE! Lol

    • @AvoidTheCadaver
      @AvoidTheCadaver 3 года назад +1

      Viet cong pit trap. With bamboo grate
      Budget is too tight

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine 3 года назад

      @@AvoidTheCadaver ...for an
      oubliette.

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine 3 года назад +2

      Supervillain in a Grant Morrison comic named Oubliette. Her villain codename was Exterminatrix though.

    • @RedactedATS
      @RedactedATS 3 года назад +2

      I'm hearing echoes of Labryinth, the movie 👍🇬🇧

    • @eggshellgoesgaming
      @eggshellgoesgaming 3 года назад +4

      Danny chose down. He chose down?!?! Danny:"Wait, was that wrong?" Too late now!

  • @StevenLockey
    @StevenLockey 3 года назад +55

    Simon: I don't have this problem on other channels
    Jenn: Then why do I have several pre-prepared 'tangent' meme?

    • @anotsomysticalnight7040
      @anotsomysticalnight7040 3 года назад

      Which channel are you referencing? There's a lot 😅

    • @MasterPorb
      @MasterPorb 3 года назад +1

      Simon's Top Tenz Channel is just Brain Blaze lite.

    • @LiveErrors
      @LiveErrors 3 года назад +4

      @@anotsomysticalnight7040 jenn is on Casual Criminalist and Decoding the Unknown

    • @StevenLockey
      @StevenLockey 3 года назад

      Yeah was on CC I think cos it was getting Dark 🤣

    • @hbeachley
      @hbeachley 2 года назад

      @@MasterPorb Brain Blaze with no coffee.

  • @questioneverything4633
    @questioneverything4633 3 года назад +22

    "what's gonna blow the budget? Mel Brooks' salary?"
    I didn't know Mel Brooks was involved in braveheart. I would have expected more jokes!

    • @harrisonjodeit4340
      @harrisonjodeit4340 3 года назад +6

      "The English are putzes! Go get 'em!"

    • @benjaminforman8901
      @benjaminforman8901 3 года назад +5

      I was expecting Sam to Photoshop one of Mel Brooks' crazy faces onto William Wallace when he yells "FREEEEEDOOOOOM!!!!!"

    • @toxicginger9936
      @toxicginger9936 3 года назад +2

      @@benjaminforman8901 Sam missed that one... a shame...

    • @patrickjorda5523
      @patrickjorda5523 2 года назад

      I didn't catch the joke here...kinda thought Mel Brooks was involved from this..

  • @ryanroberts1104
    @ryanroberts1104 3 года назад +79

    Simon has a better grasp on the American drug classifications than most of the US pharmacists I have to deal with on a regular basis. I'm not exaggerating at all...

    • @TheDarkestSmurf
      @TheDarkestSmurf 3 года назад +2

      That's because Simon is an enthusiast consumer.

  • @trinab.787
    @trinab.787 3 года назад +3

    There is a cartoon movie with talking dogs who make up a sled team and who, totally on their own, go through a bunch of horrible northern climate type ordeals to find some medicine to bring back to the humans. I was very confused at the end when it declared it was "based on a true story"

    • @Boudicca527
      @Boudicca527 7 месяцев назад

      Balto?
      That one is based on a true story but there were many teams of dogs and many drivers of them, each taking a leg of the trip to get the medication to a town full of sick people in Alaska. Balto was just the lead dog who pulled the last leg to bring the medicine in and also had the best pr team.

  • @adambourne5523
    @adambourne5523 3 года назад +21

    To me "based on a true story" means it just has a sad ending and the writer/director doesn't have to go to any effort to pull any threads together at the end.
    Usually an indicator of a hard 'not bothered: skip' when choosing a movie.

  • @lexinicole4317
    @lexinicole4317 3 года назад +1

    You got it right, Schedule 1 is a drug that is considered to have “no medical value” and is highly abusable. It then goes to Schedule 2 which is an abusable drug with “some medical use,” and so on to the less dangerous prescriptions in Schedules 3 and 4, etc.

  • @the1flym459
    @the1flym459 3 года назад +8

    Not to pick on Danny, or to defend that movie because I'm one of those hardcore Queen fans obsessed with all the inaccuracies, but the character of Roy Foster in Bohemian Rhapsody is most likely as much a take on Roy Featherstone as it is former Queen manager Norman Sheffield who was so hated by the band that they released what was essentially a diss track called Death on Two Legs on the same album as Bohemian Rhapsody. Of course he did sue them for defamation over that track so it's not exactly surprising no one likes to mention him. It would be a great topic to cover if you do a music-themed follow-up to your "Movies That Caused Lawsuits" video, just make sure you sprinkle in a few more allegedlies than usual

  • @zoeye7095
    @zoeye7095 3 года назад +4

    First of all, love the odd tangents you go off on. They always make me laugh. The one about Dan Brown made me remember when I worked at a book store and a woman came in looking for the Da Vinci Code. When she finally came and asked me for help she was so exasperated and goes "I've been looking in the biography and history section and I just can't find the book I am looking for." So of course I offered her help asking what book it was and she replied "the Da Vinci Code". And as we are standing in the fiction section... I took her to the book and was like "oh well its not in those sections, its here in fiction". She looked at me just absolutely disturbed by this revelation and goes "so Jesus didn't marry Mary of Magdalene?!" Lol. Second of all, I don't ever believe it when a movie or book states it's based on actual events or parts of history. They always prompt me to do my own research though.

  • @craiggoldfish4813
    @craiggoldfish4813 3 года назад +2

    I did jail time in the UK for refusing to pay parking tickets . 28 days ( the most a magistrate can give over fines ) out of which I served 14 days

  • @davedixon2167
    @davedixon2167 3 года назад +21

    LOL I'll bet that Mel Brooks's salary would have been a pretty big concern in Mel Gibson's movie! (34:29)

    • @Erkle64
      @Erkle64 3 года назад +7

      I would like to see a Mel Brooks version of Braveheart. xD

    • @williamwish2568
      @williamwish2568 3 года назад +1

      Was wondering if someone was going to mention that lol

    • @Zepplin76
      @Zepplin76 3 года назад

      @@Erkle64 Bravehearts' Saddles

  • @BigSmiley0TV
    @BigSmiley0TV Год назад +1

    This is why there are some movies that say inspired by true events and it's really frustrating that so many that say based on true events shouldve stuck with inspired by

  • @jeffreydavis9757
    @jeffreydavis9757 3 года назад +42

    I have a suggestion for a future BB episode that I think Simon would enjoy:
    "CEOs and heads of state who chose to rely on astrology/voodoo/fortune cookies/etc."
    (For example, the President of Haiti in 1963 claimed he had caused the assassination of JFK using the power of voodoo! (Allegedly.))

    • @Snp2024
      @Snp2024 3 года назад +3

      Dictator of Myanmar changed currency bcz of astrology

    • @jeffreydavis9757
      @jeffreydavis9757 3 года назад

      I just want to hear Simon say, "It's not real, Danny!"

    • @bayoubilly5176
      @bayoubilly5176 3 года назад

      Romania funds their werewolf and vampire research more than their cancer research... I used to get mad at the ignorance of some of my co workers till I found out they grew up there heh...

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +21

    7:55 - Chapter 1 - The pursuit of happyness
    17:25 - Chapter 2 - One vision (Bohemian Rhapsody)
    24:35 - Chapter 3 - Fibbing at the flicks (Fargo)
    30:00 - Chapter 4 - The wrong trousers (Braveheart)

  • @honeysucklecat
    @honeysucklecat 3 года назад +1

    I’ve shared a cab before and it was hillarious. Other guy was really really drunk. I was tripping balls, and had just had worst bad trip ever. Got stuck on an island in winter, in Maine, and a blizzard started. Managed to get back to mainland and got cab home.
    Thought it funny that I was far more blasted than drunk guy, but hid it well.

    • @RedactedATS
      @RedactedATS 3 года назад

      Often the case ,I find. I can be spannered beyond the stars and yet still hold it together better than anyone who's had a few drinks. I'm not a drinker myself, not my thing, but everything else is fair game! 🤣

  • @charlie-jay
    @charlie-jay 3 года назад +2

    Actual historians pull their hair out when Hollywood gets involved. That's why so many historians have very little hair...

  • @oracleofdelphi4533
    @oracleofdelphi4533 3 года назад +8

    It's like the story of how Business Blaze became Brain Blaze.

  • @aq5426
    @aq5426 3 года назад +6

    As a descendant of Edward Longshanks, THANK YOU for calling bullshit on Braveheart.

    • @harrisonjodeit4340
      @harrisonjodeit4340 3 года назад +2

      As a descendant of the Scots, I'm drunk!

    • @sirius4k
      @sirius4k 3 года назад

      Edward Longshanks sounds like a perfect porn alias.

  • @MissingInterval
    @MissingInterval 3 года назад +1

    Earlier today my son asked ‘daddy, can I be the boy with the blaze?’. I said no.

  • @MatthewStinar
    @MatthewStinar 3 года назад +37

    When he mentioned Mel Gibson I thought he was going to talk about The Passion of the Christ. Knowing how Simon feels about religion, I was curious what he would have to say about the film's historical accuracy.

    • @IrishMike22
      @IrishMike22 3 года назад +4

      I don't know two Catholics/Christians who can agree on one version of the event itself let alone a Hollywood film about it.

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 3 года назад

      @@IrishMike22 why single out Catholics?

    • @rudyhero1995
      @rudyhero1995 3 года назад +1

      @@garethbaus5471 local mojarity of the version of cristianity...?

    • @IrishMike22
      @IrishMike22 3 года назад +1

      @@garethbaus5471 I didn't "single" anyone out partner I was referring to Catholics and Christians as the majority of Christiandom if you will.
      My apologies if you decided to be offended. Next time look up 'singling out' in a dictionary then note I mentioned two groups 😉

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 3 года назад +2

      @@IrishMike22 it is a little weird to mention one catagory of a broader group like you did.

  • @pr0xZen
    @pr0xZen 3 года назад +23

    I dunno man. I get the sentiment and as a general principle, I kinda agree. But a lot of people really don't have enough eggs, to diversify and still make a worthwhile ROI. A lot of investments carry fixed minimum costs/fees, in particular when you want to realize any gains. If you got $10k+, diversifying is solid and realistic advice. If you got $500, then I completely understand if you'd rather put it all in Ethereum or Bitcoin. Or buy low sell high on used market. But honestly - if you only got $500, that's cutting it so close that those 500 are probably best kept on hand for quck access when an unexpected expense shows up, so you can avoid having to resort to credit to pay the bills. Because if you can't afford to pay the bills, odds are high you won't have enough to pay off that credit either, and in a matter of a few months you've spent all those 500 on credit down payments, but you're still in the deepening hole bc of high interests. If you spent the 500 on those bills instead, you'd at least be debt free.

    • @brainblaze6526
      @brainblaze6526  3 года назад +7

      Totally agree with the latter part of this. If you've only got $500 you should keep it in a bank account and use it when you need $500. You'll never beat the interest rates of a credit card on the other side.

    • @pugnate666
      @pugnate666 3 года назад

      Buy low sell high on used market?
      You'd need to get the expensive stuff, get lucky twice (getting a good deal and selling it for more) and put in a lot of capital and time.
      Sounds more like a job ...

    • @QBCPerdition
      @QBCPerdition 3 года назад +1

      I don't know. If you only have $500, and there isn't a prospect of getting more in your current situation, you're going to be dead broke anyway. So you can either watch that $500 drain away in a month, or you can spend it all now on a chance that it'll pay off and keep you afloat.
      I can totally understand making the choice to take a chance, especially if the downside is just being homeless one month earlier. If you let the money drain away, then you've got no chance, I you spend it, you have an incredibly small chance, but it's better than nothing.

  • @Meluivan
    @Meluivan 3 года назад

    Gotta point something out, I'm a cab driver in a smaller town. If we have two people call for rides from the same place we do double up if it's busy. We drop the passenger with the closest address first and charge them both full price since we charge flat fees instead of mileage.

  • @joejoelesh1197
    @joejoelesh1197 3 года назад +1

    I think Simone's beard is getting more epic. I rarely watch his videos, instead I listen to them while doing other things, so when I looked down at this one near the end I was shocked

  • @bryanmahnke805
    @bryanmahnke805 3 года назад +3

    i AM actually here for the rambling. Please never change, stay golden Ponyboy

  • @DANGMQ
    @DANGMQ 3 года назад +12

    It’s not a Blaze without one curse word left uncensored

    • @piperjaycie
      @piperjaycie 3 года назад

      I said something like that in another video and someone replied saying they only censor swear words at the beginning or in the ad read parts.🤔😊

  • @ollieb9875
    @ollieb9875 3 года назад +2

    It's 30 years since Freddie's passing.

  • @tjthrash0143
    @tjthrash0143 3 года назад +6

    Sam deserves a raise. Crushing the meme game.

  • @tarynebright4048
    @tarynebright4048 9 месяцев назад

    Musical theater major here! There are PLENTY of musicals about murder. Sweeney Todd, phantom of the opera, gentleman’s guide to love and murder, little shop of horrors and others I can’t think of right now

  • @blitzwinters5687
    @blitzwinters5687 3 года назад +1

    I'm surprised Blood Sport didn't make the list, considering how insanely absurd that story is...

    • @blitzwinters5687
      @blitzwinters5687 3 года назад

      @Gwyn and Gold What's his name... Frank Dux? Something like that. The main character of the movie. Claims it's shit he actually did. xD

  • @andiward7068
    @andiward7068 3 года назад +1

    Cab sharing is typically from one business or metro area to another, like going from a restaurant to the "theater district" or subway station.

  • @Foolish188
    @Foolish188 3 года назад +3

    The way Simon talks about Danny, you would think that Simon is just pretending to have Danny locked up in a Houdini room. Very clever!

  • @Constantina.Valenti
    @Constantina.Valenti Год назад +1

    I don't normally ever really laugh. I'm a chuckler at best, but that line of "William Wallace and Gromet" made me crack up hardcore.

  • @ForgedinStruggle
    @ForgedinStruggle 3 года назад +7

    Come on Simon, keep up.
    There are only three walls in the basement because Danny broke the fourth wall.

  • @davidgriffith8292
    @davidgriffith8292 3 года назад +8

    U571… take a true story and completely balls it up.
    The final comment at the end of the film that the ship which recovered the German naval enigma was the crew of HMS Bulldog and it was from U110 not the equally brave USS submariners some 3 years later from U505.

  • @dwarfbunni
    @dwarfbunni 3 года назад

    I have once seen someone share a cab, we were stuck at the last bus stop before a bridge connecting my city together and every bus passed us because they were full because it was five o clock and after an hour two guys called a cab and a girl was panicking because she had something important to get to so they shared a cab across the bridge but that's.... Uncommon and now probably Impossible

  • @mitchellneu
    @mitchellneu 3 года назад +11

    Video: True story movies that are bs
    Me: instantly thinks of Braveheart(great movie, but it’s basically historical fiction bc of how inaccurate it is)

  • @mattw.6726
    @mattw.6726 3 года назад +1

    To be fair, the intro voiceover to Braveheart did essentially admit that the story wasn't factual by saying, "Historians from England will call me a liar..."

  • @patmullarkey7659
    @patmullarkey7659 3 года назад +1

    When I was in Scotland people were always anxious to say "Braveheart" was baloney. But tourists loved to seek Braveheart stuff. (I never saw the movie.)

  • @hcolleen534
    @hcolleen534 3 года назад +1

    Simon Says: The True Story of Simon Whistler (in which all the joke on Brain Blaze are taken for fact, Danny and Sam will be shown in a basement, chained to desks.

  • @droomzy
    @droomzy Год назад

    13:22-13:29 remains the cutest video Sam has ever shared

  • @marcogenovesi8570
    @marcogenovesi8570 3 года назад +1

    "there must be musicals about serial killers"
    Yeah there was a musical about a cannibal Shia Lebeuf, I think

  • @badluck5647
    @badluck5647 3 года назад +2

    I assume people want to be stockbrokers because of the easy access to cocaine.
    ...it's the same reason some people become RUclipsrs.

  • @ljphoenix4341
    @ljphoenix4341 3 года назад +1

    Ford vs Ferrari was based on a true story, and it was actually pretty good, including the way it represented the real world history in the film! It got decent/good reviews from both regular movie critics, the general public, and motorsport historians as well!

  • @scottcarter6623
    @scottcarter6623 3 года назад +1

    i want a sit-com based on the yellow fleet - Every show has a big based on a True Story followed by a ridiculous story line that could have just as easily a family guy show.

  • @raycearcher5794
    @raycearcher5794 3 года назад +1

    Will Smith could play Shipman, and he could convince you every single victim was an utter monster who completely had it coming.

  • @colintimp1372
    @colintimp1372 Год назад

    Despite all the historical inaccuracies in Braveheart, the part I think is most believable is the (paraphrased) "Shall we give them a volley?" And the reply, "Arrows cost money. Send in the Irish."

  • @bobingabout
    @bobingabout 3 года назад

    11:58 ONCE, and only once. We were on Holiday somewhere, and needed to get somewhere, 4 of us in a Mini cab, and some random bloke just walks up and is like "Oh, I hear you're going to this place, I also wanna go there, mind if we share?"

  • @justinkashtock333
    @justinkashtock333 2 года назад +1

    34:29
    "What's going to blow the [Braveheart] budget? Mel Brooks' salary?"
    Simon, thank you for informing me that Mel Brooks was in Braveheart, because I seriously wouldn't have guessed that factoid in a million years!
    😂

  • @dylanmcdermott6959
    @dylanmcdermott6959 3 года назад +13

    If you are looking for another example, I would recommend Sully. Aside from him landing the plane in the Hudson, the rest of the movie is total BS. It involves the airline trying to find him guilty of not flying the plane to another airport (which makes no sense since he is one of their employees and would make them culpable as well) and is dramatically found innocent at the last minute. According to Sully himself, none of this ever happened.

  • @sarahhomrighausen7349
    @sarahhomrighausen7349 3 года назад

    Simon ? In New York City, EVERYONE has shared a cab a number of times if they're 30 or older. They are EXTREMELY scarce at certain times and places. WEALTHY people (strangers) will share if they're going the same direction.

  • @wmlukepriest8012
    @wmlukepriest8012 3 года назад +1

    Love the Dislike count rant! Tell RUclips to give it back.

  • @mattiemathis9549
    @mattiemathis9549 Год назад

    Simon- It is an unfortunate situation in the United States that yes, people share cabs. I found it odd going from Germany, where it would cost a few marks to get to the pub, to the US where it was almost $15.00 to get to downtown. Then I bought a car…😂

  • @alex29443
    @alex29443 3 года назад

    Just a little story here.
    My dad worked at a pretty decent financial firm, and the owner-director of the company met a small time freelance decorator, then hired him to run operations for East Asia, over a bunch of senior staff at the company, basically because he liked the cut of his jib.

  • @sdonthefly
    @sdonthefly 3 года назад

    Sam the new "sometimes maybe good" is just *chef's kiss* I was laughing for 10 minutes after that.

  • @nicks6657
    @nicks6657 2 года назад +1

    16:28 i wish all movie titles were factual and accurate lol
    "Fast And Furious" would be like "Really Fast Mad Guy"

  • @viviennemakwakwa994
    @viviennemakwakwa994 Год назад

    Keep Danny. We love you and can’t live without you😢😢😢

  • @MorganHorse
    @MorganHorse Год назад

    I didn’t know the joke was about an old movie, it was my friend group’s favorite line in the movie because we’d all headbanged in the car to it ourselves 😂

  • @somethinglikethat2176
    @somethinglikethat2176 3 года назад +2

    The problem with any "true story" that is actually true is that it is accused of glorifying them and all the shit that they have done. And that fact is people do shit things sometimes.

  • @pauldesmondchopping6027
    @pauldesmondchopping6027 3 года назад +1

    Even if you don't like 'musicals' , I highly recommend The Blues Brothers

  • @Questo417
    @Questo417 3 года назад +1

    Sweeny Todd: musical about a serial killer
    You’re welcome

    • @1whitkat
      @1whitkat 3 года назад

      THanks, I was trying to remember that.

  • @Frozenfrog18
    @Frozenfrog18 Год назад +1

    I watched the bohemian rapsody and I was like, this is good, "yeahh Queens". Then I saw Rocketman and I was like this is in a whole new stratosphere.

  • @paultheaudaciousbradford6772
    @paultheaudaciousbradford6772 3 года назад +1

    Can you do a vid where you reveal all the historical inaccuracies of “The Flintstones”? I’ve read that Mr. Slate wasn’t nearly as nasty as he’s depicted in the show, and that Betty Rubble wasn’t much of a hottie at all.

  • @edmawhinney3564
    @edmawhinney3564 3 года назад

    Definitely one of the most underrated info/comedy channels on youtube

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 3 года назад

    Fun Will Smith fact: Will Smith can really quickly solve a Rubik's Cube. In one episode of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, his character Will solves a Rubik's Cube in front of a college recruiter. There was no trick photography involved.
    So, I suppose the Rubik's Cube scene in The Pursuit Of Happyness was written just to give Mr. Smith an opportunity to display his party trick.

  • @wertiaaudit5746
    @wertiaaudit5746 3 года назад

    Awesome content !

  • @chebochevato8336
    @chebochevato8336 3 года назад +1

    Woah now, maybe we shouldn't be encouraging Simon to start more channels... Eventually he's just going to have to create his own network called Simontube

  • @mindriot69
    @mindriot69 3 года назад +1

    I’d have preferred to see Mel Brooks star in Braveheart rather than Mel Gibson. But the best would have been Mel Brooks directing The Passion of the Christ. The pie throwing scene would’ve been much funnier. “AM I RIGHT, PETER?”

  • @victoriacervantes8561
    @victoriacervantes8561 3 года назад +1

    Simon’s homework: WATCH Fargo and LOTR.

  • @chrisyanover1777
    @chrisyanover1777 3 года назад +1

    Simon, I think you forget, although he was raised middle class, he did grow up in a rough part of Philadelphia.

  • @Ecxoes
    @Ecxoes 3 года назад +1

    The more you ramble the more numb my legs go while I watch on the toilet

  • @zackcash4941
    @zackcash4941 3 года назад +5

    The UK has cannabis on the lowest level instead of the highest. Much more reasonable than America.

  • @yat282
    @yat282 3 года назад +2

    Yes, schedule 1 is the most dangerous and illegal class of drugs in the US. However, weed is counted as a schedule 1 drug here.

  • @OlagGan
    @OlagGan 2 месяца назад

    As for sharing taxis it's extremely rare but does happen. It normally only happens on one horse operations and only when the taxi driver knows that both or at least one of the passengers will have no problems sharing a cab.

  • @AllDayBikes
    @AllDayBikes 3 года назад

    16:15 I almost choked on my candy lmfao, that was amazing Sam.

  • @JeffreySquires
    @JeffreySquires 3 года назад +3

    You ever get the feeling Danny and Sam are fighting with each other between the words and Memes?

  • @qienna6677
    @qienna6677 3 года назад

    Fran Drescher does much the same thing, playing the same role based on who she is IRL over and over and I'm surprised no one ever calls her out on it.

  • @michaelmckinnon7314
    @michaelmckinnon7314 3 года назад

    Generally if you live in the same general direction, you might share a cab and yes you actually can go to jail. Prima Nocta and it actually was instituted in Scotland by the local Constable trying to get William Wallace to become a member of the local constabulary, they also seized his land, hence the reason he became a farmer and killed his wife, in the manner depicted in the movie and Wallace got a friend to join him because it was the friend's wife who'd been taken by the Constable as the Constable wanted her claiming Prima Nocta, Wallace and his friend attacked the Constable's barracks, Wallace killing the head Constable and Wallace's friend beating the Constable who took his wife to death saying "I claim the right of her husband" and from there the rest is historically accurate, though it wasn't Isabella, it was the one before her

  • @Gos1234567
    @Gos1234567 3 года назад

    How will companies know which channels to advertise on if they can’t se a like/dislike ratio?

  • @michaelgariti8008
    @michaelgariti8008 2 года назад

    PLEASE put "Ask me about my pyramid scheme" with logo on a T-Shirt! That's the funniest thing I've ever seen!

  • @devious187
    @devious187 4 месяца назад

    My favorite variation of the "based on a true story" line is in American Hustle, where at the opening of the movie they put up a disclaimer saying "Some Of This Actually Happened" lol

  • @042509am
    @042509am 10 месяцев назад

    Don’t put all your eggs in one basket…. Why I have so many RUclips channels.. idk why I found this so funny 😅 literally love all Brain Blazes. I Stan.

  • @ianhughes1272
    @ianhughes1272 3 года назад +1

    Listen to the fact fiend video from your former writer Karl, Simon. He explains why that SBC version would have been what Freddy would have wanted it to be. Brian may was concerned that the movie wouldn't revolve around the fact that they carried on after freddys death, like anyone would give a shit about queen without Freddy.

  • @agateplanet
    @agateplanet 2 года назад +1

    Sweet memories of Oblivion ! Ahhh that music.