Sardonicast 88: Army of the Dead, Cure

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @apophisssss80
    @apophisssss80 3 года назад +587

    smh timestamp guy has abandoned us
    16:09 Army of the Dead
    49:26 Cure
    1:15:50 Q&A
    - 1:16:00 weird but good casting choices?
    - 1:21:30 ever tried learning a 2nd language?
    - 1:26:00 evil wizard will restore your abilities to enjoy your favourite films... but only if you watch the madagascar movies every day for a year. do you do it?
    - 1:29:39 is there a bias against CG or 2D animation?
    - 1:40:04 overused songs in movies?
    - 1:42:41 ambiguity of un/vaccinated people in theatres?
    recommendation for next episode is Drag Me to Hell (2009) ; also likely to discuss Cruella
    next episode will also have special guest Jenny Nicholson :000000000000

    • @EmileFeik
      @EmileFeik 3 года назад +69

      you are timestamp guy now. Use your power responsibly.

    • @4343danielsmith
      @4343danielsmith 3 года назад +23

      shout out to the last guy who just did random timestamps on the last episode 🥲

    • @alquimista4143
      @alquimista4143 3 года назад +8

      Why is Jenny Nicholson such a big deal? Honest question

    • @understandingart9961
      @understandingart9961 3 года назад +4

      @@alquimista4143 I am also wondering about that

    • @theclassykarp3786
      @theclassykarp3786 3 года назад +3

      when one timestamp Chad goes, a new one shall rise 😫👌💯

  • @luiginastro8831
    @luiginastro8831 3 года назад +345

    Timestamp God, where art thou?

    • @rlobbest
      @rlobbest 3 года назад +13

      He has been replaced by time stamps within the video! The horror!

    • @doubtfulhenry
      @doubtfulhenry 3 года назад +4

      I read that as, "Trampstamp, on God."

  • @UncleHyena
    @UncleHyena 3 года назад +171

    It's like Zack Snyder forgot the reason why heist films are more than 20 minutes and it's because of the orchestration, planning and challenge of actually accomplishing it. You had a perfect backdrop of zombies in your 'heist' movie and you failed to even use them extensevely

    • @chiefgarvey11
      @chiefgarvey11 3 года назад +29

      Seriously, there's no reason why this couldn't have been a straight forward 90 minute fun heist movie. Batista gets a crew together, everyone has a special skill, zombie outbreak in the casino, the new mission is to stay alive, everyone uses their special skill to kill off zombies, some die, some escape.

    • @UncleHyena
      @UncleHyena 3 года назад +12

      @@chiefgarvey11 exactly and you can still have the ‘time bomb’ element if you wanted to so it can create tension among the cast as some will vote to try and accomplish the heist quickly while the others want to get out of the casino quickly. You can then have two sides of the story branch out. Most of the escaping team makes it out but greed is the downfall of the heist group and one of them ends up being bit while harrowingly escaping and BOOM sequels if you want to idk. Tbh forget the second part if you want a good single story but they could’ve at least TRIED

    • @Lifesizemortal
      @Lifesizemortal 3 года назад +7

      im shocked nobody told him Peninsula (a better movie) already exists. he needs to stop surrounding himself with yes men

  • @1997residente
    @1997residente 3 года назад +67

    Adum ranting about Zack Snyder's pompous and narcisistic incompetence is funnier when you read that interview when he claims "Scorsese was probably not talking about my movies when he said comic book films didn't take risks"

    • @ReinBelmont
      @ReinBelmont 3 года назад +31

      Oh my god, the man is certifiable

    • @bartholen
      @bartholen 3 года назад +26

      Snyder is a legitimately hard man to like based on his movies and the way he talks about them. You can't deny he has a vision and passion, and legitimately seems to be making the movies he wants. But his vision seems to always be either utterly misguided, tone-deaf, missing the point, pretentious, stupid, or any combination of those. He hasn't made even one movie I've liked for over a decade. At this point I'm legitimately astounded by his ability to fail upward.

    • @TooCooFoYou
      @TooCooFoYou 3 года назад +12

      That’s what happens when you got a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals that view that your crappy superhero films as “high-art”.

  • @peewee03
    @peewee03 3 года назад +146

    I’d love to see Joel Haver as a guest on Sardonicast! He’s said before that he’s a fan of the podcast.

    • @crispcrispy
      @crispcrispy 3 года назад +2

      Agreed he would be a super great guest

    • @taraz02
      @taraz02 3 года назад +2

      love that man

    • @AimForMyHead81
      @AimForMyHead81 3 года назад +2

      Literally who?

    • @leonthethird7494
      @leonthethird7494 3 года назад +6

      @@AimForMyHead81 a fucking hilarious RUclipsr with over a million viewa

    • @Quatrixjs1
      @Quatrixjs1 3 года назад

      He has some funny skits but I could hardly care to listen to him on a movie podcast.

  • @Vosk21
    @Vosk21 3 года назад +23

    cure is so disturbing and atmospheric. the hypnosis angle is cleverly implemented in a way that takes the viewer unaware. easily one of the most underrated horror films and one of my favs.

  • @_Azagoth_
    @_Azagoth_ 3 года назад +46

    Explaining Alex's brain fog, Bong Joon Ho said that Cure was one of his main inspirations for his film Memories of Murder (which should absolutely be covered)

  • @wandersonoliveira263
    @wandersonoliveira263 3 года назад +97

    I think The Incredibles is extremely personal to Brad Bird. If you watch The Iron Giant, you'll see that the things he loves are all there: 50's pulp novels, cinema, advertisement and TV, the whole aesthetic; comics; his love and respect for the media of animation; family (I mean, two character's designs are based on him and the family aspect came directly from his experience as a father)

    • @leonkuwata4510
      @leonkuwata4510 3 года назад +16

      Iron Giant literally became an anti-gun movie after Bird's own sister was murdered.

    • @michaelvessel4604
      @michaelvessel4604 3 года назад +5

      @@leonkuwata4510 Woah.... I did not know that. That makes The Iron Giant way sadder now.

    • @anonymousanimationcritic9842
      @anonymousanimationcritic9842 2 года назад +1

      Exactly. The Incredibles was actually Brad Bird's idea. It was supposed to be 2D animated at Warner Bros but of course after Iron Giant bombed he went with Pixar. It is the first Pixar movie to be directed by someone who is not an employee of the studio.

  • @tomasmaniago5832
    @tomasmaniago5832 3 года назад +50

    2D animation is still alive and well on TV. In the early 2010s there was a whole renaissance with shows like Adventure Time, Regular Show and Gravity Falls. It may not be ideal, but we have to be thankful considering that we could've easily lost that too, given the awful trend of CG shows from the 2000s.

    • @DrawtoonzStudio
      @DrawtoonzStudio 3 года назад +3

      Yeah, there's still plenty of traditional animation from the likes of Cartoon Network Studios, Disney TVA, and the occasional Netflix show. Even if they don't have the best animation ever, we can still be thankful that traditional animation hasn't completely died out.

  • @Valkyrie9000
    @Valkyrie9000 3 года назад +98

    "They digitally replaced an entire actor but couldn't fix a dead pixel" omg

  • @bucklakelukie
    @bucklakelukie 3 года назад +8

    0:10 Alex felt that Smosh in his soul with that ‘Ooh’

  • @CosyBee
    @CosyBee 3 года назад +99

    Ralph: "The Smosh movies are really bad."
    Alex: "Classic films, yeah!"

    • @P0rk_Sinigang
      @P0rk_Sinigang 3 года назад +19

      That dry British wit just totally flew over Ralph's head.

  • @Pontificate
    @Pontificate 3 года назад +41

    Zach Snyder had that high of a budget and he still couldn’t hire someone who knew how to focus a camera.

    • @winterspidey4133
      @winterspidey4133 3 года назад +8

      He shot the film himself. He was the cinematographer and I think camera guy as well.

    • @pm6127
      @pm6127 3 года назад +8

      @@winterspidey4133 that explains why it looks 🐶💩

    • @KangarooMonkey
      @KangarooMonkey 2 года назад

      It was intentional and it was apparently really difficult to do.
      How someone this dumb became this successful is just depressing.

  • @Dexas_
    @Dexas_ 3 года назад +5

    That noise Adam makes at 15:48 is such good reaction, made me laugh way to much.

  • @優太金子-c2u
    @優太金子-c2u 3 года назад +55

    Interesting story about “Cure”, the original title for this movie was “The Evangelist”. And before making this movie, movie company executives thought cult member attacking civilians using hypnosis is so unrealistic.
    But in 1995, Japanese cult called Aum Shinrikyo attacked the civilians with biological weapon and many people died in Tokyo sarin attack. Aum Shinrikyo also used hypnosis to brainwash its members. So the movie was almost banned but prevented it changing the title and delaying its release date

  • @C.G.Jr.
    @C.G.Jr. 3 года назад +8

    Cure may be my favorite film they have recommended that I wasn't aware of previously. Such incredible composition

  • @Pheonix8877
    @Pheonix8877 2 года назад +5

    I’m so glad you guys talked about Cure. That movie and many of the other Japanese horror/psychological thrillers of that period of time are very near and dear to my heart, but that is easily one of my favorites. Kiyoshi Kurosawa has such a distinct and interesting style, I recommended kairo and retribution as well.
    I’ll throw another Japanese horror recommendation: Rinne (Reincarnation)

  • @MattyBmemes
    @MattyBmemes 3 года назад +64

    That 'shut up' was actually an incredible impression. Legitimately immensely impressive

  • @chiefgarvey11
    @chiefgarvey11 3 года назад +12

    Lol at 33:33 Adam says "that scene with Ken Watanabe" it's Hiroyuki Sanada lol

    • @frankmerker630
      @frankmerker630 3 года назад +5

      Adum just pulled a “that’s the Asian guy from 13 reasons why”

  • @SonicHaXD
    @SonicHaXD 3 года назад +105

    21:14 I like how Adam starts talking with his "Xavier Renegade Angel" voice XD

    • @bagz8388
      @bagz8388 3 года назад +5

      does anyone know how to get to the vegas the vegas

    • @Davaroni
      @Davaroni 3 года назад

      Go away.

    • @YggdrasilAudio
      @YggdrasilAudio 3 года назад +2

      Actually sounds somewhat like Zack.

    • @luiginastro8831
      @luiginastro8831 3 года назад +3

      _laif_
      _laif_
      _laif_

  • @bertchintus4103
    @bertchintus4103 3 года назад +3

    Literally the three best movie-reviewer RUclipsrs in one podcast. I can't get enough of this

  • @Sandybowls_9001
    @Sandybowls_9001 3 года назад +17

    Ralph: Channing Tatum was good in Magic Mike... but I didn't see it... just heard from friends. 😆

  • @Wodro
    @Wodro 3 года назад +3

    56:20 fairly certain Alex is talking about the manga(/anime now I guess?) Uzumaki, which actually does translate to Spiral lol

  • @matt7872
    @matt7872 3 года назад +10

    It sounds ridiculous if you haven't seen it before, but I think The Exorcist III had a big impact on movies like Cure and Seven.

  • @IveGotToast
    @IveGotToast 3 года назад +4

    33:32 Come on Adum, that wasn't Ken Watanabe.
    It was the Asian kid from 13 Reasons Why.

    • @markparkinson6947
      @markparkinson6947 3 года назад +1

      Actually, it was the Asian kid from American Dad.

  • @QUSAI1996_
    @QUSAI1996_ 3 года назад +21

    2 episodes in one week, nice

  • @daredevil6145
    @daredevil6145 3 года назад +17

    I dunno about other time-stamps,
    but for *Army of the Dead,* here you go - 16:09

    • @aniket8350
      @aniket8350 3 года назад

      Thank you i was watching it for that and they didn't even put timestamps

  • @rahblud9020
    @rahblud9020 3 года назад +11

    watch and review Angst (1983)

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 3 года назад +6

    1:40:06 bascially any song in a Vietnam War film : Fortunate Son being one of course

  • @MrJerajera
    @MrJerajera 3 года назад +35

    The idea of jenny Nicholson shooting the shit with these hooligans for 2 hours seems so alien to me, im down

  • @daltonbclay
    @daltonbclay 3 года назад +43

    Who takes a movie set in Las vegas where people want to see bright colors and vegas iconography and says yeah lets desaturate it and make the setting impossible to see with razor thin DOF. Yet again snyder manages to find the worst movie within a decent idea and his technical execution is completely at odds with the story he's telling.

  • @abduliverse
    @abduliverse 3 года назад +7

    woah! I thought this was coming out next week NICE!

  • @greasyphilip
    @greasyphilip 4 месяца назад

    1:18:30 Alex chiming in with a "oof" and "he got beaten up the other day" is so funny

  • @aarongutierrez7705
    @aarongutierrez7705 3 года назад +23

    Do you think they would ever discuss Bo Burnham specials?
    Edit: specifically “Inside”

  • @DrawtoonzStudio
    @DrawtoonzStudio 3 года назад +5

    Apparently the robot zombies in Army of the Dead will be explained in one of the eventual Netflix prequel/spinoffs.

  • @liamdude5722
    @liamdude5722 3 года назад +5

    When Alex started reading that "morbid" question, I thought Ralph and Adum would've had to kill Alex

  • @anonymousanimationcritic9842
    @anonymousanimationcritic9842 3 года назад +21

    Adum really needs to rewatch The Incredibles and Ratatouille, because those films (even Incredibles 2 as boring and inferior to the original as it is) are so tonally different from the rest of the Pixar movies, especially since the usual Pixar leadership (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich or Pete Docter for example) was not involved in those productions. At least Ralph is with me tho.

    • @1997residente
      @1997residente 3 года назад +8

      Pete Docter's films seem personal too. Up, Inside Out and Soul are All about "a reflexion of your life": When you are old, when you are a child, when you have a mid life crisis.

    • @anonymousanimationcritic9842
      @anonymousanimationcritic9842 3 года назад +6

      @@1997residente yeah definitely, although I still think that (with the arguable exception of Soul which feels like an art-house film) Pete Docter's films still feel very "Pixar", and that's because he is part of the Pixar leadership and he shares the same philosophy with his fellow directors Andrew Stanton or Lee Unkrich, but I know that they still feel very personal. Pete Docter is one of my favorite filmmakers so of course I'm not trying to disregard his work, I just feel like Brad Bird's movies are THE most unique out of the entire studio's catalogue.

    • @anonymousanimationcritic9842
      @anonymousanimationcritic9842 3 года назад

      I think the term "Pixar movie" refers to a movie made in-house by a group of talented (mostly, because there are some hacks at Pixar of course) filmmakers that all work together, rather than one single voice throughout production. If you think of the best Pixar movies like Toy Story, for example, they usually have involved all or more than one of Pixar's in-house directors, and that's what makes Brad Bird's movies unique, because he wrote and direct all three of those (although Ratatouille was a project he took that was already being produced at Pixar, not really an original idea of his, but he still turned it into something unique of course)

  • @lukasgordon
    @lukasgordon 3 года назад +12

    Adam, Ken Watanabe isn't in Army of the Dead... that's Hiroyuki Sanada

    • @bozotheclown1142
      @bozotheclown1142 3 года назад +3

      Adam, you did a racism!
      Oh my goooooooood

    • @lukasgordon
      @lukasgordon 3 года назад

      @@bozotheclown1142 okay dude

    • @puketinmoarliek994
      @puketinmoarliek994 10 месяцев назад

      The dude always picks on race/political shit and then makes that mistake. What a dumb ass😂

  • @anarchoautism
    @anarchoautism 3 года назад +5

    Cure is truly an unsung gem

  • @ad-sd-vids5332
    @ad-sd-vids5332 3 года назад +5

    I’ve been to the theater once in 2021, and it was to see Clue from 1985, a movie I’ve seen like 10 times

  • @S1nwar
    @S1nwar 3 года назад +9

    the biggest twist is that m night planned from the beginning to rise to be the best bad-good filmmaker thereever was, which would have worked if it wasnt for the damn neill breen

  • @evanmills7340
    @evanmills7340 3 года назад +2

    Is there anything better than waking up on a Monday morning with the new episode of Sardonicast ready to go??

  • @vjara94
    @vjara94 3 года назад +17

    I love Cure, such an atmorpheric movie, but Kairo/Pulse is my favorite of this director.

    • @aaronshouting588
      @aaronshouting588 3 года назад +4

      Yessss! The dude is the master of atmospheric horror!!

    • @willh9104
      @willh9104 3 года назад +1

      I really wanted to like Pulse but it was so dull to me. The ending with the gigantic PS2 cgi plane was hilarious though

    • @vjara94
      @vjara94 3 года назад

      @@aaronshouting588 it sounds like you're talking more of the US remake, but if not, I totally understand, it could not appeal to everybody, is definitely not for everyone.

    • @agnosoul
      @agnosoul 3 года назад +1

      Yeah they kept trying to put Cure in with Ringu, Juon, etc. but Kairo absolutely is the one from Kurosawa that belongs in there and is the best imo

  • @scottyb8392
    @scottyb8392 3 года назад +14

    I'm still in absolute shock that Alex Winter - Bill S Preston Esquire himself - directed the Smosh movie.... Especially because after that he really only did serious documentaries on things like the Panama Papers and the trauma of childhood actors... 😭
    Apparently he did it because his son was a big fan... But I just can't overlook that. I wish he at least had been allowed to bring his early 90's MTV chaos to it

    • @cocokolah8567
      @cocokolah8567 3 года назад +2

      "Freaked" was awesome

    • @chiefgarvey11
      @chiefgarvey11 3 года назад +2

      He also directed those live action Ben 10 movies lol

    • @scottyb8392
      @scottyb8392 3 года назад

      @@cocokolah8567 I own it on Blu Ray and I just got the soundtrack on vinyl! I ADORE that movie it is criminally underrated. Deserves a proper wide release. Justice for Freaked.

    • @scottyb8392
      @scottyb8392 3 года назад +1

      @@chiefgarvey11 YEP lol i feel like his first return to filmmaking was just based on what his oldest kid was a fan of lol

  • @loganrandall780
    @loganrandall780 3 года назад +8

    I watched Drag Me to Hell the other night, Adum back at it again with those dank recommendedations

    • @jakegibbard
      @jakegibbard 3 года назад +1

      So did I! One of my personal favourites, so excited to hear them talk about it

    • @chiefgarvey11
      @chiefgarvey11 3 года назад

      One of the most underrated horror films of the 2000s. I hope Sam Raimi goes back to directing more mid-budget horror films after the Marvel check clears.

  • @aafricaofficial
    @aafricaofficial 3 года назад +51

    Adum: "I don't like history or maps."
    Welp, there goes any chances of Ran, Kagemusha, Waterloo, Master and Commander, and Zulu getting recommended anytime soon.

    • @anoopsingh4825
      @anoopsingh4825 3 года назад +16

      Ran is such an awesome movie.

    • @danieldimichele2083
      @danieldimichele2083 3 года назад +2

      How is this comment from 3 days ago on a video posted 30 min ago🤣

    • @jamesolds5616
      @jamesolds5616 3 года назад +1

      Patrons get to watch the vid early I think

    • @tonystonks4489
      @tonystonks4489 3 года назад +15

      Adum isn't the kind of guy who would've recommended these movies anyway. Ralph might recommend a Kurosawa movie sometime.

    • @jacktreble7356
      @jacktreble7356 3 года назад +5

      What about ‘Aguirre: the wrath of God’ he might be interested in that

  • @vafanapoli5396
    @vafanapoli5396 3 года назад +27

    just realised their drawings look like Dishonoured characters

    • @charlesliu5320
      @charlesliu5320 3 года назад +7

      Just realized that the Impostor is Sus

  • @CT.1982
    @CT.1982 3 года назад +7

    Maybe it had dead pixels intentionally because the movie is about Zombies

    • @markparkinson6947
      @markparkinson6947 3 года назад +1

      Undead pixels.

    • @bartholen
      @bartholen 3 года назад +1

      No no no, it was because the movie was meant to make the audience feel dead inside.

  • @nicozanotti1849
    @nicozanotti1849 3 года назад +33

    Get Anthony and Ian on the podcast

    • @markparkinson6947
      @markparkinson6947 3 года назад +4

      Oh, the guys from Smosh. I thought you were referring to Anthony Fantano for a second.

  • @Deadwolf27
    @Deadwolf27 Месяц назад +1

    Three years later Adam would go on to recommend Butt Boy

  • @evansalvatore3763
    @evansalvatore3763 3 года назад +6

    Release the 3 hour Chris Delia cut!!!!!!

  • @ImpulseGenerator
    @ImpulseGenerator 3 года назад +8

    Cure is a masterpiece.

    • @mikec4931
      @mikec4931 3 года назад

      Army of the Dead, not so much 🤣

    • @ImpulseGenerator
      @ImpulseGenerator 3 года назад

      @@mikec4931 Not exactly companion pieces xD

  • @sori_osori_
    @sori_osori_ 3 года назад +57

    Army of the dead, Cured
    It's official. Sards are the God. They resurrected the dead.

  • @Tostitos199
    @Tostitos199 3 года назад

    I love when Ralph gets a genuine laugh out of Alex like at 6:50

  • @luckyspurs
    @luckyspurs 2 года назад

    1:40:04 I always feel Gimme Shelter is overused. When Scorsese used it in the Departed, it was the most cold that song had ever left me. Had just seen Layer Cake a few weeks before.

  • @jex8542
    @jex8542 2 года назад +2

    Wait for it, the Snyder Cut will come out and have a CGI band-aid on the dead pixel. Because that's how the movie was MEANT to be.

  • @rlobbest
    @rlobbest 3 года назад +1

    @6:08 brb, leaving to watch ‘Butt Boy’. Will return with update.

  • @scottyb8392
    @scottyb8392 3 года назад +2

    I took Italian in school for 2 years and here's the only time it enhanced my cinema experience:
    I was watching John Wick 2 on my television in January, and I noticed, after having watched it like 4 times before this, that before John kills Santino, Winston dismisses Santino, but instead of saying "ciao" or "arrivaderci" he says *"adio"* which means *"goodbye forever"* instead of just "goodbye", and I thought that was a REALLY nice touch considering 99% of people will not notice it.

    • @markparkinson6947
      @markparkinson6947 3 года назад +2

      Nice.

    • @scottyb8392
      @scottyb8392 3 года назад

      I know there's a lot of italian speakers in the world... I said 99% because I can't imagine that a solid 10% of people who've watched the original English dialogue of this movie (especially bc most people dont watch with captions) understand italian or the specific implications of that one word... don't know why i need to explain this LUIGI, cmon

  • @moondusk8385
    @moondusk8385 3 года назад +2

    Perfect timing, just what i needed.

  • @ronaldyodersr
    @ronaldyodersr 3 года назад +6

    Ralph does not know his big cats.

  • @FrenchFries2
    @FrenchFries2 3 года назад +81

    Please talk about the 2004 movie, Spongebob squarepants the movie, I pray to the Sardonicast gods every night for this to happen.

    • @godoftomatos881
      @godoftomatos881 3 года назад +6

      Your a legend

    • @FrenchFries2
      @FrenchFries2 3 года назад +4

      @@godoftomatos881 no u

    • @blueberry5822
      @blueberry5822 3 года назад +10

      I need a deep dive analysis on why “now that we’re men” is the greatest musical composition of all time.

  • @NachoNarwhal
    @NachoNarwhal 3 года назад +7

    My fanart was featured!

  • @FazerGS
    @FazerGS 3 года назад +1

    1:39:37 Another reason Princess and the Frog flopped was because it came out the weekend after James Cameron's Avatar. Technically Disney released a theatrical 2D Winnie the Pooh movie in 2011, but I guess that was the last straw.

  • @liamdude5722
    @liamdude5722 3 года назад +6

    Adum needs to do a quickie for Saw: Spiral. He's reviewed every other Saw movie on his channel

    • @evanmills7340
      @evanmills7340 3 года назад +4

      He made a post recently said he's working on it

    • @MrJoker3571
      @MrJoker3571 3 года назад +1

      @@evanmills7340 As long as he puts the effort into the quickie (which he usually does), then the wait will be worth it for me.

  • @gumshake689
    @gumshake689 3 года назад +5

    anyone remember the Smosh App? you could pay money to have Anthony scream 'shut up' at you

  • @dimsumboy22
    @dimsumboy22 3 года назад +30

    Cartoons are only disrespected in the West like america. Japan and France understand the maturity.
    if you think im lying, Anime is just cartoons. But watch what happens if you tell an American anime fan their fave show is a "cartoon" they'll probably try to correct you.

    • @intelligenceparadigm4931
      @intelligenceparadigm4931 3 года назад +9

      You've reversed the situation here.
      It's not that 'cartoons are seen differently in the west' It's actually an issue of *cartoons* being made almost exclusively toward a very young target audience, and the media that isn't that tends to be mostly raunchy comedies, which are themselves not really serious media and usually lack much in the way of story and character work.
      In contrast, japan has a completely different approach, on a very wide scale, using animation as a medium to create all sorts of incredibly serious, mature series and movies, with stories that aren't episodic. It's not a recent trend either; you can find long running adult oriented anime from the 1970s on, maybe even earlier. It just wasn't really widely accessible in the west until the early 2000s, at which point multiple generations had become intransigent in their assumptions that 2D animation is "for kids".
      However....the actual western production companies STILL haven't caught on, even now, in terms of animation quality and techniques. 2021 gave us Invincible, but even that isn't really a very mature or complex series, it's just very violent, and it has a lot of the same animation issues you can attribute to most western productions (flat, jittery character movement, overly rigid model work, basic and vague backgrounds, copy-paste formatting, etc.) So an adult who wants to watch western-produced animated content, even in 2021, pretty much has to choose between raunchy immature comedy and child-oriented content with minimal stakes, and in both cases you mostly get episodic shows.
      I know this is really long-winded but I genuinely think a lot of people make this mistake and think it's all just 'americans disrespecting animation" when it's way more complicated than that, and the biggest issue is the failure of companies to produce mature, high quality animated content in America.

    • @hoopmooy3543
      @hoopmooy3543 3 года назад +1

      @@intelligenceparadigm4931 Naruto is very mature and one of the most well written stories in the history of entertainment.

    • @JovemEverton
      @JovemEverton 3 года назад +6

      @@hoopmooy3543 ok calm down

    • @TrueGamer22887
      @TrueGamer22887 3 года назад +1

      Hoop Mooy chea you mean one piece

    • @mmike10720
      @mmike10720 3 года назад

      @@hoopmooy3543
      Come on man. Just, come on

  • @ryanmontgomery9749
    @ryanmontgomery9749 3 года назад

    24:30 I'm kind of surprised no one said "A refrigerator." Lol!😆

  • @abinashmohanty3201
    @abinashmohanty3201 3 года назад +4

    My boys are back

  • @angeljaime8548
    @angeljaime8548 3 года назад +33

    The only reason I watched Army of the Dead was because my brother wanted to watch it and said, "People are saying its good...". I later found out his only source he used was Rotten Tomatoes. Fuck me, what a waste of time.

    • @ashwinnair1092
      @ashwinnair1092 3 года назад +3

      I thought you meant the Rotten Tomatoes Audience scores, which are usually garbage anyway, but it has a 68% Critic score. Like, wtf?

    • @pats3212
      @pats3212 2 года назад +1

      @@ashwinnair1092 Probably from all the critics who jumped on the mediatic bandwagon that was the snyder cut, heck all articles about the movie you could find were all just circlejerking Snyder and his JL mediatic circus more than talking about the movie itself

  • @RickRaptor105
    @RickRaptor105 3 года назад +17

    Haven't watched yet, but I hope they finally tear into the insanity that is Cruella

  • @davidhopper9793
    @davidhopper9793 3 года назад +2

    Great video bro

  • @PetoBeno1
    @PetoBeno1 3 года назад

    There are many tools within common industry standard software that would have been able to detect and repair those dead pixels, even automatically. For instance Cortex will analyse a video shot by shot, you can then manually review what it has found, confirm or skip the suggested dead pixels and view what the repair will look like. Usually the repair is an intelligent sample of the surrounding area that blends seamlessly. It will also remember where confirmed dead pixels are and look at the same location in all the following shots. If you have a camera with a dead pixel that is used frequently, or a number of cameras with dead pixels in different locations, as in the case of Army of the Dead it will then fix all those locations automatically once you've confirmed them, unless you tell it not to. Cortex is routinely used to deliver to Netflix, other packages do also and have similar toolsets.

  • @MacaldaReye
    @MacaldaReye 3 года назад +5

    Ralph thinks M.Night is making comedies? Oh honey...

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 3 года назад +1

    I get the vague sense that Snyder is fully leveraging the purchase of his recent tragedy to do more of what he wants with his projects, almost to the point of sheer self-indulgence. I’m not sure if that’s a harsh take or whatever but that’s the vibe I get from this film and the Snyder cut.

  • @KinoBrava
    @KinoBrava 3 года назад +1

    I saw Army of the Dead on the big screen, and I must've counted six or seven dead pixels.

  • @Sandybowls_9001
    @Sandybowls_9001 3 года назад +6

    The Walking Dead...Pixels

  • @HeroicPenguin
    @HeroicPenguin 3 года назад +12

    Are they going to review Inside by Bo Burnham?

  • @PoptartMagic123
    @PoptartMagic123 3 года назад +5

    I really tried to watch Army of the Dead for this episode but I just couldn’t fucking finish it. I was so bored. It’s sooo bad lmao.

  • @docvince1491
    @docvince1491 3 года назад +3

    I recommend the South Korean film Peppermint Candy.

  • @22freedom33
    @22freedom33 3 года назад +29

    Army of the Dead has a very shallow depth of view

    • @blueberry5822
      @blueberry5822 3 года назад +2

      Shallow DoV for a shallow movie

    • @chiefgarvey11
      @chiefgarvey11 3 года назад +4

      Zack Snyder got me thinkin I had Glaucoma

  • @flamingoseatshrimps1361
    @flamingoseatshrimps1361 3 года назад +11

    where's the timestamp guy?

  • @tvieira8421
    @tvieira8421 3 года назад +2

    JENNY IS THE NEXT GUEST LETS GOOOOOOOO

  • @mexicounbloger
    @mexicounbloger 3 года назад +3

    33:33 The actor in Army of the Dead is not Ken Watanabe his name is Hiroyuki Sanada. Still a fucking cringe line though.

  • @Kobiedog31
    @Kobiedog31 3 года назад +2

    I’m Canadian and our theatres just opened up, I saw Spiral in theatres, it’s definitely not the worst Saw movie.

    • @ReinBelmont
      @ReinBelmont 3 года назад +1

      Chris Rock sounds really funny when he's angry

  • @loandbehold650
    @loandbehold650 3 года назад

    33:32 I think you mean Hiroyuki Sanada of Sunshine fame

  • @Ethan-td1wq
    @Ethan-td1wq 3 года назад +1

    Watching each madagascar movie every day for a year would mean 2202 hours of madagascar, almost 92 days.

  • @ajford3973
    @ajford3973 3 года назад

    1:40:04
    Every comedy now has “Picture this i’m a bag of dicks put me to your lips.”

  • @ChaosTheoryDrozz
    @ChaosTheoryDrozz 3 года назад +1

    I can't wait for the sequel to M. Night's new movie, Boy

  • @MBloodT
    @MBloodT 3 года назад +3

    Did you just call Hiroyuki Sanada, Ken Watanabe?

  • @arrozmundi82
    @arrozmundi82 3 года назад

    33:32 love Ken Watanabe, but sorry Adam, that was Hiroyuki Sanada. He's also great.

  • @stipevedder
    @stipevedder 3 года назад

    I’ve been watching your videos for about a month now love you you guys videos one of my favourite podcasts

  • @markparkinson6947
    @markparkinson6947 3 года назад +4

    1:15:50 Q and A

  • @DeepEye1994
    @DeepEye1994 3 года назад +3

    It's just the camerawork that REALLY brings Army of the Dead down for me, I fucking hate it.
    If it had the usual good presentation Zack Snyder's earlier films like 300, Watchmen and his Dawn remake had, I'd totally take it over WWZ for being just a schlocky mess, but it was just a pain to watch.

  • @MarValProductions
    @MarValProductions 3 года назад +3

    Tell me guys, why wouldn't army of the dead be a gigantic succes for Netflix? It's the perfect streaming service film...

  • @AimForMyHead81
    @AimForMyHead81 3 года назад

    33:31 That was Hiroyuki Sanada, not Ken Watanabe lol

  • @hoopmooy3543
    @hoopmooy3543 3 года назад

    I was interested in The Cure movie after hearing about it, about 2 seconds into them talking about it. Then I was like "Oh", I downloaded this a year or two ago and still haven't watched it.

  • @TheTonyRedgrave
    @TheTonyRedgrave 3 года назад

    I don't think I noticed the pixels since I watched it on my phone. Took me two days to watch it in the background

  • @Dvdfco
    @Dvdfco 3 года назад +2

    “CAME OUT with??”

  • @munjee2
    @munjee2 3 года назад

    The question isn't for Alex, not because he'd watch Madagascar but because it's a paradox, how can stop watching his top 50 movies if he was to watch his top 5 movie for the challenge

  • @crepituss9381
    @crepituss9381 3 года назад

    Rifftrax - The Happening - The lemon drink scene. Also, best villain? The wind.