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So sorry to say this because I know friendships are difficult to manage. I feel like your videos were much better when you were going alone. Your friend is talking three times as much as you but saying not even 10% of your valuable commentary.

Gilmore Girls was great! Its an American Classic!

Banger

Good to see you back, Popcorn Beard!

I agree with your comments it was a great film definitely want to talk to other people about. It's a movie that people will watch during the Halloween season for sure.

The director of Godzilla vs Kong teasing about Destroya could be in the next movie

The mothra and the girl should have been better if she turned into Mothra

And do you think there is more monsters versus movies going to happen??

And when king uses suko as a club epicly funny

And as a funny rename you’re channel to “ popcorn in beard”

I seen it the other day and fun and wtf moments and it was my 3 year old son first movie theater adventure and he was loving it 😍

Totally agree. Understand the assignment and you're going to have a fantastic time at this film. It's Kaiju action. It's epic and it's fun.

Two friend groups! Epic.

Missed you! So glad you got some time for vacation!

That is why Kingsley says no one can play Bob. He still did a good job by capturing the essence of Bob.

New Suggestions Section is fantastic!

"My brain deleted some of this movie." 🦖

Madame Web on IMAX! That's like wearing a tuxedo to Taco Bell!

Great Review 🌟

Great review my man

I love that you loved this movie! You are the only good review of this film that I heard. Great, great review. Thank you.

Wayne's World! Wayne's World! Party Time!

The Full Spoiler on this review was particularly good! Great summary! Well delivered.

Fantastic coverage of the missing 80s Song! I am frequently delighted by the small asides in your reviews.

I did like Kathryn Newton in 2020 Freaky.

Clipboard and all! Getting fancy!

Oh man! Thanks for taking the hit for me on this one. I skipped it because the reviews were abominable.

POOR THINGs or FRANKENHOOKER left me so disappointed, and even more so, in the writer, Tony McNamara. The book does a better (not much, but better) job of handling this complex and problematic subject matter, not least of all by acknowledging that the story is told from a man's limited, unreliable point of view - in the case of the film, we must hope the audience sees that on its own. At one point on her two-week cruise of enlightenment, Bella says "if it is disgusting, why should I keep it in my mouth?" as she spits out her fancy dinner. She doesn't like it, she spits it out - she doesn't continue eating it, day in, day out, forever to see if she might feel differently about something she felt was disgusting. She actively expresses the disgust she feels when working as a prostitute, and yet she continues to do it, indefinitely, seemingly under the thumb of a madam who physically harms her. Then, bafflingly, she declares it a net-positive experience and the film plays it for laughs. An unsocialized human would instinctually, as we have seen, run away from a negative experience that provokes disgust and pain. Spit out that disgusting thing. Yet she continues, even though she has the means to leave or work in literally any other field or explore any other part of society. She's supposedly wise enough from exposure to those two or three books, the token black person explaining suffering for a quick 2 minute aside, and that noble street performer's song, to understand socialism, but she doesn't understand the realities of prostitution? And why prostitution? If she's evolved to the status of a grown woman capable of consent, she should be able to function in society in any number of ways that are more enjoyable. Yet she chooses prostitution even though these experiences are not pleasurable or even consensual, and she vocalizes that multiple times. There's also never any concern for pregnancy, menstruation, disease, assault or really any female pleasure. Even the slightly more consensual (felt more like a pedophilic grooming fantasy to me...) scenes with Mark Ruffalo felt like anything I'd see in regular heteronormative p0rn - a distinctly male gaze with zero attention to the mechanics of female pleasure or orgasm. And if her goal was solely sexual pleasure, why not experiment as she does in the book, with partners of her choosing, instead of partners she openly finds disgusting? I reject the character motivations on face value because she contradicts her own stated instincts, feelings and logic. If this were a critique of how society, specifically patriarchy, funnels women into these situations and treated it with the seriousness sex work deserves, including the many potential harms to vulnerable women, then perhaps I could buy an attempt at a feminist message. But she insists that she likes it and suffers nothing, after describing her utter disgust. The lush setting almost glamorized the lifestyle of a sex worker and implied this somehow led to her self-actualization and freedom. But how exactly? And can we really even call these actions free if she's being physically and psychologically coerced by the madam? If not for God's illness, she would have continued as a prostitute and I still have no idea why - except to showcase more nudity and "shocking" sexual situations. Funny that the male author, male screenwriter and male director would believe that a woman's unsocialized, pure response to sexual awakening would be to focus it all on male fantasies and desires rather than her own. Ultimately, the initially promising premise of an unsocialized female being exploring the world without social constraint became an exploitative exercise in the male gaze where a woman's base instinct is to have unpleasurable sex with men for money. Poor Things reduces a woman's journey of self-actualization to twenty minutes of ''learning" and an hour plus of unenjoyable sex she doesn't fully consent to, with a tacked on faux feminist ending to absolve itself. Only with the threat of the (sadly, once real) clitoridectomy solution to her supposed mental health issues by her cartoon villain of a husband are we faced with a worse villain than the film itself - I guess I can praise it for pointing out that tragic historical fact. But it also weirdly positions this as the alternative to the much better life of "whoring." I think everyone is loving the pretty, shiny packaging, but even from a technical standpoint, the film feels all over the place. The cinematography is novel, but it's also inconsistent and gimmicky - throwing in every cinematic trick in the book, the black and white to color cliché, the fish eye lens, the peephole, the title cards, the actually-not-original-at-all steampunk aesthetic. I've seen it before and this feels very much style over substance, with an everything but the kitchen sink approach. Even Emma Stone's performance felt forced and over acted due to this screenplay's more childish cruel portrayal rather than the books more cheerful and loving persona of Bella which didn't feel anymore believable as she uneventfully matures towards the dreadful ending. I just wish the story was worthy of her talent.

I just saw Bob Marley One Love and I really enjoyed it.

That was an interesting concept that a movie could be more enjoyable in your own home. I don't think I agree with that. I don't think there is any better way to enjoy a movie than at the movies. It's an interesting concept that you brought up, but I think I'm on the other side of it.

Agreed- this was highly skippable.

My wife said exactly the same thing about Bryce's outfit at the end. Just not a good look for her overall.

I wish Sam Rock could land in a solid trilogy or franchise. I want to see more of them but I always feel like he's in some tiny indie or the wrong project.

"I can't enjoy this cuz the fakeness is rough and gross" - spot on.

I wonder what this movie would have been if Emma Stone had replaced Bryce Dallas Harper? Some writing still would have had to get fixed but I think Bryce might have been a miscast.

"Partook" was my favorite hobbit.

I think comparing this to Long Kiss Goodnight is just not being fair to Long Kiss Goodnight. It elevates Argylle too much to even compare it to that IMHO.

We don't have a lot of IMAX screens around where I'm at. They get booked really fast

That is some really low sales on an IMAX screen wow

Nice upgrade on your notes!

Yeah that box office was abominable - I saw this with my wife on opening weekend. She was excited. I was excited. We walked out unexcited. Yeah this was pretty bad.

Henry Cavill is hot

Excellent synopsis! Marvelous movie!

Great review of a very enjoyable film.

Movie was brilliant. You lack cultural context though, so I get it...

This movie is racist towards Jews and of course it is false The Jews who were then in the Land of Israel were mostly of Middle Eastern appearance and not sub-Saharan African! I see that the fact that last year they tried to steal the heritage of the Egyptians and Greeks in a documentary about Cleopatra was not enough for now they are trying to steal the identity and heritage of the Jewish people!! the crazy supporters of this anti-Semitic movie should be ashamed!!!

BC is before Christ. It’s 33 AD because Jesus died at 33yrs old. Even though I liked this movie more than you did I felt similar about many of your comments to a degree. I’m glad I watched.

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So I am going to comment on this video with a response video. Pretty unusual, I know. But I thought I would give it a try because I found I wanted to comment so much on each one of your reviews that I could not get it all in. I have a link to my video response (my comments) in my next comment on this video. Just giving somethin a try. Thanks for your patience (hopefully) with a little something different.

I enjoyed the movie. If you get past expectations and all the bs.