Reviewing a Terrible Conservative Comedy About Bernie Sanders
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2021
- Buckle up everyone, this is not going to be an easy movie to talk about.
Free Lunch Express is...technically a movie. About Bernie Sanders. Kind of. It's really just a cheap caricature, the sort you'd expect in a bad right wing satire. Which is exactly what this movie is. But let's not pretend Bernie Sanders is some saintly figure we can't laugh at. If someone can poke fun at him in a funny way, there's no harm in that, right? Well, that's where this movie falls apart. Not a single moment can be described as "funny", and even at 80 minutes, manages to be a complete waste of time.
My little review compares it to some other satirical biopics about politicians, all of which offer more realistic portrayals of their subjects (except maybe the last one) and all of which are better movies. Some moreso than others.
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"Terrible Conservative Comedy" is a redundant sentence.
Conservative Comedy is an oxymoron, so, is it a redundant oxymoron?
There are actually some good conservative comedy. They just need to let the politics take the back seat. Look up Alex Jones in a reptilian mask.
I mean, some times they act like clowns and it’s funny, does that count as conservative comedy?
political comedy is dog shit bottom of the barrel trash
Fawlty Towers?
You can just picture the table read. The producers thought this was the funniest and smartest shit ever. They broke their wrists high fiving each other while Kevin Sorbo overdosed on copium in the corner.
cONsErVaTiVe CaHmEdY.
Hera sure did a number on Herc, that's for sure.
@Crazy Fingers He is, he plays George Washington. Y’know, the most beloved and recognisable Founding Father. I wonder who made that decision? 🤔
I find it funny how he's in this movie while at the same time complaining that Hollywood movies are supposedly, all about sex. Your hypocrisy is showing, Sorbo.
@@GirlintheSea You’ll find that with a lot of conservative artists. They use moral grandstanding to disguise the fact that they weren’t imaginative or passionate enough to make it in the real entertainment industry, so they created a porn parody version of it. The alt-right hate Hollywood because their own superstars are fucking lame.
I can tell that a lot of the jokes in this movie are just "fat woman exist".
Also, what's with smoking weed being something used as a joke? It seems as if the writers have never even smelled it before and are writing about it based on a D.A.R.E. brochure or something. Imagine The Hangover written by a Mormon or something...nothing about drinking in the movie would make sense. There's plenty of humor to find in smoking weed, but here it's just 'look! Weed! HAHA...?'
@@heavysystemsinc. I've seen a lot of right wing... "Comedy" and a lot of... "Jokes" are just stuff that they dislike but without any sort of punchline or nuance about how to tell that said stuff is there. Is like when they make a parody and is a fat Girl who is a vegan trans communist who identifies as a cat, there's no joke, just a bunch of stereotypes trying very hard to grasp any sort of cohesive sense.
Same with weed, is "fun" cause he's smoking weed, hell, i would take a racist joke about a mexican guy with a huge ass hat selling him the weed if they at the very least try to do a punchline about it to show some sort of effort. But the producers don't care. This movie is just "Bernie LOL".
@@heavysystemsinc. muh weed bernie voted against -bernie bros
I don't think conservatives get humor. The point of a satire isn't to make stuff up, it's to show the truth. When Steven Colbert say "Facts have a well-known liberal bias", it's not funny just because it's absurd, it's funny because conservatives really do accuse everything and everyone who gives you the truth whether they be journalists, teachers or scientists of having a liberal bias. It's not funny because he is playing a wacky absurd character, it's funny because it illustrates how absurd those people are in real life.
Exactly. Satire requires an understanding of the subject being mocked.
Humor requires empathy. Conservatives don't have any.
Here in germany there is a very great satire show, called die anstalt. They have a factcheck for every episode they produce and they are usually very well researched. I think satire should always satirize reality.
@@hierkonnteihrewerbungstehe5587 "The Anstalt" lmao
Best denglish i've seen in a while xD
I would maybe translate it in full "The Asylum" or not translate it at all, so people habe a better chance finding it when doing a google search.
But I agree! Best satire show! Not only in Germany. I haven't come across anything like it in american entertainment so far.
Maybe some YT channels like "Some More News" come close, but "Die Anstalt" has this certain flair of old prestige to it which gives it the ability to reach more people of older generations.
At least it feels like that to me.
@@ngotemna8875 oh i thought I wrote die Anstalt. I'm sorry. 😂
Conservatives: lefties are ruining comedy!!
Also Conservatives:
If anything lefties are fighting for better comedy. If I went to a show and paid to hear someone make the same old tired attack helicopter, “everyone’s too sensitive nowadays”, bullshit I’d be pissed too. Thing is conservatives don’t want laughter they want applause.
@@goblinbabe I have no idea what you meant - and I probably live a better life than you do - which means I am better. Rub my feet, pawn. LOL Humor.....it is sooooo subjective.
@@LOSTONITALL wtf did I just read
@@LOSTONITALL hot take. If you have to tell someone, behind a screen, out of context, with no proof or reference, that your life is better then theirs it probably isn't
@@LOSTONITALL Can anyone decipher this mindless chattering? I mean, they’re literally speaking in riddles.
It's like a Ben Garrison cartoon in a feature movie format. You could edit in gratuitous labels over all the characters and the background and it would probably be funnier.
Don't forget the ridiculously buff, macho Trump coming in to put a stop to Sanders!
Not enough muscular Trump looking majestic with a beautiful flowing mane of shimmering flaxen actual hair to be a Ben Garrison cartoon. Also, not enough labels.
What's the deal with Ben Garrison btw? Has anyone done a wellness check on that guy? His wiki page calls him a "Politcal Cartoonist" but I don't think I've ever seen him draw anything other than fanfiction...
Just worried about the guy is all.
@@pan-semitistcommunist4181 maybe he'll find his true niche on Hentai Foundry
that would actually be funnier. if the movie just went all in and made fun of political cartoons in general. most political cartoons are awful and label EVERYTHING even when they don't have to. but we all know that this movie would side with right wing political cartoons.
Imagine having THIS much hatred against someone that has been on the correct side of history since he was in his 20s.
AMAZIN'
EDIT: So many triggered right-wingers down there lol love it.
Correct? When was Bernie correct?
@@VorpalDerringer Both gulf wars probably.
@IntrepidFinch yeah man civil rights fuck that shit amirite high five
@Tsots loot I mean, they’re not wrong. Plus, some people literally can’t live their life because the policies we support/don’t support actively/passively hurts them. Healthcare for all, free or cheaper university, leaders supporting COVID measures during the beginning of the pandemic, etc. While the phrase may be admittedly contentious, it is important to note that history isn’t passive, but an active event.
@IntrepidFinch yeah man totally i getcha wink wink
me: is this gonna be an anti semitic caricature?
movie bernie: talks
me: ahh I see
Antisemitism to own the libs 😎
@@stupidass69420 😂😂
Ben Shapiro is a real life anti-Semitic caricature
I dislike anyone who claims to be chosen or special. But I like Bernie, he's one of the few politicians that seems to be honest and logical.
@@caninecurry5823 when did he claim to be chosen and special?
Like other than being a politician and literally being chosen by voting populace
I'm with Thought Slime, conservative comedy sucks, conservative ideology runs counter to what comedy needs to function.
It's impressive how they are all the same no matter the country.
They are unable to think anyone can be honest and sincere, and have nothing but disdain for those that are ever so slightly out of the norm.
It's honestly depressing
It's impressive how they are all the same no matter the country.
They are unable to think anyone can be honest and sincere, and have nothing but disdain for those that are ever so slightly out of the norm.
It's honestly depressing
Established conservatives seem to be riding on the humor that has arisen from the modern internet subcultures from young or edgy individuals. Justifiable or not, it is at least a little bit dynamic and 'in-touch'.
When replicated it collapses instantly because it has to actually stand on something rather than jeering banter.
i agree
Empathy is a critical quality for making other humans laugh.
This reminds me of when SNL sketches become a movie but in this case, they were inspired by Steven Crowder sketches.
Yeah, Wayne's World this sure ain't!
Eww
Coneheads but conservative
@@danielfeatherby9053 Pinheads
Just when I thought the sentence couldn’t get worse you said “but Steven crowder sketches” man I’m getting those cringe chills before this video even starts.
I semi-follow conservative grifters to keep up and I don't think I'd heard anything about this until you posted it. That's how you know shit is baaaaad.
Damn, it’s so bad that you had to say so in Sheep.
So the issue is that the grifters weren't brought on board as producers or whatever and aren't friends with those involved.
I’ve been fallowing this since I got an ad on CZcams and I’m still confused
@@beanieguitarguy4070 >beanie guitar guy
>0 videos
nice try shill
@@TheBoldImperator Are you actually so insecure you can't handle even extremely light criticism of TP?
How sad.
I bet Steven Crowder loves this movie.
If it has Gilbert Gottfried, then maybe.
He gives it a big thumbs up.
@@rickardkaufman3988 😁🤣🤣 YESS!!!
@@AmberAmber Fun Fact: Gilbert hates him as his comedy sucks.
@@rickardkaufman3988 Oh i definitely figured that was indeed the case!! I like a Fun Fact - Grazie Comrade!! ❤
Conservativism and art are inherently at odds.
@Albert Fels NO, it's because the value of art is in showing us new ways to see. Whatever they may be. Conservatism is the systematic rejection of new ways of thinking.
@Albert Fels I'm not redefining anything. I'm distilling the core concepts out of their usual rubric, and phrasing it in a way you don't enjoy. It's not hatred. I'm describing the function as best i can, of conservative thought. You may choose to disagree with me, but I would posit that any counter argument you might come up with could theoretically be reduced to the concept I suggested.
And furthermore I think you are guilty of projection both in your crummy anecdote and the accusation you pointed at me.
Do you really want to get into the philosophy of art?
@Albert Fels second time I've met you, hello.
and no, they're right. the very idea of conservatism is literally in the name. conserving the past goes against progressivism. and art is at it's best when its boundary-pushing
@@weatheranddarkness Damn, your opponent deleted his comments and left. You're lucky. Usually conservatives very much DO want to get into the philosophy of art, and they will absolutely die on that hill.
@@choronos I think they must have realised they stepped in over their head!
I really really really want a good biopic of Bernie's life. It's very interesting to read about his history and how he actually drilled through the establishment
It'll have to wait until about 20 years after he dies and the right wing and moderate Democrats have moved on to a different boogie-man (or probably boogie-woman)
@@theomegajuice8660 Well Cheney is still alive
How he did nothing but live on stolen money? So interesting... To the useless
@@brandondavis7777 Who did Bernie steal the money from? The people who published his book? The people from his old college unions? The rioters during the Civil Rights Movement? The rioters during the BLM Movement? The musicians who played during his Vermont campaigns in the 80s?
The fucking alternative rock band the Strokes?
Bernie stole from who?
30 yrs no bills
The name they chose for the movie ironically also describes the production of the movie.
I love how José takes us just far enough to draw this conclusion, instead of just repeating it over and over. Editing speaks just as smoothly as the author's voice.
Still crazy that he was that young in 2016 and in that Trump movie tho🤔
It was basically an excuse to tax deduct lunch
I wish Michael Brooks was still around to see this.
A commentary track featuring him laughing at how bad it is and making better jokes would have been a delight.
God, I miss his laugh.
Give yourself a treat and look up Michael Brooks evil Bernie.
Speaking of Mel Brooks. I would rather watch a full version of Springtime For Hitler then this. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about Springtime For Hitler is the musical with in a movie called The Producers.
Eric Roberts?
The feds killed him, change my mind. He was just too damn good at explaining shit to folks
Movie AOC has that accent because that’s what the whitebread producers (and presumably target audience) hear when real AOC talks with her almost undetectable NY Hispanic accent.
Also movie Joe Biden looks like actual Joe Manchin
Strangely enough, AOC's Hispanicity is barely noticeable to me. I think of her as just an Anglo with a dark face.
Take it from a Hispanic myself. Fuck AOC & Jose. These people prolly proudly call themselves “Latinx”
@@agfromdai.e3806 People are allowed to identify however they want. Them calling themselves lantinx has no effect on you, also AOC has never called herself lantinx.
@@agfromdai.e3806 somebody calling themselves Latinx has no affect on you
No, they don't. They hear her clearly as clearly as they hear Bernie, whose accent here is pretty accurate. Giving her a thick accent is part of their racist attack on her.
The tragedy of this pitiful attempt at comedy is that Bernie is actually super easy to make fun of. He's a goofy caricature with a bombastic oratory style, and with the tiniest bit of sympathy for the subject, just reading a quote with a decent impression can get a laugh.
The fact that they leaned so hard into the hatred, that they couldn't even grab some of that low-hanging fruit, is a testament to how diametrically opposed the conservative mindset is to comedy. If, instead of actively trying to smear him (and randomly Ben and Jerry??), they had just engaged in hyperbole and portrayed him as a pie in the sky idealist, they could have made a competent parody, even if their message didn't really hold up. But they couldn't do that, because admitting to Bernie's humanity would make people more sympathetic to him and then they might give his ideas a chance. The movie was destined to be a failure before they even put pen to paper, because they decided to use it as an attack on Bernie (and his horny, dead parents?!) instead of an honest critique or even just a bare bones comedy, poking fun at the man without any deeper meaning. But no, they had the hubris to think they could take down a senator with a shitty D-List movie that would never even make it to theatres.
It's a classic Greek tragedy: like Icarus, with his wings made of hatred, and jokes that were already stale in the 50's, flying too close to an objective audience.
Exactly
I am a Conservative and I agree the movie was shit. I don't like Bernie, but the jokes about Stalin and him going to Moscow were just unrealistic, in poor taste, and makes the producers look like a bunch of crooks. Be ware we are all not this bad, some are more delusional and extreme that others, which is the same for all politics
@Critique Everything I disagree of course, because your statement is so vague and uninformed. Anyone I like? You don't even know who that entails. Bernie is not some saint, he has shitty beliefs and manipulated the common man same as any politician. Get off your high horse, we are all people, just with different morals.
@Critique Everything I disagree. I like capitalism because I think it works and that it works well. That's of course why I support it. Since you seem to dislike capitalism, are you a communist? A socialist? Or are you an archo libertarian? What do you think would be better. I think what Bernie invisions is kind hearted but fundamentally unrealistic. Do you support his specific view on socialism? Or it in general?
@Critique Everything yes he is in actually lol but that definitely is not what he supposedly promotes.
“It’s not slander I resent that. Slander is spoken in print it’s libel”
A quote from a significantly better movie that was much funnier.
The jokes are so bad im legitimately questioning whether or not Jose is editing them without a punchline deliberately. I just can't imagine how someone sees anything in this movie as a structured joke
Me looking at the thumbnail: Jesus, why did Eric Idle agree to play Bernie Sanders in a Conservative Comedy Biopic in the 80s?
Me 60 seconds into the video: Oh dear god this is so much worse
He’s been a bit of a dick his whole life unfortunately
Looks more like Jason Schwartzman to me
I clicked because I thought it was Neil Hamburger in the thumbnail
Eric Idle? You put more thought into your comment than the movie's scriptwriter put anything into the script itself.
I hate that this was made. Bernie is a goddamn legend with an awesome legacy that probably deserves a real Hollywood adaptation.
Honestly I'm glad this exists. Another evidence that right wing comedy is awful and the best they can do to mock Bernie is to attack an entirely made up caricature instead of him, and still suck at it.
He'll get it in 30 years and they'll make him a bog-standard liberal.
What is his legacy? Seriously, what has he done in his 60 years in politics?
@@killpowernotpeople What's next, are you gonna try to tell me MLK would disagree with Pennis Dragger?
@@wendyjohnson4345 have you heard of a little thing called the civil rights movement?
Ironically, conservatives always complain about "liberal" comedies using too many sex jokes.
Well, you gotta understand the context, the issue they have with whoever they decide is a liberal that day making sex jokes is that the jokes are about them having sex, or otherwise portraying it as something normal enough to make silly jokes about, the Conservatives are using sex """"""jokes"""""" to imply that these are bad people because they have sex. It's hypocritical on a surface level, but their internal logic is the same for both, "sex is bad"
I'm angry that I now know this exists.
Same here, got this in my recommended but I'd rather this recommended to me than 90% of the shit CZcams tries to throw at me.
why are conservatives so against taxpayer being used properly.
I'm angry with Jose, why he does this.
I was so much better off not knowing. Whether you love Bernie, hate Bernie, or don't even know who Bernie is... this is maximum cringe shit. Is anyone proud of this movie? Unless it was made by an angsty high school C- student who waited until the last minute to turn this in as a film project final, I'd have been embarrassed to show this to people.
@@ddjsoyenby I'm a foreigner, I am a nationalist and conservative, so that would be the disclaimer. But let me try and answer your question: it's because they don't believe that the government will use that money properly. They don't trust government and see it as slow and ineffective at best and corrupt at its worst. It's similar to left-wing people not trusting private businesses. Another aspect is trust in society and other people. How much do they trust other people not to take advantage of them, so they prefer a lower degree of reliance on society and a greater degree of personal independence from society. In a sense, an individual has a right to isolate oneself from the rest of society and live life on one's own with minimal interaction with government and society. This would also involve a lower taxation and keeping more money to spend as they wish. This is how I'd explain the beliefs of American conservatives.
Haven't even watched the video and this movie looks like something Steven Crowder made.
Edit: I'm suprised to Crowder didn't have any involvement with it.
At least Steven Crowder's schtick is just imitating a Gilbert Gottfried voice.
Come on, it could only be Crowder if it had gratuitous use of transphobic drag characatures.
same.
@@benjaminrobinson7203 That or yellow face. He used to do that a lot.
@@benjaminrobinson7203 or black stereotypes
When you’re so comfortable and assured that you’re funny that you have to put it in you’re company’s name.
A true hallmark of real comedic genius.
My company's name is "Laugh At My Shit Jokes Or I'll Murder A Puppy". It seems to work.
I can't get over how much the actor playing adult Bernie sounds like Virgil Texas' impression of Bernie. He doesn't sound like Bernie, he sounds like Virgil doing Bernie.
Dude actually looks a bit like Virgil too.
@@weatheranddarkness are we 100% sure Virgil wasn't making this film when he dissappeared for six months?
If the guys who made free lunch express did watch "airplane" too many times, they clearly didn't do it with much understanding.
In airplane, people do ridiculous things, yes, but the characters do not have exaggerated voices or features or demeanor for the most part. The joke is played straight as otherwise normal acting and sounding people suddenly do something utterly absurd
Every character including extras in Free Lunch Express is a caricature so far removed from it's source material that any joke is dead on arrival.
yeah, in airplane most of the joke is just that it's all played very seriously. Everyone's the straight man and at the same time the butt of the joke
Anybody else notice that young Bernie is clearly modeled after Leon Trotsky?
So do they think that their audience knows enough about Bernie to get these weirdly specific "jokes"? I expected the whole script to just be "he is a communist, democrats are evil" but this is somehow worse.
Conservatives believe a variety of different versions of reality
@@whysocurious7366 as long as the outcome is the same, to any large group of idiots, it doesn’t matter what the evidence is, or even if evidence they have contradicts each other. As long as the goal is to assassinate Bernie’s character conservatives will be pretty happy to believe anything.
Nah these all seems to be right wing memes, that's why not based on reality. T
For instance the moscow trip is a favorote attack even when there's countless things being written about it not being honeymoon
a few days ago I came across a youtube video called "seasame street introduces a white male puppet who is blamed for everything". It was suppose to be satire, but just came out whiny. Every other comment was like, "would be funny if it wasn't so true" and "You know things are bad when you can't distinguish satire from real life." Conservative "comedy" is never funny no matter how hard they try
I really like conservatives acting like white people are oppressed because minorities are being... not oppressed. Like, calm down! There's enough privilege for everyone!
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter still takes the cake for best historical fiction for me
And it is much more accurate.
It might sound like a joke but Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter got me interested in American hostory.
For me it's Hetalia, but that's good too.🙂
I also really love that in the universe of team fortress 2, there are three different sets of mercenaries (ranging from the early 1800s to the late 70s, with the main team seen in TF2 being the third team) that Abraham Lincoln was the first team's pyro lmao. AND he also invented the rocket jump.
The Soviet uniforms look like something out of a high school play.
Even the cheap reproductions you can buy on the street in East Berlin would have looked better.
The funny thing is it would have probably been cheaper to mail order a real one from a former soviet country than whatever that abomination took to make
Seriously. I bought a legit Soviet parade cap for like $45. I'm sure you can get them cheaper than that if you buy a dozen or so for extras.
These uniforms were/are manufactured in the millions. Anybody with anything close to a film budget can uniform a group of Soviet soldiers in a way that makes it historically accurate. The ones here just looked TERRIBLE.
Seems like the creators expected Bernie to get Democratic nomination and then lose to Trump in the general, and planned this film as part of a victory lap.
Audition process for the role of young Bernie
(Man enters room) “eyyyy im walkin here”
“You’re hired”
But but your safe spaces
(Context for anyone reading this thread: Ian is a troll who threw a pissbaby tantrum at me on another Jose video to try to get a reaction, and has now apparently followed me here using the "other comments from this person on this channel" feature of the youtube app. I have no idea how he thinks "but you think safe spaces are good", a reference to the thread he found me on, is even tangentially relevant to a joke about the actor's bad new york accent- the minds of these pathetic little boys are an enigma)
@@voidify3 it’s a testament to how miserable conservatives are. Their goal in life seems to be to spread misery and suffering, even their “comedy” is nothing but cruelty and childish thinking. Conservatives stopped developing mentally and emotionally when they were young, and they hate anyone, anywhere who might be doing something they themselves don’t approve of.
It's fascinating to me that The Potwins and other simplistic stuff love to call kids "Billy." Every child I know who was christened William and born later than 1990 is either called by his full name or "Will."."Kids are named Billy only when trying to evoke All-American 50's-style family vibes--check out the names on the presents in department store Christmas windows or advertisment "Mom," "Dad," "Billy, "Susie."
That's the one thing I found so off-putting about the recent movie of Stephen King's IT. The story was originally set in 1958, so the kids have names like "Eddie," "Richie," "Stan," "Betty," and "Henry" - names that scream either "greaser," "repressed suburbanite," or "hick." To hear kids in 1989 be called those is nothing short of surreal. Yes, sometimes parents give their children their own names, but that's usually only when the name sounds timeless. If they didn't want to change the characters' names, they should have made IT a period piece.
What I can't understand is why "Billy" is used so much to mock the '50s when the two most common boys' names of that era were "John" and "James." What gives? Do "Johnny" and "Jimmy" sound too "tough" to be stereotypical snot-nosed kid names? ("Susan" was indeed very popular, though - but then, so were "Patricia" and "Debra," and you don't come across "Patty" or "Debbie" in parodies often.)
I know there's a lot of reverence for Malcolm McDowel for his past works, but if you see some of his filmography as he got older, I'm pretty sure he just takes any role for a paycheck.
Which is a bigger stain on his legacy, this or Home Alone 5?
It's been clear for decades that McDowell will do any role for a paycheque, which is sad because he's a fantastic actor and I feel he ended up limiting his later career by refusing to be discerning about anything.
Tbf why not If I was in a position to make millions for sitting on my arse and saying about 5 lines of dialogue I would
He did a cover of The Trial by Pink Floyd and voiced death in the Castlevania series. He gets a pass from me.
Nothing about this movie says "Airplane." They just name-dropped an old classic for a movie that has more in common with the straight-to-video American Pie movies.
Zucker made "An American Carol" where the Scrooge is (a caricature of) Michael Moore, learning to understand his ways are evil.
It's better than this movie though, from what I've seen of each. But Hercules isn't in it so, 50-50.
Of course Kevin Sorbo is in this.
HAHAHA I just commented the exact same thing and then scrolled down and saw this.
Shit I tought i saw fucking Hercules THERE in a gringy wig...
@@isolahti Sorbo is 50% of the way towards playing all of the faces on Mount Rushmore.
I could imagine how much the size of the paycheque reflects the state of his acting career.
I feel like the right doesn't see this as a caricature, but actually how they see him. Love the analysis.
That just reminded me of that time Clint Eastwood spent 5 minutes berating an empty chair as if he was talking to Barak Obama live on stage. Conservative humor is just so bizarre.
@@SapphWolf What's the font for your name? I like the A/turn-v and the e-standin.
@@zacheryeckard3051 It's not a font. I searched for special characters that I liked and just copy/pasted them into my name. It has to be a character though. It won't work with fonts.
@@zacheryeckard3051 The 'A's a lambda, the Greek equivalent of the letter 'L', & the 'E's a xi, the Greek equivalent of the letter 'X'.
@@legomaniac856 What a champion. Thanks.
Malcolm McDowell was in this? I've been loving his performances lately, like in Castlevania, so to see him in this is an "ugh." moment.
McDowell is in the company of other talented actors who seemingly just do not give a shit what words come out of their mouth, such as Sam Jackson.
He waz ras al ghul in BTAS
@@LeoMes01 That was David Warner.
@@edwardthesnowman8051 oh youre right
He did a phenomenal job as Varney/Death, my best guess he did this job for the money
If so much is fictionalized about Bernie's life, wouldn't this just be propaganda??
Did you not hear about the part with the comedy tag?
@@unbearablysmug2437 did THEY hear about the comedy tag?
Again, can they read the word?
Yup. It's propaganda and poorly made propaganda at that.
conservatives: we like family values
also conservatives: lets make a scene in our unfunny satire movie disrespecting the parents of a guy we're mad about.
"Funnier than Free Lunch Express" is the damningedist with faint praise criticism ever.
The production and acting and general aesthetic I'm seeing in these clips reminds me of Channel Awesome - which is, of course, the opposite of awesome
A conservative acknowledging an honest portrayal of Bernie Sanders & his consistency in honesty, integrity, openness, civil rights activism & standing up for the little guy would force them to acknowledge & admit that Trump was not even close to being one of these.
I knew this movie existed, and I knew José did reviews of bad right-wing media. I somehow never put together the thought that José could REVIEW this movie, but as a result this comes as a very pleasant surprise.
Hey, I'm from Vermont. My ex-girlfriend used to work at one of the cinemas and one day from work she told me all about this movie. Apparently, Essex Cinemas had premiered this film because the theater was desperate and losing money during COVID and according to her all these white men in suits showed up ranging from the ages of like 20-40s and everyone was super racist, sexist, etc. One black guy apparently showed up and a couple of the guys there were literally asking him if he was lost and he had to reiterate over and over he was there for the film and the white guys just looked dumbfounded lmao super weird stuff
The film literally opened for like a day too and I'm pretty sure it was the only theater at least in VT that aired it.
The Stalin movie was really good, even my parents, who lived through SSR times, found it funny. They loved recognising the characters and having a chance to laugh about them.
ты русский?
Y'know, a caricatured comedy biopic about Bernie Sanders probably COULD be pretty good.
...it would probably just have to be written by a socialist.
That'd be hilarious. Maybe we could even keep some of the bits from this god-awful movie, as a homage. The "blood pact with Stalin" and "Bernie trying to impress the agents spying on him" bits have some potential.
It'd probably be just as absurd as Free Lunch, and not everyone would get it, but at least the jokes would be better executed and not rely on tired stereotypes.
Honestly, you could probably even use the blood pact with Stalin bit still. Just retool it into the standard "play into their nonsense conspiracy theory" joke instead of the... Uh... I'm still not sure what the joke of the movie is
@@fionathegayesttiefling9867 alternatively, use apparitions of stalin, lenin, marx or other communist figures to highlight the difficulties of bearing the socialist mantle when horrible things have been done in its name, and the need to reinvent socialism for a new generation after decades of propaganda and in a world where "there is no alternative" to neoliberal capitalism.
@꧁Ash Rouge꧂ go for it, i'd happily support you
@@maximeteppe7627...that doesn't sound like a good joke idea, that just sounds like an interesting movie
1:25 as a former Republican myself I'm gonna confirm that Republicans would 100% believe the blood pact thing
It IS funny if the only humor you understand is cruelty 🤷♂️
Don't forget anti-semitism
cruelty towards the viewer because jesus
Which is why conservatives like it. They have the emotional and intellectual development of children.
Satire is based on pointing out absurdities in things that actually exist, so conservatives making shit up about one of their usual political targets and attacking that imaginary figure isn't funny.
The phrase "It's funny because it's true" carries a little bit of weight.
You could make a legitimately funny Bernie Sanders biopic. You could try to make it satirical, but any honesty will always leave Bernie as a hero.
McDowell wanted to make sure Caligula was not the most offensive thing on his filmography when he eventually passes away...
It is safe to say that Caligula will be remembered much more fondly than this excuse of a political satire movie.
20:15 That note on the top corner must be funnier than the entire film.
Also, please, increase the volume of your mic.
seconded
Imagine inheriting hundreds of millions of dollars and then using that money to make a ham-fisted comedy attacking one of the few politicians who wasn't born rich.
The concept of 3 eras of a single man walking down a beach, with the youngest version looking back to see what he'll become, is a concept that goes so hard that does not belong in this movie
You underestimate the level of ignorance and stupidity of the people who will watch this movie and enjoy it. I think a fair share of them will wholeheartedly or to some extent believe all the quirky and fantastical stuff from this movie such as the blood pact and imaginary Stalin.
Cool. No one saw it. So... wtf are you rambling about?
Malcolm McDowell never turns down work. It’s how he ended up in Silent Hill 3D
Sometimes a paycheck is a paycheck.
Silent Hill 3D is probably one of the more prestigious movies he'd done in recent years, looking at the rest of his post-2000 filmography.
10:03 This is an illustrative example for the subtle differences between in and out group stereotypes. This would have felt authentic and been a good faith joke if it was "he's not going to be a doctor, he's not gonna be a lawyer, he's not gonna be a rabbi!" (Assuming Bernie's parents are religious in their Judiasm, idk for either the real world or the world of this film)
'Vice' movie with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney was a funny political biopic.
yeah , it had some funny moments and also just made you want to trow the remote at the TV because how tf do those pepole fall on their feet ?
"Okay, check this out: Bernie Sanders by way of Napolean Dynamite; Jojo Rabbit; Pineapple Express - we'll even rip that title a bit but it's mostly weed references - and uh, any Wes Anderson vibe, but done as Shitty. As. Possible."
7:36- So, Malcolm McDowell, a well-respected actor known for classics like A Clockwork Orange and If... decided to a right-wing propaganda film because *checks notes* he was bored. No disrespect to him but at least he had an excuse.
@alugwin Kamala Harris isn't right-wing but he should know better when the material is given is propaganda.
If... and A Clockwork Orange were a long time ago. If you check his filmography he has done a *lot* of crap over the last 20-odd years. It seems he's so grateful to keep getting work he will take pretty much any role.
I don't really buy his excuse for it though. Even if you're incredibly bored, this film and its underlying politics are just *so* unbelievably vile. How can you have such little self-esteem to sign on to a project like this?
@@videogamenostalgia One word: *Money!*
@@videogamenostalgia because he likely sees it as a job and he hasn’t politicised his profession. Some actors want to take stances with the work they do, which I think is awesome, but for some they just see it as their 9-5, they wanna clock in, clock out, get their pay check and go about their lives. The difference is some actors want to be the artists and some want to be the paint, the paint doesn’t need to justify it’s colour because that was the artist’s choice to put it there.
The scene where Bernie says “It’s Berning Time!™” and then burned away all of his political opponents really saved the movie and is an intelligent satire of left wing politics
I would fr watch a Bernie Sanders Satire made by someone who actually cared to make it fully crazy…Like a blood pact with Stalin is fucking funny, but not when it’s presented in that light.
I literally said out loud "of fucking course Kevin Sorbo is in this movie"
Who else can't get enough of Jose's meticulously done videos? The clever script, the hilarious blue-box comments, the slick editing, collecting all the footage, the deep research, the insights, the mellifluous voice... This is pure gold. This channel needs to be a leftie household name.
I find the best satire's are usually made by people that are fans of the thing they are satirizing. (think Sword art online abridged series) this was clearly made out of spite.
My name is Klein.
I would be curious to see a Bernie satirical movie made by actual lefties
I think the same about ‘dark humour’
Excalty
"Death of Stalin" movie was way funnier...... You later mention that movie, cool
Death of Stalin was able to actually be strangely tense despite the fact that you know, historically, who has to come out on top in the end. It's impressive.
Just an absurd choice for a satire film; One of the reasons Bernie made it so far in national politics, is that no one makes fun of Bernie better than Bernie.
3:35 the USSRs security apparatus wouldn’t have been fooled by that. They would have cameras, wires, and people stationed. They would have caught everything.
Yeah, but Russia is the enemy! They must be portrayed as incompetent, while still being a huge threat to our way of life!
I'm typing this on my phone with a full sized keyboard. I have an adapter plugged into my phone with a full sized keyboard. I'm testing it out right now with this comment. My fingers are clumsy and skitterish so it's hard for me to type on my phone using the regular phone screen kryboard. This is so cathartic. Typing with a full sized keyboard while using a phone. I highly recommend it. Also, I enjoyed this video
I’m happy you got it to work, but if your going to be plugging in a keyboard, wouldn’t it be easier to use a computer if you own one?
@@dantecaputo2629 It would be easier if I owned one.
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Ah, understood.
This reads like a copypasta.
holy shit i went to watch this movie and it’s just a bunch of scenes that occur. there’s no flow or pacing. just ‘okay! here’s a scene! here’s another scene! do they have something to do with one another? nope.’
The first line in the honeymoon scene where Bernie tells his wife he wants to impress the Moscow spies made me chuckle. Then it goes on for like 5 mins to kill the humor like those family guy dragged out jokes.
A dry history of Bernie's life with ehe only difference being a JoJo style imaginary Stalin would be fucking hilarious though. (as a bernie bro myself)
I like Bernie and i don't get butthurt when someone i like becames the butt of a joke. However the core of a good joke is how truth the joke is, nothing wrong with exagerate or stretch a bit but the core should be true. This movie fails to deliver simply cause most of it is not an exagerated version of the life of Bernie Sanders is a how conservatives imagine the life of Bernie should be, so at the core is just how they SEE it, not how it is, ergo is not only based on a lying premise, but also in a bad faith one. If this movie shows something is that how hard it is to have a consistant reasonable critique about Bernie, so in order to mock him they have to rely on lies for it. Quite ironic if You ask me, since current right wingers are fully embracing conspiracy theories.
@@kaoko111 very true. But the movie I proposed wouldn't be based on truth but still funny I think
Good review. I saw "The Death Of Stalin" and "The Art Of The Deal" and enjoyed them, especially "The Death Of Stalin".
I could add another satirical biopic you might have never heard of, the German made-for-TV-movie "Der Minister" (released also with its promotion title "The Plagiator"), a satire about former German minister of economy and later of defense, Karl-Theodorzu Guttenberg, who was very popular in Germany but resigned in 2011 after it was discovered that he plagiated a lot in his doctor dissertation. The movie was released 2 years after that. It was very funny, fresh and unusual and also took liberties in portraying the lives, especially by changing the names. Guttenberg was named "Franz Ferdinand von und zu Donnersberg", Angela Merkel became "Angela Murkel", Guttenberg's best buddy and Editor in chief of the newspaper "Bild" Kai Dickmann became "Jan Breitmann" etc. And they all looked very close to their real-life prototypes. In the movie they recreated many newspaper articles, interviews, speeches and, like the original prototypes, joke from other sources to have this plagiatism feeling, like jokes from the British show "Yes Minister". The movie added a new character, a struggling writer who was his best friend and became Donnersberg ghostwriter. Guttenberg is portrayed as a guy who always have to show off. He has to fit the aristocratic shoes his family had over the years and has to be presented as a man. Especially since he is not interested in politics and has no experience in his field. But still he is not shown as a one-sided figure. He has a character and a motivation in this movie. And not to forget: The movie has great actors like Katharina Thalbach as Merkel (Thalbach is famous in Germany and as a teen was also in the 1970s-movie "The Thin Drum")
"I feel have to defend McDowell's honor... he's a Kamala Harris guy".
He had us in the first half
AOC being a spicy Puerta Rican with big hoop earrings and Ben & Jerry being gay could be *super* funny but only if it's 1) not mean-spirited and 2) there's another joke beyond them just being minorities. But political comedy basically can't be funny, so here we are.
The script feels like they skimmed Bernie's Wikipedia page once, then just wrote the whole thing without rechecking their research.
Sad to see Malcolm McDowell associated with this movie I love his voice.
21:25
Okay, there was a legitimate saboteur in the room that created that logo. "Remember Poochy from The Simpsons? What would he look like today?"
I had no idea this movie even existed...
...I want to go back to those times.
Conservative people think being obnoxious is humorous...it’s not it’s not witty it’s not creative, it’s just being obnoxious, “conservative comedy” is an oxymoron, a contradictory term
And here I thought the last choice was going to be Dick, with Kirsten Dunst, played for a laugh. I should have realized from a third of the video still remaining that it wasn't the case
Fire as always, Jose. Making us Canadians proud.
He really is.
So, it's a movie with the same level of accuracy as "Abraham Lincoln; Vampire Hunter" but without the fun.
Your closing lines remind me of why I love the video essay format. While at times, the topics meander as you widen the scope, but you so neatly, and viciously tie it all together at the end. Great stuff.
Malcom McDowell the K-Hive warrior
I feel like these people would have had better luck with a “loving satire” of Trump. Maybe poke fun at some of his foibles while making him come out on top. Or do a He-Man kinda thing like a BG comic come to life. So much more material to work from.
Bernie’s had some great memes but his life just doesn’t seem that funny?
Something about it is revealing. Look, most lives are boring, Even people that achieve something great are boring. Interesting lives are something odd to Say the least, and one interesting enough to be a good movie is Even weirder.
Anyways, here You can draw a few more lines. There's lives that are worth Telling in a movie not just because they did something interesting but also cause they did something good for people and thats something this movie doesn't understand.
For example, lets Say Pablo Escobar, his life is interesting of course, in a Bad sense, but interesting enough to be a movie, series documentary and so on. By making a movie about it the makers know that the guy was a terrible person, is not an homage by any means, just a real life story worth telling. Trump fits the same thing, he is a horrible human being, however his administration was so fucking insane that his shitshow could be easy material for satire. But Sanders is not worth the same threatment, some late night hosts and comedians do mock a few of his traits, like the way he speaks and that time he used those mitten gloves and became a meme, but, for the most part thats just light stuff, there's not much of satire material to mock Bernie.
Pretty much everything about Bernie’s past is badass but not necessarily funny. Sometimes his retorts can be funny, but that would be better as salt that improves upon a great drama rather than making a comedy.
The problem is there is no audience where a "loving satire" will work.
I guess the whole movie is the fabled rights meme ability
I found the horse condom joke funny and as a result I am now deeply disappointed in myself.
We all make mistakes homie
With jokes like that, there's a lot of points where something COULD work, but you've got to nail it. Like, the idea of someone thinking the "Trojan Horse" is a condom for horses, or a mascot for condoms, is a workable joke.
But the way it's executed here is the sloppiest form of it.
one of the best satirical historical comedy's I have ever seen was Death of Stalin, They use History perfectly to work in the jokes - rather than work a joke to make up history.
It’s funny that the first movie I think when someone says “satirical biopic of a politician” wasn’t mentioned at all; Vice
Vice was made by a guy who did political and slapstick humor for a living.
These people seriously don't know the difference between communism and socialism. It's sad.
They don't even know the difference between communism and liberalism.
They do, they just expect the populace to conflate the two if they repeat enough the lie.
Also, how bad is Malcolm McDowell's credit score that he has to be in this?
Pointing out that conservative comedy isn't funny is usually a lot of fun, but this flick is so lacking in substance that I'm having a hard time finishing the video. Leaving a comment and liking, but I'm putting it on double speed.
I had no idea this was even done. However weeks ago I watched a video from the "some more news" channel. The topic was "how come conservatives aren't funny?" They don't reference this movie at all, yet the same things are being pointed out. That the jokes are based off unbelievable lies and that they rely on being mean and nothing more. Or that they just have one joke premise they beat into the ground.
my favorite part of the movie is how a jewish man makes a blood pact with a famous anti semite
First, thank you for mentioning death of Stalin, such a great movie! Second have you looked at "The President Show" that used to be on, they had a pretty good Bernie Sanders Impersonator. Third have you seen the film "American Dreamz"(2006), they have a really interesting satire of Bush in that. It was also noted in Australia for the "Bush" adviser looking eerily like John Howard our prime minister at the time. Who was criticized for blindly following America into two wars that Australia had nothing to do with.
Keep Being Awesome Jose!
McDowell gets a pass if he sufficiently hammed it up. That’s all I’d want from him.
I think that was probably his intention and knew that he could get away with it.