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There is nothing wrong when one person has complete control over a film.
- George Lucas
what
George was an idiot
Alex Dove I think that is the joke
George Lucas: “The auteur theory of film actually is very true if you know directors, because they are very much like their movies. And in the case of somebody who writes and directs, you know, it is my life. I mean, everything I write is my life, I’m not writing some sort of hypothetical thesis on something, I’m writing a story that I have to get extremely emotionally involved in because it’s going to take two or three years of my life to do it. So I can’t just sort of say, ‘Oh this will be fun,’ and knock it off in a week. This is like a marriage … you have to be in love with this thing for at least four or five years, and probably for the rest of your life.” In the run up to The Force Awakens, I couldn’t even begin to count how many times I’ve seen people saying, Oh thank God that George Lucas won’t be involved.It’s been a popular notion for some time now that Star Wars needed to be saved from George Lucas. It took me a long time to work out how people could seriously think something so nonsensical.There is no Star Wars without George Lucas. Where do these people think that Star Wars came from?To get around the conundrum of loving Star Wars but hating George Lucas, fans have created entire alternate realities. The Secret History of Star Wars is a book-length attempt by fan/possible mental patient Michael Kaminski to give credit for everything good about the original three films to somebody, anybody, besides George Lucas. It was Ralph McQuarrie, Gary Kurtz, it was Lawrence Kasdan, Irvin Kersher, Marcia Lucas, it was maybe the craft service guy, but it was most definitely not the guy who wrote, directed, and originated the entire thing. Kaminski makes baroque conspiracy theories about how Lucas has lied about the development of all of the films, based on the fact that Kaminski has “uncovered” that the story did in fact evolve over the different script drafts and didn’t originate fully formed in the version that Lucas has chosen to finally present. The way that fans are able to twist reality to fit their preferred version of events is displayed in fact that he presents these revelations as “secret” when he has no special access of any kind and all of his research is based on information readily made available by Lucas and Lucasfilm themselves.Almost all those other contributors I mentioned did in fact make important contributions to Star Wars, but to say that their contributions negate Lucas’, or that it means that these films are not Lucas’ creations, simply displays a basic ignorance of how art is created.Everything about Star Wars- The love of fast cars, the Saturday matinee influences, the Kurosawa influences, the Joseph Campbell influences, the daddy issues, the editing style, all of it- this is George Lucas’ life on screen. Star Wars is what happens when you take his life experiences, things that he absorbed and that inspired him, and throw them in a pot together. The stew that happens is Star Wars.This is how any work of art happens, really. Film is of course an especially collaborative medium, but in any work of art, even a novel, every person that enters the artist’s life directly or indirectly has an effect on the person that they are and the life experiences they are drawing upon to create their art. This does not mean that the novel doesn’t have an author. Those other people are influences, but the artist is the final arbiter, the lens through which those experiences are combined into a piece of art. Not all Star Wars fans feel that way, obviously. They’ve even created a feature-length documentary, The People vs. George Lucas, to present their case, without any apparent irony, that Lucas should be held accountable to them, and that he owes it to the fans to make the movies he is told to make. If you’d like to see a long parade of people who have never created anything in their lives talk about how they know more about making movies than the guy who made movies they are obsessed with does, then go ahead and check it out, but I’m not responsible for the headache it could create. When you judge a piece of art, the criteria you’re supposed to use is how closely the artist achieved their goals. If you don’t like musicals, that’s fine. That doesn’t mean that all musicals are bad. They could be a very well done example of something that you don’t enjoy. There’s a fine line there many people struggle to understand, which is the difference between talking about the piece of art, and talking about yourself and your own tastes and emotions. George Lucas isn’t interested in traditional story structure. This should be obvious if you’ve seen THX or American Graffiti. In fact, he’s actively interested in subverting traditional story structure, and in completely non-narrative films. They’ll point out that Lucas wasn’t the director of episodes V and VI… which just illustrates a lack of knowledge of how those films were made. The directors contributed, especially Kershner, but they were hired by Lucas to make his movie for him. Lucas also worked with other screenwriters, but the story and situations originated from him, and he was the final arbiter and had final cut, too. From beginning to end, they were his films and he was in control, no matter how many other people worked with him, and everybody knew that. The argument is grasping at straws. Hmmmmm… Tough call.There’s the big one, of course, which is Han not “shooting first…” This change doesn’t actually alter the movies any more than a dozen others, but people like to cling to it because they can say that it’s not just a change to the effects, it’s a change to the character and his story, and this makes it look like their concerns about the changes to the films come from their place as high minded cultural critics with a deep insight into narrative, rather than, say, their desire for the movie to always look like it did when they were six.The thing with this change is that it’s barely a change at all. Greedo was always ABOUT to shoot Han. It’s there in the dialog. He means to shoot Han and kill him in every version of the scene. Han never has shot Greedo in cold blood. That scene doesn’t exist except in the minds of some particular butthurt man children obsessed with a movie. So if Greedo always meant to shoot Han, the only difference is that in the altered versions he gets a shot off, and Han’s actions and motivations are identical. So then why change it? It’s just a clarification. The idea that Greedo was about to shoot Han is clear from the dialog, but not as obvious visually, and as always Lucas wants these films to operate on a visual level first. Regardless of that you can say that if, functionally, Han’s motivations in both versions are the same, then the clarification is unnecessary. Which is funny, because that’s where the people complaining about the change prove Lucas’ point for him, since it should have been clear and easy to understand before the change, but it obviously wasn’t since these people, 18 years after the Special Editions came out, are still struggling to wrap their heads around it.
I thought of you when Ralph talked about too much control.
Ryan Reynolds should have been the main character and Seth should have been Ryan Reynolds character as a quick cameo for the guy working behind the scenes.
Or make Seth what he described himself as - the guy making fun of the hero's shirt from the sidelines.
Before I watched this video I saw the movie and that genuinely bothered me lol Ryan Reynolds is just so much more likable (in my opinion)
Agreed!
11:29 The guy standing to Ryan's left in that scene kind of looks like Rhys Darby.
I agree with this, the reason Ryan Reynolds is in the movie is a reference to Ted, because Ryan was Patrick Warburton's gay lover and had no lines so Seth thought it would be funny to put him in this movie again with no lines, what an amazing payoff for that joke eh?
"I'm not the hero. I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt. That's who I am."
Seth shut up my godddd
I thought that was funny
Alchemist ok ?
@@mrbambista2559 why did you comment this.
Joshua Edwards why does anyone comment anything ?
Mr Bambista 2 Ahh a gamer
I think if Seth McFarlane was an article of clothing, he'd be a fedora.
And In a firesale bin at goodwill
Have you heard him sing Sinatra? It's pretty amazing
@@RubenGarcia-rt7us have you ever seen George Bush painting?
It's sad in a way when people insist on fields theyre really bad at when they're otherwise highly talented
And it's not even a fedora, it's a trilby.
A used busted old straw hat in a goodwill bin
He literally played human Brian in this movie
Brian Griffin is Seth McFarlane's Fursona
Not literally
Brian represents Seth in family guy. Think about it he's just Seth's normal voice, he's an atheist, intellectual, writer
literally basically literally basically literally basically literally basically
Really? Literally? Basically too?
literally basically literally basically literally basically literally basically
Pastel Monster yes himself
Seth’s jokes are the “ this happened!! This literally happened!! Don’t believe me? It happened”
Isaac Cruz
Your forgetting his *classic* joke “see this reference, this is a different property that you know being shown in MY property, doesn’t that remind you of this piece of media that is way funnier or better than mine”
@@courier6960 also, "Look, God doesn't exist. Aren't I smart? I'm smart right?"
@@deinVater9983
Not to mention “guy got dumped or divorced, and his spouse replaced him with a larger, presumably black man” or “repeated action that goes on for 30 seconds in pure silence”
@@courier6960 and the racist jokes too. "Oh look this guy's black isn't that funny?," oh look at that guy he's Asian and he's doing stereotypical Asian stuff isn't that funny?"
@@deinVater9983
At this rate we are just leaking the entire script for Family Guy’s next season
The scenes going on forever is also an issue with the cutaway gags from Family Guy.
You think thaaat's bad?
well in family guy u can like it or not ( i do like it and find it very fcking funny) but in this trash movie its just ... soooo boring
@@yaass9180 Sadly, in family guy, it has reached a really bad point, way before you posted your comment. It is surprising for the episode to not start off by immediatly cutting off to a TV show being made fun off. They constantly want to be taken serious but also as a joke, but also then teach completely wrong things like it is okay to rape someone when you are lonely or the one who sexually harasses you is the victim and you are the problem for not letting him/her fuck. They literally revived Brian in 2 weeks and then made him the worst person in the universe. I mean, other shows like Spongebob got out of the dark ages and are good again, but I think Family Guy already burried themself in their grave. You can keep your opinion, but in my opinion, the jokes are too disgusting, boring, out-of-nowhere, played out, long, relying on shock and unfunny.
@@Ze_eT we are talking about Modern Family Guy.
that one with the whale
The guy from elders react laughing at schindlers list made my day lmao
It's the only time I've ever laughed at one of those videos... And it was only because of Ralph's edit
The fact that he can get away with showing such long unbroken clips without copyright strikes just goes to show that NO ONE gives a shit about this movie
Pirate Style Jutsu 🤪🤪🤪
@@kayhaven4710 🤪🤪🤪
How did he get to show the ENTIRE Tommy Boy pitch scene but not the song from The Wedding Singer? Copyright?
@@bramlinssen6940 🤪🤪🤪
@@charmandyorton006 only certain brands care to enforce the policy. Some hire firms to outsource it aswell, which are much more effective.
"Famous actors show up just to have references" - Seth MacFarlane script writing 101
Also shit and fart jokes. *COMEDY!!!*
and throw in some animals penis's becasue why not...
Don't forget the "comedy" scenes that just drag on to the point where it gets stale and boring.
I'm surprized they didn't have a 'tripping' segment, that went down so well in family guy.
I do enjoy reading the comments of morons who for some reason just repeat things that are in the vid.
You wanna know how to make this move almost 100% more funny than it is? Switch the roles of Ryan Reynolds and Seth MacFarlane and boom almost guaranteed to be a much better movie.
Seth McFarland plays a good unlikeable but still funny side character, but he’s only funny as a side character. Imagine if Brian was the main character of family guy: it would be completely awful.
"I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt"
Then be *that,* holy shit. The reason we don't have movies about those people is because they turn out like this movie!
Honestly, you can have films about those people, but it's not a good idea to force them into the role of a typical hero, as it can feel forced and uncomfortable, as it does here.
I think that it also works better when there's an actual typical hero for the cynical character to react to, rather than shooting them in the gut as a weak gag.
@@Nosmo90 That being said, Seth's character is definitely more fitting of a side role instead of a lead role.
@@Nosmo90 One Punch Man managed to do it somehow
@@mitchellhorton9382 Is One Punch Man like that? I'm afraid I've only seen short clips! Dx
There is a rule in comedy movies most people are unaware of. Never stop telling the story to tell a joke. Look at Back to the Future, there is no scene or even really a line that you could remove from the movie. Same thing with Ghostbusters. Even (the good) John Huges movies aren't strong on narrative, but every scene works together to tell a larger narrative.
Even Airplane never really stops the movie to tell a joke. Pretty much all the gags happen inside the narrative of the story. Stryker talks about his drinking problem then pours water on his face. That's funny, but it never stops the story. Lots of modern comedies dont seem to understand this concept.
gplechuckiii Ralph covered exactly what you mentioned in his Ghostbusters 2016 video regarding the comedy. He compared the original and reboot versions and said that the original was so much better at the comedy due to the fact that the film had a competent and decent script and the story and jokes intertwined naturally with each other without any awkward stops to tell a joke.
See that's a big issue for Seth because that is his whole fucking shtick. 80% of the jokes in Family Guy are "Hey remember that time we ..." then cut to a scene that has nothing to do with the plot this episode for a cheap laugh.
@@MogsnOB yeah or just a refernce members spideerman? haha its funny because it spiderman and its a thing you remember
Striker! Striker! Striker! Strike Her!!!
THIS!!!! ALL OF THIS!!!! SOMEONE ELSE FINALLY GETS THIS
The pointless references remind me of that scene from Casper where Dan Aykroyd randomly shows up and says, "Who you gonna call?".
Magikrazy Someone else
Flippy Sidee Can I keep you?
That part was still funnier than half the jokes in this snoozefest
At least Father Guido Sarducci is funny.
I mean, that joke made sense, because the people who owned the house wanted the ghosts out of their house
"It's just references."
So latter-era Family Guy.
No, that would be describing modern Simpsons.
@@wilbourke4188 I can't tell what's worse modern family guy or Modern Simpsons
you’re not a woman
@@ulqinaku8471 What?
Honestly, the Back to the Future cameo could have great if they handled it better
Yeah like if they had the events of Back to the Future Part 3 playing in the background
nah it's still cheap
Cheap but kinda fun maybe?? but it'll probably just make you want to watch back to the future 3 instead
The thing that would be great is in the middle of some chase scene or something in the climax, they then use footage from a scene in back to the future 3 and digitally put then fighting in the background of it. Like what they did at the end of Deadpool 2
Still seems alright as a gag
The irony is that the costuming in Monty Python is so much more authentic than your average 'Medieval' film.
And more epic.
That's an offensive weapon that is!
Wasn't one of them an expert on the Medieval Ages and King Arthur and that's why it is the way it is? Like you gotta know the rules to know where to break them
@@moonymonster yeah, Terry Jones, I think. He even wrote a book about obscure medieval facts.
@@atrep4585 I thought it was Terry Jones.
I like the way how Ralph rants, because it is very fluent and understanding
I think that rants usually mean people rant without reason. I think that when Ralph does it, it's because he reads a thought out script, but he gets into the acting mood and starts ranting accidentally.
Now that you mention it, I can see him just, getting way too into this rant, and ends up actually ranting.
That scene of them walking and talking was painful. Zero chemistry.
I had to keep pausing it.
Cause he's gay
@@Manamanamana36 an actor's real life romance/sexuality does not affect their performance IN character, Seth is just bad at acting
@@Manamanamana36 So is NPH, he's played straight characters very convincingly dozens of times.
Close your eyes and just imagine literally any episode of Family Guy where Brian tries to pick up a girl.
@@famowx hell, he even played the one man from How I Met Your Mother, who’s a womanizer. I didn’t even know he was gay until someone else told me out of their own surprise. All because of that role. Kinda crazy.
When Chris Farley screamed in that clip, the closed captions said “Sound of having a mid life crisis” lmao
honestly one of Seth biggest problems, across all of his stuff from Family Guy to his movies, is jokes never ending, I have a theory that he runs a joke untill he thinks its funny/ funny enough
I feel like a lot of those are supposed to have the effect of the gag playing out for so long kinda being the joke, but it hardly ever works.
I think he mentioned this once, that the joke where Peter falls down and hurts his knee then nurses it for like a solid minute of screen time was such a hit with fans that he spent a lot of his career trying to recreate that, and whenever anyone complains about too many drawn-out anti-jokes in Family Guy he will claim that this is what the show was always about, even though quite a few people don't like the show after that point.
handsomebrick the recurring rooster fight is what really kills all the fun.
@@handsomebrick well that was the time to not listen to the fans or maybe analyse just why it worked in that case and if it could actually work all the time
LazerDog Laz yeah, well, that’s like, your opinion man.
After the eighth time it gets really boring and cheap run time IMHO.
It’s like a visual Wilhelm Scream.
Oh my god those long 'romance' scenes were like watching really awkward chat from a first date
I am suffering through that part right now, goddammit is that dialogue stiff and awkward.
Real chemistry between those two characters, true love!
I'm a very awkward person, but I've had dates go over better than this
Maybe he cannot write heterosexual romance cause he's gay
wivuyao that’s nice
So basically the prequel trilogy
It’s funny when Ralph starts describing Seth because it sounds a lot like what you would say about Brian. I always thought Brian was him self projecting.
Seeing Jamie Foxx in this movie, just makes me more pissed at it, because I’d way rather be watching Django Unchained
"Don't reference better things than the thing you're making" is a good rule for creatives.
Truth. Earlier on it was amusing, even hilarious, but Family Guy has run its course and then some. =(
He’s only in the movie because they got t
Which makes me even more pissed because I watched this movie before I even knew what “a Django” was. Which is in and of itself a way better Western with some great comedic writing in it that can rival a lot of comedy movies nowadays
Then go watch it stupid
They made this entire movie for the Chris Lloyd cameo so everyone can forget he was in Oogieloves.
Das The Saucemaster Oogieloves deserves an oscar.
Das The Saucemaster yea and the fact that back to the future 3 is set in 1885 in California, whereas this is set in Arizona in 1882. and yes I got that from half in the bag, and I prefer their theory that this movie was made because MacFarlane wanted to make a movie about Amanda seyfried and Charlize Theron fighting over him
Das The Saucemaster Back the fuck off you Hack
Movie Man c'mon, Piranha 3D was pretty good
Wrong. Seth saw Adam Sandler getting with ANY actress he wanted in his movies, including all the Jessicas, the Underworld girl Kate Beckinsale and so on.
They made this entire movie for him to get to know Theron better.
Ralph saying "Neil Patrick Harris shits into a hat for 20 minutes" is funnier than the entire scene. Probably the whole movie.
Idk i thought that scene was the funniest one. Just cause of the interaction between nph and the guy with the hat. Not the stupid pooping sound effects
Ah yes, the video where the thumbnail changes annually.
I'm still waiting for Paul Blart Mall Cop 3. It'll be set in space.
Lino
Space Cop?
@@AnnoyingOrange420 Nope
I really need to stop mixing up Kevin James and Kevin Spacey.......
I was very alarmed that there was even the though of him making another movie.
We need Machete kills again in spaaaaaace. To come out
Seth isn't even a character in this movie. He's literally just a guy who narrates stuff that's happening around him. He makes the basic mistake of telling instead of showing
TheCephalon and to make things worse, like he does in fuckin family guy he plays himself, and just like in real life he’s a pretentious prick who gets off to his Own farts
Not every single scene need to be showing. But when your movie doesn’t have even _one,_ then that’s when it becomes a problem.
What is the deal with dysentery?
Those scenes were probably so painfully long for the same reason Seth voices half of the characters on his shows: he really likes to hear himself talk.
I watched this movie... I was also diagnosed with cancer. Can confirm, they were about the same amount of fun
Sorry about your cancer
Sorry you had to watch this movie
I’m sorry to hear that... it must have been hard to sit through this movie. On a real note, if your for real diagnosed with cancer I hope everything goes well
U dead yet if so sorry about that
@@greedojenkins9984 fuck man
"It's a rapist." - Ralph Sepe Jr.
They should use this quote for the cover of the Blu Ray release.
That's why I find American Dad! to be best McFarlane's show- he doesn't do any writing for it..
yep
American Dad blows Family Guy out of the water
Tee Tee I know, right? It's like they weren't even created by the same person.
I liked the writing he did for Johnny Bravo.
I like the writing he did for Kick Buttowski
Ryan Reynolds and Seth Macfarlane should have swapped roles in this film
Samuel James Whittaker Having the writer/producer/director show up for five seconds, not say a word, then get killed might actually be a funny quick gag.
exactly what I was thinking
Would have been a more likeable main character. And I'd love to see Seth Macfarlane shot on screen while bitching about the Old West.
That elders react moment was hilarious for all the wrong reasons
"I'm not saying that Sarah Silverman is the next Louis C.K. ..."
In hindsight, I think we're all glad she's not.
She did defend him though because, essentially, 'Louis did it to me and I didn't care'
Yeah but she did get cancelled by the woke culture for other reasons
I really need to catch up on the history of Louis CK's workplace misconduct
@@channel4ripoffcompany404 a lot of it is overblown. Yes he did something wrong but people were literally trying to put him on the same level as harvey weinstein. Which was totally unfair
@@iimmannii she didn't defend him, she said he asked if he could do it with her and she said yes, but made a point of saying her experience didn't invalidate others and that what he did was shitty
Ryan Reynolds is a running gag in MacFarlene films I believe. He was in Ted for about 5 seconds too.
In the commentary they said the joke was they had Reynolds but they weren't even using him.
Austin Zolo No, if anything the jokes makes more sense. The joke is they have a very big star and they wasted him.
+Shroomly but thats like a rich kid burning money in front of an audience poor kids. thats not funny at all.
Tonyis2lazy2writehis2names I see the comparison but no, it's not.
Nobody in the common audience looks at Reynolds and goes "I wish I had Ryan Reynolds"
I agree the joke isn't funny, but that comparison isn't really there.
***** i tried
Tonyis2lazy2writehis2names Thank you for trying. I love you.
Another interesting side note, in the scene where McFarlane and Theron are using one of those sharpshooting games where you win prizes, you can actually see Ewan McGregor as one of the spectators. A very good actor who isn't even mentioned at all in the film, he's literally an extra.
Really? Where? Like off to the side? Behind Seth? Where????
That was the joke
@@palomahout And nobody laughed, Seth.
Have you ever watched Police Squad? That's how you make a good cameo joke.
@@user-ld7ch1er6jor 21 jump street
I'm convinced everyone involved in this production went through with it because they didn't want to hurt Seth's feelings.
"why is sarah silverman there just to say sexual things"
have you seen her standup? that's all she's ever done.
the only sarah silverman joke i can remember was about her dead dog
Sarah Silverman sucks. And she looks like she fucking stinks.
@@Devilicious. Thank you! I've often said the same things and I get hate for it.
I've seen her standup and I disagree that it's all sexual. I don't think the amount of sexual jokes she has is too many that she overdoes it either.
At least she's good at it when she's the one writing
8:05 This scene is being filmed by several cameras, contains multiple major actors, and is being worked on dozens of hard working crewmen, and is filled with numerous extras. All the while it is being overseen by 2 other producers. How in God's name did this scene even make it into the film. How is every single person in this scene not thinking to themselves, "dear, god, I'm embarrassed to even be associated with this film, let alone be on camera."
I mean, just imagine how horribly awkward it must have been to act out that scene. To have no sound effects except Neil Patrick Harris grunting, and just be standing there, waiting for this painfully long and pointless scene to be over.
"Maybe they'll make it funny in post"
I feel sick just thinking about it
@Dillon Sudduth Yes.
Just imagine a casting director reading through Neil's resume in 2015:
CD: So, what major role you did last year?
Neil: Yeah, I shat in a hat for nearly two minutes straight.
CD: Umm... alright...
Two cameras have been set up in the hat.
Brad Jones of The Cinema Snob had a great idea that Seth McFarlane should've had the climax of "Back to the Future Part III" with the Delorean on the railroad going on in plain sight in the background during the finale of this movie. Now that would've made Christopher Lloyd's cameo make sense lol.
I think that joke was used in a family guy chicken fight.
The Family Guy brand of comedy of relying on gross-out, long unfunny dialogue where a character complains about something, and random silly crossover cameos is on full display in this movie
Alternate title: That one family guy episode the animators decided to take the week off.
Don't forget the unnecessary showtunes.
Old family is a gigachad and modern family guy is a virgin.
Thank you for allowing the song from "The Wedding Singer" to play out in the background. That song is legit extremely good and catchy, I get it stuck I'm my head all the time.
That scene with Rock laughing at The Shlinder's List thought...
*the glowing man*
Is it just me or does every time the word fuck is said sound forced and unnatural?
In the movie
+Crimson Seths secks is forced and un-natural C:
CYNID Unless the movie concerned is The Wolf of Wall Street.
yeah its just like sausage party
Der Kommissar you got it right. In the 1800's, fuck was a word, but it wasn't said often or used the way they use it in this movie. In reality they would be saying goddamn or goddammit or hell.
This is Brian Griffin; The Movie
"watch Shaun of the dead"
*Shows the world's end*
I was going to say the same thing!! 😂
haven't seen the worlds end yet i saw shaun of the dead though, is it good ?
@@passiondaele yes
I am glad I actually have seen someone give Sandler some points. I agree completely that he can be very good when he puts any level of effort into a performance, otherwise he is quite terrible, he ruined himself.
Le Leedler I just don't get it though. Why doesn't he put any effort into his work? He can actually be funny, and I'm sure he can make just as much money actually putting in effort
Le Leedler I appreciate that, good sir.
he's depressed as fuck and he doesn't get good money with anything remotely offensive
Jack and Jill anyone? But, for real, The Wedding Singer has to be up there as one of my favourite comedies of all time (alongside Happy Gilmore).
Nathan Clark I think he only does movies now so he can go on vacation, that’s why a lot of them take place on resorts and shit
I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 25, and I still think it’s funnier than this shit.
Seriously, though, cancer sucks. I went through chemo for four months. I don’t wish that shit on anyone.
Kinda like this movie.
Esuerc
Damn. Wish you all the best, dude.
I know a comment might not mean too much in the grand scheme of things, but good luck!
Tyler Eston I appreciate it UwU support was what really got me through my treatment. Thank you.
Pundit07 ah, it happens. I could have gotten a worse diagnosis than the one I did, and I’m in remission right now. The longer I go without signs of it appearing again, the better my prognosis. I’m hopeful about it. Thank you.
Hopefully you live a long happy life. UwU support from me man
A Million Ways to Die in the West?
I thought you Said: 'A Million Ways to Die in the Weast'
Weast? What kind of compass are you reading lad?
@@dirtydan6717 This one sir 🕘
@@LukeLikesToDraw that’s west, Patrick. You’re fired again.
I'm surprised Seth didn't have Conway Twitty come to fill up the runtime.
Fantastic Mr. Fox was made for the same amount of money as this film. Just let that sink in.
Fantastic me Fox was amazing... I’m confused... what is your point?
Gavin Bonner
The point is that this film has the budget to be as good as fantastic Mr fox
CaptainKster sooooo you’re saying gays can’t have an option on film in America??? Wow... glad I waited for a response, fucking bigot.
Gavin Bonner
Please tell me that was a joke just now.
CaptainKster this movie also brought in almost double the revenue in box office sales though. While your comedic taste may vary between individual preference, this film did better in sales.
So it's pretty much an excuse for McFarlane to hear himself talk, I'm guessing?
I know this is old af but as someone who lives in the desert, on a night with a full moon, it does look like that. It’s very bright and you don’t need a flashlight or anything, and you can see everything. I thought that scene was actually lit pretty well.
*"Dear" Mr. McFarland: You're not Peter Griffin Irl, and trust me, you don't want to.*
Does Seth just like hearing himself talk? Because every character he plays in anything ever just seems to ramble on endlessly at least once
this + ted 2 = no more movies from this guy
ted 2 got me laid tho
how
she felt so sorry that he paid for them to see this shit that she banged him
mlongpre100 yes
Ted 2 was funny af
I feel like this was a denied family guy pitch that he turned into a movie
Considering, how unfunny Family Guy is, I'm pretty sure, they never denied a pitch. No bar seems to be low enough for this shit...
@@mygrandpasayshesd.b.cooper6200 Honestly, I hate that show so much.
I agree with most of your points, but Monty Python and the Holy Grail is more authentic to real life in the Dark Ages than most any other film committed to celluloid, besides the silly visuals & jokes. There really WAS a man with a cart collecting the week's dead. Peasants really DID "farm" mud, etc. All of that stuff was quite authentic. That movie is funny because of the talent--obviously--plus the restrictions on budget, time, etc. They made the film work, regardless of limitations. They flourished in spite of the obstacles, while staying true to their vision. It's absurd, authentic, and hilarious, all at the same time. Seth MacFarlane does not possess that sort of discipline, especially when he's given carte blanche. Plus, Terry Gilliam/Jones are real filmmakers. And while Seth is a multi-threat in the talent department, filmmaking isn't one of them. This movie sucks.
Also helps they are so smart they can identify trees from far away.
"how do you know he's the king?"
"he's the only one around here who isn't covered in shit."
Sums up the whole era!
@@kommissar.murphy how would you know?
It’s funny because the two Terrys absolutely HATED each other and the whole production by the end of it all, but they still managed to make a movie and make it good because that’s what professionals do
No there wasn't. I've seen the movie and while yes it is funny, no it is not authentic. People have a small "epcot" level of understanding the middle age period, which literally lasted for about a thousand years. It's easy to see why, most of us get our medieval knowledge from Arthurian epics or disney movies or other romanticized stories.
Deadcarts existed yes, but that was in times of plague when normal means of burial become strained. No peasants didn't just farm mud, that obviously can't provide for an extended family. They actually had a lot of local diversity in their food, well enough to support their families and the taxes they had to pay. I don't fully remember the movie but I think the armor was done properly for a crusades-era film, plate armor wasn't really a thing until the late middle age period.
This review was funnier than the fuckin' movie. Imagining a script saying "Niel Patrick Harris shit into a hat for 20 minutes" is funnier than seeing it onscreen because it's surprising. Nobody would ever write that with the expectation of making it happen. Seeing the scene happen is somehow predictable.
I won't lie, when Neil Patrick's character started reaching for the hat the second time in the diarrhea scene, and the guy was knocking his hand away, it got a little chuckle out of me. But then the rest of that scene was garbage.
Harrison Scott the hand scene was funny but the rest of it made me wanna vom. Idk I'm just to sensitive to that stuff.
I think the diarrhea sound effect was on a little too long. I also think it would have been funnier if they cut it a short time after the first swat.
I guess you could say that scene was shitty ;)
Hahahahahahahaah funny poopy hahahahahahah
Thomas De Brule "Poop is funny........ WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!"
15:18 "if a comedy is edited WRIGHT and directed WRIGHT..."
Seth's acting reminds me of an inferior Ryan Reynolds. If they'd just made Ryan the main character, this movie would be so much better.
The Doc Brown "Joke" was particularly disappointing because it could had, had a pay off if when the train went by later it was pushing the DeLorean.
"Brad Jones of The Cinema Snob had a great idea that Seth McFarlane should've had the climax of "Back to the Future Part III" with the Delorean on the railroad going on in plain sight in the background during the finale of this movie. Now that would've made Christopher Lloyd's cameo make sense lol."
--Feline Fatale
Holy SHIT the new red dead redemption looks so realistic
Nah fam I think this is a knock off
That’s an insult to red dead redemption
Every cutscene is just him complaining about Dutch for 2 hours
Whens it out
I would fucking killed seth's annoying ass character if I encountered him
Watch
Shaun of the Dead
Shows footage from
The World’s End
Tomball2468 ok I thought I was just crazy, cuz I’ve only seen The End of World once, so I wasn’t sure if I was seeing things.
Whats with that spacing?
TeenAnxt I donno mate
Why does the behind the scenes footage look the exact same as the movie?
To be fair, Sarah Silverman's character in this movie is pretty close to her actual standup.
TheTundraTerror seriously, that woman is the same person movie or not.
I've seen a little bit of her stand-up. She made a lot of jokes about abortion and masturbation. It wasn't funny.
Thank you IHE
Ingrid probably came from IHE's Fred review. Ralph covered the second movie.
Skinny Penis I take a fence to that!!!
That's IHE Jr. to you
Hi guys skinny penis here
Ingrid Hm for a rsAs
This movie left me with an incredibly strange feeling because Liam Neeson and Charlize Theron's characters felt super misplaced in this. Either they're too good at acting or they didn't get the memo that this was supposed to be a comedy. When you actually fear the villain and fear for the victim, and then in the next scene there's a guy getting pissed on by a sheep, or another guy parading his moustache like it's a Ferrari and making every woman wetter than a... well, a guy who's just been pissed on by a sheep, it just feels wrong. The tone of this movie is wrong, the self-casting by McFarlane is wrong, the script is wrong. There's nothing salvageable here.
I dislike Family Guy in general, but it should be more than obvious even for those who enjoy the show - and especially for those who make it - that animation works differently than live action, and it requires a different approach. What makes you chuckle when it's done by an animated character probably won't make you chuckle when it's a real actor doing it. It doesn't translate.
Which is why the live action remakes by Disney suck, btw.
I agree! Those two are too talented for this awful movie. I feel bad that egotistical Seth had to rope them into it, especially Liam Neeson. I adore Liam Neeson.
The Chris Farley bit gets me every time
Seth in the editing room:
Editor: "Hey Seth, this scene here, of Neil Patrick Harris' character taking a long diarrhea shit in front of the whole village, you sure you want it to be that long?"
Seth: "Oh yeah, it's going to be hilarious."
Editor: "Okay, but it's like, an entire 60 seconds of just that, without anybody saying a single word, and silently staring at him dealing with his explosive bowels, are you sure?"
Seth: "Oh yeah, it's going to be hilarious."
Editor: "But, I mean, it just gets a little tiresome, and after a while you just feel bad for the guy, even if he is a prick."
Seth: "Oh yeah, it's going to be hilarious."
Editor: "Maybe if we just make the scene 5-10 seconds, instead of a minute, you let the audience know what's going on, without making them feel uncomf-"
Seth: "I SAID IT'S GOING TO BE HILARIOUS YOU BASTARD!"
Editor: "GOD DAMNIT SETH I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU IT'S NOT FUNNY IT'S JUST FUCKING AWKWARD AND ANNOYING YOU ASSHOLE!"
Seth: "I MADE FAMILY GUY AND TED I'M FUNNY!"
Editor: "FUCK THIS DO YOUR OWN EDITING!"
A better joke than anything in the movie.
This is most likely what actually happened
So, is this main character like the Brian Griffin/Gary Sue of the movie?
hunterkiller1440 Pretty much. A hateful self entitled pick that pulls off a bootleg impersonation of Jerry Seinfeld with a handful of "clever rants".
fhytrthgdh Brian is the fucking worst.... I feel like Seth is just an irl Brian....
Brian is the voice of reason and a cool talking dog, not a Gary Stu. This guy, the main character in "A Million Ways to Die in the West", he's a Gary Stu, and a hateful prick.
*****
Ever since season 2, not anymore.
He is no "Gary Sue". He´s to incompetent.
I remember watching this movie in the theater and being thoroughly entertained.
I was also stoned out of my mind
I think Sarah Silverman is better in more family movies than adult stuff. When she's in something like this, she's usually an annoying female stereotype. But when she's in something like Wreck It Ralph, she actually has a personality.
The reason scenes go on and on is because it works in family guy. Somehow that works in that show, but in this movie it was fucking terrible.
***** Oh come on, the thing where Peter tries to pick up the frog with the box. I really liked that one. There were other, worse, gags but I thought they were fine.
Nah man, some stuff in Family Guy overstay their welcome. There was a video of some guy singing (not animation, a real life singer) and they showed all of it, there's also a Mickie Jager clip they said was the gayest thing ever, and they showed the WHOLE fucking thing. American Dad does a much better show, they don't treat their audience like retards who can't look up what reference they are doing on Google.
Using anti humor over and over again works in Family Guy? Well that is news to me. XD
it doesn't even work there they stay on scenes from 30 seconds to a minute and it's uncomfortable
80% of the time it doesn't work in Family Guy either. The scenes just don't. Fucking. Stop.
i'll give MacFarlane this, he works hard as fuck. Products usually shit, but the work ethic is there
Sometimes working hard is simply not enough. His costar on this movie said in an interview that Seth is at his very best in this movie, and I can't shake the feeling that she was stealth insulting him by implying "this is the best he can do, this shit on the screen will NEVER improve beyond diarrhea jokes."
It's kind of faint praise, though, when you think about it. Also, he keeps stealing other people's ideas, which is the ultimate lack of effort imho.
Anytime Seth dose non family guy stuff it just ends up being family guy.
I saw this in a cinema and i haven't recovered since
Thank you for showing that entire Tommy Boy clip. One of the finest comedies of all time.
"haha"
"swearing is funny guys"
"laugh"
That long uninterrupted scene from the film was HORRENDOUS to watch!!
So I did background in this and was on set for maybe a month. First off, it's really sad to put that much time and that many early mornings and late nights into a film and for it to be so unentertaining. What's weird is from the set it felt like we were making a really funny movie. There were many times that I'd be watching a scene get rehearsed or even when we were filming and I'd think "oh this is gonna be fun to watch later". And in nearly every instance I was wrong. I remember on one of my last days there was the scene where Seth realizes he doesn't want to be with Amanda anymore and he makes some joke about her having a hairy pussy and then he comes back to explain it and one guy in the crowd yells "I GOT IT!" and on the day it was so fuckin funny. Everyone was busting up laughing on nearly every take.The way he timed it was perfect, but for whatever reason in the final movie it just falls kinda flat.
I'd also like to add that while Seth did write, direct, and star in this that doesn't mean he had complete control. You'll notice that there are a number of scenes that have a ton of background characters. Well that costs a lot of money. You gotta pay all those people for 8 hours minimum, you have to feed them, you have to pay the PAs to wrangle them around, you gotta pay the transpo guys to drive them around, it adds up. There were many days that Seth would be running around stressed and I'd overheard conversations between the AD and various PAs about how the studio was yelling at him about wasting so much money and that they wanted the number of background reduced significantly. And they did. They cut the number of background actors dramatically and they also started giving us shittier food. At the beginning of filming we'd get to eat with the crew, and it was so good. I mean you'd be looking forward to it all day. But then a couple of weeks in we were getting essentially bad cafeteria food. Then there were some days they'd only have maybe 10 or 12 of us there and we'd get to eat with the crew again so that was always a nice treat.
Anyways, I'd imagine that there are a lot of changes, cuts, and edits that happened because the studio wanted them and it was out of Seth's hands. Also, towards the end of filming they ran into some shit weather and the set got flooded for a number of days and that also pushed them way over schedule/budget and could be the reason for other things being cut or altered.
Oh and one reason there were so many little cameos was that there are a lot of things that get filmed in New Mexico and some of those people were in town filming other projects (Ewan McGregor was filming Jane Got a Gun for example) and so they were able to come be on set for a day but couldn't do more than that. So it wasn't like he was pulling in tons of favors just to have someone be in a 30 second scene, it was more like "Hey wanna come hang out for a day?" and they'd put them in.
Lastly I'll just say everyone who worked on this was really awesome and a lot of people put their blood sweat and tears into it. Sarah Silverman is really nice and she was so funny between takes and brought so much energy to everything she did. Seth never stopped moving and busted his ass on everything. NPH was cool to talk to and I got to see his butt when he shit into that hat. It's just one of those cases where everyone did everything they could to make a good movie and it just didn't quite meld the right way. I hope some people like it, I wish I liked it more. I've never been able to sit through the whole thing. I just scrub through to see the scenes I'm in lol.
This is a really cool insight on how the movie was made and how Seth operates. I don’t like all his jokes but when a joke lands it busts my guts.
I’m surprised he can find the time to do everything he can even now between running 3 shows and whatever else he’s doing. You really gotta admire someone who works that hard
@@santiagorosas3543 Absolutely, you gotta respect the hustle. And I think it's okay for things to fail sometimes or just not find a wide audience. You gotta do things that are interesting to you, y'know?
I am one of the weird ones on this comment section. i actually liked the film and had a good few laughs. I sometimes get this feeling that people pull a film to bits and others just join in because it is the popular opinion. I am lucky though and can just switch off for films like this and enjoy it for what it is.
As someone who spent seven months straight in the desert, you absolutely can see by the light of the stars and moon. People did that shit for centuries.
CallMeCactusSok even if that is true, the way that the night scenes are filmed in this are awful
@@nyancatismyonlyfrand " _even_ if that is true". The fact that it's being questioned is depressing. Light pollution is awful.
i wasn't saying that its a false statement,but i can see that it comes off that way, sorry :/
@@nyancatismyonlyfrand Don't apologise, that's my bad. I was interpreting the "even" differently :P
@@voodoodolll Light pollution is the absolute worst.
Never seen this movie...and now I'm glad I haven't.
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Neither have I. I skipped this film because it has his name written all over it.
Why, because of one assholes opinion?...
Ralph saying something "stinks" rather than something "sucks" always brightens up my day
An interesting side by side analysis would be this film vs. BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, the same sort of genre hybrid but where the jokes actually land and the narrative actually works
God if I made a film I would 100% hide behind a company, fuck fucking up and getting roasted by youtube reviewers, my worst nightmare
ismellrudolph Then you should never make a film
ismellrudolph yeah....just don't make a film. if you can't open yourself up to critism from regular people all over the internet, then its not really meant for you, it seems.
... guys i think this was sarcasm
mason last name Nothing about it suggests sarcasm
There's a standard pseudonym in Hollywood that many directors have used when they don't want to be associated with a particular work:
www.imdb.com/name/nm0000647/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
They've used it for decades to distance themselves from a movie when it, ahem, doesn't turn out the way they envisioned it. It's mostly a running joke in Hollywood at this point.
This review pinpoints all the things I hate about Seth MacFarlane and his work. Thank you.
Seth Macfarlane is one of those rare instances where he works best with people around him controlling what he's doing. I know this because before he made family guy, he wrote Johnny Bravo. As long as he has someone telling him what's wrong or giving certain limitations, he can do amazing stuff. That's also why Family Guy turned from decent to complete shit, because seasons one and two had set rules of what Seth can and can't do on his show.
26:00 the joke genuinely made me laugh because of how unpredictable it was
7:54 I *just realized that Adam Sandler continues to rip his own heart and soul out over Linda as Ralph dissects*
if you like feeling depressed take a look at Christopher Lloyd's filmography
I laughed... and then I got sad.
Oogieloves anyone?
Survival of the fittest Leonaaaaard
Sarah A Baby Geniuses.
David Cross' filmography makes me sad too.
So Seth is literally Brian griffin?
Drew Thompson yes
peter, stan, roger, and few others
The worst character on the show
He's even said at one point that Brian is pretty much a self-insert and that's the reason he doesn't change his voice for him.
LMAO the shots of Simon Pegg dramatically doing paperwork are so good, I should watch that flick
5:20 Tommy Boy was one of he few movies I had on VHS as a kid so I memorized it almost line for line. This scene...... Kills me every time even still. Really wish he realized he didn't need cocaine, I'd kill to see what Chris Farley would've done if he were still alive today.
Seth should've leaned towards the Mel Brooks style of filmmaking and have some meta-humor thrown in here or there. Like that nighttime desert scene that pissed Ralph off so much; just end the scene with the two of them getting up, Seth turns toward the camera and says "C'mon guys." Then the camera shifts to see the crew turn off a dozen lights and packing everything up before following Seth down the hill. It would be funny!
That wouldn't be funny it would be cunty
@@jamesbaker9106 oh
Not gonna lie imagining that made me chuckle a bit
The Cornetto trilogy is probably one of my favorite movie series of all time. Each one has so much care put into it and to top it off they're funny as hell without resorting to using cheap bullshit.
and the best part about them, is there's both British humor and humor everyone else can appreciate and get who aren't familiar with British humor.
Fuck yesss, I love those guys
Word. Those movies are what MacFarlane tries to do: funny homages to things he loves. But Edgar Wright actually made homages, whilst MacFarlane just steals stuff.
I think I watched a pirated copy of this movie years ago and still want a refund for the lost time.
Ok, it's kind of funny when he starts reaching for the guy's hat after filling the first one and he just gently smacks his hand away a few times. kind of.