Netflix's CHOOSE OR DIE was a Quibi Reject | Explained
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So i liked this movie for being a fun ride
Same
Yes. Exactly
Same. I actually just saw it a few days ago. Like, was it groundbreaking and memorable above all others? No. But do I regret seeing it? Also no.
me too I thought the style was cool and it was fun to watch
It was a fun movie. Nothing really new or ground breaking but the story was engaging. I liked the performance of all the actors and was satisfied with the ending. Probably a 6-7/10 of a movie.
see, i think this might have actually made a better quibi. if it was mini encounters with the game rather than a full arc with one cast. you never take it far enough to hit the obvious flaws and plot holes. there could be small details about the curse revealed in each video. ignoring the fact that quibi was never gonna work.
Yeah I agree that it could have been SUPER fun with the Quibi schtick
That could work on CZcams
It should have been an anime
I was sort of hoping they'd do this movie in a bandersnatch sort of way and let the audience choose the path. Like... I think all of the issues would have been fixed if it were interactive and and a choose-your-own-adventure format. What a missed opportunity! It was the perfect format to do so!
Bandersnatch was so cool seeing the other characters in different positions making you wonder what the feck their meaning
the scene on the Balcony for example dam
That would have ruled. But that's also a game for sociopaths, you might feel guilt even if you know it's a fictional person. Most people don't enjoy torturing others.
@@WillowJordan1979 How many people did the genocide run of Undertale? In The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt you can choose multiple ways to kill someone. My kids did ALL of them to see what would happen. The movie called out my little sociopaths. Regular people have been known to be willing to torture others up to (what they believe to be) death, under orders. That's one they thought was real, not entertainment. It was an experiment they did to prove there was something wrong with Germans under Hitler. Turned out, nope. Just humans being human.
Oh, I thought that's what it was going to be
@@WillowJordan1979 Theirs a indie game were you are the man behind the curtain deciding who dies well your judged
“but who knows if they’re gonna get greenlit for it…”
it’s netflix. they’re making 6 after movies. have made 2 365 days and 2 tall girls. they’ll green light anything if people talk about it enough.
And then cancel it after it airs
Netflix: “why aren’t we making money?”
Assistant: “you sure you want to cancel most of our animation projects, except Big Mouth”
Netflix: “yes”
Except if you asking to do an animation movie.
Netflix loooves to cancel series that did well, but god forbid a movie does poorly or is just shitty because you can guarantee they're making more of it (see all of the ones you mentioned + kissing booth, to all the boys, and many more)
6 AFTER MOVIES?! Oh nooo... Poor Amanda, I feel this is torture at this point
You know Netflix is desperate for content when they take Quibi rejects.
No, you're grasping at straws to talk shyt. Netflix also bought the show "YOU" despite the show getting rejected from studios. Is that desperate? If it sounds like a good premise then why not? You don't want to waste the time of everyone who worked on the movie
@@moxiemaxie3543 lol relax do you have stock in Netflix or something?
And yet they didn't renew Julie and the Phantoms for a second season. I have no sympathy for them.
only thing good i can say abt Netflix is them releasing heartstopper..
Squid games was also rejected.....
With this specific show, it feels like it would’ve been better to have mini episodes focusing on a different person going through only one level of the game each; letting us see how different people react differently or the same to this game, despite how different they all appear on the surface.
And with that, you can slowly build up the rules of your game across the entire season and the bigger mystery.
Episode 1's Protagonist has already started at Level 5 before we arrived to the story, so we're just plopped right in the horror show, having no idea what's happening or who this person is. Just the gruesome horror of it all.
Episode 2's Protagonist, we see is paranoid and clearly avoiding something. We come to see they've gotten rid of all their electronics and have isolated themselves, but going even further, they've gotten rid of anything that could become a "screen," like windows or mirrors.
At the end, much to their horror, they see the game insists upon being played no matter what. The game won't be ignored and since the Protagonist got rid of all its potential "screens," it starts to carve the words through their own skin - “Level 4. Start.”
Episode 3's Protagonist, isn't one of the players, but one of the people being controlled by the game or player. Maybe it's the diner waitress, and we see her interacting with different people who are all on their phones or laptops, and then something strange begins to happen.
Perhaps we see she fully thinks eating glass is her own choice, we even hear her say "I'm starving," before she starts gobbling down the glass much to our and the diner's patrons’ horror. Or going in another way, some unknown force controls her and she's struggling to fight against it, but can't stop herself.
People start to call for help, she collapses and we hear the diner door open (the bell) and quickly shut, as an unknown person rushes to leave the scene with their laptop.
In the dead eyes of the waitress, we see the words -- "Level 3 Completed. Thanks for playing."
Episode 4's Protagonist is eager to play. They are having fun doing this to other people. They are enjoying tormenting the people in their lives. This is a sick twisted game and they are loving every second they are having with it and controlling their "loved ones."
I think it could work well if this protagonist was a teenager or a kid. And we see that the people they are controlling are their parents who are terrified of what's going to happen as they've already been injured from the previous level. The game prompts a choice and the kid tells them what it says.
Perhaps at the start the parents were a united front. Willing to take the injury for the other, but as the level gets more and more intense, we see them turn on one another. Begging their kid to spare them and to just hurt the other, as they reveal more and more horrific things about one another to the kid, to get them to hurt the other parent.
Really showing how twisted this family and these parents were before the game enter the kid's life.
At the end of the level, the kid proclaims that Level 1 was so much more fun than this level and walks off to get a snack, leaving one of the parents to clean up the body of their spouse.
Episode 5's Protagonist, we see starts out without the game and we see how they come across it, how the game established itself and its rules, and how it kind of lures the player into playing the game, based on how they react to it's prompts.
Perhaps it starts out harmless enough, bending reality, as this person is more of the cautious sort or just not a psychopath.
"Get another drink? Yes, or No?"
They select yes and one appears right before them, you know that kind of thing.
As they continue with level 1, the game starts being like the game we know it actually is and things get worse for this episode's Protagonist. After the harrowing experience of level 1 - the game informs the person that they won level 1.
It also tells them what the consequences will be if they stop playing or try not to play, or cheat. As well as the potential reward for winning all the levels.
Perhaps at the end of this episode or throughout all of them, we see that they all have a connection to the company named Kismet.
Laying out the bigger mystery of this story and making us wonder if these people were in fact just randomly chosen by this supernatural force, or instead another person chose them specifically for whatever reason, to test them or just sees what happens.
your version sounds so much better 👌
Agreed
(Side note, Fringe did an episode 4 and it was pretty awesome.)
@@flusendieb6833 thanks!
Eyy this was a pretty fun read. Wish this actually happened instead of what we got lol
Your version is so much better damn. I’d watch this.
I get that I'm overthinking the premise,but "torture choice" stories don't work for me. Why would you trust Torture Guy,when he's Torture Guy? One might figure he has issues. He seems unreliable. Why would you have any plan but fight or outfox Torture Guy? The other options are so horrible as to not be worth considering. Dying in defiance is kinda heroic. It's better then being torn up forever. I get that the overall artistic point is that people will supposedly do anything to survive. But I smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. I want one of these where the target just lights a smoke,"We all gotta die,crazy guy".
Cabin in the Woods is what you want, so long as you can separate the art from the artist.
My thing about this film that's also insane to me, is the fact that she decided that only "people who deserve it" will be cursed by the game, but this whole movie literally shows that the game murders innocent people (including strangers and children) around you each level you pass... So she's convincing herself she's doing good by cursing bad people, but the bad people and their adult cohorts aren't the only possible victims here - quite the opposite.
@@Emma-zc5jm So true! It's also hard for me to buy a Vengeance Killer concept when the targets are such basics. You haven't lived in the world very much if a fractured divorce brink family is the worst you can find. Plus,people vote for Ted Cruz instead of becoming vengeful assassins. Maybe if the script was written to establish that these targets are just the ones within the range of our killer.
exactly! As soon as a guy proves he's willing to kidnap and torture people, why is ANYTHING he says after that considered an option or even something true?
@@-_-0.0-_- Totes! Who waits for the and...?
YEP Elvis got his out first that bastard I'm sure it's great go watch it too. Yes Doctor Strange video is coming.
I love how curs>r is spelled with a greater than symbol showing how the game is more powerful than reality
That's a command prompt line
@@swiftfated double meanings. its a command prompt line for it being an old school analog game and a greater than symbol for OP's point (tho i think the latter was probably serendipitous)
The most unrealistic thing about horror movies now, is them fighting so hard to survive. In this economy? Like why?
And then the wolves came
The part that really got to me in this movie is the characters just like...accepting stuff and being chill. Like the two protagonists just talking and eating noodles knowing that in a few minutes a game that had LITERALLY KILLED SOMEONE BEFORE will booth up. There are not enough freak outs in this movie, feels fake.
To be fair I perceived Isaac to be the one that was truly calm in that scene - because he hadn’t seen the game at work personally (and he seems kind of like he doesn’t care much about stuff anyway just with how his living situation and relationship with Kayla is).
Kayla on the other hand just had her mom end up in hospital and seemed to be emotionally exhausted. Yeah it was weird that they both kinda forgot what was coming still and were able to laugh but also they live in a capitalist hellscape and Kayla not only had to deal with her bro dying young, but also has been supporting her mom through her substance abuse and grieving while working. It’s weird but not entirely out of nowhere I guess? The trauma of the game almost feels like another crappy complicating factor when they already live in a world where everything is owned by one company, everyone is in precarious employment, everything is filthy or shut down or falling apart aside from the new corporate buildings, landlords are taking advantage of everyone, etc.
Basically they already had a base level of trauma and suffering (including what the landlord was trying to do the Kayla and her mom) and Kayla was probably used to having to be strong and just deal with all that.
Very much so! The smokey pool scene should have been really hard to watch, but it had no emotional weight whatsoever
This is one of the rare times I've actually watched something Amanda is talking about. Idk if I should be happy about that
Watch Last Night in Soho instead, her video is great and the movie is pretty good
Eh, I watched the twin towers of the world trade center go down live on TV. So take this as you may.
what do you even watch then
Frankly, the prize money in this flick should have been adjusted for inflation.
The first scene didn't make any sense, because it says her ears/his tongue, choose or die. He doesn't choose, but he also doesn't die, because the game chooses "his tongue" for him. So it takes like 5 minutes before the movie breaks its own rules.
I totally understand how you missed it, but he does choose. After the screeching sound that is killing him stops, you can hear him typing on the keyboard. The subtitles help make it more obvious. I really liked the brief moment of knowing he chose, but not who he chose
@@dereklewis8914 Oh, I see. I guess I missed that. Honestly the choice is horrible, who wouldn't pick ears in that moment? Does he hate his son?
@Willow Jordan sound splitting his head. Stress and panic, probably not thinking clearly. Besides, that suggests its better for his wife to suffer instead.
@@jonathangoodwin5609 We don't know what the game would do to her ears, but you can live a relatively normal life if you're deaf. Without your tongue, it will be hard to eat and you won't be able to talk. It's worse suffering.
@@WillowJordan1979 His Son and wife have no problem raggin on him, so it wouldn't surprise me, given the family is quite dysfunctional
I liked this movie, honestly. I thought it was a fun throwback to 80's cheese with some really good sequences. The part when she thinks she's controlling her mother to save her only to realize she's controlling the rat and trying to kill her mother is great. The simple visuals of the game plus the mother's terrified screams are brutal. It's no masterpiece but it's not trying to be. It's a cheesy, fun romp and I had a good time with it.
Yeah I found this really fun too
same!! tbh i thought she was supposed to control the rat from the beginning so it wasn't a plot twist for me (not bc im smart etc, i just didn't understand the trick haha) and i think that the plot could have been better (Isaac dying was just like... meh for me. they didn't make me like him enough to care) and the stakes were a bit too low at times, aaand the whole Lance thing felt a little bit on the nose BUT there were so many fun ideas in the movie!! each "game" was fun to watch, the rat thing was reallyyy creepy and the heavy electronic music with the game's voice on top of it was... chef's kiss! the car driving animation was quite charming as well, the scene when Isaac threw up tape made me laugh but it was original as well! i feel like many movies are afraid to look a bit stupid nowadays. it was refreshing to see something a little stupid like that. the reverse fighting scene in the end?? such an interesting premise!! the magazine mouth and eyes were quite scary as well, and the guy feeling so offended about her saying "fuck the 80s"... funny!! i feel like these fun scenes and original ideas made up for all of the plot holes and the general... not-greatness of the script. and i'm really picky when it comes to bad plot, i usually don't let things slide, but this one, i enjoyed!
haha sorry for writing such a long comment, I'm just glad somebody else liked it :D the rating on all of the movie-rating websites are too low in my opinion
I think this movie had a honestly great start. It's been a while since I actually got tense watching a horror movie, not knowing how the game was gonna screw with the characters next was great.
But then, just like most horror movies, it completely screwed itself over by trying to be some kind of weird epic "deep" conspiracy thing and ruining the mystery and tension.
I like a lot of overdone and far from great horror stuff, but this kind of cheesiness is a bit too much to actually be fun for me. I get why others might like it, tho.
I guess the beginning gave me some hope for it to not be terrible too, so the slightly higher than usual expectations might have been what ruined it for me too. Maybe if the whole thing was crap I might have been more lenient on the bad parts like usual.
I laughed when you said 'with kid's gloves' instead of 'with kid gloves'. Just picturing someone trying to gently handle the characters while wearing those mittens made for babies.
I feel like they could have had a scene of the beginning of both of them playing the game where it asks what they each want. For him it could be like "for them to pay attention", then you see him backspace 9 times hit enter. For her maybe we don't see until the end. But the idea that this cursed game might give you a wish rather than just a lump sum of money probably would have helped give the characters motivation and inform what choices they were given.
I actually really liked the fuck the eighties moment because I swear I have almost given my uncle an aneurysm for saying I don't care about the 80s just because he had a good time in them.
I don't get this 80s or 90s trip many young adults have. Like, times were objectively worse in almost every aspect ranging from society to technology or medicine.
@@Mediados It was "better" in some ways, life was a bit easier. I did not live in the 80s, but from what I've been told by family, it was full of opportunities, which I am quite jealous about. For example, the ability to buy a house, a car and support your family of 4 with 1 salary. And crazy things like dropping out of school before high school and getting offered a job at a bank. That will never happen in today's society where every job requires at least a bachelor's. It was a more chill life in that regard.
@@TheChibiAerith I suppose that is true, but I'd say it depends on what you expect from life. Personally I don't want a chill life, I have a lot of ambition and I don't mind a challenge, but it's easy for me to say because I'm priviliged so I guess my opinion in that case is too subjective.
@@Mediados a challenge? I think “privileged” is an understatement. It feels more like drowning over here in the real world.
@@Catglittercrafts I tried saying this the nicest way possible, don't get offended so easily man. There are people who have more opportunities and don't need to worry about money too much, that doesn't mean people who don't have financial problems automatically are rich 1%ers. You're saying this with "real world" like we were not aware of anything. Hopefully one day we can have a world in which everyone can follow their dreams.
It felt like an oddly paced Goosebumps thing to me too. I like the premise but feel the way they went about it was a bit off.
Especially the tape kill or the one with the rat sound perfect for Goosebumps
A cool rule for the curse if it really is someone coming up with the choices would be that you cant make someone choose between options you already gave them. Like, for example, if you want someone to do x and you make the choices "do x or cut off your hand" and they choose to cut off their hand, you cant just keep spamming "do x or suffer" until they do it.
I don't think it being her apartment and her place of work was meant to imply puppetry - I think it was meant to imply this guy had been benefitting from suffering for so long he was essentially a mega landlord; representing a system of exploiting suffering so big you couldn't escape, just like in real life! :D I actually liked it, but agree that the stakes where all wrong and inconsistent.
The girl that had to literally eat broken glass really made me flinch. Incredibly brutal given that she was aware while doing it but couldn't control it.
I feel like, instead of a horror movie, it was an antihero origin story. She takes the name, Kismet lol. The Hacker Vigilante
Nothing against Choose or Die, but if it gets greenlit for a sequel when Archive 81 was canceled even though season 1 was doing quite well... I don't know what Netflix thinks its doing.
But the concept sounds really interesting. I think they should've leaned a bit more into the moral implications of the game. Feels like that's what they were going for, but it got convoluted and confusing?
Wait a MINUTE archive 81 was canceled?!?!?!
The way Netflix picks and chooses what gets cancelled and what gets green-lit for more seasons is just... wild.
Movies (well, movies like Choose or Die) are cheaper than series for Netflix. And honestly after that ending there was nowhere for Archive 81 to go but down, it's not like they had any source material to work with given the changes they'd made.
I'm still not okay with the cancelation of 'I Am Not Okay With This'
@@savannahrains8187 Sadly, it was. The podcast creators announced it on Twitter some weeks ago. Which makes zero sense to me since it got to Top 1, but what would I know.
Also not related to the plot- but why did they have to set it in USA when everyone was friggin British 😭
The accents were ever so slightly off and the locations looked so British Grey
Yeah I've seen a lot of people say that the setting reminded them of Britain and based on the one time I was there I'd have to agree
I've watched both reviews, by Amanda and Elvis, and I would say I am happy the movie exists. I really wish we had gotten the Quibi version, though.
So happy to see the thumb healing sorry from a trauma nurse currently in bed after a chemo treatment x💛
That final fight where they beat each other up by beating up themselves could be a fantastic comedy scene
If you want a better take on this concept, go play "The House Abandon" from the episodic horror game "Stories Untold".
Both underrated games, a true VHS home touch.
Thanks for reminding me of that!
How do I save someone's comment for later?
@@RedSpade37 Screenshot
@@DeathnoteBB Well, thank you! I... should have thought of that, haha.
I guess they used Kismet because it's actively controlling or changing fate? idk I'm trying to make it make sense. It really just seems to me like someone didn't want to have the name of the company just be Fate or Destiny and so they checked out what it was called in other cultures lmao.
Well my user name is what it is because Senritsu Sounds more interesting then just Melody
and it implies things what is the melody of a insane person hmmm
Just a thought I had; In the Punjabi language (and probably many others), Kismet (Kismat or Qismat) is a word that means fate. And if in this movie, the player decides people's worst fates, I feel like there has to be some correlation between the name of the company and the intended theme of the movie.
Wait, Kismet is Punjabi? I was always told it was Egyptian. The more you know, haha
@@RedSpade37 I think it's for multiple languages! I've heard it used in Punjabi more often, but I do not believe that Egyptian is wrong either!
Choose or die is so horrible and funny and I fucking adore how hammy it can be lmao
the tape scene is still super freaky and the comedy of it just makes me interasted in what else can happen with the wackjob in the TV
Is it even possible to be rejected by Quibi?
Was this actually rejected by quibi though I can't find anything about that and she.. doesn't mention that in the video, unless I missed something?
I figured it was just picked up after the quibi crash and burn
Well Robert Englund did a cameo. 80s nostalgia. Which this movie seems to be a love letter too.
I saw him in “Urban Legend” before I ever heard of “Nightmare on Elm Street”
Finally someone else expressed my issues with big bang theory. Great video! You had me at "I am people." Xx
I like that you pointed out there is a difference between intentionally leaving something open-ended and presenting then dropping plot points. When you're doing a mystery, you never want the audience to feel like they didn't have all the pieces to make the puzzle, or like there are pieces that don't fit but were presented as part of the picture, at the end - you want all the pieces to come together to make a picture. Now, you can have that picture be blank (an intentionally open-ended question) or unclear, but the pieces you put in place need to come together...so you can have a mystery that comes together to tell you who the murderer is and have it be a question mark, but you can't have a candlestick presented as a major piece of evidence to figure out who the murder is and then just not use that, or say "ah yes Miss Violet did it with the candlestick" when you never presented a candlestick.
My fav line: "when I start looking into all these little threads, they FRAY" Beautiful!!
Now I want to know what happens if you choose something other than the two options.
You did choose, so it shouldn't kill you. But could the game adapt to weird answers, like "kumquat", or things that are abstract concepts, like "love"
I watched about 20 minutes of it a week ago. From what I remember, you could only pick one of two options. It was strictly a text based game. You couldn't "talk" to it. You had the two options on the screen, and if you didn't choose one, you'd die.
@@MargaritaOnTheRox They appeared to be typing in the answers in most of the early scenarios. That gave them the opportunity to "choose" options they weren't offered.
Maybe it would kill them, but it seems odd it never occurred to anyone to try and see if maybe it would break the program.
It probably wouldn't acknowledge any other answer.
The game doesn’t play fair, so it’d probably just kill u anyway. Or torture you until u make a valid choice
Well... if we talk about piercing ears then she probably won't hear anymore. Cutting off? That's not "probably". We don't really need auricle to hear, we just hear better with it. But tongue makes you completely unable to speak and very hard to eat
Even that would depend on him surviving the blood loss and/or drowning in his own blood. Between maiming with a possibility of hearing loss and near certain death it really is a non choice.
@@SakuraKurosaki10 yes. There is big chance for bleedout or just choking on own blood. Not too encourage anybody but auricle just helps to gather sounds and, as far as I know, localize source. You hear with inner ear. And even if it's about piercing membrane, if other parts won't be damaged it's literally only membrane in the body that can regrow. I know one case of it happening after prank destroyed both of them.
There's a lot of great commentary on this movie, but it just feels like it's not quite there yet which is frustrating. Like the whole "fuck the 80s" thing could definently be tied to our want of nostalgia but not thinking about how actually the 80s was terrible for social progress and change. Like, I love the 50s, I think the aesthetic and music is cool as. But the politics can definently stay there, because holy shit.
The fifties were alot more progressive than they are given credit for - brown v. Board, the early civil rights movement. You would be surprized if you look at some of the messages coming out of the media at the time. There is a Superman poster from 1950 telling kids that intolerance is unamerican.
Yeah, the esthetics can be brought forward while leaving behind the, ya know, racism/sexism/gentrification and whatnot
The rat scene was the only scary one. Also, I kinda liked that you never really saw the pov in the apartment, only the 8-bit screen
Fun fact: The audio program shown when extracting the game audio is from Izotope. Why is this funny? The tool they're using is primarily an equalizer, which is not what you would use to find hidden data in an audio sample. BUT Izotope does have a product called RX9 which has a built in sonic visualizer and is specifically used for repairing old and broken audio. In short; they're using the wrong tool.
good observation
The Marked Heart is a thing I need to hear Amanda rant about.
Amanda, I have to give you props for being one of the few people I've ever seen to use the term "sociopath" correctly - it is indeed an inability to feel things based on other people, so for example empathy and shame are impossible for a clinical sociopath. Well done! Most people tend to use it to mean "person with violent tendencies", which many sociopaths are not, so just, thank you for using the word correctly, major respect.
You know that Kismet is also a chocolate bar? Delicious. Why they put it in the movie and made it so spooky...? I'm just getting hungry.
Imagine if they used a Kitkat as a spooky company name.
I really enjoyed this movie. It wasn’t life changing. But I’d really like to live in a world where not every movie HAS to be.
Felt like more could've been done with the concept of the movie 😢 Also, hope your thumb heals with no problems
I tried reading Give yourself Goosebumps its an choose your own adventure book. I was so confused 😕
I loved those as a kid!
It started our interesting and would've been a great part of an anthology movie, but it being originally for Quibi makes more sense.
Amanda the Jedi: Watching bad media so you dont have to!
At first, I thought it would be like Bandersnatch.....after an hour, I look it up and then promptly close it.
This was a super fun low budget horror movie that felt like it still had solid production values and creativity.
Wow ..I literally JUST saw you on Camp Counselors...and this the first video I've ever seen from you. I was NOT disappointed! 👏👏👏 You're animated and enthusiastic. Love it🥰🥰
20:35 "for some reason." You know, considering everything else it can do, I don't think its that hard to figure that the game positioned the needles like that.
Not how I was rewatching your old videos all over again and you bless me with a new one once I was done :P
This movie really reminded me of a gothic short story we read in school which basically had the same premise of a choice video game but the choice you made would end up killing someone you care about the following day
The deadbeat 80's dad she was played by Eddie Marsan?? He's a really good, award winning British actor, what on earth is he doing here
Always fun to watch Amanda break down movies that I'm not guaranteed to have heard of before she posts the video. Also, tbh, I'm more than happy to rely solely on her videos about horrible, terrible, "I could create a better story than that"/"please God make it stop" movies. Better she have content to share than have me watch & suffer for no reason!
💜 you!!! And totallly got vibes between her and the waitress.
It reminded me of Ready Player One's 90's obsession, and shouldn't the final boss have been the guy on the phone at the end WITH THE ACTUAL MONEY??? Agreed, too many unconnected pieces and I was irritated.
(if you're going to give Robert Englund screen credits with no scenes, just get someone different instead--DON'T WASTE ROBERT ENGLUND!)
P.S. You're all googley-eyed. 😋
Yeah, if after the intro we never met 80s guy again, or if 80s guy and guy from the 80s were somehow the same guy it would have had more pathos - maybe he was the one behind the camera or something idk.
That’s what I said! They dangle supervillain Steve Jobs in front of us in an evil computer game movie and then choose to make the final boss fight some dude
I thought it´s implied 80`s guy is dead with how the finale played out, killing the beneficiary
I thought the film was very underwhelming but the rat scene was really cool and well-executed.
Something that scares the fuck out of me is when games can interact or KNOW they are games. I do not like it. I played Undertale a certain way when I was in high school and then didn’t sleep well the next night. This movie was great for me.
"A certain way" Do you mean it responded to your choices, like with Toriel in the beginning, or do you mean you chose the... not nice route and the game reacted?
@@RedSpade37 So when I replayed it and some of the characters (Flowey and Sans) were like “WE KNOW THIS IS A GAME, AND YOU ARE PLAYING IT”. That’s what scares me. (Also the choices thing- I’m not too crazy about it.) Like playing Doki Doki Literature Club?? The most horrifying experience I’ve ever had personally. I recommend it to everyone I meet.
@@happy80thgertrude25 Glad you brought up DDLC! I was actually glad it was a 4th Wall Breaker, because, for some reason, I thought it was going to be more messed up, like in a mundane way, like that one of the characters was going to turn out to be a serial killer or something. (Or worse)
Still, though, it was very "in your face" about its meta-ness, which you didn't really see much of until it came out, and I certainly appreciated it. Plus, I was like, "What the hell is going to happen next!?"
I still need to play DDLC Plus, also.
@@happy80thgertrude25 Also, I wanted to ask: Have you played IMSCARED or Irisu Syndrome? You may or may not enjoy them.
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That shirt,,,is absolutely amazing. In love with everything everywhere all at once!
I feel like the concept can be really developed into something interesting and more logical, but only if it was something more... longer than a movie. Like, developing a lore
I'm glad you explained the title joke because no, no I did not initially get it
GIRL, sign me up for Shudder. I've needed it in my life
I guess the 80's in the US was fun, whereas in my country there was a terrible coup that resulted in more racial tension than before with food running low and being forced to grow your own cassava and being afraid to go outside because your neighbor of the other race who was your friend might hurt you
Hard times man
It's like someone tried to make ChipTime! a full movie but only based on like... someone's 3rd hand account of it. Not even the NightMind video.
"Peter Parker's life without spider-powers."
Nah, that honestly just looks like Peter Parker's life.
Everyone: oh my god! Freddy Kruger!
Me: “Willie!”
Amazing video Amanda!!! Can you make a video about The Batman as well???
Anyone else notice the Command Prompt in the Kismet logo?
I got a "13th Floor" vibe, that their whole world is in a computer program/simulator
Not related to the movie, but if you’re even somewhat interested in that plague rat game Amanda mentioned at 11:33 consider checking it out! It’s called A Plague Tale: Innocence and it’s sequel is being released this year. I assure you, it’s a much better time than actually watching this movie
im in love with your shirt omfg
18:48 I must've back-tapped to rewatch this like 10 times - I did it in Elvis' video, too. I think it's a perfect meme moment, I wish someone would turn it into a gif.
Okay, this definitely should have been a straight up dark comedy. That could’ve worked.
I will say it's obvious that's he's the Villanova, when he didn't care for them before and then proceeded to torture them until the game gave him the option to either copy the game or die and he choose to copy it. While the main character had options to either save her people or what she wanted and she choose to save, after realizing it could hurt people.....
Your shirt is amazing!
Based on the few shared clips here and its premise, it reminds me of a sci-fi "horror" or suspence movie a friend recommended to me primarily because he found the lead actor attractive and was VERY distracted to acknowledge how bad the dialogue and plot progression was.
But also that movie had aliens giving the instructions, not a computer game. Lmao
What was the movie?
@@cerisewolfeah something like "Await Further Instructions." I watched like a few minutes of it, started skipping around, and haven't even given it a second watch.
I didn't think it was that bad tbh. I didn't love it and the ending was awful but I wasn't mad at it.
This concept reminds me of the movie 13 Sins, which would be fun to see your reaction to/analysis of if you ever give it a looksee.
Your description says it all. I was so excited for Asa Butterfield and for WHAT.
I knoww.. he’s like the 1 actor I follow (I’ve been a fan since Hugo LOL) and it’s like please can his agent get him some better properties ffs this is not it
“Fuck the 80s !?” I might have to watch this just to see that line delivered
Your shirt is amazing, Amanda
She left him there and took his car lmao 🤣🤣😂 remember, she was on a bike and he drove them there 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I feel like the only reason the apartment and work buildings featured the Kismet "brand" were as foreshadowing for encountering the guy who controls the curse and the potential benefits for her. That was my take when I watched it. I don't think it's deeper than that but I could totally be wrong.
This is a very interesting concept. I'm unwillingly intrigued, thanks for that Amanda XD But I will certainly never watch it myself. I'm not in the habit of torturing myself thanks
Why are the doors from "The Stanley Parable" in this movie, without the narrator?
Love your shirt!
Hey Amanda any chance of you talking about heartstopper? I would love to know your thoughts on it (plus it’s actually good)
Can you review Heartstopper as just a nice, wholesome break from all the other shitty stuff Netflix pushed out?
I just tgouggt the kismet thing was just to show how much he benefitted. Like he owns so much in her city. Leaving us to wonder how much people suffered
Wait is that shirt an Everything, Everywhere, All at once shirt? Because of it is that’s fire. Also, good video as always.
I love your shirt!
that one second of jumanji drums triggered my fight or flight response
Did you watch Bandersnatch? Same kinda premise about horror-ish and choose your own adventure. Black mirror did it and Asa is in that one too
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Yeeesssa a new video!
I love your videos 😻