5 Reasons Movies Keep Getting Worse
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Well, maybe if people stopped paying to see every crappy movie that comes out..
IAmAgainst unfortunately a lot of people have little imagination that they don't know how to entertain themselves apart from going to the movies.
I agree. If people stoped watching those idiotic blockbusters, movie studios would change their ways.
***** so we should just except mediocrity??
Please don't make analogies between blockbusters and meat... though it's quite accurate, actually. PS. People don't have the right to eat meat, but let's not get into that.
+ IAmAgainst That's it in a nutshell. Some people say we shouldnt take it so seriously, its just entertainment. I say hell with that! We NEED to take it more seriously, and actually demand quality over quantity!
Reasons why Blockbusters keep getting worse, there's a lot underrated movies people miss.
Yep it seems like as a general rule, the bigger the budget reflects how bad it will end up... Off course there re exceptions.
Anyone see that chris pratt and jennifer lawrence movie passengers? I read the plot online and it's the stupidest thing ive ever read stretched out long enough. It was obviously being "mysterious" to cover up how shitmit was and bank on the popularity of the two leads.
Yeah, Passengers is right up there with that weird ass Monster Trucks film for the most "wtf" films of recent times to get the budgets they did.
I actually found it funny that feminists condemned Passengers as basically a rape film, because Pratt's character "objectifies" Lawrence's character to the point of ejecting her from hibernation to have her with him, forcing her to live out her life with only him on the ship before they ever reach their destination.
Personally I found it really convenient that the ship didn't end up screwing up in other ways and begin to eject anyone else. If a minor issue forced him and Fishburne out, with Fishburne's character also being physically injured fatally by his ejection, how did this not happen to anyone else, and how did other issues not arise in the near century of the voyage to force others from sleep?
It was just a sappy love story that paid no attention to detail, which as you said, Valentine, was banking entirely off star power. It also speaks against Lawrence's credibility as a feminist that she's taken a role other feminists see as basically a Stockholm Syndrome rape victim
It's ironic because I think people just expect the opposite. No one really wants to scan through the indie section or undiscovered stuff on Netflix or their theater. They want the movie with the dazzling trailers and special effects.
Imagine how much more tragic the ending to The Avengers: Infinity War would have been if all the sequels for the characters who were killed weren't already announced...
Far from home wasn't a bad film but you're right.
As the one person on earth that didn't really care for Endgame I wish they'd just left it at the snap. Honestly.
Perfect end to the MCU.
@@joshbouman1654 I too wish it had ended at the snap. It would have been a real twist no one saw coming.
Well infinity war had ending,if you compare it to star wars
Josh Bouman you are not alone. I did not care that much for Endgame. Marvel characters that could have crushed Thanos but for the love of money, did not. Scarlet Witch, Thor, Dr. Strange, Vision, Capt Marvel, Adam Warlock, Black Panther, Hulk, etc. In addition, characters who lived in the comics died on film and worse, characters who died in the comics lived on in the films. It was predictable and it didn’t make any sense.
I thought I might have ADHD because at the end of movies I'm always like "did I miss something"?
Yes, that's what ADHD is...
Interestingly 'Star Wars' was originally a stand alone movie. The end of the movie is an actual end. It's also why there were so many inconsistencies introduced in the following movies as Lucas constantly tried to retcon everything as he changed the stories over and over and over again in his never ending quest to "fix" the movies.
Nope. George Lucas had written two scripts before New Hope came out. One script for if it flopped and one for if it was a success AKA Empire Strikes Back. The wasted script was a cheaper to produce version. Later on it was introduced in a book.
Timothy Hilditch Except Lucas had no idea if he was even going to get another movie. Sure, he had a script already written for a sequel, but just having that script doesn't automatically force a sequel to be made. He had to make Star Wars to be the best he could if he wanted that sequel to happen, i.e. make a self-contained story so nobody hates it for a non-sensical ending. Blue-balling your audience on a movie thats not only a new IP, but has never been seen before on that scale is dumb. He needed that movie to be the success that it was to get that sequel.
Sean Locke This is true! And Star Wars getting sequels that sold like crazy was the beginnings of endless sequelisation and focusing on massive blockbusters over smaller or lower budget movies. That didn't happen overnight but Star Wars definitely contributed to the trends we see today.
Makes so much sense. It always confused me as a kid when Vader said "I have you now young Skywalker" only to go all "No, I am your father" in the sequel. Who did he think Luke was? Skywalker from Ohio?
Does he actually mention/show that he has any knowledge of luke's name in the first movie? I don't think he does.
Who else crosses their fingers at the start of Cracked videos now, hoping to see a human instead of that godawful music and text nonsense?
manbehindthewires holy shit yes
OMG reading isn't that hard
manbehindthewires just skip the videos on Wednesdays, I'm pretty sure that's when they do text based vids.
Fun With Currency I read every goddamn day and I hate those videos. It isn't because they're hard to read, it's because they're comedically flacid
Fun With Currency reading isn't video content either
I love the practical effects, especially of the 80's .. that's not happening anymore
Same, I’m only 14 and I like older films way more
@Stephan Hey That’s so so true the 80s were truly a golden era for everything not just its great movies.
#Bringbackpracticaleffects
Even the 90s were good, i would say even to the early 2000s.. remeber, gladiator, matrix and stuff like that
Yep. I only watch movies pre 2005. Newer stuff is just a rewash of old movies with crappy actors and special effects. Ex: Remember old horror special effects. Gruesome and realistic. The list goes on and on
I'm so glad JJ gets called out for his mystery box bullshit! I remember clenching my fist in anger while watching his farce of Ted talk, thinking back of Lost and his other works, as if he's just proud of telling us "when I'm writing create threads that I will never resolve and I'll never tell you what happened, and you're gonna like it!". Now THAT's writing talent, heh?
His parents are movie bigwigs so, basically they gifted him with a career. Unfortunately, that seems to be how Hollywood "works" these days: it's filled with talentless nepo-babies who've been told they're awesome from before they could understand human speech. And, like most people who didn't develop normally, now they've become everyone's problem.
It seems that all things, instead of being good or art, are becoming services intended to distract and entertain indefinitely.
OR just to make money off the fanbase. That is the more frequent reason IMO. Not many people want to make a great movie these days, but everyone wants to make lots of money ASAP. Similarly, in gaming, you have the INSANE amount of DLC whoring that is taking place. It is truly disgusting.
Point number one ought to have been the constant reliance on having an audience that "knows the story." All these overblown hacks "use" this as an excuse to avoid dealing with large slobbering hunks of character and story.
Point two should have been the "expectation" that because part of a "story" has been in a comic book, dead tree book or something else beyond the film itself "everyone" who will see the movie has already read or knows about all of these outside sources. All of this comes down to an ongoing "quest" to cut down on the work (and the expense) that needs to be undertaken before the first frame of film is shot.
What makes it so awful is that most of the people who are victimized by this schlock method of film-making get drowned out by the howling fan base whenever they complain about it. People who make films will continue to get away with schlock until the people who buy the tickets (at $12-$15 a pop sometimes) howl loudly enough that schlocked up movies start to lose money.
That's what good films are. They're entertainment.
tesseract, good band. better with Ash.
Roci Stone Yes! When you have to explain why something happened or who x character is or why a movie ended in a stupid place to someone who hasn't read the original material they're making a shitty movie.
the thing I hate the most is when they give away too much in the trailer.
It's called a teaser for a reason. Now a days I feel I don't even need to see the movie. I know everything that is going to happen before hand.
Clay Campbell. You cant see the entirety of a one hour and 30 to 50 minute movie in a 2 minute or less trailer.
Clay Campbell they did the same thing back then with Star Wars and ghostbusters and countless other movies.
Clay Campbell They did that with a lot of old movies though. You would be surprised if you look back at the trailers from your favorite movies from 30 years ago. Sometimes old movie trailers literally showed the last scene in it.
Raymond Mach A good example is how they handled the Soylent Green trailers I think. "What is the secret of Soylent Green?" Well considering going we just saw a body bag and you're asking us about how it's made I think I can figure out the twist.
Tiber Septim But they basically retell the whole movie in that 2 minutes. A trailer is supposed to create intrigue, not give you the cliff notes on all major plot points in the film, or the best jokes, or even the damn twist.
I don't demand perfect story-telling, but for three years now, I have preserved my sanity by refusing to pay to see prequels, sequels, remakes, reboots, or superhero movies. Sometimes that means there is not one single movie I would want to see, and sometimes it means there is only one. Even if that one isn't the greatest, I like to encourage the filmmaker for doing something original. All good wishes for 2020!
"all good wishes to 2020"
Welp
Amazon Prime has a nice selection of real independent films made for a budget that wouldn’t pay for catering on a Hollywood movie. It’s hit and miss but some of them are very good. I saw one about a programmer who gets involved with aliens and it was amazingly good. There were details about programming and quantum theory that were actually correct, the characters were believable, the hero was flawed but likable and the plot kept you guessing right to the end. I’m with you, no more sequels, prequels, and also for me no more movies based on comic books… you’ve seen one sky beam you’ve seen them all.
Anton Nym that's very interesting. Whenever these prequels, sequels, and superhero movies are announced, they get a lot of attention even though it's clear that these movies aren't that deep and relevant to deserve such attention while better and more thought provoking movies are not given the publicity they deserve. The only way to end this is to support these other films so they get made more instead of these garbage superhero/Disney flicks.
Item #2 is really the most important one. If the characters at the end of the movie are exactly the same people as they were when the picture started, you haven't really told a story. And that means (ding sound)...
I dont think that movies are getting worse i just think the bad ones are the only ones that are being advertised and everything.
And i dont mean that every movie that is heavily advertised are only bad.
yeah. 2016 had some really good movies that I enjoyed. Warcraft, Ratchet and Clank and Zootopia were entertaining so was Storks when you look back at it. just because they release another Superman movie and another Starwars does not mean those are the only movies that matter.
I can agree with this. LaLaLand was really good and took a big artistic risk with their ending and I liked it all the more for that. I think it's because it was a film made to communicate a vision as opposed to just existing to smash box office records.
Television used to be what movies are today, sucking a concept dry until audiences got bored and moved on to something new. Now good tv shows are plotted out (like breaking bad or game of thrones) to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. They have meaningful character arcs and more time to develop a narrative than movies do. The better tv shows are like visual novels. They're smoking movies.
Karen Holmes, Aww...you had such a good point until you mentioned Game of Thrones. I will completely agree with you on Breaking Bad but GoT seems to have gone the way of story by committee where no one seems to really know how it should end or if they even want it to.
You forgot that writers seems to have become unable to write dialogue. This even used to be a whole trade.
It's gotten so bad sometimes I don't even notice bad dialogue anymore. It's just the standard.
CyberChrist People in general are forgetting how to talk to each other.
CyberChrist drite
too be fair if they are on the phone its a very small space away. or they might touch type and accidentally go too far across the keyboard.
+Andoc I'm talking about movies. Haven't bought comics in a long time, so I don't know if their standards for writers are as horrible.
Stop watching hollywood. Problem solved.
Chinawood is better
"They'll explain it in the next movie, her past is mysterious". That worked out well.
"You have to establish things before you try to subvert our expectations. It doesn't matter how good your twist is if we never even started to care about the characters involved in it."
Characters don't have to be likeable they just have to be interesting. Everything else I agree completely with.
well we do have to be rooting for them so they kinda do have to be likeable. if the main charachters, protagonist and antagonist alike, arent likeable then we dont care about what happens to them and it takes all the tension out of the movie
devina yeah but that also can get you traped in the Protagonist must always win/be a good guy cliche
as a writer you got to be okay with your character failing or disappointing maybe even hurting you're audience
I think the applicable term may be "relatable." So that we empathize with the character by putting ourselves in their shoes and kind of live through them for a moment. However , there have been some interesting characters that are fucking insufferable and it takes me out of the movie. Ever watch Sex and the City?
+Devina Coleman Patrick Bateman.
you know what, thats a good point. relatable is a much better word. thanks :) ill retract my pevious statement.i have actually avoided sex in the city like plauge because it seems awful. but yeah your point still stands
"They'll explain it in the next movie, her past is mysterious!"
Haha, nope!
TheOtakuX That's what happens when you switch Directors for a sequel where they thought "Oh shit! We forgot Rey's past... How about we make it non existent so we have more time for that casino Chase scene"
I had forgotten that scene... Actually I barely remember the plot or why anyone was doing anything. Really makes ya think... about
It's fascinating what's happening to Star Wars because it's turning out much, much worse than I initially imagined. Bringing back Abrams strikes me as an attempt to "win back" the audience that loved TFA. The problem is that we now have this gaping hole in the middle of the trilogy where the already-shallow worldbuilding was tossed away wholesale. Rather than telling the conclusion of this story, or even simply closing off loose ends, Abrams is now going to spend the vast majority of his time twisting and contorting a story just to dance around the nothingness that was TLJ.
Think about that. Return of the Jedi was able to build off The Empire Strikes back. Revenge of the Sith was able to build off Attack of the Clones. Whatever they'll be calling the next new movie doesn't have that luxury _at all._
TheOtakuX is this a star wars reference.
Violent nomad - truth
I only watch Inde films now the only Hollywood films I watch are mostly pre 2010s. Honestly Inde films are like the only good films being produced nowadays I've become a fan after binge watching a lot of independent thrillers and horrors on Netflix The writing is SO much better and less cliche they talk like real people and the plots are rarely ever boring. And often take unexpected turns compared to what you may think. I fell in love with Circle (2015)
These inde films are infinitely more better with less budget than a Hollywood film often have a budget less than ten million dollars I find.
This video has way too many interruptions to try to be funny.
When you are going to bitch about movies with a strong fan base and made obscene amounts of money, he couldn't say, those movies sucked and you are a terrible person for watching them.
Agreed
boitahaki cracked, in a nutshell
boitahaki
It’s a sarcasm in contrast with the explanations that he is giving.
1 word: Executives.
Jamin Schmitt that's 1 word and punctuation
Project Legend Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Big reason. Don't discount the quality of the people doing these scripts. They have no idea what they're doing. Max Landis writes more scripts than anyone and the stuff he writes is pure trash.
Yeah basically, you have business people, and you have artists. It is unusual to meet someone who is both. In theory, the two of them need each other. Not only do the business people provide the money, but they also provide a measure of practicality and keep the artist from spending three times that amount realizing their "vision."
However...
What frequently happens is that the people who hold the purse strings are corporate drones with bags of money where their souls should be who are only able to understand what hu-mans like via a spreadsheet.
Zap Rowsdower Not everything, you see one or two of his films and see him as complete trash now?
He made Chronicle (2012) and some of the episodes for Dirk Gently (2016) which were both quite well done. As for his other works... well, he needs to go back to what worked for him.
Way to work in a hate comment about someone in response to a comment that has nothing even remotely close to doing with him.
Making your own comment would've worked better and spawned more on point conversation of your intended topic.
i never noticed the bald spot before
OXOTNHK d'Distro Hahaha neither did I!
LEAVE BALD MEN ALONE
OXOTNHK d'Distro
Who cares?
bald shaming is bad 😂
It's your sequels, Marty, something's got to be done about your sequels.
dont you put that evil on me
game of thrones directors should've watched this
here's a mystery box for you, swearing doesn't make you funnier
Go to bed grandpa!
i'm completely ok with swearing, its just that when the only thing that makes you "funny" is that you swear a lot, it's not actually funny
Agreed. One reason _Bojack Horseman_ is so brilliant is the writers only allow one F-Bomb per season so when they do use it, it really exemplifies the scene into being so much more. Amazing how a rinky dink cartoon is putting so many Hollywood blockbusters to shame.
That isn't a mystery box.
thallesregis
I think what he means is most writers think swearing automatically makes something more than what it usually is. Unfortunately this isn't really the case it most cases use swearing so much that it loses any impact on the audiences.
The first 40 seconds were really unnecessary
Joseph Duenas thanks for the warning 😂
Joseph Duenas No... him getting angry at the water glass getter was pretty stupid. Only thing that drives his point home us the parallel to movies. It was pointless schlock played for humor and I wanted to smack him as badly as he wanted to smack his helper...
This is probably too hopeful, but I think that was on purpose. The meanness with no character development, overt attempts at comedy, one-sided tension with the "cup-bearer" having no payoff or reason whatsoever...it all kinda reminds me of exactly what he was talking about. I could be wrong, though.
huinjnunin trxrtcyfuy Doubtful. wasn't funny OR proved a point.
Rodd Thunderheart Exactly, though. Exactly
J.J. Abrams came up with his 'mystery box' explanaition to obfuscate the fact the guy is great in writing a set up, but not a pay off. Abrams has never written or constructed a decent pay-off or ending in his whole fucking career. This basically makes him a hack to all the other great writers and directors out there.
Maybe you can do a video about the generic style of comedy used in every youtube video nowadays.
That would really help..
What's also killing movies is the assumption that everything will get a sequel automatically.
One movie ruined by that assumption? The Golden Compass. The first of a trilogy that actually had good stand-alone novels with an overall plot arc, but because the producers automatically assumed there was gonna be a sequel they cut off the ending of the first book completely leaving a shitty movie behind. They could've ended the first book's plot, briefly introduce Will from the second story like the original book did and boom, hook viewers for a sequel. Instead the first movie bombed at the box office because it was incomplete, sequel never happened.
Hollywood stop assuming everything will get a damn sequel and using that as an excuse to make a shitty movie!
Jennifer Douglas Just watched "Warcraft", same problem....:-p
Patrick O'Rourke na, the movie itself was the problem
Having read the novels I knew Golden Compass was never getting a sequel. Golden Compass had quite a bit of anti christian values bits in it that they mostly managed to gloss over in the film.... The Subtle Knife basically turns around and gives christianity the middle finger. There was no way they were going to be allowed to make that film unless they did it in a country where christianity was not much of a thing... and then they'd never get it brought over to the states.
Forest Grump They're not really Christian themes if someone feels so strongly against them. Most of Christendom's religions do not teach what the Bible says, but rather the early churches began to drift from Bible teachings, adopting popular philosophies and pagan teachings (i.e. hellfire, immortality of the soul, trinity, etc). Most Christians don't know what the Bible teaches, and their pastors won't tell them even though many know, because if they did, then they would have to get real jobs to support themselves, and clean up their conduct. Christendom supports patriotism (We rock, you don't), wars, premarital sex, divorce without merit, so called "minor" sins, and the list goes on. Most of the so called Christian holidays are rooted in paganism too. My point is, most people don't know what the Bible really teaches, and it would be inaccurate to get your details from commonly taught beliefs.
The bible means picking and choosing whatever you or society thinks is right for the time, leaving out the rest, and believing in lies like the virgin birth, which was a part of many other religions before being written into Christianity too as a good religion needs a virgin.
Someone needs to talk about the real villains behind all these terrible films made in recent years - us, the audience who still goes to see these monstrosities and waste our time and money on them, even though all our past experiences tell us they will be terrible and ultimately a waste of our resources. Bad movies get made because they are easier to make than good movies and we'll still watch them and help the studios make a crap ton of money. We're the real bad guys.
Fight the power! don't go see a movie if you know (based on experience and good sense) that its going to be bad.
The problem with that mindset is that you could possibly miss out on many interesting or good movies, marketing lies sometimes, the power rangers movie had a really bad trailer that made the movie look like it was going to suck balls, but when I watched it I found it was very well made and managed to capture the silliness of the show but also add more mature elements. I I had used my common sense here, I wouldn't have watched a fun, entertaining movie that made the rest of my day happy. I get what you're saying, but there's always the chance that something is exactly the opposite of what it appears to be.
Edgy.
AlbinoTuxedo This is a great comment, thanks.
poppyseed1987 Well, I'll try.
But i'm only 14 and my dad is movie obsessed, plus drags me everywhere he goes most of the time.
I've stopped going to the cinema, or buying DVDs, I now have a little box that allows me to watch the latest films without paying £50.00 or more for a day at the cinema to see one mediocre but very loud film.
I think movie writers avoid explaining stuff nowadays because critics call it "exposition dumps".
And Attention Spans keep getting shorter. Exposition/Explanation is inherently slower, than action or bs action or other effects.
It's hardly a dump if it's only like 1 sentence.
Why would Superman fly away after an explosion? Shouldn’t he stay and help rescue potential survivors, remove rubble, crowd control, and/or get people to emergency services!?
The problem w/ Batman v Superman isn’t the lacking of information or scenes, it’s that the characters are awful and the plot is contrived.
No DC has created one of the most compelling characters it's just that the movie wasn't well thought out and was convoluted and wasn't given respect by the people who made the movie
@@nihaalsandim9986 The problem is that they haven't created "one" compelling character. Each writer, each interpretation, each version, makes a different take on Superman. Even "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?" and "Superman vs. the Elite" are different, because they have different takes on the character. Superman is the ideal person to everyone who writes him, and he's the untouchable ideal. So we all make him who we want to be, or who we believe we can't become. And that differs for everyone on Earth.
If you watched the movie, which clearly you haven't, you'd know Superman did stick around to help... until he was sent away.
"I don't even have time to explain, why I don't have time to explain..." Garbage
Oh yeah, having extra info that would make ur story make sense that can be found outside the median aka another website or deleted scenes... garbage
That was from a College Humor skit right? With the wizard?
Jebradiah Drake it's originally from Destiny
GenJotsu İ'll explain in expansion pack 3,4 whatever paid for, whichever one.😁
And even then you don't get the explanation.
If a character points out how shitty your film is, it just makes him amazing at CinemaSins.
**ding**
Soo...what's the reason why Cracked keeps getting worse?
You probably now know or don’t care, but they got bought over a while ago and like all of their staff got fired including all of your favs, the list of ex employees on Wikipedia is unsettling
I've been away from Cracked since you fired the funny people. So, what are you up to now? Still in business? Good for you!
They only get like 20k views a video now 😂
They don't even make videos now, they've been out of business for like a long time.
This comment aged like milk. They screwed over or fired their best staff and writers, lost ALL of their talent, and from the looks of it tried to make do by promoting the remaining interns
Movies are basically taking the worst cue from the video-game industry:
"Eh, we'll just patch it after it after we release it. Then we'll have a deluxe edition with all the DLC they already paid for".
Yeah, that's a pretty good comparison.
Same thing with the sequel/reboot nightmare we're living through right now. People who grew up paying $60 for a COD game every year are probably also the ones paying $10 to see another generic superhero movie every month.
That or its cheap padding to justify making a whole other movie so people have to pay more money just to find out why something in the first movie happened.
Good catch,,, your on to somthing
Haha! True! I wonder why theyre so connected 🤔
Good God the attempts at humor in this video are just awful. The content is good but that humor... No.
Rpodnee I was just thinking same..... if he would just get through the video this would be somewhat watchable.
Rpodnee so true.
im sorry you feel that way.
I assumed you were just being harsh before I watched the video...
That's what I was thinking too. The first 1min 20sec of this video was just a waste of time. There was no joke or anything.
Movies keep getting worse because audiences are getting worse. Simple case of supply and demand.
Luke Fallon thats not how supply and demand work but ok
9:42
"Feels like they're in a waking purgatory..."
The ONLY movie I know of where such a thing works for the betterment of the film is Jacob's Ladder. Fun film. Hard to watch. Still good, though.
POQ ...profits over quality
The Modern Investor You ABSOLUTELY said that right!!😊🤑
Silly antics aside, this should really be required viewing for all major studios
Johnny Fiction we could also replace them. There's more to filmmaking than Hollywood.
The funny thing about deleted or cut scenes, is that you rewatch the theatrical release and you can find useless scenes that made the cut instead... And people are getting paid a lot to decide which scene goes and which does not.
The empty cup were realy unnecessary.
Cody Johnston reminds me of a guy who used to work at my local Blockbuster; instead of just taking my money, he would take 5 minutes to criticize me for renting whatever video game I wanted. Rampage wasn't a waste of my weekend, man!
chuck cascio how the hell did he not get fired and replaced?
Auteurs with actual vision have been replaced by 'yes' men who obey writing committees and marketing strategists.
“It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.” - Samuel Goldwyn
+Talalay99, I had this feeling about the Last Jedi.
Horseshit. Thor Ragnarok, a massive blockbuster Marvel superhero movie, was done by Taika Waititi, an auteur of the highest order.
Yeah cause those Flash Gordon serials from the 40s and 50 Police Academy sequels where such high art no lazy cash grab there.
#3 could be simply "J.J. Abrams." There is so much I hate about him...I have determined he's an over-hyped hack. PS: Also that douchey Mystery Box.
Giving him access to star wars was the worst decision Disney made.
@@teamcybr8375 Should've given it to Dave Filoni.
I agree with each point.
And I especially dislike it when cinema's use time travel,
they just never get it right! That's probably because it's literally impossible for any human to get it right!!
Just suspend your disbelief \_("/)_/
There is a foreign film, I don’t know where it’s from but it’s in Spanish. It’s called Time Crimes and it’s one of the very few movies that really does Time Travel right. It develops slowly and for a while it seems like nothing makes sense but then gradually all the threads come together and everything that seemed incomprehensible makes sense.
I liked Force Awakens but "butt hole eyed she yoda" will rest with me until I have pennies on my eyes.
It was funnier when Honest Trailers made the same joke
I fell asleep in the theater & got woken up by people screaming when han solo died ... then i went back to sleep .
Did anyone else read that as penises on my eyes?
phreakinpher I definitely did. Am I gray?
Jm3 I did
If I have to hear that fake weird swallow sound effect one more time...
detubeme I almost chucked my phone but I wanted to finish the video.
detubeme I couldn't finish watching this video just because of that reason. Lol! I stopped at 7 minutes. Done 😂😜
i checked the comments just to see if it was only me that was the only one who was bothered by that
Fucking desgustung
Likable horror movie character: that woman from the alien vs predator movie when they're in an arctic pyrimid
Ash? From evil dead.
Ripley from the first Alien.
I feel the future of movies will be: auto-suggested computer scripts(more proxy films), no physical "stars;" just CG renderings with voice-actors dubbing themselves, recycled soundtracks, producer-driven-not writer/director driven, only sequels/prequels, and more CGI. Wait...that's already happened? I guess there is no future to movie making.
THERE ARE ONLY 3 REASONS WHY MOVIES ARE SHIT.
1. THEY ARE ONLY MADE FOR KIDS NOW A DAYS.
2. THEY CARE MORE ABOUT CGI THAN STORY.
3. NOBODY TAKES RISKS AND WRITES NEW STORIES EVERYONE JUST COPIES WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING TO PLAY IT SAFE.
Back in the day there was variety. Variety is the spice of life.
these all signal LACK OF CREATIVITY as its been trumped by money and quantity concerns. Its the worst.
1. True but irrelevant. The 90s may have had Disney films but it was the worst time for kids films overall. I remember not being able to go to movie theaters frequently until the early/mid-2000s. Even those films nowadays are starting to drop in quality. If you think lack of frequency is part of growing up, my cousin goes to the movies at the same rate I do now (which is a lot). She's 7.
2. Very true. Best evidence is the Ghost in the Shell movie. It has great visuals but there was no sense to them and the film didn't respect the original culture, philosophy, characters or plot that made the series amazing.
3. This is the true number one. There's been so many reboots, adaptations, and sequels that people are desperate for original content even if it's horrible. It shouldn't have to be this way.
It really does boil down to over reliance on franchises due to easy money and it's spreading to our literature too.
That's because parents. After Burton's Batman 1&2 came out parent groups cried out cus those movies scared their kids. It resulted with Schumacher's Batman shit
3. To be fair most stories at its core are all the same, people just tell different variations of it......there really isn't anything new to tell. + Its easier to sell a story that some if not most people are familiar with like comic books because a crap ton of cash has been invested into it so minimizing risk would be wise otherwise studios would go bankrupt & we wouldn't get films. Its easier to take risks when its not your money on the line.
Chrono 1.HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS ARE COMPLETELY DISCONNECTED FROM THE COMMON AUDIENCE MEMBER. 2. FILMS ARE MADE FOR BRAINLESS, SHALLOW, MATERIALISTIC BUFFOONS. 3.TEST AUDIENCES ARE DRAWN FROM THE AFOREMENTIONED TARGET AUDIENCE.
This contains so many good points ruined by the time-wasting comedy video format. If they did it as a text article it would be very shareable.
Isaac Marion Yes the "comedy" waa just awful.
Why try and cram as many jokes per second into a video when an ordinary explanation would do?
HAHA THIS VIDEO HAD ME DYING* FROM THE START
Just kidding
This has aged incredibly well, and the last point is truly emblematic of everything wrong with the current MCU.
I definitely liked when movies ended.
What about Murder on the Orient Express? It was phenomenal.
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IcyHot LUKEwarm it was shit
IcyHot LUKEwarm I was about to reply but then didn’t but then read your reply so I will .... that movie is based on an amazing novel by Agatha Christie. She wrote MANY amazing novels. Her stories are all considered classic literature. I love classic lit. Read it everyday. A lot of classic lit ends that way bc it is more of an intellectual experience than to sit and watch a movie and allows he author to leave the reader with something to think on. I feel like too many movie producers writers whatever now a days want to pull from these classic literature stories and don’t pull it off in a way to allow for such endings and the mass general viewers be satisfied by this type of finish.
There's nothing in your cups.
Air
Bleach.
I wish
Or vodka... which WOULD explain a lot of things..
Robert Drake he's drinking pure nonafrenniated refrenishing Slack
Robert Drake #CrackedSoWhite
Game of thrones
Season 1 100%
Season 2 100%
Season 3 100%
Season 4 85%
Season 5 15%
Season 6 5%
Seeing the first episode was plenty enough
Its because the first half or so was written by george martin then he procrastinated and then the directors had to write their own
you could boil it all down to, people only go to see big budget stuff like marvel and star wars at the cinema because they are the only films that seem worth the price of the ticket as opposed to free streaming online, bugger budgets mean more studio interference, which tends to mess up movies
Also advertising
"This box has never been opened"
Me: Nah, I totally see the old tape covered with new tape. You're bad at lying.
Movies suck because they are written to appeal to a broad audience, the same reason why "popular" music sucks. Most of the best movies are considered "niche". The Road Warrior 1982 is a good example- it wasn't made for a wide audience.
You are correct. But Hollywood is putting almost all of its money behind a small amount of super high budget films. They can't afford to make anything besides movies that appeal to the mass market. Back in the 1970s and 80s, Hollywood would make a larger amount of medium to low budget movies. Then if one of them got successful, churn out a few sequels for it. This is the formula Hollywood is going to return to eventually, when the mega blockbusters stop being profitable. I'm betting on Star Wars and Avatar as being the IPs that break Hollywood.
Movies are not about making movies anymore, they're about making money. They have been for a long time. And the fact that, these days, anyone who can afford a DSLR and a gimbal and has the ability to look up what a dolly shot is calls themselves a "filmmaker", doesn't help. The sad reality is, though we may try our hardest, art could very well die with us that that remember it.
Just b/c there's still conflict between two characters doesn't mean that nothing about them has changed or ended. Might as well complain that Luke & Han still get along after three movies. In Avengers 1, Steve always wants to follow orders while Tony never does. Which is the opposite of their motivations in Civil War due to their developments in Phase Two (Hydra & Sokovia). Now, the heroes are split into two groups. Even in Avengers 2, their conflict is different: winning a war before it starts vs simply dealing with it. Hence, far from the purgatory that is Xavier & Magneto (MLK vs Malcolm X). Also, franchises don't have to hold on to the same story & characters. That's why TV shows like Doctor Who are still popular to this day.
Kyle reese, not john Connor, but who cares really
You beat me to it.
you're completely right... but did anyone get enthralled enough with that movie to remember?
you could swap the places of all the characters from that movie and it would still make the same sense.
In his defense Kyle Reese was a bad ass, and John Conner was the whinny bitch.
Except maybe the point of the video was to deliberately swap the names to emphasize how forgettable and pointless the whole ordeal was. Kyle Reese basically takes John's place in the film. Kyle just helps make John and saves Sarah through the first film. John then becomes the hero. In this, they make Kyle out to be the hero who stops Skynet and demonize John as a Skynet drone.
In my opinion it's because more and more movies are made to appeal to the wider audience.
In a nutshell, Star Wars today is made to appeal to people who mocked star wars fans until recently. Same with reboot of Star Trek, Star Trek 2009 had nothing to do with what Star Trek was about in the past.
by appealing to more audience, your movie loses its value on the initial audience. This then causes a washed down, kinda boring movie with some of everything and all of nothing
I don't think it's possible, it's hard to make any decent plot if 90% of the movie consists of shooting and explosions.
Considering Star Trek was originally run by a preachy asshole, it's either an improvement or full circle
No. Star Wars was made for general audiences, everyone from the Greatest Generation on til now has grown up with scifi and fantasy stories. They’ve appealed mostly to children, but as baby boomers grew up they wanted to pay homage to their childhood.
So you get George Lucas making Star Wars because he couldn’t get the rights to Flash Gordon
The classic horror, comedy, action and adventure films of films were all big hits with general audiences
Cult classics, not so much, but how many people reading this have seen Buckaroo Banzai or The People Under the Stairs, Dead Alive?
My point here is that the quality of film is worse not because of “wider audiences,” but for reasons like this video mentions
Gatekeeping shitbag.
this is why superhero franchises (notice they're not stories or even films or trilogies) reboot every 5-10 years. They need to tell a new group of people the same stories over and over again.
Reasons: Hollywood executives doing too much coke, speed, and other drugs. And unfunny/unwitty hipsters who think they're funny getting hired while the actual funny and witty people work regular jobs. On TV and movies they don't even seem to know what comedy is compared to the old days of Marx Brothers, Monty Python, the Lucy and Carol Burnett shows, etc... And the people working in Hollywood being completely jaded and losing all contact with their childhoods and teen years. These movies for kids these days are so cynical I feel bad for the kids. The people making them have lost all contact with what it is like to be a kid.
Bad stories told badly with characters that aren’t developed so that nobody can identify with them. Watch the original of 12 Angry men. 12 actors in one room for 2 hours. Brilliant!
As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I’ve found that I’ve started to miss the “dark years”, when everybody assumed Star Wars was dead and never coming back, compared to what we have now. And the more I view Star Wars as something that started in 1977 and ended in 1985, the more I appreciate the franchise overall. Everything released after 1985 is just a reaction to Star Wars’ success and did not actually contribute to that success.
Also the “dramatic” Khan reveal in Star Trek: Into Darkness makes no sense whatsoever in the context of that story. Besides, why would a time-travel event in the 23rd century cause an Indian guy from the 20th century to turn into a British guy?
Nathan Rosario Darth Vader should have had it's on franchise
Nathan Rosario
i'm 45. my childhood was spent in small rural towns of 100 ppl w/ rabbit ears for "cable", watching "Sesame Street", "Star Trek", & "MASH". my folks LOVED "Star Trek/Wars". "Into Darkness" was so foreign to me, (although i saw all the films growing up) that i *LITERALLY, dramatically, SAID* : "Khan who?", lol. my thinking was: "A relative of Genghis Khan?? Why'd that guy say that so dramatically??? i mean, there was, Ricardo Montalban's "KHAN!!!" when i was like 10 or something, but, that was iconic. So, wtf?" Wow! What a f****d up answer!! i told my Mom: "The force is strong w/ the 'even/odd-numbered Star Trek movie number curse' in "Into Darkness"! Do NOT watch it!" LOL.
Although, i DID love ST: TNG.
To be fair, the prequels weren't all that bad. They didn't fall into many of the trappings outlined in this video, and frankly, they added simple, concise, and interesting backstory to how the Empire and Rebellion of the original trilogy came to be. AND they had some really incredible action scenes and lightsaber duels (see the Darth Maul/Obi Wan/Qui Gon fight from Phantom Menace). The sequels though? Terrible movies. Disney wrecks everything it touches. Pretty much falls into every trap outlined in this video, fails to make coherent stories, and for some reason had to make Star Wars feel exactly like a Marvel film, anti-climactic humor and all.
It's better for people to ask "Why'd you leave?" rather than "Why havent you left?"
When the news came down about the 'new' SW movie I remember my first reaction was more wondering what it might look like on the IMAX screen. Hated cute little Anikin, you almost had the feeling there was going to be a talking doll. [shudder]
Spoilers for Infinity Wars
An example of the last point that revealing the line up ruins any tension we felt. Spider-Man is my favorite character in the MCU and his death really had an impact on me... until I saw Spider-Man Homecoming 2 has already been announced. Well there goes all the emotion I felt! We all know the good guys will win in the end, but Infinity Wars flipped the script on that and created uncertainty to that concept and shook everything up. That major table turning means nothing IF YOU ANNOUNCE THAT MOVIES ARE STILL SCHEDULED AND DEAD CHARACTERS ARENT STAYING DEAD
8:55 likeable horror protagonist: Coraline :)
The worst plot for a movie would be to include a "I need a drink" skit that lasts from the first few seconds of the movie to the last second of the movie. Yeah, that would be the worst.
F Mills
1. Millenial humor
2. Social Justice pandering
3. Overuse of "meta"
4. Pretentiousness
5. No commitment to theme
Still not as bad as Luke and Leia explaining 30 years of off-screen plot in a forced and completely awkward scene.
And at worse it fucks up 12 minute youtube video, not a franchise and story loved by 4 generations.
F Mills are you seriously trying to discredit the points made in this vid with that? Pathetic
- ironically, you're supposed to think the bit with the cup is stupid. It's also a metaphor. Your comment and all the people who up voted it are exactly the shallow thinking people who movie execs are both pandering to and ripping off with bad movies that have good marketing.
You are right, funny it works in a youtube video tho.
That 40 second gag in the beginning was fucking cringeworthy.
Seriously. The whole thing was unnecessarily annoying. Especially the gulping sounds of him drinking plus the weak sarcasm. That was just uncomfortable as fuck
Dessa Christmas all of it is imo
Dessa Christmas you're just butthurt cuz you know everything he's saying is true
Jason Moore: No one will care when you die, and many will be relieved.
Johnny Bigbones I will be relieved when I die.
Let me add the things you forgot:
1. Too many SJW interferance.
2. The cringy love arcs between the hero and his bimbo
3. Bad writing and poor directing
4. Directors go YOLO in creating their own interpretation of the movie WITHOUT consulting lore masters messing with canon.
5. Using nostalgic references for cashgrab
And many more.
There's still good original movies coming out. A Quiet Place, Coco, and MCU movies to name a few. (You could argue that Endgame relies on nostalgia, but I think it's more payoff than nostalgia.)
People tend to forget that Luke only went on that huge adventure because he saw the video of Leia and wanted to help her because 'she's cute'. I swear people only bitch about Rey's flaws because they see nostalgic memories in Luke. Also the fact that he said nothing about Anakin in the Prequels. #doublestandard
This video had great content but it was almost ruined by the attempt at humour.
Not to mention the hard left turn at Albuquerque they made at the end that came out of nowhere, “thank you for watching a video about the state of the movie industry, now go listen to our podcast about how the nuclear family is bullsh*t!”
TransformsInto AGuitar Almost? 😂
Roman Flores: He really nailed it, when it comes to ruining a presentation . . .
Truth that.
Ben Hunter "hard left"? You know the church has only talked family values since the 60s before that it preached being a virgin with no spouse or kids made you spiritually superior and took plenty of kids away from their parents to be raised by church run institutions. "Any man who hate not his father cannot is unworthy to be my disciple".
1. I'm old now.
2. I'm so old.
3. Father time has ravaged my youth.
4. Nothing is The Goonies (which is fairly shit btw)
5. Kids these days.
Wow, you got 5 out of 5 WRONG.
Drinking “gasoline” gag is nonsensical.
It would induce vomiting while giving the feeling of your insides being on fire, as it absorbs through the skin/flesh/meaty-bits/etc.
Imagine how much better movies would be if you would stop being a critic and start being a movie producer, director.
those gulps made me want to die
On the idea of the "mystery box" and "backstory" - one movie that used "lack of backstory" and "mystery box" to great effect is "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971, Gene Wilder). We know zip about WW, and it's great. He's a cypher all the way through.
Contrast that with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where Johnny Depp's "Willy" actually shows us his childhood.
I *liked* the mystery of WW. I don't want to know about his past. It's better as a mystery.
He’s wrong about mystery boxes. A New Hope may have explained the backstory of why Ben had the lightsaber, but it also name dropped the clone wars, the kessel run, some guy named “Jabba”, and umpteen other backstory ideas it _didn’t_ explain. That’s what made the world feel like there was more to explore.
Seriously just go watch A New Hope, every other movie in the franchise basically just peels some random unexplained bullsh*t someone said in a New Hope and makes a whole move about it.
And in the case of Solo and Clone Wars... wouldn’t we have been better off NOT knowing what the clone wars and the kessel run were like? How about Darth Vader’s past, should they have just left that alone? That’s what Abrams is talking about. Don’t remove the mystery from _everything,_ leave room for wonder and speculation. Don’t demystify things you don’t have to. Like the force, for instance. Medichlorians?? That’s _one_ thing Last Jedi fixed at least.
Oh and also Ben was LYING ABOUT THE LIGHTSABER (and also everything else he basically ever said), so even that was retroactively transformed into a mystery box.
There’s also a severe lack of originality in the industry and a lot of hopping on trends
"They'll explain it in the next one her past is mysterious"
That's the literal opposite of what happens in the next one. It's revealed her parents were nobodies she's just some desert hillbilly who is somehow the strongest jedi ever.
I dare you, to name a movie, any genre, from the last 5-10 years that ENDED without trying for a sequel.
Art/indie movies I guess.
Morals and Songs boyhood la la land rogue one Morgan actually I'll stop you can go watch more movies to see
HiddenColors I personally don't think Rouge One counts as its set in an ongoing universe that will continue to churn out never ending movies. So while that one movie in the series has an ending, the series doesn't.
Morals and Songs rogue one could've easily had a sequel one because it made the money and had the critic response that warrants it and because Lucas film is crafty enough to do it but they killed off all the characters give them a lil credit
Morals and Songs When Marnie Was There - Studio Ghibi
#1 Reason: 90% of the first world population with spending dollars are idiots, including movie producers, so standards are lower for 'trying'.
Why make a blockbuster with every movie if you can just rehash the memories of your audience with 10% effort?
"Why gigantic summer blockbusters are getting worse" would be more appropriate, but doesn't really roll off the tongue I guess.
I think that audiences are also getting stupider.
Watch the movie "Idiocracy". Where the hit movie of the year is a film called "ASS". It's two hours of a man farting. And the audience is wild about it.
Read The Marching Morons, idiocracy is a bad movie with a good premise. Unintentional or not, the movie is actually making fun of you for thinking the movie is good.
It might be controversial though because of the eugenics but idiocracy is also lowkey eugenics advocacy (well it is based on the marching morons after all but absolutely ruined by its execution and the removal of nearly everything that made TMM good.)
Harrison Bergeron is also another short story (I say short story but it has less pages than a comic book) that demonstrates the dystopian future of what we're seeing now with forcing equality of outcome to the extreme.
Yeah I didn't think Idiocracy was nearly as smart as it was trying to be.
They certainly are OP . People still think rey is a Mary Sue despite TWO films spelling it out as to why she isn't a Mary Sue. Like really being blatant about it in ways Lukes backstory can only dream of. And still nope. Still they believe she is a Mary Sue. I think next film there gonna have to put up text explaining everything for those poor folk.
kudosbudo You can't "explain" why she's not a Mary Sue in a movie. You have to show it.
Great points, but must agree with everyone: the snarky delivery didn’t work for me. It was too obnoxious for it’s own good.
QED I suppose.
We are not going to get any answers with Jar Jar "Mystery Box" Abrams directing Star Wars episode 9.
Question: why is it that Batman v Superman’s “Jimmy Olsen” is a “gross misinterpretation of a beloved character”, but WBs Supergirl making James Olsen (canonically a 5’6” red headed Swede for since 1939) into a 6’4” black man isn’t?
I think jj Abrams smoked a football sized crack rock when making star wars
The drink/being mean to the intern bit isnt landing
On top of that degrading at best. Giving the impression he is really like that. Even thought he want's to portray how it works unfortunatley in almos any job. But didn't work.
Yet millenials hate being called "entitled".
I thought for a bit that it was going to be his "arc" in the video, and he'd apologize at the end for being a dick, but then it didn't happen...
...he made a bad vid.
StarWarsomania
😘 i LOVE you 4 that comment!
And if you're going to put a mic on your neck, don't fake swallow. Unless you're chugging a giant mug of some sort of beverage, swallowing isn't really that loud.
Actually in Jurassic World Claire demonstrated a character Arc by protecting the children on more than one occasion. The ambulance Raptor chasing and in the last scene where she put her life on the line by trying to draw the T-Rex towards the Indominus Rex, all to save Owen and the children. She also was selfish and only cared about business until things went awry and started to listen to what Owen was telling her.
movies aren't getting worse. Blockbusters are getting worse .
Your comedy sucks but you made great points
There was comedy in this video?
except for the poiints he made there was nothing memorable
Foxi! Anything that he said that wasn’t about movies he was trying to make a joke.
Ah come on the Clown poop was a liiittle bit funny.
DJANGO In your opinion, glad you could find something funny in it though.
Yeah, everything he said or did that was not actually related to the topic of the video was cringy and annoying (namely, the cup jokes).
Pretty soon to cover plot holes, the characters will say, "That's classified."
This is fucking hilarious, why no more likes?
That second to last point about Claire from Jurassic World gets worse when you take Fallen Kingdom into account.
She was attacked and nearly killed by engineered dinosaurs and realizes the park will not work. In the sequel, she decides to start a "green peace" for dinosaurs organization, and wants to SAVE the dinosaurs. Makes no sense, and she seems to have learned nothing until it's too late.
They are not getting worse, we had even worse movies back in the 90s and early 2000s...