Uncharted - How Could They Mess This Up?
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2022
- Adapting a videogame like Uncharted into a movie seems like the easiest win ever. But a combination of bad casting choices, lacklustre writing and pacing somehow managed to derail the Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg action film.
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Who would thought that MovieBob and The Drinker could agree on this is garbage
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6:47 I don't get it, could someone explain it to me please?
Yeah everything that makes Tom wrong for this part are the things that make him great as Peter Parker/Spiderman, and in his defense he even said he was wrong for the part but ah it'll be fine..
The Uncharted story was already brilliantly told. The director had the perfect blueprints to make a great movie adaptation. Yet Hollywood still couldn’t help themselves
Every time
Gotto follow the tradition of making bad video game adaptions.
Telling that story in 2 hours would be atrocious tho. They'd need at least a trilogy to do it justice.
I don't understand how this happens with everything in Hollywood these days. All they do is make film adaptations and reboots, which should be the easiest thing since the story and script are already written.
The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to make it seem like these are new and original IPs that they created. How else do you confuse fans that know this movie isn't original, than by putting the IP through a blender and reconstituting the pulp into these grotesque misfits?
I chalk up to ego. Yeah, you VOULD take a well established story, lore, characters and create a fun movie…
BUT! Is your name REALLY on the project? Did you REALLY do anything besides copy?
You get where I’m going. Funny thing is though, every time they justify their alterations, it comes out terrible. Should wake some of these ppl up. SHOULD
"We picked Tom Holland because this movie takes place before the games"
Literally every setpiece is stolen from the games.
Fr, it's really dumb, insulting, and lazy to make a claim like that but then use ALL the memorable set pieces. Such a lazy cash grab. Trying to play off nostalgia with set pieces, reel in more money with a popular rising actor who really doesn't suit the role but his name will drive sales; then justify it all by claiming it's "prequel" to the source material. I mean, it doesn't get more cookie cutter than that lmao.
They had the perfect opportunity to hire Nathan Fillion - a man who looks and sounds identical to the protagonist in the game. I guess they were too focused on the future than actually building a franchise that is worthy of one.
@@SUBZERO-rd5oq Honestly an older Nathan Drake played by Fillion, nearing the end of his career and meeting Tom Holland could have made for a great set up.
czcams.com/video/v5CZQpqF_74/video.html has Nathan Fillion as Drake
As a reference lol, they just blended it together because they’re great action pieces and references, also the story isn’t even from the games 🤦♂️
Critocal Drinker: The casting in uncharted makes as much sense as putting Rebel Wilson in a remake of the predator
Hollywood: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Imagine if nathan fillion was 20 years or so younger. I think he could have made a great nathan drake.
Just imagine her, as Blain, munching on a Twinkie and saying "This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me." If it was a parody, like Naked Gun, I would've died from laughter xD
She better be wrestling crocodiles and dingoes simultaneously-
@@mrnobody6447 Nathan Fillion basically looks and acts just like Nathan Drake lmao. He would've been perfect. They could've done an older Nathan Drake story line though. Towards the newer games, he does seem much more weather and what not so I don't think it would've been bad per say.
@@DarkAoiishi a sweet take sorry *konk ouch you told him good right?
Yessz..
Konk
Naughty Dog: "We should make Nathan Drake look like a mix between Johnny Knoxville and Harrison Ford. Kind of scruffy and handsome with a good hint of badass."
Hollywood: "Nathan Drake is a muscular boy scout."
Not to mention his incessant jabbering. In the games, Drake is typically quiet and understated, with a wry sense of humor.
Hollywood: Spida maaaaaannnn
Lmao muscular Boy Scout…… they really tried to give us a training scene too in his apartment. “Because Nathan Drake does pushups in his room and climbs a rope to his ceiling, he is the only one capable of tackling this grand adventure.”
Expert advice: "Cast Tom Hardy as Nathan Drake"
Exec: "Cast Tom H." - hangs up & does another line of coke off hooker's ass
Casting: "Weird, but Tom Holland it is..."
“Parker you are such a boy scout”
One thing that "always" bugs me in movies is that prop gold as a general rule is way too light, real gold is HEAVY.
Not only that, but real gold is not shiny. It’s dull and almost looks like oxidized garbage
It's pretty funny when someone stuffs 10 gold ingots in a rucksack and starts running and jumping around with it. Since it would weigh around 270 pounds.
I actually really enjoyed that Die hard 3 mentioned that, when Sam Jackson picked it and said damn it's heavy.
@@bdkj3e well the Fort Knox gold was made a but different so its extra heavy damn government come in and took all the citizens gold of America
it's always the same with amunition. Guys going around carrying cases supposedly with 2000 rifle rounds? In Holywood that's not a problem:
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Never EVER underestimate the ability of Hollywood to take a great, established story and run it into the ground. They do it with books, they do it with games and they even do it with remakes of previously made movies and shows.
It's because they seem to be masters at finding the laziest, boringest and dumbest people to write this dreck. It's like telling Amerigo Vespucci to step aside from his map making and have a 6yr with a smile and a crayon set redo what Amerigo drew.
It's loud, poorly casted, and it really does reek of the contrite, the banal, and the predictable. You wonder if the writers even know what the games deliver and the writing quality that went into them.
Someone should have just taken the cutscenes from Uncharted 4, see them together, and it would have been a better movie.
Edit: Sew them together not "see" sorry.
@@deathstrike It didn't work for Ratchet and Clank's remake having it's cutscenes meshed together into a movie. That wouldn't work here either...
@@deathstrike That's modern capitalism - why bother with risky original ideas, if you can just repackage tropes done for sufficient success dozens of times? Why bother casting fitting actors for the roles, if you can just ride a hype train of popular people? Certainly sells better for the investors who have no fking clue about the games and don't give a damn. They hear "popular game, popular actors, popular writers" and that's all they care about, before pissing off to their yachts...
Why bother trying to make a superb product, if you got exclusivity? Fans cannot go out and watch the other Uncharted movie. So you got name recognition without competition.
I'm still questioning why, out of so many video games, they chose to make a movie adaptation of Uncharted, they are literally movies with some 3rd person action gameplay, what would they change to make it different?
My expectations were low by this alone but re-using set pieces and hiring Holland because of his popularity just made it worse, and they still messed it up
These games are already so cinematic and well acted that I never felt the need for a feature film.
I'd take a big budget series. Maybe HBO will greenlight it after TLOU was so successful.
Precisely what Nolan North mentioned on an interview after Uncharted 4 was made.
Sully is supposed to be the one person Nate can trust not to betray him, which gives them a great, interesting, and most importantly believable relationship. I don’t get what was wrong with this.
My biggest question though, what happened to Elena?
Vanished into the ether
I think they were hoping for sequels to bring her in. Unfortunately they forgot to make a movie good enough for a sequel.
"bLoNdE WyT wOmAn NoT dIvErSe EnOuGh"
Technically Nate met Chloe first in the games’ timeline. She doesn’t show up until among thieves but it’s confirmed that they have a past.
@@Rhyciz that’s true, but she’s such an important character to the series that I find it strange she was excluded
You know everything’s fucked when Nathan Fillion makes a better Uncharted movie than a Hollywood studio
@fine hahahaha
No kidding. One 15-minute short film was infinitely superior to everything the trailers showed me.
You know Nathan Fillion is 50 years old right now.
He's at least 10 years older than Uncharted 4 Drake.
And if the movie got a sequel, he'd be even older.
@@paradoxxor7770 So?
@@paradoxxor7770 no one said he was going to be in a sequel, the comment said that he did a better film than Hollywood
Laid out on a silver platter and still fumbled it. Gotta admit, that's impressive
Never underestimate Hollywood's ability to muck up a beloved franchise.
Just like Joe Biden did with all of America.
Everyone is still wondering "How the Hell could he fuck this up?"
.....made it SO easy for Hollywood to eat itself and serve us nothing but constant plates of bullshit.
Not really if it’s happened before time and time again
@@shaybarfield362 dude why u bringing politics into this ?
@@shaybarfield362 Why do you have to bring cancerous politics into this? And I must say. Did you forget the attempted fascist Coup D'etat on January 6th? And that 4 officers who were there that day. Have committed suicide since then.
The funny part about saying that Mark Wahlberg would've been Nathan Drake if the movie was made ten years ago is that was the actual plan; the idea had been pitched to the studio about a decade ago with Wahlberg as Drake and Robert De Niro as Sully. I still remember reading about it in an issue of Game Informer when I was in high school. Edit: grammar
My pick would be Nathan Fillion and Tom Selleck.
Mark Wahlberg even said he realised he was ‘old’ when he heard the movie was back on and assumed he was still Nate but they said “no, you’re the old guy now”
“Mark Wahlberg is an actor in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete. “
Pure gold.
I mean he's not a good actor, he always plays the same character, himself.
Hey I really liked him in the Happening.
He made me laugh so hard.
@@itsjustmaddisen
Wait, are you saying that if someone says "what adjectives would you use to describe Mark Walberg?" scholarly isn't near the top??
You can just tell he’s a writer
@@orlfane1622 Not a good actor? The man was in boogie night and the departed, the man can act when presented a good script.
I’m convinced that Hollywood lacks all creativity and now their stealing plots from games, which were 1000x better in the game
It's not a lack of creativity. But purposefully trying to make shit films. It's capital within Hollywood to say you took a major IP with an established fanbase and "fixed" it. In other words, did everything the opposite the fans wanted and shoved Hollywood politics into it. The only thing Hollywood loves more than making money is sticking it to the fans.
Part of it isn't a lack of creativity so much as the corporate suits want to save on advertising by just making "Thing the audience already likes: The Movie". Studios increasingly just are not willing to invest money and time into new ideas with an uncertain payoff (and, with things like "Jupiter Ascending" in recent memory, I can't even fully blame them), and prefer the safety of existing IPs.
Ehn, they've been trying to make game movies since the 90s and only Sonic has been "good". There are even board game movies, like Clue, that are even older.
@@turtek12 but nobody likes these movies. Why even bother ?
hardly stealing plots since pretty much all movies based on game just do they own thing and that usually cause a lot of problem.
What makes it so mutch more hillarious, is that the games already were practically interractive movies.
You could comfortably make each game into shows, and almost exacly retell the stories.
I hope I'm not coming off as someone who's familiar with the games, because I'm not. But from what I read, the Uncharted movie was supposed to be an origin story, supposedly the events happen before the game (chronologically).
Do the games explore Nathan's backstory? *If so, how does the movie compare to said backstory?
@@marsjokes lmao...the games literally tell the story of nate since he was 10 years old...there's nothing more to tell
same with Max Payne. Funny it´s also starring Mark Wahlberg :D
@@arcanevi4477 ah... okay. Cool.
As I said before, I don't know much about the game, so I'm probably the type of viewer that the Uncharted movie people were banking on, in as much as there was/is already a fanbase to cater too.
@@marsjokes Game 3 tells the story of how Nathan and Sully met, and game 4 explore the reasons why he’s an adventurer
What I hated the most was the exclusion of Elena. It really seems like the movie is trying to push Chloe and Nate together which will not end well. In the games, Nate needs Elena to be the man that he is, without her he isn't himself. Without Elena, Nate is going to end up just like Sully, while I do love Sully I think Nate deserves something more.
I also missed Elena. I think they used Chloe instead so that in the entire movie they could add artificial tension with the never-ending "we don't trust each other, we double-cross each other when we get the chance" situation.
Exactly bro it’s like they kept the source material in some parts just to run it straight into the ground
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I was thrilled that Elena wasn’t in the movie. She is an unbearably annoying character imo. Chloe is, at least, interesting and more fun to watch. I had the same issue with The Witcher. I hate Yennifer (though the actress does a great job on the show), and Triss just gets treated like trash. So annoying. But that’s just me. 😂
The thing is, Chloe IS Yennefer. As far as their roles. They're the mirror image of the male lead, the one he thinks he wants but who is actually destructive for him.
Elena is the grounding for Nate. She's the one equal and opposite force to his thirst for treasure. That way it's meaningful when he makes a choice either way.
@@shelbybenson1896
I went to see this movie with my GF, she's never heard of Uncharted before, unlike me. I was pretty disappointed by the movie but I was surprised to see her disappointed more than me. She thought the movie was just a soulless action cash-grab with nothing going for it. Can't say I disagree, but I was really sad to see them not take the original Uncharted story.
She deserves a playthrough of the games to really experience how awesome the franchise is. If she's not a gamer then she may enjoy watching you play, Uncharted 4 alone would blow her away.
Uncharted sucks and so does the movie.
this is just another reason Tomb raider is vastly superior
@@Aristowi she does play a lot of games, but not like Uncharted, more like Rimworld or Don't Starve. She does enjoy watching me play though so I'll definitely bring this up to her
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 tomb raider sucks lol
@@demetriusean No. Tomb raider is waaay better than Drake.
Everything about Rise of the Tomb Raider is better.
Better mechanics.
Better story.
Better gameplay.
Better weapons.
Better take downs.
And customisation.
Lol.
Writer: So which of the 5 games should we make?
Executive: Yes.
Writers need to get their shit together .
Should've called it charted with how much they rehash from the games
5?🤔
@@nox_cadit
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: among thiefs, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Uncharted: Golden abyss, (a spin off game exclusive for ps vita) Uncharted 4: A thief's end, Uncharted: the lost legacy. Technically 6 but yeah.
@@maninthecamohat2735 lost legacy is a DLC...
"The casting of uncharted makes about as much sense as putting Rebel Wilson in a remake of predator" - don't go giving them ideas now.
The new film in the series: "Predatory", starring Rebel Wilson as Sandra Smith.
A Predator ship crash lands in the NYC harbor. Sandra tries to rescue the occupants, but instead is only to retrieve a Predator suit. Sandra decides to don the suit and raid all of the buffets in town, while mercilessly neutering anyone who makes fun of how she looks in the Predator suit.
It's relentless digestion and relentless mutilation, in the action gauntlet of the summer!
I'd watch that.
As long as the predator kills her.
She's the next step in evolution.
Not as bad as casting Rihanna as a naval officer in Battleship 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's also really unbelievable how many actors play themselves all the time. Mark wahlberg, george clooney, ryan reynolds Jeff Goldblum, the list goes on and on with a few notable exceptions but other than that....
I think it's that if they wanted a Mark Wahlberg character then they sign on a Mark Wahlberg. If they want a George Clooney the sign on a George Clooney. Say, for example, if you take football and sign on Tom Brady and complain that he's just a QB and not a Running Back. Well if you wanted a running back you go get a Nick Chubb. I get that actors should have range but why ask someone to play a character outside their comfort zone or style when you can get someone who already does that better.
The biggest scam was giving George Clooney an acting Oscar for gaining weight essentially. The movie was some forgettable trash called "Syriana".
I blame producers, they just want a collage of what they've seen before. They don't really want anything new.
The thing is, being flexible in the NFL isn't really expected the way it is in acting. I don't think it's a good analogy. Nobody expects Tom Brady to be able to catch the ball like a WR.
But in acting, it's literally your job to be able to pretend to be someone you're not, in a convincing way. @@ScottCleve33
Bruce Campbell should play Sully if they ever do a decent movie version of these games. He looks the part and has the right comedic chops for it
I kinda see it working
He was already basically that role in Burn Notice already
I feel like in 1:10 Sully looks a lot like Bob Odenkirk with more hair. But Bruce Campbell would prolly work aswell
I thought Russell Kurt would be a good choice
Is that Kurt Russell's mirror universe opposite?@@josiahtekira5114
Every time they do anything like this it's never how "COULD they mess this up?"
It's always, "How will they mess it up this time?"
I'd like to think I'm not that cynical lol, but Hollywood makes it difficult not to be.
I'm honestly still questioning why, out of so many video games, they chose to make a movie adaptation of Uncharted, they are literally movies with some 3rd person action gameplay, so what would they change to make it different??
I didn't expected much by this alone and they still messed it up
Or "How badly will they mess this up?".
The only time these kind of things actually FULLY proved me wrong was the most recent Sonic 2, Detective Pikachu came in close second.
I SO BLOODY want to believe the successful examples would show other Hollywood "directors" why respecting source material is so important, but shits like this trainwreck of live action butchery make it virtually impossible to keep my cautious optimism.
-Oh well, I may have been wrong the very moment I put a nanogram of trust on Hollywood-
I mean except they didnt mess it up? The movie is doing very well. Have you incorporated your error into your world view?
This film is honestly the perfect example of Hollywood relying on nostalgia over content. Taking memorable scenes from the games, sprinkling them throughout the film, and hoping for the best. Uncharted honestly could've been a solid film-series, even a binge-series, but stuffing five games worth of story into one film, no doubt this film failed. Anyways, here's a Masterclass on how to ruin a franchise before it even begins.
Same thing as with Assassin's Creed basically.
I dont think they should have made it like they did with the sam plot because it makes no sense and all the stupid fanservice which breaks the film when they could have done a film showing the heist mentioned in uncharted 2s second cutscene and the relationship between chloe and drake.
A genuine waste of potential
there's so many masterclasses on how to do this now hollywood could open a masters-degree offering university on the subject
@@paulrTX The Uncharted movie, however you may dislike it, is Ina completely different league from the horribly disappointing Assassin's Creed film.
That's not surprising, Hollywood loves making one movie films using adaptations that should be longer than one movie
Man wtf? I was just going to see this with a friend and now you tell me it sucks. This seemed like a pretty easy win. Like Fast and the Furious easy.
Watch Batman instead, trust me you'll have a much better time
its actually a very good movie that has gotten many people into the games now and I've heard from many that its one of the best movies since the pandemic began which I completely agree with. Don't listen to this ngl.
the ending is ruff the movie is still good, the dude just talks for clout
Jesus Christ is Lord. It is all True. Please take your salvation seriously and do what Jesus taught.
@@theboombox3717 one of the best during the pandemic? xD that must be blind and deaf to think that
Tom Holland as Nathan Drake is so hilarious. With the roles this guy gets in movies, he must've had some strong connections with people in the industry.
I love Tom Holland as Spiderman. And even though I’ve never played Uncharted, even I went, “Nope”, to his casting as Nathan.
@@KevvoLightswift Tom holland is horrible even in Spider-Man
Possibly nepotism, like a lot of acting gigs.
Nah, it's just flavor-of-the-year casting. Whoever the big name is, they get all the jobs.
It felt like watching spiderman cosplay as Nathan drake. Super miscast
Dude, after "Dragonball: Evolution" and "The Last Airbender", I will never underestimate the ability of Hollywood to mess something up again.
@Kryptoskillet To be even fairer, even when the subject is easy to adapt like "Death note" they still manage to fuck it up like no other.
Yeah, they couldn't even get Super Mario Bros or Resident Evil right. The only halfway decent adaptation from games and comics was Mortal Kombat (the original movie). Shit they couldn't even get the new MK right. Hollywoke don't care cause they know there are suckers and normies that will consume it because that's all they know how to do.
@Kryptoskillet Avatar isn't an anime, it was made by americans. Animes are japanese in origin.
If we’re talking anime, Alita is probably the only one to have been adapted well, and that’s because _James fucking Cameron_ loved the original so much, he had to have it made into a live-action movie _while keeping the integrity of the story intact._ He may not have directed the movie, but only someone of his prestige and reputation could’ve pulled it off.
(I heard Edge of Tomorrow is also solid, but it’s not the same as All You Need is Kill. Also Tom Cruise.)
@@astraldirectrix I guess I never realized EoT was adapted from anime. I enjoyed it. I don't really run in those circles anymore. Thanks for the big brain knowledge!
The Uncharted games were praised for having "big budget holly wood scenes". Ironically when they make a movie adaptation, it's actually tamer than what it was originally emulating.
Thanks to stupid ludonarrative dissionance articles on it.
@what now I don’t like gay porn. Don’t be spamming it at people.
Sadly there are no more big budget action scenes, 99% is all digital now, takes all the joy out.
@@rich520 every time the words "ludonarrative dissonance" are uttered, a games journalist creams their pants.
@@bdkj3e fury road was the last
Nathan Fillion was, is, and will be the man for the job to play Nathan. He may be older but he’s got the look, the attitude, and the acting style to make it a fantastic film.
If only they made it 10 years ago, he'd have been the perfect choice.
The short with him as Nathan Drake escaping from a mansion will sadly be the best film representation of Uncharted we're likely to ever get.
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This is the like 10 min video of Nathan Fillion literally playing Nathan Drake and it is 1000x better than the entire shit movie they made.
"Let's put a mustache on Mark Whalberg, that should satisfy the fans"
"Mark Wahlberg is an actor, in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete." God damn, you didn't have to kill the man lol
Marky Mark's maybe had 1 or 2 decent movies over the entire span of his career. Cant think of one off the top of my head though.
@@ModernDecay70 the other guys
@@krissekrill no I don’t know that one
Mark is what happens when someone like Harvey Weinsten wants to fuck someone so bad they say hey "You could be an actor"
@@ModernDecay70 The Departed
It should’ve been the easiest video game to make an exciting movie like a modern Indiana Jones, but it was your generic action blockbuster with questionable casting.
I hope I'm not coming off as someone who's familiar with the games, because I'm not. But from what I read, the Uncharted movie was supposed to be an origin story, supposedly the events happen before the game (chronologically).
Do the games explore Nathan's backstory? *If so, how does the movie compare to said backstory?
@@marsjokes The third game and especially the fourth and final outing for Nathan Drake explore his past.
@@WrathDrago oh, wow. Nice... Thanks for the info.
I'm guessing they largely deviated from those...
@@marsjokes You would be correct. Nate and Sully meet each other in Cartagena, Colombia when Drake is only 14 years old. Sully notices he's being tailed by Drake, strikes up a friendship with him, and he becomes something of a surrogate father/mentor to him. Drake grew up with Sully and they were already a team long before the events of the first game. The movie has them meeting when Drake is already fully grown, which just doesn't work. The reason their relationship is so strong and works so well in the game is because Drake, an orphan, sees Sully as his father, and the writing supports that. They're not sidekicks. They're family, essentially. There's none of that in the movie.
You should also check out my review and hear why I LIKED uncharted!
Also, the absence of Elena is a HUGE miss for me. They'd better pray they get signed for a sequel, because to me, the IP isn't the same without her. She's Nathan's ground to the real world, the person who tempers him and holds him to reality. She provides the primary and ultimate choice for Nathan between normal life and epic treasurehunting. He's forced to grapple with the transcendent worth of either choice, and in the end is compelled to turn away from the fleeting deception of riches in favor of something longer lasting and less empty.
They didn't really play up any of that, it was more about Sully at the end to be honest.
If you can find the Uncharted: Live Action Fan Film with Nathan Fillion and Stephen Lang, I highly recommend it!
It's a shame we didn't get an extended version of the Nathan Fillion/Stephen Lang fan film instead. _That_ was fantastic, and the casting was much more fitting.
that shit was epic 😭😭😭
At frist I thought It was a porno version. It´s kind of bad. when hollywood casting is so bad. that it´s a posiblility that even a porn. can be better casted.
I think Nathan Fillion would've been the perfect Nathan Drake if this Uncharted movie skipped the origin and adapted either the 3rd or 4th game.
nathan fillion makes a great older Nathan from Uncharted 4.
id a paid to watch that movie not the one actually made
As soon as I saw the casting choices of Drake and Sulley I was like nah, not for me! It seems like Hollywood tries to fail these days! Thanks for saving me 2 hours Drinker! ✌🏼
I might have been able to see Tom Holland as a decent Drake if they aged him up a bit. But seeing Marky Mark as Sully was just too much.
This movie wasnt suppossed to be uncharted. Tom holland did this film because he couldnt get The 007 producers to make a young james bond film with him which i assume are based on The book series by the same name. I heard they are alright and not kids stuff. Might have been interesting to see a 1930s teen bond in an MI6 academy/training facility.
@@vroiderantas that’s interesting, I enjoyed the young bond books. I wish these two visions hadn’t clashed because then we might’ve gotten something much better
They needed really young cast to turn it into 63 movie franchise...
I always thought Scott Eastwood would've made a great Nathan Drake. Is that crazy?
Hearing you rip it apart like this just made me audibly cry. I can't believe they served it up on a platter and spent far too much fucking time on the wrong shit.
It's hard to imagine how they could screw this up. The games themselves had a very cinematic quality to them I felt more like I was playing a movie than a game most of the time.
Seriously. You could have done a shot-for-shot remake of the games, literally in order, and it would have been better than this.
Bruce Campbell would have been a great choice to play Sully. He's 63, and basically played that character for years on Burn Notice.
Oh my god. Yes! How have I not think of this before.
The guy who played Yondu in the mcu would have been good imo
Bruce Campbell as Sully,
Nathan Fillion as Drake,
Priyanka Chopra as Chloe.
Done.
Screw Hollywood.
@@RobertLPeeters Priyanka is garbage lol, and Chloe is white.. albeit a bit tan
@@Bolter024 idk why I always thought Chloe was Latina
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Bro ain't nobody gonna advertise this lad lmao
@@aboriginalalex If I made alcohol I would totally pay him to play hallelujah over it.
That's how a movie should be too
Talking and drinking are mutually exclusive behaviors. He has to keep it to the point to avoid accidentally slipping into sobriety.
The collective accumulated hangover is quite possibly lethal.
What I dislike about treasure hunting movies is that ALWAYS the sequence of following clues to unravel new clues to lead to new clues to lead eventually to the treasure... there are always some steps that completely nullify everything that preceded them. The narrative point of the two crosses was that Magellan and his crew didn't trust each other, so they locked the treasure in such a way that they have to team up to reclaim it. This makes the first step of the treasure hunt reasonable. You need the two crosses to open a door, and you need cooperation from two sides to unlock everything and not die. But was the treasure locked there as a reward for team work? Nope. The treasure was placed in some cave visible and accessible to anyone with a boat. Sure, you'd need cooperation to get the directions to the treasure if you're a newcomer, but Magellan and the crew put the treasure there in the cave. They knew where it was. They didn't need the directions. They didn't need to traverse an elaborate maze and risk their lives for trust to reach the treasure.
It happens every time. Every single time. It's always a standstill at the first clue, but somewhere along the convoluted world-spanning path there's a ridiculously large location that is stupidly visible and accessible via helicopter because there's always natural lighting, that somehow we need to trust that nobody has ever found because there was a standstill on the other side of the world.
Magellan never had an expedition revolving gold or goods on this ship, his expedition was to to find an alternative way to the Indies. The writers of this script do study before coming up with the plot, right?
Pfft they cant even make a good plot in Hollywood, you think that they would know anything about history?
Thats Hollywood they never cared bout historical accuracy
@@erwannthietart3602 well thats true. Never the less there are dozens of real ships that sank in XVI or XVII century full of gold and where never found, thus giving the plot that extra notion of real events within fiction which makes all the diference. Why writers don't do this? Because they are lazy as fuck. That's why.
Lol you're kidding right?
look it up. I am Portuguese so I know Magellan's story pretty well. His expedition sought an alternative path to the spices since the Portuguese king's fleet had dominated the route since Tordesilhas (1494). Despite the spices being more valuable than gold back then, the truth is that he never got there, he died before that and the rest of the crew had to complete the voyage. So his ship never had any goods while Magellan was alive. Hollywood dumb ass script writers don't even bother to look up facts to contextualise their fiction, they use Magellan´s name in this crap because just about any one knows he was a famous explorer. Fuck lazy Hollywood writers, they actually get paid to write bullshit.
The helicopters carrying those ships with just hooks represent the current creative extent of any hollywood writer
Those ships are probably too heavy for even 2 or 3 heavy lifting helicopters to carry anyway.
@@brushstroke3733 if empty those ships are surprisingly light (but they weren't empty i bet). Biggest issue is that the wood would had rotted by then so just pulling them up would be next to impossible.
@DEZZNUTZ 1001 depends on which ship we're referring to. The Trinidad had a gross weight of over 100 tons so the frame alone (or net weight) would had been almost half that. Add the wear through time and that would had been even less. So even the Trinidad would had weighted a lot less than 70 tons if empty. But like i said these are probably not empty, they had treasures inside right?
Uncharted 4 literally has a car dangling by a single winch cable, so you really don't have any room to complain about the film doing something like this.
It would have been acceptable if it were a cartoon.
And again, the Drinker saved me another 2 hours of wasted time and at least $12 on a theater seat.
Thanks, Drinker.
Dude, just knowing they cast Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland should be a monumental red flag. They're the biggest miscast of this fucking century.
@@mariuszj3826 As soon i heard Mark Wahlberg was cast i already knew this film would be shit.
Not to mention the $30 in snacks.
@@mariuszj3826 i agree, why would they cast tom holland over the guy from the fan made film is beyond me, that guy was literally IT
I mean, 15 seconds of critical thinking would have done the same
I feel like the movie would've carried a lot more impact if it was as much about the treasure as finding Samuel Drake. If they'd establish Sam and Nate's childhood more. Picture this, Sully finally opens up to Nate about his partnership with Sam. He and Sam were partners in crime, they got a lead, Sam betrays Sully, and got away with the lead. He's been trying to find another one ever since and found Nate just in time for a heist (they met in a meaningful event that started the dynamic between these characters). Sully worked with Nate and once he found out that he was a Drake same as Sam, Sully wanted to get the treasure for himself and then screw Nate over since his brother did the same to him. This all changed when they eventually developed their relationship to be mentor-student instead of just partner thieves. Eventually, they get to the treasure and Sully finds a skeleton there. The skeleton is wearing a blue shirt and a pair o jeans with something in it's hands. Nate sees Sully and goes closer to take a look. Sully holds Nate back but Nate insists and finds it clutching a photograph of Sam and Nate while they were still kids. That is the fate of Samuel Drake. Maybe you could insert a note where he apologized to Sully and Nate or some writing on the wall saying something like "I did it, Nate. We got our ticket." or smth. Imagine how gut-wrenching it would be for the audience, Sully, and especially Nate. It would be a great twist on the original Uncharted's story and add organic drama into the story. It would also remind everyone how dangerous this job is and the consequences that go with it.
Wahlberg, Reynolds, Johnson, Statham... All play themselves with a different skin on. 2 of those have enough charisma that you (mostly)overlook the blatant cut-and-paste, the 3rd sells actionscenes due to being an actual martial artist, while the last.. His most believable role was honestly that biodrama about the Boston bombing, since he's a bostonian playing one, so for once the accent wasn't all fake. That's... probably the best thing I can say about his acting career.
Nothing against them personally, but immersion is a big part of a movie and I just see Mark Walberg and Peter Parker teaming up to stop cup-noodles hair from getting a generic treasure before they do.
Not cupnoodles hair 💀 girl I LIIIIIIVVVEEE
😆😆 but really I love her hair , it’s so creative ! But in the back it looks like a moldy hair net
You're not terrified of a mercenary who probably can't do ten push-ups and clearly spends a couple hours in a salon every day instead? Huh.
my immersion was lost not so much by the actors, but more the set. It felt a lot like an escape room quest rather than an indiana jones styled adventure. Though the "marvel banter" where everything is jokes or emotion and little is taken seriously also threw me off, but thats a current hollywood thing
Mark Walberg's first scene is what took me out of the immersion for me. It was clear that he didn't care about the role. It's just "another action movie" for him. Meanwhile this franchise means so much to so many.
The biggest heavy-lift helicopter in existence can lift up to 44 tons. The smallest one of Magellan's ship was around 75 tons.
They should have used African swallows instead.
@@baloosd Definitely not European swallows.
@@baloosd non migratory though
that's why the used the helicopters on the heavy right
Conservative helicopters are known for being able to lift more.
I was actually in the runner up for playing Nathan drake 10 years ago. (Keeping my anonymity) it was originally in talks to have David O Russel to direct and once he dropped out mark wahlberg dropped out. And seeing this now what a tragedy of a film they made.
I loved the games so much. The characters were richly developed and my wife even enjoyed the movie element while knitting in the background.
It definitely could have been amazing if the story was based on the game or if the actors were appropriately cast.
I suspect Tom Holland was chosen to appeal to teenage girls if my daughters reaction to it was to measure anything by.
Drake is an awesome character and while Tom makes a pretty reasonable Spiderman he's simply too child like to pull off this part.
Ironically, while making "Uncharted," Hollywood went in a very predictable direction.
Because they spent so long in development hell, Mark Walnut went from Drake to Sully, and the og scriptwriter called Neil Druckman a prick and aid his script was a tribute to Amy Hennig.
You should also check out my review and hear why I LIKED uncharted!
"How could they mess this up?"
The movie was in production hell for a decade, and when they finally decided to actually make it they hired the showrunner for the awful Wheel of Time series to punch up the script.
That explains a lot, actually.
That was painful to watch tbh... Wheel of Time btw. I wanted to like that show badly, but I never ended up finishing it once I learned how it ended from my brother. I was originally following the fan page of facebook, and it pretty much boiled into a circle-jerk stew pot of people saying the phrase "Just because it's different doesn't mean its bad!"
Doesn't automatically make it good, either. I understand things *have to be changed* in order to translate a book into a tv show or film, but shitty writing is *still shitty writing.*
They hired him to "punch it up" to which he read it as, physically assault.
Is that true?? God i'm surprised he didn't turn Nathan Drake into Natalia Drake
With over $100M in box office worldwide in just one weekend, and a 90% positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, Uncharted is a new hit movie franchise for the company.
Just watched this for the first time last night and you’ve pretty much summed up my take on it.
Felt like the first hour of the movie was just a huge waste of time due to one major oversight: so they gotta go through all this effort to get these special keys to find this secret passage into these ancient, booby-trapped catacombs that have been untouched for centuries-only to stumble out of an…air vent? Into a… rave party? In a… bar? What the crap? So some maintenance worker who installed that air vent could have just snooped around and gotten on the trail of one of the greatest treasure hunts in history? Did none of the writers consider this?
But out of everything wrong with this movie, I’d say my biggest issue was the casting-and of all of the casting issues, the most glaring of them has to be Sully. What a disservice they did to his character. He’s supposed to be the brash, supportive father figure to Nate while also serving as his voice of reason-warning him to stay out of drama and stick to finding the treasure. Here they made him a weasely, conniving, greedy, scum-bag who only cares about himself. Like, throughout the movie, it really seemed like they were trying to write him off as a bad influence for Nate, showing that maybe Chloe would be a better fit for him… and I freekin hate Chloe-even from the games. Her character just always rubbed be the wrong way and I could never understand her appeal. But that’s another rant…
It was complete and utter PANTS! The flying ships were up there with F&F 9 (10?) for complete stupidity... surprised they did not make it into orbit.
Drinker, how could you not address the biggest issue:
The leader of the mercs has cup noodle on her head the entire film
Cling film*
The noodle chick carried the whole, she made me cheer for her instead of the "good guys"
@@mocinhatrampante lol of course she did, she's the personification of the entitled toxic toome movement
@Lotus Not to worry, I reported the spam!
Hollywood has a talent for making hot women look unattractive.
They really should have done one movie with Nathan Fillion, then say "this was easier when we were younger" and do a flash back when he was Tom.
Good call!
They're probably gonna do the reverse in the future. Depending on how many movies they make and have Nate age, they should def move from Holland to Fillion/someone else
@@christybobby7147
Does Nathan even want those roles, when asked about Firefly he says “I hope a new cast pick it up”. Sadly Disney have announce this will be happening and Firefly will be an inclusive, family friendly series. Basically the next skin suit with writers who never even saw/didn’t care for the original series.
I dunno about Fillion, he would be to close to his usual characters as well IMO. He would be a nice Flashforward, just like Tom would be a great Flashback actor but I would want someone else (dunno who😅). Casting is so important for something like this as we already have a preconceived face in our minds, but they really f'ed it up this time for the sake of "Look we have that well known actor" PR.
Personally, Wahlberg, of course, terrible and Sully could have been fine with an more typical older, visibly greyish, bit slimy and cocky looking guy and Nathans actor taking after him in many ways just quite younger. I think Tom is great, but this character is not it.
I did not mind the female antagonist, bit young with her backstory and script is messing it up again but it's fine.
It's just one of those really mediocore Action movies loosely based on a game/book or alltogether Remake with names being thrown around to drive it home, like many I'm just really done with stuff like that and most people knew it would be like this, just a shame.
If you forget the games, I think it’s a lot more enjoyable. Mark an Tom work well together and it’s all a bit of fun. The flying boat scene made no sense at all but for some dumb fun, it was ok.
I've never played the games, but for the most part, was entertained by the movie. What I will remember about though is the concept of having 2x 500 year old ships lifted out of the water by helicopters. 🙄
That whole scene was stolen from Goonies
Spot on! I'm too old to understand this T.Holland hype. Babyface with zero personality, who was only looking good in spider man just because A.Garfield was before him and was even worst. Tobey is only P.Parker! And yes, when I heard that they choose Wahlberg play as Sully, oh man... I cried so much.
Garfield is far better than Maguire.
But I do agree with you on Holland.
He's boring as fuck.
I like how it starts with “15 years ago” and the kid they got for young Drake looked nearly the same age as Tom Holland.
Hahahahahahaha noway lol
Tom Holland is an adult and yet he still looks like a high schooler even his personality in real life is like those trouble maker high school student lol
@@15Candles looks, acts, and sounds nothing like Drake lmao
@@ClicheOriginals pretty sure everyone knows that. If Tom's character was named something else, it would've been fine but putting him in the body of Nathan Drake is absolutely ridiculous
@@15Candles Was also the worst spiderman of all three.
"Mark Wahlberg is an actor in the same way that breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete"
Absolute savagery 😂🤣😂
Heavy breathing isn't acting.
Completely true, dude sucks
He was okay inThe Departed. That's pretty much it.
@@JoakimOtamaa He did great in Lone Survivor, The Fighter, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day too. He's a great actor, he just keeps getting type cast but for me it's not neccesairly a bad thing. He's still entertaining and fun to watch
@@15Candles rofl great... talk about low standards
“An actor in the same way Breaking into a light jog to catch a train makes you an athlete” 😭
We couldn't get past half way and that was painful. Great review as usual.
If anyone else has seen the Uncharted fan film with Nathan Fillion, you would also agree he should have been cast as Nathan Drake.
YES!!!! He literally is Nathan Drake and I thought they were gonna go with him until I saw Tom Holland and was so confused
That’s was perfect.
Straight fax
he is 50 years old , way 2 old for the role
yeah that he was very good, but seems just slightly too old. If they made it with him 10 years ago then probably perfect.
When you pointed out how Wahlberg basically always plays himself I had a little dejavu to red notice(probably because you mentioned it like a minute earlier) which also has 3 actors, Johnson, Raynolds and Gadot, that also pretty much only play themselves independent of what character they're supposed to be. Then I started thinking about how prevalent this has become for modern movies. I mean think about it, the last decades there's been a slow but steady increase in actors that basically only have one persona they're able to bring to the screen, pretty much being the equivalent of a one trick pony.
Now I could be wrong, but I think this might perhaps be a nice topic for you to cover especially given your style of presentation and the way you dissect movies.
That's because the Jews in Hollywood want to form para-social relationships with the person you see on screen and the people viewing it. They don't want to see people act, they want to see people they are friends with in a movie, essentially. That's the reason why you see such a big push for "diversity" and "representation". It doesn't matter if the people don't look at all right for the role (especially women in superhero movies), they just have to look like someone you want to be friends with, so you are more open to the idea of ideology that will destroy your life.
@@codynoth4183 The, Jews ?
@@codynoth4183 Whoopie?
Most actors, has the same style, when acting. Keanu Reeves, for example. Even Al Pacino.
Majority of actors pretty much play different versions of themselves
I just watched this yesterday and I couldn’t agree more. I wanted to spend more time exploring an exotic, forgotten local. The treasure hunt was a bit mind boggling. 18 guys put all that in motion in order to hide/remember where they parked their ships full of gold? Am I missing something? The casting definitely left much to be desired and the antagonist went from reasonable choice to lame real fast and too soon even. I can see her turning on Banderas after finding the gold, which would’ve been dramatic, but that far in advance? Then you go and throw 2 straps on 500 year old wooden ships and conveniently there’s a whole big enough in the face ceiling to fly them up and out 🙄 without them falling apart considering that’s 500 years of water damage and weathering to them 😑
I think this could've been something as big and memorable as the Original Indiana Jones trilogy, but we can't ever have anything nice
Sully in Uncharted 3: this is why we can’t have nice things!
How did they mess it up? Well, casting someone with the face of a 12 year old boy as Nathan along with Mark “state the obvious while heavy breathing” Wahlberg is a good start
Allowing Kneel Cuckman to have any part in it also didn't help matters. That turdmeister is leagues worse than JarJar Abrams for turning everything he touches into a mountain of garbage.
I loved Wahlberg in that M. Knight Shyamalan movie… you know, the one where he plays a science teacher?
LMFAO too accurate on mark
I like both actors but they are just not right for the part, mainly due to the different in personality and lack of acting range.
@@cashel5232 Very accurate on both.
Easily. Hollywood is every good idea's kryptonite.
Mind you Amy Hennig's creation is a slam dunk for story writing and action. This is proof that Hollywood is bankrupt of original ideas and writing talent. Not only can they screw up the best stories men have written but they take the best stories women have written and made it bland and boring as hell.
Had the same feeling with Max Payne, something absolutely ready for the screen, and they decide to mangle it for no reason and end up appealing to no one. And you got Marky Mark yet again lol. Why do they feel the need to change from the source material so much it's nearly unrecognizable? I'll never understand
"Hey I have an idea let's make an action sequence where helicopters are dangling ships like they are made of form"
Isn't the Uncharted series grounded in reality?
"Who cares our target audience have gender studies degrees not physics"
Alright then.
I imagine that's how the conversation went when they decided on that scene.
I wouldn’t really say grounded in reality, Uncharted 1 had nazi zombies in it and Uncharted 2 had yetis.
Nathan Fillion was the perfect fit for the role. The fans wants him.HE wanted it.He even made a well made fan film playing Drake..Yet no they had to cast a man who looks 12. I will never understand how they could pass over Nathan for an overgrown school boy.
Nathan Fillion would have been a great Drake, IF they had made the film five years before the first game came out.
i think jensen ackles would’ve also been a good candidate
Another thing is, I don't understand why Ruben Fleischer still to this day gets jobs after repeatedly proving himself to be a below mediocre filmmaker. The dude hasn't made a good movie in like forever. He made a mediocre Venom and now he's made a trash Uncharted movie. I agree with your point about Nathan Fillion being the perfect casting choice for Nathan Drake.
@@miladrahim5437
You answered your own question there: he made Venom, which made a giant pile of money. And
Zombieland: Double Tap did quite well too. And I think that's the only two movies he has ever made. Dude basically has a 100% batting average at this point.
@@tiffanyrosadoo6286
Again, a guy closer to Sully's age than Drake's age.
The casting alone....
"Who we gonna get?"
"F*** it! Mark Wahlberg and the spiderman kid, i'm clocking out"
Yeah I mean why would Sony pick one of the biggest new stars under their contract.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq why would they put him in this movie is the real question. Pretty sure they have other movies in production.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq the screencap looks like ted 3, bro.
@@Jebu911 because he's one of the biggest stars in Sony's roster
@@Jebu911 he is actually a decent actor. He did a great job as a junkie war vet in Cherry.
"Uncharted - How Could They Mess This Up?"
Modern Hollywood: without even breaking a sweat.
The "people with expertise in anthropology/linguistics and also unusual combat/athletic abilities chase clues to unravel some major sexy archeological mystery, find treasure, but at the end discover it's about the friends and family you make/rediscover along the way" formula almost always makes for fun movies, but most are very forgettable. Few can be Indiana Jones. This is one I enjoyed and immediately forgot about.
Popcorn action flicks. I completely agree. I was watching one of the Jaws sequels the other day and was surprised by how engaging and memorable it was compared to Uncharted. And a lot of new movies to be honest. A sequel, man.
But then I had that reaction when I watched the first Alien movie after seeing Prometheus. And that movie was made in the seventies.
Bruce Campbell would've been a perfect Sully. He basically was a Sully like character in Burn Notice.
J.K.SIMMONS my dude
@@jessicagreaves5757 You serious?
RIP Paul Newman...
I really think Sully is based on Paul Newman...
Groovy!
Most movies would be better with Bruce Campbell.
I love that Hollywood is so woke and concerned with diversity, and yet ageism is still rampant in the industry. When will they learn that just because their core demographic is 18-34 years old, that doesn't mean you have to *cast* only people in that age range. Most of my favorite actors have been well outside that age range, both younger and older. Hollywood just sucks.
I know, right? I mean before he fell into his present formula of generic action movies revolving around some form of transport, Liam Neeson was badass. The original Taken was great and guess what... it's protagonist was in his 60s at the time. Nobody is another prime example of a great action movie starring a middle aged protagonist.
Scarlett Johannson still kicked ass as Black Widow beyond the age of 34... even if her standalone movie really didn't live up to what would have been a good send off. Ming Na Wen is another prime example of a badass who is older... I mean she is nearly 60 and her character Fennec Shand is awesome (I think they could have done a better Star Wars series if it was about her than the Book of Boobie Fart we got instead).
But on the other side of the spectrum of older actors, we have the likes of Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal... who churn out straight to video shit that banks entirely on the glory of their halcyon days that are long gone... especially Seagal who has REALLY let himself go in old age. I mean in his prime, he was a formidable presence in every scene on account of him being tall and muscular and an IRL badass at Aikido. He kicked ass... one of the longer term villains of the universe in which the novels I'm writing is set has an appearance based on how he used to be back in the day. Now... he's this pudgy Gravy Seal military cosplayer. It's so sad.
@@HouseOfAlastrian Steven is, and always was, a fraud and a poor one at that. I agree with everything else though. Nobody in that age range can match Arnie, Stalone or Brad Pitt, in my eyes, at least.
@@HouseOfAlastrian They really should have made the Black Widow movie instead of Captain Marvel. It would've been a heck of a lot more appropriate before Endgame.
For sure. I love Idris Elba, and Daniel Craig. They aren't exactly spring chickens. But they get the job done.
Ageism is a feature of wokeness. The Wokies hate the Baby Boomers and view them as being Racist Boomer.
Of course ageism is a problem with woke people.
Gonna watch part of this movie only for those old sailing ships. Always like them since pirates of the caribbean
i have never heard of uncharted until the movie and decided to watch a summary of the game and let me tell you
*hollywood messed up here*
*Video game series with great storytelling exists*
Hollyweird: "I'm about to do what is called a power move."
Hollyweird: "Wait, did I say power move? I meant dick move."
Wait....did I say power move? I meant 'reimagined.'
You should also check out my review and hear why I LIKED uncharted!
They should've casted Bruce Campbell as Sully - he really owned his character in Burn Notice.
I can see that. Sam Axe as Sully would work.
Now that would work. Sam was probably the closest real life adaptation like to sully I’ve ever seen.
Bruce Campbell nails everything he does
Or Tom Selleck (if he’s still acting though).
The greatest actor of our generation, haha
Honestly speaking as a hardcore uncharted lover here are the things that went wrong for me-
1. Cast of the movie-
the cast seems really out of place example - [Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, Sully as Mark Wahlberg]
2. Charaterics of the character-
I'm pretty sure Sully, Chole, Tom, etc, these personality roles are not even remotely close, to that of the Uncharted series
[really painful to sully in the movie so untrustworthy personality]
3. Sully's mustache-
Sully is known for his legendary moustache, and in the movie is no mustache on sully's face
4. The story-
The story seems out of place, If you have played the uncharted game then you would notice that story is odd. It is not meant to be like this !!!! [I meant to say the theme is not barely similar]
5. Plot Twist-
The plot twist is awfully weird, Braddock kills her partner and takes control. [Nadine on the other had done similarly by not killing him, but instead letting him die on the ship. But there was a reason she was disgusted to see the greed of the people with Avery's treasure. She came to her sense that he is not a good partner], Braddock was obsessed with the treasure and wants full of it.
Let me know what were the things that went wrong
*I think the movie was wrong*
0:58 To be honest the Mario Bros. , Street Fighter and Double Dragon are fun to watch and can give somme good 90's vibes
A case for "don't fix what is not broken"
Looks like a mashup of Uncharted 3 and 4 that attempted to mix the best from both but ended up taking the worst (and perhaps downgrading it a bit)
You can actually find "uncharted game movie" composed from cutscenes and short bits of gameplay for every part from 1 to 4 and the one for the fourth game looks already like something you could run in cinemas)
@Simulation algorithm that Dark Tower movie was terrible. That series needed about 3 movies.
I didn't have much of an issue with the story, it was more so the lack of personality each character had. Sully was generic, Chloe was generic, the Braddock villain chick was generic, and Tom Holland played Peter Parker but in a different outfit.
@@seeyouauntie that would have been entirely reasonable from a storytelling perspective, but that would have made it too "niche" for the studios to justify it. A SyFy Channel miniseries would have been perfect, they did a great job with The Stand.
Had very low expectations for this movie, and they were truly justified.
But at least we get a Drinker review out if it, so there’s that silver lining.
@Ехtrа yup, I haven’t and ain’t planning to. Goofy ass bots
Lol
Drinker basically saving us from wasting money on crap films.
Lets go Brandon.
Greetings from Germany.
@@funkalotz76 with all the money YT has why they can’t monitor for spam bots is horrid. This isn’t hard, if you see an account cross-posting comments in a short period of time, and especially across channels, flag them as bots for review.
The Goonies felt more Uncharted than this film. Wallberg was a poor choice for the characters Sully and the Nathan was played by a kid. This film is a mess.
Like the man said, this movie absolutely should have been a slam dunk. Hire age appropriate actors to just do what happens in the games. They're already so cinematic, you have to try really hard to screw it up. And they took that as a challenge.
When the only funny scene in an uncharted film is when Sully enters a Papa Jones, you know you reached a new low.
Wait? That actually happened? The fuck?
@@shawklan27 Yeah, a hidden commercial in middle of uncharted.
Fuck sakes
@@shawklan27 Yeah. In Barcelona, no less. And it is a story-advancing location, no less.
I'm surprised they didn't have him enter Wahlburgers.
Tom Holland just doesn't feel right here. He nearly 30 going on 14. Nathan Fillion should have been offered it. Then dropped a couple lbs. Legendary. But Hollywood has that flavor of the month actors.
They messed up the chance to have him. Should have done it 10 years ago. Such a shame because it could have been a fun film series but I can't imagine we'll see a sequel to this.
"30 going on 14" lol
I can't stand your channel but I have to agree with you
To be more precise, Sony is experiencing a severe dependency towards Tom Holland.
They should've hired Ryan Reynolds or Brad Pit for the main role
ABSOLUTELY NOBODY involved in the production played even 7 minutes of the games. They can't have to get it THAT wrong.
I haven't played the games extensively, but a ways back I thought about who I would cast in an adaptation. My choice for Sully? Bruce Campbell.
I can't see how anyone still had hopes for this movie once the cast was announced. I would've been shocked if this turned out good.
I've already watched the Uncharted movie.
I thought it was actually pretty good.
I liked it more than I thought I would.
Totally worth the $10 ticket.
Man as soon as I seen mark walhberg I knew I wasn’t watching this 😂😂🤦🏾♂️
@@trigzzfrl3013 it’s an alright movie. It seems like a setup for the next movie which would be the first game. I wouldn’t say that it’s a must watch but if you can get some lower priced tickets then go for it. You can tell that they wanted it to be more tame than the games and they wanted big Hollywood names to make it more appealing for a wider audience.
@@paradoxxor7770 if the Nathan drake don’t look like Nathan drake I ain’t watching it,same as blade if it ain’t Wesley snipes I ain’t watching it
@@paradoxxor7770 Wesley snipes still looks good
As always, Mark Wahlberg does a good impression of Mark Wahlberg.
exactly! he plays the same f****** character in every movie...💯
The question is always, how well did Mark Wahlberg play Mark Wahlberg. Because we just watched The Happening and that is not a good Mark Wahlberg.
They could have gotten Donny to do it just as well, for less money...
This also can be said for Tom Holland.
Jokes aside, I know very well an actor Mark Wahlberg but struggling to remember his character's names.
"Too old for one and too young for the other..." - This sums up my life from about the age of 31 up to my current age of 46... 😥
Consider that casting is also a job market. Maybe the studio was like: "We are making a movie based on a popular video game series, who wants a role?" and the crickets were queuing up.
Instead of wasting 10 bucks and two hours of my time, I'll just stay home and rewatch the excellent short film with Nathan Fillion.
I was thinking the same. That short was amazing, perfectly executed. Im not watching this movie, I'll just light a fat one and play the game again
Now hold on just a damn minute! Where are you seeing movies for ten bucks????
You should also check out my review and hear why I LIKED uncharted!
Good God for someone who loves the Uncharted games, this movie looks absolutely woeful. Hollywood must be trolling us at this point, and I 100% agree with you when you say that Tom Holland looks like a teenage boy.
I mean he can act. He was really good as a war vet in Cherry. I think the producers limited his range in this movie though.
Which makes him a great Spider-Man, but not a Nathan Drake. Nothing against Holland, but why they cast him for this role boggles my mind.
@@RanMouri82 Especially as it fools nobody. Everyone will be thinking "why is teenage peter parker roleplaying Indiana Jones".
@Stroke It’s pretty good, you can watch it.
RanMouri82,His Spiderman isn't even great and his Peter Parker is annoying.
This movie lost me with the choppers impossibly pulling the old boats up and flying them around.
I watched it in the theater and enjoyed it as a ridiculous comedy. The physics are so unconvincing it is absolutely hilarious.
The moment that girl kills Antonio Banderas was the most anticlimactic moment i've ever watched in a movie or tv series.
You build a rich, menacing and resourceful villain (or at least they try to depict him that way) just to get killed by some random girl and instantly she gets all the guys, power and influence to her side, no issues whasoever... seriously WTF, they didn't even make it as a final plottwist but way before the final conflict. Cringe af.
By “anticlimactic”, and “cringe af”, I’m sure what you meant to say was, “stunning and brave.” It’s almost like you forget that Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength. Don’t let it happen again.
I think you’ll find that they needed that moment to push…
*T H E M E S S A G E*
Because strong diverse black wahmen thats why unfortunately
Because like the drinker always says 'The Message"
Surprised the guy getting his throat cut wasn’t casted by a straight white male
Even in Jojo at least the 17 year olds aren’t in charge of the expedition. Kujo plays his role as the muscle of the group but the travel plans are generally made by the wealthy, world seasoned, well connected Joseph. Holland is an awesome actor but he looks too young to convey any meaningful life experience without setting up his character extensively. Which doesn’t work here because he’s supposed to be one half of a duo of hardened criminals past their early thirties.
Ironically Jonathan, Joseph and Jotaro all looked 10-15 years older than they really were in their respective parts. Even Kakyoin was too buff for a "normal" 16 or 17-year old Japanese kid. At least starting in Part 4 the characters look the right physiques for their age
@Alexander Kerensky maybe Buccarati but he is more so the leader in Part 5. There is also Polnareff but he is such a late addition so there isn't anyone in the conventional role of a mentor in Part 5
Imagine Jojo of all things being more reasonably grounded than a Hollywood movie
You should also check out my review and hear why I LIKED uncharted!
@noora I never said he was stunted. I know what age he is. That’s why I’m saying he looks too young for the role regardless of what his age is. We went from watching this guy play a high schooler to playing what is supposed to be an older man in his late 20s to early 30s in one year. Even an actor as skilled as Holland is going to struggle with convincing the audience if they’ve watched his previous films, especially after taking on a role as iconic as Spider-Man.
I had to wonder during most of the action scenes if Nate had Peter's powers.
I never played the games, but other than having some fun while watching some of the scenes, I had to wonder about physics and logic in this movie.