DASHCAM is the WORST Movie of 2022 | Explained

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  • @AmandaTheJedi
    @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +1101

    To some this is a future cult classic, to me it is a headache.

    • @katburgess5926
      @katburgess5926 Před rokem +44

      I read that as just "a future cult" and thought 'but cults also bring headaches'.

    • @EnuHarumonia
      @EnuHarumonia Před rokem +4

      @@brandondenny226 I thought that at first too but the more I thought about it the less sense that made. I understand how her friend knew her twitch username but maybe less so for that random mom who had no clue who she was. Regardless it's a good enough "because movie" explanation imo

    • @FoxFireNaruto
      @FoxFireNaruto Před rokem +5

      I dunno about alchemy for that symbol, more like christian occult. It looks like it combines the inverted cross, the Ichthys fish and a circle. I had to pause to even see that, the fish looked like an eye symbol at first glance.

    • @hats4pigeons132
      @hats4pigeons132 Před rokem +1

      @@FoxFireNaruto It kind of looks like the fish was intentionally drawn to look like an eye, but that's what I see in the symbols too. It would also make sense for a biblically inspired symbol to be drawn on bible pages.

    • @TayTayMakesBeats
      @TayTayMakesBeats Před rokem +3

      There are many different kinds of people. I've probably seen less than a dozen movies and a few seasons of 2 shows in the past 3 years. For whatever reason I can't find the motivation to even on the side while I make music or draw or whatever. Despite that only a few minutes into this video I decided "okay I absolutely *need* to see this." This kind of dumpster fire appeals to me on a deep level for reasons that I can't even begin to rationalize.

  • @AJadedLizard
    @AJadedLizard Před rokem +1112

    I'm...baffled by the decision to go from the US to the UK...to avoid COVID restrictions. I'm just...puzzled.

    • @bbear2695
      @bbear2695 Před rokem +146

      yeah i thought that was odd too. if you somehow managed to find a place in the us that was so much as requiring masks...just drive south a couple hours. plus im pretty sure they werent letting americans into the uk. i know of a streamer who had to pretty much get married bc she couldnt see her long term bf for 2 years bc he was stuck in uk.

    • @blaah9999
      @blaah9999 Před rokem

      @@bbear2695 right? Didn’t Italy literally block people in their houses? And as a healthcare worker who lost a loved coworker to covid in Dec 2020, and came very very close to losing my cousin and her whole family in 2021…. Fuck this fucking movie.

    • @Mielikkiii
      @Mielikkiii Před rokem +9

      @@bbear2695 lilsimsie or there was also someone else?

    • @hellothere702
      @hellothere702 Před rokem +12

      @@bbear2695 sometimes all it takes is driving north if you're near Michigan
      It's bad here

    • @dorianleakey
      @dorianleakey Před rokem +2

      They couldn't make the movie in Sweden, or pretend it was in Sweden, is my guess.

  • @TenaciousDealer
    @TenaciousDealer Před rokem +918

    Bro running back to the tree because that chat called him a pussy is the most realistic thing in this film lmao. Thanks for watching this so I don't ever accidentally find myself doing so.

    • @EughhBrothereughh
      @EughhBrothereughh Před rokem +14

      Its the fact that he side eyed the chat, not wanting them to see him reading and then saw it and then went to get that grandma lmao

  • @chloekm7958
    @chloekm7958 Před rokem +728

    Annie's Wikipedia states that she "plays a version of herself" in this movie. And that's insane.

    • @CaptainSpauld1ng
      @CaptainSpauld1ng Před rokem +41

      Very insane.

    • @youtube-kit9450
      @youtube-kit9450 Před rokem

      Judging by other comments on this vid, she apparently is actually some whack-a-doodle hyper religious conspiracy theorist in real life so I wouldn't be even mildly surprised if she was such an insufferable dickwaffle.

    • @NeonSake13
      @NeonSake13 Před rokem +29

      Let's hope it's a version she keeps hidden...

    • @jamesgatz5301
      @jamesgatz5301 Před rokem +11

      Insanely based

    • @jaysontatum01
      @jaysontatum01 Před rokem +5

      I did find it weird how the characters names were the same as the actors who played them

  • @jadefox33445
    @jadefox33445 Před rokem +927

    The Actress for Anne said she was barely playing a characture of herself... So she's a real person.

    • @elizabethwojcik1620
      @elizabethwojcik1620 Před rokem +290

      That's a horror

    • @SakuraKurosaki10
      @SakuraKurosaki10 Před rokem +252

      That's, uh, rather unfortunate.

    • @Sweethearts4969
      @Sweethearts4969 Před rokem +190

      i freaking knew it! i was like shes either this new great actress or the chick aint acting and this is allll her lol

    • @CaptainSpauld1ng
      @CaptainSpauld1ng Před rokem +113

      OMG, that's highly disturbing. To act like that in real life that is mind boggling.

    • @gabbyabbott4965
      @gabbyabbott4965 Před rokem +120

      The true horror of this movie is that people like that exist.

  • @hugh-johncampbell8669
    @hugh-johncampbell8669 Před rokem +257

    I'd watch the movie that was the flip of this, where Annie has systematically pissed off a bunch of people so they conspire to murder her *insert supernatural weirdness here*

    • @bigbearkat2010
      @bigbearkat2010 Před rokem +14

      Kind of sounds like a longer version of that one scene in Scary Movie where all the movie theater patrons beat Ghostface to the punch in killing Brenda because she wouldn't stop talking and answering phone calls while they're trying to watch Shakespeare in Love

    • @Rrtnns
      @Rrtnns Před rokem +1

      So you're basically saying you'd gladly have freethinkers murdered?
      What are you saying?

  • @Obsidian__
    @Obsidian__ Před rokem +156

    "I want to make a movie so annoying that people won't be able to watch it, so that people will watch it more than once" - That's some sort of logic you've got there, chief.

  • @Darkthestral1
    @Darkthestral1 Před rokem +694

    Honestly a nice horror anthology with each short film having a different film technique (security cams, web cam, dash cam, go pro, ECT) would probably be a better idea for the immersive camera gimic. Nice and short so it doesn't outstay it's welcome and you'd get to see only the bits that really lend to the filming type.

    • @LunaWitcherArt
      @LunaWitcherArt Před rokem +4

      But then again, that's just one of those "10 scary videos" type of things. Why make it a movie if I can have the same experience watching CZcams. Same lack of plot, same diversity of filming styles, same unexplainable and disjointed collection of creepy stuff.

    • @lectricanman
      @lectricanman Před rokem +7

      Have you seen any of the local 48 shorts?

    • @tuckershuff1441
      @tuckershuff1441 Před rokem +12

      Check out the V/H/S series. They're a series of anthology films centered around the found-footage gimic. They bounce around from go-pro, security cameras, documentaries. Some shortd are hit or miss but others are legitimately terrifying.

    • @elafimilo8199
      @elafimilo8199 Před rokem +3

      This House Has People In It, Children of the Mirror, kanepixels' Backrooms series. And yeah, Local 58 is delightful

    • @pisssoakedbombas
      @pisssoakedbombas Před 19 dny

      I vaguely remember another series like this actually from the UK. It was a tv mini series and the first short follows a woman being stalked and eventually murdered, only for it to be revealed it's part of a much larger thing. And something about a bunny symbol I watched it when I was 13 and haven't been able to find it since

  • @gray2578
    @gray2578 Před rokem +461

    I feel like the whole “anyone can record anything anywhere/found footage” thing has lost the novelty that used to make it ~spooky~

    • @icedcapplord710
      @icedcapplord710 Před rokem +37

      Found footage films peaked at Cloverfield tbh

    • @tonypeppermint5329
      @tonypeppermint5329 Před rokem +32

      Yeah. It'll be good for this category to die peacefully as much as possible, then make a comeback some years later with a hopefully good story.

    • @zombieedrea
      @zombieedrea Před rokem +15

      @@icedcapplord710 I feel like Searching was the last time a found footage horror movie was really good, but then again that was more of a thriller. Also it had John Cho and you just can't go wrong with that. (Cowboy Bepop not withstanding.)

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC Před rokem +14

      I feel like a few things have caused problems for conventional found footage - the fact that it doesn't really constrain what you see because so many people have relatively-high quality cameras on them at all times; and the fact that livestreaming exists, so there's every reason why footage wouldn't be lost and then found.
      I don't think it's dead though - it just needs to either respond to the change in technology and explore its potential, or go retro so that the limitations actually make sense again.

    • @khandimahn9687
      @khandimahn9687 Před rokem +12

      The novelty has worn off, but a good filmmaker can still make a spooky movie with the format.

  • @GoodyBadApple
    @GoodyBadApple Před rokem +53

    What kind of person decides that the main character for their movie should be a rapping anti-vax Sarah Silverman?

  • @macularius
    @macularius Před rokem +146

    the Dashcam/Dashcam confusion reminds me of when I worked in a library in 2012 when Cloud Atlas (the film) came out and got to watch dozens of confused patrons accidentally add themselves to the wait list for The Cloud Atlas (2004) by Liam Callanan instead of Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell

    • @samuell.foxton4177
      @samuell.foxton4177 Před rokem +6

      Also there’s a British comedy actor called David Mitchell who’s not the writer of Cloud Atlas

  • @Glettification
    @Glettification Před rokem +90

    Okay but why does Amanda say 'caricature' like it's a record scratch

    • @alannamcfall7887
      @alannamcfall7887 Před 2 měsíci +8

      I just went up to my Canadian wife with "caricature" written on a piece of paper like "read this out loud, I need to know if that's an Amanda thing or a Canadian thing". Turns out it's Amanda :P

  • @hauntedsunsets
    @hauntedsunsets Před rokem +382

    the progression of this movie (especially after stealing the car) sounds like the progressions of a deliberately surreal and chaotic horror game where you're given these tasks at face value and left to wonder just what exactly is going on here
    this kind of lack of knowledge and pure chaos feels like it might be better suited to a game with some kind of polygonal or otherwise very stylized look because then there's a lot more ammo to lean into the suspense of disbelief to just follow it along. not to mention since you're playing as the main character you could try and better balance how fucking annoying they are
    or maybe I just love weird horror games and can't come up with any idea how you'd make this movie work better

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +132

      Honestly it sounds like it could make a really fun game - for a movie, I think it just needed more breathing room, even annie seeing some shit about the cult before it ramps into the conclusion - just giving time for tension to actually build

    • @bepisthescienceman4202
      @bepisthescienceman4202 Před rokem +24

      ​@@AmandaTheJedi mash a to beat demon to death with keyboard

    • @twobats
      @twobats Před rokem +13

      absolutely! like a 2d pixelated art style or even something similar to Puppet Combo's art style would suit a game with this premise really nicely

    • @hauntedsunsets
      @hauntedsunsets Před rokem +12

      @@twobats I was SPECIFICALLY thinking about how this weird chaotic string of events would fit perfectly in a puppet combo game

    • @abbearley2904
      @abbearley2904 Před rokem +5

      they literally made it up as they filmed it. went to a q&a screening of this (it was free) and they basically had the concept: this actress in a horror movie and like winged it from there

  • @Mediados
    @Mediados Před rokem +223

    Bold of you to call it "Of the year", you still have a few months of suffering throught movies ahead of you

  • @FurTheWorkers
    @FurTheWorkers Před rokem +52

    "I needed some face lotion for my skin so I wouldn't get the hose again." Glorious line for an ad.

    • @adrianaheiler9794
      @adrianaheiler9794 Před rokem +3

      Came here to see if someone commented on this. So smooth... apparently ordering the lotion paid off already!

    • @larkspurjane
      @larkspurjane Před rokem +2

      She's brilliant.

  • @JH-yj7kk
    @JH-yj7kk Před rokem +260

    I used to be a big fan of Annie's music back in the day. Her old band Giant Drag was actually really great. Their debut album is a 2000's forgotten gem. She was always kinda out there but in a way that was a lot more charming. She's been through some awful and tragic life events since then, including the death of her partner and child, plus ongoing physical and mental health issues. She's since become very religious and fallen down a paranoid conspiracy hole. As a former fan, it's been really hard to watch. This film almost seems somewhat exploitative using her as something to gawk at.

    • @sador42
      @sador42 Před rokem +50

      💯 I am a fan as well. I actually bought a vinyl record she self released of a Live Giant Drag show from the UK that she hand painted the jacket herself. When following her she started posting conspiracy stuff so I messaged her and she tried to take me down a super crazy conspiracy rabbit hole and would not take anything I said to her seriously, she wants to believe in conspiracy more than reality. It’s very sad.

    • @JH-yj7kk
      @JH-yj7kk Před rokem +39

      @@sador42 that's so cool! Yes, it's really sad. I've kept following her over the years because I always hoped she'd catch another break with her music. Her behavior has become increasingly erratic over the years and she looks pretty unhealthy. She's so caught up in all this different conspiracy and "spiritual" stuff that she seems like a different person. I've messaged with her a little bit several years ago, and she was very sweet and kind. Life has not been good to her and I don't think she's ok. :(

    • @susanq6030
      @susanq6030 Před rokem

      Oh no not religion!

    • @Rrtnns
      @Rrtnns Před rokem +1

      There's nothing paranoid about a neo-Marxist America, anyone who fails to notice this is completely brainwashed and very lazy...

  • @falynoliver81
    @falynoliver81 Před rokem +45

    “Somehow it’s already July”.
    Me still in June:😳
    Ju lying!

  • @khjdkdjfkfjdk
    @khjdkdjfkfjdk Před rokem +46

    Yelling at the screen that the “actress” is actually mostly like this including the car show 😭 shocked Amanda didn’t know this

  • @marril96
    @marril96 Před rokem +67

    Girl, I recently watched the entire wrong Dashcam movie, too. I vaguely remembered the trailer being different than the movie I was seeing, but I chalked it up to the trailer probably being misleading. I was so confused when I finished it. I only found out it's the wrong movie afterward. It sucked.
    But my friend assured me the right Dashcam also sucks so I guess I didn't miss out on much.

    • @bobhamster3235
      @bobhamster3235 Před rokem +2

      The right dashcam was actually good,i just finished watching and it had that creepy demonic thriller feeling,i havent watched a horror movie like this in so long😪i recommend watching it,it was actually good,and the main character personality was funny and will make you mad at the same time,

    • @cadenmiller7732
      @cadenmiller7732 Před rokem +1

      unpopular opinion but i enjoyed how much it sucked

    • @charliebaker1427
      @charliebaker1427 Před 22 dny +1

      It was hilarious and weird because ot was so out there

  • @AmandaMack
    @AmandaMack Před rokem +478

    The real Annie Hardy is a bit of a miserable, bitter, entitled, nightmare of a person. There's no doubt in my mind this part was written for her and the character was based on her. I'm sure there are some exaggerations here, but probably not as much as it would be if this character was a decent person. Thank you for saving me from watching this. I still loosely follow Annie's career because Giant Drag was such a huge and influential part of my late teens/early 20s, but I don't think nostalgia is enough to make me sit through this mess.

    • @jacksyoutubechannel4045
      @jacksyoutubechannel4045 Před rokem +33

      Yikes. I just assumed it was an over-the-top version of what people _think_ conservatives are like. It's bizarre to actually see someone like that out in the wild, if that's supposed to be a version of herself. (Also, very unpleasant.)

    • @obyone878
      @obyone878 Před rokem +55

      @@jacksyoutubechannel4045 Not over-the-top if you look at what's been happening the past few years.

    • @froggy5748
      @froggy5748 Před rokem +15

      @@jacksyoutubechannel4045 I’m not gonna lie, every single person from the right I’ve met is exactly like this, including half of my family. I had to cut them out of my life completely because it’s unbearable, especially when they straight up say to my face that they don’t believe I should have human rights lol

    • @stylesb959
      @stylesb959 Před rokem +4

      I’ve been following her a while and see nothing but good

    • @JH-yj7kk
      @JH-yj7kk Před rokem +3

      Yeah I used to be the biggest Giant Drag fan in high school! I've kept following her over the years because I've always hoped her music would take off again. It was once so great! But eventually i just had to unfollow her. It got so toxic. She has been through a lot, though, so I still feel some sadness for her.

  • @lindseystein9676
    @lindseystein9676 Před rokem +58

    I used to really love Annie’s music, but she’s apparently gone full Q, Christian & covid conspiracy theorist.

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +39

      did she in real life too? I liked the song they used by her band at the end after she stopped rapping but didn't bother looking into her as a person beyond that

    • @lindseystein9676
      @lindseystein9676 Před rokem +33

      Yeah, from what I’ve heard on her podcast, she’s like that in real life, too.

    • @YLSQUID
      @YLSQUID Před rokem +8

      There's a live vid of her on kimmel, her album hearts and unicorns is stellar imo. She went through hell in her personal life and it seems it affected her mental state a lot

    • @sador42
      @sador42 Před rokem +4

      @@YLSQUID 💯 Very sad, Giant Drag was an awesome band, especially That album.

    • @msnintendique64
      @msnintendique64 Před rokem +24

      @@AmandaTheJedi she absolutely is. Her Twitter is a nightmare of Q conspiracy and transphobic stuff. That my biggest issue with this whole film, don’t give her a platform unchecked.

  • @Oonagh72
    @Oonagh72 Před rokem +52

    Why I like reviewers like you: You are a show within yourself. You are entertaining, and informative. You are fun to watch, and I feel smarter when it’s over. You aren’t a podcast I put on in the background. I put you on the big tv and watch you with interest. Thanks.

  • @irishpieceoftrash
    @irishpieceoftrash Před rokem +191

    Always love knowing what the baseline is for the absolute worst movies.
    Don't know why but it always gives me a sense of warmth and comfort.

  • @stevegeorge6880
    @stevegeorge6880 Před rokem +181

    Well, at least we got two excellent dashcam reviews for the price of one which was free. Your work helps to get us through the worst. Thank you.

  • @UnicornBAZOOKA
    @UnicornBAZOOKA Před rokem +107

    Okay so my niche in the occult might come into play here. I think that symbol is a mix of three popular occult symbols, the ichthys (Jesus fish), the all seeing eye, and the upside down cross. I've never seen them mashed up in this way before, but I believe that those are the symbols they were trying to use?
    Edit: if I had to guess as to what the fuck the plot was trying to get at, was probably the idea of pleiades/pleidians which are basically canonical bible aliens in some beliefs. Hence the reference to Christian lore as well as aliens. But I really can't be bothered to think too terribly hard about this movie.

    • @tailorforeman7082
      @tailorforeman7082 Před rokem

      Do you watch black balloon?

    • @BRoRN.
      @BRoRN. Před rokem +1

      I think the hidden theme was about Human ST and Anne’s ignorance and beliefs/ internet validation overshadowing the horror of being abduct*d. Politics make people more upset than the movie dragging you through each step of literal abduction. Her despising LA, The fair, minivans filled w kids toys and clothes, dungeons in the house… ignorance of HST is the real plot. It was half of the movie yet 90% of people were more horrified by her beliefs.. as well as the almost unwatchable first half💀

  • @DogMechanic
    @DogMechanic Před rokem +13

    I thought the part where Annie gets Stretch to rap a little with her, and the part later where he jokes about having small balls was actually an okay part. They set aside the bullshit between them to actually be... ya know, people for a minute- to get each other's mind off what's happening and to keep moving. It's the only moment where you get the sense that there was a time they really were friends. But hey, broken clock's right twice a day.

  • @samsudeep6199
    @samsudeep6199 Před rokem +23

    Dashcam has good scares but the main protagonist/antagonist/monster/racist/covidiot is a trainwreck of a character in the movie history.

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +27

      I feel like I was too annoyed to be scared? and it never slowed down enough to let tension build so it just felt exhausting to me - best moment was Angela running at the back of the car because it actually felt tense

  • @funandyvideos
    @funandyvideos Před rokem +22

    "Don't platform trash" is the best takeaway from this whole operation.
    Oh, and watch the other "Dashcam".

  • @blackhalo317
    @blackhalo317 Před rokem +69

    Amanda seriously needs to treat herself after watching this movie. 😂 Go read some Alice/Bella fanfiction. You deserve it!

  • @thelaughingrouge
    @thelaughingrouge Před rokem +103

    I don't know how you managed to sit though this and pay enough attention to be able to review it cuz damn, even you explaining what this movie is is like a fever dream/migraine combo!

    • @AnikMonette
      @AnikMonette Před rokem

      Feel asleep, woke up to this video, and completely lost!😂

  • @jackwalters3928
    @jackwalters3928 Před rokem +10

    I love how you blur out the spiderman poster during your ad, but it's unblurred during the rest of the video. And the funniest part is how you can obviously tell it's a spiderman poster even if you only see the blurred version.

  • @wyldstallyns__
    @wyldstallyns__ Před rokem +30

    i love how the dashcam movie that people mistake for the other one has the tagline “we’ve been lied to” XD

  • @andreacinefilo
    @andreacinefilo Před rokem +122

    The Bubble is my pick for worst movie of the year so far. Dated premise, no plot, no characters, just a long and insufferable series of bad improv. I thought it would never end.

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +54

      Didn't subject myself to that one!

    • @nathanmagro1
      @nathanmagro1 Před rokem +40

      @@AmandaTheJedi There's still time.

    • @robineras477
      @robineras477 Před rokem +6

      I wanted to like the bubble so bad. But it was unwatchable. I didn’t even finish it

    • @cthulhutheendless1587
      @cthulhutheendless1587 Před rokem +3

      Long stretches of basically every Apatow movie lacks any coherent plot, and so many Covid-centric movies lack ditto. Hence, movie sucks

    • @cthulhutheendless1587
      @cthulhutheendless1587 Před rokem

      Also my pick for the worst movie of 2022 is the recent Netflix release The Man from Toronto. A waste of actors and a profoundly unfunny experience. Worst of all, I don’t think Hollywood will ever get around to pronouncing “Toronto” correctly

  • @SallyOaktree
    @SallyOaktree Před rokem +18

    She felt the covid restrictions were too harsh so she went TO THE UK? 😂

  • @jerichotroy2662
    @jerichotroy2662 Před rokem +35

    I appreciate the sick "The Visit" by m night shyamalan reference by having an insufferable character repeatedly rapping while not being good at it at all

  • @alexroy5854
    @alexroy5854 Před rokem +19

    Damn, that one scene with the old lady having blood fill up her mask is pretty dope/spooky actually

  • @DesolatedChild018
    @DesolatedChild018 Před rokem +68

    I legit thought “I… I think it’s supposed to be a parody of modern foundfootage movies that lean into streams and smartphones instead of video cameras” Like, doesn’t feel like a parody of “Unfriended”? The unlikeable characters, the throw everything at the wall regardless of thought. I confess that both the “money scene” and the final shot got a genuine laugh out of me. Even the idea of an ancient demon being crushed to death by the keyboard was funny to me, im not gonna lie. The absurdity of the Ariana Grande tattoo on it’s own and by the fact it ended up being something with a payoff; The political references which I read as how all those movies try to force a political jab only to be as forced and without purpose as that.
    I made a different movie in my head as I was watching it. Which is a hell of a brainrot.
    Since apparently it was meant to be taken 100% as an horror movie. That being the case: Why? The fact that the director could explain the “lore” of the thing in one paragraph yet couldn’t communicate it in the movie is the mark of “failing at movie”. He movied wrong.
    Still, as an absurdist comedy, I found it very entertaining. Could have been a 15 to 20 minute short. Maybe I should do something about my irony poisoned brain.

    • @katharineeavan9705
      @katharineeavan9705 Před rokem +2

      That's Tumblr Supernatural fan levels of brainrot and I commend you. Even just going off Amanda's review, it genuinely does make a lot more sense and do a far better job of being entertaining when viewed as a parody.

  • @setperentie6462
    @setperentie6462 Před rokem +222

    Pretty sure the actress is actually like this irl, just not as over the top as portrayed here. Definitely same beliefs at the very least. I think she also does the car streaming thing for real
    Really wish I didnt pay to rent this after I learned that 😬

    • @abbearley2904
      @abbearley2904 Před rokem +56

      oh she's absolutely like that in real life. i went to a free screening of the movie and she's uh... basically just the character

    • @sador42
      @sador42 Před rokem +65

      💯 - I am a fan of her band Giant Drag, I followed her on instagram and she started posting crazy conspiracy stuff so I messaged her and she is in the deep end of buying into all sorts of conspiracy theories. I finally had to unfollow her cause we argued in instagram messenger and she could not deal with facts.

    • @inkakoutna7155
      @inkakoutna7155 Před rokem

      @@sador42 Yeah, I had to scroll a bit but the disinformations are still there. Instagram even flagged it as such. I guess they went for absolute realism with their portrayal of Annie.

    • @AryaWinnenson
      @AryaWinnenson Před rokem +32

      Yes, cosign what sador42 said. Giant Drag drew some buzz as a band in the mid aughts and Annie Hardy was its singer/guitarist. For years she’s been doing livestream car “jams”. For a while i thought all that conspiracy stuff was ironic but yikes. Too bad, because nothing about Giant Drag’s music or even lyrics betray her real life wackadoo nonsense

  • @TheLadyLiddell
    @TheLadyLiddell Před rokem +11

    When the main character is this unlikable, horror suddenly becomes comedy.

    • @blueotan
      @blueotan Před 5 měsíci

      So real I wanted her to die so bad not stretch he deserved to live smh

  • @filmfangirls9163
    @filmfangirls9163 Před rokem +104

    I just rewatched Spree!! I didn't expect you to mention that film in this review so that just made my day!
    And agreed. I prefer that film over Dashcam.

    • @vomitfountain
      @vomitfountain Před rokem +9

      Spree is a fun little gem!

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +36

      I like mentioning it when I can because I feel like it does so well what a lot of these other movies have been trying to do.

    • @filmfangirls9163
      @filmfangirls9163 Před rokem +4

      @@AmandaTheJedi I couldn't agree more! It's such a crazy ride.

    • @filmfangirls9163
      @filmfangirls9163 Před rokem +4

      @@vomitfountain right?! I ended up buying it lol

  • @Nicholaspimpinsohard
    @Nicholaspimpinsohard Před rokem +48

    How are you doing my friend? How are you feeling? Annie was just so very selfish in this movie, and she was completely all about herself. I am completely with you Amanda, this movie just frustrated me too. I love you!! Stay safe!! Have a very peaceful night!!

  • @nb2910
    @nb2910 Před rokem +26

    Genuinely incredible to me that people liked this movie, and that they found Annie to be funny. I skipped nearly the first half an hour because of her brutal “rapping.”

  • @everforward5561
    @everforward5561 Před rokem +10

    Imagine going through all that bullshit to summon a demon that someone can easily just beat to death with a cheap blunt object.

  • @johnmobley9369
    @johnmobley9369 Před rokem +43

    Host was fairly simple but extremely effective. I literally watched it on zoom with my friends and they were horrified and I thought the writing and execution was pretty good.

  • @mikenolan73
    @mikenolan73 Před rokem +18

    The filmmakers described in an interview with Collider how they didn't have scripts for much of Annie's scenes. Instead they just had bullet points for what they wanted. This explains the incoherent "and then this happened...and this happened" storytelling. They've tried to justify the awful main protagonist of annie with b******t centrist notions of "tolerating other opinions" but the problem with Annie isn't that she holds awful opinions (she does) - it's just her awful personality full stop. Putting her anti-vax/maga nonsense to one side she's still an obnoxious person : she turns up, seemingly unannounced, at her friends house in the middle of the night terrifying him and his girlfriend. She insults the girlfriend for no reason every chance she gets. She gets Stretch in trouble at work then steals both his car and his phone. Maybe to live in this modern world we have to tolerate obnoxious opinions but we shouldn't have to tolerate obnoxious *people*.

  • @eirinym
    @eirinym Před rokem +10

    I think if you're trying to make a horror/thriller where the audience is supposed to feel anxiety at the events unfolding, where you empathise with the protagonist to some degree because of the situation, and the only thing you keep asking yourself is when will this 'person' please just die... you're doing it wrong.

  • @tearialashaee7951
    @tearialashaee7951 Před rokem +9

    "Who's running errands right now? Who? It's not this guy." I laughed so fckin hard at this part. 🤣🤣

  • @thekawaiislartibartfast42

    I have to disagree about Annie being a caricature. I know people exactly like that.

    • @AmandaTheJedi
      @AmandaTheJedi  Před rokem +28

      I actually do too but it always felt like it went onnneee step too far in areas

    • @thekawaiislartibartfast42
      @thekawaiislartibartfast42 Před rokem +19

      @@AmandaTheJedi before covid, I would have ABSOLUTELY agreed.

  • @butters796
    @butters796 Před rokem +5

    5:35 I did the same thing first time watching The Shining. Except I spent about an hour waiting for Jack Nicholson to show up before I realized there might be more than 1 version of The Shining. Googled it and sure enough I had the 1997 miniseries, not the Stanley Kubrick film

  • @Chuuzus
    @Chuuzus Před rokem +34

    for a movie to be worst than 365 days part 2 means it must be very very bad!

  • @joshuamoore8560
    @joshuamoore8560 Před rokem +7

    To quote MST3K: "This movie DARES you to watch it."

  • @rachelspencer9456
    @rachelspencer9456 Před rokem +7

    They really went back to 90’s tv inspiration for the tattoo thing. There was an episode in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they used a tattoo for the “rapid aging” reveal. Same thing in an episode of Charmed. Lol.

  • @bunkerzero
    @bunkerzero Před rokem +13

    What sucks is that the ending monsters make for a cool horror movie! See why couldn't we get a good horror flick with stretch as our protag?

  • @ruminationstation4200
    @ruminationstation4200 Před rokem +20

    His artistic vision is to take advantage of the fact humans have a really hard time ignoring stuff we find irritating, and engagement=$.
    It's a movie that exists to annoy and profit. The ultimate horror film

  • @RB-vo4gi
    @RB-vo4gi Před rokem +13

    You are so strong for watching this. I was irritated just watching the clips of the main character lady.

  • @lNoWayAroundItl
    @lNoWayAroundItl Před rokem +5

    Ok the main character has a voice that effects me like nails to a chalkboard. You have a higher tolerance to pain than I do. 😅

  • @_valor
    @_valor Před rokem +7

    Watching amanda rant after a tiring day is like getting a Thai massage for the soul

  • @Wraiven22
    @Wraiven22 Před rokem +8

    I DID THE EXACT SAME THING YOU DID WITH THE WRONG DASHCAM! I WAS SO CONFUSED AND SAT THERE WAITING FOR THE WOMAN FROM THE TRAILER TO SHOW UP! I'm dyinnggggg I thought I was the only one

  • @bepisthescienceman4202
    @bepisthescienceman4202 Před rokem +30

    Imagine a car horror movie from the point of view of the evil car's dashcam
    Imagine a scene where some characters are talking in front of the car and as the scene ends and the characters walk away the car's dashcam slowly turns towards one of the characters and the engine revvs
    (Edit because i came up with another scene idea)
    Near the beginning of the film a character accidentally reverses their car into the evil car. Then during the horror villain rampage the car spots the person who reversed into them and the car goes through it's dashcam footage to recognise the person and while the stranger is alone and exiting their car, the car goes top speed in reverse crushing the front of the car causing the strangers leg to be caught in the crushed car. The car then drives forwards turns around and hits the person so fast that their leg is ripped off.

    • @gordonfreemee3660
      @gordonfreemee3660 Před rokem +3

      it's like a modern day christine! i love it

    • @hibiscuspetals02
      @hibiscuspetals02 Před rokem +3

      Well now someone needs to make a Christine reboot with this concept

    • @CallMeMrStopmotion
      @CallMeMrStopmotion Před rokem +1

      I'm gonna do this someday

    • @bepisthescienceman4202
      @bepisthescienceman4202 Před rokem

      @@CallMeMrStopmotion well if you need a script writer I exist

    • @CallMeMrStopmotion
      @CallMeMrStopmotion Před rokem

      @@bepisthescienceman4202 I'm my own script writer usually but there ain't anything wrong with extra hands. You wanna be with me on this one?

  • @CatStockings
    @CatStockings Před rokem +4

    Blumhouse really feels like that 80s boardroom that I always imagine when I hear about business ideas that happened in the 80s, where a bunch of people are sitting around a table and someone just does a bump and is like "WOO OKAY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP NEXT. Dashcams? The fuck about them? Make a movie about them? Fucking brilliant. Throw it to the writers!"
    And then it's either a fantastic choice or it's a choice that leads to Enron.

  • @memeone3043
    @memeone3043 Před rokem +11

    If this isn't just Russian street footage, I'm gonna be very disappointed

  • @MREEELEEE
    @MREEELEEE Před rokem +6

    Why does the most unlikeable character in a horror movie have to be the one to do all the badass demon-bashing and cool-headedness???

  • @CallMeKes
    @CallMeKes Před rokem +1

    Amanda, I just want you to know you're videos are the highlight of my day when I see a new upload.

  • @skilledwarman
    @skilledwarman Před rokem +8

    One good thing came out of all this... It reminded me that Honey Gold is a thing and turns out I had enough of it for a $30 Google Play gift card. So thanks Amanda, you've helped fun my Fate/Grand Order addiction!

  • @Mothra_Stewart
    @Mothra_Stewart Před rokem +42

    The few times Amanda shows the main character actually speaking & being obnoxious (w/audio) alone makes me nope the fuck out of ever seeing this movie. Is her voice really like that?? 😬

    • @JasminMiettunen
      @JasminMiettunen Před rokem +10

      The bored, nasally, voice-modified “you sanitize cause you believe the lies” was enough to make me nope out lmao

  • @schabernack.
    @schabernack. Před rokem +4

    can someone explain to me the connotation of Blumhouse? like Amanda talks about it with a sense of "everybody knows it is known for..." but I just don't know 😅

    • @EliseArainai
      @EliseArainai Před rokem +7

      Blumhouse is basically famous (or infamous) for making a ton of horror flicks with varying degrees of success, but more times than not the budget for said movies is incredibly low so they still profit at the box office. Some examples of well-liked films from Blumhouse include Get Out, the Invisible Man (2020), and depending on who you ask, Happy Death Day. But they are also responsible for a bad Fantasy Island horror movie, the Visit, and the Purge franchise which has long overstayed its welcome by now.

  • @jake90052
    @jake90052 Před 8 měsíci +2

    I've actually known Annie for a long time. She's one of the nicest people you could ever meet. That type that proper has your back if you're down. It sucks to see her getting hate because of this, she's obviously playing up on a stereotype.

  • @manicpixiecassidy
    @manicpixiecassidy Před rokem +6

    I feel like the description of the movie just kept going, and going, and *going*, and I didn't even have to watch the whole movie. This seems... awful.

  • @MakaylaTomasi
    @MakaylaTomasi Před rokem +2

    "I'm sorry, I'm so hostile." Be hostile. BE hostile! THIS IS A MESS!

  • @stevebob240
    @stevebob240 Před rokem

    Love your energy and content, Amanda. Props for making it through all these awful movies for us.

  • @MOONSUN4Life
    @MOONSUN4Life Před rokem +3

    3:38 "I needed some face lotion for my skin so I wouldn't get the hose again..." That was as hilariously funny as it was unexpected. Comedy gold, right there.

  • @osamudazaigayasf
    @osamudazaigayasf Před rokem +1

    I clicked so fast. I was just watching some older videos and Amanda ur video quality has improved so much omg

  • @A_wild_tintin
    @A_wild_tintin Před rokem +5

    I haven't watched it myself but after watching the video, I'm trying to convince myself that this headache of a film doesn't exist.

  • @elisabetrouge
    @elisabetrouge Před rokem +9

    I love your "The Silence of the Lambs" reference 😂

  • @virginiafernandez6846
    @virginiafernandez6846 Před rokem +3

    For I moment I misread it as a Dashcon movie and I swear I lost ten years of my life

  • @danelynch7171
    @danelynch7171 Před rokem +1

    Man .. I would never watch most of the movies you review but I'm so glad you do. I love your reviews

  • @dillon9016
    @dillon9016 Před rokem

    I remember seeing a headline over here in Scotland that Vue or Cineworld wouldn’t be showing it. Now I wonder why.

  • @taylorwalker7417
    @taylorwalker7417 Před rokem +11

    Isn't the actor from the other Dashcam the guy from Buzzfeed who always messes with the dark web on Buzzfeed's dime and does uncomfortable crime deep dives now that Unsolved is gone? So, basically he's in a short film just playing himself.

  • @amberltatom
    @amberltatom Před rokem +2

    Anyone else notice Spiderman was blurred out during when Amanda was talking about the sponser?

  • @furonguy42
    @furonguy42 Před rokem +4

    Reminds me of “Five Across The Eyes”, an independent found footage film from 2006 where all five main characters are just like Annie in terms of idiocy and how grating they are to watch, (arguably worse than Annie), and all of them survive.

    • @DrGregoryHouseIT
      @DrGregoryHouseIT Před rokem +1

      I saw that too. That wasn't a film, that was an endurance test.

    • @adeer87
      @adeer87 Před rokem +1

      OH NO. I blocked this movie from my memory for years.

    • @80MWH
      @80MWH Před rokem

      And both films deal with “excretions” and shotgun-wielding maniacal women.

  • @drjekelmrhyde
    @drjekelmrhyde Před rokem +1

    London was more locked down most American cities. In Chicago it wasn't taken serious after the 1st month

  • @poorlyfleshedskeleton5873

    Not honey making her blur out the Amazing Spider just for the add portion 😂

  • @BlackReshiram
    @BlackReshiram Před rokem +12

    definitely gonna watch the camp counsellors podcast but it still makes me wonder if the mothership is gonna come back eventually or not? no pressure of course, i just wonder because i actually really enjoyed it

  • @levic1995
    @levic1995 Před rokem

    hey Amanda, great video! ever since your Spree video I got an itch for films that take found footage or this new "streaming" format. I definitely think you would like DEADSTREAM (2022) if you haven't seen it already during this years festival run!

  • @matrixiekitty2127
    @matrixiekitty2127 Před rokem

    The story for Savage’s Dashcam was so weird and hard to follow even when you were explaining it to me, I can’t even imagine how hard it was to follow watching it!!

  • @khandimahn9687
    @khandimahn9687 Před rokem +2

    I couldn't get a good look. Are you sure the bobble head wasn't British Prime Minister Boris Johnson?
    It would make more sense to see him in a movie made in Brittan, and they do look kind of similar.

  • @beddsbeltre2145
    @beddsbeltre2145 Před rokem

    Just watching you tell me about this movie made me exhausted I only stayed to the end because I wanted to see what the other dash cam was about

  • @DashingPunkSamurai
    @DashingPunkSamurai Před rokem +6

    If you have to use the phrase “and then this happens” to explains the movies story progression, you know it’s a piece of crap

  • @HurricaneDDragon
    @HurricaneDDragon Před rokem +4

    Is that how Canadians pronounce “caricature”?

  • @MissAnn999
    @MissAnn999 Před rokem +2

    Jesus fish + St. Peter's Cross + eye? Oooh, spooky!
    Yeah, they made that up for the movie.

  • @mandyb2245
    @mandyb2245 Před rokem +2

    Annie Hardy is the worst friend (and American) in the entire world...well, maybe not the entire world, but she's definitely bad. I was hoping the movie would kill her off too.
    And how in the world does Angela, a 16 year old, look like a grandmother!?

  • @benjamina6618
    @benjamina6618 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I was pretty pissed when Stretch got killed. He was the only thing making the movie bearable.

  • @santosic
    @santosic Před rokem +8

    The movie is hot garbage, but I think the live streaming concept is interesting; with how increasingly common Twitch is becoming these days, or rather, live streaming in general, I think a movie where the main character is doing a two hour live stream the whole time and we're basically part of the audience watching could indeed work, but it needs to have an interesting main character or else it just fails right off the bat. Lots of streamers are vastly entertaining in various ways, so, they'd need to emulate that in the movie as well, and the plot can't just be generic supernatural nonsense either, but something more believable, especially if it involves the streamer never ending the stream or calling the cops.
    I believe there's potential in that type of format, but no one has been able to crack it yet.

  • @Popper_Drop
    @Popper_Drop Před rokem +3

    That symbol on the bible pages... I don't think it exists? It's a combination of an upside down crucifix, an Ichthys and a circle that kind of make it reminiscent of the Eye of Horus/Ra or even the Evil Eye?? I just think it's supposed to look spooky

  • @HarveMoone
    @HarveMoone Před rokem +2

    This movie feels like if The Blair Witch was filmed by an antivax Fred.

  • @krisgutierez
    @krisgutierez Před rokem

    Love your rants keep it up 👍

  • @albertgreene313
    @albertgreene313 Před rokem +4

    “Cah -Rick-ah-ter” is a new favorite way to say a word

  • @evgenkhersonets880
    @evgenkhersonets880 Před rokem +1

    11:12 I paused here and suddenly found out that it's the ultimate Amanda face and posture

  • @DVAcme
    @DVAcme Před rokem +4

    The filming style, the non-sensical plot and the incredibly annoying characters remind me of Five Across The Eyes, that weird-ass movie Phelous reviewed years ago.

  • @johnbell1222
    @johnbell1222 Před rokem +2

    That symbol looks like an amalgamation of three others: an upside-down cross, the icthus (fish) symbol used by Christians from time to time and the all-seeing (Masonic) eye.