I think a throughline you can see in the Daniels’ work is “just because something is weird or embarrassing or silly, doesn’t mean it can’t also be the magical thing that brings us together”.
What I like most is that Dan is taking the roles he wants to do. This film is a great example that when you make a movie where you’re invested in the script, the story, it just becomes something truly magical.
My friend and I went to watch this film in theaters when I was very depressed and I don't know why this movie made me so emotional and happy. I left the theaters with a new found joy and felt relieved for a long time until I felt like my normal self. I guess I just needed that kind of message at that moment.
Absolutely love this film. It’s all about accepting yourself. Paul Dano’s character felt like an outcast and hated himself because of it. ‘Man’ny, a corpse that (probably) isn’t actually alive outside of his mind, is the tool that he uses to learn to love and accept himself. What I love most about this film is how the directors turn conventional film tropes on their head. They take things like fart jokes, a-cappella music, and montages- things the directing team have said they hate-and use them to ingeniously drive home the theme of loving the parts of ourselves we've been taught to despise. It's a refreshing and utterly original take on self-discovery that left me feeling damn good by the end.
I love this movie I saw it in theaters and fell in love with these directors the way the use weirdness as a deep emotional feeling like how holding in a fart is a metaphor for how we hold in our feelings and thoughts
YES! Longtime fan of this film. Hope Everything Everywhere All at Once fans search this out, same directors. Outstanding performances, hilariously dark and introspective. Same as EEAAO it’s wildly outrageous, but at its core there’s heart, pain, love, hope
Psyched for this watch. Such a wild underrated movie. I’m surprised it didn’t get more attention since everything everywhere all at once won the Oscar. This movie had me from the first fart
Ill have to attempt to watch this again. The first time it was with my dad while he was cruising through HBO...and my dad has VERY different tastes in movies than me and he didnt wanna "sit through it" so I didnt get to watch 90% of it
After I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once, I knew I had to watch this right away. I walked away from it knowing that I will have to watch everything Daniels create from now on. I was disappointed to see that nobody had reacted to it on CZcams, so I was really happy to see this pop up in my recommendations. Your reaction didn't disappoint, and it was a genuinely good fit for your current theme.
Oh hell yeah this movie rocks. I watched it for the first time in high school on a shitload of acid and it was a crazy experience lol. I watched it again later and realized the movie is actually as wild as I perceived the first time.
The way the music is fused with the actual events was a brilliant little touch. Welcome to Daniels, much like Kaufman, it tends to lead more by emotion rather than plot points.
This was the start of the Daniels’ trademark juvenile antics. Hopefully, they’ll continue with their wild and wacky concepts onward since EEAAO has won so many awards, including the Oscar.
Definitely one of the most unique and weird films I've seen but the humor really helps it out. There's a underrated director named Quentin Dupieux who makes weird ass stuff like this you should definitely check out some time.
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Well, I'm not an English speaker and I'm too tired and a little drunk right now to try to express my thoughts in English without the help of a translator. so all this text was translated on Google, so don’t judge too harshly. I wanted to say that this is my favorite film. I definitely watched it more than 20 times (by my standards, that’s a lot). I understand this film this way: there is no corpse, forest and bear, but there is a person who has lost himself in this world, who suffers from loneliness. A friend of mine once told me: “The person you want to be most is yourself.” This is a film about how a man found himself. We are often afraid that we will be considered "weird" if we show ourselves to people as we are, but this film says that there is nothing wrong with being strange. Be yourself and people will love you. and the moment when the cork popped up symbolizes the moment that Hank accepted himself as he is. would speculate further, but I really want to sleep. oh, and one more thing. The soundtrack is simply divine! and, if you listen to it for a long time, you can notice the “evolution” of the music. at first there is only rhythmic singing, then the most primitive instruments are added - drums. and only at the end does a piano appear, and a guitar appears in the credits.
This translation was perfectly legible! You should never feel pressured to have perfect English online. All that said, I also love this movie and have also probably seen it it like 15 times
Man I've been watching since your snowpiercer watch and all I can say is that you are by far the best channel for first time reactions. I can just tell how great of a friend you'd be to have and that makes all the difference in my opinion. Keep it up man, love you
You just have to remember that we're all here for a purpose And the Universe picks it's time Everything, everywhere matters to everything. Incredible movie
Slightly edited version of my comment from patreon on it in case this interpretation means anything to anyone else This movie is wonderful, I watched it for the first time very shortly before watching your reaction and it's kind of a wonderful queer romance. It came out in january 2016, shortly after the US's legalization of gay marriage, and a lot of happiness that Hank gets throughout this film comes from Manny first calling him beautiful, to the kiss underwater and eventually realizing that Sarah isn't the person he's in love with, he was just infatuated by her happiness - which he finds worthless in comparison to what he feels with Manny. It uses mortality and I find it uses Manny to add to the ridiculousness of the narrative obviously since they enjoy the surreal, but also because many queer people throughout history died before they were able to find their own happiness. It's tragic. And Hank doesn't get to have a future with Manny, but he does get to say goodbye. Manny doesn't just get taken away to an unmarked grave, unloved and unknown, he's sent out with a final goodbye from someone who loves him.
that "you want to go home so you can have love, but you run away because nobody loves you " still hits hard all that dialog make more sense if you watch the movie a second time with mindset that he is talking all the time to himself how to find purpose in living.............
It was weird but this was the film when I had an ‘Ah-Ha. So that’s her actual face and I now know it’ reaction to Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Because I had heard her name several times but never saw her for some reason.
as much as i absolutely LOVEEEE Harry Potter and that whole universe i grew up on, this is my absolute favorite Danielle Radcliffe movie....its sooooooooooo fucking good
They didn't come from anywhere, he was there the whole time. He was mentally ill and fixated on the woman whose woods he was hiding out in. He found a body and in his mental illness created a friend and worked out some of his issues and went back to civilization but at the very end 'sanity' wasn't for him and he decided the mental illness was better. If you rewatched it you would see that everything around him came from the pictures on the woman's social network site. Manny never lived and he never left the vicinity of that woman's home. And the father wasn't nodding at the body. Hank envisioned in his mental illness the reactions of the people around him. He wanted his father's approval and that's what he saw in his mind. That's why I think it's so sad. He tried to fight his mental illness but it just wasn't worth it. His mental illness gave him everything he wanted and reality gave him nothing.
That's certainly one way of viewing the ending. I like taking the absurdity in stride and that a lot of it happened, to a degree at least. He found love in Manny, and it allowed him to learn he never really loved Sarah, and like he said only thought she looked happy. Once he was about to lose Manny it was clear how much Manny meant to him, and didn't want to leave him. He accepted it though, getting to say goodbye before he left off into the sea. It came out at an important time in US queer history, gay marriage had just been legalized in 2015 and this released january 2016. Many queer people in US history died before finding happiness, just like Manny. From the subtle happiness Hank got when Manny called him beautiful all the way to their underwater kiss and even the music during one of the montages straight up asking "I have to admit, I'm enjoying your company - Are we falling in love?"
@@laveyanist It's too bad it's not possible to get together and watch the movie with other fans and in more discussion format type. I absolutely love seeing other people's take on this really fabulous movie.
There is an episode of The Mighty Boosh that's very similar and very funny and very silly. Anyway it's: Season 2, Episode 6 - The Nightmare of Milky Joe.
I didn't love this movie, I thought it was a pretty good quirky indie movie. But then Everything Everywhere All At Once came out, and that's in my top 2 movies of all time, so... This is due for a rewatch for me
Oh this was great. Watched it with the wife. I knew what I was getting into though, I wish I came in blind like you. There is this movie about experimental cookies and blue fish ass birth that this reminds me of that I went in blind. I’ll figure out the name.. but yeah, premise was an experimental cookie had these night janitors give birth to an ass fish.
It took me a while to get to this film (it was on my list) but once I did I was so pleasantly surprised and overjoyed that it’s such an absolute masterpiece! I love it dearly! The story, the characters and the soundtrack are just gorgeous!
This film is incredibly compelling to watch, but then you’re in disbelief that you found a film about a man riding on a farting corpse like a jet ski “compelling” to watch The meaning/ending are obviously left open for interpretation, but I think the meaning of this film is you’re basically experiencing the insanity of Paul Dano’s character for yourself as if it’s your own
Pumping my fists in jubilation that this won the poll. Glad I voted for it.
I think a throughline you can see in the Daniels’ work is “just because something is weird or embarrassing or silly, doesn’t mean it can’t also be the magical thing that brings us together”.
They're fantastic absurdists!
FINALLYYYY someone watches this film!!!
It seems that even A24 forgot about it
Give Danielle Reacts some love on her reaction to this, tell her I sent you xxx
What I like most is that Dan is taking the roles he wants to do. This film is a great example that when you make a movie where you’re invested in the script, the story, it just becomes something truly magical.
Paul 'Dan'o or 'Dan'iel Radcliffe? 😭
My friend and I went to watch this film in theaters when I was very depressed and I don't know why this movie made me so emotional and happy. I left the theaters with a new found joy and felt relieved for a long time until I felt like my normal self.
I guess I just needed that kind of message at that moment.
Anyone dealing with depression should watch this movie
Definitely that type of movie. Isn't toxically positive but acknowledges your pain while still giving you hope. At least for me lol
Absolutely love this film. It’s all about accepting yourself. Paul Dano’s character felt like an outcast and hated himself because of it. ‘Man’ny, a corpse that (probably) isn’t actually alive outside of his mind, is the tool that he uses to learn to love and accept himself.
What I love most about this film is how the directors turn conventional film tropes on their head. They take things like fart jokes, a-cappella music, and montages- things the directing team have said they hate-and use them to ingeniously drive home the theme of loving the parts of ourselves we've been taught to despise. It's a refreshing and utterly original take on self-discovery that left me feeling damn good by the end.
I'm pretty sure that's Radcliffe & Dano doing the vocals for the music too. Love this movie.
I love this movie I saw it in theaters and fell in love with these directors the way the use weirdness as a deep emotional feeling like how holding in a fart is a metaphor for how we hold in our feelings and thoughts
YES! Longtime fan of this film. Hope Everything Everywhere All at Once fans search this out, same directors. Outstanding performances, hilariously dark and introspective. Same as EEAAO it’s wildly outrageous, but at its core there’s heart, pain, love, hope
Psyched for this watch. Such a wild underrated movie. I’m surprised it didn’t get more attention since everything everywhere all at once won the Oscar. This movie had me from the first fart
This movie is a wild ride, when I watched it back when it came out I did not expect such a heartwarming and thoughtful story from THIS premise.
I remember dragging my bf to this in theaters. Definitely could tell Daniels was one to watch out for. I love how absurd and existential it is.
Ill have to attempt to watch this again. The first time it was with my dad while he was cruising through HBO...and my dad has VERY different tastes in movies than me and he didnt wanna "sit through it" so I didnt get to watch 90% of it
I've been recommending this film since day one to anyone who'd listen. So ridiculous and ridiculously great.
After I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once, I knew I had to watch this right away. I walked away from it knowing that I will have to watch everything Daniels create from now on. I was disappointed to see that nobody had reacted to it on CZcams, so I was really happy to see this pop up in my recommendations. Your reaction didn't disappoint, and it was a genuinely good fit for your current theme.
Oh hell yeah this movie rocks. I watched it for the first time in high school on a shitload of acid and it was a crazy experience lol. I watched it again later and realized the movie is actually as wild as I perceived the first time.
The way the music is fused with the actual events was a brilliant little touch. Welcome to Daniels, much like Kaufman, it tends to lead more by emotion rather than plot points.
On a deeper level. I think it's about a guy learning to love and accept himself. Manny was his pushed down emotions and insecurities.
Love this film. Gloriously weird and surprisingly touching.
That opening scene won me over. I went in completely blind and loved it.
This was the start of the Daniels’ trademark juvenile antics. Hopefully, they’ll continue with their wild and wacky concepts onward since EEAAO has won so many awards, including the Oscar.
If you like weird movies, you should give "Horns" a chance... Which also stars Daniel Radcliffe.
So happy to see someone react to this. It's not going to get the views but it's an awesome experience and hopefully more people check it out.
Definitely one of the most unique and weird films I've seen but the humor really helps it out. There's a underrated director named Quentin Dupieux who makes weird ass stuff like this you should definitely check out some time.
Everyone needs a Swiss Army person once in a while..
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Hello James please reacts the film Flatliners (1990)
Well, I'm not an English speaker and I'm too tired and a little drunk right now to try to express my thoughts in English without the help of a translator. so all this text was translated on Google, so don’t judge too harshly.
I wanted to say that this is my favorite film. I definitely watched it more than 20 times (by my standards, that’s a lot). I understand this film this way: there is no corpse, forest and bear, but there is a person who has lost himself in this world, who suffers from loneliness. A friend of mine once told me: “The person you want to be most is yourself.” This is a film about how a man found himself. We are often afraid that we will be considered "weird" if we show ourselves to people as we are, but this film says that there is nothing wrong with being strange. Be yourself and people will love you. and the moment when the cork popped up symbolizes the moment that Hank accepted himself as he is.
would speculate further, but I really want to sleep.
oh, and one more thing. The soundtrack is simply divine! and, if you listen to it for a long time, you can notice the “evolution” of the music. at first there is only rhythmic singing, then the most primitive instruments are added - drums. and only at the end does a piano appear, and a guitar appears in the credits.
This translation was perfectly legible! You should never feel pressured to have perfect English online. All that said, I also love this movie and have also probably seen it it like 15 times
Man I've been watching since your snowpiercer watch and all I can say is that you are by far the best channel for first time reactions. I can just tell how great of a friend you'd be to have and that makes all the difference in my opinion. Keep it up man, love you
You just have to remember that we're all here for a purpose
And the Universe picks it's time
Everything, everywhere matters to everything.
Incredible movie
Our friendship is blossoming let's eat the stuff we killed
This movie is my go-to litmus test for if I'll get along with someone. You get it or you don't. I had a feeling you'd appreciate this movie too!
Slightly edited version of my comment from patreon on it in case this interpretation means anything to anyone else
This movie is wonderful, I watched it for the first time very shortly before watching your reaction and it's kind of a wonderful queer romance. It came out in january 2016, shortly after the US's legalization of gay marriage, and a lot of happiness that Hank gets throughout this film comes from Manny first calling him beautiful, to the kiss underwater and eventually realizing that Sarah isn't the person he's in love with, he was just infatuated by her happiness - which he finds worthless in comparison to what he feels with Manny. It uses mortality and I find it uses Manny to add to the ridiculousness of the narrative obviously since they enjoy the surreal, but also because many queer people throughout history died before they were able to find their own happiness. It's tragic. And Hank doesn't get to have a future with Manny, but he does get to say goodbye. Manny doesn't just get taken away to an unmarked grave, unloved and unknown, he's sent out with a final goodbye from someone who loves him.
I love this movie the biggest underrated movie of 2016
that "you want to go home so you can have love, but you run away because nobody loves you " still hits hard
all that dialog make more sense if you watch the movie a second time with mindset that he is talking all the time to himself how to find purpose in living.............
I absolutely love this movie; it is my favorite. I think I've seen at 15 times and I still cry every single time.
How did i miss this reaction? I got Danielle reacts to view this and it made my heart soar seeing her laughing and getting the feelings
Love this film and I'm so happy they got mainstream success with everything, everywhere. The soundtrack for this film is one of my favorites.
Eternally grateful that you reacted to this film
It was weird but this was the film when I had an ‘Ah-Ha. So that’s her actual face and I now know it’ reaction to Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Because I had heard her name several times but never saw her for some reason.
Please consider reacting to Big Fish, directed by Tim Burton. It's a wild ride with an ending that I can almost guarantee will make you cry.
One of the best films of the 2010s
Didn’t come out in 2010 my guy 😂😂😂
@@MrRobeStern64 I beg of you to learn how to read
@@MrRobeStern64 2010s means the decade of 2010 my guy.
I don´t know if this is for everyone, but. When this came out I just fucking loved it. Nice memories.
one of my favorite movies of all time !
yesss my personal favorite paul dano performance and favorite film by the daniels! i'm so glad you enjoyed it :)
One of my all-time favorite films!!
James my dude you gotta watch Wilfred. It's a show with Frodo Baggins and a talking Australian dog played by a guy in a dog costume
It's got similar vibes to this movie
Look into Jungle with D. Radcliffe. True jungle survivor story where he is absolutely amazing.
Man I remember seeing this for the first time. What a wild movie
This movie is one of the most interesting films I think I've ever seen. Love me so Radcliff.
Kudos man, you are prepared to watch the wildest stuff! One of my favourites
Such a unique film. I knew you'd enjoy it!
oh shiz people are finally discovering this movie
Loved your reaction oh man. Everytime you predicted something i got do excited
My comfort movie 🥺 ❤
Moonrise Kingdom which is my favorite Wes Anderson film
FUCKING GOLDEN! I love this movie and I just watched it.
The Daniels make you believe in humanity.
as much as i absolutely LOVEEEE Harry Potter and that whole universe i grew up on, this is my absolute favorite Danielle Radcliffe movie....its sooooooooooo fucking good
SAME
They didn't come from anywhere, he was there the whole time.
He was mentally ill and fixated on the woman whose woods he was hiding out in. He found a body and in his mental illness created a friend and worked out some of his issues and went back to civilization but at the very end 'sanity' wasn't for him and he decided the mental illness was better.
If you rewatched it you would see that everything around him came from the pictures on the woman's social network site.
Manny never lived and he never left the vicinity of that woman's home.
And the father wasn't nodding at the body. Hank envisioned in his mental illness the reactions of the people around him. He wanted his father's approval and that's what he saw in his mind.
That's why I think it's so sad. He tried to fight his mental illness but it just wasn't worth it. His mental illness gave him everything he wanted and reality gave him nothing.
That's certainly one way of viewing the ending. I like taking the absurdity in stride and that a lot of it happened, to a degree at least. He found love in Manny, and it allowed him to learn he never really loved Sarah, and like he said only thought she looked happy. Once he was about to lose Manny it was clear how much Manny meant to him, and didn't want to leave him. He accepted it though, getting to say goodbye before he left off into the sea.
It came out at an important time in US queer history, gay marriage had just been legalized in 2015 and this released january 2016. Many queer people in US history died before finding happiness, just like Manny. From the subtle happiness Hank got when Manny called him beautiful all the way to their underwater kiss and even the music during one of the montages straight up asking "I have to admit, I'm enjoying your company - Are we falling in love?"
@@laveyanist It's too bad it's not possible to get together and watch the movie with other fans and in more discussion format type. I absolutely love seeing other people's take on this really fabulous movie.
YES YES YES YES FINALLY HE REACTED TO IT
A different role for Daniel Radcliff. He's was great in Guns Akimbo too
You're going down the weird path of movie, I love it.
oh, awesome. i was hoping for this movie, when you watched "this other weird movie" a short while back. and i am glad you like it!
My guy the Dune 2 trailer is out when are we getting that Dune reaction?
Thanks for this man, I remember seeing it in the theater with my mom
Talking about production design i rewatch recently "Tár" and man... what a great sets that movie has, highly recommend you to watch
one of my favourites, glad you liked it too!
There is an episode of The Mighty Boosh that's very similar and very funny and very silly.
Anyway it's: Season 2, Episode 6 - The Nightmare of Milky Joe.
You want a good exploration of the impact of location on a film? Watch 10 Cloverfield Lane. It's genuinely one of the best movies I've ever seen.
another one of my all time favourites! we eating
LIKED IMMEDIATELY -- will edit my comment after the reaction but LOVE this movie :)
So glad you got to enjoy this film!
The pizza box near the beginning should have said everything. I didn't catch it at first watch.
one of my favourite movies! haha
I didn't love this movie, I thought it was a pretty good quirky indie movie. But then Everything Everywhere All At Once came out, and that's in my top 2 movies of all time, so... This is due for a rewatch for me
Oh this was great. Watched it with the wife. I knew what I was getting into though, I wish I came in blind like you.
There is this movie about experimental cookies and blue fish ass birth that this reminds me of that I went in blind. I’ll figure out the name.. but yeah, premise was an experimental cookie had these night janitors give birth to an ass fish.
Try watching 'The Science of Sleep' next - just as good and weirdly similar themes and presentation
Thanks, James! 🏝 #JamesVsCinema #DanielKwan #DanielScheinert #SwissArmyMan
For me, this is to the Daniels what Memento is to Nolan.
_Weekend at Bernie's_ meets _Fight Club_ .
It took me a while to get to this film (it was on my list) but once I did I was so pleasantly surprised and overjoyed that it’s such an absolute masterpiece! I love it dearly! The story, the characters and the soundtrack are just gorgeous!
This movie is ONE OF A KIND, really...
Love the Movie❤️🔥
Hell yeah
Daniel Radcliffe's best movie yet...
I recommend watching corridor digital they are a great channel about film making, vfx, stunts, animation and more
this i thoroughly enjoyed this movie, it was actually very meaningful in my opinion
this is gonna be so good
Watch Tommy (1975). Wild ride.
I describe this movie to my friends as “the best movie I will never watch again. See it once.”
I've watched it so many times 😭
Yesss!! I love this film. It's so delightfully weird 😁
I still don't understand what's the ending means
"If I think about your mom too then it won't be weird"
This film is incredibly compelling to watch, but then you’re in disbelief that you found a film about a man riding on a farting corpse like a jet ski “compelling” to watch
The meaning/ending are obviously left open for interpretation, but I think the meaning of this film is you’re basically experiencing the insanity of Paul Dano’s character for yourself as if it’s your own
This is film was heavily inspired by symbolism, philosophical and social topics such as meaning, rejection, acceptance... Mastepiece.
I hated Everything Everywhere All At Once, but I love this movie.
Daniel Radcliffe represents shame and repression. The stuff in his unconscious that he can't face.
Bro what happend to harry and ron
This was one of the films of all time...
It's honestly a really heartwarming yet weird movie if I remember right.
And they're juicy too!!!
Videodrome
the best Daniels film by a mile