Damsel Being Devoid of Logic
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- A comedy-style video essay diving into the most absurdly dumb moments throughout Damsel. Critiquing and breaking down how terrible the writing is throughout the entire movie. An example being how implausible it is for Millie Bobby Brown to solo a dragon. Damsel is a new 2024 movie released by Netflix: A young woman agrees to marry a handsome prince -- only to discover it was all a trap. She is thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon and must rely solely on her wits and will to survive.
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They conveniently ignore the fact that the dragon has brutally killed multiple innocent girls. Dragon killed Elodie’s dad. Dragon isn’t held accountable for that at all. They’re just besties?
Cool.
It is a she so she gets a pass.
No. They're BEASTIES :P
She is animal. You can't hold animal accountable the same way as humans.
The dragon is female, so....
So its a villain origin story? Cool
The plot hole is this: why do this marriage of noble girls thing? Get an orphan with no family, do the blood hand thing, and that would fool the dragon as much as these noble girls
@@Jenny-vm3yu That makes even less sense. Why not just kidnap a bunch of poor foreign women discreetly instead of making public marriage proposals and dowry so everyone knows?
@@Raldavar Or even offer any local girls who volunteer for tribute sweetheart deal to their families. Like give them a shit ton of gold and noble titles or something if they go willingly. Would have been cheaper than paying a bride price to actual royals and aristocrats.
Get a criminal!
@@Raximus3000 Yes all this makes more sense than the real story
@@barbiquearea
Maybe create a Hunger Games-esque 'Victor's Village'-type deal; where the families of those who volunteer as 'sacrifices' get to live -- they get all kinds of benefits in return, & the Royal Family gets multiple generations of people supporting them, in return for said benefits- which would make it difficult for anyone who wanted to *change* things (say, a new bride- who'd married the prince _after_ the sacrifices- & then, learning about their 'charming' family tradition; she has to decide if she'll fight against the status quo, to save innocent lives)...
Also, was it made clear who those red-draped priestesses were? The Queen was dressed the same- so...? {Are they like the actual princesses of the royal family, from earlier generations?! That would add a very dark & complex factor to the tale...}
In the movie trying to avoid the damsel in distress trope, said damsel has to rescue another damsel in distress, making this a collosal failure.
It's more of an older sibling rescuing their younger sibling. I wouldn't say this movie was a failure
@@rubenduenas5881 ???
@@rubenduenas5881Maybe not for this, but tbh the nonsensical characters, unclear stakes, coincedences everywhere and utterly stupid Netflix ending, i'd say it's terrible.
Yeah but at least it wasn’t a dirty MAN who rescued a woma- oh wait…
@@giantotter319 Not to mention she wouldn't have gotten out of that place alive where it not for her father and his men coming to her rescue.
I'm gonna add my own devoid of logic. You know those slugs heal wounds...like heal entire burns. Well Elodie holds this slug in her hand at one point, and fall asleep with some on her in the night. Terribly lucky that the slugs don't heal her cut hand, and therefore remove her evidence
Oh yeah... 0_0
I think that’s the only real plot hole! That as well as the fully drawn map even though V wouldn’t have had any reason to go back down to draw the map
Would have been nice if the film developed a magic system. Like the knife that was used to make the cut of her palm is enchanted so that the wound can't be fully healed / to make sure that the blood sharing thing lasts longer in order for the dragon to have the best chance of detecting it.
@@umwha or the fact one princess climbed the crystal wall saw the end tunnel then climbed back down to draw it then climbed back up to get burnt! or the stepmother can track 11 on a mountain under a rock.but a dragon cant. or stepmother never gets a name. theres a lot more but meh!
@@benwarwick4290 YES!!! Thats what I meant about V drawing the map. Lol. And yes the conspicuously black step mother being able to GPS track Elodie makes no sense especially since she was stabbed. She also survived the stabbing with no consequence
So, this is what would happen:
First princess gets thrown down: "Hey dragon, they tricked you, I'm not actually of royal blood, it's a rouse"
Dragon Torches her
Second Princess goes down: "Hey dragon, they tricked you, I'm not actually of royal blood, it's a rouse"
Dragon: "Hum... If I had a penny for every princess that has told me that, I'd had two pennies, that it's not much, but it's weird it happened twice and in the time lapse of a frikking day" Torches her either way.
Third princess gets thrown down: "Hey dragon, they tricked you, I'm not actually of royal blood, it's a rouse"
Dragon: "Ok, wtf is going on? Let's have a wee chat"
This is exactly how I thought it when I saw the movie. 😂😂😂😂
Exactly 😂 we know that the dragon likes a neat chat, so why did NONE of the princesses say anything??
The dragon pays a visit to the royal family: You tricked me ...
The queen: Maybe we shouldn't have told them the full story before throwing them down to the dragon. Guess that was a mistake.
I hate when characters are responsible for killing untold amounts of innocent people but the show-runners treat it like a badass moment
It was a whaman doing it so it is okay.
I do too, but we don't see any innocent people die in this movie. The only casualties are the corrupt and evil royals, and the castle is just a building. We have no reason to believe that anyone else died.
@@peacemaster8117 oh just because we didn't see bodies doesn't mean she's an murderer.
😂😂 ignore the guards, soldiers, maids, servants and plenty of other people whom came no knowing what's happened due to most of these kingdoms must be miles away from each other.
Of course the dragon was just misunderstood and is a strong woman ally.
Well it was a female dragon after all
That's not a criticism.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 I agree with andyroobrick
Dont think this is valid criticism.
@@AuroraBoost Then you don't understand it. It's lazy writing - trying to inject present day Californian political ideologies into a Medieval-inspired fantasy setting.
Wouldn't it have been much more interesting if Elodie had been trained for years by her father to specifically survive this ordeal to get the money? Would make his motivation more clear, would explain the feats of strength she shows and imo would make for a much more interesting charchter. It would feel less like her getting lucky at every turn.
Would certainly be interesting and logical if the setup was that Elodie had been selected as a baby to be sacrificed once she reached adulthood and therefore she trained her whole life to survive when the time eventually came
That would actually have been a cool movie! Like a caper fantasy movie. Dragons 11.
Yep, additionally have the "drop into the cave" at least be realistically survivable. Train for 20 years, only to be dropped 200 feet to your certain death. Also, that was the sacrificial portal... every girl was dropped that far and many (all?) survived. Assuming if they died, they wouldn't count since the dragon would not be satisfied with with an already dead body. I mean, just write it better, a shorter drop, a sealed, steel door that cannot be opened from the inside. SOMETHING logical lol
Didn't you see the live action Mulan? Girlbosses don't need to train to get good at fighting, they're just born with it. 🙄
that would require a man to train her and this movie is too stupid to do that
"strong women need no training , already perfect"
The main issue I found with the film was how the royal family were able to give so many young women to the dragon without anyone anywhere batting an eye.
Like I really find it hard to believe their brothers, mothers & fathers are just okay with this.
They picked poor houses or families and basically bought the daughters. The villages of the chiefs and lords were dying out because of famine and therefore they didn't question their daughters dying as long as their own homes prospered with the money given. This video doesn't actually tell everything about the movie. You'd have to watch it for yourself
@@reneeeli8645 that explains this ONE incident. It does not explain any of the others. It’s not a bad extrapolation, but it requires circumstances that are unlikely to hold for the other times this sacrifice has occurred.
@@reneeeli8645 The dad was clearly in on the whole scheme, but his wife and other daughter weren't. What if sometime down the future they decide to visit Elodi at her kingdom, only to find she is no longer married to the prince? That would raise some alarm bells.
@@reneeeli8645But if you really think about it, at some point, one of their brothers or boyfriends gonna feel sus on that. In reality, someone will surely be sus on that.
@@reneeeli8645
I have watched it, that's how I know.
A movie that has one or two, "Oh ... that was lucky" moments can be forgiven.
A movie that is nothing but, "Oh ... that was lucky" moments cannot.
"That would be like the Lannister's wanting to combine their house with some random unheard family." Rohanne Webber didn't like that.
Nobody remembers Teora Kyndall…… 😢
Something I really wanted to mention, is the fact that the dragon is somehow presented as somewhat of a misunderstood villain. All while the royals are pure evil, for sacrificing innocent girls. However the reason for that is the dragon in the first place. She decided that, because some dude long ago killed her children his descendents must suffer for centuries. This dragon wanted to kill innocent girls, because of something they never did and never had any control over. How does the reveal that her victims werent actually the innocents she wanted to kill make her a good guy in the end. The royals did some messed up stuff, however it was really the only thing to do to keep their own family and children safe.
My guess is the writers must be big fans of generational guilt or something.
In fairness, generational trauma isn't sone new concept peolle suddenly started vecoming interested in. It's akways veen a very popular topic, because it's always been a oart kf the human experience.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 Yes. But my point is that the dragon is presented as good, misunderstood and tragic while the royals are simply pure evil. Even though the dragon is literally forcing them todo what they are doing.
She thought the girls were descended from the king who murdered her children, she didn’t know that the royals were tricking her, that’s why they cut the girl’s hands before throwing them in.
That was my biggest problem as well. We come to understand the dragons reasons, but two wrongs don't make a right and the daughters would have been innocent even if they were from that family. The dragons demands actually prove it was the terrible monster the king thought it was.
@@thectk1000 "2 wrongs don't make a right" is the dumbest logic that adults use to keep kids from hitting each other rather than have a complicated discussion about crime and punishment.
If the king was just/good he should have sacrificed himself, or let his family die for peace and die with them, ending the cycle before it began. The king was the terrible monster for prioritizing himself and his bloodline over the sacrifices that were to be made by others in his name.
The morals of this movie are horrible!
Apparently the dragon is a „good guy“ in the end, because she learned that she has been tricked into… killing the „wrong“ innocent people?
Like, her wanting to kill the offsprings of the king would have been ok, it‘s only an issue that she got tricked into killing people who aren‘t blood related to the king?
Wtf?!
A king who f'ed up CENTURIES before, too.
I'm curious about your quotation marks; why is the first one down low? In English they're all supposed to go up top, but I've seen this kind of thing several times before, so I assume it's the way you write it in your first language?
@@korganrocks3995 Slavs use it „россия-матушка“
@@deus5185Ah, cool.
So let me get this right... a dragon that literally *creates fire in his own lungs and breathes it out through his own mouth* can somehow be incapacitated if his own fire touches his own body? That's like a human's skin being melted off their face by their own snot if they sneeze!
Well, we do have acid in our stomachs so ...
@@lkf8799 We don't vomit the acid off our throats though
@@NoahToledo-xo5pj Have you never vomited?
@@peacemaster8117 my vomit can't tear through my flesh I don't know about yours
@@peacemaster8117 everyone has vomited before. I've drank beer and alcohol alot during parties not once have I burn my skin 😂 this is the dumbest argument ever
6:35 I assumed that the person who marked a way out on the map got to the bottom of the crystal tunnel, saw daylight and thought that was really a way out and they went back to put in on the map for the next girl because she wanted whoever came next to be able to get out. Then she followed the path, made the final climb, and found a dead-end cliff. Realizing that the dragon was about to get her, she marked "not safe" on the wall as a warning before she was killed
How cute of Elodie to reference the best scenes of GoT: surviving unsurvivable situations, forgetting about the dragon and yelling at it...
The shot of Dany with the wings behind her gets ripped off, too!
This girl definitely learned how to survive completely unsurvivable shit from Arya 'Girlboss' Stark.
At least Arya went through seasons of training.
@@hothotheat3000 When?
@@TheStraightestWhitest Eh it's just those one or two episodes from Season 6 that everybody forgot about
but what unsurvivable shit Arya went through if we're being honest, in 8 seasons, with around 5 seasons of great character development - that scene with her being stabbed 5 times, The Long Night, and when she gets hit by bricks in King's Landing? Nah, there are female characters who go through thicker plot armor in a span of 2 hours in movies
@@dantefromdevilmaycry9857 Exactly. She barely trained. Two sessions with a dancing master who lost to Meryn fookin Trant, and some weeks washing people and swinging a stick around. That ain't enough to be some competent superhuman-esque assassin.
What was crazy about the third act is that it’s supposed to be about saving the little sister but they completely just forget about her once she starts her thing with the dragon. It even shows elody leaving alone. The little sister is just in the cave on the ground, then she just pops up at the end of the movie. I was like oh yeah, she exists. Where did she come from? And she was supposed to be the reason she went back. It’s so weird
Ok, this movies started off slow, but good and then left me with more questions than answers...
1.- If supposedly the dragon kept to herself and it was the humans that started the violence... why would they go into the dragons lair in the first place if it was not a threath? And why of all the people the king had to be there? Why not send dragon slayers or offer a reward?
2.- According to other websites they had to offer 3 girl every 10 years (for 300 years!!!) Did they have to marry the prince or king several times every 10 years? did no one notice the missing or disappearance of princesses over the years?
3.- Of all the items she removed from that clunky ass dress... why on earth she kept the damn corset??!!
4.- If the slugs were magical that could cure anything... why not use them on her father??
6.- Did she really just touch her father sword and suddenly knew how to use it?? is she a Disney-Jedi??
7.- How does a dragon get burnt by it's own fire?? (all of my D&D freak friends lost their sh*t on this one) 🤣🤣
8.- At the end the dragon and Elodie killed more people than the royal family!! she practically turns into Dracarys levels of evil!!
9.- The real hero of the story in her makeup!!
I don't know how this movie was supposed to be feminist when they portrayed women as evil, cruel, dumb, vain and racists!!
This is an "It's Okay When We Do It" kind of thing.
Here's another question to your list: if the dragon got hurt by a stab from the main character, then why didn't they just kill it with arrows?
" If the slugs were magical that could cure anything... why not use them on her father"
He was like 10 seconds from death when she got to him.
@@peacemaster8117pretty sure "almost dead" would fit under "can cure anything" lol
@@guerreiroazul3230 or a damn ballista 😅
Oh, she didn't even tried to save the new bride? 😑
She did
She told her to run away. She was the first one out of the castle.
@@tFighterPilot Presumably.
Though packing up all your things likely takes a bit longer than that.
dragon shows up you are going to pack your thing? you deserve it atp@@lucakleeberg8598
@@tFighterPilot assuming she RAN all the way to the gate, didn’t stop for anything, even sensible stuff like food and water, she MIGHT have gotten lucky. If she did anything else, odds are she’s amongst the scorched corpses anyone investigating the area will later find. The dragon very clearly torched the entire place, as shown by the inferno engulfing the castle as our “hero” walks across the bridge.
didn't u know? characters now in movies and shows that get stabbed can walk it off. Just ask Reva.
Vader put a lightsaber through her tummy twice as a kid and adult and she walked it off like a BOSS
Sabine Wren: don't forget me too! :D
Maul: Please.. I was cut in half and survived -_-
Dont forget anakin himself cut in half AND lit on fire
@@ZackaryBiagi Anakin didn't exactly walk it off!
Palpatine arrived and cyborged him up!
@@ZackaryBiagi I wouldn't describe Anakin post-Mustafar as "living" in any strict sense of the term. He also wasn't cut in half.
Sooo. This is an allegory about teaming up with the devil.
But who is the devil here? The beach or the dragon?
As a person who knows the most basic of first aid... Watching Elodie shove a bandage around her massive burn made me cringe in pain
A Dragon is hunting her, and the entire time she keeps on grunting and screaming A LOT.. it's nice that she is reminding the Dragon that she is still alive and not Letting the Dragon worry much..
I mean ... they don't really understand hygiene in medieval times - on the infection front. Can we talk about her hair and face being untouchable plot armor, too?
Her make up was soooo glamorous for a really poor state 😂
Also, when did she cut her hair? In the beginning her hair went down to her hips and then suddenly it wasn’t even shoulder length. And she was of course able to cut it perfectly too.
I had no desire to watch it before this video, but now it sounds sooo dumb, that it might be kinda fun to watch with some friend
It is… 💨
The crazy thing is dat the fire actually hurt the dragon, that is madness only ur inside are fire proof😅😅😅
😅
“Fire cannot kill a dragon. “
-Daenerys Targaryen
I mean ... Our stomachs are full of acid ...
@@lkf8799 Yeah, but we aren't territorial magic creatures that vomit the contents of our stomachs on each other when we fight.
The people who back in the day had to stick to doing crappy fan fiction and posting it to blogs are now the ones in the writers room because it's not talent that gets you there anymore as long as you tick the right boxes you're in. Most of the movies and shows feel like more fan fiction
Even I wrote better fantasy fanfictio once
Buddy, that's how all writers probably started out. One kf the kkst common origins for any artist is "do what you know." Write what you know, paint what you know, draw wbat you know, etc. Star Wars was literally just a reworked version of a Flash Gordon movie George Lucas wanted to do.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 yeah but I specified "crappy" fan fiction. There are good fan fiction stories out there for sure
90% of the plot-heavy fanfiction I've read is better than most movies these days. I think these writers are the ones writing Snape/Hermione or Theon/Robb smutfics trying to write plot for the first time.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355Oh look, a shitty R34 MLP fanfic "writer" got offended xDD
Reva: *The plot armor is strong with this one.*
Oh please we all know Girlbosses don't need logic. They are above that pesky inconvenience.
Something that I found weird, Ellie's lands are still poor by the end of the movie. Wasn't that the initial conflict, that her lands were dying? And with the lord, her father, dead, they will be even more crippled financially and politically. They completely forget about it by the end.
Did didn't the family just kill the dragon? If it got stabbed through the chest by a sword then it would be wrecked by a ballistae bolt
The most implausible thing is that the dragon, a mother who lost her children would want any other mother to feel her same pain she did
And if she could fly out the mountain any time she wanted, why did the "royal family" have to bring the sacrifices to the mountain
The only logic in this movie is that 'Its all convenient'
The interesting part of this movie is that the Royal family aren't evil. They were born and inherited this problem. Killing random girls was their only way out, rather than sacrificing their own family. They're in a terrible situation from the beginning.
Bitch, that IS evil!
😂 so instead of just leaving they decide to murder innocent girls, not their fault right 😅 they’re 1000% evil bruh.
They could easily kill the dragon
@@guerreiroazul3230
But you need plot armour to do that!
@@Raximus3000 not really, if an untrained person was capable of piercing its skin with a sword i fait to see how a ballistae bolt wouldn't kill it.
The fact that this dragon was fooled into thinking that all these women were royals by them having the prince's blood pressed against their own/wound for a few seconds/minutes, as if the rest of them/their blood wouldn't still very much smell like themselves/their real family. Heck, main character little sister gets offered up instead after main character escapes, and the dragon keeps her sister alive, cause she can smell that the two are siblings, but she apperently can't smell that they don't have any blood ties to the royal family apart from the small amount of blood from the very "front" of their cut!
What bothered me most about movie, was not the obvious plot holes, not true dragon being so obviously fooled, but how she was swinging that axe. She choked up on it to far and would never have been able to split that log.
The way I didn’t even bother with watching this when it came out because I instinctively knew this was just going to be another one of those Mary-Sue centric films…
You just know there was a redemption arc for the queen that just didn't make it into the movie
I doubt that. It really seemed like the queen was pure evil.
One saving grace of the movie was that they didn’t have a redemption arc for the prince
@@robinregulus
Yeah, he accepted his punishment.
@@robinregulus I get it why the prince just stood there waiting for the punishment. But the queen and her entourage were just standing and waiting for the dragon to fire while they had a lot of time and opportunity to run away as some other characters did!
I really liked your editing in this video. Made me laugh quite a few times :D
I mean, don't get me wrong, being friends with a dragon is cool as fuck, but what the fuck does she use said dragon to burn an entire castle, and many innocents along with it? And I'm supposed to believe she's the protag? Dafuq?
I kinda feel like this movie would've been cool as a video game. As long as they don't spoil everything like the trailer did.
I love when u can add GoT season 8 to every video and rip on it some more xD
Cos as Daenery once said ''BeSt SeAsOn EvEr''
Two things;
why are there black people a in 1500's Europe kingdom?
How come the "heroines" dress front never tears or falls off?
The movie appears to take place in a location more similar to France than England, so maybe the black step mom is the daughter of a merchant from North Africa.
But the dress is stupid, yes.
I was so looking forward to this and it was just a mess. I missed the entire first part of the movie before she got 'married' so I'm glad to know nothing noteworthy happened. There were so many times in that movie she should have died or at least been injured, I was so annoyed by the end of it.
The very premise in itself has a logic plot hole: how do the royal family NOT raise alarm bells that the new wives keep dying within a day of getting married? Or having multiple weddings in a week isn't suspicious?
And they've been doing this for centuries, so no lesser houses have figured this out? Or they're just okay with it? Also, they TOLD her father what they were doing and he was okay with it. Why not just tell him some BS about her accompanying her betrothed on a "honeymoon" tour or something and claim she died to highwaymen or something?
@@damatarI guess it could be argued that the commoners don't want to put their necks out for it especially if it's once in a generation and if it saves them from getting roasted by an angry dragon, but still. It could've been handled better than IMMEDIATELY after the wedding, and having another wedding set up a few days later. And like a couple drops of swapped blood would even be convincing enough that she 'has royal blood' everyone in the movie is dumb as hell, even the dragon
So is nobody gonna question how all the princesses are of completely different races and the dragon never questions it? Even if it somehow believed that the royal family was resorting to polygamy it should have noted that none of the girls have looked even remotely similar.
To be fair, the Dragon probably doesn't know much about how human genetics work (it is medieval times after all).
@@lasercraft32 You say that as if race was discovered alongside genetics. You don't need a degree on biology to understand the concept of family resemblance dude
@@NoahToledo-xo5pj Its a dragon. Races are a human concept... You don't say that a black cat and a red cat are two different races, do you? I don't think the dragon gives a crap.
@@lasercraft32 You also don't see a black cat and an orange cat and think they are related. If the dragon is smart enough to talk then the concept of family resemblance shouldn't be this alien idea that it can't understand. Like it should notice all the girls look nothing alike despite being supposedly from the same family
It's kind of sad Milly Bobby Brown's career has been nothing but cringe, + way more cringe, + "modern superior" movies.
Sad.
Arya be like "she's the smartest person I've ever known"
The fact all the dragon’s evil deeds are just completely disregarded by the end of the film was just so absurd, like sure she was tricked, but she also never bothered to hear those girls out or check if the royal family was keeping their word and horribly murdered probably several dozens of innocent children…
Glow-worms actually exist, so as much as this movie seems like hot garbage, it's not a fantasy light source, it's just a light source.
Yes, but glow worms don't look like that, and they DEFINITELY CANNOT magically heal people with this slime. XD
11:32 the dragon is paralyzed by a regular sword like it's the Blade of Olympus, just fly away and shoot fire
no mention of Elogie spending her time falling... then climb 20 meters, and ends up 500 meters up in the air? I mean, to arrive so far up on the mountain, she should have climbed for ages...
It's so weird that a bunch of grown men go into a cave hoping to hunt a dragon did not bring a single ranged weapon. That whole first scene immediately took me out of the movie. All the knights stood in a single line, tight position perfect to be fire breathed one and not one brought a bow, or cross bow, even sling? Even from the very beginning shot it showed them standing in a triangle formation and I thought "oh that's a perfect cone for a fire breath!" Come on! They knew they were going up against something that FLIES. What's your melee sword going to do.
And then when her father goes and get her, same damn thing. None of the men he brought with him brought ranged weapons. Not even a spear! And also, how does a kingdom who LIVES NEXT TO A DRAGON not have tons of castle defenses set up all along its walls and towers JUST IN CASE the dragon turns bad. Why aren't every wall aligned with net throwers, ballista, archers when they LIVE NEXTX TO A DRAGON. How does a girl and a dragon sneak up on an entire castle at the end? Were there zero guards up on the wall?
The creation of this...thing they call a movie is insane, they steal the story of saint George, make him a total coward and then make plot armor into a girl for anything to be combaniently placed for her to not kick the bucket the moment she arrives at the cave while everyone else just poofs as if they were farts, step mother side who also should be dead by the time she arrives with plot armor, pathetic.
Oke, but 3:50, such thing is very real tho and a not fantasy based lightsource.
Just look up glow worm cave, there's one on New Zealand for example.
But they're actually neither worms nor slugs, and I'm also pretty sure they don't posses healing powers.
Of course she doesn't try to keep quiet - after surviving the first fall she knew she had massive plot armor, so what could go wrong? Speaking of falls i was really surprised she didn't fall int that chasm. I thought her falling from heights that should kill her would turn into a running gag.
I love how you and Critical Drinker burned this to a crisp.
The Critical Drinker is a terrible critic who bases his criticisms purely on nostalgia. He is blissfully unaware of the artistic side of media. As for this video, I haven't seen the movie, so I can't talk about it from a personal perspective. However, Supercuts seems to be under the impression that all stories have to be logical. They don't. Logic is only one facet of storytelling. As is the case with kost art, the emotions behind it are often the most important part. If we criticized all fairy tales and religious stories with this kind of pedantry, all societies would crumble and die. This just strikes me as pointless "why didn't the birds fly Frodo and Sam to the mountain," all while being blissfully ignorant of the emotional purposes of solemnly struggling up Mount Doom. George R. R. Martin set out to make fairy tales logical. This is the ASOIAF and Game of Thrones, though, hence we have to look at it from a different perspective. It strikes me as trying to use the same formula that made Supercuts Delight successful, only it's applied to the wrong story, all because of a "girl boss" protagonist. That's really the crux of it, I think. If a man were the protagonist, this movie would have been dismissed by the "anti-woke" crowd, because "men can take it!" I expected as such from the Critical Drinker, the sensitive, insecure asshole. I would have never expected that from Supercuts Delight.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 SD didn't announce or narrate the word 'woke', that's ur interpretation from/through ur own thoughts now mate
The Critical Drinker claims that's it's unbelievable for women to beat men twice thier size,but it's okay for men to defeat an enemy way bigger than them.
@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 If you haven't seen the movie how can you comment? The plot inconsistencies ruin what otherwise could have been a fun movie.
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355"If we criticized all fairy tales and religious stories with this kind of pedantry, all societies would crumble and die." People have actually done both of these things for at least two thousand years, and I think we're doing pretty ok. Or are you trying to imply a society needs theism in order to function? Sapere aude, my friend, sapere aude.
I reject the slug point. Medieval society so plausible that they weren’t living by modern day standards of hygiene and infection prevention
Your gonna scream if your leg got burned it's hurt a lot and your in pain
Not if you know you will die if you do
React, sure. Scream at the top of your lungs when you’re trying not to be found? Only if you’re an idiot. You could at least cover your mouth to muffle any screaming.
@@guerreiroazul3230🧢
You'd at least TRY to keep quiet.
I always assumed the "way out" bit was just a better way to go as opposed to be being cooked or starving in the cave
Wait, did the (foreign) bride at the end of the movie get torched with everyone else in the city? She presumably has nothing to do with the whole thing, along with all the peasants who probably don’t have any idea the dragon exists or what the royals are doing…
It was fun commenting on all of these obvious survival failures during the movie.
This is hilarious. Also, the dragon can smell her from the distance, but it CAN'T SMELL her location even remotely when shes just some feet away. Still later she covers her skin with this ugly water in case the dragon might have learned to smell her location in the meantime. Also, there is no way, that foreign blood miraculously enters the blood stream through this little cut. Please. The stepmother was barely able to stay on the horse with her gut wound, and then she just walks back to the ... where did she walk? I also just love that Elodie puts a dirty "bandade" on her first open burn injury, for no reason other than taking it off later in pain. In the cave the massive dragon has to flap its wings like a bat to stay in the air, later it easily just floats in the air like a little bird.
I start off perplexed at how one took time and pain to establish a kingdom in a place so scarce on resources they have to beg for money from nearby kingdoms. It's not like loading a casual map from Age of Empires, you look for a suitable place to set in first
At least they got the dragon right and not another wyvern.
Also, the magic slug would have healed the cut on her hand lmao 😂
I didn't watch the film so forgive me if I am wrong! But were they doing another marriage ceremony at the end there? Meaning the bride was another innocent girl? If so, why does Elodie walk out of the castle alone after the Dragon torched the place? Did she just leave the innocent girl, who was about to be in the same situation she was in, to die?
Who care about innocent lives? Elodie's gotta have her #girlboss moment!
She tells the bride and the bride's family to run before the castle gets scorched. I assume they made it out, although they basically had a minute to flee.
@@LizzyAlexis Ok then! If she was able to make it out before it burnt down, then I'll assume they did too!
Thanks for letting me know 😁
It's obvious she dumped all her points into Endurance.
Intelligence? Nah...
I didn’t know this existed this morning. I wish it was this morning, hangover and all.
1. The dragon had so many opportunities to burn her down, but was just toying with her
2. The girl having the skills to survive her situation and save her self like a man makes no sense. Men train to achieve the strength but nothing in the story suggests she’s being training like a man would.
3. She was bleeding so many times how did the dragon not smell or taste her real blood.
4. The step mom was knifed and she’s still walking and getting on the horse.
5. This movie is essentially from madam web universe
4:12
Sticking the knife in the vertical surface. Like Ring Of Power's Galadriiel.
Elodie is the Governator Schwarzi and blood bender vs Predator Dragon
"Not safe" what the fuck is this? A From Software game?
The story needed another pass or two. Remove the magic healing glow worms and Elodie's father dying. The dragon could have just held her dad and sister hostage while Elodie fought the dragon and eventually convinced her that she was being deceived. The rest of the ending would finish basically the same.
If I wanted to see someone “subvert” Fairy tale expectations, I would go watch SHREK 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
@@GabesEdtiz gonna have PTSD flashbacks from like 10 years ago
6:36 I would argue the person that wrote the map didn't climb, she just saw while running from the dragon and marked it, she then tried to climb and that would explain her corpse in the dead end
I watched this just last night. It wasn't bad. But it wasn't slow and felt much much longer than it was.
the movie has more holes than a swiss cheese
Yo say what you will about the plot but I quite liked the fire effects for this movie. Still trash but good job to the CGI artists.
Yeah, that fire looked lava-like in a really cool way.
When she fell she got in a coma and dreamed the entire movie
Wait so what is that Damsel thing from the title?
The word "Damsel" seems to be used ironically here. 🤷♂
@8:50 I really disagree with your here. Elody saves herself. The men HELP her to save herself by giving her this rope to climb out, but free herself she does in the end.
The woman that does the dragons voice, I knew who it was right away. I’ve seen other things she’s been in. I can’t remember her name right now but she really sounds like that. That is her unedited voice lol.
Her burn on her chest flip flops sides aswell 😂
the first 5 minutes of this video over nit-picking and whining made me more interested in the movie to the point i'm going to continue to watch it after i previously stopped watching it after 5 minutes
Also, nobody's gonna question why the royal family has had THREE weddings in TWO days?
Supercuts doesn't know what a bat is.
The dream sequence is just a dream sequence, she's imagining the other girls who were there before her. The "it's a lie" line is presumably her reflecting on the fake princess scam. It doesn't reveal any information she didn't already know.
I thought the movie was pretty good. She survives some insane falls, but that's standard for any action movie. She never seemed particularly smart to me but that's fine too, I'd rather have a character who feels weak a lot of the time so it makes the eventual heroic rise more meaningful. The real problem with the movie is that she could've told the dragon about the fake princess scam from the start and avoided all this nonsense. There's no way around that fact.
Waiting for Elodie’s father to say, “What is it, ya period?” like he said in The Departed 😂
the way the dragon's senses just gets dumbed down by 1000% is so frustrating. suddenly it can't see or smell or anything. it's so plot convenient in ways that made me angry.
Right? The nerd in me lost their shit because of it. I kept screaming for the dragon to torch her
Rest in peace to that poor horse by the way.
Step-mother didn't want Elodie to com back to cave. She said it might be too late.
I love your analysis, it was spot on and hilarious. Also, I should add I loved the movie too. *shrug*
Looks like Big TV shows stars are doomed to star in nothing but slop. GoT actors can sympathize
Milly Bobby Brown needs a new agent.
Hopefully one that hates Netflix.
Should have just made the paper bag princess by Robert Munsch.
Thank you! I have no idea why so many people think this movie is good. It's cliché, predictable, illogical, the characters are completely devoid of intelligence ( including the dragon) and mary sue ending is so dumb lol.
Yah, I also find kinda clever that the cave wall was fire returning... The air suggested it quite a lot. Yet.... if it is a fire dragon, they are mostly fire resistant, and if it is an ice dragon they are ice resistant....and so on.... but OK.
Maybe the dragon is the damsel. 😂
im scared of broken bones (trauma thing) and every time I saw these MASSIVE falls watching this I was getting icky thinking I was gonna see broken bones, but nope this girls plot armor was just too damn strong😂
I’d seen the trailer for this and thought, “hey, could be interesting.” But this was just total shit. I fast forwarded through a lot of it. The stepmother showing up right when and where Elodie was after her escape from the cave finished me off lol
It was entertaining, there were some plot holes, but it was a good movie, the acting and the action scenes especially. It's so much better than other things I've seen lately.