The ending of this video gave me chills. I am a believer and while you were reading the comment I started laughing, then it occurred to me what the video was about and the smile froze. I had never realized how much it hurts to feel that my deepest beliefs would make me a laughing stock for others, so much as to drive me to laugh along with them. Your point is very strong, this insincerity is so spread out as to flood what is meant to be most sincere, spirituality.

Um hello, where is Forest Gump and the green mile and American beauty? You missed so many better movies too that should have been way before more than half the rubbish you put on here. Good will hunting, Fallen with Denzel Washington, sixth sense, seven, i could go on for ages but eyes wide shut is hardly number 1. Original Buffy, chocolate, cruel intentions. I'm sure i could neme way more too but yeah.

Well said.

Grown ups taking Star Wars or other movies made for kids seriously is just sad. "The new star wars movies are bad because I am not 7 years old any more". No shit.

1. Delightful essay. 2. Dune is trash, and I love Villeneuve's work.

It's like nerds becoming like the 'stereotypical cool guys/jocks' that used to bully them, and now they're bullying themselves, the things they like, and in turn, it feels like they're bullying each other. It's like they're becoming the new 'cool guys' status quo that would point and laugh.

I think the reason why Syndrome's 'joke worked is because it works in-universe; as a world with supervillains, monologuing wouldn't be unheard of, and might have been a common thing.

Using the owlbear scene from the DND movie as an example shows a lack of understanding as to what DND is...

I just watched Dune. It was sincere all the way through

why the hobbit trilogy failed

The cut to balrog falling with Gandalf into the underground lake was a cinema moment that will live with me until the day I pop off.

I think comedy the whole genre died partially because of a lack of sincerity. Comedies used to have really serious moments to contrast the humour. Scrubs for example, super funny show but it's remembered more for the serious moments.

I really didn't enjoy Thor Ragnarok. Maybe its dumb of me, but I couldnt get over Thor being tazed.

Dune part 2 was not emotionally sincere, it was simply better about lying to you rather than using irony. It butchered the plot badly and just hoped you (the viewer) wouldn't notice.

I actually thought that last jedi clip was from space balls. Thank God I've forgotten most of that trash.

ill be honest i really love the prequels and they are by far my favourite star wars movies. yes some stuff is a bit goofy (as if the original trilogy wasnt) but the worldbuilding and storytelling in my opnion is great. i do not agree that they are "objectively" bad films. like you'll really be showing some of the best figth scenes from that series while saying how much they failed

How is the insincere or ‘wink-wink’ behavior of current movies post-modern? Post-modernism was at its peak in popular culture when the Lord of the Rings movies were released. Their serious tone (and pre-modern setting) reflected the influence of post-modern thinking. Modernism has made a comeback precisely as movies have become more whimsical.

Immersion is important to legitimate storytelling. 7:45 - Actually that's an oblique reference to _Hardware Wars,_ a low-budget fan film from the late seventies which garnered a passionate following over the decades. The Millennium Falcon in HW was an iron, flying thru space. It was one of the many stupid decisions Rian Johnson made that destroyed the credibility of the film.

Cleverness is overrated

The Last Jedi is hands down the worst one I don’t even feel right calling it a Star Wars movie. All three sequels don’t deserve the right to become called Star Wars movies anyway: George not only had nothing to do with them but they are a product of his own draft being discarded I know the prequels are flawed and I understand they’re not for everyone but the backlash they got was unwarranted. People descended on George even spreading some BS narrative of how allegedly the editing staff just some how made A New Hope for him and attempting to diminish any credit on his part for the OT. The characters the world building the lore and all that the prequels offered was certainly nothing to throw away: even people who didn’t like the movies still say the Clone Wars Series was mostly solid, essentially using George’s material with a different format and an audience surrogate in Asohka Tano. Nevertheless Disney tried by making TFA a remake of A New Hope attempting to cut itself off from anything remotely prequel related and flaunting its lives in sets. It’s a terrible movie and when it premiered it was clear as day that JJ Abrams did NOT think as to how it would effect the entirety of the saga and its characters. Of course that wasn’t HIS problem: his aim was to make the soft reboot he wanted to make and then leave the actual story of the saga to the following filmmakers while keeping a low profile. This way if the trilogy was a success he was to thank and if not then it was the other guys fault As for the Last Jedi it’s just empire with some inversions. They don’t really change the outcome that much when compared to the original trilogy: we have a young budding Jedi meeting a Jedi master on an uncharted planet only for said master to be a useless asshole who doesn’t train her. Nevertheless she trains herself and reaches the height of her maturity all the same. Of course there’s the slow chase and the Cantobite bit, ultimately being pointless because our heroes shit the bed. It’s true Luke’s inexperience and learning from failure are overencompassing themes in ESB and while Dak being killed as a result may render it difficult to grasp for the most part it works. The appeal of Luke was always that he represents the audience, as in if we were in Star Wars we’d be Luke as his background is most similar to the average viewer. He’s a simple teen with little to no formal military training and he clearly has his limitations. Because of these limitations, of course, his accomplishments become ours in the process Here however the failures are brought on by cartoonishly bad decisions, embarrassingly obvious ones: parking your ship on a beach and getting in trouble with the authorities despite the time sensitive matter, disguising your droid with a waste basket which gets them caught and don’t get me started on Rose ramming Finn: if those two didn’t magically teleport back to the base that was miles away they’d both be dead. Not to mention Poe whom we are to believe is to learn to use his head rather than simpleton approaches like “getting into an xwing and blowing something up” only for his plan to be revealed to be NOTHING but a nuisance thereby rendering finn and roses pursuit that as well Basically our characters don’t grow at all and they even get the majority of their comrades killed according to the movie itself. And don’t get me started on Jake Skywalker: this portrayal IS a misrepresentation of Luke at best

I’m gonna have to say “no” to execution being everything You need a good story, you need strong world building, you need an answer as to “how” and “why” and “what motivates the character” and you need a consistent code of logic even if it’s not exactly fitting to our own reality The prequels delivered on that which is obviously nothing the sequel trilogy even attempted When you don’t think about the aforementioned you get movies like the Force awakens or Hell, just the sequel trilogy in general. The Force awakens makes an okay remake of A New Hope but it’s supposed to be a sequel. A good execution of a bad concept I suppose The Last Jedi is filler partially disguised as an insufferable and misguided deconstruction that ultimately doesn’t EVEN offer an alternative angle Rise of Skywalker is (to parallel the words of Nerdnonymous) when JJ Abrams and a bunch of Disney marketing specialists suddenly remembered that Star Wars is meant to be ONE story and it’s set to conclude in THIS film. So the movie tries to pass everything off as if it was intentional. People were actually mad at this film because it attempted to “walk back” on all the undermining they did of the original story As for the execution of the prequels, dare I say, it’s not THAT bad: TPM is a bit silly and there were some odd choices like having Natalie Portman pick up that weird monotone at the end(it worked for Keira knightly with all that makeup but it sounded out of place when Padme started talking like so). Nevertheless it was a nice look at how the galaxy functioned before the shit hit the fan AOTC was indeed the most flawed squeezing a glut of lore material into one movie, the awkward time jump and some scenes looking like cutscenes in a video game. I still enjoy watching it; I never thought it was horrible or worthy of the backlash it got ie the whole “George Lucas Raped Our childhood” movement I love ROTS, it’s great. That’s it

The star wars iron "spaceship" joke was hilarious to me when I first saw it. I think it must've been my first proper exposure to ironic storytelling, so I guess it had the same effect for me as the one you described so many people getting from Hulk beating up Loki. I never watched the Avengers (actually still haven't, somehow) so yeah, I was a bit late to the party, lol. I guess it just goes to show how samey all these jokes truly are and how any one of them would be great on its own, but crumbles when it's surrounded by so many copies. Great video!

Literally Thor ragnarok

Coppola is an egomaniac. I am personally offended that this person threw over 100 milion dollars out the window during one of the biggest inflation of our time to satisfy his own WHIM. He IS completely disconected from reality. An yeah, the fact that he is sleeping Really well is actually the problem.

THAT ENDING DAMN

*Disney not making anything* Fans: 😡😡😡 *Disney makes movies and shows and tries new things* Fans: 😡😡😡

Look while I agree with most of what ya said I think making the sequel trilogy not canon anymore would just be a big “fuck you” to the people who who worked hard on theses movies and also the fans who like the sequel trilogy too And I think it would honestly just make things worse And slot of more recent shows have been basically kinda been trying to explain the sequel trilogy so it would make it a even big waste of time and money to just make it all not canon It’s better to live with your mistakes than running away and pretend it never happened Am saying this as someone who thinks the sequel trilogy is alright go t

I’ve moved on to GODZILLA 🇯🇵🇺🇸

What is the next big director ranking gonna be?

Why was The Empire Strikes Back so good while Return of the Jedi was so uneven? Answer: Leigh Brackett. There is no substitute for having a good writer. If she had still been there to work on Return, I think we would have had three truly great films.

What is the name of actor at around 14:00(in the court room) I have been searching for ages?

I really wish they manage to save starwars man

You can make works that are both referencial and sincere, that's what pretty much every Terry Pratchett book is. I think the difference is in why the reference exist in the work and how it is treated. In discworld, the meta element are completely serious, they are a force of nature and don't exist only for the readers to laugh at but as forces the characters must solve. When myth are deconstructed not to get ridiculed but to show how important their elements are, they shine brighter. That's how a story about a santa ripoff and a tooth fairy can make a powerfull point about human nature. IMO the problem is less reference and more how they're used. Right now it is mostly to almost make an excuse for the existence of the work "don't criticize too much, we know it's not serious" kind of statement. Almost as if nobody wanted to tell that story but someone got paid a big ammount of money to make it regardless. But there's other ways to use them, even for sincere works.

So what about movies/ books that take absolutely ridiculous settings but then take themselves absolutely seriously. Only read a few chapters of it but Fallout Equestria comes to mind as a massively popular book of My Little Pony after a nuclear war.

Cap and the Captain America movies are probably the best/only examples of this in the Marvel Universe.

it was hilarious

REALLY good critique

It's possible to create a story which is vaguely self aware and funny and still emotionally impactful. The problem is that hollywood and writers learned the wrong lesson from the Marvel success. They didn't learn that people want banter between characters they got to know and like with a mix of sincerity and irony, instead they saw the jokes and the irony and went full tilt in that direction. It's the opposite of when grimdark was the thing for a while, where instead of dark, complex and meaningful stories we just got more dark for the sake of dark bullshit.

I was absolutely subconsciously waiting for a joke at the end. Case and point made excellently. Good video!

Great video

"we will always be able to go back and watch the original trilogy" - he says while playing ewok music that was removed from ROTJ releases almost 30 years ago

tarantino favoring scenes over movies perfectly describes inglorious. from my POV it's his most overrated movie despite featuring tons of individually cool moments (the introduction, the bar scene, etc). on some level it's just a fundamental mismatch between what i personally enjoy in fiction and what this movie is, because ultimately I just don't find absurdist plots very easy to care about or become invested in

You said that “they found the perfect guy to direct the films” and that wasn’t the case. It was Peter Jackson who had the idea of making these films and he was the one who contacted studios with this idea. And I think that’s another thing that we ignore. This is pure conjecture on my part - but I imagine that most of the blockbuster movies are born not from those who are passionate, but from a bunch of guys in business suit sitting in an office meeting. These are the same guys who thought that we needed to have three more Star Wars films, and a million spinoffs. What were they about? Who cares. They’ll still make them as long as they still made money. They didn’t spend millions on Star Wars copyright to just elet the franchise sit there

There have only ever been three Star Wars movies. Period. :)

I never thought I'd see Star Wars reduced to this

I think people overblow the prequels issues. George Lucas Star Wars story is wonderfully told in 6 movies.

31:33 Thank you! I had people tell me that if the Nazis took over Europe again that it would NOT undermine the efforts of the Allies in WW2 I felt weird arguing with this because it concerns real events as opposed to Star Wars and it’s fantasy ones. Furthermore the sad truth is that the allies themselves top priority wasn’t necessarily (or else not primarily) to oppose Hitlers regime and liberate his target demographics. This in mind made the debate even more problematic, of course. With that said and done(or “not said and done” more specifically) I was essentially “burned” according to those Disney fans. Nevertheless it really is ridiculous to have a fantasy franchise with two generational wars repeating themselves not only in terms of status quo but to have a specific series of events within said wars repeat themselves beat for beat. Furthermore it TOTALLY undermines Luke’s story: basically the trilogy just has everything Luke, his friends and family fought and sacrificed for ultimately rendered obsolete and it’s dominantly due to Luke throwing everything away for reasons he should arguably be above

Thing is, with LotR, if you stay as true as possible to the lore, commercial success will follow. It should be a no-brainer of course. Amazon has shown us that current filmmakers don't even have no brain, they must have negative brain.

I think that the reason Deadpool is a bit of an exception in the need for sincerity and the use of forth wall breaks and meta jokes is twofold: 1. You know what you are getting with Deadpool when you go into the movie. A smart-ass who breaks the forth wall is what people go to Deadpool for. 2. Its(mostly) not mean spirited. Even when Deadpool mocks super hero tropes its more in a fun 'isnt this silly' kind of way, rather than a 'this is stupid and sucks' kinda way. Its hard to describe the difference specifically. But you can tell the difference when you see it. That said, I did feel that the last Deadpool movie went a bit overboard relying on cameos and callbacks. While the first film's plot could have been told in a more sincere film, and the jokes and forth wall breaks are just a unique way of telling that story, cutting that stuff out of D&W would have left you with nothing.

What’s crazy is that one of the guiltiest directors to doing this is Taika Waititi and with JoJo Rabbit he perfectly executed the back and forth of irony and seriousness and he couldn’t in his marvel movies. In legit a movie from the perspective of a child he was more serious than a marvel movie. That’s wild to me.