10 Movies That Had The Balls To Do It Better (AND WANTED YOU TO KNOW)

[@justinstith7282]

You forgot the part in Deadpool when the villain said he would sew his mouth shut and Wade replies "oh I wouldn't do that"

[@misterb6]

Not to mention it also throws shade at Green Lantern. "Just don't make my super suit green. And animated!"

[@NotDannyDevito2021]

@@misterb6 as well as shooting himself before he can play the role in deadpool 2

[@ryanstoick601]

Pet Sematary 2019 better than the original?? ... You're FIRED!

[@juliobarrios2520]

That ✂️ scene 😂

[@justanotheryoutubechannel3102]

O.M.G. Y actually LIKE that steaming pile of crap with the CARDBOARD parents?! The only people that could act in it were grandpa munster and the kid. It's funny how 2 people can watch the same movie and see entirely different things. I haven't seen the reboot, but it'd have to be EXTRA bad to be worse

[@bufordhighwater9872]

Heinlein's novel, while being militaristic, isn't fascist in the slightest, nor is it even anywhere close to hyperfocused on war and violence as the movie would have you believe.

[@Cormonkey18]

Thank you! Seems like the scriptwriter didn't even read the book

[@jjkrayenhagen]

Well the director didn’t so I would expect any of the mainstream sycophants to either.

[@namor3607]

Hollywood loves their shallow critiques of Heinlein.

[@varthelm]

Aye...as entertaining as PV's take on it might have been at times, I'm still waiting for a real version of Starship Troopers. I think the thing that hacked me off the most was the depiction of the Arachnids as these techless animals who only managed to kill marines because it took multiple clips of ammo to drop one. They had technology in the real story and used it. The Marines had power armor like Ironman (not exactly like Ironman but pretty deadly as such). I was hoping to see that war.

[@mattrobson3603]

@@varthelmThe Arachnids in the ST movie made no sense as animals. As a species with a similar tech level and communication ability to humans, they were competitors for worlds and resources. As animals with unusual morphology (what evolutionary pressures produced the Tankers, let alone the Plasma Bugs?), they shouldn't have been on multiple worlds at all, let alone been any sort of danger to Earth. I saw it in the theater and had a good time, but I too would love to see a more faithful adaptation. Something that had a feel more like Full Metal Jacket, but with powered armor and orbital drops.

[@kq3698]

Pet Semetary remake was not good. They just did the cheap Hollywood thing where hey I know how we’ll make it different and not a direct remake, let’s switch the kids dying. And - Gage the killer toddler in the og one was not silly, it was fucking awesome. Ya’ll 100% wrong on this one

[@coreyhamby2989]

Totally agree new pet sematary was not good at all. The killed kid swap wasn't at all clever just same old boring remake

[@encycl07pedia-]

Sometimes I'm almost positive they include terrible ideas like that just to drive up the comment count.

[@michaelblaine6494]

And neither compare to the book. I know people always say that but Pet Sematary is a classic example of the book being far superior. I almost wish I saw the movie first because so many people love that movie(1989)

[@earlleeruhf3130]

It's been a while since I read the book but I don't remember any other child but Gage. Also the boy chasing the ball into the road sadly does happen but why was the older girl standing in the road too.

[@benlevan5645]

A toddler is a picture of innocence. To have that light snuffed out and brought back as a cannibalistic wendigo is indeed the more emotionally devastating way to go. That's why King did it. Either child dying is something no parent should live through, but Gage's death and unholy return simply pack the better punch to the heart.

[@PulpVision]

So you didn't care for Spider-Man No Way Home but praise Twilight Breaking Yawn part 2???😂

[@primefamous]

Lol my thoughts exactly...can't take this guy seriously

[@rum8121]

Purposely avoided both still haven’t seen either one of them

[@young__blacksmith]

Watched No Way Home at home and… didnt love it 😬. Felt weird watching the many awkward pauses for audience applause. Twilight is always a fun ironic watch though

[@4timesnow318]

"Breaking Yawn" - I see what you did there. Because it's boring, right? So funny.

[@TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark]

Exactly! Instant side eye from me.

[@purpleprinc3]

I just came here for Starship Troopers and nothing else.... RICO'S ROUGHNECKS HURRAH!

[@Banzai51]

Uhhh, no one criticized Starship Troopers on release for being pro-fascism. It was originally criticized for deviating from the book.

[@bull705]

Exactly. Most people (including critics) didn't even get it was supposed to be a parody of fascist propaganda.

[@carastone3473]

Exactly! And it wasn’t ’pro-fascist;’ it was SATIRE! This guy is dumber than the audiences were!

[@thehumancrayon3264]

Dude, Verhoven's biography mentions how he and the cast we litterally boo'd off severall panels, being called fascists. How is that not being criticized for supposedly being pro-fascism?

[@Reggie2000]

​@@thehumancrayon3264Where and when? Because this is news to 99.99% of us. Verhoven is a nut. He probably made that up.

[@chapmje]

I always thought that the people behind the movie never read the book at all. At most they read a synopsis of the book or had someone tell them about the book. The never understood the technology, social commentary, or philosophy that formed the basis of the book and explained the political system, which is nothing like fascism at all, that the book proposed. If anything their system is more akin to a Platonic Republic or some other modern take on distribution of political power. Seriously, it’s not even military rule. You serve to be a citizen and get the right to vote…but anyone could serve regardless of ability. In America such a concept is in practice as military service can lead to citizenship for foreign born migrants.

[@I_XenoBlack_I]

Did he just say no way home was bad?! And that spider man 3 wasn’t the worse spider man movie? This guys smoking crack

[@julieb157]

Spiderman 3 was hard to watch because of one reason; Emo Peter Parker.... just why???

[@nak3dxsnake]

I've rarely heard a more accurate description of how I feel about those movies. I smoke weed too so I know when something is compelling or so shitty even weed cant help make it good.

[@wfchannel4673]

yeah... no way home is overrated, but spider-man 3 is easily the worst spider-man movie. none of the other spider-man movies come close. spider-man 3 is like a C- at best while the rest are at least a B.

[@johnstone9396]

@@wfchannel4673no way home would have been cooler if they had more “Spider-Man” characters, like into the spider verse

[@Crucio78]

100% said to drive engagement and get people to comment.

[@madisonlink7141]

1) Starship Troopers the novel was not pro fascist. Totally aside from the argument "portraying and praising are not the same," the society portrayed in Starship Troopers was NOT AT ALL FASCISTIC, and was far more Constitutionalist than anything. It simply postulated a society in which you were required to do two years of civil service (of any kind) in order to gain the right to vote. BUT if you wanted to do your two years, the government HAD to find a job for you, and HAD to honor moral considerations (such as pacifism) and physical considerations (such as handicaps). So literally, the only thing preventing anyone from voting is a lack of interest in working a "lower class" job for two years. (The chief non-citizens we see are actually upper-middle class, and discourage the main character from joining on a "why waste two years of your life" argument.) 2) Heinlein was portraying this society, not praising it. In one scene, the history teacher asks his class "Why do we have this system?" He then shoots down every idealistic answer, basically saying, "yeah, but statistics show that people who do their civil service are no better in any way than people who don't." The history teacher's "reason we keep this system" amounts to "it hasn't created any problems, so there's no impetus to change it." That's basically Heinlein saying "No I don't believe limiting votership to people who work for it would produce a magically superior society. I'm just using it as the backdrop for a story about a kid joining up just before a war." 3) The reason people have trouble with the idea that Starship Troopers the movie was satire is that it was BAD SATIRE. (Also, most people going into a theater have no clue who the director is and what other movies he's directed. Get out of here with "It was Paul Verhoven, so obviously...") If you strip away the PSA-style military propaganda and the anit-militaristic boot-camp scenes, Rico's story is a fairly standard action movie. Rico wins. Rico's team (Team Fascist Earth) wins. Rico does not suffer in any way for supporting his fascist government and waging a war of invasion against the enemy bugs. There are no obvious flaws to the fascistic society. In good satire, the flaws of the system are exposed, and those who partake in the system suffer for it. But if you look at the PSAs, they're terrible, off-kilter, and in every way opposite of real fascist propaganda. Except, of course, for the "I'm doing my part" bit, which was copied shot for shot and word for word from a 3rd Reich propaganda film. (Meaning, Paul Verhoven was less adept at mocking fascists than the actual fascists.) The movie doesn't know whether it wants to be a heroic action flick, or a satire of fascism, and it is just mediocre at both.

[@kailrush]

Placing Spiderman 3 above No Way Home, is an easy way to let everyone know that you have no idea what you're talking about. To follow that up with calling the Twilight vision ending "smart?" This guy has to be just trolling, right?

[@encycl07pedia-]

"Into the Spider-verse" is a terrible movie but lots of people think it's great and that its blurriness is a feature instead of a bug.

[@minosmart7159]

For twilight The book ending compared to movie the movie ending way more satisfying. The book ending bullies are cowards. Was a yawn.

[@AgentMoray]

Yes

[@AgentMoray]

​@@encycl07pedia- maybe don't watch a pirated copy or get your eyes tested. Not meant as an insult, I wear glasses and the movie is not blurry.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@AgentMorayI saw it in theaters, genius. The animation was so bad I walked out TWICE to make sure I didn't need 3D glasses. It was so bad it caused seizures. Accusing me of being a thief is incredibly disrespectful.

[@Shiznaft1]

WhatCulture got it wrong on Starship Troopers. The novel and the movie managed to be a satire which is ironic because the people that produced the movie never read the novel. In fact that script, which was not originally related to the book, was adapted to include some material from the novel.

[@smgdfcmfah]

The book is a great read. All this whining about it being fascist is just wannabee commies of the critical nature that hate ANYTHING that's the slightest bit anti left wing. Verhoeven is just one of those raw capitalists that pretend to be a commies while actually being an elitist one percenter that gets rich off the masses in the freest society on earth. Starship Troopers was an absolute disaster of a joke of a movie no matter how you look at it - satire or no. At BEST it was a shitty remake of Robocop.

[@BlueInkAlchemy]

You feature Dredd in the opening to the video, yet it doesn't rate an entry on the list... that feels like a crime.

[@Reggie2000]

I am the law!!!

[@BloodyBay]

Do you think sentencing WhatCulture to 30 days in an Iso Cube might be enough? 😉

[@Reggie2000]

@BloodyBay Nope! Straight up MDK!!!

[@BloodyBay]

@@Reggie2000 Well, far be it from me to argue with the Judges.... :D

[@InsaneProf]

@@BloodyBayno, 30 years in an Iso cube would be more appropriate.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

For the cutest “this ain’t your daddy’s film”, go watch the first appearance of Chris Reeve’s Superman in 1978. Lois hangs from the chopper, Clark runs to change… and public phones weren’t in booths anymore.

[@CW4RUNNER]

Public phones in booths were still around in the 2000's bud.

[@Mangolorian-je3eo]

@@CW4RUNNER but before then they were *always* in booths, mate.

[@izzy9889]

Honestly Godzilla final wars would've been a better choice. TOHO literally bought the rights for the 1998 version renamed it zilla then made zilla look like trash and made him fight that movies Godzilla then made him die in a brutal and very disrespectful way and on top of that had sum 41 we're all to blame playing In the background.

[@Ceares]

Final Wars is such a fun movie and that Zilla thing was hilarious

[@HariSeldon913]

Plus the Planet X (horribly miscast) leader saying how useless Zilla was.

[@lewisirwin5363]

@@HariSeldon913 I disagree, he's hilariously scene-chewing and I don't care about gravitas in such a wacky movie. I mean come on, the heroes have a Soviet-Samurai-Mike Haggar on their team, who WOULD proudly hit a (evil cyborg alien) lady.

[@HariSeldon913]

@@lewisirwin5363 Don Frye is hilarious, though I thought of him more like a Sgt Slaughter. The Planet X leader always looks like he's about to burst into tears.

[@jamaisj]

Starship Troopers The Book was as anti-fascist as they come, and there were a lot of good points raised by it. The movie, however, was so over the top that no one really knew what to think about it. But wonderful way to show how you've never read the book.....

[@chaos.corner]

Yeah, sounds like he just read *about* the book. Or whoever wrote the script did.

[@JK50with10]

The movie is ultimate proof that Americans can't spot satire even when its is about as subtle as a brick to the face.

[@Gripen1974]

We analysed the book in a political science class and it is clearly pro militarist and fascist propaganda it can be. So i guess you don't even know what fascism is and think the book advocate libertarianism as i have heard many Randriods preach it do.

[@mygw2youtubeaccount]

@@Gripen1974Strangely, your pol sci class managed to miss the point that scholars have been making since the book came out. Slow clap.

[@Cormonkey18]

​@Gripen1974 the any book that is anti-communist will always look pro-fascist to the communist

[@gregoryvn3]

Not this guy talking about no one understanding Starship Troopers the movie when he doesn't understand the original novel. Pro-Fascist my muscular buttocks.

[@josharchibald4637]

I'm glad someone said it. A common (and stupid) misconception.

[@misterb6]

Yeah exactly, came to the comments to say pretty much this. "Tell me you've never read the novel without telling me you've never read the novel."

[@poopjeans1135]

A couple of creators started saying that a couple years ago because it was a fresh perspective on the novel. These days, it's cause they're high on their own ego or buying farts from OF thots while trying to convince themselves they aren't Eugene anymore.

[@AzurKutsuu]

Yeah.. Starship Troopers is legit still the best movie that completely fucking disrespects the source material in NEARLY every way.

[@smgdfcmfah]

@@AzurKutsuu It's an absolutely terrible movie in EVERY way imaginable. Satire and "missed the point entirely" aside, it's total garbage and is totally unwatchable for anyone over 12.

[@zyg9]

this should be titled "10 Movies That Had The Balls To *Think* They Did It Better (AND WANTED YOU TO KNOW)" (most thought right)

[@jlwiseguy]

The better dig at the American Godzilla was in Godzilla Final Wars.

[@MichaelAarons1701]

I was waiting for them to address that cameo.

[@tempvsfrangit3854]

Glad I scrolled first. Surprised they mentioned the passing-comment but neglect the actual "we'll kill your imitation in *our* franchise", especially in a list where Deadpool kills "Deadpool" in "air-quotes".

[@MisterUnlikely]

Agreed. "I knew that tuna-eating monster was useless!" was a priceless line.

[@TastyScotch]

I actually met michael Ironside once randomly at an art gallery in Astoria, OR. I told him i was a huge fan! Seaquest, stargate… etc. he asked what my favorite thing he had done was and i said “i loved you in starship troopers!” He… did not seemed pleased 😂

[@smgdfcmfah]

You're talking about an actor that's been in so many POS movies I just laugh whenever I see his face. He's like the epitome cheese - and I was a teen in the 80s when he was in tons of the movies I liked and enjoyed! Starship troopers is a terrible movie, though, no matter how you look at it.

[@LibertyBridgeProductions]

Starship troopers is hilarious but I think most of the time is not a pisstake.

[@stevetheduck1425]

It's not Heinlein's book or theme, but Verhoeven made a film about nationalism and militarism.

[@smgdfcmfah]

It's a garbage movie no matter how you look at it - that's the problem. At best it's a really shitty remake of Robocop.

[@TheChrisHype]

…How is NWH even in the argument of Worst Spider-Man movies. “Wah! Because it’s all just a bunch of nostalgia bait and cameos!” And how does that make it bad, exactly?

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

Never forget Sam Raimi was IMPOSED venom... Raimi didn'T wanna make a movie with Venom... that is the story of spider-man 3...

[@NeoTechni]

The fact that Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was falsely called pro-fascism should've told both you and him that you both were falsely doing the same of Heinlein's book. Which doesn't actually have any fascism in it.

[@chaost4544]

It's awesome "Helldivers 2" is getting a new generation of people to realize how amazing "Starship Troopers" is.

[@Apledore]

About Twilight - the book states multiple times that Alice can't see the werewolves in her visions, but the movie definitely shows them . . . in that final vision. I bugged me to no end that they created a plot hole that didn't exist in the books.

[@ablemagawitch]

That hero comment you want, but never leave 10 0:41 "The Green knight" 9 2:08 "Goldfinger" 8 3:41 "Deadpool" 7 4:48 "Godzilla,Mortha,King Childorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attack" 6 6:01 "Pet Sematary" (SIC) 5 7:34 "Creed" 4 8:52 "Starship Troopers" 3 10:28 "Haloween" (2018) 2 11:40 "Spider-Man: Intro The Spiderverse" 1 13:09 "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" This has been Able Magwitch , with less culture than a cup of yogurt........ The Omega (not that "Legend" didn't do "The Omegaman" different ) answer though is -> "Battlestar Galactica" (2004) The pilot film for the Re-imagined series while on TV it took the destruction into a real dark place that fit in post 9-11-2001 world, where the 1978 series wouldn't work as well. Along with in Universe "Razor" (film) showing the Battlestar Pegasus's backstory which was done better than the original series, with better Caine.

[@Cat-Tiger-Taegi-Cult]

Except Will Smith isn't 1/4 the actor Charlton Heston was RIP

[@Zett76]

I walked out of Starhip Troopers, being excited as hell for seeing such a great satire... and even back then, a friend bitched about how "fascist" the movie was... ...really? Please watch the "we're doing our part", stomping EARTH bugs part, again... and then repeat that claim, with a straight face. :D

[@clarencesmith2305]

The number eight DEADPOOL: hate to say it but DEADPOOL also shot Ryan Reynolds in the back of the head when he finished reading the script for the movie Green Lantern as Ryan Reynolds said something like "this will be great" DEADPOOL shot and said (your welcome canada).

[@geoffreyshepler4954]

I was waiting for them to bring up Sword of the Valiant when talking about The Green Knight. Fallowing it up with a Sean Connery film was kind of satisfying.

[@primefamous]

Wait....is this guy saying Spider-Man 3 is better than NWH? Yikes..

[@sfreemanoh]

NWH is filled with fan-service, in all of the best ways. This guy had a SUPER bad take.

[@silverjohn6037]

Starship Troopers is a 200 page book. Unless you have a genuine reading disability that's a rainy Sunday afternoon. Yet critics of the book insist it's fascist propaganda based, not on having read the book themselves, but because of a review a critic wrote back in the 1960's who apparently could see hidden messages in the story that even the author didn't realize were there.

[@TeeKayKay]

As much as I absolutely *LOVE* Starship Troopers, it should be part of a master class that shows us how well conventionally attractive people are at persuading people do things they don't wanna do.

[@caronstout354]

A movie made by a director that never read the source material...

[@johnburns9634]

@@caronstout354 Starship Troopers was WOKE in the book. How else do you explain that only women were the pilots because they were better than men at flying? Maybe if Verhoven wasn't illiterate, he wouldn't have that ridiculous love (Rhombus?) Maybe if WhatCulture could read they'd understand this.

[@tdcfc]

@@caronstout354 Like that ever mattered. We barely had any good movies based on books because people just want to loosely base their stories off of good books. Sure we had good ones like Shining and Fight Club, but Hollywood's reputation on book adaptations is horrendous (not to mention comic books).

[@encycl07pedia-]

@@tdcfc Kubrick's Shining was an awful movie filled with disgusting visuals (true to the book or not) and horrible pacing. Why people praise that movie is beyond me. Considering that and Eyes Wide Shut, I have no idea why anyone thinks Kubrick was a good director.

[@lightbearer313]

@@encycl07pedia-Because he made a lot of great movies - Spartacus, 2001: a space odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr Strangelove, etc.

[@TeryJones]

2:04 - You couldn't help yourself could you? XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD 4:48 through 6:00 - And then Godzilla Final Wars went and had "Zilla" show up in all his CGI "glory" to get one shotted by a guy in a rubber suit. Fucking glorious XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

[@skipper4126]

Halloween got rescued from the toilet only to be stuck being flushed like a giant turd that just wont go.

[@RJay207]

The BEST part of "Creed" was when they addressed the "rematch" Rocky and Apollo happened at the end of "Rocky III", freeze-framing on the first punch. Adonis asked who won, and Rocky, very matter of fact-ly said, "Apollo." ------- (*edited to remove stupidity*)

[@RBloodworth187]

The Rocky-Paulie scene that you’re referencing wasn’t in “Creed”. It was in “Rocky Balboa.”

[@RJay207]

@@RBloodworth187 Right! I completely forgot about that movie. 🤣 Still an awesome scene though. 😬 I'll go correct my stupidity now.

[@donnywilliamson5807]

Man the amount of R.I.P.s in the Rocky and Creed clips. Carl Weathers, James Brown, Tommy Morrison, Sage Stallone, Burt Young and maybe another one or two that I missed

[@cuniving7831]

What annoys me most is the number of people who think gwains head is going to magically fall off at the ending because they miss the point and take it literally.

[@John-bj1zx]

The dance scene in Spider-man 3 is supposed to be uncool and cringe, it's Peter's interpretation of what's "cool" under the Symbiote's influence.

[@DeathsNitemareShepardOfHope]

Nothing about the Twilight Saga is did anything better than any movie.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

I love blockbusters that think outside the box

[@jdsrcs8061]

Want to hug Optimus Prime!!!! Your best line ever!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@jamalvargas6146]

A History Of Violence Had The Balls To Out do the original DC Vertigo comic and the movie Is better for It thank you David Cronenburg

[@donaldfrederick501]

I've heard some crazy takes (and like to hope I'm wrong on this) but actually saying all 3 films that Garfield was Spider-Man (including No Way Home) in as worse than Spiderman 3 is......WTF!

[@deathscythe6682]

Full agree only TASM 2 is worse and that movie is bad on every level.

[@Cat-Tiger-Taegi-Cult]

And let's talk about Thopher Grace as venom vs Tom Hardy one is a masterpiece the other is a cringefest

[@PeterRichardsandYoureNot]

wait. What? people took starship troopers seriously?!!!! Come on. That movie was awesome, and the best satire ever put on film!

[@elementblue780]

Nice troll comments on Spider-man to force engagement on your video. 🙄

[@biffgee6797]

Starship Troopers was a fascinating, great movie.

[@th00perman_]

Still is!

[@jayluck8047]

I’ll have to watch the full unedited version again someday. The only cut I’ve seen since the theatre has been the edited for TV one. I know... I’m missing a lot!

[@Zett76]

I walked out of Starhip Troopers, being excited as hell for seeing such a great satire... and even back then, a friend bitched about how "fascist" the movie was... ...really? Please watch the "we're doing our part", stomping EARTH bugs part, again... and then repeat that claim, with a straight face. :D

[@TheTsengMao]

Contrary to this videos claims, the novel is also satire and is intended as a discussion.

[@youtubeme7195]

@@TheTsengMaoNo it's not. It's an analysis of various forms of governnance. There is nothing satirical about the Mobile Infantry, it's an opposing mirror image against the society that existed at the time. Heinlein knew good and goddamn well what he was doing by valorizing service, and Starship is a far more honest opinion of his general philosophy, until he got into the sex stuff later, than some of his other books that are misinterpreted, "Stranger in A Strange Land" is great, but THAT is a satire. Read his stuff before he started to get locked into the sex fold, and it's all the same. The importance of service, the importance of learning new things, the importance of courage in the face of fear, and the growth that you create even if it means that you die. It wasn't until his older years that he started playing with the common culture of the late 60's into the early 80's with hedonism. And THOSE were, at the start, satires. Starship troopers was an example of the how best to create the perfect, through the use of extreme tropes, which is common in all sci-fi.

[@LostScarf]

There is no way that anti-no way home comment wasn't there to drum up comments for analytics. Well done since it got me to comment.

[@contractkiller325]

Hilarious that people still think the Starship Troopers book was pro fascist. They are dim as people who didn't get the over the top fascist parody that was the Starship Troopers movie

[@johnburns9634]

Starship Troopers was WOKE in the book. How else do you explain that only women were the pilots because they were better than men at flying? Maybe if Verhoven wasn't illiterate, he wouldn't have that ridiculous love (Rhombus?) Maybe if WhatCulture could read they'd understand this.

[@Miller54K]

@johnburns9634 They weren't woke. Women were pilots because they were better at it. A large point of the book was everyone can do anything to get their citizenship. A paraplegic could join the military and they couldn't turn you away. They would find what you were best suited for, like the female pilots.

[@MrMZaccone]

It's clear that like Verhoeven, they've never read it. How does Juan (Johnny) Rico end up written as a whitebread character who never learns a thing?

[@MrMZaccone]

Hardly "WOKE". Whether or not Heinlein was right about the relative skills of men and women, what's being presented is clearly a meritocracy, which is far from woke.@@johnburns9634

[@johnburns9634]

@@MrMZaccone Because they don’t know he’s Filipino?

[@rikusschulze6249]

Starship Troopers (the book) isn't fascist. If you claim it is, you probably never read it. Neither did Verhoeven.

[@mateoocampo3165]

The only people who believe Heinlein's Starship Troopers advocates fascism are people who never actually read it. INCLUDING verhoeven. English was his second language and he admitted that he only read one chapter and had to have a friend explaint the rest of the book to him. Chances are the friend never read the book either and was also regurgitating what he'd heard, like 95% of the books critics.......

[@kensummers7757]

Anyone who thinks Starship Troopers is “Fascists in Space” clearly hasn’t read it. Neither did the director, he’s quoted as such, finding it “ boring “.

[@viddork]

How could he have found it boring if he didn't read it?

[@TegukiSix]

Thank you for reminding me that the Green Knight exists. I was intrigued by the posters, but it fell into "things I'll watch later" obscurity.

[@dinomonzon7493]

The Red Chinese (represented by "Mr. Ling" in the movie) backing Goldfinger was a change from the novel as well: Goldfinger was a Russian SMERSH agent in the book, suspected by M to be its Treasurer/Paymaster. Communist China was also SPECTRE's client in 1967's You Only Live Twice.

[@quigley6643]

Ah yes.. The Green Knight with an INDIAN Gawain. They certainly did it “better”.

[@AndyBarkerBee]

Man...!! I really loved the '98 Godzilla movie. HAve watched it loads. I am such a n00b 🤦‍♂

[@gregsky01]

The first TASM is not that bad, people are just pissy because it's not Sam Raimi behind the camera or Tobey Maguire behind the mask. Is it perfect? No, but there's still a lot to like about that movie. TASM2 is a raging bin fire though.

[@MrMonkey2475]

You what? TASM is the best spiderman we have. It’s the best representation of Peter Parker and Spiderman

[@gregsky01]

@@MrMonkey2475 while I wouldn't strictly agree with that, I did enjoy Andrew Garfield in the role and thought he deserved better

[@MrMonkey2475]

@@gregsky01 it was better and u know it 😂

[@gregsky01]

@MrMonkey2475 I have my faults with the movie as I do with any movie but I thought it was fun and they tried to do something a bit different to what we were used to and I respect that. I also think there's many aspects of those movies that age better than Raimi's trilogy but ultimately they didn't know what they wanted that series to be and that's where the problems began. But I do enjoy that first movie for what it is.

[@theiggy1474]

This sounds very "paid review".

[@BobZombie8806]

I’m still pissed that I never got to see John Malkovich play The Vulture

[@andrewdreasler428]

3:20 "At most two hours before the Army moves in"? The location referred to as "Fort Knox" is the United States Bullion Depository located adjacent to the military base of Fort Knox, Kentucky, Fort Knox, known as the Home of Armor (meaning TANKS). The Depository is bounded on three sides by the Army base, and on one side by State Highway 31W. The only entrance to the Depository grounds is on the OUTWARD side of the entrance road to the military base. The Depository and the Entrance Gate for the fort are within shouting distance of each other, so at the first sound of the depository's defensive .50 cal machine guns, there would be a phone call from the guard house to the base commander, and about 15 minutes before the MPs arrive well outside the perimeter of the depository to arrest anyone who looks suspicious, and about 30 minutes after that that the ARMED M1A1 Main Battle Tanks roll in to make sure NOTHING leaves the area without permission. (The delay is in getting the live ammo from the armory and loading the tanks, you don't leave a tank parked on base with ammo in it.) For anyone who makes it INSIDE the perimeter controlled by the Treasury Department, may God have mercy on their souls, for the Depository guards, who are part of the Treasury Department, and not part of the military, are also NOT bound by the Geneva Conventions; they WILL use .50cal weapons on personnel, and they are NOT required to accept surrenders. Fun Fact: The base Officer's Golf Course is located next to the Depository, and there are a plethora of golf balls left abandoned next to the Depository's iron fence, behind a wire stretched around the Depository, three feet outside the fence. That wire marks the legal boundary between the base and the Depository; anything that crosses that wire CAN be shot at by the Depository guards up on the building's walls. They don't bother shooting the golf balls (unless they pass through the iron fence), but the rumor is that they WILL shoot off the hand of any dumb Lieutenant who reaches past that wire to retrieve their ball. It's considered a rumor because, to date, no Lieutenant has actually been dumb enough to test the rumor.

[@Claypidgeon162]

"Spider-man 3" is 2/3 of a good movie. They just packed it with too many villains and spoiled the whole thing. Venom definitely should've never been in the movie.

[@deathscythe6682]

Sam Raimi agrees. He was forced to shove Venom in there

[@TheDarkDalamar]

The Godzilla one is very true. If you bought the Box set of movies from the early 2000's the 1998 movie is not included. LOL

[@Sunprism]

I will agree that both the Amazing Spider-mans were worse than Spider-man 3

[@DarkmanPoe]

"Superman Returns," while not great, was still better than "Man of Murder"...which was pretty much just a 2 hour and 23 minutes video game cutscene.

[@ethanahonen9041]

I know the Green Knight achieved what it wanted to but I can honestly say I did not get it and hated it with a burning passion. With A24 atmospheric pacing, little action, and managing to expand a very simple story to 2hrs I still reflect on everything thing else I could have done with my life rather than watch this movie.

[@richierich8555]

Heinlein's book is fascist because he has a Filipino main character and postulates a distant future that isn't a democracy. Jesus, people. Just listen to yourselves.

[@jamaisj]

It was democratic, just limited who could vote.

[@HeathInHeath]

Interesting take on some of these films. Viewers who have never read Heinlein's ''Starship Troopers" and have only seen criticism from others who have never read the story would be well advised to read it for themselves.

[@Vengeful_Wyvern]

Idk if it was All Out Monster Attack or a different one but a better jab at the 1999 Godzilla was the movie that not only canonized it into the actual Big G Universe by having ‘99 G appear but having him be defeated in literally 5 seconds by Godzilla. He jumps at Big G, gets tossed aside, blasted, and that’s it for the fight. 😂

[@neuroticmuffin8791]

Starship Troopers is a satirical reflection on the American society. Don't got the grades? Join the army. There's a high probability you will die. But if you come out alive, you'll have a chance of a better life.

[@mattrobson3603]

I'm pretty sure that every country's military teaches practical job and life skills to people who aren't qualified (or possibly aren't interested in) higher education. Like right now there's probably a million Chinese who are making a living as mechanics because they learned how to work on vehicles in the military.

[@youtubeme7195]

Punchline about the smartness of nuking gold in goldfinger. Gold is a noble metal, so it wouldn't react to a blast, other than melthing a bit. And it wouldn't matter if it was a dirty bomb, because only the most surface bars would be "covered" with radiation that can be cleared with soap and water, because not only is gold noble, it's a very dence and heavy metal that is the perfect medium for not giving one damn about radiation. Clean off the alpha dust, and everything else is cool.

[@HariSeldon913]

While I've never heard the term 'noble metal' before, gold is indeed almost as good at blocking radiation as lead. It's just so much more expensive that it never is put to that use.

[@youtubeme7195]

@@HariSeldon913"noble" in chemistry means non reactive. Helium does not react to any other element other than helium. All of the far right portion of the periodic table are called "Noble gasses." meaning they do not react to any other element in nature to create new molecule. Gold has those characteristics. Gold does not react to other elements as far as I know, and if it does only under significant energetic forcing. That's what makes gold ACTUALLY valuable. Gold don't rust. Gold doesn't decay, gold doesn't transition states. It's Noble, it's something all it's own. I often refer to Nitrogen as a "practically noble gase" because even though it DOES have numerous molecular combinations in nature, it requires a great deal of energy, that's why virtually every nitrogen molecule can be turned into a high energy explosive.

[@HariSeldon913]

@@youtubeme7195 There are definitely gold compounds out there, particularly with the 7A's. Matter of fact there's both a triflouride (AuF3) and a pentaflouride (AuF5). Of course, Florine is so reactive it's been known to get Xenon to give up an electron for a fraction of a second here and there.

[@benjaminclark4030]

I feel like I must be the only one who thinks that Into The Spiderverse is overrated? Probably. Another hot take, I think it's mostly because I don't like the animation style. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@notofthisgod32]

If you like Twilight than you have no idea what's good & what isn't. Twilight is nothing but chick flick trash designed for tween girls

[@willhouston588]

There is no universe where Spider-man 3 is better than No Way Home.

[@SMDoktorPepper]

The original Gage wasnt "cute"...he was nightmare fuel.

[@LeonardoKlotz]

What I like about the X-Men movies is their sense of individuality, and their ability to think outside the box Most MCU movies look the same, and they almost never take risks

[@BlackHammer0891]

Then why was Michael dead set on killing Lori then?

[@Brickerbrack]

The Breaking Dawn scene reminds me of a D&D game I took part in... probably 15 or so years ago. We'd just created our characters, and in our first ever session, invaded a cave and got ourselves utterly TPK'd by a bunch of goblins and wolves... ...until my character woke up in a cold sweat. Our _second_ session was a replay of the first, in which my prophetic dream (which the GM remembered I'd taken as part of my creation) to guide us as to what _not_ to do this time... 😜

[@justanotheryoutubechannel3102]

After Godzilla 98 gets his butt kicked, an alien says *"I knew that tuna eating monster was useless!"* WORST Spiderman movie? *Italian Spiderman* ? ...because I'm having trouble googling the really bad Turkish movie *Three Giant Men* in which Spiderman is a BAD GUY. *African Spiderman* looks like an academy award winner too

[@johnnydripp]

Spider Man 3 is definitely worse than all 3 of the Spider Man movies that it was listed as better than

[@Immudzen]

You missed Godzilla Final Wars where the Japanese Godzilla kills the USA Godzilla and blasts the Sydney operahouse. Great scene!

[@darthmonkey7718]

Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein, was so much better than the book. They turned a guy who dies within the first 2 pages into Rico’s replacement female love interest. The book is better, same thing goes for Asimov’s I, Robot. Will Smith’s version is just crap. Or why not look into the original version of Wanted, the story got thrown out the window although they kept the names. The Troopers had POWER ARMOR in the book, how is this new one better, seriously how ? Sometimes the original was perfect and doesnt need someone’s touch added to it, sometimes it does, The Italian Job comes to mind, but mostly its just about how to short change the author to maximize profits because why do things the right way when you can steal it from somebody else - its why there are hardly any new ideas in Hollywood, that dirty word again, Profits.

[@grimmwicked313]

While tossing that Godzilla film to the side they also canonized it has happening within the universe.

[@badscientist42069]

Did... did he really just try and claim that Spider-Man 3 was better than No Way Home? Did I actually hear that? I must be more sleep deprived than I thought.

[@caseykiesling4348]

Finally someone mentioned how overrated No way home is

[@johntaggart979]

The novel "Starship Troopers" was a direct criticism of "all that fascist-y stuff in the book", which was the direction American culture and government were headed in the 1950's. The movie was a weak reproduction of that discussion, and changing Diz's gender for the addition of an unnecessary tragic love angle detracted from the telling.

[@choboutube]

I actually thought the 'strut' in Spiderman 3 was fun.

[@jeffreycarman2185]

0:36 Suicide squad was so dumb I basically have blocked it from memory, and actually don’t remember that line. I guess that line didn’t stand out enough from the rest of the movie.

[@BrooklynBeTheBoro]

Can anyone else make out what the hell he said @7:13😂?!?! Did he say "how silly" or "housely"?!?!

[@dougkleen9917]

Verhoeven never read the book and the movie shows that.

[@byronkennedy7203]

I love Starship Troopers.. would you like to know more!

[@ChristopherWheat-ig7fl]

That whole Gold finger plot is I'm sorry to say is completely wrong. The whole plot is about leaving an dirty atomic weapon in the repository. It was supposed to explode causing the whole of the US gold supply to become hopelessly irradiated. Then all of Goldfinger's gold would at that time worth some order of magnitude more then it was already worth. Had absolutely nothing to do with stealing the gold. Love your show. 🤗😎👍

[@Nonexister1]

The funny thing is that the book is anti government. He wrote that book after moving to Colorado Springs. He moved there to get away from all the high profile military targets in California. Shortly after moving the government decided to hollow out a mountain and turn it into THE military command center in his neighborhood. He got a lot of hate because everyone misinterpreted the books purpose. To prove he wasn't a fascist he wrote Stranger in a strange land. This book inspired the hippy movement.

[@publicprivateer]

It's funny, no one accuses Stephen King of being pro-monster when he writes another horror novel, but a sci-fi writer writes about a hypothetical future society and suddenly he endorses every aspect of that fictional society. The way Heinlein gets so regularly dragged through the mud, I can't help but feel someone powerful must have had a personal grudge.

[@Nonexister1]

@publicprivateer this book was because after he moved to Colorado Springs, the government built norad in his back yard. After being called a fascist for starship Troopers, he wrote Stranger in a strange land. The book that helped start the hippy movement.

[@MrBazBake]

Pet Sematary 2019 was terrible and Gage was the coolest child villain ever created. And his "second death" scene was heartrending in its portrayal even though the kid was a totally evil monster.

[@JohnBrown-ix7rp]

Whatculture film reviews seem to be done by people who really want to be movie critics but don't understand what fans think

[@bbsy1]

So movie critics? The majority of the time critics are nowhere near near the pulse of what viewers like.

[@TVBjak]

The last one was bait. There was no wink and nod from the movie, so even if you thought the fake-out was better, they didn't WANT US TO KNOW IT. "It would have been lame not to show you how you die" might have been a good line or something like it.

[@Areniapixie]

I watched starship troopers for the first time this valentines because my husband couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it and OMG, I could have lived without it 😴 was such a relief when it was over, I can’t believe I managed to stay awake 😅

[@DarrenEden-ub4vj]

Sir Gawaine and the green knight was also rewritten by J R R Tolken.

[@earth2006]

Never heard of "The Green Knight. Goldfinger I've seen.

[@DeathsNitemareShepardOfHope]

Into the Spider verse wasn't That great, it was just not as bad as other stuff. 🤷‍♂️

[@spudjnr1]

No mention of the massive changes made to both Jaws and First Blood compared to their books? With both movies being far superior in their portrayal of the protagonists and their handling of the endings. If you had read those books first (especially Jaws) you probably wouldn't bother watching the movie adaptation. Rare to see such huge changes from the source material work so well.

[@robinporter8481]

Never saw the series or read the books, but, the Twilight fans I know all hated the fake fight at the end.

[@MichaelMAuth]

I dont think you understood starship troopers

[@chrisguess4344]

yea we all know what a hit starship troopers was