Believability Matters: Why Ant Man 3 Failed and The MCU is in Decline

[@AshCosgrove]

"Yeah you risked your life to save the whole entire universe but did you participate in fiery but mostly peaceful protests?" - Ant-Girl.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

"I am the most morally superior being in the universe, dad, and you are a total loser. The only reason I continue to pay any attention to you at all is so I can point out the error of your ways. You should be very grateful to me for doing so because you need all the help you can get."

[@Trollificusv2]

@@dronesclubhighjinks This is actually a pretty good cliche teenager. I was like that myself, except for the "building a multiverse traversing mega-device" part, and the "adults giving a sh*t about my opinions" part.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

@@Trollificusv2 🤣🤣🤣

[@UnitSe7en]

You know, _dad,_ the important things that make a difference.

[@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon]

Didn't Ant-Man went to jail because he stole and returned money the company he was working for scammed out of their costumers?

[@robotpanda77]

So many of these female "heroes" feel like villains in how they behave. His daughter's introduction is exactly what you would expect from a villain character, being released from jail, building a super powerful device in secret, berating the hero that saved the world as trash, hating and disrespecting her family, etc. Look at the intro for Aladdin in the original film. He is shown stealing bread which establishes he is intelligent, clever and agile. As well as establishing the poverty in his city. He then comes across two starving children and gives the bread to them even though he is starving as well. Making him instantly likable and endearing. He is a thief but only because he is starving. How many times have we seen these female characters behave like this, she hulk saying forget about helping people I want to be a big shot lawyer. The indian one saying she just wants to be famous and doesnt care about saving anyone. A far cry from Spiderman weeping over his dead uncle ben.

[@captaingrim8323]

Anti-heroes?

[@jasonjones7461]

Ikr...it's absolutely baffling. I hope that in a few years everyone is laughing at this brief moment in entertainment history and things are coherent and well done again.

[@somjayguha]

Kamala is not Indian but of Pakistan in origin.......an enemy country. Don't berate us with your ignorance.

[@SabhyataSahu]

not Indian, Kamla Khan is Pakistani.

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

The people writing this crap write what they know. They see their own behaviors as justified and put it in the characters, without ever realizing they are the baddies. Why do you think all the characters are just handed things and supposedly "loved" by everyone, while the original heroes are vilified? That's exactly how these nepobabies see themselves, they just think they are the good guys.

[@DrMalsyn]

What hurts the most that they turned the lovable daughter from the first films into... This.

[@Godpk11]

It is extremely sad. The "agenda" is first priority to shit disney/marvel. Can't have good things anymore.

[@thatguy3421]

A lovable daughter who loved scary ugly dolls. Also what happened to her stepfather who was a police man?!

[@HopelessDepressed-dx3xe]

:/

[@vikkidonn]

@@thatguy3421what happened to her mom….. wasp just kind of is her step mom but they aren’t married

[@teaguejelinek4038]

Cleopatra was a black woman quit denying ir

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

"Black Panther is a nine year old girl now" is always a welcome and hilarious observation. Wakanda Forever will never not be a stupid movie that tried and miserably failed to replace Chadwick Boseman's character. Honestly, all of your quips and observations are incredibly funny. I'm glad I found your channel; it really is a magical experience.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks Elise, glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

​@@DespotofAntrim What sadly is deleted this time from this reupload?

[@tjhodge201]

Agree the new 90 pound Black Panther is straight body throwing 200 pound dudes ridiculous.

[@trevturp6891]

It did replace Chadwick Boseman's character and it's not a stupid movie.

[@DespotofAntrim]

A scene between Bird from the Wire and Guyladriel. There's a link to it in the description.

[@brainiac.computer]

“At least we’re doing something that matters” Guess Scott’s daughter forgot the critical role he had in Endgame. You know, helping the Avengers use the Quantum Realm to travel through time, so they could bring back all life that was wiped out of existence by Thanos. But no, “peacefully protesting” trumps that.

[@Colonel_RamRod]

I highly doubt any heroic action can equate to the level of importance which woke warriors hold themselves in

[@RecluseBootsy]

"Peacefully protesting" meaning grand theft auto, theft of government property, illegal possession of firearms (there's two in cop cars usually), and terroristic activities. 😂

[@philipeanatsui6821]

Arnold mowing doing hordes of orcs with a mini gun is more believable than the tripe we are served. 🤣

[@DespotofAntrim]

And more entertaining.

[@dbf1dware]

@@DespotofAntrim And your editing of that segment was awesome!

[@megatrollificus]

I really liked that part. Didn't like when they told him Bran should be king of the ants, though.

[@ChadSmith-nq8ty]

arnold would have a pretty good waaaaaaaaugh himself. i could imagine him as an orc

[@Colonel_RamRod]

@@DespotofAntrimby far more entertaining

[@LoneWolf-gz9mr]

The whole "cassie built the quantum telescope" also kinda breaks believably on a couple different levels too... 1. She built it without anyone else IN THE HOUSE knowing she did? With WHAT RESOURCES? 2. If she did build it, why didn't she just GO GET SCOTT earlier? -since she's SO MAD, he "wasn't there"-.. 3. How in the world did she create this thing AND a "suit" PLUS still deal with loss of all the people from the blip (including her dad) AND live a life? If there were enough "pym particles" for her suit, and her trying ex[experiments to make the scope, why were they so few of them min Avengers Endgame? How is Pym himself not having a FIT about Cassie using the particles in her "activism"??? Remember how PROTECTIVE of the suit he was in the first movie? Now it's just being at protests for some reason? (you don't think corpos or governments OR any one of the "bad guy" institutions MIGHT notice? Ten rings, hydra, aim...etc)

[@bowtie2232]

Remember what Hank said in a flashback at the beginning of the first ant man movie? "As long as I live, no one will ever get that formula." And even later in the movie: "I've spent my entire life trying to keep this formula from the likes of Stark." (Or something along those lines) Because apparently marvel didn’t remember either of those. Hope is now using pym particles for her company, and cassie is using them for vandalizing cops, and activism.

[@electricbayonet2]

It shows a fundamental and persistent failure of modern MCU worldbuilding: nothing from previous stories matter (unless they want it to) and no regard is given to future stories. It’s like every writer HATES that they’re writing within a shared universe and wants to willfully ignore or outright sabotage their colleagues.

[@bowtie2232]

@@electricbayonet2 Wanna bet $10 that the writers have never seen any of the previous movies/shows, nor read the comics? And if they have, they've only seen them once, and are just going from memory.

[@vikkidonn]

@@bowtie2232several key writers have either proudly stated it or have been exposed for it now. They haven’t and don’t care just want a paycheck and a chance to push their activism. We are pym and marvel and DC(lesser extent) are our life’s collective work they are using for themseves

[@irontuzi3453]

They could have had Cassie have the idea, but be unable to figure it out. She then floats it to Hank once he was unsnapped. Hank finds the idea interesting and he and Cassie build it together, with Hank doing the heavy scientific lifting. It helps him bond with Cassie, and drives her towards an interest in science and technology.

[@FOF275]

One very funny thing about Cassandra being able to build that device in her home is that she's somehow that smart yet unable to create her own solutions for the issues she's protesting against. It's just as silly as Jon Kent protesting climate change when he's freaking Superman

[@Mew_Mokuba_Akari]

Um Jon Kent's not Superman. That's his dad. Clark Kent is Superman. While it's still a good point. For Jon it's more like as stupid as stopping your son from saving you from a Tornado because reasons.

[@jneilson7568]

@@Mew_Mokuba_Akari ohh I hated that he just stands there with Clark. just being forced to watch. The heart attack death was much more in keeping with poor Clark finding he can't save everyone with his powers (and whatever else the full interpretation of that death means).

[@sertorrhenclegane]

​@@Mew_Mokuba_AkariHe's talking Clark's son, who is also named Jon.

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

​@@Mew_Mokuba_Akari Jon Kent is SoupedForMen. Not Superman

[@pendekarlautbiru]

She would much rather protest about social issues than to petition for solutions about them o the White House. Nay petitioning about actual believable solutions to political problems is far harder than building a literal miniaturized nuclear fission engine in one's basement alone without reference books, teammates, prototype testing, spare parts, AI simulations nor decades of trial and error!

[@AngryBootneck]

“He has no problem violently demanding that women remove their clothes” 😂😂

[@kaiterenless1888]

Kang spiraling into depression from cohabitating with Antman's insufferable daughter would make for a far more interesting film.

[@robertpaul50n]

"What have you conquered lately?"

[@kaiterenless1888]

@@robertpaul50n almost spit out my tea laughing at that

[@fortcastellan1730]

I laughed a bit too much at the cheap shots taken at Jonathon majors. They might turn out to be unfair.......but by this point, Disney-Marvel has lost the benefit of the doubt. Also, if teenage whelp is so invested in the fate of the poor, why is she wasting her time inventing a techno-mcguffin, or whatever it is she built. She could have used that time/money building an apartment complex for the poor, instead...

[@DespotofAntrim]

I won't lie the I just wanted a laugh out of the Jonathan Majors situation, if he's innocent I will apologize.

[@doggydude2668]

that was hilarious and weird how many times it was constantly coming up lmao

[@christopher-ge4tj]

Just came here to say if youve been following the case, its actually much much worse. Those jabs aged very well

[@emilyadams3228]

Leftards run their mouths about helping the poor, but never actually do anything cos A. They're hypocrites, and B. If they helped the poor, then eventually, there would be no more poor people. The leftardism industry runs on the poor. It'd be like uncoupling the tender from a steam engine.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

They aged fantastically well though. The Despot knew.

[@Ruki1411]

i agree, ant man's daughter had become an extreme unlikeable character, an example of all the wrong things with hollywood nowaday

[@MikeTXBC]

She was behaving like a typically stupid, yet self-righteous teenager.

[@smallies7154]

It's the third actress playing her. I guess the last two weren't bitchy enough for this portrayal of such a smug entitled big headed daft cow 🐮

[@maryhowland1286]

@@MikeTXBC because that's how Jeff Loveness wrote her, and how Peyton Reed directed and edited her.

[@daverobson3084]

Even Ironman explained that a version of the Starks Arc reactor had already been built and Tony had been working on a smaller, more efficient version, on the side for some time( with the financial backing of the Stark Industries mega corporation).

[@Duothimir]

And the one he built in the cave was replaced the moment he got back and had full facilities and resources to make one that was actually stable. The first suit, too, was clunky and only functioned enough to escape, but really wasn't made for extended combat.

[@adamd9166]

Exactly, and Tony Stark was explicitly a child prodigy and MIT genius who still was only to miniaturize a piece of existing technology in his 30s/40s. Meanwhile, Cassie Lang is a teenager with no explicit gifts who created a brand-new piece of techology based on an essentially brand-new field of science.

[@rojo1945]

​@@adamd9166And even worse her invention starts working straight away

[@rgama1173]

​@@Duothimir Not only that, while the joke is that he "built it in a cave, with a bunch of scraps," in reality, he was being supplied with all kinds of resources and technologies by the Ten Rings and was getting help from another genius scientist. Even then, his first armor was clunky and ended up being destroyed. When he came back, he still needed one more attempt before creating his iconic armor.

[@ninjanibba4259]

@@rgama1173even more so, they had very little technology to work with, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY THEY CAPTURED TONY IN THE FIRST PLACE Yet Cassie and Riri can replicate this in a first try….FOH

[@puzzled_pelican3626]

You make a very good point Scott was trapped for 5 years and to him was only 5 hours. So if hope was gone for 30 years it should have only been 30 hours. How could she have possibly known so much about the quantum realm in like 1 and a half days

[@BM-wh5qk]

Don't ask questions! Just consume product!

[@treytucker9948]

Well if we're going to talk about actual quantum mechanics, time is actually just relevant to the user and not too time of every thing else. This is actually why they were able to time travel by using it.

[@attackerangel2951]

Wouldn't she also be about Hope's age if it was only 30 hours for her?

[@michaellee4463]

@@BM-wh5qk And then get excited for next product

[@lainiwakura1776]

Hope is the daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer in the movies.

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

Sad that the original got demonetized... but it's awesome that you reuploaded it! I'll give it a second watch-through to see the scene you changed. :)

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@thrillcollectors]

Loved the tangent on how awesome the Fly is. Severely underrated film.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I rewatched the entire thing for this video, truly great movie.

[@thrillcollectors]

@@DespotofAntrim very cool dude. Great work. Also your compiling and splicing of classic films with each other (particularly the Terminator vs Uruk Hai) was a stroke of brilliance. ..(at least for an obvious homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist bigot) lol anyway this is one of your best videos

[@leipzigergnom]

The special effects for The Fly remind me of The Thing - 100x more horrifying and fascinating than CGI monsters

[@Flayne009]

I don't think The fly is underrated. Genre fans universally deem it a classic.

[@ReddFoxx1562]

That movie is so tight; it wastes no time and only has a handful of actors. It terrified me when my parents let me watch it with them when I was, like, three though.

[@DespotofAntrim]

This video was originally published on April 23rd but was demonetized by manual KZbin review. This is likely due to a scene in which Bird heroically refuses to give up the location of Sauron to Guyladriel. In this Reup version, it has been replaced by one involving Patrick Bateman. The Despot will continue to support Sauron in his heroic resistance against the war criminal Guyladriel, and her allies at Amazon. I humbly ask that you aid me in this struggle by liking and sharing this video. Thank you. New clip is at 23:20 (link to original video in description)

[@Melvin-Deeply]

She's not called Guy-lady-hole? 🤔

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

I find it so disgusting that the Media tries to defend Jonathan Major so blatantly obviously and uses disarming language when speaking about his accusations. *ONLY BECAUSE HE IS BL°CK* and as we all know _"Bulakk cahn't duh aniething wrong! "_ But Johny Depp was treated like a criminal until his last days and when he was proven innocent and A.Heard as guilty, the Media just went silent and tried to cover it up by ignoring it.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

The specific word for believably in context of a story’s setting is verisimilitude, in case you wanted to know.

[@justforever96]

​@@EyeOfMagnus4E201I feel like he probably knows that. He seems to understand what he's talking about. I would guess that he just thinks that is too much of a mouthful to use in a KZbin video. And just because that's the word doesn't mean that's the commonly used term in the industry. For the same reasons. I deplore the rejection of "difficult words" but that does seem to be the way things are going. Why use some obscure term like "verisimilitude" when "believability" is easier and more easily understood by stupid people? I personally never found words difficult but I accept that many people think they are.

[@justforever96]

​@@EyeOfMagnus4E201although in second thought I'm not sure they are actually the same thing. Verisimilitude is the appearance of reality. No doubt it can be in the context of the story, but I feel like one of a form of the other, not identical synonyms.

[@nicholaslaport3354]

Dude I LOVE that you play that horrible "I'm a woman" song everytime there is a histrionic moment of female empowerment on screen. That is clutch.

[@achillesalister3786]

Dear Hollywood: It's possible to make female characters that aren't sociopaths.

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

Let's face it Cassie probably supported the Flagsmashers during the events of Falcon and the Winter soldier because according to Disney and Marvel, protesting is always okay...provided you're protesting the right thing.

[@francreeps4509]

A perfect example of believable character building within the MCU is Tony Stark. By Infinity War he had super advanced technology because he has been improving his tech for 10 years by that point. He started out with a suit of scraps in a cave, took notes and made a better version, then took notes and made a better version of that, then continued improving his work until he made nanotech possible.

[@francreeps4509]

@jasonvoorhees5640 I am not quite aware how that might be. Would you mind elaborating how MCU Iron Man is a mascot of the government?

[@ashleighchance9420]

​@jasonvoorhees5640 the same Tony Stark that basically told the government to go fuck themselves when they told him to hand over his technology?

[@InfernosReaper]

The nano-tech stuff is the only part of the whole thing that felt like a huge leap that wasn't built-up well. Everything else built-upon existing things while solving previous issues he had.

[@Zenith07]

I used to use the word “Realism” a lot, but the real word i was meaning to say was “Believability”. I do like Realism but i like “Believability” more, it works for everything and helps you immerse in the world you are consuming and in a world where we would rather escape its this kinds of Stories having unrealistic things but it being Believable is what puts us in they’re world to escape from.

[@bowtie2232]

I think the best example of how believable ant man 3 is, is when cassie is first introduced. Not only is the police doing nothing, when she clearly admits shrinking the cop car, but the audience is supposed to believe that this girl, who hasn’t shown prior interest in science, "got really into quantum physics, after reading some of Hank Pym's notes" (in her own words) And just like that, she's able to build the quantum telescope bullshit device.

[@teaguejelinek4038]

Cleopatra was a black woman stop denying it

[@JoakimOtamaa]

​@@teaguejelinek4038Lol so the whole Egypt is wrong according to you? Either trolling or coping, please leave this plane of existence.

[@bowtie2232]

@@JoakimOtamaa I'm pretty sure this guy was kidding. That cleopatra shitshow was awful.

[@JoakimOtamaa]

@@bowtie2232 Can't be too sure with people and their stupidity nowadays.

[@bowtie2232]

@@JoakimOtamaa True.

[@OzonoOzono]

of course, all movies are irreal, but a phrase that I use to distinguish between good vs bad cinema is: “good movies are so good liars that you would like to believe them” good work, look at that 20k now, keep going up👍

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks man, will do.

[@thedoor43]

That whole sequence of Cassie torturing Kang had me rolling 😂

[@kainestolkyn]

"I... am Terminator the White." -Gandolf Schwarzenegger

[@brockdavid]

“Largh, Screw your freedoms!” -Gandolf Schwarzenegger the White. (Starts unloading waves and heaps of hot lead from the minigun upon the legions of Orcs)

[@redmoonnative]

If Scott's 5 hours in the quantum realm equalled 5 years in real time, then Janet's 30 years in the quantum realm should equal around 200,000 years in real time. This means that by the time she got out, the world should be drastically different since 200 millennia would have passed.

[@TheDaks27]

That's not how that works. At the quantum realm they're not traveling at a constant speed (let alone on a body/planet traveling at a constant velocity). Gravitational time dilation is at a minimum if not nonexistent, which means time passing is completely dependent on the topography of the space they inhabit. In other words, each area they visit is going to have it's own measurement of time (6 seconds = 3 hours or 1 minute = 2 days) because some places have more abundance in ethereal energy that create particles of matter (or whatever).

[@alexzanderroberts995]

The whole point of the quantum realm is that time is not consistent with the outside.

[@captaingrim8323]

and we'd finally get flying cars.

[@justforever96]

I am not an expert on quantum mechanics but I dont think it's a linear thing. That would be normal physics. Different input gives you different output that can only be solved using quantum mathematics, it's not a strict "if you spend X time in one realm Y time passes, so if you spend X5 time, Y5 time ought to pass" thing.

[@CptAvenger]

The mashup edit featuring Terminator 2 and LOTR battle scenes is tres magnifique! Also, teenage welp being able to single-handedly build a subatomic Hubble telescope (to traverse into the quantum realm) in her basement without significant funding or advanced experimental physics/engineering equipment is totally believable...if you drink the stupid Kool-Aid.

[@justforever96]

I'm curious how a Hubble telescope helps you to travel into the quantum realm. It's a telescope, it's for seeing things. Maybe he meant "the engineering equivalent of a Hubble telescope"?

[@erubin100]

You know what the real irony is? In the comics, Wasp was actually leader of the Avengers for a while, but they don't seem to be pushing her in the movies NEARLY as much as Cassie Lang! In fact, they've done so little with the Wasp that she's basically a nothing character at this point!

[@codyw1]

Evangeline is not a wokey and said true things on Twitter, so they probably hate her now.

[@lingricen8077]

Its because EVERYTHING caters exclusively to zoomers, the worst generation. They are replacing every avenger one by one with a zoomer (the age millennials were when the original films came out, now that millennials are the same age as the original actors? oof, NOW they decide to cast people younger) Unsurprisingly, every franchise is failing because zoomers are talentless

[@keithpennock]

@DespotofAntrim This critique about the difference between Realism vs. Believability is so good it could be the basis of an article/journal essay/paper or even a degree thesis! I think the distinction you make is a very important one that Hollywood & their Mainstream Media establishment enablers have forgotten. Thank you for this insight.

[@DespotofAntrim]

You're welcome. I needed to make this because I kept getting idiots commenting things like, 'Bro, it's literally a fantasy show with wizards, why you so upset bout black people LMFAO.'

[@samipersun9995]

So true. Every time they do something extremely inconsistent it’s like a bucket of ice water in the face of a viewer, ‘You know you’re watching a movie and everything isn’t real, right? Alright, I’ll remind you again in a coupla minutes.’ Why would I care what’s happening on the screen if anything can happen regardless of the previous steps and the structure, while the characters are constantly pulling conveniences out of their ass?

[@InfernosReaper]

Similarly, why should we even try to care about something the writers clearly don't care about, right?

[@jeanpauldelachaumette2409]

What's also really unfortunate is Ant-Man's daughter looks like Amber Turd. After my friend pointed that out I couldn't unsee it.

[@marbellaotaiza801]

And now neither do I...

[@TRivan-kx2bi]

This is why I'm done with the MCU. And Star Wars. And Star Trek. Thanks for another great video, Despot!

[@randomguy9940]

My favorite moment is when Sauron meets terminator and says "It's Sauron's time!" and starts sauroning all over the place.

[@Trewq79]

Don't you just love KZbin policies?

[@corykulenski3974]

This is a Gem. Some of these Majors reference jokes are legitimately laugh out loud funny. More people need to see this! Thank you Despot

[@smallies7154]

Janet not telling anyone about Kang is like if banner didn't warn anyone about Thanos when he returned to earth

[@reidkg12]

Well done video. You clearly put a lot of work into this and I was very entertained.

[@Trollificusv2]

My favorite part of the video was when he said "This is one of the reasons for the "My favorite part was when..." meme." and then shot the Sword into the exhaust port while shouting "They can take our lives, but they can never take our favorite part!!"

[@dhruvgeorge]

Since we're on the topic of believability, I really want to see a black Mulan who was born in Iceland to a Mexican mother and a Jewish father and has an Indian sister, and they all fought the Spartans in order to save China from the French and then we'll enjoy the chaos

[@chrisgilmore4655]

Another well articulated video describing the problems in "modern entertainment ". Kudos again!

[@rutessian]

And I would like to see a Terminator movie where he guns down hordes of orcs. Shlocky it may be, but it would at least entertain us, unlike the garbage Disney is crapping out these days.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

I would watch this too, but only if the Despot makes it. It seems like he put more thought, effort, and time into creating the small movie scene than was put into the creation of Ant-man 3's plot.

[@kielbasamage]

Wasn’t there a parody video on KZbin of something like that happening?

[@TheUncivilizedNation]

I wouldn’t mind a Terminator movie that can finally move on from Arnold Schwarzenegger and use someone else as the Terminator. Or use a Terminator that isn’t the T-800. Like there’s more advanced models they use that aren’t overpowered. For example the T-900 or T-1000. Put that up against the newer models they still hold up. The T-800 simply doesn’t. It’s obsolete and kept around for fan service and nothing more

[@geauxtime1173]

Tony Stark: One of the most brilliant scientific minds on the planet, stuck in a cave with nothing but the weapons he designed, with assistance from another scientist, and under extreme duress, was able to create an ugly, bulky, clumsy suit of armor that just barely managed to ward off and then escape a bunch of guys with ak47s, only creating more advanced, impressive suits with functionally unlimited funding, the most advanced machining on the planet, and a very long, ongoing development process. Ant-Man's kid, apparently: creates a subatomic telescope into a realm many of the most brilliant minds barely understand in a basement, alone, from what is assumedly scrap parts. what happened to the mcu

[@SatanLiterally]

​@jasonvoorhees5640 and still much better written

[@SatanLiterally]

@jasonvoorhees5640 as feeble as expected from someone running defense for Marvel's trash.

[@SatanLiterally]

@jasonvoorhees5640 liking your own comments like a friggin' feeb. Acknowledging that Tony is a better written character than Cassie isn't an endorsement of anything. If you had a couple more brain cells you'd know that.

[@SatanLiterally]

@jasonvoorhees5640 I didn't actually say he was well written, I said he was better written than Cassie. Which he is. You also don't know what words mean, apparently. And cute switching to another account to give yourself an extra like, dude.

[@geauxtime1173]

@jasonvoorhees5640im not arguing he is well written. My comment was very clearly about the grounded nature and intuitive believablity of tony's invention vs cassie's. Whether tony is a mary-sue military propaganda piece or not is irrelevant to the point i was making, and if thats where your brain went from the jump, then you need to touch grass

[@azargX]

Bit late to the party but this breakdown honestly makes so much sense. There is a huge difference between a suspension of disbelief to experience a world of fantasy and a fantasy world with no rules. Good writing encourages the former while bad writing does the latter and it's so indicative of lazy 'modern' films and TV. So many people love deep lore on things and they get attached to it. When it's brushed aside arbitrarily because it makes getting to next plot point easier it's depressing, because you are no longer asked to suspend your disbelief, but to disregard all the pre established rules, context and history of a franchise as well as everything you know about how humans interact. Not in service to the story. But because the writers don't know any better and/or can't do any better.

[@SaviorMachine84]

Despot is my new favorite channel. All his points are spot on and every now and then he tosses in a joke in his analysis you're not expecting like Kang's domestic abuse issues.

[@silverscorpio24]

The true sign of great writing is a narrative that sticks to already-established rules. Laziness is breaking it for the sake of conveniences, coincidences, and deus ex machina.

[@baddragonite]

Another sad part is they could EASILY use the explanations to set up other parts of the Marvel canon. Like "oh how did you fund your project?" "I used the money from a scholarship I got from Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) to do it"

[@alexander_nunezf]

One key reason why MCU and contemporary woke movies are so low-quality is that woke high executives stopped hiring based on personal merits and now they do it based on "inclusivity" criteria.Instead of hiring Nolans or Hitchcoks, they hire activists, "excluded groups" or woke people related to "social sciences".Such people is poorly skilled in good story telling and ends up creating pandering and preaching pieces of video content. Normal movie goers and fans do not care about politics or do not want to go a two-hour session to be accused or insulted; most people who likes cinema goes there to enjoy a quality product or be entertained.Perhaps, politics or social criticism have a place in movies, but it has to be done in subtle and creative ways, far from attacking the audience. Hence, woke IPs are avoided and tend to lose audience expectation and attention, resulting in low box office reception. As woke employees, directors, producers,etc never acknowledge their own failures, they will say discrimination and biggotry are behind their movies' disastrous reception, or maybe, they will alter or disguise figures and data to keep on receiving money to create new woke products. However, such lies have an end like what's going on nowadays.

[@lingricen8077]

Notice at no point do you mention the overwhelming over-representation of 90s zoomers

[@IronDragon-2143]

Honestly if Disney wanted to make a good Marvel movie event they should have KZbin be the next Thanos and the Avengers come together to defeat it

[@rutessian]

This made me want to watch the Fly again.

[@kaludgo5811]

Lol not me. Decent movie but it's kinda gross

[@marbellaotaiza801]

​​@@kaludgo5811 it's Uber gross, that's kinda the point of body horror...

[@RecluseBootsy]

Even my 9yo son asked me if we could stop going to Marvel movies after this one. Heartbreaking but also a relief.

[@DespotofAntrim]

You should be proud of your boy.

[@jcg9998]

"You want logic in a movie about (fill in the blank)!"... In the first few minutes, Despot manages to logically and coherently explain an issue that I've grown weary of trying to explain to people who use that quote. Movies need to have rules no matter how absurd the premise might be. Just because a movie has magic or monsters doesn't mean that you get to behave illogically and/or break all the laws of the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc...) and erase all believability. I really hate 'Deus Ex Machina' crap like this... Boy wizard overcomes powerful, evil sorcerer and doesn't understand why... "You see Harry, You have always had the power of good. Your goodness is so powerful, it manifested itself into the corporeal world to strike down evil because good is always more powerful than bad.

[@Trollificusv2]

I understood the nature and the very special allure of "world-building" in sci-fi and fantasy from the age of 10. Sci Fi presents the usual attraction of learning about the characters, environment and conflicts you find in most stories, but also the "environment" part involves figuring out what aspects are different from our world and how those differences affect the characters, the society in which the characters move and the rules of action. The added engagement is like reading a historical fiction or a mystery. And as in those genres, logical consistency is absolutely required. Losing the element of world-building is either a clueless choice or a sign of incompetence.

[@homerhat420]

"I got really into the quantum realm" is the same as "somehow Palpatine returned"

[@daysofboyhood]

The MCU USED to understand believability. When Tony Stark builds an Iron Man suit in a cave with a box of scraps, it's because it's not the first time he's built one, he's spent his entire life and his fortune studying and developing weapons and the suits in particular, and he has his whole company and military funding behind him. It's still an incredible feat but he's put the work in (and so have the scriptwriters) to make it possible. Even Shuri in Black Panther, while a bit less believable because she's so young, is working with the entire nation of Wakanda's scientific research budget and presumably has a lot of scientific civil service people to help her, and being royalty, she's been raised from birth to go into some kind of national service and will have had the best education available. They could've easily fixed it by saying Teenage Whelp had worked on it with Hank Pym or Tony Stark (or Pepper Potts if they wanted a female character who has a believable engineering background). Have the adults say she's a brilliant student or whatever, maybe have them say she's a bit reckless and cocky but has some weird and wonderful ideas, show her idealism as a character flaw that affects her science work. That would make her more believable AND relatable, because nobody, especially not kids, can accomplish great things completely on their own and without a lot of hard work and experience. It gives her a journey too, she can learn the value of not cutting corners and making sure her inventions are reliable and trustworthy instead of coasting on her talent. It's the same reason the animated Mulan is a better character than the live-action one: she starts out being crap at the military, but then works hard and smart and gets good. That's far more interesting to watch than someone who starts out good and stays good.

[@InfernosReaper]

The suits *were* a new thing then. That reactor and making weapons weren't new, though. He just made it all smaller, using his own tech that was on hand, and then made armor to protect himself

[@baldbastardo]

Believability: A 3000 year old god turns into a pathetic simp he and his stoic and warrior culture would absolutely despise in a matter of months.

[@NawlejIsTaken]

Believability Matters, so you best believe that's why I clicked the like button to show your video matters

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

That close-up on Tyrion was chef's kiss. Never seen so much "are you fucking kidding me" bleeding through an actor while in character

[@HHH-ye1ro]

After seeing all of these horrible “girl boss” movies, it was great to see Equalizer 3 today. A great series with an actual man being the hero, saving the weaker woman, like normal life. 👍🏼

[@justforever96]

You see a lot of men going around saving distressed damsels in "normal life"? Being heroic and getting in long gun battles with faceless henchmen? Jumping off buildings and being mercilessly beaten in brutal hand to hand combat, then shot, but continuing to fight until the battle is won? Traditional Hollywood is not "normal life".

[@Lobosalsa9]

Your videos keep getting better and better, a lot of work went into this and it shows. Fantastic video and I agree with every point you make. You and Chris Gore need to do a podcast together, lol.

[@jasperhayes-klein2929]

Warn a brother, if you’re gonna throw a Misery clip in outta nowhere!!!

[@davidintrabartolo5887]

Arnie mowing down hordes of Uruk-hai is something I didn't know I needed until I saw it.

[@ViralCog]

They want us to believe Greta Thunberg is a brilliant physicist or engineer when in reality she barely goes to school and I would be surprised if she knows basic skills for real world.

[@justforever96]

I have never heard anyone suggest Greta Thunberg is a physicist or an engineer at any time. She a celebrity, because she (was) a child and was put into the spotlight to talk about climate change. The only qualifications that she has or anyone has suggested are that she's in the news. That's all it takes. Why else do we listen to what actors or sports players think about anything? Never even heard anyone claim she's a meteorologist or climate expert, which are the relevant areas to the topic she's known for. She is just a kid who (apparently) read stuff by the who are and is willing to go on camera and talk about it. None of that has anything to do with physics or engineering. Unless she has started to propose her own design for a new cold fusion reactor, or a new wind turbine model or something.

[@macmcleod1188]

Wasn't the problem for me. When they decided to make his daughter hate him and disrespect him, I decided to keep my money in my pocket.

[@steele1485]

Something i did notice on a rewatch is that the ability to shrink comes from the gloves not the suit. When captured they don't have the gloves on. I do agree the suits should have been taken away.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

The whole concept of “a subatomic Hubble telescope” seems to indicate ignorance of what the Hubble Telescope is. Maybe a subatomic microscope since you’re looking at very tiny things?

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

And all those Johnathan Majors comments just got funnier as not only is he most likely going to jail, but he's been fired and his career is over.

[@DespotofAntrim]

I took a gamble on those jokes, glad it paid off.

[@daxdragon676]

@@DespotofAntrimIt really didn’t pay off if you actually seen everything about the case

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

@@daxdragon676 Apparently you didn't cause Majors isn't innocent dude and no I'm not just referring to the fact he was convicted.

[@daxdragon676]

@@thefanwithoutaface8105 I do now everything about the case especially about the part how the other charges were dropped and the only reason he was charged due to him trying to get the girl in the car and she hurt her finger which he didn’t try to do and that being the main reason he was charged I’m not saying he’s innocent but to be charged due to him simply trying to get away from her and get her in the car and she hurt her finger due to it is stupid

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

@@daxdragon676 Except that's not what you phrased. You're comment made it seem like Majors wasn't guilty of something, and no I don't just mean that in the court of law sense. There is plenty of evidence to show he was emotionally abusive, arrogant, abrasive and controlling. That might not necessarily be a crime in the legal sense but it's still reprehensible behavior and frankly taking some jabs at the guy is hardly anything to get bent out of shape about. Regardless it's a moot point, Majors reputation and career are in the toilet and I doubt he's gonna bounce back from it.

[@mortentrydal7365]

I believe the biggest problem I have with your videos is that I now have seen them all :)

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks for taking the time to watch. Very much appreciated!

[@derka_james]

22:12 we can, we just did, i need a cigarette; im spent 😂

[@kevbridges3963]

My wife and I tried to watch this with the grandkids, but it was so boring we fucked off to the pub, little buggers didn`t buy me pint though, twats :))

[@ZS05]

I keep coming back to this video for the humor and good points

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

Dear God,when that girl opened her mouth and started babbling my first thought was,"She sounds just like Kamala Harris." 🤢

[@rodglen7071]

This is the best channel I've subbed since Critical Drinker. Just great work.

[@solan7978]

To be fair, they explained off-film that in "Spider-Man: No Way home", all of those written stories, pictures, etc. remain, but they don't register in people's minds; the memory of seeing/reading them slips away like water off a duck's back.

[@Duothimir]

That's not something that should be left to outside material. It would take five seconds to show someone looking at a photo and forgetting it the moment they look away.

[@karmatraining]

A Terminator/LoTR cross-over would have been WAY more entertaining than anything in the MCU

[@reapercushions9372]

Btw.: Wonder wether the Terminator's human casualty counter could be modified to count orcs?

[@joaoemanuel9187]

i love how 90% of the video is not even about antman, the video end and i have to look back at the title to rembember what was the movie that he's reviewing

[@justforever96]

It's literally impossible that any teenager, no matter how intelligent, could have read enough to learn the necessary basis and then advanced studies you would need to build such a device. You can't do it. It's just insulting to genuine young geniuses who are very advanced, but still haven't had the time to actually advance to their full potential. It takes actually time and study, you aren't just born knowing quantum physics, although you may have a great natural capacity to _learn_ them. And that doesn't even take into account that she would not only need to grasp the advanced scientific concepts, but she also apparently is a highly skilled technician and fabricator who just knew all about metal working, wiring, electronics, welding, and also has an entire workshop with all the necessary tools available to her. You would need several lifetimes to get all the needed skills to just design and build a thing like that alone. And if you were that brilliant, you wouldn't be wasting your time getting arrested at riots, you would be doing something of actual value to the world. How about inventing a a new source of power, or cheap and simple water purification? Or use your godlike intelligence to design new super drugs to literally save lives. Or a safer more effective way to detain people than tasers, which can be dangerous and are very unreliable, which results in more people getting shot by police, because an officer alone cannot rely on a Taser to stop them effectively. But no, by all means, spend your time making a "quantum Hubble telescope" because that's definitely the priority need for humanity right now, and the rest of your time serving as one more body in a large mass of rioters, because your individual presence there will totally make a huge difference.

[@satorugojo6921]

Holy crap Despot, the Arnold Schwarzeneggar Sitcom and American Psycho skits were outrageous! I'll happily praise you and hold you to a high regard in my household! You sir, may openly tax me, Mr. Leader. Being serious, you're hilarious, my guy. I would not mind seeing more of these skits in the future.

[@lamya44]

A spot-on diagnosis. It was a pleasure to watch.

[@OpEditorial]

Comparing the hodgepodge that is the Marvel "multiverse" to the 1980s David Cronenberg body-horror classic "The Fly" wherein a well intentioned but deeply in over his head,naive young scientist succumbs to his own hubris and destroys himself (as an analogy for a terminal illness) is right on the money. But arguably a better, more well known and recent example would be Rick and Morty.

[@vianneyb.8776]

Talking about the believability of a teenager building the equivalent of the Manhattan project by themseves reminded me of that time an American teenager built a fully functioning nuclear reactor in a shed at his parents' home in order to get one of his boy scout badges. But even then, he was passionate about chemistry, was very ressourceful, calling experts to get more details on how to do it, and most importantly someone else had already invented the technology and all he needed was to follow the recipe.

[@lingricen8077]

He was also treated like a threat, a believable reaction.

[@markmccune25]

I’m starting to actually believe AI is writing these things

[@cheesecakeisgross4645]

No way. Ai would be better.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

It took me several minutes to stop being horrified all over my body again at that hobbling scene from Misery, dammit. I love your work though.

[@IsaacMuntz]

When watching movies nowadays you better leave your braincells outside

[@KenLinx]

KZbin has done a huge disservice for not recommending your channel to me sooner.

[@johnselden9257]

Damn…I thought you put out a new video but it’s just a re upload. I love your content man….very quality. Keep it up and you’re going to gain a bigger and bigger following.

[@DespotofAntrim]

Thanks John, glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@sidneyrodrigues2238]

I want an Arnold x Lord of the Rings crossover setting up a Lord of the Rings x Back to the Future sequel right NOW 😂😂. I'd pay more to watch that 😂😂😂

[@coreysayre1376]

Man your skits are absolute friggin gold. I will suspend my disbelief for the terminator defending helms deep with a minigun and grenade launcher, ANY DAY! lmao

[@Hakugarawe]

the editing on the arnie vs orcs part, i loved it :3

[@keithpennock]

@DespotofAntrim where did you get/create your “I’m Woman” meme sound clip from? That’s perfect and should be picked up by other culture critics!

[@DespotofAntrim]

It's from the trailer of the batwoman TV show.

[@tyrantsquirrel575]

That Terminator/Helm's Deep edit was too slick, and hilarious!

[@thor3279]

dammit Despot! i just wanted to listen to this in the background while I'm at work, but the whole "At Home with Kang and the Insufferable Child Genius/Fiery but mostly Peaceful Activist/ occasional abductor and torturer" part demands full attention.. I'm in tears

[@LottaLov211]

Let’s pray that GOTG 3 makes more money than Ant Man. To be honest, Thanos was handled better than Kang the Conquerer. Being Kang more threatening than Thanos. What a shame 🤦‍♂️

[@BaloneyPoney007]

Glad I found this channel. Always has great takes and hilarious humor mixed in. Hope you're able to grow and enjoy what you do.

[@tumulovermelho93]

That "ITS COFFEE" TikTok is so cursed and so accurate to how vapid teenage girls actually are irl. This movie made Cassie insufferable when she was a sweet and likable character in the previous ones.

[@toonrex2806]

The “It’s Coffee” TikTok should be Thanos out of existence.

[@derek96720]

Sweet girls growing up into vapid social influencers is also pretty accurate to reality. The Internet absolutely ruins them.

[@svetlanaandrasova6086]

Another thing. They are saying that Casey,who is suddenly genius without showing signs of it in previous movies,also speaks like "stop being a dick"? I think a genius would have different vocabulary but. Whatever.

[@Modenut]

I saw The Fly in the theatre three times. I honestly don't think I've ever seen a Disney or super hero movie in a theatre. Unless my parents dragged me along to The Jungle Book or something back when I was a wee lad that I don't remember.

[@ExMachina70]

I love how this comes full circle after the actor who played victim Kang ends up going to jail.

[@angieoxford7092]

Some people can't be told, they have to be shown.

[@achillesalister3786]

Honestly Rings Of Power should go full fan-fiction and have Shrek just make out with everyone.