Bright (2017) - A Hot Mess of a Movie

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[@arin999]

icing on the cake is, the prosthetic and makeup team (60 people) aren't even included in the credits. they didn't credit 60 makeup artists on their FANTASY movie. that's so shitty.

[@theolast9727]

arin especially since the makeup was so utterly fantastic in this movie

[@glitchygear9453]

Well that's just awful of them

[@DrDolan2000]

What a dick move. I would credit people who just come up with ideas

[@dylansmith5206]

Wow! That is just a whole new level of pure scumbaggery at it's finest. Like seriously. This is the type of pure assholery I'd expect from People like The Paul Brothers (Logan and Jake). Paris Hilton. Or Doug And Rob Walker. I least just hope the makeup team was at least paid for their hard work on this project. And I would like to thank Netflix and their craptastic line of films like Bright for giving me more reasons to not have a Netflix account (Physical Media for life).

[@zenithquasar9623]

Wow, just wow!

[@AnotherGaisle]

Shrek is a documentary in Bright

[@kavinverma1493]

Tee Kay underrated comment

[@antonymilne1346]

You imply it's not in this world?

[@bb33nnii]

Shrek is a documentar* FTFY

[@lt.ghostnight6855]

Tee Kay lol 😂

[@DustyyBoi]

Sherk is an orge not an orc...

[@7822welshsteam]

Did anyone else find it really odd that Will Smith killed a fairy at the beginning and joked about it we're supposed to relate to him for the rest of the film?

[@vertigohaze4421]

Yea but I guess fairies are the equivalent to bugs in this movie

[@icom782]

Did you find out that in this movie and in this "universum" fairy is like a mosquito?

[@MC-yg1mq]

@@icom782 difference is, fairies are tiny people with wings and shit, mosquitoes are mindless bugs with the only purpose of harm other living beings

[@icom782]

@@MC-yg1mq It's a fantasy world. To you or me it might be a tiny man, for them in their world it''s mosquito-like parasite.

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

Even worse when you think about what his line is supposed to be an allegory for.

[@CaptJosmy]

I don't know why it'd never hit me until just now, but... why are Elves so obsessed with bringing back the Dark Lord, anyway? They're already the richest, most privileged race in the world, and they managed to avoid any bad consequences from the war by putting all the blame on the Orcs. They have it great. Do they really need to go to that length?

[@kannyradotv3241]

CaptJosmy why do we do anything these days??? People just get bored

[@jordanelliot3972]

Adding to that On how the worldbuilding makes no sense Why are the elfs rich? Didnt they lose the war? When has the losing side of any war been like What ever dude i got stacks also how the fuck did they lose the war when so many of them can use war crime wands

[@MC-yg1mq]

@@jordanelliot3972 as far as I remember, they never say elfs sided with the Dark Lord

[@davidjames7672]

eleves didnt side with the dark lord Inferni did they are outcasts they are hte elf equivilent of the kkk

[@Thehubb1]

I thought the same thing watching the movie. Like they clearly rule this world and are the dominant species on the planet. Why would they bother resurrecting some evil overlord who will likely want to rule them all?

[@gavinbowen1308]

Will Smith just dropped the S-word in the middle of a bunch of orcs

[@raidenshotgun5997]

he has the S word pass! Maybe jacobi gave it to him :P

[@jlupus8804]

They shoulda called him Farkwad

[@zoomerrk]

What's the word?

[@H4rpyE4gle]

@@zoomerrk I would guess it's Shrek.. lol

[@avoidtalknn7421]

@@zoomerrk sigga

[@CJCroen1393]

Shrek is a universal constant.

[@arvindvinod3631]

Also, he’s roughly equal to 6.67*10^-11.

[@JoecoonChannel]

The difference between the DC universe and our universe is that in DC earth is the center of the multiverse. Shrek is our center of the multiverse. That’s why Bright has a Shrek joke. Because dead memes

[@MrRainierSalu]

@@arvindvinod3631 or sth like 1.05*10^-34

[@billbuffalino6741]

If the Nazis had won world war 2 and they dominated the globe...shrek would’ve still been made.

[@charliefawn2519]

So is Will Smith

[@thes-10rooster45]

What made me mad is that they show us a FUCKING DRAGON, half way through the movie, flying over the city. Then we never see it again. Then why show us the dragon. Are they just adding more elements to try to make the movie better, because it is just angering me even more.

[@lionelwilliams1646]

There’s also a Cop Centaur we see for a split second and never see again . Would’ve been kind of dope !

[@alesalazar1175]

For real god dammit. It's like showing us a Shotgun hanging on the wall in the first act. And never letting it go off by the third. Feels like getting cucked by bad writing 😭

[@edmxero2029]

@@lionelwilliams1646 everytime I think about this movie, i think about centaur cop

[@ruefullysage]

my biggest issue with this movie is that there's magic but somehow everything is exactly the same science/medicine/technology wise. how tf is that possible ?

[@the_don1542]

Well since brights were rare and so were wands I'm assuming people had to find a way to defend themselves or come up with inventions of other ways besides using magic

[@lithiumkid]

same way as in cyberpunk movies, if you swap out the futuristic, highly advanced technology for magic

[@Spongebrain97]

Yeah everything in society, culture, and history is the exact same despite literally fantasy creatures and magic being a thing

[@evanrayswenson]

Lord of the Rings is probably a history/biography in Bright. Also Shrek is probably the equivalent to the N-Word in this universe.

[@ianbailey4213]

Now all I can see is an Elven pewdiepie saying "What a fucking Shrek"

[@evanrayswenson]

Ian Bailey lol

[@raiorai2]

S-Word

[@vulturett]

@Dorian Harris Everybody type in chat "Alex is a stupid Shrek!"

[@bea4828]

If that's the case, the grammar he used for the N word makes no snense and it's bad.

[@trentonwelsh6859]

The whole movie is like a rough draft of writing a racism alagory in a private high school lit class, but the author left Bad Boys on in the background while doing his homework

[@Setsuna161616]

And also watched Training Day the night before he started

[@TheCoffeeNut711]

That's why I got pissed whenever I saw the comments on videos bashing the film. "OMG this movie was great! You're all just haters!"

[@DairangerSentai7]

Dang. How someone can spend so much time, effort and money into a project and get reduced to a highschool lit class. Dang Trenton. How would you suggest someone who wants to write a story with racism to write about it?

[@corvus2512]

@@DairangerSentai7 with nuance and thoughtfulness..... that would be a start

[@DairangerSentai7]

@@corvus2512 sorry if I'm pushing it too far but what does that mean? My english not the best

[@almostshawn3230]

A plot summary of the OG script leaked and it makes so much more sense. Example: Elf lady doesn't talk because she was a child in the OG story. Possibly changed because David A wanted to add a gunfight in a strip club.

[@sebastiancintron29]

Any other changes that explain the nonsense that was this stupid film?

[@almostshawn3230]

@@sebastiancintron29 Will Smith was divorced. That's why Jacobi comments that he might not be getting laid enough.

[@twiceshy9773]

@@almostshawn3230 here after the Oscar Slap- lol Will Smith is a method actor, who knew??!

[@Honcher_John]

Bright is what happens when a DM tries to put a twist on their first ever D&D campaign to make it more "interesting"

[@boiledelephant]

Who the hell are you, and what have I done to provoke this personal attack?

[@SPARTAX57]

Wouldn't Shrek be considered a racist film in this universe.

[@margarethafalco63]

SPARTA X57 Shrek is love , Shrek is life

[@SAM-ru4vx]

what if donkey was a centaur?

[@espalorp3286]

No, because it's a spoof, and dumb, and also no

[@Plight_]

who said it was a film?

[@tejmummadisingu867]

Asking the real questions

[@GhostOfBilly]

So the wand is so valuable that it will almost definitely get Will Smith killed? So what it's some kind of....suicide wand?

[@drmalpractical]

Boo

[@chaosryans]

The question is if the fire wand got burned up in the end.

[@uzumakiking]

Michael Marple I hate you so fucking much, fuck you. Thumbs up, prick

[@GhostOfBilly]

uzumakiking Thank you, kind sir.

[@shawnicthehedgehog]

Michael Marple That just made my day

[@gabevillarrealedits]

I think the most charming thing about this movie is that it was indeed Landis’ Star Wars. It just happened to be The Phantom Menace.

[@Faryonderer]

Remember that the old drunk homeless wizard man knew that Will Smith was “blessed”, this proves that people are able to find brights without giving random people the wand.

[@Rucker1980]

i loved the premise of it, but it looked like they spent their entire budget on Will Smith

[@KingstonHawke]

chris rucker People just say dumb things. It’s almost as if they had no budget left over for special affects, high level actors, or make up. They just spent it all on will.

[@morganjones4281]

They could have been funded by the entirety of America's military spending and the movie would still have sucked ass. The script is just irredeemable.

[@zanaekendall459]

Worth it

[@cillian303]

If you like the premise, I would recommend you check out the Shadowrun games

[@whade62000]

Why spend it on a celeb that can't act? Answer: because the drones will see it's a name they recognize and watch it anyway. Will was a decent actor now but then he got it into his head that he was this big badass hero guy and had been playing that persona in EVERY movie regardless of whether it fit

[@thehumanity0]

"I want this to be my Star Wars". Wow, funniest line in the whole video

[@mmoaddict4291]

Well, if he was talking about The Last Jedi, I'll give him that.

[@daltontodd3190]

MMO Addict The Last Jedi was good.

[@tscott8586]

It’s his phantom menace 🤣

[@siddaslothman2273]

It's his Rise of Skywalker

[@adamherzenberg9162]

it's his star wars holiday special

[@robertopalmieri3803]

THE ELFBI That made me laugh a lot more than it should've

[@matthewletexier]

The conspiracy that Critics were banding together to put down a netflix movie is even more ridiculous today, considering Disney+

[@darynjackson816]

no that makes it more believable...because "they" need to helm the streaming space

[@OkayFillet]

Wait a minute. If Bright has Shrek....Shrek means DreamWorks, which means SHARK TALE

[@mungerine]

Same thing happened in I Am Legend actually.

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

Oh snap!

[@tovi3280]

subito zx “cat in boots” lmaooo

[@logicaloverdrive8197]

Sosig KS wait, so will smith exist in this world?

[@eskreskao]

And Last Action Hero had the Terminator in the Jack Slater-verse, what's your point?

[@iliakatster]

I was 100% sure that Jakoby was gonna pick up the wand and be the first Orc bright. Really sad when they went full generic

[@revui5582]

i really hated will smith's character for a lot of the movie. jakoby was the only redeemable character in the film for me, because i'm still not sure what the hell was going on with that elf girl.

[@HateshWarkio]

The movie is Bright but the scriptwriter sure isn't.

[@matchesburn]

"First orc bright" Confirmed for not paying attention to the film Jirak, whom Jakoby cites, was the first Bright... and also an orc. And, no, making the orc who cited the first orc Bright and compared their adventures to one another would have been campy and predictable. And, also, generic in having history repeat itself. And yet you find this more entertaining and original... Then again, we've confirmed you didn't pay attention to the film's own established lore.

[@codybarlik4524]

matchesburn getting upset because someone missed a piece of lore that was breezed over in the midst of a super goofy, convuluted plot is lame 😒

[@matchesburn]

@@codybarlik4524 And imagine someone being let down by a movie because a super cliched plot element was "missed" when the movie states it already happened millennia ago. It's kinda like watch Avengers: Infinity War and being upset that Captain America wasn't in the movie.

[@RetroExhibitCollective]

Will Smith really likes Shrek. He watches Shrek In I Am Legend

[@JoaoVictor-me6fq]

The honesty of this channel is the thing i admire the most.

[@Alextube45679]

"BAtman pleASe DoN'T kilL my dAd"

[@MarkyMatey]

PsiHG What are we some kinda suicide squad?

[@ThatGuy-jj3kz]

Mark G. What are we some kind of What are we some kind of suicide squad?

[@BlazzinCuber]

“Mom says you kill people.” “Thats not true. That a lie. “

[@seantylerfermin4927]

*tHis iS KaTTaNnaaaaa*

[@virgilbarrios3174]

"hEy eSe" "HolA aMIgO" "pUt ThAt bUrrITo dOwN"

[@alien.in.disguise]

I'm 87% sure that this was Shrek fan fiction gone wrong

[@justinbob369]

do you know what this is From18:24

[@miquelcorderroure4641]

justin bob Kung Pow Enter the fist trailer

[@fullmetaltheorist]

@@miquelcorderroure4641 I love that movie

[@niftyszn9469]

if they went into detail more about the elves, and literally everything else it would probably be a good movie

[@ryanartward]

If I could get this movie rebooted, I'd do it as a TV show and get the team who worked on The Boys to direct and write this.

[@antonolsson977]

Shrek would probably be a very racist movie in the Bright universe

[@nemanjajovanov8385]

Especially if Mike Myers is human and not orc in this world, that would be a horrible case of greenface.

[@imUmoron]

Don't worry, Shrek was played by an actual ogre

[@pinkluigienjoyer]

Anton Olsson you stole this.

[@AnotherGeek....]

SOMEBODY ONES TOLD ME THAT THIS THEORY IS GENIUS

[@stresslevel1009]

I'd definitely be rated r

[@rivertrash9862]

7:20 Plus Mexicans are discriminated against for many ignorant reasons, but I've literally never heard someone mention the Alamo.

[@kathleenroberts3086]

Minnesota Fatz yes! I found that line so odd.

[@bigpoop3073]

Also, Black People need to stop being Victims and become Victors

[@bigpoop3073]

Same thing applies to any group of people who says they are “Opressed”

[@Jay-nj1oz]

@@kathleenroberts3086 Not a few decades ago

[@juststop23]

Damn, well let me tell you how from 17-19 people kept trying to use the Alamo as a way to shit talk just cause I was Mexican, so maybe the racists you've encountered are just not that well educated...

[@Hempsicle]

The only "legitimate" reason I can think that all these guys keep trying to use the wand is that they believe they may be the blessed human who can use it.....? And they're so desperate to have power that they're willing to risk dying to know that they are blessed. But that's all I got. This movie is a dumpster fire.

[@KimonoSuki]

19:23 "Anyway so Taako decides to be nice..." AN ADVENTURE ZONE REFERENCE? I actually was not expecting that holy shit, I already subscribed but I would have definitely subscribed right then

[@mcnierstenen9017]

I thought he said taco

[@enjitodoroki202]

Cops: Know gangsters are coming for them with loads of guns Also Cops: Takes off bullet proof vests for disguises that don't work

[@senza4591]

That *they know wont work

[@casper6405]

The people behind this weren't so BRIGHT

[@samuelwright7270]

ha

[@StraboSE]

got em

[@CaptainMaggott]

Hey, that’s the name of the show!

[@josiahmartin1282]

Ha! I see what u did there

[@andrewsmall5337]

👏👏👏👏

[@jordanboyd5587]

"You can't just keep showing me shit without explaining anything!" Rise Of Skywalker: "Hehehehehe...."

[@shtuffs]

0/10 Dr. Bright doesn't use chainsaw cannons to end the world

[@notevenironicallyfunny204]

@@manuel_sema_es Ironic cause im pretty sure Landis has written or is at least into scp shit

[@brianbailey904]

Bro, when he said Shrek. He wasn't referencing a Dreamworks movie. He was referencing a REAL person. OBVIOUSLY XD

[@barbiquearea]

That was my assumption too. Like Shrek and Fiona are historical people in this universe.

[@alchemicpunk1509]

Wait so... Are they perchance reality tv .. I don't wanna say stars... people?

[@Dawggy912]

That still does not make sense but whatever

[@nomukun1138]

That's not a reasonable assumption. Is "Faerie Lives Matter" a real slogan in this universe, even though faeries are feral animals? It could have been a real person if there was any worldbuilding in this movie, but there isn't. You're putting more effort into writing than anyone creating the movie.

[@antonymilne1346]

Oh imagine if shrek was actually a celebrity in that universe!

[@reshi606]

Someone should remake this movie because the concepts are really really fascinating.

[@rickriot8743]

I just fucking rewrote it in my head.

[@pittland44]

I would argue they already did make a better version of this movie. Go watch "Alien Nation" with Mandy Patinkin and James Caan. They do a lot of the exact same things but it's done a world better.

[@casper6405]

Or an open world gta like witcher type game

[@ponyboygolden963]

It should be a tv series without Will Smith

[@alecopedia5744]

Pixar is doing it right now. Wish granted.

[@DairangerSentai7]

18:03 "I want this to be my star wars." And by this approach, he was bound to fail. The transition of every champion goes from wanting to be like their inspirations, to being the best version of themselves. Growing their own source material if I could put it as such.

[@kuma8293]

The "reason" that they keep trying to protect the wand and don't give it up in the movie is because it would be worth like a billion dollars to a regular person if they sold it to the right bidder and could potentially be extremely dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. Still though, I definitely feel you, this was a goofy movie.

[@welkingunther5417]

Plus it would be a good idea to not give it to a person just on the off chance they are actually a Bright and can use it. Better safe than sorry, in that case. You only get unlucky once, though yeah, the value alone would be bad enough if someone got one.

[@mr.enrike2564]

No that's not right. Every person that wanted to get the wand wanted to use it for their own benefit, not to sell it.

[@Tempo_Gigante]

Don't bother the poster of the video is not that "bright", he would not understand that either.

[@Tempo_Gigante]

@@mr.enrike2564 The way they do that is by making a barter with somebody who can do that for them, in exchange the "able" person gets the wand. There is it that difficult to understand??!

[@mr.enrike2564]

@@Tempo_Gigante you are trying to make sense of the films logic when the movie itself doesnt follow it. Stfu 🤫

[@gabrielaubry1334]

Not only is the Dark Lord an Elf, but the first Bright, Jirak, who united the nine races against the Dark Lord was an Orc. And yet orcs are the hated ones and elves are the ones on top. How does the prejudice and racism works in this world?!

[@MrNickPresley]

I imagine it's because the elves in power did a lot of historical revision to cover up the fact that the darklord was an elf, and that Jiraak even existed-- and then the prejudice took hold against the orcs, and all their claims that the documented history is a lie is seen as, essentially, fake news. This movie needed, among other things, a lot of fleshing out to be good.

[@gabrielaubry1334]

I actually had an idea of a true history of the Dark Lord and the Orcs' service to him. The Dark Lord is actually the Emperor of the Elves who attempted to conquer the world and enforce elven supremacy, and the reason the orcs sided with him is because in reality the orcs are an enslaved race that are forced to fight the elves' wars. Jiraak was an orc slave who was also the descendant of one of the last great Orc khans that fell to elven conquest, and Jiraak led a resistance force against the Elf Emperor that was later joined by an alliance of the Nine races, including Elves that decide to turn on the Emperor and side with the alliance. But then history was revised by those same high born elves to distance themselves from what is now called the Dark Lord, and with it the responsibility for the great war.

[@giordanokruger3826]

prejudice/racism are socieconomic constructs, they don't have to make historical sense. Black people were never minions to an magical evil overlord and they still suffer discrimination to this day.

[@MrNickPresley]

While that is true in the real world, it is specifically stated in the movie that the prejudice exists because they orcs chose to side with the dark lord-- which is why I suggested the revisionist agenda.

[@giordanokruger3826]

I think i've expressed myself poorly, what i meant to say is that prejudice/raicsm do not have to have a "justification" to exist (as in they are not karmic ) but are much rather fabricated by the narratives of those within power so they can best exploit the victims of said prejudice/discrimination.

[@Phoenix0F8]

"The guys on our watch, tried to do us- Over a wand. We have a wand! We have, a magic. Wand!" I died

[@ProductBasement]

Fun fact, "You touch my wand, and it will splatter all over the walls" is what I tell my wife in the morning, but she never seems to heed my warning

[@ab-3983]

Mad 💀💀.

[@isaacwilcox3010]

This universe has a lot of potential but they packaged it in such a boring way. I wanna see the Alamo in this world. I wanna see the Napoleonic Wars in this world. I wanna see the Cold War in this world. I don’t wanna see a Zootopia rip off.

[@Kalina47]

9:29 You forgot to point out that, despite that he’s an Orc, they forgot to paint his hands.

[@garangolm5924]

Lol

[@GuardianTam]

Lol nice catch

[@AIVILO_444]

Lol good eye

[@kyrkosekaterinaris1328]

Or that the bald elf guy has clearly forgotten to put his elf ears on in a scene (it's somewhere in the middle of the movie, when he's driving a car)

[@bookid1581]

Nice catch

[@Redvines69]

Pretty sure Los Angeles would not be named Los Angeles.

[@one7deep7savage7]

Orc Angelas

[@chaz4110]

Well I mean, there’s a place in Africa called Nigeria

[@CanIHasThisName]

@@chaz4110 He's pointing out the fact that "angels" would not be a thing in modern society due to the impossibility of Christianity in this universe.

[@dethbreth8]

Los Aasimars

[@blessfullstop]

@@CanIHasThisName He was attempting comedy. I think the best part is that you think Christianity wouldnt just incorporate Orcs, Magic and Elves into their religon.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

Wait a minute, how did he shave his tusks? Tusks aren't hair, they're bone, they insert directly into his skull. Was "shave" the actual term they use in the movie?

[@r.j.tammaro8383]

16:04 I feel like what Bright does wrong here, Watchmen does right. In the original Watchmen comic, because heroes are real comics about pirates are made instead of superhero comics.

[@meinlpurealloychina227]

It honestly would do better as a TV show.

[@xcaluhbration]

Wolfie 1217 very true, while watching it my mind kept expecting "to be continued" every 20 minutes. They should make this a series instead of a movie.

[@splicer0169]

Wolfie 1217 I would watch the fuck out of this as a t.v. series. It's got good concepts it just had horrible execution.

[@fionnconnor3428]

IT WOULD STILL HAVE SHIT WORLD BUILDING AND BAD ACTING AND THO PEOPLE SAID THAT SUICIDE SQUAD WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT WITH NO PROBLEMS IF IT JUST HAD AN R RATING WHY DO PEOPLE THINK REALLY SIMPLE 1 STEP SOLUTIONS INSTANTLY MAKE SHITTY MOVIES GOOD

[@Plight_]

fionn connor why the hell are you using caps?

[@badgerwarrior1]

Fionn Connor Changing it from a movie to a show is not a one step change. Also, while you are right about it not solving the acting, it would give the writers more room and time to implement the world building and lore. Theoretically.

[@blondejack6045]

It really doesn’t feel like this was released almost two years ago now

[@emekaamerican863]

Blonde Milk I think it came out late 2017

[@prska]

how about now?

[@blondejack6045]

@@prska maaaan stop making me sentimental

[@prska]

@@blondejack6045 lol alright man

[@marvingonzalez8586]

@@blondejack6045 my dude it came out 3 years ago and it wasn't even good no need to get sentimental 😂

[@samdryden7944]

They crammed so much worldbuilding into this film that it really should have been a tv series.

[@tromar5758]

Bro this movie has zero world building it’s shallower then a paddling pool. It’s literally what if our world but with orc, elf and fairy.

[@BowerMultimedia]

Great video! I just wanted to point out that the "stock screams" are an on-going joke in the film industry. Sound engineers use stuff like that on purpose for a laugh.

[@donttrendonme]

“I like when character drives story, not when story drives story.” -Max Landis

[@craignekoma]

Um...what?

[@hobodefender3476]

Is this a quote by him that you are stating as irony, or are you trying to make some sort of point about the problems with the film?

[@daftbanna7202]

@@hobodefender3476 it's pretty clearly irony

[@nomukun1138]

Too bad Will Smith was driving this story.

[@jasoncaetano9708]

Does he mean not when story drives character 🤔 😕

[@settingsun8403]

I really wanna see a Will Smith Cinematic Universe

[@JackTheLion]

Lmao he tried that with After Earth and it turned out hilariously shitty

[@shreddymerks]

Welcome to After Earth. I have GOT to get me one these...wands!

[@zeusalexander5502]

J'karr Just go dip your head in your toilet n take a llook

[@GummyDinosaursify]

I'd be for Men in Black/Independence Day crossover

[@sootmancer9851]

@@GummyDinosaursify if Bright is part of the WillSmithCinematicUniverse.. does that mean that there was an alien invasion in the fantasy world too at some point? maybe Officer Will was a pilot before becoming a cop! and did he become a MIB agent after the Independence Day invasion? hmm

[@LuisSanchez-by7mh]

Correction David Ayer only wrote Training Day he didn’t direct it, it was Antoine Fuqua who directed it. I did like Fury and End of Watch from Ayer.

[@thecollector427]

The idea of fairy tale stuff existing in the real world was done before. I started playing Wolf Among Us recently and, so far, it executes that concept a lot better.

[@sonicspider5415]

And onward

[@newkuroko8933]

As I said to my friend, this idea could be better if it were a series, not a movie. You can develop better your story, world and characters.

[@deshawnfilterfeed1212]

Yas

[@gotenksta]

If they didn't do it right with a movie, then I highly doubt they can make a good series.

[@marmarfr]

gotenksta i disagree

[@gotenksta]

@@marmarfr It's just that it's not a problem about pacing or the time to develop the story, it's just bad writing.

[@marmarfr]

gotenksta it’s bad writing because they had to write it in a way that would work for a movie when a storyline like that needs much more time than a movie can offer to be fully developed. I agree that there were some ententes of flat out bad writing but for the most part it was due to the fact that for a fantasy story like that, things usually need ample amounts of time to explain and with a show they get a whole lot more time to piece the backstory together over the course of the show even if they start out with a pretty bad idea of what that backstory is going to be.

[@deejayflint]

I believe this was a pilot for a TV show and that is why so many plot devices had no payoffs. They were saving them for the show.

[@RichardElric14]

Wow...you ACTUALLY put it into words why I thought this movie sucked lol I couldn’t articulate it, but I felt it. But YOU, brave soul, have done that for me. Thank you.

[@marcushoward7385]

The Disney movie Onward is like Bright, but it doesn't suck!

[@CommieApe]

its just boring and cliche in every possible way

[@funkrobot9762]

It absolutely sucks lol

[@funkrobot9762]

@Dylan Reffert I thought Bright was better

[@abigailc8829]

Everyone hates on Onward :/ Tbh it's not the best movie of all time, but I enjoyed it. I think if any other studio produced it it would've been regarded as one of its best movies, but since it's Pixar and we're all used to the most amazing movies from them, it's kind of disappointing.

[@niallreid7664]

@@abigailc8829 are we still expecting the best from Pixar? I feel like Pixar is not as good as they used to be.

[@edwardevans5759]

Bright is a wonderful concept as a story, kind of like a Shadowrun-esque world, but as a movie it fails because it tries to jam so much into so little time. Make this into a series ala Alien Nation and you have a near instant hit.

[@GalactusTheDestroyer]

I fucking loved Alien Nation. Never forget they liked curdled/soured milk. lol

[@jaymartin8273]

I agree. This kind of story, something this massive and wide reaching needs more time to fill in the blanks :=)

[@elizabethwood2063]

I know you posted this years ago, but yeah. I’m not saying the Alien Nation series was 100% perfect, but everything that was sort of okay in Bright was done ten times better in Alien Nation. George regularly confronted the challenge of pursuing and investigating people from his own minority community, and sometimes it made him a better detective because he understood them and occasionally it made him a worse detective because he had his own blind spots because of his culture, like everybody does. I mean, sheerly the fact that George is the first Newcomer detective but not the only Newcomer working at the police station (because of Albert as the custodian) gave them so many more opportunities to show that Tenctonese culture and attitudes aren’t monolithic. Or how Buck developed this strong resistance to cultural assimilation, and he doesn’t consider his dad’s role in applying human law to Newcomers as a good thing. I’m not sure Alien Nation should necessarily be rebooted, but Bright definitely lowered the odds of that happening by taking the same premise and doing it so poorly.

[@Kchaann]

I KNEW THIS MOVIE WAS A SHREK SPINOFF

[@MarcAlcatraz]

SOMEBODY

[@Kchaann]

TOLD

[@egghamilton7205]

ME

[@virgilbarrios3174]

THE

[@Thief4412]

WORLD

[@LadyDoomsinger]

If you want a story with the premise of Bright done properly, I recommend reading the *Alex Craft Novels by Kalayna Price* which are set in a modern world where magic exists openly and is integrated into normal everyday society in a more-or-less seamless fashion.

[@fictionferguson1320]

So this basically the non disney version of Onward

[@lopamurble4056]

I fucking wish they had pulled this concept off, it would've been so cool to see that universe's ideas become popularized. Maybe the comics are better, I should try them out.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

if you want that concept just play the shadowrun games

[@-undecided-1663]

@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 agreed. Shadowrun is awesome

[@lucasalce6010]

You should try Fables comic books by Will Billingham, they're great!

[@Kastafore]

If you like this premise, play Telltale studio's Wolf Among Us. It details the life of popular fairy tale figures in a modern setting as a murder mystery game.

[@LoveMyUnusual]

Saga is a pretty good example of a combo of fantasy/real world universe. Personally, some points are starting to derail for me, but the worldbuilding is pretty strong. (And the art is amazing). You should give it a try 👍

[@jason-kk2nr]

This story wasn’t meant for a movie, too much lore to stuff into one movie. they should have made a mini series or something. They didn’t explain the lore enough in this one movie

[@TheCNotes1]

They shouldn't have made this at all. David Ayer and Max Landis are fucking garbage.

[@thedeadcannotdie]

They should have made a more competent writer write the story. LoTR lore is pretty deep and yet the first film was a million times better

[@HIIMPHIL]

whoever made Shrek in that universe is going straight to hell

[@jkeirejejhehehehe6796]

I like how he doesn’t even call the will smith character by his actual name (what is the actual name anyway?)

[@Activility2]

It's been 10 months I dont think anyone knows🤣

[@PolishGod1234]

Will Smith

[@alisaurus4224]

IMdB says “Daryl Ward”

[@gigachad7751]

Shrek exists in all timelines

[@T33K3SS3LCH3N]

"so profoundly awful that Republicans will probably try to pass it into law over Christmas break. " holy guacamole they didn't pull any punches

[@TheAmericanPrometheus]

*"HAHAHA RED TRIBE BAD GET IT?"* Cringe.

[@CommieApe]

@@TheAmericanPrometheus goddamn you must think youre clever for knowing what tribalism is. When a political party supports tax cuts for the richest people they are bad to put it simply for someone like you.

[@TheAmericanPrometheus]

@@CommieApe lol do you actually buy that shitty meme argument? "TAX CUTS R 4 TEH RICH PEEPO NUUU"

[@Slobzz]

OH GODDAMMIT WHY IS IT EVERY TIME SOMEONE MAKES A JOKE IT HAS TO GET POLITICAL. LIKE GODDAM PEOPLE WHO DO THIS ARE ANNOYING

[@terranorth]

@@TheAmericanPrometheus *HAHAHA BLUE TRIBE BAD GET IT?* both can play this game bud

[@milkplague166]

Some subway worker who has a Will Smith-Obsessed boss who’s name is Carl is really freaked out right now

[@mrbigheart]

Love the wittiness and the observations and the humor! Keep up the good work!! Great content! :)

[@puncass]

To be fair, the three wands thing was probably a set up for a sequel.

[@OzSeoux]

koastrong if they made it

[@NitroSpidey]

koastrong their actually making a sequel. They announced it not long after the film released.

[@QuakeGamerROTMG]

It's still pretty bad writing to go throwing information at the viewer for no reason. We do not need to know that they need three wands to do that because it isn't relevant to the story it is telling. This is one of the first things you are taught if you want to be a writer, don't go telling the audience about things that they don't need to know, by saying they need three wands to resurrect the dark lord then the audience will be waiting for it to happen. If it doesn't happen and isn't addressed for the rest of the movie then it only confuses and disappoints the audience by not having any payoff.

[@SarahAndreaRoycesChannel]

But it makes sense to have this information. It tells us why it is extremely important to keep it away from the magic using terrorists, yet as powerful as it is it isn't enough on its own to put the evil plan (tm) in motion which is why it wasn't used to actually terrorize yet.

[@DXMaster-xs4ks]

“Worst movie of 2017” wtf do you forget about emoji movie

[@declaringpond2276]

DX Master 6199 Thats not a movie, that was an hour long advertisement

[@NSFSponsor]

50 Shades Darker

[@React2Quick]

DX Master 6199 emoji movie was just one big advertisement. Wouldn't classify it as a movie. If you paid to go see it, congratulations you paid to go see an hour long plus ad.

[@evanbillybobjoe9898]

It isn't a movie if the main plot focuses on Dropbox. Also, Wildstyle summons the bird from Twitter, because she is a princess, a strong, talented, and beautiful princess ! Then there's that side character who's a piece of shit...*really* he's a piece of shit.

[@TheToxic35]

The Snow Man anyone?

[@8bitdee]

This is the 10th CVH video Im watching TODAY and I can't stop. Somebody help, this guy is too entertaining.

[@10dollarsteakneggs86]

Cosmonaut forgive me for I have sinned. I like the intro song

[@PYROninja64]

I'd have to say my biggest gripe is that that show centaurs in armor on the police force but they aren't mentioned at all anywhere else.

[@neheillox179]

I like how it’s supposed to be serious and they still say magic wands

[@tcg_0955]

We need a Snyder cut of this movie.

[@Lifeoftheparty8290]

Just as shitty just 4 hours longer

[@karawithgun8148]

Dude, leave Carlos alone. He hasn't been the same since his wife left him :'(

[@sunonaro]

>one wand can resurrect someone "we need 3 wands to resurrect the dark lord" wut

[@succubastard1019]

I guess they killed him even harder or something, and thus they needed 3 wands.

[@bennyhoward1391]

DMB so taking that as a hypothetical in that they killed the dark lord extra hard. Jacobi is shot with a sniper and is resurrected with one wand....does that mean they used a magical nuke to kill the dark lord. If so that’d be pretty funny

[@ashwinnair3645]

I mean, it's possible that the amount of magical energy required to resurrect an entity could be directly proportional to the strength of the entity itself.

[@succubastard1019]

@@bennyhoward1391 Well, the battle against him was probably way more intense, so he ended up getting disintegrated or getting his spirit sealed somewhere, I don't know, it's likely something the writers would have touched upon if this thing got a sequel. Not to mention, his death happened a shitton of years before the events of the show, so his body wouldn't exactly still be around, especially if he died in a magical battel, while Jacobi just died on the spot and got resurrected immediately after.

[@austinhaynes6420]

Would you really expect a guy called "The Dark Lord" to be the same as an orc or a human? I mean he obviously was immensely powerful and they had to have a big battle to defeat him, I'd imagine to bring him back you'd have to do something pretty big, whereas the lives of orcs and humans are minuscule by comparison and would be relatively easy to bring back in comparison as well. You didn't really think that through did ya.

[@Mad_Oph]

No better example of a modern, mega ham-fisted attempt at a racism/classicism allegory.

[@matiasaguilar2500]

Netflix

[@hisroyalhighnessking]

Detroit become human

[@colakelvins]

Zootopia

[@raminybhatti5740]

@@colakelvins don't remind me of that POS.

[@s.g.7572]

@@colakelvins Zootopia at least has the excuse of being for kids. As a vague, generic "racism bad" film, I'm sure children would get the message, and symbolism aside it's a solidly crafted film. "Bright" is meant to be for adults.

[@geertyboyfilms2721]

“This is when the movie starts to go insane” *Cuphead music starts playing* Oh no

[@velvetgaytor]

I DONT CARE IF IT'S BAD, I JUST WANT URBAN FANTASY THAT HAS NO LOVE TRIANGLES JUST LET ME LOVE NICK AND DARYL LET ME HAVE ONE NICE THING.

[@velvetgaytor]

@AZ WondrBred I'M RUNNING OUT OF URBAN FANTASY CONTENT. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO RESORT TO *twilight* AND I DONT WANT THAT. FUCK THE PRODUCERS. THE FIRST HALF WAS GOOD AND THEN IT WENT BAT SHIT CRAZY.

[@velvetgaytor]

@AZ WondrBred Agreed. The whole orc racism thing was a amazing concept for me. I loved the opening where it showed the police brutality graffiti. It instantly hooked me and I was HYPED. Hell, Nick even grew on me. But then the plot just... I don't even know what the fuck it did but it did something. We at least had Onward this year, which was gorgeous.

[@SgtKaneGunlock]

might i recommend Shadowrun ?

[@mrparker8610]

Regular people

[@solamadoo]

I thought this was gonna be a "here is a three part thesis statement detailing the major overriding flaws in this movie" type video but no, it's a "literally every minute of this is painfully dumb and I sat through it so you're gonna hear about it" type video and I love it

[@ThoughtGaze]

solamadoo it's more like it's actually very easy to make a movie look bad by ranting and nitpicking to death

[@TkNjLove]

ThoughtGaze only because there was so very much to rant about. This movie... if you can call it that... was so confusing it nauseated me.

[@ThoughtGaze]

Suley&Chinny it was confusing only if you engage in mindless nitpicks. it's not for those that pay attention to the actual story being told. it's at or above the quality of a marvel movie for instance yet marvel gets a pass and this doesn't. the complaints are bullshit. "omg shrek is in this movie!!" ... lol utter nonsense complaints

[@Kristian-jk2ww]

ThoughtGaze What are you on about? This movie is not on the level of quality that Marvel movies are. But since I’m open minded I want one good reason that this movie is just as good, or better, than Marvel movies that came out the same year. Tell me.

[@holup4990]

@@Kristian-jk2ww that's gonna take a while.

[@artbysarf]

For me the biggest issue is that it literally felt like scenes or entire plot lines missing. Like?? No Dark Lord resurrected. No issue with the elves being basically the Capitol from the Hunger Games? Orcs were shown to be super strong but nothing came of that? Jacobi saved that kid but it didn't even help him in the end? Elves have sharp teeth idk I thought they should have bit someone? The sword? The Shield of Light? The Magic Task Force? ITS THIER JOB TO COLLECT WANDS AND JACOBIS LIKE WE FOUND A WAND AND THEN WILL SMITH IS LIKE "no don't listen to him" and the maGIC ASK FORCE IS LIKE "ok lol let's not investigate this further even though it's our ONE JOB. Speaking of the Magic Task Force the elf guy on it seemed to have real history and beef w/ the evil elf lady but it's never addressed again? When Jacobi goes to save Will Smith he's trapped behind a metal fence and debris and will smith is buried under rubble or some shit and there's fire everywhere and it shows Jacobi looking stressed/scared and then the next thing u know Will Smith is out of the fire!!! UOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN JACOBI COULDNT GET YO HIM WHAT THE FUThere was a scene where the orc mob boss was like "WHERE IS THE WAND?!" And they were like "WHAT WAND?" And then the orc monsters immediately went to open the bag with Tika and looked up horrified that the wand wasn't there but why would they expect it to be there Will Smith hasn't given you SHIT so why would you be horrified it's not on his person why the fuck does it feel like an entire confession scene about the wand's whereabouts was just CUT why are there so many plot threads that just go nowhere why diOK AND THEN!! Then they all bow down to Jacobi and are like "THE PROPHECY" and I'm like "oh shit are they gonna like....flip the script...like Jacobi just Jesused his was into being alive again like ...NO BITCH!! Nothing came of it! What the fuck was that about then?? I don't understa

[@elijahnakumura4375]

Sarf Will smith was like “no dont listen” because they were verbally forging the report of what happened(Hence Will Smith being free in spite of killing 4 cops) . I agree with everything else you said though

[@artbysarf]

Elijah Nakumura - I get WHY he said it, but the Magic Task Force shouldn't have listened to him! If I'm on a task force who's SOLE PURPOSE is to get Magic Wands, then that's what I'll do! This cop starts blanking about how he just went on a crazy chase for a wand, and talks about how he was RAISED FROM THE DEAD and about how is FRIEND IS A BRIGHT-- I might wanna investigate a liiiiiitle bit. Will Smith is just like "nah don't worry it was just a run in with some gangsters" AFTER Jacobi told this crazy story. Why did the elf investigator just ignore everything Jacobi said. It's a magical atomic bomb! Their stories didn't add up and one was about a MAGIC. ATOMIC. BOMB. and it's my ONE. JOB. to get that wand. AND!! The elf dude KNOWS there is a wand in the equation! He saw the crazy elf lady fused with the wall and he RECOGNIZED IT as the work of the evil elves and the head evil elf lady who he KNOWS is a Bright and he KNOWS has a wand. He's been tracking this wand the whole movie! And he knows these guys were at least in close proximity with it! And he just leaves it without even INTERROGATING THEM SEPARATELY IM SORRY IM JUST SO MAD HE HAD ONE!! ONE JOB!! He knows there is a wand and he's not going shit!!!! You could argue that Will Smith was working with the Magic Task Force behind the scenes or smith but that was never established and made incredibly vague and the Magic Task Force has NO reason to trust these cops. NONE. Even if they were like "ok we're gonna shape this story this way" and the Magic Task Force was like "lol ok let's do it" that makes no sense! For that to happen they would have had to TAKE this Cop's word that the wand was destroyed!! If someone came up to me, the Magic FBI, and was like "yeah I had a wand but it's destroyed lmao sorry" id be SUSPICIOUS to say the least. SO!! We are left with 2 options: 1) FBI Elf just decided not to look into the wand at all bc he's a fuckin idiot 2) FBI Elf DID look into the wand offscreen and determined that these 2 cops are 100% trustworthy and believes them that it was destroyed. Either way it don't make no sense

[@lenonel3286]

Sarf they did get the wand dude, it's shown in the previous scene with men in hazmat suits and a special container. They just want a clean report for the public, the same they use in the next scene when the dead dirty cops are commemorated as heroes.

[@artbysarf]

Juboi -- really? Sorry I guess fucking blacked out for the last 20 min of the movie. Seems prettttyyyyy shitty to keep an Atomic Bomb from the public tho🤷‍♀️

[@elijahnakumura4375]

Sarf I mean its common knowledge that it exists. But the location, specifics etc doesnt need to be public info. Just like nukes in real life. Look at the rat race that instantly happened based off of a rumor that a wand was around.

[@doomstadt2371]

It's like this movie was written 1 day a month, and the writer was never allowed to go back and re-read it before continuing. Edit: I will never not laugh at the "Hadouuuuken!"

[@skullton3292]

This movie is the embodiment of the notion of having a good idea but screwing up the presentation.

[@joelman1989]

Lindsey Ellis made a video about this movie too. So two of my favorite channels make a video on why this movie is bad and I've realized this movie indirectly brought me a lot of entertainment.

[@cannondawkins9246]

I liked the movie honestly Idk why it's so much hate

[@G-LukeJA]

@@cannondawkins9246 cuz its worldbuilding is so terrible. And its character development is minimal as shit

[@cannondawkins9246]

@@G-LukeJA yeah you can say that but I still enjoyed it tho

[@JessesanMan]

@@cannondawkins9246 You can enjoy deep fried butter. Doesn't make it good.

[@cannondawkins9246]

@@JessesanMan I never said it was good movie, I just said that I liked it, it was alright at best but I still liked the movie and what does your opinion have to do with mine?

[@xxDrain]

Will smith is to acting what most voice actors are to voice acting. He doesn't play a character, he just plays himself and that's supposed to be the character.

[@gordonross3270]

But it usually works

[@xxDrain]

@@gordonross3270 Yeah, a lot of the time it does.

[@raidenshotgun5997]

it is starting to wear off if you see his recent movies, videos, etc.

[@sharpaycutie2]

I blame the writers for that.

[@vibraniumghost7822]

I think that's what writers and directors want him to do since people like him

[@hamsterdamdam]

I really love the concept & the ideas so much that I thought this was the next trilogy to love other than lotr. But I was deeply frustrated with the plot. I hate to despise a movie that I thought gonna be good because it's been a long time since we have decent trilogy movie. The hype was real. If they want to do a sequel they better fill in all the holes.

[@Nixus237]

I really want that movie that Jacobi was describing about the orc that united everyone that shit sounds so good

[@MatthewsStories]

Everyone saying this movie had an original premise, it's just Shadowrun without the cool cyberpunk shit.

[@jcirelli3311]

Holy fuck you're right! I picked up on the Shadowrun similarity immediately but I couldn't place what it was missing. GG man

[@TheCNotes1]

THANK YOU!!! This movie is bullshit!

[@toddgarver5397]

*Alien Nation

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Well, the premise is that nothing about the world would be different if magic really existed and was commonly known.

[@carlterwedow5000]

What about Alien Nation?

[@killianhand2675]

Surely if movies like shrek and lord of the rings existed in this universe they would be called racist

[@kingofthebis1068]

Killian Hand They kinda would be tho

[@daltonrazgaitis3318]

As a elven supremacist myself I dont see how Orcs are accurately depicted as savages and humans as unorganized rabble Of course elves as beautiful and perfect is entirely accurate

[@mroffice8166]

Ghesh Play's *Cough* ELFBI got rekt by a human and an orc *cough*

[@novakitty1619]

Shrek is an ogre you uncultured swine

[@mariosimpostor731]

hispanics?

[@nathanos2615]

Maybe shrek is like a sitcom or something in this universe

[@SIRLagalot007]

If they had even added a single line about elfs buying wands for exorbitant prices or something that would fix some motivation for gangs wanting the wand

[@mutewolf9892]

Let's not forget that the wand supposedly "grants wishes" but Tika says she just started training/ only knows a few words, so you have to know spells to use it. She even has to tell will smith the word for fire at the end so he can use it. Also apparently one of the few words (Spells???) she knows is resurrection. Is resurrection a beginner spell where she comes from? WTF!?

[@Saitama-uj4mo]

Mute Wolf did you miss the part where she nearly fucking died after resurrecting him? Don’t think that’s supposed to happen if you’re an experienced wielder

[@Davlenar]

Also the characters in the movie SAY it grants wishes that doesn't mean it actually does.

[@bricktheworld7240]

Right, so now everytime someone says something in a movie, I'm gonna assume they are lying...

[@Saitama-uj4mo]

BrickTheWorld maybe just don’t take everything that’s said in a movie literally word for word like a simple minded idiot? If the wand cast spells then the phrase “grants wishes” obviously means one can cast a certain spell to grant their desired wish i.e it was her wish to bring him back to life so she cast a resurrection spell, and whoopty fucking do he’s back wish granted

[@jmendoza4354]

You really misinterpreted jakoby’s statement. It was an over exaggerated comparison with the Wand stating that it was ‘like a nuclear weapon that grants wishes’ but wasn’t being literal about it.

[@StephenGillie]

Plot twist: The bad guys have a wand tracker that can track wands across hyperspace.

[@12halo3]

ITS ALMOST LIKE YOU DIDN'T WATCH THE FUCKING MOVIE.

[@jackathy]

How did they track us through hyperspace?! That's not even possible!

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

we need a master magic-breaker

[@cyanmanta]

6:48 "Fairy lives don't matter" is bad enough, but something about the addition of the word "today" makes it ten times worse. It's almost a sign that they knew the line was cringeworthy, so they added that at the last minute hoping it would make it less awful. It backfired.

[@niallreid7664]

I remember this video coming out like it was yesterday.