Everything GREAT About Chronicle!

Chronicle is one of those underrated movies that slipped through the cracks while receiving pretty good reviews from both critics and audience members alike. I personally remember a lot of people complaining about it when it was released, but I guess that was just a Mandela Effect. Either way, check it out now if you never got a chance before.
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[@AbdullahAfify1]

The real antagonist was Andrew's failure of a father. Especially towards the end, when he caused Andrew to snap.

[@wesleybrown4410]

Wasn’t it his step father? His actual father was the firefighter.

[@christianrivera3309]

Wesley Brown no I don’t believe so, it’s is his real father but he was injured on the job then became a drunk

[@thrashtitan23]

Nah that’s his father, he was a firefighter who suffered an injury which pushed him into his drinking problem

[@whisperer30]

He’s the reason anything that went bad went bad

[@RenaldyCalixte]

@@thrashtitan23 This whole movie could have been avoided if the city gave Andrew's father a job as an a trainer for new firefighters. That way he would have something to do while dealing with the injury. I had a friend who was training to be a fighter and the instructor barely moved just told my friend and the other recruits what to do.

[@LaDracul]

When Harry Osborn and Eric Killmonger went to high school together...

[@AppleHazeVoiceActing]

Villan Junior High :v

[@alec3049]

both harry osborn’s lmao

[@sociallyineptspider-man2366]

😂😂😂

[@blakemherrera]

both good characters in this movie.. but bad characters in their other movies...

[@samuelstensgaard4828]

@@blakemherrera lol Killmonger is an amazing written character.

[@lzrs2348]

This movie is absolutely incredible and what Brightburn should have been.

[@kalsint7797]

I never saw Brightburn but when I heard of it I was like "THIS IS THE MOVIE FOR ME" Thing is, Brightburn might actually get a sequel

[@wuhansam]

Facts I think brightburn would’ve benefitted making Brandon older like his powers hit the op mark when he’s 16, 17. Better writing would’ve helped that movie too lol

[@kalsint7797]

^

[@laststrike4411]

@NightHawk92 Was it, though? Last I checked, Brightburn was too thin for its own good and MC's motivations for deciding to heed the aliens he's never known and conquer Earth were next to non-existent.

[@tonk3878]

@@laststrike4411 For cereal, he did a total 180, major asshole time. All because he found out he's a space baby. I never understood why he never just pasted his folks but did so with everyone else. Hopefully some rich kid got orphaned around this time so in a few years he can take Brightburn down a peg.

[@OfficialMaxBox]

I think the double descent is just incredible in this movie. You think he's already too far gone with the initial apex predator / teeth / robbing thing, but then with the father he just unlocks level -1

[@scumknight6074]

Good old Max Box being late again.

[@asilva5021]

I really need to watch this film

[@always.entertaining.people1396]

Thats usually how it goes. We get to a point we think is no return just for another significant amount bullshit to take place. Its perpetual and consistent until…we SNAP.

[@Jaymustdieee]

@@asilva5021 if you still haven’t seen it two years later it’s on Hulu right now.

[@TommyB1905]

This is how you do an origin story for a supervillain

[@charliecoke7396]

No, you have to make it edgy and convoluted on top of making sure nobody wants it

[@HeilRay]

Didn’t the villain in the origin story die though? It’d be something if he somehow survived

[@ACoolPseudonym]

@@HeilRay that would be an awesome sequel to this

[@acecashman1237]

@@HeilRay well I mean that's the case in most superhero films. The villain has his origin happen only to die within the same movie

[@garydorsey4243]

@@acecashman1237 cough cough *infinity war* cough cough

[@morfiiin08]

“Everything great about Chronicle” The whole movie

[@Kruppt808]

I expected the video to be 2 and a half hours with all the stopping and talking about each scene lol

[@TheRManProds]

SHOULD HAVE GOT A SEQUEL!

[@NastheVictorious]

Winning 🔥🔥🔥

[@zs422]

@@TheRManProds what would you want it to be about?

[@TheRManProds]

@@zs422 Well for Starters, the Sequel would have Came out in 2020.

[@echotheworld8686]

My favorite movie of all time but damn its so ignored

[@JawnTea]

I second this notion. This movie deserves to be the greatest CGI film with a low budget. Classic

[@brianshaggy]

Check out project almanac, it's about time travel also a really ignored movie that's really good

[@echotheworld8686]

@@brianshaggy I love that movie 😲

[@RAGEINYOUTH]

The chemistry between the three feels so real. Reminds me of my two bros and i

[@JamesWilliams-hb6tj]

Agreed

[@loop5720]

"Michael B. Jordan is always a win" **Gets killed by Andrew**

[@Kruppt808]

Dammit Andrew!😂

[@djstylegaming1398]

Aaron Cutter damn is Andrew at fault for anything he did? 😂😂😂

[@FlatOnHisFace]

This is why I never take responsibility for my actions. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to shoplift some Cheetos.

[@JoshSweetvale]

If he'd made it to the end of the movie, there'd be a happy ending, so they had to kill off the sane guy.

[@isaacmijangos]

Dude I’m so sad will never see a second one of these ): it was so original for it’s time

[@HeilRay]

isaacmijangos Yeah a movie where the tormented becomes dark and skewered by his asshole cousin, and asshole realizes his ways and gets vindicated. No one saw that coming and I wanna see more.

[@tagu661]

Remind me why we arent getting a sequel

[@isaacmijangos]

tagu661 I believe the director was going to make a pre-qual, but it was gonna be so different ( no found footage tone), yet would connect to this story. Basically, studios being afraid to try something new.

[@geoff2886]

The sequel script is out on the internet , It's actually really good. Look up chronicle two: MARTYR

[@brandonlyon730]

The closest we get to a spiritual successor is unfortunately Fant4stic being done by the same director.

[@SuperHalofan64]

*Matt loses his best friend and was forced to kill his cousin* *Realizes he was in part responsible in making Andrew into the monster he become* *Now has to live with these two facts as well as being presumably the only person with these sorts of powers, leaving him being almost completely alone* "Matt got away scottfree" my ass

[@gabrielallende1095]

Yeah, I saw a lot of the points he was making but the "scottfree" comment was a definite stretch, especially when you read the script for the second one and realize how much his life was affected by the events of Chronicle. If you haven't read it yet, it's called Martyr and centers most of it's story on how the world/Matt came out of it all. www.docdroid.net/n1bYe0C/martyr-2.pdf

[@youtubeaddict9393]

NurdzShotFirst _ that script made me miss reading books. That shit was great

[@adomaster123]

KZbin Addict >miss reading books Why would you stop?

[@logijf]

Not to mention also losing Steve

[@youtubeaddict9393]

Adomaster123 got older and started playing video games. Slowly stopped reading that often. I think getting into 10th grade was when I stopped reading on my free time. But since reading the script I am going to get beck into it as i forgot how great using your imagination is when reading

[@joaovitorreynaldo]

the best foreshadowing is when Matt tells Andrew after talent show (when they are in the car), that "This is the beginning of your downfall Hubris, right there " and after the party Andrew really start to break his limits.

[@InitialPC]

and when matt tried explaining to andrew what hubris meant, he still didnt understand it

[@Saiyagurl]

Whenever I watch this movie I always think what could have happened if Steve hadn't died. I feel he was Andrew's first positive influence and friend. Yes, more so than Matt .The fact of the matter is Andrew opened up to Steve (not Matt) because Steve was willing to actively talk to him which led Andrew to trust him. This is why Andrew broke after his death. Also sometimes I wonder if Matt wouldn't have felt as responsible for Andrew or went out of his way for him if he wasn't related to him. I personally don't see a hero or a villain in this movie. All I see is a talented boy with great potential whose life was cut short because he was trying to help a friend, a lonely boy who ended up lost and choosing the wrong path and his cousin who could have done better.

[@theninjamaster67]

well he was definitely a villain by the end as he killed hundreds of people crushing buildings n stuff so he wasn't completely innocent and had he lived he should've been locked up for life imo also yes Matt could've probably done a bit better but he's a dumb puberty stricken teenager who seemed to have his own problems hence him being a try hard with trying to look cool and generally being socially awkward with anyone out of his social circle and if this was a story set in real life Andrew would've definitely been suicidal (and probably a school shooter) and as someone who's dealt with a suicidal person i can tell you it isn't easy and i feel for Matt's situation too though Andrew had it worse it doesn't exactly make Matt's life easy

[@itzsemaj7037]

Saiyagurl it was never Matt’s job to treat Andrew as his kid

[@Saiyagurl]

@@itzsemaj7037 I never said Matt treated him as a kid nor did I say it was his job. I only said he felt responsible for him because he was his cousin. Usually we are closer to our relatives than we are to strangers. The opinions of our relatives hold more weight or matter to us in times of need. I just hold the opinion that if Matt had been more open and engaging with his cousin then Andrew may not have felt so alone and may not have gone down hill so quickly. Support, especially family support, is crucial for a person's well-being.

[@sunsetman22]

@@Saiyagurl not really. not everybody hangs out with their cousins like that. Matt probably felt like being around Andrew was more like a chore than anything else, he seemed like he was doing it out of pity at first. I would know, I've been in a similar situation to Andrew (minus the abusive dad), and I've never felt a real connection with my extended family. the concept of hanging out with cousins is foreign to me, so I understand Andrew's reluctance to open up, especially with all that he was going through.

[@arieanne3507]

Personally...I think Matt and Steve felt more of a bond to Andrew than he did to them..well..he was rapidly bond to Steve, but he only explored that the relationship they developed was to that point after he died. There was a time jump from the funeral to his commentary to Steve where he said that he missed him. That friendship meant more to him than he realized. He was closer to Andrew so he heard his voice..possibly could even see into his mind before his death. Andrew also let him in. Matt had nose bleeds as if he was physically straining himself. Steve's connection to Andrew from his own pov was more Mental/Emotional. He responded to him that way in his times of need. Matt's connection to Andrew was more physical from his own pov. He responded to him that way in his times of need. Granted it wasn't Matt nor Steve's story to really have their own pov moments where they lost control and we saw Andrew's response. Though, Andrew's own words to both Matt and Steve kinda confirms both relationships were view similarly.

[@ToboeOkamiKiba]

Andrew had the precision skills with the power but Steve had the raw talent. He was the first to fly and (if anyone caught what he said to Andrew shortly before he died) he was about to unlock telepathy with Andrew and Matt. It sucks that he died at all because he was the one who was discovering new ways to use their power while Andrew was just refining the new skills as they came along. I don't think Andrew would have been able to do much more after Steve died because Andrew didn't have the ability to find the new powers and there's no way Matt had the brains for it either.

[@l0sts0ul89]

Andrew has the power , Steve the creativity , and Matt has a mixture of both.

[@alihyderi9928]

L as in L well In the sequels screen play that is online Matt finds a new way to use the power He can heal cuts and cure diseases By moving the cells with his mind Like one time he gets the flu and he squashed the virus with his mind And when he gets a cut on his neck he heals it perfectly by weaving the cells together

[@dizk5283]

@@alihyderi9928 Wtf that's fucking sickk.

[@l0sts0ul89]

@@dizk5283 Oh yeah I read it to he also Spoliers for the script At the end of the story , he went back to the villian who has all of her bones shattered and fixed them.

[@alihyderi9928]

L as in L I thought they just had a telepathic link to each other The creator said they were all linked telepathically Like when Andrew blows up the hospital room matt senses there’s something wrong with Andrew

[@FU1LMOON]

The movie that needed a sequel but never got one

[@MajinMoon]

There is a script for the now cancelled sequel. It's call Chronicle 2: Martyr i believe

[@MajinMoon]

@Nathan Pellegrini the first one wasn't as commercially successful as the studio hoped, meaning it would not be getting a continuation. Happens all the time really.

[@h.rtheater8321]

@Nathan Pellegrini The studio also wanted to make the sequel basically a retelling of the first one, instead of continuing the story. I really wished that they did a sequel but that they did it the way they wanted.

[@G0dkill3r]

JAK Daxter and Disney bought Fox and cancelled 300 projects or something.

[@blakhat4871]

@@MajinMoon wym? I made like 10x its budget?

[@alexmarriott192]

For the longest time, this movie would pop up into my head. I would remember it as such a freaking masterpiece, but I could never remember it’s damn name. I would always remember how it was so good, and a work of art in it’s time. I was so confused why no one liked it as much as I did. I grew up and forgot what it was called, but seeing this video helped me remember. This is one of the greatest movies of all time. Respect to the effort made to film it.

[@samh8823]

Lmao same w me, I just heard someone say the word chronicle and I was like ohhhh shiiit that’s it’s name😂

[@aceboogz138]

fr man same as me, always forgetting name but one of best films ever made fo sho

[@gunk793]

Yeah I agree this is one of the best films I ever seen it’s definitely my top 1 just because it’s so underrated and a plot I have always wanted in a movie. Hopefully they make a sequel I been wanting this forever

[@howielowis458]

Damn, same with me, tho i found it again years ago. Maybe that's the problem this movie had financially. Nobody remembered the damn name😂

[@partyprinceyt7528]

SAMEEE, I just found out now and rewatch ❤

[@teknomnk]

As a loner kid who grew up in an abusive household, I can see how getting power like this could make you go off the deep end a bit. To be powerless your whole life, then becoming the apex predator...

[@tenkenroo]

I’m sorry you had that happen to you. I feel like this movie showed how cycles of abuse can happen and how it can normalize violence. Andrew literally dresses up as his dad to commit acts of violence.

[@WhizPill]

Sadly…

[@cameron0412cc]

Micheal B Jordan boxing the air on the roof....foreshadowing Creed!!

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Holy shit lol

[@LtLongle]

He was boxing an antenna

[@pressplayulysses]

uhmmm...DING?

[@nightmarefreddykrueger121]

Man, this was a major underrated movie

[@alazkaalazka6087]

Needs a Sequel. I have ideas

[@theicemancometh5492]

What's frustrating is that it's managed to go underrated in a video about it. People are more excited about a quiet place looking at the comments.

[@trueblue6201]

I thought it was very well recieved?

[@bryanpineda3277]

@@alazkaalazka6087 it’s getting a sequel after 10 years mann

[@alazkaalazka6087]

@@bryanpineda3277 I heard but apparently with a female lead :/ ugh oh

[@Neutral_Tired]

Andrew is a mentally unstable, abused teenager who could’ve been a good person had he been raised in the right household and been given professional help, but, he was definitely the villain of this story and should not be excused of his actions.

[@malonee]

Or even if to the last moment he wasnt pressed to be the same bad person

[@trequor]

Yeah it's pretty nutso to blame Andrew's actions on Matt being kind of a shitty friend

[@Von_Hohenheim]

if he would have had ANY real guidance he could have been better. everybody overlooked him.

[@howmuchbeforechamp]

His actions are as excusable as people who get abortions

[@Von_Hohenheim]

@@howmuchbeforechamp meaning an evil outside power influenced his mental state the same way its excusable for rape victims to have an abortion due to them not making the mistakes?

[@threeomgthree]

This movie helped me realise that sometimes, “bad guys” are really just misguided “good guys”.

[@jadenbryant9283]

White i don’t think that works for Andrew nit maybe for other characters and / or people in real life maybe but not Andrew

[@MykeThaOrphan0209]

There are no good or bad guys in this movie. Andrew is slowly feeling the pressure of his situation and it’s crushing him and over time you can see him slowly losing his humanity and morality. You can see him falling off the deep end and losing his mind.

[@RenaldyCalixte]

You stole that from Leverage. Sometimes the best way to stop bad guys is another set of bad guys. We provide...Leverage.

[@trequor]

I take somewhat of the opposite viewpoint: a lot of "good guys" are really just powerless bad guys. Andrew wasn't a good guy at the start of the film. He was just powerless.

[@Warriorette12]

You’d never heard the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions?”

[@TranquilAura77]

One of the most slept on underrated movies of this decade for sure

[@DoctorWhoKage]

15:05 This reminds me of this quote from the 12th Doctor: "Nothing is evil. But most things are hungry. And hungry can look a lot like evil from the other end of the cutlery. Or do you think that your bacon sandwich loves you back?" Same logic applies here. Andrew wasn't necessarily evil...he was hungry. Hungry for the attention and love he never got which is something we all seek.

[@mercurii777]

Explains why he always had to film himself whether as a good guy or bad guy.

[@shkooni5270]

"monsters arent born, they are created" -idk

[@sunsetman22]

why not both?

[@MykeThaOrphan0209]

sunsetman22 because nothing chooses to be evil. It’s a process. Andrew in the beginning is powerless and struggling. As we see his powers progress we see him grow to understand that he has the power he needs to try and fix his life. He knows how powerful he is and what he can do but doesn’t because he still has his humanity and he doesn’t think he’s above everyone and over time we see just how easily he is drawn towards that sinister mentality. He gets revenge on his bullies because he can, then he starts attacking random people and doesn’t feel bad for it because he feels that humanity failed him and that they’re no longer equal to him.

[@FlatOnHisFace]

The lion doesn't apologize to the gazelle. -- Ghandi

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

Andrew was created, but I wouldn't say he's a monster

[@metastabillity8991]

10:20 fun thing to note when you watch this clip in the movie. During Matt's speach to Andrew, you can see Andrew watching the Bus as hes controlling it. He doesn't look Matt in the eye until the bus is already on a collision course with him

[@Cen2050]

I'm glad someone besides me LIKES this movie, I saw this movie three times in theaters, and have watched the DVD many times. I agree with your positions about Steve and Andrew. However I completely and vehemently disagree with your opinion of Matt. First off is he NOT the "hero" of the story by any stretch, he is a main character but no more or less important than the other two. Second I never saw him as a jerk, He was a high school teen, with telekinesis doing what EVERY high schooler would given that power. I always saw his actions towards Andrew as a "tough love" routine. In my opinion, he pulled Andrew to the party, and then cut him loose specifically TO get Andrew some proverbial real world experience, get him out meeting people, making friends etc. The best idea? No, but hardly done with ill intent. His outburst with Andrew with the car isn't wrong either, he never ONCE directly insults, or belittles Andrew. I will grant you he is perhaps too quick and harsh to lay down laws without consideration to the others. However it also solidifies him as the "responsible one" he is always the one most concerned with moral and ethical "rightness" than the other two. Recall his first to rules "no using it on living things" and "no using it when you're angry" because he is the first one that really sees they can KILL people with this power, and that scares him and it should. This is not an origin story for anyone. This is a case study on how power corrupts if you let it. Andrew was NOT a bad person, but you clearly see his slow downward spiral. He goes from saving his friend form the plane, to unintentionally killing him, and deeply regretting it to eventually snapping thanks to his dad.

[@tonywrussell235]

Dude I love this explanation

[@tonywrussell235]

I just rewatched the movie yesterday

[@Cen2050]

@@tonywrussell235 It's a fantastic movie And I stand by my comment: Andrew was always a product of his surroundings. Once he actually had that power, he was always gonna snap. It was just a matter of time

[@risn5478]

I love this comment.

[@xrrgr]

exactly

[@ravenlord4]

I loved this movie because it was so realistic. No mystic mentor to guide our young heroes-to-be, no predecessor to pass the mantle, no clear cut good versus evil, no predestined chosen one, no system or framework (moral or practical) that these powers fit within. In the end it is a story about humanity -- its flaws and its potential, without the cliches and sugar coating. I would love to see a sequel done in the same spirit as the original.

[@Pecisk]

This. Basically it used supernatural element to amplify human stories about these kids, and thus making it even more heartbreaking.

[@ke6198]

a sequel would be so awesome

[@laststrike4411]

What makes any of the things you listed unrealistic?

[@djibrilr6s]

@@laststrike4411 They don't exist in our world which makes it harder to believe, these characters are exactly what a teenager with superpowers would be especially Steve

[@darwinaguilero3175]

I think the way this movie explores powers is what makes me always come back to it. We see that Steve is the main one pushing their powers and discovering new ways to use it, while Andrew is refining the techniques they discovered. Based on what Steve was saying just before he died, he might’ve been on the road to discovering telepathy, since he “heard” Andrew in his head, and Matt mentioned hearing something that Kasey didn’t when Andrew woke up at the hospital. It all felt organic.

[@kylearends951]

I truly believe that this film is one of the greatest films I've ever seen, because of the originality, the drama and the fact that there were such amazing plot twists.

[@NosTeraFuTV]

I love this movie and can easily ignore the objectively bad parts. Very enjoyable found footage movies are rare...

[@dempseyduvall3106]

I personally wouldn’t say Matt got off “Scott free”. While he isn’t punished by the law or seriously injured he did lose two of his best friends and one he had to kill (who was his cousin who I felt he did love but was just a typical jackass high school kid and didn’t show it when he needed too) and he will live with that forever whether or not you believe it’s his fault to any degree I also feel matt will always feel responsible for what happened whether he realizes he was a jerk to Andrew himself or just for never trying to help protect him from the other elements that led to his final decisions or even leading them all to the thing that gave them power in the first place not to mention he’s now alone in having those abilities so he’s likely going to feel isolation like Andrew.

[@d.j.2408]

I get that Andrew was treated horribly by his father and peers. Lots of abused kids grow up mad at the world and feeling like they deserve retribution. Most of them don't develop telekinesis and use it to chuck people off buildings or attack police officers. Sure, I get that CinemaWins feels like he's a decent kid who was treated unfairly, but to me at least, he chose to be a straight-up maniac with his powers.

[@HolyTurtleOfDoom]

D.J. "or attack police officers" - Actually that one is completely true. The vast majority of kids who get in serious trouble with the law and do stupid shit are from broken households. If you gave any of them supernatural powers, they would abuse it to no end.

[@android19willpwn]

Deceptive-Duck most people who get in serious trouble with the law are from broken households =/= most people from broken households get in serious trouble with the law

[@HolyTurtleOfDoom]

Android, I hear your point. Although I would point out that most kids from seriously broken homes, aka parents doing hard drugs and abuse probably do get into serious trouble with the law. Shitty parents fuck you up.

[@nyantend0]

The cinematography in this movie is ingenious and I love the way that use the fact that he has telekinesis to their advantage to get crazy camera angles that you couldn’t get normally in a found footage movie. It’s wonderful.

[@tarzangrant123]

I can see why you felt the way you did about Matt but I personally feel Andrew was going down a path of no return once he made that truck go off the road! That was the first clear indicator that he saw these powers as a way to be separate from “humans” and head towards something else....that something else which he calls the “Apex Predator”. Even if Matt was being mean to him, Steve was trying to bring him into popularity and make him more outgoing, which is why he said to Andrew throwing up on the girl, to not worry about it since if a person likes you, they like you! Steve was trying to show Andrew not to allow life’s mishaps to make you exile yourself from humanity, but instead embrace that and learn from it. Andrew just didn’t want to be part of humanity anymore and these powers gave him the means to become the evolved human he wanted and take control against those who have preyed on him

[@AeneasGemini]

I also think that the video is too harsh on Matt. It seems to me that, like Andrew, both of them are trying to cope with their own issues. Someone like Matt doesn't become a bit of an ass waay because he feels good about himself. While Matt grows and changes, becoming more responsible with time, Andrew becomes (in a way) the extreme version of what Matt was doing. As a defense mechanism he built himself up above others, eventually calling himself the 'Apex Predator'. I agree that Steve was trying to be encouraging, but it's also much easier to be that way in Steve's position. He lived a life where he was brought up in a positive environment, had lots of success and reasons to feel good about himself. He was doing the right thing throughout, but comparing Steve to the others is almost a little unfair

[@InitialPC]

Andrew didnt mean to injure that driver, he just wanted to stall the engine as a joke (both matt and steve did things like this shortly before) and when he crashed Andrew tried using his powers to lift the truck out of the pond, he genuinely felt remorse for what he did and wanted to help

[@tarzangrant123]

@@MCLJN85 but that comes after he made the the truck go off the road. Even after that, killing Steve really made him go fully dark side because he killed a person who was really trying to understand him

[@jermainehaslam5634]

Nah I wouldn't say that was the moment of him being too far gone, when he killed Steve that was the moment where he was too far gone and then finally overpowering his abusive father gave Andrew the mentality that he was a god figure and everyone was below his status.

[@ewy2753]

Rewatching this in 2018 draws quite a terrifying parallel with school shootings. Regular kids just being stupid jerks to a mentally unstable kid until that kid discovers power ( in this movie actual powers, irl a gun) and just completely snaps. That parallel is why a disagree with putting seemingly most of the blame on Matt. To me thats like putting the blame on the kids who were mean to Nikolas Cruz. Maybe a kid who is bullied wouldn't snap if they weren't bullied, but lots of kids who are bullied don't snap.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

Irl it's 50/50. I've wanted to kill everyone in my school before, but because of my countries laws I understood that I couldn't get a gun. In my opinion the blame is equally between the shooter, the authorities for not recognising a problem and something about Americas gun control, as it's the only place this still occasionally happens. To add to this, the media and public stigma only add to the problem.

[@obliviouz]

>In my opinion the blame is equally between the shooter Well yeah, from the position of someone who might've been a shooter, you'd want to minimise the responsibility and fault of the shooter. From any sane reasonable person's perspective, it's the shooter's fault. 100%.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

@@obliviouz you're missing the point.

[@obliviouz]

No, I think you are. Authorities can't - and shouldn't be able to - do anything until and unless a crime is actually committed. They're not to blame for *preventing* school shootings, unless you give them the power to lock up people on suspicion they *might* commit mass shootings in the future. The fault lies on the shooter.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche5761]

@@obliviouz by authorities I mean teachers, therapists, carers and similar for not seeing a kid has a problem. I don't mean the police specifically, and you're right. They have no power to stop them before a shooting

[@jackolantern717]

So i really really like Chronicle. Its such a good story and really is realistic, even when it isnt. Like three teens are flying. How could that be realistic? But it works. In any other movie it just wouldnt work. I do like the ending, and find it the most realistic. Matt has to kill andrew whether he wants to or not. No else can, and no one else will. Its like when someone asks that question about the train: would you let a train run over one person or three? Matt chooses to kill the one person to save the three. He did the right thing even though its heartbreaking. I feel like this also ties in to how big but at the same time how small humans are. In a small town three kids get superpowers. Thats huge right? But compared to everything else, its an afterthought in this movie. Here, the characters matter. What happens to them matters. What they do matters. I want to make a movie like this one day. Its a masterpiece

[@lost_traveler1130]

I would like to see your movie someday. Would be interesting to see your own direction on it.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Versimilitude. Donner.

[@goldenhd9656]

You copied the director of the movie

[@TheRManProds]

YEAH CHRONICLE WAS GOOD!

[@RagnarokMic]

This had to be the best usage of found footage I've ever seen. The powers really make it incredibly dynamic, and switching to various street cams as the action ensues. Underrated flick.

[@Arosukir6]

Thank you for pointing out the Akira influences! I loved this movie when it came out. Soon as I saw those bandages on his arms, legs, and head, I knew what was up. My poor fiancee, who hadn't seen Akira yet, didn't understand why when Mike was yelling "Andreeeew!" I replied "Testuooooooo! Kanedaaaaa!" 🤣

[@Jfkhockeypro]

9:35 when his camera is is shown moving towards him on the security camera is an amazing detail

[@memesarekeem]

Wait, licking mailboxes isn't normal?

[@zacharygrosz5496]

Nope. And neither is licking doorknobs. Not illegal here though

[@oscarrosenwald4001]

WHATTT!?????

[@adc4836]

Even if he didn’t get the powers he most definitely would’ve been a school shooter or snapped in a violent way

[@faisalahmed1089]

AD C lmao fr

[@InitialPC]

thats actually pretty insulting, minus the superpowers and Michael b Jordan I had a pretty similar living situation to Andrew and I never 'violently snapped' or shot up the school

[@InitialPC]

@Russell Alan how do we know he didnt have those things though? we saw him for 2 hours, specifically the moments leading up to his breakdown, anyone could look borderline psychopathic with that kind of coverage, you talk about someone who doesn't know right from wrong yet he loves his mother very dearly and took peoples money to pay for her medication (not justifying him mugging people, js)

[@SinHurr]

Don't want to interrupt the 666 likes or 6 comments, but couldn't pass up the +1.

[@jalmaurergaming1344]

That's what I saw the movie is a metaphor for a school shooter

[@brockragni1053]

This would make a great comic book.

[@Inflec]

+brock ragni - Or a graphic novel.

[@nicholaspark4165]

It really should. Perhaps part of me feels this way given two of the characters in the film play as Marvel characters as well, but I think it should be its own comic book.

[@NastheVictorious]

Better! A MANGA!

[@TheRManProds]

A GOOD COMIC BOOK!

[@nicolaimoen9684]

@@NastheVictorious no

[@Neutral_Tired]

Is the next movie paranormal activity?

[@Neutral_Tired]

Please, don't assume I'm an idiot, this is a joke, I feel I have to say this because there are a lot of idiots on the internet

[@brianwingel2570]

KanitoKawaii chill

[@Sereomontis]

No, it's definitely Paranormal Activity. No doubt about it. But for real though. I think it's A Quiet Place. Maybe. The teaser frame looked like the store they're in at the beginning.

[@Nightievv]

@@Sereomontis Quiet place for sure. Also I am glad that I was finally able to guess the movie by a frame.

[@pinkotterstudios]

Maybe it's Paranormal Activity... 2

[@I_Am_Gassy]

I think you're placing way too much blame on Matt. Yes, he wasn't a great influence on Andrew, but he shouldn't have been in a position where he was such a large influence on another person his age in the first place. Richard's failure to be a good father is the true root of the issues Andrew faced.

[@hiimchrisj]

Keep in mind his whole point there. "scolds him like a child who breaks a lamp after he just watched you throw it around the room" The point he's making isn't that you can't call out someone's childishness or be strict with a child who's out of control it's that if you act childish around an impressionable kid you DON'T have the right to scold him for following your lead without acknowledging your faults. Keep in mind what we're talking about here. Andrew almost killed a dude and felt no sympathy. Obviously scolding him telling him "you don't see what you did wrong here?" isn't going to cut it because if he did understand he wouldn't have done it in the first place. Like the kid breaking the lamp. He doesn't know that breaking stuff is bad all he observes is that the lamp was getting thrown around ergo the only thing to infer is that the lamp isn't important and that breaking it means nothing. And the scolding that results from that is that the adults are just hypocritical jerks. That said overall you are right tho. These are high school kids we're talking about here. It's not fair to put the responsibility of shaping his cousin's morality on the shoulders of a kid still learning these lessons himself.

[@I_Am_Gassy]

@@hiimchrisj I understand the point he's making, but my point is to me it seems moot when there's a bigger issue.

[@ocadioan]

@Christian There is a world of difference between moving a parked car around to slightly inconvenience and confuse a shopper, and then running a car off the road with the driver inside. And that is the fundamental difference between Andrew's and the others' stunts. The others' stunts are all pranks that never puts anyone in danger. It only annoys other people. Andrew's car stunt was on such a scale that a man nearly died from it. Had he only cut the engine or something like that, I would agree that he was just escalating their antics.

[@hiimchrisj]

Gassy I wasn’t actually replying to you I was replying to Terrence Shumate

[@hiimchrisj]

ocadioan I don’t think you understand the point I’m making

[@ohjustsaebyul]

I'd like to add, if I may, that when Andrew is in hospital and we see the camera pushing in - *on the security footage you can see the tripod dragging across the floor!* I love this movie so much y'all don't even understand.

[@CoreyJay]

I love this shit. I'm never watching Cinema Sins again

[@loop5720]

Same.

[@pandaloks2170]

Thank you for saying what I’ve always felt

[@miguelfreitas5343]

Why not both? :p I watch CinemaSins for the comedy and for movies I don't really care about. I watch this channel for movies I genuinely like and want to know more about. There's definitely middle ground there :p

[@fyrewolf7805]

@@miguelfreitas5343 but a lot of movies are on both. maybe that's what you meant by middle ground

[@muffinator1239]

@@miguelfreitas5343 CinemaSins is just super negative I guess? Like it’s not criticism most of the time, it’s just the creator being hateful on many occasions. And he gives sins to stuff without actually trying to look into the meaning.

[@ZotharReborn]

I have to disagree with you at least partially on Matt and Andrew. Matt certainly starts the movie out as a jerk, but the movie shows his growth. It's like you said: they're high school kids. In the same way that Andrew didn't have a real definite idea of right and wrong, neither did Matt. He's struggling with that the entire movie the same as Andrew, it's just not as easily noticed because he has much better social skills. And because we see much less of Matt than we do of Andrew and even Steve earlier on, we don't get any read on his backstory. We have no idea why he acts nihilistic, or why he's a jerk. He wasn't created in a vacuum either. I suppose my point is, if you want to paint Andrew as sympathetic in his sociopathy, that's fine. He's human, and having him be 3 dimensional is good. But you need to extend that same grace then to Matt in his actions at the beginning. I think in this movie, we saw the story of two very similar boys who did not have a good view of right and wrong, and at the end they'd made their choices in opposite directions. Andrew is much more closely chronicled (lol) but Matt grows and learns as it goes on too. Saying he gets off scot-free is pretty simplistic, in my opinion.

[@xiphos8219]

I think that was on purpose. You had Matt's normal well adjusted coping style to grow and learn as a foil to highlight Andrew's spiral

[@AeneasGemini]

@@xiphos8219 agreed, they were entirely created to act as foils

[@CosmosGamingChannel]

Completely agree. Also in the scene where he finally kills Andrew, he only does it because he realizes Andrew is going to keep hurting people (he sees glass fall from a building and narrowly misses a group of bystanders). It was the hardest decision of his life and he is extremely guilty (which is why he brought Andrew's camera to the monk temple in Tibet). The powers brought out the worse in Andrew. They brought out the best in Matt. He knew from the very beginning, or rather after Andrew pushed the truck in the water, that they're powers had to be used for good and not to hurt people.

[@crownedclown49]

So Andrew is basically the reverse Mob (from Mob Psycho 100 )

[@goldjustgold5942]

Wait... What? Those two characters were not similar.

[@EdslilNeko]

Hm, maybe it's just me but I saw the villain/hero arc in this movie as having more to do with entitlement than one guy being a bad influence and the other being vulnerable. While Andrew's life was undoubtedly miserable and he obviously had difficulty with reading social cues, that doesn't necessarily equal out to lack of empathy. Andrew lacks empathy and is able to do the awful things he does in this film because he feels like the world owes him something. That's the real tragedy of Michael B Jordan's character's death, he was the only one of the three who didn't feel owed something. He had his ambitions and his pleasures and he didn't expect anyone to hand him anything. Matt starts off with a similar entitlement to Andrew, just sort of expecting people to bow to his superior philosophy, but through the movie he learns instead to empathize with other people and think of himself less. Not sure if I'm making sense here. The point is that Andrew became what he did not because of Matt, but because he expected the world to play by a set of rules that don't exist. My suffering + My cool new powers + everyone being mean to me = I am superior and their measly insect emotions mean nothing. With the reality being that, yeah, his life sucked, but that's not anyone's problem to deal with except his. Also this is one of the few movies that has ever made me sympathize with a spider. I mean... I still would have killed it. But somewhat less horribly.

[@TheRazorTongue]

I think Andrew unconsciously modeled himself after the people who abused him. They had power (at least in his perception) and now he had power. He was broken before he got the power and getting it only amplified his negative emotions. He internalized all that negativity and exploded. He think his Father was a way bigger influence on how he turned out. He did not know how to handle his wife dying and turned his son into punching bag. He overexerted control over his family because he wasn't really in control of his life. His son was the one thing he could control. In the end Andrew literally put on his Father's clothes and effaced himself so he could unleash all his hostility. He became his Father. His Father's tactics worked just as well for him. All that rage didn't save his mother. The death of his mother was the loss of the last of his humanity. Another thing when Michael died all hope of him fitting in died. This is why he stop trying. Unconsciously he knew how his cousin felt about him. They never had that bond. No hope and no Mother he had no reason to contain himself or go forward. Feeling above everyone else is better than feeling for anyone else because he wanted the pain to end. In the end in his own screwed up way he didn't want to feel pain anymore. He was not equipped to handle it.

[@EdslilNeko]

@@TheRazorTongue All good points.

[@RXdash78]

I agree wholeheartedly. Andrew feels like the kind of guy who without superpowers would be trolling 4chan and bitching about how all the Staceys won't have sex with a nice guy like him. I've run into more than a few guys like that who feel like the fact that they were bullied in high school makes them special and that they are somehow owed some kind of cosmic recompense. And a couple of them STILL are fixated on getting esoteric vengeance-by-proxy on the people they feel did not treat them well in high school.

[@EdslilNeko]

@@obliviouz I'm not sure I would go so far as to say this video EXCUSES anything. The actions taken by the characters are objectively wrong. I do agree with you that entitlement and lack of empathy are the leading motivations to a school shooter, but I don't think anyone was condoning that kind of violence. Being able to show empathy for someone who has done something evil is exactly what separates us from the type of person that would do that.

[@obliviouz]

It's one thing to show empathy. It's another to divert blame and fault and responsibility. Andrew is responsible and to blame for his own actions - no one else. Otherwise you could say that the victims of school shooters are somehow in part responsible for being shot. Where is your empathy for them? And in this case - where is your empathy for Andrew's victims?

[@undeadgaming6845]

Steve’s scream when he gets hit by lightning always gets me. Makes me feel like he’s genuinely in absolute agony for a split second before he dies

[@mercurii777]

The scream is so raw that it makes me squirm just thinking about it.

[@naranara1690]

I remember seeing previews for this movie back in 2010-2011; seeing young MBJ in it is friggin' weird

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

ikr. I didn't even know who he was back then and I loved his character. Now seeing what he's done just shows that this movie really was written AND acted to perfection.

[@mercurii777]

MBJ has come a very long way

[@HarrisonTheDarkKnight99Moeller]

A Quiet Place. Recognized that shot in an instant

[@jordas]

same

[@allstarmh5]

Same here man!

[@purpleprismo5098]

Same I’m excited

[@adrianestrada5736]

That's what I thought too! I cant wait for his video on it.

[@alexfogal727]

Harrison Moeller same. And I haven’t even seen the movie.

[@juwaunej9196]

A QUIET PLACE!!!!!!! HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!

[@destrokerr]

I thought it looked like the mist, but I guess that would make more sense.

[@Bebo18]

Jordan Pendergrass me too bro. I still think it's The Mist.

[@skycloud5695]

Can we appreciate how he used all Caps? I mean that's just perfect Irony right there.

[@colinmitchell1276]

@@Bebo18 it's a quiet place, that us the shelf the kid gets the rocket from in the beginning

[@sinfulthoughts]

sssshhhhhh.

[@badreprint]

"Everything Great About Chronicle" ...so everything.

[@ArchReverend]

This movie helped me to see that every villain has their reasons, that includes real life villains which makes every tragic murder story or shooting even more tragic because everyone involved was a victims. The frustrating thing i see in the news all the time is every horrific act is just dismissed as mental illness, as if to say they were always unstable. This is true in some cases but as this film shows, you can push a good person over the edge into true monster. Their mental illness was hammered into them over years of abuse, neglect and rejection. These are never excuses for their eventual horrific acts, but knowing how they got there could help us all take actions to make less monsters. This movie also resonated with me because when i was in middle school, i was bullied and i would imagine having telekinesis to beat the hell out of my bully. So when i saw this film it was like watching my own internalized revenge fantasy made "real", but it also showed me that i took the best path by not getting violent and instead helped me become a better person. middle school was over 20 years ago for me, and i still hate my bully but i'm glad things did not go down a dark path.

[@truthseeker7815]

You actually understood the film 🥲

[@vuppet5684]

I did somewhat enjoy this movie. It had its flaws with it, but it did have its good moments

[@HighShamanMoses]

Satan always see you here, you're so fast

[@lunavioleta001]

I believe this one of the best super hero movies. Not a great film, but good enough to be way better than any MCU and DCEU movies by far.

[@HeilRay]

It's Not Gay If It's Jesus Not even a super hero movie, more of a movie with super abilities

[@lunavioleta001]

@@HeilRay True. But I count it as one. Similar to Unbreakable who didn't count as a "super hero" until the very end.

[@167thSpartan]

Lol, why're you bringing up those movies just to shit talk them? They're not at all comparable.

[@spiderrocket8367]

Makes me sad as this film shows that Josh Trank had incredible potential as a up and becoming director in Hollywood and then a Fantastic Four happened

[@ed-210]

That's more of a fault of Fox producers.

[@spiderrocket8367]

EpicOn37 Oh I agree I’m just noting the situation is kinda saddening in itself. I hope he makes a comeback soon

[@fabrizziotrujillo4024]

@@spiderrocket8367 well, I think he's doing a Al Capone film with Tom Hardy, let's see how that turns out

[@andiran23]

The Al Capone film, "Fonzo", is currently in post-production, so it exists! No release date yet, can't wait!

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Could be a 1-hit wonder, but we'll see.

[@tdgransit9091]

Anyone see the commercials for that movie coming out, Bright burn? It's got an evil Superman-esque kid that would make a perfect villain for a returning telekinetic Matt. Just a fun thought!

[@timiojeaga4083]

I have theories that could link brightburn, super, hancock and Chronicle together

[@michaelrobert6386]

What I loved about this movie is how you can tell Andrew is messed up in the beginning. He keeps being pushed further and further until the final snap. He justifies the suffering he inflicts with animal instinct. It was well done and realistic to what might happen if a group of friends really did get powers.

[@CinemaWins]

A lot of people think I'm being too hard on Matt and excusing Andrew. Just for the record, I didn't necessarily say I agreed with what I "think" the movie is saying. Andrew is still to blame. At the end of the day, they're kids. I guess, being as diplomatic as possible here...I think kids can do evil things and not be "evil." It's an easy thing to say that I have sympathy for people who hurt other people when speaking figuratively. If someone hurts my family, I may be the one who ends up doing the evil things.

[@sethg2179]

I completely agree with your opinions and didn't think you were being too hard on Andrew. This movie went out of its way to show how a broken household and social life results in a broken kid. From a psychological prospective, each person has a different brain chemistry and even though the stressors they face might not be uncommon, their responses to these stressors are different. All of the things that dont seem like a big deal to most people but are shattering to Andrew is a direct result of how he was raised. Of course he isnt blameless and he is entirely responsible for his actions, but I cant say I wouldnt be an Andrew if I went through the constant abuse he did. I have urges to do bad shit and I was raised in an upper middle household with loving and supporting parents. If i didnt have the various supports I do, then my mental disorders (bipolar 2 and generalized anxiety disorder) would have definitely gotten the best of me. I have gone to various mental hospitals and have seen other teens at the worst point of their lives, some of whom did bad shit. I have never felt like these people were horrible people, since I cannot even begin to relate to the abuse and horrible shit they went through. I dont think you are a hopeless humanist, I just think you recognize that people's shitty actions are almost never done purely out of an urge to be evil. Even if their actions seem completely horrible and illogical to us, the fact that it makes perfect sense to them is just plain heartbreaking

[@OriginalJayByrd]

I think you were a little bit hard, but I think it may be because you've had to deal with a few Matts in your younger days perhaps, leading you to automatically judge Matts harder. Just like the way you excuse Andrew's behavior, you can definitely excuse Matt's with all the same reason. Yeah his life hasn't been as hard, but it seems like his homelife is probably pretty sad too. I guess what I'm coming at is: Matts horrible behaviour wasn't good, but for the same reason you almost let Andrew get away with murder, you have to also excuse Matt's behavior. We have the luxury of knowing, how Andrew's life suck. But because we don't have that luxury with Matt, doesn't mean his life doesn't suck, and therefore we should also try to represents his reasons, for not being a stand up guy. I hope it makes sense. Great video, I always like when you go more in depth after the general wins :)

[@CinemaWins]

I could see why you might think that. But, nah. If anything I was more like Matt. But not even really. I was an athlete, captain of my varsity soccer team junior and senior year. I wouldn't say I ever bullied anyone, but I definitely didn't reach out to kids like Andrew either. So maybe I feel guilty? My point was that Matt had every advantage in life while Andrew had every disadvantage. I don't think there's anything to indicate the Matt had a hard home life, I guess we can't know, but since only Andrew's home is presented, that's all I can go off of. Matt's attitude to me was that of a kid who had no troubles.

[@JakkFrost1]

I think what you're trying to say, and what some people are missing, is that yes people are responsible for their own actions, but sometimes they're not the only people responsible for their actions.

[@CinemaWins]

Nail, head. I should have been clearer I guess. Andrew still carries blame.

[@mrananksharma462]

NEXT WEEK!!! A QUIET PLAAAAACCCCEEEEEEE!!!

[@hakenbacker]

He should just do it muted.

[@Sereomontis]

That would be funny, and considering the movie, it would make sense. But I prefer hearing his voice.

[@tubtubsablubblubs3996]

Schoolnurd LOL. Just putting a win where a win is do

[@tubtubsablubblubs3996]

Due*

[@Juice1984]

How about just in sign language and subbed?

[@weezingargonian6523]

The scene when the Dad is humanised by crying at Karen’s (the mom’s) death but then instantly twists back to the absolute asshole he really is brings the tears every time. You can tell why he is so abusive and it kind of makes him layered and not just an all round jerk

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

This was a movie that didn't just do found footage because it was popular, and cloverfield/paranormal activity did it. This was a movie that truly thought that using found footage could enhance the story they wanted to tell, and fully committed to incorporating it as a major element.

[@greyworld6242]

I feel like the character in this movie were more real then any X-men character, but that’s just me personally.

[@Inflec]

+Grey World - That's the brilliance of this movie: the magnificent combination of realism and fantasy. Never seen anything else like it.

[@alexgaray1216]

Omg I remember seeing chronicle as a kid, and I liked it and still like it. Especially now!

[@BlackfeatherLegion]

So six years ago you were "a kid"? You are still a kid if that is the case. You are not even 18.

[@BlueFury2577]

^^ Look at these two with the shock revelation that there are younger people on the internet

[@moli2454]

I REMEMBER LOVING THIS MOVIE!! It’s like 2012 in a movie

[@jordanclark9619]

I really liked the redemtion arc of Matt. He went from being the guy who was a prick, picking on Andrew and being careless with his powers to the man who understands the difficulty and responsibility of doing the right thing with his powers and understanding others. He went from the bad guy and Andrew being the good guy to Matt being the good guy and Andrew being the bad guy, genius!

[@skycloud5695]

Who else bets A Quiet Place next week, is going to be winned in whispers all the way through?

[@theoutlook55]

¡Jajaja!

[@ivanbadalic3259]

I would be so dissapointed if he will be talking insted of whispering....

[@carterwarren796]

That has to be A Quiet Place, I literally watched the movie two days ago and that looks too much like it.

[@logijf]

It is a quiet place, I noticed it looked like the first scene of the movie, so I checked and the overhead lights in the background match up and so does the store.

[@Draukagrissah]

I don't know if you were bullied in school and just see bullies everywhere but... Matt was as much a tragic character as Andrew. Remember, we get the story from Andrew's perspective. But if you look into some of that deep character writing you were talking about, you could see that Matt is as much or more of a hurting, insecure un-superhero as Andrew. If anything that shows me Andrew is actually worse for Matt than the other way around. Even when things become semi-omniscient, you never really get the sense of what Matt is dealing with. And for a high schooler to go full Nihilist and be so insecure that he acts the way he does... Matt is 100% dealing with something. Something that Andrew is so self-centered he never notices or tries to help with. Even at his worst Matt is trying to help Andrew because he knows his life is shitty at home. Matt is family helping family. Because that's what you do, even if you are hurting too. So while I would have agreed with you at the beginning, from my perspective Andrew became the worst of the two as the movie progressed. But instead of becoming the "Apex Predator" Matt just wanted to have a little fun, and then move on with his life, living it as normally as possible. But Andrew, after going insane, kills hundreds of people with his powers, and Matt is the only one able to stop him. Forcing Matt to KILL HIS OWN COUSIN. And then at the end, because of the guilt, Matt goes on the trip that Andrew said he wanted to take. Matt feels responsible not just for Andrews death, but for the life he won't get to live. Andrew tries to kill Matt because he thinks Matt is trying to control him. Then Andrew controls Matt's entire life, even from beyond the grave. Andrew is worse than Matt. Iffy from the start, but objectively true by the end. And to go back to my earlier point, the thing I think people should take away from this movie is that: everyone is dealing with something. Everyone's problems are the worst problems. Sure, there are tons of cases where you can say "yeah, that's empirically worse than what I'm dealing with," but it can never change how you *feel*. The conversation with Steve should have been a dead giveaway. He concedes that what he's dealing with isn't the same as what Andrew's dealing with, but he still HAS TO DEAL WITH IT. Forget stealing hats, instead of dealing with his problems, Andrew used his torturous home and school life as an excuse to start *killing people*. Lots of people. Matt was 100% on Andrew's side until then. Instead of being just like him, not only does Matt NOT do it, he stops his cousin so that whatever part of the Andrew from the start of the movie is left, doesn't become a supervillain. Even if it means killing him. Everyone has to deal with their own problems. You can absolutely find help. But in the end, you need to deal with them no matter what. Or the people who love you pay for your mistakes.

[@NCMonefaith]

Well said and I definitely got the vibe that maybe he was bullied back in the day as well and is projecting himself into the video.

[@CinemaWins]

Yeah, I went over this with another commenter, but I was never bullied. If anything I would say I was not as nice to some kids as I could have been. So maybe I feel guilty. I would say that it's projection to see Matt as a tragic character. We're given very little information about him, and what we do get I feel like I already covered. He was nihilistic because he thinks it makes him look edgy and well read, and his biggest character trait wasn't insecurity, it was trying to get Casey to like him. The biggest reason I wanted to respond was that you're not the first person to claim that Andrew killed 100s of people. You might see it as a slight distinction but again, most of what you're responding to is what I think the movie was trying to say, not necessarily what I believe. Andrew may not have killed a single person. He may have accidentally killed the gas station attendant, but that was just as much that guys fault for shooting a shotgun at a gas station (ironically I think it was a propane tank that blew up.) But he wasn't confirmed dead. He also may have killed the gang bangers, but it's not confirmed. He could have crushed them but just like everyone else he fought, he pushed them really hard. And they threw bottles at him in the beginning, so they weren't innocent. Just like he pushed the cops after they opened fire on him and Matt. He could have crushed them instantly, but just shoved them back. Then he broke some glass which is what made Matt kill him. I personally think that not having one confirmed death was deliberate on the director's part. He said "leave me alone" multiple times. He just lost control. He wasn't slaughtering people. I'll say it's weird that you guys think I had to have been bullied to think bullying is bad. I'm not even sure I ever called Matt a bully. Just that he bullied Andrew into going to the party. Which was a loose usage of the word, I'll admit. I don't think Matt was a bully, just a jerk who looked out less for his cousin than Andrew's new friend Steve. Not once does he mention his abusive father or dying mother. He's just hard on him. He doesn't strike me as someone with any kind of troubles other than being only slightly less of a social "loser" than Andrew.

[@Draukagrissah]

@@CinemaWins your points are pretty fair, but Andrew definitely killed the gas station attendant (and blaming it on the attendant is pretty gross my dude), also those buildings that came down? There's a death toll there. Guaranteed. If it were daytime hundreds would have been a laughably LOW estimate. Nighttime, hundreds MIGHT be stretching it, but still really possible. I think they kept it vague on purpose like you said, but not for the reason you gave. Andrew fancied himself the Apex. Collateral damage is an effect that happens, and it doesn't matter. He didn't care. Because to him those lives don't matter. So it wasn't chronicled, not even a footnote. I'm sorry dude, but Andrew was a straight up supervillain at the end. I don't think Matt was a superhero, but Andrew had become a monster.

[@AeneasGemini]

@@CinemaWins Sorry but Matt's biggest character trait was obviously insecurity. That's why people like him try to seem edgy in the first place. People who are cool don't try to look cool, and only people who know they aren't cool (like Matt) have to try. I think you're deliberately ignoring the signs with Matt, probably for some personal reason. I can't say what it is (since I don't know you), but it seems obvious. Also your contention that we don't know if Andrew killed anyone is an appeal to Ignorance (i.e. a fallacy, just because it wasn't confirmed, doesn't mean it didn't happen). It seems very likely that with all the carnage Andrew created, that he either seriously permanently injured people or outright killed them. From what he was doing he would have had to take extra special care not to hurt someone, and he certainly didn't seem to be doing that. At the very least, he didn't seem to care if he killed anyone, and that puts him beyond the pale in my book. And regardless of whatever else happened to him, that was a choice that he made alone.

[@alihyderi9928]

CinemaWins it’s confirmed in the sequels script he killed loads of people in the Seattle massacre

[@hansihansen2950]

I just want to say that you are not reading too much into this. I'm 18 years old (turning 19) and I work (as an aprentece as a child and youth care worker) with kids who have experienced what Andrew is going throu, or at least similar things. I must admit, I have not watched the movie, but If there is a message in this movie it is take care of eachother... we dont know what is going on at home, how truly broken a person is and instead of showing them in the dirt like the rest do, stand up, be someone who is making a difference, dare to stand up, stand against it. And if you dont dare to do it, dont be afraid, tell someone you trust about it and hopefully it will end. I sincerly hope that if someone is going throu a similar trauma (abusive parents/relatives, bullying or any other form of trauma or abuse) get help. That they find someone that they trust and tell them. If you are a survivor of such traumas, keep fighting! Each and every single day is a victory, you have survived this far. And please, if you dare, if you find the courage and strength to do it...Share your story! It might help someone who is a similar situasion and that needs others encourgment to stay strong and to survive... So that they know they are not alone. If anyone bothered to read this far, thank you! And sorry for any grammar og spelling mistakes. English is not my mother tongue.

[@fnl90]

Huge fan, i almost always agree with you, but i cant agree with you on Matt. You never see a lot of his homelife, and he spends most of the movie trying to impress everyone with his "intellect" and "maturity", while clearly dealing with some sort of depression ( how many high school students are avid philosophy readers? Especially the partying kind? ). He does feel sort of responsible for Andrew and clearly cares for him, trying to push him to evolve and find his path, while struggling to find his own. He seemed very human to me, albeit a little narcissistic and pretentious. Love the channel! keep up the good work :)

[@thenewadventuresofhenry6998]

I wonder if perhaps at one point before the film he was concerned about Andrew's home life, so he told his parents, but they just kinda laughed about it, like they already knew and didn't care, and told him that family is about minding one's own business, so Matt felt traumatized by that. That's why he seemed cold to Andrew in the beginning and later regretted his actions.

[@TheRManProds]

I LOVED THIS MOVIE! I really wish we would get a Sequel!

[@asmrbully6980]

yeah

[@TheRManProds]

YEAH SAME!

[@l.m.4131]

The first time I watched Chronicle it was a long time after it had came out and I expected some superhero kind of story, I was really surprised when it started to take a turn. I really like the movie, I never thought of it as Matt's superhero origins, I actually really liked to think of it as a story focused on Andrew and his story only, mostly because I, as many people, don't like him and I don't really believe Matt would become a hero after what happened, even if he saved people when killing his cousin I have doubts he would go on saving others afterwards and personally think he would just be travelling the world trying to find out what happened to them, like he promised to Andrew he would. So for Andrew's plot, I think the found footage was such a nice point. Specially when you see he is already too far gone and starts to share his ideas with the camera, I think it's really interesting to analyze Andrew's behavior as well, because right from the start you see him almost desperate to connect with Matt, who time and time again shuts him out. At the time I watched I didn't think of the car scene as the movie leaving us to wonder what Matt was doing while he decided to wait, I just thought of it as him plainly letting Andrew go first so people wouldn't think they were friends, and Andrew knows that. Andrew in the party scene is very relatable, I too have stayed far away from people at a party because I wasn't part of any group, but suddenly Matt wants him for something, Steve who is a very popular kid wants to interact with him and you feel happy for Andrew later on when they realize he is better at telekinesis than the other two, it's almost like a silver lining in his life because "hey everything might be messed up, but at least I have powers now, and Steve and Matt like them". Andrew seems so happy during the time they spent together, and I felt that through all that Steve was there for him way more than Matt, so when he dies and Matt kind of blames Andrew it's very sad, specially because Steve was so much more for him than for Matt, Steve tried to connect with him, he was there even if it didn't help all the time and one of those times when he was trying to be there for Andrew was what caused his death. In a way, because he didn't know how to deal with Andrew's issues, even if he was the one to catch onto them more than Matt did. A lot of Andrew's story was really set in stone because of Matt's behavior, how he didn't bother to stand by him like Steve attempted to and how after his death he shut Andrew out once again. It makes you think about how some people cause tragedy because of society's negligence towards them, doesn't excuse their behavior but certainly explains where they are coming from, since Andrew wasn't only ignored by society as a whole, his one bridge to the other side was Matt who again and again turned his back on him until he decided that if the world was going to hit him then he would hit it right back. Father wants to go at him? Well he can fight back now, *he can win* His mother is dying? It's ok, he can finally help her, *whatever the price that will take* Steve is gone and Matt is ignoring him again? It's ok, he doesn't need them because *he was better than them the entire time* Andrew's story is him being lost and never really fighting back on people who hurt him, his only defense was shutting everything out with his camera and later on when realizing how powerful he became he decided to shut himself further away from others not through the camera lenses but through the idea of being a higher being, a superior thing and by that justifying not only killing others and doing as he pleased but also isolating himself from them because he's been let down time and time again and when Matt finally catches on that Andrew needs help it's when he is standing there bloody and burned, determined to strike back at a world that never let him in. And it's obviously too late, so he does what he has to do and drives the spear through him. In a way, Matt's promise and letting Andrew's camera behind is his way of apologizing to his cousin for being too late, he can't take back what Andrew became and can't bring him back to try again, but he can remember him and recognize that Andrew was broken by a lot of factors beyond himself. I was looking forward to the sequel/prequel and am saddened to know it's never gonna happen, but at the same time I'm kind of ok with it, mostly because Andrew was the highlight of this one for me. It's really satisfying in a way to see a story that shows you the upbringing of a villain instead of a hero or an anti-hero like everyone likes to do nowadays because watching the movie you realize Andrew could've been something close to that, had the movie ended at the party, Andrew gets his best friends who will support him even with his abusive father, his mom is still sick but alive, people at school for once don't hate him and he gets the girl; maybe then he wouldn't have become a crazy disturbed guy but he did and given what his life was, we can see clearly why.

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

Great comment.

[@laststrike4411]

The script if the sequel's online

[@pogman4748]

This deserves so much more likes

[@negativejam2188]

There’s a quote that I like, that I can’t remember where it’s from... “I know what you went through was hard, but it doesn’t justify the monster you’ve become” I think it applies really well to this movie. Which was one of my childhood highlights lol. I just thought the powers were so cool

[@AmigaSoul]

One of the greatest superhero movies of all time

[@axz647]

It's not a super hero movie lol

[@willeshalang1384]

AmigaSoul *superpower*

[@MegaManDBZX]

Here’s the thing about your thoughts on Matt. I think, they’re Matt’s thought on Matt too. You gotta imagine him staying up at night thinking that if he had been there for Andrew more, then Andrew and more than likely Steve would still be alive.

[@Lloyd00]

Is that the Mist??? Let me see you win that ending. Never walked out of a theater with so many people crying

[@mrcheesemunch]

That's what I thought too, horror movie, dimly lit supermarket? Gotta be! I'm sad that the TV show was kinda crap, I could only manage to watch like 3 episodes. I love the concept of it and I wish it'd get attention that leads to something well produced. I really liked the movie, it wasn't super amazing or anything but the creatures were all horrifying and you could totally buy that they came from another dimension or whatever, that they all live in their own ecosystem.

[@bedspla6551]

James Bass dude there’s mist right there 18:18

[@frogpunk181]

this reminds of inuyashiki with a similar premise of “2 people are given powers but they both go a different way of using it” & it puts more focus on the characters than the actual powers

[@greengoblin4life]

One of the most underrated movies of the last decade that deserved a sequel

[@TheRManProds]

YEAH IT SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A SEQUEL!

[@TheRazorTongue]

This is perhaps my favorite found footage films. I still remember Andrew to this day. The movie was a tragedy for me.

[@CameronKelson]

I just wanna know where the rest of the Lord of the Rings videos are... I got so excited when the Fellowship videos came out.

[@scampry2466]

i always see andrew as a kid who snapped since he was cornered to a wall with his emotions and don't have a way out. they are still kids, emotions like that can twist their own view and judgement.

[@14714623]

A tiny detail that I love was that the audio will actually change depending on which camera is being used.

[@harmonlanager2670]

One interesting thing to note is that Mike's knowledge of nihilism may be foreshadowing for Andrew's turn to the dark side. His idea of the "apex predator" is like a darker, more sinister version of the ubermensch. Mike is lost in the world with no purpose, Steve is more an absurdist hero in that he enjoys life regardless of its chaos and supposedly meaninglessness, and Andrew is the ubermensch, actually attempting to take control of his circumstances. Albeit in an immoral way

[@BobaFett-ck5zq]

The force is strong with this one...

[@jambroseontoast7233]

As a kid that experienced a lot of abuse I can tell you right now what Andrew felt. He felt trapped in a mirror complex, seeing everything as a dark place, which is why the movie has dark overtones throughout. He couldn't ever take his anger out on anyone, so it just built up to the point of breaking him. He had to be the predator because he thought everyone else was hunting him. It doesn't excuse his actions, but it could've been prevented if someone could've found out.

[@jfellsie3905]

Speaking of Jung philosophy, I always interpreted the 3 main characters and the mom as the 4 Jungian archetypes-Andrew is the Shadow for his dark chaotic impulses, Steve is Anima because he seems to value his fraternal relationships more than his own romantic or egotistical desires, Matt is the Mask because he puts on an act to fit in as popular, and the mom is the Self because she is wise and forgiving, as well as being the only thing to keep Andrew in check.

[@jfellsie3905]

And going back to platos allegory-believing your world is just shadows. In a way, if you consider shadows to be the Jungian archetype, you understand Andrews character more. In his world, all he knows are shadows-he believes that everyone is bad because he feels like the bad side is all that is expressed to him. When Steve finally shows care for him it feels earth shattering, and when he dies Andrew subconsciously blames himself, making him the shadow. He is also blamed for his mother’s death, yet again reiterating this.

[@BenFromCanada]

I really like this take. I used to think Matt was a really boring character but I think this movie's smarter than that. Having it be a critique of the hero is super compelling.

[@ianrennebohm8294]

Can you please do Bolt? The most forgotten Disney movie? It actually has a lot of wins!

[@novasrain2126]

Ian Rennebohm oh shit I genuinely forgot about bolt

[@jcrews8582]

Ian Rennebohm You want forgotten (for all the wrong reasons)? Look no further than The Princess and the Frog, (which came out one year after Bolt, funny enough), which was a heart-warming and engaging return to form for Disney after almost a decade of being a shell of its former self!

[@JefferyBlue]

This one has never seen Lucky Luke.

[@hakenbacker]

And a movie called holes. Don't know if it's disney

[@alexanderh9642]

It is, and its great

[@ry_6276]

When I first watched this I loved how the entire movie seemed like a documentary. Every angle was shot with a camera that was actually in the scene. Like when the camera wasn’t in the shot, they’d use things like the hospital surveillance tape.

[@chrisd9229]

Honestly this is one of my favorite movies ever. It was inspiring and so much fun, yet so tragic and realistic. Its special in so many ways, and the easiest proof of this was the scene where Andrew's dad is telling him to apologize while he presumes he's unconscious and the camera gets closer and if you're vigilant, you see it on first viewing and you're just like. "Oh shit.... "

[@WhosScaredOfDentists]

One of my all-time favourite films excellently win-ed and reviewed. Thank you!

[@julianbaez134]

Do the cornetto trilogy please :'(

[@Duotail]

That’s the thing. Everything about this movie is fantastic

[@ramblinwriter4987]

"un-superhero"--- and you have no idea how happy seeing/hearing you say that word makes me.

[@tristansteinhelfer8083]

I loved this movie and wish they could have done more with it

[@Lit-E]

I honestly loved this movie due to the powers and brotherly bonds as well as exploring flight, honestly thought it was going to go in a positive direction especially with Andrew, sad to see it ended like that. (Had my own alternative ending in which having those powers helped them be better ppl especially Matt, Steve never died and they helped Andrew with his mom and abusive dad and they all flew around the world and lived happily)

[@sunsetman22]

that moment when This Bright Flash comes on, just pure magic. I love Chronicle

[@lazarusdesanguine7502]

This was the movie that made me realize just how OP Telekinesis is. If I could choose one power to have, it would absolutely be Telekinesis

[@brockolsen3871]

I don’t like how hard he is on Matt. Certainly Matt contributed but there was a lot more going on before and during the story for Andrew other than Matt. If Matt hadn’t been there I wonder if Andrew would have just made it to the end faster. Also, Andrew may have been the underdog at the beginning he wasn’t in the end. And I feel that that’s important.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

I don't think Matt is at fault because he was a little mean. I think he is partially at fault because he didn't really try to help Andrew when he could have.

[@minlilie3905]

@@enotsnavdier6867 i agree wholeheartedly. Cinemasins is not saying Andrew was right or good. But Matt seemed to not care about Andrew up to that point. The only person i felt who gelled with Andrew and who could have changed Andrew for the better is Steven, which is why Steven's death pushed him over the edge. I am still angry that Steven died.

[@enotsnavdier6867]

min lilie But at the same time the character doesn't really deserve the shit given to him. He didn't seem to like Andrew much, so it's asking too much for him to try and help someone he doesn't really get along with.

[@lightworthy]

oh my god I used to love this movie but it was wept under the rug and as a result got buried DEEP in the recesses of my mind and I vaguely remembered fuzzy parts of this movie (most notably the Spearing) and I'm SO glad you brought it back up!

[@tipsyjam6970]

Who came here after seeing the announcement of the sequel

[@slava7091]

Brilliant review. I've been meaning to say this for quite some time but never got around to it. But man. I absolutely admire your compassion and willingness to approach characters as non-judgmentally as possible. I've seen it in quite some of your reviews by now, but it becomes clearest here. Not sure whether it's too few people thinking like this, or whether I just don't find them that often, but when I hear you show motivations and backgrounds of characters like Andrew and Matt, it is a very rare thing and I feel like I can finally relax because there's someone there who can see that every person has their own struggles and history, and that each should be seen as an individual. Your hat-stealing person analogy is perfect. It is not hard for someone who doesn't feel the urge to do a certain thing not to do it, but for someone who does feel that urge all the time it is beyond imaginable how hard it is not to do this certain thing. And yes, that should be acknowledged for the achievement it is. I'm glad you have such a following and thus the platform to spread tolerance, compassion, and thinking again before judging. I wish you the best.