Cade: The Tortured Crossing (REVIEW) | Projector | Neil Breen vs. healthcare (vs. a white tiger)

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Film Brain delves into the warped world of Neil Breen for the first time in his follow-up to Twisted Pair, where Cade and Cale return - and this time, it's entirely on a greenscreen...
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[@SuperjoeV1]

"I think I've got a solid grasp of Breen". - Hahahahaha, no you don't. No one does, and we never will.

[@markiangooley]

I could imagine someone taking physical hold of Breen out of frustration but that’s about as far as one could go.

[@AnikMonette]

The one who'll ever come close to will lose its mind!

[@Faction.Paradox]

Neil Breen: Never before has extreme passion & confidence perfectly intersected with proportionally equal incompetence & lack of self-awareness.

[@jackkain7141]

Intro should have been "I can't believe I'm watching a Neil Breen movie... *in a theater!*" For the mental hospital, I swear that's the result of Neil having discovered urban exploring before he made this movie, and maybe even inspired that whole segment of the movie.

[@markiangooley]

Those stock images might well have been taken in a real abandoned mental hospital (there are plenty in the United States!) and maybe doctored a bit.

[@trevingrayek1671]

If you hear a loud noise, that’s probably the sound of my jaw hitting the floor after looking at these effects. Lovely work, Mathew

[@guksack]

You have a great ability of pulling sense out of all the nonsense! This is a wonderful review. I had as many laughs watching you dissect it as I did during the actual movie. Hopefully see you again at the next Breen masterpiece 👍

[@r.a.r.1981]

I feel a little guilty because I'm having some financial difficulties and had to go down a tier on my Patreon membership. It makes me feel especially bad after you release a review like this, which is amazing. Anyway, thanks for all your hard work and making me laugh. I needed it.

[@FilmBrain]

I understand, no worries! Hope you keep on enjoying my work!

[@r.a.r.1981]

Thanks! I just wanted to let you know it wasn't because of your content, if you noticed it at all.

[@DonaldRilea]

Las Vegan here, and one thing that's struck me, though rather slowly over the years, about Breen and his films from what have heard about 'em over the years, is just how much they are rooted in the kind of anti-government and conspiracy theory-based ideas and beliefs found in my part of the world, though not exclusively in it, though they also show a kind of ignorance about politics, etc, that's also fairly common here, too. He's not the first bad filmmaker to make Las Vegas his home, as the late Ray Dennis Steckler and Ted V. Mykels did in their later lives and careers, but they had Hollywood careers, however marginal they were, whereas Breen is very much home-grown.

[@DonaldRilea]

Ta', and btw, I'd say that Breen's work is more like Coleman Francis's, but there we are.

[@papapetebreen]

Don't forget about Las Vegas's other sleeper hit filmmaker and creator of the Cool Cat franchise, Daddy Derek Savage. He usurps Breen in his levels of delusion and absurdity in ways I thought was previously not possible.

[@DonaldRilea]

@@papapetebreen Hadn't heard of him before you mentioned him, and thanks.

[@papapetebreen]

@@DonaldRilea he's an absolute riot. think of him like Breen, but smaller scale and more of a massive ego. all his movies are shot around LV area neighborhoods, lol

[@DonaldRilea]

@@papapetebreen Looked up a fan wikia page on him, and yeah, he's a real piece of work, all right.

[@RichardMeikle]

Hey long time watcher. I stopped for like 5 years and was sitting wondering I just watched some new tuber reviewer talk about a bad movie but where is Film Brain. I am glad you are still doing your thing.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

The best summation I've heard of Neil Breen was from 'Shitcase Cinema [aka author John D. Ashton] review of 'Breen's first film 'Double Down' when he described him as 'it's like he's heard of these things called movie's having never seen one in his life and then attempted to make one himself' and that most of his films are 'proclaiming himself to be the greatest this and that mixed in with paranoid ramblings about the government'. Given all of Breen's films have similar quirks and faults along with his poorly put together '5 film retrospective' that was featured on 'Red Letter Media' it seems he's very unaware of the reputation of his films in contrast to say 'The Asylum' who try to be 'so bad it's good' and fail at it. 8:39 Breen did have a himself interacting with a Tiger in his fourth film 'Pass Thru'. 23:11 Good point. I find 'The Room' to be a slog watching on your own between the 'meme' moments [especially the horrible love scenes] as it's so padded and poorly paced while the Godfrey Ho [from 'Undefeatable' fame] Ninja films are pretty much completely unwatchable.The ending of Breen's 'Fatal Finding's is an hilarious KZbin clip but trying to watch any of his films in full alone and sober is a challenge.

[@drgregvr3368]

Caught this one in the Alamo Draft House in Omaha! Packed theater of Breen fans and I honestly have never had such a great time at a movie! The whole crowd was hysterically laughing the entire movie! We all even stayed through the credits as the entire crowd cheered every time Breen's name scrolled by! Can't wait for his next film! They are just getting more hilarious as they go!

[@TheWarmotor]

Just got this on DVD-R, and I thought the same thing in the beginning, "Oh no, he's self aware now, that sucks." And then starting doubting it as the movie went on... and then was convinced that he's incapable of self-awareness.

[@john_blues]

I've never heard Neil Breen's work described as well as you did in the early part of this video. Long live the Breen-inverse!

[@bomcabedal]

The color grading in this flick is something to behold, as well.

[@robotrix]

Just now finished watching this "movie" of his - but I was "done with it" about an hour ago. I will say you were right about the tiger sequence. Only thing is the tiger forgot to smash a painting over his head and tell him what they were having for dinner. The stock photos and the footage of the carousel where very pretty though

[@Stonecutter334]

Love the disbelief in your voice. 😂😂

[@hectorh.micheos.1717]

I simply cannot believe this is your first Breen movie. They seem to manifest in front of movie critics by magic.

[@giorgiopalmas7934]

I surprised the stock photo backgrounds don't have a Getty Images watermark on them.

[@bobjones4469]

I'm glad he's having fun.

[@cartoonkelly7924]

Oh Simpson’s Cartoon Studio. There’s a treasured memory. I wish I had a dedicated Windows 95 PC just so I could play it again.

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

Finally a Big KZbinr reviewed Neil Breens newest Masterpiece

[@TrenchMan93]

I actually believe Breene is aware, but is playing the long con by making them comedies without telling his cast and crew.

[@Dirt-McGirt]

Only 1 character in love with Breen in this movie? That can't be right. Someone else must have edited this movie since, as we've all learned, all women are obsessed with Breen!

[@markiangooley]

The woman with the really long hair seemed ready to throw herself at Cade, not just the less-bad of the two blonde female doctors named Megan. So that’s two women? Maybe the were-tiger carries a torch for him too?

[@zverina]

Halfway through Cade I was thinking, Wow, this isn't my Neil Breen--where's the love interest (or three)? Then the romance kicks in, and like you I thought she was supposed to be a baddie. Well, it wouldn't be Breen if it all (or even some) made sense.

[@sparthyslaysstuff2405]

"Increasingly drunk bad movie fans" I know who I am! I know what ive done!

[@markiangooley]

Someone posted this movie in its entirety once Mr. Breen made it available on DVDs to those who wanted to buy it in that format, and it stayed up on KZbin for about ten days before it was removed, probably at Mr. Breen’s insistence. I watched the whole thing. It’s the first one I’ve watched in its entirety although for a few minutes of it I didn’t pay attention. It’s… not quite explicable, at least to me. Maybe Mr. Breen could explain what he was trying to convey, but even if he were thorough I know he didn’t succeed in conveying it to me via the movie. I feel vaguely guilty for having watched it without paying. Probably I should feel guilty enough to send Mr. Breen some money. It was from The Island of Misfit Toys. Sort of.

[@SsnakeBite]

What I don't get about the claim of breen being self-aware is that all of the elements people mention in support of thatr were already present in his early films. To me, it's plainly obvious that he isn't. If anything, I think he's in complete denial and that the people who watch his films as "so bad it's good" are tiehr in the minority, or not his true fans anyway and that the real ones "get it".

[@mrcat3493]

The Breen has become self-aware! That is more dangerous than Skynet.

[@epicgravyfilms]

Breen's movies tend to move along with the pace of a glacier, and I'm guessing this one is no different. Can't wait to see it.

[@ThreadBomb]

6:43 The way Neil suddenly looks at the camera as you speculate on him becoming self-aware is genuinely creepy!

[@yvindwahl8628]

Neil Breen is 2019s AI personified

[@gracekim25]

Quick question: youtube is giving me mixed signals of this video premiering tomorrow and being posted an hour ago. Is it currently the latter? 😅

[@Giovanni_Lippert]

I want Neil Breen to write a higg budget Hollywood movie for science

[@jsvideos2261]

The Sega Master System is a wonderful console.

[@fatimagic1365]

i started internally screaming the moment i saw this in my feed 🥹

[@akosbarati2239]

You're definitely more generous than I, ponce I've seen a different review my firest imoression was to congratulate Dall-E for finally creating real human hands for all the AI character around Breen, since no human should as simultaneously desperate as to hope recognition from a Breen movie, but also be so dramatically bad that it undermines the craft itself. I tghink the horror movie lusic is jjust a sobriety test and Neil is secretly MKULTRA, keeping Americans on their toes.

[@markiangooley]

I think the tram is in Amsterdam: at least some European viewers have said so.

[@FilmBrain]

Presumably where the stock footage was actually taken. I presume the backdrops do a lot of location hopping.

[@pasteghost428]

Breenliness is next to Godliness

[@Hykje]

A movie that criticizes psychiatric health care should not drive you insane.

[@F3udF1st]

You mean Breen Screen?

[@stewartbladensb]

It’s not a green screen, it’s a “Breen screen”.

[@christopherb501]

What else can be said to Breen except: "WTFIWWY?"

[@golgothavirus]

The Breen verse grows.

[@jennifer_mertens]

I wonder if the only reason he keeps making movies, is to get a bit of the "action" that's inevitably written into every script😂.

[@hopduncan7905]

Disney needs to get Neil to do the next Star Wars trilogy

[@cybergothika6906]

Now when I actually decided to watch an entire movie without any review, ...... the impossible I never expected happened. I actually liked his first movie Fateful Findings. If you ignore the ignoreable stuff, that I may say, 80 or 85% of the material, then there is some dark sci-fi fantasy in there with I dare to say, at least two layers of interpretation. Sounds complex for a very b-movie that lacks acting.

[@SpectacularDisaster]

Masterful use of Breen Screen

[@keithmichael112]

the fight scenes look like nothing I've seen outside Tim and Eric maybe

[@lordofthereels6790]

If you can fully understand a Neil Breen movie you're too damn high.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Honestly, I doubt even Breen himself understands these films...

[@s3.14dervision]

Breen's chaste sex scenes are somehow some of the most explicit, cringy things I've ever witnessed!

[@markboyle9941]

Breen is far, far worse than Eddie Wood. Most of Ed's films had a discernable plot and made reasonable sense. If he had a serious budget they would have been much better. Breen on the other hand produces crap. He's on the level of Coleman Francis, Manos and the Crawling Terror. Apart from that I pretty much agree with everything else in the review.

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

At least Breen knows that his films are terrible. Unlike a certain Mr Seagal.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

It's pretty clear Seagal didn't care about most of his DVD/VOD films quality and just did the bare minimum work before cashing in his cheque [hence the copious doubles and not doing his own ADR] to the extent a lot of his later films he feels like he's a borderline cameo in his own film [like 'Code of Honor' Film Brain reviewed] I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't even watched most of them and there is plenty of stories of his unprofessionalism on those films [for example Shadow Man director Michael Keusch said Seagal refused to finish fight scenes or even read the script]. Breen in contrast puts a lot of time and effort into making his films [including his own money] but seems unaware of the mockery they get given how much of an ego trip they are. He did a '5 film retrospective' a couple of years back which is him talking for 5 and a half hours [no joke] about how he makes his films, how great he is at filmmaking and how you can follow his lead.

[@markiangooley]

Well, I guess if you’re going to say “on accident” the way the cool kids do nowadays, you might as well say “by purpose” afterwards to be complete. It still just sounds awkward. I think that Breen demands that style of line delivery of his actors…

[@kbellanger4140]

omg you are talking way to much

[@FaeQueenCory]

Neil Breen sure is a person who makes movies.

[@TheBrotherGrim]

Truly one of the film makers of all time

[@JoeChillton]

A true Human Breen😂😂

[@erikhulthen8662]

Neil Breen is a phenomenon who makes what it thinks is movies.

[@robotrix]

Ever look at his website. He no longer thinks he's just a "person"

[@markiangooley]

I shot an hour or so on Super 8 silent color film 50 years ago and never assembled it into a coherent short film. I’ll give Breen credit for what he’s made.

[@TheTaelus]

“I’m just putting this into the movie.” Neil Breen’s editing ethos.

[@dougfranckwolf]

I've seen every Breen movie. I enjoyed them all for what they are, insanely incompetent movies that baffle the mind how everything, every aspect of the production is insanely terrible. I saw Cade in the theater last weekend, and this is the first one I didnt enjoy. The other movies have what could be described as a story if you squint really hard, but Cade makes no sense at all. People Cade gives a speech to and afterwards praise him for being incredible meet him moments later and seem to have no idea who he is. After a SUV accident, the black character that is almost kidnapped by Cade but saved at the last second, disappears from the group of people travelling to the castle, only to reappear again as the enter the castle. Background music just cuts off mid scene and audio levels skip from hissy to clean between shots. Its like Neil made his first pass of the edit and called it done. If he did make another pass, that means he would have seen every insane mistake and not bothered to fix anything. The movie has about 28 false endings, including the part where Cade tells his leading lady that he must go and cannot stay, then turns around and takes her with him for the next 35 endings. Just like with all Breen movies, characters have no set ups, no payoffs, no character development , etc. The musical number scene towards the end was super crazy. But I think because of the Breenscreen he was so limited in where he could put the camera, so zero coverage. There were some really funny moments but way way too much dead time in between. The doctors resting all their instruments on the stomach of their patients was hysterical and the doctor constantly yelling at the tall dude to get out of his operating room actually was the one thing that had an actual payoff. The crowd I was with was into it but not as much as yours, unfortunately. And this was the movie he was looking to outside investors to do! Looks like he didn't get any and funded it thru the change he found in his couch.

[@nicktrueman224]

Space ice understands Breens mind somehow. Me watching space ices review leaves me wondering what I just saw.

[@rikmills]

I've Breen looking forward to this.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

Like your 'Blackbird' review last year, I think the video essay format works better with these 'trainwreck' movies rather than the old 'scene by scene'/clips format. It's nice to hear your experience watching this with the 'Bristol Bad movie' club. Love all the references in the video and very funny!

[@jovo3dsmax]

“Breens work seems more alien then ever” that’s perfect as a Blu-ray cover comment for this .

[@jankarieben1071]

Welcome to the Breeniverse Brian Flim! 😅

[@polartechie]

Breeeeen yes! So glad you've covered this. This channel always brightens my day

[@joshyohman]

I've haven't seen your stuff since the Channel Awesome years, and love how much you've evolved. Sincerely wish you all the best.

[@CrashBanz3]

Always fun & entertaining to watch your shows 👍👍👍

[@samwill7259]

I can always respect a man who, god damn the consequences MADE a movie. And I don't know of anything deeply, morally uncomfortable about the man so...yea, laughing, half sarcastic playing along sounds like a good reaction

[@aeddiefarmer]

Oh my god, they screened this in the Watershed?! 🤣This video was a joy to watch, thank you!

[@Leo-sd3jt]

I think Breen is self aware in that he's aware that people like his movies and watch them so he doesn't bother changing his style because it works and, to be fair, if he ended up making the same movies as everybody else then we probably wouldn't watch them. Also while he does play a messiah figure in a lot of his films, he also plays the villain. My favorite movie of his is his first one "Double Down" because he's basically the villain of the movie. Also there's cheesy hacking scenes. But, yeah, it seems like one of his biggest tropes is how a person can have good and bad sides and that other people get hurt in the process. Kinda how like in one of his movies he's a messianic figure who "heals" a girl of her cancer but she ends up dying of cancer anyways. I've always respected that he basically doesn't do the straightforward thing. It would be interesting to see a "regular" movie by him but I don't think we'll ever get to that point.

[@justinhammer3196]

Breen movies are so surreal that I find them soothing.

[@HatredPrime]

All except this one, I like his desert phase more.

[@JoeChillton]

There are some bad movies that try to be bad and they're horrible, then there's Neil who never ever fails to be entertaining at its fullest to me. More Neil is never bad 😂

[@cameronscott7304]

I ordered my DVD and am awaiting it's arrival.

[@gracekim25]

You know about Breen. This is a joyous day!😊

[@nicholashurst780]

Wait, wait, wait... This is a sequel to Twisted Pair... He made a *sequel*???

[@jessaminehaak8253]

I do agree that it seems premature to call Neil Breen self-aware... I guess it's possible the hints of it that people debate about are ideas that other people have talked him into, and I wouldn't be surprised if he had like some people around him who were very self-aware about how shit his movies are. But everything you described is more or less in line with everything Breen has always done, if exacerbated just slightly by the entirely green-screened shoot and isolation.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

He has to be aware that people are laughing at his films but like the movie 'Ed Wood' it doesn't seem to stop him. It would be interesting to hear from someone who knows him/worked on these films for an 'inside take' like 'The Disaster Artist'.

[@fusyoduh9721]

Got this in my recommended today, such a fun vid! Keep up the good work!

[@roringusanda2837]

3:48 did u say "unforgettable" or "unforgivable"...?😐

[@FilmBrain]

Unforgettable. But I suppose depending on your point of view...

[@roringusanda2837]

@@FilmBrain 😅 Lol!!

[@cameronstone4495]

"A Burns for All Seasons" is a great comparisson cause this film certainly makes me wanna shout, "Boo-een! Boo-een!" right at the screem.

[@axeman3d]

Neils films are 90 minute long slow-motion train wrecks recreated by a group of enthusiastic amatuers with no experience or skills whatsoever.

[@robotrix]

So....a former real estate agent thinks it's brilliant to NOT investigate a major building purchase ahead of time..... But then, this is the same guy who doesn't know what Unemployment Insurance is, what kinds of government help there is for women with infants there is in the US and that prostitution is legal in Nevada so that you don't have to work for a street gang (I Am Here....Now). Same guy that doesn't know that any Homicide division would do powder tests on the hands of an alleged suicide to find out that they didn't fire the gun and for that matter would interview everyone in the house at the time plus has no idea how oxygen in a hospital works....nor much of anything else (Fateful Findings) Doesn't understand that airborne anthrax doesn't pick and choose it's victims (Double Down) Doesn't know that "humanoid" ISN'T a synonym for "cyborg" - and Star Trek can't sue you for using that word (Twisted Pair)....just to mention a few. I'm SHOCKED, I tell you! Shocked! But I've heard that he learned the right way to spell "detective" in the credits between this and his last film.

[@MissDebbieSue123]

Neil Breen is the epitome of "the lights are on, nobody's home." So, no, he lacks the introspection necessary to be this bad on purpose. I think ol Neil sees himself as a visionary, a misunderstood and under-appreciated genius, riding the tide of his solitary brilliance, and he has accepted he won't be appreciated until the future, like an artist who paints beautifully but nobody tries to understand them until they die. Tommy Wiseeau is a conman (alledgedly) and therefore he didn't get that bad films are not forced, he thought he found the formula. He's a Tiny Tim looking Douche Waffle. Neil Breen really believes he is doing something wonderful, and in a way, he is.

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

I do love Buck giving a thorough analysis to the filmmaking style of Breen 😆

[@dangreene3895]

God bless Neil , may he keep making his movies, but I would not spend a dollar to go see a Neil Breen movie , I will just watch others make fun of a Neil Breen movies

[@KennyFrierson]

The only Breen movie I've seen was double findings or whatever while I was watching it my eyes started to glaze. It's impressive Matthew is about to understand it so well.

[@solearesoul]

Probably “Double Down”. That is the hardest one to watch, IMO. Start with Fateful Findings or I Am Here….Now. And it helps to watch them with a few friends… and a bit of booze.

[@ThreadBomb]

@@solearesoul Apparently Fateful Findings is the "best"?

[@solearesoul]

@@ThreadBomb depends on what you’re looking for. I Am Here… Now is my favorite, but Fateful Findings might be a good introduction for most people because it has the most cohesive plot. Which is still abstract AF.

[@jbowDonDiego1380]

😂😂😂... ok u have reviewed it now mark from fanboyflicks has two now!😂

[@jesperpetersen636]

This is SOOOO Odd 🤔🙏🏻 Thanks for great content

[@jeffreydean5112]

He's been using that same mustache and beard for 30 years.

[@paultapner2769]

I think Twisted Pair is the worst film I have ever seen. And yet....it does get one thing spot on. The experience of being a twin. Especially an identical one. I speak from personal experience in this respect. Growing up inseparable. Growing apart as you get older and find different interests and paths. Going your own ways. Yet still being bonded forever. By virtue of being a twin. It was exactly like that for me. So it was amazing to see a film get it so right.

[@mrupert22]

It’s a video game ya goofs

[@cartoonkelly7924]

I was say boo-reen

[@lindaeasley5606]

Green screen Breen

[@GildaPHolly]

Hi! 👋

[@Donomarkable]

THE HIIIIIILS ARE ALIIIIIIVE WITH THE SOUND OF BREEEEEEN

[@erikhulthen8662]

WITH FILMS WE WILL WATCH FOR A THOOUUSAND YEEEEAAARS!!!

[@mattthebobcat2674]

Breen beat the self-awareness allegations

[@Dan_Does]

Great review!

[@Gledster]

I cannot believe you watched a new Neil Breen movie! :P

[@kaneambridge8097]

Its weird when I see someone in the same city I work in

[@ViegasSilva]

A business that thrives on schadenfreude.

[@sebastianbutlerii6558]

A new breen film?! I’m so happy.

[@tophers3756]

Unaware hack or secret Breenius?

[@strawberrylime33]

Hi, how do u choose which movies to travel to see, or which to do a Projector episode?

[@FilmBrain]

Largely via "is it cost effective?", and if I think my audience will want to see me review it. In this case, it was an easy call.

[@s3.14dervision]

You know Breen's the type of guy who calls his green screens "Breen Screens", ™ and all that! 🤣🤣🤣