Neil Breen's Double Down: So Bad It's Good

Come for the cringe, stay for the masterpiece. Neil Breen is the Hollywood anti-hero we didn't know we needed.
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[@debbiesuesteele9639]

Fun fact: Neil Breen is an architect. That means he's probably academically pretty smart, but when I look at him it seems the lights are on, but ain't nobody home...

[@TheOtherBradBird]

Disturbingly, there are likely dozens or even hundreds of people currently inside a Neil Breen designed building at this very moment.

[@mandarina4157]

Wait I thought he was a realtor? Or he studied architecture but became a realtor?

[@n.ayisha]

@@TheOtherBradBird Neil Breen does not design "buildings", dear child. he creates gateways to distant reaches of the Universe.

[@missdebbie8131]

@@mandarina4157 He is both...or so he says...

[@roguesheep3083]

Because you're looking, but not seeing. (Imagine him saying that)

[@seanmcclure]

I said this on another channel. For those of you who think he is self-aware, you are wrong. He legitimately feels like he is an unappreciated Scorsese or Spielberg. I urge you to find a way to go to one of his screenings and see for yourself.

[@hanabiunana4794]

Ya that's true.. I read that he actually thinks he is a good, if not the best, actor n filmmaker😂

[@mattansell8275]

I can vouch for that. I've seen comments from ppl who met him in person and they say he's completely deluded. The fact his films are universally panned as jaw droppingly amateurish, piss-poor garbage doesn't deter him from thinking he's in the same league as Spielberg, Cameron and Lucas. A legend in his own mind 😂

[@funkyreapercat5280]

I think i saw your comment on a Space Ice video, one of the best KZbinrs out there.

[@turdferguson82]

The way you cut to him screaming and running down the hill in the intro literally had me in tears. My god, man 😂😂 bravo.

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Glad you liked it :D

[@DustinBarlow8P]

He put his medals on a........ cut off jean jacket?! HOLY SHIT HOW AM I JUST FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!?

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

You're in for a ride, friend.

[@kman215]

Congratulations. When I found out about Neil I binge watched his movies. Enjoyed every second

[@PoesRaven73]

One of the medals he earned for “Distinguished Service” is a National Defense Medal. When I joined in 1973, they gave those out for simply JOINING!

[@shortcat]

Not even a goof if you think about it

[@somenygaard]

More importantly he has a Silver Star, Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

[@Clem68W]

The lowest of low hanging fruits. I just don’t care because his ‘uniform’ is so amazingly laughable.

[@gerardjayetileke4373]

5:58 "oh shit i just got shot in the head, I should probably die"

[@scottnoth54]

My theory is that Breen has a black belt in trolling. He intended this reaction.

[@SasquatchTrevor]

I am just now discovering the genius of the Breenius.

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Welcome to the light!

[@aaronnicol8302]

Theres something very satisfying about how grandiose Breen is.

[@wyskass861]

He's probably a clinical level narcissist or some similarly symptotic mental illness.

[@aravnselva]

Neil breen deserves all your praise for such a glorious movie. But DONT pick the " Neil breen praises himself" option if you are playing the drinking game, you will not get past the first 30 mins. 😂😂

[@DANRYX]

My theory is that this is all in Aaron Brand's head. He's a veteran who was medically discharged for crippling PTSD and due to his financially destitute condition, he could only afford canned tuna. Over the years, he succumbed to mercury poisoning and the movie is capturing the aftermath of this. This movie is a story of Aaron Brand combating his illness and trying to find an outside tormentor to conquer, in order to validate his struggle, sense of importance and self-worth.

[@colin5577]

This is an under-qppreciated synopsis. Nice.

[@pretorious700]

Interesting...way too interesting to be true. I mean, this film is idiotic.

[@wcsxwcsx]

We should all feel "special" to have lived during the Neil Breen era.

[@mgtowstanleyzoltanov9808]

I have no idea what this creature is. And i am happy

[@morthedgebuckle227]

The euphoric honour of witnessing this genius has been a major turning point for this entire galaxy.

[@TheEGCRACKER]

Space Ice rocks these Yahoo's as well, thanks for more! I like to watch these before sleeping. ✌️😎🤘

[@bennagel7125]

You and Space Ice should break down a movie together 😂😂😂

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Never heard of em. Will look it up! Could be a thing :)

[@cheap_clips]

​@@CultureVultureMedia1he's a legend, check him for sure

[@UltrawideBenchmarks]

Neil Breen is the type of guy who wakes up everyone in the house to tell them he is going to sleep.

[@harrienelle6471]

Sure, but, unlike your comment, he's original.

[@B7R8]

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[@pretorious700]

LOFL

[@pretorious700]

@@harrienelle6471 yes, because your comment is not at all specious.

[@harrienelle6471]

@@pretorious700 Are you trying to wake a sleeping dog?

[@frenchyroastify]

His movies are genre categorized as: Neil Breen.

[@standoughope]

6:53 Imagine driving by and seeing this bloke rocking 2 direct tv dishes and like six laptops that he's using at the same time. I would just keep on driving, some questions I do not want the answers to.

[@wilmergimenez]

Neal looks like the kind of person who would keep the tuna can after eat and fill boxes with them during years, until one day he is making a movie and remember he had all those boxes and say to himself "hey, now I can give a good use to all those tuna can"

[@HenryR929]

Fun fact: Neil Breen never thought he was filming a comedy

[@pretorious700]

LOL, great comment.

[@wombledtv390]

The Man. The Myth. The Legend. He's the Ed Wood of 2023. I thoroughly enjoy all of his work.

[@morthedgebuckle227]

What an absolute honour too be able to witness such incredible genius in acting and movie making. How can we ever be the same again?

[@CarbonGlassMan]

9:19 that guy has the rifle magazine in backwards lol. LOL. Jesus dude!

[@n.ayisha]

my favorite hobby is watching people try to make sense of The Breeing.

[@roguesheep3083]

magnificent

[@madhurshinde4988]

really need space ice to review this.

[@georgehenry76]

All I can think as I watch is how dude must reek of tuna fish the whole time

you forgot Hacking with computers that are not even turned on.

[@skarsson]

Lmaooo will have to watch this guys movies now, especially with the drinking game included 😩🙏

[@brunobaw657]

Fateful Findings is the coolest one for sure!

[@axeman3d]

It's his best work so far. Completely bonkers but nice ladies and lots of classic stupidity.

[@asharista3152]

9:19 The magazine on that rifle is mounted wrong. LMAO

[@luckylinda7933]

When someone told him it needed a magazine, im surprised he didn't go get the latest copy of People.

[@thebubonicj]

Neil stays pure and that’s the difference. He sees people laughing and says, “They just don’t understand yet.” He has too much ego to ever become self aware so by god, buy his movies and help fund future feature length theatrical films because they WILL be brilliant.

for the record that "Farrari" is actually his.

[@patrickcostello4146]

Somewhere Tommy Wiseau is shaking his fist saying ,I'll get you Breen!

[@anthonysloan2620]

Quite literally, one mans trash is another man's treasure

[@Trainwheel_Time]

Unless it's a Neil Breen movie.

[@anthonysloan2620]

@@Trainwheel_Time No that's the trash, lol. It's our treasure we get to have laughs

[@graduator14]

Neil Breen is the Orson Welles of our time!

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

A bit insulting to Neil Breen, but it's alright ;)

[@graduator14]

@@CultureVultureMedia1 :)

[@avasephiroth]

Agreed..so bad its good.. I wonder how his movie blooper look like..

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Haha, it might not be too different x)

[@missdebbie8131]

This was awesome. I really appreciated it.

[@oOBubbleStreamOo]

Let's see it on the positive side: It's still better than the usual empty CGI Blockbuster garbage

[@asharista3152]

My favorite screen legends of all time. Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino and Neil Breen.

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Splendid company :P

[@mickm5097]

Pacino? That guy's an overactor. Including him on this list is a bit much.

[@erikbarr1994]

Thanks for the education! Incredible.😂 Will definitely (not) watch this film! But will follow more of these recommendations. 😁

[@seetheforest]

So all I need is a laptop and a camera and anyone can make a movie about something.

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Preferably multiple laptops scattered around the desert, but yeah :P

[@colin5577]

Im on my way to see my sister in Portugal next week and she loves really fringe, utterly crap movies. We are DEFINITELY trying that drinking game.

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Haha, enjoy! :D

[@ilikepiproductions5916]

NEIL Breen and Steven Segal should make an action film... It would be AMAZING!!!!

[@fingerfeller]

one thing about Breen and Seagal, neither have " leading actresses " in their films, but Breen, the poor guy is just having a blast

[@cybergothika6906]

Don't know if people are going to agree with me, but Double Down and Fateful Findings has some interesting insidious vibes that makes it dark somehow. I like Breen's style regardless of how humble and fubar it is, there is something on it. When you can ignore the bizarre parts. And the acting. And the coherent flow of basic line table procedures.

[@F-sj7cu]

To truly understand Neil’s genius, you need to watch Pass Thru and bear witness to the magnificent character of Dana that he crafted

[@josephmiller9424]

I think the tuna thing is suppose to show how healthy he is and the tuna was in water so even better

[@CarbonGlassMan]

That old ass Ferrari he owns doesn't have computerized locks and ignition in it that can be hacked wirelessly. That's stupid. It's a 1980s vintage Ferrari.

[@shawncollier571]

Love the Redneck dish gear in the back of the car.

[@weSlaughter66]

This guy is trolling on another level

[@markcleveland9656]

A narcissistic endeavor of self glorification, that is done so badly, it has acting that is so wooden, that it would take years of training to to so badly, yet Neil just does it naturally.

[@mikeviking1000]

Jag hittade nyss din kanal. Jag är glad att du har sett snillet som är Neil Breen. 😂

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Livet börjar som på nytt efter Neil x)

[@ilikemorestuff]

Developing all that film would require catering.

[@superastral1]

you have to do the entire breeneverse, if you do let me know and I sub

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

Well, since you're asking for it, I'll certainly consider it! :D

[@superastral1]

@@CultureVultureMedia1 great, when you do, tell me

[@karnerblue7658]

Seconded!

[@sobo5476]

Neil Breen is a modern day great and we will only appreciate his greatness when he is no longer with us.

[@JohnSmith-4U]

Neil Breen can make a yellow mustard sandwich taste like a Big Mac.

[@geoffreyfoster6355]

Good luck to the guy. He's living his best life.

[@Shinrikyo230]

His trolling😂

[@paulrenville7757]

Another fun fact: Tim and Eric are his disciples. This is proto Dekker

[@flemishpopulist1477]

You just don't get it....the character was driven mad by all the mercury consumed in the tuna fish.

[@deathstroke3140]

Every movie is a dumpster fire. It's terrible but you can't look away.

[@batzeth]

God, i look very similar to this Man, so weird to find how i would look if i was a man

[@bobbykharter]

This was a good video about NB. Although his films are so bad they're good, he seems to have a legitimate passion. Good on him.

[@rudy_ariff]

Two thumbs amd two toes up! 👍👍 🦶🦶

[@joebe123]

Part of me is like, this shit has to be self aware. Then again part of me is like, this reminds me of when I was a kid. Playing with our old "camcorder". Like very similar in quality

[@cronolucca]

No. Thank YOU for making this video. ✊ saludos amigo

[@santisooksangouthai9598]

So bad yet I'm enjoy watching it 🙂👍

[@carlmig]

And thanks to steven siegal. By the way are you related to ivan drago?

[@pretorious700]

Neil Breen inadvertently reveals his comically inflated self image.

[@alexstone3822]

The movie is a lot better when you watch it in reverse.

[@jamesjross]

Neil Breen is a licensed architect. Law and medicine are comparatively difficult to achieve. Also as you mentioned, he learned ALL this stuff to make them. Has he got something that creates this lack of self awareness. He must see the finished product. HE obviously watches other films. Plot holes, the dialog. The technology stuff. The social awkwardness. Like movies have been described to an alien in a 30 minute phone call and this is the result. Obviously with this stuff people point to neurologically atypical. But I don't know if thats important. We seemed to want to label every eccentric with that so I will stop. Lets just say its fascinating how these things have turned out.

[@pretorious700]

Getting a license to be an architect is like getting a degree in dog catching.

[@gerrodgeneral6442]

Great video. Here's a movie for consideration... Shriek of the Mutilated. I honestly can't tell if this movie is terrible, a victim of budgets or is secretly brilliant because it low budget.. movie making slight of hand. Check it out

[@jrjubach]

I think a lot of Breen films are not in chronological order. He does it on purpose.

[@bryanrussell6679]

5:52 Taint shot

[@AidenRKrone]

When people talk shit about Steven Seagal, I point them in the direction of Neil Breen. Seagal may very well be an arrogant ass, but at least his films are relatively tolerable, at least in the sense that you can tell what's going on. In the case of Breen, you can't understand _anything_ in his movies. Also, Seagal's movies typically have passable or even good special effects, whereas Breen's movies look like they used Windows Movie Maker.

[@AskALibbieist]

Breen is a creative genius.

[@Gabriel2.0]

hey, could be worse, could be Steven Segal

[@HouseholdDog]

Neil Breen is better than Tarantino for sure. Breen makes legitimate modern B movies, Tarrantino only copies the style of old ones.

[@lorrie9462]

Who gives him money to make movies?

[@josephmiller9424]

And to play a exmilitary guy you can tell by looking at him he must have worked for at least 10 mins ok maybe shorter but yes he could've gotten in shape but then he might have been a star.

[@Blobby192]

if he was in bad shape as you say he wouldnt have won all those medals

[@josephmiller9424]

@@Blobby192 maybe the enemy thought letting him live was more cruel then killing. But think your job for a movie get in shape think that's your job work out eat right get in the best shape of your life and they'll pay you my dumb ass I do it for free out started again.

[@flandersucks]

I can try and sell it, but Dream a Little Dream, a body swap movie that forgets to swap any bodies and starring the two Coreys really sells itself.

[@jeffsond]

His movies are the worstest bestest movies everest

[@MrAlanlaing]

Did you just put Zardoz into "So bad it's good?" it quite literally predicted the world we live in today....half live in violence and half live an insipid life...

[@VCRider]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention what his public explanations were…or didn’t he make any ?I would be surprised if he didn’t every opportunity to talk about himself and his movies

[@epicgravyfilms]

Pure Breenius!

[@Incel_81]

My movies are great.

[@jackOtrades34]

You mean, Neil Breenious

[@des-esseintes]

Honestly, people don't give Breen enough credit. I genuinely think the man is a misunderstood genius, and i'm not saying this in a "haha irony xd" way. He is quite simply the American Tarkovsky. But whereas Tarkovsky had to spend months, maybe years planning his scripts to achieve a sort of non-chronological, "poetic" surrealism, Breen achieves this effortlessly through simply having a slightly deranged mind. The effect, in a way, is even more artistic, as we have a window as to what's like to think non-linearly; we can see what would be like to inhabit everyday reality with the same logic of dreams: it would look like Double Down. Thus it provides a sort of experience that is even more surreal than artists who deal with the unconscious/surreality because it's done with absolute no self awareness what so ever. Or perhaps all of this is just the mercury poisoning from the tuna can diet, but i'm simply fascinated.

[@pretorious700]

You conveniently left out the part about him being completely clueless cinematically.

[@des-esseintes]

@@pretorious700 "Clueless" is your word for what I would call a _naivete aesthetik_. Breen is trying to make you think about cinema as an artform by denying you cinematic conventions like believable dialogue (who's to say art must be "realistic" ? the very fact that a movie must be carefully constructed to appear "realistic" should tell you of its inherent artificialness, so why not play with this very fact?), logic, plot coherence (Breen is a Kantian; to him, reality is a chaos that the mind structures through its own thinking; in his films he is constantly trying to show you the chaos underlying our illusions_) a non deranged director (Breen is showing you that sometimes to get to art you must first leave mental health at the door), etc. That he does all of this by accident is irrelevant. Most artists can't really say how they do it: it's mostly an intuitive process that can't be explained. I'm aware that Breen probably has a very different and slightly not sane perspective about his own movies, but they do genuinely show everything i've just mentioned. But I guess that trying to explain Breen to someone who already doesn't appreciate him is futile. He can't be defended aesthetically the same way you'd try to defend, say Stanley Kubrick. Breen's qualities are achieved by accident, and involve a unintentional parody of cinematic conventions that end up being a unique expression in a way that most films can't achieve. To explain this better I may cite Walter Benjamin's concept of the aura: cinematic conventions suck the 'aura' of art by transforming cinema into a ready-made form, like a plastic can; at the same time they condition us to think that "this is how movies are made". Breen's poor but charming handling of these conventions end up somehow breaking them in a way that actually shows his vision, as opposed to say, a Marvel movie which has no vision other than providing subpar entertainment through mindless application of certain formulas; and for that matter it's a unique perspective, which's why he's so fascinating - to us who are Breenologists at least.

[@vasileseicaru8740]

was he eating from that tuna can while driving ??? cause if so, that's actually a hilarious random scene. Looked like he had on hand on the can, one hand on the fork and zero hands on the steering wheel, while on the move.

[@J.A.Z-TheMortal]

I don't know how in the world people think he is a troll or is in on the joke. He is absolutely for real. I don't mean to disrespect, but to me he is clearly an aging, socially awkward - out of touch man, that's always behind the times and not up to date with pop culture or its zetgeist, and looks for a escape from reality. Basically hes a mix between Dwight Schrute, Napoleon Dynamite with a bit of Disco Stu mixed in, and we should love him for it.

[@johnjamesleahy4065]

if richard gere and joel olsteen had a son :)

[@natecoet3291]

Crazy people can enjoy this type of stuff. 😅

[@LoneIcon]

Neil Breen > Steven Seagal

[@richardkbreuer]

In my opinion, only the expensive blockbuster type of bad movies including some stars/celebetrities should be in the category "So Bad It's Good". You can't expect a decent production from a "guy".

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

In the end, it's the end-product that matters, not how, or why, it was made :D The film is measured against the expectations it sets for itself. The man is clearly punching above his weight, and whilst the effort is commendable, we shouldn't have any delusions about the end product.

[@rasmustroell3397]

This is too good 😂

[@rasmustroell7160]

Haha klockrent!!

[@CultureVultureMedia1]

My man. Kul att du gillade den Oskar!

[@FLsthenics21]

4:17

[@metalmaidenhell138]

Crotch Tuna

[@Me-hi2ey]

No wiseau is the best😂

[@BortomStockholm]

😂😂😂

[@beritapublic4795]

I almost kill myself while watching this movie