Ranking the Top 10 Films That Were ALMOST Perfect - and what spoiled them!

[@AVAPopCulture]

This should be interesting... lol... Be prepared to be shocked! Pop that tape in, I got you, let's go do this!

[@LukaDinamo]

Hmm hearing that interpretation of The Witch makes me actually like it more. That’s a super unique ending then 👍, never thought of it that way.

[@amysson5151]

This video was almost perfect except for one movie pick…The Witch. That movie is overhyped, pretentious, not scary and boring. All the other movie picks are good movies, though.

[@gregmcdonald8962]

The eagles couldn't just fly them in because Sauron would see them coming a mile away and stop any chance of them getting anywhere near close enough to destroy the ring. They had to go in stealth mode if they had any hope of success. This was literally discussed in Rivendell when the decision was made.... C'mon, man! 😜

[@richeaton5752]

I haven't read the books in 40-50 years, so I can't remember if Tolkien wrote it that way, but the Mithril shirt that protected Frodo from a troll's spear, can't stop the spider's sting???

[@gregmcdonald8962]

@@richeaton5752 he had lost the mithril shirt earlier to the orcs so he didn't have it at the point Gollum led them to the spider.

[@richeaton5752]

@@gregmcdonald8962 err. He had the shirt on in Moria. They next went to Galadriel in Lothlorien. Then, the fight where Boromir dies and Frodo leaves. Next, he's with Faramir, then up the stairs and the spider's sting, after which is the orcs fighting over the shirt in the tower. This was literally shown in the movie.... C'mon, man!

[@gregmcdonald8962]

@@richeaton5752 dammit, you're right, lol. My bad. Apparently the movie doesn't make it clear but the spider stung him in the neck area where the shirt offered no protection. It's been a few years since I last watched and probably couple decades since I read the book.

[@richeaton5752]

@@gregmcdonald8962 I read the books twice as a kid in the 70s. Maybe in the book Shelob got him in the neck, but in Peter Jackson's movie, she gets him in the chest.

[@LukeLovesRose]

And I totally agree with you about The Witch. Hereditary is also making Satan out to be good. That's almost exactly what I took away from The Witch and it's antichristian messages. It's so creepy that audiences are praising a movie that trashes Christianity so subtly

[@AVAPopCulture]

@LukeLovesRose I think a lot of people watch stuff on such a surface level nowadays- perhaps our "headline reading only" culture? But I've always been someone who watches stuff with a deeper thought process and since I became a writer and filmmaker, I pick up on stuff even more than I did growing up - you realize the amount of purpose and planning that it took to put that "message" in the movie.... it doesn't exist without a lot of intention and setting up things while filming too...so yeah, I'm not into that part of it lol

[@joshknoll5172]

I have never seen "The Witch," and now I really want to see it.

[@LukeLovesRose]

I totally agree with you about Maggie Gyllenhaal and The Dark Knight.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@LukeLovesRose yeah I just didn't feel she was right at all

[@fallenhero3130]

KILL BILL would be an example of this for me. I really love all of VOL. 1 and the first two thirds of VOL. 2. However, the entire last act of VOL. 2, when the Bride finally confronts Bill and they just talk and talk and give us backstory and the little girl just accepts her new mom and never questions anything, has always been an ending that rang hollow.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@fallenhero3130 Tarantino Loves his dialogue too much sometimes

[@thelastmoviestanding]

U shoulda just titled this “nitpicking your favorites movies” 😂

[@AVAPopCulture]

some are more than nitpicks but hey, that is what film critique is right? lol... Ive gotten blasted from critics and reviewers for not doing stuff in my movies that would have literally cost about 10 times the budget we had for the whole movie -just to add for a scene or two LOL

[@jcrashmore]

The new IT is far from perfect, but I'll always love it. The reason is; I'm fairly certain that's the movie that made my youngest son a lifelong horror movie fan. (He was 5 at the time and enjoyed the hell of it when his older brother and sister refused to watch) That's when I finally understood that some folks are just hard-wired to love scares and creepy movies\horror.

[@kimwand]

In Die Hard 2, if Mrs McCain had handed her phone to the pilot, it would have ended much quicker. Sauron in LOTR shows up at the end of the story with the scouring of the shire, it's when Pippin and Merry use their skills learnt from being with the Rohirrim and Gondor to organise the rebellion against the men who've taken control of the shire, definitely a coming of age for those two. Sadly, they decided not to go down that route.

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

I agree, Cameron Diaz was miscast in Gangs of New York. She was great in There’s Something About Mary and she looked hot in The Mask though. Regarding The Dark Knight, while I think that Katie Holmes looks hot, I think that she’s a terrible actress and she couldn’t have pulled off what Maggie did imo.

[@AVAPopCulture]

Diaz looked amazing in the mask for sure! I personally just find Maggie's performance such an overely depressive downer lol my much bigger issue with that movie is the over-aggressive CGI for 2-face though

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

@@AVAPopCulture yep, CGI looked really weird at the end of the 2000s and throughout the 2010s, like in Snowpiercer and Annihilation.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@excelsiormoviereviews it just never makes sense that they had this great practical face deformity makeup for the Joker and then went so CGI for Two-Face

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

@@AVAPopCulture absolutely! I still love The Dark Knight though, it doesn’t ruin for me but it does date the movie.

[@Azrael138]

Fully agree with you about The Witch, well put. I enjoyed the movie on a surface level but it's inherently pro-evil.

[@AVAPopCulture]

yeah, I feel like if you put more of "the witch" and "the devil" in the movie you make it an obvious horror where they are pulling the strings and twisting the family up but then that takes away making the family be the evil villians for their faith....so, it has to make you go hmmmm... becuase if the witch and devil were in it more, it takes that away and makes it a better movie too - so it seems like that message was at the forefront?...

[@Azrael138]

​@@AVAPopCulture absolutely. You can put those themes into a movie without building the whole movie around it, and leaving no ambiguity.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@Azrael138 agreed! 100%

[@ClellBiggs]

I didn't realize there was disagreement over the meaning behind The Witch. Haven't watched it again since my first viewing.

[@AVAPopCulture]

oh yeah, when I did my first watch review video of it last week, I made this same arguement but a lot of people didnt see it that way....just shows how different people can get something different from the same movie

[@jsiqueblue4948]

I agree with you that's Dracula, sometimes it's just noticeable another times I can look past it because Keanu still can be charming. But I think Gary oldman portrayal of Dracula just kills it no pun intended. Every time I see this movie I love it even more. I think it's one of the best practical effects of the bat Dracula, ever!!!

[@AVAPopCulture]

oh I absolutely love that movie, it is near the top of my favortie vampire movies ever - and I love Keanu bt I laugh at his accent and delivery sometimes and I shouldnt be laughing LOL

[@medicatedmoviereviews5764]

watched the original It for the first time last year and was pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Tim Curry is the man!

[@AVAPopCulture]

Yeah I think it has unbeatable atmosphere

[@mike2write]

FYI - A 4K presentation of the extended Director's Cut of "Lifeforce" is available to preorder in a variety of Mediabook designs from Amazon Germany. It keeps getting pushed back (was supposed to come out in July), but is now scheduled to release on September 27.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@mike2write I need to add that to my targets list!!!

[@screamingeekmedia]

Interesting topic. When talking about Halloween III, I completely agree. I always liked the movie but wished it had different name. For me, one that comes to mind is Halloween Ends. After the previous 2, I was expecting a pure massacre for the finale but did not even see Michael for 30-40 minutes. I felt robbed. I saw it at theater and hated it. But once it came to 4K, I did enjoy it more.

[@AVAPopCulture]

100% agree on Halloween Ends...I almost felt like a lot of the first act of that movie belonged in the first act of the first movie in that trilogy

[@paultomaszewski1964]

The Halloween franchise was not ment to be about about Michael Meyers only. It was ment to be an anthology series with a different "spokey story" every film. Michael Meyers was "The Boogeyman" and it was so successful they rushed out the sequel to capitolize on it.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@paultomaszewski1964 nobody knew that back then....it wasn't easy to get that kind of news or for people to talk about what the director/writer claimed to have had as an idea for the franchise....some of that has gotten out of context in recent years too...according to Carpenter, he didn't originally want a sequel or an anthology and only decided to move away from Michael Myers after he didn't like Halloween II... www.google.com/amp/s/www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/halloween-film-franchise-anthology-plans-explained%3famp

[@LukeLovesRose]

The Extended Cut is the best version of Return of The King. But I agree with you about the eagles. All they had to do was tell the audience that the eagles would become evil if they came close to Mordor. Something!

[@jcrashmore]

I agree with 90%+ of these, but some are much further away from perfect on my own personal rating system. I always enjoy your perspectives on stuff like this and comparing them to mine.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I dont think overall perfection can happen...but a movie can be perfect for what it is

[@scottcunningham799]

Great video. My thoughts on the Titanic were that Rose always intended on keeping the diamond until her dying day not knowing she'd ever have a chance to throw it into the exact resting place of Jack and the Titanic. It was a once in a lifetime chance to drop it in memory of Jack and she was now on her death bed so she no longer needed to hold onto it. I also think the reason Jack was more special to her than her long time husband is because Jack gave his life to save her something her husband probably never did, also she would have never met her husband or had a family if it wasn't for Jack saving her to begin with. Just my thoughts on it.

[@AVAPopCulture]

It is hard to get behind foregoing someone you were with for a lifetime and had a family with... lots of first responders save people's lives and sometimes even lose their lives in the process but nobody would ever think of them in that way over a spouse I dont think... everyone is entitled to their opinion, those are just two giant WTH anchors for me LOL

[@AVAPopCulture]

and thank you for the kind words!!!

[@LukeLovesRose]

As a fan, I'm glad to see Titanic ended up on your list. Its nearly perfect. But regardless, Titanic is the greatest movie-going experience of my life

[@AVAPopCulture]

@LukeLovesRose oh I absolutely love Titanic! Those things just piss me off about it lol... "It" is one of the worst offenders on this list and it is literally in my top 25 favorite movies of all time....

[@townsjim]

Totally agree about ROTK, I found it quite frustrating and it just drags on and on with the multiple endings. FOTR and Two Towers are just better movies imo.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@townsjim I agree!!!

[@beyondz55]

I love Life-force and totally agree with you. I wish they they had made the directors cut 4K as well...the score is used much better on that cut!

[@beyondz55]

BTW I'm a hip hop producer by another name(octavators) and on my album with the rapper Vivid, I sampled some of that amazing Life force score in a beat for the track "Masked Man" check it out on yt, thanks

[@AVAPopCulture]

yeah getting the unrated cut in 4k would have made that a perfect release for me!

[@AVAPopCulture]

interesting score to sample, I'll have to check it out!

[@LizardKing75]

The eagles could not enter Mordor until Sauron was destroyed which could only happen with the ring thrown into the lava of Mount Doom. As long as that big eyeball was on top of the tower of Mordor then Saurons magic would prevent the eagle's entry.

[@AVAPopCulture]

if magic could stop them from entering, how come it couldnt stop men or hobbits from entering?

[@LizardKing75]

​@@AVAPopCultureI think the eagles would be much easier to spot than hobbits on the ground. I guess. I googled it but couldn't find any good answers there either 🤣

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@LizardKing75 yeha I went back and looked it up before I did the video and never found a good explaination LOL

[@jcrashmore]

@@AVAPopCulture There's an explanation in the books, but it didn't make the cut in the movies.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@jcrashmore see, Ive read the books and dont remember that and Ive google searched it and i cannot find an explanation

[@JerryRoark777]

I swear I honestly don't remember seeing a single part of Titanic. Everything you just said was new to me. I DID NOT want to watch that movie, but my girlfriend wanted to see it. I drank sooo much during Titanic. It felt like it took days to watch. It was me, my girlfriend, and my roommate watching it after I rented it for her, and I swear I stood up and started applauding when the end credits started. She's like "I thought you hated this movie," and I said, "I've never been so happy to see end credits. Let's watch Skinner now." Oh yeah, and I'm with you 100% on Halloween 3. Excellent stand-alone movie. Not so much for a Halloween movie.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I think if Halloween III was called anything else, it would have been a massive hit right out of the gate

[@JerryRoark777]

@AVAPopCulture I said the exact same thing. Since it took place in Haddonfield, they could've even added something like "A Halloween Story" after the main title. The connection would've been there, but the disappointment wouldn't have been.

[@Seather17]

I watched Susperia because of your last video on it and I 100% agree with you on the score. Way to loud and obnoxious at a few points.

[@AVAPopCulture]

yeah I think it just hits and blares too loud and overpowers the scenes in a lot places

[@ericspalacio]

Also, what I meant by the exorcist as an example is that people as outsiders who are not Catholics or Christians will view it as, why should I believe if people still get possessed or go crazy/may seem like a lot of nonsense to atheists or even Christians as a lot of our believes conflict with Catholicism today. The exorcist shows how blood religious believes are because like I said at the end of the day they’re all still human beliefs. That’s not my take from the exorcist, but I can and do understand how an atheist or some Christians view it as, you’re in the wrong religion, you’re on the wrong side, you’re all just crazy. As per the it movies, I do agree that the original 1990 version was done better. At least they told the story, the ending was a lot more traumatic and made more sense, as in chapter 2 of the remake left a lot out of how it ended, in the original it movie, the bike made a lot more sense and had more relevancy because of the wife character in the new one the bike doesn’t really hold too much significance as there was hardly no development. It should’ve mattered, quite unfortunate for the new one/remake.

[@devonbrooks246]

LOL, you are so right about Titanic. The only part I love about this movie is watching the boat sink. Rose is a selfish old lady. Me and my wife noticed the same thing. She dies and wants to be with Jack who she lusted with for two days. There is a name for that.

[@AVAPopCulture]

right?! lol never made sense to me....

[@ericspalacio]

As for the dark Knight, I’m in the camp that believe tropic thunder should have took home a lot of the awards that year, I did love Heath ledger‘s interpretation of a great antagonist against the new or what was once new dark Knight, Nolan creation, but I didn’t care For him as the joker at all, yeah the dark Knight didn’t have the epic ending at the last three minutes of that movie I would not have liked it at all. The dark Knight had a big story, good story, sometimes I think when they bring the Characters to movies we get lost in translation when it comes to if we should have certain character development brought from the comic books or if we should have original aspects in this adaptation of the movie which can bring something new, I think he ledger hit on something new, but it should not have been the joker, I guess my interpretation of the joker of course was Jack Nicholson‘s even though I grew up with the Adam West Cesar Romero’s joker, Jack brought it to a dark and creepy level at the same time. It was fun, he made me laugh and you can tell he really enjoyed doing the role as, disturbed as his character was in the original Batman 1989. The ledger interpretation was smart, he was not a madman, he knew how and what to do to bring somebody to their knees, including the dark Knight, introducing his version of chaos and mind conditioning Was not how I saw the Joker ever, still don’t, Mark Hamill took what Jack did to the next level in the app animated series series, and made it even more fun to be psychotic, if that sounds even crazier than crazy, he ledger was too straight Madman/not madman, he acted like a madman, but did not display the ax of one as everything he did was done calculated and intelligently to get what he wanted from just about everyone he worked with, from the mob bosses, to the crazy people in the mental mental institutions, and of course Harvey and Batman, I did not laugh once at anything he did. It was too stiff for me to smile at, his character was very serious, maybe that’s why they threw that line in, why so serious, to take away the fact that he was very seriousfor a joker character. In the word of Forrest Gump, that’s all I have to say about that.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I think Ledger went for a more realistic take on the Joker than anything before...I grew up with the same versions of Joker that you did so to see an actor bring Joker to life in a realistic way just brought something I had never seen before...the 1 funny moment I think of for him is when he is walking away from the hospital in teh nurse's outfit and how he reacts when the hospital doesnt blow up all the way and then he has to re hit the remote detenator

[@jameslitke451]

Great video can't fault you on even 1 of your points 👍 good reviews

[@AVAPopCulture]

Hey thank you so much!! I enjoy a good discussion about movies! I feel like if we don't talk about them then they fade away....doesn't mean I don't love these, just means I always wish for a little tweak but I enjoy them nonetheless!!

[@Allan-Thubten-Sherab]

I agree about Dracula. Love Keanu Reeves in Speed, The Matrix, Devil's Advocate etc, But he was not the right casting choice for that film, and is actually the film's only weak point. One wonders why they had not just cast an English actor for Keanu's role. And of course this is particularly evident in the scenes with Gary Oldman who plays his role perfectly. Sorry Keanu you are really good in many of your other movies 😂😂

[@AVAPopCulture]

I love him but that accent always just makes me chuckle LOL

[@Allan-Thubten-Sherab]

Yes definitely LOL. He should never try to do a 19th century English accent again unless it's a comedy 😂😂

[@michaelchauvin7219]

Halloween 3 is a 'Damned if you do. Damned if you don't." The John Carpenter team had wanted Halloween to be more of an anthology series. Audiences rejected #3. So, they went back to Michael Myers afterwards.

[@AVAPopCulture]

Back at that time there just wasn't enough access to news and previews etc to really convey that the movies wasn't featuring Michael Myers and so the average movie goers were expecting part 3 to just continue right on with MM and maybe even pick up like part 2 had done...instead they got a movie that had nothing to do with MM or the first 2 movies lol

[@bmg5015]

Oh man, when you started talking about my beloved Bram Stoker's Dracula, I wondered what you were going to say about that masterpiece. You're right, though. Keanu Reeves' struggling accent was quite awful

[@AVAPopCulture]

And it killed me to say anything because I love that movie and I love Keanu but it is rather comedic and can take you out of the movie if you let it

[@bmg5015]

Absolutely

[@jsiqueblue4948]

​@@AVAPopCultureright I would have liked to see Johnny Depp in that role.

[@kristinaF54]

Yes Halloween 3 is a Halloween-themed movie, but it's really not part of the franchise with Michael Myers as the villain. It should just be enjoyed as a stand-alone horror movie. I totally agree with IT Chapter 2 being sucky (like the second half of the series version) because the book's ending is sucky. If you watch The Outsider miniseries (also written by King) it really is a rehash of the second part of IT, except the shapeshifting creature is (spoiler alert) a Wendigo, but the story is basically adult facing/hunting the child-killing creature that returns after intervals of a number of years (just like the gang does when they're all grown up hunting Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Derry, but character-driven and no CGI nonsense).

[@AVAPopCulture]

@kristinaF54 I never got past the first episode of The Outsider but keep thinking I'd go back to it....I would have kept the ending of It more realistic even if it had to be tweaked

[@paultomaszewski1964]

Halloween was never ment to be just about Micheal Meyers. Was originally set up to be a different "Halloween" movie for every entry. Michael Meyers was the "Boogey Man", they even referred to him as that thoughout the movie. The next Halloween movie was to be another spooky story and so on. (like Halloween 3)

[@gregmcdonald8962]

Wait...Titanic actually shows them in Heaven?! I have never been more glad and proud to have never seen that ETRADERD movie, lol!

[@AVAPopCulture]

@gregmcdonald8962 lol yep

[@stickywicked447]

Spot on Chase, I have noticed a lot of these same issues...question: what IS the perfect movie? 🤔

[@AVAPopCulture]

I think perfection is hard to attain but for me ,if I get to the end of the movie and the storytelling is awesome and I cant really see obvious holes etc, it gets closer to being as perfect as it can be...may not be "perfect" but "perfect for what it is" ...that type of thing

[@TheTylerpoe]

I’m not sure why Halloween III didn’t bother me but I totally get why it rubbed people the wrong way. That’s interesting about the script for Suspiria, I never knew that. I don’t love Suspiria as much as others, I’ve only watched it once though but I definitely liked Phenomena, Deep Red and Tenebrae more.

[@AVAPopCulture]

I have still never seen Tenebrae!!

[@AVAPopCulture]

Phenomena I remember as a kid when it came out here as "Creepers"

[@captivatedspace]

The alternate ending for Titanic's diamond is so much better.

[@Rozzyc1976]

Arnold Schwarzenegger as an extra in Titanic ruins it for me it's too damn funny to see.

[@Questionmark87-r4k]

Personally I haven't seen any movie I legitimately thought was "perfect" and couldn't find any fault with. Imo no movie is "perfect", that's why I don't give movies 10/10s. I love the godfather, it's probably one of my all time favorites, however I don't believe it's "perfect". However I have watched plenty movies I would have really loved or liked if there were some things that were done differently or changed. For example I watched Someone To Watch Over Me for the first time back in may and that movie would have easily been an 8/10 for me if it wasn't for the ending. I was so mad, I probably won't ever buy a copy of that movie unless I saw it out in the wild for super cheap and I probably won't ever watch it again. I can go on and on when it comes to movies like that. ☹️☹️

[@AVAPopCulture]

I am too much of a perfectionist to ever consider anything perfect LOL - especially stuff I do myself so I hear ya!

[@handsomestik]

A History of Violence. It is almost perfect, has great lines, great characters, dark and psychological, great sex scene. Ending ruins it a little. Almost perfect 10 film

[@AVAPopCulture]

I still need to see that one!

[@Dk._]

Maybe it would help you like the Witch even more if you reconsider what the professor is saying - the quote you read says “at least in its Puritan form,” when referring to Christianity. I found the film to be depicting, in part, that extremism and zealotry in any form leads to bad outcomes for everyone in one way or another.

[@AVAPopCulture]

you found it to be depiciting zealotry in any form to lead to bad outcomes?.... Except for the girl who killed her mom and signed her soul over and was rewarded and happy for it?... interesting...

[@alfonsoagren414]

👍 Fun list stiring up some feelings! I respect all even if I see it differently. Taste is…you know. Agree on the Lord Of The Ring eagles. Lol. I thought the same the first time I saw those movies. But still love them highly! Cheers!

[@AVAPopCulture]

thank you! I figured Id take some heat on this one despite saying again and again that I like, or even LOVE these films! lol

[@ericspalacio]

I think that do interpretation of how an outsider can perceive Christianity from movies like the witch can be interpreted as people just not having the strength to hold onto what they believe anymore. The witch has even other movies like the exorcist as an example is an an understanding of how much we’re willing to let go and keep moving forward with things that are structured in our Christian believes, will we accept these people? Will we accept those people, transgender, lesbians, prejudice, just about anybody who has an extreme belief that everybody should accept them, no matter what. what I mean by this is as Christians, we attempt to forget that whether your Catholic Jewish or an atheist, at the end of everything that we have, we are all still very imperfect individuals, the Democrats the Republicans all still human beings one sees the other side is evil another sees the other side is evil and at the end of the day if we can’t figure out that Christian Catholics Mormons, we have too much conditions that separate us, if we can’t figure out how to drop the things that we need to let go, we will forever be at war with each other Christians don’t like other Christians, are you Pentecostal, are you non-denominational, the list goes on, but this movie makes a good point for me. Christians may not like it, but sometimes you’ve been ask Christians. We have to put ourselves on the fire. We also must judge ourselves our religion, or belief in a better term is still meant to move forward and progress, not adopting things that damage our society just so we can make nice with everybody for the moment. I mean making peace/an artificial offering what we like to call nice can cost us everything in the end. Everybody alive today is included in this statement. You have a place when you’re young figure it out, focus on one or two things become great at them, and understand, we cannot have it all some of the greatest things that we can accomplish. Are those one or two things that we focus on for the rest of our lives help your children understand who they are what the world is and do not deny them the darkness that they will not be able to handle when they’re older, sheltering kids today too much has led to what we have now teach children not to be victims when they’re young, help them understand the consequences and accountability of their actions as children, it may not be liked, but when they’re ready and older to phase life they will be more prepared to understand when things don’t always go their way. 34:41

[@AVAPopCulture]

I would argue if you want to make the statement you are talking about, that is fine BUT, take the relgious aspect out of it and it is still saying that murder and materialism for one's own gain are great and are glorified and are rewarded and that message isnt good no matter what your faith is!

[@ericspalacio]

@@AVAPopCulture I 100% agree with your statement, but a nice stress BUTT, just a little humor well at least for me, I still believe that movies like this are appropriate example of showing each other that we’re all capable Christians atheists and alike being guilty of the same evils that we fail to accept or understand when we’re young, the Vietnam war, sent millions of children to die, this Christian country sent millions of children to die, we ask Christians need to strive for more and see our own shortcomings.

[@urbanstad7353]

At 28:36. Kamala Harris? :D

[@AVAPopCulture]

🤣😂

[@benbelzer8303]

Unburdened by what has been 😅. I just know they're going to make fun of this on SNL tonight. It's the 50th anniversary premiere. If you haven't seen the mockery on the Daily Show of Kamala it is hysterical! It's titled "Holistic Thought Advisor".

[@amysson5151]

Great idea for a video topic. Subscribed. But I still don’t like The Witch for the way it and Eggers represented Christianity as a bad thing. Good job with the channel, though.

[@AVAPopCulture]

thank you!!!! and I agree about that representation... and thank you again for subscribing! I hope you have a lot of fun with the channel

[@tzmkira002]

Great watch

[@AVAPopCulture]

hey! thank you! I am glad you had fun with it...I figured Id take a lot of heat on this one even though I love these moives lol

[@LukeLovesRose]

Cameron Diaz is or was a solid actress. She was great in The Holiday

[@AVAPopCulture]

solid actress but I feel like she sticks out like a sore thumb in this movie lol

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@AVAPopCulture Fair enough

[@Scottyguns]

I agree with you about The Dark Knight. Maggie Gyllenhall's performance is terrible. Between her and Katie Holmes, horrible choices for women. The original Batman with Kim Basinger, Michelle Pfeiffer in Returns and even Kidman in Forever blows them away. Christian Bale is the better Batman. Keaton took a backseat to Nicholson's performance. Probably should have been called Laugh of the Joker, he stole the show. Bale and Ledger were equally impressive.

[@dankairgadam8841]

Gyllenhall sucked but I thought Katie Holmes was pretty good in Batman Begins.

[@urbanstad7353]

At 9:40 Going back to what u were saying about Suspiria at 6:12 that 12 year olds and 20 year olds dont act the same, ehm, yes they do and with 5 words I can summarize that they do - W-o-m-e-n. Women then at that period but women even worse today are so ungrateful what they have or what did have, but lost it when commiting adultery. Later when confronted with their selfish behaviour they get defensive, blaming the men that they were not there for them and when the men threaten to leave their women, they beg to not leave them. Women are adult babies that dont take any accountabilty for their actions. They want 1 man to provide for them but another man to have on the side for the action bit, 1 man is not enough because they find the provider as "boring" and want the bad boy, in this case Jack. This movie doesnt blame the woman (wanted to write another 5 letter word to discribe her) but making the husband the villian when confronting her...buuuu! Never liked Titantic and never will. I like J C before 89 but after that he became is kind of a malefeminist. Just look at Sarah Connor raising John Connor on her own before going to the mental instituation, what becomes of John Connor - A criminnal. Single mothers have more criminial children than 2 parent household, because the Man/father dont let their children get away with crimes and the man/father punishes their children by talking to them strictly, women dont have that logic and just let their children do what ever they want. Yes I like T2 for the action but not for the feminist agenda it has like when Sarah saying the Terminator is not like the would be fathers who came and went, I understand that Kyle died before John was even born, and the Terminator is gonng be this new step father for John. No man wants to take care of another woman´s child that isnt theirs but women tend to leave a good man/husband but later on regret their stupid decision, because of feminism is telling women that they need "no" man. is your tree Sarah, u are siting on it, deal w your bad decision. Women are so easly impressionable because they go by emotions and not logic. If women just stayed in their homes and not going work (at least not to authority work places), the woldd would be a better place but now women run many institutions and all hell brakes loose. Im totally with u on Titantic issue regarding Rose, besides she is fat and ugly in my opinion :D A goodlooking high value woman doesnt do this, I know some women who are still w their husbands and they really are stunning. Look also how ungrateful she is to Jack in the water w the whole wooden board thing, women back stabb men no matter what. MGTOW all the way for me atleast. Watch Alexander Grace´s new video from today 23 august 2024 about a woman being selfish in the title: "Every man...", u gonna see what im talking about. Sorry for the long rant.

[@ozzy.....7383]

There are hobbits in real life we just can’t call them that

[@AVAPopCulture]

😂

[@255placiddr]

You could say that Lifeforce sucked the "lifeforce" out of Cannon Films 😂.Keanu is the opposite of daniel day lewis

[@AVAPopCulture]

@@255placiddr it definitely did lol...but I love that movie

[@miguelsantiago2772]

Yeah i like the suspiria remake better than og one. That track sucks balls on the og one, sounds really bad in my opinion.

[@RandomPickles]

bwahahaha. Yeah, religion is bad. Uh oh! How dare a movie speak the truth! lol I gotta go out and pick up The Witch now! Sounds great!

[@AVAPopCulture]

@RandomPickles you're entitled to your opinion but you're kinda missing the point if you think it is about religion because she is literally trading one religion for another .

[@beector2010]

I don’t even know where to start with your critique of The Witch. What you’re saying is that you dislike the fundamental thesis of the movie. That given extremism, Christianity imposed on somebody can be a bad thing. If you have a problem with that that’s your opinion and I understand. But if you disagree with the movie on such a base level I don’t understand how you can find it anywhere “near perfect.” You like it because it’s dark then? Doesn’t make sense.

[@AVAPopCulture]

imagine being able to take your "feelings" out of everything and being able to look at things in an objective manner for what they do well?????? what a crazy concept this day and age right?... btw, everything is opinion based - that is the point

[@beector2010]

@@AVAPopCulture ok but how is the movie almost perfect then

[@AVAPopCulture]

@beector2010 objectively, outside of that which I find to distasteful personally, it is well shot, well acted, well directed etc...outside of my personal feelings on that situation and the need for a little more action/witch, there isn't negatives to go after thus, it is Almost perfect...you can score a 9.8 and still be great but 10 is perfect...usually there is always 1 or 2 things that separate anything from being perfect

[@thelastmoviestanding]

you know you have to make a "perfect film" list now right lol what are films you consider perfect? & there better be an Argento film in there or people are going to go crazy 🤣

[@AVAPopCulture]

I don't know if there is a such thing as a perfect film...there are films that I think are perfect for what they are - in that they did the perfect job for the story they were telling etc...

[@AVAPopCulture]

No argento film would make my list lol

[@randycunningham7318]

Keanu is a horrible actor, and no one will ever convince me otherwise. I don't get the people who praise him. He is the worst, most wooden and awkward A list actor of all time.

[@ChadHuisinga]

The Witch is a masterpiece… Christianity and catholicism as a mass religion have consistently degraded and subjugated women. This is a response to that ideology…. She gravitates to the Devil at the end because she can be herself and she is not being oppressed. This is a statement on religion and the human hypocrisy that drives big religion. You can have faith and I respect you for that belief but organized religion is a cauldron of men seeking power and worship and they don’t deserve any faith or devotion. The past is the guide and it is proven over and over again… Religion is not truth and The Witch is a dark allegory to that belief.

[@AVAPopCulture]

where was the organized religion in this movie? this family was completely isolated...that kind of takes away that arguement I would think...as a person of faith who has also studied and taught history, I agree that organziations that control it are fallable and have themselves been the cause of bad things due to their reach to "do it their way and to do it what they deem to be the right way" - but that is literally true of anything, and I mean ANYTHING that involves human beings because human beings are fallable, corruptable, and imperefect -BUT that is the people themselves and not the faith or relgion itself that is causing that problem and also underlines the need for faith -to be forgiven for those mistakes....

[@AVAPopCulture]

Id also say calling it a "masterpiece" is a lot further than Id go with it lol

[@ChadHuisinga]

@@AVAPopCulture I respect your comment I found it very insightful. Thank you.

[@ChadHuisinga]

@@AVAPopCulture We all have our opinions and that’s what makes the world interesting.

[@AVAPopCulture]

@user-sm9fb5oq9t thank you for the discussion!

[@raccooneyes2099]

"no country for old men" is perfect start to finish. its in my top 10 faves.

[@AVAPopCulture]

good movie!!!!

[@clothesontheground]

AI had the answers - this will make nitpickers MAD - mic drop: Sauron’s Defenses: Sauron had control over the skies of Mordor, with numerous flying creatures like the Nazgûl on their Fellbeasts patrolling the area. The Eagles would have faced significant danger and likely been intercepted, Sauron / ring - had to be defeated to clear the skies - unless you wanted a black hawk down - literally. The Eagles’ Autonomy: The Eagles are sentient beings with their own will and priorities. They are not simply at the beck and call of the characters in the story. They help when they choose to, often in dire situations, but they are not a taxi service (damn, that's a scorpion kick to the nitpicker's FACE, ooof). Stealth and Secrecy: The mission to destroy the One Ring required utmost secrecy. Flying directly into Mordor would have drawn too much attention. The Fellowship needed to avoid detection to ensure the Ring could be destroyed (common sense, actually). Physical Limitations: Even the Great Eagles have their limits. The journey to Mordor is long and arduous, and carrying someone all the way there would have been extremely taxing (logistics - eff that, I bend the narrative to fit my nitpick).

[@AVAPopCulture]

AI is not a serious source