Rogue Elements - TV Series Proof Of Concept

[@DildoDaggins69]

Just went to the bathroom and took a massive proof of concept.

[@DavidCPuff]

I wish I could like this comment more than once.

[@AccurateDiscoFever45]

underrated af 😭

[@BraveNewSlop]

Lmao

[@bubblegumxo]

Lol! That's awesome. Except now I'm going to think that in my mind 😂

[@KekaiPrampin]

You know what else is massive

[@TIG5574]

Lets all be honest, reading the comments is way more fun than watching the 'film'.

[@Jacques.Smith_]

I love the drinker and I enjoy his reviews, but you are 100% correct. I'm halfway through both now.

[@TheStreamThatJakeBuilt]

>complains about holywood being unoriginal >makes unoriginal slop

[@Annieareyouokayshamone]

Hey, Holywood was a good Marilyn Manson album.

[@TheStreamThatJakeBuilt]

@ lmao i didnt even notice my typo. Yes it is a good album

[@RobertQualkinbush]

The pistols with endless magazines got on my nerves

[@rocoe9019]

The mary sue didn't!

[@kiwamicorps]

But remember, that's the guy that talks about realism in Lord of the Rings, when it came to woman fighting mistical thing, but when guys in movies can beat everyone, infinite numer of times, it's ok.

[@Jacques.Smith_]

The pistols 3d print their own bullets. Come on, how could you not tell? 😂😂

[@KojinCastle]

Gotta see “The Drinker Fixes” for this movie.

[@samb8744]

He can’t fix shit because he’s a moron

[@OneRedKraken]

He should really do this. It would hilarious to see him being able to laugh at his own mistakes. I couldn't even watch the whole thing myself lol But I knew it was going to be shit the minute he announced it. Especially when he said it was going to be an action/spy/thriller thing.

[@fulcrum6760]

More like Drinker ignores.

[@kiwamicorps]

Then why he's so silent about that? That's real problem with him. Even if he's doing about it now, everything he was saying to this point, backfires. He's nowhere to be seen on the comments, he's still shitting on the other film, but acts like this actually don't exist. Real bravery.

[@fulcrum6760]

@@kiwamicorps I’m hoping some big channel watches this and clowns on him. Bonus if it’s MoistCritikal. Charlie would absolutely destroy this and call him out.

[@cloudybird5787]

Jeez can you tone it down with the royalty free stock music.

[@stephenbaldassarre2289]

Yeah, that and the nauseating "we screw with it because we can" digital color grading.

[@marekdabrowski1074]

Agree

[@openwide000]

Yeah I skipped around and it was all just "dun dun dundundun" every scene. And it looked like someone went full crack head on the lighting

[@henningeide8355]

I'm dissapointed the ending credits didn't open with Disturbed's down with the sickness.

[@coco3584]

Finally, a straight to DVD generic action movie slop. We are so back

[@lemuntpicard7482]

Since when Hallmark make spy thrillers?!

[@SPACECOWBOY705]

they still make these thoough lol

[@Eamonshort1]

RedBox is back in action baby! Dads / graddads, who have to go to wallmart with their wife to do the shopping because she always buys the wrong brand of orange juice rejoice! You can rent this, then when your kids are down from college for the thanksgiving, you can drunkenly recount the plot them with about 35% accuracy!

[@nolabets3130]

@@coco3584 legitimately my favorite genre of film ever

[@MatthewMortensen1]

This has the film quality of a modern day Steven Segal epic.

[@SexPanther42069]

He’s running fatly round corners

[@kiwamicorps]

Steven Segal film would be funny at least.

[@bardoomguy]

This isn't good quality, I agree, but what action film is of quality with a budget as low as this? Steven Seagal films have a much, much higher budget

[@kiwamicorps]

@@bardoomguy again, it's writing. That's his part.

[@bardoomguy]

@@kiwamicorps "film quality" is a poor way to describe that, but ok. Fair enough.

[@saywhat303]

This is the cinematic equivalent to pissing on your own doorstep.

[@andrewlaco1776]

We’ve all been there before…😅

[@TheDarkyodk]

Legitimately crazy how this is an amalgamation of everything you criticize. Impressively hypocritical.

[@anotherrobot]

PRECISELY. cliches after cliches on a very average, forgettable movie. not trying to be cynical as well.

[@angellara7040]

His books in a nutshell

[@somemysteriousguy7114]

how so? he criticized female characters for being OP and beating guys twice their size because girl power but that isn't what happened here. Frost the hacker girl couldn't beat that guy by herself and needed help from the sniper guy and Anya who's supposed to be a killing machine gets ko by an RPG to show that she's still vulnerable. They use guns and other weapons to make up for their size. And they don't make Ryan Drake look useless to make them look good.

[@alexmaverick6647]

@@somemysteriousguy7114 You really need to go outside once in a while

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@somemysteriousguy7114 incel

[@NerdyGuyRanting]

"He speaks Russian like a native" And then he never speaks Russian at any point during the mission. He even speaks English as he is distracting a guard. Don't think you thought any of that through.

[@Shadow25720]

"They call him Samurai, he speaks fluent Japanese"

[@Blisterdude123]

"agents from a nameless CIA division called The Shepherds" L M A O

[@marcusgabriel8365]

@@Shadow25720 Gives me “This is Katana” vibes from suicide squad

[@dantederi5062]

Wow, it's as if making something is way harder than criticising it. And being a critic doesn't mean that you have what it takes to do it better. Who would've thought

[@rezaman2080]

Yep, his abomination turned out worse than the meaningless painful slop he always critised

[@twinzzlers]

Maybe he shouldn't of stood on his soap box, claim he knows better, make a fool of himself, all the while spewing out some of the worst 'critcisms' KZbin has ever had.

[@roggos3668]

Oh so you have to be able to make something in the quality of a millions dollar movie in order to criticize them? In that case…. You have to make something better than this one in order to criticize it too baby.

[@doubleaabattery7562]

​@@roggos3668 No that's not the point at all, who put worms in your brain?

[@unlimitedgamerworks6125]

​​@@roggos3668rather the critic should be reasonable and not full of misinformation. He often nit picks things completely out of context

[@Twentyand1]

I gotta be brutally honest here. This is not good. Everything from the dialogue, the characters, the shots and even every moment to moment events feel like worse versions of tropes and cliches I’ve already seen a thousand times over. Sorry Drinker, love you and all of your content. But this isn’t how we one up Hollywood, this is how we deliver a worse version of the same product that’s already been created so many times before…just minus current social politics. It’s not enough

[@steven4217]

Was his intention with this to “one up Hollywood”? I don’t think so

[@Twentyand1]

@ I mean, the way I see it his entire channel is based on calling out their flaws so in my mind if hes going to play their game after all that he should do at least one thing better than them. Not just make something that feels like it came out of the same system 🤷‍♂️

[@steven4217]

@@Twentyand1 drinkers favorite movie is predator and he writes novels about undercover operatives and loves action movies. I’m not sure what you were expecting him to produce but this is film is exactly the kind of film he enjoys to watch in real life. I don’t think he was attempting to go head-to-head with a billion dollar entity like Hollywood. He clearly just wanted to make an action film because he loves action films. There are good reasons to not like this PoC but bevause it didn’t “one up Hollywood” shouldn’t be one of them.

[@Twentyand1]

@ I know both of those factoids already but I have no idea what they have to do with the final quality of this. He correctly critiques all the problems with modern writing and storytelling so my expectations were for his writing and storytelling to be superior even though I knew the rest of the low budget might be evident in things like the visuals. But it’s objectively not good even on that front. I can literally recreate this exact short film by just cutting other scenes straight out of other spy movies and stitching them together and it would be a better result. It has no identity where I was hoping it would shine the most

[@steven4217]

@@Twentyand1 if it’s too cliche, I get ya. I just didn’t agree with your original take about “one-upping Hollywood.” But I understand 100% if you didn’t like it for it being too cliche.

[@theannamueller]

this isn't even stereotypical anymore, it's just regurgitated cliches. or is it supposed to be satire?

[@rocoe9019]

If it was satire he'd be promoting it! Just like if it were good he'd be promoting it 😂

[@DeltaNovum]

Tbh it LOOKS quite well, for a low budget, amateur short movie. Pretty good camera work and editing, audio is pretty good, music sounds like they got it for free, acting is all over the place, but the writing.... Sheesh the writing is not only incredibly contrived, but just overall bad. Feels like it was written by a teenager edge lord that tried to copy every spy thriller he's read or watched, ever. It does seem like satire doesn't it? The accents make it hilarious haha. From the comments I gather it is however NOT a satire! How and why did this concept get made!?

[@thesnowspeaksfinnish]

​@@DeltaNovum So like most Steven Seagal films with higher production value?

[@shawklan27]

​@@thesnowspeaksfinnish but the difference is that they have some true entertainment value in them while this has NONE

[@EmperorDxD]

I also think the production is fine​@@DeltaNovum

[@mildlyobesegoat7262]

This disproved that the concept can work

[@fireball43]

Lmaooooop

[@gollum475dejong3]

😂

[@MarvinPowell1]

Weird syntax there. "This proved that the concept doesn't work." That sounds a hell of a lot better.

[@VelverosaVelaryon]

​@MarvinPowell1 its less comedic though

[@fireball43]

@@MarvinPowell1 🤓🤓🤓

[@sigdec7789]

Damn Crit nice save there with the "Proof of Concept".

[@B1G_WENGH]

Right? An hour before it went live, it was titled Rogue Elements A Ryan Drake Story. But then he changed it to Rogue Elements TV Series Proof of Concept to face less backlash and criticism

[@sigdec7789]

@@B1G_WENGH Lol he's a clever one....

[@rezaman2080]

Haha, nice catch. Glad to see the hypocritical fraud that he is

[@TheHarshWay]

Nah, it'll be fine

[@clarencegboddicker8144]

@@TheHarshWay😂😂😂😂

[@RaggedyGreg]

Can’t wait for the “Drinker Recommends” video

[@OTH89]

I bet he calls his own work woke too.

[@jacksonmoore5696]

That's just going to be an ego trip

[@RaggedyGreg]

@@AngelofRemedy what did you expected, he has to “reflect the world we live in today”

[@thenewpav543]

I would LOVE for him to review it and complain about lazy sloppy writing. 😂

[@councilofkarens729]

Or the "Production Hell" LOL

[@SpartanHighKing14]

Can't wait for the "production hell" video😂😂😂

[@6trillionmiles]

Looks like dogshit

[@6trillionmiles]

@@jadeyetilooks like trash

[@6trillionmiles]

Don’t you know sociopaths can’t be creative? You can only imitate. Stick to videos about Disney princess movies wanker

[@6trillionmiles]

Looks like trash

[@hariman7727]

And the EFAP tearing it apart. ;)

[@DustiNYC]

I can't wait to see what Critical Drinker has to say about this one.

[@jonsnow5518]

Drinkception if he reviews it !

[@brando3342]

I'm betting it's gonna be too woke for him.

[@SpFlash1523]

"It's decent enough, I guess."

[@mightyfineincredible2252]

@@brando3342 You mad someone you despise is successful?

[@mightyfineincredible2252]

@@brando3342 If I were a fascist and one guy with a youtube channel collapsed my ideology I'd be mad too. We get you buddy

[@synonys]

Guess it’s easier to be a critic than a creative…

[@brazil-y2y]

Yes but I'll bet 90+% critics here are paid for by major studios not real people.

[@shawklan27]

He should stick to drinking and hanging out with Piers Morgan

[@jakethet3206]

@@synonys That’s basically the reason the cliché “Everyone’s a critic” exists.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@jakethet3206 no, the cliche here is about failures becoming critics.

[@jakethet3206]

@@EstradaDuran-sg6co Except that he was a dipshit internet critic before he ever tried to create.

[@IanHollis]

This is going to go down in history as one of the movies of all time.

[@MisterDriskul]

Can't wait for Drinky to review this piece of woke (Sorry I mean DEI) turd. Making the main guy a scrawny weak little man and not a huge buff guy like in Aliens or Predator. And having a girlboss moment where the little woman is more skilled than dudes she's fighting. He should tear the writer a new one for this.

[@matthewnewell4517]

😂😂😂😂😂🤡

[@rezaman2080]

😂😂😂😂 if I may fill in the rest: the "most painful to watch, dullest trope-ridden slops" of...

[@Art-is-craft]

Some of you watched this and do not realise it is not a movie. It is a short film and is typical of the genre.

[@MisterDriskul]

@@Art-is-craft Wasn't this marketed as a movie to his kickstarters. And this tv concept pilot, I mean "short film," is worth $500K. Where did the money go? What Drinky couldn't afford a good story?

[@DyslexicLivesMattress]

Music was a serious miss. Overbearing and distracting.

[@hariman7727]

I barely noticed it.

[@hansjuker8296]

Other times, it seriously needed music.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

it was my issue about it

[@GuildOfTheBlackCrow]

I see The Drinker has decided to go the old school route of only having two writers on a script. Very daring.

[@Epoch11]

Writers what writers? Give me the monkey they locked in a room with a typewriter?

[@Epoch11]

I'm going to be very sad for that monkey if this doesn't get picked up.

[@ronintje7647]

I'm sure Amazon will want to get him to hire 15 DEI's if they fund a full season.

[@sidneywindward7937]

who are they, Chat Gpt and Gemini?

[@EliotThemastermind-xb6xp]

​@@sidneywindward7937air can write better scripts

[@loatherofdogma]

I guess the critical drinker has just made a critical stinker?

[@CliffordKing-l3c]

Oh, Yes. I smell shite.

[@andrewtelichanphillips4155]

Here’s a small critique - we Russians don’t know anyone named Ivan pronounced “EYE-van.” It’s only pronounced “ee-VON.” I’m sure an intelligence agent would know this, in spite of being anglophone.

[@JohnsonCocker]

Hes a critic, not a writer. Lmao

[@topwomble]

This is helpful information, but it wouldn't save this mess 😂

[@gyromurphy]

That way of saying eyeven has been stuck in my head since playing the "Freedom Fighters" game on PS2. Its actually a really good game... if the USSR was never dissolved and took over an American city in present times. You direct npcs around... and when you tell one of your team members to charge ahead and attack, your character will occasionally say "Go get Ivan!"... pronounced "eye ven." Im sure you can find a clip on KZbin. All that aside... again, it really is a phenomenal game, even by today's standards. Now, all THAT being said, the dude who I rent from is Russian. Good guy. I gotta see how he pronounces it because all us Yanks have ever heard was Eye ven

[@MaryamofShomal]

Americans say EVERYTHING wrong, even when we know the proper way to say something. It’s not one of our strong suits ☺️ But just a thing that we do 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@matthall7359]

L I K E A N A T I V E

[@tigerchild3676]

I said it before and I’ll say it again. This belongs in the D-tier section of a Goodwill.

[@carlkligerman1981]

LMAO

[@OneRedKraken]

There's no way this even deserves to be printed on disc. The space it takes on YT at the moment is all it deserves. lol

[@Art-is-craft]

D-tier of what? What are you comparing it to?

[@nolabets3130]

@@tigerchild3676 did you say it before?

[@tigerchild3676]

@@nolabets3130 I said it in his trailer video.

[@fulcrum6760]

To all the people leaving negative comments, stop making them. I can’t like them all.

[@JP-qc2lw]

🙃🇦🇺💯

[@nolabets3130]

@@fulcrum6760 are you a trans?

[@DavidCPuff]

Same!!

[@fulcrum6760]

@@DavidCPuff Yeah, this section is gold. I love how Drinker is pretending this doesn’t exist.

[@kylorage5964]

😂😂😂

[@DarrenWatson64]

Looks like the Critical Drinker has entered the Tommy Wiseau-era of his life. Thinking he can produce a much better product than the bad films and TV shows he watched, but realized he lacked the skills, experience and creativity to do so.

[@fulcrum6760]

Unlike Tommy, he’s trying to hide it.

[@EbonyPope]

Well I mean low budget productions don't have really good actors usually to begin with. I would like to see what he would do with a bigger budget. But yeah most critics usually aren't good writers.

[@SlamBeegad]

​@@EbonyPope You ever seen a super high budget movie with bad acting? Me too. You ever seen a super low budget movie with good acting? Me too. Can't imagine what my point is but I probably have one.

[@EbonyPope]

@@SlamBeegad I didn't say he's a good writer. Doesn't seem like it. But also doesn't need to be since these are two different areas. A critic is something entirely different from a writer.

[@SlamBeegad]

@@EbonyPope I was responding to the “actor” bit of what you said, I did NOT mention writing? Thought my point was pretty clear. High BUDGET does NOT necessarily mean good actors & low budget doesn't necessarily mean bad actors. Following was made for less than £10k & the acting is WAY better than anyone in THIS. Acting isn't even the worst part imo. His goal was £20k & he got £300k which means you ARE seeing what he could do with a bigger budget. Imagine how tragic it would be IF the budget WAS £20k.

[@LucidNightmarez]

No way in hell did he make a review shitting on Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and then proceed to make this failure of a "Proof of Concept."

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

He didn't shit on that movie...

[@LucidNightmarez]

@TheOneManWhoBeatYou Didn't he call it "the best of the worst."

[@Annieareyouokayshamone]

​@LucidNightmarezHardly shitting on it, but I get your point.

[@ZaneTalks392]

Somewhat surprised Ryan’s last words to his team weren’t, “Anyway, that’s all we’ve got for today. Go away now.” 😅

[@doberski6855]

😂👍

[@jesusknight1]

THAT would have been epic!

[@shaider1982]

😂. He then says: High command has sent us, ughh, "The Message"

[@BlackEnigma79]

😂😂😂😂

[@pineapplesand556ers]

Ger away nar!

[@RRTNZ]

When Ryan Drake bellowed "I can do this all day! " and fired his M41A pulse rifle into the warp core, thus destroying the Death Star and saving the Hobbits from the Death Eaters....I wept tears of joy.

[@smpdevelopments]

I cheered, what a moment.

[@aikighost]

I thought it was dumb, warp cores dont work like that, did the drinker even research dilithium crystal orthography? Very shoddy....

[@BlackEnigma79]

Nah, for me it was when he said it's Morbbin time

[@BlackEnigma79]

​@@aikighost 😂😂😂

[@JonSnow-YThandle]

​@@bonsai-zone he obviously has a TARDIS mag. One that is very much bigger on the inside 😏

[@spateeight]

It’s like a script written by ChatGPT if you asked it to create a generic, cheesy, unrealistic, trope ridden slop with about as much military realism as a 5 year old playing with toy guns.

[@SlamBeegad]

hahahahahahwhwhwhahahahaha-- You do know he's a PUBLISHED author & has been writing Drake for over 12 years?Like I said hahahahwhahamahahahahahahahahah & HA!

[@spateeight]

@@SlamBeegad how does any of that change the fact that this is utter trash? I haven’t read his books, nor am I commenting on their quality. I’ve seen this though and it’s garbage in so many ways, particularly the writing.

[@SlamBeegad]

​@@spateeight I was pointing out that he SHOULD be able to write better because he's got a dozen books about Drake. I did a review parody of this tripe if ya fancy hearing what Drinker might say if he was honest with his TRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[@EmperorDxD]

​@@spateeightthis movie is ho his books is aswell

[@JP-qc2lw]

After 1:30 all I thought was a rip off of the new version of the A-Team.

[@akashnagar8694]

For the algorithm

[@GigglingStoners]

For Frodo

[@RaggedyGreg]

For the Republic

[@MPcurtis6]

I'm doing my part!

[@brandom255]

Comments for the Commentgod!

[@kristianberg1587]

For fun, then!

[@the_instru]

Fan films made with no budget manage to pull off so much more than this slop

[@Dani-kq6qq]

It's an insult to compare this poo to fan films

[@johnbrion4565]

I thought this was great. But haters gonna hate.

[@TIG5574]

​@@johnbrion4565Drinker's brother has entered the chat.

[@johnbrion4565]

@@TIG5574 lol

[@the_instru]

​​@johnbrion4565 I am very much worried for your taste

[@captaincairoPT]

Imagine critcizing movies for years, and then taking all these criticisms, write them down and make them into a "movie" - which he called it untill the reviews came in and then he back paddled into a "pilot" - you get this - 'Rogue Elments' He used every trope, every cliché, every 'ex machina' he hates so much and used them to make this. Its honestly baffling.

[@Art-is-craft]

It is not a movie it is a short film. They tend to be low budget and are not a feature. It is fairly typical of the genre. The fact most do not understand this is quite sad.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

It's not my cup of tea for sure, but it's no worse than that Reacher TV series that it seems to be a bit of a copy of - that had awful acting and was full of cliches too (I gave up on it after 3 episodes), but people love it.

[@us0769]

@@Art-is-craftit’s neither actually… it says TV series right in the title.

[@EbonyPope]

Well goes to show that critics are usually not good at doing it themselves. To be fair nobody expects a sports commentator to be able to do a homerun and hang with the pros. Different skill set.

[@Art-is-craft]

@ A feature film budget is £2000000 bare minimum. That includes full cinematography, sets, editing and so o.

[@ArcTrooper269]

The dude thinks himself above everyone & yet the best he can come up with is something at the same level of quality of To Boldly Flee

[@TheOneManWhoBeatYou]

Keep telling yourself that kiddo

[@Dhnendndjdjjxn1]

@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou They should it’s true At least To Boldy Flee didn’t take itself that seriously and was more just friends hanging around vibe

[@xNULNULx]

Now go and show the world you have the BALLS to brutally review your own stuff with ultimate honesty

[@IBangedAPalin]

If his "Lady Ballers" review was anything to go by, I doubt it lol

[@TonyHerson]

@@IBangedAPalin Didn’t he give lady baller a pretty poor review?

[@IBangedAPalin]

@@TonyHerson he hinted at it but it was an absolutely toothless review that danced around criticizing it. For a guy that always talks about how much he hates modern American politics being crammed into things, he was pretty lenient when a "comedy" had weird cameos from literal politician Ted Cruz, probably because Drinker's buddies with Ben Shapiro lol

[@6trillionmiles]

Looks like trash

[@Aaron-ih8mt]

Yh he did ​@TonyHerson

[@totalfool4414]

Movie was so buns he had to rebrand it as a TV pilot

[@fulcrum6760]

Well that and folks clowned on him when it was revealed.

[@thecampion2420]

I'm always expecting present day Steven Seagal to show up in this lol.

[@B1G_WENGH]

Honestly, this has the same quality of a modern day straight to dvd Steven Segal movie.

[@pochaze671]

and David Hasselof, then. AND de-aged, de-dead, CGI Leslie Nielsen. Then there'll be a hell of dramatic tension! 🤣

[@ToddsDiscGolf]

Wow you hit the nail right on the head! This DOES feel like a present-day Steven seagal movie!

[@WilliamHill-sz5oe]

@@B1G_WENGH lol love looking at people's previous comments on a channel and seeing they're obsessed over it and spend every waking moment attacking someone for being far more successful than they could ever be. Such a sad and pathetic existence

[@-SayWhatAgainMF-]

@@WilliamHill-sz5oeTo be fair, there are plenty of people here who say they liked the movie because it’s attached to the Drinker as well. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Drinkers channel, but looking past the budget constraints, the movie could have been a lot better, and I did kind of expect more from a guy who can wrote a solid Clancy - like thriller novel like Dark Harvest.

[@bobgunter9608]

This looks like garbage you would think someone who spent most of their lives criticizing movies would have an idea of how to make a good one what is a good script writing plot and characters but you can lead a horse to water but you can’t get it to drink to survive.

[@OneRedKraken]

Look at all the great movies Siskel and Ebert did during their careers. :P As I'm reading the comments I'm starting to realize that people think a good critic of something would somehow translate into making them a master of the art they criticize. You really think all food critics are good at cooking? Nope. Seems like it's usually the opposite.

[@Henez89]

@@OneRedKraken it's rare for a critic to fleece his audience to make a thing they criticise. Making a shitty 'film' full of clichés doesn't affect his ability to be a critic, but it will sure as hell affect how people regard his opinion.

[@SexPanther42069]

@@OneRedKrakenI get what you’re saying, but this is more like a food critic spending their career shitting on famous restaurant chains for not being quality food, rarely reviewing actual small-time restaurants who care about cooking, and then deciding to open a restaurant of their own after using their audience to crowdfund said restaurant. It makes sense that the general public would be harsh in their criticism of this person’s restaurant.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

It's good for 40 minutes

[@Truthwillout2177]

I just can’t take to the guy playing Drake. He looks like an insurance salesman and his accent is all over the place.

[@neaalitygandhi]

Yeah sounds like he’s trying to sound like Jason Statham.

[@carosel43]

im afraid i have to agree. he didnt seem to know which accent he wanted and it was a bit confusing.

[@pathfinder8570]

Agree ☝️☝️

[@Westcork-ul1ww]

Looks like Ron Livingston from Office Space.

[@Johnmountainstone]

The amazing thing is he's actually Italian.

[@WH250398]

I wonder if the main character has to find a magical bullshitdevice

[@matehavlik4559]

Nah, but there’s a girl who’s the key to everything 🤪

[@ty194]

Like a dumbell or a pull up bar? Dude has the arms of a 10 year old boy.

[@carlkligerman1981]

We in the business call that a macguffin 😂

[@peterm282]

​@@carlkligerman1981 Don't you mean McMuffin?

[@parsa1372]

@@carlkligerman1981 * a mcmuffin

[@Abe-Froman1]

Sorry Will, but I laughed so hard at the scene where Anja walks up to the bike she's parked literally 5 feet from both a 6 foot high stack of logs & a six foot high corn field. But lets park the bike right here & throw a camo sheet over it! Wow, that was gold.

[@ZagrosŞêxbizin]

I was a backer and really wanted Drinker to succeed, but I was so bored after 15 minutes I just started cooking with Rogue Elements as background noise. Felt bad later and thought I should give it another shot so I watched the whole thing and it was just really disappointing.

[@scottttym]

Slow and lacking any character development. Strange since those are usually his critiques of other stuff.

[@ZagrosŞêxbizin]

@ my guess is that he did not have enough creative control over the project...

[@rocoe9019]

😂😂😂 serves you right for backing the faker 😂😂😂

[@butt3rs92]

You do realize this is proof of concept, right? My suspicion is that your boredom was due to lack of investment as you don't know or understand any of the characters or motivations. For me, this did what it was intended to do. It made me really interested in seeing a full fledged show within this universe. I would say that with the budget they had available it was at or above the quality of any indie movie in it's genre and length.

[@movestattoo4561]

⁠@@butt3rs92you do realise that this concept has been proven decades ago? There is no need to do proof of concept on something that has already been proven. This is just poorly written, poorly acted and poorly cut short movie.

[@kennydolby1379]

So this garbage costed 400k? Really Drinker? Tatiana must provide some expansive high end service.

[@cathair-moustache]

Holy shit, just money laundering

[@fireball43]

@@cathair-moustache i wouldnt be surprised if the director/producer upcharged drinker since he probably has no frame of reference for what stuff like this costs. if he had taken a year or two to learn filmmaking, he could have made something better by himself.

[@alexmaverick6647]

So this is the kind of movie that CD wishes that Hollywood would go back to making? This is utter dogshit 😂😂

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

No it's a first attempt at making a movie with no money.

[@tomcorbett6089]

Well that was terrible. Harder than it looks, eh?😂

[@rocoe9019]

And from reviews I've seen of his book that are full of mary sues, he's a boring author aswell 😂

[@Levente20]

@@rocoe9019 ye but he has 2+ mill subs and you dont lel

[@rocoe9019]

@@Levente20 I'd expect a comment like that from a teen girl! It's truly pathetic, 🙄 come back when you get your big boy pants on

[@DavidCPuff]

It’s much harder than it looks.

[@MisterDriskul]

@@Levente20 We get it. Your daddy god Drinky has gone woke and gone broke. Sorry about that

[@CalvinCShinobi]

REMINDER: This man and his podcast friends mocked thousands of artists who were suffering from unemployment, starvation, and literal suicidal death during the 2023 Writers and Actors Strikes, in the worst recession for an individual industry since World War 2. He voiced "these writers are all hacks anyway, they don't deserve to get paid or make a living to begin with". This turd of a film is proof that he's the real hack. *If you're gonna disrespect EVERY professional creative in Hollywood, you better put your money where your mouth is.

[@fulcrum6760]

He’s such a hack that he’s ashamed of this movie and doesn’t talk about it at all. The silence coming from him is deafening. Hope Moistcritikal covers this cause this is funny.

[@Dhomden]

Holy mother of copium, Batman. An industry infested to the bone with preachy, narcisstic douchewads that revel in the misfortune of others get a taste of their own shit (just like journalists are), and we're supposed to feel sympathy for them for any reason? 'Suffering from starvation and literal suicidal death', are you perchance a media literate? I would go get the diploma right now

[@NumbDiggerss]

They did it to themselves 😂

[@pizzathehutt1812]

*drinker gets shot* Also Drinker: "nah... it'll be fine."

[@hillct]

T'was but a flesh wound!

[@truespartan1000]

Drinker is just a chill guy fr

[@Astroman10]

We’re gonna need more Toilet Duck for this one!

[@neabrimunrai260]

On the rooftop

[@christianporter3638]

Was that him on the rooftop?

[@Kryssthealien]

Here are few movies (MOVIES) made with the same budget (or much less): The Evil Dead - $350,000 /Mad Max - $350,000 /Paranormal Activity - $11,000 /The Blair Witch Project - $60,000 /Halloween - $300,000 / Napoleon Dynamite - $400,000 /Eraserhead - $10,000 /Monty Python and the Holy Grail - $400,000 /Clerks - $27,575 /El Mariachi - $7,000. WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE? You lost the right to criticise ANYTHING! At least start with a good story, not this shit.

[@MrMarcusIndia]

Mad Max only cost $350k? I know that was 1980 but they seriously stretched that cash. The stuntwork in the intro alone ("I am the Nightrider! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine!") looks like it cost that much alone. The low budget might explain the poor production values of this "proof of concept" but it certainly doesn't forgive the script or plot - that cost the CD nothing and this was the best he could churn out?!

[@OneRedKraken]

What's the deal with people saying he's lost the right to criticize anything? Good critics are never masters of the art they criticize. He didn't 'earn' the right to criticize anything int he first place. His movie is total trash, but I already knew that it was going to be the case the second he announced he was working on it. Looking at the final product is embarrassingly bad. But I never subscribed to the guy in the hopes he'd make a good movie one day.

[@gargalon_dn5294]

He is by no means a good critic though. This alone should invalidate his criticisms.

[@OneRedKraken]

@@gargalon_dn5294 Whether you agree with his reviews, he is at the very least entertaining. But again, the short film he made is garbage.

[@thorough5138]

I don't think this movie should invalidate his reviews. Aside from how entertaining his reviews are, I don't consider them good but a bad movie from him shouldn't invalidate that. A good review is a good review, and a random bad movie shouldn't change that. This bad movie only further proves the old saying. "Those who can't do, teach."

[@jakethet3206]

I feel like the existence of this short film and its inclusion of a Mary Sue more or less proves that your entire oeuvre of anti-woke rhetoric is basically a grift. I think you’re a grifter. And I’ve just got to add… the slimy tactic of changing it to be a TV “pilot” once you realized it didn’t look like a movie? Yeah, I’m just clocking that.

[@Henez89]

Bad sign when there is only 40 minutes of footage for a movie you asked fans to pay for. Though with how shit the 40 mins were, perhaps that was for the best.

[@LordVanadium]

You nailed it, man! You call Jordan a "grifter". I refer to him as a "usefull idiot", who helps sh*tting of people who are even more useless than himself.

[@carlkligerman1981]

O but my favourite bit was the big reveal at the end, of a motorbike! LMAO. Seriously I almost have vicarious embarrassment for the very few fans here trying to defend this POS. Talk about a polished turd!

[@jakethet3206]

@ I stand by my assertion that they called it a TV show pilot because it doesn’t look like a movie.

[@jakethet3206]

@@carlkligerman1981 I already felt sorry for them because they’re fans to begin with. Drinker is the griftiest of grifters.

[@BroEastman]

Gets famous for shitting on trash movies and shows. Produces this.

[@rocoe9019]

Well we all know he loves generic, cliche stories with no nuance and a girl boss😂

[@DOOM412]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🚮

[@Wlof25]

I didn't watch it yet, but let's assume that it is terrible. Him producing a terrible short film doesn't logically mean that his criticism of terrible movies is incorrect.

[@EmperorDxD]

Yes it does because the worst part of this movie is the writing​@@Wlof25

[@akshatgupta4817]

@@Wlof25no it just shows that he thinks his audience are idiots who’ll consume this shit

[@natemyers4946]

The only thing he didn't do was make the Mary Sue female character black. Other than that he successfully achieved everything in a movie he bishes about. Great job Drinker. You lived long enough to become the villain.

[@fulcrum6760]

He’s also been trying to bury this since it was revealed after everyone clowned on him.

[@natemyers4946]

@fulcrum6760 I see....he never brings it up.

[@OfficialYouTubeModerator]

Was this a cash in? Raise £400k, produce a £20k turd, buy a house?

[@BraveNewSlop]

Lmfao

[@randyho8128]

Move aside Seagal, Drinker aiming for your shit covered throne.

[@gamesdog9067]

An elite unit called ‘Shepherds’ sounds like something the Mighty Boosh would come up with.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

this was an exercise in cringe

[@balazsbunda7453]

this movie is just a mish-mash. every name of this garbage is a mixture of successful video game characters.

[@thedeadlynose5127]

That was ok but fell into many of the same troupes as the things drinker criticises himself when reveiwing things i am quite sad to have to say that

[@EliotThemastermind-xb6xp]

😂😂bro made a 101 cliche action movie it's very funny

[@zhouyi1933]

LOL I enjoyed seeing the yapper making a shittty movie. Proves that so-called "critics" don't know shittt and so should shut their little mouths.

[@173Eli173Eli]

A Kickstarter movie based on his books, I really can't imagine this being created by The Drinker

[@Ranchpig67]

Production value, acting, sound... all were top notch. No complaints at all, but you're right. The story was meh at best. So generic and mid The fact that 2 of the best fighters were women.... welll.... Guess you do need The Message a little bit, huh?

[@vcdonovan5943]

​@@Ranchpig67 I wouldn't say they were the best- the one had a clear physical disadvantage in a melee although the choreography could have reflected that more (not used the arm wrestling match with the knife to the throat trope). On a side note, it would have also been better if the sniper had shot him when he raised his head once instead of him ducking and raising it again. The choreography is good in general but I think there are some little moments like that where a bit more consideration should have been given.

[@wholelottagangshid]

This didn’t release, it escaped

[@DavidCPuff]

Ha!

[@fulcrum6760]

More like forced to release.

[@peterm282]

It didn't debut, "it debutted, that's when rancid feces drops involuntarily from the putrid anus of a dying hyena after eated the corpse of a diseased skunk ran over by a drunken soccer mom on her way home from her late night HOA meeting." -avgn

[@BraveNewSlop]

Lmao

[@kingsman1713]

This reminds of the commenters on that KSI song. He's lucky they're not here.

[@fairwarning007]

This is the funniest SNL skit I’ve seen in a while

[@cubeflinger]

SNL make a call of duty cut scene.

[@samuelcourliss8496]

Did u spend all the money from the crowdfunding on whiskey? Cause that would explain a lot

[@AlejandroDiazadiaz201]

Toilet Duck and Tatyana.....

[@Channel-zs3gg]

Bruh really talked shit about the Falcon show and made this 😂

[@AlroslMuaiskc]

He gotta do better

[@DavidCPuff]

Ouch!

[@U.M.75]

Because falcon and tha winter soulja is shit. No need to cry about it.😂

[@DavidCPuff]

@ Rogue Elements is bigger shit.

[@darkkera]

... insert clip of 5th Element Mila Jovovich laughing in slo-mo...

[@wordsoflove8787]

One of the strongest and most competent characters in this film is a girlboss... Way to push THE MESSAGE...

[@Erasureeraser]

I honestly can't wait to see the Drinker blaming Brie Larson and Rachel Zegler for the failure of this trashy movie 😂😂

[@fulcrum6760]

Watch him throw the female cast members under the bus.

[@washbelly]

The very definition of hubris.

[@lostree1981]

100%, this is when your ambition is above your talent unfortunately.

[@peterm282]

"Sheer fucking hubris"...

[@BerlinAnonymous]

Wow, it is really an asylum level movie. Holy shit is this bad. I thought it was bad in purpose, like rlms space Copy but no. Someone really thought "yeah lets make a movie with this Script, these actors, this stock footage/audio and this pisspoor after effects plugins. Holy f... shit. 10/10 If its real.

[@SlamBeegad]

We gonna fight at dawn! How dare you diss asylum like that. Hope you got fists buddy!

[@matthewdevenish1106]

I feel sorry for all the people who genuinely and earnestly worked hard on this project.

[@Cercerius]

So it's just an opinion of a random KZbin viewer. Everything feels a bit off: long silent parts, overuse of glare effects, constantly breaking the axis, and the color scheme. The dialogue and the story overall don’t feel real; I can’t understand why, but it feels fake. If this is just a first try, then it’s a very good job. If it is a pilot for a TV series, then, in my opinion, it is lacking. Maybe I’m just not the target audience.

[@phoenixfire6433]

I love how Drinker is now just reduced to seething about random Netflix war movies because he’s butthurt that he can’t make his own one lmfao

[@njbrx]

Are you new here? He's been seething about random Netflix productions for as long as his channel has been around

[@captaincairoPT]

​@njbrx yes, but back then he didn't have... "a movie" that proves he's all talk. Now he can't even branch out. It's seething over Netflix for the rest of his grift.. I mean life.

[@OneRedKraken]

@@captaincairoPT Since when did a critic ever have to "prove he's not all talk"? Where are the great Siskel and Ebert films? lol You guys are like teens who saw the popular girl at school do something embarrassing. So now you're trying to equalize your self-worth by bringing the person down. That to me is even more cringe than the movie itself. And that is saying a lot.

[@captaincairoPT]

@OneRedKraken they never had to - which is why they don't. But when one does, claiming they are oh so superior and it ends up being literal shiz - well, that's the beauty of irony. What I'm wondering is how you have time to comment with all the "gluck gluck" you're giving the drinker..

[@OneRedKraken]

@@captaincairoPT Not that I would expect you to waste any time in looking it up, but my comment on this video, is me asking 'him' to review his own movie because it's really bad. I managed to watch 10 minutes before I ended up 'skimming' it. A brain dead fan might want to point that he wasn't directing the movie, but even then the writing is bad. Almost all the lines are cringe and/or rebaked cliches. So instead of assuming I'm some idiot who thinks Drinker can do no wrong. Think again. This was a shitshow.

[@ChristianPierce]

are all grifters people that wanted to make art but failed???

[@jamesmaxwell1940]

yes.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

yes

[@Henez89]

It would seem like. This should be a daily wire production.

[@carlkligerman1981]

A rhetorical question 😂… tbf I wouldn’t say the Drinker is a grifter; just that it’s much easier to be a grumpy passenger than a pilot during a storm. Or shit show 😂…

[@OneRedKraken]

To be clear this movie is hot garbage. But I'm curious about something. Has the word "grifter" changed meaning again? Used to mean shitty con-artist, more recently means someone who pretends to be something they are not in order to make money and/or attention/fame. When you call him a grifter, is it because you think his reviews aren't his genuine opinion? If not, what is it?

[@petewinter7759]

I'm already looking forward to Maulers Five hour breakdown video !👍

[@rogerborg]

The silence on this from the Fellowship has been more deafening than the score.

[@butt3rs92]

@@rogerborg MauLer has already said himself that to review this movie would be to show favoritism because he doesn't review the work of his friends or collogues, I would assume the same goes for the rest. Why would you want them to, when if anyone were in their position an unbiased review would be nigh impossible?

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@rogerborg bruh 😂💀

[@Mfscallmethedrink]

mauler should keep that same energy when he criticized stuckmann's cringy short at length and apply it to his buddy's movie.

[@asdffdsa541]

We all know if Jenny Nicholson made this exact movie there'd be an 8 hour efap ripping into it. It's incredibly annoying that a group so into objective criticism refuse to touch any of the slop put out by their friends. Have some professional integrity and tear Drinker's movie to shreds, guys.

[@croyx1a900]

Good, but your boy not checking those corners aggravates me to no end

[@jasonanderson1843]

Can't stand when guys don't dig their corners

[@MaxPower-zc8nf]

Not to mention protracted conversations in exposed spaces with multiple entry points and no cover or concealment.

[@coboldelphi]

HR and Singleton operations do not use PoD, it's free flow. Digging your corners is a terrible method to enter a room dynamically without a 2 man.

[@MaxRovensky]

Doors and corners, kid. That's where they get you.

[@JETBLACKPRIEST]

Also >Rifle perched on trunk of car but can see over car roof on level ground..

[@Henez89]

I'd say props to Drinker for putting his money where his mouth is, but his stupid fans paid for this 😅

[@ysgatora9287]

he got paid more than he asked and he couldn't even deliver with a surplus in budget. this is what we call in business, an idiot fuck up that needs to be fired right now.

[@Henez89]

@ysgatora9287 shit I'd die laughing if the fanbase he fleeced demanded refunds. Surely this isn't what they paid for

[@anonimonn9775]

​@@Henez89well... Some of the backers complained that they didn't received what they were promised, a talk with the Drinker, or their name in the credits, so it's a more than likely scenario

[@Henez89]

@@anonimonn9775 jeez that's worse than I expected. Just saw the dude raised 300k for a 20k project. So he got 280k to just pocket and didn't even fulfill the pledges. His backers should be furious tbh

[@matthall7359]

He definitely put his money where his mouth is it’s just a shame that he’s been talking out of his ass the whole time 😢

[@Tubetimenews]

I like those two badass Girl Bosses, they can both take a licking and come back kicking, those weak ass modern men didn't stand a chance. This was as well written and acted as any recent Steven Seagal movie.

[@stuartfields9177]

The main issues are nothing to do with budget or fall into this 'proof of concept' idea. Drinker has broken down the nuances of others films and their mistakes for so long that I find it strange that some of Rogue Elements issues weren't immediately picked up. A small woman fighting off a man with a knife, a garage full of combatants while someone on the radio states "negative" to questioning if anyone is in the area, randomly attacking guards in a floodlit area when they were stealthily infiltrating the compound, a wildly inconsistent british accent, excessive use of music and a very poor sound balance etc etc. The potential is there but given the drinkers eye for this stuff I am pretty underwhelmed by the film. Just my own opinion though.

[@franciscodanconia4324]

At one point the German guy says on the radio “we have incoming” but as far as I can tell all the bad guys were already in the building.

[@danethegeographer]

Agreed, small woman fighting large man is an easy troupe that should have been avoided.

[@DaOideRassl]

@@danethegeographer She didn't win tho and he said he wasn't even trying

[@pochaze671]

Woman fighting a man, and losing, as he explains to her (and the audience) he wasn't even trying... and her being saved by her sniper, that she knew was there, explaining why in the face of such a lethal threat, she could stand just what she needed. Not so bad. Besides, movies are a visual art, so except you're in the muscled 80ies fighting an alien in the jungle, it's a treat to watch a babe with an attitude fighting (and even against the alien you got a babe with an attitude !) If that was for perfect simulation, I'd prefer not hearing all those f-words, that highly trained operatives don't have time for, besides the obvious unecessary loss of concentration, in life and death situations. Except for the fighting babe who says 'fuck me' - male fan service.

[@Rob-fn1kp]

100% bang on. This really missed the mark. Was expecting much much more,

[@lees8359]

*When Ryan Drake said I am Ryan Drake and Draked all over the place I cried truly a cinematic masterpiece*

[@RRTNZ]

Didn't he say "Its Drakin' time" ?

[@Epoch11]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mayorjimmy]

Remember when I said I'd Drake you last? I lied....

[@burritoboy2751]

"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to Ryan Drake." "He told me enough. He told me you killed him." "No. I am Ryan Drake."

[@mariusvanc]

Then he said "we're family", and everyone clapped.

[@johnmatthews8338]

As a proof of concept, unfortunately I think this missed the mark. A proof of concept should demonstrate the viability of your IP by showing some unique and engaging qualities or characteristics that captivate the audience and leave them wanting more. The main problem with Rogue Elements is that it fails to set itself apart from any of the other countless spy-action-thriller IPs we've already seen. There is little character development, the dialog is pedestrian, and the plot is derivative. There just isn't much for the audience (or a prospective film studio) to invest in here. Who are these characters and why should we care about them and their mission? These are the basics that Drinker rightly criticizes other films and TV series for failing to provide. Above all else, a proof of concept should: 1) Develop the main characters enough for the audience to feel some way about them. Do we like the protagonists? Despise or maybe sympathize with the antagonists? We need to feel something about the characters to be able to connect with the story. 2) Give the audience a basic teaser of the plot. What is the central problem of the story? What are the stakes? What will the protagonists have to do to try to solve the problem? Set up the story clearly and leave us wanting to know what will happen next. It should not take 35 minutes to do these two things. Most decent Hollywood full-length feature films accomplish both of the above points with less time, and while those enjoy much larger budgets, money is not the determining factor here. If you want an excellent example of what a proof of concept should be, check out Allan Ungar's Uncharted fan film from 2018. It features great characters portrayed by an outstanding cast of actors, has some good action set pieces and cool cinematography, and does both (1) and (2) above in less than 15 minutes. I couldn't find what the budget was for that project, but it was probably similar to the budget for Rogue Elements. Oh, and coincidentally, it also features a main character named Drake.

[@digitalmonkeytools2925]

It's terrible. Embarrassingly bad considering the budget and how many years they had to make it.

[@ZagrosŞêxbizin]

Unfortunatelt, I agree =\

[@Gantiz]

However valid some of your points might be, you appear to be in the vast minority of the viewers.

[@LaurenceBlunt]

I disagree, anyone who wants more background can simple "Read the books". I've only read the 1st & 2nd books so far, but I can say I enjoyed them a great deal. I purchased most (maybe all of them?) as my way of saying thanks for all great reviews. PS: I may not agree 100% with his reviews but 95+% is good enough. That awful overly long "Blade Runner 2049" being a case in point.

[@ZagrosŞêxbizin]

@ I don't think one should have to read some books in order to enjoy a short movie. I think, objectively, Rogue Elements missed the mark =\

[@redfist075]

In five minutes they have established nothing except a bunch of people want this guy. How many times have you watched one of his videos making fun of that exact same thing? How many times have you heard him make fun of “girl bosses”? It’s amazing how for someone who knows so much about movies doesn’t really. Such a hypocrite.

[@fulcrum6760]

It’s also amazing that he’s legit been trying to bury this ever since people clowned on him when it was revealed.

[@bugeater16]

Three man team goes into building with 30 trained bad men waiting for them. Three man team leaves without barely a scratch, 30 trained bad men are dead. I think I have seen that somewhere before.

[@privacyfig]

jeez, is there a shortage of Russian-speaking actors? These accents are atrocious.

[@Henez89]

Casting Russian actors may have been seen as 'diverse' so it couldn't be done 😅

[@Anthony-w2z5z]

From a budget of 300K British Pounds, this is pretty damn good.

[@mrjames77]

Really, is that all...

[@brando3342]

@@mrjames77 If this is sarcastic, I agree, that’s quite a lot of money lol

[@billienews]

Agreed. I was thoroughly entertained. My eyes were glued to the screen.

[@mrjames77]

@@brando3342 No, I didnt mean to come across as sarcastic. Camera equipment, stunt coordinators, weapons, firearms training, crew, actors and director salaries, catering, and so on.... all for 300k. I think thats impressive for the quality of this short film.

[@Hozasaru]

@@brando3342think about it for more than 15 seconds

[@mattybrownvhsarchives9460]

I'm sorry to be this guy but I really hated this. Generic, forgettable. Absolutely nothing to make me care about these characters. And this paint by numbers style of modern filmmaking... the color grading. UUCK. I want something unique and memorable not something I've seen a thousand times before.

[@EliotThemastermind-xb6xp]

😂😂it's crazy how cliche this is ngl I was so surprised especially coming from the drinker and he wrote a girl boss too

[@adamlane8751]

This is a surprise. So far 13 minutes to in I've heard nothing but cliches, tired tropes, and lazy writing. It's shot well, and the acting would pass if their script gave them something worthwhile to say. Really wondering how this got made. 🤔

[@gerrade71278]

Yes the start is a little jarring. but watching through to the end there are more than a few good moments. It definitely has potential imho.

[@randomhuman97]

it's a proof of concept

[@mildlyobesegoat7262]

@@randomhuman97 more like disproving the concept

[@NoobTheNewt0987]

Can’t wait for the critical drinker to trash on this garbage and make a Production Hell and Drinker Fixes video on this movie

[@veteranredbeard6222]

Critics can only critic

[@gollum475dejong3]

This was not good at all. The characters are forgettable and the story and the dialogue is just bland and generic. None of these problems have anything to do with the low budget. You really need to work on your writing because this script was bad.

[@anotherrobot]

Now Marvel, Disney and all other companies you criticise have a reason to laugh after watching this "proof of concept". you did US wrong, man, by producing/creating something that bad and cliched. Face your audience, and don't say that your movie was amazing later, because it's not. You owe us an explanation.

[@fulcrum6760]

He’s not gonna address this. He’s gonna pretend this doesn’t exist like last time when everyone clowned on him.

[@EstradaDuran-sg6co]

@@fulcrum6760 why did he get clowned last time?

[@fulcrum6760]

@@EstradaDuran-sg6co When he revealed the movie via trailer, everyone clowned on him.

[@OneRedKraken]

Anybody who expected anything more than this didn't have a very realistic expectation. lol Love his reviews, but there was no way in hell he would make a great movie. Great Critic != Great Director/Writer

[@DarrenWatson64]

@@fulcrum6760And admitting he has no intention of watching the Boys season 4 and just rely on the audience’s reviews on Rotten Tomatoes to make his judgment on it. Even though other movies he criticized like The Rise of Skywalker, The Flash, Wonder Woman 1984 and Dial of Destiny have very high audience ratings on the site. And he also says he has better things to do with his time…like watching the Acolyte and other bad movies and TV shows. Right…

[@MWP12]

The acting, the script, the direction, the score, everything is such joyful cliche trash. Well done Drinker for putting your money where your mouth is and showing you are exactly that, all mouth. If straight to video existed this would be in the pile near Home Alone 3.

[@Arina-1208]

💯

[@Dhnendndjdjjxn1]

Home Alone 3 has entertainment value for young children at least

[@mgg7756]

imagine being an independent creator and putting out the most generic mainstream movie ever, just done worse. Sounds unnecessary to me.

[@thecrow30]

Well well well ... bitching about every movie for being "woke" or "boring" but then making this ...

[@thenecrophymm6591]

I love ya Drinker, truly. However, gotta be real, was expecting something grounded in reality from you. Two biggest miss-fires, among several, were no set up for the big guy toying with the girl...is he a sadist, or rapey, or just stupid? Contrivance. Then there was the rpg landing 2 feet away...and...nothing happens to her? Bonus personal gripe, you main dude looks ridiculous, that hair, in particular - might just be me, but, nope, can't take that seriously on a "bad-ass". Bravo was, Reacher levels of good enough, but atomic blonde is girl-bossing hard with her invincibly. I know you gotta pull punches hard to do the ladies, but, from you, I expected better. I don't know what I'm supposed to be forgiving on in a "Proof of Concept", so I kept it to the glaring stuffs. I was entertained, after all, made 300k go a long way. i don't even mind the cliches - it's expected in this genre...the dialog though >

[@franciscodanconia4324]

I kept getting Johnny English vibes from the guy. He even looks a bit Rowan Atkinson-y.

[@ty194]

I would have thought that looking like someone who could do 20 press ups and a few pull ups would have been a minimum requirement for the protagonist. Seeing his arms in that boxing scene was just parody levels of funny. They're arms of a 10 year old boy.

[@georgejetsonmatson6193]

If you're going to complain about something, know what you're talking about. You're just embarrassing yourself

[@NJHProductions512]

@@georgejetsonmatson6193naw fam

[@gerrade71278]

Fair comment. Also did not like the lead (lacking in both the Bond smarts department and tough as nails department).

[@TheLongestTake]

I was feeling this at first but the script is just exposition dumps and some of these performances were really wooden. Also, the set pieces/choreography felt like a greatest hits of formulaic action films.

[@Blisterdude123]

Proof that its easy to criticise and hard to create.

[@abhishekgaekwad2590]

@@TheLongestTake couldn't agree more

[@Denariusjay]

My guy ... He's doing this as a KZbinr. It's not like he's got Hollywood money

[@TheLongestTake]

@Denariusjay Talk To Me was by youtubers (wrote AND directed) and it was brilliant. No excuses

[@TheLongestTake]

@@Denariusjay ive seen incredible movies made on a budget smaller than this. Writing alone doesn't even need money to be good

[@ilpostino88]

This is the movie equivalent of a Bitcoin Rugpull - all the suckers got pulled in - then shafted 😂😂😂

[@NegatveSpace]

Thank you for not making a clicking noise every time someone pulls out, moves or points a firearm. I've been waiting for something to watch that doesn't do that for so long. Same with knife noises.

[@notinservice3724]

haha, funny because it is true

[@TI4438]

Every firearm was ready to go.

[@brando3342]

Yeah, that always drives me nuts 😂 You know how bad the tolerances in the manufacturing would have to be to hear parts shifting around like that? 😂

[@andrewdillon7837]

Pumping shotguns all the time, ,,,true bro..

[@matfhju]

This gave me an idea fore a skitt. The spy/hero/gunman/ whatever has parkinsons therfor cant keap his Gunn still so you hear that" dude pulls a gun out" "clik" Or "dude takes aim" "clik" all the deam time becaouse he is constantly shaking his gun arround 😅 But he allways Ace's his shotts

[@lectrifyin1]

I can't wait for the sequel with Anthony Mackie as Ryan Drake.

[@PetersonZF]

Ahh, Altered Carbon Season 1 vs Season 2. WTF, eh?

[@britasha1194]

Nah, Lizzo is the real Ryan Drake

[@timparks9833]

I was a backer and already saw the pre-screening. It is definitely worth a watch! And if you’re a fan of the novels, you don’t want to miss it!

[@GradualUpgrade]

Thanks for backing!

[@OGslays]

so is this not it? is it a movie or just these 45 minutes? or is is now a short series of like 4 to 8 episodes?

[@tyriana..340]

@@OGslays It's a short introduction movie, hopefully with a follow-up at some point!

[@aldunlop4622]

@@OGslays For the 147th fucking time, it's a proof-of-concept short film.

[@ronb2008]

@@GradualUpgrade Thanks for taking the time to make some changes from the backer version Travis!! They absolutely helped with the final product! Well done sir!!🍻

[@devonhickey3302]

I have second hand embarrassment for your backers. 😬

[@andrzejkopalnia]

Thanks, I fell for the grift once with all the other "creators" on his sleeve.

[@KOLLOQ]

Poetic justice. Drinker making such a pile of crud. Kind of like his books

[@augustinesator4969]

Just to repeat with the previous commenter, Critical Drinker criticize the struggling writers during Actors and Writers strike in 2023. Basically he look down on these artists and saying that they're are bad writers anyway. Guess he was just projecting. And this alone is the reason no one should support him and his channel.

[@joeyhayes893]

For someone so critical of movies, you sure are making a dumpster fire yourself.

[@AlphaCentauri24]

Wait for a few years for Drinker's tongue-in-cheek critical review of this one when the realization would have gradually dawned on him (insert Drinker's overused Tyrion Lannister clip here). lolz