Serenity (2018) | Movie Review | MovieBitches Ep 215

[@devon414]

“Does the tuna represent child services?” Man if I had a nickel for every time I wondered this

[@mizan4853]

me (when an ad actually plays during the ad break): good for her

[@iain9757]

This was actually uploaded on Fathers Day in the UK so happy Father’s Day to all the dads stuck in a video game

[@C_M_R]

I saw the movie opening weekend in the theater with 4 other people ... and 3 people walked out before the 30 minute mark.

[@iain9757]

“I don’t really see Micheal Fassbender as a loving caring father” No he’s just a Daddy 😂

[@hothotheat3000]

OMG have they reviewed The Counselor?! The worst Fassy movie ever!

[@ZoraTheberge]

Every time you say “Tuna named Justice” I cant help but think about A Fish Called Wanda.

[@omirosv]

“The Sims: Body Heat Edition” needs to be your new t-shirt. I literally just spat on my screen. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

[@bethanymerritt5329]

Ok but ...now I need a Firefly review.😭

[@aprilthefourthbewithyou3278]

Is anyone upset that they named this movie, Serenity? After seeing it, I feel it could've been named Plymouth Island or Dill's Tuna, honestly anything other than the same title as a VERY well loved movie that came out just 15 years ago.

[@shuzzlinreader5339]

Andrew: don’t pay money for this Avaryl: neeuuuooo

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

Erm... no one hears anything through the screen. It’s a visual display. He hears you through his computer speakers.

[@jacksonkamiska]

Oh how I hope you guys are reviewing Rocketman! That movie was a wild, campy ride I couldn't get enough of. Also, Taron Egerton & Richard Madden sex scene sooo

[@taraselly3831]

I stopped your review to watch the movie. I'm so happy I did because this was coo coo banana pants and I had a great time laughing at Anne Hathaway saying daddy 😂

[@ZoraTheberge]

Love the shady shady editing! “I literally just said that”

[@miker.9138]

I remember someone telling me the end of this movie, and I was convinced they were messing with me.

[@gcrockerbam]

The exposition filled cut scenes totally reminds me of Oregon Trail 2 where the game would make you stop & talk to other characters & you had no option to skip it.

[@johngrimes5852]

Wild Things retro review?

[@NussyBeth]

The idea of this movie sounds like a black mirror episode

[@dbagette]

I think I remember watching Bandersnatch a little before seeing this in the theater and that was a better execution of a meta video game

[@AtomicZero]

I like the way Avaryl thinks. They're both positive and like happy stuff but she's willing to look at the kinda twisted dark humour stuff, still funny still camp, but edgy. Wild Things tho, haha

[@OrangesWillTakeOver]

You can really tell when someone who has never played a video game in their life writes about video games because it always makes absolutely no goddamn sense.

[@theblankpanther]

You both were so generous to this movie. Bless 😂😂

[@eiephants]

Here’s my pitch: Never ending story-ish except it’s a video game instead of book. The Dad is in the Ateryu role and has to save the world, the kid is the Sebastian character. Robin Williams is there and it is all wholesome pg fun like how a son should create a video game with their dad as the main character!!! There. I fixed it.

[@taraselly3831]

Yes to all of this. I'm imagining Falkor as a giant tuna 😂

[@claudiabrown1931]

Okay so funny story about Jake Gyelnhall, my sister is obsessed with him since we were kids when we saw Prince of Persia (which you guys should review because it is ridiculous!) so at one point my mom was talking to her about him and they were looking at a photo and my mom goes, omg does he have a lazy eye? And my sister screamed YES MOM!!!! IT MAKES HIM QUIRKY A RELATABLE!!!!! So now when we're gossiping or being bitchy we say that when people are obviously trying to hard!

[@atomicdancer]

Movie Exec: "Your screenplay... doesn't really make sense." Screenwriter: "It's cos a 12 year old wrote it!" Movie Exec: "But that's not really an excuse..." Screenwriter: "I hate you! I'm going to my room!!" *slam*

[@MeganSin]

Omg! So when I saw serenity, I thought should this be a retro review? But then when you said Matthew McConaughey, I was like oh yeah! I remember see that trailer...Anne Hathaway should not be blonde! I was thinking about it and I think fassy would be better suited because the main character is damaged but sexy and he does that well. I was also thinking maybe Hiddleston or Oscar issac? But if they were to go to the campy realm, Jason statham or Gerald Butler!

[@Ryan-xs9px]

WAIT THE GOOD VERSION OF THIS MOVIE COULD BE SO GOOD so the whole movie goes back and forth between the kid and mom at home and dad at the island or whatever and there can be scenes where the kid's like "mom, i miss dad" and she's like "i know sweetie, me too" and the whole time you're like what is this poor piece of shit deadbeat dad doing on this island and then there's a sick twist at the end ugh i'm so mad this isn't that movie

[@Funct]

Sometimes I’ll just be minding my own business when suddenly I hear Avaryl in my head saying “the boooy wanted this?“

[@philkemp7602]

I actually personally met the guy who directed this. He's a client of somebody in my family- really nice guy and offered me a lot of creative advice when I was considering getting into scriptwriting In the UK, where I'm from, he's best known for writing a show called Peaky Blinders which stars Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy. I haven't got around to seeing it, but it's generally regarded as a great show by audiences and critics He's a great writer and extremely talented... I'm admittedly baffled that he's attached to this :/

[@arleedennis791]

In love with the show Peaky Blinders. Lol thank him if you see him again please.

[@Maomcph]

That movie movie was a hot mess... Love that you guys decided to review it

[@gaber1346]

Ok there are like 3 episodes of black mirror that do this much better

[@sophiemlpink]

I'm enjoying how casually Andrew slipped "what does that have to do with anything, bitch?" in there. It truly is a meme for all occasions!

[@gretchenbaker7435]

I thought someone had slipped something into my popcorn when I watched this It felt like a fever dream I would have I’m still unsure if I wasn’t Tripping!

[@thefrankart]

*28:18** And then you edited it exactly as she said LMAO "Welcome to the Hotel Dante"*

[@bruja2591]

Can you guys review “Pride” for pride month? I’d love to hear your thoughts about it!

[@FridayFan123]

I thought the notification for this was for the firefly show based movie serenity I am upsetti. I never clicked so fast to be disappointed ☹️ lol

[@danielvmay]

Nice Lesuire Suit Larry reference there!!

[@migoprado2341]

oohhh, could you guys please do a retro review of Under the Tuscan Sun??? i need a good rom com in my life.

[@LiamWalds]

~~I hear Movie Bitches through my computer screen~~

[@nbattle2]

My favorite sentence this year. “Let the tuna take him away.” 34:30

[@stephaniefrost4910]

@2:50 speaking of The Birdcage, if anyone still hasn't seen The Birdcage (and has Amazon Prime), it's currently FINALLY available for free on Prime Video I've been waiting for Amazon to make it free so I can finally see it bc I've already watched the review lol

[@jaso4455]

Here before they even finish the title lol

[@jleon1985]

Black Mirror’s San Junipero, USS Callister and Playtest explore living in VR better

[@queenb7013]

I saw this on my birthday, what a great birthday present, LMFAO. But seriously, were all these A list actors blackmailed into doing this movie? Also, according to IMDB, Uma Thurman was originally cast in Diane Lane's role. Now we know why she dropped out, LOL.

[@HappyDaiz100]

I feel the game is a multiple choice story game like Heavy Rain, just without the fun glitches

[@itsaimee4996]

JASON!

[@HappyDaiz100]

@@itsaimee4996 press X to Shaun

[@michaelvincent8570]

This movie was trash but Anne made up for it with all these FABULOUS costume changes!!!

[@Exogenesys]

Hey I got an ad! Good job getting them back

[@moonymilquetoast]

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME RETRO REVIEW! 🙌 ples that movie is so bizarro bananapants - i need a guided walk through it with my trusty movie bitches 💕

[@puckbryn3583]

watching this movie as a gamer was so wacky because the "twist" becomes not at all a twist but it doesn't make any of it less insane when you know what's coming

[@FancyAlly]

Now that I know the spoilers, it makes more interested in the film because the trailer made the movie seem less interesting.

[@Exogenesys]

There’s a Chinese drama on Netflix called Princess Weiyoung. It’s pretty cheesy and I’m loving it. I bring it up because the costumes drew me in and I know how much you guys love that kind of thing. :) you talking about the baggy clothes in this movie made me think of telling you lol

[@Fatamorgana420]

'Off-putting' is a perfect description of how I feel about McConaughey. Gives me the heebie jeebies...

[@LunargentThorn]

References to Leisure Suit Larry and The Sims in the review? I love this geeky side of MovieBitches =)

[@john-lukedurham1430]

7 minutes in to this with the reveal that it is all a video game, I am, for the first time, going to watch a movie before its MovieBitches review. I want to watch this hot garbage blind.

[@john-lukedurham1430]

We've all moved on at this point but I finally watched it. I have no words.

[@dariadoo1]

This is tight! I didn’t know you guys had a KZbin! Where have I been!?👌🏽🥰😁

[@D3z1n3r]

So I was cooking when I watched this and had to pause a bunch of times. Each pause seemed to feature a very animated Avaryl. I feel like she was especially, passionately expressive for this video, or maybe it was all the pausing that caught it in freeze frame. I will now have to go back through some other videos to compare. 🤔😉

[@lebkha]

I am laughing at you guys being that confused!!! I can't 😂😂😂

[@masters1313]

THANK YOU for reviewing this film. GREAT cast by all means but it seems I would prefer the cast in a original mainstream type of film. This film apparently hit a wall.... if it had one! I appreciate your entertaining review which proves to be much better than the film!!

[@carveylover]

Is anybody here watching The Society? It is bonkers and I love it! I need to chat about it with some one.

[@claudiabrown1931]

0:59 my reaction when you post! So excited for this review!!!!!!

[@Laurenjoinsyoutube]

How would the dad character “realize” anything. He’s just a character right it’s not his fathers soul and memories

[@Cha_Cha_Chai]

The game was modded Minecraft

[@thisnerdyninja]

With how most video games are now, they’re a lot like movies, and I kinda want to see how you guys react to those.

[@smoky7554]

I knowwwwww they would hate it but like the mortal kombat stories because that’s closest to a movie

[@itsaimee4996]

Yes! Games have come so far now days. The Last of Us is probably the most beautiful piece of story telling I've ever seen!

[@Mothmaninist]

I don’t know if you guys have ever seen the flophouse podcast but they recently did a pretty great episode on this film as well, I highly recommend it

[@AllthePrettyPurses]

Aww, I thought we were finally gonna talk about Firefly

[@Ryan-xs9px]

so this is manchester by the pc?

[@misssweetnothings5094]

I could not be more shocked to find out the plot of this film because I saw the trailer and I could not have even gotten close to what the plot was based on the trailer.

[@misssweetnothings5094]

If HDTGM could do this... I would love to hear their thoughts on this insanity.

[@jt6290]

Or maybe the boy created a happy world and then boy grows up and moves on but the game continue and became this movie

[@spamgelarae569]

"THE BOY?"

[@DavidSmith-ez4pk]

It sounds that after your review, the best way they could have helped the movie...was to have NOT made it the first place. :-)

[@AllHailSp00nRiver]

This needed to be a 1 season 12 episode Netflix show. And if it was renewed, it could explore what happens when the game is sold on the mass market.

[@Leo-ls8tu]

I don’t know why I haven’t thought of this but REVIEW BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

[@nicoledenel]

OMG! ABSOLUTELY YES

[@mikailagray]

This just seems like a sad weird version of the LEGO movie with a dead dad instead of a dad that likes to make toys models

[@bafbaas1210]

Serenity k bonet the tuck

[@HiImAngele]

i laughed way too hard at this 😭😭

[@shuzzlinreader5339]

I haven’t seen this movie and I still don’t understand the plot but this was a fun review

[@carveylover]

I literally have never heard of this film. Was it in theaters for a day?

[@hifrommelissa]

For someone whose dog is named Justice, I'm really afraid I'm in a video game and my dog is now a plot point

[@Laurenjoinsyoutube]

I’ve never seen one trailer for this movie but I did see the poster at the movies but with no interest

[@alexan2821]

I hope you guys do the new Matt Bomer movie Papi Chulo.

[@churrk]

I’m still waiting for the Suspiria (2018) reaction 🤔

[@nathancreek6086]

Ok, fix the movie; take out all the weird unnecessary dark stuff like his dad whoring himself out, take away the obviousness of everything and be subtle, have it play out and the dad throws the stepdad to the shark and the shark kills the stepdad but then more things happen and the dad ends up dead as well, then there's a "game over" screen which is the reveal of the video game twist and the kid goes to the last savepoint and plays it through again this time not killing the stepdad, the tuna named justice or something subtler pulls the stepdad into the water and he gets taken away then in real life the kid has to decide between stabbing his dad (maybe the knife sheath has a shark design or something) and calling child protection which has some connection to tuna (like the house phone being in the kitchen next to the shelf with the cans of tuna).... idk it's still a bad movie but it's better and has a plot and reason

[@fakebrainclub]

The son's obsession w his dad fucking reminded me of that Ari Aster short, about a son molesting his father. Fun stuff!

[@emilytully9982]

My fiancé and I stumbled across this movie this weekend and after watching it I had hoped you had a review up! So glad you did so I could hear someone else say Diane Lane was the best part of this movie and at the same time too good for this movie. Truly a wackadoo movie. Glad I wasn't the only one questioning why the boy would want to imagine a world where his dad is banging people for fishing hooks haha.

[@natew5694]

I hope Andrew shows his nutmeg ganache at the end of the video again.

[@tfoco9912]

New Jumanji SO GOOD!

[@iain9757]

Maybe the Boy put so much of the Dad into it he became the Dad ?

[@aprilthefourthbewithyou3278]

I completely missed that the dad was dead. 🤯

[@fakebrainclub]

Also I heard Anne Hathaway was mad they didn't promote the movie properly instead of you know, it being a disaster

[@NortonTaylor]

From your review it sounds like someone tried to write a surreal video game movie without ever having played a video game in their entire life.

[@jakeiorio2455]

This is my next bad movie night selection

[@hernalexito]

I was excited because I thought it was going to be Firefly movie 🍿 😂 but this was hilarious anyways.

[@vixualiva]

You guys were just literally describing the free guy movie

[@OffKiraDeux]

Uhhh, Pleasantville would make a fun #RetroReview

[@connorm3436]

Maybe it was one of his dad’s video games, and he is modifying it and the character his dad made in it. That would explain the mature content, and it makes sense because he would have a baseline character that was moulded and imprinted by the many hours his dad played. But it isn’t a perfect reflection, as it is restricted by the attributes of the game so the son is trying to fill in the gaps like his dad’s past, but the game is limited in how he can behave like making money ect. And the son try’s to bring his mother into the game to bring his family back together but the game doesn’t have love or romance just sex and the like. He makes his mum resent her new husband by making him abusive in the game.

[@crweber25]

I'm so depressed I thought this was serenity as in the Firefly universe :-( I mean this review was so good but like... Firefly?

[@dgooz]

Wild Things retro review puhlease!

[@kingslinger7]

What if the movie starts with the dad and the kid. The dad is in serious debt and has a lot of problems, but the kid idealizes him. Eventually the dad resolves his many problems/debt and they live a life how the kid had always imagined it. But, as the story progresses, the dad corrupts and slowly picks up bad habits again, leading into his death. Then you get like a scene of the kid when they were younger attending the funeral of his dad and you realize the kid has built this elaborate world to escape in.

[@iain9757]

So is this a David Cage game ?

[@radovalef2901]

So basically the video game twist is just a cheap excuse to justify the movie's horrendous writing!!! Sounds great 😂😂😂

[@strangedailythings]

So, will you be reviewing Serenity?:D

[@abbystokes3212]

Or captain marvel