The Creator - Spoiler-Free Review

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My review for 'The Creator' from director Gareth Edwards.
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@LachlanVines 11 ай бұрын

Interesting because for me this movie passed the sniff test. I recognised some of the flaws or are least unexplained aspects as I watched it, but I found the story so compelling on an emotional level that I was completely on board and found myself not caring about plot holes. I found myself believing the world I was presented with, and willing to assume there were reasons behind ask the unexplained aspects of the world. E.g. I imagine something about the fact that New Asia is at war with the USA is behind the robots living as fishermen. The robots also eat food - so that might make them dependent on the economic system like other organic beings are.

@RenoLancaster 10 ай бұрын

Two words: 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 #𝐫𝐚𝐩! I don't leave movie reviews, but to save you the money and time and the Brain-poking here it is: Exclude the graphics, the fight scenes and the acting, and you have a cartoon suited for 5 year-olds. I am not spoiling the movie it was spoiled from the get go. 1) So the western world is on a campaign to eradicate AI, machinery with capacity to behave like humans, because of an atomic detonation that wiped of the great Los Angeles area, which was not the AI's fault per se, since it was "A HUMAN CODE ERROR" in the first place, even though such a human code error could easily take place either accidently or on purpose INVOLVING THE USE OF AI! 2) The military is portrayed as the bad actor for going after the AI, is it though? Or is the military as an industry and mechanism shown to work for the good of humanity as far as the plot of this flick goes? 3) Humans in the Far East area, where the plot takes place are protected by AI to a point of altruism and self sacrifice, whereas westerners don't hesitate to kill humans, adults and children, indiscriminately since they are holed up with their AI buddies? 4) The "hero" of the movie after his warning shot to the knee of his fellow American comrade, executes him point blank to save a robot with the face of a child, goes to extreme lengths to sabotage the mission and sacrifices his own life after wasting time and effort to hijack a plane and reach the multi-billion dollar ship that hovers over the earth and discovers and destroys the AI! Think of Tic Toc and the American patriotic advertisement and you get the picture. Would the acceptance for the AI propaganda work, even if you don't have the brain of a 5 year old? Apparently so for a recent commentator in the New York times who stated in THE TITLE: ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫’ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: 𝐎𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐀.𝐈." Well friend, you need to watch the "𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫" series a few more times. Now that there was indeed a more realistic movie about how the whole AI Fiasco will turn out. Personally, I couldn't wait for "Dune" to end being that I wasn't watching it alone. The Graphics of "the Creator" will keep things from going absolutely boring till your stomach turns; it may have been the bouncing seat, but for me, Mel Gibson's "The Million Dollar Hotel" is not the worst movie I have ever seen any more.

@Father_Daniel 10 ай бұрын

It wasn't perfect but I really enjoyed it. I was impressed with how great it looked and the scope of what they made with the budget they had. It really makes you wonder what the hell these other studios are doing wrong spending so much and not having much to show for it

@jadapandy 11 ай бұрын

Seeing it today in Imax. Always like to form my own opinion.

@J2tallrich 11 ай бұрын

The movie completely hit me way different I loved it my biggest complaint I guess is some what on what you touched on the 3rd portion felt like there was a chunk missing

@nemomarc7841 11 ай бұрын

the story is mainly about MAYA joshua and Alfie IA. the landscapes and the visual effects are incredible! You have to see it again and again.

@nemomarc7841 10 ай бұрын

Marc If THE CREATOR makes a FLOP it is because the US spectators have no curiosity about the difference, they have eaten so much of MARVEL a film with emotion the kid who plays ALPHIE IA she bursts THE SCREEN the visual effects n have never been so breathtakingly beautiful. Coming out of the first session I was such a slap in the face! I went back for a 2nd Session 🎟🎟 on the day of the release. A Masterpiece ☆☆☆☆☆

@jadapandy 11 ай бұрын

I usually agree with you, but this time you got it ALL WRONG!!! We just left the movie and we loved it! Everything you pointed out as being bad, wrong, slow, etc....you got it all wrong. You watched another cut than we did. It was fast-paced, gorgeous to look at, action-packed, emotional with solid acting across the board. By FAR Gareth Edward's finest film!

@CarlWheatley-wi2cl 11 ай бұрын

Damn! Was looking forward to this one. No chance that it may improve on a second viewing haha? We desperately NEED new quality sci-fi IP's.

@danteshakespeare188 11 ай бұрын

SO TRUE!!

@jamesguerrero2993 10 ай бұрын

Don't listen to this guy, Go see it for yourself. Just because he didn't like it, doesn't mean you won't.

@danteshakespeare188 10 ай бұрын

Seeing it this weekend, thanks@@jamesguerrero2993

@Valiantes_Studios 10 ай бұрын

Watch the original Blade Runner or Terminator 1 & 2. Better movies about AI with humanity.

@danteshakespeare188 10 ай бұрын

I saw it. It was a good film.@@jamesguerrero2993

@Alazoom76 11 ай бұрын

Gonna see it anyway.

@thays9999 6 ай бұрын

I am cool with you not liking it but I think you've inspired me to watch it a third time. I absolutely love this film.

@themtgdude486 11 ай бұрын

I felt the complete opposite. Loved it.

@subaquaticencountersofthed8515 11 ай бұрын

Ill say, as someone who agrees with James, that you should still see the movie. Its a decent experience and the visuals are definitely cool. All of that said, my 9 yr old, my wife and I all had the same exact reaction as James about the first 1/3rd being the best and the final 3rd being downright "bad". I really wasnt expecting this to be such a familiar Disney film since it is a unique story... Its just not that unique. It fits right into the backbone of any old marvel or DC film. The villian, the forced tear jerk scenes, the child savior... its all Disney framework. I hope you see it, and I hope you enjoy it more than we did. I will certainly grab the 4KUHD disc just to better appreciate the cinematography and design on my OLED. Maybe Ill enjoy it morr with a better expectation level. Cheers!

@el_chino778 10 ай бұрын

I watched other reviews and went to see it. It was actually pretty good.

@dnice4145 11 ай бұрын

The Creator looks incredibly derivative. JD Washington shouldn't be the lead in any film, guys a very bland actor.

@everythingisawesome76 11 ай бұрын

I've felt the same way. Hollywood keeps trying to force him into leading man roles. He always looks like he's uncomfortable or high or both.

@filmtoppings 11 ай бұрын

Yall watched about a dozen action movies with Bruce Willis, John David should be no problem in comparison

@everythingisawesome76 11 ай бұрын

@@filmtoppings who's yall? That's a pretty bad comparison. I think he's a good actor but not in the leading man roles he's been put in lately?

@johnpelosi4117 10 ай бұрын

I especially love your comments regarding what can be imagined about the future of AI if it were autonomous and how it would want to spend it's time, it's hilarious that you said there was no fucking way AI would choose living in a Fishing Village from 1000 years ago! Ha ha ha! Great episode, thanks!

@YnotNomis 10 ай бұрын

Yeah...I was hoping you were wrong on this one ...or at least we could see it from different perspective, but you're review is pretty spot on. It's a shame. it had a good premise, but bad execution.

@oxhine 11 ай бұрын

Hey, Jimmy! You and fellow Tuber Dan Murell are 180 degrees apart on "Creator"! I miss the robust and vitriolic debates of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert! Why don't the two of you collaborate on a joint video and eviscerate each other for our viewing pleasure? Come on, it'll be fun! When will you review fellow Tuber Prism's Sequel Trilogy re-writes? He spun gold from straw and stuck the landing!

@AndréVilaFranca 11 ай бұрын

I think in general the best creators are novel, comicbook, videogame and tv series writers. Maybe give them enough resources to make live action adaptations of their works?? I'm so disilusioned with live action films, I think the short format storytelling is too limiting. All the best stories I've experienced were long format. There are just too many narrative techniques that can only be properly or entirely executed with enough time.

@moodulated 10 ай бұрын

Agree with all of these points on plot holes and pacing issues but I could have got past this if the acting from John David Washington wasn't completely woeful. The Alphie character and portrayal was also insufferable.

@j10betty 11 ай бұрын

Wasn't expecting this movie to be original or set the sci Fi bar high I still thoroughly enjoyed it it had a decent story, there was emotional moments that hit me. Visually we know it's phenomenal. Was let down by the score cause it was done by Hans Zimmer.the music wasn't at all memorable an had artist tracks thrown in randomly that did work but no eargasms. I'll give this film 7 out of 10.

@sebastiansanhueza9601 10 ай бұрын

Jeez! The hate is real here. I really enjoyed it and felt emotional several times throughout the movie.

@heartshinemusic 11 ай бұрын

Hmm, this is not what I wanted to hear. Still plan on going, to reward the makers of original SF. It's a shame if the third act was rushed by studio involvement. Do you think that maybe this had been better as a miniseries on a streaming platform, not cutting emotional content? Empire magazine gave this movie 4 out of 5 stars, and they are mostly honest and dependable, so I'm gonna take a shot at watching it.

@TigerMa75 11 ай бұрын

Same here!

@thays9999 6 ай бұрын

I get that you didn't like it, but I loved it

@AdrianMendoza23 11 ай бұрын

Well damn. That's unfortunate. 'Monsters' is pretty good. James, God bless you for having to put up with NYC audiences.

@JoeyBoBoey 8 ай бұрын

Having just watched, I’ll agree with the overall sentiments. While ok don’t think it was as poor of a film as James did, it felt devoid of something. It never developed a personality as a story. Though District 9 came to mind, as with many others, I think a better visual and tonal comparison would be Oblivion. Similar pacing and slow burn/grandiose setting. But I think this film failed to come close to living up to either whichever way you want to go. And while in retrospect a lot does happen in that third act, they managed to make it feel slower and fuller than the rest of the film. I’d give it a 6.5/10 tops.

@JasonJWatkins18 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, this film is pretty great. Don't pay too much attention to this review.

@Valiantes_Studios 10 ай бұрын

Movie was 💩

@AdrianMendoza23 2 ай бұрын

I just watched it. Beautiful movie. Yes its cliche and has plenty of tropes but still compelling.

@juktapose 10 ай бұрын

it wasn't that great but I enjoyed. Beautiful visually. We need more Scifi movies like this

@jdsykes9125 8 ай бұрын

I absolutely loved this Movie lol

@popcorn908 10 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed it but I think my biggest problem was that the story beats were wholly predictable and cliche. But overall this was a beautiful looking movie and I thought the action was good enough that I felt like it was still worth watching it in IMAX.

@vestallstar 8 ай бұрын

Are you confusing Gareth Edwards with the guys who made Solo: A Star Wars story? Because they were fired and replaced by Ron Howard, while Edwards made Rogue One without any controversy and without being replaced. He even had a cameo in Last Jedi the following year.

@Activation1111 10 ай бұрын

It definitely had his flaws. But overall I liked the movie. I would definitely watch it again. I can’t say the same for the last few Star Wars movies or TV shows. Except for Rogue one. That was a pretty good movie.

@Father_Daniel 10 ай бұрын

James I've heard you mention your experiences in the theater occasionally and I always think back to visiting family in New York (Im from Florida) and we went to see a movie and I couldn't believe the energy in the theater. LOL it was like being in class when there's a substitute teacher.

@bethsheetz2271 10 ай бұрын

I will see this when it comes out on DVD. I have to say that I saw "The Creator" with Peter O'Toole when it came out, and I really liked it. Peter O'Toole made interesting role choices in the '80's and 90's. I am the audience for sci-fi, and I'll watch movies that are indisputably sci-fi (under most circumstances) even if they aren't very good.

@livelong6685 10 ай бұрын

i knew the movie was gonna be terrible when i seen the child, i was like ops here's another special child movie i seen this a thousand times, this move was so bad

@thekeywitness 11 ай бұрын

Doh! I was looking forward to this. Too bad it’s a letdown.

@jonathanmeisel 11 ай бұрын

I have a feeling this will be one of the fewer times I disagree heavily with John.

@franciscomatallana8676 11 ай бұрын

I'm excited to see it

@napoleonwilson155 11 ай бұрын

Cheers

@zachcouch8654 10 ай бұрын

One of the worst written movies with the best visuals. I felt like I wasted my money.

@stevendunn2501 10 ай бұрын

I could not agree more with you.

@jmil843 11 ай бұрын

Are you gonna watch the new Castlevania animated series out Friday?

@lilymack4028 10 ай бұрын

Gee, I feel better after watching your review. I told a friend I'd actually had trouble following the plot about 1/2 way in. So, maybe I wasn't as smart a sci-fi nerd as I thought? (I'm 74, have a science degree & watched sci-fi all my life). Turns out it was just a bad film. Thank god...

@livelong6685 10 ай бұрын

this was basically bishop from X men lol fighting in the future

@AdrianMendoza23 2 ай бұрын

That sounds awesome.

@marca5883 11 ай бұрын

I'm a little disappointed, I was looking forward to this...💚🇬🇧🌱 Have you checked out Gen V yet??? Pretty awesome opening three episodes x

@livelong6685 10 ай бұрын

this movie was beyond garbage, but the cinematic looks nice

@jamesguerrero2993 10 ай бұрын

I got bored after listening to you go on and on so I'm just gonna go see it again and enjoy it even more the 2nd time✌

@lonestar98 11 ай бұрын

I agree, it can be really distracting to have people around you on their bright phone in the dark theater. If people want to be on their phone the entire movie then why not just watch it at home and hang elsewhere.

@OdinAesthetic 11 ай бұрын

That's funny. I thought it was just me - wanting to walk out. The style, aesthetic and world building was cool. I was impressed. And it lost me. Went nowhere. The plot failures were numbing my mind ( without spoiling: giving one character amazing power. ) And I distinctly noticed throughout the whole movie: white people are bad.

@davidmccoy1378 11 ай бұрын

"A.I." is of course quite the buzz phrase these days. Perhaps they were just called "robots" originally and someone went into the script and promo materials with a find and replace.

@kanojo1969 11 ай бұрын

This film all came from one idea: "How cool would it look if an android had a huge hole right through it's head!". They never realised that wasn't enough to carry a 2 hour film.

@karloslim 11 ай бұрын

I thought the movie looked and sounded great but was poorly acted, had a confusing plot and was boring as hell.

@justinhunt4767 10 ай бұрын

It was a classic

@DarkLadyAthena1 11 ай бұрын

I haven't watched it. I may or may not like it. But here's my take on the problem with many films nowadays dealing with AI. They swing the pendulum to the other extreme and insist too much upon themselves which leads to poor execution. Whereas before, you had written fiction and movies give a negative take on AI, the pendulum has been swinging to the other direction. It makes sense given the times we live in. However, it all seems too forced. Humans bad, AI good and misunderstood. We saw this in the Animatrix short of how the Matrix came to be. But there, it was well executed via animation. Still, it seemed a bit forced at times and too one sided (but it can be forgiven given it was from the machines' POV).

@andrewkawam2603 11 ай бұрын

I feel like a lot of the time when there is genuinely original SFF on the screen not related to a pre-existing IP (which to me doesn’t necessarily mean that it isn’t original; works of people like Jonathan Glazer, Lynne Ramsay, Kubrick, Tarkovsky, and Denis Villeneuve show that you can do really unique and idiosyncratic stuff with pre-existing IP) and it does well in terms of viewing figures and critical reception, people are too quick to either cut/kill it before its time, like with The OA and Raised by Wolves (#SaveTheOA #RenewRaisedbyWolves) or just paradoxically act like it doesn’t exist. There are some notable exceptions to this of course, like the movies of Hayao Miyazaki or TV series like Dark, but it seems like much of the time people have this weird state of denial going on.

@mbrennan27 11 ай бұрын

No one will save you good sci Fi on Hulu

@ericpatterson5050 11 ай бұрын

Ouch, I'm so sorry to hear this. 🎬😬👁🙄😥🙌🏿💜

@jadapandy 11 ай бұрын

John David Washington is a boring actor. He doesn't emote emotional levels a great actor needs in their movies. Hopefully he does that here, but from the trailer, he looks wooden.

@dnice4145 11 ай бұрын

Yep, guy has no charisma.

@njt002 10 ай бұрын

The special effects were terrific, the story not so much. The ending was meh.

@Jay828__ 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for being honest. Sounds exactly what I was afraid of. Monsters is a snoozefest, with a few goods moments & ends with an eye rolling MESSAGE!

@frozzytango9927 11 ай бұрын

yeah coz America cant be evil in a movie.

@Jay828__ 11 ай бұрын

@@frozzytango9927 says the user with Stalin and Communist red hammer & sickle in their avatar. 😂 no agenda coming from you. Please remind us of Soviet Russia's border & immigration policies (Monsters has a ham fisted immigration message)

@frozzytango9927 11 ай бұрын

@@Jay828__ i put that pic just to piss people like you off.. no reason why you cant hate America and the Soviets.

@Dartagnan88 11 ай бұрын

A little too many spoilers mate Still gave you a thumbs up

@danteshakespeare188 11 ай бұрын

This movie needs to win. Please...

@ADavid42 11 ай бұрын

aw, I am so disappoint.

@djripsmusic 11 ай бұрын

There are some shockingly bad movies coming out lately. I looked up a couple of new ones the other day, and each had about 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a sign of the rot that has set in at many movie studios where a 'production line' mentality has set in that seeks to churn out movies for a zombie audience rather than take some risks and tell an interesting story. I've been watching many free short movies on KZbin lately that are far more engaging. Something has to change with big budget movies, and writers being paid fairly is no doubt part of the answer.

@salomaonplanetsaturn 11 ай бұрын

I am curious. Why rotten tomatoes? Never liked it. Misleading ratings. iMdb is much better in every sense - design , ratings , information. Rotten tomatoes is like stupid glance magazine without substance.

@djripsmusic 11 ай бұрын

@@salomaonplanetsaturn IMDB also had terrible ratings for the movies I looked up. RT has critic and user ratings if you don't trust one particular type.

@salomaonplanetsaturn 11 ай бұрын

@@djripsmusic 🤗 thank you for reply

@frozzytango9927 11 ай бұрын

"rotten tomatoes".. you mean "rotten white jewtomatoes"

@salomaonplanetsaturn 11 ай бұрын

@@frozzytango9927 russian ? По русски говоришь ? My mom is russian. Говорю по русски. Хоть и из Англии . Болею за Россию на войне

@everythingisawesome76 11 ай бұрын

Oh well. At the beginning you mention "original IP" I'm not sure the last time Hollywood made anything original. Even if its not directly based on existing IP, all content since the 70s has been influenced by someones previous work. Maybe even before then? Curious James, when was the last time you left a theater and thought, wow! Theres something Ive never seen or read before?

@trebleboost7 11 ай бұрын

For me it was ‘Pacific Rim’, but that IP has fizzled on the big screen hasn’t it?

@jjmelendez2343 11 ай бұрын

I LOVED the aesthetics and design, but you said what I couldn’t. The ambiguity of the moral and message has me reading it at face value: (hard to say this with our spoiling it but) Americans are dumb baddies, and they don’t wanna let us chill with the bots. It was boring. I think people will emote from the sheer scale and performances.

@salomaonplanetsaturn 11 ай бұрын

I said it after first glance at trailer. Generic , useless movie 😅 Filmmaking techniques in it are more interesting than setting or story. Original cut was 5 hours. Gareth Edwards said so in a making of.🎉 Monsters is a good small movie about relationships first and monsters second. I liked it

@DrDetfink 11 ай бұрын

If AI leads to robot ushers who will pound on human beings addicted to their phones, then I welcome the AI overlords! 😆 This movie felt like a Heavy Metal magazine come to life except the director forgot to actually read a Heavy Metal magazine.

@Dani-kq6qq 11 ай бұрын

The film is 80 million, not 200 million. It looks pretty impressive for a $80 million film

@ktom5262 11 ай бұрын

It looks great but the script is poor.

@drewschweitz 11 ай бұрын

damn. Im still going to see this movie.. but this was disappointing to hear.

@matthewbooth547 11 ай бұрын

Got to find AI some completion Right ? CHEERS 🥂

@nevetsny1 10 ай бұрын

Imagine if Edwards got a decent script. The box office is not going help. Scored by Hans Zimmer but sounded bland. Humans the tv show actress was in is more nuanced than this. Hollywood needs to stop using the Debussy. Yeah the script was bad but visuals are incredible.

@samuelwhite8400 8 ай бұрын

The film was derivative trash. Nothing original but the title. I lost track of how many scenes from other much better films were copied and pasted into this flick. Yuck. Nifty premise, great effects and cast. Abominable execution 🥴

@Valiantes_Studios 10 ай бұрын

It was meh. Nice visuals, nice action. But it's commentary on AI and humanity was... strange. It's America bad narrative, regardless of your frustration in politics, was trash. It's AI good, feel bad for AI is strange. If it's supposed to be an allegory to us losing our humanity I guess..... You could see it as an analogy, symbolism.... But films like TERMINATOR 1 AND 2 and BLADE RUNNER especially * have better commentary about AI and the loss of our humanity without being so nihilistic like this thing of a movie. It's a nice sci-fi action flick to watch when you're bored. Not an excellent sci-fi action movie that makes you think like the other films mentioned. The first Blade Runner makes The Creator look like an MCU-esque sci-fi movie on AI. Where Blade Runner is actually probably the best sci-fi movie on AI becoming more human and humans losing their humanity; without all the nihilistic, pseudo sentimentalism on the AI stuff.

@cloecloe1 9 ай бұрын

You were bang-on this your review. This movie was enormously disappointing. I wanted to like this movie soo much that when I initially watched your review 6 mo ago I turned it off as soon as I saw your tending towards negativity. I thought your were an arrogant elitist. Watched it tonight and was just disappointed in almost every way. Like ya. AI has decided to become a bunch of peaceful rice-farmers only to be hunted by the USA... So lame. Actors were great but even the dialog was pretty bad. I hope we get some original sci-fi soon as I can only re-watch Alien so many times.