UGLIES - "I'm 14 and this is deep" (and this movie sucks)

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[@wingedcatperson3243]

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[@NadeemShekh-uy9zn]

Review Venom the last dance

[@EdHadder]

I love your videos and channel 🤩

[@gaminggoof1542]

16:47 She looks the SAME but with better hair 😂

[@EmperorGooseEdits]

you think the guys get to chose their dick size during the surgery

[@mamamillwright458]

SHE HAS GLASSES! AND A PONYTAIL! SO UGGO!

[@NelidaUtuwatu]

Jaime Frencher!! ❤

[@tomatodamashi]

And paint covered overalls!

[@THEYuYama]

and her eyes WERN'T blue 😂

[@beartackle]

This is why I closed my eyes when playing this video. Glasses?!? Eww!

[@LSB001]

Jennifer's Body trying to gaslight us into thinking that Amanda Seyfried needed a makeover.

[@themememaker4929]

I love how whenever Hollywood tries to make a movie about society's corrupt beauty standards, they inadvertantly reveal their own corrupt beauty standards by deliberately casting attractive actors to play the "ugly" characters

[@AnaSanchezstfu]

ikrrr, it's so ironic

[@BabyGirlTiny]

I love how y’all want to shit in Hollywood so much, that y’all miss the point of the series. Which is no matter who they casted, the entire point of the book is that no matter what you’re ugly. Like, I’m confused as to why people think casting ugly people to be ugly would make any sense, when the point isn’t that these people aren’t ugly. They’re made to think they are

[@MamaMOB]

​​@@BabyGirlTinybecause it's a visual medium. If you're claiming someone's ugly but you're showing someone who isn't ugly we're not going to buy it. That works in a book because it's in your head. They can look anyway you want them to. But in a visual medium if you're claiming someone's ugly and they're not no one's going to buy your premise.

[@Wolf_ManJack]

@@BabyGirlTiny Because it is a fucking movie and people know that beauty standards are based upon real aspects of facial structure, which ironically result in unattractive actors being prejudicially denied hire under terms the average person is okay with. Could you pull Hollywood's wee out of your mouth now? It was probably in a 16 year-old aspiring actress for a Netflix series today.

[@Zeldagirlartist]

THATS THE POINT

[@somethingclever8916]

Joey King has been playing a teenager for a decade.

[@bryankennedy3719]

Lol

[@gnarcissist7669]

Ironic considering past roles

[@mdviperx]

She seriously needs to fire whoever her agent is

[@voodoomammajuju]

you joeking

[@noahwhite659]

@@voodoomammajujuI love your pun and I severely hope you have a good rest of your days on this earth. 😎

[@Ms.Greenleaf]

The irony of there not being a single actual ugly person in this whole movie..

[@haywoodjablowmi1427]

It’s the point of the movie. The beauty standards went so far that extremely attractive people for our standards are considered ugly in their world. This society is so critical of people’s natural faces that anyone who doesn’t get plastic surgery is inherently "ugly" and has to go to live in a neighborhood full of uglies, no exceptions. And the "pretties" are not supposed to look attractive to us, they’re supposed to look uncanny. Edit : I think the issue some people have here is that they’re not separating Hollywood and the source material. The movie needs to have attractive "uglies" to deliver the books’ message. Yes, Hollywood would’ve casted attractive actors regardless of the plot. But this one time, it’s also part of the plot. Yes it’s hypocritical, just like when a big corporation produce a show/movie criticizing big corporations/capitalism. You can criticize Hollywood, without saying that the movie did something wrong by casting non-ugly people. They didn’t not make a mistake. This is not nonsensical to cast attractive actors to play the "uglies". Because this one time, it was the whole point. You can criticize the industry without calling the casting choices a misunderstanding of the plot.

[@kreiyu]

i think another KZbinr said that the pretty people in the books were supposed to be "inhumanly" pretty. so i think the "uglyness" is supposed to be by comparison. we don't think they are ugly, but by their societal standards, they are. i just don't think the movie portrayed that very well.

[@Wraiven22]

@@haywoodjablowmi1427 or it’s just that Hollywood is allergic to casting ordinary looking people, even when it’s integral to the plot 😂

[@اسكندرفكار]

​@@Wraiven22 True that my brother 😂

[@BabyGirlTiny]

@@Wraiven22or it’s that y’all missed the point and want to complain. Not saying the movie is good, but the point is that no matter what you look like, you’re ugly until you get that surgery. So casting pretty people still works because the point is that they’re meant to be seen as ugly because everyone is no matter what they look like

[@peanut_butter_wizard1213]

The fact that everyone in the comments (and Elvis in the video) is complaining about the actors not being ugly just goes to show how much this movie didnt understand what the book was doing I read the books back in middle school, and the point of the Pretty surgery wasn't to make super ugly people into supermodel versions of themselves. Theres a bit where Tally finds some old-world magazines, and she actively wonders why they had Uglies on the cover, bc the Pretty surgery makes everyone homogeneous, similar skin color to everyone else, scars and birthmarks and other types of identifying features that, according to the people in charge, eliminates a desire for conflict based on physical differences by making eveyone more or less the same Uglies are literally just normal people, and Pretties are uncanny valley copy-paste freaks that everyone in their society has been taught are the ideal way to look and be The movie really needed to make that clear for it to actually work. If they did it right, having all the Uglies be played by, y'know, conventionally atractive Hollywood actors could have easily helped drive the point home The Pretties really, really needed to be more uncanny to actually make the story work, but they dropped the ball

[@Wolf_ManJack]

This is the argument everyone running defense in the comments actually needs to trot out - they literally aren't 'pretty' in terms of looking physically healthy and hormonally healthy (Which impacts face shape, skin quality, etc.) but rather an unusual 'generically attractive' that people of every race can generally fit into well-enough to make a standard look for the human species. This is done as a social control mechanism by the people who survived what was basically an apocalypse war, creating a stable society of people with actual lesions in their brain who live to be controlled breeders while the few people with power work the cogs of society. To us, they would look not ugly, but freakish in the factory-like nature of their appearances, because they've been reduced to vapid clones of a workable human mold. If everyone looked uncomfortably, oddly similar, like a blend of anime face types moreso than people, the movie could sell exactly why the author - who's actually pretty good by the way, he's written good stuff in general and the books are less vapid than the movie, that's why there's this understated clone-cattle-horror element that you only pick up on once the MC realizes it, when it would be obvious to _us_ - focuses so much on the lush paradise of "Pretty society". It's literally all bread and circuses, made to break people of any _capacity_ for anarchistic elements or free thought, so they slide into the factory production line. Uglies as a franchise is more about covert social control than accepting differences in human beauty, that's moreso the YA angle the author clearly uses to get his books sold, the same way Artemis Fowl is about Lupin The IIIrd as a sociopath interacting with literal magic, but he's a teen boy to sell those paperbacks.

[@Rurike]

That sounds far more compelling

[@zach.avenarius]

damn they really butchered the source, the ugly and pretty theme wasnt very present in the movie seemed like it was forgotten by the director

[@dimisbam7725]

What you describe is really interesting .Was it that obvious in the book ? How did they miss it?!

[@mannamedman]

The Korean short movie, "human form" is way better at explaining this topic than the uglies movie. This short film literally has uncanny faces that are supposedly "pretty" and follow the beauty standards while the people who are technically "normal" and don't have surgery are "ugly". It's really good.

[@thatonequeen8779]

Nobody with acne? Where are the adults? Do the kids raise themselves???

[@Mag_1418]

Pretty parents raise them and then send them off to that boarding school (I watched the movie)

[@mskiara18]

My guess is the children can only return to their families after they receive their surgery at 16.

[@talic-os5899]

​@@mskiara18yes

[@ch_vky148]

Don't ask any lore-related questions on such movies. You'll not get your answers. Never🙉🤣

[@graceindeswoods5090]

So in the book from what I remember, there were different communities for different time of life. So like the "pretties" living in prettytown were 16 to lets say 25, then there would be a town for 25-30, then 30-40 etc. And tally and the other kids were brought there so early that they dont remember their parents. There were some adults in the boarding school, but otherwise they were all separated. And there should have been kids with acne, but this movie is an awful adaptation

[@Giffsen]

Bro if they're ugly then I'm horrendous 😢

[@AnvilPictures]

Don’t be to hard on yourself

[@BabyGirlTiny]

In that world, everyone is the same amount of ugly so you wouldn’t be considered horrendous at all

[@scottsummers31]

you look like your mother shat out a sentient turd

[@ozitona7704]

My honest reaction to this: 2:10

[@voodoomammajuju]

bro you are magnificent ❤

[@fredskull1618]

Even though the movie came out 15 years too late, I wish a horror director got the chance to branch out with this movie. The absurdism of the premise could have been really fun and creepy, especially the surgery angle.

[@McSnezzly]

There’s a twilight zone episode with a similar premise, they use really cool prosthetics

[@THEBIGBEEFIS]

A new movie that just came out call the substance is kinda like that

[@Gr8ApeNappa]

Joey King's agent has been secretly trying and failing to destroy her for over a decade.

[@doomhauer69]

Joey King is basically the channel mascot at this point with how many stinkers she's been in that you've covered

[@hoze1235]

She's attracted to b movies

[@amberbaum4079]

We need A King'n Cage crossover!

[@hoze1235]

shes attracted to b movies

[@deaditeera]

She only makes stinkers honestly

[@aligmal5031]

she hasn't been in anything good since the conjuring 2013

[@J.U.N.K.official]

THIS ACTRESS IS IN EVERY BAD MOVIE COVERED ON THE CHANNEL😂😂😂😂

[@blddemn6645]

Cause joey king is such a boring, untalented, unattractive actress

[@agbrenv]

she the girl from the Pissing Booth right? I saw her in some horror movie from 2020 I think, where she played an incredibly irritating character, she basically lies to her parents that she killed her best friend, and then continues to do stupid things, and the plot twist is that she lied, meanwhile her parents kill the mother and father of the supposed dead friend out of desperation to protect their retard daughter ever since, seeing her face is instantly a negative for me (also doesn't help, that the only other films I've seen her in, are the shitty ones covered on this channel)

[@patrickkelmer6290]

Joey King needs a new agent.

[@blddemn6645]

@@J.U.N.K.official Because she's the most untalented, uninteresting, unattractive actress

[@blddemn6645]

@@J.U.N.K.official cause she sucks

[@_nwoony]

HOW ARE THEY UGLY IF THEYRE AVERAGE ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE also I’m disappointed the dude who made babysitter made that mess

[@rmendez6792]

They're an LA 4 but a midwestern 8

[@ThePkmnYPerson]

I think that's the point. Their world is so overly critical of looks that these people who look fine are being called ugly.

[@KingOfGaymes]

Because normal good looking people are considered the ugly people in Hollywood 💀

[@theoanderson2042]

​@ThePkmnYPerson this is true. I would have commented this, but he beat me to it.

[@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876]

They are ugly for Hollywood standards, You know, just don't have makeup, put a pair of glasses and have messy hair and You are Hollywood "ugly"

[@civilprotection3114]

Twilight Zone basically already did this in like 1960. It was a world where everyone was ugly and beautiful people were rare and treated worse.

[@Ndrake89]

Hell yeah that episode is amazing

[@lainiwakura1776]

Yes, but they also did one where at 19 you get to choose a numbered look to be made into and the girl didn't want it and she was convinced to do it and went through with it.

[@Nazareth69420]

@@lainiwakura1776what’s that episode called?

[@Vanessa-xx3yz]

Yea, but twilight zone was a show that had such great ideas that I'm cool with people trying to take some of the concepts and expand on them. If that's even what they did cus it's possible they just thought of something that's already been done.

[@lainiwakura666]

@@Nazareth69420number twelve looks just like you. Season 5 episode 17. The same story as this movie, people get turned into the model they choose but their brains are also altered when they do it

[@terrytheblackmage4799]

I wasn't expecting the phrase "ugly police" or the sentence "The Pretties show up and cause mayhem in Hippie Land"

[@StummerVogel]

I can't even tell which characters are supposed to be ugly and which are the pretty ones. These people all look perfectly fine. Either make your uglies actually unattractive or make the post-op "kids" look extremely plastic. Give them the Bogdanoff treatment.

[@ma.2089]

The post op kids are supposed to look uncanny looking, so yeah CGI should’ve been applied

[@makosimp5022]

Make them look like post surgery Erin Moriarty

[@CoOlKyUbI96]

The movie completely misinterpreted the point of the “pretties”. The point isn’t that they’re conventionally hotter. The point is that they look eerily identical to one another with practically no differences aside from some being men and some being women

[@StummerVogel]

@@CoOlKyUbI96 Ooh. See, that would have been visually noticeable AND creepy to boot.

[@cargo_vroom9729]

They do look extremely plastic. pause at 4:37

[@caprichaos]

Love how Skinny doesn't believe in the surgery GIRL you look like you were handcrafted by the gods be serious lolll

[@MikadoYuma]

Its like a humble brag lol "I'm so beautiful but I don't need that disgusting surgery. Did I mention I didn't get the surgery yet? Yeah, all natural. Trust me bro."

[@caprichaos]

@@MikadoYuma I imagine the surgeons looking at her unconscious body before the procedure scratching their heads like "wtf are we even supposed to do with this one??"

[@MikadoYuma]

@@caprichaos make her look worse like with nose maybe lol

[@Mantis-ti5ve]

Stop fluffing mid girls. She looks like the Asian kid from Indiana Jones lmao

[@caprichaos]

@@Mantis-ti5ve nah this is either rage bait or a terrible opinion but in doubt I respectfully reject both

[@calebk8278]

I read the book in middle school, and in the book it's explained human beauty standards have changed so much that people we consider supermodels are seen as hideous. It's almost comical how the mc describes slight differences as inescapable flaws. It doesn't work in a movie where people we know are attractive go "I'm so ugly" without that context

[@suzienothing9855]

I cancelled my Netflix subscription because of the increasing amount of bad content, but I love still sort of watching these movies vicariously through you. Thanks Elvis

[@gnat4999]

Hey man they got castlevania, and scavengers reign, and........ something else?

[@therealmikebrown]

Which streaming service do you watch that you think most of the stuff is actually good? 90% of movies and shows are trash. Of course most of the stuff on steaming services suck.

[@suzienothing9855]

@@therealmikebrown very true! I used to have HBO too because I thought they the suprior quality over quantity ratio, but realised they also put trash stuff on there. So I unsubscribed to everything and now I just watch out for good movies and shows and watch them specifically at the cinema or something

[@jeanvictor8178]

​@@gnat4999the castlevania series isn't good

[@gnat4999]

@@jeanvictor8178 okay

[@NoObstacle]

Fight Club! Starts narration in the present

[@mamamillwright458]

Lmfao! I was coming here to make this comment!!!

[@Ok-fj7xx]

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels”

[@ether91333]

good to know I’m not the only one that was baffled by that line in the beginning 😂 “my story today…begins in the past”

[@jimmyseaver3647]

This reminds me of when my younger sister was really into the books when they first came out and saw a trailer for an "Uglies" film thinking it was for real. Thankfully, my encyclopedic knowledge of mid-2000s sci-fi allowed me to immediately identify the scene as the trailer for _Halo: Reach_ and call out the Pelicans, SPARTAN III augmentation procedures, and the subsequent fake nature of the whole thing. She wasn't happy.

[@GOATexp]

I thought the point of them not actually being ugly was that beauty standards went so extreme that what we see as attractive are now considered “ugly” Not sure if that’s how it is in the book but I can see the logic

[@ma.2089]

Yes, that’s how it’s in the book. The pretties are supposed to reach uncanny levels of beauty. And typical beauty standards from our times are meant to be ugly.

[@Wolf_ManJack]

The "Pretties" are dumbed-down breeding fodder to keep humanity going while people at the top of the hierarchy keep society stable, this is a lot more clear if you've read the later books. Pretties are inundated with luxury from the moment of their surgery, making them too _docile_ to question authority, and given brain damage to intensify their feelings of pleasure and their discomfort towards breaking the rules. The MC actually comments upon it a few times, it's like everything around her feels _wonderful_ and _exciting_ but she can't string two thoughts together or really imagine why she'd want to not be a part of the system. It's a very explicit mind-control paradigm framed as entrance to a perfect adolescence, which is the grander conceit of the actual story; hiding the ugliness of the _world_ from people so they won't attempt to do anything about it. The Specials are mutant super-soldiers modified to act as combat agents because by that point in their lives, they've bought into the system and don't get any cognitive dissonance from realizing they can suddenly _think_ again and are wetworks agents for a fucking Illuminati government. The "beauty standards! gross!" angle is mostly there as a YA thing to help sell the books from what I can tell, the author puts a lot more passion into the world-building than he does into that theme.

[@CoOlKyUbI96]

@@ma.2089that’s the propaganda that the pretties preach in the books. But it’s really just an excuse to get them all to look the same without any difference in looks.

[@Halfendymion]

I read part of the first book (yeah, _first,_ there's three more: "Pretties", "Specials", and "Extras") when I was in high school. The furthest I got was to her jumping off the roof. I never really felt the call to open the book again after that for some reason.

[@balkaba3927]

the uglies in general just sounds like brave new world but just worse honestly

[@Pillzpop]

I can’t believe the guy who wrote The Leviathan Trilogy wrote this. At least THAT series was actually cool with its alternate history world.

[@ma.2089]

@@balkaba3927 never read BNW, but I did read the whole series and a quick Wikipedia skim looks like the themes are similar. Probably done better in the BNW, but Uglies series isn’t bad for what it is. Less spagbol tho.

[@ma.2089]

@@Pillzpop you do realize this movie is a complete bastardization of the books, right? Don’t pretend like what the dude wrote later on is THAT much better lol

[@_Kuma_]

So in your version of the universe, she died after jumping off and that was the end lol

[@DavidClark-v3w]

Getting a 32-year-old actor to play a 16-year-old character is crazy work-f*cking wild! 😆

[@collinkeyser6827]

That's Basically What They Did With Grease In The 70's

[@loralaibarometer]

Tally Youngblood is clearly a name generated on fantasy name generator and something I wouldn't even give to a joke one shot D&D character.

[@zachanikwano]

Y’all realize we have things like “John’s son,” and “Carpenter,” as real last names, right? This is very on brand for humanity, lol It’s probably a real last name

[@emstink]

​@@zachanikwano No but those were functional because no one had last names until they came about. We're supposed to believe society was functioning and then people just decided to give themselves wacky names. I guess it's not too bad because we're also meant to believe they gave themselves wacky nosejobs while they left their children in prison. But still, what bimboified human being would choose the name 'youngblood'? I get "Sharpjaw" or "Slopenose" or even the good ol' fallout "Smoothskin". But "youngblood"? I get the feeling the Pretties wouldn't ever want to think about blood so it's a crap name

[@emstink]

​@@zachanikwanono ducking way, it's a real name. Jungbluth. My bad. Still stand by the idea that a society that runs on plastic surgery, has names like Tally, Peris, Sol, Sussy, Frizz, Moggle, and Fausto, and really on the nose groups like Uglies, Pretties, Smokies, Cutters (yes exactly what you think), Sly Girls - totally would jump at the chance to give themselves a glamorous, on the nose surname too. Rather than keep our stinky, Ugly surnames

[@Eudaimonia7564]

This is such a crazy name for a YA story

[@tatianaturner2782]

I thought so too it was the "it" series to read in middle/highschool

[@tatianaturner2782]

I thought so too it was the "it" series to read in middle/highschool

[@mcdreisig7924]

the pretty version of Joey King looks like M3gan

[@AmandaTheJedi]

Yeah they really needed to stress that the point was that none of them were ACTUALLY ugly, society had just raised them to think they were when they were just completely normal.

[@mamedvlogs660]

So McG basically made a movie about "Looksmaxxing". Got it !

[@CrypticCharm]

i love the book, it predates the YA dystopia craze and for years i was hoping it would be turned into a film, but the actual result...was so badly executed.

[@nickyman5557]

The book is do do,internally just turns what could be an interesting dystopian plot into a garbage love triangle

[@BroadwayBrittany]

@@nickyman5557Agreed. I really enjoyed the first book at the time, but by the time I finished the second one? I was SO annoyed with the MC and all of the romance bullshit that I just dropped the series. It ended on a cliffhanger and I didn’t care what happened next.

[@CollinAllPatriots]

I mean, aren't all Netflix movies Dystopia movies at this point? 😂

[@Awoken0]

Wait...how would they have used the cure on the pretties if they won't do it on an unwilling person? This is so dumb.

[@THEYuYama]

iirc pretties have chips put in their brain so its some sort of brain control that allows the gov to override independent thought... that being said its been like 16years+ since i've read the books. 😭 this video is making me regret liking scott westerfield... omfg im actually dumb

[@antney7745]

Yeah. "We made a cure for Pretty-brain, but we know it's not ethical to use it on people without their consent." Gurl, Imma need you to think about what you just said for MORE than 0.1 seconds.

[@jtek6068]

Another great Wattpad fanfic adaptation by Netflix

[@deaditeera]

lol it’s not tho

[@KanishQQuotes]

The book is fine. They clearly established that the "pretty people" essentially have the uncanny , contoured , surgically enhanced look. Being pushed as the "normal"

[@emstink]

​@@KanishQQuotesThe books really aren't great. Alright for teens though. Wouldn't recommend them to anyone older, they're very on the nose and don't handle sensitive themes very... Sensitively

[@favoritemustard3542]

@mrmap Talking about literacy while not finishing your sentence is obvious bait. lol

[@EscargoBay]

Man, if I had the option to customize my appearance at 16, I can guarantee I would not be happy with my choices when I hit 30.

[@justinhammer3196]

So so many extra large peeners.

[@crabcartel8156]

In the books they get a second surgery to become a “middle pretty” and then a third to become a “late pretty”

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

I’ll never understand the logic behind what does and doesn’t become a tax write-off. Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme? Banished to the shadow realm. Uglies? Green-light.

[@awandererfromys1680]

In this specific case, Joey King was executive producer, and got the ball rolling probably by putting some of her own money into it too. She's a big fan of the novels it seems. So ironically, this is kind of a vanity project.

[@d5rmantis]

Has Joey King EVER been in a decent movie? She’s like the human equivalent of a hazard label.

[@zachboardman736]

I'm sorry but if Joey King is supposed to be Ugly, I must look like Jabba the Hutt 😂

[@therealmikebrown]

You should get a job in Hollywood. They spend a lot of money on effects to make people look like Jabba. They keep putting Joey in movies, you shouldn't have an issue.

[@residentkane]

we love insulting women's appearance for no reason!! Society is going in such a great direction.​@@therealmikebrown

[@therealmikebrown]

@@residentkane Thinking someone is ugly is not an insult. Most people are ugly to most people, it's a fact of life. There will always be people who think you are ugly. Who cares? What kind of weirdo thinks everytone finds them attractive?

[@Stalebread47]

So basically "The Substance" but for idiots

[@jerrys1]

Teenagers* So basically the same thing

[@اسكندرفكار]

​@@jerrys1 thats a terrible generalist umbrella for a large verity of ppl.... saying that as a offended teen

[@fahrenheit2101]

@@اسكندرفكار Nah it's fair, teens are stupid, I say that as a teen.

[@اسكندرفكار]

@@fahrenheit2101 it depends on the exact age and the person itself

[@fahrenheit2101]

@@اسكندرفكار I'm the maximum age for a teenager, and I'd probably qualify as a "smart" one in many regards, but even so, I can confidently assert that teenagers are generally "idiots" in that their view of the world is often more childish, as they've often not yet been fully exposed to the real world, and fully matured.

[@MarcosValcuende]

This would’ve been crazy in the 2010’s

[@theaverageDon]

14:12 bro even mountain goats would struggle with that cliff

[@muccmaster]

Gotta love Hollywood putting people in their 30s as supposed 16 year olds.

[@K1NG_of_ReVeNGe1]

Joey King hitting miss after miss after miss is truly some insane work

[@lovefromwonderland]

Uglies was such a random choice for an adaptation, especially in this day and age (as Elvis pointed out, this movie should've came out at least ten years ago). This movie feels dated already and hasn't even been out for very long.

[@alexandragabitto2573]

The history of the book series is actually pretty contentious. There are even more scenes (tw self harm) where c**ing oneself is portrayed in a positive light in the second book. Who would not only make a movie based on material like this, but tease a sequel at the end of it?

[@jeanvictor8178]

Netflix gave "13th reasons why" the green light . So yes i can very easily see this getting a sequel

[@mobster3252]

I thought I was losing my mind watching this movie thinking of all the comments I read of people being obsessed with this book series thinking to myself, “this can’t be all there is to this story??”

[@justmeh3000]

“pretty brain” sounds like you’re just Zoolander 24/7

[@Wraiven22]

When you said “15 years ago” and the timeline was on 2009 I felt genuine pain

[@somethingclever8916]

We all age boomer 😂😂😂😂

[@dogf421]

really makes you appreciate how grounded and logical parkour civilization is

[@toxicdermyillunary4103]

The most Teen Movies ever. "Accept who you are, beauty is just a surface". Said the models

[@IrisStellaGrace09]

No fat people, no scrawny people, nobody with acne, nobody with deformities, no bald people and no hairy people? Okay then.

[@harpitorious]

conventionally attractive is the new ugly in this movie huh? then that must make me a goddamn wildebeest 💀💀

[@wasnlos2676]

Bruh same

[@BabyGirlTiny]

Ugly is ugly. Everyone would be considered ugly no matter what. Conventionally attractive it’s ugly the same way unconventionally unattractive would also be considered the same amount of ugly

[@therealmikebrown]

"Conventionally attractive" means white, skinny and no scars on your face. It's a pretty low bar actually. Joey King is not attractive, at all.

[@SMcGowan287]

Fun fact, the scene where she's sneaking into party with the pretties was filmed at the Atlanta Botanical gardens. I've been there multiple times and it's literally the only cool thing ab this movie. 😂

[@PixlPixel]

I had a high school english class that forced me to read the book this movie was based on for an assignment, and I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw this video in the recommendations, so this was a pretty crazy thing to see again. Too bad I only remember bits and pieces of the story so I can't compare the two that well, but I can say I think making a movie adaptation already misses the point by directly showing us what peoples' faces look like. A book leaves it more up to our imagination, I feel.

[@vi.ni.e]

Since the day this move out, I was waiting for the Elvis video, this movie just smells like Elvis The Alien Essay.

[@xoticbell]

Poor Joeys been in like 70% of the horrible movies you’ve covered throughout the years😭

[@NukaCola514]

Wish Upon is still the funniest one she's starred in lol

[@KarnivorousKeyz]

@@NukaCola514 ngl every once in awhile, gotta put that on for a good lol😄

[@griggletv6974]

Well, poor Joey is making millions in acting, so it's not a bad trade off

[@emstink]

​@@griggletv6974She was also executive producer though so she likely dumped a lot of money into it. On the plus side maybe that means you get to choose your own salary, when you're both actor and exec

[@griggletv6974]

@emstink no for every movie budget you only get paid for your main role and a producers pay is bigger than an actors pay

[@Skeleton_Dork]

Ah, "Hollywood Ugly" my favorite ridiculous trope of the film industry that will never go away

[@shinyninja8107]

I feel really bad for Joey King, because I feel like most people know her from the mediocre to terrible Netflix films she’s been in, and not any of her other stuff. She was The Prince in Bullet Train and Fred in Hamster and Gretel, and she’s really good in both of those! She just has the unfortunate luck of being in more projects that have bad writing than ones that are good, and I hope she gets more really good films to be in soon.

[@emstink]

She was executive producer for this! That means she had to have greenlit the script at every step of the way... At this point, it's not luck, maybe she just likes terrible writing lol!

[@jacobpage8028]

2:19 "I love your dimples by the way" Meanwhile, I'm straining on the toilet.

[@grossliz1995]

I would be called Fivehead. 😂

[@wulph24]

You can't just tease me with less than a mere second of the RE1 save theme. It's unacceptable.

[@glitterytrash]

I read the Uglies book back in middle school and hated everyone in it.

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

"let's make a movie about ugly people and hire the hottest actors in Hollywood"

[@ECKohns]

The movie was filmed in 2021, and was shelves for 3 years before finally getting released. And even if the movie were released in 2022, it would will be about 10 years too late to adapt this 2005 dystopian novel as the book’s fanbase has long since moved on. If this movie wanted to be successful it should have come out in 2009.

[@ZolaRenard_01]

So basically even Netflix knew this would bomb 😅

[@Nucleite]

This whole movie is that one friend who constantly tells you they're ugly but all you see is handsome Squidward.

[@glizzygladiator8055]

The poor actress that’s cast in literally all these bad movies, I hope she doesn’t feel some type of way about it 😭😂

[@Matt-e8l]

lol she just wanted a paycheck

[@LordBigSlime]

Well she was in Bullet Train and that movie is fucking amazing, so there's that.

[@StummerVogel]

I unironically love her in Wish Upon. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen. I want more actors like Nic Cage who know the movie is trashy but they go along with it and ham it up.

[@lainiwakura1776]

She needs to fire her agent.

[@jemjemdustin]

She’s a Zionist so don’t feel bad for her

[@NovemberX]

I saw the thumbnail and thought "Another Kissing Booth???" LMAO

[@rufusblue8044]

I've never heard of this movie but this has to be every ugly girls dream fantasy book even though they are small town gas station ugly so when they seen the movie adaptation it completely crushed them when they seen what "ugly" ment and their self esteem goes straight in the trash

[@caitlynluciano]

For the record, in the book Tally flips through an old magazine and wonders why supermodels were considered beautiful because Pretties aren’t what we consider pretty. They’re supposed to be uncanny and unnatural.

[@angelicfawn763]

Youngblood is actually a real last name. I know a family with that name. They are wild people. 😂😅

[@airsoftvulture]

this is exactly what we thought life would be like after 18... exactly... omg..

[@AndyGravity]

Twilight zone did it better in 1964 'Number 12 Looks Just Like You'

[@Thy_Holy_Lich]

there is a short story about complete equality that actually is really deep called "Harrison Bergeron" its really good and i recomend it for anyone that hated this movie.

[@L-kun]

Boogie's nickname would be "Polycythemia Vera".

[@odinwilliams717]

It would be Tipples.

[@the_ecips9692]

Thank you! I was thinking about watching this on Netflix, debating whether it was worth my time (which it wasn't since I haven't seen it yet). Tbh., a review video from you tells me everything I needed to know about this movie. You actually save me time in a very entertaining way.

[@Notorious_SIB]

2:02 lowkey the funniest edit on the channel

[@kuoyulu6714]

when he tell us we are not ugly, I know its an ads

[@theblackswordsman5039]

I’m confused as to why anyone would make a movie like this? What exactly is the message they’re trying to convey?

[@emstink]

"the real beauty is inside you" "unrealistic beauty standards are unhealthy" "plastic surgery gives you brain lesions that make you stupid"

[@KurticeYZreacts]

"Everybody already talked about this" Me: first time I've even heard of it 😳

[@vonVile]

This movie rips off a classic Twilight Zone episode. In it a girl lives in a society where everybody gets an operation at the age of 18 where they are forced to pick a new body where there are limited models. She resists the whole episode until she finally gives in and after conforms with society liking her new body.

[@emstink]

I'm pretty sure the original author addressed this because loads of people said this when he released the books - he said he saw the episode but he "totally forgot it" by the time of writing... _If_ true, it's amazing what the subconscious can remember.

[@Coccyx69]

I actually loved the first babysitter movie. Didnt know that many people hated it.

[@ChickenFryer_Productions]

Definitely should check out The Voices starring Ryan Reynolds if you get the chance. One of the most unique horror comedies out there!

[@NorrisVaughn]

...wait, The Twilight Zone did this exact same plot but in tge 60s!

[@Elian504]

5:00 you think everyone turns 16 on the same day?

[@Commander_Appo]

I KNEW this movie had something to do with Tall Girl

[@mrslasher1064]

Scott Westerfield is an amazing story teller,what I'm looking forward to is the adaptation of his book series "Leviathan" but this film did not do his work justice at all...

[@brandonspain12345]

Why can't we have a movie where the world is already filled with gorgeous stunning people and then somebody's like "Screw that" and decides to intentionally make them ugly to get a view of what it's like to be different from everyone who visually all dresses and looks the same? A role reversal of the "makeup transformation" where somebody accepts on being a freak and is happy to be alone? Just a thought.

[@BoxheadBB]

4:07 Hey! I like that Terminator Salvation movie! >:(

[@tylertracy7900]

Same

[@SuperArmus]

Hollywood is so out of touch they have no concept of what ugly is anymore.

[@adriannaruiz8717]

7:20 funny, but sad and true

[@darkangel8364]

18:55 all she had to do is lock in

[@natebetts9426]

5:00 Not everyone turns 16 on the same day, dude...

[@megajonnyboii]

Taking it a little too serious? Lmao

[@KudoYoung]

You're late to the party but your review is the first I felt inclined to watch.

[@JellyLard]

You should do a review of the substance

[@whatarewedoing0]

I think the pig mask is a twilight zone reference, at least I hope it is, cause twilight zone has done this before

[@theaverageDon]

6:08 nah, Boogie will be TIPPLES 😅

[@CallmeSins]

My mother touched my tipplleessss

[@CallmeSins]

Lolcowlive goes hard

[@I_am_a_cat_]

"I know everyone has talked about this movie already" Brother elvis, not everyone watches the same youtube channels that you do. I have not seen a single person besides you talk about this movie, and I probably won't see another.

[@slamg4618]

I think speak for everyone when I say: WHEN'S THE TERRIFIER 3 REVIEW?

[@berengustav7714]

December...

[@Sgrassley]

I just realized that you never did a video on the 2010 masterpiece Rubber., please do this.

[@CinemaRescored]

1:10 Scorsese movies?

[@christofferpenton3164]

I thought the same thing haha

[@justrhaze7072]

Yeah that was a weird complaint of his