Squid Game Review - YMS

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YMS

YMS

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@YMS
@YMS 2 жыл бұрын
I said "Iraqi" instead of "Pakistani" oops bye bye
@pepsiisbetterthancoke6283
@pepsiisbetterthancoke6283 2 жыл бұрын
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@justvibin1087
@justvibin1087 2 жыл бұрын
Adum raycist confurmd
@Hedgpig
@Hedgpig 2 жыл бұрын
You better have been apologetically teary while writing that
@TrueCarthaginian
@TrueCarthaginian 2 жыл бұрын
It's okay. Netflix cast an Indian man to play him, and if they don't care about getting the Token character's nationality correct, why should you?
@bunkerman_who_digs
@bunkerman_who_digs 2 жыл бұрын
I am sorry you're getting cancelled now
@derrickjameson9953
@derrickjameson9953 2 жыл бұрын
I like how Adam describes an old man organizing the deaths of hundreds of people as "trolling"
@Bandalorian
@Bandalorian 2 жыл бұрын
He was referring to the dementia fits
@klystron2010
@klystron2010 2 жыл бұрын
just a little giggle m8
@janeeyre1990
@janeeyre1990 2 жыл бұрын
That's how a lot of people dismissed Trump and his interment camps for immigrants from specific Central American and Middle Eastern countries. He's a troll. He's a buffoon. Late-night talkshow hosts all make the same jokes about him and we move on. Much more Brave New World than 1984. Too much information from the news, too much pleasure to be had with fast food or fast fashion or movie theatres or amusement parks or whatever. Who cares? I would say that's a fairly typical attitude here. And based on what I've observed and heard secondhand from other countries, I think it's a fairly common attitude toward authoritarians, fascists, dictators, etc. around the world right now.
@danielaxc2900
@danielaxc2900 2 жыл бұрын
He's just random like that
@pureevil9496
@pureevil9496 2 жыл бұрын
Troll face
@mr.nobody5669
@mr.nobody5669 2 жыл бұрын
You had the chance to say "The old man losses his marbles" but you blew it.
@UnCreativeDeconstructionism
@UnCreativeDeconstructionism 2 жыл бұрын
he said "irocki" man when referring to ali. lol
@nobody-gh2yf
@nobody-gh2yf 2 жыл бұрын
Dad?
@geoffreybrockmeier3765
@geoffreybrockmeier3765 2 жыл бұрын
loses*
@danny3640
@danny3640 2 жыл бұрын
And for that i give this review a 6/10
@OneOfTheLoveless
@OneOfTheLoveless Жыл бұрын
First off *loses, secondly he tried to talk about memory loss which does not always equate to insanity, so losing one's marbles does not fit the bill.
@Pinely
@Pinely 2 жыл бұрын
My favourite part is when one of the VIPs keeps saying 69 over and over again
@reaperz5677
@reaperz5677 2 жыл бұрын
"IF NOT 69, WHAT ABOUT 96 HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH" This show's VIP's singlehandedly managed to fuck everything up for me while watching the show. Like, past that VIP introduction part, it doesn't ever get better, it gets worse.
@aidan9266
@aidan9266 2 жыл бұрын
I loved that part, I laughed every time (cause its a sex number)
@calebwinfield1403
@calebwinfield1403 2 жыл бұрын
You said 69. Lol.
@SlytherinHero
@SlytherinHero 2 жыл бұрын
A strange yt box appears
@ileachoffeverything6535
@ileachoffeverything6535 2 жыл бұрын
it was kinda annoying
@HiddenLunarWings
@HiddenLunarWings 2 жыл бұрын
Both of my grandparents had dementia and the way they portrayed the old man was, in my experience, spot on. The Marble episode was totally convincing to me. The thought floating, not being able to concentrate, not being able to formulate many sentences, being childish, getting easily distracted, etc. were the exact same symptoms that my grandparents had. I had honestly never seen a piece of media that related to that type of dementia and didn't go all in to the stereotypical severe Alzheimer's diagnosis where they're like "who are you??" to their adult kid.
@emilyhale1049
@emilyhale1049 2 жыл бұрын
I agree. I also feel like it works for that episode especially with the setting being of his neighborhood, which would have brought forward symptoms even faster than not.
@krazyfrog
@krazyfrog 2 жыл бұрын
Sure but he only has those symptoms in that episode and was basically fine in the rest of the season.
@murphy7801
@murphy7801 2 жыл бұрын
I would agree. But also who are you has happened to me.
@camihl3841
@camihl3841 2 жыл бұрын
@@krazyfrog Yes, so
@RachelScalfani
@RachelScalfani 2 жыл бұрын
Yep, my grandma has it and she has good days and bad days.
@zorfmorf2414
@zorfmorf2414 2 жыл бұрын
One comment about the bad acting of the English guys: What you're seeing is the reverse of what usually happens in English (American) movies. A bunch of Chinese, Germany, whatever bad guys are needed for a side scene, so they just get a bunch of people that can speak (sometimes not even that) the language and act just well enough. However, for a native it's immediately obvious that the conversation wasn't written well/doesn't flow well or the actor's don't really use it as their primary language. Good enough for the English audience though. Squid game was produced in Korea for Korean audiences and nobody expected it to become an international success. I'm quite sure they just got the first English speaking actors that looked the part, nobody was concerned about their quality of acting or the flow of the lines. It works for the Korean audience
@lightpoint4426
@lightpoint4426 2 жыл бұрын
That's what I figured - It was sort of fascinating to watch xD
@JcDent
@JcDent 2 жыл бұрын
Another example of this is anytime English is spoken in Shin Godzilla.
@vasvas8914
@vasvas8914 2 жыл бұрын
As a Russian I concur. My language is usually incomprehensible in the mouths of most Hollywood actors
@ivanlagrossemoule
@ivanlagrossemoule 2 жыл бұрын
@@vasvas8914 As a French speaker, I feel your pain.
@zorfmorf2414
@zorfmorf2414 2 жыл бұрын
@ConManliness Of course it's bad. I'm just highlighting that this also happens a lot in (sometimes even critically acclaimed) western productions but for obvious reasons goes unnoticed by Adam or you or me. Just an interesting thought to be on the other side of it once.
@CompletelyAnonymous7
@CompletelyAnonymous7 2 жыл бұрын
Kinda funny that Adam complained about treating the audience too dumbly, but also forgot which guard was the cop lol
@ChocolateThaiE
@ChocolateThaiE 2 жыл бұрын
Right lol. Every time they showed the broken button...that was the cop lol. And he was always acting differently than the other guards.
@pinkfakecheez
@pinkfakecheez 2 жыл бұрын
And also called Ali Iraqi when it's specified several times he's from Pakistan (which is hundreds of miles away and has a time zone two hours ahead)
@Highwayhunter6
@Highwayhunter6 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly what i was thinking😂
@TheDapperDragon
@TheDapperDragon 2 жыл бұрын
He also didn't get that #1 was faking his dementia, but sure, Adam, you *totally* knew how the gun scene would play out. Reminds me why I stopped watching him.
@jadendafinger
@jadendafinger 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheDapperDragon so why did you watch this video?
@Magikalic
@Magikalic 2 жыл бұрын
I saw Gi-hun not using his prize money are more him being just flat-out traumatised, rather then any sort of moral stance. He also didn't keep his promise to both Sang-woo and Sae-byeok in looking after their mother/brother until he had recovered. Like he was the only person who knew what happened to them, and he left Sae-byeok's little brother in an orphanage for a year. That's not a decision that Gi-hun would have rationally made. Same with him just not being able to kill Sang-woo, Gi-hun hadn't directly killed anyone and I think he would have just preferred to walk away then to stab his childhood best friend to death.
@BuzzabeelYT
@BuzzabeelYT 2 жыл бұрын
except he had. by the last game Gi-hun had 100% murdered an old man so he'd live on. the problem with him taking a moral stance to not kill Sang-woo is that he sure threw those morals away earlier to take advantage of an old man with dementia knowing that he'd die and probably not even realize what happened. regardless of the ending making Gi-hun innocent or the old man doing the 'I-knew-all-along' thing.
@bologna3464
@bologna3464 2 жыл бұрын
@@BuzzabeelYT You have to think about how easier it was to win against Il-nam though. He's lying, yes, but to a man he barely knew. And unlike with Sang-woo, his childhood friend, he isn't driving the knife in himself. Method has a big impact on a moral decision. It's like that train morality problem. A lot of people would pull the lever to save people from a train crash, but less would directly push a man in front of the train to stop it.
@iwillworkharder
@iwillworkharder 2 жыл бұрын
I agree, leaving Sang-woo and Sae-byeok's families abandoned and with no idea what happened to them doesn't read as a moral stance to me, it reads as mind-breaking trauma that he's not dealing with.
@iwillworkharder
@iwillworkharder 2 жыл бұрын
@@BuzzabeelYT I don't think it follows, though, that just because he's taken one life before means he can never feel anything about murder again. If anything, the tragedy and guilt he felt about that series of events would make him even more hesitant to kill anyone ever again.
@austingoyne3039
@austingoyne3039 2 жыл бұрын
The problem is he acts like a selfless hero right after killing the old guy
@PrimmsHoodCinema
@PrimmsHoodCinema 2 жыл бұрын
Final game should've been a freestyle battle
@outhereinsquamish
@outhereinsquamish 2 жыл бұрын
then 50 cent and ludacris woulda been vips
@ehlani6677
@ehlani6677 2 жыл бұрын
Squid game is the Korean version of get rich or die trying
@ChAn-dv9to
@ChAn-dv9to 2 жыл бұрын
Primm's here on a YMS video, he dope and funny as hell, he an all-star.
@ac8911
@ac8911 2 жыл бұрын
*Go in the house!*
@levelmake7758
@levelmake7758 2 жыл бұрын
It should’ve been a freestyle rap battle
@CraftingMenace
@CraftingMenace 2 жыл бұрын
Something my mom pointed out during the final episode was something I liked quite a bit, is that while he was chastising the old man for what he did, the main character fell right into what he was condemning: he bet on the life of a man he could have just gone down and helped himself.
@elliot20201
@elliot20201 Жыл бұрын
That bugged me the whole time I was watching it. Why couldn't he just go down there and help him himself? Especially since, now, he had a shitton of money that he felt bad using himself. Could've set the man up with some food and warm clothes, an apartment, something. But the big moral "bet" had to keep going...
@ooostarb3rryooo
@ooostarb3rryooo Жыл бұрын
Ooooo, I didn't catch that parallel that's a brilliant observation.
@notsosadbart6343
@notsosadbart6343 Жыл бұрын
That's actually what I thought was going to happen the whole time I was watching that scene. It would've been so clever to have the main character prove the old man wrong by being the kind person that he doesn't believe exists and by him ensuring he would win the bet by doing it himself would be a parallel to how the games are rigged, a sort of "fuck you" to the old man and what he stands for by doing to him what he does to others through the games
@lordcrispen
@lordcrispen Жыл бұрын
@@notsosadbart6343 waaaaaaaay too smart for the writer of this show. This would be amazing though, you're right
@cinnamontwigs
@cinnamontwigs 11 ай бұрын
i also thought he would go down and help the guy himself, was disappointed too
@reroxas
@reroxas 2 жыл бұрын
honestly ilnam having 'convenient dementia moments' was addressed in the episode. ilnam was WELL aware at the end of the episode, and I had assumed he did that to give gihun a chance because he realizes he's old and doesn't have much time left. idk just how I interpreted the scene
@Gunk05
@Gunk05 2 жыл бұрын
bro thank you i was really confused by all these comments thinking he actually was having dementia it was definitely a self sacrifice thing because why else would he start having the dementia right when they were down to the last marble
@must08
@must08 2 жыл бұрын
you interpreted it well and i was confused on how Adam didn't mention Il-nam being aware of Gi-hun taking advantage of him.
@AFastidiousCuber
@AFastidiousCuber 2 жыл бұрын
Also, at the very end right before he "dies", he basically gives away that he was pretending.
@Music34897
@Music34897 2 жыл бұрын
He didn't do the disappear in a millisecond thing, the train stopped between the characters and he got on it. I remember specifically appreciating that they *didn't* do the teleport disappearance thing lol. Also I think the Sae-byeok photo wasn't 100% exposition, it was also just to see him see her I think. I agree with pretty much everything else tho.
@MrBrax
@MrBrax 2 жыл бұрын
To see her happy with her brother
@randid7978
@randid7978 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah it was definitely not to remind you who it was because you saw the kid in a prior episode. You don’t have to guess you literally already have seen him, he’s the only small boy
@Dell-ol6hb
@Dell-ol6hb 2 жыл бұрын
Yea you can see him in the train
@mr.jacksonscales2462
@mr.jacksonscales2462 2 жыл бұрын
I feel the picture is an important scene to remind the main character of what was lost in the battle. A year went by and that picture showed him the only time the girl smiled.
@brianrothman7716
@brianrothman7716 2 жыл бұрын
Also she asked him to take care of his brother. Adam just straight up didn’t pay attention for parts lol
@talkinghoorse6936
@talkinghoorse6936 2 жыл бұрын
"The resolution with the Iraqi man being tricked was great." If by "great" you mean "soul-crushing" then yeah.
@Lilith3x6
@Lilith3x6 2 жыл бұрын
I mean he was kind of stupid. So can't feel too bad for him
@fyessssss
@fyessssss 2 жыл бұрын
Pakistani not Iraqi btw
@talkinghoorse6936
@talkinghoorse6936 2 жыл бұрын
@@fyessssss I know, I was just quoting Adum.
@Jabadamazo
@Jabadamazo 2 жыл бұрын
@@Lilith3x6 You can't feel too bad for a guy who uprooted his entire life to move to another country to try to support his family, signs up for a death game just to have a chance to give them a better life, and gets double-crossed by a dude he decided to trust? Yikes.
@kidkangaroo5213
@kidkangaroo5213 2 жыл бұрын
@@Lilith3x6 bruh, he wasn't "stupid" per se, it's clear that he really didn't want to be the reason Sang-woo died, because Sang-woo was up to then pretty nice and helpful to him up until then, maybe the nicest any Korean has been to him (remember he's an undocumented immigrant most likely), so when Sang-woo presented a way for them both to get out of this alive, he took it, maybe just to make them even.
@dorians.9872
@dorians.9872 2 жыл бұрын
Adam is angry that the gay furry billionaire representation was so poor.
@BodywiseMustard
@BodywiseMustard Жыл бұрын
Furry 🤮
@MyBenjamin73
@MyBenjamin73 2 жыл бұрын
Episode 2 is genius. Going back into the world, and then back into the game is a brilliant way to flesh the characters out, build pacing, and create dread for the next game
@sennajordan7968
@sennajordan7968 2 жыл бұрын
Instead of lazy flashbacks.
@tarreislam
@tarreislam 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@Sponsie1000
@Sponsie1000 2 жыл бұрын
l also thought it was great for driving home the main point of the series,, even after fully realizing that they didnt have to play the game if they didnt want, almost all 1st-game-survivors decided to join back before the end of the week. Even fully aware that they have like 0.000001% chance to win and losing means dying, they'd rather take those odds than try and be poor in the system as it functions now, and thats a pretty brutal message
@ANIMAL.LOVERS.DONT.EAT.ANIMALS
@ANIMAL.LOVERS.DONT.EAT.ANIMALS 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah that was the best episode imo
@chimedemon
@chimedemon 2 жыл бұрын
@@zwan1886 some call art boring, but I say “I’m a pretentious fuck and I liked it.”
@JAMBADG3R
@JAMBADG3R 2 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe you couldn’t tell which one was the cop, they showed that stupid button falling off a million times.
@corvusastrum2982
@corvusastrum2982 2 жыл бұрын
Oh that's what that was? I noticed them zooming in on the button only once and I wondered what that was about. But tbf I didn't really have an issue recognising mr cop man because he always looked around like a lost puppy.
@JAMBADG3R
@JAMBADG3R 2 жыл бұрын
@@corvusastrum2982 Also true.
@CraftingMenace
@CraftingMenace 2 жыл бұрын
I thought they were zooming in on his pocket to show he had his phone still
@ShyBug42
@ShyBug42 2 жыл бұрын
I always could tell who he was (or the times that I couldn’t It didn’t really matter much) but I never noticed any button falling off?
@RiverInsanity
@RiverInsanity 2 жыл бұрын
@@CraftingMenace That's what I thought too
@ahmad92760
@ahmad92760 2 жыл бұрын
Its easy to miss but whenever the cop has scenes where he is in his disguise, the camera pans to his torn chest pocket button (which he tore when he fought with the original suit owner). That's how the show expects you recognize him (atleast that's how I did).
@ghostoflazlo
@ghostoflazlo 2 жыл бұрын
"Easy to miss" what you on nigga? It zooms in to the point where It's the entire frame!
@xproflipscarab
@xproflipscarab 2 жыл бұрын
Also the fact he was an obvious fish out of water character the entire time... I don't know how people didn't immediately catch him out as an imposter
@jborrego2406
@jborrego2406 2 жыл бұрын
@@ghostoflazlo I don’t understand why you have to be racist
@midnightroads4180
@midnightroads4180 2 жыл бұрын
I thought that was pretty obvious as well. I don't know how he didn't get that. Even if you miss it, it still puts you in the scene and makes you question if any of them could be the cop or their are more people that inflitrated the place like the organ harvesters.
@macescoolchannel
@macescoolchannel 2 жыл бұрын
@@jborrego2406 Explain how he was racist.
@johandrytenias1725
@johandrytenias1725 2 жыл бұрын
15:33 the picture is not only there only to remind the audience who she is. It's there also to show us the only time we see her smiling in the show
@cheesedip1
@cheesedip1 Жыл бұрын
Why didn’t she tell the people who ran the show that she was stabbed?
@ooostarb3rryooo
@ooostarb3rryooo Жыл бұрын
@@cheesedip1 Death is death, doesn't matter how it happens.
@santiago6676
@santiago6676 Жыл бұрын
@@cheesedip1 Because they don't give a shit
@PurpleMoon799
@PurpleMoon799 Жыл бұрын
​@@cheesedip1 they don't care at all
@fhdyehyuru
@fhdyehyuru 2 жыл бұрын
I think the part about the main character acting high and mighty after the glass game was on purpose, it shows how people who have just gotten luckier and haven't had to make tough choices to survive feel like they have the right to criticize those who have. Main character hasn't had to directly kill anyone throughout the games to survive, unlike sang-woo, and even when he was about to kill the old man he got lucky and was given the marble.
@privernd
@privernd Жыл бұрын
Yes exactly, the main character is very flawed. Luck plays a huge role in his survival throughout the story. He got lucky enough in the marble game to be handed an easy win by someone who WANTED him to lie to him, but he still lied which no matter the context was not a morally good decision. If anything, his criticism of Sang-woo was likely projection.
@Ssekkaha
@Ssekkaha 2 жыл бұрын
Well this is a pleasant suprise, and no matter how many times I hear it, the dub is hilarious.
@CarozQH
@CarozQH 2 жыл бұрын
Dubs of foreign shows and movies aren't the issue. The issue is that english dubs for live action stuff tend to be really lazy and badly put together compared to what experienced dubbing studios in europe do
@zachmontminy
@zachmontminy 2 жыл бұрын
@@CarozQH I'd prefer it push more English speakers to watch things subbed anyway. Broaden their horizons.
@Greendalewitch
@Greendalewitch 2 жыл бұрын
@@CarozQH Unless its Yugioh Abridged. Its really amusing that a guy on KZbin, that is not being paid for anything, puts more effort in dubbing a show, albeit with the intention to make a parody of it.
@rompevuevitos222
@rompevuevitos222 2 жыл бұрын
I saw it with he spanish dub cuz i watched it with friends and they don't really handle english It was fairly faithfull to the original which was surprising I remember someone saying how they changes the bathroom yelling scene in english and that originally it had her essentially yelling a lot of "oh my lord i'm gonna die from diarrhea" But the spanish one kept that From my experience with dubs, there are 2 kinds of dubs, the ones that try to "localize" ignoring that they cannot localize over the cultural gaps and other modisms and the ones that realize it can't be done and just keep it faithful but understandable Spain is a fan of the former with things like: Fast and Furious > Full Gas Kamehameha > Vital wave Naked Gun > Get it however you can (what the fuck) BeetleJuice > Bitelchus (no, that word does not exist, it's just how it sounds in spanish if you try to speak the title with spanish accent)
@mastermarkus5307
@mastermarkus5307 2 жыл бұрын
@@CarozQH Dubs for animated stuff, especially anime, nowadays is pretty professional, but I guess the assumption for live-action stuff is that most people interested in it will watch in the original language.
@groovylobster
@groovylobster 2 жыл бұрын
Didn't the old man expose Gi-Hun's dishonesty right after he beat him? And regarding his death, I really didn't expect them to just show the old man getting domed right in front of the camera.
@fredrik8500
@fredrik8500 2 жыл бұрын
Well it pretty obvious it wasn’t his death, since the sign on the gate of “his house” is the same as the business cards the contestants were given.
@Mammutidae
@Mammutidae 2 жыл бұрын
@@fredrik8500 maybe if you binged it all in one go so that it was fresh in your memory.
@elixorvideos
@elixorvideos 2 жыл бұрын
I would have thought that the old man getting killed on camera would have definitely fit in Squid Game's style, I was actually suspicious when it didn't. However, I did not see the ending.
@Schrodinger_
@Schrodinger_ 2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't obvious to me that he wasn't dead because his death was offscreen. So was Ali's. A lot of the main characters' deaths were offscreen, because shows tend to avoid showing characters that the viewer actually likes turn into a stew of scrambled brains.
@thaearthquake
@thaearthquake 2 жыл бұрын
Actually, after seeing the deaths of every other contestant it was NOT seeing the old man die that raised a red flag for me.
@justinssongsarehis2
@justinssongsarehis2 2 жыл бұрын
Adam, I think you missed an important detail about the brother. When the cop is in the records room he looks through the past games and saw that his brother actually won the game back in 2015. He could still be a worker because we don't know how they're recruited but it definitely makes sense he would have a position of power because he won.
@BurezuWho
@BurezuWho 2 жыл бұрын
So why did Gi-Hun not get offered a position of power? Definitely doesn't make sense.
@nateygameplay
@nateygameplay 2 жыл бұрын
@@BurezuWho When the brother won in 2015, there could be many reasons why he was offered a position and Gi-Hun wasn't. Maybe the seat needed to be filled at the time because the old frontman was killed. Maybe the brother was too traumatized to go back to a regular life and wanted to stay. Just because one winner was offered a job, doesn't exactly mean all winners are offered a position. A lot is up in the air for speculation, but I don't think it's a completely senseless aspect of the plot.
@stevenbenson9976
@stevenbenson9976 2 жыл бұрын
The impression I got (and this may be because of the dub) was that his brother hadn't been missing for very long. Like he seemed genuinely confused by the duration of the game and by the year in which his brother won. As for why his brother was involved as the front man and others not I suspect that it may have to do with the situation involving the current front man. Maybe the dudes brother demasked the front man when he won so there was a new front man position available.
@moldman5694
@moldman5694 2 жыл бұрын
And he could have been hired as a lower-level worker initially and risen to the top during the 5 years prior. And I wouldn't say he's absolutely 'head honcho' as that would have at least been the old man; it seems he's just in charge of managing the games. But yeah, as Adam said, it definitely wasn't resolved and they'll probably be revealing more in the next season
@rainbowskin3379
@rainbowskin3379 2 жыл бұрын
But there's no reason for the brother to disappear without telling anyone or paying his rent to set up that whole plot line in the first place. The entire sequence relied on plot devices and tropes to force a story thread that ultimately didn't lead to anything. That entire thread disappears if the brother just texts his mom saying "hey I'm taking a vacation be back in a month"
@elixorvideos
@elixorvideos 2 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when you watch a lot of media, you begin to see the story story structure, elements and tropes, but can fail to see the heart of the story or have something emotionally resonate because you are watching with intent to review instead of intent to enjoy. I think this is what happens with anything when you pay attention to it long enough, music critics, film critics, art critics. they begin to compare and contrast pieces of media as if those media exist to compete with one another. Instead of just seeing art, they see performance, just an actor, irritating music and so on.
@DrunkenGlums
@DrunkenGlums 2 жыл бұрын
So essentially "You are nitpicking and biased!"
@autokrft
@autokrft 2 жыл бұрын
Completely agree. Adam can be so miserable sometimes.
@icantthinkofaname4265
@icantthinkofaname4265 2 жыл бұрын
@@DrunkenGlums I think he's just giving context to why adum is being so negative and why it's ok to enjoy this even tho by critics standards it's bad.
@Minimellow
@Minimellow 2 жыл бұрын
@@icantthinkofaname4265 Well, if they wanted to give context, they should at least give correct ones. The many positive reviews that Adum have done show that he can see "the heart of the story" or appreciate that each element made the whole more than the sum of its parts (even in this review, he does it too but negatively). When has Adum ever implied that he uses media to compare other media as _competition_ between one another? It's a whole lot of posturing, to be honest.
@icantthinkofaname4265
@icantthinkofaname4265 2 жыл бұрын
@@Minimellow he's never implied it but maybe that's what's actually happening lol.
@Saulgoodman67677
@Saulgoodman67677 2 жыл бұрын
Didn’t the old man tell the main character that he was faking dementia all along right before he gives up his marble? I think you missed a part.
@myles4714
@myles4714 2 жыл бұрын
Correct
@midnightroads4180
@midnightroads4180 2 жыл бұрын
Did you watch the english dub or sub?I just rewatched that scene and I saw no mention of it. He says right before Gi-Hun leaves that he remembers his name. He talks about being gannbu's and thanked him for the experience.
@Saulgoodman67677
@Saulgoodman67677 2 жыл бұрын
@@midnightroads4180 I watched the sub since I’m Korean myself. I swear there was a moment where the old man confronts the main character and informs him that he never had dementia
@midnightroads4180
@midnightroads4180 2 жыл бұрын
@@Saulgoodman67677 I don't think the old man states it outright. He does catch Gi-hun in his lies and calls him out for stealing his marbles basically. I'll have to rewatch the episode in it's entirety, but that's the only part that I caught where it seemed like he was faking his dementia. People that suffer from dementia also don't go through permanent memory loss. They slip in and out of reality and their neurons are basically firing off randomly. He could have been having an episode while wandering the marble stage, then come back and remember that Gi-hun had lied and taken his marbles.
@Kazu_Tsukiri
@Kazu_Tsukiri 2 жыл бұрын
@@midnightroads4180 You're right, he doesn't state that he was faking it. After the old man suggested they play for all the marbles, where he had one, and the main character had 19, the main character says that that's not fair, to which the old man replies 'So then it is fair to cheat me out of my marbles?'
@naughtiusmaximus789
@naughtiusmaximus789 2 жыл бұрын
8:15 There's an entire post on reddit's r/Korea where a non-Korean individual who used to do acting gigs in Korea explained how the entire situation is messed up with casting agencies pocketing the lion's share of salary to be paid to the foreign actors with zero insurance, food and worse, sometimes foreign actors in Korea get paid in just gift coupons for Korean stores which they would be forced to sell off in-person to make some money.
@wrestlingisdeadmoveonwithy8939
@wrestlingisdeadmoveonwithy8939 2 жыл бұрын
Lmfao
@StreptoStar
@StreptoStar 2 жыл бұрын
The irony that people in such a working situation are cast to play cruel billionaires... Lol
@petrfedor1851
@petrfedor1851 2 жыл бұрын
@@StreptoStar They were paid to play their exploitative bosses. Of course they portrait them as cartoonishly evil. (Because they are)
@victorconway444
@victorconway444 2 жыл бұрын
I massively disagree with your takes on the protagonist. What you're implying to be inconsistencies is what I'd call character development. The games had to have traumatized him, for one. Watching 455 people being butchered like cattle and coming so close to being one of them probably taught him a brutal lesson in the sanctity of human life. It's ridiculous to think a person would come out of that hellhole consistently the same selfish asshole he was before. You'd have to be a total sociopath to not experience survivor's guilt after an experience like that. Things are NEVER as simple as "oh well X amount of atrocities have already happened, what's one more?" Also, giving his money away to those he cares about is not just to flaunt his righteousness, it's that he's trying to redeem himself for what he feels responsible for. The show very clearly frames the money as the sum total of all the lives lost in monetary form, so having that money is literally equivalent to an ocean of blood on your hands. It's hardly "an impossible moral code" to be conscientiously opposed to being a direct beneficiary of mass murder. It seems relatable for a broken individual weighed down with guilt. Also, side note, of course he wouldn't kill his own childhood friend. It takes a lot of willpower to kill even a total stranger, let alone someone you're close to.
@muttonsword
@muttonsword 2 жыл бұрын
For some reason I feel like YMS is missing something really important. It's not that Gi-Heun is self-righteous, but rather he probably became really fucking depressed after being indirectly the cause of 450 people's deaths and having his only reason for going into the Squid Game be destroyed at the end of it all. It probably fucked with Gi-Heun for such a long time and he became wracked with guilt. I don't know why YMS overlooks this detail I will say though, Gi-Heun not helping Sang Woo's mother and the North Korean girl's brother and family was a dick move. Also it's really sad that Ali's family had the worst end of the stick of it all. His family didn't receive any help at the end and I had hoped the writers had somehow managed to write in Ali's family receiving some form of help
@TheCyanSqueegee
@TheCyanSqueegee 2 жыл бұрын
@@muttonsword They really did my boy Ali dirty and he was by far my favorite character (I think a lot of people feel the same way but I have seen some sociopaths in these comments say things like he deserved his death because he was stupid which I can't even fathom thinking, like I wouldn't have even blamed Sang-Woo for tricking Ali some other way to survive but he abused his trust in literally the most soul crushing way. From that point on, Sang Woo was worse to me than Deok Su, but that's probably more of an outlier opinion. At least Deok Su never played any games about being a fucking sociopath so everyone knows what to expect with him, but Sang Woo was like a little bitch boi snake. Edit: also to address your point about Gi Hun being depressed and apathetic rather than self righteous, I really have no clue how YMS would have missed that. The show literally shows him sitting on the bus/train with a blank expression, he hasn't shaved, he stares out at the water, etc. Everything they had him do in those final parts of the show screamed this man is severely depressed, he is traumatized, probably has survivor's guilt, and he needs help. I agree that him not using the money the way he promised was not the right thing to do, but the whole point was that he wasn't in much of a position to do much of anything was how I saw it. Not saying the show's ending was very good, but this was not one of the bad parts imo like YMS says.
@hypotheticaltapeworm
@hypotheticaltapeworm 2 жыл бұрын
@@muttonsword I mean YMS likes the Neon Demon so his takes aren't guaranteed to be good.
@user-tu1jb3yl2c
@user-tu1jb3yl2c 2 жыл бұрын
@@muttonsword Did you miss the last episode? Gi-Hun helped both mother and brother. Knowing that Sang Woo was dead he gave half the money to Sang woos mom to take care of her and pay the debts of her son, also bringing the boy to live with her giving him a mother figure and her a son again. I think it was much deeper to bring the boy to Sang woos mom to care for him, she has raised a son who I think in the back of her mind, she knows is gone whether he fled his debts or died. It's known that the boys mother is still stuck in NK but Gi-Hun can give him a motherly figure even if he cannot save his mom.
@user-tu1jb3yl2c
@user-tu1jb3yl2c 2 жыл бұрын
@@muttonsword As for Alis family, Sang Woo screwed them out of that by killing himself, had he ended the games with Gi-Hun, the money would have been given to the deceased families. Sang Woo really just fucked Ali over at every turn.
@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat
@seventeenraccoonsinatrenchcoat 2 жыл бұрын
12:00 His brother was a competitor and won his game. It's implied he got recruited to administrate 16:05 No, he doesn't. He gets on that train that pulls into the station while Gi-Hun runs around from the exit to the entrance side, by the time he gets there the doors have closed and he sees the man on the train.
@Limbbiscuit
@Limbbiscuit 2 жыл бұрын
Can you explain why gi-hun dyed his hair like tomato?
@bethm5852
@bethm5852 2 жыл бұрын
@@Limbbiscuit For the lulz
@Ronkyort0dox
@Ronkyort0dox 2 жыл бұрын
It's Magenta
@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat
@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a some cultural thing about hair colour representing personality states and all that, you see it in anime though I’ve never seen it in live-action before. Aside from adaptations I guess
@mrfreeman2911
@mrfreeman2911 2 жыл бұрын
@@Limbbiscuit The writer said it was to show the characters anger.
@AStrangeTrap
@AStrangeTrap 2 жыл бұрын
I personally seen the whole thing with the protagonist and the marble game was that it was easy to be supportive of others and preach helping each other when it didn't effect you, but when faced with dying for the old man he was putting himself first, because he obviously didn't want to die for a old man to live a few extra years. But towards the end of the game he started to feel bad for acting like everyone else and after the old man called him out and let him win he silently walked away in shame. On the other hand his childhood friend killed someone that was helping them without a single regret, resulting in him becoming upset at his cold-hearted action. Don't know if that made sense, but that's how I interpreted his actions.
@bestthingsinceslicedrice
@bestthingsinceslicedrice 2 жыл бұрын
Yeap thats the same thing I thought about the actions of the protagonist. Also his choice of not using the money made sense since he felt he did not want to be cold blooded just for the sake of having enormous wealth. Like whats written in the bible. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world yet forfiet their soul
@Jalex_Owns
@Jalex_Owns 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly. As Adam was going on about this, I'm yelling at the screen, "IT'S CALLED A CHARACTER ARC, ADAM."
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
@@Jalex_Owns to be fair, Sang Woo has been saving Gi Hun's ass for the whole show lol
@santiagoarauz1580
@santiagoarauz1580 2 жыл бұрын
@@luigiwiiUU except you know when he didn’t said the shape that was easier and send Gi-Hun to the umbrella one knowing willingly that might and most likely will kill him. He saved the rest in the rope game because he would have died too. In the glass game is the same and in the marbles one he was a manipulative jerk to save himself so he didn’t “save” anyone for the sake of it. It was always for himself.
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
@@santiagoarauz1580 i know it was for himself but it just so happens that without Sang Woo, Gi hun would be dead as hell lol
@rottytherottski522
@rottytherottski522 2 жыл бұрын
I’d say him wanting to spare the guy at the end makes some sense for how the series had built up. The big thing being that it was someone he was very close to and whose family he had close ties to. It wasn’t just someone he met the last few days but someone he had known his entire life and could physically see the repercussions of his death when they happen. Plus them playing the old childhood game brought a lot of memories flooding back from who his fiend was as a human being before he became so ruthless for money. This is just my take and I can definitely see how others like Adam just saw the trope and were tired of it.
@greenapple1470
@greenapple1470 2 жыл бұрын
they were almost like brothers. it makes sense he tried to spare him.
@garyking1986
@garyking1986 2 жыл бұрын
He didn’t give all his money to the kid, he gave it to Sang-woo’s mother, and it was only the amount that got added to the bank because of Sang-woo’s death - 100,000 won
@tmadoorable
@tmadoorable 2 жыл бұрын
The front man did win his year's squid game if you look at the records in that one episode, that kind of helps to explain how he became the front man.
@krazyfrog
@krazyfrog 2 жыл бұрын
But it's weird tho right because the front man's cop brother goes to his apartment where the landlady says he hasn't paid his rent in a while and the place is also a dump. Why was the front man living there and not even paying rent if he won and was essentially a billionaire.
@Krenny
@Krenny 2 жыл бұрын
yeah. I said it in my comment. I see it as him joining the old man in his philosophy. He views the games as just and wants them to continue.
@danielhathaway43
@danielhathaway43 2 жыл бұрын
@@krazyfrog 40 million he won or there about...
@chrisdaughen5257
@chrisdaughen5257 2 жыл бұрын
@@danielhathaway43 I was expecting that the winner gets the money, but they're forced to be the frontman. It made me think Sang-Woo would win, but would be imprisoned on the island as karmic punishment.
@tmadoorable
@tmadoorable 2 жыл бұрын
@@krazyfrog Lots of real life lottery winners end up bankrupt after blowing through their money too quickly
@Sener
@Sener 2 жыл бұрын
His sacrifice at the end made sense to me, because he knows that the money gets sent to all of the dead families. This would include the girl's brother.
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
I actually forgot about that LMAOOO
@CloppingIsMyThing
@CloppingIsMyThing 2 жыл бұрын
Only if there was no winner. Fairly sure he just killed himself because he couldn't live with what he became... I mean he lied tricked and killed his way to the end to fight his children hood friend to the death.
@SCF721
@SCF721 2 жыл бұрын
@@CloppingIsMyThing also the fact that he was wanted for fraud and stuff...even if he did win he wouldve most likely been put in jail.
@CountJoe1
@CountJoe1 2 жыл бұрын
@@CloppingIsMyThing I think he was fairly comfortable with what he had become all throughout the series he believes that the deaths of all these people means something, when people want to quit he points at the piggybank and tells them that those peoples deaths shouldn’t be for nothing. I think he killed himself because he didn’t want the MC to squander winning the prize, at least that’s his justification for his heinous actions imo.
@sleepykoinu
@sleepykoinu 2 жыл бұрын
That was only if everyone agreed to quit the game.
@Link-ji7kx
@Link-ji7kx 2 жыл бұрын
The end, with the fight in rain, and how the main dude almost dies, it was kinda cliché. But really, there aren’t many ways to do a dramatic “final fight”. They are clichés are for a reason - they work to build drama/tension - even if you’ve seen them a million times before.
@BigBoi653
@BigBoi653 2 жыл бұрын
I mean, it's a KDrama, I didn't expect something with more thought put into it.
@royalblanket
@royalblanket 2 жыл бұрын
The final fight in most movies is sort of a convention, while the rain is a cliche At least I think. I'm basically just quoting ralphthemoviemaker
@BigBoi653
@BigBoi653 2 жыл бұрын
@@royalblanket The thing about cliches, is that they're not all bad. Fight in rain is a BORING cliche.
@narsheguard6417
@narsheguard6417 2 жыл бұрын
There are endless ways to make a final fight interesting and unique.
@Link-ji7kx
@Link-ji7kx 2 жыл бұрын
@@narsheguard6417 Of course - depending on what your plot has provided.
@knurdyob
@knurdyob 2 жыл бұрын
this summed up my thoughts on it for the most part but, for example, the "comedic" music in the cookie scene actually enhanced it for me because it highlights just how ridiculous and desperate the situation is, this guy just found himself frantically licking a cookie to avoid getting shot in the head, it's so ridiculous that it goes past funny and falls back into dread again, feeling like he's on the verge of a panic attack. usually, when music is too on the nose, it takes away from the scene rather than adding to it, but this time, it made it even more surreal and terrifying in my opinion (also in the cookie scene they needed guards to check the test personally, as no machine can accurately recognize from a distance if a small cookie was actually shaped properly or not)
@nota_2526
@nota_2526 2 жыл бұрын
Horse game woulda got a 10
@DeadFishFactory
@DeadFishFactory 2 жыл бұрын
I think the last game where they just beat each other is on purpose. It literally just devolves into a fist fight to the death, which is exactly what the games were if you took away all the fancy rules and games.
@m00rons
@m00rons 2 жыл бұрын
Well, the reason why the main character didn't want to kill the last opponent was due to them being old friends. That absolutely makes sense
@arepasaxo
@arepasaxo 2 жыл бұрын
In the spanish version that i saw is implied that they are BROTHERS, thats why their mom know them both Really strange to see this change but just thinking they are brothers is just fucking shit Also the fact that i watched this with my fucking mom and know despices netflix fucks sake
@HOTD108_
@HOTD108_ 11 ай бұрын
​@@arepasaxoThis is why you should never watch dubs.
@hinasakukimi
@hinasakukimi 2 жыл бұрын
i mean.... you just misread that scene. gi-hun was projecting all of his insecurities onto sangwoo. that's the point of his moral high horse. EDIT: also of course it's different with sangwoo??? they're childhood friends. there's an emotional attachment there that gi-hun didn't have with other randos. and all of the shitty things gi-hun had to do over the course of the series was chipping away at his soul. he gives up not just because he's a good person but because he's reached his breaking point. this is so frustrating
@TheCyanSqueegee
@TheCyanSqueegee 2 жыл бұрын
yeah Adam's interpretation of both of these moments is so strange to me
@kitj3992
@kitj3992 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCyanSqueegee not sure I’d want to be Adam’s friend if he can’t tell the difference in why he was hesitant to kill Sang Woo.
@UnicornStorm
@UnicornStorm 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think the MC really acted out of character (well maybe right at the end..... and in the beginning) he was heartbroken over the old dude he cheated out of his marbles, so why shouldn't he be upset about and angry with his childhood friend who just killed a guy in cold blood. And even if he was okay with killing someone else before, doesn't mean he's okay with it now. Furthermore, acting high and mighty isn't a badly written character trait. not wanting to kill his friend in the end might be a trope, but that isn't the fault of the show. It's completely believable and consistent with his previous characterization. as for not touching the money. I don't see it as the character being presented as "such a good guy", but more like he bit off more than he can chew. He wanted the money, but now that he has it, he regrets taking part in all this and doesn't want anything to do with it. Also, watch Kaiji
@nobody2996
@nobody2996 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'm confused by the reoccuring point of 'Gi-Hun is being treated as unrealistically virtious'. These scenes aren't communicating that the dude's a great guy, they're communicating that he's a guilt-ridden coward. Him yelling at his friend is both him being a hypocrite and him realizing that the guy he's been unrealistically pinning all his hopes and responciability on this entire time never actually had his back. When he doesn't want to continue the game, it's him being unable to accept respociability now that he's realized there's no third party or such he can blame for the person he kills. No solo challenge that his progress doesn't effect, no team mates that make it so he's not solely responcaible, just a big empty room and an opponent he directly kills. It's why it's important that they have everyone willingly join the games even after the deadly concequences are revealed, why they have Sang-Woo point out that agreeing to these games means you are agreeing to murder the losers, that until the marbel games, that we're introduced to Gi-Hun as a gambler who never consisders the consequences of his bets until it's too late, you could argue you as a contestant are never directly responciable for someone's death and why the series's final 'game' is Gi-Hun and the developer betting on whether or not someone will bother to help a dying homeless man; with Gi-Hun being proven right being what spurs him to actually start helping people again.
@sam-bw5mr
@sam-bw5mr 2 жыл бұрын
some valid criticism but also of course the main character is more hesitant to directly kill one of his childhood friends than he was going through like tug of war or even the marble game with the old man
@raseli4066
@raseli4066 2 жыл бұрын
They were childhood friends?
@sam-bw5mr
@sam-bw5mr 2 жыл бұрын
@@raseli4066 seemed like it. they kept referring to playing games together as kids, knew each other’s mothers, knew about each other’s pasts…
@ChocolateThaiE
@ChocolateThaiE 2 жыл бұрын
@@raseli4066 that was them as kids playing squid game.
@m.w.r.1408
@m.w.r.1408 2 жыл бұрын
@@raseli4066 it's literally said like in every episode
@Infestedhobo1
@Infestedhobo1 2 жыл бұрын
6:45, to be fair, he admits he's trolling him during that game, it's not supposed to be a secret at that point.
@razriri1467
@razriri1467 2 жыл бұрын
Quite a few of the criticisms adam leverages here are based around him just not watching the show
@raggedymuffinz
@raggedymuffinz 2 жыл бұрын
@@razriri1467 This is very true. There’s definitely a lot of gripes he has that could have been resolved either by rewatching or simply just paying better attention the first time
@SpookerK
@SpookerK 2 жыл бұрын
@@razriri1467 Name one
@TheAeriusLight
@TheAeriusLight 2 жыл бұрын
​@@razriri1467 Maybe Adam should've watched the dubbed version because it's clear he didn't pay full attention and probably missed a lot of subtitles.
@razriri1467
@razriri1467 2 жыл бұрын
@@SpookerK He says the guy from the beginning of the show who scouted Gi Hun just "vanishes" at the station after they make eye contact. but what actually happens is that Gi Hun runs over to the other platform and watches the scout already boarded on the train who then smiles at him as he drives away and places his hand on the window. That alone is a pretty hilarious oversight for someone who spends quite a bit of time complaining about it being a "cliche that he vanished"
@bigstupiduglyogre7205
@bigstupiduglyogre7205 2 жыл бұрын
I think the “not spending the money and giving it away instead” thing was completely in character for Gi-hun. He never wanted to hurt anyone, but the games drove him to a dark place. He’s traumatized, and guilty. He tries to spare his childhood friend because he realizes what he’s become, and tries to refuse the money because it’s blood money. While I do agree that the “why did you push him” stuff was falsely moralistic, his actions in the last game and onward are totally in character for him.
@lnplum
@lnplum 2 жыл бұрын
I think the hypocrisy in "why did you push him" was fine in-character. The movie just failed at presenting it as hypocritical and made it seem principled, which it wasn't. If anything, having been forced into screwing the most vulnerable person over to survive may have sensitized him to unnecessary cruelty. He could just as well have lashed out as a way of projecting his guilt onto his friend who just happened to be slightly more ruthless than him.
@doclinny
@doclinny 2 жыл бұрын
yeah but to not even use the money really does make every other characters death mean nothing.
@DrKitten13
@DrKitten13 2 жыл бұрын
@@lnplum i agree up until the slight, Gi-hun went through the games trying to band together and save as many people, trying to almost split the money if possible. His friend was the opposite, with holding info, killing, tricking other "friends". i think there are directly opposite. Two drastic ways to reach the end.
@pietapizza1
@pietapizza1 2 жыл бұрын
>steals from his dying mother to gamble and squanders the money he was supposed to use for buying his kid a present "BUT HES A GOOD BOY NOOOOO"
@DrKitten13
@DrKitten13 2 жыл бұрын
@@pietapizza1 agreed but put in a situation in which life and death matter and yes he is in contrast to his friend. His friend put up all his mother’s debt, Gi never went that far, he was bad but light years away from his friend
@collinslogan01
@collinslogan01 2 жыл бұрын
Idk how Adum was so confused by the organ harvesting side hustle. Was pretty clear to me.. Maybe he was distracted by the more technical aspects of the show during some parts that made it more clear I guess? I felt like it was done very well.
@liebedich6311
@liebedich6311 2 жыл бұрын
The fact they were organ harvesting for Chinese as well, was so perfectly put together. China has been long scrutinized for their illegal organ harvesting techniques. This was definitely a jab towards them. Even one of the rich assholes at the end was Chinese among the white men. It was almost saying "Hey, we didn't forget about the shitty CCP alongside white billionaires"
@TheDapperDragon
@TheDapperDragon 2 жыл бұрын
Adam is not a smart boy, don't let him lie to you.
@Cobalt985
@Cobalt985 2 жыл бұрын
@@liebedich6311 "Hey, we didn't forget about the shitty CCP alongside white billionaires" exactly, i really like the message of this show, it's precise in a way that many many other TV shows and movies aren't. It was refreshing to see something that wasn't just "greed bad"
@acreativename2781
@acreativename2781 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheDapperDragon Ew you're cringe, this is why you don't have friends.
@LucasCarvalho-hn4dx
@LucasCarvalho-hn4dx 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Adum I am legally required to preach the good word of Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, the manga/show squid game is highly inspired from. If you liked the concepts in squid game, you'll love kaiji (you see because it is good see)
@Lakatu
@Lakatu 2 жыл бұрын
Kaiji is so good- there’s movies too, but I haven’t seen them yet, if they’re good, then maybe Adam would enjoy those more?
@rudeboyspodcast
@rudeboyspodcast 2 жыл бұрын
PREACH, brother. Kaiji is one of the greatest pieces of media I've ever seen. The manga is fuckin incredible but the anime does a very good job of adapting the first 2 parts alongside its incredible soundtrack and voice actors. If even 1% of Squid Game watchers go watch Kaiji afterwards, hopefully we'll get more people to see it!
@haughtygarbage5848
@haughtygarbage5848 2 жыл бұрын
Man that mulletd Japanese man really cries a lot....
@whitethunder9064
@whitethunder9064 2 жыл бұрын
Uh, the Ultimate Survivor is Rantaro! Duh! (Sorry, Danganronpa reference. I had to.)
@thomascolabella5757
@thomascolabella5757 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your service. More people NEED to watch Kaiji. May the ZAWA spread!
@welldonesteak_with_water
@welldonesteak_with_water 2 жыл бұрын
i didnt get the impression that we were supposed to think that the main dude was SUPER righteous. felt like a really weird interpretation tbh. i agree that all the stuff with the old man and the black mask was silly, but overall im fine with how things happened in the end.
@aughlnal7333
@aughlnal7333 2 жыл бұрын
16:04 He disappeared in a millisecond? He walks around and sees the guy inside the train with the doors closed. WTF ADAM?!?!?!
@S475-pb2dp
@S475-pb2dp 7 ай бұрын
Yeah. He's kinda bad at criticizing good material. His criticisms are also arbitrary and irrelevant at times. And sometimes just flat out wrong.
@tomlangford1999
@tomlangford1999 2 жыл бұрын
Watching Adam point out cliches like cinemasins wasn't how I thought this channel was going to go
@baemonrawr
@baemonrawr 2 жыл бұрын
Dude ikr? I used to like the channel but cinema sin level critiques are accurate for this jfc
@jamiecal11
@jamiecal11 2 жыл бұрын
it's a shitty form of criticism too.
@Ariel_emerald
@Ariel_emerald 2 жыл бұрын
his videos have gotten better in recent years but this one was a miss
@rubssi8741
@rubssi8741 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamiecal11 How is that a shitty form of criticism? Since when are calling out clichés "bad" criticism. If these clichés impact your viewing experience, pointing them out is totally valid. Should we just ignore jump scares in horror movies, cause they're clichés?
@maninblack3410
@maninblack3410 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamiecal11 not when the cliches are so old and tired that the use of them actively makes the story worse. Seriously, this wasn’t a good story, everything in this show was either stolen or so cliche it’s paint by numbers. Go watch the anime Kaiji and tell me I’m wrong. The only difference is that squid games somehow made the main character and the old man “likeable” (Kaiji is a bum and a drain on society and the story isn’t afraid to show that and the “old man” in Kaiji is a demented jaded thrill seeker, not someone’s sweet old grandfather) Just theft and watering down of something better.
@moocow5556
@moocow5556 2 жыл бұрын
for me the biggest reason i like this is because it was just simple, it did most things above average, and it actually had set-ups and follow-throughs. it was just a quality and entertaining show and that feels pretty rare these days.
@moocow5556
@moocow5556 2 жыл бұрын
also SIDENOTE THAT CONTAINS SPOILERS: i was genuinely disappointed when they showed the candle-light checkerboard room and didnt make them have a candle-light knife fight instead of doing the shitty squid game rain ending thing. i genuinely got hyped up when they were sitting there lookin' all fancy and they were all given knives.
@nonah7675
@nonah7675 2 жыл бұрын
The annoying flashbacks seem to be a common trope in Korean television shows in general. As a fan of Kdramas I accepted it, but hopefully Korean shows drop the trope as they continue to grow in popularity.
@muizzsiddique
@muizzsiddique 2 жыл бұрын
Good luck with that.
@Bhazor
@Bhazor 2 жыл бұрын
There are a bunch of weird Kdrama tropes that seem to be stubbornly refusing to go. Most annoying for me is the tableaux where every one just freezes in place and we see the same thing from multiple camera angles and it goes on for a full minute.
@barbalalaika
@barbalalaika 2 жыл бұрын
What annoyed me the most was that Sae-Byeok asked him to use some of the money to get her mum out of NK and this was completely forgotten about. He didn't touch the money for one year because he was so guilty and meanwhile that woman was stuck in a totalitarian dictatorship having no idea what happened to her children. He went ahead and have the money to the boy who ALSO has no idea where his mum is.
@juiuice
@juiuice 2 жыл бұрын
Do you ever consider the logistics of the character having to get her mom out of North Korea? That was not a big deal for me in this aspect of the show
@KenLinx
@KenLinx 2 жыл бұрын
I was like “why is Adam being so positive, this isn’t like him” until the second half of the video hit.
@davidc7450
@davidc7450 2 жыл бұрын
You didn't really touch on a ton of the themes of the show and I wonder if that detracted from your enjoyment. Like, I don't think the message is that you have to hold yourself to some absurdly high moral standard - just that using people as a means to your own end is generally not a good thing, even though it's often what the systems around us expects or even demands us to do. The old man sees exploitation as part of human nature; it's why he plays up the dementia and is then validated by his only friend taking advantage of him. It's also why, in the end, he refuses to believe that anyone will stop and take care of the homeless dude. It's why he invites the main character to talk to him. Gi-hun did what anyone would do, so why feel bad for himself and leave the money in the bank? But Gi-hun rejects this, even when it's illogical to some degree, because he wants to believe in an alternate world where we don't immediately think about what we can gain from others.
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
my guess is that Adum has seen it done before
@raggedymuffinz
@raggedymuffinz 2 жыл бұрын
@@luigiwiiUU or, or, he just wasn’t paying that much attention. I’m going to be honest, it’s pretty clear he didn’t watch this show more than once because so many of his complaints had given explanations which he simply had the misfortune of missing
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
@@raggedymuffinz eh, you cant really explain away an obviously done trope. Not that those bothered me much tho I was just watchin the show to have fun
@ThreadBomb
@ThreadBomb 2 жыл бұрын
For "staccato" strings, I think Adum actually meant pizzicato. Staccato means the notes are short and separated; pizzicato means a sound produced by plucking a string on a violin (or viola, etc.). They sound very different.
@Kitth3n
@Kitth3n 2 жыл бұрын
Wouldnt pizzicato inherently be staccato then
@nikkisuddenlydidit1510
@nikkisuddenlydidit1510 2 жыл бұрын
@@Kitth3n exactly!
@edward4840
@edward4840 2 жыл бұрын
@@Kitth3n I mean not really, guitar strings are normally played pizzicato really but that doesn't mean everything you play on guitar is pizzicato
@BodywiseMustard
@BodywiseMustard Жыл бұрын
@@Kitth3n No, because the notes follow quickly after one another
@maude6671
@maude6671 2 жыл бұрын
Anyone else mad about how they handled cigarette lady's storyline? She seemed genuinely funny and cunning in the first few episodes then basically devolved into "oh no my man abandoned me halp". Just felt kinda cheap and forced when I was really looking forward to seeing more of her.
@UnicornStorm
@UnicornStorm 2 жыл бұрын
I just found her annoying (which might have been on purpose) and just blatantly horrible, not really cunning. Her killing evil guy was okay, but it was presented as too much of a win or good deed for her, which I don't appreciate
@weebyboi620
@weebyboi620 2 жыл бұрын
But I liked how she ended her arc by leading him to his death in the glass game. Plus she wasn’t obsessed with the guy she was trying to dissuade other players from playing with him
@santiagoarauz1580
@santiagoarauz1580 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe in wrong but for me it wasn’t “oh I need my man to help me” it was “oh s*it, now I’m alone; and also this SOB betrayed me, I’ll get my revenge” she became hopeless because she knew being alone is like being dead in that scenario.
@raggedymuffinz
@raggedymuffinz 2 жыл бұрын
All she wanted was a leg to stand on. She’s manipulative by nature, just really bad at it. You can see later on as she gets more desperate trying to employ the same tactics she used on him to even less practical effect. She’s also just really petty though, so at that point, realizing she was probably going to lose anyway, decided to take out the person who crossed her instead. I mean, hey, she made a promise she would.
@TheCyanSqueegee
@TheCyanSqueegee 2 жыл бұрын
I honestly viewed it more the way the evil guy viewed it, which was that she was actually just a pathological manipulator so when she became really helpless and stuff it was literally just an act to try to see if she could squeeze a few more pity points out of someone who would help her. I don't think she ever actually viewed herself as a damsel in distress, it was just that that was her preferred tactic for navigating these situations (she was probably a scam artist in her outside life). I ended up hating her character but I also recognized it was played really well, I just hate those qualities in people.
@FartingSpider12
@FartingSpider12 2 жыл бұрын
YMS misunderstood something somewhat essential as a part of the detective's (and his brother's) storyline. The front man was never the "Main Organizer" or "Penultimate bad guy", he's literally just the man that runs the Korean Squid Game specifically. When the VIPs arrive one of them says something along the lines of "Korea's squid game is going well" which directly implies that there are other squid games in other countries which makes even the Front Man himself just another piece a larger puzzle. Other than that though, I agree with most of the criticisms in this video. Thanks for keeping it real Adam
@dineshaurus
@dineshaurus 2 жыл бұрын
Also, he said there was no explanation for the frontman to be turn out as his brother. The cop saw his brother's name on the winners list. So he won in the past then joined the organisers.
@grizzly3273
@grizzly3273 2 жыл бұрын
@@dineshaurus Yeah I thought this was covered in the show. How when you become rich you also become bored with everything else, then leading you to seek entertainment in suffering, which then creates a cycle of that scenario which happens to others over and over.
@mckernan603
@mckernan603 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe that line was just slightly awkward English? (the intended meaning being: “the Squid Game of Korea is going well”) I don’t see how it could be a well-oiled international machine if 001 was allowed to control and manage the game.
@ashenone6166
@ashenone6166 2 жыл бұрын
That comes across more as a translation issue to me because that then causes more problems. When the titular game is happening at the end one of the VIPs literally asks why a character is doing a certain thing and the front man has to explain the rules of squid game. If there were already other countries doing it (and it's shown that Korea has been doing it for decades) wouldn't this VIP already know?
@Jormbis
@Jormbis 2 жыл бұрын
I saw a comment about the slow motion scene was that it built tension. It’s a moment where we are supposed to feel relieved that they finished the game, but this makes us remember, “They may have won, but it’s only going to get worse.” I kinda liked it.
@StardewCoffee
@StardewCoffee 2 жыл бұрын
The VIPs were written with clunky dialogue on purpose. The director instructed them to be awkward, milquetoast billionaires. They were suppose to feel inhuman as a contrast to the contestants. Them being try hard philosophy dude bros was so the audience wouldn't see them as "cool villains". You're suppose to hate them.
@kajetanczerwinski3962
@kajetanczerwinski3962 2 жыл бұрын
I just hate a director instead
@77ELCREADOR
@77ELCREADOR 2 жыл бұрын
Well, the fact that it was intentional doesn't make it any better, it still sucks
@mkpieris1
@mkpieris1 2 жыл бұрын
Just because something is done intentionally by the director doesn’t make it good. The only thing it changes is that it’s now intentionally ass
@microblast3700
@microblast3700 2 жыл бұрын
They suck anyway intent or not
@lukedrewry2816
@lukedrewry2816 2 жыл бұрын
But at the sacrifice of good writing
@joeiorio9654
@joeiorio9654 2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t view him not spending any of the money as a good thing. He selflessly hoarded and chose not to give it to any of the people who lost family to the Game, he didn’t see use it to see his daughter, he didn’t use it to give to charity, etc Him not using the money should not be viewed as noble. He’s choosing not to do anything. That’s what makes him changing his mind later on more satisfying. Granted, I don’t like the way he changes his mind, but I won’t ignore the intentions they tried to show, and I’m mainly referring to what happened before he changed his mind.
@abderianagelast7868
@abderianagelast7868 2 жыл бұрын
I didn't think anyone did view it as a good or noble thing, and then I got to that point in the video. I interpreted Gi-Hun's actions as irrational decisions made from someone with a combination of serious depression and severe PTSD. That money would be a reminder of everything he went through, of his failure to keep as many people alive as possible, but also of how he now knows that, if his life is on the line, he's willing to deceive even his close friends if it means he can survive. Gi-Hun is not a good person, but that makes him more relatable. He's trying to be better, but he's got a lot of shortcomings. I highly doubt I would be any better if put in a circumstance like that. Anyway, I'm getting off-topic. The money thing is not a noble act, but I think it makes a lot of sense for his character. Unfortunately, the Il-Nam thing kind of ruins it all, especially when we see how Gi-Hun doesn't bother to go help the homeless guy. It feels so much like that scene was intended to be a wake-up call for Gi-Hun by having him go down and help the man himself, and then be like "Wait, I have money, I can do this even more!" It would have been great to see Gi-Hun even give up his revenge on Il-Nam for that, as that would provide a powerful inciting incident for his change. But no, that's not what happened, and then the plane scene was even worse.
@Luke-zj6ge
@Luke-zj6ge 2 жыл бұрын
"Noble" LMAO.
@kattlocke
@kattlocke 2 жыл бұрын
This is the first video from YMS that left me sort of frustrated. While other comments have already mentioned the times where he missed the point, I have one more thing to add: YMS makes a huge deal out of the later parts of the show being “paint by numbers” at times and… I really don’t know why that’s such an issue. With so much media out there, it’s impossible for something to be 100% subversive. As long as a show is enjoyable, does having a few common tropes really matter? Also, Adum constantly nitpicking, and creating strawmen for the common person (normie), is getting more and more egregious with each video. Aside from that, keep up the good work :)
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
I see it as the paint by numbers parts not being executed in such a way that the cliches can be ignored. Adum likes a ton of cliched media but he considers those really well executed despite the writing
@weebyboi620
@weebyboi620 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah complaining that something isn’t original is such a lazy criticism IMO.
@joekratman1872
@joekratman1872 2 жыл бұрын
I think theres a difference between using a tried and true genre trope and literally copy and pasting scenarios from different pieces of media. I understand where he's coming from. If you start watching a show or movie and almost every plot point is something that you recognize from another property, without anything to make it somewhat original or fresh, its going to become very predictable and less engaging in general. I'm not saying that there's no one on earth entertained by cliché, but it can become frustrating when something is being touted as "groundbreaking" or "unique" when in reality it is using the same emotional/plot beats being used for years.
@CloppingIsMyThing
@CloppingIsMyThing 2 жыл бұрын
I mean you should watch him play Sekiro...
@kattlocke
@kattlocke 2 жыл бұрын
@@noname-dt6sv I didn't mean to come off as angry. I'm sorry if it came off that way- I was mostly just trying to articulate my thoughts. I never said he wasn't allowed that opinion or that he was objectively 'wrong', so I'm not sure why you came to that conclusion. I respect his opinion and I respect yours. I tend to like YMS videos, I just found this one a little misguided. I hope you can respect that. I just wanted to add to the conversation.
@beybladesinmyheels1267
@beybladesinmyheels1267 2 жыл бұрын
“Wow I cant believe that someone would pay to watch people die in these terrible games” *The camera then pans out to a dim room whose only light is the screen of a squid game illuminating a man on a couch in a blanket*
@stevedaguy9639
@stevedaguy9639 2 жыл бұрын
I can’t help but feel like you failed to engage on a lot of the thematic elements of the show. Like the brother being the head honcho was an obvious twist from the start, but it was interesting that he was also revealed to be a winner of a prior squid game before becoming the frontman. And the bit at the end where the MC refuses to kill his childhood friend was the culmination of an entire season of exploration on the value of a human life. And I can’t help but feel like the feeling of frustration at the stupid situation of the old man being revealed was purposeful since the MC was right there with us feeling the same things. Yeah the end was def a bit awkward, but it wasn’t without purpose. I can’t help but feel that most people who talk about the ending are being a bit uncharitable. I might be in the wrong here but I feel like the sense of things not feeling quite right was a purposeful decision because the character was dealing with the reality of his situation as well. Like putting yourself in the position of having won the games what the hell would you do? I’d be even more traumatized. I’d probably donate all the money and self t3rmin8 seeing the shit that guy has seen.
@MJ-kc9ic
@MJ-kc9ic 2 жыл бұрын
My favourite part was when the one guy knew which glass was which and the front man caught on and instead of being FAIR about it (cause yknow it’s his entire character) he purposely dims the lights so the guy has no clue which one is which anymore causing him to get fucking yeeted
@santiagoarauz1580
@santiagoarauz1580 2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you but also it made sense because having this knowledge made it “unfair” because it’s supposed to be a game of chance. It’s kind of BS but at the same time is it’s lol. Kind of weird but I didn’t hate it
@MJ-kc9ic
@MJ-kc9ic 2 жыл бұрын
@@santiagoarauz1580 But they have files on everyone. Wouldn’t they have been able to see that number whoever the fuck has an advantage to the game cause he’s a glass manufacturer? If that’s the case then they shouldn’t have done the glass stepping stones game if they knew one of the contestants has an advantage, because the game wouldn’t be fair.
@santiagoarauz1580
@santiagoarauz1580 2 жыл бұрын
@@MJ-kc9ic yes but thinking like that about every single participant would make the game impossible to make. Because everybody has an advantage over something. But at least for me the advantage that he had made him way too “OP” in that game. Or maybe it was because they didn’t want it to be boring for the rich men, they wanted the game to be entertaining and “nail bitting”. If the glass maker man would get everybody safe then it would lose the purpose of the game I suppose. I might be wrong but i think the front man does what his superiors tell him to do, even if it’s agains what he would like.
@MJ-kc9ic
@MJ-kc9ic 2 жыл бұрын
@@santiagoarauz1580 but in that game, the glass maker dude waited until everyone in front of him died to spill the information that he knows which one is which. However, I guess it’s fair to say that if the front man is told something, he’s gonna do it regardless of his morals cause his superiors told him so. I didn’t think of that.
@luciuseclipse
@luciuseclipse 2 жыл бұрын
The frontman never really cared about maintaining a "fair" game. Sure he did things to prevent cheating and put up a facade of fairness, but that is only to keep the VIPs interested in the game and investing their money. He dims the lights because actually having the VIPs there in person and voicing their disinterest in the game being ruined by someone who knew the trick meant that he had to please them and make the game interesting again.
@wephilips6651
@wephilips6651 2 жыл бұрын
Overall I liked the show, it’s definitely overhyped but that’s completely understandable/explicable. I think it’s starts amazingly and then every episode gets progressively worse with the last episode being the worst but I’d still give it a 6/10 which is not bad at all
@soulslasher7890
@soulslasher7890 2 жыл бұрын
and i'm giving it a six outta tennnnnnn
@lampad4549
@lampad4549 2 жыл бұрын
@@soulslasher7890 Haven't seen the review yet how much did he give it?
@lampad4549
@lampad4549 2 жыл бұрын
What kinda show would you give 7/10 just curious?
@tite93
@tite93 2 жыл бұрын
Did you really just sum up the review like that or is your opinion accidentally identical to Adum's?
@za-ir5ni
@za-ir5ni 2 жыл бұрын
This doesn't make sense considering that episode 6 is the best episode.
@jamesmcintyre1729
@jamesmcintyre1729 2 жыл бұрын
My guy, the front man was a previous winner of the games-it’s literally in the scene of the cop looking through files, the camera pauses on it multiple times; I caught that my first watch through. It’s not 100% explained how he became the front man but he was a previous winner so it’s not hard to make that jump. Also doesn’t the cop mention his brother disappeared before?
@tobbi_art
@tobbi_art 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a while since i saw the show, but I’m sure it was mentioned that the brother would disappear months at a time every year?
@TheAnnoyingThing1915
@TheAnnoyingThing1915 2 жыл бұрын
a lot of the character's choices could be explained if adum understood human empathy. he only empathizes with animals thats why he's a furry
@ruairihair
@ruairihair 2 жыл бұрын
There's an article about how a lot of English characters in South Korean movies often use google translate instead of forking out for a translator
@adrianramirez8882
@adrianramirez8882 2 жыл бұрын
Waiting for the American version: Octopus Tournament
@Keihzaru
@Keihzaru 2 жыл бұрын
The american version of a game for children with death involved is simply going to class in texas.
@YAH2121
@YAH2121 2 жыл бұрын
Or Adum's version: Horse Olympics
@burner627
@burner627 2 жыл бұрын
"I seen that before that's Bad"- Adam, 2021
@dsilva369
@dsilva369 2 жыл бұрын
Adam, people aren't robots. Just because you can think in a very ethically and intellectual consistent way about the protagonist principles and actions while watching it from afar doesn't mean even you wouldn't act like that in the heat of the moment. Yes, it was possibly hypocritical on Gi-hun's part to complain about how Sang-woo just pushed the old man to his death. Heck, maybe even killing Sae-byok. So what? People are often hypocritical. It would still be shocking to watch an old friend be that cold-blooded. Remember, Gi-hun never actually directly killed anyone in the game. The worst he ever did was in the marbles game, and even then he just went with the flow when the old man began trolling him. He was never as cynical as Sang-woo. Characters are allowed to act on their emotions and not "logic" and that's not bad writing; in fact, people in real life often act that way. That kind of cold-blooded murder ,of simply looking at one of his oldest friends and letting him die before his eyes just wasn't in gi-hun's heart, no matter what he went through. Like sae-byok said, it just wasn't like him. It's also a rebuttal of Il-nam's cynical philosophy on human nature. Also, the show doesn't frame the main character as perfect, the fact that he didn't spend the money for a year isn't meant to be seen as a sign of his "virtue", it's obviously to indicate that he's absolutely broken on the inside and too full of survivor's guilt to be functional.
@iAmMsCrap
@iAmMsCrap 2 жыл бұрын
I think it makes sense that seong gi-hun would chastise his friend so badly for killin that dude during that glass panel game not too long after he himself betrayed tht old dude, hes gotta be projecting some anount of anger and guilt he felt towards himself at his bud
@Herrikias
@Herrikias 2 жыл бұрын
This show taught me that all gay furries are secretly billionaires. Adum, no doubt, either has not been informed of his billions by his parents or doesn't love horsies enough. Ponies will die of heartbreak without your tender caresses, Adum. Do what's right.
@untrustworthybagel
@untrustworthybagel 2 жыл бұрын
Horse Game
@Winasaurus
@Winasaurus 2 жыл бұрын
Scoot stole his billions out of the bank when Adum got tendonitis, so couldn't type in his password to report fraud to the bank. Scoot spent it all on commissioning artwork, of questionable legality.
@DweezyBreezey
@DweezyBreezey 2 жыл бұрын
9:10 Because if they walked on the beams, then the game would go from "obviously Kaiji inspired", to just being a game from Kaiji.
@UnicornStorm
@UnicornStorm 2 жыл бұрын
wasn't it a race in Kaiji? I thought that was the reason they shoved each other off the beam
@DweezyBreezey
@DweezyBreezey 2 жыл бұрын
@@UnicornStorm I totally forgot about that aspect of it, but you're right. Although, you could say that the squid game, er, game, somewhat emulates that aspect by being timed.
@UnicornStorm
@UnicornStorm 2 жыл бұрын
@@DweezyBreezey yeah, pretty much
@juliamaria3807
@juliamaria3807 2 жыл бұрын
@@DweezyBreezey I'm pretty sure the game in Kaiji was also timed and the reason they started shoving each other was because someone was too scared to continue. So, basically squid game.
@davidgalan2140
@davidgalan2140 2 жыл бұрын
"He shoud have bought some therapy" LMAO
@ericpoulsen3087
@ericpoulsen3087 2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see your opinion on the German Netflix-show, "Dark".
@FreakinSweet1987
@FreakinSweet1987 2 жыл бұрын
2/10 - Not bright enough.
@PeterGriffin11
@PeterGriffin11 2 жыл бұрын
5/10 not dark enough.
@donovanlocust1106
@donovanlocust1106 2 жыл бұрын
@@PeterGriffin11 7/10 too much dark
@tgsmokio
@tgsmokio 2 жыл бұрын
9/10, Nice amount of dark
@rainycloud10
@rainycloud10 2 жыл бұрын
-2/10, Not enough incest.
@spacedjace57
@spacedjace57 2 жыл бұрын
you are so close to understanding what Gi-hun as a character and what he represents
@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280
@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280 2 жыл бұрын
13:15 I'd argue it's reasonable that the protagonist makes this decision tbh. They're childhood friends after all. I think it's weird that once a character makes some kind of moral decision like choosing their life over others, you seem to expect them to always make that decision. With the marbles game, he's playing with a terminally ill 90 year old. You'd probably feel less bad killing him over someone you've known for most of your life. I also don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to make your main character come out as a good person in the end? What a weird point. For the record I kinda hated this show. If you liked this show or the concept but not the show itself, I'd recommend the anime Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor.
@Michae89
@Michae89 2 жыл бұрын
Not to mention that with terminally ill guy he still wasn't the guy that directly killed him, he cheated, sure, but didn't have to plunge a knife into anybody. On top of that it was a kill or be killed situation completely different than the final fight where him not killing the other guy meant that they both get to live. On top of that the guilt from being ruthless before could manifest in this change of attitude and showing mercy. Adum dropped the ball on this one.
@DoctorMario606
@DoctorMario606 2 жыл бұрын
I'm mad that he didn't go to see his DAUGHTER. THE ENTIRE REASON HE WENT IN THE FIRST PLACE
@punpunpunyama9271
@punpunpunyama9271 2 жыл бұрын
i think that moment, along with the last scene with the old man, was meant to showcase his gambling/adrenaline addiction. like, even in the first episode he gambled with his mom's money instead of just buying his daughter a present with it
@raggedymuffinz
@raggedymuffinz 2 жыл бұрын
I mean like, I’d get that if his daughter was in any immediate danger, but unlike his dying mother was, his daughter is at least healthy and being properly cared for as far as we know. But seeing that person being recruited at the subway station? It made him realize that there are people that need him FAR MORE than she does right now, and it isn’t unlike this character to take risks if he believes the payout is worth it. If I’m being honest, it would have been a slap in the face to the core themes of the show if he just decided to ignore it all and move on with his life anyway. It’s a reasonable, but ultimately selfish thing to do and that’s exactly why he doesn’t do it. He has moved passed only thinking about himself. It’s called character development.
@DoctorMario606
@DoctorMario606 2 жыл бұрын
@@raggedymuffinz He should've at least went to go see her. I don't see how it's selfish for him to at least go connect with his daughter one last time before he goes off on a mission that could potentially result in his death.
@raggedymuffinz
@raggedymuffinz 2 жыл бұрын
@@DoctorMario606 I mean, I feel like it would honestly be kind of cruel to reinsert himself into his daughter’s life after being absent from it for over a year now, only immediately leave again and potentially never return? Also, like I already explained, *his daughter’s life isn’t really on a ticking countdown right now.* Those contestant’s lives are. Besides, it’s obvious at this point that the gamerunners are still tracking him. They even tell him as much that he should just get on the plane and be on his merry way. It’d be much easier for them to anticipate and deal with him if he left by, I don’t know, sabotaging his way back into the country? You’re acting as if this is just a very easy pit stop he’d be able to take without any meaningful ramifications for it whatsoever.
@Sebongie
@Sebongie Жыл бұрын
"haha, now you HAVE to win, loser" is the best thing i've heard in a while
@jeffanderson9938
@jeffanderson9938 2 жыл бұрын
The brother being the Big Bad makes sense. It's established he won one of the previous Squid Games, meaning he became insanely rich. Now he uses his wealth to uphold the Status Quo that he benefitted from.
@zachesfahani5947
@zachesfahani5947 2 жыл бұрын
Another Korean show I recommend to watch is My Name. It’s on Netflix and it’s just as easy to binge as Squid Game
@RocTroller
@RocTroller 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the recommendation
@zachesfahani5947
@zachesfahani5947 2 жыл бұрын
@@RocTroller 👍
@ParagonBourne
@ParagonBourne 2 жыл бұрын
Han So Hee carries that fucking show with her performance. I was really impressed by her
@YYAT
@YYAT 2 жыл бұрын
Korean Resident Evil
@leonthethird7494
@leonthethird7494 2 жыл бұрын
I looked up Zack Esfahani on Netflix and didn’t find anything
@karamasan1552
@karamasan1552 2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, all the weird stuff Gi Hun did was after he thought he killed an old man with dementia through cheating him, I took it as him being psychologically disturbed and trying his best to "redeem" himself of the guilt he felt, "why did you push that guy, we are alive because of him", "I don't want the money, I want you to be alive", "another game is happening, I better go stop it", these all sound like attempts from a disillusioned suffering man trying to justify his actions and make himself righteous and act like a hero he desperately wants to be when really he was hard carried throughout the whole games only really having one point where he managed to sort of outsmart the game instead of getting lucky This is also supported by the bet with the old man, he could have gone down there and helped the guy, but he decided to stay there and win a meaningless bet, the guy isn't the peak of moral compass, he's a broken gambling addict who desperately wants to be right and a hero
@TheCyanSqueegee
@TheCyanSqueegee 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I mean I still think Gi Hun is a good guy overall who was literally so broken by that point that he couldn't do much of anything but I think this interpretation makes a lot of sense too. Part of me really wanted the show to end with Gi Hun pushing the old man's bed out of the window and then going to help the homeless dude because it would have been cathartic and funny as hell but of course then Gi Hun would probably end up in jail for murdering Il Nam. They definitely could have had him say "fuck your bet" and go help the guy himself which is what I thought would be more likely to happen, but I guess they wanted to really show that him seeing someone else who he thought was robbing the homeless man actually go to get help kind of shook him out of his depression/apathy and made him realize that he could still easily make a difference due to the example of others which couldn't have happened if he just decided to be good on his own.
@karamasan1552
@karamasan1552 2 жыл бұрын
@@TheCyanSqueegee For sure, still a good guy, just utterly broken, to the point where he doesn't use the money for anything good (like taking the little guy out of the orphanage or paying his friend's debt) and is willing to let someone die because he desperately needs a sign or something that proves to him that goodness does exist, Il Nam dying before he could see he lost is part of that too, the bet was with him, but even though he started the bet with the intention of winning against him, he's happy someone did do something, he ends up not caring about the bet, unfortunately he does go a little too hard into the hero complex, willing to let his family be disappointed for a chance to redeem what he very clearly sees as a stain in his mind or guilt, but at least he's doing something
@marlenapowers478
@marlenapowers478 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!
@brianmarini1888
@brianmarini1888 2 жыл бұрын
Man... ep 6 is the one that broke people, and you were just annoyed? Maybe you watch too much TV/movies. If you didn't even mention the girl who let herself lose on purpose, or the gutwrenching betrayal of Ali. That was CAPTIVATING storytelling, absolutely brilliant character development.
@xproflipscarab
@xproflipscarab 2 жыл бұрын
I know his whole Caricature is supposed to be bored and disinterested but damn its clear here that he didn't pay attention to this show... He missed so many obvious points and its clear from the fact he leaves out many of the best parts of the show like The two girls that he missed a lot of other stuff too
@Verdia
@Verdia 2 жыл бұрын
"captivating storytelling" bruh, this whole episode was so predictable if you have half a braincell
@brianmarini1888
@brianmarini1888 2 жыл бұрын
@@Verdia Predictability doesn't make something bad. Not everything has to be a shock or a surprise to be good character development and storytelling.
@Triplicata
@Triplicata 2 жыл бұрын
I wanted to make a note about your take on the Frontman being the cop's brother. They did explain it. Earlier they showed that he was the winner of one of the previous games. I think it's logical to conclude that as a winner he would somehow be ropes back into the operation.
@Glaas2
@Glaas2 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think that explains it, it gives pretty much no explanation how he turned into the frontman just by being the winner. If that was the case, there would have been many other winners there.
@FTZPLTC
@FTZPLTC 2 жыл бұрын
The great thing about Squid Game is that it takes a concept that's been done a few times (Would You Rather? did almost everything Squid Game did in terms of plot) and then doesn't treat it like the concept alone can carry its runtime. It actually makes an effort to have striking visuals and more importantly good, sustained character development. It's surprising how many "death game" IPs with much smaller casts fail to do that. e.g. after Squid Game I thought I'd check out As The Gods Will, and holy shit, was that a massive drop in quality, because the characters were completely inconsequential at every point. In summary, woo do Danganronpa pls.
@matiasbenitez980
@matiasbenitez980 2 жыл бұрын
lmao the English dub for this is highly reminiscent of the Shenmue dub.
@RedCornix
@RedCornix 2 жыл бұрын
My read of gi-hun not killing sang-woo is that he was just sick of all of it. Seemed like a "no more" situation. That and the upside to the sacrifice is that everyone else's families would recieve at least a small payout if they both withdrew. It wouldn't be a pointless sacrifice. That and it's amazingly cynical to call gi-hun impossibly virtuous. He falters and almost kills people. In the show 1 person sacrifices himself after gi-hun tries to cheat him out of a win and another dies while insisting that he can be better. Hell, sung-woo could have stabbed gi-hun instead of offing himself. Do you not get how that might paralyze a person with survivor's guilt? Especially so when his reason for playing is already lying dead on the floor.
@terenarosa4790
@terenarosa4790 2 жыл бұрын
It's stated in the show that if they don't use the glass platforms they will be shot. It's not "assumed."
@DieKillerBanane13
@DieKillerBanane13 2 жыл бұрын
Thats a really good image 1:46
@PepPlayboy
@PepPlayboy 2 жыл бұрын
A few things I think you missed: Unless you were saying that the brain tumor/dementia was an obvious fake thing the old guy was doing, you missed at the end of marble episode that old guy basically is like “you little shit trying to trick an old man with dementia, I don’t have dementia! Be a better person.”. The other part that you critiqued is the red suit workers being now on ground floor of cookie game and not on red light/green. To construct some sort of machine that could see everyone’s cookies and kill based on that is probably incredibly difficult, same with marbles. They needed the workers down there for the game to function outside of players confirming a win/loss themselves through a computer screen or something. In this case the writing probably naturally went to include a “steal a gun” scene. Overall I agree, this was by no means a great written/directed show but there were some nice visuals and the first half of episodes were immensely better than the 2nd half.
@richwrites5683
@richwrites5683 2 жыл бұрын
I love underground south korean film/television shows such as squid game, parasite, and squid game.
@redblue9478
@redblue9478 2 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry either never say "squeakquel" again or say it always.
@UncoloredPageGaming
@UncoloredPageGaming 2 жыл бұрын
Kinda bored with reviewer youtubers feeling like the need to be the savior of cinema whenever too many people like a product, they always have to go "this isnt the best thing ever, I dont know why you guys liked it so much, it was just so average to me" Also you missed multiple details in the story that explain things you complain about later, but eh whatever
@WaddleDee45
@WaddleDee45 2 жыл бұрын
Specifying which version of Oldboy to watch made me realize that one day there'll be an american remake of Squid Game and it will be bad.
@minartson
@minartson 2 жыл бұрын
While I do agree that the last 2 episodes were A LOT weaker than the rest of the show, a lot of these complaints make absolutely 0 sense. 1. The old man didn't get dementia at a convenient time, it was made pretty damn clear that he was faking the whole thing. 2. Walking on beams and licking the honeycomb can not be compared as it was never said how they have to cut out the shape, just they have to do it. As opposed to the glass jumping game where they were instructed clearly to jump on a glass panel to advance, hence it would break the games rules if they tried some funny business with the beams. 3. Gi-Hun acting all high and mighty is actually very relatable. The world is full of hypocrites who act all high and might after everything they have done. It seems like YMS wants everybody to be a perfect trope of a character. If you are good, you are good and if you are bad you are bad, no in-between. 4. Gi-Hun wanting to end the last game isn't anything out of this world. After being the cause of so many deaths and now being in the position where you have to kill your childhood best friend can put you under a pretty heavy mental toll. I do agree about the side plot with the brother, it was utterly pointless and didn't advance or change the plot in anyway.
@Rini_H
@Rini_H 2 жыл бұрын
He literally said that his dementia seemed very convenient which 1. Got him to figure out Il-man's role in the series immediately 2. Took him out of the episode and made it less enjoyable. So he's not saying that he thought the dementia was real but portrayed poorly. He's saying that the way the show wrote a fake dementia plot device was poorly executed.
@jwnj9716
@jwnj9716 2 жыл бұрын
As the Gods Will is another good one. Just dumb fun, nothing serious.
@swivelkeyring3512
@swivelkeyring3512 2 жыл бұрын
The manga is fun.nothing serious and the ending is great imo
@TracyBrashaw
@TracyBrashaw 2 жыл бұрын
I watched Alice in Borderlands about a month after seeing As the Gods Will. I was surprised to learn that they don't rely on the same source material.
@celestialcressy
@celestialcressy 2 жыл бұрын
that movie gave a headache 😂
@dr41n333
@dr41n333 2 жыл бұрын
How do you get the idea that Gi-Hun was fine with killing people and then suddenly switched in the last game? The game is about survival and while some people take the opportunity to kill others, Gi-hun was never the type to do that, and never was directly responsible for any deaths. In the first two games he can't directly kill anyone, in the tug of war he's not gonna give up and let everyone else on his team die for the other team, sacrificing one group for the other, and in the glass game he didn't kill anyone. Sure in the marble game he indirectly killed the old man, however the circumstances were extremely valid. The old man was, on the verge of death and extremely senile, at least from Gi-Huns perspective, and as such Gi-hun, who is not on the verge of death and needs the money for not just himself but among other things, his mothers treatment, saw it as a worthy sacrifice. This is why Gi-Hun, in the last game struggled to directly kill another, who btw is his childhood friend who he has a pre-established connection too. It's not an illogical sacrifice, Gi-Hun is framed as a morally kind-hearted person who struggles with the death of others, but is still human and can turn a blind eye to death that is not caused by him if it means his survival. Sorry Gi-Hun is a human character who struggles with directly killing someone in a brutal means, something he has never done, aswell as that someone being his childhood friend. Would Gi-Hun coldly murdering his childhood friend the first time he has ever killed a human be better to you??
@SuigaRou
@SuigaRou 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, honestly, I think Adam was playing on his phone or something while watching this show. He missed so much stuff. Hell, when Gi-Hun thought Sang-Woo was asleep and was going to stab him, all Sae-Byeok had to say is "That's not you" for him to give up on the idea. I don't know why people are comparing Gi-Hun playing the game in order survive to him being a cold blooded killer, and for someone who keeps saying he was invested in the games because he was imagining himself in them, it's odd that Gi-Hun's inner conflicts flew right over Adams head.
@snowrain9360
@snowrain9360 2 жыл бұрын
@@SuigaRou I agree
@pompousproductions
@pompousproductions 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think the Native English Speaking Actors are "Bad", they're clearly putting effort into their performances. I think it's just that having a Script written in Korean translated to spoken English is a rocky transition.
@PeterLawrenceYT
@PeterLawrenceYT 2 жыл бұрын
Dunno why you believe cliche = bad. Trope = bad. The execution of Squid Game is absolutely incredible.
@ygsr
@ygsr 2 жыл бұрын
When you've seen enough films, some tropes start to get pretty annoying I guess.
@ygsr
@ygsr 2 жыл бұрын
@@jackbrennan1125 he's not saying Squid Game is plagiarism though.
@popanom
@popanom 2 жыл бұрын
@@jackbrennan1125 in your example he's accepting them as a defense against accusations of plagiarism, not as good filmmaking/story telling
@luigiwiiUU
@luigiwiiUU 2 жыл бұрын
not all of the execution in this show is good, the reveal of the brother being frontman for example was a really bad use of a trope
@ygsr
@ygsr 2 жыл бұрын
@@jackbrennan1125 I haven't seen Squid Game, but the examples he used in this video did seem somewhat specific, while a lot of the stuff in The Lion King is very general. In regards to this video, he didn't call the death game concept a trope or cliche, because it's so general.
@pienoaji
@pienoaji 2 жыл бұрын
I think I finally put my finger on what bothers me a little about your critical style. You seem incapable or just extremely unwilling to forgive plot conveniences. something happening at a convenient time or some sort of coincidence occurring seems to fully take you out of a scene, while for me, I have a greater capacity for suspension of disbelief, and an acknowledgement of the bigger picture, and can see what kind of message the narrative is trying to get across, and will lend it some leeway with regard to what conveniences it needs to get there, rather than focusing on the minutia of each scene as its own cohesive construction. Makes me enjoy different movies from you. Also I am incredibly stoned right now so this comment might be kinda weird ok bye
@binushsagar8326
@binushsagar8326 2 жыл бұрын
Cool easteregg in tug of War is the old guy is not really in handcuffs but nobody sees it.
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