movie discussions just aren't the same without Matt being there to recommend some third-string direct to DVD action schlock starring a Schwarzenegger stunt double

I laughed so hard at “el muchacho grande” lmao

All Quiet on the Western Front was ‘aight. I thought it kinda seemed like a betrayal of the novels themes that basically all the human evil of war is projected onto that cartoonishly evil CO at the end, where the novel really highlights how the war actually changed the people who fought it into killers who can’t fit in to a post war society. From a technical standpoint those Germans make good stuff but it’s very emotionally austere compared to more blubbery, dramatic US stuff I was weened on.

@Tanksareforcowards

Жыл бұрын

"blubbery", thank youu for finally giving me a word for that concept lmao

@RIP_Greedo

Жыл бұрын

The technical aspects of the new All Quiet, I thought, were exemplary. The ambient snyth score too. (What a choice!) The changes to the plot to include stuff about the armistice negotiation (not in the book!) just didn't work for me. It seemed like a conscious ploy to modern liberal audiences concerned about the abstract rise of modern fascism. Imagine a Vietnam War movie that cuts to several scenes of Bobby Kennedy gravely commenting that this war is going to cause a cultural rift in America - just very on the nose and not necessary.

I also read Tàr as a comedy solely on her only ever wearing a buster Keaton suit in every scene

I watched Mad God after Will talked it up and that was a badass watch. One of the most impressive things i've watched in a long time

Not sure how you can have a Chapo spinoff movie podcast without Matt. Who's gonna defend squibs???

@RumHam5570

Жыл бұрын

Every time, our big boy just wants the squibs.

@thetankhunter100

Жыл бұрын

Squibs are nice.

@adamtherock2008

Жыл бұрын

Matt deserves his Mr. Movies card taken away for calling Guillermo del Toro and Ridley Scott bad directors.

I"VE GOT THE OSCOR FEVER!

@boxcarwilly3185

Жыл бұрын

Hope you got it too

Will’s opinion on a movie sways based on how people he doesn’t like on Twitter react to it.

@Gum_Cuzzler

Жыл бұрын

This is literally every chapo pop culture opinion

@virginwrists4960

Жыл бұрын

Not it doesn't. This comment section is full of jealous ppl. He articulates why he likes it or not. You don't

@danielkafka5676

Жыл бұрын

@@virginwrists4960 this is true but B’s comment is funnier

@zyxc1754

Жыл бұрын

Isn't that the reason to watch movies?

So glad you brought up Barbarian. It was my favorite movie last year.

Seeing a lot of folks point out the propensity of Will to trash movies he's never seen, and I agree. He assumes that "Living" is based off an Kazuo Ishiguro novel, which is a lazy assumption based on the common name nationality. The screenplay was written by Ishiguro, but it's based off of the film "Ikiru" by Akira Kurosawa, which is in turn based off of a Tolstoy novel.

I'm sad that the Northman got 0 nominations. I thought it had fantastic cinematography at the VERY least

@ultravioletiris6241

Жыл бұрын

Same. I guess they didnt have enough interns blow the committee or something

@anmolt3840051

Жыл бұрын

It was an excellent Hamlet adaptation

"It's either this "women talking" or like, the fabelmans" ... LOL

I am gay and Avatarded

just noticed the Juicero in the left corner of the screensaver for the first time. Love this

25:00 The big reason Shakespeare in Love won was because Harvey Weinstein was a vicious campaigner.

I’m confused as how to parasite is not supposed to be viewed through the lens of class

@crisismethodactor

Жыл бұрын

It is and isn’t. I think on the “Movies for the Blind” ep they put it like this: the point of the movie is that even the gig economy strivers and workers are not the bottom rung and in fact will step on anyone on that rung to get ahead. There’s also the vanity of the rich family yadda yadda yadda, all the stuff the libs understood.

Every movie Will loves, I love. Every movie he's lukewarm on, I also love. I love too easily.

Is that Adam Friedland ?

@Trapashow

Жыл бұрын

Nah, the voice isnt feminine enough

if del toro directed the next spongebob movie you know I'm there opening night

I’ve got the Oscar fever

I love hearing their opinions on movies they haven’t seen.

@52flyingbicycles

Жыл бұрын

The only movies up for nomination this year that Will hasn’t seen are Women Talking and All Quiet on the Western Front. Hesse saw the former and they spent almost no time on the latter.

@RumHam5570

Жыл бұрын

Their take on Banshees makes sense. Are you referring to any movies in particular?

RRR SWEEP

Cool podcast

Tar Nation turn out

18:00 "All Quiet on the Western Front" already won an Oscar, back in 1931, because it's been made into a film three times.

I read somewhere that the banshees of inesherin story is a depiction of the IRA and the UK

@cassie451

Жыл бұрын

The more common read I've seen so far is that of the fight between the anti treaty IRA and the Free State guys, rather than the IRA (be it the originals in the revolution or the Provos) against the Brits

@RIP_Greedo

Жыл бұрын

@@cassie451 no the donkey is a Provo

Spielberg is like our dad and he finally gave us his idea of a sex talk

I love hesse!!!!!!!

@WoahGeeWow

Жыл бұрын

She is so funny. Very stoked for this venture.

@ckasak5541

Жыл бұрын

Make sure you listen to her on Seeking Derangements then

@mommysmilkshake5779

Жыл бұрын

@@ckasak5541 I do I’m a pay pig and her biggest fan

Description doesn’t say guests name

Having done Hell of Presidents and Hell on Earth, you should do a series called *_Future Hole._* Basically you've been covering the Christman transcendentalist fatalist take on a material conception of world history and the USA in particular, but I feel like you've been ignoring the elephant in the room which is if not the proletarian world revolution, what happens next to America. Even if you believe that the global working class has been defeated in that epochal fashion, completely losing the moment in the first half of the 20th century and the second Thirty Years War and all that, history doesn't stop. So the question is, for Future Hole, _what comes _*_after the USA?_* Because the USA is absolutely doomed, quite apart from climate catastrophe. It's empire is running straight into a wall of global sick-of-your-shit and you-got-nothing. Can the USA even survive the end of its empire, the end of dollar diplomacy, the petro dollar and rglobal reserve currency status with all the massive economic and geostrategic benefits they have granted the USA since 1945 when the British empire/Commonwealth Sterling Area and £Sterling as a global reserve currency were assasinated by Washington, the US's global free lunch as Michael Hudson calls it. I doubt it. All of those psychoses from American settler-colonialism are going to hit that wall too, with the definitive foreclosing of all the political and military possibilities, even the virtualised possibilities via remote warfare and proxy wars rather than GI boots on the ground, of any further "westward expansion" of any further conquering of the frontier. The USA is already in advanced dilapidation and decrepitude, especially in its political class and media system. The echoes with the late Roman Empire, with the late Orttomon empire, with the revolutionary France, whatever you like that maybe isn't respectable historiography to make comparisons with, neverytheless keep growing louder and harder to ignore. So the USA is doomed. But what comes after? What comes next? How does the break-up happen, how does the North American Dark Age take shape, who are the barbarians of the century to start knocking down city walls and liberating the starving peasants, what could be the Chruch of the interregnum, continuing the structures in a toothless ceremonial form while the material, cultural and political ground shifts underneath. Will Canada finally annex Washington state and Alaska as they naturally ought to? Will Mexico reclaim New Mexico? And can the revolution come as the brutal imperial state is forced to tear at the flesh of the American people instead of everyone else's? And will the Chapo boys ever manage to think outside the box of America's outdated, oligarvchical and defunct US Constitution and outside of America's present 2 party system and the allegedly-lesser-evil complicity it enforces?

@ChewyThomson

Жыл бұрын

Probly

@BigHomieGayAss1917

Жыл бұрын

I’m gay

@joshuamarx8209

Жыл бұрын

Of course it's just a question of when and to what cumulative effect..

@anuarsux

Жыл бұрын

There is some discussion RE that question in their recent interview with Richard Wolff

Did I watch the same barbarian as them

We’re so back

All real movie heads saw Babylon

AvatáRRR

Christmas for Tinsel Rown!

The fact that Everything Everywhere etc. *did* win Best Picture despite being a gourmet Marvel movie (something Hesse correctly called out) is so indicative that American pop culture has no depths it won’t sink to. You can’t expect those Hollywood folk to have any respect for their own craft, because they don’t.

It was infuriating to see CODA win WHEN IT'S BAD REMAKE OF A DECENT FRENCH MOVIE THAT WAS SNUBBED FOR THE OSCARS

If they're talking about genre movies that got snubbed, how about Mia Goth and the makeup crew for X? But if Toni Colette wasn't getting nominated for Hereditary, then X isn't getting any nominations, either.

pretty new to chapo and these comments are so negative and entitled it's worrying

@davidhill2020

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, their snobbiness tends to be something you need to get past to get to the good stuff, which there's a lot more of when Felix is there.

@Pengwin133

Жыл бұрын

@@davidhill2020 i meant the comments on the video

@topleybird2443

Жыл бұрын

Chapo orbiters are the most annoying people on the internet, there’s a reason why none of the hosts interact with any of them.

Okay... did I hallucinate waiting the whole episode to hear yall get into 'Crimes of the Future' (2022) and even close on a Cronenberg segment, except it was the wrong one? Losing my (movie) mind (set) here

@Garrett1240

Жыл бұрын

That movie stunk on ice.

@Retrostar619

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic film, and would have liked to hear more on it.

I heard good things about "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and enjoyed the movie, but I could see why people wouldn't.

I don’t know why they’re ignoring the preemptive awards ceremonies for they’re best picture prediction. EEAAO has swept PGA, DGA, WGA, SAG and Critics Choice, the the only anomaly being BAFTA. I am with Matt that it’s a solid 3/5 so I don’t have a dog in this fight, but the movie seems pretty locked for BP with a potential Banshees being a close second. I think what could happen is that the Kwans win best director and Banshees takes BP and OS. Or the vote could just be split and BP goes to Fabelmans or Women Talking, (although the latter seems unlikely since it is not up for anything other than BP and adapted screenplay.) The only chance EEAAO has at missing BP is if it doesn’t win best original screenplay since the two always seem to go hand in hand

not too surprised RRR wasn't nominated but that was a pretty incredible movie. 3 hours that felt like 90 minutes.

@weatheranddarkness

Жыл бұрын

I watched it the night after listening and honestly, I don’t really get the hype. I’m sure I’ve seen better Tamil, or other movies in languages from the subcontinent. All those establishing shots that felt like screenshots from Civilization2 really took me out of it too.

Jeff Wells head exploding Scanners style!

Chapo Trap Phase 2

Curious how or why Sarah Polley keeps talking to TSA agents about her movie "Women Talking." Why would a TSA agent a) recognize Sarah Polley coming through the security line, b) in the course of screening questions, just happen to ask "hey what's the name of the movie you're working on right now?" Unless this is an invented scenario...

@jugo1944

Жыл бұрын

They're probably asking her about her filmmaking paraphernalia?

We love a soft launch of movie mindset don’t we folks

@ih8google

Жыл бұрын

I do, but a lot of revolutionary cosplayers in the comments are having a tantrum over it.

Don't tell me Will actually thought the "El muchacho grande" tweet was real, JFC 😩

The Munich sex scene is so funny Spielberg is a wild boy

attempting to do this without Felix was a huge mistake "I didn't like EEAAO because it's just Rick and Morty" is straight up one of the most braindead takes I've ever heard

@GayTier1Operator

Жыл бұрын

they said it was fine but that the multiverse plot dynamic is played out

@kylelogan9298

Жыл бұрын

He calls it overly sweet AND Rick and Morty. It can't be both!! It's fine if EEAAO didn't resonate with you but, unlike Rick and Morty, it actually uses it's absurdity to make a point

@BoneMachine1443

Жыл бұрын

the only good Rick and Morty episode is the parody Australian april fools one

@johnmatrix3664

Жыл бұрын

It was just Rick and Morty tho lol

@topleybird2443

Жыл бұрын

But she’s entirely correct.

Does this include the interview with Richard Wolff? I don't give a fuck about the Oscars but I'm always down for some Prof Wolff.

@MrAmersfoort13

Жыл бұрын

Nah my #1 twink thats the patreon ep

Barbarian was fine. It had it's moments of both comedy and horror but they're pretty much just the ones mentioned. Outside of the moments they brought up it was kinda just ok. I'd give 3 bags and a soda.

@2shmoo

Жыл бұрын

It was a five bagger imo, maybe throw in a little toy shovel, because of how it takes place in the ground 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿⛏️

Will praising Elvis is reactionary

@Booeyyb

Жыл бұрын

Elvis was such a fucking bad movie. It was cheesy as fuck. Dogshit, spastic editing. Really poor sound mixing for a music biopic. Tom Hanks was terrible, like his character became unintentionally comedic.

@joshuamarx8209

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@zenleeparadise

Жыл бұрын

I liked that movie too lol

When they talked about TAR, I felt so fucking dumb. Like I could never have thought of that theory. I was watching it like it was the Cancel Culture arthouse action adventure epic of our time.

@jaystephens2759

Жыл бұрын

It's been done before, so if you've seen this mechanic used it's easier to spot. Kind of similar to a story where the protagonist becomes invisible all of a sudden or has to solve their own murder. Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus seems like a potential comparison

@redlightmax

9 ай бұрын

55:46 The Tar theory makes sense - reminds me of Mulholland Dr. (2001).

wheres my prize??

Who is hessa? I can’t find any info on her or very much on seeking derangements.

@GayTier1Operator

Жыл бұрын

she’s funny af

@zachflame123

Жыл бұрын

It's a guy

@ih8google

Жыл бұрын

@@zachflame123 more than you are at least.

@GayTier1Operator

Жыл бұрын

@@zachflame123 i gotta be real i don’t really give af lol

@zachflame123

Жыл бұрын

@@GayTier1Operator but you commented on it 🤔

I just love the thumbnail. Billy Crystal is so classy, and absolute mensch. If Hollyweird had any brains they'd bring him back.

@sammymcfone8281

Жыл бұрын

To be fair.. Its only weird cos ur a redneck country boy with a closed mind. "Aghhhh! Something I don't fully understand. SCAREY!"

@sammymcfone8281

Жыл бұрын

Quick ask jebus if its ok to persecute them.

@technologic21

Жыл бұрын

@@sammymcfone8281 Uh, no. I happen to reside in a pretty progressive part of the country, and generally like movies. The Hollywood of today is a freakshow. It's a joke. Do they even make movies anymore?

@X_TheHuntsman_X

Жыл бұрын

​@@sammymcfone8281 Working class Alabamian here, born and raised, still living in the state, probably always will. I find your general attitude toward country folk to be problematic gatekeeping of the left. You are the exact reason why socialism is "for them city folk." You should really work on your perception of rural America, child.

@ChewyThomson

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@technologic21 Hollywood sucks but it was always a freakshow of abuse, drugs and other shady nonsense, what the hell are you talking about lol

I'm gay and original

@420bongking

Жыл бұрын

wrong podcast

12 Years a Slave and Birdman are fucking incredible. You guys are way out of touch here.

@marcusdavis5599

Жыл бұрын

Movies you think about often?

@mattgilbert7347

Жыл бұрын

Every now and then Birdman will pop into my head. Didn't see 12 Years, I figured I'd need to see the first 11 to really understand it.

@Retrostar619

Жыл бұрын

Birdman is dogshit.

@Booeyyb

Жыл бұрын

Birdman fucking rocks

@elbowjuice2627

Жыл бұрын

Contrarian

My reading of Tar was way simpler. That's why I didn't get that last act. It felt like a complete deflation of the tension that had been building throughout the first two.

Triangle of Sadness take was straight trash, far more interesting film than they give it credit for, it goes a little deeper than "rich people bad and they should feel bad", the third act in particular drove that point home. EEAAO take was p dumb too. Which is fine but its annoying when they project shallow readings of these films onto the culture to deconstruct why other people like something they don't, ala "EEAAO is j rick and morty, cause everything is rick and morty" is the exact type of shit chapo tends to make fun of. still need something to listen to in order to keep the void at bay while i wash dishes tho.

@weatheranddarkness

Жыл бұрын

Might I suggest Trash Future, or its adjunct Well There’s Your Problem to fill in the space when you’re up to date on all the mainline Chapo?

Too many likes for me, maybe a nitpick but it’s definitely something they can work on and it’ll be a solid podcast with a spot in my rotation. Just some constructive feedback if they’re looking for any.

Love Will making fun of film critics is awesome

hesse sounds like a babe

Who still watches the Oscars?

RRR>>>>>>>>>>>>>EEAAO Laughable it's not in contention for "best picture" let alone not for best international film. Seppo bias/exceptionalism is ludicrous.

@sudevsen

Жыл бұрын

Obviously but EEAAO is best amongst the nominees except for maybe Tar/Avatar

@cravinghibiscus7901

Жыл бұрын

Anglos confirmend uncomfortable with the prospect of being the terminally bad guys for many decades to come lmao.

@BoneMachine1443

Жыл бұрын

RRR fucking slaps, I could watch anglos get murked all day

@thats4thebirds

Жыл бұрын

Sadly not being included in international films is apparently the fault of the country reps themselves for not submitting it. Which is apparently how that category gets its short list.

@Garrett1240

Жыл бұрын

What is RRR?

Why is everything that Hesse says is a question?

I tried to watch Birdman on an airplane and I got about 60 seconds in before I said fuck that

@NobuhikuObayashi

Жыл бұрын

Great movie, check out triangle of sadness

@elbowjuice2627

Жыл бұрын

@@NobuhikuObayashi birdman is great, triangle of sadness was a mid movie critics overhyped

@NobuhikuObayashi

Жыл бұрын

@@elbowjuice2627 Brilliant masterpiece in my opinion. Check out Ruben Ostulunds other movies and then maybe give triangle another shot

"One of my friends really liked Close, I think." Truly high quality film criticism, with such exquisite comedy. Watch out, At the Movies and LexG, here comes Movie Mindset, the most uninformed and pointless BS vanity podcasts around!

Birdman was the best movie of the decade I think .did you know it was filmed in one continuous shot . amazing.

@zenleeparadise

Жыл бұрын

No, it wasn't, and it never claimed to be.

@raeroa7982

Жыл бұрын

Lollllll

Triangle of sadness was good, and Avatar is incredibly mid.

@NobuhikuObayashi

Жыл бұрын

I LOVE triangle of sadness

@joshuamarx8209

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@anmolt3840051

Жыл бұрын

Avatar > Triangle of midness

@elbowjuice2627

Жыл бұрын

Both are mid

As soon as I heard the shallow and, frankly, moronic take on Women Talking, I bailed. It's the only one of the best picture contenders I really care about. As a leftist, I'm really surprised they didn't have a more positive view of it.

@ih8google

Жыл бұрын

🥱

@CzolgoszWorkinMan

Жыл бұрын

Women Talking deserves a primetime emmy for outstanding television movie It'll be a perfect movie for showing to social studies classes

@Retrostar619

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't work like that.

@topleybird2443

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I would like an actual centre-left take on this wonderful movie, someone please contact Adam Friedland of The Adam Friedland Show post-haste.

"I think CODA might be the worst one of those, I haven't even seen this movie." That line says it all -- these people just want to hear themselves talk and form opinions based on their own presuppositions without actually knowing what they're talking about. This is like that awful episode about The New York Times best-of list where they haven't seen a single one but tore them all apart. They didn't even know Sarah Polley was a director? This is like listening to annoying eight-year-olds ramble incessantly about their moronic opinions.

@BigHomieGayAss1917

Жыл бұрын

I’m gay

@Booeyyb

Жыл бұрын

I like Chapo but they form a lot of their movie takes based on how libs they dislike on Twitter react to it. It’s pretty fucking useless.

@BigHomieGayAss1917

Жыл бұрын

@@Booeyyb Is that why Will and Hesse greatly praised Michelle Yeoh and despite the qualification, gave an approving opinion of Everything Everywhere and gave it a good review. I’m not on twitter anymore, so you’ll have to tell me what the liberal opinion of this film is, though I doubt it’s negative

@jakiethedwards724

Жыл бұрын

​@@Booeyyb Yeah I also stopped taking thier political takes as serious, when I realized they use this exact Twitter based brainrot logic in a disturbing amount of their political analysis.

@BigHomieGayAss1917

Жыл бұрын

@@jakiethedwards724 This is a genuine question that is gnawing at me: Do you have fun teeing up on Chapo? It’s cool if you do, I’m just genuinely curious if you get a dopamine hit from this.

I love you guys and I’ve loved almost every episode of the show that you produce but this one I’m sorry I just couldn’t hang…..I have a problem listening to ANYONE who overuses the word “like”and Hessa was LIKE saying it LIKE five or six times in LIKE every paragraph…I LIKE tried to keep interested but it was LIKE the word just kept LIKE popping up! I was LIKE “OMG stop it”. It was LIKE making me crazy …..

@ultravioletiris6241

Жыл бұрын

As a Californian its weird hearing what used to be called “valley girl” accent from probably half of Gen Z.

@ZombiesAteMyPeep

Жыл бұрын

Seriously as a millennial that grew up in a valley in California it's like actually melting my brain , obviously I love it but like why though. Could I perhaps just like drop all pretences and just talk like exactly like this? Because like I will do it , I will like seriously become her the Valley Girl Boss the world wants. "Like listen folks we love the word like don't we folks , like seriously."

@benwatford3068

Жыл бұрын

Because they’re putting it on

...I've been sending these guys money every month for five-something years, and I think this is the worst thing I've heard. And I like them. I mean, I send them money....

@zenleeparadise

Жыл бұрын

This made me laugh

@David-tl6ix

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah this totally pales in comparison to the good ol days when they had hipster pedo virgil texas on every ep to make 8 of the shittiest simpsons references youve ever heard per episode. If only that guy was there to take 1/4 of your money still it would really spice the show up again

@GrimReader

Жыл бұрын

@@David-tl6ix Hey if someone wants to make an accusation on some messages that have since then came up with nothing also drops the Call of Cthulhu eps then he'd be welcomed back

You don't need to say "Everything Everywhere All At Once" every time for fuck's sake

This guest may have the most annoying accent/elocution I’ve ever heard. Everything’s a question and every other word is “like”.

@ih8google

Жыл бұрын

…get real problems.

@Garrett1240

Жыл бұрын

@@ih8google already do.

@FunkMcLovin

Жыл бұрын

Man I have this problem too sometimes. A solution I've come up with is how there's a button where you can pause the video

@yashbisht33

Жыл бұрын

nice profile picture

Omg, give me a break. You're not a woman.

@420bongking

Жыл бұрын

someone who looks like you with your haircut saying something like this is probably the funniest thing ive seen all night, thank you so much

@BoneMachine1443

Жыл бұрын

go read your harry potter, nerd

@foxtrotalphaone

Жыл бұрын

@@420bongking I think it's peculiar that "trans" people have a very narrow view of what a woman SHOULD look like. They apparently all go for the large breast implants as part of their "transition". Funny how these people in particular see things as innocuous as a haircut as gender specific(Heidi looks sexy AF, by the way). Ironic, isn't it, that for all their rhetoric these people in particular have difficulty seeing past surface level aesthetics. Really strange, that. Vexing.

@phiscz

Жыл бұрын

@@foxtrotalphaone dog its not trans women's fault that her haircut's whack asf

@phiscz

Жыл бұрын

@@heidimelcarek3677 just because noone wants to fuck you doesn't mean you should put that on trans people lol

Didnt like the take on "all quiet on the western front". did not like it one bit

@weatheranddarkness

Жыл бұрын

Have you seen the original?