From Variety to Maximus to Percy Bysshe Shelly.. 9.5 on the dismount, E.C.

@Jeffrey314159

3 ай бұрын

3:16 UK court of civil law proved that Johnny Depp physically and sexually abused his wife then amber heard on 12 of 14 occasions while under the influence of drugs and alcohol

This had to be tough to narrow down to just 50

@Jay-jb2vr

5 ай бұрын

Real tough

@stevemcgarry2307

5 ай бұрын

Literally spoilt for shit choice!

@mrburton8842

5 ай бұрын

I can't wait for part 2: "Worst moments 51-300:

@ahcomeon

5 ай бұрын

I bet he could have done a 24 hour live stream trying to list all the crap from 2023.

@leyenda6149

5 ай бұрын

Wasn't that lame-o Peter and Wendy movie this year?

A sad year for movie buffs, but a necessary reminder to the Hollywood elites that they're nothing without a paying audience.

@AbrasiousProductions

5 ай бұрын

I've only watched one modern film this year and luckily it was actually good but I'm not going any further, modern cinema is dead.

@trevorthornley8835

5 ай бұрын

​@@AbrasiousProductionswhat movie did you watch?

@AbrasiousProductions

5 ай бұрын

@@trevorthornley8835 Beau is Afraid (2023) no hyperbole, it was an indisputable masterpiece, it nearly killed me via heart attack in the theaters but I absolutely loved it, it really struck a core with me, no wokeness in sight, simply a compelling and relatable story for those who've been abused by our parents.

@Drak976

5 ай бұрын

@@AbrasiousProductions All I saw this year was 5 nights at freddys with my youngin'. I used to probably see 10+ a year minimum.

@AbrasiousProductions

5 ай бұрын

@@Drak976 I'm so sorry you had to watch that generic boring trite..

As I watched this saying to myself:”Did all of this come out in one year?” Back in the 90s this amount of cringeworthy rubbish would have been spread over a decade

@loganw6156

5 ай бұрын

90s had some banger movies. Probably some of the best

@Drak976

5 ай бұрын

@@loganw6156 Not only was it impossible to see them all but there are tons of movies from the 1990s I somehow never even heard of. Golden gems I find 30 years later or completely forgot. I just rewatched 1996 Bullet Proof with Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler for the 1st time in 25 years. Somehow this wasn't in my Adam Sandler rotation.

@45641560456405640563

5 ай бұрын

To be fair the 90's sucked pretty hard at times....

@mr.awesome6011

5 ай бұрын

God the grandpa is strong with these comments

@hariman7727

5 ай бұрын

@@loganw6156 And some of the best animated series too. Batman, Superman, The X-Men, Gargoyles, and so many more.

I didn't subject myself to any of the garbage referenced in this video, but I have to say your assessment of Willow is hilarious

@clancydowrca

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 yeah I laughed a lot also.

@neomatrix4412

5 ай бұрын

Willow is lesbian

@taz3810

5 ай бұрын

Im not sure if there's any lesbian in it

@neomatrix4412

5 ай бұрын

@@taz3810 the video clips imply that

@taz3810

5 ай бұрын

@@neomatrix4412 are you sure? He didn't say the word "lesbian" a lot

I was unable to determine if this was a commentary on the current state of “popular” (or rather, UNpopular) entertainment or a commentary on the current state of Western Civilization as a whole.

@Drak976

5 ай бұрын

Yes

@CloudWalkBeta

5 ай бұрын

if it needed to cover western civilization as a whole, we'd also cover the inequality, elites doubled their worth in the last few years while most average people have fallen behind, we would cover the number of lying democrats as we found out just how much they lied to smear trump and how much they are lying to cover up their involvement and motivations to continue the conflict in Ukraine, we could also cover the crazy women ruining gyms recording their butts while calling men in these public gyms creeps, and then there is the disgusting degeneracy of only fans and twitch thots, the crypto influencer scumbags scamming their own fans endlessly, and the endless stories of women chasing bad boys only to get pumped and dumped. and most men are checking out of this trash.

@TheLachsta

4 ай бұрын

It’s not a comment on anything, you’re just a pretentious hick

@nyetzdyec3391

Ай бұрын

I know it's been 3 months, but.. Pop culture is both a reflection of the current state... and a force which influences the future.

2023 in one phrase: Weird, Weird

@Renegade-kf8fp

5 ай бұрын

Or people finally allowed to express themselves without fear of persecution

@Gyrfalcon312

5 ай бұрын

"Empowerment!"

@J4sse

5 ай бұрын

@@Renegade-kf8fp At the expense of others? not being able to to express themselves

@sba8710

5 ай бұрын

@@Renegade-kf8fpyou can’t be serious lol.

@paulw5039

5 ай бұрын

@@Renegade-kf8fp The opposite. You keep trying to cancel people for wrongthink. You're not the good guys.

In terms of Hollywood memes, "Black girl magic!" will win 2023. Also, Lizzo will be wrapped in aluminum foil and join the Fantastic Four movie as "The Silver Surf 'n Turfer'.

@blackpegasus7125

5 ай бұрын

Flawless comment😂

@mco3884

5 ай бұрын

Oh man this comment actually had me laughing out loud. Well done!

@EternalEmperorofZakuul

5 ай бұрын

That image is unclean UNCLEAAAAANNNNNNN!

@EpsiIonEagle

5 ай бұрын

Lmao 😂

@travispeterson7328

5 ай бұрын

LOL! Stunning, so brave.....

I would add "Napoleon" in which one of the most influential and charismatic men in history was turned into a sad incel.

@SP-sy5nq

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that movie was a real stinker

Japanese and Korean cinema is an oasis of nearly woke-free entertainment with substance and talent that America has lost long long ago

@bartlett2335

5 ай бұрын

this is why people like anime

@hepatus1

5 ай бұрын

Perfect! But on Netflix there are some American Cartoons that are mimicking anime in order to try to get some fans of this style. With some woke ideology,. Pathetic

@fajarkurniawan9434

5 ай бұрын

@@bartlett2335 yeah even in anime, strong female characters are written perfectly

@bartlett2335

5 ай бұрын

@@hepatus1 yeah that's disturbing but it is so bad that it is irrelevant. tons of irrelevant bad anime comes out in japan too, netflix "anime" just falls under that category.

@Buckeye_4_Life_

5 ай бұрын

Godzilla Minus One being a perfect example of this.

Congratulations for being able to narrow it down to 50 examples. The bad side of Hollywood use to be hidden, while on screen was always a mixture of great and bad movies. But there was not a consistent failure this large, and for the same ideological reason driving the disasters Hollywood had.

Did anyone else notice this Top (or should I say Bottom) 50 list was dominated by Disney, to inclde Marvel and Lucasfilm? Talk about reverse Midas syndrome -- everything Disney touches these days turns to s**t.

@hariman7727

5 ай бұрын

The House of Mouse became The Den of the Rat King, and the mask is off.

@EternalEmperorofZakuul

5 ай бұрын

I'm actually glad Disney ruined star wars

@Essdyn

4 ай бұрын

The more Disney fails, the better other studios try to outdo them

I’m starting to think that their term “toxic masculinity“ is redundant in their eyes. I believe they’d like the term masculinity to be seen as toxic on its own.

@sianais

5 ай бұрын

While all the strong, powerful, sociopaths... I mean, women they push possesses every "toxic" and "masculine" trait they claim to hate. What gets me is that a man who knows more about something trying to help a woman is him talking down to her. But these women dismiss everything before even listening because they know better and proceed to lecture or insult any man they come across. The movie or show has to stop for some insane rant. That female Loki, who was the worst part of that show, is the most recent instance of "what is she on about" and there were cheers when we finally saw her die.

@PoesRaven73

5 ай бұрын

Seems like Hollywood is awash FEMALE toxicity.

@Anotherroom

5 ай бұрын

"The phrase emphasises the worst aspects of stereotypically masculine attributes. Toxic masculinity is represented by qualities such as violence, dominance, emotional illiteracy, sexual entitlement, and hostility to femininity." Nobody cares if you're masculine or not. Just don't be a dick.

@laneneely1077

5 ай бұрын

That's the whole point.

@lucyhurst2534

4 ай бұрын

@@sianaisyou sound testerical. Calm down

basically Disney's 50 worst moments of 2023💀

@kingbaby8761

5 ай бұрын

They're really firing on all cylinders these days lol

They MURDERED The Wheel of Time (great books) But no Rings of Power or The Woman King? Those two could've filled this video on their own 😂

@cicada8981

5 ай бұрын

As hard as it to believe, both of those were last year. If this list becomes a reoccurring thing, I got a feeling RoP S2 will end up there one way or another,

@inendlesspain4724

5 ай бұрын

@@cicada8981 It's unreal how a lot of these extremely unpopular shows get a confirmed second season, and even if in some cases they get cancelled, they still tried their hardest to make it happend.

@cicada8981

5 ай бұрын

@@inendlesspain4724 I could be wrong on this, but I think many of those shows had multiple seasons set up in their contracts. I think Velma and RoP are two of those. Could be more, though. As for the ones that don't have it in the contracts and get it anyway, I honestly have no clue. Maybe you can blame companies like BlackRock for encouraging it, but who knows how many people get high off their product and trick themselves into thinking it's good.

Elon musk is absolutely right when he said, "Disney has a major content problem. Almost their entire upcoming slate is unwatchable. They are the world's biggest example of go woke go broke".

@garnet4846

5 ай бұрын

The muskrat is a diznee character itself.

@jonathanmartin3767

5 ай бұрын

That is why I don't go to the theater to watch thier movies, and I basicly hijacked disney+. Not paying for thier shit or anything brought forth by kuntleen kenedy

@alexedwards6509

5 ай бұрын

Trivia snippet. Director X used to be called Director Twitter until Elon Musk got him to change his name. And I bet you thought that Director X was a pretentious A-hole that wanted to be associated with Malcolm X

@roosetom

5 ай бұрын

broke it is..

@uglybetty8747

5 ай бұрын

He’s a woke conman clown himself

No matter what dark stuff is on Walt himself He was a creator of entertainment and I miss him

@DaMaster012

5 ай бұрын

What "dark stuff"?

@thorntonwager6750

5 ай бұрын

There is no dark stuff. The Communists invented rumors of him being an Anti-Semite because he protected his workers from them.

@user-vx6gs1ci1h

5 ай бұрын

@@DaMaster012 I mean I can’t really say now but look up dark truth of Walt disney

@Ya_Mosura

5 ай бұрын

I heard he got smeared by pinko's for being antisemitic, despite hiring Jews. Is that the worst of it?

@user-vx6gs1ci1h

5 ай бұрын

@@Ya_Mosura I sense there were more as interesting facts and not dark truths Considering people started the hate on him for creating the song of the south

It's insane how insane this year was in entertainment..reality has turned into a parody😳

Brilliant. This was way more entertaining than any movie this year. 👏🏼👏🏼

That ending almost brought me to tears

Christ, that was a tough year. Sadly I can't see 2024 getting any better.

2023 was the worst year EVER for pop culture thanks to Hollywood politics, culture wars, boomer-minded capitalism, increasing reliance on AI, and our enjoyment at seeing idiotic rich celebrities falling on their faces. This year seemed to confirm that pop culture has become a shadow of what it used to be before the pandemic hit. Pop culture might as well be running on nostalgia fumes at this point.

@Timberwolftrass

5 ай бұрын

so what you're basically saying is: "I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary." okay grandpa Abe Simpson, we getcha.

@JamesJimmaHarding

5 ай бұрын

@Timberwolftrass Why thank you, I am enlightened 🙂

@dalegallacher7074

4 ай бұрын

@@Timberwolftrass this is why Disney destroys it’s a world eater

@theofficialretardschanneld1260

4 ай бұрын

@@Timberwolftrass Not what was said at all

@Timberwolftrass

4 ай бұрын

@@theofficialretardschanneld1260 maybe but it sure as hell sounded like it

You know its a bad year when Barbie is one of the most talked about films of the year

@FrankieWilliams-kx9gp

4 ай бұрын

Barbie was accidentally good because of Ken

Only 50? That is quite generous.

I think the Mandalorian season 3 was what finally broke me. Once I saw what they were doing with giving Mando the Boba Fett treatment, I rage quit it. After season 2 of Andor, I’m not going back and I’m surprised I’ve lasted this long.

I think I would have enjoyed this video more if I wasn't rolling around on the floor laughing my ass off! Another brilliant commentary, Echo Chamberlain. I thank you.

Omg every bit of your writing for Willow was pure genius.

a hilarious year indeed 🤣

Not a word about the hollywood writers' strike and actors' strike. C'mon, the conditions which sparked the strikes were easily THE WORST of 2023.

@SpenceyWencey-tz7lp

4 ай бұрын

Facts

@1stmorgoth289

4 ай бұрын

the condition might be horrible, but since most of those failures we just saw came from said writers and actors i don´t think them striking is one of "the worst of 2023" but rather "the best of 2023"

@RokushoTheRavager

4 ай бұрын

Yea but nobody cares. They don't deserve it, they deserve to be replaced by AI since they obviously can't do their freaking jobs.

Until it flashed before my eyes, i had not fully realised the sheer depravity of what passes for popular culture in 2023.

@Thomas828

5 ай бұрын

Don't worry, it's popular culture that people in general are rejecting.

2023 should be dubbed the "Year when stars fell"

there are no movies/series/games anymore, there's only box-ticking slop. The only genuinely impressive thing I've seen lately is Ghost of Tsushima

@Renegade-kf8fp

5 ай бұрын

Watch the killer

@mr.awesome6011

5 ай бұрын

Play Nintendo games. There's more than just M rated overly serious gamer stories that have all gone woke.

@inendlesspain4724

5 ай бұрын

@@mr.awesome6011 That or some indies. It's almost 2024 and people still make as if every game that isn't AAA slop doesn't exist.

@stormy6029

5 ай бұрын

GoT is your typical Ubisoft game that everyone despises. But because of pretty colors it's the best game evarrrrr 😂😂😂

@natecollins9331

4 ай бұрын

For me it's Gran Turismo 7 and Resident Evil 4 (2023)

That was a sad but fitting ending. Is 2023 the worst year of the 21st century in entertainment?

@CloudWalkBeta

5 ай бұрын

no, and you should never ask, because they will tell you to 'hold their beer' as they prove they can and will do MUCH WORSE than this.

@BillPeschel

5 ай бұрын

Of all time.

@watt6666

4 ай бұрын

Barry? White Lotus? Succession? House of Usher? Scott Pilgrim rides again? Top Boy? Last of us? Or are you the kind who symped on video game Ellie?

@Avalon_1991

4 ай бұрын

Spiderverse is one of the only great films this year.

@chaoticallyorganizedd

4 ай бұрын

​@@watt6666lol House of Usher was pure garbage...

A sad and thorough summary of the year. Unfortunately, with Aquaman coming out next week the year isn't over.

Bless you for sitting through this garbage with us

@robynmarler1951

5 ай бұрын

Amen 🌄

I refused to watch The Little Mermaid and could have easily spent the rest of my days never having been exposed to that final scene. Then I watched this and I am scarred for life.

@atlantida2005

4 ай бұрын

I saw it. It wasn’t that bad but you aren’t missing anything

These gentle words of sense and humour stroked my tired media nerves as a metaphorical cat calmed by a soothing hand of reason until I purr. (By purr, I mean drink ❤🍸)

The hollywood leftoids know they're not talented enough to write endearing dwarf characters, so they just say it's problematic. This was fantastic, mate! well done

@Renegade-kf8fp

5 ай бұрын

Rent free

@Hey_Mister

5 ай бұрын

@@Renegade-kf8fp Says the men who just peed his pants while the entire room laughs at him.

@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805

5 ай бұрын

@@Renegade-kf8fp you used that meme wrong, friend

@Renegade-kf8fp

5 ай бұрын

@@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805 modern jam

@Renegade-kf8fp

5 ай бұрын

@@Hey_Mister lol

It's been a pretty rough year. The kind of year to drive me back to pre 2000s movies and books.

Hard to believe all that happened in one year.

The Witcher, the lead actor really, really wanted to make it. He just didnt want to stay because the show runners insisted on bastardizing the story.

American popular culture is currently in a nadir. Television, film, music, cartoons, comic books, and video games - it all absolutely sucks now.

@princewellidk

5 ай бұрын

American Popular Culture needs a lot of MAGA People to save it

@Mr.Corinthians

5 ай бұрын

@@princewellidk That's the plan. You don't realize that all of this "woke" (Marxist) propaganda is nothing more than reverse psychology to push people towards Conservativism as a means to "save society" and Make America Great Again. Another McCarthy era is coming once DJT is reinstalled in the White House. Social Justice Activists in these corporations are going to be labeled as Communist subverters, and certain groups of people (such as homosexuals) are going to be labeled as "subhuman" and unworthy of living. Basically, the US is going to become Germany 2.0 in the near future. Hegelian Dialectic: Problem, Reaction, Solution Problem: Liberals are ruining our history, creating division, promoting immorality and are destroying the economy. Reaction: We need a leader, and laws, to protect us from what the Liberals are doing to destroy this country and the West as they try to turn it into a Communist society. Solution: Remove Liberals from positions of power, authority and influence with the support of the population majority. Drain the swamp, reset things back to the way they were by any measures necessary. Unfortunately for MAGA People, this "victory" will be very short lived as it will give Russia the opportunity to once again save the World from Fascist regime. The US will be destroyed as a superpower and be reduced to a mostly smoldering radioactive wasteland. What remains will be divided by Russia, Japan and China, the latter two owning $1.1 Trillion and $859 Billion of the US debt respectively. Russia will invade from the Northeast, China and Japan from the West Coast.

Your use of the many "les" words at #32 had me rolling lol... That made this video worth sitting through KZreads 5 back to back ads, totalling over a minute, making KZread only slightly less intrusive than cable television.

Every pitch meeting for every TV show and movie for the last five years - “I’ve got a great idea for a show, it’s going to star a diverse woman, she’ll be gay,… And that’s about it “

So glad I'm gen x and grew up in the golden age of film and music. Sorry gen z.

@Dinotrex2345

4 ай бұрын

Seeing at what gen alpha got atm, I'm more worried about them in the future

Calling yourself “Director X“ is so cringe. I feel like it’s on par with some white guy calling himself “Director Billy the Kid“ or some such nonsense.

Michael Keaton as batman and Harrison ford as Indiana jones sounds great……..in 1989

Wonderful stuff Echo ty.

It's important to remember that the opposite of love is not hate but apathy. Apathy is why these films and shows are not making money. The audience just can't care enough to get angry anymore.

We also had John Wick 4, FNAF, Godzilla and One Piece so it wasn't all bad... just 99% bad

#32: That whole "lesbi--" bit was pure verbal and word-play genius! Thank you for that one little bit alone.

I love good entertainment. With that said, I watched 0% of these. I know what trash smells like.

Ending made me sad.

Wow. When you string it all together, 2023 was a red-letter year...of suck.

The trash talk is priceless!

2023. The year I stopped caring about anything new. Straight retro for me from here on out. I'm done. Tired of being burned.

For anyone that wants a list of movies that were good this year: Godzilla, Sisu, The Holdovers, Dream Scenario, Talk to Me, Oppenheimer, Gran Turismo, Super Mario Bros, Suzume (which got a US release in '23), The Whale, and Tetris are just a few that I watched this year that I did enjoy. The Holdovers is the one I'd highly recommend if you can only watch one. It's like you gotta search for good movies when you used to be able to find them very easily, but good stuff is still being made. Mostly by A24.

@blackpegasus7125

5 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Across the Spider verse, Teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem, and Thanksgiving 👌🏽

@user-zn5qm2yq9h

5 ай бұрын

I'd also add Sound of Freedom to the list. A tough watch, to be sure, but really good.

@batmanvsuperman_

5 ай бұрын

feel like I've seen the entire film from 1 Dream Scenario trailer... still worth the watch ?

@AshCosgrove

5 ай бұрын

@@batmanvsuperman_ Yeah, I think so. I see what ya mean though. It's not A24's best, but seeing Nic Cage do his thing is always a pleasure.

@batmanvsuperman_

5 ай бұрын

@@AshCosgrove is there any major plot development past "im in people's dreams"? I'm genuinely curious since i love Nic Cage

One can only hope that Disney+ gets shutdown next year. If that's what it takes to force them to stop shovelling crap at us then I say bring it on.

Sir you had my attention... and now you have my subscription 🙏

One of the best cinematic reviews I’ve seen all year-instant subscribe.

It will still take years until we will see a shift in Hollywood. Even if they now decided to make better movies, it would take at least two years until we would see that in the cinema

I only watched one film in 2023, it was Beau Is Afraid (2023) it was a masterpiece but I'm not watching anything else current, nothing will amount to the greatness of that movie.

@cattycatterson

5 ай бұрын

Same. I watched only Oppenheimer. In the theatre. Worth every penny.

@Lobosalsa9

5 ай бұрын

Godzilla minus one is fantastic. Sooooo refreshing to watch a movie with no woke agenda, with an actual story and characters to care about. And all done for 15mill$.

God bless you and your work Echo,keep up the good work 👍👍👍💙💙💙

Reverse polarity coherence. Great line.😂😂😂

What an entertaining video. I LOVE watching this woke crap get shat on! 👍

Execs just seem to sit around a table and say “hey, remember those 250 movies that pointlessly gender swapped, had to have token LGBTQ characters in, had to have token black characters in and/or pushed a characters “identity” before their, well character?” Other execs: “yes” Exec: “you know how they all flopped miserably?” Other execs: “yes” Exec: “well 251st time’s the charm muthafukas.”

@jameslazaridis4180

4 ай бұрын

CONGRATULATIONS YOUR ALL FIRED!! NOW GET OUT!!

I don't think I even watched a single new release in 2023. If you are going to worship idols you'd think they'd at least be tempting offer a something seductive but now of this shit even made me feel good to be bad.

If I have learned anything over the years, it's that if movies, comic books or video games ever let you down and are having a rough time, go find some great music. Lots of good releases this year.

@WhatAmIAStranger

5 ай бұрын

This year was so meh with music. Not as bad as the movies but still meh compared to last year

What's not surprising is that Hollywood produced 50 pieces of schlock - but that they were all so expensive, pretentious and preachy. That's why these projects have no value, not even as easy entertainment or camp. It's like watching a Chuck Norris movie but with 200 million dollars worth of colorful CGI and a diverse sidekick who wins all the battles for him and schools him on his patriarchal views. There has got to be a better way

This excellent summary is Exhibit A, that we have now, actually, finally reached peek woke in cinema & the small screen. Sure, they might continue to churn out more of this dross, but the curve has definitely cratered.

Outstanding as usual. Thanks

that ending was a masterpiece. bravo

I watched Willow (and I remember it was in 2022) and I found it ok. What bothered me the most was Elora struggling to use magic before suddenly managing to make a tree grow instead of just a plant, which would be more realistic.

Meanwhile Godzilla Minus One is killing it at the box office. That movie had a budget of 15 million and is probably one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. I'm pretty sure bad movies lately is a western, American, Hollywood problem.

@ben99ny69

5 ай бұрын

Godzilla reportably made 50 million at the box office which is less than shin godzilla. It made money due to a surprisingly low budget (which shin had even lower somehow).

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

I’d erased some of these from my mind. Thank you for reminding me

Scott Pilgrim is the pinnacle of “awkward teenage boy protagonist”. How is he “toxic”?

@luniz4209

5 ай бұрын

he's a straight male

@fajarkurniawan9434

5 ай бұрын

@@luniz4209 straight white male

@jaydenlopez3636

5 ай бұрын

​​@@fajarkurniawan9434no it's because he dated and emotionally abused a 17 year old girl he treats his friends like shit he is lazy he is a pussy he doesn't take responsibility for his actions he is immature and selfish need any more

@OrangePikmin-cv9ui

5 ай бұрын

@@fajarkurniawan9434 straight white cisgender enabled male

@jaydenlopez3636

5 ай бұрын

Buddy I feel like you only watch the movie and if you haven't read the comics yet I recommend you read them it show why you people call him toxic(which he is)

One that animatedly hate is what they did to Davros He was evil and wanted nothing but to have his people the kaleds to be the master race of existence Universe once but evolved to existence

Its indoctrination and mind control, not entertainment.🤐🍻

Bravo bravo! Round of Applause and standing ovation fantastic video and the Oscar goes to Echo Chamberlain for the best video deconstruction of Hollywood in 2023

are there any decent movies from 2023 whatsoever?

@mabusestestament

5 ай бұрын

Godzilla Minus One

@watch-Dominion-2018

5 ай бұрын

heard mixed things about that, some loved it, others said it was the same rinse-repeat Godzilla@@mabusestestament

@AshCosgrove

5 ай бұрын

Godzilla, Sisu, The Holdovers, Dream Scenario, Talk to Me, Oppenheimer, Gran Turismo, Super Mario Bros, Suzume (which got a US release in '23), The Whale, and Tetris are just a few that I watched this year that I did enjoy. The Holdovers is the one I'd highly recommend if you can only watch one. It's like you gotta search for good movies when you used to be able to find them very easily, but good stuff is still being made. Mostly by A24.

@watch-Dominion-2018

5 ай бұрын

​@@AshCosgrovemeh, those are all average imo, compared to the gold from the 2000s & 90s

@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat

5 ай бұрын

Sound of Freedom, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant & The Equalizer 3. Everything else I saw that was even tolerable was still over indulgent tripe that squandered any potentially resonant enthrallment by just being tedious and too pleased with its superfluously histrionic doldrums to bother editing down to something pointedly sharp.

I am highly confused, which is it? Do we want to escape into a world that is mind numbing or do we simply not want to be lectured? Because I feel that there is no winning anymore within the entertainment industry. Yes I do agree that the writing has definitely been sub par - to put it lightly, so how can Hollywood turn this ship around? Great stories always seem to ask the individual a deep moralistic question artistically crafted within the story. It is evident that is missing. However when I hear people say "stop lecturing me, I just want to be entertained" I feel that then leads to the mind numbing theme park movies Scorsese was talking about, yes people care for these characters because either they are fans of their source material, but also because they were well crafted/written characters. Nowadays the characters identity is their defining characteristics which is such a shame. I say bring back the skilled writers because these activists don't know how to write compelling stories and characters without addressing their own agendas as the be all end all. Therefore sacrificing both the story and the character.

@runoke

5 ай бұрын

Incredibly simple. Stop giving jobs to people for quota reasons. Script writing is the toughest artistic job to do right, and the easiest to pretend to do. So it is currently occupied by people who's only quality is their social disability. Healing won't be immediate, because you will need smart and talented people to believe that they would be able to contend on the job market without having 50 shades of genetic parentage or sexual attraction to fat vegan lizards. But it will happen in a generation.

@Timberwolftrass

5 ай бұрын

a lot of people are watching movies nowadays because they are looking for something they consider "woke" so that they can be angry about it and you can't win with people like that. no matter what you do or how hard you try, these people will always find something that is "woke" and complain about it because that is what they want.

@Amcor09

4 ай бұрын

Maybe they won't turn it around. Everything ends eventually.

@rachelclark6393

4 ай бұрын

I think you hit on something that makes a big difference - the writers are often writing lectures on issues they are concerned about in real life. Not issues it makes sense for characters to be worried about in their world. And they tell, and rarely show. You don't feel like you're watching an exploration of an issue that exists in that world but also happens to relate to the real world. You feel like the writers hijacked the script to shout at you about their childhood trauma. There's a little room for writing an issue into a movie or show that is really only an issue in the real world. But only a little.

@tshepomaesela6045

4 ай бұрын

@@rachelclark6393 I Like what you said about how these writers hijack the characters to address their own "real world issues". Which I feel then hampers both the story and the character. However I fear that this will only lead them to double down on addressing these issues as that's all they care about. These writers are incapable of creating their own original story/content, as that will require talent to engage and interest an audience. Therefore they will continue to hijack already well-known IP's with a baked in audience to lecture towards. They clearly don't like the audience and take great pleasure in ruining their once beloved IP - which is very despicable. I am however not against talented writers crafting an interesting story which will address "real world issues", in their own original story. Nevertheless we know these big studios won't take such huge risks on original content because all they care about is turning a profit and ESG scores. If 2023 hasn't proven how abysmal the box office performances have been, I guess nothing will change. I am just a simple man asking for good storytelling, how difficult can it be? It seems with the current climate - the answer is very difficult.

Thank you for illustrating the reason why I no longer go to the cinema and don't use streaming services.

This is hilarious. It's like a speed round of Hollywood roasting.

Even if there was a lot of bad stuff this year, there were still some great films that came out. Oppenheimer, Barbie, Across the Spiderverse, Guardians Of The Galaxy vol 3, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

@YasminSilva-bz4ch

5 ай бұрын

everyone forgets Transformers

I actually enjoyed blue beetle. It even made me cry. The only annoying thing was the race jabs. They were unnecessary and made me gag a couple of times.

This is the first video of yours I have seen and subbed. Your descriptions of Billie Eilish are spot on.

Congratulations on the brilliantly placed Fry & Laurie reference!

@EchoChamberlain

5 ай бұрын

Congrats on picking it up.

The sarcasm in this video is just amazing.

2:38 "multiple kangs in the stadium"😂😂😂

Just 50 doesn't do 2023 justice.

Walt would be spinning in his apocryphal thermos!

As a war plane enthusiast, I appreciate you specifying the bomber being a Heinkel in the Indiana jones part 😂

What a year! What a wonderful year!!!

The amount of work that must go into these… great work. Although your description of willow almost made me want to watch it.

2:50 Great catch EC! This is why I love this channel

Perfectly concise, keep up the good works sir.

I think this is probably a turning point. I don’t see it getting much worse for much longer

2023 was the year that i only went to the cinema just once back in the day I'd go at least twice a month.

I still can’t believe a project was so bad that it got a 1% audience score. 1 FREAKING PERCENT!