"The stakes aren't that high, but they are personal" Good personal stakes are harder to write and work so much better. Especially when they're relatable - self respect, family connections, etc. Hell, all the best "big stakes" come attached to good personal stakes, and it's usually the latter that makes them work.

@LPTheGas

7 ай бұрын

>Hell, all the best "big stakes" come attached to good personal stakes, and it's usually the latter that makes them work. I think you just described what, more than anything else, elevates the Guardians of the Galaxy movies above the rest of the MCU.

Jeffrey Wright is an absolute talent. Every production he's in is elevated by his presence.

@Getwright-

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely! Hes been amazing for years, in a dozen different types of roles. From “Shaft” to “the Batman”

@AndrewMcColl

7 ай бұрын

You could say 'Jeffrey is always the... Wright choice.' ;)

@mitchm4992

7 ай бұрын

He's one of those rare actors where, every time he's been in something I didn't like, it's because the media failed him and not the other way around.

@JamesNettum

7 ай бұрын

Even Venture Brothers was improved by Jeffrey Wright. Perfect voice for Think Tank.

@pinkgregory4365

7 ай бұрын

hadn't seen him before but caught him in the final third of the otherwise uneven the French Dispatch. Incredible voice he has.

My buddy and I saw this on an early release mystery movie. We howled laughing, and we pondered society, and we had a grand ol time.

It is interesting to see a film like this embrace the idea that what it’s presenting isn’t necessarily new to anyone and instead tries to delve deeper past the surface level comedy of it all. It’ll be really interesting to see what films about race will be like a decade from now.

1:21 - 1:40 You know, I'd like to see an episode of The Big Picture where Bob goes over the decline in quality in South Park, or at the very least, how South Park went from being a sharply written edgy satire to just making the same tired "anti-woke" jokes most right-leaning comedians do (while still trying to pretend it's not picking a side, because Heaven forbid, you actually stand for anything).

@Cleanmybass

7 ай бұрын

Imagined writer room pitch. Hear me out, what if "Hollywood" rebooted Soul Man but the races were reversed! What then!?!?

@ValkyrieTiara

7 ай бұрын

Honestly sounds more like a job for Super Eyepatch Wolf or JD Signifier.

@redbigun

7 ай бұрын

Something tells me you haven't watched the show in a while and you're upset about your side being the target because lord forbid you mock either side of this embarrassing culture war. I only make this assumption because I don't know how you say any of this after how hard they were mocking anti-vaxers a year ago.

@jormundgandr88

5 ай бұрын

Nah South Park holds true

I love Jeffrey Wright. I feel he still hasn't been given that one, big, career-defining role he deserves.

My husband and I just left the theater. We really enjoyed this film and chuckled throughout. I grew up in the “hood” while my husband grew up middle class. This movie hits on so many topics black people discuss as far as working in corporate America, relating to other black people, being American and black and what it means to be “successful”.

This sounds ideal - I am very much in the mood for a smart movie that's confident in it's storytelling to not turn the emotional volume up too loud.

Whoa. Sounds like Bob really dug American Fiction. He's absolutely correct this movie is getting NO promotion. I haven't seen a single, blessed commercial for it. I'm going to have to go out and find it on my own!

Percival Everett is a true awesome american satirist, i'd recommend anyone who is interested in this movie, to check what he wrote.

@Garrus234

7 ай бұрын

I was coming here to say this lol

Saw a preview screening of American Fiction a few weeks ago. I hadn't heard of it, and had no idea what to expect. I absolutely loved it.

Oh wow. I didn't think I'd see a movie touch upon black people who aren't of the "urban black culture"

You had me at "Is Kinda Like 'The Producers' Or 'Bamboozled.'"

This, along with Godilla: Minus One, Emma Stone's Poor Things, and, to a lesser degree, Zac Efron's The Iron Claw, have managed to salvage an otherwise dismal holiday movie season.

@jinpei05

7 ай бұрын

@@DigeeTheGenie considering how abysmal November was, it broke even at best

I hope this gets recognition, it sounds neat! Still remember back when Bob told of how the green book won an Oscar precisely for being a movie about race that had a comfortable perspective for the high minded but in it's own way bigoted audience. Made me think, and wonder about where tolerance ends and trancends into proper understanding. I dont want to tolerate, it sounds like I must give permission to folks to be around. I dont know a good english word for just accepting us all.

Been loving the recent regular cadence of movie reviews. They're always my favourite thing of yours to watch, to put me onto films that I might have otherwise missed!

it sounds like what LadyBallers should have been, if DailyWire wanted to preach to anyone but the choir.

I saw the poster for this at the tiny indie theater in my parents' town. I was already inclined to see it because Jeffrey Wright, but it also sounds like a movie they would like!

This is why I like moviebob. I never would have heard of this movie without this video

We need more smaller movies with heart. I'm down for this.

Awesome to hear this is a gem I'll check it out. And for anyone interested in the subject matter, I highly recommend Spike Lee's Bamboozled as well. Similar arc but within the film & TV medium.

I remember there was a Family Guy episode about Brian that sounds like this I wonder if that episode was inspired by the Erasure novel because it reminds me of that mixed with "Kevin can f**k himself" as how you describe it.

Sounds like this would make for a decent double-bill with Sorry To Bother You. Although I'm not sure if it should play first or second, haha.

@jinpei05

7 ай бұрын

Actually, Sorry to Bother You pairs perfectly with Blindspotting.

@fwjlooman

7 ай бұрын

Definitely first, so you can set the expectation that Sorry To Bother You is anything other than completely unhinged

You are an expert reviewer. Truly.

@nickjones9867

7 ай бұрын

Regardless if you agree with him or not on his opinion or any other thing we're meant to be outraged by like political leanings, Bob really does do some of the best reviews around

Just saw this, absolutely agree. Jeffrey Wright is so good in this role, it honestly makes me want to see more movies about this character, not that that would ever happen unfortunately.

This hasn’t gotten the buzz it deserves.

Speaking of American Fiction my favourite Great American Novel is The Winter of Our Discontent. This movie sounds the sort of thing I dig into with both hands. Never heard of it till your review of it so Thank you for that 😎☕💋

I love Jeffrey Wright! I wasn't even aware that this film existed, but I'm interested.

I really do love a good, small story.

It isn't playing in my town (Portland, Oregon) until January and even then it's playing in one independent theater

Great movie, didn't help that Amazon did a limited theatre release

The trailer for this movie was very deceptive, but in this case, there was an even better movie beyond the trailers. The trailer only focuses on the comedy.

Good movie, thoughtful, thought provoking, recommend tracking it down

Very interesting note, but I think we're burnt out from all the yelling and crying and attention anticipation, but reminded me of the core of soul of him sorta rebelling against his unrealized potential, compounded by him being a black man. It's like, A: "Excuse me, what do you say you'd like to buy? B: Dumb and 'Authority' Deaderer 2?"

I think this is going to one of the streaming services, but I think I'll try and check it out in theaters. Thanks Bob.

7:37 We’ll, I’m on board seeing this movie now thanks to you Bob😉.

They’re apparently opening this at the theater i work at

I saw trailers for this, but I didn't know it was released and it's now gone

Does "get these out of the way" mean you're going back to the scripted and tightly edited format we love you for? Because it's definitely better

I really enjoyed it but the trailers are very deceptive and only show half the plot

"Befrauded"? Not saying it's NOT a word, just that I've never heard it before. I guess you can add the prefix "be" to any verb you want. Interesting choice and I like it!

Cool, sounds like something I could get into.

Sounds like a great little movie!

This sounds really interesting

Nice!

Well, that sounds interesting.

Fuckin see this movie yall

man this sounds good

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Sounds like my sorta film!

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The joke goes a layer deeper, cuz this film is just a way of sneaking that "black man has to pretend to be from the streets" in front of the snooty woke liberals who would normally turn their nose up at it.

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Neat

When it comes crashing down and it hurts inside... 🎶💪🇺🇸

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I'll watch this movie if I need a nap.

1:20 To say South Park is talentless is a very dumb thing to say.

@Grogeous_Maximus

4 ай бұрын

And what do you base that argument on?

@tom9841

4 ай бұрын

@@Grogeous_Maximus Based on the fact that it's been going on for years.

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I agree that wokeness gets talked about too much but to be fair to South Park, from what I heard in their Panderverse special they make fun of people who rely on complaining about wokeness to make money.

@jordanloux3883

6 ай бұрын

And they're all doing exactly that without a drop of irony. Like how Logan Paul shot-for-shot copied South Park's parody of PRIME commercial.

Saying South Park is untalented and on the same level as Daily Wire, lol

You just dont get south park

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This movie seems too political for my taste.

AAVE? Just say poor english bro

I don't think your opinion on South Park being anti-woke is very well informed. I recommend the video essay analysis of their "Panderverse" special by KZreadr "Johnny 2 Cellos". Just because the right is quoting words of Eric Cartman, doesn't mean that is the stand or lesson of that episode. Cartman is their surrogate for right wing hatred. But whenever did an episode/ special end with the conclusion that Cartman's stupid opinions and fears are correct and should be taken as the moral of the story? Never. You should give the recent season and specials a chance. The show is currently on a real high, with really smart and well-written stories. They hate culture war as much as you do, and give their anti-woke characters as much come-upons as their ultra-woke characters. (Even much more though.) It's not their fault if people only quote stupid-on-purpose characters and then ignore the lesson of the story where that character gets shown the mirror and a dose of reality.

@tom9841

7 ай бұрын

Yes, his take was awful

@arubinojr5670

7 ай бұрын

To be fair you have to have a very high IQ to ... ... ...

@fabiangamboa1714

7 ай бұрын

I mean fair point, but I feel they haven't done enough. Look they've gotten better, the Panderverse thing was more of a bait and switch in the end and they did eat crow on climate change. But they Haven't done the same about trans people for example and that was after mining a ton of transphobic comedy out of Garrison.

@ataraxia7439

7 ай бұрын

I do want to revisit South Park someday. This will sound harsh but I expect it’s just kind of beyond any two ppls capacity to have good takes on a wide range of social & other typed issues for multiple decades with out being wrong in some serious ways so it feels like something like South Park just can’t escape being really wrong and off at some point you know? As long as they get to enjoy being creative I’m happy for them though.

@wwaxwork

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but if you make a show and the right wing don't get it's satire and think it's for them, is it satire? South Park all too often now a days just ends up sounding like that guy when you call him out on his hatred goes "But I'm only joking."

The irony of Bob denying that Woke is a thing while absolutely _writhing_ to check his privilege is astounding. But hypocrisy is nothing against the force of being ratioed on twitter, so what does it matter.

@Bakerofish

7 ай бұрын

which woke? actual woke as in socially aware or the woke that has become a boogeyman for stagnant bigots?

@jordanloux3883

7 ай бұрын

@@Bakerofish Woke as in "I don't want to understand how pronouns work and you can't make me because i'm scared of change."

@Bakerofish

7 ай бұрын

@@jordanloux3883 ah that. Well that exists. It's STUPID but it exists sadly

@jordanloux3883

7 ай бұрын

@@Bakerofish Yeah. Probably another guy who's got crippling depression and fell down the right-wing rabbit hole and now will never be happy again.

@jinpei05

7 ай бұрын

Woke isn't a thing. Ask 100 people who use the term unironically to define it and you'll get 100 different answers that are varying degrees of ignorant and stupid.

No Racism/offense intended but that character looks just like you if you were 100lb lighter and black.

@ataraxia7439

7 ай бұрын

Oh lol I can see it now. Dopplegangers