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That was the magic of the 90's nobody understood shit so you could just yap and no one really cared
@jasonwheeler826Күн бұрын
Coming next from Russell Crowe: "The Pope's Exorcist's Exorcist".
@Dim4323Күн бұрын
This was his last one, and he missed it 6 years.
@MentalLiberationКүн бұрын
Wimmer and Ayer and Statham. To be fair, it probably shouldn't have worked the way it did. But then I remembered that wimmer and ayer were Writer/Director together in Street Kings. So, it can be pulled off. Then I remembered that Street Kings was also written by Ayer fresh after Training Day, so.... thanks for the help?
@danielhooperofficial2 күн бұрын
I prefer "There's Something About Mary" instead 😊
@davemac95632 күн бұрын
I can’t hate this film. When I saw it, my friends and I had so much fun laughing at how dumb it is and how funny the characters are at not behaving like actual humans, it was beautiful. I’ll always be grateful for this stupid stupid movie
@stephendexheimer79142 күн бұрын
Beverly Hills Cop 4 is finally out and it makes fun of this movie with Joseph Gordon Levitt saying it wasn’t Axel’s finest hour
@trevingrayek16712 күн бұрын
Can confirm Final Girls is pretty decent. Shame this doesn’t have the same quality
@GamingtheOtter2 күн бұрын
Todd In The Shadows actually appeared on another channel!?!? 😮 Impressive!
@FilmBrain2 күн бұрын
Twice, this was our second crossover after Sunday School Musical. We also did a podcast on Glass together.
@Dim43233 күн бұрын
Yeah its like the director of this movie never watch any of the previous die hard movies and John Mcclaine in this version is a total Beep, and simpy i see no trace of him, give die hard 4.0 credit at least he was all mclaine.
@raspberry_lemonade3 күн бұрын
I have ADHD and take medication for it. From my experiences on adhd meds, alcohol makes you sleepy, not crazy and rambunctious
@carsonpeterson7583 күн бұрын
Do you like the Michael bay films the island and 13 hours and transformers 2007.
@mesousagaby7404 күн бұрын
Breaking news: Brad Pitt's gonna redo this kind of movie with F1. Sylvester Stallone was rejected for being too old being in the early 50's. Brad Pitt was reaching 60 when he made the F1 movie.
@masterseal04184 күн бұрын
I hope we'd get the return of Bad Movie Breakdown. Loved that series a lot!
@TheNinjaMarmot4 күн бұрын
I thought this was a sequel to the Pope's Exorcist. LoL
@OvercookedOctopusFeet4 күн бұрын
I actually thought these two Crowe films were the same film just titled slightly differently for different regions/countries. Absolutely terrible idea to market them so similarly in style and release, just my opinion 🤷
@jamesatkinsonja3 күн бұрын
Given 'The Pope's Exorcist' made $77 million on a $18 million budget, I actually don't blame the filmmakers to 'piggy back' off it to get a similar audience [maybe making people think this is a follow up], especially given the troubled production on the film even if that's hardly honest.
@heymistercarter.4 күн бұрын
It's interesting how you mentioned that they're essentially remaking The Exorcist, and there's the angle of showing the film from the perspective of someone who has a parent in the public eye. The director of this film, Joshua John Miller, is the son of Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras in the original Exorcist (and sorta reprised the role in the third film). Miller Sr. had sort of a mixed film career after his turn in the original Exorcist, sticking more to theatre work before his death from a heart attack at age 62. Part of me wonders if Miller Jr. drew some inspiration from his own life in this movie.
@otaking35824 күн бұрын
"The Exorcism" sounds like a mockbuster title.
@lavaughntowell77574 күн бұрын
The original premiise seemed promising, especially as the director is the son of Jason Miller from the original movie, and the addiction elements and estranged relationship were true aspects of that premise. Adding the production issues on the original movie, the supposed "curse," and it could have been a way to tell a personal story while being an allegory for how difficult filmmaking really is. I don't iknow but I'm hoping just like with The Snowman, the director ironically had studio interference affect his production and that he couldn't do everything he wanted and was not granted time and money enough to fix it on his own, leading to this mess.
@masterseal04184 күн бұрын
Talk about wasted potential!
@naplockblubba53694 күн бұрын
I saw a thumbnail for a video reviewing this movie recently and I genuinely thought it was about the original because it's literally one letter off
@sephirothii134 күн бұрын
I enjoyed this review as I have for years. Thank you for doing it as always it is informing and entertaining
@jamesatkinsonja4 күн бұрын
Is this the start of an annual 'Russell Crowe in an exorcism' film tradition? Seriously, I'd love him to do something like 'The nice guys' again.
@mrflipperinvader79224 күн бұрын
I've never hated a title change for a movie so much before
@gokidd22424 күн бұрын
I watched this last night literally up to the point when you said tou would have walked out. 😂. I ran 🏃♂️ straight to youtube just to hear people tear this "film" apart 😂😂😂
@ExplorerDS67894 күн бұрын
You know it's a poorly written movie when the supposed villain actually SAVES the earth.
@leemcdonald13424 күн бұрын
There's just something about Matthew yelling "Absinthe" that gets to me.
@r.a.r.19815 күн бұрын
What is it with Russell Crowe and exorcism movies? Anyway, thanks for the new Projector review. I'm having a rough time, and it's like a reward after a hard day. Makes me feel just a tiny bit better.
@andrecarpenter24324 күн бұрын
Hope you have an easier time soon. Have a good day
@FilmBrain5 күн бұрын
Sorry for the spotty uploads of late, hope this video makes up for that somewhat. This is the first full video to feature the new lens I bought recently, and I think there is a big improvement. If you've been distracted the background pulsing in some of my videos (focus breathing), that appears to have been almost totally eliminated.
@jamesatkinsonja4 күн бұрын
No worries. It's always a delight to see an upload from you.
@jameslangley21964 күн бұрын
Been watching you for years, whatever you put in is good.
@TMC1982Part25 күн бұрын
24:14: I really don't think that its fair to blame Steven E. de Suza and his script for a lion's share of the problems with "Beverly Hills Cop III" because what he had originally written wasn't in the finished product. And if you don't believe me, I would advise you to check out an interview that Steven E. de Zuza did here on KZread entitled "UNFINISHED BUSINESS INTERVIEW - Steven E. de Souza 2 (Street Fighter, Beverly Hills Cop III, & more)" from the channel UnfinishedB1. Like I said, the original draft that de Zuza wrote from July 1992 was absolutely different than the on that was in the final product. This particular draft actually had John Ashton's Taggert in it and it would've focused on Axel Foley taking his niece to the WonderWorld theme park. The climax would've had Axel in an old south setting at WonderWorld, where all of these clichés and racist tropes would've been blown up. Also, Orrin Sanderson, the John Saxon character, would've been the main villain in de Suza's original draft. Keep in mind that according to de Zuza, Eddie Murphy himself, loved his original draft, which was going to be a whole mockery on the Disney culture. The Uncle Dave character was originally intended to go to Dick Van Dyke, who rejected it because how found the idea of playing a pastiche of Walt Disney, who knew and worked with in real life, to be disrespectful and insulting.
@FilmBrain5 күн бұрын
It should be noted this is a very, very old review from 2009, so this pre-dates that.
@realityrepp4735 күн бұрын
WEAKEST GANG EVER. WORST WIFE/MOTHER EVER. TRASH "N WORD" USAGE. OF COURSE BLACK GUY DIES IMMEDIATELY. JUST A WEIRD, FORCED MOVIE.
@Rabbitlord1085 күн бұрын
I don't understand why they didn't shoot Bigfoot when he went to try and attack them.
@zoso7196 күн бұрын
A remarkable take on an adult and childhood favourite. Well up just seeing Del alone waiting on nothing. Thanks for your effort.
@thesentinel15786 күн бұрын
Watched the movie yesterday. This entire review was basically on the money!
@clownpenisfart6 күн бұрын
If less is moor, imagine how much moor moor is.
@jamesatkinsonja6 күн бұрын
I think I only appreciated how varied a career Bernard Hill had after his passing [I mostly remembered him from 'Boys from the Black Stuff]. Good so see him in a film one last time.
@jamesatkinsonja6 күн бұрын
Nearly 2 hours is far too long for this sort of film when 80-90 is ideal [similar to comedies when those Apatow films would feel really baggy at over 2 hours].
@jamesatkinsonja6 күн бұрын
Nice to see another short
@WillboeBagins6 күн бұрын
"Face of melinda with blacken hair"
@alienboy13226 күн бұрын
Less is moor. Haha. I see what you did there.
@FilmBrain6 күн бұрын
Is this a quiet debut of my new lens? Yep! (Also, I processed my audio differently here, so let me know what you think.)
@thundertits7 күн бұрын
I remember when the trailer came out I went to tell my dad I told him "Hey you know Independence Day?" His eyes lit up he was engaged and let out an energetic "Yeah?" then I told him that they're making a sequel and all the life all the life and interest faded from his face and he just went "oh" and went back to reading the newspaper
@mr.joshua2047 күн бұрын
..the first lawnmower man was great. But part 2 was fuckinghorrible
@kaliver5178 күн бұрын
I think Dementus's incompetence has been a little oversold. He's fairly efficient at leading small groups, taking over enemy motorcycle gangs and attracting followers. He rolls up to the Citadel with like a thousand bikers. He knew Joe would kill him if he showed up at their original meet so he sets up a contigency plan. Later, he lures the Bullet Farm leader out to the Citadel by arranging a fake meeting, so he briefly has control over two of the three fortresses. Yeah, he's pretty shit at organization and management (do we even know if the riots at Gastown were real or were they faked to draw out a meeting?), but if he had someone to manage the day-to-day and prevent uprisings, he's one Praetorian Jack and Furiosa away from having immense leverage against the Citadel and may end up having all 3. Despite clearly hating what he's become. Yeah, we see him fail ultimately but the idea he's some circus clown is I think a little unfair.
@bthsr71138 күн бұрын
What's really frustrating is that of the typical kinds of organizations for action flicks, law enforcement is the most likely to have nonlethal equipment, and there could be some really distinct fight scenes if you leaned into the narratively established need to incapacitate instead of kill.
@KOOPAS12349 күн бұрын
18:53 still better CGI than Horrid Henry: The Movie
@theweysermanisback520510 күн бұрын
15:31 He passed creepy a long time ago, reused in a clip compilation from Atop the Fourth Wall's 300th episode: Holy Terror.
@user-dr2yz8um3d11 күн бұрын
Moonraker is 45 years old! Made $210.3 million on a $30 million budget being the highest grossing film of the bond series at that point even getting an Oscar nomination for best visual effects Also the first time the space shuttle was shown to audiences This has all the cool action mainly an all practical opening that involves free fall, a cable car fight without any safety harnesses, a speed rocket simulation sequence that's quite suspenseful, a brilliant score by John Barry, a wonderful theme song by Shirley Bassey, and beautiful locations from France to Italy to the Amazon The late Michael Lonsdale as Drax makes for a deliciously slimy villain, Lois Chiles as Goodhead is also a very capable Bond girl being sly able to resist Bond's charms being progressive (Moore looks very comfortable on screen despite their lack of chemistry) and the movie still holds the record for the most wire work ever used on film next to the most use of breakable glass Its also great to see fan favorite Jaws back again by the late Richard Kiel even if he gets the Mandela Effect so to speak with him finding a love interest Plenty of lush sets by Ken Adam as well as beautiful photography thanks to Albert R. Broccoli's team clearly showing every penny of it There's even one portion where one of the Bond girls faces a horrific death almost like out of a dark fairy tale The climax in outer space is very exciting too being an gravity free battle The film has been criticized for its over reliance on gadgets; for some it'll be a distraction but again director Lewis Gilbert is having fun with the concept despite all the over-the-top moments, even Moore expressed his made fun of the plot's absurdity Heck Austin Powers would parody a lot of this decades later not to mention the MCU's Black Widow lifts a few influences It has fun with itself while also poking at the casual sexism of women in the space workforce Drax is obsessed with the conquest of space so he has a plan do establish a human colony as a flawless perfect race with no genetic flaws even down to using poison gas in small containers on Earth This does tie into our own fascination with reaching the stars given what happened with the moon landing and Sputnik A lot of preposterous campy fun to be had here thanks to this script by Christopher Woods even if it deviates heavily from the book Yet it did take substantial risks in storytelling remaining relevant in the cultural landscape being fun escapism
@kevinwhelan960712 күн бұрын
Perhaps 'Blackbird's' original title was 'Hubris'.
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That was the magic of the 90's nobody understood shit so you could just yap and no one really cared
Coming next from Russell Crowe: "The Pope's Exorcist's Exorcist".
This was his last one, and he missed it 6 years.
Wimmer and Ayer and Statham. To be fair, it probably shouldn't have worked the way it did. But then I remembered that wimmer and ayer were Writer/Director together in Street Kings. So, it can be pulled off. Then I remembered that Street Kings was also written by Ayer fresh after Training Day, so.... thanks for the help?
I prefer "There's Something About Mary" instead 😊
I can’t hate this film. When I saw it, my friends and I had so much fun laughing at how dumb it is and how funny the characters are at not behaving like actual humans, it was beautiful. I’ll always be grateful for this stupid stupid movie
Beverly Hills Cop 4 is finally out and it makes fun of this movie with Joseph Gordon Levitt saying it wasn’t Axel’s finest hour
Can confirm Final Girls is pretty decent. Shame this doesn’t have the same quality
Todd In The Shadows actually appeared on another channel!?!? 😮 Impressive!
Twice, this was our second crossover after Sunday School Musical. We also did a podcast on Glass together.
Yeah its like the director of this movie never watch any of the previous die hard movies and John Mcclaine in this version is a total Beep, and simpy i see no trace of him, give die hard 4.0 credit at least he was all mclaine.
I have ADHD and take medication for it. From my experiences on adhd meds, alcohol makes you sleepy, not crazy and rambunctious
Do you like the Michael bay films the island and 13 hours and transformers 2007.
Breaking news: Brad Pitt's gonna redo this kind of movie with F1. Sylvester Stallone was rejected for being too old being in the early 50's. Brad Pitt was reaching 60 when he made the F1 movie.
I hope we'd get the return of Bad Movie Breakdown. Loved that series a lot!
I thought this was a sequel to the Pope's Exorcist. LoL
I actually thought these two Crowe films were the same film just titled slightly differently for different regions/countries. Absolutely terrible idea to market them so similarly in style and release, just my opinion 🤷
Given 'The Pope's Exorcist' made $77 million on a $18 million budget, I actually don't blame the filmmakers to 'piggy back' off it to get a similar audience [maybe making people think this is a follow up], especially given the troubled production on the film even if that's hardly honest.
It's interesting how you mentioned that they're essentially remaking The Exorcist, and there's the angle of showing the film from the perspective of someone who has a parent in the public eye. The director of this film, Joshua John Miller, is the son of Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras in the original Exorcist (and sorta reprised the role in the third film). Miller Sr. had sort of a mixed film career after his turn in the original Exorcist, sticking more to theatre work before his death from a heart attack at age 62. Part of me wonders if Miller Jr. drew some inspiration from his own life in this movie.
"The Exorcism" sounds like a mockbuster title.
The original premiise seemed promising, especially as the director is the son of Jason Miller from the original movie, and the addiction elements and estranged relationship were true aspects of that premise. Adding the production issues on the original movie, the supposed "curse," and it could have been a way to tell a personal story while being an allegory for how difficult filmmaking really is. I don't iknow but I'm hoping just like with The Snowman, the director ironically had studio interference affect his production and that he couldn't do everything he wanted and was not granted time and money enough to fix it on his own, leading to this mess.
Talk about wasted potential!
I saw a thumbnail for a video reviewing this movie recently and I genuinely thought it was about the original because it's literally one letter off
I enjoyed this review as I have for years. Thank you for doing it as always it is informing and entertaining
Is this the start of an annual 'Russell Crowe in an exorcism' film tradition? Seriously, I'd love him to do something like 'The nice guys' again.
I've never hated a title change for a movie so much before
I watched this last night literally up to the point when you said tou would have walked out. 😂. I ran 🏃♂️ straight to youtube just to hear people tear this "film" apart 😂😂😂
You know it's a poorly written movie when the supposed villain actually SAVES the earth.
There's just something about Matthew yelling "Absinthe" that gets to me.
What is it with Russell Crowe and exorcism movies? Anyway, thanks for the new Projector review. I'm having a rough time, and it's like a reward after a hard day. Makes me feel just a tiny bit better.
Hope you have an easier time soon. Have a good day
Sorry for the spotty uploads of late, hope this video makes up for that somewhat. This is the first full video to feature the new lens I bought recently, and I think there is a big improvement. If you've been distracted the background pulsing in some of my videos (focus breathing), that appears to have been almost totally eliminated.
No worries. It's always a delight to see an upload from you.
Been watching you for years, whatever you put in is good.
24:14: I really don't think that its fair to blame Steven E. de Suza and his script for a lion's share of the problems with "Beverly Hills Cop III" because what he had originally written wasn't in the finished product. And if you don't believe me, I would advise you to check out an interview that Steven E. de Zuza did here on KZread entitled "UNFINISHED BUSINESS INTERVIEW - Steven E. de Souza 2 (Street Fighter, Beverly Hills Cop III, & more)" from the channel UnfinishedB1. Like I said, the original draft that de Zuza wrote from July 1992 was absolutely different than the on that was in the final product. This particular draft actually had John Ashton's Taggert in it and it would've focused on Axel Foley taking his niece to the WonderWorld theme park. The climax would've had Axel in an old south setting at WonderWorld, where all of these clichés and racist tropes would've been blown up. Also, Orrin Sanderson, the John Saxon character, would've been the main villain in de Suza's original draft. Keep in mind that according to de Zuza, Eddie Murphy himself, loved his original draft, which was going to be a whole mockery on the Disney culture. The Uncle Dave character was originally intended to go to Dick Van Dyke, who rejected it because how found the idea of playing a pastiche of Walt Disney, who knew and worked with in real life, to be disrespectful and insulting.
It should be noted this is a very, very old review from 2009, so this pre-dates that.
WEAKEST GANG EVER. WORST WIFE/MOTHER EVER. TRASH "N WORD" USAGE. OF COURSE BLACK GUY DIES IMMEDIATELY. JUST A WEIRD, FORCED MOVIE.
I don't understand why they didn't shoot Bigfoot when he went to try and attack them.
A remarkable take on an adult and childhood favourite. Well up just seeing Del alone waiting on nothing. Thanks for your effort.
Watched the movie yesterday. This entire review was basically on the money!
If less is moor, imagine how much moor moor is.
I think I only appreciated how varied a career Bernard Hill had after his passing [I mostly remembered him from 'Boys from the Black Stuff]. Good so see him in a film one last time.
Nearly 2 hours is far too long for this sort of film when 80-90 is ideal [similar to comedies when those Apatow films would feel really baggy at over 2 hours].
Nice to see another short
"Face of melinda with blacken hair"
Less is moor. Haha. I see what you did there.
Is this a quiet debut of my new lens? Yep! (Also, I processed my audio differently here, so let me know what you think.)
I remember when the trailer came out I went to tell my dad I told him "Hey you know Independence Day?" His eyes lit up he was engaged and let out an energetic "Yeah?" then I told him that they're making a sequel and all the life all the life and interest faded from his face and he just went "oh" and went back to reading the newspaper
..the first lawnmower man was great. But part 2 was fuckinghorrible
I think Dementus's incompetence has been a little oversold. He's fairly efficient at leading small groups, taking over enemy motorcycle gangs and attracting followers. He rolls up to the Citadel with like a thousand bikers. He knew Joe would kill him if he showed up at their original meet so he sets up a contigency plan. Later, he lures the Bullet Farm leader out to the Citadel by arranging a fake meeting, so he briefly has control over two of the three fortresses. Yeah, he's pretty shit at organization and management (do we even know if the riots at Gastown were real or were they faked to draw out a meeting?), but if he had someone to manage the day-to-day and prevent uprisings, he's one Praetorian Jack and Furiosa away from having immense leverage against the Citadel and may end up having all 3. Despite clearly hating what he's become. Yeah, we see him fail ultimately but the idea he's some circus clown is I think a little unfair.
What's really frustrating is that of the typical kinds of organizations for action flicks, law enforcement is the most likely to have nonlethal equipment, and there could be some really distinct fight scenes if you leaned into the narratively established need to incapacitate instead of kill.
18:53 still better CGI than Horrid Henry: The Movie
15:31 He passed creepy a long time ago, reused in a clip compilation from Atop the Fourth Wall's 300th episode: Holy Terror.
Moonraker is 45 years old! Made $210.3 million on a $30 million budget being the highest grossing film of the bond series at that point even getting an Oscar nomination for best visual effects Also the first time the space shuttle was shown to audiences This has all the cool action mainly an all practical opening that involves free fall, a cable car fight without any safety harnesses, a speed rocket simulation sequence that's quite suspenseful, a brilliant score by John Barry, a wonderful theme song by Shirley Bassey, and beautiful locations from France to Italy to the Amazon The late Michael Lonsdale as Drax makes for a deliciously slimy villain, Lois Chiles as Goodhead is also a very capable Bond girl being sly able to resist Bond's charms being progressive (Moore looks very comfortable on screen despite their lack of chemistry) and the movie still holds the record for the most wire work ever used on film next to the most use of breakable glass Its also great to see fan favorite Jaws back again by the late Richard Kiel even if he gets the Mandela Effect so to speak with him finding a love interest Plenty of lush sets by Ken Adam as well as beautiful photography thanks to Albert R. Broccoli's team clearly showing every penny of it There's even one portion where one of the Bond girls faces a horrific death almost like out of a dark fairy tale The climax in outer space is very exciting too being an gravity free battle The film has been criticized for its over reliance on gadgets; for some it'll be a distraction but again director Lewis Gilbert is having fun with the concept despite all the over-the-top moments, even Moore expressed his made fun of the plot's absurdity Heck Austin Powers would parody a lot of this decades later not to mention the MCU's Black Widow lifts a few influences It has fun with itself while also poking at the casual sexism of women in the space workforce Drax is obsessed with the conquest of space so he has a plan do establish a human colony as a flawless perfect race with no genetic flaws even down to using poison gas in small containers on Earth This does tie into our own fascination with reaching the stars given what happened with the moon landing and Sputnik A lot of preposterous campy fun to be had here thanks to this script by Christopher Woods even if it deviates heavily from the book Yet it did take substantial risks in storytelling remaining relevant in the cultural landscape being fun escapism
Perhaps 'Blackbird's' original title was 'Hubris'.