Bobby Calloway examines film and television through video essays, currently focusing on appreciation of the pioneering 1998 supernatural drama series 'Charmed', and its characters and episodes.
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I remember being crazy scared of this movie when i was a child
Hopefully in the good way!
The book was a better story
The Books are kinda good. The adaptation were terrible
I never really cared about Hunger Games, but man... I absolutely loved Divergent and Maze Runner.
Maze Runner is so so good and never gets talked about
I LOVE the first movie. Haven't cared to rewatch the others after once though haha.
I've rewatched them all and yet I weirdly like Allegiant more than Insurgent. Not sure if that's just me being superficial over Tris's hair lol
For me, Divergent suffers in the same way as game of thrones does: the great start suffers from the unsatisfactory conclusion, which for me makes the older parts less enjoyable since i know where it leads to..
Interesting point
I love Divergent and Insurgent - Allegiant, not so much. But I really appreciate the underlying theme. I'm autistic and I definitely see the parallels between being Divergent and being autistic and how society needs people to fit into neat boxes in order to "keep people in their place". Divergent people interrupt the status quo by being the canaries in the coal mine and highlighting how limiting it is to be confined to one singular trait or "faction". I've often been seen as a trouble maker just for asking "why" when things don't make logical sense. Instead of being seen as someone with the desire and ability to view things from multiple angles, you get labeled as a problem for not shutting up and complying. It is extremely limiting and doesn't allow people to expand and actually understand the fullness of the human experience. If you're just supposed to "stick with your kind" then you miss out on enjoying the complexity that is the tapestry of human expression.
Yeah my counsellor put it best once (she's neurodivergent too) - the only real problem with the condition is that the world isn't built for us
I love this movie almost as much (or more, depending on my mood), as the first movie....Michael Sheen is Lucian!!
Can we get more Spartacus content?
Sure, such as?
Divergent is such a weird IP for me. I never really liked reading, mostly because I am very slow at it and always was jealous of people that could just sit down and read a book in 1 weekend. But I was finishing middle school when the Hunger Games movie was being made, and I decided to read the book. I fell in love with the world and swiftly read Catching Fire the fastest I had ever read a book in my life, and struggled my way through Mockingjay. One of my teachers, who knew I wasn't into reading much but noticed I had been hooked by Hunger Games, suggested I give Divergent a read. Although I never finished Allegiant, Divergent and Insurgent were very good reads for me. I think that the first movie is almost a perfect adaption, but Insurgent was such a let down for me. That being said I think that Shailene Woodley and Theo James were perfectly cast as Tris and Four. I mean the whole cast was perfectly casted, even Kate Winslet who I only had seen playing good guys, played the villain perfectly.
Yeah no cole should have been treated better and they could have made him end up with her in the end by becoming good with CUPIDS help. They treated him horribly but Leo can go off and kill elders and be easily forgiven. Piper literally hated cole for the same things her husband did - kill for love. Love piper but she made her family more important than anything when it came to rules she was willing to break them.
the people who say is bad film likes Titanic 🤨😪
ah here, Titanic is great!
Amazing video as always !!! Could make a video about how the series Buffy The Vampire Slayer changed television ? Or how it is one of the greatest series of all time ? Please
Before i start the vid, I wanna firmly say I staunchly have my doubts. Let’s see if I’m convinced otherwise…
Godspeed!
@@BetterWithBob you did it again. If I were keeping scores, my tab would be empty and yours, spilling over.
they should re-make it as "Neurodivergent". just the same plot to a t, but divergents are called neurodivergent, everyone else is neurotypical. and no, it shouldn't make any sense. ideally it would be also the same exact actors, now aged, playing the same exact roles, age included
...interesting
20:54 Forgot which movie is this from, is it Van Helsing ?
Yes that's it
I miss this Shannen Doherty. 90210 and charmed are her peak.
yes
I never read the books but I really enjoyed this movie! It's one I can put on and watch at almost any time now.
Ah great ^_^
Listen, I loved the divergent books, and shadowhunters books. They are a guilty pleasure, but one I will defend. I did rather enjoy the shadowhunters tv show, despite its flaws. Also, the divergent books were captivating, except for that last big spoilers thing you mentioned at the end making no sense, still got me in the feels though
Hehe how do you feel about Four and Christina hooking up?
@@BetterWithBob I mean should Four be alone forever just cuz Triss died? And who better than Christina? Isn't real love wanting the other person to be happy? People who think Four should've died too or stayed alone forever are thinking of him more like a possession than a person, imo. I'd also bet most of those who were/are the most upset about it are younger readers.
Is Divergent 'Good Actually'? No, but do continue.
😂😂😂
😆 🤣 😂 it's a shit movie
That's me told then
My god thank you for this, Shailene Woodley is phenomenal
True 😄
Darryl almost died by the very supernatual world he tried to protect. That council was about to off him due to the sisters negligence.
I love Digervent and rewatch it annualy, I'd say. The romance between Tris and Four is just so good. And I think Twilight is the reason this genre got so much hate, not Divergent. It became cool to hate this stuff when it became cool to hate Twilight.
That's a good point about her having to actually train to become good. I really liked how she got her ass kicked at first. You don't really see that with action protagonists nowadays.
And you almost never see it with Action Girls. You usually meet them when they're already skilled or have a different conflict that needs to be overcome
@@BetterWithBob maybe you should to a whole video on GI Jane. Lol. Talk about working for it
Harry Potter is one of the last franchises that had REALISTIC black representation.
_'Prey'_ is a *spectacularly awful* movie!
I've never watched so can't comment
@@BetterWithBob that’s fair 🙂
You know what's aggravating? Hollywood didn't start making these young adult action movies until a decade or so after I was out of high school. I came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s and pretty much every teen movie back then was either a comedy or a horror film. Don't get me wrong, I liked a lot of that stuff, but I always wanted to see an occasional action film where the heroes were young people and that just wasn't a thing, not unless it was some cheesy, slapstick, family friendly garbage like Clockstoppers or Agent Cody Banks. I know we had shows like Buffy, Roswell, and Dark Angel, to name a few, but no movies like this, Maze Runner, Hunger Games, or I Am Number 4, so I have an appreciation for this stuff. For this particular franchise, I'm still annoyed we didn't get that final movie. If the studio was still willing to spend the money to continue it in some capacity, then there's no reason they couldn't have made that last one to wrap everything up. However, now that there's more books in this universe, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets redone as a TV series at some point in the future. That's what happening with I Am Number 4, which I'm excited about since the sequels never got made.
I really wanted to like I Am Number Four lol
@@BetterWithBob Hopefully, you'll like the show.
What a perfect opportunity to talk about the only fanfiction I've read that outdid its source material: Transparent by Gatubellina on Wattpad. In Allegiant, we learn that Chicago is a result of an experiment where people's traits were amped up. Some people gained bravery, but lost compassion. Some people gained honesty, but lost consideration. Some people gained logic, but lost empathy. Transparent actually explores these ideas better than Divergent did, and it was so interesting to read with the knowledge of that mental change. Transparent follows a cast of characters before the events of Divergent. You have Sage, a strong boy from Candor who has a strong sense of justice. When he comes out to his mother as Divergent, his mom implies that his dad was killed for his divergence, and he has to fight with his Candor upbringing as he chooses Dauntless as his faction, due to the fact Candor would've discovered his Divergence. But in Dauntless, we see a society of people who's bravery isn't used to help others. Some use their bravery to become adrenaline junkies, others use their strength to be controlling and cruel. It's hard for Sage, with his sense of justice, to let things go to keep himself safe, and that is a great conflict. The book also has a great villan, a cold, mysterious boy from Eriudite who always seems several steps ahead. The series has 3 books, but the 3rd was unfortunately never completed. But it's still very worth a read
I don't read fanfic but it sounds like a lot of work was put into that
Prue is not my favorite character and as a matter of fact she is the one I like the least I'm not going to say that I hate her because I don't Charmed would not be Charmed if she hadn't been on yet and those things that I like but she is the most annoying character to me!!!!!!!!!!!
Darryl is my fourth favorite Character in Charmed he is probably the best honesty character in Charmed and that's why I feel like he deserves to be in the top 5 characters of the show for me
Cole was in my top 3 favorite characters on Charmed and I hate how he was written up at the end of his story it did not feel earned for most of the whole time he was on the show he went out of his way to be good and for Paige and Phoebe to treat him the way they did very much upset me when I first started watching the show Phoebe was my favorite but by the time she started treating Cole the way she did changed how I felt about her granted I don't hate her as much as some people but she did lose favor with me by treat and cole badly
Personally i was obsessed with the books when they came out and loved the first film at release but (unfortunately i don't remember the specifics) hated the sequel, maybe thinking it not as good as the book, which made me not watch any of the rest of the franchise because i didn't want to see them ruin the rest of the books i loved. Being 10 years away from that i can see i was being childish about my reasoning but I've given the first movie and book another try to see them as an adult and now they're just boring to me. Love to hear other people liking them though but i probably won't give them a third chance, at least for a while.
I really liked the first 2 Divergent movies not so much the 3rd. The Shadowhunter Chronicles is at least not The Dresden Files when it comes to Live Action Adaptations lol. The books are still way better though… Edit- I didn’t realize just how much I liked Theo James until just now lol
He is quite underrated tbf lol
I love Rose McGowan with all my heart and soul, but when the show dropped Prue, I lost interest
I love this movie
This movie was great
I would love to see a review based off the twilight series, as it’s something that gets so much hate when it has moments that really aren’t all that bad . Even Bella is too harshly criticised and I thought her book counterpart was an interesting character.
Aha not going there I'm afraid. Sarah Z did a near 90 minute video on its resurgence that was nice and balanced
The only decent moments Twilight has (in the books) are the moments without Bella and instead spent on fleshing out some of the secondary characters. I don't think that's a good thing for a story, to have their main character be the weakest link and least interesting character.
Next episode should be something Wicca this way goes the true series finale of charmed
It frustrates me to no end that people thought Cole and Phoebe were good to him. Season 5 was not the only time she turned her back on him for something beyond his control. At the end of Season 3, when the Brotherhood manages to get Cole to kill an innocent, Phoebe witnesses the attack. He tries to explain what happens, but she refuses to listen. And when Cole begs for her to save him, Phoebe coldly responds "Save yourself" before foolishly smashing the power stripping potion. In short, their dynamic has been messed up from the start. You can love someone without being good for them. This was Phoebe and Cole. She loved him, true, but she wasn't good for him.
I generally liked the film, not because it was accurate in any way but because it depicts the application of technology to solve what was a serious problem. And the technology, the Bombe, was depicted in a persuasive way, though I'm not sure how accurate the model was. However, the story of Turing and the technology was glaringly incomplete, and a look at the end credits show that there was a major omission from the story. That omission is that of Tommy Flowers, a Post Office engineer who designed and built the world's first fully electronic, programmable digital computer, called the Colossus 1, in 1943, Flowers even used his own money to fund the project which was built from thermionic valves. This was used to speed up a large chunk of the deciphering calculations that could not be done efficiently. It was this that actually won the war for the allies. 11 Colossus computers were built in under 2 years and were the real secret of Bletchley Park. Most were dismantled and destroyed at the end of the war, though two were relocated and kept operational for training and special purposes. There is a full page on Wikipedia about this. I visited Bletchley Park in 2014 and saw the full reconstruction of the Colossus there, and it was a fully working machine! It's ironic that the film was released the same year, yet all this is completely omitted from the story.
Evolution is my favorite of the franchise by far.
I'm finding that a lot of people seem to love it
Shailene Woodley Can get it straight up from the tip
Oh shit can't believe I missed the notification for this video I fucking love this movie and have been waiting for your video on it
I recall LOVING the second film just as much and feeling the script and story/tris arc hitting super hard in a spiritual way!!! Plus the score and music in it SLAPS hard!!! Deserves to be noted and mentioned! Overall I felt very immersed in the world of Divergent Franchise and the world building/production design was very well realised and fully fleshed out!!! Shailene carried the films with such finesse and discipline!!! A true SUPERSTAR! 🚀🫶🏻🕊️⚡️ I miss her in movies!
She seems to be doing things her way at least. She made her money thanks to Divergent and Big Little Lies, and seems to only pursue roles that appeal to her artistically
You should do a video about : THE GIVER THE SIGNAL (Both starring Brenton Thwaites!) They are both great sci-fi/post apocalyptic/dystopian YA films!!! Imo
Haha never saw either of them
@@BetterWithBob definitely worth your while, especially for the giver in comparison to Divergent and Hunger Games
I loved the books. Loved the first Movie but HATED the second movie so much that I never went to see the third film and still haven't.
It's at once both frustrating and thrilling, because the segments dealing with the civil war in Chicago are so good, but everything in the Bureau...you can tell they rushed it
@@BetterWithBob I remember getting out of the theater for the second film wanting to punch something or someone because I had finished reading the second book a few weeks prior and the changes made for visual aesthetics or story changes made because the director said so didn't make sense for the world or the plot.
@@RachaelTheFirboldDruid supposedly Lionsgate execs pressured the new director to ignore Neil Burger's vision
Gosh would love your review of Immortal instruments movie
Hehe maybe one day sure
Oh god, I had to watch that in cinema with friends and it was pure torture. The only thing that saved me was my childhood crush Kevin Zegers and seeing that a resident german actor kind of made it in hollywood 😆 (Elyas M'Barek. Love that guy) and Lily Collins is a much better actress than whoever they cast in that tv show.
I think not and especially so after becoming tired of dystopia.