Ben Tito Friedman Reviews Movies
Ben Tito Friedman Reviews Movies
Hi! My name is Ben Friedman! I work as a freelance film critic for such publications including Highbrow Magazine! Welcome to my channel where I discuss all things movies and filmmaking! Thanks for stopping by!
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Great review - made me book tickets to go watch tomorrow!
I think Flow will get nominated over Orion in the Dark
I knew "something something trans theory" going in. I saw it if i squint; need ruminations to "feel" it. Well-meaning cis idiot, over here.
Good list but Fall Guy👀👀👀👀 I Saw the TV Glow couldve gone there 😩
I absolutely adore this movie. Thank you for reviewing it.
You I’m lost me at toxic masculinity. Why? because there is no such thing.
There is so much to say here truly. I've watched B2B twice now (and no I didn't give any money to it...). It's an atrocious pin-hole look into her life, music and talent. It's essentially a romance film based on Amy and Blake, and an embarrassing attempt at that. Not only did I think that film-wise, it was poorly written and the script seemed very forced, but it was also a confusing mess as you have no real idea how many years it's been since the last scene etc etc. Trying to cover both her Frank and Back to Black eras in 2 hours just isn't gonna work (and didn't). Despite all films (especially biopics) having to have a sense of dramatization for the audience, this is done poorly - making Amy out to be this shy Camden girl who was entirely infatuated and obsessed with Blake (which ofc may be somewhat true, but Blake was not her entire life!!). They completely miss her unique attitude, wit and overall amazing sense of humour, not to mention almost any song writing, and leave her oddly half-baked. And even go as far to show inaccuracies like Amy trying crack on her own! Which is entirely untrue as Blake introduced her to hard drugs. Overall an absolute mess, I can only say a huge well done to Marisa for giving it a good go, her acting was the best part (but those are big shoes to fill). Realistically, this film should've never left the writing room, never mind see the light of day.
the irony is so many people in history could be compared to homelander's character, but for some reason, trump, a surface level comparison, is what took hold for these outlooks. interesting to say the least. game of thrones is a great case study in how politics can be handled and not handled. early GoT is literally just politics, but leaves the viewer to makes the comparisons to our world. later seasons detract from that goal with either bad writing (men only make cock jokes/all the intelligent characters becoming one notes or dumb like arya, jon s, and varys) or forceful feeling character interactions (sansa+every character past season 4 or brianne + sansa meeting). i usually stop watching a show/reading a series when it feels as if the creators are targeting a specific demographic with analysis while avoiding similar parties demographics within the same spectrum. for example, if a series targets religion as a theme, but chooses to single out only a specific one while avoiding all the others then that is a red flag to me. same with gender, race, and everything in between. we all share the ability to spread hate and love. forgetting that destroys art and society from the inside out. true art doesn't simply validate our beliefs... it questions them.
KZreadrs were legit reacting to the yoga scene without actually showing it JUST to help promote and sell tickets. Its disingenuous. Whenever a new horror movie comes out now and all you see everywhere is “the Best slasher ever” .. “gnarliest kills ever” etc. I don’t beleive it. This would’ve worked TEN times better as a short film and not a feature length one.
I loved the movie! It was awesome!
Yeah I saw it in the theatre during a sneak preview night at Sherman oaks. It didn’t leave me much, the yoga kills scene cool. Very slow that car drive scene with two females sheeesh I thought that scene would never end. Bad pacing. Some cool kill scenes but yeah it was underwhelming compared to what I was hoping to see, I was soo excited thought it was gonna be better.
Nah, you just went in with the wrong expectations. It’s a vibes movie. It’s about sitting in and soaking in the atmosphere and the mood of it all and living in the emotion of the moment, whether it be chaos, horror or apathy; not nonstop kills and thrills. Maybe that’s the fault of the marketing, idk because I avoid marketing for anything I’m excited about. All I know is I went in blind and thought it was fantastic.
Season 1 : make fun of PR that work on putting actors because of the race gender religion and graphics about types of focus groups Season 2: makes fun of obligatory gay character Amazon made Rings of Power Now they cant make jokes about themselves because Amazon is the new Disney and go full hate the audiences like all the shows, with Girlboss things like all the shows and Frenchie need 30 min of gay sex in 4 episodes for the plot And you cant tell me the opposite, in fact is hilarious how Homelander group is white 20-60 years with 80% men and the Starlight group is white women or black men subtle very subtle AND NOT EVEN INVENTED i watch the scenes of 4 episodes is hilarious the political view
I can't fathom how anybody can connect the real life people connected to the film to the narrative film itself. If you can't suspend belief, I don't see how you can experience the film as intended.
that explains why season 4 has gotten so bad.. they can't hide their hate for the man.. their TDS watched episode 1 and 2.. they are pretty boring... not going to watch anymore... even thought this BEFORE i realised the trump reference... sigh
I am a conservative but not American, I have enjoyed the show as I think it has been good making fun of most groups, this last season have been very Trump focused but I have only seen 3 out of 8 episodes so I still hope for a fun season. Got to say that Trump has been awful for many types of entertainment, I remember every comedian doing the same 3 I "hate Trump" jokes for I don't know how long, it got very stale.
yeh it is just boring... but when you say so you are accused of being a trumper... hilarious... i just want to hear something funny and not trump bashing..as i hear that all the time... tired of the same lame stories...
The Wild Robot is the fan favorite choice to win best animated feature and I can see that. Inside Out 2 is the movie I personally want to see win but Wild Robot would be a good choice too. But I can see The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim having the highest chance to win best animated feature because it's Lord of the Rings, something the Oscars absolutely love and I can tell they're going to give the win to it just because it's LOTR.
Theres atleast few indie animated movies nominated in category each years . Last year had Robot Dreams . I suggest Flow and Most Precious of Cargoed
Transformers One 🔥🤖
The writers have severe TDS, and it shows horribly. Sorry, but this show is morphing into a pathetic outlet for liberal idiots to bash the right. They literally make a jokeout of the actual death of Isaac Kappy, who did mysteriously die for bringing up the Hollywood pedo rings, which, I must mention, have now been verified w things like epstein, weinstein, and p Diddy. I can't support this show anymore. It's gross.
I really hope people aren’t going to be seeing this as the writers saying Trump is Homelander irl. 🤦🏻♂️
i realised season 4 was not good before they released that homelander is trump... they seem to be suffering bad TDS
Hinestly, they failed hard if Homelander is supposed to be like Trump...
yep ... he is a young guy... not married... with serious sexual hangups... do they really think this is trump??? hilariously sad
Shows generally should not lean to a political ideology unless the show is about politics, it doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with the politics it ruins the show.
Well I got news for you. The show was about that, you just didn’t start catching on until recently.
This show has ALWAYS been about politics. Lol.
Inside Out 2 wins 2025 Oscars for Best Animated Feature.
"inside out" won the baf oscar. rarely do animated sequels win -- across the spider-verse certainly didnt win last year & it was the best animated feature by a long shot
Spiderverse 2 deserved win but is not ready going winner because this movie is incomplete. (Not ending). (Screw up Scorsese Screw up Wakanda forever you are ruined).☠☠☠
@@carlosatausupa8429 dune 2 is incomplete - it's a trilogy. so it shouldnt win bp (like the first one)
@@PLOTTHICC Dune part III 2027
@@carlosatausupa8429ew yuck
Definitely the worst season by far
MAGA snowflake #456
I love this movie. One of the best war movies ever made.
Would also like to note that all the other veterans I watched this with loved it as well
The boys was always woke , this is them going broke
a problem for who? lol
I don’t object to mixing some politics into the characters’ motivations, but that’s not why I or anyone else thinks Homelander is interesting. What’s fascinating about him is watching the psychopathic disdain for people in the body of a Superman-like character, and learning what about his upbringing led him to become who he is. Mixing the political into the mental of psychopathy is….curious, but it can very easily become uninteresting or polarizing if not done EXACTLY right
That may be a fair criticism. As I see it and said so in my review I believe The Homelander we see in season 4 is the natural progression of such a character, and that as the show goes on we learn that there just isn’t much interesting or nuanced about Homelander and he is who he presents himself to be. I find that lack of nuance refreshing and makes the villain performance all the more terrifying and unsettling.
The Boys was “woke” from episode 1, this is not at all a season 4 change. I think the reason there’s backlash is because the show didn’t reach the pro-Homelander audience until recently. I’m totally down for a show to take down the “Trump mentality” in America, but I don’t think it’s being done right. It doesn’t feel completely accurate because Vought is a stand in for too many things. It’s meant to be Hollywood (liberal), Amazon (liberal), pharmaceutical companies like Johnson & Johnson (liberal), Fox News (conservative), Alex Jones conspiracies (conservative), it can’t be all of those things at once, because it doesn’t reflect reality. They’ve grouped all the “bad guys” into one ideology, which just isn’t realistic.
I think that is a fair. However, where I’ll say we disagree is some of the cooperations that this show parodies I believe the point is to be showing how willing corporations or ideas can pretend to be a shelter for “liberal safe haven” or “progressive ideals” but it’s all BS. When I was talking nuance that the show still has that is what I am referring to.
@@BenTitoFriedman that’s totally valid (also I wasn’t disagreeing with you in the video, my “text” tone sounds a little aggressive hahaha) I almost wish Vought was broken up into more entities so that it didn’t have to represent literally everything
@@mr.greasy6483 Ohhh sure! I think that’s a very valid criticism. It does feel like Vought is supposed to just be a parody of anything it needs to be at that moment! It doesn’t bother me, but I understand that criticism. Thanks for watching and I hope you consider subscribing for more reviews!
@@BenTitoFriedman Fair enough, and I’ve just subscribed!
IF qualifies for BAF but nobody saw it or likes it
I don’t think that’s true. Per the rules, “An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time.” In the case of IF it utilizes animated characters, but I don’t think it would be classified for animated feature. This case came up a few years ago with the remake of the lion king and will inevitably happen again this year with the release of Mufasa. Either way thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed my Oscar video and that you consider subscribing for more academy awards discussions in the near future!
@@BenTitoFriedman "marcel the shell" was nominated in animated cat. "if" had an animation team/dept; it wasn't all cgi or sfx
Get's convicted: Yeah Yeah!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
There were no wars under Trump. Life was good. People were happy. Biden destroyed this country. Comparing Trump to homelander makes you look pathetic and ignorant.
So you don’t think that Homelander by design is supposed to be Trump?
@@BenTitoFriedman Considering that the boys comic and respective characters were created in 2006 (Long before Trumps era), No. The live action version isn’t far off from the comics portrayal. Seems only irrelevant KZreadrs and the very few Biden supporters who are left are the only ones who want to make such ridiculous comparisons. Like really? We had a peaceful presidency under Trump. Y’all want to make him out to be a monster but y’all have no legitimate explanation as to what it is that he’s done to hurt you so badly.
Jeez, eight hours later and still nothing but crickets... "Homelander" 2024.
If you’re just now getting to these undertones of “TRUMP” you’re an idiot. From the start this show has been making fun of the right. But the right instead of understanding that they were being laughed at, decided to laugh with it. But now it’s to “in your face” gtfo
This season kinda sucks compared to the awesome S3.
Only S1 was good.
@@TheStraightestWhitest S1 was good, rest declined 25% percent each season
@@powerman2610 Pretty much.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I was watching this with my girlfriend who just so happens to be a mixed. When the worlds smartest person was black American woman, and within 10 minutes she mentioned fragile white male ego's. We looked at each other, and said "knew it" Because we knew it was coming. It should have been an asian woman for realistic purposes. Just seems forced.
Yesss, someone else sees it
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Murders my favorite, smiles, "I guess I am that petty". IDK this might be too nuanced :P
I thought every scene was stunning, costumes were amazing, the little girl looked exactly like her in the beginning. Johnny was excellent, Mawaiwenn was perfect. I have watched it 4x and I loved it.
Why don’t you just take care of your strange looking room and hair instead of criticizing a fantastic actor !!
I am relieved that this sequel avoided the "modern audience" & "the message" trap of previous Disney/Pixar movies. It has a stronger story, great new characters and new struggles of original characters!
Yea regarding the whole trump/the boy's comparison I find it, more nuanced in past seasons but still pretty obvious. I find it funny when maga just recently realize the joke is on them. Oh and... First!
I’m a trump supporter and I think it’s funny. What they are leaving out is the left destroying their cities😂
@@chaseelzinga4640 remember that human centipede scene? You just proved that was about you. The 6 likes you got so far are the people in the chain behind you and there are thousands in front of you lol
So the character made to shit on/make fun off Trump, ends up being the most popular part of the show. Now thats some irony.
@@rolfdenpinguin3009 to incels and losers lol not to the majority.. Those same incels and losers think they are cool and dont lose all the time but the reality is that they are losers....
@@rolfdenpinguin3009 side note, i would hope thats not a cannabis seedling in your picture because that would make you even more backwards than before... IE supporting the party that still puts people in prison for cannabis
Dune 2 was so boring.
Actually none of the footage in the Wicked trailer is from the second act of the story. It’s still very much a part one and two.
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I’m a HUGE movie lover/fanatic and aspiring actress. I’m so excited to watch all these movies summer 2024! This was a good list. I’m also excited to watch the A Quiet Place Part 3 and Crow remake. Bad Boy 4 Ride or Die is an awesome movie! ❤❤❤❤
I just saw the movie today! It was amazing😁 I loved the first movie, but this one was just next level! I was crying even at the start just because of how relatable the whole movie was and I could feel and see the pressure of beeing a teen again. I was crying my eyes out just hearing "you are not enough". And the ending with her getting to be herself and realizing that sye is enough as she is, was just so well made! It was an amazing and touching experience and I would higly reccomend the movie to everyone!😊
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*Wanna know why this one’s better than the last?* Because the script for it was written a month after the first movie
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I actually kind of like how quickly things were happening. It just felt so sudden. But that's kinda how puberty is. It just happens and you're sitting there like "Wut?". I don't care if the pacing was intentional or not. I find it quite genius.
I do think that was the intent, I was more speaking to the emotions development in that scene and how I felt in that time they could only develop anxiety. Thanks for watching and I hope you consider subscribing for more :)
@@BenTitoFriedman Just to further bring up a discussion. I think they made a clear choice on mostly developing anxiety. Especially if we are talking about teenage life in these current times (speaking as a teen myself). We haven't really had much room to develop anything else than anxiety due to pressure from social media, but I could be reading you reply differently than what you intended when writing. Looking forward to seeing more though. Overall I think developing more character for anxiety than the other 3 is a good choice since that's pretty much what teens mostly experience these days
I liked this movie but the Emotion Nostalgia felt like a waste of a character and the movie would have been the same without that character. Don't get me wrong I like the character but if you are gonna have something like Nostalgia than actually use that emotion as equally as you do as the other emotions or at least more than what we got from that character.
Personally, I just thought it was a fun joke. Either way I hope you consider subscribing for more reviews :)
So first of all, her dad is not that talented. Second of all, why is everyone so obsessed with her being exactly like her me mediocre father? She is never going to be anything, and it's not because she lacks talent but because we think her dad. So anything she ever puts out is going to be seen through his lens and she's never going to get to be her own person.
The anger towards many nepo babies derives from many of them lsaying they're "self made" completely ignoring all of the advantages they got because of their parent (s). In the case of Ishana she's doing the exact same thing as her father, as if his (questionable) talent was inherited from birth. If you compare to someone like Rashida Jones, yes, she got a lot of advantages in life because of her parents but she didn't try to be a replica of her father, instead she went into acting, writing, and directing, which I think as a society we respect more because these feel like her own genuine interests and talents.
“By nature of being born into this life and having a parent in the industry, there's definitely a sort of advantage stepping into the field, you just have that sense of being able to achieve it - I think as with any child pursuing their parent’s field,” the director-daughter of a director said. Ishana says the conversation about ‘privilege’ is ‘totally valid’ and that it’s the ‘reaction to the privilege that matters’ and what standard people hold themselves to.” Direct quote from the filmmaker. She acknowledged her privilege. So many people replicate their parents as they are many people’s first role models. Most of my family are teachers. And my sister went into teaching and works at the same district my mom does. Is she a nepo baby, yeah. Do I care, no. I can’t find a single reason for me to be that annoyed by her wanting to make a horror film. We all learn from our influences and we clearly can tell what M Night is interested in.