Generation Why? Entertainment
Generation Why? Entertainment
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Welcome to Generation Why? Entertainment! Where I talk about all forms of media, past, more in the past and somewhat less in the past. You're probably asking about the name, well if the era before me was Gen X, and the Era after me was Gen Z then that means mine is called Generation Why?
I mainly focus on movie reviews and reviews of television shows. However I also put a focus on Canadian content, not shows mostly but television blocks and networks exclusive to Canada. but you dont have to be Canadian to enjoy my content.
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New here and your base of knowledge is most impressive there Brother. Look forward to watching more of your videos.
Bro Dont tell anyone but I prefer Night ‘90 too
Yeah iunno i think its just paced a little bit better and it has Tony Todd
Rumours abound that there is a work-print doing the rounds which has a longer running time than the theatrical cut? It might be a bonus disc on the 4K/blu-ray, but I can't find it on toz sites; anybody else got any ideas? ps. Saw this at the cinema on opening week in Australia back in October 1985; the audience really got into it, I was 15 then lol.
You really made a big mistake about totally missing out on “Where the F is Santa Claus?” As another special they did, and it was really good. It was from 2008 too and Bam was still living the great life but that’s got to be one of the last years where his life was just like “the old days”. Plus most or all of the original cky crew was not in that one, just Brandon Novak and other random people.
I reviewed where the f is Santa lol
Not zombies, living dead.
They use the word zombies in the movie I’m allowed to use the word zombies
The 80s was the era of good horror films. It just has the most amount of good horror films, but compared to the 70s and 2010s there’s not as many as great horror films. It also has a shit ton of films that use “fun” to cover up for mediocrity and sanitized the genre that made it really boring. Half of the cult classics are boring as shit. Probably because I have a lot darker sensibilities than most, but horror fans saying it’s shit, but at least it’s not a bore like [insert modern slow burn horror movie] and I’m like, “that movie is way more boring.” I guess my ADHD makes me get bored with bad movies. People say the golden age of slashers ended in 1984, it died in 1982 when the most popular films were Friday the 13th Part 3 and Slumber Party Massacre heralding the end of dark slasher movies.
@@thomasffrench3639 nah hard disagree. The late 80s slashers were the most solid as practical effects had peaked and the film they used looked cleaner. Not that the early 80s is without its charm. Personally I love slashers but I’m more of a sci fi horror guy anyway
@@generationwhyentertainment2455 but the scripts, acting and writing were so much worse, and they acted more like poorly written comedy films than horror movies. At least early slasher films were more entertaining as they actually tried to write good stories and direct it well and weren’t so focused on effects. Then the goofy slashers came in and ruined it for everyone with their sanitized atmosphere and poor comedy without any grittiness which made them so boring And aside from Tom Savini slashers and Intruder, I cannot think of any that had awesome practical effects in the later 80s and Tom Savini stopped doing slasher films at that point. What movies are you referring to? And if I wanted cool kills, I would watch Rambo II or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, because most of them are way better. Day of the Dead and The Omen have better kills than most slasher movies. I never understood this obsession with kills unless you really want to make yourself sad by growing attached to these character then die, which I love doing. I also appreciate the realism it can add to the story.
25:21 yeah I have a theory that Friday the 13th Part 4 was an inspiration for Kevin Williamson when he was writing for teen soap operas. Although I wouldn’t say they are better than all John Hughes movies, but I do think it’s better than the Breakfast Club at least, which is pretty overrated. Although I think Part 7 does a pretty bad job with it except for the love triangle between our main characters, because while nowhere near John Hughes or Part 4 level, it’s decent enough to get out of the boring teen shit at the other house.
I never understood the appeal of Sleepaway Camp 2. It’s pretty bad and I couldn’t finish it. And to call this garbage better than Scream or Friday the 13th Part 6 is pretty laughable. The original Sleepaway Camp is nothing special either, but at least it is pretty entertaining.
I never said it was better as a film. I said it was better as a satire of horror and 80s films in general.
@@generationwhyentertainment2455 okay that makes sense for F13 Part 6, but that doesn’t explain Scream. I would say it falls under Disaster Movie rather than Airplane! If we are talking 80s teen movies, the original is a better parody of that than Sleepaway Camp 2.
Yes u can shoot a nuke out of an artillery gun- look at “Atomic Annie”
Kramer wasn't sponge worthy lol
"said some racist stuff yadda yadda yadda my career is over"
If only we had crazy joe devola to run up on kramer
i always saw suicide as the leader
It seemed like he was just the guy with the car that they only called when they needed a car to me. Spider is definitely the leader.
My dad took me and my friend to see this on opening night. I was 8 years old and I have loved zombie movies. All summer long I would pay to see a pg movie and sneak into TROTLD every week until it was out of theaters.After this movie it was all down hill from there. I was allowed to rent any movie that was not behind the red curtain. 1980’s was a great decade for renting vhs horror movies
Agreed!!!
We didn't have a red curtain in our video store they made you sign you're name to a book 🤣
Mega Babies was cancelled in less then a year
Yeah. But it had like over 52 segments across 26 episodes so it remained In Syndication for a long time
I’m not blaming those reviews
I will forever have a special place in my heart for this film with Hoskins and Leguizamo’s chemistry being a highlight. I like the movie for what it is and it’s based off arguably my favorite video game character ever. The criticism it got was a little too harsh. Since the new Super Mario Bros. movie came out last year, do you ever think to do a vid on it? Or draw relations between this film and the new one? That would be awesome.
There really isn’t much to compare because of how vastly different they are. Haven’t watched the new one yet. Just haven’t gotten around to it
I was kinda there when I’m this film came out and it just didn’t click with me. I respect the movie for what it accomplished and I gave a lot of respect for showing me underlying value the film offered. It had its funny moments but I just don’t care for this film. I like Kip, kinda, but don’t care for anyone else, on varying degrees. And the story doesn’t captivate me. I respect the video for this though.
@@skillet9141 the Kip spin off would have fed families
😂😂😂.
I said what I said of the first version of this I won’t or can’t repeat myself. The first Clerks, I haven’t seen in years, but I still remember me frequently replaying a scene due how well crafted the writing was. I liked the second one even though it’s a couple steps down. And the third one even tho it has its moments it was a bit too depressing for me. And there was no growth at all. I like the big “fuck you” moment Dante give to Randall, but the movie was such a negative departure from the ones that preceded it. Also, your off the cuff treatment for part 3 was exceedingly better than the schlock we had for part 3. I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. And I can’t watch part 2 anymore because it has Rosario Dawson in it. I had nothing against her and still don’t as a person, but I saw a film she made in 2007 and it scarred my perception of her. I just can’t stomach to look at her. Pretty much killed my rewatchability for 2. I’ll stick with the first one then, I guess. Later.
Part 2 was a product of the times based on another product of the time that just aged better. What movie was that? I like Rosario Dawson even if I don’t like a lot of the movies she’s in. The movie kids she did is a partial inspiration for a project I’m writing lol
Descent. It’s a bad film on so my levels. It even fucked up its message. I recommend to not watch it, SERIOUSLY.
Holy shit, that dude stoned off his ass with a shotgun. Too funny and too scary at the same time, genius. I’ve seen chunks of this film, but I could never get into it. I may try now. Or not. 🤷🏽♂️. And I love your presentation on the history of western films. Even though, I’m not a fan of them. My favorite western film is Back To The Future part III so that pretty much tells you where I’m at in terms of western films. Unless No Country For Old Men counts. There Will Be Blood? Adunno.
No country for old men is like a neo western. So a western set in a more modern day And there will be blood is certainly a western in a sense but not traditionally
I figured, but I’m not a western guy telling from my rant. Lol.
I don’t think I’d ever make garbage angels due to finding garbage (especially other people’s garbage) disgusting. The part that always makes me laugh is Abe smoothly going in and out of the burlesque bar because he saw Bart. And 90s standards and practices were fairly “gay”. Big news. Also, although Ralph and Martin have no business being with each other, in the context of the show, the two make sense as a pair due to being portly, weird, dorky outcasts. Can’t wait for the next vid, lol.
Well… it makes sense that the humor in shows you watch lose their “punch” if you watch it too many times. That’s why I rarely watch Kung Pow, because even though it’s hilarious in my opinion my humor for it goes fairly stale on a couple of repeated viewings. You should review this film if you ever get the chance… or ever care too. It IS really funny. Lean is still a thing? Christ. That shot of Moe lighting up that whole row of drinks is hilarious and badass. I’d kill to do such a thing. And the Homer’s “happy” sarcasm bit was too funny to ignore. ‘Til the next one.
@@skillet9141 it’s true when I was younger I used to watch the simpsons on a fucking loop as background noise or just in general so sometimes I become a bit jaded But yeah the sarcasm bit is top tier
Shit. I think KZread doesn’t want me to know about you or something. No notifications. No thumbnail on my feed. Douchey site. 😄 Anyways, I really like Lost Boys and found After Dark to be moderately enjoyable. The dark vibe of the latter really sold me. Not that surprised that both movies were inspired by Fright Night. Can wait for you to talk about Freddy V Jason. A cheesy ass horror movie I haven’t seen in over 10 years but remember so well. Are you gonna talk about Mission Hill and The Oblongs again? Choice! I never seen Fright Night 2 (and I doubt I will), hell I don’t remember much on the first one. I actually remember the remake better. I liked the remake actually. But the vampire chick in that blue leather dress?… Christ. The things I do to her with and without that dress on. Oof. So I get you going nuts on that thirst tirade.😄 And she’s Cuban? I got more in common with her! But, she’s old so… 🤷🏽♂️. The other girl you talked about was pretty attractive too, but the horror thing doesn’t do much for me. I take it that you’re into some of Tim Burton stuff? And dude, you were hamming it with that nude Stephen Geoffrey’s pic. The fuck? 😂 Btw, who drew the thumbnail? Lol. Till’ the next video.
There were some moments in the show that were uncomfortably phonic or possibly racist but generally the cultural critic punched up and was on point. Certainly a product of it's time, also tho Duckman many many many times hinted at our pointed out that he's bisexual, which is a mixed bag as an antihero. He's doing the work to normalize it however as I see it, and there's a lot of complex strong female characters. TBH, even a lot of the perverted weirdos are oddly humanized, which... gotta appreciate the complexity ✨
@@andiralosh2173 with anything from multiple decades ago there is gonna be some stuff that in the modern day seems a bit off color. It’s something I’ve learned to accept but I think to people not from the era it may come as a shock. But the show was very ahead of it’s time in many aspects
I can’t believe how good this film is and nobody knows it
I never got how trash became a zombie if the zombies go for your brain first the only other thing I can see is her getting bit somewhere else and getting away, but that doesn’t seem that likely when you see how all those zombies swarmed her
I think it’s because most of her corpse was still there, and it was getting rained on with the trioxin.
Hey buddy, you wanna know something you’re 11th choice is incorrect not that the episodes bad but you got the order of it wrong. Only sin deep is not the second episode. And all through the house is the second episode. Only sin deep is the fourth episode of season one how did you get that wrong?
I fucked up lol. This was one of my earlier videos I wasn’t very good at it yet.
That animated intro at the start with the dinosaurs sure looked a lot better when I was a kid. Now, it looks like a dialogue scene from a "cutting edge" Sierra adventure game for PC during that mid 90's period where they inexplicably started making their games uglier through "realistic" digitized graphics and cheap looking animation instead of beautiful pixel art.
It’s sad when the cheap Latin American dinosaur cartoon from the “ye” meme looks better than a major Hollywood production
I'm just going to point out how great one joke is, because nobody ever gets it. When Iggy an Spike come out of the evolution machine, one says a "transformation" has occurred, but the evolved one suggests it is more of a "transfiguration". The joke is that transfiguration is a religious concept, originally, and it refers to the evolution of a human soul becoming a spirit in heaven, or the divine manifesting on earth, it indicates a higher level of change than just the physical, which is what has happened. He's already aware of his higher potential spiritual awareness due to the intelligence boost, as he is now able to imagine a whole lot more and conceive of higher ethical and moral constructions, what many would say is the human quality that separates us from the animals. And they chose to express this awesome concept with a two line gag and not directly address any of it. This movie's greatest crime will always be it's wasted potential to have been so much more.
Great review and super funny, like the movie. This is one of my favorite movies ever. I remember it as the punk rock horror movie, which as an 80s skatepunk was in short supply. To me the ending is perfect, especially for the times, as we fully expected major governments to nuke the human race out of existence for no reason at all.
Would you do a review of the underrated Alien 3?
Yeah at some point this year I’m thinking about it. Probably gonna focus more on the extended version
@@generationwhyentertainment2455 The superior version fleshes out the characters they trap the dragon and Golic gets a onscreen death.
@leejones8582 precisely why I’m going for that version
Clerks was shot for less than 30K, not 300K and none of the money was spent on post production effects to make it black and white, the film was shot in black and white.
Actually the majority of the budget was spent on licensing the music for the soundtrack. Making it the first time a movies soundtrack cost more than the actual film
@@generationwhyentertainment2455 That's also not accurate. Miramax's 230K post expenditure (marketing, printing and soundtrack) took care of the soundtrack and the legal representation before the MPAA. The 27K budget Kevin put toward the film was just for EQ rental, the edit, and the IFFM entry fees.
@matthewblanchard9805 oh well I was just basing that on what I read. Oops Point still stands clerks 2 and 3 suck
I noticed you're a Mega Man fan. I hear the remix of Tomahawk Man's music (Mega Man 6) in the background. Rock on, bro. I love Mega Man.
Yup. Love mega man. A lot of the music I use in the background is capcom in general. Mega Man ZX is probably one of the most underrated video game OSTs of all time
I loved all 3 films. Part 3 was an emotional gut punch. Loved it. Smith did something different. Can't do the same film for a third time. It'd be boring. JMO. Becky dying gave it the proper emotion seeing Dante's pain.
The thing is, I don’t think a sequel to one of my favourite comedy movies needed to be a depressing wreck. Especially considering that Kevin Smith appears to have the emotional intelligence of a middle schooler on Xanax
You should review the bad sequels Darkman II and III.
I actually like those sequels haha
@@generationwhyentertainment2455 Guilty pleasures lol
@leejones8582 I like the Durant character and Jeff Fahey is also great. Also there’s a really fucked up explosion stunt where the stunt people just get blasted with fire and it did not look like that was planned