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Regarding iron scene from SW, it was similar the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I am talking about the scene where Gestapo officer took out his foldable coat hanger

As someone who has grown tired of this kind of storytelling, watching this is kind of like therapy to me.

1. 2001 2. Dr. Strangelove 3. The Shining 4. Paths of Glory 5. The Killing 6. Full Metal jacket 7. Clockwork Orange 8. Barry Lyndon 9. Killer's Kiss 10. Sparticus 11. Lolita 12. Eyes Wide Shut 13. Fear and Desire 14. Bonus... Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

I think one of the best films EVER is O brother, where art thou. Its simply incredible, a funny yet genuine and beautiful retelling of the odyssey set in the rural south, its inherently silly but played somewhat straight, its genuine and amazing as a result

“Ironic humor” and “morally grey” can be done right but Hollywood uses these terms to make up for the absolutely insufferable characters they make that are just an attempt to justify the writers own shitty life choices.

This is true but i think deadpool is a poor example as it's a comedy.

In the case of films like Deadpool, I actually really appreciate moments of sincerity amongst all the meta. Those films are nonstop jokes which can almost be exhausting to watch. Having a sincere moment or two breaks things up and allows our brain to almost relax and reset before the next onslaught of jokes. And it makes sense because despite the none serious nature of Deadpool, he is our protagonist, and we do care what happens to him. We want him to win against the bad guys and get his girl. Those serious moments humanizes him and makes him more relatable keeping us invested in him as a character.

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That was faaaaaaaaaaaaa-ntastic. The ground you covered was hotly debated in the 19th century art world. Try getting a hold of Coventry Patmore's essay on 'Poetical Integrity' which nails it. Keep up the good work and stay away from faux art!

Uncle Iroh's fans are such rеtartеd meatheads it always fascinates me.

The films that cry "wolf"

Can't blame the iron joke on post-MCU meta hijinks -- they stole that one from an X-Files episode from, like, 1997.

I think you're wrong about Deadpool - at least when it comes to the first film. I always felt it earned its serious moments.

The self referential stuff was actually clever and subversive when it first appeared in Marvel movies. It was charming. Then Avengers made a billion dollars and all the film companies decided that it must represent the formula for making billions of dollars, and suddenly everything was trying to be like Avengers and the MCU, be it the meta humor or trying to make a cinematic universe. I remain adamant that the Last Jedi was a bastardized amalgamation of the dark gritty movie Rhian Johnson wanted to make and the Marvel humor and meta stuff that corporate disney mandated. hence you get tonal whiplash throughout the movie as it flips between the two templates, one the director actually wanted and one he was contractually required to have. The contrast made the meta marvel humor in TLJ that much more painful and obvious.

This is why i love anime. If there is any irony, I can’t detect it through the language barrier. Demon slayer? Trigun? Hero academia? Cowboy bebop? Frieren?

Hollywood elites don’t believe in unfiltered truth because they believe there is no truth

Worst list ever, eyes wide shut is garbage

You’re absolutely right about Deadpool. It’s raunchy soullessness either earnestly tries to become wholesome soulfulness or just continues to gaslight us. That makes it what Mircea Eliade would call “profane.” It’s decadence in our culture, commerce settling on every tree, and it knows it, and doesn’t care. Nihilism - you nailed it. Great videos, keep it up!

That’s why those movies have a comedy tag

Why do comedy movies try to be funny when seriou s dramatic movies try to be serious and dramatic? Hollywood makes no sense!

About the “respecting what came before” chapter: If you don’t think that the original was actually good to begin with, you won’t put the effort in to match it. And that’s entirely what all those remakes/reboots/etc. today feel like.

Agree on all counts except the Fast franchise, when you grow with it like i did, the emotional beats do land amid the "awareness".

15:26 well played, well played

Well said

You know, I think you can think of irony and sarcasm and humour in stories a bit like salt in cooking. A tiny pinch of it works in almost any dish, even sweet desserts, and there are some dishes that call for a good heaping of it and taste great, but if you significantly over do the amount or if you use it where it isn't appropriate, (more so than a tiny pinch), then it's just gonna be bad.

13º: Fear and Desire (1953) 12º: Lolita (1962) 11º: Killer’s Kiss (1955) 10º: Dr. Strangelove (1964) 9º: The Killing (1956) 8º: Paths of Glory (1957) 7º: Spartacus (1960) 6º: Full Metal Jacket (1987) 5º: A Clockwork Orange (1971) 4º: Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 3º: Barry Lyndon (1975) 2º: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 1º: The Shining (1980)

You can acknowledge the fourth wall without mocking it.

The tried to make the Greens seem despicable and accidentally made them interesting. Edit: also Criston isn’t messed up because Rhaenyra rejected him; he’s messed up because she destroyed his life to where he can be killed at any time all for a quick fling, and then when he’s saved by Alicent, he sees how Rhaenyra’s decision to have bastard children now jeopardizes the lives of Alicent’s children in the same way. He’s spiteful, yes, but it’s lowkey understandable because he’s been a dead man walking for 20+ years and now he’s seeing the same fate repeat itself in his adopted children, all because Rhaenyra is spoiled and can just play with people’s lives. He’s a “don’t go quietly into that good night” type situation. You’re going to die anyway, might as well die fighting (and in his mind he’s fighting injustice and defending a victimized woman and her innocent children, which TBH I agree).

I have to disagree about the Deadpool the first movie. Although it is a very heavy handed fourth wall breaking affair, it manages to pull out the emotional part of the story. Deadpool 2 still is a great movie and, yes the emotional scenes here don’t hit the same, but ok, it is a great movie. To me the problem is with Deadpool and Wolverine, in this movie the humor became stale, the emotional scenes don’t hit, despite Hugh Jackman’s great performance, and the movie story isn’t that compelling because it’s structure is weak and the whole emotional reason for Deadpool to save his world feels hollow and without real stakes. A movie can be sincere and ironic, but it really is a thin line, Guardians of the Galaxy walked this line very well too. That being said I think that the biggest problem isn’t about the jokes and irony, the problem is the lack of heart and care put in the creation of the script and movie. Hollywood found a formula to make movies and they stick to it, because it is safe, but art shouldn’t be safe, art is about experimentation and risks. This is why we had so much wacky stuff in the 80’s and 90’s, people hadn’t figured out that “movies had to be made a certain way”, so they tried to throw things at the wall to see what sticks. Now mainstream cinema is just a repetition of the same ideas with different skins, and this is the problem with Hollywood, they are stuck with repetition, lack of care and aversion to anything remotely original. Also every movie has to be a spectacle, bombastic, and this in turn make the experience to go to theaters more and more a repetition, sometimes we want to see a low profile drama or a comedy, and now we are stuck with Red One or Madame Web. If you want to watch a drama, prepare to make big searches to find a theater screening your movie. I always treated blockbuster as “fast food” for the brain and never gave much credit to these movies anyway, what I consider a real loss is the lack of diversity and the genres and kinds of movies that are available to mainstream audiences, before we had many, many movies that were both mainstream and great, now it is harder to find greatness inside the mainstream bubble.

Absolutely! I have been feeling this for a long time!

Humour is an important part of the human experience. People relate to each other with it. The problem with it in modern movies is that the humour is for the audience not the other characters in the scene, they're all winking at the camera. A good example of humour is Akira Kurosawa. The characters in his films joke with each other in context for a purpose because they're meant to act like real people.

I've felt this way about cinema, and life, for a while. Too much clever bs, not enough sincerity. I loved this, and it's great to hear younger folks noticing this trend towards being shallow and glib.

Corny, if honest, is good.

Bad take on Thor ragnarok, I love that movie I think that was the last time it was fresh. But everything else said very valid. Too much reliance on that trend makes for monotonous garbage. Lord of the Rings is one of the only movies alongside Indiana Jones and the holy Grail where I hear the music and can see the exact scene and get teary eyed.

There needs to be a balance of how serious you take film and media. The reason that the scene between Loki and the Hulk was so well received back in 2012 was that Hollywood had gone beyond the peak of sincerity, to the point it was nauseating. Back then I wanted nothing more than to see some sanctimoniously preaching villain have his face smashed into the floor by something clearly more ferocious and physically imposing, I reveled in it. I also saw someone comment about how Rick and Morty has beaten this dead in recent years, but back when it first came out I remember how refreshing it felt. It’s the overuse of it that really ruined it. Hollywood needs to realize that these meta jokes and fourth wall breaking is enjoyable only in doses, and needs to be counterbalanced with an equal volume of content that takes itself seriously. And it should only be done in certain niches, like Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool

I think an example of doing this really well, in terms of giving you something simultaneously sincere and fantastical, is One Piece. One Piece is full of jokes, but they play the moments that need to be serious as straight.

Dune is this generation's LotR

Better than Avatar! Since you mentioned it, for Avatar story was just excuse for the visuals. That's why felt so cheap -cliche. Here is a perfect blend of elaborated story plus perfect visuals. Amazing work!

My guess: Disney is still 20th century mind frame due to old age boss Iger. Arrogance as you say and believe in old times methods. Dominance in the TV production plus endless money was a recipe for successful show. Nowadays being mainstream is not enough to gain popularity. I rather watch hours of poor quality reviews on YT to get emotionally invested about dying saga than going to cinema to consume corporate garbage. Bob Iger really beloved that acquisition of as many as possible stakeholders in TV entertainment will be a path to success. That is why he got fcuk from X. For as long as X or YT will allow free speech and alternative messaging ie having free market, only quality is a successful strategy

Finally someone said that epic failure is more interesting than the show itself. SW is a decent idea, one recognized across the world. Publicly dying with burning billions $ is fascinating and followed by so many

That’s why I think John wick works so well. It took a ridiculous plot and then proceeded to be very serious and not laugh at itself. Idk I just think the idea of subverting the revenge movie genra works very well in this movie

Holy ****! I thought that ironing clip WAS from space balls!!!😱

Great list but I would put The Big Country way higher

I think irony is used to plaster over a lack of depth and average or lazy writing. When you aim for sincerity and you don't have depth or good writing to back it up it ends up falling flat and being super cringe. Instead of risking that I think it is far easier for writers and film makers to be tongue-in-cheek and insert a gag because if you can't connect to an audience using well written depth and sincerety then the substitute is to connect with an inside joke.

Comparing two franchises like LoTR and Deadpool is ridiculous. I understand that you’re comparing them because they are on the opposite end of the spectrum or rather they are polar opposites. Nevertheless you got my view and got me to comment so I might as well give you a like and subscribe because even though I think this comparison is a bit extreme lol, I also believe you did a good analysis on both movies was good. So I’ll subscribe because other than the comparison I think you’ve done a good job in this video😂

I blame Rick and Morty

I feeli like this is a big part of why Everything, Everywhere, all at once was so big. All emotion was played completely sincerely. No joke made you feel silly or laughed at you for emotionally investing.

You can have humor that parodies other material or laughs at tired movie tropes but it can't come at the expense of the characters. The difference between the scene in The Incredibles and the scene in The Avengers is that in one, the villain is absolutely degraded and turned into a joke, while in the other the villain is still a threat. If your villain is defeated to make a joke, your movie is really lame. TLJ is a good example of a lame movie: Snoke is defeated in a lame way. General Hux is demonstrated to be a lame incompetent villain. Luke Skywalker is a lame teacher. The Finn and Rose arc is lame because you could cut it out of the plot entirely and nothing about the movie would change. The reveal that Rey's parents aren't important, on top of not making sense (because Rey would obviously care about her parents even if they're not Skywalkers or Kenobis) is super lame. Meanwhile, in movies that do this humor well, you can use jokes to actually tell the audience something about the characters making the joke while at the same time giving the audience a bit of levity. Good movies with jokes know to keep all the funny bits away from the climactic scenes that are supposed to keep you engaged, because they know there are times it's appropriate for the audience to feel grief, pain, joy, wonder, thrill or tension. They know that you can't accomplish that without giving you a sense that the characters live in a world that actually exists. Insecure movies put jokes all around so the audience doesn't need to think about what they're actually watching.

the exact same thing has happened to contemporary art over the last 70 years. Look at what high end galleries are showing and you'll see cynicism, intentional ugliness, making the mundane the star, art referencing historical art but with irony and wokeness, and the worst offense - complete lack of sincerity in all respects of content. Banana taped to a gallery wall (titled 'comedian') is a great example.

The ending of this video gave me chills. I am a believer and while you were reading the comment I started laughing, then it occurred to me what the video was about and the smile froze. I had never realized how much it hurts to feel that my deepest beliefs would make me a laughing stock for others, so much as to drive me to laugh along with them. Your point is very strong, this insincerity is so spread out as to flood what is meant to be most sincere, spirituality.