I laughed. It almost ENTIRELY encapsulates Hollywood 'writing' in a nutshell. Just absolute bonkers, nonsensical, totally implausible, impossibly ridiculous spin. Washing machines and blenders would actually be confused and simultaneously humiliated.
I’ve heard that Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds meticulously prepared for these roles by actually living their own lives as themselves for more than forty-five years.
Ryan, you forgot to mention how during the helicopter scene, the Russian police actually had an RPG and instead of first aiming at the helicopter, they aimed for Dwayne 😂
I love how he just called the characters by the actors' names the whole time. I mean I don't blame him, I just finished watching the movie and I don't remember the character names lol
Coz that is the point. I guess the movie isn't supposed to be complex and have an elaborate plot. This one just gotta be entertaining and it is ) The "no" really hit the spot btw hahah
“So wait if all they needed from Ryan Reynolds is the location of the third egg, couldn’t they have just followed him to that one instead of doing everything they did up to this point?” *long pause* …..”No.” NAILED IT!!! 😂
"Dwayne Johnson has that weird thing with jungles in all his contracts." I nearly spit up my drink laughing, because it's so true, every time I see him he's in another freaking jungle! xD
"couldn't they have just followed him to the location of the third egg instead of doing everything up until this point?" "...........no" "Oh O.K.!" Perfect delivery, wow wow wow.
@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 Space Jam 2. It was hilarious: - "Oh, it's going to be hard for the audience to feel any stakes if the scoring is arbitrary." - "Actually, yep."
my reasoning for why ryan stayed in the room with the real egg: he literally talked about how he loves the attention and escaping so he just did it for his own amusement
Funny that you pitched the movie exactly the way i pitched it to my gf: "Look Honey, it's The Rock, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. We're gonna see it sooner or later, let's be among the first to watch it so we're ahead of the curve on this one and can watch Ryan George without spoiling anything"
That is exactly what I was pitching to my family! We all watch Ryan and when they were building the wall we all said almost at the same time "this is when he's going to say barely an inconvenience"lol. That one was easy to see coming. I wonder how many other people were thinking the same thing? Crazy world
This is the exact kind of movie you don't even bother watching but still want to know how ridiculous it's going to be and Ryan is here to do us all a favor.
To be honest it's kinda been his thing his entire career. He's had one or two (Hitman's Bodyguard was slightly less egregious) but by and large he plays himself
Watching Pitch Meetings for movies I have never heard of and then trying to imagine how they might play out based on the pitch and then getting brain ache and feeling relieved that I did not waste time watching that excuse of a movie is TIGHT!!
I watched this movie less than a week ago and had forgotten everything about it except that it had The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot. When the pitch meeting started, I was like, "Oh, yeah! Art thieves."
I went thru the exact same cycle. I remembered that I had seen the movie and who the actors were, but it wasn't until the pitch started that I remembered they were art thieves in this one.
To be fair, nowadays playing as yourself probably makes you more marketable. "Blending" into a role might make you less memorable to modern audiences, and therefore less in demand by studios.
And complete with advertising the actors' own products? It's the pinnacle of creative bankruptcy! This movie can only be seen as a parody of films in general.
@@ashram12 Nope, not at all. There's still plenty of examples of memorable characters in cinema. Superheroes, any character from Tarantino's movies, Hugh Jackman is famously known as Wolverine and PT Barnum; two completely different characters; hell even Adam Sandler is now remembered by most people as the depressing jewelry dealer. Ryan, Dwayne, Kevin Hart, etc. just don't have that acting range.
@@LuigiGamesful I never said that character actors don't exist anymore, I said that an actor who can play as "themselves" probably has an easier time marketing themselves. As for Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson's acting range, I'm not going to comment on that. Adam Sandler was an actor who was thought to have no range, and surprised everyone with "Punch Drunk Love". It's the double-edged sword of having found your niche: casting directors may feel your personality is precisely what the movie needs, but then they can't see you in any roles that deviate from that.
This had me confused too. But I believe Gal Gadot had to intercept the call to the FBI so that the call didn't raise suspension and put the FBI on their tail as well.
Another recurring theme (not in this one but it happens more often recently) is that Screenwriter guy slowly breaks Producer Guy's will to be a producer. 'Old' was epic for that.
Oh my God dude you've taken this to the next level with these pitch meetings! You hit every bullseye comedically and satirically it is truly an art form. Such a brilliant and accurate critique of these blockbuster-aspiring formulas! You make me feel like I'm not the only sane person
You could extend this pitch meeting by 5 minutes just by elaborating on all the things that don't make any sense in their plan after you know the twist, for example, even if Gal Gadot were to know about the prison wall and had influence inside the prison, that information clearly didn't reach the guards as they clearly intended to shoot to kill, for example with the bazooka, it was no way probable that Dwayne Johnsson survived. The easiest solution was just to capture and torture the information from Ryan Reynolds since it was Dwayne who knew his location in the first place, or just to follow him instead of arresting him, but I guess then we wouldn't have a movie lol...
" ... No." You kill me!! I knew from the previews I never wanted to waste time on this movie. Your screen pitch is pure gold!! I'm laughing so hard! You slayed!
"Jungles of Argentina" is such an odd choice. Pretty much every other location in the movie is pretty stereotypical - bullfighting ring for Spain, pyramids for Egypt, but then jungles are so atypical of Argentina. Misiones Province, does have patches of subtropical rainforest, but it's not exactly the Amazon or the Congo, it's pretty fragmented. The coordinates shown on screen in the movie do take you to a patch of rainforest in Misiones province, but that patch measures about 150 sq km - not exactly a vast, trackless wilderness in which to hide. Giving the film a little bit of leeway, there is the larger Iguazu National Park nearby, about 4 times the size, but it is also home to one of the biggest tourist attractions in South America, Iguazu Falls, which has already a popular destination by the time of WWII. Many Nazis of course did go to Argentina after the war, but most went to Patagonia, which is much more remote and sparsely populated. And it sure ain't jungle - most of Patagonia is dry, treeless, windswept and cold. There are forests around the lower slopes of the Andes, but they aren't jungle, and they're punctuated by alpine lakes and glaciers.
@@eyeswulf I mean... I don't know much about Uncharted, but it wasn't set in Argentina. It seems to be mainly set in Panama and Colombia, from what I can tell - countries that have heaps of jungle. I'm not sure why Argentina...
"Is that going to be hard to do?" "Actually it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience!" I literally live for that line it's my favorite line in every pitch meeting video!
The joke at 0:14 is made funnier by the fact that Netflix's description for this movie is literally just "This 2021 film features Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot."
In a car that old the gas gelling wouldn't be an issue. Before about 1970, the gas just evaporated into the atmosphere. If you let the car sit you'd end up with an empty tank. It was around '70 that they started using vapor canisters to prevent venting. OTOH the engine would've almost definitely been stuck from 100% of the oil draining into the pan.
The humidity created by an open waerfall and being inside a jungle would have long rusted the pistons inside the cylinders. Most if not all of those valuables would have irreparable damage from the horrible weater of a jungle waterfall cave storage.
@@Val_Killmore yeah I thought because of the vault door it was going to be a sealed room and that's how everything was undamaged and then they had the bullshit about the copper mine tunnels for the convenient escape
@@mikiwilliams4133 in every videogame ever, there's this elaborate hard to penetrate entrance. Then you make your way inside and ..... there's sunlight shining in from some cave roof or back entrance something. Like... whaaaat?
Given that the 3 actors are basically just being themselves & they have all been in the F&F franchise, I guess we know how they were able to do all the things that they did... having a background in underground illegal street racing.
Cause we all know that having backgrounds in illegal street racing guarantees that you can do all kinds of whacky spy infiltration combat stuff. Cause cars go fast. And furious.
You know, I actually hope that Netflix's movies are made with algorithms, because I feel much more comfortable with that than knowing that there's people who actually come up with stuff so banal and generic.
Consistently well done even after all these years and numerous episodes. Great writing that never has cheap shots or reaches for things to criticize. And the performers timing is fantastique.
I know this is kinda random, but you should totally do a pitch meeting for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It was actually a pretty decent action movie, but it's still just so ripe for the 'pitch meetings' treatment:)
@@linken0879 Yeah. Like 10 minutes before the Twist was revealed, Iwas thinking "Unless I'm right about this twist, then it's just a bad movie." Producer Guy: "Unexplained Super Competent Villains are Tight!"
The movie doesn't take itself seriously at all, it's a fun watch. It won't win any Oscars, but it's not _bad_ by any stretch, t's just a big action movie with a heist in the middle.
"There's this old old car from World War 2 there, so they drive that right through the tunnel" "The car still works after 80 years of being in a bunker" "Why wouldn't it?" This cracks me up too. 😂😂😂
it's not as bad as Battlefield Earth where some 200 year old Harrier jets are working perfectly and they know how to fly them. I know Ryan's terrified of Scientology but there needs to be a PM on Battlefield Earth
I love how you hear Hollywood pundits go on about how "the era of the movie star is over", that movie stars don't matter for box office, that all that matters is IP. And yet here we have a movie where all they have going for it is movie stars. And it's a legit blockbuster.
To an extent they are right. It's different from before, let's say, late 2000s. Now, it's more about movies and franchises than movie stars, but you still have people like The Rock, who's a blockbuster, and now, Deadpool guy, and this is because they play themselves, so you always know what you get... it's like in the times of Van Damme, Arnold Swa**, Stallone, Jackie Chan etc, you always knew that, when you see those guys, the movie is an action movie, I think another person who's still moving like this is Jason Statham.... But Mostly, it's no longer about movie stars, except a few actors who still play themselves in every movie
@@activelifetransformation A lot of relevant actors always play themselves, though. Lakeith Stanfield is always a weirdo, Kevin Hart is always loud, Tom Cruise is always hyper and doing stunts. I think the MCU just messed with Hollywood's willingness to bet on a star's charisma when they can lean on IP. However, if the movie star is truly dead, why do Dreamworks and Illumination always cast movie stars as their voices instead of regular voice actors? Mario, Angry Birds and the Grinch are huge IPs, yet they always cast A-listers.
So true. This really just felt like a series of random happenings to justify Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds, the Rock being the Rock, and Gal Godot thrown in to be the sexy and clever woman.
To be fair, Das just sent him there, Gal Gadot apparently rules the prison or something so she probably pulled some strings to put the other two actors in the same room. Also, that's in the script.
Don't forget the part where when they were escaping from the prison, one of the guards had a ROCKT LAUNCHER and instead of AIMING IT AT THE HELICOPTER WHICH THEIR ONLY MEANS OF ESCAPE he aims it at Dwayne Johnson which skyrockets him even closer to the helicopter...
I need you to IMMEDIATELY do a pitch meeting on the new Resident Evil movie. That was PAINFUL to watch. Honestly might be worse than Avatar the last Airbender live-action
Dear screen rant and Ryan George, please make pitch meetings for these movies because of their popularity: 1. Free Guy, 2. What if, 3. Dune, 4. Army of thieves, 5. Resident evil: welcome to raccoon city
You skipped over the one detail that I find the most discombobulating... They leave the bunker with the one old car they find (and I can suspense disbelief about it working) but then the FBI starts following them thru the tunnel with military cars with mounted guns. Where the flying frack did they come from?!
Actually as Ryan and the Rock walk through the bunker searching for the egg, even before they find the Hitler car, you'll see one of the military cars in the background
@@kaansreaper8975 Ah! Then I'll get aaall of the way of their backs about this. Because then it tracks about their general reasonable behaviour throughout the movie.
I'm honestly surprised Ryan Reynolds hasn't stepped in for a pitch meeting and Ryan comes in at the end confused as to why someone in this universe all of a sudden looks different (with no glasses)
It's funny how Ryan is the only one here that ended up having a successful CBM franchise even after being in the widely hated Blade Trinity and Green Lantern.
A movie ticket costs like $12-15 nowadays. Instead of paying for the cinema and wasting 2 hours of my night I rely on Ryan to explain just enough for me to be able to nod my head at the right places during conversations about movies.
But gas goes bad in 3 to 6 months! Nobody told Ryan that before about 1970, the gas just evaporated into the atmosphere. It was around '70 that they started using vapor canisters.
When I saw the poster I imagined what type of movie this would be and I was pretty sure I wouldn't want to see it. It's nice to see that it is exactly the type of movie I expect it to be. Then again, when you have two actors that only play themselves it gets easy to predict.
Rumor has it that had The Rock poured Pepsi on the Egg instead, nothing would've happened and no one would've believed The Rock that it was a fake. Plot dependent product integration is tight!
I'm still waiting for a Taken Pitch meeting.. I know it's mostly action, but that would make doing a pitch for them super easy, barely an inconvenience. You could even do the whole franchise in one go.
Just to hear Ryan mouth the "I have a certain set of skills ..." speech while showing Neeson would be hilarious I just know it! Possibly even besting Mortal Combat (too bad you ... will DIE) AND Into Darkness (My name is Khan!)
i want one of theese movies where they arent even trying to hide it. its literally just Dwayne Johnson, and everyone in the movie calls him Dwayne Johnson. make a self aware movie like that.
There was the show Jean-Claude Van Johnson, where the entire premise was Jean-Claude Van Dam was actually a spy for his entire career. It was exactly as as absurd as it sounds.
“So for this villain guy, who did you have in mind to play him?” “Well he’s a scary man with an accent so I think it’s pretty obvious.” “Oh you mean-“ “Yup, the man currently voicing Mickey Mouse!” “Oh that wasn’t obvious at all.”
Oh no… I watched this movie a little over a week ago and I genuinely forgot what happened in it😅 I actually was second guessing myself if I had seen it or not.. It’s sad that the movie is so forgettable when it had a lot of potential
Prepare next season for Netflix to release "Blue Alert", and most people will watch it because it rings bells and for the life of them can't remember if they had seen a previous similar movie or not... rinse and repeat ca-ching $$$
I like that he doesn't even bother using character names, since it really doesn't matter for this film.
I refreshed the comments and the ScreenRant "like" popped up quickly🤣🤣
@@lukamaisuradze8051 screen rant must've thought it was super easy,barely an inconvenience to add some likes.
@@poppy87 I hope it's Ryan himself and not some dudes on ScreenRant UA-cam staff
And now they pinned it🤣🤣
True
I think what I learned from this is that Gal Gadot doesn't own a stake in an alcoholic beverage company
Does she own a stake in "Wonderbra"?
@@StevieB8363 More likely she owns shares of Amazon.
@@billmurray7473 iswydt
@@StevieB8363 So true!
Not yet. By the time part 2 comes around she will
Dwayne Johnson has Jungles, Ryan Reynolds has witty one-liners, and Gal Gadot has decades old vehicles that somehow work despite having not been used.
That is... Wildly accurate 🤣
What more could a film possibly need?
@@LucianDevine Absolutely nothing 😅
@@LucianDevine Believable story? Good characters? Sense of direction?
@@pvshka i definetlly know what you need.
You need to chill
Having two “super easy, barely an inconvenience”'s in a single Pitch Meeting is TIGHT!
It's actually super easy, barely an inconvenience
Yeah yeah yeah
Wow wow, wow wow wow.... Wow
This wasn't the first time that happened.
oh really?
"This isn't so much a twist ending as it is a... spin cycle."
My man be hitting us with only the truest of facts.
I laughed. It almost ENTIRELY encapsulates Hollywood 'writing' in a nutshell.
Just absolute bonkers, nonsensical, totally implausible, impossibly ridiculous spin.
Washing machines and blenders would actually be confused and simultaneously humiliated.
Also, omg, I just realized your login name... hahahaha
SLAP DAT LLAMA! 🤣😂🤣😂
IT DO BE LIKE THAT THOUGH
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I’ve heard that Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds meticulously prepared for these roles by actually living their own lives as themselves for more than forty-five years.
Shots fired!
GOT EM!!
Wow. What dedication
That's method AF. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't hold a candle to them.
Method acting at its finest!!
"....no."
That delivery just killed me. Holy crap, someone make a movie with Ryan in it!
"Could they just use this simpler/more smart option?"
"...No"
I smell a new running gag.
this is a pitch for a movie with ryan in it
Had to watch it twice, so good
I watched the first episode of the TV show he was in and then completely forgot about it till just now. Wasn't Ryan's fault though.
That no was so funny
"Dwayne Johnson his character is Dwayne Johnson"
So it's just the usual
Just Some Guy without a Mustache
You again
1 hour and less the 200 likes.... surprised!
Who else would he be
5th
Ryan, you forgot to mention how during the helicopter scene, the Russian police actually had an RPG and instead of first aiming at the helicopter, they aimed for Dwayne 😂
Or how the bad guy is established as enjoying strangling people, yet never once tries to strangle anyone in the movie.
Even stupider than that was the fact that the Russian military prison had an AT4 *instead* of an RPG. For some reason.
I wondered this too.... like yeah shoot the moving guy on a swing bridge rather than his stationary escape vehicle
@@Naigus likeeeee the sense behind it😂😂
Dwayne's deadlier than a helicopter with a turret
The delay on the fourth "wow" was a masterpiece of modern cinema all by itself. Thanks for your effort in keeping "wow" fresh.
It was like watching a screamer video waiting for the frame to change!
Delaying the fourth “wow” is tight
it is almost always like that, though...
He just has to let you know that he's not actually all that impressed
@@akvyr the pause was longer though
I love how he just called the characters by the actors' names the whole time. I mean I don't blame him, I just finished watching the movie and I don't remember the character names lol
IKR? LMAO🤣🤣🤣
I only don’t remember The Rocks name. Reynolds was Booth. Gadot was bishop and the interpol chick was Das
Actually never mind as soon as I posted that I remember his name was Hartley
They had names?
Damn you’re right, I literally can’t remember their names😂
4:28 - "No." This delivery merits an Oscar.
The way that "No" was delivered and the realization that came before it says a lot about the movie plot.
This was the funniest "no" I've ever heard. 🤣
Coz that is the point. I guess the movie isn't supposed to be complex and have an elaborate plot. This one just gotta be entertaining and it is )
The "no" really hit the spot btw hahah
@@ГОЛОСНИК-б5б It's like a whole intro for a movie really
Exactly!
4:25
Making a successful movie with Deadpool and The Rock is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Don't forget Wonder Woman.
Oh, really?
You just need the money, then it will just work
@@cma1676 and ed sheeran
What happens when Black Adam, Deadpool, and Wonder Woman plan a heist
“So wait if all they needed from Ryan Reynolds is the location of the third egg, couldn’t they have just followed him to that one instead of doing everything they did up to this point?”
*long pause* …..”No.”
NAILED IT!!! 😂
I was waiting for "Get off my back about that." No was a nice surprise.
@@earlleeruhf3130 I was expecting a "Hey, shut up."
"So what's the movie?"
"Barely matters!"
😂😂
Something that does matter is the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges 😀
“Eh, it kind of matters”
@@colbysteffens2976 is that a sequel to Barely Matters?
I love the return of "Barely matters!"
@@FuckFascistUA-cam Really? Even in the comments of a Pitch Meeting video?
BOO THIS MAN! BOOOOO!
"This isn't so much a twist ending as it is a .... spin cycle." -- TRUTH.
lol.. I died from the laughter
It's a spin cycle ending
in case someone didnt get it, even though they found it funny, spin cycle is what reference to washing your clothes in a washing machine.
I immediately thought of the use of a spin cycle in "The Great Outdoors."
Very similar to the ending of "Wild Things."
"Dwayne Johnson has that weird thing with jungles in all his contracts." I nearly spit up my drink laughing, because it's so true, every time I see him he's in another freaking jungle! xD
Thanks to SR everytime I read your profile name somewhere I think of the eternals 😆
Ah, a pitch meeting newbie. Welcome!
Guess the dessert never really work for him
Or divorced
Besides Central Intelligence,The Tooth Fairy and The Game Plan.
"So then they head to the jungle 'cause we don't really have a choice in the matter"
😂😂😂
So good
Goota give that rock his jungle
Does The Rock really always play in movies with a jungle? which ones? Besides the very obvious Welcome to the Jungle and both Jumanji films.
@@Leprutz or tall buildings
@@Leprutz Hobbs and Shaw ...mouana ....
@@Leprutz Jungle Cruise
"couldn't they have just followed him to the location of the third egg instead of doing everything up until this point?"
"...........no"
"Oh O.K.!"
Perfect delivery, wow wow wow.
I thought we were going to get a “sir, I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back” at that point
👏👏
It was so much better
I always say that sometimes, dead silence can be funny as hell.
... ... ... wow.
Dwayne has jungle scenes in his contract adjacent to Tom Cruise and his running sequences 😭🤣🤣
I wanna see Dwayne Johnson and Tom Cruise do a movie together now.
@@patrickrobinsob1464Where they are both in a jungle running together
I'm just waiting for the day when he tricks us all and says "Really hard, a massive inconvenience"
Oh he already did that, I just can’t remember which pitch meetings it was.
@@firewolf950tfwgaming7 Space Jam 2. It was hilarious:
- "Oh, it's going to be hard for the audience to feel any stakes if the scoring is arbitrary."
- "Actually, yep."
I went back and it was also in the man of steel pitch meeting. Although I swear there was another.
It was in man of steel, super difficult very much an inconvenience lol Watch it it’s great
He already has, his opposite catchphrase is "Super Difficult, Very Much an Inconvenience"
I love the fact that Ryan didn't bother to refer to the character's names, since the actors clearly didn't bother to really "play" characters.
Which is kind of the main selling point of the movie
my reasoning for why ryan stayed in the room with the real egg: he literally talked about how he loves the attention and escaping so he just did it for his own amusement
wait, that implies that you did actually watch this film??? what's wrong with you.
We got a rare 2 “super-easy barely and inconvenience” in this one. Fantastic!!
Having two SEBAIs in one Pitch Meeting is tight!
Wow wow wow wow…. Wow
Oh saying the catchphrase super easy barely an inconvenience twice is tight
It’s as rare as one of Cleopatra’s golden eggs.
Didn't even have to get all the way off his back on that.
“So they put him in a Russian prison.”
“Right, the FBI sends Russia valuable prisoners all the time.”
No this is Interpol and no one actually knows what they do or don't do, so it's totally fine!
@@paulelderson934 makes total sense both of them get shipped off to the same Russian gulag in the middle of nowhere, it's so believable!
Sending prisoners to Russia is tight
This is about as true as I figured it would be.
This being said, why haven't you done a "Free Guy" pitch meeting yet?
Funny that you pitched the movie exactly the way i pitched it to my gf:
"Look Honey, it's The Rock, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot. We're gonna see it sooner or later, let's be among the first to watch it so we're ahead of the curve on this one and can watch Ryan George without spoiling anything"
No, no, no! You got it back to front. You spoiled Ryan George by watching the movie first!
@@TheSirEgg Yeap, thats how things work, we dont see movies anymore, only Ryan
@@r7diego indeed it saves me a lot of time and inconvenience and it is not difficult either.
That is exactly what I was pitching to my family! We all watch Ryan and when they were building the wall we all said almost at the same time "this is when he's going to say barely an inconvenience"lol. That one was easy to see coming. I wonder how many other people were thinking the same thing? Crazy world
This is the exact kind of movie you don't even bother watching but still want to know how ridiculous it's going to be and Ryan is here to do us all a favor.
"What's his character's deal?"
"Well, he's Ryan Reynolds."
This accurately sums up what Ryan Reynolds has been doing ever since Deadpool.
To be honest it's kinda been his thing his entire career. He's had one or two (Hitman's Bodyguard was slightly less egregious) but by and large he plays himself
Before also - I started noticing him since Van Wilder and he has always been like that.
Since way before Deadpool you mean…
"perfect"
“Buried” is the only movie I’m aware of his where he’s not sarcastic, lol.
The Pitch Meetings on this channel are the only thing keeping it afloat. Without them I would never watch screen rant. You should give Ryan a Raise
Giving Ryan a raise is tight
@JMProductions Yeah yeah yeah!
Which Ryan? The producer or the one who does all the work putting the pitch together?
@@SimonASNG or were you refering to Ryan Reynolds.
I agree, I'm not subbed to screen rant, don't like their videos, but I've seen literally every pitch meeting.
Pitch Meetings have become a perfect excuse not to watch most of those movies.
I find it therapeutic for the crappy ones I did watch
Yeah, I wouldn't watch most of them anyways.
yeah like shang chii,eternals,black widow etc😂👍
Just watch them after the pitch meeting this way you feel like an exec
I watched some movies so that I can fully enjoy the pitch meetings.
That “no” at 4:26 is the best line delivery I’ve ever heard
I rewound it three times to hear it again.
100%
Watching Pitch Meetings for movies I have never heard of and then trying to imagine how they might play out based on the pitch and then getting brain ache and feeling relieved that I did not waste time watching that excuse of a movie is TIGHT!!
I watched this movie less than a week ago and had forgotten everything about it except that it had The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot. When the pitch meeting started, I was like, "Oh, yeah! Art thieves."
thanks for the tip.
not seeing this film will be super easy, barely an inconvenience!
This seems it was a master piece
Movie was ok, but if it wasn’t for them it would have been another Netflix movie, but still ok
I went thru the exact same cycle. I remembered that I had seen the movie and who the actors were, but it wasn't until the pitch started that I remembered they were art thieves in this one.
Lol I dint remember anything other then the actors either lol 😂
Brilliant! Having them play themselves. The ultimate method acting, they've practiced years for this, you could say they were born for these roles!
To be fair, nowadays playing as yourself probably makes you more marketable. "Blending" into a role might make you less memorable to modern audiences, and therefore less in demand by studios.
And complete with advertising the actors' own products? It's the pinnacle of creative bankruptcy! This movie can only be seen as a parody of films in general.
@@ashram12 Nope, not at all. There's still plenty of examples of memorable characters in cinema. Superheroes, any character from Tarantino's movies, Hugh Jackman is famously known as Wolverine and PT Barnum; two completely different characters; hell even Adam Sandler is now remembered by most people as the depressing jewelry dealer. Ryan, Dwayne, Kevin Hart, etc. just don't have that acting range.
@@LuigiGamesful I never said that character actors don't exist anymore, I said that an actor who can play as "themselves" probably has an easier time marketing themselves. As for Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson's acting range, I'm not going to comment on that. Adam Sandler was an actor who was thought to have no range, and surprised everyone with "Punch Drunk Love". It's the double-edged sword of having found your niche: casting directors may feel your personality is precisely what the movie needs, but then they can't see you in any roles that deviate from that.
@@ashram12 Ah I see, in that case I agree with you.
The ridiculously long pause, followed by the "no." got me!! 🤣🤣🤣 These videos are just the best!
Ryan Reynolds has the easiest job playing himself in every movie.
The Rock often does the same
As does Gal Gadot
Actually is ripping Jason Lee, but that's neither here nor there
omg i died!
Lol
Can’t believe I’m saying this, but WWE had a better plot advertising this movie than the movie itself.
$100 Million egg!
This had me confused too. But I believe Gal Gadot had to intercept the call to the FBI so that the call didn't raise suspension and put the FBI on their tail as well.
I like how scriptwriter guy becomes increasingly uncomfortable with producer guy's TIGHT comments and at this point just accepts it
That's called character development 🤣
Another recurring theme (not in this one but it happens more often recently) is that Screenwriter guy slowly breaks Producer Guy's will to be a producer. 'Old' was epic for that.
Omg you have a reply back from the legend himself!! I’m so jelous
@@fabiandurr6865 my favorite was the Twilight movie. He just kept taking long pauses and is like".....what are we doing here?"
@@SGTcrackey666 are you sure it’s not the intern?! 😋
Ryan saying "barely an inconvinience" always leaves me satisfied
Always being left satisfied by Ryan George is TIGHT!
Oh REALLY?
My favorite is whoopsie
gross
@@AW-mm3kx DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF SOMETIMES?
Oh my God dude you've taken this to the next level with these pitch meetings! You hit every bullseye comedically and satirically it is truly an art form. Such a brilliant and accurate critique of these blockbuster-aspiring formulas! You make me feel like I'm not the only sane person
Ryan should own Screen Rant at this point cause he carries them. All of his videos are tight🤣
Me: Screen Rant, why do you never like comments about Ryan carrying your channel?
SR: Because!
Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty on all charges is also tight
@@FuckFascistUA-cam Everyone is entitled to their own opinions I guess. Even dumbass ones like yours.
@@dilldell4722 Well, mine matches the jury's, which is all that really matters. Soooo.. cope, I guess? 😋🤗
@@FuckFascistUA-cam People that randomly bring politics to unrelated videos are scum.
You could extend this pitch meeting by 5 minutes just by elaborating on all the things that don't make any sense in their plan after you know the twist, for example, even if Gal Gadot were to know about the prison wall and had influence inside the prison, that information clearly didn't reach the guards as they clearly intended to shoot to kill, for example with the bazooka, it was no way probable that Dwayne Johnsson survived. The easiest solution was just to capture and torture the information from Ryan Reynolds since it was Dwayne who knew his location in the first place, or just to follow him instead of arresting him, but I guess then we wouldn't have a movie lol...
So True
I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about this logic stuff
"Rock jenga" ..
Don't forget all this happened... "So that the movie can happen"
Shut up Karen.
“That’s not a twist, that’s a spin cycle.”
Me: SpIn CyClEs ArE tIgHt!
"Stealing eggs is tight"
"Alright"
😂😂😂 Cracked me up
Ha ha ha h! You made another egg joke
Would have cracked the egg, too! LOL
Lol
Must be a WWE fan
I can't tell what the joke eggsactly is
Please make a pitch meeting for Disney's: "Blank Check", Ryan it would be so tight if you did it!
@ALL HANDS ON STEAM DECK wow you love caps
I'm gonna need you to get off Ryan's back on that...
@@taterpussy3825 wow wow wow....wow
omg what a throw back, YES
Was that the pedo movie?
" ... No." You kill me!! I knew from the previews I never wanted to waste time on this movie. Your screen pitch is pure gold!! I'm laughing so hard! You slayed!
Please do a dune and free guy pitch meeting. Also cowboy bebop and arcane eventually
Yes to both of them!!
We more comments so Ryan sees it
arcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
All of those would be phenomenal!!!
"Jungles of Argentina" is such an odd choice. Pretty much every other location in the movie is pretty stereotypical - bullfighting ring for Spain, pyramids for Egypt, but then jungles are so atypical of Argentina. Misiones Province, does have patches of subtropical rainforest, but it's not exactly the Amazon or the Congo, it's pretty fragmented. The coordinates shown on screen in the movie do take you to a patch of rainforest in Misiones province, but that patch measures about 150 sq km - not exactly a vast, trackless wilderness in which to hide. Giving the film a little bit of leeway, there is the larger Iguazu National Park nearby, about 4 times the size, but it is also home to one of the biggest tourist attractions in South America, Iguazu Falls, which has already a popular destination by the time of WWII. Many Nazis of course did go to Argentina after the war, but most went to Patagonia, which is much more remote and sparsely populated. And it sure ain't jungle - most of Patagonia is dry, treeless, windswept and cold. There are forests around the lower slopes of the Andes, but they aren't jungle, and they're punctuated by alpine lakes and glaciers.
Don't overthink it. It's an Uncharted homage. Which itself is an Indiana Jones homage.
If a country has any patch of jungle the Rock will find it.
Dwayne Johnson likes jungles, that's all there is to it
@@eyeswulf overthinking it is basically my whole deal.
@@eyeswulf I mean... I don't know much about Uncharted, but it wasn't set in Argentina. It seems to be mainly set in Panama and Colombia, from what I can tell - countries that have heaps of jungle. I'm not sure why Argentina...
"Is that going to be hard to do?"
"Actually it's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience!"
I literally live for that line it's my favorite line in every pitch meeting video!
Honestly, Ryan Reynolds saying he wanted it to be more like a Bollywood movie made a lot of their choices make sense.
No wonder it was awful
@@dankstank110 you're butt hurt
@@dankstank110 agreed
@@dv9239 nah I'm not but just didn't like it like it's just alright barely memorable and wasn't fun either just average
@@dankstank110 So true
That Dune pitch meeting is really becoming an inconvenience. Super difficult.
I feel like Dune is gonna be hard to make fun of because it is so grand and too political
*Ah, the difficulty of filming a Pitch Meeting for a seemingly unfilmable book adaptation is TIGHT.*
@@noobmasterruben5167 not really. If it’s hard to make fun of it’s only because not much happened besides an emo kid and a giant worm.
The joke at 0:14 is made funnier by the fact that Netflix's description for this movie is literally just "This 2021 film features Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot."
At this point, Pitch Meeting is basically Rotten Tomatoes for me.
Not to mention way more reliable.
And way more funny
Except good.
Way better
Except it's more accurate and valid😂
In a car that old the gas gelling wouldn't be an issue. Before about 1970, the gas just evaporated into the atmosphere. If you let the car sit you'd end up with an empty tank. It was around '70 that they started using vapor canisters to prevent venting.
OTOH the engine would've almost definitely been stuck from 100% of the oil draining into the pan.
Wow wow wow... wow!
I'm sure when engines have been stood for so long they need hand cranking for a while to free them up before starting the engine
The humidity created by an open waerfall and being inside a jungle would have long rusted the pistons inside the cylinders. Most if not all of those valuables would have irreparable damage from the horrible weater of a jungle waterfall cave storage.
@@Val_Killmore yeah I thought because of the vault door it was going to be a sealed room and that's how everything was undamaged and then they had the bullshit about the copper mine tunnels for the convenient escape
@@mikiwilliams4133 in every videogame ever, there's this elaborate hard to penetrate entrance. Then you make your way inside and ..... there's sunlight shining in from some cave roof or back entrance something. Like... whaaaat?
5:25 this is the major problem with the heavy use of cars in The Walking Dead
Given that the 3 actors are basically just being themselves & they have all been in the F&F franchise, I guess we know how they were able to do all the things that they did... having a background in underground illegal street racing.
Ryan was in F&F??? Which one??
@@jpz2009 Hobbs & Shaw (It's why I specifically used the word "franchise".)
Cause we all know that having backgrounds in illegal street racing guarantees that you can do all kinds of whacky spy infiltration combat stuff.
Cause cars go fast. And furious.
@@reapordeath and family.
@@strawbarry7834 *FAMILY*
Without a stitch of sarcasm I genuinely enjoyed this so much more than the actual movie.
You know, I actually hope that Netflix's movies are made with algorithms, because I feel much more comfortable with that than knowing that there's people who actually come up with stuff so banal and generic.
Consistently well done even after all these years and numerous episodes. Great writing that never has cheap shots or reaches for things to criticize. And the performers timing is fantastique.
I know this is kinda random, but you should totally do a pitch meeting for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. It was actually a pretty decent action movie, but it's still just so ripe for the 'pitch meetings' treatment:)
Too much of an inconvenience
Yeahyeahyeah
OoooooOOOOoooo I forgot about that movie! What a gem... An easily mocked gem!
Lol yes I’d love to see that one
I freaking love that movie. They used history so well it’s almost as if Lincoln was an actual vampire Hunter.
"Because they have rankings for that kind of thing." My new favourite line.
Hahaha this should somehow make it to more pitch meetings.
This movie was so good that it got a double "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"moment. Incredible
I watched like 10 minutes of this movie and couldn't take it anymore. Oh man, watching this Pitch Meeting is going to be TIGHT!!
Watching a movie for 10 minutes is TIGHT!!
Same here ... was easy to tell that quickly that the pitch meeting was gonna be far tightier than the film itself.
It wasn’t a “bad” movie, it was just….a movie.
@@linken0879 Yeah. Like 10 minutes before the Twist was revealed, Iwas thinking "Unless I'm right about this twist, then it's just a bad movie."
Producer Guy: "Unexplained Super Competent Villains are Tight!"
The movie doesn't take itself seriously at all, it's a fun watch. It won't win any Oscars, but it's not _bad_ by any stretch, t's just a big action movie with a heist in the middle.
In the words of Deadpool, "Well, that's just lazy writing."
are we sure there was writing? wasnt it just notes from other movies put together?
@@LednacekZ They just binge watched a bunch of popular action/heist movies and said, “yeah, let’s just do that”
"Wow,wow,wow,wow...wow" and "super easy, Barely an inconvenience " gets me everytime
"There's this old old car from World War 2 there, so they drive that right through the tunnel"
"The car still works after 80 years of being in a bunker"
"Why wouldn't it?"
This cracks me up too. 😂😂😂
it's not as bad as Battlefield Earth where some 200 year old Harrier jets are working perfectly and they know how to fly them. I know Ryan's terrified of Scientology but there needs to be a PM on Battlefield Earth
@@kellnola lol😂😂😂 I guess some technology are immortal
I love how you hear Hollywood pundits go on about how "the era of the movie star is over", that movie stars don't matter for box office, that all that matters is IP. And yet here we have a movie where all they have going for it is movie stars. And it's a legit blockbuster.
Except Netflix doesn't make money from the number of people who watch a show/movie.
Yep. I usually don't even refer to the movie name (I usually forget), so I just say 'that new Will Smith/Tom Cruise/The Rock movie'
To an extent they are right. It's different from before, let's say, late 2000s. Now, it's more about movies and franchises than movie stars, but you still have people like The Rock, who's a blockbuster, and now, Deadpool guy, and this is because they play themselves, so you always know what you get... it's like in the times of Van Damme, Arnold Swa**, Stallone, Jackie Chan etc, you always knew that, when you see those guys, the movie is an action movie, I think another person who's still moving like this is Jason Statham.... But Mostly, it's no longer about movie stars, except a few actors who still play themselves in every movie
@@activelifetransformation A lot of relevant actors always play themselves, though. Lakeith Stanfield is always a weirdo, Kevin Hart is always loud, Tom Cruise is always hyper and doing stunts. I think the MCU just messed with Hollywood's willingness to bet on a star's charisma when they can lean on IP.
However, if the movie star is truly dead, why do Dreamworks and Illumination always cast movie stars as their voices instead of regular voice actors? Mario, Angry Birds and the Grinch are huge IPs, yet they always cast A-listers.
Isn't this a Netflix movie?? If so.... Not exactly a blockbuster..
So true. This really just felt like a series of random happenings to justify Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds, the Rock being the Rock, and Gal Godot thrown in to be the sexy and clever woman.
I love that thing Ryan George does with his head when he says "Super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Oh really?
I thought I was the only one who noticed I decided
🤣 🤣 🤣 Amusing everytime!
It's wierd watching older pitch meetings where he doesn't do it. Just seems off.
To be fair, Das just sent him there, Gal Gadot apparently rules the prison or something so she probably pulled some strings to put the other two actors in the same room. Also, that's in the script.
I actually haven’t watched the movie but do they explain why they sent the actors to a Russian prison instead of a regular prison or a closer one
6:24 What’s weird is that despite the huge opening, pretty much everyone’s opinion about this film is that it sure is a film that exists.
Don't forget the part where when they were escaping from the prison, one of the guards had a ROCKT LAUNCHER and instead of AIMING IT AT THE HELICOPTER WHICH THEIR ONLY MEANS OF ESCAPE he aims it at Dwayne Johnson which skyrockets him even closer to the helicopter...
I need you to IMMEDIATELY do a pitch meeting on the new Resident Evil movie. That was PAINFUL to watch. Honestly might be worse than Avatar the last Airbender live-action
Dear screen rant and Ryan George, please make pitch meetings for these movies because of their popularity:
1. Free Guy,
2. What if,
3. Dune,
4. Army of thieves,
5. Resident evil: welcome to raccoon city
“And Dwayne Johnsons character is dwayne johnson”
“Who else would he be”
Nailed it.
ScreenRant needs to give Ryan a free premium Spa day for carrying the whole channel on his back.
And a massage
Every Tuesday
I didn't even know there was content outside of Ryan's skits
@@usernamesSux9 Yeah, it's forgettable content
And a backpack so he can conveniently take the ScreenRant off in cafes and on the bus.
Sotto Voce. It's Sotto voce. It means "quiet voice".
You skipped over the one detail that I find the most discombobulating... They leave the bunker with the one old car they find (and I can suspense disbelief about it working) but then the FBI starts following them thru the tunnel with military cars with mounted guns. Where the flying frack did they come from?!
They were German WWII military vehicles. Also inexplicably in that cave and working.
I think he’s going to need you to get right off his back about that one
Actually as Ryan and the Rock walk through the bunker searching for the egg, even before they find the Hitler car, you'll see one of the military cars in the background
@@kaansreaper8975 Ah! Then I'll get aaall of the way of their backs about this. Because then it tracks about their general reasonable behaviour throughout the movie.
that whole chase scene was so badly filmed and edited. You can't even tell who's fighting who!
I'm honestly surprised Ryan Reynolds hasn't stepped in for a pitch meeting and Ryan comes in at the end confused as to why someone in this universe all of a sudden looks different (with no glasses)
I want this sooooo bad.
Yes
It's funny how Ryan is the only one here that ended up having a successful CBM franchise even after being in the widely hated Blade Trinity and Green Lantern.
The La Brea series needs to have a pitch meeting. It should be super easy, barely an inconvenience to find the flaws in that plot.
It is so paint by the numbers...
I feel that this pitch meeting is a masterpiece! It is so funny and well-written (and well-performed), it is overall amazing.
Yeah I think it's one of his best!
i think its because the source material was rife with content. The movie, though a fun time, was a logical nightmare.
Yeah both actors were really spot on
I prefer producer guy
Wrong, all the pitch meetings are masterpieces
0:54 “Who else would he be”
Me: a rock
A movie ticket costs like $12-15 nowadays. Instead of paying for the cinema and wasting 2 hours of my night I rely on Ryan to explain just enough for me to be able to nod my head at the right places during conversations about movies.
This was a free movie lol
Most underrated
@@King_Jarvus free? One day you'll learn about bills little fella or are you a lifetime basement dweller?
@@FnRenner bro if you have a Netflix account you can watch it for free G ?
@@King_Jarvus Netflix is free? first time I'm hearing about this.
'There's an old car from the Nazis WW2'
'Would it still work?'
GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE FINEST IN THE WORLD
But gas goes bad in 3 to 6 months!
Nobody told Ryan that before about 1970, the gas just evaporated into the atmosphere. It was around '70 that they started using vapor canisters.
@@divanshukumarmahajan4803 Being a person of culture is super easy, barely an inconvenience
@@jotheunissen9274Oh really?
@@TalentCaldwell Yeayeayeah
Dwayne doesn't like the jungle, the jungle loves Dwayne
When I saw the poster I imagined what type of movie this would be and I was pretty sure I wouldn't want to see it. It's nice to see that it is exactly the type of movie I expect it to be. Then again, when you have two actors that only play themselves it gets easy to predict.
Rumor has it that had The Rock poured Pepsi on the Egg instead, nothing would've happened and no one would've believed The Rock that it was a fake. Plot dependent product integration is tight!
I’ve been watching Ryan George for three years now- and I hope he sees this because I want him to know that he’s very funny and always makes me laugh
“What’s the character deal “
“ ah he is Ryan Reynolds “
Ryan Reynolds playing himself in a movie is TIGHT!!
I'm still waiting for a Taken Pitch meeting.. I know it's mostly action, but that would make doing a pitch for them super easy, barely an inconvenience. You could even do the whole franchise in one go.
Hey been waiting on it as well
Just to hear Ryan mouth the "I have a certain set of skills ..." speech while showing Neeson would be hilarious I just know it! Possibly even besting Mortal Combat (too bad you ... will DIE) AND Into Darkness (My name is Khan!)
...I'm always confused by people saying 'gas goes bad in 3-6 months' when I commonly use multiple-years old gas to run mowers and the like...
I like how in one scene the rock is alone behind the van and keeps looking for gal gadot like they don't work together 😂😂
“They also double cross Ed Sheeran.”
“Makes sense to m- wait what?”
I'm surprised he didn't mention the cringey Ed Sheerhan cameo.
Don't you know who I am?
🤣
lol I’m Ed Sheran bitch
The delay on, "... No." after Producer Guy questions if they could have just followed Ryan Reynolds instead of doing everything else.
Chef kiss.
i want one of theese movies where they arent even trying to hide it. its literally just Dwayne Johnson, and everyone in the movie calls him Dwayne Johnson. make a self aware movie like that.
this is the end (2013)
There was the show Jean-Claude Van Johnson, where the entire premise was Jean-Claude Van Dam was actually a spy for his entire career. It was exactly as as absurd as it sounds.
@zirconium - come on. All the jcvd self aware movies are awesome. He is my very own nicholas cage
@@jjacklevel it was absurdly awesome!
Cast 3 actors that have no range than the range they currently have, that’s a golden egg right there
“So for this villain guy, who did you have in mind to play him?”
“Well he’s a scary man with an accent so I think it’s pretty obvious.”
“Oh you mean-“
“Yup, the man currently voicing Mickey Mouse!”
“Oh that wasn’t obvious at all.”
Oh no… I watched this movie a little over a week ago and I genuinely forgot what happened in it😅 I actually was second guessing myself if I had seen it or not..
It’s sad that the movie is so forgettable when it had a lot of potential
Prepare next season for Netflix to release "Blue Alert", and most people will watch it because it rings bells and for the life of them can't remember if they had seen a previous similar movie or not... rinse and repeat ca-ching $$$
Yikes!