I like Bens take on movies. He can apply traditional filmmaking critiques but also goes a level deeper to unravel the flawed ideological ideas the director/writer might be trying to present.
It would be hilarious on multiple levels since Iron Heart, the black female replacement for Iron Man, is doomed to flop hard. So the the implication will be that the only successful black Iron Man type character will also be played by RDJ. I would totally watch a War Machine movie though. I guess that black character isn't female, so not "diverse" enough for phase 5 or whatever the fuck Disney is on these days.
He's absolutely correct about The Shape of Water. I went to see it in the theater. I walked out halfway through the movie. The movie was awful. That winning Best Picture is the moment The Oscars lost all credibility in my opinion.
Napoleon Dynamite stands out as a truly great movie for several compelling reasons: 1. Wholesome Comedy • The film’s humor is clean, lighthearted, and timeless, making it a rare gem that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. It’s the kind of movie you can comfortably watch with both your parents and your children, creating a shared experience across generations. 2. Performance Over Star Power • At the time of its release, the cast was virtually unknown, allowing the film to shine through its quirky characters and authentic performances rather than relying on big-name celebrities. This emphasis on storytelling and acting over star power is a testament to its charm. 3. A Rebellion Against Hollywood Norms • Napoleon Dynamite became a cultural phenomenon without the support of a massive budget or mainstream Hollywood backing. It achieved lasting success by embracing originality and resourcefulness, making it a symbol of how unconventional creativity can resonate with audiences and transcend industry norms. The film’s universal appeal, focus on substance over spectacle, and outsider success have earned it a place as a generational classic and a triumph of independent cinema.
The movie is very subtle and has a lot of dry comedy. But it actually has a lot of positive themes and messaging about growing up and the importance of being a good friend, being yourself and self empowerment. Also it is extremely funny. I also love the fact that the film is taking place in the early 2000s yet it feels like it’s taking place in the 70s or 80s because of how rural and out of date the setting they are living in is.
@Arturo-p1g4y It was purchased by Paramount (MTV) after it was finished filming. It had a budget of only 400,000 USD, less than half a million dollars!
Napoleon Dynamite is good because it’s incredibly bad. The first time I watched it I was angry because it was so bad. But the more I watched the more I liked it
Napoleon Dynamite is a fantastic inside joke if you know that people like that very much exist. They live primarily in the Midwest US and subscribe to a certain religion. South Park did an episode on them. (Not saying all are like that, but some definitely are)
The absolute worst part of "Titanic" is when Rose dies she doesn't go to be with the man she shared a life with, the man she had offspring with. She goes to be with a man that she knew for approximately 4 days.
exactly seriously think about this guys Rose died when she died she didn't think about the husband she spent decades with looked after her had a family with nope she went to be with a homeless man she knew for less then 1 week and F***** in a boat and died has to be at least 60 years ago
Its the cinematic effects that people like. The futuristic part of all the vehicles and the war special effects were interesting. I think it was one of the first movies to get 3D treatment in the blu-ray release so those who had the 3D enabled TVs and the glasses could see it in 3D. I agree that the plot and the script were pretty one-dimensional and didn't do anything interesting curveballs to keep the audience going.
His beef with the element name is stupid tho. If we discovered an vital new precious metal that we had to travel lightyears to obtain its very much a possibility it would be named "unobtanium". Hell we named a quark "Strange" bc it acted strange lol
The thing is with art it’s not always about how deep it is or how beautifully written the plot. It can also be about expressing emotions or evoking memories. Avatar connects with a lot of people due to its ability to kindle the imagination, and the low brow aspect of the movie while not made for deep political or narrative dissection or commentary, is still arguably skillfully created to evoke a sense of family and comfort, as well as connection with the physical earth. In a time where many of us lose our childlike sense of wonder, connection to our family and the environment, it’s no wonder it resonates with a lot of people. The way it does manage to resonate with people while largely is carried by the visuals, is also carried by its decisions with the script, characters etc.; all of it is very intentionally done. Not saying it’s a great piece of art, but it accomplish its intended effect. It’s the movie equivalent of nostalgic comfort food
I never got Napoleon till I got married to someone from Idaho. I get that it might be funny if you're not from here. But it's even more funny and makes a lot of sense when you do.
I lived in Idaho for four years and this film is hilarious. I didn’t quite get the humor initially, but like several people I know I got it partway into the movie or a second viewing.
He says "Napolean dynamite" is not funny and shows clips that make me laugh. It's about the ridiculousnessness of the movie. I guess maybe you have to know someone like this. The cow licking the shotgun in front of the school bus is hilarious.
@@Horseman-i2l Clearly, but the truth is for most of the video he was convincing me he does have good taste. His Hamlet comment was a bit sketchy, but not too much. But Napoleon Dynamite was a bridge too far. It all came crashing down after that.
Shape of Water exemplifies how irrelevant the Oscars became in the 2010s. Constantly giving Best Picture award to the bleakest, boring, wokest movies imaginable that very few actually watched. Interstellar just created enormous buzz for its 10th year re-release. For that year, Birdman won the Best Picture award, an irrelevant film thats become forgotten. And the same will/has happened to other winners around that time.
@Horseman-i2l crash was the anomaly at the time. Winners before and after were Lord of the Rings, The Departed, A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men and Million $ Baby
I remember Titanic the first time I saw it in the theater with my girlfriend at the time. At the end of the film she was very quiet, standoffish, and borderline hostile. About halfway home I asked "what's wrong?" (big mistake) . She sighed and bitterly answered "You wouldn't do THAT for me." "Do what now?" (Second mistake) "You wouldn't die for me like Leo did." "Are you seriously comparing me to a fictional character in circumstances that were extraordinary even back then?" (Third mistake) The irony is that while I was fully prepared to die for her up to that point, she managed to talk me out of it and we broke up shortly thereafter. Titanic was effectively the spark that lit the fuse to the powder keg beneath our relationship. Also, Fabrizio? Could that guy have been any more annoying? Watch A Night To Remember. A much better Titanic film.
be thankful this happened before you 2 got married and or had kids seriously tho to this day the amount of women who actually view Titanic is a good love story is truly disgusting look Jack dying yea that was sad it sucked but it was truly disgusting how Rose didn't go be with her husband when she died you know the man who looked after her was with her for decades made a family with her nahhhh instead of that she went to be with a homeless man who F***** her on a boat over 60 years earlier and she knew for less then a week
I feel like you should be grateful to that film then 😂 dodged a bullet of a girl that would expect you to drown while she floats away on a very large door!
Endgame is overrated because Infinity War was vastly better. A very overhyped film is The Last Jedi since there are people who unironically think it is the best Star Wars movie. It is objectively not even a mediocre film, it thinks you are stupid. Rian Johnson thinks anyone who watches his works is stupid. Which you honestly have to be to watch them...
Thank you, Marvel geeks don’t get this, RDJ taking the snap at the end make no logistical sense. Thor was the only one out of the group that could do it.
I won't say that, it's overrated just because it's an ending to MCU's decade run, I would even say Endgame will probably be more overrated if IW is just an above average MCU movie, because it will cover its mediocrity better with no high quality IW to compare to
@@durden2480 man look RDJ sacrificed himself for the Universe do you not remember when Dr Strange was holding back the flood then he looks at Stark and raises one finger that moment was to signal to iron man this is it this is the one we win what's also significant about this moment is Strange looking at him when he does this is to tell him it's you you are the one who must do this for Iron Man this was the end of an incredible journey where he started off as a rich Billionaire D****E who cared about nothing but himself but he has an incredible journey that ends with him selflessly giving his life so the universe could live on plus a final thing of why it was significant is the MCU began in 2008 with Iron Man so it is fitting that we ended where it all began with Iron Man
@@alinkovacs6122 how, it's literally god awful. It's wayyy too long. It's boring as sin. It's literally about a little sl*t that cheats on her husband with a nobody loser. She knew him for a few hours and supposedly they're so madly in love that she cheats on her husband with him. There is truly nothing of value in the movie.
@@alinkovacs6122 I am more of a fan of the production team and the scale, but the plot itself is garbage. The protagonist are garbage, we should celebrate their suffering. Everything regarding the actual event was cool, everything they added themselves in terms of story is stinky poop.
One of the business people in charge of the Titanic didn't put enough life boats because he wanted to save money. I'm a capitalist, but not a purist-capitalist.
That’s not technically the case. The amount of lifeboats a ship was required to carry was based on tonnage and not capacity of persons on board. Titanic was within regulations at the time.
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She throws the diamond off the boat because she thinks wealth corrupts people, see her own mother for example… the worst part of that movie is that she dies and goes to heaven at the end to reunite with Jack, some dude she hooked up with once, and not her husband of 60+ years and the father of her children.
You know what would have been a better ending for the necklace? Have the little girl Cora (The one that Jack told was “still his best girl” when him and Rose were dancing at the party down below) survive the Titanic, but her parents are dead, because they sacrifice themselves so she can sit one of the boats (Originally in a deleted scene, both Cora and her parents died by drowning). Cora is now orphaned with many other poor children, but when Rose gets a chance, she slips the necklace and a note into Cora’s coat pocket, and maybe Cora finds it and she reads the note, but doesn’t do anything, and what happens is left for the audience to decide.
Ehh, I disagree... oftentimes people equate more *important* film (which arguably SPR was) with *better* film. I think Shakespeare was more creative, original and interesting than SPR, which was just another bloody WW2 film, albeit a very good one. At least Spielberg got his much deserved props with Best Director.
@@yenlard6683 it’s just not a good film. I saw it recently and it was mediocre which is why nobody remembers it. Do you think anyone cares about these Oscar winners? Everything Everywhere All At Once CODA Nomadland Parasite Green Book Shape of Water Moonlight Spotlight Birdman 12 Years A Slave Argo The Artist (which I love) The Kings Speech
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I just dont entirely get the message. I feel like half the message is “SCREW colonizers!” while the other half is “BELIEVE in the spirits!” They take the latter aspect of the film so far that it actually feels like that’s something they’re trying to sell to you as something to learn from even though nobody, not even the writers, believe it. As for Ben’s critique, I think that’s one of those occasions with screenwriters where you have this great idea that pops into your head, but because you have a deadline, you dont have time to figure out all the problems with it, and you dont have the IQ points(you and many others) to correct and notice those errors before you run out of time.
@@PWNINSWAGMASTER it’s just another “Noble Savage” film. Artists have a weird fetish of Native culture and think before we came over that they were all living like magical elves in Eden.
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Gravity not being on this list is a crime. An hour and a half of Sandra Bullock panting and George Clooney occasionally floating into frame to say "You can do it." then floating away
I was pissed off when I saw that trailer, because I thought some beautiful person finally blasted Clooney and Bullock into space. Then I found out it was just a movie. Imagine my disappointment.
My issue with that movie is the entire time I'm saying "George Clooney and Sandra bullock are astronauts, you need a no name to play one of these parts"
She was basically being sold off to a rich guy by her parents who had far less, but were still "respectable". Her parents were doing what was done at the time, but are basically villians to us. The collection of photos in the beginning is everything she and Jack talked about doing. She went out and did it all. I have theories about this.
There was no way for both of them to live. James Cameron's documentary proved this about two years ago. Also, the point is that their love transcended wealth class boundaries.
@Yourordinaryuser_ She allowed him to die. If she had simply stayed on the life boat she was already on then the poor man wouldn't have had to put all his effort into saving her when the ship sank and she eventually ends up back on a lifeboat anyway. If she hadn't been a spoiled drama queen then Jack would habe had the door to himself
@Rydonattelo Yes, Rose obtained a seat on a lifeboat, but there was no way Jack was getting on a lifeboat for himself. Cal secured a spot on one of the last lifeboats through bribery. Jack, of course, did not have the means to do that. Rose got off of the lifeboat because she wanted to be with Jack since she knew that that was likely the last time they would be together. As for the door (it was actually a wall panel or something like that), there was like a thousand people out there in the sea. It is not guaranteed that Jack takes that panel, and especially given that Jack was a gentleman, I can imagine that Jack would be willing to give up the panel for someone else. If Rose had stayed on the lifeboat, she would never have seen Jack again and that would be the end of their story. Instead, she was able to spend more time with him, including in his final moments.
@Rydonatteloyou’re forgetting that Jack was being held captive and handcuffed to a pipe, had Rose not got off the life boat, Jack would’ve died a lot sooner. Her going back at least gave him a chance.
At every turn your undercut your point when talking about Napoleon dynamite. How is it that the film isn't funny according to you. But your editors manage to squeeze in classic hilarious scenes each time. 😂😂😂😂
Hey, man! Napoleon Dynamite is brilliant. Full of insights about what it's like to be 'a little outside' in rural America in the eighties. There are millions of us who can relate, and feel validated, knowing there ARE actually millions of us carrying a bit of that silly shame. We know all those characters. We've done the dumb dance. Drawn the awful picture. We've complimented that girls 'big sleeves', and that's okay. I think this represents the highest value of comedy: letting us know it's all okay.
Ben completely forgot the most important thing about James Cameron… James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does, for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.
At this point in my life (I’m 55) it would take a miracle to ever get me back to a theater or even stream almost anything coming out of Hollywood. They have been such a disappointment for 20+ years! They have lost all creative genius!
Didn't mention the worst part of titanic which is rose jumping back on the ship from a lifeboat. She basically got jack killed. HISHE did a whole video on this.
Doesn't she free him from being handcuffed to that pole after that? I haven't seen it in a while, so I don't remember exactly, but I think that implies that he would have died anyway without her risking her life to help him.
@@sherriemartin7809It’s a cult classic. But these typically aren’t “great” movies. Not like Star Wars, or others that define an entire generation of film.
It’s just dry boring humor. Similar to the office. You could claim it may be funny because it’s so bad, but then you’re just proving a point that it was a bad movie.
Get Out has a strong case for most overrated movie of all time. It’s a bad movie, first off. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad cinematography, bad directing/editing. Then, worse than all those sins, it’s in service to agenda rather than storytelling (and largely a pioneer in this), and cherry on top, people are bullied into pretending they like it.
Not really. Even if you dont agree with the politics/ideas of the movie you can still rate it based on if it was an effective thriller. It was. It left several clues that when you rewatch it you can find all of them at the first scene of the movie. how the director brilliantly shows and not tells the premise of the movie was incredible. Your critic does not make sense for this movie.
Napoleon dynamite is a classic and it always will be. The film is very subtle in its messaging but it has a lot of heart and I think it’s very funny in a dry, satirical, deadpan kind of way. The scene in the dojo when napoleon gets slapped makes roll on the floor laughing. 😂😂😂 Also, the notebook should be on this list.
Ben, you need to do a weekly movie review show… it’d be a nice break from all the political rhetoric and you clearly have seen hundreds of films if not thousands
For those who like/love Napoleon Dynamite- Watch GENTLEMAN BRONCOS. Same writer/director (Husband and wife) with similar vibe but original and wry humor
You say that as if it's an original thought, and not the mainstream opinion of movie snobs since Avatar's opening weekend. It's about as original as saying, "I hate Nickelback!" and in both cases the joke is honestly played out.
@@marshallscot Nickelback is a bad example lmao... They are the most mediocre 90's pop rock. So much so, I heard Santa stopped putting coal in naughty kids stockings and now uses old Nickelback CDs.
I think Barbie is a pretty bad film. But the shortcomings of the Barbie movie are nothing compared to how bad Women Talking is. At least Barbie had an interesting color palette and the scenes with Kent's patriarchy were entertaining. But Women Talking is basically just the worst aspects of Barbie multiplied by 10 with absolutely none of the fun elements.
Fun fact about Titanic: Niel Degrasse Tyson met James Cameron once and confronted him about the sky in the Titanic. See, to save on memory resources, the sky was a crossection that was rendered with a mirror reflection or something. And in addition to that, Tyson said that the few stars that could be identified in the sky should not have been in the sky over the Atlantic on that day. Niel runs into James Cameron and couldn't resist confronting him about the sky, and James Cameron's response was, "Could you imagine the success Titanic could've been if only I'd gotten the sky right?" LOL! Epic! Furthermore, when he remastered Titanic and made it 3D, he also took the opportunity to get the sky right!
Get Out is the most overrated to me, I think everyone was just scared to be called racist, because it's a black director. Maybe a few people liked it, but I think the majority are just saying they liked it so they can keep their liberal membership.
No no no, I don’t think it’s overrated. Props to Peele with coming up with something absolutely original. He wrote everything himself and it’s not something I’ve seen before. It was entertaining all the way through.
It's a really good movie with smart characters and layered symbolism. It's not everyones cup of tea but it's a solid 9/10 for me. The director might not be the best when it comes to his morals but the flick is really good. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes smart protagonists and well paced story telling.
Totally agree. Black "artists" are beyond reproach, any criticism is deemed ray-ciss. Although the "Wakanda" film makes this drek look like Citizen Kane by comparison.
I always recommend A Night to Remember (1958) over Titanic (1997). And as I've said before, James Cameron pretty closely skirts the line to full on plagiarizing that prior film. And I don't mean "Oh, they're both films about the real Titanic, of course certain events, characters, and speech will be the same because they're conforming to historical fact". I mean full on cribbing specific camera shots/optical composition, many fictional elements/composite characters, even partially identical lines of dialogue (except Cameron's lines are quite a bit worse, in a B-action movie hack writer style, like when in A Night to Remember Thomas Andrews (the architect of the ship) tells Captain Smith that the iceberg damage will cause her to sink, when Smith says incredulously Titanic is unsinkable, Thomas responds pithily, "She can't float." Cameron by comparison has to whip out a cringy quippy "She's made of iron, sir. I assure you she can sink." James Cameron was always the worst of Joss Whedon's dialogue before Joss Whedon was Joss Whedon. That doesn't even begin to address the obvious subversive feminist approach Cameron takes, turning Titanic and the fictional character Cal Hockley into a symbol of "the evil patriarchy" and British colonialism that *MUST* sink, as opposed to the tragic portrayal of the ship in the original film, where the focus was on the fact that a lot of innocent people died. The only thing better about Titanic (1997) is the special effects and they got details more correct about the sinking process (like Titanic breaking in two), something that was an unknown in 1958 when A Night to Remember was released, as when Titanic's lights went out on that moonless night, the survivors in lifeboats could no longer see the ship during its breakup. And it was only when Dr. Robert Ballard found and dove to the wreck in 1985 that he confirmed the ship had broken in half.
The English Patient was the first movie I wish I could sue the studio to get back the 2 hours and forty minutes of my life. Only thing good about this movie, it taught me to avoid all the other movies on this list.
I remember my mom renting it after it came out and we invited my aunt and cousin over to watch with me, my mom and my sister. Five females sat down to watch it and what felt like a hundred hours later it was finally over and we all hated it. And yeah, I've pretty much avoided anything 'oscar baity' ever since.
Ben has yet to realize that Barbie was secretly an anti feminism movie about how matriarchal societies suck and redical feminism destroys women's happiness
To be fair, the satire was written in such a way so that if you assume it is left-wing then you won't notice the deliberate irony and just conclude that everything is vapid mess of contradictions. Which is itself a genius move since nobody in the mainstream media noticed and thus endorsed it wholeheartedly. Michael Knowles understood it, Ben and Matt did not.
I can gurantee that Matt Walsh's response will be that these movies are obviously overrated and that every competent religious conservative agrees with you and that he is not impressed with your video because you are only picking the easiest and most obviously overrated movies with no risk of backlash from your audience. That isn't me saying that, I thought this video was very fun, and I agree with all of your choices, but Matt Walsh will definitely say what I previously outlined.
Requiem for Dream is a cinematic masterpiece in every sense of the word. Acting, atmosphere, script, camera techniques... It's nice to see that Matt is not the only one who is film illiterate xd
Too many of these were being called overrated because you disliked some political messaging. Specifically Get Out was a very enjoyable movie regardless of the social commentary (a thriller not horror). Same thing for Everything Everywhere all at once, the mother daughter relationship was fantastic but I guess because gay it's overrated (it probably is overrated but slightly, people think it's a 10 but it's an 8).
15:35 Still to this day if my friends are hitting on a guy, with “beer googles” on… I just whisper in their ear, “brake the wrist, walk away”. That’s our cue to stop hitting on him
@@opinion56 Knives Out was actually decent as a mystery but it was hard to pay attention with my eyes constantly rolling into the back of my head the way Johnson punches you in the face with social "commentary."
What makes napoleoan dynamite a great film is that it was able to be beloved by many and actually funny quite a bit and it is a PG movie. Shows that it is possible and the xcuse that everything has to be rated R is just laziness and wanting a cheap way out for having to actually think.
One one good aspect of Avatar is that it demonstrates that a spiritually dead society will always be worse than a religious society no matter what technology you have
Avatar is one of the great A-list movies. Beautiful scenery, gripping tension, realistic action, and tightly-written. All I can figure is you guys must have been multi-tasking while you were watching it and continually lost your place of involvement with the movie. I’ve trashed a few movies that way myself.
Get Out: Overrated - Thank you. As are all of Peele's movies. The media calling him the "next Hitchcock" was as accurate as them calling M. Night Shyamalan "the next Spielberg". His films look good, but his scripts try to appear smart while being metaphor for dummies. Get Out was a B movie plot that beat you over the head and said nothing interesting. Praise was inflated due to the activist era, same as Black Panther. It had one excellent, inventive scene of visual storytelling - the tea cup.
I surprisingly agree with Ben's list. And I own most of these movies. Also Jordan Peele's movies are all incredibly racist. You can literally tell if somebody is good or bad by their skin color in Peele's movies. He also did a Twilight Zone episode where a black mother and her son are chased down by an evil white cop, whose sole purpose in life apparently is to kill the kid. I wish I was joking.
You were correct until the very end. Napoleon Dynamite is a timeless classic. Just because it doesn’t have a deep or compelling story doesn’t mean it’s not a good film for it’s genre. It accomplishes precisely what it’s meant to - good clean fun that makes you laugh, even decades later.
It's really annoying how people think it's cool to sh*t on Titanic. You don't have to like it but to say it's a bad movie is just plain wrong. Bad movies don't win 11 Oscars. Also, Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best comedies ever made.
? Shitty movies can win Oscar's. It's not hard to see why people wouldn't like it while also recognizing why it got so many awards given the era of cinema it came out in. If Titanic was made today, it wouldn’t get nearly the hype it did even if modern cinematography techniques were applied
Ben, Ben, Ben. I had zero beef with you on any of your choices. Until...Napoleon Dynamite. It's awesome because it's nostalgic. You may not have gotten that given your Cali City upbringing, but this hit so many buttons of my childhood growing up in country in Indiana. They managed to tap into it even though it happened in Idaho. It connected so many of us on a goofy level that it was just pure gold. Sorry, you're wrong.
I am proud to say I have seen NONE of these films. In recent years, if it wins Academy awards, it is a good sign it is awful. I can usually look at the trailer and determine the movie is not something I can sit through.
I really do think that if Ben Shapiro launched his own movie review UA-cam channel, it could possibly surpass the success of his original channel on politics 🤣 I subscribe to his channel specifically for his movie and TV reviews because I find them so spot on and hilarious. Also, his editing team deserves a raise
I actually, truly despise The Shape of Water. I bought the Blu-ray assuming I’d like it and my God, I hated it so much. It is by far the media purchase I regret the most.
Ben Shapiro: Napoleon Dynamite is stupid
Everyone: Yea, thats the point.
"Like Anyone Could Even Know That." ~Kip
Ben is just mad because he was bullied when he was a kid.
Right? I think Ben doesn't comprehend what overated means, nor does Matt lmao.
Ive tried so many times to watch and enjoy napoleon dynamite I cannot do it. I'm with ben 100% (on this)
As a 16 year old attending high school in south east Idaho when Napoleon Dynamite was released... It wasn't stupid. To me It was a documentary 😂😂😂
I love when Ben makes random fun videos like this
It’s his best content IMO
Er!!!! Again, “quasi friend” is a nasty comment dude
Finally I have something I agree with Ben.😂
@@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturnsIt’s a joke
I like Bens take on movies. He can apply traditional filmmaking critiques but also goes a level deeper to unravel the flawed ideological ideas the director/writer might be trying to present.
The idea of Deadpool getting the RDJ from Tropic Thunder to replace Tony is actually hilarious lmao.
I'm just a dude, playing a dude, who's playing another dude who is a billionaire, playboy, philanthropist in a flying metal suit.
It would be hilarious on multiple levels since Iron Heart, the black female replacement for Iron Man, is doomed to flop hard. So the the implication will be that the only successful black Iron Man type character will also be played by RDJ.
I would totally watch a War Machine movie though. I guess that black character isn't female, so not "diverse" enough for phase 5 or whatever the fuck Disney is on these days.
Marvel: Write that down! Write that down!
He's absolutely correct about The Shape of Water. I went to see it in the theater. I walked out halfway through the movie. The movie was awful. That winning Best Picture is the moment The Oscars lost all credibility in my opinion.
Agreed. I didn't walk out because I thought surely it would get better, but of course it never did. What a waste of 2 hours of my life!
I did, too. That's one of only two films I've ever walked out on (the other was The Little Hours).
Politicized awards lost credibility? These mainstream awards are nothing but PR. Zero prestige for decades.
Napoleon Dynamite stands out as a truly great movie for several compelling reasons:
1. Wholesome Comedy
• The film’s humor is clean, lighthearted, and timeless, making it a rare gem that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. It’s the kind of movie you can comfortably watch with both your parents and your children, creating a shared experience across generations.
2. Performance Over Star Power
• At the time of its release, the cast was virtually unknown, allowing the film to shine through its quirky characters and authentic performances rather than relying on big-name celebrities. This emphasis on storytelling and acting over star power is a testament to its charm.
3. A Rebellion Against Hollywood Norms
• Napoleon Dynamite became a cultural phenomenon without the support of a massive budget or mainstream Hollywood backing. It achieved lasting success by embracing originality and resourcefulness, making it a symbol of how unconventional creativity can resonate with audiences and transcend industry norms.
The film’s universal appeal, focus on substance over spectacle, and outsider success have earned it a place as a generational classic and a triumph of independent cinema.
The movie is very subtle and has a lot of dry comedy. But it actually has a lot of positive themes and messaging about growing up and the importance of being a good friend, being yourself and self empowerment. Also it is extremely funny.
I also love the fact that the film is taking place in the early 2000s yet it feels like it’s taking place in the 70s or 80s because of how rural and out of date the setting they are living in is.
Meh, it is shallow, hot garbage
Nah, it sucked. And it had huge Hollywood backing. No idea what you're talking about there.
I also love the four issue comic book sequel. A murder mystery with Uncle Rico as the main suspect?! 😳
@Arturo-p1g4y It was purchased by Paramount (MTV) after it was finished filming. It had a budget of only 400,000 USD, less than half a million dollars!
Don’t attack my Napoleon Dynamite like that! It’s a cult classic.
Just a tip in life: if you're trying to defend something, don't call it a cult.
Any man that uses the old Clutch Cargo style of mouth animations isn't all bad.
Napoleon Dynamite is good because it’s incredibly bad. The first time I watched it I was angry because it was so bad. But the more I watched the more I liked it
Napoleon Dynamite is a fantastic inside joke if you know that people like that very much exist. They live primarily in the Midwest US and subscribe to a certain religion.
South Park did an episode on them.
(Not saying all are like that, but some definitely are)
We're a cult Tina 😂
The absolute worst part of "Titanic" is when Rose dies she doesn't go to be with the man she shared a life with, the man she had offspring with. She goes to be with a man that she knew for approximately 4 days.
Exactly
That's women alright.
exactly seriously think about this guys
Rose died when she died she didn't think about the husband she spent decades with looked after her had a family with
nope she went to be with a homeless man she knew for less then 1 week and F***** in a boat and died has to be at least 60 years ago
@@vincentfalcone9218 >> What offspring? And, what life, they were just engaged.
it's actually 2 days
There’s a whole episode of Seinfeld about how bad the English patient is
"You're fired."
"Sex in a tub, that doesn't work!"
Exactly what I thought of. 😂
you think youre better then us. lmao
@@matt09ad68 MANDELBAUM! MANDELBAUM! MANDELBAUM!
I couldn't agree more about Avatar. That movie is absolutely ridiculous, it blows my mind that people like it so much. Smh
Along with being anti white, anti military, anti capitalist, and anti American.
Its the cinematic effects that people like. The futuristic part of all the vehicles and the war special effects were interesting. I think it was one of the first movies to get 3D treatment in the blu-ray release so those who had the 3D enabled TVs and the glasses could see it in 3D. I agree that the plot and the script were pretty one-dimensional and didn't do anything interesting curveballs to keep the audience going.
@@joeman5220 Tron Legacy came out around the same time and I much preferred the visual style of that movie.
His beef with the element name is stupid tho. If we discovered an vital new precious metal that we had to travel lightyears to obtain its very much a possibility it would be named "unobtanium". Hell we named a quark "Strange" bc it acted strange lol
The thing is with art it’s not always about how deep it is or how beautifully written the plot. It can also be about expressing emotions or evoking memories.
Avatar connects with a lot of people due to its ability to kindle the imagination, and the low brow aspect of the movie while not made for deep political or narrative dissection or commentary, is still arguably skillfully created to evoke a sense of family and comfort, as well as connection with the physical earth. In a time where many of us lose our childlike sense of wonder, connection to our family and the environment, it’s no wonder it resonates with a lot of people. The way it does manage to resonate with people while largely is carried by the visuals, is also carried by its decisions with the script, characters etc.; all of it is very intentionally done. Not saying it’s a great piece of art, but it accomplish its intended effect. It’s the movie equivalent of nostalgic comfort food
Jordan Peele being a literal open racist yet still being wildly celebrated is alarming
Every reason Ben gave as to why Napoleon Dynamite is a bad movie is actually why it is a good movie.
Yes! He can't accept that they're features, not bugs. Like, there is no message for you to ponder. It's just fun.
Surprised he didn't say kung-pow enter the fist, too.
Ben is incapable of enjoying silly things.
It’s a pretty bad movie. I saw it once, didn’t feel like seeing it again. Just because it’s a cult classic does not make it a good movie.
It’s awesome if you have the maturity of a 12-year old else it’s just stupid.
@@adamb8317everyone thinks it’s a pretty good movie. So unless you’re gonna provide a good reason for it being bad, you’re still just in the minority.
I nodded along until Napoleon Dynamite.
Wrong Ben. It was hilarious.
I never got Napoleon till I got married to someone from Idaho. I get that it might be funny if you're not from here. But it's even more funny and makes a lot of sense when you do.
@duaneaikins4621 My exact thoughts too. My jaw dropped when he mentioned Napoleon Dynamite being overrated.
I lived in Idaho for four years and this film is hilarious. I didn’t quite get the humor initially, but like several people I know I got it partway into the movie or a second viewing.
I was okay until that one, too. Something about innocent idiocracy is so comforting, and Napoleon gave us that.
Glass Onion is awful. Saying it’s dumb doesn’t make it not dumb.
Endgame doesn't hold a candle to Infinity War.
infinity war was the last good cinema made by Marvel
Yea, I remember being disappointed that Endgame wasn't as good as Infinity War when I saw it for the first time in theaters.
Napoleon Dynamite was a moment and my feelings toward it will never be regretted. It needed to exist.
He says "Napolean dynamite" is not funny and shows clips that make me laugh. It's about the ridiculousnessness of the movie. I guess maybe you have to know someone like this. The cow licking the shotgun in front of the school bus is hilarious.
Agreed 👍
I think this might just be a generational thing..
I was born in the 90s and I have a hard time finding anyone my age that doesn't like it
Lmaoooo swear!! Every clip he showed I busted out laughing 😂😂
Ben has really bad taste in movies.
Napoleon Dynamite is unobjectively hilarious. You'd have to be a sociopath not to agree that it is at least funny.
@@Horseman-i2l Clearly, but the truth is for most of the video he was convincing me he does have good taste. His Hamlet comment was a bit sketchy, but not too much.
But Napoleon Dynamite was a bridge too far. It all came crashing down after that.
You pretty much had me until Napoleon Dynamite. Its one of the greatest comedies of all time.
Absolutely
Amen
Eh. It really just seemed dumb to me. But, other people like it, so whatever.
Haven't even gotten there yet lmao... Looks like I will have to edit my comment.
Ben not understanding "The Fountain" kinda shocked me.
I think that you’d have to be familiar with Idaho to really get the humor. Also, Ben is a nerd so of course he doesn’t think that it’s funny 😄
Shape of Water exemplifies how irrelevant the Oscars became in the 2010s. Constantly giving Best Picture award to the bleakest, boring, wokest movies imaginable that very few actually watched. Interstellar just created enormous buzz for its 10th year re-release. For that year, Birdman won the Best Picture award, an irrelevant film thats become forgotten. And the same will/has happened to other winners around that time.
@@Charzhino no, Crash did that.
@Horseman-i2l crash was the anomaly at the time. Winners before and after were Lord of the Rings, The Departed, A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men and Million $ Baby
@@Charzhino , I know. I kind of wished Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri won.
Birdman was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It was an egotistical circle jerk. We walked out, and still lament about it's shittiness today
I remember Titanic the first time I saw it in the theater with my girlfriend at the time. At the end of the film she was very quiet, standoffish, and borderline hostile. About halfway home I asked "what's wrong?" (big mistake) . She sighed and bitterly answered "You wouldn't do THAT for me." "Do what now?" (Second mistake) "You wouldn't die for me like Leo did." "Are you seriously comparing me to a fictional character in circumstances that were extraordinary even back then?" (Third mistake)
The irony is that while I was fully prepared to die for her up to that point, she managed to talk me out of it and we broke up shortly thereafter. Titanic was effectively the spark that lit the fuse to the powder keg beneath our relationship.
Also, Fabrizio? Could that guy have been any more annoying? Watch A Night To Remember. A much better Titanic film.
be thankful this happened before you 2 got married and or had kids
seriously tho to this day the amount of women who actually view Titanic is a good love story is truly disgusting
look Jack dying yea that was sad it sucked but it was truly disgusting how Rose didn't go be with her husband when she died you know the man who looked after her was with her for decades made a family with her nahhhh instead of that she went to be with a homeless man who F***** her on a boat over 60 years earlier and she knew for less then a week
Have you posted this somewhere else before? I’ve heard this same exact story before. Not kidding
I feel like you should be grateful to that film then 😂 dodged a bullet of a girl that would expect you to drown while she floats away on a very large door!
😂😂😂😂
Good call with the breakup. 👍 And I say this as a woman. Girls like that give the rest of us females a bad name.
Endgame is overrated because Infinity War was vastly better.
A very overhyped film is The Last Jedi since there are people who unironically think it is the best Star Wars movie. It is objectively not even a mediocre film, it thinks you are stupid. Rian Johnson thinks anyone who watches his works is stupid. Which you honestly have to be to watch them...
Thank you, Marvel geeks don’t get this, RDJ taking the snap at the end make no logistical sense. Thor was the only one out of the group that could do it.
I won't say that, it's overrated just because it's an ending to MCU's decade run, I would even say Endgame will probably be more overrated if IW is just an above average MCU movie, because it will cover its mediocrity better with no high quality IW to compare to
@@durden2480 man look RDJ sacrificed himself for the Universe do you not remember when Dr Strange was holding back the flood then he looks at Stark and raises one finger
that moment was to signal to iron man this is it this is the one we win what's also significant about this moment is Strange looking at him when he does this is to tell him it's you you are the one who must do this for Iron Man this was the end of an incredible journey where he started off as a rich Billionaire D****E who cared about nothing but himself but he has an incredible journey that ends with him selflessly giving his life so the universe could live on
plus a final thing of why it was significant is the MCU began in 2008 with Iron Man so it is fitting that we ended where it all began with Iron Man
I like Ben trashing movies. Especially movies like Titanic.
Super freak, super freak, super freaky now!
Titanic is so terrible movie. 😂 Okay I loved the English patient but still agree it's overrated.
Titanic is my favorite movie of all time. A masterpiece from James Cameron.
@@alinkovacs6122 how, it's literally god awful. It's wayyy too long. It's boring as sin. It's literally about a little sl*t that cheats on her husband with a nobody loser. She knew him for a few hours and supposedly they're so madly in love that she cheats on her husband with him. There is truly nothing of value in the movie.
@@alinkovacs6122 I am more of a fan of the production team and the scale, but the plot itself is garbage. The protagonist are garbage, we should celebrate their suffering. Everything regarding the actual event was cool, everything they added themselves in terms of story is stinky poop.
VOTE FOR PEDRO, BEN!!!
In 2004, as a 16-year-old attending high school in southeast Idaho, I will tell you Napoleon Dynamite was not stupid to me... it was a documentary 😂😂😂
Also from SE Idaho, can confirm 😂
Ben Shapiro= Coastal Elitist
One of the business people in charge of the Titanic didn't put enough life boats because he wanted to save money. I'm a capitalist, but not a purist-capitalist.
That’s not technically the case. The amount of lifeboats a ship was required to carry was based on tonnage and not capacity of persons on board. Titanic was within regulations at the time.
The only one I disagree with is Napoleon Dynamite 😭 That movie is AWESOME!!! 😭😭😭😭
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She throws the diamond off the boat because she thinks wealth corrupts people, see her own mother for example… the worst part of that movie is that she dies and goes to heaven at the end to reunite with Jack, some dude she hooked up with once, and not her husband of 60+ years and the father of her children.
Cause she would have married him I’m guessing
exactly that's so unbelievably F*****
@@Apheelia77 but she didn't, that's the point. 60 year marrige and children
Gonna disagree, she couldn't sold the thing and donated the money to a worthwhile charity like St. JUDES.
You know what would have been a better ending for the necklace?
Have the little girl Cora (The one that Jack told was “still his best girl” when him and Rose were dancing at the party down below) survive the Titanic, but her parents are dead, because they sacrifice themselves so she can sit one of the boats (Originally in a deleted scene, both Cora and her parents died by drowning). Cora is now orphaned with many other poor children, but when Rose gets a chance, she slips the necklace and a note into Cora’s coat pocket, and maybe Cora finds it and she reads the note, but doesn’t do anything, and what happens is left for the audience to decide.
The fact that Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for best picture makes it highly overrated. 🤦♂️
Harvey weinstein basically bought that oscar. No one actually likes that movie
Ehh, I disagree... oftentimes people equate more *important* film (which arguably SPR was) with *better* film. I think Shakespeare was more creative, original and interesting than SPR, which was just another bloody WW2 film, albeit a very good one. At least Spielberg got his much deserved props with Best Director.
@@PenskeMaterialYour opinion isn't Penske material.
@@yenlard6683 it’s just not a good film. I saw it recently and it was mediocre which is why nobody remembers it.
Do you think anyone cares about these Oscar winners?
Everything Everywhere All At Once
CODA
Nomadland
Parasite
Green Book
Shape of Water
Moonlight
Spotlight
Birdman
12 Years A Slave
Argo
The Artist (which I love)
The Kings Speech
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Avatar is a glorified tech demo. That's all it is.
It's Pocahontas with weirdly sexualized giant blue aliens.
I never felt entertained watching it, and it’s so long.
I just dont entirely get the message. I feel like half the message is “SCREW colonizers!” while the other half is “BELIEVE in the spirits!” They take the latter aspect of the film so far that it actually feels like that’s something they’re trying to sell to you as something to learn from even though nobody, not even the writers, believe it. As for Ben’s critique, I think that’s one of those occasions with screenwriters where you have this great idea that pops into your head, but because you have a deadline, you dont have time to figure out all the problems with it, and you dont have the IQ points(you and many others) to correct and notice those errors before you run out of time.
Never liked Avatar, didn't understood what was so great about it to be that popular.
@@PWNINSWAGMASTER it’s just another “Noble Savage” film. Artists have a weird fetish of Native culture and think before we came over that they were all living like magical elves in Eden.
Napoleon Dynamite was cheap garbage. I didn't laugh once and never understood why people like it
Sorry but "requiem for a dream" was amazing and should be watched at least once
Also, Vote for Pedro!
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Gravity not being on this list is a crime. An hour and a half of Sandra Bullock panting and George Clooney occasionally floating into frame to say "You can do it." then floating away
I was pissed off when I saw that trailer, because I thought some beautiful person finally blasted Clooney and Bullock into space. Then I found out it was just a movie. Imagine my disappointment.
Agree! Not to mention the myriad violations of the laws of physics.
It was a good movie. Suck that people are so joyless.
Thankfully I avoided seeing Gravity, it held no attraction for me in even the slightest bit
My issue with that movie is the entire time I'm saying "George Clooney and Sandra bullock are astronauts, you need a no name to play one of these parts"
I hope Matt Walsh responds to this explaining why Ben's "wrong"
I’m sure he will
😂 I love the friendly beef
@@lybnychavez6953 I’m convinced that’s why Walsh put out that video to begin with 😆
I think Walsh would be hard pressed to disagree on any of these films. Crap is crap.
@ He’ll certainly give it his best though!
The blurb on the move poster for Titanic should read........
" wealthy woman allows poor man to drown "
She was basically being sold off to a rich guy by her parents who had far less, but were still "respectable". Her parents were doing what was done at the time, but are basically villians to us. The collection of photos in the beginning is everything she and Jack talked about doing. She went out and did it all. I have theories about this.
There was no way for both of them to live. James Cameron's documentary proved this about two years ago. Also, the point is that their love transcended wealth class boundaries.
@Yourordinaryuser_ She allowed him to die. If she had simply stayed on the life boat she was already on then the poor man wouldn't have had to put all his effort into saving her when the ship sank and she eventually ends up back on a lifeboat anyway. If she hadn't been a spoiled drama queen then Jack would habe had the door to himself
@Rydonattelo
Yes, Rose obtained a seat on a lifeboat, but there was no way Jack was getting on a lifeboat for himself. Cal secured a spot on one of the last lifeboats through bribery. Jack, of course, did not have the means to do that. Rose got off of the lifeboat because she wanted to be with Jack since she knew that that was likely the last time they would be together.
As for the door (it was actually a wall panel or something like that), there was like a thousand people out there in the sea. It is not guaranteed that Jack takes that panel, and especially given that Jack was a gentleman, I can imagine that Jack would be willing to give up the panel for someone else.
If Rose had stayed on the lifeboat, she would never have seen Jack again and that would be the end of their story. Instead, she was able to spend more time with him, including in his final moments.
@Rydonatteloyou’re forgetting that Jack was being held captive and handcuffed to a pipe, had Rose not got off the life boat, Jack would’ve died a lot sooner. Her going back at least gave him a chance.
At every turn your undercut your point when talking about Napoleon dynamite. How is it that the film isn't funny according to you. But your editors manage to squeeze in classic hilarious scenes each time. 😂😂😂😂
Finally, someone speaks the truth about everything everywhere all at once. I think i agree with everything else too. The last Jedi was a dumpster fire
Hey, man! Napoleon Dynamite is brilliant. Full of insights about what it's like to be 'a little outside' in rural America in the eighties. There are millions of us who can relate, and feel validated, knowing there ARE actually millions of us carrying a bit of that silly shame. We know all those characters. We've done the dumb dance. Drawn the awful picture. We've complimented that girls 'big sleeves', and that's okay. I think this represents the highest value of comedy: letting us know it's all okay.
Not the 80s. Kip is literally surfing the internet for hot babes
And it's virtually impossible to call a film overrated when it only cost like 800k to film
Napoleon Dynamite is set in 2004. The year it was released.
Ben completely forgot the most important thing about James Cameron… James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does, for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.
I swear that was one of the best South Park episodes
Sounds like the author of Twilight.
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I’ve read that James Cameron is arrogant and acts like a dictator.
Napoleon Dynamite is a cinematic masterpiece
lol
Agree 💯
Ah no.
At this point in my life (I’m 55) it would take a miracle to ever get me back to a theater or even stream almost anything coming out of Hollywood. They have been such a disappointment for 20+ years! They have lost all creative genius!
You got it 100 % right, sir! By the way, I'm 65.
Every once in a while there's still something good. Don't give up hope.
@@fibanocci314Right, might actually go to a theatre to see the new Dylan biopic. last one was Godfather III.
I agree Napoleon Dynamite ia not a cinamatic masterpiece, but it is hilarious. Thats kinda what makes it a "cult classic"
Didn't mention the worst part of titanic which is rose jumping back on the ship from a lifeboat. She basically got jack killed. HISHE did a whole video on this.
Doesn't she free him from being handcuffed to that pole after that? I haven't seen it in a while, so I don't remember exactly, but I think that implies that he would have died anyway without her risking her life to help him.
@@jacksonlesko942 she jumps off the boat to save the only happiness she’s ever had, after he saved her life. She gave him a better shot at surviving.
in fact, that is the best scene
You either “Get” Napoleon Dynamite or you don’t there is no in between
If you do get it, it is hilarious
It's a cult favorite here at my house
I get it, and it’s not funny.
@@davidqatan no you don’t
@@sherriemartin7809It’s a cult classic. But these typically aren’t “great” movies. Not like Star Wars, or others that define an entire generation of film.
It’s just dry boring humor. Similar to the office. You could claim it may be funny because it’s so bad, but then you’re just proving a point that it was a bad movie.
I was kind of onboard until Napoleon Dynamite.. who hurt you Benjamin?
Intelligence.
Get Out has a strong case for most overrated movie of all time. It’s a bad movie, first off. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad cinematography, bad directing/editing. Then, worse than all those sins, it’s in service to agenda rather than storytelling (and largely a pioneer in this), and cherry on top, people are bullied into pretending they like it.
Not really. Even if you dont agree with the politics/ideas of the movie you can still rate it based on if it was an effective thriller. It was. It left several clues that when you rewatch it you can find all of them at the first scene of the movie. how the director brilliantly shows and not tells the premise of the movie was incredible. Your critic does not make sense for this movie.
Napoleon dynamite is a classic and it always will be. The film is very subtle in its messaging but it has a lot of heart and I think it’s very funny in a dry, satirical, deadpan kind of way. The scene in the dojo when napoleon gets slapped makes roll on the floor laughing. 😂😂😂
Also, the notebook should be on this list.
Now Matt going to put on his “god-level sarcasm” hat and give us a 10-minute video on how great The Shape of Water is. Can’t wait.
Ben, you need to do a weekly movie review show… it’d be a nice break from all the political rhetoric and you clearly have seen hundreds of films if not thousands
Napoleon Dynamite is cathartic humor for those of us remembering our awkward phase, and just how awkward it was.
I agreed with you... All the way up until Napoleon Dynamite. The movie is intentionally supposed to be stupid. That's the point 😂
That doesn't make it good
For those who like/love Napoleon Dynamite- Watch GENTLEMAN BRONCOS. Same writer/director (Husband and wife) with similar vibe but original and wry humor
Ben, you had me until Napoleon Dynamite. That movie was fantastic.
Same thoughts.
To paraphrase Roger Ebert: I hated Avatar. Hated it. Hated, hated, hated, hated it.
@4:39 The just roasted line from Avatar gets silently roasted in Titanic with zero fanfare - brilliant.
So did I!
As well as the horrific film that was where that statement originated from; North!
The Shape of Water was the end of me caring AT ALL about what the Academy thinks about movies. That movie was garbage, start to finish.
You missed one. Eyes Wide Shut. If I hadn't been with a friend at the theater, I would've walked out.
Hahah great video Ben, now I’m off to go rewatch Napoleon Dynamite 😂
I've said for YEARS Avatar is wildly overrated!
I like Avatar and I like Dances with Wolves and I like The Last Samurai. They, of course, are all the same movie.
@@williamirwin4154I call it "dances with wolves in space"
Still loved the first one. It's tired in the second movie though.
Me tooooooo
You say that as if it's an original thought, and not the mainstream opinion of movie snobs since Avatar's opening weekend. It's about as original as saying, "I hate Nickelback!" and in both cases the joke is honestly played out.
@@marshallscot Nickelback is a bad example lmao... They are the most mediocre 90's pop rock. So much so, I heard Santa stopped putting coal in naughty kids stockings and now uses old Nickelback CDs.
I think Barbie is a pretty bad film. But the shortcomings of the Barbie movie are nothing compared to how bad Women Talking is. At least Barbie had an interesting color palette and the scenes with Kent's patriarchy were entertaining. But Women Talking is basically just the worst aspects of Barbie multiplied by 10 with absolutely none of the fun elements.
Kudos for spelling "palette" correctly.
He had me up until he said Napoleon Dynamite.
To include Napoleon Dynamite on this list is an absolute crime
Fun fact about Titanic:
Niel Degrasse Tyson met James Cameron once and confronted him about the sky in the Titanic. See, to save on memory resources, the sky was a crossection that was rendered with a mirror reflection or something. And in addition to that, Tyson said that the few stars that could be identified in the sky should not have been in the sky over the Atlantic on that day.
Niel runs into James Cameron and couldn't resist confronting him about the sky, and James Cameron's response was, "Could you imagine the success Titanic could've been if only I'd gotten the sky right?"
LOL! Epic!
Furthermore, when he remastered Titanic and made it 3D, he also took the opportunity to get the sky right!
You had me until napoleon dynamite. That’s an absolute banger of a movie
Get Out is the most overrated to me, I think everyone was just scared to be called racist, because it's a black director. Maybe a few people liked it, but I think the majority are just saying they liked it so they can keep their liberal membership.
Couldn't have agreed more... overrated drivel.
What didn't you like about it? Was it just the message?
No no no, I don’t think it’s overrated. Props to Peele with coming up with something absolutely original. He wrote everything himself and it’s not something I’ve seen before. It was entertaining all the way through.
It's a really good movie with smart characters and layered symbolism.
It's not everyones cup of tea but it's a solid 9/10 for me.
The director might not be the best when it comes to his morals but the flick is really good.
I highly recommend it to anyone who likes smart protagonists and well paced story telling.
Totally agree. Black "artists" are beyond reproach, any criticism is deemed ray-ciss. Although the "Wakanda" film makes this drek look like Citizen Kane by comparison.
Oh Ben… you chose the wrong clips for Napoleon Dynamite in your overrated stance… I busted out laughing at every clip 😂😂
Same. I think the editor's way of taking shots at Ben to show hes wrong.
You made a list of overrated movies, and It included a Marvel movie that wasn’t Black Panther ????
I always recommend A Night to Remember (1958) over Titanic (1997). And as I've said before, James Cameron pretty closely skirts the line to full on plagiarizing that prior film.
And I don't mean "Oh, they're both films about the real Titanic, of course certain events, characters, and speech will be the same because they're conforming to historical fact".
I mean full on cribbing specific camera shots/optical composition, many fictional elements/composite characters, even partially identical lines of dialogue (except Cameron's lines are quite a bit worse, in a B-action movie hack writer style, like when in A Night to Remember Thomas Andrews (the architect of the ship) tells Captain Smith that the iceberg damage will cause her to sink, when Smith says incredulously Titanic is unsinkable, Thomas responds pithily, "She can't float." Cameron by comparison has to whip out a cringy quippy "She's made of iron, sir. I assure you she can sink." James Cameron was always the worst of Joss Whedon's dialogue before Joss Whedon was Joss Whedon.
That doesn't even begin to address the obvious subversive feminist approach Cameron takes, turning Titanic and the fictional character Cal Hockley into a symbol of "the evil patriarchy" and British colonialism that *MUST* sink, as opposed to the tragic portrayal of the ship in the original film, where the focus was on the fact that a lot of innocent people died.
The only thing better about Titanic (1997) is the special effects and they got details more correct about the sinking process (like Titanic breaking in two), something that was an unknown in 1958 when A Night to Remember was released, as when Titanic's lights went out on that moonless night, the survivors in lifeboats could no longer see the ship during its breakup. And it was only when Dr. Robert Ballard found and dove to the wreck in 1985 that he confirmed the ship had broken in half.
The English Patient was the first movie I wish I could sue the studio to get back the 2 hours and forty minutes of my life. Only thing good about this movie, it taught me to avoid all the other movies on this list.
I remember my mom renting it after it came out and we invited my aunt and cousin over to watch with me, my mom and my sister. Five females sat down to watch it and what felt like a hundred hours later it was finally over and we all hated it. And yeah, I've pretty much avoided anything 'oscar baity' ever since.
Ben has yet to realize that Barbie was secretly an anti feminism movie about how matriarchal societies suck and redical feminism destroys women's happiness
To be fair, the satire was written in such a way so that if you assume it is left-wing then you won't notice the deliberate irony and just conclude that everything is vapid mess of contradictions. Which is itself a genius move since nobody in the mainstream media noticed and thus endorsed it wholeheartedly.
Michael Knowles understood it, Ben and Matt did not.
Found the Michael Knowles alt account
I guess as a toxic male I found the approach similar to how the woke feel seeing their message wrapped in conservative clothing. :D
I can gurantee that Matt Walsh's response will be that these movies are obviously overrated and that every competent religious conservative agrees with you and that he is not impressed with your video because you are only picking the easiest and most obviously overrated movies with no risk of backlash from your audience.
That isn't me saying that, I thought this video was very fun, and I agree with all of your choices, but Matt Walsh will definitely say what I previously outlined.
A Night to Remember is the only Titanic film worth watching.
Napoleon Dynamite is a great movie and you know it! You're just trolling on that one. The rest, absolutely correct.
My wife and I watched all of The Shape of Water
At the end we both said
“What… the fuck …. Was that???”
So stupid
and what renown film school did you and wife attend? it certainly wasn’t UCLA 😂 but agree it was absurd😂
@ that’s a stupid ass comment you don’t have to go to a film school to know a movie is garbage. Why do people feel the need to say stupid shit?
You might try watching the original version, from 1964, released under the title "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" starring Don Knotts.
@@PhilBagels so this was a remake then??
It has a bad message too, trying to make “love” something undefinable, like how water has no shape.
Requiem for Dream is a cinematic masterpiece in every sense of the word. Acting, atmosphere, script, camera techniques... It's nice to see that Matt is not the only one who is film illiterate xd
Requiem for a dream is the most soul crushing depressing movie I have ever seen.
@@michaelaugust4313
“I didn’t take it out for air.”
Too many of these were being called overrated because you disliked some political messaging. Specifically Get Out was a very enjoyable movie regardless of the social commentary (a thriller not horror). Same thing for Everything Everywhere all at once, the mother daughter relationship was fantastic but I guess because gay it's overrated (it probably is overrated but slightly, people think it's a 10 but it's an 8).
15:35
Still to this day if my friends are hitting on a guy, with “beer googles” on… I just whisper in their ear, “brake the wrist, walk away”. That’s our cue to stop hitting on him
Napoleon Dynamite was made for high schools and it was nice that it didn't have any raunchy humor in it.
Thank you!
Glass Onion is especially egregious because the flashback "reveal" scenes are actually different from what the audience actually saw.
it was a giant downgrade from knives out. had no idea people liked it.
@@opinion56 Knives Out was actually decent as a mystery but it was hard to pay attention with my eyes constantly rolling into the back of my head the way Johnson punches you in the face with social "commentary."
I agree all the way till you brought out Napoleon dynamite. Its incredible stupid, which is why it is so funny
I laughed at every napoleon dynamite scene shown here tho 😅
Hell no, most of these movies are good, and Black Swan is a fantastic film, doesn’t suck at all. I disagree, Ben.
Funny joke in napoleon dynamite:
“How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over those mountains?”
Ok, but where's the funny joke?
@@JakobusMaximusthat he’s delusional asf to believe he could actually do it, if coach just put him in during that 4th quarter
What makes napoleoan dynamite a great film is that it was able to be beloved by many and actually funny quite a bit and it is a PG movie. Shows that it is possible and the xcuse that everything has to be rated R is just laziness and wanting a cheap way out for having to actually think.
One one good aspect of Avatar is that it demonstrates that a spiritually dead society will always be worse than a religious society no matter what technology you have
Cameron's personal politics aside, Avatar is such a great unintentionally conservative franchise because it so anti-materialism.
@@marshallscotno...its an anticapitalist, antimilitary, anti American movie. A liberals wet dream of a movie.
I guarantee the makers of Avatar were not going for a pro-religion message
@@xitaris5981 Unintentional conservatism rocks
Aw I thought Requiem for a Dream was a pretty good movie, I liked it. Well, I mean, I don’t want to watch it ever again, but I liked it.
Well since we are on this energy
Harry Potter is a terrible movie, there I said it, prove me wrong
😅😅
I 1000% agree with Avatar. Most overrated film of this century. I’m also glad he didn’t say The Batman because I would’ve been ready to fight 😂
Ben is ridiculous and shameful
It was a very good movie unless you are a lobotomized fool.
@@CiaoKnives The Batman is truly awful.
Avatar is one of the great A-list movies. Beautiful scenery, gripping tension, realistic action, and tightly-written. All I can figure is you guys must have been multi-tasking while you were watching it and continually lost your place of involvement with the movie. I’ve trashed a few movies that way myself.
@ WTF are you talking about? Generic story, awful characters, mediocre acting, mediocre action, and way too long. It is pretty, that’s it.
DW associates ability to roast each other is fast becoming legend.
Napoleon Dynamite is anti-humor. The fact that it's unfunny is the funny part.
Napoleonception 🤯
Oh, dang. I like things that are funny, so I guess that's why I don't like it.
It’s genuinely funny though
Get Out: Overrated - Thank you. As are all of Peele's movies. The media calling him the "next Hitchcock" was as accurate as them calling M. Night Shyamalan "the next Spielberg". His films look good, but his scripts try to appear smart while being metaphor for dummies. Get Out was a B movie plot that beat you over the head and said nothing interesting. Praise was inflated due to the activist era, same as Black Panther. It had one excellent, inventive scene of visual storytelling - the tea cup.
Hey Shapiro!!!! You lost everyone when you trashed Napoleon Dynamite!!!
I surprisingly agree with Ben's list. And I own most of these movies. Also Jordan Peele's movies are all incredibly racist. You can literally tell if somebody is good or bad by their skin color in Peele's movies. He also did a Twilight Zone episode where a black mother and her son are chased down by an evil white cop, whose sole purpose in life apparently is to kill the kid. I wish I was joking.
So basically almost every episode of the tv show Family Matters.
I wonder if Jordan Pee
le thinks he's helping fight racism. He's definitely making it worse
The sad thing about get out is that is literally how the director and most libs honestly view white ppl and thats not even an exaggeration
Solid list except for Napoleon Dynamite. That movie is hilarious.
You were correct until the very end. Napoleon Dynamite is a timeless classic. Just because it doesn’t have a deep or compelling story doesn’t mean it’s not a good film for it’s genre. It accomplishes precisely what it’s meant to - good clean fun that makes you laugh, even decades later.
It's really annoying how people think it's cool to sh*t on Titanic. You don't have to like it but to say it's a bad movie is just plain wrong. Bad movies don't win 11 Oscars. Also, Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best comedies ever made.
? Shitty movies can win Oscar's. It's not hard to see why people wouldn't like it while also recognizing why it got so many awards given the era of cinema it came out in. If Titanic was made today, it wouldn’t get nearly the hype it did even if modern cinematography techniques were applied
Ben, Ben, Ben. I had zero beef with you on any of your choices. Until...Napoleon Dynamite. It's awesome because it's nostalgic. You may not have gotten that given your Cali City upbringing, but this hit so many buttons of my childhood growing up in country in Indiana. They managed to tap into it even though it happened in Idaho. It connected so many of us on a goofy level that it was just pure gold. Sorry, you're wrong.
I am proud to say I have seen NONE of these films. In recent years, if it wins Academy awards, it is a good sign it is awful. I can usually look at the trailer and determine the movie is not something I can sit through.
There's no way you said that about Napoleon Dynamite that's like one of the best movies ever made
Glass Onion was so stupid, ew.
I really do think that if Ben Shapiro launched his own movie review UA-cam channel, it could possibly surpass the success of his original channel on politics 🤣
I subscribe to his channel specifically for his movie and TV reviews because I find them so spot on and hilarious.
Also, his editing team deserves a raise
I actually, truly despise The Shape of Water. I bought the Blu-ray assuming I’d like it and my God, I hated it so much. It is by far the media purchase I regret the most.
And you thought you would like it because?
Was a Del Toro fan. Pan’s Labyrinth is still a favorite of mine.