By the way, this happened to Brandon Fraser (who is straight) by a powerful male producer. He admitted that's why he was out of Hollywood for a while, because he was blacklisted or at least brown listed. But he's a man so pretty much no publicity.
Kevin Smith owes his entire career to the man. How come he never spoke up? The man gossips like a middle school girl and yet he never heard anything about his boss?
The worst thing is they do not touch on all the silent accomplices in Hollywood and blame it all on Harvey Weinstein, let alone the female actresses who willingly used the casting couch for their stardom. There's absolutely no need for this movie to exist. Non-Hollywood people are doing fine. Hollywood need to hold a screening for themselves so they get lectured and leave it at that. It's not like Hollywood is gonna change after Harvey Weinstein.
Any female like Meryl Streep and Judy Dench who said they had no idea about Harvey was obviously sleeping with him. Now we know why there are so many successful and talentless female actors like Streep, Blanchett, Jolie
As far as I'm concerned this film just perpetuates the founding myth of MeToo, namely that the casting couch is a completely black-and-white interaction between an evil predator and hapless, innocent victims. A lot of Weinstein's accusers were publicly known as his girlfriend at the time. If the goal is to prevent similar dynamics from occurring in the future, we do ourselves no favours by myopically pinning all of the blame on a convenient scapegoat. A sober look at the interests and incentives of both sides engaging in this tit-for-tat is required.
It's actually really disgusting. He would be at award shows with these women on his arm and you could see in their faces they would rather be dead than next to him. And everyone knew. Everybody knew exactly what was going on. That was real power. Doing something terrible in front of all those people and them all looking the other way.
Or Sean Young. They just character assassinated the high profile stars who spoke out and ignored the no-names. Hollywood has always been a hive of scum and villainy.
This is the equivalent of the former members of a mass murderer dictatorship who got away with their crimes against humanity decides to throw their former great leader under the bus by making a shitty movie about how evil and mean he was.
The fact that Shakespeare In Love won the Oscar for Best Movie over Saving Private Ryan, one of the best drama war movies of all times, was a joke and a charade, all thanks to said guy lobbying, so you're probably right. Not that the Oscars have any merits nowadays anyways, I'm sure next year the ratings will be even lower, unless someones gets slapped to "save the day".
Something needs to change "in this industry"? Remember that. Just because its happening in Hollywood doesn't mean it's happening everywhere. That's called 'suggestion'... as evidenced by all the GOOD men in the movie. Hey, Hollywood! YOU clean house... and leave the rest of us alone
Well, it's worse in Hollywood than the business world because what girl dreams of being a secretary or middle manager some day? You report one, you risk losing a job you hate anyway. You report the other, that could be the end of everything you dreamed for since you were little. And "the business world" isn't as insular as Hollywood. There's hundreds of kinds of businesses and industries located in every city in America. Hollywood is ONE TOWN with a small handful of major studios. And word travels FAST in it. Does word travel as fast in the, say, industrial adhesive industry? SOME business makes, sells, and distributes that.
No joke: My sister was a temp at Miramax and she was like "OMG, EVEN the women bosses were A-HOLES to the younger women". I also was sexually harassed as a man by women and men BOTH bosses, sexually, while working in Hollywood (Dreamworks SKG and William Morris). So this movie means something to me, I want to see it.
I hope you’re doing well with a better job. I hope they actually depict that in the movie. Female predators in Hollywood are somehow more ignored than the men.
I’m not being dodgy but “paid off” the women didn’t hav to settle they could hav gone to the police. When your mugged you go to the police, if your robbed you go to the police, you get monetary damages later after justice is done.
does the movie also shows how Harvey’s secretary fed him girls too? he could never have done this all alone, he was also enabled by people around him which included women, which i doubt will be acknowledged by most.
IMO it's a story about something that only the media and movie world are interested in. Everyone (Including media and movie world) knew this has been going on since movies became a 'Star-Making' business. There are thousands of young women that have suffered or benefited from that system. How many suffered and ended up in a worse place. How many became stars because of this system. How many didn't become stars but did get a break which allowed them to meet their now producer/assistant-producer/director/assistant-director/set designer/movie company attorney-accountant etc etc... It's terrible that the system was like that, but everyone knew it was the system and still these people were desperate to get into it. Being in the army could result in death, but the upside isn't that you could become a multimillionaire, which is why it sometimes makes good stories.
A good sign that this is unwatchable is that it just came out. Also, it’s got a message, and so critics will be smeared. Good to hear it isn’t anti-men though! (Hard to imagine, really).
LFP had a policy that you had to wear a tie to work. I thought it was funny and felt like I was cosplaying a business person every time I dressed like that. (This is Chris by the way.)
The marketing team did this movie no favors with the trailer. They made sure to have the one scene of the guy hitting on them in a bar and being a bit to forward. So the one reporter could have her big scene and yell at the guy and be all "stunning and brave". In context I am sure it made sense. And as you mentioned all the other men in the movie are good guys. But we have all been burn by Hollywood recently, so that was a bad call for the trailer.
This video raises some thought-provoking societal issues but none more provocative than the spectacle that occurs at @15:34 I have seen many haircuts, hairstyles, hair-pieces and wigs in my life, but I have never seen anything quite like the furry Beetlesque muff that sits atop Chris' head.
A couple weeks ago I went to see the Julia Roberts and George Clooney and all of the trailers were preachy and none of them made we want to go see them including this movie. I actually liked the Clooney romcom which wasn’t preachy and just a fun movie like they used to make.
We all know the Weinstein story and how it played out it wasn't that long ago. Who'd want to watch a movie about it when we literally lived it a couple years ago
I was born in the early 80s and even as a kid. I could never wrap my head around Hollywood fawning over the likes of people like Woody Allen or Roman Polanski. Then the Me Too movement comes along decades later and now they want nothing to do with them. What's even more insidious is that it's not like they washed their hands of them. They act like their hands weren't even dirty in the first place.
Honestly the 'me too' movement is dead in the water, especially after Amber Heard proved how 'believe all women' is ridiculous. I think people are utterly sick of me too, and no matter how great the film is people are tired of all female films and bigging up 'amazing' journalists wont fly right now when most journalists are paid opinion now and have forgotten how to be investigative journos that actually have morals.
Or, fascism is rising in America, and people still don't really care that much about women. Feminism exists for a reason and is still needed. But what you see these days isn't feminism.
Especially when you have the big papers Times,NY Post, Today, Washington Post are nothing more then hired gun as long as your influential or have deep pockets.
Maybe they should have done a feature lenght documentary instead of a film drama. After the Metoo backlash i don't see many men interested in this and only politically active women would watch it. Small audience means small revenue.
You were right. Even with the repeated warnings I was not prepared for that hair. Side note: when the archive footage was showing the anonymous blacked out actress speaking out whom else thought it looked liked Ozy-man? C'mon. Raise your hands 👋
@@FilmThreat I'm just kidding :D. At least you still have your hair. I'm jealous really. Have been an avid follower of your contributions for 20+ years but just discovered this channel recently. Keep up the great work.
I don't think a Hollywood studio that's worked with The Weinstein Company (or any Hollywood studio for that matter) should be allowed to both profit and virtue signal from this story. They protected Weinstein for decades and now they're profiting from it? At next year's Oscars, all the people that kissed his ass will applaud and pat themselves on the back for this "important film". And they all knew. That's why I'm glad at least this movie won't make any money.
Here is the thing, the general public doesn't care about the inner workings of Hollywood. That's why those movies usually get oscars even tho they didn't even meet their budget. Was Chris trying to be a Bill Gates look a like in that last clip?
In addition to what you said, people are also tired of "woke" stuff and they're going to assume all men are treated poorly in the movie. I think it's also too well-known an event, so nothing's really going to be revealed meaningfully.
@@O1OO1O1 Obviously, I can't say since I don't know anything about it. I think there was a misinterpretation of what I implied. Here's the thought process I was implying: People are tired of "woke" stuff > people see a movie titled "She Said" and find out it's about Harvey Weinstein, which is part of MeToo and thus connected to high SJW activity > people assume the movie is woke and avoid it without learning if it is or isn't. Chris gives every indication that it is not "woke," but deals with a topic "woke" people claim to care about.
@@robinthrush9672 so then the problem isn't said film, but whoever is so easily led by people manipulating them against their own interests (those who weaponised the word Woke, metoo, etc) Important to have the right standards. Even if it upsets the anti-sjw warriors.
She Said seems like it would be a fair, balanced critique of men all around the world. Painting us as warm-hearted kind loving indivi…… Hahahaha oh I’m sorry, I couldn’t, it looks like a hatched job on us all
I find it a bit amusing that the film leaves out the fact that the same women who blew the whistle on Weinstein also had no problems posing for pics with him, all while smiling, grabbing him by the arm, hugging him, and kissing him on the cheek. This movie is just Hollywood absolving itself of blame, and it's disgusting.
Thor Love and Thunder comes to mind. I'm sure that 3 some with Taika speaks volumes. And of course that female director banged an actor for that horrible feminist movie.
I have a feeling the reason this filmed bombed wasn't so much an issue of the public not trusting Hollywood or journalism, which they don't and I don't blame them for it. I honestly think a lot of people DIDN'T KNOW THIS MOVIE EXISTED. I got ads for this on UA-cam but there's one big factor in it; I don't have ad block installed on my phone so I will get ads. HOWEVER, I DON'T have it on my laptop which means I avoid ads for a LOT of movies and shows. On top of that, I don't remember seeing a lot of TV adverts for it so for the older crowds, I don't know if they were informed of it because they sure as fuck weren't going to spend hours online like a lot of us do and just so happen to catch wind of it. I have a feeling a lot of people are going to blame the failure of this movie on the idea that people don't want to see dramas like this or some bullshit given the state of who's running and advertising for Hollywood but they've been so out of touch with the regular moviegoing public, this movie was struggling to go uphill from the start due to a lot of factors.
Well, there's a documentary coming out in a year or so called Film Threat Sucks about the rise and fall of the magazine in the 90s. So if you like 90s Gore, you'll get plenty in that film. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat right on!Thanks for being the most unbiased clear film reviewer in an ocean of channels that sound like evil wrestling managers when talking cinema!🤣
Why make this film? Didn't anyone learn anything from the failure of "Bombshell" ? The name of the movie actually predicted the box office returns- it was also a bomb. Who wants to see these films? Once again, Hollywood latches onto a "movement" that was pushed by the media and social media. And the people on social media who complain the loudest are the least likely to actually leave their homes and go see a movie. This was so predictable. A movie with no stars, about a subject that is now the object of asking whether it went too far, and it didn't really impact the lives of most Americans. This is similar to "The Post", although that had an A-list cast and director. Yet still failed to find an audience. As Samuel Goldwyn allegedly said, "If you have a message, call Western Union." Nowadays, it would be "social media". Though, a short scroll shows it is more toxic than an EPA Super Site.
warns us about his hair, but I'd say Chris shows sometimes you gain style by sticking to your principles and hard work. The tie still made me chuckle for some reason though.
So the media buries the story for decades but now that it’s out the only movie they’re gonna make is about how great the journalists are. I wish I could say I’m surprised but at this point I hate the media with all of my being.
It was a mix of spotlight and promising young woman. Having never seen a Weinstein interview, I went back and noticed quite a bit of women keeping their distance, quite sick. In the end I guess the victims can sleep better knowing hell probably be out by his nineties or something, maybe even die in prison.
This kind of behavior has been going on since the beginning of the human civilization. We can try and minimize the problem as much as possible but it will go on until human no longer exist - just like crime, racism, etc. I also work in the entertainment industry and I’ve seen my fair share of women willing to sleep around to get places *cough* director of kung fu panda 2 *cough*. There’s always two sides. If we want to stop men advancing on women, we have to stop women willing to put out to advance.
Ok Chris, You indeed ‘shamed me’ 😂 into watching this film after this video. Thank you, I really enjoyed it and agree it’s like Spotlight and well made. Loved Patricia Clarkson, Zoe Kazan, and Carey Mulligan. Thanks for reviewing this film and boldly showing us ‘young’ Chris with rockstar hair! More importantly the critical work you did decades ago, yet it’s still ignored. An important note to teach young actors, NEVER meet anyone (especially powerful men) in their hotel room unless you’re armed or escorted. No street smarts. And a “willing” actor is excluded from this. Ashley Judd was pressured, not raped. She willingly slept with Weinstein aka ‘Jabba the Hutt’ twice to avoid rape. She didn’t have to make those films.
Thanks for your comments and kind words. The film is exceptional, but brings up a lot of questions. I personally loved the reporters' relationships with their family/children which provided the motivation for their relentless reporting. (This is Chris).
@@FilmThreat Hi Chris! True I have more questions than answers after this film. Been following you since discovering you on Film Courage, great channel. Thanks for taking the time to reply ❤️
15:21 This is an angle not often talked about. The women and men that do this actually set a precedent for how actors are to be treated and it makes it easier for male and female predators.
Fascinating. Chris, you should really think of doing another segment which deles into things about Hollywood's history regarding feminism tropes of the past molding into the statuses of today.
Male household chores that never go away: Opening jars Killing bugs Reaching the high shelves Mowing lawns Taking out the trash Anything involving pipes and / or wires
It's great that Hollywood gets to lecture us about morality by making movies about their depravity.
and charge you money to do it
My hat goes off to you, that was fucking savage.
hey the democraps need votes so they will use everything, use everyone as scapegoats and blame everyone
Great point
Who wants to watch a movie about “hero” journalist after the same “hero” journalist ignored and buried the story for 20 years?
And are burying Epstein story still
The media has lost all credibility and does not deserve to be seen as a good force.
The people that don't keep the lie going should get credit.
So true
Wow you know like zero about this
By the way, this happened to Brandon Fraser (who is straight) by a powerful male producer. He admitted that's why he was out of Hollywood for a while, because he was blacklisted or at least brown listed. But he's a man so pretty much no publicity.
They buried everything about what happened to Fraser.
Terry Crews too
@@ShadowMask1995 Chris Colfer as well.
What the hell does “brown-listed” even mean? As Heidi Klum once taught us, “You are either in, or you are out”.
Any man the size of those beefy lummoxes who doesn't punch the perv in the teeth deserves to be out of work
It’s about exonerating Hollywood of all the responsibility and pretending they weren’t all going along with him.
Hollywoke is still run by even worse monsters than Weinstein.
Yeah, it took a while to Weinstein to face justice. I wonder who he rubs the wrong way to finish in prison.
Kevin Smith owes his entire career to the man. How come he never spoke up? The man gossips like a middle school girl and yet he never heard anything about his boss?
It could only get more insulting if Meryl Streep was in this.
$32 million budget. Less than $3 million box office so far. Chris was right.
One of my favourite bombs! 100% deserved.
Holy joe, where did the budget go? It looks like a run of the mill TV movie!
The worst thing is they do not touch on all the silent accomplices in Hollywood and blame it all on Harvey Weinstein, let alone the female actresses who willingly used the casting couch for their stardom. There's absolutely no need for this movie to exist. Non-Hollywood people are doing fine. Hollywood need to hold a screening for themselves so they get lectured and leave it at that.
It's not like Hollywood is gonna change after Harvey Weinstein.
Any female like Meryl Streep and Judy Dench who said they had no idea about Harvey was obviously sleeping with him. Now we know why there are so many successful and talentless female actors like Streep, Blanchett, Jolie
As far as I'm concerned this film just perpetuates the founding myth of MeToo, namely that the casting couch is a completely black-and-white interaction between an evil predator and hapless, innocent victims. A lot of Weinstein's accusers were publicly known as his girlfriend at the time.
If the goal is to prevent similar dynamics from occurring in the future, we do ourselves no favours by myopically pinning all of the blame on a convenient scapegoat. A sober look at the interests and incentives of both sides engaging in this tit-for-tat is required.
@@AliRadicali Me Too was just a transfer of power. It will never solve the problem
It's funny that this movie comes out while the studio system is still ignoring Ezra Miller. Hollywood will never change.
If only those journalists read your Film Threat column 20 years ago trying to expose Hollywood
It's actually really disgusting. He would be at award shows with these women on his arm and you could see in their faces they would rather be dead than next to him. And everyone knew. Everybody knew exactly what was going on. That was real power. Doing something terrible in front of all those people and them all looking the other way.
Not defending him but they all thanked him when they won all those awards though
A bunch of sellouts and frauds. Mostly scared and intimidated but the could have left.
Waiting for that Hollywood man-boy film starring Kevin Spacey directed by Bryan Singer.
I think they did a superman together haha
"Whispered??"" Courtney Love pretty much shouted it down the mic years ago..
Or Sean Young. They just character assassinated the high profile stars who spoke out and ignored the no-names. Hollywood has always been a hive of scum and villainy.
I’m sorry but if Weinstein produced this movie it would be doing better at the Box Office and it would be a guaranteed Oscar contender😅
This is the equivalent of the former members of a mass murderer dictatorship who got away with their crimes against humanity decides to throw their former great leader under the bus by making a shitty movie about how evil and mean he was.
🤣😂
The fact that Shakespeare In Love won the Oscar for Best Movie over Saving Private Ryan, one of the best drama war movies of all times, was a joke and a charade, all thanks to said guy lobbying, so you're probably right. Not that the Oscars have any merits nowadays anyways, I'm sure next year the ratings will be even lower, unless someones gets slapped to "save the day".
It would get better advertising, that's for sure.
Ha ha
Something needs to change "in this industry"? Remember that. Just because its happening in Hollywood doesn't mean it's happening everywhere. That's called 'suggestion'... as evidenced by all the GOOD men in the movie. Hey, Hollywood! YOU clean house... and leave the rest of us alone
Well, it's worse in Hollywood than the business world because what girl dreams of being a secretary or middle manager some day?
You report one, you risk losing a job you hate anyway. You report the other, that could be the end of everything you dreamed for since you were little.
And "the business world" isn't as insular as Hollywood. There's hundreds of kinds of businesses and industries located in every city in America.
Hollywood is ONE TOWN with a small handful of major studios. And word travels FAST in it.
Does word travel as fast in the, say, industrial adhesive industry? SOME business makes, sells, and distributes that.
The movie that was discussed on Geraldo was showdown in little tokyo. The actress was Tia Carrera , the actor was Dolph Lundgren.
No joke: My sister was a temp at Miramax and she was like "OMG, EVEN the women bosses were A-HOLES to the younger women". I also was sexually harassed as a man by women and men BOTH bosses, sexually, while working in Hollywood (Dreamworks SKG and William Morris). So this movie means something to me, I want to see it.
Oh wow. I'm sorry that happened to you.
Que pena parce, ojalá que todo se a mejorado en su vida.
I hope you’re doing well with a better job. I hope they actually depict that in the movie. Female predators in Hollywood are somehow more ignored than the men.
I’m not being dodgy but “paid off” the women didn’t hav to settle they could hav gone to the police. When your mugged you go to the police, if your robbed you go to the police, you get monetary damages later after justice is done.
I can't believe I am just finding this channel now, you are the man Chris Gore! I have been watching you since Attack of the Show.
His interviews on this channel are fantastic. Especially the ones in regards to the industry as it is today. Cheers!
DVD Tuesday 🤙🤙
Thanks so much Creepy Dan!
does the movie also shows how Harvey’s secretary fed him girls too? he could never have done this all alone, he was also enabled by people around him which included women, which i doubt will be acknowledged by most.
Is there a scene where Meryl Streep calls him God too?
IMO it's a story about something that only the media and movie world are interested in.
Everyone (Including media and movie world) knew this has been going on since movies became a 'Star-Making' business.
There are thousands of young women that have suffered or benefited from that system.
How many suffered and ended up in a worse place.
How many became stars because of this system.
How many didn't become stars but did get a break which allowed them to meet their now producer/assistant-producer/director/assistant-director/set designer/movie company attorney-accountant etc etc...
It's terrible that the system was like that, but everyone knew it was the system and still these people were desperate to get into it.
Being in the army could result in death, but the upside isn't that you could become a multimillionaire, which is why it sometimes makes good stories.
I'm really gonna cry for Hollywood actor/actress problems. Poor little things.
A good sign that this is unwatchable is that it just came out. Also, it’s got a message, and so critics will be smeared. Good to hear it isn’t anti-men though! (Hard to imagine, really).
Chris was going for the business guy look in the 90s, looks very professional!
LFP had a policy that you had to wear a tie to work. I thought it was funny and felt like I was cosplaying a business person every time I dressed like that. (This is Chris by the way.)
@@FilmThreat you made for a lanky kid. Now, you're an awesome silver-maned man.
@@FilmThreat I cant belive Gloria Allred was chasing the spotlight even back than.
who goes to the movies to see this type of movie?
Harvey Weinstein 🤭🤣
People who like journalism movies
@@paulelroy6650so nobody
Journalists, Hollywood, politicians. What do all three have in common?
they lie
@@hero5900 I was going for most despised but that will work.
All are full of 💩
The marketing team did this movie no favors with the trailer. They made sure to have the one scene of the guy hitting on them in a bar and being a bit to forward. So the one reporter could have her big scene and yell at the guy and be all "stunning and brave". In context I am sure it made sense. And as you mentioned all the other men in the movie are good guys. But we have all been burn by Hollywood recently, so that was a bad call for the trailer.
I always humanely capture and release (outside) the spiders in our house. But yeah spider confronting - that's my job in the house lol.
Yung Chris looking like he bout to do my taxes bruh
H&R Block, how can I help you? (This is Chris, by the way.)
11:04 I'll save you the trouble, Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy and oh yeah, Ryan Murphy. LOTS of stories about that scumbag.
It may come out some day.
What did Rya Murphy do just wondering
@@joshuafletcher598 extensive casting couch stories and destroying the guys he had falling outs with. (Chris Colfer being the most infamous.)
This video raises some thought-provoking societal issues but none more provocative than the spectacle that occurs at @15:34
I have seen many haircuts, hairstyles, hair-pieces and wigs in my life, but I have never seen anything quite like the furry Beetlesque muff that sits atop Chris' head.
Ha! (This is Chris, by the way.)
Kevin Spacey got cancelled pretty hard. Considering he's literally the only example I can come up with, I think that it illustrates your point.
And he as 100% exonerated.
This guy talks the talk and has video proof that he was trying to put a spotlight on the industry ages before it trended.
Is Oprah Winfrey in the movie? Because she should be.
Good on you Chris. I also refuse to use the fictional language of the Woke Cult.
What language?
A couple weeks ago I went to see the Julia Roberts and George Clooney and all of the trailers were preachy and none of them made we want to go see them including this movie. I actually liked the Clooney romcom which wasn’t preachy and just a fun movie like they used to make.
Ticket to paradise was really mediocre and disappointing
We all know the Weinstein story and how it played out it wasn't that long ago. Who'd want to watch a movie about it when we literally lived it a couple years ago
I was born in the early 80s and even as a kid. I could never wrap my head around Hollywood fawning over the likes of people like Woody Allen or Roman Polanski. Then the Me Too movement comes along decades later and now they want nothing to do with them. What's even more insidious is that it's not like they washed their hands of them. They act like their hands weren't even dirty in the first place.
Honestly the 'me too' movement is dead in the water, especially after Amber Heard proved how 'believe all women' is ridiculous. I think people are utterly sick of me too, and no matter how great the film is people are tired of all female films and bigging up 'amazing' journalists wont fly right now when most journalists are paid opinion now and have forgotten how to be investigative journos that actually have morals.
Women never let things die in the water.
Or, fascism is rising in America, and people still don't really care that much about women. Feminism exists for a reason and is still needed. But what you see these days isn't feminism.
Especially when you have the big papers Times,NY Post, Today, Washington Post are nothing more then hired gun as long as your influential or have deep pockets.
She didn't just prove that it's ridiculous but also how DANGEROUS it can be.
@@tommyhatcher3399 Only in the womb?
After reading the title of this, i can't help but hear the old Cyndi Lauper song " She Bop" in my head except it's now "She Bombed".
I got “She Bangs”, which I now get to listen to in my head all day
Wow! Chris looked SO different back then!
Maybe they should have done a feature lenght documentary instead of a film drama. After the Metoo backlash i don't see many men interested in this and only politically active women would watch it. Small audience means small revenue.
I personally always prefer documentaries about real-life events. I did see one about Weinstein and it was terrible. (This is Chris, by the way.)
Was in Hollywood briefly in the 90's. It was disgusting.
Yep. I noticed but no one seemed to care. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat Yep. It was hardly a secret.
You were right. Even with the repeated warnings I was not prepared for that hair.
Side note: when the archive footage was showing the anonymous blacked out actress speaking out whom else thought it looked liked Ozy-man? C'mon. Raise your hands 👋
@daffy72 I thought Chris had escaped from Little Shop of Horrors!
My apologies for the hair. Never cared much about fashion or looking cool. Obviously. (This is Chris by the way.)
@@FilmThreat I'm just kidding :D. At least you still have your hair. I'm jealous really. Have been an avid follower of your contributions for 20+ years but just discovered this channel recently. Keep up the great work.
I don't think a Hollywood studio that's worked with The Weinstein Company (or any Hollywood studio for that matter) should be allowed to both profit and virtue signal from this story. They protected Weinstein for decades and now they're profiting from it? At next year's Oscars, all the people that kissed his ass will applaud and pat themselves on the back for this "important film". And they all knew. That's why I'm glad at least this movie won't make any money.
Here is the thing, the general public doesn't care about the inner workings of Hollywood. That's why those movies usually get oscars even tho they didn't even meet their budget.
Was Chris trying to be a Bill Gates look a like in that last clip?
No, I was trying to look like a Disney Imagineer from the 1950s. I even wore wing tip shoes. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat Oh wow I have no idea who the imaginers are, need to google it, but I am glad my comment prompted a reply from the man himself :D
In addition to what you said, people are also tired of "woke" stuff and they're going to assume all men are treated poorly in the movie. I think it's also too well-known an event, so nothing's really going to be revealed meaningfully.
So is Spotlight also "woke"?
@@O1OO1O1 The company or is this a movie/TV show? I'm not sure what you're asking about.
@@robinthrush9672 it's a film. Same genre. Is it Woke?
@@O1OO1O1 Obviously, I can't say since I don't know anything about it. I think there was a misinterpretation of what I implied.
Here's the thought process I was implying:
People are tired of "woke" stuff > people see a movie titled "She Said" and find out it's about Harvey Weinstein, which is part of MeToo and thus connected to high SJW activity > people assume the movie is woke and avoid it without learning if it is or isn't. Chris gives every indication that it is not "woke," but deals with a topic "woke" people claim to care about.
@@robinthrush9672 so then the problem isn't said film, but whoever is so easily led by people manipulating them against their own interests (those who weaponised the word Woke, metoo, etc)
Important to have the right standards. Even if it upsets the anti-sjw warriors.
There's also the fact that it released in between Black Adam and Wakanda Forever. Those movies just suck out all the oxygen from the market.
That sad part about how Chris looked in the 90s is that, that was the style. We all looked a bit like that.
Thank you for pointing that out! I even wore wing tip work shoes. (This is Chris replying.)
She Said seems like it would be a fair, balanced critique of men all around the world. Painting us as warm-hearted kind loving indivi……
Hahahaha oh I’m sorry, I couldn’t, it looks like a hatched job on us all
Why? What about it looks like that?
David lynch tackled this in Mulholland drive, he had to write around a lot just to get the movie made, but ita definitely there
Holy moses I actually love that hair. Very professional
Thank you!
Can’t wait for the prequel called “That’s What”
For woke filmmakers the message is more important than profit, one of those it exists even if nobody watches it.
Spiderman was the correct response to the doom and gloom of post 9/11.
bravo chris. totally with you. i refuse to use those made up terms as well.
All terms are made up.
The movie you were thinking of is United 93.
Yes, thank you! Livestreams with lack of coffee. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat Hi Chris. By-the-way, I miss the print edition of Film Threat.
The perfect first date movie!
I hate that Hollywood thinks this is some sort of mea culpa.
I find it a bit amusing that the film leaves out the fact that the same women who blew the whistle on Weinstein also had no problems posing for pics with him, all while smiling, grabbing him by the arm, hugging him, and kissing him on the cheek. This movie is just Hollywood absolving itself of blame, and it's disgusting.
Thor Love and Thunder comes to mind. I'm sure that 3 some with Taika speaks volumes. And of course that female director banged an actor for that horrible feminist movie.
Don't worry, Darling, not only horrible, boring.
Hey Chris, thanks so much for showing the segments you did from the 90s. Really heartbreaking and very eye opening.
Young Chris looks almost comically handsome, much as the young John Cleese was described as “inanely handsome.”
Chris worried about his hair in the 90's clip made me think he was rocking full dreads back in the day instead of the most normal haircut ever.
Chris Gore looks professional. That is scary.
I agree. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat thanks. I always appreciate it when a poster enjoys my comments.
Wow I never knew Chris Gore was in The Office!
All I needed was the Jim haircut! (This is Chris, by the way.)
Well, that was completely unexpected at 15:25
Wow you looked so professional back then.
I had that "Jim from the Office" vibe. (This is Chris, by the way.)
Yes exactly!!. .. omg this is my first time a celebrity replied to a comment I made.
I'm all giddy now. Thank you Chris .
Love the work you do
I have a feeling the reason this filmed bombed wasn't so much an issue of the public not trusting Hollywood or journalism, which they don't and I don't blame them for it.
I honestly think a lot of people DIDN'T KNOW THIS MOVIE EXISTED.
I got ads for this on UA-cam but there's one big factor in it; I don't have ad block installed on my phone so I will get ads. HOWEVER, I DON'T have it on my laptop which means I avoid ads for a LOT of movies and shows. On top of that, I don't remember seeing a lot of TV adverts for it so for the older crowds, I don't know if they were informed of it because they sure as fuck weren't going to spend hours online like a lot of us do and just so happen to catch wind of it.
I have a feeling a lot of people are going to blame the failure of this movie on the idea that people don't want to see dramas like this or some bullshit given the state of who's running and advertising for Hollywood but they've been so out of touch with the regular moviegoing public, this movie was struggling to go uphill from the start due to a lot of factors.
Was Leslye headland brought in at all in the film?
No, never mentioned. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat that is quite a yikes.
1990's Chris Gore..THAT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE ANYTIME SOON..BELIEVE THAT!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, there's a documentary coming out in a year or so called Film Threat Sucks about the rise and fall of the magazine in the 90s. So if you like 90s Gore, you'll get plenty in that film. (This is Chris, by the way.)
@@FilmThreat right on!Thanks for being the most unbiased clear film reviewer in an ocean of channels that sound like evil wrestling managers when talking cinema!🤣
Hahaha they were making movies in the 40s about the casting couch! Watch the movie "Stage Door"
Why make this film? Didn't anyone learn anything from the failure of "Bombshell" ? The name of the movie actually predicted the box office returns- it was also a bomb. Who wants to see these films? Once again, Hollywood latches onto a "movement" that was pushed by the media and social media. And the people on social media who complain the loudest are the least likely to actually leave their homes and go see a movie. This was so predictable. A movie with no stars, about a subject that is now the object of asking whether it went too far, and it didn't really impact the lives of most Americans. This is similar to "The Post", although that had an A-list cast and director. Yet still failed to find an audience. As Samuel Goldwyn allegedly said, "If you have a message, call Western Union." Nowadays, it would be "social media". Though, a short scroll shows it is more toxic than an EPA Super Site.
rest in peace universal studio
NNNNNEEEEERRRRRRDDDDD!!!!!
(sorry man, early-90's you just made me do it... I really love you bro, you're the best movie guy on youtube).
90’s Chris Gore, I cannot stop laughing
Ashley Judd made what 20 movies with that man. NOw she comes out seriously
warns us about his hair, but I'd say Chris shows sometimes you gain style by sticking to your principles and hard work.
The tie still made me chuckle for some reason though.
To this day, I still cannot tie a tie. (This is Chris!)
Best review ever, gives “She Said” more context the film itself ignored.
So the media buries the story for decades but now that it’s out the only movie they’re gonna make is about how great the journalists are. I wish I could say I’m surprised but at this point I hate the media with all of my being.
Chris looks like he would play in office space in this clip
More like Jim from The Office.
It was a mix of spotlight and promising young woman. Having never seen a Weinstein interview, I went back and noticed quite a bit of women keeping their distance, quite sick. In the end I guess the victims can sleep better knowing hell probably be out by his nineties or something, maybe even die in prison.
Flight 93. The plane that was no where to be found in a open clearing after it supposedly crash...
Every time I see Chris now I'm gonna think of his nineties hair.
Man. In 1993, Chris looked just like a classmate of mine. Granted I was only 12 at the time.... :D
I looked like I was 12 until I was about 30. (This is Chris.)
This kind of behavior has been going on since the beginning of the human civilization. We can try and minimize the problem as much as possible but it will go on until human no longer exist - just like crime, racism, etc. I also work in the entertainment industry and I’ve seen my fair share of women willing to sleep around to get places *cough* director of kung fu panda 2 *cough*. There’s always two sides. If we want to stop men advancing on women, we have to stop women willing to put out to advance.
Your hair didn't shock me. Seeing you in a shirt and TIE certainly did. 😂😂
Ha! Agree.
I suppose they thought this was gonna be like All The President's Men
15:13 that's obviously not mr. Gore. The differences is too astounding
Chris, you look exactly the same today. 😁😁
Thank you. That was about 40 pounds ago! I filled out after I turned 30. (This is Chris, by the way.)
Chris nailed the box office!
Ok Chris, You indeed ‘shamed me’ 😂 into watching this film after this video. Thank you, I really enjoyed it and agree it’s like Spotlight and well made. Loved Patricia Clarkson, Zoe Kazan, and Carey Mulligan. Thanks for reviewing this film and boldly showing us ‘young’ Chris with rockstar hair! More importantly the critical work you did decades ago, yet it’s still ignored.
An important note to teach young actors, NEVER meet anyone (especially powerful men) in their hotel room unless you’re armed or escorted. No street smarts.
And a “willing” actor is excluded from this. Ashley Judd was pressured, not raped. She willingly slept with Weinstein aka ‘Jabba the Hutt’ twice to avoid rape. She didn’t have to make those films.
Thanks for your comments and kind words. The film is exceptional, but brings up a lot of questions. I personally loved the reporters' relationships with their family/children which provided the motivation for their relentless reporting. (This is Chris).
@@FilmThreat Hi Chris! True I have more questions than answers after this film. Been following you since discovering you on Film Courage, great channel.
Thanks for taking the time to reply ❤️
Does the film explore the women who knowingly and cynically used their bodies as leverage to get parts they didn't deserve?
She Said = You Thought?
15:21 This is an angle not often talked about. The women and men that do this actually set a precedent for how actors are to be treated and it makes it easier for male and female predators.
Fascinating. Chris, you should really think of doing another segment which deles into things about Hollywood's history regarding feminism tropes of the past molding into the statuses of today.
I actually thought this was a balanced review. But it's interesting that Hollywood is making a film about what a depraved world they lived in and hid.
90's Chris Gore looks like a big Nerd... I LOVE it.
glad to see you have your own X-Ray Girl
Male household chores that never go away:
Opening jars
Killing bugs
Reaching the high shelves
Mowing lawns
Taking out the trash
Anything involving pipes and / or wires
How would you compare this movie to the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" because there seems to be a very similar style.
Haven't seen it. Or don't remember it. (This is Chris, by the way.)