Tearjerker And Ego Driven Oscar Bait
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2024
- You know it's a good episode of American Dad when it forces you to change up the format of the video entirely. Go watch Tearjerker.
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I can't believe that Travolta movie is real and not a south park joke.
Especially considering that it was directed by Fred Durst. AKA the lead singer of Limp Bizkit. That just SOUNDS like some crazy detail South Park would throw in.
Go watch RedLetterMedias review
@@AshtonRogers-se1zj Fred Durst also wrote it.
Its absolutely hilarious.
@@AshtonRogers-se1zjYou… Are… SHITTING ME!?!?!
John Travolta in The Fanatic even looks like Simple Jack. The haircut is hilarious.
You muh-muh-muh-muh-make me happy! :D
He went full retard there hehehehe
Oscar bait: "Oops! All special needs!" 😂😂😂😂😂
I started cracking up 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂
This video was shaaaaadddddyyyy😂😂
"Never go full Special Needs!"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
John Travolta brought Simple Jack to life, this and many other reasons Tropic Thunder will get better and better over time
I do not think that John Travolta thought that a movie directed by Fred durst was gonna win an oscar
Thank you
Maybe not but why else did he do it, it’s another movie where he looks all serious walking forward on a box art
His son died of a seizure because he thinks that modern medicine is fake. He's in scientology which is a cult that breeds NPD-like beliefs. It would not surprise me if Johnny boy thought way too highly of himself and felt it would get him an Oscar.
@@mooganifyis the like… super in debt or something? Or am I thinking of someone else?
@@14megasxlrnic cage?
Robert Downey Jr.'s character in Tropic Thunder said it the best
"Never go full retard"
Yup
Never go full Travolta
I oscarbait every other day
Yer gonna go blind! At least then you don't have to see these movies.
Those are rookie numbers
Oscargooning
I can help you with that
It's spelled oscarbate
"You muh...muh...make me happy!" 😂
As someone on the autism spectrum a big reason I personally dislike movies like riding the bus and fanatic is because it enforces this stereotype that disabled people lack any abilities to take care of themselves, basically turning them into large children. Forest Gump never upset me in this way because he was a perfectly capable person, serving in the army and becoming a ping pong champion, the movie focused on his achievements more than his faults.
More people should strive to be like Forrest Gump. What a guy
Gump was a big celebrity. He told JFK he really had to pee.
“As someone who isn’t severely disabled, I hate movies about people more disabled than I am, because I assume they must be about me.” Is how you sound.
I liked that one football movie with Cuba Gooding Jr. Man I forgot the name, but I felt it was a touching movie. What’s eating Gilbert Grape is also a good movie in my opinion.
Also, one thing that I think sets Forest Gump apart is the way they frame Forest as a protagonist. The movie throws him into a ton of crazy, almost folktale like situations, yet through t it all, forest is just… some guy. He’s the everyman the audience can identify and relate to. By framing Forest as the everyman in this wacy world, it helps humanise him and his disability.
Unlike most special needs oscar bait, Forest Gump remebers the “person” part of “special needs person”.
if someone told me in high school Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit is going to direct John Travolta going full R I would not have believed them.
fun fact: this phenomenon goes back as far as the 60s. There's a movie called Charly, about an intellectually disabled man who undergoes an experimental surgery to make him smarter. It makes for an interesting plot, but the actor playing the main role won the Best Actor oscar that year for a performance we would now see as stereotypical a la The Fanatic. It's a TOUGH watch.
Not really Oscar bait. Charly was based on a short story then novella "Flowers for Algernon" which a.... whole lot of American jr and sr high school students had to read at one point. It was a prestige product. I think even Forrest Gump wasn't Oscar bait as such (again based on a famous book and praised for special effects as much as anything else when it was released). I think of Oscar bait more as obscure original screenplays intended to provide a 'showcase' for an actor (think Nell for Jodie Foster).
@@cliffarroyo9554 I’m aware. I’m not saying it was bait at the time, just that the performance comes across as such nowadays.
@@rosebyanyname I saw it in the theater and am sure it hasn't aged well (especially the beginning and end) though there's nothing really offensive about the concept to me....
If you want to go back a bit further, Walt Disney really wanted to get an Oscar for casting a black actor in Song Of The South, eventually convincing them to give the black actor an honorary Oscar.
Not being disabled, obviously, but that was a pretty blatant attempt at race-baiting to win an Oscar.
Going back earlier, Best Picture used to have two categories with one being the popular choice among the public, the other being what the academy decided was the best. I think they ended that early because it came across as "This is the movie that stupid people think is the best, and this is the movie that smart people think is the best."
It doesn't?@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917
The poster art for "Riding the Bus with my Sister' is so blatant as to what its trying to rip off.
Bruh, I thought that was a joke edit. I didn’t realize that was the actual poster art lmao
I don’t think The Fanatic is Oscar bait, I think it’s an “actor inside joke” on the stalkers they all deal with, and this is a spite piece about those ‘fans’.
Still subbed 🎉
I don't buy modern Travolta and Fred Durst are famous enough for that.
That doesn't make it less bad.
I think it can be both, you can be trying to bait the oscars by doing something overly serious and "artsy"
But they make Moose autistic at the least
And the film portrays him as the underdog, not the villain.
I thought 'Music' was worse than 'Fanatic' to be honest because Fanatic had the grace of being batshit insane.
Music was just BAD and you could tell that movie was begging for recognition.
I have a brother with special needs and i just hate those movies, you could add Music, the Sia movie to it too, she basically forced Maddie into it just to make herself look good and even fought with people who are actually autistic, my brother used to like her music but couldnt even watch this film, on the other hand, we both love American Dad and Tropic Thuner, the parodies were on point and your video is a breath of fresh air
I’m glad you arnt one of those tiktok kids who get offended
Don't just love how Hollywood perceives autism as a super power.
Yeah, Music went way over the line in so many ways. Heard there was a moment where Maddie broke down in tears during a scene because she could tell it was offensive but couldn't quit because she felt like Sia had supported her so much. Very insidious.
@@RetroBacon1 oh, is not offensive, is j ust bad, like the John Travolta one, i swear is so funny to see how bad his acting is, when is good i like it, but most are bad and cringe, i know thats hard to understand for some blind fans
Dear God that Rosie O Donnell movie actually exists !!!
It's fucking atrocious
"I'm the sheriff"
The poster looks too derivative to be real, but it is
I thought this was going to be about those episodes of Family Guy where they try to get an Emmy lol.
The Cube did a good job at special needs portrayal, now that I think about it.
I don't know, it isn't a terrible representation by any means but it goes along with that old trope that all disabled people are Savants.
I still laugh at the part the guys gotta get through the sound activated room "EHH" 🤣
They made lore as to why the cube character was like that. Though maybe non Canon, in the last movie, made which is a prequel, there is like a memory wipe thing or something they do to certain people if they ever get near escaping. Messes their brain up.
It's the magic moron trope
What Radio? God no.
We were warned long ago not to worship at the alter of a golden idol
Travolta was once one of the most famous and respected actors. Damn.
The movie “Music” is worth mentioning too. Not only did that movie bomb critically and financially and was even criticized for its poor representation of autism, but the Director Sia had a complete meltdown on twitter and was literally fighting with the internet, doubling down that her movie is good and even insulting and attacking everyone that commented on her posts telling her that she was wrong
Roger from American Dad is one of my favorite TV characters of all time.
I always thought the special needs oscar bait started with Rain Man.
Hollywood is so strange. Imagine a massive award show for any other trade. Like, a national plumbers union having a huge, opulent award show that's televised worldwide, where they all just stroke each other's egos the entire time.
"Who are you wearing tonight?"
"Carhart."
I don't know why normal people even care who wins an Oscar. Or that their favorite movie of the year won X-number of awards. It's foreign to me, like fans watching sports commentary.
İ mean it's done in other forms of art (music), writing in other mediums (books, poetry), education in the US (national teacher of the year), heck, my local Kroger has displays for employee of the month. Not a fan of awards or award shows, but clearly there is a huge market for it
The fact that it's televised globally and is considered A Big Deal(TM) is somewhat unique as there's only a handful of shows like that, but a lot of industries have a pat-yourself-in-the-back event and it's just as self fellating as the Oscars.
Awards for television are broadcasted on TV. I can't believe it.
"Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, Money Plane..." literal spit take with that one. 🤣
Travolta's movie is honestly really damaging to the Autistic community - I can't even look at it. It makes me feel icky, and it's super poor taste.
As an autistic person, and ESPECIALLY as an autistic person whose special interests are usually some kind of fictional media (Star Wars, Super Mario Bros, Pokemon, Megaman, The Simpsons...), I agree completely. It just hurts me on a spiritual level. It paints a bad picture of not just autistic people in general, but autistic film buffs and autistic people in fandom.
Then just stop being autistic.
Don’t forget, his deceased son was autistic, so it’s not like he didn’t know what Autism was. Hopefully he didn’t use his son as an influence
i thought it's funny & no harm done
I enjoyed it, it was a strange little piece of entertainment and off the beaten track and as someone with quite possible autistic tendencies I really wasn’t offended because it’s a fictional character and I don’t behave like that
This is most likely unintentional and probably there to make it more "edgy", but I think Tearjerker has the best use of the word 'Retvrd' I've seen in comedy.
Not only does it fit in the WWII setting where the Oscar Bait supposedly takes place, but it also takes a jab at those that exploit marginalized groups (such as disabled people) while using unintentionally offensive terms and phrases.
Thereby it doesn't feel like it's overused for cheap shock and offense factor like a lot of other portrayals saying words as such.
Sling Blade is one of those oscar bait movies that gets it right, I'm not a huge Billy Bob Thornton fan but he really pulled it off in that film
It's because he's from Arkansas.
Because sling blade didn’t base the entire movie off the fact that the guy was special needs. He just so happens to be that way it wasn’t the entire crux of the film
The Fanatic is one of the funniest movies ever made.
“Simple Jack…stupid ass Jack…sittin in the bathtub, farting, laughing at the bubbles.”
🤣🤣🥹🥹🤣🤣
Still cant believe Johnny Knoxville didnt win an Oscar for "The Ringer"
did you really need a nine minute youtube video to say "sometimes actors play characters with disabilities for awards and American Dad made an episode about it I liked"?
Maybe you didn't, but some do 😢
I didn’t notice the Simple Jack tagline, actually got me to chuckle.
Tom Hanks best line of his career: “JJ what am I doing here?”
One movie I'd also list as an example is I Am Sam, the 2001 movie where Sean Penn plays a disabled character. If I remember correctly, this was one of the movies Simple Jack was intended to satirize.
But Penn was more than capable of interpreting the part and, unlike these movies, he was nominated for the Oscar.
For years the joke flew in my face…that made that episode even more enjoyable for me now that I know what it’s making fun of
Oh god someone remembers Tiptoes
I need to watch it now. Tell me, how bad is it
@@jasonotto9126 "in the role of a lifetime" Gary Oldman shuffles around on his knees with a very fake hump on his back, playing the brother of Matthew mcConaghey. It also has Peter Dinklage as a French anarchist and Brigdet the Midget in it, compounding the issue of Oldman's casting. There's a comedic review of it on UA-cam but can't remember who did it.
@leewright1 oh I have to watch it now!
Tearjerker is brilliant and it's deeply ironic that celebrity babies WOULD be able to dismantle the system...
If they refuse to be part of the nepotism cycle. Which they can't do at that age and won't want to do when they grow up.
Still, good video.
'' i dropped my meatball in the swimming pool '' - Rodger
I am Sam with Sean Penn.
Oof
"This movie makes my eyes raaaaaain" - simple jack
There's another way to meet Oscar without having to pretend to be special needs, you just have to go the Moonlight route
"Who aims to make the world cry to death." Lmfao
They pulled an I Am Sam.
Honorable mention of the phenomenon you mentioned: Sean Penn in I am Sam. It was so bad that it got parodied by RDJ in Tropic Thunder in the never go full stupid scene.
Mazes and Monsters was so inaccurate, Clerics don't have access to the Fly spell
I wish Tarantino didn't relaunch Travolta's career.
While I like to think there's more to being an actor than just being "another cog in the machine" and requires some creativity and a good sense of empathy, you definitely wouldn't be able to tell that from how superficial showbusiness is and how much worse it continues to get.
Swell. Your ball’in.
Surprised you didn’t bring up Sia’s movie “Music”from 2021.
Never seen your videos, algorithm hit me good tho. Great content, +1!
Love potraying the oscar award as an actual person
Jodie Foster in Nell is another "great" example of this phenomenon.
Oh so it’s ok for these “Act tors” to pretend to be other people , but when I do it I’m “sir you’re making people cry , sir your’re making people uncomfortable , sir stop crying on me” what’s with that hmmmmmmmmm
I would actually trace the trend back to ‘Children of a Lesser God’ in 1986 where Marlee Matlin won for playing a non-verbal deaf person. It was pretty daring, but it paid off.
I can’t help but wonder if whoever made The Fanatic thought to himself that he could actually make Simple Jack
It was Fred Durst, so probably. Lmao
There’s no way John travolta made that Fred durst movie for a chance to win an Oscar lmao.
Oh my boy, have u heard of a little well known movie called maestro? Perhaps the biggest use of bait in decades!
I haven’t even seen most of these performances 😆. Amazing
Just wanted to give a shoutout to Benny Safdie for doing an amazing and tasteful portrayal of someone with special needs in the movie Good Time (2017) directed by him and his brother
As someone with special needs, I have yet to receive my Oscar in the mail for being special needs since I was born
To be fair, Mazes and Monsters and Riding the Bus with My Sister were television films, and thus ineligible for Oscar nominations.
That episode alone in my opinion is why American Dad will always be better than Family Guy. It is written brilliantly and is one of the best parody episodes ever. I love American Dad.
I think Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man was the first true one
This is the first episode of American dad i ever saw.
The Fanatic is still a far better watch, had some great moments with Devon Sawa at the end.
perhaps you forgot Rain Man?
And I Am Sam
@@elliothill3953 and Being There with Peter Sellers, and Charly with Cliff Robertson and The miracle Worker with Patty Duke
Awakening, Children of a Lesser God, Inside Moves, Charly, The Elephant Man and the English Patient. (Some are movies about people with physical instead of mental disabilities).
And Awakening, and Charly, and Inside Moves, and Children of a Lesser God, and the Elephant Man, and My Left Foot. Might as well include physical disabilities too.
The fanatic is on the same level as the room, it’s so bad it’s good and funny to watch
I find it genuinely hillarious, and fitting, that Tropic Thunder has aged so beautifully.
Even better when you remember that Ben Stiller's character , by the end of the movie, became a better person and actor by letting go of his ego and treating roles like Simple Jack with the respect they deserve.
How had I never heard of that Rosie O'Donnell movie?
I can't believe I have never seen or heard of "Riding on the Bus With My Sister" until now!
I HAVE TO watch that movie right now!😂😂😂
i quite enjoyed this ,thanks for creating kind stranger
Not sure why a lot of people don’t talk about the movie, “Whats Eating Gilbert Grape.” Leonardo Decaprio was amazing as Artie. Very underrated acting job that Leo pulled off as a special needs teen.
I adore your style here!
Tearjerker should have won an Oscar.
Simple Jack is a parody.
OMFG, I have never seen that Rosie O’Donnel movie but it looks violently funny. I just about fell off my chair laughing.
Is that witcher tavern music I'm hearing around 3:48?
Nicee
This is a great vid
That one SIA film "Music"
About to watch A Star is Born, pray for me
Man, i cant believe that was what Q was up to before getting on truTV
I don’t think you can ignore the writing that these fake films are parodying. Yes the actor gets the most attention, and that’s somewhat intentional, Ben Stiller is playing the actor, but in American Dad they focus more on the fact Tearjerker also wrote and directed the film, it was his bad concept and bad writing that I believe, even more than the acting, makes the role distasteful. The character he’s playing is just a series of stereotypes and that’s on the writing more than the acting, and I think that’s the case, to an extent, in the real films you referenced as well.
I thought there was going to be many bad Oscar bait movies mentioned but instead it was three pictures on repeat where one isn't even a real movie.
In the words of the immortal English national treasure Michael Whitehall:
“Those roles are Oscar Bait. You know what they say, play a Mong, get a Gong”
I too would sell my soul to meet Oscar Isaac
A shockingly good portrayal of special needs is the Lifetime movie About Sarah. I tripped over it on UA-cam one day and couldn't believe a Lifetime movie could be actually pretty damn great, let alone one with this subject matter
If you’re a woman, I’m sorry. If you’re a man, holy fuck I don’t know how you can fix this. I pray for you.
Another form of Oscar-bait is the white guilt movie about slavery, segregation, etc. There's usually at least one every year.
the oscars wont end till ads do.
I think I need to give Mazes and Monsters a look
Oscar Gold deserves and Oscar
Once upon a time there was a what Simple Jack? How did i never see that before! Holy Hell!
I didn't see Radio with Cuba Gooding Jr.... who seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth.
Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman was the prototype before Forrest Gump.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Sia’s (yep, you read that right) directorial debut, Music (you also read that right)
Funniest joke was in that AD episode:
Showing all the audiences of the world crying their hearts out to the screening, and then you got Tehran laughing till their ribs hurt 😆
2:25 GAME
Game
GEAM
Rosie would have never been up for an Oscar even if it was good because Riding the Bus with My Sister was a tv movie. Emmy Bait? Golden Globe bait maybe but no Oscar. I get the it though.
Didn’t it all start with Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man?🤷🏼♂️
Further back then that even
Great video