How Austin Powers Predicted the Future of Cinema

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  • @patrickhwillems
    @patrickhwillems  3 роки тому +865

    Before anyone says it, yes, you can apply a lot of the same stuff to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    • @havinfunfallin9458
      @havinfunfallin9458 3 роки тому +3

      Damn homie, I think you got sompin there.

    • @motor4X4kombat
      @motor4X4kombat 3 роки тому +29

      Maybe, but least Henry Jones senior was not a carbon copy of Henry Jones junior (or of course Indy but you get it) and most of the movie its them Solving the problems in their own separated ways and arguing on what the best methot of tomb raiding .

    • @daviddenis4178
      @daviddenis4178 3 роки тому +4

      Phew! Literally only came down here to say that lol.

    • @AlexBalhatchet
      @AlexBalhatchet 3 роки тому +10

      Disappointed that you said “we should treat the work in a vacuum” and didn’t make any “no, this is me in a vacuum” joke 😆 Great video Pat! ❤️

    • @Anitube
      @Anitube 3 роки тому +8

      @@themasher4821 I think it's less "ripped off' and more, the very nature of franchises means you will run out of ideas and hit predictable tropes.

  • @JacobGeller
    @JacobGeller 3 роки тому +1062

    Patrick how did you put together this legitimately compelling an analysis on austin freakin powers

    • @elijahbryce9526
      @elijahbryce9526 3 роки тому +16

      *frickin

    • @phoebexxlouise
      @phoebexxlouise 3 роки тому +8

      With his genius forehead

    • @andyeggs8292
      @andyeggs8292 3 роки тому +45

      Coming from the guy who gave me an existential crisis talking about flight simulator

    • @CHDCLXVI
      @CHDCLXVI 3 роки тому +2

      You're next, Jacob!

    • @oops6876
      @oops6876 3 роки тому +12

      I think you mean Austin “Danger” Powers

  • @eddache
    @eddache 3 роки тому +530

    Every movie would be vastly improved with a montage dance between every scene

    • @PeterG00000
      @PeterG00000 3 роки тому +16

      Make the LOTR dance montage cut

    • @ProfMyronGaines
      @ProfMyronGaines 3 роки тому +23

      Spielberg originally intended that for Schindler’s List, but time constraints didn’t allow it

    • @gabrielodin2931
      @gabrielodin2931 3 роки тому +4

      Check Bollywood then, you might like it !

    • @PressGaneyLive
      @PressGaneyLive 3 роки тому

      thought the same exact thing

    • @debodatta7398
      @debodatta7398 3 роки тому +1

      Indian movies been doing this

  • @MrOtistetrax
    @MrOtistetrax 3 роки тому +448

    Post-it sticking to the desk was one of the best visual gags I’ve seen in a while. Props, guys.

  • @alejoparedes2388
    @alejoparedes2388 3 роки тому +128

    "What we swingers were rebelling against were uptight squares like you, whose bag was money and world domination. We were innocent, man! If we'd known the consequences of our sexual liberation, we would have done things differently. But the spirit would have remained the same. It's freedom, baby, yeah!"
    I think about this quote from the first movie a lot.

  • @jasonguarnieri4127
    @jasonguarnieri4127 3 роки тому +422

    "Charl is the key to all of this." - George Lucas

    • @creopictures
      @creopictures 3 роки тому +32

      "I may have gone too far a few places" - Patrick Willems.

    • @Fork1
      @Fork1 3 роки тому +1

      This is sucha underrated comment!

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому

      (Bristles with indignation on behalf of a probably malevolent coconut at that comparison)

    • @Canhistoryismylife
      @Canhistoryismylife 3 роки тому +6

      “I make these movies for Charl” - George Lucas

  • @chrisw2307
    @chrisw2307 3 роки тому +108

    "Now we have freedom AND responsibility. It's a groovy pair."
    I live my life by this quote

  • @JohnDRuddyMannyMan
    @JohnDRuddyMannyMan 3 роки тому +329

    Yous clearly had a lot of fun filming those 60s interludes :D

  • @TheSugarRay
    @TheSugarRay 3 роки тому +241

    I like how Austin Powers thought the communists would win.

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis 3 роки тому +306

    I thought this'd be a fun vid, although basically just a big gag. But damn by about 20 minutes I was convinced Mike Myers is the greatest seer that has ever lived. Incredible work.

    • @PentameronSV
      @PentameronSV 3 роки тому

      Absolutely did not expect you to be here.

    • @dustinfocus
      @dustinfocus 2 роки тому

      He is a Guru after all....

  • @zenosAnalytic
    @zenosAnalytic 3 роки тому +145

    There IS, in fact, a term for when the original rips off the spoof: it's "Mobius Double Reacharound" u_u

    • @BuiltDownLogically
      @BuiltDownLogically 3 роки тому +29

      how much extra is that gonna cost me?

    • @JamesLawner
      @JamesLawner 3 роки тому

      😏😏😏😏

    • @luispanzar4764
      @luispanzar4764 3 роки тому

      LOL

    • @zenosAnalytic
      @zenosAnalytic 3 роки тому

      @@parkivich google it :p

    • @dwc1964
      @dwc1964 3 роки тому +4

      @@parkivich Without ducking it first (that would be cheating), I'm going with TV Tropes
      ETA after ducking it: Nope

  • @Wyrmknave
    @Wyrmknave 3 роки тому +116

    Pat coming out here as a defender of Oasis' "Be Here Now" is the most surprising part of this video

    • @Malkmusianful
      @Malkmusianful 3 роки тому +9

      Not surprising. He defended the album in his video about music biopics.
      Not that I'm mad - it's easily up there with What's the Story (Morning Glory); its coked-up aesthetic actually makes these songs really engaging like Oasis is going down with a party on a sinking ship - but not shocking.

    • @ethansloan
      @ethansloan 3 роки тому +3

      Not a terrible album, but Magic Pie is godawful.

    • @patrickhwillems
      @patrickhwillems  3 роки тому +35

      @@ethansloan worst track on the album. Should've swapped it out for Going Nowhere or The Fame

    • @LycoLoco
      @LycoLoco 3 роки тому

      And yet he's not wrong. That album is a bop

    • @SEGAClownboss
      @SEGAClownboss 3 роки тому +2

      @@patrickhwillems Please do a straight-up video about Oasis since I'm a huge fan of them and I think people underestimate how good they are, lol. Even post-Be Here Now they are really compelling

  • @LOCKEYJ
    @LOCKEYJ 3 роки тому +55

    The Sound design on that post-it note- that’s true comedy

  • @LON009
    @LON009 3 роки тому +82

    Patrick, I really wanted to hear how Scott Evil represents the toxic fandoms of our time.

    • @andysee6996
      @andysee6996 3 роки тому +16

      I think Annie Wilkes in Misery and Buddy Pine/Syndrome from The Incredibles do a great job at that sort of thing.

    • @Jetsparx373
      @Jetsparx373 Місяць тому

      Did Robot Chicken actually traumatize him somehow?

  • @peterritchie1084
    @peterritchie1084 3 роки тому +43

    Also, Galaxy Quest has jokes that are later repeated in the Abramsverse Star Treks.......

  • @pvrhye
    @pvrhye 3 роки тому +72

    It's not Meyers' only impact on generational nostalgia. Let's not forget Wayne's World.

    • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
      @MidlifeCrisisJoe 5 місяців тому +2

      Except Wayne's World wasn't commentary on nostalgia at the time it was made. It might be nostalgic to people *now* but it was more a parody of dead-end no-lifers of the "slacker" Gen Xers who made up the primary audience of SNL back in Mike Meyers' days on the show. It was a pretty common thing to lampoon, as it also formed the basis of Beavis and Butthead and other comedies making fun of the audience that the audience actually like because they found it relatable.

    • @pvrhye
      @pvrhye 5 місяців тому +1

      @@MidlifeCrisisJoe It's an old comment but I think I was imagining how he brought Queen back to the pop consciousness again for a moment. Anyway, Wayne feels much more of a holdover from the 70's than for instance Airheads. He's into Zepp and Queen, not grunge.

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 3 роки тому +169

    Fitting this comes right after Sean Connery's passing. RIP Mr. Bond.

    • @michellemarty7510
      @michellemarty7510 3 роки тому +2

      Just going to ignore his disgusting misogyny huh?

    • @carterslade8771
      @carterslade8771 3 роки тому +2

      @@michellemarty7510 it's almost as though someone has chosen not to define a person's entire worth by their more negative qualities. In 2020?! Shocking.

    • @HonkeyKong54
      @HonkeyKong54 2 роки тому +1

      @@michellemarty7510 miserable and will probably expire alone

  • @NickPiers
    @NickPiers 3 роки тому +57

    Okay, two things:
    1) The sticky-note gag at the beginning nearly killed me. That was brilliant.
    2) I loved every single montage dance. You guys were clearly having a lot of fun with that.

    • @MattAndImprov
      @MattAndImprov 3 роки тому +1

      Totally agree.
      Anybody writing something down would do it onto a sticky note, which would not slide a la the trope.

    • @helloofthebeach
      @helloofthebeach 3 роки тому

      That's three things.
      I agree with all of them, but it is three things.

    • @NickPiers
      @NickPiers 3 роки тому

      @@helloofthebeach No, it's two points: the sticky note, and the montage. That's it. Two points.

    • @helloofthebeach
      @helloofthebeach 3 роки тому

      @@NickPiers Yeah, well, if there _had_ been a third thing, I probably would have agreed with it.
      (Also my bad habit of saying very stupid things as jokes, knowing full well that it doesn't look like a joke and that everyone will just think I actually am stupid, has reared its ugly head once again.)

  • @Burnettski9292
    @Burnettski9292 3 роки тому +53

    Truly laughed out loud when I realized you'd be doing the scene transitions

  • @Patrick-jj5nh
    @Patrick-jj5nh 3 роки тому +192

    You've outdone yourself with this one. Really, it's fucking great work. To put a hat on a hat: The final movie ends with Tom Cruise playing Austin Powers. Tom Cruise being the actual actor and star of the Mission Impossible franchise, which in turn was of course largely modelled (after the first movie at least) on the Bond franchise in terms of spy action - and which has arguably surpassed that franchise to become the best spy-action franchise in the whole genre!

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 3 роки тому +24

      the thing about Mission Impossible is that it has kept moving forward. the purity of it as a franchise has depended on its unwillingness to look backwards. like Ethan Hunt it's constantly moving forward. even when it brings back his wife, she's moved on and that's fine, and Ethan accepts it as the price of his role. Mission Impossible is about constant forward momentum, like a shark that has to keep swimming or die. it's a miracle JJ Abrams had his hands on it and somehow didn't muck up the franchise, but kept it alive. It takes what works, and leaves what doesn't. it's what all franchises could be if they had the purity of purpose.
      which is why, I think a franchise needs to have a Reason. it can exist as a sad moneymaking shell without one, but to last, to make a real enduring impact, it has to have a core to it. and when it loses that core, it fades. that's what I think TROS did to Star Wars, it finally blew up that core. all that's left of it is a sideshow with imitations of two popular characters to keep it going, and the hope of better video games perhaps. suits unfortunately don't understand cores, don't get Reasons. it's funny that JJ Abrams saved Mission Impossible and then killed Star Wars, too. really makes u thunk

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 3 роки тому +4

      @@themasher4821 Solo didn't kill Star Wars, Solo's fine. TROS took the joy out of the franchise, and I say this based on how the fans and general audience reacted to it, not on my bias (never actually saw it).

    • @CautiousKieran
      @CautiousKieran 3 роки тому

      tf did you say about Mission Impossible being the greatest spy series?
      gtfoh.

    • @dvillines26
      @dvillines26 3 роки тому +5

      @@themasher4821 I would not disagree that firing them was a very bad thing, but Solo was one movie. TROS retroactively ruined the entire sequel trilogy by undercutting it, denying pretty much any of the characters a good payoff, and giving the whiniest fans a cynical checklist of what they wanted.

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +4

      @@dvillines26 Yep. I have... considerable issues with Solo (its stuck-together nature was apparent to be on a shot-by-shot basis) but I could write it off as a single dud. Whereas TRoS went out of its way to undo the previous film to the point of crippling itself, and showed a staggering lack of care for the characters.

  • @vincentmuyo
    @vincentmuyo 3 роки тому +57

    It's a bold assumption that Mike Meyers doesn't have a time machine.

    • @ECL28E
      @ECL28E 3 роки тому +4

      If he did, he'd stop himself from saying "yes" to Cat in the Hat, or from making the Love Guru.

    • @diamond_dogs
      @diamond_dogs 3 роки тому +11

      @@ECL28E No cosmic power in the universe can ever stop Cat in the Hat

  • @KyleJMitchell
    @KyleJMitchell 3 роки тому +100

    I'm definitely up for the discussion on how Scott Evil's character arc tracks with toxic fandom, in case you have more to say on that and want some encouragement to go ahead with it!

    • @c0nd0rd4myt
      @c0nd0rd4myt 3 роки тому +13

      You and me both.
      I heard that and went "Wait, hold on! I recognize that's supposed to be a joke, but it sounds plausible enough to be true, and I need to hear more!"

    • @adamgreenspan4988
      @adamgreenspan4988 2 місяці тому +2

      I offered an analysis of this in another comment thread here, but here’s the short version: 90’s apathy and cynicism gives way to 2000’s ironic indulgence which leads to 2010’s unironic embrace of authenticity. The mocked become the mockers.

    • @KyleJMitchell
      @KyleJMitchell 2 місяці тому

      @@adamgreenspan4988 That makes sense, for sure. I'd still love to hear what Patrick's specific thoughts were (probably not actually that deep, hence the joke's throwaway-ness), but I appreciate the good insight on the idea in any case!

  • @ChrisAkaMastermind
    @ChrisAkaMastermind 3 роки тому +64

    "is this a joke?"
    "... are you?"
    "... are you ok?"
    "are you?"
    "... yikes aahm (...)"
    *not listening, checks non existent watch*
    thats some amazingly funny conversation.

    • @Kevin_Street
      @Kevin_Street 3 роки тому +1

      The watch joke was genius.

    • @helloofthebeach
      @helloofthebeach 3 роки тому

      This film analysis channel is some of the best sketch comedy on UA-cam right now.

  • @gabrielledebourg2487
    @gabrielledebourg2487 3 роки тому +70

    The God tier level of UA-cam video essays are the really deep and well researched essays on silly movies. I say that, because it proves the validity of film theory and media readings and how everything deserves to get proper analysis - and by being bold and looking closer at something other film critics might discard, it is something we can learn from. Patrick, this video makes my film studies heart say: Yeah Baby! Yeah!

    • @joshhiroti
      @joshhiroti 3 роки тому +1

      Check out the "Some More News Movie" just uploaded on youtube. Glorious over analysis on silly movies.

    • @RappinPicard
      @RappinPicard 3 роки тому +1

      @@joshhiroti always fun to see Cody’s Showdy get recommended.

    • @Largentina.
      @Largentina. 3 роки тому +5

      @@themasher4821 We get it, you like Sam Mendes. Get over it. It's a throwaway line in a 30 minute film analysis video about 3 comedies from years ago. You're going to be ok.

  • @SuperSeenith
    @SuperSeenith 3 роки тому +31

    I always thought it was funny how Die Another Day released in midst of the AP franchise and completely re-used the "giant space laser" plot as if the 2nd AP movie didn't exist. Also, "Austin Powers in Reboot Royale" should exist, where it parodies the Craig-era bond and our obsession with reboots

    • @Ken-fh4jc
      @Ken-fh4jc 6 місяців тому +2

      So almost Inception level rebooting a reboot.

  • @archer1949
    @archer1949 3 роки тому +109

    I’ve spent years trying to forget the “twist” in SPECTRE. Thanks for dredging that shitshow up.

    • @47Jaspers
      @47Jaspers 3 роки тому +38

      To crib on the words of Nick Fury: "I recognize the canon has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

    • @JamesLawner
      @JamesLawner 3 роки тому +9

      I practically forgot about this, but it has been awhile since I last saw it.

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +17

      I'd be curious to know if there has ever been a good example of a villain popping up and taking credit for the previous film's events.

    • @lillyrey5727
      @lillyrey5727 3 роки тому +13

      @@themasher4821 Scorsese ripped off Animaniacs? I knew it!!🤣🤣

    • @digitaljanus
      @digitaljanus 3 роки тому +11

      @@blokey8 Moriarty is like the earliest example in fiction I can think of, and it's not good there either! It's like Doyle thought "I want to kill off my character, but I can't just have some rando kill Sherlock Holmes... I'll retcon in some hidden mastermind!"

  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals 3 роки тому +86

    Have you timed that?

  • @aron4117
    @aron4117 3 роки тому +30

    Shrek never left. It’s the true king of the 21st century

  • @TheMajorStranger
    @TheMajorStranger 3 роки тому +74

    Showing Limp Bizkit to a 18 year old should be considered a war crime.

  • @zeilian
    @zeilian 3 роки тому +37

    Am I the only one who thinks that Pat really outdid himself this year? I was a casual fan last year and now he is easily one of my favourite youtube creators.

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +1

      Yep. I think leaning hard into the Covid punch has helped, but the other videos from this year are also comfortably among his best.

    • @sena167
      @sena167 3 роки тому

      I believe his is the hardest working creator on this website

  • @megapants444
    @megapants444 3 роки тому +19

    Having never actually saw Spectre I irl yelled "Bullshit!" and looked it up on wikipedia. What the actual hell?

    • @almightycinder
      @almightycinder 3 роки тому +9

      It also retconned Skyfall to make it a Spectre plot too, instead of a standalone villain.

    • @megapants444
      @megapants444 3 роки тому +3

      @@almightycinder that I wasn't surprised about, as they basically did that already with the second movie. which was part of the reason why I disliked Quantum and fell off from the bond reboots in general. I just...didn't think it could get dumber...

    • @VideoMask93
      @VideoMask93 3 роки тому

      @@almightycinder I'm still going to maintain that Blofeld was just lying about that.

  • @bettyreads222
    @bettyreads222 3 роки тому +45

    Yesss scene transitions. Oh man forgot about the daddy issues storyline. What a time this trilogy was. Dope to look at it knowing what we know now.

  • @LingLingX8
    @LingLingX8 3 роки тому +13

    You deserve an Oscar for that post-it scene. I literally figuratively pissed myself

  • @JamesLawner
    @JamesLawner 3 роки тому +26

    The statement about characters being like their parents and using nostalgia to escape their troubles really hit close to home for me. Also, it perfectly ties with your themes & messages in the Time Loop/Talk Show Finale video.

  • @stephenjohnson9745
    @stephenjohnson9745 3 роки тому +7

    Scott, Kendra, Rachel, Emma, Griffen, Chloe, Dave, and Jake? So much of the Willems extended universe (and by extended universe I mean real human beings with lives outside of their association with Patrick), I love it

    • @euansmith3699
      @euansmith3699 3 роки тому +1

      I'm looking forward to all of their inevitable spin-off movies.

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +1

      You forgot Rachel's cat :P

    • @stephenjohnson9745
      @stephenjohnson9745 3 роки тому

      @@blokey8 I mean, we'd also need his parents and Matt

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +1

      @@stephenjohnson9745 true, but I feel like Matt's being withheld for a triumphant return. Possibly involving Charl and a hammer.

  • @dplunk13
    @dplunk13 3 роки тому +22

    Lucas pulled the "Here's where everything came from!" thing well before The Phantom Menace with The Last Crusade. The entire prologue is showing us where Indy got his name, hat, whip, and passion for antiquities. We should have known then...we...should have known then.

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому +6

      You can write it off as an aberration or a cutesy thing when it happens once. When it reveals itself as a modus operandi, we're headed for bad places.
      I remain convinced that Solo started off as a parody in the same spirit as 22 Jump Street, and the origin of everything was meant to be a big cumulative joke.

    • @mttkra
      @mttkra 3 роки тому

      @@blokey8 The directors did get fired and went on to do Into the Spiderverse so I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they were going for.

    • @NobodyC13
      @NobodyC13 3 роки тому +1

      @@mttkra That's not how animation works. It takes 3-4 years to develop an animated film and Lord & Miller were producers and writers working on it simultaneously with Solo before they were fired.

  • @jonathandbeer
    @jonathandbeer 3 роки тому +92

    A great video, but I'd pay good money for a full-length video examining (and hopefully exorcising from Hollywood's collective creative energies) the character motivation of "Daddy issues".

    • @faggykrueger
      @faggykrueger 3 роки тому +15

      Maggie Mae Fish has you covered: ua-cam.com/video/aJ0nAkXOkMs/v-deo.html

    • @jonathandbeer
      @jonathandbeer 3 роки тому +3

      @@faggykrueger Much obliged!

    • @d3nza482
      @d3nza482 3 роки тому +2

      Here's a free text-only summary of the issue: Tropes built on Freudian bullshit are crutches of the lazy and inept writers/creators.
      Had they any talent or artistic substance in them, they'd be writing novels - not scripts for 100-million-a-pop entertainment Kool-Aid for the masses.
      Being lazy and inept, they gravitate to congregating and being hired by even lazier, more inept creatively and far less cultured people with money.
      Thus, lazy and inept "creators" end up prostituting themselves to the lazy and inept and uncultured, who are paying for and marketing that slop for the masses.
      Ergo, Kool-Aid for the masses for ever it is.
      BTW, video above confuses and conflates "like father like son" daddy-trope with "absent father" daddy-trope with "conflict/reconciliation with father" daddy-trope... with "sibling rivalry/favorite child" daddy-trope.
      Which probably stems from viewing all those tropes through the lens of Freudian bullshit and thus treating them all as just "daddy issues" - when they are all distinct tropes.
      E.g. Big part of "Hero's journey" (which in turn is mostly Jungian bullshit) is only one of those tropes - but if one is lazy and inept all those tropes get simplified to "daddy issues".
      Thus, if he had been written more lazily and with more ineptness, Luke could have ended up being a parricidal Sith Lord, in constant conflict with his sibling.
      You know... like Kylo Ren.

    • @digitaljanus
      @digitaljanus 3 роки тому +5

      Years ago I was reading of all things an unofficial Babylon 5 episode guide, and the (British) author at one point notes: "It's said all American fiction is ultimately about the main character's relationship with their father" and daddy issues in stories have annoyed me ever since.

    • @d3nza482
      @d3nza482 3 роки тому

      @@themasher4821 He's a dime-a-dozen TV director with the creativity and artistic expression of a Hallmark Channel journeyman work-for-hire.
      His main abilities as a director are his devotion to obedience to the people who sign the paychecks, obligingly giving them the final cut of his films so as to be digestible for average middle-class audiences, bland approach to outdated subject matter and being British and thus really cheap compared to other directors.
      The only reason he even does theatrical movies is cause he lucked out early by being something like a 31st choice for a Dreamworks movie which later got HEAVY campaigning during the award season.
      Not because the movie had a pretentious masturbatory portrayal of a "brilliant young filmmaker" who sees beauty in a grocery bag tumbling down the street.

  • @wongalahara8196
    @wongalahara8196 3 роки тому +22

    Why do I want that guy to say "vsauce michael here!"

  • @votekyle3000
    @votekyle3000 5 місяців тому +2

    5:49 more stuff needs these transitions, it’s amazing

  • @completetotalgoodness4786
    @completetotalgoodness4786 3 роки тому

    Saving this to watch later tonight.
    Your videos are my favorite show.
    Thanks for alot during this whole year/Covid.

  • @RudieObias
    @RudieObias 3 роки тому +5

    It's 2020 and I'm watching nostalgia for a movie made in the '90s that was nostalgic for the '60s.

  • @ratmandraws
    @ratmandraws 3 роки тому +6

    23:18 who's gonna tell Patrick that "I Am Legend" was also a remake?

  • @ryfreedman
    @ryfreedman 3 роки тому

    Another great video. Excellent use of montages. Thank you!

  • @gabagooltube4441
    @gabagooltube4441 3 роки тому

    This is the exact type of content I've come to love and expect from you Patrick

  • @bobilly
    @bobilly 3 роки тому +5

    God bless these scene transition montages. I haven't smiled that wide in a while.

  • @bloodswarms
    @bloodswarms 2 роки тому +4

    The genius of this series is that they were somewhat interconnected until they're very interconnected, and thus even the videos that were flops or that I'm genuinely uninterested in, like one on Austin Powers, I watch anyway because there may be a plot development involving the greatest thing to ever happen on UA-cam, Charl.

  • @marchingham
    @marchingham 3 роки тому

    This was excellent! Always setting the bar super high. Well done!

  • @seanmichaelwalroth9462
    @seanmichaelwalroth9462 3 роки тому

    You get better every time. This is some of your best work. Keep them coming.

  • @DanPurcell
    @DanPurcell 3 роки тому +21

    THIS WAS INCREDIBLE

  • @ColHunnyBear
    @ColHunnyBear 3 роки тому +11

    The transitions made my month

  • @Bobproductions1234
    @Bobproductions1234 3 роки тому

    This is my new favorite video of yours, Patrick. Thank you

  • @Plusphe
    @Plusphe 3 роки тому +1

    No surprise you’re still making some of the best videos on the platform! Keep it up

  • @audrenstein2356
    @audrenstein2356 3 роки тому +3

    this is now among my favorite movie video essays and I'm not even done with it yet! My parents took me to see every Austin Powers movie in theaters even though I was only 5 years old when the first one came out, and bought each one on vhs. These movies have been in my life since I was a toddler, and I had no idea I needed a video essay about it until it happened.

  • @GaviLazan
    @GaviLazan 3 роки тому +21

    Love that the zoom call says "1 participant" even though there are like 7.

  • @silex2k3
    @silex2k3 3 роки тому

    LOVE all your videos. you guys are killin it. thanks for all your hard work!!

  • @glenconnelly9592
    @glenconnelly9592 3 роки тому

    Love ya work bro, always quality!

  • @piggy81741
    @piggy81741 3 роки тому +4

    Hi Pat, I don't comment a lot but I'm 2 minutes into the video and I need to praise the level of comedy in this thing already. The shot of you reaching for your movies, looking like you're going to grab West Side Story and then revealing Austin Powers from behind it is amazing and had me dead. You make good stuff.

  • @JamesQPurcell
    @JamesQPurcell 3 роки тому +6

    Oh my god. That sticky note gag is incredible.

  • @chip783
    @chip783 3 роки тому +1

    This is absolutely brilliant. Well done!

  • @thetommcdonald
    @thetommcdonald 3 роки тому

    Patrick, keeping up the top tier content/analysis I love it

  • @candylove1234
    @candylove1234 3 роки тому +19

    I seriously needed this

  • @kevynonvideo1643
    @kevynonvideo1643 3 роки тому +8

    You don't have to look too deep into the 1st Austin Powers movie to understand that it was about how the title character's retrograde 60's attitudes towards women and personal responsibility were rightly called out as problematic in the 90's. There was some nostalgic wankery in the opening, but the bulk of the film is clear on why its best to leave past in the past. The sequels abandoned Austin's character growth and became more the series you described, but the first film actually did have a progressive point of view.

    • @MidlifeCrisisJoe
      @MidlifeCrisisJoe 5 місяців тому +4

      I mean, yes and no. That's Austin's arc in the first film, yes. But Vanessa Kensington *also* goes through her arc, and it's about how being too uptight and politically correct (for the 90's at least) was stifling and she needed to loosen up to enjoy herself and life. So it's really less about how "past retrograde, modern progress good" and more about "let's find a balance between these two attitudes."

  • @tuckernuts88
    @tuckernuts88 5 місяців тому

    I just found this channel and im slowly binging it all based on the algorithm and videos that look interesting in the recommended section...
    The background coconut story is so wonderfully incoherent when viewed totally out of order that its ascended to a different level.

  • @Flanfartigan
    @Flanfartigan 3 роки тому +1

    The sticky note gag at the beginning is so funny and so well done. I'm surprised I've never seen it done before. It feels straight out of community. Marvelous work, well done

  • @kamerongillum4404
    @kamerongillum4404 3 роки тому +9

    I'm here too late to weed through the comments to see it someone else said it, but: I never watched Spectre but the "good guy" and the "Villian" being foster brothers ALSO happened in 50 Shades of Gray.

    • @aolson1111
      @aolson1111 3 роки тому +2

      @@themasher4821 That doesn't make it no shit, buddy.

  • @dianacrow9400
    @dianacrow9400 3 роки тому +10

    "When the real thing rips off the spoof" You mean like how in the Season 2 finale of Star Trek Discovery has a scene that almost exactly mimics the rhythms of Galaxy Quest? I was literally yelling "Activate the Omega-13" at a Star Trek episode

  • @paquelasprisas
    @paquelasprisas 3 роки тому

    This might be the best (and that's saying a lot), most eye opening, cut to the chase and spot on video Patrick has ever made. Well done sir.

  • @ajrb2190
    @ajrb2190 3 роки тому

    Best video you have made! Great analysis

  • @alphabettical1
    @alphabettical1 3 роки тому +9

    This is only slightly related, but here's my algorithm comment:
    Recently, I was rewatching a sort of flashback Star Trek episode, and it struck me just how far back the 2000's are. It was a flashback in the story, but an opportunity for the team behind Voyager to do something set in their present time - yet, for me, it's so much in the past that it's more foreign than not. That's even further complicated as I can know we never did start those ambitious sci-fi projects of the Trek 2000's. And of course, when the episode came out in 2001, I was 3.
    This line of thinking about how the recent past imagined their recent future (different than the original Trek's 60's futurism, but still optimistic) has been sticking in my head because of Covid. Usually, I can't imagine the future because of climate change and capitalism and right-wing things becoming common. Now, I can't imagine it because of Covid, especially since my reference point - how travel and the world changed after 9/11 - is something I experienced, but don't remember.

  • @shandorno6305
    @shandorno6305 3 роки тому +13

    So, I wake up this morning (in Australia) to find out that the nightmare that was the President of the most powerful country on earth being a petulant, deranged baby will soon be over, Mass Effect will be getting a remaster, it's raining (shut up, I like the rain,) Coronavirus is on the verge of being wiped out in my country. AND a new Patrick Willems video is up.
    This was a really good start to Sunday.

  • @MacV216
    @MacV216 3 роки тому

    Excellent timing on the release.

  • @pytle
    @pytle 3 роки тому

    Awesome work Pat

  • @albionharrison-naish3329
    @albionharrison-naish3329 2 роки тому +3

    Wouldn't be surprised if a big part of this phase of nostalgia, which is happening across most art forms, is in part driven by the easy access we all have to all the stuff made in earlier periods. If you are a creative, then you are likely to be interested in where stuff came from etc etc. Well now, if I want to listen to music from almost any time, or view movies, photos, art of pretty much anything else, I can do that from home. Anytime. That is bound to influence people. So maybe we are going through a necessary creative epoch where we are all a bit saturated by the past and hopefully collectively find our way out of it naturally sometime soon.

  • @themastermason1
    @themastermason1 3 роки тому +3

    Looking back, I clearly watched Austin Powers at a way too young age. I was in the single digits but clearly my tiny brain just couldn't comprehend any of the sex stuff and interpreted a lot of moments in the films as slapstick.

  • @jjmot27
    @jjmot27 3 роки тому +2

    Right from the start, that "attempting to slide the post it across the desk" moment was great

  • @SpeedOfThought1111
    @SpeedOfThought1111 3 роки тому

    You're awesome and hilarious man! I love your videos :)

  • @kinchlmi
    @kinchlmi 3 роки тому +8

    I thought Jake was gonna sit on Charl and I was really scared for him.

  • @saintdane05
    @saintdane05 3 роки тому +3

    The first scene with Patrick and his agent is shot the same way as the destiel scene

  • @bebaguette766
    @bebaguette766 3 роки тому

    By far Willems' best video. This and the wine episodes are top stuff.

  • @vidilemaster
    @vidilemaster 3 роки тому

    I was waiting for it, thank god for you sir

  • @ItsGregKon
    @ItsGregKon 3 роки тому +9

    Austin Powers is smart and deep, actually.

  • @lilhonor5425
    @lilhonor5425 3 роки тому +3

    Me watching this video talking about Austin Powers with a oasis reference: I gotta send this to my dad

  • @blankcityaudio
    @blankcityaudio 3 роки тому

    You guys are very good at this. Very, very good.

  • @marcbertoni9920
    @marcbertoni9920 3 роки тому +1

    This was so good!!

  • @Caernath
    @Caernath 3 роки тому +20

    Darth Vader: "I've lost my mojo!"

  • @bwatson77
    @bwatson77 3 роки тому +3

    Might push back a bit against Austin Powers being *just* an homage to the sixties. While definitely a pastiche, it also pokes fun at the naivete of the sixties, and ultimately updates its pathos to something that better fits with modern sensibilities:
    "Right now, we've got freedom and responsibility. It's a very groovy time."

  • @Chinnybon
    @Chinnybon 3 роки тому

    This could have been a half hour video of just those montages and I'd have enjoyed it almost as much. I love those montages.

  • @Memfys
    @Memfys 3 роки тому

    Patrick, honestly, your videos are getting better and better. I laughed my ass off in the first two minutes. Paddington!

  • @tobigrantlbart
    @tobigrantlbart 3 роки тому +8

    Can we talk about something different Back to the Future is a movie that is now 80's nostalgia and caters to 50's nostalgia. That's weird I'm feeling like I'm in Inception

    • @tobigrantlbart
      @tobigrantlbart 3 роки тому

      No please no! But if means that we get punk revival, because of the 2000's punk revival, that happend, because of 70's punk. I'm on board

    • @blokey8
      @blokey8 3 роки тому

      @Mitch Lang So... stilted dialogue is coming back to blockbusters? No wait, we had TRoS so it's already here.
      Can we count the likes of Bourne and such as 70s nostalgia, as they were updating paranoid spy thrillers for the 21st century? I feel like there was one with Will Smith too?

  • @mr.moviemafia
    @mr.moviemafia 3 роки тому +17

    05:21 Holy shit is that JOHN MULANEY as Andy Warhol?! 🤣
    (False alarm, his name is Mark Bringleson but he just looks exactly like Mulaney)

    • @evilincoln23
      @evilincoln23 3 роки тому +4

      I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not, but John mulaney would have been in grade school when this movie came out. But it does look like him though.

    • @mr.moviemafia
      @mr.moviemafia 3 роки тому +2

      @@evilincoln23 I didn’t really think about the age, but right?! 😂 It’s so uncanny

  • @MrFreakshow182
    @MrFreakshow182 3 роки тому +2

    As ever Patrick, your commitment to being damned entertaining while delivering hot takes never fails to please

  • @ComKid100
    @ComKid100 3 роки тому

    Thank you to the cast and crew for the montage transitions, its not easy having that kind of high energy for multiple takes

  • @indycinema
    @indycinema 3 роки тому +18

    So many hilarious moments dude.

    • @indycinema
      @indycinema 3 роки тому +2

      Also Mike Myers is a legend.

  • @STormnNormn2027
    @STormnNormn2027 3 роки тому +7

    I have always thought that a fourth Austin Powers movie would work best as a commentary on the Jason Bourne series.
    Hyper realistic and gritty with a ton of shaky cam.
    Austin wakes up not knowing who he is so you’re not immediately tied to the previous continuity.

  • @Jindo1
    @Jindo1 3 роки тому +1

    Yo the transitions though 🔥

  • @Patrick-jj5nh
    @Patrick-jj5nh 3 роки тому

    Can't wait to hear you and Dave chat about this one!!

  • @Liz-Istrata
    @Liz-Istrata 3 роки тому +3

    Funnily enough about a year back there was a revival of Austin Powers memes on tumblr

  • @__-vb3ht
    @__-vb3ht 3 роки тому +3

    I always enjoyed Chloe acting in your videos, and great job with her new role of the new starry-eyed cast member who perfectly plays into Pat's toxicity and craving for attention. These characters feel very fleshed out and I can't wait to see the Charl plot line continue!

    • @euansmith3699
      @euansmith3699 3 роки тому

      I'm expecting that it will turn out that Charl is Patrick's ha;f-brother, three-times-removed.

  • @MartiniLinguine
    @MartiniLinguine 3 роки тому

    I’m so glad Patrick of all people is finally shining the spotlight on Austin powers! I’ve always been quite the fan of these films and he’s able to accurately describe of why I love it.

  • @onezerotwo
    @onezerotwo 3 роки тому

    I really like your work, Mr. Willems.