It’s worth pointing out in England we don’t test the emergency broadcast systems, in fact their existence isn’t actually known because the governments never used them or disclosed their existence
@hwat The only reasons the UK would use an emergency broadcast system is for nuclear war or if it gets conqured by another country. We have no natural disasters and other semi-urgent events are just covered by the BBC
@hwat The UK's so safe - temperate weather, no faultlines, surrounded by water, a powerful military with powerful friends, no volcanoes nor many dangerous animals except for the haggis - so the Emergency Broadcast System is generally used nowadays for heavy flooding or a hurricane. I've never seen it tested (like sending / receiving a TEST message), but it is definitely used for weather warnings. They'll send a text directly to your phone if they think you're in danger.
@@AverageAlien no it's just a bad movie, you can tell they tried going in certain directions by addressing interesting topics, but those topics were never built upon because the computer already took over the world. Bad script and a bad director. Also nobody's asking for a realistic scenario, just one that makes sense.
That was my main complain of cod vanguard, in the third mission of the campaign it forced me to spen time with my family, That’s why I fuckin play video games to NOT SPEND TIME WITH MY FAMILY, also zombies and PvP are crap, atleast infinity warfare had pew pew laser guns
Considering the monster's ability to melt away an entire body without harming the premature infant, amongst other things it can do, there was definitely no way to beat it from the very start.
I would argue that while humans couldn't win in that situation, one could still cause it to lose. If it wants to be worshiped then if everyone dies it loses too, so once escape is clearly impossible finishing everyone in the house oneself will at least prevent the monster's victory. Not the best case scenario but for me if an unknown monster is going to try and commandeer the life of me and my family I'll do anything to ensure it gets nothing out of it.
"At first we considered pretending we were the government or something, but then we realized: we are powerful aliens who can wrap over the world in a moment with _nothing_ to gain and everything to give; worship is, it's literally all we want."
@@MrSwccguy and yet, Covid was pretty much this exact same situation.... locked in our house, listening to the fear mongering media on the tv scaring people into getting untested vaccines, following every single instruction. This movie came out a year before Covid happened too, just fyi.
@@stateofopportunity1286????? That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter how evil u are, if ur incompetent then u can do anything, especially organize something to this level.
"The surname of the family, Milgram, refers go the Milgram test of obediance to authority, a theme dominant throughout the film. It is also revealed that the family resides on Stanford street, a reference to the Stanford Prison experiment which studied similar themes of perceived power and authority." Pretty cool info bit from IMDB.
I took the movie as a display of how easy it is to manipulate people by making them think they're the ones successfully manipulating others. You can make anyone do anything by just putting them in charge of someone else.
Or that others manipulate them. It's kind of hilarious how internat is full of people who claim that completely anonymous or completely obviously not competent people have right only because they claim other manipulate us. Especially in context of healthcare. If BF is real and controls the world it's main purpose is to make money and whoever controls world makes more money if more people work more so if they are ill less often and shorter time plus if they maximize people who are able to work till retirement. I'm 31 and have 2 uni degrees in country where uni is funded from taxes. If I die now country will lose 30+ years of my taxes and whatever I would produce but it still had to pay for 23 years of my education
I mean apparently plenty of people seem to read communism into it for some reason, going by Nerd's "gulag" and "Stalin" comments. Even though it's pretty clearly about the people who really liked a certain guy who didn't make it into art school. (The two experiments the family and street are named after were literally done to examine the psyche of those people.) Or they think it's about media in general and ignore that smartphones and the internet are literally shown as disruptive to the creature's plan. The smartphone is the only way anyone manages to get counterevidence to the misinformation, and the creature has to shut off the internet so people can't compare notes online. There's also a strong theme in there about communication between people breaking down and older generations doing wrong by younger ones that I don't see acknowledged much... It's strange how authors can be so in your face with their stories and still not seen.
Yeah, this one was unbeatable. They already lost by the moment movie starts. Seems like this is happening all over the World, these creatures are everywhere, they covered every house and they are incredibly powerful. Even if they escaped the house they wouldn't go far.
If you want a science explaination, check out the paperclip maximizer idea. A.I. is ordered to do something. Goes about doing it, by, say, converting the entire universe into paperclips. Or, in this case, making the entire universe worship its media. Some alien, somewhen on a distant world, coded an advertising A.I. to "produce media devices that'll make people watch." And once it had Skynetted the planet, it went to devour the universe.
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As soon as the TV said "Scrub all flesh with household bleach", I just said "Hell no!" It's one thing if you accidentally get a little bit of that stuff on your hands trying to use it for its intended purpose. But it's another to intentionally apply that stuff all over your body.
@@AverageAlien that was the worst bait attempt i have ever seen in my entire fucking life. the fish are literally laughing at the bait. its almost not even bait anymore
Well that's even stupider. Have it take over some 4chan nerd's TV and instead of claiming to be the government, just have it say, "Hello.", and strike up a conversation with it. Half of /x/ will have befriended it before the end of the night and there'll be Rule 34 of it by the weekend. It'll never go hungry again.
How To Beat is better imo. Idk why but its probably the way he tells the story and then gives the best solutions with detailes. Makes you end up becoming a slightly better critical thinker.
I randomly found this movie on Netflix last year and no one else I talked to knew about it lol so glad u made a vid! I felt like it was such a good movie to like make fun of their bad decisions for
Words cannot convey how much i hate people who blindly trust everything anyone with the slightest degree of authority says. Critical thinking is a dying art.
It's a shame when people don't trust anyone with authority just because they have authority. Find some actual evidence instead of telling people to "do your own research" while providing no source or anything.
Good point, let us now disagree with everything the authority figures say, you know, like doctors. If they all say something like "COVID is bad for you, maybe wear a mask please.", we should instead cough on people and lick door knobs. Because they have authority over us with their doctor knowledge and medical degrees, pheweey to that shit, I have Facebook and validate my beliefs through fringe "doctors" that agree with me. Because honestly, I'm not changing my mind when I do research, I'm just going to look for shit until I find stuff that agrees with me and say that I was right all along while saying everything that disagreed was totally lies and bullshit to peddle health advice. I know this is a "straw man" because I said it in a joking way, but it's entirely true. People don't give a shit about changing their minds when they say they're doing "research". What they really mean is just trawling through Facebook until they find someone agreeing with them and dismissing the vast majority of others saying "no you dipshit, you're fucking wrong, stop drinking bleach for the love of god."
clearly suppiosed to be an allegorical movie, they're not idiots because they're not supposed to be real, believable characters. They are representations of certain types of people. The dad would be the do gooder snitches and authoritarians that wanted to force everyone to wear a mask, get vaxxed, etc during the plandemic. The rest are the oblivious cattle, some unsure, some unquestioning, that follow along blindly because they feel trapped
You'd think they would have cut ties long ago right? And you'd think you'd be ready to dome the fucker after he beat you up and almost gauged your eye out, right??? Killing is hard yes but like c'mon how can there not be any semblance of self preservation here
It makes sense to think it couldn't kill them on its own because if it wanted to kill them just for funsies it could've done that way way way long ago What they overlooked is that there was still someone (the baby) that it could use But either way, this is unbeatable, it's basically an XK class end of the world scenario, couldn't have done anything else to survive but kill the annoying ones to make our suffering go by faster Seriously this movie was just infuriating
@@AverageAlien I think most of the people get that this is symbolic, man. The point of the channel is to assume that the depicted situation is real, understand the rules, and then try to beat it :)
he was almost correct. like you said it still had the baby, it needs people to worship it so if it kills everyone they cant do that. so his guess was pretty close.
The Netherlands uses NL-alert. You get a message on your phone. You can't use your phone for a couple of seconds while the message is on screen. (Bit hard to describe, just look it up) It's not just an SMS or notification. I know this, because my country regularly sends out test message to ensure NL-alert still works. Secondly, every first monday of the month the air sirens are tested. Primarily for if war would ever come back. But I think they could also be used in a situation like this. And I can assure you these sirens can be heard everywhere throughout the country. Every first monday of the month feels like the apocalypse as sirens are heard everywhere from 5 minutes out of nowhere.
@@TikoVerhelst I think ours has been done only a few times, for select areas and select phone providers. And it's just a SMS message which is easy to ignore, plus I think you can opt out in your phone settings. It's basically a waste of time.
@@calicoblue6373 Not mad, just sad. It's a tradition for the Queen to personally correspond with those that are fortunate enough to reach the venerable age of 100. I really wanted her to post a letter to herself, congratulating herself on her 100th birthday, with the letter signed by Her Majesty, Queen Herself. Alas, Liz reached 96.
Honestly though, Im glad that she died. What was disappointing was her death was a bit boring. Couldve been a bit more creative, for example, the alien parasite would do some forceful tenticle action **wink** **wink** 🤓
"How are you not hovering over him with your axe right now." Man, he would have already had his face split open after he tied me up and threatened to take an eye.
I love nerd explains because he thinks the same as me. People like to watch movies without thinking and call movies good because they don't have to think. He says everything I thought during the movie.
@@AverageAlien So what's the hidden meaning behind the movie? Don't blindly, stupidly follow painfully obvious messages not from the government or don't have stupid family members?
@@salutauo2035 When trapped with no way out in sight, and with your information coming from one source only, that source can make you believe whatever they want. Also that authoritarian types of people (the father) will pressure the mindless cattle to obey whatever regime is in power. And of course the real world examples of this, the plandemic, and how easily the herd obeyed the tyrannical law imposed by the tyrant state, first through fear of the unknown, then through social pressures. The government invented the crisis, and then removed everyone's rights with a simple way out: obey, get vaxxed, comply, and you will be free. And since so many took the path of least resistance and obeyed willingly, next time this happens it won't be so fun and easy. When they implement the social credit system fully (for your owns safety of course) and throw you in a cage at the first sight of dissent (to protect grandma of course) it won't be so fun.
Really is sad. These people were beaten by an entity too stupid to realize that a newborn child wouldn't be able to read. Honestly a sad result for the baby too. Not sure it will survive more than a few days since I doubt that thing will actually be able to take care of it properly.
@@frenchfryequeen I'm sorry to hear that. Honestly the best thing in life is family. I truly hope one day you feel that wonderful connection with a group of people. Regardless if it's your family by blood or choice. I hope you have a great day.
Film theory: This is actually the SCP Foundation multiverse and the TV monster is the Rouge Ai, that has breached and took over the world as a self proclaimed god.
Just of note, the interior doors in most uk homes are solid wood. or have a cut out of glass in the two top squares. You are definitely not going through it without a tool or being built like a tank.
Depends on whether your family is racist or realist. The word racist no longer has meaning since people started using it to describe literally everything and everyone they don't agree with. Bad weather? Racist! No parking spot? Racist! Other team won? Racist!
It's completely implausible that an illegitimate set of instructions would be blindly obeyed by credulous masses up to the point where they inject themselves with a mystery substance that they're assured is "for their own good". What's more, that some people would take advantage of the situation to assume authority they should never possess in order to force others into compliance to gratify their own egos. Completely implausible. Or maybe the movie was an allegory for blindly obeying authorities who demand compliance despite having never proven to genuinely care for anyone.
@@michaeldavid6832 Everyone knows it's a thinly veiled metaphor for corona virus. It's just the movie was made by someone who believes anyone who disagrees with them must be a room temperature IQ Saturday morning villain, and therefore wrote a story with nothing but 2 dimensional characters doing stupid stuff because mainstream media.
Why do people just accept Tony's leadership? Its not because he is the smartest. He makes nothing but bad decisions. He isn't the strongest, that is Scott. He isn't the eldest male, not at first. That is his dad.
@@Alliebei explain to me what was realistic about the tv demon or the people all using dirty needless listening to random broadcasts that made no sense they were even getting so conveniently. man I do hope you are using sarcasm man.
@@CyberPunkBadGuy 🤨 I don't need to explain sht to you and if you think I was referring to the to the cable entity and used needles then you're an absolute moron.
I always wondered about filling the bathtub with "clean" water. Some bathtubs finish have chips on them, people pee in the bathtub, and your dirty feet drag in germs from outside. I cant imagine that water is anywhere near clean.
its having access to water that is the point here, perhaps you might not drink it but the water could be used for other things and is still of some value. (perhaps you could cover the tub with some water tight cover like cling wrap or aluminum foil, though how well that will work is questionable)
Another good point, who wants to drink cleaning product residue. How often do you clean your tub, because unless you are doing it after every shower, my point still is valid. The time between cleanings it accumulates filth.
This is the one horror movie that needs a sequel because there is no god damn way the world going to ignore one of the largest sentient computers. I’m not just talking about the governments being scared of it since it has almost limitless capabilities but also because it would be a device that people would try and control
Why the hell would anyone think that thing isn't part of a fleet of aliens covering literally the entire world? Humanity's doomed, no need to make a second terrible movie.
Honestly, the only way to “win” seems to be just not listening. Worst thing that happens? You die, best case it literally can’t do anything but try and make you listen. Way it seems, whatever the creature is it gains power when people listen to its orders, as if you aren’t gullible you can easily circumvent almost everything it does
Because the TV kind of told them to do so, said there was spy among them and told them to get information out of him. Family was a bunch of racist pieces of trash, they thought it was a terrorist attack from outsiders and stuff, and the dude's girlfriend is from India so they probably thought they were working together or something.
17:08 the UK's electrical-cord plugs are actually so solidly over-built, they can easily crack a human head open; they split bricks with little effort. They're like improvised meteor-hammers, so it's not an entirely ridiculous thought to use it as a weapon ('cordless' kettle plugs, often even have a nifty handle on them). He should have disconnected it from the lamp however, that was idiotic.
Came here from the C.O.R.N. video because someone said that this film had even dumber characters and I didn't believe that was possible... I now believe it.
This movie is so grating. This is one of those events where you send the mom a gift in the mail with a card that says "I'll be by when old fuck 1 and old fuck 2 have BOTH kicked the can."
I mean, the movie had a great set-up. Trapped in a house, paranoia style. Some of the deaths could have a good reason too. But the movie killed off all its characters, when instead they could’ve just stopped the monster at the champagne baseball match. Then had the plot put Angie and Nick as surrogate parents. Would have been way better than whatever the hell this ending was.
Bruh, you know how Cinema Summary tends to promote genocide/murder in battle royale survival games? Un-aliving the other family members as early as possible would have been the smartest move
Yeah, it made me want to watch the movie as a whole. Actually, the "alien" part at the end came a little bit out of nowhere (for me), and made it all look a little silly. But the first part with the interactions among the characters and the broadcast feels interesting.
1:21 this might just be my lack of protagonist intelligence but if I saw windows barricade with metal bars and sheet metal I will not be entering the house. Sorry family this is suppose to be a Christmas gathering not a zombie bunker for the movie I AM LEGEND
The only way for Nick and Annji to beat this movie is to spend a night is luxurious hotel getting on Santa's naughty list rather than ruin the night by celebrating Christmas with a Dysfunctional family of psychopaths like that. Even if there was no alien shit going on in the house, I fail to imagine any possibility of spending a good time with those people.
Unless the TV can rapidly educate babies, that Ruby is not gonna make a good follower. But hey, I'm not an all-seeing sentient TV-creature, what do I know?
I want to see a sequel where the entity takes a good long look at these folks, goes "Nope," and proceeds to go right back to where it came from. But yeah this movie is just infuriating.
When I watched this movie years ago, I never understood why the son and his wife didn't just grab the needle and immediately waste it all over the floor. Can't be forced to take it if theres nothing to take.
Don't understand. You can't smash the camera wire wall alien poltergeist with an axe, but you can pick individual strands with a coat hanger? Well, I suppose logic, and writing ability for that matter, went out the window with wire wall alien poltergeist.
Fun fact, I’ve never actually ever seen an emergency broadcast here in the uk, it’s not regularly tested and actually to the best of my knowledge it’s a closely kept secret for national security reasons
The entire thing could have just been kids screwing with the family because they didn't give them candy on Halloween and the dad would have been like:"The tv said we should put our butts on the windows, the government is probably going to send electric waves that will cure whatever we have and it will be absorbed through our butts. Remember to put any candy we have in the pumpkin-shaped-government-approved buckets on the doorstep because apparently only candy and chocolates are contaminated."
the axe would be useful go to the back of the house get near a wall and start hacking through the wood floor till you hit dirt, from there dig down and under the wall sealing you in to make an escape tunnel for if shit goes bad, which... we know it will.
I can definitely state, for the record, that it wasn't the government. The government here in the UK couldn't find their own ass with both hands, a GPS and an Environmental Impact Statement
I just needed to make a small correction; this isn't a movie, it's a documentary about what happens if you don't pay your TV licence fee.
Ooooyyyyyy ya need ta pay yer telee Liosence matee
If u actually pay that then ur soooooo dumb 😂😂 I never have and never will
im guessing thats a non-usa thing
@@NoahGooder it’s in the UK for sure heard about it a few years ago
We call it a cable bill.
It’s worth pointing out in England we don’t test the emergency broadcast systems, in fact their existence isn’t actually known because the governments never used them or disclosed their existence
It might be an American bias, But that kinda sounds really fucking stupid.
@hwat Dunno lad we just don’t test them or I’ve never heard of one ever being tested
@hwat The only reasons the UK would use an emergency broadcast system is for nuclear war or if it gets conqured by another country. We have no natural disasters and other semi-urgent events are just covered by the BBC
How do you know about them then? Genuine question
@hwat The UK's so safe - temperate weather, no faultlines, surrounded by water, a powerful military with powerful friends, no volcanoes nor many dangerous animals except for the haggis - so the Emergency Broadcast System is generally used nowadays for heavy flooding or a hurricane.
I've never seen it tested (like sending / receiving a TEST message), but it is definitely used for weather warnings. They'll send a text directly to your phone if they think you're in danger.
I am CACKLING at how hard you're going in on these people. absolutely astounding how they do literally everything wrong.
pretty sure this movie is supposed to be an allegory for something else, not a realistic scenario
@@AverageAlien no it's just a bad movie, you can tell they tried going in certain directions by addressing interesting topics, but those topics were never built upon because the computer already took over the world. Bad script and a bad director. Also nobody's asking for a realistic scenario, just one that makes sense.
As someone with in-laws who are this extreme, step one is always to just stay home away from the crazies.
I mean cabin in the woods did the same thing but atleast there was a chemical making them stupid there
Cmao 😂
I never thought there was a horror movie as terrifying as being stuck with your family
That was my main complain of cod vanguard, in the third mission of the campaign it forced me to spen time with my family, That’s why I fuckin play video games to NOT SPEND TIME WITH MY FAMILY, also zombies and PvP are crap, atleast infinity warfare had pew pew laser guns
i always counted krampus but maybe thats just me
Damn. You guys either have shitty familes or are edgy teens. Maybe both.
bruh. The Shining.
True hell
Considering the monster's ability to melt away an entire body without harming the premature infant, amongst other things it can do, there was definitely no way to beat it from the very start.
When you're trapped with something wielding that level of power...worship probably isn't a bad idea.
I would argue that while humans couldn't win in that situation, one could still cause it to lose. If it wants to be worshiped then if everyone dies it loses too, so once escape is clearly impossible finishing everyone in the house oneself will at least prevent the monster's victory. Not the best case scenario but for me if an unknown monster is going to try and commandeer the life of me and my family I'll do anything to ensure it gets nothing out of it.
@@commandoepsilon4664if I’m gonna go out anyways, I might as well do it on my own terms
"At first we considered pretending we were the government or something, but then we realized: we are powerful aliens who can wrap over the world in a moment with _nothing_ to gain and everything to give; worship is, it's literally all we want."
Strange how we're able to beat GOD in some movie scenarios, but not a technological spaghetti monster
The moral of the story is: If you have a flatscreen TV there is no chance that there is a heart in it.
I don’t even own a TV 😂 problem solved
I just have authority issues. I don't take orders from appliances. I make orders with appliances. Lol
You copied this comment 😁
You never know maybe the heart is as big as a microchip 😏
@@ElAndreo2000 and so did you
The fact they assume the government is orchestrating this is hilarious. I've worked for the british government, they can't orchestrate a timely email
Right!! Dude I was in the military and anytime someone suggested some grand world order or government plot I laugh
😂😂😂😂😂
Incompetence and malevolence are not mutually exclusive
@@MrSwccguy and yet, Covid was pretty much this exact same situation.... locked in our house, listening to the fear mongering media on the tv scaring people into getting untested vaccines, following every single instruction. This movie came out a year before Covid happened too, just fyi.
@@stateofopportunity1286????? That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter how evil u are, if ur incompetent then u can do anything, especially organize something to this level.
"The surname of the family, Milgram, refers go the Milgram test of obediance to authority, a theme dominant throughout the film. It is also revealed that the family resides on Stanford street, a reference to the Stanford Prison experiment which studied similar themes of perceived power and authority." Pretty cool info bit from IMDB.
I never noticed that. Well played
To imagine that this entire film could've been avoided by a cancelled flight or by being outside the house at the right time
No it’s all over the place, not just inside that one house.
@@bryce34725 like the entire planet?
@@HerrscherPuppet Probably, was never really explained
@@bryce34725 if it was all over the place, it wouldn't need to lock them in their house
@@marianolaguzzi the at the end it shows outside with it covering other houses
I took the movie as a display of how easy it is to manipulate people by making them think they're the ones successfully manipulating others. You can make anyone do anything by just putting them in charge of someone else.
Or that others manipulate them. It's kind of hilarious how internat is full of people who claim that completely anonymous or completely obviously not competent people have right only because they claim other manipulate us. Especially in context of healthcare. If BF is real and controls the world it's main purpose is to make money and whoever controls world makes more money if more people work more so if they are ill less often and shorter time plus if they maximize people who are able to work till retirement. I'm 31 and have 2 uni degrees in country where uni is funded from taxes. If I die now country will lose 30+ years of my taxes and whatever I would produce but it still had to pay for 23 years of my education
I think it demonstrates just how irrational fear can make us behave
TV thing: "Worship me"
That Baby: "I don't even know who you are, or how to read"
I feel like ripping the TVs heart out while it's still beating would be a great first step to beating this situation.
Just like ripping the states heart out
I would have just stepped on it. Why use your hands, just use your shoe. You get less stuff on your hands.
@@cainabel6356 Yeah, but imagine how cool you'd look pulling the heart out with bear hands while saying some one liners.
@@CyberVonCyberus”Looks like your power is out.”
The Government can't even deliver my mail on time and to the right address. I have no confidence they'd be able to pull anything like that off.
You mean like Covid? LOL
@@HaggisMuncher-69-420
Idk what you mean?
how was this hard to understand?@@suomynona4420
What an incredibly subtle and nuanced movie. I have no idea what this could possibly be referencing.
I mean apparently plenty of people seem to read communism into it for some reason, going by Nerd's "gulag" and "Stalin" comments. Even though it's pretty clearly about the people who really liked a certain guy who didn't make it into art school. (The two experiments the family and street are named after were literally done to examine the psyche of those people.)
Or they think it's about media in general and ignore that smartphones and the internet are literally shown as disruptive to the creature's plan. The smartphone is the only way anyone manages to get counterevidence to the misinformation, and the creature has to shut off the internet so people can't compare notes online.
There's also a strong theme in there about communication between people breaking down and older generations doing wrong by younger ones that I don't see acknowledged much... It's strange how authors can be so in your face with their stories and still not seen.
Yeah, this one was unbeatable. They already lost by the moment movie starts. Seems like this is happening all over the World, these creatures are everywhere, they covered every house and they are incredibly powerful. Even if they escaped the house they wouldn't go far.
If you want a science explaination, check out the paperclip maximizer idea.
A.I. is ordered to do something. Goes about doing it, by, say, converting the entire universe into paperclips.
Or, in this case, making the entire universe worship its media.
Some alien, somewhen on a distant world, coded an advertising A.I. to "produce media devices that'll make people watch."
And once it had Skynetted the planet, it went to devour the universe.
I, as well as everyone else, really appreciates the constant quality uploads, but I’m pretty sure I speak for most people here when I say to please remember to taking time for yourself and your editors, lest you’ll burn out. Take care of yourselves, fellas
They aren’t real, just Ai
@@deprimada3560 Wdym?
@@tempest4247 his channel has grown.. he definitely has a team of people to do most of the work. hence the incredibly frequent uploads.
Cringe
This whole situation feels like an IQ test.
Lets see how smart these people are
It’s a horror movie. The IQ is always in the negatives
With an IQ of 0, I would be their king.
test results: negative
About as intelligence as the Western population during the Covid bs.
Answer not very
As soon as the TV said "Scrub all flesh with household bleach", I just said "Hell no!" It's one thing if you accidentally get a little bit of that stuff on your hands trying to use it for its intended purpose. But it's another to intentionally apply that stuff all over your body.
I bet you're fully vaxxed. So maybe don't call the characters in this movie dumb then, when you underwent the exact same process
@@AverageAlien that was the worst bait attempt i have ever seen in my entire fucking life. the fish are literally laughing at the bait. its almost not even bait anymore
@@AverageAlien nice assumptions all over the comments section lol
@@lonekie I've got high chances of being right an you know it
@@AverageAlien Do you yell at clouds on your free time?
Correction. The monster in the movie is an extraterrestrial parasite that lives off belief
Well that's even stupider. Have it take over some 4chan nerd's TV and instead of claiming to be the government, just have it say, "Hello.", and strike up a conversation with it. Half of /x/ will have befriended it before the end of the night and there'll be Rule 34 of it by the weekend. It'll never go hungry again.
Anyone else think Nerd Explains is easily the Best How To Beat channel on UA-cam?
I would put how to beat in that discussion also am I the only one that would like to see them do some Colabs
Him, how to beat anime, and how to beat (formally.....) I'd say.
How To Beat is better imo. Idk why but its probably the way he tells the story and then gives the best solutions with detailes. Makes you end up becoming a slightly better critical thinker.
Hands down best how to beat channel.
cinema summary was better until they renamed their channel
That dad was just waiting to fuck up his family no way he went from 0 to 100 that fast without already hating them
Nah, middle managers are wild.
Seriously
@@AimbotFreakNot competent enough to be promoted and hated by the lower ranks. It’s like the purgatory of life.
I randomly found this movie on Netflix last year and no one else I talked to knew about it lol so glad u made a vid! I felt like it was such a good movie to like make fun of their bad decisions for
Yeah I found it a few years back and never know anyone else to have seen it so was hyped to see this
Imagine making fun of the characters in this movie whilst being fully vaxxed. Lol.
@@AverageAlien Well there's someone to make fun of right above me 😊😊😊
@@AverageAlien Yes, it gives us another group to laugh at, namely: you.
@@AverageAlien …
Words cannot convey how much i hate people who blindly trust everything anyone with the slightest degree of authority says.
Critical thinking is a dying art.
Fauci
The jab
It's a shame when people don't trust anyone with authority just because they have authority.
Find some actual evidence instead of telling people to "do your own research" while providing no source or anything.
@@kamikeserpentail3778 Interesting choice to go with a straw man there.
Good point, let us now disagree with everything the authority figures say, you know, like doctors. If they all say something like "COVID is bad for you, maybe wear a mask please.", we should instead cough on people and lick door knobs. Because they have authority over us with their doctor knowledge and medical degrees, pheweey to that shit, I have Facebook and validate my beliefs through fringe "doctors" that agree with me.
Because honestly, I'm not changing my mind when I do research, I'm just going to look for shit until I find stuff that agrees with me and say that I was right all along while saying everything that disagreed was totally lies and bullshit to peddle health advice.
I know this is a "straw man" because I said it in a joking way, but it's entirely true. People don't give a shit about changing their minds when they say they're doing "research". What they really mean is just trawling through Facebook until they find someone agreeing with them and dismissing the vast majority of others saying "no you dipshit, you're fucking wrong, stop drinking bleach for the love of god."
This is exactly what I needed for a Friday. I've got my food and my comforter; this video couldn't have come at a better time!
Maximum comf ☺
I like the added disclaimer, helps remind everyone that this is for entertainment not like a psychoanalysis to be taken seriously
Yep. Don’t think too hard or connections to recent events may occur. 😉
Its hilarious how Nerd Explains just goes in on this entire family for being idiots the whole video😭
clearly suppiosed to be an allegorical movie, they're not idiots because they're not supposed to be real, believable characters. They are representations of certain types of people. The dad would be the do gooder snitches and authoritarians that wanted to force everyone to wear a mask, get vaxxed, etc during the plandemic. The rest are the oblivious cattle, some unsure, some unquestioning, that follow along blindly because they feel trapped
Well, they were
I should never be caught in a situation with a guy like the dad in this. I would not hesitate after first red flag
Nah man, bash his skull in. You're objectively correct.
I thought minorities never speak out though 🤔
You'd think they would have cut ties long ago right? And you'd think you'd be ready to dome the fucker after he beat you up and almost gauged your eye out, right???
Killing is hard yes but like c'mon how can there not be any semblance of self preservation here
Agreed. He'd be the first to go.
you're not reading deep enough here We were all caught in this situation when the shot was being pushed on us in 2020 and 2021
My favorite thing about this channel is when they drop a new episode and and i shout out loud "Ooooh, that's a good movie!!"
It makes sense to think it couldn't kill them on its own because if it wanted to kill them just for funsies it could've done that way way way long ago
What they overlooked is that there was still someone (the baby) that it could use
But either way, this is unbeatable, it's basically an XK class end of the world scenario, couldn't have done anything else to survive but kill the annoying ones to make our suffering go by faster
Seriously this movie was just infuriating
I approve of your scp terminology for describing this "war of the worlds" mess xD
@@bea95 shhhh it just sounds cool
It's supposed to be an anecdote for certain real world events and the types of people in them. Learn to read into things buddy
@@AverageAlien I think most of the people get that this is symbolic, man.
The point of the channel is to assume that the depicted situation is real, understand the rules, and then try to beat it :)
he was almost correct. like you said it still had the baby, it needs people to worship it so if it kills everyone they cant do that. so his guess was pretty close.
I forgot what life was without nerd explains
Boring for me
@@nightmaregamer_2755 same here
Exactly, without people like NE or Cinema Summary life would just be boring (and dangerous)
We probably be dead by everything horror/thriller movies use against us
The UK emergency broadcast channel never gets used or tested. Point of note, you'd get a text message, not some bullshit on your tv.
I think it was used during covid, I remember getting some automatic texts from the government during 2020.
The Netherlands uses NL-alert. You get a message on your phone. You can't use your phone for a couple of seconds while the message is on screen. (Bit hard to describe, just look it up)
It's not just an SMS or notification.
I know this, because my country regularly sends out test message to ensure NL-alert still works.
Secondly, every first monday of the month the air sirens are tested. Primarily for if war would ever come back. But I think they could also be used in a situation like this. And I can assure you these sirens can be heard everywhere throughout the country. Every first monday of the month feels like the apocalypse as sirens are heard everywhere from 5 minutes out of nowhere.
@@TikoVerhelst I think ours has been done only a few times, for select areas and select phone providers. And it's just a SMS message which is easy to ignore, plus I think you can opt out in your phone settings. It's basically a waste of time.
America also has the phone messages, but it’s nice to be able to reach people on the TV as well
The most terrifying horror movie ever: being in Britain
The not-so-great britain
Rather Britain than America. USA looking like a Grand Theft Auto lobby on a Friday night😂
"I don't know what it's like over in Camelot" bro in dead 🤣
@@4581-z8w y'all just mad that y'alls Queen died lol
@@calicoblue6373 Not mad, just sad.
It's a tradition for the Queen to personally correspond with those that are fortunate enough to reach the venerable age of 100.
I really wanted her to post a letter to herself, congratulating herself on her 100th birthday, with the letter signed by Her Majesty, Queen Herself.
Alas, Liz reached 96.
i know you said it looks like the title of a horror game as a joke but this could make a really good phycological horror game
it took less than 2 hours to people start killing each other .best family ever
Why tf was the pregnant woman following 2 guys fighting wouldn't you want to stay away from stuff like that
You've never seen low class women before. Thats why.
Thinking they wouldn’t dare hit a women lmao
Yeah isn't stress and stuff, and also a thunk thunk on the bump gonna cause a marinara mania?
Honestly though, Im glad that she died. What was disappointing was her death was a bit boring. Couldve been a bit more creative, for example, the alien parasite would do some forceful tenticle action **wink** **wink** 🤓
You really gotta admire how dedicated Tony is to making sure this thing screws over absolutely everyone
"How are you not hovering over him with your axe right now."
Man, he would have already had his face split open after he tied me up and threatened to take an eye.
I love nerd explains because he thinks the same as me. People like to watch movies without thinking and call movies good because they don't have to think. He says everything I thought during the movie.
Wait, how did the family NOT realize their house getting boarded up with that black licorice looking stuff?
@hwat ah
@hwat I remember it being just a part of the UK, no?
movie is not supposed to be literal, it's allegorical
@@AverageAlien So what's the hidden meaning behind the movie? Don't blindly, stupidly follow painfully obvious messages not from the government or don't have stupid family members?
@@salutauo2035 When trapped with no way out in sight, and with your information coming from one source only, that source can make you believe whatever they want.
Also that authoritarian types of people (the father) will pressure the mindless cattle to obey whatever regime is in power.
And of course the real world examples of this, the plandemic, and how easily the herd obeyed the tyrannical law imposed by the tyrant state, first through fear of the unknown, then through social pressures. The government invented the crisis, and then removed everyone's rights with a simple way out: obey, get vaxxed, comply, and you will be free.
And since so many took the path of least resistance and obeyed willingly, next time this happens it won't be so fun and easy. When they implement the social credit system fully (for your owns safety of course) and throw you in a cage at the first sight of dissent (to protect grandma of course) it won't be so fun.
That Portland jab was hilarious. That’s my hometown and the joke was all too accurate😂
Really is sad. These people were beaten by an entity too stupid to realize that a newborn child wouldn't be able to read. Honestly a sad result for the baby too. Not sure it will survive more than a few days since I doubt that thing will actually be able to take care of it properly.
As nerd explains once said in one video
"You need to have an iq above room temperature"
I think I beat this by being born into an awesome family who are both hilarious and amusing.
Lucky you 😢. I think I’d probably off myself if I got trapped in with my family
@@frenchfryequeen I'm sorry to hear that. Honestly the best thing in life is family. I truly hope one day you feel that wonderful connection with a group of people. Regardless if it's your family by blood or choice.
I hope you have a great day.
@@damnitsteve3302 Luckily I have been able to! Have a wonderful day!
Same lol
Film theory: This is actually the SCP Foundation multiverse and the TV monster is the Rouge Ai, that has breached and took over the world as a self proclaimed god.
That is... actually pretty good explanation.
As a SCP fan, I like it.
Ain’t have a unbeaten in long time definitely the best how to beat channel
Usually cuz unbeaten scenarios are generally shit, and a sign of incredibly poor story telling, only a select few can pull off this kind of ending
@@mub8445 yeah this movie is shit
Just of note, the interior doors in most uk homes are solid wood. or have a cut out of glass in the two top squares.
You are definitely not going through it without a tool or being built like a tank.
“If your UA-cam homepage is full of puppy’s howling, Ryan’s world, and Fortnite you should probably leave now” 😂😂😂this is the bottom of the disclaimer
As a mechatronics engineer I can confirm this is what the magic smoke does to you when you let it out the funny little black box.
Imagine all the homeless people just free to roam the streets while everyone is stuck inside
bro you missed the easiest trick!!! simply don't bring your partner around your family if you know they'll be racist. what the hell
Exactly
Frfr
In the movie she wanted to be there the bf was the one trying to get her to reconsider
Depends on whether your family is racist or realist.
The word racist no longer has meaning since people started using it to describe literally everything and everyone they don't agree with.
Bad weather? Racist! No parking spot? Racist! Other team won? Racist!
@@remc0s
Jesse what THE FUCK are you talking about
I remember watching this movie with my mum and we were constantly laughing our asses of at how shit it was 😂
Your television made it look shit so you dont believe its real
It's completely implausible that an illegitimate set of instructions would be blindly obeyed by credulous masses up to the point where they inject themselves with a mystery substance that they're assured is "for their own good". What's more, that some people would take advantage of the situation to assume authority they should never possess in order to force others into compliance to gratify their own egos.
Completely implausible.
Or maybe the movie was an allegory for blindly obeying authorities who demand compliance despite having never proven to genuinely care for anyone.
@@michaeldavid6832 can’t lie, I was just saying the movie was shit
@@michaeldavid6832 Everyone knows it's a thinly veiled metaphor for corona virus. It's just the movie was made by someone who believes anyone who disagrees with them must be a room temperature IQ Saturday morning villain, and therefore wrote a story with nothing but 2 dimensional characters doing stupid stuff because mainstream media.
@@michaeldavid6832 i feel like your comment is a hit at the covid vaccine, and if so then...your so stupid you might aswell be the dad from the movie.
Why do people just accept Tony's leadership? Its not because he is the smartest. He makes nothing but bad decisions. He isn't the strongest, that is Scott. He isn't the eldest male, not at first. That is his dad.
"hardwood temperature challenge" ahhh the nerd is binge watching Active self Protection with good old John ^^
Room temperature challenge
indeed@@SuperUnemployable
Idk why this movie grinds my gears so much
Same
everyone in the movie is incompetent and it feels very hopeless
Because of how realistic it is
@@Alliebei explain to me what was realistic about the tv demon or the people all using dirty needless listening to random broadcasts that made no sense they were even getting so conveniently.
man I do hope you are using sarcasm man.
@@CyberPunkBadGuy 🤨 I don't need to explain sht to you and if you think I was referring to the to the cable entity and used needles then you're an absolute moron.
Wow this is like one of the first non-mainstream movies that Ive watched myself before watching via nerd.
i feel like this one collapsed under the weight of its own metaphor
I always wondered about filling the bathtub with "clean" water. Some bathtubs finish have chips on them, people pee in the bathtub, and your dirty feet drag in germs from outside. I cant imagine that water is anywhere near clean.
its having access to water that is the point here, perhaps you might not drink it but the water could be used for other things and is still of some value. (perhaps you could cover the tub with some water tight cover like cling wrap or aluminum foil, though how well that will work is questionable)
Jesus christ how dirty is your bathtub buddy?
do you not. clean??? your tub?????
Another good point, who wants to drink cleaning product residue. How often do you clean your tub, because unless you are doing it after every shower, my point still is valid. The time between cleanings it accumulates filth.
@@mortuaryerror do you clean your bathtub after every use? else itll be as dirty as your floor or toilet
Damn, The BBC is finally cracking down on people who refuse to pay for their services.
i like the new energy recently
This is the one horror movie that needs a sequel because there is no god damn way the world going to ignore one of the largest sentient computers. I’m not just talking about the governments being scared of it since it has almost limitless capabilities but also because it would be a device that people would try and control
Why the hell would anyone think that thing isn't part of a fleet of aliens covering literally the entire world? Humanity's doomed, no need to make a second terrible movie.
It's set in America this time and everyone is just as dumb but refuses to follow instructions.
I would like to see a sequel as well, maybe from the perspective of a different family
This movie has terrible irony lmao especially in Australia
Honestly, the only way to “win” seems to be just not listening. Worst thing that happens? You die, best case it literally can’t do anything but try and make you listen. Way it seems, whatever the creature is it gains power when people listen to its orders, as if you aren’t gullible you can easily circumvent almost everything it does
okay, wait... why the hell did they torture him? like what the heck was that supposed to gain them?
they are just insane and evil thats all.
everything they do leads to a question of what the heck was that supposed to gain them? anyways.
Because the TV kind of told them to do so, said there was spy among them and told them to get information out of him.
Family was a bunch of racist pieces of trash, they thought it was a terrorist attack from outsiders and stuff, and the dude's girlfriend is from India so they probably thought they were working together or something.
Disciplining him so he would comply
17:08 the UK's electrical-cord plugs are actually so solidly over-built, they can easily crack a human head open; they split bricks with little effort.
They're like improvised meteor-hammers, so it's not an entirely ridiculous thought to use it as a weapon ('cordless' kettle plugs, often even have a nifty handle on them).
He should have disconnected it from the lamp however, that was idiotic.
Lmao I love how the screen theme changes when it talks to ruby, honestly that tv is gonna be a better parent than those 2
Came here from the C.O.R.N. video because someone said that this film had even dumber characters and I didn't believe that was possible... I now believe it.
“Giving up the ghost” has always been funny to me!!😂😂
Me after hearing the old man talk: oh my gosh, Mr Filch! Get that man a cat!
This movie is so grating. This is one of those events where you send the mom a gift in the mail with a card that says "I'll be by when old fuck 1 and old fuck 2 have BOTH kicked the can."
You make the best 'how to beat' videos. Very well written and narrated. ❤
30:40
As a lovable cyromatic insect once said: "Want to take me by surprise? THEN DON'T SCREAM LIKE A BANSHEE!"
I mean, the movie had a great set-up. Trapped in a house, paranoia style. Some of the deaths could have a good reason too. But the movie killed off all its characters, when instead they could’ve just stopped the monster at the champagne baseball match. Then had the plot put Angie and Nick as surrogate parents. Would have been way better than whatever the hell this ending was.
21:39 that line, delivery, and visual representation combo made me laugh harder than I’ve laughed in a good long while.
Yo the commentary is why I watch this channel bro is hilarious
This guy is actually so funny, I used to watch how to beats videos as well but now only nerd explains🤝
20:42 my favourite team in a Nerd Explains vid? I am honoured
It's always these crappy Families that die on Christmas huh?! Anyway I'm ready for this
Bruh, you know how Cinema Summary tends to promote genocide/murder in battle royale survival games? Un-aliving the other family members as early as possible would have been the smartest move
solid message in this one. When you have no escape, and your information only comes from one source, they can make you do whatever they want
Yeah, it made me want to watch the movie as a whole.
Actually, the "alien" part at the end came a little bit out of nowhere (for me), and made it all look a little silly.
But the first part with the interactions among the characters and the broadcast feels interesting.
Wonder if it relates to any recent situations we had.
@@OK-yy6qz lol yeah just a little. Forced vax, lockdown, shutting down dissent, obedience to media. 🤷🏼♂️
1:21 this might just be my lack of protagonist intelligence but if I saw windows barricade with metal bars and sheet metal I will not be entering the house. Sorry family this is suppose to be a Christmas gathering not a zombie bunker for the movie I AM LEGEND
Depends on the type of neighborhood you live in
@@louis8487 cant have shit in detroit
That wasn't there before they entered the house though.
The only way for Nick and Annji to beat this movie is to spend a night is luxurious hotel getting on Santa's naughty list rather than ruin the night by celebrating Christmas with a Dysfunctional family of psychopaths like that.
Even if there was no alien shit going on in the house, I fail to imagine any possibility of spending a good time with those people.
“drop a couple stimpacks down the chimney” had me fucking in tears😂
I liked when you said, "Off to the Gulag for her".
Unless the TV can rapidly educate babies, that Ruby is not gonna make a good follower.
But hey, I'm not an all-seeing sentient TV-creature, what do I know?
I want to see a sequel where the entity takes a good long look at these folks, goes "Nope," and proceeds to go right back to where it came from. But yeah this movie is just infuriating.
Was not expecting the end of this movie to go full contra.
When I watched this movie years ago, I never understood why the son and his wife didn't just grab the needle and immediately waste it all over the floor. Can't be forced to take it if theres nothing to take.
This Christmas way may all get exploded by alien smoke, but at least we're not doing something this family.
Don't understand. You can't smash the camera wire wall alien poltergeist with an axe, but you can pick individual strands with a coat hanger? Well, I suppose logic, and writing ability for that matter, went out the window with wire wall alien poltergeist.
this one is by far the best one i have seen of these how to beat
Fun fact, I’ve never actually ever seen an emergency broadcast here in the uk, it’s not regularly tested and actually to the best of my knowledge it’s a closely kept secret for national security reasons
That McDonald’s Line Thiugh! “I’m Not Lovin’ It” 🤣
*Though
As soon as saw that there were no wifi, I would've murdered myself lol
"we never found a way to beat the tv" ok hearing that cracked me up
The entire thing could have just been kids screwing with the family because they didn't give them candy on Halloween and the dad would have been like:"The tv said we should put our butts on the windows, the government is probably going to send electric waves that will cure whatever we have and it will be absorbed through our butts. Remember to put any candy we have in the pumpkin-shaped-government-approved buckets on the doorstep because apparently only candy and chocolates are contaminated."
the axe would be useful go to the back of the house get near a wall and start hacking through the wood floor till you hit dirt, from there dig down and under the wall sealing you in to make an escape tunnel for if shit goes bad, which... we know it will.
Tmw you've watched every sing how to beat video and eagerly await your NerdExplains fix
How is this only slightly less painful than family reunions with all of my dad's siblings
The levels of delusion the father went through in this movie piss me off so much.
I can definitely state, for the record, that it wasn't the government. The government here in the UK couldn't find their own ass with both hands, a GPS and an Environmental Impact Statement