The relationship between Frodo and Legolas is more like when you are at a party with a bunch of people, some of your friends are there too. But there's also this one guy, he seems like a pretty cool guy, he's getting along well with your friends and hanging out with you guys, but you have no idea what his name is. Then the party ends, you all go your separate ways and several years later you see him at another get together and you are like "Oh hey it's that guy"
This is exactly it. I had an acquaintance for years through a mutual friend and we'd constantly hang out together, but I didn't really know the guy that well. One day our mutual friend suggested he might move to Louisiana for work and we just looked at each other. "Do you wanna keep hanging out after he leaves?" We agreed and then we subsequently spent just about every weekend hanging out for years. Now we're super cool, but everytime I think about Legolas and Frodo, that's the image in my head. Two guys hanging out but who aren't actually friends. They could be, but they aren't because they don't need to be.
Arrows are actually absurdly ineffective against plexiglass because they are so long. A lot of energy gets lost in friction. Against something that would shatter they would be actually useful due to high mass. But penetrating plexiglass has to be just about the least effective use of an arrow.
Don't know about the genre. I just want more movies that don't sweat the small stuff. Just grab a great villain and make everything explode and that's your movie.
this is officially my favorite clip from Josh, I love Lord of the Rings and knew those things about the BTS (that and also that they used customized scene props and special camera angles to make hobbits appear smaller than the other actors). I also relate to enjoying watching how others react to something I've watched before as most recently I've done that by introducing the anime Monster to my mom since I know she typically likes this kind of drama story. Also was a nice side distraction while we were waiting for glue to be prepared for cosplay props work.
The only thing better than telling people cool film trivia they didn't know is bonding with people over cool film trivia they _did_ already know but appreciate regardless.
Never could understand why Street Fighter is supposed to be "so bad its good". It is a self-aware very silly camp film and succeeds gloriously. It is just a good film.
Man I love the street fighter film. Just the casting is so chaotic. JCVD's coked out of his mind The guy who plays T-Hawk is actively just cashing his stereotype check and vanishing Raul Julia is here to save this film through sheer force of A C T I N G
Dog Soldiers is the best werewolf movie but Van Helsing has the best werewolf. Also, Did You Know during Boromir's death the voices in the soundtrack are singing in elvish and the lyrics are a quoting lines from Faramir in the book?
About horror films I think for me personally, Martyrs (the french one) is one of those movies thats I don't recommend to anyone because of how heavy it is, but also, I want everybody to watch it because is such a masterpiece for horror in cinema.
Damn yeah, I kind of hated watching Martyrs specifically because it's so effective at communicating a feeling of powerlessness and pain. I love horror movies, but that one is a very tough watch. That being said, I think about it often because of how powerful it is as a film. Apparently the director was going through a very hard time in his personal life when he was making it, and I think that's why he was sort of obsessed with the idea of mindless suffering being made meaningful somehow. Really a terrible movie in the classic sense of the word.
Van Hellsing is definitely in my personal top 5 favorite films. I was utterly obsessed with it when it came out. That movie, Blade, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Hellboy helped me get through some of the more difficult moments in my life back then. It was my ultimate comfort. And yes, LOTR all three movies without a doubt ❤️❤️
I like how at the start you talk about how rating stuff works, because people be like X thing is a 4/10 or 10/10 but a lot of times there's no context on it so it doesn't make sense looking at it numerically like that. Are we talking about perfect thing of all time? then its just a 5/10, but if we talking about how good for you and if it made u cry etc or whatever boom 9/10
Josh’s school trip story tells us a lot but the main thing it tells us is that if you’re friends with Josh, you don’t want to be the one on Josh Watch Duty because you will fail at some point and he’s going to disappear and everyone is going to blame you for not keeping an eye on him.
God I thought I was the only one that had been insane enough to watch Mad God. Glad to see that ain't the case. In any case the LoTR Trilogy, Star Wars (Original Trilogy), Starship Troopers, V for Vendetta and Dune 1984 Extended Edition.
The cultural impact of LotR is so massive that despite having never seen a LotR movie I knew all of the trivia that Josh dropped. To compare, I have seen Avatar at least 5 times and totally forgot about the arrow going through the gunship window - that isn't even trivia, its a plot point...
I personally love the Avatar movies, especially the first, and recall the arrow that flew. I recognize LOTR (books) as being a defining trilogy for the benefit of fantasy, but other authors have imo improved on the formula. And I'm not saying Avatar is the successor of LOTR, as it is less popular and more sci-fi. As a fantasy movie, lotr stands tall. Book-wise, I think Wheel of time and Stormlight archives are better than LOTR
Just saw Mad God after watching this video. I don't know what I just saw but I really liked it. Kept me curious to see what else they would come up with.
10:30 The fact they essentially cut all the content from the cyberpunkish dystopian earth (that would show how shit life in earth had become) didn't help in making us want to root for the blue people and relate with the MC just being like "you know what, living with the blue people way better".
Mad God is one of the best films ever made imo. Combining the symbolism and imagery of Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno, and The Lesser Key of Solomon all into some sort of perverse interpretation of creation is just... 🧑🍳💋
You know what ? Even if the Movie is actually bad , the Super Nintendo game is just pure badassery . The Soundtrack alone is pure goodness. Check it out . Its really awesome .
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Thank you Josh for your 100% unbiased and honest opinion.
What gets me about Avatar is how it's such a cultural juxtaposition to Aliens. Both directed by Cameron, one film has pretty much been wiped clean from the cultural zeitgeist, whilst the other still echoes down the years with how culturally influential it has been in media, even with a series of okay to godawful films coming out for the franchise, after. Edit: "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit..." - Cameron literally wrote the solution into his script, 23 years before Avatar came out.
What gets me about Avatar is that so much of the background has been lifted from the Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert (humans opposed by Avata who controls the natural environment on a planet called Pandora), but then everything else about the story is just so much more rubbish.
"The Odd Angry Shot" is a fantastic war film (and the book is even better). The tone, and pacing can be a bit jarring, but I think thats by design, to try to capture the rollercoaster of chilling in base with your mates, and then in a matter of seconds being thrown into a situation where you're being shot at, your best mate has just had his legs blown off, and everything is going to hell.
You should watch LotR with a German, because it had also a very big impact on the German culture. There was the satire dub of it with Memes and random things from the 90ies and early 2000s called Lord of the Weed. Even to this day many things form it are referenced in normale language. There was also a dubbed versions of some Star Trek Next Generation episodes called "Sinnlos im Weltall" or translated Pointless in Space. Even if you don't understand German just watch them.
Pulp Fiction The Blues Brothers Life Of Brian The entire Star Wars Franchise all of it. The entire Tolkien Franchise again all of it Starship Troopers The Commitments Event Horizon Hellraiser The Princess Bride The Chronicles of Riddick From Dusk till Dawn and next week the list would be different again.
I absolutely love the How to train your Dragon trilogy and i will always recommend it to anyone wanting a good animated trilogy to sink their teeth into since if they like the universe it has a good deal of story building animated cartoon series on the side which takes place between the movies
I also watch my friends when I get them to watch my movies. Movies, Eternal Sunshine. Scott Pilgrim. Anything Wes Anderson. My favorite sharable movie is House of the Devil Ti West. Made in 2009. There is nothing dated past 1983. The cinematography is freaking amazing. There was even a Ti West Pepsi challenge to see if you could find something. Also, it released in a Special Edition VHS clamshell case like you would get from a 80s rental shop.
My favourite horror movie is probably a weird choice, but it's Event Horizon. Part of why I love it so much is because I went into it with no clue it was gonna be a horror movie. I thought it was gonna by action-horror like Aliens or something, but by the time I saw the airlock scene I realised I was in for something special and very different from what I expected.
Too many movies by now to narrow it down for me. Obviously the lotr stuff. The 1980s animated transformers movie definitely would be one. And the newest spiderverse animated movie. Love me some Stargate too. A Knight's Tale is one of my guilty pleasure movies. Top gun ( both), the first Shrek. And now that I look at my collection, I give up. There are too many great movies and many that I completely forgot about.
I hated that scene in Avatar too, man. It crops up in other media, too. The people with stone age tech beating the modern military because we lost Vietnam. Never mind the fact that the Vietnamese had modern military tech, too, at least in terms of infantry weapons. Nope, they had bows and arrows and shot jets right out of the sky with them! I blame the Ewoks.
@aggromemnon335 Mind you the blue man group also made their bow's using wood that we have no equivalent of so we have no idea what it's tensile strength is, same thing with the arrows (probably bone or metal that we don't have), bow string (which could either be a plant we have no equivalent of or possibly some animal sinew not sure which they used), and the fact that the blue man group are 3 times our size and quite probably over that in terms human strength.
Could not stop grinning throughout the entire imagined LotR watchthrough bit. How could it play out any other way than _exactly_ like that?! Just remember we're watching all the Making Of bonus material afterwards, pretty much as good content as the movies themselves. Guarantee my top 5 is unique... Lord of the Rings (extended trilogy), The Last Samurai (not a documentary btw), Aliens (game over man, game over!), Pirates of the Caribbean (first one for sure, keep watching the rest as far as you want), Your Highness (this is the part where I can be certain this list is unique and you can be certain I'm not just picking safe/popular movies 😂). Tough to leave movies like The Matrix and Underworld out, but that's how top lists go I guess. Edit: Oh geez almost forgot, Van Helsing is a ton of fun. So many great actors, scenes and lines. Shoutout to Richard Roxburgh's one-of-a-kind Dracula portrayal, didn't hold back!
That Helsing movie was a ton of fun. Many really gruesome concepts mixed with dark humor. I really loved the Brides‘ and Draculas chemistry. #itscomplicated
The whole part about watching your friend's reactions to the good bits and having concerns if they react incorrectly explains the FFXIV community perfectly.
If you liked the military guys in Avatar you should play the 360/ps3 era game, it lets you side with either the humans or the na'avi and the human campaign is amazing.
These are all good takes. So a game that kinda has the Avatar effect is the outer worlds. Great RPG, sold very well, very little content made about it. The wiki is incomplete, There isn't a lot of art of it, and not a lot of people made content about it on UA-cam. It's a great game! I just beat it again recently but it didn't leave an impact like most RPGs do.
My top 27 (or more, I will be adding as I remember): 1. Matrix (Especially Matrix 1, but the whole saga is awesome, except for the last one) 2. Batman (The Dark Knight is a masterpiece, but love the whole saga) 3. The man in the iron mask 4. Edge of Tomorrow 5. In Time 6. Titanic 7. Fast and furious 1 8. Terminator (Mainly 1 and 2, but the rest of the series is really good, except the last one) 9. The Lion King (the original, not the CGI one) 10. Rambo (1,2 and 3) 11. Jurassic Park (the whole series, and the first one of Jurassic World) 12. Elysium 13. Gladiator 14. Blade Runner (2017 version) 15. The Martian 16. Dumb and Dumber 1 17. Ace Ventura 2 18. Major Payne 19. Johnny English 20. Riddick 1 Pitch black 21. Predator 22. The Incredible Hulk 23. Ironman 24. Spiderman 25. Antz 26. Small Soldiers 27. Tremors (1 and 2)
The zombie 70s classic "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things". A director doing a movie shoot in an abandoned house, in the middle of nowhere. What could possibly go wrong? Who hasn't, as children, found old abandoned field houses to explore at night. No windows or doors to keep out the dead and no one's parents even knew they were gone to begin with. Telling stories of what if?
The 70s and 80s were a helluva time to be a kid. Even DM'd this new game out called "Dungeons & Dragons", in a candle lit graffiti scrawled morgue of an abandoned hospital in town.
>So Bad It's Good >MMPR The Movie Josh. Josh. Thank you for that. Thank you so much for that. I know to this day that movie is...very much just a drawn out two/three-part episode with no business being a movie especially when it had to redo its own canon in the show for the Ninjetti powers to match the Sentai, but...I still love it. I do think the 2017 reboot movie is surprisingly better, considering *it knows it's a movie* by comparison and is structured like one, but the old movie is so bad it's good. Unlike the Turbo movie which is only cool at the end with the original action scenes because it took a hatchet to the Zeo powers for no reason. Also Ivan Ooze is classic Power Rangers camp. Now WHERE'S MY AUTOGRAPH BOOK? And yes, I absolutely remember that "ACTION BOY NOW, ACTION GIRL NOW. ....something something SURF ACROSS THE OCEAN." Don't forget their brand new (AND OUT OF ORDER) morphing sequence takes so long, the oozemen just...leave.
Your feeling that watching a movie with someone not for them to enjoy it but for you to enjoy their responses is exactly why I watch reaction channels and exactly why I hate reaction channels that don't react how I think they should. This is the human condition, of course, but once I've seen something, I need to live vicariously through my friends and then people on youtube.
I head canon that avatar did well because of the graphics and it was some peoples first exposure to furries. Because LORD KNOWS it wasn't for rewriting the story of pocahontas. Also the dagger deflect trivia I never knew! Makes me like that fight even more now
I always love listening to people talk about how the LotR trilogy are some of the greatest movies of all time while at the same time barely even remembering what happened in the first one since I only ever watched it once in the background at a friend's LAN-party.
Speaking of films with terrifyingly efficient villains. A fantastic one is Green Room. Efficient villains with dumb protagonist's clearly makes for an incredibly tense viewing experience! Also your way of watching LOTR is exactly almost word for word how I showed the extended editions to my girlfriend!
Sad to say. Viggo breaking his toe. Never knew it. Viggo actually deflecting a thrown dagger: never knew it. What I did not know was he was a replacement, he only took the role to maintain his relationship with his son, and he did the fight scene at Weathertop as his first scene. I am a LotR nerd. But my focus is 3rd age Elves. And the 3 rings.
10:22 I'm defending thats so long, I weant to the bathroom, took a piss, realised I wanted some food, got in line, bought the food and returned and it was a long line. The lore establishes that they have bones made of Carbon Fiber and theres a limit to what humanity can realistically produce in the short term even with an abundence of energy. The unobtanium is valuable but its a power resource. Now this movie is about them running away. Mi fuck I just realised it was actually called that, unobtanium :)
Oh my, this is a fun one. It's a good idea to do this by genres. How can I compare Lord of the Rings and Hot Fuzz and say which I find better? I also couldn't tell you if I liked Mass Effect or Conker's Bad Fur Day better. That's like asking what you like more, your favorite dinosaur or your children? Immediately getting LotR out of the way because everybody knows it's the top spot. Yup, no surprises there and definitely no objection from me. I'm so glad Hot Fuzz was mentioned.🍦I love this movie so much, it's just excellent from start to finish. Edgar Wright shows everyone - as "Every Frame a Painting" said it - how to do visual comedy! The Python's are great of course. I saw Airplane! (or as it's known in German "Die unglaubliche Reise in einem verrückten Flugzeug" 🤪) kinda late and I can confirm that the humor definitely holds up. Mighty Morphin Power Ranger with Ivan Ooze 😍. I got this movie on VHS for Christmas and I watched it sooo many times. I must have been eight years old back then. I rewatched it just a few weeks ago and I still love it. This movie is so nineties, happy childhood memories to me. Not a big war movie guy here either, but there are some I like. Saving Private Ryan is very well made and … I know it's not a movie but Band of Brothers. I did watch it in kind of a cinema … in two sessions … at campus in Southern Denmark … during student exchange. Starship Troopers Fight Club, that's a weird coincidence. I listened to a 3h podcast episode about that movie just today. Oh, Avatar, I saw the first one in cinema as everyone else and I did enjoy it. Tbh, I watched it before I had ever seen Pocahontas. I agree with much of the criticism, but I also find the hate it sometimes receives a bit ridiculous. I was shocked on how much of the same the second movie was though. Kill Bill? This is the first one I cannot agree on. I've only see vol. 1 once and I guess it was alright. I tried to watch vol. 2 many times but I just don't care to watch on … same with the Big Lebowski - I just couldn't care less for how that one turns out in the end. I've tried several times. Now, I definitely have to watch Mad God; had never heard of it but sounds … interesting. I also should watch Enemy at the Gates and Zulu
As a major history buff - Zulu is up there as the absolute top 5, as would be Waterloo. (Sorry America - i havn't watched Gettysburg yet) Zulu's dawn not so much lol. and as opposed to Pearl Harbour - the more accurate version which is Tora Tora Tora :)
The bad guys can't be very competent as it suddenly completely shifts the tone of a movie. Imagine Frodo reaching the inner part of the volcano only to see huge metal dome blocking any access to the inner volcano - the only way to banish Sauron was via the Mount Doom so obviously Sauron should've made it not virtually impossible but actually impossible to access. The second bad guys start doing their best you get either an impossible to win scenario or Death Note case (while L lived) where it's not a lot of action but a lot of thinking back and forth. Even good villains like the one from Incredibles do a lot of wasteful actions that keep them in check so story is not finished from the start. Story has to be very, very carefully made to have a villain that can exist at full power and competency.
When I watched Avatar at the cinema, all I thought was: "This is just Pocahontas, in space." I had expected CGI to get to around that point at the time, so I wasn't all that impressed by the visuals either. It was good, but not mind-blowingly so. And I don't really recall any of the music really sticking out either. Edit: I'm all for the nuclear option as well tbh. 👍
the best war/anti war movie, objectively, is We Were Soldiers, with mel gibson and sam elliot. alot of other great actors were in it as well. if you have not seen it, everybody should watch it atleast once. its absolutely amazing.
I saw the original Power Ranger movie in the cinema, because I was of "power ranger liking" age at the time. The first Mortal Kombat is probably my favorite bad movie. I watched that thing so often... and the transition between Mortal Kombat and Annihilation where the second start exactly where the first end... with a different actor for Johnny Cage for contractual reasons... that gets killed instantly.
Avatars huge splash and having no lasting impact culturally impact because its vibe was "naturalism" and that's so off for the culture we live in. So it may have inspired people to go outside experiences how many bugs are out there...
Someone will have pointed this out already but still: Viggo deflecting the knife happens before him kicking the helmet. Also the headbutt Lurtz gives him is genuine because Lawrence Makoare couldn't gauge the distance because of the Uruk prosthetics. ...can we still be friends?
The relationship between Frodo and Legolas is more like when you are at a party with a bunch of people, some of your friends are there too. But there's also this one guy, he seems like a pretty cool guy, he's getting along well with your friends and hanging out with you guys, but you have no idea what his name is. Then the party ends, you all go your separate ways and several years later you see him at another get together and you are like "Oh hey it's that guy"
It’s a collective, I thought you knew them, without anyone knowing them
This is exactly it. I had an acquaintance for years through a mutual friend and we'd constantly hang out together, but I didn't really know the guy that well.
One day our mutual friend suggested he might move to Louisiana for work and we just looked at each other. "Do you wanna keep hanging out after he leaves?"
We agreed and then we subsequently spent just about every weekend hanging out for years. Now we're super cool, but everytime I think about Legolas and Frodo, that's the image in my head. Two guys hanging out but who aren't actually friends. They could be, but they aren't because they don't need to be.
The Princess Bride is as close to timeless perfection as movies get, just that a little something for everyone film.
Arrows are actually absurdly ineffective against plexiglass because they are so long. A lot of energy gets lost in friction. Against something that would shatter they would be actually useful due to high mass. But penetrating plexiglass has to be just about the least effective use of an arrow.
I unironically love Van Helsing. It's a great vampire action film, and I wish there was more movies in that genre.
Don't know about the genre. I just want more movies that don't sweat the small stuff. Just grab a great villain and make everything explode and that's your movie.
this is officially my favorite clip from Josh, I love Lord of the Rings and knew those things about the BTS (that and also that they used customized scene props and special camera angles to make hobbits appear smaller than the other actors).
I also relate to enjoying watching how others react to something I've watched before as most recently I've done that by introducing the anime Monster to my mom since I know she typically likes this kind of drama story. Also was a nice side distraction while we were waiting for glue to be prepared for cosplay props work.
YO THAT TOE ONE
I love it when I heard that scene because that pained shout sounded SO real and it was
To be fair to the arrow-plexiglass scene, the arrows are like the size of a person and tipped with Unobtainium. People forget how big the Naavi are.
The only thing better than telling people cool film trivia they didn't know is bonding with people over cool film trivia they _did_ already know but appreciate regardless.
Never could understand why Street Fighter is supposed to be "so bad its good". It is a self-aware very silly camp film and succeeds gloriously. It is just a good film.
Van Helsing is one of my favorite movies! It's just fun to watch.
Man I love the street fighter film. Just the casting is so chaotic.
JCVD's coked out of his mind
The guy who plays T-Hawk is actively just cashing his stereotype check and vanishing
Raul Julia is here to save this film through sheer force of A C T I N G
Raul julia is just peak performance bison !! I buy that for a bison-dollar !
Dog Soldiers is the best werewolf movie but Van Helsing has the best werewolf. Also, Did You Know during Boromir's death the voices in the soundtrack are singing in elvish and the lyrics are a quoting lines from Faramir in the book?
The Thing (1984) is the best horror film ever made, bar none
I prefer Alien personally but I respect your choice.
I'm throwing in 'The Fly'. Damn it, the 80s had some damned fine body horror going for it.
Yup, still gives me nightmares 😂
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You are correct
the best worst movies are from Neil Breen. It's such a treat to watch any of his movies. It makes the Room feel well-crafted.
About horror films I think for me personally, Martyrs (the french one) is one of those movies thats I don't recommend to anyone because of how heavy it is, but also, I want everybody to watch it because is such a masterpiece for horror in cinema.
Damn yeah, I kind of hated watching Martyrs specifically because it's so effective at communicating a feeling of powerlessness and pain. I love horror movies, but that one is a very tough watch. That being said, I think about it often because of how powerful it is as a film. Apparently the director was going through a very hard time in his personal life when he was making it, and I think that's why he was sort of obsessed with the idea of mindless suffering being made meaningful somehow. Really a terrible movie in the classic sense of the word.
First words in LOTR Fellowship is "The world has changed."
Van Hellsing is definitely in my personal top 5 favorite films. I was utterly obsessed with it when it came out. That movie, Blade, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Hellboy helped me get through some of the more difficult moments in my life back then. It was my ultimate comfort. And yes, LOTR all three movies without a doubt ❤️❤️
Eyyy, another TLoEG fan, we're a rare breed 😊
@@pvshka We are indeed! 😃 I don't care how much hate that movie received. I loved it a lot ^^
I like how at the start you talk about how rating stuff works, because people be like X thing is a 4/10 or 10/10 but a lot of times there's no context on it so it doesn't make sense looking at it numerically like that. Are we talking about perfect thing of all time? then its just a 5/10, but if we talking about how good for you and if it made u cry etc or whatever boom 9/10
The rock is such an underrated film. It's honestly a perfect action movie.
It’s a hidden bond movie
Hummel is one of my favourite villains bc he's not even wrong in his motivation. Plus Ed Harris is just cool asf.
Josh’s school trip story tells us a lot but the main thing it tells us is that if you’re friends with Josh, you don’t want to be the one on Josh Watch Duty because you will fail at some point and he’s going to disappear and everyone is going to blame you for not keeping an eye on him.
God I thought I was the only one that had been insane enough to watch Mad God. Glad to see that ain't the case. In any case the LoTR Trilogy, Star Wars (Original Trilogy), Starship Troopers, V for Vendetta and Dune 1984 Extended Edition.
The cultural impact of LotR is so massive that despite having never seen a LotR movie I knew all of the trivia that Josh dropped. To compare, I have seen Avatar at least 5 times and totally forgot about the arrow going through the gunship window - that isn't even trivia, its a plot point...
I mean Avatar was space pocahontas
Well why haven't you ever seen a Lotr movie?
What's the excuse?
I personally love the Avatar movies, especially the first, and recall the arrow that flew. I recognize LOTR (books) as being a defining trilogy for the benefit of fantasy, but other authors have imo improved on the formula.
And I'm not saying Avatar is the successor of LOTR, as it is less popular and more sci-fi. As a fantasy movie, lotr stands tall. Book-wise, I think Wheel of time and Stormlight archives are better than LOTR
@@Tinky1rs I couldn't with Wheel of Time. I think I made it through five books, and two of them felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere.
I kinda want to read the books first. Just so I can compare lol
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Just saw Mad God after watching this video. I don't know what I just saw but I really liked it. Kept me curious to see what else they would come up with.
Vanhelsing had the best looking werewolves I have ever seen in a movie.
10:30 The fact they essentially cut all the content from the cyberpunkish dystopian earth (that would show how shit life in earth had become) didn't help in making us want to root for the blue people and relate with the MC just being like "you know what, living with the blue people way better".
Mad God is one of the best films ever made imo. Combining the symbolism and imagery of Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno, and The Lesser Key of Solomon all into some sort of perverse interpretation of creation is just... 🧑🍳💋
Okay, so after we've talked about Viggo's improviserad knife deflection, are we moving on to the astonishing writing decisions in Rings of Power?
Truly awesome, in the original meaning of the word…
Dear God, the Ivan Ooze Power Rangers film mention blasted me with so much nostalgia.
You know what ? Even if the Movie is actually bad , the Super Nintendo game is just pure badassery . The Soundtrack alone is pure goodness. Check it out . Its really awesome .
Thank you Josh for your 100% unbiased and honest opinion.
What gets me about Avatar is how it's such a cultural juxtaposition to Aliens. Both directed by Cameron, one film has pretty much been wiped clean from the cultural zeitgeist, whilst the other still echoes down the years with how culturally influential it has been in media, even with a series of okay to godawful films coming out for the franchise, after.
Edit: "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit..." - Cameron literally wrote the solution into his script, 23 years before Avatar came out.
What gets me about Avatar is that so much of the background has been lifted from the Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert (humans opposed by Avata who controls the natural environment on a planet called Pandora), but then everything else about the story is just so much more rubbish.
"The Odd Angry Shot" is a fantastic war film (and the book is even better). The tone, and pacing can be a bit jarring, but I think thats by design, to try to capture the rollercoaster of chilling in base with your mates, and then in a matter of seconds being thrown into a situation where you're being shot at, your best mate has just had his legs blown off, and everything is going to hell.
You should watch LotR with a German, because it had also a very big impact on the German culture. There was the satire dub of it with Memes and random things from the 90ies and early 2000s called Lord of the Weed. Even to this day many things form it are referenced in normale language.
There was also a dubbed versions of some Star Trek Next Generation episodes called "Sinnlos im Weltall" or translated Pointless in Space. Even if you don't understand German just watch them.
Pulp Fiction
The Blues Brothers
Life Of Brian
The entire Star Wars Franchise all of it.
The entire Tolkien Franchise again all of it
Starship Troopers
The Commitments
Event Horizon
Hellraiser
The Princess Bride
The Chronicles of Riddick
From Dusk till Dawn
and next week the list would be different again.
Wait even Hobbits and Rings of Power? Hard to take the list serious after that :D
@@theStamax Only for one week tho :)
I also love Quentin Tarantinos Vampire Movie Dog Soldier. Almost as much as Alejandro González Iñárritus Mummy Movie Mimic.
I lost my mind when he mentioned Starship Troopers because I literally thought the same!
I absolutely love the How to train your Dragon trilogy and i will always recommend it to anyone wanting a good animated trilogy to sink their teeth into since if they like the universe it has a good deal of story building animated cartoon series on the side which takes place between the movies
Josh was my favourite content creator but hearing him go on about Lord of the Rings elevates him to first monitor content tier
Damnit Josh every time I see one of your videos I cant help but think we share brains. Great takes as always mate!
I also watch my friends when I get them to watch my movies. Movies, Eternal Sunshine. Scott Pilgrim. Anything Wes Anderson. My favorite sharable movie is House of the Devil Ti West. Made in 2009. There is nothing dated past 1983. The cinematography is freaking amazing. There was even a Ti West Pepsi challenge to see if you could find something. Also, it released in a Special Edition VHS clamshell case like you would get from a 80s rental shop.
My favourite horror movie is probably a weird choice, but it's Event Horizon. Part of why I love it so much is because I went into it with no clue it was gonna be a horror movie. I thought it was gonna by action-horror like Aliens or something, but by the time I saw the airlock scene I realised I was in for something special and very different from what I expected.
Too many movies by now to narrow it down for me. Obviously the lotr stuff. The 1980s animated transformers movie definitely would be one. And the newest spiderverse animated movie. Love me some Stargate too. A Knight's Tale is one of my guilty pleasure movies. Top gun ( both), the first Shrek. And now that I look at my collection, I give up. There are too many great movies and many that I completely forgot about.
I hated that scene in Avatar too, man. It crops up in other media, too. The people with stone age tech beating the modern military because we lost Vietnam. Never mind the fact that the Vietnamese had modern military tech, too, at least in terms of infantry weapons. Nope, they had bows and arrows and shot jets right out of the sky with them!
I blame the Ewoks.
Good lost. Monty python and the holy grail is great. Prefer it over life of Brian as well
And he'd already explored the idea of a modern military force losing to a technologically inferior enemy in 'Aliens'.
Tbf we do seel to struggle a lot against birds
I mean, those are beefy arrows from bows shot by 3 meter humans, it was point-blank at a 90 degree angle and it's fantasy. It never really irked me.
@aggromemnon335 Mind you the blue man group also made their bow's using wood that we have no equivalent of so we have no idea what it's tensile strength is, same thing with the arrows (probably bone or metal that we don't have), bow string (which could either be a plant we have no equivalent of or possibly some animal sinew not sure which they used), and the fact that the blue man group are 3 times our size and quite probably over that in terms human strength.
Could not stop grinning throughout the entire imagined LotR watchthrough bit. How could it play out any other way than _exactly_ like that?! Just remember we're watching all the Making Of bonus material afterwards, pretty much as good content as the movies themselves.
Guarantee my top 5 is unique... Lord of the Rings (extended trilogy), The Last Samurai (not a documentary btw), Aliens (game over man, game over!), Pirates of the Caribbean (first one for sure, keep watching the rest as far as you want), Your Highness (this is the part where I can be certain this list is unique and you can be certain I'm not just picking safe/popular movies 😂). Tough to leave movies like The Matrix and Underworld out, but that's how top lists go I guess.
Edit: Oh geez almost forgot, Van Helsing is a ton of fun. So many great actors, scenes and lines. Shoutout to Richard Roxburgh's one-of-a-kind Dracula portrayal, didn't hold back!
That Helsing movie was a ton of fun. Many really gruesome concepts mixed with dark humor. I really loved the Brides‘ and Draculas chemistry. #itscomplicated
mad god is by leaps and bounds my favorite piece of art in any medium. it put such a big smile on my face to see josh mention it.
Wow, I was expecting La Reine Margot, The Bicycle Thief and Raging Bull and I got Airplane and LOTRs and Starship Troopers.
The whole part about watching your friend's reactions to the good bits and having concerns if they react incorrectly explains the FFXIV community perfectly.
The Legolas one blew me away when i found thwt out. Pretty crazy
New to the channel and I was really laughing my ass off with the lotr part
The lord of the rings trivia had me grinning the whole way through.
If you liked the military guys in Avatar you should play the 360/ps3 era game, it lets you side with either the humans or the na'avi and the human campaign is amazing.
My top five would be: Blade Runner, the Matrix(1), 12 angry men, the man from earth and saving private Ryan.
These are all good takes. So a game that kinda has the Avatar effect is the outer worlds. Great RPG, sold very well, very little content made about it. The wiki is incomplete, There isn't a lot of art of it, and not a lot of people made content about it on UA-cam. It's a great game! I just beat it again recently but it didn't leave an impact like most RPGs do.
My top 27 (or more, I will be adding as I remember):
1. Matrix (Especially Matrix 1, but the whole saga is awesome, except for the last one)
2. Batman (The Dark Knight is a masterpiece, but love the whole saga)
3. The man in the iron mask
4. Edge of Tomorrow
5. In Time
6. Titanic
7. Fast and furious 1
8. Terminator (Mainly 1 and 2, but the rest of the series is really good, except the last one)
9. The Lion King (the original, not the CGI one)
10. Rambo (1,2 and 3)
11. Jurassic Park (the whole series, and the first one of Jurassic World)
12. Elysium
13. Gladiator
14. Blade Runner (2017 version)
15. The Martian
16. Dumb and Dumber 1
17. Ace Ventura 2
18. Major Payne
19. Johnny English
20. Riddick 1 Pitch black
21. Predator
22. The Incredible Hulk
23. Ironman
24. Spiderman
25. Antz
26. Small Soldiers
27. Tremors (1 and 2)
The zombie 70s classic "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things".
A director doing a movie shoot in an abandoned house, in the middle of nowhere. What could possibly go wrong?
Who hasn't, as children, found old abandoned field houses to explore at night. No windows or doors to keep out the dead and no one's parents even knew they were gone to begin with. Telling stories of what if?
The 70s and 80s were a helluva time to be a kid.
Even DM'd this new game out called "Dungeons & Dragons", in a candle lit graffiti scrawled morgue of an abandoned hospital in town.
>So Bad It's Good
>MMPR The Movie
Josh. Josh. Thank you for that. Thank you so much for that. I know to this day that movie is...very much just a drawn out two/three-part episode with no business being a movie especially when it had to redo its own canon in the show for the Ninjetti powers to match the Sentai, but...I still love it. I do think the 2017 reboot movie is surprisingly better, considering *it knows it's a movie* by comparison and is structured like one, but the old movie is so bad it's good. Unlike the Turbo movie which is only cool at the end with the original action scenes because it took a hatchet to the Zeo powers for no reason. Also Ivan Ooze is classic Power Rangers camp. Now WHERE'S MY AUTOGRAPH BOOK? And yes, I absolutely remember that "ACTION BOY NOW, ACTION GIRL NOW. ....something something SURF ACROSS THE OCEAN."
Don't forget their brand new (AND OUT OF ORDER) morphing sequence takes so long, the oozemen just...leave.
Your feeling that watching a movie with someone not for them to enjoy it but for you to enjoy their responses is exactly why I watch reaction channels and exactly why I hate reaction channels that don't react how I think they should. This is the human condition, of course, but once I've seen something, I need to live vicariously through my friends and then people on youtube.
rated thumbs up for interrogating people if their tastes are found lacking
That was probably the best way to end this clip. Hats off.
I head canon that avatar did well because of the graphics and it was some peoples first exposure to furries. Because LORD KNOWS it wasn't for rewriting the story of pocahontas.
Also the dagger deflect trivia I never knew! Makes me like that fight even more now
someone in chat said that the bad guys in avengers are legitimately powerful and scary, which is just ridiculous
mine are Lord of Rings , Your Name , Battle Royale , Howl's Moving Castle and Raider of the Ark
I always love listening to people talk about how the LotR trilogy are some of the greatest movies of all time while at the same time barely even remembering what happened in the first one since I only ever watched it once in the background at a friend's LAN-party.
Holy shit that whole bit about Avatar was AMAZING
Speaking of films with terrifyingly efficient villains. A fantastic one is Green Room. Efficient villains with dumb protagonist's clearly makes for an incredibly tense viewing experience!
Also your way of watching LOTR is exactly almost word for word how I showed the extended editions to my girlfriend!
"did you know..." i was saying at the same fucking time!
dang i love LOTR
Sad to say. Viggo breaking his toe. Never knew it. Viggo actually deflecting a thrown dagger: never knew it. What I did not know was he was a replacement, he only took the role to maintain his relationship with his son, and he did the fight scene at Weathertop as his first scene.
I am a LotR nerd. But my focus is 3rd age Elves. And the 3 rings.
Wish I could give this clip more than one thumbs up!
Fuck yeah!! Couldn't agree more on Street Fighter and DOA.
Josh, Josh, Josh, you broke the rule of Fight Club.
I'm so disappointed in Josh for getting the order of the Lurtz fight and Aragon kicking the helmet wrong
Join the Mobile infantry today! And remember service guarantees citizenship.
If its (anti-)war films, grave of the fireflies has got to be way up there
10:22 I'm defending thats so long, I weant to the bathroom, took a piss, realised I wanted some food, got in line, bought the food and returned and it was a long line. The lore establishes that they have bones made of Carbon Fiber and theres a limit to what humanity can realistically produce in the short term even with an abundence of energy. The unobtanium is valuable but its a power resource.
Now this movie is about them running away.
Mi fuck I just realised it was actually called that, unobtanium :)
Josh shoeing us the True way to watch Movies
17:00 wasnt that supposed to be fake dagger but it was a real one?
Mad God mentioned, watched it twice and I loved it!
Holy grail might be the most well done comedy ever
Seriously i always knew Josh had good taste, and now that his top list is prety much as 1:1 of my own list i KNOW he has good taste haha
Holy Grail as the win in comedy makes this a 10/10 take for me.
Oh my, this is a fun one.
It's a good idea to do this by genres. How can I compare Lord of the Rings and Hot Fuzz and say which I find better? I also couldn't tell you if I liked Mass Effect or Conker's Bad Fur Day better. That's like asking what you like more, your favorite dinosaur or your children?
Immediately getting LotR out of the way because everybody knows it's the top spot. Yup, no surprises there and definitely no objection from me.
I'm so glad Hot Fuzz was mentioned.🍦I love this movie so much, it's just excellent from start to finish. Edgar Wright shows everyone - as "Every Frame a Painting" said it - how to do visual comedy! The Python's are great of course. I saw Airplane! (or as it's known in German "Die unglaubliche Reise in einem verrückten Flugzeug" 🤪) kinda late and I can confirm that the humor definitely holds up.
Mighty Morphin Power Ranger with Ivan Ooze 😍. I got this movie on VHS for Christmas and I watched it sooo many times. I must have been eight years old back then. I rewatched it just a few weeks ago and I still love it. This movie is so nineties, happy childhood memories to me.
Not a big war movie guy here either, but there are some I like. Saving Private Ryan is very well made and … I know it's not a movie but Band of Brothers. I did watch it in kind of a cinema … in two sessions … at campus in Southern Denmark … during student exchange.
Starship Troopers
Fight Club, that's a weird coincidence. I listened to a 3h podcast episode about that movie just today.
Oh, Avatar, I saw the first one in cinema as everyone else and I did enjoy it. Tbh, I watched it before I had ever seen Pocahontas. I agree with much of the criticism, but I also find the hate it sometimes receives a bit ridiculous. I was shocked on how much of the same the second movie was though.
Kill Bill? This is the first one I cannot agree on. I've only see vol. 1 once and I guess it was alright. I tried to watch vol. 2 many times but I just don't care to watch on … same with the Big Lebowski - I just couldn't care less for how that one turns out in the end. I've tried several times.
Now, I definitely have to watch Mad God; had never heard of it but sounds … interesting.
I also should watch Enemy at the Gates and Zulu
Master and Commander with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany is my favorite war movie.
“You oooze you lose “ -blue ranger
You and your chat owe the internet an apology for saying that Aragorn kicks the helmet in Fellowship...
As a major history buff - Zulu is up there as the absolute top 5, as would be Waterloo. (Sorry America - i havn't watched Gettysburg yet) Zulu's dawn not so much lol. and as opposed to Pearl Harbour - the more accurate version which is Tora Tora Tora :)
The bad guys can't be very competent as it suddenly completely shifts the tone of a movie. Imagine Frodo reaching the inner part of the volcano only to see huge metal dome blocking any access to the inner volcano - the only way to banish Sauron was via the Mount Doom so obviously Sauron should've made it not virtually impossible but actually impossible to access.
The second bad guys start doing their best you get either an impossible to win scenario or Death Note case (while L lived) where it's not a lot of action but a lot of thinking back and forth. Even good villains like the one from Incredibles do a lot of wasteful actions that keep them in check so story is not finished from the start. Story has to be very, very carefully made to have a villain that can exist at full power and competency.
When I watched Avatar at the cinema, all I thought was: "This is just Pocahontas, in space."
I had expected CGI to get to around that point at the time, so I wasn't all that impressed by the visuals either. It was good, but not mind-blowingly so. And I don't really recall any of the music really sticking out either.
Edit: I'm all for the nuclear option as well tbh. 👍
Seen Mad God. I don't have as high an opinion on it as you do, but I thought it was a very interesting film. I think I need to rewatch it.
Back to the Future is my all time number 1
the best war/anti war movie, objectively, is We Were Soldiers, with mel gibson and sam elliot. alot of other great actors were in it as well. if you have not seen it, everybody should watch it atleast once. its absolutely amazing.
I saw the original Power Ranger movie in the cinema, because I was of "power ranger liking" age at the time.
The first Mortal Kombat is probably my favorite bad movie. I watched that thing so often... and the transition between Mortal Kombat and Annihilation where the second start exactly where the first end... with a different actor for Johnny Cage for contractual reasons... that gets killed instantly.
Stewardess": How do you like your coffee?
9 year old girl "Black.... Like my men."
This whole video should be stapled to Oxford Dictionary's definition of "nerdgasm"
Avatars huge splash and having no lasting impact culturally impact because its vibe was "naturalism" and that's so off for the culture we live in. So it may have inspired people to go outside experiences how many bugs are out there...
Someone will have pointed this out already but still: Viggo deflecting the knife happens before him kicking the helmet. Also the headbutt Lurtz gives him is genuine because Lawrence Makoare couldn't gauge the distance because of the Uruk prosthetics.
...can we still be friends?
Frodo was also healing in Gondor :)
I am literally the exact same way when I show a movie or show to friends, many hate that with a passion.
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Greatest Werewolf film is Ginger Snaps
Best vampire film: Let the Right One In. Best werewolf film: Ginger Snaps
Avatar made a cultural impact when it was called dances with wolves
I still don't know what his top 5 movies are beyond the LotR trilogy as a single spot.