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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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... 🧑🍳💋
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
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".
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.
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.
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Thank you Josh for your 100% unbiased and honest opinion.
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
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)
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.
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.
Is it mandatory for millennials to pretend to like the lotr movies? Despite all the incredibly long and pointless slow motion scenes, everything being explained in blindingly obvious visual terms, all the crap they added which wasn't in the book, the complete lack of subtlety....all the flaws they pretend don't exist? There doesn't seem to be this weird cult-like veneration in any one older or younger...why is it only millennials who come out with this stuff?
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ❤️❤️
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
Whilst I'm huge on horror films, without a doubt Alien is my favourite film only contested by The Terminator and Terminator 2 is my favourite sequel ever, only closely followed by Aliens. It's safe to say that I'm a pretty chonky James Cameron film fan. However, Avatar is trash. It's like looking at Lionhead Studios and what they've turned into. Making shit Fable games, and James has become that shit CGI blue cat-aliens film making guy. Whilst I have some respect for groundbreaking CGI breakthroughs Avatar offers, it's narrativity and creatively dead on arrival.
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.
>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.
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.
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
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 :)
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...
I have not seen the new Avatar and I don't really care cause I remember none of the characters. None were memorable. There are zero Memberberries growing even. Did you know your game is set to WoW and not Runescape above?
Did you know....... Sir Christopher Lee (insert the crazy life of Sir Lee here), and he told Peter Jackson how a man sound when he's stabbed? As he had experienced it.
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.
if he did movie reviews I'd watch it I mean 95% of movie review channels just talk about a couple of scenes and how it made them feel and that's the whole review, there's barely any analysis
lurz throws the knife before aragorn kicks the helmet though, the broken toe is in a sceen is much later after the three have chased the orcs over the plains and yeah in a lot of modern midia they make the badguys uterly incompitant in order to make the good guys win, a prime example would be SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET in book of boba they have this biker gang and they are just uterly incompitnat they are useless and get owned as a joke, but then they join up with boba fet to take down soem guy and his body guard this wookey guard uterly kicked bobas butt yet when the bike gang win agaisnt him its an uterjoke, this makes not only the wooky a joke but also boba by extension -.-
I can't look past the fact that Josh said that the broken toe occurred in Fellowship of the Ring. IT WAS IN 'THE TWO TOWERS' YOU FILTHY CASUAL! Josh fake LOTR fan confirmed!
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.
I think they just completely blundered with their cool, interesting concept by making it about something else, and really just forcing "what's cool about this concept" down our throats. Like, LOOK! He's a fake blue guy but he's going to become their hero!!! Look! He's fighting his own kind to save the people he's emulating!!!! It's just so basic in the end. It's like if it was revealed in the end of The Matrix that they're just playing a VR game. It would be a complete misuse of a badass concept.
As a person who has read the books (almost all of them) in the LOTR mythos 8 or 9 times each, I cannot watch the LOTR movies more than once each. I like the visuals, but the treatment of Faramir, Theoden, and a few others in the film just kill it for me. Faramir as a freaking boss and looks more like a whiny bitch in the movie. MAD GOD IS INCREDIBLE.
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?
I watched Skinamarink for the first time on an eighth of mushrooms. What an incredible and perplexing experience. I both would and would not recommend.
I was trying really hard to formulate my top5 movie list and it can't be done. I always come up with another really great film but can't drop another one off the list. Like, why limit yourself like that? It's borderline psycopathic. I think I could get it down to 20...
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.
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.
Your list is too west-centric josh, you should watch some east asian movies asap. Oldboy(and the other 2 in vengeance trilogy), outrage trilogy, violent cop, sonatine, whispering corridors, memories of murder, etc
Your list is too west-centric josh, you should watch some east asian movies asap. Oldboy(and the other 2 in vengeance trilogy), outrage trilogy, violent cop, sonatine, whispering corridors, memories of murder, etc
Figure imma point out the "like bullets taking out helicopters" guy in the twitch chat since noone else did: Yes, you can absolutely use bullets to take out helicopters. You hit the right spots, that thing goes down. You hit the pilot, the thing will likely go down unless the copilot takes over. You damage the jesus nut enough, you'll have the occupants praying. You damage the the horizontal rotor enough, that thing will spin like a dreidel. You hit the engine or fuel lines or other things enough times to do sufficient damage, that thing will drop and not get up again. Obviously depending on the helicopter, you're gonna need a sufficiently high calibre to do damage (and *probably* not arrows), but it's very much feasible. The major problems in this regard are just: A. Can you hit it? Because bullets have travel time and you gotta aim well, and depending on how fast it goes you might only get a few bursts off B. Do you want to be the poor sod trying to do that when you're probably gonna draw return fire (But honestly this is just to write a comment to up the exposure)
As a dude, the most terrifying horror films are Forest Gump, and Titanic. In Gump, this poor guy is terrorized by a horrible person, to whom he shows nothing but kindness, care, authentic love, and she rips his heart out time and again. Only when he becomes a billionaire, and she's got a fatal illness, does she "allow" him access to his own son. Titanic is a 2 hour reminiscing of centenarian woman pining for some chad loser who banged her 80 years ago. Terrifying.
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.
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 :)
I loved enemy at the gates when younger but watched it about a year ago (im 31) and realised what a joke it is. best mate of the sniper gets jealous of the affection he gets from a girl, fucks up a lot of thing
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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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Van Helsing is one of my favorite movies! It's just fun to watch.
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.
YO THAT TOE ONE
I love it when I heard that scene because that pained shout sounded SO real and it was
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... 🧑🍳💋
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 !
If its (anti-)war films, grave of the fireflies has got to be way up there
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".
Wow, I was expecting La Reine Margot, The Bicycle Thief and Raging Bull and I got Airplane and LOTRs and Starship Troopers.
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.
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.
Thank you Josh for your 100% unbiased and honest opinion.
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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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)
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.
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.
First words in LOTR Fellowship is "The world has changed."
Is it mandatory for millennials to pretend to like the lotr movies? Despite all the incredibly long and pointless slow motion scenes, everything being explained in blindingly obvious visual terms, all the crap they added which wasn't in the book, the complete lack of subtlety....all the flaws they pretend don't exist? There doesn't seem to be this weird cult-like veneration in any one older or younger...why is it only millennials who come out with this stuff?
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 .
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 :)
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.
"did you know..." i was saying at the same fucking time!
dang i love LOTR
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.
EEAAO is not a good movie, it tries to be so hard that it forgot what it is a story. It's above average at best for originality (in some parts)
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ^^
Vanhelsing had the best looking werewolves I have ever seen in a movie.
Year 6 is high school?
You all count funny across the pond lolol
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.
I lost my mind when he mentioned Starship Troopers because I literally thought the same!
Avatar: Exterminatus NOW!
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
I also love Quentin Tarantinos Vampire Movie Dog Soldier. Almost as much as Alejandro González Iñárritus Mummy Movie Mimic.
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.
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
Back to the Future is my all time number 1
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.
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 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.
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.
Whilst I'm huge on horror films, without a doubt Alien is my favourite film only contested by The Terminator and Terminator 2 is my favourite sequel ever, only closely followed by Aliens. It's safe to say that I'm a pretty chonky James Cameron film fan. However, Avatar is trash. It's like looking at Lionhead Studios and what they've turned into. Making shit Fable games, and James has become that shit CGI blue cat-aliens film making guy. Whilst I have some respect for groundbreaking CGI breakthroughs Avatar offers, it's narrativity and creatively dead on arrival.
Damnit Josh every time I see one of your videos I cant help but think we share brains. Great takes as always mate!
Holy grail might be the most well done comedy ever
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.
What a missleading title.
Wish I could give this clip more than one thumbs up!
The Legolas one blew me away when i found thwt out. Pretty crazy
>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.
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 five would be: Blade Runner, the Matrix(1), 12 angry men, the man from earth and saving private Ryan.
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
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 :)
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...
I have not seen the new Avatar and I don't really care cause I remember none of the characters. None were memorable. There are zero Memberberries growing even.
Did you know your game is set to WoW and not Runescape above?
Did you know....... Sir Christopher Lee (insert the crazy life of Sir Lee here), and he told Peter Jackson how a man sound when he's stabbed? As he had experienced it.
Avatar didn't change culture because ... well, it's just Dances with Wolves with furries. Nothing new there.
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.
if he did movie reviews I'd watch it
I mean 95% of movie review channels just talk about a couple of scenes and how it made them feel and that's the whole review, there's barely any analysis
lurz throws the knife before aragorn kicks the helmet though, the broken toe is in a sceen is much later after the three have chased the orcs over the plains
and yeah in a lot of modern midia they make the badguys uterly incompitant in order to make the good guys win, a prime example would be
SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET
SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET
SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET
SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET
SPOILERS FOR BOOK OF BOBAFET
in book of boba they have this biker gang and they are just uterly incompitnat they are useless and get owned as a joke, but then they join up with boba fet to take down soem guy and his body guard this wookey guard uterly kicked bobas butt yet when the bike gang win agaisnt him its an uterjoke, this makes not only the wooky a joke but also boba by extension -.-
This whole video should be stapled to Oxford Dictionary's definition of "nerdgasm"
I can't look past the fact that Josh said that the broken toe occurred in Fellowship of the Ring. IT WAS IN 'THE TWO TOWERS' YOU FILTHY CASUAL! Josh fake LOTR fan confirmed!
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.
I think they just completely blundered with their cool, interesting concept by making it about something else, and really just forcing "what's cool about this concept" down our throats. Like, LOOK! He's a fake blue guy but he's going to become their hero!!! Look! He's fighting his own kind to save the people he's emulating!!!! It's just so basic in the end. It's like if it was revealed in the end of The Matrix that they're just playing a VR game. It would be a complete misuse of a badass concept.
As a person who has read the books (almost all of them) in the LOTR mythos 8 or 9 times each, I cannot watch the LOTR movies more than once each. I like the visuals, but the treatment of Faramir, Theoden, and a few others in the film just kill it for me. Faramir as a freaking boss and looks more like a whiny bitch in the movie.
MAD GOD IS INCREDIBLE.
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.
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I watched Skinamarink for the first time on an eighth of mushrooms. What an incredible and perplexing experience. I both would and would not recommend.
mine are Lord of Rings , Your Name , Battle Royale , Howl's Moving Castle and Raider of the Ark
I was trying really hard to formulate my top5 movie list and it can't be done. I always come up with another really great film but can't drop another one off the list. Like, why limit yourself like that? It's borderline psycopathic. I think I could get it down to 20...
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.
9:15 when you just like warhammer40k so much that you instinctively dislike tau
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.
I just don't find Monty Python funny, maybe it's my chav upbringing but even after becoming upper middle class I never started liking it.
Your list is too west-centric josh, you should watch some east asian movies asap. Oldboy(and the other 2 in vengeance trilogy), outrage trilogy, violent cop, sonatine, whispering corridors, memories of murder, etc
Your list is too west-centric josh, you should watch some east asian movies asap. Oldboy(and the other 2 in vengeance trilogy), outrage trilogy, violent cop, sonatine, whispering corridors, memories of murder, etc
Figure imma point out the "like bullets taking out helicopters" guy in the twitch chat since noone else did: Yes, you can absolutely use bullets to take out helicopters. You hit the right spots, that thing goes down. You hit the pilot, the thing will likely go down unless the copilot takes over. You damage the jesus nut enough, you'll have the occupants praying. You damage the the horizontal rotor enough, that thing will spin like a dreidel. You hit the engine or fuel lines or other things enough times to do sufficient damage, that thing will drop and not get up again. Obviously depending on the helicopter, you're gonna need a sufficiently high calibre to do damage (and *probably* not arrows), but it's very much feasible.
The major problems in this regard are just:
A. Can you hit it? Because bullets have travel time and you gotta aim well, and depending on how fast it goes you might only get a few bursts off
B. Do you want to be the poor sod trying to do that when you're probably gonna draw return fire
(But honestly this is just to write a comment to up the exposure)
In no particular order my top 5 are Matrix, Star wars, butterfly effect, soul-the animation and shawshank redemption. Ot changes tho.
Back to the future, jaws, ladyhawke, alien, lotr
best worst film „logans run“
Best war movie „enemy mine“
As a dude, the most terrifying horror films are Forest Gump, and Titanic. In Gump, this poor guy is terrorized by a horrible person, to whom he shows nothing but kindness, care, authentic love, and she rips his heart out time and again. Only when he becomes a billionaire, and she's got a fatal illness, does she "allow" him access to his own son. Titanic is a 2 hour reminiscing of centenarian woman pining for some chad loser who banged her 80 years ago. Terrifying.
Best vampire film: Let the Right One In. Best werewolf film: Ginger Snaps
Starship troopers feels like what would american army/navy/etc would do if it was real. That whole movie feels like propoganda
The Borg in TNG, Voyager and Enterprise did so much damage and then First Contact. Ugh..
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.
Stewardess": How do you like your coffee?
9 year old girl "Black.... Like my men."
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 :)
I loved enemy at the gates when younger but watched it about a year ago (im 31) and realised what a joke it is. best mate of the sniper gets jealous of the affection he gets from a girl, fucks up a lot of thing
Whats your favorite Star Wars Quote?
Now Whats your Favorite Avatar quote?
That can really tell you the difference as far as cultural impact.