Massively Over Hyped - "I Care a Lot" Review
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- Опубліковано 21 лют 2021
- I Care a Lot is the new Netflix Craze... and for a movie that devolves into blatantly impossible plot holes, flat our misandrist idiocy and Anti-Hero plot building failure... it seems to be receiving an awfully large amount of hype driven praise.
Scathing critique of Capitalism? Strong Female Ruthless Business Woman? Or hypocrisy riddled mess that ricochets between holes, contradictions and failures in a shallow attempt at becoming something shocking, unexpected or profound.
Its got some great moments, and its brilliantly acted... but its also got some serious failures.
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You’re a far right extremists because you blame the film failure by being woke and supporting women.
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Calling her an anti-hero is so wrong. She was a villain, through and through.
I agree. Not an anti-hero. But the movie never claimed she was one. In fact it tries really hard to make the audience hate her and succeeds at that imho. The movies that accomplished a feat like that for me to such an extend are very few. The Green Mile comes to mind. That doesn't make the plot holes go away but a lot of the criticism on the first part is from audience reactions and conclusions and not the movie itself.
What do you call a character that you hope dies?
@@katajiro8178
Interesting question
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@@katajiro8178 You don't call them anything. You might want a Hero to die, because they believe they will be with someone they lost; You might want a Villain to die, because they deserve their comeuppance; You might want a side character to die, because they're so annoying, they're ruining the experience (some media play with this, very well).
Definitely not an anti-hero. Purely just a villain.
Gotta love how corporate Hollywood loves to criticize "capitalism"
Corporate owned media loves to pander to gullible consumers who happily support their corporate overlords
I wonder WHOWHOWHO owns hollywood??
@@alamocitychieftan9909 money launderers
theyre the only ones who want to benefit from capitalism so they want to have us withdraw from it
@@swarmX That’s nonsense. If we withdraw from capitalism they lose out not us. The system depends on people like us breaking our backs while those at the top reap most of the benefits produced from our labour.
Wait she’s messing with the Russian mob and she doesn’t get offed immediately!? That’s the best joke I’ve heard in awhile.
I kept waiting for the torture porn part of the movie that never came.
@@memyself898 omg yes exactly. I thought the guy is also a trafficker, so torturing is nothing
Yeah. I mean, I understand that he wanted to avoid any attention, but after some time it becomes just stupid. Also, the Mary Sue out of nothing becomes a gold medal swimmer, manages to beat three russian mobsters alone AFTER she almost got killed by a old lady. Dude wtf.
@@RafitoOoO She becomes a gold medal swimmer while being drugged with alcohol and stunned with chloroform.
@@hblazer6458 And somehow her girlfriend survived long enough for Marla to come home and save her literally 2 minutes before the house blows up. Hey why not just shoot her in the head? Wouldn't that make the most sense?
When Peter Dinklage’s character was caught by the main character I really questioned how tough his crew actually was.
I think after that happens my brain completely checks out from the film. Luckily there's only like 10 minutes left after that.
I questioned it when they couldn't take an old lady out of a care facility.
@@RafitoOoO I questioned how the judge can be so incredibly stupid. he knows that the guy from the beginning hasn't been able to see his mom. He's probably had several other people complain about the same thing against Marla. How did he never make it a court order to let these people at least see their parents? Like I get that he's supposed to kinda be stupid and is friends with Marla, but why would he intentionally keep the son from at least visiting the mom? Is he supposed to be evil too? Or are we supposed to believe that he has forced elderly people, without ever meeting with any of them, to live in retirement homes where they're not allowed any visitors because he's just kinda dumb?
@@lukerojas9474 I hadn't thought about that too lmao. The more thought we put into this film the more idiotic it becomes wtf.
@@RafitoOoO I also like that Peter Dinklage has no qualms about shooting the doctor lady, but for no reason he wants to make Marla and her girlfriend's death look organic..... ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
So wait people actually took this for female empowerment when a woman preys on elder women to sustain herself??? Uhhh ok lol 🤣.
Classic vampires are more honorable than whatever the fuck this... thing... is
@@feartheghus A parasite
@@dean_l33 Don't you DARE insult honest, hardworking parasites by comparing them to this subhuman trash.
@Martian Android vampires were an allegory for the noble class, blood sucking parasites that prey on the little people and hide behind their wealth and power to get away with their crimes.
One of the main characteristics of most vampires is honor to the point of stupidity.
its made and stanned by people who have no concept of family, so whos cares that she is literally kidnapping peoples mothers
This movie was overhyped? I didn't even know it existed until just now.
I haven't even seen it on Netflix.
Same
Same fam
Same, no idea this was even a thing...
Well he over hyping it himself to get clicks
As a researcher in the field of gerontology who specializes in elder abuse, this movie was painful to watch. The lack of voice given to the victims of Marla, the blatant disregard for their pain, the description of older adults as weak and passive preys, the ineptitude of the judicial system, and the glorification of financial abuse hurt me to my core.
Was it bc of the stereotypes, or bc this kind of shit happens?
@@bud_kleric2771 It does happen unfortunately.
??? it's a movie not a biography or real life documentary. movies couldn't always be rainbows and butterflies.
@@bud_kleric2771 the latter!
@@angelmbv latter! Was rainbows & butterflies when she escapes from her car submerged in water, & is able to get back to her assistant/girlfriend before the house blows up! Yeah, okay!!
The judge got me so mad, I thought he’d be under Marla’s payroll, but how can he be so incompetent. I thought at some point Erickson was ganna request a different judge and have a second hearing.
I know right how could he just be like “oh yeah i know that lady, she is incompetent! You lose lol” like what?? What real judge just does that shit instead of looking at real evidence
I honestly took this film as a commentary of capitalism and also white feminism as well. When you do that, it makes a lot more sense. She’s a beautiful successful white woman who uses her femininity and that innocent angelic white woman stereotype as a weapon. She uses typical feminist mantras not to actually help make things equal, but to have an excuse to do the same bad that she criticizes others for. All of the complaints everyone has for her character fits perfectly with the complaints made about mainstream white feminism
@@cinnamonprice2400 i agree with your take, she is using her whiteness and femininity to her advantage. I just hate how towards the middle, the film wants us to root for her. I was really looking forward to the film’s commentary on surface level white feminism and how she hides behind it for her selfish cause. I was let down by the way the movie sort of flipped around suddenly and wanted us to be like “wow she’s a bad ass look at her she’s winning against the mafia!” And how they wanted us to care about her and her girlfriend. I really couldn’t get behind the mixed messages the movie was sending. It would have been better if they let her twisted views become her demise.
@@cinnamonprice2400 i think the same however, the movie would have been great if it actually scrutinized this thinking and dismantled it instead of riding her bs narrative all the way through and letting her die without having her shit called out on.
I find it hard to believe no one along this process would have intervened. Asked for different opinions, a new guardian. Especially when the judge was given an affidavit and she has been accused of abusing her power at least twice to the same judge.
I never wanted a main character to die that bad
the umbrella acedemy: Vanya
I wanted her to suffer and she didn’t. It pissed me tf off
@@sydneyfrazier6689 SAME I wish one of Roman’s people became her legal guardian and just starved her, drugged her and sold off all her billions-of-dollars-worth assets on the auction and returned this money to all the families & elderly whose lives she’s destroyed the same way. THAT is what would be a more satisfactory ending
Maybe Joffrey
Honestly I expected that a bodyguard would take down the guy with the gun and she'd just live on. You know. The bad guy just gets away.
She's not an anti-hero, she's a villain protagonist
Yup, a WORLD of difference. And knowing that potentially makes the movie better.
@@UnlimitedFlyers I'd argue the Nightcrawler movie protagonist is also a villain and not an anti-hero.
@@Fickji I think the protagonist from Night crawler started as an anti-hero and through his decisions he became a villain at the end. But the protagonist from this movie is a straight up villain from the start
Legit villain bruh, she is doing everything for herself and that's it.
@@kingodestone Same for Walter White.
I don’t think I ever watched a movie, where I wanted so many people to die. The villain, the villain girlfriend, the lawyer, the doctor, and the entire elderly care facility.
the girlfriend had face armor from the mobsters fists
@@NotInformedOfficial Not just face armor, plot armor.
@@randomidoit9605 She fucking inhales gas for more than half an hour and doesn't suffocate, I was screaming and punching my chair when I watched that scene
@@matiasthecarpenter6852 so a rebreather too?
@@randomidoit9605 And a super brain to recover that fast
She's literally a villain
Thanos was an anti hero
Plus real russian mafia boss would've just killed her
FACTS
Killing half the world to save the other half is not antihero level either
No he would've tortured her first, possibly getting her fingers chopped off and be forced to witness her girlfriend being thrown into pit of rabid dogs. These are pussy mafia.
@Frost Flurry From a ethical perspective sure, but the point is about being able to sympathize with the bad guy. I as a viewer cant sympathize at all with Marla, so she is more of a villain than an anti-hero.
@Frost Flurry I agree with you. I was connecting to the discussion of what defines a good anti-hero in cinema, and how she didn't hit the mark.
My problem with the movie was how it centred on one narrative and subsequent point to get across, then side-tracked into other narratives but didn't deliver on any one of them in the end, losing touch with what made me invested in the film in the first place (Diane Wiest's character and surrounding plot, who was left completely by the wayside).
No matter which way I try to grasp this film I feel like it doesn't make sense. If the intent was to make us root for Marla, it failed. If it was to make us hate Marla and delight in her punishment, it failed also, since she simply could not lose. Ever. Even her death is unsatisfying as punishment since it has been established that she does not fear death in the slightest.
And if the point was to critique the US and capitalism and show the viewer how far a psychopath can go (in which case it would be more effective if she was not killed btw) they would have to have presented a believable story so as to tell the viewer, this could actually happen, which it failed to do with all the plot holes that was required for her to succeed (the TWO failed hit jobs being the most glaring).
And if I am to read it like "the point was there was no point", well to me personally I think that is just bad cinema.
The most redeeming theory I've read is that Marla actually drowns in the river and that everything we see afterwards (all the really preposterous events) are a power fantasy projected by her dying mind. That theory appeases me, even though I wont really subscribe to it because yes, I like being mad at things sometimes.
Congrats Netflix, you made me sympathize with the Russian mob. Nice.
The real winner of the girlboss fight is the mother who stood her ground.
Yep I was actually on their side 😂😂
It's not netflix. Its amazon prime exclusive
Plot twist: Trump handed us to the Russians and now they are changing their narrative 😂😂😂
I wasn't on either side. It was fun watching them go at each other.
It’s a dark comedy. If you are a morally compromised individual who can’t be held accountable for their own actions then you probably shouldn’t watch movies. Or play violent video games.
Tbh I'd rather watch a movie about the guy who killed her and see his journey of misery and what he had to go threw to kill her
Edit: the obligatory omg guys thanks for the likes edit except no I don't thank you, you aren't worth my thanks you maggots now give me more likes cause you enjoy me calling you maggots and insulting you. Damn this is kinky
Honestly, the story of man that tried to fight by legal means that keep failing him until he got nothing else to lose and snaped "fuck it, murder time", sounds like a way more interesting character
@@Noperare my comment is a more interesting story compared to the movie
@@Noperare that sounds eerily similar to the recent origin story for The Joker...
@@Noperare Those kinds of revenge films are fun and engaging. Law Abiding Citizen is one that springs to mind. Two guys break into a man's house, raping and murdering his wife and daughter (specifically, one guy did these things while his meek accomplice just helped with the burglary). The rapist gets a light sentence thanks to rolling over his partner, putting the meek dude on death row. The husband spends the next few years planning visceral and creative revenge on the meek burglar, his lightly-sentenced accomplice, and everyone who had significant influence on the case (judge, attorneys, assistants, etc), as a loud and bloody critique of an easily-corrupted system that failed to bring justice to his wife and daughter.
That's why I skipt straight to the end
The only hero is the guy who killed her at the end
* I would buy a shirt that said
"Hey Bitch, my mom died"
With his face on it lol
Lmaoo
Yess
I just wish he had more lines then "YOU BITCH!!"
Wait did I miss something? She was killed at the end? *Goes back to watch and check* Oh shiiit. I never do this. I Fast forwarded to the very end after the pos son teamed up with his mom's kidnapper/torturer. All I saw was her smiling on tv. I skipped over the shooting. Woow. I'm so glad you commented that.
Oh also notice how we didn't get a scene where the son tells his Mother (who basically just kidnapped and tortured for several weeks), how he's going into business with satan's wife. If this movie's overall message is men ain't shit and the future is female. We as a species can't realistically expect to be around for another 100 years. Not without slavery coming out of partial retirement. Oh this movie just redeemed itself a little. I fast forwarded and missed the shooting at the end. Ok. This is still not a movie I would buy. But it's not total trash. And it does put people on alert for scamming con artists like Marla. And corrupt capitalistic systems in place that not only target the young, ophans, mentally/physically challenged, but also the elderly.
The lessons I could find in this movie:
1. Bullies are always badass heroes in their own minds
2. If you push people to their limits you might suffer consequences, whether you are or not the badass you think you are
3. Apparently mobsters aren't as violent as you think
Are we gonna get into how ANNOYINGLY idiotic the Judge was 😩😩 I so hated that courtroom
Omg his character was so stupid it was comical. Even after having people say that they can't see their mom or dad, for some reason he never made it a court order for them being allowed to see their parents. Was he supposed to be evil too? Or was he really supposed to be an idiot? And how come there was no payoff to his character? How come the doctor was killed off but not the stupid judge who is partially responsible for the crime boss's mom being there in the first place. I so badly wanted him to get like shot or something.
@@lukerojas9474 yess! I agree!
Hollywood has always love to make Black people look like assholes, jackasses, and assclowns. It would've helped if they had just showed him as another person on Marla's payroll.
@@the_gratefulgamer Don't bring race in to this, the reason he was incompetent was not because he's a black character, but because he's a side character and not the main villain protagonist. She has plot armor.
Judge behavior was very realistic.
"Because ruining lives creates desperate people." Very well said.
which creates criminals, who are bad guys, therefore someone to point fingers at
@@XxXVideoVeiwerXxX aka scapegoats
I would never hurt a woman unless she was trying to stab me or something, but if a woman did this to my mother there's no doubt that I would make the rest of her life a living hell
One of my favorite quotes from anything is from Aaron Sorkin's "Sports Night": "I will re-dedicate the rest of my life to ruining the rest of yours."
I would have the same as the guy at the end of the movie except I would have gone for the girlfriend instead so she could suffer
I am a girl but I agree, anyone independent of her or his sex should be able to vindicate a mother death
I’ll admit, the movie started off boring then got a bit interesting over time. The point I started hating it was when out of nowhere she’s becomes a Jason borne like character. How do you go from someone who takes advantage of fragile old people to someone who stands up against the mob. Like the movie said, you can’t play fair to win in life (or something like that), if she had these skills all along she could of been doing bigger and better schemes all along. Movie just stopped making sense out of nowhere.
The movie literally should have been her desperately trying to escape with her life while also not giving up Peter dinklage's mom because of her massive ego. And as things keep getting worse and worse for her, she starts losing more and more of her cool, calm and collected composure. So basically torture porn.but is that really so wrong for the audience to want? Seeing as they basically made her the most unlikable person ever. Also how come her girlfriend doesn't get killed too? I really wanted her girlfriend to die to.
Reminded me of iron man 3
yeah, she almost got killed by an old lady and a few scenes after she becomes Ethan Hunt wtf
Because it’s one of “those” movies
I love how the mob doesn't do anything to her. The mob bury people for less and would have definitely tortured her before killing her.
Fake news: Russian mob actually opened a petition to have that movie canceled for lact of realism. What a joke. That movie is first and last 2minutes.
I've seen vids of a female "runner" for the mod who had the living daylights forcefully extracted from her for stealing from them so yeah, this is literally an sjw power fantasy.
It's the new world. You now need to give them consent, you can not even torture people allegedly if you are in violation of this rule or god forbid - mighty GDPR, and mafia know this.
Maybe it's a Russian reversal sort of deal? In Soviet Russia you kill mafia!
Do they capture her gf, chop one of her finger and mail it to her saying there are 9 more and a head to come next? No? Not very realistic then.
It is not that she's strong. It's that her opponents are absolutely inept. Also, she isn't an antihero, she's a villain protagonist.
Also she is being enabled by a corrupt institution in form of the judge (a man, incidentally). Slay queen.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Slay queen 😂😂😂
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 she is rather being enabled by the screen writer...
Her opponents are made absolutely inept because the writer can't actually create a strong or likable character.
This movie was such a letdown
5:15 O_O
Ah yes, my favorite memelord from Honduras
Hello señor based
KING
It really was
Wow. Honestly I'd feel more satisfied if that final shooting scene was right at the start and the movie had been 45 seconds long.
Karen: the movie
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Nooo not Rosalind Pike😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
Care-home Karen🤣
Karen 2: LET ME SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!!!
The first plot hole was when they didn't just plant another cell phone in the mums room so she could call her lawyer and he could legally get her out
I genuinely thought that after the mother gave her cellphone she would just pull out another one hidden in her baggages or on her clothes. But i hadn’t realized it was a bad movie at that point yet
@@planeta3059 SAME omg I thought I was the only one expecting that to happen!!
"you just wanted her to die" - This is how I felt the entire movie. You totally hit all the points of why this movie is a complete failure
Why cant a movie be good and you want the main character to die. Thats what makes it good.
@@TheBlobablob you should probably never write an autobiography
@@TheBlobablob Have you watchet the movie though?
I did as well. I hate this movie.
You know a movie is bad when you are rooting for the Russian mafia
There are anti-heroes, and then there are villain protagonists.
I gotta love when a huge corporation, a corporation that makes millions of millions of dollars as if it's nothing, sucking money out of people during a global pandemic and not sharing that money with anybody who would need that money tackles the issue with capitilism.
Amazing
Nothing to do with any kind of system , it is there in ALL systems , and its called CORRUPTION . In capitalism it is called a corporation , in socialism it is a bureaucratic wing of some kind of centralised shit , dosent matter which , ppl who are in control in that system they will benefit themselves . The phenomena you describe "sucking out money" , in other words taking ownership on your work , is nothing new , it is just becoming more apparent , ppl in power were doing it nostop in all system , it is just disguised differently in different systems . As long as ppl looking up , be it god or a government system or anything else , to solve their problem called life and empowering them for this role , this shit will just happen .
@@MrOssyan I keep seeing socialists scream "capitalists always describe capitalism when I ask them what socialism is"
And your first statement is the perfect response to that. Hit'em hard, bud.
@Lurker M Okay
@Lurker M Dudeski, we gotta all come together as the plebs if we really want any power to control our lives. Don't insult and hate, try and come to common ground.
There are masters pulling our strings but only with each other can we recognize those strings. Without, we only see what the master turns our head towards.
Did you watch the video? He pointed out how the movie actually has almost nothing to do with commenting on captitalism
My suspension of disbelief just goes straight out the window at the idea that a Russian mob boss wouldn't just straight up murder her and her gf, then lean hard on the doctor with similar threats if mum isn't released ricky fuckin tick....
I wouldn’t even call it murder for a scumbag like Marla; more like justice.
"Ricky fuckin tick" Five points to Gryffindor for that one!
It’s a “dark comedy”. The fact that the Russian mob boss was a little person that still made a deal with someone after they tried to murder him is pretty funny to me. You’re taking it too seriously.
@@nathanielbixby5733 ikr? She's not a hero or whatever female name she is so i would rather have the movie ends with her getting killed by the russian guy instead of him being partners with her and made thousands of people's lives miserable and say it's a success and accomplishment.
R. was hiding from his enemies in Cleveland; that's why he & his associates faked their death. R. didn't want any attention falling on himself, and he didn't want anyone to hurt his mother either, so he had to handle things with a certain delicacy. Yes, he could of easily killed them, but he needed to do so in a sophisticated way.
Yet, again, that's assuming the mafia in this depiction moves in EXTREMELY INTELLECTUAL ways. However, from the stories reported throughout history you're right; they'd usually just walked to up you, aim and shoot till they know you're dead. 🤷🏽♂️
UE: Just a warning, there are going to be major spoilers ahead.
Me: I don’t care a lot.
I felt sorry for the guy at the end.I think that most of us would consider him the real hero,in a Greek tragedy way.He tried to get his loved one back,he is just a normal guy and his last action is to kill the power full person who has all the power at her side.
Yeah he cried out that he's mom died alone at the end. All that pain finally pushed him to take revenge..
I saw this movie with my girlfriend, a strong independent woman and scientist she was disgusted, wanted to puke. She so wanted to see Marla dead.
I think that was the point of the movie, you're not supposed to like her.
Yeah, this movie is basically Nightcrawler or Wall St, maybe a deconstruction of a Scarface-type character. I read the movie as actually being a subtle jab at thinking of "strong woman" as morally good rather than morally neutral, in the same way when we hear "strong man", that could be George Washington or it could be Joseph Stalin.
@@Low_commotion And Sadly there are legions of people that look up to Gordon Gecko or Tony Montana as role models... There are all kinds out there. Even ones for whom the point of those movies goes right over their head
@@jaredkelly4866 those people are gangsters. They are killing and selling drugs but at least they keep that shit between gangster. You don’t see many civilians die in those movies. Here she prays on an old woman who was completely minded her business lol then refuses to give up for...... the thrilll?
@@jaredkelly4866 Eva use they were likable
The main character's description sounds like it could be a target in Hitman
Someone needs to make a contract in hitman 3 asap
Aight, I'm gonna do a full Silent Assassin run when her contract appears in Hitman 3
good lord! LOL
You mean Agent 47 ?
@@Indians-dl3to he's briefing 47 as Diana XD
As someone who has mental issues that the state provides a case worker this film started off brilliantly with a premise that was terrifying. I wanted to see Marla go down and to have it be epic. I felt the way they twisted the plot and turned her horrible behavior into an empire was insane.
I went from really enjoying the film to really hating. I like the film theory ending. It felt like they changed the ending.
"A brilliantly acted piece of garbage" - best description.
Never heard of this film but I’m always happy to hear UEG go after the morally challenged
I prefer the term "Socially Inept" myself, but I have to agree with you here.
@@palladin1337 that works too, but “Morally Challenged” just flows better in conversation better for me. I forget where I heard it from originally, but I’m trying to help it catch on.
@@nickperri6571 I'm guessing the Lotus Eaters podcast?
@@nickperri6571 Oh, no, I agree that it's a fitting term. It's just a personal preference.
Yeah, I've never heard of this until I saw the thumbnail
I saw the ending when visiting my mom; she said it was the worst movie she ever saw, I was laughing at the main character’s death. 🤣
Wish I ain't read the comments, fuuuck.
@@MerlautZone You lost nothing, predictable at best.
@@MerlautZone Also this video contains Spoilers, so, nothing wrong with the comments following suit.
@@eramires Righteous, well I watched the movie yesterday. I didn't say OP was wrong for spoiling it. I didn't watch this video tho.
@@MerlautZone I didn't say that you said the OP was wrong.
The very worst thing to me was how docile the mother is at the start. At first I figured she doesn't know that her son is a crimelord and that she is just a sweet old lady. NOPE. She's fully aware of how powerful and dangerous her son is, she's no prude, yet she doesn't even call him before leaving the house.
Well Pablo Escobar's mom was kind of distant and strict, but by many accounts she could be kind if needed...
Thank you. She's a sweet confused lady at the beginning because the script needs her to seem that way. Then, when she's all drugged up, the script makes her a hard badass woman. I hate the wasted potential with the Mom character. How do you have Dianne Wiest and relegate her to just a few lame back and forth dialogue scenes?
The lead character has a same-sex partner, that's the main reason this movie is getting rave reviews.
Lol bullshit
And it’s a woman
That'll prolly happen, sadly. Same-sex couple or not tho, there are some plot holes that make some characters simply unbelievable..
@@naomi.s1799 i like it anyways i felt it as it was an intense watching experience with insane acting and there is also the therorie she drowned in the middle of the movie and the rest is imagination if u dont want to belive the plot holes
@@Dramastag_Theater lol yeah, the acting is great. Rosamund Pike is one of my favs, she nails these kind of roles.
“If you feel the need to say “I am a king”, then you are no king.”
Duke Nukem :D?
Relax, she’s just an amoral anti-hero in an entertaining dark comedy. Don’t take it so seriously.
@@binaryvoid0101 i think you mean villian?
@@jimmyclimer594 Actually, no 🤦 A _villain_ is an antagonist. The antagonist is an adversary that opposes the protagonist. *Roman,* is the antagonist. *Marla,* is the _protagonist._ Marla is the leading/main character of the story. If there was a movie about The Devil as the lead, The Devil would be the protagonist, the anti-hero.
@@jimmyclimer594 Seriously, have any of you taken a basic literature class in school? 😂
And they wonder why their "Strong Female Characters" are treated with wariness at best and disgust at worst. All while they get rid of actual strong female characters.
They don't wonder. They know. They just like humiliating you.
lol more likely they’re just can’t hire good writers
You either get this or a Mary Sue. The left has about as much ability making likable female characters as they do making memes...
@@oxtailsoup6493 take your politics elsewhere we are talking about movies.
@@dontayedaniels5710 But the majority of unlikable forced strong female characters are just Mary Sues, written by left leaning writers and usually bring their politics into it.
This sounds like another Mary Sue character.
The Villain version of Mary Sue is Villain Sue.
I'm amazed they didn't just go all the way and put a maga hat on the man at the end. Lol Rolls eyes
Right? Though I was the only one that saw the similarities there
Same
It's very subtle lmao
Honestly not getting the antihero angle. It's in every review I see. She's not an antihero. Nothing she does is heroic in the slightest. She's a straight up sadistic villain. If anything, Dinklige's character is the antihero. He may be a criminal but he's trying to do the right things for the right reasons.
FACTS
Except the sex trafficking part
@Roman F it’s sex trafficking, didn’t you saw the pictures of the kidnapped girls?
That's why shes an antihero...main character that isnt heroic
@Roman F no they arent. The definition is that they lack heroic qualities
"Netflix has just launched a new movie"
Say no more.
After cuties anything Netflix endorses is to be taken with a grain of salt the size of the sun
It's amazon prime, not netflix.
Never gave a single shit about Netflix; it doesn't have anything I'm interested in whatsoever, and all its new shows and stuff is just cringey, repulsive garbage.
I'd much rather pirate old cartoons than waste money on a shitty streaming service.
@@PokeMaster22222 its not netflix
@@tomekvoo4704 It was released on both Netflix and Prime.
My biggest complaint is that they always make the villain a vaper.
She's genuinely not a good person, making people who don't like her rapists and stuff is so annoying. She's a Mary Sue.
@@milk4625 I was just talking about her being a vapist and how Hollywood loves to demonize vaping.
I know nothing about any rapist other than it rhymes with vapist.
@@clintrichardsonclintfromny203 My bad dude. I apologize
It suits her tbh.
She sounds like a villain, i see no heroism not even in the anti-level of hero. You can have a protagonist who is a villain, and on this level I'd say claim they created a fine villain and the guy that kills her is the true anti-hero.
It’s interesting, the protagonist is the villain and the antagonist is the anti-hero. I wonder if we were intended to root for him the whole time.
I think you do. For example, in Infinity War Thanos is the protagonist and the villain, while the Avengers are heroes and the antagonist. You are 100% supposed to root for the Avengers.
@@icarue993 Are you sure that classifying Thanos as a protagonist and the Avengers as antagonists makes sense? I can somewhat understand how you'd go for that role-assignment, because Thanos is actively working towards performing the snap, while the Avengers try to prevent that from happening. But aren't the roles still actually reversed, since the Avengers are trying to protect and save the universe, while Thanos acts against it with his plan to eradicate (half of) all lifeforms?
@@SlenderMiner99 It is an interesting question, but I consider who the story revolves around whom is the protagonist. IW (I argue) is about Thanos getting the stones. We follow him getting stone after stone while the avengers try to stop him. The advantage of taking Thanos as a protagonist is that as 1 entity, it's easier to keep track of (vs how many Avengers are there). The most cohesive view point we have is Thanos's. We jump from "Asgard" to NY to The planet to Wakanda. And Thanos is n all of them (yes, one can argue that the "avengers" are also in all those locations, but not one person is constantly there).
In essence, the protagonist is A) whoever the story is about (or POV) and B) whoever has the most spotlight. IW was a VERY good movie just to be able to pull it with so many important characters, all being equal, while Thanos taking most of the spotlight/camera time etc.
I didn't need anybody to root for tbh.
I was rooting for him only to be disappointed by that idiotic ending.
Watched this last night. Horrid movie. Hateful, nasty characters, doing horrible and nasty things, with few consequences other than a tacked on ending that resolved very little. There were no characters to care about or root for. Garbage.
What about the elderly victims? This movie plays out like a documentary of how many conservatees are treated.
Have you seen Devil's Rejects? Similar theme but targeted at different audience.
@ANALFARMER3 does she play anything else than psychotic women?
@@tomekvoo4704 Devil's Rejects was made a horror movie, and had anti-heroes. In this movie - which is comedic - simply has nasty people.
@@sambur6480 What? The way conservatives are treated? That's the most back-asswards nonsense I've read in quite some time. Go back to film school, you clearly failed your last exam.
wow i saw the trailer on netflix and thought it was a movie about an evil person getting exposed. cant believe how they could possibly try to twist her as a hero.
They didnt tho
Honestly, the Peter Dinklage character was more of an anti-hero
The real crime is her haircut. Yeesh!
Right?
Anton Chigur's haircut has a competition
Lolololol
Feminst hair style YAY!
Hey! That there, is a weapon. One head twirl and that could prolly cut someone.
Does anyone else feel like they were a lot of plot armor for the Marla and her girlfriend? Since I do not know how they survived both their murder scenes specially "Frankie" because she was laying in a pool of blood while inhaling fumes for...hours? Then she got saved in the nick of time? Then she was fine and almost healed her wounds after a day? They just felt so carried like I was basically watching something you can't control. Everyone felt so stupid
I love this movie because I’ve personally been tortured by a crazy lady who keeps hostage of a dozen international students.... she basically brainwashed us, confined us, and took our phones away and coerced our parents to give her a lot of money..... (millions of dollars in cash total over twelve years!) It happened in mechanicsburg, PA. Hopefully justice can be served 😢😢😢
I love in PA, can you tell me more about this? Is this real 😅
When the mob boss punched her and she yelled “ouch!” I LOLed.
Between this and the Gina Carano situation, it's exceedingly obvious that Hollywood for all its bloviating about stronk independent wahmen has no fucking clue what that actually means.
They do. Strong women exist to humiliate men. That's it.
@@Arcessitor "humiliate" is such a tame word compared to what they actually do
@@Arcessitor The majority of the planet disagrees with you.
@@Arcessitor no. Strong women know what they want and they use all legal means to gain it. This is just Hollywood being fucked
What's hilarious is that Gina is actually a genuine and sweet person that is the complete opposite of this "strong female no nonsense lead" contrary to what modern Hollywood journalism will say.
The Twitter mob will glorify this garbage movie and this garbage character I'm sure.
I hate Hollywood 🤦♀️
So itll get its oscar and be the next "cultural event" everyone must pay attention to, to re examine their beliefs. I'm sick to death of these.
Cultural event movies before the woke era werent actually TRYING to be cultural events. Some of the classics didnt even succeed at the box office but were appreciated years after the fact.
This is the exact reason I can’t be bothered by most movies these days
Marla Grayson is basically the personality template for every Twitter/Tumblr user.
So, par for the course for what is called "entertainment" in the current time. Agenda driven lazy writing, low morals , no positive impact on humanity all the while being lauded as 'amazing' and 'courageous' and 'powerful'.
If this is someone we are supposed to sympathize with, I am truly terrified of the mental state of those who do.
You scored exactly where I did on that political compass test lol
Netflix was created with sole purpose of conditioning while generations. They don't care about anything else xD
Exactly!! This whole movie I was waiting for her to be tortured and killed. And I never got that ending. It pissed me off so much
Antihero? Sounds more like a villain protagonist.
Sounds like, when you add in the ridiculously severe hairdo and shades, they should've named the movie "I'm Karen - A Lot".
HA!!!!! NICE!
LOL!!
lol!! heheh you said "hairdo"
Spoilers:
The movie has a brilliant set up only to get her face to face with death and she Mr. Magoos her way to success?
Then she turns into a ninja and goes toe to toe because shes a strong woman?
When the movie ended and every single employee from the orderlies to the judge were not murdered and she walks out of the TV station, I simply tapped out and said this movie is absolutely trash.
Movie was trash. Only good part was the end when she got smoked.
Amen
Plot twist: the entire movie was build up for that one scene. They made the worst character ever, so when she is killed, it unleash such utter feeling of "get wrecked bitch"
Amen.
I'm wondering who the hell signed off on this piece of trash.
I enjoyed the movie...
"The mafia boss Peter Dinklage, played by Peter Dinklage" Lol well said.
Their love of this film shows the color of their souls.
Yeah I love this film too.
It's Cuomo: The Movie.
Is it weird that I've never heard anything about this movie before now? The Hype train seems to have left without me. Does this mean I've been living under a rock?
First I've heard of it as well🤷♂️
It's not that hyped. This guy just follows too many idiots on his social media.
I hadn't heard of it either. Just watched it because I had nothing better to do.
@@gstylez0107 So really it's just that there's a group on Twitter hoisting this abortion of narrative up? Because I haven't even seen it suggested on Netflicks yet.
"Netflix Original" movies are never hyped that much. Because they rarely or never go to movie theater so Netflix probably just reccomends them to subscribers. There are a few fun ones but most are just high production garbage. Remember Will Smith in "Bright" with "Fairy Lives Matter" line? Yeah that kind of garbage.
This movie is pretty cool but its failure is in the execution...
The villain is framed as the protagonist, she does awful things to people but not in a fun faceless victim way like The Wolf of Wall Street, we actually see the direct result of her viciousness, screwing over the elderly and other characters all while having no redeeming character traits.
You're not rooting for her to win in the end, you're more frustrated that she's winning which people are trying to attribute to her being a woman but in reality we love that kind of thing when done properly like in Gone Girl or Uncut Gems. All of this frustration only to have the ending lifted directly from Layer Cake.
Which makes the ending all the more delicious :)
@Cryer24597 Exactly, I didn't need to root for the main character. Just watched how everything played out for her.
Dude, gone girls was so fucked up, what a good movie.
Anti-hero protagonists have been in literature and film for a very long time. The plot and characters are nothing new. I enjoyed this dark comedy, tho.
@Somuch Hussle Um. Wat.
This had so much potential, I thought the old lady was going to bring a world of pain. Instead, we get feminist propaganda
Seriously. I actually liked the movie but some of that feminism-laden dialogue was just stupid and unnecessary
@@watchumean2869 misogynistic
@@Sasha-ps9bu My comment on the movie’s dialogue is not misogynistic nor is a hatred of women the reason for my comment. I love the ladies.
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I feel like Peter definitely is set up to be the hero or protagonist of the story; the movie almost begs you to root for him.
So when she doesn't die during the lake scene, it's almost like the hero lost, and then their partnership near the end, it's like the ultimate betrayal for the audience.
the discord sounds trolled me hard 😂
Dude, Straight Facts.
Same I was looking through my servers for a notification lol
Yeah, I wish he'd turn that shit off when he records his audio. It's amateurish, and even though people keep bringing it up, he ignores the feedback.
Modern western culture promotes the idiocracy.
Thanks for noticing it, i thought that i was the only one
It is the NEWNORMAL.
This act of villainy is the politically correct version of heroism as she simply "defunded a bigoted patriarchal fairly" which is the duty of all progressives.
Oh please 🙄 And this movie advocates idiocracy? It’s a dark comedy with an anti-hero protagonist. You are taking this way too seriously 💀
@@binaryvoid0101 I’d agree with you, if it wasn’t so very common... Pushed in every form of entertainment we have.
@@BigBossIvan Entertainment is VAST. There is no shortage of movies and tv shows (from countless streaming platforms) to satisfy your tastes. If you can’t handle an offensive dark comedy then watch something else.
I think this movie really falls short due to how much it wants the audience to root for the main character, with the excuse that she’s a “strong woman” and a model to be followed by women everywhere. She’s not.
If this hadn’t happened, if the movie held her accountable for all the horrible things she does, the critic to the late stage capitalism would have been much more apparent and directed. The story of a rotten individual who can get away with ruining thousands of lives due to a breach of the legal codes and human ethics, eventually lucking out even more by meeting a magic person who will later grant them even more money, a reputation and fame. That sounds a lot more critical than “badass woman can do whatever she wants to, look how strong, pretty and successful she is, she fears no man and exploits them and the system to get what she wants”
"Gonna Rob this mafia boss's mother" Solntsevskaja bratva comes knocking and it aint for a day at court 😆
This sounds like the guy in the court room at the start was supposed to be the anti hero as he battles his way against the odds to take her down but someone dropped that section of the script.
Meanwhile, his lawyer does not even open his mouth during the hearing
So... a discount "Law and Order" plot with a bloated budget?
And from what I've seen, a less satisfying ending.
DUN DUN
discord is going off in the video and had me so confused thinking I'm getting messages lolz
To be fair in an interview Rosamund Pike says her character is appalling.
It kinda feels like Hollywood has no fresh talent in their movies anymore. I keep seeing the same tired faces. This is another movie that, in every essence, is Hollywood projecting its own rapid decline into bitter irrelevancy.
The pool of uncancelled actors is running thin
Pure exaggeration.
Give me 10 big movies that either Rosamund pike or Peter dinklage have been in recently.
You cant.
I know what you were aiming at but it really has nothing to do with this particular movie
To be fair (and I haven't seen it) UE does say that the acting is done well, it is sort of the script and the general reaction (mis-reaction?) to the movie that is the problem.
@@originaldelta peter dinklage shoudnt be in anything after that disgraceful game of thrones ending to begin with, in fact anyone who was in got shouldnt be in anything at all,the majority if not all the people who were in that shatfest all acted in shat movies to begin with and were horrible to the fans, examples pedro pascal and the jon snow actor telling fans to go fuck themselves.
Ya’ll sound really bitter over this movie lol
Overhyped? This is the first time I've heard about the movie, so it probably is absolute garbage
Just wanted to jump in and say I found this review very well done. I don’t watch your channel a lot but I very much enjoyed this. If you decide to do more movie reviews in the future I’ll be looking forward to them.
I can't wait for the sequel starring Emmy award winner Andrew Cuomo.
I’ll give this movie one thing. I have NEVER hated a character more. I literally had to pause the movie at some points.
Edit: also it’s sort of a shot at capitalism, but I’d say the film mostly takes issue with the whole elderly law loophole. Also she clearly wasn’t an anti hero lol clearly just a flat out villain
I think it also points the finger at conservatorships which are now coming into the hot seat because of Britney Spears and legislators are talking about coming together to look into the legalities and the humanity of conservatorships. It should never be that easy. She discussed it me and I wanted to kill her myself and I've never had thoughts of killing someone ever LOL. I was like if dinklage won't do it I f****** will LOL
I am so relieved to find out I am not the only one that HATED this movie. It was extremely stupid in how hard they tried to glorify prey and predator capitalism and her girlboss mindset. She is 100% a villain.
The common basis for an anti-hero is that they have gone through the heroe's journey and got nothing, or got out worse at the end of it, so they grew jaded and cynical about things like morality and justice. If your character starts out already without morals it's just a villain.
Women good. Men bad. Marxism good. Capitalism bad. I'm sick of hearing this garbage everyday in media and college curriculums.
Maybe they're right. You ever thought about that? Maybe the media is saying capitalism bad because there is no alternative except socialism. Marxism doesn't exist
It's insanely difficult to root for anyone in this film because they're all so horrible.
Righteous, that's the beauty of it.
I agree. It was entertaining, but I generally turn it off when the protag is so dislikeable. The old lady and the guy who shot her in the end were the only ones I rooted for at all
When her girlfriend got beat up by full grown men who were thugs/criminals but still had a pretty face and had no fractures at all... OK.
My favorite plot holes in the Movie:
1. The Mafia guys do this over complicated way of “Suiciding” Marla buy crashing her car into the river....then just leave. Without confirming her death. Yeah ik right. That literally causes the next 30 minutes of the movie😭 You’d THINK these Trained Mafia guys would know a thing or two about killing ppl but ig not.
2. Marla and the other girl tail the Mafia driver. That very sentence is the problem😭. I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that a man who drives CRIMINALS around for a living(for who knows how long, possibly years) can’t tell when someone’s tailing them for HOURS BTW. When they first start tailing this guy it was dark (so early morning) and by the time they get to the destination it’s broad fucking daylight.
3. The guard just starts opening fire in the hallway of the Senior Home🤨 like out of fucking nowhere...it was just unrealistic asl especially the events leading after like that wacky ass scooby doo shit that miraculously kills the other mafia guys
I just saw the movie this weekend. The ending is quite out of no where. The main character is quite a sociopath and I made me feel uncomfortable liking the character. The movie is quite bad people doing bad things to other bad people like a con artist vs con artist or mafia movies. They also kind of dropped the old lady plot. Mainly the movie I got worried about my grandmother as I can definately see her getting taken advantage of like this.
Yeah the ending was quite out of nowhere but my take is that the guy from the beginning who wanted to try to fight through the legal means of getting his mom out of the home is very parallel to Peter Dinklage his character who has the power means and men to get his mom back no matter what and he failed and got swindled by the con artist so the ending kind of symbolize that just because the person who couldn’t take you down before most likely will do later on
When I saw the first trailer I thought it was gonna be a fun romp with the old women doing random stuff.
Saw a longer trailer, and was like yeah this women a psychopath.
Idk how anyone would see different.
Bullshit shown in the second half:
- Marla is murdered, she dead, but magically survives 😂
- Fran is murdered, dead, but she also magically survives 😂
and the best of all....
- these two brutally injured normal women, kidnap a fuckin Russian mafia boss, like for real 😂😂
Bonus:
You will witness THE most stupidest courtroom Judge of all time
Your break down is spot on! I came to UA-cam just to see if all of my thoughts on the movie were shared by anyone else and your review is exactly how I felt. The actors are great but now I feel I need to watch a good movie to rinse this one out. I was annoyed as hell the entire time.
Great review 👍🏻
The second half was Merry Sue, Deus Ex Macina with the ending of Layer Cake.
you need to turn off or down the Discord Notifications sound because it doesn't help every 1-2 minters I hear a beep.
Omg!!! I just found your channel today, but the sentiments in your review are exactly how I felt when I uploaded mine last night and you went a lot further. Wow, new subscriber!!
Yeah the only character I felt anything for in this movie was Jennifer Peterson. This movie is just sick and poorly done.