Some movies are very much misunderstood, even by people who like and enjoy them... #movies #jaws #starshiptroopers #robocop #ghosbusters #bladerunner patreon.com/mitchbenn
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@Loffstadt5 ай бұрын
I do like the original Blade Runner. As a fan of Film Noir I enjoy Deckard's voice over. The fact that Deckard is described by his wife as 'Cold Fish' means that this human lacks the empathy of the genetically engineered humans they are hunting (calling them replcants and androids is just future humanities way of othering them and therefore not dealing with the horror of having a slave race) We are shown that having more life or being given memories would make the replicants even more indistinguishable from humans. And then you look at Voight Kampf, a test that Deckard (as a human) would likely fail and Rachel only fails because Deckard is told she is a replicant so keeps going until she does. Which, IMO, makes the film more interesting than "Deckard is a Replicant"
@laurencewinch-furness94505 ай бұрын
Im not sure if anyone "misses" the point of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, but I'm always struck by the fact no-one who analyses it seems to mention the banality of evil, which I always thought was the central theme of the movie
@cathygardner44385 ай бұрын
The bureaucratic 1984...
@justice38655 ай бұрын
Fun fact, the plot described with the tannery polluting the ground water has actually happened near Rockford Michigan. With Wolverine Worldwide and local officials ignoring widespread ground contamination due to decades of careless dumping of its byproducts while making shoes. Many places all over Michigan have similar stories, sadly.
@richardaubrecht28225 ай бұрын
The book Starship Troopers wasn't pro-fascist. Anti-democratic, yes, sure. The state i nthe book had two classes of pleople, one who could do anything but couldn't vote, and the other that could. Rico's family was rich and succesful Filipino(!) family that simply did not see any need to reach for full citizenship. Which could be achieved by many ways, military sevice being only one of the most popular ones, at least in the peacetime. It is said in the book that if a deaf mute asked for full citizenship, the government would had to invent a job for him so that his right to full citizenship is respected. While the military has a lot of power and this state was established by military veterans, most of the tenets of real fascism, like the economic views, the glorification of war and social darwinism isn't there. Also Heinlein'ns heroes in other books were usually anarchosocialists, libertarians and other individualist types who would clash with any collectivist society like fascist, and fascism-like organisations are their enemies. Oh, and those characters would sometimes literally f*ck their mothers.
@ralph900095 ай бұрын
I don't remember the source of this, so I could easily have fallen for a tale, but I had heard that RoboCop actually started out as a Dredd adaptation. Also, like I've told my kids several times, when an industry is for profit what it produces is profit, regardless of what they tell you they make.
@cutthr0atjake5 ай бұрын
According to Pat Mills in his autobiography, the Karl Urban Dredd is actually closer to John Wagners original Dredd. The humour was more Mills addition.
@HalbaredАй бұрын
Yes, Dredd was perfect.
@fylerwrites90975 ай бұрын
Ah yes - funny (if, as you acknowledge, inevitable :) ) that you mention Blade Runner. Recently read Oroonoko, by Aphra (presumably no relation) Behn, and thought "Oh - Blade Runner!" Basic storyline of a "Noble" (Which *cough, cough* is to say Westernised) African, and his wife, who pass among the white folk perfectly well and are lauded, till they meet the "wrong" white folk, get enslaved, do some murdery stuff to get free and end up last-standing it in a fairly horrible way (though there, it's actually Oronooko who kills his wife, essentially with her consent, to prevent her falling into the hands of the utter gits). Definitely resonated for me.
@cholten995 ай бұрын
Alas, just reminds me of walking out of the cinema after watching Starship Troupers and the many discussions I overheard from other people about great everything depicted in it was.
@gigaflynn_5 ай бұрын
Does Avatar count? possibly. Blue space stereotypes of native americans do running with 6 legged wolves against mech suit manifest destiny. What the movie is actually about is maybe the solution to humanity depleting earth isn't to take our voracious hunger for resources to other planets, but maybe stay where we already were and fix our shitty attitudes. Edge of Tomorrow? Starts of as dumb action movie, turns into one of the best "fucks with the audience" plot twists about our perception of the movie and the time loops and all we're not seeing, as well as slowly going mad alongside tom cruise.
@chickenlover6573 ай бұрын
When you meet someone claiming they didn't like or didn't get Bladerunner (talking about the actually good 1982 one, of course), don't waste your time on such individual. You literally need no other reason to scratch them off your contacts list. Forever. You can thank me later.
@HalbaredАй бұрын
Murdering roots, the good guys. :D Just like Roberto!
@mybachhertzbaud30742 ай бұрын
You pretty much nailed all of them. I have never seen "Love,Actually" however sounds like a waste of time?🤔
@PaulArthurTV3 ай бұрын
'Wings of Desire' isn't about angels and their wings (see 'It's A Wonderful Life'). Nor is it really about Berlin (although that is Wim Wenders' reasoning, and it is his film, so what do I know?) For what little it's worth, my reading is that it's about the pain of the human condition; that we all carry noise and trouble and challenge all the time. Occasionally, we are at peace - especially when reading something of importance to us - but most of the time we try to escape the noise by doing other stuff, like making movies. It does have a rather meta thread through it. Ultimately, the true sense of peace in ourselves, with others, with society... The Beatles were right: All You Need is Love. THAT'S what the film is about. (PS - there is no meaning in the fact that Paul McCartney links the Fab Four with Wings)
@drumstick7421 күн бұрын
From the thumbnail, I thought _American Psycho_ would be on your list...?
@mitchbennpatreon399717 күн бұрын
@@drumstick74 It’s kind of a running joke with these videos that the title card shows something which isn’t on the list, but could be…
@drumstick7417 күн бұрын
@@mitchbennpatreon3997 Hmmm, okay 😆
@HalbaredАй бұрын
Robocop, the dark side of corptocracy. Ghostbusters, a loveletter to capitalism. RLM talked about this years back.
@Grubnar5 ай бұрын
There are numerous hints and clues in Starship Troopers (the film) that the Bugs did in fact, not start the war. In the book, they most certainly did, but in the film the human government needed a reason to go to war!
@relwalretep3 ай бұрын
Gaff is the hero of Bladerunner. He lets Deckard and Rachel live.
@rossknowles56085 ай бұрын
poltergeist
@ennesshay50405 ай бұрын
CONS U and ME ?
@iamsmartacus5 ай бұрын
As Verhoeven films go, Robocop is way more successful in achieving its objectives than Starship Troopers, which was way too subtle/confusing in its subtext. Most viewers understood that Robocop was set in the worst possible version of the United States, and was a critique of American capitalism as well as an action movie. By contrast, most viewers of Starship Troopers just saw soldiers and insects slaughtering each other, while many critics were actually incensed by what they saw as an endorsement of fascism. When that many people don’t get what you were going for, then my reaction is: Nice try, but it was a failure as satire.
@Yawbus19765 ай бұрын
It also fails as satire because it relies on a first week history students version of fascism, which largely amounts to "The uniforms are WW2 bad guy adjacent designs, so they MUST be fascist". Then the second week history student pipes up about them all being aryans, which works until they bring in the new Sky Marshall, a black woman. Simple fact is, Verhoeven never knew enough about the novel or actual fascism to create a decent satire of either.
@johnhunterii48824 ай бұрын
I don't like to watch movies subjectively. I watch them objectively because when things are meant to be taken subjectively, everyone will have a different opinion of what they just saw. If I want to think deeper about a subject, I'll read about it. If I want a quick, stupid entertainment, I watch a movie. Subjective movies suck, see 2001 a space odyssey. Stupid stupid movie.
@chickenlover6573 ай бұрын
Qualifying a movie as "stupid" is utterly subjective. Just saying.
@andyp58993 ай бұрын
Nazis were Socialist not Fascist
@mitchbennpatreon39973 ай бұрын
Wait till you find out where buffalo wings come from
@andyp58993 ай бұрын
@@mitchbennpatreon3997 never heard of Buffalo wings 😶 I take they are like hamburger not being made of ham
@Yawbus19765 ай бұрын
You should look up the word irony. You clearly have no idea what the book Starship Troopers is about, while making a video about things that are not about what you thought they were about. Also, if the film was about how a fascist society would make a film about itself, then why would they present such a horrific depiction of the war with the bugs and allow the film to question the justification for the fascist society? What fascist society do you know of, which would allow propaganda showing it's soldiers being slaughtered in their masses, a school teacher talking about the freedom to choose and it's leaders stepping down in failure? I think you're way out of your lane when trying to discuss this particular film/book/subject.
@chickenlover6573 ай бұрын
To answer all those questions all you need look at is at what palestinians are doing.
@nickprocter70905 ай бұрын
The Truman Show. It's not a satire on reality TV - it came out before Big Brother. It's about a man trying to find meaning in the world, realising the answer's in the death and resurrection of his altered-appearance father figure, and struggling to convince those around him of an unlikely Truth. Sound familiar?