*This was filmed in my home city, Vancouver Canada. This is 1 of 4 Cult Punk Rock themed movies shot here....* 1. Out Of The Blue (1980) 2. Ladies & Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains (1982) 3. Terminal City Ricochet (1990) 4. Hard Core Logo (1995) *and concert films like....* 1. David Bowie - Serious Moonlight (1984) 2. Loverboy - Live In Vancouver Canada 1983 (1984) 3. Metallica - Through The Never (2013) 4. D.O.A. - To Hell & Back (2013)

Will you explain the exclusion of New York, New York, please?

I’m gobsmacked by the insight and analysis shown here- chin chin, sir!

Love the chill vibe of your “what I watched” videos. You had so many great films, so I’ll just add that ‘Starman’ is a gorgeous film, and Allen should have been a star. So, are you gonna keep teasing us with that WH box, or are we going to talk about ‘Heart of Glass’?

Nostalgia is that one with the beautiful shot of the house on fire at the beginning? I can barely finish that one, the weirdest and inaccessible Tarkovsky that I ever seen

I haven't thought about this movie for a really long time. This really puts it into context. I think they eventually went to Mars for some reason?

How you describe the three men in Husbands is racist. You would not use such a description if the men were black.

this is so weird. About two months ago I saw an episode (never heard of the show before). I looked it up and saw a youtube short showing that the main actor spent a long time in addiction recovery. I needed to know more about this show now and gained a weird hyperfixation on it. The moral of the entire Mcgee and Me series is to discourage kids from having big dreams and trying too hard to escape the status quo. It's ingenius how they do it Any time Nick does something even a little rebellious or selfish or just feels an extreme emotion, it's painted in the nastiest of light and the punishment is tragicomical. He can't just be a little prideful, he has to be a snivveling little shit. The suffering before and after is exaggerated. It's like, "This is how YOU look when you sin." and when he gets punished we can shake our heads in "That's what you get for sinning." I kept thinking, "What kid would want to watch a show where the leads do nothing but lose? I would have hated that. it's depressing." it's because we aren't enjoying a narrative, we're watching a mini passion play. See the sinner express a feeling that I feel from time to time. The sinner does something I might have imagined doing but resisted. I can allow my feelings to be expressed, and a little meaner than I would in reality but that's to show to me that it's a bad thing to do this. See the sinner carry my imagined sin to the slaughtered for sacrifice so I didn't have to do it. And anyway, even if you DO sin, it's not fun anyway. It'll be disappointing. So why try? Btw the baseball episode is the best one. And yes that house is insane.

31:43 Whoah dude - what did that pawn shop owner ever do to you?

Just discovered your channel (through the "Brave Little Toaster" vid) and I have to say, it happened at The Perfect Time. I'm going to watch this video again, but first, some thoughts that went through my brain: Strophics, prosedy, alliteration, insight, Harry Dean Stanton, my thinking thing, so my brain isn't alone... At first I thought "How did you get inside my head?" but by the end I was thinking " Don't go" Thank you

Childhood trauma? I saw this at a friend's place when we were approaching our 30's and it traumatized us like nothing else! We'd both worked selling Kirby vacuums, so we delighted in the depiction of that character. "It's a G2!" we crowed (this was about the time the G3 was being introduced). We spent the first part of the movie quoting selling points: "A complete home-care system." and "Machined from airplane-grade aluminum." and such. Then the AC unit self-destructed. We spent the rest of the movie gasping, crying, we clutched each other in fear. We became closer friends after watching it together. Shared trauma, I suppose. Solidarity. To this day I find the sheer *menace* of the landfill's crushing machine both an example of masterful nonverbal characterization, and a terrifying intrusive image

It's more realistic when you aren't given reasons why people behave as they do. In life, you will encounter many people and never have a clue why they behave in certain ways.

If anyone in here is in the LA area, they are doing a screening of this Friday night (6/28/24) at Vidiots in Eagle Rock

All the way to the end!

This wasn't a childhood movie for me -- I only saw it starting in my teenage years, but I connected to it immediately. The fear of being unable to perform your function and the tragedy of thwarted function hit something deep. I actually interpreted the objects' differing perspectives as being linked to their function -- for example, in the scene where the blanket doesn't have anyone to cuddle with, the tragedy doesn't come merely from its loneliness, but from the fact that it is made to cuddle and be cuddled, and this function is being thwarted. You can see how it tries to cuddle with itself, but fails, because of all the objects it most of all requires relationship to be what it was made to be. I do think the fact that their fierce, hopeful alliance to their function is validated by the movie's end suggests that rather than being nihilistic, the movie walks through nihilism and emerges on the other side. Kind of similar to The Man Who Was Thursday in some ways, or some of the more hopeful 40k fan content. "Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength." - G. K. Chesterton But there is some inherent tragedy, since the appliances' master is also mortal and flawed. This is something I've wrestled with in my object stories -- humans make very poor gods.

your description of the ending is inaccurate. a lot of fans of this movie joke around that the "master" may be too attached to his appliances to the point he follows then into a certain doom. even if he didn't know that these where his appliances he tried to take them because they looked like his old appliances. if anything it negates your point on the film's nihilism and turn into optimism. the appliances are saved because of the master personal beliefs in preserving them' so despite the many reasons to the contrary they should have faith in the mater and toaster was right all along. I'm not saying that is reasonable what I'm saying is you should omit details that don't align with your point.

Great stuff Mr. Cook

1. The King of Comedy 2. Taxi Driver 3. Goodfellas 4. Bringing out the Dead 5. Raging Bull 6. Casino 7. After Hours 8. Cape Fear 9. The Aviator 10. Killers of the Flower Moon Close call: The Irishman, Wolf of Wall Street and Mean Streets

I am a simple woman. I see a video recontextualizing a childhood classic, I click. I had no idea the film was based on a book, but I also barely knew how to read back when I had the VCR lol

Made it through, after a few existential pauses. Genuinely fascinating analysis that recontextualized a film I always thought I had made up growing up. I'd love to hear your thoughts on complex themes and philosophies found in modern children's media or the lackthereof.

I loved the video

It's weird how so many kids, including myself, loved this movie even though it was quite uncomfortable to watch. This analysis just upped how dark it is. And AI! I feel like people don't understand how dark that film is. Like this little guy goes through the most incredible adventure, survives all odds, but can't see any of that. He can only see that he lacks his only desire. Man, now I need to go watch an absurdist film to cleanse my palate lol

Great video, great narration. I haven't seen this movie since I was very young, but I knew it was different. What a terrifying story honestly

I would love new BLT stories that center on planned obsolescence, screens replacing knobs and levers and dials, and the trend of adding precarious computers to appliances that have gotten along just fine without them

Comment for the comment god! This deserves so many more eyeballs

I finished the video! I had such vague memories of this film, your video was so interesting! I love when you analyze media through the lens of philosophy

Very good video, keep going like this and you'll grow in no time. A thought that occurred to me is how this fits the postmodern notion of desiring machines, as in Deleuze where humans too are included in this category. I guess when you look at it like that you can say it's a story of addiction, or even the addiction to addiction (will to will). For a machine, to do its job is heaven, would the state of the machines be better if they didn't seek their master? With Nietzsche, too, the will to life is a life birthing instinct, whatever maximizes it is the best even if it means self delusion.

Watched it all the way through. Love your videos. I work in the industry and want to make things better. Watching your videos makes me want to make great films that will last for generations.

I'm always so psyched when you put out new videos! Thanks for your effort, it doesn't go unnoticed🙌

Yes! Did finish it! Lovely company while preparing ingredients for a stew. Caught the princess bride line, definitely loved the deep dive on a fondly remembered film

Always loved watching The Brave Little Toaster. I need to rewatch it now following your video. Great lesson on nihilism. Your analogies were really helpful in understanding the concepts and related themes. Great video!

I’ve never seen this film, but will definitely check it out after seeing this. My childhood trauma film was ‘The Last Unicorn’. I don’t know if it meets the definition of nihilism, but certainly left me feeling deeply sad every time I saw it. Great video, as always.

Damn, that's some underapreciated quality content. Much love from Brazil!❤

Great vid!

I remeber watching this around Tumblr days like 2016, it was around the Harmonie Corine, Chloe Seveny, Gummo art days for me. But I can remember the title song and story was so sad and rang in my head for months.. I then just remembered how it ended 😣

Good luck with the algorithm!

This video was so well made I was shocked you only have 2k subs. You're gonna be big <3

this was fire

Really enjoyed this. Surprised you enjoyed Oppenheimer in a similar way I did. Fully support the monthly, or yearly.

Awesome video!

I will like if you mantain on the screen the name/year/director/poster for each review. Also timestamps/chapters will be good to improve the watching experience

I loved The Swimmer, it is a mix of a linear and structured story with an abstract and dreamy touches, it was the oldest film that after the credits I said oh, I didn't know that those type of movies were made at that time. If you like it please watch Antonioni's The Passenger

Past month I see Challengers and I really like it. Also a japanese movie called The Face of Another that was odd and artsy, and Double Indemnity who was SO GOOD.