The Way Back Movie Review
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This movie takes you on the Camino (the Way of Saint James) with a father yanked out of his safe life when his son dies on the first leg of the journey. We follow him as he decides to finish his son’s pilgrimage walk on the 500-mile trek. 1 Emilio Estevez wrote and directed the movie and portrays the son while his father, Martin Sheen, stars.Emilio Estevez’s “The Way” was inspired by his son, stars his father, is dedicated to his grandfather, and was written and directed by himself.
It’s a sweet and sincere family pilgrimage, even if a little too long and obvious. Audiences seeking uplift will find it here.The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever changing and complicated world.TORONTO Emilio Estevez ‘s The Way is an earnest film, its heart always in the right place, but it’s severely under dramatized.
Consequently, the film comes off more as an amiable travelogue than.But The Way is never preachy or slow. Attention is paid to some of the sacred artifacts and churches along the road, but the movie is more inspiring than religious.
Overall, The Way is an engaging film for parents and thoughtful teens that may encourage meaningful discussion.A grieving father makes a pilgrimage to the Pyrenees in honor of his late son, and experiences a major epiphany during his journey down the Way of Saint James. When his adult son (Emilio Estevez) is killed during an excursion down a Christian pilgrimage route, California doctor Tom (Martin Sheen) vows to complete the treacherous journey.
Synopsis Tom is an American doctor who goes to France following the death of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees during a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Tom’s purpose is initially to retrieve his son’s body.The Way is a 2010 American-Spanish drama film directed, produced and written by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Yorick van Wageningen, and Renée Estevez.
The film honors the Camino de Santiago and promotes the traditional pilgrimage. Saying he did not want the film to appeal to only one demographic, Emilio Estevez called the film “pro-peopl.”The Way” is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world.Synopsis. Back in high school, Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) had everything going for him.
A basketball phenom, he could have punched his ticket to college or even the pros, but, instead, he chose to walk away from the game, forfeiting his future. Jack’s glory days are long gone but, as it turns out, not forgotten.Synopsis. Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James.
Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son’s desire to finish the journey.The Way Back (2020) Plot Summary (3) Jack Cunningham was an HS basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.Although “The Way” has been described as a deeply spiritual film, its lingering conversation about relationships and its far-reaching effects on one’s life overwhelms the little to no emphasis on spirituality in the movie, which seems more appropriate in any case. After all, it’s a relationship that most people are after in life, not.
It stars Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Michaela Watkins, and Janina Gavankar, and follows an alcoholic construction worker who is recruited to become head coach of the basketball team at the high school he used to attend. The film was theatrically released in the United States on.The movie is directed by Peter Weir and released in 2010.
It’s true story. Janusz (Jim Sturgess) a young Polish officer during World war 2, held and interrogated by the NKVD. He is sent in prison for 20 years in a labor camp, Siberia.
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140 comments
they changed it from hazel to willow because in disney’s cinderella it’s a willow tree over the grave
But if you explain the magic, you lose the magic. My best example of this is the 2017 version of this Beauty and the Beast. They waste so much time explaining the magic that we don’t get much time watching Belle and Beast’s relationship grow.
If there was a criminally underrated channel reward you’d deserve first place! Went and watched the film and your right Cranston IS LBJ so many shots were he looked exactly liked the man. Great movie but was pretty packed with alot of stuff going on at once. Cheers again.
I saw it and thought it was cute. I liked the sad ending cuz life is like that. The tag line of one chance was true. He blew each “one” chance and now has to start over on a lower bottom level.
It’s interesting you comment on the “reflected” moments specifically as some of these were pickups after the completion of principle photography so seemingly added in for emphasis or clarity for the audience (or studio execs) less familiar with the musical. Specifically Red Riding hood sliding down the wolf’s oesophagus (discovering granny/being cut out of his stomach) and Jack’s father stealing the beans and being discovered in the act.
Did not expect the actual L.B.J to talk about how his pants chafe his nuts
I love how Christie keeps rushing their numbers just cuz she didn’t watch it and wants to move on… Just let them finish their point.
I am so glad that you talked about the POV change in “The Steps of the Palace”!! It drove me nuts when I watched it lol
Curiously “Path To War” also completely ignores RFK as daily part of LBJ’s term in office…..and like this film he referred to as outsider waiting in the wings to re take his ate brothers place in the White House
This film felt like a prequel to John Frankenheimer’s last film “Path to War” (2002) starring Michael Gambon as LBJ. Watch it!
이영화를 보면서 말세때는 이러한고통에서 벗어날 길이없음을 보게됨니다 그러나 물과성령으로 거듭난자라야만 드림을받고 이러한고통에서 벗어날수가 있음을 보게되었읍니다 영화라고 다나쁜것은 아니며 우리인생에서 만난모든것을 통해배우게도 한다는것을 알게됩니다 많은 영화중 참 영적으로 깨닭게하여준 영화네요 감사합니다 모든분들께…
lmao lotta big words, but that didnt really do shit to describe what any of it “meant”, as a matter of fact you just asked like five questions at the end… you provided literally more questions than answers lmao
HI, I’m a History graduate (BA hons) from England. I Really enjoyed this. It was a little melodramatic in parts, (I s’pose I’m too used to documentaries) but it did intrigue me because I’ve studied LBJ and his ‘Big Society’, and I feel he is very much a president who was reacting to events rather than affecting them. From his shocking beginning, he rarely appeared to get ahead of the curve. LBJ I feel, is a fascinating figure who, even to this day, it is so difficult to get a handle on. I think he was a better politician than he was a president (if that makes any sense at all!). I very much enjoy What the flick by the way, great stuff!:)
No, you’re not crazy, no you don’t nitpik, no you’re not being pedantic or anything else you said/thought, you are finding the very things that made me watch this movie once and never again Much as I love nearly every actor in it. My biggest peeve: no narrator/mysterious man. You’re right about the difference in storytelling medium, but we had narration anyway and why could we NOT have the mysterious man as he was even if we didn’t have the narrator?? Ugh, it really bothered me and I’ve told everyone that even if they don’t like theatre they should see this stage production just for these two characters. But the worst thing is exactly what you pointed out that it takes all the juice out of the Baker’s last scenes telling his son the story. He has taken over the role of father and subconsciously taken over the narrator’s role as well and the emotion is heart-warming and tear-jerking at the same time every time.
sigh They took a great musical and tweaked it just enough to ruin it. It wasn’t TERRIBLE, it was just meh okay. Which is worse IMHO.
Did it show him making people see him while he was taking a shit? LBJ was fuck.
I absolutely loved it.. What a great comeback for Mr Ben. We could clearly feel every part of what Ben goes through. It’s moving and takes u along his struggle and all the emotion. At certain times u know what’s gonna happen but still u wanna stay and it’s absolutely rewarding. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thank you finally a review that speaks on the depth of the movie and not just on basketball
The best scene was obviously when he took a dump with door open.
I could never want to live in this world i would choose just to not be any longer he is not fighting to live but to just not die.Humanity has long since left this place what is left to want to live for.
I disagree with your opinion in here, but mainly because our experiences are different, you loved Into the woods from before and this was just a new form of something you love. But I didn’t know it existed (I’m from another country, we don’t have musicals and almost no theater) so when I watched this movie… it was barely good, but boring and really needed a couple of jokes, it was too dark all of the time… I really felt something was missing, it was short to being a great experience… Then I hear it’s based on a musical, I search for it here and found the 1991 recording… my world changed… suddenly everything fell into place, there were jokes, there was evolution, there was meaning and life! Since that moment I feel bad for anyone that sees the movie and doesn’t know the musical, because it’s really a mediocre experience in comparison.
In all honesty, out of all the musicals turned movies I’ve seen my favorite is Hairspray. DON’T COME FOR ME. I pick Hairspray because I feel with the freedom a camera and editing and cinematography can give, Hairspray was able to make it’s message all the more poignant and resounding. while I feel both the 2007 film and the stage musical can incite very powerful and important emotions, the fact the film adaptation of Hairspray executes it with subtle power, good humor, and bubbly fun makes it my favorite. My least favorite is The 2012 musical film version of “Les Miserables”. AGAIN DO NOT COME FOR ME. I enjoyed the film immensely. However I feel that since the performances by the actors were given in a film set and made to be toned down in a dynamic fashion, the storytelling that’s happening through the singing is, for me, moderately robbed of its power and conviction. Well now that I’ve written a book, peace!! btw, I loved into the woods both on stage and as a film ��
Just got home from seeing it….it’ll have…….”your emotions moved to tears….you’ll laugh you’ll think and you’ll cry…that’s a full day that’s a neck of a day”
Certainly seems like a better post-super turn than Downey’s…
The man encountered in the woods from the truck gang is actually the little boys father in real life. Just FYI
I was disappointed they didn’t mention his large testicles and his pants being too small for them.
Lost me right at the start. It wasn’t about surviving for a better life as there was no such promise or evidence. Nor was it about surviving for another because there was no guarantee. Re-evaluate.
The black thief was missing both of his thumbs, also at the end of the movie guy Pearce was missing the thumb on his left hand. does anyone know what the significants is.
perhaps the answer is in a deleted scene, I don’t know.
I liked ben as batman not his fault that the writters were trying to catch up to marvel movies and totally fucked up the story and the movies… Well probably not writters fault either but the producers or anyone who thought they should race instead of doing their own thing
This movie was so powerful! The scene with the soda was so emotional. I cried so much at the end this movie.
I would love the MBTI type Tommy because he seems to be analysing musical theatre in a similar way I do. That desire to break things down and she the root of WHY you like things. WHY they’re good. HOW to replicate ‘goodness’ later and what not to do to ruin it. I see a strong N, probably Ni. INTJ or INFJ perhaps? sigh wish I could know.
I think this is a good movie Ben Affleck great performance real acting but more back story of him and hes wife more info but i love it when he raised the stacks and made the team feel more for the game rather then just a team that just play believe in yourself moral of the story for me guys love it just like chris say we all love it because it makes us believe that mircles do happend to normal people.
Controversial opinion. I loved him as Batman / Bruce Wayne.
From the words of Aflect’s parting words to Alyssa Jones in Kevin Smith’s “chasing amy” and reflecting on his own personal struggles in real life leading up to the viewing of this video sums up everything:
“I guess that I had something personal to say.”
Which after being in the WB/DCEU films, would drive anybody to start drinking…again.
Good on Ben for getting his life right and then doing a film where he could channel all of that pain into something meaningful to say on film.
LBJ. One of the three presidents regularly accused of being behind the assassination of JFK (cui bono)
the others are George H W Bush and Richard M Nixon. Roger Stone notorious liar, currently facing prosecution for
lying to Congress and/or the FBI, is one of the main voices behind the ridiculous idea of LBJ arranging the murder of Kennedy.The VOLUMES of evidence pointing at Oswald can never penetrate the solid fantasies of conspiracists.
I would have to disagree on the baker narrating the beginning in the movie ruining it? When I first watched it I didn’t realise it was the baker and then when it got to the end and he started narrating it I felt like what I was watching was the story he was telling us and it tied a nice loop which it really enjoyed
You know a year after this came out, Rob Reiner did his own LBJ movie with Woody Harrelson. I’d be curious about your take on it
I went to go see this movie with the FCA club at my high school and it was kinda funny because the lady who’s in charge of the club didn’t know the movie was rated R.
Man….. this movie really hit me… great movie because of Ben Affleck’s performance and the storyline wow
Hmm, I am thinking the best reviews of movies come from reviewers with life experiences that resonate with the movie’s themes. All through this video I was thinking that our Jeremy has some interesting life stories of his own. Thanks for another great review.
I’ve first watched Into The Woods in cinema, and a hated. After years i gived a shot to the 1981 Broadway musical, and i fallen in love.
I am dying to watch it, and they are not releasing this in India, as of yet.
I’m so excited to hear you mention the pronoun changes in ‘On the Steps of the Palace’. I thought I was the only person who found this distracting. It should be second person! Yes, Cinderella is singing about her own experience, but she’s inviting all of us to put ourselves in her shoes to imagine what we would do if we were pursued by a dashing prince who was interested in us, but under false pretenses. It’s a GREAT SONG for this reason. NO Cinderella story ever asks us to do this. We just take it for granted that a young, abused girl is out of her mind excited to be courted by royalty.
It really hit me hard when the father reached his son to commit suicide so he doesn’t live through constant rapes, fear, and beatings….It really showed what it would like if the world felt apart, it’s brilliant! It reality and it’s a hard film to watch man, but it’s perfect like that showing how evil can people turn when there is no future besides the ”now”…Great movie with a bad trailer tho!
If you haven’t watched it i strongly suggest you do, it will break your beliefs of society, it will show you what it costs to survive.
RADIO
WILDCATS
BAD NEWS BEARS
HOOSIERS
Remember the Titans
etc….etc…etc…
I don’t even play any sport but I want be Coached by Ben Affeck. ❤️��
I really thought Will Smith came from a distance the first encounter with the Boy.
So the guy was a great basketball player in the 90’s, has no coaching experience and doesn’t even have any teaching certification but is entrusted to be a high school coach. We don’t get any backstory on the players. And Afflecks drinking problem doesn’t rear it’s head again conveniently til the third act! But you compare it to Hoosiers? Gotcha!
don’t criticize…critique:D
mature people know how to respect an opinion, people who cant handle being told know are not, and this audience is pretty mature
I hated u 1 minute in lol but u cane to my whole thought in the end with exemption oh Hoosiers is a great FILM!!! not “basketball ” movie and c your point about the team but thin they did what u say they didn’t, the power forward whit kid with long hair took over like Ben asked and the pre madonna kid came around I love this movie! The only flaw just like Warrior showed the ending in the DVD cover this shows the Last shot in the trailer
I think the road is the most sad movie in the world i cryed about 6 times when i watched this movie
bom, esse filme representa o que a extrema direita os conservadores e o MBL querem para a sociedade…
Patiently waiting for the tie-in video game to drop. Sci-fi survival horror/farming sim by Activision.
The pronoun switch in On the Steps of the Palace used to bother me so so much. Mostly because it’s such a fun fast song and the tiny changes made it so hard for me to follow along. But I guess because it’s been so many years I don’t mind it now because I’ve memorized both versions.
And I see how the difference in form would motivate the pronoun switches. In the musical Cinderella is retelling a story to the Baker’s Wife and kinda also the audience, asking us to step into her shoes. But in the movie it’s in real time, and she’s not “talking” to the audience the way she would on stage. So I understand why she says “I.”
I also love what you’ve said about precision vs. emotion. The part where Cinderella jerks her step-sister’s head around while doing her hair for the ball is one of my favorite parts. That scene looses its magic without the emotion.
the baker being the narrator doesn’t work for me. the narrator dying is part of the second act and it hits me because it’s that point that the characters have to start thinking for themselves. i suppose the bakers wife dying is sort of thatspecially for the baker who’s way too codependent.
One of my favorite funny lines similar to “the witch next door” is “you can talk to birds?” Because up until that point you kind of just assume that Communicating with animals is a normal part of this world because it’s a fairy tale, Why not? So it’s a pretty comedic reveal to just see this one aspect crash land into reality. This also raises questions that are hilariously never answered, like, “why/how can Cinderella talk to birds”, “why has nobody noticed?”
Just saw the movie last night, and my biggest complaint with it was the basketball scenes were not well shot outside of practice and the game winner scene
SPOILERS….. but can someone explain the end like does he get the job back at the end after he got fired??
review field of dreams, cinema paradiso and good will hunting
This explains why, every press junket had him lamenting about his own alcoholism. I was beginning to think it was next level narcissism.
I’ve watched it once and it’s and found it very uncomfortable and difficult to watch purely because I have children and it scares me that when I die who will protect them.
I’m really enjoying this video, but I do just want to say that you talking over the sound clips you play means we can’t exactly hear the sound clips, which misses the point. I’d say either play the sound clips over edited-in silence or cut them out completely (if you ever make a video like this again obv)
Using the “you” in Steps of the Palace is better imo. It just represents how detached Cinderella is from the whole thing.
Mackie acted his butt off….not enough recognition of his skill set in this review….Apparently they just want him to wear wings and be Cap’s 1-liner sidekick.
Eventually the dust cloud covering the earth would clear n the sun would shin again. It might take 100years but it would happen. Its science.
SO, BASICALLY; BEN IS BLAMING BATMAN FOR HIS ADDICTION??��������
A really great movie, I have to say his performance was really amazing!! Definitely a must watch
Your hair style is awful ��, and sports movies about the underdog suck! It makes you feel good until you realize it’s a movie and there are millions of people who die unfulfilled and die never being triumphant.
I loved that the voice of the news reporter reporting on the protests was the voice from the Mass Effect codex entries. He was perfect for it.
I love your videos….and your beard…it’s a nice beard. You should keep it.
Rob Marshall is a fantastic director. But his biggest problem is he makes everything pretty, and pretty doesn’t necessarily make things better
I’m in Into the Woods. I’m Jack. I love Into the Woods the movie. Im in the play
This review was not a review, it was a history lesson. Interesting no matter what but you guys barely talk about the quality of the film
I feel like warner bro’s gave Ben this movie as a “sorry for screwing you over with Batman” letter. They have seen what they did to the man.
Chris, PLEASE do another underrated/overlooked movies video!!
I hate the reaction the film got. I understand opinions, but it didn’t deserve it! Almost all the complaints are
WHYARETHEYSINGING!!!!!
I DON’T LIKE THAT THEY SING!
THE SONGS ARE SO HARD TO FOLLOW, THE FAIRYTALES ARE NOT LIKE THE DISNEY ONES!
Those aren’t actual valid complaints. It’s not even nitpicking, it’s shaming a product or genre that they don’t like, agressively hating it and trying to force others to hate it too.
I just don’t get it. Maybe most of the not-musical fans had different expectations, and they didn’t get what they wanted, they suddenly hated it.
If you’ve seen one movie like this, you’ve seen them ALL.
This one was essentially NO different than the 30 plus other “unlikely coach of an underdog team” film that have come before, and frankly I’m somewhat baffled that filmmakers aren’t demonstrating any more imagination or creativity these days when I see yet ANOTHER one of these movies is coming out.
It’s fine, not horrible, but not amazing either.
Save your money and wait until it hits HBO or Netflix or whatever.
(I’m just sayin’ ������)
STFU Ben. There’s nothing “pragmatic” about Hillary Clinton. She WANTS the Democratic Party to be Republican-lite. That’s what the DLC has always been about you fcking moron. The “pragmatic” Bernie Sanders compromises ( http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/bernie-sanders-is-a-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway/450597/). She’s not simply compromising. She is compromised. Thumbs down.
This reminds me of the movie hardball one of Keanu Reeves underrated films
So, this is my theory of what caused the “cataclysmic event”. I believe it was the result of a supervolcano, perhaps the eruption of the one in Yellowstone Natl’ Park (notice how nearly everything is coated in dust). Also, notice how the father says “the world is growing colder”, and never in this movie do you see the sun. This is probably the result of the ash blocking the sun’s rays, plunging the world into a sort of nuclear winter. Although you would see similar results with a nuclear war, I do not believe this is the case since you never hear any of the characters mention of radiation or fallout.
Note: This is only a THEORY of mine, so don’t take it seriously.
Sorry, Hollywood. HBO/Netflix, etc are the future of movies. And what a glorious future it could be.
It was a good movie and Affleck was great..honestly though, this movie could have been made into a tv series where you can get to know the characters better etc etc..it could be the basketballs answer to Friday Night Lights, which I also liked
Ben Affleck also starred in a real real bad movie wearing sissy red leather tights as some superhero.
I wont watch an other movie about an alcoholic coach that wins a championship. Cool, not original, nothing new, same shit different day. Lame.
i imagined the chilled was raped, eated/used as cattle or both. such is the way of the apocalypse…
I had never seen the musical when I saw this film, and I hared it. A year later, the original Broadway production was shown to me in Theatre I class in my High School, and I adored it. I just wanted to point it out; because, you said that If you hadn’t seen the musical you would like it, but I didn’t.
I think it’s the present tense vs past tense you mentioned. On stage, we see her escape and she’s telling the audience like “oh sh*t you won’t believe what just happened!” In the movie, time freezes for us to see her think about everything as it happens. That’s why I think the lyrics changed. They took advantage of film as a medium.
You know, it is a beautiful film. But it lacks a sense of immediacy that’s present in the theatrical version and, more to its detriment, it also feels a lot darker and less humorous than the theatrical version, even in the first half. (And that surprises me, especially since it was made by Disney.)
This may be the most accurate Historical film since Song of the South.
I am Brazilian and wanted Portuguese subtitles Brazilian please
I watched the movie first but then found the stage performance and I agree that it works better on stage but the movie is still brilliant
I only associate Ben Affleck with Argo, with was a phenomenal movie in my book, so just might give this a go.:D
i was afraid to watch this for over a year but i’m happy to do this now. thank you for being as gentle as possible. and… i agree with you… mostly. that’s right that the movie is more… subtle with death subject and they didn’t had to change pronouns for cinderella, but still it was supposed to be a movie for kids so they could understand (probably they would anyway, but that was their decision whatever). Also, i agree with all of that explaining stuff. i had problems with this too and the same problem i have with the newest jordan peele’s movie ‘us’ where everything starts to falling apart when they start to explain things. i don’t understand why people do that. ofcourse sometimes they feel the need to be clearer but that leads to explaining all the mechanics used for the story!
yet giving the mysterious man’s line to jack was brilliant choice for me. because yes, jack is presented as idiotic, but even if he is so why can’t he be right sometimes? i think that makes him better character when he’s dumb, no one pays attention to him, they think that he’s irrelevant, can’t do anything and anything that he says probably is a lie… but then he gives an absurd resolution THAT may work. and it works. it gives a good lesson to not devalue people just because of our certain point of view.
and getting to rapunzel not dying decision… i think that with amount (no matter how subtle) of deaths and negativity in the story seeing her runaway gives us hope. let’s not forget that in the original both rapunzel and cinderella marry their princes and then got cheated on by them. and then yet cinderella leaves her prince… rapunzel that has a chance to be alive and live happily ever after gives us hope that life might be good and fortunate. it’s also opposite to cinderella as rapunzel decides to runaway to be happy and cinderella just lets the fate to lead her… and it leads her to not very happy storyline. also rapunzel with her action breaks that chain of bad parenting curse which is one of the main themes in the story. all the characters are very focused on that motherhood and fatherhood thing and all of them get hurt or killed by this. the most importand in this perticular case is of course the witch, whose actions are followed by her mother’s lessons and truths. the witch was dominated and punished by her mother, rised with toxic love missunderstood it with pure love and this is why she treated rapunzel this way. because this is how being a mother looks like to her, she doesn’t know any better. and then rapunzel breaks from it, she’s not about to stay with toxic mother, she just wants her life. her dying might lead to conclusion ‘always listen to and obey your parents’ which isn’t true, no matter how many children we want to tell so…
also, i interprate this as symbolic fight between nature/absolute and a human which which continues in ‘last midnight’ with that ‘i’m the which, you’re the world’ and ‘you’re so nice, i’m not good, i’m not nice, i’m just right’ lines and all that conflict in general. the witch which represents the nature and tradition losses to human being which has free will and doesn’t do as they’re told to.
but i think that you made valid points, it was fun and pleasant to think about all of this aspects of the movie. the original is better. but movie works very well as independent art form, too. thank you for your time to talk about it!
Don’t worry about complaining too much; you pointed out the main problem with this it should not have been made into a movie. Some musicals, some theatre should remain on the stage. This one just doesn’t translate.
ITW was my first Sondheim. A friend brought it over and said “You. Must. See. This.” and I am forever grateful to him. If he had brought this movie over, I would have totally missed out on the wonder of Sondheim. Maybe my post is overly critical. But it’s still true for me.
It shows how quickly people actually want individual power rather than say rebuild at least some sort of “Nation State”
Great movie, was really enjoyable. A shame the Rona won’t let it get a decent box office return! Good review you really broke it down well!
I just can’t deal with your hair. So distracting to me lol it’s like your stuck in 2003 lol then again I don’t know shit
I’ll always love Ben from movies like dogma. I feel like one day people will treat Ben like Keanu Reeves. Ben deserves more credit. Not like Nicolas Cage
We forget how good we have it here and allow petty differences to tear us apart. We have been living in the good times but unfortunately good times create soft men and soft men create hard times.
when you see this movie, it will get stockt in your head forever.
I am primarily a classical singer and college voice teacher, but do love MT. Getting ready to (vocal) coach a high school production of this, and enjoyed hearing your review. Thank you!
I have yet to see the movie version, and I doubt I ever will. So many of the compromises made to the script/music seem to be dictated by Disney. And while I’m a huge fan of Disney, I don’t like how they water down the most random of things. “Hamilton” has one fuck out of three because one fuck means Disney gets to market it as PG-13 while two fucks or more make it an immediate R. Never mind that Hamilton deals with constant death, needless murders by duel, and marital infedility among many other complex, complicated issues. As long as no one says fuck twice, we’re good. In the same way, my impression of the movie adaptation of “Into the Woods” suffered from a thousand little cuts to make it “family friendly” when that term is completely meaningless. Why are certain things (like violent action and murder) okay in a family film but others (like sexual encounters and deaths that might in any way whatsoever be meaningful or impactful) are not?
This looks like the biggest crock of s**t I’ve seen in a long while. LBJ didn’t care about reversing Kennedy’s policies. He took the US into the Vietnam War. He was a “Company Man” who, if Kennedy had survived, would have faced serious murder charges. He had the sense not to run against Nixon and died a horrible death. All he wanted was power. E Howard Hunt on his death bed fingered LBJ as one of the main conspirators in Kennedy’s murder.
Can’t take Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. When they became stars, that let you know that anyone can be a “star.”
People need inspiration, motivation and empowerment. You get that from movies like this or Rocky. Any real underdog story
In my opinion, the movie should have been made as a non-musical. (If Meryl Streep absolutely had to sing, she still could have had a single of Children Will Listen over the credits.) Think of the lovely illustrated picture book version; it has been established that the story of Into the Woods can carry itself without the score. If this could have just been the movie version instead of the movie version Of The Musical, it would have transferred to the film medium much, much more coherently. The way it was done, though, we just get a hodge-podge of two different sins: (1) clumsy attempts at enhancing scenes with cinematic spectacle, such as Giants in the Sky, and (2) lazy ready-enactments of very stagey scenes in front of a camera with no effort at adapting for the screen, such as Any Moment / Moments in the Woods.
Jeremy has managed to introduce multiple new ratings in 2020 props to him for changing the game 10 years into it
I just couldn’t get over the changes. The second act just had the most interesting things taken away with the narrator. Saw it once in the theater, and I’m in no rush to ever watch it again. I’ll stick with the original Broadway one, the one I taped off PBS as a little girl. The tape I wore out for watching too often.
No joke. Pretty, pretty please kind Mr. Stuckmann where might I find that glorious shirt of yours? Oh and continue to rock some of the best movie critiques out there. Your brand of enthusiasm and honest reviews of films that avoids harshness to promote click-baiting always has me coming back to your channel. Keep rocking it, yo!
I’m so happy to hear that this was great! I love Bryan Cranston, and LBJ is my favorite President (note: I’m not saying he was the best president). I gotta go watch this now
People should hire you when adapting shows from stage to screen. You’re really thorough in your argumentation and you can always use one more critical mind when making something.
I generally agree about the cut songs, except for “No More”.
Feels like that song is the entire emotional resolution for your primary character (baker). I can’t imagine thinking that should be cut.
I found it one of the most devestatingly bleak movies I’ve ever seen. Sure there’s positing on this or that, but Mortgensons perpetual desperation and fear, that drove his mission, were difficult to experience with him, however understandable. And that’s the rub: they were understandable.
This is an amazing film, really brings out the future true events that will actually happen in our earth’s apocalypse.
Great film and performance by Ben. Gavin O Connor is a proven director, with an amazing eye. My only complaint is technical in nature, and it’s the constant zoom in throughout the film. Didn’t like that choice very much.
I watched this last night and it was really excellent. Ben Affleck did a great job ��
So this is basically ‘Coach Carter’, except Coach Carter is an alcoholic.
Hey look another Schenkkan!
I saw the opening of the play, not on Broadway, but the first production… (also you know, my parents are some of the closest friends of the director, oh and commissioned the play in the first place)
It’s cool to see something I’ve known about for so long get out and about.
Edit after watching the video: The sequel to the play, The Great Society, discusses Johnson’s war on poverty and Vietnam. It’s a lot more about the decline of the presidency where All The Way is about the ascendency. I Don’t know if HBO wants to make that into a film but it hasn’t done as well compared to the original play (which makes sense as All the Way won every award.)
I just saw this movie today. It was alright. Though he coaches basketball, I didn’t really think of this as a “sports movie”.
does Brian Cranston order pants as lbj, that’s my favorite thing he’s done
The book while hard to read at times was a real page turner.
I think you missed the point. This is NOT a “by the book” sports movie, and that´s what makes it special.
Can you please do a review on the Netflix German series “Dark”? They’re already 2 seasons in with the 3rd due sometime this year. Is very unfortunate how underrated this show is, it’s amazing!! One of the best shows ever, I’m surprised none of the more popular YouTube movie reviewers have picked up on it, please do yourself a favor and check it out, it will blow your mind and you’ll be doing us, your viewers a great service also. Thanks in advance and for your great reviews ✌��
I’ve only ever seen this film, and I felt they tried to shoot it like a stage play rather than a movie. I’ve wanted to see the actual play ever since 2014.
Yeah this movie was one of Ben’s best performances. Hoping more people see it.
The president’s dead… How sad… Now get me sworn in as the pres goddammit! Heh, Albert… (grin). I’m the president! (wink)
So looking at the symptoms of the apocalypse. They were hit by an asteroid right?
It didn’t show a point of impact. I’d reckon an asteroid hitting earth so bad it destroys the eco system would have been felt from Hawaii to New York City?
The fact he wasn’t even at the basketball game & we skipped all those games to get to the big one…and they don’t show us shit��
Yes, definitely think the first person to second person change for Cinderella had to do with placing the scene in present tense-also with the fact that there is no audience physically perceptible to the actress. In the stageplay-at least this is how I read it-Cinderella is describing an experience she’s just had to the audience, and so she’s using “you” as in, “You know what it’s like when this happens to you, and you think this, and you feel that” etc. etc. Whereas in the movie she’s not describing an experience, she’s having one, working through the moment she’s in right now, and there is no audience to her thoughts (so far as she’s concerned) but herself.
Can you do an episode about the historical accuracy of Mississippi Burning?
I dont give likes to many videos, but i definitely liked your view of this. This movie is one of the most inspirational and depressing movies experiences I’ve ever had.
The baker and his wife should have been older. It made no sense that they were panicked they would never have a kid when they both looked like they had another 10-15 years to try again.
My biggest issue with the film was that I didn’t feel the witch had enough of a physical transformation. She wasn’t really that ugly in the beginning and the change to her becoming beautiful and glamorous wasn’t dramatically different. If I hadn’t seen the original Broadway show and know how significant that transformation was, I would have been left (watching the movie) wondering why everyone had to job through so many hoops to get these items. I’m sure Ms. Streep did not want to appear hideously ugly (or some exec at Disney felt they didn’t want to scare people with her makeup), but it left the central story falling flat for me.
I personally enjoyed having the Baker narrate from the beginning, but I think that’s because I knew the show and how the cycle would be complete with his telling. I think it could still work if you did something the play didn’t: flash forward to after the giant is killed. Here’s how that could play out:
1. The narrator is still the baker, but the voice is a little more gruff than he is in the story. The audience slowly puts together who the narrator is-or even better might not.
2. We flash-forward to the Baker telling his son the story as an older child before bed.
3. As the boy goes to sleep, he dreams of the characters from the story he now knows well, including his mother. It’s a way to get “Children Will Listen” into the story and leave it vague how much of the story as we see is imagination vs. what actually happened. It would also bring out the meta idea of the story; that being children will see a story their way and take what values they have from it. Such a sequence wouldn’t be easy to film (dream sequences are not as common as they used to be) but the audience won’t care if it’s good.
You definitely gave the idea that this is a good movie that couldn’t fully grasp what made Into the Woods great because Into the Woods was written for the stage, not the screen. You made a lot of good points and it didn’t at all come across as, “This movie sucks because it’s not exactly like the musical!!”
Love these kinds of movies good video can’t wait to watch it
What about Thurgood Marshall, is he in the film? Marshall is the most criminally underrated civil rights leader in American history. He had nothing but praise and respect for LBJ, seeing him as the president who did the most for civil rights.
READ THE BOOK. The ending is so far different than the movie ending.
The “you” and “i” change highlights the fact that she’s kind of on the spot in that moment trying to sort her thoughts. So switching back and forth highlights the confusion
the first time I watched this and saw the scene where the boy was about to be raped, I seriously couldn’t understand the severity of the problem and it took me some time to process it while the chaos was happening.