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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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317 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.
I am distracted by too much hand movement dude.. you’re like the Mariah Carey of movie reviewers
Yeah if they ever make a Spring Awakening movie I will be hyper critical of every choice.
It annoys me that nobody ever mentions the authors of the books that these movies come from..CORMAC MCCARTHY..wrote”The road”and “No country for old men.”Remember that one?He also wrote a few other books worthy of being portrayed on film..
I wish they kept the line “A Giant’s just like us. Only bigger. Much, muuuuuch bigger. So big…”
Watching this movie, deep inside I know it is only a matter of time, very sad. There will be people that will just give up and lose hope, your best chance is to group with people that you can trust and work together and Above all have GOD and JESUS in your heart, for he will never leave you but will guide you through the valley of death.
Although this may sound morbid, this is the best post apocalyptic film I have ever seen. No zombies, just how I imagine life could be under such circumstances. I love the beautiful bond between father and son.
Love your channel…and I also caught “A Little Night Music” and also laughed out loud and no one else did.
Saw the movie with a friend tonight (enjoyed it ) and about halfway through, we saw some shots of Ben Affleck and both looked at each other thinking that looks like Chris Stuckman! Don’t know if anyone else has, or will say that, but perhaps you could have a second career playing his double:-)
When your review has somthing in common with Chris’s….your doin somthing right
This isn’t bad work but I would like you to, at some point, write down all the various things you think the word “reasoning” means and how many times you think it should be used per minute
I watched the Original Cast recording a couple of days ago, I’m about to watch the movie:D
I always get thrown off when people put a willow tree deliberately without putting it near a decent amount of water. A brook, a swamp, a lake. WILLOWS NEED WATER…. which now that I think about it could be a way of telling just ow many tears Cinderella’s cried there… Damn she has good aim and hasn’t died of dehydration yet. I’m impressed.
I can gets behind the “actor who sings” sentiment, but only to a degree. I’ll use The Last Unicorn as an example because that is a movie kind of notorious for ts bad singing, where it really bothers me in one singer, but not the other: When Prince Lir sings “That’s All I Got to Say” his voice is creaky and too soft, like he knows how bad he sings and is insecure about that. Which jams well with the theme of the song which is struggling to express your emotions and feeling inedequate as lover as a result. Similarly to how the “nice Cinderella, good Cinderalla” lyric you cited is sung during a time when Cinderella is stressed out uncertain about her identiy, which is why her “stressed out” imperfect singing fits. When Lady Amalthea sings “Now That I’m a Woman” on the other hand her voice is also creaky and too soft, which in my opinion does not suit the song at all. The unicorn has a soft, graceful voice, Amalthea’s is more unpolished and trembling, so on the surface it fits well, but the song is about Amalthea reminscing about her time as a unicorn and expressing her feelings about being human, which are complex: On the one side being human is apalling to her, on the other side she explores new feelings like pain and love which are fascinating to her. The song is about those two identities intermingling. But I hear nothing of her graceful unicorn voice in it. Just Amalthea. In this case autotune (which of course didn’t exist back then) or a voice double could have actually strengthened the narrative. A good actor cannot compensate for theor lack of singing ability in all cases-
I didn’t think the movie was bad, just under-whelming. Less impact, less emotion, less humor, less darkness, fewer songs, etc. It didn’t bring anything to the table, just like most of the Disney remakes these days. The filter also irks me because it’s the same oversaturated one they’ve used in movies like Maleficent, etc.
One of the things that annoyed me the most was that the prince and the wolf were not the same actor; it removes what has to be said about the prince character and was a way to have a stupid Johnny Depp cameo for three minutes, ugh.
I agree with what you said about the theater medium: the Midnight songs work much better on stage because all the characters are entering and exiting and crossing path among the forest set. Which you cannot do in a movie because you’d have to believe everybody’s in the same spot and walking back and forth.
I feel movie musicals work extra hard to have the music sounding crisp, aesthetic, and sharp because their demographic is no longer mostly focused on thespians and theatre lovers. When a movie musical song starts playing in a mall, for example, most of the people probably have no clue about the context of the song. It is a tiny shame, but it makes sense as most of these films spend so much! Gotta sell those CDs to a greater demographic than just theatre fans.
The thing that still drives me insane is that the baker is the narrator he mentioned that he and rapunzel are brother and sister however how could he as the narrator know that when they never shared any screen time…if it was in a deleted scene I would’ve been ok but I’m still stumped on this one
It was a very good film. LBJ did some great things with the war on poverty and civil rights, but he will always be marred by Vietnam.
I grew up watching the rick moranis in little shop of horrors movie and I didn’t know about the ending change in the musical. I’m just surprised.
Luckily Into the Woods (the Stage version) is still on YouTube for those who wish for the experience.
I liked this much more than Selma. I felt as if it gave equal prevalence to the actions of MLK and LBJ. Probably my favorite HBO movie to date.
What’s the name of the movie Chris recommended in the video, I couldn’t hear that properly.
the I vs you choice may have been beacuse of the change of medium… the second person feels more natual for stage then screen…
Great essay!
I hated the INTO THE WOODS movie, because it was bowdlerized. That’s a deal-breaker for me.
Thank you for such a thoughtful commentary. I have so much love for the stage production that I almost didn’t see the film.
Such a heartfelt review! Jeremy got me crying. Gonna play 1:15 1:29 and 1:56 – 2:23 for a lot of people who need to hear it.
I thought it would be a sad movie but it wasn’t really sad to me. I didn’t care that the dad died because he made the guy take all his clothes off. And the boy was good at the end. It was a ok movie. It wasn’t significant to me.
I wish they would write a short story synapsis into the video description, so I know whether I’m interested in the movie before clicking on the video. I don’t give a shit who is in it or who made it.
Gavin McInnes recently mentioned it as a typical American thing in one of his videos, that Americans for some reason always know the names of actors and directors and screen writers and all that and how weird that is from a Non-American perspective. I never noticed that before, but it is true.
“I Wish……….” I guess the moral of Into The Woods is Be Careful What You Wish For and how you fulfill it as well as Getting your way doesn’t always end Happily Ever After. Also I was glad that Disney did not shy away from the darker roots of Fairytales to make this movie. I mean that we all should not scare children, but I think that “Fairytales” were almost sometimes “Cautionary Tales” To teach a moral.
A.)Little Red Riding Hood=Do not talk to or give out personal information to strangers.
B.)Jack and The Beanstalk=Eh? (Insert Moral Here.)
C.)Rapunzel=Do Not Steal, or Lie to your parents.
D.)Cinderella=(Step Family.) Do Not treat Family Members Shamefully.
Thats All I Can Think about. For Into The Woods’s Tales That is.
I liked it! Great job! We are always selling ourselves and our ideas to others so it’s a good idea to learn to become better at influence sales and persuasion. As long as we apply the strategies ethically, of course!
that rating at the end:) though it would be hilarious to give it “it’s ok if You are drunk”:D
The Way Back, HA more like ‘Don’t Bring This Bruce Wayne Back’!
totally on the same wavelength I love these kinds of movies I’m glad it is up to par
I was preparing myself for a review where you rip the movie to shreds and I was pleasantly relieved! Your critique was insightful and you pointed out very interesting aspects of the film that had to be unique for the adaption to screen.
I hold Into The Woods very close to my heart as well. I have been in love with it since i was a kid, (pretty much wore out the VHS of the Org. Bway Cast) and know every lyric! I saw the revival in NY and it was great to see it LIVE, but the original Broadway Cast is just Everything that is wonderful and amazing about this show! As a lover of the show and of Sondheim I’m gonna likely enjoy any iteration of Into The Woods.
Was sad that No More and the Agony (Reprise) were cut. =(
The scene where McNamara an ivy league little pipsqueak, is shown pressuring 6-2 Texan into responding to the Tonkin Gulf incident always pissed me off. Yea other way around
I actually LOVE the fact that they made Jack come up with the idea to feed the cow the hair of the corn! In the Prologue, every character wishes for something, and all of those wishes get granted… except for Jack’s mother. She says: “I wish my son were not a fool. I wish my house was not a mess. I wish the cow were full of milk, I wish the walls were full of gold, I wish a lot of things!” Now she DOES get rich, which I’d say “I wish the walls were full of gold” stands for. I’m just assuming that she also gets enough money to fix up her house, and the cow sure does give milk in the end. That leaves us one wish left: “I wish my son were not a fool”. And this is where the changed line comes in. By suggesting the hair of the corn, Jack proves to have gotten pretty smart and good at inventive, out of the box thinking throughout the story. This character development is also portrayed insanely well by Daniel Huttlestone. So eventually, also all of the mother’s wishes are granted, even if that’s not as clearly as the wishes of the other characters.
there are lots of{anecdotal} stories [unproovable,however] about LBJ and his huge schlong. Tradition says that he would expose himself to others[men-only,however} in order to make a point about POWER. There are NO actual visual documentation of these periodic epiphanies however…..BUT…tradition says that both LBJ and Frank Sinatra had their tailors make one leg wider {on their pants} than the other,in order to accomadate their metaphorical {yet actual nevertheless} manhoodness or is it manhoodism…i dunno.
1:26 Maybe like Bruce Wayne…. by becoming.. Batman?
“In the dream they took me to the light”
Excited for TheWayBack.
I liked how nature died with man/civilization. In a lot of post apocalyptic films, it’s painted as “nature fighting back”, but in here, whatever caused the apocalypse(likely an asteroid) just did away with both man and nature, reducing them to nothing but dry, lifeless shells of their former selves.
Also I have always thought “Its the witch from next door!” is a super funny line.:) just ridiculous! lol
I loveyour work but since I started donating, paying I can only have 2per genre, love your work you didn’t makethecut
“.. how many more doors…” Jeremy, there is only One Mordor!!
Jeremy looks like he got his face licked by a cartoon Llama.
So many wrong things in this movie, you do not know who is dumber Father or Son…
as a grown ass woman seeing this movie fucked with me mentally for a looonngg time ☹️
Personally I feel like The Wolf was made to be too much like Cheshire from Alice in the facial expressions and Jonny Depp’s costume, not to mention the whole show seemed to be on half speed it missed the mark on Sondheim typical speed. As someone who has worked the show before I feel like the Baker’s Wife lacked the level of cunning and sass that most versions I’ve seen of her, she seemed more neutral. Also I miss the humor elements in having milky white as either a person or a statue. I miss the cut songs and characters/deaths as well but some transitions were better due to having it as a movie rather than theatrical, the whole movie seemed a tad more serious but I was glad to see more development in The Witch and Rapunzel’s relationship
I’ve watched this movie and countless others with the same bleak scenarios. Still can’t decide if it’s worth it to carry on after the end of civilization or bite the bullet. I know mankind will decend into savage chaos very quickly and nothing or no one will be safe.
Thank you that was great. I saw the movie and loved it. I never had the opportunity to see it on stage but after seeing your video I if I do get the chance I will go.
How do you use clips from films like this and get around copyright?
As a Movie musical star, Meryl Streep will never be more than a brilliant actress. Disney has a long history of casting actors who can not sing as well as it would be required in a musical…Angela Lansbury an icon of Disney and other singing roles Streep is NOT a singer…and, while you may think her “Children Will Listen” was great, its value is in the emotion she (an actress) imparted rather than in the voice. Admittedly I went to SEE a movie but I am now expected to LISTEN to the soundtrack… The soundtrack does NOT enhance the watching experience…
Disney could have done so much better and the removal of the narrator/father along with the removal of the second duet between the Princes is for me unforgivable because it is this reprise of eh Prince’s song that completes the arch of the story of the relationships and allows for the moral be careful what you say there are consequences to what you say to be felt as well as heard.
I recently watched a Canadian movie called The Grizzlies about a Inuit lacrosse team in the arctic circle. It was a really great take on that kind of sports movie and the “white savior” narrative. I strongly recommend it.
I don’t know, I feel saying that “This movie is a good time, no alcohol required” actually supports the message of the movie. But I get what you are saying and respect your decision of omitting that part of the rating.
I like to think the reason the witch is telling them at that point is because I think that the witches mother, maybe a powerful witch, could see into the future and she told the witch that if she lost the beans, she could only get her beauty back is on those three days and those days only. Think about it, Cinderella, jack, and little red go into the woods at the same day and get there wish at the same time, it’s a very coincidental thing.
Couldnt agree more about All The Way. Best recent historical movie out there.
It’s a bleak ending as it seems to be still all for nothing? The son survived yes but for what? He surely would just run out of food and die at some point too since the world is dead and impossible to live in. I would love to read a road part 2 though where it explained what happened to the boy even if he died the world in the book was just so interesting.
I have to say, i watched All the way and i prefer it over the movie Selma. Yes i seen Selma, wasn’t impressed at all. Thanks for covering this. Great vid. ����
Near the end when they find the beetle then see a bird just before he was shot with the arrow shows there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The earth may rejuvenate itself but it may be too late for humanity. Maybe?
This movie sucked, you dont dive into him or any of the kids, and then at the end he is painted as bastard instead of his wife, who abandoned him when he needed her most. No one see this
Amistad, Gangs of New York or Rapa Nui.
And I wonder if you might have seen the Russian movie “The 9th Company”? Great foreign movie showing the Russians in Afghanistan. Wiki says it’s loosely based on a battle in ’88 during the Russian military operation “Magistral”. According to the article, the biggest historical inaccuracy is they show the Russian company being decimated in the attack, when in reality, the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment of 39 men stopped three attacks from about 200-250 mujahideen and lost 6 men with 28 wounded.
But I’m much more interested in just what your thoughts and observations would be about it. I discovered you because of the recommendation from the guy at History Buffs. I’m glad he did. You have a lot of great videos. Thank you
I think it is about The wish spell. A spell for which you Need this items, called The wish spell, is actually a thing in The fairy Tail world. The items you Need vary from time to Time. Sorry for my englisch. I am german so you may forgive me.
As both a theatre nerd and a film nerd I half agree with everything you said and half disagree. Film musicals are always going to be different and not exactly like the musical so nitpicking about changing lines a bit seems a bit unnecessary. That being said, despite all the changes they made I think this is one of the better movie musical cause the fantasy element works really well on screen and yes it works better as a musical but it’s also a Disney movie they were never going to go down the terrible sad road act 2 goes down
The book was written in 2006 adapted in 2009. There is no reason that McCarthy can’t make a sequel, and I don’t think it would have to lose any of its ambiguity. I really want to see what happens to the kid and what is really left of the world. It’s such a well-crafted environment, I just want more.
I loved the John Adams miniseries. Now I’ve got to see All The Way.
I definitely think you supported your thesis as to why certain things work better on stage.
I also love the line of the witch next door for its absurdity. Of course one must distribute finish between the witch down the street or on the next block.
Lastly, I think the switch from hazel to willow tree was a smart one for purely phonetic reasons. Why use a word at all if you don’t want it heard… and willow stands a better chance.
Did anyone hear the Harp playing You must meet my wife also from a little night music
Please do a review on The Jesus Rolls directed by and starring John Turturro. I’ve seen the trailer and it’s SO BAD. Also I’ve been hearing from others how terrible it is as well…
Have you read the book “Guns of the South?” I know it’s a alternate history book, but I still want you reviewing it.
You gotta see portrait of a lady on fire. Already one of the best movies of the decade
I didnt like it. The movie didnt show any other aspects than survival and it was constantly dark. I think the movie could have used some more moments with other feelings than sadness and dispair.
Maybe the most realistic. It doesn’t seem to do the constant dramatization for it’s own sake. The Walking Dead always felt like it was contriving the characters actions to either produce a shocking result, or somehow advance or stretch the plot. TWD was a feel good drama relative to The Road, which seemed to not only create a more plausible scenario, but illustrated a picture of human nature as has been present throughout the violent majority of history. I really shouldn’t expect more from mankind based on it’s behavior historically. It was touching and poignient in the most difficult way, and took me a very long time to stop thinking about constantly and compulsively for many days.
The Basement scene in the
cannibals’ house is something that will live with you for a very long time.
This postapocaliptic movie is far more scarier than any other, with no any zompies and monsters
I watched the original Into The Woods recently after watching the film before hand (and liking it but being a little confused by the ending) and I agree with everything you just said. I love the film and the casting and the filmography but I felt that the stage version portrayed the overarching theme and message way better and that it works better on stage where you can kill everyone off, including the narrator, making the finale hit much harder. Loved the vid:)
Looking forward to see the movie, it looks really intense. I liked your review but can I just say…..if we take up a collection will it help you get a haircut? Because damn man, another 3″ on top and you’re going to be like the Flinstones car at the drive in tipping over from the ribs. I’m worried about you…..
I’m just so tired of movies about addicts/alcoholics. Get your shit together on someone else’s time, loser! I want movies about people who are using their time and energy for good stuff.
Loved Hoosiers! This film…not so much but I was expecting the usual Hollywood ending and it never happened. I might have to rewatch this because of some people talking throughout the showing. I should have told them to shut the fuck up but I restrained myself. Who really talks throughout a movie?! Geez! Another sports film I love is the 1976 version of The Bad News Bears starring Walter Matthau.
LBJ was a vile miscreant aside from being one of America’s worst Presidents! Forcing through failed big Government welfare programs while killing millions of Asian people half a World away in a pointless war. The man was an immoral,alcoholic skirt chasing murderer who’s only achievement was making people dependent on Government….
I need very.. very long breaks between viewings
“I’m scared. You’re not the one who has to worry about everything”
“Yes I AM, I AM the one” that moment “Man” realizes he will not be around forever, and “Boy” will outlive him, and be alone. to worry about everything… ‘Man’ lets his guard down just a little bit, and actually listens to ‘Boy’
this movies so S-Rank hard…. love it, hate it at the same time..
Were those earthquakes or just trees falling due to being dead?
Planet earth just started to die. We don’t when or how. What we know is mankind becomes extinct.
It all meant the movie didnt do well so they wont make another movie like this with that studio. Badass masterpiece.
if i may suggest a historic biopic to review, maybe ypu could do “the danish girl”. I find it an interesting movie especally seeing its a bio pic pre-WWII, but if it is not exactly very researchable, or atleast not so much without partisan bickering.
I worked security when they filmed on location in Oregon and Washington.
Almost finished the book. I’ll be posting a review at http://www.thanktheuniverse.org
So its Might Ducks, but with basketball… I dig it. I love Mighty Ducks. Thanks Matt, I’m definitely going to watch it.
Want a much better and different coach movie? Friday Night Lights with Billy Bob Thornton
Like the movie “On the beach” 1959 and a later version, everyone died from fallout.
His english is british or american? Can someone please tell me
WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO RIGHT NOW, WHO IS IT YOU THINK YOU SEE? A BLACK MAN HAS HIS VOTING RIGHT TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM AND YOU THINK THAT WAS ME, OH NO! I AM THE ONE WHO PASSES CIVIL RIGHTS!
A historically accurate film? Of course I’ve never heard of it.
Check out “Path To War” starring Michael Gambon as LBJ..every similar to this though a little broader in scope….with its focus more on the Vietnam side of LBJ’s admin with only touches on the domestic side..the two movies actually compliment each other as more whole narrative if watched back to back imo
Ben did a great job, this movie was not put together well, I was hoping for this movie to make me feel a certain way and didn’t and at no point I never got choked up, I completely disagree I didnt think this was a sport inspection movie, I was hoping for much more, and per usual I disagree this movie was a D+
“We’ll stand up and cheer”, I see what you did there, Chris 😉
First, I am subscribing mainly because you are a YouTube man-crush. Secondly, love your videos. Thirdly, don’t know if it has been mentioned before (I haven’t read very far in the comments), but I think the main reason Rapunzel wasn’t killed in the movie is because in 2010, Rapunzel became a Disney princess in TANGLED. They couldn’t very well kill off one of their princesses four years later. Little girls the world over would be crying!
There was an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. It was distorted and exaggerated, but it was not a lie.
This movie is scary af because the protagonist way of escaping the hell where they are right now is by pulling the trigger
Beautiful movie.. how can that be? The gritty realism set against the strength of the human spirit n humanity, itself.
I wish there was a heart reaction on YouTube for this. I agree 100%. ITW is good as a movie but belongs on the stage!:)
i thought the movie was good but i didnt think it was 135 minutes good
Another good LBJ movie that was also an HBO production is “Path to War”. It chronicles LBJ and Robert McNamara’s decisions and actions that expanded the Vietnam War. It was John Frankenheimer’s last film. Michael Gambon is great as LBJ and Alec Baldin is terrific as McNamara. I’d love to see you do an episode on that. Like how Vietnam is only mentioned in passing since this movie is about the Civil Rights Bill, in “Path to War” the Civil Rights Bill only gets one brief scene with LBJ and MLK in the Oval Office and focuses more on Vietnam. Put these two movies together in chronological order of scenes and I think you’d get one really great movie about LBJ’s presidency.
I know I’m most likely too late for you to see this but seeing as you speak of HBOs historical accuracy in its film and mini-series department have you seen what i think is HBOs best miniseries (not just historical but in general including things like Chernobyl and Band of Brothers) Generation Kill? Given your service background I’m curious what you think as from what I’ve heard from other servicemen its a more accurate representation of the service and of servicemen than the highly praised Jarhead (which to be clear i loved) and far far more accurate than the standard fare of things like American Sniper
I’m guessing they changed hazel tree to willow tree because willow trees look cool on film and they could get a real dope ass willow tree
I saw an off broadway production of into the woods that was super fun and meta with my dad (cuz the actors talked to the audience and stuff like that) the next day I saw the movie with my dad and we shit on the movie so bad.
Please, do “First They Killed my Father” by Angelina jolie. I really want to see your review on it:)
I think Ben Affleck was decent in this movie because of his own past with alcohol. Those that have been through it especially when they reach celebrity status… It somewhat shows in this film. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of our top actors are alcoholics with alcohol and drugs being so easily accessible to them.
I honestly do think Ben A can relate to part of this film in many ways and I think it shows. ��
You are the ONLY channel I come to for movie reviews. Hell, I was going to start doing my own as a movie channel on here.
Good work as usual.
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Chris I would like to see your review on Gridiron Gang starring Dwyane Johnson.
ben is full of shit. “There is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism”-MLK
i dont know if you take requests by viewrs but id love to see you do NordWand a German film about the failed 1936 climb of the north face of the Eiger and i know there are added sub plots that are as far as im aware untrue so i think youd find it intresting
Let’s just all say this together
It’s better than any production of into the woods Jr. All of them
The book is great. I just finished it and suggest that any fan of the movie to check it out
This movie reminded me a lot on that rocky balboa quote in rocky 5 idk why but it does
Belfort’s Straight Line System is one of my favorite persuasion and sales training. I think everyone can benefit from goal-oriented communication, even if they don’t do professional sales for a living (I for sure don’t). Let me know what you think about Jordan Belfort and his persuasion tactics in the comments below!
Does anyone else watch his reviews even if you don’t have any interest in the movie he’s reviewing? Lol
Bernie should watch this
and the Bernie fans… whatever.. they won’t and I’ll get trolled
The bond between father and son in this is a rawness you never see in today’s society. A fighting love, a dangerous love. It’s utterly captivating to think that men might not be the fathers they could be without being faced with circumstances such as these. The situation itself created a stronger relationship.
I didn’t have to listen to you to know this is a great movie….I knew it when i saw the first five minutes.. Bryan Cranston has embraced LBJ and given him back to us, to someone who was raised in the south during the Vietnam War… I tell you… it was very crazy and thought provoking, it was as if LBJ was alive again… God Forbid! LBJ was one American President who understood power and very cruelly… “in your face”… He took over after the death of JFK; in your face!!! He championed the great society; in your face!!! He put us in to Vietnam when JFK was trying to get us out of Nam; in your face!!! He tried to bring America together and America tore itself apart; in your face!!! America got used to Jackie and the lovely young kids, he gave us Lady Bird and the bird children; in your face!!!! He was relevant, at the helm, and he knew how to pilot a ship. What he didn’t realize, America was sold on JFK’s idea of a new America born in this century… Johnson was still in a post civil war America based on pandering and favors, and the bull whip… I love this movie… Gosh.. it sometimes scares the heck out of me!!! When I watch it… I go clear back to 1964 and it is the Democratic Convention all over again… I watched it every evening with my mom…. no air conditioning, just the sultry heat, and the Louisiana humidity making our dog drag that chain across the porch with a constant monotonous rattle. This movie moves my inner self. Wow!!! I want to relive it and am ashamed of it… They certainly did a good job on this one.
Saw this Yesterday. Afflecks Best performance ive ever seen
One thing I noticed was when the movie decided to switch Jack carrying around the golden egg instead of the hen. That’s okay but then during Your Fault in the movie, they still say “did you have to go get that hen”. Maybe a small mistake they didn’t catch? I just think it’s sorta funny!
Thanks for doing this review. I had never even heard of this movie, but I will definitely be watching it in the near future.
I appreciate it shows that it’s not a once and done problem but an ongoing journey. I believe Ben Affleck has gone to rehab multiple times over the years. It’s not a quick fix, and it requires constant vigilance. Good on them.
I’m just glad it wasn’t a good time… if you’re drunk. (“Now it’s a relapse!”)
Does the film touch on LBJ’s personal racism? Despite passing civil rights he was notoriously known for that
Affleck was very good in this movie..I liked the movie overall even though the sports movie cliche has been done to death..it’s a good movie though, id rather see it as a mini series though similar to Friday Night Lights..
I’m really really excited to see this I admire Ben for taking on this role knowing the struggles it’s a never ending struggle and hes been working his ass off to get better Warrior is a criminally underrated film and the accountant is fun so I cant wait
I’m really Glad that they didn’t kill rupunzel. With the Bakers wife dying after she cheated bringing that message, having rupunzel die after she gets pregnant is too much.
Whats the deal with Ben Affleck? I dont know his past or whatever i jst know him as an actor!He’s an amazing fking actor! Can someone
explain why he’s hated?
I was pretty disappointed with it, pretty overrated Cranston performance and really miscast MLK. Not a great movie
hello good sir, would you mind to review/analysis of Das Boot?? please??
Am I the only one who found it really funny how the happy background music started when he began talking about character deaths?��
such an important movie and christie couldn’t be more bored.
OSCAR, GG, and SAG…give it to him. Can’t wait for this. BOSTON rules and rocks again!
Yeahhh…. That family ends up eating the kid…. Just saying..
I admit I’m a sucker for this type of movie, but I really loved this one. I’ve been sober for years, and seeing that spiral hit so hard for me. I really hope it was a cathartic experience for Ben Affleck with how long he has struggled.
Jeremy needs a haircut, he looks like a rouge Chewbacca in a leather jacket btw love the reviews keep em coming
The movie makes me feel so fucking weird in a good fucked up way witch is fucked yo idk but the movie has a different vibe
Those poor, overpaid Hollywood actors. Always struggling with something.
A truly fantastic film, so underrated it is crazy..Vigo gives us a truly believeable insight into the end times.. 10/10..
That rating was, no joke, classy!
Stay Classy, for real, Jeremy!
For me ben Affleck performance was amazing but slow story that was boring. The movie had meaning but this could have been executed better.
Just finished watching the movie and really loved the unexpected way how the third act went. I’m not the biggest Affleck fan, but he did an amazing job. The reason to why he is the way that he is really tugs are your heart, I had some tears I my eyes. I give this movie A-
Yeah this movie was one of Ben’s best performances. Hoping more people see it.
I’m way late to the party here but I just watched this movie with my kids and I loves it. I’ve never seen the musical but I was surprised at the end when I found out the Baker was telling the story. Maybe I wasnt paying attention but I didnt recognize his voice the first play through. I’m glad they brought It to film and i decided to watch it or else i might have missed it on it all together
This was much better than I expected. Very realistic everytime guy gets his life on track some woman steps in to fck his life again. Divorce after his son passes away. Then she invites him to a birthday party where THAT kid later dies AFTER SHE invites him to hospital. Another the woman at the bar lands him unconscious in the hospital
I agree:-) totally impressed by this movie and I thought it was going to be just another dumb sports movie lol Loved the third act and there’s no way you could have guessed The conclusion ����
Coach Carter and Gridirom Gang is better. This movie was ok.
Jeremy how come you haven’t talked about the The Last Of Us HBO series announcement
I also find “the witch next door” line absolutely hilarious! Nobody else ever gets it!
Liberals often downplay the severe national security threat communism posed during the cold war, so I wasn’t surprised how Cranston downplayed Trumbo’s communist ties, while exaggerating the negative impact the dreaded blacklist had ruining exactly nobody’s livelihood or reputation in Hollywood, since Hollywood was inhabited by several left-leaning socialists anyway.
Hi, please do Munich movie by Steven Spielberg starring Eric Bana and Daniel Craig.
Movie was good I liked Ben really gave 1 of hes best performances it’s a different Ben we’re not use to seeing I can tell this movie and he’s acting was very personal to him witch made to movie better and last act threw me off but in a good way. I like the very realistic ending. This might be the most realistic baseball couch movie I’ve seen. It’s differently in my top 10 favorite baseball movies. But Above the RIm and Blue Chips and White man can’t Jump will always be my favorite basketball movies
having never seen the stage production, i definitely enjoyed the movie but a lot of the time the characters didn’t seem fleshed out enough so their irrational decisions (ie leaving his baby bc he’s sad) seemed implausible and forced rather than a natural character action. I also hope that in other versions of the musical rapunzel isn’t such a horrible character. damn she was boring! At the start, when it’s revealed that she’s the baker’s estranged sister i really wanted them to meet at the end but then i realized that rapunzel was incapable of having an interesting interaction with another person so it would just be a waste of screen time
BTW “The witch from next door” is definitely hilarious. Period. I also find myself very much in tune with your observations; regardless it being a movie and an awesome one too the witch and the all in all emotional depth of the plot have lost some strengt compared to the play. That being said,it’s a beautiful movie!!
Lyndon Johnson is one of the most misunderstood presidents in American history.
U think it’s like coach carter? Haven’t seen it yet debating on purchasing it.
I really liked this movie as a dad really could relate and I enjoy Affleck
It will barely make its budget back….
Maybe. Poor Hollywood is in a tailspin
“I ain’t goin’ nowheres”
That’s such a genius scene, on the base level he’s replying to a command and offering resistance, but deeper down it’s a comment on his future. That cannibal knows his fate and accepts it, because he really ain’t goin’ nowheres. No one is.
I do not agree with Benjamin’s comparison of Martin King to Hillary Clinton, who is neolib/neocon war-mongering/regime change maniac that never truly cared about social justice (let alone economic justice). It is not that she is “pragmatist”, she is by her nature a Republican from the racist era of 1970s (as she actually was).
The Tonkin Gulf thing is bull. It makes McNamara out to be the hawk pushing LBJ into action. No it’s the other way around, the tiny Ivy League guy was being pushed around by the 6ft4 Texan.
I agree 100%! This was much more then your generic feel good movie. I gave it a “”Shaka Thumbs Up” in my review! ����
This book is on so many different levels, but what I took away and what stands out for me is that about Fatherhood.
Ben Affleck needs to win an Oscar for this movie. He used to be an alcoholic and now he plays an alcoholic on the big screen
“Ohoho they died, that’s hilarious!”
…. Suddenly Seymore T^T…
The change from hazel tree to willow tree is just a little something that’s there because a weeping willow looks better on screen and suits the style of the artwork better than a hazel tree. A weeping willow is also the tree of grief, something very fitting for a tree on a grave.
Speaking of this era and a lot of these people, are you going to cover Thirteen Days?
Ngl, hate so many critics cuz they aren’t the mouth of normal people but I always watch yours
After watching road warrior mad Max the book of Eli a quiet place the postman world war z I am legend and apocalyptic. Videogames I really believe that we as a world are headed for some Kind of disaster be it natural or manmade because all this we take for granted can’t last won’t last for long not until we get smart and do something real about it or were all gonna die like the movies and games.
I feel like no matter how hard this film tries to sugar-coat LBJ’s mediocre, at best, presidency… Lee Daniel’s The Butler will have already done it far better.
Having said that, I’m always down for Frank Langella.
Since you reviewed All The Way on HBO, did you happen to watch The Putin Interviews on Showtime by your favorite director Oliver Stone? I had moments where I thought my head was going to explode, even though I tried to be open-minded…some of the things Putin says and Stone agrees with…well I’m sure you can imagine that anyone with brain cells would be offended. I know its pretty much current events, but they talked about recent Russian/US relations and I though you might enjoy it.
Keep up the great work. I really enjoyed All The Way and I’m glad to see that you gave it a review. Thanks!
ben seems chill here.. maybe he shoudld stick to the fantasy world
I agree with TheMadKiwi on the baker as the narrator! I think it works really well.
You’re being WAY too nice. The movie was shit and you know it.
In the musical, curing the spell(s) is still on a 3 moon time limit. Even knowing that much in the musical begs the same question of why they couldn’t have been looking for these things at any point before now.
A movie suggestion I haven’t seen you review which I think you might enjoy called “I’ll take your dead” it’s good well worth a viewing.
A well acted made directed shot movie but morally doesnt work in my opinion because it shows LBJ in a way too friendly light for what have have atuhorized in the vietnam war.
He will always be my Batman. now excuse me why I go watch the warehouse scene
Ben Affleck will always be my favorite Batman. He had the height, the build, he had the best batsuits, andhis voice was awesome. He also literally looked like Bruce Wayne from the comics. and the warehouse scene is the best Batman fight scene ever