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@@soaringscott5635couldn't you say the same for any movie though?🤣 I guess I see what you mean, except he definitely does exist, he's Kevin Spacey. Maybe the stories about him from before the events of the movie are exaggerated, or complete BS, but he definitely does exist, within the narrative of the movie at least.
I said to My Mom at the time, "I bet he's (Edward Hermann) is a vampire too"...he asked the man of the house for permission to enter the premises...a requirement according to vampire lore...she said I was wrong... Surprise 😊
The Ra's al Ghul reveal was not as much of a surprise as WhatCulture makes it out to be. I can't imagine anyone seriously believed that we wouldn't see Henri Ducard (sp?) again. And Crane had explicitly said at one point that he was working for someone else, iirc. I think they only included it here because of the popularity and meme-worthiness of Nolan's Batman trilogy. Especially by including it at #10 so it could go first.
I'm not the biggest fan of cabin in the woods but the premise of making the horror genre as a whole the story isn't a bad idea. The director(filmmaker) uses monsters(slasher icons like myers, Jason, etc) to kill teens to satisfy the needs of elderly gods(the fans) so that the world(the horror genre) doesn't get destroyed(forgotten) .
Yea I feel ya, it's an unpopular opinion bc it was so well received, and it did have a cool concept, I just didn't think it was executed that well. Kinda dull.
I have to disagree with Friday The 13th. Nobody thought that Jason was the killer when it first came out. Some people think that NOW, because Jason has become the face of the franchise. But on its initial release, there were no intentions of there being any sequels. It was supposed to be a self contained horror flick. When the movie was first released, it WAS a surprise that Mrs. Voorhees was the killer. But not for the reasons mentioned here. The stunt double that they used to sit in for the killer for most of the kills was a man, and wearing men's clothing, purposefully leading the audience to believe that the killer was a man. So when it was revealed in the final act that Mrs. Voorhees was the killer, it was a surprise. However, Jason was never even mentioned by name until Pamela's monologue near the end. The only other time he was mentioned at all was when Enos the Truck Driver said "Did Steve tell you about the two kids murdered in '58? The boy drowning in '57? A bunch of fires? Nobody knows who did any of it! They were going to open up again in '62 . . . The water was bad! Jinxed!" No mention of the kid drowning in '57 being named Jason.
No one even hints at Jason being the killer in F13. His only mention prior to the final act is “a boy who drowned” in a list of catastrophes that hit the camp.
It was on CNN for days after it happened. I don’t remember if CNN had regional news stations back then, but I remember sitting in my grandmothers living room in Georgia where WCW literally was born, and they aired the entire match + promo on repeat.
#10 wasn't really a surprise if you used meta knowledge. Knowing Hollywood, having Liam Neeson play 2nd fiddle in the organization, was too transparent. I would have been more surprised if he was 2nd fiddle. The hidden villain compared to Cillian Murphy's scarecrow, yes, 2nd fiddle to League of Shadows, no.
I'm astonished you didn't include Jimmy Bond from the 1967 version of Casino Royale. Orson Welles' smooth, sophisticated Le Chiffre was set up as the perfect front man, only for nerdy Woody Allen later to take credit as the overall mastermind. Audiences were left flabbergasted. I'm kidding.
@@visualglitch91 that's an interesting idea actually. Though it leads to a poor user experience I realized I actually watch less what culture as it makes it appear poorly made and is jarring when your watching multiple things
Not bad. I like TWINE, also. I'm just not sure how to make a case for it as any kind of all-time cinematic classic. About Elektra in particular? She's a cool villainess. Her character development just seems a little superficial and by-the-numbers. To the extent that it works, it works because she's unassuming. The casual viewer is likely to see her merely as a supporting character; a wronged heiress who has recovered from her ordeal, not a suspect in a collusion case. The problem with the reveal, I hazard, is that it breaks the show-don't-tell rule. Bond shares his clever deduction verbally; that she fell for the edgy anarchist and is now in cahoots with him. Does the movie show this in any kind of depth, though?
The part about Memento is wrong for several reasons. One: it was never his fault his wife died. She firmly believed he has enough traces of memory left that would make him realize he already administered the insulin to her a few minutes earlier. So she kept asking him to administer the medicine, until she died. It was 100% her fault as she should've switched the insulin with placebo for the sake of the experiment, or stop after the second dose made it clear, he can't remember this one either. Once again, she wasn't unconscious, when he overdosed her, she repeatedly kept asking him to administer her the medicine. Two: Joe Pantoliano wasn't his wife's murderer, but he wasn't innocent either. He kept sending him after people to murder while he knew it well the original attacker died long ago. Not only Pantoliano didn't help him (he could've tattooed "your wife's murderer is dead" on him for example) but he actively used him as his personal hitman to kill criminals he wanted dead.
The Dark Knight Rises should be included. Bane is considered the villain throughout the film and is even hinted as the child of Ras al Ghul. Only at the end is the real child identified and its not Bane.
The summary of Memento is impeccable except in that one or two highly indeterminate points are presented as fact. We rely solely on John "Teddy" Gammel's testimony for certain specifics. Consider one of the commentary tracks on the special edition DVD. It was by Nolan himself if I'm not mistaken. He specifies that Teddy is lying. He specifies that Teddy isn't lying. He is silent on the matter of whether or not Teddy is lying. Yes, there are three different versions of the same commentary track. If you played it only once, you heard one of the three at random. Between an unreliable narrator, a deceptive witness, and an ambivalent director, how can we be sure what's really supposed to have happened prior to the events of the film?
I think the psychobabble at the end of Psycho is meant to be over-the-top and egregiously simple-minded. Because then we go back to Norman lost inside his mother, smiling deviously at the camera, and we realize that no one will ever truly understand a psychopath like Norman Bates.
I remember watching the trailer for "Memento" and thinking the husband killed his wife. The more complicated the story, the simpler the answer. I knew from watching the first episode of "Lost" that they had to be dead. I never watched another episode.
Been a What Culture subscriber for a while, but it is starting to feel like they are just constantly shuffling the same 150 movies into vaguely different lists, with a couple of exceptions. It feels like they start with the movies, then build the video, rather than starting with an interesting topic and building a list around it.
@@Mr_Movie_FanI hired the hypnotist to make you think you were the villain instead of that other villain, when in reality it was actually the other villain that was the real villain. Are you following this? Because I'm not.
Alexander Dunning In RED Who Was The Guy behind Frank Moses assassination attempt Karl Urban's William Cooper was just a Pawn also Vice President Stanton played by Nip Tuck's Jullian McMahon and the sequel RED 2 did the same thing again with Neil McDonough and Anthony Hopkin's Edward Bailey I love these films I swear I do too bad RED 3 will never be a thing best hope Is a fan film like Revenge Of The Mask
😂 oh, that's what actually happened! I thought she impregnated by someone? Throwing up is one the signs of pregnancy! But something did happen later! The true came out! My great inspiring message is out again! Have a great fabulous wonderful day.😀
The Saw movie was pretty lame. I called that one immediately. They even have a super dumb line trying way too hard to throw people off the scent by having one of the characters say, "Wow, I never saw a dead body before. They don't move." Cheap, hokey, transparent.
Congealing Henri DuCard and Ra's Al Ghul into the same character was genius in the same sense that W quoting scripture after 9/11 was. Anyone who doesn't understand why it simply never should have been done should please just TRUST that it never should have been done instead of blindly defending the choice. Breaking rules can be brilliant. Failure to understand a rule (in this case a rule against shrinking fictional realities) creates problems. Anyone interested in a thread about the issue, though? The case for or against? Ready when you are. 😎
Fight Club….. THREE Personalities. Marla Singer (introduced almost identically to Pitt’s character) is another Alter of “Jack”/Tyler. 🤓🤓 I always annoys me no-one ever seems to mention that. 🙄🙄🙄
"Raish" came into vogue with Batman: The Animated Series. Why did they pronounce it that way there? I don't know, probably just an arbitrary affectation. But yes, its supposed to be Arabic for Head of the Demon, and it would be properly pronounced "Rahz", not " Raish".
Hitchcock was the real villain as he doomed all severely mentally ill people to being considered to be like Norman Bates because of that gosh darn it title which unlike everyone else I won’t repeat as I find it personally painful to say or write - From a medicated Schizophrenic who has been relatively stable for the last 23 years 9 months but I still need to take daily medication probably for the rest of my life. And the Hitchcock film endlessly getting referenced in pop culture does a lot of harm on many levels so to me Hitchcock is the villain of that particular film. It would be like if there was a film called “” which was endlessly referenced in pop culture.
@@johngault22"troll" is just a way to dismiss people who have opinions you don't like. It's the same tactic cults use to manipulate and control their flock. Teach people to value the source more than the content, that way they only hear cult approved sources.
