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School of Rock's ending was realistic in that there was no way that a band comprised of children who had been together for about three weeks would win against a professional band. No Vacancy were happy to let the kids have the spotlight, and were even impressed by them.
I've always thought that the best bit of In the Mouth of Madness was the final scene: a brilliantly cathartic and haunting image of Trent wandering into a cinema to watch the film adaptation, only to find himself as the main character. Weird you didn't mention it.
The original Rocky is absolutely marvelous. My mom made me watch it when I was a kid, and she hates all the macho BS movies from that era. It's just a magnificent story beautifully told. The boxing is just context.
I honestly don't give a f*** how much s*** y'all might talk about Ewan. I really genuinely LOVE how passionate this dood is when he talks about films and comics. It's refreshing. Thanks guy; seriously. 🙏🏼 I have a feeling you've had a hand in getting the last few film "critique" videos green-lighted, and they're genuinely the best content you guys have put out in awhile.
@@CashelOConnolly I know, I know.. 😅 I use "dood" when I'm, "less serious"(?) I suppose. I know it's kinda dumb, but "dude" just seems a little more.. 'substantial' than "Dood." Maybe it's just a Buffalo/Rochester thing, or maybe I'm just tripping. But to me, 'dood' is almost like a nickname, whereas "dude" is just a more general term. I'm probably just being extra though.
I would add a minor correction in that Bond does visit his wife’s grave in (I think) For your Eyes Only just before killing Blofeld in a very anticlimactic and unsatisfying opening. Great list!
In the Big Bang Theory one of the characters point out that that Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark didn't matter what he did. He failed to stop the Nazi and they all died. which would have happened if he did nothing. Then at the end he still looses the Ark.
Does that count as losing though? I mean, the Nazis didn't get it. I feel like that's the point in Indy movies-- Big Goal is have Nazis lose; Second Goal is put McGuffin in a museum. Third Goal is avoid snakes. Usually he only achieves the first 😆
The Bond series would later revisit Theresa (Tracy) Bond's death in the Roger Moore era, with him visiting her grave before encountering and dispatching an (unnamed) Blofeld in a wheelchair.
The original Bad News Bears!!! Coach Buttermaker and his misfit kids fight their way to the championship, which they lose by seconds. But it doesn't matter because they learn teamwork, self-esteem and sportsmanship...while the winning team's victory is notably hollow and their coach's wife is probably going to haul his butt into divorce court!
I thought for sure Bring It On would be on this list. Though arguably, them not winning actually was important. It was basically an 80s teen movie told from the villain standpoint. Also, I saw Rocky in the theater when I was a kid and it was one of the most formative moments in my life. The lesson that there's WINNING and then there's winning and the second one can be just as important if not more important has helped me filter out a lot of bullshit. Read the script a few years ago and it's just as good as the movie.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Throughout the movie, Indy tries to stop the Nazis from getting the Ark, but in the end, he fails & is captured. The Nazis get the Ark, perform their ceremony, & are killed by God. Despite everything, Indy is essentially inconsequential to the outcome of this story.
Actually,you're wrong. You're assuming that German high command would forget about a potential war winning weapon after 1 failure and that no German expert could work out the secret like Indiana did. The only reason the allies kept the ark out of Hitler's hands is because indy was there to remove it before the Germans got there to see what had happened. So he was essential to the ending.
Good video, but wrong about the Oakland A's. If you don't win the last game of the season ( the championship ), it just doesn't matter. As a die A's fan in my 50' s who attended all of those home games, it was still a fun ride.
0:45 Thank you What Culture for the shout out to Treasure of the Sierra Madre! It is referenced in our pop culture many times, but I rarely hear the film itself talked about. Fred C. Dobbs is my favorite Bogart character. Who could forget him asking Bugs Bunny if he could spare a nickel for a fellow American who's down on his luck, and how many times have we seen spoofs on, "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!!"? Even The Simpsons parodied the film when Bart and his buddies all chip in on a comic book. The film itself is still an incredibly easy watch with great performances all around.
Gandalf won in literally every measurable way. Won against the balrog. Escaped from Saruman's prison. And the carefully crafted plans he sets in motion over time all come to fruition with the destruction of the ring.
I know it’s a long shot, but imagine this list category being applied to TV episodes. One example is the Simpsons season 8 episode “The Twisted World of Marge Simpson” where the Investorettes pretty much defeat Marge and Homer by having the Yakuza try to take out the Springfield Mafia, preventing the latter from killing Marge and Homer for not paying them and allowing Marge and Homer to run inside since they pretty much put the scamp of sabotagery into Marge’s pretzel franchise and Marge won’t be able to screw with them anymore (even though Marge didn’t approve of the Springfield Mafia’s actions and Homer’s the one who hired them, being the idiot he is, and he even almost blew his and Marge’s chance to run inside. But Marge was ok with the Investorettes destroying the pretzel franchise and stopped competing with them , and the Investorettes must have been really happy about that and about ultimately getting a satisfying revenge on Marge.
Wrong about the Bond loss there... The ramifications of his wife's death are felt ongoing. It's why he is so off the wall in License to Kill for instance... It's the second time it was made personal, and he goes ape. She is also me filmed in other movies.
Gandalf doesn’t belong here. He’s not the hero, and his defeat by Saruman is more of a temporary setback. He wins in the end. Should have featured “Bring It On” instead. Otherwise, not bad.
School of Rock got it right. The school band while pretty good-ish, were well below the talent of the other bands. The judges make the right choice, no matter how the audience felt.
Kong and Gojira are the same size in the original Japanese old school version and King Kong wins because a primate brain can out think a medulla only brain. Then they remake it and Gojira is a hundred feet taller than King Kong and is able to beat him GTFOH with that bullshit.
