@@inigo137 Same way any other trans person feels dysphoric I guess? Which is to say it'll vary wildly from person to person and it's probably insensitive to ask unless you know them very well
lul Werewolves means Werwolf in German and the part Wer is some oldgerman for man as in male man ~(not "man≈human")~ Anyways But yeah ENBY RIGHTS💛🏳️💜🖤 *Edit: so a Werwolf is literally a Man-Wolf
Maniac Cop 4: After the city abolishes the police and it turns out that yes non-police solutions to crime work, an out of work policeman goes on a murderous rampage to try and prove the police are necessary.
This literally happens. Alt-right folks have tried to frame BLM and antifa with violence. The government literally sends agitators into protests. What you're describing is just reality.
The “mistaken identity” thing is mind blowing. Like, if it was the right person, would those actions have been lawful? Were they hunting someone with laser vision that can shoot 90 yards and so they would be risking their lives if they let him get any closer?
But we need qualified immunity, because we couldn't possibly have known that a future court would consider it illegal to kill someone with guns at an absurdly unsafe range while they posed no threat to us from a bicycle on a sunny tuesday? Sure, the court case from last year told us loud and clear that it's not okay to do it to a guy on a tricycle on a cloudy Friday, but that's completely different! The point of qualified immunity is to prevent a bevy of lawsuits every time the court establishes a new right or settles some confusing law. They didn't want everyone suing every police officer who ever asked anyone a question without reading Miranda rights before Miranda v Arizona was even decided. That's what it's supposed to be: preventing low stakes cases in recently decided new legal concepts, basically ex-post-facto protection for public officials. It wasn't used to justify killings until a Dubya appointee allowed it in 2003.
You do know a gun can kill somebody from farther than 90 yards right? I agree with you but 90 yards or 100 yards is arbitrary and can still lead to death.
Know it's been two years since this comment, but it's both Halloween Month and my first time seeing this comment, and I think you deserve to know that Lycansubscribe is one of the most clever puns I have ever heard. Thank you. I hope you have a good rest of your day!
I write a lot of werewolf fiction and have found that werewolves and other shapeshifters tend to serve as trans allegories, especially when it comes to the prejudice and mistreatment they face at the hands of society. I've seen too many cases where shapeshifters are vilified, because 'you can't trust someone who changes how they look.' I much prefer stories that explore themes of duality, and reconciliation of one's identity. My werewolves don't become monsters just because they look different, they're still human, and still the same people they've always been.
I often wonder if anyone could make a Maniac Cop reboot, that like, covers all the stuff we viewers of Thought Slime would want it to cover. Like, what would that movie look like, and could you really write a story that makes sense with a murderous supernatural cop be a stand-in for just actual cops? Would.... would it just be a movie where Matt Cordell runs around, being a Maniac, but literally no one notices, because it's indistinguishable from regular cop behavior?
@@Captstar2 Honestly, no. The last I heard was a post from Hyams in September of 2020 saying filming begins in 2021. Nothing since. But that doesn't necessary mean anything yet. The Castlevania animated series on Netflix was announced years before the first season began and there was little to no news on it until the first trailer dropped. Hopefully its the same situation with Maniac Cop. I honestly want to see it too since the gore and action scenes will probably be phenomenal since Hyams is working on it (Think the Candyman reboot mixed with The Raid: Redemption on steroids and you'll have an idea of what to hopefully expect). Of course that on top of a much more nuanced story and characters. :3
I'm sorry, this has nothing to do with anything, but I can never remember what "tfw" stands for, so I always read it as if someone had written "wtf" out of order. Tfw. The fuck what. Please, someone help.
Just, just an idea. If the law that officers are nominally in charge of enforcement over are too complicated for them to understand, maybe we can divide up their duties into multiple different services, so that the people performing those services can specialize, reducing the complexity they individually have to keep track of. This would mean that armed police officers would have fewer duties, and thus could fulfill their duties on a smaller budget. I just wish there was some catchy slogan I could brand idea this under, like ideally three words.
A cop arrested me while I was break-dancing to the slime rap at the end. He claimed the video was an act of arson, and that spitting fire was reckless.
Slime looks like if my brother and I were put into some kind of... brother combination machine. It's so weird watching him, but I push through 'cause he's the man.
I had the same decorations growing up, of the kitty cats with the pumpkin, and the jack-o-lantern with the straw hat. Just hit me with a whole lotta memories there, Thought Slime. Thank you.
I like watching you talk about interesting things while doing other things. I would literally watch you talk about the Puppet Master movies while you straightened up your desk.
I'm disappointed that a film series with such a cool-ass premise turned out to be so damn reactionary. Really, how the hell did Robocop turn out better?
The eighties...the dark ages when people would just throw anything on the screen without any sort of explicit messaging beyond “don’t you like violence, misogyny, and breasts”. Fuckin’ mouthbreather entertainment.
I wish people would stop making Voodoo, a real religion people have, the villain in these movies I wish people would stop using people with mental illness, a real thing that people can be, as the villain in these movies
I also wish they would quit making Satanists bad guys I know a few Satanist and they're all pretty damn cool people Plus it's a religion like any other
You know why they make Voodoo the villain because he has origins in West Africa and well you know the rest... plus when Europeans don't understand something they often times make it the villain.
OH FUCKYEAH, LIES OF THE LIGHTHOUSE!!! I just watched that the other day, its is a PHENOMENAL review of the themes in the movie. Acolytes of Horror is a wonderful channel as well.
Dudehuman. Your outlook, your shtick, your well polished natural charms (and your editorial panache with those charms). All of this is lovely. Happy Halloween.
After I watched the trilogy as part of my horror marathon last month, I looked for videos on the subject and barely found anything. So I'm glad that you made this, actually.
Really glad you covered these. I actually just watched all three of them on Shudder this past summer. I couldn't agree more with your analysis, including the way the messaging kind of changes from one movie to the next. Like in the first movie, Cordell is portrayed as a monster before he became Maniac Cop, and there's a scene where they interview a young Black man who mentions how he's not any more afraid than usual, because he's watched his friends get shot in the back by regular cops, so its all the same to him. And at first I was like, wow they're actually going to go there... But then not only does the first movie not commit to the ideas it hints at, the second and third take hard turns to the right. Really wild stuff. One of the things that struck me, that wasn't directly police related, was the portrayal of masculinity between Bruce Campbell's and Robert Davi's characters. Bruce Campbell's character is by no means a huge deviation from traditional masculinity, but Davi's character just oozed toxic masculinity. Especially comparing the way Campbell begs his wife to go to therapy and join him in marriage counseling, while Davi apparently told his partner therapy is for weaklings just before he committed suicide and he says he'd do it again. Wtf?!
To be fair, there *is* a parallel crime society made of people who will begrudgingly work together if it means they can commit more crimes. Rich people.
I want to say I cannot believe that the second movie has fucking MURDER COP buried WITH HONORS, but I can, because that’s just this is goddamn reality we live in. It’s a hellscape.
Jack Saint’s series of videos on cops in media is honestly a very good companion to this piece and expands on the media landscape Maniac Cop was in when it was made
I could picture a remake of Maniac Cop being made by... I dunno, Jordan Peele? I'd like to see a post-George Floyd take on the idea of a blatant serial killing cop.
Forgive me, as this may seem pedantic, but the prefix "were" means man; werewolf=wolfman. The female counterpart to were- is wif-, which is the etymological root for the word wife.
I'm 90% sure that comparing Bruce Campbell to literal mutant chin monster Robert Z'dar was a joke about Bruce's chin, but with these cheesy horror movies, you can never tell what's meant as a joke and what's just incredibly lazy/dumb writing.
THANK YOU for bringing back the fun eyeball zone intros recently. I've really missed them, and I love /seeing/ them again (haha). Say hi to Grumbletum for me!
I know this is a super basic statement at this point, but Bruce Campbell can get it. Thank you for also not knowing how to pronounce Reuters. Solidarity.
"And... nonbinary werewolves" SENPAI NOTICED ME also I know it's more syllables but you can just say 'submachine gun' instead of Uzi, you know, like saying 'truck' instead of 'Dodge Ram'.
Perhaps the most shocking thing in this video (besides the rap) is hearing someone else saying their favorite Star Wars movie is Return of the Jedi. I'm glad to see Thought Slime and Scaredy Cats do a collab though.
Holy shit of course you're a horror movie enthusiast and of course you've covered this film series. I have literally never looked forward to watching a video more than this one.
Easy one, the Maniac Cop. The Robocop sequels, if I remember correctly, have some anti-capitalist themes or messaging in them and the other cops in the films are not especially lionized or anything.
@@AmunDeus Yeah it's been a while since I watched but. Robocop does at a minimum show how cops are, even at their most angelic at the beck and call of capital. It's definitely copaganda but acknowledges poverty and holds the rich responsible for it.
I am in no way qualified to make this, but even I can see that it would be easy as fuck to remake these movies for 2020. Just have a "maniac cop" do all the killings for a couple of movies, and then reveal that all the "maniac cops" are just average cops on a bender/having a bad day/that are racist etc. I'd watch it 🙂
