BLISS (2021) - The Matrix if Everything About it Sucked 

I love it, 85% of the comments are about the "moustache", and not the movie itself. Which, when you actually stop and think about it, just further proves Elvis's theory that the film is nothing but a fever dream, that exists solely in his mind.

Elvis looks like he's training to become one of those strippers that dress like cops and come to people's houses for bachelorette parties

Bliss is like one of those movies that gets recapped by an Text-To-Speech voice on one of those RU-vid channels that recaps bad movies and makes them sound like good ideas

It's so funny to me how it's a major plot point that he "murdered" his boss by standing up so angrily he was somehow launched through the air, and then leaves him in a window

Came for the Matrix reference, stayed for the registered offender mustache...

this sounds like it should have been named "The Methtricks"

I interpreted it as him being on the verge of a breakdown before getting fired. Upon getting fired had a mental break. Turned to drugs to self medicate his metal illness. Then became homeless, and completely dependant on his illness and drug use. He then gradually began to see reality, because of the love for his daughter, causing him to seek help.

How did he murder his boss, seriously? He just go up, the dude threw himself back and hit his head. The flow of air made by his standing up killed the guy? Not a murderer.

I'll be honest, I don't think anyone's even heard or seen trailers of this film before watching this video

This script sounds like they wrote it using the firepit method. You know, when one person starts telling a story and then passes it to the next person at the firepit and it goes around until the booze and smoke is gone...

The plot sounds like it was written on crystals

The part where the MC starts injuring others without a care and slowly losing their morality because they know they're in a simulation and through the manipulation of another person could be a great movie premise. Like at first they could be reluctant but the other person convinces them that they're in simulation so they build up to worse and worse crimes all under the guise that "it's a simulation so it doesn't matter" but then there could be some twist where it really kills them irl or that they weren't in a simulation the whole time and that the person was just lying to them.

Elvis be giving off “do you know how fast you were going ma’am?” Vibe 🚓

That stupid conversation of "I want you to come" and "does she want me to come" with editting had me rolling for no good reason

This movie was actually a pretty close representation of what my brother went through and is still going through. he believed in this other world so much but the other world had so many 'plot holes' but when ur high it doesnt matter. he lived in that world for years and in some ways hes still there. He also believed drugs allowed him to travel through 'portals'

One part of the movie that shows its a simulated world or just Greg's mind on drugs is the scene starting at 8:38. When they stop walking, Isabel turns around to tell Greg "Let the witnesses do the talking" as a fire truck passes by them. At that moment, the camera switches back and if you look between the characters, at the red wall across the street next to the car, you'll see a woman with a bag, white shirt, blue pants and blonde hair walking pass the car when, out of no where, 2-3 more copies of the same exact woman just literally spawn out of thin air and walk behind her. It could've been intentional or an editing mistake, but it definitely tripped me out.

Elvis looks like he got done shooting a parody of Reno 911. Honestly, i'd watch the hell out of it

I actually don't mind the mustache. Has a Roger Sterling vibe to it.

Ok not gonna lie, that light falling at the skating rink and completely obliterating the woman on skates had me laughing the hardest ive laughed at anything in a long time

I love how "future tech" is a C-PAP nose pillow.

Maybe the real illusion is the friends we forgot on the way.

"i want u to come dad" is the best line ever made

This movie really had potential, it could’ve been matrix mixed with requiem for a dream. If it had a darker town and scarier when he realized he was just on drugs.

Speaking as a person who has had first hand experience with drug addicts (my mother when I was a child, and my daughter who died of a drug overdose a few months ago), I can say that this movie is definitely about drug addiction. Addicts are often mentally ill, delusions and paranoia are common.

"She Just Knows Somehow" Words from a Director not wanting to thoroughly explain

I like how when movies try to show people in the future, they're always wearing white or clothes that match. Like wtf? It's hilarious.

2:50 it's called the "Last Thursday" hypothesis; the proposition that existence came to be last Thursday and our memories of experiencing the past are just part of normal structure of our reality. Like how in dreams things seem and feel totally normal and logical, and we can even recollect memories in the dream that feel real and part of the dream world. Similarly, it has been argued that once we achieve technology that allows us to slip someone in a constructed reality (i. e. build their dream world) we actually would also have the capacity to generate memories in someone's mind.

This could've been explained by simply adding to the story that they are in testing phases and it "might" cause Memory loss inside the simulation (or a totally optional to live a diff life inside and will regain their Knowledge of the old world once you leave)

I know most people have talked about Elvis' new mustache, but all I can think of looking at it is that he looks like a younger, less depressed version of the cop dad from the Twilight movies.

The mustache represents how absolutely disgusting yet beautiful this channel is. Like a train wreck, you just cant stop looking at it.

This video has been out for two years, and finding it right now is the first I've heard of this movie. I have been subscribed to this channel for years, even. Somehow this movie's reviews are even slipping by.

How did Elvis miss the fact that she ACTUALLY said "Five Hundred Thousand K a year" I mean 500k a year is nothing to sneeze at but 500,000,000 is half a billion dollars a year, I mean even if everyone got 500k a year base that's going to cause an insane amount of inflation but 500 million dollars a year for everyone must mean that the dollar has pretty much no value.

2021: man discovers he has the ability to grow mustache. 2052: his neck still does not know the sun.

Elvis looks like Ron Swanson if he was portrayed in a low budget musical adaption of parks and rec

Oh yeah... I remember this movie. It was on some streaming service but I forgot about it until you started talking about it.

My biggest disappointment in this movie was that they hinted that there could be recursive simulations going on, potentially with different people being "real" at different levels, but then went nowhere with it. To name a few of the red herrings, there was the "turtles all the way down" bit, Greg's daughter's lines in the "future" world that suggest some degree of awareness of the simulation, and Isabel's reference to issues "one level up" right before she shoots her colleague for crystals. If they'd played around with the recursive simulation concept a bit more, the movie might have actually made sense.

Also, there was this one Black Mirror Episode, "San Junipero", with basically the exact same idea of being able to enter a simulation through a device and also leaving it again. But the episode was much better, for sure.

"He's been in a couple good movies, but then he also voiced Lightning McQueen from Cars... which was a great movie."

That moustache is perfect bro, keep rocking it !

Droppin some love because ur hilarious & ur content is constantly funny

I love how this is a half-hour long movie analysis that probably took a few weeks to research, write, record, and edit, and all of the comments are goofing on this man’s mustache.

I just can't get past how you knock somebody 6 feet backwards completely off of their feet and kill them from...standing up fast. It was like he got shot...with a cannon.

*_“Did I hate it as much as you hate my mustache? Probably not.”_* 😂I’m not even gonna lie, I’ve been distracted by the ‘stache in the recent past but I’ve gotten used to it and now I don’t know what was distracting me in the first place because you look great! I think I was just so used to you looking the same way that it stunned me. Kinda like how it stuns me when they show Pedro Pascal WITHOUT a mustache. Like, no thanks. 😂

Perfect review

Of course she needed his help to get the necklace from her boyfriend - she can't go into the men's bathroom! :P

I thought the reason why Greg kept listening to Isabel without question was because in the end they were going to reveal he was also a fake person under the influence of her "powers," but unfortunately the psychological thriller of someone coming to grips with the fact that their life is naught but code was below this movie, I guess.

Found this video shortly after discovering Bliss for the first time in December 2021. As someone who tries to keep up with new movies and who has had HBO Max all along, I didn't realize the movie had been out long enough for an Elvis episode, let alone one from May! (I must have missed this video somehow as well lol). I really wanted to like this movie. I really did. It just was not good. It had some moments, but it was mostly just lost on this film's need to be "complex" or something.

Btw, the mc could still be a risk of getting charged for killing his boss, because an autopsy would reveal that the boss experienced blunt force truma and died before falling out of the window, and the last person that saw the boss alive was the mc, who just got fired, so would have motivation to kill.

The boss who died literally had like 2HP lmao

The 2 minute clip from the Rick and Morty episode where they are at a space arcade and Morty plays a life simulation game called Roy Yeah that one clip felt more cohesive and interesting than this entire movie

21:20 also this part just only a year later makes sense, since we have several apps that literally can do this to an extent. You have to give em more detail but it'll do what you think as long as you say what you think.

27:00 I actually dont think this is a flaw of the movie, My ex-parent fell into drugs horribly and whenever i talked to him when he was on them, he would talk to me like im an stranger and look and feel very dissociated Once they are off the drug is when they realize what they did, the movie kinda got this Dissociated feeling right

I can't even concentrate on what Elvis is saying, I'm distracted by how much I love his mustache.

Man, that scene with the forgotten wallet would have offered the perfect transition for a sponsorship from Ridge....

The way you noticed and repeatedly reference the fact that Owen Wilson says WOW was so funny!

The cop mustache is cool elvis 🤣🤣 all u need is a vacuum to stick ur junk in and u would look like Dewey from scary movie lmao... great video

Me: Can I have Pedro Pascal? Elvis The Alien: No we already have Pedro Pascal at home Pedro Pascal at home:

They should have just gone with the Jacob's Ladder ending and had him dying from a drug overdose and the two realities are just a symptom of the drugs and his brain shutting down.

Every time I see that scene in the matrix somewhere or on memes I always try to figure out what the reflections would actually show.

I'm losing my mind. This video keeps being recommended and I've already accidentally rewatched it THREE TIMES. _HELP ME_

I played a lot of animal crossing and now every time you talked about Isabelle I just imagined a dog making a man drug addicted in a simulation

That whole "appreciate the good because of the bad" sentiment was used in the Matrix, too. So this movie basically stole everything. It's mentioned briefly in the first movie, when Neo asks Smith why the robots were so cruel that they created such an imperfect simulation, where people suffer and feel pain and cry. Smith responded by saying the robots actually developed several simulations where every single human was pampered and treated like a god; the perfect life, but the majority of humanity rejected the program because they couldn't mentally fathom such a paradise and felt like something was off.

I know I'm late but I remember! I remember seeing the trailer for this movie and being excited to see it. And then forgot about it and never heard about it again. Now I know why. Thank you

What a twist!

lets hope this one doesn’t get taken down!

I honestly think a simulation movie like this based on drug addiction could be a really interesting and meaningful story. I really hope this premise is picked up again by a better filmmaker.

You literally just described The Matrix with that video title

I can't wait until the next time I'm helping a friend move, so I can stand in the middle of their new place, look at all the boxes we just brought in, and say, "OK, SO THERE'S A LOT TO UNPACK HERE".

Bliss: The future is a perfect utopia Also Bliss: Main female lead is a murderous sociopath, who gets joy from hurting old people and built a box of brains stitched together.

Owen Wilson's nose distracts me from everything else so I don't even know what's going on

The way the futuristic simulation equipment is just a nasal cpap mask lmao

"I give your mustache 3 Wow's" - Owen Wilson

Me and my boyfriend were so confused after this movie, I honestly have no idea what they were going for lmaoo. What pissed me off the most is that he didn't instantly recognize her as the woman he's been drawing, Selma Hayek has a very distinct face he would've realized he had been drawing this crazy woman.

That mustache is absolutely glorious, and anyone who tells you otherwise is objectively wrong.

This reminds me of a bargain bin version of the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror

This whole movie in your little snippets looks actually kind of interesting

"Every single person here gets a base of $500,000k a year." So everyone gets five hundred million dollars a year? Okay then.

The Magic Crystals going up Owen Wilson’s nose: ⬆️↖️↗️⤴️➡️⬆️

So, from the beginning, you’re missing a big part of the point. …people on drugs that are “functional” with their addiction are still floating between escaping reality and living in reality. This is the beginning stage before an addiction consumes how you frame reality. Him getting fired was very real. The pictures he’s drawing at work is a metaphor for where his mind is at, which is chasing this alternate world he can live in while “using”. He’s dreaming of his high. That situation is metaphor to how addiction begins to become apparent in your productivity at work and thereby reducing your usefulness to society. His family is the real world, and the rest of the movie is mostly spent trying to chase highs to avoid his responsibilities. And during that time, addicts do go deep enough into their addiction to live and thing delusionally until their fake work becomes just as terrifying to them as the real world. This is drug induced psychosis… the “real world” is his most grand delusion from the highest of highs. And of course his behavior makes zero sense because his anxiety while sober is taking the wheel. The brain is only focused on its next fix.. all other reasoning is secondary yo that. The woman represents him defending his addiction and finding a community in it so he can avoid feeling shame. Addicts want to feel their addiction is okay because it offers them a blanket to be cloaked in. All the delusions of powers are possible references to schizophrenia. I’m sharing this because if you’ve seen the addiction cycle,the metaphor is much easier to recognize.

That thumbnail, "If you ordered The Matrix from Wish....hahahahaha. Nailed it.

"sell his Phone, lost his wallet and took drugs from a complete stranger 10 minutes ago" that sounds familiar

It took me 5 minutes to realise that I had actually watched this movie when it came out. It had left no impression on me. I wouldn't be surprised if I forget all about again as soon as I'm finished watching this review.

The futuristic "real world" was filmed in a city(where I'm at rn) in Croatia called Split.

Greg: "I don't believe you anymore!" Isabel: "Ever heard of *blue* crystals?" Greg: "Oh boy, more drugs!"

I just thought of something, when Isabelle met Greg she mentioned her boyfriend was real, but then said in the real world that Greg is her husband? He said nothing about that XD Haha

Pretty sure Bill Nye was one of the TV reporters announcing the boss's death at the beginning

You know you can start a tab and not pay it off until you leave for the night or if you are a regular sometimes on some other day.

The idea for this came from Rick and Morty "S1E4 M. Night Shaym-Aliens" from when Jerry is in the simulation! :-D

now all you have to do is grow this stache long enough to twirl it maniacaly

"When you order the matrix from wish" killed me

I like how the futuristic machine is a CPAP mask from CVS.

Brains in vats is a very old and common theme ... In philosophy/sci-fi

It's not a bad premise. A false reality told to us through an unreliable narrator. Especially how we are fully invested until the shot of a distraught protagonist in a run-down neighborhood, seemingly indifferent to his daughter. It's just horribly executed.

9:02 elvis doesn't even question why bill nye is in this movie

I like how the magic brain thing is clearly just a CPAP mask that they've just taped some stuff to.

Sick

As a recovering addict, I wouldn't mind a simulation movie that's a metaphor for drug abuse (or even straight up _about_ it) but this movie seems way too obsessed with driving home the point "drugs bad, family good", with the force a truck, instead of making an interesting movie that draws a parallel with addicton. I'm sure some people will think it's like so deep man, but I'm willing to bet that most addicts themselves will be disappointed by the simplicity.

18:04 Knowing that Owen Wilson has all those nose injurys, he could very well have Sleep Apnea, meaning that could be *his* CPAP that he uses to sleep. I now choose to belive Owen Wilson came ready to try and sleep through as much of this production as he could.

Watched it, and at first I was intrigued, especially when they start walking away from the bar, there is a person in the background, and that same person walks by again, I thought it was like a glitch in the “matrix” which leads to nothing...and then it slowly just became something that it was zzzzzzzzz. Had such a cool idea that became a mush of shit.

I'd love it if you did a video on The Signal (2014) It's a movie that I always want to be deeper than it is when I'm watching it.