The 2022 Spooktastic movie arc begins! What comes first for EFAP? It's KAREN! a horror movie centred around a scary neighbour getting just a little too nosy when a couple moves into the neighbourhood. Edited by Capital-O Opinions
“You are a strong, beautiful, intelligent and WOKE black man.” That line is about as ridiculously written as “The exaggerated swagger of a black teen.”
@@CMCAdvanced To be fair, the exaggerated swagger of a black teen is a more funnier line than that WOKE line in Karen. The big difference is that the latter was written pretty badly and don’t know how characters should flirt in modern day. As for the former, it’s on the unintentionally hilarious side.
I was waiting for the twist ending where, after being shot, Karen says "The curse lives on" and then turns back into a black woman. Then Imani watches as her skins lightens and her hair straightens before she screams and it cuts to credits.
They must have known that some woman on the tictacs is gonna make a video about how Drew Barrymore frolicking in the rain is racist, so they pre-emptively made it not rain on her.
It’d be funny if they had an actual sword like an Ethiopian Shotel or a Malian Takoba, and said something like “they never got Ethiopia” or talked about the Mali empire.
Whenever I hear people quote that in response to some cringe anti racism thing, I don't take it seriously. As I'm sure no one is stupid enough to "defeat" racism. In this movie's case I'm questioning that stance
"Loud and unruly...you mean black?" Is a golden piece of dialogue. Gotta love when someone who undoubtedly considers themselves anti-racist, says the most racist shit imaginable.
So what happened to Karen's kids? They already lost their dad in awful circumstances, and now they've lost their only other two adult family members in a way that's probably going to leave a stigma hanging over them for a long time. Obviously the film doesn't care what happens to them, but man, they're the only ones in this film I actually feel sorry for.
I checked the wiki on this film, and it won multiple Razzies, including...I shit you not..."Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel". They called it an "Inadvertent remake of Cruella"
"This movie was so bad that we had to include it into other categories that didn't fully apply to show case how dog shit awful this movie is" -The Razzies
That last part is an ungodly and inexcusable insult to this film. The garbage that is the live action Cruella is far worse than this will ever be! 😂 This film beats it just by the sheer memehood - it will go down in history.
This movie would have been 2000 times better if it was revealed that Karen was a 300 year old vampire and her husband was killed by a black union soldier in the civil war. It would unironically make the movie far more interesting to have the final act be just fright night
It was a sequel to “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” all along! It’s like Glass: you don’t even realize it’s a sequel until two thirds of the way through.
I find it funny how this movie treats Karens like they’re a danger to society and black people. When Karens are actually just really annoying middle aged women who yell at cashiers.
I like how the movie makes the black Karen super racist, by saying the whole Neighborhood is racist. When it is just that one crazy lady and even the crazy lady kids were kind to them. Both her and Karen both just judged people based on their skin, lmao. The movie doesn't even acknowledge that and that makes it funnier.
I always thought it was weird when people started conflating Karens with specifically white entitled women who were racist. Like, the Karen personality had nothing to do with racism, at least at first. It was just women (typically) being rude and entitled to staff.
I thought that was funny as well. I've always viewed Karen's as overly entitled crazy moms who are always on the verge of a mental breakdown thus turning into a Karen at any sign of conflict. I didn't really see them Karen Karen Karen members lol
My favorite part was how the wife was too busy/tired to cook dinner, but will take the time to bake a pecan pie in order to be passive aggressive towards Karen.
>works in the inner city but moves to the suburbs because housing is "more affordable" >moves to a subdivision named after a confederate soldier >secretly plots to get on the homeowners association just to change the name of the place >is surprised when the locals hate them The writers made the black couple as bad as the white siblings ironically lol
Yeah that and some of the lines just make me think the black characters are racist too. Like the Ethiopian ritual blades. Are those real or knock offs? If they're real, did they buy them? Wouldn't that be owning a cultural artifact that was unironic stolen by colonizers? Do they think being black makes it okay? Or I could mention the simpler examples of the Guy's lines about "bringing a white woman into their lives" after the party or that one character having earrings of the continent of Africa (as if it's a homogeneous place as opposed to a place of disparate cultures that hate each other with more differences than similarities).
@@AlphaOmega1237 they weren't actually Ethiopian blades But it's really fitting to put up swords of the last pre-arab spring Nation to abandon slavery in a neighbourhood named after a hero of a fellow nation forced to give up slavery at gunpoint.
"Africa's so great, I love Africa, it's my heritage. Africa Africa Africa." "Oh you should move there, then." *"How can you say that that's so fucking racist"* I'm ethnic Irish and I would love to "move back" to Ireland.
Someone commented this on JLongbone's video: Can we talk about the fact that Karen is a woman who has been driven mad by grief, and she isn't offered and ounce of sympathy?
EXACTLY! I don’t agree with any of her views, but you can’t say she doesn’t deserve SOME sympathy. She saw the worst side of some communities and lost her husband to some jerk who thought he deserved to die for just doing his job. Give her some sympathy
@@AFarmerCalledChickenthey had a chance to make a sympathetic character and write a story about people bridging divides and coming together, but nope. Cartoonishly racist woman bad.
"General Lee, we lost the Battle of Gettysburg, what should we do?" "Start production of Soap Dispensers, this will allow the South to rise again one day!"
"What about the toilet paper with our flag on it?" "That would be stupid, but make sure to give complimentary photos of our greatest generals per-dispenser sold."
I can't decide if the movie is contradicting itself like that, or making them look incredible irresponsible by trying for a kid they can't afford to raise BECAUSE they bought that house.
Now I kind of just want to see an early 2000's-esque cartoon about various lovecraftian entities, but as racial stereotypes. So far we have S'tya, Shubniggurath, and Hastur could be put in there (King in Yellow). What other fun stereotypes could we attach to eldritch monstrocities?
@@josephjackson9679 I think the king in yellow would be black just so they could play that wiz kalifa song, she would for sure be shubniggurath just for the name alone lol
"I want to make a movie about an evil racist white lady... Lets see... Black man makes lesser money than his wife, plays basketball, smokes weed, owns loads of "ethnic" art and swords, and owns a gun that he clearly doesn't know how to use.
Okay, but seriously. The guy says "ever since the ships landed on Africa's shores 400 years ago, we've been trapped in this foreign land." Then yes, the answer is go to Africa. You view America as a foreign country they you're trapped in. If you don't like it in America so much, if Africa is so much better, then go there. You don't have to live here if it's really so offensive to you.
Except the point of their twisted worldview is to use victimhood to get what they want, which is staying in the the first world instead of going to live in the third world
I always get a kick when the black nationalists or racial collectivists talk like this because leaving whatever country they're in really is the only solution when they're a minority but they always make excuses because they know the country they'd have to move to is worse than the one they live in for one reason or another.
its pretty fitting that a WOKE couple move into a community named after a soldier of that state and then immediately say they are going to manipulate their way into changing it into something they approve of, regardless of the rest of the community.
You know the wife is also a Karen in her own right, by the way, a lot of shit she does is pretty Karen like too. However, what I came to comment on was, the wife seems to be excessively about checking out places they'd move to. So why didn't she just move somewhere with a name they didn't hate? I mean, they're acting like there one suburb per city, which isn't true.
Not a soldier of that state. A rebel against the lawful government of the country. Only in the US do the faithless traitors who *fucking lost* a civil war get to have streets named after them and be treated with such respect.
@@atreides213 back then you couldnt really travel across the country in hours or find out what was going on in washington with a button press. people were more loyal to their state than the country as a whole. it was a different era with different values.
"We should socialize with our own kind." Said the villain of the movie, meanwhile our hero is scolding his wife for bringing this white lady into their world. At least the "good" and "bad" guys have something in common.
"YOU PLANTED THAT SHIT ON ME! THIS ISN'T FAIR!" said the man who was LITERALLY openly smoking weed in front of his house just a few days earlier. This shit is an allegory for sure. Just not an allegory the director intended. EDIT: lmao and he had an illegal gun too
The part that pisses me off the most is that they never acknowledge what happened to Karen's kids. Aside from Kyle watching the couple undress, they did NOTHING wrong, and actually seemed pretty normal and friendly. Hell, the fact that I remembered their names (Kyle and Sarah) shows how much I was actually paying attention during their scenes. I don't even remember the main couple's names, or the brother cop's name! And they just get NO acknowledgement after their MOTHER AND UNCLE GET GUNNED DOWN!!!
I remember Imani's name, because of the brand Amani. Plus, I thought it was absurd Karen acted like the name was hard to say when it was so close to a popular brand with women.
I know right i thought they were gonna go with the terrible but funny ending of the main couple adopting the kids but now im just hoping the kids aren't getting bullied or ostracized by people or are traumatized because of their Mom and Uncles actions
One of the commenters on JLongbone's first reaction to this movie pointed out that those swords are not, in fact, from Ethiopia. In case anyone was wondering.
That final shootout plays out like that SNL skit where the guy's writing a letter to his sister and it just escalates to everyone impossibly shooting each other.
the whole "it's terrible how karen told these black people to go back to africa" rhetoric is seriously undermined when they show that this friend group holds africa in such reverence that they do shit like wear weird earrings shaped like the continent of africa and have paintings of african tribals and ceremonial swords from african cultures and apparently think america is so racist and evil they don't even feel safe letting their child be born here. I'm actually kinda curious why this particular group wouldn't find the idea appealing it's like a weeb who has samurai armor and anime posters everywhere getting really angry when you ask him if he wants to live in japan. racial component aside their attire and house furnishings tell us they really fucking like africa and they explicitly say they don't like where they've moved to and feel unsafe so why not?
Especially funny because most Africans just lump black Americans with together with all other Americans. So it really does just come off as these black people being nerds about culture that isn't theirs.
If the writers weren't raging midwits they could have said something interesting about how fetishizing Africa and making it into some sort of purely oppositional "identity" that can be packaged and sold to atomized black westerners is incredibly toxic, but nah.
I commented this on JLongbone's video, but I'll repeat it here: Karen is basically a woke rip-off of a film called Lakeview Terrace (2008). Here are some of the glaring similarities: - Widowed antagonist with two kids, a boy and a girl - Protagonists move into a tight-knit neighbourhood - Security equipment facing the protagonists’ house - Husband smokes, which he keeps from his wife, in his car at night, antagonist finds out - The protagonist couple have sex, in the full view of the antagonist’s child(ren) - Protagonists have a housewarming party that antagonist “crashes” and makes hella awkward - There's a conflict throughout on whether or not the protagonists should start a family - Antagonist’s child bonds with one of the protagonists, antagonist sees and gets annoyed - Antagonist's daughter is in an interracial relationship - At some point, it’s revealed the antagonist had a past negative experience which fuels their current hatred - In the climax, the antagonist enters the protagonists’ house with a gun - There’s a shootout at the end, which ends up with both the protagonist and antagonist getting shot; the antagonist dies from this The only major difference is that it’s a white woman terrorising a black couple, instead of a black man terrorising an interracial couple. Wonder why that is . . .? 🤔🤔🤔
@@cranberryrosebud It’s a not a masterpiece, by any means, but it’s an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half; it sure is a hell of a lot better than Karen, anyway 🥴
5:08 that’s a great way to make friends in a neighborhood. You haven’t even been there for 24 hours and you’re already trying to change the name of local landmarks.
Can we appreciate how much effort Karen has to go to in order to get her Confederate soap? 😂 That’s definitely not going to be available in a local convenience store, especially in the areas they live, so she has to specially order it from somewhere AND do it regularly, paying additional shipping costs instead of going to the shop just so she can have her bloody soap bottle with the confederate battle flag? 🤣 Karen goes above and beyond, no doubt about that. 😅
@@BloodPaladin88 This is true, but Karen would be so adamantly against the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle message, I can see her throwing every bottle out on principle.
It's a reusable soap dispenser. Looks like it is made from clay. She could have had a family member in the hills with a kiln or picked it up at a swap meet. Especially when that's a "heritage" thing in the south. Movie is based around Nashville by that random establishing shot of the AT&T building.
I want a scene where the protagonist visits the HOA, and there is a plaque that says "Home Owners Association" then, he looks behind it, and there is another plaque underneath that says "Haters of Africans"
So, a lady calls the cops on the son of a Civil Rights Lawyer, And, then, that lady and the cop that arrested the son both end up dead in the house of her neighbors. These neighbors, recently became “clients” of the Civil Rights Lawyer. But, “they attacked first”, the story is corroborated by a cop-a cop that is a rookie new to the force. It’s not suspicious at all.
This movie couldn't even get the meme right. They hired a weird dark-haired goblin with a voice like a career waitress who smokes too much, when they should've hired an overweight blonde with "the haircut" and a shrill mom voice. Bizarre casting.
If I had to guess, Karen was made in very short order to hurriedly capitalize on the popularity of the Karen meme. I don't even think it's a bad concept. A story about a family moving into a new neighborhood and being subjected to subtle hostility that slowly builds in intensity would make for an interesting psychological thriller. Especially if other neighbors are shown to doubt the accusations against someone they've lived next to for years and years. Perhaps, and of course there's no way in hell this would ever happen, they could subvert expectations by revealing that the whole time, the new family was indeed being paranoid and all the feelings of being slighted and gaslit were merely misunderstanding and/or coincidence.
Actually, there is a movie like that out there. The Good Neighbor (2016) has it so a couple of teenagers believe a creepy man is a killer but they're dead wrong. The neighbor was an old man mourning his recently dead wife and their attempts to investigate his house happened to mimic things from the couple's life which leads to the man believing his wife was calling him from beyond the grave to come to her. He does and the movie ends with the two teens in court.
Or it was made on a bed covered with crack and to the loudest damn music possible. What seemed like two years, was twenty-five seconds in crack time. The entire script is just a fucking doodle of Cookie Monster's ass, and the director swears it makes perfect sense.
could also watch the seasons of Fear Thy Neighbor, the literally premise of this happens IRL more times then one could count and start over some of the most petty shit one could think of, "you shoveled some snow into my drive way? now begins the 3 years of terror" which ended in one neighbor shooting the other in cold blood
I loved when Karen held Santa in her arms and told him: I never knew that you were still alive all this time Uncle Morbius. Thank you for giving me a wuhite Christmas. Then he said: Don't be a Morbcist... Blegh.
Oh, wow! Dixie Soap! "The yellow person was just sneaking around." The only time you can say, or maybe Mauler can say, "yellow person" without being called "racist."
I was worried when they announced watching this film that I would die of cringe, however I am dying of laughter. They fail so hard they fail at their preachiness (Edit) Omg this is up with malignant as a new favourite movie 😂😂
@@Longshanks1690 And then The Don has his bike heartlessly stolen by Carol Danvers, setting up Captain Marvel 2 where Kyle and Sarah avenge their adopted father.
Thanks for reminding me of Jay Exci's "Not Efap" Watchmojo/Rise of Skywalker stream that spent more time talking about "alpha orphans" and Goliath. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ybYmrHLH8I.html
Honestly this movie like starship tropper for me In that it's so blatantly ridiculous it loops back around to being amazing (starship tropper better tho with the meta reads ya can possibly do tho)
so this black couple moves into a neighborhood they know is named after a confederate solider, want to stay by their own kind self-admittedly by them, complain that the entire neighborhood is racist but get everything they want the moment they run into a problem by some one else, complain that there are basic home-owner society standards of keeping your trash off the street on time which is something my lower-midddle class family did without a HOS either. This honestly makes the black couple the instigators on every level here since they being so 'socially aware' they'd know they wouldn't be welcome or assume that at the very least, blame EVERYONE but the one person who's actually making the problems for them, demand an apparently tight-nit community change everything for them because that community had the 'blessing' of these two moving in and that's it. They had a hundred red flags of "you know, moving here could be a bad idea" just by the name alone of the area as they stated, but did it anyway. What i'm trying to say is, this movie when you take a step back, the villains won.
Karen: “For eons, I have only seen racism as a mere energy source that keeps me alive. But now I’ve discovered how much useful it is as the universe’s greatest weapon”
Early movie; Asian Lady: There hasn't been a black family in this neighborhood in 10 years Mid movie; HOA goon: Karen, one of the kids you called the police on lives in the neighborhood and his father is a prominent civil rights attorney. Kid must have stealth moved into the neighborhood because given how comically racist Karen is supposed to be, this should be something she should know. Or Asian lady lied to Karen because she hate whitey too.
Also Malik said to Karen that his wife didn't know about the weed smoking but later she knows about it when he gets caught(?) It doesn't explain whether he told her about the weed on his own before being freaked by the police?
So Karen knocked over their trashcan because she was mad they didn't move it from the curb once the trash was collected, but it was full of trash, there is a whole scene picking up the spilled trash, so clearly the trash had yet to be collected. What?!
Wait, I thought it was because they put it out a day too late or something, that's really stupid... what was Coke thinking? I'm starting to think "Coke" is a nickname people gave him because of his habits.
No. If you listen closely she's mad because they put it out a day before it was supposed collected. That is a legit complaint though and some counties can fine you if you put your trash out too early, but when they say "too early" they usually mean like 2-6 days. Most people wouldn't give a shit if you put it a day early.
But can we talk about how during that scene her house is situated right next to the black couple's instead of her house being located opposite to the couples? What happened there or am I just tripping!
Not really sure that's the case, I mean with the quality drop of most things these days, this could very well be a complete porn movie in the same way The Last Jedi is a Star Wars movie.
The lower of the two swords is a spanish bastard sword. I own one that is almost exactly the same. Film makers were too lazy to actually order African swords. Africans had some really cool swords too, often really curved and exotic.
Ok these swords at @4:55 neither of them are from Ethiopia. The one on the bottom is clearly a replica of El Cid’s tizona, El Cid being someone from medieval Spain. The other on top is a bit harder to pin point, however it clearly looks like something from Eastern Europe. Ethiopian swords actually long, curved and lacked guards, much like Arabic swords. The two regions are basically neighbors so this makes a lot of sense. So either the filmmakers are stupid and have no idea what historical artifacts come from where, or they are doing some kind of meta commentary on how woke black movements like to believe that everything (even things from Europe) were all invented by black people, and this black couple is appropriating other nation’s history. I’ll let you be the judge of which is more likely. Edit: Oh something I forgot, why display swords with by the doorway? Usually swords go in lock glass case or over the fireplace, or just anywhere high on the wall. This is cause one, it shows that these are important to the house, and also to keep them out of reach of children. So why does the couple that wants to have children put sharp swords right in the reach of little Timmy? That’s like putting a loaded gun on the kitchen counter.
At one point I was giving the film to much credit. During the climax of the film when Karen was breaking into Imani's house I thought that she was going to incriminate herself with her own camera's pointing at the house, but that never goes anywhere? Also what about Karen's kids? They seemed normal but now they have no parents, no uncle, no other relatives; they are going to just get tossed into the foster care system and the film never addresses it.
Imani sounds like Amani the way that they say it in the movie. Amani is a very popular brand with women. It makes no sense to me, how Karen acts like her name is hard to say at one point in that movie. Also, racist lady's kids are just props for showing how racist mommy is. They go back into the time out cage in the basement after they are done dealing with the blacks.
@@Awakened_Mucacha Maybe its just the editing for this EFAP. But it seems like the son's only 2 scenes he was in was the peep show and the basketball scene. And the only scene the daughter was in was the one where she says mum is racist.
"Karens" come in all colors. It's their irrational actions and behavior that unites them under the title. But pity the ladies named "Karen" that don't practice the poor behavior.
