Exploring Chernobyl Diaries 

Eric T it's going to be yuge, it's going to be fantastic and the critics are going to pay for it.

Make Chenobyl Horror Films great again.

Tommy Wiseau spent $6 million on The Room...so yes $1 million is pretty impressive

@Gerry Buckets you realise cgi literally didnt exist at the time right???

@Gerry Buckets actually this was the wrong thread

Better for a movie to generate hate than boredom.

That's more or less how I felt too. I remember seeing this movie when it came out and thinking it was absolutely fantastic. And then the third act was just "meh." I didn't hate the movie by any means. It was incredibly creative and legitimately unnerving for a good portion of the movie. While the last act was disappointing, I don't think that should discount what came before it. And by no means was it the worst film of 2012. I'm not really sure why this movie got so much hate, but it's nice to see it get a little praise here.

Stalker?

Karakas Stalker is a classic.

My only gripe was the torniquette placement. Ive read and played all the metro games and fallout too so i kinda like how they played it out too

sly523 Thanks so much! Lots more exploring series coming soon

+dannytheman1313 Exactly. It's been a while, but I don't recall them ever really going anywhere with that little girl, other than just abusing the "creepy small child" trope. I like the notion that it was up in their air whether or not they were imagining any of those attacks due to their deteriorating, irradiated mental state, but then that ending comes and removes all doubt.

Amelia Bee I know it gets done too often in hollywood but this movie deserves some kind of reboot or remake all the elements are there for a good movie, great atmosphere, interesting ideas, and a few good characters, I think there is potential for a good movie in here perhaps in better hands.

The girl was there to distract them while another mutant grabbed the blonde, it showed that they were somewhat intelligent.

actually we see one of the mutants in the scene when he throws a chair at the wall in the scene where Paul and the others look for Natalie & Chris but only find Natalie.

How's this for an ending: Amanda is left alone in a hospital room. The government official says they need to question "the patient" immediately. The doctor says she's in no shape to be answering questions; they respond, "I don't care. Wake her up." A nurse goes to check up on her, and finds that Amanda is missing. Hospital security goes from room to room, eventually finding her hiding in an empty patient room. She's cowering in a corner, faced away from them. Security tries to coax her to get up and come with them. Amanda turns to face them...and we see that she's mutated into another zombie. She begins tearing the security guards (and the soldiers) to pieces as the movie ends.

Lucas Pinheiro It's a gift lol. Thanks!

Thanks!

GoodBadFlicks Let's get this clear, there is no diaries, this is not a found footage film. 0:18 Four hundred times more radiation was released from that reactor meltdown than when Hiroshima was nuked! While this is an excellent horror film, the monsters here are not ghosts, they aren't zombies, they are throwbacks to the Atomic-Bomb-Mutation B-movies of the 1950's. 7:35 The $1,000,000+ it cost to make movie may not include post production costs and doesn't include the marketing costs!

Maybe the girls photographs were meant to serve as the diary?

I think you meant to say "Absent" minded instead of sound... Considering how much complaining and time filling in this video you don't seem hard to please...

I was impressed too. Its the best kind of CG, the kind when you don't know it is.

Funny a good friends grandma fed him growing up, got famous and forgot where he came from. You can look it up Baker playground.

raven22at fuck that freedom is better.

Cheeki breeki!

Get out of here S.T.A.L.K.E.R

It's worth the watch

Cillian Brouder Radiation will shrink some balls

mostly you will have just a bunch of radioactive dust , which can be washed off, nothing too bad until you don't put your dirty hands in your mouth , or you are close to the most radioactive zone

I was there! If you go with a tour, not by yourself, the guide will show you safe places. Now almost all Prypyath is safe. Radiation poisoning is not everywhere, its on random spots. You wont get sick if you go there for a day or so. In fact, some people was working on a station at that time (2012) building new sarcophage

Its written Припять, Pripyat

Ayyyyy

coolguy902 No problem, glad you enjoyed it. I still don't understand all the hate for this one. While it does lose some steam at the end, the rest of the movie is rock solid.

my main complaint about the babadook is just how they had the right idea with a bad execution. but, i gotta give it to the actors. they did a great job. i felt for the woman and hated the kid and that kinda twisted around near the end. but ultimatly i didnt enjoy it as much as other people say they did

I understand this was a long while ago but I can't get over "Go watch Bayformers and Call of Duty you noob!" You can't "watch" CoD, it's a game.

you don't 'watch' Call of Duty bud

You realize that you are on youtube? Where you can watch call of duty??

You can watch the cut scenes in movie form. fucking dumbass

***** absolute nonsense. There is a service called Roaming that allows you to use other countries mobile network, at extra cost. US cell phones most definatelly DO work in europe. Also everyone who buys a locked down phone and isnt living in the 90s is a honest to god moron. But yes, because unlike in europe, in US you have aboslutely no customer protection, the rates are exortbitory.

Strazdas it's hard to imagine pripyat would have cellular phone coverage. Chernobyl happened in 1986, before cell phones were even a thing. It's possible they put towers up for the reason of tourism, research and the construction of the dome they're building to encase the reactor. but its also likely that radiation would destroy the phones after prolonged exposure.

you do realize that the plant continued to used and created power until around 2000 and that they have been working on a new enclosure for the damaged reactor. the plant was never abandoned there are still people there working on it til this day.

I agree!

quite right, you see a million budget and they did this, then you see some with a 10 million budget and it looks like a guy with a cell phone making the film

Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks! I just don't think it is nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be.

damn commet from 6 years ago, Ill still give it a shot. May I ask what you exactly didnt like? Like in 3 bullet points or so

@@omnianima4540 It's been a minute since I watched it so I'll remember best I can. - Characters felt pretty stock - The plot was fairly contrived - Some of the scares weren't quite as effective as they could be. Don't take my word on that though. I has been a long time since I watched this haha. But I might say different if I see it now!

@@MegaCrocosaurus92 Damn what a quick answer. I actually agree with the first argument. The third one is taste depended I would say, without going into it too much. The second argument actually might have some truth to it, but that it something, which you probably have to accept during the movie, to be able to not get disstracted by it. Think of it like this, how would it be less contrived? And would this change be really worth the entire resequencing of the movie. But have fun watching the movie :) If you like movies like that, maybe "The Divivde would be a recommendation, it plays in a radioactive post nuclear war set in a bunker".

@@omnianima4540 Sounds good. Looking like a future double feature now haha.

What's a chernoyl?

+Racquet Awning it is the place where Trolls come from. Go back to your home town

Emrah Ekinci What?

Mondo Connie me too

+Mondo Connie If people aren't aware that they can make cars and motorcycles work with a dead battery I don't want to live in this desolate post-apocalyptic nuclear desert anymore !

+Emrah Ekinci Actually it doesnt work on modern cars, so this is going to be less common knowledge as time goes on.

+Strazdas You can push a modern car to start, I've done that, but it was a manual

Krede no. you cannot. the electornics controlling the engine got too complex and this is no longer a thing anymore. even for manuals.

Thanks!

I couldn't agree more. I watched Dredd again last night and realized it was a really great flick. Keep up the great work!

I've played the first STALKER and have the sequels. Been meaning to go back and play through again with the mods. (graphical fixes and such) Maybe I'll do them on a stream. I have the two Metro games and only played through half of 2033. I really should go back to them.

GoodBadFlicks Good luck stalker!

Stalker was amazing. Really feels like I was able to expense being in the zone. Plus mutants.

Experience*

+GoodBadFlicks Always remember Cheeki Breeki

+Alex Pana The complaint about Chernobyl Diaries isn't just that it's about Chernobyl. It's that the victims are portrayed as villains. It would be like if some Russian filmmaker made a movie called The Ground Zero Diaries where a group of young Russians go on vacation to NY and get killed by zombified 9/11 victims.

+ninjaf00t Can anyone explain how planes flying into buildings equal zombies?

***** I, personally, wasn't offended. I'm just summarizing what the general complaint was from people who were and I can understand where they're coming from. The movie turned the victims of a tragedy into horror movie monsters, hence the 9/11 Diaries comparison.

ninjaf00t Eh, I can't exactly see that. The movie barely explains anything about the mutants, so we can't be sure when exactly they first became mutated. People just put two and two together and came up with their own conclusion. I mean, if there's a source that confirms that the mutants in this movie are supposed to be the original victims of the accident, please, correct me, but I never picked that up when watching the movie.

+ninjaf00t who's a villain? Why are they villains? Maybe the people they encountered were in fact bad guys.

Mondo Connie there was one scene in the remake I thought was good. Otherwise it was bland and fairly generic

This generation? I saw the original when I was around fourteen (Im 21 now), and the beginning scene in particular when the teacher gets shot at school, deeply disturbed me. That's really the only scene I remember, and one where two of the kids are forced to kill another kid who's only just as frightened. For an immigrant myself it also made me question whether this was how all Americans secretly feeled about foreighners, especially Mexican ones due to the shit going on at the time I watched it. I didn't even see the remake but most of my friends said it was a waste of Time. Youth doesnt always mean ignorance, just like adulthood doesnt always mean slow creeping mediocrity.

It was just boooorrrrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnngggggg

Red Dawn remake is just a cash grab movie like more than 80% of the movies done in this 21th Century . Also how poor the movie was and the lazy CGI-effects the ending was?was there an ending at all it stopped . Also again showing us American propaganda which gets on my nerves lately , for Americans it was once Germans the bad guys then the Russians, then the Arabs or Muslims now they have tried North Korea as being bad guys in movies .....wonders when will Americans make a movie that Americans are the bad guys ? Also the biggest joke is showing us young kids with guns and all that jazz having faith and what not , if we see how young generations are in real life they wouldn't even know how to fight, have the courage and so on . Anyway Red Dawn the original is a true classic and had a real meaning "The Cold War" that really happened and wasn't fictionnal like that shit remake . Also the actors acted much better in the original Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, ... some scenes were disturbing . The remake was just a disgrace a joke again to dish our childhood years . I'm 40 and can say they are ruining alot movies, franchises and sagas now which makes it extremely hard to watch something from this 21th Century kinda nothing hooks me anymore alot complain about clichés well for me all is deja-vu a million times .

defiraphi I'm the same age. Red Dawn was a dumb film to try to remake. At that time, most experts would tell you that an attack like in the film would result in the U.S. losing quite a few states. It also would end in the stalemate that's in the movie. It was a very well done approximation, of what an invasion would look like. The scene with the teacher, and then the one kid hanging out the window of the classroom, shot in the head, was very unsettling. It also showed what insurgents, in a mountainous wilderness, could actually do. It was also was PG-13, which made it more accessible for kids to see. After seeing the film, my friends and I, would go to our local Sportsman/Hunting and Fishing store, and choose supplies we would need when we got invaded. It became something to do for fun. It was very impactful on our young minds. I really loved the performance by the Cuban leader, especially after he realized it was teenagers getting the better of his soldiers. Then his recounting of other countries they had taken along the way, yet he was looking at the bodies of his men, instead of the native insurgents. It was powerful stuff. I was 7 or 8 years old, yet I still felt the difference between Red Dawn, and a First Blood 2, or similar one man Army movie.

George Bean hope you enjoy it!

I paused to see, in one of the top left windows there's a greyish shape that kinda looks like a person, but I couldn't clearly see a face anywhere

Thanks for watching!

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Glad to help you out there then :)

@@GoodBadFlicks thanks

Raymond St Paul it was hinted in the beginning when the guards didn't want them to enter, the area was on lockdown because the mutants were roaming free, from what Juri said and the government lab in the end I'd say the normaly have them under control, so the public doesn't know what really happened

Thank you for the reply though it would be interesting if another film was made showing what this one hinted.

+Raymond St Paul .

Raymond St Paul my guess is the mutants were residents of the city who became mutated after the disaster and the Ukrainian government is studying them to learn more about the effects of radiation on humans and the reason for the cover up is that the Chernobyl tours bring in quite a bit of green for the economy

Stephen LeGresley I'll look into it for the future

MissPandoraC Yes! I liked Grave Encounters a lot. Saw it a few years ago. Some genuinely creepy moments.

GoodBadFlicks the second one completely ruined it for me though.

MissPandoraC The first grave encounters was an honestly interesting movie with a lot of potential, although I may or may not have personally started thinking about how it could have easily been a first encounter report of an SCP which brought my interest level up a lot while watching the movie. Overall a really well made horror story that seemed like it was made by folks who had spent a lot of time around the foundation. The sequels though while from a purely cinematic standpoint were almost perfect in how they took the original story, expanded them, brought about a conclusion and still kept a slightly opened ended conclusion to the series were basically adequate they were however from a moviegoers standpoint severely disappointing.

Spread the word! :)

GoodBadFlicks i would argue your better than most movie reveiwers better than nostalgia critic your so awesome i would love to meet you in real life

Violence and sexual violence have different effects on me as it is differently portrayed in movies. Also rape to me is worse than violence because it degrades the person as well. I dont know why, but rape always feels more real to me in movies than violence. I react more strongly to it. Like being kicked in the balls.

I'm same, i hate watching horror movies that have no warning of that shit then all of sudden there's rape.

You're absolutely right, my friend!

Thank you!