I watched Greg and Shoe's Wonder Woman movie review a while back and Greg legit started complaining about how "the feminists got their grubby little hands on Wonder Woman". Bro Wonder Woman was literally created by a feminist
Not only that, but by a male feminist who foresaw a future run by women, and wanted to prepare young boys for that world by showing them strong women in leadership roles.
Oh Jesus Christ... I'm going to start telling them _"Woke Hollywood made Pac Man Trans! It's Ms Pac Man now! Pronouns! Masculinity is under attack by the crazy leftists!"_ and then after they foam at the mouth a bit, I'll "Just happen" to discover my old mid 80s copy of Ms Pac Man for the Commodore 64 and say "Whoops, my bad, guys. I forgot I owned that game. Good thing no one made an ass out themselves over it".
why does he have to lie about the deceased Carrie Fisher "owning" her character in Jedi? she was on record hating the bikini outfit and thinking it was misogynistic
well, that was the point in the lore. Jabba wanted her to feel terrible, because he's a terrible individual. Of course, I totally believe that the person playing the character needs to be 100% on board, and if they hate the scene, it shouldn't be shot like that. Even if it causes a lot of problems, people shouldn't be made to do things they aren't comfortable with. That's why you should have the script written BEFORE you start shooting.
Incredibles 2: bob is having a rough time taking care of the kids because he barely did in the first movie and doesn't know how hard it is to keep a house afloat while his partner is the breadwinner, also your kids are growing up and changing making things harder for bob and by the end of the movie he learns how to respect the boundaries with violet and take care of his other children Greg: the themes about family aren't in the movie anymore!
18:44 the term “woke” is from african american vernacular english (aave) and it was a watchword for black americans during the civil rights movement-it was not about the banks owning the world and it’s insulting that he’s claiming this term was “morphed” into being about inequality when like… “woke” is literally a response to racial INEQUALITY 18:46 the irony of a white man saying the word “woke” was “stolen from us” when white liberals stole it from black people and THEN the right wing stole it and subverted it into a mockery and or vilification of leftist sensitivity
@@CrowManyClouds ah so it was used much earlier than i referenced! all the more reason it’s infuriating ppl act like it sprung up wholesale in 2016 as catch all shorthand for liberal progressivism
Greg: The original star wars was ✨dark and gritty✨ and these new ones aren't, and are worse because of it Also Greg: The character Yondu wasn't a clear cut good or bad character, and now I'm going to bitch about it for 15 minutes (Side note: I wonder what he thinks "dark and gritty" actually is)
Ewoks, apparently. 😆 I do love how he's complaining about the most dark and gritty thing in the prequels while simultaneously saying they aren't dark and gritty enough. They gave you child murder, Greg. And it wasn't treated as a joke. You should be thrilled about that. I like how he doesn't understand that the slave girl being murdered while the band play an admittedly ridiculous song isn't somehow undermining that scene because it reinforces how violent death is obviously a very regular thing and everyone there just treats it as part of the entertainment. There was a band there in the original version, they just didn't have the CGI abominations like the singer. He's a mob boss in a seedy night club, that's the vibe George Lucas wanted. You'd think Greg would approve of the grittiness of that.
I think he's more talking about the film making in the 70's and early 80's. AKA the quality of the film and lighting. He's upset because we have clearer picture and...well, I'm not going to lie, lighting and cinematography has largely gone downhill due to the overemphasis on VFX forcing every director to choose the most standard shots and lighting.
Armoured Skeptic transparently going over the WHOLE CHECKLIST of culture war tropes from as far back as 2016 makes him look a lot more ridiculous than anyone he's having a go at ever could.
Sometimes I feel bad for Greg, then I remember my friend got murdered by people who Greg virtue signals to, then I get so angry I just want him to go away and never come back
I refuse to accept that I saw the same Star Wars movie as Greg -- I cannot imagine describing a film with the Mos Eisley scenes in it as "dark and gritty"
I think Greg honestly just confused the sets with the movies. The sets were all a good deal darker and more dirty than what we see in modern films, especially Star Wars films which tend to have a very clean aesthetic after the prequels, but the movies themselves were pretty much children's movies. Note: there were definitely some themes that are worth analyzing and interacting with as adults, but George Lucas hasn't been the best about expressing those themes in writing.
Oh crap. This actually recontextualizes so much of the video. The original trilogy was "dark and gritty," so it was probably Greg at his limit of how much moral ambiguity he could take. THAT'S why he couldn't understand The Guardians of the Galaxy. And Rocket Raccoon probably reminded him of the Ewoks, so he didn't notice that he was a psycopath who would steal people's prosthetic limbs just for a laugh.
"Rebecca Watson was deliberately lying about me when she rightfully pointed out that I tried to say the Notre Dame fire was started intentionally even though the police literally came out THE DAY OF THE FIRE with evidence showing that the fire was accidental."
Greg literally everyone is exploited by the owner class. That guy working at walmart, loggers, contruction workers, that cashier at the small mom and pop store. This is capitalism it's a system on exploitation. He's like on the cusp of getting a true understanding of the system. The people who have own the means of production will exploit the ones that don't and thats what we need to solve
Padmes instinct that she can still save Anikan is correct because Luke saves him. That is the entire conclusion of Anikans arc that I assume he likes. Mocking Padme for refusing to hate Anikan because he keeps killing children is so dumb and goes against the message that Anikans story is suppose to teach us and its what makes Padmes arc a tragedy.
@@help4343 My understanding is yes. Jedi aren't interested retributive justice. The sith seek satisfaction through external pleasures like seeing someone justly punished. Jedi seek inner peace. If someone leaves behind the emotional chaos of the darkside that made their crimes possible and there is balance in the force then they have done all they need to, as unsatisfying as that might feel.
As someone who actually grew up on the original edits of Star Wars (unlike Greggy-poo), on VHS, there was very little dark and gritty there. ESB heads that way, but not too far. Then we got Care Bears with spears...
I enjoy the bit with the KGB guy cause after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was no indication this was ever a thing. Oh and he does love to prove he doesn't understand story telling or media.
42:07 _"I thought the actors wrote their lines on the spot! Did you know the movie studios are companies who sometimes even hire writers and executives? Mind. Blown."_
I always read Padme's actions in ROTS as a Mother desperately trying to keep her Family together. She has children now and their future is in danger because of Anakin's actions. It makes complete sense that she failed to properly reprimand him because all that is on her mind is her babies and their future.
Man as someone who ACTUALLY works in entertainment and ACTUALLY has a shit ton of contacts in Hollywood, people currently striking with SAG or WGA in LA, it's wild hearing Greg either being lied to, or spreading blatant lies.
Break the universe* not the franchise. AFAIK there isn’t a lot in the prequels that directly contradicts hard rules or lore that has been previously established. In the sequel trilogy we get things like tracking thru hyperspace, ability to teleport items and ones self across long distances with the force, force healing and the famous Holdi maneuver which makes the entire battle against the death star pointless if you could simply point a large ship in its direction and jump to hyperspace in order to obliterate it. These things fly in the face of well established rules from the 7 previous movies.
Rian Johnson was not hired to do 2 Star Wars movies. He was only hired to do one. Colin Trevorrow was supposed to make the 3rd. But when his latest movie flopped and fans got angry about Last Jedi Disney got cold feet and replaced him with JJ.
Greg getting mad at Guardians 2 and invoking some conspiracy about it really goes to show not only how deranged this conservatives thinking has gone, but also like the real time rewriting of history. Guardians 2 was an extremely popular movie that literally everybody loves. But now your brain virus has gotten so bad, that even the mention that a movie is "woke" has now rewritten your entire reality.
TL:DR when I show my kids starwars "The Last Jedi" will be treated as a standalone film and I think they will like it more then I did at first I have over the years come around on "The Last Jedi" and concluded that my issues with the movie all stem from Ryan Johnson not being given the reigns from the start. So much of what it is doing would be enhanced by it being a piece of a well planned trilogy rather than having to shape the bare bones nature of "The Force Awakens" into a genuinely new idea. And to top it off, disney was too chicken shit to actually pay off the ideas being presented and instead make a trilogy in which all three movies feel like they are actively contracting each other both thematically and narratively.
Star wars, serious what? It's a series for children and young adults, my man. Sure, sometimes it can get dark, but dark doesn't mean serious. There's a lot of dark stuff for children.
"We didn't know why he (Vader) was redeemed" How about because he was the right hand to a fascist authoritarian society that murders indiscriminately, tortures, and colonizes other worlds to extract value from the planets to fuel the empire's war machine (Endor) as the Emperor seeks to conquer the galaxy and Vader was his right hand man in all of that. We knew that. That was all established though the first two movies, and his redeeming act was to kill the Emperor himself by chucking his ass in a pit, saving Luke and redeeming his own "soul".
You are correct, but at the same time, Vader was just guilty of some vague evil actions. We never really saw him do much other than command in the original trilogy, so him being redeemed at the end was fine. Even with the Death Star, he presided over it being built, but it was largely the Emperor and Tarkin who made the orders. But the prequels forced people to actually see the wrongs Anakin committed, and that changes one's perspective.
Greg: I want gritty and dark star wars... also I want a black and white moral system where one action can make a person completely irredeemable no matter what they do after that or why they did the first thing. Unless they shoot someone dead based on vibes. That's just makes them cool and has no impact on their morals. If you do redeem them, it means you're saying what they did was fine. Even though if that was what you were saying, they wouldn't need redeeming in the first place. I am very smart. I'm 99% convinced he's going in hard on "Yondu is a child trafficker" and his "they're trying to change your morals through media and yes I do mean (((they)))" to try and get Shoe to notice him. "Look June! I'm doing a Balenciaga! Just like you did! LOVE ME AGAIN!"
He doesn't fucking understand that the prequels were a tragedy, a direct inversion of the original trilogy. It was the entire point to show that Anakin was falling into the dark side, but Padme wanted to redeem him anyway!
This one is hilarious, five minutes in and I already can’t stop laughing at how my expectations were both shattered yet somehow met, all with that droning theme song in the back.
"Killing the past" is the OPPOSITE of the message of the Last Jedi. It's literally what the BAD GUY says. You know, the guy who is WRONG? Does Greg think the message of Return of the Jedi is "let the hate flow through you"?
"GotG was dark and gritty just like Star Wars" Greg needs to do more videos about the Mandella Effect because he's clearly from a different fucking universe
i also hate star wars 8 but for the complete opposite reasons chuds do; I like the parts they hate and hate the parts they love. star wars 7 was really really good (I dare say the best of ALL of them) but 8 and 9 squandered it.
I love how conspiracy people will literally say a sentence like "X company wants to make as much money as possible" and then proceed to go careening down the road into batshit crazy town instead of realizing they already figured everything out. Also i'm glad to live in a time where people seem to stop worrying about sounding crazy and just release videos proclaiming all their unhinged ideas.
The whole Jabba palace song thing was something that Lucas himself stated he wanted in the original film, but because of technological limitations in that area he couldn't pull off the song number, once Lucas films developed the special digital effects Lucas wanted to remake the trilogy to fit his original vision. Sometimes directors make decisions about removing things that they really didn't want to, but because of limitations in effects, or because of time constraints, these get left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes a directors original vison isn't as good as the final product they have to release.
52:56 oh, Greg doesn’t know that Lucas always wanted a huge song and dance number right there and the original version was the compromise that the puppeteers were able to arrive at with him given the budget and time constraints. The song and dance makes Jabba even worse because he goes from feeding a dancer to his starved monster immediately to making his captive band play a fun song, that’s pretty sick shit
The force doesn’t care about good and evil as it also helps the Siths. The force only cares about being in balance. When Vader killed the Emperor he brought balance to the galaxy. Becoming a force ghost in the process.
Ryan Johnson wasn't fired from ep9 he was never part of it. Colin Trevorrow is who was going to make ep9 and was fired for what most people think was The Book of Henry's poor performance. The Star Wars sequel trilogy was an experiment gone wrong on giving 3 different writer/directors 3 movies and hoping they somehow can tell a coherent story, it was basically set up to fail. The incorrect info from both sides was bothering me this whole video.....
The only things that bother me anymore about Last Jedi is the "Holdo Maneuver" because I'm a huge Star Wars RPG nerd and it has *implications* and that Luke gave up on Ben. I feel like you can make Luke suck without letting him give up on Ben. It might even make more sense that he wont take up arms against Kylo if he thinks just maybe he can be reached. I've always had strong Star Wars opinions tho, I'm open to the idea I'm wrong
It's so funny for Greg to pretend like the scene with Oola (the green Twi'lek dancer) was somehow replaced in the 1997 special edition when, not only was it there, but extra shots were filmed and added of her being in the rancor pit. You don't even have to be a dedicated Star Wars fan to know this, all these changes are well documented and easy to find just by googling them. Greg's just being dishonest and/or lazy (I'm gonna guess both).
"Do you think they would spend billions of dollars on a franchise just to let it slip through their fingers". No Greg. I, just like you apparently, believe that they spent billions of dollars on the franchise just to *intentionally* tank it. Geniuses, we are.
Oh my god! Labor being mistreated by . management!?! I was suggested a video by that Bresmonov guy while I was mocking the comments of Jordie Pee-Pee-Head’s RU-vid Short. Whzt I saw when I got there was an 8 digit view count & an endless list of comments of people repeating red-scare nonsense most people stopped falling for since the 1950s.
39:15 he really brought this screen to be like "wow! this looks cool! not gonna investigate or elaborate on the context of this image so i hope they're mad for the same reasons as me"
Does Gerg know that not everything needs to be dark and gritty? And that you can convey emotional significance without everything being GRIMDARK? This is exhausting to listen to, and I commend Jake for getting through this on regular speed. I’ve got this on 1.5 and I’m still just over Gerg and his lukewarm takes. He sounds like he took one media studies class in a D-tier community college and now thinks he’s the holder of all knowledge.
Oh, Greg is gonna show us some fresh, new reasons to hate on "woke Hollywood." Okay, got my popcorn ready, let's see what he has to say. *40 minutes of extremely rehashed Star Wars whining later* Well, that was stupid. Can I get a refund on this popcorn?
I agree with him on the special editions. You can't legally get Star Wars 77-83 on modern formats and Lucas should leave them the fuck alone or at least include the originals with the new versions. He won't even give Library of Congress a historical 35mm copy. Otherwise Greg goes off the rails.
Something I've always wondered; if TLJ is just about "killing the past" why would the director choose to have Leia live? Luke dies. Snoke dies. But why Leia, the catalyst for the first movie, live?
The original plan was to have the three main leads die at the end of each film. Han then Luke then Leia. Leia originally had a ton of scenes planned for the third film before her character was going to die. But because Fisher died during the shoot, they had to change the story and when she died in that film. The plan was for her to survive TLJ.
@@lnk2158 She did survive The Last Jedi. Carrie Fisher died before the premiere of the film, but her character didn't die until Rise of Skywalker, in which most of her scenes were done with archived footage from The Force Awakens.
Oh man, some of these movies you're saying were good... The Last Jedi broke the universe because they used hyperspace travel as a weapon. If that's a possibility with the effects shown, the tension around things like the Death Star don't make sense. It broke the logic of the balance of power. Every hyperspace capable ship is now and has always been a potential wmd. That breaks the universe. A mutiny that could have been entirely avoided is sparked because the woman in command finds it unnecessary to explain her reasoning at all even slightly. And a major character goes on a completely meaningless side quest for basically the entire movie to show off CGI and has basically no impact on the story. And I can't get behind Guardians 2. Ego, like Thanos, is an evil genius with an incredibly stupid plan/goal that falls apart if you think about it for more than 2 seconds. Sorry, Greg is upset for all the wrong reasons, but I still don't think they're good movies.
Yeah Guardian wasn't very good in terms of writing. It was a visual spectacle with good action scenes and that's it. And the New Star Wars trilogy was crap. The writing was atrocious.
I agree here. I don't believe that Rian ever had a chance at Ep 9, let alone was fired because of the backlash. It was highly rated by critics and made over a billion dollars. Rian even said something along the lines of not having any plans for Ep 9 while making Ep 8, because it was someone else's story to tell. I also said after Ep 8, that while not a bad movie in itself, is a bad movie when viewed as part of both a trilogy and saga, and that Ep 9 would bomb because of the story directions taken with Ep 8. Ep 7 was clearly setting up Rey "Skywalker", Kylo redemption, and Snoke big bad, and so when Ep 8 undercut them all, it left Ep 9 in an awkward place, to either try to fix those cuts to revert back to Ep 7 lines (like it did) or follow through with Ep 8 and have no exciting story beats besides watching Rey beat down Kylo. Either way, it was going to disappoint one group or the other. Amazingly, it upset everybody, and I personally didn't see that coming. The Disney trilogy had the chance to be anything it wanted to be. It could have expanded the universe or subverted the tropes with its own settings. It didn't have to have Rey live on a desert planet and find Anakin's saber, take or Chewie or Falcon, or to turn another Skywalker in to a darkside user dressed in black. It chose to be a direct sequel trilogy to the original trilogy, and trying to subert yourself mid way through your story is whiplash inducing.
The last video of Greg's I watched was the Force Awakens review. And honestly the whole atheism vs gamer gate thing killed most atheism based channels.
I love that people like this guy pretend that summer blockbusters and/or superhero movies are the only things that exist in the cinema industry anymore. How much do you want to bet Greggy has never actually seen awesome works of art of the last decade, such as Whiplash, Ex Machina, Annihilation, JoJo Rabbit, Rush, Shiva Baby, Bottoms, The Handmaiden, Parasite, The King's Speech, Black Swan, Philomena, Dallas Buyers' Club, The Book Thief, Birdman, Prisoners, etc. If you ask such a person what they thought of the movie Nightcrawler, they're going to think that they somehow missed a solo movie about the blue guy that teleports from the X-Men...
I can accept Greg has held these ideas for a long time like he claims because this video is immediately about how he’s still mad about gamergate stuff.
The emphasis on women in “killed women and children” when talking about Anakin killing people makes me realize Greg doesn’t mind it when men get killed.
