We aren't getting any better now we have sony with it's monster movie cinematic universe and DC with it's awful movies every year because all the studios are like "turn everything into a franchise there is millions to be made from that" because they fail to realize that the only reason MCU is popular it's because they are actually good movies And you know that if these movies where made now there'd be a studio calling it the Grimm brothers cinematic universe or some such which would make them extra pathetic.
@@ldmt1995 calling marvel movies good is a stretch. they're competently made, they look decent, and none of the characters are offensive or obnoxious. that's all that can be really said. they're like cinema mcdonalds
@@stpastabeard I completely agree there are fewer good marvel movies than bad ones at this point by now it's pretty obvious that they are one note but at the start they where more than decent not only with visuals but with character development the captain america and iron man 1,3 to me are quintessential hero movies otherwise they would have never been this popular and made so much money my point is other studios only see that they made money and don't understand what got them there.
@@stpastabeard That was probably more true in 2015/2016 and there is still a lot of trash that Marvel releases these days like Black Widow, Eternals, and so on. But then you also have movies like No Way Home, and it’s actually great on its own even though I thought it would only be nostalgia bait.
Very late comment but Ewan Macgregor says both 'I've got a baaad feeling about this' and 'the high ground' within 20 seconds at a point in the film. That's how I originally even noticed it was him.
To clarify, "Jack and the Beanstalk' was one shorter story from the longer canon of stories of Jack. Jack the Giant Slayer typically starts with the jack and the beanstalk story, minus the golden goose and singing harp and all that. Sometimes with a guardian spirit/fairy/ghost who explains that the castle was Jack's birthright. Jack is then called upon to outsmart and kill various giants ravaging britain, often grieving relatives of the ones hes already killed. But it isnt like the movie.
10:57 once again RedLetterMedia predicted it all: Anne Hathaway has been cast as the lead witch in Robert Zemeckis' remake of the 1990 movie The Witches
Mike and jay have certain things that divide them: heroic classicism, wonder and heart for mike wins over the nefarious studio elements of cynicism, technology etc. I feel like jay is more concerned about the latter and doesn't excuse a movie just for having heart hidden somewhere. It shows that Mike in a sense is pessimistic about change and just doesn't give a fuck about the corporate stupid elements of films and just finds what he likes from childhood and hangs on to it while jay wants to change the system. Together, they make the perfect contemporary Hollywood critic, I love you guys so much
timkinss that's not what I said, please read carefully. I said excusing corporate meddling if a heroic element --heart--is hidden in the film shows that he doesn't expect there to be any dramatic changes in Hollywood and will enjoy what he can get.
The fact that Jay says that women over 40 can only play witches and Mike brings up Anne Hathaway is crazy now that Anne Hathaway literally plays the lead in 2020 version of The Witches
I gotta disagree with the idea that The Chronicles of Narnia was put into production by the success of Harry Potter. I feel like it came from the success of The Lord of the Rings. Disney wanted their own LoTR-esque series, and adapting C.S. Lewis' (a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien) family friendly fantasy tales was a natural choice.
@@salomaonplanetsaturn674 Excuse me, the films don’t do the story justice. It might not be on the level of Lord of the Rings, but don’t disrespect CS Lewis like that
MrSnowy665 The villain also must be some sort of powerful figure, and go from calm, reserved, and boring to mustache-twirling supervillain at a moment's notice.
Also make sure that the lead actress has exactly 2 expressions: 1. mouthbreathing and looking in awe (looking more like a cow after lightning struck) and 2. cry-face
I saw Hansel and Gretel tonight and I couldn't agree more. I was expecting it to be horrible but actually kinda liked it. And I too thought of The Evil Dead while watching it.
I wonder if they cast Famke Janssen in this movie after seeing her performance in X-Men: The Last Stand, where it seemed like both her and the director thought Jean Grey was a witch, because obviously nobody on that set had ever read the Phoenix Saga
Why do the main characters in both these movies look so insanely out of place. Like Hansel and Gretel look like Blade extras and Jack looks like the "Hip teen" archetype
One thing I couldn't get over watching the Jack the Giant Slayer movie was how every scene shot with both Ewan's character and Jack looked like it was filmed with stand-ins. They would flip back and forth with the camera during the scenes (particularly when they're up in the Giant's lair thingy on top o' the stalk and subsequent escape) and all I could think was 'those are stand-ins' and that Ewan didn't film half of the scenes his character was in. Did anyone else notice this? I thought RLM would mention it but since they didn't maybe I was just imagining it.
So was hot buttered popcorn a real thing or were they bombarded with questions regarding the song from episode 47 where they destroyed Plinkett's TV (also titled : Hot Butter - Popcorn)?
The remake fairy tale trend is from nineties children / young adult literature. There was a big move to flip the fairy tale genre. For example there is a three little pigs story from the perspective of a wolf in pig jail who claims he just had a really bad cold and really wanted a bowl of sugar. I would assume the film industry noticed this after Harry Potter success.
That thing about Kristen Stewart and Anne Hathaway to become witches in future films. Hathaway played a witch last year already... Kristen Stewart remains for the prophecy to be complete.
They point out how there's multiple actors from The Phantom Menace and Trainspotting, so I'm surprised they didn't notice that there were two villains from Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
Ironically L. Frank Baum added a big battle sequence with two all-female armies and several other elements to the first Oz sequel, 1904's "The Marvelous Land of Oz", after the massive success of the 1902 stage musical adaptation of the original book. Even contemporary reviews noted that the female armies felt like something intended to be played by sexy chorus girls in a future stage production. So it's not just modern adaptations throwing this stuff in. The original author almost immediately started finding ways to pander and writing it in when he found out how much money there was to be made.
Indeed it was, but most people outside of the horror community dont know about that film at all. The general knowledge regards TBWP to be the first because it sparked so much interest publically, while the CH film was released during the home video revolution, never got a theatrical release in the U.S., and faded into obscurity until the dvd release a few years ago. Good comment though :)
Just a little correction the cheesa cake that is Beauty & the Beast with Kristin Kreuk and ''What's his face?'' is in fact a reboot of the 80' séries of the same name with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman... For the little that i was able to watch without gaging, it has more of a Smallville's Sci-Fi soap after taste. ^_^
I rewatched this episode today and you guys weere soo right. Anne Hathaway did play a witch in The Witches remake. You called it. No roles for an actress over 40 except for a witch. Hahahaha
Well the problem is that people are familliar with the more recent versions of them(19th onwards)were they were toned down by the storytellers.For example,in the older versions of the Red Riding Hood,the girl gets eaten by the wolf.Such ''versions'' wouldn't do well in the humanist age of Romanticism.
@@hebanker3372 Or how about the original Sleeping Beauty? Yikes. If you like old school fairy tales, look up the story The Willful Child by the Grimm brothers. I used to read this to my daughter all the time & she loved it! Lol It's really dark. We have an odd sense of humor. Edit: The Willful Child is very short. I'm not recommending some crazy long story. It's something like three paragraphs.
@@DarlingDaintyfoot Thanks,I'll give it a shot.I for one suggest you check Bluebeard,if you hadn't already.A very sinister fairy tale with an even more sinister inspiration.
@@hebanker3372 I went & read it immediately! Lol What was even better was one of the morals cited from a book written in 1899. "Apply logic to this grim story & you will ascertain that it took place many years ago. No husband of our age would de so terrible as to demand the impossible of his wife, nor would he be such a jealous malcontent. For what ever the color of her husband's beard, the wife of today will let him know who the master is." What a sense of humor! I'll have to look up the inspiration. I also strongly recommend The Juniper Tree, once again by the Grimm brothers. I have a big book of their original stories.
I thought Bridge to Terabithia was a movie in the 1980's or something like that. That is well before Harry Potter. Oh, I see, there is some kind of remake movie more recently and it was a novel in the 70's too, are there any new ideas?
Robin Hood was never a fairy tale, it was a very violent novel. Some of the first filmic adaptations are campy, but that's like thinking that Dracual is a fairy tale because of The Count.
"Robin Hood was never a fairy tale, it was a very violent novel." No it wasn't. It was a local legend/folklore that creeped it's way into stage plays and first machine printed books. But it was a local tale first. For more info I suggest Overly Sarcastic Productions
I think it's more complicated than that. When it comes to fantastical creatures in cinema, there has never been a time where I could not tell what the effect was. For example, I could tell that the trolls in The Hobbit were CG, just as I could tell that the creature in the Thing was animatronic; and both looked fantastic. The real issue, I feel, with CG is the animation itself, and getting it to sync with live action footage.
Before I saw No Country in theaters, I made sure I knew as little about it as possible. I knew that it had garnered critical acclaim, and that it was loosely a Western. That was enough for me, and I went in with no expectations, and I enjoyed it much more for that. The same could be said for 'Blood, and many other art house flicks. With say, a Star Wars film, I want to know what it contributes (or takes away) from the franchise; how and if it works within its genre.
Abrahan Lincoln Vampire Slayer's author was always aiming for the kind of schlock that does take itself very, very seriously. It's supposed to be tongue and cheek on a meta level -- by having the premise be completely over the top ridiculous. Apparently, it didn't work in the movie.
