How Austin Powers Predicted the Future of Cinema 

Damn homie, I think you got sompin there.

Maybe, but least Henry Jones senior was not a carbon copy of Henry Jones junior (or of course Indy but you get it) and most of the movie its them Solving the problems in their own separated ways and arguing on what the best methot of tomb raiding .

Phew! Literally only came down here to say that lol.

Disappointed that you said “we should treat the work in a vacuum” and didn’t make any “no, this is me in a vacuum” joke 😆 Great video Pat! ❤️

@@themasher4821 I think it's less "ripped off' and more, the very nature of franchises means you will run out of ideas and hit predictable tropes.

*frickin

With his genius forehead

Coming from the guy who gave me an existential crisis talking about flight simulator

You're next, Jacob!

I think you mean Austin “Danger” Powers

Make the LOTR dance montage cut

Spielberg originally intended that for Schindler’s List, but time constraints didn’t allow it

Check Bollywood then, you might like it !

thought the same exact thing

Indian movies been doing this

Face it: freedom failed

"Props, guys" I see what you did there

I legitimately laughed out loud at that

timestamp!

I was just about to comment this. 10/10

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"I may have gone too far a few places" - Patrick Willems.

This is sucha underrated comment!

(Bristles with indignation on behalf of a probably malevolent coconut at that comparison)

“I make these movies for Charl” - George Lucas

how much extra is that gonna cost me?

😏😏😏😏

LOL

@@parkivich google it :p

@@parkivich Without ducking it first (that would be cheating), I'm going with TV Tropes ETA after ducking it: Nope

Not surprising. He defended the album in his video about music biopics. Not that I'm mad - it's easily up there with What's the Story (Morning Glory); its coked-up aesthetic actually makes these songs really engaging like Oasis is going down with a party on a sinking ship - but not shocking.

Not a terrible album, but Magic Pie is godawful.

@@ethansloan worst track on the album. Should've swapped it out for Going Nowhere or The Fame

And yet he's not wrong. That album is a bop

@@patrickhwillems Please do a straight-up video about Oasis since I'm a huge fan of them and I think people underestimate how good they are, lol. Even post-Be Here Now they are really compelling

I think Annie Wilkes in Misery and Buddy Pine/Syndrome from The Incredibles do a great job at that sort of thing.

Did Robot Chicken actually traumatize him somehow?

Absolutely did not expect you to be here.

He is a Guru after all....

And I loved the subtle suggestion that he was a little disappointed they didn’t.

@@catherineescobar3123 Heheheh.

we will

Oh we're still planning to win.

I think he was just playing safe in case they had and he was seen to be supporting Capitalism.

Except Wayne's World wasn't commentary on nostalgia at the time it was made. It might be nostalgic to people *now* but it was more a parody of dead-end no-lifers of the "slacker" Gen Xers who made up the primary audience of SNL back in Mike Meyers' days on the show. It was a pretty common thing to lampoon, as it also formed the basis of Beavis and Butthead and other comedies making fun of the audience that the audience actually like because they found it relatable.

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe It's an old comment but I think I was imagining how he brought Queen back to the pop consciousness again for a moment. Anyway, Wayne feels much more of a holdover from the 70's than for instance Airheads. He's into Zepp and Queen, not grunge.

Totally agree. Anybody writing something down would do it onto a sticky note, which would not slide a la the trope.

That's three things. I agree with all of them, but it is three things.

@@helloofthebeach No, it's two points: the sticky note, and the montage. That's it. Two points.

@@NickPiers Yeah, well, if there _had_ been a third thing, I probably would have agreed with it. (Also my bad habit of saying very stupid things as jokes, knowing full well that it doesn't look like a joke and that everyone will just think I actually am stupid, has reared its ugly head once again.)

If he did, he'd stop himself from saying "yes" to Cat in the Hat, or from making the Love Guru.

the thing about Mission Impossible is that it has kept moving forward. the purity of it as a franchise has depended on its unwillingness to look backwards. like Ethan Hunt it's constantly moving forward. even when it brings back his wife, she's moved on and that's fine, and Ethan accepts it as the price of his role. Mission Impossible is about constant forward momentum, like a shark that has to keep swimming or die. it's a miracle JJ Abrams had his hands on it and somehow didn't muck up the franchise, but kept it alive. It takes what works, and leaves what doesn't. it's what all franchises could be if they had the purity of purpose. which is why, I think a franchise needs to have a Reason. it can exist as a sad moneymaking shell without one, but to last, to make a real enduring impact, it has to have a core to it. and when it loses that core, it fades. that's what I think TROS did to Star Wars, it finally blew up that core. all that's left of it is a sideshow with imitations of two popular characters to keep it going, and the hope of better video games perhaps. suits unfortunately don't understand cores, don't get Reasons. it's funny that JJ Abrams saved Mission Impossible and then killed Star Wars, too. really makes u thunk

@@themasher4821 Solo didn't kill Star Wars, Solo's fine. TROS took the joy out of the franchise, and I say this based on how the fans and general audience reacted to it, not on my bias (never actually saw it).

tf did you say about Mission Impossible being the greatest spy series? gtfoh.

@@themasher4821 I would not disagree that firing them was a very bad thing, but Solo was one movie. TROS retroactively ruined the entire sequel trilogy by undercutting it, denying pretty much any of the characters a good payoff, and giving the whiniest fans a cynical checklist of what they wanted.

@@dvillines26 Yep. I have... considerable issues with Solo (its stuck-together nature was apparent to be on a shot-by-shot basis) but I could write it off as a single dud. Whereas TRoS went out of its way to undo the previous film to the point of crippling itself, and showed a staggering lack of care for the characters.

You and me both. I heard that and went "Wait, hold on! I recognize that's supposed to be a joke, but it sounds plausible enough to be true, and I need to hear more!"

I offered an analysis of this in another comment thread here, but here’s the short version: 90’s apathy and cynicism gives way to 2000’s ironic indulgence which leads to 2010’s unironic embrace of authenticity. The mocked become the mockers.

@@adamgreenspan4988 That makes sense, for sure. I'd still love to hear what Patrick's specific thoughts were (probably not actually that deep, hence the joke's throwaway-ness), but I appreciate the good insight on the idea in any case!

The watch joke was genius.

This film analysis channel is some of the best sketch comedy on RU-vid right now.

Just going to ignore his disgusting misogyny huh?

@@michellemarty7510 it's almost as though someone has chosen not to define a person's entire worth by their more negative qualities. In 2020?! Shocking.

@@michellemarty7510 miserable and will probably expire alone

So almost Inception level rebooting a reboot.

To crib on the words of Nick Fury: "I recognize the canon has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."

I practically forgot about this, but it has been awhile since I last saw it.

I'd be curious to know if there has ever been a good example of a villain popping up and taking credit for the previous film's events.

@@themasher4821 Scorsese ripped off Animaniacs? I knew it!!🤣🤣

@@blokey8 Moriarty is like the earliest example in fiction I can think of, and it's not good there either! It's like Doyle thought "I want to kill off my character, but I can't just have some rando kill Sherlock Holmes... I'll retcon in some hidden mastermind!"

Check out the "Some More News Movie" just uploaded on youtube. Glorious over analysis on silly movies.

@@joshhiroti always fun to see Cody’s Showdy get recommended.

@@themasher4821 We get it, you like Sam Mendes. Get over it. It's a throwaway line in a 30 minute film analysis video about 3 comedies from years ago. You're going to be ok.

Yep. I think leaning hard into the Covid punch has helped, but the other videos from this year are also comfortably among his best.

I believe his is the hardest working creator on this website

It also retconned Skyfall to make it a Spectre plot too, instead of a standalone villain.

@@almightycinder that I wasn't surprised about, as they basically did that already with the second movie. which was part of the reason why I disliked Quantum and fell off from the bond reboots in general. I just...didn't think it could get dumber...

@@almightycinder I'm still going to maintain that Blofeld was just lying about that.

What do you mean? Because of Sean Connery’s passing?

@@thechroniclesofthesuperhob167 or Biden

@@mrflipperinvader7922 oh right yeah

this is pretty different from your content lol i love seeing other youtubers in the comments

I'm looking forward to all of their inevitable spin-off movies.

You forgot Rachel's cat :P

@@blokey8 I mean, we'd also need his parents and Matt

@@stephenjohnson9745 true, but I feel like Matt's being withheld for a triumphant return. Possibly involving Charl and a hammer.

You can write it off as an aberration or a cutesy thing when it happens once. When it reveals itself as a modus operandi, we're headed for bad places. I remain convinced that Solo started off as a parody in the same spirit as 22 Jump Street, and the origin of everything was meant to be a big cumulative joke.

@@blokey8 The directors did get fired and went on to do Into the Spiderverse so I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they were going for.

@@mttkra That's not how animation works. It takes 3-4 years to develop an animated film and Lord & Miller were producers and writers working on it simultaneously with Solo before they were fired.

Maggie Mae Fish has you covered: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aJ0nAkXOkMs.html

@@faggykrueger Much obliged!

Here's a free text-only summary of the issue: Tropes built on Freudian bullshit are crutches of the lazy and inept writers/creators. Had they any talent or artistic substance in them, they'd be writing novels - not scripts for 100-million-a-pop entertainment Kool-Aid for the masses. Being lazy and inept, they gravitate to congregating and being hired by even lazier, more inept creatively and far less cultured people with money. Thus, lazy and inept "creators" end up prostituting themselves to the lazy and inept and uncultured, who are paying for and marketing that slop for the masses. Ergo, Kool-Aid for the masses for ever it is. BTW, video above confuses and conflates "like father like son" daddy-trope with "absent father" daddy-trope with "conflict/reconciliation with father" daddy-trope... with "sibling rivalry/favorite child" daddy-trope. Which probably stems from viewing all those tropes through the lens of Freudian bullshit and thus treating them all as just "daddy issues" - when they are all distinct tropes. E.g. Big part of "Hero's journey" (which in turn is mostly Jungian bullshit) is only one of those tropes - but if one is lazy and inept all those tropes get simplified to "daddy issues". Thus, if he had been written more lazily and with more ineptness, Luke could have ended up being a parricidal Sith Lord, in constant conflict with his sibling. You know... like Kylo Ren.

Years ago I was reading of all things an unofficial Babylon 5 episode guide, and the (British) author at one point notes: "It's said all American fiction is ultimately about the main character's relationship with their father" and daddy issues in stories have annoyed me ever since.

@@themasher4821 He's a dime-a-dozen TV director with the creativity and artistic expression of a Hallmark Channel journeyman work-for-hire. His main abilities as a director are his devotion to obedience to the people who sign the paychecks, obligingly giving them the final cut of his films so as to be digestible for average middle-class audiences, bland approach to outdated subject matter and being British and thus really cheap compared to other directors. The only reason he even does theatrical movies is cause he lucked out early by being something like a 31st choice for a Dreamworks movie which later got HEAVY campaigning during the award season. Not because the movie had a pretentious masturbatory portrayal of a "brilliant young filmmaker" who sees beauty in a grocery bag tumbling down the street.

i had the same thought. he's a like a discount michael. lol

I mean, yes and no. That's Austin's arc in the first film, yes. But Vanessa Kensington *also* goes through her arc, and it's about how being too uptight and politically correct (for the 90's at least) was stifling and she needed to loosen up to enjoy herself and life. So it's really less about how "past retrograde, modern progress good" and more about "let's find a balance between these two attitudes."

@@themasher4821 That doesn't make it no shit, buddy.

I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not, but John mulaney would have been in grade school when this movie came out. But it does look like him though.

@@evilincoln23 I didn’t really think about the age, but right?! 😂 It’s so uncanny

Scared for Jake?

No please no! But if means that we get punk revival, because of the 2000's punk revival, that happend, because of 70's punk. I'm on board

@Mitch Lang So... stilted dialogue is coming back to blockbusters? No wait, we had TRoS so it's already here. Can we count the likes of Bourne and such as 70s nostalgia, as they were updating paranoid spy thrillers for the 21st century? I feel like there was one with Will Smith too?

He looks like the last thing toxic fans would want to be likened to which, like Kylo Ren and Hux in full bitch-mode, makes him the perfect representation.

@@blokey8LMBO, the toxic gatekeepers who think of themselves as this majestic scholar when they're really Scott Evil!!

I'm expecting that it will turn out that Charl is Patrick's ha;f-brother, three-times-removed.

Wow!

Also Mike Myers is a legend.