1.) Did they really expect to make a phrase as dumb as "I did it for the lulz" scary/intimidating? 2.) Why are children in movies always either written like adults or soleless exposition machines? That little girl said those lines so over the top creepily that it was almost funny. 3.) So they just give a big "F U" to the audience by saving the actual monster killer for the end and also in the process throwing all the plot out the window leaving more holes than swiss cheese as to why the real Smiley just suddenly shows up at the end. Also we got these totally unintimidating smiley masks throughout the movie that looks like they have blown up bar codes on them. 4.) So all these hackers/pranksters (?) are such total sociopaths that they all laugh and cheer at causing a girl to kill her self and splatting her head on the pavement? That's just... ridiculously dumb.
>>4.) So all these hackers/pranksters (?) are such total sociopaths that they all laugh and cheer at causing a girl to kill her self and splatting her head on the pavement? That's just... ridiculously dumb. Well, that does mean they pegged 4channers correctly.
That is the new generation of nerds.... jerk offs and assholes. Just like they are in the internet they are in real life really. >_> There is no hope for humanity.
2) childrren in mostly are written like they are dumb and do stupid things so that the main character be in a more dangerous situation that if the child wasn't there never would have happened
This episode is a masterpiece. I literally watch it every night as I am going to bed. Phelous is the greatest thing that ever came out of the whole ThatGuyWithTheGlasses entertainment collective.
That, and if the police are more focussed on internet video freak-outs, than taking possible murder cases seriously and doing something about it... You might want to move to a new town.
This demonstrates the definition of insanity: rehashing the same damn movie over and over again, hoping for a blockbuster but just falls flat and outdated immediately.
@@gracekim25 While paradoxically allow certain types of vile comments but censor the rest. And they told me it wasn't run by sociopaths, or Discord mods.
I remember seeing this on DVD in Poundland for 75p, how bad does your film have to be if it costs less than a £1 in the bargain bin? I also remember the only review it had on the box said "over one million trailer views" They struggled to find praise so badly that they had to resort to "lots of people watched the trailer"
17:19 One thing that Phelous doesn't mention in that scene and that I found absolutely mind-boggling is that when Ashley asks why Zayne has a gun, he explains that it's because he works in security. When Ashley asks "what, like, at the mall?" which might actually make sense as from what I understand, in at least some states in the USA, private security guards are allowed to carry guns, he laughs at her and explains that he works in NETWORK security. And that's why he has a gun. For the network security. *bangs head against wall*
Don't you know anything about Network Security? Everyone working in that field with access to the servers is legally obliged to pack heat, in case the serverpark grows self-sentient and starts an apocalyptic war against humanity. It's called the Skynet Protocoll, you're meant to shoot the harddrives when that happens. Also yeah, I just commented on a 7 year old comment lol
Every now and again I come back to these older videos. Sounds really dumb but Phelous's earlier videos got me through a really tough time. For some reason, hearing someone taking the piss out of horror movies really just got me through shit lmao - that and The Ruins video - oh god and Chain Letter. Gave me good times when I really needed it.
Nah mate, it’s not dumb😅 honest. Ever since the triangle review was put back up, I have basically marathoned every older review of his🤣 you’re not alone in needing a cheer up during the week🙂
Winter Steele yeah Basically he made the good guys girlfriend kiss him and went like "You though you first kiss was going to be JoJo, but IT WAS ME! DIO!" Or something like that
This was directed by Michael Gallagher, he writes for his RU-vid comedy channel "Totally Sketch," one of the least funniest channel on RU-vid. There is even a joke of him just sitting around counting all the supportive money he made from making Smiley. This movie blows, he can't write anything truly humorous to save his life, and he exists as evidence of how low the bar has fallen.
That actually might have led to something creepy, like the wall falls out from behind you and Smiley's there. However, it's this movie, so creepy was not something they could do very well.
But that scenario leads to the question: What if Smiley busts through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man?! I mean the ending kinda implies Smiley is some kind of supernatural entity (or he's an even better hacker and evil mastermind than the self proclaimed REAL ANONYMOUS losers)!
And it would have been better if the little girl were the mastermind the entire time. Ash-hole: Why are you doing this?! Little Girl: You didn't share my post about how 1D breaking up is the worst thing EVAH!
This movie could have worked 1000X better if it was a full-on parody of these kinds of horror movies/ creepypasta/ internet culture and humor, or just acted self-aware. Our heroine is a sheltered college student who gets entangled with a group of typical drunk/party assholes, who claim to be obsessed with the internet/computers yet keep fucking up their references (which makes even less sense when the people playing them make a career based on online humor). Eventually she finds herself stalked by a killer with a stupid theme and even more ridiculous incantation (explained at the start by a kid, adding to the hilarity), and the cops are so incompetent they won't investigate the case because of a RU-vid video. The twist? The killer was a meme-based cult which claims to be the illuminati yet it's the same morons who can't even correctly reference pedo-bear and just killed a girl because "lol." WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS GOOD WAS THIS PRESENTED SERIOUSLY?!
One thing about this movie that I will never be able to get over is Smiley's design, like, how did he get his eyes and mouth to look like that, and where are his ears and nose?
I know this is probably nitpicking, but the first step of the scientific process is not forming a hypothesis. It's making an observation. Seriously, the creators couldn't be bothered to Google it?
Depends. Some say Hypothesis is the first step and others say Observation is the first step. Observation obviously is the more logical of the two to be first. It just depends which textbook you pick up.
Not necessarily. Scientific process is merely how you handle an observation, which pre-exists to the process. For exemple, two people may observe the same phenomenon, and one will apply the scientific method to explain it while the other will jump to the magical/new-age/hocuspocus bullshit...
Y'know it's real sad when a reviewer's title card manages to be far scarier than an entire "horror" movie. And I mean it, that title card is fucking freaky, nicely done!
It makes me really, really happy that Phelous doesn't give a shit there are youtubers in this. As everyone should feel when anyone tells me I should care because the person does "youtube". The rage was cleansed.
@@skibot9974 Besides being racist, Shane was really inappropriate towards children and animals I recommend you watch D'angelo Wallace's video on him, it's quite long but goes really in depth in all the shitty things he did
I'm convined whoever wrote the script for this movie literally did it to see what they could get away with and it actually became a movie. Nobody can be stupid enough to write any of this seriously. Essentially they atually did it for the lulz.
They bring up the concept of a miracle hacker like it's a concept that exists in the real world, like they're explaining that he's a gifted architect. A miracle hacker isn't a thing as far as I know. He's basically a superhero
An actual fun sequel would be Anonymous, in suits and green masks, hunting those guys down in over the top ways, and they are like that secret society of edgy super killers.
i mean the pedobear joke def makes more sense with the context of shane’s actual youtube content being full of him encouraging children to behave sexually (and saying it was “for all the pedophiles who watch me”) and making out with preteen fans.
"5 million views since yesterday"? Bullshit. Oops, sorry, must have been those terrifyingly omnipotent RU-vidrs artificially adding millions to the figures. The HORROR!
This movie would have been better if at the end, the assholes behind everything had been attacked and killed by another Smiley, who pulls off their mask and reveals... GODZILLA!
I was looking up horror movie fan art on Pixiv and when I found a drawing of Jason celebrating his birthday with all the big horror icons and fucking SMILEY of all people was included alongside Freddy, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Chucky, Candyman, Pinhead, Ghostface and Sadako, I died a little inside.
So Smiley becomes real because one girl believed in him and jumped out of a window to death. It's like Freddy Krueger without any backstory or character motivation of his own. Wow...there is nothing to answer because there is no question. Just make a jump scare with Melanie Papalia's face. At least the actors got paid and Shane Dawson...whoever the fuck he is. He got even paid to kiss Caitlin Gerard...whoever the fuck she is...I'm the real president!! And we did it for the...no...that sounds moronic...Oh wait did she become Smiley after she died? Wow....I don't care!
That appearance by Shane Dawson hits different now that Dramageddon III is underway. (Great review as always, Phelan. I *had* to go back and see this after remembering that some YTers were in this damn movie.)
They really didn't do a good job hiding the fact the friends are all evil and behind the whole thing. Like, if you saw what they saw and then your one friend waa continually like "No! We-we can't call the cops! It creates problems!"
"Nobody knows if it's real. It's on the internet." A statement that could only come from a person who has spent zero time on the internet, but many hours hiding under the bed afraid the internet will give then an STD. There's no reason to not believe they've just seen someone murdered, unless it was a set up to freak out party guests. Which we know it wasn't. Who would like a film so dumb? Stupid plot holes aside, just why did they do this? "For the lulz"? What kind of BS is that? A group of people don't just decide to kill someone in an elaborate way for no reason. It's like if at the end of Psycho they said Norman was just having an off day! It makes no sense. AND! why does the meme come to life? That makes no sense either. There's no set up for it. This film should've been called "WHY!?"
what annoys me most is " lulz " is supposed to be when you laugh at someone getting hurt. And they couldn't piece this together! It almost would've made sense in this movie, but the ppl making it were too worried about the internet lingo to bother being correct. also spot on shane dawson scene now, they predicted the future.
So Smiley stitched his eyes shut and carved a smile on his face - but what became of his nose? That thing is so painfully un-scary that it causes me actual physical pain to look at it. I’d love to know what Shane Dawson, Tobuscus, and all the other RU-vidrs who took part in this atrocity think about their roles when looking back on “Smiley.” I know I’d be filled with deep shame and regret, but I’m not sure those particular e-celebs are capable of shame.
+Antichrist2000 Don't also forget that Mark seems to be one of those YTers (along Jacksepticeye) that really cares about what his fanbase, always saying he enjoys making content to make people smile.
+Whirlwind Spiral XD Fair enough. And yeah, he looks like it :3. And that is true, again example of a nice YTer is Mark and example of a shittuber is Shane Daweson.
My younger brother was reading one of Shane Dawson's books. Shane talks about Smiley, and my brother was like, "He was in Smiley?! I didn't know that!" I said, "You want to watch the Phelous review?" And his whole face lit up! He was thinking: "Best. Birthday. EVER." (It would be a million times more awesome if Phelous gave him a shout out, but he's a busy man, and I do NOT want to distract him from any of the crappy films he has to watch for us! XD)
3:33 Why is she asking these questions as though she's not only never heard this type of legend before (Bloody Mary? Hello!) but is ready to believe it? Shouldn't it be the _babysitter_ telling the story and the little girl asking the naive questions? It's like the character names were switched in the script or something and it got filmed without anyone noticing.
