I love Edgar Wright, and Scott Pilgrim might just be my favorite movie of his. I've seen the movie like 7 times, and am only just now realizing how funny it is at 2:27 when he "kicks-in" a folding phone booth door.
I'm a lover of Scott Pilgrim as well, that movie is very similar to a really weird time in my life for relationships. But anyway, how cool would it be for someone to start making the movies within movies REAL!!!!
Not long ago I found a list of military campaigns in Vietnam. One was called operation rolling thunder Is the title of the movie a pun on that operation? I know explaining jokes is no fun, but I'm no US guy, so a comment on this coincidence would be appreciated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder
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"Funny People" actually got me really excited for the trajectory of Adam Sandler's carreer--it was clear he was self-aware, and wanted to be more serious. Yet here we are.
I have much respect for your work (I do) but I believe some parts of your analysis are wrong. Specifically, the two examples from Scott pilgrim and Inglorious Bastards. In the primer, the glimpse at Lucas Lee's carrier is used not only to establish him as an overly manly man's man, where Scott is a chill, a bit cowardly dude; but also to show him as vain and monolythic, and even a bit stupid. He uses later lines from this movie to taunt Scott, he's bragging about being famous and quite stupidly grinds a stair ramp to his death cause Scott dared him to. Concerning IB, the "'Nation's pride" (directed by Eli Roth) is your standard propaganda film, framed like a classic Rieffenstahl. What's funny is that it's editedmore like a soviet film from the same period, but I don't know if it's intended (could be,I mean it's Tarantino). Seeing the nazis laughing and shouting at the screen and its ultra violence is just Tarantino showing us a mirror,as we,as an audience laughed and shouted at the screen previously in the movie (or in general) when seeing a horrible gory blood-splattery murder being commited on screen. He's not saying that we're nazis, he's just laughing at us, or rather at anyone who laughs at ultraviolence in movies and laughs at the nazis being vile and all laughing at the ultraviolance in Nation's Pride (whence, who doesn't get the double-entendre of this scene) Also, movies in movies are sometimes just a joke, like all the references in Last action Hero, or in American werewolf in london. Joe Dante uses them to frame character, Gabble in the great race watched by Gizmo in gremlins,for example. In Gremlins; you can also see that the hill valley theater is playing a Boy's Life and Watch the Skies, two working title for Spielberg projects. Tarantino constantly quotes movies, with a very intelligent double meaning each time. You can enjoy every scene of every of his flicks without any of the references, but having also happens to help understanding them more deeply. Etc. As valid as your point on Home Alone may be, I don't think that ine should generalize so broadly. Then again,I have much respect for your work (sometimes disagreement but well, it's up to one's own and unique tastes) which is why I'm a bit surprised for this video. Anyway, thank you for you work, thanks a bunch for taking the time to read this (and p'haps answer). Keep up the good work,bye. (Also,sorry if I'm not clear, english is not my native tongue,but ne proud to know that you have fans in France)
You're just presenting some additional insight, All of which is interesting! But I don't think any of that disagrees with anything Patrick said--it's just additional insight.
Angels With Even Filthier Souls in Home Alone 2 deserves a mention for being a meta self aware commentary on sequels. Just like the movie that it's in, it essentially rehashes the first film but is more outlandish and with a slightly bigger budget.
Great job as always Patrick. The first movie within a movie that you didn’t mention that came to mind was in Mr. Holmes. One of the strange quirks of Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories is that he wrote them as John Watson writing about his past adventures with the great detective. In the film Mr. Holmes, Ian McKellen as the retired Sherlock is thinking about a past case and goes to see the film adaptation, of his friend’s written version of the events. Bonus points for the movie within a movie version of Sherlock Holmes being played by Nicolas Rowe who was the star of Young Sherlock Holmes.
In the movie "Final Girls", the protagonist is the recently orphaned girl that is invited to an anniversary screening of her mother's most famous movie, a fictional 80's cult slasher called "Camp Bloodbath". Due to shenanigans, the protagonist of Final Girls inadvertedly ends up imprisoned inside Camp Bloodbath and has to make a difficult choice: either let the movie take its natural course in order to escape (which would result, to her still grieving mind, into having her mother die again) or try to keep her mother's character alive until the end of the movie, making her a "final girl" in a movie where she was just suposed to be generic camp counsellor with a clipboard and a guitar number 5.
My dad had a copy of Angels with Dirty Faces when I was a kid, I confused it with Angels with Filthy Souls and was quite disappointed when I popped it in the VCR one day
My favourite movie within a movie was always the one that Hogarth watches in The Iron Giant where the brain turns evil and kills the scientist. Great Video btw
I Liked Machete was a fake Trailer on. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grind House Movies Death Proof and Planet Terror it was recived so well people wanted to see it so he made it real. Good video loved it.
Also that Uncle Machete had already been an established character in Spy Kids before that, bridging a weird connection between Rodriguez's ultraviolent action movies and his family-friendly kids movies.
i remember a seinfeld dvd-bnous-clip where the creators talked about how much fun it was to create all those fake movie names and posters like "Rochelle, Rochelle" or "Prognosis Negative"
You definitely have to see Quentin Dupieux’s “Réalité” in which a French director based in LA is about to shoot a thriller with The perfect scream. He goes to the movies and he seems to find that someone has already made that film: Alain Chabat shouting in the theater “don’t watch this film, I still have to make it” is definitely a must in the whole ‘meta’ universe.
I feel like it’s not as effective as it could be though cause he video surrounding it isn’t something that would be uploaded to TH-cam by itself (like it doesn’t make sense as a YT video with out the Patrick’s section)
Yes! Thank you for mentioning Chubby Rain at the end! Bowfinger is a criminally underappreciated movie, and the scriptwriter explaining the meaning behind the title is hysterical!
I love Patrick's hands as he talks. I hope that's how you use them in real life. I would watch a video of just a normal video of Patrick in conversation wildly gesturing as he speaks.
Great job with this video, I'm surprised movies within movies haven't been talked about often. Though I should mention that the Scream franchise does eventually take up that missed opportunity by showing the legacy of what happens when you make a film franchise out of a real life tragedy in Scream 4.
While the whole thing was a TH-cam within TH-cam setting, with the theme being movies within movies, that bit at the very end was extremely clever after your video "ended". Little touches like that give me hope maybe one day you might be able to make real movies with such cleverness. Love this channel.
"The 3" and "The Orchid Thief" both in《Adaptation》was cool because the movie was about characters writing the screenplays. "Jack Slater" great satire, a movie within a movie for the whole movie, which the audience enters
I saw the recent remake of Unknown Soldier (Finnish war movie) recently... it kind of made me very uncomfortable in how close it was to Nations Pride...
Real nazi propaganda was nothing like that. It were comedies and historic dramas to distract people from the horrors of war. And to agitate against jews.
You released this just a few days after I filmed a short that has a film within it 😂 Also I always thought the Home Alone gangster film was real! My fave film-within-in-a-film was the one with the panda babies in Tropic Thunder
Best video you've made in quite some time, and that is saying something, given how good you've been recently. Looking forward to what this channel does next.
Pretty sure ny this point he doesn't care about the movies themselves - it's just paid vacation for him and his friends, with minimal effort required for the actual shooting. Not sure if he actually said it in an interview (heard he did?), but it can't be far from the truth even if he didn't. I don't like to use "I can at least respect the hustle" since it's usually used about scammers and the like, but it fits here - because what's the downside of this? A few shitty movies more?
Well, Gremlins 2 did have numerous "meta" references to the first, including a critic's review of it. Yet it also proceeded as a sequel. It's a tough call but.... yeah! Why not?!
PAAAAPTARTRRRIIIIIIICCCCKKK I've been waiting for this SINCE you mentioned "Angels With Filthy Souls" in December I KNEW IT WAS COMING and oh my god the luxury was worth the wait.
Another point to add to Inglorious bastards is that the movie in the movie is showing needless and excessive violence to which the spectactors are laughing and cheering. Thats is much in the same way that the spectator of a tarantino movie expect and are thrilled by the over-the-top violence featured therein; so Nations Pride, the fictional movie, is also a meta commentary about it's own audience in kind of way.
If you do a video on movies being made within movies, don't forget Director Eli Cross's anti-war film from The Stunt Man (1980) in which the crew is overtly searching for a theme to make the movie relevant, and in the end, hitting on the same theme as the theme of The Stunt Man itself. If you haven't seen it yet, do so (and I envy you). It's a great first-watch, and pretty good for subsequent watches.
For added depth check this. Jack Black was the comedy outro on his channel, jablinski. Which was shown as a video within a video. Although when he was talking about Tropic Thunder. Which has Jack Black in it. Then ol Jables would have been in a movie, within a movie, within a video, within a video.
Well done. I was getting ready to mention you forgot "The Dueling (Dancing) Cavalier" but then you did talk about it and I can't wait for that video. I mean the plot revolves around its development. Good on ya and love this series. :)
This is awesome!! I am writing my bachelor thesis about metadrama, which is the same concept just with theatre... A story in a certain medium is always about that medium but with metadramas/movies, this is especially true!
I always loved the scenes from "Short Circuit" when robot Johnny five learned some things from the TV to become alive and withstand the attacks of the military.
The new Alfonso Cuarón movie, Roma, has great use of movies within movies, including a funny reference to his own filmography. Since the film is based in part on his own childhood, I suppose they also reflect what he remembers seeing as a kid.
I liked "Ass" from Idiocracy, "Mant" from Matinee, "Stolz Der Nation" from Inglorious Basterds, and of course "Angels with Filthy Souls" from Home Alone.
My favourite is probably "Sand Pirates of the Sahara" from "The Majestic." Great story telling device for the main plot and a cameo from Bruce Campbell!
Great video as always. Would have been interesting to see how The Final Girls fits into this as it's a movie within in movie in which the characters go into the movie. Though maybe Detention covers that aspect.
Outright winner must surely be: 'The Foot' from Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules. "It sounded like someone was.. hopping" "I'm telling you, it's nothing. It's just your.. imagination."- The Foot. Copyright (c) 1973 A Stockport Films Production. All Rights Reserved.
You didn’t even touch on Mel Brooks. Spaceballs... Blazing Saddles... haven’t seen it in a while but I think even Silentmovie. I love the idea of looking at these tropes. I believe one of your video essay brethren touched on watching an audience on screen too.
What about ‘commercials within the movie’? The most obvious recent example being Cheddar Goblin, which in a very unique way establishes the tone of everything to come in Mandy.
In addition to what Patrick said, I also feel like the film Nation's Pride in Inglourious Basterds serves as a way for Tarantino to poke fun at his own style of filmmaking. Tarantino is a fan of the old ultra violence, after all, and Nation's Pride turns that style to 11. Every time we see a clip from the fake movie, its just the main character shooting dudes from a tower, creating the impression that that's the entire film, an endless montage of the protagonist shooting enemy soldiers with a sniper rifle. No story, no dialogue, only violent action.
Going to watch this when I'm finished work but if there is no mention of the movies they are making in The Last Movie and The Stunt Man I will be severely disappointed.
In addition to talking about movies about making fictional movies, I'm interested in movies about the making of real movies. You've got your Aviator, your Hichcock, Shadow of the Vampire, Me and Orson Welles, Gods and Monsters and Ed Wood. Hollywood loves to dramatize itself (and then give Oscars to those dramas), but is also can have multiple interests guarding how it's Studios and Directors and other famous crew are portrayed - probably they're more cautious then other biopics, maybe it's why I can't think of many examples and they're mostly golden age. And what's more, you could tackle a video more like this one, except it's how _real_ movies get referenced (and applauded, derided or critiqued) within fictional movies: An Affair to Remember in Sleepless in Seattle, The old cartoons in The Twilight Zone movie, uhh, Shrek in I am Legend. I can't think of as many as I thought I could, it's probably easier to make a fake parody then to deal with rights issues. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a subject all to itself.
Great to see your mention of "Burn After Reading", a movie I consider high among the Coen's best and funniest, plus it's always a blast when they collaborate with Sam Raimi. Perhaps do a video about cameos just to mention his brilliant cameo in Miller's Crossing as the cop wielding two guns who has a very over the top death (and made my sister shout: WHAT THE HELL, THAT'S SAM RAIMI!)
I've been wondering about movies about movie making. Does it ever get confusing which is the actual film equipment and which are movie props? Is it hard directing a film crew and actors playing a film crew at the same time?
For so many years, I genuinely thought and believed that the gangster movie in Home Alone was actually real.
It does look very convincing, and if I hadn't loved the very real "Angels With Dirty Faces" so much, I might not have realised myself. :)
I didn't know until watched this.
Me too
I did until...today.
same
One fun thing not mentioned in this video but which I think is related- all the sequel posters in 22 Jump Street.
He also didn't mention Adaptation, surprisingly. Then again, he could do a whole video on that film.
Tom Cruise as Austin Powers in Goldmember. The whole beginning of that movie is fantastic.
I love Edgar Wright, and Scott Pilgrim might just be my favorite movie of his. I've seen the movie like 7 times, and am only just now realizing how funny it is at 2:27 when he "kicks-in" a folding phone booth door.
Especially when you realize that he's using the leg he's limping on, lol
Your profile pic makes me deeply uncomfortable
Mine or Geese?
2 Left Thumbs Yours
I'm a lover of Scott Pilgrim as well, that movie is very similar to a really weird time in my life for relationships. But anyway, how cool would it be for someone to start making the movies within movies REAL!!!!
Satan's Alley is my favourite Kirk Lazarus movie. And my second favourite film of Tobey Maguire the winner of the MTV best kiss award.
The Jablinski joke at the end
The video within a video was a little too forced and pointless and then BAM! Victory.
What's Jayblin, jables?
Yet no shout-out to Be Kind Rewind. Hmmm
No gaming video this week
A video within a video displaying jablinski in his own video about movies within movies that jack black happened to star in. Classic.
Everything from Tropic Thunder is a goddamn masterpiece.
Not long ago I found a list of military campaigns in Vietnam.
One was called operation rolling thunder
Is the title of the movie a pun on that operation?
I know explaining jokes is no fun, but I'm no US guy, so a comment on this coincidence would be appreciated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rolling_Thunder
Tropic Thunder was a nickname for a US division in Vietnam if I remember correctly
What about Sherlock jr and last action hero which the whole thing is based on a movie within a movie
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"Playback Time" from Mr Bean's Holiday, with Willem Dafoe as Carson Clay is peak movie within movie
A movie about nothing
nothing... nothing...
"Funny People" actually got me really excited for the trajectory of Adam Sandler's carreer--it was clear he was self-aware, and wanted to be more serious.
Yet here we are.
he's been in quite a few very good serious movies too, so it's not like he missed out on anything by making all that rubbish
@@dextrodemon True. So weird to go from him making fun of his rubbish films to more rubbish.
Rubbish films pay the bills.
uncut gems? the meyertiz stories?
Ah yeah, incidentally Funny people might be the Best appatow movie.
Missed opportunity not having the viewer click the fullscreen button before transitioning out of the screen.
What about Blazin’ Saddles? A film that finishes with them going to watch themselves to see how the movie ends?
Yeah, Blazin' Saddles... "where the white women at?" is one of the best lines in comedy lol
I have much respect for your work (I do) but I believe some parts of your analysis are wrong. Specifically, the two examples from Scott pilgrim and Inglorious Bastards.
In the primer, the glimpse at Lucas Lee's carrier is used not only to establish him as an overly manly man's man, where Scott is a chill, a bit cowardly dude; but also to show him as vain and monolythic, and even a bit stupid. He uses later lines from this movie to taunt Scott, he's bragging about being famous and quite stupidly grinds a stair ramp to his death cause Scott dared him to.
Concerning IB, the "'Nation's pride" (directed by Eli Roth) is your standard propaganda film, framed like a classic Rieffenstahl. What's funny is that it's editedmore like a soviet film from the same period, but I don't know if it's intended (could be,I mean it's Tarantino). Seeing the nazis laughing and shouting at the screen and its ultra violence is just Tarantino showing us a mirror,as we,as an audience laughed and shouted at the screen previously in the movie (or in general) when seeing a horrible gory blood-splattery murder being commited on screen. He's not saying that we're nazis, he's just laughing at us, or rather at anyone who laughs at ultraviolence in movies and laughs at the nazis being vile and all laughing at the ultraviolance in Nation's Pride (whence, who doesn't get the double-entendre of this scene)
Also, movies in movies are sometimes just a joke, like all the references in Last action Hero, or in American werewolf in london. Joe Dante uses them to frame character, Gabble in the great race watched by Gizmo in gremlins,for example. In Gremlins; you can also see that the hill valley theater is playing a Boy's Life and Watch the Skies, two working title for Spielberg projects. Tarantino constantly quotes movies, with a very intelligent double meaning each time. You can enjoy every scene of every of his flicks without any of the references, but having also happens to help understanding them more deeply. Etc.
As valid as your point on Home Alone may be, I don't think that ine should generalize so broadly. Then again,I have much respect for your work (sometimes disagreement but well, it's up to one's own and unique tastes) which is why I'm a bit surprised for this video.
Anyway, thank you for you work, thanks a bunch for taking the time to read this (and p'haps answer).
Keep up the good work,bye.
(Also,sorry if I'm not clear, english is not my native tongue,but ne proud to know that you have fans in France)
You're just presenting some additional insight, All of which is interesting!
But I don't think any of that disagrees with anything Patrick said--it's just additional insight.
Meh, Lubitsch's "To be or not to be" is 10 times better than Inglorious Bastards.
Angels With Even Filthier Souls in Home Alone 2 deserves a mention for being a meta self aware commentary on sequels. Just like the movie that it's in, it essentially rehashes the first film but is more outlandish and with a slightly bigger budget.
Great job as always Patrick. The first movie within a movie that you didn’t mention that came to mind was in Mr. Holmes. One of the strange quirks of Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories is that he wrote them as John Watson writing about his past adventures with the great detective. In the film Mr. Holmes, Ian McKellen as the retired Sherlock is thinking about a past case and goes to see the film adaptation, of his friend’s written version of the events. Bonus points for the movie within a movie version of Sherlock Holmes being played by Nicolas Rowe who was the star of Young Sherlock Holmes.
Dang, I forgot that one! I liked that film.
Who else would rather see King Lear with Arnold Schwarzenegger that was featured in The Lost World: Jurassic Park?
Arnie doing Action Shakespeare needs to be a thing in the real world!
Just watch Conan the Barbarian, then. And read all the scripts from milius and stone for King Conan.
Not Arnie doing Hamlet from Last Action Hero?
I want Kevin James as Bond from Parks and Rec. Just morbid curiosity. Donna liked it so you know it's fire.
I've been waiting for the King Lear movie ever since I watched the Nostalgia Critic episode of Lost World.
Last Action Hero.
You mean Jack Slater I through... uhm... was it IV in the film? :P
Or maybe even T2 with Stallone? :D
This movie is amazing. The most heartfelt yet sensible love-letter action genre could ever get
that is the best duke nukem film redition we will ever get :D
In the movie "Final Girls", the protagonist is the recently orphaned girl that is invited to an anniversary screening of her mother's most famous movie, a fictional 80's cult slasher called "Camp Bloodbath".
Due to shenanigans, the protagonist of Final Girls inadvertedly ends up imprisoned inside Camp Bloodbath and has to make a difficult choice: either let the movie take its natural course in order to escape (which would result, to her still grieving mind, into having her mother die again) or try to keep her mother's character alive until the end of the movie, making her a "final girl" in a movie where she was just suposed to be generic camp counsellor with a clipboard and a guitar number 5.
I missed the lack of mention of Jack Slater movies =( Also, once hollywood wants to remake Home Alone, they should "remake" Angels with Filthy Souls
I want that Paddington Teddy Bear he has on his desk
Seth Rogen isn't the only one; for years I kept saying to myself "I ought to track down Angels with Dirty Faces."
Angels with Dirty Faces is a real movie though
My dad had a copy of Angels with Dirty Faces when I was a kid, I confused it with Angels with Filthy Souls and was quite disappointed when I popped it in the VCR one day
@@dustywaynemusic6297 Disappointed? But "Angels With Dirty Faces" is a good movie. And that ending! (No spoilers.)
My favourite movie within a movie was always the one that Hogarth watches in The Iron Giant where the brain turns evil and kills the scientist. Great Video btw
Really dig the tea making bits - it very neatly frames the vid, and you do it well
Millennium Actress. Satoshi Kon.
"The last action hero" is basically written around this premise.
I love the Stallone versions of Arnie films inside the film universe of that movie...
Since I couldn't fit all of them in here, what are your favorite movies within movies that I didn't mention?
Satan's Alley has to be the funniest to me.
It's also the perfect crossover between Iron Man and Spider-Man.
you had me at 8:24 good idea of doing it that way
The play at the beginning of Ragnarok.
Demons (1985) Because the movie IS the movie. + a motorcycle and a samurai sword.
Logjammin’ from The Big Lebowski. Also the Jack Black/Cloris Leachman movie from The Office.
"Sure, I forgive ya...but my Tommy gun don't!"
I Liked Machete was a fake Trailer on. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grind House Movies Death Proof and Planet Terror it was recived so well people wanted to see it so he made it real. Good video loved it.
Also that Uncle Machete had already been an established character in Spy Kids before that, bridging a weird connection between Rodriguez's ultraviolent action movies and his family-friendly kids movies.
i remember a seinfeld dvd-bnous-clip where the creators talked about how much fun it was to create all those fake movie names and posters like "Rochelle, Rochelle" or "Prognosis Negative"
You definitely have to see Quentin Dupieux’s “Réalité” in which a French director based in LA is about to shoot a thriller with The perfect scream. He goes to the movies and he seems to find that someone has already made that film: Alain Chabat shouting in the theater “don’t watch this film, I still have to make it” is definitely a must in the whole ‘meta’ universe.
Didn't even watch this, and I KNOW that home alone is nr 1.
It took me entirely too long to realize it was a TH-cam video within a TH-cam video.
TH-camception *DUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN*
I feel like it’s not as effective as it could be though cause he video surrounding it isn’t something that would be uploaded to TH-cam by itself (like it doesn’t make sense as a YT video with out the Patrick’s section)
The movie within a movie that always pops up in my head is Angles With Filthy Souls.
Detention is a movie more people need to see! Thank you for giving it some attention here Patrick!
I've only seen the C grade action flick with Dolph Lundgren with that title, so the description in this video caught me a bit off guard.
Yes! Thank you for mentioning Chubby Rain at the end! Bowfinger is a criminally underappreciated movie, and the scriptwriter explaining the meaning behind the title is hysterical!
I always think about movies within movies. I think they’re such a fun idea. This video was a treat. Great job, Patrick!
I love Patrick's hands as he talks. I hope that's how you use them in real life. I would watch a video of just a normal video of Patrick in conversation wildly gesturing as he speaks.
"just eat the whole strawberry, don't pick off the green part." 😂 i'm dead.
Meta about meta 😂👍🏾
Great take, love it
How about real movies within movies? Like Singing in the Rain in The Professional.
That reminded me that there are a bunch of movies within Singing in the Rain also that was made up for the film as far as I know.
Great job with this video, I'm surprised movies within movies haven't been talked about often. Though I should mention that the Scream franchise does eventually take up that missed opportunity by showing the legacy of what happens when you make a film franchise out of a real life tragedy in Scream 4.
While the whole thing was a TH-cam within TH-cam setting, with the theme being movies within movies, that bit at the very end was extremely clever after your video "ended". Little touches like that give me hope maybe one day you might be able to make real movies with such cleverness. Love this channel.
"The 3" and "The Orchid Thief" both in《Adaptation》was cool because the movie was about characters writing the screenplays.
"Jack Slater" great satire, a movie within a movie for the whole movie, which the audience enters
Would love to see Patrick doing a video on the movies within movies about filmmaking, especially since the release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Isn't Nations Pride and American Sniper the same movie?
Na dude different evil empire but a easy mistake to make
I saw the recent remake of Unknown Soldier (Finnish war movie) recently... it kind of made me very uncomfortable in how close it was to Nations Pride...
So you're saying that we live in a society?
American sniper dealt with Kyle coming home and how the war affected him
Real nazi propaganda was nothing like that. It were comedies and historic dramas to distract people from the horrors of war. And to agitate against jews.
Splendid stuff as usual Patrick. Glad to be a patron.
You released this just a few days after I filmed a short that has a film within it 😂
Also I always thought the Home Alone gangster film was real! My fave film-within-in-a-film was the one with the panda babies in Tropic Thunder
Best video you've made in quite some time, and that is saying something, given how good you've been recently. Looking forward to what this channel does next.
"it´s also a meta commentary about sandler´s career"
also known as he didn´t understood the joke when signing the contract
He knew, Sandler is fully aware. Him and Judd Apatow are long time friends.
Yeah, he knows what he’s done.
But continues to do it
Pretty sure ny this point he doesn't care about the movies themselves - it's just paid vacation for him and his friends, with minimal effort required for the actual shooting.
Not sure if he actually said it in an interview (heard he did?), but it can't be far from the truth even if he didn't. I don't like to use "I can at least respect the hustle" since it's usually used about scammers and the like, but it fits here - because what's the downside of this? A few shitty movies more?
I'm so glad you've mentioned Shrinked Lover, it's my favourite!
This got me thinking...does Gremlins 2 technically count as a movie within a movie?
Oh......Oh my brain.
What about The Simpsons Movie?
Good shout.
Well, Gremlins 2 did have numerous "meta" references to the first, including a critic's review of it. Yet it also proceeded as a sequel. It's a tough call but.... yeah! Why not?!
PAAAAPTARTRRRIIIIIIICCCCKKK
I've been waiting for this SINCE you mentioned "Angels With Filthy Souls" in December
I KNEW IT WAS COMING
and oh my god the luxury was worth the wait.
"Conan the Librarian" from UHF is the best one.
Another point to add to Inglorious bastards is that the movie in the movie is showing needless and excessive violence to which the spectactors are laughing and cheering. Thats is much in the same way that the spectator of a tarantino movie expect and are thrilled by the over-the-top violence featured therein; so Nations Pride, the fictional movie, is also a meta commentary about it's own audience in kind of way.
What's Jablin' Jables
Part of the reason I like Black Dynamite is that it feels like a movie within a movie, except we’re watching that instead of the real movie.
If you do a video on movies being made within movies, don't forget Director Eli Cross's anti-war film from The Stunt Man (1980) in which the crew is overtly searching for a theme to make the movie relevant, and in the end, hitting on the same theme as the theme of The Stunt Man itself. If you haven't seen it yet, do so (and I envy you). It's a great first-watch, and pretty good for subsequent watches.
1:50 they need to collab again, you can never have enough raimi and coen collabs
For added depth check this. Jack Black was the comedy outro on his channel, jablinski. Which was shown as a video within a video. Although when he was talking about Tropic Thunder. Which has Jack Black in it. Then ol Jables would have been in a movie, within a movie, within a video, within a video.
Well done. I was getting ready to mention you forgot "The Dueling (Dancing) Cavalier" but then you did talk about it and I can't wait for that video. I mean the plot revolves around its development. Good on ya and love this series. :)
would love to see you do a video about your favorite anime one day
This is awesome!! I am writing my bachelor thesis about metadrama, which is the same concept just with theatre... A story in a certain medium is always about that medium but with metadramas/movies, this is especially true!
I can't wait for the upcoming video titled 'Movies Within Movies About Movies'.
Anyone who has seen Tropic Thunder needs to see/rewatch The Lawnmower Man..
I did...
And I couldn't stop laughing throughout.
If you ever get around the films being shot within films, don't forget In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths
I always loved the scenes from "Short Circuit" when robot Johnny five learned some things from the TV to become alive and withstand the attacks of the military.
The new Alfonso Cuarón movie, Roma, has great use of movies within movies, including a funny reference to his own filmography. Since the film is based in part on his own childhood, I suppose they also reflect what he remembers seeing as a kid.
Dude the scenes in 500 days of summer are cinematic gold
Loving the latest streak of videos but this one was particularly great.
I liked "Ass" from Idiocracy, "Mant" from Matinee, "Stolz Der Nation" from Inglorious Basterds, and of course "Angels with Filthy Souls" from Home Alone.
My favourite is probably "Sand Pirates of the Sahara" from "The Majestic." Great story telling device for the main plot and a cameo from Bruce Campbell!
Great video as always. Would have been interesting to see how The Final Girls fits into this as it's a movie within in movie in which the characters go into the movie. Though maybe Detention covers that aspect.
This video totally blew my mind. I never even realized that you could eat the green part of strawberries.
"I haven't even touched upon the fictional movies from movies about making movies" - had to rewind that one a few times lol
I love your videos and the way you shoot them. I hope that one day end up being a director nominated for the Oscars or something.
So glad you included The Player in this
Pretty packed video! Though I am surprised you left out The Last Action Hero, but there's only so much time.
Your Thumbnails are so great!
Outright winner must surely be: 'The Foot' from Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules. "It sounded like someone was.. hopping" "I'm telling you, it's nothing. It's just your.. imagination."- The Foot. Copyright (c) 1973 A Stockport Films Production. All Rights Reserved.
Never realized that was made specifically for home alone till now
I found out not too long ago, myself.
My first thought when I saw the title was "Lucas Lee". Glad to see you didn't disappoint Patrick.
You didn’t even touch on Mel Brooks. Spaceballs... Blazing Saddles... haven’t seen it in a while but I think even Silentmovie. I love the idea of looking at these tropes. I believe one of your video essay brethren touched on watching an audience on screen too.
What about ‘commercials within the movie’? The most obvious recent example being Cheddar Goblin, which in a very unique way establishes the tone of everything to come in Mandy.
In addition to what Patrick said, I also feel like the film Nation's Pride in Inglourious Basterds serves as a way for Tarantino to poke fun at his own style of filmmaking. Tarantino is a fan of the old ultra violence, after all, and Nation's Pride turns that style to 11. Every time we see a clip from the fake movie, its just the main character shooting dudes from a tower, creating the impression that that's the entire film, an endless montage of the protagonist shooting enemy soldiers with a sniper rifle. No story, no dialogue, only violent action.
LAST ACTION HERO! It's a movie about characters bringing movie characters into their reality, so it has nods and parodies from Hollywood throughout
Going to watch this when I'm finished work but if there is no mention of the movies they are making in The Last Movie and The Stunt Man I will be severely disappointed.
There's also a movie called "Paparazzi" where it's about a new action movie star who's movie debut is an action movie called " Adrenaline Force"
I KNOW THAT BEAR FROM THE PODCAST WOOOOO
Another fun video, man. Great work as always.
In addition to talking about movies about making fictional movies, I'm interested in movies about the making of real movies. You've got your Aviator, your Hichcock, Shadow of the Vampire, Me and Orson Welles, Gods and Monsters and Ed Wood. Hollywood loves to dramatize itself (and then give Oscars to those dramas), but is also can have multiple interests guarding how it's Studios and Directors and other famous crew are portrayed - probably they're more cautious then other biopics, maybe it's why I can't think of many examples and they're mostly golden age.
And what's more, you could tackle a video more like this one, except it's how _real_ movies get referenced (and applauded, derided or critiqued) within fictional movies: An Affair to Remember in Sleepless in Seattle, The old cartoons in The Twilight Zone movie, uhh, Shrek in I am Legend. I can't think of as many as I thought I could, it's probably easier to make a fake parody then to deal with rights issues.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a subject all to itself.
Great to see your mention of "Burn After Reading", a movie I consider high among the Coen's best and funniest, plus it's always a blast when they collaborate with Sam Raimi. Perhaps do a video about cameos just to mention his brilliant cameo in Miller's Crossing as the cop wielding two guns who has a very over the top death (and made my sister shout: WHAT THE HELL, THAT'S SAM RAIMI!)
The video inside the video has 42 thousand views, this video has 42 thousand views.
Love your meta work man!
Would've loved a shout-out to Paprika, although that might be a good one for the coming video about movies about making movies.
Patrick brings up Scott Pilgrim vs The World...I instantly drop a like.
I think it'd be great if you had a list of the movies mentioned in a video in its description tbh
Hell yes, please do a video about chubby rain and fake purse ninjas - I think they are underrated and forgotten!
For that future video about films about making films: All That Jazz
Spat up my drink at "Whats jablin' jables? No game video this week." 😂
@ 8:20 "2.8k up, 68 down" ... how eerie, right now it is "8.2k up, 75 down"
I've been wondering about movies about movie making. Does it ever get confusing which is the actual film equipment and which are movie props? Is it hard directing a film crew and actors playing a film crew at the same time?
Great video as usual! But you left out “The Last Action Hero”. Wich is kind of outrageous.