I got very peeved at the mom constantly complaining and reprimanding her son for his autistic traits, lady he’s nine and cant help it you’re supposed to know this.
Unfortunately some parents of autistic children don't really understand it. They do have moments where they lose control of their emotions. This movie does a bad job of portraying it though, as the mum pretty much always seems annoyed and frustrated with her son.
@ I’m autistic myself so I completely understand some parents suck with accepting their neurodivergent kids, but mostly I’m just really annoyed at her saying “I love every part of you” at the end like she didn’t spend the whole movie lamenting her child.
@definitelyacoolperson earlier in video I had said "damn would it kill you to just accept your kid's autism?" Then that happened and I said "Huh. I guess it did kill you."
I think the attempt was to show a struggling mom, who is already feeling alienated by her husband, hitting her breaking point while trying to feel a connection with her non-verbal/autistic son on the same level that she thinks her husband has with their son. It's reality that people get frustrated and don't always handle things how they should. I mean, my dad has combat PTSD & because he didn't get treatment/his shit coping skills, I have CPTSD, a turbulent relationship & mixed feelings. It's just a "sad but real" character.
Technically it is a reference but idk if the movie intended for it to be a reference or if it just happened to have the same line. This movie does have a lot of similarities with the Babadook. It’s almost they watched that and then saw the posts abt filters giving stuff in the background a face and were like let’s make a movie out of that.
The mom was also Britta in Community and in that she also yelled "why can't you be normal" at an autistic person. Thats some very specific typecasting.
I feel like not alot of people wanna play a horrible person thats a normal human(eg. a serial killer is fine, a racist is more of a nope) due to some people not being able to tell art from the artist, so she's willing to take up those parts.
It totally makes sense. I haven't seen that short in particular, but I kept on thinking about a short where a girl has a copy of her room in Animal Crossing and after finding out she can manipulate the light irl via the game, she sees a monster there, too (then she's worried it also somehow became real, ending it all with a bad jumpscare). There have been a loooot of shorts using technology glitching/merging apps and real life, so that now it's almost like a parody.
They could still do all the mechanics too! So blind swap a tile and modify a card to be more specific. (It might also be easier to follow along as a viewer but that might just be me)
for those wondering, the mum says "do you know what it's like having a child that won't look you in the eye" because when you're autistic maintaining eye contact isn't something that comes naturally to you (mostly cos it can get overstimulating) which is a weird thing to be mad about at this point in time cos the kid is like, what, 9?????? shouldn't you be over this by now, lady?????
literally they wrote her character as one of those stereotypical “Autism Mommy Warriors” and i wouldn’t be surprised if in-universe she had a blog full of sob-story posts about how her autistic child “ruined her life” 😑🙃 justice for Oliver!!!
Honestly that is completely realistic for a lot of moms with autistic kids sadly. Like the parents that film their 5 year old autistic son complaining he doesn't like opening presents because the wrapping paper bothers him, and she's crying saying how she can never experience joy on Christmas now like??? Why not hide the gifts, unwrapped around the house for him to find? So he can get excited. Why get so mad that your son doesn't like the same food as the rest of your family when it's like 10 extra minutes to make him boxed mac and cheese. Or can make it a thing where he gets his own special meal he helps pick out. Which could just be a collection of his favorite snacks? I swear the way some NT parents OBSESS that their autistic child can't enjoy the same things they do and how it ruins their relationship (and their lives) forever is...insane
@@UncommonDabfishgod that video was so dumb. Just put presents in fabric bags instead, buy like 10 and you're set for his entire life. My parents did that for Santa gifts because it was just too much damn work to wrap 7 kids oddly shaped Santa gifts lol. Neurotypical parents of autistic kids annoy me so much.
I can vouch for this bc I’m autistic too and it was hard for me to look at ppl in the eyes when I was little the only thing I don’t like about this movie is the mom
So this conversation might have happened off video but to answer your question GG. The hand moving he was doing is called stimming. It is something anyone does but autistic people do more often. Like rocking in pace if nervous or swinging your arms if excited about something. And it's fine(at least in my autistic opinion) to ask if something is a stim or not. assuming it's about a character or a friend and not a random stranger you're pointing at Honestly the portrayal of autism and the mom being oblivious or mad at the kid all the time was pretty on point. Even if the movie was mediocre
@@UncommonDabfish I was thinking all the same things! The movie seems pretty bad, but I was genuinely surprised that it seems like someone put at least a little research into autism. Super surprising for any piece of fictional media, they almost always misrepresent autism like CRAZY. Good on whoever was in charge of handling that, it's leagues above 90% of autism representation in movies. Genuinely was shocked at the Spongebob hyperfixation.
@@sideshowirl6779I know right? The gimmick monster movie was more self aware and well researched than Sia's intentionally autism focused story. Weird that I gotta put this movie up with like The Accountant, Sesame Street, and Everything's Gonna Be Okay for autism rep. But yeah they did their homework. Even surprised they got the stuff with him being nonverbal right
You guys should try creating your own bingo cards or bing cards, way more possible applications of movie tropes and there are different types of bingo that could apply ( 4 square, line,x) !
The mom yelling “Why can’t you be normal!?” sent me back. I don’t have autism but ADHD and my mom both insisted on ignoring all the symptoms and refusing to get me help but was also extremely frustrated with my inability to “act normal” When I finally got old enough to arrange a meeting with a psychiatrist myself she asked “But what will a diagnosis like that do for you?” Help hopefully!? And once I became medicated and was able to keep focus during conversations and have a job for more than two months she finally realized I had been right this whole time. I don’t think she realize how badly she messed up my future though. I’m sure she still thinks I started and stopped three different educations because I was lazy and unserious.
As an autistic person, same. That line really made me angry. Especially since my parents to this day blame me and outright sometimes scream at me for things that are out of my control. Needless to say I'm not close with my family.
This line stuck with me too. Growing up, my eldest brother had very clear autism and was diagnosed as a very young age. Even though I exhibited symptoms as well, I was persecuted for them by my mother and heard many lines like this throughout my childhood. It still baffles me how she didn't see it, but I think because my symptoms and behaviors were not as "severe" as my brother's, my mother didn't believe it was the same thing. She just thought I was being difficult on purpose. I still don't have a formal diagnosis for autism (I do for ADHD now, though) because it's too expensive, but finally, after 22 years, my parents recognize and acknowledge that I am likely autistic as well. My mother still hasn't apologized or acknowledged the hurt she's caused me, but baby steps, I suppose. As a side note, my dad was never as impatient and occasionally cruel as my mother when I exhibited behaviors, probably because he's neurodivergent as well (ADHD and suspected autism), so he understands.
Without trauma dumping too much I wanna say I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It's shit, I had similar issues as an Autistic person myself and it sucks how much still isn't known, how much open and accepted misinformation there is about mental health. While you're not autistic the fact you were made to feel awful and embarrassed about legit things you were feeling is terrible
As someone who also has severe adhd, the job thing is a you thing, not an adhd thing, but it's still good to see you finally got help, I wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult and even with a doctors literal signed diagnoses, my mother still thinks I'm making it up and just being lazy
Genuinely thought scout was gonna get the “superhuman actions from a regular person” card when the mom ripped that mounted tv off the wall like it was a painting lol
It might be interesting for you two to throw in one completely custom prediction each when you do these, that way you're more likely to get a hit and the pool of possible predictions would grow.
Honestly you could screw around with the rules on each video and I wouldn't mind at all, it's nice to have consistency but it can also be fun to embrace the chaos and just roll with it, it's not like you two need the structure to make a great video, you play off each other really well :D
I think there was one movie where one of them got quite lucky with the picks. Maybe even both gif some points. I can’t remember which movie it was. It’s possible that it might’ve been a video that was in GG’s channel instead of this channel. It’s also possible that it could’ve been in scouts channel instead of this one. Edit: I think it was the movie Alone where they got some points. Or it might’ve been the one with Winona Ryder. I know one of them they had more success with and one they had zero success with
I give him the crucial information point because throughout the entire movie, he has information. The mom just sucks so much that she's not willing to hear him and assumes that he's just some violent weirdo.
I love that as soon as I saw him, my brain went 'is that her son?!' and then GG started shouting about it too. Also how ironic that the movie about the autistic child is overstimulating. It was overstimulating to me too. There was too much going on at any given time and ADHD brain go brrrr. No wonder that kid's having trouble learning to make eye contact; his surroundings are way too much. Edit: I think GG should have gotten the references to other horror movies in the scene where they were flipping channels and over a bunch of horror movies. Those were obviously scary movie references and immediately recognizable even if no one said the names. The card is a /, not an and so it counts. now go into overtime for the 1v1!
John Gallagher Jr is the dad in this and the boyfriend from Gone in the WahWah or w/e, he was also the bad guy in Hush. I'm generally a fan of his haha.
I wish I'd have found this channel way later, like a year late, just so I could've binged all vids instead of having to wait for each one. they're great and so much fun to watch!
When I saw the thumbnail my dumb ass went "Why is there a video of someone reacting to Mista GG on my subs page? .....OHWAIT" lol Love the movie reactions with you guys, you have great energy, thanks for the vid!
As someone who works with nonverbal children, I see a lot of stereotypes and actual facts mixed up together in this movie, and it’s frustrating as hell. A lot of the things you guys had questions about could have ABSOLUTELY been explained in the movie with the tiniest bit of dialogue, which could have been used to educate the audience if they’d even cared to try. The thing that really bugged me was that the “still strong” after the high five alludes to the idea that children with autism are surprisingly strong and unable to control their natural violent tendencies, which is just amazingly BS. That scene expected us to just automatically assume that he’s been violent and destructive in the past because of his autism, and that would explain how his mom treats him. This seems like a very damaging movie.
I'd just assume thats because theyre a child that hasnt properly learned how to hold back/adjust strength physically yet and not being too strong or 'violent' or anything, and as far as i know that tracks? I've only been so overstimulated i get nonverbal and 'out of control' a few times in my life (and weirdly enough only after i started demasking as an adult) and it is ...not fun, but i know you dont have the state of mind to have that level of control over your body then, so i cant imagine what itd be like for a kid in that state and when nt parents just simply dont get that andor have no sympathy ..
I'd just assume thats because theyre a child that hasnt properly learned how to hold back/adjust strength physically yet and not being too strong or 'violent' or anything, and as far as i know that tracks? I've only been so overstimulated i get nonverbal and 'out of control' a few times in my life (and weirdly enough only after i started demasking as an adult) and it is ...not fun, but i know you dont have the state of mind to have that level of control over your body then, so i cant imagine what itd be like for a kid in that state and when nt parents just simply dont get that andor have no sympathy ..
I only have mild autism, and as a child, I was VERY violent. Looking back, I think it was just frustration - I wasn't so autistic that anyone noticed, but it was enough that I knew the world didn't look the same to everyone else as it looked to me, I've always felt OTHER from other people, and as a little kid, I didn't know how to express that or understand what made me so different. Keep in mind, the prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain that controls the higher functions that are (supposedly) unique to humans - doesn't finish developing until a ways into adulthood, so children are basically animals. And what do animals do when they're frustrated? They lash out. Honestly, autistic kids tending to be violent makes sense to me, based both on logic and on personal experience - it's not because they're inherently mean or naughty, they're just frustrated and confused by how other people interact with the world being so different from what makes sense to them; and no, they can't control it, they literally don't have the brain capacity to think critically about what they're feeling while they're distressed, no child does. So I wouldn't say it's BS.
I was once hit in the back by a young girl around 13 who is autistic and it hurt like hell because she had no control over her strength. But ya know what I didnt do? Blame her. She is semi verbal and I understood that she didn't understand that hitting was wrong in the moment. Her mother was very apologetic, but I assured her it was okay. This movie was really gross for their misrepresentation.
Calling John Gallagher JR, a tony award winning musical theater actor a doofus twice in two videos is sending me XD He's literally in a show on broadway right now
So far the dad is way better than the mom. The mom left him behind when she peaced out, the dad had him in the arms and peace out to gather with his son, that's a parent
I think this was mentioned on another video, but if you guys have the cards and then argue them as the movie is playing versus waiting until the end, it might be a little more engaging in regards to trying to fight for your points. other than that, I love this setup for a channel and it has so much potential!
5:50 This parking lot attendant scene really was a short horror film at one point! Just like Piggy, it was turned into a full-length movie. Good call on the actor.
I seriously hate that Mum... I can't put it into words, but everything she does has no reason or logic, and it bugs the hell out of me!! Sorry 😅 I had to vent. She'd be more scary to be around than Larry. Hands down.
Yes! Smart enough to give her son an AAC to communicate, but didn't think a sleepover with a group of kids would be too much? Telling him they can't have friends. It's all over the place parenting wise. It feels to me written by people who did research but don't have children.
@@BlckSWANWhtRbbt That's a really good point. I hate the mom for being so neglectful and constantly upset with her kid, but being in the know enough to give him accessibility tools gives me the impression either she and/or her husband had to have done enough research to know why that's necessary AND to advocate for that to be allowed in his classroom. Yet she seems pretty oblivious to how to understand his behavior in every other way. Unless it really was just all the husband doing things. Maybe that's why she says he acts like the hero lol.
Def getting the vibe that either She got him the accommodations when he was younger thinking he would grow out of them but since he isnt shes grown resentful Or The dad was doing all the autism stuff and the mum was just peacocking
@@validark I agree with your second idea. That _would_ explain why she's so salty at him, too. Especially when he just comes home from work and "steals her thunder" or whatever her reasoning was for that toxic asf moment lol
I love that Larry just doesn't like it when people are ableist to autistic folks. Honestly I feel it would have been better to turn this story into a wholesome kid & monster film, rather than a horror movie.
john gallagher jr (the dad in this) was also the bad guy in hush, and the other guy in the bunker in 10 clover field lane, so he just kind of has a reputation for playing ‘kind of just a guy’ in horror movies (aside from hush)
I remember being so excited for this movie to come out (based on the trailer) then was so disappointed when I wasn't able to see it. I'm... no longer disappointed.
GG totally could've gotten that point for references! Wonder if y'all will take card suggestions from us in 2025 so you can have a smidgen more variety!
I like how they essential put SCP-096 or The Rake in a film and just changed the lore based off some creepy filter glitch and though it would do well. When they could of just made a movie about 096 or The Rake and it probably would be a lot better lol.
GG shoulda taken the reference point. There was the TV, but as you pointed out it seems heavily inspired by the Babadook, and the line "Can't you be normal for a minute?" had to have been ripped from the Babadook when the mom screams. "Why can't you just be normal?"
06:00: I used to work in those glass boxes and trust me when I say this, When the light is on inside those at night, all you fucking see is your own reflection. You really can't see anything of what's going on outside unless you turn the lights off, which is generally forbidden for some fucking reason. So yeah. I don't know where I was going with this LMAO.
I'm gonna be honest, I was not smart with watching this. First mistake: watching it at almost 2am in a house full of sleeping people, second mistake: drinking a soda literal seconds before GG shouts "A SEX SCENE!?" I almost had Dr. Pepper out my nose and on my laptop🤣 At the 16:54 mark when Scout talks as the mom's mouth was moving and it almost fitting to a T had me in tears. You guys never fail to make me laugh and I truly needed it this week, thanks guys.
5:46 HOLY SHIT. I work at a kid’s store and we have a TV that we play kid’s shows on. Somehow THIS MOVIE started playing on the screen, I caught it at this scene so we switched it before it got too scary. I can’t believe I found it, i was so curious about it😂😂
Might I suggest a movie called The Belko Experiment? Or maybe Hush? I bet you'll love those :D Also, what did you expect with Britta as a mom... (Also I called this movie Babadook at home to a friend after I watched it) Oh, silly me, completely forgot about 10 Cloverfield Lane, maybe check that one out also
Oh I get it The kid is autistic, mom hates that because she wants a bond but he is just being normal with autism it is just uncomfortable for him to be like the other kids. He freaked out because being bullied feels like your suffocating which is how I felt so I guess that made sense in the movie. The stereotypes were annoying me in the movie though like Sia did her boring bad autism movie so I will put it in the same journal of 1/10 with no reason to watch again
GG could’ve argued on the cop one while there were no cops there was the pathologist who didn’t believe them and she’s an authority figure. If they had remembered modifiers, might’ve tied on that one
It's funny John Gallagher Jr keeps showing up in these bad horrors because every scary movie I've seen him in has been great. "Hush", "10 Cloverfield lane", even "the Belko Experiment" was pretty fun.
Honestly, I low-key like this movie. Some of the effects were good, the actress for the mom was terrible (even though I liked her in Community??) but the main issue I had is that Larry isn't scary because he's kinda the good guy.
The guy who terrorizes children, attacks their friends and family, and who’s ultimate goal is to drag little kids into a nightmarish alternate dimension to suffer for all eternity is the good guy? Is this bait?
@@gingerleamcwow435 Larry just wanted a friend, he actually seemed interested in what the kid was into, and as for the nightmarish dimension... Idk if we really got explaination on how nightmarish it is 🤔 the mom seems to be doing fine at the end haha. I also took the 'scares kids' parts more so just Larry being unintentionally scary. Like he controls electricity and accidentally shorts out the lights so he fixes the lightbulbs for them to say sorry, and it's not his fault he looks terrifying to other kids. That was my thought process at least 😅
@@sarahr9894 i kind of agree, we never see him intentionally hurt someone (except the other kid, but the book says larry protects from bad guys) and what happened to the mom could be because she's not who he wanted as a friend. Also the fact that he let the mom go back the her family (as a spirit or whatever)
I have to at least commend them for the heroic effort it must have taken to make a barely passable movie when they were clearly so terrible at writing.
Oliver is doing something called STIMMING with his hands. He has non-verbal autism. That's also why he won't look in people's eyes and has an obsession with SpongeBob. Larry is a great name for the monster if you listen to part of the ripped pants song. Lol
in Babadook they flesh the mom out more so the lines towards the end really hits she is clearly suffering from stuff and dealing with her son furthers this stress and they must defeat the monster by improving themselves as a family unlike this other movie Babadook is a commentary
this WAS a youtube short horror film - I remember the short clip of the dad reading the story about Larry on the ipad, the random jumpscares & everything. I just forget who made it!
the fact that gg and scout have continuously made fun of john Gallagher jr. a tony winning Broadway star is so funny to me why is he continuously in bad scary movies.
21:09 britta’s character in Community is the guy everyone rags on for being “the worst” so this is so funny that you said that exact phrase 😭😭 she’s not a bad person just a buzzkill sometimes
The mom dying was the scariest part of the movie for me like it caught me off guard somehow even though it was a slow creep in. Jesus that face she makes right before she gets sucked away is sketchy.
I got very peeved at the mom constantly complaining and reprimanding her son for his autistic traits, lady he’s nine and cant help it you’re supposed to know this.
Unfortunately some parents of autistic children don't really understand it. They do have moments where they lose control of their emotions.
This movie does a bad job of portraying it though, as the mum pretty much always seems annoyed and frustrated with her son.
@ I’m autistic myself so I completely understand some parents suck with accepting their neurodivergent kids, but mostly I’m just really annoyed at her saying “I love every part of you” at the end like she didn’t spend the whole movie lamenting her child.
@definitelyacoolperson earlier in video I had said "damn would it kill you to just accept your kid's autism?" Then that happened and I said "Huh. I guess it did kill you."
I think the attempt was to show a struggling mom, who is already feeling alienated by her husband, hitting her breaking point while trying to feel a connection with her non-verbal/autistic son on the same level that she thinks her husband has with their son. It's reality that people get frustrated and don't always handle things how they should. I mean, my dad has combat PTSD & because he didn't get treatment/his shit coping skills, I have CPTSD, a turbulent relationship & mixed feelings. It's just a "sad but real" character.
A realistic take on an emotionally damaged human's response.
The “why can’t you be normal” is said verbatim in babadook so I think that was the reference.
@@loganparry2676 except said without any of the frustration, pain, or anger of the original. "Why can't you be normal. 😐"
@@sarahr9894 you're not wrong. I still just think GG could have gotten that point if he knew.
Technically it is a reference but idk if the movie intended for it to be a reference or if it just happened to have the same line. This movie does have a lot of similarities with the Babadook. It’s almost they watched that and then saw the posts abt filters giving stuff in the background a face and were like let’s make a movie out of that.
Like halfway through the video I was like "Sooooo it's the babadook but the monster is autism."
This actress plays Britta in Community and one of her lines is, “Why can’t you be normal?”
The mom was also Britta in Community and in that she also yelled "why can't you be normal" at an autistic person. Thats some very specific typecasting.
Holy sjit i completely forgot about that episode.
I feel like not alot of people wanna play a horrible person thats a normal human(eg. a serial killer is fine, a racist is more of a nope) due to some people not being able to tell art from the artist, so she's willing to take up those parts.
the mom really britta’d it
THATS where i know her from thank you
GO GREENDALE! HUMAN BEINGS FOR LIFE!
HOW DID THEY NOT RECOGNIZE HER
I literally just ate a baggle.
I was going crazy that no one was talking about it.
I'm glad you guys said "bad babadook" because when my friends and I watched this we were calling it Babadookie
HA
Nah that's accurate AF 🤣🤣
They even do the “why can’t you be normal?!” Like why draw a comparison to a better movie?!
100% what I thought too!
Babadookie is diabolical lmao
I looked it up. This was absolutely a short over extended into a movie. It was called Larry.
I think I saw the short, didn’t know it was turned into a movie until watching this
It totally makes sense. I haven't seen that short in particular, but I kept on thinking about a short where a girl has a copy of her room in Animal Crossing and after finding out she can manipulate the light irl via the game, she sees a monster there, too (then she's worried it also somehow became real, ending it all with a bad jumpscare). There have been a loooot of shorts using technology glitching/merging apps and real life, so that now it's almost like a parody.
The short took place in the security office in the parking lot. That's why he's randomly in the parking lot as his job
Have y’all considered turning this game into a bingo sheet? I feel like it might be a little easier to get points/win
This is a great idea!
yeah, maybe flip a coin to see who gets horizontal/vertical or they each get different bingo sheets?
I like that idea!
They could still do all the mechanics too! So blind swap a tile and modify a card to be more specific. (It might also be easier to follow along as a viewer but that might just be me)
The entire budget just went to Nickelodeon for the Spongebob episodes.
18:55 The mother is played by Britta's actor from Community.
It’s funny because she also screams, “Why can’t you be normal?” at Abed in his short film
for those wondering, the mum says "do you know what it's like having a child that won't look you in the eye" because when you're autistic maintaining eye contact isn't something that comes naturally to you (mostly cos it can get overstimulating) which is a weird thing to be mad about at this point in time cos the kid is like, what, 9?????? shouldn't you be over this by now, lady?????
literally they wrote her character as one of those stereotypical “Autism Mommy Warriors” and i wouldn’t be surprised if in-universe she had a blog full of sob-story posts about how her autistic child “ruined her life” 😑🙃
justice for Oliver!!!
Honestly that is completely realistic for a lot of moms with autistic kids sadly.
Like the parents that film their 5 year old autistic son complaining he doesn't like opening presents because the wrapping paper bothers him, and she's crying saying how she can never experience joy on Christmas now like???
Why not hide the gifts, unwrapped around the house for him to find? So he can get excited.
Why get so mad that your son doesn't like the same food as the rest of your family when it's like 10 extra minutes to make him boxed mac and cheese.
Or can make it a thing where he gets his own special meal he helps pick out. Which could just be a collection of his favorite snacks?
I swear the way some NT parents OBSESS that their autistic child can't enjoy the same things they do and how it ruins their relationship (and their lives) forever is...insane
@@UncommonDabfishgod that video was so dumb. Just put presents in fabric bags instead, buy like 10 and you're set for his entire life. My parents did that for Santa gifts because it was just too much damn work to wrap 7 kids oddly shaped Santa gifts lol. Neurotypical parents of autistic kids annoy me so much.
also like... maybe I wasn't paying enough attention but isn't that his child too? 😂
I can vouch for this bc I’m autistic too and it was hard for me to look at ppl in the eyes when I was little the only thing I don’t like about this movie is the mom
I love how spongebob carries this entire movie
So this conversation might have happened off video but to answer your question GG. The hand moving he was doing is called stimming. It is something anyone does but autistic people do more often. Like rocking in pace if nervous or swinging your arms if excited about something.
And it's fine(at least in my autistic opinion) to ask if something is a stim or not. assuming it's about a character or a friend and not a random stranger you're pointing at
Honestly the portrayal of autism and the mom being oblivious or mad at the kid all the time was pretty on point. Even if the movie was mediocre
Also the possible Spongebob advertisement shoehorned in as his special interest/hyperfixation was pretty fuckin great
@@UncommonDabfish I was thinking all the same things! The movie seems pretty bad, but I was genuinely surprised that it seems like someone put at least a little research into autism. Super surprising for any piece of fictional media, they almost always misrepresent autism like CRAZY. Good on whoever was in charge of handling that, it's leagues above 90% of autism representation in movies. Genuinely was shocked at the Spongebob hyperfixation.
@@sideshowirl6779I know right? The gimmick monster movie was more self aware and well researched than Sia's intentionally autism focused story. Weird that I gotta put this movie up with like The Accountant, Sesame Street, and Everything's Gonna Be Okay for autism rep.
But yeah they did their homework. Even surprised they got the stuff with him being nonverbal right
An unfortunately accurate autism experience in a shitty horror lol
Yeah, GG realised it as soon as he saw the kid using the communication app.
2 minutes 48 views?
NAHH they fell off 💀💀💀💀💀
Met a girl and I really thought she likes me
DAE miss old jungle mist 🤷🏻♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🥺🥺
Finally someone said it
You guys should try creating your own bingo cards or bing cards, way more possible applications of movie tropes and there are different types of bingo that could apply ( 4 square, line,x) !
wait... were they ever on?
nah im playin
The bully looks like a mix of the dude from Children of the Corn & Patton Oswalt
Ha!
The mom yelling “Why can’t you be normal!?” sent me back. I don’t have autism but ADHD and my mom both insisted on ignoring all the symptoms and refusing to get me help but was also extremely frustrated with my inability to “act normal” When I finally got old enough to arrange a meeting with a psychiatrist myself she asked “But what will a diagnosis like that do for you?” Help hopefully!? And once I became medicated and was able to keep focus during conversations and have a job for more than two months she finally realized I had been right this whole time. I don’t think she realize how badly she messed up my future though. I’m sure she still thinks I started and stopped three different educations because I was lazy and unserious.
this is part of why this movie was pretty solid everything made sense (accept ripping a tv off the wall)
As an autistic person, same. That line really made me angry. Especially since my parents to this day blame me and outright sometimes scream at me for things that are out of my control. Needless to say I'm not close with my family.
This line stuck with me too. Growing up, my eldest brother had very clear autism and was diagnosed as a very young age. Even though I exhibited symptoms as well, I was persecuted for them by my mother and heard many lines like this throughout my childhood. It still baffles me how she didn't see it, but I think because my symptoms and behaviors were not as "severe" as my brother's, my mother didn't believe it was the same thing. She just thought I was being difficult on purpose. I still don't have a formal diagnosis for autism (I do for ADHD now, though) because it's too expensive, but finally, after 22 years, my parents recognize and acknowledge that I am likely autistic as well. My mother still hasn't apologized or acknowledged the hurt she's caused me, but baby steps, I suppose. As a side note, my dad was never as impatient and occasionally cruel as my mother when I exhibited behaviors, probably because he's neurodivergent as well (ADHD and suspected autism), so he understands.
Without trauma dumping too much I wanna say I'm so sorry you had to go through that.
It's shit, I had similar issues as an Autistic person myself and it sucks how much still isn't known, how much open and accepted misinformation there is about mental health.
While you're not autistic the fact you were made to feel awful and embarrassed about legit things you were feeling is terrible
As someone who also has severe adhd, the job thing is a you thing, not an adhd thing, but it's still good to see you finally got help, I wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult and even with a doctors literal signed diagnoses, my mother still thinks I'm making it up and just being lazy
Genuinely thought scout was gonna get the “superhuman actions from a regular person” card when the mom ripped that mounted tv off the wall like it was a painting lol
With the mother ignoring the children you'd think she secretly didn't want them.
Him
The “why can’t you be normal” line was so devastating when I was a child. As an adult it makes me laugh (when used on me, not on kids).
this has become legitimately my favorite series. i’ve been CRAVING another one of these.
It might be interesting for you two to throw in one completely custom prediction each when you do these, that way you're more likely to get a hit and the pool of possible predictions would grow.
Oh my god. It's Britta.
Dang. He let her come hang out with her kid after she finally got her shit together. I didn't know Larry was chill like that.
my letterbox review when i watched this last yr was “1 hour & a half of larry trying to promote his book”
Nice, guys! This has been my fav channel this year! Keep up the hard work and continue to mess up the rules of this game thing! xoxo
When are you gonna post again?
Honestly you could screw around with the rules on each video and I wouldn't mind at all, it's nice to have consistency but it can also be fun to embrace the chaos and just roll with it, it's not like you two need the structure to make a great video, you play off each other really well :D
A commenter from a previous video was asking for a way to participate at home. Maybe a bingo card or something?
One day one of them is going to score a point. I can feel it!
You were right!!
There was one point scored this video 😅🤣
Scout absolutely got two in this one, but GG was being so bitter that he wouldn't let him have "Field" as crucial information, which it was.
I think there was one movie where one of them got quite lucky with the picks. Maybe even both gif some points. I can’t remember which movie it was. It’s possible that it might’ve been a video that was in GG’s channel instead of this channel. It’s also possible that it could’ve been in scouts channel instead of this one. Edit: I think it was the movie Alone where they got some points. Or it might’ve been the one with Winona Ryder. I know one of them they had more success with and one they had zero success with
I give him the crucial information point because throughout the entire movie, he has information. The mom just sucks so much that she's not willing to hear him and assumes that he's just some violent weirdo.
I love that as soon as I saw him, my brain went 'is that her son?!' and then GG started shouting about it too.
Also how ironic that the movie about the autistic child is overstimulating.
It was overstimulating to me too. There was too much going on at any given time and ADHD brain go brrrr. No wonder that kid's having trouble learning to make eye contact; his surroundings are way too much.
Edit: I think GG should have gotten the references to other horror movies in the scene where they were flipping channels and over a bunch of horror movies. Those were obviously scary movie references and immediately recognizable even if no one said the names. The card is a /, not an and so it counts.
now go into overtime for the 1v1!
3:47 That actor also portrayed the killer in the movie called “Hush.”
Really good movie fr. If ya really wanna get into it a feel like you’re living it, watch it while zooted on some good bud or some tabs. It’s WILD
They should react to hush to have their own MCU. Max cinematic universe
John Gallagher Jr. He's also in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
John Gallagher Jr is the dad in this and the boyfriend from Gone in the WahWah or w/e, he was also the bad guy in Hush. I'm generally a fan of his haha.
I wish I'd have found this channel way later, like a year late, just so I could've binged all vids instead of having to wait for each one. they're great and so much fun to watch!
When I saw the thumbnail my dumb ass went "Why is there a video of someone reacting to Mista GG on my subs page? .....OHWAIT" lol
Love the movie reactions with you guys, you have great energy, thanks for the vid!
As someone who works with nonverbal children, I see a lot of stereotypes and actual facts mixed up together in this movie, and it’s frustrating as hell. A lot of the things you guys had questions about could have ABSOLUTELY been explained in the movie with the tiniest bit of dialogue, which could have been used to educate the audience if they’d even cared to try. The thing that really bugged me was that the “still strong” after the high five alludes to the idea that children with autism are surprisingly strong and unable to control their natural violent tendencies, which is just amazingly BS. That scene expected us to just automatically assume that he’s been violent and destructive in the past because of his autism, and that would explain how his mom treats him. This seems like a very damaging movie.
I'd just assume thats because theyre a child that hasnt properly learned how to hold back/adjust strength physically yet and not being too strong or 'violent' or anything, and as far as i know that tracks? I've only been so overstimulated i get nonverbal and 'out of control' a few times in my life (and weirdly enough only after i started demasking as an adult) and it is ...not fun, but i know you dont have the state of mind to have that level of control over your body then, so i cant imagine what itd be like for a kid in that state
and when nt parents just simply dont get that andor have no sympathy ..
I'd just assume thats because theyre a child that hasnt properly learned how to hold back/adjust strength physically yet and not being too strong or 'violent' or anything, and as far as i know that tracks? I've only been so overstimulated i get nonverbal and 'out of control' a few times in my life (and weirdly enough only after i started demasking as an adult) and it is ...not fun, but i know you dont have the state of mind to have that level of control over your body then, so i cant imagine what itd be like for a kid in that state
and when nt parents just simply dont get that andor have no sympathy ..
I only have mild autism, and as a child, I was VERY violent. Looking back, I think it was just frustration - I wasn't so autistic that anyone noticed, but it was enough that I knew the world didn't look the same to everyone else as it looked to me, I've always felt OTHER from other people, and as a little kid, I didn't know how to express that or understand what made me so different. Keep in mind, the prefrontal cortex - the part of the brain that controls the higher functions that are (supposedly) unique to humans - doesn't finish developing until a ways into adulthood, so children are basically animals. And what do animals do when they're frustrated? They lash out. Honestly, autistic kids tending to be violent makes sense to me, based both on logic and on personal experience - it's not because they're inherently mean or naughty, they're just frustrated and confused by how other people interact with the world being so different from what makes sense to them; and no, they can't control it, they literally don't have the brain capacity to think critically about what they're feeling while they're distressed, no child does. So I wouldn't say it's BS.
I'd just assume it's a movie and not take it too seriously. If some people even cared to try, they wouldn't either.
I was once hit in the back by a young girl around 13 who is autistic and it hurt like hell because she had no control over her strength. But ya know what I didnt do? Blame her. She is semi verbal and I understood that she didn't understand that hitting was wrong in the moment. Her mother was very apologetic, but I assured her it was okay.
This movie was really gross for their misrepresentation.
Calling John Gallagher JR, a tony award winning musical theater actor a doofus twice in two videos is sending me XD He's literally in a show on broadway right now
I mean the dude straight up has doofus face
I mean the dude straight up has Doofus face
I love the guy but I have yet to see him be in a good movie
Thank you for saying this so I could look him up and realise he was Moritz!!
he was in Westworld, so that's pretty cool
0:15 Yes and then I immediately thought “I bet I could stretch this out over a 2 hour movie run time”
I love that GG organically calls Britta "the worst", totally independent of referencing the show
So far the dad is way better than the mom. The mom left him behind when she peaced out, the dad had him in the arms and peace out to gather with his son, that's a parent
I think this was mentioned on another video, but if you guys have the cards and then argue them as the movie is playing versus waiting until the end, it might be a little more engaging in regards to trying to fight for your points. other than that, I love this setup for a channel and it has so much potential!
They weren't living like Larry. Thats all he wanted
5:50 This parking lot attendant scene really was a short horror film at one point! Just like Piggy, it was turned into a full-length movie. Good call on the actor.
this is already my favourite channel ever
2:33 sleeping with a security sticky hand is how i survived my night terrors as a young kid. Wake up panicking? Sticky hand.
I seriously hate that Mum... I can't put it into words, but everything she does has no reason or logic, and it bugs the hell out of me!! Sorry 😅 I had to vent.
She'd be more scary to be around than Larry. Hands down.
Yes! Smart enough to give her son an AAC to communicate, but didn't think a sleepover with a group of kids would be too much? Telling him they can't have friends. It's all over the place parenting wise. It feels to me written by people who did research but don't have children.
Autism Speaks mom
@@BlckSWANWhtRbbt That's a really good point. I hate the mom for being so neglectful and constantly upset with her kid, but being in the know enough to give him accessibility tools gives me the impression either she and/or her husband had to have done enough research to know why that's necessary AND to advocate for that to be allowed in his classroom. Yet she seems pretty oblivious to how to understand his behavior in every other way.
Unless it really was just all the husband doing things. Maybe that's why she says he acts like the hero lol.
Def getting the vibe that either
She got him the accommodations when he was younger thinking he would grow out of them but since he isnt shes grown resentful
Or
The dad was doing all the autism stuff and the mum was just peacocking
@@validark I agree with your second idea.
That _would_ explain why she's so salty at him, too. Especially when he just comes home from work and "steals her thunder" or whatever her reasoning was for that toxic asf moment lol
Thank goodness y'all picked a fun-bad movie instead of a bad-bad movie to watch!
As always, big ups to @JeeHoonOh for the stellar Editing!
I love that Larry just doesn't like it when people are ableist to autistic folks. Honestly I feel it would have been better to turn this story into a wholesome kid & monster film, rather than a horror movie.
Larry says ABA is fucking bullshit and the allistics gotta stop trying to make us be "normal'
it would have been cool if they kept the horror but at the end it turned out to be a misunderstanding, seeing as they made larry represent autism
@@chargenari if they shrunk the film into the opening act and the rest was expanding on the ending would have been real neat also
I can’t imagine watching a horror movie and then it’s basically just an ad for SpongeBob
john gallagher jr (the dad in this) was also the bad guy in hush, and the other guy in the bunker in 10 clover field lane, so he just kind of has a reputation for playing ‘kind of just a guy’ in horror movies (aside from hush)
Her name is Gillian Jacobs, and this is a shockingly bad performance from her. Wow
Britta's a bad mom? Color me shocked.
She really britta-d being a mom :(
This movie is like 30% Spongebob.
It's like they read a Spongebob creepypasta and were like, "How much do you think we can get away with?"
Larry! That's not how you treat friends.
Also yea, that felt like a Babadook with a better kid.
Love this game. It's such a good idea! I'd do it with my own friend tbh. Plus I love how much they goof around with each other. This channel is fire.
I remember being so excited for this movie to come out (based on the trailer) then was so disappointed when I wasn't able to see it. I'm... no longer disappointed.
Honestly i think Scout deserved the weird character with crucial info point.
GG totally could've gotten that point for references!
Wonder if y'all will take card suggestions from us in 2025 so you can have a smidgen more variety!
I like how they essential put SCP-096 or The Rake in a film and just changed the lore based off some creepy filter glitch and though it would do well. When they could of just made a movie about 096 or The Rake and it probably would be a lot better lol.
Volguns short movie of 096 is the best it's ever gonna get, Hollywood would absolutely fuck it up royally.
GG shoulda taken the reference point. There was the TV, but as you pointed out it seems heavily inspired by the Babadook, and the line "Can't you be normal for a minute?" had to have been ripped from the Babadook when the mom screams. "Why can't you just be normal?"
Ok we need something packed full of tropes to redeem! My votes are for Cabin in the Woods or Tucker & Dale vs Evil.
Tucker and Dale is such a good horror trope movie! I hope they just watch it for fun.
Living for these, on the edge of my seat to see if the movie has even the most basic of substances
06:00: I used to work in those glass boxes and trust me when I say this, When the light is on inside those at night, all you fucking see is your own reflection. You really can't see anything of what's going on outside unless you turn the lights off, which is generally forbidden for some fucking reason. So yeah. I don't know where I was going with this LMAO.
Hell yeah! Literally subscribed w/ notifications like 2 hours before this dropped. Killer timing my guys ❤❤❤
The fact I’m watching this while eating SpongeBob Kraft Mac n cheese is a new level of diabolical
I'm gonna be honest, I was not smart with watching this. First mistake: watching it at almost 2am in a house full of sleeping people, second mistake: drinking a soda literal seconds before GG shouts "A SEX SCENE!?" I almost had Dr. Pepper out my nose and on my laptop🤣 At the 16:54 mark when Scout talks as the mom's mouth was moving and it almost fitting to a T had me in tears. You guys never fail to make me laugh and I truly needed it this week, thanks guys.
This was definitely a horror short on TH-cam at some point, i definitely remember watching a video about Larry hunting a person in a security booth.
5:46 HOLY SHIT. I work at a kid’s store and we have a TV that we play kid’s shows on. Somehow THIS MOVIE started playing on the screen, I caught it at this scene so we switched it before it got too scary. I can’t believe I found it, i was so curious about it😂😂
Might I suggest a movie called The Belko Experiment? Or maybe Hush? I bet you'll love those :D
Also, what did you expect with Britta as a mom...
(Also I called this movie Babadook at home to a friend after I watched it)
Oh, silly me, completely forgot about 10 Cloverfield Lane, maybe check that one out also
Oh I get it
The kid is autistic, mom hates that because she wants a bond but he is just being normal with autism it is just uncomfortable for him to be like the other kids. He freaked out because being bullied feels like your suffocating which is how I felt so I guess that made sense in the movie.
The stereotypes were annoying me in the movie though like Sia did her boring bad autism movie so I will put it in the same journal of 1/10 with no reason to watch again
That Guy is now the official channel mascot
I remember liking the ending but being more affected if I actually liked her lol
This was a very strange episode to watch as someone who's name is Larry
I'm living for this channel. I already love Mr GGs live reactions. I hope this channel takes off. Keep it up guys!
GG could’ve argued on the cop one while there were no cops there was the pathologist who didn’t believe them and she’s an authority figure. If they had remembered modifiers, might’ve tied on that one
It's funny John Gallagher Jr keeps showing up in these bad horrors because every scary movie I've seen him in has been great. "Hush", "10 Cloverfield lane", even "the Belko Experiment" was pretty fun.
this movie gave me an urge to watch spogebob again
So the creators saw a few creepy shorts and decided to make a movie with them
Honestly, I low-key like this movie. Some of the effects were good, the actress for the mom was terrible (even though I liked her in Community??) but the main issue I had is that Larry isn't scary because he's kinda the good guy.
The guy who terrorizes children, attacks their friends and family, and who’s ultimate goal is to drag little kids into a nightmarish alternate dimension to suffer for all eternity is the good guy? Is this bait?
I'm with ⬆️ that guy. How is Larry the good guy? (I'm genuinely curious 😊)
@@gingerleamcwow435 Larry just wanted a friend, he actually seemed interested in what the kid was into, and as for the nightmarish dimension... Idk if we really got explaination on how nightmarish it is 🤔 the mom seems to be doing fine at the end haha. I also took the 'scares kids' parts more so just Larry being unintentionally scary. Like he controls electricity and accidentally shorts out the lights so he fixes the lightbulbs for them to say sorry, and it's not his fault he looks terrifying to other kids. That was my thought process at least 😅
@@sarahr9894 i kind of agree, we never see him intentionally hurt someone (except the other kid, but the book says larry protects from bad guys) and what happened to the mom could be because she's not who he wanted as a friend. Also the fact that he let the mom go back the her family (as a spirit or whatever)
I have to at least commend them for the heroic effort it must have taken to make a barely passable movie when they were clearly so terrible at writing.
Oliver is doing something called STIMMING with his hands. He has non-verbal autism. That's also why he won't look in people's eyes and has an obsession with SpongeBob. Larry is a great name for the monster if you listen to part of the ripped pants song. Lol
Stimming*
@@JennieQueen-o3k Sorry about the spelling error. I'd hate for people to end up on some weird plant website.
@@Steelfox0329 you know you can edit the comment to fix the spelling, right? Lol
@@oMuStiiA noted
I didn’t know they made a horror movie about britta and the human being mascot from greendale
as an autistic person i absolutely cannot stand that they tried to make me feel ANYTHING for the mom in this movie
in Babadook they flesh the mom out more so the lines towards the end really hits she is clearly suffering from stuff and dealing with her son furthers this stress and they must defeat the monster by improving themselves as a family
unlike this other movie Babadook is a commentary
The cards are against you, GG. Scout can't keep winning like this.
this WAS a youtube short horror film - I remember the short clip of the dad reading the story about Larry on the ipad, the random jumpscares & everything. I just forget who made it!
the amount of spongebob in this movie brings me so much joy
This have been SpongeBob quotes with Scout and GG lmaoo amazing video 👍🏾
This movie was filmed in Canada. How do I know? Teacher is a Canadian actor. He was on Degrassi and Anne with an E
the fact that gg and scout have continuously made fun of john Gallagher jr. a tony winning Broadway star is so funny to me why is he continuously in bad scary movies.
I think they may have consulted one tax exempt group in specific based on the conclusion there.
i have nothing important to say, just that i had that exact same nightlight at 13:35 as a kid
Too bad no one pulled the awesome, Parent does not belive child card.
21:09 britta’s character in Community is the guy everyone rags on for being “the worst” so this is so funny that you said that exact phrase 😭😭 she’s not a bad person just a buzzkill sometimes
scout should have got superhuman powers, the tv is meant to be mounted in lore so she ripped studs out the wall
I genuinely love this channel, please keep it up!
We just gunna pretend that SpongeBob clip wasn’t edited in over the top of that phone💀
Y'all didn't watch Community?? I was waiting for a Britta reference or something!
these boys hitting us with Yugioh rules right off the gate lmao love it
The mom dying was the scariest part of the movie for me like it caught me off guard somehow even though it was a slow creep in. Jesus that face she makes right before she gets sucked away is sketchy.
Dude I’m sorry but the name of the movie alone has me in stitches 💀😂😂 and I barely started the video
You'd be surprised on what you can miss when you aren't paying attention in a guard shack, or building.
Still get told to act normal at my agse. Autism just does not disappear as you get older.
Just when I needed something to watch with lunch, you beautiful bastards upload this video.
love this! keep up the good work guys
5:38 *THE HASH SLINGING-*