What about other two copies that you are simultaneously playing on your TV and fridge? You better no pause those, or The Rock will leave his Voss bottles in there
I saw King Arthur with my dad at the cinemas. I quite liked it, had a good time, but he hated it. I bought it on blu ray to watch it when it came out later and he rolled his eyes. Three months ago he tells me he watched this really cool King Arthur movie with Jude Law and loved it. I had to remind him he’d seen it before and he’d clean forgotten.
I think the weirdest thing about Valerian's casting is that I legitimately thought they were gonna be brother and sister when I went into the movie, and even after watching it, my brain is still like, "....were they siblings?" like that is stuck in my head more than the plot of the actual movie I watched.
I remember people saying that when it first came out. The clips in this video are the most exposure I've had to the film, but now I agree. They look way too similar.
My standard quip about the casting for this film is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence should have done Valerian and Laureline instead of starring in Passengers, because a) they're better actors and b) they physically fit the characters from the comics much better and c) they've played similar roles (Valerian is a square-jawed loveable rogue, Laureline is curvaceous and considered attractive by everyone she meets but just as tough as Valerian and more sensible and keeps him in line).
I actually did watch Downsizing because of the interesting concept, but it takes a wild and dark turn about 1/3 in - I can't imagine anyone going to that movie for what was seen in the trailer, watching the entire movie, and then going to a friend and saying 'you should see this!'
Yeah Downsizing went really far off the rails incredibly quickly. The second half is just a joke. It's been years and my wife and I still quote it because it's so absurd. Not good
It was literally the most misleading trailer I'd ever seen for a movie. It would be overall but Dead Island takes the top spot for me. I thought I was going to get wacky fun with maybe a subtext of overconsumption but what I got was an unfunny movie where the subtext was just text.
So... just read the plot summary on Wikipedia and thought I got to the "dark twist" about three or four times in a row. I mean I like me some grim stories, but Christ.
I could not get through Valerian, because the leads were so terrible miscast. Obviously, they could not have found two people who look more like siblings, which just makes it weird. Secondly, Dane DeHaan is supposed to be a Bruce Willis type character, but he looks like Dane DeHaan. I don't know if the rest of this movie is great, but if it is, then I wish we would have just gotten a more Bruce Willis type of actor in the main role, because I loved and still love Fifth Element.
Dane Dehaan just has a weird face. Like a Willem Dafoe face. The only time he felt well cast to me was in Chronicle, and Oppenheimer I guess worked fine. Even in Lincoln, and he's only on that movie for like five seconds, I'm like, is that Dane Dehaan? What is he doing here? In Valerian in particular, it just seems weird whenever he tries to be laid back or charismatic.
I like Delevingne in it, and I think she has a striking look that fits in with all the world building around it. DeHaan isn't right for it at all though.
In case you're wondering about Mr. Sunday Movies least popular vids (it's currently this one, but I'll assume that'll change) are: 1. T-Shirt Giveaway: 15k. 2. April to June 2014 MOVIE Preview: 18k. 3. Justice League Task Force and Patreon: 27k. 4. Live Show December 9th: 31k. 5. Batman V Superman Video and Competition Videos: 41k. 6. Best and Worst 2014 Summer Movies With Josh Lewis (Part 2): 44k. 7. Captain America the Winter Soldier: Commentary Track: 47k. 8. The Emperor Darth Vader and Xizor-Shadows of the Empire: 49k. 9. Planet Broadcasting Trailer: 59k. 10. CBM Plot Holes and the Weekly Planet Animated: 60k.
In order to actually show their popularity in the same way they show these bombs you'll need to compare their views to the subscriber counts they had on those days to get an accurate number. I'm not saying you should do that, it would be a lot of work, but that's what it would take lol.
I think the original really hurt 2049's chances at the box office. I like Blade Runner, but I don't like watching it sometimes. It is such a slog and can feel like a chore. I think that affected how watchable people thought the sequel would be.
Should totally do a video on Downsizing. I saw it on streaming. The trailers for the movie made it looked like some upbeat funny movie about shrinking people. And in the actual movie it's about his wife betraying him, the cruelty of capitalism, and the end of the world due to nuclear war? He 'falls' in love with with his caretaker, such a bizarre movie but touches on a lot. Still can't get over the bait and switch for the trailer.
Valerian was such a weird one for me - on paper, it should have been incredible - Luc "Fifth Element" Besson getting a massive budget to do the sci-fi movie he'd always wanted to do. Unfortunately they somehow managed to cast two cardboard cutouts instead of real people as the leads, and the whole thing fell apart. That opening sequence where all the new alien species are saying hello to one another was beautiful though.
I almost might have been able to overlook the leads if the girl hadn't suddenly become a total damsel in distress. She pretty much did _nothing_ in that movie despite supposedly being as talented as her partner. Lame.
@@NicolaiAAA the multiverse market was cool. I heard they spent almost a year making the sets and languages for the market. But they needed to spent a week working on the dialog and script.
My standard quip about the casting for this film is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence should have done Valerian and Laureline instead of starring in Passengers, because a) they're better actors and b) they physically fit the characters from the comics much better and c) they've played similar roles (Valerian is a square-jawed loveable rogue, Laureline is curvaceous and considered attractive by everyone she meets but just as tough as Valerian and more sensible and keeps him in line).
The fart noise after the amount of money the movies made, to me, is extremely high class humor and I smiled/blew nose air after every one of them. Cheers.
maaaaan, I still remember the time I wanted to watch a happy little jaunt about a man that gets shrunk and moves to a tiny village, except what I watched was a film where a black family move next door to Matt Damon's house in 1959 and everyone is racist and does a big racist violence on everybody and it was dark, scary, clearly based on real events and I had not realised that Matt Damon starred in two movies in 2017 and I was watching the other one, Suburbicon. (It was also a box office bomb, earning 12mil on 25mil budget).
Haha yeah - I remember talking heads singing over every single trailer. I have never seen the film but whenever I hear that song it’s all I think about
Hey, I worked as a Extra on The King Arthur film in the UK. At the time they made all these massive outdoor sets for what they were planning to be a multi film series about all the Knights of the round table, they were incredibly well made, too bad it all got scrapped.
Thanks to Monty Python, I cannot take 'The knights of the round table' seriously. Anytime I hear it or read it, no matter what the context, my brain just continues, "we dance whenever we're able..."
@@Rugras. In old blighty it's the insult you use when someone, usually a friend, hasn't said or done anything worthy of a stronger insult. John: "You're shit at this." or John: "He drives and he's not even insured." Dave: "Dickhead." Dave: "'Cos he's a knobhead."
Blade Runner was a movie my “Film Appreciation” professor told us to write a 5 page paper on in 1999. I had to call 5 Blockbusters in my area to find both the regular and directors cut on VHS. It was alright. The sequel leaned hard into what people liked in the first film and I actually enjoyed it
One thing never really mentioned in these videos (and this isn't a criticism because it's moot since we can't trust studios when it comes to money matters of any sort): studios don't get ALL of the box office money that their movies earn; they have to split it with the exhibitors. I think generally in America, the split is like 50/50 between studios and theaters but American studios get a bigger piece of the box office overseas. Considering that plus the huge marketing budgets a lot of these movies get, it's a wonder any big-budget movie is ever remotely profitable.
Depends on the nation when you say ‘overseas’. In a country like Bangladesh, they’re gonna take any deal they can get. In a country like UK, they get the same as domestic. Generally it’s 50:50 or they do a sliding deal. Week 1 is 70:30 Week 2 is 60:40 etc
It isn't explicitly mentioned in this video, possibly because a lot of people who follow box office figures are likely to know it already, but they do allude to it when they say things like "apparently this needed to make $720 million at the box office to break even".
One of my favourite bits is when one of them will introduce a topic to other by calling it, "Your favourite film" for a movie that is bad, or "Your mate" for someone that is cancelled. Gets me every time.
Imagine being the person who said yes to casting Dane DeHaan in Valerian. What an insane choice, knowing the movie is going to look like a 5th Element sequel and your lead looks like he parks Bruce's car.
Staying prayed up is probably essential for a guy who is just the worst. No wonder he has to get up so early. Didn't he end up giving that $1.5 million away when word got out that Michelle Williams only made $1000 for her reshoots and he was shamed into donating it. After looking into it the story makes him look even worse. He held up reshoots because he had contractual approval of his co-stars and only agreed to Plummer when they gave him the $1.5 million. Originally it was reported they came back for free which Williams did. She only received an $80 daily allowance for the 9 days of reshoots on top of the $625,000 she made during principal. Wahlberg made $5 million. He ended up giving his reshoot extortion check to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund in Williams' name because he is a terrible person but only if it's a secret. At the end of the day Williams was praised for her performance. There were some award nominations for Williams, Plummer and Ridley Scott. The only person not nominated was Wahlberg. Really earning his fee on that one. I am 100% with Maso on this. Wahlberg is an asshole and I despise him.
I still believe the only reason people didn't like it was the suit and Zord designs. If they went with something less, let's call it what it is, Iron Man looking, but everything else was the same, it would've been received way better. Also, Krispy Kreme.
I love when James is explaining the system for calculating the budget and "streaming" comes up. As far as I'm concerned, streaming didn't exist pre-Covid outside of however people got to watch Game of Thrones back in the day... Now TV in my case. (wait... did game of thrones end it 2017? Coz that's a bomb if there ever was one)
9:24 if you haven’t checked it out yet, please give this compilation a listen. Yes, it’s 4 hours long but it’s *packed* with hilarious rants that make you go “huh, James is one angry-angry man”.
That Power Rangers reboot was actually way better than I wanted to give it credit for. Id be willing to bet a lot of people were like me and assumed it was going to be trash, so they didn't bother watching it. But one day I was bored enough and it was streaming. So I watched it. And it was actually good. Give it a shot if you haven't.
I said last video that I couldn’t wait until they get to the 90s because it’ll be a bunch of “Have you seen this movie, Mason?” “I dunno. Maybe.” Turns out I didn’t have to wait that long at all!
Downsizing is a movie I've watched and I feel it could've been better if produced by any country other than the US. It was way too pro-capitalism for an anti-capitalism concept
It probably would've done better if it the trailers didn't sell the movie as something else completely. Most people went to that movie expecting a fun, quirky comedy
NitPix has a great video called "How Downsizing Cheated You" which does a way better job than I ever could of breaking down why that movie was one of the most baffling misfires of all time. It's such a bizarrely-structured mess that tries to do so many things at once, and yet despite the fact that you'd think that would make it some kind of watchably-bad trainwreck, it somehow manages to be really dull at the same time. And it's such a bizarre entry in the filmography of Alexander Payne, of all people.
I was so ready for Lock, Stock/Snatch meets Arthurian legend, but it never really clicked and i checked out after about an hour... Maybe Jason Statham shouldve been cast as Excalibur. No i dont mean as a voice, Charlie Hunnam has to literally pull Jason Statham from the stone and batter folk with him
ngl it kinda got to me seeing a fair few people assume furiosa was bad despite good reviews cause it bombed despite bladerunner 2049 also bombing in basically the same situation
/prepares to be bludgeoned… I loved Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur movie. It opened with Eric Bana fighting 300 ft tall Mastodons. That movie was metal as hell.
But we aren't getting Rebel Moon Part 3 just yet, we have to get the director's cuts of Part 1 and 2, which have been given completely different names for some reason!
Blade Runner 2049 was truly great; 6:57 it’s uncanny how it basically suffered the same fate as the original in terms of both box office and audience reception.
thank you for mentioning independence day 2, a movie i found very funny that no one talks about. i was beginning to go crazy bc i wasn't sure it was real
Valerian was a pretty good movie, I saw it way later after theaters, on my Dive instructor’s Kindle while we were stuck in the worst sit still traffic, we watched 1 and a half movies just sitting, and got home to SC from Florida at 5 in the morning. Pretty good movie!
Kind of crazy how different bombs used to be just 7 years ago compared to now. Like, I don't remember most of these, while last year was filled with what used to be the biggest IPs in the world just flopping.
Mason is usually fairly even keeled and he’ll make jokes about people sucking and being awful, but I just love how openly he will not stop trashing Mark Wahlberg. I respect it and I join him in his journey of loathing.
Since you two kinda brought it up I may as well share my two cents on the Justice League/DCEU talk. Even if we got Zack's version of the movie back then, if it made anything less than a Billion dollars we probably wouldn't have seen his trilogy end. The studio heads at the time very clearly wanted Zack gone after BvS came out and would have gone out of their way to get rid of him. Justice League coming out and making that much only made it easier for them to justify kicking him. Again, anything less than a Billion, he'd have been out, and Zack's version likely wouldn't have made a Billion back then.
Hey I bloody love my boy King Arthur, such an underrated film. It's gangster king Arthur where Arthur and littlefinger from game of thrones make a Mafia state for themselves and I just love that for them
i feel like everyone i show valerian to has never heard of it but likes it after watching, i love that movie and i love rake thin leads that look related
Its funny that theres a joke about Tank conversation sequences in live action Ghost in the Shell, but that actually happens in the TV show. Multiple times! It's an entire subplot! Probably would have made the movie better, honestly.
For Media in High School we had to compare two pre, during and post dystopian movies between Blade Runner, Cabaret and V for Vendetta. Literally ONE dude picked Blade runner. High school media students didn't even dig that movie.
I almost didn't watch this because Blade Runner 2049 tanking just stung so very much. I saw it 2 times in theaters--just flat out an amazing film that actually elevates the original. EDIT: I honestly like the Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie. I think it's a lot of fun!
"Lads ladding around and fighting evil lads with their lads" is the perfect summary for King Arthur.
Just Guy( Ritchie)s being dudes.
Such a good movie tho.
I paused red notice to watch this, i hope you’re happy james
What about other two copies that you are simultaneously playing on your TV and fridge? You better no pause those, or The Rock will leave his Voss bottles in there
@@isohora Yellow Notice
You could have left it running and nothing in the plot would have changed.....300million of background noises
impossible no one can pause red notice it’s playing all the time everywhere
I paused this to watch Red Notice. Do better.
I saw King Arthur with my dad at the cinemas. I quite liked it, had a good time, but he hated it. I bought it on blu ray to watch it when it came out later and he rolled his eyes. Three months ago he tells me he watched this really cool King Arthur movie with Jude Law and loved it. I had to remind him he’d seen it before and he’d clean forgotten.
Classic dad move
Legit sounds like my dad 🤣
I love this movie so much it's embarassing
Glad the director saw the ODST trailer and noticed the song wasn’t anywhere so he bought and officially distribute it
All dads are the same
I think the weirdest thing about Valerian's casting is that I legitimately thought they were gonna be brother and sister when I went into the movie, and even after watching it, my brain is still like, "....were they siblings?" like that is stuck in my head more than the plot of the actual movie I watched.
@NotCharAznable one of at least 3 people based on this video and the ticket sales
The Lannisters send their regards.
I like how James says "Geostorm" with the same cadence Lex Luthor might say "Superman"
"...because they look like the same person?" That's terrific.
I remember people saying that when it first came out. The clips in this video are the most exposure I've had to the film, but now I agree. They look way too similar.
My standard quip about the casting for this film is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence should have done Valerian and Laureline instead of starring in Passengers, because a) they're better actors and b) they physically fit the characters from the comics much better and c) they've played similar roles (Valerian is a square-jawed loveable rogue, Laureline is curvaceous and considered attractive by everyone she meets but just as tough as Valerian and more sensible and keeps him in line).
I love the reference to the James rant video having such a ginormous section for Geostorm
That supercut of James' rants is about four hours long and I swear a solid hour of that is about Geostorm. It's so good.
🙏🏿 🙏🏿 🙏🏿 🙏🏿 link me to that
I actually did watch Downsizing because of the interesting concept, but it takes a wild and dark turn about 1/3 in - I can't imagine anyone going to that movie for what was seen in the trailer, watching the entire movie, and then going to a friend and saying 'you should see this!'
Downsizing may be the most misleading trailer I've ever seen for a movie
@@rorylynch7775 Beau is Afraid is more misleading. The trailer implies a dark but potentially hopeful journey. Nope, just dark. VERY, VERY dark.
Yeah Downsizing went really far off the rails incredibly quickly. The second half is just a joke. It's been years and my wife and I still quote it because it's so absurd.
Not good
It was literally the most misleading trailer I'd ever seen for a movie. It would be overall but Dead Island takes the top spot for me. I thought I was going to get wacky fun with maybe a subtext of overconsumption but what I got was an unfunny movie where the subtext was just text.
So... just read the plot summary on Wikipedia and thought I got to the "dark twist" about three or four times in a row. I mean I like me some grim stories, but Christ.
James is so old he was around for all these massive flops.
He's so old and grey!
Im an adult and I grew up playing minecraft and watching ninjago, hes one whole generation older than he realizes
I could not get through Valerian, because the leads were so terrible miscast. Obviously, they could not have found two people who look more like siblings, which just makes it weird. Secondly, Dane DeHaan is supposed to be a Bruce Willis type character, but he looks like Dane DeHaan. I don't know if the rest of this movie is great, but if it is, then I wish we would have just gotten a more Bruce Willis type of actor in the main role, because I loved and still love Fifth Element.
Valerian is great. But then I also love Jupiter Ascending, so take that as you will...
Dane Dehaan just has a weird face. Like a Willem Dafoe face. The only time he felt well cast to me was in Chronicle, and Oppenheimer I guess worked fine. Even in Lincoln, and he's only on that movie for like five seconds, I'm like, is that Dane Dehaan? What is he doing here?
In Valerian in particular, it just seems weird whenever he tries to be laid back or charismatic.
Like Jake Gyllenhaal, he needs to direct his focus on only taking roles where he’s a weird freak
I could not take Dehaan seriously as a "former marine" type.
I like Delevingne in it, and I think she has a striking look that fits in with all the world building around it. DeHaan isn't right for it at all though.
In case you're wondering about Mr. Sunday Movies least popular vids (it's currently this one, but I'll assume that'll change) are:
1. T-Shirt Giveaway: 15k.
2. April to June 2014 MOVIE Preview: 18k.
3. Justice League Task Force and Patreon: 27k.
4. Live Show December 9th: 31k.
5. Batman V Superman Video and Competition Videos: 41k.
6. Best and Worst 2014 Summer Movies With Josh Lewis (Part 2): 44k.
7. Captain America the Winter Soldier: Commentary Track: 47k.
8. The Emperor Darth Vader and Xizor-Shadows of the Empire: 49k.
9. Planet Broadcasting Trailer: 59k.
10. CBM Plot Holes and the Weekly Planet Animated: 60k.
In order to actually show their popularity in the same way they show these bombs you'll need to compare their views to the subscriber counts they had on those days to get an accurate number. I'm not saying you should do that, it would be a lot of work, but that's what it would take lol.
@@Blue-EyesWhitePrivilege You're right I should but yet again I'm lazy.
I watched Blade Runner 2049 three times in the theaters. I did my part. Loved the experience.
Me too, three times
Same, 3 times club
Thank you for your efforts brave soldiers 😭 i saw it once with my dad (i was 15) and it bums me out that it flopped
I think the original really hurt 2049's chances at the box office. I like Blade Runner, but I don't like watching it sometimes. It is such a slog and can feel like a chore. I think that affected how watchable people thought the sequel would be.
I went twice & bought the bluray, I fucken love this movie as much as James fucken loves Zorro
Should totally do a video on Downsizing. I saw it on streaming. The trailers for the movie made it looked like some upbeat funny movie about shrinking people. And in the actual movie it's about his wife betraying him, the cruelty of capitalism, and the end of the world due to nuclear war?
He 'falls' in love with with his caretaker, such a bizarre movie but touches on a lot.
Still can't get over the bait and switch for the trailer.
Would love to see Caravan of Garbage on Fifth Element and Valerian, the wacky French scifi made by a bad dude duology
I second this
Agree
Valerian crashed a studio
Yes please. I'm sure they'll make a fun video out of the 5th element.
@@hb21up20 probably
Valerian was such a weird one for me - on paper, it should have been incredible - Luc "Fifth Element" Besson getting a massive budget to do the sci-fi movie he'd always wanted to do.
Unfortunately they somehow managed to cast two cardboard cutouts instead of real people as the leads, and the whole thing fell apart.
That opening sequence where all the new alien species are saying hello to one another was beautiful though.
Same.
I was so interested in this movie.
I almost might have been able to overlook the leads if the girl hadn't suddenly become a total damsel in distress. She pretty much did _nothing_ in that movie despite supposedly being as talented as her partner. Lame.
@@NicolaiAAA the multiverse market was cool.
I heard they spent almost a year making the sets and languages for the market.
But they needed to spent a week working on the dialog and script.
My standard quip about the casting for this film is that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence should have done Valerian and Laureline instead of starring in Passengers, because a) they're better actors and b) they physically fit the characters from the comics much better and c) they've played similar roles (Valerian is a square-jawed loveable rogue, Laureline is curvaceous and considered attractive by everyone she meets but just as tough as Valerian and more sensible and keeps him in line).
The fart noise after the amount of money the movies made, to me, is extremely high class humor and I smiled/blew nose air after every one of them. Cheers.
Marketing for Downsizing had to have been more than $20m. It was everywhere.
They should’ve downsized all those bus ads
maaaaan, I still remember the time I wanted to watch a happy little jaunt about a man that gets shrunk and moves to a tiny village, except what I watched was a film where a black family move next door to Matt Damon's house in 1959 and everyone is racist and does a big racist violence on everybody and it was dark, scary, clearly based on real events and I had not realised that Matt Damon starred in two movies in 2017 and I was watching the other one, Suburbicon. (It was also a box office bomb, earning 12mil on 25mil budget).
@@bradpoynting4691 lmao
Haha yeah - I remember talking heads singing over every single trailer. I have never seen the film but whenever I hear that song it’s all I think about
Seeing Geostorm was like a wave of nostalgia. Throwback to my favourite Weekly Planet episode 😄
They acknowledged that epic 4 hour Mr. Sunday's rant video
I paused blue harvest to watch this, i hope you’re happy james
Hey, I worked as a Extra on The King Arthur film in the UK. At the time they made all these massive outdoor sets for what they were planning to be a multi film series about all the Knights of the round table, they were incredibly well made, too bad it all got scrapped.
Thanks to Monty Python, I cannot take 'The knights of the round table' seriously. Anytime I hear it or read it, no matter what the context, my brain just continues, "we dance whenever we're able..."
Same! 😅 @@bradpoynting4691
Every time these boys call someone a "dickhead" it's impossibly charming. I smile ear to ear for days.
In this context It's a term of endearment in Australia.
@@Rugras. In old blighty it's the insult you use when someone, usually a friend, hasn't said or done anything worthy of a stronger insult.
John: "You're shit at this." or John: "He drives and he's not even insured."
Dave: "Dickhead." Dave: "'Cos he's a knobhead."
Your muricaness is showing.
Why ‘Yall’ always flummoxed by Aussie banter? And why can’t you pronounce Aussie right 😂😂
How I feel about Rodney being missing tho
My favourite is when they say "What are you doing?!"
Happy to be a part of the consistent 138K for each video
This interrupted my 19th red notice watch party.
Blade Runner was a movie my “Film Appreciation” professor told us to write a 5 page paper on in 1999. I had to call 5 Blockbusters in my area to find both the regular and directors cut on VHS. It was alright. The sequel leaned hard into what people liked in the first film and I actually enjoyed it
Could happily watch these back through the 90s
8:51 I love how formal the communication is regarding dacking
I love that Maso gets so excited about making fun of The Mummy that he forgets the whole premise of the video they're doing. "20...17?" 😂
"why are we like this" I wish I knew James cuz it's why I'm here
"Here, 175 million dollars and 2 kilos of the purest of cocaines; we need a King Arthur movie"
Stay prayed up Maso
Maso could’ve prevented 9/11 if only they’d let him take half a brick into the plane
Is that a threat?
"Why are we like this?"
We don't know, but it's the entire reason we're here so never change.
One thing never really mentioned in these videos (and this isn't a criticism because it's moot since we can't trust studios when it comes to money matters of any sort): studios don't get ALL of the box office money that their movies earn; they have to split it with the exhibitors. I think generally in America, the split is like 50/50 between studios and theaters but American studios get a bigger piece of the box office overseas. Considering that plus the huge marketing budgets a lot of these movies get, it's a wonder any big-budget movie is ever remotely profitable.
They probably try to make up for some of the losses with merchandise
And the actual theaters are barely hanging on financially.
Depends on the nation when you say ‘overseas’.
In a country like Bangladesh, they’re gonna take any deal they can get. In a country like UK, they get the same as domestic.
Generally it’s 50:50 or they do a sliding deal.
Week 1 is 70:30
Week 2 is 60:40 etc
It isn't explicitly mentioned in this video, possibly because a lot of people who follow box office figures are likely to know it already, but they do allude to it when they say things like "apparently this needed to make $720 million at the box office to break even".
I love how they try to bully each other by saying they liked crap movies
One of my favourite bits is when one of them will introduce a topic to other by calling it, "Your favourite film" for a movie that is bad, or "Your mate" for someone that is cancelled. Gets me every time.
Well now you boys gotta do teh Rock Dog trilogy.
my favorite part is when Maso guessed what year The Mummy came out. no idea how he figured that one out.
I genuinely thought the King Arthur movie was the Robin Hood movie for a second!
I’m still not convinced they weren’t talking about Zero Dark: Locksley
I was baffled by that too and it is absolutely CRAZY that Guy Ritchie did that twice.
'It's the same movie'.
I read the comment and though King Arthur was Robin Hood, and I liked the King Arthur movie when I watched it on a flight once
it could have benefited from a "Men in tights" style musical number.
That final "you idiot" took me out.🤣🤣🤣
Imagine being the person who said yes to casting Dane DeHaan in Valerian. What an insane choice, knowing the movie is going to look like a 5th Element sequel and your lead looks like he parks Bruce's car.
"A Cure for Wellness" is better than it has any right to be.
Good mix of Gothic and Lovecraftian horror.
its a wonderfully weird and bizarre midnight movie.
the budget for this video was $133 million, not including marketing. let's hope they make it back!
I genuinely thought Krispy Kreme was a made up franchise in the Power Rangers universe. This movie was my first introduction to the brand.
I can’t wait to see how many years you’ll go back! I’ll watch every single one!!
Two movies in and 3 cancelled guys, actually. I think Mason forgot about Kevin Spacey, which I think we all wish we could.
Still baffled the studios insisted on paying for Spacey in a tremendous amount of old man make-up instead of just paying for an old man
I don't remember 2017, but I did have a bad drinking problem for 20 years, so there's a lot that I don't remember.
The James Rant video is my comfort video
Never saw Valerian but until this video I thought the leads were playing siblings in the movie
Yes
In the French comics the lead actor is 10 years older than the female
Staying prayed up is probably essential for a guy who is just the worst. No wonder he has to get up so early. Didn't he end up giving that $1.5 million away when word got out that Michelle Williams only made $1000 for her reshoots and he was shamed into donating it. After looking into it the story makes him look even worse. He held up reshoots because he had contractual approval of his co-stars and only agreed to Plummer when they gave him the $1.5 million. Originally it was reported they came back for free which Williams did. She only received an $80 daily allowance for the 9 days of reshoots on top of the $625,000 she made during principal. Wahlberg made $5 million. He ended up giving his reshoot extortion check to the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund in Williams' name because he is a terrible person but only if it's a secret. At the end of the day Williams was praised for her performance. There were some award nominations for Williams, Plummer and Ridley Scott. The only person not nominated was Wahlberg. Really earning his fee on that one. I am 100% with Maso on this. Wahlberg is an asshole and I despise him.
I'm shocked to learn that Geostorm is so old. I've never seen it, but I love that they made it
The editing is f'ing fantastic
I’m still bummed we didn’t get a Power Rangers (2017) sequel, it was a fun movie and the sequel had tons of potential
Honestly my only complaint was the helmets, besides that, I loved the movie
I still believe the only reason people didn't like it was the suit and Zord designs. If they went with something less, let's call it what it is, Iron Man looking, but everything else was the same, it would've been received way better. Also, Krispy Kreme.
It was fun and exactly what I expected from a Power Rangers movie.
Rita's introduction was legit creepy, borderline scary
Same.
The ranger actors have all gone onto to have decent careers.
Can’t wait until they review Biggest Bombs of 1931 in two years!
0:09 What the hell?
I love how you guys say "shut up". That aussie accent really stands out when you say that.
I love when James is explaining the system for calculating the budget and "streaming" comes up. As far as I'm concerned, streaming didn't exist pre-Covid outside of however people got to watch Game of Thrones back in the day... Now TV in my case. (wait... did game of thrones end it 2017? Coz that's a bomb if there ever was one)
1:37 they already saw a 2021 movie back in 2017?!?? 😮
I was today years old when I learned that this is an almost 4 hours TH-cam of Mr. Sunday movies rants
9:24 if you haven’t checked it out yet, please give this compilation a listen. Yes, it’s 4 hours long but it’s *packed* with hilarious rants that make you go “huh, James is one angry-angry man”.
I actually enjoyed a cure for wellness, loses the plot near the end but the first 3/4 is pretty good. Reminds me a bit of Shutter Island.
This really took me back to 2018.
That Power Rangers reboot was actually way better than I wanted to give it credit for. Id be willing to bet a lot of people were like me and assumed it was going to be trash, so they didn't bother watching it.
But one day I was bored enough and it was streaming. So I watched it. And it was actually good.
Give it a shot if you haven't.
You missed Monsters Trucks (2017) and potentially Transformers: The Last Knight according to some sources
Wow this throwback is reminding me of when moviepass was a thing and I saw bad movies for free
I said last video that I couldn’t wait until they get to the 90s because it’ll be a bunch of “Have you seen this movie, Mason?” “I dunno. Maybe.” Turns out I didn’t have to wait that long at all!
Downsizing is a movie I've watched and I feel it could've been better if produced by any country other than the US. It was way too pro-capitalism for an anti-capitalism concept
It probably would've done better if it the trailers didn't sell the movie as something else completely. Most people went to that movie expecting a fun, quirky comedy
NitPix has a great video called "How Downsizing Cheated You" which does a way better job than I ever could of breaking down why that movie was one of the most baffling misfires of all time. It's such a bizarrely-structured mess that tries to do so many things at once, and yet despite the fact that you'd think that would make it some kind of watchably-bad trainwreck, it somehow manages to be really dull at the same time. And it's such a bizarre entry in the filmography of Alexander Payne, of all people.
I was so ready for Lock, Stock/Snatch meets Arthurian legend, but it never really clicked and i checked out after about an hour...
Maybe Jason Statham shouldve been cast as Excalibur. No i dont mean as a voice, Charlie Hunnam has to literally pull Jason Statham from the stone and batter folk with him
Blade Runner 2049 is my favorite movie of the past decade. We were like $50 of their box office and we bought it on blue ray
ngl it kinda got to me seeing a fair few people assume furiosa was bad despite good reviews cause it bombed despite bladerunner 2049 also bombing in basically the same situation
This is the first of these bombs videos where I genuinely remember seeing most of these in cinemas 💀💀💀
Can you do film bombs in 1944 next?
get out of here !!!
I really thought Downsize was a forgotten Tubi show. Wild.
/prepares to be bludgeoned… I loved Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur movie. It opened with Eric Bana fighting 300 ft tall Mastodons. That movie was metal as hell.
2017 was a pretty good year for me overall. Graduated college, cultural exchange in Greece, then started a job that I quickly grew to dislike. Cheers!
Its crazy that Blade Runner 2049 under performed. It was intensely interesting all the way through. It deserved to do much better.
But we aren't getting Rebel Moon Part 3 just yet, we have to get the director's cuts of Part 1 and 2, which have been given completely different names for some reason!
love that the mr sunday movies rants video was referenced
Blade Runner 2049 was truly great; 6:57 it’s uncanny how it basically suffered the same fate as the original in terms of both box office and audience reception.
thank you for mentioning independence day 2, a movie i found very funny that no one talks about. i was beginning to go crazy bc i wasn't sure it was real
This is your best video of late. Og ruthless caravan! Thank you.
Valerian was a pretty good movie, I saw it way later after theaters, on my Dive instructor’s Kindle while we were stuck in the worst sit still traffic, we watched 1 and a half movies just sitting, and got home to SC from Florida at 5 in the morning. Pretty good movie!
Kind of crazy how different bombs used to be just 7 years ago compared to now.
Like, I don't remember most of these, while last year was filled with what used to be the biggest IPs in the world just flopping.
NO WAY!!! James' Rants absurdly long Geostorm segment mentioned!!!
Tank conversation sequence idea and Edit team up for the win!
Biggest laughs!
Mason is usually fairly even keeled and he’ll make jokes about people sucking and being awful, but I just love how openly he will not stop trashing Mark Wahlberg. I respect it and I join him in his journey of loathing.
Since you two kinda brought it up I may as well share my two cents on the Justice League/DCEU talk. Even if we got Zack's version of the movie back then, if it made anything less than a Billion dollars we probably wouldn't have seen his trilogy end. The studio heads at the time very clearly wanted Zack gone after BvS came out and would have gone out of their way to get rid of him. Justice League coming out and making that much only made it easier for them to justify kicking him. Again, anything less than a Billion, he'd have been out, and Zack's version likely wouldn't have made a Billion back then.
You ought to see 'A Cure for Wellness.'
It's by Gore Verbinski and visually speaking, really interesting.
Loved Blade Runner 2049 so much that when it was announced that Denis Villeneuve would direct Dune, I was instantly on board.
Downsizing trailer didn’t trick me into watching but it did make me fall in love with Once In A lifetime
Hey I bloody love my boy King Arthur, such an underrated film. It's gangster king Arthur where Arthur and littlefinger from game of thrones make a Mafia state for themselves and I just love that for them
Thanks for making Monday morning a little easier you legends.
i feel like everyone i show valerian to has never heard of it but likes it after watching, i love that movie and i love rake thin leads that look related
"Blade Runner 2049, a movie they should never have mad.."
"YOU'RE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BASELINE!"
1:00 Hey! It's the guy from Most Dangerous Game 1 & 2!
Its funny that theres a joke about Tank conversation sequences in live action Ghost in the Shell, but that actually happens in the TV show. Multiple times! It's an entire subplot! Probably would have made the movie better, honestly.
I love when you guys kinda devolve into dumbfounded wonder at the ends of the videos. 😂
For Media in High School we had to compare two pre, during and post dystopian movies between Blade Runner, Cabaret and V for Vendetta. Literally ONE dude picked Blade runner. High school media students didn't even dig that movie.
I almost didn't watch this because Blade Runner 2049 tanking just stung so very much. I saw it 2 times in theaters--just flat out an amazing film that actually elevates the original. EDIT: I honestly like the Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie. I think it's a lot of fun!
this got me interested about downsizing, ghost in the shell and snatched