Honestly this movie sucks and Oldman’s decision to do this is fucking insulting. But idk still think Gary Oldman’s career is pretty phenomenal outside of this. I mean most great actors have the most horrendous skeletons in their closets, at least in this case it was a bad offensive role, and not the sort of overt extreme abusive racist/sexist allegations that you usually see. Like Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra. Or the weird shit of Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Leonardo Dicaprio, Casey Affleck, etc etc. Gary Oldman still nails almost every role he has
"Dude, wanna watch a movie with Gary Oldman, Peter Dinklage, Matthew McConaughey and Patricia Arquette?" "woah, 3 oscarwinners and a goldenglobe winner? Must have been hell of an expensive filming. I bet it's awesome though!" well...
That's pretty much what happened to me. I was going through the channels and saw this movie and didn't know what it was. I saw the cast list and thought "this could be good". I've never been more wrong in my life.
i love the fake trivia on imdb about this film: "Gary Oldman often made his famous moose soup for the cast and crew and insisted everyone eat it instead of the provided catering. He claimed it awoke the "machines within" needed for his once in a life time performance. " "Gary Oldham said he was inspired for this role by his favorite musicians Garth Brooks and the Four Stoke Gang Band. " "In this film Peter Dinklage drank so much water he became the official water champ. He was soft at first but got it done in 3 long chugs. "
“When asked what it was like playing a dwarf, Gary Oldman said it was very uncomfortable because of the way his knees would rub rub rub on the ground.”
matthew bright also directed a batshit insane 1996 thriller called freeway in which reese witherspoon goes up against a necrophiliac serial killer played by keifer sutherland and along the way meets a heroin addicted lesbian brittany murphy. if you can believe it, it's more insane than this comment makes it sound. highly recommend
He also plays Squeezit the Chicken Boy in an even craaazier film called Forbidden Zone and was an original member of Oingo Boingo back when they were a theatrical troupe.
So they were looking for a good actor to play their main little person character and they also casted one of the best little person actors in the film but only to play a side character
@@Maxisamo1 The fact that's the actual reasoning is such a sad indication of Hollywood in general. Can't possibly have incredibly talented leads, they have to already be known too... Fuck Hollywood
@@PhyreI3ird im not sure about anything ever, but the character that Gary Oldman plays is sensitive not a macho. The characters dinklage played around that time were macho men. Maybe because he was small he thought he had to prove something, so he focused on macho. Macho is what he is still good at(and this is why we love him) BUT if you watch the movie then youd notice that dinklage isnt very good at the small part he got. His french accent is still bad and his drunk acting sucks. Im happy he got better at acting later ,he had allot of potential, BIG presence on screen. but it makes sense they hired an actual actor (gary) for a lead role
In the scene where Matthew McConaughey was dancing with those children, you missed a golden opportunity to make a "he keeps getting older, they stay the same age" joke
This is a fascinating production, though. Kate Beckinsale agreed to do this movie for scale if she could wear her lucky hat, but the wife of the producer was like "I don't like the hat. It has to go!" and the fight over it resulted in half the crew leaving. The director was so pissed at how the producers edited the movie, he flew to the Sundance premier to get up on stage and just hammer the film and the interference of the idiot producers before getting thrown out. He purposely removed his name from the film because he hated it, the writing credit is actually his pseudonym, but couldn't remove himself as director. I really wish they'd release the director's cut because apparently the vibe is completely different. I think the concept is interesting, but putting Oldman on his knees was ridiculous.
you really got to wonder how many bad movies are actually good just with shit editing against the creator's wishes, like that one dark comedy paul walker was in where hes put into the brain of a dinosour that was known as a horrible movie for decades but turned out to be a genuinely hilarious R rated comedy they edited down to a pg rating and shit out in the early 90's before finally getting a real finished release like last year.
@@cynikalfilms yep, it was an early role that was butchered turning an R rated horror comedy into a kids film. Its most well known for being on best of the worst where they could obviously tell that shit wasnt for kids and how suspcious some of the cuts were to mask what seemed to be alot more graphic, last year the actual cut of the movie came out and its a pretty fun movie genuinly outside of irony. th-cam.com/video/s2TjMvBmKuo/w-d-xo.html
I can't tell which is more absurd: Kate Beckinsale doing the movie on the condition that she gets to wear a hat, or the director's wife, who knows this, fighting vehemently against the hat being in the movie at all costs.
The easiest fix to this film would be to make McConaughey's character afraid of his child having a hard life and being bullied, maybe even show some of this happening to his brother in the past. It would give a real, legitimate, reason for why his character would be so insecure and have these fears even though HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IS FILLED WITH DWARVES.
Erasmus of Rotterdam and several other important artistic and scholarly figures from the middle ages and early modernity are referred to by their place of origin. Leonardo is an exception that everyone uses that Italian form (even in my native Finnish), which obfuscates the meaning.
Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci."
"At the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where the 90-minute version screened, Bright criticized the film and lambasted the producers for re-editing his film, leading them to drag him off stage" This film is the gift that keeps on giving
So the sympathetic dwarf is played by a regular sized person on his knees, and the annoying pretentious dwarf is played by an actual dwarf actor..... Not good optics.
*I didn't get Tim and Eric 's awesome show's fake trailers until I saw the trailer for tiptoes, where it hyped Gary Oldman's performance like it means something to the movie.*
WTF!? That guy at 3:56 is Santiago Segura. For those who don't know him, his is a very famous spanish actor that also does a lot of small roles in Guillermo del Toro movies (he is in Blade II, Hellboy and Pacific Rim).
That's what I was thinking. Plus I can better see someone like Peter who's handsome and charismatic enough being able to get one over Matthew McConaughey by stealing his wife
Probably Dinklage wasn’t famous enough then. They could have helped make him famous if they’d given him the role, but they wanted a big name like Oldman’s.
I briefly met Gary Oldman when he came to visit the University I attend, I wish I had remembered about this film at the time I can't imagine its one he likes to be reminded of.
Thanks for all the hard work, Adam. Appreciate the TONS of content you give us. Adum & Pals is always a successful format and one of my personal favorites.
I worked at a gas station and a van pulled up and 6 midgets came in... one said “ invasion of the midgets!” My coworker and I giggled.... so yeah, some of them at least don’t care.
Well considering he won multiple golden globes and emmys while using an accent that is not his own kind of says otherwise.. also he was amazing in 3 billboards
if you want to know something weirder: Gary Oldman's role in this was a year before his role as Sirius in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (his first hp movie)
Which is funny since DiCaprio means "of Caprio" in Italian, similar to how da Vinci means "of Vinci". Many modern surnames (and not just the Italian ones) are actually derived from these old "refer to one's place of origin" surnames people usually were given back then. Of course, that might actually have been the intended point of your joke 😄
this movie feels like its gaslighting me. please correct me if i'm wrong, i only took grade 12 bio and that was a few years ago... but i don't think matthew's character's kid CAN inherit dwarfism from him. or at the very least, he can't inherit it from *only* him as far as inherited dwarfism goes, there are recessive and a dominant types. say his parents both have the dominant type of dwarfism. Well, Matt is not a dwarf, obviously, and since this is a dominant gene, he therefore doesn't have the right allele and cannot pass it on. the kid will be average sized. Say his parents both have the recessive type of dwarfism. well... they can't, because then they only have the recessive alleles to pass on, meaning all their kids have to be dwarfs. And again, Matthew is not a dwarf. Okay, maybe one has the dominant type and one has the recessive. (there are technically more cases here, but they basically all boil down to this one). he has a 50/50 shot of not being a dwarf of the dominant kind so that part checks out. since only 1 parent has the recessive kind of dwarfism, then matt can't have the recessive kind, but has a 100% chance of having the recessive dwarf trait. he wouldn't be a dwarf in this case, but he could pass on the trait. still, you need 2 alleles to present with the recessive type of dwarfism, meaning the only way the kid would have it is... if the gf also had the recessive trait! Which is very unlikely! and even then, they both have to pass it down which they each have a 50% chance of doing, meaning there's still there's only a 25% chance of the kid having it!!! I was sort of operating under the assumption that the characters just didn't understand genetics so that's why they were freaking out. and then when the baby was born he would be average sized and the movie would end there, but then the baby had dwarfism and i literally burst out laughing. its is extremely unlikely that the kid would have it, an even if he does, it is equally the gf's gene's fault so she can't really be mad at him for not telling her about his family having dwarfism (by the way, its most likely matthew family all have the recessive type of dwarfism, because even though the dominant type is much much more common, if they were all the dominant type they would have a lot more normal sized people in the family. 2 people with the dominant type of dwarfism have a 25% chance of having a normal sized kid, while 2 people with the recessive type HAVE to have a kid with dwarfism.) (one thing is still bugging me though. based on the symptoms gary's character has with his joint pain and stuff, i would have assumed he has the recessive type of dwarfism, which he can only have if either both his parents have the recessive type, which we have established is impossible, or if one or both of his parents has the dominant type of dwarfism along with the trait for the recessive type of dwarfism, which like, seems just really unlikely) Anyways I've spent an unholy amount of time on this
The only problem with all of this is that genetics is about a billion times more complex than what you heard when you took grade 12 bio. Hell, a quick Google search tells that most cases of dwarfism aren't even genetically inherited at all, and that it is more common for parents to have precursor mutations that can lead to dwarfism that lead to a further mutation on the reproductive cell that ends up making the child, so you could even have two parents who don't have "the gene" for dwarfism having children who _do._ The thing people don't tell us in grade 12 is that almost nothing about the human body (about anything in nature to be honest) is the result of a single gene. Skin colour, height, eyes, hair, a lot of things that make your body are actually controlled by hundreds or thousands of genes, all of which can then be recessive or dominant. Unfortunately when it comes to achondroplasia, the dwarfism that Peter Dinklage suffers from, it _is_ down to a single gene. To fit it into your calculations, that gene is dominant, although you only end up with 25% people who actually suffer from the disease from it. Putting it into grade 12 bio terms: aa you don't inherit the disease, Aa you do, AA you fucking die 100% of the time shortly after birth. _But,_ the complication that justifies the character's whole fear is that, as I have said, the most common way for people to be born with achondroplasia is not even to get it from a parent who has it, instead it being more common for a spontaneous mutation on an entirely healthy person to create a sperm cell that has the genetic issue that causes it. Matthew didn't inherit the defect that causes dwarfism, but he sure has good odds of passing it down. Btw, the type of dwarfism his family suffers from can apparently only appear as a spontaneous mutation on sperm (there's other types that can only be "created" by the mother) so his fear makes a lot more sense then you'd think. Not surprising, since according to Dinklage the movie was supposed to be a serious drama that the studio decided to edit into a comedy, so they'd apparently done their research for the motivation of the drama.
As a woman, that part "Can you LOVE a baby? They don't have a personality." I laughed pretty hard. That is a hilarious point. Though, I don't like kids, so that's likely a good reason why.
In spite of how hilarious and terrible their characters are, that little moment between Peter Dinklage and Patricia Arquette where they're at the park and he asks where she's from, it's a genuinely romantic and sweet moment. Like maybe my love of Peter Dinklage is clouding my judgment, but I liked his delivery there. God, just make Peter Dinklage a romantic lead!
17:49 oh god, i actually think something like that, babies are not actually people, they have to be 4-6 for you to know if they have a personality, or if they are assholes
So they made a Broadway musical based on Shrek, and for Lord Farquaad, the actor does the entire show on his knees. In that show, it's funny and clever stagecraft. Here, it's also funny.
Turns out Peter Dinklage has actually been on his knees the whole time too, he's just really good at it. If he stands up he's like 6'2"
He just got short arms
I now like to imagine Peter Dinklage with really long legs, but still having his short arms
He just gets up one day, kinda dusts himself off and walks away.
Have you seen him in Avengers Infinity War? That wasn't a special effect, he's really that huge
if he stands up he plays House M.D.
This seems like it’s one of those trailers in the beginning of tropic thunder, but somehow it became a real movie.
Thats perfect omg
This could be on Tim and Eric's awesome show and we wouldn't know the difference.
Accurate.
Dwarf Farts 2
"Everybody knows you never go full dwarf"
This film comes across to me as one of the most misguided attempts at an Oscar bait movie ever.
This whole setup reminds me of walk hard where dewie Cox tries to be socially concious and makes a song about midgets, god damn I love that movie
I don't think it's the subject matter that held it back, but the fact it's just weird and incompetent
This is Simple Jack but in real life
Then the movie Music happened.
the box describes it as "Gary Oldman in the role of a lifetime" or something like that.
Imagine a movie where two little actors play one ''regular'' sized person. Now that would be something.
BRAVE
just make them stand on boxes and crop the frame and that'd be just like what they did in this movie.
The twist in this movie should have been that everyone in Beckinsale's family was two dwarves pretending to be regular-sized people
I mean, Dinklage _did_ play a 12 foot giant in Avengers.
Commentary by "Jesus 420"
A movie were Matthew Mcconaughey plays a Jewish dwarf.
A tall Jewish dwarf
With Gary Oldman plays a dwarf but it's painfully obvious it's not
Ah yes, my favourite Safdie Brother Movie
Aren't all Dwarves Jewish, like in Snow White?
15:08 Blond girl is a pornstar.... a friend told me so...
"Have you ever fantasized about having so much money, that you could like, make a room made out of lasers?" That's when I knew Adum had checked out.
adum has been on a downward spiral
I remember as a teenager, saying to myself "I love Gary Oldman, I will watch all his films." This is the one that made me slow down.
I did that after watching Con Air Eric Nic Cage. Don't even ask me why or how. The Weatherman was what finally did me in.
*LOL*
Honestly this movie sucks and Oldman’s decision to do this is fucking insulting. But idk still think Gary Oldman’s career is pretty phenomenal outside of this. I mean most great actors have the most horrendous skeletons in their closets, at least in this case it was a bad offensive role, and not the sort of overt extreme abusive racist/sexist allegations that you usually see. Like Marlon Brando, John Wayne, Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra. Or the weird shit of Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Leonardo Dicaprio, Casey Affleck, etc etc. Gary Oldman still nails almost every role he has
"Dude, wanna watch a movie with Gary Oldman, Peter Dinklage, Matthew McConaughey and Patricia Arquette?"
"woah, 3 oscarwinners and a goldenglobe winner? Must have been hell of an expensive filming. I bet it's awesome though!"
well...
@Anders Herum 3 2 3 4 4 2 3 AND...
That's pretty much what happened to me. I was going through the channels and saw this movie and didn't know what it was. I saw the cast list and thought "this could be good". I've never been more wrong in my life.
what a S T I G M A
kaiokendo S T I G M A BALLS
Don't forget Academy Awards attendee Kate Beckinsale! (She shoulda been nominated for Love & Friendship, but that joke was still hilarious)
It really isn’t the same without that Asian kid from Thirteen Reasons Why popping up
Really ruins the whole connected universe vibe
@ He is always there, in our hearts.
@ that one and Invasion (2007)
...wait... Gary Oldman isn't the Asian kid from Thirteen Reasons Why?...
maybe the real asian kid from thirteen reasons was the friends we made along the way
You obviously don't dig on multiverses, this is set off of the prime universe where Gary Oldman on his knees was in thirteen reasons why
i love the fake trivia on imdb about this film:
"Gary Oldman often made his famous moose soup for the cast and crew and insisted everyone eat it instead of the provided catering. He claimed it awoke the "machines within" needed for his once in a life time performance.
"
"Gary Oldham said he was inspired for this role by his favorite musicians Garth Brooks and the Four Stoke Gang Band.
"
"In this film Peter Dinklage drank so much water he became the official water champ. He was soft at first but got it done in 3 long chugs.
"
mrinkel all of these are jokes from Tom Segura’s podcast: Your moms house
@@VHScompatible ah interesting, never heard of it :P
WHERE MY MOMMIES AT
BigPapaGoose SUWU
“When asked what it was like playing a dwarf, Gary Oldman said it was very uncomfortable because of the way his knees would rub rub rub on the ground.”
We NEED the sequel. Kate's character falls in love with Brad Garrett (6'8" in real life) who is the shortest guy in a family of people with gigantism
And Brad Garrett is played by a little person
matthew bright also directed a batshit insane 1996 thriller called freeway in which reese witherspoon goes up against a necrophiliac serial killer played by keifer sutherland and along the way meets a heroin addicted lesbian brittany murphy. if you can believe it, it's more insane than this comment makes it sound. highly recommend
Deaner 👌
He also plays Squeezit the Chicken Boy in an even craaazier film called Forbidden Zone and was an original member of Oingo Boingo back when they were a theatrical troupe.
racinefo i never knew he was part of oingo boingo pre new wave band era, but yeah forbidden zone was also batshit insane
@@thebasedgodmax1163 his involvement in the band was minimal, I couldn't even tell you what instrument he played
Highway is fun. Its a modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Also I had no idea Oingo Boingo started out that way
So they were looking for a good actor to play their main little person character and they also casted one of the best little person actors in the film but only to play a side character
I need to see Peter Dinklage as a lead for once. He's so charismatic, handsome, and phenomenally talented, yet he's so underutilized it seems
Peter Dinklage wasn't famous at the time, he had a filmography but he never played famous roles at the time
Not Applicable I hear The Station Agent is pretty good, he’s the lead in that one.
@@Maxisamo1 The fact that's the actual reasoning is such a sad indication of Hollywood in general. Can't possibly have incredibly talented leads, they have to already be known too... Fuck Hollywood
@@PhyreI3ird im not sure about anything ever, but the character that Gary Oldman plays is sensitive not a macho. The characters dinklage played around that time were macho men.
Maybe because he was small he thought he had to prove something, so he focused on macho. Macho is what he is still good at(and this is why we love him) BUT if you watch the movie then youd notice that dinklage isnt very good at the small part he got. His french accent is still bad and his drunk acting sucks. Im happy he got better at acting later ,he had allot of potential, BIG presence on screen. but it makes sense they hired an actual actor (gary) for a lead role
"It suddenly occurred to me that it's a genetic thing."
Scoot: It suddenly occurred to you? What did you think it was? A curse??
I lost my shit. X'D
Replying for Grandia
@@coronerelf Skidaddle Skidorves your family is dwarves
Liezl Bohnen I know!!! That was hilarious!!!
Damn everything Marvel comics has teached me is wrong
Scoot is hilarious I wish he had a TH-cam
In the scene where Matthew McConaughey was dancing with those children, you missed a golden opportunity to make a "he keeps getting older, they stay the same age" joke
This is a fascinating production, though. Kate Beckinsale agreed to do this movie for scale if she could wear her lucky hat, but the wife of the producer was like "I don't like the hat. It has to go!" and the fight over it resulted in half the crew leaving. The director was so pissed at how the producers edited the movie, he flew to the Sundance premier to get up on stage and just hammer the film and the interference of the idiot producers before getting thrown out. He purposely removed his name from the film because he hated it, the writing credit is actually his pseudonym, but couldn't remove himself as director. I really wish they'd release the director's cut because apparently the vibe is completely different. I think the concept is interesting, but putting Oldman on his knees was ridiculous.
you really got to wonder how many bad movies are actually good just with shit editing against the creator's wishes, like that one dark comedy paul walker was in where hes put into the brain of a dinosour that was known as a horrible movie for decades but turned out to be a genuinely hilarious R rated comedy they edited down to a pg rating and shit out in the early 90's before finally getting a real finished release like last year.
I'm sorry, Paul Walker was a dinosaur?
@@cynikalfilms yep, it was an early role that was butchered turning an R rated horror comedy into a kids film. Its most well known for being on best of the worst where they could obviously tell that shit wasnt for kids and how suspcious some of the cuts were to mask what seemed to be alot more graphic, last year the actual cut of the movie came out and its a pretty fun movie genuinly outside of irony.
th-cam.com/video/s2TjMvBmKuo/w-d-xo.html
@@cynikalfilms The name of the movie is Tammy and the T-Rex.
I can't tell which is more absurd: Kate Beckinsale doing the movie on the condition that she gets to wear a hat, or the director's wife, who knows this, fighting vehemently against the hat being in the movie at all costs.
(Man punches hole in the wall after finding out his kid's a gnome) Yep, this relationship can only end well.
Looks like Noa Baumbach ripped off some parts for his Marriage Story from this film.
I laughed so hard the first time I saw it, like
Doctor: your baby has dwarfism
MM: goddammit (punches door)
@D Zuke Well, of course I'd never call a REAL person a gnome. But this is a fictional character. Still, "Champ" sounds like a fun term.
"gnome" Jesus Christ you insensitive prick. They're called goblins.
@@videogamenostalgia is... is this a PST reference?
“Why are- some letters are bigger”
“What part of cool font do you not understand?”
@Quentin Beck Very factual
I too watched the video
These replies are mean and I love them.
@@notscotthenson we love you too scoot
Stunningly original and hilariously funny
I felt this one was genuinely pissing Adam off.
More so than "I know who killed me"?
@@fritzyfox3713 i think that one was worse the color thing was genuinely fucking with him
maybe his
extra energetic irritating friend. He's so annoying and loud, he never fails to give me a headache
@@AnarchistPoop
Then just don’t watch videos with him in them?
@@Levleup ikr all the adum and pals vids are like 70% Scoot whats the point of even clicking on the video
As a guy standing on his knees I am deeply offended by the way you guys talk about us small people.
Huh, I was expecting this video to be shorter.
Whistle sound effect plays.
Seinfeld Theme begins to play*
@strontiumXnitrate Don't sell yourself short.
*saws off video's legs*
The finale to Game of Thrones should have been Peter Dinklage standing up and being like 6'5"
The easiest fix to this film would be to make McConaughey's character afraid of his child having a hard life and being bullied, maybe even show some of this happening to his brother in the past.
It would give a real, legitimate, reason for why his character would be so insecure and have these fears even though HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IS FILLED WITH DWARVES.
The story needed a "villain", so they jackknifed the plot to make Matt's character that villain, even though It makes zero fucking sense in context
@@robertwoods3871Well, just don't put a villain...
"Time is shorter for long people." -Albert Einstein
Why is Adum upset about Gary Oldman constantly on his knees? That sounds like every gay man's fantasy
Heh
No way, Gary Oldman has zero bottom energy.
@@Jetiko27 Didn't you notice his big bottom? Oh wait, right, that's his legs... - Hercules disappointed scream ensues. -
Damn I'm not even a gay man and that's my fantasy
He prefers gay anthro horses.
Fun Fact: Leonardo da Vinci was called da Vinci because he was an illegitimate child and thus, wasn't given a last name.
2 Devious yes he was a bastard
Erasmus of Rotterdam and several other important artistic and scholarly figures from the middle ages and early modernity are referred to by their place of origin.
Leonardo is an exception that everyone uses that Italian form (even in my native Finnish), which obfuscates the meaning.
@Palindromeda 33 no. It's where he's from. His name is Leonardo of Vinci if you're being literal.
Leonardo Snow. Or Sand, or Rivers, or Flowers, or Stone, or whatever.
@@EvanSaltare leonardo of venice
Gary Oldman’s arms are longer than Peter Dunkey’s body
@Niŋin turdl已 Generally people's arms are longer than their (or other people's) penises, yes.
Niŋin turdl已 if he is smaller than 6 inches
Peter Dunkey?
You know there are different types of dwarfs...
Peter Dunkey: Spaghetti and meatballs!
scoot always brought such a great energy to every video he was in, they will be forever missed.
The thing with the pregnancy test and the coffee...just wtf? WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT?!?!?
Nick Baron marination?
She read it on a fitness site that piss was the new substitute for sugar
That wasn't coffee, she's a coyote
My favorite adum and pals, and its all thanks to scoot. We love you man.
Is Gary Oldman the Asian guy from 13 Reasons Why?
I mean in this movie he has the size of your normal Asian man, so yeah that should be right.
I see you in that profile pic yumi from senan kagura
Deep down, we are all the Asian kid from 13 Reasons Why inside
@@yes9421 The real Asian kid from 13 reasons why is everyone that is vaugley Asian according to Adam and pals :P
Its Gary Oldman with a rice hat and clothepins on his eyes
Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci."
So illegally speaking, his name was Leonardo Piero?
Doctor: It's gonna be a big commitment
Me: ....is it?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh haaaa
@@faroffspring2430 AHA BAHA HA HA...MA......HAAAAAAA
Since he’s on his knees and basically doesn’t have shins as this character, all I can see if Gary Oldman as Cotton Hill
Don't disrespect Cotton, he killed fiddy men
Disgruntled Cashier what you guys doing women’s work?
HAJAHAHAHA
I just recently found out that Hank Hills neighbor Kahn was played by the Asian guy from 13 Reason Why
How Gary Oldman was snubbed for an Oscar for this greatly written role I’ll never understand. #OscarsSoTall
Tiptoes, the best toe movie since Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Imagine that movie with Dinklage and Oldman as a small person
Liam Does Stuff you need to wiggle your big toe and get those other piggies wiggling
Fun fact: Achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant trait and can only be inherited by a parent with the condition.
Him screaming "I'M A DWARF" is the best thing ever.
rewatching one of my favorite adum and pals episodes. i'm really gonna miss scoot
"At the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where the 90-minute version screened, Bright criticized the film and lambasted the producers for re-editing his film, leading them to drag him off stage"
This film is the gift that keeps on giving
So the sympathetic dwarf is played by a regular sized person on his knees, and the annoying pretentious dwarf is played by an actual dwarf actor..... Not good optics.
Goddamn Hollywood elites and their 'tall savior' archetype
*I didn't get Tim and Eric 's awesome show's fake trailers until I saw the trailer for tiptoes, where it hyped Gary Oldman's performance like it means something to the movie.*
thank you scoot for suggesting this one. it's a classic.
3:56 Spanish actor cameo, one of our worst actors, Santiago Segura. This film keeps getting better lol
This movie proves that there are no small parts, just small actors.
I know a guy who worked on prosthetics for this movie and even he makes fun of it
These three have such great chemistry they can make any shitty movie seem funny af. Plus the editing is hilarious
WTF!? That guy at 3:56 is Santiago Segura. For those who don't know him, his is a very famous spanish actor that also does a lot of small roles in Guillermo del Toro movies (he is in Blade II, Hellboy and Pacific Rim).
Aah yes, Matthew Mcconaughey's quintessential role before True Detective came and ruined it.
I had no idea Anthony Fantano was the voice of the “damn boy he thick” meme until now
Why didn't they just have Peter Dinklage play Gary Oldman's role?😓
That's what I was thinking. Plus I can better see someone like Peter who's handsome and charismatic enough being able to get one over Matthew McConaughey by stealing his wife
Probably Dinklage wasn’t famous enough then. They could have helped make him famous if they’d given him the role, but they wanted a big name like Oldman’s.
@@markiangooley They wanted a big actor like Oldman. He could elevate the movie to new heights. With him on board they could reach for the stars
This feels like an Adam Sandler Comedy minus Sandler.
Rip scoot. This is one of my favorite watch alongs
I briefly met Gary Oldman when he came to visit the University I attend, I wish I had remembered about this film at the time I can't imagine its one he likes to be reminded of.
To be fair, Gary Oldman doesn't like most of the movies he's in
He's even said he doesn't care for the dark knight
Thanks for all the hard work, Adam. Appreciate the TONS of content you give us. Adum & Pals is always a successful format and one of my personal favorites.
The font was like that to be a visual representation of little people and normal-sized people!
ItS sYmbOliSm.
It seems more like symbolism for anorexic and morbidly obese tho
I worked at a gas station and a van pulled up and 6 midgets came in... one said “ invasion of the midgets!” My coworker and I giggled.... so yeah, some of them at least don’t care.
Peter Dinklage has just the worst accents whenever it’s not his own accent.
Well considering he won multiple golden globes and emmys while using an accent that is not his own kind of says otherwise.. also he was amazing in 3 billboards
@@michaelgordon8235 Dinklage himself would tell you his Game of Thrones accent is laughable and ridiculous
@@michaelgordon8235 Yeah, sure, he was getting awards for his accent. Of course. /sarcasm
Tyrions voice wasnt bad
@@lukess.s Sounded fine to me.
if you want to know something weirder: Gary Oldman's role in this was a year before his role as Sirius in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (his first hp movie)
"I dunno what this movie is really"
"It's a movie"
off to a great start
Leonardo da Vinci's last name was actually Dicaprio
Which is funny since DiCaprio means "of Caprio" in Italian, similar to how da Vinci means "of Vinci". Many modern surnames (and not just the Italian ones) are actually derived from these old "refer to one's place of origin" surnames people usually were given back then.
Of course, that might actually have been the intended point of your joke 😄
@@Khenfu_Cake That's actually a big thing in linguistics. It's called a habitational surname.
@@MrPiccoloku Habitational surnames? Huh, didn't know that. Learned something new today, thanks 😊
I find them making fun of shit films so satisfying I can legit fall asleep to this
Is it intentional that the movie is called Tiptoes but Gary Oldman spends the whole thing on his knees?
this movie feels like its gaslighting me. please correct me if i'm wrong, i only took grade 12 bio and that was a few years ago... but i don't think matthew's character's kid CAN inherit dwarfism from him. or at the very least, he can't inherit it from *only* him
as far as inherited dwarfism goes, there are recessive and a dominant types.
say his parents both have the dominant type of dwarfism. Well, Matt is not a dwarf, obviously, and since this is a dominant gene, he therefore doesn't have the right allele and cannot pass it on. the kid will be average sized. Say his parents both have the recessive type of dwarfism. well... they can't, because then they only have the recessive alleles to pass on, meaning all their kids have to be dwarfs. And again, Matthew is not a dwarf.
Okay, maybe one has the dominant type and one has the recessive. (there are technically more cases here, but they basically all boil down to this one). he has a 50/50 shot of not being a dwarf of the dominant kind so that part checks out. since only 1 parent has the recessive kind of dwarfism, then matt can't have the recessive kind, but has a 100% chance of having the recessive dwarf trait. he wouldn't be a dwarf in this case, but he could pass on the trait. still, you need 2 alleles to present with the recessive type of dwarfism, meaning the only way the kid would have it is... if the gf also had the recessive trait! Which is very unlikely! and even then, they both have to pass it down which they each have a 50% chance of doing, meaning there's still there's only a 25% chance of the kid having it!!!
I was sort of operating under the assumption that the characters just didn't understand genetics so that's why they were freaking out. and then when the baby was born he would be average sized and the movie would end there, but then the baby had dwarfism and i literally burst out laughing. its is extremely unlikely that the kid would have it, an even if he does, it is equally the gf's gene's fault so she can't really be mad at him for not telling her about his family having dwarfism
(by the way, its most likely matthew family all have the recessive type of dwarfism, because even though the dominant type is much much more common, if they were all the dominant type they would have a lot more normal sized people in the family. 2 people with the dominant type of dwarfism have a 25% chance of having a normal sized kid, while 2 people with the recessive type HAVE to have a kid with dwarfism.)
(one thing is still bugging me though. based on the symptoms gary's character has with his joint pain and stuff, i would have assumed he has the recessive type of dwarfism, which he can only have if either both his parents have the recessive type, which we have established is impossible, or if one or both of his parents has the dominant type of dwarfism along with the trait for the recessive type of dwarfism, which like, seems just really unlikely)
Anyways I've spent an unholy amount of time on this
The only problem with all of this is that genetics is about a billion times more complex than what you heard when you took grade 12 bio.
Hell, a quick Google search tells that most cases of dwarfism aren't even genetically inherited at all, and that it is more common for parents to have precursor mutations that can lead to dwarfism that lead to a further mutation on the reproductive cell that ends up making the child, so you could even have two parents who don't have "the gene" for dwarfism having children who _do._
The thing people don't tell us in grade 12 is that almost nothing about the human body (about anything in nature to be honest) is the result of a single gene. Skin colour, height, eyes, hair, a lot of things that make your body are actually controlled by hundreds or thousands of genes, all of which can then be recessive or dominant.
Unfortunately when it comes to achondroplasia, the dwarfism that Peter Dinklage suffers from, it _is_ down to a single gene. To fit it into your calculations, that gene is dominant, although you only end up with 25% people who actually suffer from the disease from it. Putting it into grade 12 bio terms: aa you don't inherit the disease, Aa you do, AA you fucking die 100% of the time shortly after birth.
_But,_ the complication that justifies the character's whole fear is that, as I have said, the most common way for people to be born with achondroplasia is not even to get it from a parent who has it, instead it being more common for a spontaneous mutation on an entirely healthy person to create a sperm cell that has the genetic issue that causes it.
Matthew didn't inherit the defect that causes dwarfism, but he sure has good odds of passing it down. Btw, the type of dwarfism his family suffers from can apparently only appear as a spontaneous mutation on sperm (there's other types that can only be "created" by the mother) so his fear makes a lot more sense then you'd think. Not surprising, since according to Dinklage the movie was supposed to be a serious drama that the studio decided to edit into a comedy, so they'd apparently done their research for the motivation of the drama.
Props to the editor for keeping the zooms in the same aspect ratio as the film
Matthew McConaughey's dad was The Man From Another Place in Twin Peaks, and Gary Oldman was the tall guy from real life
Adum and Pals is actually the best thing on the internet
Also cross is a normal expression in England.
Your mockery of the word made me cross.
Well, yeah, and this wasn't England.
AD
It’s funny, I’ve also hear this word used in present-day America.
Kate Beckinsale is English and probably ad-libbed that, not having any understanding of how Americans speak
p dink: "I think the term 'little people' is demeaning"
scoot: "now we gotta go Tiny Monster"
This is insane, I had no idea this existed.
Jaboody studios did a commentary on this like a year ago.
As a woman, that part "Can you LOVE a baby? They don't have a personality." I laughed pretty hard. That is a hilarious point. Though, I don't like kids, so that's likely a good reason why.
Why are you mentioning your sex?
In spite of how hilarious and terrible their characters are, that little moment between Peter Dinklage and Patricia Arquette where they're at the park and he asks where she's from, it's a genuinely romantic and sweet moment. Like maybe my love of Peter Dinklage is clouding my judgment, but I liked his delivery there. God, just make Peter Dinklage a romantic lead!
14:37 it’s the small man from the red room in twin peaks!
"The classic jew Matthew McConaughey"
Did i miss something or nothing happened in the movie
This should’ve been directed by terry Gilliam
What’s funny is that they seemed to have an actual dwarf body double for back shots of Oldman, but they still used him anyway!
"what did you think it was a curse" literally spat laughing
This summer ... Matthew McConaughey is .. "The Tallest Dwarf" ...
17:49 oh god, i actually think something like that, babies are not actually people, they have to be 4-6 for you to know if they have a personality, or if they are assholes
“What did you think it was? A curse?” Fucking killed me 😂😂
So they made a Broadway musical based on Shrek, and for Lord Farquaad, the actor does the entire show on his knees. In that show, it's funny and clever stagecraft. Here, it's also funny.
Wouldn't it have been easier to cast Peter Dinklage as the brother?
15:00 "Mcconaughey in a yamarcle is way more expensive than Gary Oldman on his knees"
It's the little people that make this movie work.
Nah they only had a small contribution.
Best Matthew Mcconaughey performance since Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the next generation
Oscar Winner Matthew McConaughey
Oscar Winner Patricia Arquette
Oscar Winner Gary Oldman
"i dont think actors should be allow to play caracthers that arent themselfs"
*Billy Porter intensifies*
Scoot really had to just flex on all of us with that spicy quick pronunciation of Chiwetel
I'm very cultured.
I totally understand the sentiment of wanting to be very rich just to have each room to be themed.
"You don't have to love your kid until it's at least 6"
This has to be the best quote I have heard so far all year!
The 'buy a little person' joke.. and at half price. This was the only time i ever chuckled watching this channel. Kudos to that dude.
Adum & Pals is very quickly becoming my favorite show on TH-cam.
Scott is one of the funniest people in the entire internet. "Little Monsters", LOL!
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I'm always hyped for these
So when are you guys gonna watch "White Chicks"
They don't trust scooter.
That movie's a landmine
That "I'm a dwarf!" From Matthew McConaughey hit exactly the same as Eric Andre yelling "Hey! I'm a car too you know."
1:34 No, Adam. Neither of those randomly larger letters is a "Y".
You get an "F".
Yiff
This movie is so not "alright, alright, alright"
instead Mathew goes "alt-right, alt-right, alt-right" in regards to his offspring.
The trailer led my friend and I into thinking it was a peculiar comedy.
We soon realized it was much, much worse.
4:36
That's why Rosie O'Donnell agreed to be in Riding the Bus with My Sister.