How could she retire? That poor girl can not even hope to survive with her paltry 400 million dollars in investments. We should set up a fundraiser to push her out of abject poverty.
I don't even care about spoilers because I never intend to watch it. Anything Jenny from the block does is just awful. I'm here to listen to you cut it to pieces. It's why I love you.
Atlas is a stupid name for a woman, but currently day! I’ve seen a few reviews but was willing to overlook most because I love giant robots punching things.... but when a reviewer pointed out the pronoun scene I noped out. Too much current day for me. ...and I’ve watched Pacific Rim 2 more than once.
Helium balloon of the weather balloon type. They’re big and launched with only enough helium to get them to rise. As they rise into thinner air, they fill up as the helium matches the atmospheric pressure at altitude. So they have to be BIG.
Was that giant ego working as a force field what protected her and the mech suit while falling? By the way: all the Rangers put up a really good fight but got slaughtered, yet defenseless JLO just "fell through the cracks" of the AI attacks and landed without a scratch........ the plot armour is thick in this movie.
If all Atlas had to do was scream at the top of her lungs to prevent the mech from crashing to the ground, why the fuck would she even NEED THE NEURAL IMPLANT? Geez, Netflix, you could've at least hired Japanese writers; after all, they have more experience in the anime/mecha genre than Americans.
That doesn't mean that all japanese can write a good mech show. Believe me, there are a half a dozen of them every year and you are lucky if one of them is good.
Take 50 random modern tropes, write them on small pieces of paper, toss them in a hat and shake it around. Remove 25 of them, string them together with other random words in between then turn some cameras on. Modern Hollywood. Also, why aren’t you at like a million subs.
One of the things that bothers me most are when the story takes us to another galaxy. Even if you allow the conceit of faster than light travel, filmmakers seem to have no grasp of just how far any other galaxy is - even Andromeda, which is closest. What, the Milky Way, with it's ~100 billion stars is not large enough for you? I know it seems a silly thing when compared to the many other instances of bad science (not to mention bad decisions... and bad dialogue), but it always seemed to me that writers just want to make it sound cool by going extragalactic rather than MERELY extrasolar.
That’s the bit that Bothered me the most about this film. they have the ability to travel multiple times the speed of light AND circumvent the infinite mass & relativity dilemma but could not detect an old fashion incoming missile attack while in orbit over “Harlans” planet..SHEEESH!!
It bothered me with so many bad science fiction coming from the US in the past. I was once told it’s done as American writers consider galaxy a much cooler word than star system. … I tend to believe this version given the movies doing it.
@@davidgantenbein9362Same with German writers/editors. When they did the dubbing for Kirk‘s introductory words of the original Star Trek series, they not only took an unnamed narrator, but he also tells: “…boldly goes to galaxies which no human has seen before.“ Within the show they never made such glaring mistakes, though.
I recently watched the Korean supernatural romantic drama "Tail of the Nine Tailed"... One of the things that struck me about is is that the show depicts the heroine as smart, observant, and resourceful by having her make insightful conclusions about situations based on her established knowledge. Notably, it's not a superpower; in one notable case she makes such a conclusion that turns out to be incorrect. But I compare this to something like Atlas, or recent Marvel movies, that thinks "smart" is "everyone says this character is smart, they have 'smart' toys, everyone defers to them as if their opinion is extra-valuable"... While having said character behave every bit as stupidly as everyone else. When did so much of Hollywood forget how to write "smart"?
My favorite part was when JLo's character switched the mech to manual mode and she has to exert all her sweaty energy to physically run 😂. Clearly the people in charge of this movie have never seen a sci fi show or know how robotics work. They though hey lets just steal that Pacific Rim cool exercise motion idea without knowing its actually a neural link between human/mech for combat.
Remind me to some obscure mech manga (forgot what) where the MC exert his body while riding one and get scolded because his overt movement actually makes him moving slower; too many unnecessary move and makes himself tired faster
"Okay Harlan, et me make one thing clear to you and all the other AI freaks," says Atlas, "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, I'm still, I'm still Jenny, uhm, Atlas from the block". In the next scene, Atlas hides a gun for android P. Diddy after a shooting incident at a club.
Would've made more sense to name the smartest woman in a dystopian future Athena instead of Atlas. Atlas was the Titan God of Strength who literally held the heavens on his shoulders. Like, c'mon.
It’s like Jupiter in Jupiter Ascending or Michael in that Star Trek Lite thing. Gotta have a boy name for your serious heroine because girl names are demeaning or something.
Are you *sure* that's the reference though? You may be attributing way too much intelligence to the writers. I'd sooner believe it's because they watched an episode of Justified.
Named for: “The Thousand Islands (French: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario.” So a source of international something or other…
I came to the comments looking for this. It's got to be Harlan Ellison, he is surely a villain to the sci-fi edge of today's Hollywood machine for modern audiences.
Eh, military hardware has been hardened against EMP since the 70s or 80s ... it's always stupid when they make it a go-to plan in futuristic scenarios.
Absolutely, actual physics has no place in the plot. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. Assuming you could travel 10 times faster than the speed of light it would still take you 10,000 years to cross the galaxy. Might as well have them click their heels together and say “There’s no place like home”.
It's great that today we have automatically deploying parachutes with backups and fool-proof controls, but the AI-driven mech suits (which can walk around and get coffee on their own) still need the pilot to do a bunch of stuff and put on the headgear before they're allowed to stop them both from plummeting to their deaths.
Huge fan of all your content and now even more knowing your a mech fan. I first developed my fascination with mechs from BattleTech in the 90's,the table top game,the multiple books,the cartoon ( I think also in the 90's)
They could have actually done some commentary on the anthropomorphization of vehicles by drivers/pilots being inevitable. Instead, we get the "she/her" format.
That’s the bit that Bothered me the most about this film. they have the ability to travel multiple times the speed of light AND circumvent the infinite mass & relativity dilemma but could not detect an old fashion incoming missile attack while orbit over “Harlans” planet..SHEEESH!!
@@Animotions01 But the movie was so campy, like a 90th TV series or a video game. A lot of scenes that are rather silly. So I never took it serious anyway.
@@GH-ub7qz True, with enough coal you can bend space time. And that would be a good reason for Harlan to want to destroy them. Not that beating a AI in chess 71 times in a row as domestic violence wouldn't be enough cause.
why do netflix make these? they are actually part of what is destroying hollywood. It sucks. The very first scene where they try to make her look intelligent, she does an impossible chess move. Who writes these? they couldnt have someone who knows the basics of chess to write a move that is actually possible? Fast forward to her mech landing on the planet and she goes from about 100mph falling to zero and bumps her head, gets a boo boo lol. I watched the first 30mins, turned it off and last night watched 4 eps of love and robots or whatever it is called. Significantly better.
At least it is on the top stop of the most watched movie list on Netflix for the last few days. Probably that is enough for Netflix. And it is a perfect Netflix movie. Not good enough to go to the cinema, but not bad enough to be force to switch to something else when it is showing on the telly.
@@steffenbendel6031 yeah but if you look at the cost, 100M, thats big boy cash. Its actually very disappointing. Id prefer 5 well made thrillers at 20M a pop.
I love Evangelion ( the first series) because so psychologically twisted ( though I really didn’t like the characters). The creator was going through an existential crisis point at the time which explained a lot. But you are forgiven because I also love Appleseed . Just wish the saga had continued.
I was excited to see this back when all I had to go on was the name "Atlas" and a silhouette of a mech. My inner child was excited thinking this old man had lived long enough and was getting a BattleTech movie. Then the trailer dropped and the inner child in the old man recoiled in disappointment and returned to a pupal state to await the next big disappointment.
Psst, you know what tipped me off about Atlas being a “genius girl boss”? Her hideous, out-of-place glasses. No, I’m just kidding, even a female-presenting auto-correct AI would toss that pair in the incinerator. (Why do people always assume that no one uses contact lenses in the future?) Ok, I made a post about “Atlas” and its crappy writing? Check. Chato reignited my faith in humanity during this modern bonfire of the vanities era? Check. Told Chato he’s great and send him warm and fuzzies?? ❤💜💙💛🖤 Great video, no one makes me laugh and relish critically dissecting stuff like you! After academia crushed my artistic spirit, you have nursed me back to witty health again! Seriously, please get a cable or streaming show, it could be my birthday AND Christmas present! Or just make more videos, I’d love to learn some advice on how to be a better critic/comedian. Anyway, this writing in “Atlas” is so bad….(how bad was it?) It’s so bad that I want to copyright MY idea to reboot “West Side Story” but make it about an AI and a marginalized person of color (to be specified later) so it can be shot down after 23 months stalled in production because it’s too heteronormative! …Is this thing on? Tough crowd, this is actually my iPad writing this, not a human, so y’all are just tech phobic racists! 🤣
I thought the film was meh (about a 2.5 out of 5), but it did have it's fun moments. Smith was really the best part, and the film would've gotten a lower rating if he wasn't in it. However, the main problem for me was that the film was rushed. As you stated, there was too much exposition at the beginning. In the first 5 minutes, we get all this news information about the rise of Harlan (which I believe was supposed to be a nod to Harlan Ellison. Heck, Asimov gets a mention in the film) and Mark Strong's character explaining some of Atlas' backstory. The writers could've had it that we see visual glimpses into her past and the audience would've understood it without all the unnecessary exposition. They really should've made this as a mini-series (about 4 to 6 hours) and not an under 2-hour movie. If they had done that, they could've given Atlas (and even Harlan) more character development and we could've gotten more into her mind and backstory. This could've also helped to give Smith more character development, as we can learn more about how his programming functions and the relationship between he and Atlas would've felt more genuine. Netflix also needed to pull back on some of the imagery and scenes they ripped off from other movies. For example, the scene where Atlas is briefing the soldiers felt like it was ripped straight off of "Aliens." I even expected one of the soldiers to say "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?" Another example was when Atlas and Smith walked through the alien jungle. The whole time I was wondering if James Cameron was gonna sue the crew, because it looked ripped straight out of Pandora. Overall, it had its entertaining moments, but it needed to be extended to a mini-series, and cut down on the exposition. P.S. I still enjoyed Evangelion. No hard feelings.
"looks like they scored an own goal here" made me laugh out loud, thanks! It's ironic, a guy would've likely called the suit "her" in common tradition.
I'm glad you spent the time on it, not me. I ended up watching the old 'To Have or have not' last night. It surprised me with how good it was, plus now I understand the legend of Bacall.
As a mecha nerd you're probably already aware of it, but on the off-chance you're not, I can highly recommended Full Metal Panic. It's a somewhat strange blend of high school rom-com mixed with military mecha action. The rom-com aspect didn't do that much for me, but the action-adventure part of it is some of the most well-done, brutal, mecha vs. mecha action you're ever gonna see.
Smith being impervious to laser shots when they made giant holes in the other suits bugged me for a few days till I realised Harlan didn't want her dead, so he told the other Ai fighters to lower their power, basically put her in god mode. IF they had a scene establishing that it would have been better. All we know about him, comes from her in this movie, so allowing him to speak
All they have to do is pry battletech/mechwarrior from FASA/Microsofts cold dead hands and they have 15 movie's worth of plots, stories, to make something out of, the beginning of MechWarrior III alone would put my ass in a movie seat again.
As a mech fan I recommend you play Titanfall 2. One of the best FPS campaigns in video games. About the movie: it lost me when they were able to jump so another galaxy. You tell me we have that technology and we are still living in Earth? Isn't the milky way big enough that you have to go to Andromeda? The whole communication systems is bonkers. In the spawn of a movie, they send a signal back to earth (in another galaxy), earth forces prepare and they come to Andromeda right away. It really put me out of the movie and made me overthink everything, my suspension of disbelief was constantly destroyed by things like that
Bring him back alive is straight out of the movie A*P*E, in which eventually they just kill the giant ape anyway because that’s more practical. It’s only 36 feet = 11 meters tall, so a .50 caliber machine gun would have sufficed. Atlas should have been called Encyclopedia.
I'm glad he prefixed it by "Put a person in a big mech suit and I'm probably going to watch it". This is the premise of the movie. Why Netflix greenlit this production.
Let's be honest, it was clumsy as fuck. With exposition dumps so poorly written that the scripts might have been in crayon. The action made very little sense, but some of the visuals were cool. Performances....well, JLo should stick to booty shaking. It's a film to have on for ambient noise when you're cleaning the house.
Sounds like a typical Jennifer Lopez movie! Pass! Oh, and the original Neon Genesis Evangelion (the TV show) was better than the Rebuild movies. I saw End of Evangelion (the alternate conclusion to the TV show) in its last theatrical exhibition in the US. That was a WAY better ending to Evangelion than the original TV episodes 25 and 26 and what they came up with for Rebuild I'm sure. I still haven't seen Movies 3 and 4 of Rebuild but I've seen everything else.
still loving the reviews, paul. always spot on and fucking hilarious 😂 will RBF ever make a return? maybe a different channel for the OGs? i know you’re not made of time, but just curious!
I'm happy to miss this one. As a Battletech fan, I had a large desire to tune in, but Jay-Lo.......sorry the desire isn't that big. With my heart being broken about Doctor Who, Star Trek, and other sci-fi IPs I wasn't going to commit to this one. Thanks for watching this so I don't have to.
Thanks for saving me 2 hours. The last weeks my wife and i have come to the realisation that both aircrash investigation and older series make for better entertainment than most of the modern stuff.
Oh, my stars and garters, that general is so good he earned the Navy good conduct medal! Just a few minutes with any reputable search engine would clarify military awards. Oh, should we share touching ourselves, or is a comma perhaps missing?!?
Reminds me of the movie Basic. Samuel Jackson was supposed to be this hard Ranger Special Forces instructor and in one scene you see him walking around with specialist rank(E-4) on his collar. I'd expect him to be at least a sergeant first class(E-7). You would think that at least one person on that set would have served in the military or been familiar with enough with military operations that they would have caught it.
Hay thank you for the list of some of your favorite mecha anime from the beginning of the video. I'll give some of them a try. My favorites are Macross Plus, Gundam Origin, and Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team. Just to give you my unsolicited list. Anyway I agree, the feel of realism in Atlas requires a different approach and logic than an animated film. It could have been interesting if they had leaned into the exaggerated feel of an anime. The mechs would have looked better and I would have found J.Lo's perfect hair on brand for the genre.
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The classic, "put fake glasses on her because she's supposed to be smart" trope
And play chess. And listen to Classical music.
I'm told it works that way in porn also.
@@jaykaufman9782 and "play chess and do a mate in one"
They missed the trick of carrying a clip board. That would have sealed the deal 😁
And surely by now they would have technology or something that people wouldn't need glasses...!?!?
My favorite Jennifer Lopez moment was when she guest starred on South Park, playing Cartman's hand for an episode. 😉
taco taco!
Taco Flavored Kisses
Oh, the car scene with Ben Affleck. 😮
Heniifer hopez!
Tacos ya and burritos!
Today I learned Jennifer Lopez is still alive and hasn't retired
I guess we can all go back to forgetting she exists again. I know I will.
How could she retire? That poor girl can not even hope to survive with her paltry 400 million dollars in investments. We should set up a fundraiser to push her out of abject poverty.
Honestly, she's not even worth looking at anymore.
Yes...who knew?
i heard she died when i was in Iraq in 2003... noone cared
I don't even care about spoilers because I never intend to watch it. Anything Jenny from the block does is just awful. I'm here to listen to you cut it to pieces. It's why I love you.
It’s worth watching for the special effects.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@carpediem6431 I hear ya, I just need more than special effects.
@@carpediem6431there’s nothing special about effects anymore.
Watch Out of Sight. Fantastic flick with J Lo
“This very much looks like a strap on”…. I just about lost it. Chato, you are truly a gift to humanity.
When it comes to watching this Netflix show, I identify as "Hell" and "No".
👍👍!!
Atlas is a stupid name for a woman, but currently day!
I’ve seen a few reviews but was willing to overlook most because I love giant robots punching things.... but when a reviewer pointed out the pronoun scene I noped out. Too much current day for me.
...and I’ve watched Pacific Rim 2 more than once.
It's a movie
Those are pronouons I could stay behind!
Your anime list (especially Gundam) is proof of your excellent taste in entertainment
Sadly, he didn't mention Macross/Robotech, though. Personal favorites.
@@brianhelm2328 Macross Plus is a must
Specifically his exclusion of Evangelion. Hearing some Macross love would have been nice but not everybody had the same influences.
Yes…. No shout out to Robotech! 😮
I cease to care about most of what Netflix puts out at the moment.
By the way, Jennifer Lopez has an ego the size of an air balloon 🎈
I thought it was the size of Jupiter.
Helium balloon of the weather balloon type. They’re big and launched with only enough helium to get them to rise. As they rise into thinner air, they fill up as the helium matches the atmospheric pressure at altitude. So they have to be BIG.
@@markiangooley Yeah, we got that.
Was that giant ego working as a force field what protected her and the mech suit while falling? By the way: all the Rangers put up a really good fight but got slaughtered, yet defenseless JLO just "fell through the cracks" of the AI attacks and landed without a scratch........ the plot armour is thick in this movie.
@@tjroelsma I tink I'm gon' be ill.
You never go full android...
It does really seem to suit Simu Liu's acting "talent", go figure.
Ha! Brilliant comment
Atlas: a Mass Effect parody
It looks like it would have worked better if it was a Mass Effect prn parody.
If all Atlas had to do was scream at the top of her lungs to prevent the mech from crashing to the ground, why the fuck would she even NEED THE NEURAL IMPLANT?
Geez, Netflix, you could've at least hired Japanese writers; after all, they have more experience in the anime/mecha genre than Americans.
Yep. As I said, convenience writing.
That's how the feminist universe works: just yell loud enough at the patriarchal stuff, and it will obey.
That doesn't mean that all japanese can write a good mech show. Believe me, there are a half a dozen of them every year and you are lucky if one of them is good.
@@yaldabaoth2 If that's the case, then pick out one of the lucky ones and call it a day; anything better than this generic tripe.
It's a book the work was already done
Take 50 random modern tropes, write them on small pieces of paper, toss them in a hat and shake it around. Remove 25 of them, string them together with other random words in between then turn some cameras on.
Modern Hollywood.
Also, why aren’t you at like a million subs.
One of the things that bothers me most are when the story takes us to another galaxy. Even if you allow the conceit of faster than light travel, filmmakers seem to have no grasp of just how far any other galaxy is - even Andromeda, which is closest. What, the Milky Way, with it's ~100 billion stars is not large enough for you? I know it seems a silly thing when compared to the many other instances of bad science (not to mention bad decisions... and bad dialogue), but it always seemed to me that writers just want to make it sound cool by going extragalactic rather than MERELY extrasolar.
That’s the bit that Bothered me the most about this film.
they have the ability to travel multiple times the speed of light AND circumvent the infinite mass & relativity dilemma
but could not detect an old fashion incoming missile attack while in orbit over “Harlans” planet..SHEEESH!!
It bothered me with so many bad science fiction coming from the US in the past. I was once told it’s done as American writers consider galaxy a much cooler word than star system. … I tend to believe this version given the movies doing it.
@@davidgantenbein9362Same with German writers/editors. When they did the dubbing for Kirk‘s introductory words of the original Star Trek series, they not only took an unnamed narrator, but he also tells: “…boldly goes to galaxies which no human has seen before.“
Within the show they never made such glaring mistakes, though.
At least the galaxy isn't rotating in view like in the Empire Strikes Back "Special Edition."
yeah...we will NEVER escape even the solar system...the hollyfools have no concept
I recently watched the Korean supernatural romantic drama "Tail of the Nine Tailed"... One of the things that struck me about is is that the show depicts the heroine as smart, observant, and resourceful by having her make insightful conclusions about situations based on her established knowledge. Notably, it's not a superpower; in one notable case she makes such a conclusion that turns out to be incorrect. But I compare this to something like Atlas, or recent Marvel movies, that thinks "smart" is "everyone says this character is smart, they have 'smart' toys, everyone defers to them as if their opinion is extra-valuable"... While having said character behave every bit as stupidly as everyone else. When did so much of Hollywood forget how to write "smart"?
"When did so much of Hollywood forget how to write "smart"?"
That's what happens when all your writers and producers are dumb.
they went to USC or UCLA
Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow was excellent.
My favorite part was when JLo's character switched the mech to manual mode and she has to exert all her sweaty energy to physically run 😂. Clearly the people in charge of this movie have never seen a sci fi show or know how robotics work. They though hey lets just steal that Pacific Rim cool exercise motion idea without knowing its actually a neural link between human/mech for combat.
Remind me to some obscure mech manga (forgot what) where the MC exert his body while riding one and get scolded because his overt movement actually makes him moving slower; too many unnecessary move and makes himself tired faster
"Okay Harlan, et me make one thing clear to you and all the other AI freaks," says Atlas, "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, I'm still, I'm still Jenny, uhm, Atlas from the block". In the next scene, Atlas hides a gun for android P. Diddy after a shooting incident at a club.
Don't get me started on "Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow". The perfect casting in the perfect movie.
Was I the only one rooting for Harlan to f*cking win??
No, we were right there with ya!
Yes, but only because you are the only one who watched the entire movie...
Chato, your outfit is perfect today! Thank you!
Funny how all the actual mech fighters died, then she was the only survivor that had no idea what she was doing, then became a the leader afterwards?
Would've made more sense to name the smartest woman in a dystopian future Athena instead of Atlas. Atlas was the Titan God of Strength who literally held the heavens on his shoulders. Like, c'mon.
I immediately think of hollywood carpetmunchers whenever I see the name Atlas, yes
It was because it takes a God with the strength of Atlas to hold up JLOs ego
@@shamancredible8632 Atlas to me will ALWAYS be from Greek mythology no matter what.
@@ryanpeck3377 Ha, good one.
It’s like Jupiter in Jupiter Ascending or Michael in that Star Trek Lite thing. Gotta have a boy name for your serious heroine because girl names are demeaning or something.
Harlan, as a name, is a reference to the classic science fiction short story I HAVE NO MOUTH AND I MUST SCREAM, written by Harlan Ellison.
Who, apparently, could be a terror to work with.
I seem to remember a character named Harlan in Asimov's Foundation series as well.
Are you *sure* that's the reference though? You may be attributing way too much intelligence to the writers. I'd sooner believe it's because they watched an episode of Justified.
I kept expecting Space Ghost to show up. Entertaining as always.
I knew there was a reason why I canceled the Netflix subscription.
Your content is fresh, keep it going!
That goddamned 1000 Islands Dressing does it EVERY TIME!!!!
Named for:
“The Thousand Islands (French: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario.” So a source of international something or other…
Maybe the AI bot is named after Harlan Ellison. That would be scary!
True. That might have been it. Damn.
I prefer to think it was Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame…
I came to the comments looking for this. It's got to be Harlan Ellison, he is surely a villain to the sci-fi edge of today's Hollywood machine for modern audiences.
@@CallMeChato The big question: which gundam? My entry was wing but I think Zeta is my favourite.
......so being a "robo-phobe" is a thing now? Oh help me God!
"I love Toppa Tengen Gurren Lagann".
Okay, for this based take, you officially get my seal of approval... and a cookie🍪
Jennifer Lopez in scifi, a very bad idea.
I don't know.... I think she would've done well in Jupiter Ascending... :)
Didn't learn their lesson with The Cell...
Thanks for taking the hit for me Paul! I almost watched it tonight! You saved me from it and gave me time to watch your content instead!
it's not a review, it's a reconstruction. and beautifully acted with that :) thank you sir, that was a good laugh.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So basically the plot of Aliens written by Millenial DEI hires?
Gen Alpha, probably. Even Zoomers are too old to write such infantile crap
An AI scrambled scenes and plot from Mass Effect franchise, that is how it feels
lol... millennials are in their 40s... likely gen z or alpha losers
Eh, military hardware has been hardened against EMP since the 70s or 80s ... it's always stupid when they make it a go-to plan in futuristic scenarios.
I do love this channel. That’s all
You forgot Robotech... Bad Chato... Bad, bad Chato... No soup for you!
"because it's in the script" is always the best reason to do something. 👍
Do people still need glasses in the future?
If you want to look smart.
Right? Haha
Maybe they are only handed out to certified geniuses and aren’t used to see anything, but serve as a batch of honor instead?
Do way-past-their-prime divas still need multiple layers of industrial strength Spanx in the future?
You bet they do!
Great question
*squeezes the back of a chair harshly*
These are people who don't even know what is in their underwear. How do you expect them to believe in and represent physics?
Absolutely, actual physics has no place in the plot. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years across. Assuming you could travel 10 times faster than the speed of light it would still take you 10,000 years to cross the galaxy. Might as well have them click their heels together and say “There’s no place like home”.
The only thing more annoying than the girlboss trope is the grandma girlboss trope.
The character is nearly twenty years younger than the actress playing her so there is that.
It had so many plot holes you could drive a trunk through - I did like the mechs parts
You were already pretty cool, then you add that you're a fellow mechhead, too... he's over 9000 now!
It's great that today we have automatically deploying parachutes with backups and fool-proof controls, but the AI-driven mech suits (which can walk around and get coffee on their own) still need the pilot to do a bunch of stuff and put on the headgear before they're allowed to stop them both from plummeting to their deaths.
Huge fan of all your content and now even more knowing your a mech fan. I first developed my fascination with mechs from BattleTech in the 90's,the table top game,the multiple books,the cartoon ( I think also in the 90's)
don't lie ..you love min mei...m
What does that mean
Hold up..Shepard? Commander Shepard?
It's a Jesus reference. That's why the name is so common fiction, especially science-fiction.
Ya Robojocks was good to me. Kaiju movies don't get enough love.
"that limp Neon Genesis Evangelion"
- thems fightin' words
They could have actually done some commentary on the anthropomorphization of vehicles by drivers/pilots being inevitable. Instead, we get the "she/her" format.
The Andromeda Galaxy is a short 2.5 mil light years away. So yeah, "faster than light" travel. So, suspend your disbelief like a lot...
The movie plays in the future and Andromeda is moving towards us and will do a hostile galaxy takeover.
That’s the bit that Bothered me the most about this film.
they have the ability to travel multiple times the speed of light AND circumvent the infinite mass & relativity dilemma
but could not detect an old fashion incoming missile attack while orbit over “Harlans” planet..SHEEESH!!
@@Animotions01 But the movie was so campy, like a 90th TV series or a video game. A lot of scenes that are rather silly. So I never took it serious anyway.
maybe they had the coal powered ships and space....openings...like on rebel moon
@@GH-ub7qz True, with enough coal you can bend space time. And that would be a good reason for Harlan to want to destroy them. Not that beating a AI in chess 71 times in a row as domestic violence wouldn't be enough cause.
I tell my kids that Netflix movies are the Network TV Movies of Week from the 70s. Good enough to fill airtime but not for theaters.
why do netflix make these? they are actually part of what is destroying hollywood. It sucks. The very first scene where they try to make her look intelligent, she does an impossible chess move. Who writes these? they couldnt have someone who knows the basics of chess to write a move that is actually possible? Fast forward to her mech landing on the planet and she goes from about 100mph falling to zero and bumps her head, gets a boo boo lol. I watched the first 30mins, turned it off and last night watched 4 eps of love and robots or whatever it is called. Significantly better.
At least it is on the top stop of the most watched movie list on Netflix for the last few days. Probably that is enough for Netflix. And it is a perfect Netflix movie. Not good enough to go to the cinema, but not bad enough to be force to switch to something else when it is showing on the telly.
@@steffenbendel6031 yeah but if you look at the cost, 100M, thats big boy cash. Its actually very disappointing. Id prefer 5 well made thrillers at 20M a pop.
Ok, now I really do want your Neon Genesis Evangelion Review!
Sterling K Brown always commits to the bit. I would hire him to do anything.
I love Evangelion ( the first series) because so psychologically twisted ( though I really didn’t like the characters). The creator was going through an existential crisis point at the time which explained a lot.
But you are forgiven because I also love Appleseed . Just wish the saga had continued.
Hollywood never going to make a cyborg hot as Briareos.
I love how they show up at the planet and there’s no threat detection on the starship. No alarms went off until there was a giant hole in the ship.
I won't ever know this movie exists, without this video.
Hollywood spent millions just to make me watch Chato setting the dumpster on fire.
I was excited to see this back when all I had to go on was the name "Atlas" and a silhouette of a mech. My inner child was excited thinking this old man had lived long enough and was getting a BattleTech movie. Then the trailer dropped and the inner child in the old man recoiled in disappointment and returned to a pupal state to await the next big disappointment.
I almost watched this. Thanks!
Psst, you know what tipped me off about Atlas being a “genius girl boss”? Her hideous, out-of-place glasses. No, I’m just kidding, even a female-presenting auto-correct AI would toss that pair in the incinerator. (Why do people always assume that no one uses contact lenses in the future?) Ok, I made a post about “Atlas” and its crappy writing? Check. Chato reignited my faith in humanity during this modern bonfire of the vanities era? Check. Told Chato he’s great and send him warm and fuzzies?? ❤💜💙💛🖤 Great video, no one makes me laugh and relish critically dissecting stuff like you! After academia crushed my artistic spirit, you have nursed me back to witty health again! Seriously, please get a cable or streaming show, it could be my birthday AND Christmas present! Or just make more videos, I’d love to learn some advice on how to be a better critic/comedian. Anyway, this writing in “Atlas” is so bad….(how bad was it?) It’s so bad that I want to copyright MY idea to reboot “West Side Story” but make it about an AI and a marginalized person of color (to be specified later) so it can be shot down after 23 months stalled in production because it’s too heteronormative! …Is this thing on? Tough crowd, this is actually my iPad writing this, not a human, so y’all are just tech phobic racists! 🤣
When I heard the commercial for this on the radio, I cringed at some of the dialogue. It’s another girl boss movie. No thanks.
Enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would. Didn't expect much but I too enjoy mech suit movies. Got my sci-fi fix for the evening.
Love your and "The Critical Drinker" analysis, you jive with my views, spot on...
THANK YOU! :)
I thought the film was meh (about a 2.5 out of 5), but it did have it's fun moments. Smith was really the best part, and the film would've gotten a lower rating if he wasn't in it. However, the main problem for me was that the film was rushed. As you stated, there was too much exposition at the beginning. In the first 5 minutes, we get all this news information about the rise of Harlan (which I believe was supposed to be a nod to Harlan Ellison. Heck, Asimov gets a mention in the film) and Mark Strong's character explaining some of Atlas' backstory. The writers could've had it that we see visual glimpses into her past and the audience would've understood it without all the unnecessary exposition.
They really should've made this as a mini-series (about 4 to 6 hours) and not an under 2-hour movie. If they had done that, they could've given Atlas (and even Harlan) more character development and we could've gotten more into her mind and backstory. This could've also helped to give Smith more character development, as we can learn more about how his programming functions and the relationship between he and Atlas would've felt more genuine.
Netflix also needed to pull back on some of the imagery and scenes they ripped off from other movies. For example, the scene where Atlas is briefing the soldiers felt like it was ripped straight off of "Aliens." I even expected one of the soldiers to say "How do I get out of this chicken-shit outfit?" Another example was when Atlas and Smith walked through the alien jungle. The whole time I was wondering if James Cameron was gonna sue the crew, because it looked ripped straight out of Pandora.
Overall, it had its entertaining moments, but it needed to be extended to a mini-series, and cut down on the exposition.
P.S. I still enjoyed Evangelion. No hard feelings.
TLDR: This is crap, read a book instead.
I hope you and/or one of the 'troublesome' critics check out Masters of the Air.
Fantastic show.
Pacific Rim was a true mech classic, and a good example of how to do prologue with minimal exposition. Can’t wait for the sequel to be released. 😂
Nothing better than reviewing a crap movie. ~ Btw, I give Jennifer Lopez as being one of the most successful MEDIOCRE talents in Hollywood.
"looks like they scored an own goal here" made me laugh out loud, thanks! It's ironic, a guy would've likely called the suit "her" in common tradition.
Hadn’t actually heard of this until now. Something tells me, I’d have been better off if it had stayed that way…
I'm glad you spent the time on it, not me.
I ended up watching the old 'To Have or have not' last night. It surprised me with how good it was, plus now I understand the legend of Bacall.
This movie seems to represent the laziest kind of writing.
What writing Xd
As a mecha nerd you're probably already aware of it, but on the off-chance you're not, I can highly recommended Full Metal Panic. It's a somewhat strange blend of high school rom-com mixed with military mecha action. The rom-com aspect didn't do that much for me, but the action-adventure part of it is some of the most well-done, brutal, mecha vs. mecha action you're ever gonna see.
FMP is a great series. I like that it is essentially a reversed fish out of water when it comes to the romcom parts. Teletha is best girl anyway.
It was the trailer that got me. ‘Let’s do this' has to be the most unimaginative, cliched line in existence. Eye-rolling.
As a former board Battletech & lead/pewter miniatures fiend, I thank you for your review, Chato!
Cool to hear you're a fellow mech fan. I suggest GunXSword. I've heard all Lopez's character does is cry, freakout, and scream the whole movie.
"Because it's in the script." I giggled every time...
Neon Genesis Evangelion is mostly, by runtime, an anime about mental health problems, not mechs; and even then the 'mecha' are actually biological.
Smith being impervious to laser shots when they made giant holes in the other suits bugged me for a few days till I realised Harlan didn't want her dead, so he told the other Ai fighters to lower their power, basically put her in god mode. IF they had a scene establishing that it would have been better. All we know about him, comes from her in this movie, so allowing him to speak
All they have to do is pry battletech/mechwarrior from FASA/Microsofts cold dead hands and they have 15 movie's worth of plots, stories, to make something out of, the beginning of MechWarrior III alone would put my ass in a movie seat again.
They would throw away all of the lore and ruin yet another franchise with "modern audience' b.s.
As a mech fan I recommend you play Titanfall 2. One of the best FPS campaigns in video games.
About the movie: it lost me when they were able to jump so another galaxy. You tell me we have that technology and we are still living in Earth? Isn't the milky way big enough that you have to go to Andromeda? The whole communication systems is bonkers. In the spawn of a movie, they send a signal back to earth (in another galaxy), earth forces prepare and they come to Andromeda right away. It really put me out of the movie and made me overthink everything, my suspension of disbelief was constantly destroyed by things like that
Bring him back alive is straight out of the movie A*P*E, in which eventually they just kill the giant ape anyway because that’s more practical. It’s only 36 feet = 11 meters tall, so a .50 caliber machine gun would have sufficed.
Atlas should have been called Encyclopedia.
I'm glad he prefixed it by "Put a person in a big mech suit and I'm probably going to watch it". This is the premise of the movie. Why Netflix greenlit this production.
I was a big fan of the Patlabor series and movies... and definitely enjoyed the Toyko Tank Police series. Thanks for the review
Let's be honest, it was clumsy as fuck. With exposition dumps so poorly written that the scripts might have been in crayon. The action made very little sense, but some of the visuals were cool. Performances....well, JLo should stick to booty shaking. It's a film to have on for ambient noise when you're cleaning the house.
Mark Strong must have needed the money. 😀
Atleast it’s not a reimagining of god forbid gundam or macros
You always know it will suck if Jenny from the block is in it.
We’re on night 3 out of 4 of trying to get through this movie. This video made me so happy. Thank you.
"Harlan" as a villain totally works if you've ever met Harlan Ellison in person.
I loved him but - he had a certain way of being.
Hilarious thumbnail, Paul =)
Sounds like a typical Jennifer Lopez movie!
Pass!
Oh, and the original Neon Genesis Evangelion (the TV show) was better than the Rebuild movies.
I saw End of Evangelion (the alternate conclusion to the TV show) in its last theatrical exhibition in the US. That was a WAY better ending to Evangelion than the original TV episodes 25 and 26 and what they came up with for Rebuild I'm sure. I still haven't seen Movies 3 and 4 of Rebuild but I've seen everything else.
I think a film that Jennifer played well in was The Cell.
I would love to see you review that film the way you did this one Paul.
still loving the reviews, paul. always spot on and fucking hilarious 😂
will RBF ever make a return? maybe a different channel for the OGs? i know
you’re not made of time, but just curious!
I'm happy to miss this one. As a Battletech fan, I had a large desire to tune in, but Jay-Lo.......sorry the desire isn't that big. With my heart being broken about Doctor Who, Star Trek, and other sci-fi IPs I wasn't going to commit to this one. Thanks for watching this so I don't have to.
Thanks for saving me 2 hours.
The last weeks my wife and i have come to the realisation that both aircrash investigation and older series make for better entertainment than most of the modern stuff.
"Expelled From Paradise" doesn't get enough respect.
Chato! I love big mechs and I cannot lie!
UC Gundam fan right here! I would love to hear you cover your favorite Mecha series!!
Oh, my stars and garters, that general is so good he earned the Navy good conduct medal! Just a few minutes with any reputable search engine would clarify military awards. Oh, should we share touching ourselves, or is a comma perhaps missing?!?
Reminds me of the movie Basic. Samuel Jackson was supposed to be this hard Ranger Special Forces instructor and in one scene you see him walking around with specialist rank(E-4) on his collar. I'd expect him to be at least a sergeant first class(E-7). You would think that at least one person on that set would have served in the military or been familiar with enough with military operations that they would have caught it.
Hay thank you for the list of some of your favorite mecha anime from the beginning of the video. I'll give some of them a try. My favorites are Macross Plus, Gundam Origin, and Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team. Just to give you my unsolicited list. Anyway I agree, the feel of realism in Atlas requires a different approach and logic than an animated film. It could have been interesting if they had leaned into the exaggerated feel of an anime. The mechs would have looked better and I would have found J.Lo's perfect hair on brand for the genre.