Exploring Chernobyl Diaries
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- Another entry in my "Exploring" series. This time around I take a deeper look into the Chernobyl disaster and how it influenced the horror film Chernobyl Diaries. This episode is one of the more serious ones I've done since I just couldn't bring myself to add any comedy. The Chernobyl disaster was one of the things that changed my perspective on the world so it only felt right to do this one seriously.
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the most accurate thing in this movie was the fact that the tour guide dude was wearing adidas
This was made for one million? Who ever did the budgeting of this movie should run for public office.
Eric T it's going to be yuge, it's going to be fantastic and the critics are going to pay for it.
Make Chenobyl Horror Films great again.
Tommy Wiseau spent $6 million on The Room...so yes $1 million is pretty impressive
@Gerry Buckets you realise cgi literally didnt exist at the time right???
@Gerry Buckets actually this was the wrong thread
"It's wrong to make this kind of film since it revolves around such a tragedy."
These people have obviously never seen Godzilla.
I really love your exploring series it's great. I like the fact that you turn so-called "bad movies" into "let's appreciate for what they are" movies, or that you explain why it's not great and how to fix it
You've got a great channel, looking for more of your exploring series
sly523 Thanks so much! Lots more exploring series coming soon
I quite like Chernobyl diaries. It wasn't amazing but I agree that the hate it has is disproportionate to what it deserves.
Better for a movie to generate hate than boredom.
I liked this movie till the last act too. The characters and atmosphere was pretty awesome - plus I love the setting. I play a lot of Fallout and Metro 2033 - so the film wasn't a major disappointment for me.
That's more or less how I felt too. I remember seeing this movie when it came out and thinking it was absolutely fantastic. And then the third act was just "meh." I didn't hate the movie by any means. It was incredibly creative and legitimately unnerving for a good portion of the movie. While the last act was disappointing, I don't think that should discount what came before it. And by no means was it the worst film of 2012. I'm not really sure why this movie got so much hate, but it's nice to see it get a little praise here.
Stalker?
Karakas
Stalker is a classic.
My only gripe was the torniquette placement. Ive read and played all the metro games and fallout too so i kinda like how they played it out too
And...i liked the end..i figured they were running around the reactor and the scene where the came into the Elephant Foot was awesome. We learned about Chernobyl in school and i always found it scary and fascinating. ..and its a PERFECT backdrop for a horror flick... I bet they dont even teach kids about that any more
The radiation levels aren't that high outside of reacter 4 that there isn't wildlife. In fact some people actually live in the 30 kilometer exclusion zone around the plant. Granted, mainly old people who don't care about anything, but still. People live there. And another thing they forgot about in the film is the workers decommisioning the plant. There are still plenty of people milling around, especially near the reactor. And the reactor is pretty well sealed off and the perimeter is secured. So they would have have major difficulty breaking through to the reactor. But, like you said, it's a work of fiction, so I'll let them have it.
I fully admit that it had a great set up but terrible execution at the end, the girl gets rescued at the end by what appears to be some shadow arm of the government and then gets placed in a room with some of the mutants, that could have been done better to be honest with you, a better ending would have been if she had been rescued but instead they leave her in a cell and watch as she slowly succumbs to radiation sickness and possible mutation, plus we didn't really get to see any of the mutants or whatever they were and while thats great for a little while keeping the mystery of what they look like eventually you just want to see the money shot, also they brought in some interesting aspects like the little girl who appears and then disappears that actually could have been great had they followed with it more are the monsters real or are they suffering from radiation sickness and are slowly loosing their minds. The problem with this movie is that it had wasted potential.
+dannytheman1313 Exactly. It's been a while, but I don't recall them ever really going anywhere with that little girl, other than just abusing the "creepy small child" trope. I like the notion that it was up in their air whether or not they were imagining any of those attacks due to their deteriorating, irradiated mental state, but then that ending comes and removes all doubt.
Amelia Bee I know it gets done too often in hollywood but this movie deserves some kind of reboot or remake all the elements are there for a good movie, great atmosphere, interesting ideas, and a few good characters, I think there is potential for a good movie in here perhaps in better hands.
The girl was there to distract them while another mutant grabbed the blonde, it showed that they were somewhat intelligent.
actually we see one of the mutants in the scene when he throws a chair at the wall in the scene where Paul and the others look for Natalie & Chris but only find Natalie.
How's this for an ending:
Amanda is left alone in a hospital room. The government official says they need to question "the patient" immediately. The doctor says she's in no shape to be answering questions; they respond, "I don't care. Wake her up." A nurse goes to check up on her, and finds that Amanda is missing.
Hospital security goes from room to room, eventually finding her hiding in an empty patient room. She's cowering in a corner, faced away from them. Security tries to coax her to get up and come with them. Amanda turns to face them...and we see that she's mutated into another zombie. She begins tearing the security guards (and the soldiers) to pieces as the movie ends.
I didn't know this movie existed... Guess I'll go watch it now... 6 years after you published this video lol.
It's worth the watch
Dude, teach me how you make people instantly want to re-watch flicks they thought were awful? Hahahah. Love your videos, the way you dissect those movies and your pronunciation. It makes easier to a Brazilian like me to understand every single word you say. Cheers and keep doing this great work.
Lucas Pinheiro It's a gift lol. Thanks!
I kind of find it funny that two of the writers were Oren Peli and Shane Van Dyke. Peli who directed Paranormal Activity, and Van Dyke who directed the Asylum rip-off Paranormal Entity, so Peli was working with the guy who ripped offed his movie.
I literally watched a load of Chernoyl documentaries after seeing this film. I do agree with you, it kind of ends stupidly but it's set up very well until the end of the second act.
What's a chernoyl?
+Racquet Awning it is the place where Trolls come from. Go back to your home town
Emrah Ekinci What?
I remember stumbling across this movie years ago and thinking it was great.
I actually can't believe people really got so worked up about it, I haven't heard anyone talk about this movie until this video. Great video as always.
Regarding complains:
Cellphones - you can in fact get reception in Pripyat. Unlike US, Europe has 99% cell phone coverage. Us is actually a third world country when it comes to phones and internet.
Pushstarting a car - it probably would have worked with the van in the movie. most modern cars cannot be pushstarted though. you would just choke the engine if you try.
The other complaints are of course nonsense.
*****
absolute nonsense. There is a service called Roaming that allows you to use other countries mobile network, at extra cost. US cell phones most definatelly DO work in europe.
Also everyone who buys a locked down phone and isnt living in the 90s is a honest to god moron.
But yes, because unlike in europe, in US you have aboslutely no customer protection, the rates are exortbitory.
Strazdas it's hard to imagine pripyat would have cellular phone coverage. Chernobyl happened in 1986, before cell phones were even a thing. It's possible they put towers up for the reason of tourism, research and the construction of the dome they're building to encase the reactor.
but its also likely that radiation would destroy the phones after prolonged exposure.
you do realize that the plant continued to used and created power until around 2000 and that they have been working on a new enclosure for the damaged reactor. the plant was never abandoned there are still people there working on it til this day.
Thank you for doing this review, this was one of my favorite films of 2012. Although I wasn't overly fond of the ending, I have to say the rest was thoroughly enjoyable and I'm glad someone else has similar feelings towards this film.
coolguy902 No problem, glad you enjoyed it. I still don't understand all the hate for this one. While it does lose some steam at the end, the rest of the movie is rock solid.
I agree, by no means a bad film. Pretty decent imo
That is INCREDIBLE. Seriously... I've been on a tour to Chernobyl/Pripyat and when I watched this movie, there wasn't an ounce of doubt that this movie was filmed, at least in part, on site.
And I didn't know the Ferris wheel was cgi, wow
I was impressed too. Its the best kind of CG, the kind when you don't know it is.
I didn't realise people were claiming the film was unrealistic for having animals in it. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is now the world's largest nature reserve with many species that were becoming endangered thriving due to the lack of humans. At the same time I don't think going to Pripyat or the Chernobyl reactor is extreme tourism - 2 days in the area is about the same radiation you would receive during a flight from the UK to Japan (something I've done many times)
You're absolutely right, my friend!
You are probably the most sound minded film personality i've ever seen.
Thanks!
GoodBadFlicks Let's get this clear, there is no diaries, this is not a found footage film.
0:18 Four hundred times more radiation was released from that reactor meltdown than when Hiroshima was nuked!
While this is an excellent horror film, the monsters here are not ghosts, they aren't zombies, they are throwbacks to the Atomic-Bomb-Mutation B-movies of the 1950's.
7:35 The $1,000,000+ it cost to make movie may not include post production costs and doesn't include the marketing costs!
Maybe the girls photographs were meant to serve as the diary?
I think you meant to say "Absent" minded instead of sound... Considering how much complaining and time filling in this video you don't seem hard to please...
I like how you approach films with a very positive attitude regardless of how the movie might be. I wish more critics be like you
Thank you!
When i first saw this movie, i didn't know anything about the Chernobyl disaster, and when i did the research on it, i asked my history teacher some questions, and he ended up taking a month to talk about not only the Chernobyl disaster, but other power plant disasters that majorly affected people's lives.
I lived in the greater northeast of Philly born 1968, not only did 3 mile scare us but then there was limrick plant closer and I had family that lived close to it, people don't really understand what could happen, but we learned fast. Thanks
After watching your review I'll watch the film. It's on Netflix.
Once again people love to put in/down there two cents worth without backing it up with solid facts. As one of my old primary school teacher's use to say, "Get your facts right before you criticize".
Hope you enjoy it!
9:11 That's funny because I bought a cheap Wal-Mart DVD pack that had Wrong Turn and the The Hills Have Eyes remake. Both came out in the same year and have basically the same plot. I suspect Wrong Turn was a cash in on The Hills Have Eyes, created to trick people into seeing it like The Asylum does.
I'm from Belgrade and I'm sad to see some people bash this movie.
That's why we can't have genuinely good horror movies (and games )anymore.
I heard complaints amount movie Babadook how it sucked because there was no monster throughout the movie!
Go watch Bayformers and Call of Duty you noob!
10:00 They argued whether Chernobyl was *real!?*
my main complaint about the babadook is just how they had the right idea with a bad execution.
but, i gotta give it to the actors. they did a great job. i felt for the woman and hated the kid and that kinda twisted around near the end.
but ultimatly i didnt enjoy it as much as other people say they did
I understand this was a long while ago but I can't get over "Go watch Bayformers and Call of Duty you noob!" You can't "watch" CoD, it's a game.
you don't 'watch' Call of Duty bud
You realize that you are on youtube? Where you can watch call of duty??
You can watch the cut scenes in movie form. fucking dumbass
I love your in depth reviews. Good job to all involved.
Thanks!
I couldn't agree more. I watched Dredd again last night and realized it was a really great flick. Keep up the great work!
the box art alone just screams "Nope!"
I love that you can appreciate movies for much more than how they end. I have so many re-watchable favorites that absolutely fall apart in the end.as a '70s and '80s kid, I really enjoy and relate to most of your observations. This channel rocks.
I keep seeing comments of praise all over your videos, and i gotta say- They're right, i don't know why your channel isnt bigger but i can say that it is going to blow up in the next few months. please keep up the stellar vids my man, gang gang 3 hunna
3 mile island. yeah. I was born and raised in Chester county PA so I feel ya. In 1979
You've somewhat lifted my opinion of this film. After seeing it for the first time, I did not like it AT ALL. The only parts I liked were the cinematography and the overall premise. I still think its bad but not quite as before.
Thanks! I just don't think it is nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
damn commet from 6 years ago, Ill still give it a shot. May I ask what you exactly didnt like? Like in 3 bullet points or so
@@omnianima4540 It's been a minute since I watched it so I'll remember best I can.
- Characters felt pretty stock
- The plot was fairly contrived
- Some of the scares weren't quite as effective as they could be.
Don't take my word on that though. I has been a long time since I watched this haha. But I might say different if I see it now!
@@MegaCrocosaurus92 Damn what a quick answer. I actually agree with the first argument. The third one is taste depended I would say, without going into it too much.
The second argument actually might have some truth to it, but that it something, which you probably have to accept during the movie, to be able to not get disstracted by it. Think of it like this, how would it be less contrived? And would this change be really worth the entire resequencing of the movie.
But have fun watching the movie :)
If you like movies like that, maybe "The Divivde would be a recommendation, it plays in a radioactive post nuclear war set in a bunker".
@@omnianima4540 Sounds good. Looking like a future double feature now haha.
Perfect review. One of my favorite movies mostly due to the appearance of authenticity and tangible desperation. There were some low points but overall great job with set, story and cast.
Since you liked paranormal activity I think you would like grave encounters.
There is a back story about it because it originally was a real show that for some reason got cancelled (rumours of the cast going missing) just before the final episode of the first season which became the movie more then a decade later.
It even used the same cast as the original show, who appeared in the movie the same age as the original show.
MissPandoraC Yes! I liked Grave Encounters a lot. Saw it a few years ago. Some genuinely creepy moments.
GoodBadFlicks the second one completely ruined it for me though.
MissPandoraC The first grave encounters was an honestly interesting movie with a lot of potential, although I may or may not have personally started thinking about how it could have easily been a first encounter report of an SCP which brought my interest level up a lot while watching the movie.
Overall a really well made horror story that seemed like it was made by folks who had spent a lot of time around the foundation.
The sequels though while from a purely cinematic standpoint were almost perfect in how they took the original story, expanded them, brought about a conclusion and still kept a slightly opened ended conclusion to the series were basically adequate they were however from a moviegoers standpoint severely disappointing.
When I saw this film in theaters, I was very impressed with the cinematography. It added such a degree of dread in the daytime scenes. It's too bad the film didn't do better, since it showed the filmmakers have good potential.
You just gave my reason to watch this movie more weight; I was torn between whether or not to watch it, and I thank you for giving me a reason. I'm gonna go buy it the next time I go to Wal-Mart. ;)
George Bean hope you enjoy it!
7:37 - He says there's apparently faces in the windows. I've gone through the clip frame by frame, I'm not seeing anyone in the windows. Am I missing something?
I paused to see, in one of the top left windows there's a greyish shape that kinda looks like a person, but I couldn't clearly see a face anywhere
I finally got around to watching the film last night. I enjoyed it and found it very effective and creepy. I'm not a big fan of "found footage" movies. The only other one I can say I liked was Cloverfield. Chernobyl Diaries is not strictly that which was nice to see. I won't deny in a couple of scenes. I had my hand up to my face to cover my eyes. I haven't reacted to a horror/thriller film like that in a long time. There was some very intense moments. The twist of who is there really disturbed me. A lot what if conversations would come from that. Thanks for the review.
Thanks for watching!
Wow, I honestly didn't even realise that the Ferris wheel and the power plant were CGI!! Proves how good the work was.
This was the first video I watched and how I found your channel and I always wanted to explain the story of Chernobyl Diaries and so I did
Glad to help you out there then :)
@@GoodBadFlicks thanks
I'm a little older than you, I was born in 63 and raised in NJ, so 3 mile island was a major part of my life as well. From 83-87 I was in the navy. During that whole time I was on the ship we did all types of drills where we were in a nuclear attack. Amazingly on paper we survived them all but everyone of my crew knew in reality we would be immediately or soon after dead if we were in a nuclear attack. Also during this time we had a lot of interaction with Russian ships, some of them were nuke powered with nuke weapons, so the ever present reality was if someone went off the deep end we pretty much knew 70,000,000 would be dead in 30 minutes or less. When Chernobyl happened you could actually feel a pause and backing off from the exercises we did and the manner of the Russian ships when we encountered them afterwards. I saw this flick, i liked it. A very good review sir. Thank you. It was very entertaining to watch.
as for my view of nuclear boom boom, if you want to, you can watch this. wrote it while i was in the navy having all that fun.
th-cam.com/video/U_ynfALi5OY/w-d-xo.html
Wow, scary times. Thank you for your service btw. I can only imagine the cavalcade of emotions going through such a thing. You are much braver than I. I liked your tune as well. :)
Glad you enjoyed the video. It gave me the opportunity to talk about something that is both horrific and fascinating.
Your in Philadelphia, born and raised? On the playground is where you spent most of your days?
Funny a good friends grandma fed him growing up, got famous and forgot where he came from. You can look it up Baker playground.
I love this movie, great time watching it! I like how every scene lingered for a bit, like they where setting up scares 'long' before any would come.
The people going into Prypyath have a gigantic set of balls... Because of the radiation poisoning
Cillian Brouder Radiation will shrink some balls
mostly you will have just a bunch of radioactive dust , which can be washed off, nothing too bad until you don't put your dirty hands in your mouth , or you are close to the most radioactive zone
I was there! If you go with a tour, not by yourself, the guide will show you safe places. Now almost all Prypyath is safe. Radiation poisoning is not everywhere, its on random spots. You wont get sick if you go there for a day or so. In fact, some people was working on a station at that time (2012) building new sarcophage
Its written Припять, Pripyat
Ayyyyy
Thanks! Glad you checked it out and enjoyed it.
Blair Witch was amazing. It changed movies more than people realize. I will cover it at some point, probably with the sequel which was an interesting spin.
I thought it was good. But perhaps some of the hate comes from the ending. They go through all that and it's like... oh, wow what a bummer.
Compared to other BIG budget films (I'm looking at you AvP)I think this is a breath of fresh air for the horror industry! And I compleatly agree with your points Goodbadflix.
A bit of an anticlimactic ending, otherwise a good view. I also appreciate that it's not a "found footage" film, since those are insulting to your intelligence. This one shows how far you can go with a million bucks and some creative ambition.
I agree!
quite right, you see a million budget and they did this, then you see some with a 10 million budget and it looks like a guy with a cell phone making the film
What I mean is that it wasn't a lot of static shots. It was done more to follow the cast. Now, not like a FF movie, where there is someone holding the camera, running, etc. Like WMAI below this says, FF treats the camera like a character, since it in the film is someone holding the camera. In this, it is still an "invisible" crew that is capturing the event.
STALKERS protect the world from the zone JOIN DUTY!
raven22at fuck that freedom is better.
Cheeki breeki!
Get out of here S.T.A.L.K.E.R
I was in Allentown when Three Mile Island occurred. I remember when all channels went to BREAKING NEWS and it was announced. I was in junior high school.
Hey GBF, have you ever played S.T.A.L.K.E.R? The first game (Shadow of Chernobyl) was released about the same time as Fallout 3, and in my opinion is 10 or 20 times better (With a difficulty scale to boot!). I'd recommend for you if you're interested. It was made by the same team that made the Metro games (Before they released to italy). If you do get it, play it on the hardest difficulty.
I've played the first STALKER and have the sequels. Been meaning to go back and play through again with the mods. (graphical fixes and such) Maybe I'll do them on a stream.
I have the two Metro games and only played through half of 2033. I really should go back to them.
GoodBadFlicks Good luck stalker!
Stalker was amazing. Really feels like I was able to expense being in the zone. Plus mutants.
Experience*
+GoodBadFlicks Always remember
Cheeki Breeki
I saw this movie at the cinema when I was super high in Amsterdam. When I came out of the cinema, I'd already forgotten the entire movie except for the dogs at the end.
The Blair Witch Project is my favorite movie and I like found footage horror genre overall. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was for the long time my favorite game and post apocalypse is my favorite setting. I live in Ukraine, so I do know a lot about Chernobyl and I find this place fascinating.
But I've got to admit, I really disliked the movie and I've seen the ratings before watching it, so I didn't had high expectations. I don't remember movie that well, but for me the biggest reason why I didn't like it is the ending.
Jericho was awesome, I'm amazed it got 2 seasons. With Wasteland 2 this year and Fallout 4 possibly next year, I am giddy.
Thanks! That would be great if sometime in the future CD hit cult status. It really deserves better.
“It’s wrong to make this kind of film” no making a 9/11 movie a year after 9/11 was wrong.
Totally agree with everything in your video. Well done sir! I actually was watching Chernobyl DIaries on Netflix right now and stopped to see some behind the scenes on the movie and stumbled across this video lol. This is a really great original-ish idea movie. Makes you think about the very real possibilities of disasters like this.
Thanks!
Interesting... I wanted to see this after seeing a poster for it. Then I heard the scathing reviews and passed it.
I guess I need to find out on my own.
I agree about Paranormal Activity (the first one). It was brilliantly done and I saw it before the hype took over and it terrified me. The sequels weren't the best but the first one really got under my skin, especially because I didn't know the premise before I saw it at a screening. This movie was great too
Paranormal Activity is one of those rare movies that genuinely scared me and I don't scare easily.
world war II killed tens of millions more than Chernobyl and there are hundreds of movies about the war.
+Alex Pana The complaint about Chernobyl Diaries isn't just that it's about Chernobyl. It's that the victims are portrayed as villains. It would be like if some Russian filmmaker made a movie called The Ground Zero Diaries where a group of young Russians go on vacation to NY and get killed by zombified 9/11 victims.
+ninjaf00t Can anyone explain how planes flying into buildings equal zombies?
***** I, personally, wasn't offended. I'm just summarizing what the general complaint was from people who were and I can understand where they're coming from. The movie turned the victims of a tragedy into horror movie monsters, hence the 9/11 Diaries comparison.
ninjaf00t Eh, I can't exactly see that. The movie barely explains anything about the mutants, so we can't be sure when exactly they first became mutated. People just put two and two together and came up with their own conclusion. I mean, if there's a source that confirms that the mutants in this movie are supposed to be the original victims of the accident, please, correct me, but I never picked that up when watching the movie.
+ninjaf00t who's a villain? Why are they villains? Maybe the people they encountered were in fact bad guys.
I was born on 2006 and I found this out on April 28 2018 this was actually a GREAT movie and the haters probably think it's trash but I love learning this kind of stuff
Why don't more people know about GBF?
Spread the word! :)
GoodBadFlicks i would argue your better than most movie reveiwers better than nostalgia critic your so awesome i would love to meet you in real life
The Pripyat level in MW was my favorite mission I enjoy stealthy sniper missions in COD
I have had to push start a car. Good times.
Mondo Connie me too
+Mondo Connie If people aren't aware that they can make cars and motorcycles work with a dead battery I don't want to live in this desolate post-apocalyptic nuclear desert anymore !
+Emrah Ekinci Actually it doesnt work on modern cars, so this is going to be less common knowledge as time goes on.
+Strazdas You can push a modern car to start, I've done that, but it was a manual
Krede
no. you cannot. the electornics controlling the engine got too complex and this is no longer a thing anymore. even for manuals.
I was intrigued with this movie I found it interesting the why they made the camera seem like you were with them instead of it being a found-footage film
You should do a "GoodBadActors" series, because I think Jesse McCartney while a pretty lame mainstream singer is actually a pretty solid actor.
Stephen LeGresley I'll look into it for the future
10:23 "...until you're finally rescued by the Ferris wheel."
Well, that was mighty nice of it to save you like that.
Haters are hatin' but this movie looks good. Wish I could get it on Netflix.
I think if you go in knowing what the movie is like you'll enjoy it. It's a very atmospheric little horror thriller. I thought it was well done. Hope you like it.
Thank you for flashing that Clash of the Titans reboot poster. What an absolute waste of money and time.
before I even watch this , one thing I really appreciated about this movie , if you count the shots fired you can tell when the Makarov is going to run out of ammo .. that wasn't just a plot thing , the gun really would have only had one bullet left ... habit to count shots , sorry lol
The remake of Red Dawn is offensive! This generation doesn't understand how horrifying the idea of those fucking red parachutes were to a 8 year old in 1984. I was appalled by how heartless the remake was. It had no soul.
Mondo Connie there was one scene in the remake I thought was good. Otherwise it was bland and fairly generic
This generation?
I saw the original when I was around fourteen (Im 21 now), and the beginning scene in particular when the teacher gets shot at school, deeply disturbed me. That's really the only scene I remember, and one where two of the kids are forced to kill another kid who's only just as frightened. For an immigrant myself it also made me question whether this was how all Americans secretly feeled about foreighners, especially Mexican ones due to the shit going on at the time I watched it.
I didn't even see the remake but most of my friends said it was a waste of Time.
Youth doesnt always mean ignorance, just like adulthood doesnt always mean slow creeping mediocrity.
It was just boooorrrrrrrrrrriiiiinnnnngggggg
Red Dawn remake is just a cash grab movie like more than 80% of the movies done in this 21th Century . Also how poor the movie was and the lazy CGI-effects the ending was?was there an ending at all it stopped .
Also again showing us American propaganda which gets on my nerves lately , for Americans it was once Germans the bad guys then the Russians, then the Arabs or Muslims now they have tried North Korea as being bad guys in movies .....wonders when will Americans make a movie that Americans are the bad guys ?
Also the biggest joke is showing us young kids with guns and all that jazz having faith and what not , if we see how young generations are in real life they wouldn't even know how to fight, have the courage and so on .
Anyway Red Dawn the original is a true classic and had a real meaning "The Cold War" that really happened and wasn't fictionnal like that shit remake . Also the actors acted much better in the original Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, ... some scenes were disturbing . The remake was just a disgrace a joke again to dish our childhood years .
I'm 40 and can say they are ruining alot movies, franchises and sagas now which makes it extremely hard to watch something from this 21th Century kinda nothing hooks me anymore alot complain about clichés well for me all is deja-vu a million times .
defiraphi
I'm the same age. Red Dawn was a dumb film to try to remake. At that time, most experts would tell you that an attack like in the film would result in the U.S. losing quite a few states. It also would end in the stalemate that's in the movie. It was a very well done approximation, of what an invasion would look like.
The scene with the teacher, and then the one kid hanging out the window of the classroom, shot in the head, was very unsettling.
It also showed what insurgents, in a mountainous wilderness, could actually do.
It was also was PG-13, which made it more accessible for kids to see.
After seeing the film, my friends and I, would go to our local Sportsman/Hunting and Fishing store, and choose supplies we would need when we got invaded.
It became something to do for fun. It was very impactful on our young minds.
I really loved the performance by the Cuban leader, especially after he realized it was teenagers getting the better of his soldiers.
Then his recounting of other countries they had taken along the way, yet he was looking at the bodies of his men, instead of the native insurgents. It was powerful stuff. I was 7 or 8 years old, yet I still felt the difference between Red Dawn, and a First Blood 2, or similar one man Army movie.
I have it the 360. I liked it, I just got side tracked with other stuff and have been meaning to go back to it. (I think Borderlands pulled me away) I played through the first part and met John Goodman but that was as far as I went. I was digging the world.
1:48 if you pronounce the Russian letters correctly, you end up with "sneyapovul diayaies"
Threads is like an endurance test. Amazing movie but so gut wrenching.
I think there should have been more of the government conspiracy hinted in the movie. Yes the movie at times was lame but it still had the tension most low budget films tend to lack.
Raymond St Paul it was hinted in the beginning when the guards didn't want them to enter, the area was on lockdown because the mutants were roaming free, from what Juri said and the government lab in the end I'd say the normaly have them under control, so the public doesn't know what really happened
Thank you for the reply though it would be interesting if another film was made showing what this one hinted.
+Raymond St Paul .
Raymond St Paul my guess is the mutants were residents of the city who became mutated after the disaster and the Ukrainian government is studying them to learn more about the effects of radiation on humans and the reason for the cover up is that the Chernobyl tours bring in quite a bit of green for the economy
I agree with everyone who says the ending was bad. It wasn't anything special and didn't leave any effect. In my honest opinion, a second one would be great. Maybe American special agents go in or something. But it had a few aspects I loved. Such as: re watching the movie to see hidden things, creepy, subtle creatures in the distance, the little girl appearing and dissapeering, and the mutants. I would love to see more of this
You don’t sound like you grew up in the 80’s bro I would’ve guessed you’re in your late 20’s at most.
9:43 Lots of kids grew up with Cod 4's campaign, so there's that XD. Still though, can agree.
I didn't enjoy Chernobyl Diaries, but I agree, it wasn't the worst movie of the year. They did the best with what they had, for me yes like you Act 3 kind of lets it down and I sadly guffhawed at the whole Government Conspiracy bit. Yeah it could have been a lot worse if it had a bigger budget. Interesting how you didn't mention Transformers : Dark of the Moon. I did enjoy that for pure Popcorn, switch your brain off stuff, but the Chernobyl bit in that was very gratuitous and also has the same actor from the end of this
Thanks! This is exactly what I'm trying to do. I want people to give these movies a shot. Just because a critic said stinks doesn't mean that their word is law! I can't count the amount of movies that have been destroyed by critics that are personal favorites. Then movie like Sideways that the critics loved, I despised!
If there was no rape then Chernobyl Diaries is far better than Hills have eyes.
I watched that the hills have eyes (original) and skim trough the remake (to see if they toned up or down the violence) and hated it for the sadism. Same with last house on the left, but in a lesser degree, cuz the sadism does not take such a big part and has a cathartic plot. I really dont like movies that uses rape as an entertainment/shock effect. Violence I am fine with, but rape and degradation (i.e like The Human centipede) I hate. Also I did not know there was a norwegian actress in this movie. Perhaps I should watch it just for that.
Violence and sexual violence have different effects on me as it is differently portrayed in movies. Also rape to me is worse than violence because it degrades the person as well. I dont know why, but rape always feels more real to me in movies than violence. I react more strongly to it. Like being kicked in the balls.
I'm same, i hate watching horror movies that have no warning of that shit then all of sudden there's rape.
I always thought the Stalker game series was based on the Stalker movie, which was an adaptation of Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. "The Zone" is what they call the areas of the Earth affected by alien visitors, that the protagonist enters to search for artifacts left behind by the "Visitors".
I love when you defend movies like this from the hater mobs out there. I thought it was a great time.
Thanks! Yeah, I was looking at doing some of the old zombie films. Since Day is considered not as strong as Dawn, it should be good for some coverage.
Get out of here Stalker.
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I can agree with that. Too many of the big budget movies do nothing but play it safe. I'd love to see a few take more risks. I understand they have more to lose but how many times are they going to make the same thing?
As far as I think of it, in a documentary, the camera is moving like a person, but more as a silent onlooker. Always separated from the subject. Found footage always treats the camera as another characters, since another character is holding the camera.
I've just watched this movie for the first time and I was lead to believe it was a supernatural thriller. Why were these mutants attacking people? just because a person has been affected by radiation, it does not mean they will turn into homicidal maniacs. There was no explanation as to why the mutants behaved the way they did. And what was with the little girl? was she a mutant or ghost?
The beginning and premise of this movie is awesome. The visuals, the sets, the friendships, the dialogue, the tension, bear attack no extra charge! Then the night comes and the movie falls a little flat. The ending though as a government conspiracy, just knowing about how the actual Chernobyl incident was handled by the USSR was brilliant. So outside of the 20 minute middle, this is a solid movie, especially for its budget.
This is a good video on the movie. I honestly quite never understood the hate when it came out and why it didn't got a better recognition. I wouldn't say it was out of the box but it was one of those horror movies that set the tone first and built up to it instead of heavily relying on sound effects and jumpscares.
that image at 2:37 reminds me of the final part in one shot one kill in modern warfare.
Research! Lots and lots of research! Plus, every so often I get in touch with someone who was either involved with the film or was around when it was being made.
glad you enjoyed it. I saw it in theater opening night here and thought it was OK. I would have preferred a stable cam style of shooting and to have had the creatures stay unseen. the atmosphere and tension were best in this flick. as for cellphones, even now they are a joke. I could take you to places were the signal vanished for miles on the open highway.
Many years too late to be commenting here but I avoided this movie like the plague for years because of the boxart at walmart. Finally watched it with nothing better to do and I have to say that I LOVE the atmosphere in this movie. The growing darkness and increasing tensity and frenetic energy of the third act is actually what sold me. Went from very believable to nightmarishly surreal and I actually enjoyed that, like an intentional blurring of reality as the stakes increased.
Thanks! I just wanted to give this movie a fair shake since so many folks seemed determined to bash it for no good reason.
Can I just tell you how much I love all the you make on this film!
This movie need sequels!
Thank you! I like to do these more serious ones from time to time. A shame so many movies get crapped on before they are even released. I understand some people aren't going to like certain films but for some reason certain things don't even get a chance.