Am I the only one to notice the last few releases from Whatculture have serious editing issues? From posts spliced together, to edit/clips overlapping…Whatculture (and all branches) are some of my favorite posts but the editing over the last couple weeks has been horrific. Listen at 9:56 of this post and you’ll catch what I mean…
I feel one big omission from this list is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). It was one of the first films to be entirely shot against green screen. While other films made extensive use of green screen tech, Sky Captain - along with Casshern and Immortel, both the same year - used a virtual environment for every shot. It also featured one of the earliest attempts to recreate a dead actor's performance using older footage and CGI - in this case, the late Sir Laurence Olivier.
Guys, advice - watch your videos through without skipping sections just once after the final edit; it would help you catch these worryingly-frequent moments where a line is half said before being repeated over itself. It’s ok to happen rarely, but 9 out of 10 occurrences I see of it online are from what culture, it happens here more than the other list channels put together
Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within was one of the first films to use motion capture for CGI performances - unfortunately, the technology at the time could only capture about a dozen points on an actors body at a time, so all the hands and facial expressions were manual animated. It made it feel like you were watching ballet dancers try to act - the distance shots felt very natural, but the close-up shots felt entirely over-wrought. Meanwhile, everything non-human was amazing.
Yeah. Even so, I still like it. It'd be cool if they could re-render it and maybe even fix the animation. They probably have raw footage of the mocap afterall....
I worked for Mattel Digital when the Final Fantasy video games came out. The entire company was losing their minds at how good the graphics and game play were. It made the entire industry step up on all levels. Get good or get gone.
I got one for you. The Jazz Singer. The most Infamous depiction of Blackface of all time, and usually the only thing that's known about it....but it's also the first movie to have Dialogue of all things. Prior to The Jazz Singer, sound in movies was reserved for music and sound effects. Al Jolson started joking and chatting with the band and audience between songs, and thus Talking in Movies was born.
Generations was also groundbreaking in that it subjected a beloved pop culture icon to a horribly undignified and unsatisfying death roughly two decades before it became the "in" thing to do.
Final Fantasy The Spirits within looked so believable when it hit theatres that I forgot I was watching digital characters. Now it looks like a Final Fantasy video game.
I don’t think it exists anymore but the first Scream had a website that was wicked cool with all the characters having bios and such, even the ones who didn’t last very long. It gave excited fans a chance to guess who the killer would be well before the film came out.
All I'll say is Craven outdid Hitchcock by marketing and killing the 'star' before the opening credits... beyond that eh..... although it's not made for my demographic
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation is *the* most classic example of the movies on this list. A hate-filled racist screed whose sheer awfulness is almost beyond the power of mere words to describe, and yet it's filled to overflowing with technical innovations that that would become the standard of filmmaking pretty much forevermore.
The original "The Blair Witch Project" had a terrific website using old "newsclips", newspaper stories, and an interview with a killer from years earlier saying he was told to kill those kids (In the house at the end of the movie) by an old woman.
I had to travel out of town to find a theatre showing Final Fantasy. It was the same opening weekend as the first Fast and Furious movie. I chose unwisely.
I've seen them all - most of them at time of original release. Jason X was actually not that bad - and of course it starred Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder from the Andromeda series. Sex Drive was actually quite funny. EuroTrip was of course way better but it still fits its time. Final Fantasy: The spirits within stood out because of breathtaking CGI at the time but to be honest was itself rather boring - or bland at least. The rest was just rubbish. But Howard the Duck was really seriously bad to my taste and the worst here to my mind by far.
I noticed for the first time that the futuristic metallic mask that the enhanced Jason wears after his transformation in Jason X looks oddly similar to Howard the Duck's face. Or rather like an Egyptian type, golden death mask made from Howard's duck face. Look at both again and you'll see the resemblance is unmistakable.
7:04 I loved the websites for “Twister” and “Godzilla” (1998). The latter had a 3D game on it. I could barely run it, but it was still exciting at the time. The Twister site had a role-playing text game where you had to make choices and those choices either led you to safety or into the tornado’s path. It’s been a while, so I may be misremembering.
Who did the editing, and do they still have a job? It almost feels like a joke, based on the content of this video. At first I thought I accidentally skipped back a few seconds
Honorable mentions: 1984 film adaptation. Idiocracy was inspired from 1984 novel Bokeh. Infinity War and A Quiet Place were loosely inspired from that indie film
Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) was the first movie to use cross-cutting, panning shots and close-up shots in the same film. However, it was only 12 minutes long, shot in black and white, had no sound and the acting was ham-fisted and forced, to say the least. So ya, other than the above, it really sucked...
Christopher Nolan is responsible for Warner Bros keeping every website for their movies up and running to this day, he pushed to keep them online as an essential element of the film as an experience and also because unlike books and other merchandise around a film the website won't be stored in someone's attic to be found in fifty years time but lost forever if the companies take them down.
Not 90s but I remember when Elektra was released and they made a website, it had a game and chat box, can’t remember anything about the game because nobody played it, was basically a chat room for teens 🤭
What's crazy about Final Fantasy is the fact by today's standards it looks like any video game that's out today even close to being outdated with some of these games surpassing the quality. But back then it was extremely impressive. Like when I was a kid I grew up on Ray Harryhausen movies and watching them then was very impressive to the point it looked real to me. Then come to today's effects 😳?!! In my head it's like trying to figure out did we always watch standard compared to HD fuzzy? I watch a lot of these old shows and movies or old videos here or TikTok have we always watch them back then fuzzy/blurry and it just looked clearer?
Anyone using the phrase "worst movie ever" and NOT referring to The Curse of the Mummy Cat, is clearly doesn't know what they're talking about. Go watch that movie and tell me with a straight face that anything that's come out of Hollywood is worse.
@@jackdavinci It's not. Imagine the most annoying, incompetent film possible. Something made by people who had no idea what they were doing, with dialog written by an 8-year old who thinks he's just written a masterpiece. This movie is worse. Not only is the dialog horrible, the camera work awful, and the effects look like they were done by a child, the entire movie is in the wrong aspect ratio!
@@npckse8508 That was a joke (or an attempted one) based on the "first" being how it was filmed with a mirror-less camera, thus presumably enabling the recording of a vampire for the first time....
I am loth to call STAR TREK GENERATIONS any kind of 'bad' in the post-JJ Abrams era, but the 2009 STAR TREK could be called 'groundbreaking' in pioneering re-writing a powerful mythos badly in presenting invalid versions of its past. BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK works pretty well except for the characterisations of Steve Martin and Chris Tucker; when Tucker asks another character ;Wht do you think acting is?', one expected hom to be struck by lightning
You didn't mention the Mario Brothers film, or maybe you did in another video. It had a mountain of visual effect firsts, that someone more knowledgeable than me could rave about.
Lion King was a crowd breaking failure? How the hell do you channels define "failure?" The 2019 Lion King made 1.6 Billion dollars? How specifically was that a failure?
Seriously sloppy editing. It's not the first time I've seen this in a WhatCulture video. Do they even watch the final cut before they publish? Or is it another case of quantity over quality?
why is the 1993 super mario bros not on this list. it was the first movie to have cgi not made with proprietary software. they used autodesk flame. they also were the first film to scan the film digitally.
These are entertaining and all but you guys really need a better audio editor, theres 2 instances of the host repeating himself that werent edited out in this 1
I agree. I wasn't a fan of the games, so I got to see it just as a sci-fi movie, and thought it was okay. Not great, but definitely not terrible. I feel like the was... raised?... on what could be considered terrible. I didn't think Generations was bad either, again not great but no, not terrible. I suppose I have to conceded on Howard the Duck. I loved it as a 10 and 11 year old, so it's still kinda special to me and I have fun watching it, but I have to admit I'm using rose coloured glasses.
Sex Drive... now I know who to blame for that bullshit in every show and movie now. I don't watch movies to read people! If I wanted to read, I'll pick up a fucking book.
@@baxtersmom279 It is why we get movie adaptions of books, so we don't have to read them. Most of the text messages are either badly contrasted, too small a font or aren't on screen long enough to where I have to keep rewinding and pausing the movie/show if I want to read them, that gets annoying fast. so yeah "anything but reading" is accurate despite the sarcasm.
i don't think they meant failure in terms of box office earnings more failure regarding the use of bad vfx/cgi, editing, the directing and how lifeless the movie was compared to the original.
Am I the only one to notice the last few releases from Whatculture have serious editing issues? From posts spliced together, to edit/clips overlapping…Whatculture (and all branches) are some of my favorite posts but the editing over the last couple weeks has been horrific. Listen at 9:56 of this post and you’ll catch what I mean…
6:42 as well
I'm glad to not have been the only person to notice. It's distracting!
Spitting out the edits to make the time-crunching deadlines so they can reap in the $$$ that much faster.
Shame.......
Well, it makes a change from constantly mispronouncing names and/or common phrases...
I've noticed. I've had to go back in the video just to make sure I didn't miss something several times over the past couple of weeks.
Groundbreaking WhatCulture video is the first to be edited entirely by people who were fast asleep at their computers...
Seriously. It’s almost like they all took turns editing 90 second chunks or something
The quality of the vids have gone down in every category
I was like who tf is editing these now
I thought I was having a stroke 😂
I thought my internet was glitching
I don't think Generations was even close to a terrible movie. Not one of the best star trek films of for sure but far from the worst,
I feel one big omission from this list is Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). It was one of the first films to be entirely shot against green screen. While other films made extensive use of green screen tech, Sky Captain - along with Casshern and Immortel, both the same year - used a virtual environment for every shot. It also featured one of the earliest attempts to recreate a dead actor's performance using older footage and CGI - in this case, the late Sir Laurence Olivier.
It’s not a terrible movie
That's pretty interesting, actually.
A headsup to the channel, there's some editing mistakes in the video where two takes of some dialogue both make it in.
Guys, advice - watch your videos through without skipping sections just once after the final edit; it would help you catch these worryingly-frequent moments where a line is half said before being repeated over itself.
It’s ok to happen rarely, but 9 out of 10 occurrences I see of it online are from what culture, it happens here more than the other list channels put together
Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within was one of the first films to use motion capture for CGI performances - unfortunately, the technology at the time could only capture about a dozen points on an actors body at a time, so all the hands and facial expressions were manual animated. It made it feel like you were watching ballet dancers try to act - the distance shots felt very natural, but the close-up shots felt entirely over-wrought. Meanwhile, everything non-human was amazing.
Yeah. Even so, I still like it. It'd be cool if they could re-render it and maybe even fix the animation. They probably have raw footage of the mocap afterall....
Who the hell edited your, who the hell edited your video?!😂
Sex Drive is extremely underrated.
I worked for Mattel Digital when the Final Fantasy video games came out. The entire company was losing their minds at how good the graphics and game play were. It made the entire industry step up on all levels. Get good or get gone.
I got one for you. The Jazz Singer. The most Infamous depiction of Blackface of all time, and usually the only thing that's known about it....but it's also the first movie to have Dialogue of all things. Prior to The Jazz Singer, sound in movies was reserved for music and sound effects. Al Jolson started joking and chatting with the band and audience between songs, and thus Talking in Movies was born.
Generations was also groundbreaking in that it subjected a beloved pop culture icon to a horribly undignified and unsatisfying death roughly two decades before it became the "in" thing to do.
Final Fantasy The Spirits within looked so believable when it hit theatres that I forgot I was watching digital characters. Now it looks like a Final Fantasy video game.
I don’t think it exists anymore but the first Scream had a website that was wicked cool with all the characters having bios and such, even the ones who didn’t last very long. It gave excited fans a chance to guess who the killer would be well before the film came out.
All I'll say is Craven outdid Hitchcock by marketing and killing the 'star' before the opening credits... beyond that eh..... although it's not made for my demographic
League of extraordinary gentlemen had the same. I spent hours in an internet cafe because of it!!!
Good times
Sex Drive is an underrated classic in my opinion
Yup. Sex Drive rules
I don't get the hate for Howard The Duck I loved that film as a kid in the 80's.
D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation is *the* most classic example of the movies on this list. A hate-filled racist screed whose sheer awfulness is almost beyond the power of mere words to describe, and yet it's filled to overflowing with technical innovations that that would become the standard of filmmaking pretty much forevermore.
The original "The Blair Witch Project" had a terrific website using old "newsclips", newspaper stories, and an interview with a killer from years earlier saying he was told to kill those kids (In the house at the end of the movie) by an old woman.
Probably the best modern example of trying to make the audience think the film was real.
Are 6:37 9:56 anomalies?
“I did naaaht! Oh hi, Mark.”
WhatCulture needs a better editor. Fix those audio glitches and repeats, and do some QA before release.
I had to travel out of town to find a theatre showing Final Fantasy. It was the same opening weekend as the first Fast and Furious movie. I chose unwisely.
I never realise the Fast and Furious franchise has been around that long until you mentioned it opened in the same weekend as Final Fantasy. Dayaaam!
I love Possession of Hannah Grace, actually. It was really good ❤
I LOVED Jason X! Also Howard the Duck gets far too much hate. It was a fun movie, not the best movie ever made, but fun.
Howard the Duck was not a bad movie . Fight me !
😂😂
I am team you! It wasn’t bad!
Sex Drive was amazeballs fun. Definitely recommended if you enjoy Eurotrip
Sex drive is a F'n classic. Go watch that right now!!! RUMSPRINGA!!!
What's wrong with you?
Yeah, what's your problem, btch?
Nothing I'm fine
Nothing she's fine, god lay off!
6:37 I think he might have stuttered there 😆
I've seen them all - most of them at time of original release.
Jason X was actually not that bad - and of course it starred Lexa Doig and Lisa Ryder from the Andromeda series.
Sex Drive was actually quite funny. EuroTrip was of course way better but it still fits its time.
Final Fantasy: The spirits within stood out because of breathtaking CGI at the time but to be honest was itself rather boring - or bland at least.
The rest was just rubbish. But Howard the Duck was really seriously bad to my taste and the worst here to my mind by far.
I noticed for the first time that the futuristic metallic mask that the enhanced Jason wears after his transformation in Jason X looks oddly similar to Howard the Duck's face. Or rather like an Egyptian type, golden death mask made from Howard's duck face. Look at both again and you'll see the resemblance is unmistakable.
I think you're remembering Mighty Ducks goalie mask
Calling Sex Drive a "terrible movie" should be considered a crime. Holds up far better than other films of its genre (such as American Pie).
People have been convincing themselves that CGI has been photoreal for decades now
Not sure why, in hindsight, but i loved Futureworld as a kid. I just wanted to give you a shout out for its mention.
I thought Stargate was the first movie to have its own website.
7:04 I loved the websites for “Twister” and “Godzilla” (1998). The latter had a 3D game on it. I could barely run it, but it was still exciting at the time. The Twister site had a role-playing text game where you had to make choices and those choices either led you to safety or into the tornado’s path. It’s been a while, so I may be misremembering.
Lay off of Jason X!! It was way better than Jason Takes Manhattan.
What is going on with the editing and audio? 😮
Amazing video Ewan from what culture,fantastic job.
I loved Howard the Duck as a kid
Me too.
Who did the editing, and do they still have a job? It almost feels like a joke, based on the content of this video. At first I thought I accidentally skipped back a few seconds
Trying to use ChatGPT to edit instead of paying employees aye?
I strongly disagree with Sex Drive being a terrible movie. I loved that movie.
So Job Favreau just chose a method that cut out quite a few jobs? How groundbreaking
Honorable mentions:
1984 film adaptation. Idiocracy was inspired from 1984 novel
Bokeh. Infinity War and A Quiet Place were loosely inspired from that indie film
Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) was the first movie to use cross-cutting, panning shots and close-up shots in the same film.
However, it was only 12 minutes long, shot in black and white, had no sound and the acting was ham-fisted and forced, to say the least.
So ya, other than the above, it really sucked...
Christopher Nolan is responsible for Warner Bros keeping every website for their movies up and running to this day, he pushed to keep them online as an essential element of the film as an experience and also because unlike books and other merchandise around a film the website won't be stored in someone's attic to be found in fifty years time but lost forever if the companies take them down.
Not 90s but I remember when Elektra was released and they made a website, it had a game and chat box, can’t remember anything about the game because nobody played it, was basically a chat room for teens 🤭
Also missed that Howard the Duck was directly responsible for giving us Pixar!
What's crazy about Final Fantasy is the fact by today's standards it looks like any video game that's out today even close to being outdated with some of these games surpassing the quality. But back then it was extremely impressive. Like when I was a kid I grew up on Ray Harryhausen movies and watching them then was very impressive to the point it looked real to me. Then come to today's effects 😳?!! In my head it's like trying to figure out did we always watch standard compared to HD fuzzy? I watch a lot of these old shows and movies or old videos here or TikTok have we always watch them back then fuzzy/blurry and it just looked clearer?
6:42 "and star trek dukuduh" 😂
I think that sky captain and the world of tomorrow was the first movie film completely on a green screen.
Anyone using the phrase "worst movie ever" and NOT referring to The Curse of the Mummy Cat, is clearly doesn't know what they're talking about. Go watch that movie and tell me with a straight face that anything that's come out of Hollywood is worse.
I used to own a mummified cat so that sounds intriguing
@@jackdavinci It's not. Imagine the most annoying, incompetent film possible. Something made by people who had no idea what they were doing, with dialog written by an 8-year old who thinks he's just written a masterpiece. This movie is worse.
Not only is the dialog horrible, the camera work awful, and the effects look like they were done by a child, the entire movie is in the wrong aspect ratio!
The Possession of Hannah Grace was also the first motion picture to feature a vampire actor (excluding voice work.)
Vampire actor?
@@npckse8508 That was a joke (or an attempted one) based on the "first" being how it was filmed with a mirror-less camera, thus presumably enabling the recording of a vampire for the first time....
I am loth to call STAR TREK GENERATIONS any kind of 'bad' in the post-JJ Abrams era, but the 2009 STAR TREK could be called 'groundbreaking' in pioneering re-writing a powerful mythos badly in presenting invalid versions of its past.
BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK works pretty well except for the characterisations of Steve Martin and Chris Tucker; when Tucker asks another character ;Wht do you think acting is?', one expected hom to be struck by lightning
You didn't mention the Mario Brothers film, or maybe you did in another video.
It had a mountain of visual effect firsts, that someone more knowledgeable than me could rave about.
I love “Futureworld”! You should be nicer.
$1,663,000,000.00 later I don't think Disney regrets making the 2019 version of the Lion King.
Probably not but the movie is still garbage from an artistic point of view.
I’ve seen some disrespectful shit in my life but putting sex drive on a list of terrible movies is pretty high on my list.
Yo, this editing is wild. His voiceover keeps cutting in and out between different takes. 😬
Lion King was a crowd breaking failure? How the hell do you channels define "failure?" The 2019 Lion King made 1.6 Billion dollars? How specifically was that a failure?
Seriously sloppy editing. It's not the first time I've seen this in a WhatCulture video. Do they even watch the final cut before they publish? Or is it another case of quantity over quality?
I loved FF the Spirits Within
hello friends at whatculture
i don't wanna to appear rude or "ungrateful" ma this video have two errors on montage, at 6:41 and at 9:52
why is the 1993 super mario bros not on this list. it was the first movie to have cgi not made with proprietary software. they used autodesk flame. they also were the first film to scan the film digitally.
X Men 3 is pretty bad, but it was the first film to ever use digital de-aging
These are entertaining and all but you guys really need a better audio editor, theres 2 instances of the host repeating himself that werent edited out in this 1
I'm a little late to this video, but I'm guessing Phantom Menace is #1
Howard the Duck is a classic.
the spirits within is actually decent on later watchings
I agree. I wasn't a fan of the games, so I got to see it just as a sci-fi movie, and thought it was okay. Not great, but definitely not terrible. I feel like the was... raised?... on what could be considered terrible. I didn't think Generations was bad either, again not great but no, not terrible. I suppose I have to conceded on Howard the Duck. I loved it as a 10 and 11 year old, so it's still kinda special to me and I have fun watching it, but I have to admit I'm using rose coloured glasses.
It would be better received if it didn't have Final Fantasy in title.
Man, what’s going on with the edit on this video? Did no one watch it before uploading?
Best Movie website, ‘Donnie Darko’
Unsane! Shot entire movie on iPhone
This is certainly a list of 10 terrible movies. Woof.
You do know this video has editing errors, right?
was this the first ever video to be edited by AI?
6:36 - a bit of a hiccup
9:54 - another one
Howard the duck was alot close to comic in some parts to cap America TV movies or 40's seriel, haha
Go old school to the first talkie or the first color movie
JESUS WEPT FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER 🤣
I absolutely loved “Sex Drive” lol so bad it’s good to me!
People were attracted to the final fantasy woman and thought she was real
No Avatar ? Groundbreaking cinema but utterly utterly shite
so many editing issues in this video
Man... some messed up editing on this.
Generations is a good movie! :P
You have some nerve insulting Howard the Duck that way. That movie is pure gold.
Sex Drive... now I know who to blame for that bullshit in every show and movie now. I don't watch movies to read people! If I wanted to read, I'll pick up a fucking book.
Oh no… not… not… Reading!?!? Noooooo. Anything but reading, amiright? 🙄🤪🙄🥴🤪
@@baxtersmom279 It is why we get movie adaptions of books, so we don't have to read them. Most of the text messages are either badly contrasted, too small a font or aren't on screen long enough to where I have to keep rewinding and pausing the movie/show if I want to read them, that gets annoying fast. so yeah "anything but reading" is accurate despite the sarcasm.
okay
(…i like howard the duck and sex drive 🥺🥺…)
6:38
peter.
Early gang
Cool
How dare you, Sex Drive is a great movie
Lol. Failure.lion king made a billion dollars. Hate it if u want but definitely not a failure
@@4saken404 I agree. But he said it was a failure. If he just said terrible I would have agreed
i don't think they meant failure in terms of box office earnings more failure regarding the use of bad vfx/cgi, editing, the directing and how lifeless the movie was compared to the original.