@@lospolloshermanos6800 how is it a waste of time? people want to hear his thoughts and he gave them. doesn't really matter if he finished or not as long as he's being honest about it.
@@lospolloshermanos6800 how the fuck is it a waste of anyone's time but Adam's... You can just ignore what he says if it's so offensive to you, that's why he tells us he didn't finish it. Do you get that the only reason you are complaining is because Adam is trying to be honest? His audience is interested in his opinion, so he will do his best to deliver, but he is no way obligated to finish every fucking movie.
The fact Free Guy is nominated for best VFX but Godzilla VS Kong isn’t is just incredibly hilarious to me. It seems extremely clear that Disney has paid off the Academy for nominations.
Disney having 3 films nominated for best animated is unbelievably transparent. It's gone past the point of not trying to hide how unserious they are and into straight up trying to convince everyone of the fact.
@@ayubnor0 It's kind of sad that there's only a handful of years where they haven't one and the last one was I think 2018 because Spider Verse was just that fucking good
I loved how every clickbait news site was "oh this actor is going to be in the house of gucci" and "why the house of gucci is the most hyped film of 2021" and then it came out and inmediately everyone forgot it existed
Yo what if Adam Driver and Lady Gaga wore clothes and makeup from different decade! Click here! Then people saw the pictures and didn't need to see the movie.
@@whiteydiamond at least Lady Gaga did her best. Jared Leto though, he just needs to not be a thing anymore. For the sake of cinema and the world as a whole.
Maybe I'm being too generous with the movie (and I haven't seen it) but it seemed pretty realistic there... a vapid "reaction streamer" giving the most unnecessary, uninteresting, surface-level commentary that you could possibly imagine, delivered with a goofy face and smug attitude that's intended to create the illusion of entertainment. If that's the case, she nailed it.
Free Guy isn't boring. It's stupid, but it has the childish aspect of being able to keep you mildly entertained with flashing colours and loud noises. Everytime Adum couldn't finish a film, it was because he found it boring.
Honestly, it just feels picked at random to me. Like that episode of Bojack when Peanutbutter and Todd lose the list of nominees so they just make them up.
Second year I'm not even attempting to catch them up. The only redemption they could get from me is if they give Jane Campion her well deserve award, not for writing, but for directing. Otherwise I'm never watching them again.
But they aren’t even doing that right. And it’d be so easy. They should’ve, unironically, nominated Spider-Man for best picture. It’s at least better than Don’t Look Up (I hate agreeing with Jimmy Kimmel. I think through merit, Spencer should’ve taken that slot, but No Way Home would’ve been a better business move).
But, but, so many people will definitely watch the million hour event because they got people to sing We Don’t Talk About Bruno, right??? The whole charade gives me some “please clap” vibes
Yeah, they're totally attempting to appeal to younger audiences by nominating a three hour Japanese film. I'm not saying the oscars don't suck, but they're clearly not doing what you're accusing them of doing.
You know, this guy can be quite insightful. Been coming in and out of seeing his reviews for years now and he's been very helpful in finding new things, but at the same time, I VERY much agree with this. The odd inconsistency on reviews sometime when one gets a lot of good word and another that was just okay and they get the same score confuses me. And I also don't agree much with going through so much if he wasn't intending to finish much of them. I understand boredom, but better to throw it off to the side than pretend giving it a score made sense. That said, I don't agree with the twitter shitstorm that came with it.
He has such a weird relationship with numerical scores. When "5" is used for movies he likes and deems good, where can you go from there? Seems to me like he would be more comfortable with a four star system or some such. But maybe he draws satisfaction from being withholding, or decides his scores with the far superior movies of the far future in mind, compared to which even the good products of our time are merely mediocre. Hell, if a film he thought was *really* great gets a mere 7, I wonder what unimaginable wonders 8, 9 and 10 would provide.
@@andrewundershaft1162 it often feels to me like he's on more of a 3 star system. i feel he should be a little more critical of "okay" movies in the 6/7 area if 8-10s are great feats.
If Don't Look Up wins Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Screenplay, that'll be my Joker origin story. As for Best Animated Feature, I really liked most of the nominees, except for Raya & the Last Dragon. Even though I know Encanto is going to win, I'm still rooting for The Mitchells vs The Machines.
_Raya & the Last Dragon_ somehow ended up becoming the 2021 animated film that disappointed me the least. 2021 feature animation in general was mostly disappointing.
Just watched Encanto. Holy shit what a borefest. Terrible songs, boring story. Great animation, but that's honestly to be expected. There wasn't much meat on that bone for anyone above 10 years of age to focus on. Unlike examples like Wall-E, where kids AND adults alike could enjoy themselves.
Yeah encanto seemed like a gigantic mess to me and was a product of COVID animation compartmentalization, but apparently nobody else thinks this from my experience
The 2nd most important awards show behind the 420 Awards Edit- should've said Oscars 7th behind Kids Choice, the Source hip hop awards, Teen Choice Awards (where they gave away surf boards), Lego Masters finale and the Latin Grammys
@@J94_Film Since a figurative meteor is not actually heading for Earth, I suffer no "creeping existential dread." I do, however, suffer nausea at preachy, elitist, hypocritical, multi-millionaire, propaganda peddlers who love telling all us hayseeds how to live and what to think.
@@jodi2847 if all the "subtle" warnings about climate change are ignored, at a certain point you have to drop the pretense and start yelling about it. Or you can resign yourself to a doomed world but hey at least we have films like Melancholia to show for it.
@@J94_Film Well films like that don’t really help. They just piss off the people that disagree with it, and are just boring for the people that like it.
When Taika said "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?" in the Free Guy segment I spontaneously started gasping for breath due to the sheer force of cringe and that's never happened before.
I share the same sentiment with Adum on Encanto ending abruptly. Like when Mirabel has finally let out her anger and talked shit to Abuelita, I was like "oh yes, this is fucking it" and then suddenly she just walked out after the destruction of the house and then Abuelita came after her and asked for forgiveness and shit. Like Im not mad that Abuelita shared her story but damn, I would have liked some more scenes of Mirabel out in the woods just letting out her frustration or letting her realize the other shit she's been through cause oh boi there's alot. But no, they just let Abuelita have the spotlight after Mirabel did a tantrum. Granted, this is coming from someone who relates so much to the family toxicity and generational trauma and stuff so maybe Im asking too much to a children's movie but I would have liked it if they didnt resolve everything so quickly.
Yea the movie felt like it was an hour long flat. Even though it was pretty surface level and did nothing to absolve the family for what they did to Bruno, I can respect a short and sweet movie. Even stuff like Inside Out and WALL-E felt like they overstayed their welcome by the third act and I typically love long movies. It's probably extremely hard to write a good kids movie that has enough fat on it to entertain adults and not be too long for kids at the same time. Not everything can be as good as Ratatouille.
@@Thermington I know a lot of people were disappointed by the story but I was one of the lucky few who read up on the original poem (and some analysis videos) which REALLY helped me to enjoy the movie
I think its kind of stupid that Eternals and GvK didn't get nominated for VFX but Shang-Chi and Spider-Man did. None of them were bad but Eternals/GvK were superior in terms of VFX for me. ESPECIALLY GvK. So happy I saw it in theaters
I understand Pig, The Green Knight, Titane, and The French Dispatch weren't loved by everyone and aren't the type of films the old Academy are into, but it's still baffling they didn't at least give them one or so nomination for categories such as cinematography for The Green Knight, actor for Pig, international feature for Titane, production design for The French Dispatch, etc. back than. Even awards shows that weren't into them as much at least gave them those nominees.
"This movie changed my life and brought my soul to a new plane of enlightenment. This movie cured my cancer and healed my broken spine. This movie is *the* crowning achievement of the art form of cinema. 6/10" that Free Guy bit was so good tho
It was made for terminally online people that like to point at [reference] and scream really loud, and I'd like to think after quarantine a lot of people were terminally online whether they wanted to be or not
The French Dispatch By Wes Anderson was massively snubbed for Set Design, Screen Play, Editing & Best picture. For me that was easily the best movie of 2021
I really don't know why the reception for this one was so lukewarm compared to his other films. Maybe the ending felt anticlimactic for some. Still, I liked it just as much as some of his other oscar nominated films.
Who needs good reviews and talent when you can be Adam McKay? All you need is money and friends ! Why should we nominated the BEST and MOST acclaimed films of the year when we can nominated this film which HALF OF THE FUCKING CRITICS DIDN'T LIKE ! ( IT HAS 56% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES ! IT'S NOT FAIR AND IT'S INFURIATING !)
Believe it because the Academy loves to eat this guy's ass. They nominated The Big Short, Vice and now this. He's got the money and the connections, even if the movies he makes are shit. (Even tho I enjoyed The Big Short personally)
Jorden Peterson calling Free Guy "perfect" and then waxing vaguely about its thematic depth is probably the funniest thing about this entire lineup of best picture nominations - impressive considering what a joke they all are.
@@christopherrapczynski204 It really does confuse me. To the point I've thought it's just a meme and it'll never come out intentionally. Unless it's going to be 8+ hours at this point.
I think you also have to remember he has to balance main yms with quickies/fests, recording for adum plaze, editing sardonicast. Doing that while also trying to grind through a long ass project is exhausting and i can totally relate to not being able to invest in some things at a certain point such as certain fest movies and oscars stuff
@@chrisgetchell6337 2-3 years though? Even if he only spent 30 min to an hour on it 4-5 days a week, how is that not a long enough time for a 2 hour movie? He makes his own schedule and im pretty sure he has an editor(s) for alot of his other stuff...like im sure playing video games and talking to your friends for content is more fun but he shouldnt set expectations/deadlines if he's not going to meet them imo
It is a shame the Oscars are so beholden to Disney/Pixar for their benchmark of what animation can be. It can be so diverse with 2D, rotoscoped, stop-motion etc. that the plasticity of Dixar's 3D should really have more genuine competition. That being said, my students absolutley adore Encanto, so there's that in its favour.
I'm honestly getting exhausted with especially Pixar at the Oscars. Disney on their own at least hasn't won that often (only 3 times, all three a bit arguable, since there were better animated movies than Frozen in 2013, most people think HTTYD 2 should've beaten Big Hero 6, and Kubo was better than Zootopia), but Pixar has won 11 times out of 16, and definitely didn't deserve most of those. Probably unpopular, but I'd say they only deserved 4 or 5 of those (Incredibles, Ratatouille Wall-E and Soul, maybe Finding Nemo?). Coraline should've beaten up, How to Train Your Dragon should've beaten Toy Story 3, Brave is arguably the weakest nominees of 2012 (for sure worse than Wreck-It Ralph and Paranorman), Shaun the Sheep or Anamolisa should've beaten Inside Out, Loving Vincent should've beaten Coco, and either Klaus or How to Train your Dragon 3 should've beaten Toy Story 4. The fact that Laika or Cartoon Saloon have never won is a travesty and Dreamworks, Studio Ghibli, and Aardman having so little is a travesty too.
Imagine being the person responsible for choosing the best editing categories, and being so fucking dry for nominees that Don't Look Up was one of your choices.
It's the editing branch of the Academy that chooses the nominations. The acting branch nominates the acting categories, the animation branch nominates animated feature, etc.
“YES, that’s a Lightsaber (tm) DOOD” didn’t even make it that far into Free Guy it just seemed so excessively steakless sizzle and that was after watching and enjoying French Dispatch
I agree with Adam mostly here but I really enjoyed Drive My Car, the characters are really restrained but the drama is really subtle and compelling, 9/10 for me
Yeah, I agree. Drive My Car is my favorite of all the films nominated for Oscars this year. That’s honestly my favorite film of the year behind Bo Burnham: Inside.
I enjoyed it as well. Although the last 40 minutes were a little bit too much even if I understand why they were there. I liked the characters, the Korean deaf woman in particular was loveable to me. The story was cool and has interesting ideas for art concepts such as multilingual plays especially with the sign language that was cool. 7/10.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I was so hyped going in, even though I knew it was going to be slow, character-driven and introspective piece. I kept waiting for the emotional moments, but they were few and far between (although they were very good). Aside from the acting from the two main characters, the thing I enjoyed most about this film was the monologue given by the main character near the end of the movie. I will say the multilingual aspect (including Korean sign language) of the play in the movie was intriguing and added interest. It’s not for everyone, but I would recommend it as everyone has different tastes.
@@kevinsmith7-7-7 Honestly, I didn’t think Don’t Look Up was all that bad, but it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and especially Best Editing.
Agree with you on Spencer! Probably one of the better movies this year, so I'm surprised that it only gotten one nomination. And even though I think Kristen Stewart is the strongest nominee in the "best actress" category, I feel like this movie deserved more recognition for its other aspects as well.
For the Shakespeare stuff I feel like you have to be familiar with the play beforehand to really enjoy an interpretation because the dialogue is so dense and elaborate. Not saying you have to, but it definitely changes the experience
Currently going to grad school with a major in Shakespearean performance/acting/scholarship/history etc. and I agree that it's definitely helpful, especially if Shakespeare is a newer thing for you, to check out a quick plot summary before you read one of the plays or watch an adaptation. I think you can still enjoy Shakespeare without doing so, but it is definitely helpful. The difficulty with Shakespeare isn't necessarily the words themselves (he only uses a few truly archaic words), but how Shakespeare structured the sentences.
Yeah I once saw a Macbeth movie in cinema with my Year 11 English class, and holy crap I could not understand a single thing that happened. We actually read Hamlet - we were only watching Macbeth because one of the other Year 11 English classes read it.
I might be wrong, but I got the impression that some criticisms of your comments on the ornithopters (the flying vehicles in Dune) wasn't because they simply hated that you didn't like them, but because you thoroughly mocked the impracticality of the design, especially for an iconic sci-fi novel. The implausible sci-fi element is definitely that us building a working ornithopter that can lift a person is impossible, but the design and basic mechanics of it resembling and emulating the flight of a dragonfly is completely practical, given that they're the most versatile and efficient flying insects (if not flying animals period) on Earth.
Its not 'completely practical' when a dragonfly weighs very very little. Do you understand how large the wings would have to be and how light the ornithopter would have to be? Like seriously? He can call it ridiculous if he finds it so, looking at it independently is certainly does seem so ridiculous you could laugh at it.
@@HappyLarry. I never suggested he couldn't find it ridiculous? There's no need to be aggressive. I was just trying to clarify that some disagreeing opinions amounted to more than just "I hate that you don't like it!". I already said in my comment, very clearly, that us creating an ornithopter that can actually lift people is impossible. I'm fully aware that it's physically impossible, and you being a demeaning ass about informing me of things I _already stated_ isn't making you come off as clever. I tried to make it as obvious as possible that my referring to the choice of basing the design and mechanics of the fictional vehicle as "practical" is in choosing to base it off a dragonfly instead of an airplane, etc. with the unrealistic element of it being actually achievable. Sorry that it apparently wasn't clear enough for you.
@@HappyLarry. I think you're still dancing around the "science fiction" part...we don't know what type of technology they have that could circumvent real-world physics, which is where the criticism of how harsh he was comes into play: it very well could be practical, finding it ridiculous is pretty fucking ridiculous. He should know better.
its fine if he gives up on movies, but i agree that he shouldn't review movies he only watched ten minutes of. you wouldn't review a book by finishing the first few chapters and then putting it down, and you wouldn't review a video game without playing at least a few hours. focus more on recommending good movies than shitting on the ones you watched ~10% of
@@HappyLarry. Hey at least they actually went through with the book's description of them. It was one of the weird out there things you'd think David Lynch would want to show off.
The second I saw colorful text pop up on screen, I called that Don’t Look Up would receive a best editing nomination. The Academy is so stupid that it hurts.
I actually don't understand how people think Don't Look Up is a good movie. They seem to just have a terrible sense of humor and can't look at the movie beyond its message.
It’s even more terrifying for me when I hear people say they think that this movie is "a great portrayal of modern society and feels real to our own world."
I haven't come across anyone who thinks it's good but if i did i would recommend they watch the video Like Stories of Old made about it (Don't Look Up - A problematic metaphor for climate change?)
30:35 There's a Key and Peele skit riffing on a Gordon Ramsay show where the head chef mixes signals on if he loved a dish or hated it, and this felt exactly like that.
I think the issue a lot of people have is the scoring is just so lazy and nonsensical. You'll trash a movie with a single comment then give it a 5/10 then another movie you'll take some time to praise... and also give a 5/10.
maybe some of these films he can admit are not that bad but they are not for him so he gives it a 5/10 based on personal preference. whereas some films he may enjoy some aspects while still admitting that 5/10 is fair
@@christucker7655 I watched this through and a few times he would shit on a movie and make it seem like it was about to smack it with a 2/10 before giving it a 5/10. Then follow it or with the one after with movie he actually talks the time to laud somewhat, then still only give it a 5/10. It makes no sense and my OCD/spectrum brain goes a bit spazzy with that crap. I actually don't care that he didn't even finish the films which is where is he thinks most of the complaint is centred but I have a feeling the scoring exacerbated the issue massively. Who gives a fck at the end of the day. I was just hoping he'd realise that scoring was also triggering a lot of idiots like myself.
@@wrthgdrver710 Because YMS is a movie critic by trade and he should be able to effectively categorize movies into their proper scores. I get that it is hard to distill the experience of a movie down to a score but if he found it to difficult, he could use a recommend or not recommend system. The fact that he will say some shit like "I loved everything about this movie except that it dragged a little and there was bad CG fire in this scene, 7/10" but then trash on a movie and not even finish it and give it a 6 is just fucking weird. He also just didn't even finish half of these movies. Nothing wrong with that I guess but it is so weird that he is so bored that he wont even finish a film and still give it over a five. His critique and scores don't line up and that bothers people because it questions his judgement.
It was nominated for visual effects. That’s it. It’s not like it was nominated for Best Screenplay or something. Tons of bad movies have been nominated for technical awards like that. Suicide Squad fucking won an Oscar a few years ago. Idk why you’re acting like there aren’t a bunch of the usual Oscar type movies that are nominated.
@@DADDYFATSACKABLE man it just erks me to see Free Guy being nominated for the same award that movies like the Matrix, Life of Pi, Tenet, Spider man 2, Avatar, etc won. To nominate it for the same award as all those other movies feels like it's dragging them down to Free Guys level, and not elevating Free Guy to their level. Free Guys a fun movie, but not Oscar worthy IMO.
Yeah, my mom is usually pretty good at hating bad movies but she loved Don't Look Up. I think only young GenXers and old millennials can enjoy it. The humor was basically "Haha president acts like Trump" and the social commentary was surface level.
I'm a medium Millennial and it was a cathartic watch. The President stuff was dumbed down and obvious, but the critiques of the media hit home. Maybe younger folks haven't been around long enough to pick up on some of the more subtle parts of it, or the overdone parts just overshadowed them, but I appreciated it.
@@ananimal9779 literally everyone who’s above 3rd grade critical thinking level understand this movie it’s just uninteresting bland social commentary, a worse idiocracy
I appreciate and agree with most of your opinions here, but I gotta ask; How many times and in how many different ways can you say some variation on “it wasn’t bad, it just didn’t resonate with me” before you start to wonder if maybe you’re the problem?
I honestly think the song nominated for Encanto is one of the strongest, probably the second strongest behind We don't talk about Bruno, but a song being catchy doesn't determine if it's good or not ( that can be an aspect if that's what the song is going for or ends up having but it's not a requirement) even for disney
It’s a beautiful song imo and yeah I totally agree it doesn’t need to be catchy or popular to be an award winning song. Wouldn’t have thought Adum would think that…
Yeah I love this comment. Dos Oruguitas is a really well written song. We don't talk about Bruno is slightly more impressive, but to act like Dos Oruguitas is a bad song (+ the worst in the film?!) is pretty disingenuous.
@Epic Gamer Man heres the thing… it’s a song about how the world changes around people and they have to be willing to grow up and change despite that. but then they are forcibly separated when they do decide grow up but then they will find a new future when they become butterflies. if you find that boring there is not much i can say to change your mind (except the translation i just posted) but it is a very beautiful song about the sad reality a lot of latin people are forced to live through
Dos Orugitas was my favorite song for sure, We don’t talk about Bruno is catchy for sure, but Dos Orugitas is the one that resonates with me the most, it literally makes me cry every time I hear it
Thank you so much for pointing out the terrible editing in Don't Look Up, I tried telling people about the weird editing choices like freeze frames (Which I believe happened 2 other times in the movie) and dialogue clearly being ripped from other takes/scenes. I didn't creat a video with a montage of these errors, so other film buffs I tried talking too about this just kinda acted like those errors didn't exist and that I don't agree with the political aspects regardless of me saying that's not the case. This movie especially was very bad and it's nice seeing someone else with that take :)
Disney with 3 animated pictures nominated is making me angry!!! Not even trying to pretend they don’t have an extreme monopoly on animated movies. Disney owns animation now and that is so sad since most of their stuff, especially recently, has been lacking in almost every aspect
I think that it would be bearable if he STARTED with the fact that he couldn't get through the movie, and then explain his criticism in that context. Instead he says a bunch of things that one would assume is thoughts about the movie as a whole, then throws in at the end that he only watched like 10% of it.
@@megamuffin3900 I totally understand not being a fan of the fact that he didn’t watch all of them but you saying that it was UNBEARABLE to watch is more of a you problem then an Adam problem ^
@@blakestacy5405 I think you're taking the specific word too seriously. I'm more saying "I think I wouldn't have had a problem with it if..." or something to that effect. I found it annoying enough to comment, but I obviously got through the whole vid.
This is the first time I have heard someone publicly share that they did not like Don't Look Up and I'm glad because I was starting to think I was going crazy! Granted, I missed the majority of those editing issues as I slept through a large portion of it, but the parts I did see I didn't care for. It came off like it was trying too hard to be "edgy" with it's way too on-the-nose message and over-the-top vulgarity (at least regarding swearing).
@@weirdguy1495 I thought it was ok. I understand why you guys would hate it and I can’t really disagree with any of it but I still thought it was decent and watchable. I actually really liked the music and DiCaprio saved the movie for me
Adum's West Side Story review is really surprising to me. The rest all make sense even if I disagree with a few. I thought West Side Story was excellently done and certainly not a boring adaptation by any means.
I am kinda halfway between Adum and the public, closer to Adum. It felt hollow. Everyone other than Rachel Zegler was merely competent (she was a standout, I’m a little upset that she didn’t get nominated. I’d have swapped Nicole Kidman for her). Edit: actually, I’m closer to the public. I thought that the movie was…good. Overhyped to shit, but…good.
I mean be just said it was boring. He didn't criticise the visuals or the editing or anything else, he just said he couldn't bother to watch the movie because it bored him. The entire film is just a less interesting Romeo and Juliet story, so why is finding it boring so beyond the pale?
Don't look up a movie that thinks its a lot smarter and 'funnier' than it really is. Getting nominated is just an obvious attempt at being topical to this period.
It's a very tone confused movie and I think the director did an awful job. He might be my least favorite director since the big short and vice both could have been great in another directors hands, he consistently tries too hard to be funny. I will say that leo was great imo
@@HappyLarry. Yeah, the percentage just wasn't accurate enough and it really took me out of the movie. If you were able to enjoy it despite the logical inconsistencies, then that's great, but I wasn't. And I'm giving this comment a 6/10.
I actually think that freeze frame in the dinner scene in Don't Look Up is just capturing a moment of realization this is one of their last moments ever. They do the same freeze for other characters in the scene.
I genuinely thought my computer or the movie file were glitching during that scene. I think there are definitely more sophisticated ways to present a moment like that and convey those emotions.
The only reason I look forward to the Oscars anymore is because of the YMS commentary. The Oscars itself has been a huge joke, to me, for a long long time now. I very much appreciate seeing others point that out.
Hot Take, but Adam's reaction to Free Guys tells me we need MORE movies like it. Rather than this sea of forgettable, try-hard Oscar-baits that are all 5/10s, at least Free Guys made him FEEL something 😅 The one thing I hate when I go to the movies is to be bored, and if there's one thing you can say about Free Guy is that it's not boring
Dude who wrote "Don't Look Up" was like let's make a movie that sucks and copy all the cool stuff from the "Big Short". One of the worst films I've ever seen.
Wow, he practically didn't watch 90% of the movies completely. I'm not gonna judge him cause he can do whatever he want and I respect him, but it's hard to even get a grasp of an opinion by him when he doesn't even finish the majority of the movies and can't give a chance even for the films he doesn't consider it to be bad, and I say that as a fan of his reviews. Couldn't disagree more about Drive My Car and West Side Story, cause I loved both very dearly but okay. Oh well, I'll still watch the Oscar YMS video that'll be fun, and I'm excited for the Lion King review.
Honestly, Godzilla vs Kong deserves a special effects nomination. Between rigging and choreographing several different types of monster and giving them distinct movements and personalities and conveying emotion through those models, not to mention solid lighting effects, the weight and feel of movement... GvK honestly felt more realistic in some moments than the entirety of the Lion King remake.
But if it did then Adum would (most likely) be pissed that an Adam Wingard related property got anywhere near an Oscar nom. I know I'd be, but compared to the other nominees it's definitely better in terms of VFX even out of all the other movies in the series. But Dune definitely deserves the win.
I thought Rebecca Hall’s Passing was snubbed for best adaptation and cinematography. It belongs in the category of things that are too interesting and cool to actually be nominated.
16:58 what you said about Shakespeare is a good point, and I think it's something that is worth talking about. Shakespeare lived and died in the late 1500's and the early 1600's. Macbeth the play is over 400 years old and the English language has changed a lot since then. Kids are expected to read these plays in school, but they are almost never translated, which is honestly necessary. A simple example of why comes from Romeo and Juliet "oh Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo". The word "art" in this context can be easily interpreted as meaning "are", the word "thou" being a second person pronoun akin to modern English "you" is also understandable. Do you know what "wherefore" means? did you think it meant "where", like she was asking Romeo "where are you?"? It actually means "why", as in "why are you Romeo", like "why did I fall in love with you, why did it have to be you, someone I can't be with". This is just one line, but all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are full of these out dated words that modern speakers simply do not know. It is, for what it's worth, easy to learn if you want to. If you can speak modern English fluently, Shakespeare English is quick to pick up if you spend some time, particularly if you are familiar with the king James bible, which is from the same period of English history give or take. But people who seem to think/expect general English speakers to be able to just jump into something like Macbeth without a translation are delusional. This also has nothing to do with the quality of the writing; I'm sure there are good German and Dutch plays that modern English speakers wouldn't be able to understand, also.
Meaning can also be conveyed by clever directing, editing and acting choices. I think people get hung up on understanding EVERY SINGLE WORD (even Shakespeare profs debate about that). Enjoy it like a foreign movie, where you're getting the gist and flow. Speaking of understanding every single word, many editions have Shakespeare on the left page, and a modern language explanation on the right page, going line by line. Comes in handy.
@@floraposteschild4184 there is nothing that communicates meaning quite like language. It would be easier to "enjoy...like a foreign movie" if, like a foreign movie would, it had subtitles that translated what was being said. It's not being dumb or closed minded if you can't understand this antiquated dialect, the same as if someone couldn't understand an English based creole like Jamaican Patois without prior exposure.
@@CirclesForever But you know subtitles are just an approximation of what is being said, even the good ones. And of course, being a different culture, you're not getting so much of the context. Not to mention you're missing what's happening on screen while you're reading the titles. But if it's a good film overall and you're curious, you can re-watch, learn more and more, and get used to it. There's no problem having modern language subtitles on the Bluray or streaming (as long as I can turn them off), or modern language versions -- most of the Shakespeare Retold episodes are very good, for instance. But I object to the idea that modern audiences can't understand enough Shakespeare to get by. I've seen Ian McKellan's Richard III and Roman Polanski's Macbeth in the theatre, in front of audiences not over familiar with Shakespeare, and no one seemed confused or not enjoying it. It depends on how skillfully it's done.
@@floraposteschild4184 I, a random stranger, side with you on this one. Understanding everything to the last word is overrated. Also, to Mr. Circles, what about pictures? They communicate more than a 1000 words, allegedly.
Adum for the love of God, just please space out the time you spend when watching these films. The amount of times you said "I shut it off/I dipped after X minutes" feels borderline parody to me. It was laughable during your Sundance video and it's even funnier here. That or just focus only on the major category films to save your patience.
I think it's his "go to" grade for something that didn't grab his attention but didn't offend him either. In my opinion it would be best to just not give a score, but I understand that in a video like this, that is not the best option
A film can be okay and also be boring and not worth finishing. He said it at a couple points but he's judging it "from what he saw". Probably shouldn't have given it a grade, except for U: unfinished.
His scoring by default is 5/10. If the movie does great, it's score gets raised. IF the movie is aggresively bad, points get deducted. A 5/10 means it's just that, a movie, nothing exceptional, whether good or bad.
I enjoy all of YMS's content but when there is a section at the end of the vid on 'What should have been nominated' I lose it like a spoiled child given another pony. Adum is always a treasure trove of unrecognised content. This is closest until The best of the year lists.
7:34 THANK YOU. I can't tell you how many crappy reviews I scoured through to see if ANYONE else noticed this. I thought I was going crazy. And it's not the only bizarre freeze frame in that scene. Also about 90 minutes into the movie, when Jennifer Lawrence is hanging out with Timothee after they first meet, there is a quick shot where a good 10 to 15 crew members are blatantly in the frame. Weed whacker editing.
WHAT, how dare you talk about such an art piece, how can you dismiss a movie just because it's production is shit, the acting is over the top, the story keeps slapping you in the face to remember what it is about and, MOREOVER, so many talented actors performing as empty husks for the director to spew platitudes right at your face?
As an italian, I was genuinely offended by the "it's a me Mario" acting in House of Gucci, especially by Jared Leto. Is that how he thinks italian people talk? It also shows the hypocrisy of politically correct Hollywood, so careful not to offend asian, hispanic and african-american cultures, yet allowing a movie full of italian stereotypes. Also, I can’t wait to listen to Chris Pratt as Mario.
Exactly, they're not capable of actually caring about cultural sensitivity. Cancel culture didn't teach them anything, they were just bullied out of being racist.
You know, I'd honestly welcome the idea that Chris Pratt will put on a bad Italian accent rather than the most likely outcome is that he's just gonna sound like himself like 80% of the cast will since these productions tend not to require an actor act, but just be themselves to sell on a poster and a wide audience and maybe the visuals will pick up the slack for that.
While I have no issue with Adam giving scores to films he hasn’t seen all the way through, I don’t have any interest in watching those reviews, so I would really appreciate him disclosing that he didn’t finish the film at the beginning of that film’s review rather than at the end so I can skip to the more well-informed segments.
If my friend was a book critic, I would expect there would be quite a few books, out of the hundreds he has to review every year, that he would ditch as soon as he realized they weren't for him and/or were just garbage.
So if you start a book, and find you don't like or connect with it, you should finish it for no other reason than you started it, and also to keep your cred as an enjoyer of that medium? This is a baffling opinion.
Thinking the music in West Side Story isn't catchy is beyond baffling to me. It has to be one of the greatest American musical works ever. I guess the best songs aren't in the first 30 minutes though
I know you’ve justified your reasoning for not watching movies all the way thru, but I’d say it’s prob better just to not review the movies if you aren’t gonna see them all the way through. That’s just me though, I don’t know
@@christianscogs If it's not your preference in content, why are you watching it? As opposed to trying to make the creator make something more your preference? I don't get this logic. It's like walking up to an impressionist painter and saying, "I really don't like impressionism, you should probably try a more realistic look." Like.... what?
@@GoddoDoggo because I like this creator and I want to give my thoughts on the content they are making?? I can do that right, give feedback and criticism on something?? I’m just one guy giving one opinion, yanno?
Siskel and Ebert said “You’re allowed to walk out in the middle of a movie as long as you’re willing to admit you walked out” While I respect YMS for admitting when he couldn’t finish a movie, not every movie in the world is made for everyone. Though the amount of times he just flat out gives up makes me even question what’s the point of his channel.
Yeah, obviously he's allowed to stop watching a movie if he can't be bothered to finish it, but don't then claim to have seen it and give it a score. Like... wtf. Lots of great movies take time to develop and unfold. It's especially weird when he seems to go out of his way to watch like every goddamn obscure foreign language film multiple times.
@@tylerjhunter bro at what point did he claim to have seen it. He clearly states EACH TIME he didn't finish it. And as far as the reviewing. Your missing the point. He rates almost everything a 6/10. He himself has said the reviews like that mean almost nothing
@@tylerjhunter I mean, did he not? He technically did watch each of them just not all of them fully. Did you even watch the video? He says each time when we didn't watch them fully lmao. You want to be right so bad you take one sentence but disregard the rest of the video. That's why you can't be taken seriously fr
Kind of weird how you criticize some movies for being "crowd pleasers" but then criticize other movies for trying to do their own thing that you couldn't personally connect with.
List of Oscar 2022 films Adum gave up watching: King Richard: Gave up after 10-15 minutes West Side Story: Gave up after 30 minutes Being the Ricardos: Doesn't remember where he left off The Tragedy of Macbeth: Gave up after 1 hour The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Gave up after 10 minutes The Lost Daughter: Gave up after 1 hour Flee: Did not finish this movie Raya and the Last Dragon: Did not finish this movie Cyrano: Gave up after 30 minutes Attica: Gave up after 25 minutes Summer of Soul: Did not finish this movie The Hand of God: Gave up after 1 hour Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom: Gave up after 17 minutes Coming 2 America: Gave up after 35 minutes House of Gucci: Gave up after 12 minutes No Time to Die: Gave up after 40 minutes Four Good Days: Gave up after 47 minutes Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Gave up after 22 minutes
Won't defend most of these because I haven't seen most of these but turning off Raya before it finished was a good call because the last 20 minutes are so fucking bad it'd make him drop the score to a 2.
Hey Adam. Fuck everyone telling you they're upset with how you choose to spend your time watching these movies. I love the films you bring to our attention (can't wait to watch All Lights Everywhere and Listening to Kenny G) and I hope you know the vast vast majority of us love and appreciate the time and effort you put into consuming so much media and creating these highly entertaining videos for us.
Everyone be like: “what do you mean a reviewer who is supposed to be considered as a subjective viewer didn’t want to waste hours of their life watching stuff that bored them?”
@@thelordchar1406 its literarily his job. His is just being lazy. he doesnt even edit the his own videos anymore, the only thing he has to do is watch the movie and write down his thought on them.
So glad you enjoyed The worst person in the world. One of my favourite films in a long time. IMO, it really captures our time: We have more options than ever, in everything from merchandise to partners and education, but this freedom comes with the price of increased responsibility and doubt. Brilliant story, and the acting performances were stellar. Not a perfect film, but almost there, for me at least
I'm not mad at you for not finishing movies, but I can't really get behind talking about and rating them without it (regardless of your being upfront about not finishing them). Your opinion isn't important enough that we should be grateful for scraps of bored impression. Just let go of the feeling that comprehensive coverage is important and focus on the films you care about. Your comparison of Oldboy original vs. Spike Lee was fantastic.
Who’s here after Will Smith’s violent out-of-left field unprovoked slapping of Chris Rock’s face? Even worse so, the out-of-left field unprovoked winning of Best Actor by Will Smith moments later.
I reqlly appreciate your thpughts on Dont Look Up, I got so angry when people called it genius and said I was too stupid to get it was satire and that "if you hate the movie youre who theyre making fun of"
Shyamalan made fun of film critics with that strawman character in Lady In The Water; that doesn't mean film critics were incorrect in saying that movie sucks. If someone's response is "you're who they're making fun of", just shrug and stand by your criticism.
Alright next year I won't even give half of these films a chance then lmao
Awesome.
Honestly, I'd do the same thing.
I got a few words into this sentence but I'm a busy boy and I think I got the general gist of it so uh I'll this comment a 5/10
@@lospolloshermanos6800 how is it a waste of time? people want to hear his thoughts and he gave them. doesn't really matter if he finished or not as long as he's being honest about it.
@@lospolloshermanos6800 no different than a reviewer saying they walked out of a movie.
@@lospolloshermanos6800 how the fuck is it a waste of anyone's time but Adam's... You can just ignore what he says if it's so offensive to you, that's why he tells us he didn't finish it. Do you get that the only reason you are complaining is because Adam is trying to be honest? His audience is interested in his opinion, so he will do his best to deliver, but he is no way obligated to finish every fucking movie.
The fact Free Guy is nominated for best VFX but Godzilla VS Kong isn’t is just incredibly hilarious to me. It seems extremely clear that Disney has paid off the Academy for nominations.
I remember Alita: Battle Angel not even getting nominated for best VFX, when it probably should've won.
Not directly. They just throw great parties and shit like that
It's so frustrating
They domt even need to pay for it, the Oscars air on Disney owned channels. They essentially own the awards
They nominated Cruella for best costume design over The French Dispatch.
Disney having 3 films nominated for best animated is unbelievably transparent. It's gone past the point of not trying to hide how unserious they are and into straight up trying to convince everyone of the fact.
Also proving the Animated Feature is clearly the "Disney" award.
@@ayubnor0 It's kind of sad that there's only a handful of years where they haven't one and the last one was I think 2018 because Spider Verse was just that fucking good
Disney owns ABC which owns the Oscars
@@LordLucario12 Actually very few years.
Because Disney is a massive corporation that owns multiple animation studios?
I loved how every clickbait news site was "oh this actor is going to be in the house of gucci" and "why the house of gucci is the most hyped film of 2021" and then it came out and inmediately everyone forgot it existed
Yo what if Adam Driver and Lady Gaga wore clothes and makeup from different decade! Click here!
Then people saw the pictures and didn't need to see the movie.
@@whiteydiamond at least Lady Gaga did her best. Jared Leto though, he just needs to not be a thing anymore. For the sake of cinema and the world as a whole.
"I BEENA GUCCI ALL MA LAIFE!"
I forgot about House of Gucci. They did advertise a lot until it came out then I heard nothing.
It came out?? I swore it was delayed
"Lets start with the Best Picture nominees in no particular order"
- Goes over them in alphabetical order.
literally unwatchable
"thats a lightsaber dude" has got to be one of the deepest lines ever spoken in a movie
Maybe I'm being too generous with the movie (and I haven't seen it) but it seemed pretty realistic there... a vapid "reaction streamer" giving the most unnecessary, uninteresting, surface-level commentary that you could possibly imagine, delivered with a goofy face and smug attitude that's intended to create the illusion of entertainment. If that's the case, she nailed it.
I don't know what's funnier: Adum not watching through several of the nominees or Free Guy being one of the ones he did finish.
Free Guy isn't boring. It's stupid, but it has the childish aspect of being able to keep you mildly entertained with flashing colours and loud noises. Everytime Adum couldn't finish a film, it was because he found it boring.
The more you think about it, both prospects seem to set off a pendulum of hilarity.
It actually speaks volumes about the current state of cinema in 2021.
Free guy, don't look up - how did he sit through these ones??
How did he not finish Macbeth😂😂
Free guy has alot of nostalgia bait. Only thing I don't like about it
Best Editing always just means most editing to the Academy.
Just like best Sound = Loudest.
@@drippyspaff7616 needs to be loud to get through the Academy’s hearing aids
Honestly, it just feels picked at random to me. Like that episode of Bojack when Peanutbutter and Todd lose the list of nominees so they just make them up.
Bohemian Rhapsody won for editing ffs
Catwoman should have won based on that :v
The Oscars growing more and more desperate to attract younger audiences never fails to produce quality cringe
I'm sure putting in 'impressions' in the title is going to satisfy everyone who complained about Adum not finishing the movie
Second year I'm not even attempting to catch them up. The only redemption they could get from me is if they give Jane Campion her well deserve award, not for writing, but for directing. Otherwise I'm never watching them again.
But they aren’t even doing that right. And it’d be so easy. They should’ve, unironically, nominated Spider-Man for best picture. It’s at least better than Don’t Look Up (I hate agreeing with Jimmy Kimmel. I think through merit, Spencer should’ve taken that slot, but No Way Home would’ve been a better business move).
But, but, so many people will definitely watch the million hour event because they got people to sing We Don’t Talk About Bruno, right???
The whole charade gives me some “please clap” vibes
Yeah, they're totally attempting to appeal to younger audiences by nominating a three hour Japanese film. I'm not saying the oscars don't suck, but they're clearly not doing what you're accusing them of doing.
Nicolas Cage not getting an Oscar nomination for Pig is a HUGE snub imo. I know the man is hit or miss but he was fantastic in this film.
Oscars is not about best performance or technical stuff, it's a show
not a huge snub , its a shame! its been awhile since the last time oscars were credidble
Who do you think was so bad and so much worse than Nic Cage that you think is such a snub?
@@gleekthemonkey4570 Will smith??? javier bardem???
Nick Cage already has an Oscar and he should have gotten another one for BAD LT PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS.
"I really enjoyed everything about this film, it was great. 7/10"
Two minutes later
"This movie was okay, I didn't love it. 7/10"
You know, this guy can be quite insightful. Been coming in and out of seeing his reviews for years now and he's been very helpful in finding new things, but at the same time, I VERY much agree with this. The odd inconsistency on reviews sometime when one gets a lot of good word and another that was just okay and they get the same score confuses me. And I also don't agree much with going through so much if he wasn't intending to finish much of them. I understand boredom, but better to throw it off to the side than pretend giving it a score made sense. That said, I don't agree with the twitter shitstorm that came with it.
He has such a weird relationship with numerical scores. When "5" is used for movies he likes and deems good, where can you go from there? Seems to me like he would be more comfortable with a four star system or some such. But maybe he draws satisfaction from being withholding, or decides his scores with the far superior movies of the far future in mind, compared to which even the good products of our time are merely mediocre. Hell, if a film he thought was *really* great gets a mere 7, I wonder what unimaginable wonders 8, 9 and 10 would provide.
@@andrewundershaft1162 it often feels to me like he's on more of a 3 star system. i feel he should be a little more critical of "okay" movies in the 6/7 area if 8-10s are great feats.
Lol yeah
I stopped watching this movie after 30 minutes; 5/10
If Don't Look Up wins Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Screenplay, that'll be my Joker origin story.
As for Best Animated Feature, I really liked most of the nominees, except for Raya & the Last Dragon. Even though I know Encanto is going to win, I'm still rooting for The Mitchells vs The Machines.
The editing felt like a youtube video with too much editing. The whole thing kinda felt punched up to death.
Didn't even watch Encanto
_Raya & the Last Dragon_ somehow ended up becoming the 2021 animated film that disappointed me the least. 2021 feature animation in general was mostly disappointing.
Just watched Encanto. Holy shit what a borefest. Terrible songs, boring story. Great animation, but that's honestly to be expected. There wasn't much meat on that bone for anyone above 10 years of age to focus on. Unlike examples like Wall-E, where kids AND adults alike could enjoy themselves.
Yeah encanto seemed like a gigantic mess to me and was a product of COVID animation compartmentalization, but apparently nobody else thinks this from my experience
The 2nd most important awards show behind the 420 Awards
Edit- should've said Oscars 7th behind Kids Choice, the Source hip hop awards, Teen Choice Awards (where they gave away surf boards), Lego Masters finale and the Latin Grammys
Trueeee
Honestly, this isn’t even a joke, if we’re being honest.
@@SplendidCoffee0 just being honest
The 420 awards are a better watch at this point.
@@arcxcc honestly being honest, yeah. Honesty.
I really want "Don't Look Up" to win just to see the Sardonicast crew lose it XD
Omg 🤣
the problem is everyone saying it's not funny. I don't think "funny" is the intended response, more like "creeping existential dread".
@@J94_Film Since a figurative meteor is not actually heading for Earth, I suffer no "creeping existential dread." I do, however, suffer nausea at preachy, elitist, hypocritical, multi-millionaire, propaganda peddlers who love telling all us hayseeds how to live and what to think.
@@jodi2847 if all the "subtle" warnings about climate change are ignored, at a certain point you have to drop the pretense and start yelling about it. Or you can resign yourself to a doomed world but hey at least we have films like Melancholia to show for it.
@@J94_Film Well films like that don’t really help. They just piss off the people that disagree with it, and are just boring for the people that like it.
When Taika said "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?" in the Free Guy segment I spontaneously started gasping for breath due to the sheer force of cringe and that's never happened before.
I share the same sentiment with Adum on Encanto ending abruptly. Like when Mirabel has finally let out her anger and talked shit to Abuelita, I was like "oh yes, this is fucking it" and then suddenly she just walked out after the destruction of the house and then Abuelita came after her and asked for forgiveness and shit. Like Im not mad that Abuelita shared her story but damn, I would have liked some more scenes of Mirabel out in the woods just letting out her frustration or letting her realize the other shit she's been through cause oh boi there's alot. But no, they just let Abuelita have the spotlight after Mirabel did a tantrum. Granted, this is coming from someone who relates so much to the family toxicity and generational trauma and stuff so maybe Im asking too much to a children's movie but I would have liked it if they didnt resolve everything so quickly.
wanting children movies to be smart is not "asking them too much", it's asking them enough.
Yea the movie felt like it was an hour long flat. Even though it was pretty surface level and did nothing to absolve the family for what they did to Bruno, I can respect a short and sweet movie. Even stuff like Inside Out and WALL-E felt like they overstayed their welcome by the third act and I typically love long movies.
It's probably extremely hard to write a good kids movie that has enough fat on it to entertain adults and not be too long for kids at the same time.
Not everything can be as good as Ratatouille.
I think The Green Knight pretty much deserved every technical award. Score and Editing at the very least.
Should’ve also been nominated for VFX instead of the umpteenth MCU movie
Fuck, give it Best Picture. It is easily my favorite from last year.
@@Thermington I know a lot of people were disappointed by the story but I was one of the lucky few who read up on the original poem (and some analysis videos) which REALLY helped me to enjoy the movie
And costumes! Green Knight had amazing costumes, definitely best I’ve seen that year
@@MM-jc7uv I went full English Teacher mode with reading multiple analysis of the movie. Really made it that much more enjoyable on multiple watches.
I love how Eternals was obviously intended as the Oscar bait Marvel film, and it didn't get nominated for anything.
I think its kind of stupid that Eternals and GvK didn't get nominated for VFX but Shang-Chi and Spider-Man did. None of them were bad but Eternals/GvK were superior in terms of VFX for me. ESPECIALLY GvK. So happy I saw it in theaters
Most likely the reason is Disney was doing damage control because of China and so they didn't want to spend resources on nominating it.
Films I wanted to see nominated for anything or more were The Green Knight, Pig, Spencer, Titane, and The French Dispatch
Didn't have Spencer but apart from that I had almost the exact same list of snubs
I understand Pig, The Green Knight, Titane, and The French Dispatch weren't loved by everyone and aren't the type of films the old Academy are into, but it's still baffling they didn't at least give them one or so nomination for categories such as cinematography for The Green Knight, actor for Pig, international feature for Titane, production design for The French Dispatch, etc. back than. Even awards shows that weren't into them as much at least gave them those nominees.
"This movie changed my life and brought my soul to a new plane of enlightenment. This movie cured my cancer and healed my broken spine. This movie is *the* crowning achievement of the art form of cinema. 6/10"
that Free Guy bit was so good tho
The reception of free guy was so positive it scares me. People absolutely slurped it up.
It was made for terminally online people that like to point at [reference] and scream really loud, and I'd like to think after quarantine a lot of people were terminally online whether they wanted to be or not
@@cammo353 But at the same time, it also feels like it’s made for people who know literally nothing about video games or internets
Because everything else was so goddamn dull.
I didn't understand the exhaustion with Jim Carrey but now I do with Ryan Deadpool Reynolds
bro let people enjoy things
The French Dispatch By Wes Anderson was massively snubbed for Set Design, Screen Play, Editing & Best picture. For me that was easily the best movie of 2021
I really don't know why the reception for this one was so lukewarm compared to his other films. Maybe the ending felt anticlimactic for some. Still, I liked it just as much as some of his other oscar nominated films.
And cinematography, score
it was a bit insubstantial even compared to something like don’t look up
I can’t believe Don’t Look Up was nominated for absolutely anything
Especially Best Screenplay
Who needs good reviews and talent when you can be Adam McKay? All you need is money and friends ! Why should we nominated the BEST and MOST acclaimed films of the year when we can nominated this film which HALF OF THE FUCKING CRITICS DIDN'T LIKE !
( IT HAS 56% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES ! IT'S NOT FAIR AND IT'S INFURIATING !)
Believe it because the Academy loves to eat this guy's ass. They nominated The Big Short, Vice and now this. He's got the money and the connections, even if the movies he makes are shit. (Even tho I enjoyed The Big Short personally)
When I watched it, I couldn’t tell if it was a comedy or some shitty social critique. The jokes were so forced.
DiCaprio if anything should have gotten an acting nod... he was the best part about that movie.
It’s so sad that Shrek 2 wasn’t nominated this year for best screenplay
Thought it would have been Super Mario Brothers 2
It’s okay. There’s always next year.
The qualifications for being nominated for an editing Oscar is to literary have obvious editing
Jorden Peterson calling Free Guy "perfect" and then waxing vaguely about its thematic depth is probably the funniest thing about this entire lineup of best picture nominations - impressive considering what a joke they all are.
Don't do Benzos kids, you'll end up liking Free Guy.
Jordan Peterson DON'T KNOW ABOUT MOVIES.. He even don't know about Many things... It's a joke that u r quoting his movie opinion..
Honestly a bit bummed, Adum sounds big time burnt out, seriously hope he takes a nice break after that lion king video
Agreed...I couldn't imagine not being able to finish The Lost Daughter...I loved every second of that movie and it's performances
He’d rather react to Dhar Mann videos on Twitch instead of making actual videos. Kinda sad honestly.
@@christopherrapczynski204
It really does confuse me. To the point I've thought it's just a meme and it'll never come out intentionally.
Unless it's going to be 8+ hours at this point.
I think you also have to remember he has to balance main yms with quickies/fests, recording for adum plaze, editing sardonicast. Doing that while also trying to grind through a long ass project is exhausting and i can totally relate to not being able to invest in some things at a certain point such as certain fest movies and oscars stuff
@@chrisgetchell6337 2-3 years though? Even if he only spent 30 min to an hour on it 4-5 days a week, how is that not a long enough time for a 2 hour movie? He makes his own schedule and im pretty sure he has an editor(s) for alot of his other stuff...like im sure playing video games and talking to your friends for content is more fun but he shouldnt set expectations/deadlines if he's not going to meet them imo
It is a shame the Oscars are so beholden to Disney/Pixar for their benchmark of what animation can be. It can be so diverse with 2D, rotoscoped, stop-motion etc. that the plasticity of Dixar's 3D should really have more genuine competition.
That being said, my students absolutley adore Encanto, so there's that in its favour.
I'm honestly getting exhausted with especially Pixar at the Oscars. Disney on their own at least hasn't won that often (only 3 times, all three a bit arguable, since there were better animated movies than Frozen in 2013, most people think HTTYD 2 should've beaten Big Hero 6, and Kubo was better than Zootopia), but Pixar has won 11 times out of 16, and definitely didn't deserve most of those. Probably unpopular, but I'd say they only deserved 4 or 5 of those (Incredibles, Ratatouille Wall-E and Soul, maybe Finding Nemo?). Coraline should've beaten up, How to Train Your Dragon should've beaten Toy Story 3, Brave is arguably the weakest nominees of 2012 (for sure worse than Wreck-It Ralph and Paranorman), Shaun the Sheep or Anamolisa should've beaten Inside Out, Loving Vincent should've beaten Coco, and either Klaus or How to Train your Dragon 3 should've beaten Toy Story 4. The fact that Laika or Cartoon Saloon have never won is a travesty and Dreamworks, Studio Ghibli, and Aardman having so little is a travesty too.
Imagine being the person responsible for choosing the best editing categories, and being so fucking dry for nominees that Don't Look Up was one of your choices.
It's the editing branch of the Academy that chooses the nominations.
The acting branch nominates the acting categories, the animation branch nominates animated feature, etc.
@@nolantanner6779 you’d think they’d pick better nominees if it’s their branch
pick the movie with the most cuts
I genuinely thought my computer or the movie file were glitching during the dinner scene.
I really liked Pig. I'm not saying it deserves any rewards, but it was a personal favorite of mine from last year.
I loved Pig. What a great film.
I liked it too. Nicolas Cage definitely deserved to be nominated and win for Best Actor.
Pig was great, baiting you into thinking its a revenge movie then rug pull. Appreciate the movie not going for the easy cliche story.
If the Oscars were smart, they'd add a best animal actor category
My childhood plushie is a pig named "Pigmo" and I love Porco Rosso. So I love Pig
“YES, that’s a Lightsaber (tm) DOOD” didn’t even make it that far into Free Guy it just seemed so excessively steakless sizzle and that was after watching and enjoying French Dispatch
this line gave me an aneurysm.
It was a real "Dude, Pride Rock!" moment.
I agree with Adam mostly here but I really enjoyed Drive My Car, the characters are really restrained but the drama is really subtle and compelling, 9/10 for me
Yeah, I agree.
Drive My Car is my favorite of all the films nominated for Oscars this year. That’s honestly my favorite film of the year behind Bo Burnham: Inside.
I enjoyed it as well. Although the last 40 minutes were a little bit too much even if I understand why they were there.
I liked the characters, the Korean deaf woman in particular was loveable to me. The story was cool and has interesting ideas for art concepts such as multilingual plays especially with the sign language that was cool.
7/10.
I have mixed feelings about this one. I was so hyped going in, even though I knew it was going to be slow, character-driven and introspective piece. I kept waiting for the emotional moments, but they were few and far between (although they were very good). Aside from the acting from the two main characters, the thing I enjoyed most about this film was the monologue given by the main character near the end of the movie. I will say the multilingual aspect (including Korean sign language) of the play in the movie was intriguing and added interest. It’s not for everyone, but I would recommend it as everyone has different tastes.
My favorite movie of the year, bar-none. Incredibly engrossing and heartfelt. I think about the ending daily.
Drive My Car is a masterpiece
I swear, if Don’t Look Up wins best editing, I’ll be extremely pissed off.
That should win best Woke🏆
Bohemian Rhapsody won best editing so really all they're looking for is the most editing possible crammed into a movie.
@@kevinsmith7-7-7 Honestly, I didn’t think Don’t Look Up was all that bad, but it doesn’t deserve to be nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and especially Best Editing.
I’ve got bad news for you
It’s most likely going to win best editing because more edits equals winner for editing
Agree with you on Spencer! Probably one of the better movies this year, so I'm surprised that it only gotten one nomination. And even though I think Kristen Stewart is the strongest nominee in the "best actress" category, I feel like this movie deserved more recognition for its other aspects as well.
I avoided it just because of the subject matter, but the clips looked very good.
It had such great sound/music design
For the Shakespeare stuff I feel like you have to be familiar with the play beforehand to really enjoy an interpretation because the dialogue is so dense and elaborate. Not saying you have to, but it definitely changes the experience
Currently going to grad school with a major in Shakespearean performance/acting/scholarship/history etc. and I agree that it's definitely helpful, especially if Shakespeare is a newer thing for you, to check out a quick plot summary before you read one of the plays or watch an adaptation. I think you can still enjoy Shakespeare without doing so, but it is definitely helpful. The difficulty with Shakespeare isn't necessarily the words themselves (he only uses a few truly archaic words), but how Shakespeare structured the sentences.
Yeah I once saw a Macbeth movie in cinema with my Year 11 English class, and holy crap I could not understand a single thing that happened. We actually read Hamlet - we were only watching Macbeth because one of the other Year 11 English classes read it.
Adam's reaction to the Oscars is more interesting than the Oscars
I might be wrong, but I got the impression that some criticisms of your comments on the ornithopters (the flying vehicles in Dune) wasn't because they simply hated that you didn't like them, but because you thoroughly mocked the impracticality of the design, especially for an iconic sci-fi novel.
The implausible sci-fi element is definitely that us building a working ornithopter that can lift a person is impossible, but the design and basic mechanics of it resembling and emulating the flight of a dragonfly is completely practical, given that they're the most versatile and efficient flying insects (if not flying animals period) on Earth.
Its not 'completely practical' when a dragonfly weighs very very little. Do you understand how large the wings would have to be and how light the ornithopter would have to be? Like seriously? He can call it ridiculous if he finds it so, looking at it independently is certainly does seem so ridiculous you could laugh at it.
@@HappyLarry. I never suggested he couldn't find it ridiculous? There's no need to be aggressive. I was just trying to clarify that some disagreeing opinions amounted to more than just "I hate that you don't like it!".
I already said in my comment, very clearly, that us creating an ornithopter that can actually lift people is impossible. I'm fully aware that it's physically impossible, and you being a demeaning ass about informing me of things I _already stated_ isn't making you come off as clever. I tried to make it as obvious as possible that my referring to the choice of basing the design and mechanics of the fictional vehicle as "practical" is in choosing to base it off a dragonfly instead of an airplane, etc. with the unrealistic element of it being actually achievable. Sorry that it apparently wasn't clear enough for you.
@@HappyLarry. I think you're still dancing around the "science fiction" part...we don't know what type of technology they have that could circumvent real-world physics, which is where the criticism of how harsh he was comes into play: it very well could be practical, finding it ridiculous is pretty fucking ridiculous. He should know better.
its fine if he gives up on movies, but i agree that he shouldn't review movies he only watched ten minutes of. you wouldn't review a book by finishing the first few chapters and then putting it down, and you wouldn't review a video game without playing at least a few hours. focus more on recommending good movies than shitting on the ones you watched ~10% of
@@HappyLarry. Hey at least they actually went through with the book's description of them. It was one of the weird out there things you'd think David Lynch would want to show off.
the "coming.2 america" 5/10 might be THE weirdest score he EVER gave lmaoooo
The second I saw colorful text pop up on screen, I called that Don’t Look Up would receive a best editing nomination.
The Academy is so stupid that it hurts.
"I just didn't care for it. I couldn't finish it. 5/10"
"Well made, the comedy worked, I found it really entertaining. 6/10"
Adam in a nutshell.
"But moooom, I like drugs"
I laughed louder than I should've at that
I actually don't understand how people think Don't Look Up is a good movie. They seem to just have a terrible sense of humor and can't look at the movie beyond its message.
Seems you understand just fine.
It’s even more terrifying for me when I hear people say they think that this movie is "a great portrayal of modern society and feels real to our own world."
I haven't come across anyone who thinks it's good but if i did i would recommend they watch the video Like Stories of Old made about it (Don't Look Up - A problematic metaphor for climate change?)
go outside and meet some people.
you will understand after a 20min conversation with the average wage slave.
30:35 There's a Key and Peele skit riffing on a Gordon Ramsay show where the head chef mixes signals on if he loved a dish or hated it, and this felt exactly like that.
I think the issue a lot of people have is the scoring is just so lazy and nonsensical. You'll trash a movie with a single comment then give it a 5/10 then another movie you'll take some time to praise... and also give a 5/10.
maybe some of these films he can admit are not that bad but they are not for him so he gives it a 5/10 based on personal preference. whereas some films he may enjoy some aspects while still admitting that 5/10 is fair
@@christucker7655
I watched this through and a few times he would shit on a movie and make it seem like it was about to smack it with a 2/10 before giving it a 5/10. Then follow it or with the one after with movie he actually talks the time to laud somewhat, then still only give it a 5/10.
It makes no sense and my OCD/spectrum brain goes a bit spazzy with that crap. I actually don't care that he didn't even finish the films which is where is he thinks most of the complaint is centred but I have a feeling the scoring exacerbated the issue massively.
Who gives a fck at the end of the day. I was just hoping he'd realise that scoring was also triggering a lot of idiots like myself.
Why does the score matter so much to you?
@@wrthgdrver710 Because YMS is a movie critic by trade and he should be able to effectively categorize movies into their proper scores. I get that it is hard to distill the experience of a movie down to a score but if he found it to difficult, he could use a recommend or not recommend system. The fact that he will say some shit like "I loved everything about this movie except that it dragged a little and there was bad CG fire in this scene, 7/10" but then trash on a movie and not even finish it and give it a 6 is just fucking weird. He also just didn't even finish half of these movies. Nothing wrong with that I guess but it is so weird that he is so bored that he wont even finish a film and still give it over a five. His critique and scores don't line up and that bothers people because it questions his judgement.
@@wrthgdrver710
Name Jeffrey said it perfectly!
Bruh the Oscars are supposed to be a prestigious thing. The fact that free guy was even nominated shows how far they've fallen.
Honestly, I don't know why it shouldn't have - the rest of the Oscars is just so goddamn dull now that we needed some cringy shit.
@@eatatjoes6751 I guess boss baby wasn't enough for you.
It was nominated for visual effects. That’s it. It’s not like it was nominated for Best Screenplay or something. Tons of bad movies have been nominated for technical awards like that. Suicide Squad fucking won an Oscar a few years ago. Idk why you’re acting like there aren’t a bunch of the usual Oscar type movies that are nominated.
@@DADDYFATSACKABLE man it just erks me to see Free Guy being nominated for the same award that movies like the Matrix, Life of Pi, Tenet, Spider man 2, Avatar, etc won. To nominate it for the same award as all those other movies feels like it's dragging them down to Free Guys level, and not elevating Free Guy to their level. Free Guys a fun movie, but not Oscar worthy IMO.
I was talking about it with my friend i think they nominated it for dude. That was a cool effect. But still that was one effect in a sea of crap
It's interesting how I watch the Oscars every year, and yet the only Oscar-esque movies I watch are the ones that relate to music in some way.
Not that interesting
It would seem Adam's patience for the Oscars is wearing quite thin
Who can blame him really
I really felt all life being drained from him throughout the video. Almost made me wanna call 911. Or 112 from where I'm from.
As someone who had to sit though everyone in my family praising "Don't Look Up" to the stars, watching your review was very cathartic.
Yeah, my mom is usually pretty good at hating bad movies but she loved Don't Look Up. I think only young GenXers and old millennials can enjoy it. The humor was basically "Haha president acts like Trump" and the social commentary was surface level.
I'm a medium Millennial and it was a cathartic watch. The President stuff was dumbed down and obvious, but the critiques of the media hit home. Maybe younger folks haven't been around long enough to pick up on some of the more subtle parts of it, or the overdone parts just overshadowed them, but I appreciated it.
@@RogueAstro85 It's all subjective. Some people love it some hate it. It is what it is, although it's always fun to poke fun at Trump lol
@@ananimal9779 literally everyone who’s above 3rd grade critical thinking level understand this movie it’s just uninteresting bland social commentary, a worse idiocracy
@@empirefarts Its themes and criticisms are different from Idiocracy though?
I appreciate and agree with most of your opinions here, but I gotta ask;
How many times and in how many different ways can you say some variation on “it wasn’t bad, it just didn’t resonate with me” before you start to wonder if maybe you’re the problem?
In the spirit of Adam, I'm gonna stop this video halfway through
Adums free Guy rant is the best thing to come out of that movie
I can see why you got so much flak for this video. You watch 10-20 minutes of most of the movies and you score them rather inconsistently.
I honestly think the song nominated for Encanto is one of the strongest, probably the second strongest behind We don't talk about Bruno, but a song being catchy doesn't determine if it's good or not ( that can be an aspect if that's what the song is going for or ends up having but it's not a requirement) even for disney
It’s a beautiful song imo and yeah I totally agree it doesn’t need to be catchy or popular to be an award winning song. Wouldn’t have thought Adum would think that…
Yeah I love this comment. Dos Oruguitas is a really well written song. We don't talk about Bruno is slightly more impressive, but to act like Dos Oruguitas is a bad song (+ the worst in the film?!) is pretty disingenuous.
@Epic Gamer Man heres the thing… it’s a song about how the world changes around people and they have to be willing to grow up and change despite that. but then they are forcibly separated when they do decide grow up but then they will find a new future when they become butterflies.
if you find that boring there is not much i can say to change your mind (except the translation i just posted) but it is a very beautiful song about the sad reality a lot of latin people are forced to live through
Dos Oruguitas was easily the best song in the film.
Dos Orugitas was my favorite song for sure, We don’t talk about Bruno is catchy for sure, but Dos Orugitas is the one that resonates with me the most, it literally makes me cry every time I hear it
French Dispatch should have been nominated for best production design and cinematography.
Thank you so much for pointing out the terrible editing in Don't Look Up, I tried telling people about the weird editing choices like freeze frames (Which I believe happened 2 other times in the movie) and dialogue clearly being ripped from other takes/scenes. I didn't creat a video with a montage of these errors, so other film buffs I tried talking too about this just kinda acted like those errors didn't exist and that I don't agree with the political aspects regardless of me saying that's not the case. This movie especially was very bad and it's nice seeing someone else with that take :)
Disney with 3 animated pictures nominated is making me angry!!! Not even trying to pretend they don’t have an extreme monopoly on animated movies. Disney owns animation now and that is so sad since most of their stuff, especially recently, has been lacking in almost every aspect
I wonder if Adum is ever going to actually release that cg lion king review.
Edit: We're getting there.
He will. Give it time.
Don't worry, I'm sure all the time he saved by not finishing these movies will go to the review, and not towards reacting to Dharman Videos
@@akshaydalvi1534 don’t you mean Generation Dope? We’re done with Dhar Mann, he’s old news, bye byeeeeee
I… I didn’t expect Free Guy to be nominated for anything at the Oscars. I saw it, liked it. Had fun. I’m constantly questioning The Academy.
"This movie came out. It was really boring. I watched 10 minutes. 5/10."
Repeat for 42 minutes.
I think that it would be bearable if he STARTED with the fact that he couldn't get through the movie, and then explain his criticism in that context. Instead he says a bunch of things that one would assume is thoughts about the movie as a whole, then throws in at the end that he only watched like 10% of it.
@@megamuffin3900 I totally understand not being a fan of the fact that he didn’t watch all of them but you saying that it was UNBEARABLE to watch is more of a you problem then an Adam problem ^
@@blakestacy5405 I think you're taking the specific word too seriously. I'm more saying "I think I wouldn't have had a problem with it if..." or something to that effect.
I found it annoying enough to comment, but I obviously got through the whole vid.
@@megamuffin3900 Ah gotcha ^
This is the first time I have heard someone publicly share that they did not like Don't Look Up and I'm glad because I was starting to think I was going crazy! Granted, I missed the majority of those editing issues as I slept through a large portion of it, but the parts I did see I didn't care for. It came off like it was trying too hard to be "edgy" with it's way too on-the-nose message and over-the-top vulgarity (at least regarding swearing).
You're not alone, a bunch of people think this movie is terrible, including me.
I hated it thoroughly.
I turned it on in a new year night with friends and we shit up on this movie whole 2 hours and on the ride back home
@@weirdguy1495 I thought it was ok. I understand why you guys would hate it and I can’t really disagree with any of it but I still thought it was decent and watchable. I actually really liked the music and DiCaprio saved the movie for me
Adum's West Side Story review is really surprising to me. The rest all make sense even if I disagree with a few. I thought West Side Story was excellently done and certainly not a boring adaptation by any means.
I am kinda halfway between Adum and the public, closer to Adum. It felt hollow. Everyone other than Rachel Zegler was merely competent (she was a standout, I’m a little upset that she didn’t get nominated. I’d have swapped Nicole Kidman for her).
Edit: actually, I’m closer to the public. I thought that the movie was…good. Overhyped to shit, but…good.
@@JayKayEllEmm Oh interesting? I agree Zegler was great. What about Arianna Debose and Mike Faist didn't you particularly like?
I mean be just said it was boring. He didn't criticise the visuals or the editing or anything else, he just said he couldn't bother to watch the movie because it bored him. The entire film is just a less interesting Romeo and Juliet story, so why is finding it boring so beyond the pale?
its because he only watched 30 minutes because hes a terrible reviewer
@@michaelangelo2192 Ansel was not that great in the movie but he did a great job in that Maria song.
Oscars shitting on the Oscars is the event of the year.
That was a typo but it's kind of funny I'm keeping it
My man I love you, but why even claim that you watched every movie if you didn’t finish a bunch of them?
If you finished House of Gucci, you would've given it a much lower score
Don't look up a movie that thinks its a lot smarter and 'funnier' than it really is. Getting nominated is just an obvious attempt at being topical to this period.
Every time I told people I didn’t like it, they were like “but the message is so important right now” lmao
@@antoniodiavolo yeah it’s an important message but it still doesn’t need t get nominated
@@damiantirado9616 exactly. I agree with the message and didnt like the movie
It's a very tone confused movie and I think the director did an awful job. He might be my least favorite director since the big short and vice both could have been great in another directors hands, he consistently tries too hard to be funny. I will say that leo was great imo
@@antoniodiavolo Kind of like with season 19 and 20 of South Park. I agree with the message mostly, but those seasons are unwatchable
Huge fan of Adum’s first video after everyone on twitter being mad he doesn’t finish movies being him not finishing 90% of the movies he talks about
That was a pretty wide percentage choice there. 90%? Really?
@@HappyLarry. 70
@@HappyLarry. Yeah, the percentage just wasn't accurate enough and it really took me out of the movie. If you were able to enjoy it despite the logical inconsistencies, then that's great, but I wasn't. And I'm giving this comment a 6/10.
I don't think I could do everything he does AND bother to watch all the way through all of these movies.
Maybe you are too much of a fan then my man.
I actually think that freeze frame in the dinner scene in Don't Look Up is just capturing a moment of realization this is one of their last moments ever. They do the same freeze for other characters in the scene.
One of the only moments in the film that I felt any other emotion apart from cringe.
I genuinely thought my computer or the movie file were glitching during that scene. I think there are definitely more sophisticated ways to present a moment like that and convey those emotions.
Pig being snubbed was genuinely the biggest crime the academy committed this year
Same with Ruth Negga for Passing as she was fucking incredible
@@brandonmclendon5368 Speaking the truth!!
The only reason I look forward to the Oscars anymore is because of the YMS commentary. The Oscars itself has been a huge joke, to me, for a long long time now. I very much appreciate seeing others point that out.
Hot Take, but Adam's reaction to Free Guys tells me we need MORE movies like it. Rather than this sea of forgettable, try-hard Oscar-baits that are all 5/10s, at least Free Guys made him FEEL something 😅 The one thing I hate when I go to the movies is to be bored, and if there's one thing you can say about Free Guy is that it's not boring
watch LEGO movie
Dude who wrote "Don't Look Up" was like let's make a movie that sucks and copy all the cool stuff from the "Big Short". One of the worst films I've ever seen.
@Battlefield V is the last Battlefield ahaha I was suspecting that was the case. Really is sad, thank you for confirming my fears.
Wow, he practically didn't watch 90% of the movies completely. I'm not gonna judge him cause he can do whatever he want and I respect him, but it's hard to even get a grasp of an opinion by him when he doesn't even finish the majority of the movies and can't give a chance even for the films he doesn't consider it to be bad, and I say that as a fan of his reviews. Couldn't disagree more about Drive My Car and West Side Story, cause I loved both very dearly but okay. Oh well, I'll still watch the Oscar YMS video that'll be fun, and I'm excited for the Lion King review.
Honestly, Godzilla vs Kong deserves a special effects nomination. Between rigging and choreographing several different types of monster and giving them distinct movements and personalities and conveying emotion through those models, not to mention solid lighting effects, the weight and feel of movement... GvK honestly felt more realistic in some moments than the entirety of the Lion King remake.
But if it did then Adum would (most likely) be pissed that an Adam Wingard related property got anywhere near an Oscar nom. I know I'd be, but compared to the other nominees it's definitely better in terms of VFX even out of all the other movies in the series. But Dune definitely deserves the win.
I thought Rebecca Hall’s Passing was snubbed for best adaptation and cinematography. It belongs in the category of things that are too interesting and cool to actually be nominated.
16:58 what you said about Shakespeare is a good point, and I think it's something that is worth talking about. Shakespeare lived and died in the late 1500's and the early 1600's. Macbeth the play is over 400 years old and the English language has changed a lot since then. Kids are expected to read these plays in school, but they are almost never translated, which is honestly necessary.
A simple example of why comes from Romeo and Juliet "oh Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo". The word "art" in this context can be easily interpreted as meaning "are", the word "thou" being a second person pronoun akin to modern English "you" is also understandable. Do you know what "wherefore" means? did you think it meant "where", like she was asking Romeo "where are you?"? It actually means "why", as in "why are you Romeo", like "why did I fall in love with you, why did it have to be you, someone I can't be with". This is just one line, but all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets are full of these out dated words that modern speakers simply do not know.
It is, for what it's worth, easy to learn if you want to. If you can speak modern English fluently, Shakespeare English is quick to pick up if you spend some time, particularly if you are familiar with the king James bible, which is from the same period of English history give or take. But people who seem to think/expect general English speakers to be able to just jump into something like Macbeth without a translation are delusional. This also has nothing to do with the quality of the writing; I'm sure there are good German and Dutch plays that modern English speakers wouldn't be able to understand, also.
Meaning can also be conveyed by clever directing, editing and acting choices. I think people get hung up on understanding EVERY SINGLE WORD (even Shakespeare profs debate about that). Enjoy it like a foreign movie, where you're getting the gist and flow.
Speaking of understanding every single word, many editions have Shakespeare on the left page, and a modern language explanation on the right page, going line by line. Comes in handy.
@@floraposteschild4184 there is nothing that communicates meaning quite like language. It would be easier to "enjoy...like a foreign movie" if, like a foreign movie would, it had subtitles that translated what was being said. It's not being dumb or closed minded if you can't understand this antiquated dialect, the same as if someone couldn't understand an English based creole like Jamaican Patois without prior exposure.
@@CirclesForever But you know subtitles are just an approximation of what is being said, even the good ones. And of course, being a different culture, you're not getting so much of the context. Not to mention you're missing what's happening on screen while you're reading the titles.
But if it's a good film overall and you're curious, you can re-watch, learn more and more, and get used to it. There's no problem having modern language subtitles on the Bluray or streaming (as long as I can turn them off), or modern language versions -- most of the Shakespeare Retold episodes are very good, for instance. But I object to the idea that modern audiences can't understand enough Shakespeare to get by. I've seen Ian McKellan's Richard III and Roman Polanski's Macbeth in the theatre, in front of audiences not over familiar with Shakespeare, and no one seemed confused or not enjoying it. It depends on how skillfully it's done.
@@floraposteschild4184 I, a random stranger, side with you on this one. Understanding everything to the last word is overrated. Also, to Mr. Circles, what about pictures? They communicate more than a 1000 words, allegedly.
Adum for the love of God, just please space out the time you spend when watching these films. The amount of times you said "I shut it off/I dipped after X minutes" feels borderline parody to me. It was laughable during your Sundance video and it's even funnier here. That or just focus only on the major category films to save your patience.
I stopped watching halfway through this video but I'm giving it a 5/10 it's closer to a 6 than a 4
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Yawn
How do you give a movie you couldn't bring yourself to watch a 4/10 (and not lower)? Genuine question, not intended to be snarky.
I think it's his "go to" grade for something that didn't grab his attention but didn't offend him either. In my opinion it would be best to just not give a score, but I understand that in a video like this, that is not the best option
I'd imagine he sees the quality in the way it was made but can't do anything higher because of the poor writing and tone
A film can be okay and also be boring and not worth finishing. He said it at a couple points but he's judging it "from what he saw". Probably shouldn't have given it a grade, except for U: unfinished.
His scoring by default is 5/10.
If the movie does great, it's score gets raised. IF the movie is aggresively bad, points get deducted. A 5/10 means it's just that, a movie, nothing exceptional, whether good or bad.
I enjoy all of YMS's content but when there is a section at the end of the vid on 'What should have been nominated' I lose it like a spoiled child given another pony. Adum is always a treasure trove of unrecognised content. This is closest until
The best of the year lists.
7:34
THANK YOU. I can't tell you how many crappy reviews I scoured through to see if ANYONE else noticed this. I thought I was going crazy. And it's not the only bizarre freeze frame in that scene.
Also about 90 minutes into the movie, when Jennifer Lawrence is hanging out with Timothee after they first meet, there is a quick shot where a good 10 to 15 crew members are blatantly in the frame.
Weed whacker editing.
WHAT, how dare you talk about such an art piece, how can you dismiss a movie just because it's production is shit, the acting is over the top, the story keeps slapping you in the face to remember what it is about and, MOREOVER, so many talented actors performing as empty husks for the director to spew platitudes right at your face?
If only we could've seen "the slap" coming.
As an italian, I was genuinely offended by the "it's a me Mario" acting in House of Gucci, especially by Jared Leto. Is that how he thinks italian people talk?
It also shows the hypocrisy of politically correct Hollywood, so careful not to offend asian, hispanic and african-american cultures, yet allowing a movie full of italian stereotypes.
Also, I can’t wait to listen to Chris Pratt as Mario.
Exactly, they're not capable of actually caring about cultural sensitivity. Cancel culture didn't teach them anything, they were just bullied out of being racist.
italian oppression
Will someone think of the Italians!?
Jared Leto is just a bad actor. I cannot understand why would anyone want him in their movies after Suicide Squad.
You know, I'd honestly welcome the idea that Chris Pratt will put on a bad Italian accent rather than the most likely outcome is that he's just gonna sound like himself like 80% of the cast will since these productions tend not to require an actor act, but just be themselves to sell on a poster and a wide audience and maybe the visuals will pick up the slack for that.
My first impression upon seeing the thumbnail is "There is no fucking way Free Guy was nominated for anything!"
While I have no issue with Adam giving scores to films he hasn’t seen all the way through, I don’t have any interest in watching those reviews, so I would really appreciate him disclosing that he didn’t finish the film at the beginning of that film’s review rather than at the end so I can skip to the more well-informed segments.
If a friend told me he loves novels but that he stops reading most of them after page 20, I would probably answer he doesn't, he doesn't love novels.
If my friend was a book critic, I would expect there would be quite a few books, out of the hundreds he has to review every year, that he would ditch as soon as he realized they weren't for him and/or were just garbage.
So if you start a book, and find you don't like or connect with it, you should finish it for no other reason than you started it, and also to keep your cred as an enjoyer of that medium? This is a baffling opinion.
Thinking the music in West Side Story isn't catchy is beyond baffling to me. It has to be one of the greatest American musical works ever. I guess the best songs aren't in the first 30 minutes though
I know you’ve justified your reasoning for not watching movies all the way thru, but I’d say it’s prob better just to not review the movies if you aren’t gonna see them all the way through. That’s just me though, I don’t know
Theyre not reviews though theyre impressions. Did you not read the title?
@@PaperThin_ sure did. Still not my preference in content personally. That is all.
@@christianscogs If it's not your preference in content, why are you watching it?
As opposed to trying to make the creator make something more your preference?
I don't get this logic. It's like walking up to an impressionist painter and saying, "I really don't like impressionism, you should probably try a more realistic look." Like.... what?
@@GoddoDoggo because I like this creator and I want to give my thoughts on the content they are making?? I can do that right, give feedback and criticism on something?? I’m just one guy giving one opinion, yanno?
Siskel and Ebert said “You’re allowed to walk out in the middle of a movie as long as you’re willing to admit you walked out”
While I respect YMS for admitting when he couldn’t finish a movie, not every movie in the world is made for everyone. Though the amount of times he just flat out gives up makes me even question what’s the point of his channel.
Yeah, obviously he's allowed to stop watching a movie if he can't be bothered to finish it, but don't then claim to have seen it and give it a score. Like... wtf. Lots of great movies take time to develop and unfold.
It's especially weird when he seems to go out of his way to watch like every goddamn obscure foreign language film multiple times.
@@boliosbread I got 2 letters into your response but got bored it was so formulaic I stopped reading 4/10
@@tylerjhunter bro at what point did he claim to have seen it. He clearly states EACH TIME he didn't finish it. And as far as the reviewing. Your missing the point. He rates almost everything a 6/10. He himself has said the reviews like that mean almost nothing
@@TIsForThomas At 0:32 he says, "Anyway, I just watched all of the Oscar nominated movies except for the short films."
@@tylerjhunter I mean, did he not? He technically did watch each of them just not all of them fully. Did you even watch the video? He says each time when we didn't watch them fully lmao. You want to be right so bad you take one sentence but disregard the rest of the video. That's why you can't be taken seriously fr
Come on, Adam, you know you have YMS material from 'Free Guy'
We'd all watch it
Kind of weird how you criticize some movies for being "crowd pleasers" but then criticize other movies for trying to do their own thing that you couldn't personally connect with.
List of Oscar 2022 films Adum gave up watching:
King Richard: Gave up after 10-15 minutes
West Side Story: Gave up after 30 minutes
Being the Ricardos: Doesn't remember where he left off
The Tragedy of Macbeth: Gave up after 1 hour
The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Gave up after 10 minutes
The Lost Daughter: Gave up after 1 hour
Flee: Did not finish this movie
Raya and the Last Dragon: Did not finish this movie
Cyrano: Gave up after 30 minutes
Attica: Gave up after 25 minutes
Summer of Soul: Did not finish this movie
The Hand of God: Gave up after 1 hour
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom: Gave up after 17 minutes
Coming 2 America: Gave up after 35 minutes
House of Gucci: Gave up after 12 minutes
No Time to Die: Gave up after 40 minutes
Four Good Days: Gave up after 47 minutes
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: Gave up after 22 minutes
Won't defend most of these because I haven't seen most of these but turning off Raya before it finished was a good call because the last 20 minutes are so fucking bad it'd make him drop the score to a 2.
'Free Guy' was the most 2012 movie of 2021.
18:25 adum lowkey flowing on the beat in the background
Hey Adam. Fuck everyone telling you they're upset with how you choose to spend your time watching these movies. I love the films you bring to our attention (can't wait to watch All Lights Everywhere and Listening to Kenny G) and I hope you know the vast vast majority of us love and appreciate the time and effort you put into consuming so much media and creating these highly entertaining videos for us.
Everyone be like: “what do you mean a reviewer who is supposed to be considered as a subjective viewer didn’t want to waste hours of their life watching stuff that bored them?”
@@thelordchar1406 its literarily his job. His is just being lazy. he doesnt even edit the his own videos anymore, the only thing he has to do is watch the movie and write down his thought on them.
So glad you enjoyed The worst person in the world. One of my favourite films in a long time. IMO, it really captures our time: We have more options than ever, in everything from merchandise to partners and education, but this freedom comes with the price of increased responsibility and doubt. Brilliant story, and the acting performances were stellar. Not a perfect film, but almost there, for me at least
Such a relief to hear the Don't look up and Free guy reviews, thought I was alone in feeling the same way.
Keanu looks like he's genuinely having a good time
I'm not mad at you for not finishing movies, but I can't really get behind talking about and rating them without it (regardless of your being upfront about not finishing them). Your opinion isn't important enough that we should be grateful for scraps of bored impression. Just let go of the feeling that comprehensive coverage is important and focus on the films you care about. Your comparison of Oldboy original vs. Spike Lee was fantastic.
Who’s here after Will Smith’s violent out-of-left field unprovoked slapping of Chris Rock’s face?
Even worse so, the out-of-left field unprovoked winning of Best Actor by Will Smith moments later.
I reqlly appreciate your thpughts on Dont Look Up, I got so angry when people called it genius and said I was too stupid to get it was satire and that "if you hate the movie youre who theyre making fun of"
Shyamalan made fun of film critics with that strawman character in Lady In The Water; that doesn't mean film critics were incorrect in saying that movie sucks. If someone's response is "you're who they're making fun of", just shrug and stand by your criticism.
@@geoffok nah