Kappa, every video, you slowly turn into more and more of a fusion between the virgin/chad meme, a librarian who is also secretly jesus' 4th respawn, and a hipster who still thinks that the Beatles is the pinnacle of music.
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that the UN is taking action about something and it actually has an effect outside of their meeting room.
"You could just steal the opening from a different film and the movie would be better." You could do that for the rest of the film and the movie would be better.
The movie suffers the same problems as Lance from Pokémon The product would be better if every bit of the thing was changed "If Lance was a different like character entirely..."
My question to this movie is: Why does the Thinning need to be done like this? How did the overpopulation get this bad? I'd think you'd notice this kind of problem... before you'd have to start killing children and teenagers. Why not do the China thing and have a "1 kid only" policy? Are there old people in this world or do you get Thinned once you leave the workforce? How do hospitals work, do you get healthcare, or are you left to die because it's more "efficient"? How is the exam graded? Is there a set number of students who need to be Thinned out each time, and they just pick from the lowest grades up until they reach that number? Or is there a score you have to pass to be safe? Well, officially. Obviously it's corrupt and they choose the kids anyway. But what's the story they tell the public?
There’s a movie called “What happened to Monday?” which shows the concept of overpopulation and an unethical approach to that in a better way than The Thinning. Like they show the effect of overpopulation and lack of resources better than this movie.
I mean, it says that 5% of the population needs to be killed, so one can assume you pick lowest scores and kill those. After that adults don't need to it anymore so I assume that life continues normally?
There’s a genuinely chilling YA novel called the unwinding, which deals with kinda similar stuff. I read it once years ago and a lot of the plot is still burned into my brain meat. There’s also a short film on TH-cam based on the book, I think(?)
I literally paused the video to go on a rant to myself about how killing the old people makes more sense and remembered an old ass movie I only ever saw a snipped of as a child but that stayed in my mind forever, in which people over 30 "go in the mixer" as my brain so eloquently registered it... turns out the movie ironically is titled "Logan's Run" LOL
@@FlareonSky this. Why would a dystopian work force kill their future workforce and not the people they've already exploited? And also, why are people having, from what it looks like, more than one kiddo while knowing they're overpopulated?
But then it would force a bunch of blond haired, blue eyed ableds to think about people other than them, & we all know they don't have the imagination for that
Is it just me or is it really annoying when movies about eugenics basically ignore that they’re about eugenics or the racist and ableist implications thereof?
@@katytui3746 “Hey in this dystopian society people with disabilities and learning disorders are euthanized. Anyways, here’s a bunch of middle class kids, and we’re just gonna completely ignore that first part.”
Blake's reward for standing up against a corrupt system is to be enslaved. Moral: live your life with your head down and hands folded lest you be punished
plot twist: blake orchestrates an escape and begins leading a rebellion against the united states, since i'd wager a lot of people would rather have children not die
The short answer: no. The long answer: the only powers they have is to impose embargos and invade countries if all 7 members of the security council agree to. They can't stop countries from doing anything, which is why the US keeps fighting pointless wars on the Middle East and China keeps supplying North Korea with food and political support.
Man this movie could have been a great examination of eugenics and how we treat people who are cognitively impared, too bad nobody thought about anything in the making of this movie
Kappa is the only film enthusiast I would actually listen to at this point. It's so interesting seeing how his commentary and editing style has developed in the last year or so I've been watching, undeniably better not just from the content he talks about to how he conveys the information. And as a film student, it's super interesting to hear his thoughts on films i'd never subject myself to [like the thinning or airplane mode] but also his little tangents on films that he DOES like and what makes them appealing to him. TLDR: nice video :) very cool mr kaiju man
@@ozzi4647 It's an interesting thing to study!!! You end up analysing sound, use of colour, of composition and set design, of everything on-screen during scenes, of the way things are deliberately constructed to establish meaning and emotion, especially in regards to the context of the time. Only issue is I now cant just watch films to enjoy them, when I stick on something i think is gonna be entertaining I end up marvelling at the cinematography. Studying it gives a whole new insight and it's definitely worth looking into!! :D
@@brickashcroft I'm not even in film, though I do work in video production for my school to produce media, and I find the cinematography fascinating. Like, how do y'all think of all these shots?! How is it so smooth?! The amount of skill and creative effort is just AWESOME. All those topics you mentioned sound SO fuckin cool. Maybe film school IS up my alley. Though, money is an issue, and law being interesting and paying way more... but creativity! Art! ahh! What made you decide to go into film school?
@@ozzi4647 Oh, money's a struggle and the film course I'm following is in a transitional thing between secondary school [high school for america, I'm in the uk] and university. Honestly, I've always been big on art and artistry and aim for a career within the film industry one day, though it's not too likely with how competitive of a market it is. And, god - the way films are made truly is a slow, painful process. One of the films that we studied was Trainspotting, a UK film from 1996 ft Ewan McGregor about Scottish dr-g addicts. Its gritty, dark, and heavily political but by god is it marvellous. There isn't a single moment in the film that can't be analysed to it's core between the surrealist sequences of ov-rd-sing or quitting heroine cold turkey. While I hated the film first watching it because of how bleak it was (definitely worth checking content warnings beforehand) i could spend hours writing about all the creative decisions regarding cinematography, colour, music (the use of britpop is brilliant) and the way that the audience is brought into the scene via active spectatorship, made to feel involved and question things rather than just watch to feel entertained. Aside from all that stuff, though, film doesnt need to be studied in a professional environment to be admired. Most things can be researched online and all it takes is for you to be aware of what you're watching. Stopping and wondering why something is made a certain way - why the camera is positioned like that, why the colour and music enhance the feelings of the scene, what is in frame and why, etc. Pretty much just watch any film you like, pause it at any moment, and see what you can take away from it!!! It's one of the few times where "no wrong answers" rings true bcs no matter what bullshit you make up about a sequence, as long as you can support it you're good.
I appreciate your comment about 'You liking a movie doesn't mean it's good, and a movie being good doesn't mean you have to like it.' I feel like a lot of people could benefit from learning this. Like, there's this 1990 animated version of the Nutcracker Prince that I adore. Is it a good movie? Eh, it's well animated and voiced, but the pacing is kinda weird and it's way longer than it should be. I still love it though. Meanwhile, Grave of the Fireflies is a fantastic, incredibly well animated movie with a heartwrenching plot. Do I like it? Not... in the sense that I'd want to watch it. I'm glad it exists but I have no interest in viewing because I don't want to deal with the emotional toll it'd inflict on me.
I watched grave of the fireflies once, adored it, recommend it to everyone I know (with some warnings depending on who I'm talking to), and I never want to watch it again.
I misheard "Blake" as "Blank" and then my mind immediately came up with a new, probably better plotline where like, his parents have so little faith in him being able to pass the test that they don't let him have a real name.
So they’re gunna make a movie that carries the immensely heavy plot point of this universe basing human worth on their schooling ability that already fails in real life and they’re just… not gunna say anything about that? They just want you to not think about how fucked up the “it’s working as intended” part of the system is run? Aight.
The true purpose of the UN was to prevent a Third World War, which is what the League of Nations was meant to do for the Second World War but failed, and then later it also became to prevent MAD during the Cold War. Everything else was a bonus.
24:10 Depending on the height you fall from and the speed you fall at, the force required to break the surface tension of the water can be enough to knock you out. If you fall from high enough it will be the same as hitting concrete
You are absolutely right but in this specific case wow that is not enough to knock someone out, it would disorient them though. I guess if someone tried hard enough they could? Either way Logan Paul’s character just looks like me after I fucked up a dive on the high board and entered the water too hard, and he wasn’t completely spread eagled bc in that case he would have been more likely to knock himself out? What I’m saying is this is a bad movie.
This movie is basically, "We want to film this dystopian future movie for teens to cash in on the fad. But we don't have the budget to actually make a dystopian future on screen. So we'll just film in this public high school that we're allowed to film in for cheap.".
The issue for me about this movie is that slave labour making high-tech Products do happen in the Kongo area where metals needed for smartphones are mined. Make a movie about that.
Impossible. Shining a light on stuff like modern slavery being practiced to make modern tech and other stuff would disturb the nice cognitive dissonance us the lucky ones that aren't born in those conditions can abuse to ignore things like these are happening. Movie wouldn't make money, too uncomfortable, nobody would see it so nobody would fund it. Gotta be subtle about these things so that you can allow your audience to completely ignore the actual real world parallels.
I recently watcher Hamilton, I really enjoyed it. The writing was great and so was the music. But as a sat there 16 rows back from the stage, I saw Alexander Hamilton wear his glasses. All I could think was "aw god, its damn kappa kaiju." Thanks for ruining the second half of Hamilton for me dockage.
I actually watched this movie, and my reaction was literally "Hm, an interesting concept, but like The Purge, which it so clearly wants to emulate, it's executed with the expertise of a comatose mountain troll."
When you first mentioned the premise it reminded me of a film I watched with my mum recently called "What Happened to Monday?" Seems like a pretty similar base foundation of an idea, but like, it actually made sense. Though interestingly I did just look and that was set in 2043, which is still only like 20 years in the future and supposedly overpopulation is a huge issue.
Listen I also have no clue if the Compare The Meerkats Simples joke translates to the nonaustralians but it made me fucking cackle and realize if Australia has any niche jokes to contribute to the wider world its the compare the meerkat ads so thank you for keeping it in
But three of them are fans of kappa kaiju and still want to support the video by liking it. The other two are also fans but they know that engagement eithere trough dislikes or likes are pretty much the same value0
Kappa : *Spends hours constructing a script, recording and re-recording lines, slaving over the editing process* Kappa : "I really hope they like all the effort I put into this." The comments : "Hehe, funny holy aura"
I don't agree that "nitpicking" about world building isn't important. The way I see it, world building is an important part of the process of creating a work of fiction, especially if it's set in what is essentially the real world but changed slightly. In those cases, a worldbuilding problem isn't just a quirky mistake, it's on par with a break in reality.
It really depends on what it is. Some stories are character driven, so the world building isn't the biggest part of the story. Like the world building in The First Law trilogy is basically just the names of places, because the world isn't really important when the story is entirely about the characters. But if you took the world building out of something like Lord of the Rings or The Stormlight Archive it would be a big deal as they directly impact the story.
Yeah. If you set up a set of rules in your fictional world, whether that be a completely different world or just Earth 2.0, & then break those rules, it will make people break out of their suspension of disbelief & ruin the media for them. Same for setting rules right off the bat that make no sense. Humans are logical being, we like our patterns, & if something is illogical & doesn't follow a pattern, we'll notice it immediately. Good story telling is good for the exact reason that it is enjoyable & crafted so well that people can suspend their disbelief for the duration of it
Throughout this entire thing, I could not shake the thought that “The Thinning” sounds like the title of a god-awful Logan Paul movie where he’s losing his hair. The film would just be an immature, low-brow-comedy horror movie “parody” so utterly and cataclysmically terrible that it instantly causes anybody who watches it to die of stage 4 cancer.
I just wanna know how he created that after image effect, it seems so specialized I can't imagine it was easy. Or did he just chroma key out the green screen, make it black, apply a threshold to it so that everything that wasn't pure black became pure white, and then put it into the green screen of the main video but offset slightly in time?
People who think overpopulation is the real problem are pretty cringe to me personally. Overpopulation has never been the problem and it’s based on some pretty shitty math/assumption. The real issue is wealth inequality.
The speed at which overpopulation critics turn to ecofascism is scary. I always tend to side-eye anyone being really weird about how there are too many people on the planet.
yup, it's straight up ecofascism. we have more than enough resources to go around, the problem is that those who own the means of production destroy resources they can't profit from
yep yep yep yep yep people have mentioned eco fascism, and you also _quickly_ see the racists crawling out. they almost always turn to Africa and Asia and point at them to blame.
idk, i think overpopulation is generally a problem as in theres too many people in certain areas but wealth inequality as well as an array of different things also factor into that like a giant big soup of problems to which overpopulation/the density of people in one location is quite minor. This doesn't mean overpopulation is *the* problem though, I just think it's an underlying factor that can cause stress. Comment edited for clarification; I'm talking in regards to overpopulation in singular areas like cities where people are packed together. Overpopulation problen as a whole tends to actually just be an issue of over consumption rather than population.
When I was younger, one of my teachers read us a series that was based on children that were born after the second child trying to survive from being culled and just survive. Each family could only have two children. I can't give a description well that will do it justice, but please look up Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's a great series in my opinion and I'm tempted to see if I can pick it up again because of nostalgia.
@Clarice Elso I forget about it, but every once in a while there will be something that just triggers the memory of the books and I have to spend half an hour searching for wtf the series was.
I thought it was the girl Lanie who was called Blake for a solid 15 minutes so you are not alone I just assumed nobody cared about Logan’s characters name
17:48 CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE DAD SHORTS??? Man looks like he was gunna mow the lawn later. Take his younger kids to the park. Maybe cook some future-burgers on a regular electric grill bc they didn’t know how to make a grill look futuristic.
When you pointed out the fact that techonological adavancements can be used to overcome overpopulation, I was just thinking that it would have been more interesting if the characters discovered the "dark truth" that the culling wasn't actually needed and instead the culling is somehow being used to control society, the most obvious way being slowly killing off people the government sees as "undesirable" or a "threat" (and suddenly I'm reminded of the 1920s Eugenics movement that sometimes used IQ tests in order to label people "feebleminded" and justify having their tubes tied against their will. Wow the historical parellels here could have made for interesting commentary.)
I remember watching the first bit of the movie and I had to stop watching because I already had test anxiety and had to take the PSAT a month later so I had nightmares for a bit. This movie makes me unnecessarily stressed
The animated short "Pop Squad" that's a part of the Love, Death & Robots animated short collection on Netflix has the same overpopulation premise and is fantastic, it is also only 15 minutes long
The hitting water thing and being knocked out can work as depicted. Water is VERY hard if you hit it with a sudden impact, and it looks like Logan fell head and neck first. There's also the issue of going really fast then suddenly stopping is not something the brain likes. For comparison, jumping off a cliff into an ocean is equivalent to jumping off of a skyscraper onto concrete Which is why when (girl) jumps in after, she goes legs first to minimize her impact point. That's like a standard jumping into water thing Everything else in this movie is completely whatever though
The way America (and other wealthy countries but I live here so it’s what I can speak to) deals with disability benefits is effectively a form of eugenics anyway. A single person with no strong family support can’t live on Medicaid/workers comp/SSI disability. Not only are the payments low, but someone “benefiting” from those systems can’t have more than $2500 in the bank at any time. No savings account, no backup fund for hospitalizations or surgeries. Nothing. They also have to deal with being followed and tracked, and if they are seen doing anything which could possibly be a job (photographing a family event, acting as assistant minister at a church service, weeding their yard) they get kicked off benefits and told to find work. Just. Just make that movie set a few decades ahead and the big reveal is it’s just the system we actually currently live in.
She sells answers to the test. How? You would think that a standardized test of this magnitude would be changed every time so people couldn't cheat. Isn't that how it's done in real life?
26:00 I’m really sad we still use helium balloons and projectors at future parties. I expected maybe some holograms by now, maybe some drones carrying smaller versions of character-shaped parade floats.
accidentally caught this after 16 seconds of being uploaded lmao. love your work, hope youre not stuck in lockdown right now, but if you are i hope youre staying mentally stable!
My reason for living is indulging in nihilistic film critique. Thank you for providing further sustenance Kappa. Edit: Loving the slight white shadow delay effect, really adds to the aesthetic
It seems like a lot of kids who would mindlessly watch Logan Paul stuff have parents who hate the U.N. on principal, so maybe the U.N. being a villain was a marketing move?
One of the episodes of the new Love, Death & Robots season tackles the topic of overpopulation in a dystopia, that also includes the technology to make people immortal, so getting children just gets banned entirely. It was one of my favorite episodes and the story was really well told and lasts only like 10 minutes. So I'd recommend that like 10 times in a row over watching this shitty movie.
i was like "omg maybe i should make some kind of original story with the premise of this movie but like better" until i realized 1- This premise is really weird if you think about it more critically 2- Eugenics soooo i guess better not
I dont remember finishing the show but theres a netflix show called the 3% that explores a very similar premise in a significantly better way. since i didnt finish it i actually couldnt tell you if it was good but i do know it was better than this movie.
I remember watching the film back when it released bc i didn't really know who logan was (english isn't my first language, i wasn't very aware of the english speaking internet scene back when i was like 13), and i thought it was a forgettable movie but didn't hate it, and my friend seemed to really enjoy it.
It’s sad and hilarious how the Purge movies, which are all terrible films, have a better handling of their premise/hook in regards to the world, the people in it, and how said premise affects them.
Being subbed to this guy is a neverending cycle of forgetting he exists, him uploading, and binge watching all his videos.
It hurts me how true this is. Still love Kappa but damn
For real though lol
Quite literally this.
Why is this so true?
Fuck I didnt even notice it til u said it but yah
The white aftereffect makes you look like a Just Dance character and I'm kind of really into it
Oh my god it totally does I can't unsee that now lmao
You must now follow Aussie Jesus' every move for the next 36 minutes and 38 seconds, else face dear Kappa's holy sado-masochistic wrath.
Only things missing are the bright neon colors, weird outfits, and one of the hands being colored in
It’s a really unique effect for a video essay I like it :)
That's no after effect. It's actually his disappointment in this film, radiating into the visible light spectrum
i can summarize his reaction to the film with this emote alone:
how TF do you get images in yt comments??
@@ThylineTheGay you email youtube and ask for image perms
@@cosmiceyness WAIT??- YOU CAN*??_
@@ThylineTheGay You pay for it, like a twitch subscription
@@uynayz9157 no lol
AUSTRALIAN DEPRESSED LIBRARIAN JESUS HAS RETURNED
Our daddy's back
Proper adjective order matters: he's a depressed Australian librarian jesus.
@@jessehunter362 Thank You, I knew something was off
@Gopal Krishnan hello cousin
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we have been blessed
Kappa, every video, you slowly turn into more and more of a fusion between the virgin/chad meme, a librarian who is also secretly jesus' 4th respawn, and a hipster who still thinks that the Beatles is the pinnacle of music.
All he needs is a choker
@@imfrenchsilkpie7607 and nail polish
4th?
@@thepastaprogenitor851 3rd is Penguinz0
@@icyatlasartworks honestly, I thought so
Once again, Australian Jesus with glasses tortures himself by enduring internet star's other forms of media outside of TH-cam.
amen
if he was jesus i would go back to christianity
This time, his spirit is leaving his body
Outside of TH-cam? This bad boy was TH-cam Red. I got it for free and still wanted a refund.
@@JackBenci Admittedly, I did not care to look at how to watch this. Because why would I?
I hope, by years end, the aura effect around Kappa eventually expands and just ends up engulfing the entire screen.
It’ll be Scott the Woz’s blue border all over again.
@@CJJC Kappa Kaiju 200th video: Aura Forever
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that the UN is taking action about something and it actually has an effect outside of their meeting room.
"You could just steal the opening from a different film and the movie would be better."
You could do that for the rest of the film and the movie would be better.
Finally the Shrek sequel we needed
Spin Echo I want a John wick style movie with shrek
The movie suffers the same problems as Lance from Pokémon
The product would be better if every bit of the thing was changed
"If Lance was a different like character entirely..."
My question to this movie is: Why does the Thinning need to be done like this?
How did the overpopulation get this bad? I'd think you'd notice this kind of problem... before you'd have to start killing children and teenagers. Why not do the China thing and have a "1 kid only" policy? Are there old people in this world or do you get Thinned once you leave the workforce? How do hospitals work, do you get healthcare, or are you left to die because it's more "efficient"?
How is the exam graded? Is there a set number of students who need to be Thinned out each time, and they just pick from the lowest grades up until they reach that number? Or is there a score you have to pass to be safe? Well, officially. Obviously it's corrupt and they choose the kids anyway. But what's the story they tell the public?
There’s a movie called “What happened to Monday?” which shows the concept of overpopulation and an unethical approach to that in a better way than The Thinning. Like they show the effect of overpopulation and lack of resources better than this movie.
I mean, it says that 5% of the population needs to be killed, so one can assume you pick lowest scores and kill those. After that adults don't need to it anymore so I assume that life continues normally?
There’s a genuinely chilling YA novel called the unwinding, which deals with kinda similar stuff. I read it once years ago and a lot of the plot is still burned into my brain meat. There’s also a short film on TH-cam based on the book, I think(?)
I literally paused the video to go on a rant to myself about how killing the old people makes more sense and remembered an old ass movie I only ever saw a snipped of as a child but that stayed in my mind forever, in which people over 30 "go in the mixer" as my brain so eloquently registered it... turns out the movie ironically is titled "Logan's Run" LOL
@@FlareonSky this. Why would a dystopian work force kill their future workforce and not the people they've already exploited?
And also, why are people having, from what it looks like, more than one kiddo while knowing they're overpopulated?
with all the blonde haired, blue eyed characters, they could have just made this movie about eugenics
But then it would force a bunch of blond haired, blue eyed ableds to think about people other than them, & we all know they don't have the imagination for that
Also racism.
i mean it pretty much is?
its a documentary about inbreeding
"everything i say about myself is a complete fabrication"
"i'm okay"
:/
#Kare4KappaKaiju
@@IntelegentFool Watch your acronyms there
@@miraenofficial 1-877-Kappa-4-Kaiju
@@IntelegentFool not kare
He's not really australian
his aura is getting stronger
Best aura quality: his wiggles
someone stop the man hes gonna get more powerful
He shall consume the world entire.
I'm assuming in this future people with disabilities such as learning disabilites be on the chopping block with this exam...so basically eugenics
it is eugenics either way
Basically lmao
Is it just me or is it really annoying when movies about eugenics basically ignore that they’re about eugenics or the racist and ableist implications thereof?
@@katytui3746
“Hey in this dystopian society people with disabilities and learning disorders are euthanized. Anyways, here’s a bunch of middle class kids, and we’re just gonna completely ignore that first part.”
@@katytui3746 If eugenics is completely based on school results, how is racist?
Blake's reward for standing up against a corrupt system is to be enslaved. Moral: live your life with your head down and hands folded lest you be punished
plot twist: blake orchestrates an escape and begins leading a rebellion against the united states, since i'd wager a lot of people would rather have children not die
@@electrosthefella that’s a movie I would watch. Not the one we got.
To be fair, the main character of 1984 doesn't exactly come out on top
You're the first creator I've ever seen to acknowledge that objective quality does automatically affect subjective opinion
Dunkey has actually brought it t up in his more serious reviews
this movie was really thought provoking and asked me the hard questions, such as
- can the UN make anyone actually do anything?
The short answer: no. The long answer: the only powers they have is to impose embargos and invade countries if all 7 members of the security council agree to. They can't stop countries from doing anything, which is why the US keeps fighting pointless wars on the Middle East and China keeps supplying North Korea with food and political support.
Man this movie could have been a great examination of eugenics and how we treat people who are cognitively impared, too bad nobody thought about anything in the making of this movie
Kappa is the only film enthusiast I would actually listen to at this point. It's so interesting seeing how his commentary and editing style has developed in the last year or so I've been watching, undeniably better not just from the content he talks about to how he conveys the information. And as a film student, it's super interesting to hear his thoughts on films i'd never subject myself to [like the thinning or airplane mode] but also his little tangents on films that he DOES like and what makes them appealing to him.
TLDR: nice video :) very cool mr kaiju man
Ah, I'd love to go into film. His insights are pretty interesting.
@@ozzi4647 It's an interesting thing to study!!! You end up analysing sound, use of colour, of composition and set design, of everything on-screen during scenes, of the way things are deliberately constructed to establish meaning and emotion, especially in regards to the context of the time. Only issue is I now cant just watch films to enjoy them, when I stick on something i think is gonna be entertaining I end up marvelling at the cinematography. Studying it gives a whole new insight and it's definitely worth looking into!! :D
@@brickashcroft I'm not even in film, though I do work in video production for my school to produce media, and I find the cinematography fascinating. Like, how do y'all think of all these shots?! How is it so smooth?! The amount of skill and creative effort is just AWESOME.
All those topics you mentioned sound SO fuckin cool. Maybe film school IS up my alley. Though, money is an issue, and law being interesting and paying way more... but creativity! Art! ahh!
What made you decide to go into film school?
@@ozzi4647 Oh, money's a struggle and the film course I'm following is in a transitional thing between secondary school [high school for america, I'm in the uk] and university. Honestly, I've always been big on art and artistry and aim for a career within the film industry one day, though it's not too likely with how competitive of a market it is.
And, god - the way films are made truly is a slow, painful process. One of the films that we studied was Trainspotting, a UK film from 1996 ft Ewan McGregor about Scottish dr-g addicts. Its gritty, dark, and heavily political but by god is it marvellous. There isn't a single moment in the film that can't be analysed to it's core between the surrealist sequences of ov-rd-sing or quitting heroine cold turkey. While I hated the film first watching it because of how bleak it was (definitely worth checking content warnings beforehand) i could spend hours writing about all the creative decisions regarding cinematography, colour, music (the use of britpop is brilliant) and the way that the audience is brought into the scene via active spectatorship, made to feel involved and question things rather than just watch to feel entertained.
Aside from all that stuff, though, film doesnt need to be studied in a professional environment to be admired. Most things can be researched online and all it takes is for you to be aware of what you're watching. Stopping and wondering why something is made a certain way - why the camera is positioned like that, why the colour and music enhance the feelings of the scene, what is in frame and why, etc.
Pretty much just watch any film you like, pause it at any moment, and see what you can take away from it!!! It's one of the few times where "no wrong answers" rings true bcs no matter what bullshit you make up about a sequence, as long as you can support it you're good.
I appreciate your comment about 'You liking a movie doesn't mean it's good, and a movie being good doesn't mean you have to like it.' I feel like a lot of people could benefit from learning this.
Like, there's this 1990 animated version of the Nutcracker Prince that I adore. Is it a good movie? Eh, it's well animated and voiced, but the pacing is kinda weird and it's way longer than it should be. I still love it though.
Meanwhile, Grave of the Fireflies is a fantastic, incredibly well animated movie with a heartwrenching plot. Do I like it? Not... in the sense that I'd want to watch it. I'm glad it exists but I have no interest in viewing because I don't want to deal with the emotional toll it'd inflict on me.
SpoonyOne described Grave of the Fireflies as "the greatest film I never want to watch again".
I watched grave of the fireflies once, adored it, recommend it to everyone I know (with some warnings depending on who I'm talking to), and I never want to watch it again.
Kappa is looking like he's getting ready to take comic con by storm, cosplaying as Qui Gon Jin.
i would without question just hit the like button harder if he came out here in jedi robes
I misheard "Blake" as "Blank" and then my mind immediately came up with a new, probably better plotline where like, his parents have so little faith in him being able to pass the test that they don't let him have a real name.
So they’re gunna make a movie that carries the immensely heavy plot point of this universe basing human worth on their schooling ability that already fails in real life and they’re just… not gunna say anything about that? They just want you to not think about how fucked up the “it’s working as intended” part of the system is run? Aight.
The true purpose of the UN was to prevent a Third World War, which is what the League of Nations was meant to do for the Second World War but failed, and then later it also became to prevent MAD during the Cold War. Everything else was a bonus.
I literally thought the two main characters were siblings until you pointed out they were supposed to be the romantic leads 🤡
24:10 Depending on the height you fall from and the speed you fall at, the force required to break the surface tension of the water can be enough to knock you out. If you fall from high enough it will be the same as hitting concrete
You are absolutely right but in this specific case wow that is not enough to knock someone out, it would disorient them though. I guess if someone tried hard enough they could? Either way Logan Paul’s character just looks like me after I fucked up a dive on the high board and entered the water too hard, and he wasn’t completely spread eagled bc in that case he would have been more likely to knock himself out? What I’m saying is this is a bad movie.
People think the white aura is an effect but we've actually been watching his afterimage all this whole time.
We still have yet to see his true body
This movie is basically, "We want to film this dystopian future movie for teens to cash in on the fad. But we don't have the budget to actually make a dystopian future on screen. So we'll just film in this public high school that we're allowed to film in for cheap.".
The issue for me about this movie is that slave labour making high-tech Products do happen in the Kongo area where metals needed for smartphones are mined.
Make a movie about that.
But it doesn’t effect white people, so it doesn’t matter (heavy sarcasm)
Impossible. Shining a light on stuff like modern slavery being practiced to make modern tech and other stuff would disturb the nice cognitive dissonance us the lucky ones that aren't born in those conditions can abuse to ignore things like these are happening. Movie wouldn't make money, too uncomfortable, nobody would see it so nobody would fund it. Gotta be subtle about these things so that you can allow your audience to completely ignore the actual real world parallels.
I recently watcher Hamilton, I really enjoyed it. The writing was great and so was the music. But as a sat there 16 rows back from the stage, I saw Alexander Hamilton wear his glasses. All I could think was "aw god, its damn kappa kaiju." Thanks for ruining the second half of Hamilton for me dockage.
I actually watched this movie, and my reaction was literally "Hm, an interesting concept, but like The Purge, which it so clearly wants to emulate, it's executed with the expertise of a comatose mountain troll."
Godots theme from Ace Attorney playing in the background is just 👌
WAIT REALLY
YES
This is the second coming that the Christians warned us about
Guess we didn't repent enough for our sins. So here we are
I like the mime dressed in all white just behind him. He dose a really good job at imitating him.
This feels like a comment drew gooden would pin
@@Maxineewing7501 then why didn't he
Is the big victory the movie gives the audience that they fought hard to make it so the right kids die and the good kids who passed the test don't??
Kappa really be like "anyone gonna watch/read this trainwreck that no one likes nor wants?" And then doesn't wait for an answer
blind turtle jesus is back with my fav depressed show
I love love LOVE that background "after image" idk what else to call it. It's such a NICE DETAIL KAP
It's his Jojo stand ofc
"Personal opinions can't be incorrect".
Kappa "Flat Earther" Kaiju
He's a what
@@romyenrose I really hope they're joking
@@romyenrose i can't find anything that says he is so i think it may be a joke?
please say sike rn
Crimson, you are crossing through the "science" genra into this "Entertainment" genre. They have no idea what you meant and it's funny.
When you first mentioned the premise it reminded me of a film I watched with my mum recently called "What Happened to Monday?" Seems like a pretty similar base foundation of an idea, but like, it actually made sense. Though interestingly I did just look and that was set in 2043, which is still only like 20 years in the future and supposedly overpopulation is a huge issue.
Unfortunately, overpopulation is just too science fiction for me to suspend my disbelief without explicit explanation.
I really hope that the outline Kappa has will just get bigger each video
Listen I also have no clue if the Compare The Meerkats Simples joke translates to the nonaustralians but it made me fucking cackle and realize if Australia has any niche jokes to contribute to the wider world its the compare the meerkat ads so thank you for keeping it in
In the UK at least, it's iconic, so it translates a bit at least !
I think Rowan Ellis has a video on that like ' the meerkats are gay' or something
Nah we have the Compare the Meerkats meerkats in the UK too. Unfortunately.
The two dislikes are from the 5 fans of this movie.
i thought ur pfp was brains but nah it's beans and idk how i feel about that
looks like 3 of them got thinned.
But three of them are fans of kappa kaiju and still want to support the video by liking it.
The other two are also fans but they know that engagement eithere trough dislikes or likes are pretty much the same value0
With that math, you’re done for on your thinning exam
A rare appearance of the depressed book man.
Also, that outline is messing with my eyes
It’s hilarious how every suggestion you had to fix issues in this movie all made so much more logical sense and sounded way more entertaining.
Kappa : *Spends hours constructing a script, recording and re-recording lines, slaving over the editing process*
Kappa : "I really hope they like all the effort I put into this."
The comments : "Hehe, funny holy aura"
i’m extremely here for qui gon jin doing movie criticism
I don't agree that "nitpicking" about world building isn't important. The way I see it, world building is an important part of the process of creating a work of fiction, especially if it's set in what is essentially the real world but changed slightly. In those cases, a worldbuilding problem isn't just a quirky mistake, it's on par with a break in reality.
It really depends on what it is. Some stories are character driven, so the world building isn't the biggest part of the story. Like the world building in The First Law trilogy is basically just the names of places, because the world isn't really important when the story is entirely about the characters. But if you took the world building out of something like Lord of the Rings or The Stormlight Archive it would be a big deal as they directly impact the story.
Yeah. If you set up a set of rules in your fictional world, whether that be a completely different world or just Earth 2.0, & then break those rules, it will make people break out of their suspension of disbelief & ruin the media for them. Same for setting rules right off the bat that make no sense. Humans are logical being, we like our patterns, & if something is illogical & doesn't follow a pattern, we'll notice it immediately. Good story telling is good for the exact reason that it is enjoyable & crafted so well that people can suspend their disbelief for the duration of it
Throughout this entire thing, I could not shake the thought that “The Thinning” sounds like the title of a god-awful Logan Paul movie where he’s losing his hair.
The film would just be an immature, low-brow-comedy horror movie “parody” so utterly and cataclysmically terrible that it instantly causes anybody who watches it to die of stage 4 cancer.
I just wanna know how he created that after image effect, it seems so specialized I can't imagine it was easy. Or did he just chroma key out the green screen, make it black, apply a threshold to it so that everything that wasn't pure black became pure white, and then put it into the green screen of the main video but offset slightly in time?
in most programs that silhouette is already a greenscreen setting, so he just made it white and offset it i assume
Barring all other issues, It's like birth control implants are a lost technology in the next year or so.
... uhhh this was a scary prediction
@@Apolllooooo I called Covid in November of 2019 too.
@@steel8231 could you ask Apollo to stop cursing you with the gift of prophecy yet cursed to never realized your predictions when they happen
Steel stay dont say anything that can sound like a prediction or else you'll doom us all in the near future
People who think overpopulation is the real problem are pretty cringe to me personally. Overpopulation has never been the problem and it’s based on some pretty shitty math/assumption. The real issue is wealth inequality.
The speed at which overpopulation critics turn to ecofascism is scary. I always tend to side-eye anyone being really weird about how there are too many people on the planet.
yup, it's straight up ecofascism. we have more than enough resources to go around, the problem is that those who own the means of production destroy resources they can't profit from
yep yep yep yep yep
people have mentioned eco fascism, and you also _quickly_ see the racists crawling out. they almost always turn to Africa and Asia and point at them to blame.
idk, i think overpopulation is generally a problem as in theres too many people in certain areas but wealth inequality as well as an array of different things also factor into that like a giant big soup of problems to which overpopulation/the density of people in one location is quite minor.
This doesn't mean overpopulation is *the* problem though, I just think it's an underlying factor that can cause stress.
Comment edited for clarification; I'm talking in regards to overpopulation in singular areas like cities where people are packed together. Overpopulation problen as a whole tends to actually just be an issue of over consumption rather than population.
@@caramel9154 "you think" do you have reputable sources to back up that claim though?
When I was younger, one of my teachers read us a series that was based on children that were born after the second child trying to survive from being culled and just survive. Each family could only have two children. I can't give a description well that will do it justice, but please look up Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's a great series in my opinion and I'm tempted to see if I can pick it up again because of nostalgia.
@Clarice Elso I forget about it, but every once in a while there will be something that just triggers the memory of the books and I have to spend half an hour searching for wtf the series was.
Whenever I feel like everything sucks, kappa comes back and confirms that it does, thanks kappa, very cool.
14:21 my glasses have never fell off my face once and contacts are STUCK to your STICKY eye. realism 100
Australian depressed Jesus has graced us with his presence again
And when the world needed him the most.
He returned.
The first time you said Blake's name I heard it as Blank and just accepted that that was the name they gave to Logan Paul's character.
I thought it was the girl Lanie who was called Blake for a solid 15 minutes so you are not alone I just assumed nobody cared about Logan’s characters name
The white shadow cutout behind you make me think you’re developing a stand and it’s trigger is consuming terrible media
17:48 CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE DAD SHORTS??? Man looks like he was gunna mow the lawn later. Take his younger kids to the park. Maybe cook some future-burgers on a regular electric grill bc they didn’t know how to make a grill look futuristic.
When you pointed out the fact that techonological adavancements can be used to overcome overpopulation, I was just thinking that it would have been more interesting if the characters discovered the "dark truth" that the culling wasn't actually needed and instead the culling is somehow being used to control society, the most obvious way being slowly killing off people the government sees as "undesirable" or a "threat" (and suddenly I'm reminded of the 1920s Eugenics movement that sometimes used IQ tests in order to label people "feebleminded" and justify having their tubes tied against their will. Wow the historical parellels here could have made for interesting commentary.)
Hearing that 2016 was 5 years ago was one of the most sobering moments of my life
I remember watching the first bit of the movie and I had to stop watching because I already had test anxiety and had to take the PSAT a month later so I had nightmares for a bit. This movie makes me unnecessarily stressed
The animated short "Pop Squad" that's a part of the Love, Death & Robots animated short collection on Netflix has the same overpopulation premise and is fantastic, it is also only 15 minutes long
19:48 maybe they were just trying to hide their protagonist in hopes that no one would know it’s Logan Paul
The hitting water thing and being knocked out can work as depicted.
Water is VERY hard if you hit it with a sudden impact, and it looks like Logan fell head and neck first. There's also the issue of going really fast then suddenly stopping is not something the brain likes. For comparison, jumping off a cliff into an ocean is equivalent to jumping off of a skyscraper onto concrete
Which is why when (girl) jumps in after, she goes legs first to minimize her impact point. That's like a standard jumping into water thing
Everything else in this movie is completely whatever though
wow i really like that outline effect he has when moving
Ngl, loving the video so far but I hope the white shadow effect doesn’t stay too long, it’s kinda hurting my eyes a bit :(
I was just looking for something to watch while I drew. Thanks for making it easier for me!
Papa Kappa actually recognizing other works people have done outside of this film goes beyond an appreciation I could describe
The way America (and other wealthy countries but I live here so it’s what I can speak to) deals with disability benefits is effectively a form of eugenics anyway. A single person with no strong family support can’t live on Medicaid/workers comp/SSI disability. Not only are the payments low, but someone “benefiting” from those systems can’t have more than $2500 in the bank at any time. No savings account, no backup fund for hospitalizations or surgeries. Nothing.
They also have to deal with being followed and tracked, and if they are seen doing anything which could possibly be a job (photographing a family event, acting as assistant minister at a church service, weeding their yard) they get kicked off benefits and told to find work.
Just. Just make that movie set a few decades ahead and the big reveal is it’s just the system we actually currently live in.
Sad Kiwi Christ’s power is growing
You can tell by his nuclear aura
Lmao Kiwi Christ xD
he's aussie, isn't he?
I absolutely love your editing (background, tracking, SOUND, the ominous zooms on your face). I could watch your videos all day
Gosh I have the biggest crush on Kappa ever
don't we all
She sells answers to the test. How? You would think that a standardized test of this magnitude would be changed every time so people couldn't cheat. Isn't that how it's done in real life?
Dev Patels Green Knight is sorely needed to cleanse the palette after this shitshow
26:00 I’m really sad we still use helium balloons and projectors at future parties. I expected maybe some holograms by now, maybe some drones carrying smaller versions of character-shaped parade floats.
7:30 even if every person on earth laughed at that stellar delivery, it would still be underrated.
accidentally caught this after 16 seconds of being uploaded lmao. love your work, hope youre not stuck in lockdown right now, but if you are i hope youre staying mentally stable!
It's a very nice sentiment but I can't stop laughing, "hope you're staying mentally stable" is such a 2021 sentence ahsjs, p a i n
If you want to watch The Thinning, just turn on the news.You’ll get the same experience AND be a part of it.
Australian Jesus’s hair is longer than my will to live lmfaooo
My reason for living is indulging in nihilistic film critique. Thank you for providing further sustenance Kappa.
Edit: Loving the slight white shadow delay effect, really adds to the aesthetic
Ngl this outline effect really fucks with my eyes I have to tab away while I listen ;-;
the concept/premise of the thinning always kinda scared me as im not a very good test-taker so its good to see takedowns of it lmao
It seems like a lot of kids who would mindlessly watch Logan Paul stuff have parents who hate the U.N. on principal, so maybe the U.N. being a villain was a marketing move?
One of the episodes of the new Love, Death & Robots season tackles the topic of overpopulation in a dystopia, that also includes the technology to make people immortal, so getting children just gets banned entirely. It was one of my favorite episodes and the story was really well told and lasts only like 10 minutes. So I'd recommend that like 10 times in a row over watching this shitty movie.
the effect you have when you move reminds me of the eyetoy on the ps2
i was like "omg maybe i should make some kind of original story with the premise of this movie but like better"
until i realized
1- This premise is really weird if you think about it more critically
2- Eugenics
soooo i guess better not
I clicked for hearing disses on LP and JP but I was entranced by your beautiful hair omg SUBBED
Not me stopping everything Im doing to watch this as soon as I got the notif, Kappa just makes me laugh way to much
this is not really about the review at all but did anyone else find the white silhouette behind him both distracting and visually satisfying
Compositing the alpha of your footage behind your footage with a slight delay? Interesting artistic choice, bold choice even
I dont remember finishing the show but theres a netflix show called the 3% that explores a very similar premise in a significantly better way. since i didnt finish it i actually couldnt tell you if it was good but i do know it was better than this movie.
1:03 can confirm that is the noise a PT cruiser makes as it sinks into quicksand
don't ask how I know that
"Everything I say about myself is a complete fabrication"
So... you don't, in fact, own 3 copies of Parasite?
Always a pleasure to see a new Kappa video.
i think the fact that the us decided a standardized test would be how they figured out who to kill is hilariously American. like it's too accurate
If anyone wanted to make a "Kappa Kaiju Out of Context" video, then they have a lot of material to work with
i want that video now
I remember watching the film back when it released bc i didn't really know who logan was (english isn't my first language, i wasn't very aware of the english speaking internet scene back when i was like 13), and i thought it was a forgettable movie but didn't hate it, and my friend seemed to really enjoy it.
It’s sad and hilarious how the Purge movies, which are all terrible films, have a better handling of their premise/hook in regards to the world, the people in it, and how said premise affects them.