I was born in America, but my father was from Liverpool and for some reason this film popped back into his mind like 30 something years after the fact, and decided it would be a good idea to show it to me when I was like 13. It was a bummer to say the least...
I know the movie might be too well-known for you to cover, but Beasts of No Nation would be a perfect fit for your Depression Kino series Almost forgot about watching The White Helmets. It's only a featurette but damn did it tesr my heart out. Kind of sad how they're also completely forgotten nowadays.
I've been watching TH-cam as my main means of entertainment for 10 years and y'all have gotten my first ever channel subscription. Mainly because y'all are the first channel that I feel really deserves/needs it. Keep up the good work boys!
I like threads it's depicted as the nuke a nightmarish Lovecraft like genre but really its just people trying to kill each other and it worked also love your channel
Was not expecting this out of ye lads but its also very on brand at the same time. I remember my history teacher in secondary made us watch this in class, dont think I've fully recovered from it yet
If you need ideas for some more depression kino, you prolly have to check out Come and See. 1985 Soviet movie about how fucked up the Nazi occupation of Belarus was and it was depressing enough that the creator had to fight the soviet authorities for almost a decade before getting to make it.
Come And See's come up several times in our videos (usually when the subject of child soldiers and just sheer misery comes up), so it's 100% something we aim to cover. You just gotta psyche yourself up for it a bit. It's an experience.
I think 'The Day After' dropped just the year before 'Threads', if memory serves. Hell of a couple of years for super depressing nuclear apocalypse movies.
I watched them both back to back during my high school years. Boy I was a depressed for a long time. Both movies started my obsession with nuclear weapons and nuclear war in general.
A year ago, i was visiting some friends and they wanted to watch a scary movie for halloween. They were all about the horror films and i said, "hey, do you guys wanna watch the single most terrifying movie i have ever watched?" And sat them down and made them watch threads. I had to translate alot of the norfposting for them, as we're Canadian. Not a single one of them had a good nights' sleep for a week
@@WeHeartGiantRobots the realization of how dangerously close we are to a nuclear apocalypse really rears its ugly head when you have the knowledge that Threads will provide should said apocalypse were to happen.
Great, gotta bring up me year-old PTSD from when I watched this after your chernobyl video. Cuz I wasn't feeling shit enough today as is :P (Good vid lads, Rob is still an autistic fud though)
@@WeHeartGiantRobots Oh bros, sorry to hear that. Still love the channel. I wonder is real robot just too niche for a basis for a channel? I mean I love the shit out of it. Really hope you get more subs.
oh man our non anime videos due bad tells people they hate them and to leave six minutes in well now i have to watch all of this out of spite also im super bored
Nuclear winter is incredibly overblown, not least because it was a lever to support nuclear disarmament, with even papers pointing out how mild 'nuclear autumn' would be going out of their way to downplay their correction to the record because convincing people nuclear war is a bad idea is important.
I was born in America, but my father was from Liverpool and for some reason this film popped back into his mind like 30 something years after the fact, and decided it would be a good idea to show it to me when I was like 13. It was a bummer to say the least...
"It was a bummer" is a pretty fair summary of this movie, yeah.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots The dead radioactive mutant baby really just put a damper on my mood.
I feel I could watch you guys review anything and enjoy it. Well done.
Don't let Rob hear that, he'll make me review him doing deadlifts and screaming.
I know the movie might be too well-known for you to cover, but Beasts of No Nation would be a perfect fit for your Depression Kino series
Almost forgot about watching The White Helmets. It's only a featurette but damn did it tesr my heart out. Kind of sad how they're also completely forgotten nowadays.
Beasts Of No Nation is a damn good shout, to be fair. I remember that film making me sit up and take notice of the stuff Netflix was putting out.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots Honestly I was surprised that anybody would touch the topic of child soldiers with a ten-foot pole, and then cover it so well
Will you fellas ever review VOTOMS? I just blasted through it recently and would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I'd love to do something on VOTOMS at some point, actually. It feels like an even more grim take on the mecha genre, which we absolutely vibe with.
The northposting really helps break up the dreary subject matter
The norfposting will save us all.
Ok, I can adjust my demands.
When the Wind Blows when?
A Boy and His Dog when?
Gunhed when?
I actually cut a whole section from this video were we talked 'When The Wind Blows', cos that 100% deserves a full video dedicated to it.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots I especially thought of it when you mentioned the "Government pamphlets" that people could follow to stay safe.
if this actualy happens in the us i would blast dio holy diver on the roof and say DO YOUR WORST NUCLEAR MONSTER OF A WARHEAD
This is possibly the most American thing I've read all day and I mean that in the best way possible.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots thanks bro
I've been watching TH-cam as my main means of entertainment for 10 years and y'all have gotten my first ever channel subscription. Mainly because y'all are the first channel that I feel really deserves/needs it. Keep up the good work boys!
We absolutely do not deserve it, but I really appreciate it all the same my man.
I like threads it's depicted as the nuke a nightmarish Lovecraft like genre but really its just people trying to kill each other and it worked also love your channel
Was not expecting this out of ye lads but its also very on brand at the same time. I remember my history teacher in secondary made us watch this in class, dont think I've fully recovered from it yet
We're most definitely not, but that's cos we keep re-watching it.
My dudes when are you gonna review Megas XLR ? I mean seriously chicks dig giant robots !!!
But my friend, how can we review perfection?
Made the mistake of watching threads at work during a rough time to see what the fuss was about. that was a mistake. felt really bad for the cat.
Yeah, this is 100% not a movie to watch if you're actually wanting to have a nice day afterwards.
as a man from and who lives in sheffield, its harrowing
If you need ideas for some more depression kino, you prolly have to check out Come and See. 1985 Soviet movie about how fucked up the Nazi occupation of Belarus was and it was depressing enough that the creator had to fight the soviet authorities for almost a decade before getting to make it.
Come And See's come up several times in our videos (usually when the subject of child soldiers and just sheer misery comes up), so it's 100% something we aim to cover.
You just gotta psyche yourself up for it a bit. It's an experience.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots TBF it's the movie that everyone who takes cinema seriously knows as the definitive piece of slavic depression.
Ah the More Depressing "The Day After". Extra because no Steve Gutenberg dying of radiation poisoning. So we don't even get that.
I think 'The Day After' dropped just the year before 'Threads', if memory serves. Hell of a couple of years for super depressing nuclear apocalypse movies.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots its just Day After is considered the more optimistic one. And everything still sucks. SFDebris did a fantastic video on it.
I watched them both back to back during my high school years.
Boy I was a depressed for a long time. Both movies started my obsession with nuclear weapons and nuclear war in general.
i appreciate you adding the (probably). fuck that era of smug youtube title when they didnt have it to make us feel bad
A year ago, i was visiting some friends and they wanted to watch a scary movie for halloween. They were all about the horror films and i said, "hey, do you guys wanna watch the single most terrifying movie i have ever watched?" And sat them down and made them watch threads. I had to translate alot of the norfposting for them, as we're Canadian. Not a single one of them had a good nights' sleep for a week
Threads does have a natural talent for lodging itself in your head in ways you'd really rather it didn't.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots the realization of how dangerously close we are to a nuclear apocalypse really rears its ugly head when you have the knowledge that Threads will provide should said apocalypse were to happen.
Great, gotta bring up me year-old PTSD from when I watched this after your chernobyl video. Cuz I wasn't feeling shit enough today as is :P
(Good vid lads, Rob is still an autistic fud though)
Can confirm.
I love being a weirdo who loves being sad sometimes. I’m going to watch this now because of y’all :3
I rewatched Threads because of this. Now I literally feel dead inside. Three Mutant Baby Thumbs Up.
The most traumatic positive review I've read all week.
We a gundam channel now
Best gundam is the Alex
And I guess next review is mobile suit gundam
I have only one like to give, but the last thing I expected was to be told how great Nixon was lmfao.
bold statements only on this channel
So compellingly depressing I don't think I could even stand watching this review.
always look forward to your guys videos
Next depression kino film: the 1930 all quiet on the western front
Prawn Cocktail gang rise up!
The post-apocalyptic police death squads will come for you.
Underrated
We need more depression kino
Maybe STALKER
Ohohoho yesss
What happened to your guy's Metropolis review?
Got eaten by a copyright claim. Working on re-editing it so we can get it back up. GOD I LOVE THIS PLATFORM.
@@WeHeartGiantRobots Oh bros, sorry to hear that. Still love the channel. I wonder is real robot just too niche for a basis for a channel? I mean I love the shit out of it. Really hope you get more subs.
It's all good, my man. One of the hazards of the platform. We'll just roll with the punches and keep on doing whatever the hell we want to.
I've already watched it. 😎
Hence the (probably) clarification in our blatant clickbait.
Have you seen kyle lately Rob? He's about jay high o/
Could you guys do a video on memories?
The madlads actually did it
And all it cost us was existential terror.
oh man our non anime videos due bad tells people they hate them and to leave six minutes in
well now i have to watch all of this out of spite also im super bored
Spite really is a wonderful motivator.
Technically the Northern Hemisphere would be dead. South America and Australia would be mostly alright.
Would none of the fallout and nuclear winter stuff reach far beyond the equator?
I think that's mostly been debunked.
I watched this movie a few months ago on a whim and it was absolutely incredible. I have nothing more to add. Great video. Unsubscribed.
Smart move on your part.
Nuclear winter is incredibly overblown, not least because it was a lever to support nuclear disarmament, with even papers pointing out how mild 'nuclear autumn' would be going out of their way to downplay their correction to the record because convincing people nuclear war is a bad idea is important.
Well that's ok.
The fireballs, fallout and EMP will wreck a lot of other stuff, but no chill after.