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  • @FactFiend
    @FactFiend  ปีที่แล้ว +49

    My favourite episode of Doomsday Preppers is when a woman builds a trebuchet that throws ninjas and they fail to hit a stationary cardboard target and then claims it'll scare off anyone trying to steal her eggs.

  • @Essex121514
    @Essex121514 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I watched a movie on Netflix that I thought was "2012". Instead it was "2012 doomsday". About 1/2 way through I realized that John Cusack hasn't been on screen, and the movie was starting to make me think it was about the Rapture.
    It was.
    🤦‍♂️

    • @BaronVonQuiply
      @BaronVonQuiply ปีที่แล้ว +16

      My condolences for having to sit through such an awful movie.
      Years ago someone sent my mom the Kirk Cameron 'Left Behind' DVD unsolicited, and then a few weeks later sent her a bill. Lucky for her she never tried to watch it.

    • @izumi2165
      @izumi2165 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the rapture as in the band?

    • @AceOfBlackjack
      @AceOfBlackjack ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@izumi2165No the Christian thereof that we will be tortured

    • @revwroth3698
      @revwroth3698 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds better to me, but I enjoyed watching such terrible films as Birdemic, Poultrygeist, and Trolls 2 with my friends online. That was intentional consumption of bad movies though, I was expecting bad and got it lol. In fact, that's how I discovered my favorite ever director, Neil Breen... okay I'm going to watch I Am Here.... Now now. *runs down hill screaming with empty tuna cans tumbling around me*

  • @0baddawa0
    @0baddawa0 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    The Subway Scene was one of the most realistic parts. You don't realize how much you miss sandwiches until you don't have access for a year.

    • @HeroBear64
      @HeroBear64 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Subway’s the only time I get a sandwich ngl

    • @MaticTheProto
      @MaticTheProto ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@HeroBear64 poor americans

    • @HeroBear64
      @HeroBear64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MaticTheProto if that is directed at me (idk if it is, tones hard to figure through text), I’m not American lol
      And if it isn’t, lmao, poor Americans, if only they had healthcare

  • @spiranomad
    @spiranomad ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Speaking of wolverines. When I was a kid, my mom bought a DVD titled "wolverine" thinking it was the character from the older X-Men movies. Originally it was called "Codename: wolverine" and was some TV action movie from '96 that was...okay

    • @spaghetti1641
      @spaghetti1641 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My mum got March of the Penguins and Happy Feet confused. Tbf I enjoyed march of the penguins more.

    • @edwardphilibin3151
      @edwardphilibin3151 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I heard there was a deleted post-credits scene from that film where Deadpool time-watches in Logan and She-hulk... to slap a trademark infringement lawsuit on the producers to prevent the movie being made.
      True story. 😉

    • @lolstalgic9602
      @lolstalgic9602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice Shadowbolt Pfp

  • @notakirakarakaza2118
    @notakirakarakaza2118 ปีที่แล้ว +225

    The US doesn't need a foreign power to topple their institution, I think they're doing a fine job of that themselves.

    • @---l---
      @---l--- ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Hey! We love our Freedom Fries and Our Murder Tools! Now, come stay warm by the book fire

    • @notakirakarakaza2118
      @notakirakarakaza2118 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@---l--- It really does sound like a grand time, but I think I'll pass for now

    • @TheLizardlord23
      @TheLizardlord23 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ouch... This hurts cause it's true.

    • @mediumvillain
      @mediumvillain ปีที่แล้ว +16

      as an american, youre correct. been in decline for quite awhile. even during late 20th century "boom" periods ppl think of as relatively good times the foundations of corruption, unrestrained capitalism, extreme inequality & institutional decline were being laid

    • @literalsarcasm1830
      @literalsarcasm1830 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "The only one who gets to kill me is me!"

  • @bigginsd1
    @bigginsd1 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    In Independence Day 2 they had one female Chinese actress, who for the entire movie was awkwardly hit on by a nerdy white guy who kept referring to her as his “future wife”. At the end of the movie she smiled and offered him a date. So despite trying to pander to the Chinese market they fell for the worst stereotype of creepy white guys who fetishise Asian women. Like this guy immediately became obsessed with her despite knowing nothing about her. It was icky, and they portrayed it as endearing. It was very ham fisted on the filmmakers part.

    • @RickyT15
      @RickyT15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      While I agree there is people who overdo in how they approach someone that is their type and do a terrible job.
      Beyond the personality stuff everyone has their types and this is initial based on looks, now this can small thinks like height, weight etc but it can also go in things like race.
      Pushing fetishism onto anyone who has a type is just bullshit reasoning when that has nothing to do with it and is just the person personality towards someone they have an interest in and who and what that other person is, isn't relevant.

    • @whyjnot420
      @whyjnot420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RickyT15 I concur. Even if a person is obsessed with a specific type it isn't a fetish. Using the term fetish the way the op did is quite demeaning to all sorts of people. It implies that it is the only reason someone is with another person. Technically a fetish is anything outside of the reproductive parts of a person that gives or is strongly connected to someone getting sexual gratification, with or without actual intercourse. Simply being attracted to or even obsessed with a specific demographic is not that type of gratification and anyone using it that way is a moron.
      edit: btw I can deal with some stuff, like using an apparently well known chinese actress in a role that can clearly be accommodating to such a person. As was the case with Independence Day 2. A little tacky, but I can deal with it if it can be made to work with the story. For that movie, what I found insane, was the chinese product placement. I can understand a chinese product that is widely available in the US being used in an American movie, but this was clearly shoehorned into an American movie for a chinese audience and likely also to appease the ccp minders that only allow a certain number of foreign movies to play in chinese theaters each year. (I wouldn't be surprised if it was on a checklist of things that need to be done even)
      edit 2: Offensive were the dialogue lines that play to the ccp, like when they yell something like 'we need to tell the central government'.

  • @vietlee4290
    @vietlee4290 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This movie has a special place in my heart. My film teacher gave me tickets specifically for my birthday. She thought i would like it because it has Asians.
    It does has Asians, As. The. Enemies.

    • @warweasel2832
      @warweasel2832 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So many layers of racism. Extra layers if you're not Korean or even Chinese.

  • @AkinokazeHaruichiban
    @AkinokazeHaruichiban ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I strongly recommend watching 2011 then the 80's one when doing a double feature. That way you tell a single cohesive story [that ends with the better of the 2] which shows The Thing go from arrogant creature that knows little about humanity, to shrewd monster biding it's time having learnt how dangerous we can be.
    Now, if only we could get a de-digitised version released, as the film was made nearly all practically, but the studio then slapped lackluster CGI over it cause "it looked like something made in the 80's".... totally missing the damn point.

  • @atomicgaming3359
    @atomicgaming3359 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Remember that time Disney tried to hide the fact a black guy was one of their main leads in a movie to market to china

    • @lucasinazumai9873
      @lucasinazumai9873 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, and I'm assuming this was before or around the time I was born so please tell me the details.

    • @sebastianquinchia1840
      @sebastianquinchia1840 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      ​​@@lucasinazumai9873t's actually John Boyega from the Star Wars sequels... So very recently

    • @tristanpotter2183
      @tristanpotter2183 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@lucasinazumai9873You know what they say about assuming

    • @dragnbreath1
      @dragnbreath1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They said the same thing about the new little mermaid.. which to be fair the Chinese poster has her really dark so you can't see any features

    • @SEDYT358
      @SEDYT358 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The Black Panther posters also had him wearing the helmet unlike western versions of it... not sure how Chinese people felt once the movie actually started but there you have it

  • @smith22041
    @smith22041 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    James Kyson (Korean) played Ando Masahashi (Japanese) in the TV show Heroes. Heard Japanese fans would try talk talking to him on the street, had to tell the he didn't actually speak Japanese. I guess they just fed him his lines to repeat when needed to speak the few Japanese parts.

  • @TheLordofMetroids
    @TheLordofMetroids ปีที่แล้ว +26

    For the record, for 4Kids, it wasn't about not explaining things to kids, it was about them trying to pretend they made Pokemon. Like in house, that they weren't just a dubbing company. So every reference to Japanese culture had to be scrubbed away.

    • @GeebusCrust
      @GeebusCrust ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "What? Anime? No, this is a cartoon. It's not some nerd shit."
      -4Kids, probably

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Do you have a source for that? Because the way I heard it was that the pokemon company itself insisted on a lot of localisations

  • @BaronVonQuiply
    @BaronVonQuiply ปีที่แล้ว +21

    It's s simple thing, yes, but I appreciate the consistent use of the green screen over the years.

  • @blitzkrieg2142k
    @blitzkrieg2142k ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Homefront was another that had to change history into an alternative world to explain why Korea controlled all of Asia beyond China and could land substantial forces in the US and push for into the US.

    • @SPECTRA_87
      @SPECTRA_87 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      At least Homefront tried with NK becoming a tech powerhouse. The 2012 red dawn was just "BAM" Korea is here.

  • @Jayk129
    @Jayk129 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun story: There is a middle school in my city whose school mascot are the Wolverines. Students there today believe that the mascot is based on the animal (just like the University of Michigan, and in fact what the school uses on there shirts and stuff), and a few jokingly say it’s from the superhero. But neither is true. That middle school is in the school district I attended in middle school. In fact when it was built my middle school class was going to be split over the summer with half the kids becoming the first graduating class at that new school and the district let us nominate and vote on the mascot. Oh yeah and by the way this was in 1985, the year after Red Dawn came out (and had just come to home video.) So in fact the choice of Wolverines for the mascot is 100% because of the movie. It’s was literally the same phenomenon as Boaty McBoatface.

  • @littlegravitas9898
    @littlegravitas9898 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Its Tima Time

    • @MojaveMoron
      @MojaveMoron ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like the Shaun the sheep spinoff

    • @chrisnorris7527
      @chrisnorris7527 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why is every pinned comment on every youtube video random nonsense that is some play on the old "it's morbin time" meme? Is this some kind of protest to clog up comment sections with useless information? Where is my random people arguing about religion and comparing neopets to governments? We gotta get back to our usual nonrandom nonsense.

    • @littlegravitas9898
      @littlegravitas9898 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@chrisnorris7527 when the video first went up, they had misspelled time, as tima. That's all, no conspiracy to do a meme format that you,personally, don't like in every space you occupy. Though, a wise person once said, that's the for you page bro. Maybe the reason the algo sends it your way, is because you engaged with comments like this before? Who knows.

  • @CompanionCorbs
    @CompanionCorbs ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So glad Karl gets it about Pride merch & imagery. Even the most cynical and corporate representation helps

  • @luiscuellar685
    @luiscuellar685 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jelly donuts are my favorite.
    Nothing beats a jelly filled donut.

  • @wintyrqueen
    @wintyrqueen ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Shang Chi didn’t get released in China, because China didn’t like its star, & because Marvel didn’t fire Chloe Zhang from Eternals (basically every film from Black Widow to Love & Thunder was blocked from the market)

    • @zbotlive2710
      @zbotlive2710 ปีที่แล้ว

      and for those with little knowledge, (asking for a friend)
      who is Chloe Zhang and why did china not want her on moving pictures

    • @VelaiciaCreator
      @VelaiciaCreator ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zbotlive2710 She probably was on board with "Free Hong Kong".

    • @wintyrqueen
      @wintyrqueen ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@zbotlive2710 Back in 2013 she did an interview where she talked about her childhood, & said that “lies we’re everywhere” in China then. That was enough.
      Simu Liu, likewise, described leaving the country as a child, & likened China to a third world country, where people were dying of starvation.
      Both cases of people describing their personal memories, not even saying about current affairs.

  • @TheAdamDundas
    @TheAdamDundas ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here's another fun fact about this movie. Some of it was recorded in Mt. Clemens, MI. Because of this, I was an extra in the bar scene at the beginning.

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it a fun fact for anyone who doesn't know you already?

  • @ascendingdemon4801
    @ascendingdemon4801 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    When companies tout "business ethics" I laugh my ass off 😂, the idea is just a bullshit oxymoron

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว

      their conscience looks like cold, hard cash

  • @slayerat5280
    @slayerat5280 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the commentary on cynicism and the nudges to the overton window at the end. I look at it as a diversity of tactics. It might not be the ideal way to make change, but it does make change and reaches a lot of people that normally wouldnt be exposed to those ideas.

  • @sytuma
    @sytuma ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The two doctors in a 3 minute scene for the Chinese version had top billing in the credits like right after Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the Chinese version, aka the doctored version :P

  • @RebornPrince923
    @RebornPrince923 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I've been watching your videos for a few years now and this is honestly the first time I've actually known a lot of the facts you shared. Red Dawn is one of my favorite movies because of how "Merica" it is and because I've always found it humorous they made the changes for nothing. This is probably one of my favorite videos on the channel now right next to the Emu War video where I learned of the horror that is Gimpy Gimpy bush. Keep up the great work guys.

    • @MaticTheProto
      @MaticTheProto ปีที่แล้ว

      american propaganda is just every hollywood movie and cod game. Stale and annoying shit

  • @DroseraNara
    @DroseraNara ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My step dad made me watch this movie. He's commented on how 'un-patriotic' and 'un-american' I am before, I imagine this was in some kind of effort to make me care more? I couldn't help but roll my eyes the entire damn time.

  • @NomadNDY
    @NomadNDY ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I Watched this on cable, on a channel called "star movies" or something, a movie streaming channel available in the Philippines, years ago when I was a kid. And I remember how they advertised it on the T.V channel. It was not the normal trailer. It was instead the style of honest trailer. I remember it because when they described the characters they said "Baby Thor, Peta Melark... and ripping off a superheroes name 'WOLVERINES!!!' ". For the life of me can never find proof of this. I've been hit with a weird Mandela Effect and I don't know if it happened or not.
    Another instance of this is in Die Hard 5 on the same channel, where after credits show that Bruce Willis is talking to Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford mad about something at John McClane, Harrison seems to be a person of power above John atleast. and the last thing I can remember was John McClane saying "Be careful my son is in the CIA." I think it's eluding to a connection with Expendables 3 because it was near to release then.
    I don't know if anyone has seen this or is familiar, but this had been in my head when I watch these movies. And I don't know if it happened or not...

  • @roryscott2941
    @roryscott2941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Producer of RD2012: We'll be happy to remove anything you feel wouldn't fly in China. My film is just as anxious to avoid conflicts as you or me. My film isn't a troublemaker. Plot doesn't matter in action movies anyways and those who think it does are ... not worth catering to.
    Colonel Ernesto Bella: [to an aide-de-camp] This community is indeed fortunate to have a shepherd like him.
    (They laugh together at the producer)

  • @ramshacklealex7772
    @ramshacklealex7772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love that subtle little Lady Dynamite reference

  • @Tyraeous
    @Tyraeous ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Corporate participation in various social or cultural movements is purely money driven, yes. There are no "woke" corporations, there are just corporations chasing a profit motive.
    However...
    These moves are not done on a whim. Corporations spend an enormous amount of resources studying every aspect of society. If a corporation starts supporting one group that they were not supporting before, it is because their market research is telling them there is something significant there.
    If a whole bunch of companies start supporting a cause they didn't before, it may make for a good barometer of active societal change.

  • @mustnotlove
    @mustnotlove ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've litterally been looking for this channel for like 2 years. I forgot the name and used to listen to videos while working. Why only recently am I suggested a video?? C'mon youtube

    • @phaeste
      @phaeste ปีที่แล้ว

      at least you have 2 years worth of content to binge now

  • @TomB205
    @TomB205 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    While Red Dawn was certainly very dramatized, you have to remember that poorly armed teenagers and young adults in pickup trucks have been some of the most effective fighting forces for the last half century. Look at Afghanistan, the US spent billions of dollars, lost thousands of soldiers, all to ultimately loose to people armed primarily with rusty AKs, sandals, and Toyotas. If I recall correctly, in Red Dawn the Russians only manage to invade part of the US, and the US military was still functioning, just somewhere else. The Wolverines didn't fight the entire invasion force, just one unit tasked with controlling their local area.
    Even today, Wolverine like groups are operating behind Russian lines in Ukraine to weaken the invasion force.

    • @theGIFTcast
      @theGIFTcast ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Found the dude who fell for the propaganda

    • @TomB205
      @TomB205 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@theGIFTcast yes, because recognizing that these exact tactics have been used effectively against Americans for decades, means that I means that I believe propaganda that Americans are better than everyone else.

    • @theGIFTcast
      @theGIFTcast ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TomB205 Untrained teenagers with guns will beat a trained invading force? Damn bro, that’s such a bold claim that’s definitely based in evidence and not propaganda. Ukraine is well armed against Russia and the fighters in Afghanistan weren’t untrained, they literally were funded and trained by the CIA up until the us invaded them.

    • @TomB205
      @TomB205 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@theGIFTcast the supposed propaganda we're talking about is that "Americans are just better." What does that have to do with the FACT that there were many untrained fighters that effectively fought against US troops in Afghanistan? Sure, some of Al Queda and the Mujahedeen received CIA training before being folded into the Taliban, but the vast majority of Taliban fighters had basically no formal training during much of the US's occupation. As far as Ukraine goes, maybe you didn't follow the news back then, but during the initial invasion the Ukrainian government was giving out weapons to untrained civilians like they were handing out candy in a parade. Groups of civilians worked together to make molotovs and ieds. The trained Ukrainian army made up only a portion of the initial resistance to the invasion. Sure, many of those untrained fighters who survived have been adopted into the Ukrainian army and received some formal training after the initial invasion was pushed back, but there are still untrained civilians working to undermine Russian control in occupied Ukraine.

    • @theGIFTcast
      @theGIFTcast ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TomB205 You realize when Ukraine massively lost on the first push because they were untrained and under armed, right? And AQ had heavy training an armament from the Taliban? Do you think AQ was just a bunch of unarmed, untrained and unprepared people? It was a fully trained and strategized force. Sure a well armed militia will do some damage but unless they have centralized resources and strategy they’re not going to win. Get out of here with this ahistorical bull

  • @Girlmossy
    @Girlmossy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The original red dawn was a part of my childhood and i didnt even know there was a remake lmao

  •  ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very nice video, glad i've watched it. Keep up the good work

  • @agent74113
    @agent74113 ปีที่แล้ว

    me too on the snowy day "The Thing" watching tradition. my Snowy day movies are The Thing, The Hateful Eight, and Home Alone.

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As an American with a penchant for British/English history, With Queen Elizabeth II, nothing any of the other members of the royal family would do tarnished how I felt about the monarchy in the UK. As for me at least, that mental image was based on the queen. To me 'the royal family' and 'the monarchy' are basically separate entities in my mind. Or at least they were, at a time when I had never seen a member of the royal family become monarch (she had been queen for 30 years or so when I was born).
    I have actually been wondering how things will change in that regard now that she has passed. (I.e. how I feel about the UK's monarchy)
    note: It is not as if I would give a pass to any actions so long as they were done by this prince or that princess or whatnot. Just that until the queen died, when I had the general thought about what the modern monarchy there was, it was her that I had in my head. After all, she was the damned Queen, she wasn't some prince acting inappropriately or something. There are still times when shit still doesn't flow uphill (here this is entirely to do with how she acted, not her position as queen... also if shit did flow uphill, she would never be clean enough to wear those pastels).
    note 2: I am talking about the monarchy in the context of soft power. When it comes to other aspects of monarchy, such as their role in a modern government or something like that, something with hard legal implications/ramifications, that is a very different topic with a very different _set_ of answers.

  • @bverrue602
    @bverrue602 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Pointless remake? Any Disney remake. Point Break. Red Dawn. Next thing you know they're going to make another couple of Patrick Swayze movies. Ghost, The Outsiders, Too Wong Foo.

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Disney remakes that are within 10 years of going public domain at least make sense. Remaking the 90's movies is just ruining them and any desire kids today would have for the original.

  • @derberzo2401
    @derberzo2401 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There is an Australian Movie that is kind of a reamake of Red Dawn. The movie is from 2010 and is better than the red dawn remake. Its called Tomorrow, When the War Began. Its also more belivebel than red dawn.

    • @mynameiskline6658
      @mynameiskline6658 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really enjoyed this movie as well and was sad when they never got to film any of the sequels they were planning to...

    • @kingtyranius2207
      @kingtyranius2207 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately was terrible, better off reading the book series.

  • @NotYourNhaama
    @NotYourNhaama ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Happy Pride y'all!

  • @Thought_Processing_
    @Thought_Processing_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This film reminded me of an argument I had with my mum once so UK people only:
    If I said ‘peppers’ what do you think of?

    • @dickwaffle468
      @dickwaffle468 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...Peppers?

    • @Danlows1
      @Danlows1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bell pepper.
      Or black pepper

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The worst, by far the absolute worst time a movie has blatantly changed one banner to another. Was when Taco Bell got replaced by Pizza Hut in Demolition Man.

  • @Thought_Processing_
    @Thought_Processing_ ปีที่แล้ว +13

    As to your last point about inclusiveness in media is a good thing I worry that because studios are doing it cynically they are using it as an attempted crutch. I worry that it becomes counterproductive as studios simply cast a minority in a role in a bad movie and then say see this movie or buy this thing or you are a racist/sexist/bigot (choose as applicable) and that you’re average person gets annoyed as they don’t like the movie/product because it’s bad and they get a negative association with the community or people that the company cynically used.
    As an example of what I mean take the 2016 ghostbusters reboot where they used an all female cast. That movie had a terrible script and was overall bad, now granted some people liked it but most didn’t and because part of the marketing implied that you had to see that film or you hate women. A lot of people (well men) got turned against feminism and what was dubbed SJWs because of it.

    • @VelaiciaCreator
      @VelaiciaCreator ปีที่แล้ว

      Most examples of this happening as people put it are successful films. The whiny man-children make a loud fuss, but they still make enough money for the studios. Way I see it, it's just the next wave of film makers doing what THEY want to do, just like the last dozen waves did.

    • @zwenkwiel816
      @zwenkwiel816 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could not have said it better myself

    • @zwenkwiel816
      @zwenkwiel816 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could not have said it better myself

  • @chachadeath1
    @chachadeath1 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My favorite part about this pride month, is that the companies realized that it is in fact not profitable, and the rainbow flags were walked back in record breaking time.

  • @zer0luv
    @zer0luv ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Joke was on Disney over Shang-Chi cause it wasn't even released there. China even blocked one of their pop stars from being on the soundtrack.

  • @multiverseguy1239
    @multiverseguy1239 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm here for Karl teaching us media

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To be fair, someone could take a video of me talking but with no sound and ask people "Where is he from?" England, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, any of those wouldn't be bad guesses based on appearance and aside from German (I am an American of German descent) would be further separated ethnically than the peoples of China are from Koreans (sure there are others, but for the most part we are talking about the Han people here in all three nations).

  • @schnozzle3543
    @schnozzle3543 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Shoutout to the title

  • @briantieken6718
    @briantieken6718 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about the Billy Bob Thorton Bad News Bears? The director didn't get that the movie wasn't supposed to be about the coach.

  • @Eta_Hoyimi
    @Eta_Hoyimi ปีที่แล้ว

    Went looking for a thing and ended up with a different thing. Things happen.

  • @en-men-lu-ana6870
    @en-men-lu-ana6870 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:54 that pun made me giggle.

  • @alessandronicastri4172
    @alessandronicastri4172 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have to be that nerd: John Carpenter's The Thing is NOT a remake, but instead a separate adaption of the source material, that being the novella Who Goes There?. I would argue that a remake is something that re-creates something of the same source material, which is why 2012 Red Dawn is indeed a remake. But the Thing is more like Denis Villeneuve's Dune in that it is not considered a remake of the 1984 Dune. Or, say, if another Lord of the Rings trilogy were to be made, it would not be considered a remake of Peter Jackson's versions as it would (presumably, if they're doing it right) be based on the source novels.

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But under your definition, it is a remake

    • @alessandronicastri4172
      @alessandronicastri4172 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anna-flora999 No, since the source material is different (book vs movie).

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alessandronicastri4172 source material of the first adaptation: the book (albeit very loosely)
      Source material of the second adaptation by carpenter: the book (a lot less loosely)
      You said its a remake if it recreates something from the same source material

    • @alessandronicastri4172
      @alessandronicastri4172 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anna-flora999 Here I'm using source material to refer to source format. So it's not a remake because it uses different source format (book to movie).

  • @arshputz
    @arshputz ปีที่แล้ว

    I got excited for a "catch me if you can" sequel

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only real con Frank Abagnale pulled was convincing Spielberg of his "life story" whereas when a journalist looked into it for a book they found almost nothing to support any of Frank's claims.

  • @jaymontana2708
    @jaymontana2708 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    To add to the possibility of social change happening after capitalism realises it can make money off of getting with the times. We can probably expect a trans version of Will & Grace sometime in the next decade that may finally normalize trans existence to a majority of people.

  • @revwroth3698
    @revwroth3698 ปีที่แล้ว

    Buddy, you don't have to explain Red Dawn to me. I've seen Hot Tub Time Machine!

  • @geoxev9423
    @geoxev9423 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video does make me think.
    Did Godzilla vs. Kong get released in China? If so how did it do? Because Hong Kong gets destroyed.😅
    Also the movie 2012 probably gave raging boners to Chinese Government. Because it made China look like they saved humanity by building gaint Arks. 😂

  • @_yiggy
    @_yiggy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    John Wayne, you know John Wayne?

  • @IchiroFuma
    @IchiroFuma ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Jelly filled are my favorite

  • @Greeny_UCH
    @Greeny_UCH ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Keep the title it maka me giggle

  • @matthewhunter643
    @matthewhunter643 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something I’ve noticed over the last few months, this channel had like 748k subscribers, now down to 738k, what’s up? Why are people leaving? Drop in quality? Some controversy I’m unaware of?

    • @phaeste
      @phaeste ปีที่แล้ว

      the channel just stopped getting as many views a long time ago, so it's probably inactive subscribers

  • @---l---
    @---l--- ปีที่แล้ว

    I do appreciate how much Big Wangers Inc wants , ya know the same rights and freedoms for everyone. Regardless or who they love or how they show up in the world.
    /Sincerity

  • @thisoldcar2054
    @thisoldcar2054 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Newer Thing was technically a prequel...

    • @phaeste
      @phaeste ปีที่แล้ว

      as stated in the video

  • @themanformerlyknownascomme777
    @themanformerlyknownascomme777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the thing is, if you ever get familiar with Chinese folk, they know this exact brand of American Exceptionalism. They would( and did) see right through this nonsense.

  • @jaydavis9717
    @jaydavis9717 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Even as a straigt male im 100% down with more lgbt imagery. Just the other day, due to pride month, facebook threw this music video of this group of individual gay/drag queen rappers at me and let me tell you that 90% of the barz were strsigt FIRE 🔥!

    • @Captain_Yata
      @Captain_Yata ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just want to say that you are an absolute chad and are more than welcome with us, it goes without saying that being straight is absolutely fine and I'm glad you're being you 💙

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't appease them, the more you bend the more they'll take, it'll never be enough, at some point they'll still claim you aren't doing enough for them, and then there'll be nobody left to stand up for you.

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, that's how I feel about you bigots trying to make North America, openly a toxic and hatefilled palce again. Every time someone takes your crowd seriously, anyone with decent morals throws up a little in their mouth.@@esmeecampbell7396

  • @FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf
    @FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf ปีที่แล้ว

    WOLVERINES!!!

  • @_Hissatsu
    @_Hissatsu ปีที่แล้ว

    Tima tima tima tima

  • @aaronbecker5617
    @aaronbecker5617 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now in the original they all mostly died in the end......which seems pretty realistic

  • @HotDogTimeMachine385
    @HotDogTimeMachine385 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I didn't even know this movie exists, but omg
    Happy pride!

  • @knightsurda
    @knightsurda ปีที่แล้ว

    Meanwhile I own both versions of Total Recall...

  • @mrandrews3616
    @mrandrews3616 ปีที่แล้ว

    At least it's easier to change Tima to Time

  • @gdprsn
    @gdprsn ปีที่แล้ว

    Tolerance is not Acceptance.

  • @ryanewald9740
    @ryanewald9740 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know that list that captain America has in the marvel movies about what he need to see to get up on pop culture.
    Captain AMERICA would not give a shit about the world cup of SOCCER. Why would any region outside of the US think he would?

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because he's not supposed to be an arrogant, ignorant asshole but an empathetic person trying to connect with his fellow man where ever he may come from?
      Also, he is the child of an Irish immigrant. He probably played more soccer in his youth then American football. He also fought in WW2 on the side of British troops and was in love with a British woman. Do you really think Steve Rogers, kindest most empathic man in the world, wouldn't want to know about the favourite sport of the country the woman he's in love with comes from?

    • @ryanewald9740
      @ryanewald9740 ปีที่แล้ว

      @anna-flora999 no. 1920s ass captain America with no real ability to know what is happening in the world would even know what professional sports are outside the United States let alone have any context of how the world reacts to them. Like the world series of baseball. Ya baseball was big in the US at the time. Boxing was huge in the 1920s. You're thinking of Superman. Superman being an alien and concealing his identity as a Kansas farm boy goes out of his way to relate to everyone in the world. Captain America as a soldier of war literally does not have much reason to socially relate himself with things outside his country

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ryanewald9740yes. He doesn't have a reason to. But he still does. That's the entire point. That's what makes him captain America, that's why he was chosen for the serum experiment. You're thinking of red skull, or fake captain America from that tv show

  • @420drwilldo
    @420drwilldo ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah this years pride chant is we're here,we're queer we're coming for your children,,,it's a video I think everyone needs to see

    • @phaeste
      @phaeste ปีที่แล้ว

      thanks for proving you being horrible at media literacy, it's satirizing conservatives unironically claiming that we are "coming for your children"

  • @ZxTHEJAILOR
    @ZxTHEJAILOR ปีที่แล้ว

    1st love these videos thanks for all the uploads.

  • @benwagner5089
    @benwagner5089 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Imagine wanting to watch a kids movie and see a DVD that has no cover art called Frozen. Should be safe for the youngster's right? WRONG! There's a movie of the same name that was released in roughly the same timeframe. Girl has to survive being left on the ski lift over the weekend, while being hunted by a pack of wolves.
    Olaf it is not.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว

      a friend of mine once explained that movie titles aren't allowed to be trademarked

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then how come we haven't had dozens of movies with the same name, instead we have a bunch of almost identical titles.@@CorvusCorone68

  • @jamesrogers7049
    @jamesrogers7049 ปีที่แล้ว

    We got our asses beat by guerillas in Vietnam. It could happen. Besides doomsday peppers are sometimes legit beasts. Not the sewer guy tho

  • @inside1283
    @inside1283 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s about tima you made a video on this

  • @Lrbearclaw
    @Lrbearclaw ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Red Dawn was named in reference to the Red Scare, Communism. Not the flags, but I can see why tou thought that.

    • @VTSfilms
      @VTSfilms ปีที่แล้ว +4

      cummunism itself doesn't have a color, but the 2 largest countries that have communism both have red flags, and therefore comunism is assosiated with red and hence the name, the red scare

    • @jrickclark
      @jrickclark ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the 60s, the slogan “Better dead than red” referred specifically to Communism itself, not the flags. I’ve always associated “red” with Communism. A quick Google search on “why is red associated with communism“ has lots of good theories

  • @joeyvanhaperen7715
    @joeyvanhaperen7715 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now I'm curieus did the fallout franchise do this? Like I know they show both china and the us as the bad guy's bassicly, but did bethesda chance things for china or did they simply say were not gona chance things for you?

    • @kyleellis1825
      @kyleellis1825 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you think they have no answer on who actually started the war in those games?

    • @joeyvanhaperen7715
      @joeyvanhaperen7715 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kyleellis1825 to keep things mysterieuz....

  • @jonathan198627
    @jonathan198627 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm fully on board with forcing people to accept reality, I mean my kids come home with stories of pro Nazi talk in a grade School bus. It's sickening.

  • @banishedone8870
    @banishedone8870 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still saddened by how much of the remake of thing was practical then GC'D over

  • @Astral_Drago
    @Astral_Drago ปีที่แล้ว

    I did the same thing with Dawn of the Dead.

  • @threateninglyamusing286
    @threateninglyamusing286 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hollywood does what American't

  • @outlaw832005
    @outlaw832005 ปีที่แล้ว

    I need to sleep. I should not have seen this.

  • @brknglasses2734
    @brknglasses2734 ปีที่แล้ว

    THE THING (2011) IS GREAT, AND I WILL ARM WRESLE YOU TO PROVE IT!
    I'm working on something way more convincing, but I just wanted to challenge you to an arm wrestling... challenge...
    I figured challenging you to a fight wouldn't be funny, and I'm not gonna challenge ANYONE to a race, because I haven't won a race since kindergarten.

  • @krognarTV
    @krognarTV ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the titla

  • @kommandantgalileo
    @kommandantgalileo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Right, there is an anime about tanks, it's called Girls Und Panzer, it should get a video, it's utterly ridiculous.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว

      so easy to one-up in anime when it comes to ridiculous, like for example FLCL

  • @darladay4766
    @darladay4766 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Become a part of everyday life"
    US Republicans:
    🧐

  • @Draylin41
    @Draylin41 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't personally have anything against Pride month or people supporting Gays in general, but I don't really care. Yes, they need to speak up to not be treated as badly as they have been before, but sexual orientation doesn't need to be publicly known. The fact people still use that as a way to discriminate is pretty disgusting.

  • @mattpark909
    @mattpark909 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yup I'm done.

  • @lennycuellar
    @lennycuellar ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The aussie film, Tomorrow when the war began, was soooo much better than rad dumb.

    • @spaghetti1641
      @spaghetti1641 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes! And they never named the enemy which made it better. More realistic to save an aussie rural town because you went for a bush walk.

  • @samf1089
    @samf1089 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The red is about communism isn't it? Not the flag itself.

  • @johnnytwostrike
    @johnnytwostrike ปีที่แล้ว

    Or the most hated thing in the world

  • @geoxev9423
    @geoxev9423 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just realized that I highly doubt Fallout TV show will be available in China. Considering the Great War started with China losing the war against US. And in Fallout lore, China is a gaint radioactive hole.

    • @ArchOfWinter
      @ArchOfWinter ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a theory that the Great War was an inside job or done by a third party.

  • @jondw
    @jondw ปีที่แล้ว +1

    with the talk about rainbow capitalism i want to share that is also a measuring tool in a way. if companies are pandering to queer people, that means they see more money in supporting pride than they predict they would lose from bigots protesting it. granted there are other variables too(the overlap between people who would shoot at innocent people and are bigots is rather high and people shooting up their stores is really bad PR for companies)

    • @jondw
      @jondw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and of course I hit play to continue after typing this up and you immediately start talking about the whole idea behind my comment.

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not that it's at all bigoted to call anyone who disagrees with you a "bigot"

    • @jondw
      @jondw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@esmeecampbell7396 bigot can be defined as "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group" people against queer people existing definitely qualify, and if you think my belief that people shouldn't be mistreated for something so harmless as being queer is equivalent that sounds like a you problem
      ps. look up the paradox of tolarance

    • @esmeecampbell7396
      @esmeecampbell7396 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jondw the paradox of tolerance being, according to you, I have to tolerate you and yet you don't have to tolerate me. You can say or do whatever you want, but yet I'm not allowed to.
      So under your definition I'd say you qualify as a bigot for being obstinately and unreasonably attached to your belief, opinion and faction.

    • @jondw
      @jondw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@esmeecampbell7396 I actually did not give a definition or description of the paradox of tolerance, merely suggested that you look it up. though by your wording you evidently did not, so I shall here. the paradox of tolerance is that in order to maintain a tolerant society intolerance can not be tolerated. this is(in a simplified terms) because over time those who are intolerant, by their nature of intolerance, will inevitably push out those who are tolerant.
      as for that second point, I'll admit I am rather obstinate in my belief that people shouldn't be harassed, threatened, harmed, or otherwise punished for something that harms literally no one and has even been proven time and time again to be real and actually healthy to follow through on. and if that is unreasonable to you then I pity you and pray that you can one day grow into a better person

  • @dennis4774
    @dennis4774 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Russia is losing to farmers

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว

      farmers armed by the biggest military in the world; the US hasn't given troops but it's not hard to figure out who made the new toys Ukraine is deploying

  • @Veteranbro
    @Veteranbro ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im just taking the piss here but……… I Fear you forget the time you guys invaded the U.S and a bunch of kids using gorilla tactics beat the greatest standing army of the world GB and the U.S won. Love you, your videos, and the hang keep doing what you’re doing.

    • @CorvusCorone68
      @CorvusCorone68 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      technically the victory came after the US got an army of its' own; Washington was general before he was president

    • @anna-flora999
      @anna-flora999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A bunch of kids lead by one of the best prussian generals at the time and supported by England's biggest rival at the time.

  • @colejames3654
    @colejames3654 ปีที่แล้ว

    im here so early

  • @tyresedennis2411
    @tyresedennis2411 ปีที่แล้ว

    The person with the biggest wanger will keep the title in

  • @jrickclark
    @jrickclark ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video! But…
    I don’t want to be “not all companies,” but to assume the cynicism that companies only ever want profits, and are incapable of making ethical choices is way too general.
    Big Wangers, Inc. is a company. Are BW’s business decisions made exclusively to gain profit, with no regard to ethics? If not, then it’s not fair to paint all other companies with that brush.
    Profits are, of course, a critical part of a business. Without them, the company can’t continue to exist (as Big Wangers is also aware). But it doesn’t mean that that’s the ONLY thing that matters to the company. It’s an important factor, but usually not the only factor.
    Also, if people want Pride tshirts or merch, where could they possibly get them if they were not manufactured and sold by for-profit companies?
    If we as consumers like to buy (non-necessity) things, then it’s not really fair to demonize the companies that make them for us. Criticize them, sure. But companies are not out to get us. They’re there because we want them to be, so we can buy stuff

  • @DomAnthony89
    @DomAnthony89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You mean the imagery of grown men performing sex acts in public and in front of children and celebrating it? That's not too far and should be celebrated still?

  • @AzureDrag0n1
    @AzureDrag0n1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am getting some serious cringe just listening to this video. I can not finish it. It is too much cringe just hearing about this movie.

  • @Johnny5Toy
    @Johnny5Toy ปีที่แล้ว

    *jam doughnut , you are British.
    Talk about changing things to suit other nations.

    • @Captain_Yata
      @Captain_Yata ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's quoting Brock you plonker