The Most Theatre Walkouts I've EVER Seen | Cannes 2022 Explained
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I got to witness my first ever Cannes mass walkout!
0:00 - Intro
2:22 - Director’s Fortnight / Special Screenings
- MEN
- God's Creatures
3:45 - Out of Competition
- Final Cut
- Three Thousand Years of Longing
- Elvis
- Top Gun Maverick
5:06 - Cannes Premiere
- Dodo
- Night of the 12th
- The Beasts
6:18 - Un Certain Regard / A Certain Glance
- The Stranger
- Corsage
- Plan 75
- The Silent Twins
- War Pony
- Sick of Myself
9:53 - En Competition
- Showing Up
- Armageddon Time
- Stars at Noon
- Tchaikovsky's Wife
- Leila's Brothers
- Holy Spider
- Crimes of the Future (Full video: • CRIMES OF THE FUTURE i... )
- Broker
- Close
- Triangle of Sadness
- Decision to Leave
- The Eight Mountains
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Cannes 2022
Kristen Stewart
Park Chan-wook
Song Kang-ho
Viggo Mortensen
Woody Harrelson
Triangle of Sadness
Ruben Ostlund
Palme d'or
Best of Cannes
Worst of Cannes
The Eight Mountains
Tilda Swinton
Idris Elba
George Miller
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A bit unsurprising how they apparently try to get around Elvis' past. No real way to sugarcoat a 24 year-old being in a relationship with a 14 year-old in which he believed that she was "young enough" that he could "train" her into being the exact person he wanted.
Oh not remotely surprised by that part aha
yeah thats hollywood for ya, always sugarcoating the worst parts of history
Yeah, it's not just that - it ranges from... Introducing him as this naive Peter Pan figure who never grows to a symbol of civil rights (?) to... Back to the naive kid but on more drugs and... Yeah. Like, there's almost a white saviour narrative added on that's. At best weird, and then apparently the whole grooming thing ? Eh, who cares, what bothered Priscilla in their relationship really is that he was *more in love with the audience than her*. Typical biopic with some extra Luhrmann pizazz but even that didn't really... Work. Which like, I wish, as a fan of the director, but, the more I think back on it, the more unimpressed I am.
Not to mention most of his songs are stolen from Black people.
Isn’t the movie like two hours and thirty minutes long? What on earth do they even focus on if it’s not Elvis’s past?
For me who worked at a cinema, walkouts only really happened with family films where parents have woefully presumed it would be okay for their barely comprehending children.
The worst sentence I've ever heard was from a person with their kid as they were walking out of Lion King 2019
"Word of advice; never take a kid who recently lost their father to see lion king"
I will never forget that 😬
If it was the original Lion King, I would understand this. But by 2019, that parent had to have known about Mufasa dying. Why risk it?
My sister screamed the cinema down during the original Jumanji. My dad took her home them came back to watch the rest of the movie. Same man took his grandson to see the second animated Addams family movie, the boy screamed and took off out of the cinema leaving pop behind.
@@crystalsmith5330 We were a little late walking into a screening of the Casper movie in the 90's and I think I was 8-10. We walked in RIGHT AT the moment the older ghosts look "really scary" to chase off the main character lol. I thought I had been tricked into a horror movie. Inconsolable. My grandma had to get me out of there. I was kicking myself when I saw it eventually cause that movie was great.
@@queencleopatra007 lol good point!! maybe they blissfully forgot? not that they forgot the plot point, but perhaps it never actually re-occurred to them how emotional and traumatic that part was, and only thought "hey let's take my kid to the movies and we'll have a nice time."
also we underestimate how there are seemingly universal things that some people genuinely don't know of. so who knows! hope the kid was fine tho.
Did they find his father?
My dad told me how when Who Framed Roger Rabbit first came out and he went to see it, a third of the theater walked out during the opening cartoon cause they thought that was gonna be the whole movie and they’d been tricked. Their loss.
I love that movie! Imagine walking out on a legendary film because they couldn’t wait more than ten minutes!
Kind of true, kind of not. The walkouts were from teenagers in test screenings before anyone knew what the movie was.
When it officially opened everyone knew what the movie was and they weren’t walking out. The opening is only 3 minutes and 40 seconds long.
Meh.
If they didn't like that opening cartoon, they probably wouldn't have like the rest of the film either.
@@ryanminton4563 my dad didn’t go to a test screening, it was opening for general audiences. He didn’t specify it they were teenagers, though.
@@oneinathousand2156 They don’t actually know how every showing of WFRR? went, they just read something about it and wanted to “correct” someone online. $20 says they’ll respond with “Actually…”
As an Iranian person, can't say how happy it made me that you took the time to go and watch holy spider. That movie will never get a release in iran . What happened to those women was inhuman , that man was inhuman and our dictatorial government does everything in its power to bury the voice of victims , especially women. You should see the outrage it's causing. Makes me all that much happier for Zar Amir Ibrahimi , not only she gave an amazing performance, but also managed to piss off those disgusting old men too.
Her speech moved me to tears when she won (despite them trying to play music to get her off stage like, twice). It was so important to give her that platform and let her be heard.
And you may not know it but liberals in America now do not allow us to mention that homophobia, transphobia, violence toward women exists in Muslim countries. If you do, you're Islamaphobic.
@@lotsanew Let me guess, it was a racist move?
good lord it's like that? maybe I should check it out. I've never seen an Iranian film anyway.
I cannot imagine what it is like being a woman in a country like that. Or even being someone with an open mind, who wants to learn.
Ive actually NEVER had a walkout in a movie Ive been to. Even when I went to see Hellboy 2 there were two little old ladies behind me and they were having a blast with the movie. Laughing at every joke, crying at emotional scenes. I want to be as happy as those two were while watching Hellboy 2.
I had an older Asian man dying laughing at everything everywhere all at once, he laughed at every joke and when all the crazy shit happened he laughed even harder. usually I dislike when people make too much noise in the theatre but his laughs and energy made the movie an even better experience
i saw aliens vs predator and the only reason it was epic was because the ppl in the cinema were going crazy for some reason lol. Like the bit where the alien jumped out of the stomach......ppl went ape shit like they didnt know that would happen after all the other alien movies lol.
The only walk outs I remember seeing in theaters were bridge to to terabithia. Two or three families walked out when it got sad
I walked out of Twilight. I didn’t know about the books, but a coworker and her teen daughter loved it, and I love vampires and werewolves and love triangles. And then he went sparkly instead of terrifying and I said something like “oh this is that bullshit” and walked out. My husband has seen all the films. I’m still mad (and have heard enough about the assassination of Jacob’s character that I know I’ll just be more pissed off).
@@nagacha42 This absolutely happened
The only walkout I really remember is for Sausage Party
yeah I get that
Sausage party is one of the best animated movies in animated movie history
I remember walkouts and heckling when I saw 10'000 BC- My friends and I ended up staying because the heckling was FUN, lol, but a good half of the theater was gone by the 45 minute mark.
@@lilzennywockhardt no
Same but with The Green Knight (I was one of them haha)
The hard thing about Elvis is that the people in his life are still around, namely Priscilla Presley, who, from what I’ve read, still doesn’t view herself as a victim. Like she still openly speaks very kindly towards the man. Hell, she still uses Presley. And so whether she isn’t a vicitm, or she is, a movie depicting her life in a traumatic relationship, without her consent, would be traumatizing.
Those are false assumptions. Priscilla, her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and her granddaughter, Riley Keough have all watched the movie and gave it praises. It brought them to tears.
@@Sharon-zj2gp sorry I think you misunderstand what I’m saying. A lot of people wish the movie had depicted elvis in a more negative light for his relationship with priscilla. I was trying to point out how harmful it could have been to her if they had gone that route regardless if it is true or not. I know the Presleys have high praises for the film which i’ve very glad to hear about
Very valid point
This is a very interesting and good point!
I feel like the solution is to depict the relationship how Priscilla describes it but make sure that you objectively show how young she was by choosing an age-accurate actress, style her how a 14-year-old would be styled, have her interests/mannerisms mirror a 14-year-old of the time, and then allow audiences to come to their own conclusion (which is likely very different than Priscilla’s).
I was actually a part of the only theater walkout I've seen. It was me and my little cousin and we went to see Jim Carrey's A Christmas Carol, it got so scary that my mom and aunt decided we should go into another theater, so we walked into Astroboy just as he was getting vaporized.
Sounds less traumatizing than A Christmas Carol
I'm not the only person who walked out of A Christmas Carol? That's kind of cool. I had to leave because the animation made me sick though.
"That movie is far too scary, let's go watch the child-friendly cartoon movie instead"
(Child gets vapourized)
"Let's just pick up something on the way home"
@@hawktato it's funny too because I mean, the original novel is literally the ghost of an investor in hell visiting his business partner and telling him that three ghosts will confront him with his deepest, bitterest, most shameful mistakes and regrets until he is traumatized into straightening up. It's a hard-core premise.
D'oh!
I always enjoy your wrap-up breakdowns of film festival movies like this. I generally don't go out of my way to engage with movies in the "higher art" genre mostly because it seems "high art" means "grounded and depressing." Which, like, my life sucks as is - I don't need a movie to be like "hey, remember, the world sucks!" It's all personal taste. That said, I enjoy hearing what all cane out and have a brief summary of what they were and if they're good. Legit - some of them sound really amazing and perhaps, at a later point in my life where I'm more stable, I'll come back to watch some of them. Tchaikovsky's Wife in particular looks and sounds very interesting.
Wow, I was coming to comment exactly this. So . . . Ditto
"I know life sucks, I want happy stories!" solidarity in this thread 🤝
Not to mention that many of them reek of "awards bait" musk; you feel they are trying to gain as much critical praise so they can do massive "for your consideration" campaigns, and the more tragic, the more real to life, and the more "insightful and meaningful", the harder they will push for that Oscar Gold. Listen I can appreciate a downer story when done right, but when it's cynical just to try and get an award I ain't going to bother.
Ugh this! I always feel bad about not having "better taste" in media but like, if I'm going to watch something for entertainment, I want to be ENTERTAINED not further depressed
I’m completely the opposite. I love the “higher art” movies. I watch them almost exclusively. I just find the more “popcorn” type movies empty and soulless and mediocre. I don’t hate them all and I’ll take most Disney movies but I genuinely thought one of the fast and furious movies was 5 hours long because it was that boring. I was completely confused by Top Gun: Maverick. I dunno what anyone in that film thought was happening. Why hadn’t Tom Cruise bought any clothes in the last 20 years. Why did people think that was normal or good in some way.
This is so so cool, so happy you got to do this and so happy we get to hear your thoughts on the movies
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"i love a slow burn, but nothing in this film was flammable" is my favorite line today.
"And I love a good slow burn but nothing in this film was flammable so..." I had to stop the video to catch my breath after cackling for several minutes straight. Thank you for your insight and the great laugh. I'm so glad you got to go and have that experience!
I'd love to hear a more general review of what Cannes was like. It's something most people never get to experience and it must have been a great time.
i’d love to hear this too!
The biggest walkout I ever experienced was a early morning screening of Audition by Takashi Miike at the International Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000. Even though this romcom-turns-sadistic horror flick won the IFFR critic's award that year, not many people could take it before breakfast.
Watching that movie on IFC without having a clue what it was has to be one of my greatest movie experiences.
Kiri Kiri kiri
That movie is still legendary in my town after screening at the film festival here in 2000.
I can’t wait to see Broker
Because the story seems interesting and IU is in it and she is a really good actor/singer
She did great!
@@AmandaTheJedi I’m happy you think that. And now I’m even more exited to see it
I love IU! I didn’t know she was making a new movie!
As a fan of IU (Lee Jieun) it’s so bizarre to see all of these Cannes articles and videos about a film she’s in, especially from someone I’ve been watching for a while now. I’m glad you liked the film and found the cast charming, and I can’t wait to be able to see it in the UK. I’m sure I’ll cry about seeing my favourite singer in a British cinema haha.
I replayed that bit a few times to see if it was her. Had to google in the end hahha but cant wait to see this one
No spoilers, but I super agree with you with Men. It started off so interesting and creepy, but that ending had me literally laughing on my way out of the theater with pure “wtf who wrote that” energy. Surprised people are still recommending it, tbh.
Can you spoil it for it for me?
@@NA-kz5po You can read the Wikipedia synopsis for that. Basically from what I hear it's a surreal metaphor commenting on misogyny. Of course it won't be everyone's favorite. The conservative leaning anti-left crowd will be tired of anything that is leftist leaning (even if it's basic performative shit that isn't that political) and also there will be leftists who won't like it (I don't want to go into detail here to be polite and not spoil it for anyone else but you can read the Wikipedia synopsis and look up what people are saying on Twitter about it)
@@NA-kz5po okay, so op was right, definitely creepy and fun during the first part of the movie. But the last sequence ****spoilers**** every man she encountered in this small town (all played by the same man), grotesquely give birth to the next. Like, the naked man gives birth to the preacher who gives birth to the little boy etc etc It’s body horror at it’s worst (finest??) the sequence goes on waaay to long in my opinion to the point that it feels absolutely absurd. I mean, I get the metaphor. Every generation of bad men give birth to another generation of bad men. I enjoyed and appreciated the metaphor. But the sequence was too much for me. Everything else was great. But it really went off the rails at the end for me, so much so that I almost lost appreciation for how well made the first part of the movie.
I’d personally recommend it up until that whole “birthing” part. And then I’d recommend that last little bit. It’s basically just the “birthing” that I don’t many people would choose to watch and I won’t go into any more detail than “birthing”. I suggest we use Men as a form of contraception in secondary schools.
exactly! i definitely understand and think it’s cool what they were trying to do. but also if you’re not in a very specific mood that last scene is less impactful and more hilarious.
Each category is also MOSTLY ranked worst/least favorite to best except for the Director's Fortnight and Out of Competition
Also be nice to my parents wallpaper, I'll be back at my place soon
Also if I didn't mention the movie I didn't see it! Not always because of lack of interest, usually just scheduling and ticket availability
this wallpaper gives me communist vibes and no i will not elaborate (it's a good thing)
I'm curious, since being in Cannes and part of the festival must be a truly exciting experience, does this perhaps make you more inclined to like a movie or be lenient with it? because when I'm in a good mood I'm far more inclined to like stuff.
@@lotsanew huh, it's just making me hungry. I was going to make a strawberry pie later, but I think I'll start after the video.
It just makes me want pie.
The wallpaper makes me feel like my grandma is about to pop out with a plate full of food for me.
The only time I've ever seen a theater walkout was some old dude didn't like the lesbian subplot of Everything Everywhere All At Once
What. The ladies with the hot dog fingers?
@@____uncompetative no he left right at the beginning when the daughter had a girlfriend lol
When I went to go see my Dad want to walk out at the lesbian subplot but my gay ass kept him in his seat the entire movie
His loss! it’s one of the best films i’ve ever seen in my life!
@@davidjohnson8231 I had completely forgotten about that! How is that possible?
I guess I am completely acclimated to this stuff by now. Some people really aren't.
I don't watch a ton of movies anymore, but whenever I check out one of your videos it's a nice reminder that the whole medium hasn't been gobbled up by big-budget franchise blockbusters. There's something so revitalizing in watching a movie that was made with love and intention. It's been a while for me, so I'll try and keep these titles in mind and check some of them out in the future!
That one movie sounds interesting and oddly relatable. The only recognized serial killer from my state killed sex workers up and down our local road. He played the Santa my Mom took me to see when I was two. One of our old Priests plead in Court to spare his life, but he said he just wanted to die. When I learned all of this, I obviously said "YOU SAT ME ON THE LAP OF A SERIAL KILLER?!!!" She made the good point that at the time no one knew he was the serial killer. He ended up getting caught by a County Cop going under cover as a sex worker to grab fibbers from the rug in his van. Point is, this stuff DOES happen in real life.
And just points to the fact that serial killers are often active community members you don’t suspect of being violent sadists because they can act very normal, even kind.
Like most guys who get hired for Santa have a sweet demeanor, it’s terrifying to think that one of those guys would commit such atrocities
My father told me he used to buy pork from this serial killer pig farmer that murdered a bunch of people and fed them to his pigs. I don't know if my father was telling the truth or not but he worked very close to the notorious pig farm.
@@MicahMicahel the serial killer is real just don't know if your father met him.
Someone wrote a weird comment to me and deleted it. It doesn't mean we committed cannibalism. He fed the pigs people. If you eat pigs that ate people, you haven't committed cannibalism.
Elvis was the most 2005-looking trailer I've seen since...the Eyes of Tammy Faye trailer, actually. Why are they still making biopics like this when Walk Hard skewered the template over 10 years ago? Don't even get me started on Bohemian Rhapsody.
Rocketman achieved what Bohemian Rhapsody tried to do but completely failed at and it went over awards' people's head
Rocket man did it right my just leaning into the absurdity of the musical genre.
Because there are too many people today who don't truly understand Elvis.
there are so many biopics coming out, i cant keep up
James Mangold gets a pass, because he still injects them with that movie magic and manages to make them entertaining
The only movie I ever saw a walkout during was Mother!
I sat through til the end and all of us who stayed were definitely confused and traumatized lol. But a vast majority of the theatre walked out lol
that movie is a lot lmao
it's a great film but i admit it was traumatizing me for 2 weeks lol
Thats the only movie I’ve watched that made me shut my eyes for many seconds before I opened them again. No horror movie has ever done that to me and I’ve seen a lot lol. Traumatizing movie!!
@@thvf2381 Great. Ha.
@@katherinegarcia1662 it wasn't even scary. None of us were scared. Just disgusted and very confused LMAO
I immediately questioned Elvis’ involvement in the civil rights thing after seeing the trailer the first time. So I did some research. Apparently he donated a lot to campaigns and was inspired by “black music” (I’m not sure if that’s a correct term) so you know, some mild appropriation and quiet support. He also liked MLK but I can’t find anything other than he liked him.
His early stuff he did. "Rock and roll phenomenon cracked Memphis's segregation laws." (Memphis World News June 1956) The 1956 and 1957 WDIA Goodwill Revue, Ernest Withers photos of the event/s are on Pinterest. In addition, the Charlotte Observer June 1956 interview, and Louie Robinson's interview with Elvis "The truth about that Elvis Presley rumor." (Jet Magazine August 1957) where Elvis gave recognition and praise to black artists. Somehow they where buried. He also helped out Jackie Wilson with promoting his Club Tripp concert and helped pay off his medical bills.
I've heard from members of his supposed entourage that Elvis supposedly didn't believe in race-mixing.
According to alot of the black musicians of the day he basically ripped off many underground black performers styles chords lyrics &even fashion hairstyles &dance moves etc..
thennn later on his management retroactively implied he supported all these black figures he dgaf about
@@thomaspgreen6302 so he tried for like a year. Ok….
@@o-wolf sounds about right.
Every action movie for Tom Cruise is just a excuse to give the grim reaper the middle finger 🤣🤣
Seems like most of the best movies were Iranian or Korean - which at this point is not at all surprising.
Yeah the best English language movie I saw at Cannes was Triangle of Sadness but the writer/director Ruben Ostlund is Swedish
The eight mountains was filmed in the place i love most in the world, i always go there when i need to charge my batteries and just whenever I can in general. When the book came out i cried like a baby just reading about those places told by someone else, inside a story, and now I'm so happy people all over the world are gonna see how beautiful those places are. It feels surreal, seeing the place i call home on the big screen, with some of my favourite actors from my country playing these characters that I've come to love.
I'm gonna go see it every single day when it comes out in theaters i don't even caaaaaaaaaare
“I enjoy a good slow burn, but nothing in this movie was flammable” is a hell of a burn
most actual development execs don’t do this nearly as well as you do Amanda, cheers for making this so much easier on our busy lives 👑 absolute queen
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I concur!
The Eight Mountains looks very interesting. Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi are two of the best italian actors working today.
They had really good chemistry in the crime drama "Don't be bad" (Non essere cattivo) from 2015.
I was hoping they could both win for best actor, but I'm absolutely fine with Song Kang-ho, he is a screen legend.
I'll be sure to check it out! They blew me away and as much as I love Song Kang-ho, I'm surprised one of them didn't take best actor
If you had a podcast talking through a movie and your feelings about it I’d listen. I’d love to hear you go into details over all the movies you watch, especially ones I’ll never watch because of how sad or heavy they are. I love listening to people talk about what they enjoy and hearing people describe things.
The more butter podcast do exactly that! You'll proabbly like her show on there too!
I went to see Men in the cinema a week ago, and I will say that I do think British audiences (like myself) will perhaps have more fun with it, just because there is a lot of humour there that is very English 😂but I'd say anyone who enjoyed the book and/or movie of I'm Thinking of Ending Things would definitely like that
Thank you for the comparison to ITOET because it genuinely helped me decide to go see it lol
@@kaitlynm9463 The vibes really match and it's even the same main actress, who I enjoyed in both, I really couldn't think of a better comparison 😂
It was so British. I’d actually just watched the Pistol series the night before and it made that series look even worse. I loved the extremely British tone. It worked so well.
@@hollyro4665 I agree, the familiar characteristics and humour give a misleading sense of comfort at the beginning which I think really plays into what the movie was trying to say, especially with the character of Geoffrey
@@Harriathan definitely! I think especially for a film that’s “trying to say something” about trauma dynamics between men and women. It was a good setting for that. Usually it’s from the perspective of some American teenage girl in some extreme situation (the entire 13 reasons why series for example). It was nice to see something a bit more grounded and realistic while also being absolutely unhinged. It was so much easier to relate to a woman struggling to be understood on a basic level in a pub setting, talking to some ignorant “struggling” youth etc. I don’t think they overall said a whole lot about men and women like they thought they would but they got those parts just right. Most of us aren’t living a plot based on some big life trauma. Those little ignorances and frustrations that build up and remind you of other ignorances and frustrations are just so much more grounded and realistic.
I mean even her big trauma, the way that argument was written. I had a lunatic father who went through a messy divorce with my mother. That conversation felt 100% real. I’ve heard those lines. Whoever wrote it (other than all that birthing) 10/10 honestly.
“I will speak my truth” 🤣 it’s definitely why I always keep coming back to your amazing channel 🥳
Even after viewing I can't grasp how you covered SO MANY movies with meaningful - often insightful - commentary about each, no word wasted and barely drawing breath. I'm proud to be your fellow Canadian. *💥Brava Bravissima!💥*
always love the reviews from festivals that you do, it adds a lot of stuff to my "to watch" list
kind of related to cannes, but i recently found out the paperboy (that one movie where nicole kidman pees on zac efron yes really) got a FIFTEEN MINUTE STANDING OVATION at cannes years ago and i was like "...................what the fuck is going on in cannes like what did they put in the water"
Who has the energy for a 15 minute standing ovation??? I clap for 10 seconds and my hands hurt!
@@29jgirl92 every single cannes moviegoer at a premiere, apparently (except for showing up because i think all the ones who hadn't left the theatre fell asleep)
There are a lot of people that just can't say anything bad about movies that showed at certain film festivals, specially if they saw them at those festivals. There also tends to be a lot of overstatement about audience reactions to various movies.
So few people walk out mid-movie that I usually don't notice. I don't know if they are going out to use the toilet, or buy popcorn, or whatever.
Main ones where I noticed a sizeable portion of the crowd leaving were _Crash_ and _Blade Runner 2049._ The former because of kinky sex around car crashes and injuries, the latter because it was a slow and very long movie.
The same people who walked out of Crash about the people who fetishize car crashes are the same people who adored Crash from 2004
What happened in Crash?
Your description of your festival experience really brought me back memories of my youth and young adult years: Having grown up in Berlin, the film festival was always a fixed event in late winter: So many films to watch, screening the schedule for the hidden gems and spending the night in the pub with friends, trying to figure out what this Mongolian director actually wanted to say...
Just makes me wanting to plan a longer trip to my old home town next February.
“You’re here for the movies” you are mistaken my friend. I just like hearing your take on things. Most of those things I couldn’t care less about. I just enjoy your channel as being a lighthearted listen.
So about holy spider;
The main actress in the movie (Zahra Amir Ebrahimi) was shamed by society a few years back and had to run to France because somebody leaked her sex tape with her boyfriend. If you know anything about Iran you'd know that women aren't allowed to be sexual beings and any woman who expresses such behaviors is considered خراب (broken).
The movie doesn't have anything to do with her story, of course, but the way they treated her should give you an idea about how they treat women. They shamed her, took away her career, sold her tape, and shared it everywhere.
I have yet to watch Holy Spider but the Iranian media is trying to push back against it so I'm excited.
I grew up always believing in equality and femenist ideas and I Jones do feel sorry for her, but that's it. man, you have to set in some hard lines with women or there is never end to their bitching. look at the near fall Western society's coming too now with the ridiculous things they're indoctrinating young people with in school for example. men are boys, women are men, age is a social construct. only white men can be racist, fairness only matters if you're not a straight, white, male, etc. listen, trust me, you have to stand firm against women and not let thekru tears move you to change your laws because things just get really weird and horrible after a while.
@@qweqqweq2090 ew ew ew ew I fucking hope you're being ironic rn
Thats all Muslim nations. They are traditional. Women can be sexual with their husbands. Hen your society fixes its hypersexual culture then you can talk down to others. Maybe you should invade them and force them to accept your values.
Elvis is such a complicated figure, a good biopic of his life would be very interesting. It's a shame we're never going to get one that isn't extremely biased in one way or another.
Being the near mythical figure that he is, there's many misconceptions and misunderstandings about him, (both positive and negative) that I would love to see explored someday
he could do with a miniseries instead of a movie, if we REALLY want to get into the nitty grittiness of it all. a movie just won't cut it.
I think the problem is that people don’t want to see old heroes like Elvis shown in a negative light. Most people would rather just imagine that Elvis was a perfect person than acknowledge his sordid past.
@@Bluey306 yeah he's a very complicated figure. He's simultaneously a hero of civil rights to many and a devil to others I would like to see both camps explored because he had merit to both, but the modern trendy audience only likes to see people as good or bad.
Could be an amazing commentary on moral ambiguity.
But to be frank I don't understand the recent trend of saying Elvis was nothing but a racist that stole black music. This was a guy that threatened to cancel a stadium performance if they didn't allow his black, female, backup singers to be on stage with him. Elvis went a step further after this and made sure a white person was the one driving the limo with him and the girls in it. He also never claimed to write any of the songs he "stole" and diligent songwriter credits were given to the songwriters writers on every album.
That doesn't sound like a racist music thief to me. Pretty sure folks are barking up the wrong tree on that one lol.
If we're gonna criticize Elvis we need to shine light on his sexual "exploits"
@@MitchJohnson0110 You're definitely brushing over all that racist music history between him and back artists rather quickly by saying he did this, so why isn't that enough.
@@MitchJohnson0110 If a "complicated" person means a child groomer then sure. He very much is.
Oh my fucking god I KNEW that I saw you in the crowd!!!! I worked at the Festival this year, in the Classics section and I was sure I saw you on different occasions!!!
I love your honest and frank reviews and that you don't shy away from saying a film is bad (something a lot of youtube reviewers will never do). You've got yourself a new subscriber. (One tip, though: the past tense of drag is dragged, not drug.)
I wish one day we can hear Amanda speaking full french with English subtitles
Oh, she speaks French! That makes sense, her accent was too good for a monolingual English speaker, I was very surprised by it
Excellent synopsis Amanda! You're hilarious, intelligent, and insightful naratives provide such great information about what you've seen. You're amazing and I love you!
I love these videos mostly to hear your experience at these film festivals and your general quick reviews but im sure most of us wouldn’t mind to hear just in general how those film research/vacations go! Thanks for getting me hype about future movies 🍿
I just want some 2000's bands / singers biopics dang it.
petition for a destiny's child biopic (i didnt grow up with these kinds of bands as a little child, BEAR WITH ME HERE)
MCR biopic when?
@@moththechangeling8522 OMG YESSSS 5th grade me would SCREAM
Give me the Guns N Roses movie !! That would be a wild ride as long as it's well made or a Metallica movie.
@@moththechangeling8522 WHEN I WAS
Since others are sharing, I ran out of the first movie I saw in theaters- George of the Jungle because I was so concerned that he kept hurting himself by running into those trees lol. I'm glad you got to go and have this incredible experience and thank you for sharing your thoughts and recommendations with us!
i’ve walked out of two films. a will smith movie called “seven pounds” which i just remember being mind-numbingly boring and preachy; and a british film called “riot club” - which was so unexpectedly brutally violent that my friend had a panic attack. (though if you go into the film knowing there’s violence - i think it got the point it meant to across)
Omg yes i watched the riot club years ago without knowing anything about it and it disturbed me so so much.
I also watched "riot club" without any context like 10 years ago? Never finished it.
I’m with you on that one. Riot Club was a lot in every way. Don’t get me wrong I’ve watched it multiple times because I think it’s worth watching especially being British and considering it’s based loosely on things our politicians did in their youth. But yeah it’s hard to watch and I don’t say that lightly.
Aww man 7 pounds is like one of the best movies. Definitely need to watch to the end for it all to wrap up though
@@kellifavazza8021 right? 7 pounds was excellent
Hi Amanda. First time viewer here. I don't know what part of the algorithm led me to your channel but I am very glad it did. Really enjoyed your energy and takes on these films and have made a list of those that appealed to me (Close and Broker being my two most anticipated)
Look forward to seeing more of your videos in the future.
Rob
Happy that you could go to Cannes and enjoyed yourself. I live about 80 kms from Cannes.
I saw Top Gun - Maverick tonight and yes i got a blast. I also saw Coupez 3 weeks ago and it has been a long time that a movie made me laughing to tears that much 😂😂. Now i must find the original.
Thanks for the resume. 👍
Decision to Leave feature one of the most original and inventive shot in any films I've ever seen like how could Park Chan Wook came up with that camera placement is just mindblowing so he totally deserve that Best Director wins but I wish Cannes didn't have that one film-one trophy rules because Tang Wei should've won Best Actress. She's phenomenal.
Honestly, this wallpaper has become a strange comfort in these videos haha. If I'm only slightly losing focus (it's not you it's absolutely me) I just pick a perishable item on the wall and study it
oh man!! have you seen Da-eum Sohee (Next Sohee) directed by July Jung? it was such a good and emotional movie that touches on Korea’s toxic work culture
i sat next to a korean reporter during the premiere and after the movie was over and while everyone was exiting, they turned to me and just went, “it’s really like that in Korea! ^^” 😭
So cool that you got to go!! Going to Cannes is a big dream of mine 😊 I am so over the musician biopic at this point, but as someone who loves character studies and more intimate storytelling, a lot of the movies you talked about are now on my To Be Watched list!
I remember when Sofia Coppola had won a major award back in 2017 for her direction of "Beguiled" at the Cannes Film Festival of that year. I was so impressed that I couldn't wait to see the movie at my local theater. When I finally saw it, I was bored out of my mind (I'm a fan of the novel) and decided it was simply a bad movie. After five years, my opinion of the film has not changed.
Ignore all awards and rave reviews when the film concerned, or it's makers, are entirely in accord with the agenda the awarder/reviewer wants to push.
I'm looking forward to James Gray's Armageddon Time. Loved his last few films (Ad Astra, Lost City of Z, the Immigrant) this guys a very underated director.
Finally, someone who is delightfully clever and knows how to entertain! Kudos to you, young lady. Keep ‘em coming.
These are some of my favorite videos you post. I end up watching the ones that look interesting or the ones you suggest
I'm kind of surprised they turned the Mr Big sting into a movie. Daniel Morcome's murder was such a traumatizing thing for Australians. Sometimes I really question if some true crime stories really need to be fictionalised. I know some people want these stories told about their loved ones...
i couldn't agree more with this comment. some things just shouldn't be touched, at least not so soon. these are real incidents that happened to real people and many are still suffering. it just feels disrespectful. kinda like the movie that they're planning to make about the Christchurch mosque shooting, as well as the Girl from Plainville. tragic incidents that shouldn't be dramatized.
I hear ya! there are way too many people who treats a deep study of the psychological reasons for crimes as an excuse to satisfy their desire to see a snuff film. it's like when a guy says he's only interested in what's inside a woman and would never go for a skjnny, big boobed, young blond, but then later you see him at a strip club handing over all his money for lap dances from his claimed disinterested object of infatuation. there's a definite curiosity around serial killers and some crimes and it's amazing how many people feel the need to hide it with a fake excuse about studying psychology.
@@qweqqweq2090 totally agree with you saying people just want to see a snuff film! The amount of scenes these days that are just unnecessary torture porn is disturbing! Definitely makes you question what the creators intentions were.
often the family members are being paid for the story. People are simplifying people as sickos because they are curious about dark side of human nature. Are you curious about what happened with Charlie Manson and his 'family?' There are so many true crimes that can be told but to tell it with an agenda is the 'crime' if it is done badly. If you tell a tragic story and use it to push your political agenda and warp the actual real people's lives to tell your story, that's bad. A sincere effort to follow the exact facts can be a noble effort.
the entire genre of true crime is extremely predatory, and most of the dramatized shows and podcasts in the genre are made without the knowledge or consent of the surviving families, and those surviving families have to deal with being retraumatized when the shows get made while seeing none of the profit. speaking from experience.
stop supporting true crime entertainment. it is completely exploitative.
Everything I hear about Men, positive or negative, makes me wanna watch it more every time.
Waiting patiently for the VOD, since I won't be able to go to a theater to watch it where I live.
Thanks for the rundown
Congrats on being able to go! I'm not in that film festival circle so even though I've never heard of it, it's still pretty exciting to be able to go to something that only allows limited people attend!
Really loved the video! I was at the festival too and caught some of the films you reviewed here. Great insights! Unfortunately missed Decision to Leave
Totally agree about Men. I loved Alex Garland’s other movies but Men was the first time I walked out of a movie and felt disappointed because the movie really stumbled to the end.
That was a more intense than usual double finger snap at the end
Paolo Cognetti's writing is absolutely breathtaking, his memoir 'Without ever reaching the summit: a journey is also so beautiful, if you like the eight mountains, please give it a read :)
The movie at 17:30 if you enjoy this movie, then I really recommend These Women by Ivy Pochoda. It is an amazing story about 6 different women, and it is gut-renching. I highly recommend this book and it is an amazing read.
I remember going to see "Stardust Memories", a Woody Allen movie. 30 minutes into the movie, half the theater left. I left about 40 minutes and there was only 15 or so people left in the theater. Lucky for me, "Flash Gordon" was just starting on the next screen over so I went in there and watched that instead- to this day I have no regrets.
Stardust Memories was great, though, and Flash Gordon....wasn't.
@@grandcosmo literally nobody agrees with you on that. But if you like Woody Allen, then enjoy his movies to your hearts content. Nobody is saying you can't like what you want.
the cool/weird casting story for Close is really showing for the director. the story reflects a conversation he had with his mom and after thinking about the movie, he ran into a group of kids on the train. One of the kids reminded Lukas Dhont of himself at that age so he casted him.
also, a movie that premiered at the festival but you didn't mention was Rebel by Adil and Bilall. I hope you give it a chance soon (they ate directing Ms Marvel and did bad boys for life but this is a far more personal project). I am curious to hear your take on their movies.
Thank you your perspective on Men is exactly how I felt about it.
A lot of these films sound intriguing, I'm definitely excited to check them out when they have a general release. Also for Armageddon Time you said Jeremy Irons instead of Jeremy Strong btw
The only movie I ever saw people walk out of was Blue Is The Warmest Color. I didn't think it lived up to the hype it was getting at the time but I've sat through so much worse than that.
i mean that movie was just lesbophobic as heck
@@lotsanew oh absolutely, that's part of the reason I didn't like it. But at the time it had just won the Palme d'Or so what I was hearing about it was pretty positive. My local film festival tends to attract a lot of older couples though and I got the feeling it was more about the sex on screen in general that was the reason they were walking out.
I remember watching it in middle school, and i never finished it because even at a younger age, i could tell that the relationship between the two characters wasn’t necessarily healthy. idk it just gave me bad, sorta manipulative vibes
I couldn’t get through it because it was just straight porn definitely not what people were making it out to be
This is helpful! I will be looking up some of these 😊.
Decision to Leave has the best trailer ever so far and should premiere in October. Can't wait to see it, since it seems to be a piece of art!
"TH-cam idiot abroad" is the best moniker.
I look forward to hearing what you think about the book The Eight Mountains as well as an in depth review of the film.
Thank you so much for this video. Nice to hear about movies coming out that will not have large marketing budgets.
I remember about a dozen people walking out during "The House That Jack Built" by Lars von Trier, mostly after he killed the kids. I was 16 at the moment and I dragged my mom along to watch it because she also liked Trier and I wouldn't be allowed in without a guardian. We both stayed until the end, no regrets, lol
this is where the fun begins
I saw Top Gun Maverick twice and even pre-ordered it. The sequel made me watch the original and truly enjoyed Maverick more. I still can’t believe Tom Cruise is 60.
60?!!!!!!! No freaking way
Yes and His first film was in 1981!!!!😀
yup, I couldn't believe the scene where Tom Cruise and the other characters played football at the beach. Tom was just as ripped and muscular as his co-stars who were in their mid-twenties.
gotta watch Maverick again as well, it was really a fun movie!
Top gun is so overrated imo. Who wants to listen to danger zone 8 times 😭
@@benzaiten933 when they were playing were they flexing like in top gun I was 15 when I seen it and was die laughing.
If I ever write a film, I’m having someone like you review it first. Your insights are interesting and bring out the potential (and bs) in scenes, and the sheer amount of film you’ve seen is nothing to sneeze at.
Now that Triangle is on Hulu would LOVE to see you do a full rundown on that one
I think aftersun can slip in as a top 10 movie of 2022. I heard it's very compelling and I can't wait to see it!
ahhh so cool that you were able to attend cannes! i always love your film fest round-up videos, but my large list of movies-to-watch is starting to struggle oh no ;w;
If you enjoy stories about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, I highly recommend the musical "Elisabeth", which is amazing.
I was at the festival too! And one I absolutely LOVED was L’Innocent, I saw it at the 75 anniversary gala
I was hoping you were going to review Aftersun. I've been hearing nothing, but great things about that movie. Great list and great reviews though!
"TH-cam idiot abroad" in Cannes. Great, and now I've got the entirety of Mr. Bean's Holiday in my head. Dammit all, Dafoe is there. Mocking me...
Thanks for talking about the two iranian films
Great analysis!
Amanda in Paris. Soon on Netflix
Top Gun is my dads favorite film and I grew up on the soundtrack. We watched the original before we saw the new one and I liked it, except for the “love story” (I’m asexual so maybe keep that in mind) but this new one made me tear up at the end. I love the relationship between Rooster and Maverick and was not expecting it to be as emotional as it was.
It was fun and action packed and gave me and my dad some fun bonding moments. 10/10 for us. 😊
The love story was cute to me,
I feel like it was a pay off of thier relationship from the first film
(Also ace)
It was mostly cute fluff, and not a main/overbearing plot point
I watched the original a long time ago so while I don't remember much, I still remember the important bits well enough. And during the new one, I ended up remembering that one clip from a movie Tarantino is in where he started rambling about the first movie being about a man's struggle with his sexuality, and I went, "... Huh, it makes sense now."
I may not understand everything you're saying, but I like the way you say it.
I love the background😩
Did you catch Joy Land? It was a Pakistani film about a boy from a patriarchal family falling in love with a Transgender woman who he works for as a background dancer
It also won the Jury Prize
I'm so exited for your review about don't worry darling and my policeman
It's crazy seeing photos of cannes now cause I just went on holiday right next to the beach too
Definitely want to hear your longer take on Men! I saw it a few weeks ago and I just wanted so much more out of it. I feel like it could have been pretty good with a few more edits :/