Films Where the Props Were Better Than the Film Itself
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- In this live-stream excerpt, Adam answers Tested member questions from squallxgamer, EnigmaticPenguin and C2 Lawson about The Matrix, favorite limited-sets movies and movies in which the props and design are better than the movies themselves. Thank you squallxgamer, EnigmaticPenguin and C2 Lawson for your questions! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks like asking Adam questions:
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12 Angry Men is a fantastic limited set movie. Many gloss over it since its from 1957 and that is a shame. If you haven't I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Thank you for your thoughts Adam!
Also I would add Hitchcock's Rear Window...a riveting movie that takes place in a single apartment!
"12 Angry Men" immediately sprung to mind for me too. In more recent films, I'd say "The Man from Earth" is also pretty great.
I love that movie! I can't remember how I got to know about, but I was about twenty when I saw it the first time (which is at least twenty years ago ...). 12 Angry Men is an absolute pearl!
There's a more recent Russian homage which is great too.
I was going to say the same thing
Looking over the comments so far I'm surprised there's no love for Das Boot as a limited set movie. Shot almost entirely in a full size replica of a Type VIIC U-boat where the director is said to have been so obsessed with detail that every screw had to be in the right place and of the right type as it would have been on a real sub.
It's not really a limited set if you build an exact replica of a submarine...
@@jordivermeulen2519 Have you ever seen how tiny the interior is of a WWII U-Boat?
@@lordofthemound3890 no, but I've seen cold war era Swedish war planes. You can almost see what the engineers who designed them were thinking:
Weapons: Hell yes.
Engine: Hell to the power of yes.
Pilot: Aw man, do we really have to?
Das Boot is an excellent movie, but it doesn't take place entirely on the sub.
@@galfisk I've been on a WWII US sub. They definitely classify as a limited set. Having to turn sideways to walk down what could loosely be called a corridor, grabbing the edges of hatches to duck and crab-walk through them, and the cook having a kitchen literally the size of a closet is not what I'd call big. Space was at such a premium they often didn't have enough bunks for the men and some literally had to bunk in the fore and aft torpedo rooms, throwing a blanket over a live torpedo and using it as a bed. And despite having two showers, they were rarely used primarily because they'd instead use them as storage closets for additional food.
One of my favorite limited set / "bottle episode" films is Moon, starring Sam Rockwell.
Stunning film. Until recently I didn't notice it played with Tom Clarke's subjective continuity of consciousness. Fascinating and disturbing
I really enjoyed that one! I love Sam Rockwell!
that's a damned good choice.
Also a great film!
Duncan Jones is one of, like, a TINY handful of writer/directors who seem like I wished them up out of a genie's bottle.
Taika Waititi and Alex Garland are two others! Speaking of whom, Ex Machina is also an INCREDIBLE "bottle episode" film (And if you count Sunshine, then that one too!).
The Animatrix is incredible. It's surprising to me how few people I know that have actually seen it.
I have waking dream experiencing that floating part from that movie
Still have the DVD
I only remember 2 segments from that movie, where the man and woman are literally sparring/flirting, and the one where the young guy from the 3rd film wakes himself up.
The Animatrix is still the second best Matrix movie.
The part with the agent Smith Samurai was freaking epic
"Cube" HAS to be the answer for the best limited-set movie. Not the sequels or prequels, but the first film. There was one full 14'x14'x14' room built and one partial. A film made for $350k, and yet stands up even now, nearly 25 years later.
Oddly, my pick is also named Cube, made by an early Jim Henson. It was gloriously weird.
@@Daemonworks Imagine seeing that movie on mushrooms for the first time. That was my experience. Couldn't follow what was going on but it looked amazing. Still one of my favorite movies.
That's a great example!!
12 Angry Men is just a room with a long table and not only does it hold up 64 years later, it's one of the best movies ever made. I saw it for the first time only a couple of years ago and was floored by it
You're right, and it is a fantastic movie. But I also hate that movie. It hits all the parts that I hate about horror and does it really well. Pretty sure I checked every room before walking in for the next week. I never watched the sequels. Once was good enough for me and it sticks with me years later.
For my money, the best single set movie is 12 Angry Men. Not even close.
Theater. Where it really started. Why Welles is a good as he is, and of course, his radio days.
Elysium, movie was kind of not good but it had alot of cool stuff in it.
Feel the same way about Chronicles of Riddick
i'll never forget the rad laser cutter tool that let you choose all those ridiculous shapes (e.g star, christmas tree) to slice into whatevevr you were aiming at. that movie is incredibly dense with cool design
good choice. Middling movie with ridiculous ending but some excellent fx, props and tech ideas.
Valerian and the city of a thousand planets. One of the most visually stunning movies I have ever seen. Yet the story, plot and the acting is completely forgettable.
I don’t think I could have told you what that movie was about immediately after watching it. But it was beautiful.
Don't forget the total miscasting of Ravian
Great design, god awful movie. Shame they didn’t tell any of the actors to act.
I absolutely enjoyed the movie. It was a trip. I also enjoyed that it was optimistic (almost utopian) sci fi. That's a pretty rare thing when you think of it.
Forgettable? I wish.
"Films Where the Design Was Better Than the Film Itself" There should be an award for films like this. We can all it the Jupiter Ascending Award.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (starring Law, Jolie, Paltrow) was pretty inspiring from concept to set, given the narrow budget “passion project” flavor and the fact that the whole thing was shot in a small warehouse/garage, green screen top to bottom, stem to stern. Then fully visualized in post.
A deeply underappreciated film, in my opinion. It's incredibly rich in homages to pulp sci fi and fantasy of the 1930s and the adjacent decades. At one point Gwyneth Paltrow quotes several lines from Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast, but still in the context of the story she's in. Tickles me every time I see it.
@@illyth63 Dr Strangelove too.
@@AlanCanon2222 indeed!
I didn't know what to make of it at first, but I find myself re-watching it more and more. I've didn't dislike it but I've grown to really like it.
The problem with Sky Captain was the script. Especially the lack of a good antagonist. You can't have Star Wars without a Darth Vader.
1998 Lost In Space for me. Amazing production design, lousy story and script. I seriously want Matt LeBlanc's space bomber jacket.
Ghost in the Shell: Live Action, the art that went behind that movie was amazing but they took a terrible script written by someone who barely understood the original and shot it like a cheap sci-fi flick.
Weta did such an unreal job with that movie, that the props would be better than the movie even if it had a script that was darn near perfect.
@@MaskedBurrito Indeed, occasionally I still go back and look at WETA's art reel for the film and you can tell that the artists genuinely love GitS as a world and incorporated little nods to everything from the manga to the shows. I wonder how they felt seeing their hard work wasted so haphazardly.
And then they miscast the lead role.
Don’t get me wrong, I dearly love Scarlett Johansson as an actress, and I think she can make almost any movie she is cast in, but she was not the right actress for that movie. There are a number of Japanese actresses who could have done that role and done so superbly. And “Major” is a rank, not a name.
@@shubinternet The Major was not Japanese. The original author has said as much, she was not of any specific ethnicity.
@@Tensen01 - Motoko Kusanagi was a full body replacement, so nothing that we can see of her as an adult is actually human, and so therefore it couldn’t really be said to actually be any particular nationality. Many of the characters in the original anime seemed to be of questionable nationality. However, the name is certainly Japanese, and the little girl that she once was certainly appeared to be Japanese.
If they wanted to stress that “The Major” wasn’t specifically Japanese, then they could have used a multi-racial actress. But Scarlett Johansson definitely has a particular racial characteristic as Caucasian, not multi-racial or pan-racial.
One of the best movies I've watched with Colin Farrell in it, is phone booth. Great actor.
Also qualifies for that "limited sets" category!
This.
In Bruges is a classic Colin Farrell flick too, it’s hilarious
I think that's the only thing I've seen him in, but unfortunately, it didn't make me think much of his acting. To each their own I guess.
I was looking for this comment, but i expected it to be about the "limited set" question.
I have only seen it once, but i remember the hype about it at the time, for exactly the reason of it being a limited set movie.
As i'm writing this comment, i remembe the more recent hype about Ryan Reynolds' Buried movie, also for being mostly shot in one location.
Similar to Gravity with Sandra Bullock then i guess.
The original matrix had a ton of practical effects. I'm afraid the new one will just be completely shot on green screen.
One other in the room movie is Alfred Hitchcock's "The Rope". It appears to be done all in one take, almost entirely in the one room of the apartment with a group of people coming in and out. it was not filmed in one take, but it is often studied for the way it is filmed. Hitchcock at one of his best and great actors.
"12 Angry Men" is the obvious answer for the best limited set movie! But to name another great one, "Carnage" starring Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly is an awesome movie that takes place entirely in an apartment.
Best limited set movie ever is The Cube. Fantastic horror IMHO and so well written in a bunch of quirky ways. Single small room, lighting to change rooms.
The Circle is also an excellent, prop oriented movie.
Cube is awsome. Too bad so few people have seen it.
Cube is great but 12 Angry Men absolutely wins the prize for me. Also really love The Man From Earth. And My Dinner With Andre as Adam mentioned is way more engaging than it has any right to be
@@antivanti yes, the vast majority of 12 Angry Men takes place in one limited room but in The Cube they manage to make you believe it takes place in multiple rooms, in a larger environment, when it does not.
The same with Blair Witch project.
Phone Booth and the original 12 Angry Men for limited sets. Excellent films.
The movie questions rock. Unprepared answers beat scripted ones any day.
Not a film, but the Eagle ships from "Space 1999" are one of my favorites even though the show itself was not a favorite of mine.
I agree, the Eagles were exactly how my young self thought a utility craft would be on the moon, and I desperately wished I could have grown up to be an Eagle pilot.
Adam: "there's nothing out of place [in 'The Matrix']"
I disagree: The whole 'using humans as a power source' thing is completely stupid and violates the laws of thermodynamics if you think about it. Even if you can tap into the human body for electrical power, where does the body get the power from? Carbohydrates. Surely the machines can think of a more efficient carbohydrate to electrical power conversion apparatus? Fuel Cells come to mind.
That said, I read somewhere recently that the original script used human brains for processing power (ie while they're sleeping). THAT makes a whoooole lot more sense in context and does in no way complicate the plot of the movie. So... why was it changed? (Assuming of course that it's true in the first place)
My personal take on the Matrix is based on agent Smiths explanation, that previous incarnations of the Matrix were too perfect and the human mind rejected them as false, so they made it grungier. following this logic, if you had people rejecting the new 'grungy' matrix (like Neo and the others), the best thing to do would be shunt them into an even grungier program called 'Zion' ... that's why Neo still had 'powers' outside of the Matrix - because he never really left, he just got moved into another program.
Plus Neo was never 'The One' (ie. the bug in the program) Agent Smith was. He's the only one who's actually a software part of the program who started acting erratically and crashed the system as a result.
The real 'Real world' is an Eden. the war with machines ended millennia ago. the machines all retreated to artificial realities leaving automated systems tending the human crops. If humans ever actually break out of the Matrix they'll just find a jungle world waiting for them, and defeating the AI will be as simple as pulling the plug.
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Heavy...
Honestly not all that taken with your interpretation. I won't say it's invalid (any interpretation that can be remotely supported by the text of the film so to speak is by definition valid), but thematically I don't like separating the film from the context of it being trans allegory. Maybe a bit selfish on my part but it's the most important aspect of the movie to me and your interpretation requires completely removing that aspect of it.
So just a heads up. Roger Ebert did not say “My Dinner with Andre” lacked genre. The quote is “Someone asked me the other day if I could name a movie that was entirely devoid of clichés. I thought for a moment, and then answered, My Dinner with Andre."
How is it not a drama...
@@nathanlevesque7812 clichés, not genre
@@michaelpalmer5995 Fragment, not a sentence
@@nathanlevesque7812 Sorry, I wasn't trying to be rude. The idea is simply that My Dinner with Andre absolutely has a genre, to a degree even single-setting can be a genre. However, it strays from cliché in every way possible, which is what makes it unique.
Hehe. My uncle worked as one of the carpenters on the set of the Total Recall reboot. Apparently it was nicknamed ‘Total Re-Shoot’ on set.
Limited Set movie nomination:
The Man from Earth (2007) - a one room cabin in the woods for 90%, then a brief shot just outside. Almost no action at all, and still tickled my brain more than most.
Yes! The Man from Earth is one of my favorite speculative fiction movies. Could be, and probably was, a stage play but so mind-bending.
This is a long-time favorite of mine. I recently showed this movie to my wife, who grew up surrounded by college professors, and she found it to be exactly the sort of conversation that would enthrall a bunch of academics.
100% Just commented this myself. A fantastic movie.
Amazon Prime’s Tales from the Loop is the definition of design surpassing story. I found myself bored by almost every episode of pretty lackluster writing. But the visuals are enthralling
I thought the storytelling was really good, actually. During boring, slow, or quiet times in a good story I try to imagine what the characters are feeling or how they're being shaped by the events. I feel like there is a lot of character subtext in that show. The design is great though.
That's because they took the aesthetic and worldbuilding from the artist's books, then spun their own plots in it, based on the captions in the books.
I watched it, I don't think I'll rewatch it. It's seriously messed up, and it won't have the same impact again.
@@wakamiwailer That’s a fair point, the acting was generally quite good, so you could feel a lot of emotion from even an uneventful performance. And don’t get me wrong, there were a few episodes that I thought were really great, like the one where the boys switch bodies, or where the man is transported to an alternate universe where he meets the man of his dreams, who is already married to the alternate version of himself… that one was wild.
@@Skorpychan i got so excited from the trailer for the show, I thought it would be a big hit so I started building a whole cosplay of the boy with the robot gauntlet controller from the original artworks, but kinda lost steam on that one after feeling quite let down watching the episodes themselves 😂
Loved the one where the friend betrays the other in the body swap. That was just harrowing and hit like a hammer.
Are you drinking Hoppe’s No. 9 gun cleaning solvent?
Limited sets movie for me is Hitchcocks, Rope, closely followed by Rear Window.
I came to the comments to say I'm surprised he didn't nod to Rope. For those who haven't seen it it's a single shot (which given camera technology of the time necessitated single location).
@@Gowaduv another limited set Hitchcock worth watching, though is very dated, is Lifeboat. Im not sure if Rear Window would be considered limited set.
@@WilliamBlakers other folks have suggested Rear Window so you're in good company. I haven't seen it in a couple years but as I recall it's a courtyard, building entryway, and four(five?) apartments, two of which the camera enters. I'd say it leans toward limited sets if I'm not going to argue that an apartment building with a courtyard is a single set.
Thanks for letting me know about Lifeboat. (Feels like it needs an exclamation mark for added drama... Lifeboat!)
Animatrix - best of the whole set in my opinion. Watching authentic anime with subtitles instead of dubbing also gives you a more accurate translation of the writer's intended dialog, since they don't have to change the wording to sync up with the animated mouth movements. You get a closer peek to the societal norms and values instead of a corny & stilted spew of words with the best mouth shape. What's really fascinating is to watch one with both dubbing and subtitles, and experience how big the difference between the dubbed translation and the subtitle translation.
Animatrix has parts in it that has entrenched itself into my soul. There is something horrible about the "killing" of the machines and the following machine war that has affected me more than any movie before or since.
I've always been a fan of anime and have watched a lot of it over the years but The Animatrix will forever haunt me with the imagery and script.
Bladerunner is not perfect? Blasphemy!!! lol. I love this discussion. Thank you for your perspective Adam! My personal favorite notwithstanding.
Watching movies in other languages is the best piece of advice I’ve ever heard.
Agreed, but why would you watch a Final Fantasy movie in French? Surely Japanese is the only correct answer here.
@@TheYrthenarc Because you are learning French;)
And of course, the award for "Best (Single) Movie to Combine a Visually Stunning World, Set Design, and Script" has to go to 'The Fifth Element'.
You're not wrong... I'm completely baffled, coming across someone who doesn't love it.
Not wrong. I would argue that many contemporary movies (Phantom Menace, Fifth Element) oddly owe some debt for their sprawling planet cities to Judge Dredd. A truly abysmal film with stunning production design and soundtrack.
@@TreeCutterDoug **Waves** I don't love it. I understand it's a classic campy sci-fi flick, but I've always been a little confused as to why everyone thinks it's the sci-fi version of Citizen Kane or something. Personally, I feel like it's just meh. Has some good bits, and of course Milla Jovovich in a fetish-inspired vinyl strap outfit, but otherwise to me it's a pretty typical 90s-era camp sci-fi nothing burger.
My favorite movie where the design is better than the movie - mortal engines. My personal head cannon is that the movie is secretly a high budget mechanicum (warhammer 40k) fan film.
Hateful 8, great limited set movie. Stagecoach and a room, thats its and its so good
Jupiter Ascending was a movie I felt was visually amazing while having a lame story
I thought speed racer was a good movie
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Hmmmm.
The Cowboy Bebop live action. I loved the series but it doesn’t hold up compared to the anime. The set design and aesthetic were on point though.
Best limited set movie.. I really like the second evil dead movie, although I'm sure there are alot of horror movies that could fall on this list.
I'm also not sure if deadpool counts, but the constant cut back to the bridge scene takes up half the film and deadpool's apartment is also heavily featured. I'm sure the final battle was probably 90% on green screen so that film was probably just 3 sets... the bridge, his apartment, and the lab
"You should make movies in a way so that the japanese audience don't need to read subtitles."
I don't remember who said that, I think it was Coppola or George Lucas or someone of that group...
well... The advice in this video is a fun reversal of that concept. To watch movies deliberately in a language you don't understand so that you are forced to pick up on nonverbal cues. And you are free to look at and enjoy the visual design unhindered.
It's been a long while since I've seen Spirits Within... Maybe watching the the japanese dub will help things out.
Ad Astra. Awesome movie to watch visually but the plot falls short.
I think you're grossly underselling it... It's gotta be one of the worst sci-fi's in the past twenty years. Maybe I'll try watching it in Portuguese with subtitles... I doubt it'll change my mind.
@@TreeCutterDoug What was wrong with it? I remember it being pretty good and visually very well made.
Not a movie but the TV series 'Legion" had fantastic set design. I'd say better than the show itself.
My favorite limited set movie is Noises Off (1992), which is also one of my all time favorite movies.
A hilarious (in my opinion, of course) film adaptation to the Broadway play within a play.
It's got a great (and small) cast, Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Denholm Elliott, Nicollette Sheridan, Marilu Henner, Julie Hagerty and Mark Linn-Baker.
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, it got panned at the time it came out, mostly cursed because the play itself was so successful, so the movie had the similar "book was better" stigma.
It's a farce comedy, fast paced scenes from stage view and behind stage view.
The actors ("real people") are performing a play called "Nothing On", which is some vaudeville-esque lame comedy play, but the movie jumps in at the general rehearsal, and you'll notice soon enough that everyone is ill prepared, they have lots of questions about the plot of the play and forgetting lines, etc.
I won't spoil too much.
But, i heard Marilu talk about it on a podcast with Gilbert Gottfried, and apparently some things happened on set which she rather not discuss, so i'm not sure what that is about, but i wonder if the actors dislike having done that movie.
Which would be a shame, as i loved it since i first saw it as a 10 year old, and it's the movie i've watched most times in my life so far.
My other favorite limited set movie, and again, probably my favorite movie so far, is Moon (2009), of course you know Moon, you know Sam Rockwell is a fellow San Franciscan, so i don't need to say more, aside from, i love the Alien inspired set, which immediately made me like the movie, but then the atmosphere and Sam blew me away.
I haven't tried it with live action, but I will say reading subtitles covers many problems. A lot of anime I watch is only good subtitled. Some of that is lousy voice acting - a lot of anime gets American actors who don't know what they're reading and just read the lines as flat as a pancake, and even the ones that do good with it have a limited pool they draw from that leaves far too many characters sounding identical. But there are a lot that have good or even great voice acting that I can't watch in English, usually due to social anxiety - usually things like putting characters in awkward situations and then dragging it out.
Dredd was mostly set in one place and is a phenomenal film.
Absolutely phenomenal, but they had a bunch of sets they needed for that "one place" (A HUUUUGE one place).
one of my top ten action films. I saw it on release in 3d on a huge screen and those slo-mo scenes really stuck with me.
Star Wars (OK, OK, OK...Episode IV: A New Hope) is a perfect film in my mind. Empire, which most consider superior, and which may BE superior in many ways, is not perfect. I do not consider this to be a contradiction.
I'm a big fan of Empire, but I think I know why it can't be a perfect movie.
It's clearly, from start to finish, an "in-between" movie. A lot of the movie relies on the viewer having seen ANH, not just for the narrative, but for the emotional impact of many scenes as well. Also, multiple character arcs get no resolution since the movie is clearly setting up RotJ.
While I think Empire has the best writing, acting, and cinematography of the OT, it can't be a perfect movie because I believe a perfect movie has to be able to stand on its own.
What's YOUR favorite limited-set movie? Or suggestions of films in which you thought the props/design were better than the film itself?
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My "Dinner with Andre" is a FANTASTIC film. As for the Wachowskis, totally agree. I think "Cloud Atlas" is a super underrated masterpiece.
Blade runner.... What now? Really?
Blasphemy
Also.... Limited set films.....
D A S B O O T......
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Best Limited Set Movies:
"Exam" is set almost entirely in one room, and as a bonus, has the coolest character name ever: 'The Invigilator'
"Cube" was filmed entirely in one set room, dressed as multiple rooms with changes in light colors and minor props.
I saw My Dinner With Andre in college, and was an actor in college studying limited set stage productions. I loved the minimal set production of Amadeus, Fiddler on the Roof, and 12 Angry Men. I would recommend a movie called Deathtrap, adapted from a stage play, starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve. I think that on the stage, the set can be minimal if the plot is engrossing and the costuming is interesting.
I wonder what Adam would say in response to the Big Bang Theory's synopsis of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
On Alton Brown’s podcast Adam said that Will Smith told him about the fact that the movie ends the same way with or without Indy. Said it was annoying but didn’t ruin the movie.
That was a fair, and frankly correct answer. I don't even think it's "annoying" so much as "rather noticable", and things like that usually drives me nuts.
I think there's actually one flaw in the assertion though, and that is if Indy wasn't involved then the Ark gets opened, everyone dies, but the Germans still know the location of the Ark and can reacquire it. With Indy being involved, the Ark gets opened, all the bad guys die, but then Indy and Marion can acquire the Ark unopposed and the American Government ultimately store it away from the forces of evil. So in a very limited aspect, Indy's involvement is critical to the successful outcome of the movie.
Of course there's also the theory that if Indy had just walked away in the beginning the Germans never would have FOUND the Ark.
Nothing out of place in _The Matrix?_ Well, apart from human heat combined with a form of fusion, once you overlook that particular travesty it really is a superb film. I would have preferred it if the rationale had been something about using unused computing power of human brains for some machine based purpose. Despite the old myth about untapped brainpower also being something of a howler it is way more plausible than any form of fusion requiring the addition of body heat.
Apparently something like that was in the original script, but the studio thought it would be too complicated for people to follow so they had to change it to the power thing so they could use the easy to understand battery metaphor. And yeah, the "untapped potential of the human brain" thing has been overblown, but it would work nicely with the themes of the movie, where the people in the Matrux are "asleep" and not living to their full potential.
@@adamlytle2615 I didn't know that - once I get past that one it is an engaging and original tale that is well worth watching. When I used to have regular in-depth eye exams after I went blind in one eye (it came back, I just had months of hospital visits!) the retinal examination in blue light always caused a _Matrix_ moment when the whole world spent some time with a slightly green cast, I always enjoyed that :~D
@@TheOwlman well, now that I think about it, I heard the story about the studio note about the power vs processing power thing on a podcast, so grain of salt I guess. Not sure if that's been verified anywhere.
That is a neat story about what I'm sure was otherwise a stressful time in your life
@@adamlytle2615 _That is a neat story about what I'm sure was otherwise a stressful time in your life_ Thanks. It wouldn't have been so bad if it had been my _bad_ eye that went blind! No matter, I worked from home and stopped driving for a couple of years and all was well. :~D Have a great new year.
Watching this after Matrix Regurgitations came out and listening to Adam's excitement feels so tragic.
So excited to hear you talk about My Dinner with Andre! I saw it at a festival here in Australia back in the 80's, and have absolutely adored it ever since. So simple, but so engrossing! Oh, and my wife just reminded me of a wonderful Australian film from 1998 called The Interview starring Hugo Weaving which almost all takes place in a police interview room. Hugo Weaving is such a genius actor and this is one of his best performances.
Watched years later on ABC Asia-Pacific and at first I thought I was watching an episode of Wildside (I didn't see the opening credits), casting Tony Martin might have been lazy or might have been genius. But Weaving is all over the place in that little stageplay and it is mesmerising to watch his character go through all those changes.
The Animatrix is so amazing, love that Adam loves it too. I am a Wachowskis fan to the core, I have accidentally watched one of their movies without knowing they made it and fell in love when other people hated it (Jupiter Ascending) and then when I realized they made it I was like "Yeah, figures."
I definitely think the other 2 movies are weaker, but I still loved them so much more than everyone else. I ate it up.
Thank you for echoing my sentiments, the Animatrix is wonderful and is my 2nd fav movie after the original movie. It pleases me greatly that Adam shares this opinion as well.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, looked great, music was great, the story was okay, I just feel like the casting and acting let it down.
Greatest limited set movie of all time. The original “Twelve Angry Men”
Couldn't agree more. Ticks the boxes for limited set, outstanding acting, and all round perfect movie that's both enjoyable to watch while making you question which juror are you.
Ghostbusters afterlife was and is by far the best reboot/sequel of an old classic in decades 👌👏 I can't remember any other genre or franchise that ever have pulled it of like they did with afterlife, it is as good and better then then first two that it needs to be and even more so. There was so much small details in afterlife that I think i have too see it at least five more times😍 afterlife couldn't be better👌
Often when you hear a new movie of an old classic is on the way you almost certainly can bet it will suck, like if we would hear to day that a new back to the future is coming... yeah, you have no big hopes for that one..right 🤷♂️😆
The "other language" thing is also very true for video games. If a game lets you independently change the language of the sound-track and the subtitles, try switching the voice-over to a language you don't understand. At least half the time it'll make the game more enjoyable.
Colin Farrell, "!n Bruges" 10/10
The new Matrix movie was so disappointing on so many levels. I think it's best to think of it as a spinoff of the original films instead of some sort of continuation.
Jupiter ascending is one of my guilty pleasures. It always reminds me of some of Terry Gilliams classics.
I watched Attack of the Clones on the Spanish HBO channel back in like 2003, it was way better when I couldn’t understand a word.
Star Wars episode 8 has visual design that is WAY better than the film overall. It's probably my favorite movie in the whole series visually, the fight on the salt flats and the lightspeed jump are both visually stunning. It's definitely not my favorite Star Wars movie, but the art direction was top notch.
Had the same thought- light speed jump as a theatre tech worker took my breath away.
That movie is BEAUTIFUL. Some of the best cinematography I’ve ever seen, and the world building/creatures/etc are phenomenal. But goddamnit the plot and dialogue are something out of a 12 year old’s fan fiction.
Yes! There are some great shots of Kate Beckinsale's glutes in the movie... :)
Every time The Matrix comes up in conversation (and this happened literally an hour ago), I feel bad that it never clicked with me. I think it’s a great film, and fun trilogy, but for some reason, it just doesn’t resonate with me like it does with others. And it should, considering the kind of fiction and storytelling that I love. I wish I could see it through the eyes of those who love it.
I like computers. I like robots. I like thrillers and I like Keanu, bit I've never had an interest in seeing the Matrix movies. Go figure.
Dont feel bad, The Matrix is the most overrated piece of crap ever.
Same here. On paper, it's everything I could ask for in a movie, but in practice it's just...fine. And I feel almost guilty about it, like I'm scorning everyone's favorite movie or something? At least we're not alone in that
@@stinkyham9050you not liking something doesn't make it overrated or a piece of crap. It makes it something you don't like. That's it, that's all.
For me, the Transformers blockbusters are narratively worthless, but great pieces of visual art.
Unfortunately, I think they'd have too much CGI to qualify in Adam's eyes.
Really though? I think they're garbage, top to bottom, but I can see the appeal to some folks.
You brought up Jupiter Ascending, which is a terrible movie, but it does look great. Cloud Atlas is another one, and another Wachowski movie, that is a wonderful looking film. I'd also include Fifth Element, LotR, and the Narnia movies as ones where you just want to roll around in the props, even if you don't love the movies.
Not trying to stir up anyting, but 2016 Ghostbusters is a movie that I really don't like, yet has wonderful props. I was extremely hyped for the new laser ghost bear trap. I thought that was the coolest idea and couldn't wait to see it in action.. More than anything else I was extremely disappointed to see it completely unused and shoved in at the end.
There were so many things I was excited for. The little ghost punching gauntlets. The new pack design. Making the new Ecto One out of a hearse was an inspired idea. And I loved the new uniforms. I even loved the heart radioactive symbol. I always wanted to get into the Ghostbusters cosplay scene and I'm definitely the kind of guy who would pick the new girl's uniform just to be diffrent. I wanted an all-girls Ghostbusters team because I specifically want to be the guy in the girl's uniform. It's unisex anyway and that's how I like to break gender norms.
Unfortunately the script and plot were just terrible. No, I don't blame the actors.. I blame the director and the set up entirely. It was the biggest waste of amazing props that ever seen.
Thank you, I'm not the only one who loved the designs of 2016 Ghostbusters, From the props to the ghosts I felt like everything was on point not only with the old films but with the toys and the old cartoon series. It's a shame that the movie wasn't funny and that the tone didn't come out right, but the set design and the props and effects were great
There is a device that was used in a *lot* of sci-fi movies and series.
It looks like a weird double lathe and has a few red "laser" beams in each of them, which can be lit alternatively. It always looks very important.
This may be a controversial take, but I thought The Green Knight was a confusing and poorly executed movie that was trying too hard to be deep, but the VISUALS, from costuming to cinematography, were breathtaking and the only thing that kept me in my seat
One could argue about that it was a bit corny in a few places , but,
Derek Meddings made "Moonraker" an AMAZING film to look at.
His models and techniques are holy grail-esque to me personally as a lifelong Bond fan.
One in particular that makes me grin , is the practical use of a shaker of salt to simulate the Booster trail from the shuttle as it ascends to Space en route to Drax's Space-Station .
Adam try watching " dinner rush " movie was shot in 3 days at an actual restaurant. Not your kind of movie no CG no prop making just good acting.
Great advice about the other languages, I'll start doing that. Also, thanks to your take on Colin Ferrell and Total Recall, I'm going to watch it. I've always written it off as just a bad cash grab and maybe that wasn't the right call.
Totally agree on Jupiter Rising. The visual design and aesthetic reminded me much of Fifth Element, another wild movie with gorgeous design. Whether or not either of those movies made complete sense and felt perfect, my eyes sure got their money's worth, and if I can get that much out of a movie, I'm happy. That is the whole point of seeing a movie versus watching it on TV. A big screen spectacle. Many movies don't understand this duty and really are just boring TV-worthy dull slapped on big screen. Anyway, I love watching movies in other languages. It ALWAYS makes the movie more interesting because your mind optimistically fills in details and fleshes out the plot you imagine is happening. Watching something in Japanese before I understood the language versus after, it is always better before when whole parts of the story were essentially missing. No problem. My brain filled them in. Not that it is BAD after understanding. Just different.
Imagine how disappointed he was with the new Matrix… what a shit-show
Now that the new Matrix movie has been released and it appears to be a bit of a mess and not entirely satisfying, what are Adam's thoughts on it?
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Its a little sad watching this after seeing the new Matrix movie. Adam having such high hopes in this video, and now knowing he has most likely seen the film.
Agreed. I sorted comments to newest first to see if anyone else had already said this.
I watched My dinner with Andre tonight for the first time based on this video. What a wild ride, I was not prepared for getting that philosophical on a casual Sunday night. 10/10 would recommend!
Love that movie. Shocking how relevant it still is. Prophetic even.
A really good "limited set" movie is Wait Until Dark (1967) with Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin. Clearly developed from a stage play, it almost solely takes place in Susy's (Hepburn) apartment.
I was ambivalent about "The Matrix" but man, do I *love* "The Animatrix".
Locke with Tom Hardy is a gem of a limited set movie.
My theory about watching movies/anime in a different language: since you don't speak the language it's harder for you to recognize bad acting and awkward dialog.
Limited sets movies, "12 Angry Men", don't bother with any remakes, the original is nearly perfect
Limited set film? I really enjoyed a film called "Locke" with Tom Hardy, the set was him in his car.
Props better than the film? 1984 Dune, the production design on that film was first-class but the overall film was a bit of a mess, a guilty pleasure of a mess.
I would love to ask how Adam felt after watching the Matrix 😂😂😂 because I was disappointed
Found in the wikipedia of My Dinner With Andre:
> Although the film was based on events in the actors' lives, Shawn and Gregory denied (in an interview by film critic Roger Ebert) that they were playing themselves. They said that if they remade the film, they would swap the two characters to prove their point.
Jurassic Park III is still my favorite in the series, but not because it's a "good movie," but because I love the puppets and animatronics used throughout. If I had one set piece from any movie, any of the dino animatronics used there would make my life.
The new Matrix movie was being filmed right before covid, in the building opposite mine in SF. Was pretty cool watching the high wire work from the 41st floor bar.
I suspect that anime dialogue is good in its original language. Not speaking Japanese, I can't attest to this exactly, but I can't listen to dubbed anime. The characters' tone of voice distracts from the story in a way that subtitles do not.
I do, however, speak Spanish, and there's definitely humor and both cultural and historical context that doesn't translate very cleanly. It's interesting to read subtitles and compare them with what's actually being said. There are Spanish curses, for example, that would never be translated literally into English because you'd have a riot on your hands.
Mortal Engines is a movie I personally don't care for, I don't hate it but its just whatever. However I LOVE so much of the design of that movie.
The Matrix is one of those movies that I've never seen, and even though everybody says it's really good, I just can't ever seem to work-up the motivation to sit-down and watch it…
I don't know. I love movies, yet I am so haphazard and bad at being a proper "film buff" and watching things people say I should.
Hah, same here.
Maybe you can do the unthinkable and put it on on the side, while playing a game or something else, and just watch the start, then do the other thing if you feel it's losing you.
If you end up watching the movie instead of doing the other thing, you might want to rewatch it some time later, or just count it as having seen it and thought it was "ok", which will drive people insane, haha.
Having said that though, i love the 1st Matrix, the other 2 are indeed a lot less exciting, but they do show some more of that universe.
But the Matrix itself is a good standalone movie, and it's a nice starting point for any future talking about the franchise, as fans will probably be happy to fill you in about the conclusion, if you don't mind the spoilers.
Then again, Matrix 4 is around the corner, so i'm not sure how much of a conclusion it was.
And Animatrix is also very good, but you cannot really make a lot of sense out of it if you haven't seen the Matrix itself, as i remember it being a supplementary piece to the movie, even though it can be watched on its own, but the content in it gives more context to the things seen in the Matrix movie.
EDIT: forgot to write the things i actually wrote the comment for.
I have the same thing with the Godfather trilogy, still haven't seen it and somehow never seem to be in the mood or in the occasion for it.
Also, Carpenter's the Thing, the Deer Hunter, and a lot of other movies that i just haven't gotten around to watch, not to mention the many TV shows i supposedly "must watch", like GoT, Breaking Bad etc., the (play)list goes on and on.
Honestly, you should watch it (this time people are correct) . If you don't see the others after it. I would say you're not missing anything really (they are okay).
I'm same as you very skeptical when people say it's good. Ive seen movies I thought were below average after people hyped up to be amazing.
List of movies I would say are really good films. Fight club, interstellar, moon, pulp fiction, identity, true romance, last samurai, saving private Ryan, Shaun of the dead, reservoir dogs, Django unchained, shutter Island, Edge of tomorrow, Ex machina, good fellas, Matrix.
If you didn't see some of these, trust me they are good.
One that I think was absolutely amazing how they filmed it (1917, story was okay to me. but amazing filming, honestly ).
@@Games_and_Music Honestly, that's fair. I am personally someone who does not believe there's really such a thing as "must see" movies. For one thing, the lists often differ depending on who you ask. For another, art is a personal experience. Even if a huge number of people think something's great, it doesn't mean you will, and people shouldn't feel obligated to like/dislike something based on other people's thoughts.
That's my feeling, at least. If there's one thing I learned in film school, it's that there are a lot more types of movies out there than American action flicks from the past 3 decades.
@@stealth2951 Based on the movies you listed, I think that our tastes are rather different. While I can comprehend the appeal of heavier stuff, it doesn't really do anything for me personally, and hard-R violence is something I just generally can't handle. It upsets me to the point of distracting from any of the other elements in a movie.
This is not a critique of the movies you listed, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the fact that you like them. We're just two different people 🙂
@@BThings Yeah it is pretty difficult to really find something that's a must see for everyone.
I see that you don't like R rated violence much, i don't specifically look for it in movies, but i don't specifically mind it either, but it shouldn't be gore for the sake of it.
I've watched enough Horror in my teens, kinda over it now.
RoboCop, Moon, Alien are my favorite R-rated movies and also one of my favorite movies ever.
I am not a gore fan in general in movies, but i have no issues with it in comics or animation, band art and whatnot.
Love me some Nausicaä, Akira, Ghost in the Shell etc.
But again, not glorified gore.
Not sure if the Matrix is up your alley though, because it's also got some rough parts, R-rated as well i just noticed.
Of the movies that STEALTH 29 listed, i loved Moon, and i liked the others, but not more than "like".
They all have good parts, and i think i like Saving Private Ryan the most from that list, but it's a rough watch.
I do remember watching Full Metal Jacket several times when i was younger, which isn't a walk in the park either.
Interstellar has a stellar first 2 acts, falls apart at the end.. but you might like it.
Goodfellas is pretty great to be honest, if you're into hard mob movies, similar for Casino, Scarface and the Departed, and many more, most of them are pretty entertaining, but i wouldn't specifically sit down for them, hence why i haven't seen the Godfather.
Fight Club, ehh, i liked it when it came out, but it didn't stick with me as much as it did for the rest of the people, for an unreliable narrator, i'd prefer the Usual Suspects.
And i'm also kinda over Tarantino movies, i do like the ones i've seen, mostly his older stuff, but they're not movies i'd usually recommend, unless that person is into hype.
Edge of Tomorrow is cool, it reminded me of a more big budget version of Source Code, or sequel in the future, or Groundhog Day of course.
Same goes for Moon vs Oblivion, both Edge of Tomorrow and Oblivion to me felt like big budget versions of Duncan Jones' Source Code and Moon, and both the big budget ones starred Tom Cruise, haha
Anyway, i wonder what movies you do like, the R-rated stuff throws me off, because many of my favorites are R-rated, just coincidence.
Like, Beyond the Black Rainbow, to me it's kinda so bad that it's good, even though it's done entirely on purpose, but it left me with a big smile, or even a burst of laughter at the end, after having gone through that weird trip.
But i guess the same can be said about any weird trippy movie, supposedly 'Enter the Void' is the best, but yeah, haven't seen it..
Destination Moon (1950) was kinda interesting, especially considering that they hadn't actually gone to the Moon yet, and the similarities between that and Gravity (2013), i had seen it before Gravity, so i was kinda astounded when they whipped out the fire extinguisher, similarly to The Martian's weight problem, which was also a big part of the plot of Destination Moon.
So yeah i am also into Comedy, Noises Off is one of my all time favorites, plus all the lame 80s and 90s spoofs, Airplane, Hot Shots part deux, Loaded Weapon 1, Naked Gun, Space Balls etc., super cheesy, but fun if you get the references.
Mel Brooks movies in general are fun, if you're into that frantic farce stuff, but i love most of his movies.
But yeah, it all depends on your own taste.
Sorry for the long reply, haha, i was just replying to other comments as i got the notification, so i guess i'm on my 'typing chair'.
This might sound odd, but watching Star Wars Episodes 2 and 3 with an entirely different plot via Auralnauts parodies rather than a different language made me appreciate them more than ever.
The planets, ships, costumes, and even some camera shots are phenomenal when taken from a purely visual standpoint. It helps me understand why I enjoyed them so much and what created such a thriving community in the early 2000s and onward.
Auralnauts saved Obi-wan for me...
I watched the Animatrix many, many times. Some awesome stuff in those shorts.
Hitchcock's Rope is one of my favorite limited set movies.
12 Angry Men, Rear Window, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs
All fantastic uses of an extremely limited set.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Visually beautiful, dreadful by every other metric. Best viewed in French.
matrix reloaded is my favourite after the matrix, I dont see anything wrong with it, Revolutions I would love to see images of the dock gate and 40foot hammer miniature
Seen the new "Matrix" film, and it was average at best. It's a film we didn't need - it was just a rehash of the first film and, as usual with Hollywood, we can't have a strong male lead, we have to have a strong female to "help" him.
I love the Animatrix collections, including the comics, which all enrich the world.
It's been a while since I last read the comics. I still remember the feeling when first reading the 'glitch' in the Goliath short story. Made me pause and reread as it made me 'glitch'.
(Hopefully no spoilers)
Beyond is beautiful. Lovely pace and intriguing.
Worldrecord has a great build up and a thoughtful end.
Kid's Story has good energy.
Second Renaissance I & II could be a prediction for IRL future if we lose control of our creations. Shows the lack of empathy computers have.
Program and Final Flight of The Osiris look great as they follow characters who are well aware of the Matrix.
Matriculated and A Detective Story are the weakest for me, but do have value in the collection.
My favorite limited set movies:
Evil Dead
MST3K: The Movie
The second time I saw Star Wars was in a Paris theatre with French subtitles. Cute gal walked around selling cigarettes, candy and beer as the movie played.
Lifeboat from 1944 is my favorite limited set film. One scene, 10 people, one lifeboat, 1 hour 37 minutes