I have read these books so many times and seen the movie like 4 times and I never fucking picked up on the lighthouse as a symbol of something you SHOULDN'T go towards. Brilliant video.
I'm not sure that anyone (including peach cobbler) realizes that this movie was based on a book series. He specifically talked about how books are different than movies, but never mentioned that the books existed. It was very odd, still a well done video, but very odd in that regard.
THAT is how you bring a Lovecraftian story to theaters! The vast majority of Lovecraft's cosmic entities and events are not out of malice or benevolence but merely the unintended threat its mere existence presents to humanity.
Yeah. They just exist, with their own needs, intentions and habits that are completely alien to us. Just like the spider living in the corner of my living room.
@@ArDeeMee but at least the spider is a living organism, and there's hope you two could bond over that. if tarantulas can keep pet frogs, a house spider could become buddies with a human. but 'ol yogsoth is never really going to care about me.
The “fight” at the end is great. My favorite part is when she hands the alien the grenade. It almost looks like she’s giving it a gift. As it completes the transformation into a human it learns how to destroy itself.
@@donaldhysa4836 No, I meant I don't to experience any of the two. I don't want to be in a situation where a bear is less than an arm's length away, but I also don't want to see a predatory animal that mimics human speech
The last 10 minutes of Annihilation was probably the most bizarre movie experience I’ve ever had. I actually felt the need to pinch myself due to its sudden surrealism. I legit thought i was having a fever dream. Shit made me nauseous by the end of it.
I remember the movie's director commenting that they had to simplify the ending out of fear that western audience wouldn't get it. Forgot to add spider-man it seems.
I like the comment about the "western audience" part because if u watch old soviet movies ( for example) they are so weird yet so fascinating and confusing (if u want to watch a really good one watch stalker from 1979 it's fucking great)
@@Vahliya “too intellectual” yet the fundamentals of the film and entire writing structure are lazy and are poorly thought out. Like if the movie were trying to be smart and intellectual it wouldn’t use an existential theme and then present it in the most lazy and surface level way imaginable and it would’ve had the main cast reach the lighthouse from you know....the fucking beach. It also wouldn’t have characters like the psychiatrist (why tf is a psychiatrist there) talk about subjects and why it’s relevant as if she’s the leading expert on that subject when she’s a fucking PSYCHIATRIST. The decisions the cast make alone render this movie really fucking stupid but the plethora of other stupid decisions and ridiculous writing choices make it even worse
This reminds me of that photo of the chicken which lost feathers out of fright from seeing a tornado. The tornado did not want to scare the chicken, it just did. With cosmic horror, we are the chicken.
Cobbler: You could spend your life kicking down every door and seizing every opportunity. Me: I see that you have not gotten over your desire to burn and pillage towns from your STALKER 2 video.
I was lucky enough to watch this movie on opening night, blind, and with an almost empty theater. It was one of those days that I had just gone to the theater after work, picked a poster that looked cool, and watched the movie. The ride I was taken on was so unlike any other, and I sat in my seat afterwards just thinking. Annihilation is one of my favorite movies, and it is fiercely underrated. On the other side, this movie wasn't made for everyone. There are many reviews and video essays tearing it apart, but to me it will always be something I keep with me.
I feel the EXACT same way about Cloverfield. A fucking EXCELLENT monster move to have seen in theaters my first time watching it, but most people loathed it apparently, fucking sucks.
This video genuinely made me think deep about my own self-destructive tendencies. It’s what spurned my own push to stop smoking months ago. I really enjoy you’re content. Thank you for making this video.
Man, I gotta say, you changed my view on ppl as a whole I was a simple minded guy, I just watched content creators that aligned with my world view, first time seeing one of your videos, I just looked at your dry humour and threw it into the “anti sjw constant jokes” box, but then I gave your Stalker video a try, then your The Last Of Us, and I agree in the point you made in that video, I shouldn’t hate or discriminate just because I doesn’t agree, it is okay to like something/someone you disagree with. And then I watch this video, the intro being a literal punch in the stomach for someone (cough cough, me) going trough a though time and seriously growing closer to the ideia of just ending it all, I gotta say, you indirectly helped me, I allways have been conflicted by the two separate toughts of “You are a selfish egotistical asshole and deserve the punishment you are recieving” and “You want to get better, to do right, but if you keep putting yourself down, you’ll never br able to” these two ideas just kept me in this loop of acting selfish, feeling bad for it, spend all my energy punishing myself, rinse and repeat. And then it striked me, I want to destroy myself, not because of the helplessness, but out of spite. Anyway, I’m gonna stop talking about me to (finally) go to the point: Thanks DJ Peach Cobbler, you helped me , and whatever you plan on doing you deserve to achieve sucess because you do your shit right, mad respect, say to your wife’s boyfriend that I’m gonna get online so we can play Halo 3 on the xbox past bedtime
been there bro i hope your doing better now , reading about EQ and id and ego really helped me to pull my shit together i suggest it to anyone which reads this cm
The part of the film that stuck in my mind for weeks was Kane's monologue on the tape in the lighthouse: "I thought I was a man. I had a life. People called me Kane. And now I'm not so sure. If I wasn't Kane, what was I? Was I you? Were you me? My flesh moves... like liquid. My mind is... just cut loose. I can't bear it."
I generally don't like horror movies, they often use gore, surprises, etc. This movie I found closer to a terror movie than a horror movie, rather than trying to give me the biggest scare, it gave me a constant feeling of dread, almost Lovecraftian, one the remained long after I had watched the movie.
Watch any David Lynch film and/or Lake Mungo, the latter gave a guy who has been watching horror movies for a decade and a half nightmares. (It's me, I'm talking about me.)
After rewatching this vid, I realized that this movie encapsulates Stephen Kings definitions of horror. “The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
One of my favorite things from the film was the look on Natalie Portman's face as she looks into the fractal vortex thing. It's a truly incredible mix of so many tangled emotions and I think it really conveys the call of the void. There's sadness and fear and exhaustion and desperation, but also a strange calm and a feeling of touching/witnessing something beautiful and profound.
Oh yeah, loved the sound of the bear stomping around the room. You literally only need to hear a single footstep to get the feeling it can rip your head off in a second.
I watched it in theaters and was blown away, esp by the end scene. Later showed it to my housemate but we watched it on some streaming site with just tv audio and damn did the last scene underwhelm without quality audio
Every reference to suicide or self-harm has been removed from the Australian Netflix version of this film. I didn't even know they were there before watching this. Didn't seem to change too much because it was still 2 hours of awesome, cerebral horror, but now I don't know if I even got the creator's point.
What the fuck is this channel. Starts with the most unrelated shit, gets to the point 5 minutes in, 10 minutes into the actual review, he says “when my wife’s boyfriend is reading me a bedtime story…” I love this channel.
This 80k sub channel makes better videos than some 1million sub channels Do you have prior experience with making videos? There's no way just just started off and instantly have been this good.
Thank you, that means a lot! You can see, in my first few videos, me getting to grips with all this stuff. I had no experience with any of this stuff (with the exception of photoshop, I had limited experience with it) until I started a little over a year ago.
Ginger HP Lovecraft is my favorite TH-cam man. I think I'll watch this movie now thanks to him. I also think I will leave a comment to boost the algorithm so that he will continue to grow
I am ridiculously proud to say I saw this film when it released. The atmosphere, the unknowing energy, and the vague ending with the eye shadow is just...it was JUST too artsy to affect the modern market. It had such a good premise and I want a second one.
One of the things I love about this movie is how it is a very literal interpretation of character journey. I got to talk about this in one of my film classes recently so I could go on about this movie for hours. The movie literally subjects its characters to physical change after they willingly pass a threshold - the conceit of the film, I think, is that the choices we make and the subsequent change we subject ourselves to makes us both new and the same. Indistinguishable from our former selves but also wholly changed via our own actions. It's not unlike the typical hero's journey, where a main character comes back as a changed character but the same physical person. Annihilation has the main character return as the same character and a physically changed person.
it's invasion of the body snatchers/the blob/the thing/etc/etc all over again. hollywood been churning out variations on this dumb propaganda for plebs for decades. read dostoevsky if you want true moral horror.
Jokes on you I've seen the movie AND am currently reading the third book! Edit: Btw, can HIGHLY reccomend the entire southern reach trilogy to any one.
@@duckfilms3662 I enjoyed it, it's a surreal post-apocalyptical story with a giant flying grizzly bear named Mord. It's quite the ride with a lot of heart.
The M16A1 is an AR-15 with the option to fire in full-auto. The M16A2 is basically the same as the M16A1, but with three-round burst fire instead of full-auto. The M16A3 has a picatinny rail and detachable carry handle on top of the receiver instead of a fixed carry handle, and like the M16A1, can fire in full-auto. The M16A4 has a rail and detachable carry handle on top of the receiver, like the M16A3, but like the M16A2, fires in bursts. It also has quad picatinny rails along the entire handguard, which allows for attachments like PEQ-15s, foregrips, rail covers, et cetera. The M4 is a more compact version of the M16A4, with burst fire, and has a buffer tube and collapsible stock instead of a full stock, and a 14.5-inch barrel instead of a 20-inch barrel, which also allows for shorter handguards. The M4A1 is the exact same as the M4, but it has fully-automatic fire instead of burst fire. So yeah, it’s an M4A1.
I discovered your stalker video a couple of days ago and when you said "I haven't read any of this shit" I knew you were in for a fucking treat. I thought: "I can't wait until he jumps from Roadside Picnic to Annihilation" AND HERE IT IS
That line you mention reminds me a moment in Dawn of War II where two characters are discussing how to deal with the Tyranids attacking their sector. Abitus, like the Space Marine he is claims that they have no fear, because "We are fear itself" And Cyrus replies "What does it matter to be fear itself against an enemy who feels no fear".
they should have just smeared themselves in something gross to convince the tyranids they aren't worth eating: army ants eat everything they find delicious in their path, leaving all the distasteful junk behind. my issue with tyranids as cosmic horror is that they're not even as alien as the ctan or chaos. they'd be more interesting if they were actually doing something with the planets they consumed instead of just leaving them behind scoured.
@@sergeantscarecrow nope! there's lots of stuff tyranids avoid. for just two examples, necrons and nurgle. tyranids don't eat everything, they only eat things that it's pointful to eat. otherwise they wouldn't be here right now.
This is one of the only two good videos I could find talking about Annihilation. The second being by Folding Ideas. Great analysis! This movie was haunting, yet beautiful. The mix between the literal premise and the metaphor of the shimmer was so good. I love when the fantasy of a story complements the themes, and Annihilation might be among the best examples.
If you guys are wondering I beleive the director of annihilation took heavy influence from the 1979 movie STALKER which is based of the Russian novella Roadside picnic
I think the bear with the friends voice is a sort of statement about how being self destructive can lead to your friends not recognizing you. I haven’t seen the movie but just something I thought
Hm... pls don't h8 me, but in my eyes the story by Strugatsky brothers is more of a "proof of concept" about the Zone that warps known laws of nature and how humankind might interact with it; the Tarkovsky's adaptation though (for which Arkady and Boris made the script - _or rather two,_ if we're taking film's troubled production into account - and, IMO, they've outdone themselves with the revised take on the Zone for the film) is what really pushed forward both the concept (yeah, I dare to say that there wouldn't be "Annihilation" without "Stalker" as an icebreaker, and only then "Roadside Picnic" comes into place as an easier reading) and the medium (yeah, I dare to say that Tarkovsky and his cinematography has left a lasting impression on the next generations of creators, for example - Mamoru Oshii and Hideo Kojima).
Jeff Vandermeer himself said that 'Roadside picnic' was not an inspiration for Annihilation whatsoever. But yes, we can draw a lot of similarities conceptwise between the two regardless of what was or not an inspiration for the author.
Great video, the intro really got me hooked. Although I just have to mention that you really gotta work on your sound mixing, the volume levels were all over the place, especially when cutting to and away from clips from the movie. But all in all really good, I’ll probably be watching this video weekly because I’m an insane person.
I saw this film whit a friend when it came out, and we liked the idea, inspiration on stalker, ambient and the scenes. But, we didn't conected whit the characters, They just dosen't feel like real people, and now i ubderstan why: they act like "i have problems, i'm self distructed, i have a past" but i don't see that. Motives of the main character are understandable, but the rest were even too determinate to enter into the zone, like the plot need to, not becaus they want to. Plus: it didn't feel like they actually were the profesionals they say to be, specially the soldier. They were more like normal people whit guns and some academical interest.
His ability to make tangents fit perfectly with what he is talking about....truly something only a tasty dessert could do. Also 13:23 I freaking diiiiied lololol.
I found the movie on Netflix when it came out and three things have happened since then. 1 I love cosmic horror 2 I fucking hate that bear 3 I discovered Moderat, Ben Salisbury and Jeoff Barrow and had to stop pretending I'm a musician. 17/10 would watch over and over again
You know this movie can also be seen as an allegory for war, the shimmer the battlefield, the scene where the psychologist talks about picking the teams and sending them into the shimmer a representation of the army recruiters pulling people into it and all the messed up things that happen representing the horrors, the madness, and the insanity of the battlefield. Many people enter wars, and not many leave unchanged.
This movie is an example of an all female cast done right. All of the characters are genuine and feel like they belong there. It's not forced, and doesn't feel like it has something to prove.
@@subnetplayer490 It was actually HP Lovecraft's father that named the cat. Lovecraft just gave it more love than anything else in the world, and far more love than anything in his literary world every even imagined.
Those who played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. could certainly relate to the movie and NOT get scared,since sadly it's not a heart-attack simulator S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is...
Hey! I was wondering if you could do a review on Outer Wilds? It's easily one of my favorite games, and one of the few, if not the sole, games to make me feel emotionally attached to the world without telling me to be. That comined with the music at the end brought me to genuine tears and I think it's the type of game that would fit right up your alley!
@@susbedstain2900 on the ween down now. At 1/6th of my usage when I wrote that. From 3 gs a day to a half or less. Got a few 30s and 2 weeks worth of subs for that final push.
Alex Garland is phenomenal. So glad to see him jump to directing in Ex Machina and Annihilation and then his series on Hulu, DEVS, really sticks with you. I can’t recommend that series enough. He’s rumored to have been the real director for Dredd as well (plus he wrote the novel and script for The Beach, then 28 Days Later, Sunshine, as well as the games DmC and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West). He’s so enormously talented, I just want Hollywood to give him all the money he wants and endless creative freedom and then we’ll see what he does with it. PLEASE watch DEVS. PLEASE.
The psychologist goes insane, the physicist stops trying to understand, the biologist gets her very core components changed and the paramedic is mortality wounded. There was also a geomorphologist but they died too early for me to Care
I remember watching this movie and being mesmerized by the visuals and the concept, the cosmic horror ending was quite unexpected and got me very intrigued as well - Merely hearing that soundtrack again evokes such emotion that only few movies have achieved for me. This is definitely an interesting take, adds details and concepts that I did not even think about. I especially love the comparision with fire, truly adds a new meaning to how scary fire can be, it just grows, it doesnt want to destroy, there is no malice to a burning fire, it's just raw nature. I also assumed the grenade at the end killed both - while instead of suicide, it was self destruction, the original person physically disappearing, while the new physical self returns. Amazing stuff as always, keep it up!
I did see this movie, I saw it in theaters actually, and the entire end sequence from the moment Lena enters the lighthouse to the moment she leaves, I was struck with such a primal fear I couldn't move, literally chills all over my body sticking me to my seat. The music for that scene was perfect. probably my all time favorite theater experience
@@julianreviews8102 Actually I think the issue that i have with it is that the movie wants to have two opposing themes both ways. It can't figure out if it wants to be about how everything is going to be destroyed and broken down untill nothing is left, or that things are going to change and morph into something we can't understand. I think thats why no one can agree on what the movie is about.
The beauty of the idea is the ultimate conclusion of humanity, not matter how far we get, everything we experience as our nemesis is entropy. We are fighting our own material world from breaking apart on the cosmic and planetary view.
Eh what. I feel I've already commented on this chaps video but yeah: I have seen the film. The book is better mind you. The tomb scene is long and drawn out and scary as, well nothing is scary these days now are they lol. Like nothing, cept for Loki series 2 on the forth episode. There are two hyper scary moments but they're underplayed and secretive. Masterpiece that. Even with Higgleston running around throwing his head back, thrusting his chest out like he's still a teenager looool.
I look at this movie as a good adaptation of The Colour Out of Space and some other stories by H.P. Lovecraft. It's the perfect representation of the existential fear of cosmic horror, one that we thought we could never see in the big screen, since you can't visualy represent something that is so deeply subtle. This movie wraps it up and says "your worst fear is yourself, that's why there's a self destructive behavior in each one of us. We all search for annihilation."
Actually this film is a redressed version of Roadside Picnic and Stalker. Visually it is stunning, but the book failed to impress me too. While it may not be the same the thread is there, to some degree.
Cobbler (if I can call you like that) thank you for making my week better with some of the calmest, smartest and most entertaining videos i ever watched on this garbage website, and i appreciate the amount of effort that you put into your videos because this is really some fine piece of art.
"When my wife's boyfriend is reading me a bedtime story..." Whoa, hold on! I mean... if you're into that. Also, I've already seen the movie. It's great!
As a gun guy. The only difference between the M4 and M16 is barrel length. All others are really "cosmetic" or interchangeable. Like there are M16s with collapsible buttstocks. Since I feel like being really picky, looks like standard AR-15s. I can't see the selector switch, or manufacturing stamp, but since they shot full auto in the movie I'm assuming that its either a class 3 AR-15 or an M4 since it for sure doesn't have rifle length barrel. (18"-20") But it also seems like the barrel is 16" long not quite making an M4 either... (Carbine) I do know those are magpul magazines with windows that allow you to see how much ammo is left in the magazine. And they're empty... Still, suspension of disbelieve. I'm used to it by know. Movies and Video Games rarely get firearms close.
i have seen this film.
FUCK YOU BLOCKED
@@DJPeachCobbler Coward, you falsely assumed we haven't watched the movie even though some of us did
@@DJPeachCobbler I watched it twice
I also watched this film
@@Bombingham rookie, i watched it 4 times
"Are you suicidal?"
that was the most out of nowhere and existential intro yet
I answered with yes. it's funny that he asked this question when I am again at my low point.
His second question I was able to answer with no though
@@done1338 sorry to hear that I hope things start to look up for you
@@done1338 I'm so sorry you're going through that my friend.
I was scared for a split second when he asked that question
I have read these books so many times and seen the movie like 4 times and I never fucking picked up on the lighthouse as a symbol of something you SHOULDN'T go towards.
Brilliant video.
I'm not sure that anyone (including peach cobbler) realizes that this movie was based on a book series. He specifically talked about how books are different than movies, but never mentioned that the books existed. It was very odd, still a well done video, but very odd in that regard.
@@Way2MuchFlava
Isn't that because the movie deviates from the book? It's its own entity.
Read the book, as well. Never made that lighthouse connection, regardless enjoyed it.
@@Way2MuchFlava if I remember correctly, he read the novels but then wrote the screenplay based on his memories of the story
@@pseudonymousbeing987 Yeah I really didn’t enjoy this movie as an adaptation of the book but it’s a fantastic standalone
THAT is how you bring a Lovecraftian story to theaters! The vast majority of Lovecraft's cosmic entities and events are not out of malice or benevolence but merely the unintended threat its mere existence presents to humanity.
Yeah. They just exist, with their own needs, intentions and habits that are completely alien to us. Just like the spider living in the corner of my living room.
Like the mystery flesh pit
@@ArDeeMee it’s there to find a comfy shelter and some food, why I don’t have one is because they live without RENT
@@ArDeeMee but at least the spider is a living organism, and there's hope you two could bond over that. if tarantulas can keep pet frogs, a house spider could become buddies with a human. but 'ol yogsoth is never really going to care about me.
Like those damned immigrants (which is what Lovecraft was actually writing about)
The “fight” at the end is great. My favorite part is when she hands the alien the grenade. It almost looks like she’s giving it a gift. As it completes the transformation into a human it learns how to destroy itself.
This comment is so deep I literally screamed
@@semaisoshul This made my day 😂
@@Fink621 😂😂 glad to hear that 🙏🏽❤️
The most disturbing part of this video is that Cobbler's outfit hides his beef cake physique so well. It's paranormal.
He's the big guy from umbrella academy
Really?
I liked his tie.
@@hawkevick9184 yee
Reminds me of Jacket fro, Hotline Miami.
The realism of how brutally the bear acts and how violent it is terrifies me because an attacking bear really is that violent and merciless
Yeah but it was the screaming with their friends voice that was a little scarier than just an angry bear don't you think?
@@donaldhysa4836 Well I might actually run into a normal angry bear.
@@donaldhysa4836 How about neither
@@midgetman4206 Neithet what? Neither js scary?
@@donaldhysa4836 No, I meant I don't to experience any of the two. I don't want to be in a situation where a bear is less than an arm's length away, but I also don't want to see a predatory animal that mimics human speech
"my wifes boyfriend" broke me. was not expecting it
I thought I misheard it and had to rewind.
Yeha me too
I heard him perfectly but rewindeded rewound rewounded it just to hear him again
had to pause
My man didn't even flinch or break the character. Not even a muscle moved
The last 10 minutes of Annihilation was probably the most bizarre movie experience I’ve ever had. I actually felt the need to pinch myself due to its sudden surrealism. I legit thought i was having a fever dream. Shit made me nauseous by the end of it.
*"The fire doesn't want to burn the forest... It just does."* wow, just wow.
It's just a chemical bro 😂😂😂
I cried 73 times
@@AC-hj9tv
it's true, I was the forest
I remember the movie's director commenting that they had to simplify the ending out of fear that western audience wouldn't get it. Forgot to add spider-man it seems.
I like the comment about the "western audience" part
because if u watch old soviet movies ( for example) they are so weird yet so fascinating and confusing (if u want to watch a really good one watch stalker from 1979 it's fucking great)
@@Vahliya “too intellectual” yet the fundamentals of the film and entire writing structure are lazy and are poorly thought out. Like if the movie were trying to be smart and intellectual it wouldn’t use an existential theme and then present it in the most lazy and surface level way imaginable and it would’ve had the main cast reach the lighthouse from you know....the fucking beach.
It also wouldn’t have characters like the psychiatrist (why tf is a psychiatrist there) talk about subjects and why it’s relevant as if she’s the leading expert on that subject when she’s a fucking PSYCHIATRIST.
The decisions the cast make alone render this movie really fucking stupid but the plethora of other stupid decisions and ridiculous writing choices make it even worse
@@zzodysseuszz but the camera work and cgi was good tho
@@zzodysseuszz the girl power tho
@AlCeeProd 2.0 that sounds like brotha, that's funny
This reminds me of that photo of the chicken which lost feathers out of fright from seeing a tornado. The tornado did not want to scare the chicken, it just did. With cosmic horror, we are the chicken.
thats a great analogy
Poor chicken.
this is probably the best way to explain it.
Ripped my clothes off immediately when I got caught in a severe storm. Windswept junk. Can relate
i ate that chicken btw
Cobbler: You could spend your life kicking down every door and seizing every opportunity.
Me: I see that you have not gotten over your desire to burn and pillage towns from your STALKER 2 video.
He knows too much
Which stalker should i play?
@@TheTheoser All of them.
@@TheTheoser I like stalker anomaly, try it, it's free
@@TheTheoser you should buy all of them, and play them in order. then you should play stalker anomaly
I was lucky enough to watch this movie on opening night, blind, and with an almost empty theater. It was one of those days that I had just gone to the theater after work, picked a poster that looked cool, and watched the movie. The ride I was taken on was so unlike any other, and I sat in my seat afterwards just thinking. Annihilation is one of my favorite movies, and it is fiercely underrated.
On the other side, this movie wasn't made for everyone. There are many reviews and video essays tearing it apart, but to me it will always be something I keep with me.
I feel the EXACT same way about Cloverfield. A fucking EXCELLENT monster move to have seen in theaters my first time watching it, but most people loathed it apparently, fucking sucks.
This video genuinely made me think deep about my own self-destructive tendencies. It’s what spurned my own push to stop smoking months ago. I really enjoy you’re content. Thank you for making this video.
How you doing now? It's always good to look backwards to see how far we've got to go.
I hope you are still smoke free after these past two years Zach.
the skull-bear was the coolest thing i've seen in a movie for the past 5 years
That and the kaleidoscope alien ball thing was truly fascinating in a terrifying way. No other movie has made me feel this way.
same
@@jernaugurgeh451 cool asf tho ngl
You don’t watch many movies
What happened 5 years ago?
"Do you eat too much"
Me, cheeks full from stuffing as many starbursts as I can fit into my mouth: No...
I thought I was a he only one, I just want to taste as many flavors as I can at the same time
@@elmaxo1591 nah don’t worry man I feel you do that with skittles also
@@erwinprokopios4550 hahahaha totally
Jellybean gang checking in
“Don’t kill yourself at least not before desert, elbows off the table shotgun out ya mouth”- a Cobbler man.
You gotta enjoy the small things, like not having to do the dishes
@@UltraBadass I don't know that amazing pleasure. Thanksgiving dishes are my hell to bear.
@@Vexin980”bear” :D
Man, I gotta say, you changed my view on ppl as a whole
I was a simple minded guy, I just watched content creators that aligned with my world view, first time seeing one of your videos, I just looked at your dry humour and threw it into the “anti sjw constant jokes” box, but then I gave your Stalker video a try, then your The Last Of Us, and I agree in the point you made in that video, I shouldn’t hate or discriminate just because I doesn’t agree, it is okay to like something/someone you disagree with.
And then I watch this video, the intro being a literal punch in the stomach for someone (cough cough, me) going trough a though time and seriously growing closer to the ideia of just ending it all, I gotta say, you indirectly helped me, I allways have been conflicted by the two separate toughts of “You are a selfish egotistical asshole and deserve the punishment you are recieving” and “You want to get better, to do right, but if you keep putting yourself down, you’ll never br able to” these two ideas just kept me in this loop of acting selfish, feeling bad for it, spend all my energy punishing myself, rinse and repeat.
And then it striked me, I want to destroy myself, not because of the helplessness, but out of spite.
Anyway, I’m gonna stop talking about me to (finally) go to the point: Thanks DJ Peach Cobbler, you helped me , and whatever you plan on doing you deserve to achieve sucess because you do your shit right, mad respect, say to your wife’s boyfriend that I’m gonna get online so we can play Halo 3 on the xbox past bedtime
I have a similar issue but I lack the drive to do anything or try and gain any drive self perpetuating the cycle
seems like you at least know what's going on in your head tho. the bois are pulling for you bro
been there bro i hope your doing better now , reading about EQ and id and ego really helped me to pull my shit together i suggest it to anyone which reads this cm
The part of the film that stuck in my mind for weeks was Kane's monologue on the tape in the lighthouse: "I thought I was a man. I had a life. People called me Kane. And now I'm not so sure. If I wasn't Kane, what was I? Was I you? Were you me? My flesh moves... like liquid. My mind is... just cut loose. I can't bear it."
Yo that shit had me tearing up in existential crisis
@@TROBassGuitar Gotta watch out for that stranger in the mirror. 😉
I generally don't like horror movies, they often use gore, surprises, etc. This movie I found closer to a terror movie than a horror movie, rather than trying to give me the biggest scare, it gave me a constant feeling of dread, almost Lovecraftian, one the remained long after I had watched the movie.
Watch any David Lynch film and/or Lake Mungo, the latter gave a guy who has been watching horror movies for a decade and a half nightmares. (It's me, I'm talking about me.)
After rewatching this vid, I realized that this movie encapsulates Stephen Kings definitions of horror.
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
If you like Lovecraftian terror in movies, I recommend a German film called 'Die Farbe'.
It is trying to be Lovecraftian and succeds to some degree
This movie is inspired by The Color out of Space which is by Lovecraft
I just gotta say. I could have lived without seeing the guts scene again.
I could have lived without that bear scene
What do you mean its just normal dude stuff.
including the bear.
It's just a trick of the light
Really dude? It wasn't that scary
Ah yes, the first film that made me pull an all-nighter out of fear.
Nice not nice :D
For me that was killer grandma
Yep. Thanks for reminding me of one of the most terrifying scenes ever. That bear man.. My brain actually cut it out completely. Disturbing stuff
jesus you would not last a day with out goverment
@@goodcolimgpu10 man why does there always have to be someone always bringing politics into places it doesn't belong
I've seen it twice. Your move, cobbler.
You're a liar and a cheat and a scoundrel and I love you
One of my favorite things from the film was the look on Natalie Portman's face as she looks into the fractal vortex thing. It's a truly incredible mix of so many tangled emotions and I think it really conveys the call of the void. There's sadness and fear and exhaustion and desperation, but also a strange calm and a feeling of touching/witnessing something beautiful and profound.
I thought you meant Doom: Annihilation, and was very concerned about who had hijacked your channel, or that they were holding you hostage to say this
Same lmao, then I saw the weird rainbow squiggle and was like: oooohhhh, *THAT* Anihiliation
It took THIS specific comment to get the joke about the novelization of doom
I mean I’m still concerned considering both are bad movies
You just dont like it doesn't mean its bad
I was hoping he meant Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Oh man, this movie’s sound design was legendary. Good movie too. Edit: Just finished the vid, very good points, it has me thinking now.
Oh yeah, loved the sound of the bear stomping around the room. You literally only need to hear a single footstep to get the feeling it can rip your head off in a second.
@@DJPeachCobbler I liked your lamp and tie.
Seriously. That ending needs to be listened to loud
Its like the audio version of existential dread I love this movie
I watched it in theaters and was blown away, esp by the end scene. Later showed it to my housemate but we watched it on some streaming site with just tv audio and damn did the last scene underwhelm without quality audio
Funny how it was on FX the other day and someone on Reddit mentioned yesterday that they don't understand why it is so underrated.
The check bounced, so nevermind, fuck this movie
redditor, lol
Redditors are the scum of the internet lmao
@@stndunnam eglin air force base runs reddit, address your complaints to them plz.
@@stndunnam I mean, they are, but honestly, I'd rather have the idiots of Reddit than 4Chan goblins.
Every reference to suicide or self-harm has been removed from the Australian Netflix version of this film. I didn't even know they were there before watching this. Didn't seem to change too much because it was still 2 hours of awesome, cerebral horror, but now I don't know if I even got the creator's point.
censorship is so funny. it's like they think you won't kill yourself if you never realize it's an option.
Politics of Australia is unnecessarily stupid
It's rated R tho isn't it? How would they even censor a rated R movie?
What the fuck is this channel. Starts with the most unrelated shit, gets to the point 5 minutes in, 10 minutes into the actual review, he says “when my wife’s boyfriend is reading me a bedtime story…”
I love this channel.
Me who's seen the movie: OK then
Critical drinker had a good take on this movie.
@@clampmotosua1789 indeed
@@adamwatson1565 Nah, he didn't get this movie, I think he was expecting a regular movie.
This 80k sub channel makes better videos than some 1million sub channels
Do you have prior experience with making videos? There's no way just just started off and instantly have been this good.
Believe it or not it was 5k subs 2 weeks ago
Thank you, that means a lot!
You can see, in my first few videos, me getting to grips with all this stuff. I had no experience with any of this stuff (with the exception of photoshop, I had limited experience with it) until I started a little over a year ago.
@@DJPeachCobbler Deepest lore.
I also think your channel is "dope"
I have an anime avatar so you know this is high praise, we're never happy.
@@DJPeachCobbler it is splendid. It is frightening. Simply magnificant. Why are you ?
@@-Cheif yeah, I joined in when he was at 20k I think. Now he's at 80k. Jeebus. He definitely deserves it though.
Ginger HP Lovecraft is my favorite TH-cam man. I think I'll watch this movie now thanks to him. I also think I will leave a comment to boost the algorithm so that he will continue to grow
Thanks.
Now I can't unsee it....
Does he have a cat?
@ashy 1890
@ashy Lovecraft actually got less racist once he left his sheltered world and met some people from the grouped he racisted against
@@Leitis_Fella sources on that ? Really curious about it
I am ridiculously proud to say I saw this film when it released. The atmosphere, the unknowing energy, and the vague ending with the eye shadow is just...it was JUST too artsy to affect the modern market. It had such a good premise and I want a second one.
paused the video to watch the movie, within the first hour i knew I wasnt sleeping anymore lmao
One of the things I love about this movie is how it is a very literal interpretation of character journey. I got to talk about this in one of my film classes recently so I could go on about this movie for hours. The movie literally subjects its characters to physical change after they willingly pass a threshold - the conceit of the film, I think, is that the choices we make and the subsequent change we subject ourselves to makes us both new and the same. Indistinguishable from our former selves but also wholly changed via our own actions. It's not unlike the typical hero's journey, where a main character comes back as a changed character but the same physical person. Annihilation has the main character return as the same character and a physically changed person.
it's invasion of the body snatchers/the blob/the thing/etc/etc all over again. hollywood been churning out variations on this dumb propaganda for plebs for decades. read dostoevsky if you want true moral horror.
@@papalegba6759 lol wut
@@discounthoody it's a dumb film for dumb people and it's not original. simple enough for you?
@@papalegba6759 duck off
@@RandomInternetStranger thanks for proving my point, dumb person.
Using HL2 music in a non realated HL 2 video is the most Peach Cobbler thing I could think of
Jokes on you I've seen the movie AND am currently reading the third book!
Edit: Btw, can HIGHLY reccomend the entire southern reach trilogy to any one.
Might check the books out, thanks
Girlfriend and I are going to start the first book next week! Have you read Jeff VanderMeer's Borne?
@@michaelsuite9329 naw, have not read any of the other stuff by him, I assume it's good tho?
@@duckfilms3662 I enjoyed it, it's a surreal post-apocalyptical story with a giant flying grizzly bear named Mord. It's quite the ride with a lot of heart.
Annihilation the book is great, very different from the movie but great and weird nonetheless
The M16A1 is an AR-15 with the option to fire in full-auto. The M16A2 is basically the same as the M16A1, but with three-round burst fire instead of full-auto. The M16A3 has a picatinny rail and detachable carry handle on top of the receiver instead of a fixed carry handle, and like the M16A1, can fire in full-auto. The M16A4 has a rail and detachable carry handle on top of the receiver, like the M16A3, but like the M16A2, fires in bursts. It also has quad picatinny rails along the entire handguard, which allows for attachments like PEQ-15s, foregrips, rail covers, et cetera. The M4 is a more compact version of the M16A4, with burst fire, and has a buffer tube and collapsible stock instead of a full stock, and a 14.5-inch barrel instead of a 20-inch barrel, which also allows for shorter handguards. The M4A1 is the exact same as the M4, but it has fully-automatic fire instead of burst fire.
So yeah, it’s an M4A1.
Arma lite lore:
🤓
This is without a doubt my favorite TH-cam video of all time, every month or two I come back to it and rewatch it. Thank you for this masterpiece.
The books are a worthwhile read too. The sequels add a lot of context to what happens in Annihilation without actually "explaining" much. Good times.
I discovered your stalker video a couple of days ago and when you said "I haven't read any of this shit" I knew you were in for a fucking treat.
I thought: "I can't wait until he jumps from Roadside Picnic to Annihilation" AND HERE IT IS
That's so nice that your wife's BF reads you stories
You think he is joking but he is actually trying to own the right wing gamers
@@donaldhysa4836 liberals owned by dj peach cobbler
you somehow managed to include doom eternal still... impressive.
That line you mention reminds me a moment in Dawn of War II where two characters are discussing how to deal with the Tyranids attacking their sector.
Abitus, like the Space Marine he is claims that they have no fear, because "We are fear itself"
And Cyrus replies "What does it matter to be fear itself against an enemy who feels no fear".
they should have just smeared themselves in something gross to convince the tyranids they aren't worth eating: army ants eat everything they find delicious in their path, leaving all the distasteful junk behind. my issue with tyranids as cosmic horror is that they're not even as alien as the ctan or chaos. they'd be more interesting if they were actually doing something with the planets they consumed instead of just leaving them behind scoured.
@@entropicflux8849 That wouldn't work. The tyranids eat everything, regardless of taste
@@sergeantscarecrow nope! there's lots of stuff tyranids avoid. for just two examples, necrons and nurgle. tyranids don't eat everything, they only eat things that it's pointful to eat. otherwise they wouldn't be here right now.
This and the new Color out of Space deserve far more renown than they currently have.
The difference between both are not actively heads towards the color and the other is hit by the color. But it feels like the are the same event
Next on your list if you haven't seen it yet, Cobbler. This pink stuff doesn't mess around.
Really disappointing adaptation of a great book.
Read the books too and it really explained a lot. It helped me understand that I am an idiot and don’t understand anything.
Leaving comment for the algorithm
Good movie, good points you raise, and I'm glad to see you branching out into tackling other media!
"Helplessness vs. self destruction as a choice." I had to put my head in my knees for 5 minutes after this statement.
This is one of the only two good videos I could find talking about Annihilation. The second being by Folding Ideas.
Great analysis!
This movie was haunting, yet beautiful. The mix between the literal premise and the metaphor of the shimmer was so good. I love when the fantasy of a story complements the themes, and Annihilation might be among the best examples.
I watched it with some friends and we all got hypnotized at the end, now we are dead
I really, REALLY appreciated the 'Icon of Sin' joke.
Unexpectedly expected/10
Movie so good it actually inspired me to read a book. So happy to see you covering it
If you guys are wondering I beleive the director of annihilation took heavy influence from the 1979 movie STALKER which is based of the Russian novella Roadside picnic
Oooh, I've still got that on DVD.
oooh yes i was thinking of the game when watching the movie
I think the bear with the friends voice is a sort of statement about how being self destructive can lead to your friends not recognizing you. I haven’t seen the movie but just something I thought
it's basically "the color out of space" taken to another level, which is good, since this is one of my favorite stories by H.P Lovecraft
my fav, too. when i saw this movie my immediate response was "the only good lovecraft films aren't officially lovecraft films".
I saw this movie in theaters
Very interesting and sad i never saw it again anywhere
I accidentally stumbled on it browsing netflix or viaplay or smthn and watched it with my gf out of boredom. I was positively surprised gotta say...
Its on Netflix?
Yes. Netflix was the first to release the movie, but it is on other services as well
Great movie in theaters... the sound design was especially potent.
Stalker vibes... Mhmm... Annihilation and S.T.A.L.K.E.R are both inspired by "Roadside picnic" amazing novel you definitely need to read...
Hm... pls don't h8 me, but in my eyes the story by Strugatsky brothers is more of a "proof of concept" about the Zone that warps known laws of nature and how humankind might interact with it; the Tarkovsky's adaptation though (for which Arkady and Boris made the script - _or rather two,_ if we're taking film's troubled production into account - and, IMO, they've outdone themselves with the revised take on the Zone for the film) is what really pushed forward both the concept (yeah, I dare to say that there wouldn't be "Annihilation" without "Stalker" as an icebreaker, and only then "Roadside Picnic" comes into place as an easier reading) and the medium (yeah, I dare to say that Tarkovsky and his cinematography has left a lasting impression on the next generations of creators, for example - Mamoru Oshii and Hideo Kojima).
Actually it was inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's novel of the same name, first book in a series called _The Southern Reach Trilogy._
You can also tell the influence of The Color out of space from H.P. Lovecraft.
Jeff Vandermeer himself said that 'Roadside picnic' was not an inspiration for Annihilation whatsoever. But yes, we can draw a lot of similarities conceptwise between the two regardless of what was or not an inspiration for the author.
I like the '79 Russian film about it more
Great video, the intro really got me hooked. Although I just have to mention that you really gotta work on your sound mixing, the volume levels were all over the place, especially when cutting to and away from clips from the movie.
But all in all really good, I’ll probably be watching this video weekly because I’m an insane person.
I saw this film whit a friend when it came out, and we liked the idea, inspiration on stalker, ambient and the scenes. But, we didn't conected whit the characters,
They just dosen't feel like real people, and now i ubderstan why: they act like "i have problems, i'm self distructed, i have a past" but i don't see that. Motives of the main character are understandable, but the rest were even too determinate to enter into the zone, like the plot need to, not becaus they want to.
Plus: it didn't feel like they actually were the profesionals they say to be, specially the soldier. They were more like normal people whit guns and some academical interest.
They all had theoretical degrees in physics and that's all you need in a post apocalyptic world.
His ability to make tangents fit perfectly with what he is talking about....truly something only a tasty dessert could do.
Also 13:23 I freaking diiiiied lololol.
I found the movie on Netflix when it came out and three things have happened since then.
1 I love cosmic horror
2 I fucking hate that bear
3 I discovered Moderat, Ben Salisbury and Jeoff Barrow and had to stop pretending I'm a musician.
17/10 would watch over and over again
What are those 3 musicians
You know this movie can also be seen as an allegory for war, the shimmer the battlefield, the scene where the psychologist talks about picking the teams and sending them into the shimmer a representation of the army recruiters pulling people into it and all the messed up things that happen representing the horrors, the madness, and the insanity of the battlefield. Many people enter wars, and not many leave unchanged.
Im a tad late but you could also tie in the characters mental deterioration into symptoms of PTSD.
This movie is an example of an all female cast done right. All of the characters are genuine and feel like they belong there. It's not forced, and doesn't feel like it has something to prove.
Oh man, fuuuuck the bear scene.
That straight up gave me nightmares.
Also I could be wrong, but the sub count is skyrocketing! Congrats!
Another good video from my favorite H.P Lovecraft look-alike.
The question that has to be posed now: does he have a cat and if so has he named it after an extremely bad but also kinda funny slur.
Haha, oh shit you're right!
@@subnetplayer490 It was actually HP Lovecraft's father that named the cat. Lovecraft just gave it more love than anything else in the world, and far more love than anything in his literary world every even imagined.
Your face- It's so good. It is a PERFECT 1 to 1 recreation of Peach Cobbler IRL. Good.
Those who played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. could certainly relate to the movie and NOT get scared,since sadly it's not a heart-attack simulator S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is...
Just no. This movie was the result of a coke addled writer who dug into the SCP wiki one night and barely put effort into their blatant plagarisim.
I have seen annihilation everytime my exam results would come.
I'd recommend different framing or cropping to reduce the empty space above your head
The empty space does make me feel uncomfortable but I think it's very fitting of the video and helps with the storytelling.
This movie its a very good representation of cosmic horror. Horror of the unknowable and explainable.
Absolutely an amazing video essay, one of my favorite movies, doesn’t change the fact that I hate peach cobbler.
Hey! I was wondering if you could do a review on Outer Wilds?
It's easily one of my favorite games, and one of the few, if not the sole, games to make me feel emotionally attached to the world without telling me to be. That comined with the music at the end brought me to genuine tears and I think it's the type of game that would fit right up your alley!
Damn that beginning hit home... I been shooting dope for over a decade.. I need to finally get my shit together
Never to late to do so, my man. I wish you the best of luck.
How’s it going?
@@susbedstain2900 on the ween down now. At 1/6th of my usage when I wrote that. From 3 gs a day to a half or less. Got a few 30s and 2 weeks worth of subs for that final push.
@@shifty1927 nice, keep it up
@@shifty1927 proud of u homey
It's pretty, and wanders vaguely around something, distantly related to a plot... kinda.
The bearscreamer was cool.
My thoughts exactly.
Pretty much
Man I tear up every time I read the novelized version of doom eternal
Alex Garland is phenomenal. So glad to see him jump to directing in Ex Machina and Annihilation and then his series on Hulu, DEVS, really sticks with you. I can’t recommend that series enough. He’s rumored to have been the real director for Dredd as well (plus he wrote the novel and script for The Beach, then 28 Days Later, Sunshine, as well as the games DmC and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West).
He’s so enormously talented, I just want Hollywood to give him all the money he wants and endless creative freedom and then we’ll see what he does with it. PLEASE watch DEVS. PLEASE.
I still am kinda mad at him for that Enslaved ending... i loved that game and the story, but hated the open, anticlimatic and kinda lazy ending...
The psychologist goes insane, the physicist stops trying to understand, the biologist gets her very core components changed and the paramedic is mortality wounded. There was also a geomorphologist but they died too early for me to Care
This is one of my favorite movies ever.
Every time you do an exposition it astounds me at how good you are at setting a tone and making example and tying it to the thesis
I remember watching this movie and being mesmerized by the visuals and the concept, the cosmic horror ending was quite unexpected and got me very intrigued as well - Merely hearing that soundtrack again evokes such emotion that only few movies have achieved for me. This is definitely an interesting take, adds details and concepts that I did not even think about. I especially love the comparision with fire, truly adds a new meaning to how scary fire can be, it just grows, it doesnt want to destroy, there is no malice to a burning fire, it's just raw nature.
I also assumed the grenade at the end killed both - while instead of suicide, it was self destruction, the original person physically disappearing, while the new physical self returns.
Amazing stuff as always, keep it up!
I did see this movie, I saw it in theaters actually, and the entire end sequence from the moment Lena enters the lighthouse to the moment she leaves, I was struck with such a primal fear I couldn't move, literally chills all over my body sticking me to my seat. The music for that scene was perfect. probably my all time favorite theater experience
Thank god annihilation is getting so much attention. Really underrated movie
First line...." Are you Suicidal?"
Immediately smashed the like button.
That wasn’t exactly the intro I was expecting but okay
I saw the movie and I thought it was too weird, I think it was one of those “art movies” that I just didn’t get 🤔
Yeah the plot made no sense at all and everyone has a different idea about what the movie is even about
@@ultimadum7785 i just love it for weird and creepy shit
@@ultimadum7785 the movie’s themes aren’t hard to parse, the movie wears them on its sleeve
@@julianreviews8102 Actually I think the issue that i have with it is that the movie wants to have two opposing themes both ways. It can't figure out if it wants to be about how everything is going to be destroyed and broken down untill nothing is left, or that things are going to change and morph into something we can't understand. I think thats why no one can agree on what the movie is about.
@@ultimadum7785 Isn't that the point though? That maybe there's no difference between the two .
The beauty of the idea is the ultimate conclusion of humanity, not matter how far we get, everything we experience as our nemesis is entropy. We are fighting our own material world from breaking apart on the cosmic and planetary view.
Eh what. I feel I've already commented on this chaps video but yeah: I have seen the film. The book is better mind you. The tomb scene is long and drawn out and scary as, well nothing is scary these days now are they lol. Like nothing, cept for Loki series 2 on the forth episode. There are two hyper scary moments but they're underplayed and secretive. Masterpiece that. Even with Higgleston running around throwing his head back, thrusting his chest out like he's still a teenager looool.
I look at this movie as a good adaptation of The Colour Out of Space and some other stories by H.P. Lovecraft. It's the perfect representation of the existential fear of cosmic horror, one that we thought we could never see in the big screen, since you can't visualy represent something that is so deeply subtle. This movie wraps it up and says "your worst fear is yourself, that's why there's a self destructive behavior in each one of us. We all search for annihilation."
Actually this film is a redressed version of Roadside Picnic and Stalker. Visually it is stunning, but the book failed to impress me too. While it may not be the same the thread is there, to some degree.
Cobbler (if I can call you like that) thank you for making my week better with some of the calmest, smartest and most entertaining videos i ever watched on this garbage website, and i appreciate the amount of effort that you put into your videos because this is really some fine piece of art.
We chose the latter? You know a latter is used for climbing and I’m already high... climbing requires energy I’m not willing to spare
"When my wife's boyfriend is reading me a bedtime story..."
Whoa, hold on! I mean... if you're into that.
Also, I've already seen the movie. It's great!
I am commenting not only to help feed the algorithm but to also say I saw this in theaters
"Are you suicidal?" Wrong question. It should be " How do you get pinned?"
Watching this while caving in minecraft was the most harrowing experience I have ever had playing a video game.
As a gun guy. The only difference between the M4 and M16 is barrel length. All others are really "cosmetic" or interchangeable. Like there are M16s with collapsible buttstocks.
Since I feel like being really picky, looks like standard AR-15s. I can't see the selector switch, or manufacturing stamp, but since they shot full auto in the movie I'm assuming that its either a class 3 AR-15 or an M4 since it for sure doesn't have rifle length barrel. (18"-20") But it also seems like the barrel is 16" long not quite making an M4 either... (Carbine) I do know those are magpul magazines with windows that allow you to see how much ammo is left in the magazine. And they're empty... Still, suspension of disbelieve. I'm used to it by know. Movies and Video Games rarely get firearms close.
Haven't even seen the full vid but this movie fucking rocks and I'm glad it's appreciated. Even by a small amount of people
Honestly amazing videos, love how the channel is going