i would definetely watch that. on top of my head i can say Johnny Depp, Mark Hamil, Ben Affleck, Jim Carey could be interesting. with epic voice *it's like honest trailers.. but.. this time... it got... personal.*
I want to see a video from Joe Starr about how Dragons impacted the Western Expansion now. I loved this episode. Thanks guys. This movie was seriously flawed but I enjoyed it somewhat though. It is a stupid shut your brain off and watch at 2am sort of movie. Every critic of it is correct though.
How the movie pitch went Guy 1: A story about racial prejudice using allegories. Guy 2: Great! Like Get Out? Guy 1: No. Everything's the same...except there's orcs instead of black people. Guy 2: Guy 1: Also there's dragons and a centaur cop primarily in the background. Guy 2: Great! We'll make several!
Letting a bunch of lethal jellyfish inject venom into you would do quite the opposite. No one's going to transplant an organ that came from a poisoned body.
There's a kids show called Mysticons with the exact same setting as Bright - modern day/sort of futuristic city in a fantasy world, and it works so much better.
It's not a big deal that centaurs, or any other race except orcs, are on the police force. There was also an elf "magic FBI" agent as well. The reason it is a big deal for an orc to join the police force is because they were the only race to align with the Dark Lord, right? You said you watched the movie more than once, but did you???
As someone that played a lot of Shadowrun this movie hit all those late nights of play for me. Saying that orcs were hated not because of race but because they sided with the dark lord centers and elves for the most part did not and I'm sure since this is not Shadowrun licenced movie the whole it all happened 20 years ago plot Dan wanted couldn't happen.
Alex Nuss yea I get that. I have been watching a while. I really thought they would avoid it altogether. It wasn’t a good movie so I am glad they were honest.
Layla Abdul Mateen-El I don’t know how much of a friend in the literal sense. I meant that he has been in the channel a few times and they seem to get along. But you are right, perhaps he was friends with you know who and good riddance to both. I wasn’t a fan of his movie fight performances. I thought his famous pitches were overrated. Bright felt like one of those movie fight pitches and someone bought it for millions. Yikes!
for anyone saying "boo hoo Max Landis" 1) it's honest trailers, not promote your friend trailers and 2) Max Landis has several sexual assault allegations on him and he won't even be doing the sequel because of it
If you’re going to casually say something that defaming, please go into more detail or at least provide a link. I have not heard about any allegations regarding Landis.
No one has come out that I'm aware of. There's a lot of "I know someone who was..." allegations and no "my name is ___ he did ___ on __" which I find very questionable . With how much time has passed since this first came out there still hasn't been a name attached to the claims still. Making allegations from the shadows just isn't how this works. Because no one has been identified a lot of articles cobble together weird stuff that just serves no purpose and makes you wonder what it was being brought up at all, like some woman saying she invited by a friend to one of his parties and he found out about it and told her not to go? Ok. Very weird stuff so I honestly don't know what to make of it personally.
ChristieeMcgee Yeah *high five* Netflix has some great movies that I never woulda found if my friend didn't suggest it. Gerald's Game, Hounds of Love, Mudbound, The Devil's Candy,...
Bright was total dogshit so I'm so happy the trailers and commentary came out. So much wasted potential that also happens to rip off every fantasy-mixing genre and racial allegory shit. So messy, so half-baked, and treated waaaaaaay too kindly by audiences. I saw numerous people on Twitter who were insisting Bright was not about Race when the movie opens with "Fairy Lives Don't Matter." Seriously, if you want a silly cop drama by Ayer go watch Street Kings. Street Kings is a blast.
When you already have the Shadowrun role-playing and video game setting, and Myke Cole's Shadow Ops series of books, this movie came off like it was written by a not very imaginative middle school kid.
I assumed the centaurs fought on the same side as the humans and elves when the dark lord attacked. Also, does that mean Jesus lead the war against the dark lord? WAS JESUS THE DARK LORD?
DAMMIT an hour ago, i watched the Thor:Ragnarok commentary and guessed Bright for this week but expected a movie(Bright is a movie?? I thought it was a series!) instead so i dropped that guess
considering their old boss had similar allegations levelled against him i think they are just trying to prevent negative association that reflects badly on them, which is understandable
Bright feels like a live-action version of those “adult” cartoons that Adult Swim or Fox will show to appear “mature” to teenagers to prove that it’s not kids’ stuff. You know, shows like Mr. Pickles, Bordertown, King Star King, Allen Gregory, and 2010’s Family Guy.
Despite the darkness, I do agree it was bad, I enjoyed Bright. I feel it could use a bit more world building, but the concept was great. In my opinion. Fun trailer, Screen Junkies.
To the general comments from the crew on Netflix and their woeful movie selection online--the point of it is to NOT pay $6 to rent something. It's for cheapos like me. I already have Prime for shipping in the family, so between that and Netflix there's at least SOMETHING to watch movie wise. And if I don't want to own it then I Redbox it. It's not about where to watch a particular film, but when you have 2 hours to kill at night, just like rummaging around your kitchen for food late at night.
Yeah, Netflix's movie catalog is pretty bad, especially if you already see/own the various Marvel/Star Wars movies. Though I do use it to watch the occasional movie I'd not have watched otherwise, like "Boss Baby" or "Trolls" (the latter is actually pretty entertaining). Beyond that, though, it is mostly about dabbling into foreign films. Like watching Admiral to learn about de Ruyter, catching Korean movies like "Last Train to Busan", or something from India (like "Enthiran" aka "Robot"). Beyond that, well, you better like Asylum films... Anyway, I enjoyed Bright well enough. Yeah, it wasn't very deep, and pretty much just a standard buddy cop movie. And yeah, it would have worked better if they'd gone with a more Shadowrun type magic start, where it awoke recently and people morphed into fantasy critters. And they had cyborg stuff. Because damn it, a Shadowrun movie is what I really want, so merge Johnny Mnemonic into it already! As to why the centaur isn't a problem, it's because orcs are the ones who sided with the Dark Lord, not centaurs. Of course, that still has issues. I mean, 2k years ago that happened, and everyone still holds a grudge. I could understand if some did, but almost everyone, for 2k years? Despite the rest of our history basically being the same? And that 2k year ago figure... I mean, you'd figure they'd pick a different length than that. Like 1300 for the Middle Ages... feudalism, knights, it goes good with fantasy and it's the dark ages, perfect time for a dark lord. Heck, go with 476 and make the Dark Lord responsible for the fall of the Rome. But nope, 2k, because racism against Jews, I guess. And then there's the Orcs basically have black culture, except they listen to heavy metal instead of rap, because you don't want them to be too similar to blacks, because... they're orcs? But if they're going to go with that, then shouldn't the movie really have a more metal soundtrack? I mean, if you're going to do gang movie, you'd probably use a lot of rap in the soundtrack, because it fits. Well, here, you're telling us that metal is their rap. So you should be using metal. But nope, all we get is the love song.
I still don't understand all the hate on Bright. It was pretty dumb and had plenty of plot holes, as you pointed out, but was that really so shocking? I thought it delivered what was promised. No more, no less. I wouldn't say I loved it, but it was entertaining. The performances were more fun than plenty of action movies, and the commitment to absurdity did make me giggle more than most recent comedies. Oh crap, did I just side with Landis?
I think it is either people who really liked the premise and didn't think the movie utilized it well or people who wrongly think the movie was designed as cultural commentary.
Netflix actually released some obviously rushed lore videos to try to flesh out the world. But it kind of just made things more confusing. Because in their own lore video, they establish that magic played a big role in human history. Humans were ruled by magic users and magic users built some of the earliest human civilizations. So the fact that their world is just like our world makes even less sense.
They flesh out the parts that are pertinent to the story. The evil elves who seek to resurrect him and the fact that individual who united the 9 races against the Dark Lord was an unblooded orc farmer.
Non-original movies in netflix: Goodfellas, The godfather trilogy, fellowship of the ring, Inglorious Basterds among many other movies consider “Some of the best movies ever made”
They might be putting it off because they know that no matter what stance they take (whether they lean towards the positive side or the negative side) they'll still get death threats.
That Will Smith analysis of his similar roles was really funny, have you guys ever thought of Honest Resumes?
i would definetely watch that.
on top of my head i can say Johnny Depp, Mark Hamil, Ben Affleck, Jim Carey could be interesting.
with epic voice *it's like honest trailers.. but.. this time... it got... personal.*
Bale Thomson or Honest Filmographies
Michael Bay. They would NEED to do one about Michael Bay.
Please do!
"Are we sitting symmetrically?" It's gonna be a Wes Anderson movie to go with the release of Isle of Dogs
hotel budapest had a punching gag
It will be all the Wes Anderson movies.
fantastic!
Smart!
I could watch Spencer spoiling 7 Pounds ALL DAY
Go to his patreon!!!
It's dumb, but I actually cried at 7 Pounds.
Honestly I would want a Mute Honest Trailer
Sometimes the audio messes up in sjnews. That's mute. Lol
turn the volume off?
I want to see a video from Joe Starr about how Dragons impacted the Western Expansion now.
I loved this episode. Thanks guys. This movie was seriously flawed but I enjoyed it somewhat though. It is a stupid shut your brain off and watch at 2am sort of movie. Every critic of it is correct though.
If you're really into the whole idea of history, but with dragons, there is a pretty good book series called "Temeraire", which is just that.
And the sequel about their affect on English colonialism
I think we need an Honest Trailer for Seven Pounds now
“Fairy lives don’t matter today.” Is that quote better or worse out of context?
Jacob Maher he basically killed a fairy that was flying around his house. It's never explained where fairies fall in the societal chain of life lol
I think when Jacob said 'out of context' he meant people might associate fairies with homosexuals. That's just how i read it.
Worse
yes we can .... "plz dont sue us"
How the movie pitch went
Guy 1: A story about racial prejudice using allegories.
Guy 2: Great! Like Get Out?
Guy 1: No. Everything's the same...except there's orcs instead of black people.
Guy 2:
Guy 1: Also there's dragons and a centaur cop primarily in the background.
Guy 2: Great! We'll make several!
Reason: Magic Feds.
I am so glad someone besides me loved that SNL centaur sketch
YOOO Screen Junkies still waiting on that baby driver and blade runner 2049 trailer tho
I think they're avoiding them because its hard to do really good movies
Mark Kostecki I think you're right. I hope they challenge themselves with more good movies though.
Even if it's hard THEY MUST DO BABY DRIVER!!! PLZZZZZZ!!!!!
Why would they make fun of Baby Driver?
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"Well we had a good run, movies. Now to never leave the house" - Appropriate in March, 2020 XD
Edgelord of the rings killed me
That one was good, but I think Alt-Bright was the best.
7 pounds was a beautiful heartbreaking film that made me weep tears and sadness and joy. You leave it alone
"Does he have a partner who get a to ride him?" This made my day
The rest of the movie will be centaur questions
Fantastic Mr fox next week can't wait
When the commentary comes out before the trailer
It's up. It didn't show on my notifications so I just searched it real quick.
I thought suicide by jellyfish while in an ice bath was to prevent stopping/damaging his organs after he died.
Letting a bunch of lethal jellyfish inject venom into you would do quite the opposite. No one's going to transplant an organ that came from a poisoned body.
At least Fury was good.
Quick! Everyone watch mute so we can hear Spencer go off on it!
So. Now that you can do Netflix stuff, are we getting Honest Trailers for their Marvel series???
I am pretty sure that Landis said that this move was his Star Wars on Movie Fights last year. I had no idea he got paid that to write it though.
I want epic movie guy to sit in on an honest trailer commentary
There's a kids show called Mysticons with the exact same setting as Bright - modern day/sort of futuristic city in a fantasy world, and it works so much better.
"What if racism were real?" - Max Landis, Bright - 2017
Bunny in the Box *were
Meredith Durfy thanks, done.👍🏻
This is a good comment
What if robots but people? -David Cage.
17:27 is basically how 2020 went
Joel Edgerton is the next Eric Bana--a perfectly adequate actor Hollywood keeps trying to make happen, but it's just not going to happen.
In ten years he's probably going to be best remembered for playing Owen Lars.
This episode was amazing. Thanks guys!
Love these commentaries especially with these 3
Checked out that SNL centaur sketch. Thanks, Dan!
John really adds so much to the trailers
It's not a big deal that centaurs, or any other race except orcs, are on the police force. There was also an elf "magic FBI" agent as well. The reason it is a big deal for an orc to join the police force is because they were the only race to align with the Dark Lord, right? You said you watched the movie more than once, but did you???
I have a million Centaur Cop questions that I need answered
i used to get movies in the mail from netflix to...still have a dvd lying around
netflix movies are this generation's "Straight to VHS"
lunarstargazer i read this and laughed and went to leave a thumbs up and realized i’m already the one person who thumbs up yer comment
Hey I'm Filipino and i'm only half a bar hog !
As someone that played a lot of Shadowrun this movie hit all those late nights of play for me. Saying that orcs were hated not because of race but because they sided with the dark lord centers and elves for the most part did not and I'm sure since this is not Shadowrun licenced movie the whole it all happened 20 years ago plot Dan wanted couldn't happen.
Death Note next!
Seventeen dollars! Good lord! I'm so glad I live in Texas.
I’m surprised they beat it down so hard considering Max Landis is a friend of the show
If a film is bad they will say its bad. Thats the whole point of honiest trailers. Plus Max was acused of sexual assult.
Hey, they had to be honest
Alex Nuss yea I get that. I have been watching a while. I really thought they would avoid it altogether. It wasn’t a good movie so I am glad they were honest.
Its ok because real friends tell the truth and its not like being honest is bad really especially when it comes to art because its all subjective :)
Layla Abdul Mateen-El I don’t know how much of a friend in the literal sense. I meant that he has been in the channel a few times and they seem to get along. But you are right, perhaps he was friends with you know who and good riddance to both. I wasn’t a fan of his movie fight performances. I thought his famous pitches were overrated. Bright felt like one of those movie fight pitches and someone bought it for millions. Yikes!
for anyone saying "boo hoo Max Landis" 1) it's honest trailers, not promote your friend trailers and 2) Max Landis has several sexual assault allegations on him and he won't even be doing the sequel because of it
Max Landis has sexual allegations on him??? Dude you serious? Damn
Also, he’s just not a good writer. He makes money off his last name. Outside of Chronicle he’s never had a hit.
If you’re going to casually say something that defaming, please go into more detail or at least provide a link. I have not heard about any allegations regarding Landis.
movieweb.com/max-landis-accused-sexual-misconduct-abuse/
No one has come out that I'm aware of. There's a lot of "I know someone who was..." allegations and no "my name is ___ he did ___ on __" which I find very questionable . With how much time has passed since this first came out there still hasn't been a name attached to the claims still. Making allegations from the shadows just isn't how this works. Because no one has been identified a lot of articles cobble together weird stuff that just serves no purpose and makes you wonder what it was being brought up at all, like some woman saying she invited by a friend to one of his parties and he found out about it and told her not to go? Ok. Very weird stuff so I honestly don't know what to make of it personally.
The best is that there is a cop riding a horse to the left of the centaur cop 😂
Creep & Creep 2 were amazing hidden gems on Netflix
ChristieeMcgee Yeah *high five* Netflix has some great movies that I never woulda found if my friend didn't suggest it. Gerald's Game, Hounds of Love, Mudbound, The Devil's Candy,...
In hindsight "I would never think to turn on Netflix for a movie" was really successfully countered by a ton of Netflix Originals and COVID-19.
The clues are so good in retrospect
Bright was total dogshit so I'm so happy the trailers and commentary came out. So much wasted potential that also happens to rip off every fantasy-mixing genre and racial allegory shit. So messy, so half-baked, and treated waaaaaaay too kindly by audiences. I saw numerous people on Twitter who were insisting Bright was not about Race when the movie opens with "Fairy Lives Don't Matter."
Seriously, if you want a silly cop drama by Ayer go watch Street Kings. Street Kings is a blast.
Audience: "Really, there are centaurs, are we not gonna talk about them?"
David Ayer: "No."
"are we symetrical right now ?"
The commentary I’ve been waiting for! I like that y’all actually have functioning brains and hated the movie, too.
This series probably the closest we'll get to a Flick Bait revival
I honestly enjoyed this movie.
Yeah I liked it a lot, it should have been a series to flesh out the world as it were. But yeah.
I liked this movie the first time I saw it when it was called "Alien Nation."
It's not so absurd to think people could hold a grudge for over 2000 years. Most religious conflicts are just that
Dan explaining how they can use Netlfix movies is awesome lol.
Lol this movie deserved to be doused in gasoline and then lit on fire, you guys went easy lol.
When you already have the Shadowrun role-playing and video game setting, and Myke Cole's Shadow Ops series of books, this movie came off like it was written by a not very imaginative middle school kid.
"Horse cop..."
"Centaur cop! You're being really fking racist right now."
You crack me up good sometimes Joe.
When discussing David Ayer you forgot to mention Fury from 2014. AKA, the Brad Pitt tank movie. Which was pretty good.
I assumed the centaurs fought on the same side as the humans and elves when the dark lord attacked.
Also, does that mean Jesus lead the war against the dark lord? WAS JESUS THE DARK LORD?
So does this do with the word "magic" what Blade did to the word "vampire"?
DAMMIT an hour ago, i watched the Thor:Ragnarok commentary and guessed Bright for this week but expected a movie(Bright is a movie?? I thought it was a series!) instead so i dropped that guess
Michelle Koh Bright is indeed a movie, not a series
Michelle Koh it will sadly become a movie series, but it is indeed, a movie.
Way to make it look like Max Landis wasn't "FRIEND OF THE SHOW MAX LANDIS" 6 months ago...
They also say "Friend of the show"'s Kevin smith's Tusk and Yoga Hosers suck
they did not even used his name, just "the writer of frankenstein"... Trying to distance themselves from Max... Not the same case as Kevin...
considering their old boss had similar allegations levelled against him i think they are just trying to prevent negative association that reflects badly on them, which is understandable
At the beginning of Seven Pounds when they show the jellyfish and say that it's deadly, I said, "What if that's how he kills himself?" And it was.
Do Honest Trailer for The Last Jedi!
Kevin Vindel- Castillo How
Ever since "turn off your brain" was said in a movie fight it shows up a lot in their dialogue on movie criticisms
Bright is the fantasy version of the sci fi Alien Nation... Whoa...
There is another Centaur standing behind the Orcs when you see the first one.
In the same shot of centaurcop if you look in the background on the left you can see a cop riding a horse.
He needs to say "please don't sue us" before they start watching every time.
wheelman is a netflix film but i thought that was pretty good :( nobody talks about it actually
I feel the same way about What Happened to Monday... That was REALLY good, but it seems like barely anyone has seen it.
Ham handed is not a phrase 😂
Art vandaley 🤣🤪😂 yes it is dumbass
I just want an entire Honest Trailer Commentary to be done in an NPR style. Please!
The last film you'd watched on Netflix before Bright should hopefully be Mudbound. That was a quality film
Bright feels like a live-action version of those “adult” cartoons that Adult Swim or Fox will show to appear “mature” to teenagers to prove that it’s not kids’ stuff. You know, shows like Mr. Pickles, Bordertown, King Star King, Allen Gregory, and 2010’s Family Guy.
Netflix has some great movies that I never woulda found if my friend didn't suggest it. Gerald's Game, Hounds of Love, Mudbound, The Devil's Candy,...
One of the best parts of this video was the fake sequel posters. So funny!
Was that a Bomfunk MC's-reference?
Despite the darkness, I do agree it was bad, I enjoyed Bright. I feel it could use a bit more world building, but the concept was great. In my opinion. Fun trailer, Screen Junkies.
Maybe do An honest trailer for Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight?
jcass23 Dear Sweet Baby Jesus, PLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSSEEEEEEE
thoughts on Fury though? Ayer directed that as well
Don’t do Zootopia like that😂
Watched annihilation on Netflix today as it's direct to Netflix outside of the states
To the general comments from the crew on Netflix and their woeful movie selection online--the point of it is to NOT pay $6 to rent something. It's for cheapos like me. I already have Prime for shipping in the family, so between that and Netflix there's at least SOMETHING to watch movie wise. And if I don't want to own it then I Redbox it. It's not about where to watch a particular film, but when you have 2 hours to kill at night, just like rummaging around your kitchen for food late at night.
Some people: "At least this was a better movie than The Last Jedi."
Yeah, Netflix's movie catalog is pretty bad, especially if you already see/own the various Marvel/Star Wars movies. Though I do use it to watch the occasional movie I'd not have watched otherwise, like "Boss Baby" or "Trolls" (the latter is actually pretty entertaining). Beyond that, though, it is mostly about dabbling into foreign films. Like watching Admiral to learn about de Ruyter, catching Korean movies like "Last Train to Busan", or something from India (like "Enthiran" aka "Robot"). Beyond that, well, you better like Asylum films...
Anyway, I enjoyed Bright well enough. Yeah, it wasn't very deep, and pretty much just a standard buddy cop movie. And yeah, it would have worked better if they'd gone with a more Shadowrun type magic start, where it awoke recently and people morphed into fantasy critters. And they had cyborg stuff. Because damn it, a Shadowrun movie is what I really want, so merge Johnny Mnemonic into it already!
As to why the centaur isn't a problem, it's because orcs are the ones who sided with the Dark Lord, not centaurs. Of course, that still has issues. I mean, 2k years ago that happened, and everyone still holds a grudge. I could understand if some did, but almost everyone, for 2k years? Despite the rest of our history basically being the same? And that 2k year ago figure... I mean, you'd figure they'd pick a different length than that. Like 1300 for the Middle Ages... feudalism, knights, it goes good with fantasy and it's the dark ages, perfect time for a dark lord. Heck, go with 476 and make the Dark Lord responsible for the fall of the Rome. But nope, 2k, because racism against Jews, I guess.
And then there's the Orcs basically have black culture, except they listen to heavy metal instead of rap, because you don't want them to be too similar to blacks, because... they're orcs? But if they're going to go with that, then shouldn't the movie really have a more metal soundtrack? I mean, if you're going to do gang movie, you'd probably use a lot of rap in the soundtrack, because it fits. Well, here, you're telling us that metal is their rap. So you should be using metal. But nope, all we get is the love song.
It might be the Darjeeling limited and not the others, considering the prayer hands and the punch.
I still don't understand all the hate on Bright. It was pretty dumb and had plenty of plot holes, as you pointed out, but was that really so shocking? I thought it delivered what was promised. No more, no less. I wouldn't say I loved it, but it was entertaining. The performances were more fun than plenty of action movies, and the commitment to absurdity did make me giggle more than most recent comedies.
Oh crap, did I just side with Landis?
I think it is either people who really liked the premise and didn't think the movie utilized it well or people who wrongly think the movie was designed as cultural commentary.
Where would you guys classify Hitch?
Netflix actually released some obviously rushed lore videos to try to flesh out the world. But it kind of just made things more confusing. Because in their own lore video, they establish that magic played a big role in human history. Humans were ruled by magic users and magic users built some of the earliest human civilizations. So the fact that their world is just like our world makes even less sense.
So... Does that means that we now can get a Daredevil honest trailer?
Why aren't there more commentary videos?
Not defending the film but ppl don't like orc cus they sided with the dark lord.
JONALOTZRH I mean the movie has problems but yeah there were cool ideas if you pay attention and are not just trying to pick it apart.
Yeah, but they don't elaborate on the history of the dark lord or flesh that story out...
They flesh out the parts that are pertinent to the story. The evil elves who seek to resurrect him and the fact that individual who united the 9 races against the Dark Lord was an unblooded orc farmer.
Which, honestly, just makes the movie's logic fall apart all over again.
2000 years for BC and AD time frame.
Fairy lives don't matter was improvised? As an intern in back in 2016 I read an early draft of the script and that line was in there...
9:45 its not my robot its called I robot
Non-original movies in netflix:
Goodfellas, The godfather trilogy, fellowship of the ring, Inglorious Basterds among many other movies consider “Some of the best movies ever made”
Bring back flick bait!
David Ayer is great! Training Day, and End if watch are fantastic
The Last Jedi honest trailer pleaaaaase!!!!!!!!
They might be putting it off because they know that no matter what stance they take (whether they lean towards the positive side or the negative side) they'll still get death threats.
Royal Tenanbaums?