So it's set up like a romantic-comedy about trying to cheer up a suicidal person and "teach" them to love life, but ends with them killing themselves anyways because depression doesn't work like that and can't be fixed with romantic-hijinks and "stern talking-tos"? On paper that actually sounds like a good and relevant concept.
I've seen it and I personally didn't find much issue with the film. Then again, I'm able bodied so I couldn't really take offence from that angle while others might. I support the right to die through euthanasia if your condition of life is severely detrimental to your comfort and happiness (like, constant physical pain). Don't think this movie was the most seamless argument for that though. Like you mentioned too about fixing depression with romance and a good talking-to. It's a good message to communicate that sometimes it's not possible to fix someone's depression just like that. Again, the movie probably wasn't the most seamless means of conveying that message.
Can this movie even be called a romance? Can there just be a "The Notebook" category of books and movies with the sole purpose of making lonely women cry?
Shame it was about as subtle as a hammer to the knee with it's "Drugs will fuck you over" message. It's why I personally prefer Trainspotting when it comes to films about depressing drug addicts. Since it is far more balanced in it's portrayal of the issue. Requiem is still a good film though.
+MrFireHead Interesting points - I've also seen Requiem For A Dream, but I always felt that the main theme of the film was that there are many different sides to addiction, that there are real people behind the scaremongering crime stories you see in the media. Including Trainspotting, I don't really think I've seen a film that makes drug taking on that kind of level seem any more glamourous than it actualy is - which is not at all.
hamstercom23 I feel that Trainspotting actually shows the human side of addiction as well. Especially with the scene where baby dawn dies and Renton's narration throughout. It's more obvious in the novel. Also I don't believe drug taking is glamours, but there are reasons people do it, which I feel Trainspotting shows accurately as well. Again in Renton's narration.
I vaguely remember someone saying the writer came out and said she's never even met a quadriplegic person. I could be making that up, but I'm sure I heard that somewhere.
+DrunkOtakuTV In theory a story about a person's right to die if life is unbearable could be really moving, but the actual story makes the guy sound extremely weak and selfish. Not for being suicidal, but for what he puts other people through.
I saw the Bollywood version of "Not Without My Daughter" (Shakti - The Power) in a theatre. I've never seen such a mood change from the moment the Mother gets her child taken away in what is a good dramatic CUT TO a high energy dance sequence with Aishwarya Rai "Ishq Kameena (Love is Rotten)." I had the biggest "WTF" expression on my face.
This movie seems ENTIRELY made from the perspective from an Able Bodied person who cannot fathom how quadriplegia works and imagines it as the worst possible thing that could ever happen to them. Hence why the movie treats it like a justification for the suicide in it of itself.
Sarah is not annoying, she's adorable! :D Thanks for saving me from this movie, guys. And for giving me a name for those types of movies! STRESS movies. Yes. Thank you. Can't do those. The Shallows is getting a pass from me. As much as I dig me some Blake Lively... I do not dig me some sharks.
....was she? Well,I never read the book, so you could tell me 'half way through purple elefants rob a bank singing Peter Cetera' you know ;) ...I'd be dubiously sceptical as fuck but also laughing my arse off cos that would be amazing. Now please excuse me, I have to Google this.
Oh no no no...I...just did make the mistake of visualising that...Stupid stupid pictural imagination. Why?Just why? How could that possibly be pertinent to the story or character development? That's just depressing and otiose. And weird. Mostly severely depressing though. Poor thing. Not that, as an author, I never wrote rape as drama (novelists are terrible human beings, take it from me), I did, yeah so I am sitting in glass house over here and should probably shut up...but boy...thank you for the mental image dear Gregory. ^^ Yup glad they cut *that* out of the movie, not that this piece of trash sounded uplifting without it. So you know what...Maybe they should have just been like: 'Screw it, we are a bunch of ignorant, sadistic dirtbags, we have gone as far as eugenics lets go all in, fellows chop chop - lets get this lady raped...in a maze...Hurrah!' 'Boss, is this an exploitation movie?' 'Can't you feel the romance?! Goodness, you cretins have no understanding of true art!' ......Shesh!
I liked both the book and the movie, and I am so damn glad that rape as a way to create a "bond" of sorts for the main characters was taken out. It was cheap, and frankly didn't add anything to the story. In the movie, she's just modest, and that was enough without the " I was RAPED so I no longer wear anything that is remotely figure flattering."
I believe it's either the author of the screenplay or the director was stated to have never extensively known a quadriplegic in their lives and it was so disgusting. it's so terrible that something like this would be exploited in such an awful way just to try and make you cry at the end. every fucking trailer is just "YOU'LL CRY FOR 10 YEARS OMGGGGGGG"
when i saw the trailer for this movie i tought it was like a "romantic" version of "les intouchables", a french movie about a quadraplegic that is also awful rich but instead of emilia clarke he gets a sassy black male to take care of him, the only difference is that les intouchables is actually a good movie about friendship and the value value of life
The only reason why I cried at the end was because the deathbed scene reminded me of my late grandfather. I was actually surprised that the movie could elicit such a strong reaction from me and bring back grief I thought I had come to terms with, considering how this is a barebones romance story with a "twist" to the relationship. The main character, he's not the worst, but he's not the best either. Despite the fact that he was only really able to talk and have limited hand movement, he's not really sympathetic which doesn't help his likeability. He starts off by treating Amelia Clark's character with disdain and after she finally snaps, I don't get why he started warming up to her afterwards, maybe he admired her spunk? And his first attempt to bond with her... was to order her to watch a movie with him?! Which from the start shows the power imbalance of their relationship, because no matter how intimate they get, he still keeps the boss/employee power dynamic going. Even when he meets her parents and takes her on a vacation with him. As for the implications, it was disturbing how easily the movie could get me to side with his choice, before I caught myself and realized what it was doing. If they really pushed that the dude was in constant pain, like on top of being paralyzed, he's also a serious burn victim, then yeah, I could understand why he'd want to end his life. But as Brad and Sarah point out, this guy is rich, lives in a nice house, has a supportive and loving girlfriend and people who care a great deal about his happiness, and aside from limited mobility, doesn't seem to be in any serious discomfort or pain. It makes him seem selfish to want to end it all. Makes the theory that he's suffering from depression all the more plausible. Hell, if the twist WAS that he had depression all along, it would actually be a fairly good twist. Both the characters and the audience comes to the shocking realization that his behavior, that they chalked up to his being bored, determined, etc, was actually because of a serious psychological issue. And they have to live with the pain of knowing that they could have helped him, had they seen the signs and not chalked it up to his personality. That would be a better justification for his choice, because depression IS a thing that leads to suicide and it would be able to show what actual depression is like, even if the ending is still unhappy.
The ending of Me Before You basically says to people who are disabled, "You have nothing to live for, so just hurry up and die." Whether it intended to or not, this book/movie sends a very insidious and destructive message about/to people with disabilities that their lives don't matter and that their very existence presents nothing but a burden to those around them. If the film-makers of this tripe had any guts or moral integrity, they would've tried to cast a quadriplegic actor for the part. They didn't because they are cowards and scumbags.
Dont lump quadriplegics in with all disabled. Being a quad is far worse than many others. I have little use of my legs but have my arms. I can 100% understand the decision of suicide no matter how hard people try to help
+HandicapGaming93 yeah i have a disease where I always feel horrible pain and I've lost the use of my legs. It's been a really tough ride and some days suicide seemed like the only answer but I kept going, and quadriplegics can lead a full functioning and even adventurous life. That doesn't mean other people problems aren't less important, but I can understand the feeling of being suicidal and losing hope. There is also that spark in life and the will and love of it to carry on
They're handicapped, like us. No, we can not lead a full functioning life. Otherwise we wouldn't be handicapped. It's a sad truth but it's the truth still.
I know I always love a movie that sets up a problem, works to get through the problem, succeeds, and then returns to base one at the end of the movie for no reason other than to make the movie noticeable.
a lot of episodes of passions are on youtube!!! its how I got into the show omg. im so happy u guys like passions too bc it's hard 2 find ppl who are like genuinely Into it.
Wow. It's very rare for me to be interested in romantic movies. This was one of those times where I thought it might be nice to watch it. The trailers had me believe it would be a beautiful story about two people learning to appreciate life and each other. Hearing how this movie ends, though? I would have been SO pissed off if I had gone to see this movie.
THIS. I thought this looked...sappy? Cliched? Over-the top? But also maybe something different? And kinda touching? I wasn't going to pay money in the theater to see it, but I was curious and thought maybe it would be better than a lot of other romance movies. Now I know better.
Just for clarification (I mean no harm), Girl on the Train is by Paula Hawkins and Gone Girl is by Gillian Flynn. I think the connection is simply just that Girl on the Train's adaptation was inspired by Gone Girl's success.
Years ago I had a major medical problem. I died for about five minutes, was in a coma for three days (kind of a min-coma they said) followed by about a month in the hospital. When I got out I was at my brother's house and he says "Hey, wanna watch a movie?" and he puts in Vanilla Sky. So that was kinda messed up.
Anyone remember that kid's show Timothy Goes to School, based on the books by Rosemary Wells? There were two characters named Frank and Frank who had this thing where one would say "Me before you. Me first!" and then the other would say "Me before you. Me First!" Then they'd laugh and say together "okay, we'll both go first." Anyway, that's what this title makes me think of
Wow the buzzfeed review of this has far and away the most vicious comment thread I've seen in awhile. Much of it arguing with disabled commenters about wether or not they should be offended (spolier: most of them are). Go read it if you want to lose a couple brain cells.
I'm on it. Holy shit it's a bunch of crap. But it's Buzzfeed and those people are way too 3rd wave feminist and condescending to white cis straight men for my liking, as a female. Ugh, too much PC, too much BS.
My gf really loves this film. We found full movie here => twitter.com/382b288b8e8327261/status/739066837476990980?idpid=8ded735d-ca24-44b5-b374-c425bb2e30bf Midnight Screenings - Me Before You
This movie's screenplay was originally going to be by the guys who penned "500 Days of Summer" and "The Spectacular Now", two of the best romance movies of the past decade. Instead it was written by the author of the original novel, who has never done anything for a movie before in her life.
I was in the hospital a while back, went into cardiac arrest and died for 5 minutes. When I got out of the hospital the first movie I saw was Vanilla Sky. Made it a LOT creepier.
There's a great Richard Harris line in that Tarzan movie, where he plays Jane's (Bo Dereks) father, "Your mother was so delicate, she almost died during your conception."
When your twee indie romantic comedy's portrayal of assisted suicide is outclassed by the music video for Metallica's One, torch your screenplay and start over, Me Before You makes Mary And Max look uplifting.
Never even heard of this movie until this video, so I decided to pop over and watch the trailer. Shouldn't be surprised, but the comments for that are almost all positive, talking about meaningful and dramatic and emotional the movie is.
I'm surprised Sarah is surprised that Ghostbusters 2 is getting hate. That movies has always been love it or hate it (leaning more towards hate from my experience) and I've never met anyone who likes it better then the original. People disliking 2 is far from new.
Brad, that end perfectly encapsulated my feelings and the warcraft movie, just sounded like, "why..." not like mad, but not, like, caring. just heavy sigh followed by the title.
I've been thinking about watching Eyes Wide Shut, but the premise never draws me in and I can imagine watching all three hours of it - and this is from someone who really likes 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Thank you! Vanilla Sky is awesome and I liked it more than Open Your Eyes! Apparently there is an alternate ending to the movie in the recent blu ray so I have to check that out.
I can somewhat see the appeal of a story in which love doesn't stop someone from killing themselves. It sort of tells people that it because they did not love someone enough isn't a reason that someone killed themselves. On the other hand... the plot to this sounds horrible.
I remember previews of this movie. I'm a caretaker to my mother who is completely disabled, and I could just tell it wouldn't show a realistic, gritty view of caretaking. I could be wrong, but I just can't see her changing his diapers, treating his pressure sores, and dealing with his constipation.
p.s: if you have to watch a good dramedy where someone is slowly dying or contemplating euthanasia, just watch 50/50, or Amour, or Mia Madre, or Fault in our Stars, or anything else
I read the book, and both my aunt and mom wanted to see this movie until I warned them about the ending. They both really love romance movies, and I knew this is one that they might not want to see once they knew the ending just because of the emotions that it brings up about. In fact, I couldn't finish the book because of the ending. It just really upset me about what happened.
So I've been having this movie pushed on me a lot lately. It's weird, but it's been on top of my TH-cam recommendations for about 2 weeks now. I had to say something about it here in 2023 lol Also 14:40 has Sarah seen Vanilla Sky yet?
I think it's mostly the volume. Lots of people means lots of dicks. It's like when you have a little pond. Yeah, birds will shit in it, but you can still keep it clean. But the ocean, "F**k it guys. Just F**k it. This is impossible. It can stay dirty. F**k it."
I don't see how someone has a "safe space" if they value their sanity and don't actively seek out a horde of rabid pre-teens and dudebros in a comments section. Which is definitely what Joe's video comments are. I always feel bad for the guy.
Well when you go by the name 'Angry Joe' and become famous for getting pissed off by the littlest of things you're bound to catch some negative assholes. I like AJ BTW
"The Theory of Everything" seems like a good shout for an alternative movie to watch. The story about Stephen and Jane Hawking. Although they should have also called it "The Amazing Mr. No Legs".
You guys should get verified on Rotten Tomatoes.
"There are no wolverines in this movie."
-Brad Jones, _Midnight Screenings_
so at the theater I work at, they put this movie in the only theater that requires you to walk up a flight of stairs.
😂😂😂
I guess they’ counted on no disabled people going to see this.
Seems appropriate for this movie.
i wish sarah had her own channel at this point, i'd watch the fuck outta that
So it's set up like a romantic-comedy about trying to cheer up a suicidal person and "teach" them to love life, but ends with them killing themselves anyways because depression doesn't work like that and can't be fixed with romantic-hijinks and "stern talking-tos"? On paper that actually sounds like a good and relevant concept.
I've seen it and I personally didn't find much issue with the film. Then again, I'm able bodied so I couldn't really take offence from that angle while others might. I support the right to die through euthanasia if your condition of life is severely detrimental to your comfort and happiness (like, constant physical pain). Don't think this movie was the most seamless argument for that though. Like you mentioned too about fixing depression with romance and a good talking-to. It's a good message to communicate that sometimes it's not possible to fix someone's depression just like that. Again, the movie probably wasn't the most seamless means of conveying that message.
Put that on the Blu Ray cover....
'The was a terrible idea' - Brad Jones
Me Before You - Romantic Like A Firing Squad
That needs to be on the poster.
By Fall Out Boy
Can this movie even be called a romance? Can there just be a "The Notebook" category of books and movies with the sole purpose of making lonely women cry?
seconded
It's a drama, not romance.
+Casey J
Still... I'm sick of unnecessary book adaptions...
America's been sick of unnecessary book adaptations for decades. This is not a new occurrence.
Jessica Ayala TV Tropes calls it “Glurge”
Requiem For A Dream is the biggest "Jesus Christ I need a bleach shower" movie ever
Shame it was about as subtle as a hammer to the knee with it's "Drugs will fuck you over" message. It's why I personally prefer Trainspotting when it comes to films about depressing drug addicts. Since it is far more balanced in it's portrayal of the issue. Requiem is still a good film though.
Clearly you've never seen A Serbian Film.
+MrFireHead Interesting points - I've also seen Requiem For A Dream, but I always felt that the main theme of the film was that there are many different sides to addiction, that there are real people behind the scaremongering crime stories you see in the media. Including Trainspotting, I don't really think I've seen a film that makes drug taking on that kind of level seem any more glamourous than it actualy is - which is not at all.
hamstercom23
I feel that Trainspotting actually shows the human side of addiction as well. Especially with the scene where baby dawn dies and Renton's narration throughout. It's more obvious in the novel. Also I don't believe drug taking is glamours, but there are reasons people do it, which I feel Trainspotting shows accurately as well. Again in Renton's narration.
azureATC Not every story needs to be about good people.
I don't care what the film will is, as long as Sarah is in the Midnight Screening I am watching the video! She's a delight!
Also, yes, "The Girl on the Train" is pretty much "Gone Girl" with some different window-dressing from what I recall. Same tone anyway.
There is a GIANT section in this video where they just forget what movie they were supposed to talk about...and I find that hilarious.
I don't know why, but Sarah's little moment at 11:23 just cracks me right up every time.
I vaguely remember someone saying the writer came out and said she's never even met a quadriplegic person.
I could be making that up, but I'm sure I heard that somewhere.
Considering how this movie plays out that sounds like an accurate statement.
I bet she's heard from a bunch by now though.
You mean this interview?: www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/884.Jojo_Moyes
+DrunkOtakuTV
In theory a story about a person's right to die if life is unbearable could be really moving, but the actual story makes the guy sound extremely weak and selfish. Not for being suicidal, but for what he puts other people through.
Excuse me while I vomit...
I saw the Bollywood version of "Not Without My Daughter" (Shakti - The Power) in a theatre. I've never seen such a mood change from the moment the Mother gets her child taken away in what is a good dramatic CUT TO a high energy dance sequence with Aishwarya Rai "Ishq Kameena (Love is Rotten)." I had the biggest "WTF" expression on my face.
*good dramatic scene
+Justin Simpson Ouch. This is why I don't watch romantic Bollywood movies.
+Justin Simpson Of the Bollywood films I've seen this is a common occurrence, they often have huge jarring tonal shifts in them
I love when Brad sums up the movie within about the first minutes.
This movie seems ENTIRELY made from the perspective from an Able Bodied person who cannot fathom how quadriplegia works and imagines it as the worst possible thing that could ever happen to them. Hence why the movie treats it like a justification for the suicide in it of itself.
Spoilers, it was. The writer stated she had never even *met* a quadriplegic person before. So there's that.
Man, this was a really dark twist to the end of The Theory of Everything
Spoiler: the Weak Nuclear Force did it.
Sarah is not annoying, she's adorable! :D Thanks for saving me from this movie, guys. And for giving me a name for those types of movies! STRESS movies. Yes. Thank you. Can't do those. The Shallows is getting a pass from me. As much as I dig me some Blake Lively... I do not dig me some sharks.
Between this and 13 Reasons Why...is there a YA sub genre called "Suicide maybe?"
Be glad they cut a thing from the leading lady's backstory... The fact that in the past she was GANGRAPED...
....was she? Well,I never read the book, so you could tell me 'half way through purple elefants rob a bank singing Peter Cetera' you know ;) ...I'd be dubiously sceptical as fuck but also laughing my arse off cos that would be amazing. Now please excuse me, I have to Google this.
N. Esther Morgenthau Oh yeah, she was. In a maze. Imagine that.
Oh no no no...I...just did make the mistake of visualising that...Stupid stupid pictural imagination. Why?Just why? How could that possibly be pertinent to the story or character development? That's just depressing and otiose. And weird. Mostly severely depressing though. Poor thing. Not that, as an author, I never wrote rape as drama (novelists are terrible human beings, take it from me), I did, yeah so I am sitting in glass house over here and should probably shut up...but boy...thank you for the mental image dear Gregory. ^^ Yup glad they cut *that* out of the movie, not that this piece of trash sounded uplifting without it. So you know what...Maybe they should have just been like: 'Screw it, we are a bunch of ignorant, sadistic dirtbags, we have gone as far as eugenics lets go all in, fellows chop chop - lets get this lady raped...in a maze...Hurrah!' 'Boss, is this an exploitation movie?' 'Can't you feel the romance?! Goodness, you cretins have no understanding of true art!' ......Shesh!
I liked both the book and the movie, and I am so damn glad that rape as a way to create a "bond" of sorts for the main characters was taken out. It was cheap, and frankly didn't add anything to the story. In the movie, she's just modest, and that was enough without the " I was RAPED so I no longer wear anything that is remotely figure flattering."
I don't mind that they cut that out. There was no point in adding that.
Sarah needs to watch Vanilla Sky asap. That's one of my favorite movies.
Definitely. Really good Cameron Crowe movie. Cameron Diaz's best role (well, this and "Being John Malkovich").
+H0lyMoley but we must admit that the best cameron crowe movie remains Aloha!
Did see that one but the original version Abre los Ojos was really good.
I don't know that anyone needs to watch Vanilla Sky, I like it but not a movie most people enjoy
The original version is SO MUCH BETTER!
"Abre los ojos" is a great movie.
I believe it's either the author of the screenplay or the director was stated to have never extensively known a quadriplegic in their lives and it was so disgusting. it's so terrible that something like this would be exploited in such an awful way just to try and make you cry at the end. every fucking trailer is just "YOU'LL CRY FOR 10 YEARS OMGGGGGGG"
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Welcome to "The Brad and Sarah Show" how tough are ya?
How tough am I? I watched Saló and I only vomitted for twenty minutes.
I watched Cannibal Holocaust.....the unedited version.....in one sitting.....without pausing......before I went to bed.
I watched A Serbian Film and didn't get hard
I watched boku no Pico...all three episodes. it was horrifying but that's how tough I am dammit
I watched The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2 in one sitting, and I didn't react to anything happening on screen the whole time I did it.
when i saw the trailer for this movie i tought it was like a "romantic" version of "les intouchables", a french movie about a quadraplegic that is also awful rich but instead of emilia clarke he gets a sassy black male to take care of him, the only difference is that les intouchables is actually a good movie about friendship and the value value of life
Sarah looks great with glasses!
The only reason why I cried at the end was because the deathbed scene reminded me of my late grandfather. I was actually surprised that the movie could elicit such a strong reaction from me and bring back grief I thought I had come to terms with, considering how this is a barebones romance story with a "twist" to the relationship.
The main character, he's not the worst, but he's not the best either. Despite the fact that he was only really able to talk and have limited hand movement, he's not really sympathetic which doesn't help his likeability. He starts off by treating Amelia Clark's character with disdain and after she finally snaps, I don't get why he started warming up to her afterwards, maybe he admired her spunk?
And his first attempt to bond with her... was to order her to watch a movie with him?! Which from the start shows the power imbalance of their relationship, because no matter how intimate they get, he still keeps the boss/employee power dynamic going. Even when he meets her parents and takes her on a vacation with him.
As for the implications, it was disturbing how easily the movie could get me to side with his choice, before I caught myself and realized what it was doing. If they really pushed that the dude was in constant pain, like on top of being paralyzed, he's also a serious burn victim, then yeah, I could understand why he'd want to end his life.
But as Brad and Sarah point out, this guy is rich, lives in a nice house, has a supportive and loving girlfriend and people who care a great deal about his happiness, and aside from limited mobility, doesn't seem to be in any serious discomfort or pain. It makes him seem selfish to want to end it all.
Makes the theory that he's suffering from depression all the more plausible. Hell, if the twist WAS that he had depression all along, it would actually be a fairly good twist. Both the characters and the audience comes to the shocking realization that his behavior, that they chalked up to his being bored, determined, etc, was actually because of a serious psychological issue. And they have to live with the pain of knowing that they could have helped him, had they seen the signs and not chalked it up to his personality.
That would be a better justification for his choice, because depression IS a thing that leads to suicide and it would be able to show what actual depression is like, even if the ending is still unhappy.
The ending of Me Before You basically says to people who are disabled, "You have nothing to live for, so just hurry up and die." Whether it intended to or not, this book/movie sends a very insidious and destructive message about/to people with disabilities that their lives don't matter and that their very existence presents nothing but a burden to those around them.
If the film-makers of this tripe had any guts or moral integrity, they would've tried to cast a quadriplegic actor for the part. They didn't because they are cowards and scumbags.
Dont lump quadriplegics in with all disabled. Being a quad is far worse than many others. I have little use of my legs but have my arms. I can 100% understand the decision of suicide no matter how hard people try to help
+HandicapGaming93 yeah i have a disease where I always feel horrible pain and I've lost the use of my legs. It's been a really tough ride and some days suicide seemed like the only answer but I kept going, and quadriplegics can lead a full functioning and even adventurous life. That doesn't mean other people problems aren't less important, but I can understand the feeling of being suicidal and losing hope. There is also that spark in life and the will and love of it to carry on
They're handicapped, like us. No, we can not lead a full functioning life. Otherwise we wouldn't be handicapped. It's a sad truth but it's the truth still.
+HandicapGaming93 well, you're right. Not a full functioning life, but they can still be happy with their life. Some days is harder than others though
DragonMaiden77 Why (aside from their being cowards and scumbags) do you think the film-makers didn't cast an actual quadriplegic?
I know I always love a movie that sets up a problem, works to get through the problem, succeeds, and then returns to base one at the end of the movie for no reason other than to make the movie noticeable.
a lot of episodes of passions are on youtube!!! its how I got into the show omg. im so happy u guys like passions too bc it's hard 2 find ppl who are like genuinely Into it.
I like that this movie was so shitty, you spent a significant portion of this review just talking about other movies lmao
Eyes Wide Shut is amazing.
I strongly disagree, but I respect your opinion.
I strongly agree and respect your opinion
+Shinesparker11 fair enough. Lol
It's very bizarre, but still really well done. And the odd and unpredictable plot makes you keep paying attention and wonder.
Wow. It's very rare for me to be interested in romantic movies. This was one of those times where I thought it might be nice to watch it. The trailers had me believe it would be a beautiful story about two people learning to appreciate life and each other. Hearing how this movie ends, though? I would have been SO pissed off if I had gone to see this movie.
THIS.
I thought this looked...sappy? Cliched? Over-the top? But also maybe something different? And kinda touching? I wasn't going to pay money in the theater to see it, but I was curious and thought maybe it would be better than a lot of other romance movies.
Now I know better.
Fuck yea, shoutout to Harold and Maude.
Just for clarification (I mean no harm), Girl on the Train is by Paula Hawkins and Gone Girl is by Gillian Flynn. I think the connection is simply just that Girl on the Train's adaptation was inspired by Gone Girl's success.
Sarah looks way different with glasses.
Yeah, and she still looks hot.
Brad looks so hot with his backwards hat too
She looks hot either way, just... hotter with! :D
I know right?
+Trinidad Botello -.-
Years ago I had a major medical problem. I died for about five minutes, was in a coma for three days (kind of a min-coma they said) followed by about a month in the hospital. When I got out I was at my brother's house and he says "Hey, wanna watch a movie?" and he puts in Vanilla Sky. So that was kinda messed up.
I had an ad for "Me Before You" right before watching this video. That's some delicious irony.
Anyone remember that kid's show Timothy Goes to School, based on the books by Rosemary Wells? There were two characters named Frank and Frank who had this thing where one would say "Me before you. Me first!" and then the other would say "Me before you. Me First!" Then they'd laugh and say together "okay, we'll both go first." Anyway, that's what this title makes me think of
Wow the buzzfeed review of this has far and away the most vicious comment thread I've seen in awhile. Much of it arguing with disabled commenters about wether or not they should be offended (spolier: most of them are). Go read it if you want to lose a couple brain cells.
Yeah, I'm disabled and I was pretty offended when I saw this.
I'm on it.
Holy shit it's a bunch of crap. But it's Buzzfeed and those people are way too 3rd wave feminist and condescending to white cis straight men for my liking, as a female. Ugh, too much PC, too much BS.
But my oppresion.
My gf really loves this film. We found full movie here => twitter.com/382b288b8e8327261/status/739066837476990980?idpid=8ded735d-ca24-44b5-b374-c425bb2e30bf Midnight Screenings - Me Before You
buzzfeed is a craphole what can you expect.
This was a golden era of this channel.
This movie's screenplay was originally going to be by the guys who penned "500 Days of Summer" and "The Spectacular Now", two of the best romance movies of the past decade. Instead it was written by the author of the original novel, who has never done anything for a movie before in her life.
I was in the hospital a while back, went into cardiac arrest and died for 5 minutes. When I got out of the hospital the first movie I saw was Vanilla Sky. Made it a LOT creepier.
JoJo Moyes wrote this, and she definitely isn't quadruplegic.
Assuming you are maybe going to check out the comments on this video, Sarah, just wanted you to know always love all your reviews! :-D.
Well I got nothing for Wheelchair Suicide but now I want to rewatch Vanilla Sky
Brad, Dan Stevens from The Guest was in Downton Abbey. Maybe that works as an incentive?
Did Sarah ever end up seeing Vanilla Sky?
Glasses be rockin' as fuck, Sarah.
So.....did Sarah watched Vanilla Sky at the end? I'm dying to know if you somehow turned her over the light, man!
"last week's runaway hit" had me rolling. I don't know why. Snob's voice is just so dry and sarcastic that it makes anything sound hilarious.
TECH SUPPOOOOOOORT!!!
Vanilla Sky is my fave Cruise film.
You're talking about that? Good. Because I thought we were talking about a FUCKING MAAAAAAASK!
I love "Mr. Bates" in anything I see in him as well. Definitely a bonus in any movie for me.
Popstar, Brad. please???
I agree.
I watched Days back in the nineties too! I remember Patch!
Brad, lend your copy of Old Fashioned to Hugo and Jake. I need to see their take on that clusterfuck on TBR.
Great midnight screening, as always.
x
Love the haircut Sarah!
When did Sarah start wearing glasses?
WHEN SHE BECAME A NEEEERRRRDDDDDDDD!!!!!111!!
People started realising she was Superman.
Now that's a plot twist
God-dammit Piccolo!
+Alex Shannon I get it.
There's a great Richard Harris line in that Tarzan movie, where he plays Jane's (Bo Dereks) father, "Your mother was so delicate, she almost died during your conception."
+Stoned Gremlin Productions Soooo you're saying I should pay full price to see this or should I wait till it comes to Betamax?
Betamax
Curious to know if Sarah eventually watched Vanilla Sky.
Matthew is film brain right?
Yep
Immediately thought of Dying Young when I saw the preview for this movie.
14:13 The summary Sarah makes of whatever movie they're talking about sounds like a Two-Face movie.
2:19 to 2:23 Midnight Screenings in 5 seconds.
Eyes Wide Shut is my FAVORITE Kubrick film, I wish you'd just talk about it for 20 minutes hehe
I think the only soap opera on DVD is Dark Shadows.
When your twee indie romantic comedy's portrayal of assisted suicide is outclassed by the music video for Metallica's One, torch your screenplay and start over, Me Before You makes Mary And Max look uplifting.
With all due respect. Sarah's hotness is greatly elevated with the glasses IMO
This thumbnail assures me this will be a great experience
I've just started watching The New Girl on Netflix. I'm really digging it so far.
Passions was fucking awesome. I love you guys.
"Me before you" also refers to who Lou and Will were before they, individually, knew each other. Took me a few moments to figure that out too.
we want Sarah's review of Vanilla Sky on camera
Never even heard of this movie until this video, so I decided to pop over and watch the trailer. Shouldn't be surprised, but the comments for that are almost all positive, talking about meaningful and dramatic and emotional the movie is.
I'm surprised Sarah is surprised that Ghostbusters 2 is getting hate. That movies has always been love it or hate it (leaning more towards hate from my experience) and I've never met anyone who likes it better then the original. People disliking 2 is far from new.
When I was young I liked that the slime in the second movie looked less like snot? But that's pretty much all I remember liking more.
+Kim K Still better than the reboot.
Brad, that end perfectly encapsulated my feelings and the warcraft movie, just sounded like, "why..." not like mad, but not, like, caring. just heavy sigh followed by the title.
How is the end different from Million Dollar Baby?
Cause not being able to walk, with every want and need catered to =/= vegetable.
Also not "romantic".
Love the hair Sarah
Sarah with glasses..... even more adorable..
And I don't mean that in a shitty or creepy way Sarah. Genuine compliment.
Holy shit, in the thumbnail didn't realise it was Sarah.
How can you be sure that disabled people don't like this movie? I have not heard of a single quadriplegic walking out of this movie.
I've been thinking about watching Eyes Wide Shut, but the premise never draws me in and I can imagine watching all three hours of it - and this is from someone who really likes 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Thank you! Vanilla Sky is awesome and I liked it more than Open Your Eyes! Apparently there is an alternate ending to the movie in the recent blu ray so I have to check that out.
I miss these types of reviews
Did y'all see Popstar?
I can somewhat see the appeal of a story in which love doesn't stop someone from killing themselves. It sort of tells people that it because they did not love someone enough isn't a reason that someone killed themselves.
On the other hand... the plot to this sounds horrible.
when is Midnight Screenings - Vanilla Sky ???
Please tell me the subtitle is "Except After C".
I remember previews of this movie. I'm a caretaker to my mother who is completely disabled, and I could just tell it wouldn't show a realistic, gritty view of caretaking. I could be wrong, but I just can't see her changing his diapers, treating his pressure sores, and dealing with his constipation.
This will surely help our veterans fighting to deal with crippling injuries and trying to find a reason to live without their arms or legs.
See you in another life, when we're both cats
p.s: if you have to watch a good dramedy where someone is slowly dying or contemplating euthanasia, just watch 50/50, or Amour, or Mia Madre, or Fault in our Stars, or anything else
+Kor O'Connell also girl on the train is what happens when you take gone girl, flip it inside out, and hitchcock it up a bit
Fun fact: Lloyd and his sister were once people. They were exploitation film directors.
I agree 100%, Vanilla Sky is a fucking great movie.
I read the book, and both my aunt and mom wanted to see this movie until I warned them about the ending. They both really love romance movies, and I knew this is one that they might not want to see once they knew the ending just because of the emotions that it brings up about. In fact, I couldn't finish the book because of the ending. It just really upset me about what happened.
So I've been having this movie pushed on me a lot lately. It's weird, but it's been on top of my TH-cam recommendations for about 2 weeks now. I had to say something about it here in 2023 lol
Also 14:40 has Sarah seen Vanilla Sky yet?
GAIN 250 Experience Points for a Harold and Maude reference=========1384 pts to next level (unlocks double fireballs)
Dammit Brad, enough with the new cute girlfriends. Oh wait, it's just normal cute Sarah.
ye-yah!
:-D
The movie that demonstrates why it's important to actually do your research.
OMFG!!! Do you remember when the one chick from Days of our Lives turned into the Devil?! Then the one dude had to perform an exorcism??!?!?
I can't remember if I'm remembering that or the parody on "Soap"...
Sarah, if you hate bitching and moaning on TH-cam videos, avoid Angry Joe's comment section. It gets toxic real quick.
my safe spaaaace
I think it's mostly the volume. Lots of people means lots of dicks.
It's like when you have a little pond. Yeah, birds will shit in it, but you can still keep it clean.
But the ocean, "F**k it guys. Just F**k it. This is impossible. It can stay dirty. F**k it."
I don't see how someone has a "safe space" if they value their sanity and don't actively seek out a horde of rabid pre-teens and dudebros in a comments section. Which is definitely what Joe's video comments are. I always feel bad for the guy.
If you hate bitching and moaning IN TH-cam videos, avoid Angry Joe.
Well when you go by the name 'Angry Joe' and become famous for getting pissed off by the littlest of things you're bound to catch some negative assholes. I like AJ BTW
"The Theory of Everything" seems like a good shout for an alternative movie to watch. The story about Stephen and Jane Hawking. Although they should have also called it "The Amazing Mr. No Legs".
this is the movie that the trailer ran during episodes of Johnny Sokko on Comet TV.