I have to give my vote to “The Last Airbender” live-action Shyamalan movie. Although, unexpectedly, it has also brought me great entertainment for 13 years and counting: through the continued posting of fan rants, video essays, and despairing reaction content. Maybe the real joy was the misery we shared along the way.
The final seasons of Game of Thrones was my most disappointing media. I was so invested for so long and so pumped to know how it all ended to be so let down. Great episode guys!
The song Brandon may be thinking of is Guns n Roses' cover of the Wings song "Live and Let Die," which is indeed the Bond song. Hilarious that he thought of Megadeth when he pictured Axl Rose's voice
I feel like Gatoraid’s probably just health insurance for poor, elderly gators… reinforced by the ACA (Affordable Crocodilian Act) 🙂 … Or maybe just another subsidy for *Big Gator*
Biggest media disappointment was WoT season 1. Absolutely crushed my hopes for the books to become popular and as well known as GoT. I felt actually sick with how bad some of it was. The half episode info dump by Moraine, 3 episodes into it. Lack of main character presence. Two main girls being excluded from the entire season. And their portrayal of Mat's family, to try and force him to be more likeable. (As if Matrim Cauthon needs that).
Quantum of Solace is becoming one of those key stories of the writters strike. The main lesson is the importance of writers being on set throughtout production and how much value they generate. The initial script was done before the strike so they tried to go ahead with filming with the director and daniel craig rewriting the script. If the film had on set writers that were paid their value that film would be different
But they CAN be super delicious. I don't personally know what separates the flavorful ones from the ones that taste like water. But every now and then you get one that tastes amazing though!
That's because they start losing their sweetness and flavor as soon as they're picked. What we get in grocery stores doesn't taste the same as a freshly picked dragon fruit
I always liked them but I had some in China and there wasn't a trace of that blandness. They were sweet and juicy, I literally don't eat them anymore because the ones here just don't compare to that.
My main take away from Phantom Menace leaving the theatre was that they had thrown in the whole pod racing thing just to make a video game out of it. :D
You are both correct about the Live and Let die song. Originally done by Paul McCartney and Wings for the movie then was later covered by Guns N Roses.
The most disappointment I’ve ever experienced is the BBC adaptation of The Watch. I knew it would be rough once Sir Terrys daughter bailed out of the project, but Wow…
The BBC destroys everything it touches - unaccountable left wing Metropolitan propaganda machine funded to the tune of £4bn by grossly unfair, near unavoidable poll tax. You have to pay even if you watch zero BBC 😮
@@rriggs6547 I really, really wanted to like it. I didn't care about gender flipped characters, modernizing the city, and I was 100% willing to accept the difficulty of transferring mediums trying to make a show work. But what they did to Vimes and especially Cheri was a travesty. There's absolutely a gender identity discussion that would work beautifully with the character as written in the books and provide a nuanced and thoughtful conversation, BUT THEY MADE HER TALLER THAN CARROT DAMNIT. Game over man, game over.
You have convinced me to embark on a Bond marathon, I forgot how amazing some of them are! Maybe it's because I'm about half a generation younger, but there is an iconic disappointment that I was really surprised wasn't mentioned: Eragon. It was the first time I can remember leaving a theater legitimately sad... My friends and I immediately went to drown our sorrows in Cold Stone ice cream and dunk on every aspect of that dumpster fire.
That's the only movie I ever saw with my college housemates. We never went to the theaters together again. Some ways in, I was like, "This is ... this is just Star Wars," and then the Vader expy kills the Kenobi expy and I was no longer interested.
I looked up what an ashcan comic was on Wikipedia during the episode, and the 2015 adaptation of the prologue of WoT is cited as one of the four most prominent examples of an ashcan for film and television, with the others being The Hobbit (1967), the 2011 Hellraiser: Relevations, and the 1994 Fantastic Four film, three of which were also mentioned on this episode.
To the newly-processed inmates of Food Heist Prison, they’re told by Milk Mafia to call the other gang the Gator Goons. No no no. Them boys will be quick to show you their name is Gator Gourmand. Taking after their Cajun roots, it’s a double entendres for both being exceptional foodies and Cajun slang for being viciously greedy.
I worked on golden compass movie vfx and believe it or not they screen tested the ending with the kid dying and based on that test they changed the movie to not end with a kid dying. Surprised they didn’t see that coming.
Kinda surprised that Twin Peaks didn't show up, what with the talk of non-comedies falling off in season 2. Corporate started shoving their weight around, Lynch walked out, and season 2 collapsed until Lynch came back at the end, at which point it was too late. Luckily season 3 is one of the greatest seasons of TV in the last 10 years.
Its nice to see somebody else give love and thunder some praise; my wife and loved it, it wasn’t incredible cinema, but we had a lot of fun and felt some feelings.
There are many excellent food heist stories, but Snackyderms is definitely my favorite so far! 😂 You’re so right about dragonfruit. I’m sad about it every time.
Evidently dragonfruit tastes so mediocre because you can't get it fresh in most places and it doesn't get to it's full sweetness. Imagine a grocery store tomato in February vs a farmer's market tomato in the summer. Never had a fresh on before but it's what I've heard from people who grow them.
I remember being so disappointed leaving the theater after the live action Enders Game. My hopes weren’t super high but I thought casting alone would help a ton. 😢 it did not.
The problem with the movie is that it was pretty much just about Battle School, which somehow still felt rushed, while the book is mostly about leadership and overcoming adversity. HUGE disappointment.
I missed Quantum of Solace when it came out and saw it a few year's late and now have 100% forgot everything about it.... Very rare for me to not remember anything from a movie but if I try really hard all I remember were the bad guy's socks (he was sitting at a computer chair talking to bond for a bit?) and I think there was a long scene in a bunker or something like that.
Love and Thunder had so many massive wasted opportunities, the least of which was the entire god butcher arc. Taika's a fun guy but an awful person to tackle that storyline
A lot of the jokes didn't really land for me either. Like, I LOVED the humor in Ragnarok, and I like how Ragnarok revels in its own insanity, but like... Taika. Baby. Screaming goats in 2022?
Agreed. I feel like Ragnorok's success just set Thor on a path to destruction. Thor was one of my favorite Marvel characters. He was so cool. Now he's just a running joke. What should be a more serious and tragic character turned into a bad joke in one of the worst Marvel films to date. I hate what they did to my bro.
Quantum of Solace and Lost were both majorly affected by the writer's strike. Shows how important writers are. Also, The Golden Compass TV show is really good!
This reminded me of something from my childhood... Why did the elephant wear a green cap? To hide on the pool table. Why did the elephant wear red tennis shoes? To hide in the strawberry patch. Why did the elephant wear blue tennis shoes? His red ones were in the wash. How can you tell when an elephant has been in your fridge (heisting your food)? Footprints in the butter. How can you tell if an elephant is in your fridge right now? The door won't shut.
The Eragon movie is easily my most disappointing movie, I’ve never been so hyped and then let down so hard before(the Last so Enders comes as a close second)
OBJECTION! I went down to Colombia recently and tried yellow dragonfruit "Pitahaya" and it was hands down my favorite fruit there! Even better than mango or pineapple! I think we get ripped off in the U.S. because all the tropical fruits have to be picked early to survive shipment overseas but a true fresh ripe dragonfruit is sweet and I would buy them by the basket as a treat for myself. On a side note, it also has laxative properties so.... just be careful...
Guardians 3 is out now, too (not sure when this was actually recorded tho); you're 3 and 4 behind. :P I enjoyed Guardians 3 but have been thinking that it kind of ties a bow on the earlier phases' storylines that weren't cleaned up by Endgame, and those are the ones I'm 'hype' invested in. Like I enjoyed the Ms Marvel show, I'm looking forward to The Marvels movie, but I'm not *hyped* for it.
Now do an episode on best movies experienced in a theater. Or an episode on movies or tv shows you went into with low expectations and were surprised by how much you enjoyed it.
I'm there with you Dan, I grew up watching the clash of the titans that my grandfather had on an old vhs. Probably a hundred times. I was so excited to hear about the remake thinking we'd get great updated visuals but what a complete disappointment.
That elephant heist is covered in “Secrets of the Elephants” National Geographic Doc series. I just watched it the other weekend, pretty sure these guys were from Thailand.
I am watching it now and was so excited to come here and share this “Secret” and you beat me to it! I honestly think them taking down the electric fence to get to the fruit to be pretty impressive too! It is tragic that 2/3 of their forest has been destroyed…
Lost definitely falls off, but I find the whole show still worth it for absolutely masterful performance of Benjamin Linus. Best thing to come out of the post S1 period.
Not sure if you’ve done an episode like this. I’ve just started but I think it’d be really interesting to talk about media that you didn’t really like in the moment but are really good memories. An example I have is a terrible terrible movie that I won’t even bother mentioning by name. Probably the worst piece if media I’ve ever consumed but some of the jokes in it make me and my friends laugh now
For all Bond fans, I have to recommend the doc "The Sound of 007" which I saw recently on Prime. Excellent! Disappointing media (keep in mind, I'm older than these guys): 3. Cool World. Granted I had no reason to expect anything from this, but if I hadn't seen it for free, a. I wouldn't have seen it, b. Someone would have PAID! 2. Highlander 2. I did pay for this. And boy was it a dumpster fire. So was everything Highlander that came after it. The only highlight of the tv show to me was Sheena Easton. 1. Every season of Firefly after the first. The disappointment being of course we never got them. Even if they had sucked, I would rather have had them. And of course Fantastic Beasts was disappointing. It was about a character she decided was gay after he was dead. And everything else was retroconned to try to recapture the HP magic. So... pandering.
The Star Wars prequels started coming out when I was 7. I saw Phantom Menace in a theater, having been primed by the original trilogy on VHS before Lucas started screwing with it. It was the single best theater experience I ever had up until that point. Then I saw Fellowship of the Ring, which flat-out changed my life.
Same, only a few years older. Though I also have to add Pirates into that conversation. The first pirates of the Caribbean is legitimately one of my all-time favorite movies and I think does not get enough credit.
I actually love the Golden Compass movie, but I can't say I judge it fairly, since it's directly tied to my childhood and it's one of the reasons I have become such a lover of fantasy. I don't really care for the new TV show, though. Brandon said that the casting for the movie was really inspired, and I agree, the TV show didn't stand a chance against the original cast.
Ooooo. I really liked that one. It wasn't perfect, but it was way better than the other Marvel films in recent years, other than Spiderman. I also just love the Guardians. And was very happy they made a good movie to send them off amidst my disappointment with the rest of the recent Marvel flicks.
About the food heist, the newspaper is Hindustan Times and its a well established Indian newspaper. The story perhaps takes place in the southern state of Kerala. Elephants are pretty revered all across India but they are specially privileged in that state.
Heeeeyyyy, he did the thing I sent him! XD I mean, other people also probably sent it in, but I had figured Dan decided it was more elephant banditry vs. elephant heisting.
"The Thin Red Line" Please watch that movie so you learn what a truly BAD movie that critics LOVED is. As proof of point, I do believe the bird baby dying in the mud was the character with the most arc and development. See if you agree......
18:05 it’s okay to admit it’s a flat out disappointment. Absolutely all of it 😞 27:37 Lost was a total and complete disappointment 😢 I remember absolutely loving that show and then thinking what the crap is happening now? Lol
Oh wow, Fantastic Beasts was turned off by me, too. I'm very easy as a critic - I like stuff like the new Cowboy Bebop (that hardly anyone likes), and I love the original HP movies. But yeah... Fantastic Beasts is one of the few times where my wife and I looked at each other about 20-30 minutes into a movie and asked if we could watch something else.
100% agree on Fantastic Beasts. I thought it was so incredibly boring as well, I don't think I even reached the half hour mark. I couldn't get through it :(
I agree on Lost, I made it until s3 e3 before dropping it. More disappointing to me was Heroes s2 and onwards. While books were specifically avoided, I'll nominate the HDM books after Golden Compass.
I watched chainsaw man recently. In it was a scene where a drunken woman tries to kiss a young man, and ends up vomiting down his throat. That scene was closer to the spirit of Tolkien's middle earth than Rings of power.
Goldeneye isn't campy >.> Well, beyond all the Russians speaking English with bad Russian accents when they didn't seem to have a problem speaking actual Russian in previous movies anyway lol I just did a viewing of all the Bond movies from Dr. No to No Time to Die, and every time I reflect on my experience watching Die Another Day I just feel sad. The cold open in North Korea is INCREDIBLE, and if it had kept that same tone throughout even if the action got a little balls-to-the-wall I'd be pretty forgiving, but alas, once Bond gets out of the North Korean prison, it becomes Die Another Day. Like, Quantum of Solace is boring, but at least it doesn't leave me with a migraine like Die Another Day did. Which is funny because The World is Not Enough is unironically one of my favorite Bond movies and it's definitely guilty of some similar stupidity. I guess I'm more forgiving considering how much I like Electra as a villain.
The biggest disappointment for me was the Shannara Chronicles. They turned it into Abercrombie & Fitch in a fantasy setting. Or 90210 in a fantasy setting. Or Dawson's Creek in a fantasy setting.
I was the other way around on the Star Wars prequels - I was disappointed with episode 1 when I came out of the theater, but I've come to enjoy it (and all of the prequels) more over time. The one that I came out of the theater mostly satisfied with, but have only grown to dislike more over time was episode 7. Coming out of the theater I thought it had captured the feeling of the original star wars pretty well. I did feel like it was a little too much like a re-hash of the original film, but as a first of three movies I thought it was a good start as long as the remaining movies went in a less predictable direction. (Talk about be careful what you wish for!) There were about 4-5 other criticisms I'd have brought up if asked, but in the moment I was prepared to overlook them. I still think episode 7 is good by comparison with the other two Disney sequels, but that's a pretty low bar. All of those 4-5 other problems have only gotten worse the more I think about them.
To get the ultimate supercut, watch Dunkirk, The Darkest Hour, and Their Finest, because it might be that an event didn't *really* happen until it's immortalized in story or song? ;)
I expect the unexpected with Intentionally Blank, but I DID NOT expect Snackaderms. Soooo you're saying Jello doesn't like it when his reflection parrots him. Dragonfruit totally fits into disappointing media, it advertises itself so well, and is an utterly disappointing experience.
Please, Dan, try the purple fruited Dragon Fruit. It has better flavor. It is still not nearly as flavorful as I think one might expect, but it has a subtle and pleasing flavor, whereas the white kind is just bland.
I have the exact opposite reaction to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It's my favorite Potterverse movie. Now the sequel sucks big time. And I won't even watch the third one. That first movie was amazing for me though.
I know it’s not the point of the park, but I would say the rides at Legoland we pretty lackluster. As a kid the place seemed thrilling and exciting, but by the time I made it I had outgrown the target age. The builds were amazing and the activities were fun, but the rides were about as exciting as riding down my (short) driveway in a red wagon. Weee… and we’re done.
Elephants do go to Food Heist Prison. Their sentences are just truncated...
If this doesn't become the top comment, then there's no justice in this world
But that doesn't mean that life is easy on the outside.
Elephants never forgive.
Elephants never forget.
~Doffs cap~
Well punned good commenter
My face after reading this 😁
I have to give my vote to “The Last Airbender” live-action Shyamalan movie.
Although, unexpectedly, it has also brought me great entertainment for 13 years and counting: through the continued posting of fan rants, video essays, and despairing reaction content. Maybe the real joy was the misery we shared along the way.
This is the first film that came to mind for me😂. It's a terrible thing.
A terrible thing at the height of popularity no less. One of those perfect childhood storms of disappointment.
Maybe the real bad place was inside the good place all along
Throw in Dragonball Evolution and Ender's Game and we can have a party.
The final seasons of Game of Thrones was my most disappointing media. I was so invested for so long and so pumped to know how it all ended to be so let down. Great episode guys!
Guys.
They're the Alligangsters.
The song Brandon may be thinking of is Guns n Roses' cover of the Wings song "Live and Let Die," which is indeed the Bond song. Hilarious that he thought of Megadeth when he pictured Axl Rose's voice
He did say G & R at one point. They really need someone off to the side ready to fact-check this stuff. It hurts to hear him so close lol
Maybe now their voices sound-alike more than they did back then xd
Instead of being in the bracket, the Snackiderms should become the official Intentionally Blank Food Heist Mascots
Best Bond songs:
1. Nobody Does it Better - Carly Simon
2. You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
3. For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
I’d give an Honorable Mention to A View to a Kill. Even if the movie is mid and the lyrics are nigh on incomprehensible, it still slaps
Gator ranchers should be named Gatoraid. Chances of me accepting anything else is pretty low
Maybe breaking it up as Gator Raid would convince them
@@thecriticalalchemist7620 Could even be gator egg raid
Cool Ranch Gatoritos?
@@quagz47 Okay, I would definitely accept this as an alternate name. 😂
I feel like Gatoraid’s probably just health insurance for poor, elderly gators… reinforced by the ACA (Affordable Crocodilian Act) 🙂
… Or maybe just another subsidy for *Big Gator*
Biggest media disappointment was WoT season 1. Absolutely crushed my hopes for the books to become popular and as well known as GoT. I felt actually sick with how bad some of it was.
The half episode info dump by Moraine, 3 episodes into it.
Lack of main character presence.
Two main girls being excluded from the entire season.
And their portrayal of Mat's family, to try and force him to be more likeable. (As if Matrim Cauthon needs that).
Quantum of Solace is becoming one of those key stories of the writters strike. The main lesson is the importance of writers being on set throughtout production and how much value they generate. The initial script was done before the strike so they tried to go ahead with filming with the director and daniel craig rewriting the script. If the film had on set writers that were paid their value that film would be different
I don’t even dislike it. Had some really amazing and memorable scenes, like the opera. Such a cool set piece.
Wow for once I’m on the same page with Dan. Dragonfruit is the most overpriced beautiful fruit that is bland as heck.
But they CAN be super delicious. I don't personally know what separates the flavorful ones from the ones that taste like water. But every now and then you get one that tastes amazing though!
Definitely agree with his take... Cool fruit in everything but taste (but also, it's not that it tastes bad, it's just kind of there)
That's because they start losing their sweetness and flavor as soon as they're picked. What we get in grocery stores doesn't taste the same as a freshly picked dragon fruit
I always liked them but I had some in China and there wasn't a trace of that blandness. They were sweet and juicy, I literally don't eat them anymore because the ones here just don't compare to that.
@@BDD_c2bn Like with any fruit, it's probably how they're bred
My main take away from Phantom Menace leaving the theatre was that they had thrown in the whole pod racing thing just to make a video game out of it. :D
Yeah but that video game was a defining feature of my elementary school years.
The Pod Racing thing was the best part of the whole movie because there’s basically no dialogue.
And the video game was awesome!
Honestly, The Phantom Menace isn't bad. There are a few issues here and there, but anyone born after 1990 actually liked that movie.
@@wackyswacky1374 It wasn't bad. But Lucas should have let someone else direct it.
You are both correct about the Live and Let die song. Originally done by Paul McCartney and Wings for the movie then was later covered by Guns N Roses.
Experientially delightful, and narratively abysmal. One of the best descriptions I've heard for disappointing media.
The HBO series for His Dark Materials is amazing. Definitely worth a watch.
The most disappointment I’ve ever experienced is the BBC adaptation of The Watch. I knew it would be rough once Sir Terrys daughter bailed out of the project, but Wow…
The BBC destroys everything it touches - unaccountable left wing Metropolitan propaganda machine funded to the tune of £4bn by grossly unfair, near unavoidable poll tax. You have to pay even if you watch zero BBC 😮
I didn't even try. Every review was so bad...
@@BrandSanderson Dont watch the Adaption of The Foundation Series by Asimov.
Glad to know ahead of time. I love everything Pratchett did. And hearing his family had nothing to do with the show let's me know what I am in for.
@@rriggs6547 I really, really wanted to like it. I didn't care about gender flipped characters, modernizing the city, and I was 100% willing to accept the difficulty of transferring mediums trying to make a show work. But what they did to Vimes and especially Cheri was a travesty. There's absolutely a gender identity discussion that would work beautifully with the character as written in the books and provide a nuanced and thoughtful conversation, BUT THEY MADE HER TALLER THAN CARROT DAMNIT. Game over man, game over.
You have convinced me to embark on a Bond marathon, I forgot how amazing some of them are!
Maybe it's because I'm about half a generation younger, but there is an iconic disappointment that I was really surprised wasn't mentioned: Eragon. It was the first time I can remember leaving a theater legitimately sad... My friends and I immediately went to drown our sorrows in Cold Stone ice cream and dunk on every aspect of that dumpster fire.
I'm so glad I didn't see that movie in theaters. I got to be annoyed in the comfort of my own home while my mom watched my irritation in confusion
That's the only movie I ever saw with my college housemates. We never went to the theaters together again. Some ways in, I was like, "This is ... this is just Star Wars," and then the Vader expy kills the Kenobi expy and I was no longer interested.
An old Disappointment of mine is what they did to The Dresden Files. Man I love that book series, I want them to try again with another show.
My disappointment were the actual Dresden books, heard so many good things and then didn't enjoy them
I looked up what an ashcan comic was on Wikipedia during the episode, and the 2015 adaptation of the prologue of WoT is cited as one of the four most prominent examples of an ashcan for film and television, with the others being The Hobbit (1967), the 2011 Hellraiser: Relevations, and the 1994 Fantastic Four film, three of which were also mentioned on this episode.
To the newly-processed inmates of Food Heist Prison, they’re told by Milk Mafia to call the other gang the Gator Goons. No no no. Them boys will be quick to show you their name is Gator Gourmand. Taking after their Cajun roots, it’s a double entendres for both being exceptional foodies and Cajun slang for being viciously greedy.
“I’m an apologist for that movie. It’s definitely not great.” - Brandon Sanderson
I worked on golden compass movie vfx and believe it or not they screen tested the ending with the kid dying and based on that test they changed the movie to not end with a kid dying. Surprised they didn’t see that coming.
Thank you for including dragon fruit, Dan! When Joshua and I first tried it down in Arizona, we described it as "chewing water".
Kinda surprised that Twin Peaks didn't show up, what with the talk of non-comedies falling off in season 2. Corporate started shoving their weight around, Lynch walked out, and season 2 collapsed until Lynch came back at the end, at which point it was too late. Luckily season 3 is one of the greatest seasons of TV in the last 10 years.
Its nice to see somebody else give love and thunder some praise; my wife and loved it, it wasn’t incredible cinema, but we had a lot of fun and felt some feelings.
I'm also a fan of Love and Thunder. I won't call it any kind of top-tier, but I genuinely enjoyed it.
Stardust is the best example of a movie improving upon the source material
There are many excellent food heist stories, but Snackyderms is definitely my favorite so far! 😂
You’re so right about dragonfruit. I’m sad about it every time.
If you can find it, the purple dragonfruit has more flavor than the white one. We love them here in Taiwan.
Evidently dragonfruit tastes so mediocre because you can't get it fresh in most places and it doesn't get to it's full sweetness. Imagine a grocery store tomato in February vs a farmer's market tomato in the summer. Never had a fresh on before but it's what I've heard from people who grow them.
I remember being so disappointed leaving the theater after the live action Enders Game. My hopes weren’t super high but I thought casting alone would help a ton. 😢 it did not.
It felt like a collection of familiar scenes and nothing more.
The problem with the movie is that it was pretty much just about Battle School, which somehow still felt rushed, while the book is mostly about leadership and overcoming adversity.
HUGE disappointment.
I love the random comments Dan makes about Leverage. Classic heist content right there.
I missed Quantum of Solace when it came out and saw it a few year's late and now have 100% forgot everything about it.... Very rare for me to not remember anything from a movie but if I try really hard all I remember were the bad guy's socks (he was sitting at a computer chair talking to bond for a bit?) and I think there was a long scene in a bunker or something like that.
I wonder why Rings of Power got an honorable mention when the Amazon Wheel of Time didn't when they both rated WoT lower than RoP.
i think because they were involved with the creation process of it and had a heads up of what it'd be like
Love and Thunder had so many massive wasted opportunities, the least of which was the entire god butcher arc. Taika's a fun guy but an awful person to tackle that storyline
A lot of the jokes didn't really land for me either. Like, I LOVED the humor in Ragnarok, and I like how Ragnarok revels in its own insanity, but like...
Taika. Baby. Screaming goats in 2022?
Agreed.
I feel like Ragnorok's success just set Thor on a path to destruction.
Thor was one of my favorite Marvel characters. He was so cool.
Now he's just a running joke. What should be a more serious and tragic character turned into a bad joke in one of the worst Marvel films to date.
I hate what they did to my bro.
Dragonfruit in Taiwan is quite delicious! The taste is definitely subtle, but you should give it a second try if it is in season.
Quantum of Solace and Lost were both majorly affected by the writer's strike. Shows how important writers are. Also, The Golden Compass TV show is really good!
That take at 15:15 is WILD! 🔥🚒
Dominic Noble has a really good video on the slideshow Hobbit, I recommend watching his video if you've got time.
This reminded me of something from my childhood...
Why did the elephant wear a green cap? To hide on the pool table.
Why did the elephant wear red tennis shoes? To hide in the strawberry patch.
Why did the elephant wear blue tennis shoes? His red ones were in the wash.
How can you tell when an elephant has been in your fridge (heisting your food)? Footprints in the butter.
How can you tell if an elephant is in your fridge right now? The door won't shut.
The Eragon movie is easily my most disappointing movie, I’ve never been so hyped and then let down so hard before(the Last so Enders comes as a close second)
"I can see the logo in my head, and I'm very excited."
The Golden Compass was the first movie I ever fell asleep in a theater watching :)
This is so much fun to watch.
OBJECTION!
I went down to Colombia recently and tried yellow dragonfruit "Pitahaya" and it was hands down my favorite fruit there! Even better than mango or pineapple! I think we get ripped off in the U.S. because all the tropical fruits have to be picked early to survive shipment overseas but a true fresh ripe dragonfruit is sweet and I would buy them by the basket as a treat for myself.
On a side note, it also has laxative properties so.... just be careful...
I've experienced the same with regard to Plantains, Red Bananas,Coconuts, and Papaya here vs. Central America
Guardians 3 is out now, too (not sure when this was actually recorded tho); you're 3 and 4 behind. :P I enjoyed Guardians 3 but have been thinking that it kind of ties a bow on the earlier phases' storylines that weren't cleaned up by Endgame, and those are the ones I'm 'hype' invested in. Like I enjoyed the Ms Marvel show, I'm looking forward to The Marvels movie, but I'm not *hyped* for it.
GNR covered Live and Let Die.
Long live Billy Zane. It was on FX 2. 1 am Est
Love this episode! Wouldn't mind a part 2
Brandon - GnR did a cover of Live and Let Die, which might be what you're thinking of.
Also the alligator ranchers should be the Gator Raiders!
Now do an episode on best movies experienced in a theater. Or an episode on movies or tv shows you went into with low expectations and were surprised by how much you enjoyed it.
I have to assume the sugarcane transport will ultimately evolve to use enclosed trucks.
I'm there with you Dan, I grew up watching the clash of the titans that my grandfather had on an old vhs. Probably a hundred times. I was so excited to hear about the remake thinking we'd get great updated visuals but what a complete disappointment.
That elephant heist is covered in “Secrets of the Elephants” National Geographic Doc series. I just watched it the other weekend, pretty sure these guys were from Thailand.
I am watching it now and was so excited to come here and share this “Secret” and you beat me to it! I honestly think them taking down the electric fence to get to the fruit to be pretty impressive too! It is tragic that 2/3 of their forest has been destroyed…
Lost definitely falls off, but I find the whole show still worth it for absolutely masterful performance of Benjamin Linus. Best thing to come out of the post S1 period.
Not sure if you’ve done an episode like this. I’ve just started but I think it’d be really interesting to talk about media that you didn’t really like in the moment but are really good memories. An example I have is a terrible terrible movie that I won’t even bother mentioning by name. Probably the worst piece if media I’ve ever consumed but some of the jokes in it make me and my friends laugh now
For all Bond fans, I have to recommend the doc "The Sound of 007" which I saw recently on Prime. Excellent!
Disappointing media (keep in mind, I'm older than these guys): 3. Cool World. Granted I had no reason to expect anything from this, but if I hadn't seen it for free, a. I wouldn't have seen it, b. Someone would have PAID! 2. Highlander 2. I did pay for this. And boy was it a dumpster fire. So was everything Highlander that came after it. The only highlight of the tv show to me was Sheena Easton. 1. Every season of Firefly after the first. The disappointment being of course we never got them. Even if they had sucked, I would rather have had them.
And of course Fantastic Beasts was disappointing. It was about a character she decided was gay after he was dead. And everything else was retroconned to try to recapture the HP magic. So... pandering.
The Star Wars prequels started coming out when I was 7. I saw Phantom Menace in a theater, having been primed by the original trilogy on VHS before Lucas started screwing with it. It was the single best theater experience I ever had up until that point. Then I saw Fellowship of the Ring, which flat-out changed my life.
Same, only a few years older. Though I also have to add Pirates into that conversation. The first pirates of the Caribbean is legitimately one of my all-time favorite movies and I think does not get enough credit.
@@TheLordofMetroids Absolutely, Pirates 1 is one of my favorite films ever made. 2001 was an amazing year for movies.
I actually love the Golden Compass movie, but I can't say I judge it fairly, since it's directly tied to my childhood and it's one of the reasons I have become such a lover of fantasy. I don't really care for the new TV show, though. Brandon said that the casting for the movie was really inspired, and I agree, the TV show didn't stand a chance against the original cast.
I'm excited to see what you two think of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
Ooooo.
I really liked that one. It wasn't perfect, but it was way better than the other Marvel films in recent years, other than Spiderman.
I also just love the Guardians. And was very happy they made a good movie to send them off amidst my disappointment with the rest of the recent Marvel flicks.
"Gator Goons" is the name you were looking for.
About the food heist, the newspaper is Hindustan Times and its a well established Indian newspaper. The story perhaps takes place in the southern state of Kerala. Elephants are pretty revered all across India but they are specially privileged in that state.
Heeeeyyyy, he did the thing I sent him! XD
I mean, other people also probably sent it in, but I had figured Dan decided it was more elephant banditry vs. elephant heisting.
"The Thin Red Line" Please watch that movie so you learn what a truly BAD movie that critics LOVED is. As proof of point, I do believe the bird baby dying in the mud was the character with the most arc and development. See if you agree......
Everyone say it with me! Season 8 of Game of Thrones!!!! (With honourable mentions in hindsight for season 7 perhaps)
Foxes being famous for their heists made me laugh way more than it probably should 😂
Ok, the disrespect of not including the avatar the last Airbender live action movie is amazing
For it to be disappointing, you have to have medium to high expectations.
Try to get your hands on yellow dragonfruit. Its flavor is still subtle but it's much sweeter than the pink ones and very pleasant.
Get Mexican dragonfruit, it's called pitaya.
It is way more flavorful, it spoils super quickly and therefore it's harder to get outside of Mexico
I'm just excited for you guys to address the New Jersey pasta mystery.
I don't think most people have had a good dragonfruit. The good ones are incredibly flavorful, a lot of the ones from the store are tasteless
18:05 it’s okay to admit it’s a flat out disappointment. Absolutely all of it 😞
27:37 Lost was a total and complete disappointment 😢 I remember absolutely loving that show and then thinking what the crap is happening now? Lol
Oh wow, Fantastic Beasts was turned off by me, too. I'm very easy as a critic - I like stuff like the new Cowboy Bebop (that hardly anyone likes), and I love the original HP movies. But yeah... Fantastic Beasts is one of the few times where my wife and I looked at each other about 20-30 minutes into a movie and asked if we could watch something else.
100% agree on Fantastic Beasts. I thought it was so incredibly boring as well, I don't think I even reached the half hour mark. I couldn't get through it :(
My favorite Bond song is, "Harvester of Sorrow."
I'm more of a fan of Fade to Black tbh
Amazing that a Roger Moore Bond movie had a suicide song as its opener
My favorite Bond song is “The Thing That Should Not Be”. 😆
I agree on Lost, I made it until s3 e3 before dropping it. More disappointing to me was Heroes s2 and onwards. While books were specifically avoided, I'll nominate the HDM books after Golden Compass.
"You're a bizarre dude," says Mr. Snackiderm XD
I watched chainsaw man recently. In it was a scene where a drunken woman tries to kiss a young man, and ends up vomiting down his throat. That scene was closer to the spirit of Tolkien's middle earth than Rings of power.
Y’all should do a super cut of food heists and bad story ideas
Goldeneye isn't campy >.>
Well, beyond all the Russians speaking English with bad Russian accents when they didn't seem to have a problem speaking actual Russian in previous movies anyway lol
I just did a viewing of all the Bond movies from Dr. No to No Time to Die, and every time I reflect on my experience watching Die Another Day I just feel sad. The cold open in North Korea is INCREDIBLE, and if it had kept that same tone throughout even if the action got a little balls-to-the-wall I'd be pretty forgiving, but alas, once Bond gets out of the North Korean prison, it becomes Die Another Day. Like, Quantum of Solace is boring, but at least it doesn't leave me with a migraine like Die Another Day did.
Which is funny because The World is Not Enough is unironically one of my favorite Bond movies and it's definitely guilty of some similar stupidity. I guess I'm more forgiving considering how much I like Electra as a villain.
I'm a big star wars fan but i walked out of the theatre near the end of episode 3 😅
100% AGREE on the dragonfruit. It's a 'nothing-burger' in a fancy coat.
I wonder if there will be a food heist at the Riding Excuses Retreat. 🤔
No matter who wins the bracket we need the Intentionally Left Blank “Snackoderms” t shirt.
Snackiderms is an extension of the Babar Universe
Guns and Roses did a cover of Live and Let Die, which was originally the Bond theme by Paul McCartney.
Lost and Game of Thrones were the biggest disappointments in terms of investment and closure.
The biggest disappointment for me was the Shannara Chronicles. They turned it into Abercrombie & Fitch in a fantasy setting. Or 90210 in a fantasy setting. Or Dawson's Creek in a fantasy setting.
Funny. Quantum of Solace is my favorite Daniel Craig movie and in my top 5 Bond movies, and I enjoy all of the Bonds.
In a surprising twist, the Snachyderms win both brackets.
I was the other way around on the Star Wars prequels - I was disappointed with episode 1 when I came out of the theater, but I've come to enjoy it (and all of the prequels) more over time. The one that I came out of the theater mostly satisfied with, but have only grown to dislike more over time was episode 7. Coming out of the theater I thought it had captured the feeling of the original star wars pretty well. I did feel like it was a little too much like a re-hash of the original film, but as a first of three movies I thought it was a good start as long as the remaining movies went in a less predictable direction. (Talk about be careful what you wish for!) There were about 4-5 other criticisms I'd have brought up if asked, but in the moment I was prepared to overlook them. I still think episode 7 is good by comparison with the other two Disney sequels, but that's a pretty low bar. All of those 4-5 other problems have only gotten worse the more I think about them.
To get the ultimate supercut, watch Dunkirk, The Darkest Hour, and Their Finest, because it might be that an event didn't *really* happen until it's immortalized in story or song? ;)
I expect the unexpected with Intentionally Blank, but I DID NOT expect Snackaderms.
Soooo you're saying Jello doesn't like it when his reflection parrots him.
Dragonfruit totally fits into disappointing media, it advertises itself so well, and is an utterly disappointing experience.
the golden compass is fantastic and id watch the sequle if it had the same cast
Have you tried the TV show? It's pretty good!
Does anyone know when Brandon and Dan review Starship Troopers? I wouldn't mind hearing their hot take.
Please, Dan, try the purple fruited Dragon Fruit. It has better flavor. It is still not nearly as flavorful as I think one might expect, but it has a subtle and pleasing flavor, whereas the white kind is just bland.
absolutely surreal to hear brandon talking about 산토끼
The Dragon fruit thing, maybe that is a translation or naming convention thing... Pitahaya doesn't really sound as hype as Dragon fruit
2:15 is this the one about Elephants' stopping trucks of sugarcane on the highway to steal some?
I have the exact opposite reaction to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It's my favorite Potterverse movie. Now the sequel sucks big time. And I won't even watch the third one. That first movie was amazing for me though.
I too liked the first one, second was meh, and the third I didn’t even go see.
I of course had to look up the “Elephant Ambush” card
I know it’s not the point of the park, but I would say the rides at Legoland we pretty lackluster. As a kid the place seemed thrilling and exciting, but by the time I made it I had outgrown the target age. The builds were amazing and the activities were fun, but the rides were about as exciting as riding down my (short) driveway in a red wagon. Weee… and we’re done.
To be fair, it was worth it to see the kids having a blast and camping by the ocean was such an enjoyable experience.