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When movies look at what failed and go "yes, I'll have more of that."
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00:00Now, I don't know about you, but there is nothing more annoying than watching someone
00:04repeatedly make the same mistake over and over again.
00:07The movie business is responsible for trying the same stupid things again and again.
00:12From casting blunders and weird costuming to franchise ratcons and naked attempts at
00:18invoking nostalgia, I'm Ewan, this is what culture, and here are 10 diabolical movie
00:23mistakes you won't believe they made twice.
00:27Number 10, Bad Tattoos, Suicide Squad, and The Bride
00:32In early 2024, it was revealed that Jesse Buckley, Christian Bale, and Penelope Cruz would be
00:37joining director Maggie Gyllenhaal to make The Bride, a redo of classic monster movie Bride
00:43of Frankenstein.
00:45It was later revealed that Bale will be playing Frankenstein's monster, and pictures of the
00:49actor in costume were shared online.
00:51Ironically, considering that the Welshman famously portrayed Batman, the internet made many
00:56comparisons between him and one of the Caped Crusader's biggest enemies.
01:01Yeah, fans noticed pretty instantly that Bale's monster design was a dead ringer for Jared Leto's
01:07infamous incarnation of the Joker from the 2016 Suicide Squad movie.
01:12This version of the Clown Prince of Crime was rarely marked for his golden grills and audacious
01:18tattoos.
01:19And wouldn't you know it, this recent costume has also been memed to within an inch of its
01:23life.
01:24He's even doing the mad Joker head tilt run hands through hair thingy in the promo image
01:30shared.
01:31Like, how did no one point this out?
01:33Suicide Squad came out, of course, in 2016, which means that in just 8 years, the costume
01:39department for The Bride forgot how bad to reaction the Joker's look actually was.
01:43Either that, or they have way better movie taste than Oliver's and were not roped into
01:49seeing it by that deceptively good Bohemian Rhapsody trailer, which I still hold a grudge
01:55over.
01:56Also, on a serious note, still looking forward to this one.
01:59Number 9.
02:00Casting Chris Pratt.
02:01The Super Mario Bros. movie and the Garfield movie.
02:06Everyone knows what Mario sounds like, right?
02:08The Mustachio Plumber's iconic voice, provided by the legendary Charles Martinet, is all the
02:14most recognizable in all of pop culture, let alone video games themselves.
02:18You know, Wahoo and It's a me, Mario.
02:22My terrible voices aside, the Italian inflections of Mario's voice meant that when it was revealed
02:29that Chris Pratt would be voicing the character in the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie, audiences
02:35were, well, a little surprised.
02:37Pratt's decision to perform the role using a very suspicious Italian accent, and again,
02:42I have no right to comment on that given what I just did, was met with a mixture of criticism
02:47and heckling from moviegoers.
02:49It's fine for an actor to put their own spin on a character, but when they remove something
02:53that is so integral to the persona, people are understandably gonna get a little bit peeved.
02:59Worth noting as well that the Mario movie itself was ridiculously popular, so evidently people
03:05who aren't as chronically online didn't really care.
03:08But even so, Pratt, in the words of J. Jonah Jameson, you're a menace.
03:14Oh, and it actually doesn't stop there.
03:16The very next year, another animated movie featuring a character with a famous voice also cast Pratt
03:22in the role.
03:23This after also starring in animated features like The Lego Movie and Onward.
03:27Seriously, what is the obsession here?
03:30The Garfield movie, the latest big screen outing for the lasagna-loving orange cat, will
03:35star the Guardians of the Galaxy actor as the titular feline.
03:38By the looks of the trailer, he's made no effort to replicate the character's sardonic
03:42drawl, which is like the whole point of Garfield.
03:45Maybe if they show us enough cute baby Garfield, then we'll all go and see it.
03:49But for now, Pratt fatigue has well and truly warded me off.
03:548.
03:55Dull Costumes
03:57X-Men and Dark Phoenix
03:59In comic book land, the X-Men house were the brightest, most vibrant costumes you'll
04:04ever see.
04:05I mean, just look at these guys.
04:06They're the coolest.
04:08Unfortunately, when the first live-action X-Men movie came out in 2000, black leather was
04:14all the rage, so the likes of Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, and Magneto ditched their iconic gear
04:20for something more low-key, with James Marsden's Cyclops even riffing on this choice in a comment
04:26to Logan before the finale.
04:28This unfortunately dull trend continued throughout the following sequels, bar a brief aberration
04:33with X-Men First Class, until X-Men Apocalypse ended with a tease that more exciting uniforms
04:39were on the way, and then they took it away from us.
04:42As well as being an unmitigated disaster, genuinely one of the worst comic movies I've ever seen,
04:50Dark Phoenix also decked out its mutant cast in dull blue suits with big yellow X's on
04:55them.
04:56Now, in the film's defense, it did take inspiration from Frank Quitely's iconic new X-Men designs
05:02from the comics, but even on that front, the movie failed to capture the texture of the
05:07costumes themselves.
05:08Plus, that's meant to be early 2000s fashion, but meant to be in the 90s with Dark Phoenix.
05:13Gimme those cropped hoodies and denim shorts.
05:16What at first seemed like the perfect chance to incorporate some of the great individual costumes
05:21from the comics, particularly since Dark Phoenix was set in that decade when the X-Men were
05:26given their iconic suits from artist Jim Lee, ended up getting squandered, with our hopes
05:31and dreams impaled on a rusty pole like Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique.
05:35What characters wear might not seem like a big deal, but in a series like the X-Men, where
05:41individuality is one of the key themes, these bland, homogenized outfits are totally unacceptable.
05:48Another insult to injury when the Wolverine also cut an ending where Logan received his
05:53iconic orange suit in a briefcase.
05:56Also, last Dark Phoenix rant here, the movie had Dazzler, but only use Dazzler in one scene.
06:03If you have Dazzler, I expect full commitment.
06:07Maybe it'll happen in the future.
06:09Number 7.
06:10The Jasonification of Michael Myers by the franchise Halloween
06:14I'm really proud of that entry heading.
06:16I hope all seven of you who got it enjoyed it.
06:19Anyway, John Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween is rightfully held in very high regard, as it
06:26pretty much single-handedly popularized the slasher genre that is still alive and well today.
06:32One of the many franchises to follow in Halloween's blood-soaked footsteps was Friday the 13th, which
06:37introduced its major villain, Jason Voorhees, in 1981.
06:42Since then, horror hounds have noticed that, despite being three years older, Halloween's
06:47Michael Myers has slowly been morphing into his hockey mask-wearing colleague, which is
06:52kind of dumb.
06:54While the original Myers was a disturbed but otherwise unremarkable human being, over time,
06:59he has displayed more and more supernatural qualities.
07:02In Halloween 4, The Return of Michael Myers, he is revealed to have survived a building exploding,
07:07and he has also come back from being stabbed, electrocuted, and set on fire.
07:13As the franchise progressed, his physical appearance also had to change.
07:17By the fifth Halloween movie, The Curse of Michael Myers, the titular baddie was a huge
07:22Hulk of a man with Jason's strength, when in the original, he was much slimmer and more
07:27normal-looking.
07:28This problem was fixed slightly in the first David Gordon Green film, but after that, and
07:34even when trying to tap into the original, they still fell into the pitfalls of the sequels
07:39they were, ironically, trying to avoid.
07:426.
07:43Retconning the first two films, Terminator Genisys and Terminator Dark Fate
07:49Considering how excellent and groundbreaking James Cameron's first two Terminator movies
07:54were, it's almost impressive that most of what came after has been pretty stinky.
08:00Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines was inoffensive but ultimately pointless, while 2009 film Terminator
08:07Terminator Salvation is more remembered these days for Christian Bale's Onset Outburst than
08:12for anything it pulled off on the screen itself.
08:15Gotta hand it to Salvation, though. It actually tried to do something new with the franchise,
08:19and for that, it gets a little applause. Not too vigorous, just a respectful clap.
08:24Yeah, that's about the right level.
08:26Despite Rise of the Machines and Salvation varying from so-and-so to just pretty bad,
08:31neither came close on the crafter scale to franchise follow-ups Terminator Genisys and Terminator
08:36Dark Fate, which both had the amazing idea to muck around with the established continuity
08:42of the first two films. The whole premise of Genesis is that Kyle Reese, Sarah Connor's
08:48savior and baby daddy from the first movie, discovers that Skynet has beat him to the punch
08:53and that his charge is now being guarded by a reprogrammed T-800. As for Dark Fate, that
08:59goes completely off the rails within the first few minutes, as a second version of the T-800
09:04tracks down the young John Connor and blows a big old hole in him.
09:09Both of these retcons were obviously controversial, but to me, apart from undermining Cameron's
09:15films, they also just display a startling lack of imagination and endeavour. The Terminator
09:21mythos could be just as rich as Aliens or Predators, but it would be like if those films
09:27kept on making sequels were obsessively dedicated to reimagining the original. Just do something
09:34new, and better yet something that makes sense because I still have no clue what the hell
09:38was going on with Genisys, or these hilarious character provos. What is Matt Smith screaming,
09:45and Matt Smith was in this? Ugh. I don't know, maybe there's no point in doing a Terminator sequel
09:51without Cameron, but you'd think that someone would find a unique angle here. Arnie, you deserve better.
09:575. Releasing Morbius Twice
10:00Look, at this point, you've gotta hand it to Sony. After fumbling the bag with Spider-Man 4
10:05and turning in the middest films to ever mid with the amazing Spider-Man and its sequel,
10:10the studio negotiated a deal with Marvel for Spidey to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They
10:15get to relinquish a lot of creative control, but cash in those lovely Disney checks all the same,
10:21but that wasn't enough. No, you know what else they needed? A Spidey universe, filled with villains,
10:28and side characters, and villains, all of whom would never interact with the actual Spider-Man. Yeah, if
10:36not for David Zaslav and his tax write-off obsession, which we'll be getting to in a bit, this would
10:41maybe be the most cynically minded movie decision of the last 10 years. And they've been rewarded
10:46for it. The first Venom made nearly like a billion dollars. The second didn't do that bad either.
10:52And then after that, we have Madame Web, who bless her, is still somewhere in the Amazon looking for her
10:58mom who was researching spiders right before she died. And after that, we're gonna get Craven. And then,
11:03I don't know, maybe Big Wheel. But the mistake here isn't that Sony keeps making these movies. No, it's not
11:10that it released one of them twice, because it misinterpreted memedom for genuine positive
11:16sentiment. Yep, that's right, we're bringing back the Morbin discourse. No, I don't care that it's
11:222024. You all have to remember this happened as well. Morbius, starring Jared Leto as the vampiric
11:29character, was released against all reason in March 2022. The fact that the movie was so stupid and
11:35should just not exist, led to an ironic meme movement online, with fans declaring that it was
11:40Morbin time, and that Morbius would break every box office record on the globe. The film released
11:46enough reviews, scored a middling box office return, and then Sony was like, hey, those kids online,
11:52they like this Morbius character, let's release it again! To even less interest. I genuinely don't know how
11:59someone at a studio thought this was a good idea, but at this point, you've just gotta respect the
12:05stupidity of it all. Like, that's next level dumbness.
12:094. Reducing the Violence
12:12Robocop 3 and Robocop 2014
12:15The original Robocop from 1987 is famously bloody. Director Paul Verhoeven wanted his movie to be so
12:21outrageously gory that it would compliment the film's satirical bent. And boy, did it do just that.
12:27The second Robocop, which came along around three years later, was set to be equally gratuitous,
12:33but it lacked the venom of its predecessor. The studio is keen to pacify the character and rake in
12:38box office receipts from a more family-friendly outing, got all of the 80s, and its funnily
12:43inappropriate children's cartoons. You guys had Robocop, Rambo, genuinely a travesty, we never got
12:49one from Predator. Either way, Robocop 3 then came along and turned up the child-friendly vibes another
12:55notch and failed miserably, becoming both a commercial and critical disappointment. This
13:01makes it even stranger that, when the series was rebooted in 2014, it was once again handled with kid gloves.
13:07The new Robocop was also a PG-13, and shockingly also a bit rubbish. If anything, this was even worse, as fans could directly compare this tame version of the story to the beautifully unhinged original, which was not good news for the more recent model. But hey, at least we had that Robocop Rogue City game from the other year. That thing is a certified banger.
13:19Number 3, Legacy Cast Nostalgia, Jurassic World Dominion and Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
13:37Jurassic World Dominion, the third movie in the rebooted Jurassic World series, was one of the first big post-Covid cinema releases, and moviegoers were rewarded with a stacked old cast. Alongside modern stars like Bryce Dallas Howard and the ever-mentioned Mr. Pratt, Dominion also reunited the main trio from the first film, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. In 2024, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, another installment in a reboot
13:55of the classic series, pulled this same trick by bringing back Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Bill Murray to reprise their parts from the original film. Unfortunately, neither of these decisions resulted in particularly great movies. Both Dominion and Frozen Empire, if we're being really honest, relied on the fact that it was the first film.
14:17Dominion and Frozen Empire, instead of crafting something new and fresh. Rather than loving homages to the past, these reunions felt more like they were playing to the nostalgia crowd, securing the cast first, but failing to really craft a truly great story around them. For Dominion, that issue more comes down to just the story being bad and also those
14:47movies being boring in general, but with Frozen Empire, it just juggles too many characters for one film, which is a real shame because I had sort of high hopes for that one. The point I'm getting at is that nostalgia is nice and all, and in the Jurassic World movies case, not the main reasons those films are bad, but it can't be all we have to play with.
15:072. Canceling Movies For Tax Write-Off Purposes
15:12Warner Bros. Discovery Headlines were made in 2022 when Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it was cancelling plans to release its upcoming Batgirl movie on HBO Max, or anywhere else for that matter.
15:24Batgirl, which had been due for release that year, was set to star Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon and feature a host of big stars like J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser, and Michael Keaton returning to the role of The Dark Knight.
15:36And having seen glimpses of The Flash? Yeah, I think it's safe to say the wrong project got binned.
15:43David Zaslav's WB also revealed that it would be cancelling Scoob Holiday Haunt, an animated picture about younger versions of the Mystery Incorporated gang.
15:52One year later, Coyote vs. Acme, a legal comedy about Wile E. Coyote from the world of Looney Tunes, became the third casualty of WBD's cost-cutting crusade.
16:02Really gets my blood up. It was bad enough that Batgirl, a big budget project with plenty of name value and two talented filmmakers behind the camera, was canned.
16:13But if WB isn't careful, it's a real risk of ruining a once prestigious studio's reputation, if that isn't the case already, and to be honest, it probably is.
16:24Like, how does WB expect audiences to get excited about upcoming movies when they know there's every chance they might not actually get to see them?
16:33And how do they attract talent?
16:34Moreover, how does the company keep getting away with it?
16:37In the words of Foghorn Leghorn,
16:39the boy is about as sharp as a golden ball.
16:43And number 1.
16:44All Those Boring Humans
16:47The MonsterVerse Movies
16:49If you're going to make an entire series of films about gigantic titans with supernatural powers,
16:54it's probably a good idea to make them the main focus.
16:58Launching with Gareth Edwards' Godzilla reboot in 2014, Legendary Pictures and WB's MonsterVerse has expanded to five movies and two TV shows,
17:08usually revolving around the deeds of the aforementioned Giant Reptile and his buddy, King Kong.
17:14Well, that's who they should revolve around, in theory.
17:18Instead, bafflingly, a ludicrous amount of these movies' screen time has been devoted to a rogues gallery of bland, uninspired humans.
17:28Skull Island fared better than the others in this department, as does the new Monarch TV show, which is great,
17:33as well as the 2014 Godzilla film, but come on, you can't seriously tell me you get excited to watch about an hour of boring comedy and exposition from these guys once the titles have dropped.
17:46I just want to see the big monkey fight the big lizard. Is that too much to ask?
17:51Obviously, this franchise needs human characters to frame all the monster stuff around, and we've seen it done well,
17:57but if you're going to tell stories through ordinary people, it needs to be something of value.
18:03Better yet, shift away from them and onto the terrifying ape and lizard that have been proven box office drawers for over 70 years.
18:11Please, and I'm begging you, because I would really like to watch one of these movies, but they are so boring to sit through.
18:20You're so boring to see each other.
18:21You maybe get interested.
18:22You never know me because of the next video.
18:23You might be back to each other, but you might want to know what it's like.
18:27You might be a little bit more.
18:28You might need to know what I do.
18:29You might not try to imagine what the other world is.
18:31You are wanting to learn to watch
18:36from the different parts of the world of the world.
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