Video Essays + Every Frame a Painting

[Philip J. Fry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE
This videos are cool.

EDIT: Decided to rename the thread because not only Tony Zhou gives us great stuff.

[Dukefrukem]

Great idea for a thread. Ive been following this guy since he did the Edgar Wright video. Awesome stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag&list=UUjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFfq2zblGXw
4:52 makes me feel like such a celebrity.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8lQKLjmoWI

Robin Williams - In Motion.

[Philip J. Fry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAloq5MCUA

[Dukefrukem]

Brilliant. I'm re-watching all of those movies this weekend.

Fincher might be my favorite director.

[Ezee E]

I enjoyed it. But the way he shoots a 3-person conversation scene isn't what makes Fincher, Fincher.

[Philip J. Fry]

http://vimeo.com/108963321


http://vimeo.com/110329961

Two new videos.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Jackie Chan - How to do Action Comedy?

[Dukefrukem]

Now I need to do a Jackie Chan marathon.

[Philip J. Fry]

540240367807774720

[Dukefrukem]

I still dont understand how I can't embed tweets like that.

[Philip J. Fry]

I still dont understand how I can't embed tweets like that.Just copy/paste the numbers at the end of the tweet's link.

[The Bad Guy]

This thread.

I like it.

Complete sentences? Optional.

[MadMan]

I love these videos. They reflect a great understanding of cinema.

[Philip J. Fry]

This are the remaining videos of the channel, in case you've not seen them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOdQxQkVt8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TnU80idDA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSKot0psNg

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4X2vDRfRk


http://vimeo.com/94684923


http://vimeo.com/94684922

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUrTRjEXjSM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THVvshvq0Q

[Philip J. Fry]

This is Not An End-of-Year List (2004/2014 Edition)
by Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting. (http://everyframeapainting.tumblr.com/post/104870878886/this-is-not-an-end-of-year-list-2004-2014)

[Mysterious Dude]

Tony Zhou will sometimes type the whole word "because," but sometimes it's just not important enough to bother.

[number8]

Judging from some of the lines in their newest video, the Epic Rap Battles guys definitely watch Zhou's stuff. They even name drop it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYtG7aQTHA

[Philip J. Fry]

And Bay does one of the shots that Zhou points out as one of his main tricks.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGc-K7giqKM

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsI8UES59TM

[Skitch]

I talk about scene geometry all the damn time and my friends look at me like I'm from the moon. FINALLY was able to crack their skulls open with these last two videos so they understand what I've been talking about. Beautiful.

[number8]

I love showing this series to non-movie buff friends. In general, it's very helpful to visually illustrate how good directing isn't just about cool shots. It works, too.

[Philip J. Fry]

I talk about scene geometry all the damn time and my friends look at me like I'm from the moon. FINALLY was able to crack their skulls open with these last two videos so they understand what I've been talking about. Beautiful.I had actually been told about the quadrant system but never fully grasped the concept until the Drive video... and honestly I had no idea about the way you could play with shapes and geometry. Not until now. And if it weren't great enough, Zhou said he made this two short videos while working on a bigger one about Kurosawa!!:D

[Stay Puft]

I'd love to see him do a video about Kobayashi. He was the first filmmaker where I became acutely aware of the use of geometry/quadrants/etc. The film Samurai Rebellion, specifically, as it explicitly and brilliantly uses architectural space as manifestations of political oppression, cultural rigidity, psychological compartmentalization, etc. Characters will occupy different quadrants in the frame while talking to each other but also literally be in separate rooms, talking to each other through screens or doors, etc. Lots of squares and intersecting lines (boundaries, or prisons), and the shapes change as the film progresses and these sturdy frameworks give way to ruin (metaphorically).

[Philip J. Fry]

I'd love to see him do a video about Kobayashi. He was the first filmmaker where I became acutely aware of the use of geometry/quadrants/etc. The film Samurai Rebellion, specifically, as it explicitly and brilliantly uses architectural space as manifestations of political oppression, cultural rigidity, psychological compartmentalization, etc. Characters will occupy different quadrants in the frame while talking to each other but also literally be in separate rooms, talking to each other through screens or doors, etc. Lots of squares and intersecting lines (boundaries, or prisons), and the shapes change as the film progresses and these sturdy frameworks give way to ruin (metaphorically).You can always drop him a suggestion.
https://twitter.com/tonyszhou

[Ezee E]

I had actually been told about the quadrant system but never fully grasped the concept until the Drive video... and honestly I had no idea about the way you could play with shapes and geometry. Not until now. And if it weren't great enough, Zhou said he made this two short videos while working on a bigger one about Kurosawa!!:D

Kurosawa's High and Low is basically film school for geometry.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

[The Bad Guy]

Nice post, Mr. Fry! I love Kurosawa.

[Philip J. Fry]

Nice post, Mr. Fry! I love Kurosawa.I think I now have to marathon the guy. I've only seen like, 4 films from him (Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ikiru).

[The Bad Guy]

I think I now have to marathon the guy. I've only seen like, 4 films from him (Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ikiru).

You have a lot of great films on the docket, then.

I would recommend watching Ran and Rashomon next, but just about everything in his filmography is excellent.

If you liked Yojimbo definitely check out Sanjuro.

[Philip J. Fry]

I did like Yojimbo. Specially the guy with the evil smirk.

[Skitch]

After those, dont forget Dreams. Its great.

[number8]

People used to give me weird looks when I say that Dreams is Kurosawa's best film.

[Skitch]

People used to give me weird looks when I say that Dreams is Kurosawa's best film.

Its really great. I'm hard pressed to pick a favorite Kurasawa. Still a couple I haven't seen...

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GXv2C7vwX0

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjY9kf7TuUU

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGKNJ4mldE

[Philip J. Fry]

Died when I saw Mabel.

[Philip J. Fry]

The 10 Best Car Chases of 1971 (https://storify.com/tonyszhou/the-10-best-car-chases-of-1971)

[Dukefrukem]

One of my favorites ever at the 1:00 mark.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHpXle4NqWI&feature=youtu.be

[Philip J. Fry]

Probably my favorite essay so far.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU

New video.

[Mysterious Dude]

I was impressed that The Whole Nine Yards was actually set in Canada, and not just filmed there (though it was Montréal, not Vancouver).

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEjxkkB8Xs
I need more Keaton in my life.

[Philip J. Fry]

Renamed the thread. I will start including videos not made by Zhou, starting with this one:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52raDbtNpa4

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMLej6hFN30

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4seDVfgwOg

[Philip J. Fry]

I was going to post that. Thanks!

[Grouchy]

I'm not gonna watch that without having seen the movie.

[TGM]

It doesn't actually discuss the movie, the video is about ensemble blocking in movies in a general sense, and merely uses a handful of shots from that particular movie to make his points.

[Ezee E]

It doesn't actually discuss the movie, the video is about ensemble blocking in movies in a general sense, and merely uses a handful of shots from that particular movie to make his points.

High & Low is probably the best use of ensemble blocking that I can think of.

Hateful Eight could be one of the better recent ones.

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UE3jz_O_EM

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3eITC01Fg

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfQ_9DIItI

[Grouchy]

I love these guys. I want to have a children of their geniuses.

[Philip J. Fry]

Spider-Man, Spider-man...

[number8]

I love these guys. I want to have a children of their geniuses.

It's one guy.

[Dukefrukem]

I had no idea about Temp Music. Eyeopening.

[Grouchy]

It's one guy.
I used to think so too but this video credits three people.

[number8]

Huh. Oh yeah. That's new. It was always just Tony before.

[number8]

https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTemp

[TGM]

I used to think so too but this video credits three people.

He had help on this one. It's usually just him.

[Ezee E]

X-Men the Animated Series had a good theme.

[Dukefrukem]

Avengers has a good theme.

[Skitch]

Ive seen Avengers at least three times and I couldnt hum a theme with a gun to my head. Ive hated all 4 of the Harry Potter movies ive watched and I could hum that because the score was good and notable.

[Dukefrukem]

Ive seen Avengers at least three times and I couldnt hum a theme with a gun to my head. Ive hated all 4 of the Harry Potter movies ive watched and I could hum that because the score was good and notable.

Exact opposite for me.

[Ezee E]

The Marvel movies... NO idea what the themes are. Guardians of the Galaxy gets a nod for a soundtrack at least.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Johnny Williams and Danny Elfman and Howard Shore come from the school of creating a full melody for a theme, from developing and intertwining those themes. A lot of film scorers now seem more interested in minimalist evocation of tone and insistent, often percussive momentum generation. Hans Zimmer has a veritable warehouse of such artists called Remote Control, and I sorta blame him for perpetuating this style. Hell, even his best scores are distinguished more by instrumental choice than anything (e.g. the repetitive chants of TDKR, the pipe organs of Interstellar).

[TGM]

See, I'm aware that The Avengers technically has a "theme", but I'll be damned if I can recall it off the top of my head. And that's partly thanks to the fact that Marvel has made absolutely no effort at all to ingrain their movies' themes into the popular culture even beyond the movies. For instance, if you watch a trailer for any upcoming Star Wars movie, they're filled with all the classic Star Wars tunes. Or hell, even the trailer for Fantastic Beasts they made a point to emphasize the iconic Harry Potter theme in it. However, when you watch a trailer or ad for a Marvel movie, they don't play any sort of recognizable theme from the movies, it's usually something generic that just happens to match the images on the screen (much as they discussed in the video), something more akin to "Inception music", or if they do make a special point to emphasize the music, it's something more thematically relevant to the movie, like the Pinocchio song in Age of Ultron. The difference is, where most franchises with theme music would typically end their trailers on a note to splice in a recognizable theme from the movies, to keep the viewer humming and keep their franchise in mind, Marvel just doesn't do this for some reason.

[Skitch]

I suppose the question should be asked, do you feel the score should be noticeable or background/unnoticeable? I would understand both arguments. How strong should this element be in cinema?

[TGM]

I suppose the question should be asked, do you feel the score should be noticeable or background/unnoticeable? I would understand both arguments. How strong should this element be in cinema?

I'm not sure there's a clear cut answer, and it's probably situational. I've seen movies where I felt the score was overbearing and distracting (12 Years A Slave), but then I've also seen plenty more where very noticeable music can largely amplify and compliment a movie (Interstellar). Then, of course, there's movies where it's certainly there, but it's not the focal point and sorta disappears into the background, as this video gave us plenty of examples of, which I guess can be fine, too. It really all depends on how its executed I think, what type of movie we're talking about, and what the movie's striving to achieve in the moment.

[amberlita]

There's clearly no "always applies" answer to that question, but on the whole I believe film scores should be noticed. They are not like sound effects or CGI where they are meant to blend seamlessly with what is on the screen so as to avoid revealing the mechanics of filmmaking. Noticeable film score does not distract from what is on the screen in this same manner and generally does not do so through an entire film (I dare someone to tell me where this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6aslaE-gcE) piece shows up in A New Hope without looking at the track title). To provide the same rationale for avoiding it as you do other technical aspects of filmmaking is to ignore music as the emotional medium that it is. We have no inherent emotional relationship to sound effects or CGI, but music is entirely different. It is nearly always meant to make you feel something, and when it does that effectively it is triumphant. When it doesn't, it may as well not exist at all (which is what I think Tony's video was getting at).

However, I think it's an unfair standard to hold a composer or director's feet to the fire for not creating and perpetuating a "hummable theme". Noticeable does not necessarily = memorable in the sense that we think of people cheering to the opening title card of Lord of the Rings because we immediately recognize the string melody. I'll never hum Trent Reznor's "In Motion" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSKoVsHs_Ko) from The Social Network or Johnny Greenwood's "Proven Lands" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Al5i_cwsk) from There Will Be Blood, but these are some of the best film scoring in cinema and you damn well notice them when they are augmenting their respective scenes. What becomes memorable may not be the piece of music itself but the entire scene, which is usually because of an expertly placed piece of film scoring.

In fact, I think the downside to great film scores, and perhaps a subconscious deterrent for filmmakers, is that they can reveal the inherent weaknesses of a film. This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iu-t1n821M) is an exciting and powerful piece of music, and it feels slightly wasted on a shit Bay movie. In fact, first few times I heard it used in trailers (which it often is) I couldn't remember what film it was from. There have been, what...a dozen Marvel movies at this point? None meant to stand out above the others. You may be able to elevate a mediocre film to a higher level with some brilliant music (e.g., Conan the Barbarian) but if none of your films are meant to standout in the formulaic universe to which they were created, why would a composer even try?

[Skitch]

Yep, I agree with both of you.

[Dukefrukem]

I suppose the question should be asked, do you feel the score should be noticeable or background/unnoticeable? I would understand both arguments. How strong should this element be in cinema?

Look what it can do to a movie like Drive or Turbo Kid. It changes the tone entirely.

Likewise a movie like Fight Club, it can enhance the tone.

In a franchise like the MCU, where there are dozens of directors involved, and Marvel doesn't necessarily want one to stand out more over the other, I can understand why you would only want it in the background.

Edit: Yeh, amberlita basically said that.

[Skitch]

I don't know that Marvel is purposefully hampering it to keep all the films on the same level. I mean, why not just make them all good then they would all be better? (using the vids altered scenes as examples). I think they are just trying to save money.

[transmogrifier]

I suppose the question should be asked, do you feel the score should be noticeable or background/unnoticeable? I would understand both arguments. How strong should this element be in cinema?

I want a score to either be catchy/memorable in service of generating mood/atmosphere (e.g., LOTR, The Last of the Mohicans, In the Mood for Love, Mulholland Dr.) or to be absent altogether. There is nothing worse than a generic score that is designed merely to double underline character emotions or story beats (hear those strings? Our main character is sad now....)

[number8]

Yeah, I think that's exactly what EFAP's main criticism of the Marvel scores are. Not that they're unmemorable as a composition, but that they're used in a completely expected way. Their alteration of those scenes in Thor and Winter Soldier in the video are definitely improvements.

[Ezee E]

This kind of carries on to the new Star Wars movie too, don't you think? There weren't any unique themes in that from what I can remember.

[Lazlo]

This kind of carries on to the new Star Wars movie too, don't you think? There weren't any unique themes in that from what I can remember.

Rey's theme?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65As1V0vQDM

[number8]

Come on.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfUQrCeNm7k

[Ezee E]

Rey's theme?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65As1V0vQDM

Not to me at least.

[Winston*]

I'm not sure there's a clear cut answer, and it's probably situational. I've seen movies where I felt the score was overbearing and distracting (12 Years A Slave), but then I've also seen plenty more where very noticeable music can largely amplify and compliment a movie (Interstellar).

I can't remember feeling one way or another about 12 Years a Slave's score but Interstellar's definitely falls into the former category.

Feel like it drowned out the dialogue at a bunch of points....actually maybe it was good.

[Winston*]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHDD1Xe-iE

[TGM]

I can't remember feeling one way or another about 12 Years a Slave's score

It honestly probably wouldn't have been bad if Hans Zimmer hadn't literally just used the exact same score that he used for Inception in it. Took me out every time the music really kicked into gear, very inappropriate choice for a movie like that I felt.

[Ezee E]

Interstellar had a good score, but was so loud that it did make it hard for many to hear the dialog. So I put more blame on the sound editor than the composer in that particular case.

[TGM]

Not to me at least.

Nor me, now that I think about it. :p

[TGM]

Going back to Marvel music, I will say that, in terms of actual score, Civil War is definitely the exception of the bunch, where the music in that movie really stood out quite a bit and elevated the material. In particular, the final fight between Iron Man and Captain America, which I also found to be the most emotionally invested I've been in any of the big action scenes in any of these movies, and I wonder now if the rare standout use of music in that scene didn't help raise the emotional impact of that battle.

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs

So someone made a video response to this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH88XlKM

[[ETM]]

And another good response to both of those:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVRiofzRErc

[Thirdmango]

Do you guys know of any other youtube users which are in the same arena as every frame. I want more and I figure there might be some decently good ones that aren't as good but still decent.

[Grouchy]

The Nerdwriter channel has some pretty solid analysis of films despite the YouTuber himself being annoying as all fuck. It's not, however, only focused on cinema and his analysis are more about the themes of certain films than about technical aspects. The best video is probably the one about one of the opening scenes in Vertigo.

Now You See It is more similar and almost certainly inspired by Every Frame. Not as good, but then again, almost nothing is.

[TGM]

Renegade Cut is really good. ;)

[Ezee E]

It seems like there were a bunch of users in the Gone Girl/Whiplash/Inherent Vice year, and then they stopped after that.

[Philip J. Fry]

Channel Criswell
Chez Lindsay
CinemaTyler
Film-Drunk Love
kaptainkristian
KyleKallgrenBHH
Lessons from the Screenplay
Ryan Hollinger
Sideways
Wisecrack

Try those. Most of them very different from one another, but with something worth watching.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJW9vsF0aE
Since we don't really have a video-essays thread, we might as well use this one.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulm7bcB2xvY

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGQGmnMt0I

[Dukefrukem]

that's not every frame a painting!

[TGM]

that's not every frame a painting!

He mentioned on the previous page he was gonna use this thread to post video essays in general now. ;)

[Philip J. Fry]

He mentioned on the previous page he was gonna use this thread to post video essays in general now. ;)Indeed. I'd change the thread title if I could, to be honest.

[Philip J. Fry]

And of course, everybody is allowed to post videos too!

[Grouchy]

I approve of the expanded thread topic but everytime I see a new post I get ridiculously excited because Tony Zhou is the best.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9190 mediante Tapatalk

[Ezee E]

I approve of the expanded thread topic but everytime I see a new post I get ridiculously excited because Tony Zhou is the best.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9190 mediante Tapatalk

Exactly.

[Philip J. Fry]

Thanks mods!

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9HH4ab07Sc

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRghZ_-Shc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2tkCBFlXyc

[Dead & Messed Up]

One thing that's starting to annoy me a little about all the video essays out there is that they don't seem particularly challenging. They hold up established sacred cows of recent cinema (or hallowed IMDB favorites) and basically find one new way to tell you why you should love the movie you already do. Once I watched the Lessons From the Screenplay video on The Dark Knight, it really started to make me wonder, in part because I thought the premise of LFtS would be that they would take a deep-dive into the actual screenplay and evaluate page-to-screen transitions instead of parroting script teachers like John Truby and Syd Field. Instead, the video added up to truisms like, "The Joker is good because he attacks Batman's weak spot." [They also frequently spend about twice the time they need to to make a point, and the overabundance of young white men being the non-pedigreed lecturers puts limits on the types of films these videos talk about.]

Don't know if any of this makes sense - this is probably partly a result of watching too many of these damn videos, but the more I watch, the more ephemeral and confirmation biasy they feel. The most cynical reading is that these guys spend eight minutes telling you how smart you are for liking the thing you like, and then you subscribe to their channel. But it's probably not that hollow. Maybe I should just take a break.

Apologies if this comes off like a wet blanket.

[Ezee E]

One thing that's starting to annoy me a little about all the video essays out there is that they don't seem particularly challenging. They hold up established sacred cows of recent cinema (or hallowed IMDB favorites) and basically find one new way to tell you why you should love the movie you already do. Once I watched the Lessons From the Screenplay video on The Dark Knight, it really started to make me wonder, in part because I thought the premise of LFtS would be that they would take a deep-dive into the actual screenplay and evaluate page-to-screen transitions instead of parroting script teachers like John Truby and Syd Field. Instead, the video added up to truisms like, "The Joker is good because he attacks Batman's weak spot." [They also frequently spend about twice the time they need to to make a point, and the overabundance of young white men being the non-pedigreed lecturers puts limits on the types of films these videos talk about.]

Don't know if any of this makes sense - this is probably partly a result of watching too many of these damn videos, but the more I watch, the more ephemeral and confirmation biasy they feel. The most cynical reading is that these guys spend eight minutes telling you how smart you are for liking the thing you like, and then you subscribe to their channel. But it's probably not that hollow. Maybe I should just take a break.

Apologies if this comes off like a wet blanket.

I've even felt this way about "Every Frame A Painting" too. This could be because many of us are all educated on these essays, which are sort of in Film School I age. For newcomers that haven't gone through school, I'm sure it's beneficial.

But they do pick some nice visuals at least.

I hope I can figure out which "Top 20 of the Year" guys I like the most, because there's some that just pull from the trailers and put it to a song that was relevant five years ago.

[Grouchy]

I agree with those sentiments. It also started to grate me with the same Dark Knight video from LftS you mention, partly because while Heath Ledger is great, the film as a whole is not what I'd hold up as great writing, and that includes the antagonist.

I think it also has to do with these guys making money from views. If I'm going to create a video about antagonists, it'll probably prove a lot more popular if I name it after The Dark Knight than Kiss of Death or Heat.

Regardless, sometimes the video is titled after a popular or trendy film but the analysis itself brings up many other relevant examples.

[Philip J. Fry]

I agree with those sentiments. It also started to grate me with the same Dark Knight video from LftS you mention, partly because while Heath Ledger is great, the film as a whole is not what I'd hold up as great writing, and that includes the antagonist.

I think it also has to do with these guys making money from views. If I'm going to create a video about antagonists, it'll probably prove a lot more popular if I name it after The Dark Knight than Kiss of Death or Heat.

Regardless, sometimes the video is titled after a popular or trendy film but the analysis itself brings up many other relevant examples.Yup. Most of the time it's the hook. And while I do agree that some of the things this videos show might seem sometimes too basic and obvious (specially by people who are constantly watching film), they are things that keep getting ignored over and over again by writers and directors in a good chunk of modern cinema (E.G. like half of the modern blockbusters) so it's always good to have material like this since it is more palatable for the average viewer and even some film students. They're good educational material and in the case of stuff like "Lessons...", they can point out authors like the aforementioned Truby and Field to people interested.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-PfEE5kveE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgZXDeGjf84

[Dead & Messed Up]

Friend from RT Master King Sexington just posted a video on the ending of Jaws and all the details, whether obvious or covert, that make it function so dang well:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WgTKXizy0

[Philip J. Fry]

It's amazing how much material can someone take away from a supposedly simple film about a shark.:)

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7rQyxuUSRI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJc01-qWzU8

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARX0-AylFI
Where Lindsay Ellis (formerly known as the Nostalgia Chick) uses Pocahontas, Moana and other Disney movies to explore representation and cultural appropriation (among other things).

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLJDxp2FEI

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpbuy8ZYF4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a909Dzbf8d8

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwcjToDEsUY

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zaTjuV60A
When gameplay and story are not in the same page!! Also, their film equivalent.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZAcRJafmD4
Why Genndy Tartakovsky's action scenes are awesome? Why are they so inventive and at the same time easy to read? Perhaps it's all about timing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KlopLcNC1Y

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8_H1_KC7I

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlbFsDZeySM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNr1sS1QMeM

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2soHxEN79c

[Dead & Messed Up]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDD6aSX5zpQ

This is sort of emblematic of what's driving me nuts about these videos. Here's eight minutes. The first minute and a half are needless. All they do is cue up a cute symmetry with the ending line about opening lines. But the video isn't about opening lines, it's about metafiction. But then it isn't offering any advice about metafiction or how to incorporate that into your story. Instead, it's mostly just a highlight reel of how metafiction functioned in the Dark Tower series, with special attention paid to King's role. And then the author's big takeaway is a broad encouragement for writers to just get started on writing. I'm sorry, I thought we were here to "learn" something. Was that it? A Nike line? Are you serious?

How does the encouragement to "just get started" track with the central parallel? The author of the video points out the "unstuck-in-time" quality of Roland's chase with the Man in Black and compares it to the Road Runner and Wile Coyote. Given that analogy, are we Wile Coyote? Isn't then the implicit assumption that there's a degree of fatalism and tragedy to the "start" of Roland's quest? If so, why are you zigzagging from that to a cheery you-can-do-it easily-digestible slogan? How does that track with the previous six minutes?

It's a mess. It's an unclear mess. Like the Nerdwriter videos, this author compensates for the need to put out constant video by eliminating specificity and focus, by overemphasizing preamble.

That's actually been a useful tool lately. I'll watch these videos, wait for the video to reach its thesis, then study the video to see how long it took to reach the thesis, how they build up their argument for the thesis, and whether or not they even bothered to prove it (as opposed to seguing into a complementary argument and never going back). It's sobering and depressing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PcCWaKIoc

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
In this video essay, Super Eyepatch Wolf breaks down how The Simpsons went from juggernaut to, well, today's Simpsons, showing what made the golden age such a cultural milestone (analyzing the original staff, it's writing, it's subtlety and characters) and how a series of circumstances both internal and external slowly but surely tore apart all of that and transformed it into a whole different show.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBiy4TSaNzk
Now I feel like rewatching it, again.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJoUP1DaZHg

[Idioteque Stalker]

Crouching Tiger was the movie that got me into movies. That was fun.

[Philip J. Fry]

Crouching Tiger was the movie that got me into movies. That was fun.I usually watch it at least once per year. Never gets tiresome.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFrZ-91lFg

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79I6cp0Ynog


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LvMcHGZLxU

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUeaYaI-VAI
This movie is indeed amazing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVb1utdCNy0

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbsJJQDKyck

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvk2zgUBpY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOLZMr52Wcc

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1kqlt4vkA

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-hOigoxHs
"The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as comically pathetic yet still endearing. Their status as nerdy “nice guys” then lets them off the hook for a wide range of creepy, entitled, and sexist behaviors.


This is the 1st of two video essays about gender on The Big Bang Theory. Next month I'll focus on how the show relentlessly mocks its four male leads for not acting like “real men," and in so doing reinforces a whole bunch of regressive ideas about masculinity."

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPen6wl3FXE

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9B5m2BEp50&t=0s

[Grouchy]

I find that Renegade Cut guy so boring. His tone of voice sounds like a speaking machine and sometimes he spends minutes describing the plot of the movie. If I'm watching the video, I've seen the movie.

[Philip J. Fry]

I find that Renegade Cut guy so boring. His tone of voice sounds like a speaking machine and sometimes he spends minutes describing the plot of the movie. If I'm watching the video, I've seen the movie.He does have those defects (his voice is specially jarring at times), but he's good with his insights.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZN3NrtFYfs

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L7NRONADJ4
"The Big Bang Theory delights in poking fun at its male characters for their geeky obsessions but there's something even more pernicious going on just under the surface. Beyond the mocking of geekdom, the show is relentless in making fun of its male leads for not being 'real men." In their quest to prove their manhood the four geeks then end up being complicit in many of the most harmful aspects of hypermasculinity.

This is the 2nd of two video essays about gender on The Big Bang Theory. The 1st focuses on a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist."

[Dukefrukem]

Anyone know what happened to Tony?

[number8]

Anyone know what happened to Tony?

Yes, he works for Criterion now. You can see his video essays as special features on some Criterion releases for the past year. I know he did one on Tampopo.

[Grouchy]

Oh, that's awesome! I'm assuming they can't be seen online, though.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGyxm1zsijk

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vVdxt_xtQ

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-vPQKwXbY

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIWy3TZ1eI

[Dead & Messed Up]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1-vPQKwXbY

This is one guy I'm super on-board with. His recent videos on the "adorkable misogyny" of The Big Bang Theory have been thorough as hell (it's easy to bag on a sitcom, hard to make a meaningful coherent argument against the philosophy of that sitcom), and his video on his own trope idea of "Born Sexy Yesterday" forced me to re-examine my own feelings on movies like The Fifth Element and Tron: Legacy.

[Irish]

For me, "adorkable misogyny" was a case of stating the obvious. "Big Bang" is a Chuck Lorre show and Lorre (1) repeats the same motifs in everything he produces and (2) those motifs include heavy doses of sexism. If you watch across "Dharma & Greg," "Two and a Half Men," and "Big Bang Theory" it's not hard to notice that each show features an 'ice queen' mother figure---an emotionally distant, overeducated WASP who regularly torments the male protagonist and skewers his masculinity. Lorre's idea of the sitcom mom is Joan Collins as Nurse Ratched. It's just one pattern that stares regular viewers in the face. So congrats to the Pop Culture Detective for paying attention and watching TV while sober.

"Born Sexy Yesterday" was a good one, though. I wish he had pushed a bit further and pointed out that the trope extends beyond its obvious hard sci-fi roots. "Wonder Woman" becomes an example when it positions the heroine as a babe-in-the-woods naif while the male hero gets to mansplain the world.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX0wLwNq3hA
"If 'the unknown' in Over The Garden Wall is meant to be so mysterious, then why is it so familiar? This video essay looks at why the show's creators might have chosen to reference so much nostalgic Americana and Germanic fairy tales and how it shapes 'the unknown'."

A nice analysis of one of the best cartoons I've seen this year.

[Philip J. Fry]

937202442835390466

[Dukefrukem]

Tony was the best. No other video essays can compare.

[Gizmo]

Agreed

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=Mqaobr6w6_I

[dreamdead]

This one, on ESotSM, actually does fairly interesting analysis:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=683&v=AZUgyjKr5i8

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUPD1w78D5I

[Kurosawa Fan]

"Born Sexy Yesterday" was a good one, though. I wish he had pushed a bit further and pointed out that the trope extends beyond its obvious hard sci-fi roots. "Wonder Woman" becomes an example when it positions the heroine as a babe-in-the-woods naif while the male hero gets to mansplain the world.

For the record, he addressed Wonder Woman in a post on his Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/posts/13186089).

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r3FkR5rziY

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUXtUeWUTQ

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xy6kHQsErE

[Irish]

Wait til that dude finds out Netflix does the same thing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9xXex1CLyw
Someone should send this to whoever is in charge of movie titles in Spanish. For example:

Scott Pilgrim vs the World --》 Scott vs Los Ex de la Chica de Sus Sueños (Scott Pilgrim vs the Exes of the Girl of His Dreams)

[Grouchy]

Hahah word. I think my favorite quirk about translators of titles in Spanish is when they extrapolate what they did with one movie to others of the same genre. For example, Police Academy was translated as Locademia de PolicÃ*a (a made up portmanteau word but basically meaning Crazy Police Academy) and then they used that for all other goofy comedies, so that everything was "loco" (crazy).

I sometimes chuckle at the reasoning behind some of these changes. I picture the dude thinking to himself "but Scott doesn't fight the whole world... only the exes of the girl of his dreams".

[number8]

Locademia is absolutely a great title.

[Grouchy]

And in Spain, Die Hard was renamed as La Jungla de Cristal (The Crystal Jungle), I think because Predator was fresh on everyone's mind as the template for action movies.

So when the sequels came and they were not set inside a skyscraper anymore, they were still The Crystal Jungle which was even more nonsensical.

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRxN1DXmSdA

So here's Renegade Cut's 2 hour long feature length episode that he's been talking about doing for a couple of years now. And sad to say, now that it's here, I honestly have no interest in actually watching it myself. 1. the runtime just completely puts me off, but that's mostly because 2. I've honestly kinda grown bored of his show by this point. I'm a little disappointed how much of his content chooses to focus on religion lately, and find a lot of his episodes have started to meander around topics in a way that finds him barely even discussing the movie in question, but rather using those movies as an excuse to discuss a topic in a more general sense, such as his episode on anarchy in his recent V for Vendetta episode, where he barely even brings his discussion back to the movie at hand and how at actually implements this element. So yeah, I've found myself either skipping or tuning out on a lot of his more recent episodes for this reason, which is a shame, because I found his style really refreshing and insightful initially.

But anyways, figured I share it here for anyone who might be interested in checking it out. I can appreciate him actually going through with an episode such as this, but just wish he hadn't chosen a subject that I honestly couldn't care even the slightest shit about. He's posting about how he really hopes this episode will do well and maybe even go viral, and that would be great for him and all if it did. But honestly, I can't help but feel that runtime is more bound to turn people away immediately, particularly considering how uninteresting a subject matter he's chosen to discuss at such length, IMO.

[Philip J. Fry]

Hahah word. I think my favorite quirk about translators of titles in Spanish is when they extrapolate what they did with one movie to others of the same genre. For example, Police Academy was translated as Locademia de PolicÃ*a (a made up portmanteau word but basically meaning Crazy Police Academy) and then they used that for all other goofy comedies, so that everything was "loco" (crazy).

I sometimes chuckle at the reasoning behind some of these changes. I picture the dude thinking to himself "but Scott doesn't fight the whole world... only the exes of the girl of his dreams".Tinfoil hat me believes someone wanted that movie to bomb because come on, that title.

Locademia is absolutely a great title.Technically It's Loca Academia. Mexican/Spanish title makers are not that good.

[Philip J. Fry]

And in Spain, Die Hard was renamed as La Jungla de Cristal (The Crystal Jungle), I think because Predator was fresh on everyone's mind as the template for action movies.

So when the sequels came and they were not set inside a skyscraper anymore, they were still The Crystal Jungle which was even more nonsensical.I'll give this to Mexican tittle makers. Here it's called Duro de Matar, which not only sounds much better, but is somewhat close to the English title.

[Grouchy]

I'm having a Mandela Effect moment here. I'm positive me and my friends referred to it as Locademia in our childhood. But every poster I can find now says Loca Academia.

https://www.eldestaque.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Loca-Academia-de-Polic%C3%ADa-5.jpg

[number8]

That just means I'm free to use Locademia for my spec script about a school in South America that drops all requirements for grad students and gets a bunch of kooky weirdos and troublemakers who want to write research papers.

[number8]

Wait, what the fuck. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42717903

[Dead & Messed Up]

I find the subject of religious impact on the USA political process very interesting, and I watched the first half-hour of the video last night.

What struck me was how he doesn't source any of his data. He makes a lot of concrete statements but rarely backs them up, not by noting them on-screen nor verbalizing his sources nor by offering YouTube annotations. I'm sure he's operating in good faith, but it just became a muddle very quickly, because he's making so many statements about religion, religious denominations, etc. and then he'll slide very quickly into editorializing with a sort of "duh" mentality. He seems to think his criticisms or sideways commentary are self-evident and don't need to be built up.

It's all very strange.

[Grouchy]

Wait, what the fuck. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42717903
Damn, I'm afraid to talk now.

Anyway, the Spanish Wikipedia page (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy_(franquicia)) says both Locademia and Loca Academia in different paragraphs.

And a Facebook friend just shared this, also Locademia in the blurb:


https://www.facebook.com/AmericaTV/videos/2021154591233449/

Spooky.

[Grouchy]

That Renegade Cut guy is a complete disaster. His videos are three times longer than they need to be, his thesis have always been kind of crappy and he'd actually benefit from using some kind of automatic reading software to get some emotion there.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kavxsXhzD48

[MadMan]

That just means I'm free to use Locademia for my spec script about a school in South America that drops all requirements for grad students and gets a bunch of kooky weirdos and troublemakers who want to write research papers.

I would see it.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSuFYWcSs4

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsotfzGpby8

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfyMD5rSK50

[Mysterious Dude]

He's baaaack...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_IJwIX4dg8

Unfortunately, Filmstruck has a ton of videos and I can't figure out how to identify the ones by Tony Zhou.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKL5y9226mQ
:o:o:o

Also, good to see Tony releasing more videos!

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJFoNcsbIaE

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrwdBw4Gnuk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czFGUedDJU

[StuSmallz]

^I've watched those before! Great channel and vids, both of 'em, and they remind me of another great Youtube guy who specializes in action movie essays, Rossatron (https://www.youtube.com/user/UFilmmaker):


https://youtu.be/yfAH4CcFgSQ

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czFGUedDJU

This is the problem in both Batman v Superman and Justice League.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/N25KktjkAow

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/qkvZqxjDjWk

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/kiq_ULS17to

[Grouchy]

Man, ScreenPrism is the real thing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/IqVoEpRIaKg

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/j49BSv95tdQ

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/QoCcLPzHG7E

[TGM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpN_wAlYZSs

[Dukefrukem]

I finally learned what this was called!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=135&v=hO_1bXs3miA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpqQyLLDiM

[amberlita]

I absolutely did not have a feeling of relaxation during that scene from The Witch.

[Ezee E]

I absolutely did not have a feeling of relaxation during that scene from The Witch.

Which video essay is this in reference to?

EDIT: Nevermind.

Wait a second, that's anything but ASMR...

[Grouchy]

The Inglourious Basterds one, too. Some of those scenes are filled with tension.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/xrGlWAFy1LU
I know this isn't a video essay or anything, but if you ever feel down, watch this clip of Orson Welles interviewing Andy Kaufman.:o

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/t8xL7w1POZ0

[Dead & Messed Up]

This was a long time coming, dealt with computer crashes and audio challenges, but here we are:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sf9fChyRoc

[Skitch]

Oh I'll be sharing this all over.

[Dukefrukem]

LOVE that. I remember you've been working on this for a while.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Oh I'll be sharing this all over.

Thanks! Glad you dug it. :)


LOVE that. I remember you've been working on this for a while.

Yeah, set it aside for almost a full year, gag.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/eTLCE2JRPkY

[Dukefrukem]

Thanks! Glad you dug it. :)



Yeah, set it aside for almost a full year, gag.

There's a "footage not found" towards the end. Not sure if you're aware?

[Dead & Messed Up]

There's a "footage not found" towards the end. Not sure if you're aware?

That's deliberate. There's no footage in the movie that dramatizes the moment, so I stole that black text on white title card from an Arrested Development joke.

[Ezee E]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWnDJ81AG0

[Dead & Messed Up]

I honestly think this is one of the best bits of YouTube criticism I've ever seen, not least of which because I know enough about the subject in question that nobody's watching this more closely than I am, which makes its excellence, coherence, and relative concision all the more impressive - in 30 minutes, the author...

rehabilitates 2008's CTHULHU, comes out as bisexual, unpacks Lovecraft's bigotry, connects it to his cosmic anxieties, and brings it all home.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI

[Dead & Messed Up]

This is awesome - after posting the Lovecraft video above, Hbomberguy heard from the director of CTHULHU, Dan Gildark, who linked to a director's cut of the film he'd uploaded to YouTube for free viewing.

This is straight-up awesome, because now it means none of y'all have to find the DVD under its previously-licensed distributor of OutNow!

It was a terrible DVD. You couldn't skip through the fistful of trailers at the start.

So anyway, if you're curious to watch, CTHULHU, a movie that's more accurately THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH with a more marketable title and a strong emphasis on homosexual anxiety (in that it's, like, the driving motivator):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=soDSk0e9-ok

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/52xMUEGZ2mk

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/_DGdDQrXv5U

This video discusses the history of arguing and ways to make it more effective.

"A man convinced against his own will is of the same opinion still." -Dale Carnegie

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/bLEUlvRi8m8

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/hCLxV1JdHlM

[StuSmallz]

https://youtu.be/l4DvATwdjM0

[amberlita]

https://youtu.be/l4DvATwdjM0

I'm very partial to lists of musical moments.

But this video exemplifies what drives me nuts about how these youtube videos are made most of the time. Be it a list, or film commentary, or video essay, the voice-over is constant and rapid and basically just describes what I'm seeing on the screen. It's particularly annoying with something like this - a video about musical moments where I hardly get time to appreciate the actual music! Rather than practically b-rolling the scene, why not let more of it play out so we can appreciate it, rather than drowning it out with vapid, lightning-speed voice-over?

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xqhle1RTZg
S4 spoilers.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfGVOTSlakw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPYz9fSQZ4

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/GPTQlfPQo6o

[StuSmallz]

https://youtu.be/mEyjpFuzT9A

[Philip J. Fry]

https://youtu.be/dzsHGo9zV6g

[Ezee E]

https://youtu.be/dzsHGo9zV6g

Obvious stuff, but this was actually pretty good to watch.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wy5_IUYaqw

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK6IjJkjkiI

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkI8ceJMiNw

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaMsrUKAqHE

[StuSmallz]

https://youtu.be/-fhjyAUUHg4

[Milky Joe]

this is great


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX52h1TvuA

[Ezee E]

this is great


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX52h1TvuA

Great indeed. Would liek more people to do things like this.

[Dead & Messed Up]

As far as internet fan theories go, I'll take this over the "every Pixar movie is connected" thing.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T54xUfDcpz8

[Ezee E]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJx5k278V4

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tg5iwK9dKQ

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iRsCoP4Nw

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMaZcCEm2Gs
This two go hand in hand really well.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tihITlPAn4

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3q3LEaK7_U
I would watch the shit out of that Oasis biopic.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j14-dJFeaM8

[Irish]

"There's more to the legacy film than just making money."

No, there really isn't.

"The legacy film not only revives a franchise but actually stages an inter-generational transference between older, nostalgic fans and young newcomers."

/facepalm

[Dukefrukem]

Whoa, they made another IP Man??

[Philip J. Fry]

What Bojack Teaches Us About Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_LEvQlc9Zw
Spoilers for Bojack Horseman, Hereditary, GOT, Breaking Bad and A Quiet Place.

[Philip J. Fry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY-tZyxSRGg
I remember that MiB cartoon! It was really good and I'm sure the writers of MiB:3 watched a certain episode of that cartoon before writing the movie.