Comments by "Benjamin Rood" (@benisrood) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. Maybe we haven't written or made these things because we have the self-awareness that we wouldn't do a good enough job? Knowing your limits isn't a bad thing. Also, you are assuming that none of us ever have tried: in my case I most certainly did, and I would say that my own writing is equally poor as this. I agree with you in one respect, good on him for having a go, but I hope he is as brutally honest with his own self-assessment. I went to high school with someone (James Napier Robertson) who also went into the film industry and he did end up writing and directing a small feature film with good actors that won awards and is respected, it's called The Dark Horse and it came out in 2014. I see now that he has also directed a few more things recently, so, good for him. (The last time I spent any time with him in person was around 2009 or 2010 just when I was giving up on that life, and he was really lovely). Anyway, my point is that people do actually try, most fail (like me), but there's no prizes or congratulations for hard effort in this. The congratulations go to those who earn it by producing good work. P.S. You're not his family member or his friend, why are you congratulating him on accomplishing something unimpressive, generic, cliché, and mediocre?
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  2. ​ @Nicolas-Kage  There is no hope. I only watch TV and movies from before the 1990s now. There's no point getting upset about any of this, though, once you realise what these bastards are doing. It's just slop, designed to either make you stupid or angry.
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  3. I will be frank. It looks like cheesy garbage with bad dialogue, but probably some decent action scenes. Just because mainstream cinema is absolute garbage doesn't mean that you know how to write (every character basically has the same "voice"), and you need really good actors to sell movies like this. They get paid so much because good actors are very rare, as is good screenwriting. I'm sure I will get hammered with fans telling me how wrong I am and how I just don't get it and if I read the books or whatever Drinker did that this film is based on I wouldn't feel this way... But, see, that's the whole takeaway from Star War, Marvel, et al. that you guys have clearly missed: pieces of media are good or not, and no amount of fan buy-in changes any of that in the least. Don't make the same mistakes that being a fan lead you down in the past. Being a "fan" is childish and silly.
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  4. What's a Rambeeuuuurghhh?
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  5. It's also called having children, let's not disincline women from having them any further.
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  6. Not one movie in the past 20 years will come close to aging as well ss this has. I'm not sure any film in the past 30 or 40 years will, either.
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  7. A decade overdue. De4th to all cape shit.
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  8. ​ @NIDELLANEUM  except he wasn't a Samurai.
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  9. ​ @purple3018  where did he get that nonsensical idea from? His grand-mammee?
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  10. ​ @noonespecial9704  Unbelievable is exactly the right word. Incredible would be another appropriate one.
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  11. You weren't the brightest bulb as a kid, were ya?
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  12. Jack Ryan was a character created by Tom Clancy
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  13. I think you missed the obvious connection why Santa, Inc. was so cynical and mean-spirited: the upbringing of the two "creators". Hint: they never celebrated Christmas. Like so many of their ilk before them, they want to destroy whatever form it takes. Even the vapid, materialistic version we have now is still something they must destroy. That's the fundamental reason, but you something seems to be blocking you from putting two and two together.
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  14. ​​​ @JoJoJoker  he was in the air force, he didn't have shell shock. You can still get PTSD from that, of course, but shell shock is something infantrymen get from enduring artillery bombardment.
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  15. ​ @archstanton9073  For the life of me, I do not understand how Die Hard is or ever became an "Xmas movie".
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  16. ​ @julianmarsh1378  Turner would have bought the rights at a later date.
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  17. ​ @jfried05  You sound like a "fan", and you shouldn't take that as a compliment, because it's a shameful thing for an adult to be or identify as, it's a substitute for personality and character. The Spider-"Verse" films and even knowing what they are let alone having watched any of them with genuine interest is childish. The Sam Raimi ones were cool when I was a teenager but I don't rewatch them. The modern ones are 1/10th as good and far more infantile. I grant you that The Batman was well-made and interesting, but he's always been the most compelling and psychologically complex character in comics. Matt Reeves has always been interesting as a writer and talent - unlike J. J. Abrams, and his partner after Reeves, Damon Lindelhof who is the biggest fraud in screenwriting possibly ever. I don't actually believe in movies anymore, and I don't quite understand the section of Drinker's audience that do, it's like you are incapable of growing up and getting on with having a real life. Something has been lost, barely anyone knows how to actually make a film these days. We have regressed as a collective and it's reflected in the media we consume.
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  18. ​ @yourebrainwashed9129  Buffy is cynical shite compared to this.
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  19. Elodie is an actual name, I don't know what point you are trying to make with that one. Of course this film is complete trash. Also why did they give her red hair, it looks terrible.
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  20. ​ @timdana3129  You made a distinction without a difference
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  21. Someone please remind me what tv show is shown at 8:33 ? I remember watching it as a little kid on 🇬🇧 tv.
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  22. Good, it's dumb
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