I Watched Logan Paul's Second WORST Movie

usually i would start my videos with some kind of skit or long-winded joke adding a layer of tension all leading to the conclusion what i would subvert a previously set expectation by saying something along the lines of i hate this film and i wish i never saw it but as somewhat of a film lover i believe that it is uh kind of a duty to include at least one line devoid of my usual sarcasm so i say this quite straightly i hate this film and i wish i never saw it you may be questioning right now why am i talking about a movie that was released in 2016 which is now five years ago and my answer to that would be what else is like coming out right now the green night got delayed to june of this year and it's probably going to get delayed again because why wouldn't it i'm really excited to see it [ __ ] me i guess so instead i've been looking into the past and something i've never really paid that much attention to was the thinning which did make quite a buzz when it came out mainly because people thought it was bad so it was less of a buzz and more the low hum of a dying pt cruiser as it sinks into quicksand and being the completely rational movie lover that i'm not i thought what better time to judge it and see if the initial criticism was justified publicly in video format of course so i can make fun of it and earn money the answer to that question is surprisingly not really people were clearly a lot more critical of this film just because logan paul styles in it which is a tad bit unfair to everyone else involved like the director michael j gallagher whose level of talent definitely exists somewhere something i should point out is that if you disliked this movie just because logan paul was in it that's kind of really extremely stupid logan was not a creative force on this film i'm not even sure if he got paid that much the movie's budget was very low it was only about a million estimated which could be anything and that's impressive that you could put a film together with just that amount of money but on the other hand a ghost story had a budget of a hundred thousand dollars and that is a masterpiece also directed by the guy who's gonna make the green knight that's called a wraparound go watch the ghost story it's a brilliant film so to dislike this entire movie just because of one person who was like kind of an actor who didn't get paid that much probably it does it doesn't make any sense to me if you if you want to do that go watch airplane mode that's a [ __ ] horrendous movie that he was also like the director or writer for it's just that's what happens when you let him do ideas michael j gallagher on the other hand has directed episodes of the real bros of semi-valley which were great funny story which was like alright and a 2012 movie that reinvented horror and introduced a new monster into the public mythos smiley that movie was awful i'm not even gonna no it was so bad i understand some people like enjoy this movie and they're wrong but personal opinions can't be incorrect and it's true all five of this movie's fans are not wrong it's their public it's their personal opinion but they should be emphatically embarrassed speaking of emphatically embarrassed do you want to be embarrassed in public or why don't you subscribe to this channel and buy some of my merch or i'll kill you also new merch it was done by the same artist that did the most recent design big fan of it instagram here's the art station also link probably there of the actual merch so you can buy it there you go so where does the thinning fit into all of this it's on the bad side yeah when i said this film faced unjustly harsh criticism i was being serious it's just that when you look at it without the prejudice it's also like just like a bad movie and i personally don't like it and before those same five people come out to get mad at something and frothing at the mouth it should be pointed out um liking a movie doesn't mean it's a good and a film being good does not mean you are obligated to like it parasite is an excellent film and i like it like a lot i have three copies of it taxi driver is also a brilliant film saw it twice i'm never going to see it again i just don't care but guy richie's king arthur a significantly worse film but i i kind of like it you know i'll watch it here and there not all of it because there were a horrible amount of reshoots but i like you know and there's obviously the films that are bad and i don't like so it's it's like in the same way i have an amazing personality but no one likes i'm lying everything i say about myself in my videos is a complete fabrication stop asking if i'm okay i am it explains why the movie has a sixty percent on run tomatoes with over a thousand reviews which is not nothing meaning that theoretically the general population thinks the thinning is a better movie than 2019's us which is not a fair comparison honestly um in terms of quality thinning is just so much better okay so i've i've established that i don't like the film but i've also completely ignored uh actually talking about it or describing it in any way shape or form that wasn't an oversight i'm kind of scared but you know i have to do this eventually so here we go the year is the near future by which they mean barely the near future because it takes place in 2037 which we find out through a screen that is misspelled recorded usually when a movie says the near future they mean like 50 to 100 years in the future because that's what allows i'll get into it later the first issue with this movie could be an entire video by itself and it probably is somewhere on youtube but this film needs to take place 200 years in the future not 15. we need to believe that this system has been in place for a very long time as well as um to be able to believe that society's completely shifted from you know don't murder kids to listen here mr reading if you want to be present you got to kill those kids acceptable with 200 years less so with like 15. it's also why learning about that complete cock-up of the timeline that we are introduced to the premise of this movie which is that overpopulation will or has or is like currently threatening to ravish the world with something and as a result the u.n has implemented a law question mark doesn't really say all the countries have to comply to it or something where they call the population by five percent each year and the u.s specifically chooses a standardized test in all seriousness it is a decent premise and many viewers have pointed to this as the movie's biggest plus even using words like good and i agree to a point by which i mean it's kind of neat if you just don't think about it at all and also don't watch the film the idea of a country being forced to cull parts of its population and how it chooses to do so has potential to be an extremely interesting commentary on whatever you want it's like stock standard dystopia the possibilities are endless you just have to have the imagination and vigor to pull it off but this is a young adult dystopia so shut up look at you one with themes and morals and science fiction dystopia what an idiot it's not like that's the whole point of a fictional sofia even then all of that completely hinders on whether or not the premise is believable if it could exist in context at least which for me it really isn't i'm not trying to nitpick it like i'm cinnamon sims or something nor do i believe that pointing out inconsistencies of plot holes immediately makes a movie bad regardless of context i thought godzilla vs kong was a pretty decent film and that's a logic graveyard but it's basically just pretending to be a movie so we can get to the parts that matter where the lizard punches the ape the thinning on the other hand has a lot of faults that create massive issues with the world building while also being like really easy to solve to the point where they were like accidentally introduced to the story why is the u.n that's heading this why not some fictional group formed in the future similar to the u.n but including every country with a specific goal of solving overpopulation monitoring population numbers and so on so forth just to show how how big this issue is and how dire the situation is take the opening for pacific rim oh my god the bad thing people die [ __ ] depressing quote the world came together pooling its resources bam in and out simple seeing as the thinning doesn't show anything it just opens with text i do not understand the decision to not just copy that like you could just steal the opening from a different film and the movie would be better using the un just makes everything like a lot more confusing than it really needs to be this is not that smart of a movie just [ __ ] make something up the un by their own little text thing it was formed to promote social progress increase living standards and promote human rights specifically they were made in this year which should show you how weird it is that they are suddenly going to start maintaining population culling using a power the u.n in our reality doesn't really have and doesn't like mention that there's at least um four somewhat important countries that aren't in the u.n one of them being the head of the catholic church where all the christians look to for their spiritual just make something up there's also the tricky little issue that we don't even know if overpopulation will actually become a threat at least not seriously for the next 50 years let alone 15. it also does nothing to like imply that there's other problems that we are currently facing that will just magically disappear what happened to the wealth gap everyone seems pretty fine crime crime was crime's a pretty big part of our lives right now i think what what happened to it did all the criminals disappear what happened to the concept of war what's happening internationally i'm not trying to nitpick but like these questions are just like super obvious why would you not just make something up it was good enough for interstellar on the blight to be good enough for this group this massive ramble was just to point out that in spite of any good ideas this movie might have almost everything about it is just like incredibly lazy did i mention the premise is like my favorite part the film you know like where they're actually filming people and things actually starts with a short introduction to our leads starting with lena who is showing to be smart caring driven but ultimately struggles due to her mother being too busy dying to help with the kids compare this to blank who gets less characterization he's kind of portrayed as a slacker and a rebel but never underachieving like his girlfriend ellie who is afraid she won't pass the next thinning a fear shared by one of the students lena is tutoring who ends up paying her for some black market contacts lenses not like people um they have the power to solve algebra and also list out flight names apparently using a processor that's small enough to be invisible and also create literally no heat it's either that or hyper advanced cloud computing or like nano machines any of which would indicate science and technology has um you know progressed far enough in this near future to be well beyond the point of being able to you know start combating over population so again this group really needs some kind of like overbearing threat so i stop asking all of these [ __ ] questions maybe it pairs to and uses the processing power of their phones maybe i'm wrong but they use blackberries so i'm not blake's portion of the intro mainly focuses on as said before his girlfriend who he sneaks out of the house to meet but his father's the governor and his security detail catches them because blake is a [ __ ] it's very played out cliche we all know that but it does introduce the conflicting ideas between the two you know father and son but it also tries to have like a cute little moment where he offers blake a pop-tart like in a special box and it's really weird because it's treated like an extremely rare thing that he has only a few of because he's in a position of power were this the critically acclaimed universes of mad max or water world uh this would make sense if the food was caviar or saffron or something it would make it would make more sense in this universe but pop-tarts are like 90 wheat and sugar do you know how much food america makes it's insane literally the best explanation we receive is before the small children take a test later on in the film as they're showing a cutesy somewhat misleading propaganda film that explains what thinning is and it would be a lot more effective if the audience knew the gravity of the the gritty truth but we don't get any specifics we have no idea what's going on and i'm just scared the most information we actually get from this film is vague statements like first she got too hot and the water was rising which sounds like global warming but it also talks about physical space which is not global warming it's like a different thing either way those two things could probably be solved by advancements in science this movie does more to prove exists than it doesn't i just really i just love this film after that charming little talk we move on to the actual thinning the second last one blake has to complete which is actually somewhat important but shocker ellie and the tutee kid failed the test i was so attached ellie because this movie's dumb and the tudor kid because he's dumb also the cheek contacts got knocked out of his eyes from the weakest shoulder bump i have ever seen i have received high fives with more force than that which indicates the script was either changed a lot more times than it was proofread or no one really cares because it seems that these were meant to be glasses that knocked oh no my glasses have fallen off someone steps on them smush glass is gone but we changed to high high tech contact lenses and like no one just thought that doesn't make any sense generally though i'm fine with this first act it sets up the world its details and its rules all so it can specifically break or ignore all of them later but it gives us a chance to see some character traits latch onto and see are direct motivations for one of the two main characters which is more than some movies do it's not entirely believable either but the director is using film language to tell me this stuff so i'm just gonna let that slide the story as all good stories do jumps ahead one year blake's relationship with his father is strained because he refused to bend the rules for blake's girlfriend and lane's relationship with her mother is also strained because she's dead blake intends to mail a sd card or something with a video explaining his intentions to get himself killed because of how much he despises the system of the thinning which is strange given he was seemingly completely fine with the previous ten-ish times he was doing it but also because spoilers the twist of this movie is that uh sometimes a chosen few of the failed students are used for slave labor for the ashura global company that's super important in this universe he ends up there anyway because of his father's orders so why not start with that the decision to swap his failure state with another student and not immediately try and contain him so he doesn't squeal seems to be a really massive oversight that would be understandable if his father wasn't given the video explaining what he is going to do by a tale that was about as subtle as a garbage truck oh no my son has failed quick head security man swap his grades with someone else this makes sense the governor thinks his son is trying to pass and therefore if he does pass he'll never know because the students don't really know their grades but blake was secretly trying to fail so he knows something's up which then acts as a catalyst for the second half of the film but the governor knows he's trying to fail and tell the world about it why would you not expect him to just do the things that happen afterwards or just just start screaming stuff like i failed the test on purpose the governor was corrupting the system he's not going to stay silent out of fear he tried to get himself killed like on purpose what are you doing this massive bleeding plot hole only exists because for some reason someone on the production wanted the to have a scene of blake's video being watched by his father and intercut with footage of the test and all of that with with dramatic music the entire plot could be made like 10 times better by just taking this one scene just moving it like five minutes in the future it plays out basically the same i don't even think you would need to reshoot it the results seem to be recorded in real time so you could just have a scene of um you know like mr sir your son is like failing and stuff okay i'll i'll make sure he passes sir passes the test blake knows something wrong because he answered d for everything and he goes to investigate he slips through their grasp sir we found a package oh my god watch this video where's my son he's disappeared oh he's going to expose the things chair voila problem solved but no the whole thing's a confusing mess lena fails blake runs off to do stuff because there's no security for some reason his father seems to have forgotten what the [ __ ] is actually happening it doesn't even try to solve anything i mean i usually say to myself at least it makes the rest of the movie happen but i've literally just shown a solution which requires very minimal changes and would still allow everything else to happen exactly the way it does either way this teacher who is shown to have a good relationship with leona that's called setup clearly understands that she is way too smart to fail and gives her a key card thing to hopefully escape or something it's a bit optimistic but whatever blake starts [ __ ] around with some wise and somehow shuts the entire school down it's not how wires work but i'll let it slide there's already too many problems in this film i can't be here all day you know lena she escapes just before she's injected runs into blake and then they escape into these oddly large air vents there's like 14 things in that collection of events that is just confusing or stupid but i really want to talk to like about something other than the plot because i feel like i'm nitpicking i'm not but it feels like it like sending the school into lockdown allows me to bring up the cinematography and by golly this movie looks like complete [ __ ] it's so ugly just when you thought i was gonna be nice put a twist on you the film seems to be going uh for a dark somewhat depressing tone with you know i understand i understand that subject matter of this movie desaturated colors high contrast i get that but even considering that the film is just dark to the point where without modifying it i couldn't actually watch it because i didn't i didn't know what was happening i tried it on different players different monitors different computers my phone and my tv the film itself is just graded extremely dark when our main characters first meet they're standing in like complete darkness with periodic flashes of light to illuminate their faces but even with the flashes of light it's so dark you can't see anything they're doing the cinematographer for this film and many other michael j gallagher classics is a man called greg carlton and although they commonly work together he has had a few films this worked on that they haven't specifically for this video two features and one short stray is a feature film notably starring uh karen fukuhara released in 2019 quite recent not to be confused with stray released in 2018 or the stray released in 2017 or astray released in 2016 or straight released in 2020 it's really quite simple straight i won't go into the premise or the part because like it's just not the point of this video but um to me this represents what greg wants his films to look like and i can see the similarities between the two films with straight just being noticeably more complex more layered there's more thought more time put into it it is flashy and grandiose at times which is a bit much but he clearly understands how light works like he's not bad at his job the short film he worked on spectrophobia which you can watch for free also echoes this although it's much lower budget it's still very clear how greg wants the shot to look even with the limitations of the budget and literally how much space there actually is in the apartment i still think this looks way better than any shot in the fitting uh the last film i want to bring up is straight up which is nothing like the previous films um there is no dark moody lighting or fancy setups it was only shot in like two three weeks or something like that and most of the film revolves around conversations of just like two to three characters again i can't explain the premise even if i wanted to it's just so weird but the entire film is quite bright and it looks good the film itself is also excellent you can buy it on dvd but you can also watch it on american netflix it's it's a wonderful film to watch and it looks good it's very clear that he's not just like a one note cinematographer like he knows what he's doing the the films look okay like all right that's what i'm saying so why the [ __ ] does this film look so bad i don't know maybe someone like he graded it all and he set it all up and did all the things and then someone came along later and just dropped the blacks to the floor or like up to the contrast too much or there was like onerous time constraints maybe it has something to do with sdr content and they just sent that and it was just crushed through youtube's compression honestly i have no idea but i [ __ ] hate it so much unfortunately while i've been talking about something interesting that i enjoy the movie's still been going on and i have to continue talking about it we've reached a heart to heart slash flirty slash revelation slash meet cute slash bad scene where blake takes a jab at how lena sells answers to the test or something except it's been established he doesn't actually know her or remember her name so this scene feels like it should happen a bit later in the movie and my main critique of the scene happens later so oh my god that never happened what scene the main takeaway from this part of the film is uh the setup of a few different side plots which seem to be too strong a word things that are happening uh governor redding gets blindsided by a question about the school still being in lockdown showing media coverage is ramping up some of the students are starting to get frustrated they're still on lockdown and oh no since this teacher gave her thing to lana she no longer has it and will be immediately suspected if they check her these things are not important like at all but it's it's something that a the story is supposed to have in a film and in the context of the other forms of media i have discussed on this channel it's like a massive step up to the streets that's the second time in two videos i have referenced that movie which really makes you question if it's my favorite movie of all time it's not i'm just insane back to blank and you know what um i shouldn't say back to lana because blake falls through the vent and into the pool how convenient less convenient is the fact he somehow knocks himself completely unconscious from hitting the water in what appears to be a completely normal way i'm not a water scientist so i'll just pretend that i understand that and it makes sense [Music] i don't and i don't think it does but you know elena saves blank which means that this movie has to keep going and it's during the scene that i remembered logan's not not like a great actor the situation is made quite a bit worse by the uh stunning lack of chemistry between the two of them is surprising at times how disconnected these two are at this point blake has a more interesting dynamic with the [ __ ] water he almost drowned in than he does with the main character our little gremlins scamper backer up into the events but uh lena drops the nfc chip somehow out of her pocket that's dang [ __ ] it so they have to go into the science room and build a thing to get it back i guess she has to go back up there into the vent and uh a guard checks the room for a reason that i don't think actually exists which makes sense in context because this guard only does things that makes no sense like standing over blake for several seconds waiting for him to turn around just so we can go like why was he standing me i don't get it i can't think of a single reason for that except those things happen in movies and this definitely is one don't look this up the same thing happens like a minute later when elena's picking up the thing blake's being knocked out oh no actually blake knocked the guy out and swapped the uniforms why would he like grab the chip if he knew the plan [ __ ] no scratch that he was there when they were building the plan it's just an attempt to implement some kind of tension even though it makes no sense like just have the chip drop oh no the guard sees that i'm caught the guard hooks it back on oh what blake is that see it would be the same scene except now there's not a giant neon sign that just has the writing i think you're a [ __ ] [ __ ] audience but it is after that eye-opening experience that we get one scene i actually kind of like but only with several exceptions and specifically in the context of this movie we come back to the teacher that helped lana and in her previous scene she was almost caught missing her chip so she flirts with a different teacher in order to swipe his chip which i'm going to give the benefit of the doubt to the film and say that this was this was set up in a previous scene um the teacher is uh kind of flirting with a student showing that he's a he's a bad dude and it cuts to nice teacher showing us that she saw that yeah with her eyes as a human the big exception for this scene is that the setup isn't exactly subtle because it happens twice in fact after the time skip the first character we're introduced to is this unnamed student who's clearly struggling oh did you catch that film language i think that was a bit too subtle she trades certain favors um to get a passing grade which she doesn't actually get good teacher spots the girl leaving his car all right that's a setup in fact the first time looks a little better in my opinion because it also introduces the system could be open to some kind of corruption by basically anyone [ __ ] it do the scene again it's like it expects the audience to be drifting in and out of reality at this point because you know the movie is just so exhilarating i can't stop paying attention but i like that scene all right it's a neat little scene that lasts 40 seconds so rounding out to the nearest whole number i've enjoyed one percent of this film completely unironically which sounds bad but it is one percent more than i enjoyed stupa a film i forgot while i was watching it lena has made her way into the server room and gets helen's help to log in i'm going to talk about calendar in this whole scene a lot more later so i'm just going to be brief but she finds that she received a 98 but football guy got a 45 but passed and blake got a 15 and somehow still passed lana snaps some hot picks with an axe and sends them to callum she gets caught blake gets caught trying to free the other students who i assume have just been sitting there bored out of their [ __ ] minds in this like little freezer section for three hours which is hilarious to me but as they're about to be thinned out kellen sends the pics with an axe to the news the story breaks get to you in a minute governor reading's hand is forced and he switches all the mac laner is free kisses blake finally cementing their shared delusion called love built on the previously shown raw chemical reactions i have not seen since i poured a bucket of water into a tub of slightly more water oh my god it's so thrilling bang ah they're secretly not dead c points previous this kind of ruins the whole plot of the movie by itself if it wasn't already ruined by the plot of the movie now most of what i was doing was just laying out the movie as things literally happen like step for stamp pointing out notable flaws or interesting things but the largest overarching problem with the film i didn't mention it before but only as it applied to that instance and the problem is is nothing makes any sense or is like remotely consistent all right let's tackle this from the start because this video isn't long enough and i'm not losing my voice um the hook the premise the thinning what is it as an idea it's obviously a test what does it do what does it mean how does it affect the world specifically the one of our characters specifically the people i'm actually supposed to care about how does the public react to them how do they respond do people disagree with it are there any other proposed solutions do they believe it works do they have faith in the system do they even understand how it works is the levels of oversight is their transparency do they suspect corruption or do they just pretend not to see it and the answer to everything i just listed is uh-huh sure because it completely depends on what scene you're currently watching the school is either a completely normal building with facilities like lockers a science lab a pool and a completely normal football field but other times it's a fenced off prison surrounded by a desert with server rooms guards with deep voice changes but not all of them have it during the power outage i was just told to move these students to the recreation hall immediately and a rusty death dungeon somewhere in the school's halls you know with dystopian great architecture really cementing the whole thing students act and respond like they are in a dystopia they're selling looking down loitering in the whole way chatting with people frozen in fear if someone you know your entire life is going to be dragged away killed and then five minutes later parting the corruption of the thinning is either an open secret that everyone knows or a revolutionary new discovery and also the outside of the skull looks like a hellscape with um masked guards that are introduced by beating the [ __ ] out of a kid that trying to run and you know somehow the entire system crumbles after it's leaked that the guards also beat this the [ __ ] out of some of the students that passed like yeah dude they're in charge of murdering kids the biggest [ __ ] up from all of this and would single-handedly ruin a perfect film is the fact that lena is the person blake's grades are swapped with presumably but why not swap the grades themselves so this could just never happen this whole thing came crumbling down because lane's teacher knows that she is incredibly smart and her failing is basically impossible i'm lying as a teacher laine is the best student i've ever had i am finding it very difficult to believe that she failed the exam she's tutoring kids that are passing these students clearly talk and know each other kellen even states that it's it's strange that blake doesn't know her name because the year levels shrank each year not to mention the shared trauma of watching students you know in each year level die trauma that disappears depending on the scene there is an extremely high chance these students would know not how smart each person is but the smartest people especially because she's [ __ ] tutoring kids and people reference that they know there is no way that people wouldn't be immediately suspicious that she failed but this [ __ ] didn't which would be acceptable if it was established that corruption was an open secret and no one wanted to stand up in case they would replace her but it was also established the exact opposite was happening so f [ __ ] like why elena you know if you really wanted the character to be a genius or something just throw in a line like oh laid again harlena i know you need money for your mother and to take care of the kids but maybe count back on the tutoring even geniuses need to study sometimes hence establishing high intellect but allowing for a low enough score to have this make any [ __ ] sense did i watch a different movie governor redding never specifies who to swap like scores with he just asks some king i don't know his name to fix it and this is the solution he comes up with i swapped the football man's fail with someone else and that didn't seem to [ __ ] everything up i haven't even mentioned that ellie didn't actually fail she got an 88 but presumably governor redding swapped her with someone because he didn't like his son being distracted is there something in the air that just makes everyone really stupid sound like kind of works for the audience because it stated that she thinks she's going to fail like yeah more of that please you've already done it in the film i'm watching it it wasn't even particularly fun to sift through the movie and like get down to the brass tacks of why i have issues with this film because sift is doing a lot of overtime in that sentence because it means to examine something thoroughly i wasn't even examining it passively the flaws were just like thrown at me they were so obvious most of them i caught in the first viewing i feel like i was expecting if not a somewhat competent film uh at the very least a fun little easter egg hunt to find the misstep the points where they make mistakes you know which points to this which points to that and i go behind the scenes to get more info it wasn't any of that it was like i was handed a plastic bag filled with broken eggs like wow what a fun hunt um thank you for watching uh sorry the video took a bit longer than usual as you could probably might be able to tell i'm still a bit sick so but i can't wait any longer i'm just going to do this now get it there everyone done with um name of the fellows who are supporting me through youtube's membership thing thanks to them um scrolling by buy my merch if you want it i really appreciate it it's a great way to support me um or just subscribe like the video if you enjoyed it i might do the second film i have seen it and i it's probably i think it's actually worse which is weird but i was gonna do it in this video but now this one's i've been recording for like an hour and seven minutes so it's probably good that i didn't do this one in the same video i would be here for 10 years um thank you for watching uh i'll see you next time goodbye [Music] you

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Published: Sat Jun 12 2021