One of the worst Movie Reviews of All times

[00:00:03]Hey folks, Jack here. Normally I was supposed to be streaming right now sailing the high seas playing some Assassin's Creed Black Flag with some of you. But it's the summer and the plan changes and because the family just went to sleep right now, it is only just now that I've gotten the chance to be able to record and or set up the stream. That being said, instead of just uh making an impromptu midnight stream, where I suppose some of you will still have showed up, uh I am going to be doing something a little bit different tonight, which involve this review. See, I like watching reviews of a lot of things, whether they're good or bad. It is often interesting to me to see where people take a piece of media to, and especially because it really helps me to develop my media literacy. Now, why am I mentioning media literacy here? Well, it is because media literacy does encompass a hell of a lot of things that help you develop a bunch of skills. But where I to kind of uh be a bit more concise and reductionist here, you could basically describe media literacy into two phases.

[00:01:13]The second phase being that of understanding. Can you grasp the subject, the subtext and context within which said subject is presented to you?

[00:01:24]Do you actually understand what you are consuming? And you may have noticed that I jumped one step there because the very first phase is consumption itself. What has led to a bunch of people overusing the term LAR because a lot of people don't even seem to be able to, you know, engage and participate in the very media that they try to pretend they understand? Because how do you become literate if you don't even consume what you are interacting with? And consumption implies here under being attentive taking whatever piece of media it is in its whole or in parts but hopefully if it is the ladder getting in the sum of its part. Now I'm saying this because these have often times led to the catastrophic review that you will encounter. Uh, the thing that your favorite media entity will produce being how in all earnestness a game reviewing site ends up giving a horrible score to something because there's too much water. Review bombing a book because the cover seems woke. Delivering a bad review to a song because, godamn it, Taylor, as soon as we mention just the name of your song, you get mad and you block your content. or for the sake of movies, uh, in the good old days, a nostalgia critic reviewing The Wall.

[00:02:48]Yeah, that one was one of those experiences that even the likes of absolute legend Tommy Wiser would be laughing at.

[00:02:57]But alas, I think that in the glorious year that has been taking so many actors away from us of 2026, um, we have a new contender in the form of Alex May. Now, before we actually talk about Alex's review, I need to set a scene for what he is actually reviewing because it is scary. Like, no, really, it is very scary because I want you to take a little bit of a step back.

[00:03:23]Think about what happened a month ago.

[00:03:26]Late May to June of 2026, two horror movies take over theaters. These being Obsession and The Back Rooms. Now, Obsession is a movie about a guy named Bear who makes a wish to uh be loved by his crush and gets that monkey paw treatment, which never ends well. And the back room, to put it simply, is about a struggling alcoholic furniture store owner and his therapist accidentally discovering a gateway to a terrifying endless dimension of distorted liinal space hidden right behind his showroom basement, aka the back rooms. Now, both of these movies scared a certain demographic [music] very much, which was Hollywood executives. They were scrambling. They were pissing their pants because the makers of safe bets who could not possibly understand [music] that people actually enjoyed very let's say out there indie movies that were made by very young directors and found those directions to be very refreshing were willing to be pouring a hell of a lot of money into that. So yeah, that had Hollywood's running scared for a moment.

[00:04:39]Now, jokes aside a little bit, the real demographics that this movie actually did scare were women and some men, of course. Uh, let's be serious here, because both of these movies featured a or let's say more accurately portrayed a certain archetype of a kind of man we've come to call Chuds. generally maladjusted man often time misogynistic but very much reactionary types the type which has been in horror movie for the longest time okay they exist it's nothing new the one exception is that the internet is the way it is it reinvigorates certain types and they become an archetype take the example of the backroom's cler who first and foremost is a failing alcoholic whose business forces him to make, let's say, undignified adverts featuring him in a pirate costume. [singing] >> In his own world view, having put his wife through college, he feels very much entitled to her, to her attention, to her care, to her love. Like, was it part of a contract that the both of them had signed? He holds this against her at every turn that he can and takes his anger at his own feelings on her.

[00:06:02]Clark's inability to look beyond himself is the very thing that makes him not feel unfamiliar with his backroom other self, the pirate. And given the nature of a pirate who h funny enough uh was going to be playing a black flag tonight who plunderers to take all not to escape queen and country or king back then leaves dead.

[00:06:32]Wow that was insensitive. But for the riches and the booty it is pure averse pure consumption. And thus it is not too surprising that he meets his hands at the hand of his other self as he is consumed by a not so unfamiliar notion. Now, Bear is a shy, insecure music store employee who uses this mysterious novelty toy that he finds from a store that is very giddy to be selling things that literally can summon demons to people.

[00:07:10]>> Well, they've been pretty popular since we put them out. Everybody wants a wish.

[00:07:13]Don't come back [music] complaining.

[00:07:15]>> It does work and it like ruins their [laughter] lives >> or they die or wish they were dead.

[00:07:20]>> We get very good. Yeah, you could write a review.

[00:07:22]>> Called the one wish Willow to make his longtime crush Nikki fall in love with him. This wish, of course, works instantly, but with terrifying consequences. Nikki becomes aggressively violent, obsessed with him, and transforms gradually into a deeply unstable and possessive shadow version of her former self as Nikki's behavior spirals into a grotesque, bloody, and th unpredictably mad entity.

[00:07:58]Bear desperately tries to find a way to reverse the spell, but he is forced to face the horrifying reality of trying to force someone's [music] love. Now this is how I would be putting this movie uh as a review a short one be it that way were I to be very sympathetic towards bear because in all fairness there are some angles here [music] wherein you can give him a lot of grace.

[00:08:26]That being said, it is very important for you to understand that are you to walk out of this movie or viewing of it with in whichever [music] format and feel a degree of ambiguity about whether or not Bear is the bad guy here, the villain of the film, or if he even did anything wrong, then you need to do some soularching. So it is with this rather long introduction to what we're going to be witnessing right now that I want to present to you Alex Mayer's review of Obsession. Now, Alex who is a content creator whom from browsing to his channel and having occasionally have like uh recommendations to some of his reviews shown to me because as a parent now I get to watch a lot of kids movies that I would share [music] with my child. And so movie reviewers uh who cover more child- friendly content will pop up on my feed. And so imagine why I would be just so slightly taken aback when I realized that [clears throat] um how do I put [music] this? A person who focuses on kid-friendly content would choose to review Obsession.

[00:09:49]Anyways, let's get into the review.

[00:09:53]Warning, this video is an attempt at a good faith nuance look at the fictional movie Obsession and the characters therein, which will probably upset some of you for some reason.

[00:10:01]>> So, it needs to be pointed out first and foremost, as as you can notice, I have downloaded this video because it is no longer accessible on YouTube. Yeah, as it turns out, this one is a very uh a very big fa on his part. And it got so bad in fact that he had to pull the video away and issue an apology. An apology that he also took down. Just to preface here, some takes might not be great. Additionally setting up uh you know the framework of this is a fair take of a movie that uh all of you who are obsessed with a certain viewing of this uh would be upset by is a very weird and dare I even go so far to say it's scummy thing to do. It is true that art is meant to be polarizing. It is not wrong for people to completely disagree or have [music] completely different understandings of what you view yourself. Which is why again I said that even if the content is bad or even a [music] review itself is bad, I think it is worth considering to kind of see people's angle. But the idea of certain things around the movie being stuff that people almost in unanimity have agreed upon. Wow, that was a weird way that I said I work in unanimity. Uh, and my voice even cracked when saying that. What the hell? I'm I'm just not meant to be saying unonymity anyways.

[00:11:34]Ah, it worked. Uh, that people in almost unanimity would agree upon makes deframing of your video very sus.

[00:11:43]>> You know, I don't think I've seen the internet freak out about a movie like they have with Obsession. At least not in a long time. Maybe K-pop Demon Hunters was the last time where like everywhere you looked, everyone had an opinion about it. I guess you could say everyone's kind of obsessed.

[00:11:55]So, I knew I had to make a video about it, but like that kept pushing back the VOD release date, you know, cuz y'all kept on watching it. $750,000 budget and made $300 million. One of the biggest indie film success stories of all time.

[00:12:06]Now, I didn't make a lot of videos about horror stuff, but I mean, a semi- romcom about a nerdy loser guy who gets the girl at the end. Wow, this sounds like a nice wholesome movie. But, okay.

[00:12:14]>> Now, folks, remember how I initially mentioned this thing about media literacy? these two components of actually being able to understand what you're viewing and consuming [music] it is very much affects your framing of the movie. And while I understand that Alex seems to be having this uh style of his to where he cracks a lot of jokes and tries to frame [music] things in, you know, the type that he usually that he's very much used to, right? [music] To reconextualize things in like, I don't know, teen drama and kids movies.

[00:12:48]Although well because prior to [music] watching this very video, I think this is the second video of his that I watch, I have watched his Zootopia review.

[00:13:00]I said that the first movie is surprisingly mature. Part of what I mean is that the plot is very logical in that like this happens, therefore this happens, which causes this to happen, and then that ties back into this thing.

[00:13:09]Zootopia 2, however, runs like on freaking Coco Melon logic. My god.

[00:13:14][clears throat] I understand that he might have a deep-seated desire to crack some jokes because that's what he does, but you kind of need to keep things in context. You know, understand the subject that you are dealing with in this movie. This is not one where you ought to be doing that. I, as an example, would be cracking some jokes here, but it is at the expense of Alex, not that of the movie. Like you've seen me make reaction videos to the likes of Pointless Hub, for example. And when Cody makes jokes, it is because we do understand that within the context of these movies, decisions and stuff that are being made have literally an aspect of liberty that can be extrapolated from those movies. They are not meant to be taken super seriously. Even if the director thinks that yeah, he has found I don't know the second coming of Pizuzu by talking about aliens. It's such a bonkers problem and everyone plays it so straight.

[00:14:15]>> Tell me there's been some kind of mistake.

[00:14:17]>> I wish I could, but the math actually checks out. So, it's happening.

[00:14:21]>> The moon's coming to Earth. We're in the Majora's Mask timeline >> as frantic shoppers continue to stockpile supplies as mounting moon terror fuels the mass [music] migration.

[00:14:31]>> [laughter] >> And so when you are framing things this badly and making it sound as if everybody drank the Kool-Aid.

[00:14:41]Come on. Which by the way, speaking of drinking something, Arizona iced tea pineapple. This is the first time that I'm trying this one where I to be sponsored. This is the only company that I would ever shield for. Arizona, please reach out to me.

[00:15:05]Please. You are so awesome. They are the only company that decided not to deal with like inflation or at least selling the stuff at a loss and not increase the prices. The CEO said G.

[00:15:20]Anyways, anyways, back to it.

[00:15:33]>> [clears throat] >> Anyways, back to it.

[00:15:42][sighs] >> Let's check it out. So, come along, kids. Let's take a walk.

[00:15:45]>> I feel like I'm coming apart. I think about you all the time, Nikki, and I try not to. You're in every song I listen to. [music] >> So, this is our main character, Bear.

[00:16:04]Bear is 25.

[00:16:05]>> Okay, hold on a minute.

[00:16:08]Listen. Um, I have no issue with anybody making a gummy bear reference. I think it's one of those uh rather endearing shows that went off the air for way too long. But as a 30 plus year old something like a yours truly here. I'm 31. So I just entered the field. I would have expected something a little bit different.

[00:16:36]>> So this is our main character, Bear.

[00:16:37]Bear is 25 according to the screenplay.

[00:16:39]And he's never outgrown his awkward high school loser persona, which means he's going to have a great career one day as an online content creator. Hi there.

[00:16:45]Welcome to Twitch. Are you mentally stuck at 15? Perfect. We're going to put you on the front page >> if if you want.

[00:16:50]>> Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[00:16:51]>> I'm sorry. I'm sorry I made you do that.

[00:16:53]>> No, it's okay. You're okay.

[00:16:55]>> Just pretend like >> you're good.

[00:16:58]>> Oh my god, dude. That was so embarrassing.

[00:17:01]>> I don't know, man. You got that strawberry milkshake sitting right there. So, something tells me you're the kind of guy who's internalized a few too many romcoms written by equally pathetic losers as yourself. I mean, trust me, ain't my first rodeo.

[00:17:12]So, >> so uh as you may notice, one of the many things that people, myself included, uh will dislike about this thing is the way in which he seemed to projecting onto Bear.

[00:17:29]And this is but one of many instances where he seems to be relating way too much to one of the main characters which under many other circumstances were it to be an actual romcom as he tried to frame it earlier could have been okay but given how the rest of the movie turns out this is rather concerning if you ask me.

[00:17:57]This is Bear's friend, Ian. I guess they're not really like friend friends, but they like work together. But anyway, Ian is currently trying to help Bear practice how to ask out a girl named Nikki, the girl of his dreams.

[00:18:06]>> Have you ever actually like flirted with Nikki? Be playfully mean with her. Be mean to her. Playfully mean? Yeah, but bring up freaky Nikki. And that will like take her breath away. Just say, "Nikki, I think we should grab a drink sometime."

[00:18:19]>> Okay, so real talk. If you have to try this hard to have this kind of like game plan on how to ask a girl out, then like it's already going to fail. Okay, if it's this hard, you've already lost. I mean, as douchy as Ian is, like he's right when he says, you know, have you ever even flirted with Nikki like at all? Cuz it's really weird to come out of nowhere and be like, "Dearest fair maiden, I know we've only exchanged mere pleasantries these past few years, but I must inform you that I wish to begin a courtship."

[00:18:42]>> Bro, I just came over here to fart.

[00:18:44]Okay. Anyway, so that night, Bear goes home and finds his cat dead. Apparently, he got into his >> Okay, so there's a point about this. So I I I watched 10 minutes of this and I knew that I had to talk about this. So I don't know how this video ends. But in the span of these 10 minutes, he will go on to extremely, and I do [music] mean extreme length to sexualize Nikki while in some weird way again perhaps adding to this thing of him in a way projecting and fantalizing bear. And I really want you to pay attention to this next scene here as he tries to dig into the backstory and be sympathetic to Bear's situation.

[00:19:38]>> Anyway, so that night Bear goes home and finds his cat dead. Apparently, it got into his grandma's medicine or whatever.

[00:19:45]>> No, no, no, no.

[00:19:48]>> This scene was very sad >> as a person who lost my cat.

[00:19:53]>> How did you get into [music] these?

[00:19:54]>> It's horrible. Backtory. So Bear's living in his grandma's house who recently passed away. So, you know, it's full of all kinds of grandma stuff, like insanely racist paper weights. As you might imagine, Bear's got a lot on his mind. His cat died. He has no idea how to ask out Nikki. He's walking around with this haircut. Like, my dude can't catch a break. So, it's >> understand the contract the the contrast here. This man talks about the dead cat as like a setup to something that never pays off because he never actually uses that as a justification for anything later on in this review. Side this one mentioning of that bear is going through a lot of things which he finalizes with a cheap joke about his haircut decide to add in some shock value about racist dolls which is not a thing from the movie. He just decided to put it in there as a joke and continues to make more jokes about the situation to which perhaps some of you are already asking yourself. But Jack, you need to have the understanding that this is a person who for the most part reviews kids movies.

[00:21:01]So that's why he has a tendency of doing things this way.

[00:21:08]I don't buy that. This is where we come back again to this very thing about framing. I could not for the life of me, I don't know, review, let's say, watchman and call that a uh an action comedy. Why is that? Well, the comedian is part of it.

[00:21:30][music] >> Oh, this is getting heavy. [laughter] >> [applause] >> This just leaves you with a very very bad taste in your mouth at every single point where he tries to undercoat the seriousness of these subjects with cheap ass jokes. And beside the fact it all feels forceful that he has got to do this in order to keep the attention of his viewers. Come on, man. night, which means trivia night cuz Bear and his friends are super cool. The team is Bear, Ian, Nikki, and their other friend Sarah, and they all work together at this like music shop place, which seems to have a lot of employees for a random store in the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. So, he's feeling pretty down, as you could imagine. But Nikki of all people calls him up to ask if he's going to hang out with a friend group that night.

[00:22:20]>> I don't I don't think I can tonight. I'm just catching up on some stuff. [music] >> Yeah. So, I'm putting in my two weeks.

[00:22:29]>> Really? [ __ ] God damn it.

[00:22:32]>> Are you okay?

[00:22:34]>> No, I just dropped my crystal necklace down the tree.

[00:22:36]>> OH, NO, NO, NO, NO. CRYSTAL necklace bear, get out while you still can. But then again, Nikki is a hot Latina, so one can only remain strong for so >> Yeah. The hot Latina thing is about the start of the sexualization. And again, I cannot uncote that you're doing that within the context of this thing. Like, sure, you might find the actress attractive, but really, really, dude, >> Bear, get out while you still can, but then again, Nikki is a hot Latina, so one can only remain strong for so long.

[00:23:06]Now, because Nikki dropped her necklace, Bear gets this idea to get her another one. You know, be the hero, get his foot in the door, and then have no idea what to do afterwards, like me 80% of the time.

[00:23:20]Yeah, the shop is very very funny.

[00:23:26][music] [laughter] I love how says amaze your friends. Hey guys, check this out.

[00:23:37]>> Awesome. Do it again.

[00:23:38]>> Yeah, well, they've been pretty popular since we put them out.

[00:23:42]Like I said, like I said earlier, if there is one place where this man would actually have allowed himself to crack a joke, [music] it would have been about the store. The store is like, "Were you to visit uh Gamurel Toro's home?" I would imagine that a man has a collection of paraphernalia that will freak anybody out, but he is way too giddy, way too relaxed about the thing that surrounds him. That's the energy that you get from this store. And the fact that they have all of these things that literally can end people's life is kind of hilarious.

[00:24:19]So, if there is but one place where you can actually make fun of the movie, this one. And of course, the magic dildo right there. But this is not where he decides to go with it.

[00:24:30]>> You know, everybody wants a wish. Some people don't open them, but the people who do, you know, come back and complain >> or it does work and it like ruins their [laughter] lives >> or they die or wish they were dead.

[00:24:42]>> Ah, yes. The millennial special rather experienced myself. Also, you know, it's kind of funny that Bear is better at flirting with this girl here than he is with the girl he actually likes, which is such a real thing, by the way. Why does that happen? Anyway, so he buys the one with Willow to get to Nikki later that night at trivia.

[00:24:55]>> Anything else?

[00:24:56]>> I'll get a pinina colada.

[00:24:59]>> Pina colada? Don't for drink. [laughter] >> What?

[00:25:04]>> I like a man who's in touch with his feminine.

[00:25:07]>> Hey. Whoa. Didn't ask your opinion, Nikki. So, here we get a look at who Nikki is. And she seems like she's kind of one of those girls who's like those like ball buster types, you know? And she's always like, "Ha, [ __ ] can't handle all this. I've never met a guy who can keep up with me and then they just lay there like Spongebob." Also, again, somewhat ironic, but earlier Bear was like, "You want me to be mean to her? Why would I do that?" But then she's literally doing the same thing to him right now, and it's clearly working.

[00:25:28]So h >> excuse me [laughter] while I straight up don't want to say that Alex is a misogynist. You know some seeds are being planted here. He extrapolate out of a conversation at a bar that she is a ball busting type that lays in bed like a plank of wood. You know those crew jokes about women.

[00:25:53]Again, unlike Bear, who in this entire time has been described as like this helpless guy who desperately needs to find a girl, a maiden to enter courtship with, with whom he so associate with, he reduces Nikki to nothing but a sex object. Buddy is not beating the allegations already.

[00:26:18]>> Interesting. Okay, so trivia is about to start and Bear's left standing there with Sarah, the other girl they work with that I mentioned, him and he tells her that his cat died early that night.

[00:26:28]Film trivia.

[00:26:29]>> Sandy died.

[00:26:32]>> What?

[00:26:36]>> Really?

[00:26:36]>> This animated film features a blue >> here. I'm so sorry.

[00:26:41]>> Wait, hold on. Back up. So, so the trivia topic was early film trivia and the question was this film has a blue genie that grants wishes.

[00:26:50]Ah, yes, the ancient year of 1992. But more importantly, so here we get a look into the dynamics of the whole friend group. Okay, so Ian is kind of like a douche, right? Nikki seems like one of those girls who's one of the guys, you know, and Bear has a huge crush on Nikki, even though Sarah over here is clearly into Bear on some level, and he just like doesn't notice, doesn't care.

[00:27:07]So Bear's choices are Crystal Mommy or Septum Girl.

[00:27:11]This dude never stood a chance. Like, you might as well put that chassis belt in your Amazon cart right now, my dude.

[00:27:16]Anyway, so trivia night's over and it's >> Jesus. This man is bloody desperate.

[00:27:19]See, this is exactly why I say that you need to be able to consume the stuff that you are watching, interacting with, and you need to be able to understand it. So being consistent with his objectification depicts her as hot chick with crystal mommy and septum girl apparently. That's what he could get from that little conversation that he had with the other girl. and he reduces the code about or the the trivia question about the movie to just something stupid like do you guys remember some of the conditions that came with being a genie in Aladdin? One of these was that you cannot force people to fall in love with you.

[00:28:08]>> Our rule number two, >> I can't make anybody fall in love with anybody else.

[00:28:13]>> You little put them there. a quote that is not just being said for no reason, but literally is cemented there for the viewers to kind of catch something.

[00:28:25]And for a person who had to animate these things, right, these sill little pictures that he's putting on screen afterwards, going through the text, I guess a multitude of time should have at least looked it up if that thought was not jolt immediately in your mind. But he wouldn't be bothered because he was too focused on his own little fantasies.

[00:28:51]Why does your character get [ __ ] up so bad?

[00:28:55]Now, which is really controversial.

[00:29:00]>> Time to go home. Nikki needs a ride. And so, of course, Bear's like, >> "Long day. I don't want to go to the next [ __ ] bar with you guys."

[00:29:07]>> Had a greet.

[00:29:08]>> I can take you home.

[00:29:10]>> Okay.

[00:29:11]>> Jesus. You >> Ian, get your girl home safe.

[00:29:15]>> Ew. Don't say it like that. See you later, Bear.

[00:29:17]>> All right, Bear.

[00:29:19]>> Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here. So, Bear takes Nikki home and of course on the way they have some kind of heartto-he heart talk.

[00:29:25]You know, talk about life, man. It's all very life is strange. You know what I'm saying? Come on, Max. Let's get out of this town. I hate my dad.

[00:29:30]>> Just not happy there.

[00:29:33]>> I mean, it's just a job, Mickey.

[00:29:35]>> Yeah, well, I want to write.

[00:29:36]>> Oh, a crystal mommy and a writer. Well, something tells me this movie would have gone the same way for Bear whether he made the wish or not.

[00:29:42]>> No, >> dude.

[00:29:47]That Life is Strange reference was so very bad.

[00:29:52]And even now that he's made it, I wish that in the least he could have had like the Thor thoughts of saying something like, "Oh, you know, much like how Life is Strange is about this girl who tries to go back in time to redo the mistakes that she made and fix the past, which the literal game was about not being able to do. So be wary of the things that you wish for and prey to the consequences. This never crosses his mind.

[00:30:23]Like I do not know if Alex here has writers. But if it does and even if he writes his own script right [laughter] for his videos because this is scripted because it had to match the animation and all that. I don't know. [laughter] If you go on to do a faux p like this, please fix yourself. You are editing your stuff. I make mistakes plenty of times. Sometimes I will like have like editing Jack here to correct myself as I see that something that I said in my recording was not factually right or was totally mistaken. But this man doesn't give a [ __ ] >> Oh, it's not a romance. It's a love story.

[00:31:04]>> Isn't that the same thing?

[00:31:07]You know, you're the only person that I get to really talk to about this stuff.

[00:31:12]>> Ah, yes. Well, see, Bear, when a girl says that, what she really means is you better not ask me out and ruin this friendship. Anyway, so Bear takes her home and he tries to flirt with her like Ian said, but I mean, you see the kind of sweaters he wears. You can only imagine what kind of game he has.

[00:31:24]>> Night, Freaky Nikki.

[00:31:26]>> Ew, don't call me that.

[00:31:28]>> I know. I was kidding.

[00:31:33]>> Do you like me?

[00:31:36]>> [music] >> Yeah, we get it. Come on, man. Move on.

[00:31:45]I [music] I think we're good friends.

[00:31:52]>> What? My dude, she's leaving anyway.

[00:31:55]This is your chance. She says, [music] "Um, do you like me?" And then you say, "What? Yes, I do." Also, apropo of nothing. I'm going to get a haircut, so don't worry. But alas, he says no when she goes into her house.

[00:32:05]>> [music] >> Listen, listen listen. The fact that he thinks that this is a bad thing is very weird because this is literally how the character is supposed to be. That's how he is written. That is to show you all the mistakes that he does.

[00:32:27]Bear is a coward and he cowers away from ever taking action where he needs to take action. Like there are a lot of criticism that you can justifiably levy towards this movie. Some of these could be about the message that it is trying to convey. What experiences did uh Cory Barker, the director, actually have because obviously dialogue is not one of them. He clearly portrays how 20some years old actually talks now a day. So the dialogue is actually genuinely pleasing that people actually comport themselves as worthy real individuals.

[00:33:04]But when it comes to the experiences that these characters are going through, it may come off as if Cory may have taken I don't know inspiration from experiences in his own youth. uh be it through conflicts of uh I don't know codependencies uh people uh living with partners that have uh been mentally unwell those kind of things right and you can argue that portrayals of these things could have been different but in universe in the way that these things are presented they are literally the way that they are and they were recommend some of you watching right now uh to check out a poem that I will pull up for you in just a moment. That is called The Love Song of J. Alfred Roof Rock by TS Elliot. And in this poem, we have this dude, the protagonist, who wants to uh confess his love to a girl that he's gotten very smitten with, that he's fallen in love with, and he spent the whole damn thing trying to work up the courage to talk to her and to confess his love. but he never does. And the thing that is haunting about it and why I uh allude to that in comparison to Obsession is that his justification the entire time is there will be time.

[00:34:35]If you've watched the movie, you would know that this is one of Bear's biggest flaws. He never takes action. Well, with the one time that he actually does take action is when he does this.

[00:34:48]>> Wish me your friends. You [music] only get one wish.

[00:34:52]I wish Nikki Freeman love you more than anyone in the >> Shreken.

[00:34:58]Okay, so jokes aside, up until this point, Bear was just a dude with a crush on a girl that he was too scared to talk to. Okay, a story of my life. He pulls out this $7 wishing toy. He's like, "Golly gee, I sure wish Nikki loved me, too." But here's where everything changes. Okay.

[00:35:11]>> Maybe you want to come inside. I mean I did just lose my cat. Bear, >> you lost your cat.

[00:35:17]>> Oh, wait. Uh I mean I mean you lost your cat.

[00:35:22]I'm so sorry.

[00:35:23]>> So, as you can see, Nikki is starting to act a little out of character. She's saying things that don't make sense. She also demands to go over to his house to spend the night.

[00:35:31]>> Yeah.

[00:35:32]>> And what should Bear have done?

[00:35:34]>> Yeah. thinking of >> why >> my dad's dying.

[00:35:42]>> And you know, to Bear's credit, he's not immediately jumping at the chance to take advantage of her or whatever. Like, he gives her privacy in space. He doesn't want to make it weird. He turns around when she takes her shirt off. And like, based on what people were saying about this movie online, I expected Bear to be this like horribly angry misogynistic incel dude, right? But like up until this point, he's just some super socially awkward loser who has a crush on a girl and he uses a $7 wishing toy that he assumes is not going to work. And then when Nikki starts acting like this, he's very confused and put off by it.

[00:36:12]>> Oh.

[00:36:13]Oh, really? So, what happened in DC?

[00:36:17]>> What are you doing?

[00:36:20]>> I was just going to the bathroom.

[00:36:24]>> Can you lay with me?

[00:36:29]I don't know, Nikki.

[00:36:30]>> Obviously, things get different later on, but at least up to this point, Bear has like no idea that the Wishing Willow worked. And again, to his credit, the very next day, he immediately tells Ian that he thinks something's wrong with Nikki. Like, like he seems genuinely concerned.

[00:36:43]>> Just pretend like we're laugh.

[00:36:45][laughter] >> Yeah. I think Nikki is going through something. What? I don't know, dude. She was acting so weird like she would like like what? Is she okay? No, man.

[00:36:57]>> I've seen a lot of people saying that this part is showing how Bear's trying to make Nikki seem crazy to other people or whatever, but like again, he has no way of knowing that the toy worked.

[00:37:04]Like, why would you think it did? You know what I'm saying? Like, it was $7.

[00:37:07]Like, in any other circumstance, you'd probably do the same thing if your friend started acting like this out of nowhere, right? Anyway, so that >> No, no, you wouldn't. Why? Because quite literally afterwards, Ian has this proposition of her being on drugs, which he assumes was the case. Now, I don't know about you, but I have had friends who I found out were under the influence of something after having been on a party, after having been clubbing. I have never done that type of stuff because I care about my body. But what is the first thing that you do whenever a friend of yours finds themselves in such a bad predicament? You take them home, ensures that they are well or spend the night at the ER to make sure that whatever it is that they consumed is removed out of them. It just goes to show that Bear is an individual who is well enough to be calling her crazy acting in the way that he feels is unpleasant to him whilst at the same time profiting for now having the person that drive his desire being infatuated with him. Right? He wants all the positives of a wish that granted he does not know worked but granted him what he wanted at the moment. And given that they go on to make out afterwards and even worse, it shows again that Bear had literally no concern for consent.

[00:38:38]>> Night Ian apparently talked to Nikki and she said that she was on some drugs or whatever and so maybe that explains why she was acting so erratic, you know, like when she and Bear kissed earlier.

[00:38:52]What? What? What?

[00:38:53]>> Oh my god, I'm so sorry.

[00:38:55]>> You kissed me.

[00:38:56]>> I know. I I I thought I saw [laughter] something.

[00:38:58]>> So, at this point, Bear thinks that Nikki was acting weird, kissed him, freaked out, etc. because she was on drugs, right? So, again, to him, in this moment, it all seems totally above board, but then out of nowhere over to Bear's house to apologize.

[00:39:10]>> It is not [ __ ] above board. That's the thing.

[00:39:16]If somebody kissed you under the influence and you are okay with it, it says a lot about your character and then she continues doing this while you would assume that she is still under the influence. You're just being like, "Hey, I'm going to profit." Huh?

[00:39:33]>> I was on MDMA, so if I was weird, that's why. And not saying that you took advantage of me, >> Nikki. I didn't know you were on drugs.

[00:39:41]>> That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying that.

[00:39:43]>> Not saying what?

[00:39:44]>> You took advantage of me. I don't think I didn't.

[00:39:47]>> I know. That's why I'm saying you didn't.

[00:39:49]>> Okay. See, this is my point. Like, given the circumstances, Bear's being pretty normal about this. Okay. Given what he does and does not know by this point in the movie, like he could have slept with her or he could have taken some kind of advantage of her, but he was rather gentlemanly at the time. I mean, you know, for a guy who has this many Cosby sweaters. Wait, do you think this was on purpose? Like, do you think [sighs] Jesus Christ?

[00:40:11]I am inclined to believe that this review gets worse from here because we just about past the 10 minute mark and it's just a little bit more than I got to say before. And oh my god, let's be very clear here. The entity within Nikki is something that like an AI girlfriend just regurgitates the thing that you feed it. Hence why she mentioned the dead cat, the thing about the drugs which he got to know. It literally just tells you what you want, which an individual like himself who with I don't know man and just thinking a little bit would have figured out that oh my god she says and does all the things that I wish for. So perhaps something is you know a link between my mind, my wishes and her actions. But the freaking coward refuses to acknowledge that for which it needs to be pointed out. I have one reproach for how some people have been discussing bear's shift into villain.

[00:41:17][clears throat] Let me rephrase this.

[00:41:18]Some people seem to think that the point of no return for bear is when he makes the wish. This is where he inevitably becomes the villain. I don't think that that is the case. I think it is fair game that most people would have have wishes about individuals that they would uh be in love with. That is a completely normal behavior. The thing that is not normal, however, is that once you figure out that somebody no longer have the autonomy, then you continue to try to benefit from the detrimental situation.

[00:41:53]Because at this point, especially once you enter coidus, you are quite literally in the textbook definition of rape. And no, YouTube, I'm not refraining from using the proper word.

[00:42:05]And Alex here reducing it all to, "Oh no, it's all above the board while completely ignoring all of what's been laid as ground here by the movie is insane." Only for him to drop a Cosby joke. Jesus, do you understand why people are so mad at him that he is quite literally running the fence for Bear's behavior?

[00:42:29]Like, it really makes you wonder, has Alex himself been like this? Is he doing this entire thing to justify a lot of things that he may or may not have done?

[00:42:40]I don't know. I am not going to accuse him of anything, but a hell of sounds like it.

[00:42:48]>> Do you think they dressed him like this intentionally? I really like what we have and I want to be honest about some things and it's really important for me.

[00:42:55]It's >> okay.

[00:42:56]>> I know you like me, Bear.

[00:42:59]>> Why do you like me?

[00:43:01]>> Would it freak you out if I said yes?

[00:43:03]>> And thus begins their relationship. They start dating, hanging out, kissing, doing the devil's tango.

[00:43:08]>> And Barry's finally living the life you always wanted. Hot dog. Turns out Nikki was in love with him the whole time.

[00:43:13]>> What do you want to do? I mean, I never really asked. Well, that's not all your fault.

[00:43:21]Call me a closed book.

[00:43:24]>> Well, I guess the good thing about a closed book is >> is that I can return it to the Scholastic Book Fair and exchange it for the new anomorphs book. Maybe this is the one where things finally start making sense. [bell] >> No, it still doesn't.

[00:43:36]>> Does he have to do this?

[00:43:40]>> Now, suddenly, Bear gets a phone call from Ian. See, remember when Nikki told Bear that her dad was like sick or whatever? And Bear told that to Ian and apparently Ian looked into this because as far as Ian knew, Nikki hated her dad and hasn't seen or talked to him in like years.

[00:43:52]>> I'm not going to tell Sarah about this because I don't want to spread drama.

[00:43:56]>> I looked into Nikki's dad having cancer and he's healthy as a baby. [laughter] >> The heck does that mean, my dude? Babies just have constant projectile vomit and diarrhea. The heck you talking about?

[00:44:08]Also, how exactly would you find this out? Like, pretty sure you can't just call up a hospital and they tell you someone's medical history. Okay. So, is Ian lying about this or was Nikki lying to Ian and Sarah about her dad this whole time? Okay. Let's assume it's all that [laughter] I like how he focuses more on irrelevant details to this thing that literally have no effect on the movie whatsoever that don't serve as like say some Easter egg like for example the wouldbe throwaway line of the genie before. This is not one of them. But no, he's going to spend time animating that part instead of actually digging into what is actually being said in the movie.

[00:44:53]Spectacular job as a reviewer.

[00:44:55]>> Bagels back to talk to Nikki about what he just learned. Does your dad really have cancer?

[00:45:00]>> Oh no. No.

[00:45:03]>> What?

[00:45:03]>> No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Don't do that.

[00:45:10]I thought we were having a nice day.

[00:45:12]>> We were okay. See, Bear, I don't know why you're making this face. You wanted the Crystal Mommy Latina experience, and you got the Crystal Mommy Latina experience. But here's where Bear starts to maybe kind of realize what's really going on here.

[00:45:21]>> Bear, I love you so so so so much. I don't think I could live without you.

[00:45:28]>> You love me more than anyone in the world.

[00:45:31]>> Yes, more than anyone.

[00:45:36]>> Now, okay. Up to this point, I feel like Bear has plausible deniability. I mean, there's no way he would have known the cheap toy would work. He was genuinely concerned for Nikki the day after it started, and he refused to take advantage of her, even when it was like presented to him. Right? I mean, she kissed him after all. Right now, right here though, at the halfway point of the movie, he does finally start to realize that the wish actually worked. But like even then, you mentioned them doing the devil's tango while he assumed that she was on drugs, was not herself. He violated her consent [music] a multitude of time. And seeing her complete change in behavior, he was like, "Nah, nah. This was meant to be."

[00:46:19]Oh no.

[00:46:22]Maybe it's this man's reading comprehension. But let's [clears throat] continue. Like literally every romcom is about trying to find a way to get the other person to like you or you manufacture a meat cute or whatever, right? Like I've seen some internet comment threads where it's like he only saw her as an object and wanted to remove her autonomy. That's why he made that wish. But like like he didn't wish that she would do whatever he wanted or I wish that she would become obsessed with me and me only. He specifically wished that Nikki would love him more than anyone, which is literally what everyone who has ever had a crush wants. Like every single fanfic about like golly, gee, I sure wish One Direction would kidnap me and fall in love with me at all at the same time.

[00:46:57]Like as if half the girls who saw this movie haven't wished the exact same thing before.

[00:47:02]Hello, it is I, William Defoe from the movie The Lighthouse, and I've secretly been in love with you for years.

[00:47:08]Like, you have to look at the context, okay? If Bear had gone to the store specifically and been like, "Hey, do you have something that'll force a girl to fall in love with me?" Or if he like searched on the internet for some kind of like weird ritual that's going to make anyone fall in love with you, then yeah, that's some funky funky stuff, man. Or like later on we find out that >> minute. Wait a minute. [laughter] So it should have been spelled out.

[00:47:31]It should have been spelled out.

[00:47:34]So his actions did not matter. He should have preemptively wanted this to happen for it to be valid. For his violation of content, of consent to be valid. What is this man saying?

[00:47:51]>> That maybe Ian and Nikki have been hooking up, right? But Bear doesn't learn this until the very end of the movie. So like for example, if he'd found this out at the beginning of the movie and he was like, "Oh, so Nikki's just some [ __ ] that fangs every guy except me, huh? Well, I'll show you."

[00:48:03]Then yeah, he'd be like some misogynistic insult. But for at least half of the movie, he has no idea that this would work. And in fact, he's concerned for Nikki when she does change. To me at least, it totally seems like a fanfic or whatever that he thinks would have no way of actually coming true. I'm not saying Bear is a blameless innocent victim, okay? But I think some of you are a little too quick to attach motivation and subtext to this character that is not based on the movie. Like it really seems like some of you want him to be a horrible incel intentionally malicious guy. Regardless, it doesn't matter if he actually says that he wants to do these malicious things. That's the thing that you don't understand.

[00:48:40]When a person in a relationship ends off being abusive, oh, should they have to say, "I'm going to kill you. I'm going to hurt you."

[00:48:50]>> Really, really bad.

[00:48:54]>> Badly. Joker is badly. Does the Joker have to spell it out to Harleen Quinzel or does his action of hurting her transforming her to the object of his own desire be the thing that quite literally is the proof of his malicious action?

[00:49:13]Seriously, like how can you say that you re review a movie while depicting yourself as being like this sanctimonious dude who nah, you know what, I got it. You guys did not understand the [ __ ] thing. [laughter] This is so dumb.

[00:49:31]>> On the movie, even the guy who played Bear himself said this about the character. I never thought of Bear as a villain, but what really drew me to this story was the gray morals of it all.

[00:49:38]Bear has good in him and has bad in him.

[00:49:40]Like all of us, I do think that he leans more toward the bad in a lot of ways.

[00:49:43]Fully the antagonist though, I don't think I would say fully because the key thing is he didn't know that the wish was going to work.

[00:49:51]which the director did what? What did the director do?

[00:49:57]The director came forth and corrected this statement because it is in stark contract with the actions of the movie.

[00:50:08]And I don't know much is going to show here, but man is he wrong about this.

[00:50:15]>> Sure, his desires were incredibly selfish. Totally 100%. But he didn't know the wish was going to work. And you have to assume that this guy was in close talks with the writer director of the movie the whole time. So basically both of them are saying that Bear is meant to be ambiguous and you all are just over here like like are you all equally upset about the Disney Channel original movie Zap or 16 wishes? Because fundamentally these are all the same movie. Like remember Descendants one Mal cast a spell that made Ben fall in love with her. Where's all the Reddit threads about that? I don't see no two-hour video essays, you know.

[00:50:42]>> Oh, so here is I think the crux of the issue here. I think Alex is just fundamentally very illquipped to review horror. He literally fundamentally does not understand what he's talking about. The fact that he is going so far to compare them to again teen romcom is quite literally the thing here. And he compares it to one division.

[00:51:12]Brav, >> I made a video years ago about the show Wanda Vision, and everyone got so mad at me when I said it's crazy that we're supposed to be so understanding about how Wanda enslaves an entire town and uses magic to force her husband to stay with her and have kids with her. Huh, isn't that interesting? I found >> Wanda ends up having a whole ass movie where she is the villain.

[00:51:32]She is the villain throughout the entire show. The events of Wonder Division I literally spelled out again for a person who asks people to take things in context can literally not take the media that he consumes in context. Wonder Vision is about Wonder going to her own grief, the loss of her children, which makes the audience be sympathetic to her situation on that specific thing, the madeup children that she loses. But with Bear, what is he trying to make up for?

[00:52:09]Nothing. Bear wants a girlfriend. He wants Punani. And I say this crudely because Buddy does not understand the difference between love and romance.

[00:52:18]>> This comment in a Reddit thread that puts it so perfectly, so I'm just going to read part of it. But remember, this sub attracts the most obsessed fans of the movie. They flex about watching it at the theater like 10 times already.

[00:52:27]They make several posts a day about it.

[00:52:29]They make crazy overanalysis and theories that have no ground in the reality of the film, etc. It's not just a movie for them. They're incredibly emotionally invested and attached to an unhealthy degree. It's almost cultish at this point. And people who are chronically online or addicted to a piece of media aren't the most emotionally stable or media literate to begin with. So, a lot of it comes from an emotional standpoint. Hence, the refusal to engage with the material in good faith and just making it say what they want the movie to say in an over-the-top sanctimonious dogmatic way.

[00:52:54]It's like a ritual for them, a catharsis. See, also in Kanto. But anyway, wow.

[00:53:04]I found this Reddit comment that agrees with me. R, where did you get your media criticism form? The Shuan head school of reviewing. Yo, I selectively found this one thing there that completely frames the movie, the happenings within the context which I try to convey. Thus, it must be true. Continuously shows the opposite on screen. Like the saddest thing about this review is that you don't even need to dig into like subtext to understand what is happening.

[00:53:43]Most of this doesn't need subtext. You don't need to be able to catch the references that are being made, the movies that are being alluded to, the weight of the cinematography, what it is borrowing from to understand how the horror actually works here, bro.

[00:54:00]>> [laughter] >> A lot of this is quite literally directed. Like was it being made by I don't know uh who who's a good Japanese director for games that quite literally laughs at subtlety. Oh my god. What's the name of the guy who made Devil's Third? Tomu Tagaki. Dude saw subtlety and was like [ __ ] that noise. That's for the week. And that's how certain part of this movie literally are laid from start to finish. Yet still he just glosses over them.

[00:54:33]>> Nikki, Nikki, [music] where are you?

[00:54:41]So the movie goes on. Nikki gets more and more insane. She walks around like this. She cooks up his dead cat and feeds it to him. She waits for him to come home so long that she pees herself.

[00:54:50]>> Why? Why did you do?

[00:54:57]>> And what we come to find out is that the real Nikki is trapped inside of this demon Nikki. And every so often, she gets to come out for just like a brief second, which is why Nikki seems to be acting the way she does. It's like the more the real Nikki tries to break free, the more the demon has to overorrect.

[00:55:23]Once Bear realizes that this happened because of the wish, he finds a phone number on the back of the box and he calls it to try and get his wish changed. Is her love real.

[00:55:33]>> Just because you chose this for her doesn't make it less real.

[00:55:37]>> Okay, then I would like to cancel.

[00:55:39]>> We don't really do that.

[00:55:41]>> What? I love how chill the >> Oh. Oh, you could argue that this is because of a possible copyright that he's not showing the scene and he barely mentions it. Bear initially does not want to cancel the wish, right? Notice what how he said he wants the wish to be changed because he did. The thing that freaked the bear out is her behavior. He is totally fine that she's being possessed, that she does not have her autonomy. For him, the wish here would be that she continues to be so enamored with him. But what's less weird about it?

[00:56:24]Something that Alex clearly does not show in his review.

[00:56:28]>> Wizards are in this movie. Like this dude's like, "Uh, yeah, so your girlfriend's soul is like trapped here or whatever. Anyway, I got to go reheat my nachos, bro." uh glaucoma or something.

[00:56:38]>> Do you want to talk to her?

[00:56:41]You want to talk to her?

[00:56:42]>> Who is that?

[00:56:43]>> Nikki.

[00:56:44]>> Now, just to be clear, I'm not defending all of Bear's actions, okay? Because at this point in the movie, he knows the wish worked and he knows the real Nikki's soul is like trapped or whatever, but he keeps on dating her and tries to like continue on as if this isn't the most horrible situation anyone could imagine. Although, to be fair, what is he supposed to do? Cuz if he breaks up with her, she's going to hunt him down. And the only other choice, as we learn, is that the spell will break if he dies.

[00:57:08]>> But that's the [ __ ] point. Thank you for finally getting to a point where you acknowledge that things are bad. His cowardice led to him being put in a situation where the only thing that he has is an ultimatum and not a choice.

[00:57:23]>> What the hell? What can I do then?

[00:57:26]>> When you die, the wish will go away.

[00:57:28]>> You sure there's nothing else I can do?

[00:57:30]>> Yeah. I mean, as long as you live.

[00:57:32]Sounds to me like you have a moral obligation to be there for her.

[00:57:36]>> Another option appears when the real Nikki is able to speak very briefly while the demon Nikki is asleep. You are you, Nikki.

[00:57:44]>> Yeah.

[00:57:48]>> Just kill.

[00:57:50]>> Now, this is another part I've seen so many posts about that I find so baffling. Like, I've literally seen people say like, "If Bear truly loved Nikki, he would have killed her when she asked." cuz like it's just that easy, you know? And then what? He goes to prison for life. Obviously, he doesn't want to do that. Also, it's well established in this movie that he's like a low self-esteem, probably depressed loser, guys. So, like, of course, he's not going to suddenly do this completely out of character thing. Now, that being said, his reaction to this is very telling, though.

[00:58:15]>> What would be so bad?

[00:58:18]What's so bad about being with me?

[00:58:20]>> Okay, fair. See, I was trying to be fair, okay? And then you go and you say that like like maybe everyone's right about you, you know. And this is further solidified when he knows it's not the real Nikki and he knows the real Nikki is trapped, but he still keeps going on like this.

[00:58:33]>> Tell me anything you want me to say.

[00:58:35]>> No, don't say that.

[00:58:37]>> Anything.

[00:58:38]>> 20 minutes. We finally hit the 20 minute mark. And it's around 19 or so minutes of glazing bare basically that man realizes that you know what maybe he's the bad guy in a scene that quite literally unequivocably basically is this bear pants towards the camera and goes [music] I'm the bad guy. That's what it took for him to get to that point of admission and understanding. And the fact that I don't know how his writing process actually goes when he decides to make a review. Does he do it along the way as he watches which this would be very weird. I've reviewed video games before and sometime even movies. I would watch the damn thing first before I start writing a review so I know the answer so that I can recontextualize things as I go along. What's left of this video now is but 2 minutes or so that he's going to have to reframe the entire thing to explain Nikki's case which is the saddest part about this because he [clears throat] he completely sidelines Nikki. Nothing here is seen from her perspective.

[01:00:02]>> You want me to be Nikki?

[01:00:06]>> You're not being >> But this also brings up another interesting thematic element of the movie, I guess, which is like people are saying, you know, if he truly loved Nikki, then he would do this incredibly selfless thing for her. But remember, his wish was not that Nikki would become obsessed with him. He wished that she would love him. So why isn't her love for him as selfless as you're claiming that his love for her should be? You know what I'm saying? Again, I'm not saying Nikki's the bad guy or me.

[01:00:30]>> No, you idiot. That's because that's the wish. The wish does not care about the quality of the love. He just wants the obsession. That's why he literally made the bloody call before because he wanted to change the way in which the wish operated just so it was more convenient to him.

[01:00:52]Bro, are you hearing your own words? He quite literally got what he asked for.

[01:00:57]Like, um, I understand that you are usually reviewing kids movies and perhaps this is why tackling something like this is perhaps a little bit difficult for you to do, but like, hold on a [ __ ] minute. Let's let's do something here on his channel. If I am scrolling through all of these, what you have is the occasional thing that features serious subject.

[01:01:24]Like what is this?

[01:01:29]Nope. Nope. All right. So, we have the weekend death cube, I guess, to a certain degree. Uh, another sample favor. No, not this one. Uh, the the Netflix you. Sure. So, you have to go a whole year to find what would essentially be like serious subjects, which for which I suppose that he covered this one with the smoothness of sandpaper. But if this is truly so much out of your wheelhouse, why are you doing this? Is it just because it's a popular movie?

[01:02:03]That's it, bro. At least try to understand it.

[01:02:08]That's the bear. That's the bare minimum. Well, let's finish this thing. There is some like blameless victim or whatever. I'm just saying there's many ways you could look at this movie. Like maybe the wish didn't work at all. Maybe Bear's just that cool. You ever thought of that? But anyway, so the very end of the movie, Nikki has killed Sarah and Ian. Bear realizes that there's no way out of this unless he dies. So he eats all the rest of his grandma's Flintstone vitamins, I assume, and dies in the arms of Nikki, who is finally freed from the spell.

[01:02:34]>> That scene as she finally wakes up, >> [ __ ] nightmare.

[01:02:45][screaming] >> And that's more or less the end of the movie. Yeah. So whatever your personal interpretation of the movie is, it really is a fantastic film. It's a great >> I mean imagine that he spent this entire time and did not at a single glance talk about Nikki like in any depths. All that he did was just archetype crystal latina mommy.

[01:03:12]Listen, just to make it very clear, I know that I've been yapping about this one for a long time.

[01:03:21]and not addressing this. It doesn't matter what gender this movie is addressing. Were the role reversed, it should have been the same case.

[01:03:32]Whomever's consent was removed in this, whomever wished for this would have been the monster in this scenario. Regardless of your interpretation of or perhaps it is that the director wanted to portray individuals with like mental illnesses or being in relationships that are difficult or whatever, the fact doesn't change that what is happening is happening. And if you're running the fans for the indefensible, it says a lot about you. Horror, great writing, the acting is incredible. Nikki obviously fantastic job. But like with a lot of other movies and shows, especially recently, the online discourse is just insane. Like, what is it about this movie in particular that people made it their entire personalities? Like, there's something very funny to me about how this movie about the dangers of unchecked obsession has gone on to spawn one of the most insanely obsessed fan bases I've ever seen. Congrats, y'all. Nailed it. Now, again, I need to be very clear here, okay? Ultimately, Bear is the bad guy.

[01:04:26]He doesn't know what he did until late in the movie. But when he figures it out, he just keeps on rationalizing to himself because like he wants Nikki and he doesn't seem to really care that she's being tortured the whole time, but rather he wants the demon to just act like Nikki so that he can pretend that he's actually dating Nikki. You know, like this is a bad dude. Yes, absolutely. Nikki is completely innocent. Her life is forever ruined because of some depressed, selfish loser guy. Okay. Yes. Like like that's the outcome of the movie. But how we get to that point, I think, is a lot more nuanced than a lot of you were giving the movie credit for.

[01:04:55]>> Wow. Wow.

[01:05:01][sighs and snorts] Oh my day.

[01:05:03]>> Now, Alex, of course, have gone to uh delete the video as well as his apology after the backlash that he received for having an entire bad take as a video. um and basically issued an apology that says that yeah, I'm I'm going to be more mindful, which I think is basically just a code for, you know, I'm going to stick to the thing that I uh I [music] know to do, you know, kidfriendly stuff, which is fine. Okay, everybody can be a movie critic, but not everybody can do a proper critique. And maybe he should have thought of that before posting that thing because golly, that was bad. And here's the thing, right? Obsession is not a complicated movie. It takes a pretty simple premise and just takes things to the extreme. It's a deeply unpleasant movie. And that's why I think that a lot of people resonated with it because it really makes us question the actions and wishes that we make. And that's why I think that a lot of people got enamored with it. Obviously, there's some people who have some bad takes out there. like for example the affformention of oh just simply wishing for somebody to like you is a bad thing.

[01:06:16]But yeah, at last here we are. Uh let me know your thought about the video in the comment section below. Uh I read your comments. Some of them tend to be hilarious and some of them are pretty damn insightful. That being said, I still wish you to have a wonderful day.

[01:06:31]Perhaps I might be covering another video that some people have preemptively thought or movie, should I rather say, that some people have preemptively said was going to be bad. It's being it released today. Yeah, Odyssey released today.

[01:06:47]Uh, [clears throat] yeah, if I find time to go and watch it in the cinema, I will definitely cover that. So, that being said, I wish you all to have a wonderful evening and I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye. [music] >> [music] [music]