The Menu is not stupid, it is not a “comedy-horror” and the ending is super satisfying. Don’t watch satires and interpret them literally - doing that is dumb.
@paulelroy6650
7 ай бұрын
you know satire is comedy right. it IS a comedy horror just a dark comedy horror
@nlmnyc
7 ай бұрын
The Menu had a phenomenal 3rd act. What is this list??
@Rattrap007
7 ай бұрын
Garbage. It is garbage..
@theoriginalThud
7 ай бұрын
I know right!
@lemuntpicard7482
2 ай бұрын
Bullocks!
@zacharygritz4540
7 ай бұрын
Having The Menu and Triangle of Sadness at 1 & 2 makes me lose a lot of respect for Whatculture. The third acts of both those movies are probable the most important parts of them- seems like Whatculture writers didn’t understand either point of either of those films.
@dontworryillwait3689
7 ай бұрын
... lose*
@unicornbacon
7 ай бұрын
Seriously, I was baffled by the inclusion of these films and came here to say exactly this.
@josephcallahan1664
6 ай бұрын
Thank you. I agree, especially with The Menu.
@devonchris
7 ай бұрын
Candyman, The Menu and Don't Look Up had insanely good endings. Weird to see them in the list, whatever you think of each film as a whole. And Saw X isn't exactly Shakespeare but to call it "not living up to the standards of other Saw movies" sounds like satire. Those films are mostly rubbish. Saw X is at least much better than any of them since the first one, if not brilliant.
@XanderMatthews-nv9zf
7 ай бұрын
Yeah like who watched Saw 3 and went “look at how competent Jeff is” I’d say it’s better than Saw1, 3, 5, and 3D and the remake
@devonchris
7 ай бұрын
@@XanderMatthews-nv9zf I'd credit the first Saw film with creating the concept and executing a pretty damn good film on a minimal budget (the low budget actually made it better - there's no explicit gore cos they couldn't afford it, it's all implied which is even scarier). It's as though it's the best student horror film ever. Honestly stunned by the ending. Then they got into the mindset of "hey, let's just torture characters for viewing pleasure" and got nasty.
@matthewwasserman8885
7 ай бұрын
I feel like you missed the point for "Don't Look Up." It was supposed to be exaggerated on purpose. The satire was really in the viewers' face, but that was the intention for Adam McKay. He knew this would be the only way for people to listen. And you have to give him props for actually ending the world while most filmmakers would take the safe route.
@coreycasciano3255
7 ай бұрын
WhatCulture aren’t always the smartest 🤣
@jamescarlile4279
7 ай бұрын
I agree on the last point, but f the film indeed was meant as a metaphor/satire n climate change, it was an extremely dumb one
@aarongilmore1254
7 ай бұрын
I feel like you didn’t get the point of Candyman or the menu. In Candyman 2021 Anthony was stolen by the original Candyman in 1990 and didn’t know the virus changing him had been inside him all along. In the menu, Sloick was punishing the super rich who took the art of his food for granted and when Margot/Erin was able to appeal to his basic love of cooking she was set free
@MrKrtek00
7 ай бұрын
I really loved that movie: the whole premise was this social justice (literally) revenge, but letting her go was giving a hope that there is an exit from this cycle. Also, it was rather ironic that the “final girl“, the most innocent of them all is a call girl
@CE-sq8sr
7 ай бұрын
@@MrKrtek00 I thought you were talking about Candy Candyman until the last few words.
@rustyshackleford6035
6 ай бұрын
I have to agree with what culture I uselly like Anna Taylor Joy but I Hated her character in this movie and thought she was selfish to come up with a plan to only save her self and nobody else the only person I liked in the movie was Nicolas Holt and after he committed self deletion I only finished the movie because I wanted to know how it was going to end
@MrKrtek00
6 ай бұрын
@@rustyshackleford6035 so you tough Anna Taylor Joy was selfish, but you liked Holt's character... curious judgment
@TheBroadway27
7 ай бұрын
In The Menu he was obviously trying to take their hope of survival away by allowing them to run and be recaptured and having the only "outsider" be fake
@alanrickles9285
7 ай бұрын
I didn't even make it this far in the video, figures they would put the menu on there. Another movie they didn't understand, y'all need better writers.
@erosebrooks9220
7 ай бұрын
I love that movie
@sadie9728
7 ай бұрын
"Seriously dumb"? Was this supposed to be a hot take? The movie was great and that's the general consensus, not "can we all agree it's seriously dumb" omg, fire your writers.
@thehoot79
7 ай бұрын
Exactly. That’s not really hard to understand.
@riddla11
7 ай бұрын
You guys are bugging, the ending to the menu SUCKED!!! Let's all stay here and be burnt with giant marshmallows on us. Shitty writing, shitty end
@coreycasciano3255
7 ай бұрын
Wow WhatCulture really stay not understanding films 🤣🤦♂️
@madeincanada5307
7 ай бұрын
I read dont look up and the menu in the comments. Borh of which had strong 3rd acts and endings i just cant continue on with this
@MrKrtek00
7 ай бұрын
I wasn’t super into don’t look up, but if something the dark ending and the solemn dinner together was something I really admire. It is like complaining about that dr Strangelove do not have a happy ending
@alanrickles9285
7 ай бұрын
I love the explanation of Don't Look Up, it's obvious they did not understand the movie with their description. Everything that you said was wrong with the movie was done on purpose. It's like watching idiocracy and saying you don't understand, it's because it was made about you. When you look around the room looking for idiots and you can't find one it's probably you.
@AZeneki
7 ай бұрын
😂 This is perfect!
@fletchbundy
6 ай бұрын
Never saw the movie, don't plan on it. I'm sure with your ego it's beyond your comprehension that someone just didn't like a piece of dung you find delicious. Get over yourself, as most of what you wrote is projection.
@ronaldthornton5455
6 ай бұрын
Right. As "Unbelievable" as it is, I lived through 4 years in the Twilight Zone, which may get a sequel this November. It's definitely believable.
@devonchris
7 ай бұрын
Wow, it feels like the section on Don't Look Up was a satire in itself. Is Em being serious or tongue in cheek? "Impossible to believe the US government would be this stupid"... "people would totally do something about it if they saw a threat like that". Do whatculture not realise the point of the film?
@vang.609
7 ай бұрын
No wonder the good video presenters left, the writers don't understand movies at all. Did what culture lose ALL good writers too??
@thetowerstillstands
7 ай бұрын
Don't Look Up will only leave a bad taste in the mouths of those still in denial.
@nixeleth
7 ай бұрын
"Definitely take it very seriously." *remembers 2020* Sure. Sure, they would. This list, however, is something I can't take seriously.
@thehoot79
7 ай бұрын
Wholeheartedly disagree on this opinion of “The Menu”. I thought that movie was fantastic from beginning to end. Her issues with it are nitpicks.
@Fumbles9001
7 ай бұрын
What a completely asinine list, the third act of Triangle of Sadness is the most poignant part of the film.
@samuelkeatings9637
7 ай бұрын
Triangle of Sadness is superb. Mental take 😅
@paulelroy6650
7 ай бұрын
they didnt even give a take. they just said it gave up without given a reason why they thought that.
@VinnieDangerous
7 ай бұрын
The Menu was great
@aarongilmore1254
7 ай бұрын
I haven’t seen most of these movies only a few. But out of the few I did see the narrator completely missed the point. So now I have a new list of movies to watch to see if she was wrong about those as well.
@rustyshackleford6035
6 ай бұрын
The only one I missed was the rhythm section maybe I'll watch it 🤔
@1971chrismiller
7 ай бұрын
I disagree with the Menu. I thought it was really good.
@teamtim87
7 ай бұрын
"By the presumed dead 'Gazelle'" 😭
@tracisr
7 ай бұрын
She's an antelope 😂
@trevorstockwell8290
7 ай бұрын
Seriously you are just fishing at this point for content. The menu was about him having lost his passion for cooking so he was getting revenge on people that were true a holes, pretenders or fakes. The main character was allowed to live since she was in the service industry like him, she order a burger something simple but that's what made him happy...u truly didn't get the point
@firstnamebob1709
7 ай бұрын
Nice list, but I disagree about Triangle of Sadness - while it did feel like 3 separate films, the third act is a twist on the second act, putting the people "below deck" in charge of the rich assholes. It does a great job showing how class means nothing when it comes to survival.
@normlang1994
7 ай бұрын
"Don't Look Up" is a commentary on the Trump administration...it's practically a documentary. You totally missed the boat on that one.
@RictusHolloweye
7 ай бұрын
Wait a moment. You're saying the problem with Candyman was that it was all orchestrated by William... but there was no explanation as to how he orchestrated it?! What made anyone think that William instigated any of it? Did the writer pay any attention to the movie when they watched it?!
@tracisr
7 ай бұрын
Lmao her name is not pronounced Gazelle like the antelope 😂😂😂😂
@SeanKiernanSullivan
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, based on y'all's outright misunderstanding of "The Menu," this video gets a huge thumbs down from me. This one almost seems designed to annoy us viewers. If that WAS the goal, then, well done. It really takes a lot for me to comment negatively.
@stephiybabii
7 ай бұрын
As a Black person you most definitely didn’t understand the point of “Candyman”. Anthony was the baby from the very first Candyman movie. He was marked by the Original Candyman. How it was happening was through sending Anthony down the path of learning about Candyman & once Candyman was summoned that was it. As a Black person the original Candyman never made sense because why is he terrorizing Black people when they weren’t the ones who had MURDERED him. Now Candyman would go after a group who represent those who murdered him & all the other Candymen.
@RictusHolloweye
7 ай бұрын
As an outsider (white man from a different country) the original Candyman seemed to be about how the sins of the past continue to haunt the people of the present. As in, slavery was abolished but then there was Jim Crow, there was red lining, and even today there is such regularity of police killing non-threatening black men that communities around the nation recognised it as a problem and protested en masse (BLM for anyone who doesn't recognise what I'm referring to). I always figured that Candyman was about that. It made absolute sense (to me) that his presence was more a problem for the black community and was more of a curiosity for the white community.
@AZeneki
7 ай бұрын
^^ You just got “black-xplained”. 😂🤣😂
@RictusHolloweye
7 ай бұрын
@@AZeneki - Weird. I thought I was just adding to a conversation.
@djmattblack
7 ай бұрын
I disagree on Equalizer 3, i think its better than the second one by far and the ending though a little anticlimactic it fits well with the rest of the film
@FlyingHangman
7 ай бұрын
I would agree that the incompetence, etc, of don't look up was exagerated to the point of unbelievability... if it hadn't been released shortly after trump vs pandemic happened
@rgnyc
7 ай бұрын
The Menu and Don't Look Up certainly don't belong in this list, and I'd question whether the writer(s?) understood these films at all.
@nmbalo
7 ай бұрын
I have to strongly disagree with you placing The Menu here. You can say you didn't like it but your points on it are bad. Did you see how many large men were there guarding them? Honestly even of they tried to escape it was meaningless
@antoniacosta6221
7 ай бұрын
I don’t mean to be rude, but is English Gemma’s second language? She can barely pronounce things correctly, not just in this video. “Seersha?” “Gazelle?”
@bispren_ej28
7 ай бұрын
That's exactly what I thought with The Equaliser lll ... It feels like a slasher film just like what they did to Rambo: Last Blood plus the main character is so different compared to first two movie
@jensmith7238
7 ай бұрын
You're wrong about Don't Look Down. As an American I can promise you that is EXACTLY what the government would do. It's more a documentary than anything. Have you seen what's going on here?
@ClockFink
7 ай бұрын
I’m usually playing the part of the apologist, devil’s advocating for you guys when you get controversial with your opinions, but saying Candyman’s ending was bad is a real weird take. Got any more weird trivia? Feels like there’s been less of that and more opinion pieces here of late… which ain’t a problem in and of itself, but if y’all are running out of opinions you can actually back up… might be time to go back to mining for more interesting factoids to make vids out of…
@michaelcamp4990
7 ай бұрын
definitely Thanksgiving, the film built up tension slowly and effectively over the course of most of the runtime, but then the last few minutes saw a rushed villain reveal and a bad CGI explosion and then the movie just kind of ended
@severedghost
7 ай бұрын
Oh no, she's media illiterate
@richardjamesgallardojr.7584
7 ай бұрын
Riddick versus predators going to be so awesome The tagline is you keep what you kill
@JohnnyJustafriend
7 ай бұрын
For me, it's "Killers of the Flower Moon" and it's not close. You've devoted over 3 hours, waiting for the villains to get their comeuppance and pretty much as soon as the trials for their crimes begin.........it switches to a radio play years later that recaps what ended up happening. Haven't been that pissed off at a movie in a very long time.
@XanderMatthews-nv9zf
7 ай бұрын
Reminds me of playing “The Quarry” so lame of an ending
@peachysbaby3088
7 ай бұрын
You mentioning "not subtle" in a lot of these videos, sounds like you took offence 😏.
@TheNaturalPatHarris
7 ай бұрын
Equalizer three was great
@Lboogey06
7 ай бұрын
Equalizer 2 ends worse by far. Yes 3 just kinda ends...but at least its not in a hurricane with a lot of talking.
@georgejorden6269
7 ай бұрын
Writing a good story is difficult. Sometimes you write a good first and second act but struggle with writing a third and final act. Or you have good idea for a first and third (final) act but no idea for second act - How to tie the first act and third (final) act together. Or any number other combinations.
@davidalan528
7 ай бұрын
Every single time someone dismisses a movie's social commentary as "unsubtle," I wonder what rule of cinema ever said all such commentary must be subtle. Candyman was never, not once, subtle - it doesn't attempt to hide its implications behind layers of encoding, so it can hardly be said that any entry into the series "fails" to do so. Kiinda same goes with Don't Look Up - no subtlety was intended there, either. Of course, there's a difference between "unsubtle" meaning "requires no interpretation, the equivalent of someone just telling you clearly what they mean" and "unsubtle" meaning "requires no thought at all, the equivalent of someone perforating your eardrum with the volume of their message."
@Laceykat66
7 ай бұрын
Have to disagree with you on Equalizer 3. I thought it showed that these types of movies could be intellectual and not just cut-and-paste fight scenes. The series grew as it went on which is rare in action movies where more is spent on CGI than writers.
@josephcallahan1664
6 ай бұрын
You need to rename this video "A what culture video that falls apart in the end." What's the purpose of killing someone in the first act in The Menu? Chef Slowik wanted to terrify his "phony, spotlight loving" guests and make them live in terror. Why the chase scene? To again torture his "guests" and give them false hope. You completely misread this film and the antagonists motivations and his hatred for them and desire, like many sociopaths, to make them suffer. Your analysis is way off.
@NunnyNunners
7 ай бұрын
Good Ole what culture not understanding movies again lol
@coreycasciano3255
7 ай бұрын
Gotta love them WhatCulture terrible takes
@lemuntpicard7482
2 ай бұрын
I don't think they even watched them sometimes.
@CoolPaDuke
7 ай бұрын
John Cena was in Fast X? I didn't even see him.
@tracisr
7 ай бұрын
HA!!
@filmsociety1311
7 ай бұрын
😂
@sanddagger36
27 күн бұрын
the menu was a massive let down, it was obvious the chase scene was just so they could center the whole trailer around it and make it look like a "dangerous game" situation. In reality they just wanted the whole movie to take place in the restaurant. In fact, I'd argue without the chase scene they could've had the restaurant be normal instead of being on an island. I can only conclude that the writers were forced to include it but didn't want the chase scene to affect the story at all. But the fact that they didn't like it shows so much in it's pour execution. They could've at least pretended it was worth anything by having someone die, and if they didn't want to kill off one of the diners, they could've at least killed off the woman who thought of the event, just like they killed off the sous chef at the end of the first act.
@mizstories9646
6 ай бұрын
I swear these channels are purposely putting great movies in lists like this just to get us all to comment and boost engagement.
@bryancaron1664
6 ай бұрын
Equalizer 3 was perfectly fine with its delivery.
@nixeleth
7 ай бұрын
The dead gazelle. She's not a deer, she's family.
@willwalker474
6 ай бұрын
Is it just me, or is the editing on this video absolutely terrible? There are even a number of flubs left in the video? The gaming division is impeccable, but the movies side of WhatCulture just continuously trips over itself. Often with bad editing, weird presenter cadences (or sentences edited together with different intonation), or just low energy. All great people trying their best I suppose, and I mean no disrespect, but the quality between gaming and movies is like night and day.
@nerdrecorp54123
6 ай бұрын
6:14-What happened there? Did a flub go unnoticed in the editing stage?
@ozosborn1578
6 ай бұрын
"Hardly believable stupidity of the US government" - sorry, in which reality do the WhatCulture writers live, b/c it's clearly not the same one I inhabit...
@lball1981
6 ай бұрын
For me No Time To Die was completely and utterly ruined by it's ending, making it feel like the worst bond film. Also anyone paying to see a Fast and Furious film is just an utter fool.
@brenitabridges-kincaid7389
6 ай бұрын
Stop it, the blackening ended just fine. Just because the main characters didn't die, like in "other people's movies" doesn't mean it was bad. 😂😂
@benmcfee
6 ай бұрын
I feel like this list started out strong, then fell apart in the final third.
@tomasjephersin84
6 ай бұрын
Whatculture Never Worked In The Restaurant Business And It Shows
@TheSulleyman
7 ай бұрын
Talk about endings that kill the movie vibe… maybe you should doublecheck and reconsider how you end YOUR videos lately… it just ends without an outgrow, I always sacrifice the last 15/20 seconds and change videos before the abrupt and insulting end.
@aarongilmore1254
7 ай бұрын
THANK YOU!! I’VE ALSO NOTICED
@liamsbest9
7 ай бұрын
To say the blackening was good social commentary is wild. It was funny, but subtle in its racism it was not
@jessehull1612
7 ай бұрын
Triangle of Sadness was great. The criticism here is way off.
@ethanoliver2108
6 ай бұрын
Totally don't agree with you on "triangle of sadness", the last part was as important as the other two. It was a commentary about on who's shoulders the riches world is build upon.
@jayholmes3146
3 ай бұрын
Maybe the ones at the end of the video you disagree with is the final act of the video falling apart…
@tracidavis3565
7 ай бұрын
My question is where has Josh been?
@irrefutable_mrT
7 ай бұрын
This video should not have been made. I dont know why you had to make it 12 films when you only really had 6 on here that were accurately critiqued. I dont know who pended this video but maybe try thinking a little more about what that movie is conveying. Maybe think a little more phychologically?
@paulelroy6650
7 ай бұрын
In what way did Triangle of Sadness loose it or give up. Atleast give a fucking reason for your picks.
@janders79
6 ай бұрын
Who tf is Jem? Is she writing her own stuff? I've watched two of her videos now and just yucko. Feels like WC is delving back into cringe counts. Bad look... again.
@danielestrada5479
7 ай бұрын
What are you talking about a lot of villains use iPhones
@joeldfisher
7 ай бұрын
getting a bit tired of Whatculture lists that expose the stupidity of the writer
@kimberlyjeanne9456
7 ай бұрын
Sorry but I think it's What Culture that has fallen apart
@CinnamonQuills
6 ай бұрын
I guess throwing in a few objectively terrible takes is one way to up engagement on the video...
@georgejorden6269
7 ай бұрын
Apple Entertainment Studios Present "Another Scary Horror Movie" Scene All the characters are locked in a room trying to determine who the bad guy is Person #1 : "I'm not the bad guy nor can I die - I have an iPhone" Person #2 : "I'm not the bad guy nor can I die - I have an iPhone" Person #3 : "I'm not the bad guy nor can I die - I have an iPhone" Person #4 : "I'm not the bad guy nor can I die - I have an iPhone" Person #5 : "I'm not the bad guy nor can I die - I have an iPhone" Person #6 : "uhh... I have an Android"
@saxonde68
7 ай бұрын
This is perhaps the worst list produced by What Culture in at least a year…
@samk7611
7 ай бұрын
Equalizer had a pretty good final act to end the series.
@peterproductions5015
7 ай бұрын
The Menu was awesome, but alright. 💀
@Phamousman
7 ай бұрын
Fast X is a 2 parter, its not supposed to have an ending
@coreycasciano3255
7 ай бұрын
Still doesn’t explain why it was fucking terrible, worst fast and furious film yet
@knowbody44
7 ай бұрын
Wtf, it's saw not sar and also it's Julia not Julier
@lemuntpicard7482
2 ай бұрын
Yet again Britain's underestimating the dumbness of one of their colony!
@caseykiesling4348
7 ай бұрын
Anyone else hear the pronunciation of “Gazelle” instead of Giselle
@Dtgray12
7 ай бұрын
The creator better be on this list.
@wpdougie2180
7 ай бұрын
Strongly disagree about Don't look up. Did the author and narrator miss the entire Pandemic. People and the government acted very stupidly. Talking about "it's hard to believe that would happen" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Tell me you're not American without telling me you're not American.
@brianartillery
7 ай бұрын
As I have never heard of any of these movies, and now have no intention of ever seeing any of them, I see this as an absolute win.
@theoriginalThud
7 ай бұрын
You are way off base on The Menu.
@EverythingAnimePodcast
7 ай бұрын
Glad me and my brother weren’t the only ones to think eqaulizer 3 ending was dumb and bland… even the beginning made it seem like he was going to strugglw
@georgejorden6269
7 ай бұрын
One solution to the final act dates back to the ancient Greeks - Deus ex machina ("god from the machine"). A writer would find themselves in a position of having no final act or resolution to a problem. Basically some external force or being steps in and solves the problem. I remember an old French Zombie B or C movie (dubbed into English). The move had several title. The one I rented was call La cité des morts (City Of The Dead). I was on a low budget Zombie Movie (Back in the VHS Tape days) kick one day and rented several movies. I remember City Of The Dead (to some extent) - Basically a scientist and several others land in Paris. Can't remember why. First Act - Beginning - he meets up with some colleagues and of course meets and have a relationship with beautiful women. First Act - Ending - A Zombie outbreak occurs. Second Act - Beginning - Scientist and woman evade and fight Zombies with the goal of going to an airfield and flying a plane out of Paris. Second Act - Ending - Scientist and woman make it to airfield. Yards away from airplane when they are surrounded by Zombies with no way to make it to airplane. Third Act - Beginning - Scientist and woman are bout to meet their demise. Third Act - Ending - Scientist is awaken on a plane by a flight attendant. The plane is about to land in Paris. It was all a dream or was it a premonition. Movie ends with plane landing. The cut to credits. Lame.
@DarkJak
7 ай бұрын
Agree with your top 2 picks and Fast X. No to the rest.
@marioben7
7 ай бұрын
next time change narrators, her delivery is annoying af (she sounds bored and annoyed)
@jamespope7669
7 ай бұрын
It wasn't the ending of candyman that was stupid, the whole movie was 💩
@Seneca84
7 ай бұрын
This list is complete rubbish. There's always different opinions but... Don't look up? Triangle of sadness? The problem here is not the ending of the movie but your inability to understand movies.
@TheBaltimoreMovieTrailerPark
7 ай бұрын
The Menu, The Equalizer 3, Triangle of Sadness, Candyman…what the hell’s going on with y’all over there in that office of yours? What are you huffing, petrol fumes!? This list is so cap that it seems that it’s covering its bald spot! Reading the comments told me everything I needed to hear and that is to stop watching now before I go crazy.
@freshparkfilms
7 ай бұрын
5:17 um u do realize this is a comedy right 😅 who would take this serious?! I love it! 😊
@codygoodson
7 ай бұрын
Here for scream 6
@TheOnlyGuermo
7 ай бұрын
First from of this video I thought the lady was wearing a DIY Optimus Prime costume.
@roberttapley6425
7 ай бұрын
very true about The Equalizer 3, worst of the 3
@MrFinster53
7 ай бұрын
With the Blackening, I thought Fowler's performance was really good because its against type. Also, you can call Clifton being the villain way before he dies. When the game first gets started, the camera keeps cutting and focusing on him and hes the only one that talks everyone into playing the game. Beyond that, the ending was typical slasher 3rd act fodder. Also I'm not sure if the writer of the list understood Candyman, and I didnt even like the movie. William wasnt behind turning Anthony into Candyman. However, his turn into a fanatic, mustache twirling villain is still dumb. Also, they butchered the story of Candyman and long before the 3rd act (but definitely in the that act) you could tell there was a lot left on the editing floor. Especially when considering what was shown in the early trailers.
@fredcap9391
7 ай бұрын
Something that i would love to see in fast&frs bla bla series is the twist that everyone will hate. All characters are dead since movie 5 and that is why they never get hurt and all comeback and Dom, vin diesel, has been in a coma ever since dreaming all the adventures. The end. 😂😂😂
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