[YMS] So I just saw It Follows and it was pretty good.
And in an age where people often dramatically over inflate
the quality of horror movies because
A. It scared them, and B. most horror movies that come out are complete shit.
I'm happy to say that this one was actually pretty impressive.
A very important aspect in a horror movie, such as this one, is tone.
And the tone of this film is one of it's defining features.
Much of the tone is brought out through the film's fantastic soundtrack
Giving us the perfect blend
of both modern synth and 80s retro
with, almost, kind of a chiptune feel at certain points.
The cinematography is not only great in terms of shot composition
but it's great in the sense that it doesn't contradict the tone that the film is trying to emphasize.
The stationary shots are often close and visceral,
giving you, not only eye candy, but also leaving a hint of claustrophobia.
And if the camera moves or zooms,
It usually does so at a slow creeping pace.
It's no coincidence that the main villain of the film moves
at a slow creeping pace.
This same tone is also expressed through the title at the end of the
official international trailer.
The choices that are made for the film are ones that fit the film
and that's something that I really appreciate.
Not only that, but this film was made for only 2 million dollars.
Thanks to, not only how it was shot but, how professional and impressive
all of the special effects were.
The final product seems like it's something close to the 10 million dollar range.
Unlike another over-hyped horror movie
from last year that cost 2.5 million
but wound up looking like a 1 million dollar movie.
Both of these films were over-hyped and flawed but It-Follows made up for it
in it's execution.
Before you freak out the difference in my rating between the films
is literally one point.
A surprising amount of the film was shot outside where, as a director,
you have significantly more variables to account for.
Because of this, many low budget films often try to keep things as indoors
as possible.
And, whereas it doesn't detract from a movie to do that,
it certainly impresses to see a movie skillfully avoid that.
And it does so right from the opening shot. Not only is it filmed at dusk, when you have
an extremely limited amount of time to get the shot before its too dark but
the shot goes on seamlessly for a whopping two minuets.
Complete with actor movement, camera panning, slow zoom and dialogue.
And it's all done so fluidly and professionally, that you never feel
as though any moment where they slipped up because of the films budget.
It's this type of successful ambition that,
not only impresses me but, makes the movie feel so much bigger
then it actually is.
Another thing I like about the film is it rewards you for
paying close attention.
In certain shots, there's very creepy and unnerving things that you can notice
in the frame.
And it makes it that much creepier when you're the one actually noticing it.
Rather than the film explaining it too you through dialogue or
obvious cues. It's refreshing to feel as though you're observing the characters
omniciantly, rather than the film
dumbing it down for you and thus reminding you
that you're an audience member.
Now, some of the flaws in It Follows can be attributed to be homages of
80s horror film tropes. And no that's not just something
I pulled out of my ass.
It's something that the director himself acknowledges.
[Mitchell] We're not really sure what it is that she's running from,
uhh, what she's scared of. Maybe a play on a bit of a
horror cliche. so- some of this, right down to the-
the wardrobe, umm, is a-
I mean, she's in high heels which, umm uhh, I've had some people sort of point out
questioning, uhh er, does that make a lot of sense? And the answer is no.
It's probably- uhh, is definitely a bit of a- a play on, umm
uhh, the conventions of horror, um, all the way
back to referencing women in peril from
even De Palma movies, for instance.
[YMS] so, whereas one could argue that changing those elements
could have made the film better,
at least there's argument to be made tat those flaws
didn't go against the directors intent.
There are other flaws in the film that, regardless of intent, I'm going to argue
would have made the film better if they'd been changed.
But those are best left for spoiler talk.
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I think one of the biggest things that detracted from the film is how
inconsistent the rules were at certain points.
The information we were given is that, it's not only walking slowly but,
it's always walking.
Yet, in the scene at the lake right after it breaks the door,
It follows her out of the building so closely that it either would have had to
run for a bit or teleport.
which also doesn't help the fact that, right after when she crashes the car,
she wakes up in the hospital leaving me wondering how it didn't catch up to her
while she was unconscious.
I guess we have to assume her friends immediately
took her out of the vehicle
and that the truck driver she almost ran into was nice enough
to drive them to the hospital.
If that's what they were going for then it could have been communicated a little better
without things being dumbed down.
I mean, It's weird that even the main character
wouldn't ask how she got out of that one.
Also, it kinda took me out of the movie when I saw it standing on a roof.
Because A. at what point would it make sense for it to go on a roof
to try and get closer to her,
and B. I thought it was supposed to be walking. If it can stand places then why
doesn't it just stay in a room and wait for her to come back?
It took me out of the film even more because of how obvious it was to
instantly know why they decided to do that.
I mean, come one, the one shot where it's completely stationary and it just so happens
to be the shot where the actor would be seriously injured if they fell.
To remove that problem I would have rather had it slowly walk out from behind that house.
And if they wanted to be more ambitious, they could have gotten a stunt man to
walk on the roof for that brief shot.
And if they wanted to be extra ambitious, maybe even do an effect
where it falls off the roof and continues walking.
Still wouldn’t really explain why it's on the roof in the first place,
but at least they could have turned it into something that looks cool or creepy.
And when I say they could have done it, I'm only saying that because of how extremely
well done the rest of the effects were.
I was honestly expecting the whole movie to go by with all of the action being
implied rather than shown. But, to my surprise, they did not skimp
out by cheating their way around it.
And it made it that much more intense because I wasn’t expecting it.
The makeup, the gore, and the digitally edited effects were all incredibly convincing and used appropriately
And that's something that can rarely be said for films with even ten or
50 times the budget that this one had.
I kind of wish that the films riles and logic were
experimented on a bit more in the story.
Will it go after you if you only participated in oral?
Will it go after two different people if there was double penetration?
Is there a difference if you're wearing a condom?
Is it the penetration or is it the ejaculation?
If you came into a turkey baster and squirted it up someones vagina
would they be cursed?
What about gay sex? What if there was a man train?
What if you lived on a house boat?
What if you crossed the ocean and never came back?
What if you trapped it in a steel reinforced cage?
If you already have sex with somebody but you have sex with somebody else after
that person do both of them get it?
What if the person you had sex with dies in a way that's completely unrelated to the curse?
What if you heavily sedated a shark and then had sex with it
and then set it free in the ocean?
What if there was a man train?
All in all, the films flaws are not only outweighed by
it's achievements but they're outweighed quite a bit.
I'm impressed enough that I'll be keeping an eye out
for this directors next film.
The parts of the film that were implied were done so for the film's benefit
rather than a lame excuse not to film something complicated or expensive.
It was clever, it was absorbing, it was tense and it was fun.
I may not consider it to be a great movie, but I can consider it to be
a great horror movie.
I'll be watching this one again and I'll be recommending it to people I know.
And I'm giving this one a seven out of ten.
Hey guys, just an update. First off no,
this is not an April fools video. I would have liked to have had this video out sooner
but I've been behind scheduled on fucking everything.
Because everything has been coming up at my face.
The Cool Cat review took a lot longer than I thought it would.
But at least you guys can see where all the extra effort went with all those edits I made
and everything. I prefer to release things
that I actually put effort into and not just make a click-bait
ad-farm channel where I release one video a day
and it's all just a bunch of bullshit that I didn't spend any time on.
Because of that, I'm not able to release things as often
as other channels because I am also just one person and
not a team of people. And on top of that
doing my taxes was super complicated this year and took
a few days out of my schedule because this is the first year
that I've been doing this YouTube thing full time.
Thanks to Patreon, thanks to you guys and just remember that also,
my Patreon page is set up in a way that
I'm getting paid per larger review. I'm not getting paid
monthly no matter what I do like some Patreon pages are set up.
That way you guys can know that I have every incentive to be putting out
as many videos on this channel as possible.
but also, at the same time, they have to be larger reviews and not quickies.
So I actually have to put effort into it. So don't think that I
have some sort of incentive to not be doing as much work because
I'm trying to save up as much money as possible.
I'm trying to get together the funds where, in the future,
I can create a feature length film.
First I'll probably create a short film,
just so I know what the fuck I'm doing.
Because I don't want to just walk into it with no
real film experience and create something that's really shitty.
Plus, if I have a short film then, I could use it
as, sort of, like a kickstarter promotional thing
or something to show potential producers or investors.
Anyway, that's pretty far in the future but I'm saving up for it now
because I want to get a head start on things.
I have many things that I want to do in my life
I want to be doing many things at once.
I want to continue doing my music also.
I've got everything going on and so I'm a very very busy person because
I am just one person.
On top of that, I'm the best man for my friends wedding
coming up. So I'm organizing
his bachelor party and that's happening in April and
a bunch of people that are going to be at that bachelor party are from out of Provence
that are old friends that will be
crashing at my place. So I'm kind of hosting people
so it'll be a little difficult to-
to try and do everything around this.
Also, there's like a million birthdays
in April. What the fuck? How many April
babies are there? I'm one of them. My birthday's on the thirteenth.
Don't even know if I'm going to do anything for my birthday though
because I'm really fucking busy.
Seeing Book of Mormon, that's going to be awesome.
It's finally in fuckin' Vancouver. It's finally in Canada.
It was in the States for a while.
Anyway, I've got a looooooooot
of shit going on. Plus my 2013 list that I'll be
releasing in May. I was aiming for April but it has to be pushed back.
There's no fucking way I can get it done in time.
Synecdoche is probably going to be, at least, four parts.
Umm, and then after that, or perhaps
at the same time simultaneously knowing myself, I'll be
working on the next YMS review.
But for now priority is Synecdoche part three
because that has taken- tha- I've put that aside
for way too long to get out that Cool Cat thing because I was like
"There's nothing funny on this channel right now.
I need a dose of stupid"
Which is exactly what I said at the beginning of it.
Anyway, uhh, P.S about cool cat. Uhh,
Daddy Derek has been taking the criticism very well
And we follow each other on twitter right now
and uhh, I- I just- I- I think that that type
of- of positive response to uhh,
something where I'm- I'm kind of, like, trashing and making fun of
Their life's work. I think that that deserves a bit of respect.
Go check out his merchandise. Cool Cat shirts,
They're pussy magnets. I think that that's cool
"Cause if you all remember there was that uhh,
when- when Michael Goi uhh, saw my review for Megan is Missing,
he didn't exactly respond so well.
Uhh...
there's a Imgur link that I'll leave in the video description here.
It's pretty funny.
Anyway, umm, that's pretty much all I was going to say is just stay tuned,
be patient, no matter what you're waiting for on this channel,
some people really like quickie, some people really like my top ten shit,
some people like my analysis videos, some people like YMS, some people lie Thoughts on.
No matter what you're waiting for you have to be patient in some
sort of way because, I mean,
I also have to be patient. Like, no matter what your
expecting out of this channel
you have to have some degree of patience. I can not make things as fast
as channels that A. Don't put as much time and effort into their videos,
and B. Are a group of people and not just one person.
Uhh, so stay tuned. Umm, That's pretty much it.
That's pretty much it. Uhhh, mark's doing a great job on the gaming channel.
Check out the gaming channel. He's the one editing for it so it's not takin'
time out of review shit. I'm just playing the games, that's it.
There's no way I'm givin' up the one or two days a week that I have free time
to play games otherwise I'll go fuckin' insane.
I love you guys.
Uhh, happy... April...
Bye.
[YMS] Hmm.
(Grunting noise)
[YMS] Grunting
(Grunting noise)
[YMS] Smells like burning. (Laughs)
I'm just giving you a little pet pet.
(Grunting noise)
Pet pet in the booty hole.
Alright.
Yeah you never.
Sure you never.