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Better With Bob?
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Добавлен 3 ноя 2018
Bobby Calloway examines film and television through video essays, currently focusing on appreciation of the pioneering 1998 supernatural drama series 'Charmed', and its characters and episodes.
He's also an actor and filmmaker, and his other work can be found here:
ruclips.net/user/bobbycalloway
He's also an actor and filmmaker, and his other work can be found here:
ruclips.net/user/bobbycalloway
Did Anastasia Work?
Dedicated to my friend @CedricGegel1 who is killing it in the musical right now
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One of the most notable non-Disney princess films of the 90s...
NOTE: I recorded the voiceover while recovering from a headache, so I messed up and pronounced Alexei's name wrong a couple of times
If anyone wants to check out the documentary Russia's Lost Princesses:
ruclips.net/video/weqzHPeimV8/видео.html
And the National Geographic special on the missing bodies:
ruclips.net/video/wRWSIUQfahI/видео.html
Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: audionautix.com/
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If anyone wants to support me on Ko-Fi:
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One of the most notable non-Disney princess films of the 90s...
NOTE: I recorded the voiceover while recovering from a headache, so I messed up and pronounced Alexei's name wrong a couple of times
If anyone wants to check out the documentary Russia's Lost Princesses:
ruclips.net/video/weqzHPeimV8/видео.html
And the National Geographic special on the missing bodies:
ruclips.net/video/wRWSIUQfahI/видео.html
Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: audionautix.com/
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Time to Defend the Daredevil Movie
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Dedicated to the great @songweretson1513 who requested this video. Also I mispronounced Yara Zayd's name, mistakenly remembering it as 'zye-eed', not catching that until just now. Time to give the devil his due, or specifically the devil with 29 minutes restored in a certain director's cut... If y'all want to support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/betterwithbob And if you want to keep up with me on the...
Defending Every Disney Princess (Except Tiana)
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Mild CW: Discussions of abuse, consent and racism If anyone wants to support me on Ko-Fi with a one time donation: ko-fi.com/betterwithbob And if anyone wants to see more of Two Women Talking, you can find it @RedLianaK Song's channel can also be found @songweretson1513 And if you want to keep up with me on the old socials... @bobbyiceman - Twitter and TikTok #thelittlemermaid #sleepingbeauty #...
Looking Back at King Arthur 2004
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#keiraknightley #cliveowen #kingarthur RIP to Ray Stevenson, we'll miss you forever Yet another of these historical action films released in 2004, this one took a 'truth behind the legend' approach to the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, and was not received well, but has its fans all these years later... Here's a link to that interview with Keira Knightley: www.phase9...
Is Divergent 'Good Actually'?
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Yep, this is my trash, and I kinda sorta think it's great If anyone wants to support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/betterwithbob Here's a link to Ashley Ann Haynes's essay: dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/ba777cd4-8fbc-4934-83b9-fa0b8ba02954 And the Lindsay Ellis articles: www.themarysue.com/post-apocalyptic-part-1/ www.themarysue.com/post-apocalyptic-part-two/ And if you want to keep up with ...
Rise of the Lycans | The Right Way to Do a Prequel
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Rise of the Lycans | The Right Way to Do a Prequel
Greta Gerwig And Her Cinematic Crutches
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Greta Gerwig And Her Cinematic Crutches
Charmed | Was There A Leo Problem?
Просмотров 46 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Charmed | Was There A Leo Problem?
Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | A Witch's Tail
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Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | A Witch's Tail
Snow White & The Huntsman Is Better Than You Remember
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Snow White & The Huntsman Is Better Than You Remember
Spartacus: Blood & Sand | Kill Them All | Anatomy of an Episode
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Spartacus: Blood & Sand | Kill Them All | Anatomy of an Episode
In Defence of GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Просмотров 92 тыс.9 месяцев назад
In Defence of GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
I Have...Thoughts About Bram Stoker's Dracula
Просмотров 65 тыс.9 месяцев назад
I Have...Thoughts About Bram Stoker's Dracula
Charmed | All Halliwell's Eve | Anatomy of an Episode
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Charmed | All Halliwell's Eve | Anatomy of an Episode
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Halloween | Anatomy of an Episode
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Halloween | Anatomy of an Episode
Van Helsing Is Better Than You Remember
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Van Helsing Is Better Than You Remember
Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | The Lost Picture Show
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Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | The Lost Picture Show
Charmed | The Phoebe Problem (and How They Fixed It)
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Charmed | The Phoebe Problem (and How They Fixed It)
Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | The Jung & the Restless
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Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | The Jung & the Restless
Once Upon a Time | How Zelena Became My Favourite Character
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Once Upon a Time | How Zelena Became My Favourite Character
Charmed | Anatomy of a Two-Parter | We're Off To See the Wizard and Long Live the Queen
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Charmed | Anatomy of a Two-Parter | We're Off To See the Wizard and Long Live the Queen
Charmed | Chick Flick | Anatomy of an Episode
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Charmed | Chick Flick | Anatomy of an Episode
Charmed | Sin Francisco | Anatomy of an Episode
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Charmed | Sin Francisco | Anatomy of an Episode
Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | Witchstock
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Charmed | Anatomy of an Episode | Witchstock
this movie is genuinely one of my favourites (only beaten by The Mummy!). it actually UNDERSTOOD what the source materials vibes were trying to do!! we HAD a "dark universe" and then fucking Tom Cruise ruined it.
@@theredqveen eh from the sounds of it, the director of the 2017 movie was out of his depth and Cruise was trying to salvage things but I get your meaning
@@BetterWithBob That's totally fair... I am unfairly biased against Tom Cruise just because I dislike him. 😂 But he did take the premise of The Mummy and make it all about him. I was just going to add to my original comment that Richard Roxburgh absolutely EATS every scene he's in. And I can quote not only the actual script of the movie but even the entire commentary 😂 at some point I only had access to dvds of The Mummy, Van Helsing and a very obscure British sitcom called Coupling. The world before streaming exhaustion was very different haha
Brilliant detailed analysis. Thank you. Depicting the significance of this amazing film at the time: post World War 2 , US / Japanse relations - political back drop of Civil Rights movement and racial politics. Just wished Joshua Logan was bolder and had cast a Japanese actor in the male role, instead of Mexican actor, Ricardo Montalban - the casting almost undoes the intentions of the director's vision. However, it is not as bad as Micky Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany's!! Thank goodness Audrey Hepburn turned down the central role Japanese female role. Totally agree Myosi Umeki does a good job of an unwritten part. She is fantastic as is Red Buttons, they work together so well. A great film, headed by a strong lead actor , probably one of Brando's last best roles before his demise of mainly thrashy roles and films in the 60's before his legendary comeback with The Godfather.
I don't like Leo, but I certainly dislike Dan WAYYY more 😂
I genuinely love all the sisters, and my favourite sister when I first watched Charmed as a young teenager was Phoebe because I saw myself the most in her, but as I get older, I actually find myself sympathising with Prue more and more. My biggest issue is her hypocrisy, but I am definitely biased because I'm a huge Cole defender 😂
Watching Johnny Depp play as Ichabod Crane in sleepy hollows made me feel frustrated. Thinking of what could've been had he was cast as Jonathan
it's been so long since we had a charmed video, will you grace us with a new one?
I really enjoyed the movie too 😁
I think it was just my headcanon but I always thought Aleera and Anna were connected somehow. The way she seems particularly catty with her, her playfulness, even the sexual innuendo of them. I always thought perhaps the two had been friends and Aleera had been taken as a bride in the recent past and her behavior with Anna was the normal hyperbisexuality of a vampire. A callback to Lucy becoming a little more sexual and flirty with Mina even in the modern adaptations.
In my book Charlie hunnam is best known for green street hooligans, him and frodo watching soccer and beating people up. Great movie When bishop germanus says "no doubt" I always expected him to start bobbing his head to a no doubt song
@@bryanmatthews2370 aha I used to know a gal who was obsessed with Sons of Anarchy so yknow
I loved this movie when it came out, a few years later when I got it on dvd, and I still love it.
What a perfect video! Can we get married and dance to the instrumental version of ‘Once Upon a December’ forever and ever? Loved it! Thank you so much! But how can the best line in film history be missing… “She's a goddamn liar! God only knows why, like that russian babe, Anesthesia!”
Where's that from?
@@BetterWithBob Titanic 😱😱😱
Jasmine is a main character not the title character there is a difference between the two
The movie got a certain amount of negative press and buzz from it's anti-Christian tone, e.g. talk about Pelagius and most of the Christians depicted were corrupt or otherwise unsympathetic.
28:04 My favorite part of the series was watching Baccara throw a fireball at Phoebe, turning her into a pile of ashes. I wish Leo could have orbed in then and kept Paige from being vanquished as well.
We all know that Cats Don't Dance is the best musical animated film of '97
@@nicklundy9965 yesssss!!!
@@BetterWithBob I believe "When you believe"(Whitney Houston Mariah Carey), Journey to the Past(Aliyah) and Reflection (Christina Agulerra) with Tarzan ost are the peak of the late 90s animated films pop ballads. Having having heavy hitters at the peak of of this era Is one we probably will never see again. Maybe Frozen ( but I prefer Menzel over Lavato)
Alyssa was always the problem. She couldn't handle not being the star behind the scenes, we all watched because of Shannon Doherty(RIP) and her star power. That coupled with the fact that Shannon and Holly had been good friends for years made her feel outnumbered. And it was Phoebe's selfishness that cost Prue to lose her life. So, no Phoebe wasn't well liked until season 5, she was hated by the end of season 3. And season 4 is the absolute worst, the sister's barely have any power and their reliance on Cole is way too much.
As samone has stated already, I'm 100% with you that its tremendously rewatchable movie. Even rewatching particular scenes with the right mood gives me transcendentic feeling. I mean the guy had to have this in mind making it right?!
You do have a unique perspective about movies Van Helsing Daredevil These are movies which entertained people. Which must be the primary objective of movies. This single FUN factor is missing from current films. Thank you Bro
I regret having missed seeing this in theaters when it first came out!!! I was 12 and thought that I was getting too old for "animated kids films." Then in 2022, on the film's 25th anniversary, I watched it for the first time (someone uploaded it to YT, so I watched it for free)... and automatically fell in LOVE with it!!! Next time it comes back to the big screen, I SWEAR I won't miss it!!! Apart from Disney, Don Bluth was for me the only other big name in animation whose movies in my very early childhood during the 90's were like dreams come true. THE LAND BEFORE TIME is my Top Favorite Film of his and in my Top 💯 Favorite Films of All Time, but THE SECRET OF NIMH is close behind and ANASTASIA comes a very respectable 3rd - all three films are in my Top 15 Animated Films of All Time! Even ROCK A DOODLE is a guilty pleasure. What I love most about ANASTASIA - and Don Bluth's work in general - is how he goes for a darker, edgier, more adult vibe even when he's clearly following the Disney mold. I always admire when certain animated films and their creators go their own way instead of directly imitating a giant, not only in format & styles but also appealing to more than kids, which is especially true for animated adult film favorites of mine like AKIRA, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (which I strongly prefer to THE TEN COMMANDMENTS), WATERSHIP DOWN, FANTASTIC PLANET, HEAVY METAL, THE WIND RISES and FIRE AND ICE. The characters and situations here are relatable to both children and adults - if you pardon the talking animals and supernatural elements, which are still taken very seriously - the animation styles, the music, the voice talent, the visual depictions of the Bolshevik Revolution and Roaring 20's Paris (Roaring 20's going centennial, baby!!!), even the technical ambitions like shooting using actual CinemaScope lenses (2.55:1) for the first time in decades!!! That, and elements of David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (which I first saw on the big screen in 2003 screened from a 65mm negative during a summer filmmaking course for high school students at NC-School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, where I made my first short film) and Lerner & Lowes musicals thrown in for more than just good measure! (Just as a side note, I also missed seeing TITANIC in theaters in '97, but managed to see it for the first time back on the big screen from a 65mm negative at NC-School of the Arts during 2003 - unsurprisingly, the only teenage boy among a handful of girls studying under the same department & others during the arts summer program for high school students.) And yeah, I know it's historically inaccurate - confound it all, I love it though!!! Personally, "In the Dark of the Night" is my favorite evil villain song (how can you NOT love a evil villain song that has the lyric "Terror's the LEAST I can do!"?). Even "Once Upon A December" has become a Christmas favorite - they play the instrumental version as part of the accompanying music at the annual Winter Lights exhibit every November to December at the NC Arboretum here in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina!!!
Yes!! This is my favourite movie of all time
How about a video on Encanto? Technecly Mirabel is a DP as well.
"You can tell a lot about someone based on who their favorite is" If it's Ariel, they're trans.
27:09 The term intellectuals is funny, because you used it as a title. When its definition meaning is a degrading term of someone taking something simple and overcomplicating it. I honestly think critics who claim to be 'intellectuals' opinions worthless anyways, but thought it was interesting how you used it. I really like your videos, not because your an 'intellectual' or 'critic', but because you seem to be a everyday person just talking about things they enjoy.
Calling 'Troy' 'commercial' & lowbrow, then progressing to the dull, predictable shit-pile of 'Inglourious Basterds' (with 'Django Unchained', Tarantino's two worst films, though 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' is Tarantino, and Pitt, at their best), suggests Pitt has little interest in history or mythology, & was unknowingly portraying a sulking meta-version of Achilles over being forced into a film project due to contractual obligations... much like the Suitor's Pact that drew Achilles into Agamemnon's siege of Troy. And then of course, you've got the injured Achilles tendon, and the destruction of film sets due to the rage of Greek Gods being cut from the script. It's a shame Pitt couldn't see it was a role he was fated for, & not merely feted for.
Before I even watch this, I'm impressed you can say "because it kicks ass" for forty minutes. Let's do this!!!
This video is everything I've wanted to say and more! Also sorry about the flack you're getting about Tiana, just know some of us agree with you.
Thank you for the common sense I do have brain damage however I was born with terrible pulse but I feel like I have more common sense than some people nowadays
Robert Vaughn's character has PTSD!
Shanne was the best actress of charmed. Her acting was just something different and unique!!
Escape Bob
Honestly, Troy is one of my favorite movies when I was growing up. It's also the reason for my crush on Diane Kruger lol
I feel ya on that one lol
I have far more respect for this movie than most of the films based on "true stories" out there today.
(I shouldn't comment before finishing the video but) Aren't all the feminists who criticize disney princesses for doing traditionally feminine things like cleaning, cooking, singing, wearing dresses, etc, a bit... Anti-feminism?
I REALLY wish they'd followed up with an "Odyssey" movie with the same actor, Sean Bean. He's not too old, MAKE THE BLOODY MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And even with digital de-aging technology, the world is their oyster XD
It sucks that Tiana was an animal for a majority of her movie regardless of her good, albeit pretty stereotypical and predictable, character traits and attributes (she's a "hard worker" and "a good cook"). She has more, but those are the biggest 2 people always reference when they talk about why they like her or why she's good or different from the other princess archetypes. I can look past her being poor, overworked (the girl literally didn't sleep hopping between 2 separate jobs everyday having no time for socializing and friends), and even having to face classism and racism (while living in the jim crow deep south in the 1920s), but they at least could have had the wherewithal to keep her a full human being for her story because her actual character design was beautiful. It was just disappointing. And I know a lot of people were underwhelmed since she was the first Black princess. Many were on the fence because they were happy to just have a princess who looks like them even though they weren't thrilled she was an animal most of the film, so they were conflicted. The voice acting and music were definitely a high point of the movie.
The part on the ship where the bullet holes keep getting closer to Rick as he's focused on reloading his revolvers and then Evie moves his head one more time so he doesn't getting shot is just pure gold. This film is a 12/10 any day of the week.
You speak le truth
I was vibing so hard until 35:00
I meeeaaan have your opinion, but that is a crazy statement-- just because the title is a token to the character who is based on a REAL person, doesn't make the story acceptable. You are not Native American, nor am I. Pocahontas is the only Disney princess movie that I first saw as a teenager and didn't grow up with; I completely missed it growing up in rural Australia. It is well known that white people (born in the country that displaced the titular character and her people) made the inappropriate romeo-and-juliet-eque story,. Just look up who wrote the screen play, and watch the movie to see how the character of John Smith and plot is unapologetically colonial through out... I had a yucky feeling watching it, even before the abominable sequel, which (if you are a fan of the original) I understand that you wouldn't want it being associated with the first story, but honey.... the first is also pretty bad. If it were about an alien race, like Avatar (that you referenced), OR a fantasy race, like in Fern Gully, then it's it's social commentary, but don't mistake the use of an actual abused historical figure, and a gentle take on Western Colonialism, as being a strong Disney story. You can think it is strong, and maybe I'm so shocked you think the characters and plot are so worthy, because I thought the movie as whole was weak at best, with poor sidekicks and musical numbers- apart from Colors of the Wind, which I had heard before watching... so I expected the movie to be far better in it's terrible plot and morale.
Sleeping Beauty is just the absolute best. ❤ Aurora is an incredible character and the fairies are my favorite. And the music. Also really love Cinderella. Disney has a lot of amazing Princesses but none as good as the original 3.
I think I fell a little bit in love with Hayley Mills the first time I watched this
Seeing this as a kid in the cinema it was amazing and opened my mind to archeology and egypt and my fascination with history , absolutely love this movie!10/10
If I were asked to start with Arthurian Legend it would probably be Uther getting Merlin to disguise himself as someone else so he could seduce the wife while the husband was away. (but if you want to know what adaptation sticks with me the most it's T.H. White's The Once and Future King, aka. the book the disney movie was based on)
I loved the 1994's Little Women, and I read the book, today one of my favorites, because of that version. Unfortunately, I hated Greta Gerwig version, because of these reasons: 1 - the "non-linear" estructure of the script, that alternates between the present and the past. This option turned the story more tiring and difficult to watch. 2 - the way that she intensified the rivaltry between Amy and Jo, that originally only occurred in that episode of the manuscript when they were teens. 3 - the changes that she did on the Profesor Bhaer, one of my favorite characters of the story. Not only she turned him french instead of german, but she altered the scene where he criticized the sensacionalistic tales that she wrotes, making his behavior more agressive and intolerant (at the book, he only said to her that was bad literature, without give her any glance that he was suspicious of what she was writing). And I suspect that these changes were proposital, to make the spectators of the story antipathize him and accept her end to the story, where Jo was alone and published her book with a "false end", where Jo is married with Profesor Bhaer and teaching at Plumfield with him. I'm really worried with the possibility of what she will do when she will direct "Narnia" or what she inserted at the script of the live action of Snow White. Based on that she did before, the possibilities to the future aren't much positives.
“ A one note psycho that must be stopped” shows Jacob 😭😂💀
@@Simi_Tutu I'm so giddy that joke landed 😆
During the 2010's I started to dislike the disney princesses but after I became Catholic, I watched them again and realized the princesses were really loveable and feminine and well written. They didn't all have the "awkward quirky adorkable" personalities like Rapunzel, Anna, the girl from Encanto, Moana, Raya, and Wish.
The stage musical was really good!
@@Grace_Reads oh cool, hopefully it comes here at some point
@@BetterWithBob, hopefully!
I never thought that Phoebe was unlikeable. I thought that Paige took over the baby girl role, which put Phoebe in the middle. Phoebe was a flake, and that is what she played throughout the show.
Prue she not coming back never .page make Prue fired 5:15
Feminists only think it's empowering when women go around acting like men and demean other women for choosing to be feminine.
3:25 Why is someone dissing another person for being nice?
I've always loved underworld since I was a child. Kate Beckinsale, Michael Sheen.