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Video #36157 · Graphic Yap

Rant critiquing modern movie trendsfrom @womp_tomp

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Overview

The creator delivers a passionate rant arguing that modern Hollywood movies are unoriginal, formulaic, and appeal to the lowest common denominator. He uses a series of sarcastic, hypothetical movie pitches—combining existing franchises and actors in absurd ways—to illustrate his point. He criticizes the reliance on sequels, reboots, and over-the-top, sensory-overloading visuals and sound design, questioning why audiences are treated like "cattle."

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Simple outline

  1. 1Pose a relatable, critical question
  2. 2Fire off hyperbolic examples
  3. 3Diagnose the underlying problem
  4. 4End with a unifying lament

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Related videos

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Classification

Concepts
Cultural RantHot Take
Elements
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Hook analysis

What stops the scroll in the first 3 seconds

Title hook · 55%

WHY DOES EVERY HOLLYWOOD MOVIE TODAY WAS WRITTEN BY A 14 YEAR OLD?

Verbal hook · 40%

Why does every Hollywood movie today feel like it was written by a 14 year old?

Visual hook · 5%

A direct, close-up shot of the speaker looking intently into the camera, creating an immediate and confrontational connection with the viewer.

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Hook and payoff

The promise the opener makes, and how the video pays it back

Hook

A provocative, relatable question that frames a popular complaint as the video's central thesis.

Payoff

The Concluding Lament: Offers a brief glimpse of a positive alternative before ending on a final, powerful rhetorical question that frames the audience as victims of the system being critiqued.

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Narrative framework

The structural pattern this video runs on

Framework

The Exasperated Expert Rant

To validate a shared audience frustration by presenting a rapid-fire series of increasingly absurd or egregious examples, culminating in a diagnosis of the root cause and a final, unifying lament.

  1. 1

    The Absurdist Premise Gauntlet

    Presents a completely fabricated, over-the-top example that immediately and humorously illustrates the core thesis.

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    The Franchise Fatigue Firehose

    Shifts from fabricated ideas to real-world, relatable examples of unoriginality (e.g., endless sequels) to ground the critique in shared experience.

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    The Mashup Madness Pitch

    Combines multiple disparate trends or properties into a single, nonsensical example to satirize the lack of creative coherence.

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    The Systemic Critique

    Broadens the attack from the final product to the surrounding processes (e.g., marketing, trailers), arguing the problem is systemic.

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    The Lowest Common Denominator Takedown

    Identifies and mocks the perceived core motivation behind the flawed products, such as appealing to base instincts or oversimplification for mass appeal.

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    The Core Problem Diagnosis

    Explicitly states the underlying theory for why the problem exists, providing a clear 'aha' moment for the audience.

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    The Emotional Hand-Holding Mockery

    Isolates and ridicules a tiny, specific, and universally recognized element of the problem to show how the audience is being patronized.

Themes

  • cultural decline
  • artistic integrity
  • consumerism
  • media criticism

Techniques

  • satire
  • hyperbole
  • rhetorical questions

Post caption

#politics

Text overlays

  • title · beginning

    WHY DOES EVERY HOLLYWOOD MOVIE TODAY WAS WRITTEN BY A 14 YEAR OLD?

  • contextual · beginning

    WAN KENOBI AND CATWOMAN HAD A FAMILY AND THEN ALIENS KIDNAPPED THEIR FAMILY

  • contextual · beginning

    AND THEN ATTACKED HIM WITH DINOSAURS

  • contextual · middle

    AND THEN HE MADE JOKE ABOUT IF GOD WILL WHY BAD THING HAPPEN

  • contextual · middle

    DO YOU WANT ANOTHER SPIDER MAN MOVIE? DO YOU WANT AN EIGHTH TERMINATOR MOVIE?

  • contextual · middle

    TOOK THE PUNISHER AND THE SPIDER MAN AND WE PUT THEM IN THE ODYSSEY

  • contextual · middle

    MADE IT LOOK LIKE THE MAZE RUNNER... AND THEN MADE ACHILLES TRANSGENDER?

  • contextual · middle

    WHO IS PITCHING THIS STUFF?

  • contextual · middle

    THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT LUST. IT'S ABOUT LUST. WE'RE NOT EVEN APOLOGIZING. IT'S LUSTFUL.

  • contextual · end

    DO YOU WANNA SEE A MOVIE ABOUT PEOPLE? HORNY PEOPLE? ARE YOU HORNY?

  • contextual · end

    WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE A THEME PARK RIDE LOW COMMON DENOMINATOR.

  • contextual · end

    WHY ARE WE CATTLE?

Transcript

Why does every Hollywood movie today feel like it was written by a 14 year old? What if Obi Rank Kenobi and Catwoman had a family, and then aliens kidnapped a family, and then attacked them with dinosaurs, and then he made joke about if Good will, why bad thing happened? No you guys want another Spider Man movie? Do you want an eighth Tomonado movie? No Schwarzenegger is only like 96 years old. Get him back in there. What if we took to Punisher and to Spider rank, and we put them in the Odyssey, made it look like the Maze Runner for some reason, and then made Achilles' transgender? Who is pitching this stuff? Stuff? I we saw the New Evil Dead in every trailer that before the movie yes was, like, the stimmiest parts of the movie best thrown at you, like you're a pig being fed out of a trough. This movie is about lust. It's about lust. We're not even apologizing. It's lustful. Did you want do you wanna see a movie about people? Horny people. Are you horny? Look at how horny these cops are. Look at how they're gonna chase each other around in cars. And, you know, they all there's a scene in it when they all get woodies. Why must everything be a theme park ride? Low common denominator, Even in the movies. Why do they feel like I'm not gonna pay attention unless they do something like stimmy every three seconds? When something scary happens, they no, dun dun dun dun. Like, you don't know how to feel. Obsession proved you can have a decent movie that people will still go to watch. Why are we cattle?

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