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7 Movie Reviews in Four Minutes

2022-07-01 · review / recommendation · Hank · 3:35 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Pop culture (also: Personal life) · mode: Advice & reviews

Stuck in a hotel room for a week with COVID, Hank reviews the seven movies he watched (Dune, Shang-Chi, In and Of Itself, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Lighthouse, Detective Pikachu and Palm Springs), counting how often each made him cry.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Hank has COVID and has not left his hotel child suite for a week

  • ★★★ Hank has COVID and has not left his hotel room in about a week; instead of getting a lot done, it has meant little motivation and a lot of sleep. — 00:00:00 · COVID-19 pandemic
  • ★ Hank jokes that his child suite offers quite a long walk from one end of the room to the other, and he spent time in the top bunk to alleviate boredom. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Six movies in five and a half years, then seven quick movie reviews with cry counts

  • ★★ Hank thinks he has seen six movies in the five and a half years since Orin was born (Parasite, Knives Out, Little Women, Coco, Encanto, Into the Spider-Verse) and decided to double that in days. (hedged) — 00:00:29 · Orin Green
  • ★★ Watching Dune while feverish, Hank found it felt a lot like every other Dune thing he has consumed, but accepts that it looks very good; he will watch the next one and cried once. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Hank really loved Shang-Chi and was really in it; he cried twice, once because of Katy and once because of a dragon. — 00:00:58
  • ★★ Hank started to think he may be a bit over superhero movies turning every plot point into a fight or chase scene, though that is the point of the genre and not Shang-Chi's fault. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★★★ Derek DelGaudio's In and Of Itself, suggested by Sam Reich, was maybe the best thing Hank has ever seen: a live one-man show that held his attention better than Shang-Chi's fight scenes. (hedged) — 00:01:27
  • ★★★ Hank says Everything Everywhere All at Once is not just a cerebral sci-fi kung fu thriller, hilarious and absurd, but about the only thing that matters: people loving each other; he cried double-digit times. — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Hank says The Lighthouse is really good at letting you know what being insane feels like, yet it put him to sleep; he did not cry. — 00:02:26
  • ★★ Knowing little about Pokémon, Hank found Detective Pikachu a similar fever dream and was delighted; Pikachu's voice actor gets an A-plus, and it almost made him cry. — 00:02:55
  • ★★ Palm Springs, recommended by Craig Benzine, is not just Groundhog Day again but very different, funny, touching and extremely clever; Hank liked it a lot and cried once. — 00:02:55 · Craig Benzine

In the description and comments

  • ★★★ The description says Hank rarely thinks about movies because he consumes so much from independent creators, and movies make him cry because they are a far more effective medium for conveying emotion. — video description
  • ★★ The description says Hank has been testing negative for a few days and is back home; the video was made while he was trapped in a hotel room for a week. — video description
  • ★★ The description says Hank next watched Annihilation, far outside his usual viewing; he loves Jeff VanderMeer's books, and it captured their bizarrity; he loved it and cried twice. — video description
  • ★★ In a comment John says that when Hank tested positive but felt fine, John told him to retest because of false positives; Hank then texted that he now had double Covid. — creator comment · Hank Green, COVID-19 pandemic
  • ★ In a comment Hank says his favourite part of In and Of Itself was that its magic was used not to amaze but to give gifts to people. — creator comment

Humor (significant)

  • Confined for a week, Hank describes the size of his hotel child suite — 00:00:00

    “there's quite a long walk I can do, just from one end of the room to the other.”

  • Having called a magic show maybe the best thing he has ever seen, Hank gives its cry count — 00:01:56

    “I cried maybe 300 times”

  • Recapping Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hank addresses John about one detail — 00:01:56

    “And those rocks. The rocks, John.”

  • Hank fell asleep during The Lighthouse, a film about going insane — 00:02:26

    “Like, what, what about that did you find relaxing?”

Mentioned

Central: Dune · Everything Everywhere All at Once · In & Of Itself · Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Also: People: Orin Green

Works: Coco · Encanto · Groundhog Day · Knives Out · Little Women · Palm Springs · Parasite · Pokémon · Pokémon Detective Pikachu · Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · The Lighthouse

Concepts: love

Events: COVID-19 pandemic

Characters: Katy · Pikachu

Only in the description or credits: Annihilation · Craig Benzine · Derek DelGaudio · Jeff VanderMeer · Sam Reich

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