The Life of Chuck Is a MASTERPIECE — So Why Did Everyone Ignore It？ - Error Code Show

0:00 say to start with is basically almost without fail if I see a Stephen King adapted work that is not a horror film right it's pretty much guaranteed to be a banger right like it's gonna be awesome let's run through the list shall we stand by me Shawshank Green Mile right just Just go down those lows. OK. So when I heard that Tom Hiddleston was starring in a Stephen King adapted work called The Life of Chuck. Right. I was like, oh, I got to see this. This looks interesting. And I watched the trailers and I was like, huh, this is these are interesting, but I can't quite tell what this movie is about. Right. I can't I can't quite get there, but I'm going to go see it because again. Non -horror Stephen King. Adapt it. Yep.

0:59 Like I'm going to give it a shot. Right. Why? Because everything else has been so good. Right. And I went and saw Life of Chuck and I texted Jay after I saw it. And Jay, I don't think has still seen it yet, but I will tell you this right now. It is one of the top 10 movies I've seen in the last five years. without breaking a sweat. Right? It's called Life of Chuck. That's right. Somebody in the chat named Chuck. Right? And it is absolutely fucking phenomenal. It's got a great cast. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Karen Gillian.

1:44 Mark Hamill. Right? Who is playing a role that you wouldn't see. Right? Nick Offerman doing the narration of the film. Right like it is Start to finish just a great movie and it's one of those ones You got to sit with you're gonna sit there and watch it be like what did I just watch? right now to be fair to the moviegoing audience because I'm about to yell at you in a minute movie going audience I Don't know how you market this movie, right for me a big movie fan. I go, okay Stephen King, Tom Hiddleston, good looking cast, I'm gonna go see this movie, right? I don't know what it's about, but I got a good feeling.

2:34 And I got a good feeling, and I was like, oh, it'll be good. And even like, Green Mile was good, wasn't great, but it was good. This movie was fucking phenomenal. It was so fucking good. Like, I still am thinking about how good this movie is, right? Is Hiddleston as good as he is in all the other stuff? Better. Even though he doesn't come in until the second act of the movie. It's and you watch this movie in the first third, you're like, what is happening? Oh, Matthew Lillard's in this movie. Like, it's just got just stacked with people. And there's so many little details as you go through it. You're like, oh, oh, I wanted to go see it. I just haven't had time. I was going to go see it again to see What I missed the first time I watched it because what the end I was like, I'm sure I missed stuff I'm a hundred percent positive. I missed stuff Here's where I'm gonna get mad Okay, because I hear movie fans and movie pilots, but movie fans, too, all the time. Everything's a Marvel movie. Everything's this. Everything's that.

3:48 Everything's this. Why can't you guys do something new? Why can't we do something different? It's not Marvel. That's not an action. It's not fast. Mission impossible. Derivative, derivative, derivative. Motherfucker. This movie made eight point four million dollars. Which let me explain to you in this in the world of movies, that is nothing. Nothing. Right. They lost their buttholes on this movie. OK. It's made squat. Everybody gripes about nothing new, nothing original, everything's derivative, everything's crap. It all has to be this big action blockbuster. Right. This is the opposite of an action blockbuster This is the opposite of a Marvel MCU DC you direct all this shit you people complain about but nobody saw the fucking movie Except for like me and like four other people right So I'll say we get these great movies, right? Why do you think Jay?

5:00 Nobody fucking watches them? Well few things one Marketing it's like you said, it's very easy to market a Marvel movie or even wicked Superman Superman anything that you can have like a display of Like at Target is kind of like what I'm thinking if you can create merch and sell it It's probably gonna be pretty good and then also I mean The reason why Marvel movies do so well is that's just like what the general population really is like looking for Like I don't know no one I think like one. Yes, it's marketing and then second The majority of people do you want these like action films? That they can take their children to and like you can take your daughter to a Marvel movie and you're going to enjoy the Marvel movie I'm aware you might not really enjoy the my little pony princess movie. I don't know but Yeah, I I Mean I could get into like a whole kind of rabbit hole of like that's where we're at. Let's rabbit hole We got time you guys and while we're rabbit hole they go and throw in those topics folks Because I I love somebody in the twitch chat just did a great jane silent bob quote Right

6:30 from James Silent Bob strike back. You got to do the safe picture. Then you do the art picture. Then sometimes you got to do the paycheck picture because your friend says you owe him. Love that. Love that quote. Absolutely love that. So thank you for throwing that in there. Nice. Go down your rabbit hole. Here we go. I I think we have fucked ourselves. Sorry. Put the children away. Go ahead and pause this if you're We're demonetized. We're demonetized. I think we have fucked ourselves. Our attention span is getting shorter and shorter. No one can sit or I can't say no one. The majority of people can not sit through a hour and a half or two and a half hour movie. That's a super deep movie that doesn't have like, I don't know.

7:22 Fucking explosions and transformers coming out of. You know someone's tits. I'm sorry But yeah, I think that's why kind of where we're at is the majority of people do not have the attention span to sit through these like really in -depth like movies that make you question and go holy shit like Am I an alien? You know like I don't know that's that's my like personal personal thought because we're all Conditioning ourselves every single day to scroll on social media And I think the majority of people don't realize it, but you're doing it to yourselves and you think it's making yourself happy and it's fucking not. And here's the thing. I am one of those people. I spend a lot of time on social media.

8:11 I spend a lot of time on the TikToks and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yes, I do. I have in recent months found myself getting bored at movies where I'm like, come on, speed it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. But when I think about like when I went and saw Life of Chuck, right? It was the first time I'd been to a movie in a long time and not once did I go How much longer is this movie, right? Like it I was riveted the whole fucking film, right? And the best way I can describe it is it is a meditation on life Right, but it doesn't feel preachy and it's also not negative. It's a positive meditation on life That makes you feel better about life and death Like And again, I wasn't bored at all Right. What I'm saying is is how do you convince people to go back? I don't necessarily think you're wrong. But again, I think that there are great films out there that That I think would would bring people back to the cinema. How do we get them back in the fucking door? I don't know. I mean, that that is a probably a multimillion dollar question. Other question. Now, I will say this, to be fair, for this year's box office

9:44 stuff, I'm actually a little surprised. So, by this point last year, we had movies joining the billion dollar club, right? Now, most of them are all derivative. This year, we have not, right? That Nezha 2's box office is very much in question because it's not independently verified. So, while Box Office Mojo is reporting it as reported, please note that Nezha 2 is not verified. So let's go to our top one after that. Minecraft movie didn't hit a billion. Did well, extremely well. Lilo and Stitch. I'm surprised that hasn't hit a billion, but it's only 50 million away. It's still in theaters. I think it's gonna break it. And then it's a big jump down. Mission Impossible, 563. How to Train Your Dragon's still out. I think it'll get to six. Captain America really underperformed Thunderbolts for as good as it was. And it was a great fucking movie. Probably the best MCU movie in the last couple of years.

10:44 It really underperformed sinners. I think did about what it was supposed to. But again, you're talking Snow White is the top 10 in the top 10 this year so far. Like it's going to fall out because of F1. It's going to jump over it. But Mickey 17 came out this year again. Newer stuff different things and nobody fucking saw it Karate Kid legends derivative, but getting good Elio, I think Elio we're gonna see what kind of wings what kind of sorry what kind of legs Elio has that's gonna be interesting Somebody in the in the Twitch chat mentioned the episode three re -release, which did very, very well for them.

11:26 It made fifty five million dollars. And I too went to see it, mostly because I wanted my daughter to see Star Wars in a movie theater because it's a different experience in the movie theater. Yeah. I don't know. But here's the other thing. Again, I'm going to come back to this. If you are out there griping about people about what Hollywood's making, Hollywood's going to make what you're paying them to make. And if all you pay them to make is the Minecraft movie, that's all they're going to make. Right. You you you you you have to go see the other ones. It reminds me of the Zemeckis one I saw last year that nobody else saw. It was Tom Hanks and Robin Penn or Robin Wright. Right. Reuniting for the first time since Forrest Gump. Great cast, all this thing. Robert Zemeckis. It was a great movie and nobody saw it. What did that movie make last year? I'm now curious. It made fuck all. Probably made more than Life of Chuck. Yes, but not by much. It made drum roll, please. This is Robert Zemeckis. Doing Tom Hanks and Robin right it made 16 million dollars 16 million dollars for

13:03 a Tom Hanks movie Stop saying Hollywood's not making original movies. They're making great movies. They make lots of movies. Nobody fucking sees them Go watch movies people. They're good. And if you haven't seen it in fact, I'm gonna do this right now, right? What is it gonna come to streaming probably soon Trying to see when no word on when it's gonna come straight when it comes to streaming, please watch it. Please watch it Okay, I'm telling you. Oh wait, maybe you can watch it now. I think you can get it on Apple now On iTunes Yeah, so great go go rent that movie pay to rent that movie cuz it's a that good and be give them some of that money back So The entire country's in a depression, possibly. They're all sad. This is why you need

14:33 to watch movies like Life of Chuck, because it's life affirming and happy.