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[Early Access!] The Brand Biopics are taking over!

Hey everyone,

Here's an early access link to my new Youtube video, ad-free!

I had so much fun making this one. I tried to make it light and funny and I'd love to hear what you think of it.

It'll be on YouTube in a couple of days for regular access.

Thanks,

E.

[Early Access!] The Brand Biopics are taking over!

Comments

That was one fantastic video, Elliot! You’ve made fascinating points all throughout, especially in regards to “anti-franchise filmmaking” and the desire for that nostalgic connection. There’s an odd simplicity to them, a callback to the pre-franchise filmmaking days of the “middle movie” that superhero films and other mega-franchises largely drove away. I recently watched hbomberguy’s “Roblox Oof” video (a really good video, BTW) and it struck me about a possible danger of brand biopics - actually creatives being lost because of egotistical higher-ups taking all of the credit. Thankfully, these movies avoid that problem (especially Blackberry.

Peter Melling

Oooh thanks Bennett!

Elliot Roberts

That’s commitment, Eric!

Elliot Roberts

I hear you but I actually didn’t mind Jay’s wig! It looked a lot like the real Mike Lazaridis, and they had a very small budget anyway. Glenn Howerton said in an interview that shaving his head completely liberated him and I like to think it only intensified his performance.

Elliot Roberts

Tangent: Gaming Historian's documentary on Tetris comes highly recommended.

Bennett Billard

The latest BlackBerry is the Key2. My last BlackBerry was the KeyONE, which I bought in 2017, and switched for a Unihertz Titan Pocket in 2021, because it was the best keyboard phone I could find. It's like taking a step backward to my BlackBerry Q10, but I'll never buy a phone without a physical keyboard, so I guess I'm stuck with that, for now.

Eric Cheung

I have one complaint with BlackBerry that I can’t believe you didn’t mention. I’ll never get over Glenn Howerton shaving off his curls just for them to phone it in with Jay Baruchel’s terrible wig! Other than that I absolutely loved it. I really hope I was supposed to be laughing most of the time bc I watched the entirety of Always Sunny for the first time a few weeks earlier so…all of Howerton’s outbursts had me dying ❤️ I completely lost it when he destroyed the pay phone.

Sarah


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