Hey did you guys know that the monolith is 2001 is actually the movie screen turned vertical that's pretty wild huh

The monolith is 1ft thick, 4ft wide & 9ft tall, which are also the values of the first three squares in math.

based and wonkpilled

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He's bald

“The Shining is about child rape and if you don’t agree GO BACK TO YOUR SUPERHERO AND LOTR TRASH YOU FUCKING NIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGER”

go to bed arthur, you pedo

It's just not very good. Sorry fanboys.

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here's the best films of the last twenty years bro

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rob ager is great, i bought a bunch of his videos from his website and im not one to ever buy anything. He never says he is right about his theories but always makes a good case for them and even if hes wrong he still puts a lot of interesting and entertaining information in his videos. For instance the idea that pulp fiction might have had a mcdonalds product placement in the dialog really blew my mind and he makes a really good case for it. Also his videos on saving private ryan that pretty much prove that the movie is just propaganda, and i dont mean general pro america propaganda, the things the movie does is really insidious and sublminal but most people even today just see it as a really good war movie.

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>thinking that's where the sequence ends
Sad!

Ager's weird in that some of his observations are incredibly insightful yet misunderstands incredibly basic things. The pulp fiction review makes a great point overall point about how the gratuitous violence in the film opens up for a lot of scenes of unashamed sentimentality, but then fails to recognize that a character is doing an Elvis impression or not understanding that Samuel L Jackson talking about how pork is bad because pigs are unclean has to do with black power/nation of islam and not him claiming to be a vegetarian in the burger scene.

His character is Christian though not mudslime.

In one of his 2001 vids he said there are no continents shown on earth in it.
Is that true, if so, why?

His Saving Private Ryan stuff was pretty interesting. He's definitely analytical and has got a good eye for detail, even if he pays for that by being a borderline schizo sometimes in his theories. The Shining and the Federal Reserve connection was interesting as well. He had a lot of unorthodox evidence such a stuff from Kubrick's estate (even if the overall theory felt like it kind of went nowhere)

face blindness

>rogue one
>jack reacher
what?

What makes him schizo?

I liked his videos about the Exorcist, but I found it a bit odd that he only analyzed the visual cues of the intro scene and ignored the cultural context of women wearing hijabs in Iraq.

In general, I like to listen and watch his videos while at work, along with RLM and Ryan Hollinger.

>*analyzes your favorite film in your path*

He's not, and I worded it so that I wasn't calling him one. Still, some of his theories feel really weird and come off as a bit crazy. The 2001 stuff other anons mentioned is a good example

He's not schizo but he is autismal, however he uses the power of autism to analyze movies to insane levels. Like where he's looking at obscure 50 year old magazine advertisements for a documentary about the making of a movie, in order to better analyze that movie.

>*nitpicks your favorite film for dumb boomer reasons but praises mindless garbage like Rogue One in your path*

his theories are pretty logical
he's not right 100% of the time but everything is there

this dude is a legitimately good film analyst.

I liked these videos of his in particular but I don't like how he structured it as if the movie is lesser than people think it is just because of the way it handles the nazis. Ultimately, they aren't part of the core story the movie is really trying to tell, they're just background enemies.

I agree but he barely watches any movies made past the 90s so it can be annoying sometimes to hear him just ignore or outright dismiss a lot of the great stuff that's been coming out lately

But you're wrong though...
There are constant native american motifs throughout the hotel, it's mentioned they had to ward off native americans in order to build the hotel, and the Dies Irae opening to the film has constant native american chants, screams, and trills throughout.

There is a undoubtedly a spiritual theme, and given the pretense under which the hotel was built and especially jack's line to lloyd ("White man's burden") it's really not a stretch to see colonial undertones (which includes a "genocide")

More than just warding them off, wasn't the hotel literally built on an Indian burial ground?

Does he look like a bitch?

That's right. It's pretty hard to miss

sounds like you haven't seen the shining in a while

The Bog Rear video was satisfying.

Also he doesn't seem to watch foreign films.

He liked Hereditary of all things. I thought it was good but not superlative. I suppose there is plenty there for an analyst to look into

I'm not saying the motifs aren't present, or that Kubrick isn't making allusions to them. Simply that the actual actions taking place are not a subtle metaphor for the native american genocide.

>arbitrary and outdated measurement system means something to an alien beacon
Wow....... truly hard science fiction.

The biggest evidence against that theory is that Tarantino hasn't written anything that interesting before or since.

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>the one where he says Revenge of the Nerds is one of the best films ever made
BASED SCOUSE MADLAD

I don't think he was necessarily saying it was a metaphor or allegory, just that the events are related contextually. Jack is going crazy because of spirits rage at the continued presence of colonizers on native land etc and so forth

You can extrapolate even further from this. The film was made in 1980 and during the 70s and much of it is about Jack and Wendy's escape from the city (where it is implied that there is drinking and Jack is abusive, Wendy smokes, etc) to the beautiful countryside.
Unfortunately it's not the city that makes them mad, maybe America itself is what makes them mad as the whole thing is built on an Indian burial ground.

Surely he knows he’s a fucking pleb. Why expose himself like this?

>Jack Reacher
Based

>Rango
>Wall E
>AI

His recent video on the Thriller music video was pretty kino. In fact everything Rob puts out is kino, especially his Doctor Sleep review where he talks about how hot the actresses were including the underage one.
Dare I say based?

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Get the fuck outta here Twin Perfect. Literally no one cares.

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>this is the average intelligence of a Yea Forums poster

>Drive, didn't even finish
>Blade Runner 2049, garbage
>Joker, unimpressed

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Hey guys, Raw Beggar here, please buy my DVDs please...

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It's baffling to me that anyone follows or cares about the opinion of such a literally tasteless Hollywood garbage manchild drone as Rob Ager is.

This video of his is the perfect example
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99% of the list is nothing but straight up Hollywood """entertainment""" garbage, absolutely beyond embarassing. Ready player one, disney cartoons, tarantino flicks, prometheus, worse than reddit 9gag tier taste.

Not to mention that you will never hear him talk about actual films or directors like Bresson or Griffith, only surface-level Hollywood gimmicks like the plot point mental midget he is.

he sounds based to me

Plot is more important than anything else in film. Even visuals.

I don't hang around this board often, what does Yea Forums think of this guy? I've seen a few of his videos and it usually sounds insane but somehow makes sense and he points out so many details I would have missed, and I'm too dumb to say whether it's right or wrong but I love it.

based plot point mental midget

he has horrible Hollywood boomer taste and knows nothing but symbolism, but some of his videos are atleast half interesting

It's hit and miss. Sometimes he'll make a convincing case for something, other times his assumptions are weak. I think he's way too far up his own ass but I still check in on his channel from time to time. Sure as hell wouldn't paypig for that shit though.

I genuinely can't understand watching movies like this man. It must completely take the fun and wonder out of them.
He watches every film like it's a code that means something singular and specific, but outside of itself. And if it's understood in the correct way, the surface level film falls away and it's true meaning is revealed. That simply isn't how people make art. Nobody has one very specific thing to say and buries it in coded images to make it hard to find. He clearly doesn't have his own creative practice.
That's not to say his theories are unfounded, but he doesn't get that meaning can be ambiguous or out of reach.

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>Jack sexually abusing Danny is reasonable but the Native American genocide themes are far fetched
Jesus man, go watch any scene from the film.

He's worth following. He has a lot of biases he'll get hung up on which make him appear ignorant or hypocritical when he posts critiques, but when he's just breaking down the meaning or aesthetic appeal of films he genuinely enjoys he's got some interesting things to say. Also one of the only film analysts on youtube who has a tolerable narration style and doesn't have that annoying viral manner of speaking coupled with instrumental hip hop that seems to jump across all the zoomer channels.

This is what's weirdest about Ager to me.
He seems to have a real intense (if autistic) interest in films and seems willing to devote a lot of his time to watching them and thinking about them, but in all his years has never seemed interested in anything outside 1960-1999 Hollywood.
No Soviet kino, no FNW, not even independent Anglophone cinema. Just studio productions that get general release. It's a wonder he doesn't watch more alternative stuff out of a basic desire for variety

He mentions the fact that he's filmmaker of some sort who has encoded numerous layers of hidden symbolism in his movies just like Stanley Kubrick. This is usually mentioned as evidence that everything in Kubrick movies have convoluted double, triple and quadruple meanings.

But why would he do that? If he has something to say, just say it?

i agree with Rob on this one

never saw Rango but Wall E and AI are based af

>so hot i could barely pay attention to the film
yeah hes a based coomer

He does it visually, because film is a visual medium

Saying something visually doesn’t mean that you have to hide it behind 12 layers just for the sake of it, as if that alone is a positive.