Jab50Yen on "I Like Movies" (2022) - Dual Layer

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This is a pretty jam-packed episode

I explain how my youtube channel got terminated, zacc continues to go viral, we discuss youtuber drama, and I talk about by far one of the worst movie experiences I've ever had. https://t.co/e1DeYHi2sA

— Jab (Punished YouTuber Arc) (@jab50yen) August 14, 2023

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I've come to learn that it's a big deal when Jab uses the language they do here regarding the "I Like Movies" film in this clip from their podcast, Dual Layer.

I Like Movies (2022) Reviewed by Jab50Yen on Letterboxd

This is the first movie in a super long time that has made me experience multiple emotions at once at a rapid pace.

The writing of our main character is so, SO devastatingly on the nose on how annoying a pseudo-intellectual film buff can be. Everything about him makes me wanna beat the shit out of him, but I also can't deny that he has at least 1 or 2 opinions about movies I'd be lying if I said I didn't agree with. Lawrence is the worst version of all of us, and shows the direction a lot of us are either doomed to head down, or God forbid have already been down already, maybe for years. You think you're more artistically inclined than your peers who actually HAVE creative backgrounds, you idolize the most exhausting favorite directors to have like Stanley Kubrick or Paul Thomas Anderson, and you're idea of a wild weekend is to spend every Saturday watching Saturday night fucking live, and one tragic thing happened in their life yet you wonder if they're lowkey happy they have some trauma under their belt so they can dodge criticism and garner sympathy. This movie gets the whole behavioral patterns of an annoying content consumer who has opinions down to a tee.

The fact that Lawrence idolizes Punch Drunk Love in this movie is so fucking funny and relieving as someone who thinks that movie is overrated and everyone who praises it is fucking insufferable.

I hate Shrek too but now I'm embarrassed to have that opinion after hearing this little shit say it's not real cinema. This movie makes me wanna pretend to like Shrek so more people will like me!! What the scallop!!

Anyways, despite all this, this movie still goes out of it's way to help you understand and sympathize to an extent on why Lawrence is a narcisst. He has had a tragic youth, and his trauma/mental health gets disregarded by almost everyone around him including his own mother. So you get too self-indulgent in a hyperfixation in order to constantly distract you from your problems. Whether or not we're supposed to believe that Lawrence takes advantage of his trauma to get himself out of situations he doesn't feel like dealing with, it still clearly affects him in a way he can't control.

That being said, this movie is quick to remind you that you shouldn't get TOO sympathetic with him. When another person opens up to him about a traumatic story in THEIR life, he's quick to make said person look like the fool by not making a decision during that event in their life that Lawrence thinks would be easy to achieve in his eyes. This is the absolute worst thing you can do that will further alienate yourself from others, and this movie is not afraid to hit us with the most extreme example of that.

I Like Movies does a wonderful job at slowly showing more and more how the biggest cause of Lawrence's failures in life is himself and how his biggest enemy is himself. Chandler Levack probably had to deal with a bunch of dudes who acted this way during her time in the film industry, and I'm glad she got to make a very tasteful fuck you to this mentally while also genuinely wanting to help people like this get over themselves with this tough love of a film.

Alana is now one of my favorite characters in film. The way she progressed from patience to impatience, back to patience makes her such a good person. However it also shows why narcissists grow attached to someone like her and take advantage of her kindness and patience.

I Like Movies made me furious, I cried, I had my hands in my head, it was a trip. I hope more people watch this, especially peers I know who probably acted like this during their teen years.

I Like Movies too, but sometimes I hate people who watch them lol.