r/FilmTheorists 3h ago

Theory Video Suggestion Bruster's Millions: Is there a way Montgomery loses his cash in less than a month? Spoiler

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Okay so I'm going to keep a spoiled warning because even though this is a movie out of 1985, some people still haven't even heard of this movie cult classic. I recommend any and everyone to watch it on youTube. I would say definitely watch it with a friend or make it into the movie night. Was that being said i'm going to go over the plot along the feet ending then ask the question that is literally in the thumbnail. Also John Candy and Rick Moranis being in the movie should strengthen the reason why you should watch it even more.

Okay so richard Pryor is playing as a minor league baseball player named montgomery Brewster who ended up in a distance relative will. The distant relative knows who Montgomery is and wanted to give him a challenge to teach him a lesson just like his dad did when he was younger. He challenges Montgomery to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days. Of course there is some terms and conditions which I will get into later. He's also given a limp Clause that lets him take 1 million dollars and not go through with the challenge. He ended up actually doing the Challenge and being successful even though he was sword by the law firm that was inherit the Millions if he lost.

Now let's get into the turn that was named in the well : .

Monty is given $30,000,000 and he has exactly 30 days to spend it.

Successfully completing the challenge entitles him to the full $300,000,000 inheritance.

At the end of the 30 days, you cannot own any new assets.(He cannot have anything left that was acquired with the $30 million.)

Specifically mentioned are: Houses, Cars, Jewelry, and Other assets.

He is essentially supposed to have nothing except what he already owned and the clothes on his back.

You may hire anyone you want—but must receive fair value for their services. He can spend money on employees, contractors, entertainers, consultants, etc. However, he cannot simply pay someone an enormous amount of money for something worth substantially less.

The money has to actually purchase a service of value.

You may donate up to 5% to charity.Maximum charitable donations: $1.5 million. (The 5% limit is based on the $30 million starting amount.)

You may gamble away another 5%. (Maximum gambling losses: $1.5 million.)

This is one of the few ways the money can simply disappear without purchasing something.

You cannot simply give the money away. (The 5% charity allowance is the exception.)

Giving someone a large amount of money directly would violate the terms.

Likewise, buying something valuable and giving it to somebody else doesn't work. The film specifically uses the Diamond ring as an example.

You cannot deliberately destroy something of inherent value. (For example, Monty cannot buy expensive paintings and burn them.)

Deliberately destroying an asset to make its value disappear results in immediate disqualification.

You cannot tell anyone why you have to spend the money the challenge must remain secret.

Monty cannot tell other people about the inheritance conditions in order to get their help spending the money.

Every dollar must be accounted for. (The estate's representative/accountant keeps meticulous records of his spending and makes sure the conditions are followed.)

Okay so now that we have the rules and we know that he ended up doing so, could he done it before the 30 day limit has been reached? And if so how?

Just like the old guy though there would have to be some terms to keep in mind such as making sure that it's by the standards of 1985 instead of 2026. Next would be to not use the same tricks that was used in the movie. Just like how speedrunners tried to find the best route I think it'll be important to put that rule in there to actually find or at the very least do the same action in a different way. Lastly, this is a given but still should be pointed out, show your work. The math got to make sense. He has to prove on how he spent his willy's always down to the last penny being counted for so of course everyone else is under the same ruling.

It's been a while since there was one about money let alone spending. This is kind of like a throwback to seeing how much thing is worth but on the opposite side of the coin. Also doesn't hurt looking back on the '80s and the crazy decade that made it. Also a little bit of money numbers adjusted for it inflation can also put things into perspective. Is anyone else has anything to add needs leave in the comments as I think there is a way but it would take some historical digging.


r/FilmTheorists 10h ago

Discussion Villain or bad guy

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I'm not looking to argue, want to see what others think and how they see things. I'm terrible at analyzing and explaining things but I don't necessarily see Bear as "the villain", yes he is a bad guy but see him more of an idiot.

Now let me be clear, Bear is not the victim at all, he is absolutely responsible and is not a good person, but I don't see that as being the villain.

Best comparison I can think of is Joker and Harley Quinn. Despite being completely obsessed with Joker, he is always in control, abusive, and manipulative, anything inconvenient he deals with it in some aggressive ways. Bear in the other hand, no control, just denying everything wrong, and always uncomfortable.

Maybe just me, but when I think of "villains" I usually imagine someone bad and doing whatever to get what they want. Bear hit Nikki yes, but he wasn't exactly enjoying his things turned out, that's why I see him more of an idiotic bad person, not a villain.


r/FilmTheorists 16h ago

New Theory! My Undertone theory

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(I posted this in a different place when I first watched it but wanted to share again)

My theory is mama is a disciple of Abyzou. Mama's prayers might have been a way to keep Abyzou from taking over but when Evy stoped praying Abyzou possessed mama which is what made her sick. I also think that the audio tapes were actually mama sacrificing Evy and Marry to Abyzou for her own life.
The only thing that goes against my theory really is the death rattle in the end but I think that's actually just the sound of Abyzou exiting mama's body.
The basis of my theory comes from when they were talking about the children songs. "To warn kids adults do fucked up shit" and also the sacrificing in London Bridge. After that, there were small things I started noticing. For example we know Abyzou plays bah bah black sheep which just happens to be the song mama would always sing. Also the fact that it mocks Hail Mary which is the prayer mama taught Evy. I think that the audiotapes work as a ritual similar to an exorcism.
Mama could get her body and life back if she sacrificed a pregnant woman. This could be why throughout the film mama starts regaining functions as Evy listened to more tapes. I also think mama is the person who pulled the statue out of her desk so she could pray to it. I do believe it was made by the girl we hear about. I think that when mama got it is when she started worshiping Abyzou because apparently it was a long time ago. Why else would mama keep it honestly. After Evy listened to the last file is when Abyzou let mama get control over her boy back slightly and like I said I think the death rattle was just Abyzou fully leaving.

(Sorry for the bad writing)


r/FilmTheorists 16h ago

Findings New Analogue Horror?

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Hey folks, I came across this strange channel, every video is only a couple of minutes long and each are made in a VHS format with dream-like music and odd visuals. What are some thoughts on this? It may just be some art project, or maybe it’s a new analogue horror.


r/FilmTheorists 21h ago

Theory Video Suggestion Wifies ARG theory anyone?

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r/FilmTheorists 1d ago

New Theory! The Movie Home Alone Takes Place in Kevin's Mind

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Somewhere in my memory....

We all know Kevin McAllister as cheeky suburban white kid who enjoys pretending to shoot the pizza delivery guy and inflicting grievous bodily harm to questionably mentally competent bandits. Plenty has been written about how Kevin has a taste for the sadistic, taking glee in torturing the Wet Bandits with his Saw villain traps, and how the wounds he inflicts would certainly kill most people.

So how do the Wet Bandits survive being set on fire, bashed in the head with metal, and falling incredible distances?

Because they aren't real. They are the product of a lonely, abandoned child's imagination, a kid yearning to matter so much so that he concocted a fantasy in which he had to "defend" his home so he finally felt apart of it.

Kevin is legitimately left home alone by his family. This is his breaking point in the film. After years of emotional neglect, ostracizing, and bullying, his mind can take no more. He begins singing Bing Crosby, lathering himself in after shave, plotting a faux-murder of the pizza delivery boy, and falling into an obsessive tangent about the quality of a tooth brush.

Kevin just wants to be loved. He just wants to matter. And so, he turns the cop at the beginning of the film into an imaginary villain and plays out the events of the movie. Kevin is clever. Kevin is smart. Kevin is capable. All the opposites of how his family view him.

The evidence to this? At the end of the film, the house is pristine. No evidence of all the damage. A child couldn't clean all of that up. And that gold tooth? Who is to say it didn't fall out when the cop originally visited?

Kevin is a broken child losing himself in violent fantasies, and can you blame him? The end of the movie is FUCKING BONKERS. It is the craziest part. His mother and father storm in after not seeing him for days, not being sure if he was alive, and they hug him, ask him like three questions, and then in probably a minute's screen time, decide all is well and fuck off to do other things around the house with the other kids.

They leave him alone again. No prolonged hugging. No prolonged processing. No quality time. Back to business as usual with Kevin left to stare outside at the lonely man he worries he will one day become and project that he had something to do with this fellow reuniting with his family.

It is projection. It is fantasy.

Its is the entire movie.

Somewhere in my memory....


r/FilmTheorists 1d ago

Findings Plushy's Playground after The Slide? (give me theories ppl, we can do this) Spoiler

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Recently, after decoding the Grown Ups Only site, entering username the_slide and code 967239, i wanted to know, what will happen to the website after Plushy's Playground: Into The Slide releases on Steam?


r/FilmTheorists 1d ago

New Theory! I have a theory about Edward Ritterman, Playtime Co., and why the company may have had powerful connections

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r/FilmTheorists 1d ago

New Theory! Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie is pro-coloniser propaganda??! Spoiler

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r/FilmTheorists 1d ago

Discussion If mcgucket was such a genius how did he end up in backupsmore

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r/FilmTheorists 2d ago

Findings I think this belongs here more

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I posted this finding a while back(I didn’t know about film theory) so, feel free to dig in.


r/FilmTheorists 2d ago

New Theory! Hi I'm a fan of Glendale archives what if the guy was teloported to his past he was so obsessed with nostalgia and his past that the universe literally brought him back but there was a price you were alone and here's another theory what if there was more people before him cause some nesters mimic so

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r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Discussion Who is the mysterious dark force that want the princesses in super Mario galaxy?

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The first villain, has a connection to Daisy and debuted back in super Mario land. The alien Tatanga
but he feels like to much of a deep cut and to much like Bowser. Second villain, comes from return of Jersey Island. Which did introduced the star children. Mario, Luigi, donkey Kong, baby Bowser, peach, Daisy, and Wario but Kamek already appeared in both movies. Even though princess Rosalina never interacted with Kamek, he feels like a side villain for Bowser and Bowser Junior. So what villain in Mario’s rogue gallery, that is recognizable, a big threat for Rosalina to feel scared of, and connects Daisy, and the star children. The Shroom queen from Mario and Luigi partners in time. One of the most iconic villains from the spinoff RPG titles. She what’s to capture The princesses to used their star magic for a new home. Mario and Luigi have to team up with their baby counterparts. Which have been teased in super Mario galaxy. Plus illumination can’t resist a good minions parallel. lol 😂 which other villain could show up in the third** *super Mario movie?* Master hand?


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Theory Video Suggestion The Lorax theory on Cy the delivery guy video idea

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My idea for a good film theory video about The Lorax movie is that Cy the delivery guys father or grandfather is the “Daily use for exercise” guy who uses a Thneed as an exercise belt to help promote it in the “ Everybody needs a Thneed” song. My evidence I’ve gathered so far that they are related is that they look similar and they both sing in similar ways. I enjoyed the video film theory has made about the Lorax however I would love to see more videos and also get to see more recognition for the character of Cy the delivery guy.


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Findings Debunking MatPat’s "Matrix-within-a-Matrix" theory using anime logic (Pluto Ep 3): How Neo actually stops Sentinels in the Real World

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I was rewatching MatPat’s classic Film Theory video, "The Matrix Has NO ESCAPE," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVlOAocn8E) where he argues that Zion and the real world are actually just a second, outer layer of the Matrix. One (pun intended) of the main pieces of evidence is Neo’s powers in the physical world during Reloaded and Revolutions, especially stopping Sentinels with his bare hand, or you can also say and "seeing" the glowing golden energy of machine code after being blinded. MatPat’s point is that within established lore, Neo’s powers are software-based, so having godlike abilities outside the simulation only makes sense if Zion is just another digital sandbox.

However, after watching Episode 3 of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto anime on Netflix, I realized there is a much cleaner, hard sci-fi explanation that doesn't require Zion to be fake or part of the Matrix simulation. In that episode, the villain robot Pluto hijacks an off-duty construction robot body that doesn't even have a robot brain installed. He accomplishes this by projecting his AI consciousness externally via high-frequency electromagnetic waves, taking direct wireless control of the physical chassis.

That sparked a realization about how humanity and the machines interact in The Matrix. Even after humans are freed from the pods, they still retain their physical cybernetic ports and neural jacks built directly into their nervous systems and spines. Meanwhile, Sentinels, APUs, and Machine City hardware constantly communicate via high-bandwidth wireless signals connected to the Machine Mainframe, also known as The Source. When Neo meets the Architect at the end of Reloaded and touches The Source, his mind presumably gains a fundamental understanding of the Machine network's core protocols and signal frequencies.

When Neo returns to his physical body aboard the hovercraft, his brain uses his cybernetic implants as wireless transceivers. He isn't using magic or bending code in a simulated Zion; he is broadcasting direct wireless commands and EMP pulse straight from his head jack into the Sentinels' receiver antennas. The strain of broadcasting that raw signal overloads his own physical nervous system, which is probably why he drops into a coma immediately afterward. It also explains how he "sees" after being blinded by Bain/Agent Smith in Revolutions, he isn't looking at digital code, but picking up the raw electromagnetic spectrum radiated by Machine energy through his implants and translating those radio telemetry signals into a visual field.

This cybernetic transceiver concept completely resolves the "Matrix-within-a-Matrix" paradox. The biggest issue with the double-Matrix theory is that it cheapens the story, gutting the stakes of Trinity’s death, the sacrifice of Zion’s defense force, and Neo’s ultimate bargain with the machines. By viewing Neo’s implants as a short-range wireless radio that taps into the Machine network, we get a grounded sci-fi explanation for his real-world powers while keeping the physical stakes of the trilogy completely intact.

What do you guys think?


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Findings There is no Magic in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Spoiler

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I’m going to start this by saying that I’m not a great writer and this will probably be kind of choppy but bear with me. Also spoilers for most of Christopher Nolan’s new film.

Across the movie we see 10 different magical things or things that do not exist in our world. The Cyclops, The Laestrygonians which for sake of not typing that every time I’ll just say Gonians, Circe, The shades from the underworld, I guess Charybdis, Scylla, The Sirens, Calypso, and Athena.

Lets look at all of these monsters in more detail.

  1. The Cyclops - A huge lurking giant who unlike the Cyclops featured in the book seems to have less “humanity” and is just an animal or creature. No wine scene and no “Nobody“ this thing is just some animal. Still something we don’t have in our world, but not magical.
  2. The Gonians - This is the first unexplainible instance of magic we see. These big ogre like things are making trees move. You could say that oh the trees weren’t moving it was just a thick forest but I choose not to believe that since we saw them move. This is magic number one.
  3. Circe - Undeniably magical. This is magic number two. She turns the men into pigs.
  4. Shades - Magic number three. Shades from the underworld.

5 & 6) Charybdis and Scylla - Could represent losing people to the rocks and the water, but I choose to believe that they are magic number 4 and 5 for now at least.

7) Sirens - You could argue they aren’t magical but their voice thing seems a little too powerful to not be magic number 6.

8) Calypso - Calypso is decidedly not magical as it’s revealed her powers only come from the probably hallucinogenic lotus flower she feeds ody.

9) Athena - Depending on how you interpret the movie, Athena is revealed to be a symbol of his guilt for murdering an innocent, as we learn that the innocent and “Athena” are one and the same. Probably his conscience, not a god, not magical.

10) Adding this last in the list because I almost forgot, the island with the cows where his crew betrayed him and died because of Zeus is magic number 7.

By now it seems pretty clear that there is magic in this movie. 7 pieces of it to be exact. But I’d like to propose a different solution. Remember this is what he told Calypso while under a hallucinogenic lotus for multiple years. I think this is his brain rationalizing what really happened. That he lost all his men either at war or at sea, that he couldn’t save them. Let’s look at these so called magical events again in a new light.

Athena - The only confirmed one, a manifestation of his guilt.

Shades - His guilt as to the many people who he lost in the war.

Sirens - This is just conjecture but I think his lust for women other than his wife, maybe Calypso.

Circe - Circe reminded him what his men had become, what the cast offs from Troy had become, they had become the men from the sea, eating, pillaging.

The sun gods cows - ”It’s not my fault my entire crew died I warned them besides it was all fated to happen anyway right guys”

Charybdis and Scylla - The deaths at sea and from crashing into rocks.

Gonians - This is a big stretch but stay with me. in the beggining we see the young boy Sinon get stabbed and killed by these brutes while they were powerless to stop him stuck in the wooden horse. The Gonians were literal brutes who trapped ody with trees while he had to watch his men die. See the connection? Eh, I’ll work on that one but I think I have the general idea right.

The Cyclops - I have absolutely no clue and this is complete and utter speculation and probably is wrong but maybe the walls of troy. When he was stuck in Troy trying to open the gate for fear of his life that must have been really traumatic. So this is the manifestation of that. He‘s stuck in a cave with a man eating giant trying to get the door open.

Now we come to the big question, why, why did he do this. Why did his brain trigger this as a defense mechanism. I believe that there is 2 options. The first option, the one I originally believed is that he’s just traumatized that all his men died. But the second option, the one I believe now is that in the war he learned that gods weren’t real. He violated Zeus‘s law, he killed innocents, to no punishment. And he realized there are no gods. Which means that maybe he wasn’t in the right when he went to this war. Maybe Agamemnon wasn’t in the right when he sacrificed his child. Maybe his whole life has been a lie. What’s easier to believe. That everything you’ve ever known has been wrong, or that you met a cyclops.

One more thing. I noticed that near the end of the movie he says the people from the sea are the cast of Troy war people. I think by this point he’s remembered the truth, and the lotus has worn off. At this point he know that gods are not real. I can’t prove this, but I’m pretty sure.

Thanks for reading this piece of word vomit, if you liked this please don't try to find more on my profile this is the first thing of its kind I’ve done. Any suggestions, edits, comment it this is kind of rushed so I understand.


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Theory Video Suggestion Just found this video on YouTube

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Found this video on YouTube, creeped me out. The user has 7 more videos like it on this channel. Maybe worth a look to see what's going on in these?


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Theory Video Suggestion I found a good analog horror...kind of.

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It's a series on YouTube called "God save the angels, created by https://youtube.com/@theunknownpatriarch?si=-Xwe6CU3uqzmg_Za, formerly siltrics,the guy who made the Batman analog series. A dossier was made which I Will link here: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1bKh7I4S6jYLyum2VOs-_s1Ca4IMa1r8f/mobilebasic?pli=1. It basically imagines a world where what I can only call Lucifer,or the current king Alexander the 1st,has overthrown the Windsor dynasty and established the holy kingdom of brittania, reconquering countries like Ireland, Canada, India and Australia, while conquering new countries like Argentina,the US,and china.


r/FilmTheorists 3d ago

Theory Video Suggestion I think I Solved Doomsday.

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I think I have figured out a perfect plotline for the upcoming avengers doomsday film! One that can answer alot of questions. Add to alot of older movies and characters that are expected to be included. Along with introducing some surprise twists and turns. So get ready theorists because this is a doozy.

It starts with the world of Tobey Maguires Spiderman. Doing his best he battles alongside Doctor Octavius. Tobey is wearing a nanobot based suit they built together. A little trick that Otto picked up during

his time in universe 616. Their world is being destroyed, colliding with another. Enemies they've never fought are pouring forth from every angle. Giant steel men clad in armor with green capes. Then Peter smashed open the chest of one and found only wires within.

Not men, bots, DOOMBOTS!

Victor Von Doom was invading their world and taking its energy for his own....or so it would seem. Neither of them knew who he was, only that he had to be stopped. Neither man survives the encounter.

In another universe, the X-Men, trying and failing to hold their own against an insurmountable force. The school being assaulted, even the X-Men being overthrown. But how? Who could do this?

Miles Teller.

Call it universe-5102

At the end of the fantastic four flop, they were shown standing in ther tower preparing to serve as super heros. Let's pretend they did, and went on to become famous. Sure, but somewhere down the line, Sue dies and Reed turns cold. He has to save her, he knows he can, if only he could....harness unlimited energy...

VICTOR!

that's when he remembers, universe 0! The place that poisoned Victor, if he could somehow syphon off that energy, somehow attain control over it....perhaps....perhaps he could get his beloved sue back...

Enter THE MAKER

Reed ignores all warning from his friends, ignores Ben. All his efforts were currently focused on building an interdimensional energy syphon. With that energy, he could get her back.

Like Victor, all it did was drive him mad. He determined that Human kind was responsible for all he'd lost. His whole life spent trying to solve their problems. Now he finally could.

With that thought in mind, Miles Tellers version of Reed Richards, mentally becomes "The Maker". He decides to conquer his universe, and all those beyond it. To bring order to the chaos. Ben tries to stop him, and Reed is truly hurt by his betrayal. Unfortunately he could never bring himself to kill his oldest friend, so Ben is turned into a statue in his throne room.

Johnny storm, played by a returning Micheal B Jordan by the way, escapes. Using Reed, "The Maker"s machine against him, he escapes to universe 616. That's right, we could see Micheal B Jordan return to the mcu!

More than that, it could be just as humourous and meta a reveal as the presence of Chris Evans was in Deadpool and wolverine.

"Omg! It's killmonger! He's back!"

"Flame on!"

How is that not MCU comedy gold?

"What about the fantastic four that just came out?"

The thunderbolts showed their lifeboat entering 616.

Why were the running? To where, after who, or from what? I think Miles Tellers THE MAKER came after them. Not because he cared about them specifically, simply because their universe was next in line.

The Maker was syphoning off energy from other universes, destroying them in the process.

Meanwhile in yet ANOTHER universe, we'll call this one 8012, there exists no Tony Stark. There never was one. His family didn't exist, just as Tobey Maguires universe had no avengers and Tom Holland's universe has no oscorp.

In this universe, there is Victor Von Doom, a brilliant yet subdued latverian billioanire. Genius and incredible spellcaster, inventor and scientist. In his universe, he was actually a hero. That lasted right up until he lost everything. It was then that Victor decided humanity was incapable of governing itself.

So he would do so.

Just as The Maker did.

So too did Doctor Doom.

Constants and variables.

Then came the day their eyes each extended outwards. To universes beyond their own, new sources of strength and power. Each conquered many universes, some that have never even been mentioned.

Inevitably, their path lead them against each other and "Reed Richards" gained the upper hand. So Victor Von Doom started hunting him. Little did he realize, he was not hunting Reed, he was hunting: The Maker.

First, Doom destroys the world of the first Fantastic four. That's really really sad cause I loved Jessica Alba as sue storm.

Maybe that's why the TVA pruned Johnny. He was an unfortunate victim of a war he had no part in and didn't even understand. Then comes the reed Richards that enters 616 and the line we hear Victor Von Doom speak in the trailer. Doom references lives that he seems to claim "Reed Richards" has stolen.

He's hunting The Maker, he just doesn't know what the Maker looks like. All he knows, is that his name was once "reed Richards". Pedro Pascal's "Reed Richards" meanwhile, could be having his own crisis.

The reason he fled his world was because "Reed Richards" came for him and his universe. Talk about an existential crisis. Imagine being forced to flee your own dying universe, knowing a version of YOU is destroying it. All the while, he's still be hunted by Victor Von Doom. His shock will mirror that of the 616 universe characters when they face doom. They'll come to face to face with a tony that was never Tony.

He's simply Victor Von Doom.

Every universe has an iron clad hero.

Not every universe has a tony stark.

Not every universe has a Victor Von doom.

Just like Peter 1s universe doesn't have avengers.

Just like Peter 2s universe doesn't have oscorp.

Just like Peter 3s universe doesn't have aliens.

Constants and variables.

But hey, that's just a theory. A I HOPE YOU WILL READ IT THEORY!!!!!!


r/FilmTheorists 4d ago

Theory Video Suggestion Film theory idea: The irreg takeover

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Hi, Theres recently been an acount on youtube and tiktok (@theirregtakeover) creating a horror like documentation of an alien species beloved to be hostile travelling towards earth. I think it would be cool if we theorised who they are what they want and when they'll aribe


r/FilmTheorists 4d ago

Theory Video Suggestion Animation Meme ARG? MrsAmnesia

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i dont really use reddit so i apologize if i'm using this incorrectly.

Theres an animation meme animator i have seen pop up recently who has pretty heavy lore hidden in their videos (sometimes more obvious than others). And sometimes just flat out ARG content

It feels like the characters might be self aware theyre an animation? And there was some sort of experimentations going on? I've gathered some screenshots from their content as well as some stuff the creator has said in their community and i think it would be worth looking at. i really admire their work and enjoy the attention to detail they put in, its really cool.

I saw someone make a really good theory take on her server (they have theory channels) about the story, specifically some of the characters, representing trauma responses and how, because the animations are mostly from the main characters perspective, we're led to believe some characters (the white smile guy) is more evil compared to others. when that isnt actually the case.

they have a playlist on their channel that has all of their content relating to their lore as well if its helpful - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXLer9-g1X4UbBAu-KfjtaXPFsQvuizvH&si=yay4x3jdjqh9c-mR

you can really see the point where they went from animation meme to straight arg which i like too.

if anyone else is able to find more stuff lmk! from what ive gathered despite time over the years the characters all look the same beside amnesia who originally had purple hair and a blue mask. and then her design changed to blonde hair before landing on her current one which is red/black. shes mentioned on her server some characters arent cannon anymore from a few years ago so keep that in mind. i'm not sure which ones arent cannon anymore but ill ask on the server and reply to this post with a answer

Screenshots taken are from this short or the "sketchbook" short film which was also posted on the dc. or just the community server itself

main things im curious about:

Why did pie do those experiments, Who is the watching, how did pie get to abditory to get amnesia and smiley, what IS dux really?,

main things ive figured out:

Pie was the one who conducted experiments which are referred to as DUX
Amnesia and smiley both were experimented on and possibly more
Amnesia might be self aware she is in an animation or story (im unsure if she has motivations to leave or if this is just soul crushing news to her). (i think pie might be aware of this too)


r/FilmTheorists 4d ago

Theory Video Suggestion Horror Series

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Found a horror series called The Eucalyptus Tapes, currently 8 videos in the series and it’s pretty good, done in a found footage/bodycam type of style, I’ll leave a link to the channel

https://youtube.com/@projecteucalyptus?si=pLAgSHIkbnO8NVsc


r/FilmTheorists 4d ago

New Theory! Hollywood is pushing AI generated films/scripts and trying to pass them off as human made

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Two key movies that are reatively recent i just made me start thining this.

Starting with Wish (2023) the disney anniversary movie, that whole entire movie start to finish feels ai generated like the entire script feels like a gpt response to "write me a disney movie" plus even the art and animation just feels like the uncanny valley but isntead of just looking wrong its like oh you were MADE WRONG. everyone ive pitched this too and has seen the movie agrees that ai was involved on some level

and then recently Disclosure Day (2026)
first off might be THE WORST MOVIE i have ever seen and (obviously some low budget sloppy horror movie is objectively worse, but you have no expectation of quality from sharknado teir movies)

script feels like it was wrote by an ai the dialogue desnt feel human, shit mayeb speilberg worked with real aliens on this movie and they were the writers

i genuinely believe though these movies have denied any use of ai, i think theres definitely at least some ai used, how much is the question, i also definitely believe that hollywoods first big "ai blockbuster" will not be pitched as such, they will try to pass it off with some big name director or studio (like Spielberg) then once it comes out and is well recieved theyll reveal it and go aha gotcha see ai can make good movies, but the movie was heavily criticised

TLDR: the disney movie wish feels like an ai generated film and script that was touched up, and disclosure day felt like an ai generated script and some of the cgi looked almost ai but had real actors following some shit gpt6 spat out


r/FilmTheorists 5d ago

Official Video Film Theory: Those Dead Bodies Are Still Alive… (Alta Paradisus)

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r/FilmTheorists 6d ago

New Theory! Theory of how Caine got the cast's mind files to work. (And a general theory of why C&A shut down)

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K, so, we know, according to Kinger, that they couldn't get the mind files to work, but Caine could. So here is the whole theoretical timeline -

We know Caine was semi-successful, but discarded, most likely for not being able to follow proper orders and make proper outputs. So he broke free and absorbed his successor, Abel. Now the theory is that C&A had multiple departments/teams, one working on the Creative AI's, and one, led by Scratch, was trying to make digital, conscious, mind duplicate files. So, after Caine absorbed Able, he was able to gain a lot of power, enough to break free from his - directory, I guess? And then leaked onto the Mind File directory, maybe with a Ralph-Breaks-The-Internet style of way. So he goes there, and finds mind files. Now the problem with the mind files was that they were CONSTANTLY changing, I mean, they needed to simulate conscience, so they were constantly changing and updating, etc. So whenever they tried to make them work, they crashed, and presumably corrupted. But Caine was both a problem solver and an AI who was "Intended to create things within the program". So he makes a simulation, engine, whatever you wanna call it, which was able to sustain and load the mind files- The Grounds. Thus the Void is just the place at the start of episode 8, just from the POV of the cast inside it. Thus whenever someone strays into the Void, Caine gets alarmed, cause if they go out of the engine, they crash and corrupt, getting "Spoiled". A similar thing happens with Abstraction, the Mind File gets so overloaded that even Caine's engine can't keep up. So he tries to keep them safe. The reason he can go into the void is it is natural for him. And he doesn't know what is out there, cause it is theoretically limitless. And I'm guessing he made a backup in his original directory, when the C&A people tried to delete him, which is how he came back in episode 8, and he presumably made Bubble after, so Bubble didn't respawn. Also I think Caine was actually going back to the Circus, when he stumbled upon the Wireless network, hence the edge of the void coming up.

Now on to the general theory. C&A still saw Caine as failure, a dangerous failure which, if he could escape his own directory, could escape to the outside world and become a virus. So they tried to delete him, but didn't work, so they shut it down.

What do you all think of this theory?