Awesome / Cinema Wins

• It's one thing to point out the great things about a movie that is already considered great or at least watchable, but the video series really shines when it tackles movies that had terrible reviews, terrible box office, and/or terrible fan reaction and still finds plenty to praise, sometimes to the point of making the case that they were actually decent, good, or even great films in their own right. These include:
  • After Earth
  • Batman & Robin
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Battlefield Earth
  • Fantastic Four (2015)
  • Gigli
  • Gods of Egypt
  • I, Robot
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
  • The Last Airbender
  • Pan
  • Pixels
  • Spider-Man 3
  • The Star Wars prequels
  • Sucker Punch
  • Suicide Squad (2016)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
  • The Last Jedi An extremely polarizing film, Lee was able to showcase the strong qualities of the film and rebuts several of the arguments about it. He also makes it clear that while it's perfectly fine to disagree with him and feel betrayed by Disney, Rian Johnson or Kathleen Kennedy, it's not okay to attack other people over it.
  • Tomorrowland
  • Warcraft (2016)
  • Watchmen
  • X-Men: Apocalypse
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine While Lee does ultimately condemn the movie (and even deducted points for what was done with Deadpool), it also notes that there were plenty of great action setpieces, and surmises that the movie wouldn't have been nearly so badly received if its version of Deadpool had instead been a movie original character.
• Often there will be something so cool or funny that they get their own win counter:
  • The badassery of Rinzler in TRON: Legacy.
  • R's inner monologues in Warm Bodies.
  • K-2SO's Brutal Honesty in Rogue One.
  • The scene transitions in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
  • The murder jokes in Die Hard.
  • Dredd got two counters separate from the main one: one for brutal deaths and another for Judge Dredd's quips.
  • Daniel's Dirty Coward moments in San Andreas get their own counter to ultimately add up to the satisfaction when he gets crushed by a shipping container.
  • The brutal fight scenes in The Equalizer.
  • While certainly not cool or funny, the uncomfortable scenes with Casey's Creepy Uncle in Split get their own counter for the subtlety of the writing, something that Lee wouldn't have given a win for otherwise.
  • Much like San Andreas, Morris's callous moments of greed in The Meg are given their own counter to make it more satisfying when he gets chomped by the Megalodon.
  • The brutal fight scenes and deaths in John Wick.
  • Naturally, the brutal fight scenes and deaths in John Wick: Chapter 2 are covered as well.
  • Of course, the brutal fight scenes and deaths are covered in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum too, but Lee also throws in an additional counter for the moments when the fight choreography isn't pretty, but nonetheless effective (aka: "Ain't Broke, Don't Fix").
  • The use of ten-dollar words and outdated seafaring terms in Treasure Planet.
  • Knives Out gets not one, not two, but three sub-counters; one for Trooper Wagner's fanboy moments, another for the moments of murder-mystery meta-commentary and a third for Benoit Blanc's unique vocabulary.
  • Poirot's moments of dry wit and sass in Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
• Lee taking a Win off Finding Nemo for giving the false message that if children flush their fish down the toilet, they'll reach the ocean and not be killed by the filtration blades on the way.
• Particular mention should go to his defence of the infamous "Martha" moment in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He launches into a rant detailing how, rather than it being as simple as "Our mothers share the same name, now we're totally besties", it was a catalyst by which Batman finally began to humanize Superman, who up to that point he saw only as a dangerous living weapon who could turn on humanity at a moment's notice; the name "Martha" knocked Batman off his guard long enough for him to register exactly what Superman was asking of him. "I don't care if you kill me, just save my human mother!" And the argument the host gives is one of the most articulate and uncompromising in the relatively short history of the channel, making no attempt to concede to the public opinion and say the moment is unclear or that he might be reading too much into it, and instead bluntly stating if critics and audiences did not catch on to this, along with other "spoon-fed thematic lines", he couldn't help them. It may not cover other issues people had with the scene, but Score one Win for Batman v Superman and one Crowning Moment of Awesome for Lee.
• Lee able to easily make a rebuttal in The Force Awakens for every accusation about Rey being a Mary Sue, by presenting examples of the film clearly showing either how that is not the case, or show that her skills can easily be explained.
• Lee taking a moment in his Avengers: Infinity War review to call out Disney over their handling of the James Gunn scandal.
  • Also crosses over into heartwarming that Disney did indeed rehire James Gunn, about four months after the video's uploading.
• Lee getting through two reviews of Avengers: Infinity War without a single insult or backhanded reference to DC is very satisfying, particularly if you're a fan of those films or if you're just sick of the rivalry.
• His three-part video series for Avengers: Endgame, showing how far the MCU as a whole has come. Such an epic movie was eventually given the largest win score to date, with the total win counter reaching "(I Love You) 3000"!
  • Captain America wielding Mjolnir instantly earns 150 wins for a gratifying foreshadowing payoff.
  • The portals scene is possibly the most gleeful which we have seen Lee!
  • Everyone arriving is given 101 wins total.
  • Nine wins total for Pepper suiting up as Rescue.
  • Alan Silvestri’s score getting 11 wins.
  • Captain America’s “Avengers...assemble...” line scoring another 201 wins.
  • Tony’s Heroic Sacrifice, showing his full character arc, earning 506 wins from the moment he makes the snap that wipes Thanos and his army out of existence.
  • While not referring to him by name, Lee calls out Martin Scorsese for his comments about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, by pointing out all the art and wonder of the MCU!
    "This is the impact of these movies, this is the impact of these words that came from RDJ's children, this is the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to other human beings!"
  • He then adds more wins on to scenes which he had won earlier, feeling he didn't give them as many wins as they deserved. The Win Counter begins continuously running and rising for almost 70 seconds, then eventually slows down until the two "I love you 3000." scenes!
• Praising Imelda Staunton's performance while utterly hating Dolores Umbridge as a character and praising her as an excellent villain is something to behold. He analyzes everything that went into crafting such a memorable and complete Hate Sink, right down to her vocal inflections (at which point it veers into Funny Moment).
• "Everything GREAT About Youtube Rewind 2018": NOTHING^note Except Jaiden Animations (She's always a win)
• In EGA The Dark Knight, Lee does something that could have been done by the Bat himself: Critically analysing the Joker's "Madness" schtick (of course while also praising the character). The Joker, at least in Lee's opinion, is insane but is also certainly in control and calculating of himself and the situation around him. He also justifies the seemingly over-complicated plan of the Joker in the movie by realising and explaining that the Joker doesn't have one plan; instead the Joker has numerous plans upon plans, constantly changing in response with the Joker's own rapidly-shifting goals to his overarching motive of creating disorder, with many bizarre longshots details like planting evidence for Bruce to find that will lead him to a specific room, instead of being a case of Just as Planned, is actually a case of Crazy-Prepared. And every plan he does make is one where the outcome is a Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, all to emphasise to Batman and the people of Gotham that all actions are so random that choice is meaningless, and what they choose exposes people's lack of Humanity in the face of an Unstoppable Force that always wins no matter the choice. The only way to beat him is to "not play his game", even if it kills you.
  Lee: "I know there will still be comments about the minutia of his plan, but before you comment, ask yourself, "was it necessary to his plan?" If it wasn't, then it wasn't necessarily part of his plan."
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  "The point is that he has no "ultimate plan." His plan just goes on and on. It has no end game. With no goal in mind, how do you stop him?[...] That's what makes him so terrifying. Nothing Batman can ever do will not play into the Joker's hand, because his goals can shift on a dime".
• Part two of Lee's EGA Get Out (2017) where, he drops his first F-bomb, but also carefully and tastefully goes after the idea of systematic racism while acknowledging that, as a white man, he doesn't have the best perspective on it. He even goes as far to plug multiple essays or websites where black people have shared opinions to make it clear that if you don't trust what Lee says, there are other sources for you to check out.
• The EGA to Glass (2019) showcases the class and dedication of keeping this show as positive to any movie possible for this is the show's very first Wham Line episode with Lee admitting that he didn't actually like this movie and to still dedicate an EGA episode anyway ultimately showcases that there's still a good balance between personal grudges and making it still a positive show for the viewers.

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