hello happy 2022. my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beanie i will be completely honest with you
guys i don't feel a hundred percent i have definitely felt worse i did get my booster
shot recently so in case i sound a little bit different or i look a little flustered
that might be one of the reasons why that said i hope you all had a
a holiday i hope you had a holiday season i actually got quite a few things in december that
i've been waiting a long long while to talk about and unfortunately we're not going to be able to do
that today we're not going to be able to do that just yet because i do need to ask before we get
too far away from the holiday season that we jump back to christmas and let's talk about home alone
the movies home alone and home loan 2 are some of my favorite christmas movies out there
in fact we watch them every single year it is quite the family tradition i'm well aware
that there are other home loan movies that came out and like many i have never watched them and
don't plan on watching them so i came to be aware that there was a new home alone movie coming out
in 2021 my feelings were very similar though i was like oh okay i guess i won't watch that one either
watched a preview for it did not like that at all until i saw a review posted by danny gonzalez that
popped in my subscription box now danny gonzalez is a fantastic commentary youtube channel i watch
all of his videos that's why i'm wearing his merch today oh wait wait a minute are they two
different people anyway i saw danny talking about the new home alone movie home sweet home alone
and his review made me realize my thoughts were exactly correct but there was something
he mentioned in his review that i hadn't seen others and it piqued my curiosity and it had to do
with nerf now because of what i do on my channel whenever i see nerf being used in a tv show or a
movie i instantly perk up and think can i identify what blaster that is or if it's been modified
what was the original blaster based off of i'm sure i'm not alone in that and there have been
plenty obviously but this movie peaked it for a couple of the wrong reasons so thanks to danny
gonzalez i went to disney plus and i watched myself home sweet home alone and i took some
notes on when i saw nerf products or supposedly nerf products in the movie and yes the movie was
not good my suspicions were correct i i mean it wasn't like the worst thing i've ever seen
that's obviously quite an achievement i just did not enjoy it maybe some people will but we're
also past christmas now so i don't think anyone's gonna be thinking about it for a long while there
were some nerf products in this movie confirmed i did note that early on you can see an infamous
and a cross bolt very clearly a quick note i've never actually tried to record anything off of
disney plus i do have a subscription but i didn't realize that if you tried to record any segment
that it completely blacks out the screen i guess that's like the same thing for many streaming
services but today was a day i learned so i did take like pictures off of my screen i am going
to use a clip later from danny gonzalez's video to prove my least favorite scene in the movie
but we will get to that in a bit going forward i saw something that did make me very interested
now this was for all intents of purposes a knock off super soaker it looks very much like what a
nerf super soaker would be but it's called the extinguisher which i absolutely love that name
this got me thinking a little bit because on the promo art you can see that the main character kid
has that super soaker like on him at most times not necessarily throughout the entire movie
but when showing off the movie title you can see that he has like a pool ball launcher which
i don't think that actually works in real life um that's super soaker not super soaker
sorry and then another blaster over his shoulder we'll get to that one in a second clearly this
is not an actual nerf blaster there's no nerf markings on it the extinguisher does not exist
in the super soaker line so clearly they made this up so that they could use that more frequently
and not have to like pay royalties so there's a clear distinction already being made in the movie
later on when it comes time to defending the house which sorry spoilers he has to defend this
his house home alone style we get to the moment ladies and gentlemen this kid is making himself
some death darts now before we go too much further let's talk about that death darts why am i calling
them that well because that's the what unofficial term that i think people have thrown around
over the years death darts being basically darts modded to have sharp ends like basically putting a
thumbtack in the front or if it's larger a razor blade basically anything that makes the rubbery
head of this nerf dart pointy sharp ergo dangerous here we go death darts the point in the name being
these can be very dangerous if modified now on every nerf blaster out there you will get the
do not modify darts or dart blaster i can uh best blaster ever right here i can see right at the top
warning do not aim at eyes or face use of eyewear recommended do not modify darts or blaster when
it comes to modifying blasters i understand that we have a slightly different philosophy on that
but i would argue modifying a blaster is very different than modifying the darts granted we
can fire these at a higher velocity but once you start making them dangerous
it's over bye airsoft paintball those are still using balls with the right face protection
you're going to be okay but once you start making these things have pointy ends
that's not going to be safe even if they're firing at a really low velocity so death darts
are a bit taboo to even talk about because i feel like me telling you about them right here
is going to go out and encourage people to make their own because this movie's on disney plus
the damage has already been done in this case approaching it from the responsible angle
i'll just fully admit it when i was first introduced into nerf i also had the concept
of what if i did put things in my darts and i shot them at targets and they stuck
cool right i mean i'm not the only one who's had that idea probably everyone has there's obviously
a difference between making that at home and being like ooh stick darts cool versus bringing them to
a game with other people and actually causing a dangerous situation if you think using dangerously
modified darts at a game with other people who are not aware that you're not using regular yo
not that that you're not using regular-ish darts you don't deserve to be playing with other people
in this day and age the message should be clear do not bring modified darts to your games ever
there are good offerings of darts on store shelves and online if you want to cut your darts in half
to make half darts that's completely different and you know that i'm talking about making your darts
into something that's heavier pointier we have many better offerings than we did 10 plus years
ago don't do it you know exactly what i'm talking about don't be like these click bait youtube
videos which i absolutely hate because those are the things that actually encourage people
to make dangerous stuff and then potentially cause injuries i see what they're going for here i just
hate it from my safety perspective as someone who actually goes out and plays with these things
and am concerned that someone who's not thinking might do that with their darts
and then bring them to a game not realizing that that's actually in their mix of darts
because i can't imagine that nerf would want to see this in a movie either and that's one thing
that i made sure to check on before making this video after watching through the entire movie
i checked nerf is not credited and if i'm wrong please tell me but i did not see nerf or hasbro
listed in the credits at the end of the movie which is why i think it's so interesting that they
have that knockoff super soaker so prominently displayed but then they have other nerf blasters
kind of shown throughout because here's the other important thing that i saw in the movie
the death darts are obviously lined up at one point you can clearly see what they are they're
nerf darts with push pins in the front of them love that a dread bolt with regular um bolts
or arrows and then you've got a titan drum the titan drum has clearly been modified a little bit
color scheme wise but you can tell that that's what they're supposed to be fitting into we'll
get to that in just a second so these are designed to fire out of a titan you've waited long enough
what's the scene what is the unholy scene that is not great actually this was danny
gonzalez who had this initial reaction and if there's someone who is not super invested in
nerf that's having this kind of reaction well that should tell you all you need to know am
i supposed to be laughing right now this is so sad the worst booby trap of the whole movie and
probably any home alone movie i feel like has got to be this one it is so grotesque it is honestly
scary this is some horror movie [ __ ] right here okay pam thinks that max is just run up
into the attic so she goes to pull down like the ladder that leads to the attic and instead she's
greeted with a nerf gun that shoots out nerf darts with push pins sticking out the front
and for the rest of the entire booby trap montage she just has these pushpin
nerf darts sticking out of her face and hands and everywhere it is so scary it is
nasty this is this movie is foul alright did you like that was it worth the wait no
yeah i know well thanks danny gonzalez for having that footage i'm not sure exactly how he captured
it but i think that's at least the important thing to see here there's a lot to discuss so
let's talk about it first let's attack it from the angle of this isn't how it works
obviously movie magic this is obviously not going to work with the dart modifications for the titan
darts fitting into a nerf drum obviously have a very small amount of space in between the front
a push pin out the front of the dart means it's not going to feed properly in the drum
myth busted let's go home i am curious how it like pulls the back and then it starts firing
i don't totally get that because the titan is like still a rev trigger and then a firing trigger
something about them is a little bit different and i'd love to see how quick it was to make those
modifications so that you could actually have them function like this they've also you know clearly
done cg here to make the darts fly out the front i don't hate the paint scheme on these with a
giant lightning bolt on the side that'd be a cool re-skin for a nerf to do they'll never do that now
but danny's reaction is perfect because he sees this person getting impaled by dangerous darts and
the first reaction that one would probably have is that doesn't really sit right with me now home
alone pranks all of the you know dangerous booby traps that we've seen over the years are obviously
a little um less dangerous in the movie than they would be in real life but in this case you're like
uh that that is a little like gross because as he mentions too for the rest of the scene
you can see that like the darts are just sticking out of her why wouldn't she just pull them out
like ugh the idea here is just kind of gross and unnecessary oh speaking of unnecessary this is
unnecessary like in the movie overall because the scene for this to even take place
is that she's tricked to go up the stairs into the attic and then she's attacked by all these
nerf darts so the only point that's even made is that she's tricked into getting darts stabbed into
her face and body what's the point clearly this isn't causing her that much discomfort she's just
i'm upset i've got nerf darts sticking out of my face look everyone i'm beautiful this
is modern art that you yourself can experience if you find yourself in a home sweet home alone
i would say that an actual use for nerf blasters in this scene if i were to rewrite and actually
pitch an idea instead is that you don't even need the death darts you don't need modified darts to
accomplish something with these nerf blasters think about it you've got two titans with a high
rate of fire what happens when you're consistently shot with darts and you're not expecting it
especially if it's in your you know head face area just somewhere where you weren't expecting
it you're probably gonna like no stop stop if they were mounted like at the top she's already climbed
up into the attic and then the blasters pop up and they shoot her and she's like ah and then she
falls down i just don't understand what the logic was for making that a good trap oh i don't hate
this what why weren't they just like super glued then they got stuck to you they did something like
that in the first home alone where harry gets glue all over his face and then feathers and looks like
a chicken this is just your modern interpretation dark face yep so that's all i really wanted to
complain about today home sweet home alone not a great movie and it utilized a not so great trap
it utilized nerf in a very interesting way but i think it's very clear from what i've
seen that nerf didn't like sign off on this which i suppose we can be well aligned on nerf look i'm
not a terrible person i believe in your do not modify darts we can talk more about the blaster
modifications sometimes we need to save your blasters but modifying darts i think is usually
very unnecessary especially when it comes to making them dangerous this movie for better or for
worse shows that off i just hope that people don't see this and then think oh i'm gonna go try that
i'd like to imagine people are smarter than that but i have the internet and i am no longer a child
so thanks again to danny gonzalez for your review and inspiring me to dive a little
bit deeper on this subject well i'm a little bit upset that i saw that and then i decided
to dive a little bit deeper too because then i decided to watch the entire movie and that is oh
an hour and a half okay it was a lot shorter than i thought it felt really long what have you seen
nerf in that doesn't make you cringe uh what's a movie that utilizes nerf in a good way that's my
call to action today i hope it's not involving modified darts i hope it's making blasters into
sci-fi props and that's actually kind of fun and wholesome and i don't care about that too much
thank you everyone so much for watching again i hope you had yourself a holiday season lots to get
to here that will be hopefully on a more positive note and i will see you next time with another
review of the other home alone movies where i try to see if nerf was used in a dangerous way there
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i don't want to check oh i have to check now am i beautiful i feel beautiful