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#293: Influencer (2022) · What's Your (Least) Favorite Scary Movie?

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Hello, what's your least favorite scary movie?
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You want to live in Taiwan? Popper No Welcome to watch at
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least three Scary Movie, The podcast where we talk about the
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good, the bad, the ugly and the absurd, and all of our favorite
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and least favorite scary movies. Because we believe every horror
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movie rightfully has its fan base.
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Even if we don't always get it. My name is Travis.
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My name is Jesse and the secret talking about not Taiwan but
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Thailand and not White Lotus but influencer Travis.
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Since you did not watch season 3 of White Lotus, Parker Posey
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does a very terrible North Carolina accent and consistently
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refers to Thailand as Taiwan and tells her daughter no.
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I don't know. So that was a quote from that.
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OK. I was like, did I miss
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something? Larry started saying that.
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I didn't write a quote down and there weren't any quotes on
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IMDb, so I just went with my heart and my heart went with
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Parker Posey. Parker Posey will usually do
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that. OK, so bad news.
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We forgot to do a poll yesterday because we were watching
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together. That's true.
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And that took over our brains. They did, and if you've seen
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that, you'll understand. Yeah.
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So we're just going to go ahead and hop right into influencer
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after I remind you guys that our TB or Not to Be came out last
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weekend. We talked about another Wolf
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Cop. It was weird.
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It's a weird episode, it really is.
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I really don't know how else to describe that.
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Oh my God, we didn't even do our titular question to or not to
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be. Sure, you can do it.
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You can watch another wolf cop if you want to.
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If you do, nobody. Will stop you.
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Well, I might, I might go. I'm not going to stop anybody
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from. Watching it, I might if it's
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another situation where we're with say, our friend Joe at his
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Airbnb and he tries to put on our terrible 2 beer not to be a
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movie and we have to say Joe no. Oh, no, that's true.
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Yeah, Joe does. Joe did that.
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He did that with. Octagames.
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Octagames. Yeah, fuck you, Joe.
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Go. I'm kidding.
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I love Joe, OK? OK, so The Secret of my
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Influencer. Influencer premiered October
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16th, 2022 at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and a wide
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Internet release of May 26th, 2023.
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We watched it on shutter, but you can also watch it on
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Philoplex, AMC Plus, YouTube primetime, Sling TV Premium,
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Prime premium, YouTube TV Premium, or you can rent it from
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Fandango at home. Google TV.
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Your April TV. We have.
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So it's a watchable movie? Yes.
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And part of the reason that I think it's a watchable movie is
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because Influencers, its sequel, just started its premiere run at
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festivals in July and will be coming to shutter later this
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year. Cool.
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Which is part of why I chose it for the show.
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I'm curious to know how you even do a sequel to this.
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Well, spoiler not spoiler. You're here on the show
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listening to this. CW is not actually killed, so.
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OK. So she'll find some way off the
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island, I guess, because this one takes place in France.
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France. France.
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Are you sure it's the same characters as what they said?
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Yeah, it's Cassandra, not as CW. OK, all right.
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Whoa. You know, there's always a way.
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There's if you want it hard enough.
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This was written by Tesh Gutikanda and Curtis David
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Harder, directed by Curtis David Harder, music by Avery Kentis,
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and there wasn't really special effects makeup to do.
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But I did actually find out that there was a deep fake designer
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for this movie, which seems really important.
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That seems, yeah, you need that. And that was done by Zach Adder.
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OK starring Emily Tennant is Madison, Rory J Saber is Ryan
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Cassandra not as CW and Sarah Canning as Jessica Travis.
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It's time for her favorite game budget or bug Ted.
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This is a bug, Ted. I'm gonna agree in that I don't
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even have the budget for it. That's not surprising.
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There's not really an opening box office for it either.
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OK. Worldwide it's grossed about
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226,000. IMDb score 6.2 out of 10.
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That's a better worldwide gross than I would have expected for
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this, honestly. Yes, OK, 2022 we every time we
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do a movie from 2022, we have to talk about what a banger year
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2022 was. You're fucked.
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So I'm just trying to find common threads and different
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themes. And the theme that felt most
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appropriate with influencer was just people trying to get
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finance. I don't know Pearl's going to be
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here. As is X.
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As is. Oh, they were both they.
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Were both in 2022, so the first one is X Oh yeah which released
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March 18th 2022. Budget of 1,000,000.
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Worldwide gross of 14,000,000. IMDb of 6.5 out of 10.
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God, you know the biggest shock is the fact that 824 released a
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budget. I know I believe that and we
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just talked about Pearl, but I'm going to go ahead and run
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through those stats again real quick.
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Pearl released September 16th 2022.
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Didn't release the budget on that but it made a world where
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it goes to 9 point. 8,500,007 point O out of 10 on IMDb.
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Wait, what was excess rating? Six point that's.
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Fucked up. Fuck that.
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No, I know people like Pearl but fuck that.
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Do you want to know what the third movie I have is?
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Yeah. Nope.
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Yeah, I guess they're kind. Of because they're trying to,
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yeah, they're trying to get blue Jean on video and sell it to
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Oprah. It's just.
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Yeah, they are trying to do that right.
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Yeah, man, they were supposed to be humble.
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They're like, you know what, We just trying to be out here
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taking care of our horses. I don't think Keke Palmer's
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character was trying to be humble.
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She wasn't, but I can't remember the other dude's name.
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He was. So no, it came out live. 22nd
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2022 Budget of 68,000,000. World Breakers of 171,000,000.
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IMDb 6.8 out of 10. OK, that's that's yeah, that's a
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good movie. I like that one.
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One tagline. OK.
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Be careful who you follow. That's pretty good.
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That's a good one. Yeah, we have our work cut out
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for us. We do.
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This is going to be a tough, funny thing.
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Because that's a good, good tagline.
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That is too good. Honestly, it could discourage.
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I have very little fun facts. I even tried looking up
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interviews and I had a hard time with that.
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So all I've got is one single little snippet from the IMDb
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trivia page. Oh boy.
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What is it? The voice overs from Madison's
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vlogs were not actually Emily Tennant's voice.
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That was all AI. That was AI.
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Why would they do that? Because because CW later does
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like the voice altering AI to keep her ruse going for a little
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bit. That's weird.
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I don't like that. So OK.
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That's all I have, which I guess means that we just jumped to
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talking about it real quick. OK, Yeah.
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All right. So I'll kick it off with our
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good stuff. I think one of the things I like
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the most about this movie is I like those moments where we see
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CW squirm when they, like, put her in these uncomfortable
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situations of trying. Like they they're getting close
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to figuring out that there's something off about the whole
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situation with Madison. Yeah.
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But yeah, like that's that's the heart of the movie for me.
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I like that. That's what works the most.
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I also liked seeing her meet like somebody that kind of
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outsmarts her, like, picks up on her creepiness, like whenever we
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see what's her name, Jesse. Jessica.
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Jessica yeah. Like, I just like those moments.
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I like it whenever you get a villain and you can see that
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they're, like, really good at what they do and they're
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confident. But then we see this one person
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come up and just like, thwart everything that they like have
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perfected. Also, I kind of love that we
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have no back story on Madison's character either.
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We have exactly as much information as CW has, so.
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Oh, what the fuck is Madison's background that she can just
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like, make Spears and fish and all of that shit on this island
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and stay out there for a month? That's one thing.
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I wish we had something now. Like they make it like it's so
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obvious that there's something there.
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Like, I mean, people die there all the time from her.
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So like, why? How was she able to survive?
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I think CW is just assuming that all influencers are dumb, ditzy
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airheads and that they can possibly figure out a way to
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survive on their own. She is making those assumptions,
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and because we're along for the ride with her, we're just like,
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whatever. But she ends up actually being
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really able to take care of herself out there.
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And I think that's a really interesting thing to think about
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with it, yeah. Kind of speaking on that though,
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one of the other things I really enjoyed is I liked seeing CW
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play on the insecurities of these influencers, how she was
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able to get Jessicas attention because she mentioned that she's
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a follower. Yes.
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So that right there, no matter how off put she was by her
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introduction and all the red flags, the fact that it was a
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follower, she's like, okay, playing on that insecurity of
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wanting to be desired or like, you know.
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Well then she also mentions having that villa that's
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overlooking the sea and it's really beautiful and she wants
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to take advantage of that too. Yeah, yeah.
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So, you know, there's like little things like that that
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made this movie enjoyable for me.
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Yeah, and I, I like the way the story structure works because we
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have her finding her for like, we go along for the ride with
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Madison. At the beginning, we think
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Madison's going to be our person.
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And then credits cut 20 minutes into the movie.
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Madison's on an island, We're left to believe she's dead.
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Then we go through following CW and see how she finds her
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targets. Like we see her looking for her
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next person that's in Thailand, and we see her like having to
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try these different tactics to get their defenses down and how
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she's going to do that. And then we see her fuck up, we
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see her make those mistakes, and then she's got to figure out how
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she's going to clean up. And then just when we think
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everything's done, Oh my God, Madison's still alive and now
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it's a revenge movie. Except that part doesn't last
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long enough for me. It's Yeah, that's just the
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ending, really. Yeah.
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And maybe that'll be part of the sequel.
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I. Don't know.
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I don't know. I tried to look very little at
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it. All I know is that Cassandra nod
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is definitely back and then it's in France, OK.
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Yeah. All right.
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That's all we need to know. Yes, All right.
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Is. That all right for your good.
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Yes, OK. Also the soundtrack folks.
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Yeah, Jesse listens to the soundtrack all the time.
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OK, so the bad stuff for me, this is the it's hard for me to
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relate to these people because these are everybody in this
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movie is somebody I hate, honestly.
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Like there's not like really any redeemable qualities about any
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of these people, which, you know, it just it, I don't attach
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to anybody. I don't care what happens to
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these people. It's just the only thing that
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drives me with this movie is like, I want to see her fell,
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but that's it. Like I don't care if these
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people survive. I don't care about Madison
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really either because they're all like these vapid like
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influencer type people. Like they are portrayed as like
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the stereotypical influencers that you think.
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Of I don't think that's true with Madison.
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We don't know enough about her is what I want to say.
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But like, I think that it's like you think that there is like a
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little bit because she shows moments when they're on the
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beach and like, well, you can take it like I, you know,
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honestly, it would be kind of a relief to not have like this
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lifestyle anymore. But at the same time, she's
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she's. Still doing.
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It yeah, well, not, not just that just the way that she was.
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She's like, oh, they would they would know that I'm gone.
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Like she's she still has that self importance to her.
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Like she still is super arrogant and I don't like that that's not
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an attractive like feature to me.
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Like I just whenever I see people like that, I just like,
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fuck you. I don't give a shit whatever.
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You know another thing, like I feel like the first 3rd of the
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movie feels like a bunch of moments.
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It's like it's not a lot of story happening.
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We just see like a bunch of things play out and it's like
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crammed with like music laying over a lot of it and it's just
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like it's not a lot of story happening.
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We just see a lot of just things happening and I don't know it's
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it doesn't really suck the end until about 2/3 into the movie
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really. My bads are that we need names.
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We need names to be said out loud a lot.
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Sooner I didn't. I had no name for The CW
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character. I only knew it from pulling up
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IMDb. And then also, and there's a lot
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of the story that relies on us being able to read what's
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happening on the phone screen and we don't get enough long
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enough, clear enough shots of it.
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Yeah, that's true. You're right.
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I am and we have a decent size screen TV.
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It's not like we're trying to watch it like, you know, on a
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laptop or something. And we're like, wait, what's
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that Like? It's just the, the shots were
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just not for something that was meant to be super important,
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like we weren't getting enough of.
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It it needed to be like those movies where like, they'll show
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somebody on the phone, but then like an overlay of like what's
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on the phone next to them, you know?
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Yeah, that would have been beneficial for this.
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Right. What's your ugly?
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I just the whole like insanity of like the influencer lifestyle
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in full display here. It's just a lot of like self
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absorbed people for the most part.
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And I think that that's kind of ugly.
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Also Ryan being raped. Yeah, I put date rape from.
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My ugly. Like a.
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Problem. No.
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Yeah, that was just really not cool.
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And they? Need to be done.
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Yeah, and I feel like they I way too hard to hand wave it away
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like Oh well they didn't actually have sex.
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Like and he's like it's fine cuz I've never forgotten a shag.
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It's just not. She's naked on top of him.
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She rolled a cock like she touched him.
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She was all over him and it's implied that she drugged him.
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It's bad. It's not.
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Implied. We see it, Yeah, We see her drop
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the. Ball in there.
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I missed that. Yeah.
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So OK, yeah. No, it's explicitly shown that
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she drugged him. Date rape, Yeah.
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For sure. Yeah.
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I mean, OK, I think we knocked that one out right there.
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Yeah, absurd. Well, I think it's funny.
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I, I know you like the title drop part, but for me it feels
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like we're like stepping into a music video because of like the
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way that the names come up. It's like, you know how like
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whenever a music video starts, like you have the song title in
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like the bottom right corner or whatever like that, Like that's
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what the font and like the whole overlay looked like.
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Also, I'm Jessica's like in a cult, right?
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She's like a cult leader. She's a cult leader, yeah.
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Like for sure. Or like she's like a high level
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member. She's like, I put MLM cult on
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there. It's something like that going
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on. Just her messages say like
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repeatedly join our team like she's a fucking cult leader.
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Yes, and also like the all white, which I think that was
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smart because I was trying to pay attention to the things CW
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does to like try and mirror her targets.
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And she she starts wearing all white or mostly white when she
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realizes Jessica's whole thing, which why didn't she look at
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Jessica's page a little bit more closely before the first time of
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like trying to lure her. Yeah, I don't know, but I
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thought that that was funny, that she's just like cold.
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Mine was that at the very beginning, Madison is doing that
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like vlog video, you know, and she just posts it directly
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without doing any kind of editing or anything.
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And I'm calling bullshit on that.
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Oh yeah, yeah. That's there's no way, that's
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not how that works. There's so much editing that
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goes into videos. Same with like the pictures like
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with Ryan when he takes the picture of what's your face
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like? Oh, this is perfect.
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Like no people slap like filters.
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They do photo edits and show like that color correct.
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They do all kinds of shit to get that stuff like just right.
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You don't just like take a a bland ass picture with your
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smartphone camera and be like there we go.
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Fucking masterpiece. But you know he's artistic
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because he's British and has long hair.
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Well, yeah, he's got them high socks too.
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Yeah, you don't do that look, unless you know your shit about
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photography. Exactly.
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Yeah. So what would you rate it?
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I'd give this A-77. Yeah, I like this movie.
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It's it's good. I like it.
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Yeah, I really like it too. I7 is actually where I land with
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it. So we have an average of seven.
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I think it's it's fun. I like the like influencers sub
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genre of horror. You're big on.
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That I yeah. And I think that this one, I
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just really like it. I like the vibe of it and I'm
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really excited for the sequel. OK, well let's get on into it
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then. OK OK, so we begin this movie
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with an island and a slow zoom. A woman is passed out on the
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show. Then we cut to a woman travel
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vlogging in Thailand. She is talking about how great
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it is to meet the locals and see things that she's never seen
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before. And travelling is just really
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great for getting you out of your shell.
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It's just. Like a montage of her on her
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phone the entire time not interacting with the locals.
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Exactly, like she's so lonely the whole time she posts this
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video without editing it and gets tons of hits immediately.
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Popular guys, okay. She is Facetiming her friend
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Jay, who is. I don't know if that's her
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friend or if it's more Ryan's friend that they just also are
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friends. I think it's like a mutual
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friend. They're all friends.
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Yeah, I think it's probably her friend first.
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And she's just upset like because Ryan no showed on the
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vacation, he's like, but he got you that super cool brand deal.
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He can give me an all expenses paid trip to Thailand and not
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yet released face care. Like you should be grateful for
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what you have. Like you're not listening to
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her. You're kind of being a bad
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friend. Oh.
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Yeah, that's that tracks for this type of yeah thing here.
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So she goes to a bar and she's like, trying to take a picture
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of herself for, you know, social media because it's her job.
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And then this man offers to take the photos, and he scooches on
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down the bar. And she is doing this thing that
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most women have had to do at some point or another.
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Like where do you have the hard cut off of not being rude enough
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to get yourself in a dangerous situation versus not wanting to
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invite this conversation? The thing is, I didn't think
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that this guy was being bad, though.
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I don't think he had bad intentions.
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I think he really was just trying to chat with somebody at
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the bar. It doesn't matter because you
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never know and it's an unwelcome conversation and he's making her
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uncomfortable and it's very obvious that he's making her
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uncomfortable. I guess I can understand that,
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but then like so do you just not talk to women at the bar?
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I mean, you learn the body language when you're making them
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uncomfortable and you don't shift down closer and I.
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Guess that's talking to them. I guess that's fair.
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That sucks for that guy. He's just trying to have a
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conversation. I don't know.
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The way he keeps talking about how he's in Thailand for the
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women is not, I don't think, yeah, I don't think he's just
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trying to have a conversation. OK.
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So that's when CW sees this and she interjects and manages to
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get her away. Yeah, it bells her out.
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So they're walking and talking and Madison talks about how
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she's kind of bummed about being solo and only sitting by the
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pool. And CW is like, well, I can show
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you around. So the next day they go for an
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early morning hike and we see CW is avoiding the camera.
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She says that she's mostly a drifter, so it's kind of fun for
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her to have, you know, somebody to hang out with while she's
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while she's in Thailand. Yeah, She notices that Madison
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is watching like this group of guys that are just kind of like
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having a good time. So we see now they're just
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partying with those two dudes and they're having a good time.
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And the night's over. They're walking back to
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Madison's hotel, and they leave her there.
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And then she gets back to her hotel room and sees that it has
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been broken into. Yes, her passport has been taken
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and presumably like money and stuff has been taken as well.
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So I have a question, When did she have time to do this?
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When did this happen? That's a good point because all
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we got was like an elephant and food montage.
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She was with her the entire time.
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Yeah, like the the montage implies that they were spending
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time together, not like, hey, I'm going to go do this, I'll
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meet you back here in a few minutes type thing.
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Yeah. And I don't know.
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And I know that this is done this way to like, misdirect the
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audience. But that's weird because I feel
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like, was this supposed to be a misdirect?
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I think we were kind of in on this from the beginning, right?
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I don't know. I don't remember what I thought
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the first time watching this. OK.
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But CW does help her really fill out the forms to get a new
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passport, She said. It can be expedited.
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It'll take about two weeks. And Madison's just really upset
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because she doesn't want to be there for another two weeks.
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And this is when she calls Ryan. She's Facetiming in and he's
21:03
like, all right, I won't be able to pick you up at the airport.
21:06
So you're going to have to take a cab home.
21:07
Wow. You bail on the vacation and
21:10
you're not even going to come pick her up from the airport.
21:12
So like I was like, this is so you to like have your passport
21:17
and your room broken into and all of your shit stolen.
21:19
How dare you? And I'm glad Madison's like, you
21:22
know what? I haven't wanted to do this for
21:24
a while, but I think we're breaking up.
21:25
And he's like, no, we're not. She just hangs up.
21:28
She causes the laptop. Yeah, so we get another travel
21:33
montage. Is is followed by her stopping
21:36
at CW's place. Yep, because CW offered to let
21:39
her crash at her place during all of this.
21:41
Yes, and what we find out later is that CW rented this villa
21:45
with the credit card that she stole from Madison.
21:48
So they are, it's this beautiful villa and it's like in the
21:52
jungle, but it's also on the sea.
21:53
And it's just, it's really nice. And she is saying that she is
22:01
going to like Madison has some idea for the next day.
22:04
NCW. He's like, actually I have a
22:05
surprise for you. So the next day they get on this
22:08
little motorboat and Madison, who has just seen this giant
22:14
villa by the sea, sees this little tiny motorboat and goes,
22:19
wow, you have your own boat. I know.
22:22
Wow. Yeah, like I feel like need like
22:25
a whole yacht. Yeah, like this is not the thing
22:29
to be impressed with. Yeah.
22:31
So they ride into the ocean and they arrive at this island.
22:36
And when she arrives there, she notices that it looks like
22:40
there's been like a campfire there before.
22:42
And then she sees a tree trunk and it's got some tally marks on
22:45
it. 7 Seven of them, Yeah. Shit.
22:48
And she has no cell signal and CW says you're free.
22:53
So they're drinking wine by the fire that night and they start
22:56
talking about scary stories. And Madison is talking about a
23:00
version of me that existed somewhere, if I was ever in the
23:03
Girl Scouts, about this girl who used to always tell the Super
23:06
creepy, scary stories and would say if she saw this now that
23:09
you're probably gonna kill me out here.
23:11
I like this where we see CW actually just full on reveal her
23:16
intentions and she just doesn't believe.
23:18
Yeah, Madison just laughs. And she was like, no, you
23:21
noticed if I was gone and CW's like, not if I took over your
23:24
account. How are you gonna fucking do
23:26
that? How are you gonna fucking do
23:28
that? Yeah.
23:30
And then we see it's the next morning, CW is just getting on
23:34
the boat and driving off while Madison's sleeping on the beach
23:38
still. Yeah.
23:38
And then this is where we get the title drop.
23:41
And then three weeks later, she's faking Madison's blog and
23:46
she's saying that Thailand has just been so beautiful that not
23:50
only is she extending her vacation, but she's just going
23:52
to stay indefinitely and also going to take a break from
23:55
social media. But she's still doing her social
23:57
media posts. This is yeah.
23:59
Like she's, I think trying to taper it off, much as we are
24:05
doing with Talia's Prednisone right now.
24:07
I see tapering that way people don't get too suspicious too
24:10
fast. No, that makes sense.
24:12
Yeah, and she's got like a little blonde wig and a big sun
24:15
hat and like, pastel colored clothing, basically enough that
24:20
Shea can be passable for Madison with like, the Photoshop
24:24
overlay. I know she's withdrawing money
24:26
from the ATM but you need a pin number for that.
24:31
I wonder because we also see her calling the bank and increasing
24:36
her credit limit, so I wonder if she was able to, like with all
24:40
of Madison's documents, convince them that it was her on the
24:43
phone and like reset the PIN and everything like that.
24:46
Could be. Yeah, she is good with
24:49
technology and credit card fraud.
24:51
So this is what we've learned about CW.
24:54
She is watching crowds. She's trying to figure out who
24:57
her next Mark's going to be. She goes to Instagram and see
25:00
who who's in Bangkok right now, who who is not from Bangkok but
25:05
is in Bangkok and she finds Jessica.
25:09
So she follows her around in person, not subtly enough I
25:15
feel. No, she's just like straight up
25:16
telling her in a fucking cab, you know, Like, yeah, it's
25:19
pretty like out there. And she has the same kind of
25:23
general approach that she did for Madison, where she's
25:25
assuming, like, this is an influencer who looks more
25:28
confident on her social media than she actually is.
25:31
And she's like, oh, that little statue that you're picking up,
25:34
that's a fake. There's a place down the street
25:36
that's like real jade, and it'll be a better deal.
25:38
And she goes, no, this is just like some shit for my sister.
25:41
She won't care. She won't know the difference.
25:42
Yeah, and I like that, you know. That's real.
25:46
Yeah. She's like, I don't fucking
25:47
care. This is just what it is.
25:49
All right, Thanks. Bye.
25:50
And then this is where CW realizes she needs to do
25:54
actually a little bit more research like this.
25:56
Makes me wonder how many times she's done this that like the
25:59
same approach has worked for all of them.
26:01
Probably all of them I I doubt she's had much struggle with
26:04
this honestly. And this is where she learns
26:06
Jessica is higher up in an MLM cult type thing.
26:11
Yeah, yeah, that's the difference here.
26:13
She's normally been dealing with influencers, but now she's
26:16
dealing with a straight up cult leader.
26:17
Yeah, she's dealing with the Hun.
26:21
So she runs into her at the hotel again, and this time she
26:24
takes more of a fawning approach to where you're like, she was
26:28
like, I was just so embarrassed and I'm such a big fan of yours,
26:32
and I'm just lonely here. And I've got this big old villa
26:36
by the sea. And Jessica's, like, better see,
26:40
you say. And so this is where she's,
26:44
like, invited her to hang out. Like, Jessica's invited her to
26:47
hang out with her. And hanging out with Jessica
26:49
apparently is just watching her get photos taken.
26:52
And also like you can see while she's like photo taking, she
26:56
steals her hotel room key. Yep.
27:00
And then Jessica is like, oh hey, I have this sponsor
27:02
meeting. They've been handing me about
27:04
it, but I'll meet up with you after.
27:06
And during the sponsorship meeting, CW breaks into her room
27:11
and takes passport, travel, etcetera.
27:14
All of that we know. And she sees Jessica going back
27:19
up to her hotel room and she's just sitting there waiting for
27:21
the call. And then we take the same trip
27:24
to the villa again. But when they get there, there's
27:28
rose petals and candles. And this is the most confusing
27:33
break in in the world. Yeah, dude, OK.
27:36
How? How many people have the fucking
27:37
key to this place? How did he have the key to this
27:40
place? He wasn't there before.
27:42
This place is not locked. I get the feeling that Madison
27:47
has been afforded very little privacy since starting this
27:50
relationship with Ryan because, as CW later says, like the.
27:53
You found where this villa was because you've been tracking
27:57
Madison's spending. Yeah.
27:59
And so she figured he figured out that she was renting this
28:01
villa and he probably just like showed something like I'm her
28:05
manager and her boyfriend whatever and thought a copy of
28:08
the key. Probably, Yeah.
28:10
Yeah. He's got like rose petals all
28:11
over the place, and he's got a nice little dinner made.
28:14
And then there's no Madison there.
28:16
It's just Jessica and CW. Yeah, and she has to kind of
28:20
like cover. She was like, you know, she'd
28:24
like, I was paying her to stay here, like it was on her card,
28:26
but I was paying her to stay here.
28:28
She broke up with you. That's weird that you're here in
28:34
the morning. She is on her laptop with her
28:37
little headphones in and everything, and Ryan comes
28:39
downstairs and everything's kind of awkward and she uses the
28:43
computer to call Ryan from Madison's number and kind of
28:48
uses a voice modulator to tell him to leave.
28:51
Yeah, and then he refuses because he insists that this has
28:54
to be done face to face. Dude, this guy is such bad news.
28:58
Like he's such a, like that's. What I'm talking about, man,
29:00
everybody in. The yeah, he's like you like
29:04
Madison got rid of all of the toxic people in her life because
29:07
I don't think she's going to go back to influencing either,
29:09
like. She needs to get that friend out
29:11
of her life too. Yes she is just not talk to Jay
29:15
anymore as well because I could see Jay like Oh my God, what if
29:20
that's what the sequel is? It's like Jay has convinced her
29:22
to like write a tell all novel about everything that happened
29:25
and he's like star fucking. She's going to she's going to be
29:29
the guy from Saw 3D where he's just doing news stories and
29:34
hand. Except not lying.
29:36
Except not lying. Maybe she embellishes a little
29:38
bit, but, you know, she doesn't really have to.
29:40
Yeah. So we see they are all three of
29:43
them, just like hanging out like Jessica's like, hey, I'm going
29:45
to go do this. You guys want to go and see the
29:47
way you he's trying to get off and he's like, no, it's fine.
29:49
But then Ryan wants to go. She's like, hey, let's all go
29:52
together. Yeah, She doesn't want Ryan to
29:54
be alone with Jessica because she was not expecting Ryan to
29:56
show up, doesn't know what he's going to say.
29:59
That can mess up her story that she told Jessica.
30:01
Right. So they're out and about, and
30:05
Jessica's just listening to Ryan talk about what happened with
30:10
Madison. Like he's like, yeah, no, we had
30:12
this fight. She came out here, You know,
30:14
it's just things are kind of weird.
30:16
And so Jessica's a little bit suspicious and at one point
30:20
they're out at the bar and. Oh, wait, no, before that
30:23
they're mountain climbing and then they're up there like just
30:26
kind of chilling out. And when they're like they're
30:29
talking a little bit about Madison, but CW's like, hey, we
30:32
should probably go back. And then this is where Jessica's
30:35
like, yeah, a lot of break in situations going on around here,
30:38
huh? You can tell she's starting to
30:40
really suspect that it's her and all this stuff.
30:43
So they're at the bar and Jessica manages to sneak away,
30:46
and CW gets a message from Madison's Instagram account
30:51
where basically Jessica just wants to like, meet up with her,
30:54
talk to her. Like, I met your friend CW and
30:58
your boyfriend Ryan. I've got some questions I just
31:01
kind of want to get to. Yeah, I think she's trying to
31:03
warn her. Yeah.
31:04
Like, you know, like, hey, there's somebody here that's
31:05
like maybe not being honest about what's.
31:08
Happening. Weird things are happening.
31:10
Yeah. So this is where CW realizes
31:12
that Jessica snuck off. She sees her getting in a cab
31:15
and going, So she gets back to the villa real quick, tells the
31:18
cab driver that's waiting for Jessica to go ahead and leave.
31:21
And when Jessica comes down, she's like, I'm just going to
31:24
give you your own space. I mean, I found a hotel.
31:26
I went ahead and booked that that and CW is like, Oh well, I
31:29
paid the cab driver because I thought you had forgotten.
31:34
And this is where Jessica makes mistake because Jessica thinks
31:38
she's hot shit and she's not in any kind of danger And she's
31:41
like, listen, you're creepy. I don't want to be around here
31:43
anymore. I'm going to go.
31:45
And then CW smashes her face into a.
31:47
Wall, but she almost has it. She's like, look, I know what's
31:50
happening here. You're taking advantage of your
31:52
friend Madison, and you just want money.
31:54
I'll give you money if that's all you want.
31:56
Are you that fucking and done? Yeah, she probably is.
31:59
She runs a cult. That's what she is driven by.
32:02
So she assumes everybody else is driven by the same things.
32:05
Yeah. This is a pretty gnarly kill,
32:09
though. She steps on her throat with her
32:11
heel. That's pretty fucking brutal.
32:14
Gross. It's so gross.
32:15
And then she shoves her into her suitcase.
32:20
Incredible. Ryan comes back to this villa
32:23
with randos again. This guy is bad fucking news.
32:26
You don't know these people, and you're just inviting them into
32:28
this villa with two women who you also barely know.
32:33
Like this is such a bad idea. And CW is very clear that they
32:38
all need to leave. Yeah.
32:41
And then as they're like clearing out and everything, she
32:45
gets a notification that Madison was tagged by a photo tagged by
32:49
Ryan in a photo on Instagram. And that photo has CW in the
32:53
background. So it's probably a photo that
32:55
she had like sent to him or something.
32:58
Yeah, so it's the next morning. Ryan was aware of Jessica's plan
33:04
to leave and go to a hotel, but CW kind of explained it away.
33:07
Like, oh, she's going to go in the morning.
33:09
Yeah, she got too drunk to leave, and then here she's got
33:12
breakfast laid out for everybody to apologize, and then she has
33:14
like a eaten plate already, as if it were Jessica, and she's
33:18
already left in the morning. Yeah.
33:20
And then he gets a notification or he pulls up Instagram because
33:25
CW says that Jessica sent him a message on Instagram that she
33:27
was leaving. And when he pulls it up, he sees
33:30
Madison has posted a photo with one of the people that they'd
33:33
taken pictures with before. It says new love of my life.
33:37
Yeah. And so he's a little bit upset,
33:40
and him and CW go out and about and she's trying to play
33:44
friendly and he's saying that he brought out the real Madison,
33:48
like she and her account needed him.
33:50
And she's not the first girl that he's made famous.
33:53
And he's just really good at this kind of thing.
33:55
I like how he's like shooting. He's like the quality.
33:57
Right now that she's posting, it's just shit.
33:59
It's. Just bad.
34:00
Stuff. And it's just like saying it
34:01
right to her face. Yeah, and so like this whole day
34:04
is just like them sightseeing and CW just like kissing ass and
34:09
getting him drunker and drunker and eventually drugging him.
34:12
And then they get back to the villa and he passes out on the
34:15
bed. And this is really gross.
34:17
She climbs on over naked and throws a condom on the floor, is
34:21
basically setting the scene and then uses his face to unlock his
34:25
phone. And this is when she deletes the
34:29
picture of Madison and her from his Instagram.
34:34
So he wakes up in the morning. He is confused about everything
34:38
that's going on and she says we gotta hurry.
34:40
The fairy leaves in an hour. Yeah.
34:42
And then he's just like looking around, sees a condom in the
34:43
floor and he's just kind of processing what happened there.
34:47
So she drops him off at the ferry and then she goes back and
34:49
she's burning Madison and Jessica's stuff.
34:52
But she does keep a couple trophies because she's a serial
34:54
killer, and that's a serial killer too.
34:56
She keeps Madison's journal and the fake jade statue that
35:01
Jessica bought her sister. Yeah.
35:03
Now the sister will never get it.
35:05
It's not real, man. She's doing them a favor, OK?
35:08
So Ryan thinks back to his first date, first date with Madison.
35:13
And I think this is kind of like a fun little way to tie
35:15
everything in together about the whole like catfishing and faking
35:18
and everything. Because it was his friend that
35:21
was messaging Madison from his account, pretending to be.
35:25
Him. Yeah.
35:26
And then he was like, but I was intrigued, so I wanted to come
35:29
meet you. And then he takes a picture of
35:31
her with a teddy bear. And he's like, you know, if you
35:34
post stuff like this, like people, they'll be really drawn
35:36
to it. Got that AX factor.
35:38
Yeah, I'm a star. So he decides that he's not
35:46
gonna give up on Madison that quickly.
35:48
Does he love her? Does he love her fame?
35:50
He loves her fame. I was gonna say, who can really
35:52
say? But he loves her fame.
35:55
Most importantly, he wants to be right.
35:56
Yeah, yes. So he's basically tracking her
35:59
movements based on what she had posted on social media.
36:02
And she he winds up at the resort bar and meets the drunk
36:05
Brit who will not appreciate another Wolf cop.
36:12
Because if you're drunk and British, you won't get another
36:15
Wolf Cop, as we discussed. Yeah, you'll become Canadian.
36:18
You will become Canadian. Yeah, so like, he's like talking
36:24
and he shows a picture of Mass and he's like, hey, do you
36:26
recognize this girl? At first he says no, but then as
36:30
he goes on he mentions. He mentions her and another
36:36
woman at the bar and he kind of like gestures about CWS.
36:40
No, no, no, no. He mentions about, like, her
36:44
having a break in and then that jog is the guy's memories.
36:46
Like, Oh yeah, that's right. She had a rough go of it that
36:49
night. Her and her friend, Yeah.
36:51
And then and then he goes, no, but she's been here recently.
36:54
And he was like, no, did you see that picture that it's a clear
36:57
sky? It's the rainy season here.
36:59
We haven't had a clear day like that in weeks.
37:01
Right? Da, da, da.
37:03
So Ryan calls Madison's friend Jay to ask about their last time
37:07
they video chat. He goes, well, I've been talking
37:09
to her. He goes, no, like, when's the
37:10
last time you actually saw her? And he goes, I don't know, it's
37:12
been a while. Can you get me a brand deal?
37:16
So he's watching an Instagram, that Instagram video that CW
37:21
posted about her paying her respects to the big Buddha and
37:24
catches like, where you know how, like when you do a filter
37:28
and edit or whatever, like if it falls off just a little bit,
37:31
it'll glitch. He catches it and he sees CW's
37:34
birthmark under her eye and he's like.
37:38
So he goes back to the villa and everything looks mostly empty,
37:41
but he does find a bag with the trophies of the statue and the
37:44
diary. He manages to catch her off
37:47
guard. Yeah, he knocks her out by
37:49
hiding around the corner. She wakes up tied up to a chair
37:53
and he begins interrogating her about everything that's
37:56
happened. But she is also like basically
37:59
saying like, well, here's the things that I have on you and
38:02
how you're going to be fucked because I'm bruised up.
38:04
And Madison sent me all those messages about how you were
38:06
abusive to her. And he's like, but you wrote
38:09
those. And she goes, Are you sure?
38:12
Can you prove that? Yeah.
38:13
They're kind of at an impasse, but Ryan thinks that he is still
38:17
going to be able to figure out what happened to Madison.
38:20
And he's like, I know what you're doing.
38:22
You're using Madison's account for likes.
38:25
What is her motive though? Like is she just a serial
38:28
killer? And like she thinks that
38:30
influencers are the easiest targets?
38:31
No, it's like a vigilante justice thing because she says
38:34
that like you're selling stuff to little girls.
38:36
Like she just thinks they're vapid and like.
38:39
Yeah. Basically.
38:40
Yeah, OK. I OK, I guess.
38:44
So she agrees that she will take him to where Madison is and she
38:48
leads him to the motorboat and then she attacks him and they
38:51
have an underwater fight. She gets cut a couple of times
38:55
but he gets stabbed and trucked. Why do people struggle to cut
38:59
somebody that is directly behind them and like holding them?
39:03
It's an easy target. Yeah.
39:05
Like you could have gotten her pretty good here, man, but.
39:08
For him, it's because he was arrogant and he didn't think
39:11
that CW would have it in her to attack him.
39:14
Well, it's not just that. It's just like, I get it, you're
39:17
like panicking in the moment, but like they're on top of you.
39:20
Just take your fucking knife in your hand and just reach behind
39:23
you, like just scratching your back.
39:24
That's all you got to do. So.
39:28
He's dead. Yeah, he's dead.
39:30
She goes back and she showers. She, I think this is really
39:36
funny because she dresses down in like super casual clothing
39:39
and she's eating a McDonald's hamburger.
39:41
Like this is the real CW finally that we're seeing.
39:44
She makes a post from Madison's account talking about how
39:48
abusive Ryan is. We get like a brief little
39:51
glimpse of Jay posting an Instagram.
39:53
I always knew Ryan was a creep. Fuck you, you fake ass.
39:57
Friend. Yeah, you were certainly happy
40:00
to be around him when you thought like you could get all
40:02
the. And everything I just.
40:04
The smallest amount of scenes you can give a person and it
40:08
perfectly tells the story of how shitty of a.
40:10
Friend, you know exactly. Who this guy is?
40:11
This guy fucking sucks. Everybody in this movie fucking
40:14
sucks. And you know what?
40:16
What, We get my trope. There's a ring and Ryan's bag.
40:21
He proposed. He was gonna propose.
40:23
I'm not. It's not like the typical moment
40:27
though, because Ryan's a toxic fucker.
40:30
That was just a that relationship was not going.
40:32
To be no, no, absolutely. That was his last at Jeffrey.
40:35
He's like, fuck, I got to do the card.
40:37
I got to do the trump card, you know, proposal that'll fix
40:41
everything. Yeah.
40:42
And then what's that felt like, baby?
40:43
Have a baby? Yeah.
40:46
We we know how this relationship already would have played out
40:48
theoretically here. So she goes out to the island,
40:52
I. Assume she's good.
40:54
Just ask a question here. Did she leave his body in the
40:56
boat the entire time? I think so.
41:00
Day potentially, right, I think. It's a day.
41:04
I think it's a day enough for her to go back and clean
41:06
herself. Up that is fucking.
41:07
Wild get some McDonald's. So she goes out to the island,
41:13
and when she gets there, she's like, there's a bunch of
41:15
handmade Spears with fish carcasses on them, some
41:19
containers that have been collecting rainwater.
41:23
And there are. I wrote it down.
41:27
Hold on. 38 tally marks on the tree.
41:29
Now, did you actually count them?
41:30
I did. Wow.
41:31
Well, the great thing about tally marks is you like.
41:33
Yeah. So I just.
41:35
I counted by fives. That's so smart.
41:37
Yeah, I'm not an accountant, so I was able to figure that out
41:40
pretty quickly. You'll.
41:41
Get there one day. So she's looking around for
41:44
Madison. She's got a shovel for your
41:46
protection because she wasn't planning to have a fight.
41:50
She was just planning to bury Ryan I.
41:52
Was I think I've never hike a woman where I see the shovel.
41:55
Shovel's like a good weapon, man.
41:57
I think I've never hiked alone when I see our shovel, which is
42:00
very tiny. Yeah, yeah.
42:03
So she's like going hunting on the island, trying to find
42:05
Madison. She makes it up to the top of a
42:07
mountain and she, I don't understand what she sees here.
42:09
It's like a little shrine. I wonder if those are the bodies
42:13
of the previous influencers, like if she comes out and buries
42:16
them after the fact. I guess I don't know.
42:20
I would just throw him out to sea man.
42:21
Yeah. Like the not the tide Take him.
42:23
But Madison hits her, knocks her out, and she walks down to the
42:29
boat, finds Ryan's body and she's.
42:33
Just drives off. In the boat, yeah.
42:35
CW wakes up to the sound of the boat leaving and she just kind
42:38
of laughs. And that's how the movie ends.
42:43
Man, we speed through that. We sure did.
42:45
This is a short episode, yeah. Sorry folks.
42:49
Yeah, maybe that's what happens when you don't have fun facts, I
42:51
think. Yeah, that really pads that.
42:52
Did slow it down. I think I'm gonna keep it at 7.
42:55
I like the movie, I like the vibes of it.
42:57
This is like a is a vibey kind of movie more than a story.
43:02
Yeah, no, I enjoy watching it. It's a fun watch.
43:05
Yeah, like I said before, I just like, I like seeing her squirm.
43:09
I like seeing her be put in these, like moments where she
43:12
has to like she's backed into a corner, like, how do you get out
43:14
of this? Those are always fun to watch
43:16
unfold. Yeah, so I'm keeping A7.
43:19
I'm keeping in mind 7 too. OK Talia, she was pretty sleepy
43:24
during this movie actually. She just wanted to rest.
43:28
I think she is afraid of water. She would not like being stuck
43:31
on an island that would stress her out.
43:33
But she likes boat rides so it's mixed for her.
43:36
I think she will give it. 5-6 half and half six OK enough to
43:41
edge her over to the liking. Side cuz what saves Madison is
43:45
Styx. You were so great.
43:48
Yeah, Zoe's ultimate warrior. I mean, obviously it's CW.
43:52
Yeah, it's gotta be. Yeah.
43:53
She's able to trick people and get them to go eat food with
43:56
her. Yeah, that's true.
43:57
That's Zoe's end goal right there.
43:59
And. I think we already did a pretty
44:02
good Little Dream sequel where we said Madison is convinced to
44:09
write a Tylal book and Oh yeah, my friend Jay is like trying to
44:13
squirm in there. Yeah, Jay is like trying to be
44:15
the manager. Yeah, Yeah, I think that that.
44:18
Yeah, I like that. Oh yeah.
44:20
Who did you relate to? Oh God.
44:24
Good question, huh? Yeah, who did I relate to?
44:30
Who is happy to not have these people around?
44:33
Cuz that's the person I really too.
44:36
Probably the shopkeep guy. He's like the fuck this person
44:38
ever. You're telling about my fake ass
44:40
shit. Get the fuck out of here.
44:45
Man, I don't know. I guess I kind of relate to
44:49
Madison in some ways because if I had a way to like just be able
44:55
to travel for a living like that and not have to worry about
44:57
bills like. Yeah, but that's the thing.
44:59
When you watch as you see, she doesn't even enjoy it.
45:02
She's like she. It's the whole like putting out
45:04
the impression that you're living your life to the fullest.
45:07
And so you're not actually. It's just sad.
45:09
Yeah, really. You're just on your phone and
45:11
just caring more about what people think you're doing rather
45:13
than what you're actually doing and experiencing.
45:17
If you could do, if you could escape that part of it, then
45:19
that'd be great. And now I have to ask a very
45:23
important question which is WWDD.
45:25
What would Dom do? Why don't I always say Vin
45:27
Diesel? I don't know.
45:29
I don't know what would Dom do. Well, Dom can make a car on an
45:37
island that can turn into a boat.
45:39
Yes. I mean.
45:41
Given. You give him a wrench, he can do
45:43
it, I'm pretty sure. And I'm pretty sure Dom always
45:46
has a wrench on him and a shotgun, so.
45:48
Yeah, and if he can't, then for some reason, I mean somebody
45:52
from his family will find out where he is and we'll bring him
45:55
back to shore. Realistically, like he'll be
45:58
needed for a mission and Mr. Nobody will.
46:01
Have I was going to say Mr. Nobody will actually find out
46:04
where the submarine. Is there's a fucking?
46:05
They have a. Submarine.
46:06
That's what it is, yeah. Giselle and the rest of the
46:08
family and a fast X. They're in the submarine.
46:11
They don't come back, they don't rise from the water, they rise
46:13
from beneath the island. Yeah, like it lifts.
46:16
The island is actually just part of the submarine.
46:19
The island is the submarine, yes.
46:21
Yeah, OK. Like, no, it was all part of Mr.
46:23
Nobody's plan. Now that I've got you here.
46:25
Yeah. All right.
46:27
Here we go. OK, I've got a review.
46:31
OK. And I know that we're like, I
46:34
wasn't sure how much you would like this movie, but I know you
46:36
liked it enough. So I found a negative review on
46:39
IMDb. All right.
46:40
Awful for starters, the sound mix with any music was so bad it
46:43
made what any of them was saying unintelligible, which was most
46:46
of the time. I don't think this movie has a
46:48
commentary on how easy it is to steal someone's identity.
46:51
I think it's a commentary on how dumb, vacuous, and self absorbed
46:53
Gen. Z are.
46:54
Absolutely no sympathy for any of the characters whatsoever.
46:57
I. Think it's exclusive to Gen.
46:58
ZI think we saw some millennials.
47:01
Yeah, I was going to say Madison and Jessica both look more
47:05
closer to millennial age. It's the first thing you need to
47:09
earn when making a horror movie. Which leads me to my next point.
47:12
It's not even a horror movie, so why is it on Shutter?
47:14
It's more like a Gen. Z scooby-doo version of Murder
47:16
She Wrote played out on Instagram.
47:17
What the fuck? The acting is woeful, especially
47:20
the boyfriend casting. I didn't think the boyfriend did
47:23
bad. I didn't think the acting was
47:24
bad in this movie honestly. Oh, I missed a line on there.
47:27
Absolutely no sympathy for any of the characters whatsoever.
47:30
I think goes to your point. Yeah.
47:31
Yeah. I, I don't know, I, I like this
47:35
sub genre because I think it's kind of interesting to like,
47:41
these are people that we see all the time.
47:43
And the whole thing is that they start off as regular people and
47:45
then they become like social media famous.
47:48
So I think that's what's intriguing about it to me.
47:50
I think the movie, I think when that type of thing see, I don't
47:54
think that they explored that well in this yeah, a movie that
47:58
explores that really well is Ingrid goes worse that right
48:01
there. Like, if you want to tell a
48:02
story of like, the real lives behind influencers, that's the
48:06
movie you need to watch right there.
48:08
Because like, it really tackles like they're not who they're
48:12
putting themselves out there to be.
48:14
It's got baby nobody. It has a little nobody.
48:17
Yeah, that's. Right.
48:18
Not the actual little nobody from the movie, but.
48:20
Like, yeah. Like actual Kurt Russell's son?
48:22
Yeah. Yeah.
48:23
White Russell. Yeah.
48:26
You know, like, yeah, I agree with the part of, like, not
48:31
really being into the characters and really caring about them,
48:35
but I think it's strange to, like, use this as ammunition
48:39
against Gen. Z when this is pretty much a
48:41
millennial movie through and through.
48:43
Person who just like, decided that oh, it's now my turn to
48:47
bully the generation below me. And I hate that that's happening
48:50
with a lot of millennials right now because that happened to
48:52
millennials, but. When I see the things that
48:55
people are complaining about with Gen.
48:57
Z, it kind of would be like, good for them.
48:58
Like when they talk about the Gen.
48:59
Z sticker from customer service workers, I'm like, yeah, no,
49:02
good for them. You don't need to have your ass
49:03
kissed by this person. That's mainly 750 an hour.
49:06
You don't? Yeah.
49:06
Like they should just stare at you when you're like, what do I
49:09
want to drink? I don't know.
49:10
Order your own fucking drink. Figure it out.
49:12
Figure out what you want. See, millennials, we're just
49:15
perpetuating the cycle, man. We were abused.
49:17
Perpetuating the cycle. I'm applauding you all.
49:19
No, I am too, honestly. Yeah, I I appreciate that.
49:22
I want to adopt the Gen. Z stare but I it's too ingrained
49:25
in me to have a customer service face invoice.
49:29
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, whatever.
49:32
OK, I think that pretty much covers that.
49:33
Yeah. OK, so let's do a list of
49:35
reviews. I do have one.
49:37
Yay, we timed it out terribly. Yeah, I posted it this morning.
49:42
Yeah, we are not on our game, but I do have one review here.
49:45
It's from Cubesaves. It says.
49:48
I saw this and I have 0 memory of it.
49:50
Does this movie even exist? It doesn't.
49:55
I don't know, a question mark doesn't.
49:57
I like, it's a movie that stuck with me, but I think it has to
50:00
be the kind of thing that you like.
50:01
I fully recognize that this is like, it hits things.
50:06
Yeah, it hits things aesthetically for me.
50:08
You have your aesthetics. You like, you like, especially
50:11
like an 80s type of aesthetic. Yeah, You love that.
50:15
This is the type of thing I like.
50:16
So it just. And I get it.
50:18
I get that it's not gonna be everybody's thing.
50:19
And I'm not gonna sit here and be like, anybody can watch this
50:21
and they'll love it. Yeah, I mean, it's not only
50:23
that, I mean it's like, it doesn't really have like a super
50:26
compelling story to it either, really.
50:29
You know, like it's. I do.
50:31
I think it does. But you think?
50:32
It has a compelling story. Well, listen, I think it's
50:35
partly because I read a lot of like, pulp, so I don't
50:37
necessarily have to like characters to be interested in
50:41
their stories, you know what I mean?
50:43
Yeah, I, I'm just saying like, this story isn't really much
50:45
there. It's just like AI killed this
50:47
person and I'm trying to kill this person and Oh no, they
50:50
might think they might find out that I killed that person.
50:52
So I'm going to they kill them, which is you really don't need
50:55
much. I mean, that's perfectly fine
50:56
for a horror movie, but like, you know, it, it does the job
50:59
well enough for me. Like it gives, it's gives setups
51:03
for like the things that I like to watch, like I said before,
51:06
the squirming, being backed into a corner, you know, like that's
51:09
all fun for me to watch. Now I have one more item we must
51:13
discuss. Yes, new tagline.
51:15
Oh no, we have to actually do that.
51:25
Like, follow and subscribe for more nightmare vacation plans.
51:35
Real scary, but spell it REEL. That's good.
51:38
OK, real scary now. I like that.
51:41
You could tell I was excited about it cuz I did the like arms
51:44
life thing that I do when I'm when I make myself laugh that.
51:47
Works. That works for me.
51:49
No, it's yeah, that's good. Okay, we're done with
51:53
Influencer, which means I'm gonna tell you guys where you
51:56
can watch Hatchet 2. Yeah, next week.
51:59
That's on Tubi, Pluto TV, Sling TV, Fandango at home, Philo
52:03
Prime, YouTube Prime Time, YouTube TV Premium.
52:07
Or you can rent it from Google TV or Apple TV.
52:09
It's a watchable movie, people. And guess what?
52:12
We've recast the lead with Daniel Harris.
52:15
Yeah. And not that I hated the lead,
52:18
but I like Daniel Harris. Yeah.
52:20
Yeah. So yeah, hatchet too, people.
52:22
You know, we're going to talk about it next week, so watch it
52:25
and be prepared. Do your homework.
52:27
And I'm going to say this is a franchise that I like more as it
52:31
goes on, so I know I was a little bit rough on the first
52:33
one. I can't remember it.
52:35
Yeah. Yeah.
52:35
You were wearing it. Yeah.
52:37
Hatchet. Yeah, I like hatchet, too.
52:38
I'm excited for it. So yeah, we'll get that on next
52:42
week. Yes.
52:42
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53:36
Thank you guys for being here. Ta ta bye.
53:50
Tells like so him and Matt, him and CW go out.
53:53
Look God, my names are getting all mixed up.