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- henry: Hey guys, welcome back to the Podicy. I'm Henry Wilkinson. I'm Andrew Mosler. And today we have episode nineteen for you guys. as we said in our last episode we did we recommended four movies to each other that the other has not seen, and then we did one movie that we both have not seen to watch and go over in this episode today. but before we get into that, got some movie news. First thing is the br the Ray Gun trailer, Brad Bird's animated feature. Came out yesterday. There's been not a lot of information about this movie since people found out about this movie coming out. I've kind of just been waiting to see stuff. It seems like every once in a while there's like one picture. but finally we get a trailer and it looks really, really good. Brad Bird's the director of other famous animated films such as Ratatouille. The Incredibles and the Iron Giant, and Ray Gun is set in Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from nineteen thirty nine, private eye Raymond Gunn and his alien companion Iera are making a living on the edge of society, delving into secrets that some people would rather keep hidden away. After accepting a sleazy spy job related to pop star Venus Nova, Gunn finds himself drawn into a murder mystery unlike any case he's taken. Coming to Netflix December eighteenth. What'd you think of the trailer? I thought it looked really sick. And I think it's gonna be cool to see how he he does this because he said he's kind of been wanting to do an animated film c toward like geared towards more mature audiences, so not like just for kids and stuff. So I think it's gonna be Yeah. Maybe a little more incredibles rather than like ratatouille style. Yeah. which I think will be super cool. Yeah, I guess he he has like that sci fi animated like genre mash up down with the Iron Giant and the Incredibles, but it's been a while since we've seen something like that from him. and yeah, this one just looks a lot a lot more mature, just a lot more stylistic and Yeah. Not having Disney to Yeah. Kind of tell him what to do. He just gets to whatever he wants. He said he's had this idea in his back pocket for like thirty years. So he's been he's been wanting to make this one for a long time. so I'm really excited. I feel like we've been seeing a lot of passion projects from directors lately. and for the most part they've turned out really well. So yeah, I'm I'm very, very excited for that. December eighteenth, Netflix, select theaters, probably nowhere near us. We'll see though. We'll be busy on that day anyway. Yeah, that's true. coming out on Doomsday. Kind of interesting choice, but yeah. a new trailer for Martin McDonough's Wild Horse Nine featuring John Melkovich and Sam Rockwell. the film has kind of been a big A film festival favorite, as well as John Malkovich's performance as he won the award for best actor at the Venice Film Festival. The film follows two CIA agents as they face a trust testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during nineteen seventy three Chile. In theaters November sixth. I haven't seen any Martin McDonough films, but he had the banshees of Inisharon from a couple years ago that have really been wanting to check off the list. people really like his style of comedy. It's kinda like a dark comedy. and he kind of seems to blend genres and all the movies that he makes, this the trailer kind of looks the same, like it's gonna be a mix of comedy and crime. so yeah, have have you seen anything? I just saw the trailer and yeah, that's pr that's it. Yeah, I'm I'm excited for it. It's getting a lot of good buzz from the festivals. People are really liking it so far. I've kind of had it circled for a while. Before I see it, I want to see some of his other films though. good or I mean in the movie world. Yeah, it's it seems like yeah. It seems like he has a good catalog. Yeah, for sure. another trailer. So big week for trailers. you can see everything. A new trailer for that documentary. the documentary follows Elizabeth Holmes as she invites Nathan Fielder to document her every move before she goes to prison. That's coming to theaters on October sixteenth. It just is in theaters. I don't know. I don't know what Eau Claire's gonna do. We'll see. Yeah. but it's an A twenty four documentary. you had kind of been talking about it a couple of weeks ago. this is another one that people have really liked coming out of film festivals. I'm not a big documentary guy, but like I'm kinda bought into this. So Yeah, this is more kinda style like the mockumentary almost like a comedy spin almost on it and yeah it was at a Colorado film festival and it wasn't like announced or anything they just kind of showed it. Yeah. so yeah I mean the trailer just kind of showed a little bit more from I don't know it was like a week and a half ago or something that the the first one dropped. But the teaser or whatever for it. Yeah but I think that'll be cool. I don't I know the guy Lance Oppenheim like does it too. he's doing prime time. yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. That's right. Yeah. He ha he helped out a lot with that documentary. I just saw something how Feeler was saying they he'd basically always take the shoots back to Oppenheim and they'd like look at together and stuff. Yeah, it'd be cool to see both of those. Yeah. and then the last trailer I have is the first trailer for David Fenture's The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth has been released. it's the spin-off of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, obviously focusing on Brad Pitt's character, Cliff Booth. It's coming to IMAX Theaters on November twenty fifth and coming to Netflix December twenty third. I was just talking to you about it before we started rolling, but the trailer didn't really do anything for me. Yeah. I don't know, it just like visually just kinda looks off and weird. I think a lot of that is just 'cause once upon a time is Tarantino and it's Yeah the colors are popping, it's super stylistic and Fincher's a much different director and a lot of times Leans in a darker tones, or like monochromatic. Y yeah. I think the shots looked cool, like they're from the trailer, but yeah, I just don't know what direction they're gonna go with the character. I mean Yeah. I'm sure it's just gonna be kinda like Yeah. Action, you know, kinda like Yeah. Dive dive into pretty much just what some more stuff like about his wife or whatever. I don't know. But they didn't like show any of that in the trailer, but Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. All I've seen is IMAX theaters. So and then coming to streaming for Netflix. Yeah. And then box office, Coyotaverse Acme passed a hundred million worldwide. That's really making its money. Let's go. Which is cool. Yeah, that's good. I mean, double their money. Yeah. Essentially, I guess. But well, yeah. You gotta consider other stuff too. So I'm not I'm sure it's not double, but at least yeah. Yeah. At least yeah, catch up entertainments like investment or whatever was yeah. Fifty million. So yeah. So at least that paid off. Yeah, I mean it it definitely has paid off. They suckered us into going and seeing good. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't love it. You're just talking about how we're gonna lower our ranking sound. It was bad. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't good. But I don't know, a lot of people are liking it and it's a cool success story. Yeah, I think it just people like the idea more. Yeah. Which I mean I I agree, but yeah. How about you? Do you got anything for Yeah, a couple more trailers that I saw, the the Madden movie. yeah, that like literally just Yeah. Chronicles, John Madden's incredible journey alongside best friend and true original Al Davis from Super Bowl winning partnership with the Raiders to becoming football's most recognizable voice to building the worldwide Madden NFL video game. Yeah, just could I don't know, it just looks kind the trailer looks kinda weird and it's like all over the place. Like I just don't I just think like covering his whole life is kind of like I don't know, it's just gonna like take away from other certain things. Like I wish they would have just done it like maybe just him as a coach or something, 'cause yeah, I don't know. It's just gonna I feel like it's just gonna t like the video game stuff, I don't know how they're gonna do that. But they it seemed like in the trailer that was like a big part of the movie. Yeah. Which kind of sucks. Yeah. Yeah. I haven't wa watched the trailer. I saw that. Some movie outlet posted like a couple hours ago. Yeah. well and the trailer's like three minutes long. It's like the whole movie. It's like well, I just know everything's gonna happen. I guess that's kinda all trailers now, but like still it's just like I I mean I'm gonna see it, but Yeah, I'll see it too. It's coming straight to streaming on Prime. Yeah, that's that's a bad sign. Yeah, talked about that either last week or the week before. sign for a movie that's originally gonna be theatrical and then they just it's different if it's like, you know, an Amazon Prime movie through and through that's just or like a Netflix original that is that was always gonna be on streaming, but it's never a good sign when you're supposed to have a theatrical run and then they just say Yeah. It's never a good sign when it's just like a prime origin like it's just like it's just a total I don't know. Yeah. So I don't know. It's unfortunate 'cause Christian Bale in that cage. That's a good cast. Yeah, for sure. I mean, we'll see. Yeah, I don't know. Coming on Thanksgiving. So it'd be cool. Kind of Madden-ish. Yeah. You play Madden growing up? Yeah. Yeah. yeah. I did two. you have a favorite Madden? Madden thirteen on the Wii. Madden thirteen. On the Wii, dude. Yeah, I dabbled on the Wii. I didn't I didn't have a Wii at my house. you could you used to be able to draw your own routes with the Wii remote. Yeah. So what'd you play it on? PlayStation three. really. But then like Buddies had a Wii and we'd always played on the Wii over there. But yeah, Man thirteen was good. Which one was Calvin Johnson on the cover for? Or was that it's thir yeah, thirteen is Calvin Johnson, no? Fi yeah. And then yeah, 'cause man twelve is Peyton Hillis. That's right. Yeah and eleven is Drew Brees. Okay. And then Richard Sherman's on He's gotta like like fifteen. Yeah, he's fifteen, I think. And then what what one's Odell on? Sixteen? Yeah. No, seventeen, I think. Sixteen or seventeen, I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, I think Calvin Johnson's thirteen. Yeah. That was peak. That was peak. another trailer I saw, Paper Tiger. yeah. Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlet Johansson. It's like about a crime family in New York. and it's like the about like the Russian mafia and I guess like Miles Teller and Adam Driver are are brothers and Adam Driver is like kinda making his way in the political world. I think and like I don't know, I didn't I didn't really like read too much about it. I just kinda watched the trailer and so I don't really totally know what it's about. I just know they're brothers and they kind of get involved with like the Russian that era of like Russian crime in in New York. Yeah. I So that looks interesting. That looks good. It had it was at a film festival I month ago and there was like a teaser for it or something. And I remember I I brought it up on here, but like I didn't know any information about it. But then I saw the trailer I thought the trailer looked really good. the director, he looks like an interesting director, James Gray. He did Ad Astra, the sci fi with Brad Pitt, Lost City of Z, which has like a really interesting cast, like Robert Pattinson, Tom Hollander in it. like he just has a ton of different genres. Like he's not like just sci fi or like prehistoric. But I I follow some people that really like Ad Astro on Lost City of Z, like more so than what it what it's rated on letterbox. So I'm interested 'cause I saw some people with Paper Tiger coming to the film festival like giving it like four and a half. So and it seems like a cool premise and the cast looks really good. So but Yeah, that looks sweet. The other one I had was just Clayface. The next one for Clayface. I hope James Gunn can turn. Yeah. I I feel like this kind of will like I don't know, like if he had another bad movie It's gonna make it could make or break. Yeah, for sure. I mean it's not like him I obviously it's not he's not directing it, but like you know, he's executive producing. Yeah, it looks really good. Like the trailer looks really cool. And I think it's like a cool spin. Yeah. Or not spin, but just like like original clayface just like looks different. so I think it's gonna be cool. James Watkins, what does he do? See he's got speak no evil. Okay. I don't know if you've seen twenty four, it's yeah. It was like a Pretty popular. Yeah, popular people didn't really love it. Yeah, I'm I'm excited for it though. And it's funny 'cause like Robert Pattinson just came out and said something about how he's not sure. his and Matt Reeves' Batman like fits into James Gunn's like D Cos like totally different, like tonally. Yeah. I mean basically. But he was talking about like the tone of it and like the darkness of it and then Clearly, like James Gunn in DC, they're trying to implement that, like starting with Clayface. yeah, we'll we'll see where they go from that. I'm excited though. just because yeah, it is gonna have that darker tone. Me too. and yeah, it's a risk definitely for like a big studio within a universe to do something like that. I think it's gonna be good. Yeah, yeah, looks sweet. Did you So do you watch some other movies besides the The Okay, so let's remind everyone what we were given. So Andrew required me to watch On Golden Pond, The Natural, Skyfall, and Princess Pride. And Henry assigned me a rival. Prince of Egypt. my gosh, same street man A nightcrawler. Yeah. yeah. So yeah. And then we both watched The Tree of Life. Yeah, we both we wanted one movie in there that neither of us had seen. and we chose Terrence Malik's The Tree of Life. Yeah. so So what'd you watch other than the only other one I watched was Casino Royale. Yeah, solid film. Do you like like have you played po do you like poker? Have you played poker? no. Okay. Not really. I don't know if I would like it more if I did play it a ton because it's d you would like it less. It's like so unrealistic. I was gonna say I was listening to a podcast. Every hand is like royal fluff. Yeah, it was like it was like two poker players and one non poker player and the two poker players like Yeah, I don't know. They have to do that though. Like you can't make a Well, I mean the other thing that they brought up was like in the game at the end, it's like they're at the table for Like it's like eight hours or something. So I mean, is is it realistic? Yeah. Like four of the hand like definitely, you know? So But like yeah, it's just I mean, it's hard to make a movie. A movie revolved or that much involvement with Pokemon and not have like crazy stuff like that. So but yeah, it was solid film. I gave it a three and a half. Nice spoiler. I mean not a spoiler for the movie, but spoiler for us talking about the movies. I like Skyfall more, so yeah. good. But yeah, he he had me watch Skyfall and I'm like, well, you know, it's like the third movie, is that okay? And he's like, Yeah, and I'm like, all right. So I trusted him, watched it. Yeah, I definitely didn't need to watch the first two. But I just I'm like, I just kinda want to check out the first one. Like right at that was what I watched right after Skyfall. Yeah. and you know, there's not like a super big connection, but no. I think it kinda made like Skyfall a little bit better for me. Just like seeing him and M's relationship. Yeah. From the start. Because I've never seen any Bond movies at all. So like I don't know like any of the characters in the universe. or not that it's like a universe, but it kind of is. but yeah it was it was a fun watch. Yeah. but yeah that was it. Did you how about you? I watched the Avatar movie, the surrender movie. Did you? What did you think? no I thought it was cool. Dang it. And I thought it was I I gave it a three. Dang it. But I like it was good. But there's just so much stuff that like I wanted it to be so good. I I think people think it's really good, but just for me, like Okay. There's so much stuff like the show just like it just kinda What if I don't know anything about the show? Will I like it more or less? I think you'd like it more. There's just a couple things that like I just didn't like. Maybe I I think I'm being too harsh, but I don't know, I really love the show. It's like probably one of my favorite it's it's probably like my f it might be my favorite show of all time. Really? Yeah. Okay. Definitely my favorite anime. but yeah, that was it. That's the only other one I watched. So All right, how do you we did you We're very unprepared here. Well just did you add up to your total that's right. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So Andrew came up with this genius idea. Well, you explain it. well, I just said before we reveal what we rated each movie, we should just say our total stars. So, you know, there's five stars for it's out of five for every movie. So Henry would just say his total stars and then I would guess what he gave each movie. So we're we're gonna like go down the line for so we're not gonna go like, Okay, I gave one movie this many stars. Yeah, just say your total and then I'll guess which four which you gave each four. All right. I like this. Finally a good idea from Andrew. Yeah, exactly. It's my first idea ever. All right. Using your fingers to count? I'm like marking them off. crap, nope, not that one. That's Casino Royale. eighteen and a half. Okay. Nice. Wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nineteen and a half. Okay. Let me well actually I don't wanna Trying to think. Okay. 18 and a half. Alright. So You so you gave Cassello How how do you want me to go about this? No, no, no here. So I think I'm just gonna make a guess and then you'll you'll you just like correct me. So like I I think because I think are you gonna go are you gonna go down the line of movies? Yeah. And just go okay. So you said you like Skyfall better than Casino Royale. Yeah. And you gave Casino Royale a three and a half. Yeah. I think you gave Skyfall four. So I think I think Skyfall's at a four. Do you want me to confirm or deny? No, just just I think there's a four Four and a half. So that'd be eight and a half. Then Or maybe wait. I'm trying to think of what you dude, I that's the thing is after I gave you the natural, I was like, dude, he might hate this movie. Because like it's like I'm sure it's totally like inaccurate for what would happen like in a baseball game or like whatever. I was like, he could absolutely hate this. but there's a half in there, so that's what's making maybe if Skyfall 4. Hmm. I didn't I don't think you like the Princess Bride very much either. So maybe there's a three and a half in there. Wait, would that be right? A three and a half, a four, and Well there's five wait. okay, or is this for this for all five movies, right? No, four. for four? Yeah. Okay, I was not at eighteen and a half. Okay, yeah. Then we'll where you at? Yeah. Hold on. That's way screwing up my math. Okay, sorry. Okay, I'm at a thirteen. A thirteen. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I did my math wrong before too, but whatever. Or disregard that. I'm at a thirteen. Okay. So I I think Skyfall's a four. Princess B you're at a thirteen flat? Yeah. Princess Bride's a three. naturals at a three, so that's ten. And on golden ponds a three. Okay, you want me to tell you that? Yeah. Okay. You got Skyfall right? Four. Yep. Okay. The natural's gonna be a two and a half. No. Two. No. One. No, no, no. The natural's a three and a half. Okay, a three and a half. Okay. So now there are Dude, you hated the Princess Bride, didn't you? I really hated it. Whoa, what'd you give it? I gave it a two. my gosh. I know. A two? I'm sorry. Okay. So then on Golden Pond's a three and a half. Okay. So four for Skyfall, three and a half for both the natural and on Golden Pond. And unfortunately a two for the Princess Bride, which is very unpopular, apparently. What do you not like about it? like you just it's just not that that I knew it, dude. Yeah. That just not your type of movie. I don't know. It's just it's very like do we get into it right now? Or yeah, maybe Maybe maybe I don't know. Guess mine and then we can get into it. Okay. Yeah, let's do that. All right, let me I don't know. It yeah. Yeah, I just I just didn't like the Princess. What other so Rob Reiner has what else does he have? Stand by me. That's right, okay. I think that's the only other one of his I've seen. And I love Stand By Me. So it's not a lot of movies. Yeah. Like thirty something. Probably not all features, but yeah, I've only seen I've only seen Sand by Me. Okay. Now the Princess Bride. But I love Sand by Me, so All right. Okay. Total stars. Yep. Sixteen point five. Wow, that's a good average. Okay, the only bit of information I know is that you really like Sing Street's soundtrack because I sent Andrew a video of me jamming to one of the songs the morning after he watched it and he reciprocated that message. So I think you gave Sing Street he gave it at least a four, I think. I th I think you gave Singh Street a four and a half. I think you gave a rival a four. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe i I think it's three fours and a four and a half. I think. No. You don't give out fours very often though. Well yeah, you do. man. Okay. You gave Singh Street a four and a half, you gave Arrival a four. And you give Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's what I think. I think it's I think Sing Street's a four and a half and the rest are fours. You're you're close. Okay. Do you have Prince of Egypt at a three and a half? Mm-hmm. Nightcrawler at a three and a half? Mm-hmm. Nightcrawler at a three and a half. Prince of Egypt at a four and a half? Mm-hmm. Arrival at a four and a half? Mm mm. Arrival out of five? Mm mm. Prince of Egypt out of five? Mm mm. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold Sing Street out of five. Yes! Yeah. Yes, let's go. Sing Street is a banger, dude. That's so sick. Sing Street is a banger. Okay, so you Sing Street out of five, arrival out of four, Prince of Egypt out of four, and Nightcrawler to three and a half. Correct. Nice. Let's go. Sing Street out of five is so tough. Sing Street is so good. That's like Sing Street was so good. Yeah. Really good. Gosh, we're such a cool podcast. Dude, for real. Come on. It's it's really good. Arrival. My my review for arrival, here's what I wrote. I would need to ask Henry some questions. That's all I wrote. yeah, well we'll see what I didn't do like any sort of looking into it, but I do have some good reviews on here. But yeah, it's I remember the first time watching it, I was kinda like, whoa. Yeah, I definitely I haven't done any you I did some YouTube deep dives on Tree of Life. Yeah. and I did some looking into Sing Street and some looking into Prince of Egypt button arrival and nightcrawler. I just haven't had time. Yeah, I doubt I I did a lot of looking into for the Tree of Life. Yeah. I Looked into some stuff on the Princess Bride. I looked into two. That's that's on me. I'm sorry. I gave you some bad movies, dude. I did a bad job. I as soon right after I was like, dude, these all suck. Wait, what'd you give on Golden Pond? A three and a half? Three and a half. Okay. I mean it's like it was like a good three and a half though. Yeah. It could have been a four. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't seen it in a long time. That that was a bad pick. I gotta do it. What about the natural? What do you think of the natural? I liked the natural. It was like very It's kinda like weird though. It's like it's like trying to be like field of dreams ish and it's just like not. Well like it's like that era of movies and it just kinda like it's just a little bit weirder than I think. I just like the story on it. I yeah, I loved the story. I thought some parts were really funny. The natural is eighty four. I think Feel the Dreams might have been after that. I think it's before. I feel like Field of Dreams is eighty six or something. Maybe it is. Maybe it's way newer. Eighty nine. Dang. Wow. That's crazy. Okay. yeah, the net like it I appreciate how it tries to go super large and like grandiose with you know, every home run that is hit. It's like a really loud crack of the bat, and then the score is like huge and it Why did I give you a breaks a window like Okay, one part that had me dying laughing, but like it didn't take away from the movie, like I still had r a lot of fun was he hits a home run and then like they cut to like a so every time he swings that's like a side view, basically, like where you're looking at or you're looking at him straight on, I guess. Like and then like after he hits it, it's like Kind like a overhead view, like diagonal shot of him. And there's like three people like with cameras just right behind Actually. Yeah, like right behind him, just like on the field. Yeah. And I was like, wow, that's hilarious. But none of that stuff like took away from the movie at all. How about the shot when he hits the lights? yeah. That's pretty sick. I love that shot. Like and I just I like yeah, it's like cheesy and corny or whatever, but like I just like always appreciate that because At least it's trying to I don't know. Like movies gotta be movies sometimes. For sure. You know? Like I and I love a good, you know, super realistic and authentic film too. But every once in a while you just gotta yeah. You know if you build it they will come, type stuff. You know? For sure. And with the natural yeah, just every time he swings it's and it's And then it goes nine hundred and forty five feet, breaks a window, breaks something, super loud sound effect, and then you get the slow-mo around in the bases. I'm like, Yeah, see, this is kinda sick. Dude, 'cause I like as soon right after I was like, dude, there's so many other ones that Henry hasn't seen that 'cause like so have you you 'cause I was like after I was like, dude, I should have given him the Matrix. Yeah. No, you know what Addis Addison thought you were gonna give me was the thing. Dude, I know after like literally I was like watching like something like a Instagram like right after we after we recorded the last episode and I was like, what the I was like, dude, I'm actually I didn't like I thought I thought about it a lot and then after I like, I didn't think about this at all. Like I just like and then what is what was the other one? Have you seen Iron Giant? The Iron Giant? Uh-uh. my gosh, dude. I sold so hard. It was so bad. I gave I gave you all Well, yeah, I gave you all five stars for me. Okay. Except Prince of Egypt. I think I have it's a four and a half, but it it's Yeah, you do. It's a five. I don't know why I didn't do that. Like I don't I I don't have as many movies logged on. It it was fun though. I r I really I mean, Skyfall could be like a four and a half. Like I really like Skyfall. Jim's just got trust issues and woman problems though. But who? Jim. James Bond. Jim. Sure. but yeah. All right. I guess let's just Yeah, he's got trust. What do you mean he's got trust issues? I know I know he has trust issues. Yeah. I'm I'm saying You texting me he needs to pick a woman. Yeah, he does need to pick a woman. Dude, you're gonna hate you hate James Bond. He's got lady problems, bro. Like just figure it out. That's the whole p that's like his whole character though. Yeah, but then he's just got this fascination with married women all the time and it's just and then the one girl in Skyfall I'm like, bro, come on. I've what's her name? like which Penny Henry Penny er was about to say Penny Hardaway. Penny Hardaway. Money Penny. Money penny. Eve. Eve Money Penny. Yeah bro I'm like Well in like the old Bond she's like the like in the James Bond like book. She's like the There's a book? Yeah that's what it's from. What? Yeah It's a like a novel series. From like the fifties or something? Yeah, it's really old. The guy who writes the books is like the coolest dude of all time. but she's like the desk lady. And then all the old bonds, she's like super old. So like that and she was like in the field. James Bond is like really like like kind of like young guy, old lady relationship, like you know, like it's it's like Okay, like he's like always complimenting her, like kinda, you know. What about him and then? Well this is that's what I'm saying. This is different yeah. Yeah, different bond. So it's a little different. So in an alternate bond universe, could James Bond and be a thing? Would you would that be realistic? Well or it is in the new one, is a dude, so What what new one? yeah. Ray Ray finds, yeah. Let's let's not spoil Skyfall, but doesn't make it. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So then well okay so I hate the Q in bonds. The old bonds are so much better. When when does Q just show up in Skyfall? Is that like his first Yeah. Like I there's not another Q in the other ones before that. Like it's not like a recurring character for in all the bonds? No, I mean like for Daniel Crash. Yeah, no, there's no like there's one Q. Yeah, 'cause Q's not in Casino Royale, right? No. Yeah, no, then. He's just in Skyfall. I just didn't know. Like, yeah, okay. Q is like a old guy in the old ones. And I really thought they were gonna cast Michael Cain. bro, it would just be 'cause he's like that he's like a old British, like I was like, Bro, what what's going on here? Yeah. How does this guy not get cast? But So Skyfall's your favorite Craig. Is it your favorite Bond? No, my favorite Bond is probably It's probably Goldfinger. It's Sean Connery. Yeah. or I like a view to a kill, which is Roger Moore. He's probably my f he's I was just gonna ask who your favorite Bond is. it's it's between him and Daniel Craig. 'Cause like Roger. Roger Moore. Yeah, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig. Roger Moore is like eighties and a little bit of nineties, and then Pierce Brosnan comes in. Yep. And he's like a good Bond, but like that era of movies and like the effects and stuff just like don't do it for me. 'Cause it's like the eighties and nineties is like really impressive what they're doing, even though it looks kinda bad. Yeah. Two thousands is just like looks bad and is like not impressive. Yeah. And then they get to Daniel Craig, which is just good. But yeah, I think I think Daniel Craig's probably my favorite. All right. Well we're already ripping Skyfall. How do you like the opening credits of Did you fall? Did you skip? No. The the beginning. I love a beginning credit. Yeah. Yeah. I literally I told Addison right away. my gosh. I love when movies have credits at the beginning of the movie. Yeah. Okay, good. Yeah, I just I think it's cool. One to like not that people even like have to be reading the names, but like nobody sticks through the end credits. So I'm like Yeah, I think Okay, this is cool that like, you know, the director or whoever makes that choice is like, yeah, we're gonna have opening credits and you know, kind of shine a light on these people and like especially in the theater. Yeah. Like people get there at the start of the movie. Right. Like they're gonna be they're gonna sit through the opening credits for sure. and yeah, obviously Skyfall by Adele is like one of the most I mean famous songs for a movie. I I was gonna ask this. I I'm glad you watched Casino Royale. What do think about like the black and white start? At the beginning? Yeah. I mean just take it or leave it. Kind of. What do you think it's sick? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I I liked it. I like it because like there's like a weird kind of time thing where he's like he's talking to the guy saying the second person or the hardest person like you d to kill, like, you know, as as you become a double O, you have to kill someone to become a double O agent. And he says, like it it gets easier the second time you kill someone. Yeah. And then it it's like it's cutting back and forth to the guy he fights in the bathroom before. Yep. And like you don't know that that guy's dead. So really the guy he's killing now is the second guy. Yeah. And then he takes his gun out and he doesn't have any bullets in his gun. Yeah. Ban a Yeah. He knows he knows where he keeps his guns. I'm glad you liked it. But yeah, the so the beginning of Skyfall, like just the whole like train chase or whatever was really, really cool. And I'm not a big like action movie guy. Again. You know? Why did I No Skyfall? I know but I know but I knew that too. But No no I'm just trying to force my favorite movies of No. Because I feel like a lot of the times like I'm just not convinced at all by like the either the set pieces or like the choreography. Yeah. Like even if the choreography is really good and really impressive, like it doesn't matter if I can't buy into it. But like I feel like every set piece, especially for Skyfall, was like tangible and believable and Like just easy to follow too. Like, okay. Bond's chasing this guy that has something he wants. They're on a train, like he drops into a frickin' bobcat or whatever he does. Like, I'm like, This is pretty sick. Yeah, the stunts are sick. Yeah, the stunts are really sick. What do you think about Javier, the villain? Well, I really like Javier. He's sick. And the cool thing about his character's entrance is it's like the complete like antithesis of like what a Bond movie is. Like all Bond is is, you know, like action. Yeah. him sprinting, chasing someone. And then Silva. I don't what's Dino's first name? Javier Bardam's like character's name. It's like something Silva. I don't know. But His character entering is like he's at the the end of this big room or whatever and it's just like a one minute like slow shot with no music in the background of him just trying to like intimidate the crap out of James Bond sitting in a chair and I'm like, This is a really good change of pace. and just like a very dramatic entrance for his character. And then like Him and Bond are literally just like a mirror of each other. Like they're so similar. he has Silva has like this super weird relationship with Like we never really maybe in the other movies, but I feel like probably not. But like we never for sure know what the deal was with Silva and Like He was a sa I will all I all you gather from the movie is just like he was essentially a double O agent and like Yeah. just pretty much screwed him. Screws him over. Yeah. and he's like kinda saying she's g he's gonna do she's gonna do the same thing to to Bond. Yeah. so yeah, love the villain. Always helps have a good villain. Yeah. They I mean they have huge action set pieces. They shoot on location, like they're in Shanghai. Can't remember where else they go. but they're like, Yeah, you know what, let's do let's just do James Bond, let's do everything the same. But let's bring in the GOAT Roger Deacons. Yeah. And it just looks so sick. Like everything looks so sick. Yeah, I love the Shanghai like elevator back sequence is really cool with the glass and And like you bring in Sam Mendez. Yeah, Sam Mendez too. and it seems like people really like Casino Royale. People didn't like Quantum Solos as much. and like they bring in Mendez and Deacons, like clearly some intention there to like take this thing seriously. And it was like this huge event when it came out. And it made over a billion dollars at the box office. Like it was a huge success. Yeah. And for a lot of people, like obviously not me, one cause fourteen years removed from it, and I just watched Skyfall for the first time this week. But like for a lot of people, it was like the a big moment for like just like the Bond franchise and the Bond character as a whole. so what do you think now, like Denis Villneux is doing Bond, like I got no idea, but I was thinking, I'm like, how's that gonna work? You know, like are they just gonna keep ripping out Bond characters forever and ever and ever? But that and I'm like, and why is Denis doing this? But I was thinking, okay, like Dune is an old book adaptation that Lynch tried to make a movie in. I know it wasn't nearly as successful as like the Bond movies. But then Denise comes in, makes two goaded movies, probably gonna make a third goaded movie. He's adapting another book. Yeah, like he's done like I think it's like Sicario is a book too. Blade Runner twenty forty nine. Like he takes Blade Runner, which is an eighties sci fi movie. He does that in twenty seventeen and it's phenomenal. So I'm just like, okay, maybe I'd rather see Denise make something original, but like I feel like if he does a Bond movie, it's it's gonna be original. It's gonna be it's gonna be A okay. And like he'll probably have like Deacons or Frasier or like some goaded cinematographer on for it. so yeah, I I don't know When is that supposed to come out? So I have no idea because Denis Villnova is talking about making like a Cleopatra movie too. Which he actually said he was gonna make before Dune Three and then that didn't happen. Okay. So I have no idea what his schedule is. I'm sure we'll find out more after Dune Three comes out. Yeah. seems like he's doing the next Bond movie. Like I think that might be confirmed. Like I I don't know, but that's yeah. so waiting to hear on the cast. But Gary Oldman came out and said like the Bond character has been chosen, like it just hasn't been released yet. So there's some sort of progress being made, you know. with whatever the next Bond movie's gonna be, but yeah, I don't know. Skyfall I really liked and I give it a four. I think I'm actually gonna like it more from watching the other movies. Like I think Yeah. It's gonna make Skyfall better. I think it is the best of the Craig. Yeah. like another thing too I've only seen Casino Royale, but from what I've gathered, like Skyfall is really the main movie where you see like the mortality of Bond's character and like you kind of see the breakdown of his character. Like he doesn't pass his tests to get reinitiated and stuff. Like he's struggling with the gunshot and he's having a lot of doubts and all this stuff. And that's kinda how like Silva that's like Silva's tactic is basically saying like, hey bro, you're washed and And I feel like this, just compared to what I've seen from Casino Real, it's although it looks phenomenal, like it's more focused on fleshing out Bond as a character than just like having these big action set pieces. And that's why for the most part those action movies don't work for me all the time 'cause I feel like they're more focused on just like eye candy stuff and like you know they're They're trying to have these moments of action filmmaking, but they're doing it like every two seconds and it's just like, All right, like who is this guy? You know? But so I I really like Skyfall, four star. Okay. See what else? Should I you want me to do one or you just want to do all four? Let me let's run through mine. Okay, so Princess Bride. Yeah, Princess Bride. I'll tell you what I wrote in my review 'cause I think I summed it up pretty good in my review, like how I was feeling. You ready? Yeah. I said this is just a surface level fairy tale that didn't excel at anything for me. I think my first watch of this is just too late for me to really connect with it. The sarcastic tone just does not land for me and all the characters are wildly uninteresting. The princess is so passive, which is just so boring. Multiple times where I was waiting for her to step in and do something, and she never does. Return, return. Sorry, Andrew. Okay, fair. So and okay. But that's that's the point. That's the point of the movie. Hold on. So on our IMDB draft, we talked about Monty Python a little bit. Yeah, that's you love Monty Python. It's not as extreme as Monty Python. No, yeah. Like it's kinda similar. Yeah, for sure. And I just didn't connect with Monty Python. I just think I d I don't know, I just think I don't connect with it. Yeah. I don't know if I laughed once like the whole movie. Really? You know? It's like supposed to be Funny and charming and I I should have known after your Monty Python hatred. No, I'm sorry. No, I shouldn't have given you this one. I should have known. I think okay. I said it didn't excel at anything. I think it looks pretty solid for the most part. Yeah. Okay, like some of the like backdraps and everything look really, really cool. Yeah. I and I was like, yo, who is the actress? I'm like, she looks so familiar. But it's in like the eighties, I like can't pinpoint what she's in. Yeah. so her name's Robin Wright. She's in Forrest Gump. She's in Blade Runner twenty forty nine. She's in Moneyball. She's in the girl with the dragon tattoo. so she's a great actress. I mean, she's freaking Jenny in Forrest Gump. Yeah. Yeah, I just kind of didn't really feel anything from her character. Didn't feel anything from Wesley. Yeah, and I know it's supposed to be goofy, but I texted you, I'm like, yo. Like I don't know. I get okay. I mean, we're spoiling stuff, right? We kinda have Bro, if people haven't seen the Princess Bride. Well, I I hadn't seen the Princess Bride. Dude, well, I don't know. Okay, so spoilers, but this is the man of her dreams, okay? And he is pirate something. Pirate Huh? What is he? He's like the pirate he's like pretending to be like the pirate of shadows or I don't know. When he's like got the thing around his eyes. What's that called? It's like they like name him or something. I don't know. And you know, he goes on this path to get to her and he gets to her and she's like, I don't even know what she says, but she's like, Yeah, I he's got eyes of marshmallows or something And I'm like, yo, his eyes are right there. The only thing that's covered is like a little bit of his cheekbone. I'm like, how do you not know that's your man? And and I knew he was gonna say as you wish or whatever his line is. And then he says it when he's rolling down the hill and I'm like, Of course. I'm like, Of course that's how it happens. That was pretty fair. I was just like, Are you kidding me? And then I was just pissed the rest of the time. Right after that. After the as you wish thing. That was just You're out. Yeah, I d I don't know. I try I tried, but I should have known. That's on me. All right. Why do you love the Princess Bride so much? What what is I mean, this is like it's up there for you, isn't it? Yeah. Like best of the best, like one of your favorite movies ever. Right? Yeah. Okay, yeah. So five star film for you. Yeah, I don't know if I've loved it, but it would definitely be a five. Definitely be a five. Yeah. Okay. What? When was the first time you watched Princess Bride? Mm, probably when I was like ten. Okay. I love the I for the same reasons you hate it, I love it. Okay. That's fair. For how goofy it is. Yes. It's very goofy. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Yeah, she should totally recognize who he is. I love Andre the Giant and the little short guy, I can't remember his name. but I love the Wesley and his like battled wits kinda. I love that scene. Yeah. I don't know, I just love it. Okay. pretty much it. That's I mean, yeah. That's I can see why you think it's stupid. It's I don't I don't know. I mean I am I don't yeah, I don't know. No. No, I can I totally get it. I am a little confused that like I don't know, just that like at how insanely highly regarded it is, I guess. What's it got on Letterboxd? It's got a four point one on Letterboxd. It's a heater. Which I guess maybe it was like my friend's rating. Yeah, my friend's rating probably have it as like a frickin' five point eight or something. So you didn't laugh one time? I don't think so. Dang. What about the dueling scenes? Those were cool. And I liked Anico Montoya? Yeah, there we go. Favorite character but by Valid. By long shot. He's got a great character. He's got great character. Yeah. This could be a two and a half or a three. Don't even might as well delete the rating. It it could be. I don't know. yeah. Maybe. Like, but I don't know. I really didn't like it. So like I feel like it's gotta be a two. I feel like if I really originally I'm like, yeah, we'll do like a three, but I'm like, no, I really didn't like that. Yeah, hey, that's let's do two and a half, and then I'm like Well, two and a half doesn't mean I really didn't like it, so I'm gonna do two. Yeah, fair. So Okay. That's fair. on Golden Pond. We got a veteran Henry Fonda in this movie. And a veteran Katherine Hepburn. Mm-hmm. Both on best actress and best actor, respectively. their performances are really, really good. I wrote it's a really warm, cheesy, and lighthearted film that manages to wrestle with the idea of mortality so effectively. Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn Masterclass. It's kinda like the same as the natural. It's it's like that same sort of vibe of just like early eighties, like lighthearted films that just have like a constant piano somewhere playing with like a backdrop and then it cuts to the characters talk. I mean, I guess the natural has a lot to do with like life too and like what you value. but like here it's more on like mortality and Norman, like he's this old guy that's having memory issues. He's just kind of a grouch and Ethel, which is Catherine Hepburn's always calling him an old poop. And he really just kinda is. Yeah, I I just thought and like I y you kinda know where it's going, like when their daughter comes with the new boyfriend, soon to be or fiance, soon to be husband, whatever, with his I think it's just his kid. Like I don't it's not her kid. yeah. That one of those is gonna turn him around and then Ethel comes to Norman and is like We got exciting news. Like they're gonna leave what's his face? Billy. Like they're gonna leave Billy with us for a month while they go on their trip and he's like, What? And she's like, Come on, it'll be good and they end up and they head to Purgatory Cove. Yeah, that's right. Trying to get Walter. They're trying to get Walter. they don't get Walter in Purgatory Cove though. And they get something else. They do get something else. Well they they lose wait a second. Their boats cooked. Mm-hmm. After that. Mm-hmm. They have two boats on the dock before. Come on, man. Is it No, I'm just No no no. Come on. It's not gonna make the movie worse, but I just thought of that. One of the neighbors went on, okay? Like what I just what? I just thought of that now. I'm like, wait a minute. But yeah, they he lets Billy drive the boat and it doesn't go too good and just yeets Norman off the front of it. Yeah. Kinda funny. yeah, that's a good kinda funny. That's a good eighties like film stunt. Launch him off the front of the boat. Yeah. but yeah, I just I really liked the the story and the acting was really, really good. Thought it actually looked good too. Yeah, it's just one of my parents' favorite movies, so I just love it. It's a good one. Incredibly underseen according to Letterboxd. Guess so. only forty one thousand logs. It's an older movie that is not like super highly acclaimed, so I guess it makes sense not a lot of older people are on letterbox. So Yeah. I'm just surprised 'cause like if they both won what year is it? eighty one. They both won the Academy Award for Actor and Actress. And like Henry Fonda's like a super big actor. I'm just surprised. I feel like I see people that will do like all they try and watch as many Marlon Brando movies and stuff. Yeah, I'm d I'm just surprised this doesn't have more watches. so yeah, on Golden Pond. If you want a light kind of a but when I say light, it's not r it's not like lighthearted 'cause like it's kind of a deep subject. But it's I don't know. You know, the ending had me a little bit a little bit scared for a second. The ending is kind of scary. I do love the ending though. Yeah, the ending is really good. It I mean Well this one I don't want to spoil 'cause I feel like Right. Yeah, maybe I don't know. I Just like fast forward, like, well, no one listening to this podcast has seen this, right? There's no way. Probably not. But they should. Yeah. Go watch it. That's what I'll say. I won't spoil it. Just go watch it. It's got a good ending. Yeah, then the natural. I gave it a three and a half. Well, I haven't logged yet, but I don't know. I actually really like the natural. It might be like a four. You don't gotta do me you don't No, I'm serious. I'm actually so serious. Like baseball movies are hard. Yeah. They're yeah, they're just they're hard to do. And I really liked it. I liked the moments of it. It felt very like Field of Dreams esque, which it came before Field of Dreams, so Yeah. Field of Dreams stole from the natural. Exactly. But yeah, I had already talked about but I was just really appreciating all of the super like mo like big movie moments where it's like Yeah, I mean sometimes you just gotta do that. You gotta make it feel like a movie. Yeah. as cheesy or corny as it is. Makes for cool scene. I I did find it well, I already talked about some of the things I thought were funny. I found it quite hilarious that it took the right fielder to die for him to get his shot. Yeah. That's true. I thought that was pretty funny. But dude, that that guy is Madison. what's his name? What's his first name? James. James. Not James Madison? No. It's like he's the guy in all the Tarantino movies. He's the guy that he's He's Mr Mr. White? No. I don't think so. I think that's Harvey. I don't know any of the misters in Reservoir Dogs. He's like the older guy? He no, he's the guy that that cuts the dude's ear off and does the singing. Michael Madison Madsen or Madison. Michael Madsen, yeah. Yeah, Michael Madsen. Yes. So that he's the guy that dies in the natural I didn't even Yeah. So This I mean the cast is like really good. I don't I guess I don't know. Robert Redford was a Bro, he's in Avengers? Yeah. Okay, he's all the president's men, the sting, Butch Cassidy. Dude, he is. I gotta watch all of those movies. He has some really good movies. so yeah, Robert Redford, Robert Duval, Glenn Close, Michael Madsen. I'm like, dang, this is a pretty Yeah. Pretty stacked cast for like a sports movie in the eighties. Yeah. but yeah, I I had a really fun time with it. It's just like I knew as like a baseball player that there was gonna be some inconsistencies. Yeah. But I knew that going in. I'm just like, yeah, whatever we'd ball. Okay, good. So yeah, it was f it was a fun time. three point seven five if Butterbox let me. Okay. Maybe a four. I don't know. I I liked it. Yeah. yeah. So you watched I know you logged it earlier this year and gave it a five. Yeah. What what is your your history with the movie? I I'd probably bump it down. No. I was just I was just really loving the baseball movies. No, but what okay. My dad this is like my dad's my dad's favorite. Maybe my maybe his favorite movie. Really? That's all right. One of his favorite movies. Papa Mo's. but yeah, I mean he just loves baseball too. Yeah. What happened to you? Huh? I don't know. I wish I would have I wish I would love it. But I don't. Yeah. But I love baseball. But you love the natural. Yeah. Yeah. No, I just Yeah, I don't know. I just kinda like the The theme of like light and dark, like kinda underline a little bit. Henry. Question. Yes. Why did he get shot? This lady the lady who shot him. Yeah. Like her whole thing is she's she wants to take out the best of the best. Like she she r in the the start of the movie she kills like the other guy. She does? Like remember they're they're talking about like the This other like guy who was super good but got shot. The hitter that he struck out? No, like this is like the very start of the movie. Like they're talking about this guy who got murdered who is like the best of the best. Like bro, that went way over my head. This the lady is like obsessed with like she wants to take out the like she's just like that's her that's like her character. So that's why he gets shot. That went that went way over my head. Because like he's supposed to be he's like this guy who's up and coming, like he's crazy. Okay, so so he's this pitcher, right? He's got this cannon. And then he gets shot. First off I mean why she she could have easily just finished the job, huh? Yeah, I guess. I just I think she just thought he was dead. Yeah. And then she just jumped out the window. Yeah, she did do that. She had to get away. Yo. But you think if you shoot someone you could just walk right over, you know. Yeah. Why go out the window? Yeah, I don't know. she was an interesting character, but I didn't I d She's supposed to be like death, like Like Yeah, because she covers her she covers the face in the black veil. Yeah. As soon as she covered her face in the black veil, I'm like, yo. Bad news. This is like this is going a direction I did not think it was going. Which is that's which was cool. That's why I like it. Cause it's like not very conventional. This is a four star. It's like not conventional like baseball movie. Like there's like some underlying This is a four star. I haven't logged it yet, so Okay. What else is I gonna say? I feel like I had another question. yes, he's supposed to be this pitcher. Mm-hmm. And then he's just freaking babe Ruth or something. He's got the bat from the tree, baby. I know, but I was like, my gosh, this dude's Shohe Otani. He's got the magical bat from a tree. He's n he's insane. it's like in the It took me a while to make the connection that he was supposed to be on like a MLB team. Mm-hmm. Like a pro baseball team. Yeah. 'Cause they're like the New York Knights or something like that. They're the New York Knights. Yeah. And I'm like, he's playing He's pay he's playing double A. Yeah. Or like I not even I'm like a like a men's league or something. Like I don't even know. And Yeah, 'cause shout out Cubs. He's supposed to go to the Cubs at the beginning of the movie. which that would have been really good for the Cubs if they got let me just if the Cubs got the natural Turn my hat around. If the Cubs got Roy Hobbs Hey Dude, if the Cubs got Roy Hobbs in the eighties every game. I don't know, man. They'd have Shoe Otani on their team. That'd be insane. Yeah. But yeah, and then he just kinda like walks into the dugout and is like, Yo, I got a contract. And the manager's like, What are you talking about? And I No, come on, get out of here. He's like, Yep, we got a contract. Your scout has the authority to do this, right? And he's like, Yeah, but he's still gotta talk to me about it, blah blah blah. And I'm I just had no idea it was the MLB. Okay. And then They played like a team called the Phillies. Mm-hmm. I'm like, all right. Not the Philadelphia Phillies though. Then they're Yeah, we're going to Wrigley. And I'm like, What? This they're in the majors. Yeah. So then I'm like, Whoa, this guy really is like Shoheiotani because he's doing in the majors, just being a beast. but yeah. So I had him I had an I had a roller coaster. Yeah. Watching it. That's fair. It is a little confusing. But it was good. I like it's a four star four star film. All right, sweet. so thirteen and a half. Yeah, thirteen and a half. Thirteen and a half total stars. All right. That's it? That's it? Those are the four. Your turn. Nightcrawler. Yeah. I just three and a half, solid movie. I just I don't know, I just couldn't joking. I just couldn't get into I really like Jake's performance and like he's like very creepy and weird and exactly like how he's supposed to be. But I don't know, I just feel like it was very like I feel like there wasn't a ton of build up. Like it was just like He finds these guys doing like night crawling and he's like, Okay, I'm gonna just do this and then it and then it's pretty much just the rest of the movie, which is fine. but yeah, for I don't know, I just I liked it but I d I didn't love it. Okay. That's yeah, that's pretty much it. Yeah, I don't know. I just I thought I would like it more, but I I mean three and a half is very good though. Like it's a good movie. So Jake is an absolute madman. Really the first of his that I've seen that he plays something other than like a really cool guy. Yeah. You know that's true. So that's why I thought yeah he was really shows how good of an actor he is. Yeah. I said really cool concept of a movie, chilling and haunting from one of the most underrated actors. Facts. Yeah. I feel like I feel like What would make that review even better is if like you gave it like a five stars. Okay. Or like a four and a half. So it's five for you? It's five for me. Okay. When when did you watch it last? I watch so I watched it a very, very long time ago with my brother. Mm-hmm. Don't remember a lick about it. Watched it August fourth, twenty twenty five. So that's not that long ago. Last summer. Yeah. No, but like prior to the last time, yeah. Gotcha, gotcha. And I said, here's your Oscar Jake Jill and home with a little trophy emoji. I said have you seen Black Swan? Mm-hmm. So with whiplash though you've seen? Yeah. So I said it it it's like lumped into those films for me just 'cause it it's dealing with obsession and like the pursuit of success. where black swan and whiplash is like music and art. Dancing like Nightcrawler kind of exposes like the dark nature of media, which I really, really liked. I just looked up best actor nominees for this Oscar year. 2016. It came out, yeah. Michael Keaton for Birdman, haven't seen Birdman. Benedict Cumberbatch for the imitation game, not over Jake G. Steve Carrell for Foxcatcher, not over Jake G. You've seen Imitation Game in Voxketcher. Yeah. Bradley Cooper over American or American Sniper over Jake G not no. Hold on now. Eddie Redman. The theory of everything. I think he won it. I haven't seen that. That's like the Stephen Hawking biopic or something like that. Haven't seen it. But just insane that he did not get nominated. You've seen American Sniper? Yeah. I mean Jake G is way better than Bradley Cooper in American Sniper though. You think? Yes. Like American Sniper is I I don't know, I haven't seen it in a while. But man, Jake G is doing something in this movie. Yeah, he is very good. he's definitely the highlight for me. I really like Riz Ahmed too. Yeah. This is like his first yeah. Like and he like spent all his money to get to Hollywood. Yeah. I I watched that after watching this. Yeah. Or a little bit of that interview. Which is like kind of his character too. Yeah, exactly. Which is kinda interesting. Yeah, he has a lot of he's very good. I I don't remember anything about the score, but I wrote that I really liked the score. It was disturbing disturbingly uplifting. The depths people are willing to go for individual success is terrifying and this movie depicts that perfectly. dude, the car chase scene is so sick. Yeah, that's one of my favorite scenes. I I just feel like it's really good tension and I I remember like watching that scene and like actually feeling like some sort of response from it, which doesn't happen in a lot of movies for me. Yeah. what'd you think about the car chase scenes in Skyfall? What'd you think about the f what'd you think about the I that d the D B five? Sick. Sick. And just when they when he just like parks and gets out in like Scotland or whatever. I can't remember. I don't even know if there's a need for him getting out, but I'm just like, yeah, this is awesome. It's just like him and Ab in the bottom corner and then it's like mounds. I'm like, yeah. They knew what they were doing here. But yeah, yeah, the the car chasing is really sick in in Nightcrawler. Alright, so you hated Nightcrawler. What's next? Nightcrawler I hated. Terrible movie. Prince of Egypt, I give four. I said, holy man, can't believe I haven't seen this one. Wish I knew more about Moses. This might just send me on a crazy deep dive. Really cool adaptation of the story. I like how they portray Pharaoh's heart being hardened. I think it shows a great level of understanding that carries throughout the film. 'cause that was one thing that I texted you about right away. because They don't do it in like a sense of his heart actually being hard and like they have him like battling with greed and stuff, which is what the story is trying to convey. so I think that's a really cool way of doing that. But yeah, no, I loved it. I mean, it was just like really can't think of the word. But just like for an animated film, like It's just able to like captivate you really well. And I think it it does a lot of things. It's like I think it helps that it's rooted in a like a store like such a s a story that's been around for so long. and I think they do a really good job of like not straying from the actual s you know, the real story. And it's very like You know, they're they're trying their best to stick to the story and make it like a like a faithful adaptation, which I think is one thing I was kinda worried about before watching it, but obviously it's very highly acclaimed, so Yeah. I wasn't worried too much, but and we've been talking about it. Yeah, in Bible study. Yeah. So like Yeah, that that was part of the reason I'm like, I gotta give I gotta give you this movie because we've I had a Bible study for like the last three months almost. and the last like f four weeks have been basically about Exodus and Moses, which is what this movie's about. And obviously there's a lot of dramatization in the movie, but like the core of it kind of shines through, which I really appreciated. Yeah. And this is DreamWorks' second movie ever, which is kinda crazy. Ants. really? Yeah. I forgot that was DreamWorks. but this was so ants was like computer generated animation and this is all hand drawn stuff. And so it's 2D. They they need to like bring this sort of animation back. Like Prince of Egypt, Lion King. Yeah. Like all the studio ghibli stuff is it is some really cool animation. Yeah. and Han Zimmer on the score, like they were taking this stuff seriously. They have some really good voice actors too. Yeah. Like Yeah, they do. I was literally I just saw that the other day. I'm like, I had no idea. Isn't like Ray Valmer. Yeah, Val Kilmer, Ray Fines, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, like Patrick Stewart, Steve. Steve Martin, Martin Short. Yeah, that's right. Like this is insane. Like people were not playing with their animation. Yeah. Ninety eight. That's crazy. Yeah, the score is amazing and when I went when me and Addison went to the world of Hans Zimmer last like a year ago now. I had just watched Prince of Egypt like a couple of weeks ago. Mm-hmm. And it was just it was so euphoric and so dude, yeah. It's it's it's one this I should have said Prince of Egypt for best opening. movies like Shout. That the music and just though like they literally like capture like the whole world and village like right from the start. This review says I don't understand how you could cast Jeff Goldblum in this movie without making him the voice of God. Yeah, that's funny. But yeah. And then did this really happen? That's pretty good. The one of my one of my favorite scenes is like the parting of the seas. That scene is so sick. Yeah. Especially for animation and like for two D animation, it's it's really cool. Yeah, bang. Four. Could definitely could be a four and half. It should be a five. I just I just feel like I don't five. I just don't know enough. I remember when I first watched it, I was like kind of like wait, like Moses and this guy, like we're not boys like this, you know. And but then I I don't know, I just I I tried to leave like my cynicism at the at the door and just kind of enjoy it. And I did enjoy it and then I looked up and they're like, yeah, no, like that, you know they they weren't they weren't boys like that, but it's just like for fun kinda I don't know. just to get the point across. Yeah. Yeah. Love it. Can't I where are the rest of the Bible movies, DreamWorks? Yeah, seriously. Come on. Let's pump out. Yeah. I saw there's one of Joseph. It's not DreamWorks, but it's like two D animation. It looks like very similar animation style. It only has like a three point one on letterbox, but I added it to the watch list 'cause I was doing some stuff on Prince of Egypt 'cause I knew you were gonna watch it. And I saw that and I'm like, dang, this this looks pretty sick too. So Yeah, I saw that one coming up too. Alright. Arrival, my favorite movie of all time. Woohoo This is your favorite movie of all time? Favorite movie of all time. The GOAT, the best movie ever. I remember the first time I watched this with my roommates, we all got done watching it, and we were just like looking at each other like, what the heck did we just watch? And I kept on seeing stuff on social media where it's like, if you like Interstellar, you gotta watch this movie. And I'm like, comparing this to Interstellar. It's like stupid. Like what are we talking about? And then I watched it and I'm like, man. And in my first review I wrote The Underrated Interstellar. I've come to know now it's not underrated at all. It's just like maybe the average. Rated. Like maybe the average person would think it's underrated? No, like hasn't seen it maybe. Sure, sure. But like in the film world it's not underrated, you know. So you think this is better than Interstellar? Yep. I mean if like they're my two favorite movies of all time. Really? Yeah. So yeah, I well w okay, what'd you think? Yeah I gave it a four. I just well I just okay so like I don't I I hope I can answer your questions. My first question is So her her and Jeremy Renner, mm-hmm, they get divorced? Yeah. Because she says Hannah's gonna die? Mm-hmm. And then spoiler. And then at the end she's like So d at the end does he know that they're gonna get divorced? At at the end which is the start? No, at at the end Like they're together, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's the start. That's the same as them. Yeah, I I see what you're saying. Yes. So does he know that they're gonna get divorced? No, not at not at that time. So she knows that they're gonna get divorced and he doesn't know? So she knows that her daughter's gonna die and they're gonna get divorced, and she doesn't tell him. No. So what's up with that? So the whole wrong. The whole thing, the whole point not the whole point, but like the whole thing of the story is that whatever language you speak is like how you perceive stuff. Uh-huh. and so she just gets so immersed in the alien language because she is basically in charge of dissecting how they speak. She gets so immersed in all that stuff that doesn't see time the way that like any other language sees it. So now basically she's just existing not in time as we know it. Like she knows everything before and after, essentially. Right. Which poses the like kind of gut punch question at the end. If you could see her whole life from start to finish, would you change things? And So she has come to the acceptance, like acceptance, I don't know, she knows that her daughter's gonna die. Yeah. And she chooses to I don't know, just kinda like take that on and like cherish every moment that she has with her daughter. Right. And you're all over this up to this point. Yeah. Which is good and impressive. And then he or she feels like her husband has a right to know that just because she knows it. And so she tells him, and basically he like hates her for that. Cause he did not want to know that. He thought it was unfair that she brought that information to him. He tells her after they have the baby. She tells him. Sorry. She tells him. after they have the baby at that yeah she's gonna die. Yeah. So how did how do you not bring that up before you have a baby? I so I don't know because 'cause she knows all what what's gonna happen. Right? But She knows Hannah's gonna die. Not okay. Not like no but he doesn't know before No, not before they have like What do you mean? It's a it's a mind F because how does she not know? She knows. She knows Hannah's gonna die the whole time. Right? That's the whole point. Yeah. So how does she tell when they're hugging at the end. Also, that's the c maybe the corniest and worst line in any movie ever. What? Wanna make a baby. I wanted to punch my screen. That's terrible. Shame on you, Jeremy Renner. Great line delivery, Jeremy Renner. Great line delivery, Jeremy Renner. I gotta watch Eric Eric from New Rock Stars. He's gotta break it down for me, bro. He he'll make me understand. It's yeah. I mean So does she not know or does she know? And why did she not tell? Why does she wait to tell until they have the kid? 'Cause she knows that he would do it anyway. But if she knew it if she knew he would do it anyway, then I guess I don't know when she tells him. I mean, clearly it's after they have Hannah because that's when they show that they're like separated is when it's when Hannah's with banks. Yeah. It's like you know, she sa she says something about her dad, like how she said something that h made her dad really upset. And Yeah, so c so clearly like it was kind of relatively recently to that scene as to when she told I don't even know his name. Ian. Yeah. That that was when they they separated. But yeah, I guess I I don't know. Either way, I mean really good. Yeah, I I thought it was gonna be just like Interstellar. I thought like Hannah was gonna be the alien or something. You thought it was gonna be just like Interstellar. Like And you thought Hannah was gonna be the alien. Yeah. Like Hannah's gone. Like Hannah I don't know. How is that just like Interstell? Well, 'cause Who becomes an alien in Interstellar? I see what you're saying. No no no. I gotcha. I clock it now. I gotcha. Yeah. I gotcha. I don't know. But yeah, no, it was very good. Like the Hannah was gonna be in the Coop Coop was Murph's ghost. Yeah. I see what you're saying. That's what that's what I thought. But still really good. The score was really sick. Mm-hmm. The aliens are really sick too. On the Nature of Daylight is like one of my favorite just compositions ever. And it wasn't made just for the movie. It's in other movies too. Really? First time I heard it, another goaded movie that I need to rewatch because I'm letting it slip down my rankings a little bit. And I think I think it's time I rewatch it. Shutter Island. Cars too, bro. Shutter Island. It's in Shutter Island. Okay. And like a really, really emotional scene. It plays in arrival. and then it is in Hamnet too from last year at a really emotional scene. So it's a great, great piece of art. One of the things that I love about Arrival is the first shot, the last shot, like the shots of her house, it's the exact same frame as the like the heptopods, like where they're talking to them through the glass or whatever. Yeah, it's like the exact same dimensions or whatever, like the glass of the aliens and her like windows looking out the back of her house. Yeah. And then also I love how the aliens are depicted because all the time in like alien movies they are like basically the generic alien that you think of, you know? And like you know, if they exist, like we have no idea what they could look like they could look like something so different. And I just thought it was really cool like how they portrayed aliens in this movie 'cause I've never seen aliens portrayed that way. Right. Like basically like frickin' squid that shoot ank to communicate. Aliens were sick. Love the aliens. also I like this guy. What's his name again? Forrest Whitaker. Yeah. Yeah. Forrest Woodker. Yeah. Yeah, I I love Arrival. I've watched it three times. It's gotten better every time. Yeah, I feel like I've picked up on more stuff each time I've watched it too. I love a movie like that. Yeah. Like it it's just Yeah, very, very complex. I think. Like I like it's part of the reason why I love Interstellar, but like you get something like you know, space travel and interstellar and then like aliens coming to the earth and arrival, but then they find a way to like really root it in like deeply human emotions and family. and it's like, you know, not I don't know, like it th it's not like this story to me was like super outlandish, you know. Right. Yeah. No, yeah, that's that's true. And yeah, this is kinda like what I was talking about, like, with Dune, how Denis just seems more fascinated with like the descent of like these ships or whatever, like the space cr I don't even know. The well the heptopods in arrival, but then like the ships in Dune. Like he just loves showing like the slow Descent of these ships to kind of like build suspense for like what's in there. Spaceships aren't that cool. The heptopods or the spaceships? Spaceships aren't that no, not in Dune, in arrival. The heptopods? Yeah. They're sick. You think that spaceship is sick? Like I don't think it's s like sick, like, whoa, let me get in one of those. But like I I think the way I think I think I'm saying the ship itself. I mean, no. Yeah, I guess I don't think it's like sick, but I think the way it's portrayed in the movie is sick. Agreed. Yeah, I'm trying to I wanna d I wanna do it more j like this is my goat here. Yeah, dude, what else do you like about it? Of course I only I knew right away as soon as she was like, Go talk to your dad if you want to talk about science or whatever other things. Yeah, you knew there it is. Yeah. of course my last review, I just wrote the frickin' quote. If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things? Would you change would I change things, but I'm not gonna tell my husband if he would change things. He doesn't get to know. But she does tell him. Yeah, after. But it it's weird because she's not Like in time as we know it. But she knows everything. But we don't know. Like I know. But she knows. But she might not. What? Like it's it's kinda like when she when she tells the the Chinese leader like I she's like, I called you or he's like, you called me and she's like, I did? Yeah. And then it okay. So something like that. It's yeah, it's we obviously want to look at it chronologically in time and be like, Well, she knew that this time, so why didn't she tell him here and wait until here? Yeah, but that's not really Yeah. Right. Okay. I'm getting it kinda. Yeah. But Also, I just think it's cool like the idea that the aliens are just like, Hey, we want to teach you our language so that in three thousand years or whatever That is a cool reason for them to come. Yeah. We're gonna need your help, so and we're gonna be able to need to communicate. Yeah. Yeah, that is cool. Amy Adams. Perfect. I think she got nominated for this. Really? That's surprising. Perfect. She's okay. Gosh, I really man, I thought I had like a goaded review for this. You just got quotes or what? No, my second one I have like two paragraphs, but I've already talked about So and my first one I just said it's the underrated interstellar, which is it's it's the worst prestige. It's the worst version of the prestige. that what you're trying to say? No. No, really good. Alright. Time for the five out of five. Drive it like you stone it. Boom. Do it. So good. All right. So I can almost guarantee that most of the people that follow us or listen to us have either never watched Sing Street or never heard of it. I guess it's got five hundred thousand logs. I think it's fairly popular. Which isn't like That's a lot. That's yeah. That's like that means a lot of people have seen it, dude. That's that's a that's a that's a kinda decent amount, but man, this is like goaded and it should have like twelve million logs on letterboxed. let me see what I wrote. Sing Street is yeah, so sick. Basically, boy in Dublin. he A crush on a girl and he starts a band to impress her. And boom, that's it. Like that like that's the movie right there. I said that's phenomenal. If any movie ever has a third act climax where the band is playing in a gig, I'm in. Yes, that's so true. This feels extremely organic and at some points doesn't feel like a movie at all. It feels hazy and broken in the best and most intentional way. Absolutely loved it. Sick back to the future references at the dance too. I I there's one there's one shot that what's the director's name? Sean John Carney. John Carney. He's like, Yeah, this is one of one from Back to the Future where they're like pouring the pot. Dang, that's sick. And then there's a I need to I need to do a deep dive. I never like did a deep dive in this movie. There's a group of guys who are wearing the three D glasses too. Okay. Like Back to the Future. So I watched I watched this in Aug no in July of twenty five. For your first time. Yep. So it's been a while. and that's the only time you watched it? The only time I've watched it. So five star. I've I still listen to soundtrack all the time. it's like a simple premise, but it it tackles a lot. Like you get the the romance and the love, you get like the self identity from the main character. the family, like there's the the issues with his family, like he's got a very tense situation at home. Music, which is obviously always awesome. Like I love the inclusion of music in movies. Especially when it's like I don't know, I guess I haven't watched like a ton of like pure musicals, but I love movies where it's not like a musical per se, but like where it's about like a band or something. They're like making music. So then you get like a song From them in the movie, not just because like everyone starts like dancing in the stands and singing in the stand I was gonna write I don't I don't I was just thinking this I should have wrote in my review, but I I'm guessing like what chicks think of like high school high school musical, like this is how this is probab I'm feeling probably with this deal. And I've n I don't think I've ever watched any of the high school musicals like all the way through. Junk. It right away after this I told my mom to watch it because she loves Duran Duran and there's like there's at least like two songs in there from them. Yeah, it's the the the music, like not just the music from the band, but like the inclusion of the music that they have is very eighties. I love like all their outfits and everything. and yeah, it it it's tackling a lot, like I said, but like the premise is really simple. And yeah, John Carney he does once too. I need to watch the other movie I love. They're both five stars, for me and they're yeah, it's just like kind of kind of similar, like music and romance basically. Yeah Yeah, man, I it's just so good. I gotta it's like the perfect amount of like like kind of like campiness, like you know. It is. 'Cause it is it's like campy and a little like childish at times. Yeah. But yeah. It's man, I gotta watch it again. It's so good. I don't know what yeah, I remember like watching it and like Wait, why is this goaded? Like I That's exactly what I was thinking. I like I have no idea what inclined me to watch this. I think originally I gave it a four and a half. And the next day I was just like I need to start doing That's what I did. 'Cause like I was I had it as a four and a half right away and then I was just thinking of drive it like you stole it. That's exactly what I did too. I need to start waiting like a default day before logging a movie. Let me let me see. I watched this on July twentieth of twenty five. Let me see when I watched once for the first time. I think when I watched once for the first time I had no idea it was the same director. really? Yeah, I need to watch. no, I watched w yeah. Dang. So I watched once June twenty seventh. And then I watched it again on June twenty eighth. Dang. And then I watched it again on April fifteenth. when I watched Singstered I had no idea it was the same director though. So I'd watched once first, but sure. Then I really got into it. Yeah, that John Carney might be go to but I haven't I haven't watched any other John Carney. He's like nothing else. I don't or I mean He's got the power battle that came out this year which people didn't love but I don't care. I still wanna see it. But yeah, Singh Street's so good. So five star. Five star. Do we have another five star in the midst? yeah. Yes. All right. Sweet. god, dude. Tree of life. Tree of life is a six star. Goaded. So good. probably the best movie I've seen in dude, I don't even know. So long. Like it is so good. Good. That's that's great to hear. my gosh, dude. I was very I was curious what your response was gonna be. The shots at the start. Yeah. The to like do a movie like this, like in Hollywood. Yeah. Is just like crazy and like I mean it's like just like trying to explain a topic which is impossible to explain. Yeah. And I think it's a really cool idea for Malik to try to blend the understanding of like God into like almost like a documentary slash story. So like you know, tackling I mean it's it's easy to understand to a certain extent with the example of like a family and A mother ha losing a child. Yeah. and like and the growing up like a a kid losing his brother too. And the effect it has on him and like how he kinda deals with life and at the end says, you know, talks to his dad at the end like more like his dad than his mom and like Yeah. Yeah. Just like really cool way of of tackling this topic and like Just like how bold that is. Yeah. Like I'm just gonna he's like, Yeah. Let me try to explain God real quick in the movie. And it's like He's like trying to like place the well, he's not a kid anymore, but the the brother like is basically wrestling with like his life and how he got to where he is to like the beginning of everything and like the cosmos and the creation of the world. And it's just like how do you like how do you weigh your life experiences and like suffering to right like something so unfathomable? And like I have never had like such a thought provoking movie, I feel like. Yeah, me neither. And I just yeah, I mean simple stories are great. Sing Street's a very simple story. Mm-hmm. And that's f it's awesome. Yeah. But like and there are obviously plenty of well executed simple stories like Sing Street, but a lot of times It just kind of feels like people are playing it safe with the stories that they want to tell. Where this is like I've never seen anything like this before. I have the Criterion collection, which comes with like a really cool booklet of a lot of behind the scenes stuff and like inspiration. And I do not like two thousand one a Space Odyssey. but Malik talks about how much of an inspiration that movie was for this film as far as visual storytelling goes. And I can definitely see like the correlations and the inspiration that it has. I just think the visual storytelling and the tree of life is just like perfectly executed. and I don't know like how long the scene is of Like basically the inception of the world and like to the din like I don't know how long that scene was, but I was just kinda like, whoa. Like as soon as I saw a dinosaur, I was like, Yeah. What's going on here? Yeah, I was too Hold on, where's Brad Pitt? Yeah. And I yeah, 'cause you just you kind of just get like thrown into this family. Yeah. And you're with and then you you realize that okay, Sean Penn is one of the kids grown up. Mm. It's not really clear at the beginning who it is, but you're like, okay. Sean Penn's like Reflecting on his childhood. And that's kind of the lens of a good chunk of the movie. And I'm like, okay. And the Malik films that I've seen, like very, very h heavy visual storytelling, but doesn't jump around nearly as much. Yeah. Like a hidden life is pretty easy to follow. For sure. Where and that's kind of what I was expecting was just Something similar to like a hidden life or what I've seen from Malik. But like here he like I don't know, just really goes for it. And yeah, you're with this family for like fifth ten, fifteen minutes. You realize, okay, it's gonna be a lot of flashbacks and that's how the movie's gonna go. And then you just get like a twenty minute montage of like the creation of the world. And it's just like whoa. What? And then it goes back to the family and you're like and then it's just like normal with the family and I'm like, whoa Hold on. Wait a minute. Bobby's saying the same thing. But like I was just like, What the heck? And then there's so many times where you get like a quote from the mom or you get a quote from the kid or you get a quote from the like Sean Pence character, like when he's older. And you're like, What? Like, wait a minute, what did you what are they yapping about? Okay. okay, he's praying here. Okay, okay, he's praying here. Alright, we're to the family now, okay. Think I get what's going on. Yeah. And it's like there are some times where I'm like, Man, like, please tell me what he's talking about. But then I get lost in the sauce. And then it was like the end of the movie. Like as soon as the end hit, I'm like, my like, whoa. Just everything at once was like hitting me. Yeah. It was pretty incredible. I I've never experienced a movie watching experience like that. And I was I was watching it and you know, Addison's like, What is this about? I'm like, just about like a family growing up in the fifties, you know. She I was watching it in the basement. She comes downstairs when like a meteor is hitting the earth and she's like, What is this about? And I'm like, I don't know. Like, I don't know. Yeah. I'm thirty minutes in, we saw a family, kid died. Dinosaurs. Dinosaur. Meteor hitting Earth. Planets. Yeah. And she's like, Well, I thought it was about a family. And every time I look over, it's like some sci-fi something. And I'm like, I have no I'm just along for the ride. Like, I genuinely had no idea. Yeah, it's unlike any movie I've ever seen for sure. Yeah. Like it's It's just like I don't know, the visuals are just stunning. I I love like the beginning and end, like the The light kind of like encapsulated in the darkness. Mm-hmm. Which I've kind of tried to like figure out what it was or what Malik is like trying to say, but I didn't find anything like concrete, but a lot of people are kind of speculating like that's like kind of maybe like the word of God, like kind of like truth in the world, or like Yeah, that's really all I could Yeah gather. I don't know if you found anything or what the The like the beginning and the ending. Yeah, like the very you know, the sh it's like the little Yeah s thing of light. Yeah. I yeah. I I don't have like a concrete answer, I don't think. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's a nut like I was like what the heck is this? So much stuff that you just don't understand, which I think is definitely the point too. I mean But like that yeah, that's why I loved it so much because I wanted like time while I was watching it to like dissect some of this stuff and like give me some answers and then it's like something happens and I just kinda get swept away in what's going on at the time and then it was like once the movie finished like everything was kind of coming back to me and I'm like finally like gnawing on all these thoughts and questions that I had while watching it. And yeah, I just I've never had that. And a lot of times like the end of the movie you get your answer or you get some sort of resolution. And this is just so uncon unconventional where it doesn't really give you that. I saw something where They did a like one of their first screenings, they had like half the people walk out of the movie during like during the world like theaters had like signs saying. Yeah. Which really like I don't know. They like you gotta be in the right headspace to watch watch a movie like this. Yeah, you really yeah, you really do. And yeah, I and Kind of going back to the idea of just like everything coming back to me at the end. I remember right away when it ended, I'm kind of like I was a little bit thrown off and just kind of like maybe wanted an answer of some sort, but then like shortly after, just everything kind of came back to me. and I was just like overwhelmed. But I think like I was able to get to at least like the purpose which so job thirty eight at the beginning which have you read job before? Mm-hmm. It's like goaded. Really? Yeah, I love Job. I read it for the first time like two summers ago. Goaded. so basically the central theme of Job is like humility and trust in the Lord through like ups and downs or like even if certain things are unexplainable. Job is basically this really good guy that just keeps on having crappy stuff happen to him. And he's got like these people that are like, Yo, what are you praising God for? Like you're gonna die, like you're so sick and you were so faithful and all this stuff. And Job's like, I know, but I trust him, like kind of thing. And they're like, This guy's weird. like that's basically what Job is, and it starts with Job at the beginning. And you just kinda like wrestle with all these big thoughts. Like why do bad things happen to good people? Why me? Why am I here? Why does like X, Y, and Z happen? Like this sort of stuff. And like as I kind of like remembered that Joe was at the beginning, I kinda felt like that was part of the beauty of like how the tree of life was told. Is like it's like a form of like poetic prayer where like Malik isn't necessarily trying to give us like a concrete answer to everything. Yeah. He's just kind of taking us for the ride. and I got a lot of trust in Malik just from the movies I've seen. But So you've seen Hidden Life and what's the I've seen Hidden Life, The Red Line or I haven't seen that one. I've seen Hidden Life, Bad Line or not Bad Lands. Bad Lands and Days of Heaven. Okay. And so Badlands and Days of Heaven are his first two. And then he took like nineteen years off. that's right. But Badland and Days of Heaven, like very good visual storytelling, but again, kinda like a s straightforward story. And then kind of the same with Hidden Life. So this was Yeah, very, very interesting. And I I like it too because like As a well, I think a lot of times like cr Christians when they're watching movies, they get thrown off when like maybe someone is like neglecting the faith or something like that or like having struggles with it. But I really like when movies are like honest about the struggles with faith because I mean like Christian or not, like everyone wrestles with those thoughts and even Christians now like still wrestle with doubts and stuff like that. And so I just really like when it's like honestly portrayed in a movie. And yeah, I it's It's a five out of five. That's five out of five. It's beautiful. It's crazy. I'm gonna have to watch it again. I don't know I'm I'm gonna watch it again this week. I w literally wanted to re watch it again like the next night and then I'm like, Well, I'm gonna I'm probably not gonna get to another movie if I do that. So my gosh. But yeah, it's insane. It's it's one of my goats already. Me too. Malik's Malik's a wizard. It's crazy. It's like you you can't even comprehend when you're watching it. Yeah. Which is the point, but like Yeah. It's really good. It's just yeah, like it's it's crazy. Like I don't know. And then like like the whole idea of like nature versus grace. Yeah. And how like the dad is nature and like unforgiving. And Grace is the mom and you know, compassionate and gentle and just has like trust. and like I really liked one, I really like Brad Pitt acting, but I really like the dad just as a character. Like At the beginning you're kinda like, this guy's just an a hole. but then you kind of realize like, yeah, he still is an a hole. but like he's like wrestling with a ton of stuff too. Yeah. And that's kind of what Jack. The dad? No, the the kid. One the oldest one is Jack, I think. Yeah. Jack. So when he's older Like that's what he's kind of reconciling with is like the imperfections of his parents. Yeah. so yeah, wow. Just crazy five out of five. Shout out Andrew because we were trying to think of a movie that we both hadn't seen. And we were We were gonna spin a wheel. We were gonna spin a wheel. But the wheel said True of Life Anyway. Yeah, that is true. So Ball Don't Lie. And he goes I don't know what was the other you said something else and then the tree of life. I can't remember what it was. I put hook on there. Hook? Mm-hmm. The Spielberg one? Hook? Wait. Hook Robin Robin Williams like the Yeah, that's Spielberg. it is. Yeah. I didn't even know that. I yeah, so I've never seen that, but yeah, he's like, Yeah, I'll throw I guess you said Hook and Tree of Life. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, let's just do Tree of Life 'cause I I was doing it on like letterbox popularity and I'm just right. Yeah, people don't really bang. Four hundred and sixty five thousand. Less than Sing Street. That surprises me. Yeah. it's incredible. If you want a overwhelming experience, watch a tree of life. Just know it's gonna be something you've never seen before. Dang, this is sick. Criterion is sick. Yeah. I'm glad I have it now. Yeah, that's a that's that's a good one to have. It's one of the one of the f few like blind Purchases I have like a lot of the movies a good one to not know anything about. A lot of the movies I have, like physical of, I just love and have seen. But Criterion had a sale in July, and I knew I really wanted to see more Malik. And that's the only place where you can get the tree of life. So I'm like, I'm just gonna do it. And if I don't like it, I'll sell it or something. But not selling it now. It's a banger, dude. Not selling now. Yeah. This is so good. Yeah. So wow. Another certified five star banger for the Podicy podcast. We got The Tree of Life. Bastards. Knives Out. The Shaw Shank. Knives Out. What else do we Well the Odyssey, obviously. Nirvana the band, the show, the movie. So I mean Straight bangers. It is. I was gonna say exclusive club, but maybe not so exclusive. But yeah. It's joining. Sing Street's pretty Sing Street. New addition. Yeah. New addition to the Podsey collection. yeah. It's a hard movie to talk about because it's just Yeah, you can't you don't know what's happening. Yeah. I mean you kind of or you get what he's trying to say, I guess, but the subject of it in itself is possible to tackle. Yeah, so now time to go watch more Malik movies 'cause the dude's a genius. Yeah, for sure. I both I think yeah. Hidden Life. Don't we both have it a five? Or no? No, you have it as a four. You serious? Yes. The heck is wrong with Drew Fraud. my gosh. there's no way. Andrew also texted me before he got here. The cinematographer is Emmanuel Lebeski, who's goaded and has won I think two or three Oscars for cinematography. he said, Is it normal if I want to name my kid after this guy? And I said, Yeah. I do have it as a four. I'm an idiot. You are an idiot. But the cinematographer Emmanuel Libesky. Yeah. He won for the Revenant. I think he won for Birdman too. Yeah. But he also shoots You know Sicario too, right? Children of Men. Nope. Sicario is Deacons, the goat. Really? he does Children of Men though, which is something I really Really wanna see. but yeah, Lubeski, okay. I gotta watch these other Malik's. He does or he does the other ones, too. He does the New World song to song in Knight of Cups. He sh he did Digger too. That's right, that's what I was gonna say. All right, so cinematographer Emmanuel Lubeski goated. Straight Goat. Up there with Deacons and Hoita. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know, fun fun week. Yeah, definitely. Fun to fun to watch some movies that Andrew gave me. Yeah, some sh crappy movies I gave Andrew. we'll we'll have to do this again sometime because it was Yeah, I d I didn't have a single rewatch this week, which I don't know when the last time that's happened. Yeah, me too. I I'm usually rewatching something at some point during the week, but yeah. Yeah, that's Yeah, we don't know what we'll do next week. Yeah, well we'll we'll have to do do this another time 'cause it w it was good Yeah, we definitely should. Watch some other movies. But yeah, thanks for thanks for checking out episode Nineteen. Thanks for checking out episode nineteen of the Podicy. yeah, thanks guys. See ya.