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What happens when movie obsession meets podcast dedication? A journey from basement recordings to approaching 200 episodes of cinematic conversations.
Looking back at nearly four years of podcasting, we laugh about our humble beginnings—passing a single microphone back and forth, recording in friends' basements, and overthinking every introduction. Those early technical struggles have evolved into a dedicated setup and growing audience, especially as our TikTok clips gain traction. Despite our full-time jobs limiting production time, our passion for watching and discussing films remains unwavering.
The streaming landscape has captured our attention lately, with one host deep into Stranger Things for the first time ("It's such binge worthy... I'm hooked") while the other eagerly discusses Peacemaker's return. We dive into Margaret Qualley's dark comedy "Honey Don't," dissecting everything from its disjointed plot and excessive sex scenes to the star-studded cast including Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans. Sidney Sweeney's recent films "Eden" and "Americana" also get attention, with particular praise for Rod Howard's storytelling in "Eden" despite its limited theatrical promotion.
Our conversation detours through Chance the Rapper's impressive new album, Tarantino's future projects, and the universal frustration of sitting through increasingly lengthy pre-movie advertisements ("sometimes it is 40 minutes before they start playing the movie"). Through it all, our enthusiasm for cinema shines through—whether recommending underrated gems or analyzing industry trends.
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excuse me, is anybody sitting here? Sorry, this is taken. Sorry, do you see? A straw hat goofy signed a deal with uh, was it variety? Or he signed a deal with somebody recently that I was. He's one of those guys. I've seen that news. My jaw dropped like, yes, good for him. You know, I was so excited. I don't know this guy at all, but I was so excited to see his name pop up and like he signed a deal. I want to see his variety.
Speaker 2:One of those interviewing um platforms yeah, I did see that and, uh, similar to you, he was the first like real dude I saw come up on tiktok. Like I remember watching his videos when he was still getting like you know a thousand views, like even. Like I remember like a hundred k, I was like good for him. And now it's like he's on red carpets. He was interviewing tom cruise, so yeah, to see that was uh awesome. I remember from when he lost not lost when he left his job and just going on this journey, so it's real inspired.
Speaker 1:I love seeing people win in life I remember that too, and that was the part of the reason why I started this podcast too, because I was like I see people like, if they can do it, I can do it too. You know Granted, they do it a lot better than I do. This podcast dude we're coming up on episode 200 pretty soon. I believe Crazy. We're in the 180s right now, but 200 is coming up pretty soon. It's going to be four years next year since I started this podcast, dude.
Speaker 2:I remember the first time I saw your announcement I genuinely got goosebumps out of excitement for you and obviously we hadn't talked for a while then and I immediately hopped into your DMs. I was like I didn't know you were a movie guy like that, so it was super exciting. And now you're my actual go-to, so it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I appreciate that. You know, when I started this podcast, I didn't tell anybody. I told like two people maybe that I was going to do it and then I just dropped the podcast, like the announcement and stuff like that, and that's kind of such a long way. I I remember, like I did the first episode of my basement, like, uh, like I I edited so much and it still sounds kind of like bad. But, um, man, just overthinking and like how I want to introduce myself, like I want to do this thing. And then, you know, like I started having guests on, like immediately and, um, the first handful of episodes I didn't even know how to record with two microphones, like we were passing the microphone back and forth. And then, uh, once I figured that out, my friend joey and megan, who were part of the podcast, they let me use their basement for the longest time until I got my own setup here in my room.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, it's coming a long way. It's coming a long way. So it's a long way to go, though I think I like it. I'm liking the traction, the feedback we're getting from tiktok. Um, you know, eventually I'll get back into posting full videos, but we talked about it. It's just so time consuming and it's just awesome. We both have full time jobs. Yeah, on top of that, we're always watching movies, though always dude, I've been slacking on my streaming movie watching lately.
Speaker 1:How about you?
Speaker 2:I'm pretty good, but there's definitely like I was scrolling the other day and I was like I have some big misses what you got going on here you know what the past few episodes I've been talking about.
Speaker 1:Like I've been streaming a lot of TV shows because I want to be more involved. I did see Peacemaker started again. I haven't seen the first episode yet, but I've been going through Stranger Things. That's been my biggest watch. Right now I'm a little bit more than halfway through season one.
Speaker 1:I went in knowing pretty much not much about the show at all. Like I knew it was set like in Indiana. I said it was set in like in the like eighties. It's a bunch of kids and the only thing I knew, which is from pop culture, is just like that, that villain, like the alien thing with a no face or whatever. Other than that I didn't know anything about it. Like I knew I didn't know how it started. It's such binge worthy Like you don't want to stop. Like it's it starts off with such a huge mystery, like a kid goes missing the first. Like well, I'm at like episode five now, like the first five episodes, trying to figure out what this kid's with. You know it's, it's incredible and like I'm, I'm hooked, I'm hooked. The new season starts November, I believe, and by then I'll I'll definitely have it caught up.
Speaker 2:I'll definitely have it caught up. Yeah, november 22nd we're actually in my real-world job. We're doing a partnership with them for their launch, so I'm also excited, so it's going to be really interesting for you. Obviously, the big thing that people talk about with Stranger Things now is the time jumps of how long it takes them to make these dang seasons. I saw Millie Bobby Brown. She just had a kid. Time jumps of like how long it takes them to make these dang seasons like I saw um millie bobby brown she just had a kid and it was like imagine like starting a tv show, then like growing up, getting married and having a kid before the fifth season comes out, like and you still have to pretend to be a certain age, so it is uh, I mean to be fair.
Speaker 1:Well, she's like 20, 20, something like that, and then she had a kid, but she adopted that kid, if I'm not mistaken too right.
Speaker 2:No, I think she adopted it. Yeah, I think you're right. I think she adopted it, don't matter, still crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, her acting's been crazy. She's glued to Netflix so far. She has that Enola Holmes series. Yeah, en, yeah, holmes that terrible movie with uh, uh, chris, uh chris pine, chris evans sorry, uh, chris pratt yeah, I haven't even seen that yet. I just kind of gave up on her, like I I knew she's from stranger things and I'm loving her in stranger things like season one, and uh, she's something. Someone like I didn't really care for to keep up my radar, um same thing her.
Speaker 2:Now you're gonna be, you're gonna be even more entranced, so you got you have four more seasons to go, buddy yeah, that's the only thing.
Speaker 1:Each season's only like eight episodes. I was like, okay, that's not that bad, I can definitely finish that up. I've been seeing a lot of talk about peacemaker season two. Like I said, I haven't seen the first episode yet, but I'm always already seen. I wouldn't it spoilers, cause it's only the first episode, like just Easter eggs that they've been towing around, that's why I need you to hurry up you seen it already.
Speaker 2:We talked about this last episode too, like um, the hype and excitement that we get from you know watching it week to week, cause it's going to be on Thursdays now.
Speaker 1:So that's going to have to be your homework. Man, you gotta, you have to stay up to date. I promise you guys, next time we'll talk about the first two episodes, then, um, I've, I've gone to the movies. I just got back from the movies today to see eden.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you ever heard anything about eden I just heard what everybody else did sydney, sweeney and anna day on this.
Speaker 1:No, literally nothing else I didn't even hear that. I just seen the. When I was on my AMC I was just scrolling to see what movies I could see because I had an open weekend. And I saw Eden I was like, okay, I read the casting. And I saw Sidney Sweeney I was like, oh, okay, I just seen her in. Actually, there's another movie. I saw, americana, which I'll talk about that in a minute too. So I saw want to read the description of what it was about, so I went in there completely blind. It's a rod howard movie, first of all too, and he does such a great job storytelling in this movie. It's a stacked cast like um jude law, uh, the guy who plays zemo from the civil war. Um honor the armors, like you said, uh, sydney sweeney. Um vanessa kirby, who was just in fantastic four. She's a big part of this movie she wasn't there either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and um, so I in Fantastic Four. She's a big part of this movie. Oh, wow, I didn't know she was in there either. Yeah, yeah, so I went in there. No, it's a period piece.
Speaker 1:For those who don't know, it's set in the early 20s and it's based loosely off a true story, like what happened and Galapagos. I don't know if I'm saying that wrong or just getting that completely. Excuse me, but it's about like this world war one, like we're seeing the effects of world war one to take place, like we don't even see that on america's side, though, we just know this philosopher left america to go live on a secluded island by himself and vanessa kirby's character, who was there to like study, you know, put in quote study like or make, make think of a new version of the bible, almost with how they're talking about it. Um, vanessa kirby is there to get treatments because she's sick, but they end up like doing it a lot the whole time, like he swears it's not for pleasure, but uh, it's kind of crazy. So then this new family moves into town, they come up on a boat and, um, this guy who's played by I want to call him Zemo because I can't remember his name. Um Zemo was a big fan of the philosopher who lost. He didn't even know he was famous because I guess the newspapers have been tracking him down like hey, like this guy left and he's here building society.
Speaker 1:So this guy inspired Zemo's character to take his family and his wife's place by Sidney Sweeney. They have a son who's like a teenager and just drop everything in America. They figure this is better than fucking living in the middle of a cold war. So they go and like they. They literally set up camp like that camp, like they live in a cave for a little while. But man, this guy's survival skills is crazy. Like he builds like a whole house like out of just regular. He doesn't go into the menards, he's not going home depot, he just builds a fucking house like out of stone and shit. It was crazy. And then there's beef between them about land, even though this place is ginormous. The philosopher has zero interest in helping them in any sort of way.
Speaker 1:And then Ana de Almas comes in. She takes over like she's queen. Basically she's a high maintenance kind of girl. She tells you to do something, she expects you to do it, even if you don't know her. She comes with a crew and they're all sabotaging each other. It's them just not being good neighbors, even though you're on a ginormous island, and the storytelling is crazy.
Speaker 1:Uh, sydney sweeney does give birth in this movie. Like it's crazy. This is the most crazy. This is a this. I looked.
Speaker 1:I was like, damn, did I just walk into a horror movie? It's labeled suspense and this is probably the most suspenseful suspenseful part for me, when she gives birth because she's by herself. There's no doctors or anything like, no medicine or anything like that. It is like a pack of wild wolves that are trying to get at her while she's trying to give birth to you. It's, it was suspenseful, but the whole movie it into. Like, all right, I just spent two hours watching this. For for what reason? Like, but I wasn't disappointed. It was good. Storytelling was a good story to tell. Probably not like. I didn't really care about this. It was interesting, though I I'm really happy I've seen it, though, and I do recommend it to people. When it comes to streaming, I wouldn't rush to go see it in theaters. I I think I posted tiktok today like, not tiktok um a story. I was the only one in the theater. I think I was the only one at the whole movie theater. Brandon, really there were no other cars in the parking lot. I thought they were closed.
Speaker 2:What time did you go?
Speaker 1:12, like 12.15.
Speaker 2:Ah, people at church.
Speaker 1:Dude, this is another beef about that. 12.15 was the starting time. Yeah, obviously AMC now lists like hey, just so you know it's 25 to 30 minutes after the starting time, just so they can do it Before to 30 minutes after the starting time, just so they can do it. Before it was only 20 minutes. The trailers were only 20 minutes. I remember I used to always time it out it was 20 minutes, but now, since they started putting the Lauren label up, it's like oh, we can start the movie whenever we want it. Brandon, I kid you not. Sometimes it is 40 minutes before they start to play in the movie.
Speaker 2:Buddy, I'm trying to keep my blood pressure low. This is a topic that I will rant about if you give me a podium, so I could not agree more. I remember when it was 20 minutes. I remember when it was 23 minutes and I taught my niece that when I lived in Texas and it was like her fun fact. Last time, last big movie I went to maybe I think actually it was F1. I was sitting there because I got to the movie theater early on accident. It took 31 minutes and I was eating.
Speaker 2:I I was. Thankfully, that movie was good because it put me in the worst mood of my life. It is I'm paying to go to the movie like what are you doing? Why are you adding 18 different advertisements? I'm already here, I'll get mad again it sucks really.
Speaker 1:Like f1 was almost a three-hour movie. On top of that, like so you're there for like probably three and a half hours just sitting in the theater. That's insane. That's absolutely ridiculous. I get it Like yeah, like we know the time starts later so we can really show up later if we wanted to, but like no, like you know, it's annoying. It's annoying like I. I don't mind the trailers because I like seeing trailers before then, but I'm tired of seeing all the dumb commercials. Like like I. I always said like it's so stupid they have a commercial for amc while you're sitting at amc yeah, yeah, same thing.
Speaker 2:I'll bounce between that and cinemark and like at least when amc was nicole kidman and the heartbreak feels good in a place like this, so I'd make fun of it. You know like get it on. But then there's like something after that. Now, like same thing with like, uh, cinemark, there's a pepsi or coke commercial. I'm like why just it's gotten out of control.
Speaker 1:They need to reign it in because I did go to the movies the other day and in between the trailers there was a google phone commercial. I was like it's like no one said nothing about it. That's weird. In the trailers, like the commercials are done, it's. It's annoying to sit through and, um, we, you know, it's just something we got to do. I don't even like getting up I know we talked about. I don't like going to the washroom or getting concessions in the middle of the movie. I don't even like doing that for the trailers, because I do like watching the trailers because we go so much.
Speaker 2:Thankfully, like the same trailers get rotated, like when we have months like this where we just are going back to back. So it is about, and I'll tell you, man, I'm not showing up for the 30 minutes. I can't remember the last time I did that the movie starts at 7 and I know that I'll like it will probably start at 7 28 nowadays I will. I will get there at 7.25 and sit my happy self down and still wait. But even that just gets under my skin. But it did burn me once, I think I told you I went to that Superman premiere and I got there early and I walked in there like yeah, for this one there's only three trailers. So it already started. I was like what? I mean, I was like 45 seconds late, but that's why I had to go re-watch it, because I was like what did I miss?
Speaker 2:I was so upset so they just need to do better at like letting us know yeah, and the events?
Speaker 1:they don't have trailers, and I'm thinking like all the anime movies that come up on, uh, they don't have trailers or any commercials that come up before them, which I love that, um, did you see Spider-Man's coming back to theaters? Tobey Maguire, spider-man one through three with extended footage.
Speaker 2:I didn't know. I thought just the first one. So that's. Oh my God. Yeah, I was just probably leaving on the third one, but I'll be excited for one or two, especially two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I, yeah, I mean I'm really proud of all of them. Like, honestly, we've been talking a lot of spot on man updates and there's just more and more that keeps coming every single day. Uh, there's another tiktoker. I'm sure you've seen him, I can't remember his name. He's a. He's a wide mouth. I'm gonna sling back hair. It's like you know what we gotta do. We gotta talk about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, it's my list. I came this dude.
Speaker 1:He's like posting hell of spider-man updates daily.
Speaker 2:I was like jeez louise he found the thing that, uh, he can plant his flag into, you know yeah, yeah, I mean, that's why it's so hard to be a content creator.
Speaker 1:Like you got to be on top of the stuff like that, like dude, like I'm, like I told you I can't even see peacemaker. Yeah, um, I did go see americana. So before we get in our movie review, we're going to be doing a movie honeydew. I forgot to mention that. Um, before we get into that movie, I did go see Americana. So before we get in our movie review, we're going to be doing a movie honeydew. I forgot to mention that Before we get into that movie, I did go see Americana in theaters. That's another Sydney Sweeney movie. That's another one too. Like I went in there knowing nothing. I kind of like doing that now Cause it makes I hate going there trying to put it together myself. Gonna happen. Um, but this just came out cindy sweeney, paul walter heiser, paul walter heiser, walter heiser, who's having a him, and cindy sweeney are having a huge year, like in movies coming out this year they're in front of our eyes, outside I thought this would take place in like uh, same thing like in the early days, like that it's.
Speaker 1:it's modern time, they all have stuff like that. Um, paul walter heisen hauser is the fucking love interest for cindy sweeney. I was like good for in the early days and stuff like that. It's modern time, they all had cell phones and stuff like that. Paul Walter Heisenhauser is the fucking love interest for Sidney Sweeney. I was like good for you, dude, good for you. I did not see that coming Good for the man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one. It's another story where you see several different people's views of the whole thing. That's going down um sydney. Sweeney plays a waitress who meets up with this guy who's just a simpleton really trying to find love. Paul walter heiser hauser ends up asking her out. After they find out there's going to be some money. Someone stole this indian chief's old jacket from way back like 100 years ago and they're going to go try to steal it from some indians or it's a whole thing. I don't even want to get into it because it's hard for me to explain. It was definitely worth seeing this one might be worth seeing at home. I wouldn't bother the theaters, though, but it was only because it was in the theaters. I was going to be able to sit down and focus it, though, otherwise, when I watch it at home I probably wouldn't care for it.
Speaker 2:Fair enough. What have you seen anything new recently? Um, just the peacemaker. Uh, obviously it was really hyped about that. I think I told you I was uh hella behind on, uh, the last of them. I just kind of stopped in the middle of season two, um, so I finally picked that one back up. Um, as well as, like, I always have like one tv show that's old that I like watching. So, uh, it's not really old, but swat, like it's just that procedural, you know, 23 episode show like. So I I'm deep in my binge of that. Those are like my three on rotation right now okay, okay, not bad.
Speaker 1:Uh, I would say, if I'm not watching stranger things, well, that's actually never mind.
Speaker 2:That's the only thing I'm watching, thinking about it, I mean, like when I in the back time, man, because, uh, we only have like three more weeks until all. I don't know if you're a network tv guy, but the fall season's about to start.
Speaker 1:Like all my all my shows are about to come back online no, actually, no, no, I'm not in this, like that stuff like that. You know, like if the shows I do watch, like the show currently my background show all the time is super store, like I love sitcoms like that, where it's just goofy comedies you know, like the office like that's how many shows, stuff like that, um, but as far as like dramas like that, I do, like that stuff is on my radar, like SWAT and all that, like I do know about it and I like I do it does seem interesting, I can see the appeal there, but I, you, you will not catch me there Just waiting for that show to come on.
Speaker 2:Dude, chicago fire, chicago PD. Grey's anatomy Like I will be. I have a show every day of the week. What's tomorrow is the Love Island reunion for the new season, so I'll be watching that one. I don't know, I got the weirdest taste, man um, a little bit off of movies real quick.
Speaker 1:Uh, I just wanted to bring this up because I've been checking out all day. Today is chance the rapper's new album. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2:are you giving me a chance to talk about the rapper listen? What did you think of the album?
Speaker 1:I. I liked it. It was a lot better than this last album. Um, I listened to it once real, real quick and I didn't really care for it because I'll listen to like seven in the morning at work when it dropped um, but my sister bought us tickets to go see him in november or october. I'm sorry and I was like all right, I'll give it another chance. So I've been listening to it non-stop, trying to like fall in love with it before I see him, and it is catchy, it is good. Uh, he does have a ton. I don't think he has a solo song by himself.
Speaker 2:He all has these bands or other rappers on there, but it's dope yeah and um, I think it originally was supposed to be a collab album. I think he only has one um, but he also has like a lot of different, not just features, but like samples of other, like songs. You know old school stuff in there. Um, dude, I love it. Dude, I absolutely love it. I, similar to you, I want.
Speaker 2:I listened to it at like 2 am. Like I just happened to be up and I saw it drop and I said, well, this is my life now. I only got like five songs in and I'll tell you you know what initially happens is. I was disappointed at first because I literally, you know, I'm thinking there's going to be bangers, like old chants, like bangers. There's like one or two. But I was like, oh man, but one of the songs right before I went to bed like kind of just stuck in my brain. So I woke up I was like, yeah, let me throw this back on and it's all I listen to right now.
Speaker 2:Like I have highs and lows, banger, um, and then, uh, um, space and no, what is it? I think it's space and time, um, those two back to back like just put me in a sad but good mood. Like it like breaks, then heals me in the in the three minutes that it's on um. So I'm just happy, like, obviously he, this is his journey. You know he's in a real, real weird place. He, you know, going through divorce but he got back in the lab, you know. So never really want to wish, wish a hard time on anybody, but he clearly rode himself through it and is currently helping himself out. He needed a win and I'm glad that at least overall people are very receptive of the album.
Speaker 1:Oh, I agree I think it is becoming popular. But, like you said, I was the same way a little bit disappointed because I was expecting something like Acid Drop or something similar, like there's an old, old chance this one. No, no, it's definitely more artsy. I would say, like he definitely is trying to get a point across through some of his music. Um, it is good, it is good, it's good to listen through, like listen to. I would suggest listening to it by yourself, just headphones on, just chilling on the couch doing nothing, just so you can really listen to it and then fall in love with it.
Speaker 2:Um, it's not really one.
Speaker 1:I got to be I don't think it's one. I could see myself like, oh, I'm chilling with the guys. I thought I'm gonna put this on.
Speaker 2:You know, like it's there's like one or two songs that I like know that will be in a club like not the whole song, but like there's definitely parts. I was like like all right, that's going to go. But yeah, this is a song that I was sitting down on the couch like headphones and just vibing. Let it, let it take you and you'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I said, I'm supposed to go see him in October and I'm just curious. I've been thinking all day like damn is heads like he has to right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially because I saw him during the middle of his last album, drop um, and he did obviously like I'd say it's like 50, 50, like a lot of it is that. But he's not leaving without playing ultralight beam. You know what I mean, angels, you know. So those will, uh, those will be on the rotation for you.
Speaker 1:Well, on top of that, he's playing. I'm seeing him play in chicago too, so I'm expecting big things for that yeah, yeah, I'm excited, man, yeah um, I think it's time to get in the movie honey, don't, honey, don't, uh, starring margaret kweli, kweli, kweli, I don't know how to say it. Margaret kweli, she's having a big year. She's I love, I get excited. She's one of the actresses I get so excited to when I see anything coming up. Really, she's so talented. Let me see, let me look up her resume real quick.
Speaker 2:Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Speaker 1:Once upon a time in Hollywood. She was just recently in Happy Gilmore 2. We talked about her in there, blue Moon. The Substance was a big one. Uh, drive away dolls. Uh, poor things. Stars at noon made you know. She's been in a good handful of things already. She's so young too.
Speaker 2:I think she's our age, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, yeah, she's. Yeah, I'd actually look that up because I was in love with her, so yeah, and I said yes there's a chance.
Speaker 1:There's a chance that this ala celebrity is gonna come down that's my story and I'm sticking to it okay, she is great and everything she does.
Speaker 1:She definitely lays it all out there on the screen when she's performing um, I don't think there's a role she can't do really. Like I'm gonna when we talk about this actual plot. Like I didn't care for the plot really, nor did I care for the editing a lot, but what kept it together for me was the acting, not just from her, from everyone in this movie. I was thrilled with the performances of everything.
Speaker 1:Um, like so the plot was a little bit, I wouldn't say lazy, but like there were some strings that like you just didn't follow up on, like it was kind of random, some stuff and, um, yeah, editing was very choppy, like it's something I was like, oh, it almost seems like a college student kind of editing to me a little bit. And for those who know before I can keep going any further. For those who don't know, it's a dark comedy about a small town private investigator, honey oh, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. First of all, I was also surprised to see all these celebrities in this movie, margaret.
Speaker 2:Qualley.
Speaker 1:Aubrey Plaza, chris Evans. I was mad about this cameo because they made a big deal of it. They made it seem like he was part of the cast. But Billy Eichner I was like he was like of the cast. But Billy Eichner I was like he was like the third one listed in the credits. I was like he was in there for like 45 seconds.
Speaker 2:They know the audience. Listen, you gotta appeal to your audience.
Speaker 1:And for his character not even to be anything at all, you could have cut him out. You could have cut him out. We don't even get to see her do an investigating for that, for his character. Because, like, I think I would like to see that him like, okay, at least following her, this guy she's paid him to hire because, like, okay, we can see a little bit of her other work too and see how she really works and gets investigating, uh, but no, no, you could have cut his whole scenes out and it would have made a difference at all. Um, theater experience first of all. Like, I went opening nights. It was a good handful of people. It was only shown at one theater instead of all three, which is kind of weird to me. Um, it was the marvel, one or two at that. Um, oh, okay, I liked it. The. I had a fun time with the theater. They were very laughing and receptive of this movie. Everyone seemed like a good time. It wasn't packed, it was like a good handful of people. Though how about you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, very similar Handful, maybe a third, you know. So we were pretty spaced out, but this is obviously the crowd that really wanted to see it, so they were very receptive to all. Like the big moments, like the couple next to me was just cracking up.
Speaker 1:you know which is which is a-okay I went to the movie theater to go see this by myself, without knowing too much. I obviously been seeing the trailer for a long time and then, just like leaving the movie theaters, I was sitting down by myself. I felt like a creep because like, oh, this movie is a lot more sex scenes than I was expecting. Like it was this movie's only an hour 28 minutes long. I would say there's a full 28 minutes worth of sex in this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's some like intenseness, like I think it starts off and there's like a nip slip and you're like ooh, risque. And then, you're like oh no, they're okay. Wow, we are Like, they're okay, wow we're like they're still going.
Speaker 1:We're just doing the thing today yeah, yeah, we'll get to those scenes in a minute. But like this movie opens up, everything was cliche in this movie too. Like opens up on a car flipped over in the middle of the desert, someone comes, walks in on screen and they end up stealing something from this dead corpse and they take out driving. Like this is like another one of those movies like it's they're told different perspectives.
Speaker 1:Margo crowley is listed as the lead actor in this movie, but I feel like it's not just her, like there's several leads in this movie too. You know you have audrey posley, you have chris evans. You know, following their stories in this movie, like there was no one specific star, which is a shame, because I do love, uh honey. So honey o'donnell's character a lot. I like the way she plays her. She's very like, cut to it, really kind of person she. She did great with her character. Chris evans was cool, but like I felt like his ending of the movie was unjustice, like it didn't tie in that well her story to honey's story it was. Yeah, he's a part of this church, but like I would like to learn more about the church. Like how long has this been going on? Who are you working for really like, how big is this operation? You know? Because they all, their fucking guys, get killed in this movie.
Speaker 1:I feel like another person who I didn't care for in this movie, which is shocking to say, is charlie day really yeah, because every time he talks now that was actually cracking me up, because I don't know what the hell he was doing. Yeah, he didn't either. Every time he saw her he was like well, what do we have here? Honey O'Donoghue? Every single time, but every time this man talks now I'm only hearing Luigi.
Speaker 2:It felt like he was in a different movie, for sure, but I I almost like appreciated that yeah, he was goofy for no reason.
Speaker 1:This movie didn't he?
Speaker 1:was so goofy this really him. And chris evans were goofy too, but, yeah, their characters didn't even cross. Like charlie dave, he was another one. He didn't really have anything to do with this movie. Like he, they could have casted anybody in this movie and saved themselves some of the budget. Yeah, um, because I'm sure he's trying to charge an armor, like to be in this cameo big hitters names, um, so anyways, they've they're. They have common interest between this missing person a little bit. You also get a random side story too, of honey's sister and her family too. This movie is nothing but just randomness that just somehow barely, barely, barely ties together and then, like her, her niece gets beaten up by her boyfriend and she ends up running to her grandfather, which is the most randomest thing it was very crazy he goes, he stayed.
Speaker 1:He goes to her job and stares at her and then he meets her at the bus stop and the first thing he says, I love you. Of course I want to go running. And I was so pissed. When he goes to Honey's house, I was like yeah, I don't know why she ran away. I was like what do you mean?
Speaker 2:you know what you did. Dude and also shame on that bus driver. You ain't, you ain't peep the sketchy ass situation going on there yeah open up the back of the bus, for you know that was.
Speaker 1:That was strange that's what I thought too. She was gonna go through the back or something. No, she never did it. Um, we can talk about audrey plaza, because man, oh man, I have no reason. I went to go see. This movie was for her alone yeah and you don't?
Speaker 1:I don't think. In the trailers you don't even see her. The only thing you see her in the trailers is behind the counter. So I thought she was really going to be a small part in this movie, but no, she was like half of the movie, which is great. I'm glad to see her. You do see her and margaret have sex like three or four times in this movie, and not just like kissing or like feeling at each other. You see like nudity in this movie from both of them. I remember thinking in the movies like why you guys don't have to do this. You're huge celebrities. You do not have to show the skin if you don't want to. I'm not complaining, but I was like I'm surprised they did this really yeah, no, this was again their intro at the bar.
Speaker 2:I was like I started that's what I'm like looking around, bro, I'm not supposed to be watching this. I knew there was going to be some sex. I knew you don't put like arbor plaza even in like the uh promo. They doing it's really hamming up the. They were doing like a lot of the women on women, like this is that type of story. So I kind of like expected it. I just didn't expect the level they were going to. I was like, oh, people are happy, like people in my theater. They knew what they came to see and it was a really interesting thing, similar to where aubrey plaza obviously is in life in her career. Like I think that was kind of the thing. I think she just wanted to do something that she found fun or interesting and just didn't give a fuck. After that, like she was like, yeah, I'll, oh, I get to make out with uh, uh, margaret. Like hell, yeah, let's go, dude. So it was, uh, that was interesting to see yeah, I mean this movie.
Speaker 1:I think it's considered a part of a trilogy too. Now that you said like a lesbian trilogy from this writers uh, the driveway dolls was the first one, which also started Margaret Qualley and this one, and I don't know what the next one is going to be about, but they are looking leaning to like a lesbian trilogy with this, Just because you see um, um, uh.
Speaker 2:What's the name? Love lives bleeding. Yes, it reminded me a lot of that too. Okay, that's where I was, like that was my measuring stick for this movie, but I was thinking about that.
Speaker 1:I was like love lies bleeding. That was an a24 movie and I I look, I thought this was an a24 movie, but it's not. I guess it's it's. Uh, I think paramount, if I'm not mistaken yeah, I thought it was like neonon myself.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, this is obviously some small indie budget. Like, hell yeah, rah, rah, major distributor. I think I'm right.
Speaker 1:It was shot in a small town. There's totally like six or seven sets in this whole movie which I kind of like. That gives a small feel. Like I said, I wish they did more with a church. Chris Evans was hilarious. You see him have sex in this movie too.
Speaker 2:Yes, you do. That's his, that's his whole character development. Is him having sex?
Speaker 1:Dude. He tries to get away from the captain America role so much that he I feel like he always only tries to play the villain.
Speaker 2:Now I think, um, I I think because he was so well-received in Knives Out as just that asshole that they want to recreate something like that and honestly I don't know what to do. I don't know the next role for him, but this is obviously something that he's comfortable in. We just saw him in the Materialist, where he's still kind of of an asshole but he's down on his luck.
Speaker 1:Like we just see the same version of the character either hammed up or you know, same thing with Red One within this past year. Yeah, I mean, of course I'm always going to bring up Scott Pilgrim. Saves the world with the eyebrows. Yeah, he was interesting in this role, like he's. It also reminded me of um bj novak's movie, um vengeance. Have you seen that one?
Speaker 1:oh my god, yeah it kind of like that priest definitely reminds me of, like ashton kutcher's character a little bit in this movie. Um, but man, like I mean, it makes it right that he's sleeping with average girls because, like this chris evans, like you know, good for those actresses, too, like who could say that they's sleeping with average girls because it's Chris Evans. Good for those actresses, too, who could say that they were sleeping with Chris Evans, but it was somebody you would not picture him sleeping with.
Speaker 2:I think that's what added to his character, not that they were average, but it was just the fact that they were just these normal girls that were needing help, and he took full advantage.
Speaker 1:And the victim's girl the girl, the first one her parents in this movie were like I don't know, they were kind of stupid in this movie, like they did not really give a fuck at all that their kid, their kid, died. Um, this movie does make you laugh out loud. There are moments like we're like, oh, look away, because it's so queasy, like the, like the iron to the face was insane. There are a couple creepy movies but, like I said, it's a fun watch if, especially if, you love, like, loves, like bleeding, uh, driveaways, dolls, it gives off those same vibe, vengeance it gives all those same vibes. So if you enjoy those, those three movies, I think you'll really enjoy this one.
Speaker 1:To me, like, I probably would wait a long while to stream this again, but now that you brought up like love lies bleeding, I do want to go back and re-watch that because it was pretty decent. So I don't know, I think this movie might be a little bit ahead of its time. Same thing with margaret. I don't think she has that one role that like is gonna take her to the next level quite yet. She does great with everything she does so far, but I need her associated with one big character, at least so far.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's definitely trying to move her into mainstream, because obviously that was the joke I made when I had to go more Oscar-nominated and she did that with the Substance. But people like me, I'm not watching that. So I heard she did great and I'm like hell, yeah, I think she needs that role. I'm like hell, yeah, I think she needs. I mean, she needs, like that role. It actually reminded me of and I'm blanking on her name right now but the gal who did Anora you know we have these up-and-coming like. Obviously she has to mention herself as an up-and-comer actress, right, she's in the class that we named, like the people to watch everyone from like 26 to 34. There's a nice good group that we got here. So I'm really excited that she's just getting more opportunities under her belt, branching out a little bit more and we'll see what she does next.
Speaker 1:She is someone I don't see stooping down to superhero level to do a superhero role.
Speaker 2:Stooping down. What are you saying to me, right?
Speaker 1:now.
Speaker 2:Rob, what are you saying to me right now? What are you saying stooping down? Go say that to Chris. We just talked about this. You're killing me stooping down. I don't see her so you think that if she's offered a million dollar contract for a major role, you think she's just going to be like no, I'm too good for it?
Speaker 1:kind of crazy because that's like famous, like uh, quote that leonardo the caprio told timothy chamblee. He came on so like, like, don't do superheroes, like don't do that stuff was on me. If it's leonardo leonardo the caprio standard, I can see you're having a like a big career like him. I don't know, I don't know I might be talking crazy. She might come out and be jean gray, who knows? Or um, rogue rogue yeah, I've seen a couple.
Speaker 2:If they didn't offer a rogue. Stop it right now.
Speaker 1:Stop right now that'll be a fun game. Well, next episode we'll do a game like casting the x-men yeah, this that's, that's the oh man it's.
Speaker 2:I just think of like obviously we have people in here like tom holl and of course he's still trying to break into, you know, get that serious role. But we just talked about he's teaming up with Nolan right now. That doesn't happen without Spider-Man. You're not stupid down if you're. If you're making a billion dollars at the box office, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but then you look at the. What's the movie with him and Mark Wahlberg that video game movie? What's that movie with him and Mark Wahlberg that video game?
Speaker 2:movie Uncharted. He's stooped down, thank you, to do a little video game franchise movie. That's a decision that he made.
Speaker 1:Also that movie Cherry didn't do well at all.
Speaker 2:Movie's, trash Movie's trash.
Speaker 1:It wasn't trash, it was interesting. You know what movie on Apple TV? This is going off the topic like it's super underrated that I wish more people talk about. It's zach efron's movie um the greatest beer run ever, the greatest beer run dude watched it for the first time this year.
Speaker 2:Really, uh was pleasantly surprised it's good.
Speaker 1:It's so good. I wish more. I wish that one got a theatrical release almost yeah, who's that with them?
Speaker 2:russell crowe right.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that movie slaps. It was actually a really fun one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But no, you're absolutely right. Overall like that was my summation of this movie is I walked out of the theater, dude, and I was like this movie feels like it's a season finale of a TV show I didn't watch and I don't know how else to describe it, because there are so many things that happen in it that are dope or fun or cool or hot and I'm like hell yeah, but they have nothing to do with each other. Like this movie is all over the place. It's a whole bunch of random scenes like that do not go anywhere. Or when they're resolved, you're like oh, that's it, no-transcript schedule, so they did it and I can't recommend like a movie like that as as a must watch.
Speaker 1:So, similar to you, I'm like um, I'm at least go watch it if this is like what you're interested in, but if you're, if you're on the fence, it can absolutely wait till the streaming I mean, this is one of the movies if you think long about it or not, there's a lot of plot holes because, like the cops really didn't do shit in this whole movie, she's not a cop, oh um. Honey is not a cop, she's just a private investigator. And it's such a small, small town, of course it's easy to be an investigator there, like you know.
Speaker 2:Like it's like five blocks, I feel like and I think that was like my issue too. Yeah, the cops have no role in this no it wasn't even like real information. She was getting it from, you know, either intuition or like right in front of her, like the billy eichner thing. I was like all right, so he just happens to be the guy that was dating the dude at the bar.
Speaker 1:Like shut that up, like it's just weird stuff, like that man um and there's like multiple deaths in this movie too, like people do go missing and like just me, that's the cops. Like don't put, can't put two and two together. I was like come on, no come on, I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 1:That police station was empty as hell, with just random people every time you see charlie days leaned up against the wall or something like only fitting. That was funny. That was funny to see him hit on her constantly after she tells him she's a lesbian. He was not taking that for an answer. No, no he always say that he calls. She calls him back. It's okay, let me call you back. What's your cell phone number? I was like jeez louise guy I love.
Speaker 2:I love a guy who's persistent. But I know a lot of my friends, especially in that community, were really excited about this and that was just my sentiment towards them. There's definitely a lot of great representation in here and the humor works, but overall this movie. The best thing about this movie is that it's an hour and a half. Yeah, I promise you, if it was 10 minutes longer I would have been in bad mood about it, but because it was quick, I was just like that happened. You know, I had the rest of my day, so exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think I went to go see the seven o'clock showing. I was probably out there like eight, close to nine because of the fucking trailers, but uh, I felt pretty good. I felt pretty good at watching it and uh, like I said, the plot's not that hard, I understand. No, it's, it's a fun watch, interesting watch. If you like leslie minn sucks like you're gonna love this movie because that's a ton of it in this movie there is a.
Speaker 2:They don't hold nothing back yeah, no at all, they said, and they'll. They got graphic like if they weren't showing it. They were talking about it. They were not shy. The one small nitpick I have is so niche to me. I'm a big old, big fan of getting the title card when I'm at the movie theater. It's just like this thing that I do now and this was the longest intro, Rob but they just kept like they did really cool with like painting the murals of people's names and like all that was on there. And when that was over, I took my phone out and it was like all right, executive producer and set designer had all the credits up front and then, like the title card was basic, it was a license plate so like I missed.
Speaker 2:I was so angry that they had this two minute intro and gave me a half a second scene for the title card movie. Stop doing that.
Speaker 1:We need to get back to where it's up front okay, after saying that, like honey don't, I don't like the title now for this movie, I was like no one tells her don't in this movie, you know don't do what like. That's what I mean yeah, yeah, I like the idea of using honey as like an adjective too, but honey don't like. No one says that in this movie. It's I don't know. They could have come up with a way better title Also now you got me thinking about it more.
Speaker 2:There's two specific scenes in this movie where a character gets injured and I'm like you're going to die in the next five minutes and they make it across town to do something crazy, or they just go on and I'm just like huh yeah.
Speaker 1:Like the Mexican who's doing laundry and his abuela gets taken out. He made it all the way home, Ain't no way? That was a funny scene with Chris Evans and that goon who was like when they were going back and forth almost had a miscommunication about killing the bartender.
Speaker 2:That was an actual funny. There's so much good stuff in this that I'm just like three seconds away from being like in the. Uh, just a cult following, but uh, it doesn't stick the landing for me. That's the best way I can say it.
Speaker 1:I would like to see the origins for the church, a little bit at least.
Speaker 2:Tell you, man yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, um dude, it really irked me that I just didn't have any closure. What?
Speaker 2:would you give this one Dude? It really irked me that I just didn't have any closure in this movie. I think I'd probably give it a generous six yeah.
Speaker 1:And it's so hard to give it that just because of the cast. So much you know. But it's a six I'm rooting for everybody in this.
Speaker 2:Everybody else in here, bravo Y'. Everybody else in here, bravo y'all. Did the best of what y'all had love to see it.
Speaker 1:Go do something real now, you know but like I think this movie is only on our radar because we go to the movie so much like I don't see a whole lot of press, I don't see a lot of interviews with us. Same thing with americana and, um, the movie just seen today, eden, simmy sweeney's in both of those. Like I have not heard about any of those movies before. Just I didn't even know about it. Going in, I just walked in and watched it. Thank god it turned out to be pretty good, but I was like this it could have been good. Eden could have been, honestly, a series, almost that would have been phenomenal. But, um, that was like a two-hour watch. It could have been a tiny bit shorter, but I I recommend it to you. Like it's very psychological.
Speaker 1:Like I think I talked most about what's the movie we did before this, um, or no, I talked about uh, weapons and having like a lot of interpretations that that I didn't like that were left up to the audience to come up with. This even also comes up like interpretation itself too. Like you can say that like, oh, this family recommends like americans or like society as a general and this one's like the outsider and this one's like the religious one. You know there's a lot of different ways you could take it, and that's what has you thinking at the end of this movie. Anything it has you thinking after the movie's over. It's a good movie for me okay, I, I will definitely.
Speaker 2:I. I listen I horror movies, but if it does lean suspense thriller, that's my bag, I will absolutely get into there.
Speaker 1:It's nothing scary at all. You could definitely handle it. It's not even scary at all. It's like that scene about the pregnancy. I told you that's the most suspenseful thing. Ana de Armas, like there's another one that has a lot of sex in this movie, I was like geez, louise, dude. Like this is a year of sex for movies.
Speaker 2:Well, nora won an Oscar last got Best Movie, so they set the tone.
Speaker 1:Do you think if it didn't have all those sex scenes, it would have done well still?
Speaker 2:I loved Nora. I know we've talked about this. I love that movie. I think the sex scenes helped, but it wasn't like the editing for me, like it was Uncut Gems.
Speaker 1:You wasn't like the editing for me, like I I it was uncut gems you know um sex worker, so that actress mickey, I can't remember her last name um madison. That's our first role, right?
Speaker 2:um no, she was in other stuff, but I don't know.
Speaker 1:Off the top of my head but I feel like this role for her first major she oh, that's what it was, she.
Speaker 2:She was also in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's the Once Upon a Time Dude. Margaret Qualley, Sidney Sweeney, Austin Butler, Mickey Madsen all of them were in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That's crazy when you think about it.
Speaker 1:How do you feel about them making a sequel to that?
Speaker 2:I know Tarantino's involved, so that makes me happy, but David Fincher's the one doing it right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he gave David Fincher his blessing to do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right then I'm good, David Fincher's my top 10 movie director, so I'll be sat, as the kids say.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm, sure Tarantino's.
Speaker 2:Dude, you're not making a Tarantino Fincher project and it'd be ass like maybe it's okay but it's not gonna be ass.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he's gonna sell a producer on there or something like that. Um tarantino you know he's very famous about. He said he's only gonna do 10 movies and then he's gonna retire. Um, he's currently. He just finished his ninth one a couple years ago. He's still waiting on 10th. He said he's no rush to do it. He was going to do the Critic I don't know if you heard about that and he just recently dropped that, saying like no, it's not good enough to be in my 10th film. So he's out there looking for good stories.
Speaker 2:Well, I think he's on 9. I think this was supposed to be 9. I think or maybe you're right, yeah. I think there was like an a theory that it was too good and he didn't want it to be his last one, because it's about a movie critic. So we'll see what actually happens.
Speaker 1:I also don't buy that. I think like 10, 15 years from now we'll get another movie from him.
Speaker 2:I don't even want to wait that long. Tarantino is my top three.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you he is going to do the 10th one and he's going to take a long break, but then, after a while of not doing anything, I could see him doing it.
Speaker 2:He also talked about being open and going to television too, Like a Mac series, something like that, yeah, yeah, he's way too talented and God knows he loves feet too much to just be sitting on the couch. Okay.
Speaker 1:Randy, I think we talked about next episode caught stealing right.
Speaker 2:Austin Butler. Yes, sir Austin Butler.
Speaker 1:I, sir Awesome Butler. I'm excited for that. We also talked about the note newest conjuring movie coming out Like wait, I know you were a hard no, but I'm thinking about putting my big boy pants and going to see it too. I can't say I wanted to see this like a 10 o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this like at 10 o'clock in the morning though, yeah, yeah, right outside and then watch lulu and sitch.
Speaker 1:you know, yeah, can't, can't do that one, but I'm so excited to see you brave through it oh my gosh, especially because we're supposed to and talks of having somebody come on the guest who is a big horror fan, like that. Um, it's gonna be a good episode. That one caught ceiling is gonna be another great episode. Uh, we're gonna do a couple one. Like I said, we might even put together like a casting of the X-Men, who knows? Um, brandon, we haven't done this in a minute. What's a good recommendation for tonight?
Speaker 2:Um, let's go tonight. I would probably say I'm going back to TV. If you haven't watched it yet, this is now the time to watch Peacemaker. Do yourself a favor though Go watch the Suicide Squad. It holds up Like I just rewatched it and I forgot how good that movie is. James Gunn does such a really good job of giving us that R-rated Guardians of the Galaxy, but character moments, action is dope. It did not get the love it deserved at the box office, but thankfully, critically, it did its job. So shout out to Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, I think I'm going to go with TV series as well. This is another one. We haven't talked about it, but it just came out Wednesday on Netflix. I haven't seen it. That's going to be on my list to watch. I want to watch that between Stranger Things and Think. Yeah pretty good suggestions and pretty easy week, I think. Like I said, austin Butler is the only one coming out this week that I can think of. Yeah, stay tuned next week, where we'll be saving the seat. Bye.
