Hello, everybody.Welcome back to another episode of the Sanity Time podcast, where no matter if it's Easter time, Western time, or Pacific time, it'll always be Sanity Time.And today I have another special guest.He is a fellow film critic.
Hey, man.How you doing?I'm really happy to be here.I've been looking forward to this.
Oh, man.Man, I've been looking forward to you coming on here, man.Like, seriously.
Yeah, dude, I feel, I feel like I've, I feel like we became like internet friends for like so long now.
I know.I know.Yeah.I know, man.Like, like, like, from your reviews on Letterboxd, they're like, they're super good, man.Well, the last for me, like, I don't really write as much reviews as I have help.
I mean, like, I'm a film critic, but like, usually whenever I, but usually, like, whenever I watch a movie, I just rate it, like, I don't know, like, three, four stars, like, three or four stars.
Like, the last four movies I've watched, like, I didn't even, like, review them.I just rate them.It was, um,
Like literally, the last few movies I've watched were Shopping Mall, Hatching, Prince of Darkness, and oh, and I just re-binged The Haunting of Hill House.So yeah.
I've only seen Hatching out of those four.Oh, really?That movie was insane.
Yeah, what'd you rate it?
I think I gave it a three on Letterboxd.Let me check.
that like right now i feel three no no i gave it a four oh okay oh yeah for me it's it's definitely a three because like it's a really it's a it's a it's a different kind of body horror whereas like it's a different kind of body horror and it
it's pretty much like a big bird baby, like turns into a, turns into a, to a, to a banshee human little girl that resembles like the main girl of the movie, which I thought was weird, like kind of like a reverse the fly, but instead of like, yeah, like, like, like, you know what I mean?
Like, instead of the girl turning into the bird, like, like,
like the bird that she well mothers turns into her which oh yeah dude sorry go on i yeah it's just it's kind of a weird movie and and i also like that it's that's also like a pretty good commentary on commentary on family vlogging at the top
and to show the perfection of the perfect family when really there's like a lot of like when really like this family is like not really perfect in a sense.
I think I saw hatching like near the beginning of the year so it's oh really well I think Yeah, when I was watching it, I was also binging Cronenberg's films.I haven't seen everything from Cronenberg, but I was watching it.
I've never watched any Cronenberg.
Yeah, as I was watching it, I was like, this is the most Cronenberg movie that Cronenberg didn't make.And it genuinely did, like, disturb me at points.
And like, I think the reason why I completely forgot if I gave it like a three or four is because I completely forgot about the movie.
Like, oh, yeah, that movie.
Yeah.That movie is really disturbing.
Yeah.It is.Yeah.Like pretty.Yeah.It's.Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.Pretty.Yeah.Pretty weird to me as a Shay.Like, like, like it's weird though.Like, I feel like such a loser because like, because like, I know what the fly is.
I'm, I'm well aware that the fly exists and it's the most well known Cronenberg movie. And I'm aware that Jeff Goldblum like turns into a fly during the course of it's an hour and 45 minute runtime, I would guess.
But like, but I've never seen any Cronenberg movie like ever.
You know, like, um, yeah, I mean, like, my friend, John Green. and got me into Cronenberg.Me and him actually saw Crimes of the Future together along with another YouTube critic, Sydney Volpe.
I've been begging her to come on.
I've been begging Sydney to be a guest, honestly.
Oh, that'd be cool.Yeah, try to get her on.Sydney, if you are watching this, get on Santee Time.
Please.Anyway, yeah, and like Crying to the Future was like one of my introductions to Cronenberg.And like before Crying to the Future, I had only seen like Videodrome.
So I had seen Videodrome and I'm like, okay, like if there's any way to like introduce myself to Cronenberg and his style and like, how he directs movies, it's that.Like, I feel like I don't need to see anything else.
I watch Crimes of the Future, and Sydney can actually vouch for me on this, like, right when the movie ended.Like, I was like, so conflicted on how to feel and I was like so weirded out that I just started laughing uncontrollably.
I was like, she's like, you okay?
I was like, yeah, I'm just like, what the fuck did I just watch?
If you want to start with Cronenberg, I'd start with History of Violence, honestly.I would.
Yeah, yeah.I've been meaning to get into History of Violence.I think it's on my list.It's always Eastern Promises as well.I haven't seen that.What's it called?Crash with Jim Spader?
Yeah, I think.I haven't seen that either.
Right.Yeah, I know.Like I just said, you've only seen Videodrome at that point, and now you've seen Crimes of the Future. So yeah, there's that.So yeah.
Oh, Cosmopolis.This is where Robert Pattinson is sitting in the back of the limo the entire time?
Yeah, and he wants to get a haircut.
Is that the movie?He just wants a haircut?
Basically.He gets in the limo.He's like, you know what?It's time for a haircut.
It's another weird movie, but I enjoyed it.
And with that, Locke is, and with that, Locke is like, is objectively better.Now that you've said that.You know the movie Locke?I haven't seen Locke.Oh my, Locke is fantastic.I'm sorry.Locke is really good.
It's literally, it's literally Tom Hardy just driving in his car throughout the movie. And literally you watch this guy's life fall apart.He's lost his job, his marriage is falling apart.It's really riveting cinema to me.
I mean, is it one of those movies where it's just like the camera is in the car and only in the car throughout?
Well, I mean, like, well, I mean, the car is outside of the windshield, you know, like it's outside.
It's not like it's not like it's dash cam footage, you know, like the movie dash cam that I'm probably not going to watch since it has terrible reviews.But I still might watch it so that I can, like, you know, be enraged by it.I don't know.
I haven't I haven't even I don't even think I've heard that.
Yeah.Yeah.Like it's, yeah.Like it's this new movie, like, like, like called dash cam and it's a, and it's a film and it's like a found footage style movie.
And, and a lot of, a lot of reviews, like assisted of like, if it's enough complaints towards, towards the main character that this main character is so terrible, like, you know, she's like, Oh, like, Oh, like he or she is unlikable, et cetera.
Okay, I'm probably not going to watch it then.
I might, I might.I'm curious.I'm a curious movie watcher, you know?
Yeah, I get it.I mean, I've had my bouts of curiosity.Like, I watch Marmaduke out of curiosity.
Full out of curiosity.Oh, so did my roommate.
Dude, like, I was laughing through all of Marmaduke because of how, like, terrible it is.Like, I can't even...
So I go, apparently J.K.Simmons is in the movie and I love J.K.Simmons.And I just can't believe that he would that he would even like that he would even like accept a paycheck to be in this movie.
He'll do anything like J. Simmons.It's like now that kind of actor who will do anything like Samuel L. Jackson.
David.And I don't know. The entirety of Marmaduke, I never thought I would experience a movie that's just so funny because it's so bad.But that movie just broke the laws of nature.
I can't even call it the worst movie of the year because I was just too entertained by it.
Wait, you don't consider it the worst movie of the year?Then what do you consider the worst movie of the year?
I really got to think about that.Oh, I really hated that Lena Dunham movie, Sharpstick.I saw that.
Oh, oh, I didn't watch that.
That's with Tom Worthall, right?
Yeah.OK.I'm going through my letterbox.
Um, I thought fall was really dumb.Firestarter was terrible.I didn't know.
Firestarter was terrible.I hated Firestarter.I really did.It just looked like the Zac Efron didn't even want to fucking be there.
You watch the movie, it's so clear that he's like, that he didn't even want to be there.He's so fucking miscast.I don't, I don't even know what he's doing there.
I completely forgot about Firestarter, honestly, until I just prodded up from my letterbox.
Oh, and, uh, and, and he's also in, uh, greatest beer run ever or something.
I didn't watch it.I didn't bother.
The premise of that movie, I just think is ridiculous.
Um, I think it's, I think it sounds horrible.I mean, you know, like normal guy goes to Vietnam and gives, and gives soldiers beers.Like, I think, I think that's cool.
Well, I mean, like it's a, it's a pretty, it's a pretty boss story.That guy is like the greatest friend ever, but I guess I also just don't really like Peter Farley.
I mean, like, um, Like his movie, Green Book, didn't even need to win Best Picture.
It didn't.Definitely not.That movie kind of sucks.
Can I tell you something?The 2019 Best Picture Oscar lineup was probably the worst I've ever seen.
Oh, yeah.What did we have that year?
OK, so I'm only guessing here, but I think I think, I think the lineup had Vice with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, which I thought was okay.You know, I'll watch anything with Christian Bale in it really, besides Amsterdam.
I will probably not see, I will probably not see Amsterdam.
Because fuck David O. Russell.David O. Russell is so fucking hard.Anyway.Yes.
There was, there was Green Book, which won.Roma,
which yeah which i consider a masterpiece um there was black klansman uh which i really really liked uh yeah uh the favorite i i thought that was probably my favorite of all those i haven't i haven't watched the favorite in so long so i don't really have an opinion on it um oh my god black panther
Yes, yes, Black Panther, Black Panther had like, yes. Yes, Black Panther was great, besides the third act.It was a bit too CGI, in my opinion.
Wakanda Forever looks significantly better.
Yes.Wakanda Forever, you have no idea.
I'm going to watch that, definitely.
It's going to break my heart.It is going to break my heart into a million pieces.And it's going to be so much fun.Holy fuck.OK.Oh, oh my god, I bit my desk.
How about the best one, Bohemian Rhapsody?Just kidding, it's not the best one.That movie made me hate life.I hate that movie so much.
I mean, I thought it was OK.OK, do I think that the film poorly mishandled Freddie Mercury's life? Yes, however, I think Rami Malek was great in this movie.
I think he perfectly, like, captured the mannerisms of Freddy, even if the movie, like, didn't exactly, like, didn't exactly properly tell, like, the rise of Queen specifically.
Yeah, the thing, the thing about, like, my relationship with, like, that movie is that I'm, outside of movies, I'm a big, big, big music nerd.Actually, right next to me is my vinyl collection.
And you follow me on social media, you follow me on TikTok and stuff like that.I started reviewing albums, and I grew up with Queen.My dad is really big into classic rock, That was like the whole soundtrack of my childhood.
It was just like Queen, Led Zeppelin, you know, Def Leppard, ACDC, Metallica, like all that.And Queen really stood out for me. I started listening seriously to them around middle school and Bohemian Rhapsody was my favorite song.
research everything I can about Freddie Mercury because he was also my favorite singer, my favorite frontman.His life was insane.
He was THE frontman.He was actually insane.
So to make a movie on his life and just make it the most PG-13, safest movie I've ever seen in my life, I thought was insulting.
Yeah, literally nothing about his sexuality was PG-13. Like he was fucking other dudes left and right, you know?
Exactly.And it like kind of, it views his homosexuality as if it's like a bad thing.Like as if it was like holding him and the rest of the band back.And I'm like, what are you even doing?What the fuck is this movie even doing anyway?Yeah.
Like the fact, and also the fact that it won Best Editing.
That's just how they would like following like the basic biopic formula.
That's why I'm like extra critical with like biopics, right?
I especially hated Blonde.
I didn't watch Blonde and I don't think I will.
Do not.Do not give that movie any recognition.
Yeah.Yeah.Yeah.I will.Like, like, like specifically Marilyn Monroe was a person.
throughout her entire life and after her death her body was treated as an object and this movie like perfectly that this movie like a caps and a capsule that encapsulates just just how Marilyn Monroe has affected people and not her like entire
and not her entire upbringing.And it's just very, very sad, truly.
Oh, dude, lately, my most popular video on TikTok right now is basically me just saying like, yeah, blonde was a completely misogynistic exploitation piece.
And instead of just reviewing the movie, I'm just going to share with you some historical facts on why Marilyn Monroe was actually an incredible woman just all around.
And I'm really glad, like, out of all the videos that I've made on TikTok, like, that was the one to actually go viral.
Because, like, people, like, all these, like, Marilyn Monroe, like, biography books and movies, all they do is just, they just focus on her suffering when that's not entirely true.And I don't understand why people just want to focus on that, really.
I mean... Yeah, the director, Andrew Dominick, even called her a whore.Like, dude!
Exactly! Like, okay, so like, first off, fuck you, Andrew Dominick, I actually liked you.Second, like, if that's how you feel about Marilyn Monroe, then why the fuck are you directing a movie about Marilyn Monroe?Why don't you agree to that?
Yeah, yeah, I don't, yeah, yeah, I feel the exact same way.Like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't really know why he agreed to this.I don't even know why anybody agreed to make this movie, really.I don't know.I don't know, man.
Juan is making me so fucking mad.I don't know.With that.
I suffered through the whole thing.Anyway, sorry, go on.
Yeah.Yeah, three hours of misery.Yeah.OK, anyway. I usually with every podcast, I always talk about pop culture news, but I'm really not going to do that.But what I will say, however, is that Taylor Swift's midnight is out.
I listen to it.I listen to it like yesterday morning, like as soon as I got up, I was I was like, oh, shit, that is out.I didn't. I could have stayed up at around midnight to listen to Midnight, but I didn't.Wanna know why?
Because I was binging Haunting of Hill House, okay?
I have not seen it.I'm not a big fan of Flanagan, if I'm being honest.Really?
Mike Flanagan is such a talented director.He just knows how to direct horror.He just knows how to direct spooky horror better than probably James Wan can.Sorry.
I don't know.I know.I guess he's just not really for me. I tried.I watched Gerald's game and for the most part I was kind of bored with that except for the ending. Another hot take, I don't like Dr. Sleep at all.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I remembered seeing Dr. Sleep, but, but, but, but, but, but again, like it's one of those movies that I've seen like, what, four years ago that I never really had an opinion on.I just went, I just went to see it.
Cause like, you know, I'm a, I'm a big fan of EO McGregor.He was playing Danny Torrance and like,
and it was a continuation of the Shining story, looked interesting, and like I was, I don't know, I was like, I was pretty, I didn't say, I wouldn't say I was bored, I just remembered seeing it, and just really enthralled with Mike Flanagan, because again, like I'll see anything that Mike Flanagan will do, and like, and like, I don't really know, like again, I don't really have that much opinion on
on Dr. Sleep anyway, but Haunting of Hill House is a masterpiece.Like, it truly is.It's 10, like, yeah, it's 10 episodes.
Yes, it's like a typical, like, oh, like spooky haunted house story, but really, like, it's more about, like, it's more about the family, like, really, it's more about, like, the horrors of family drama that the Crane family, like, went through, like, specifically, like, specifically, like, each Crane sibling
Each Crane sibling went through trials and tribulations post-Hale House.For example, one of the siblings, Luke is a heroin addict.Steve, like the older brother Steve, yeah, he's the oldest sibling.
He's a successful book writer, but he exploited the family's pain of living through that house, of living in that house.
Fio, Theodora, Theodora, like, whenever she, like, touches people, she can, like, she can, like, feel, like, who, like, the actual, like, person is, like, like that, like, like, I wouldn't really know how to explain yourself.
Like, specifically, she touches people, she can feel things.I don't know.But, yeah, and, and what's her name, Shirley? like Shirley owns a funeral home and she's like, and as a kid, like there was a whole episode where
where she looked after like a box of like baby kittens and it turns out that they were like really, really sick and they were dying.So like, it was like her first, like it was like her first, it was like her first grappling with death.
So yeah, I could, I could literally go on about how great Haunting a Pillow House is like, honestly, but like, but again, like if it's not your niche, then, then like if it's not, I'm sorry, if it's not your niche, then I understand, you know?
I might give it a try.Okay.Your passion for it really intrigues me, so I might give it a try.
Oh, thank you.Thank you so much.I've been on a horror binge lately.
You know, I've seen 20 horror movies this year.I've seen 20 horror movies this year.It's more horror movies than I've seen last year.Like, I swear to God.
I don't even know how many I've seen, but like just this month alone, I've probably seen like 10.Okay.Okay.All right.And this has been an amazing year for- I know, right?It's been such an incredible year.
Like once we get into like our top five of the year, like my, I keep flipping my two in one, but like a movie in my top- I keep flipping my two in one too.
A movie that's in my top two is a horror movie.
Oh, I know.I can take a guess on what that is.I can take a guess on what that is.You're not going to say the movie.We're just going to save it for the top five.So yeah.I was talking about Midnights for a minute.
What were your favorite songs from Midnights?
Dude. Anti-Hero, I think, was my favorite song on the entire album.First off, my thoughts on Midnight X. I like it.I don't know if I love it.
Right.Yeah, yeah, yeah.I've watched your TikTok review.Yeah, like, you didn't, like, you literally didn't like it.It's one of your favorites.
Like, you liked listening to it, but you wouldn't really, like, put it with, like, I don't know, folklore or, like... Yeah.
Those two albums, I think, are... fucking fantastic they're they're they're both like i'd go as far as say they're massive that was peak covid man peak covid exactly um
But then like, Midnight just comes out, and I really do like the direction that Taylor's going with here.
I am a sucker for synth, and I do love how she utilized the synth pop, but then there are tracks where I just felt that the synth really didn't really work for me. Like, uh, again, apparently this is a hot take but For the second song maroon.
I I thought the synths ruined that Maroon was a pretty sad song to listen to it.Got me.I'm sorry.
I'm sorry It's okay.It's okay.
You don't like you don't like how some synths sound songs You didn't like how it sounded.
Yeah Yeah, I um I got the whole track list right here kind of going down.Antihero is my favorite.Snow on the Beach.I really like that one.And I really do like how the Lana Del Rey feature in it.
Though I kind of wish that Lana Del Rey wasn't just backing vocals.I'm a big fan of hers.
Oh yeah, she was backing vocals.I barely heard Lana.
Oh, dude, Lana's fucking great.Wait, do you listen to her?Sort of.
I sort of listen to her.I know that my I think my sister is a fan.Yeah.
She's great.Yeah.Question.I really like that one.Midnight Rain. Bejeweled, Labyrinth, and I like Karma, and I like Mastermind.I probably just have to go through the entire album again.But I would say those are my definite favorites.
My least favorite is probably everyone else's least favorite.And I was so glad to hear that I wasn't the only one that shared this least favorite.Vigilante shit.
I knew that you were going to say vigilante shit.I thought that song was going to be kind of a banger, but it's really not.
What disappointed me about that song was just, first off, it's also one of those songs where I just thought the synth and the production in general just didn't work.But also, it's just like,
Taylor's songwriting on that track was kind of juvenile, especially for Taylor Swift's standards.Right, yeah, exactly.We both are Taylor Swift fans.We know that she's anything but juvenile.We know she's anything but immature.
But I don't know, that's just... what I was constantly thinking about while listening to that song.Like I really want it to end.And the thing about me when it comes to listening to new albums, I don't, I don't skip anything.
Um, because, you know, I just want the whole experience.
Right.Right.Right.Yeah, of course.But, uh, yeah.Oh, uh, the anti, uh, hero music video.Did you watch that?
I did.Well, I did.It's pretty good.And what surprised me, there was an extra scene where Mary Elizabeth Harris, who is best known for playing the waitress from It's Always Sunny Philadelphia and is married to Charlie Day, was in this music video.
Oh my god, that's amazing.
I don't know if you watch Always Sunny.
It's one of my favorite shows.Oh my god.It's so good.I love them.
One of my favorite things to do is re-watching Always Sunny.It's just such a consistently funny show.Like, it truly, truly is.Like, even after, like, I don't know, 15 seasons, it's consistently funny.
And to think, and to think that this show was almost canceled just because they didn't have a fourth actor to, like... Oh, my God, really?To, like, to be on the show.Yeah.It's like, they had... That's awful.Yeah, they all had...
Yeah, they all had a dilemma to like, they all were like kind of in a dilemma.Like they had two choices, either cancel their show or bring Danny DeVito in.And they chose Danny.And they asked Danny to be on the show.And the rest is history.
I mean, that's an amazing choice.That's an amazing decision.We can both agree on that.
Yes, the show got better. The show got better with Denny DeVito.Okay.It did.
Speaking of always funny, um, in my college days when I was using a Tinder, I would write in my bio that my favorite food was like milk steak.And that I just love funny little green ghouls.Oh my God.
And very rarely would I get a match in which someone would say, oh, I understood that reference.And then there were people that would match me and be like, what the fuck is milkshake?And I'm like, I don't get it.You don't get it.
Oh my god.Oh my god.Yeah, like that.Oh man, that is so funny.That's just so funny.
I was not going to do that.I would never not do that.
Oh, by the way, Charlie Day is Luigi in the Super Mario movie.
Oh, yeah.The movie where Chris Pratt said that he was going to amaze us with his amazing voice acting abilities, but then it turns out he's just being Chris Pratt.
And he also sounds like Rocket.He also sounds like Rocket Raccoon.
yeah when he says mushroom kingdom here we come like i got a sense that he sounded like rocket for a minute to me it just sounded like he was just doing a brooklyn accent right yeah like you're right yeah why would like
And like, I am really excited for this movie.The trailer looked so cool.I don't know if I talked about the trailer on here, but it was so cool.Animation looked clean.
Like, I got the sense that like, this movie definitely has like an Avatar The Last Airbender type feel to it.
And like... And like Jack Black is perfect as Bowser from what we've heard.
He's gonna embody this role.He is gonna do the exact same thing of how Jim Carrey, like, stole the Sonic the Hedgehog movies.He's gonna crush it.
Jack Black is the fucking best.Even in the crappiest movie, he can be the highlight.And also, I don't know what year were you born? 1999. Okay, so we both grew up with him hosting the Kids' Choice Awards like 10 times in a row.
I didn't know that.I didn't really watch any Kids' Choice Awards as a kid.Like I just watched them when I was like, I just started watching them when I was like 13 or something.But like, wow, I didn't know that.Like, I didn't know that.
They brought him back to host, like, again and again and again.And it was a banger show every single year.Oh, man.
Dude, I love Jack Black.Me too.And Nacho Libre is one of my favorite comedies, like, unironically.Like, that movie makes you cry laughing.
Get that coat out of my face!
My favorite part of that whole movie is just like when they first meet and he's trying to do like a surprise attack on him.But then like for no fucking reason to just add a fart sound effect, like right before he jumps.
That's the only time I will laugh at a fart joke.
Oh man, that's funny.That's super funny, yeah.
Do you want to go into the New York Film Fest?
Oh, yes, yes.So, So both me and AJ were going to a New York film festival, but we both went on different days.I almost didn't go, because I was on Long Island for the weekend to spend time with my family.
But I got to go on Monday, same day I was going back to Albany. And I got to see a documentary called Senior, which was about Robert Downey Jr.'s father.And Robert Downey Sr.
was a auteur director living in New York City, where he made the most provocative and obscene comedy movies from the 70s and the 80s.
and he and i think he did like a couple of short films from the 60s actually no he made a major movie from 1969 i forgot that it was called uh they talked like they uh talked about it for a bit uh fuck my google is not working so yeah uh i got to
So say I got to go to Lincoln Center and it was such a surreal experience.
Cause like, cause like this was my first time as for me as a film critic to attend a film festival and to see like the actual people who make the movie talk about the movie and to like, and to be one of the first people to like see a movie for the first time that it's before it's like actually released.
So, so yeah. It was your first ever film festival experience?Yeah, it was my first ever film festival experience.
Actually, when I was in Spain, I attended a Spanish short film festival, but I got pretty tired and I wanted to go home because the short films were so fucking boring and I didn't really understand what was going on. Oh, it was called Putney.
So, so, so the movie that, that got, um, the movie that got Robert Downey senior, like, like the movie that, that, that, that gained Robert Downey senior, like notoriety, like, like where he gained recognition was a movie called Putney Swell.
And it was a film that satirized that, that satirized that satirized advertising, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films, and the corporate world, in a sense.And I'm really interested in seeing this movie.
It even got inducted in the National Library of Congress in 2016.
I was actually just at the Library of Congress, like, in February.Really?My best friend lives in D.C., so obviously, like, I wanted to, like, explore, like, the National Mall and stuff like that.
And we went to the Library of Congress, and sadly, sadly, I did not see their film side. I don't think it was open that day.I don't know.
Well, yeah, they have it in the locker somewhere, so... That's true.They probably keep it safe because they don't wanna like... Because they don't want to know, oh, what films he got there?
He's like, oh, no, these are meant to be kept safe in the locker somewhere.I don't know.
You know that Shrek is in the Library of Congress?
It just got inducted into the Library.
No, apparently that's not good enough for the Library of Congress.
Shrek 2 is literally the perfect sequel.It should be in there.
It should be.Joe Biden, if you're listening to this, you know, talk to the Library of Congress.I doubt he's the guy that talks to the Library of Congress.
I know.I doubt that too.I doubt that too.I don't know.Probably won't.So yeah. So, so, so as for senior, I thought it was really, really good, like related to it, you know, very, very much.Like, I really, I really love this movie.
I really, I'm such a sucker for like documentaries about like, about fathers and sons and just, and then just the general movies about fathers and sons and such.And like, and, and not only like, do you get to know Robert Downey,
Like, not only do you get to know this guy, you get to know, like, you get to know, like, Robert Downey Jr.'s own family, you know?
Like, you get to know his sons, you get to know Susan a bit, and then there's, like, and then you also, like, get to know, like, Robert's birth mother, who, like, passed away before he was, like, after he was born, I think.Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, really, like you learn like, and for fact, like Robert Downey Jr.'s like first film credit was in a movie called, what was his, what was his first film credit?
Like he appeared in a movie where he was like, like his first movie he appeared in was when he was five years old.And I completely forgot what it was.So it was, I'm trying to find it.It's called, oh, it's called Pound.
He appeared in a movie called Pound, where he was like, he appeared in this movie called Pound, where he was like, where he asked a question about like, this guy's, you know, nut sack, which was.Oh, that's so weird.
I forgot what the question, I completely forgot what the question was, but like, But when you guys watch Senior for Yourselves, when it eventually goes to Netflix, you can see what Robert said at the time.I don't really remember that much.
But yeah, I just remember being so fascinated with the documentary film, really.
And you were in the exact same room as Tony Stark. I was.
I was in the same room as Robert Downey Jr.It was honestly such a highlight.That's a core memory for me.
I'd be freaking out.I'd be waiting till he was free if I could get a selfie or something.
I did not.I unfortunately did not get a selfie.I had to use the bathroom and I completely missed it. I had to use the bathroom and I had a train to catch anyway, so I didn't really have the time.But, however,
uh well-known television actor uh Matthew Rhys stood behind me so there's oh okay so so he's famous for uh being in the americans and he won an emmy for that and he's also best known and and he's also in an hbl series called perry mason which is coming back for season two in february oh
I haven't seen The Americans, so that's probably why I don't know who it is.
The Americans is a very underappreciated show.Like truly, it is like Breaking Bad levels of good, but it's very underappreciated.
Whereas Breaking Bad got very popular, whereas The Americans didn't really get the attention that it deserved when it first ran.
Wow.Yeah.Oh my god, the Breaking Bad comparisons.Now I'm really intrigued.I'll check it out. Do you want me to talk about my experience?
Yeah, sure.Go ahead.I want to hear about the films that you've watched.I mean, I know what movies you've watched, but I'd like for you to share.
Basically, if you follow me on Letterboxd, you know what I watched. Basically, I'm very much a film festival boy.And me being in Boston, I always attend the Boston Film Festival.They always show really, really great movies.
Last year, they show like Red Rocket, they show Come on, Come on, and stuff like that.And this year, unfortunately, I'm not going to attend because I'm going to Vermont for Halloween.
And basically, where I'm going with this is that I have a long history with attending film festivals.And I only just started going to the New York Film Festival.
I went to the New York Film Festival last year, but last year it was only like the encore films and the closing night movie.I think the closing night movie was Red Rocket.But this year I was like, okay, I'm gonna,
dedicate an entire week to the New York Film Fest.I'm going to see all these movies that I really want to see.Because if I'm being honest, and this isn't a criticism on them, I thought their lineup wasn't as good as last year.
And what's kind of funny is that there's another film festival going on in New York.Yeah, sorry.There's another film festival going on in New York called the Hamptons Film Festival, which takes place in Hamptons.
And if you're in New York City, and I know you're in New York City, like Hamptons is like three hours away. And I was gonna see the whale at Hamptons.I dedicated.Yeah, they were showing the whale.And Brendan Fraser, I think was in attendance.
Also doing like a New York Comic Con.I don't know if it was the same day though.Anyway.So I bought my ticket to the whale. But then tickets for Bones and All at Lincoln Center came up.
And I was like, oh, do I go with the whale or do I go with Bones and All?Do I drive three hours or do I just take a train for an hour to go see Bones and All?
And I picked Bones and All because thank you to my Twitter followers who voted in my little poll that one time.And so I watched. Bones and All.That's the only movie I reviewed on my YouTube channel.Bones and All was great.
I don't know if it was my favorite from the festival, but it is definitely worth the hype that it's been getting.And I'm also a big Luca Guadagnino fan. That was really great.Basically, it's not a movie to see if you have a weak stomach.
It is very graphic.Oh, yeah.Oh, dude, they do not shy away from it.They do not play it safe whatsoever.The very first, like, attack, I'll call it, is so out of nowhere and unexpected.It actually made me jump from my seat.
And also, I'll also say just for anyone listening who are fans.Yes, Timothee Chalamet is amazing.And yes, Taylor Russell is also amazing.They work off each other perfectly.Yeah, that was probably
one of the better movie going experiences I had at the festival.The very first movie, I know I went on a long tangent over there, sorry.
The first movie I saw at the festival was Corsage, which is a period piece, a French period movie starring Vicky Kripes, who you might know from Phantom Threat.I really like her.
I don't know, I definitely liked it, but it seemed like it really wanted to be the grown-up version of Marie Antoinette, but kind of missing the charm that Marie Antoinette had.And the entire movie, I just kept thinking of Marie Antoinette.
That's one of my favorite movies, that Marie Antoinette is like in my top five. So it's something that like was just screaming at me the entire time and it distracted me throughout the entire movie.Vicky Kreutz is undeniably great.
The cinematography was also really good.And I guess what I appreciate most about it, even if it didn't always work for me, was the fact that even though it's a period piece, they also try to incorporate modern day to it.
It's like if the twist in the village was an entire movie.Like he's on a motorboat.There are like telephone poles all over the place.And It's an interesting choice.And it definitely got me to think, but I don't know if it worked for me all that much.
I don't know.But yeah, I saw that.And I also made friends with a girl that was standing behind me in line.So shout out to her.Cool. Yeah, what was the second one?Let me pull up my lighter box.Oh yeah, Showing Up.That was the next movie that I saw.
The Kelly Reichardt movie, yeah.The Kelly Reichardt movie.I've been meaning to get into her filmography.Oh dude, she's my third favorite director behind Michael Willis and Wes Anderson.So where would I start? I started with First Cow.
And that's her previous movie, right before showing up.And when I saw First Cow, I had no idea who Kelly Reichardt was.And First Cow wasn't my favorite movie of that year or anything, but I adore that movie.
As I was watching it, I'm like, I really need to look at this director's stuff because I love what she's doing.And apparently that's her style. her entire filmography.I don't know if it will work for everyone, but it most certainly works for me.
She's someone I very much look up to.And she was in attendance at the showing up screening.So that marks the second director in my top three favorite directors who I've seen in person.Mike Mills being the other one.And I was
pretty close to the screen, but it didn't bother me because for one, I was close to Kelly Reichardt.Oh, Hong Chao was there too, and Judd Hirsch.
Hong Chao and Judd Hirsch.
Oh, Hong Chao.Yeah.He sounds familiar.Yeah.
Hong Chao, she was in Downsizing.She's also going to be in The Whale. She's going to be like Brendan Fraser's nurse in The Whale.Anyway, showing up, this is the most slice of life movie that I saw at NIF.
But like, that's basically all of Reichardt's movies.It's that they're very much slice of life.But this is also like the goofiest movie that she's made and the humor.
Kind of.I would call it like a dark comedy drama because the main character is not very likable, but that's kind of the point of the movie.
um so so kind of like a so kind of like a not okay type of situation right where it's like uh where where it's like uh where it's like uh where it's like the main character is an unlikable character of viewer discretion advice sort of thing
No, not viewer discretion advice.There's nothing really inappropriate that happens in the movie.Well, okay, there is one, but it's completely irrelevant to the plot.She's just one of those people that just... puts her work first.
And it's just like rude to everybody.But in my opinion, it was a very entertaining and interesting character to follow.And I thought she was very funny.She's played by Michelle Williams.Yeah.She was a frequent collaborator with Kelly Reichardt.
And Han Chao plays her friend, who was like, I think he was like a construction worker, carpenter.Yeah.Andre 3000 is in it from Outcast.What?Of all people.Andre 3000.Andre 3000, Outcast himself.He's great in it, dude.
He has a very small role, but dude, he's awesome.I really wish he was in attendance.
I would have just brought, if I had known that he was going to be in attendance, if he was in attendance, I would have brought my vinyl of Stanconia and have him like sign it.I love OutKast.Anyway, yeah, showing up definitely meant a lot to me.
I don't know if everyone's going to have the same opinion as me on it.If you want my full thoughts, you can go to my Letterboxd.I wrote like a really, really long review for it.I feel like I'll be here all day if I say anything else about the movie.
I gave it a five on Letterboxd.I gave it a five.It's very funny.It's very slice of life.It's very urban.
I am definitely looking forward to showing up then.Oh, definitely.
I think it's coming out next year.Oh, next year?This is an early screening.Yeah.Damn.And then I saw Till, which is out right now.
Oh, yeah.Yeah, apparently it's gotten very favorable reviews.I'm talking like 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It is very good, yeah. Like I gave it a four on Letterboxd.It's just something I probably won't watch ever again because it is very sad.It's completely carried by the performance from Danielle Dedweiler.
I truly believe she deserves an Oscar nomination for her amazing, amazing performance.She's very emotional in it and it very much works. For those who don't know, this is a movie about Emmett Till, who was a young black boy in the 50s.
He goes on vacation to go see his cousins.He offends a white woman in some way, in a very trivial way. and basically he gets lynched.He gets lynched and he gets killed and the entire movie is from the perspective of his mother who is grieving.
So it's an important movie but it's an important movie.Everyone should go see it.I just like it's It is very depressing.So I probably, it's probably just like a one and done for me.
Yeah.I will eventually watch it, but like, but I don't think, but I don't think like it's a movie that I would like probably like, but that
Like it's not really one of those movies where like, where like, oh, like I'm going to go see this in the theater when I can, when like, when like, I'll just wait it out.I'll just wait until it's on.
I'll just wait until I can rent it or if it's like available anywhere else.So.
Yeah, dude.I mean, again, I definitely, I definitely recommend it.It is very important.Yeah.It's just, it's just like, I don't know, brain tissues.There are people that were crying during the movie. at my screening, deservedly.
And I hope that Daniel Dedweiler gets some award recognition.
Yeah.Yeah, man, let's hope.Let's hope.Yeah.
And then later on that night, I saw a movie completely blind.I saw a movie called The Novelist's Film, which is- The Novelist's Film? It's directed by Han Sang-soo.This is the very first movie that I've seen from this director.
He is a South Korean director. All I'll say is that if all of his films are in the aesthetic as this one, then he is destined to be a new favorite for me.I gave it a four and a half out of five on Letterboxd.
It's just 100% my thing, aesthetically and emotionally speaking.It's 100% talking throughout the entire thing.It's not just like, know they're walking and the camera's just kind of moving along with them.
I mean like I swear there are probably like 12 shots within this entire movie.And these shots go on for like I swear like 10 to 15 minutes.And what they're talking about is just like the most interesting thing to me.
Reading the synopsis, a female novelist takes a long road trip to visit a bookstore run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch.And Yeah, the chemistry between everyone is just so infectious.
And how Han Sang-soo just films the entire thing just makes it so incredibly just engaging.I couldn't look away from it.It's a very hard movie to talk about.It is a very hard movie to talk about and review. Because there is so little going on.
I'm looking up his photography.
He has made over like 13 films.
Yeah, I know.And it kind of shocks me that I'm just now getting into him.I just now heard of him.Because again, if all of his movies are like that one, then he's destined to become a new favorite.
I don't know what kind of release this will have.Just know that I definitely recommend it.Yeah.
Yeah, I will definitely.Yeah, I'll definitely check out the novelist's film when I can, like like like like this movie, like sounds it sounds interesting and I will definitely like watch it when I can.
So and it also sounds like very meditative, as you've described.Oh, it definitely is. Yeah, so yeah, I'll definitely.It's also shot in black and white.
Yeah, yeah, black and white.
Yeah, yeah, it's shot in black and white.And I'm a sucker for films shot in black and white.Like, you know, like, come on, come on.Like one of the most impressively made black and white films ever.Like truly.
I fucking love Come On, Come On so much.
Dude, the way the film perfectly captures New York City, holy shit. It's like, I mean, I wouldn't know.It is moving photography.Oh my God.
Dude, Mike Mills is a genius.Like I will forever, I will forever have Mike Mills as one of my top three favorite directors.
Fun fact, Come On, Come On is the only Mike Mills movie I've ever seen.
Dude.I know.Dude, you gotta get on, you gotta get on Beginners in 20th Century Women.I know.Get on that shit.
I know.I will get on that shit, okay?Mark my words.I will.
Get on that shit and tell me what you think.
So he's only made three movies?
No.His directorial debut is a movie called Thumbsucker, I think.I'm looking it up.Thumbsucker, yeah.Thumbsucker, yep.And Keanu Reeves is in it.
Oh, let's go.I'm definitely watching Thumbsucker.
I'll watch anything.I will literally watch anything that Keanu Reeves is in.Literally anything.I just love Keanu.
And also, he's made multiple short films, but his best short film, Keanu is amazing.Mike Mills' best short film was kind of a music video, but it's not really a music video.It's more like a...
film based on an album, not a documentary, but at least you have Vikander's in it, and it's based on the Nationals' I Am Easy to Find, which is my favorite album from that band.And the short film that accompanies it, fucking five out of five.
Like if that doesn't get you that Mike Mills is a fucking God to your director, then I don't know what will.Anyway, the next day I saw Bones and All, I already talked about that.And then I watched One Fine Morning, the newest from Mia Hansen Love.
And I love it. I want to watch One Fine Morning.Oh my god.
Oh dude, it's so good.It's basically typical Hanson love, but like typical Hanson love is still like very, very good and very comforting and very relaxing.I gotta get into her.And very horny.I have to get into her filmography.Oh my god.
Start with her last movie, Bergman Island.
Oh.Oh, Bergman Island.Yeah.I'll watch Bergman Island.I don't know where to watch that.Bergman Island.I think it's on Hulu.I watched it on Hulu.I'm sure it is.Oh, it is on Hulu.OK.Yeah.I'm definitely watching this.Fantastic.
When I'm done with my horror movie.Get on that shit, man.Yeah, I will watch it when it's on Hulu.Get on that shit. Okay, okay.I'm done with my horror movie.
Anyway.Yeah.One Fine Morning, it's another slice of life movie.Basically just following the life of this one woman played by Lea Seydoux.Her father, it's implied that he has dementia.She's having an affair with somebody and she has a daughter.
And it just kind of goes about her life.And it goes about it in, in my opinion, a very engaging way.I don't really want to spoil too much.You'll just kind of have to understand what I mean.Just know that it is still very much a Hanson love movie.
and it is very comforting and wholesome.Yeah, it's one of my favorites at the fest.Again, it's another movie that's kind of hard to review because very little is actually happening on the surface.But I still found it engaging.
I need to watch it again.I gave that half on Letterboxd.And then one of the big movies, Decision to Leave, with my man Park Chan-wook in attendance.I was in the same room as Park Chan-wook.All of you listening, be jealous.You were here first.
Oh my God.Okay.So, anyway. Decision to leave.I had already seen this movie.I watched it on a leak.It did leak online.I watched it that way.Do not watch a leak.Do not watch the leak because watching it in the theater is the way to go.
This movie is amazing.It's the kind of movie where the less you know, the better.It is definitely... It is definitely the least Park Chan-wook movie he's ever made.He describes it as a romantic comedy.
I would say it kind of goes like, it kind of goes like Parasite.It starts off with a comedy, then as it goes on, it becomes like more and more heart-wrenching. It is a very, it becomes a very heartbreaking film by the end of it.
And of course I'm not gonna spoil why.Just know that this is absolutely one of the best of the year.It is in my top 10.It is one of the most engaging movies that I've seen all year.And I just love how playful Park Chan-wook
I just love, sorry, let me refresh that.I love the playful direction that Park Chan-wook took with it.Yeah, Decision to Leave, amazing movie.I think it's playing right now, so you could see it.
Oh, oh, oh, is it?Okay, yeah.I was gonna see Decision to Leave yesterday.I was gonna like go, I was gonna go stay a night at my old, at my family home on Long Island.But I got the flu, so I stayed in.Yeah, that is, yep, that is, it was tough, but.
I did, I did.I'm really sad that I had to miss it, but- You can watch it right now, dude.
It's in the theaters right now.
Okay, okay, yes, but it's not playing at the theater near me, though, so.
Uh-uh, it's not?Oh, fuck.
No, it's not, it's not.Like, you can, like, you can see it in Boston, but I can't see it.
Fucking New York, come on.
Exactly, fucking New York, exactly.
A governor of New York, if you're listening to this, a brain decision to leave to movie theaters right now.And the last movie I saw, which was also my favorite, After Sun.
I'm also going to see After Sun.
I think it's out right now.
Probably not.No, it's not.
I don't think I think it's out like next week or something.Um, it is simultaneously. the most depression, sorry, let me rephrase that.Simultaneously, the most depressing yet most comforting movie I've seen in a while.
Right when the movie ended, it put me in such a depressed headspace.And there are so many like obvious implications of what happens in this movie that is not shown.But the director, Charlotte Wells, makes it perfectly clear that it happened.
And it is completely heart shattering. When people tell you that this is the most emotional movie that they've seen all year, fucking believe them.It is so beautiful, but it is completely just soul-crushing in a good way. Paul Meskel.
Obviously, I haven't seen everything this year.Obviously, I haven't seen Brendan Fraser in The Whale.Banshees of Ina Sheeran comes out next week in Boston.So that movie, like obviously I haven't seen Colin Farrell in that movie yet.
Paul Meskel is my pick for best actor.
I don't think it's going to happen.Maybe he'll get an indie spirit or whatever, but if he were to get nominated for an Oscar for this movie, he is devastating in this movie.He, he just plays a very good father, but someone who
wants to be a good father, but doesn't know that he's a good father.Basically, the entire movie, if that makes any sense.
Right.Yeah, I can I can I can get what you're saying about that.Yeah.
Basically, like in simpler terms, like the father going through depression.
Yeah, I'm definitely I am not going to be mentally prepared for this movie no matter what.But I am looking forward to it.
And also, like, And also the little girl in the movie is also fantastic.Yeah.What's her name?Let me look it up.I forgot her name.Francesca Corio.Yeah.She was amazing.Like one of the best child performances I've seen in a while.
Probably since last year with Woody Norman.Probably since Woody Norman.
Yeah, Woody Norman and Come Out, Come On.Yeah.
Come on, yeah.Best child performance I've seen since that.
Yeah, for me, okay, okay, for me it's, it's, what's her name?Shit.The Florida Project.I've seen her in the Florida Project.
I'll look it up right now. I should know this, because I love the Florida Project.
Brooklyn Prince.Yeah, Brooklyn Prince and the Florida Project is my favorite one.I think she was just so good.Like she was six years old in that movie, and she gave it her all.It was such a great movie.I really loved it.I really loved it.
Sean Baker also can just direct the shit out of anybody.
Right, yeah.Between Tangerine, which was a movie that I liked, but I didn't really like that much, the Florida Project is really, really good, that I think is great. which is what I really, really like more.
Because like when you picture Florida, you think like, oh my God, Palm Springs, beaches, like beaches, clubbing, like yada, yada, yada.But like this movie portrays actual Florida, you know?
Like, like, like, like this is like if Florida, this is a movie, like if the Florida band meme was an actual movie.If you get what I'm saying.
Oh my God.I get what you're saying.It's just I had never heard anyone describe the movie like that.And now I can't unsee it.
Right.Yeah, because like Florida is known for having Disney World, but they don't know like what Florida is actually like.And I think like with this movie, like it perfectly like it portrays that really, really well, you know?
I've never been to Florida.
Now I want to watch the Florida Project again.I've been to Florida when I was nine years old.
I'm uncultured.Um, just letting you know, like around like 615, 620, um, I have plans to meet up with a friend.
So like we can, we can get right into our top five.Yeah.
Let's get into our top five right now.Uh, real quick, real quick.My number five is Top Gun Maverick.
Hell yeah, dude.My number five is everything, everywhere, all at once.A number five?Yeah.It's because I like four movies more.It's an amazing movie.It's an amazing movie.Like literally my five and four, like I kept flip-flopping them.
And I just now realized four out of the five movies are A24 movies.
They've been killing it.They have been killing it this year.
Right.It's A24.Like, they always, like, they make banger after banger after bangers, really.
Banger after banger after banger.
My number one is also an A24 movie.
Oh, OK.OK.Yeah.Can't wait.
But yeah, everything, everywhere.It's as amazing as everything.
All right.So my number four is the Batman.
Nice, nice.I keep on forgetting that that came out this year.
Yeah, you have the Batman right below on your Letterboxd list, right?You don't really have it in your top 10 or top 5, really?I think it's in my top 1.
Basically, like, my Letterboxd best of 2022 list and basically all my Letterboxd, like, best of list, it just goes from, like, very best to least best.
Right, OK.Because I got the impression that the lists at the bottom were the worst.And I thought you didn't really like the Batman at all.And I'm like, wait, what?
No, of course I did.It's probably the best comic book movie to come out this year.Right?It is.Definitely the best comic book movie.
Literally the only great comic book movie we've had this year.Go for it.The Marvel movies that we've had are pretty mediocre.
The Marvel movies have been mid, sadly.It had high hopes for a multiverse of madness and it was good, but I don't know, compared to the Batman League, it was, it paled in comparison.
Anyway, number four for me, my pick for the funniest movie of the year and the most entertaining movie of the year. It's a pretty controversial pick.Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.
Oh, I liked it when I liked Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.I was just like very confused by the ending.Oh, yeah, it's like literally they murdered each other, like for no fucking reason.
This was all because they thought one of them was the killer and that really like the death was a fucking accident.
Exactly.The whole movie is one huge joke and that's why I love it.The whole movie is a satire on Gen Z and I know you know that. Right, yeah.It is so brilliantly done.It is so, so funny how they do it.
And I love the fact that it was their narcissism that killed them.It was their narcissism and them just completely jumping to conclusions that just killed them. Yeah.It's so good.It's so brilliantly done, I thought.I don't know.
I'll defend that movie till the day I die.The ending is one of the funniest fucking things ever to me.Yeah.Anyway, three.
Yeah, it was funny.My number three is Pearl.
What?Pearl?Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My number three is Pearl. Pearl is going to show up later in my list.Pearl is amazing.I'm obsessed with it.The best thing in the world to me. Mia Goth, Mia Goth, Mia fucking Goth.
She is actress of the year, well actually no, my actress of the year is actually Cate Blanchett in Tar.That's in my top 10, not in my top 5.But for me, Aside from Cate Blanchett and Tar, Mia Goth is actress of the year.
Like, one of the best horror performances fucking ever.Her monologue goes on for almost nine fucking minutes.Right?Almost nine minutes.It's insane.It's absolutely insane.And she's like acting through her fucking
eyes throughout the entire scene it is perfect ah yeah and the best thing in the world to me this is my joker this is my joker too the best thing in the world for me is when this is my introduction to Taiwa actually no that's not true x is my introduction to Taiwa I love both pearl and x um
Pearl kind of solidified my love for Ty West.And then I was like, wow, I need to fucking watch more of his movies.And then I watched House of the Devil this month, and I fucking love that movie too.And I plan on watching Innkeepers very soon.
So the best thing in the world for me is when one movie can fucking introduce you to one of your new favorites.
Yeah, that's the best kind of feeling, really.
It really is.I'll save my, I'll save more of my Pearl gush for later on the list.Um, number three for me, Marcel the shell would choose on.
I still need to watch Marcel.
Oh dude.I think it's on prime right now.Is it?Yeah.I think you got to, I don't know if you got to pay though.
Oh, okay.Uh, I, I would be fine if I have to pay, but, but, but yeah, you do got to pay. I can't believe I didn't see Marcel sooner.I can't believe I didn't see Marcel sooner.But yeah, you can rent on Prime Video for $6.
That's not bad.Not only the cutest movie of the year, but probably has some of the best stuff. motion I have ever seen in the movie.
This is one of those movies, and it began a lot of movies like what I'm about to describe, but it's one of those I have no fucking idea how they did this movie.
Like even the opening shot, like I have no idea how they did it.And Jenny Slate is my queen.I love her.
Yeah, we love Jenny Slate.
We love our indie queen, Jenny Slate. Number two.Oh, I didn't pick my number two.Oh, sorry, go on.
Oh, nice, dude.That's in my top 15.
Yep, top 15.I just can't believe that this movie introduced the rest of the world to Bollywood cinema.
I can't believe that shit.What?
It's Tollywood with a T. Oh, Tollywood, Tollywood, Tollywood, Bollywood, like whatever.But like it introduced like this type, like introduced like the rest of the world to that specific medium.
And I'm like more than eager to like to like experience like to experience like this type of cinema.Like, RRR is a different kind of action movie that was built differently.
Holy fuck.It adds another definition to the word badass.
Yes, it does.Literally, this movie... Like, literally, this movie throws a jaguar at people.
He throws a jaguar.He attacks a fortress with an army of jungle animals.What?I've never seen anything like it.
My favorite superhero thing.
And just when you think of the action, and just
It just doesn't stop.This movie does not stop with this action.
Oh, dude, this movie steps on the fucking gas and I love it.Yeah, it's so good.
The songs in this movie are like really, really good.
Oh yeah, definitely.Like the musical number is like one of my favorite movie moments of the year.
Yeah, like when the two Yeah, yeah, yeah.When the two main characters show up at a party and outclass, and outshine the upper white class, I was like, I was eating that shit up.
Definitely, dude.I need to watch that movie again.
Yeah.I gave it a four.Hopefully when the Tolugu dog finally gets to Netflix.
Oh, definitely. I gave it a four and a half on Letterboxd.And it is definitely in my top 15.There are just movies that I like more.
Nothing against that movie.My number two is a movie that you probably haven't heard of.It's a movie that does mean a lot to me.I have been talking about it.It's called Montana Story.
Oh, I watched Montana Story.
Yeah, I did.Like I watched it on, uh, I watched it, uh, last summer, like, uh, on a plane ride back from my, uh, from my trip to Spain.
I want to hear, I want to hear what you thought.Oh, okay.So that seemed to be in the minority.
I really, I really thought Montana Story was like, I really, I actually like really loved it.I really like, like, like, as I've said to you before, like, as I've mentioned before, I really like, I really like movies or shows with, with family trauma.
And like, and, and it really like showcases that here.And like, like, like Haley Lou Richardson and Owen Teague were like, They were fantastic in this movie.They were perfect.They were so fucking good.I just really like the slice of life quality.
And I really like the fact that you put like a slice of life story set in an American Western.
That's really, really good.
I'm also just like a huge, huge sucker for movies where the setting is like a character in a book itself. And the movie really takes advantage of the size and the scope.But even with the size and the scope being huge, the movie still feels lonely.
There's very few people walking around.They rarely interact.Because it takes place in a ranch. What was that?
Because it takes place in a ranch, yeah.
Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.And so the focus of the movie is really just on their trauma and nothing else.There's nowhere to run to at that point.And I don't know, I thought it was so beautiful.
The role of Owen Teague and Haley Richardson reminded me of my relationship with my sister. And I think that's kind of where I'm like in a good way, but in a good way we didn't have, we didn't have a traumatic childhood.We did not have a traumatic.
But it really did. like interaction with each other really reminded me of how I speak to my sister.And I think that's how, not how, I think that's why the movie means a lot to me.
And I keep flip-flopping between my actual number one and this to be my number one.But for now, we will let, my actual number one right now, be my number one.Speaking of number one.Okay.What's your number one?
Oh, oh yeah.Oh yeah, my number one is, well, everything everywhere all at once.It's everything everywhere all at once.
Hell yeah.Hell yeah.Amazing movie.It's such a better multibit story. Exactly.And like the definitive, especially with its budget.How the fuck did you make this?Yeah.
How did how do you literally this literally proves that the Daniels can can make whatever the fuck they want.
Exactly.And especially with the budget that this movie had.The fact that it even got made was just insane to me.I just want to be a fly on the wall during the scene where they're directing the buttplug scene.
just going okay so so uh so you two like you see that trophy over there oh okay you two are gonna stare at each other do like double takes and then you you're gonna start slowly pulling down your pants and then like as you're doing that i i want you to run over to the trophy try to shove it up your ass and then uh you um i'm gonna give you a cue uh
When I give you the cue, I want you to jump across cubicles with no pants on and try to jump on the butt plug.
The comedy in this movie was insane.It truly is.I really like the fact that you have one main story take place in a tax office, and it's where you shoot both
It's where you shoot the first act, the second act, and then the third act, well, I mean, the opening sequence takes place in the laundromat, which perfectly sets up what the film is trying to be.It's everything happening all at once.
You have the mother trying to run the laundromat, and she can't even, And she's too busy trying to have a conversation with her daughter.And she's like, hey, I want to talk about my relationship with you.And then the husband is like,
and then the husband is like also like trying to run the store it's like it's like literally everything everywhere all at once i just i just like i just like that it sets that up so simply and perfectly really a genius movie it really is like now thinking about it like it might be higher on my list but my numero uno
Uh, you might have guessed it, Santi.You might have guessed it.Let me try to do my best Mr. Krabs impression.Pearl!Why are you killing people, lad? That was a comment on my letterbox reveal.Well, yeah, my number one is Pearl.Oh, yes.
I know.I know it's Pearl.It's Pearl.Yes.
It's Pearl. For one thing, it's kind of redundant at this point to mention how amazing Mia Goth is in this movie.We already know.The reason why I love this movie as much as I do is because very, very few movies actually
capture the feel of their time period as much as this does.But this not only captures the feel of the 1910s perfectly, it basically feels like it was made in the 20s or 30s. But like, it kind of makes the time period its own character.
Like there's something, like when you really think about it, like, and it is also like kind of a tribute to silent films.Also, like, let's get that out of the way.Like, it also realizes that there's something kind of haunting.
about like silent films and films made in like the 30s and 40s.And because of that, the movie is successful in feeling haunting, but also very fucking... Get to the end of the movie, it becomes just 100% Disturbing.
The final scene in that movie is one of the most uncomfortable scenes.I'm not talking about the monologue.
She smiles the entire time.
Exactly.Even before the smile.
husband coming home and like the rotting dinner with her like rotting parents spoilers by the way um like even that like like that gave that gave me such an uncomfortable feeling stuck with me it really stuck with me long after the movie ended like I don't think I've ever seen
a movie that cared so much for its setting, for its time period, for using the filmmaking to feel like the time period.But Ty West is just that guy, man.He's just that guy. He is.And that's why I love him.
And that's why Pearl is currently my number one of the year.And I feel like it's going to be my number one once the year ends.I don't know.We will see how Babylon turns out.
I am so excited for Babylon.That's my most anticipated movie.Damien Chazelle is my favorite director.And I'm really, really fucking excited for it.Yeah, yeah, yeah.Probably of all time. It's, it's pretty debatable.
It's pretty debatable on who my favorite director is right now.So like, so like, it used to be Quentin Tarantino, but like But I realized that he's sort of a problematic figure.But I would say Paul Thomas Anderson is my favorite.
Hell yeah, dude.I love PTA.Anyway, I gotta get going.
yeah man so you want to wrap up great to have you man it was so great to have you it's great being here yeah thank you so much yeah um you want me to plug yeah yeah yeah yeah sure uh you want me to plug yeah yeah yeah yeah uh where can they find you aj uh
Letterboxd.My letterboxd is A Ford.My TikTok is AJ Applejuice.
I have a YouTube.I have a YouTube channel.Just type in AJ Ford.And my Twitter is A Ford 77787.And my Instagram is ice underscore AJ underscore fish.
the play-on of Ice JJ Fish, the internet figure.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.You can listen to Santee Time on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music, and you can follow the
And you can follow the, and you can follow the Safety Time official, you can follow the Safety Time official, official Instagram, Safety Time pod.You can, you can follow me on Letterboxd at I-A-G-O-B-F-B-F-T-H-E.
And you can find, and you can, and you can follow me on Twitter, which is B-R-I-O-N-I-A-G-O. And where else you can find me?And you can also follow me on TikTok, Straw Hat Santy.
So yeah, which is a play on Straw Hat Luffy from One Piece, which you can tell from my lovely poster right there.
Oh yeah, that's a One Piece poster.
Yes, it is.I'm a big One Piece fan.You should know that.Everybody should know that.
I mean, I know you love anime.
I also love anime, but when I don't, when I don't watch movies, I love anime.Yeah.
I'm not watching movies.I listen to music.
Thanks a lot, man.Absolutely.
Uh, thank you guys.Thank you guys so much for listening and I will, and I will see you guys next time.All right.
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