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Jenna Malone was in here.

Who is Jenna Malone?

We're going to have to pull up the IMDB on this.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I had that same reaction you just did.

I was like, where was she?

All right.

I know we got an out for you.

So we got to be a little bit efficient today.

We got some questions I am sure.

But Andrew.

I'll give quick thoughts.

Let's wrap a little bit.

How you feeling?

I feel great.

It was an incredible moment.

Just really quick.

I could be wrong, please correct me.

If I am, it did say Colleen Atwood.

I believe the costume designer.

So I found it very fascinating that they mentioned the bat.

He was Batman when he was, you know, taken into the...

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

Oh, Coge and Embry.

How used to Coge and baseball?

It's Ethan Embryson.

Wow.

It was crazy.

I didn't know he was taking in films now.

Oh, Gil Scott Heron.

We got the Revolution.

We'll not be televised.

That's perfect.

I found it interesting that they mentioned Batman because I believe she was the costume designer

on my favorite costume of all time.

The Batman Returns costume and Batman 89 and Batman Returns.

Oh, yeah.

She was probably on set like this is so meta.

But I really enjoyed this film.

This is a very fascinating topic, especially right now in the political climate that we are in.

Very fascinating role for DiCaprio like you.

I'm used to seeing him more in those gangster type of roles or just more nuanced roles as well.

Just like, you know, and departed or what was a jingo and chain stuff like that.

But this was very fascinating just to watch him and, you know, playing a revolutionary like this and seeing with so much emotional baggage.

It felt more like watching Rick Dalton than, like, the killers of the flower movie.

Yeah, I didn't see that one.

But yeah, but also to not to see him being so front and centered at the very beginning as the plot was like unfolding.

And then, you know what?

I liked that Leo does that now.

Yeah.

Obviously he's all over the marketing for this and he is a prominent, you know, and a central character.

But yeah, so much of this he's on.

He's just a part of a bigger machine and I do like that he does these things where yeah, he's certainly giving us all.

But it's an ensemble piece for sure and he's not trying to steal the ensemble.

Yeah.

And like, but they set the tone with that in the first 15, 20 minutes.

And I appreciate it.

And I think it was a wise choice to do.

But you could also feel like too as the film was unfolding.

You know, not unless she married gentleman.

No, sorry.

No, no, no.

You're good.

You could, you could feel like in the first 15, 20 minutes not only his, but the other characters like their, their ideology, what they believe in and their perspective.

And it gives you an understanding just where they're coming from.

And then once we, once all that happens and then we get into the predicament, unfortunately of what's his wife, his girlfriend wife, baby mama's name.

I forgot her character name.

She was incredible that actor.

Oh, the video.

Perfidia Beverly Hills.

Thank you.

Yes, yes.

Tiana Taylor.

When all that happens and then he's in a position of like hiding out and having to raise this child alone.

Like that's, that's a lot, you know, to have to handle on, on his own.

So, you know, having to numb that pain throughout his, like, yeah, he's got an incredible child that he's, he gets to raise, but he's got to do it alone.

So I can imagine like how lonely and isolating that can be having to do that by yourself.

You know, it's not an easy thing, raising a kid.

So.

Yeah, and to be alone and to probably feel very powerless and disconnected from like, even though it doesn't seem like he was the main brain behind the action they were taking with the film.

The French 75, you know, it's got to feel weird trying to like raise a kid.

You're not really able to be involved in any of the revolution now because you're in witness protection.

Essentially, you're just hiding now.

And not only that.

Yeah.

And hair and oil.

Yeah.

Having like, we get caught at any which time.

So yeah, for sure.

But also the, the cinematography in this film.

Like the sweeping landscape into the intimate close-ups.

Chef's kit.

Like this is seriously.

If this.

Yeah.

Lenses.

I really have not stayed up to date on who has been nominated for whatever in the Academy Awards, but if this film was not nominated for cinematography.

Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is it beautiful?

The 70 millimeter even on a TV looks amazing.

And notice it right away.

Seeing that grain really, you know, strikes you especially now that everything is pretty much digital.

So before we get to the questions, what do you think? How do you film?

Yeah.

I really enjoyed this.

I mean, this was a vivid experience for sure.

And certainly it's one of those movies that makes me want to go out and just learn more and become more worldly.

Because this is, you know, based on a novel, but it's also based on real life.

Sure.

You know, obviously both, you know, from the revolutionary side as well as from, you know, the, you know, it's, you have the revolution.

And you have like the forces of the state, whether they be the paramilitary of the police or whatever.

Yeah.

I'm not the most knowledgeable person on like revolutionary action.

And certainly the array of politics that they're discussing in this movie.

But I do make it my business at least to take some of that in.

And I'm actually this is a movie that gets me excited to go listen to some commentary by people smarter than me.

I know there's like an FD signifier, a couple videos from him about this.

And, and yeah, like I do it's a movie that makes me want to go out and seek, you know, a greater array of opinions.

But yeah, like as a film this flew by in terms of just like, you know, the actual experience of watching it.

Like yeah, very uncomfortable a lot of the time, very vivid, very harsh in certain circumstances and certain, you know, developments and whatnot.

But also, yeah, like based in reality and there's a certain I think interesting way that they're able to depict the sort of mess of all this and the sort of dichotomy of like your ideology versus your action.

And when the situation just gets so much bigger than you and the business of revolution is just sort of one battle after another until you move the rudder incrementally enough to make a legitimate change or whatever.

And you know, it's it's hard because all this stuff is human and you know, on both sides it is so and you know, it's like there are I think this movie was an interesting conversation about, you know, the systems and yeah, things the various tyrannies and the various prejudices and the various objectifications, you know, that this society that we live in kind of thrust upon us and forces all to react to.

You know, it's an interesting yin and yang between like characters like profidia and lockjaw because you know, they are diametrically opposed and yet they both get off on some weird thing that exists at the midpoint between them.

And it's twisted and disgusting and and there's like a cat and mouse get like they're in ways sort of detached from the real humanity of the situation because they're just so.

You know, to a particular extreme within their own ideologies and and yeah, the way in which they acknowledge the politics of sex they're sitting around the fire and she has that whole speech about, you know, the.

The female reproductive system is the weapon and the guns are the fun, you know, it's it's it seems she's a seeming demon john.

Whatever, whatever the hell that means the amount of horrible slang phrases that were used in this movie.

I got to imagine too a lot of this actors are like I'm getting paid.

Sure, of course, yeah, you got to you got to embrace the non-judgment of the character and you know, the greater goal of the art.

But yeah, and then to have this again totally twisted ridiculous sort of this character like lockjaw who just will not stop he is a bit like a terminator.

He's just so determined and he's so, you know, stone faced and he's so.

Brimming with this, you know, seething, I don't know, just under the surface and to come to find that even he is a deviant by some greater system and like as above so below the revolution that's taking place in the underground just beneath the surface where all the regular people like you see so few of the regular people like her friends.

Are like the regular the normies that you see for a minute is a good observation.

You made to they really did feel extremely grounded and did not feel like you were watching even actors.

They really did feel real like strikingly outside of both purviews because yeah, it's like you have the revolution which you know there are all kinds of conversations to have about violence in the purpose of violence.

And I kind of as I look at the world for my own interpretation sort of accept that like while I'm not a violent person and I don't celebrate or encourage violence necessarily.

There are just some things in life and especially politics and when fascism tyranny any other form of oppression is a foot sometimes violence is a natural outcome of oppression.

And sometimes it's unavoidable and sometimes you know again while I don't encourage violence sometimes violence has to be necessary in certain cases.

And this is an interesting conversation about that but also yeah, it's the ideology versus the people and the weird sort of personal things that we crush and don't understand about our own identities as we're also aligning our whole identity with these rebellions or these systems of power that we want to preserve or whatever it might be.

And so yeah, there's an as above so below this where you have the revolution just underground from the normal people who we rarely ever see and then you have, you know, the main face of the tyranny or the chokehold, you know, the, you know, immigration enforcements that are putting people in cages and separating families and mangling people like their meat, you know, or, you know, the police in the streets looking for reasons to incite violence.

And sure, not every situation is this but these are real situations that happen. But then beyond that, you know, beyond the state versus the revolution, it's like there's a counter.

I'm going to pay this as above so below thing office where there's like a counter above the state, which is the fucking Christmas collective or whatever they call that thing, which is like the shadowy cabal of dudes who are looking to kind of do their own revolutionary action in so far as they are going to preserve the imbalance of power.

The imbalance of power that benefits them ultimately and supports their, you know, narrow ideology of who is worthy and why.

And so with all we're learning about the Epstein files and shit, like as outlandish and colorful as this movie is, it's an interesting explosion of psychology's meeting ideologies, meeting these, yeah, systems that are faulty because of human error.

And yeah, this whole mess of a world that we have is fascinating. Like again, I'm curious to get some more direct political reads and certainly like the objectification throughout this movie is a pointed thing. There's a whole

keep repeating the two like black girls and then freaking locked jaw says it in his own way like black or you know like and there's the yeah, I know that in the conversation around social change and and you know revolution and whatnot, you know, women are instrumental to that.

And especially black women are, you know, if you do even a modicum of your reading instrumental to that. And so the way this movie positions it's black women characters is interesting and they are certainly quite varied.

You know, prophetia being this, you know, fiery visionary, but who is completely kind of erratic in her own personal foundations, then you have Regina Hall, who seems like the really sensible steady clear-minded one who meets this, you know, end where I don't know what happened to her.

You know, we don't even really get the clear on if she makes it out to prison forever or if they just kill her. And then you have, yeah, this sort of child of the two halves of the thing in, you know,

no, no, no, in daughter, what's her name? I should know.

Oh, it's Charlene, you know, and she is now, you know, kind of the new as the movie position that she's the new version of this, you know, for the now for the it's not the old thing that you know,

they're trying to hold on to.

I think that she was raised by locked jaw.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's a nature nurture in that, yeah, the whole like commodification of like, you're my daughter and we could have got to know each other and you're fucking disrespectful and like, this is so twisted.

And yeah, and so like, you can see where like a human once was that just got completely warped in this man. And like, it's sad because he's like, oh, not gay.

And like, and he's clearly like, has these feelings about black women and stuff like that.

Yeah, I'm like, if you could free yourself from just these miles of concrete, I'm sure repression, trauma, whatever, you might be able to, but you're so far gone.

And yeah, like the way he ends up just mangled and like, you know, tough as nails, he walks away from getting shot in the face.

And then all of a sudden they, yeah, they, they were him and with this, you know, ultimate, you know, acceptance and position and he's at the top of the mountain.

Christmas adventure and they, yeah, they just did a really good job to really quick for it.

Two seconds and then we'll get to the question.

I thought they did a good job of blending certain themes like parent and responsibility and also how conflict shapes identity.

Yeah. So they did a really incredible job just blending these things together really, really strong film.

Yeah. And sympathetic like it's interesting again to see Leo in this mode and to yeah, be like a character is like a real fuck up.

And a lot of the time you're like, dude, you are absolutely not helping yourself.

But like with a heart in the right place, you know, he's very ineffectual to like the motion of the actual plot.

But like you do feel that great relief when they reunite because you know that this guy is at least very human and really loves this girl.

He really loves his daughter. Yeah.

By the time we go to the end of the film though, you really truly believe his arc now.

And you know, when, you know, he's really being a more attentive towards his daughter.

Yeah.

So it's not that he hasn't been caring towards or he just hasn't been the most like their dad if that makes any sense.

You know what I mean?

He says she's been more of his babysitter. She's been more of the parent for the last, you know, so on year or so.

All right. Well, let's hop into a few questions before we hit the boogie.

Sounds good.

This is, yeah, this movie you could talk about forever, but Captain Fernandez.

Thanks for chiming in.

Captain says I saw this in IMAX.

And when the Steelie Dan Needle Drop hits is we're introduced to Teenage Willis last Charlene.

I knew we were in for something special.

Are there any needle drops in other movies that made you feel the same way?

I'm sure there are.

That's a great question.

The only one I can just right now out of the blue think of that I remember going this pump me up Needle Drop.

It was Thor Ragnarok.

They played the same song twice.

What was the...

Can you pull it up for me because I feel so dumb right now?

Which movie, sir?

Thor Ragnarok.

They played the same song twice.

Oh, the Amigrant song?

Yeah, there you go.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I thought that was an awesome Needle Drop twice.

Because usually you don't see the same song played twice in a movie like that.

I thought that was really cool, but I'm sure there's so many.

Just in the moment.

That's what I'm picking.

What about you?

Right now, my friend Mallory, one of my best friends in the world,

last year took me to see Lost Highway.

And there is a Needle Drop in that movie.

It's a cover of this magic moment by Lou Reed.

And it's such a beautiful moment.

And it's a song that's become very important to me.

So yeah, I think that's a great one.

But yeah, there are so, so, so many.

But that's the one you guys were expecting, John.

I also personally, I like to love Hertz in Halloween Rob Zombie's version.

Not that that was the moment where I was like, this is going to be the movie.

But you know, yeah, there's a lot of, yeah, there are a lot of good movie Needle drops.

But yeah, it's like a Let's Go one.

You know, it wasn't like, yeah, that was a moment where I was like, oh, yeah,

this is a movie something.

So, but I'm sure there are a million examples, you know, so ask this question again on another Needle Drops movie.

Yeah, no, it's a great question. No, thank you.

All right, Pierre, the reject.

Thank you for being a real, or royal reject.

Oh, thank you for being a real, yeah.

And for asking the question, we appreciate you.

What did you guys think of Tiana Taylor's performance?

I think she deserved the Oscar, even though she had a little screen time.

I mean, she elevated every scene she was in.

And she really leaves you remembering her performance, even though she's barely in the film.

So I think she was incredible.

I don't know what else I've seen her.

I feel like she's been acting more recently because she's like a musician too.

I feel like she's kind of a multi-hitioned now.

She had incredible presence in every single scene she was in.

And the fact that I don't really, I don't think I've seen her anything else.

And I know I talk about this a lot when I mention actors I haven't really seen in many other things.

She's acting with pretty big heavyweights.

Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio, and she's really holding her own in those scenes.

So she did an incredible job.

So I'm pretty shocked that she was a nominate for the Academy Award.

Yeah.

That would have she not been acting.

Well, I don't know.

Like I said, I was not up to date on who was nominated for what?

The cinematography of this film for sure deserved.

But I could see her getting a nomination too.

Oh.

Oh, so it was nominated for Best Cinematography?

Yeah, I guess so.

Yeah, I could see that.

I was going to say Sean Penn got a nomination.

He's incredible.

Oh, it did Benicio?

Is that what it said?

Sorry.

Benicio?

I guess they both got nominated.

Oh, that's interesting.

Too fascinating.

I mean he's incredible.

Benicio was great in this too.

I really did like Benicio.

Like a movie that's so heavy handed.

He brings a little levity to all the tension that's happening to literally.

When he's saying breathe, it's almost like he's speaking to the audience.

Okay.

Tiana Taylor was nominated for Best Supporting Act.

Oh, good.

Yeah.

Fantastic.

Yeah, 100%.

I mean, yeah, this is the first thing I've seen her act in.

And I've seen a lot more of her face lately.

But yeah, she was incredibly effective in this role.

I mean, yeah, she absolutely nailed the assignment.

She has to be this force of nature.

She has to like lift off the screen and be this sort of, yeah, figure that.

Yeah, it's very complicated.

And, you know, so many people's lives and futures hinge upon.

And I think yeah, her other worldly presence.

Like, yeah, she's everything that is presented here.

She's so ferocious and formidable and sexy and, you know, competent.

But also very, you know, wild and sort of untamed in a way.

Yeah, I think she absolutely, absolutely deserves every flower.

She gets from this, from this work because she did a terrific, terrific job.

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Raymond Terry.

Love the film.

And how it's a melting pot for different genres that PTA successfully juggled.

One thing I'm still fascinated about is how the time period of the movie is never explicitly stated.

We're talking about that.

Yeah.

There are visual aids regarding technology and vehicles and a specific movie being referenced.

Yet it could be any of the recent decades.

How did this come across to either of you?

Maybe in film line.

Maybe the film line, quote, time doesn't exist yet.

It controls us anyway is all that's needed.

That's a great point, Raymond.

I mean, we were talking about it because there were payphones being used.

And here in California,

a lot of them don't work no more.

Well, not only do they not work, it's hard to even find.

Yeah.

Hey, rare.

You know, so seldom do I ever see payphones anymore.

And if you do find them, as John just pointed out, they don't work very often anymore.

So, that's why at first I was like, wait, what year is this?

And then they were also having cell phones.

I was like, I'm a little confused at the timeline right now.

So, yeah, I was a little confused.

But then I realized that whatever.

It doesn't really wait greeting code.

She was one of the people over the phone.

Oh, over the phone.

Okay.

That makes more sense.

I was like, okay, I did not see.

We saw a gentleman alone.

Yeah.

Sorry, guys, a gentleman alone.

But yeah, I'm in the end of the day.

I don't think it really matters in terms of what you're at.

I stopped caring at a certain point.

But what about you?

Did you, was there a specific ear you thought it was?

Not especially, but I think that's kind of the, I would agree that.

I think that's part of the point because I think part of what the movie is getting at

is that like, you know, sense life is sort of one battle after another.

And the business of revolution and creating a better world for everyone

is a constant battle because there are so many perspectives and sides

and different machinations in summer for all the people in summer for just a few of the people.

And yeah, it's one of those things where it's like a timeless set of circumstances.

Like the specificities change.

And there is that thing at the end where she's like, maybe you can go on and change the world.

But part of it is like the world never really fully just reinvents off of one person

or one action.

It's just incrementally over years, decades, centuries.

So yeah, like I appreciate it sort of that it's a bit, it's like vaguely modern.

And even in the earlier scenes, I feel like when they capture graffiti,

as someone's got a smartphone there.

So yeah, it seems like it must be at least in the two post 2000.

Sure.

I would argue.

Sure.

Because there was still payphones at that time.

Sure.

Well, yeah, it's like, I think anytime where you weren't fully in the, I mean, you know,

by the, I think by the 2000s, you're starting to get to the point where a cell phone is less

of a luxury novelty and more of like, you know, okay, these are becoming more regular.

Now payphones.

Now even people who are on the margins of society can get a cheap cell phone, you know.

So like the need for payphones and nobody carrying cash or not like, you know,

but anyhow, all that aside.

Yeah, I like, I think the way that like you pointed out, I like the melting of all the different genres and stuff.

Like this was heavy in a lot of ways and thoughtful and political.

But also it had a certain sense of fun and has certain sense of, again, thrill.

Even though it never felt like a roller coaster, it never felt fun in the intense moments.

It never felt like an action movie or even the moments where it felt like a heist movie felt more like an intense

like anything could go very wrong any time.

But yeah, I would say that I think it complements what the movie's talking about to have it be at a sort of vague time and place.

Because again, they're always going to be secret cabals at the top of the ladder trying to control everything for the select few.

And they're always going to be people at the bottom just trying to help everyone live.

And then the rest of us sort of in between trying to make sense of and discover the true reality of it all.

So anyway.

Rudy Rogers, thank you for being a royal reject for asking a question.

We appreciate you.

Hi, rejects.

Excited as heck that you guys are finally getting around to this.

Yeah.

I've been waiting to watch it for the first time with you guys.

Curious to hear what you all believe is the overarching message of the story, sending much love.

I mean, for me, keep a pretty simplistic and simple.

I just, I thought like, you know, whatever your political ideology is like, what are you willing to do to achieve it?

Or what are you willing to sacrifice and give up for it at the end of the day?

And what do you believe in, right?

Yeah.

I think a lot of that was like coming across to me when I was watching this.

And like, what are the important things?

I think John also said something very striking to me.

Like I'm at heart a pacifist, but sometimes we got to do things that we don't want to do.

Like I would never ever want violence in any situation.

But sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do.

You just hold the two ideas.

Yeah.

You're like, I don't support violence in any place.

Of course.

Never.

There will be circumstances where you can't really argue.

Yeah.

And I doubt it.

Yeah. And like from Leo's character, like I doubt he would want to do that.

But he saw like injustice and he was just doing what he felt was right.

So, you know, it's like again, what are you willing to sacrifice and do for the things you feel are right?

I think the message of the movie really is to read the God damn revolutionary handbook.

So you don't forget the fucking codes.

Yeah.

That's not, I think you're onto something there.

Yeah.

Be careful how much you drink and smoke over the years.

This is a fascinating movie and it's a lot of things.

And so I would be lying if I was saying, if I said, you know, I'm sitting here going like,

this is the main message of the movie.

But I don't know.

I think it's somewhere in the realm of the balance of humanity with the ideology.

You know, it's about kind of aligning yourself to the circumstances.

You leave a lot of revolution.

They say you live the revolution.

And sometimes that means taking direct action and sometimes that means locking in and caring for this kid.

You know, and everything in life in some way shape or form depending on how you're looking at it can be political.

And so yeah, you know, what do you have?

You have this fiery symbol of the revolution, but who sold us out and who made a very selfish choice

to like get completely off the grid, go live her freedom.

We don't know what happens there.

You know, so like you, you got a kind of a line, I guess, what your, yeah, your ideology with like your actual waking self to create the most direct bless you kind of action.

It's like you look at the Benicio del Toro character and you're, I was so calm in his presence always,

because he seemed like a guy who knew exactly what he stood for and what action he was trying to take,

but who also had sort of a grip on himself as a person and his place in all of this.

Yeah.

And I feel like, you know, he's the least messy appearing character or like Regina Hall especially are the least sort of erratic and messy characters.

And then by the end, you wonder like, yeah, they keep talking about how you got all your mother's fire and grit and you know determination and single mindedness.

But she's also got her dad's tenderness.

And even though he is not a portrait of perfection for what the revolution ought to be, he's a bit of a shrub.

He's, you know, obviously he's a supporting player, but he has that love that I think helps to balance her moving into the future.

You know, you got the fire, but you've also got the recollection of what you actually have to live for and the security in that.

And you know, that I think can alleviate you the fear that makes you run that whole thing about you're a stump.

She's a runner.

You know, Leo for all of his shortcomings is like pretty on the surface in terms of who he is.

Whereas Prophidia is a bit of a fortress, you know, up until the letter at the end when you really kind of feel who this person might be vulnerable.

Yeah.

I don't know the revolution is everywhere.

It will and won't be televised in interesting ways.

Women and black women are probably at the forefront of it.

There's so much to glean from this.

And yeah, I'm just excited to go engage more in the conversation and take in more perspectives on it personally.

It's one of those films I feel like too.

The more you watch it, the more you're going to gather from it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

100%.

All right, bud.

Last question, Jaden Rhodes.

Jaden, thank you so much for being a real reject.

I asked him a question.

We appreciate you.

This was my second favorite movie of the last year.

Only centers beat it out by a fraction.

I haven't seen too many PTA movies, Paul Thomas Anderson.

But of the ones I have seen, this is probably my favorite.

I'm curious if y'all agree.

And what is y'all's favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie?

I think I've only seen buggy nights.

If I'm being honest and I saw that 20 years ago, I think,

it's been a very, very, very long time to the point where I really don't remember much of it.

So based on that, sure, I'll go with this one.

This is my favorite.

But yeah, like I said at the beginning of the intro, I would love to with John go on a tangent here of many PTA films.

If you guys are down for that, if John is down for that.

Yeah, I too have a pretty spotty PTA viewing history personally.

I have seen buggy nights.

It's been a very long time.

I think this or that I would say are the contenders because I haven't seen Magnolia yet.

I haven't seen Punch Drunk Love yet.

My hot take is I saw there will be blood in like high school when it first came out.

I have very little recollection of it.

Other than it left me cold and I did not share in everyone else's enthusiasm for it.

I saw the master once when it came out.

I thought that was an interesting gripping movie.

I don't know if I love it as a watching experience that I would like put on again.

Inherent vice, I think is very fun.

But I think it's more of a low key PTA.

It's not when I would like go to bat four, but I do think is a lot of fun.

I liked it.

I remember liking it.

Haven't seen Phantom Thread or licorice pizza.

So yeah, I mean, this one I would say of the ones I've seen.

If it's not Boogie Nights, which I need to watch again with fresh eyes,

I feel like that might still be it.

But this one is a contender.

I thought, yeah, this one definitely kept me gripped.

And I really like the ensemble, the music, the cinematography, everything.

And it flew by.

Like it's for a two hour and 40 minute movie.

Oh, I didn't feel the contender.

Yeah, I didn't really think of or feel the runtime much at all.

So I felt the intensity and the tension and my heart racing.

That I felt.

Yeah.

But out of all those movies, if we could pick one to react to next for me,

I would want to do.

I've heard so many.

I've heard so many incredible things about them all, but Magnolia for years.

I've just heard so many positive things.

I really want to see that one one day.

Just a couple of quicky facts before we close out here for fun.

Lockjaw's second in command and chief interrogator Danvers is played by a non-professional actor.

Oh.

He's named Raiderman, a security consultant and former HSI special agent.

He's the guy I think was interrogating everywhere.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you were like, he felt real.

He felt real.

He felt real, man.

That's why he felt so real.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Cool.

And also apparently the exterior mansion where the Christmas Adventurers Club meets

was the home of Ronald Reagan and Sacramento where he was governor of California.

Okay.

And yeah, I guess the Bennett Sean Penn started reading this.

He knew he wanted to make the film calling it a gift of a part for an actor his age.

I mean, he was incredible in the film.

Oh boy.

Great performance.

Yeah.

Oh, and apparently the car chase scene at the end was not scripted.

Paul Thomas Anderson was on a car location scouting for hours when he was thinking,

I'm never coming on a location scout again.

He spotted the road dips, the quote, river of hills as the director called it,

and started shooting with his phone and losing the horizon.

As he zoomed in, he thought it was even scarier.

That's when he knew how and where to shoot.

And when he came up with the idea of Willa stopping the car.

That was so bright.

I mean, that's why I was saying too, like as it's like this is a cinematic roller coaster right now

with the way everything is, is scoped out with this road.

Oh, and yeah, the award locked our receives for capturing the French 75,

the Bedford Forest Award is named for Nathaniel Bedford Forest,

the first grand wizard of the clan.

Oh, didn't we, did you mention?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's that out of my mind.

That's a pointed detail.

And Bob is seen watching the Battle of Algiers, which is a 66 movie,

an iconic film about left-wing political social resistance to tyranny

that forms much of the aesthetic of this film.

Yeah, I would not have known that from a 60s film.

I think that's part of the message is just that all of this is a mess,

and it's all human, so you just got to do your best and try and align yourself

as much as you can with your ideology that you feel like is right

and is right for everyone around you,

or at least, you know, freeze from tyranny everyone around you.

Amen.

Boy, howdy gang, this was quite a piece.

This was a tour de force in many ways.

Very curious to see how it fares the Academy Awards this year.

Thank you for joining us.

Leave us your thoughts.

This is definitely one I wanted to just, yeah,

hear some takes and opinions and, you know,

it seems like a good water cooler movie.

And a good opportunity to remind yourselves that, you know,

even though art doesn't have to be political,

everything touches politics in some way.

So we shouldn't be afraid of that in our media.

Anyway, cheers gang.

We'll see you on the next one.

One reaction after another.

Peace out.

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