All right, all right.
Feeny talks with friends.
Episode 160.
I guess I owe Matthew McConaughey some a check.
Do I have to send him a check now?
I heard he copyrighted.
All right, all right. What do you think about that?
I hope he didn't.
We're
having a great podcast today with some good friends.
Jake. What's up? Jake?
Hello. It's nice to be here, Max.
Really, really excited to be here.
And a great friend and a good friend and a good supporter.
Billy. Be a good friend.
That's the motto of Friends of Feeny. And, Let's go.
I brought my two best friends, Jake and Max.
The boys just turned 28 today, and movies are.
They just love them. So yes they. Do.
Yeah.
From animation of the first movie, they adult movie, The Italian Job.
And, they've since then they they'll tell you the rest of the story.
Yeah. Movies are a great way to,
you know, do you guys talk about them after as a family?
Do you guys compare and contrast notes and how you feel about them?
Yeah, all the time.
Yeah, I've been doing that
with my daughter, and, I just find it so interesting.
And Bill, as a dad. Yeah.
Rewatching movies that we grew up with, with your children,
it's like watching them all over again. Isn't it amazing?
Totally different perspective. It's great.
No one's a big scene is going to come up and watching your kids
and not watching the show, seeing how they're going to react to it.
Yeah, so much fun.
Like the end of Carlito's Way,
when you want Carlito to get on the subway and just be free to Miami.
My daughter sits up and she's like, and then Benny Blanco gets him at the end.
And she was like, no!
And I knew it was coming, but she did it and it was just so amazing.
Movies are fantastic.
We're here with the movie critic Dot today.
Amazing, amazing podcast.
Our amazing, website. Yes,
site.
I write reviews for it.
Yeah.
You write reviews and we have a cameo actor
who just starred in and a famous movie that's killing it these days.
How was that?
It was a very interesting experience.
It happened very randomly.
And which movie was that? Jake?
Marty Supreme, which now has, been nominated
for nine Academy Awards, and I got to be in it.
For the first
five minutes as a background in the background.
So he was a an extra.
An extra?
Yeah. Timothy Shalamar.
He's the hottest star in Hollywood these days.
He seems to be a nomination. Yes.
You get to meet him and Gwyneth. Yeah.
No, I didn't.
Gwyneth wasn't in the scene, so I didn't meet her.
But I did meet him. Yeah.
And he seemed like. The real deal.
He was very nice.
He said hello, and we said hello, and he just got right, right to work.
He didn't goof around on set at all.
He was all business.
Yeah, I noticed that.
Yeah, he worked really hard for that role. Right
when I was there.
He certainly did. You sure. So, yeah.
And I think the rest of the movie, it shows each other as well.
So yeah, I know we have four movies that we're going to talk about.
That was one movie I didn't get a chance to see just yet, but it is on my list.
You'll enjoy it. It's really.
It's excellent.
Okay.
And how many Golden Globes did it just get?
A couple of weeks ago.
He won best actor in a comedy.
Is it a comedy?
I don't know, I don't think. So.
Yeah, well, to break it down, how they do that in Best movie in the Oscars,
it's a little different than best movie in the Golden Globes right out there, too.
Yeah, the Oscars don't divide categories
until Sandra's, but the Golden Globes do.
And the usually they do it based on what's going to have enough room.
So kind of like how the Emmys does it.
So they'll have best comedy and comedy, best horror movie drama movie made.
Probably not horror, but,
where the Oscars is just best movie.
Yeah. Oh, interesting. Okay, learn some new.
Thank you for sharing that. Yeah.
Yeah. Really excited.
Episode 160 plays a role.
I mentioned that earlier. Number 160.
When you're talking films, when you submit a script, it can no longer
the pages can be no longer no shorter than 70 pages and no more than 160 pages.
Look at that.
And it fits our podcast, Talking Movies today.
All right.
Also, Sir Michael Caine has acted in 160 movies.
How many how many awards has he won?
He two Oscars, I think.
Right. Two.
Very good. Yeah. Very good.
That was trivia question. Regarding the four of us.
There's only been one person in the movie and that's Jake.
So congratulations, Sonya. Thank you know.
He was in a movie, so.
Yeah.
So your dad was telling me
a little bit, you're walking down the street in New York, and.
I was just honestly, I it this was when I was in my old apartment
on 72nd Street, and I was honestly just out getting a hot dog one day, and,
some and a woman approached me and she said that she was a casting agent
and that she happened to, like, my luck, she thought it was 1950.
If I don't know, I didn't.
I prefer a thought about it, but that's what she said,
and she wanted to know if I'd be interested
being an extra in an A24 movie with, Tommy Fish Army.
Obviously I said yes.
And, I went and,
probably a week or so later and the it was.
Yeah, I, I've never been a, an extra before in a movie.
So I got to see how that worked.
And there's a lot of standing around, a lot of waiting around.
But I got to see myself up
on screen in the theater, and that feeling was just as awesome.
So super cool.
That's great. Yeah. Jennifer Venditti is. That.
I believe that's her name. Passing agent.
So when Jake told us we, you know, we said, kind of,
you know, we checked her out. She's totally legit.
And then when she said that, Jake looks like, you know, he had a look
that maybe he would look like he's from the 50s.
I told the Sanders.
I mean, we were from the 30s, you know, but, yeah, it worked out great.
And we saw Jake on the big screen Christmas Day.
That's what we did for the holidays.
Can't wait to see it. Yep.
Oh, that's so cool. I'm jealous.
I want to be in a movie.
Maybe Matthew McConaughey when I saw him, the check for the.
All right, all right. He'll put me in a movie.
Or maybe Timothy Qomolangma lying.
We'll put me in a movie now. It's great.
Were you smoking a cigaret in the movie?
I heard rumor has it.
Faking on on set. I was pretending to.
Yeah, yeah, I pretended to.
Well, we were filming.
I think that
scene didn't end up going into the movie, so it wasn't really necessary.
Okay, I think I only appear on screen a few times, but I'm in the same position.
I'm leaning over the pulled that ping pong table.
Very cool.
Yeah, yeah.
And dark. Dark.
You know, he's playing ping pong in a bar. It's totally cool.
Great opening scene for the movie. Yeah.
Nice. Yeah. What's a good opening film?
That's awesome.
Are you getting paid still again, checks in the mail.
Oh, no. It was only a one time thing.
One night.
No, at, like 500 or something, and they're not bad.
Yeah. I had a student once.
Jordan Booker, my guy.
He was in a couple of Law and Order episodes.
He did modeling, and they had the face, and they needed a kid.
That's it.
Good for him. That's so cool.
And then Max, Max, you guys, all my listeners,
you may have seen Max in episode 127 almost a year ago today.
Yeah, a lot's happened since. None. Yeah.
So how's let's get right into it.
How's resistance?
How's revolution?
How's reclamation?
It's. That's going really good.
I finished the first season, writing the first season.
I'm. I'm still in the beginning of,
Revolution.
The first episode of which will be an eight episode miniseries.
And then I can move on to season two, of resistance.
And then when that's over,
you know, season three and then reclamation.
But the first season and the miniseries are intertwined,
so that kind of requires a certain level of focus.
But when I'm done with that, I think that the writing will go much faster.
How many episodes have you written from season one?
Ten? Ten? Ten? Ten? Wow.
Yeah, it was so cool to then you and you stuck there
because on podcast 127, I highly suggest everyone go back and listen.
You said you're going to do season one of resistance,
and in between season one and season two, you're doing a mini series. Yes.
Where'd you get that idea? That's a amazing idea.
Never seen it done before.
Well, there's more,
I I already had a lot of characters
that I wanted to write, before, I actually started,
but once I started, I ended up adding more than I had anticipated,
and it just made more sense to have,
that kind of.
There's more room for back story.
Thunder is in film usually.
So, yeah, you know, some characters will appear
like very briefly, but then later on during the series
you'll see certain scenes again, but from a different point of view.
So you'll see things in a different way.
Oh, wow.
In your ultimate goal, do you want to watch that on.
Netflix? Hopefully.
Maybe HBO Max will say nice.
Yeah, yeah. Oh,
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck just had the rip that's on Netflix. Yes.
Did you see that? They.
Matt Damon came out in an interview and said that Netflix encourages
the movies to really be
prominent with the storyline and not pull anything away
or hide anything because viewers are on their phones.
Did you hear that? Did you see that? Do you agree?
I didn't see the interview, but I heard that he said that.
I think that, you know, I certainly am not someone
that would ever want to alienate or disrespect audiences.
But, you know, I'm more than happy for anyone within the film industry
to do what they need to to fix a lot of the problems that are going on.
But audiences really have got to step up and do their share, too.
Yeah, I know, and back on 127 you were like, audience members
also need to stop complaining about do you remember the runtime?
Like, why would you show up for wise?
Yeah, it's interesting that you said that because watching movies
with my daughter, I'm like, two hours and 30 minute, two hours and 40 minutes.
And I remember Max telling me, hey, Feeney, don't worry about the runtime.
Sit back and enjoy the movie. And, some.
Audiences are like a good chunk of the time.
Are often like children that won't eat your vegetables.
They're very restless. They don't know what's good for them.
They just they they're just they're just very shaky.
And anxious and they can't like, it's like a lot of audiences
have such a hard time focusing and,
I don't know, it's like they, it's treated very simplistically, like, oh,
I'm going,
you know, I'm going to the movies, but there's something so much bigger to
it than that, you know?
They just, I don't know, it's a luxury,
but it's a luxury that a lot of them seem to take for granted.
But of course, there are so many amazing audiences still.
And, I'm always grateful for that.
I, I'm sure we are going to see more of that this year,
because there's a lot of good stuff that's coming out.
So nice. Nice.
All right, guys, well, I'm going to head off and you know
like you break it down.
All right I can't wait to see. All right.
Be a good friend.
Be a good friend. Take over. All right.
Now let's talk about something that you both, participated in.
And I really want to hear about this, Venice film fest in Venice Beach.
You guys go to Venice, Italy? We did. That was,
that was very unexpected.
And, it was it?
Yeah, it was in the, September of 24.
And it was, actually a gift from our, paternal grandmother.
She surprised us.
I really don't know what the occasion was, but
I guess she just be.
Yeah, I for whatever reason, she decided that that's, what?
She was going to surprise us with that.
So it was just Max and I who attended the film festival.
She and my mom kind of taught there during the day.
Grandma went to, Billy's mom? Yes.
Yeah, she. Man, she's 90 plus.
Right. Bill 1991.
Yeah, I see pictures. Billy said.
Oh, she's amazing. Worcester. Yes.
Oh, wow. She went to Venice.
Yeah, she did.
Oh, nice.
All right.
We'll play a game in Venice.
What was the first thing that you did?
The last thing that you did,
the best thing that you did and the worst thing that you did.
The worst thing I did was,
the, evaporators at the end of not just one,
but every time we went to go see a film, I, I hated using them.
I could not figure out how to do it, and I never will again.
Oh, I'm a third grade teacher.
Never been to Venice. What?
Can you explain what you just said?
And what was the. Proper way to start a water taxis?
And it's just it's so hard trying to figure out how to think.
Just figuring out how to use them, you know, they never like we go
to where they say we're going to go and then they never show up.
And it's just and I know it's because I wasn't looking at it
right or reading it right.
It's just so confusing.
It's, I thought it was a movie term.
It's the way the transfer function.
Sounds like one. Sorry about that.
Now I was confused.
Oh, wait, do you take it like a like a bus?
Like you hop on.
Like exactly.
Exactly like a water bus. And it's
it was really hot when we went,
so that didn't help, but, you know, a burrito.
Fat burrito?
Yeah.
At the end, like, every time we saw a movie, I was like,
God, I wish I could just enjoy this
without having to think about how we're going to get home afterwards.
And, but, no, we enjoyed the movies we saw.
I mean, the films that year were so great.
We picked a good year to go.
Well, we didn't peck, but we got lucky with a great selection.
So, grandma, thank you. Grandma.
Yeah.
All right.
Worst thing vaporetto, what about best?
First and last.
The films.
That auditorium was absolutely ginormous.
I've never seen anything so big and grand in our lives.
And, you know, and we didn't have the same seats for the entirety of the festival.
So it was really interesting watching movies from various viewpoints
throughout the time. Some one of the times we were,
like the far, far left side.
And at the very front.
So the screen looked very different
and say when we were sitting in the way, way back.
And then sometimes we were like towards the front, never directly in the middle.
But it's it does it is interesting.
The various that people audiences do have
very different preferences, on seating, how they like the screen to.
Yeah.
To look, you know, some audiences really prefer being like way up front
and having to, you know, look up, which is kind of unusual, but,
it's it's interesting for sure.
Jake.
Best worst first, last.
Yes, though I don't
I mean, honestly, I would probably say the worst was probably to heat.
It was really hot over there.
They don't even have.
They don't I don't think they really have ice there either.
So I mean, they do, but, they, it.
Yeah, they, they sell it in like a big bag.
And so we kind of had to organize that in our freezer.
And it was just a beautiful city.
But it's not it's traditional.
It was.
Well, it was it was hot.
It was, it was hot.
But, that would probably be the worst thing.
And, the best thing, I agree, were the films we got very,
lucky that that year with a great lineup,
the, the brutal, it was, 100 films in competition
and that was nominated for a bunch of stuff.
So we got to see that there.
We saw,
a few episodes as well of the,
the Apple TV miniseries disclaimer as well.
They did that in a other section.
So that was cool. We,
yeah, it was,
we saw Angelina Jolie and, and in person.
In person. Yes.
We did, you know, witnessed not like, engage where she was
stepping off of a bow and looked like she had stuff to do other than, you know,
did not time for us enough within our our eye range that we truly like.
We truly saw her get out and.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then we saw, Vincent London, who's a, French actor who we like.
And he ended up actually winning the best, actor prize at Venezia.
And we, he was in the screening of his film,
I think it was called The Quiet or something like that. Yeah.
And, yeah, we gave a big applause at the end for him, and that was really nice.
So, that. Yeah, it was just.
I mean, that's really why we went there was the festival, and we were.
I was happy to be able to experience that, with you, Max.
That was.
Yeah, definitely.
I had a great time. Yeah, it was wonderful. And then,
Yeah.
So that was the best and worst, I would say.
And I don't know what your.
Other first thing you did in the last thing you did.
Oh, yes.
First thing I did, first thing we did was,
find our, driver
who got us to our villa that we rented, and, man.
Live in it. Up.
Yeah, yeah. That's badass. I say that right.
But what was.
I think so, no, no, the water transportation apparatus.
What is it?
Evaporate us. Evaporate us?
I'm a fool. Don't know that one. All right.
Evaporate as I'm going to remember. Yeah.
And then the last thing we did, I believe, was,
before we left, I think I had,
crap that morning. I think that. Yeah.
Which are very good.
So they tell us. Strawberry banana cream.
Yeah. Yeah, that's the only way to go. Yeah.
What about a couple years earlier?
Philly film festival? Yes.
You know what?
This year, I thought I thought I won, I think this past year of 25
I think was probably my favorite because first of all, I, I'd seen the most
films started and I'd ever seen, I think
how many 20 something, at least 21.
Maybe 22 of the films, that one you saw all 21?
No, 22 films I saw this year at the festival in Philly.
Some of them were from,
had premiered in Venice, some of them from Kansas.
But, no, I'd seen,
yeah, you'd seen 21.
I'd seen one.
Yeah, yeah, it was 21. But, you know, we go
there are free features there in Philadelphia that we used.
One of them had just completely gotten,
redecorated.
So it looks gorgeous.
One of the figures I'd never even been to before.
So this year, I finally got to go to all three.
And, yeah, it was so many people showed up.
Philadelphia has a great community for sure.
Yeah.
Is it by the Liberty Bell?
Is it by where the Sixers play?
Where you know what, it's interesting.
They're all sort of spread out.
None of them are particularly there.
There's an East theater. Yeah.
Then there's the main theater, which is near,
I think the, I don't know what building it is that's in the center.
But, like, kind of like, right in downtown Philadelphia.
And then there's.
Oh, yeah, Broad Street. Right.
And then there's, the new one that we went to and I.
Where is that located?
Max, do you know that is located?
It's it's,
it's I don't remember either, but it's on, like,
I probably the other side of town, but it's beautiful. Yeah.
They did a great job. Yeah. How many years have you been going to that?
I been going since 2019.
2020 was virtual.
So, yeah, but I have every I've partaken every year since then.
Very cool. Just sponsored by.
Aka hotels Larry Korman.
He is wonderful.
And he is, as passionate about cinema as I am.
And yeah, it's been great.
We've gone on such a long journey together.
Yeah.
We mentioned Arc Hotels minute 26 of our last podcast.
So when's the last time you, interacted with them?
All right.
I think it was the first of all.
I mean, he and I really don't get to see each other that often.
It really sucks.
But, he's he's so phenomenal,
and he's very generous, and he does so much great work.
For people, he's very selfless and he's just very passionate
about cinema and the arts in general.
So, yeah, I'm very proud of him.
We did stay at his new arc in Boston back in December, so that was a great year.
Way to end the year. So yeah.
Very cool, very cool.
You ready to break down some movies?
I am.
Oh, yeah.
What happened last year after my podcast, someone reached out to you,
saw our podcast. What happened?
Dennis house. He had me on.
And it was a really fun experience.
And, getting to share my productions and,
I hope to do it again this year.
We'll see.
So. Yeah, so we definitely have a lot to talk to him about. Yes.
So it was great that Dennis house gave me a nice little shout out,
prior to that episode or prior to at the beginning of your episode.
So thank you, Dennis.
He was episode 25, great friend.
You were awesome on the show.
Your predictions all hit, right?
They did. Yeah.
I know,
did your predictions change from the predictions that you made on our podcast?
No, I don't think so.
My recap.
Let's go over your 2025 recap you had.
Best picture was, brutalist.
You had that.
Picked I did yeah.
So I thought that was going to when it did.
Director
I think you said brutalist.
No it did.
Well, it didn't, it didn't when I for one incorrect.
I was one year and, actress
remember who he said and who won?
I mean, I changed my predictions from when I went on.
Oh, nice. What made you do that?
The Sags had come. The SAG Awards.
And sometimes you you do,
your,
your predictions do change.
It's it's tough.
I think this year is harder now.
I think that there are quite a few
categories where surprises could be in order.
Yeah. No, you were great. You.
Those are the two out of 20 that I noticed.
But I still have to see the brutalist because of that.
And, Adrien Brody one. Year, he was perfect.
No, it was great.
Any predictions?
I want to get into your.
So that was review of 2025.
He he changed and you hit him on the head at Dennis house.
That was amazing. Channel eight.
Be on the lookout for Max.
He will be going on again for the Oscar previews.
Again. Dennis house, good friend.
Episode 25 I just saw him today.
Oh very good. Yeah.
Right.
Want to get into 26?
Who's going to win?
Let's make some predictions.
And NY best picture.
Are you guys together different?
We're probably different.
Oh let's see. Why don't you go first, Max?
I think one battle after and off her will win.
Picture and director, I do think Salomé will win.
Lead actor, best actress is tough.
It's either going to be Jessie Buckley or Rose Byrne.
I do think it will be Jessie Buckley.
She's. She's been very popular.
And she was she was great.
So I'll be happy for her if she wins.
I think that I think that Jacob Elordi
will end up winning, Best supporting actor for Frankenstein.
I think that
I think that Stellan Skarsgard is probably the only other person
who could beat him, but that would be for sentimental reasons.
And he wasn't even nominated for the SAG.
So I think I think, Elordi will end up winning.
We'll talk more about Frankenstein Centers
one battle after another in Train Dreams next.
But before we do that, Jacob Elordi, is he Frankenstein in the movie?
Or is he.
Is the creature the.
Creature great, because Frankenstein is the doctor.
He's the Frankenstein's monster. Yes.
And then best supporting actress.
Well, I'm hoping Teyana Taylor will win.
If not, Amy Madigan will win for weapons, which I also loved very much.
That was really entertaining.
It was
probably like, just it was it was really fun.
It was, it was definitely,
good escapism.
That movie was.
But, yeah, I think to honorable win.
And I really think she deserves that, so I think so when.
She was,
Not in the whole movie.
No. She was the mom.
That kind of.
She was in the movie for only the first 30 minutes.
I mean, that's, I guess what you would call it, supporting performance.
All right. The point. Yeah.
All right.
We got Blue Pan out. We did Max's picks with the blue pen.
Let's hear Jake's picks for Best picture.
And you go down the list.
I mean realistically, I mean, I think that
as of this moment, it looks like
it's going to be one battle after another for picture in director
I. It's not impossible if,
sinner surprises everyone
and gets those two awards, which is kind of what I'm hoping for
because it's already made history so far by being the most,
receiving the most nominations for a single film.
16 and,
I think I yeah, I mean, I think that for like
a mainstream Hollywood film, it broke, a lot of barrier barriers. Yes.
It was.
So, that could probably surprise all of us.
In many ways.
I do think that, actor will most likely go to Shalom.
And actress will probably go to Jessie Buckley,
which I'll be happy for her.
I would rather go.
I would rather Roseanne.
But, you know, we'll see.
And, Best Supporting Actor, I think will be Stone scar.
Scar?
He's an old timer and a veteran actor and really good. And,
I think that, Did you guys see sentimental?
Well, yes. And it was great.
And I also think that, that will win Best Supporting Actress as well.
The, sister in that movie and God, she's a Norwegian actress.
What's her name?
And gossip starter.
Lilith.
If I'm pronouncing that right.
Yeah, yeah. She's great.
You seem to be in agreement on all of them except supporting actor.
Yeah.
All right, well, we're really excited
to see your predictions come true.
You hit it on the head last time.
Also last time, amazingly, you went down from 1978
to present day and did every action Oscar
picture winner in order.
Super impressive.
That was minute.
It was amazing.
56. Go back and check this guy out.
He did every every winner from 1978.
Can you do that?
You don't have to now, but can you?
I can, yes.
Wow. You guys are amazing.
Your movie knowledge is through the roof.
Where did that inspiration come from?
Where did you guys learn to love movies?
Why? How?
Probably my child.
I mean, you know, probably my childhood.
Yeah.
I just, I guess
found it cool that, visuals could move on screen,
and they could talk and they could make you feel things.
I thought that was like magic in a way.
And I remember,
just, you know, as a kid, you like bright,
shiny colors, and you like things that kind of draw your attention.
And, I always felt that way when I saw the,
old, Paramount logo with the stars coming down.
Like, I thought that was really cool.
So I.
Yeah, I have very, vivid memories of that. And,
you know, and I have a very strong,
photographic memory,
so I'm able to, like, remember,
the way that certain shots line up and I just, you know, it's.
Yeah. I'm just. Yeah.
My memorable movie.
I saw it in the Drive-In.
Right?
Cried like a baby when it went home, and I was.
She stayed with Elliot still to this day.
Icon gets me.
Great movie. Yeah.
So one of those movies, like, makes you fall in love with movies? Yep.
What was your E.T movie?
Do you have a good movie that you remember that just like, man, this is it.
This is what I love.
I at that age.
Yeah.
Probably not.
When I was young.
Yeah I probably there was a lot of anticipation I think when we were young
chilled out, there was going to come a time
when we were going to see something that was going to completely blow us away.
But we didn't quite know what that was going to be, but it was whatever it was,
it was going to be great.
Cool.
Yeah, I would say, yeah, I would say probably,
I mean, you know, as I got older, you know, in Ingmar Bergman,
you know, all his stuff, particularly cries in Whispers, it's just,
Yeah.
All his stuff is so good.
Yeah.
The older I got,
I probably saw, like, a lot more things that really stick out to me.
Nice, nice.
Noah and we were on a text chain and we talked movies.
We were going to pick for movies that we wanted to talk about.
You guys want to talk about your movie you picked and why?
What movie do you want to start with?
I'll let you start.
You can pick,
I got some notes.
What movie did you want to talk about first?
We'll talk about one battle after another first.
I it's it's stayed in features for such a long time.
First of all, that always helps,
I think how long was it in theaters,
give or take?
Almost three months.
Wow. Almost.
What's the record for a movie in a theater?
Oh, I don't know.
It was. A Titanic or something.
Maybe. Maybe the,
I think The Dark Knight was also in theaters
for a really long time, too.
I mean, you know,
with streaming move, it doesn't take long for movies. To
what, once they leave figures to go to streaming,
they don't go directly, but it doesn't really take as long as it used to.
So, depends on,
It does depend on the box office. Nice.
You know, if something is getting a lot of traction,
they'll keep it on their.
What do you have, like a scoring rubric or a report card?
How do you break down in judge movies?
And if you if so, how are we going to break down this movie?
One battle after another.
Storyline characters like, you know, it's interesting.
I didn't,
I sort of knew what it was about
before I saw it, but I sort of didn't.
I think,
I think when it was over,
the first time I saw it, I kind of had to, like question.
I did just see that.
Right? Like, I'm not just a match. Yeah.
Then I see it again and I'm like, okay, that's the confirmation.
I think the first screening was the invite, the second was the
confirmation.
And then every time after that, I just I really enjoyed it many times.
Have you seen it?
Five I think.
Jake.
I think I only saw it twice and there.
Yeah. In the theater. Twice. Nice.
Great soundtrack
ends with American girl Tom petty.
I thought that was very good. Yeah.
Such great touch. Yeah, definitely.
The code that they say to each other,
Green acres, Beverly Hillbillies, hooter, ville junction.
Yeah. That's from.
No, I don't.
Those are all classic TV shows.
Green acres was a TV show,
Beverly Hillbillies was a TV show.
And Green Acres took place at who Deville Junction before my time.
It was on Nick at night. Black and white.
Seems like something Paul PTA would do.
Oh, yeah, PTA.
I did some research on him.
That's something.
Yeah, and the Christmas Adventurers Club, that's like a real thing.
You guys know that? Oh. That's horrible.
That's crazy.
Yeah, I did not. Well, I mean, I know that there are,
you know, ridiculous organizations like that.
I didn't know that that was actually a real one.
It doesn't surprise me.
It's Hungarian and the Hungarian name stands.
It's like KKK.
Two three cards in a row.
Obviously. Makes sense. Right?
Did you think?
We're spoilers.
We're going to do some spoilers.
It is the 16 year old daughter
lock. Jaws are Leos.
She is. She's, Sean Patten's. Right.
That's crazy.
Did did she tell Leo?
No, I don't think so.
Do you think I think he I think they all know they don't really care.
Does Leo have the right to know?
It wouldn't change how Leo feels about his daughter.
It will always be his daughter.
Agree or disagree?
No, I agree.
I think
hearing perfidious voice at the end,
you know, you never forget that throughout the entirety of the film
that she was even there,
she it's
it's not really clear whether or not she finds redemption
for selling out all those, all her,
all her friends. But,
it's easier to judge her when you're not in that situation.
I think that she behaved
very recklessly, and foolishly at times.
But, you know, the very the most necessary things to do
and even the greatest people are kind of like that.
So, she's definitely just
she's going to go down as, like, such an iconic character as she has already.
Yeah. I that was just,
you know, you and the film with her and you, I mean, you opened the film with her,
you and the film with her daughter, and they're both going out to do
the same thing.
Very cool.
We see the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
And then the car scene.
The car chase scene.
Fantastic. Oh, well, the dessert.
Dessert too.
I mean, you really understand the title one battle
after another when you keep seeing that held are so steep.
I'm interested, you know, just, like, up and down.
Up and down.
Like, it's just.
It's so repetitive, which is exactly what they're doing.
And I think Benicio del Toro was probably the most,
he was so,
calm in the face of all that chaos.
Like, he had done this a thousand times.
He knew exactly what to do. Yeah.
I loved that character.
Now, was he there for.
Did he know Leo situation, or was he more for the immigration side?
But Benicio.
He's there forever. There for everyone.
That's because he knew. He knew the whole deal.
Like the plan where to go. So.
And he was in it such a short time.
He can still be up for supporting actor.
Yeah. That's amazing. I hope he wins. I love that.
He was great. He was great. He's cool.
It was great in Sicario.
If you've seen. That, I got to see that too.
Now there's a cool, cool actor.
He's cool. He is. Yeah.
Know that
in a car scene, Chase was seven minutes long and you're in it.
I was in it.
And then the way that they show the rearview mirror,
the road, the driver's face, it was good.
What's the word I'm looking for?
Camera work.
Maybe cinematography. Cinematography.
And also, I thought, as a 16 year old with her hands
bound to know, to park the car right over a hill.
Amazing, brilliant.
And then she hit in a perfect spot, said the code word guy didn't say it.
He had to go.
He got slimed because my my daughter would say
anything else on one battle after another.
I don't think so.
I mean, obviously it's
it is
art that kind of reflects this current moment,
but I think that kind of speaks for itself.
I know I
was thinking two you think this is happening?
Like, how true is that?
Underground rebellion, I hope.
Oh I don't well, that I don't know about I mean, well, I know, I mean,
I don't know, but I know that,
there's obviously a lot.
Of it has to some. Yeah.
Maybe not.
Not that intense or involved, but there's some of it, right.
Yeah. For sure.
Get you thinking it's one of those movies that gets you thinking very much.
And it like you said, it does tie in to current
stuff going on,
good or bad, mostly bad or good?
Cool.
What would you score out of ten?
I mean, I
probably like a,
probably like an nothing lower than eight.
I thought it was very good.
Next, I'd give it a ten.
It was a rare bird.
Rare bird. I like it.
All right.
What's the next movie we're going to talk about?
Centers.
Yeah.
That was, ranked seven on my top ten list this year.
I thought it was fantastic of the year.
Yeah. I make a top ten list, every year.
Just kind of like the critics do. It's just something that's fun.
I enjoy doing it.
And, center is is ranked at seven.
Yeah, I, I saw it,
actually,
and I joke with my, one of my friends in New York about it that I, today
I went to I went to see it, I actually did see it on Easter.
And, I was packed that day, too, so it wasn't just me, but, it was,
I, I actually knew because
it's interesting, because I kind of like to recommend that movie to people
and not let them know what their about, what it's about, because then it just,
you know, once the like,
I mean, I knew immediately that it was going to be like
a supernatural vampire centered, that that was kind of going to be the twist.
Like, I knew that already. Yeah.
And I but I wasn't expecting it to be as,
layered and I guess nuanced and crafted.
Yeah.
The way that Ryan Coogler did it.
I, I mean, I really like to that,
I felt that that movie had
one of the things I really liked about it was that
I just think that it had like, a lot of really great characters.
Eg I mean, you know,
obviously the brothers both look the same, but they're both kind of different men.
In a sense,
and you know,
I really like the, harmonica player.
I liked,
Did they call him the drunk?
Delta Sam? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. They met him at the bus stop.
Yeah, yeah, I like town. I like.
He's famous.
Yeah, yeah.
Delroy Lindo yeah, he's a he's great.
I, The preacher man.
Sammy.
Yeah. Yeah, I liked him very much.
Mary.
Yeah. She's awesome.
Yeah. And I love Hailee Steinfeld.
Anyway.
Yeah. Josh Allen sports. Sports.
Josh Allen's wife.
Do like who?
She's dating a football player now, I think.
Yeah, I don't yeah, I love, I loved yeah, the,
ending scene where she comes in, you know, and,
and I like that they both, like, made,
because she and him both looked
very much 1930s wear when it was set.
And then 1992 at the end, it looked very much kind of like they were from 1992.
She kind of had, like, a Kendall Jenner.
Like, I thought it's just a way that she had her jacket on and was,
you know, he had. Yeah.
In the way he had his arm around her.
I was just like, yeah, this is like
or something.
But I was. A freshman in high school. 1992.
Yeah. Brought me back to the good old days.
Yeah, yeah.
But I really, I like the music.
Was fantastic.
Fantastic music, fantastic cinematography. Was,
you know, I mean, if it went cinematography,
it would just break a barrier for, you know, the cinematographer is,
is a woman,
and every no woman has ever won that category before, so it.
Yeah. It's great.
Yeah.
But I loved how,
you know, and obviously I think that's a great thing,
but and, you know, regardless, I thought that the way that it,
you know, framing got taller and then shorter,
was really.
Yeah, was really good.
And specifically the scene where,
he's,
singing that song,
you know,
that about,
he Barry dedicates to his father,
and you know, I mean, he thinks so.
Well, that you, you see, like, kind of all the different genres of music
over time and how that was just such a great scene, like, if that.
I mean, that was really it.
I know could have been a musical.
That part, the part where they,
they show turntables of a DJ, they show African dancing.
It was just amazing mix. And I loved it.
Yeah, that was so cool.
I didn't know it was a vampire movie.
I know, like, you got 20 minutes, but I'm like, no, you got all of that.
And it's like, it feels like a regular drama.
And then you throw that in there.
I just thought that was like daughter was laughing.
She goes, how did you not know?
I just didn't watch the news or was I was an up.
I yeah, I yeah.
So the Irish guy run to the house and I'm like wait a second, what's going on?
Here?
She goes. You didn't know.
Oh that's. Fine. Twins. How'd it feel?
Which one are you. Smoke.
Are you stack. Are you stack. Are you smoke.
I mean, I'm,
I feel like
smoke was probably more rougher and more like.
He said, color wise, he wore red because he's aggressive.
The other guy wore blue.
He was more chill.
No, no, actually, the stock was the one who wore red.
And he was more,
I think that he was.
Yeah.
No, I think that, smoke was the one who, was more,
he was the more aggressive one.
I mean, okay, yeah.
And so I'm. Yeah.
Yeah.
But I mean, yeah, they they did.
Yeah, they both did very well.
No, it's the same actor.
Yeah. I. Be.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. He he was so proud he got nominated.
I'm really happy. He's so. Good. I liked his wife, too.
She was really good as well.
And the movie. Yeah. Yeah.
The one that gave him the bag to to help him survive.
That wife.
Yeah, though.
Yeah. Though.
Mary wasn't the wife.
Okay. You're right.
Yeah. No, though. Yeah, though.
Yeah. The one he was separated from.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was a.
Good storyline too, because they quickly mention that they lost a child.
Yeah.
And then she's holding him at the end I thought was great.
Part of me I was like as soon as it went vampire movie
I'm like, oh here we go, supernatural blah blah blah.
I'm not a big vampire guy.
Yeah, no, I got. A fantastic movie.
And then
didn't like it. Complained a little bit.
But that ending credits scenes when they go to 1992 to piggyback on that
amazing tied it in, made me think this is the greatest movie of all time
because it's a. Great rewatchable movie.
Some of these are better the second time. Yeah.
You know.
Stack or one of them, Stack or Smoke made him promise not to mess with Sammy.
Yes. Yeah.
And they they visit him and they let him know. Hey.
My leaving you my location.
Who was Sammy? This was his first role ever.
He never did any acting before deaths.
And also, I thought it was interesting
that they kind of spoil it because they show him.
Come back to the church smoking with the scratch.
You're like, stood it.
No, it was a vampire movie.
But then he goes the day before.
So you're like, now you know, where we end.
A lot of movies do that, right?
They'll give you the end and then we'll get you back to the end
and show you how and why. We'll just show you parts of that.
And but they don't give you the context of what happens.
They'll show you what's something.
They'll show you something that's about to happen.
They don't show you exactly what happens.
And there was like a Wakanda Forever tie in.
Did you see that at the church?
I don't think so.
I heard that, and then the day.
So in 1992, they go to
October 16th, 1992, and that day has relevance.
You know, that's when Candyman came out.
Candyman was a horror movie.
Yeah. For an American. Right.
So they they they did a callback.
It took place in Chicago.
So in honor of Candyman, they had them come to life.
Yeah.
On October 16th, 1992, which was pretty cool.
And the ring he was wearing can also be seen and do the right thing.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Radio Raheem had those rats, right? Yep.
So, the stores were segregated.
You know how the Chinese couple had two stores?
Yes. Yeah, they had a black store and a white store.
Right.
Watching the movie, I didn't catch that part, but after.
Yeah, because cast out Jim Crow. John. Yep.
The guy, the
the musician at the end was a real jazz musician.
No, it was just a great movie. And,
again, interesting kept me.
I was I know, yeah, because I yeah.
Because what I loved was that because again, I knew the vampire element
going in, so I wasn't expecting it to be that,
crafted and layered and nuanced as it was, I thought it was just going to be like
a regular, you know, kind of supernatural movie.
And, it had all this weight to it that was just.
Yeah, I was, I was I was very impressed.
And it was and I like that.
I mean, it wasn't, a it's not like a,
I mean, it's a mainstream movie, like, it's not an independent film. No.
But I think that for a,
I like that the Warner
Brothers decided to pick it up and, you know, instead of, like,
doing all this, I'm could for I like,
constant sequel stuff, like, like,
I mean, they took on an original project, and I, I like I loved it.
So, let's score out of ten.
Oh, I would,
I mean,
it's, I mean, I'd probably give it a ten.
I thought it was just.
Wow. Yeah.
Max. Shame.
And then one last thing.
Why? You know, I'm Irish.
Why the vampire?
You know why the vampire have to be Irish?
Why not?
Well, they.
I mean, well, anyone, I guess, could be a vampire.
I really like, I was thinking the other.
I was actually telling Max the other day that, like,
because he mentioned that too.
He was like, you know, Oh, yeah.
He was, an Irish vampire. And,
you know, I didn't make any thing out of it,
but I was it made me think for a moment that if they had put
in, that,
you know, I mean, there's so many cultures within the movie.
Yeah, yeah. Which.
Yeah, but I was like, I thought to myself, they didn't have,
I noticed that they didn't have a Jewish vampire,
but I thought to myself, if they did,
then that probably would have gotten a lot of controversy because there's like
an anti-Semitic, date.
Like it's ridic.
Obviously it's ridiculous.
But, there are,
like online, like just anti-Semitic trolls,
saying things like, Jews used to drink the blood of children.
So frickin stupid and ridiculous.
But, that was, I was like, yeah, that's probably why I didn't put that in there.
But I was probably like, yeah, I mean, you know,
maybe they could have throw that in there, you know, makes sense. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
All right. We got to move on. We're gonna wrap it up.
Let's get to next to.
Yeah. Can I do train dreams? Yeah.
That was actually my favorite movie of the year.
Oh, that was your number one.
Yeah. Train dreams.
Yeah. Number one.
Yeah. It was just.
Let's hear why this is interesting.
Because it really,
I just thought that it was a beautiful movie,
obviously visually striking, but just the,
I mean, simply put,
it just had the layers of an entire life.
And, you know,
main Robert Crane er,
just I think reflects,
every,
you know, man who was like, who gave us our infrastructure,
our way of life, and had to watch a,
you know, the world around him change for out the decades.
But he stayed in the same place forever. And,
you know, he never really complains about it.
I honestly, I keep went through deep pain,
but also just loved deeply.
And every interaction felt very special.
Specifically in the beginning when that guy was dying
and he gave him, like, a final drink of water out of a boot,
I was like, oh my God, that's working deep, man.
It felt very much like a,
I mean, it's based off of a novella by Dennis Johnson, who was very great,
but, it had but yeah, I mean, it had the feeling of a,
of like a all time
great American novel, and it's just like, it's such a it's such a great story.
And, yeah, I was,
Yeah, it really, it was just.
Yeah, I loved it.
I agree you had something really wonderful on text that you shared, but I
very you just touched on it.
But I was joking with you.
And I go, man, I was waiting for someone to turn into a vampire.
It's not. You know, I understand.
It's not like that kind of movie.
I mean, most of the time I'm into, dramas and human
centered stories that aren't like that don't have that kind of stuff.
And occasionally I'll be able to make exceptions.
I think that,
Yeah.
But I mean, I thought, yeah, I yeah, it's I'm not expecting it to,
win anything that it's nominated for.
But, the only thing it would have a chance of winning is cinematography.
But I do think since this going to get that.
Rightfully so. Yeah. With the trees and the landscape.
Yeah. It may.
I thought about my, late grandfather watching it because he was such,
he was such a,
phenomenal photographer of nature.
But he also he would have loved that movie.
Yeah, but he also,
when he took pictures of people, he would,
he would talk with them first and say, can I take your picture?
And I just felt like he and,
that character would have hit it off really well.
Yeah.
You mentioned it reminded you of a Terrence Malick film.
Yeah, yeah, if you can. You have. Yeah. I don't know who he is.
The director. He directed, death of Heaven,
the Tree of Life, the thin Red line, Knight of Cups?
Yeah.
His movies have a very ethereal and, spiritual, element to them.
He likes nature, both physically physical nature and human nature.
And that's kind of what,
I feel like this movie reflected that a lot, and there were a lot of people
that were like,
you know, this is like a rip off of his movie.
If I thought, I don't think so.
I think it's its own thing. But, yeah.
Poor guy.
I feel like everyone around him died, though.
It was so like, he's been through it all.
The poor guy can't.
I know, I know, yeah.
And then there were just.
And the.
Airplane ride. And then the movie ends.
I mean, is there significance there?
Yeah. Well, I mean, I think that that was,
I mean, it's,
I mean, I would imagine I mean, he
that was probably the moment where he felt the most,
I don't know, high on life, I guess is free.
Yeah. Like, connected to everything.
Yeah. Yeah. Like.
Yeah.
He's probably been having so much burden,
stress and pain where he's flying for the first time.
Yeah. Yeah, this is living.
That's what I took.
But it was small, poetic.
It was like a little life.
The setting
was played a major part of the whole movie.
The setting.
Like, again, the trees. Yeah.
A time period, the change.
Like, all the hard work, they.
That's when men were men.
They say that like, I, I'm a third grade teacher.
These hands, you know, I get blisters.
Sharpening pencils.
Yeah.
Those guys were carrying axes, cutting down massive trees,
working hard day and night, leaving his family for long periods.
Of time, which was really hard.
And I think that there were like, moments in the movie that were just,
one in particular where, he,
it's just trying to make his daughter laugh by putting his,
hands over the council, and he's doing this and smiling
because he's just trying to make her laugh because he doesn't
hardly ever sees her, so.
Oh, yeah. His interactions. Yeah.
She was very physically,
capable to.
I mean, just the work that she did in building that house and.
Oh, yeah, I know she had, they they both had a very,
Yeah.
They both. Yeah, they were lining up the stones,
envisioning what it was going to look like.
Like they both, yeah, they were.
They reminded me of a Gray's Anatomy.
They did candles when they built their house.
And she's like, I want the house here next to, you know.
Your house is here. Yeah. Beautiful log cabin.
Yeah, yeah.
Was that his daughter that snuck in with the broken leg, or is it a random person?
I think how did she come in and out?
I was like, I. Don't even know.
I don't even know if that happened.
I don't think. Was that a dream?
That may have been a dream. Yeah, but it would.
It would have been her that was supposed to be an invasion of her.
Yeah, but, But then she had a broken leg.
So how did she sneak out of the window?
I was like, I had a lot going on. I don't think she was really there.
But he saw the moon.
Then he saw the moon landing on TV in the city before he took the plane ride.
So he lived a long life, 80 years.
He saw a lot of friends pass.
He saw a man get killed in front of them.
He saw.
Did the tree log hit fall on him?
No, it fell on his buddy, his bike. His best.
Friend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he. Yeah.
I also loved that moment when the when the tree falls.
You see it from the perspective of the tree in a way.
How when the tree, like, just falls.
Really?
Like slowly and you kind of hear that noise, it makes us it falling.
Yeah.
Like where the opening shot of that scene where it's like towards the top
when the tree falls, the camera doesn't leave that spot.
And so it's like the you're sort of with the tree as it's falling.
All right. I like that perspective.
Any more. We gotta move on to Frankenstein.
That's him.
I the thing about Claremont del Toro.
And I thought this,
even back,
ten years ago with Crimson Peak is that he is a world builder.
He creates worlds.
And, he.
Yes, he has.
He's a master at visualizing things.
He's a visionary. But,
I think that
there is something very,
There's some he.
I don't think he's ever explicitly
says that he's not going to do, like, modern films
that take place in a modern time.
I think he has maybe done a few of those, maybe a couple.
I don't think so.
But I think there are some filmmakers like him who are more comfortable
with that past era stuff, because the person is just it's so scary
and not like the way that they're able to,
you know, he made a good point to that, storytelling.
The origin of storytelling was,
was fairy
tales, and not it was the kind where,
and this is something that I actually think weapons has in common as well.
Not it's it's not like a once upon a time fairy tale.
It's more the kind of fairy tale that parents would tell their kids
so that they don't, you know, do certain things.
It's like fairy tales were sort of used originally to instill fear.
And I think, culturally that changed at some point.
But, no, I think most films in particular,
what sets them apart because there are a lot of filmmakers
who have like a sort of fairy tale element to the way they make movies.
I think even centers have thought in a way.
But, I think with Karamo specifically,
his films make you question who the real monster is.
Yeah.
That's what makes that's what makes this film.
So, I was empathizing with the monster.
Yeah.
And I think the. Doctor was the villain.
Yeah, I think that was his goal.
I think that The Shape of Water was, which I loved.
I was obsessed with that movie when it came out so many times.
Kilmer.
Karamo del Toro.
Name all his movies.
A couple of them with Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley,
and that's.
That's all I own. Pan slapper. Enough.
Okay, so this is like his fifth film that I've seen, but,
Did you read the book Frankenstein?
No, I didn't, but I know a lot about.
You know, any of the movie book comparisons.
Yes, I know some, I know a lot about Mary Shelley.
I think she was a very interesting person, it seems.
And I think that, actually, I think that the story of Frankenstein
as a whole is really in the past couple of years
has had this real resurgence that I find very interesting.
I think it really started with,
poor things, with Emma Stone.
You know, it's not like directly inspired from Frankenstein, but it has those,
similar themes and plot sort of devices.
And then, of course, you have
this was a real passion project for Gamow making this Frankenstein.
So he did that.
And then we have Maggie Gyllenhaal, Star bride coming out on, March
6th, which is, you know, to Bride of Frankenstein.
So you can that's all he wanted was a partner.
He was super lonely. Yeah.
And all he wanted was something else. So.
And it's Jessie Buckley and Kristen Bell.
So the doctor refused to make him so in the in the book, he gets caught
memory.
He helps the blind neighbor.
Yeah.
I know there was a blind neighbor.
I don't I didn't read the book, but.
So the book he's helping a girl drowns and Frankenstein
goes to help the girl and everyone thinks, oh, he's hurting the girl.
So that's when they shoot him. Where in the. In the movie.
He's helping the blind guy.
Yeah. And everyone's like, oh, he's hurting the blind guy.
He the,
the doctor shoots, accidentally shoots
his brother's soon-to-be wife
in the book, Frankenstein actually chokes her out of rage.
Yeah, there's some.
Some changes comparing and contrasting.
It's always interesting when the when it was a book first.
Very much. Didn't read it.
Especially my daughter.
Read it came out so.
Long and told me a bunch of, she kept going.
It didn't happen in the book. It didn't happen in the book.
You ever watch a movie with someone?
It's like it didn't happen in the book.
The books are, social media vultures.
You know, there are peop there are certain audiences
that will go to movies solely for what they're going to say about it afterwards.
I can't do it.
And that Frankenstein took a beating.
He got stabbed, shot and he just kept coming.
His physicality was so incredible. Blown up.
Just such a good movie.
Good movie.
It really was.
It wasn't like the creature
with the thing in his head and the the bolts in his neck and the green.
He was like a human person.
He really did look like a real person.
Very well done.
In the book, the doctor doesn't lose his leg in the movie.
He does. There's like, a lot of.
Standing in front of the sun because it was such a dark movie.
I mean, The Shape of Water was dark, too, in a way.
But I think that it was a very hopeful film.
I think that this was Frankenstein.
It was definitely more dark in a traditional sense, but I'm I thought
the ending was hopeful, you know, standing in front of the sun for the I think
what was probably the first time for him, that was really beautiful.
It was a relief in a way.
He pushed over. The ending was great to.
Pushing that ship out of the ice. Yeah.
And then where were they heading off to?
They were going back home. Yeah.
They were on an adventure. They were going to.
They want they were going to the Arctic and they decided to go home as they were.
So meeting him. After meeting. Hearing his story.
Yeah. Yeah. You caught that part. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, I know that audiences, most audiences
don't when you give them the advice.
This is like the kind of movie you have to see in theaters.
Most audiences don't really have that luxury,
but you say it just because it's like, for cinephiles,
it's like saying, excuse me when or bless you when someone sneezes.
You know, it's just what you say.
Because a movie, there's such an urgency to seeing it in a feature films
hit differently and movies, regardless, are meant to be seen twice.
Why would you ever see something if you're only going to see it once? You?
We got to quote you on that. I like that.
Why would
you ever see something if you're only going to see it once?
I mean, you know, if a movie is bad, obviously that's different.
But if you're if you're,
if something is worth your time, you know, you aren't
you interested in what you might take away from a second time?
Yeah.
And plus you get to go with different people.
I do like the band.
It's called an audience for a reason. It's not just.
It's never just you. It's always bigger than you.
Even when you go alone.
It's bigger than you.
I love it.
What would you score?
Frankenstein?
I mean, I put a ton for all of them, but they're very different movies,
and I judge them in very different ways. But,
You. Know, I think,
I am exploring Frankenstein.
Yeah. I would give a
yeah, I'd give it, an eight as well.
And, and we didn't score train Dreams.
Oh ten my best movie to year, in my opinion.
I know that's why I didn't really I didn't really have to ask that.
I figured that because it was the number one movie.
Yeah. Also, there are movie.
I think there are movies where you see,
there are movies where you wear.
And I think a lot of the movies this year, two, you watch them and you think,
you know, I'm really glad that this person played that part.
But I could also really envision this character, this actor
playing this character.
But with train Dreams, I truly don't think anybody could have played that part.
But Jill Edgartown, I don't. What are the movies?
Has he been in? Oh, he's been in so many,
Master Gardener, Red Sparrow, Boy Erased.
Bad sermons, great Gatsby. Yes.
Zero Dark 30.
I know that one.
Yeah.
He's he's he's done.
He's done so much.
He's one of Australia's biggest actors.
Well, I can't thank you enough.
We're here with Max and Jake.
It was so good to talk movies with you. Thank you.
We have Max here from movie critic Dot today.
He also wrote a blog on Train Dreams on December 21st, 2025.
Go back and check it out.
He wrote a nice three minute read on train dreams.
Critics ticket movie critic Dot today.
Jake, you go back and see him.
Marty supreme.
Yes, he made that. Mike.
He made that movie.
Okay.
He's a know him.
That movie would be all right.
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