Sardonicast 80: Willy's Wonderland, Malcolm & Marie, Baahubali: The Beginning

[@OnlyShallowReviews]

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Disney shuts down Blue Sky Studios 6:57 - Willy's Wonderland 33:04 - Malcolm & Marie 48:31 - Baahubali: The Beginning 1:21:11 - Questions 1:21:29 - What's the most problematically dated comedy you've ever seen? 1:29:25 - Should swearing even be considered offensive or bad anymore? Should movies with swear words be rated R? 1:40:16 - What do you think of the "Old" trailer? 1:43:32 - If given the chance, an unlimited budget and full creative freedom, who do you think would direct the better movie out of Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson or Joe Biden? 1:46:56 - For Ralph: Do you still think The Walking Dead season two is better than season one? Adam's recommendation for the next episode is Taste of Cherry (1997) by Abbas Kiarostami

[@JoeyDoesStuff1120]

Wait 3 days ago?

[@Andrew_Franklin]

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[@benbob4038]

I feel like Malcom and Marie would work better as a short film.

[@OnlyShallowReviews]

@@JoeyDoesStuff1120 patreon benefits hell yeah

[@amsaludereje7554]

@@benbob4038 yeah

[@fatgods2921]

Literally every time Ralph pronounces Luca Guadagnino's name he pronounces it differently. Even when he says it three times in a row to demonstrate how it's pronounced.

[@narendrasharma8568]

Bollywood also made some really great historical epics like Mughal-e-Azam, Jodhaa Akbar, Bajirao Mastaani, Ashoka and many others which are more drama based. Bahubali was the first big all out fantasy movie, that was its appeal. When it comes to bollywood (or tollywood, kollywood,etc.) they are basically commercial movies. There is also a parallel art cinema (multilingual) which is very underrated and doesn't receive any recognition. I will recommend The Court, Eeb Ay alloo, The Disciple, Udaan, Dev D, Omkaara, Haider, The Gangs of Wasseypur and Kahaani. P.S. I would suggest looking at the filmography of Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, Vikramaditya Motwane, Chaitanya Tamhane, Mani Ratnam, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Satyajit Ray, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Rajkumar Hirani, Bimal Roy and Guru Dutt.

[@sketchyjulia]

Even if Blue Sky’s movies were kinda middling , less animation studios are a bad thing. Blu Sky was probably the biggest animation company on the east coast. My one friend was even gonna work there after graduating. Not everyone has the luxury to move to the west coast Robots was a masterpiece tho. And the Peanuts movie

[@TheDudeWithTheHatN2]

Yes, I called Robots on par with Citizen Kane

[@DeepEye1994]

Spies in Disguise was also a pretty good Swan Song for them, it makes it more bitter because that film had style and the story was pretty likable, maybe they would've started to get real good from that point on.

[@amsaludereje7554]

Some guy on letterbox said, " malcolm and Marie is a Calvin klein ad for marriage story".

[@duartevader2101]

Yeah, I saw that. I really liked the movie tho.

[@luiginastro8831]

Didn't hate the movie, but I agree.

[@amsaludereje7554]

@@duartevader2101 me too.

[@satcousin1997]

An Indian movie that the western audience will really enjoy is Gangs of Wasseypur - 1& 2 (2012). Has a strong Scorsese and Tarantino influence.

[@GilCAnjos]

"I watched Norbit the other day" The Search for the Worst CONFIRMED?!?!?!

[@MisterDriskul]

Along with Cats and Paul Blart?

[@luisf2793]

Sh*t I remember that's a thing. Dammit Alex!

[@halvorgrndahl778]

@@luisf2793 .t.

[@halvorgrndahl778]

@@luisf2793 . Om

[@mankyt]

Alex teased some new entries in the list on his “I Hate Anxiety” video a few months back

[@just2good]

Adam I saw you referencing White Ribbon, recommend more Haneke my man

[@shemphoward666]

hey, love your channel, Haneke's its adam's fav director

[@rajmahanta5737]

Watch his channel, especially the top films of X year .

[@andresloaiza4707]

Haneke is a masterrrr

[@GizmosHouse]

I noticed a double for Cages cleaning scenes 😂

[@nafeelbadar100]

watch Amour, Caché and The Piano teacher in this order after that go for funny games, happy end and 71 fragments of chronology of chance

[@dylanmcartoonell1536]

Blue Sky getting shut down is a huge problem, because essentially it's Disney trying to weed out any and all parts of the animation game that aren't directly from them. You can say what you want about Blue Sky as a company, but at least they tried to be different with their movies. But Disney won't stand for that, and them doing this could potentially lead to the animation industry becoming more and more homogenized!

[@KyleAnimates]

Nic Cage is literally fighting his way through fnaf animatronics to pay off his taxes.

[@jqyhlmnp]

Team up with Brendon Fraser?

[@harveykeitelappreciator]

I've been waiting for this for like 3h refreshing the channel, it's finally here!!

[@1997residente]

I love how we can all says The prequels and we all know what we are talking about

[@lawcane]

Ralph brings up an interesting point about Manhattan. The Woody Allen character is 42, the Mariel Hemingway character is 17, perfectly legal in NY State. But, probably doesn't get written like that today.

[@donnylurch4207]

Damn, Redlettermedia JUST dropped their own Willy's Wonderland review and came to a lot of the same conclusions about it. I hope Ralph will watch it to cross reference shit to talk about in his review. I really liked their point about the Willy's interior being way too cheap and small and unbelievable, when that's the entire setting of the movie.

[@vafanapoli5396]

You guys need to see Bahubali 2: The conclusion at some point

[@luiginastro8831]

I've barely made it through the first one, don't think I can do it again.

[@poodles4058]

@@luiginastro8831 look up some of the action scenes of the second on KZbin, it's actually gold

[@narendrasharma8568]

@@luiginastro8831 2x is the way to go, just watch it man. It's grand and to think it's made at such a small budget makes you appreciate it more.

[@mohammadmehaboob7055]

There are like 15 different languages in India, so a lot of movies get dubbed. Especially movies made in the South Also all Indian movies have an intermission, so you just take a break and come back when it gets tiring. Also try watching Drishyam(2013), it has multiple versions as well, but try to get the malayalam version as that's the original.

[@ComicBookPhil]

The Banana Splits 2019 movie used the 1968 tv show mascots to capitalize on the FNAF movie buzz too.

[@RickRaptor105]

It's interesting to come back to the Baahubali discussion now that RRR is becoming popular in the West. Based on what you did and did not like about Baahubali, RRR might be that Indian film you're looking for.

[@RSG_TheMonster]

Alex has had incredible character development, he actually loved RRR

[@Matthimeo]

Blue Sky was in the process of making a movie adaptation of the graphic novel "Nimona" and was directed by Patrick Osborne, who directed the shorts "Feast" and "Pearl". It was looking to be the big reversal for the studios fortunes. They shut it down 10 months from completion. Also, Disney moving people to their other studios is a big lie, the studio is on the east coast, you cant just shuffle people over to California so easily without destroying peoples families if they have already put roots down in the east coast.

[@frankmerker630]

Disney lies? What world are we living in

[@RSG_TheMonster]

So glad Netflix revived Nimona because it was very good!

[@varadraigaonkar107]

So having grown up watching Indian movies, here's the thing: it's not that they're designed to not make sense, it's more that the senses are prioritized over logic. How does the woman in the opening scene keep on holding the baby? Doesn't matter. She did it because she was brave, badass and sacrificed herself for the greater good. Why the fuck does the protagonist look exactly like his own father (same actor)? Don't matter. It's cool. It sticks with the audiences who is just there for escapism. I'm not trying to be the baahubali expert or something, I really enjoyed this episode, I'm just contributing my two cents

[@sankaranv]

This practice of offering high-budget films in multiple languages to reach a wider audience is not uncommon in India. Even English films are offered in regional languages, with high-profile stars doing the dubs for event films like The Avengers

[@gnalkhere]

awww I love Taste of Cherry. Can't wait for that

[@amsaludereje7554]

"Being sad is a great sin too"

[@chiefgarvey11]

The Blue Sky news is unfortunate, but it's not weird at all. Layoffs happen with every merger. And Disney is already losing money due to covid so there's no reason to keep another animation studio running. (Not defending their decision, but it makes sense from a financial standpoint).

[@hchappy125]

Lmao disney has so much fucking excess money--I don't buy that shit for a second.

[@chiefgarvey11]

@@hchappy125 Not really true. Theater release windows for animated features continue to shrink as more pile up and theaters continue to be closed or barely seeing audiences. Chance to make back money falls with that. Keep in mind Disney is pretty bloated with animation studios. If they need to shore up budget animation is an easy pick. Film releases, theme parks, cruises, and sports are some of their biggest income streams and they’ve ranged from entirely shut down to hobbling most the last year. Last fiscal year Disney reported a GAAP net loss of $2.83 Billion. That was in spite of many billions of dollars of cuts they put in. I don't like Disney and I don't like that they own so much, but this is just basic math.

[@bearfox1247]

To be honest though ice age 5 is one of the worst animated movies of recent memory

[@ThreadBomb]

Blue Sky movies do make money, usually. And you don't need to shoot them in a studio. So this really feels like Disney acting out of pride, the same way studio producers will usually cancel the projects of their predecessor when they enter the job.

[@ramsey6227]

If you're into movie montages/tributes, it would mean a lot if you checked out mine. I put a lot of time and effort into it :) (I'm sorry for self promoting)

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

42:05 Glad Adum loves Euphoria. Agree with most of what you said on Malcolm and Marie. Honestly I think what you're mentioning here is why trying to use this movie to put Levinson in the narcissistic writer/director comes off as way more mean spirited than something like Lady in the Water. Levinson might have had a more privileged life than most people, but the thing is that he still went through a significant period of drug use that (as I noticed he basically said in one of the press conferences back when Euphoria came out) was an attempt at trying to deal with intense mental health issues. He even got institutionalised a couple of times. And whilst obviously someone with that past isn't automatically unable to be criticised for being self indulgent and narcissistic in their art, to me, saying that about someone who almost destroyed themselves (especially if it was partially due to self hatred) is weirdly off-putting to me. It would have been one thing if I agreed that Malcolm and Marie was narcissistic, but I didn't feel like it was. Maybe I'm totally incorrect about this and maybe no one agrees, but this isn't an M. Night situation where he had a great rising career that hit a roadblock with The Village that he proceeded to nuke into oblivion with Lady in the Water, in the sense that he reacted to the bad reviews of the former poorly enough to where he made the latter the way it was, with it being received so much poorly and showed extreme signs of vanity. In comparison Malcolm and Marie at least pointed out that Malcolm was overreacting and looking like an idiot in front of his girlfriend during that scene. As well as making Malcolm a vain person all around, rather than that vanity just being in the script.

[@DJGamingSmash]

YES! Part of what I love about the movie is it's objectivity. He doesn't see himself as in the right because he gave himself this character very purposely of being so consumed by purpose in composing art that he comes off as narcissistic as means of giving himself character flaws. Same for the girlfriend. There's as much to hate as their is to love because they're both relatably human in their vulnerability.

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

@@DJGamingSmash The entire film is literally about why you shouldn't be a narcisstic artist and that even good excuses are all worth less than a simple apology. And whilst the final shot is somewhat up for interpretation (as to whether it is conclusive or not), to me it probably wouldn't have happened had Malcolm not said what he said. Even if the delivery was annoying or boring to someone, anyone calling this movie narcissistic should really redirect that criticism towards other movies. I can think of 10 or more films I'd call an example of narcissism.

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

@@DJGamingSmash I agree on the humanity aspect and if there is one thing carried over in terms of character writing from Euphoria it's that no one is a one dimensional good or bad person.

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

Here's a bunch of movies that I'd say show narcissism in the creator more than Malcom and Marie: 1. Lady in the Water. Already explained and there's a lot online about it. 2. Transformers 1 and 2. Armageddon is referenced in the former and a Bad Boys 2 poster is shown in the latter. Cute references or self promotion? I think the latter. 3. The Fanatic. "Hey son, do you wanna listen to Limp Biznikt? Oh that's hot, that is nice" 4. Music. Sia cameos and talks about giving medicine to children in Haiti. 5. The Room. Everybody betray me. 6. I Love You Daddy (someone argued M and M was like this, I think that's insulting). Look at how much of a good guy I, Louis CK am, saving my daughter from a sexual predator! Oh wait, I'm kind of like that as well. Never mind. 7. That fake movie in Mr Bean's Holiday. (kind of a joke example) 8. The Brown Bunny, in which Vincent Gallo literally gets Chloe Sevigny to suck his dick.

[@kylecummings6893]

baahubali is like lion king mets prince of persia directed by zach synder and john favroe

[@CrimeFighterFrog]

That sounds awesome

[@pssd-ff-dth-grps-fn8797]

Nice comment but holy shit dude learn how to spell

[@timgimmy609]

legit took me a second for ralph’s male gaze call me by your name joke to hit, that was good

[@awesomebacon1075]

“Kiss your Ice goodbye.” -Disney Studios, 2021

[@antonchigurh22]

53:00 the actors take most of the money of the budgets.🤣🤣🤣

[@ImpulseGenerator]

Damn, guess I missed Baahubali: The Beginning in the kinoplex at the time.

[@connorw2k]

Nobody: Ralph: Luca Guadagiggitygiggitygoo

[@connorcampbell5839]

Gwah-dah-nee-nyo, it can't seriously be that hard to see for him.

[@Fatalismic]

@@connorcampbell5839 he's Italian, he can't pronounce anything except short L's and the word piano.

[@zachmontminy]

His 2x speed rant is everything I stand for. It allows you quantity over quality, particularly for things you either know you probably won't care much for but still want to digest, or if you're checked out on something, just fly through the rest of it, rather than just turning it off and missing the rest.

[@octaviuspepper2887]

It's funny that you mention how the Willy's Wonderland animatronics should have had dancers inside the suits to emulate robotic movement because the Banana Splits movie that came out a few years ago had the foresight to do exactly that. Definitely a good idea, the second best thing to actual animatronics in my opinion.

[@veryneatguy-838]

I feel like PG-13 movies should have these tiers that is like “This movie is slightly more mature (A movie like Baby Driver would fit here)” and a tier thats like “This movie is PG-13 but more kid friendly (this tier is like Marvel movies)”

[@niallfoody97]

In Europe they have 15 and 16 ratings

[@connorw2k]

Marvel movies shouldn't even be PG-13

[@youtaughtmehowtolive]

@@connorw2k Yeah, they should. There is swearing, violence, and often mature themes. You're just desensitized.

[@danskyder1564]

Yep, US classification is very poor and way too broad. The UK is best imo: U-PG-12-15-18

[@connorw2k]

@@youtaughtmehowtolive Only 13+ year olds can handle all that?

[@MichaelMichael-us6wq]

Was hoping you would talk about music today. Maybe next podcast.

[@yellanithin]

Here, people don't really care for movies. For them it's an escape from reality on a weekend, so they don't expect an arthouse film, they want to watch such films where they don't need to think for the next 2-3 hours. A lot of commercial masala films are great, for people who aren't used to the format or who didn't grow up with such kind of cinema, they obviously wouldn't like it.

[@notoriousjm95]

My question was asked @ 1:43:23... That was kind of a shit post, I’m glad they discussed it so seriously HAHAHA

[@tom-tom2905]

So we have a furry and a homosexual. Oh and I guess Adum’s there as well.

[@iciajay6891]

With his catjam shoes and Team!Edward staning.

[@worlds1ep3enthusiast92]

Hold on, you turned the tables. Is that allowed?

[@beyonder9553]

Dude i have never thought you gonna talking about bahubali

[@Transmission_Rory]

One comedian I can think of whose material is outdated is Andrew Dice Clay's. A lot of the jokes have a mean spirited nature to them, with the punchline being "point and laugh at *insert demographic here* ". I'm okay with offensive humour, so long as it's witty, satirical or most important, funny. If you tell an offensive bad joke, you end up looking like a gobshite.

[@benimanah]

Sam kinison too, while he could be funny a lot of his humour was based on racist mean spirited shit, and plain wrong takes on hip hop

[@lawcane]

Gallagher is another one. 90% of his non smashing things act was insulting French names in a non ironic or funny manner.

[@kanekitchen]

“(Directed) by a boat?!” Lol

[@mytime991]

Glad they are talking about Malcolm In The Marie.

[@ihavemovedtesreviews]

1:21:25 he NEARLY pronounced it right that time.

[@HOTD108_]

You've been on before?

[@ihavemovedtesreviews]

@@HOTD108_ This is the fourth or fifth time one of my questions has been chosen. It's not that unusual, I feel like bdog7171 has been on every other episode. My favourite response to a question of mine was probably worst movie titles.

[@iusedtowrite6667]

Never expected you all to cover Baahubali. Wow.

[@LP-lj9ig]

As an Italian, i am stating that Ralph has never pronounced Guadagnino correctly. Not Once.

[@Pheonix8877]

I’m not Italian and even I could tell he wasn’t pronouncing it correctly lol.

[@Poetboyy]

Thanks for answering my question!

[@giallomadman]

I've been hoping that Taste of Cherry would come up at some point. Such a beautiful movie. Can't wait to hear the conversation.

[@Lukino0112]

Sorry Ralph buy your pronuctiation of Luca Guadagnino was even worse this time😂

[@coolcatstudios3665]

1:56:49 By that logic, Adam should've recommended Blue Velvet by now. Oh well.

[@juanluiscavacortes5434]

I understand what Adam is saying but come on,it's a movie about a guy forced to spend a night in an abandoned "pizza place" with muder animatronics. It's literally the same concept,that can't be a coincidence.

[@LangstonDev]

Yeah I thought his assessment was off base there. I get he's sensitive to it because of the Lion King/Kimba thing, but in this case he admitted he only briefly played the game. Acting like it's not a pretty blatant copy of FNAF's concept seemed like him just being contrarian. While I can't say for certain, I'm sure the creators looked at FNAF and said, "This concept is popular, we should make a not legally actionable movie version..."

[@mrteacher359]

"I hated the child" Adum, 2021

[@PurplePineappleChannel]

"They should make 'Black Chicks'" Xavier Renegade Angel already did that

[@MaleTears]

Oooooh boy my favorite boys

[@michaelangelo2192]

Bang on about Malcolm and Marie guys! Zendaya being overhyped, John David Washington being slightly underhyped - and it's pretty average overall.

[@ThomasWilson4]

Having watched the movie, then hear RLM talk about it and then watching this review, reminds me of why the guys love and emulate RLM, but will never be as good film observationist or commentary.

[@mattpropp9192]

I just had the exact same thought. RLM has a fantastic understanding of what they do. I find it kind of hilarious that Adam is making a 4 hour lion king video in the same vane as the plinket reviews when rlm themselves seem to have dropped that format and that level of indulgence in nitpicking.

[@ThomasWilson4]

@@mattpropp9192 I hear that, they talk about them in such reverence which RLM deserves but it seems like they overlook certain things when it applies to themselves.

[@ThomasWilson4]

Like the only thing Mike knew about those five night games was watching a two minute preview, but even he knew that whoever made this abortion of a film probably did the same thing and said yeah this is just like five nights lol. But Adam has to get big brain and think that it's probably not because he keeps talking about kimba like that logic applies to everything in the world. Sometimes shit is just shit lol.

[@mattpropp9192]

@@ThomasWilson4 the KZbin age of film criticism has this idea that trashing films is a form of proper film studies. I don’t think RLM have that delusion. Maybe they did during the plinket days but they seem to get that what they’re doing is pulpy entertainment first and any informative element is second. This is a little different when they do re:view episodes but even then they don’t seem to have the dunning Krueger attitude that’s so prominent in young KZbin film critics.

[@ifeeltiredsleepy]

I don't think Adam or Ralph really produce content that is in the same vein as RLM at all. RLM largely focuses on genre films and their style largely focuses on presentation and entertainment. Adam largely ignores genre films and engages more with elements of theme and affect, though he sometimes enjoys looking at trash in the same way as RLM. Ralph mostly focuses on the composition of shots when he does longer reviews, which RLM never bothers with.

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

Willy’s Wonderland: We have Nick Cage fighting animatronics and we don’t give a f**k

[@MisterDriskul]

They're using animatronic Nick Cage, not the real Nick Cage.

[@physicsKa14]

I really hoped u would started Indian movies from "gangs of Wasseypur"

[@therohanexperiment2993]

Lol watching bahubali as your first indian film is like watching aquaman or skyscrapper as your first american film i think lol

[@rasmus7493]

@@therohanexperiment2993 i mean that makes sense to me

[@daredevil6145]

@@therohanexperiment2993 right? 🤣

[@ankurbhushan7950]

Gangs of Wasseypur, Tumbbad, Ship of Theseus, court, Andhadhun, UGLY, DevD, Black Friday, A Wednesday....try these I guessssss

[@NileshKumar-nr2vj]

As for taste of Adam I can't really think of any Indian movie that he will like. I mean in his "Searching" review he said "the movement of pointer was irrational at times", something to the effect of that.. But still recommending some Indian movies, that you guys can check :- Gangs of wasseypur The Lunchbox The Photograph Kumbalangi Nights Ship Of Theseus Court Masan Salaam Bombay Sairat Jalikattu Village Rockers Haider

[@thetrashycan]

YES BAHUBALI WAS JUST WISHING THEY WOULD REVIEW THIS FINALLY

[@niharmulpuri3995]

But none of them could appreciate the genius 😔

[@sridharrao5409]

Because its stupid

[@niharmulpuri3995]

Lmao I think it’s pretty good if you can just turn your Brain off

[@sridharrao5409]

But you called it genius

[@anishsawan6496]

@@niharmulpuri3995 if u just turn your brain off, im pretty sure u can like any movie.

[@MissPukingRainbows]

ah, but you're missing the true origin of evil animatronics: the kim possible episode "coach possible" that came out in 2002

[@shelfenthusiast]

this is the perfect podcast to listen to while searching for furry costumes on amazon

[@blujaebird]

Get creative and make your own!

[@chiefgarvey11]

Found Ralph's alt account

[@doujinrocknroller]

clicked immediately when I saw Baahubali in the title

[@markparkinson6947]

Bahubali is such a wild movie. It’s like watching a Wuxia film on steroids! 😂 You cannot take the movie seriously at all.

[@hsuhru2051]

YO I'm excited to hear you guys tackle Abbas Kiarostami, I personally love Close-Up and is definitely one of my top ten favorite movies of all time.

[@Valkian24]

I personally think the best movie that Blue Sky Studios did was The Peanuts Movie and that was about it.

[@juju52291]

You blew my mind; I had no idea Classically Abby is Ben Shapiro's sister. I thought she was just another generic hack conservative, not weasel royalty.

[@eugeneimbangyorteza]

Hell she could very easily pass as Ben Shapiro after identifying as trans

[@ajzeg01]

I can do you one better. Mara Wilson is their cousin.

[@Rex_Crackerz]

“Why is this necessary?” MatPat is crying right now

[@channelname5345]

Robots is a great movie

[@luiginastro8831]

Hell, yeah! I used to watch it all the time as a kid

[@godot5643]

You guys should definitely watch Gangs of Wasseypur if you want to watch a good Bollywood film. It's the most "anti-bollywood" bollywood film.

[@anideilrahimba784]

The main difference between slenderman and five nights at Freddy's is that Scott Cawthon (the creator of FNaF) has consistently poured out titles and innovating each one. Whether you find them scary or not you can still appreciate the efforts and great creativity that he puts in. Which is why I personally think when the five nights at Freddy's movie comes out it will STILL be relevant and make alot more money unlike slenderman.

[@newthejsterjacob408]

He also gives a bunch of money to charity and funds fan games

[@ajzeg01]

He shat out 4 games in under a year, what are you talking about? He killed his own franchise with burnout.

[@anideilrahimba784]

​@@ajzeg01 True but they each had different mechanics and they were months apart plus the community is still larger than slenderman otherwise game theory wouldn't be spamming vids still.

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

Keep in mind that Cage helped get this movie made and produced it, so Ralph thinking that he was phoning it in does and does not make sense. He was the one who came up with the idea of The Janitor not having a single line.

[@lawcane]

He got the executive producer credit as part as him starring in the film. Because of his meme status and the goofy premise that sounds fun because it's wacky Nic Cage (even though the execution was dreadful) got that film made. The RLM guys are probably right in that the no line gimmick was out of him not wanting to learn a script.

[@frankmerker630]

People make it seem like the no line gimmick is some sort of brilliant artistic decision when I guarantee you it comes from laziness

[@lawcane]

@@frankmerker630 Exactly. It didn't help the film at all.

[@PhyreI3ird]

@@lawcane I'm not going to bat for the movie like it's a masterpiece or something, but I have a hard time imagining how a character like him could have even had good lines in the movie that this one wanted to be. There was literally no point in giving _this_ main character lines in _this_ movie, so I'd take the silence any day over what else it could have been. And it made it more fun just watching those cliche characters trying to interact with or understand him and being confused by him just giving them nothing and keeping doing his own thing in this ridiculous scenario. It made him a lot more memorable than most movie protagonists, and hilariously somehow WAY more believable than most horror protagonists (the fact the movie shows that that bar is so low is really funny in and of itself to me). Even without any lines, the movie still made him an understandable but still interestingly kind of mysterious _dork_ of a character by the end of it. So I'd say it actually did add quite a bit, honestly.

[@lawcane]

@@PhyreI3ird those are good points. I think the bigger problem is that the way he kills the robots was so repetitive and he never had any trouble dispatching them. The no lines within the context of him needing to work with the girl or use the environment to kill the robots might have worked.

[@benoldfeld2876]

Did you know that Boris Johnson did actually wrote a Indiana Jones styled script titled 'Mission to Assyria'. He sent it to a director but he received no answer. He wanted the female lead to be played by Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johansson. I saw it on Have I Got News For You.

[@LoserByClown]

"It's not a rip off of Five nights at Freddys" goes really well with redlettermedia's "five nights at freddys rip off movies" in my recommended

[@FrenchFries2]

I very much recommend the Spongebob Squarepants movie from 2004. I've recommended it a few times but we need another meme film.

[@petsnrocks]

Was that the bite of Sardonicast #80?? :O

[@shelfenthusiast]

wait a few more months and this will be very funny

[@anideilrahimba784]

It will be a crime if they don't use the 87 meme for episode 87

[@ThreadBomb]

A part of me died each time they mispronounced "Tamil".

[@nietzchepreacher9477]

how is it pronounced? i always thought it was pronounced like pretty much how an english person would pronounce that spelling.

[@designtechdk]

Tbh I consume nearly all my video content at 1.5 speed.

[@reyna4192]

There's already an in-depth comment in here about Bollywood and other film industries in India that I completely agree with, but I would like to chip in as a Indian-Canadian to say it is true that Bollywood consists of only Hindi speaking films, any other language (ie. Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, etc..) does not fall under Bollywood and are basically from different industries. So because this movie is initially in Tamil or Telugu, it's not considered Bollywood. Similarly, the Apu trilogy is in Bengali so it's also not Bollywood either. Tamil films are considered Tollywood I believe, also Tamil is said as Tam-ill, like rhyming with camel. As someone who grew up in Canada on western media and doesn't even speak my mother-tongues, Indian movies as a whole no matter the language, are always difficult to get through because they want to hit every beat they possibly can with an insane length. I would say this is because people in India who buy movie tickets want to get the most out of their buck because a lot of people aren't well off there. So a typical Indian film with try to have singing, dancing, comedy, drama, romance, and action rolled into one to provide an ultimate experience. Some of them even put an especially unnecessary musical number with an especially saucy light skinned brown women because some men just go to the cinema to see women (insert ex-porn star Sunny Leone and her film appearances). This is sorta similar to why there were so many musicals in the 30's - 50's in Hollywood, it's like you're getting the utmost entertainment for the money you spend. If you want to specifically see Bollywood films that are decent I would recommend something like Devdas (2002) or Swades (2004). A lot of 90's films and below are much better, they at least have some charm, it's all pretty gone to shit sometime around 2004 rip

[@user-zz7rs6lf7w]

Ya'll should watch Tumbbad (2018). It's only 1h 44mins and nothing like a cliche bollywood movie. It's something you all might enjoy.

[@stanko00001]

Do the Scott the Woz intro already, jeez Adum

[@michaelmoratto]

With FNAF, I think it's fair to use it as the example to describe things like Willy's Wonderland because it's genuinely what crystallized the postmodern Creepy Theme Park genre. Whereas before it might have been more in the direction of creepy clowns, which probably has a couple defining movies pre-chuck-e-cheese becoming huge, now the creepy theme park type of aesthetic is more about animatronics and that aspect of the Uncanny Valley and shit. The guy making FNAF has gone a bunch of directions with it too, the camera game is what blew up but there's like some crazy jrpg style one, I think there might have been a dating Sim? That sounds like a fan game though. It's definitely an ip, not just a single very popular game, and because it is so massively recognized, it sort of crystallizes the zeitgeist of creepy animatronics. Adam's point also applies pretty aptly to Kaiju / Giant Monster movies and stuff though. Could we just call them all Godzilla movies? Big robots or huge ants have been around since before that, they can be in all different kinds of movie, but at this point it's either literally about godzilla or it's trying to play to that audience, with godzilla tropes

[@Pontificate]

The JRPG was shutdown by the main guy or something weird like that. There was also a side scrolling shooter that also got shut down.

[@Pontificate]

I really can’t wait to here what they have to say about taste of cherry. I’ve been looking to hear any type of conversation of anyone about this movie and I swear no one wants to walk about it anywhere.

[@pashasadr4627]

What did you all think of that series called "Happy!" ??

[@EpsilDelta197]

Baahubali 2 is much better than the first one. I would recommend it if the first one did pique your interest.

[@GatheringFirewood]

I think the biggest problem with Malcolm & Marie was how Zendayas character was written

[@pssd-ff-dth-grps-fn8797]

Day #12 of asking Sardonicast to review Rango (2011)

[@thesoundofbrown]

I can't really sell Bahubali 2 to you guys, but it does help things make slightly more sense. Then again it does illustrate the issues with pacing I find in a lot of Indian epics, only over 6hours instead of 3. Incidentally, one thing I liked about these movies was that the 'Bollywood" dance number interjections were pretty low in number and restrained compared to a lot of others I've seen. So if you thought they were distracting in this, just wait. Anyway, despite being two films you can see there's three 'acts' if you will. There's young Bahubali discovering who he is; there's the huge flashback explaining the rivalry of his father and his father's brother and then his father's death; then there's young Bahubali reclaiming the mantle and heading in to get revenge etc. The first act is fairly bloated, then the second act is split over two films, taking so long the end is kind of "And now you know what happened" "OK let us go do the final battle and take back the kingdom!". Uneven is the minimum word for it. The interesting rebels and Tamannah's character from the first film are sidelined, even though they are 'there' they get virtually none of the narrative attention built up and you've probably forgotten them by the time they come back, to name but one problem. It must know its audience I guess. And I get a vague sense of the many cultural references that I don't understand (Which make me think the way to look at it is Lord of The Rings in battle/visual terms, but Excalibur in most other respects)

[@tohitarmorclass0846]

There's an extention for Firefox that adds a video speed control option for literally any video played. Even ads lol. Works fur Netflix

[@simonesalvatore9345]

Hate to be a nitpicking bastard BUT; Luca Guadagnino is pronounced GWA-da-ñi-no

[@connorw2k]

So I've been saying it right this whole fucking time? Winning.

[@max6833]

You can watch any video on the internet at different speeds using html video speed adjustment plug-ins. You can increase in .1 speed increment.

[@frankmerker630]

Or just KZbin-dl it and use VLC

[@MonsieurMaskedMan]

Nice episode guys Willys Wonderland is pretty funny but i dont really care for a rewatch Malcolm and Marie its alright i guess, i yearn more since Euphoria was really good also Bahubali is awful

[@luiginastro8831]

Very succinct, very accurate.

[@FHK1817]

Gangs of wasseypur part 1 and 2

[@extinctionanimation]

3:32 Hey thats one more than Illumination

[@julianarchy9043]

Adum gave Willy's Wonderland a higher score than Color Out of Space what the fuuuuuuuuuuck?

[@randomguy6679]

Both movies are insufferable

[@munjee2]

I don't think willy's wonderland is a rip off of the games but I disagree with Adam that this movie would've been the the same if fnf didn't exist

[@trtx84]

Weren't Willy's Wonderland and that Banana Splits movie both rejected FNAF scripts?

[@dissident_media]

the ringer staring johnny knoxville

[@luiginastro8831]

I liked the performances in Malcom and Marie, but in the long run it got kinda... boring? Some of the monologues felt too much like Sam Levinson ranting about his own opinions, not like a couple fighting. Someone has said this already, but it definitely would've worked better as a short.

[@lamenamethefirst]

Lol. Comparing the Apu trilogy to Baahubali is like comparing Citizen Kane to Transformers. They're both from India but have absolutely not a shred more in common with each other. So yeah. Give it a watch soon.

[@lamenamethefirst]

And yeah it is a cultural thing but it's not the ONLY culture. I think that's what people need to understand. Just like I'm sure cowboy hats and guns aren't the only thing about American culture. Baahubali probably wouldn't be popular if it wasn't so over the top because the target audience isn't people like me.

[@DoeJoe98]

Boris supposedly wrote a monuments men-esque script a while back