Season 6 Episode 24: A Life Less Ordinary
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Chris:Welcome to another episode of Cinematic Anarchy where today we will be discussing the film A Life Less Ordinary with Sarah from Two Chicks Talking Flicks. Hello, Sarah. Hello. That was probably one of the most professional openings I have ever done on this podcast.
Sarah:Good job. It only took, like, 10 takes, but we got there.
Chris:10 takes. Yeah. 10 takes. A few interruptions. That was my fault, though.
Chris:I left the towel where I left it.
Sarah:How dare you leave the towel? It's
Chris:just, out of context. Yes. I I I wiped up an entire greasy mess that just hit me in the chest while I was doing dishes. Left the towel unceremoniously on the table in the kitchen, and that was bad of me to do only because, like, if you ever if you've never been in our kitchen, we live in a very, very small apartment. Yeah.
Chris:Like, if I get up and walk five feet to the right, I'm in my kitchen. And if you walk one foot to the to the right of the table, and there is where the laundry actually is. We have a nice little closed in alcove for our laundry, our washing machine, and our dryer, and I could have very simply just tossed it in the basket. What did I do? I put it on the table and then got distracted by something else because ADHD is a thing, and I can't get a
Sarah:Same. So
Chris:yeah. So he he we tried. I got seven seconds into the last take, and and, he came into the room, and I started, like, shooing him away. Go go. Leap.
Chris:You know? Because I was trying to get it out. And then I saw the look that he shot me out of the corner of my eye of just absolute, what the fuck are you doing? Why are you shooing me? And I had to stop and and address the issue before we started again.
Chris:Yeah. So today, we are going to be talking about a sort of I don't know if this is obscure. I know a lot of people I personally know have not seen this movie.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:A life less ordinary starring Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Holly Hunter, and a whole cast of other bits and
Sarah:pieces. Tucci.
Chris:Stanley Tucci was in it. Tony Shalhoub.
Sarah:Yes. I love Tony Shalhoub.
Chris:A bit part, and he just that part near the end where he's like, she's out of my league, and the key just looks at him like, what are you talking about? Look at you. Yeah. And I agree. Look at you and look at her, and if she sees something in you, then what the hell do you mean she is not your type?
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:I'll be honest. She's not my type. Yeah. In this movie, she is batshit crazy, and I feel like if that is what made her fall in love with him, that's like if you make somebody fall in love with you, you constantly gotta up your game to kinda keep them interested. And if that whole scenario that happened to this movie is what got her interested, how do you keep her interested?
Sarah:Yeah. Yeah.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:I have so many bewildered thoughts about this movie. I'm befuddled. I am flabbergasted. I'm all the
Chris:All those words that just mean, what the fuck did I just watch?
Sarah:Yes. While we were watching, I was like, what is happening? And my sister asked, who picked this movie? I said, it was not me. I I did not pick this.
Chris:This is worth the watch, though. It is just it's it's just so batshit crazy that it works. It really is. I don't agree with the 41% that they you don't think it does? I I'm I'm glad that you don't think it does because that means we'll have a discussion about it.
Chris:Yeah. You'll you'll throw some hate at it. I'll throw some love at it, and, I don't like how it ends. I really don't.
Sarah:Yeah. No. Apparently, there's more after the credits. Did you get that?
Chris:There is.
Sarah:I missed it. I I turned it off.
Chris:The angels waking up back in heaven after having been shot in the head unceremoniously.
Sarah:Oh, okay. I did see that. What is there more?
Chris:And then there's a whole claymation sequence Oh, I
Sarah:missed that completely.
Chris:Where they basically somehow drive to Scotland and buy a castle.
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:Where the, weird guy, Todd from the woods, and his best friend army buddy that, apparently thinks he's a dog now, they basically run the castle for Cameron Diaz and and, yeah. I have I don't have a lot to say about the the, sequence at the end other than it's just as batshit crazy as, Yeah. The entire film, and it really makes me itch for, like, a sequel. It really does.
Sarah:It just makes me itch.
Chris:This whole film?
Sarah:Yes.
Chris:Okay. Well, let
Sarah:It it itches my brain. That let let me
Chris:I'm I'm very curious about what what really set you off about this film.
Sarah:I'm just perplexed. And and then I thought I would find my people online. I I would go to Reddit, and I would find all the people saying, why did I watch this movie? And what I found was a whole community of people that were like, this is a great I love this movie. This movie's weird, but it's
Chris:My people. My people.
Sarah:And I was like, oh, but where are my people?
Chris:What you gotta do is go on IMDB and specifically look up, like, the the bottom of the rung ratings, and that's where you'll find your people. Or go on Letterboxd and find the people that rated it, like, one star. You know? Like, if I could give this no stars on Letterboxd, I'd do it. But
Sarah:Well, these are the reviews I found that I actually, like, saved. So this says choices were absolutely made, but it's an interesting oddity. That was one. It's not particularly good, but it's worth watching. It's an interesting blank check ish kind of project in my opinion.
Sarah:Blank check, like, the the kids movie blank check?
Chris:No. Blank check. Like, somebody wrote a check to this person and says, like, spend some money, do whatever you need to do, and make your vision happy. You know, make it happen,
Sarah:not happy. Maybe that could be interpreted that way.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:And then it says, another person said, I think it's quite bad. It actually sounds more interesting on paper than its execution. Zero chemistry between the two leads, and the angel plotline never feels developed to the point of either interesting or, legitimate. That makes sense. I I could agree with that.
Sarah:But this other comment brought up a whole different, but interesting plot.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:It says two a two of a kind and hearts and souls are two similar movies with angels mingling with humans, and I enjoyed very much. Weird comment is what I put. Like, okay. I understand Heart and Souls. I've seen it.
Sarah:It's a good movie, but it is nowhere near this movie. Like, it's a sweet movie. I don't know what the hell this was.
Chris:I oh, thump. Hi.
Sarah:Sorry. Sorry.
Chris:It's okay. That that makes noise. That does make I would like to say that I think that as much as I like the pairing of Delroy, Lindo, and Holly Hunter as the angels in this Yeah. I think that all you really needed was Holly Hunter. You didn't need the kind of ultra neurotic offset to that.
Chris:Even though I guess technically what they were supposed to do is sort of an angels and love thing at the end where they held hands.
Sarah:Oh, is that what it was?
Chris:I feel like he was putting them down there. These people these two angels were in charge of basically they're Cupids of sorts. Okay. Led by Gabriel who they have is what the police commissioner or the the police chief in this. And they are constantly creating failed partners.
Sarah:Uh-huh.
Chris:Divorce after divorce after divorce after divorce has been produced by the partnerships they have been given. And I think while this is primarily a movie about these two cupids having to basically bring these two a lovable loser and an absolute sociopath Yeah. Together in love, I think it's also about them falling for each other by the end because it's them not necessarily I I don't wanna say not believing in love, but them not having found or have been in love that keeps producing all these bad relationships. So, like, we don't know how this works. That's why we keep end ending up with this terrible track record.
Chris:And I think that's why Gabriel gave them a smile at the end as soon as they held hands.
Sarah:My biggest complaint about the angel premise is that I wasn't sure if they were helping them or hurting them and what they were trying to do. Like, they weren't it's like they had never, seen people fall in love before. And they were concocting all these weird things to push them together, But, like, you could've just, you know, like, had them meet on a train or meet in the dad's office and, somehow were pushed together again. I don't know. It was just all the different ways that they did it didn't make sense to me.
Chris:I mean, what? Kidnapping, homicide, violence, all sorts of alcohol, all this stuff that you don't think that produces love?
Sarah:Well, like, how did they know that he would go to the dad's or to his old work when they came to repossess his car? Like, how did they know he would do that?
Chris:They were trying to push, in his circumstance, he was just this pushover guy that was used to being pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed, and they were trying to produce a, I guess, end of his rope kind of circumstance where he had just been broken up by with his girlfriend. Yeah. You know, he lost his job. He lost his dignity. He lost his home.
Chris:He lost his car. He lost a bunch of his own belongings and was left with whatever he had in his hands on the front porch after they evicted him.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:And so they put a man at the end of his rope and a woman who was just absolutely pissed off at her father and bored with life to the point that she's shooting apples off of people's heads for entertainment.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:To be fair, by the way, Stanley Tucci getting shot in the head, all his fault. She told him to stay still.
Sarah:She did, and he moved. That's his own fault. But to be fair, I don't think he saw when she shot the apple off the other dude's head. So you know?
Chris:Well, I mean, he put the apple on his head, so I imagine that he had been privy to her, William Tell nature. Like, the fact that she likes to do that. He's pro if he's been dating her, he was had probably been around her enough to know that she liked to do slightly crazy things like that. Yeah. Bored socialite decides, hey.
Chris:You know what would be fun? If I, practice shooting with you holding up the thing I'm gonna shoot right there on your head.
Sarah:When the movie first started, besides you and McGregor's part, she was interesting as a character. You know, like, you could tell she was a bored stay at home daughter, swimming around in the pool, then shooting these guys shooting the apples at these guys for whatever reason.
Chris:Were you waiting for the opening James Bond music to queue up when she, like, walked across from the pool to shoot the apple off the guy's head the first time?
Sarah:You know? Okay. So speaking speaking of that part. So when I was looking at Reddit and they were saying, like, oh, this is fabulously shot. Like, this movie is perfection, painted photography, whatever.
Sarah:I was like, okay. I will give you the part where she's walking across the pool. That looked really good. It it did look really good.
Chris:Right. Right.
Sarah:The rest of the movie, I don't know how you watched it, but it was, like, grainy. It looked way older than it should have. Now is that by choice, or is that just, like, it was a lower filmed movie? Because it it didn't have, like, the grind house feel where it was, like, gross on purpose, but it didn't look clean and crisp and stuff. I mean, it was done in '97.
Sarah:It should look better than that.
Chris:I think a lot of it there was a lot of points during the movie that were were bright, well shot. There was great cinematography. There was other points, like, especially the whole thing that takes place in the cabin. Anything that took place in that cabin, the lighting was just terrible.
Sarah:And, also, I looked on I am at the trivia and at the goose because I thought someone would say something. Her hair goes from long to short, long to short, long to short. And I'm like, they must have refilmed this after she got a haircut.
Chris:More than likely. And his hair was just,
Sarah:Oh, it was awful.
Chris:I I don't know what was going on there. It's like he stepped out of a bad sixties film or out of a a badly shot version of the commercial for that flowy weasel tool that they used to have at the end of a a vacuum?
Sarah:Yeah. Like, he was very seventies style, like, British rocker that, you know, got washed out of the band or whatever. Like, he it just it was not a good look.
Chris:It's like, we didn't we didn't want you for Austin Powers in the Austin Powers movie, but you can keep the outfit. Don't worry.
Sarah:Yes. That's exactly what it looked like. Like, he looked like he was, you know, the very first fan of the Beatles. Like, just look. I I don't know.
Sarah:It was it was a strange look. He looked good when he was doing the beyond the sea part where his hair is,
Chris:like, looking at that. Slicked back. Yeah.
Sarah:And at the end of the movie, but then I was distracted by her hair because it was way shorter than it was throughout the whole movie. And I was just like, what what happened to your hair?
Chris:It I feel like they didn't make her cut her hair for continuity. You know what I mean? Like, there wasn't a hairstylist there.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:Like or they couldn't pay the hairstylist to stay on. Like, the parts where you see his hair kinda like that, it's just sort of, okay.
Sarah:Well,
Chris:just do your thing. We we we won't make you style your hair today. She's not here. We can't pay her.
Sarah:Well, and they they looked similar. Like, sometimes their hair looked very similar, and I was like, who is who?
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:Have you ever seen those couples that kinda look alike and you're like
Chris:After years, they just start looking like each other a little bit.
Sarah:And Oh, no. I was thinking the front the, like, new couples where you're like, what's up with that? Like, did you fall in love with your brother? Because you're like, you look oddly simple.
Chris:Okay. We'll move away from the idea that this might have been an incestuous relationship.
Sarah:No. It's not.
Chris:I just remember the boy child at birth. You know?
Sarah:I just remember this couple in high school. I thought they were brother and sister because they look so much alike. They were teeny, and I'm pretty sure they're married now.
Chris:No. No. No. We grew up next door to each other. Did your dad hang out over at their house a lot?
Sarah:Right. Like, they were both very tall, very gangly. They had similar features. One day, I saw their pictures on Facebook, and they were married, and I was like, oh my god. They're just together.
Chris:What you do is you just become really close friends with them. Right? And then one year for Christmas, you get invited over, and you give them both, you know, '21 and, what is it? 21 and me? Or is it, ancestry.com or whatever?
Chris:Just give them the the the boxes and then wait for the, post to start showing up on Facebook. We got divorced today. Turns out that, he's my brother, or half brother. There's a lot of genetic material that's a little too similar.
Sarah:Have you ever seen, like, on movies or TV shows where they've done that and the people are like, we're just gonna stay together. Like, what?
Chris:Oh, yeah. I mean, you're not too crazy. Yeah. Sure. Go ahead.
Chris:Stay together. Stay together. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Chris:So, I mean, outside of, like, the the hair and the, cinematography being a little all over the place for you, is there anything in particular in the film that you just felt was not needed? I already gave you mine. I felt like
Sarah:so much.
Chris:Delroy Lindo was sort of hit or miss. Like, they were trying for a good angel, bad angel kind of thing.
Sarah:Yeah. Was Holly Hunter trying to be, like, a cowboy? Because her
Chris:personality was her personality was very all over the
Sarah:Hey. We're gonna take your house. I just what are you doing, Holly Hunter? That's it's like when she died.
Chris:With or without violence.
Sarah:Yeah. It's like when she died, maybe she was a man, like, maybe like a bro like a brisk guy. And now she is a female, like, in heaven. She's a female angel. Like, maybe they just take shape of whatever angel they need at the time.
Sarah:I don't know. But it was such a choice.
Chris:I think she enjoyed the over sexualized and over violent parts of society a little bit too much. Like, she was really into it, and Delroy Lindo was, like, ultra neurotic. Like, Monica Geller level neurotic.
Sarah:Yeah. I kinda feel like they should have been reversed, the two, but maybe would have been
Chris:I don't know. I mean, have you seen a lot of, of Holly Hunter's roles? Yes. She is.
Sarah:She's kinda in your face.
Chris:Yeah. She really is. Like, she's got a very outgoing personality. Everything from, like, saving grace on down to, like, raising Arizona. Her personality has never been neurotic, so to speak.
Chris:Delroy Lindo, on the other hand, almost everything that I've seen him in, he's been like this kinda tall, you know, strong, gruff guy.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:He's always had a stern personality. So seeing this kinda worried neurotic side was fun.
Sarah:It was place,
Chris:but it was fun.
Sarah:Choice. I I don't know. I read the, like, what the movie was about, and it did not sound like what I watched.
Chris:No. The description of the movie is very misleading in most cases.
Sarah:Yeah. Because for some reason, I thought they were, like, working on something together. Like
Chris:No. Like
Sarah:Like, she had the money, and she was, like, gonna be his backer. Like, I don't know what what review what not review. What thing I saw. But in my head, that's what it translated to. Very wrong.
Chris:Okay. So here's the overview. Like, this is, like, the description that they give for this film. A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has accidentally shot a suitor and due to a misunderstanding is kidnapped by janitor Robert.
Chris:Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue hoping to unite the prospective lovers. That is probably the least explanation that you could give for what this film is about.
Sarah:So Fandango says this, disgruntled divine interveners foster a romance between a dreamer who had just lost everything and his kidnap victim, a sardonic rich woman who loathes her ruthless father. And for some reason in my head that was like, oh, they're gonna use her money to, like, do something. I don't know why I thought that. So I was very confused.
Chris:Like I said, like, the the explanations, the the the I want a synopsis or whatever that they give in most areas for this film does not do this film justice.
Sarah:Well, what's funny is that I read Angels, obviously. I just read it to you. Right. So when all the these people in white in this white building are running around, I go, is is this heaven? I go, are they
Chris:Heaven is run like a police station, apparently. This is, that's what I got the idea. He's supposed to be like the police chief.
Sarah:What's his name?
Chris:Now I'm blanking on this guy's name even though I love him as an actor. I think
Sarah:He was Cher's dad on Clueless. That's that's all I know.
Chris:Dan Hadea. Dan Hadea plays Gabriel. And first of all, he he's great in his role, but I think I think how this script probably went in somebody's head is like, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a cast of characters that by no rights should ever play across each other. Just all of these personalities shouldn't mesh in any way whatsoever. I'm gonna write them all like they're all in different movies.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:And we're gonna see if we can make this work.
Sarah:Yeah. That's kind of what it seemed like. So when the angels were, shown, I I was like, okay. Okay. I got it.
Sarah:They're it's it's kinda like a wonderful life sort of situation.
Chris:I was thinking more like, Quentin Tarantino makes Pulp Fiction, the romantic comedy.
Sarah:Yeah. And, you know, I could see where, her being his kidnapee, where they could fall in love. That seems plausible. I've seen movies very similar to that. But the way in which they went about it was very odd.
Sarah:And then all of a sudden, we're supposed to know that she doesn't believe in that kind of stuff because of what x, y, and z.
Chris:This is still I I this I will say about the movie. This is why I wouldn't rate it. Like, I don't agree with the 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Like, I would give this about a 60 out of a hundred. The reason why I can't give it more than a 60 is because this is still very young in Cameron Diaz's career as an actress.
Chris:And so she hasn't cultivated the emotion and personality that she has had in many of her more recent
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So when she's angry, she plays angry very well. Yes. But when it slowly slips into being the more romantic comedy side, she just feels out of play. Like, the there's chemistry between them when she's angry, but when she's in love with him
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:That's when the chemistry seems to fall apart.
Sarah:So I thought she was probably the best part of this movie.
Chris:Wow. Okay. I'm I'm like, this is she's the worst part of this film. And you're like, I think she's the best. I love this.
Chris:Yeah. Go ahead. Keep going.
Sarah:Like, I can see you know, you can tell from the fact that she's been kidnapped before, and it took six weeks for her dad to pay off the people. And I could I could you know, you can see where she doesn't, like, get along with people very well. If your own father doesn't pay your capturors, like, on a timely manner, like, where who can you trust and who can you love? You know? So I can kinda see that.
Sarah:And so, you know, her reaction to him falling in love with her makes sense. His but but I will say her attitude towards him all the time is very weird. Like, she's just, like, so blistery. He'll be like, oh, so I was, I had this dream. And she's like, I don't care.
Chris:Well, I mean, she also seems to be very bored with life. The reason she's agreeing to this is because it's excitement. Yeah. And unless it's going, like, a hundred miles per hour, she is bored. She is bored by what her father's been doing.
Chris:She doesn't wanna be around her father, doesn't want to do what her father's doing, doesn't even really like her father. And you can tell that she she wanted him dead. Yeah. Like, in the very beginning, after he accidentally shot her father in the leg
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:She was just like, shoot him in the head. Let's go. Yeah. She wanted her father dead. So as far as she was concerned, I think all that target practice, her shooting apples off the top of the butler's head was practice for her eventually killing off her father.
Sarah:I mean, the Menendez brothers did do this, like, two years before this movie came out. So maybe that
Chris:Miss Menendez, I guess? I don't know.
Sarah:Yeah. Better.
Chris:I have no
Sarah:idea. Like, I I feel like this movie okay. If if the angels are gonna be involved, I feel like they should have been coaching this guy and be like, okay. So you need to she likes excitement. So what are we gonna do next?
Sarah:Like, okay. You kidnapped her. Now you gotta, you know, take her to, like, meet the cartel. I don't know. I don't know.
Sarah:I'm just trying to think, like, what would be more exciting.
Chris:The entire purpose was to have passive interference to just push the situation along to what they're hoping will be an eventual union.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:I I get it. Yeah. I I understand maybe having them a little bit more involved rather than just sort of be passively in the background kinda well, shooting at him a lot. Yeah. Like, really, they shot out of
Sarah:the that? Like, how how was that supposed to get them together? I don't I don't understand.
Chris:Their whole idea
Sarah:Trauma bond?
Chris:Using the idea of trauma and peril or fear for their own lives to push them together in love. Like, make them realize that they're perfect for each other by making them realize that, well, you know, I might die soon. I guess I love you. I I don't know. I guess a trauma bond.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:I think that missed the mark. Like, this could have been a really good movie. I think they just went about it all the wrong ways, and I feel like they're the words that they said in the movie was what was really lacking. The script was the problem.
Chris:I I wanna say I wanna say I feel like a lot of it I I love the film. Don't get me wrong. This is one of, not one of my favorites. But, like, I I wanna say it definitely sticks out in the back of my mind as something that I wanted to watch and maybe have other people experience. Yeah.
Chris:Like, I would recommend this movie to somebody as something that's just unconventional and weird. Yeah. You know? Because because there's not a a lot of movies are very, very cookie cutter. You know?
Chris:You you pick up a romantic comedy. You pick an action film up, and it's all sort of a, b, c, d. Okay. Yeah. I knew all that was gonna happen.
Chris:Great. We're done. This is one of those movies that you pick up, and you're like, what in the fuck is happening from point a to point b?
Sarah:Yeah. Yeah. But, see, okay, there is merit to that kind of movie. However, I just think they missed the mark. Like, it is so weird.
Sarah:It's so out there, but it could have been done better.
Chris:Okay. Okay.
Sarah:Like, that that's my main with this cast, it should have been a fantastic
Chris:Again, you got now with some of the cast, it could have been a fantastic movie. Keep in mind your two leads are still very young in their careers. You know? This is a this is a young Ewan McGregor. This is a nineteen nineties Cameron Diaz.
Chris:Her career had was just kinda starting back then, really. So you could expect a lot more out of your supporting cast. You know? Your angels, you could have expected a lot more of. I am home.
Chris:The father, you could have expected a lot more of.
Sarah:Tony Shalhoub, they didn't use utilize him as much as they should.
Chris:Tony Shalhoub was just there for a point a and a point b to pour the shot and then call him an idiot at the end.
Sarah:I gotta tell you, he was looking real good in this movie. I was like, I have never I I saw him in wings when he was younger, but I didn't think he looked, like, hot in wings. But something in this movie with that Hawaiian shirt, I was just like, hello, Tonisha Lube.
Chris:Yeah. This is, like, what, around the time that he did the original men in black movie, if I'm not mistaken. He was, like, one of the aliens in the men in black movie. I don't remember how early men in black was. Was it a few years before or a few years after?
Sarah:I don't know. But I was like, damn, Tony Shalhoub. Looking good in this movie.
Chris:Look at me not doing any research. I'm asking you to look up things that I have a phone in front of me that I can look up in the clouds. When was Men in Black?
Sarah:I pick up my phone, but I keep making loud sounds when I put it back down.
Chris:Boom. Yeah. It's a big one. It's the same year. Men in Black was the same year that this
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:Ninety seven.
Sarah:I thought, Stanley Tucci also looks pretty good in this movie as well.
Chris:Stanley Tucci looked
Sarah:most manly I've ever seen him.
Chris:Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay. I'll I'll give you kind of manly. The suit looked good on on him.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:Yeah. I was like, oh.
Chris:He was good up until he was, I I mean, I guess he was a bit buffed too. They did have that whole point where he, like, took his shirt off, like, I'm gonna kick your ass. Yeah. Got he got one good punch in. And then, obviously, that frontal lobe damage had to have slowed him down enough to know that you have to if you laid him out, just lay him the hell out.
Chris:Yeah. He got the, basically, the headbutt, the whole foosball not foosball. What I was like? Rugby headbutt to the fucking nose. Yeah.
Sarah:So okay. There is a part a scene when they're together when Stanley Tucci and, Celine are together.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:And they're giggling on the couch. Right? She's dressed all sexy. They're giggling. And then she turns over.
Sarah:When she turns over, she makes this face. Like, I don't
Chris:feel like to get him to because this is her ex. To get him to do the work on her current guy's leg Yeah. Which they it's not technically the current guy, just the kidnapper who she's slowly falling in love with. I feel like she had to convince him, like, offer him something in return.
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:So she was just absolutely disgusted. Like, I can't believe that I'm doing this.
Sarah:Okay. Because it looked like she was having fun, and then it looked like regret was on her face. But I was like, where like, we haven't seen that emotion from her at all at any other time, and we don't have any backstory to know why she's feeling that way.
Chris:She base I think it was basically just a look of disgust and regret because she had to basically sell a piece of herself to this guy to get her this guy the other guy's legs or the bullet to the leg.
Sarah:I do understand the show don't tell, so I get that part. But I felt like we just needed a little bit more to understand why as soon as she is turning over, she looked that way. I was like, okay. Did he molest her? Did he rape her?
Sarah:Is she not wanting to have sex with him? Because she she tells the other guy, like, nothing happened. We didn't do anything. So was it supposed to happen?
Chris:I feel like Like with Stanley Tucci, he seems like the kind of guy that, I guess, maybe her father would have liked.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:And so she was with him for but she broke it off with him because you could tell she didn't like him, was kinda disgusted by him. Didn't feel like he she was the kind of guy that she wanted to be with. So at that point, if you've already told a guy that you're disgusted with him and then you have to kinda make this grotesque deal with him, I have one question about the whole thing. I'm gonna go off on a different point. Her father, after this guy got shot, told her that he is never gonna do orthodontic work again.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:Never.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:What makes her think that he's going to be able to fish a bullet out of her boyfriend's leg?
Sarah:Yeah. I
Chris:Like, why would he be the first person to I'm not gonna take you to a doctor or a hospital. I'm gonna take you to a dentist to get your leg taken a look at.
Sarah:Yeah. It I mean, I guess, technically, he is a doctor.
Chris:I mean, wrong end of the wrong end of the body there. Like, doctor of this area here, not that area there.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So, doctor of taking bullets. Has he taken a bullet out of some guy's head before or cheek? Did he do his own surgery, maybe?
Sarah:Well, I was gonna say, like, if he is a surgical dentist
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:Maybe they have a little bit more doctor stuff that they've had to learn. I don't know. I just got a tooth extracted, like, two weeks ago, and I had a surgeon do it. And, he, like, put a, a a thing in my arm, you know, a vein, not a vein.
Chris:A vein?
Sarah:He he put something in my vein. A set you know, whatever.
Chris:That's the sedative that basically makes it so you can't feel any
Sarah:Yeah. I I was under while he did it.
Chris:I have to have a tooth extracted back here. Right? Yeah. And I I went to this place downtown, and I was like, okay. Well, they looked at my teeth.
Chris:They're like, okay. We definitely have to pull this this tooth and, and get that fixed. And the dentist, the guy that works there, he goes, we don't have to send you an to an oral surgeon. We'll just bring you back here and give you some Novocaine and do that. And I'm looking at him like, so you as a dentist have decided we don't need an oral surgeon.
Chris:We're just gonna pull it out ourselves. How about I say no to that? Yeah. And you can schedule me an oral surgery, oral surgery. And he's like, no.
Chris:No. No. We can he was so insistent that he could do it himself. I walked out. Yeah.
Chris:And I'm I'm looking for an oral. So like, nope. I don't trust you. You're you're you're a dentist, and maybe you're having a little bit too much fun at your job. But I think that the way this dentist works is that I I should have a dental insurance by the end of the year through my new job.
Chris:I finally got my medical and vision insurance, which is why I got these, pardon the word, but, snazzy new glasses. Yeah.
Sarah:And,
Chris:so I got the glasses. I I I I went down there, and and they quoted me a price. And I think the reason why they wanted me to stay there is because if I could go there to have them pull the tooth, then they can charge me and put me on one of their payment plans. So they're sort of a cash business.
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:And if you don't have the money, they'll give you a loan, basically, which you pay back over a period of time. And I think that's why he was like, no. I'll pull it myself because then they could charge me, like, the extra grand for the extraction. And I'm like, you know what? No.
Chris:I'm gonna have my dental insurance soon. I can take care of this and then have an an actual oral surgeon, somebody that I trust to do the job and put me under, not just give me a shot of Novocaine.
Sarah:Oh, yeah. Yeah. As someone who just went through it, I definitely would recommend an oral surgeon. Also, mine was broken. It it broke, and it was down to, like, the gum line.
Sarah:And so that's why they had to have a oral surgeon. And I'm still getting pieces of my tooth, like, falling out of my mouth. So I don't know how well he did. I have no idea. But I have like, they told me no information.
Sarah:Hello? Okay. We're still on? Still good? Oh, no.
Chris:You still there?
Sarah:Yeah. I'm here now.
Chris:I'm here. I and I guess it's recording it as a second thing, so I might have to piece these two things together at the end. That's fun. It just cut out unceremoniously. This is part two of Life Less Ordinary.
Chris:Just in case I'm not able to piece it together, I'll just say, hey. You know what? Fuck it. It's part two. And if not, then we managed to piece it together, and we're
Sarah:Tada.
Chris:We were talking about oral surgery. Just which are we trying to, like, insinuate that this movie was, like, pulling teeth?
Sarah:Yeah. A little bit, actually.
Chris:I'm sticking to my guns. I'm giving it I'm giving it about a 65. 60 5 out of a hundred if we're going by IMDB or or Rotten Tomato ratings. You know? I'm not gonna give it, like, bottom of the barrel.
Chris:I don't think that's right. This is not an absolute trash movie. I think we still got great performances from a lot of the actors. I just think that the idea, it felt like it just was everywhere. There was a lot to process.
Chris:Go ahead. Go ahead.
Sarah:Can I bring to something kind of controversial, I guess?
Chris:Sure. Go ahead.
Sarah:Okay. So I equate this movie that we saw to Blake Lively's version of It Ends With Us.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:She did not read the book and didn't really know what the book was about and, was promoting the movie as, like, a gal pal movie. Like wear your florals. Come to the movie. Have fun with your friends. Kick back and watch this love story.
Sarah:Well, the real truth of the movie is it's about domestic violence, and how the pattern that her mother had as growing up. She saw the abuse. She saw how her mom stayed with her dad even though he was an abusive bastard. And she said she would never do that. She would never live that life.
Sarah:She leaves and then finds this charming man and doesn't see the red flags that he is exactly like her dad. And that is what the movie is about. It's not about romance. And it it's like that is what I watched. I I watched a movie that was not a romantic comedy, not a romance movie at all.
Sarah:It was a bizarre, twisted movie that so far went away from what the plot made it seem like.
Chris:The big difference between the two is Cameron Diaz ends up with the psychopath that trapped her into all this shit. But he's Not some other guy.
Sarah:She's the psychopath. He's a normal person.
Chris:Right. Right.
Sarah:Right. Who, like, anytime things happen, he was just like, uh-oh. I didn't need for that to happen.
Chris:He he's like the normal guy that suddenly falls in love with the bat shit crazy girl. It's like, I'm gonna do anything to be with you. You this is absolutely nuts. And every situation that you get me into is absolutely life threatening, but for some reason, I love you. Yes.
Chris:And he is constantly trying, again, throughout the entire film, just trying to up it and up it and up it and up it. The one time that he should have protested, he didn't.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:He really, really didn't. And I'm I I would be Stanley Tucci in this situation. Like, girl, wait a minute. What what do you mean arrow arrow? You're pointing at my heart.
Chris:The guy's behind what do you don't shoot. Don't fucking shoot. And then she shoots him in the heart.
Sarah:Yeah. I And then and then he has light shining through. What does
Chris:that mean? A miraculous intervention by god.
Sarah:I was like, is he is he, like, an angel? Or like what was he like a special member to God? Like, what is this character?
Chris:Her shooting him through the heart and him standing there and letting her shoot him in the heart was supposed to be this final act of union and love, and this is why God intervened on Gabriel's behalf. And I'm sitting here that's the part where they lost me. Like, I'm
Sarah:They lost you then?
Chris:That's when they lost me. The very end of the movie, and I'm just like
Sarah:That's when the wheels fell off for you?
Chris:That's when the wheels fell off for me. Yeah. That's why I'm able to give it a 65 because up until then, I was like, oh, this is kinda cool. This is kinda cool. Blake's just gonna shoot him.
Chris:Why are you gonna shoot him? Don't shoot him. Right in the heart, he's gonna die. And then he just sat there and took it, like, with no protest whatsoever. I don't know a human being alive that even if they love the crazy girl would be like, yeah.
Chris:Let's see if you can shoot through me and get the guy up the back. Right. Do it. No. Are you So Are you fucking crazy?
Chris:Don't point that at me.
Sarah:They lost me, like, really lost me around Beyond the Sea.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:So they were sitting there at this place, and then all of a sudden they were like, so we have this best recording artist. Right? They that, like, the guy was introducing him. Like, he was a well known artist.
Chris:Right.
Sarah:And everybody was very excited, and I was very confused. I'm like
Chris:Oh, no. Not everybody was excited. There were several people going, who the fuck is this?
Sarah:Yeah. But, like, a lot of people were like, woo. And I was like, are we supposed to know who this is?
Chris:I get the feeling that a lot of people out there were about as out of touch and clueless as the guy that was introducing them, the the gentleman who the only thing he watches is is the Christian channels.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:I watched the Biblical stuff on TV.
Sarah:So then he goes and he starts singing, and I'm like, okay. And they have this whole dance montage.
Chris:And then she tried to sing.
Sarah:Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Very interesting because in, my best friend's wedding, she sings and does a horrible job.
Sarah:And she said that's how she really sings. Yep. Yep. And I was like, but she sounded decent in this movie.
Chris:You called that decent?
Sarah:I mean, it better than she was at my best friend's wedding.
Chris:I'm just happy he sang louder. True. Yeah. True.
Sarah:Because he is a known singer. Right?
Chris:Oh, yeah. Yeah. He did a lot of his stuff for, like, Moulin Rouge and a couple of others.
Sarah:Okay. I thought so. I thought so. I've never seen Moulin Rouge, because I don't like Nicole Kidman.
Chris:That's another musical I want to do. Sorry. Down with Love.
Sarah:I I I I want to see Moulin Rouge because I've never seen it, but I I'm not.
Chris:I'll tell you what.
Sarah:Or Chicago. I've never seen Chicago either.
Chris:I'll tell you what. I'll bring you on specifically to talk about Moulin Rouge.
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:And that'll give you a reason to watch it.
Sarah:Yeah. Because, I'm not a Nicole Kidman fan. I quite dislike her.
Chris:You know, though, I think that the fact that she is almost that she has a lot of prominent parts, but she feels like almost like a background character in a movie that was supposed to have her as a star. Like, the pursuit and the people that Ewan McGregor are is around seems to be a lot more of a focus than her, really.
Sarah:But yeah. And then all of a sudden, they're on the bar dancing in weird costumes. And
Chris:At this point, he had drank too much, though. That's when the booze kicked in.
Sarah:I was like, is he dreaming? Is this real? And then he wakes up, and I was like, okay. They did it. So did they actually do this dance stuff?
Sarah:Like, what? So amazing.
Chris:I remember her him continually talking to her about having these weird dreams about her. And she I loved how it was the first time he mentioned it. He's like, okay. Now I feel violated. Have a drink.
Chris:You know? But, like, he keeps trying to tell her that you were in one of these dreams where my life was in danger, and it was it was like a game show of some sort. And I really felt like they kept showing little blurs of him blindfolded and tied to something, like a spinning wheel, but they never show, like, the full sequence or give you the full idea of what he was talking about. Yeah. I feel like they missed an opportunity there to give the movie just a little bit more.
Sarah:Yeah, because I feel like, it seemed like maybe it was all a dream, and maybe she was a kidnapper. Like, that's what it it seemed like it could have gone, but it didn't. And then
Chris:Oh, no. She definitely kidnapped him. She did.
Sarah:Well because Yeah.
Chris:It started out as him being the kidnapper, and then she took control of everything. Like, she was completely in control for at least ninety five percent of that film.
Sarah:Okay. So I actually have something which I'm sure nobody else maybe people thought about, but Okay. Doesn't bother me. So we see a scene where he's cooking, right, and she is chopping wood.
Chris:Right.
Sarah:And you're like, okay. Alright. But later on in the movie, when the tire needs to be changed, why wasn't it her changing the tire? Because I felt like if she's the one that's chopping wood, she would be the one that, like, would be changing the tire, you know? Like, that seemed like that would have been I I would have done that because he's just useless, like, to show how useless he is.
Chris:I feel like the chopping wood was, just her showing, like, I can take care of myself. I don't need you to do shit for me. I'm gonna make sure that I I'll chop the wood. She's got an axe in her hand, which is an act of violence to begin with. Right?
Chris:Her chopping the wood and and showing her strength of doing that. But changing the tire, on the other hand, it's a menial task, and I I think that she would feel that her changing the tire might be a little bit beneath her. Now you can do that. You can get on the ground and I'm not gonna do it.
Sarah:I just kinda thought, like, if she's chopping the wood, then that she would be the one that would be changing the tire, like, that
Chris:Oh, no. That's her exerting her dominance over him. That's her basically yeah. No. I'm not gonna do that.
Chris:You do that. You know? It's she's chopping the wood to show her that she doesn't need him, and then she's making him change the tire to show her to show him I still have control over you. You do it.
Sarah:Yeah. Well, plus she never even driven before, so she probably wouldn't know how to change it. But I just thought she probably never chopped wood before either.
Chris:Oh, she's definitely used weaponry before.
Sarah:Yes, yes. She has used weapons.
Chris:But Maybe she was chopping something else. It wasn't necessarily wood. Well, if it goes through flesh, it'll go through wood. You know? I don't know.
Chris:I was chopping
Sarah:those apples. It.
Chris:I was thinking Lizzie Borden, but okay. Lizzie Borden had her ax and gave her father 50 whacks.
Sarah:Yeah. But no one would really care about that. I think every man would be more afraid of Lizzie Borden. Right? Not Lizzie Borden.
Chris:Lorena Bobbit. That was very specific surgery right there. That was very specific. We're not looking to kill you. We're just looking to make you think twice.
Sarah:Yeah. You can't definitely can't go to a, a dentist for that fix.
Chris:And by the way by the way, whatever she did to him didn't work. You know that. Right?
Sarah:Right.
Chris:Because he had a porn movie later on, like, that year literally called John Bobbitt uncut.
Sarah:Yeah. Well, everybody wanted to see him in full repair.
Chris:I no. Not everybody. I know that it exists. I'm not watching it.
Sarah:Yeah. No. Not me either.
Chris:Like, wait a minute. No. No. No. That's not that shouldn't be your response to, I cheated on my wife and she cut my dick off.
Chris:That's your response, let's make a porn movie? Yeah. No.
Sarah:And, well, that's the kind of person we're dealing with. You know? I I believe that he totally deserved for his dick to be cut off. Now should she had done it? No.
Chris:Just, yeah, just because somebody's deserving of having something done to them doesn't necessarily mean you should
Sarah:Yeah. There's a lot of guys that probably should be castrated.
Chris:I I am absolutely and genuinely surprised that that didn't set off, like, a rash of people doing that around the country. I really am surprised. I would have thought that that would have happened, but no. I I guess people had a little bit more self restraint.
Sarah:Don't think every woman hadn't thought about it, though.
Chris:I don't wanna think about it. I'm good.
Sarah:Feel like he's just laying there, that piece of shit.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:And, you know, I bet I bet a lot of women would be like and I would do it with my, nail kit. You know? I make it really painful in the jacket.
Chris:I would use my emery board
Sarah:Uh-huh.
Chris:Or a spoon. I, one of those grapefruit spoons, you know, with the serrated edges.
Sarah:A spork.
Chris:A spork. Good lord. So do they make metal sporks? I know they make metal spoons and metal forks, but sporks.
Sarah:I don't know.
Chris:I've only ever seen a plastic spork. Two. Yeah.
Sarah:I think the first time I ever saw one was at Taco Bell.
Chris:I guess I'm gonna be looking up metal sporks later on. Okay. Is there anything you thought this film did well?
Sarah:Befuddled me.
Chris:Other than confused you? Because I know you don't like the film. I'm just wondering if there's anything you thought the film did well.
Sarah:The first, I would say, like, twenty minutes of it, I really enjoyed. It just went off the rails after that, like, just completely. I will say the very the the the music at the very beginning bothered
Chris:me. Okay.
Sarah:It was really loud and very annoying. And I was just like, when is this gonna stop? Like, why is this music just keep going?
Chris:You know what bothered me? What? What really bothered me was the the opening not the the credit, the, thing that showed twentieth Century Fox back when they were still doing that. That always took me out of a film. I like that they eliminated that.
Sarah:Really?
Chris:Yeah. I hated that fanfare at the beginning of a film because if it doesn't fit into the type of film that you're about to watch, it immediately takes you out of it. Yeah. You should have the option to just not play that.
Sarah:I actually like it.
Chris:Oh, okay.
Sarah:I'm a fan of, because it it feels like it's, okay. It's starting. Like, here we go.
Chris:Like, I like the MGM Lion. It's the twentieth Century Fox fanfare that I don't like.
Sarah:You know, so, I didn't post this on social media, but, I have been a huge advocate of how much I hate Goony. Never been a fan. My sister loves that movie. I could care less. Well, on the nineteenth, we went and saw Goonies in the movie theater.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:And it was bring your own bucket to the Cinemark to to get $5 popcorn. So you could bring a huge bucket, and it would only cost you $5 to get popcorn. So I was automatically already jazzed about this, even though I really can't eat popcorn. So I only have this, but still. I was excited just to see what kind of buckets people would bring.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:I was at the movie, and I enjoyed it more than probably anybody else in that entire theater. So I am a hypocrite. Maybe one day, I might like this movie. Today, is not that day, but I really enjoyed Goonies more than I have any other time I watched it. I guess seeing it on the big screen changed it.
Sarah:So maybe if I saw this movie in the big screen, maybe it might have changed my mind.
Chris:It's also
Sarah:changed it. Just ugh.
Chris:It's also sort of, I've had this experience with some film in the reverse, mind you. So, like, a film that I grew up absolutely loving, like, this is a great film. I love this film. I watched it so many times as a kid, and I'll rant and I'll rave and I'll say, this is a fantastic film.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:And then I sit down and watch it, like, now.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:And I've I've got a couple of Blu rays on my shelf that are exactly like this, and I I'm looking at, like, I bought this film. I can't believe I spent $30 for this film. Why? You know? And I'm gonna I'm gonna give hate to a movie right now.
Chris:It's not that I I don't it's not that I don't like the movie, but I definitely don't like it as much as I remember having loved it as a kid or even in my teens. Uh-huh. Monster Squad.
Sarah:Okay.
Chris:Which is sort of a a a Goonies rip off kind of movie. They were trying to go with the Goonies vibe, you know, and and and have, like, just the team of kids go up against all odds. In this case, it's like the Universal Monsters or whatever. But I remember, like, just ranting and raving, loving that film, loving that film. So many people loved that film.
Chris:And I watched it recently, and I was just like, why did I enjoy this so much? It this is really stupid. And there were a couple of things that obviously I laughed at, like, shoot them in the NARS. Wolfman got no nards. Just shoot them.
Chris:You know, that I remember. But outside of that, like, a lot of the comedy, the the humor of it just fell dead flat for me. And I'm like, I just I don't know if it's just that it's a kid's film or I've grown up past that kind of humor. You know? There's a lot there's a lot of films like that that I absolutely loved, and I think it might be, like, just with The Goonies.
Chris:You might have been throwing so much hate at it. Like, I really don't like this movie. It's bad. It's horrible. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Chris:Then you hate something so much and have a chance to watch it from a different perspective, and you're like, why did I hate this movie?
Sarah:Well, like, we watched it pretty recently. Like, it was had to have been in the last year that me and my sister watched it because I thought I'd already done it for the podcast, but I couldn't couldn't really find it. But anyways,
Chris:I remember you mentioning it to me. I've
Sarah:never seen it in theaters. So I don't know if it maybe you just I was in a good mood, and it was like all the popcorn stuff. And then watching it and the big screen just made me feel a little bit different about the movie because I was like the only one laughing. I was enjoying this movie so much. I cannot explain how jazzed I was about it.
Chris:I actually I had a similar experience with, my son. So movies, when you watch them at home like, I've got, like, a 55 inch television that's decent size. I I I've been wanting to upgrade. I've got a big enough space now that if I want to, I could bump it up to a 70 inch. I I may wait for that because I really don't need it right now.
Chris:But we went out to the movies to watch a film that had been out of the theaters for seventy plus years. And we went to bring him to his first Alfred Hitchcock film. So Cinemac was playing all sorts of and they had Rear Window, which was a great Hitchcock film.
Sarah:They I own it. Never watched it.
Chris:They played the colorized version for us. I kinda was hoping it was gonna be the black and white, but they gave us the colorized version. I'm like, okay. I'm fine with that. Ted Turner, YJ add color to everything.
Chris:But I feel like he would not have loved the film as much if we had watched it here on the 55 inch rather than the big screen. Yeah. You can fall in love with almost any crap movie. Even if you don't like something, you can fall in love with almost anything if you're given that opportunity to watch it on the big screen.
Sarah:Oh, yeah. Because, like, when we saw A Quiet Place, it wouldn't hit the same watching it at home, because you need that tension. You need like, we couldn't even hear people eating. Like, everybody was sitting there quiet, quiet watching this movie. Or, the one with Leo and the bear, I bring it up all the time.
Sarah:Oh, god. What is it called?
Chris:The revenant?
Sarah:Yes. The revenant. Like, just be you have to see it in the theater to really understand. Like, when he was cold and ice cold, like, you felt cold in the movie. Like, it it was so intense.
Sarah:Right. And I don't know if you would get that by watching it at home.
Chris:It's one of those things where you're just surrounded by the film. Like, I'm sure you could make a home theater experience that felt
Sarah:similar. Yeah.
Chris:But having the opportunity to watch it in front of, like, you know, this massive screen with what is basically the the epitome of sound. Yeah. You know, the way that films are meant to be seen is in the theater. Yeah. This is, you know, what I have to watch here.
Chris:Like, I have just a TV. I don't have surround sound. I don't have a soundbar. I don't have anything that enhances the sound.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So what I'm watching is a TV movie. Yeah. I would probably rant and rave about how much better this film was. It probably had better than a 65 if I was sitting in the theater watching the same thing. You know?
Sarah:That's why I was saying, like, if if, I saw this when I went and saw the, Grindhouse, if they, like, just inserted this movie in that bunch, I might be like, wow. This is really interesting. This is a crazy movie. Right. It's pretty good.
Sarah:But watching it now, I'm just like, meh.
Chris:Now as crazy movies go, I have watched much crazier films than this.
Sarah:I mean Yeah. I've watched more terrible movies than this.
Chris:And I've watched crazier films that I've loved more. Like, I tiptoes. I mean, I watch that with you. You know?
Sarah:You know what? I actually saw something about that the other day, and I meant to send it to you, but I I forgot. It was, like, actors that are in, like, movies you've never heard of. And and then it was, like, movies that are really good that no one's ever heard of. And Tiptoes was in both of those.
Sarah:And I was like, how is that possible?
Chris:I figured out a way. And I'm gonna say this on video so that we can get it out on YouTube, and I can get it out on, several different other platforms. But I figured out a way. Here's what we need to do. We need to do a write in campaign to this company called Vinegar Syndrome.
Sarah:Uh-huh.
Chris:Vinegar Syndrome makes boutique Blu rays. They deal with a bunch of different companies where they find, like, original cuts of different films. They do film preservation. Like, I have gotten to see an r rated version of Tammy and the T Rex, which was a movie from back in, like, the early nineties that was, like, Paul Walker's first big film Oh, wow. Alongside of Denise Richards.
Chris:And they have taken so many films and given, like, director's cuts and alternate versions of so many films that I think they would be the perfect company to do a write in campaign to get the director's cut version of Tiptoes out there.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:Like, I think they would do it, but we've gotta write into them. So I I'm gonna write into them, and I'm gonna be like, look. I've seen tiptoes. I know that there is a director's cut out there somewhere, the director's original vision. Find it.
Chris:Preserve it. Make it. Make a Blu ray of it. Make a four k of it, and I will buy it.
Sarah:There's, that new movie that's out in the movies that's, like three hours long. Bolt Boulderlust
Chris:Don't know what you're talking about.
Sarah:Oh my gosh. It just it just won two Golden Globes, I think.
Chris:Okay. Still don't know what you're talking about.
Sarah:About. Adrian Brody in it.
Chris:Okay. Okay. I know Adrian Brody. I still don't know what you're talking about, though.
Sarah:I'm I'm looking up. I'm looking it up.
Chris:Alright. No. Take your time. I you you started mentioning something, and I'm like, I'm bold bolder, lust, bolderum, bulworth. I have no idea.
Chris:You say I don't know any
Sarah:Brutalist. The Brutalist.
Chris:The Brutalist. Okay.
Sarah:Brutalist. It took, like, seven years to and they did it with film. And, you know, like, apparently, normally film reels go, vertical. Theirs goes horizontal, so it uses more of the film itself. So you can really, like, see everything Okay.
Sarah:That they wanted through the lens. It's this whole big thing, but it's, like, three hours long, and they actually have an intermission in the middle of the movie. So you can go, like, go to the bathroom and come back and finish it. But
Chris:Intermission. I just watched a film with an intermission, but it's not anything recent.
Sarah:Yeah. And it took it like, all these people said, this movie, you shouldn't make it. It's not gonna be good. You know, don't waste your time, blah blah blah blah blah. But it's supposed to be, like, a really good movie.
Sarah:I heard nothing but good movie.
Chris:And it won two Golden Globes recently. Uh-huh. Yeah. Is it in the theaters right now?
Sarah:Yes. Yes. It's in the theaters right now, and it makes me kind of wanna go see it. I like movies when they take chances and they're unique and they're different, but this movie just ain't it.
Chris:All of a twenty four's catalog is exactly that. Okay. So given, that we we both have we have disagreements about this film. Yeah. And I've already told you I'd give it about a 65 out of a hundred.
Chris:What would you give it?
Sarah:Oh, god. Like, I wanna say 47.
Chris:Okay.
Sarah:I I I just felt like with the cast that was in it should have been better.
Chris:Okay. I mean, I'll give you that. Like I said, I think that with, if you had current day Cameron Diaz in this film, you probably would have gotten a hell of a better performance.
Sarah:Did you watch her new movie?
Chris:I have not gotten to yet. I am supposed to watch it this weekend.
Sarah:Yeah. It's really good. I really liked it.
Chris:The one with Jamie Foxx on Netflix. Right? Yes.
Sarah:I thought that was a really good movie. She's a great actress. I like her in most everything I've seen. And as I turn this movie, it wasn't it it it was not their act that fell short for me. I really think it's the screenplay itself.
Sarah:Like, the actual words, the dialogue, the you know, you can only do so much with what they give you. And I thought what they gave them was not very good.
Chris:So to give you an idea of where in her career this is, this film is, this is this film took place three years after The Mask, but a year before she made Something About Mary.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So it's, like, right in there. I don't I think Something About Mary, she had hit her stride. Like, she was starting to come into the whole romantic comedy thing and really doing a decent job. Prior to that, like, the mask didn't really require her to do a lot of, like, acting. It relied on her looks more than it did anything else.
Chris:Yeah. And the fact that Jim Carrey is just outlandish.
Sarah:True.
Chris:So I think that she had not gotten to the point where she had been past Hollywood looking at her as a physical entity. She hadn't gotten past that yet. Yeah. I think she did that the following year with There's Something About Mary. Right here, she was still trying to find herself as an actress.
Chris:Ewan McGregor, I think maybe he had done Trainspotting prior to this, if I'm not mistaken. This is still an early film in his career, if I'm not mistaken. This, like, Trainspotting was done a year before this.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So he had really hit the map with that film. Ewan McGregor, very young in his career, they didn't use Tony Shalhoub enough.
Sarah:No. We need more Tony.
Chris:More Tony. Everything needs more Tony. He's like cowbell in an SNL sketch.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Chris:More Tony Shalhoub.
Sarah:Exactly.
Chris:I do not do a Christopher Walken impression. That was horrible.
Sarah:It's pretty good.
Chris:Again, I feel like there wasn't a lot of chemistry between Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter as the angels. I think they could have as much as I like Delroy Lindo, nothing against him as an actor ever. I just feel like he felt out of place. They could have either removed him or had somebody that just had a little bit more charisma with Holly Hunter. So I think that might have fallen apart there.
Chris:I think Dan Hadea playing Gabriel was great, for what little they used him. And
Sarah:I actually think that, Stanley Tucci would have been a better angel with Holly Hunter. Like, I feel like their chemistry would have been really good.
Chris:Oh, what if they had killed Stanley Tucci in the beginning, and he was forced to try to put them in a position where they were in love? Like, she didn't know that she actually killed him. That would have been a nice little twist. Like, take Stanley Tucci and be like, okay. Well, you've been killed because you were and you were an asshole to her.
Chris:But now to redeem yourself, you're gonna help her fall in love with this.
Sarah:Yeah. That was that that those two angels would have played off better with each other.
Chris:Right. You needed somebody equally as charismatic in the scene, and I think Delroy Lindo was out of his element trying to play neurotic.
Sarah:Yeah. Because she he would have been a good sheriff. He would have been good at that part.
Chris:Right.
Sarah:I feel like, Stanley Tucci is a scene stealer, and he did not steal in his movie. And is it because of the writing? Is it because of the part that he was playing? I don't know. But I feel like he wasn't utilized in the best way nor was, Armando Toni Shalhoub.
Chris:Right.
Sarah:They just weren't utilized in the best ways.
Chris:Great charismatic actors that just, were put in heavily background scenes. Like, they weren't put in anything where they could shine as actors. Right. So, yeah, that's, sad. I think you're I I agree they definitely misused their cast.
Chris:They could have given like, you could have switched out Delroy Lindo with Dan Hedaya, and Delroy would have been great there. I don't wanna get rid of Dan Hideo. I like him. I think he did great where he was.
Sarah:He could've been the dad. I think that would have been better. I didn't like the guy who played the dad.
Chris:Ian Holm?
Sarah:Yeah. Like, he he was a great dad to Cher on Clueless. So to me, he's a dad. I could have seen that.
Chris:He's been the dad of a well, not I guess this is a bitchy blonde rather than a ditzy blonde. So because, yeah, Cher was a little little ditzy.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:Yeah. She had the she had a she was very smart, but it was overplayed by the whole valley girl thing.
Sarah:Right.
Chris:You know? Alright. Any final thoughts about the films? The film, not films.
Sarah:I just feel like if they if we could go back in time and they called me and they were like, Sarah, we need you to come and, like, just tweak this. And I'm like, okay, guys. I will come. I will do your bidding. We're gonna make this movie better.
Sarah:I feel like that they just needed new eyes on the film. And it it you can be weird, but, like, really be weird. You know? Do it in the best way possible. And I felt like it just seemed like maybe kind of like tiptoes.
Sarah:Maybe all the best scenes are on the cutting room floor, and we didn't get everything we should have gotten. I just felt like it wasn't weird enough if it was gonna be weird. I
Chris:You didn't feel this was weird enough?
Sarah:Oh, no. It was weird. It just wasn't good weird.
Chris:Okay. Okay. It was it was I thought it was, like, a hundred mile per hour weird film. It it there are a lot of elements that would have like, you were saying, like, there's some elements that felt like maybe they left some stuff on the cutting room floor that they shouldn't have. There were some characters that if you had sort of switched them around a little bit, one or two characters that, honestly, if you had found somebody slightly more charismatic or a little better to fill out the shoes, it would have been better.
Chris:The slight tweaks to the story. Like, I I'm standing by my guns. Stanley Tucci gets killed and becomes one of the angels. Yeah.
Sarah:I think
Chris:that's Standing by my guns.
Sarah:You know, like, you say it's it's a hundred miles per hour. I feel like it wants to be the Superman tower of power that, you know, shoots you up real high and then, like, drops you down slowly, but then, like, really drops you down. Right? Right. But to me, it's more like a Ferris wheel.
Sarah:Like, you go fast, and then it slows down, and then it goes fast. And then it like, you just then you it breaks down, and you're just stuck hanging up there for a while.
Chris:It's like a
Sarah:light to me.
Chris:Imagine the Superman slingshot where it shoots you out really fast, and you go really fast over the deep chasm, and you're excited, and you're loving it. But the swing back, it's like it stops all the way out there and then just swings you back slowly.
Sarah:Yeah. Like, that that's kind of what happened. It just it was a horrible boomerang that wasn't miss hitting its target.
Chris:So you give it a 47. I give it a 65. That's, I mean, that's all I've really gotta say about the film. It was weird. I enjoyed it.
Chris:I did not regret having picked it up and watch it again. I can understand why, my family members were like, hey. What are you gonna watch? I go, I'm gonna watch a life less ordinary. Okay.
Chris:You do that. And then they went to the other room. Yeah. It's like, we gotta watch our own thing over here. I've got several other films on queue for this weekend that I have to watch.
Chris:So it's like a it's a bunch of weird films that are oh, yeah. I'm gonna watch, like, vibes, Barbarella. This was all at the suggestion of the, strange and beautiful book club. Some weird stuff. And, yeah, I I wanna have you on to what do Moulin Rouge, which is a weird film unto itself.
Chris:Any film that takes an actor, much like we did with Tiptoes, and turns them into a dwarf that they are not. It's like, you couldn't have found a dwarf actor for this role? No. You had to you had to use Gary Old man, of all things, of all people. In this particular case, the dwarf in Moulin Rouge is played by John Leguizamo.
Sarah:Oh, okay. Yeah.
Chris:As he would say, his name is Toulouse Lautrec Monfar. It's it's interesting. It's an interesting film. I think you'll enjoy it if you like musicals.
Sarah:I do like musicals.
Chris:Another suggestion again is, Ewan McGregor and, Renee Zellweger in Down with Love.
Sarah:Oh, okay.
Chris:That's That's another kind of interesting, weird I
Sarah:feel like I've seen that
Chris:or
Sarah:at least have heard of it.
Chris:You may have. I mean, it was they were hoping it would be a really popular film, like a big musical, and I think it just it it shit the bed. It wasn't the best. Yeah. But that's what we watch over here is things that aren't necessarily the best that you get to talk about and go, how could they have done that a little bit better?
Chris:You know, that's what I that's by the way, that's what I want for a sequel for the film is I want her the the brain injury that she gave him to basically have a a a bet slowly killed him. By the end of the movie, he is now in Delroy Lindo's place in the sequel, and she he is like, okay. To redeem yourself after all the shitty things that you did to her, you have to help them stay together as a couple because now they're getting ready to get divorced. Right. So we can't let them get divorced because we thought this was the perfect union.
Chris:So it's been years, though. It's been a good thirty years. Right? So at this point, you know, they're getting divorced, but they had a good thirty year run.
Sarah:You know, speaking of when we're talking about things that were awesome in our past and they kinda suck now, I saw this TikTok. And this guy was like, I loved all those shows from, like, Nickelodeon, like, Double Dare and, the one where they, like, climb a mountain.
Chris:Okay. You know what
Sarah:I'm talking about? And he said, like, the prices were so cool. He goes, I rewatched it. Those prizes sucked. He was like
Chris:They were the the prizes you wanted as a kid.
Sarah:Yeah. He goes, the first round prize for the losers on this one show was LA Looks hair gel. And he was like, I so wanted LA Looks hair gel. And then the second round when they didn't win, it was this weird it's kinda like a push pop or like a ring pop, but it was, like, in a longer tube.
Chris:And Okay. Yeah. I know what that was. Yep.
Sarah:Yeah. He was like, did they go to the grocery store and just buy LHL and this candy? Like, it's so weird. And then the next, show he's talked about, they got all the way to the end, and their big prize for not for not winning, but their their prize for getting in, like, second place was a pair of Sketcher shoes and that's, like, quick. And he goes, I wanted that quick stuff back.
Sarah:He's like, what?
Chris:It was things that appealed to kids at the time. You know?
Sarah:Yeah. He goes, I watched it with my kid, and he was like, what the hell kind of crap prices are these?
Chris:A lifetime supply of Nestle Quick. No. Not a lifetime supply. Just a one year supply.
Sarah:Yeah. It was just like a a just a cup of Nestle Quick. I don't
Chris:Like, how much did they get for that? Like, we're gonna give you Nestle Quick. Yeah. I could have done that at the grocery store and not drowned myself in slime.
Sarah:Right.
Chris:You know? I could have just gone out and done that for $2, but, well, maybe a buck back then.
Sarah:It was the LA Hair Looks Gel that really got me.
Chris:Oh, the gel. Yeah. Have you ever actually seen the LA Looks gel? Like, it was nasty smelling, nasty looking. It's like a neon pink.
Sarah:My dad used to spike his hair because he was in the military, and
Chris:Me too.
Sarah:He used to use all that kind of stuff.
Chris:For the longest time when I was younger, I had, like, this flat top. Yeah. It was horrible looking.
Sarah:Yeah. My dad had, like, short hair, and he would spike it up and using that gel.
Chris:Oh, well, at, we're gonna go ahead and wrap up the podcast now. Sarah, why don't you go ahead and tell our listeners and, watchers where they can find your podcast?
Sarah:Well, if you wanna hear more commentary about my random, LA Looks hair gel or, what I think about movies, you can find me at two chicks talking flicks on all platforms. And, yeah.
Chris:Yeah.
Sarah:Still alive on TikTok because it's back, baby.
Chris:I I will be entirely honest. I am not using the TikTok platform to the best of my ability.
Sarah:You really should because I feel like that's where all the movie review people are at.
Chris:I really should, but I'm also playing doing a solo gig of, like, managing all of these things through, like, YouTube and and Facebook and Instagram and this, that, and the other thing. And pardon me. That's It is, it is a lot. A lot. Yeah.
Chris:And so TikTok was the last thing that I got to, and I'm just trying to get some stuff up there now. Yeah. But, it's a lot.
Sarah:It it is difficult. I'm I'm a a solo person on my journey as well. It's quite a bit.
Chris:Very little self promotion for ourselves. You can find us again, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr. I am still on x Tumblr? Tumblr. Yeah.
Chris:We have a Tumblr thing. We don't have a lot on Tumblr.
Sarah:No TikTok, but he has Tumblr.
Chris:I have a TikTok. We have a TikTok. It's just not well used. There's more stuff on Tumblr than there is on TikTok.
Sarah:I would I would make
Chris:a Wait.
Sarah:A bid to change that. We got
Chris:a little random stuff on, like, Reddit and on, like, what what is that? The Instagram thing now.
Sarah:Reels?
Chris:Reel not reels. The the little side gig that they have now that's supposed to be like an x replacement.
Sarah:Oh, yeah. Strings?
Chris:Threads.
Sarah:Threads.
Chris:Threads.
Sarah:I was close. String threads. Whatever.
Chris:Strings. Threads. Yarn. We're on yarn. Well, that's where all the grandparents go, and I'm getting there.
Chris:Anyway
Sarah:I'm still on Facebook. I get it.
Chris:And, we're trying to get a bit of a presence on YouTube, and we're trying to hope to continue to have a presence on YouTube. So like, share, subscribe. We have about 44 subscribers right now, which is fine. I don't mind. I would just the only reason I push it, I don't like to talk about how many people we have in any particular place.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:But to be able to continue to release videos that are more than an hour long, I we need to get to a certain place within a year's time.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:So, yeah, that's what I'm trying to get to is a certain place so that we can continue to do what we're doing.
Sarah:You know that the YouTube people, execs, were salivating the day TikTok was offline. They were like, yes. They're all coming back, baby. And then the next day, they're like, shit.
Chris:We had our mojo back for all of five seconds. What the
Sarah:fuck? Yeah.
Chris:Because, well, it was them, and Instagram was just like, oh, now reels are gonna mean more.
Sarah:Yeah.
Chris:Nope. Nope. You can do the same thing on Instagram. Why aren't they doing it over here? Because it's Because
Sarah:it sucks. It doesn't work. You can't do more than a minute. It bothers me.
Chris:TikTok fills that gap from all the people that used to like Musically before TikTok bought them out and used to like what binds.
Sarah:Yeah. You know? I never did I didn't know any of that stuff.
Chris:I know a little bit too much of it, but, you know, I got two kids in my house that went through their whole teenage phase and showed me a lot of stuff. So, you know, can we sit down and watch all these, dad? And then he's showing my my my son's showing me Vines. And I was like, why aren't we on the actual Vines, like, app watching this? Why are we why are we watching it on YouTube?
Chris:Well, because they're all compiled into one YouTube video. So there were YouTubers that were making money by going to Vine and getting all of the stuff from Vine together, the best stuff, and making videos of those Vines and putting them on YouTube.
Sarah:Yeah. It's so weird.
Chris:It's like, it's a little all over the place. It feels like how how we've been trying to cross promote our our podcast everywhere. Alright. Thank you. And, once again, I am trying to find a sign off of my own.
Chris:So if you have any suggestions for a sign off for me, something to come out of my mouth because I keep saying my friend, Nico's sign off of, drink some water, you thirsty bitches. It doesn't sound right. So if you can think of something that would sound entertaining, if you want me to say some seriously goofy shit to sign off of this podcast, put it in the comments below. It doesn't matter if it's on Facebook, doesn't matter if it's on YouTube, wherever the hell you put it. The funniest thing that you write for me to sign off of the podcast, and I will do it on one of these podcasts.
Sarah:You've been popped.
Chris:Right. Right. Thank you for listening, and you've been popped.
