Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - In A Nutshell

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So grab some popcorn and let's jump into this week's movie. Let's talk about Glass Onion and Knives Out Mystery. So this was my choice. So I'll go for. I'll do the stats first. So in part one, this is.

This is part one, the diagnostics. We cover the movie stats. Then we look at the synopsis and we compare it to our own.

We give you the movie in a nutshell, spoiler free, and then we take a brief look at some ratings and reviews. So let's look at the stats. So it's available to watch on Netflix in the UK and the US it was released in December 22nd. It is a PG13. It's 139 minutes.

It's classed as a mystery comedy. Stars Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monet, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista.

It was directed by Rhiannon Johnson, written by Rian Johnson, music by Nathan Johnson, all the Johnsons.

Paul: 00:01:40

Wow.

Marc: 00:01:41

Budget was not publicly released. It took 15 million in a limited theatrical release and then it went straight to streaming. Okay, so the synopsis. Do mine first.

Then we'll read out the official one.

Detective Benoit Blanc is thrust into solving a murder mystery on a tech billionaire's private Greek island when a reunion with friends takes a deadly turn.

Darren: 00:02:02

Yeah, that's valid. Yeah, good.

Paul: 00:02:03

Mysterious.

Marc: 00:02:04

Mine's always less.

Paul: 00:02:05

Yours could be on the poster almost, I feel.

Marc: 00:02:07

Is that short?

Paul: 00:02:08

Yeah, that's good.

Marc: 00:02:09

Okay. The official one's a little bit longer.

During a Covid 9 pandemic, tech billionaire Miles Braun invites his close friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. Among the guests is the renowned detective Benoit Blanc. What begins as a playful retreat quickly turns into a complex web of secrets, lies.

Secrets analyze when a real murder occurs and Blanc must untangle the threads to reveal the true culprit.

Darren: 00:02:33

Yeah, that's valid.

Marc: 00:02:34

It does give away quite a lot.

Paul: 00:02:35

I was gonna say there's a few More spoilers in there. But still, you'd expect a murder in a murder mystery type film, but we prefer yours, obviously.

Marc: 00:02:42

Yeah. Thanks much.

Darren: 00:02:43

Cool.

Marc: 00:02:45

Right? So, in a nutshell, what is this movie about?

Darren: 00:02:49

It's interesting.

This was made a few years ago because I don't know either it was foreshadowing like crazy what's going on now or saw the signs, because it's about what happens if you let a billionaire who's an absolute moron fund sycophants and help their careers because they're. Yes. People. And the impact that that can have on society when these things aren't un. Are not checked.

And it's about when greed gets out of control, really.

Marc: 00:03:18

Boom.

Darren: 00:03:20

In the case I didn't make it clear, this is about Trump and Elon Musk. But before it's on the nose there.

Paul: 00:03:26

On the nose. There you go.

Darren: 00:03:28

Totally.

Paul: 00:03:30

It's a mystery film. If you've seen the first Knives out film, I assume you will probably want to see this one because it's another Ben.

Marc: 00:03:37

I didn't even know there was the first one. Didn't even know.

Paul: 00:03:39

Oh, well, there you go. I do love the first.

Marc: 00:03:41

What was the first one called?

Paul: 00:03:42

Called Knives Out.

Marc: 00:03:43

It was just called Knives Out.

Paul: 00:03:44

Just called Knives Out

Darren: 00:03:45

Yeah. This one should have been called Just Glass Onion. I think the director wanted it.

Marc: 00:03:49

That would make sense.

Paul: 00:03:50

Just read that on one of the fax things. It says, yeah, he just wanted it. But then they put that on.

Marc: 00:03:53

They wanted the reference to the other one.

Paul: 00:03:54

Yeah, Seen it was the sequel. It feels like it's a very modern movie.

Marc: 00:04:00

When was the other one released? How long are we talking?

Paul: 00:04:02

Oh, no. Is it like: 2017

I remember watching it thinking, would I show this to my folks who like in the 70s? And I'm thinking, yes, but there's a lot of modern stuff in there in terms of technology and that kind of thing.

But it's kind of playfully looking at that stuff at times. And it. For me, it was about excess and kind of. Well, that wrote somebody up brilliantly.

Darren: 00:04:32

But it's also. Did you guys see the super bowl halftime show? Have you guys gone?

Marc: 00:04:36

I've heard all about it, but I did not see it.

Darren: 00:04:38

So you guys haven't gone down like a rabbit hole of Kendrick Lamar kind of?

Marc: 00:04:42

No.

Paul: 00:04:42

I end up watching the Springsteen or Tom Petty one because I'm rock and roll.

Darren: 00:04:46

But you can potentially kind of read too much into this because because it all go. It also goes down to casting. But, you know, you cast for a reason. But it's also about how this, you know, not particularly.

Or he's bright because he's manipulative. But this, you know, not particularly. Genius billionaire stole an idea from. From a African American woman. So it's kind of about reparations.

And, you know, Kendrick Lamar's performance on super bowl was highlighting race issues in America.

He talks about a 40 acres and a mule, which is like what I believe, like maybe freed slaves were supposed to get or to, you know, help them kind of start a life. So it's also about that. It's about whether. And it doesn't matter which way you look at that. Is it a old.

We've talked about this before with the Wicked. It's an old white guy stealing from a woman who's also African American.

Marc: 00:05:32

There's not so old.

Darren: 00:05:33

But yeah, Ed Norton.

Marc: 00:05:35

Not in this. I don't think he's classic.

Darren: 00:05:37

He's older than us. Ed Norton's definitely older than us.

Marc: 00:05:40

But as character wise in this, they're not.

Darren: 00:05:41

Oh, yeah, sure.

Marc: 00:05:42

He does not. He's not older than this.

Darren: 00:05:45

No, no, no. Yeah.

Marc: 00:05:45

They're friends from.

Darren: 00:05:46

He's not older than them. You're right.

Marc: 00:05:48

Yeah. So. But I get. I get what you mean.

Darren: 00:05:50

Yeah.

Paul: 00:05:51

To nutshell it a bit, because it's really hard to nutshell this one because it's a complex. You don't want to give anything away because it is gonna, you know, unravel like an onion as the plot goes through.

But basically, imagine all these people on an island and there's a murder mystery. So if you're a fan of murder mystery type films, I imagine.

Marc: 00:06:11

Yeah.

Paul: 00:06:11

This would like Agatha Christie type stuff, maybe. Yeah, yeah. Sort of thing. Like. What's he called? Poirot? It's like a. Yeah, Colombo. Colombo.

Marc: 00:06:20

You can talk about the setting.

Paul: 00:06:24

There you go. It's that kind of thing. But it's done in.

Marc: 00:06:27

Nosy old bin. Sticking a nose in.

Paul: 00:06:28

I know. And one more thing.

Marc: 00:06:31

Can you talk about the sort of setup of. At the beginning where, like these people are invited to somewhere?

Paul: 00:06:37

Yeah, we can give you the setup. And then it's very much you. You watch it unfold like you would with any of these films, any kind of murder mystery.

You don't want to get too much into what happens next.

Marc: 00:06:46

I feel like that's our role, just to sort of set it up but not. Not spoil it.

Paul: 00:06:49

Because the start of it's very much like all these murder Mysteries where your characters are set up and they've got motives and they all come together. They all come together and it's like, oh, it's a whodunit. It's a whodunit, but it's done.

Again, if you've seen the first Knives out, you'll know that Rian Johnson, who directs it and writes the films, he likes to do it in a way where it kind of subverts expectations a little bit. So it's like a murder mystery. It's like your classics, but then there's kind of a bit of a twist, a bit like Knives Out.

Marc: 00:07:17

Is this nothing to do with the first one? There's no recurring characters. It's just a totally different set.

Paul: 00:07:20

Daniel Craig's character, just the detective. So it's like. What's he called? Blanc. Benoit Blanc.

Marc: 00:07:27

Mysteries on the first one now, then.

Paul: 00:07:29

Yeah, yeah. So. And that's a similar film in the sense that you know about money. Again, money again, people in the same place. He comes in to unturn it.

But then the way it unfolds is maybe slightly different to what you would expect in a normal.

Marc: 00:07:42

There's some good twists in it, good twist in it.

Darren: 00:07:43

But this is also many more problems. This is also about COVID because obviously when it was set.

Marc: 00:07:47

Yeah, you can see the masks and stuff.

Darren: 00:07:48

Yeah. But not. And it's fun because Kate Hudson's character's got a mask. It's actually just like a net. She doesn't want to hide her face and it's.

And then she.

Marc: 00:07:56

It was in that weird moment where, like, some people. There's a room, those people are wearing masks, those people are not.

Darren: 00:08:01

Yeah.

Marc: 00:08:01

What's the point?

Darren: 00:08:02

Totally. But then you'll see, she throws a party. And we know that in the UK particularly, our governments are throwing parties. And it's the rich just.

There's one rule for the rich and there's one rule for the poor, and there's. That's a theme of this movie as well, I think.

Paul: 00:08:14

But in a nutshell, I'd say if you like murder mystery stuff, give it a shot. It's that kind of film, but there's a bit of a twist.

So maybe it's not your average murder mystery, but there's a few twists in there which I think you'll enjoy. If you like here for sure. Murder, she Wrote stuff.

Marc: 00:08:27

What are the. What are the murder mysteries? Are there like that have done that would like to note?

Paul: 00:08:31

I keep thinking of the Poirot stuff.

Marc: 00:08:33

Is there any move like movies like this rather Than series or.

Darren: 00:08:37

I feel like there is, but this just wouldn't be on my radar. But they're not very common at all.

Paul: 00:08:41

Kenneth Branagh did a couple. He's been doing some of the power.

Marc: 00:08:43

Yeah. I didn't think this was a very like, common, like crowded. This isn't a crowded genre. This is.

Paul: 00:08:47

No, I think that's why the first one maybe stood out a bit because no one's done anything like this for a while. So I would also say if you'd like the murder mystery stuff, but you like them very serious.

Maybe this isn't the one for you because it is quite light hearted at times as well and. Yeah, but it's also just like the tone of it. It's sort of a bit jokey. It's a bit off the wall at times.

Darren: 00:09:09

Totally. But also it's like, weirdly, Harry Met Sally felt like theater, like it could have. You could easily do How He Met Sally as a.

As a stage play and you could do with this. But also he. The budget wasn't that much. He attracts a cast that's phenomenal because the writing is so good and the characters are pretty good.

Although I think a lot of the time the. The cast is wasted on characters that aren't that in depth. But you've got Daniel Cray, you've got Ed Norton, got Ethan Hawke rocks up at one point.

Hugh Grant walks up. Dave Bautista. Who else have we got?

Paul: 00:09:42

Leslie O'Doom.

Darren: 00:09:43

Oh, yeah. From like Hamilton.

Paul: 00:09:44

Yeah.

Darren: 00:09:45

Who's the. Is it Catherine Hayne? Who's.

Paul: 00:09:47

Yep.

Darren: 00:09:48

Like Kate Hudson. They'll say her. Like that's just. It goes on and on and on. Just. Yeah.

Marc: 00:09:54

Phenomenal cast, ratings and review. So we'll start off with the ratings. Rotten Tomatoes critics was 92 and the users was 93.

Darren: 00:10:02

That's valid. You're not going to watch this unless you. You like this type of movie. No one's going to see.

No one's going to stumble from Fast and Furious to this, like.

Marc: 00:10:11

Joke on his water.

Paul: 00:10:13

I just started thinking like the reveal sequence. It's about family. It's like. But family. Family.

Marc: 00:10:21

IMDb 7.2. Metacritic was 81, the critic was 81 and the users were 7 reviews. So Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian. An ingenious.

His head spinningly preposterous and enjoyable new whodunit romp featuring Daniel Craig as a legendary detective for the deep South. Benoit Blanc. Christy. Christy lemaire of robert ebert.com. that website keeps coming up.

Darren: 00:10:47

Yeah, yeah.

Marc: 00:10:48

Trying to outsmart this deliriously complicated Plot is part of the fun too, but it also becomes an unwieldingly process in time.

Darren: 00:10:56

I'm not sure what she means, but there's definitely a lot of misdirection. I think it's a movie that's more fun to watch with other people so you can talk about it and be like, I think it's them.

I think this, that's part of the.

Marc: 00:11:05

The fun of them mystery. Who done it, Isn't it? And our dad. He's now our father.

Paul: 00:11:10

Oh, wow, he's been upgraded. Peter Travers.

Marc: 00:11:13

Peter Travers. This time for ABC News, director Rian Johnson pulls out all the stops to delight us with a wicked whacked out who done it.

Darren: 00:11:20

Nice.

Marc: 00:11:20

He's always simple, to the point.

Paul: 00:11:22

Wicked, whacked out, who done it. That's good.

Marc: 00:11:24

That's good. Let's move on to part two of the podcast. Let's head into spoiler territory. So this is part two of the podcast spoiler territory.

So from this point forward there will be spoilers.

Paul: 00:11:40

Darren's smiling, so there must be something we've missed. You know what we miss?

Darren: 00:11:45

There's just a bit in this movie where I think the. The detective is kind of sneaking around the garden spying on people. And I think someone, he then spies Dave Bautista spying on Ed Norton.

And that same scene almost is in Fast and Furious. I think Paul Walker is at a funeral, looking at a funeral. And then Vin Diesel is up on the ledge looking down at Paul Walker looking at the funeral.

Paul: 00:12:10

That is not the connection I thought this is what take away.

Marc: 00:12:14

That's already. What did we miss?

Paul: 00:12:16

Amazing.

Marc: 00:12:17

So in part two, which is located in spoiler territory, we have what did we miss? Where we will discuss what you might have missed. Or Darren will. No, no, he's not gonna do it this time.

Darren: 00:12:29

No. Yeah, I'll give it a.

Marc: 00:12:30

Whether you've seen it a hundred times or this is the first time, we'll hopefully point out something you may have missed or challenge the way you see the movie. And. And in takeaways, that's where we'll finally decide. We'll be allowed to say what we think of the movie.

And in test of time, it can go one of two ways. If it's an older movie, we will discuss what would happen if it released today.

If it's a modern movie, it's all about what would happen if it was released 25 years ago. What did we miss in Glass Onion? A knives out mystery?

Darren: 00:12:56

I think you'd have to watch this a ton of times and you could Just pick up on.

Marc: 00:13:00

It's complex, multi layered.

Darren: 00:13:02

Yeah, it is. There's tons of stuff going on.

Paul: 00:13:04

And it does that thing where it kind of flashes back to reveal things and you go, oh, yeah, I missed that before. So if you watch it again, which I did on this occasion, but I forgot.

I think I forgot because I watched it when it first came out, so I forgot that bit. This bit, yes.

Darren: 00:13:17

The obvious thing is the kind of Trump Elon Musk thing, but it's also about how celebrity culture, people who are famous, just somehow have put on a pedestal so they know what they're doing. And I fall into that as well. Like, I would love Stephen Fry to be Prime Minister. Like, that's. That. That would be great. But you know, that's based.

Because he's intelligent. And they put this. There's this bunch of people they put together and they call themselves the disruptors. And it's just like, how are you disruptive?

And he's like, well, I say whatever's on my mind. It's like, you're a twat. Like, you know, Dave Bautista is a men's rights activist talking about the breastification of America. And it's not.

I mean, it's not full on, like Andrew Tate, but it's kind of that kind of vibe. And then you've got. But he's also like a gamer who got famous from Twitch. It's like, these aren't. These are not real things to be proud of.

And actually, there's a really good quote that Benoit makes. It is a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought with speaking the truth.

And I think that we've got an awful lot of people on social media with followings who are speaking without thought.

Marc: 00:14:16

Yeah. They think it's cool to just talk off the cuff and say whatever comes out. And they think it's going to be impactful and people are going to like.

That holds any gravitas.

Darren: 00:14:24

Yeah, absolutely. And it's just because of that, it's. It's a little bit kind of depressing to watch because we. They all throw each other.

Well, they throw Andy under the bus because they want to cling to their kind of their, Their. Their financial wealth, basically.

Paul: 00:14:38

It's really not a likable group, really.

Marc: 00:14:41

It's like they're all vacuous, like hangers on.

Paul: 00:14:44

Yeah.

Marc: 00:14:45

Only there because he's there.

Darren: 00:14:47

I found this quote on an article, and it was talking about how real this is with people, politicians.

ump during the lead up to the: 2016

And then Trump wins the nomination for the Republican nomination. And suddenly he's like, I'm like the happiest dude in America right now.

We've got a president and a national security team that I've been dreaming of for eight years. Keep it up, Donald.

Marc: 00:15:20

What.

Darren: 00:15:22

What happened? How, what just. And that's kind of this. And it's, it's enabling. It's these people around you.

Ed Norton's character as Miles Brawn, enabling him to feel like he has, you know, influence or power or even intelligence, which he doesn't have, other than being manipulative. So that's, that's. I don't think people are going to miss that. But that's a key thing.

I also really like the fact about the Mona Lisa and like, Miles Braun is, you know, trying to take it. He's like, I want to be mentioned in the same breath of the Mona Lisa. It's like the Mona Lisa's reputation passed over, like centuries.

You're not going to do that. You're not going to take a shortcut to get him to be at Mona Lisa levels. But what I liked about it, and also he's a twat.

Like, he's, he's paid to have the Mona Lisa transfer to his home because he wants to look at it.

It's got all this protection around it, but he's overrided it because he just wants to be able to look at it without all the security, because he's just above us all, which is his.

Paul: 00:16:19

Downfall, I suppose, because we're in spoiler territory. But that's kind of the downfall at the end of it, isn't it? That he's installed that is gonna go.

Darren: 00:16:26

Up in flames and this stuff's happening. I saw like some climate change activists just, just try and throw paint, I think. Was it the Mona Lisa recently or. They threw it.

Paul: 00:16:34

It was one of the famous Mona Lisa. It might have been Mona Lisa, but.

Darren: 00:16:37

The poster with the Mona Lisa, you've got the Dukes whose phone is going off all the time with Google alerts. Like.

Paul: 00:16:43

Good impression of Google.

Darren: 00:16:44

And there's a bit where it keeps cutting to Mona Lisa in these weird kind of close ups.

Paul: 00:16:50

Yes, there is.

Darren: 00:16:51

And I was like that. What are you saying there? Like, Miles Bond's trying to take a shortcut to Fame. And he's dismissing science.

He's dismissing, you know, legality, because he wants to be remembered. The Mona Lisa is remembered with this little smirky smile, looking at everyone being like, dicks. And then social media is going, bing, bing, bing.

And she's like, no, like, you're distracted by. By. It's like. Whereas it's the Mona Lisa. And it's like, there's, like a nobility to.

Marc: 00:17:19

It's pure. It's. Yeah.

Darren: 00:17:21

Like, I've never. I wouldn't. Like, I wouldn't usually rate the Mona Lisa, but there's something about it in this movie. Not sure.

Marc: 00:17:27

It represents something, doesn't it? Yeah.

Darren: 00:17:29

Like, it almost represents a nostalgic time to. When artists were artists and we had.

Marc: 00:17:35

Like, purity is the word that comes to mind. Simple. You were distracted by a lot. We're bloated now.

Darren: 00:17:40

Absolutely. And it's. And because it's in this environment where it's all kind of surrounded by, like.

Marc: 00:17:45

It's like a juxtaposition, isn't it? Almost.

Darren: 00:17:47

It is.

Paul: 00:17:47

And you go on TikTok now you've just got all these people going, yeah, tap the screen. Tap the screen. It's like they're not doing anything. They just sat there going, tap the screen. Give me more likes. Send me gifts. Send me gifts.

And you're like, I don't get. Like, when they're playing classical piano and stuff on there, I'm like, okay, I get it. Tap the screen. That's incredible.

But sometimes they just sat there, like you say, just going, hi, guys. Tap the screen.

Marc: 00:18:05

Why are you watching this?

Darren: 00:18:07

But there's bits as well where he's so desperate to be, like, an icon that I caught that he was dressed as Steve Jobs at one point. And I was, okay, cool.

Marc: 00:18:17

But did he have a turtleneck on?

Darren: 00:18:19

Yeah. And I also saw that. I read that he was also dressed as Tom Cruise in Magnolia at some point. Magnolia?

Paul: 00:18:27

Oh, the bar or something.

Marc: 00:18:28

Okay. Yeah.

Darren: 00:18:29

I'm not sure what they.

Paul: 00:18:30

That was in these notes somewhere.

Marc: 00:18:32

Yeah.

Darren: 00:18:32

And he's a. Like a motivational speaker, but he's also. He's like a men's activist motivational speaker in that.

And he's quite toxic, but he's a really one of Tom Cruise's best roles, incidentally. But then also, the celebrity that they mention is never kind of worthy celebrity. It's like, oh, yeah, this is like Jeremy Renner's hot sauce.

Jeremy Renner. Like, not Paul Newman salad cream or whatever. It's like Jeremy Renner's hot sauce.

Paul: 00:18:58

The irony is, I've just read because I'm looking at the next Knives out movie. Jeremy Renner's actually going to be in the next movie. And I'm like, oh, wow. That's like some kind of Inception with the hot sauce there.

Darren: 00:19:09

It's like Jared Leto's kombucha. Is that you pronounce it? Then there's a Kanye Westmure. I also thought there wasn't Ed Norton in Fight Club on the wall.

Paul: 00:19:16

Oh, my bit where he's all buff on the wall.

Marc: 00:19:20

Is that what.

Darren: 00:19:20

That's wrong? I don't mean.

Paul: 00:19:22

Oh, hang on, I've got it here. Yeah. One of the paintings in Miles Braun's living room is of Edward Norton's head on Brad Pitt's body.

Darren: 00:19:28

Oh, really?

Paul: 00:19:28

Fight Club. There you go.

Marc: 00:19:29

Yeah, well, spot.

Paul: 00:19:30

Yeah.

Darren: 00:19:31

Yeah. So it's just. I think that there's a.

There's a commentary on politics and enabling disruptors, but it's also talking about, I think, what art is and what culture is and what we. What we are now not valuing. And, like, you know, Duke's character is just getting a sea of social media just hitting him.

And he also basically prostitutes out his girlfriend to try and get information. Information and make his company better. It's like, there's nothing these people won't do. No. So, yeah, I think. I know. I kind of went on a rant there.

I'm not. I'm not sure people would have missed that. I just think there's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, totally. And.

And then also the thing with COVID as well, like Ethan Hawke is like, open your mouth. I'm going to spray this in your mouth. And. And. And Daniel Craig's the only one who's like, what is that? He's like, just open up.

And he said, well, I bet that did nothing. I bet that was just like a placebo. But it's also this whole thing that, oh, well, maybe he's richer. He's got the cure. What? And we all did that.

We just like, oh, you need to take the COVID vaccine. Okay. What is it? Oh, you don't need to worry. Okay. I loved it. I loved it when they were playing Among Us because. Is it brainwise in the bath?

Because he's like a Sherlock's home character, right? If he doesn't have a case, he wants to go to an op Endem and just check out. Yeah, he's open. Dem is the bath.

And firstly, I also love the fact he's Gay. This is. I love the fact he's played James Bond and he's also a gay character and he's dating or probably married to Hugh Grant.

Paul: 00:20:54

Hugh Grant, yeah.

Darren: 00:20:55

Which is just phenomenal. I loved all that. We need to have more of that. This. The idea of age in that Kate Hudson's character is, I think I'll go in the pool.

And then Whiskey is in there with her, like, much younger body. So I'll just stay here, you know. And then also, Dave Duke's tattoos, did you catch them? It was just a mix of stuff.

Like he had the kind of Illuminati pyramid with the eyes, but then on his fingers he had like the Superman logo.

Paul: 00:21:18

Yeah.

Darren: 00:21:19

And then he had like the Chaos logo.

Paul: 00:21:21

And apparently the reference to Batman, that really the thing he does. They put the theme tune in the background. I didn't know really. But yeah, apparently that was in there. You would have spotted Batman vs Super.

Marc: 00:21:31

You would have spoiled.

Paul: 00:21:31

I know, right?

Darren: 00:21:33

Just that he's collecting like, kind of conspiracy theories, but pop culture icons, and it's like that's making up his personality. I also did love the fact that he's a men's right activist and then he says something to his mom and his mom gives him a slap.

Marc: 00:21:45

Oh, yeah.

Darren: 00:21:46

And she was also solving those problems, puzzles just while she's reading the paper. So it was kind of fun. Anyway, that's kind of what I got. What you got, Paul?

Marc: 00:21:53

If anybody listening has got any things that we've missed, if they've.

If anyone, listeners have got anything to share, please message us, send us an email hellosinhl.com or hit us up on our socials and we'll read about the next one.

Darren: 00:22:05

Another thing with.

Marc: 00:22:05

We've missed anything, they can let us.

Darren: 00:22:07

Know with Andy as well, who's such a great character. And I love that twist. She kind of does the Wakanda forever sign. Given a finger with both hands. Did you see that?

Paul: 00:22:18

Yeah.

Darren: 00:22:18

Like, boom.

Marc: 00:22:19

Oh, yes.

Darren: 00:22:20

So that's kind of like, you know, like a symbol of, I guess, African American kind of pride and stuff or power. I know. I thought that was cool. And that can't be by accident.

Paul: 00:22:30

No, the bits I missed. I'll speak more, baby, from the detective point of view, which is. Oh, but just while I think the Andy character and that reveal.

That's probably my favorite bit. The film where she plays the two roles so brilliantly and the reveal of that good twist, Good twist. When she.

When she comes in and she's just chatting with Benoit Blanc.

Darren: 00:22:52

Yeah, yeah.

Paul: 00:22:52

And she's the other character that we don't know about.

Darren: 00:22:55

She's the strongest actor. Everyone else is a little bit pantomime a little bit.

Marc: 00:22:59

When it comes to.

Paul: 00:22:59

She's very real.

Marc: 00:23:00

Where Blanc is talking to her, I'm like, oh, oh, that really threw me.

Paul: 00:23:04

Yeah, yeah.

Marc: 00:23:05

Who's what?

Paul: 00:23:06

And it did the first time I watched it as well, and I was like, oh, right, good.

Marc: 00:23:09

But.

Paul: 00:23:10

But which kind of ties in with the other bit that I missed. And I forgot about it from the first time I'd watched it as well, which is.

I wrote down, like, is Benoit Blanc a bit more cartoonish in this film than he was the first one?

Darren: 00:23:22

It's a falcon Lacon accent. That's kind of.

Paul: 00:23:24

Yeah, yeah. But. But even when he's on the eyes, oh, my gosh, look at this stuff. But then when the twist comes, I'm like, oh, that's right.

Yeah, he's doing that on purpose because he's like, I'll dazzle them with my Southern charm or whatever. So it's kind of. He's acting a little bit and he's going like, oh, this is amazing.

But actually, obviously, when we get to that point where it flashes back, it's, oh, okay, he's playing along. He's not. So. So that's why he's a bit more ramped up when he's like, oh, this is the most amazing.

But the funniest bit for me is where he solves the mystery. So if you were watching it, like, oh, who's going to be? And he's just like, oh, when he.

Marc: 00:23:59

When he solves the beginning, when the first get that, he's like.

Paul: 00:24:02

And he solves their mystery and it's like, oh, oh, that's it.

Darren: 00:24:05

That was. That. That was a really, really good twist. Because I was bored up until that point. Now I forward, I was like, hang on, what you guys doing?

Marc: 00:24:10

Yeah, so what's gonna happen now?

Darren: 00:24:11

And then the twin thing.

Paul: 00:24:12

The twin thing twists it on its head.

Darren: 00:24:14

Totally.

Marc: 00:24:15

Yeah. Because when you saw her beforehand, you were like, that's her. Then when you saw after you knew, you're like, oh, this is interesting.

Paul: 00:24:21

Yeah, that's right now. So. So that twist was good. And I also like the fact that he did it on purpose. Like, again, you see that in the.

When it starts to flash back and forth a bit where he. He did smash his mystery on purpose just to kind of put him off guard and everything else. So the bits missed. What did we miss?

I think the kind of revealed to Us as we go through it. And like Darren said, you then it does do flashbacks. It's very clever with the way it flashbacks and makes you work to keep up with it. Yeah.

And you're like, oh, of course I missed that before. I missed that before. So you kind of see what you missed and definitely out a little bit.

Marc: 00:24:55

One of the movies that's maybe want to watch it again the most just because you watching it, watching the first part again, knowing what you know from the second half.

Paul: 00:25:03

Well, I remembered the main headline bits, but it's a couple. I watched him when it first came out. So what was that?

Marc: 00:25:10

20, 20, 22.

Paul: 00:25:12

2022.

So I watched it two, three years ago and I remember the headline bits, I remember the explosion bits at the end and stuff, but I couldn't remember the subtle way it flashed back and forth and things. So there was things I'd missed from last time I watched as well. So what did you miss, folks? Or did you catch all of the clues?

Darren: 00:25:29

I know I keep going on about the. Because I've gone down a rabbit hole. Kendrick Lamar, like, I really, really have.

Marc: 00:25:35

For me, this is the section where I just let you guys talk. I, I, I generally, I generally missed, I do miss a lot of things and I'm happy for you guys to fill my, my gaps.

Paul: 00:25:43

The one I missed or I didn't miss, it just made me laugh because I really love Hamilton.

Darren: 00:25:49

Yeah.

Marc: 00:25:49

Yeah.

Paul: 00:25:50

Darren might get this. So the, the guy playing, I can't remember the guy playing the scientist, Leslie O'Doom JR.

Darren: 00:25:58

Took me ages to place him. I was like, I know you look familiar.

Paul: 00:26:02

So he plays a were.

Darren: 00:26:03

Yeah. In Sir.

Paul: 00:26:04

In, in Hamilton.

Darren: 00:26:06

Yeah.

Paul: 00:26:06

And the bit that made me laugh, which again, if you haven't seen Hamilton, this isn't going to make any sense whatsoever. But when he said, no, no, we need to wait to test the thing, all I could think of is I wanted him going to wait for it.

Darren: 00:26:16

Oh, yeah, sure.

Paul: 00:26:17

Gonna have to wait for it. Wait for it.

Marc: 00:26:19

What was the significance of that random guy? Oh, there was no see me.

Darren: 00:26:24

Yeah, it was just misdirection.

Paul: 00:26:25

Yeah, that was like, oh, that was almost the Scooby Doo end it, wasn't it? Like, oh, it's that random guy on the island.

Darren: 00:26:31

But it was just like the dude just wandering around. But it's something else for you to think about. So misdirection. Yeah.

So there was with the Kendrick Lavar performance, there's a bit where he looks straight into the camera and says, hey, Drake. Which is now a Meme that everyone's going to have seen.

And I felt I was getting that energy from Mona Lisa because it would be like something would go on, especially.

Marc: 00:26:50

When it was burning. Yeah, you think her face is changing?

Darren: 00:26:53

But stuff would happen and we would cut to Mona Lisa for a reaction and I'm like, why are we looking at this? But also, Serena Williams got annihilated for doing this Crip walk dance at Wimbledon when she won.

Paul: 00:27:04

I saw the clip of that. She looked like she was on it.

Darren: 00:27:07

Yeah, totally. Anyway, so Kendrick Lamar brings her back to do that walk and the super bowl halftime. And she also used to date Drake. So all that's going on.

But Serena Williams is also in this movie.

Marc: 00:27:20

Yes, she is.

Darren: 00:27:20

As a, like, it's like a. Do you think it's a big picture, but it's actually.

Paul: 00:27:25

She sat there on tv, on the screen.

Darren: 00:27:27

Are you guys going to pay for me to give you lessons today? And it's like the level of money you have to have. Serena Williams just sat on like a video, a life size video call.

Marc: 00:27:35

It's like 10 grand an hour to.

Darren: 00:27:37

Be like, george, you like a tennis lesson today? I don't know.

Marc: 00:27:40

No, not right now.

Paul: 00:27:41

So that's your money extravagance of it all.

Darren: 00:27:43

It's one of those things of like, wherever you are in your life, like, you. You don't go into the movie without like baggage or point of view. So because, you know, the super bowl just happened. I'm watching this movie and I'm.

And we're probably linking way too many things, but it's there. I also like the bit where they talk about her being social networked. Did you get that? When it was that one where they're like. Is it.

What's his name, Miles or something?

Paul: 00:28:06

Miles, yeah, yeah.

Darren: 00:28:08

She. He took away the whole company from her. He totally social networked her.

Paul: 00:28:12

Oh, yes. Using it as a verb as from the film.

Darren: 00:28:15

Yeah, Zuckerberg, you screwed over his partner. Because rich people do that. Rich people are not good. I mean, there are good people out there. We still have Dolly Parton, so. Yeah.

Paul: 00:28:26

You can't have the rain without the rainbows. No, you can't. The rainbows.

Darren: 00:28:29

What I'm saying is it's not all rich people.

Paul: 00:28:32

My favorite line, which made me laugh, I wrote down because it made me laugh so much, was the point at the end where everything's blowing up and random guy is sat on the beach with Benoit Blanc and he's like, disruption. He's like fucking a. Just so random.

Darren: 00:28:47

Like, okay, he's so funny as well, when he's like. It's all so clear now.

Paul: 00:28:51

This is just dumb.

Darren: 00:28:53

Yeah, yeah. Because he doesn't. He. He kills someone by using his own.

Paul: 00:28:57

His own idea.

Darren: 00:28:57

Yeah. He mentions it, he's like, they're going to do this. And then he does it. He's like, you stole that from the.

Paul: 00:29:01

Blackout thing, wasn't it?

Darren: 00:29:02

Yeah, it was.

Paul: 00:29:03

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's like the. Like the film itself, there's very much. There's layers, but the kind of unveiled as it goes through. Is it clever or dumb?

It's very clever in the way. It's incredibly clever. Yeah.

Marc: 00:29:18

Have you got some facts for us, Paul?

Paul: 00:29:20

Now, there's millions of facts for this.

Marc: 00:29:23

Let's do five.

Paul: 00:29:24

Okay. Literally, if you go on the IMDb thing, we picked out a couple there just as we were talking about.

Marc: 00:29:30

Stop mentioning that you get all your facts from IMDb.

Darren: 00:29:32

Yeah. You should just know them.

Paul: 00:29:34

Sorry. I mean, I get them from my.

Marc: 00:29:36

Brain, most interesting and lesser known ones, and say, it's all your work.

Paul: 00:29:40

Sometimes I know them, sometimes I don't. With this one, I knew nothing.

Marc: 00:29:44

But he's gone to great lengths and hours and hours of research to get every single fact. He has not just gone to IMDb and looked at all the facts.

Paul: 00:29:50

I would never have done that. But just before I forget, though, I think the set design was incredible on. On the actual island. Everything. Anyway, facts of the day.

Marc: 00:30:00

Was it a set? Was it? Or was it an actual island?

Paul: 00:30:02

I think most of it was a set.

Marc: 00:30:04

Wow. But it looks like some of the external shots.

Paul: 00:30:07

Yes. Oh, here we go. This is what we're talking about before.

Edward Norton's look in the flashback scene at the Glass Onion bar when Andy introduces Miles to the group is based on Tom Cruise's look in Magnolia. So that's the scene that we were on about before.

Marc: 00:30:21

Got that? Yeah.

Paul: 00:30:22

Daniel Craig worked with a dialect coach to regain familiar familiarity with Benoit Blanc's distinctive New Orleans accent. But he did consider at one point having a different accent in every Knives out movie without any explanation whatsoever.

But they acted against that because they thought it might be a bit too crazy. The title Glass Onion refers to the Beatles song from the White Album.

The song is enigmatic, teasing various myths about the band by the band, specifically John Lennon who wrote it, thus fitting in as mystery film. As the mystery film title, Knives out was also titled after a song, specifically the song by Radiohead from their album Amnesiac. So.

So the title of the album is about the Onion Layers. So if you know that song.

Darren: 00:31:13

No.

Marc: 00:31:14

But a glass onion has no layers. Nothing to peel back. That's deep, shallow, transparent.

Paul: 00:31:19

I hand pick the best.

Marc: 00:31:23

Okay. On to takeaways. As always. I usually go to. You down first.

Darren: 00:31:27

Yeah.

Marc: 00:31:27

What do you think?

Darren: 00:31:28

Like I said earlier, 40 minutes in, I was a bit sedated, a bit bored. There was a couple of twists. I was like, I can see what you're doing here. You're doing a good job.

I thought that Andy's character was the most interesting. That was. And there's some interesting meaning, but it just wasn't for me. I'm not great with movies.

I need someone like, cool that I can kind of get on.

Marc: 00:31:49

Character.

Darren: 00:31:50

Yeah. Someone to like. And also this didn't really have any resolve. Like, is Ed Norton's character going to prison? Like, is he going to be arrested?

Paul: 00:31:58

Like, hinted that he might be, but not really.

Darren: 00:32:01

Yeah.

Paul: 00:32:01

Yeah.

Marc: 00:32:01

There's no result.

Darren: 00:32:02

Is Andy going to get control of the company now? Like, they needed a post credit scene. I needed justice, Paul.

Paul: 00:32:10

I enjoyed it. I liked it. I preferred the first knives out, if I'm going to be honest.

Marc: 00:32:17

If you see the first one.

Darren: 00:32:18

Yeah.

Marc: 00:32:18

Did you prefer the first one?

Darren: 00:32:19

Probably feel about the same. This one's felt a little bit bigger because the first one's just like in a house.

Paul: 00:32:23

Yeah.

Darren: 00:32:23

Claustrophobic.

Paul: 00:32:25

Yeah. I enjoyed that first one more. I felt like at times this one got a bit too wacky.

Darren: 00:32:30

Yeah.

Paul: 00:32:30

But overall it's a good romp. It's very cleverly written. I enjoy watching it again. But yeah, there's bits in this one where I'm a bit like.

It's a bit too on the crazy side, even for me, who enjoys a bit of randomness, but it kind of downplays some of the more serious bits of it. But overall I would say it's definitely worth a watch. Well written movie. But I get what you say, Darren.

Like, it's good when you've got a character and most of the characters in this film are unlikable. So there is that. There's no real, like, oh, I'm really fighting for that character. Apart from like you say Andy and the sister and that kind of D.

Marc: 00:33:07

That is the one sort of lead in this where you thought you're rooting for someone. Do the right thing.

Paul: 00:33:12

And Daniel Craig obviously has fun playing it. You can see that. You can see him relishing the.

Darren: 00:33:17

But I do think you should watch it with friends. I don't think. Yeah, it worked as well watching it alone.

Marc: 00:33:22

Yeah. Watching Movies with friends is good, but.

Paul: 00:33:24

Anyway, but, but definitely I prefer the first one over this. But I'm interested to see where they go next with the. Because like I said, the next one's coming out very soon.

It's again another star studded cast and Ryan Johnson's. So I'm guessing it'd be more of the same twists and things he was.

Darren: 00:33:37

Going to say like why, why do you need to do that? But if they keep doing a social commentary thing that's kind of going to be interesting, I think. Yeah. Okay. Keep, keep going.

Marc: 00:33:47

Yeah, I enjoy the film. It kept me entertained. I, I didn't get bored and it didn't seem like 2 hours 20 to me. I watched it in 2 sittings.

I watched half one night and watched half the next night. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was, there was lots going on to keep me entertained. I do feel like I need to watch it again. Yeah, really enjoyed it.

There's not many. It's not a popular genre. It's not like an overcrowded genre. Certainly not at that level like a major, major movie like that.

So yeah, really enjoyed it and I'm definitely gonna watch the first one.

Paul: 00:34:17

I, I think just at the point in the film where I'm thinking it's when it then goes to the flashback and it goes to the sister and that pulled me in again and I'm like oh okay.

Marc: 00:34:27

Yeah, things like, like when he passed the drink to him, he took his own. He took the drink and things like that. I was like, oh cool. Yeah, I like me start piecing it together. It's cool. That takes us on to test of time.

years ago in the year: 2000

Darren: 00:34:41

Dude, it could be released in: 1945

Actually I bet they won't be.

Marc: 00:34:53

You know it's things about greed and power.

Paul: 00:34:57

Same. But I wonder because techno technology wise in this, it's. It's very heavy on vlogging.

Darren: 00:35:06

Yeah.

Marc: 00:35:07

It would obviously have to be adapted online presence.

Darren: 00:35:09

It would be different every generation. The stoics like Socrates and everyone complained about young people. Young people don't remember anything these days. They're just writing it down.

They're going to forget. They're going to get less intelligent. Everyone complains. So there'd always be some, some new technology that people are wary about.

Paul: 00:35:24

Every generation blames the one before Micah, the mechanics. Very wise.

Marc: 00:35:27

Yeah. The basic premise of it translates whenever. This is whenever. Like there's basic story of it translates whenever.

Paul: 00:35:34

Yeah. It's just that technology thing because obviously, I suppose it could be a science fiction film in the past, couldn't it?

Darren: 00:35:40

Yeah.

Paul: 00:35:41

If you've released it in the past, it could be like, oh, that's where we're going to end up. With videos on screens and it's like Back to The Future, Part 2.

Darren: 00:35:47

It could be the advent of any new technology. It could just be television. Could be also.

Marc: 00:35:50

Basically, we are flawed. Anytime we get power, influence, we do. We. We turn sour. We use it for bad.

Paul: 00:35:58

And. And the mystery aspect of it with the twin sister switch and everything, I feel like that's something that Agatha Christie would have wrote. Yeah.

Back in the day as well. That sort of thing.

Darren: 00:36:07

There'd be less diversity the further you go back.

Marc: 00:36:10

Yeah.

Darren: 00:36:11

I also love the fact it. Was it Peg, like the assistant to Kate Hudson's character. Yeah.

Paul: 00:36:16

The Bruno.

Darren: 00:36:17

She's just treated like she doesn't exist. Like she's just meaner. She's not one of them. So it's just like she's part of the furniture.

Paul: 00:36:23

Well, he tries to talk. She tries to talk to Edward Norton at one point, doesn't she?

Darren: 00:36:28

What are you doing?

Paul: 00:36:28

Not taking in anything she was really saying. It's like, oh, yeah.

Darren: 00:36:32

And then she thought that a. A sweatshop is where you would make sweatpants.

Paul: 00:36:37

Yeah, that's right.

Darren: 00:36:38

At least she's all.

Marc: 00:36:39

She's one of those people hired to protect her from herself.

Darren: 00:36:42

Yeah, totally.

Marc: 00:36:43

Which a lot of them are when you get. In fact, that's, that's. That's a reflection of now. Like people higher up need someone to go. You can't say that.

Darren: 00:36:49

Yeah.

Marc: 00:36:50

Oh, when she. Keep going. What did you tweet?

Darren: 00:36:52

Yeah, yeah.

Marc: 00:36:52

Took your phones away from you. I've got an emergency phone.

Paul: 00:36:55

Yeah, that's true. It's real.

Marc: 00:36:58

That's a real thing.

Paul: 00:36:58

The bit I thought was funnier, though, is where she took the beat before she says, wait a minute, you thought that was a sweatshirt, but this would work.

Marc: 00:37:09

This would work 25 years ago. Like you said, anytime. Really, in principle, it would work.

Paul: 00:37:13

The eccentric billionaire meets the eccentric detective.

Marc: 00:37:16

Okay, let's go to part three. So in part three, we have worth a watch. We have the listener section, which we still have a name for your take. No, anything.

And then we have next week's movie. So worth a watch. So this is obviously my worth a watch. It's On Netflix, it's called Buy now the shopping conspiracy. Oh, nice.

Paul: 00:37:41

I know.

Marc: 00:37:42

No, it's basically about all the techniques and all the things that supermarkets and the big chains and big companies, how we're manipulated to make us buy things. Some are obvious and some are not so obvious. Some we know about and we just carry on. And some are very subtle. And you go, oh, yeah, that's true.

Darren: 00:37:59

Yeah.

Marc: 00:38:00

I don't give too much away because I just think you should just go and watch it.

Paul: 00:38:02

But it's documentary.

Marc: 00:38:03

Yes, documentary.

Paul: 00:38:04

Okay.

Marc: 00:38:05

And it's just like a lot of it, you'll go, yeah, they do that. But you still shop, you still, you still carry on as you. As you always have some things make you think.

You go, could I actually do anything about that? Is anything I can change? And when you see. It's like everyone does it. All the companies do exactly the same thing. It's a well established.

Like, what was the ones when they put. They'll. Was it. They'll put the price up of something for about two months and then they'll. Then they'll put it on sale.

Paul: 00:38:33

Okay.

Marc: 00:38:34

Like half price. They're only reducing it slightly. It's not like it's going down. They've already. They put the price up before they put it on sale.

Yeah, things like that. And. And they touch on the shaving of product sizes, increasing prices, which is rife. You know, things getting smaller and smaller.

Paul: 00:38:49

The fact that the Kellogg's box is massive, but there's no cereal in it.

Darren: 00:38:52

And less and less celebrations in a box every year.

Marc: 00:38:55

So like on the shelf at the front it looks fine, but if they shave the insides of it, they curve the box in or whatever it is. You don't see it. You wouldn't notice.

Paul: 00:39:03

I want to tell them I notice. Yeah, I notice this.

Marc: 00:39:06

Well, I mean, things have got so small now, you cannot notice. And if it's.

Paul: 00:39:09

Have you seen a cabbage cream egg?

Marc: 00:39:11

Yeah. It used to be very gradual over us over a number of years. Now it's like every year, let's take 20% off that.

Paul: 00:39:17

Cadbury's is like, oh, it's just because you've got older and your hands are bigger. It's like, no Cadbury's. I'm sorry, The Cadbury's cream egg now is like a mini egg.

Darren: 00:39:25

I think.

Marc: 00:39:25

Have a word.

Darren: 00:39:26

I think it's also. People are more health conscious so they're trying to reduce the amount of calories. So this has only got this many calories now.

Yeah, because you've Halved your size.

Paul: 00:39:33

Yeah, we're doing this for you.

Darren: 00:39:35

The amount of times I see like meals and it's like enough for two. I mean, that's not enough for two.

Marc: 00:39:39

Or share bags of things like. No, that's just one for me. I'm not sharing that with anybody.

Darren: 00:39:43

Yeah, I'm sure a grab bag is what. Bags of crisps used to be that standard.

Marc: 00:39:47

This is healthy because it's got all in it.

Darren: 00:39:49

Yeah, it is.

Paul: 00:39:50

You need at least four bags.

Darren: 00:39:51

It's a bag of air.

Marc: 00:39:53

Anyway. Go and check it out. Let us know what you think. Onto the listener section, which still doesn't have a name. We're not going to call it the back row.

I don't know if we call it the Balcony.

Darren: 00:40:01

The. The fan base, the groupies, the green room.

Marc: 00:40:08

I don't know anyone listening to this. Please message in. Give us some ideas what we can call this. Where we talk to you about you. We include you in this section. This is about you.

Darren: 00:40:18

The proletariat, the Swifties.

Paul: 00:40:21

Damn it.

Marc: 00:40:22

The question we asked this time was which movie have you seen the most? And is it also your favorite movie? We'll do. We'll go around ours first. As I said, mine was before we start recording. Mine was Back to the Future.

I've definitely seen that more than any other film I've ever seen. But it's not my favorite movie ever.

Paul: 00:40:35

Okay, mine, I think it could be Back to the Future. But then when I thought about it more, I feel it's gonna be gone down.

Darren: 00:40:44

You finish. I've got. But come back to me with eyes.

Paul: 00:40:48

So I feel it was Back to the Future. But the more I thought about it, the more I think it's probably Ghostbusters because when I was a kid, I recorded it off the TV on a vhs.

Now, you might not know what those things are, folks, but we used to.

Marc: 00:41:01

I didn't record on vhs. I had the vhs.

Paul: 00:41:04

I had that later on, but. But early on I remember you stuff to fast forward through the adverts, but I feel like I watched that more than any other film.

I was obsessed with it. Is it my favorite? Definitely up there. Definitely up there. I can never pick a single favorite because like Darren says, it changes around a lot.

But it's definitely up there and I still love it to this day. I even love Ghostbusters too, which gets a lot of flack.

But yeah, so just from that childhood memory, I feel Ghostbusters gets the most watched potentially. Yes.

Darren: 00:41:32

no one's going to have seen.: 1960

Paul: 00:41:39

I've heard of it.

Darren: 00:41:39

It's made by the same creative team basically who made Mary Poppins. So it's really fascinating. You can have like a massive hit and something that didn't do so well.

It's Dean Jones who's an amazing straight man in tons of movies from like Herbie and that Dunk Out. But it's also Peter Youssef playing a drunken pirate.

So anyone who's seen Pirates of Caribbean it's like, oh my God, where does Johnny Depp get his idea? It was Peter Usinov in but in, in ah, Blackbeard's Ghosts. So I said yeah.

And it's just phenomenal fun and it shouldn't be a Disney movie because it is just a drunk pirate going around. Hey, I know it's a tangent but this is how good this film is.

Dean Jones walks up this kind of island kind of school and got an athletics team and there's an auction going off and the gangsters are going to try and take over this island so they can build a casino there because it's an island, the rules are different.

And in doing so and Dean Jones buys this old kind of bed warming pan and sits on it accidentally and there's a spell inside a witch did and he reads out the spell and he releases Blackbeard's ghost. And then Blackbeard helps him save the island and the hotel by helping the track team win this competition because they've gambled on it.

And you basically see in this invisible ghost running around like picking up javelins and running with it and then picking up like runners and jumping them over hurdles. It's ludicrous and it's amazing and it's fun. I could quote it all day long.

Paul: 00:43:05

Wow.

Marc: 00:43:06

There you go. Not much to say to that.

Darren: 00:43:08

See, I always want to say continuously thinking I'll cut that bit. Oh yeah, make a note to myself, that bit will be gone.

Marc: 00:43:15

Should we hear what some of our listeners said?

Darren: 00:43:17

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Marc: 00:43:18

So Danny Roberts, who's a good friend of mine from years and years ago, not soon. Hope you're well, Danny. He said American Psycho, a true masterpiece in hit in story, sound and Bateman's performance, 10 out of 10.

Darren: 00:43:28

It depends why you're watching that movie.

Paul: 00:43:30

I still haven't seen it.

Darren: 00:43:32

Are you watching that as a warning or are you going to order some business cards? Like what's going on.

Marc: 00:43:36

Some people just like that genre, just sing clips.

Darren: 00:43:39

He's a not a good Role model.

Marc: 00:43:41

So some. A lot of these people haven't just. They've just put what their favorite movies based on what they've seen. Which. Which.

Which movie they've seen the most?

Paul: 00:43:46

Yeah, yeah.

Marc: 00:43:47

Lauren Armstrong. Just Green Mile.

Paul: 00:43:49

Green Mile.

Marc: 00:43:50

Just Green Miles. Not bad.

Darren: 00:43:52

She likes to try.

Marc: 00:43:53

Matt Adamson said. Kickboxer. I love every single thing about that film.

Darren: 00:43:57

Oh, Matt, you're adorable. I imagine Matt's the same age as us because if you grew up in the 80s. Kickboxer. No retreat, no surrender. American.

Marc: 00:44:06

I do know he's a bit younger than us, but.

Darren: 00:44:08

Yeah, sounds like he's got a beer.

Marc: 00:44:10

He's a good guy. And one of our regular listeners, Genesee D. Has messaged in. She's put the Color Purple favorite and most watched.

Paul: 00:44:19

Oh, wow. There you go.

Darren: 00:44:20

Noble. Impressive critics. From a kickboxer to the Color Purple.

Marc: 00:44:27

There you go. That's the wonder of movies.

Darren: 00:44:30

It is. You both have good choices.

Paul: 00:44:32

I keep thinking in my head of all these other movies that could be contenders now, though, like, is it the Goonies? Could. Could it be something else from My.

Darren: 00:44:38

Child might be making a remake or sequel.

Paul: 00:44:40

They better not.

Darren: 00:44:41

All the cast are interested if Spielberg can get the script.

Paul: 00:44:44

No, let's just leave it. Come on.

Marc: 00:44:47

This is your opportunity to send us your suggestions for movies you would like us to break down for the march listener choice. If you could pick any movie, what would you like us to break down? It could be your favorite movie. It could be something you haven't seen.

You would like us to help you decide if it's worth your time. I don't think we've had that yet. Everyone's just thinking, this is my favorite movie. Please break it down for me. Which means they.

I don't know, they must like.

Darren: 00:45:08

They must like it, so they can't be offended. If one of us. I'm not saying who, but if one of us doesn't like it.

Marc: 00:45:15

Yeah, there's always that.

Paul: 00:45:16

Could that be. Who could that be?

Marc: 00:45:18

There's always that, but. Yeah, then if it's a movie, though, it's always been on the list of something. I should have watched this. Everyone else. It's a classic.

Everyone's seen it. But I haven't had time to watch it, and I haven't seen it. You guys break it down for me. We could do that as well.

Paul: 00:45:29

Yeah. They seem to come with the favorites, though, don't they?

Marc: 00:45:31

Yeah, whichever.

Paul: 00:45:33

Whichever.

Marc: 00:45:33

Always seems to be a curveball. So you can email us hellooviesina.com all the links to Our social accounts are in the show Notes right below this in your app.

Send your suggestions in. We will sift through them all.

Paul: 00:45:45

Are we going to check the list from the past that we didn't review or are we just looking clean slate? Clean slate. Okay.

Marc: 00:45:50

Yeah, just we didn't get yours last time. Send it in again. Maybe we will this time.

Paul: 00:45:54

Okay, that's fine.

Marc: 00:45:54

Okay. Yep. So you can include as much detail in the film as you want. You can pre send your synopsis in with it as well. Whatever you want to do.

But if we do choose your movie, then we obviously will break the movie down for you. We will read your name out and we'll give you a shout on the show. But it would also allow you to give us your worth a watch.

So something that's caught your eye. Be a TV series, documentary, even another film. We will read it out on the show.

The main event of today's episode is Darren's choice of next week's movie.

Paul: 00:46:24

That's right.

Darren: 00:46:25

Right.

Marc: 00:46:26

So how many times have you changed your mind on this?

Darren: 00:46:28

I changed my, like, mind. I change my mind all the time. And I also reflect right until he speaks. Now I reflect on kind of what we're doing and what we're trying to do.

And obviously we try and recommend a movie that's on one of the mainstream insights so that our audience and kind of follow along with us. But it's amazing how many movies are not on these streaming sites.

Marc: 00:46:46

I've got a massive list of films that I want to recommend, but they're just not available to us anyway.

Darren: 00:46:50

So I was just. I really wanted to go back and do like, you know, maybe the Casablanca or Morty's Falcon or the Thin man or All About Eve.

So I was just searching on every one of the main devices, be like, show me a Bogart movie. Show me this, show me that. Give me Katharine Hepburn. Like, give me something. But almost there's none. They're not there.

Paul: 00:47:12

Surprising.

Marc: 00:47:12

I've got a list of 35 movies that I would like to recommend at some point. Ten of them are available, included in your subscription. You have to either pay extra in your subscription or they're just not available.

Darren: 00:47:23

So the one I found, I actually isn't necessarily one of my favorites. Haven't seen it for a while, but I'm interested in it. It's His Girl Friday.

It's directed by Howard Hawks, is a phenomenal director with a distinct style. It's Cary Grant and Rosalind Roswell. I think I've written there. It's on prime at the moment. So it's an old black and white movie.

It's rapid fire dialogue. It's funny. It's from what I vaguely.

The reason it's in my mind is I'm sure this is the movie where they're divorced and this is like, you know, the 40s. This is like, you know, divorce.

And at some point the Rosalind's character who's talking to Cary Grant about she's like, you know, we're divorced now. And he says, he says something like, I think she's called Hattie. He says something like, I really wish you hadn't done that, Hattie.

It kind of dampers a man's confidence. And you know, I said div. Like I'll say that to my ex. Sometimes I really wish I hadn't done that. Emily. So I'm curious as to everything.

It's the oldest movie we would. We haven't gone back before the 80s yet, I think, have we? So we're going back in time.

Marc: 00:48:25

Good.

Paul: 00:48:25

Exciting. I haven't seen it, but I do love a, an old black and white film. So it's exciting.

Marc: 00:48:31

Is this the first time you haven't done some sort of link to the previous movie?

Darren: 00:48:35

Yeah.

Marc: 00:48:35

Because from back to the future to in time.

Paul: 00:48:37

Oh yeah.

Darren: 00:48:38

Oh yeah.

Marc: 00:48:39

And then you did, what was the last one you did?

Darren: 00:48:41

It was the identity, wasn't it? So was it net and yeah, the net.

Marc: 00:48:45

No, you put, you chose History of Violence.

Darren: 00:48:48

History of Violence, yeah.

Marc: 00:48:49

So it's about identity.

Paul: 00:48:51

So is there any onions in this? Like that would be really useful.

Marc: 00:48:55

Any knives?

Darren: 00:48:56

I mean it, I, I think it's about journalists. But that's not a big enough actually I, I, I can't remember that much about this movie.

Marc: 00:49:05

We don't want to give too much away anyway, that's our job for next next time, his Girl Friday. That is next week's movie chosen by Darren. So thanks for listening guys. If you want to get in touch with us here, you can email us.

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Darren: 00:49:38

And this is Darren saying, see you again.

Paul: 00:49:42

An anonymous invitation is not to be trifled.