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Five Gold Rings
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Introduction and Theme
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On the first day of Thanksgiving, Hallmark gave to me
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Hello and welcome to reshoot an amateur's guide to good or films we take movies that are bad good or maybe somewhere in between and make them Objectively better. I was expecting you guys to jump in cool. Thanks. I shaded Usually just one of those says it and I'm thrown off. Okay, you damped though and I do that ah never stopped unironically.
Special Guest Introduction
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Yes oh half ironically but You know who doesn't dab? Our special guest. Do you want to introduce yourself? You talk. You talk. Should we introduce me? No, I introduced you saying you're our special guest. Do you want to introduce yourself? Oh, okay. Hi, I'm Ilya, Hector's mom, and Rudy's mother-in-law.
Ilya's Hallmark Tradition
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Friend of Ed. Friend of Ed. Friend of Ed, yeah. That's very important.
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loose a definition of friend but friend.
00:01:25
Speaker
Yeah. why Mom, do you want to introduce yourself? Like, why? Why are you here? Why are you here? Outside of us asking you. Well, I like to watch Hallmark movies and you used to watch them with me, ironically. That's not true.
00:01:50
Speaker
She's my mom. Y'all know where I am from now. So, you told me two, like three years ago to do a Hallmark review and I said, okay, and since then we have been doing that. And I love it. Yeah, it's been fun. It's been a fun tradition. So, do how many do you watch in like a year? Yeah, we need your credentials. Well, I watch I record all the movies of Hallmark for Christmas. So I ah record the movies that they take out every year and watch it without advertising, but I watch all.
Favorite Hallmark Movies
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If it's so bad, then maybe I will turn it off and watch it in segments.
00:02:40
Speaker
But there has been some that I cannot stand and just erase it. what's What's your favorite really bad Christmas, Hallmark Christmas movie? Or yeah, give us your your hate watch Hallmark Christmas movie and your favorite of all time Hallmark Christmas movie. Well, the family tree is one of the way I started today. One of that I like it. The family tree, I like that.
00:03:11
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Those that includes kids are good. And last year and this year they did some of autistic kids and it was really good. And then another one that I liked is ah one that it was including last year, a blind guy and a dog. gay do It was really good. Those that are more Traditional old movies, things for me are the best.
Plot of 'Five Gold Rings'
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It's the one that like real life movies. Oh God, it's genetic.
00:03:51
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But those that have so much fantasy, I sometimes cannot like it. Journey back to Christmas. Oh, that one was good. That's the words of the old for That really was the words for me. I didn't like it.
00:04:10
Speaker
i Yeah. All right. So we have your credentials. Thank you, mom. She is an expert. We have certified verified. I got like y'all I've been through DVR whenever I go home and visit. it It's like 80% full of just these movies. Yeah. ah We should introduce the rest of us. Well, I guess mom did. Yeah, she introduced us. So we watched Five Gold Rings, which came out this year.
00:04:40
Speaker
came out this year. It's a movie about I see. So what happened was mom gave us a list. And as soon as I heard the thing, I'm like, okay, we're picking this one. Ilia, do you want to just give a a quick, like, quick and dirty plot synapses? Just what happens in the movie and like, a sentence or two? I like the beginning because it was a connection between drama and honor lady or drink.
Movie Critique: Acting and Chemistry
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And I remember having a good connection with my grandma ah ah from other side. So that brought me good memories. But then after she died and she left the golden rings, okay, that is spy mystery. But when then the movie started to develop and there was no good chemistry between the
00:05:36
Speaker
and They were so stiff. They were icicles, both of them. It was... Mostly mean. Ruthie was like, do you think it's their first time being the leads in the Hallmark film? Like Ruthie, I think it's their first time acting.
00:05:49
Speaker
Like I hate being mean to like... They were so stiff. i Okay, so Ruthie and I, Ruthie and I have been part of like, we did a movie shoot with like... You're really just gonna drop that now? Like this?
00:06:06
Speaker
Yeah. So let me just say this though, we've dropped, we've helped shoot a movie before, like a little short film. And like, God, like, i'm I'm not trying to insult the people we were with because they did really good. That's the thing. They did really good. And they were a small, it it was like everybody's first time. It was everybody's first time. They did amazing. And then here's this big movie and it's like with more money than we'll ever have. And it's like,
00:06:31
Speaker
ah Well, but that's like the, oh geez, what's the name of the angels? No, and not angel studios, but the the Christian one with courageous. They make cheap slop feel good Christian movies on like pennies. They'll do as cheap as possible because it's for Jesus. But then they make rake in like tens of millions of dollars. Easy, yeah. Yeah, that's Hallmark's business model. Well, but they have good actors and actresses. Yeah, but they probably got
00:07:03
Speaker
That was like the, you know, they probably know which ones are going to be the good ones and which ones they can kind of cheap out on. And this one definitely felt like the cheap out on. Those are new. I need to bring that. Those are new actors. Okay. So this was their first time as Hallmark. Yeah. Okay. That tracks. Yeah. They are giving more opportunities to new new actors. They're trying to bring more, uh, for new people. Into the ecosystem.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah, but not always words. and And I think that the chemistry between the main characters is so important. And on this movie, you didn't see that. Yeah. It it felt plastic, plastic chemistry.
Plot Analysis: Audrey and Finn
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kind But yeah yeah, the premise of this movie is Audrey, her mother and her grandmother all used to run this antique store and Audrey's grandmother Molly had this tradition where she would find that things that were lost and she would try and return them before Christmas. That's how Audrey meets with secondary protagonist Finn O'Sullivan. He lost a St. Nicholas necklace ah And they returned this necklace to him off screen, kind of in a prologue. Movie flashes forward to Audrey being a 30-something lady. She lives in New York. She's an artist now. Comes back to small town. Yes? No, they said Finn was the first yes time that they started they started the tradition finding Finn's medal. Who was the owner of that? Yeah.
00:08:47
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So she returns to small town, Michigan. it was yes Yeah. more Tim walls. Anywho, sorry. ah Small Michigan town insert name here. I don't remember. Um,
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And her grandma has just died. She inherited from her grandmother, her grandma's special secret desk, and five gold rings that she needs to return to all of their owners by Christmas. So she enlists Finn O'Sullivan's help because he is now a private detective private investigator. And the two of them gallivant of all throughout Michigan. They do not meet Tim Woll's, a huge L on their parts.
00:09:32
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ah They find all four owners of the gold rings She finds out that Finn was hired by Molly her grandmother to help find the rings and she feels so betrayed Kind of a nothing burger They make up the next scene and then she finds out the fifth ring was from her grandma all along and then she kisses Finn to our horror I thought it was a secret proposal thing being set up. Me too! I was ready for the cringe. I'm like, please just hit me with it. Full cringe. I'm a little surprised. All these ghosts just being like, yes, all according to plan. Great grandkids, you know.
00:10:13
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But yeah, that's it. that's That's the movie.
Critique: Acting and Plot Depth
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That's the whole movie. And you're like, well, that was quick. She must have missed a lot. No, she didn't. No. So the second problem in the movie was that she wasn't artist, a painter, and he lost it on her way, and she was she was like blocked to pain. And when she started to look for the clues, then she started to paint again. And she's like, oh yeah, this is just a sketch, and it's like the most photorealistic thing I've ever seen. But that's true to artists, though. They're like, quick sketch. Yeah, I know. No, Took me 30 hours.
00:10:53
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Well, the implication was she did it in like an hour. And I'm like, that's what I'm calling bullshit. Again, also true to life. Hyper-focus, delicious. Unless your name's Kono Shiba Rohan, you're not drawing that quick.
00:11:07
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But there are people that are so talented, so apparently she was so, so, so talented. She was an artist in in New York, in galleries. yeah That's talented, yeah. Yeah, to get there, you have to be really talented and and get your, she was having a name of already. Yeah. Anyways, it sounds like we should just jump into it because we kind of already have Ilya. You are episode Cesar. Your credentials, you know, your background check came through. It's official. Who's going first? Eduardo.
00:11:45
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um Oh my gosh. Who could have seen it coming? before we started mom was like who am I gonna pick though if I pick anyone you're gonna be saying it's favoritism and I'm like just pick ed safe answer when when in doubt pick ed pick ed yeah not a good pick I literally woke up at like 10 minutes ago but no no love that for you yes um five gold rings man okay honestly it wasn't that bad
00:12:21
Speaker
Well, what made it funny is because, well, what made it good was that my dad sat down to watch it with us for some reason. We all watched this together. And he kept screaming every time they leaned in the kiss. And it happened like three to four times. So he's like, stop, like, I'm not joking, like really loud. Yeah. Yeah, but overall, like the thing that this movie had over the other Hallmark movies is that the plot was pretty, uh, pretty solid, like, uh,
00:12:51
Speaker
And by saw that, I mean it had a good foundation and it wasn't as like all over the place as the other ones. Basically, there weren't basically any B or C or D plots at all. This entire movie, you just had that one structured thing and it did that. And that was, that's good for a homework movie. here' That's good. Yeah.
00:13:15
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come so Yeah, you're right. There was no BC or D plot. There was a B plot with the Christmas charity gala barely it was it was more just like bit that thing was happening while they were going for the finding the ring will ring owners They weren't involved in that really Well, but there was the cattiness between Audrey and Diane. That was, I don't know, that felt kind of like the closest to a side plot. That was the closest to an actual like character characters being human. Yeah, but like, again, like, it was just the thing that was happening while they were doing the main thing. So it didn't feel like out of place or anything like,
00:14:03
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It was a rivalry between the businesses, started as if it was related. It wasn't as bad as the two girls who oh god ah one got accepted and one didn't, and they decided to go to the same school. Oh, last year. Never been Chris. Never been Chris. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. That one was wild. That one was all over the place. Yeah. yeah lot what Plot structure? Who's she? Who's she? Yeah, this one had good pluss good plot structure, honestly. Even for for a homework movie, at least.
Industry Pressures and Further Critique
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Speaker
Moms don't see anything at this. I can tell. No, that is the is related also to the Channer's name because it's Hallmark Mystery Channer.
00:14:55
Speaker
Yeah, that's the thing. It's just marketed its in the mystery channel. yes Yes, I noticed that. Also, that's the weird thing because I've seen bits of Hallmark Mystery before at other people's places. You know, like I'm at someone's house and like the mom's watching Hallmark Mystery. Those are like the ones that have murder and stuff in it too sometimes, isn't it? boy I don't know. I don't watch that channel. I only watch it during Christmas.
00:15:24
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Ding. Well, the mystery in here is, uh, the gold rings owners, which another funny thing, the owners of the rings were better actors than the main actors. and All the side characters, all the side characters, especially, uh, the, the guy that they find the. Oh, the manuscripts. The manuscript. Yeah. has dead dad's manuscript yeah yeah That Very, very good.
00:15:53
Speaker
Like, could we follow him for the rest of the movie? Yeah, yeah. Can can he just live out his father's dream, please? Yeah. Um, but yeah, I forgot that the guy, but the guy who plays Jim Sullivan, there's something in his face and you mentioned it, Ruthie, right?
00:16:12
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His face just doesn't like look real. Oh, Finn O'Sullivan. Yeah. He looks very plastic and his hair is very, while feets it's stiff. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if he's got had any work done, but maybe that's why he'd never emoted with his face in the entire movie. I think he was, I, I, I'm not trying to be mean cause I get like the whole.
00:16:38
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Hollywood forces you to do pla- like, pressures you to do plastic surgery and stuff, but like, if- I feel like he had just gotten the surgery and he hadn't waited for it to fully heal. Yeah, he he had the Botox cheeks and the main lady did too. We made a joke while we were watching, it was kinda mean.
00:16:56
Speaker
but I was in my defense. I was my bad defense. I was a little noises. The two balloons rub up against each other. But they are your own. I don't understand because they are really your own to have that those surgeries. I don't think I'm pretty sure Zendaya and Timothy have had work done already and they're in their twenties. I don't think Zendaya has if she has is very subtle, but yeah, ah Timothy Ryan, Ryan Gossing has had work done, but it's also extremely subtle.
00:17:26
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Hollywood pressure to from a young age, I think Raven from that's so Raven. She was on an interview recently talking about how like when she was 16, she was being pressured by Disney to get like a breast reduction surgery. Because that's what teenage girls need to hear.
00:17:44
Speaker
But yeah, I don't, again, I don't know if he's had work done. If he did, that sucks. Uh, if he can't emote that way, but maybe he hasn't. And that's just what like, his face just does that. No, not that his face just does that. But like, you know, that, that like cool guy fucking acting or they don't smile or anything like that ever. Right. No, like, yeah you think I don't like it.
00:18:13
Speaker
Yeah, no, you're acting and though give them give them personalities. Jesus Christ Mm-hmm people make faces all the time is really bland like we were making like the characters so bland we We're making jokes and giving them personality throughout the movie just by little jokes here and there you remember mom Yeah, he was a weirdo also like as an as a character.
Humorous Observations and Review
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That's why that's what your dad was so against. that are Yeah, he was so weird. I don't like my dad. He was like, I don't like him. Like, dang, okay, dad, go off. Go off, King. What else? Um,
00:18:49
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other than that, yeah, like, It was okay. Like it was it wasn't actually like the most horrible watch. It wasn't like last year's or or the first one. The first one was, Oh my God. The gingerbread making competition. No, not the ginger, the time travel one. That was the second year, Ed. yes we just touch first one yeah what I you remember the gingerbread cookie one. The time travel one was got awful.
00:19:18
Speaker
And last year was really bad because they were like little kids acting like little kids. I don't think that they're acting like high schoolers. Yeah. I don't think that they could be an adult that acts like that. No, I can attest. I have met many adults who act like that mom in my line of work, but but it doesn't make for good movie making. No, it does not. It does not. Honestly, like.
00:19:45
Speaker
Is that such a such a structured good plot? I don't really have many fixes other than the acting, really. Well, you said you don't like Finn. What would you change to him to give him more personality? Ryan Gosling.
00:20:04
Speaker
Dude, Ryan Gosling could have chemistry with a brick wall, but he's good. I know, but he's he's been in the notebook, so he's been in romance films, so he knows how to do this stuff. He's been in Blade Runner, which is like my favorite romance film of all time. Yeah.
00:20:19
Speaker
Kind of. It's a joke. it's Because it's another animus. Just say it. It's just because it's another animus. I wasn't even thinking about that. I was just making a joke about the... Another animus. Yeah, I know. Another animus is your favorite. One of. um Yeah, I don't... Like, you know, I could even just give him the personality of Magnum PI and it would be better. Explain Magnum.
00:20:45
Speaker
Uh, Magnum P.I. was, uh, I forgot the actor's name, but it's like 80s, 90s. Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck. Oh, it is Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck with the main character. He does Blue Bloods now, but when he was young, he did Magnum P.I. And it's just, yeah, there's a new one out now also with some guy who looks like a Hallmark guy, basically. That's what his face reminds me of. hes He looks like a Hallmark guy, but tons of did Magnum PI and ah he's just kind of like, I don't know. He's like pretty happy-go-lucky, pretty positive all the time and like actually has emotions and smiles and stuff. Like, why won't these guys smile in any of these movies, bro? In any of the Hallmark movies.
00:21:31
Speaker
Well, it's it's only on that. ah But I think the problem is the actor, he wasn't showing, it's it's like he was reading the script. For the first time. Yeah, he wasn't showing emotions. she He didn't. ah But they I have seen other movies that are really good and they are the old actors that has been for years there. They are good. Yeah.
00:21:59
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ah My favorite one is Brandon Ruth who was Superman in that one Where Kevin Spacey was Lex Luthor, but ah ah That's good casting right there. Yeah, it was really Unbelievably, it's a matter of turns. That was it. He was super ran that one. He was amazing like to do again He did one he did a Hallmark movie and it was like my favorite one just cuz he was so good in it Yeah, but What was I? Sorry, mag replace the actor with Magnum. Like, I want to give him the personality of Magnum P.I. It's not the mustache. No, we don't need that. Even though that's kind of coming back. um We don't need that yet. Yeah. Have you noticed mustaches and mullets are coming back? My let's doing my my brother has a mullet, right? he He had a mullet. He's growing it back now. Right, mom? It's excuse me growing back. I don't i don't know.
00:22:55
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It's gross. It's like you. It's like you. I don't have a mullet. Oh, the beard? Yeah, it's a beard. um
00:23:07
Speaker
We don't need that. We don't need that, though. We just need the kind of personality and because he was pretty positive in the movie of like being able to find all the owners, right? Yeah. And you can do that with Magnum. And he would smile and like tease and stuff and it would.
00:23:26
Speaker
The thing is, he tried to tease, but it just came off so awkward. It came off weird. It came off creepy. It's like, you know when kids are trying to flirt with someone they like, but they just go way too hard and they're really awkward about it? That's what it felt like. But he's 35, so it's weird. 35? I'm guessing he's 35. 33 or something like that. They're in their 30s at least. Yeah, they're early 30s at least. One foot in the grave, right Ed?
00:23:55
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, if they're over 31, they're more than Shindeep. And they were joking there, like, write poems or Sherlock. or But they the jokes were not good, even.
00:24:10
Speaker
Yeah. They needed someone to call the other one Lestrade, because Holmes and Sherlock is too easy. You add Lestrade to the mix, then I start to believe that they actually like the same thing. Yeah, that's right. They keep calling themselves Sherlock. Yeah, but that could've been like a little deeper, nerdy stuff, and neither of them. They both kind of struck me as like, if we're gonna go by, like, go back into never being stressed where they were all obsessed with high school, both of them would've been like, prepping the in-girl types.
00:24:37
Speaker
If any one of them had any inclination of being a little nerdy, then yeah, they would have mentioned Lestrade. Yeah. That's what I'm saying though. at that That's personality. Cause it's like, Oh, they know actual Sherlock Holmes stories. I don't know. It would have added something. They just, they should have called that bitch lady Lestrade. Yeah. Moriarty. Moriarty. Yeah.
00:25:01
Speaker
yeah I don't know. Like, honestly, I would just change fit an actor to do good acting. Or replace him with Ryan Gosling. Or replace him with Ryan Gosling. That would be insane if Ryan Gosling did a homework movie. Did I watch it? I would too. Um, yeah, other than that, like, honestly, pretty well structured plot. Nothing was too egregious.
00:25:32
Speaker
Good job, homework. You did a decent one for once, kind of. Oh, that's interesting. I felt like this is one of the worst ones. No, again, the time travel was got awful. Yeah, but that one was special. But you blacked out the memory of the gingerbread one. That's how good that one was. Yeah, I guess I blacked that out. Yeah.
00:25:55
Speaker
Also, you know, would be cool if they didn't get together at the end, if she went back to New York. If they both were just like, I'm gay now. No, not that, but like, she just like went back to New York, didn't take over the shop. ah Yeah. interesting They sold the shop. Yeah. Her mom retires. They both but live in New York. Yeah.
00:26:17
Speaker
Anyways, that's me. I have nothing. I have nothing. This movie, ah I could have done more with Craven, what I really fixed with Craven that I watched last night. Did you actually see Craven? yeah I did. You got the eye mask. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I asked him if I really should go watch it or not, because I saw the Rotten Tomatoes, it was at 14%, but now yeah no there's no critic rating. any anyway That's a different movie. This is homework season.
00:26:47
Speaker
bitch really who wasn't that bad also shut up that's no hallmark yeah all right i'm done okay okay okay What I liked about this movie, Ed, I don't, I didn't hear you mention this. I enjoyed deeply every time the town bitch, Diane, was on screen because her and Audrey were so catty. It was hilarious. I i like how we just heard it was the town big. Cause that's what she is. She's the nosy town big. No, I know, but it's just really funny. Like every town has the position, you know, like the town fool, the town sheriff, then it's like, we need to nominate the town bigs, Diane. Okay.
00:27:26
Speaker
Diane's just in everybody's business and she has to be the number one antique shop even though you know like where we live there's like three on the same street. Chill.
00:27:40
Speaker
But ah she just like she's like, huh, sucks your grandma died. Guess I'm going to be the next antique shop winner. And they're like, mm-hmm, we'll see about that. It was like, Diane. She died months before, by the way. Not even six months. Yeah. It was very recent. And if she was like, glad your granny died. I can't wait to win her award for you. Ooh. And they were like, I'd like to see you try Diane.
00:28:11
Speaker
Right, but but mean she was a Karen, nowadays. She was definitely a Karen, but it was just so funny where they weren't like trying to kill her with kindness. They were like, shut up, bitch. I don't know. I enjoyed that. I enjoyed watching with my father-in-law because it was so funny listening to him and bantering with him. I have him never seen him like this. It was really funny. Has he done that with you before, Mom? Have you seen this kind of React Earth movies?
00:28:40
Speaker
when Last year he watched one that it was good. It was three men and a baby. Oh, three wise men and a baby. Yeah. And he liked it. we And then this year for the second part, I told Jesse, Jesse, you need to watch this with me. And we laughed a lot. So there are some movies that they have been sitting down with me and enjoy it. that They found it funny and funny and just go with them.
00:29:11
Speaker
But with a bad one like this? No, it's the first time. Yeah. It's fun watching bad movies with company. That's, that's my enjoyment of this movie. I liked all the scenes of the rings reuniting with their owners. Cause those actors, like Ed mentioned, very good. Finally some decent acting. My favorite was a guy like you mentioned before.
00:29:39
Speaker
that that he will continue and just publish his dad's book that they found. That was a good one. Yeah. Now onto my dislikes. At the beginning, they start with that flashback where it's the first reunification it's the first find the last thing and return it before Christmas, Molly's tradition.
Improvement Suggestions for 'Five Gold Rings'
00:30:05
Speaker
They do that. They have the scene where she goes to the antique shop and she makes the decision, yes, I'm going to find it. And then they don't do the scene where they return it to Finn. They just kind of reference back to it. Did not like that. Yeah. Kind of like stopped the momentum. So we didn't get to feel that Christmas magic, that first tradition. You know, they should have done had the scene where they fizzled at the basketball. Mm hmm. Sorry, sorry.
00:30:33
Speaker
No, it's fine. Go, please. Sorry. I was like, they, you know, they, they, he hands the neck, she has the necklace back to him, their hands touch, and there's something there. And Molly's just. I ship that. I ship that. I will dedicate the rest of my life to making sure they're together, even on my death bed. Even after my death. But yeah. Um, it felt kind of disjointed where the movie picked up. Yeah. I don't know. There was just something else about it.
00:31:04
Speaker
That bothered me and I can't put my finger on it now. I didn't like the two main actors. They just, I don't know, they weren't ready. I think they were rehearsing and they didn't realize that the camera was recording and then at the end they were just like, oh, well, we already did it. I guess we don't need a second take. It's good. That's rap. Cool. I felt it was very messy. They missed out on not having Tim Wohl's in the movie. We even found the perfect place to put him in, the perfect cameo. But no, I guess he was busy.
00:31:34
Speaker
Oh, the I alluded to this when I was synapsizing the movie. I felt like the reveal of Finn having been paid was kind of a nothing burger. Yeah. Because she's upset that because she's been offering to pay Finn this entire time, and he keeps saying, no, I'm just doing it for the spirit of Christmas, what we find out at the Christmas gala after the auction has happened Finn was paid to do this already by Molly, and he didn't say anything to Audrey, and she's upset because... He lied. He lied! About being paid! Big whoop! Big whoop! It's weird that he didn't just say, like, oh, your grandma...
00:32:26
Speaker
kind of let me in on it. Don't worry about money. I'm getting... I'll probably get paid when they return stuff to me. It's fine. Don't worry. I'm practicing my detective skills. I don't know. Maybe PIs have pro bono. You could say anything, but just what? I just realized a flaw hole. What?
00:32:45
Speaker
He says he end neveror he says he hey was getting no customers. But every time we see him, he was already working off. He's dealing with customers. Or he's like dealing with customers' like jobs. True. True. We only see one customer when the movie started. We see two, but. Oh, I don't remember the other one. Well, that's fine. Here's the other thing. and But he's like, let me do my work. Then I'll help you with the rings. So he's working.
00:33:14
Speaker
Maybe he's just not a good PI. I mean, she solves half the cases. Well, but let me tell you, it's a small town. He's the only detective there. They drive around all of Michigan like it's nothing.
00:33:31
Speaker
But yeah, um how would I fix this movie? Hear me out. Movie starts, we get the whole thing. We get the whole Christmas tradition where we're trying to return the lost items. We see, we get that last little bit where they return it to Finn and the two of them meet and maybe like they stay, stay in touch. We cut to her in New York. Grandma has just passed away. Audrey get a, gets a text from her mom in the middle of the night. OMG, the antique shop has just been broken into.
00:34:10
Speaker
She comes home to deal with this drama. The insurance company is not gonna pay out the antique shop until ah they can determine that the antique shop didn't just like rob itself. And Audrey's like, well, obviously we didn't just steal these five gold rings that were stolen. Why would we do that? That makes no sense. This isn't the producers. Also, if you haven't seen the producers, you should watch the producers. It's hilarious.
00:34:40
Speaker
But the insurance company says, find the five gold rings, then we'll pay you the money, right? So she's like, fine, yeah, I will. And they're like, while you're doing that, we're going to hire an actual PI to do that. And it's Finn O'Sullivan. So the two of them are competing in real time to find the rings and find their owners. Well, that's a really cute little movie. Yeah.
00:35:02
Speaker
And then they have to like fight, they have to hide each other's clues. And then maybe at the end, Finn just like- There's there's the the tension, the pining, the drama. And then Finn has to give it up, like give up the win he desperately needs just to do the right thing. Also, Finn and Audrey together make the perfect, like how, like, ah what is it?
00:35:26
Speaker
What's the show where the two of the people try and find a house together and they always have ridiculous careers? House Hunters. Yeah. House Hunters. I'm a New York famous painter. I have several galleries and I'm a p private detective. Our budget is $3 million. dollars We were on homework once. but Yeah, that's it. That's my fix. That's cute. Okay. So can I go?
00:35:55
Speaker
yeah I don't want to be the last one. No, I get It's just been the last one. I understand. So for me, what i but I observe is that there is no connection.
Character Development Ideas
00:36:10
Speaker
They found, and and you said part of that, they they found the medal of him, but there is no connection when they gave it to him, they returned it,
00:36:24
Speaker
But there is also not connection of a relationship between Audrey and Finn before. Right. So why the grandma is so insistent that they like, it's like pushing their relationship, but from where? From beyond the grave, mom. From beyond the grave. Never started, never started. What did you say? Even at death I serve. No, they were friends when they were little. It was mentioned.
00:36:54
Speaker
Well, it's mentioned, it's not shown. yeah Yeah. Yeah. If anything, it would make more sense if they took out the scene where the grandma was metal detecting and you just had the antique shop and then you had the reunification. And then you skipped forward. That adds more. Yeah, but there's no connection between then only that they found that made that charm or murder or whatever. And then she moved, no connection at all. And suddenly.
00:37:24
Speaker
they are connected with five golden rings. And they are like, it it means, it it shows like they were so some interest between them, but they never show before if they dated or if they were at least good friends because- Yeah, they kind of just had to like exposition shoehorn that in there. Yeah, and I will do that.
00:37:52
Speaker
put a piece of of that they have at least a friendship, a strong friendship at the beginning. There's nothing there. And I will change the, at least him, because she wasn't that bad, but he was not so plain. And I think that that to be in a movie of the main characters, there needs to be chemistry between them.
00:38:21
Speaker
That's part of the connection of the viewer with the movie that you can get immersed on them. And I don't see, I was, it was like he was but reading reading the the script and ah he didn't show any emotions. Do you think he does the Johnny Depp thing where he has an earpiece and then someone's reading him the script out loud?
00:38:47
Speaker
He doesn't have the diva cred to do that, though. Johnny Depp can do that because he's got the cred. He has the the stuff to show for it. I think he did. I think he's lost it now. Oh, he's absolutely lost it now. Yeah, I think that I will change the actor, definitely. that Those are the two changes. at Wait, do you have anyone you'd like? You watch all these Hallmark movies. Who do you replace? Who do you think would be a good fit?
00:39:14
Speaker
Uh, there's one that was, uh, and I think it will be doing good. Uh, he was on one of the marble movies. He's really thought. I don't remember his name for sevens. No, it wasn't one marble. No, he was a secondary, uh, has a very secondary, uh, part, uh, and I don't remember which Marvel movie.
00:39:44
Speaker
I don't remember, but he was, I don't remember. But he had a very close part with one of the Marvel heroes. Mark Ruffalo?
00:40:03
Speaker
What? The guy who plays the Hulk, Mark Ruffalo? No, no, no, no. You didn't say that. No, no, I'm saying, because cause here's what I'm thinking. If it's him, he's done rom-coms before. Him and Chris Evans have both done, I think Chris Evans directed a rom-com. Oh, I didn't know he directed it. He's directed one or two, and one of them's a rom-com. I'm trying to look for his name. I'll take your time. Is it What's His Face Wong? His name? Hugh Jackman. Patrick Stewart. I have it here.
Casting Suggestions
00:40:33
Speaker
Oh, she found it, wow. Christopher Polaha. Can you show us the picture? Can you show us the... Oh, is that Namor? No, that's not Namor. No, Namor's Latino.
00:40:43
Speaker
This dude's... I've seen this face before. He was in one of the Marvel movies, and I think he was with... Doctor Strange. I'm not sure. I cannot point it for sure, but... Oh, you are looking on which movie? I'm looking... He was in Wonder Woman 1984. That was it. It was Wonder Woman 1984. He's the guy. No, it was Wonder Woman.
00:41:11
Speaker
He was the guy that Chris Pine was. He was the guy who Chris Pine possessed. Yeah. Okay, so it was him. cause i'm No, because I remember watching, you're like, he's in a Hallmark movie. And I'm like, wow, they're DC's desperate. And then, yeah. He was also in another Hallmark movie called, We Wish You a Married Christmas. I don't remember that one, but this year, they did Quest 2.
00:41:41
Speaker
Let me see. That's the one that I show you. I'm looking for the Christmas quest. Okay. Is that your recommendation for this episode? Your little watch this movie? No, no, I'm i'm recommending him for this paper. Maybe he will be doing better than Finn. Definitely. Makes sense. Anything else you change? No, no, no.
00:42:11
Speaker
That's the only thing. Okay. So I guess it's my turn. It's your turn. Mom, I'm so sorry for what I'm about to do with... But you must go all out. Just left. That's all the noise you're hearing, everyone. is She just left. She's like, okay. good like I know I've raised you. I failed in raising you. I know what you're gonna do, Hector. She's leaving. No, I'm here.
00:42:36
Speaker
So my likes, I think the idea of a detective and a painter having to solve a bunch of mysteries by the dead grandma is such a good idea.
Creative Twist Proposal
00:42:44
Speaker
It's so cute. I'm like, I like good romances. I'm like, this is a cute idea. This really does nothing good with it.
00:42:51
Speaker
I think the ladies being caddied to Diana was hilarious. I thought that was funny. You guys forgot the best part of the movie, all of you. The fucking desk was so cool. The way it works. I know what you're talking about. but I have to explain to you guys how this works. It's good radio. so like there's ah It's normal like those old kind of like yeah circular like half circular desks with like the cover.
00:43:15
Speaker
What's not a circular? It's like a normal writing desk, but it's got the cover that comes down. So it's got like the main desk and then it's got the little uppy bit and then the uppy bit has a lid. Yeah. So she has, there's a special key. And if you go in like under one of the cabinets and you click it, then a different cabinet and then different cabinet opens and it pops out and you're like, that's it. But like, I would kill for something like that. I would kill for it.
00:43:45
Speaker
I like the days definitely. It's so cool. I don't know why I'm like this is the best part of the movie and they showed it twice. They showed it twice with the same cool camera angles. That was the only time they tried to do something different with the cinematography. Can you imagine Boomer finding that place and opening the that Oh, he would go in there. He would go in there. He would get stuck in there. He would get stuck in there. It happened before. He went inside one of the cabinets in the bathroom. We didn't see he went in. We closed it on him. And then we were like, where's our cat? And then we looked in because he was like laying down next to the toilet paper and just chilling. He was vibing. He was living his best life. He was living his best life. It was cozy. And now he gets mad that we don't let him in the bathroom anymore. Because he keeps tricking the bathwater.
00:44:32
Speaker
Well, no, it's because he'll also get stuck in the kitchen cabinets on purpose. Yeah. it Yeah. Yeah. Or a little boomer, a little baby boy. Sweet baby man. My dislikes. I did have a lot of likes, y'all. That's more than some of the other movies we've had. Let's be honest. No, that's fair.
00:44:49
Speaker
but the sets were so dull. Like even for a home, like, yeah oh, it's a small town. this The lighting was bad. And what I remember too was there was moments where like, obviously this is the small town opera house or the small town museum. And it's like,
00:45:06
Speaker
Don't lie to me. it's the same How dare you gaslight me? This is obviously like you were in whatever famous Michigan town. I don't know, I'm not great at geography. And you just picked the first opera house you found. There's nothing small town about this. Don't lie to me. I thought they picked the same building twice and said the ah the same exterior twice. Speaking of the opera house, I forgot one of my fixes. Tim Wall's cameo. Yes.
00:45:36
Speaker
You guys already meant to give in. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be so easy too. It's like five minutes. i Five minutes. Okay. So the actors had no chemistry. The extras were pulling more believability. Ruthie, you guys already mentioned the fight. So dumb. Also, how the hell is the grandma? She seemed kind of like rich.
00:46:00
Speaker
I don't know how to explain it, but like she was able to pay off- She had the eccentricity of a rich person. Yeah, and she paid off. like She's like, yeah, I know your business is failing. Here's enough money to like make it work for a good while. like where you get Antiques can't make in a small town can't make that much money, right?
00:46:17
Speaker
Or does she just wait for the people to die so then she can just retake the antiques and just resell them again? I don't know. The business is so... I don't know. Maybe I'm an idiot and maybe antiques make a lot more money than I think they do. Wait, antiques does a lot of money... do a lot of money on big cities. Yeah, but this is a small town. Yeah. So how does it... how does she make them money? She scams people. She absolutely scams people. Oh, that's worthless.
00:46:46
Speaker
proceeds to sell for $5,000 to stick it to Diane. Sorry. No, you're fine. It's really funny. It's really funny. She just gets there. she gets Whenever someone dies, she just knows she gets all the antiques and buys them from people before Diane can. She's ruthless. That's how she knew that's how she worked with Finn so well. Because it's like, you helped me all these years. I'm going to help you. All right, here's my, I have two types of fixes. My real fixes and then my, you know, me the stupid fix.
00:47:18
Speaker
So the real fix, I like to think that Grandma Molly secretly knew it was Finn's necklace. The whole time. And just wait until the right time to give it to Audrey so she could give it to Finn to kind of start that connection there. I wouldn't focus as much on the middle rings. I think if you either have to do with these kind of movies, you have to make it more detect. Listen, you're a really good writer, which I don't think they were. I hate to say it.
00:47:47
Speaker
ah Maybe they are, maybe they're just forced by Hallmark, not to. But like, you either have to focus on one, the romance, or more the other, the mystery. And they kind of didn't do good the job on either. So I think you don't focus, you just do a quick montage of the second and the third ring. So you focus on the first, the fourth, and then the last. So you have there be multiple leads for the fourth ring. And they really argue about which way to take the investigation.
00:48:17
Speaker
And they start really fighting, the two of them. And because they used to know each other for so long, they know how to hate each other in the jugular for the insults and like, like your dad's, you can't even save your dad's business. How do you think you're gonna save this like relationship we were developing or whatever, right? God, the Hallmark writing disease is spreading to me now. So they go different directions.
00:48:45
Speaker
And then they start realizing that they need the other person. like Because he Finn's good at finding clues and tracking down information. But she's a people person, and he really isn't. My god, this guy's awkward. um'm I'm going to nail this down. Finn is the worst of all the Hallmark characters. I think he's a top three worst dude. Also, right as they kiss in the play. Or not to play the... Sorry, the... The gala. the gala They do kiss, she learns that he lied, then she runs off. It makes it hurt so much more, because they kissed. In these Hallmark movies, that's the equivalent of sex, okay? Like, it's a personal thing. And they kiss, and then... nothing. You do you have something you want to say, Mom? You look like you have something. No, no, no. I'm just kidding. The movie's overall the same. I think maybe they... She tries to solve the fifth ring on her own.
00:49:38
Speaker
And then Finn's trying to also solve the fifth ring on his own. And then they finally just reconnect because they're both just exhausted with this fifth ring. They both just say, fuck it. No, Molly, we're not going to. Yeah, it's the real downer. Then they're like, no, that's what she wants. At the end, they she did most of the part of the ring and he did another part and they connected.
00:50:01
Speaker
Exactly. But I'm saying stretch that out a little bit. Oh, okay. Instead of like two scenes, give it like six or seven. Really hammer home the desperate, the lowest point. Cause the lowest point of the movie is one scene. That's not good storytelling. You got to stretch it a little to really make us feel it. But he cannot make it to feel. That's the problem. Maybe the flat that they just push it.
00:50:28
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. so at the end they decide to combine the detective agency in the art studio slash antique store so that way when people are missing antiques they secretly put tracking devices on them is it legal it's a small town no one cares but like they just diane has a conspiracy theory but nobody believes her
00:50:54
Speaker
My other real idea is they play with, you gotta play with the lighting so that any time that Finn's in a room, a lot of lights go out and the lights that are still working are more pronounced and you play with the shadows to look like a real detective film. Maybe you can make it look black and white whenever he's in a room. You know, like there I was looking over the, looking over the ring. Couldn't find a little, like, um I can't think of anything.
00:51:24
Speaker
Like a cat without food, it was clawing its way up, this clue was clawing its way up to the surface. Wait, I need to, wait. The lasagna. Oh my god. The moldy ass three color lasagna. The Christmas That was weird. That was weird.
00:51:47
Speaker
I try not to be to like talk smack about people's holiday traditions, but that was
Hallmark's Realism and Diversity
00:51:53
Speaker
bad. That's weird and bad. It was so ugly. Oh, ugly. Do you remember the holiday lasagna or did you block it out? I remember the lasagna. They did show it, right? Yes, it looked moldy. Bad. Yeah.
00:52:10
Speaker
Like personally, I'm not one for, even though I'm partalian, I'm not big on like pasta dishes. And that's like what I'm at, whenever I'm brewing on the move for lasagna, that's why I imagine lasagna looking like, it's so bad. On the bright side, I don't have to share my lasagna. Yeah, you don't. All right, here's my silly fix. Mom, I'm sorry. Okay, go for it. Molly could smell the deep iron off of Finn's necklace when she found it, but the necklace was silver.
00:52:38
Speaker
So she te- she knows what he is. ah What's iron? What's iron also? Where do you smell iron pretty commonly in? Blood? Blood. She teams up with Finn. A young Fle- no, she teams up with Finn. A young fledgling detective. She kills people, they kill people, they find the jewelry of, and they make it look like an accident. No! Molly and Finn. They have a decades-long friendship. A partnership.
00:53:04
Speaker
where he helps, he practices his detective skills, makes her case look good. She tells steals all the jewelry off him, resells it for a higher price, and they make it look like an accident. He's really good at covering up crime scenes. Because why else would she be so rich with antiques and money in a small town? Cut to years later, Finn's now in charge of a detective agency. People are missing, business is booming. Audrey asks for his help. He says yes, says he needs a break.
00:53:34
Speaker
They don't, in the background, because she's not paying attention. I hope he's not paying attention. Every time a ring is found, the owner dies within like a day or two.
00:53:45
Speaker
Finn's weirdly obsessive over Audrey, and she realizes he's stopping her from the last two rings, and he's she's not realizing why. He says it's because he wants the fun to keep going. She's not buying it. because he's Here's the thing, Finn was so awkward, I kept making jokes about the movie that he's secretly a killer. Like a dude look acts like a killer.
00:54:04
Speaker
acting normal, right? yeah So like Dexter, she finds the fourth ring over owner, so they break off, right? They're like, fine no, I don't need you, I can do this on my own, I've been learning from you. So you break it off, the party. She finds the fourth ring owner, and it seems to be a happy ending for the ring owner. The ring owner closes the door, and as she closes the door, you can see through the crack, Finn is there, and you see a glint of a knife coming off.
00:54:30
Speaker
Audrey digs into the final ring and realizes it was her grandma's. And she sees that the red jewel, because it was a red and green jewel, the red jewel is actually dried blood. Finn shows up at her door and explains that this is Molly's last wish. To have Audrey join, because by this point she's starting to piece together, wait a minute, some of this money isn't making sense. The books, right? Because they have to look over the books. Finn shows up at her door and explains that this is Molly's last wish, to have Audrey join Finn in making both their businesses do well.
00:54:56
Speaker
Molly was stealing from the dead people to make it look like she was having to find all these antiques and jewelry. And then she sells it to people who hadn't claimed it after a year. Audrey, still idolizing her grandmother after all this, pricks a finger and puts her blood on the other jewel, sealing the pact. Being the new owner of the antique store and meeting the other half of this dark dyad.
00:55:19
Speaker
Also, they framed Diane for all the murders. True.
00:55:26
Speaker
I think the implication I wanted to have, but I couldn't figure out a way, is that, like, Finn killed Molly.
00:55:34
Speaker
Because the fact is, because she gave him the rings to put in the desk. But remember, if you give the rings, you have to die. Or if the rings are transacted in any way, or jewelry transacted. Oh, like John Wick, the gold coins? Kind of, but it's the their own little rules. she's Like, so she knows this is like, you know, she's like in the hospital, but it's like, i But, it's like, what about, it's like... There can only ever be two, Finn. You know what you must do. Yeah. I kinda wanna write this stupid movie now. I'll do it. Okay, so... What would you rate this movie? Just the movie. You don't have to fix this, Mom. A, B, C, D, or F?
00:56:21
Speaker
Uh... C? It's a C minus... It's a D. It was painful. Ed?
00:56:30
Speaker
um
00:56:34
Speaker
It's a D. Yeah. At least it's not an F. We've had so many Fs. We've had a good amount of Fs in recent episodes or close to. Got to get back to our roots. Yeah. So, Mom, anything you'd recommend people to watch or read or whatever?
00:56:56
Speaker
too much right now. well we I'm not reading anything right now. yeah So just the movie now is the season. So since we are in Hallmark, I think missing which movie I really like. And more until the ah real life or more. And a lot of people are like that.
00:57:27
Speaker
to do just movies that are more related to real life and to the season. More realistic movies? Yes. they they did This year they have been trying to put more ah funny movies. More jokes, more things. Comneys work well. Yeah, people like a good comedy. Yeah, especially in these days it's good. Let me see.
00:57:57
Speaker
i'm I'm looking, maybe it's on the other channel. This year, they have been funny, as I said, and about the funny ones, I saw the three wise men and a boy. Oh, three wiser men and a boy? Yeah. The the silly knockoff, okay.
00:58:24
Speaker
and dancing this snow a dancing this snow is that about the autistic uh girl it was good oh that one feels like it's gonna hit like a truck did they hire an actually autistic kid to do the role or did they just have the kid act no and they were too because it was the girl and on the other movie they didn't do it but on this one there was It came, moved to the town also and also another autistic boy and they were going together to the high school. Okay, but but again, like no, and they didn't hire actually autistic people to play the roles. I don't think so. Dang, that sucks. It's a dance in the snow, the name of the movie. ah I think that is the only one that have that
00:59:17
Speaker
sweet things about real life ah and it's good because that movie also so show all the things that these kids go through that life is tough and they are not sometimes not accepted not included and the movie is about more inclusion so it's a good movie I really like it Yeah, that's the only thing that I can recommend from this year. And of course, like gold rings, don't watch.
00:59:57
Speaker
Or have a hate watch party and have a good time. We had a good time. Oh yeah, time we had a really fun time. That was a fun night. Yeah. I was having a real rough day and that really cheered
Personal Anecdotes and Recommendations
01:00:10
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me up. It was a fun time.
01:00:11
Speaker
Well, from bad scenes, you can get good scenes. So that's the good thing about the movie. We were joking about it and we had a good time. Oh yeah. I've never heard dad get so loud in his life. It was funny. All right, Ruthie. Um, if you haven't seen the producers, I mentioned it earlier. Let me, let me just throw a premise out here. This is one of Mel Brooks earlier plays that turned into a movie.
01:00:38
Speaker
Imagine, if you will, a film producer finds out that if he makes a movie or a play that bombs, it's he gets an insurance payout that's larger than if it had been a success in the first place. Then he takes the insurance guy who told him this information and the two of them set out to make the worst play that will automatically bomb on its first night.
01:01:03
Speaker
That is the producers. It's so funny. I don't think it matters if you watch the original movie with ah mel ah with Gene Wilder, if you watch the new one with Nate, what's his face? Wait, he redid the movie?
01:01:17
Speaker
They re-did the movie in 2005, and it's- I saw the 2005 version with Timon. Yeah. So the original movie was with Gene Wilder. Oh, I didn't know. And he's playing the insurance guy. I found out, I didn't know he was in the original one. Fun fact, Gene Wilder, while they were filming, they made a producer for the producers watch the movie, and he was like, I don't like Gene Wilder recast him. He's not a Hollywood like leading man. And Mel was like, yes, sir.
01:01:45
Speaker
And he didn't change Gene and at the end he was like, we were too late into production. I couldn't change him then. Wasting your money, sir. I keep thinking of the South Park thing where they will mess, they'll do, they'll mess with their producers will be like, and the executives were like, you need to change this. And they're like, yeah, sure.
01:02:05
Speaker
but The thing is, they made it so terrible on purpose. Yeah. So that the other stuff that they want to really get through doesn't get noticed because everyone's only thinking about the worst parts. Gene Wilder, not a leading man. Yeah. At that time, probably. Well, yeah, they were like, he's too weenery. He can't be a leading man. And then he does Charlie in the chocolate factory and blazing.
01:02:29
Speaker
that a little bit. Yes. The producers was his first leading role in a movie. Before this, he was a Broadway actor. And even then, like, he'd only done a couple of things. And he wasn't a lead in the Broadway but stuff he was doing. Hmm. What did you expect? These people are simple farmers, common clay of the New West. You know, you know,
01:02:54
Speaker
mar runs
01:02:59
Speaker
But yeah, good shit. I highly recommend. All right. Um, Ed, what about you? I'm still trying to think of some. So don't watch Craven, the hunter. ah would have I wouldn't pay money to watch it. Uh, I got free IMAX ticket. Um, yeah. And that's the weird thing. Like it wasn't, it was filmed in IMAX, but there was nothing.
01:03:29
Speaker
That needed IMAX? It wasn't too like cinematic, honestly. and so the sony to know They sell TVs. That's probably it. They were like, make it look good on our TVs. Yeah, but no one's gonna want to watch it. Yeah. IMAX looks worse on TVs because it's cropped.
01:03:46
Speaker
No, here's how bad got guys, here's the thing. You guys know the Venom movies and they're trying to do spin-offs and stuff, right? Yeah, they canceled it. They canceled all of it. They're only working on Spider-Man 4, Spider-Verse, and the Spider-Man noir TV show. That's it.
01:04:01
Speaker
Yeah. I could have told them that this was a bad idea, but you know. And however, there was a cool little detail them in Craven, the hunter. Whenever somebody was like looking at news, it would be the Daily Bugle. that That's cute. That's cute. I do like that. yeah either In London and in Russia. um my o that's on Is that their tradition in the New York Times? Cause that's funny. Yeah. Yes. Oh, another thing. Another thing.
01:04:31
Speaker
Path of Exile 2. Oh, is it out or something? The latest game ever. It's the latest game ever. Well, greatest action RPG ever. It's better than Diablo. I need Diablo. It's an early access. I just had a key to play an early access. It becomes free to play in January at some point. I think I know I got the key. I got a key from a mutual friend. I think I know the mutual friend. Yeah. Yeah, he would.
01:04:59
Speaker
All right. Uh, let me see my two, my things I'd recommend. Uh, I just finished my term. So, uh, oh, secret level, secret level. I've only seen the armored core one. I watched all of them. So here's the funny thing. They had like a gritty, no, ah like a gritty Pac-Man reinterpretation. Right. In the show.
01:05:21
Speaker
And then like I watched the episode and the next day was the game awards and they announced a game based off of that. I'm like, it's so funny. I'm like, dang, that's. Did I ever see Pac-Man in the name of the game? You kind of have to know it already. Um, by the way, the armored core one finger head.
01:05:41
Speaker
Yeah, don't. Yeah, don't know. for Yeah, that was a good scene, but don't worry. Okay. That means nothing to me. if You don't want to watch in an episode. Uh, if you're going to watch it, don't watch it or look away. It's pretty well telegraphed. But ah anyway, I guess you had demon souls. I'm playing through demon souls. I'm finally, the game says I'm 41% of the way through or my PlayStation says I'm 41% of the way through. Oh, yeah. Did you fight armor spider?
01:06:08
Speaker
Yeah, I had to use a shield for that one. It was a bullshit fight. Yeah. um What about Tower Giant or Tower Knight or whatever? Yeah, that's I went through the first world without dying up until Tower Knight. Storm King? No, not yet. but but Bird? bird um No, I didn't do the bird. I killed the dude who had the bird on his head.
01:06:35
Speaker
yeah that's what i'm talking about i just did that one last night i think on that level at the uh the final boss is the storm king or something like that yeah it's a fun it's a fun game it's cute it's so it's before dark so at the game's well i think it's kind of cute seeing how it kind of and neat more neat it's neat seeing how some of these ideas didn't work he recognized it only the healing item Not just the healing items, but like there was so many flaws, like there was some big flaws, because the history, look up the history of the game. Because he was sco he was salvaging what was, um he wasn't even the original director. It was a different game that was meant to kill Oblivion. It was failing. And then Miyazaki's like, hey, can I direct this game? I think I know a way I can fix it a little. And they're like, okay, go for it. And then he did Demon's Souls. So with not much time. So with what he did have, he did really good.
01:07:31
Speaker
And now we're getting a Fortnite PvE co-op game with Elden Ring, which is fucking nuts. And I love it. Elden Ring assets. Elden Ring assets. It's not just Elden Ring assets, boy. It's all of it. It's all of the... There was a Master Darkshaws 1 in there. I'm like, holy shit. You were eating good. It was the nameless king. It was also... That was Darkshaws 3. No, those Darkshaws 1, the centipede demon was in there. Oh, yeah. The centipede?
01:07:58
Speaker
Demon, yes. It's from Los Isolith, I think, area. It was... Yeah, I know, I remember. Yeah, oh boy, I'm excited. I'll stop. That's but that's my one. given I think this new Elden Ring game is gonna be fucking incredible. That thing was there? It was there, yeah. It's fucking incredible. I can't wait. I love these games. Anyway, that's it for this week, everyone.
01:08:24
Speaker
Bye, have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the all the holidays. Bye-bye. Goodbye, everyone. Goodbye. Bye. Today's film was Five Gold Rings, directed by Stephen R. Monroe. The film was written by Elora Melissa Charles and John Christian Plummer. The cinematographer was Greg Nicod. Go show some love on their various social media accounts. They made a movie, which is more than we can say here.
01:08:55
Speaker
And for the next film we reshoot, why don't you follow me? Set me free. Trust me and we will escape from the city. I'll make it through.