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So I was driving with my brother
the other day and we have we were

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driving them around the highway and there's
this car next to us, and I

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see the car and it has the
bumper sticker. You just got passed by

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a girl with like the kissy lips
emoji on it. Okay, what is

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that doing? What are we doing
with that? Like? If that if

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that car passes a truck that has
truck nuts on it, what kind of

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weird heteronormative toxicity vortex is going to
explode? Let me tell you a little

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bit about the woman who put that
on her car. Please he help me,

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help me understand because I was confused. She will offer to plan your

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bachelorette party. She will not do
so, okay. She will come at

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the last minute pick you up,
hire a stripper off of Craigslist who turns

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out to be your own cousin.
And you're like, I don't want this

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at all, and she's like,
do it. I paid him. Whooooo.

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She can best be described by her
co workers as a lot a lot.

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I got that, I said a
lot from the car. Yep,

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yep, yep. Her favorite movie
is Varsity Blues. Okay, much like

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Regina, much like Regina George.
Yeah, and her favorite milkshake is just

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a fifth of vodka. Okay,
all right, I have a picture.

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I have a clear picture. I'm
understanding now more that because it's like,

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are you trying to shame me because
I'm not driving fast enough? That like

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you're you're you're saying like girls are
bad drivers. That's inherent in what your

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A bumper sticker says, like you
should be ashamed that a girl drove faster

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than you, which implies that I
should drive faster than a girl because she's

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a girl. And also her relationship
with her father is perfect. Hey,

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and this is that aged well,
yesterday's pop culture. Today two thousand and

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four, we're the top five TV
shows and I am not making this up.

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Were number five CSI Miami okay,
Number four, Desperate Housewives okay,

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Number three American Idol but on Wednesday
nights, just Wednesday Night one, okay,

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Number two American Idol, but on
Tuesday nights, we really did like

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American Idol and number one old school
CSI Original Flavor CSIS. That's a bleak

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Outlook, what a shit year for
television. How do you think Desperate Housewives?

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Aged I don't know. You know, I can't really say that I

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saw it. I watched. I
know about it because it's in the zeitgeist,

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but I don't think I ever watched
more than the pilot episode. I

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definitely watched a lot of it,
if not all of it. Oh,

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how do you think it aged?
I'm guessing not well. Oh really,

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I met CSI has aged perfectly.
Yeah, no doubt, no doubt,

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Erica. We are doing movies from
the year two thousand and four in this

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January. But before we get today's
movie, we are going to have to

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read a five strapple podcast review to
remind everyone that they should be leaving them.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you haven't berated people enough in a

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while. We'll see if this movie
gets me there. Let's get back there.

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Let's get back to berating. Today's
review comes from Taffia Darling. Taffeta

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Darling, excellent if you put it, if you put a comment in between

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it, it's kind of it's fun
too, Taffia Darling, or or or

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Hellaies and gentlemen, welcome to the
stage. Taffaa Darling. Yes, or

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this or this Taffaa Darling, or
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you're talking to a child there.
To be clear, that was a

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five year old child that was a
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Their review reads, thuslie new huge
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I'm furious I didn't hear about it
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here. Now, be furious.
Live in your fury. Now. I'm

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ripping through the back cattle at what's
probably an alarming pace. Listening to Paul

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and Erica feels like having the most
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Maybe because I'm there exact a girl, Were you born in June and or

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July? Because you really are exactly
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up so much nostalgia and great memories. I hope they have as much fun

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recording this podcast as it is a
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sweet, I do have fun recording
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have fun spending time with you,
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like Taffa Darling. You know,
you know, you know who else Taffa

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Darling is. Is she Candy Darlings
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what possibly possibly you know what she
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the studio, just like you know
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Taffa, you are too grounded.
You are too grounded. You have

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too you have a good head on
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join them in being a patron.
We have a Patreon. Go get some

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go get some benefits. It's like
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There's a lot of drugs on there, but a lot less emotional abuse,

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that's right, I mean not all, not no emotional abuse. Well,

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we want to have fun, just
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exactly. Taffaa Darling, thank you
so much for this five star review.

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If you would like at that Agel
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have a direct line to us.
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for you. Uh, Erica,
what is the movie that we are doing

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today? On this the third Monday
of January twenty twenty four. Okay,

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dooky. Today's film is the two
thousand and four of course noir action thriller

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Collateral. Collateral, Yes. This
was written by Stuart Beattie and directed by

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Michael Mann. It stars mister Thomas
Cruse uh huh, Jamie Fox, Jada

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Pinkett, Smith, Mark Ruffalo,
Peter Burr, and Bruce McGill. We

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haven't done a cruise in a minute. We haven't. It was time for

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a cruise. Time. We cruise
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a while. When when we were
looking for movies for this month, because

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we kind of wanted to keep this
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didn't put it out on Instagram.
We kind of chose all of these.

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We said we need something dumb in
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I said, oh we have we
have a Thomas cruise chi Ching. Yeah.

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Yeah, put it in the bank, chi Ching Indeed. Collateral was

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nominated for two Academy Awards, Wild
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I can see actually okay, yeah, sure that one. This is this

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is tightly edited, and Best Supporting
Actor for Jamie FOXX. Look I'm not

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saying he's not good. Yeah,
I'm just saying, really for this this

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one, how thin on the ground
were we in movies? But what's funny

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though, is he actually did win
an Oscar that year because the same year

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that he made Ray and he won
the Oscar for that, which, yes,

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that's the that's the appropriate that's the
appropriate movie for him to win an

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Oscar for this not so this must
be an instance of someone riding their own

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coattails, like because we just did
two movies that both had Rachel mccownan's and

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them. Now, Jamie Fox was
double nominated this year in The Accounty,

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Like were there's seven actors working in
only five people in two thousand and four?

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What was going on? Everything else
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is shocking, shocking because he's good. He's good. Yeah, he's no

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one in this movie's bad. Absolutely, everyone's very good. But the movie

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is slight. Let's put it exactly. Yes, that's a nice way of

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putting it. To prepare for Collateral
Erica, Tom Cruise reportedly delivered FedEx packages

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in a crowded LA market and tried
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make people not notice him while Jamie
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Okay, this is stupid. Although
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was at, and I would have
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who one hundred percent recognized him and
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They're like, is that Tom Cruise. It's going to hand me out packing

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copy of Dianetics, trying to get
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training as a cab driver? Isn't
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I don't know. I like,
I'm sure there's more to it. I'm

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sure there's Yeah, there's but like
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filmed the movie? I think there's
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are buttons and switches in this cab
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know what to call. I was
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gonna call it a computer because that
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don't know what it is. Also, I think when you say trained as

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a cab driver, Jamie Foxx spent
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what does this do? Okay,
huh what does this do? Cool?

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Thank you so much for your help, brilliant, here's your check for

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one thousand dollars. Collateral has an
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and an eighty four percent audience score, pretty well matched. That's high.

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I'm not shocked by the audience score. I had generally had a good time

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watching the movie critically. I would
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here's my journey watching this movie.
Yeah, I think you said this

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earlier today. It has pedigree.
Yeah, I thought that because it was

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nominated for an Oscar. I remember
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it was in the Oscar conversation.
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nominee that year, right, And
so I in my mind thought this was

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going to be a much better movie
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of it thinking like being really disappointed
in the movie that I'm watching. I'm

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like, where is the great movie? I was promised, where's the prestige?

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And then my brain clicked into no, dumb, dumb, this is

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just a stupid, fun action movie. That's how you need to be watching

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this. And I had a way
better ride the second after movie as soon

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as I as soon as I was
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Uh huh, stop looking for meaning
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I was like, oh right,
it's just a dumb action movie. Here's

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my hot take. Okay, it
shouldn't be Tom Cruise. Okay, Tom

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Cruise is two good. He's too
good for this role because the role is

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so underwritten and it makes no sense, and Tom Cruise is trying very hard

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to give it like gravitas. Yea, this needs a Jason Statham. Okay,

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this needs this needs maybe the Rock
Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Yeah,

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this needs the kind of actor who's
just like, you know what, don't

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worry about it, I'm charming.
Just eat your popcorn and watch. This

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is the action equivalent of of Ryan
Gosling from last week. Maybe, But

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even Ryan Gosling would have been way
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role. Oh I see, I
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been way too intense, way to
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and it's called Drive actually, but
yeah, so yeah, eighty six is

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too high. I think if you
really look at the movie, it falls

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apart on quite a few levels.
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but it is fun it's fun and
like again, it's not Tom Cruise's

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fault. He is very good,
but he's the wrong kind of good.

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I need a different kind. I
need someone who's I don't have to take

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this seriously. Huh, Erica,
Well you said you have never seen the

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movie before this. Yes, I
saw the movie yesterday for the first time.

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Right, I also saw the movie
yesterday for the first time. I

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did the breakdown for this one,
and the first time through, I think

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I had a very similar experience to
you. I'm expecting something with a little

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gravitas, exactly what you said.
Yeah, the second time through, I

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got to watch it more like you're
saying you should watch it. Enjoyed it

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much more. Don't put too much
on this movie. No, you know

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what replaced Tom Cruise with a nineteen
eighty seven Arnold Schwarzeninger. Yeah, all

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right, Erica. The tagline for
Collateral was it started like any other night.

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You know, I like that?
You like that? I actually do.

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Okay, it's ominous, it's eerie
it once you understand the basic premise

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of the movie. Yes, yes, total sense. What do you think

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I think it's good. I think
it's good. It's and it is a

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tagline. Yeah, it's an actual
tag actual tagline. It's better than the

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title of the movie. Collateral makes
almost no sense because at one point Jamie

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Fox says, I'm just collateral.
He says the thing and the thing,

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which I usually laugh at, but
I'm like, there are a lot of

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people in this movie that are collateral. You say, everyone is collateral except

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Tom Cruise, except Tom Cruise and
one other person who will talk about later.

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But like, yeah, everyone's collab. You're just one piece of the

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collateral pie. Yeah, and you
get off pretty easy as far as collateral

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goes. Yeah, you know,
like there's people that were bigger collateral than

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you. Shall I read the iTunes
synopsis all Right. Max played by Jamie

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Fox, is a cab driver who
hopes to someday open his own limo company.

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One night behind the wheel begins promisingly
when he picks up Annie Jada Pinkett

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Smith, an attorney working with the
federal government who is attractive, friendly,

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and gives him her business card after
paying her fare. Max thinks his luck

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is getting even better when his next
fair, vincent Tom Cruise, offers him

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several hundred dollars in cash if he'll
be willing to drop him off, wait

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and pick him up at five different
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Max agrees, but he soon realizes
Vincent isn't just another guy with errands to

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run. Vincent is an assassin's done
dum who has been paid to murder five

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people who could put the leaders of
a powerful drug trafficking ring behind bars in

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an upcoming trial. As circumstances force
Max to do Vincent's bidding, that Cabby

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has to find the way to prevent
Vincent from killing again and save his own

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skin, a task that becomes especially
crucial when he discovers Annie is one of

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the names on Vincent's list. Wow, spoiler a word. Uh this is

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terrible like that. Hey, way
too long, way too long, way

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too long. The synopsis should just
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a with an interesting job. Yeah, chaos ensues, Yeah, period,

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done done, desave a way the
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this is the entire movie. Yeah, this is the cliffs notes this film

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of this film. What you just
want? Exactly what you said. Cab

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driver picks up an assassin whoops,
whoops. Yeah. Actual synopsis, Actual

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synopsis is this film features an antagonist
so evil. Uhuh? He explains what

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jazz is to Jamie Foxx. Yeah. The minute a character in a film

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starts to explain jazz to another person, another grown ass human being, I'm

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out, I'm done. You can
die a million deaths. It's so interesting

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that you pulled that out. Erica
straight cisgender, probably mostly white men who

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are screenwriters out there. I am
begging you stop explaining jazz. Find another

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metaphor for freedom, find another one. It's a I remember when I was

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in kindergarten and I used to color
inside the lines, and one day my

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hand slipped and I realized I didn't
have to stay in the lines. Done.

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There you go. I just came
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but at least it's fucking new.
No more jazz. Speaking of Ryan Gosling,

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that's with the moment I was out
of Lalla land, the moment he

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starts to explain jazz to as though
she didn't understand what it was. Yeah,

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I was like, no, I'm
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If you ever want to antagonize me, just me just start explaining jazzy

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me the only kind of jazz I
want to hear about is the all that

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kind? When bb Norrth sings about
it in Chicago, that's it. That's

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the only kind, the only kind. Or if I've just been like,

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if I've come out of a coma, I have to relearn everything. And

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you're like, hey, do you
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music that you're not gonna like that
much? Let me explain jazz to here.

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hear about that. I have to
learn everything. Yeah, No, I'm

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sorry. Let's let's talk about this
whole American history thing. Let's do that

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one first. No more jazz.
Oh my god. The minute Tom Cruise

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starts to explain jazz, I was
like, you know what, I was

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on your side when you were just
a hold like heartless assassin. We were

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all rooting for you. But now
fuck you. Go to team Jamie Fox,

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Team cab Driver. All right,
everyone stick around, We will be

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right back. After these brief messages
to take you through collateral and we're back.

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We open an lax Vincent played by
Tom Cruise, Thomas Mapother Cruz.

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I noticed it is it Mapother?
I don't know mapother mypothetiter Apothecary. Someone

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gave me the apotheitter. He does
not like Apothecary's I does not like that.

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Vincent walks through the crowds and eventually
bumps into Jason Statham. I love

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that Jason Statham is in this movie, but that's who needed to be They

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needed Swiss parts. The two deferentially
say excuse me to each other, and

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they continue on their way. This
is apparently an easter egg because Collateral takes

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place in the sh Shared Universe with
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That it is also written by Stuart
Patty. That's why it exists. It

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is no bearing on the plot.
I'm learning this in real time. Yeah,

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oh I didn't know. Well,
but they do exchange bags at this

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point. Sure, so there is
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I was like, Wow, what
a small part for Jason Statham, I

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thought I would have thought he was
a bigger star by two thousand and four

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than to do some random cameo.
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film by famous people, like a
lot of them, and I was like,

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oh, that's just Jason Statham doing
a favor for my person someone.

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Yeah, oh okay, I think
Jason Statham was on like the British national

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diving team. I'm not surprised.
If you want to look up Jason Statham

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and Espiedo, there is ample video
on the Internet of him diving. Why

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am I not surprised? Excuse me, I'll be right back. Woo.

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You know, I didn't think i'd
like young Jason Statham as much as I

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like current Jason Statham. But I
was wrong. Yeah, I was wrong.

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Young Jason Stathan was. He can
get two great tastes that tastes great

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together. Holy moly. Yeah.
Speaking of great tastes, how do we

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feel about Tom Cruise's look in this
movie. It's like scruffles, mic salt

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and pepper. I don't love it. I love it. I get it.

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He's trying to I think he's trying
to blend in right and be sure

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incognito. The way to do that
is to not wear a suit that matches

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your hair right. You don't.
You definitely don't want he looks like you're

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wearing a superhero costume. You don't
want to be monochromatic and highlighter. At

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the same time. Yeah, and
like he's way too bright and way too

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dim all at once. Huh.
It's confusing to the eyes. Yeah,

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your eye goes straight to him.
Yeah. Yeah. He's got like salt

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and pepper hair, salt and pepper
hair and like a five o'clock shadow,

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which I actually it's very it's very
groomed, so I actually find that very

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I can find that very attractive.
But it's just surprisingly not his look.

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I guess maybe because his features are
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It's like you don't need that like
that usually looks good on people.

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Round your faces to give them like
cheekbones and define their face. I don't

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know. Also, the suit is
doing him no favors. The suit is

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so boxing. They have put him
in a box and he is four and

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a half feet tall. We need
cut people, the shorts need slim cut

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suits. I'm sorry, we look
like fire hydrants if you put us in

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something boxy. Yeah. So he
and Jason Statham exchange. He looks like

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old timey doctor bags. Yeah,
like like they're gonna go do old surgery

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on the prairie or something. And
with that out of the way, we

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cut to La and a cab depot, where Max Durocher said, sure,

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Jamie Fox is getting his cab ready
for the day, meticulously cleaning it.

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You know, I appreciate someone who
cleans. That made me very happy.

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That made me feel good about any
time I've ever sat in a cab.

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I was like, I really hope
someone wiped that down before I got in

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it. He slides a picture of
a tropical island into a sun visor before

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heading out on a shift. We
watch a brief montage of his workday,

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including another cameo by Debbie Mazar as
one of his passengers, and this all

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and now I have to ask you
because this is the moment where we get

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to hear and look. I don't
have the ear for this, so I

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could be totally wrong. But Jamie
Fox speaks Spanish. Oh yeah, because

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at some point he stops at like
a taco stand orders lunch. Yeah.

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It sounded bad, bad, Okay, it's so funny. I actually watched

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it twice because I was like,
oh, maybe my ear. I wasn't

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paying attention because I understood the other
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Yeah, And I was like,
hell, let me watch me again,

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and he clearly learned phonetically that morning. Yeah, how to save the

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line whatever it was he said,
right, And I was like, oh,

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that sounds bad. That does not
sound good. It was bad enough

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that I caught it that. I
was like that. It sounded like he

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was saying like, uh oh,
no, tortilla, poor favor. And

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I thought it was going to come
back later in the movie. I think

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they were trying to imply that he
was fluent in Spanish, right, I

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think it's just is meant to imply
he's a man of the people. Yeah,

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but there he comes up later to
other Spanish speakers, and I thought

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he was going to have a moment
where he overheard something in Spanish and understood

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them, and they didn't think he
did. None of that comes back.

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No, is just we are writing
a far better film. This is just

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color than the one that is happening. It's mood. So he eventually picks

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up Annie played by Jada Pinkett Smith
at dusk and drives her downtown. Can

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I say I forget because she's such
a figure in the culture lately, I

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forgot that she's a fucking great actress. Yeah, she's very good she's so

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good in this. I was like, Oh, you should do that and

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just keep your mouth shut about your
life. Yes, stop talking, Stop

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telling us things we didn't ask.
Stop telling us about your life we don't

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want to know. Yeah. Yeah, she's really charming in this and I

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understand immediately why he's attracted to her. And she and Jamie Fox have this

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one scene. They have to do
a lot of work in this scene,

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and the two of them are so
it's really quite impressive actually if you watch

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it from like a technical standpoint,
because he's driving her, so they're not

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even looking at each other. Yeah, you're not even getting to like make

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eyes at each other. It's two
people that have to make a connection and

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they don't really get to even really
see each other that much. It's very

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impressive work actually from both of them. Now, we made fun of this

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in Halloween, so we must make
fun of this in this movie. Did

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you notice he picks her up and
it's dusk ish. Yeah, And when

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he pulls out of Lax it is
nighttime. The sun didn't go down.

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The sun like the sun went into
free fall and it just went down.

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Yeah, suddenly it is nighttime.
So Annie is wrapped up in her work.

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She's giving orders on her phone.
She's directing Max on what road she

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wants them to take to get her
to her destination downtown, and Max kind

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of politely advises her that, you
know, I think we should do this

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other route instead. I'm sure people
who watch this in LA are like,

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no, it's all wrong. I
have no idea what this means. Whole

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scene is the Californian sketch. Yeah, that's all I can think of.

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When they're like, I'm gonna take
the five to the ten, to the

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three to the two, and I'm
like, oh, there's the Californians.

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No, take these road to this
road to Vine in Hollywood. I'm like,

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I don't know this, this is
us. When we're like that building

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isn't downtown. That building's on seventy
sixth Street and same thing. So Max

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like kind of is like, look, why don't we take my route.

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I'll give you a free ride if
I'm not right, I don't know what

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the metric is for this. I
guess if they get caught in traffic,

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he loses. I guess, yes, if it's less than thirty minutes or

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less like a pizza. Yeah,
she agrees you can see she's a bit

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charmed. He's not doing this annoyingly, he's being very like charming with that.

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That's true. That is a gift. That is a gift when you

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can tell a passenger they're wrong about
the way they think they're going to their

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destination, and when that mail driver
contend, the fil can tell the female

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passenger yeah, and not make it
seem like you're an asshole. You're not

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man explaining kudos Max. Yeah.
Yeah. We cut to them driving through

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downtown. Max clearly has been proven
right, and she kind of has this

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wry expression on her face and he's
like and she says well, and he

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goes, no, no, I
just got lucky with the lights. And

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she's like, no, you were
right and I was wrong. Enjoy that.

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Celebrate your rightness Max. Okay,
So the movie continues on with this

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idea that Max is like a superhuman
cab driver. Yeap, Like he's the

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best cab driver. He is a
savant, not an idiot. He's just

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a savant. Yeah. He has
the mozart of cab driving right, Like

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he's that gay. He has Google
Maps in his head. This movie gave

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Google the idea for Google Maps.
Yeah, he's doing that whole beautiful mind

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thing, the whole like math three
D math. He goes into his mind

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palace the whole time, which,
by the way, I thought was going

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to wind up mattering. I mean
it a little bit. It matters because

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it kind of gets him into the
situation, yes, exactly, in no

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way helps him out of the situation, which is what I was expecting.

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I'm gonna tell you right now.
I was expecting a lot of answers.

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Yeah, of course for questions that
I had, reasonable questions, not not

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insane like come on, you don't
need to know everything. No, no,

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no, reasonable plot based questions that
will not get answered. So the

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two continue to flirt and he's becoming
more invested in Max as he tells her

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about his dream. He has this
dream of opening a limo company. And

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then he kind of guesses that she's
a lawyer and she's like, oh,

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what are you psychic? And he's
a little he's like a little bit,

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but you know, he's like,
you came in, you were in a

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suit, you had this he knew
like the designers and yeah, wears.

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He's like, you're filthy oteiga,
you know. So she tells him she

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has a huge case starting the next
day, and she has all this stress.

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And he tells her, you go
on vacation. You know, you

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need a vacation. And she's scoffed
and she's like, when'd the last time

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you took a vacation. He says, Look, I go on vacation all

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the time. Every time I need
a little break, I look at this

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picture of this island that I have
in my son visor and just breathe.

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And I go there for five minutes
and it takes me out of myself.

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Right. They get to her office
and he's like, look, you take

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the picture. She's like, no, I can't do that. He's like,

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no, take it. You need
it more than me. You have

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a lot of stress coming your way. I can get another I can print

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another picture off the internet tomorrow.
Right. She thanks Sam. She gets

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out of the cab. Then she
comes back. She knocks on the window

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and she offers him her car and
says, you know, in case you

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ever need a lawyer or like,
you know, you want to argue over

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cab routes, Yeah, give me
a call. She gives him her number.

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Yeah, excellent meet, cute,
smooth move Annie. That's what I'm

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calling her. That was a smooth
mood. Yeah, she is up on

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her activity. All of her movements
are smooth and she barely she breathes too

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deeply, and whoop, we've moved. That's how smooth it is. A

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Activia. The set of an Activita
commercials is safe space. I thought about,

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Oh god, that snl sketch was
funny. Every time as Annie heads

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into her building that she's she stopped
in at we see Vincent on his way

404
00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:32.640
out that scruffles MC salt and Pepper
scruffles mic Salt Pepper, who is super

405
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:41.039
chill and incognito in this big government
building wearing full fucking sunglasses indoors. Where

406
00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:45.759
my sunglasses at night indoors. Unbelievable. I'm like, this should have been

407
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:49.839
truthfully, Paul, I skipped over
this. I kind of like glided over

408
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.359
this because I still thought I was
watching a prestige film. Yeah, that

409
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:57.920
did maybe some research that had some
logic to it, right, that is

410
00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:03.880
not the film we were watching.
It is just stupid. This movie pausitives

411
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:11.480
that this assassin is just walking around
in a bright gray suit silver really a

412
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:17.200
bright silver suit with somebody with sunglasses
on in the middle of the night in

413
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:21.759
the government building and no one's gonna
notice him. So he gets into Max's

414
00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:25.279
cab and he gives Max an address
and asks how long is is you take?

415
00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:29.240
Max? Max's Paul points out who
is the og? Google Maps?

416
00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.799
Yeah, bene than Google Maps,
Frank way better. He's never he doesn't

417
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:36.000
add time during the ride. You
never have to calibrate Max. He just

418
00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:40.359
knows where he's going. He says
seven minutes. Vincent is like seven,

419
00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.880
not ten, not five, And
Max gives him like a longer answer,

420
00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:47.160
and he's like, no, it's
this for this and this and this.

421
00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:51.039
Vincent super impressed with his specificity and
asks if he can get a free ride

422
00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:53.400
if it's longer, and Max tells
him that he already offered his free ride

423
00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.759
for that night, so he's not
doing this game. He's like, you

424
00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.759
know, Jada Pinkett Smith dude.
As they drive, Vince and engages Max

425
00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:04.559
in conversation. He's tarted talking about
how impersonal Los Angeles is. He heard

426
00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:08.079
that a man once died on his
subway and was left there for six hours

427
00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:11.920
before anyone even noticed that there was
a dead man on the subway. I

428
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.640
have to say it's probably happened in
New York. Oh yeah, yeah,

429
00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.799
and that's maybe that made me start
to think about all the people I'd sat

430
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.319
next to that were aleep huh,
And I was like, oh shit,

431
00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:25.799
oh no, oh no. How
many times have I cozied up to a

432
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:27.680
fucking corpse? You want to know
what? I believe it would be more

433
00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:30.319
likely in LA, though, because
those those subways are much less crowded.

434
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.240
I think that makes it worse.
I don't think you're paying attention to me

435
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:38.279
or to anyone. You're like a
sleeping guys. More people, people will,

436
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:42.839
A corpse will fall within thirty minutes
in New York. In LA,

437
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:45.839
it could it could self. It
could like weekend at Bernie's, a corpse

438
00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:52.559
on the LA subway for hours.
So Max starts talking again about his dream

439
00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.559
of starting his own limbo company once
this quote unquote temporary job is over.

440
00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.599
Yeah, Vincent asked him, how
long have you been driving CA and Max

441
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:04.559
goes twelve years temporary, temporary for
a temporary Yep. We arrive at Vincent's

442
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:11.079
destination exactly on time, exactly seven
fucking minutes, and he has a proposal

443
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:14.359
for Max. He tells him,
look, I'm in town for real estate

444
00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:17.400
deal. It's closing that night.
Vincent tells him he's got five stops to

445
00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:19.599
make, and then he has to
catch a six am flight out of Lax.

446
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.720
He wants to rent Max's cab for
the night. Max like, no,

447
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.920
I'm sorry, it's against regulations.
I can't do it. Vincent scots.

448
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.119
He's like, look, how did
you make per night? And Max

449
00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:30.920
like three fifty four hundred. He's
like, I'll give you six hundred dollars

450
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:34.440
plus an extra hundred if I don't
have to run for the plane in the

451
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:40.759
morning. And then there's this movement
where Tom Cruise takes up. He picks

452
00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:44.000
up like this stack of one hundred
dollars bills and he just fans it out

453
00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:48.160
like a magician dancer, Like he
just snapped a fan. I'm like,

454
00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.920
how long did he have to practice? That is just something Tom Cruise does

455
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.680
at home for fun? Was that
a trick prop? Like? What what

456
00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:59.440
is this? Also like only psychopaths
carry crisp hundred dollar bills? Yeah,

457
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:06.400
he has seven perfectly crisp hundred dollars
bills. That's the red flag that everyone

458
00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:10.279
should have noticed. Yeah, Max
is he can't turn up this level of

459
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:14.079
money. He's like okay, and
vinceus like great, go drive around to

460
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:15.440
the alleyway behind the building. Wait
for me there. I'll be back in

461
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:19.359
a minute. So Max pulls around. He's like, all right, I

462
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:25.799
was waiting this random empty alley in
Los Angeles. I have a bone to

463
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:27.319
pick with this film that I'm gonna
start right here and right now. Why

464
00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:30.880
is Los Angeles empty? It is? Okay, every because I have this

465
00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:34.200
It just got dark, so we
know it just got dark when he left

466
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.799
LAX. So it's eight pm.
And I believe he told I believe he

467
00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.799
told her it was gonna be like
twenty minutes. So it is eight o'clock

468
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.480
at night. Yeah, it's eight
pm. Yeah, No one is on

469
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:51.799
any of these streets. It is
a fully just empty Los Angeles. Placing

470
00:30:51.839 --> 00:30:56.000
that there. There's nothing about Los
Angeles would suggest that traffic would be among

471
00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.359
the top five things people would think
about it as soon as they heard los

472
00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.880
Angeles. Yeah. So he pulls
around to that, to that alleyway.

473
00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:04.440
He takes a sandwich out of his
bag. He starts to eat. He

474
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.920
takes a look at a car catalog
and he gazes at Annie's card like ooh,

475
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.000
that sexy lawyer lady. It's taking
the place of his tropical island picture

476
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:19.680
and his visor. Yeah. Suddenly
a corpse comes out of nowhere and slams

477
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.680
onto his roof. I have to
say it, shattering the windshield. I

478
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.119
like this because I was like,
you know what, let's get going.

479
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.680
Yeah, fucking move, this movie
moves. Yeah, I credit where it's

480
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.640
due. I laughed out loud.
See now this again, another moment where

481
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.960
the movie is trying to tell me
what it is, and I stupidly am

482
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.599
still like waiting for the prestige drama. And I'm like, no, you're

483
00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:47.720
wrong, Eric. This is the
kind of movie where a man flies out

484
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:52.720
of a window and slams into the
cab. Max panics. He scrambles out

485
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.960
of the car. Vincent appears much
calmer than Max. Wonder why. Max

486
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.559
is like, this guy's dead,
Oh my god, we have to call

487
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:01.880
the cops, and and Vincent's like, nope, you have to help me

488
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:05.759
get this guy into the trunk of
the car. Max is like, what

489
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:08.880
do you do? What are you
talking? Oh no, you know that

490
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:14.160
thing, Yeah, where you're you
pick up an assassin by accident. Again,

491
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:16.720
this old saw, this whole thing
It's one of the things. If

492
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:20.240
he had gone to a better,
a better cab driver training school, he

493
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.680
would have known how to spot,
to spot the assassin an assassin and be

494
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:24.960
like, no, no, I'm
not putting you in like I'm not taking

495
00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.880
you. I can smell an assassin
at thirty yards drunk girls and assassins.

496
00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:32.279
No, No. Vincent holds him
at gunpoint and forces Max to help him

497
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:37.039
stow the body in the cab right
in the trunk. The movie will identify

498
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:42.640
this corpse as a fat Los Angelino. Oh yeah, like eight or nine

499
00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:46.839
times, to the point where it's
weird because it's a It's not a fat

500
00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:51.119
person. He's not fat, he's
not even overweight. I would call him

501
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:54.480
a completely like average weight person,
yeah, that you see walking down the

502
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.640
street. Agreed like I And it
makes me think that they just needed They

503
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:04.200
were trying to find a fast way
to identify the different corpses that are going

504
00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.079
to start piling up at an alarming
rate in the course of this movie.

505
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:10.960
So they want to identify this guy
for the audience. But I'm like,

506
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:16.160
just say, like the gray haired
guy, or or I actually cast an

507
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:20.880
extra who's fat. Yeah, it
makes sense because I was like, why

508
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:23.559
is it, Why are they hitting
this so hard that man was not fat?

509
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:29.039
Understand Tom Cruise hits the word fat
a lot. Yeah, in the

510
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:32.359
movie, they give Vincent a lot
of like pejorative like he's a fatty fat

511
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.240
And I'm like, what's your damage, dude, Like, well, your

512
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.559
mother really did a number on you. Yeah. Yeah. It was weird,

513
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.559
even more so in some ways,
and like saying mean girls, like

514
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.720
we were talking about that where but
at least it was serving a purpose at

515
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.799
least sometimes in mean Girls, I'm
like, I understand why this discussion is

516
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:54.720
being taken up by this movie.
Or like a corpse with like bright red

517
00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:59.640
hair and you can be like the
red haired guy, yeah, the blah

518
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:05.079
blah, yeah, like the checker
guy anything, but this this thing that

519
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:10.719
he just the corpse fundamentally is not. Yeah, so weird. So Vincent

520
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.320
pours some like water from a water
bottle onto the cab to clean off the

521
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.239
blood, and he's like, yeah, that's good enough. As most international

522
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:23.679
assassins, He's like a little sloppiness
doesn't hurt anybody, almost counts in horseshoes,

523
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:30.000
hand grenades and international assassining. Well, am I wrong? He's a

524
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:35.679
bad assassin. Right. Interesting,
you know what he's bad about it because

525
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:37.559
that man was not supposed to fly
out the window, right, The first

526
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:40.960
thing he did was stepping it.
He shot a man next to a window,

527
00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:45.519
and apparently the man flew out of
the window, like from the force

528
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.920
of the shots. That should not
have happened. Correct. I think I

529
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.480
think he's a bad assassin. Fair, I don't what. I think he's

530
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:54.400
bad at this. I'm I'm going
to pay attention for the rest of this,

531
00:34:54.440 --> 00:34:57.679
and I'm gonna because I didn't think
about that in advance, but I'm

532
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.119
curious to see how it checks out. Yeah, he he's good at killing

533
00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:07.599
people, bad at assassining, bad
assassinating, bad at being incognito and going

534
00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:10.480
unnoticed in a situation one might say
is crucial to an assassin. Bad at

535
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.719
avoiding cameras and crowds. We're going
to get into it. So he snaps

536
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.280
at Max to get in the driver's
seat. And when Max proposes, hey,

537
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.800
man, just take the cab yourself. I didn't see nothing. I'm

538
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.119
not going to say anything to anyone, which everyone knows is a lie.

539
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:27.199
Yeah, He's like, just go
and don't worry about me. He's like,

540
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.840
no, get in the cab.
You're driving me. I paid you

541
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.079
to do a job. You're doing
your job. Max gets in and they

542
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:37.519
drive off. I have a theory
here, Uh huh. Tom Cruise's character

543
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:39.639
doesn't know how to drive. It's
the only thing that makes sense. It's

544
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:44.440
either that or he is deeply in
love with Max. Those are the only

545
00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:47.840
two possibilities. Boy, how I
wish it was the latter. How I

546
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.480
wish this was a Bonnie and Clyde
situation where like Max is like, I

547
00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:57.559
hate you, but I love you, and then they become international assassins together.

548
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.280
He's like to get away car Guy
and the Killer. Yeah, boy,

549
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.159
would I have loved that movie?
What a great movie? Yes,

550
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:07.880
not the movie it will. That
is the first major question of the film

551
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.079
that I promise you does not get
answered. Yep. The only no explanation

552
00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:19.000
for why Vincent doesn't just shoot Max
take the fucking cab. Maybe he's like

553
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.519
the Lincoln lawyer who needs someone to
drive him around so we can do his

554
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:23.519
work in the back. Now,
he does no work in the back of

555
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:27.719
the cab, so it doesn't hold
up. He looks at Dossier's pop.

556
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:30.400
He looks He looks at his at
his briefcase. He glances at people's names

557
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:37.519
and pictures. That's all he does. So we cut to LAPD Detective Ray

558
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:40.920
Fanning played by Mark Ruffalo. What
was I excited to see him in this?

559
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:45.280
I was excited, but I did
you have a moment because we see

560
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.039
him he has his hair slicked back. He has that like early two thousands

561
00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:52.199
goatee. Yeah, that connects to
the mustache. He has an earring.

562
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:55.119
And the first thing we hear him
say is in Spanish. His Spanish is

563
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:58.760
better, by the way, but
I had a brief moment of are we

564
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.760
are we saying? Mark? Is
he gonna introduce himself as detective like Alejandro

565
00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:06.159
Garcia? Oh I had a brief
fear for that. Oh no, no,

566
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:08.119
I well, because the Spanish was
so rudimentary out Yeah, I didn't

567
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:13.559
even think of that. Okay.
So Fanning comes upon the scene of the

568
00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:16.039
crime that we have just witnessed.
He does not appear to be there responding

569
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.840
to a call. Shots were not
reported, and he's arriving. He just

570
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.599
is kind of there and he calls
it in. We cut back to Max

571
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:27.840
and Vincent. Max is understandably a
bit anxious. I will say that most

572
00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:32.000
of Max's actions, like, as
far as character arcs go, it goes

573
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.559
A to B. I can follow
it. Yeah, it makes sense.

574
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.199
His actions make much more sense than
basically anyone else is. In the mid

575
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:44.280
right, he tries to clean up
his cab from like the shattered glass and

576
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:46.800
the sandwich he dropped whatever, and
Vincent snaps out him to just button it

577
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:51.920
up and get me to the next
destination. Max stammers that he can't drive

578
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.480
Vincent to a spot where he's gonna
kill someone. He's like, I can't

579
00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:55.519
do that. I can't do that. I can't do that. He starts

580
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:59.480
to panic. Vincent is like,
look, brief, the plan was for

581
00:37:59.519 --> 00:38:01.400
this to go off without you knowing
anything, but you know what, things

582
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:06.679
have changed. We have to adjust. We got a jazz. Oh no,

583
00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:12.119
this is this is the first instant
of jazz. Vince. How about

584
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:16.119
you adjust to the fact that you're
shittiest Sason? How about that? How

585
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:21.039
about go back in time and don't
kill that guy to where he falls out

586
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:24.000
of a fucking window. How hard
is it to not make someone fall out

587
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:28.199
of a window? I do it
every day, Paul. Yeah, I

588
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.920
have lived on this earth for many
years and I have thrown almost nobody out

589
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:35.079
of a window. Well, I
don't know why you're attacking me like this.

590
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:39.800
You know, I have a history
making me feel very bad about myself.

591
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:47.679
Why they call you defenestration? Kaola? So Vincent tells him that there

592
00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:51.320
are worse things going on in the
world than him killing one guy, and

593
00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:52.519
besides, the victim was a criminal. So does that make it feel better?

594
00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:54.599
It? Can we get on with
this? And we're not in Rwanda?

595
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:58.320
That's why he brings up for Wanda. Yeah, he goes, have

596
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.440
you heard of Rwanda? Again?
I am an adult who looks at the

597
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:07.280
news every once in a while.
Yes, I've heard of Rwanda. Who

598
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.639
is this guy? Who is Vincent? Who does he encounter on a daily

599
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:15.960
basis where he has to explain very
basic things to people? If you heard

600
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:22.639
of Rwanda? No, explain Africa
to me now, please before Max can

601
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.199
respond because thank god, yeah,
they're pulled over. Even the screenwriter was

602
00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:30.480
like, well, I can't write
my way out of this. We need

603
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.320
an interruption, we need a do
ex LAPD. Now. Now we've brought

604
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.239
up Rwanda and oh boy, actually
no, this is worth talking about because

605
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:43.280
Vincent goes. People are murdered.
Hundreds of people are murdered every night in

606
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.719
Rwanda, and you don't lose a
bit of sleep over them, do you?

607
00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:50.320
So why you care about this guy? And I'm like, bro,

608
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:55.360
Rwandan's aren't landing in my fucking porch
every day, then I might think about

609
00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:59.920
it more often, but seeing is
how it's happening on the other side of

610
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.800
the earth. Yeah, and I
have a fucking mortgage to pay over here.

611
00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:07.840
That was such a dumb argument.
Yeah, I hate this guy so

612
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:10.199
much. On top of it being
an assassin, I actually don't even care

613
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:16.039
about that. It is everything else
about his personality sucks so hard. So

614
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:21.239
they're pulled over by two cops.
Yeah, Vincent hitses at Max to get

615
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:23.360
rid of the police officers or else
they'll wind up in the trunk as well.

616
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:27.079
Okay, now I have a question, yes, Paul, Okay,

617
00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:29.840
So I know we said the streets
are empty, but like at this point,

618
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:32.039
they're on like you can see other
cars driving around. They're on a

619
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.519
major SAT, They're on a major
thoroughfare. They get pulled over and Vincent's

620
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:42.440
like, I'm gonna kill these two
cops in in front of dozens of people

621
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:47.760
that are well within eyeshot of this
happening. Holmut like, and were you

622
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:52.480
gonna shove thirty people into the backseat
of the CAB's not big enough? Hah.

623
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.880
The cab just starts to drag the
back is it just limbs hanging out

624
00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:59.960
of it? It's just sparks as
it goes down the street, dragging down

625
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:01.360
from all the bodies. Is not
a clown car. It's a corpse car.

626
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:06.519
No believe corpse is good fit Like, it makes no sense. So

627
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:10.599
I don't want to be controversial here, but LAPD officers are notoriously well armed.

628
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.280
Yeah, so I don't. I
don't care how good of an international

629
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:19.400
assassin you are. I'm liking the
cops chances more than his. So the

630
00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.599
officers tell Max how they pulled him
over for the shattered windshield had the plud

631
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:28.239
all over his fucking car. Max
apologizes, saying he was on his way

632
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.360
back to the depot and he was
just dropping this last person off. The

633
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.920
cops are calm and they're like,
how did this happen? And he goes,

634
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:39.280
I hit a deer and I was
like, what, just say?

635
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:44.880
A tree branch fell from like all
I was driving, which I mean,

636
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:46.639
look, I understand he's under a
great deal of pressure. Well, I

637
00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:50.519
thought his answer was so stupid that
he was trying to alert the cops.

638
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:52.639
And I don't know what movie I'm
watching. I was like, oh,

639
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.840
smart, He's like, you know, I hit that deer. You know

640
00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:00.480
how there's deer everywhere. Yeah,
and like trying to sound like a little

641
00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:01.880
little loopy. So the cops are
like, okay, sir, we're gonna

642
00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:05.320
need you to like get out of
the car. Yeah, you don't sound

643
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.519
so good. That's not what happens. Yeah, the cops remain calm.

644
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:10.639
They insist the car is no longer
safe to drive and it must be impounded,

645
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.599
so tell your passenger to get out. At the last possible moment,

646
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:17.960
they're called away on a radio call. This happens so much in movies and

647
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.440
TV shows. It's way overused,
where they're like literally about to like open

648
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:25.400
the trunk of the car, you
see the thing in the back, and

649
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:30.840
then they're like calling all units,
calling all units. There's a there's an

650
00:42:30.159 --> 00:42:32.400
robbery a foot at the blah blah
blah, And I'm like, oh,

651
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:38.960
we gotta go. We're calling all
units and I'm like this movie. They

652
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.880
tell Max, all right, go
straight to the impound lot. You know,

653
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.559
do not pass go. This is
the honor system, buddy. Yeah.

654
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.559
Max and Vincent arrived the next stop
and Vincent has Max pull into an

655
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:53.440
alleyway again. He zip ties Max's
hands to the wheel just as Max's boss

656
00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:58.320
radio is in Uh so, Max's
boss has apparently been notified by the police

657
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:00.360
about the state of Maxi's cab and
he's an asshole, right, He's like,

658
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.199
it's coming out of your salary.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Vincent,

659
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.480
who remember is deeply in love with
Max and a man of the people.

660
00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:09.920
Yes, scruffles MC salt and pepper. He is having none of this.

661
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:14.000
His his cab driver is being intimate, is being treated poorly by his

662
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:16.199
boss. Right. He gets on
the radio. He claims to be an

663
00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:21.159
adya and he easily intimidates Max's boss. He's like, no, your your

664
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:23.000
insurance covers this. You're being an
asshole for here about this again. I'm

665
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:27.400
gonna sue you blah blah blah blah
blah. Then he makes Max tell his

666
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:29.880
boss that he's an asshole and if
he tries to pull this shit again.

667
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.480
He's gonna stick this cab up his
fat ass again. That's right there,

668
00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.119
it's like a fat ass. Calm
down, gentleman. You don't know what

669
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:43.599
he looks like, cause you're damage
hither. Max stammers out the insults.

670
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:49.000
He's obviously not no feeling behind them. Satisfied, Vincent heads into the building

671
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:52.079
to do his work, and we
see a brief cutaway of his next victim

672
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.239
being summoned to meet with a notary
quote unquote. In the alley, Max

673
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.199
sees some people walking on the sidewalk
nearby. He honks the horn tries to

674
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:05.400
get the attention of some passerby.
He attracts a group of men who start

675
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.039
walking towards the car. In Maxi's
defense, at first, you can't really

676
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:13.880
see what they look like, but
as they get closer to the car and

677
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:17.320
they get under the light, you
start to recognize, Oh, no Nazis.

678
00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.719
Well, yeah, weenates, we
have Nazis. We've attracted neo Nazis.

679
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.639
Kudos to the stylist on this movie, the costume, the hairy makeup.

680
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:29.679
I knew him immediately, like you
did not have to. They didn't

681
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:31.960
have to open their mouth and say
a word. I was like Nazis shit.

682
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.480
They immediately hold him at gunpoint.
They take his wallet, they take

683
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:43.440
Vincent's briefcase from the back seat.
The degenerates slash Nazis. Plus Paul writes

684
00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.719
here there were four, but now
there's two for some reason. I don't

685
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:46.880
know. I don't understand. Two
of them just kept one. We just

686
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:52.320
kept walking. Yeah, they walk
away, but not fast enough. Vincent

687
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:54.760
appears and he says, yo,
homie, Okay, you know what,

688
00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:00.199
no notes, no notes. I
want to hear Tom Cruise say yoh me

689
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:01.840
a lot. What other things do
you want to hear Tom Cruise say,

690
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:07.159
oh. I want to hear Tom
Cruise say shoplift in the pooty, as

691
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:10.840
we discussed in Jerry Maguire. God, I love when Hollywood makes Tom Cruise

692
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:15.159
say silly things. They should make
Tom Cruise pay play, justin Timberlake in

693
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:20.320
the movie of Britney Spears Memoir,
where he got to go up to Genuine,

694
00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:24.920
Yeah, played by Genuine and say
all of this, all of this

695
00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.519
guess a black scent is that.
I don't know. I don't know what

696
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:37.360
we're calling me vernacular vernacular. I
did not shoplift the pooty. Some one

697
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:43.079
of the greatest moments in American cinema
as far as I'm concerned, Yo homie,

698
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:49.199
Oh my god, I wanted to
die. Why would he say that?

699
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:57.679
Why would Vincent say, yo homie? Yeah, you know. So

700
00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:00.480
the two men, the two Nazis, try to rob him as well,

701
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.599
and he immediately just kills them both
with three gunshots each and again. Now

702
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:08.880
the movie, I'm confused because Vincent
is an assassin, a terrible one at

703
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:14.519
that, and he seems somewhat insufferable. But he stands up to Max's boss.

704
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.880
He's like, he's like a hero
for the working man, right,

705
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.760
and then he kills these Nazis,
which you know, fine, I'm very

706
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.519
okay with. And so I'm like, what am I supposed to be getting

707
00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:29.920
from this? This movie is confusing. He tosses his briefcase back in the

708
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.039
backseat, and he gives Max back
his wallet. Yep. We cut to

709
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.639
the two filling up at a gas
station. Vincent warrens Max that attracting attention

710
00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:39.679
will only get more people killed,
and then he tells them we're ahead of

711
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:45.159
schedule and proposes they take a detour
to a jazz club. Sorry, I

712
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:49.239
just threw up in my mouth.
There are genuinely movies about jazz that are

713
00:46:49.280 --> 00:46:53.000
good movies. This is not one
of them. We cut back to Fanning.

714
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:57.079
Remember Mark Ruffalo, the cop.
I don't know if this was this

715
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.880
was like made a parent before,
but he is an under cover cop.

716
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:05.320
Yeah right, so that's why he's
dressed like, I don't know, like

717
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.079
from a street gang or whatever the
fuck this person was supposed to be because

718
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:12.760
he's undercover. Right, So he
finds We find out that his for that

719
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.280
victim that we saw, the hugely
fat man who fell out of the window,

720
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:21.159
was one of his informants, and
Fanning was working him for months and

721
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:25.480
months to try to get to another
bigger guy named Felix rey Es Dorena,

722
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.639
a Mexican drug kingpin. His partner
played by Peter Berg. By the way,

723
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:36.320
Yeah he pops up. I haven't
seen Peter Berg in a million years.

724
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:38.159
Yeah he does more behind the camera
stuff. Yeah he's a director now.

725
00:47:38.159 --> 00:47:42.079
I guess his partner informs him,
Hey, look, the Feds are

726
00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.679
watching Felix. They don't want the
lapd getting in the way, So get

727
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:47.679
out of the thing, right,
like, stop following this case, which

728
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.840
makes me again, no one just
alects to go undercover. Huh. Like

729
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:57.039
a whole system has to be put
in place, paperwork has to be done,

730
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.519
a judge has to sign off on
it for this to happen. Why

731
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:07.000
is he working this undercover case if
the FEDS are also on it? This

732
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:10.079
doesn't make any sense. I think
the implication is that he's working a different

733
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:15.239
angle. I don't think he's initially
working the Felix case. I think he's

734
00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:17.480
This doesn't make any sense. I'm
just saying I love that Paul's like,

735
00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:20.679
wait, hang on, what I'm
about to say is dumb. Continue.

736
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:24.079
Yeah, but I think the implication
is that he like, like he's coming

737
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:29.880
at this criminal informant from a different
direction and then he stumbles into the Felix

738
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:32.039
thing. But why, oh,
it doesn't It makes no sense. It

739
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:36.400
like, shouldn't the FEDS be like, hey, LAPD, knock knock knock,

740
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.360
we have a favor to ask.
Let's leave this entire criminal organization out

741
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:44.960
of out of the LAPD's purview for
a while while we work this case.

742
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:50.199
None of this makes any sense.
This goes into the the the great pantheon

743
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:57.880
of terrible cops in movies. As
we've discussed in previous films such as Lethal

744
00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:05.199
Weapon and Die Hard and Break All. Police officers are just fundamentally terrible at

745
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:09.599
their jobs. So Fanning, because
he's terrible at his job, isn't deterred.

746
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:13.920
He's like, I don't care if
I'm blowing a whole federal case.

747
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.400
I want to know what happened to
my ci. A witness reports seeing a

748
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.719
cab in the area, and Fanning
is reminded of a similar case in Oakland,

749
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.320
where a cab driver drove around all
night, murdered three people, and

750
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:31.920
then died by suicide. Oh however, the investigating detective in that Oakland case

751
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.079
always questioned whether or not that driver
did take his own life and thought there

752
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.440
might have been someone else in the
cab. He framed the cab driver,

753
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:43.880
which again makes him terrible at this
because he's doing it twice, creating a

754
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.320
pattern. Even a broken clock pole
is right twice a day. Even terrible

755
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:52.440
cops would notice, Hey, this
exact same car was at all five crime

756
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:59.280
scenes. I wonder if there's a
correlation here. All Right, we cut

757
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:01.639
to the Jask Club. Oh my
god, I'm gonna walk away. You

758
00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:06.320
talk, you talk this scene out. I'll be back. I'm gonna go

759
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:10.679
somewhere where no one's explaining jazz to
me. Vincent and Max watch as the

760
00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.639
club owner Daniel, played by the
great and good Barris Shabaka Henley, a

761
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.320
great character actor. Uh. He
plays trumpet with his band. I don't

762
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.519
think he's actually playing the trumpet.
I couldn't figure it out, but I'm

763
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:23.400
pretty sure he's not. I think
that trump is hard. Yeah, so

764
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:28.559
I'm willing to give him a pass. So yeah. Vincent bribes the server

765
00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:30.159
to ask Daniel to come talk to
them after the set. We cut to

766
00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:36.440
Daniel telling them a story about Miles
Davis. Vincent is impressed. He comments

767
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:38.559
that I've got to tell the people
in Coolie a cannon Karta Hana that story,

768
00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:45.800
and Daniel's face just drops. Max
suddenly catches up and he's like,

769
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:47.519
oh, fuck this guy, this
is this is not a break, This

770
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:53.639
is not a random jazz wey,
We're not on a break. Daniel is

771
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:58.079
the next target, and he does
not want to see what is about to

772
00:50:58.119 --> 00:51:00.400
happen. He begs Vincent to do
look, look, do a little improv

773
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:04.599
play little jazz. You love jazz. What if you just let this guy

774
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:07.119
go and disappear, right, yeah, like, you don't need to do

775
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:08.840
this, and Daniel is even like, hey, man, I will disappear.

776
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:10.719
You will never hear from me again. I'll be like the wind.

777
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:16.440
Yeah, let's just jazz together.
Oh. Vincent tells Daniel, all right,

778
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:20.719
I'm gonna ask you a question.
You get it right, you disappear.

779
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:22.800
Daniel agrees, and he says,
look, no matter what happens,

780
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.880
tell Felix and his people that I'm
sorry, I have no choice but to

781
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:29.840
play ball. I'm gonna go I
was gonna go back to jail, and

782
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:34.800
I'm not going back to jail,
right. Vincent asks where Miles Davis learned

783
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.679
music. Daniel confidently tells them Juilliard. Vincent shoots him in the head and

784
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:43.599
tells his corpse that Miles Davis dropped
out of Juilliard and learned with Charlie Parker

785
00:51:43.679 --> 00:51:47.840
on the job. Oh, this
is so scream this is the worst.

786
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:54.599
He's just this man owns a jazz
club. Uh huh. He shoots him

787
00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:58.000
in the head anyway, which fine, if that's your job, Yeah,

788
00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:05.360
but then don't explain jazz to the
corpse of the man who owns a jazz

789
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:15.039
club. Who personally knew Miles Davis. What is wrong with you? Yeah

790
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:16.239
this, I had a moment where
I had to I had to stop the

791
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.880
movie and walk around. No,
I can't, I can't with this fut

792
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:23.840
jazz. I can't. I've said
this before. A movie, to me,

793
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.000
is only as good as the villain. Like, a villain has to

794
00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:30.760
be compelling, and this villain,
there's ingredients, there's stuff there. Tom

795
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:35.360
Cruise is always watchable, whatever you
may say about him, He's always watchable.

796
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:39.400
But it's I I wanted a better
villain. I wanted a better guy.

797
00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:44.599
I wanted someone who is interesting,
like a Hans Gruber. You know,

798
00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.559
he's bad, he's not a good
person, but he's compelling to watch.

799
00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:51.960
Even a moment where Max might one
might be like, you know what,

800
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.840
maybe Vincent is doing you know good
work. I mean he's ridding the

801
00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:59.840
world of terrible people. Like if
that conversation had gone that way instead of

802
00:53:00.280 --> 00:53:07.039
instead of his asshole trying to explain
the Rwandan genocide to a cab driver like,

803
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:10.599
fuck you man. If they had
written a more compelling character, Tom

804
00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:14.960
Cruise really would have made it sing
to I think, like he can really

805
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.679
pull that shit off and it's that's
where I'm like, Look, I'm not

806
00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:22.400
mad, I'm just disappointed. Yeah, I'm just disappointed, collateral. I

807
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:25.800
want it better for you. So
Max flees the club, muttering angry that

808
00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.360
I'm just collateral. Then he looks
at the camera and goes wink. Vincent

809
00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:32.800
catches up with him and holds him
by the throat, and before it can

810
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:37.960
escalate, dispatch calls again. The
fucking asshole calls again, huh and reports

811
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:42.320
that Max's mother has been calling all
night constantly looking for him. When Max,

812
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:46.159
Baby, when you took this job
before you knew the wrinkle that was

813
00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:51.239
the international assassination of it all,
did you not think about your mother that

814
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:54.159
you visit every night in the hospital. Right, Like, we're about to

815
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:58.760
find out that Max's mother is in
the hospital. He goes every single night

816
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:01.519
during his shift to come in and
visit her. Say hello, what did

817
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:06.000
he think he was gonna do with
Tom Cruise that night? Yeah? Anyway,

818
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:08.199
Vincent's like, Okay, if you
visit your mother in the hospital every

819
00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:10.480
night, we got to do that. So let's go to the hospital because

820
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:15.159
I don't want any I don't want
any suspicion. Do you think Max missing

821
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.800
a visit for his mother will bring
more eyes in the shattered windshield. It's

822
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:23.719
the LAPD Paul who knows who knows
what They're paying attention to the very fact

823
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:29.840
that, like a good international assassin
makes the first mistake where the corpse drops

824
00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:34.559
on the cab and disappears, he
doesn't return to the cab. Yes,

825
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:37.239
you go away, you shoot Jamie
Fox, Sorry, Jamie Fox, and

826
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.920
then you fucking go away. Yeah, none of this makes sense, none

827
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.079
of it. And then also the
jazz guy that they killed right there is

828
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:50.760
sitting in the middle of a crowded
jazz club with him for presumably hours after

829
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:52.840
his set, waiting for the club
to clear out and for the last of

830
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:57.679
the employees to leave before he kills
him. But that still means that there

831
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.760
are like hundreds of witnesses. You, as the last person, we saw

832
00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:06.360
a very distinctive looking man with silver
hair, and Jamie Fox who is and

833
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:09.320
a Neon silver suit and a Neon
silver suit, and Jamie Fox who is

834
00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:15.000
very attractive. Uh huh, like
people notice him when he walks into a

835
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:17.280
room. Do you expect that no
one is going to be able to like

836
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:23.119
pick them out of a lineup?
We cut to the hospital where Vincent insists

837
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:27.039
Max buy flowers for her mother,
after all, she carried you at her

838
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.119
womb for nine months. Stop it
stop at Vincent, fuck you man,

839
00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:34.039
Cruse saying the word womb. I
don't like it. I did not like

840
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:37.000
that at all. He said it
like it's a science experience. He said

841
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:39.000
it like you want to crawl back
up in his hand and no, uh

842
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:44.000
uh. They get into the elevator
and they are joined by Detective Fanning,

843
00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:46.039
who's heading to another floor. Ooh, so you know, our our hero

844
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.639
and our and our villain and our
you know, I don't know what's Fanning

845
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:55.519
the stop are all in the same
elevator together, gasp. Vincent and Max

846
00:55:55.599 --> 00:55:59.519
get off first they head to his
mother, Ida's room. Ida is played

847
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:04.519
by Irma p Hall. Ida is
immediately short with Max for wasting his money

848
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:06.760
on flowers, and he's like,
yeah, I didn't buy them for you,

849
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:09.679
this guy did. And then she
notices Vincent and the whole act changes

850
00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:13.559
and she becomes the hostess. Very
funny. It's very funny, yeah,

851
00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:16.280
because she's like abusing Max immediately upon
him walking in and then is like so

852
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:21.599
sweet as soon as she notices she
come on in. Yep, it quickly

853
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:27.079
becomes apparent that Ida believes that Max's
dream of owning a limousine company is reality.

854
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:31.079
Embarrassed by and also scared for his
mother, like his mother drives him

855
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:34.039
nuts, but he does love his
mother and he doesn't want her to be

856
00:56:34.159 --> 00:56:37.440
murdered by the worst assassin. What
if he accidentally murders items He doesn't even

857
00:56:37.519 --> 00:56:42.920
mean slips, she trips on a
cord and it like cuts off through her

858
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:45.760
oxygen and he's like, sorry,
okay, this one's on me. Yeah,

859
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:47.800
my bad. I did not mean
to do that. I did not

860
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:52.719
mean to murder your mother by accident. Max kind of sneaks out of the

861
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:54.280
room. He kind of just like
walks quickly past Vincent and on the way

862
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:59.559
out, he swipes Vincent's briefcase.
Yep, he gets a little bit of

863
00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:02.760
a heads dart because Vincent is busy
kind of like charming charming Ida, I

864
00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:06.679
think, just trying to get under
Max's skin, and he doesn't quite realize

865
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:09.480
how quickly Max is left, which
is again something in assassin should really be

866
00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:15.519
top of mind. Why is he
wasting time in this hospital room? Ridiculous?

867
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:19.320
Is happening. You're right, It
almost is as though he fell madly

868
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:21.719
in love with him at first,
because he's like, be nice to your

869
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:24.639
mom, bring her flowers. Like
yeah, he's chastising him for not being

870
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:29.719
a better son to his elderly sick
mother, and I'm like, why do

871
00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:34.360
you care? What is your damage? So Max gets out of there,

872
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.880
and Vincent realizes he's gone, and
he gives chase yep. Max sprints through

873
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:43.800
the hospital. Vincent pursues him.
Tom Cruise runarate chopping through the air.

874
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.519
Every time I get to see it, it makes me happy. Max eventually

875
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:52.639
winds up on a pedestrian bridge over
the highway. He sees Vincent coming.

876
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:55.119
They're the only two people on this
enormous pedestrian bridge. Then I believe,

877
00:57:57.760 --> 00:58:01.679
and he throws Vincent's briefcase into the
air and over out onto the highways,

878
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:06.639
scattering all of Vincent's money and prep
work on his victims for the night.

879
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:09.599
Vincent just runs over it, tackles
him and snarls, let's see what else

880
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:15.559
you can do. Guess, kiss, kiss, kiss kiss. That was

881
00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.679
like a They'd stay in Idel's room
for one more minute. She would have

882
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.320
been like, kiss kiss. We
cut to Fanning Mark Ruffalo at the hospital

883
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:28.280
morgue, hoping for a look at
his his informant's corpse because remember, technically

884
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:30.320
there is no murder because the corpse
was never found because it's in the back

885
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:35.000
of that trunk. Yeah, but
he knows something happened because the apartment was

886
00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:37.480
a mess and the fucking window was
broken. So he's looking at the morgue,

887
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:40.679
He's like, hey, any chance
this person came in. Instead,

888
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:45.920
what he finds are the bodies of
the two fucking Nazis and Vincent's second victim,

889
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.519
the notary guy, who I should
say is like, like, looks

890
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:52.159
expensive, right, Like he was
living in a penthouse. To find out

891
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.880
later he's like a lawyer for criminals. Yeah, exactly. So the emmy

892
00:58:57.119 --> 00:58:59.880
has a theory that they were all
killed by the same shooter because of the

893
00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:01.119
bullet pattern, right, two in
the chest and one in the head.

894
00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:07.159
Further, Fanning recognizes the second victim, the fancy lawyer guy right, who

895
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:10.119
was also in the drug trade,
and he's like, oh no, he

896
00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:15.119
was also involved with Felix, the
evil drug kingpin, and this is all

897
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:19.599
coming together. He's sure that something
big is going on, and he doesn't

898
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:21.960
think the feds are aware of it. No reason for him to think that.

899
00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:23.199
Why would the feds not be aware
of it? I don't know,

900
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:27.199
Paul, I don't know. I
don't know why this guy thinks he's better

901
00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:30.320
than the entire federal government. I
mean he might be. Yeah, I

902
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:36.400
love seeing like like actors, actors
like Mark Ruffalo and stuff like this.

903
00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:37.920
Or I'm like, I know that
he looked at the script. I know

904
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:42.599
he knows the script is bad.
I know he knows it. I no

905
00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:45.480
judgments for him for taking it.
I'm thrilled he's collecting a paycheck. I

906
00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:49.000
love Mark Ruffalo, but like the
fact that he has to say these things.

907
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:51.480
And I'm like, I know the
kind of actor is that he thought

908
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:52.760
about this line and was like,
well, this doesn't make any sense.

909
00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:58.599
Okay, fine, whatever level best. Yeah, it's all watchable. Yeah.

910
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:02.559
We cut back to Mac Vincent driving. Vincent starts making comments about Max

911
01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:07.039
lying to his mother, bitch,
keep your mouth, keep my mother's name

912
01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:12.360
out of his mouth. Max says
it, his mother just hears what she

913
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:17.039
wants and ignores what he's actually saying, and Vincent the assassin recall who is

914
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:22.960
trying to be incognito, not let
anyone know anything about himself, talks about

915
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.400
growing up with an abusive father and
says that he killed his father when he

916
01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:30.599
was twelve. Yeah, Max is
horrified. What and then Vincent laughs,

917
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.400
ha, just kidding. He's still
alive. He's a hoot and a half.

918
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:37.880
Has Tom Cruise ever done a comedy, like a real comedy? I

919
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:39.320
know, Risky Business is. Some
people think it's a comedy. He did

920
01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:44.239
Tropic Thunder But now I thought about
that too, But that is playing on

921
01:00:44.360 --> 01:00:47.280
his persona and intensity, right,
I'm trying to think if he's just because

922
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:50.000
you're playing doesn't make it not a
comedy. No, no, no,

923
01:00:50.159 --> 01:00:52.159
it doesn't. I'm talking to somebody
where like, has he ever hosted SNL

924
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:58.800
where he is asked to do that
kind of like absurdist stuff because the Tropic

925
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:02.079
Thunder performance is is also playing on
his tendency to go too hard and to

926
01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:06.000
go like it's using Tom Cruise correctly
in a comedy. Actually, you know

927
01:01:06.039 --> 01:01:09.480
what movie is an unintentional comedy and
it uses Tom Cruise so fucking perfectly.

928
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:15.280
Oh, Rock of Ages. Rock
of Ages is so fucking funny in Rock

929
01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:17.719
of Agent, you know what you
are correct, thank you, because I

930
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:21.639
was trying to think of like,
does he ever just done like a light

931
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:24.360
rom com? I mean, I
guess Jerry Maguire, that's like a dramedy

932
01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:28.360
though, like that's not just a
right And we also talked about how he

933
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:30.760
was wrong in that he was terrible. I mean, he was terrible,

934
01:01:30.760 --> 01:01:32.840
but he was very wrong for that. Yeah. No, I think he's

935
01:01:32.920 --> 01:01:38.960
too intense, generally speaking, to
be believable in a really light role except

936
01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:43.480
for Rock of Ages, where the
intensity is used. Yeah, so it's

937
01:01:43.519 --> 01:01:46.559
deployed like Tropic Thunder where they're using
the intensity. Yeah. Yeah, remember

938
01:01:46.639 --> 01:01:50.400
how good he was an interview with
the Vampire. Oh yeah, we were

939
01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.559
so shocked when we watched that movie
and we were like, fucking Tom Cruise,

940
01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:55.920
it's great. Am I wrong?
But he's wonderful in this movie.

941
01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:00.079
I would say Tom Cruise is very
funny an interview with the Vampire. I

942
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:04.440
know it's not a comedy, but
he keeps it light there. Yeah,

943
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.599
I agree. Okay, So the
two of them arrive at their destination is

944
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:14.119
a bar called El Rodeo, which
is a Latin cowboy bar, very specifically

945
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:20.880
and Spanish for the Rodeo. Vincent
informs Max that he will be heading in,

946
01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.599
as quote unquote Vincent, he will
speak to Felix and get him to

947
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:28.719
replace all the information that was lost
when Max flung the briefcase onto the highway.

948
01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:31.079
Vincent is like, I don't go
in. People don't see my face,

949
01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:32.840
and I'm like, you know,
have seen your face? Max?

950
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.000
So Max is already dead really because
you have to kill him at the end

951
01:02:37.000 --> 01:02:40.880
of the night. I'm willing to
go with Max a little bit more than

952
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:44.480
I am with Vincent, because it's
like, you don't want to die,

953
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:46.519
so you're just playing a lot until
you can figure out what means of escape.

954
01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:50.440
But like this guy, I had
to know from the minute that like

955
01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:52.400
first body fell. He's like,
well, I'm going to die tonight if

956
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.039
I don't get away from this guy. Somehow that'll figure out away. I'm

957
01:02:57.039 --> 01:03:00.119
going to die tonight. Yep.
Max is understandably luctant to do this task,

958
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:02.679
but he doesn't really have much of
a choice because Vincent says if he

959
01:03:02.679 --> 01:03:06.199
doesn't get it done in ten minutes, he's going to drive to the hospital

960
01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:08.880
and kill his mother, which implies
that he can drive. That's right,

961
01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:13.719
Yeah, what is happening he's in
love. It has to be in love

962
01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.360
with them. It has a love
story. Oh God, I want it

963
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:20.039
to be Paul. This is what
Taylor Swift's song love Story is about.

964
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.639
We cut to an FBI surveillance team. Remember the Feds, the Feds that

965
01:03:24.719 --> 01:03:28.639
were all over this. Yep,
they're finally in the movie. We're by

966
01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.760
We're like an hour in already.
Before the fucking Feds even show up,

967
01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:36.920
they see Max head into the club
on their cameras. Agent Padrosa played by

968
01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:40.320
Bruce McGill is leading the stakeout,
and Fanning arrives. I don't know who

969
01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:45.599
told him where the I don't care. You know what moving on does makes

970
01:03:45.639 --> 01:03:47.960
sense? But I'm moving on and
asks, hey, has there been any

971
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:52.960
unusual activity tonight at the at the
rodeo at the old Rodo. Pedrosa says,

972
01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:57.480
nope, it's been quiet. But
Fanning sees the cab and the like

973
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:00.239
ruined roof and the cracked windshill,
and he's like, hey, let's let's

974
01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:03.079
zoom in on that. He uses
the license plate to request a copy of

975
01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:09.599
Max's license and he and the Feds
start working together. See teamwork doesn't teamwork

976
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:12.440
makes a dream work. That's true. That is absolutely true, and they

977
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:15.360
realize that the three people that have
been murdered that night are connected to Felix.

978
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:18.760
They use the video of Max entering
the club. They listen to it

979
01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:23.360
and they hear him say the word
Vincent, so that he's claiming that his

980
01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:26.679
name is Vincent. Crucially, they
cannot see Tom Cruise in the cab.

981
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:30.679
Yeah. Max manages to talk his
way into the club on the power of

982
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:34.760
Vincent's name and is led directly to
Felix, played by an unexpected Javier Bardem.

983
01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:38.840
I squealed when he came on the
screen. You're a Javier fan.

984
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:44.719
I'm a Bardamite Paul from a Javiette
If you will, I forget when people

985
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.119
get famous. Yeah. Like so, if you'd ask me what year Havevier

986
01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:50.320
Bardem got famous, I would not
have thought two thousand and four. I

987
01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:54.760
would not have thought it was like
famous enough yet to be playing a villain

988
01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:57.719
in a major motion picture. Yeah, and there he is. And it's

989
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.400
only one scene. Yea. But
I was so like, hey, look

990
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:02.559
at you. Yeah. I think
he had done before After Night Falls that

991
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:05.480
the After Night Falls is what broke
him out in the United States, right,

992
01:05:05.519 --> 01:05:09.119
because the Spanish language film, but
a lot of people saw it,

993
01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:12.199
and I think that's and then he
immediately had to learn English. He was

994
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:15.280
like, oh shit, I can
get work in the Hollywood. I got

995
01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:16.760
to learn some English. Yeah,
and so I don't know, I got

996
01:05:16.840 --> 01:05:20.760
a bandaris this shit real fast.
So I haven't really looked into it,

997
01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:24.440
but I have This has to be
like his second or third movie. I

998
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:27.280
looked it up. It's very to
be clear in the United In the US,

999
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.760
I'm sure he made plenty of Spanish
language films in Spain very early on

1000
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:34.000
his American career. He is so
hot in this movie. I mean he's

1001
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:38.400
always hot, but like he has
like a shaved head and like he's got

1002
01:05:38.599 --> 01:05:41.559
that face, like it's it looks
like a tough guy face. Yeah.

1003
01:05:41.679 --> 01:05:45.639
Yeah, he's got character. Yeah
yeah. Do he and Penelope Crews have

1004
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.920
children? Do? Those kids' faces
must be extraordinary because you get two people

1005
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:55.320
with so much character, and I'm
like, oh my god. There they

1006
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:59.239
either are like the most beautiful people
in the world, those children, or

1007
01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:01.960
unholy hype, we're only hybrids.
Yeah, I don't think there's an in

1008
01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:04.599
between. I don't think so for
them. No chance that those people come

1009
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:12.199
out looking totally normal, unappealing.
Yeah, like, I just hope that

1010
01:06:12.239 --> 01:06:14.840
if they have multiple children, they
all fall on the same side of the

1011
01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.039
spectrum. Whichever one it is.
They're either all gorgeous or they're all weird

1012
01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:21.280
looking, or all they all look
like Picasso paintings. Yeah somehow, why

1013
01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:26.440
is your eye so low? Ha
ha? All right, So Felix demands

1014
01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:29.559
to know why he's there, and
Max stammers that he lost the list,

1015
01:06:29.719 --> 01:06:33.519
and Felix finally, like firmly identifies
this list as informants. The audience has

1016
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:35.360
figured this out at this point,
but this is where we were getting,

1017
01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:39.400
like the actual download. Even the
cops have figured this out right now,

1018
01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:43.119
And as as this and every other
movie tells us they're the worst. Yeah,

1019
01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:47.119
Felix is pissed. But Max has
learned his lessons from Vincent well,

1020
01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:50.280
right, he's learned him well enought
that he doesn't crumble. If only every

1021
01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:55.000
person but a little bit of a
a little bit of an insecurity issue had

1022
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.119
a nice sociopathic assassin that could just
teach them how to stand up for themselves.

1023
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:01.039
Stand up for yourself, bring your
mother flowers, yep, and talk

1024
01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:04.400
about chatz with you yeah, fuck
you hooked on PHONICX. This is how

1025
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:08.000
to get people ready for the real
world. This is the preview of the

1026
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:10.960
movie. I remember this because I
didn't see this movie when it came out,

1027
01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:13.239
but I remember this moment in the
preview where he's like, tell the

1028
01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:15.519
man behind me to put his gun
away? Yeah, like like Jamie Fox

1029
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:20.159
brings it in the scene. So
he stares at Felix. He tells them

1030
01:07:20.360 --> 01:07:24.000
what Erica has said, Have the
guy behind me put his gun away before

1031
01:07:24.039 --> 01:07:26.760
I take him and beat him to
death with it. He takes off his

1032
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:30.480
glasses, he gets some good crazy
eyes going yeah, and he tells Felix

1033
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:32.719
that he dumped the list because he
picked up a tail, and then he

1034
01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:39.440
starts parroting Vincent's nonsense about Jazz.
I have to say, though, like

1035
01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:43.000
if if Nathan is a colleague of
these people, they all know they don't

1036
01:07:43.039 --> 01:07:45.239
know is what he looks like.
But they're like, don't bring up jazz.

1037
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:50.280
Yeah, whatever you do if you
mean him. So I feel like

1038
01:07:50.360 --> 01:07:54.360
this is like, this is this
has to be Vincent's like thing that he's

1039
01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:59.199
famous for. Yeah, He's led
jazz, Vincent Hu. Felix is impressed

1040
01:07:59.280 --> 01:08:01.880
enough that he give Max a flash
drive with all the information that was lost.

1041
01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:05.039
Max stands up and this was funny. He says, you know what,

1042
01:08:05.639 --> 01:08:09.480
as an apology, you can take
thirty five percent off my fee for

1043
01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:13.840
the night. And then he tells
Max that Daniel said he was sorry.

1044
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:17.000
So he passes on the jazz club
owners final wesh to tell Felix that he

1045
01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:19.880
you know, he didn't want to
flip. Yeah. Max leaves, and

1046
01:08:20.039 --> 01:08:24.399
Felix instructs his men to follow him
to the next target and kill him if

1047
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.520
anything goes wrong. Yeah, that
all tracks. That all tracks. You

1048
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:30.640
know who's good at their job,
Felix. Felix gets shipped. Done,

1049
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.000
Felix understands what he is there for. You know who apparently walks out of

1050
01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:39.640
this movie entirely unscathed. Felix.
Huh no, not necessarily. I mean

1051
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:44.840
the trial will start tomorrow. Yeah, but there's no witnesses left. Yeah.

1052
01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:49.439
Yeah, well I guess Max.
I guess Max is a witness now.

1053
01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:54.279
But I hope spoiler Max makes it
through the movie. I hope he

1054
01:08:54.359 --> 01:08:57.159
gets through the next night because you
know who knows what Max looks like.

1055
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:03.119
Felix Felith. So we're back in
the cab Vincent uses the cabs. Paul

1056
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:06.119
rights here. I don't know computer. What is that? It looks like

1057
01:09:06.159 --> 01:09:11.199
an iPad, the iPads. It
wasn't like a route finder, but Max

1058
01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:13.479
doesn't need a route I don't know
what it is. It must be some

1059
01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:16.159
kind of like log for the for
the rides. You must log it in

1060
01:09:16.239 --> 01:09:20.479
somehow. It looks like a speak
and say from the eighties. So he

1061
01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:26.479
accesses the information and directs Max to
the head to a club called Fever to

1062
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:31.279
find the next time. Every every
single one of these movies has a scene

1063
01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:36.399
in a club PSA for this episode. Nightclubs are full of assassins. They're

1064
01:09:36.399 --> 01:09:41.279
full of international spies. They're full
of assassins. They're full of criminals in

1065
01:09:41.319 --> 01:09:45.079
the back doing shady dealings. That's
correct. Keep your eyes peeled. I'm

1066
01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:46.439
not saying don't go to clubs.
They're fun. You have to have fun,

1067
01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:49.880
but keep your eyes peeled because some
shit is gonna go down. You

1068
01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:53.960
see someone in a Neon silver suit, you get yourself out. Yeah,

1069
01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:56.840
you pay your tab and you fucking
leave. Yeah. And you know what

1070
01:09:57.000 --> 01:10:01.159
if he looks angry, don't even
pay your tab. So the next target

1071
01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:05.359
is a man named Peter Limb.
Meanwhile, the FEDS are readying their own

1072
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:10.039
team to send to Fever because they
have figured out that Peter Limb must be

1073
01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:13.479
the next target. Yes, they
know the list of witnesses, right.

1074
01:10:14.079 --> 01:10:16.239
So when Fanning tries to convince them, hey, I think there's another man

1075
01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:18.920
in that cab. I don't think
the cab driver is the killer. I

1076
01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:23.319
think he tries to explain an Oakland
thing to them. They want no part

1077
01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:26.279
of it. They're like, no, shut up, we see him,

1078
01:10:26.479 --> 01:10:30.319
he dies. They don't. They're
not even like they are shoot to killing

1079
01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:33.520
this guy. They're not. They're
not out to arrest him, to bring

1080
01:10:33.640 --> 01:10:38.920
him in to flip him for their
case. Nothing, even though they are

1081
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:43.600
quickly losing witnesses and they could potentially
use another flip. Yeah. No,

1082
01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:45.960
no, They're like, we're gonna
murder him the second we see him.

1083
01:10:45.239 --> 01:10:50.479
That's what we do. Jesus Christ. Fanning follows the Feds ye, because

1084
01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:53.640
he's like, you know what,
I don't like the way this is going.

1085
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:56.560
Yeah, this this case is under
his skin now. So to be

1086
01:10:56.680 --> 01:11:01.600
clear, converging on the club is
Maxi and Vince, the FEDS, Fanning,

1087
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:06.640
and also Felix's men who are tailing
Max and Vincent, who think Max

1088
01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:11.279
is Vincent, as do the Feds. Here is where my brain turned.

1089
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:14.279
Okay, this is the moment when
I was watching the movie. Was it

1090
01:11:14.359 --> 01:11:16.880
the random coyotes? No? No, no, it was here because I

1091
01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:21.600
was like, oh, this is
like a shootout at the Okay Corral.

1092
01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:26.359
Oh this is not a prestige movie
I'm watching. Okay, this is a

1093
01:11:26.439 --> 01:11:30.199
dumb shoot them up action movie.
Now that I love, Yeah, you

1094
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:32.239
do love it. I'm all in
for that movie. I wish I had

1095
01:11:32.319 --> 01:11:36.439
been watching that movie from the beginning. Yeah, the coyotes. I don't

1096
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:41.640
understand. Max and Vincent are driving. There's a Chris Isaac song that's playing,

1097
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:44.600
like we see like all these people
coming. It's it's it's it's like

1098
01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:47.279
a very moody, cool shot of
la at night. Yeah right, Like

1099
01:11:47.399 --> 01:11:51.279
so like I get the cinematography and
the beauty of it, and he like

1100
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:55.039
stops and vince it looks like why
did you stop? And then silently they

1101
01:11:55.079 --> 01:11:58.239
watch like these two coyotes cross the
road, and I'm like, is this

1102
01:11:58.359 --> 01:12:00.359
the rule of cool? Thing?
Like it was like were they were they

1103
01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:03.680
not planned? What's going on here? Yeah? I don't know because they

1104
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:06.800
it's never It's not like there's not
some symbolism around the coyote that I am

1105
01:12:06.840 --> 01:12:11.119
aware of. I thought it may
be like an uncanny valley thing. Sure,

1106
01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:13.920
like of like, well, this
night just got even weirder. This

1107
01:12:14.039 --> 01:12:17.239
fucking coyotes in the street. I
don't know. I don't know what the

1108
01:12:17.319 --> 01:12:20.000
fuck that means. Okay, as
long as you don't know either, What

1109
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:24.600
could that mean? Why are there
coyotes? Now? All right, let's

1110
01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:28.520
let's figure this out. The coyotes
Okay, okay, it's a coyote like

1111
01:12:28.600 --> 01:12:31.239
a symbol of like, go the
fuck home. It is it's not coyotes.

1112
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:34.640
I just realized it's wiley coyote.
Okay, okay. And and he

1113
01:12:34.960 --> 01:12:40.159
is signaling to us, the watchers
who thought this was a prestige movie that

1114
01:12:40.399 --> 01:12:43.920
no, we're about to like blow
up this club from the ACME with TNT

1115
01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:46.199
from the ACME Corporation. Yeah,
like that's that's why the coyote came on.

1116
01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:53.279
So in the cab, Vincent asks
Max, Hey, you're gonna call

1117
01:12:53.319 --> 01:12:56.199
Annie? And Max says he doesn't
know, and Vincent says, you know,

1118
01:12:56.279 --> 01:12:58.239
life is short if you and I
make it out of this alive.

1119
01:12:58.760 --> 01:13:00.199
You should call her? Why are
you playing with him? N Like,

1120
01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.560
what's your damage? What's the implication
here? Because look, one of them

1121
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:06.680
is dying, Like a smart audience
member knows. One of these people is

1122
01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:11.640
not making it out. Yeah right, So why should you should have said

1123
01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:14.520
if you make it out of this
alive, yes, right, and then

1124
01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:16.760
it's like then it's then it's actually
almost like, hey, I don't really

1125
01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:19.600
want to kill you. Yeah,
and I might die. My line of

1126
01:13:19.600 --> 01:13:23.079
work is dangerous. So you make
it out alive. You should call her.

1127
01:13:23.199 --> 01:13:25.800
Yeah, maybe maybe I'll spare you. You don't know that. You

1128
01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:28.720
don't know me, You don't know
my whole thing. You don't know how

1129
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:31.439
much I love you. Ha ha. That Chris Isaac song made me want

1130
01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:39.359
to hold you. You don't know
what it's like to love somebody, to

1131
01:13:39.479 --> 01:13:44.880
love somebody the way I love you. That's what should have been playing.

1132
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.239
Aha. They don't have Begi's money
for this. I'm they blew it all

1133
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:50.479
on Tom Cruise. I'm gonna see
if I can get a video of this

1134
01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:57.359
scene and put the Beechi's under it. So the two arrive and Vincent forces

1135
01:13:57.439 --> 01:13:59.800
Max in front of him as they
make their way through a packed club.

1136
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:03.520
This scene is now that I know
what I'm watching, I'm all here for

1137
01:14:03.640 --> 01:14:10.399
it. Okay, this is the
dumbest fucking thing. It's loud and dumb

1138
01:14:10.479 --> 01:14:14.479
and hilarious. Yep, buckle up. So they make their way through a

1139
01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:16.800
pack club. Right, Vincent is
like basically holding Max at gunpoint. The

1140
01:14:16.880 --> 01:14:21.199
Feds are behind them, as is
Fanning, as our Felix's men, all

1141
01:14:21.279 --> 01:14:26.399
of whom think that Max is some
dangerous killer. Vincent spots the target,

1142
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:29.600
who was, of course, surrounded
by his own bodyguards with guns. So

1143
01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:32.960
many guns, so many guns,
so many guns in the scene. He

1144
01:14:33.079 --> 01:14:36.199
tells Max to move fifteen feet away, but promises that if you wander,

1145
01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:40.680
I will shoot some innocence in this
club. It's like, if I were

1146
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:43.840
Maxi'd be like, Buddy, I
don't. I don't think there's any question

1147
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.359
that innocent people are gonna die tonight. I don't. Really, We're actually

1148
01:14:46.439 --> 01:14:49.439
past that point. If ever,
there was a moment where Max could just

1149
01:14:49.560 --> 01:14:54.000
flee. This is it, right, So Vincent moves through the throng.

1150
01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:58.399
He manages to dispatch three of Limb's
guards as everyone just keeps dancing around them.

1151
01:14:58.479 --> 01:15:00.359
Yeah, that's what Paul wrote.
Here, let me tell you what

1152
01:15:00.479 --> 01:15:03.359
I saw. Let me tell you
what I see here. Man in a

1153
01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:09.760
full silver suit on the dance floor, crowded dance floor, pack This is

1154
01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:12.199
the one place in LA where there
are people by the way, this is

1155
01:15:12.439 --> 01:15:15.359
this is the Asian Club. Do
you notice that I did not like ninety

1156
01:15:15.479 --> 01:15:18.800
percent of the people in the scener
Asian? Oh I didn't notice. Yeah,

1157
01:15:19.319 --> 01:15:23.279
So we have the Latino Rodeo bar
and the Asian Club. Hey,

1158
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.439
why is it called fever? I
don't like that. Oh, I didn't

1159
01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:29.760
think of that. I don't like
that. I don't care for that.

1160
01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.079
Yeah. So he's the dance floor, right, pumping, pump and pumpin

1161
01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:39.439
Tom Cruise. Pull the fucking gun
out, Yea, holds it like,

1162
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:42.920
not hiding it under his jacket,
hold it out in front of him.

1163
01:15:43.600 --> 01:15:45.319
People on the dance floor. And
I know these are just extras, it's

1164
01:15:45.359 --> 01:15:48.399
not their fault, but a bunch
of them look at him, They look

1165
01:15:48.600 --> 01:15:53.560
right at him and see and then
they're like yeah, they keep dancing,

1166
01:15:54.520 --> 01:15:56.399
and I'm like, oh, I'm
sorry, I don't want to see the

1167
01:15:56.439 --> 01:16:00.960
gun. Is this not Los Angeles, notorri not the safest city in the

1168
01:16:01.079 --> 01:16:05.680
country. Why is everyone cool with
this fucking gun in the club? He

1169
01:16:05.760 --> 01:16:10.880
starts walking through the club like a
fucking shark, pointing right at Peter Limb.

1170
01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:14.000
He does this thing where he shoots
him, and that's when people are

1171
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:21.640
like and flee. Bunkers. Bonkers, absolutely fucking bunkers. I will say

1172
01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:28.159
that this is for a real a
real moment here, like shooting up a

1173
01:16:28.239 --> 01:16:30.840
club is something that does not age. Well. Oh yeah, I was

1174
01:16:30.920 --> 01:16:34.680
like, oh god, this is
this is because innocent people die in this

1175
01:16:35.079 --> 01:16:39.760
scene or well, it seems like
he mostly shoots like the bodyguard, like

1176
01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:43.680
the people that are I'm willing to
believe that Vincent is a good enough shot

1177
01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:47.000
that he doesn't kill anyone outside of
the meant who he meant to kill.

1178
01:16:47.399 --> 01:16:53.720
I don't know if the Feds other
thugs are quite as because it's a firefight

1179
01:16:53.840 --> 01:16:58.600
in a packed club. They just
start spraying the place bullets. Yeah,

1180
01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:00.720
and it's it. It took me
out of it for a second. I

1181
01:17:00.760 --> 01:17:04.760
was like, oh no, we
can't do this scene casually anymore. No,

1182
01:17:04.880 --> 01:17:09.119
thank you. So many movies have
this scene though, yeah again,

1183
01:17:09.279 --> 01:17:13.720
like I think thinking of the really
terrible one was scarface. Uh huh with

1184
01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:17.640
like the giant club shoot out,
Like what is happening? I'm gonna read

1185
01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:23.359
this just as Paul wrote it.
Pedroza Spot's Limb calls his extraction team and

1186
01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:28.359
honestly, who gives a fuck?
Screaming, shooting, utterly unrealistic CHAOSI erupts.

1187
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.680
I was losing patience. Vincent saves
Max from being executed by Felix's men.

1188
01:17:33.720 --> 01:17:38.720
That's right, I forgot that.
Why yeah, why he loves him?

1189
01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:44.039
You don't know what it's loved?
An easy way to get out of

1190
01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:47.800
this. Oh baby, you don't
know what it's love? So you know

1191
01:17:47.880 --> 01:17:54.119
what? Notoriously has cameras everywhere nightclubs. Yeah, well, because they want

1192
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:59.079
to catch people stealing, and so
like you. He he put his gun

1193
01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:03.680
out on the dance floor and just
started shooting, and then people cleared around

1194
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:10.279
him and he continued to shoot.
There's now so much evidence of your existence,

1195
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:14.600
dude. He takes down like six
or seven bodyguards who swarm him.

1196
01:18:15.159 --> 01:18:21.079
Dude, you are caught. Let
Max go. No one is going to

1197
01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:27.640
believe Max is the real killer anymore. So okay, so Vincent shoots lim

1198
01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:30.720
the guy. Meanwhile, Fanning manages
to grab Max, and he's like,

1199
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:34.239
I'm a cop. I think I
know what's going on here. I don't

1200
01:18:34.279 --> 01:18:38.159
think you're the killer. We gotta
go. He tries to usher him out

1201
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:44.680
of the club to safety. Unfortunately, and I cannot express enough that as

1202
01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:46.880
soon as they get out of the
club, we discover that Vincent, much

1203
01:18:47.039 --> 01:18:54.840
like Michael Myers, can teleport.
Because this makes no sense, Max and

1204
01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:58.960
Fanning are ahead of him, and
he is still like fighting six bodyguards for

1205
01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:02.680
some reason. He fights the six
bodyguards, kills Peter Limb, and manages

1206
01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:08.399
to get downstairs and in front of
the car before Fanning and Max exit the

1207
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:13.000
club. Yeah, he shoots and
kills Fanning rip ALRP. I actually thought

1208
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:15.239
maybe he was gonna be wearing a
bulletproof best. I thought he was gonna

1209
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:16.680
be Okay, I forgot. You
know what is funny is in a movie

1210
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:20.000
Right now, Mark Ruffalo wouldn't be
killed, right because he's too famous.

1211
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:26.279
But two thousand and four Mark Ruffalo
fucking cannon fodder. Yeah yeah, yeah.

1212
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:30.199
He drags Max back into the cab. Max is now like really upset,

1213
01:19:30.560 --> 01:19:33.439
right, he is, like I
thought he had a brief moment in

1214
01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:38.000
the sun where he thought he was
out of this Yeah, and not good.

1215
01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:41.840
Vincent points out that he saved Max's
life and wonders, where the fuck

1216
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:45.920
is my thanks? You know,
fuck you? Max says, why did

1217
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:48.319
you kill Fanning? Which, come
on, Max, what are we doing

1218
01:19:48.399 --> 01:19:54.359
here? Why are you surprised?
Of course he killed fann integrity. I

1219
01:19:54.439 --> 01:19:59.000
thought you loved me. Vincent says, it's what he does for a living,

1220
01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:01.399
and he starts to whack philosophical about
how they're just specs in the universe.

1221
01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:05.520
He doesn't care about the people he
kills for his job. He's indifferent.

1222
01:20:05.680 --> 01:20:09.000
This is almost as bad as the
jazz. This is bad. Is

1223
01:20:09.159 --> 01:20:13.800
hard to watch, Oh my god, Like the nihilist philosophy is straight so

1224
01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:17.239
irritating, And again Tom Cruise is
not the vessel for this performance. Like,

1225
01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:21.920
either write a better movie for Tom
Cruise or put another actor in this

1226
01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:27.720
role who can maybe like like just
tap dances his way around this yeah,

1227
01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:30.760
and be fast and loose with it, like it is hard to watch.

1228
01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:35.039
Yeah, Max says there's something missing
in you, something missing in your brain,

1229
01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:38.159
and Vincent is like, you're too
afraid to even try to realize your

1230
01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:44.560
dreams. You're sitting here, you're
talking about limo companies. What why are

1231
01:20:44.600 --> 01:20:47.720
you getting personal? Man? What
is VI? You're gonna kill him in

1232
01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:51.279
like two hours? What is his
hole? Like? He's like, He's

1233
01:20:51.319 --> 01:20:54.600
like, well, don't tell me. I'm not good at my job.

1234
01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:59.399
You don't even follow your dreams.
I'm sorry. Why am I see?

1235
01:20:59.439 --> 01:21:00.840
Why? Why am I on the
couch? All of a sudden, Ferston

1236
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:08.680
to climb every mountains. It's realizarre. Excuse me, doctor killer. This

1237
01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:13.399
sets Max off. He starts to
accelerate through the empty streets of La.

1238
01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:16.359
He admits that Vincent's right, he
needs to stop waiting for the exact right

1239
01:21:16.479 --> 01:21:19.520
moment to start his company. He
just needs to do it. The cab

1240
01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:23.880
speeds through the streets. Vincent pulls
his gun. He's like, slow down,

1241
01:21:24.079 --> 01:21:26.079
slow down, Max, Max,
What are you doing? Max?

1242
01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:29.159
What are you doing? Max says, go fuck yourself, and he steers

1243
01:21:29.199 --> 01:21:32.319
the cab into a highway divider,
flipping it over and sending it careening into

1244
01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:35.359
the sidewalk, empty sidewalk. No
one else gets hurt. Nope, not

1245
01:21:35.479 --> 01:21:40.479
even a coyote is hit, not
even a rampant coyote like they have just

1246
01:21:40.680 --> 01:21:45.239
running around the streets. Both men
are conscious, though when the car flips,

1247
01:21:45.279 --> 01:21:48.079
none of them have died. Vincent
starts to kick at Max, but

1248
01:21:48.159 --> 01:21:51.520
then he hears like he gets really
petty for a minute, which very funny,

1249
01:21:53.359 --> 01:21:56.119
slam you god, damn it,
man, what are you doing.

1250
01:21:56.199 --> 01:21:59.119
You're ruining everything. Then there's sirens
and he's like, oh, I gotta

1251
01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:00.720
get out, So he gets that
the cab. He sprints away. A

1252
01:22:00.800 --> 01:22:04.119
cop appears in the scene. He
sees Max, who's in shock and bleeding

1253
01:22:04.159 --> 01:22:08.000
from the head, and he calls
an ambulance and he's like, hey,

1254
01:22:08.119 --> 01:22:10.960
man, you know you're gonna be
okay. We're gonna get an ambulance.

1255
01:22:11.079 --> 01:22:14.960
Just sit down, don't move.
And then he's looking at the damage of

1256
01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:16.680
the car. And remember the car
has totally flipped over. It is basically

1257
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:21.920
like like squashed like accordion, right, which means the trunk has opened.

1258
01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:26.760
And the cop sees the body in
the back of the cab and he tells

1259
01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:29.720
Max, put your hands over your
head. So Max is like ready to

1260
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:31.479
submit. He's like, good,
I'm done. Take me out of this

1261
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:34.960
situation. I need to flee forever. Then he looks over at his cab

1262
01:22:35.359 --> 01:22:39.239
and he sees the screen of the
little computer. This is the speak set,

1263
01:22:39.319 --> 01:22:44.199
the speaking sad Yeah, with the
five like a Vincent's targets list,

1264
01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:48.680
right, and he sees the final
picture, Paul, would you bu Lee

1265
01:22:49.079 --> 01:22:57.640
Vitt? The final victim of Vincent's
hit list is super lawyer Annie what From

1266
01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:01.359
the beginning of the movie lawyer any
lady who could believe it? Who could

1267
01:23:01.399 --> 01:23:04.359
believe it? All? All we
know about her is that she's working the

1268
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:08.960
most important case of her career,
and she has to start tomorrow and she

1269
01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:13.359
has to make sure her witnesses are
press. Oh now I see it,

1270
01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:15.479
now, I see it now.
Also, it's everyone else on this list

1271
01:23:15.680 --> 01:23:18.600
is and I'm not saying this means
they deserve to die, but is it

1272
01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:21.880
actually a criminal? Yeah? Look, you kill a bunch of criminals.

1273
01:23:23.239 --> 01:23:26.399
That's one thing. I'm not saying
that should be different, but like that's

1274
01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:30.520
one thing now, But on the
same job, go kill this eighty A.

1275
01:23:30.279 --> 01:23:33.439
Yeah, like that's a that's a
bigger thing. Well, and also

1276
01:23:33.600 --> 01:23:39.479
like it's gonna it's gonna look badna. Look, it's really just the witnesses

1277
01:23:39.520 --> 01:23:42.239
were enough. You didn't really have
to kill the ADA. If you kill

1278
01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:45.680
the case, the ADA has got
nothing. Yeah, Yeah, but you

1279
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:48.039
know what Felix likes to, uh, you know, close all his loops,

1280
01:23:48.079 --> 01:23:50.359
dot his eyes, cross his teeth, all that stuff. Yeah,

1281
01:23:50.399 --> 01:23:57.359
he is a very efficient killer.
So the cop keeps approaching Max. Right

1282
01:23:57.439 --> 01:24:00.199
now, Max has to do some
quick thinking. He's somehow, even though

1283
01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:03.479
he is deeply concussed, manages to
attack the police officer, flip him on

1284
01:24:03.560 --> 01:24:06.600
his back handcuff him to the wreck
of the car, and then tells the

1285
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:10.560
cop where he's headed to call and
to call for backup. He takes the

1286
01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:13.439
cops gun. That is a bad
cop, right, it's a bad cop.

1287
01:24:13.560 --> 01:24:15.439
That's a bad cop. He's also
talking with the New York accent,

1288
01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:18.319
isn't he. I yeah, I
don't know. Every every cop in every

1289
01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:21.159
movie is a New York accent.
Yeah. Well, he managed to get

1290
01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:27.520
completely disarmed by a deeply concussed man. Yeah, untrained cab driver. Yes.

1291
01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:31.479
So he takes the gun and he
starts sprinting towards Annie's office. Yep,

1292
01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:34.439
he's running. He runs past the
pedestrian who's on his cell phone,

1293
01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:38.760
and Max takes the cell phone from
the man and he calls Annie using the

1294
01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:41.399
number on her card. I don't
know when he took the card from the

1295
01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:44.439
sun Visor. I did not care
enough to go long. I'm gonna let

1296
01:24:44.479 --> 01:24:47.760
it go. Yeah. Unfortunately,
the calls and go through the phone batteries

1297
01:24:47.800 --> 01:24:51.720
on its last legs. Max runs
to the top of a nearby parking garage

1298
01:24:51.720 --> 01:24:55.439
and tries to get to the phone
to connect. As we see Vincent entering

1299
01:24:55.479 --> 01:24:59.319
Annie's office building, time is running
short. We cut back to Annie at

1300
01:24:59.359 --> 01:25:01.640
work. Remember Anne, Remember Annie, good, good, efficient Annie,

1301
01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:06.239
lawyer Annie. She picks up the
phone and is at first confused that he's

1302
01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:09.840
calling it. I'm assuming he's like
four thirty in the morning. She's like,

1303
01:25:09.920 --> 01:25:12.439
man, am I regretting giving you
my name? This was a mistake,

1304
01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:15.439
and you know what again, like
she is such a good actress because

1305
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:17.800
I believe, like that's exactly what
I got from her face. As soon

1306
01:25:17.840 --> 01:25:20.920
as she does, it's like Max's
voice. She's like, oh, bro,

1307
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:24.920
oh no, I really wish I
hadn't given you my number. I

1308
01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:28.119
read that one wrong. It's gonna
be a real hit to the old confidence

1309
01:25:28.119 --> 01:25:31.520
before my big case starts tomorrow.
Max manages to make her believe him by

1310
01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:36.920
invoking Felix's name, right. Yeah. Meanwhile, Vincent kicks in Annie's office

1311
01:25:36.960 --> 01:25:40.720
door, but she's not there,
so me the audience, she's like,

1312
01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:43.840
wait, she's on the phone.
Where is she? What's happening? Max

1313
01:25:43.920 --> 01:25:45.560
begs Annie to leave the building and
she's like, okay, fine, I'll

1314
01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:50.159
okay, gotcha, I believe you. Max's cell phone dies, but unfortunately

1315
01:25:50.279 --> 01:25:54.880
not soon enough because Vincent, who's
at Annie's desk, sees the line in

1316
01:25:55.119 --> 01:25:58.359
use button, setting him to like
the fifteenth floor or whatever it is on

1317
01:25:58.439 --> 01:26:02.039
Annie's office phone. Max sprints towards
the building as Vincent starts to stalk in

1318
01:26:02.079 --> 01:26:05.520
him. This was exciting. This
is when I'm super on board for this

1319
01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:10.359
movie because this is this last part, This last ten minutes are very thrilling,

1320
01:26:10.479 --> 01:26:13.720
right, So Max sees what's happening. He starts sprinting towards the building.

1321
01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.640
Meanwhile, Vincent knocks out the power
on Annie's floor before she's able to

1322
01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:20.079
get a phone call out to nine
to one onet row. Just as he's

1323
01:26:20.079 --> 01:26:24.800
about to shoot her, Max appears
and starts holding him at gunpoint. Yep,

1324
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:28.920
stand off. Vincent scoffs at him, and Max shoots him. Fuck

1325
01:26:29.079 --> 01:26:31.279
you forever boom. Yeah. He
grazes the side of his head and he

1326
01:26:31.319 --> 01:26:34.760
gives he gives himself and Andy enough
of a chance to flee, right like,

1327
01:26:34.760 --> 01:26:38.720
because Vincent does go down for a
second. They go down the stairs

1328
01:26:38.840 --> 01:26:41.720
right, and instead of going out
of the lobby, Max is like,

1329
01:26:41.800 --> 01:26:44.319
wait, let's go down to the
subway. So they go down to the

1330
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:46.279
subway, which is in the building
right, So in the lobby there is

1331
01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:50.119
an entrance to the subway. Right. Vincent follows them. I don't like.

1332
01:26:50.199 --> 01:26:53.279
He has a moment too. He
stops in the lobby and he's like,

1333
01:26:53.359 --> 01:26:55.640
did they get out or did they
go down? Did they get out?

1334
01:26:55.960 --> 01:26:58.359
I'm gonna go to the subway.
So they go down to the subway

1335
01:26:58.399 --> 01:27:00.760
station. Vincent goes down and again
there's another moment where he's like, did

1336
01:27:00.800 --> 01:27:03.359
they go down the track on the
right or the track on the left?

1337
01:27:03.520 --> 01:27:06.520
Yeah? Which way do I go? And it's like he's almost like meditating.

1338
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:11.239
He stops trying to smell them.
He stops and he's like, bathe

1339
01:27:11.359 --> 01:27:15.640
in, Okay, which way did
they go? Like a vibe was gonna

1340
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:19.279
hit him somehow, but goddamn it
it does. He somehow figures out the

1341
01:27:19.399 --> 01:27:23.960
right way to go. He manages
to track them, but not before they're

1342
01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:26.920
able to jump on a train ahead
of him. So the train is pulling

1343
01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:30.640
out of the station. Oh no, Vincent, you lost, You're done.

1344
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:32.239
You're never gonna be able to catch
them. Now they're on a goddamn

1345
01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:36.159
train. Yep, wrong, wrong? Did I not know the movie I

1346
01:27:36.319 --> 01:27:44.159
was watching? H huh? Because
he manages like the fucking terminator to leap

1347
01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:49.319
onto the back of a moving subway
car and continue his pursuit. Max and

1348
01:27:49.399 --> 01:27:53.640
Annie stee Vincent approaching, they start
to run again. They're running through the

1349
01:27:53.680 --> 01:27:57.399
train doors like you always see,
right into the different cars. The train

1350
01:27:57.560 --> 01:28:00.920
arrives at the station, but Vincent
manages to force him to stay on the

1351
01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:04.359
train by stepping off of his exit
and like holding his gun point because he

1352
01:28:04.359 --> 01:28:08.319
knows where they are, so they
can't step off off the train themselves.

1353
01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:12.039
He steps back onto the train at
the last minute. He continues to pursue

1354
01:28:12.079 --> 01:28:15.239
them. Finally, Max and Annie, I presume it's just the last train

1355
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:19.079
car they like, stop running.
They duck into a side corner. Vincent

1356
01:28:19.159 --> 01:28:24.279
is one car away. He shouts, I do this for a living Max.

1357
01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:29.359
Max is like, you know what, I got a jazz? I

1358
01:28:29.439 --> 01:28:33.199
got a jazz. He steps forward. There are doors between them. The

1359
01:28:33.279 --> 01:28:39.840
two open fire at each other.
Max's eyes are closed and he is firing.

1360
01:28:40.439 --> 01:28:45.600
I did not catch that. Yes, that's hilarious, Vincent. He

1361
01:28:45.680 --> 01:28:47.680
has his professional pattern. Two in
the chest, one in the head.

1362
01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:53.079
The lights flash off and on.
Both men are still standing. Vincent goes

1363
01:28:53.119 --> 01:28:57.600
to reload his gun, but the
cartridge drops to the ground. His bullets

1364
01:28:57.640 --> 01:29:00.399
were stopped by the metal center of
the door, so he didn't hit Max.

1365
01:29:00.479 --> 01:29:06.399
His professionalism has hoisted him on his
own potential. Max meanwhile, just

1366
01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:11.079
got lucky. Yeah, Max is
just shooting. He's praying like, yes,

1367
01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:15.680
I'm surprised he's he's Yes, he's
Miles Davis on this train, Miles

1368
01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:19.800
Dravis at the trumpet. Max has
this I don't know block. So Vincent

1369
01:29:20.479 --> 01:29:25.399
sits down. He's losing blood.
Max, because the connection between these two

1370
01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.840
is very strong, comes in and
sits across from him to be with him

1371
01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:33.600
on his final moments. You know, best friends there and maybe lovers if

1372
01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:40.239
only been Yeah, Vincent mumbles.
A guy gets on the MTA here in

1373
01:29:40.359 --> 01:29:44.720
l An dies. I think anyone
will notice, and his head falls and

1374
01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:47.119
he dies, still sitting up covered
in blood. I think people will notice

1375
01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:53.479
the blood like look I get it, like people can die very quietly.

1376
01:29:53.680 --> 01:29:57.199
Yeah, and and that that can
happen. But you didn't, buddy,

1377
01:29:57.319 --> 01:30:00.600
you know this one, even a
New Yorker would be like, I'm gonna

1378
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:03.079
go to the other car and we're
gonna need to stop the train. The

1379
01:30:03.279 --> 01:30:08.680
train arrived at the next station.
Max and any stumble out onto the station

1380
01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:12.760
in the pre dawn light end of
movie. Do you think they go get

1381
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:15.640
some breakfast? They go to think
they go to this like like a like

1382
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.239
a like a greasy spoon, like
a greasy spoon. Absolutely yeah, And

1383
01:30:18.359 --> 01:30:21.600
she's like, you know what I
owe you breakfast? You know you want

1384
01:30:21.640 --> 01:30:25.279
to what I do? Respect this
movie for they didn't have them kiss,

1385
01:30:26.159 --> 01:30:29.119
oh god, like they didn't have
to be like and now they fell in

1386
01:30:29.199 --> 01:30:36.920
love. That is the end of
Collateral. So stick around. We will

1387
01:30:36.960 --> 01:30:50.720
be right back with our random observations
and final rankings after these messages, and

1388
01:30:51.119 --> 01:30:58.479
we're back sing to me the notes
between the notes one behind the beats.

1389
01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:08.199
Yeah yeah yeah, je so irritating. Whoopee, gotcha jazz. All right,

1390
01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:12.880
there's there's something that actresses have to
do. Now. We need to

1391
01:31:12.880 --> 01:31:16.640
put more respect on them. For
Jada Pinkett Smith running in those heels.

1392
01:31:17.399 --> 01:31:24.119
I was concerned because she looked like
she was in pain, and like,

1393
01:31:24.520 --> 01:31:28.239
obviously they have they have to sprint, right, Like there's any kind of

1394
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:31.720
slowing down the running, it's gonna
look unrealistic because you're literally running for your

1395
01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:35.640
life. Yeah, right, So
this poor woman. Half the time he

1396
01:31:35.720 --> 01:31:38.600
was chasing them, I was like, Oh my god, she's gonna bust

1397
01:31:38.600 --> 01:31:41.000
an ankle. That's what's gonna happen. She's gonna bust an ankle. He's

1398
01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:44.319
gonna have to like hoist her over
his shoulder or something. And maxim like

1399
01:31:44.479 --> 01:31:46.439
it is, it's at night.
Why would she still mean heels? She

1400
01:31:46.439 --> 01:31:49.079
would have sneakers at the office that
are be wearing sneakers. Let her be

1401
01:31:49.119 --> 01:31:54.319
barefoot for fuck's sake. Oh yeah, barefoot would be better actually now actual

1402
01:31:54.399 --> 01:31:57.920
life, but in the movie,
right, yeah, like maybe because Jada

1403
01:31:57.920 --> 01:32:01.119
Pikets made is notoriously like four foot
eleven, and so they wanted her to

1404
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:03.800
match up at least a little bit
to Jamie Fox. Yeah, they wanted

1405
01:32:03.800 --> 01:32:12.479
to seem taller than Tom Cruise even
the odds there. Okay, Matt's talks

1406
01:32:12.520 --> 01:32:16.720
about his dream of owning island Limos
His business plan is thus, he's gonna

1407
01:32:16.760 --> 01:32:24.960
have limos so beautiful, so clean, so luxurious that you will not want

1408
01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:28.720
the ride to end from the airport
to your house, right you will want

1409
01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:31.800
to stay in that limo forever.
That is that's how he pitches it to

1410
01:32:31.880 --> 01:32:35.720
people. And I'm like, I'm
going to need a little more information about

1411
01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:40.920
what is exactly in this backseat with
me? Are there sex workers trying to

1412
01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:46.279
make me eskew my life? Like
I'm going to disregard the rest of my

1413
01:32:46.399 --> 01:32:50.159
life and stay in this limo dream? But also island limos? Like the

1414
01:32:50.239 --> 01:32:57.720
idea is that there's like tropical tiki
bar. Well, you're like, I've

1415
01:32:57.800 --> 01:33:00.359
imagine you opened the door to the
limo and like sand just flies out,

1416
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.680
falls out. Can you now are
the limos? Can you order a specific

1417
01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:08.520
island? I want o Wahu,
I want MAUI I want I want Saint

1418
01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:13.000
Thomas? Is there a hammock?
What? What? How big are these?

1419
01:33:13.399 --> 01:33:15.720
What is exactly? You're like,
it sounds like you're gonna need something

1420
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:18.000
more the size of a party bus. I'm telling you that right now.

1421
01:33:18.079 --> 01:33:21.159
I tell you, right now,
we're gonna need an RV to make this

1422
01:33:21.359 --> 01:33:27.000
dream happen. It is the dumbest
businessman. The writer this movie thought about

1423
01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:30.159
this, not at all, not
at all, not at all. Yeah,

1424
01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:33.000
that's correct. There's just one very
brief moment in the movie that I

1425
01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:36.479
really laughed at because when they're when
he's chasing them on the train at the

1426
01:33:36.600 --> 01:33:40.800
end, and remember we say like
he pops out and holds like holds the

1427
01:33:40.840 --> 01:33:43.439
empty door at gun points so they
can't get off the train. If you

1428
01:33:43.560 --> 01:33:45.479
notice, it's just in the background, but Tom Cruise steps out and he

1429
01:33:45.560 --> 01:33:49.880
has a gun, and there's just
an extra in silhouette, like one hundred

1430
01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:54.439
feet away sees him step out with
the gun and just the ducks and leaves

1431
01:33:54.479 --> 01:33:59.279
off, And I'm like, that
is funny. That's the only appropriate response

1432
01:33:59.279 --> 01:34:02.800
I have seen. A yes to
this man's shenanigans. Absolutely, were you

1433
01:34:02.920 --> 01:34:05.279
not at the club? You should
have been at the club, sir,

1434
01:34:05.399 --> 01:34:08.640
Yeah, because you understand what to
do when you see someone with a fucking

1435
01:34:08.720 --> 01:34:13.319
gun. I just have one more
And honestly, this is just a complaint,

1436
01:34:13.399 --> 01:34:15.880
and I don't expect you to answer
this seriously. Why did he hold

1437
01:34:15.920 --> 01:34:24.800
Max hostage on that? It doesn't
make sense. Why why does he what

1438
01:34:25.119 --> 01:34:30.520
what is the point of getting in
a cab even if the guy my endless

1439
01:34:30.800 --> 01:34:34.000
love. Assuming the guy okay,
assuming he goes to plan right, and

1440
01:34:34.119 --> 01:34:36.680
you kill all five people, you
get to the airport, you're good.

1441
01:34:38.399 --> 01:34:41.560
And does he let Max live?
Because Max, again, they're gonna be

1442
01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:45.039
able to figure out, Like someone
will figure out this fucking limo was at

1443
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:48.479
all these locations. Yeah, and
then Max has like he can identify you

1444
01:34:48.840 --> 01:34:54.960
right right, Like, what is
the plan? Why can't he just drive

1445
01:34:55.119 --> 01:34:59.920
himself? I mean it takes several
different cabs. I'm gonna try here,

1446
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:03.000
I'm gonna try. Look, I'm
gonna tell you right now, I'm not

1447
01:35:03.039 --> 01:35:08.359
going to succeed, but I'm gonna
try, all right. So he wants

1448
01:35:08.560 --> 01:35:12.600
Max because he wants to get it
done fast. And he believes that Max,

1449
01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:15.880
because of the seven minutes thing,
is like the fastest cab driver in

1450
01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:18.159
Lax. He's efficient, right,
So that's why he's keeping Max around.

1451
01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:20.560
He wants to get to places quickly. He believes Max will be able to

1452
01:35:20.720 --> 01:35:24.880
outpace the police. Uh huh,
I mean okay, so this is assuming

1453
01:35:25.239 --> 01:35:28.960
that things still okay, this is
assuming things go to plan now after that

1454
01:35:29.279 --> 01:35:33.680
first Okay, now that he is
the wiser, Right, what's the rest

1455
01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:39.960
of your plan? Why didn't he
just shoot him and disappear feel the fucking

1456
01:35:40.119 --> 01:35:45.079
cab to get away or like yeah, like there's just the whole movie is

1457
01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:48.600
so bizarre. It only makes sense
if he is in love with him.

1458
01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:54.359
We're at the point now where that
is that that may that makes the movie

1459
01:35:54.439 --> 01:35:59.560
Like he likes him, like like
for some reason he likes this guy who

1460
01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:03.640
has this this dream. I hate
this. I hate this stream of island

1461
01:36:03.720 --> 01:36:09.640
limos of the Canary Islands. I
want the Canary Islands. It's the best

1462
01:36:09.720 --> 01:36:13.359
one. Weird, Yeah, all
right, I only have one more too,

1463
01:36:13.399 --> 01:36:15.000
and it's because we haven't yet talked
about the greatest moment in the whole

1464
01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:21.279
movie when Tom Cruise is chasing Annie
and Max through the office at the very

1465
01:36:21.399 --> 01:36:25.279
end, at one point, he
has to throw a desk chair through like

1466
01:36:25.319 --> 01:36:29.159
a glass door to get through somewhere, and he throws it through and he

1467
01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:35.439
jumps through after it, and he
absolutely unintentionally falls. Don't know. I

1468
01:36:35.520 --> 01:36:39.640
don't know that that's true, but
there no one will convince me that that

1469
01:36:39.800 --> 01:36:42.439
is not Tom Cruise doing a stunt, because Tom Cruise does to do all

1470
01:36:42.520 --> 01:36:46.800
his own stunts and absolutely eating it
on a bunch of prop glass. To

1471
01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:50.159
his credit, he jumps right back
up and completes the shot, so we

1472
01:36:50.239 --> 01:36:55.560
all know Tom Cruise goes hard.
I wonder. I wonder like if Tom

1473
01:36:55.640 --> 01:36:58.079
Cruise was like, you know what, I never get to fall. Yeah,

1474
01:36:58.159 --> 01:37:00.279
let's let's keep that in there.
Yeah, Or if Michael Mann was

1475
01:37:00.319 --> 01:37:03.640
like, don't worry who definitely won't
use that shot. Don't worry about it,

1476
01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.840
bro, we're gonna do Let's do
five more perfect takes and we will

1477
01:37:06.920 --> 01:37:10.640
use one of those. Yeah.
And then he put this one in the

1478
01:37:10.720 --> 01:37:15.359
movie because he absolutely falls on the
chair, Like, no way was that

1479
01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:18.319
planned. That's like how Tom Cruise
like manages to, you know, climb

1480
01:37:18.399 --> 01:37:21.920
up that building and do bobbers do
all that ship. But then the thing

1481
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:25.840
that breaks his foot is like a
five foot jump that he makes. Yeah,

1482
01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:30.239
because they didn't do as many safety
checks with that one. Erica,

1483
01:37:30.760 --> 01:37:33.079
how how shall we rank this movie? What about? What about one to

1484
01:37:33.239 --> 01:37:38.439
ten? Random coyotes? Just that's
gonna bother me, you know. And

1485
01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:40.640
when I was watching the movie,
I just kind of was like, my

1486
01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:43.159
fuck it, coyotes. I didn't
think about it. And now that I

1487
01:37:43.319 --> 01:37:45.520
now that I have to think about
it, I'm like, but really,

1488
01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:51.159
why is it? What is that? Because are they free? Because maybe

1489
01:37:51.239 --> 01:37:55.640
that's it, They're free, and
Max wishes he was free. He wishes

1490
01:37:55.680 --> 01:37:58.920
he could trade places with that coyote
as a wild animal. What if he

1491
01:37:59.039 --> 01:38:02.119
Freaky Friday didn't there with that coyote. Totally different movie, but you know

1492
01:38:02.159 --> 01:38:06.359
what, I'd watch it. And
then Vincent's like drive and in maxim,

1493
01:38:09.000 --> 01:38:15.640
when did you turn into a coyote? Meanwhile, that coyote reaches like the

1494
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:19.479
rest of the pack and he's like, uh, wolf, wolf, but

1495
01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:23.720
I don't want And the other coyotes
are like, why do you sound like

1496
01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:31.439
a person? What happened? One
to ten, one hundred dollars bills fanned

1497
01:38:31.479 --> 01:38:38.239
out into spirit fingers. Those are
spirit fingers. These are spirit fingers into

1498
01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:41.840
Tom Cruise is perfect. He's like, you're right, It's like a Flamenco

1499
01:38:41.960 --> 01:38:45.239
move. He was so excited to
do that, flourish, so happy.

1500
01:38:45.720 --> 01:38:49.079
This is like, this is my
favorite thing I've done all year. One

1501
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:55.520
to ten totally empty l A streets, just there Saturday night, LA clearly

1502
01:38:56.079 --> 01:38:59.920
empty as hell. Yeah, so
stupid. One to ten, Paul,

1503
01:39:00.560 --> 01:39:05.840
I'd like to tell you a little
bit about I want to explain jazz to

1504
01:39:05.880 --> 01:39:09.319
you. I mean, I think
we have to do this one. Yeah,

1505
01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:15.800
jazz. You know how jazz is. It's improvisational. Man eating.

1506
01:39:16.359 --> 01:39:18.760
He said that like three times in
the movie too. I'm like, I

1507
01:39:18.880 --> 01:39:23.880
hate everything about this guy. I
want I've never been happier for a villain

1508
01:39:23.960 --> 01:39:29.199
to exhunt because usually when Tom Cruise
is in a movie, you don't want

1509
01:39:29.239 --> 01:39:31.479
him to leave. He's fine,
He's like, they managed to suck the

1510
01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:34.359
fun out of Tom Cruise. He's
a fucking weirdo in real life. We

1511
01:39:34.399 --> 01:39:38.439
all know this, but like when
he's on screen, Look, the man

1512
01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:44.560
does one thing well, and it
sure isn't fu women. He's so he

1513
01:39:44.720 --> 01:39:47.640
commands our attention nothing. I bet
he's pretty good at sex to you.

1514
01:39:47.720 --> 01:39:51.439
He you know why, because he
gives a thousand percent. He gives a

1515
01:39:51.520 --> 01:39:56.640
thousand percent no matter what task is
at hands. I disagree, you will

1516
01:39:56.840 --> 01:40:00.000
eat you out all day. You
know what sex is this? Remember an

1517
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.880
episode of Sex and the City where
Carrie has sex with the jackhammer. Yes,

1518
01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:09.760
that's that's sex with Was it Carrier
or was it Samantha? I think

1519
01:40:09.800 --> 01:40:12.760
it was Carrie. It doesn't matter. Yeah, no, no, no,

1520
01:40:13.239 --> 01:40:16.960
but yeah, they ruined it because
it's honestly the first of like all

1521
01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:19.479
the films we've watched with Tom Cruise, not all of them are good.

1522
01:40:19.560 --> 01:40:24.239
Mostly Oh in Risky Business is particularly
terrible. Yeah, but it's the first

1523
01:40:24.319 --> 01:40:27.760
time I was like, I don't
get you in this. I don't understand

1524
01:40:28.600 --> 01:40:30.840
what you're doing. I don't I
don't like what they've written for you.

1525
01:40:31.159 --> 01:40:35.720
I think they've hamstrung you. You're
trying your level best. That is definitely

1526
01:40:35.800 --> 01:40:40.359
clear, but it's like it's a
bad fit. Sure, yeah, all

1527
01:40:40.439 --> 01:40:42.840
right, do you want to go
first? Or shall I go first?

1528
01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:45.479
I'll go first on this one.
It's a fun movie. Once you kind

1529
01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:48.560
of like let go of it being
a good movie, it's a much more

1530
01:40:48.640 --> 01:40:51.520
fun movie. So I would suggest
going into it with that mindset if you

1531
01:40:51.560 --> 01:40:55.520
were going to watch this movie,
like like, just know you're here for

1532
01:40:55.600 --> 01:41:02.520
something incredibly stupid. It does not
pass the Bechdel test at all. Nosed

1533
01:41:02.520 --> 01:41:06.279
it cut class the day that Bechdel
test was being administered. He was not

1534
01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:10.880
interested in the material. No,
it was not. It is diverse.

1535
01:41:11.239 --> 01:41:14.039
It is I'll give him that.
It actually looks a little bit like what

1536
01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:16.680
Los Angeles looks like. Right,
Like Javey Aerbardam is not Mexican, He's

1537
01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:20.319
Spanish, but you know, apparently
worked very hard to get a Mexican accent.

1538
01:41:20.439 --> 01:41:24.920
Right, Oh look at him,
Look at you, Nancy Drew kind

1539
01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:28.279
of rose on your nose. So
but but you know, you have you

1540
01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:31.520
have. I didn't recognize that all
everyone in the club was Asian when I've

1541
01:41:31.560 --> 01:41:34.760
watched it. I should watch it
again. But like, it does vaguely

1542
01:41:34.840 --> 01:41:39.199
look like what Los Angeles looks like. You have people of color, you

1543
01:41:39.279 --> 01:41:42.960
have people of different races and ethnicities. So that's good. It's not a

1544
01:41:43.079 --> 01:41:46.600
good movie. Who cares? Who
cares? It's stupid and fun and just

1545
01:41:46.680 --> 01:41:50.359
go into it with that mindset.
So I'm I'm I'm willing to give it

1546
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:56.680
a pretty decent score because it ages
well. You know what is good about

1547
01:41:56.720 --> 01:42:00.520
it That first scene between Jada Pinkett
Smith and Jamie Fox. It's from a

1548
01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:02.319
different movie. I would have watched
a whole movie, a whole Indie with

1549
01:42:02.479 --> 01:42:08.319
him driving her around l A and
then like falling in love are like that?

1550
01:42:08.760 --> 01:42:10.479
I was in on that. I
was like, this is good.

1551
01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:14.199
I enjoy this. Yeah, yeah, it's not bad. It's just it's

1552
01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:15.159
just not as good as I wanted
it to be. But again, I

1553
01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:17.760
think if you go in that way, it's actually better. Like it's like,

1554
01:42:17.800 --> 01:42:21.840
oh this is dumb. Yeah,
I'll give it a six, Okay,

1555
01:42:21.880 --> 01:42:26.319
I'll give it a six because yeah, no women talk to each other.

1556
01:42:27.119 --> 01:42:29.960
It's a lot of violence. It's
a gay love story, Erica.

1557
01:42:30.119 --> 01:42:32.439
It's a gay love done this in
June. All the criminals are people of

1558
01:42:32.479 --> 01:42:35.560
color. Yeah, yeah, that's
not great, right, because even like

1559
01:42:35.600 --> 01:42:41.239
Peter Limb is like a criminal is
another criminal, so that's not great either.

1560
01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:46.079
Allthough the Nazis are white. Oh, this movie does kill some Nazis,

1561
01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:49.399
but what sick with sick? Let's
give it a six because it killed

1562
01:42:49.439 --> 01:42:51.600
some Nazis. Well, he will
go with six six out of ten.

1563
01:42:54.279 --> 01:42:59.840
Paul, I've come here to talk
to you today about yezz. How about

1564
01:42:59.840 --> 01:43:01.840
you? Uh yeah, I agree
with that. It's fun. It is

1565
01:43:01.880 --> 01:43:05.760
fun and exactly what you said.
Once you realize that all it's trying to

1566
01:43:05.880 --> 01:43:09.840
do is be fun, you can
enjoy it much more. Turn off your

1567
01:43:09.840 --> 01:43:13.159
brain, do not think about it. It's not worth it. You will

1568
01:43:13.279 --> 01:43:16.319
not find answers. But yeah,
nothing, it is offensive. I think

1569
01:43:16.600 --> 01:43:21.640
I think the lack of female representation
in it would be the big ding on

1570
01:43:21.760 --> 01:43:27.880
it. But I mean it's really
two characters, like it's it's Vincent and

1571
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:31.680
Max are eighty five percent of the
movie, right, so to a certain

1572
01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:34.399
extent whatever, but Max is the
lead. I can't believe he got nominated

1573
01:43:34.439 --> 01:43:39.239
for supporting for this. He's absolutely
the lead of the movie. Well that's

1574
01:43:39.399 --> 01:43:41.720
true. You know what it is
is because he knew he was going to

1575
01:43:41.760 --> 01:43:44.199
get a nomination for Frey and he
was like, I can get to in

1576
01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:46.079
one year if I just yeah,
he was hedging his bets. No,

1577
01:43:46.199 --> 01:43:49.399
you're right, he because yeah,
he Otherwise it should have been he should

1578
01:43:49.399 --> 01:43:54.159
have been put in for lead for
lead one hundred hundred category fraud of the

1579
01:43:54.279 --> 01:43:58.199
highest order. But he didn't win. So that's, you know, we

1580
01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:01.439
can we can let that go.
Yeah. I don't find myself with an

1581
01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:04.359
overwhelming amount of stuff to say about
it because it's just a dumb, fun

1582
01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:09.560
action movie, and it's it's not
as dumb and fun as the greatest of

1583
01:44:09.640 --> 01:44:12.840
them. So it's just kind of
it's a little mad. You said a

1584
01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:15.920
six. Yeah, I'm gonna give
it. I'm gonna give it a six

1585
01:44:16.159 --> 01:44:19.399
a six out of ten. Listen, you just have to sometimes in life

1586
01:44:19.399 --> 01:44:21.960
you gotta improv, you know,
you gotta you gotta let the beat happen,

1587
01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:25.960
and then you gotta walk to your
own beat and you gotta feel it.

1588
01:44:26.199 --> 01:44:30.319
You gotta feel the jazz. By
the way I looked it up,

1589
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:34.000
Morgan Freeman won Best Supporting Actor that
year for A Million Dollar Baby. So

1590
01:44:34.239 --> 01:44:38.399
you know I like Morgan Freeman that
you know that you want to who won

1591
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:45.239
Best Supporting Actress When Miss Kate Blanchett
a role go Thropod, the Aviator,

1592
01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:53.399
the a the perfect symbiotic relationship of
actress and roll. It's the It's the

1593
01:44:53.600 --> 01:44:59.720
Erica Supernova. Uh do you have
a palate cleanser for Collateral? You know?

1594
01:44:59.800 --> 01:45:02.000
I it was looky through Michael Mann's
filmography to be like, maybe he's

1595
01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:04.760
made another film that's a little better
than this one that I could recommend to

1596
01:45:04.760 --> 01:45:08.600
people. Sure, he's made films
that are worse. For sure, this

1597
01:45:08.800 --> 01:45:14.520
is the one of the best Michael
Mann films. But he made He did

1598
01:45:14.640 --> 01:45:17.720
make The Insider, which I really
like, going with Russell Crowe. You

1599
01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:20.479
don't think it's going to be exciting. It doesn't sound like it's going to

1600
01:45:20.520 --> 01:45:24.640
be exciting, but they managed to
make it exciting. It's about a whistleblower

1601
01:45:24.720 --> 01:45:28.960
in the cigarette industry, in the
tobacco industry, and it's it's very good.

1602
01:45:29.560 --> 01:45:31.039
So I would say, yeah,
if you want a better Michael Mann

1603
01:45:31.119 --> 01:45:34.880
movie, it's not necessarily more exciting
than this one. It's just better,

1604
01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:41.319
Okay. Yeah. Otherwise, he's
made a ton of really shady movies,

1605
01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:45.079
if you want to watch one of
those, And he made the Ferrari movie

1606
01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:46.880
that just came out, the one
with Adam Driver and his Italian accents.

1607
01:45:46.960 --> 01:45:50.560
Thats another Adam Driver Italian accent,
which doesn't look good, but I bet

1608
01:45:50.560 --> 01:45:55.039
it's fun as hell. Sure,
So anyway, one of those films perhaps,

1609
01:45:55.079 --> 01:45:59.039
how about you. I'm going to
go with another movie from two thousand

1610
01:45:59.039 --> 01:46:01.000
and four that we own that we
consider doing for this month, but we're

1611
01:46:01.039 --> 01:46:05.079
not doing spoilers for next week.
We're not doing this movie. Mark Ruffalo

1612
01:46:05.119 --> 01:46:10.079
and thirteen going on thirty. Oh
yeah, I have not seen that movie

1613
01:46:10.159 --> 01:46:12.920
in a while, but I loved
it, and I actually really wanted to

1614
01:46:12.960 --> 01:46:15.159
do it, and we it just
didn't fit for this month. But I

1615
01:46:15.319 --> 01:46:18.319
loved that movie. Jennifer Garner,
a Star, Judy Greer a Star,

1616
01:46:18.680 --> 01:46:23.720
Mark Ruffalo a star, All Stars, All Stars, no skips in this

1617
01:46:23.760 --> 01:46:27.199
case. Yeah, thirteen going on
thirty, A delightful rom com. Mark

1618
01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:30.319
Ruffalos, you had a real year
this year, said, I'm telling you

1619
01:46:30.479 --> 01:46:33.239
four people worked in Hollywood two thousand
and four. It was Mark Ruffalo,

1620
01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:36.960
it was Jamie Fox, it was
it was Rachel mccadams. Like, that's

1621
01:46:36.960 --> 01:46:43.039
it, all right, So that
is the end of our show. Everyone

1622
01:46:43.199 --> 01:46:45.439
listening out there in the dark.
You can follow us on social media on

1623
01:46:45.600 --> 01:46:48.760
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1624
01:46:48.800 --> 01:46:51.880
We would love it if you would
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1625
01:46:51.880 --> 01:46:56.720
a Spotify user, we have questions, We have polls on our episodes.

1626
01:46:57.520 --> 01:47:00.279
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1627
01:47:00.359 --> 01:47:03.760
podcasting app that you may use,
you do that you let us know,

1628
01:47:04.000 --> 01:47:09.800
just like Taffaa Darling Dude, Taffaa
Darling dude. Oh, Taffa the dolling

1629
01:47:11.239 --> 01:47:15.399
dolling they did that at the beginning
of this episode. You let us know

1630
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:18.239
that you did it, and we
will send you a that aged Well tote

1631
01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:24.199
bag. That aged Well is produced
and edited by Paul Kola who's holding a

1632
01:47:24.279 --> 01:47:27.520
gun to my face right now?
No, he's not. We don't believe

1633
01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:31.119
in guns over here unless you're Reba
McIntyre. Reamcat is the only person that

1634
01:47:31.640 --> 01:47:33.399
can be like, hey, girl, want to go out and do some

1635
01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:35.920
target practice And I'd be like,
fuck, yeah, you know what?

1636
01:47:36.239 --> 01:47:40.560
And Dolly Parton, yes, I
don't know. I don't think. Yeah,

1637
01:47:40.560 --> 01:47:42.600
it should be fun, for sure, but I feel like I could

1638
01:47:42.640 --> 01:47:48.199
do better things with Dolly Parton.
Rebo was made for target practices. If

1639
01:47:48.279 --> 01:47:51.039
you want to have a say in
the topics we discussed, such as Dolly

1640
01:47:51.079 --> 01:47:58.119
Parton or Riva McIntyre, who would
you rather shoot guns with? Discuss you

1641
01:47:58.199 --> 01:48:01.560
can join our Patreon. Every patron
gets to vote in an exclusive monthly poll

1642
01:48:01.640 --> 01:48:06.359
to determine one of our subjects.
Next week's film is the is the Patreon

1643
01:48:06.479 --> 01:48:12.479
vig And can I give a spoiler, small spoiler, You're gonna see one

1644
01:48:12.479 --> 01:48:15.760
of the actors from this film in
next week's film. We're gonna discover another

1645
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:17.640
actor that's one of the six that
worked in two thousand and four. Only

1646
01:48:17.760 --> 01:48:21.520
six people worked in two thousand and
four. It's not Rachel mccadams is not

1647
01:48:21.760 --> 01:48:26.920
We're done with her for the month, but one of the actors from Collateral

1648
01:48:27.000 --> 01:48:30.520
is in next week's film, so
yes. Head on over to patreon dot

1649
01:48:30.600 --> 01:48:34.239
com slash that Age Dwell podcast to
find out more, which reminds me.

1650
01:48:34.840 --> 01:48:39.000
Some of the tears on our Patreon
come with thanks from a podcast character,

1651
01:48:39.439 --> 01:48:45.840
and today we are hearing from the
Italian stallioness Lorraine Broco. Jabbronis Aha,

1652
01:48:46.359 --> 01:48:55.079
I'm surrounded by Jabroni's and spagati and
Pagliaci. Why else would a woman of

1653
01:48:55.359 --> 01:49:02.439
my statue be here again? I
mean I thought I was slumming it when

1654
01:49:02.479 --> 01:49:09.800
I deign to appear on a hundred
plus episodes of TNT's Risoli and Isles.

1655
01:49:10.800 --> 01:49:14.960
I mean, who the hell wants
to spend that much time with Angie goddamn

1656
01:49:15.039 --> 01:49:23.479
harmon ha. But no getting trotted
out like some kind of morano chandelia every

1657
01:49:23.680 --> 01:49:30.159
time Tweedled dumb and Tweedle stupid.
Want to thank somebody, not even Angie

1658
01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:35.399
Harman whining that nobody likes her is
worse than this. In any case,

1659
01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:53.079
Thank you to Michael Magillos, Michael
Magoulis, michaelman Giless, Michael Mahlos.

1660
01:49:53.239 --> 01:49:58.760
It's probably one of those I really
don't have time to keep fishing, So

1661
01:49:59.119 --> 01:50:05.439
thank you Michael for being a patron
of that aged Well. Okay, wow,

1662
01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:10.279
she came in hot. She's unpleasant. I don't know how else to

1663
01:50:10.359 --> 01:50:13.399
say it. I find her deeply
erotic. I mean, we meet her

1664
01:50:13.520 --> 01:50:17.880
rate. That's the thing, that's
the thing she gets paid, So I

1665
01:50:17.920 --> 01:50:21.880
don't I mean, raise your rate
and then maybe we'll stop getting calls.

1666
01:50:23.000 --> 01:50:27.880
I just love the word Jabbroni's is
totally off topic. Every time you say

1667
01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:30.479
it, it makes me laugh.
You like jabbroni's more or less than gaba

1668
01:50:30.520 --> 01:50:33.039
ghoul? No? I like it
more. I like because it's such an

1669
01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:35.199
in, it's such a fact.
I don't even know what it means,

1670
01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:38.640
and I don't care. Don't tell
me, Okay, don't tell me.

1671
01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:43.720
But when you call someone a just
fucking makes my day excellent. Good to

1672
01:50:43.840 --> 01:50:51.000
know, Good to know, Erica. Any final thoughts on collateral turn around

1673
01:50:51.119 --> 01:50:58.079
and I'm gonna shoot you in the
back. Yesz fuck this guy? Can

1674
01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:00.079
you like? The only way he
could have been more like untenable is if

1675
01:51:00.119 --> 01:51:03.319
he had then, like explained football
to someone, Yeah he is. If

1676
01:51:03.359 --> 01:51:06.039
he'd been like, let me explain
to you the rules of football. No

1677
01:51:06.680 --> 01:51:10.279
yeah, no, no no,
and then follow it up with and the

1678
01:51:10.359 --> 01:51:13.720
coup de gras. I don't think
period grams are that bad. Oh God,

1679
01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:24.680
just shoot me, to shoot me
now. It's like I would love

1680
01:51:24.760 --> 01:51:27.680
for like another character in a movie
to stop. So I'm gonna stop you

1681
01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:30.920
right there. Yeah, I'm forty
years old. I know it, Jazz.

1682
01:51:30.880 --> 01:51:34.720
Yeah, I'm an American. I
grew up here like I Yeah,

1683
01:51:34.760 --> 01:51:36.760
I know it, Jeck, I
believe it's an American art force. Do

1684
01:51:36.800 --> 01:51:39.720
you need me? Like? Like, what else do you think? I

1685
01:51:39.880 --> 01:51:44.479
don't know that. You think you
might have to explain to me because I

1686
01:51:44.680 --> 01:51:46.520
can assure you I probably know it. It seems like your barometer on this

1687
01:51:46.680 --> 01:51:48.960
is off. Yeah. Yeah,
are you gonna explain? Like, had

1688
01:51:49.000 --> 01:51:51.560
to grocery shop next? Is that
it? Because I know how to do

1689
01:51:51.640 --> 01:51:55.079
that too. I've done it.
I've done it. I'm good. I'm good.