Speaker 1: In a dystopian alternate universe, the government has decided that
Speaker 1: all pre marital sex is now outlawed. However, under purge
Speaker 1: like circumstances, the singles are allowed to mingle annually for
Speaker 1: twelve hours on one night only. I'm Ronald Young Junior,
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving the theater. All right. This is Ronald
Speaker 1: and I Am leaving the theater after seeing one night Only.
Speaker 1: One night Only. Written by Travis Brawn, directed by Will Gluck,
Speaker 1: starring Monica Barbarro, Callum Turner, Maya Hawk, Julia Fox, King,
Speaker 1: Princess Ben Marshall, z Way, Molly Ringwald, ste Higham, and
Speaker 1: LeVar Burton per Usual. For complete cast listing of the
Speaker 1: cast and crew, you can check out the link in
Speaker 1: our show notes. I am not here alone today. I
Speaker 1: am here with Jonqueline Hill. Fan favorite Jacqueline Hill. I've
Speaker 1: heard at least one fan that says that you're their favorite.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, person said in it, so it technically counts.
Speaker 1: And there was somebody in the Patreon too, So oh,
Speaker 1: they're like really really, really really leveraged on this.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm sensing a pattern.
Speaker 1: That's the pattern me. Oh okay, yeah, that's a pattern, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, Okay, one night only. This is a
Speaker 1: romantic comedy set in New York City in a dystopian
Speaker 1: future or present in which.
Speaker 2: It could go either way. Like it and we'll get
Speaker 2: to it. I do think it has something to say.
Speaker 1: In a dystopian alternate universe in which sex before marriage
Speaker 1: is outlawed except for one night exemption from seven pm
Speaker 1: to seven am. It is the purge, but it is sex,
Speaker 1: and that is the premise. These two young people are
Speaker 1: out trying to also get some of that sex for themselves,
Speaker 1: and they end up on a night long venture of
Speaker 1: crossing paths over and over again, wondering why they keep
Speaker 1: ending up unlucky in love? Jonqueline Hill, what did you
Speaker 1: think of this? Your copy of the bank? Jocquolin Hill,
Speaker 1: what did you think of this movie?
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed this. This was like, this is kind
Speaker 2: of the rom com I think I've been itching for
Speaker 2: for a while. It is the twenty twenti's answer to
Speaker 2: the rom com. I feel like it falls in line
Speaker 2: with your say, Your New Year's Day, your Valentine's Day,
Speaker 2: those sort of ensemble movies. Even though this is not
Speaker 2: an ensemble. There are two stars. There are lots of cameos.
Speaker 1: There's lots of cameos.
Speaker 2: There's lots of Who's that. There's a lot of product.
Speaker 1: Placement, a lot of product placement.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you want me to buy things? There
Speaker 2: are things you would like me to purchase. Y'all paid
Speaker 2: for this movie with.
Speaker 1: A y jelly and directs.
Speaker 2: Yes, they said we're a pair and we are going
Speaker 2: to get it on this. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: it was really fun. It was really enjoyable. I was
Speaker 2: skeptical of the premise at first going in, but it
Speaker 2: worked like they did it in a way that worked
Speaker 2: that didn't. I mean, all round, corn coms are a
Speaker 2: little corny, a little cheesy, but I think love is
Speaker 2: inherently corny and cheesy, and so it really it really
Speaker 2: worked for me. I enjoyed this. This was I had
Speaker 2: a fun time. Would you call it a romp?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would call it a romp,
Speaker 1: But I really loved this movie. I had a really
Speaker 1: good time. Now I'm questioning on what my definition of
Speaker 1: a romp is, but I had a good time from
Speaker 1: the beginning to end. I like the music, I like
Speaker 1: the setting in New York. Granted, I am a sucker
Speaker 1: for movies set in New York, and now that I've
Speaker 1: spent a lot more time in New York, I think
Speaker 1: this is a one of the better depictions of being
Speaker 1: in New York. One of the better depictions. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the best. I know this. New Yorkers are gonna
Speaker 1: watch this, like, what are you talking about? You can't
Speaker 1: get across town, and like, yes, I know all that's true,
Speaker 1: but just showing the little bits of it were very
Speaker 1: It was very fun. The setting and place. I thought.
Speaker 1: Callum Turner and Monica Barbaro, who is my new celebrity crush,
Speaker 1: I just I loved her so much. He's very charming.
Speaker 1: I think she's charming enough for the both of them.
Speaker 1: But I also think that Callum Turner played the role
Speaker 1: that he was playing very very well. I thought that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, they worked well together, Callum Turner more
Speaker 1: on the side of Klum Turner was doing more. I'm
Speaker 1: a focused man, I have goals, i have ambitions. I'm
Speaker 1: going in a certain direction. This is I want my
Speaker 1: life to be. And Monica Barbaro is more disillusioned with
Speaker 1: her life. She wants more. She's a dreamer, she's a creative,
Speaker 1: but she wants to fall in love. She wants romance.
Speaker 1: And both of them are arriving at the conclusion that
Speaker 1: they want to have sex on this night, but for
Speaker 1: both of them, they didn't want it to be meaningless.
Speaker 1: Until meaningless sex is kind of forced upon them in
Speaker 1: a not in a non consensual way, but more in
Speaker 1: a circumstantial way, which I don't know. I thought it
Speaker 1: worked in terms of moving the plot along.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one I understand why I do a
Speaker 2: lipa Mary Kalum Turner. I'm like, I see how this happened.
Speaker 2: It was a little bit. I'm like, these people can't
Speaker 2: get laid. Are we sure? Are we do? Sound it's
Speaker 2: looking like a skill issue because this should not be
Speaker 2: a problem. I found myself thinking, Okay, what is the
Speaker 2: politics of this movie? And it very much has something
Speaker 2: to say about our current political climate that we're in.
Speaker 2: It has a lot to say. It's kind of winking
Speaker 2: at the falling birth rate a little. Yes, it's really
Speaker 2: like and just like, and we're going to ge policies
Speaker 2: to do that. Now, this is a policy that I
Speaker 2: think would have the opposite effect but it gets at
Speaker 2: that at the same time as it's like, hey, let
Speaker 2: people do they want, we do what they want prosex.
Speaker 2: It's very much like but it can be meaningful like
Speaker 2: it's also a critique of hookup culture, and normally critiques
Speaker 2: of hookup culture make me roll my eyes because I
Speaker 2: feel like you should be able to do what you want,
Speaker 2: but it kind of like, hey, what if you don't
Speaker 2: want to do this. Something that I thought was interesting
Speaker 2: and appreciated is how little the internet.
Speaker 1: Showed up that. Okay, now that you say that, I'm realizing, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it shows up. There's an app form at
Speaker 1: one point, and then I can't think of another time
Speaker 1: that it was really in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all talking to each other in person. And
Speaker 2: I was sitting there and I was thinking, if this
Speaker 2: was the universe we lived in, I would have been
Speaker 2: on the app days ago and been like, hey, like
Speaker 2: what's going on? Blah blah blah, Like it would have
Speaker 2: been like okay, and we're swiping and we're talking and
Speaker 2: we're swiping and what are we doing? Like let And
Speaker 2: it really didn't do that. It really was like, no,
Speaker 2: these people are meeting in real life. People are going
Speaker 2: off chemistry. They don't need one girl left her phone
Speaker 2: at home. Like I thought that was really interesting how
Speaker 2: it took the internet and phones out of the equation
Speaker 2: in a way that didn't feel like, oh, this isn't
Speaker 2: happening now. It spoke to how people when it comes
Speaker 2: to dating, when it comes to relationships, when it comes
Speaker 2: to sex, we're kind of tired of the apps. I
Speaker 2: think it got at that.
Speaker 1: I like this movie because I like anything that is
Speaker 1: a call that is basically a commentary on our present
Speaker 1: dating lives now, but set in kind of a dystopian
Speaker 1: or futuristic way. And I think what this does well
Speaker 1: is exactly what you said about the hookup culture, which
Speaker 1: is it is saying essentially, society seems to be forcing
Speaker 1: us in a direction, and there are quite a few
Speaker 1: people that are either resigned to their fate of going
Speaker 1: in that direction, which in this case is having the
Speaker 1: night of sex, and you know, like kind of throwing
Speaker 1: caution to the wind, doing what they have to do.
Speaker 1: And there's some people who are just like, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: do it, but I don't really want to. I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily want to do this thing that everyone says that
Speaker 1: I have to do, and in some cases that is
Speaker 1: the relationship escalator to marriage, kids, house, and another case
Speaker 1: is it's hookup culture. And I feel like what this
Speaker 1: movie does well is strike a balance between the two
Speaker 1: of those things, because they did show all of these
Speaker 1: people getting wild about the hook up, and in another
Speaker 1: case they show a couple of people who are happily married,
Speaker 1: or there's some indications that people are happily married and
Speaker 1: not really worried about hooking up on this night. But
Speaker 1: then I like when they deal with the grappling of
Speaker 1: people who say, do we have to do this though,
Speaker 1: Like we weren't responsible for whatever caused this policy, and
Speaker 1: now we're kind of thrown into these circumstances that don't
Speaker 1: really They don't really we don't want to be a
Speaker 1: part of this. They like, we didn't ask for this.
Speaker 1: They're just thrust upon us, and we're participating because maybe
Speaker 1: we want to, or maybe we don't have any other choice,
Speaker 1: maybe we don't feel like we have any other choice.
Speaker 1: And I just I like a movie that does that
Speaker 1: because that's what I feel like dating is right now.
Speaker 1: I feel like the apps are you are either forced
Speaker 1: onto an app or you're like forced to go out
Speaker 1: to the party so you could meet people. It seem
Speaker 1: like you're being social when the truth is we just
Speaker 1: want to meet our person while doing the things that
Speaker 1: we already do and hoping that they have a life
Speaker 1: similar to ours and settle it that way. That would
Speaker 1: be the nicest way, And that's kind of what happens
Speaker 1: in this film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like, oh, dang, meet cutes, Like everyone
Speaker 2: had a meet cute, like if whether it was people
Speaker 2: like Oh, I'm going out with my friends and I
Speaker 2: met them in line for the bath and we're gonna like,
Speaker 2: oh we were out and about like oh, we were
Speaker 2: at a party, Like meat cutes are happening, and I
Speaker 2: think the world is their sy for meat cutes. One
Speaker 2: other thing that I appreciated, which was very realistic, was
Speaker 2: the way there's a sea where someone is eating soup dumplings,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, yeah, that happens when you eat soup dumplings.
Speaker 1: Correct, like the fall apart?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like sorry, I'm great with chopsticks, but this is
Speaker 2: gonna happen with soup dumplings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. I thought it was very realistic in that regard.
Speaker 1: Do you think I'm wondering in case of the hooking.
Speaker 1: Sorry now I'm thinking about soup dumplings. Do you think
Speaker 1: with regard to especially when it comes to hookup culture,
Speaker 1: dating all of that, do you think that this is
Speaker 1: this movie pro sex or anti sex? Where did you
Speaker 1: feel like it actually fell?
Speaker 2: Okay? I think that's interesting because there's a moment towards
Speaker 2: the end that made me think, is this a promise
Speaker 2: ring ass movie? Is this a a Are we doing purity?
Speaker 2: Are we doing purity culture? And as someone who I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't I don't tell you grew up in church
Speaker 2: and during the Bush years, yeah, a lot of abstinence
Speaker 2: education literally in public school.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, And so there was a moment where it's like, hmmm,
Speaker 2: what are you saying? But I think I think the
Speaker 2: movie is pro hey, you should do what you want
Speaker 2: to do and happy, healthy and safe ways. Yeah, Like
Speaker 2: I think that's really what it comes down to, Like
Speaker 2: we have elders. I'm getting very interesting. There's one person
Speaker 2: where it's like, ooh, is this gonna be like, hey,
Speaker 2: don't run off with that guy. See what happens, And
Speaker 2: it's like, no, it actually ended up fine, and like
Speaker 2: I'm having a great time and this is exactly what
Speaker 2: I wanted. We're doing what we're doing, and then there
Speaker 2: are other people who are like, well, yeah, I like you,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to rush this. I kind of
Speaker 2: want to like get to know you and date for
Speaker 2: real and see what happens, and all right, if we
Speaker 2: got a way a year, we got a wait a year.
Speaker 2: So I don't I think it was on the way
Speaker 2: out of the movie. I did have a moment where
Speaker 2: is this anti sex? Is this? And I I don't
Speaker 2: think it falls in the line of like anti rpro.
Speaker 2: I think it's very much do what you want and
Speaker 2: a take. I'm just not used to take that nuanced anymore.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's very nuanced. I think this
Speaker 1: movie is pro nuance, which is good. I think it's
Speaker 1: it doesn't fall firmly on one side or the other.
Speaker 1: I think it sticks to the rules of romance in
Speaker 1: terms of its leads and saying, well, these two people
Speaker 1: are falling in love and they're having some hesitations about
Speaker 1: their other connections, which is a very real thing that
Speaker 1: you don't often see depicted, saying I could hook up
Speaker 1: with other people. I could, but I kind of don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know what, I mean like I kinda
Speaker 1: I don't. I like, I have this opportunity, but babe,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't happen, and I'm kind of glad that
Speaker 1: it didn't because I still kind of like this person
Speaker 1: and I would rather put my energy into them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you go through this, but like,
Speaker 2: as a person who is out on the apps, sometimes
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna swipe, I'm gonna go on dates,
Speaker 2: and other times I'm like, yeah, I want to find someone,
Speaker 2: but I just don't feel like doing this and I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna do it if my heart's not in it.
Speaker 2: I think it's very much like, don't do it if
Speaker 2: your heart's not in it.
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree.
Speaker 2: I think it's also the movie is also just like
Speaker 2: that's a great lesson. However, the movie it's also like capitalism, capitalism, capitalism,
Speaker 2: oh uh, like subway signs. Every business featured in it
Speaker 2: acknowledges it. They're like, oh yeah, we would totally do
Speaker 2: it at campaign for that, and it's that almost is
Speaker 2: that is also dystopian, where it's just like wow, America
Speaker 2: runs every night and the one night like oh uh,
Speaker 2: want to get fluent in Spanish and.
Speaker 1: Love yeah, yeah, I forgot about that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very much like that. At the same time,
Speaker 2: they kind of the the an underlying plotline is them
Speaker 2: making fun of that shameless capitalism. Yeah, and so it's
Speaker 2: like it's a wink and a nod. It's a wink
Speaker 2: and a nod to be like, yeah, we know.
Speaker 1: It's savvy in the way that it incorporates advertising into
Speaker 1: the film itself, but also the advertising is a bit
Speaker 1: of a plot device that kind of is good for
Speaker 1: world building, if you will, in a way that I enjoyed,
Speaker 1: I thought was good. With all of that being said,
Speaker 1: here on leaving the theater, we rate movies out of
Speaker 1: five stars. I think you know the rating system. Well,
Speaker 1: three means you'd see it again, five means perfect satisfying,
Speaker 1: one hated it, two didn't like it, four loved it.
Speaker 1: Jocquelin Hill, what do you rate this movie out of
Speaker 1: five stars?
Speaker 2: I'm a solid four. When the movie was ending, I
Speaker 2: texted several group chats where I was like, Hey, go
Speaker 2: see this movie. I even posted, Hey, I know it's
Speaker 2: become a meme and we're rolling our eyes, but this
Speaker 2: is actually a really cute movie. I think it's really
Speaker 2: good it's nice to see. Is it a mid budget wrong? Come? Also,
Speaker 2: who are the people friends with? Because everyone was in
Speaker 2: that movie? Every single person was in that movie. There
Speaker 2: was a moment where I was like, am I in
Speaker 2: this movie? Was I in this movie? Like? What? What?
Speaker 2: And at first I thought, Oh, it's like every now
Speaker 2: there's one big one. And I was like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: like every now, and then they're being like, hey, we
Speaker 2: got we got a big one. And then I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a lot of big ones. How much did
Speaker 2: that cost? Were these favors called in? Some people don't
Speaker 2: even make an actual appearance, it's just their photo. But
Speaker 2: even that is like, whoa what? Whoa what? Everyone is
Speaker 2: in this movie.
Speaker 1: I give it a four point one zero stars. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because I gave The Odyssey and
Speaker 1: The Invite four stars, and I like Spider Man a
Speaker 1: little more than that at four point one stars. I
Speaker 1: liked this as much as I like Spider Man. I
Speaker 1: want to see both of them again. It was just
Speaker 1: it was good, It was enjoyable. It was a light,
Speaker 1: fun time. It was for those people who listen to
Speaker 1: this show that are looking for a movie that is
Speaker 1: it's not gonna get a lot of fanfare. It's gonna
Speaker 1: get swallowed up by Spider Man that is already made
Speaker 1: a billion dollars in like six days, and it's up
Speaker 1: against that again this weekend. If you're looking for something
Speaker 1: that's not that and you want to just go to
Speaker 1: the movies and feel the nostalgia of being at the
Speaker 1: movies in a simpler time, this is the film for you.
Speaker 1: This is the film for you. It's just it's easy,
Speaker 1: it's right down the middle. It's enjoyable. I want to
Speaker 1: watch it again. I want to show it to a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. I want them all to watch it.
Speaker 1: I just really enjoyed it. I think there's I think
Speaker 1: it could have been a little shorter. I think they
Speaker 1: stretched the ending a little bit. That's the only reason
Speaker 1: why it's not getting like a four point five or
Speaker 1: even a five star rating, because there was a couple
Speaker 1: parts in which, especially at the end, where I was
Speaker 1: satisfied at one point, and it kind of kept going
Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe like two to three minutes longer
Speaker 1: than I think it needed to.
Speaker 2: I think it did a thing.
Speaker 1: Are alert, don't actually spoil it?
Speaker 2: Yeah they're.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do it without spoiling a jocolate.
Speaker 2: There is a satisfaction you want to have in the
Speaker 2: movie that you kind of get but don't, and I
Speaker 2: think they tried to have it both ways. I agree,
Speaker 2: And you know what, I understand why they had to
Speaker 2: have it both ways, because this particular element of movies
Speaker 2: we don't get anymore.
Speaker 1: We really don't.
Speaker 2: We don't. I one time I was homesick and I
Speaker 2: watched Ghost for the first time, and I was like,
Speaker 2: we're not doing it like this anymore. The angle like,
Speaker 2: we're not doing it like this anymore. And I think
Speaker 2: we're still not doing it like this anymore. If we were,
Speaker 2: we'd be out of five. But they were like, well,
Speaker 2: maybe we can just a little, like we can be
Speaker 2: like we know what the people want and one can
Speaker 2: give them little of it, maybe both ways, both ways,
Speaker 2: And it's like you can't have it both ways.
Speaker 1: I think there's one scene in particular, and you're right
Speaker 1: both ways. I think there's one scene in particular that
Speaker 1: just went like you either I'll just say this, you
Speaker 1: either in the movie with a dance number or you
Speaker 1: in the movie with a time jump. You cannot end
Speaker 1: with both.
Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, yeah, Actually, now I think of it. I
Speaker 2: think one of I think the more ridiculous ending would
Speaker 2: have been the best one.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 2: I think you have been so funny.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, I think you just you you there. In
Speaker 1: most rom coms, there's a scene where the person runs
Speaker 1: and it was you all along and they look at
Speaker 1: each other and they have a little kiss, and the
Speaker 1: classic ones will do the time jump right there and
Speaker 1: it's over, or you end on music, or you do
Speaker 1: the time jump and in with music in the time jump.
Speaker 1: You don't end with music and then fade out and
Speaker 1: then do a time jump. You just don't do that.
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably we're out of practice. So
Speaker 1: I'll just say that we're out of practice because that part,
Speaker 1: At that point, I was like, hmm, what are we
Speaker 1: doing here? Just we I get it. I'm happy. Stop
Speaker 1: stop doing what you're doing. You're you're selling past the clothes.
Speaker 1: As they say, you've closed the deal. You don't need
Speaker 1: to keep selling anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think we could have had a fun after
Speaker 2: credits scene.
Speaker 1: Mid credits. Yes, Hitch did that. Hitch did that. They're
Speaker 1: dancing through the credits and that's fine, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like that's it is what it is.
Speaker 2: With all those different people. I would have loved.
Speaker 1: To see I'll take real. Yes in the credits.
Speaker 2: Yes, and there are funny people in this movie.
Speaker 1: I know they had some mouth ting.
Speaker 2: I know there's riffing. There's one with two actors where
Speaker 2: it's just like, what is this combination of people l
Speaker 2: the cops.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was the fake house at the bar, the
Speaker 1: guys at the bar. Oh. Yes, yes another one, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Like we're not riffing.
Speaker 2: We're not riffing. We're not doing more with magic cards.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're doing anyway. We're out of the review. This
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