Speaker 1: Hammering it you make a pecking noise? There were you
Speaker 1: about to make a pecking noise?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out see no it's not. And that's
Speaker 2: why I didn't do it, because I'm like, I don't
Speaker 2: think any of this is gonna stop. Welcome so the
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Speaker 2: At rom com Rewind is our Instagram account. Hitman is
Speaker 2: a twenty twenty three romantic comedy, although really I feel
Speaker 2: like it came out in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I originally put twenty twenty four, and then I went
Speaker 1: back and I was like, it came out twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: Like when, yeah.
Speaker 2: I know it does? I do have something about it
Speaker 2: its release. It is kind of an interesting one. It's
Speaker 2: directed by Richard Linklater, who who's kind of a it's
Speaker 2: kind of like a subculture genius. He wrote the co
Speaker 2: wrote the screen play with Glenn Powell. Richard directed Dazed
Speaker 2: and Confused, classic, the movie that gave us Matthew McConaughey. Yes,
Speaker 2: that was his first role.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right, East Confused.
Speaker 2: He also did the romance trilogy Before Sunset, Before Midnight,
Speaker 2: Before Sunrise, which is really cool. Hitman, though, is the
Speaker 2: story of Gary Johnson, played by Glenn Powell, a mild
Speaker 2: mannered professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of
Speaker 2: New Orleans. Gary also works for the NOPD as a
Speaker 2: civilian kind of administering the audio tech for undercover sting operations. Now,
Speaker 2: when the undercovered detective Jasper is pulled off duty. Right
Speaker 2: before you know stuff's meant to go down. Gary is
Speaker 2: forced into a what ends up being a series of
Speaker 2: kind of gambits where he needs to pretend to be
Speaker 2: a hit man in order to incriminate suspects in murder
Speaker 2: for higher schemes. The wild thing is this is based
Speaker 2: off a real person and a real story, kind of
Speaker 2: loosely based. Along the way, though, he meets Madison played
Speaker 2: by Adria Arizona, and his role as a fake hit
Speaker 2: man kind of takes a turn as Gary maybe develops
Speaker 2: some feelings for Madison. That's your lead in for hit man?
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I don't buy it.
Speaker 1: Boy, You're not a hit man.
Speaker 4: You can't be.
Speaker 3: I'm looking you up nothing. It's like you don't want exist.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm just your fantasy. So what's the biggest
Speaker 1: difference between.
Speaker 3: The real you and your occupation?
Speaker 2: By the way, my name is Gary Johnson and I'm
Speaker 2: a fake hit man.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I watched the trailer for this movie and
Speaker 1: I was like I don't get it, Like I don't
Speaker 1: understand what it is about, Like the way that they
Speaker 1: prefaced it, the way that they explained it.
Speaker 2: Like I sat there kind of you don't know if
Speaker 2: he's actually killing people? Is he the hit Man or
Speaker 2: like what?
Speaker 1: Well, I was very confused. I sat there and I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't understand it. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: This looks really cheesy. I don't think I'm gonna like it. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: it's so good. This is what I've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: I still think fall Guy is the best rom com
Speaker 1: yet this year. But I mean, considering that we now
Speaker 1: know that it's from twenty twenty three, maybe that maybe
Speaker 1: this movie Hitman was the best of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Glenn Powell, I mean, like swoon, he is a less
Speaker 1: attractive Ryan Goslin.
Speaker 2: Wow, less attractive?
Speaker 1: Okay, Ryan Gosling will always have my heart. Was that
Speaker 1: meant to be a compliment to Glenny because it is?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 1: Love it and Adria like, she was great in this.
Speaker 1: I thought the jokes were really funny. I thought the
Speaker 1: way that they played it, like the plot and everything
Speaker 1: they explained it, they explained it a lot better in
Speaker 1: the actual movie. I really liked this movie. I thoroughly
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching it, and it was nice to watch a
Speaker 1: new rom com come out where I was like, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm liking the action rom coms right now.
Speaker 2: I think action taking a little bit of a turn.
Speaker 2: I think that is this like a thriller rom com,
Speaker 2: Like there wasn't a ton of action, maybe a suspense
Speaker 2: rom com. Almost I wasn't scared. Yeah, you were never scared.
Speaker 2: I guess I agree. This was a fantastic film. I
Speaker 2: think this film it only happens like on rare occasions
Speaker 2: where you kind of catch the big, huge, massive A
Speaker 2: list superstar in like that one movie where it's like
Speaker 2: this is this is just Julia Roberts and it's it's
Speaker 2: just Richard Gear and it's just them on the movie posters,
Speaker 2: and it's just like this is a star is Born
Speaker 2: kind of thing. This is you know, made in Manhattan.
Speaker 2: The whole movie's j Lo And because she's such a
Speaker 2: big deal, you're gonna freaking love it. That's how I
Speaker 2: feel about this movie. Like it's ninety percent just Glenn Powell.
Speaker 2: It is showing such a depth of range of acting
Speaker 2: and you just can't look away. You're just like, yeah, this, Wow,
Speaker 2: he's that guy. Oh my gosh, Like this is this
Speaker 2: is huge and we've We've seen a lot of very
Speaker 2: good rom coms lately, but I don't think we've seen
Speaker 2: one that's kind of like in the Launch of a
Speaker 2: Career where we've even seen seen him a few years
Speaker 2: ago in in that Netflix one Step up, Nope, not
Speaker 2: step up, step up like he's dancing with Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2: Step up Glenn Powell's and step up.
Speaker 1: I miss that, Sorry, Powell, is that you No, you
Speaker 1: can't know that's Channing.
Speaker 2: You know, Glen Powell wasn't like Spy Kids two or
Speaker 2: something like that. Have you seen that? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: you haven't seen that. He was Oh a great deep dive,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, we're already off the rails Glen Powell
Speaker 2: Spy Kids. I'm gonna pull this up for Sarah.
Speaker 1: Tell me how old Glenn is.
Speaker 2: Okay, first, I'm gonna get Spy Kids up for you.
Speaker 1: I still I think of Spy Kids.
Speaker 2: I think of the thumbs Spy Kids three when it's
Speaker 2: a yeah, when it I went three d wow. Take
Speaker 2: a look there he is right there.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, he is.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's Glenn Powell in Spy Kids three.
Speaker 1: Wow. And and you know what, he went further than
Speaker 1: this than the main Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're right he did. Oh my god. But uh yeah,
Speaker 2: all that to say, Oh and you want to know
Speaker 2: how old Glenn Powell is, I'll look at it really quickly.
Speaker 2: I do feel this is just a unique movie in
Speaker 2: that like we're we've seen a star. He was always
Speaker 2: a great actor, but like he's now like he's a star.
Speaker 1: Well yeah and he I mean he had Twisters come
Speaker 1: out this year too, which was I've heard, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it yet. I loved Twister the movie when I
Speaker 1: was younger. I am very excited to see Twisters. I
Speaker 1: heard it was really really well done.
Speaker 2: He also had Anyone but You come out, Yes, we
Speaker 2: have to do that. But like I think set it
Speaker 2: up as a great example of like he did star
Speaker 2: in a romcom, he just wasn't that guy yet. He
Speaker 2: wasn't that guy who could control the screen where it's
Speaker 2: like I can't not watch and listen to like with
Speaker 2: baited breath, like what is oh my gosh, what's bet
Speaker 2: Glen Powell doing here? Like he was so fascinating in
Speaker 2: this movie.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 1: What's how old is he?
Speaker 2: Oh? Thirty five? Thirty five? His birthday October twenty first,
Speaker 2: he's coming up. Oh he's close to my only nine
Speaker 2: days away from your birthday. Look at that's wow? Is
Speaker 2: that is he a Scorpio? Then?
Speaker 3: What is he?
Speaker 1: What day is his birthday?
Speaker 2: October twenty first?
Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, it's like literally the day.
Speaker 2: I believe Scorpios season watch out.
Speaker 1: I believe it's the twenty twenty two, twenty days, like
Speaker 1: it's always somewhat different, but yes, twenty I believe it's
Speaker 1: twenty one.
Speaker 2: If you can't tell, I'm being so sarcastic. I think
Speaker 2: astrology is ridiculous. Sarah loves it and love it. She
Speaker 2: loves that she's a Scorpio. She's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, Leo, let's dive in. Shall we leo through?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 1: Right, let's time in. As you mentioned Gary, who was
Speaker 1: played by Glenn I'm sure Glenn picked that name, is
Speaker 1: a professor at a university in New Orleans and he's
Speaker 1: contracted out. As you mentioned Devin to the police. I
Speaker 1: say to like, do it hidden camera stuff for hitman cases?
Speaker 1: But you explained it way better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, he sets up the audio ahead of like
Speaker 2: sting operations, specifically for murder for higher situations. I don't
Speaker 2: think he picked the name Gary, though, I just want
Speaker 2: to point out I'm pretty sure the actual guy this
Speaker 2: is based off was That's right, I forgot, like, I'm
Speaker 2: sure Glenn picked that name. Like, no, no, this this
Speaker 2: is a real story. Actually, oh well, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Just thought gg you know, oh my god, we should
Speaker 1: just nickname Gigi.
Speaker 2: Sorry Gary Johnson. Yeah, would be a J.
Speaker 1: No, No, I am well aware of that. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Glenn is a G and his character in this is
Speaker 1: a G for Gary. Gg No not.
Speaker 2: Following, Oh no, no, well I'm following. I just don't
Speaker 2: don't think it's that good.
Speaker 1: Moving on one day, Like you mentioned the detective Jasper
Speaker 1: who does it, he can't do it anymore. So Gary
Speaker 1: is asked to pretend to go in to be the
Speaker 1: hit man in the meeting at this cafe. He meets
Speaker 1: with this guy. He's quite the natural, like so good
Speaker 1: that it's scary.
Speaker 3: Listen, this whole thing's got to be based on trust. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: no shit, So how long you been doing this? That's
Speaker 3: none of your fucking business.
Speaker 4: Look at Gary, you called me to new job.
Speaker 1: The man is a natural playing some offense here.
Speaker 3: You don't know me, I don't know you at some
Speaker 3: point in the future that's gonna be a good thing.
Speaker 1: And this is the thriller aspect of it.
Speaker 2: How good he is at this, And I think this
Speaker 2: is how this is how the film draws you in,
Speaker 2: because it's Glenn Powell as Gary and he's kind of
Speaker 2: just he's a little bit of a schmuck. And then
Speaker 2: and then he's forced into this real high pressure situation,
Speaker 2: like you need to convince this guy that you are
Speaker 2: a hit man, and he just flicks a switch and
Speaker 2: there's a different character and you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And Glen Powell goes through close to a dozen different
Speaker 2: characters throughout this film.
Speaker 1: Tailors them to what the person would be looking for
Speaker 1: in a hit man based on their Facebook or Instagram
Speaker 1: or social media.
Speaker 2: And he does it so well.
Speaker 1: So he does it too well.
Speaker 2: So immediately this isn't my best scene, but immediately I'm
Speaker 2: drawn in, like I'm leaning forward in my chair like wow,
Speaker 2: like he's oh my gosh, he's pulling off the hitman thing.
Speaker 2: Oh cools.
Speaker 1: Yes, he takes his job very seriously. He ends up
Speaker 1: replacing Jasper while he's off on leave. We kind of
Speaker 1: get the perspective that Jasper is a dirty cop. The
Speaker 1: you know, he can't be let go because of other things,
Speaker 1: and so he's just put on leave and he tailors
Speaker 1: the hit man to the client, which makes things better
Speaker 1: and more efficient in catching them in the net that
Speaker 1: Gary has placed in the water for them. He's also
Speaker 1: really good friends with his ex wife who comes one
Speaker 1: day to chat. And this is kind of, I think,
Speaker 1: where we can understand what will happen psychologically and philosophically
Speaker 1: throughout the movie. Conveniently is what he teaches at the university.
Speaker 2: Yes, he teaches that, and she kind of talks about
Speaker 2: how you know that they were married, but he she
Speaker 2: asks all these questions of like can you change, can
Speaker 2: you become a different person? Like you were always just
Speaker 2: kind of Gary and you didn't want to be pushed
Speaker 2: outside of your comfort zone. But now we're seeing in
Speaker 2: his actual life, or at least in his side job
Speaker 2: work place, he is kind of exploring all these different
Speaker 2: personas versions of Gary. Yeah, and it's at this point
Speaker 2: in the conversation he says, no, like a tiger can't
Speaker 2: change its stripe sort a thing. But what we're going
Speaker 2: to get to at the end of the story is, yes,
Speaker 2: you can. And that's kind of the full circle character
Speaker 2: arc that we're building, and this is the catalyst for
Speaker 2: us building that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think and Devin we chatted about this
Speaker 1: a few nights ago where I said, you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily have to bring in an ex wife who
Speaker 1: was pregnant, you know, going to have a child with
Speaker 1: another person, and you know they could have done it
Speaker 1: in a way that he taught that specific piece of
Speaker 1: information in one of his classes. But I think, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Devin when we were chatting, to know, absolutely
Speaker 1: showed that he did, in fact and could, in fact,
Speaker 1: care for someone else outside of him other than birds.
Speaker 2: It's the classic how do we explain an older man
Speaker 2: who's not married, but how do we keep desirable?
Speaker 4: We kill the wife or in this case, although the
Speaker 4: bird's the red flag, the maybe, but in this case
Speaker 4: the wife. Okay, I was waiting for this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come back to that. In this case, the
Speaker 2: wife left him and is remarried, but they're still friends.
Speaker 2: So it's like, hey, like Gary's capable of love, it
Speaker 2: just didn't work out this time, Sarah.
Speaker 1: It also shows that I think intellectually on a different level,
Speaker 1: like he I think she is some sort of professor
Speaker 1: or works in some sort of field that is exploring
Speaker 1: this additional persona theory in her work.
Speaker 2: Sarah, yes, currently has an app on her phone.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this on the pod.
Speaker 2: So how dare you call Gary's fascination with birds a
Speaker 2: red flag?
Speaker 1: Because it's to another level. I will sit in my
Speaker 1: backyard and listen to the birds for my son and you,
Speaker 1: and we'll say, oh, what kind of birds are out here?
Speaker 2: Wells?
Speaker 1: And then will turn on the Merlin app.
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Speaker 1: I wish it was, it is not, and it'll tell
Speaker 1: you based on the tweet or the chirp of the
Speaker 1: upseid bird, it will tell you what kind of bird
Speaker 1: it is. But I am not a birdwatcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but do you think if you were single for
Speaker 2: an extended period of time, I could see you going
Speaker 2: down that rabbit hole? Sarah?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: You're a lot closer to Gary than you think. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't throw stones in a glasshouse, lady, You're hilarious.
Speaker 1: Me and the birds although I have to say when
Speaker 1: I came home from Arizona showed you that app, you
Speaker 1: were obsessed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. It's one
Speaker 2: of those things that you don't think about until you
Speaker 2: see a cool bird and you're like, holy shit, get
Speaker 2: the app up, you know, Like it's not like an
Speaker 2: it's not like I'm obsessed with it, but it is
Speaker 2: nice to have.
Speaker 1: Ready, you used it on a woodpecker last.
Speaker 2: Week, pilliated woodpecker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm telling you, dude, I think you love it
Speaker 1: more than I do.
Speaker 2: Woodpeckers are huge. Nobody talks about how big woodpeckers are.
Speaker 2: They're like, tear it at that thing's gigantic and it's
Speaker 2: just kill it's killing my tree, but it's huge.
Speaker 1: It's treating the bugs out of the tree. Okay, back
Speaker 1: to back to hip man.
Speaker 2: And how do they not have like CTE? Like, I
Speaker 2: know it's a big thing in the NFL, but like
Speaker 2: a woodpecker is just literally smashing its beak against a
Speaker 2: c it's like concussion symptoms. Oh how does the woodpecker
Speaker 2: not have concussions symptoms from just like.
Speaker 1: Hammering it make a pecking noise? There were you about
Speaker 1: to make a pecking noise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out no, it's not. And that's why
Speaker 2: I didn't do it, because I'm like, I don't think
Speaker 2: any of this is gonna sound.
Speaker 1: Should we move on?
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: I think we're the red flags today.
Speaker 2: God, we're just Gary's. We're just Gary's.
Speaker 1: It turns out, go okay, I'm like crying, I'm loving
Speaker 1: so hard. All right, shut this down. Gary's next assignment
Speaker 1: is a girl, is a woman named Madison. She is
Speaker 1: looking to hire a hitman for her husband. She's married,
Speaker 1: seems to have you know, a life, and then seemingly
Speaker 1: nothing after she gets married to this to her husband,
Speaker 1: this is what Gary's finding out and comes into the diner.
Speaker 1: She's really timid, tells Gary, or in this case, the
Speaker 1: new alias.
Speaker 2: Ron, And that's important. So Gary Taylor's all of his
Speaker 2: aliases to his client. He went with Ron for this
Speaker 2: meetup with Madison, and Ron continues on for a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I think we can see immediately from this meeting
Speaker 2: with Madison he's a little disarmed. He is, he's a
Speaker 2: little charmed by Madison. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He usually has like kind of like a loose script
Speaker 1: that he goes by and a way to kind of
Speaker 1: pull them in, reel them in and really understand what
Speaker 1: they're looking for.
Speaker 2: They end up flirting back and forth a little bit.
Speaker 2: We get a little bit of chemistry.
Speaker 1: Here, cats and dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And she ends up having to leave early, and
Speaker 2: she tries to hand.
Speaker 1: Ron, which is the final nail on the coffin, and he.
Speaker 2: Puts the money back in her hand, and he says,
Speaker 2: do yourself a favor and take this money and make
Speaker 2: a better life for yourself, kind of kind of letting
Speaker 2: the fish off the hook here. He hat her, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he did this when he what even gives his
Speaker 2: number to her. Yeah. And when he gets back with
Speaker 2: his other New Orleans police officers, they're like, what in
Speaker 2: the world are you doing. We're not in the business
Speaker 2: of giving people life advice. We're in the business of
Speaker 2: putting murder for higher suspects in jail. And you just
Speaker 2: let one walk out of a diner, Like, what are
Speaker 2: you thinking kind of thing? And Gary is just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, like I just thought it
Speaker 2: was the right thing to do kind of thing. Clearly,
Speaker 2: clearly caught some feelings in that quick little little meeting.
Speaker 1: Definitely, And I don't think like they get off the
Speaker 1: phone with Gary his superiors, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: realize that they're still on the phone Gary and they
Speaker 1: talk about how sweet the character that he's playing now
Speaker 1: Ron is and how he's so cool and that she'd
Speaker 1: rip out her iud for Ron is so funny, and
Speaker 1: realizes that this is someone who is accepted in basically
Speaker 1: all aspects of his life where he's not yeah, and
Speaker 1: he's a cool persona that maybe he wants to continue
Speaker 1: having in his life. Gary walks us through what happens
Speaker 1: after they're arrested, so we kind of get like a
Speaker 1: sidebar here. They go to court, have their day in court.
Speaker 1: Most often are guilty, but some get off free through
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of the one who was supposed to be
Speaker 1: off with the hit man. Like, it just kind of
Speaker 1: goes and it provides you with the full circle of
Speaker 1: what happens after and Gary's role once they are actually arrested.
Speaker 2: What do you think are the so now we've met
Speaker 2: a lot of people who were trying to hire Gary
Speaker 2: as a hit man, what do you think are the
Speaker 2: most common professions that would attract someone like that, either
Speaker 2: a hit man or somebody to hire. So really, I
Speaker 2: mean I said hitman or murder for hire. It's serial
Speaker 2: killers we're talking about. I found a twenty twelve tabulation. Actually,
Speaker 2: so some stats regarding what are the most common professions
Speaker 2: that would attract serial killers based on Okay, so the
Speaker 2: categories are They actually broke it down into categories skilled occupations,
Speaker 2: semi skilled occupations, unskilled occupations, and professional and government occupations.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I was gonna say a number one politician.
Speaker 2: To be a serial killer.
Speaker 1: They're all most most aren't narcissists and sociopaths.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, But I think they're too much in the
Speaker 2: public eye.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, just kidding, Yeah, totally kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean, like you had a moment where you were
Speaker 2: in the right area. Okay, tell me, all right, well
Speaker 2: skilled occupations, right, aircraft machinist or assembler number one?
Speaker 1: Did you do it because like you could like mess
Speaker 1: with the airplane and then they'd go down?
Speaker 2: Or I think it's just I think there's an element
Speaker 2: of uh, I don't know, expl for you, just a
Speaker 2: lot of no. No, not for the specific ones. Shoemaker
Speaker 2: or repair person and automobile upholsterer were the most common
Speaker 2: serial killer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you can hide things in upholstery.
Speaker 2: The semi skilled occupations make sense though, okay, forestry worker slash.
Speaker 1: Arborists because you can hide them, bury them.
Speaker 2: Maybe also you're working with a lot of like power
Speaker 2: tools that could just yep, truck driver.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, long periods of time.
Speaker 2: For sure, you're traveling all over the country. Yeah, apps,
Speaker 2: not the.
Speaker 1: Truck driver, but like I mean, I'm saying, like just the.
Speaker 2: Journey warehouse manager. Okay, ye, unskilled occupations they got general
Speaker 2: labor like a mover or a landscaper. Good at a
Speaker 2: hotel porter, oh, because.
Speaker 1: You could take them and they'd never be seen again.
Speaker 2: And you you probably know what rooms there.
Speaker 1: Anybody who well, I'm totally kidding. I'm just I'm just
Speaker 1: playing up.
Speaker 2: Gas station attendant was third on the list.
Speaker 1: Oh you could disable the cameras well in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, yeah, I guess. I think there's just
Speaker 2: an element of being able to see people and them
Speaker 2: not assuming you of anything. You know, a hotel porter
Speaker 2: is going to see a lot of people moving around
Speaker 2: the same with a gas station attendant, right like, you're
Speaker 2: seeing so many people come through that's terrifying and professional government, occupations,
Speaker 2: police or security official, military personnel, religious official number three?
Speaker 1: Wow? Interesting? Did you know that there's a list of
Speaker 1: the horoscope that coincides with the serial killers?
Speaker 2: You're really bringing this back to Astrology's what's the list?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's I there's I can say. I
Speaker 1: don't believe there's any scorpios on there, and I don't
Speaker 1: actually know if there's any leos on there either. But
Speaker 1: there is a list.
Speaker 2: I have seen it, astrology serial killer list. I've googled it. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's a zodiac killers. What signs were serial killers born under?
Speaker 1: Legitimately? Like there is the thing?
Speaker 2: Interesting? Yes, oh, aries, Donald Harvey, the Casanova killer, Taurus.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing. I know so little about serial
Speaker 2: killers me too. These names are ridiculous. Martha the Lonely
Speaker 2: Heart's killer.
Speaker 1: Well they all had to have a name.
Speaker 2: No, Albert the moon maniac?
Speaker 1: What the what not? I don't know anything.
Speaker 2: Maybe only killed on a full moon.
Speaker 1: I'm not into true crime, but okay, that's a long
Speaker 1: list though.
Speaker 2: Whatever that was Gemini, Yeah, that's of Gemini's David's son
Speaker 2: of Sam Berkowitz, the Hillside stranglers in here? Oh, the
Speaker 2: Dracula Killer, the Milwaukee Cannibal. What, Oh, that's Jeffrey Doris.
Speaker 2: I should have known that good Woods should have known it. Well,
Speaker 2: that's a fun little deep dive if you really want
Speaker 2: to creep yourself out one yet totally people really enjoy.
Speaker 1: It though, so love true crime. We've had actually a
Speaker 1: few people messages and say like they love true crime
Speaker 1: podcasts and then ours.
Speaker 2: Which I mean, I think is great, nice little crossover
Speaker 2: with us in true crime. We should do some there,
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Let them know.
Speaker 2: Let's continue.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Gary gets a call from Madison and she
Speaker 1: has invited him to I guess a text message, not
Speaker 1: a call, to a charity event for animals, mostly dogs,
Speaker 1: and he's very surprised by this. He goes though, and
Speaker 1: finds out that she's left her husband is getting a divorce.
Speaker 1: But there's like for me anyway, at this point, I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's something more to her, Like, what is she up
Speaker 1: to do? I believe her?
Speaker 2: I seems a little too good to be true. She does.
Speaker 1: She does, like, you know, you were so scared you
Speaker 1: wanted to literally hire a hit man for your husband,
Speaker 1: but then you just like got up and left and
Speaker 1: divorced him, like, shouldn't you have done that in the
Speaker 1: first place?
Speaker 2: At least you know, yeah, very likely.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So they go for drinks after and she's pressing
Speaker 1: him with questions about how many people he's a hit
Speaker 1: being a hit man. Says that there's no way that
Speaker 1: he you know, oh, you couldn't be a hit man.
Speaker 1: They end up hooking up in her apartment and he
Speaker 1: loves being ron so carefree, so you know, nonchalant, doesn't
Speaker 1: have any worries in the world. Next morning, they talk
Speaker 1: and Madison asks if he wants to see her again.
Speaker 1: He says yes, of course. He lays some ground rules,
Speaker 1: saying like they can't go ever to his house, she'll
Speaker 1: never know his whereabouts. Now we have his aliases. His
Speaker 1: creepiest alias is the red head with glasses. I couldn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to look away. I couldn't that. This is
Speaker 1: where the other part of the thriller, aspect to the
Speaker 1: rom com comes in. This was based It's in my
Speaker 1: quick facts, but it's based I believe on a real
Speaker 1: like a real hitman, sociopath or psychopath.
Speaker 2: I think what was her favorites? Not this one Gary,
Speaker 2: the hitman alias. I like the Russian one. He was
Speaker 2: kind of funny. There was like an all American one
Speaker 2: who was good to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually think I like Ron best.
Speaker 2: Oh Ron is definitely the best. Yeah he's I think
Speaker 2: Ron is the closest to actual Glenn Powells.
Speaker 1: Just a vote say that that was almost gonna come
Speaker 1: out of my mouth verbatim. Yes, I think that's totally true,
Speaker 1: and that could be why I like him. So one night,
Speaker 1: Gary goes over and Madison's like, oh, I have something
Speaker 1: we can play with, and she pulls out a gun
Speaker 1: in a very creepy way, asking him to teach her
Speaker 1: to use it. Like I said, for me at this point, again,
Speaker 1: there's just something about her that I can't pinpoint. They
Speaker 1: go to the shooting range and then they go to
Speaker 1: a club and while they're walking out, a guy named
Speaker 1: Ray comes up to them and turns and it turns
Speaker 1: out that this is Madison's husband or ex husband Ray
Speaker 1: Ron or Gary tells him that he's Madison's boyfriend. But honestly,
Speaker 1: I think Madison knew Ray would be at this bar
Speaker 1: and that they'd run into him, and that's why she
Speaker 1: did it, like she did it on purpose, Ray's about
Speaker 1: to grab Ron or Gary, and he pulls a gun
Speaker 1: out on Ray instead. She tries to push Madison, tries
Speaker 1: to push Gary to shoot Ray, but Ray ends up
Speaker 1: backing off and leaving. After Gary, Ron and Madison go
Speaker 1: for ice cream and he starts out asking questions like
Speaker 1: you guys have a different definition of divorce, like are
Speaker 1: you guys actually divorce? And she kind of plays it
Speaker 1: off like do I have a ring on my finger? Okay, girl,
Speaker 1: that means nothing.
Speaker 2: That absolutely means nothing. I agree. I thought that part
Speaker 2: was sketchy on Madison's part for sure, Like he's like.
Speaker 1: Are you actually divorced? It's the same club. It's the
Speaker 1: same club that we go to where we would see
Speaker 1: him like he knows something's fishy, but he is just
Speaker 1: he likes her so much he's clouded and blinded. Then
Speaker 1: while at this diner, they see Jasper of all people,
Speaker 1: and he comes up to Gary Ron but never says
Speaker 1: his proper name is Gary, lets him play on the
Speaker 1: persona in front of Madison as Ron.
Speaker 2: So, Sarah, can you share with us all the theories
Speaker 2: that were in your brain about this movie? Sarah thought
Speaker 2: that Jasper and Madison were in cahoots that they were
Speaker 2: trying to get Gary fired, yeah, or not fired, but like.
Speaker 1: Put in a situation where he would compromise, like whether
Speaker 1: it was the police department, whether it was him himself,
Speaker 1: whether it was to prove that he was actually a
Speaker 1: hit man when he wasn't, or like sink him and
Speaker 1: like set him up for a murder for hire and
Speaker 1: have Gary take the fall, like or was she Cia
Speaker 1: and they were trying to infiltrate or FBI and infiltrate
Speaker 1: like what this hit man organization in the NOPD was,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know what it was, but it was something.
Speaker 1: There was just something too fishy about her. And I
Speaker 1: also knew like Jasper being in the front half of
Speaker 1: the movie, like being shown as like a dirty cop
Speaker 1: and like being put on leave but then brought back
Speaker 1: and still on the same squad like as the police chief.
Speaker 1: I'd say, you're no longer in this role and you're
Speaker 1: now on a different department, Like don't keep him in
Speaker 1: the department you now kicked him out of He's just
Speaker 1: disgruntled and pissed off.
Speaker 2: Oh hr, Sarah's here too.
Speaker 1: Like like seriously, it's common sense.
Speaker 2: I will say one thing that I loved about this movie.
Speaker 2: As we get through kind of the beginning and middle
Speaker 2: phases of the film, it always always stayed so grounded,
Speaker 2: fun facts. It did none of what Sarah has brought
Speaker 2: up happens. It ended up being like like it did
Speaker 2: get a little bit wild at the end, but it
Speaker 2: was always still grounded in like, oh, this is totally possible.
Speaker 2: I could see this happening as opposed to like a
Speaker 2: I think about like a Mister and Miss Smith, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Killers with Ashton Kutcher. I think about Night and
Speaker 2: Day with Tom Cruise, how it's fantastical and it's oh
Speaker 2: my god, and he's he's a superhero and it's like no,
Speaker 2: Gary's just a dude who pretends to be a hit man.
Speaker 2: Hit man aren't real and he just puts stupid people away.
Speaker 2: And it's a very grounded film. And I love that
Speaker 2: about this film.
Speaker 1: And you when we were chatting early, when we were
Speaker 1: chatting earlier this week, you did mention that, and I
Speaker 1: think that pulled me back from this like this Hollywood
Speaker 1: thing that they always do where they push the boundaries
Speaker 1: to make it in the end ridiculous, like and it
Speaker 1: makes your mind think like, oh, like I could write
Speaker 1: this script, this is what's gonna happen because this is
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: She's in the CIA, Like, no, she's just a little crazy.
Speaker 1: And I think it grounded me in the sense that, yes,
Speaker 1: this movie is just a really great movie without it
Speaker 1: having to be pushed over the edge of being ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. The ridiculousness is him dressing up like all
Speaker 2: these different hitmen. It was like the perfect but it
Speaker 2: was a true story, like that this guy actually was
Speaker 2: pretending to be a hitman in Texas is the real story.
Speaker 2: So it's like it's still based in real truth. It's
Speaker 2: a real story that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which I think was so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the next worksting the guy's name, Gary comes in
Speaker 1: and he's like, I know nothing about this guy. I
Speaker 1: wasn't able to do any research. This is like a
Speaker 1: last minute thing.
Speaker 2: What is it.
Speaker 1: They're like his superiors and his crew were like, okay,
Speaker 1: his name's Mike. That's all. We got nothing to go on.
Speaker 1: It's totally fine. I did get this, guess correct. I
Speaker 1: was like, this is Ray, This is it the ex
Speaker 1: husband Madison's ex Ray. Of course it is I knew it.
Speaker 1: He wants to put a hit out on his wife
Speaker 1: and the new boyfriend, which of course is Gary Ron.
Speaker 1: It's a twoffert as he says, which I laughed at.
Speaker 1: He wants both of them hit and even brought extra money.
Speaker 1: Then as a special request, he asks that when she
Speaker 1: when things are about to happen, say this is from
Speaker 1: your husband. And then in that moment, so again, because
Speaker 1: they didn't have time to prep it's only audio, so
Speaker 1: there's no visual on this. They didn't have time to
Speaker 1: put videos in. So Ron Gary Gary Ron is able
Speaker 1: to turn around and actually show Ray his face to
Speaker 1: say like, dude, you literally hired the wrong hit man,
Speaker 1: Like you are totally effing yourself.
Speaker 2: Here because Ray has met Gary Ron. So he's like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, you're the guy kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he kills the sting, shows his face, and
Speaker 1: Ray runs out. Later on the next day, guess who
Speaker 1: is found dead? Ray with a as they say, a
Speaker 1: single shot to the aorta as the cause of death.
Speaker 1: They position it as a drug deal gone bad. But
Speaker 1: they're now now on the hunt for the guy that
Speaker 1: Madison was with that night outside the nightclub, which of
Speaker 1: course was Gary Ron.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're looking for Madison. They're looking for that random guy.
Speaker 2: It's looking a little deep for Gary, it is, it.
Speaker 1: Is, but he keeps just lying and digging himself a hole.
Speaker 1: Gary Ron or Gary gets to Madison's house and she
Speaker 1: already knows that Ray is dead and seems completely fine
Speaker 1: with it. Then she asks, like, you know, sorry, Gary
Speaker 1: asks Madison, did you have anything.
Speaker 3: To do with it? They don't be scared. Why would
Speaker 3: you be scared?
Speaker 2: Because I killed him?
Speaker 4: You killed him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, why would you do that?
Speaker 1: You told me yourself he was gonna come and kill me,
Speaker 1: so he.
Speaker 2: Was attacking you was like so off the fence technically, technically,
Speaker 2: what what was he doing?
Speaker 1: He was either passed out or asleep, and you killed him.
Speaker 2: This was almost my best scene because then we get
Speaker 2: Gary who's like you did what and she's she's this
Speaker 2: is my best scene. She oh, go ahead, go ahead, No, no, no,
Speaker 2: just because like.
Speaker 1: The first off, I you know, you walk into the situation,
Speaker 1: she already knows, like you're like, okay, the guilt is
Speaker 1: on her face, Gary, like come on, and the way
Speaker 1: she just like allows herself to explain, like I did it,
Speaker 1: And the way he's so okay with it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you thought he was okay with him?
Speaker 1: Well he's like okay, wait what and then like but
Speaker 1: he still lied for her, Like he still continued to
Speaker 1: lie for her at that point, I'd be like calling
Speaker 1: the police and I'd be like, I found her. I
Speaker 1: found I found the killer.
Speaker 2: The funniest part of the scene, though, was that he
Speaker 2: switches from Ron to Gary. She's like, I killed him
Speaker 2: and he's like, mom, did what? And she's like, what
Speaker 2: do you mean? She thinks he's a hit man. He's like,
Speaker 2: why are you getting so worked about this?
Speaker 1: You do this shit all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't do this all the time. I've never done this.
Speaker 2: I've never killed anyone. What are you talking about? I'm
Speaker 2: a fake hitman. That's why I didn't put you away.
Speaker 2: I didn't have your rested because I was working under cover.
Speaker 1: You were cop.
Speaker 2: No, I I teach you to college. This pitman thing's
Speaker 2: just like a part time gig.
Speaker 3: She's gotten out of hand.
Speaker 1: You do this all the time.
Speaker 2: I don't kill people. What are you talking about? And
Speaker 2: she's like, what are you talking about? He's like, I'm
Speaker 2: hired by the police to pretend to be a hit
Speaker 2: man for people like y. He revealed it to her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it reveals everything, just lays it all out on
Speaker 1: the line, just says like like Gary comes flying out.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if there was ever a master plan to
Speaker 1: save himself, he just shot himself on the foot. Yeah. No.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He even gives her his real name, which is hilarious,
Speaker 1: and she she's just like, I don't want nothing to
Speaker 1: do with you. Get out of my house, which is
Speaker 1: funny because I'm like, you're the one who just like
Speaker 1: you need to make sure that he doesn't tell anybody
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: So hold on, hold on. If you were her, would
Speaker 2: you kill Gary now?
Speaker 1: No, but I did think that she was gonna try, Sarah.
Speaker 4: What.
Speaker 2: Would you kill Gary?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: You just said no.
Speaker 1: But I did think that that was the way the
Speaker 1: movie was gonna go.
Speaker 2: Suspicious ladies and gentlemen. I think she would have killed
Speaker 2: Gary there.
Speaker 1: So Gary goes back to the police station, finds out
Speaker 1: that six months ago, Ray upped his life insurance policy
Speaker 1: to one million, and that could have been why she
Speaker 1: wanted to kill him in the first place. Madison is
Speaker 1: now suspect number one in the case. Gary tells the
Speaker 1: group that he'd be surprised if she killed Ray, and
Speaker 1: again like, why are you sticking up for her?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Literally, just come clean, you know, lick your Gary wounds
Speaker 1: and continue on your merry way. But I think I
Speaker 1: wonder if the ties to having feelings for her, but
Speaker 1: also ties to loving this new wrong yes part of him,
Speaker 1: were a reason why he stayed in this like you
Speaker 1: know this world.
Speaker 2: I think you're right now. At this point, Jasper, who's
Speaker 2: still on the team, hold up. Jasper's got an idea.
Speaker 2: She thinks that Gary is still Ron right because they
Speaker 2: reveal He's like, didn't I see you out with her?
Speaker 2: And Gary's like, yeah, yeah, I just saw her briefly. Whatever.
Speaker 2: So Jasper comes up with an idea, Hey, why don't
Speaker 2: you walk back into her house. We'll mike you up
Speaker 2: and you get her to admit to the thing. Be like, hey,
Speaker 2: like Ray died, people think it's me. Did you do it?
Speaker 2: And question her and get her to admit it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So now Ron, well Gary Ron, Yeah, Gary Ron heading
Speaker 2: back to Madison's house all miked up. He doesn't even
Speaker 2: Jasper drives with him, so he doesn't have time to
Speaker 2: call her or anything like that. This is my best
Speaker 2: scene Okay, is a really good thing because you actually
Speaker 2: see while he's walking up to her door, he's writing
Speaker 2: something on his phone, like just typing away. He busts
Speaker 2: into the house Madison's surprise, and he just he points,
Speaker 2: He literally launches his phone into her face, says police
Speaker 2: are listening. I'm Ron, not Gary, and he starts questioning her,
Speaker 2: but he's giving her on his phone all of the
Speaker 2: answers kind of like they know about the insurance policy.
Speaker 2: This is bullshit, and you, out of all people, should
Speaker 2: know that I was incapable of this. Okay, then who
Speaker 2: did what the hell happened? I just know what they've
Speaker 2: told me, which is what he got shot buying drugs.
Speaker 2: The guy was an addict.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you say he didn't kill him.
Speaker 2: When was the last time he saw him? Not that
Speaker 2: long ago?
Speaker 1: Ahead Virgos the club?
Speaker 2: Yes, the club.
Speaker 1: I was walking on a Virgos with this guy that.
Speaker 2: I met on the dance floor and deny, deny. He
Speaker 2: keeps on swapping to like notes on his phone. I
Speaker 2: thought it was because really they they were hemmed into
Speaker 2: a corner. Yes, he's got to walk in here, miked up.
Speaker 2: They can hear all of the conversation, so he needs
Speaker 2: to tell her what's happening without physically telling her what's happening,
Speaker 2: and it was such a clever way to do it.
Speaker 2: I thought this scene was just comprised so well. I
Speaker 2: thought the acting playing off each other, pretending to like
Speaker 2: like learning how the conversation's going while it's happening. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the writing was impeccable in this movie, and in this
Speaker 2: scene it really shined through. Yeah, my best scene. It
Speaker 2: was so it was so clever and so well executed.
Speaker 2: I really really liked it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so at the end, Gary Ron leaves and goes
Speaker 1: back to the police undercover car.
Speaker 2: Based on the audio, it seems like Madison didn't do
Speaker 2: it right he yeah, case closed, it's not her now.
Speaker 1: Jasper knows differently, So when Ron because he's still playing
Speaker 1: Ron or I guess he's not playing Ron at this point, he's.
Speaker 2: Gary Ron still yet. Yeah, he goes back to Madison's house. Yes,
Speaker 2: Jasper is already there, oh.
Speaker 1: Yes, knowing that he that Gary Ron would have shown up.
Speaker 2: And I found this really interesting because I noticed it
Speaker 2: right away that Jasper is like, you know what, let's
Speaker 2: let's grab some beers and Madison's like, I'll get them,
Speaker 2: don't worry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So she gets them beers and.
Speaker 2: Then Jasper lays out his big master plan. He's like, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I don't want to get you guys
Speaker 2: in trouble. I just want what's mine, and that's there's
Speaker 2: a one million dollar insurance policy out for Ray. So
Speaker 2: where's that money going. Some of it's go into Jasper's pocket.
Speaker 1: I think he wanted all of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And at a certain point during the conversation, he
Speaker 2: starts to get hot. He takes off his coat and
Speaker 2: then he starts to like lean on the table and
Speaker 2: then he falls over. And I love this because they
Speaker 2: both kind of stand there Watt like yeah, looking at him,
Speaker 2: and Madison's like, I killed him, and Gary doesn't really
Speaker 2: know what she's talking about. And then she reveals, Yeah,
Speaker 2: when she went to go get the drinks, she poisoned Jasper.
Speaker 1: Which, like with drugs, where did she get them? That's
Speaker 1: the one thing that I have a question about. Great
Speaker 1: question because like I would say, like, oh, a grap poison, sure,
Speaker 1: like that's you know, I mean, I don't have that
Speaker 1: in my house, but but like it would be an
Speaker 1: easier sell. Then where did you get those drugs? Or
Speaker 1: maybe that's what happened, she had them from when she
Speaker 1: had put a hit or hit manned herself.
Speaker 2: To ray who knows, perhaps, But I mean Gary Ron
Speaker 2: doesn't miss a beat. He grabs a bag and puts
Speaker 2: it over Jasper's head, and it is kind of like
Speaker 2: this is what we're in it now kind of thing,
Speaker 2: and they it's like it is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a dark comedy at the end here where like Gary
Speaker 2: and Madison end up like making love while Gary is
Speaker 2: dying in the living room. It's very it's it's yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of dark comedy in them. And the
Speaker 2: idea was like now now they're in it, They're they're
Speaker 2: still together, they're still dating, their love and each other
Speaker 2: till death do us part kind of thing. They seal
Speaker 2: it with a kiss, and then we get a fast forward.
Speaker 1: What six years later, probably a few years for sure.
Speaker 2: They've got two kids, and we do get that kind
Speaker 2: of wrapping the character arc of Gary up in a
Speaker 2: nice little bow where he talks about how, you know,
Speaker 2: he's like I went I went full Ron and no Gary,
Speaker 2: and now I'm kind of you know, I've found the
Speaker 2: nice little meeting point of Gary and Ron. He's clearly
Speaker 2: a lot more Ron than than he was before, but
Speaker 2: he's still he's still himself in there. And they've got
Speaker 2: two kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a whole life together.
Speaker 2: They've got a whole life together. Madison still has moments
Speaker 2: where it seems like she's a little she's got some
Speaker 2: dark edges around her. Yeah, yeah, which I think is
Speaker 2: just so like, it's not a typical rom com. It's
Speaker 2: not sunshine and daisies and rainbows. He married somebody who
Speaker 2: murdered her husband. Yeah, and he pretended to be a
Speaker 2: hit man for a while a while, definitely, And it's
Speaker 2: kind of like this quirky, weird way to end a
Speaker 2: rom com that I was actually really satisfied. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's I'm not crying. I had no weep warnings in
Speaker 2: this movie. But I'm very pleased with how this started.
Speaker 2: The middle point was still exciting, and it ended in
Speaker 2: a really not a beautiful way, but like a really funny,
Speaker 2: quirky like, huh, it's a nice end to a movie.
Speaker 2: It's a I was a good one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Quick facts this movie was inspired
Speaker 1: by a true story and was shot over a period
Speaker 1: of a month. The real life Gary Johnson passed away
Speaker 1: early on in production and never got to see the film.
Speaker 1: Richard Linklater only talked to him on the phone and
Speaker 1: never got to meet him in person. The script originally
Speaker 1: had the story taking place in Houston, since the real
Speaker 1: life Gary was based in Houston. However, due to Texas
Speaker 1: tax credits and other financial elements, they weren't able to
Speaker 1: shoot the film in Texas. They instead chose New Orleans.
Speaker 1: This movie is based on a long form narrative nonfiction
Speaker 1: article by Skip Hollinsworth published in Texas Monthly in October
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. This marks the second time that
Speaker 1: Linklater has made a movie based on a Texas Monthly
Speaker 1: article by Hollinsworth, the first being Bernie in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: The part of Jasper was written with Austin Amelio specifically
Speaker 1: in mind. Austin Emilio had already picked out his wardrobe
Speaker 1: for the character Jasper. He decided to research the part
Speaker 1: a bit further and went out in New Orleans Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street to find the sketchiest person he could find who
Speaker 1: just happened to be wearing almost the exact same wardrobe
Speaker 1: he had chosen.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, deep dive on your own character. Like the sketchier,
Speaker 2: the better You're gonna find the sketchiest human I can
Speaker 2: find in the city.
Speaker 1: As with most of his films, Glenn Powell's parents like
Speaker 1: to visit their son on set and usually end up
Speaker 1: doing cameos in the film. They can be glimpsed as
Speaker 1: background artists in this movie. The chemistry between Glenn and
Speaker 1: Adria was evident from the get go. Their initial meeting
Speaker 1: was supposed to last one hour, it lasted for five instead.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: As Gary is driving at the start of the movie,
Speaker 1: you can see a street called alan to Site Boulevard.
Speaker 1: The instrumental at the end of the movie is called
Speaker 1: cast Your Fate to the Wind by Allan Toussaint.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's probably Tusants.
Speaker 1: Yes, the second time I got it right.
Speaker 2: Oh who speaks French? And who doesn't I know?
Speaker 1: Adria was thrilled to work with Link later, as School
Speaker 1: of Rock in two thousand and three is one of
Speaker 1: her all time favorite movies. This is Glenn Powell's fourth
Speaker 1: collaboration with Richard linklater, after Fast Food Nation in two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, Everybody Wants Some in twenty sixteen, and
Speaker 1: Apollo ten and a Half, A Space Age Childhood in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. With the change landscape these days regarding
Speaker 1: sex scenes, both Glenn and Adria had input in the
Speaker 1: writing of their raw romantic scenes and in conversations with
Speaker 1: the film's intimacy coordinator on how these scenes should be
Speaker 1: filmed good for them. At one point, Brad Pitt was
Speaker 1: interested in playing Gary Johnson.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it was Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1: Me too. I think I think they I think Glenn
Speaker 1: was perfect for this role. The film was in rehearsal
Speaker 1: for two weeks before shooting actually began. Austin Amilio shares
Speaker 1: several scenes with Adria, playing a character called Madison. Of course,
Speaker 1: in the final season of Fear of Their Walking Dead
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Emilio also shared screen time with a
Speaker 1: character called Madison, this time played by Kim Dickens. The
Speaker 1: teenager giving Johnson video games to kill his mom is
Speaker 1: based on the actual client meeting. The real life Gary
Speaker 1: Johnson had a Houston teenager named Sean Quinn, a brilliant
Speaker 1: kid with an IQ of one thirty one gave Johnson
Speaker 1: seven Atari computer games, three dollar bills and yeah, three
Speaker 1: dollar bills and two dollars and thirty cents in nichols
Speaker 1: and dimes to kill a male classmate he thought was
Speaker 1: trying to win the affection of a girl he liked.
Speaker 1: That's terrifying. One of Gary Johnson's outfits is based on
Speaker 1: Anton Sugar c Hi g u r H, a psychopathic
Speaker 1: hit man from No Country for Old Men.
Speaker 2: Oh is that who they were based on?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, my gosh, that's one of my favorite redhead
Speaker 2: one one of my oh interesting, one of my favorite
Speaker 2: movie scenes. There's a scene with that character in a
Speaker 2: gas station attendance, okay, and there's a coin like a
Speaker 2: flip of the coin scene. It's fine, it's just really tense.
Speaker 2: It's probably one of the most tense scenes. Like it's
Speaker 2: a top ten most tense scene in movie history. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say, if you know the movie, you know the scene.
Speaker 2: It's prickles your hair on the back of your head.
Speaker 1: So in this movie, Madison's Character's birthday is the same
Speaker 1: as the actual actress Adria playing her character. It is
Speaker 1: for twenty five, nineteen ninety two. It is shown when
Speaker 1: Gary is reviewing her file in his computer to decide
Speaker 1: on how to approach this Hitman character. One of the
Speaker 1: personas Gary Johnson. Then Powell plays when meeting a client.
Speaker 1: Is based on Patrick Bateman character as played by Christian
Speaker 1: Bale in American Psycho in two thousand. Powell had a
Speaker 1: brief rule as Trader Number one, the stockbroker hit by
Speaker 1: Baine in The Dark Knight Rises in twenty twelve, where
Speaker 1: Bail played Batman.
Speaker 2: Other fantastic little Glen Powell. It's not a cameo because
Speaker 2: he was, but now in retrospect, it's almost like a
Speaker 2: Glen Powell cameo. There's actually a classic line in that
Speaker 2: scene because because it's come up now if you remember that,
Speaker 2: because it's come up now that Glen Powell's become so popular.
Speaker 2: He's the stockbroker and he tells Baine, He's like, there's
Speaker 2: no money here to steal, and then Bain says, well,
Speaker 2: then why are you here? Kind of thing punches on it.
Speaker 2: Sick honorable mentions. I want to play a game for
Speaker 2: our honorable mentions because I.
Speaker 1: Well, then can I go first?
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 1: My honorable mention is Glen Powell. Because I just think
Speaker 1: he's on the up and up, and I'm really really
Speaker 1: enjoying his movies. I'm gonna say this really quick because
Speaker 1: I just I'm thoroughly enjoying and I want him to
Speaker 1: be around for long. I don't want him to go away.
Speaker 1: I want him to stay.
Speaker 2: So my game because I hate picking the main actor
Speaker 2: I know as my honorable mention, but I have so
Speaker 2: I want him to play a game for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's called rising or peaked? Oh, because this film, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, like we talked about, is one of the
Speaker 2: like Glenn Powell in the last let's say eighteen months
Speaker 2: since Top Gun Maverick, Let's say, oh god, yes, he
Speaker 2: has just been climbing a mountain in terms of his
Speaker 2: own popularity. He's been just blowing everything out of the water.
Speaker 2: Twisters anyone but you, this movie, Hit Man, so many others.
Speaker 2: So I have for you a number of other, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, rising stars in acting. But I think we
Speaker 2: can decide is this actor still on the rise or
Speaker 2: have they hit their peak? Okay, which which the peak
Speaker 2: is still impressive. If you're hitting your peak at some
Speaker 2: of these actors' peaks, it's like, Wow, you did a
Speaker 2: great job. But like, is Glenn Powell. I mean, my
Speaker 2: first one is Glen Powell. My question to you, Sarah
Speaker 2: is is his stars still rising?
Speaker 1: I think his star is still rising.
Speaker 2: I think it is too.
Speaker 1: I think he's just been able to get into the
Speaker 1: lead roles and I think he's fought for a long
Speaker 1: time to get into those lead roles.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And that just shows like he's willing to stick it
Speaker 1: out for as long as he can to get them.
Speaker 1: Two out of the three movies off the top of
Speaker 1: my head right now are rom comps anyone but you
Speaker 1: and this one is considered that yep. But we have twisters,
Speaker 1: which I mean they don't even kiss in that movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, right like like so we have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different dynamic. But I think all of
Speaker 1: the movies that he's done is as of late, shows
Speaker 1: the depth to his ability to do different types of movies.
Speaker 1: And that's where you know, Top Gun Maverick comes into play.
Speaker 1: He wasn't the lead for that, he could have been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it goes to show like he can do action movies,
Speaker 1: he can do rom comps. Sure. It kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me and like you mentioned earlier, at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the movie A Matthew Early, Matthew McConaughey, Okay, and Matthew.
Speaker 2: McConaughey Early, Like, I totally agree with everything you've said,
Speaker 2: because I think Glenn Powell has now reached the point
Speaker 2: of like a like a Chris Evans or like a
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds or a Ryan Gosling, but he hasn't had
Speaker 2: like like where is his Barbie, because Glen Powell deserves
Speaker 2: the that role, you know, that big huge the Christopher
Speaker 2: Nolan whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: Where's Where's that award? Where's that award?
Speaker 2: I think that's what's coming next for him, the like
Speaker 2: big huge blockbuster I'm on and Twisters was kind of that,
Speaker 2: and I think we're gonna see more of that. So okay,
Speaker 2: Glen Powell starts still rising similar to Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1: Timothy Shallome Oh Star still rising for sure.
Speaker 2: Dune Part two just came out of depth. He was
Speaker 2: a Willy Wonka prequel last year.
Speaker 1: It was a I again, I haven't seen the movie yet,
Speaker 1: but again was very well praised for his performance, specifically.
Speaker 2: Jenna Ortega. This one's tough Wednesday has been big yep,
Speaker 2: But I don't know how much success she's had outside
Speaker 2: of that realm. If that makes sense, she gets a
Speaker 2: lot of darker rule.
Speaker 1: She is a very dark rule person, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if she's pigeonholing herself.
Speaker 2: She reminds me of Aubrey Plaza a lot, where it's
Speaker 2: just like she's kind of like brooding.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think. I think if she can break out
Speaker 1: of the dark ish rolls, and I think it'll be
Speaker 1: hard for her. I think it'll have to be a transition,
Speaker 1: but I think she can do it.
Speaker 2: But I like her so star still rising.
Speaker 1: I think so if she can stop, if she can
Speaker 1: break out of like I don't want to see her
Speaker 1: in a crappy horror movie, yeah, yeah, because I think
Speaker 1: that will be a demise.
Speaker 3: I think she was.
Speaker 2: She was, Yes, she was, or maybe like a good
Speaker 2: horror I don't watch.
Speaker 1: Horror, but I kind of heard she was in a
Speaker 1: horror movie. I don't know how well.
Speaker 2: I think she was in the New Screen movie. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, Anya Taylor Joy was just in. I
Speaker 2: mean the menu was earlier. She was. She was in
Speaker 2: the Mad Max prequel. She was.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that one, curiosa. I heard it was
Speaker 1: really good, great reviews for her on that she was in.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what's the Chess one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was in the Chess One, which was very
Speaker 2: well too.
Speaker 1: I believe is coming out sooner or whatever seasons gambit, Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think she has a lot of range that potentially
Speaker 1: hasn't been discovered yet. Good choices for this discussion, I know,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: A lot of I feel like there are a lot
Speaker 2: of actors kind of percolating, but.
Speaker 1: We need them.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 2: You have.
Speaker 1: A missing like there's a hole? I find I totally
Speaker 1: agree and finding there's a hole.
Speaker 2: I love Brad Pitt and George Clooney and Matt Damon,
Speaker 2: But the amount of times I'm looking at a new
Speaker 2: Wards show and it's like, oh and here's George Clooney,
Speaker 2: Oh and here's Matt Damon, and it's like, Jesus, these
Speaker 2: guys again, Like I love these guys. But like, you're right,
Speaker 2: there's there's got to be a new group coming in
Speaker 2: kind of taking over. Austin Butler is he in that group?
Speaker 1: Oh God, if I have to hear him do an Elvis?
Speaker 1: I think he's moved on A good god guy, Like
Speaker 1: let it go. I think there were some like I
Speaker 1: don't know, Heath Ledger kind of things going on there
Speaker 1: with like method acting that he needed to break out,
Speaker 1: and I'm very happy he did.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit concerning at times.
Speaker 2: I had a big role in a new biker's movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: Was just obviously Elvis. He's he's Oh, he was in
Speaker 2: the Dune. He was in Dune Part two.
Speaker 1: I think he's broken away. And thank god from the
Speaker 1: little kid movies he did when we were younger as well, right, like.
Speaker 2: I totally don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, hold on, see in little kid movies?
Speaker 1: What do you mean little kid movies?
Speaker 2: What is little kid movies? The Bike Riders, by the way,
Speaker 2: was yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes. He was in a TV show called on
Speaker 1: the CW from twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen in Old
Speaker 1: Hand one season called The Carrie Diaries.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was like I believe he played Sebastian kid. It
Speaker 1: was like spun off of like Carrie Bradshaw, but as
Speaker 1: like a little kid, right. And then you know he
Speaker 1: had other in the realm of like Disney, like he
Speaker 1: was in Switched at Birth, he was in you know,
Speaker 1: Life Unexpected, the TV show for ten episodes. He was
Speaker 1: in some stuff like Wizard of Waverley Place, Zeke and Luther,
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at his IMDb, that's.
Speaker 2: The only aliens in the attic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Interesting, Carl Neds, de Classified School Survival, Hannah Montana. Like
Speaker 1: he played like these smaller roles in all of these
Speaker 1: Disney type TV shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Drake and Josh Montana, I Carl Zoe one on
Speaker 2: one Jesus.
Speaker 1: So like, I think I think it took him a
Speaker 1: long time to break out of that that role into
Speaker 1: more serious roles. So I say, just, you know, try
Speaker 1: not for super method acting. And I think he is great.
Speaker 1: I've heard he was phenomenal in Dune Part two.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he really he played off the other actor
Speaker 2: who was already in that role in terms of getting
Speaker 2: his his voice patterned down. Is very fascinating. Actually, uh,
Speaker 2: next one, Nicholas gallat Sign. We saw him in the
Speaker 2: movie opposite Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, No, I don't know. I think he
Speaker 1: might be peeking.
Speaker 2: I kind of a girl like. I've seen him in
Speaker 2: a few things. He reminds me of Noah's Toineo where
Speaker 2: it's like, is he like he's got to get something
Speaker 2: that's not on a streaming service? Really is kind of
Speaker 2: how I feel, you know, Yeah, that's not you.
Speaker 1: Know, based on a ya and to say, like, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the movie that he was in with Opposite and
Speaker 1: Hathaway was not. But like, I just saw a third
Speaker 1: trailer for a video where a younger guy is going
Speaker 1: for an older woman, which is again totally fine, it's great, awesome,
Speaker 1: But that's three in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Idea of You was his movie with that,
Speaker 2: which I loved.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really good. I mean, we praised it.
Speaker 1: It was great. But now I'm seeing like three, as
Speaker 1: they call them, the cougar video cougar movies, like come on, guys,
Speaker 1: like does everyone one was within? Nicole Kidman and oh
Speaker 1: my god, what's his name? Zach Efron?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I have not watched it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and then Laura Dern and oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's the most recent one. But like, do you have
Speaker 1: no other scripts? Got a lot of I'll write you
Speaker 1: a script.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of MILF movies coming out apparently, yes, uh,
Speaker 2: these ones might be a little bit more tough to identify.
Speaker 2: I've got Pedro Pascal. Is his star rising or has
Speaker 2: he peaked? He was in Game of Thrones. In the
Speaker 2: Last of Us he had that really funny one with
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage the overwhelming weight of the Popularity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we have to wait and see the
Speaker 1: Last of Us what happens after?
Speaker 2: Well? For me, do you want a spoiler? Oh?
Speaker 1: Does he die in?
Speaker 2: Does? Does anybody want a spoiler? Put on your ear muffs.
Speaker 2: Put on your ear muffs if you don't want spoilers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't watched it and I'm not going to.
Speaker 2: Based depending on how they play this out, he probably
Speaker 2: doesn't make it to the end of season two potentially yet.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: You did tell me that, Yeah, when you were playing
Speaker 1: the game, right.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, but that's the thing in Game of Thrones,
Speaker 2: his death was so abrupt and you were like, what
Speaker 2: he's gone? Yeah, so that could still help his star rise,
Speaker 2: but I feel like he might have actually hit his
Speaker 2: Petro Pascal was so beloved. He was on Saturday Night
Speaker 2: Live last year. Is this where he's gonna sit in
Speaker 2: terms of like Kenny Ryde out the rest of his career,
Speaker 2: just as like an a he's an A lister, right.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's between the rising stars, as
Speaker 1: we say, now the younger yeah, the younger group. He
Speaker 1: is the middle where that hole is for me in
Speaker 1: terms of age, I believe.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You have the Brad Pitts, the Matt Damon's, the George
Speaker 1: Clooneyes as you say, and then you have the you know, Timothy's,
Speaker 1: and you have the Austin Butlers, and you have like
Speaker 1: all of that. But like I said, there's that middle
Speaker 1: group that's missing for me a little bit.
Speaker 2: I agree, because he's forty nine and he's in that
Speaker 2: and Pedro Pascal, yeah, and he broke in Game of
Speaker 2: Thrones and he was already like late thirt probably early
Speaker 2: forties when that happened. Late thirties, late thirties, and you're like, wow,
Speaker 2: that's how do we miss this guy for so many years?
Speaker 2: For sure, he's going to be in the Gladiator movie
Speaker 2: coming up, by the way, so excited that'll be big.
Speaker 2: Oh and he was just cast in the Fantastic Four,
Speaker 2: that's right, So his his stock probably is still rising
Speaker 2: a little bit. Florence Pugh, this one, I think is tough.
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Has she hit her? She was just in the Chrystopher
Speaker 2: North Christopher Nolan movie Oppenheimer, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and again I didn't see Oppenheimer.
Speaker 2: She's in the Marvel MCU right.
Speaker 1: She in the Marvel.
Speaker 2: Oh, she was in the Black Widow prequel. She's like
Speaker 2: the opposite of Black.
Speaker 1: Widow's right, she's the sister.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about her.
Speaker 2: She's on.
Speaker 1: I think she's better than Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 2: Wow. I think Sidney Sweeney's stock is rising like a
Speaker 2: mile a minute right now, almost as flat fast as Oh.
Speaker 1: They're hard for me, but I think it's because, like
Speaker 1: I said a few pods ago, I have not seen
Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney in anything, so these ones are hard for
Speaker 1: me because I also haven't seen anything that Florence has
Speaker 1: been in, so I can't talk about them.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well there we have it are rising or peaked suggestions.
Speaker 2: Now we've got a what should have been?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad you talked me off the ledge
Speaker 1: of she should have been a CIA agent, or she
Speaker 1: should have been in cahoots with Jasper, or she should
Speaker 1: have been you know, I'm glad that that has veered
Speaker 1: a different way, and I like the groundedness that Hollywood
Speaker 1: did with this one. I am sad that it didn't
Speaker 1: come out what should have been. It should have come
Speaker 1: on our streaming service here in Canada when it went
Speaker 1: everywhere else. So if you guys listening don't know when
Speaker 1: you all got it, those of us streaming and Canada
Speaker 1: did not receive it. It only came out in theaters
Speaker 1: here for the first little while, and then it took
Speaker 1: a few more months to come out on Netflix for us.
Speaker 1: So this is why we're kind of late to the
Speaker 1: game on this one. But yeah, that would be my
Speaker 1: what should have been? Should have I don't know what
Speaker 1: Netflix did for why they did that for us.
Speaker 2: Well that is my what should have been actually out
Speaker 2: the way, not not that exactly, Okay, My what should
Speaker 2: have been is just an overall discussion of how streaming
Speaker 2: services are changing how we consume content like this because
Speaker 2: this movie fun fact, ladies and gentlemen. It was supposed
Speaker 2: to hit theaters, it was supposed to hit theaters hard,
Speaker 2: and then after its uh Toronto International Film Festival release
Speaker 2: or it's it's preview, Netflix scooped up the distribution rights.
Speaker 2: So they're like, hey, we we like this movie. We're
Speaker 2: gonna pay somebody twenty million dollars for the movie. It's
Speaker 2: gonna have a limited box office release. So this movie
Speaker 2: made four million dollars at the box office. What Flix
Speaker 2: play paid twenty million dollars for it? Its budget was
Speaker 2: eight point eight million dollars. Wow. So Netflix looks at
Speaker 2: that and they're like, hey, like, everybody's happy, right, we're
Speaker 2: paying We're giving you a nice little check for twenty
Speaker 2: million dollars, and we're gonna do whatever we want with
Speaker 2: the movie. Right. So yeah, it came out on streaming
Speaker 2: for Netflix worldwide except for Canada June seventh. But it
Speaker 2: is kind of this weird thing of like, if there's
Speaker 2: like a movie that is gonna cost a lot of
Speaker 2: money to promote and be a box office hit, some
Speaker 2: of these distributors are like, you know what, can a
Speaker 2: streaming service just take this off our hands for a
Speaker 2: nice little check twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1: And this movie is now making money.
Speaker 2: It's owned by Netflix. Yeah, right, So I like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's a good or a bad thing.
Speaker 2: I think overall, I'm worried about it. But Yeah, I
Speaker 2: just wanted to share the backstory for how that came
Speaker 2: to be. It was literally on its way to do
Speaker 2: whatever it was gonna do, and then the tip release
Speaker 2: came out and people were like, Hey, this doesn't suck,
Speaker 2: and Netflix is like, yeah, allmine, gobble it up.
Speaker 1: That's it, right, And I think like and Netflix has
Speaker 1: recently changed the way they're releasing even their TV series,
Speaker 1: which is like irking me to know life honestly to
Speaker 1: no end, because for example, you know, the most recent
Speaker 1: Bridgerton or even Emily in Paris, they're doing them in parts.
Speaker 1: So they'll, let's say, release five episodes in September twelfth,
Speaker 1: then they'll release the next, you know, five episodes in
Speaker 1: October twelfth, and it's or whatever the Friday is. And
Speaker 1: it's frustrating as a viewer because, in my opinion, either
Speaker 1: release it or release it weekly, like release it all
Speaker 1: or release it weekly because I binged, you know, or
Speaker 1: I had friends who binged the first four episodes I
Speaker 1: believe in Bridgerton and then had to wait a whole month.
Speaker 1: But it ended on such an annoying cliffhanger that everybody
Speaker 1: was furious about it, right, Yeah, and some of those
Speaker 1: people didn't end up going back to finish watching the
Speaker 1: other half because they had to wait a month and
Speaker 1: they'd moved on to something else, right, Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: don't know what the future looks like for streaming and
Speaker 1: the distribution of content, but I do think that something
Speaker 1: has to I guess pick up the slack that is
Speaker 1: that people are non longer going to theaters in droves.
Speaker 2: Totally, and that's it. It's kind of like, overall, it
Speaker 2: might not be necessarily the best thing, but you can
Speaker 2: see why distributors are turning to it because it the
Speaker 2: dollars and cents makes sense. So definitely, it's probably just
Speaker 2: something we're gonna need to contend with and keep an
Speaker 2: eye on. I think overall rewatchability right off the top,
Speaker 2: I've got two five out of five's coming right out
Speaker 2: of the gate. Chemistry five out of five. Immediately from
Speaker 2: their first meeting and all throughout their journey of Gary
Speaker 2: and Madison, the chemistry was palpable. You could feel it.
Speaker 2: You're like, wow, yes, yes, I get it. I get
Speaker 2: the chemistry in this movie imagination. I also got five
Speaker 2: out of five for that totally. I mean, even though
Speaker 2: even though they took content matter that already existed. Let's
Speaker 2: call a spada spade. It was an interesting article about
Speaker 2: a guy's job, and they made that into a movie.
Speaker 2: I still give that full Marx for imagination because they
Speaker 2: executed it so well. First factor four point eight five
Speaker 2: out of five. Absolutely, Adria Glenn Powell. They're both gorgeous
Speaker 2: human beings. Storyline four point seventy three. I was never bored.
Speaker 2: I was never like, ah, how much longer is this?
Speaker 2: It is a little bit on the longer end. It's
Speaker 2: almost two hours long. It's five minutes shy of two
Speaker 2: hours long. But I never felt like it was too long.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I never felt once that. I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, making this.
Speaker 2: Through, which I think is really important. Soundtrack is the
Speaker 2: only thing I'm not gonna give it. Strong marks on
Speaker 2: three point nine to five for the soundtrack, But then
Speaker 2: she's a four point seventy five for the cheese Fantastic movie.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a whole ton of stuff that I'm like,
Speaker 2: ooh that fell flat, or like ooh, that was kind
Speaker 2: of cheesy. That's an overall score of four point seven
Speaker 2: to one for Devin, which, if you know how I score,
Speaker 2: that's into the great category. It's not an all time great,
Speaker 2: but it's this is a really great movie. Not only that,
Speaker 2: this is a great movie that you can watch with
Speaker 2: maybe a significant other who doesn't love rom coms. Don't
Speaker 2: tell them that's a rom com. Tell them it's a
Speaker 2: Glenn Powell suspense thriller and they won't be upset about it.
Speaker 2: They won't be upset, They'll still be entertained.
Speaker 1: Okay, My rewatchability is chemistry five, storyline four point five.
Speaker 1: There's factor five, imagination five, even though yeah, I was
Speaker 1: based on a you know soundtrack four geez five. For
Speaker 1: an overall score of four point seven five.
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