Speaker 1: To what links will one man go to seek out
Speaker 1: his destiny? Would any obstacle or responsibility stop him if
Speaker 1: he believed the path he was on would result in
Speaker 1: the fulfillment of his wildest dreams, even if those dreams
Speaker 1: seemed unfeasible, impractical, and far fetched to all the closest
Speaker 1: people around him. That's the plot of Marty Supreme. I'm
Speaker 1: Ronald Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after
Speaker 2: seeing Marty Supreme. Marty Supreme written by Ronald Bronstein and
Speaker 2: Josh Safti, directed by Josh Saftie, starring Timothy Chalomey, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Speaker 2: Odessa Azion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler okonma Abel Ferreira, and Fran Dresser.
Speaker 2: And for complete cast listing, you can go to the
Speaker 2: link in our show notes. It is just me today.
Speaker 2: This is the last review of twenty twenty five. If
Speaker 2: you are following at Oz big Ron Studios on Instagram,
Speaker 2: you probably saw our top ten list. Marty Supreme was
Speaker 2: one of the ones I would not have been able
Speaker 2: to judge in time. To make the top ten list,
Speaker 2: spoiler alert, it would not have made my top ten
Speaker 2: for the year anyway. I will not tell you the rating.
Speaker 2: I will tell you the rating at the end. But
Speaker 2: I feel perfectly fine having seen this movie and ranking
Speaker 2: it outside of.
Speaker 3: My top ten.
Speaker 2: Now I want to point out the spoiler that you
Speaker 2: should know is that every movie in the top ten
Speaker 2: got at least a four. So that should tell you
Speaker 2: something right off the bat where this review is going, okay.
Speaker 2: Marty Supreme is a movie loosely based on the life
Speaker 2: of Marty Riser, who was a table tennis player. In
Speaker 2: this film, his name is Marty Mauser. He is a
Speaker 2: Jewish table tennis player who lives at looks like in Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: New York, in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 3: He is depicted as.
Speaker 2: Not super responsible through the eyes of the adults that
Speaker 2: are in his life now he is twenty three, but
Speaker 2: will say his mother, his uncle, other people that are
Speaker 2: around him kind of respond to him as if he
Speaker 2: is irresponsible, and he's shown throughout the film doing a
Speaker 2: lot of irresponsible things. He is on a quest to
Speaker 2: become a great ping pong player, and it is kind
Speaker 2: of set up like a biopic, but it is not.
Speaker 2: Again loosely based on the life of Marty Reiser, who
Speaker 2: I don't know well enough to know how accurate this is.
Speaker 3: I didn't like it as a film.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it now as a feat of performance
Speaker 2: from Timothy Chaloumey. Very good, very good, But I already
Speaker 2: knew he could act. I already knew he could act,
Speaker 2: and I don't necessarily think that he told me anything
Speaker 2: new about himself through this performance. I've been looking at
Speaker 2: reviews in which people have been saying that this is
Speaker 2: a career defining performance. I don't know if this is
Speaker 2: that for him. I do think that maybe it expands
Speaker 2: the offers he may get in the future, and maybe
Speaker 2: his abilities. He's more physical in this film, but he's
Speaker 2: also physical in Doune, So.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's You know what bothers me about this film is
Speaker 2: that in a lot of ways, it is the same
Speaker 2: movie as Uncut Gems, which is a movie done by
Speaker 2: Josh Safty and his brother Benny when they were directing
Speaker 2: movies together. This has been the first year which they
Speaker 2: started directing movies apart from each other, with Benny Safti
Speaker 2: giving The Smashing Machine, which is very very quiet for
Speaker 2: Oscar Season, which makes me think that I was right
Speaker 2: with my review and assessment of that film and this one,
Speaker 2: which is done by Josh Safty Marty Supreme. Now it's
Speaker 2: getting a lot of accolades right now. It has a
Speaker 2: ninety five percent on Rotten Tomatoes right now, and I
Speaker 2: think a lot of this has to do because it's
Speaker 2: a Safty brother and it's Timothy Chalomey. But watching the film,
Speaker 2: I did not feel, outside of Timothy chalo May's acting,
Speaker 2: that anything was emerging in front of me that I
Speaker 2: was seeing something career defining. To cite another movie in
Speaker 2: which I did see that but maybe didn't enjoy the
Speaker 2: movie that much was watching Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
Speaker 2: in Bogonia, a movie that also did not make the
Speaker 2: Top ten list, but I definitely gave it accolades for
Speaker 2: both of these two clocking in and doing their job.
Speaker 2: Timothy shallow May does his job in this film. But
Speaker 2: because this movie is so much like Uncut Gems, it
Speaker 2: sells me a false promise. It tells me that I'm
Speaker 2: going to see a story about a man who is
Speaker 2: relentless in his attempt to.
Speaker 3: Reach the highest heights of table tennis.
Speaker 2: And parlay that into some sort of good old fashioned
Speaker 2: American rags to riches stardom. And this idea of trading
Speaker 2: up is exactly the storyline in Uncut Gems. Adam Sandler
Speaker 2: is hustling the entire movie, robbing Peter to pay Paul,
Speaker 2: to consistently try to trade up from the sapphire that
Speaker 2: he acquires to trying to auction it to get this
Speaker 2: money so it could pay off this guy. All of
Speaker 2: that is coming up in this film. At some point
Speaker 2: he has robbed of that is rightfully his. All of
Speaker 2: that happens in Uncut Jims, but all of that also
Speaker 2: happens in Marty Supreme. Here is a man that is
Speaker 2: on a relentless quest to trade up in order to
Speaker 2: get what he needs in order to go to Tokyo
Speaker 2: for this. It is the whatever you want to call
Speaker 2: the it's the like imagine the Grand Slam of table tennis.
Speaker 2: We'll call it. It is the Grand Slam of table tennis.
Speaker 2: We'll call it. It is a Grand Slam, but in
Speaker 2: table tennis terms, so very big tournament means a lot.
Speaker 3: There's prize money, all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2: I just think this film wastes a lot of time
Speaker 2: with Shenanigans, and I know the Safti brothers love Shenanigans,
Speaker 2: and this just feels like it's hamstrung.
Speaker 3: In the Shenanigans.
Speaker 2: We're just stuck watching him try to get what he
Speaker 2: needs to get to Tokyo while also making terrible decisions
Speaker 2: and doing awful things, definitively awful. He's not a likable
Speaker 2: character whatsoever. And I find that because I'm not getting
Speaker 2: much out of him about how he sees about how
Speaker 2: he sees himself. And when I say that, I mean
Speaker 2: outside of him seeing himself as a star and possibly
Speaker 2: rising and making it to the end, I don't know
Speaker 2: enough about him. It's strange because I guess we do
Speaker 2: learn something about him, but not what I think we
Speaker 2: should have learned to truly get his motivations, especially by
Speaker 2: the time we get to the end of the film.
Speaker 2: At the very end of the movie, I remember thinking, Oh,
Speaker 2: what was that. There's a thing that me and my
Speaker 2: friend Michael say, which is we there's the musical Hamilton.
Speaker 2: At the very end of the musical, they all of
Speaker 2: a sudden start singing about the orphanage, the orphanage and
Speaker 2: the way that they put the emphasis on the words
Speaker 2: the orphanage while singing about Eliza, you would think that
Speaker 2: the entire musical was not about Hamilton or Hamilton's life,
Speaker 2: but rather about the orphanage. And that happens at the
Speaker 2: end of this film, where Marty is in a place
Speaker 2: and he sees us something and then he has an
Speaker 2: emotional response, and I remember thinking, this can't pau oh no,
Speaker 2: that's the end of the movie.
Speaker 3: This can't possibly be the end of the movie. And
Speaker 3: that was the end of the movie.
Speaker 2: And it puts an emphasis on something where I don't
Speaker 2: know what Josh Saftie's perspective is on this film. I
Speaker 2: don't understand. And I feel like, based on this massive
Speaker 2: press tour that Timothy Chalomey is taking and based on
Speaker 2: the way that critics are responding, this is one of
Speaker 2: those Oscar films in which you just have to get it.
Speaker 3: And I did get it.
Speaker 2: I got it a few years ago when this was
Speaker 2: uncut Gems, and I really enjoyed Uncut Gems, And I
Speaker 2: think what bothers me about watching this film is that
Speaker 2: Timothy chalomy is going to get the accolades and the
Speaker 2: acclaim that Adam Sandler should have got for playing a
Speaker 2: very similar, if not the same role in Uncut Gems.
Speaker 3: Watch those movies back to back.
Speaker 2: It is a man that is that is running from something,
Speaker 2: running towards something. It's very amorphous. I have to go alone.
Speaker 2: He's cheating on women. He has a you know, a
Speaker 2: main woman and a side woman, you know, like he
Speaker 2: and he's also and Marty Supreme is even more complex
Speaker 2: than that. And then again there's some goons that are
Speaker 2: coming after him to get something that he took for
Speaker 2: them because he really needed it. Then also, there's no
Speaker 2: real consequences to anything that happens in this film. And
Speaker 2: I feel like that's the difference between Uncut Gyms and
Speaker 2: Marty Supreme, which is that in Uncut Gems, there are
Speaker 2: real consequences when you get to the end of the film,
Speaker 2: whereas in Marty Supreme, it just feels like several very big,
Speaker 2: very terrible things happen, and in the next scene we're
Speaker 2: just okay, off to the next thing.
Speaker 3: It seems like we got to do the next thing.
Speaker 3: What's the next thing?
Speaker 2: We're doing, Okay, off to the next thing, and it
Speaker 2: just it feels aimless. I think this movie, in the
Speaker 2: first maybe half an hour, I'm into it, and then
Speaker 2: it kind of feels like it turns into a series
Speaker 2: of kind of loose vignettes, which is it's frustrating, and
Speaker 2: for it to be two and a half hours long
Speaker 2: it for me, it's not even that it overstays. It's
Speaker 2: welcome because it keeps tricking me to stay a little
Speaker 2: bit longer by essentially enticing me with the main plot,
Speaker 2: which is is this guy gonna make it to this
Speaker 2: table tennis match? And then what's gonna happen there? And
Speaker 2: it's subverting a lot of sports movie and I guess
Speaker 2: mission movie tropes in a very specific way, because at
Speaker 2: some point this movie is basically like, no, it's not
Speaker 2: about table tennis. It's about this man and this character,
Speaker 2: And just for me, it would have been fine for
Speaker 2: it to also be about table tennis. We've seen plenty
Speaker 2: of biopicks in which they cover the man and they
Speaker 2: cover the thing that they're doing. Now, technically this isn't
Speaker 2: a biopic because it's loosely based on someone rather than
Speaker 2: actually being about this person. So I don't know how
Speaker 2: these stories were told, I don't know how they were received,
Speaker 2: but they all just feel like each of these stories
Speaker 2: feel like the story of a very old man Marty
Speaker 2: Reser died when he was eighty five, who was telling
Speaker 2: you stories in a bar and you've never heard of him,
Speaker 2: but he's telling you these fantastic stories. It just feels
Speaker 2: like all they did was illustrate those stories. And because
Speaker 2: they're loose vignettes, you don't ever get to know the
Speaker 2: character telling the story. Now, I think that is appealing
Speaker 2: to some people. It's not appealing to me. I do
Speaker 2: not want to watch this again. I will say I
Speaker 2: enjoyed watching Timothy Shalomey. I enjoyed watching him. I think
Speaker 2: he did do a good job. Granted, I don't think
Speaker 2: he did anything I didn't know he could do, and
Speaker 2: it did make me want to see him in more,
Speaker 2: not necessarily middle of the road movies, but just movies
Speaker 2: that maybe aren't always so performance driven, or movies where
Speaker 2: there's more of an ensemble. I just think that I
Speaker 2: know what he's trying to do. He announced what he
Speaker 2: was trying to do last year. He's striving for greatness,
Speaker 2: which is good good. I just don't know if this
Speaker 2: was the one. With all of that being said, I
Speaker 2: give it a two point nine to nine of five stars.
Speaker 2: I don't want to watch it again. Timothy Chalomauge acting
Speaker 2: was very good for four point twenty five on the acting,
Speaker 2: but the rest of the movie just it was not
Speaker 2: good enough to justify everything else that I had to
Speaker 2: sit through. And I would rather just watch Uncut Gems again,
Speaker 2: which is a better movie. So for the rest of
Speaker 2: the movie, I'd probably give it like below a two,
Speaker 2: but again for his performance, very good. So and the
Speaker 2: last thing I'll say is Frand Dresher is in this movie,
Speaker 2: and for the little bit of time that she's there,
Speaker 2: I actually really enjoyed her and would have loved to
Speaker 2: see more of her. I think this movie does a
Speaker 2: weird thing with actors generally, in that there are a
Speaker 2: bunch of small roles and cameos played by very notable people.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 2: Penn Gilette is in this film. Ted Williams, and to
Speaker 2: be clear that Ted Williams, who was homeless and then
Speaker 2: became a voiceoverstar and then went on Doctor Phil and
Speaker 2: basically lost it all. He's in this film. David Mammett,
Speaker 2: Disgraced film director David mammontt is in this film. Or
Speaker 2: disgraced writer David Mammontt is in this film. George Gervin.
Speaker 2: Famed basketball player George Gervin is in this film. Tyler
Speaker 2: the Creator is in this film. Fran Dresher is in
Speaker 2: this film, and fran Dresher gave me a little bit,
Speaker 2: which was good. George Gervin could have probably been played
Speaker 2: by anybody. There's just several roles in this film where
Speaker 2: it was distracting enough to see them and be like, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's that guy doing here?
Speaker 3: I wonder if that means something?
Speaker 2: And then they kind of just they're gone, And so
Speaker 2: if I missed that, And maybe part of it is
Speaker 2: the point like there's something in common with all of
Speaker 2: these these folks that maybe I just didn't notice, but
Speaker 2: felt like a.
Speaker 3: Just felt like an.
Speaker 2: Easter egg for Easter Egg's sake in some cases, but
Speaker 2: woefully underused. Fran Dresher, who demonstrated some range here. I
Speaker 2: thought the parts in which she started talking and interacting
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed so, but she's not in it much.
Speaker 3: With that.
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