Speaker 1: What's up, listeners. So when I recorded this week's episode,
Speaker 1: I was in the basement of a parking garage with
Speaker 1: zero reception, which means I didn't have my phone to
Speaker 1: look at my notes like I usually do, which means
Speaker 1: I need to tell you the cast and the writer
Speaker 1: and the director of the movie right up top. Also,
Speaker 1: there's a few details about the movie that I wanted
Speaker 1: to share, so I'm going to say all of that
Speaker 1: right now. This week's movie is Bogonia. Bogonia, written by
Speaker 1: Will Tracy, directed by your Ghost Lantemos, starring im A Stone,
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons, Aiden Delvis Stavros Halkius, and Alicia Silverstone. This
Speaker 1: movie is an English language remake of the two thousand
Speaker 1: and three South Korean film Save the Green Planet. It's
Speaker 1: about two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO because
Speaker 1: they suspect that she's secretly an alien who wants to
Speaker 1: destroy Earth. All right, I'm Ronald Young Junior, and I'm
Speaker 1: leaving the theater. Where have young girls thinking them? When
Speaker 1: will they have? When will they am? Now? All right?
Speaker 1: This is Ronald, and I am leaving the theater after
Speaker 1: seeing Bogonia. So I'm in a basement with no service.
Speaker 1: As I recapped at the top of the episode, let's
Speaker 1: get into the film itself. I don't I there are
Speaker 1: so many things about this film that were fine. It
Speaker 1: made me lean in, it made me watch it. Jesse
Speaker 1: Plemon's performance is great. I do not know the actor's
Speaker 1: name who played Don. His performance is also great. And
Speaker 1: Emma Stone's performance is great. Performances are great. The actors
Speaker 1: all clocked in. I have no quibbles with the actors.
Speaker 1: I don't even think I have any quibbles with Yrgos
Speaker 1: Lanthemos and his directing style. He shot this on film,
Speaker 1: it looked good. I believed the set pieces very believable,
Speaker 1: like it made sense. I felt like I was in
Speaker 1: that world. I have issues with the story. I have
Speaker 1: issues with watching as much movie as I just watched,
Speaker 1: only for it to end the way that it did.
Speaker 1: And when it ended, I was in a press screening.
Speaker 1: Every now and then you'll get some sort of titter
Speaker 1: or some sort of clap or something from the audience
Speaker 1: that will indicate how they felt about this movie. And
Speaker 1: it was silence for me. It was stunned silence, as in,
Speaker 1: I can't believe what I just watched. I might have
Speaker 1: wasted my time here. The reason why that's important and
Speaker 1: is that important, I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's important that I wasted time or not. I guess
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is watching the movie, getting to the
Speaker 1: end and feeling like it fell flat. Really, I don't
Speaker 1: want to walk out of a movie wondering if I
Speaker 1: liked it or not, because for me, that's a clear
Speaker 1: indication that I don't like it. Because movies that I
Speaker 1: like and movies that make me think, will often make
Speaker 1: me think about the parts that I do want to
Speaker 1: rewatch again, whereas this one, I don't want to watch
Speaker 1: it again. It was frustrating. It's a captive movie, and
Speaker 1: captive movies are always frustrating to me. I am always thinking,
Speaker 1: just get out of there, just run right now, just
Speaker 1: stab them now, just get on out of there. And
Speaker 1: this movie it's not necessarily filled with that, but the approach,
Speaker 1: the dialogue between Stone and Jesse Plemans felt sometimes excruciating,
Speaker 1: but not again because of the way they performed it,
Speaker 1: but because of the way it was written. And I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what the messaging is here. I just
Speaker 1: feel like at twenty twenty five to have to watch
Speaker 1: what I just watched. I would like some messaging. I
Speaker 1: would like you to tell me something. I would like
Speaker 1: you to peel back the curtain a little bit and
Speaker 1: tell me what exactly were you thinking here, because what
Speaker 1: I'm going to get from the actors is a press tour.
Speaker 1: They're going to go around and say, oh, it's brilliant
Speaker 1: and it means this and that, and it's a commentary
Speaker 1: on this. But they're just trying to sell me the movie.
Speaker 1: I've seen it now and I'm not going to buy
Speaker 1: another ticket, and I don't want to see it again,
Speaker 1: but I do want to kind of digest what I
Speaker 1: just saw and maybe you'll get point zero one star back.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I just yeah, this was hard, y'all.
Speaker 1: This was hard, man. It was even for me painful
Speaker 1: at times because and I think for me, when it
Speaker 1: stopped being painful and I leaned all the way in,
Speaker 1: I felt like it then kind of spat in my
Speaker 1: face and then kind of rubbed my face in it
Speaker 1: for a while in a way that felt extremely frustrating.
Speaker 1: And there's really no way for me to tell you
Speaker 1: what happened without spoiling the movie, so I almost want
Speaker 1: to just and even if I tell you, I just
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be I think if you
Speaker 1: want to see this, go see it, but just know
Speaker 1: that it's possible you might leave pretty frustrated with it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think it's a short review today, y'all.
Speaker 1: Like I that's all I really have? Is that all
Speaker 1: I have? Yeah? Wow that I'm sorry y'all like this one.
Speaker 1: I don't have much more than that. I just i'd
Speaker 1: I feel like one two three Cloverfield Lane. I think
Speaker 1: it's called another frustrating movie for me because I really
Speaker 1: liked Cloverfield and I feel like each entry in the
Speaker 1: Cloverfield franchise is more frustrating than the last. But X
Speaker 1: Machina X Bachina one two three Cloverfield Lane are two
Speaker 1: mysterious kind of captor movies. If you will. X Machina
Speaker 1: is pretty good. It does a pretty good job. One
Speaker 1: two three Cloverfield Lane does an okay job. I wish
Speaker 1: they gave me more. I wish you would get me
Speaker 1: into the fight like I want to be. I just
Speaker 1: want to be in the fight. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the Cloverfield movies, they keep taking me away from the fight,
Speaker 1: put me in the fight, coach, and then this get
Speaker 1: a captive movie where I I just don't know why
Speaker 1: I had to watch it. And the way that you
Speaker 1: scoring to indicate fear in this film is sometimes jarring.
Speaker 1: It's effective at times, but I don't love it. And
Speaker 1: there's some acts of violence here that don't feel fun
Speaker 1: to watch. And I know that's probably a weird sentence.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? I mean you watch
Speaker 1: some movies and they're like, oh, man, he beat that
Speaker 1: dude up and threw them off a building, and you
Speaker 1: don't have to like it, doesn't really hold it up
Speaker 1: close to you, whereas this one is the type of
Speaker 1: violence that feels visceral and bothersome. There's one point where
Speaker 1: a person does self harm and I knew it was
Speaker 1: coming so immediately covered my eyes from the way that
Speaker 1: the character was talking. And I didn't like that and
Speaker 1: did't make me feel good. This movie just it's a
Speaker 1: feel bad movie. I don't feel good after watching this.
Speaker 1: I have to go think about some stuff and maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, you to comfort food or so. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Man, this is I have to cleanse my
Speaker 1: body of this movie. I just y'all. Please. With all
Speaker 1: that being said, I give it a two point nine
Speaker 1: to nine of five stars. It's the story that's bad.
Speaker 1: It's not really the construction of the film itself that's bad.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to watch it again. I still
Speaker 1: liked it better than The Long Walk, which I did
Speaker 1: not like, So hopefully that gives you some indication there,
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting in a basement right now. It is Tuesday evening.
Speaker 1: I have to cut and mix this episode tomorrow Wednesday
Speaker 1: because I'm leaving town on Thursday, so that I can
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