Sardonicast 119: Nope, The Black Phone, Brokeback Mountain
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One small detail I liked in Nope is how at the beginning you see Keke's character say the Muybridge speech. She says "This man was my great-great-great grandfather" and Edward Kaluuya adds the one "great" she missed. Later in the film you see a video of their father doing the exact speech she did at the beginning of the film. She missed one "great" because she knew the speech by heart from hearing her father say it all the time.
Holy shit thats genius. Such a cool detail.
I also think it implies that she's just repeating what she wants to be true and may truly not. I saw some birdbrained take by E;R mention that it could have been just that the Muybridge film just didn't accurately capture skin tone. The point being that media strips you of everything you think unique and replaces it with trauma. The electric cyclist is even named 'Ryder Muybridge' and is played by a white man.
A decent alt title for "Nope" would have been "Don't Look Up," but someone had dibs on that.
@@Maxisamo1 But "Nope" does a much better job at generating mystique around what the movie is about.
no, Nope is super fitting in many ways. if you dont see that, then im sorry, because Nope is a fantastic Title. For this film
I bet Jon Favreau hated Nope. The skies looked too beautiful
Who hurt you, Jon?
So unrealistic
He’s just going for that nature documentary feel ykno
JON?!?!?!?!!!!!!
There's no beautiful skies in Africa though, it's uNrEaLiStiC😡😡😡🤬🤬😤😤😤😤
Timestamps!
0:00 Intro, Ralph’s big new TV
5:46 Talking about old video games
10:31 Nope (spoilers)
42:43 The Black Phone (spoilers)
1:08:09 Brokeback Mountain (spoilers)
1:48:05 Pizza Time! I mean Question Time!
1:48:15 Thoughts on Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal?
1:50:12 Thoughts on Better Call Saul season 6?
1:56:47 Thoughts on Phil Tippett’s Mad God?
2:02:54 Thoughts on RRR?
2:10:41 What’s your favorite part of living?
2:14:14 Adam recommends The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Shrek
Thank you, Michael Scott
Shrek
Shrek 2
Nice bro, i havent watch Nope, so this is pretty helpful
Some of us rely on this, you make the world a better place Mr. Scott! 😚
It's implied that Yeun's character survived the chimp attack because he doesn't make eye contact thanks to the tablecloth. There's a parallel with the alien later.
Thanks for commenting this. Love it
@@michaelangelo2192
The Brokeback Mountain discussion meant a lot to me. I was raised by really homophobic parents and was 14 or so when the movie came out. I watched and then resented it for a long time just because its characters were very beautiful men and I always felt ugly, and due to my particular psychology/circumstances felt alienated from the gay community due to not fitting a physical stereotype. Plus the fact that it’s a tragedy made it too hard for me to watch, given the homophobic filth that my parents talked to me from a very young age. I remember watching a Rock Hudson movie with my dad and when his name came up in the credits my dad pointed and said “he died because he was sucking other men’s willies.”
The discussion in this episode clarified for me a lot of what’s stupid and harmful about homophobia, and convinced me to give the film another shot sometime.
So thanks, guys!
When it's discussed if straight people playing Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual roles is problematic...i always bring the fact Mark Walhberg said he was creeped out by the script of Brokeback mountain.
Like, sure LGBT actors deserve more opportunities but good lord. Homophobia and unprofessionalism concerns me more.
@Jonathan Jones He's good in Boogie Nights and The Departed, but that's about it.
Man, whats yall dont know is that if Mark Walhberg was in one of the two planes from 9/11 terorrism he would stop Al-Qaeda 100% smh
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 The Italian Job? Ignoring the fact that the movie itself is not that good, I thought that his acting is okay.
Mark Wahlberg is absolutely insane, dude. I don't think he's a good example to represent the whole.
I decided to watch _Brokeback Mountain_ for the first time after hearing that Sardonicast was set to review it. I'd heard about it for years at the Catholic school I went to as the "gay cowboy movie" without knowing anything else about it. I found it to be very touching and thoughtful, and I agree wholeheartedly with everything Adam and co. had to say. It upset me a lot more than I was expecting, particularly that flashback scene where Heath Ledger's character (as a kid) sees the mutilated corpse. No one should have to live their life like that. It isn't right. It isn't human.
NOPE SPOILER:
Jup (Steven Yuen) had been using the horses that OJ had been selling to feed Jean Jacket for 3-6 months before the events of the movie. OJ sees him practicing the show in the distance when he goes after the white horse that ran away. Jup had been doing it every Friday and on the debut show everything went wrong because Lucky wouldn’t run. Just contributes to Jup’s overall hubris and misunderstanding of his connection with nature and the “bad miracles” around him.
Oh so that's what the lights were, right? When I first saw that I assumed it was a UFO since it kinda looked Close Encounters/ET-ish.
I think this is a really important part of the story and why the animal has started to attack like it did. Like when ppl start feeding bears and then they have to put them down because they lose their fear of humans. Also leaves open the possibility that there’s more of these out there hiding in the clouds that just haven’t lost their fear of us yet
thanks i didnt pick up of that
Why is Ralph’s voice so deep? Is he evolving into a mafia man?
Broken microphone
@@nevermindgaming6848 …..the perfect cover
I was just thinking that 🤔 i dont like it
Yeah he does have a deeper voice in the podcast. My first idiotic thought was that maybe he's using his 'straight voice' lol
I guess it's a different mic, maybe a headset mic instead of a professional Yeti or whatever he uses to film his videos :P
1:40:15 "If you love someone you gotta make it work while you can, because no one lives forever. Time slips through our fingers & you don't want to spend the rest of your life living with regrets, thinking about what could've been." - Adam Johnston
Words to live by.
The coin going into Keith Davids eye is also mirrored by the fact the sister has to feed coins into the machine to capture a picture of the creature at the end
I really hope Adam gives Better Call Saul a second chance. I understand that "it gets good after _____" is a bad argument, but I think after maybe the halfway point of season 1 there are a TON of things Adam would really appreciate about this show, and it might change his perspective about the early first season a bit.
It seems like the show was still trying to find the right tone early on, but by the episode "Five-O" it really figured out what the rest of the series is gonna be from then on, and it only gets better.
It would make for a decent watch along at least.
For real. I would even say that the show is already great starting from the beginning. The shots and all the technical stuff is very good from episode 1. It simply gets better as it goes on.
@@3U9ENE Honestly, I can see how the first few episodes can turn people off. It apparently did just that for Adam. But given that the show was still trying to figure out it's identity, those early episodes really aren't indicative of how the rest of the show is. I think Adam would have very few complaints about seasons 2-6.
I watched all of it except the last 2 or 3 episodes and I don't know if I found it worth it. If the Jimmy and Chuck arc was the only content, and it was like 3 seasons, I would've liked it, but the Gus stuff is just absolute cancer.
@@skbirdandsiggi10 Not sure how someone can say this unironically lol
@@gamemaster2311 you don't get how someone could unironically dislike geezer Gus and Mike constantly interrupting the show with a plotline that can only go one way, that is bloated as hell, not that fun, has almost no bearing on Saul's storyline until way later, retcons their characterization, and ultimately has a pretty meh conclusion? None of that shit felt even remotely satisfying and I wish I had skipped every scene with Gus in it.
In my hometown, the regular theaters wouldn't play "Brokeback Mountain", it was only playing at the independent theater. This was in California, which shockingly voted "Yes" on Prop 8 just 3 years later (an anti-marriage equality bill). I was in high school, and a friend and I asked a parent to take us, and they kind of treated it as a novelty--and they weren't expecting it to be tragic, so they were kind of annoyed leaving the theater. I was still mostly closeted at the time, so I couldn't really express my honest feelings about it--but I remember finding it mostly boring because I was a dumb 15 year old, and couldn't appreciate what it was actually trying to say. Our primary exposure to gay media at that point was yaoi and BL manga, if that puts it in perspective lmao
I thought Ethan Hawke being a pervert in the black phone was really obvious. It was to the point i was afraid they were going to show some kind of exploitative creepy child molestation as a flashback. After they showed the daughter getting beaten in the first act, I was worried about the child suffering on screen escalating.
Ethan Hawke says to Finn “I wont do anything to you, you wont like.” One of the boys on the phone says something about Ethan Hawke killing is soul before he killed his body. Of all things the only piece of furniture in the basement is a dirty mattress… The looming sexual assault felt like the horror to me. It’s interesting to hear that some people didn’t notice that at all.
Haven’t listened for a while, glad to hear that Ralph has finally hit puberty, always knew he was a late bloomer
Did anyone else notice the Akira "homage" in the final chase scene of Nope when Luaren Palmer on the motorcycle breaks and hairpin turns to face the camera; mirroring the iconic shot of Kaneda in Akira. It really stuck out to me but I haven't heard any one else mention it.
There’s Evangelion references too, I think peele is an anime fan lol
I just finished watching both of them back to back and thought it was a cool homage
In relation to "explaining" Nope: I have nobody on the internet see talk about french philosopher Guy Debord and how his theory from The Society Of The Spectacle seems to be fully and undeniably embedded in the concept of the film. It is the first thing I thought about, and reading up on it after the film, the connections are uncanny af.
pretty sure there's a moment in Nope where you see Antler taking cancer meds, hence why he let himself die trying to get the best shot of the alien
I feel like the cinematographer’s motivation for getting sucked up ultimately came down to what the movie says about spectacle.
He’s being presented with the opportunity for the shot of a lifetime and how even if the world doesn’t know that he got the shot or will even be able to see it, HE knows he got it and that’s enough for him, he doesn’t care if he dies as long as he dies getting the impossible shot.
And I think the three hit a really vital point before as well, he was shown just mindlessly replaying the same clips over and over again.
To me his character is about getting tangled up in Hollywood and losing all passion for life through the entire thing, to the point where even a spec of this passion you once felt is worth dying over.
This movie feels like it has so much to say, pretty cool.
My brother said his friend snapped a Brokeback Mountain DVD in half. He must have issues.
There's a weird obsession with numbers with Yeun's character. He says the mayhem on set lasted for 6 minutes and 13 seconds, and the time when he feeds the alien is at 6:13PM. It could be him just wanting everything to be connected with his experience on the set - that he believes that he survived because of a miracle, so using same methods with the alien would work, too. But, he only survived because he wasn't in sight of the monkey and didn't look at him until he calmed down.
The shoe could be that "bad miracle" they speak of. It was just standing that way and it was something he could focus on, on the set, while all this horror was happening around him. So, he displays it as a miracle on set, but then the - excuse the pun - other shoe drops when he misinterprets what happened to him, gets cocky and ends up dying by what he thought he could control.
Just some rambling thoughts I had when I saw it last week, loved it!
My thinking too. I didn’t notice the number obsession. Besides just focusing on the animals, I’ve been trying to decipher the title cards to see if they had any other meaning. No such luck :/
Also, this might be a stretch but 6 minutes and 13 seconds, aka 373 seconds, the number 373 is an angel number telling that "The ascended master is on the right path", as in angel tells you that "you're on the right path"
I think this kinda fits with Yeun's character and story considering that he genuinely believed that he was the chosen one because he survived that incident thus having the belief that he can tame the untameable.
@@sori_osori_ I think you’re on to something there. I think that perfectly aligns with OP’s idea of the shoe being the bad miracle. How him surviving is just mere coincidence, but now it creates a fallacy that he’s a chosen one. Man Nope kinda slaps hard
@@UncleHyena It's just the names of the horses, but I did find it interesting that they decided to name the alien Jean Jacket, since that's the horse that Keke Palmer was supposed to train first, but then she didn't end up training him because they had to send him to the set. But, she does get a chance to pull away this Jean Jacket from Kaluuya and take matters into her own hands at the end, being the one who "breaks" Jean Jacket.
@@sori_osori_ There's also the chance it might fit with some Bible quote, 6-13, 6:1-3, however you break it apart; since the opening quote is from Book of Nahum, chapter 3, verse 6, those damn numbers again!
Jack twist standing up to his father in law is one of the best "hell yeah!" Moments In film
Jack Twist and Jake’s performance weren’t discussed as much as they should’ve had in this episode. He was brilliant.
My takeaway from Nope was it was about spectacle, and there even is a meta moment where they were at the fast food restaurant and as Angel was talking you can see outside two soccer teams fighting. A nod at us that we gravitate towards what we find interesting rather than the important stuff.
That was a weird, yet interesting choice of background commotion.
I saw Nope last week in a theatre and was really impressed. It built up tension so well and when it reached the peak it held it for like 15 minutes. It was refreshing and exciting.
I went in without knowing anything about the film other than maybe aliens were involved.
Well now I hope the hype of RRR carries it all the way to the Oscars so the sards have no choice but to watch it
I really liked nope because of all the visual storytelling. It really makes you think about what your seeing and try to connect the dots. I loved it.
You can actually see the camouflaged alien cloud early on in the movie before they ever know that it exists.
Nope is called Nope is because Peele wanted that to be the reaction of the audience for certain scenes. I like it more than what people said with it meaning Not of Planet Earth
When watching Nope I kind of noticed a strong theme of certain means exploitation media industry. You have the animals that aren't well treated (while we don't see it as much with the ape, we do see with the horses how the people on the set use a mirror despite being told not to do so, as well as not giving them a break when Kaluuya's character says they need one). On top of that you have the kids, who are both harmed by their experience on the show (Yeun mentally so whereas his costar is left deformed by the accident), as well as the "smaller people" i.e. Kaluuya's character, who is tossed to the side when something happens to a big name, despite it happening only due to others going against his instructions.
Adam's point about Yeun referring to it as "the viewers" is something I haven't picked up on but is possibly even more strengthening on my theory, as the viewer is at the end of the day supporting the system that causes these harms.
This can be additionally strengthened by the fact that the photographer, driven to get the perfect shot at risk to his own safety, meets his demise also by means of attempting to engage with media beyond what is healthy.
I noticed that too, everyone who died had some sort of connection to media/entertainment in a negative way. Like that paparazzi TMZ guy on the bike refusing to leave.
Being a liberal Indian, I can assure you that all of Satyajit Ray films are very different from typical top-rated Indian films (which are basically due to stan culture and propaganda by the government).
Satyajit Ray's films are better than any of the films made in India till now and any films are going to be made in the next 100 years. Definitely check out The Hero (1966). If you like it then you can delve into Apu Trilogy and all.
I think Yeun's character actually managed to summon the UFO, you can see when OJ was chasing the white horse at the start of the movie.
RRR was awesome! I don’t even like Indian movies but that movie just got better and better as it went along and I loved the bromance in it. Also it wasn’t even a Bollywood movie
Nope was a lot of fun & I hope Jordan Peele continues just making self-contained stories like he does since studios trying to "Universe-ify" stories and connecting them in the most ludicrous and roundabout way would absolutely kill my enjoyment. The closest thing right now is all the current Halloween Horror Nights tie-ins with Us & Nope and it should stay that way (why Get Out isnt there i dunno, I think you can incorporate a guy who woke up mid brain surgery into the Scare Zone, but I digress). 8/10.
Yeah thats fair, not every horror writer has to have a stephen kingiverse, or else you end up with a shamalaniverse that lasts three movies and thats it
Honestly hope they praise Michel Gondry directing when they talk about Eternal Sunshine. It was kinda disrespectful when they only praise Charlie Kaufman when they watched Adaptation with little to no mention of Spike Jonez.
Tbf I confuse Jonze and Kaufman's directed movies, especially when Kaufman is writing for Jonze.
@@Lifesizemortal I sometimes find similitudes between Her and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind but then I remember Jonze didn't direct the later and Kauffman didn't write the first, so they really don't have anything in common
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 dont forget Kaufman also wrote for Gondry and that movie was really goddamn weird
On the topic of race, I do wonder whether the ape (This may sound racist at first) was meant to be a parallel to how black people were used and exploited in media in the past, there was a scene of Gordy's birthday where they purposely did NOT show Gordy for the entire scene, I wonder if this was to do with how black people are sometimes "erased" from media down the line, similar to how no one knew the jockey on the original motion picture of the man riding the horse.
The thing I liked about the dynamic of OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emmerald (Keke Palmer) is that: (I might be wrong on this, also Spoilers!)
Theirs goals got reversed as the movie went along which I find it really interesting.
At the beginning, it was OJ who got sick of the film industry and want to be get done with it maybe due to father's death (As in selling horses), where as Emmerald was the one who wanted to be the center of attention as in doing PR of herself on film set and providing the idea of alien footage to tv show.
However as the movie went along, especially after they find out more about the alien and escaped to the tv store guy house, it was Emmerald who was now done with the alien and wanted to escape from it, whereas OJ wanted to come back to where alien is. At one point she refuses the interview by the TMZ reporter as well.
At the last scene, Emmerald was able to take a picture of the alien and destroy the alien. With polices standing outside the festival site you can say she have now become the center of attention as she always wanted to be, but her main focus was on her brother OJ coming back with Lucky like a main character of the western movie (This could might be a reference to that scene where in the past Emmerald was supposed to tame the horse but OJ tamed it and Emmerald had to just view it from the outside)
This might be a play on western genre or a message about how males and females are treated in media (this might be a stretch) but I find the dynamic really entertaining and interesting.
y'all boring af for not giving RRR a chance. You keep saying those websites are sus but what about the amazing reviews and articles from prestige publications like Variety, NY Times, Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter, TIMES?
They don't like these over the top movies.
@@antonchigurh22 I mean Ralph definitely does, if he’s able to enjoy Blade then he’d probably love RRR
Haven't seen RRR myself, but it seems to have struck a chord with Western viewers a bit more than most Indian cinema. It dominated film Twitter for a bit earlier in the year, and most of the film RUclipsrs I follow really enjoyed it. I know a lot of Indian cinema seems to have overly inflated review scores, but I genuinely think RRR has surpassed that and is being loved by people from many different countries.
no it didn't, it's just Indians manufacturing hype by spamming the comment sections and review sites... I've yet to see one in the real world who've seen it
@@dihyaneverforget5163 Maybe you should go and watch it then. You can be the first one in your friend circle to experience the awesomeness if you like over-the-top movies.
I didn’t realize my family & friends who loved RRR are actually Indian bots, thank you Adum for spreading awareness
I tried watching it, but it felt like an overstretched parody for me. I guess it works if you're into that over the top style of action movies?
I feel like most of the sards and their audience pretend that they watch all kinds of films and their pallet is so wide, but at the same time cannot watch a over the top movie that is taking itself seriously. It feels like a very restrictive way to think about films. It also feels like adam wants like a white/American only Imdb or something.
@@jathinreddy460 where the fuck did you get that idea
@@jathinreddy460 A lot of them will be like “Ha my taste in film is so much better and more diverse than the ignorant masses” then it’s just everything Adum and the crew have rated good
@@jathinreddy460 It would make sense that people who watch Adam's reviews share quite a lot with his taste in movies, right? It seems like you're conflating "preference" with "restriction".
People talk a lot about Brokeback Mountain breaking macho stereotypes and opening the door for LGBT representation, but not enough people recognise Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet doing that 13 years before.
*NOPE SPOILER* Nobody seems to have noticed that the 'abducted' people, after a brief wide shot of the saucer's insides, all stop screaming at once. Like it flexed a stomach muscle and splatted them all at once or something. Curious.
Thats right before it spews blood all over the house too if I remember correctly
I felt like it bit them, like chewed on them and killed them with a crunch
I assume it was a freaky digestive lining that dissolved it's victims at once, then dumped whatever amount of waste is left.
@@musicaleuphoria8699 I saw it as an attempt to clear the blockage of the decoy horse, because it couldn't fully swallow the audience
Yeah, he digested them
It's not just Indians loving RRR. Most Hollywood/non Indian critics have it in their top 10 list.
I thought Nope had a lot of exploitation themes, and it’s interesting how success in the end is determined by the main character’s ability to control the creature.
Maybe Peele is talking about how he himself is in control of the “viewer?”
If anything I thinks it fits more with an animal cruelty angle. Trying to control what shouldn't be controlled, how many treats nature and exploits it sort of thing.
Adam probably saw Chris Stuckman’s childhood trauma on Fire in the Sky
My interpretation of nope was about trying to control/understand nature in which we cant and thats what Steven yeuhns character represents in a sense. He’s trying to control something he doesn’t fully understand while Daniels character knows that you cant control nature only try to understand it which is illustrated in the first scene in the studio
Sad to hear them be so negative towards RRR 😢
Personally watched a bunch of Indian movies I wasn’t crazy about before I found one I loved, so the “fool me once” thing I think is unfair.
They didn't even watch it and already hate it lmao
When considering the idea that Jean Jacket was actually a biblical angel, which was possibly just a wild animal really adds to the creepiness of it all.
I dont think you're looking at it the right way: I interpret Jean Jacket not as being a straight up biblical angel, and instead what INSPIRED people to write about angels. This probably isn't his first time visiting this planet, and he could have visited during the biblical times. People seeing it in the BCE ages would have definitely inspired them to create legends of angels thinking they were seeing some sort of divine being with their limited knowledge of the universe when they were actually just seeing an alien
@@steveothebassist that’s essentially what I meant. JJ could an angel or angels are based off JJ. We don’t know. We also don’t know if it’s even alien. It could be something that’s existed on earth for thousands of years, just posing as clouds. There could be a whole species of them that have been seen and mistaken for UFOs all over the world. We don’t know. That’s the fun of it. 🤷♂️
If I were on sardonicast mountain my back would be broken
Finally watching Brokeback Mountain during the pandemic, at 27 years of age, hits different.
I could not, for the life of me, get through Call Me By Your Name...
Okay, so here is my confession, I actually look at the timestamps every sardonicast episode is released just to see what’s recommended for next time, that is just me. I have never been more excited over a sardonicast recommendation then I am for seeing eternal sunshine for next time lol
That abduction scene from Fire in the Sky is nightmare fuel! Love it!
i went into that movie thinking it was a horror movie but it's surprisingly heartwarming
As a straight man I don't look at Brokeback Mountain as a "gay movie". I think it's one of the most beautifully tragic love stories I've ever seen on film. Great movie.
Yeah, it's definitely not as gay as it could've been
What Ralph is talking about is dual projection being used in Dolby and Imax theaters. Real imax and dolby theaters do use 2 4K Láser projectors projecting at the same time to create the best colors/definition/contrast. I worked at the 2 best imax and Dolby theatres in Chicago and the technology is insane. But they don’t up or slow down the frames they’re constantly in sync as they are connected by a huge súper computer
What I love about Jordan Peele's movies is that you can wring so much out of every detail and scene in a way that is supported by the actual text. Not many movies can do this.
Neat detail: Jupe's "viewer" costumes were repurposed monkey costumes with masks that resemble cameras.
RRR is not a Bollywood film. Bollywood is based in Mumbai and the films are in Hindi. RRR is a Telugu-language film. I will admit to having an aversion to Bollywood films that populate the top 250 (I didn't care for 3 Idiots, for example), but it's disappointing to hear film fans like yourselves be so dismissive based on inaccurate assumptions.
What Adam said about the alien being a camera made me think, since his dad was feeding it real “authentic” horses it got angry once they gave it an inauthentic one. The audience wants to consume black culture and when they know they’re phoning it in it won’t be happy.
Better Call Saul is a good show
I actually enjoyed RRR. It was fun watch but definitely long and over the top. The way I see it is if we already watch CGI super heroes fly, smash, and jump all over the place, why shouldn't I enjoy some handsome dudes take out the British army and CGI tigers for India's independence? Who is truly the most evil and want to see taken down? Generic super villain or the British Empire?
RRR is a better Baz Luhrmann movie than the actual Baz Luhrmann movie that came out this year.
RRR slaps! It’s a shame the Sards don’t want to give it a shot, but it’s a bigger shame they basically wrote off all the review scores as compromised, considering the western audience generally seems to love it as much as if not more than the Indian audience, including some of their colleagues (ex. Joel Haver, Schaffrillas, Marcus, the three of whom gave it 5/5, and probably others). I get Ralph wasn’t into it, and it’s too bad he probably would get some hate for expressing his opinion, but good on him for not writing the film off completely. I didn’t want to comment this along with the timestamps lol! I’d rather those stay unpolluted from my opinion haha (edit: grammar)
@@michaelscott8901 I watched it myself, it probably won't bring a lot of people like Adum into Bollywood lol. It's great at what it does, I personally liked it, but I can see why it won't vibe for a lot of people.
@@mackielunkey2205 very true, no guarantee that Adum would enjoy it (in fact, he’s probably right that he would see the opening 10 minutes and write it off as a bad movie), but it’s a shame that the reasoning basically boils down to “only Indian audiences like Indian movies so the review scores must just be fake” when it seems like the opposite is true (edit: at least in RRR’s case; maybe scores are indeed inflated for some Indian movies, but for this one I don’t think there’s evidence of that at all). Like if I said “I don’t like anime so I don’t think I need to watch Akira for my 1988 list, anime lovers are inflating the scores”, that would just be kind of sad. No hate to the Sards or whatever haha, I just think they’re missing out on a cool movie :) (not trying to say RRR is equal to Akira in quality or whatever, just needed an example)
No Bollywood movie is good enough to convince people they like Bollywood. It purely comes down to a matter of culture and taste.
God's own country helped me healed after watching Brokeback Mountain
I like to think ralph is an alien the way his voice changes each episode
Ralph once again has not watched the recommended movie :D
I clicked on this episode because I really wanted to hear Adum talk about brokeback mountain. Idk if you’ll read this but I just want to say to Adum that you’ve been a big inspiration to me over the last couple of years in coming to terms with myself and disproving the stereotypical views of gay men that caused me to question my own personality. I work blue collar and worked my current job two years before coming out and it’s been hard to say the least. Suffice it to say I connect a lot with your outlook and I look forward to hearing your thoughts on everything.
I was surprised to see how many people hated Nope.
I find it funny that you guys don't want to watch RRR. Personally, I loved it, but I respect your decision, mostly because I don't think it would give us an interesting discussion. I've seen it being compared to superhero films, and I wholeheartedly agree! It's like a super over-the-top superhero film, but one I like. It's zany, kitsch, over the top and an overall good popcorn film to watch with friends. The action sequences are pretty creative in a fantastic kind of way. I recommend it, but understand why you're skipping it. The title sequences are enormous, but I appreciated all the focus on the special effects house and people like the stunt coordinator. These are a big part of the film and should get their own spotlight. I wonder if they're treated better in India vs the west.
Also, I loved Nope. It's light but dense, silly but serious, I think it hits a perfect balance of interesting but still commercial. I loved the non-overt black culture representation, it was shown in such a creative way and I hope we get more of it (which I think we are in the current film landscape).
Nah man Jeanne Dielman
Haha Ralphs voice is out of puberty finally! 🤣
ETERNAL SUNSHINE is my favorite movie 💜
I hope lots of people get to discover it through you guys ☺️
45:46 the black phone was based on a short story written by Stephen King's son, so that makes sense :)
The way I was kinda excited to see what alien they came up with & was disappointed to see it was just a giant plastic bag 😐
Came here to say I absolutely loved the score because it gave me that blockbuster feel
If Adum was really so anti-safespace like he claims to be then he would let scoot wear his N7 armor while they hangout. Oh what, just because the armor includes black-face that automatically makes it racist?
RRR was amazing and it's doing well critically in countries besides India
RRR is worst making money that doesn't mean movie is good
Watched it in 2x speed👍👍
@@tripathiashutosh874 where did I say anything about money lol
I 100% agree with Fire in the Sky (11:40) that shit scared me so much as a kid, couldn't sleep near windows for a while.
It’s been a few years since I seen Eternal Sunshine and I JUST bought the 4K so that’s cool I get to revisit in and then listen to the next podcast.
I saw Steven Yeun as thinking with the "bad miracle" of the shoe standing up like that and him doing the fist bump with Gordy as him feeling like he's special and has some kind of connection with violent forces of nature. He dosen't learn what our main characters know as animal handlers that these animals are need to have their rules respected amd their natures understanded that they're dangerous. It goes into how we as humans in our attempt to control and exploit nature we can create problems that destroy ourselves. and that we tend to ascribe meaning to explain traumatic chaotic events
This may sound like a reach, but I think it’s really about the life of Hollywood celebrities, particularly in this case, black actors and their everyday struggles of dealing with paparazzis.
Sometimes we forget that celebrities are also normal people just like us. People treat them either as gods, emotionless robots or wild animals. We see their lives as spectacle and how we invade their personal spaces whenever they’re in the middle of a controversy. Then we criticise them when they react violently in front of the camera.
OJ, - like the UFO, is introverted, reserved and shy to be in front of the camera.
The UFO, - like any other celebrities, doesn’t like being watched (or looked at) all the time by some intrusive cameras whenever they step outside their mansions or “clouds”.
Jupe - is one of those celebrities that went through childhood trauma that became a national spectacle, so much that people literally go to his place to take pictures with him and memorabilias of the incident. People even paid him to revisit that god-awful day.
Horses - I think they represent the public opinion like Twitter threads, comments, headlines etc. that bait a person to come out and say something back to defend themselves. This bait of course serves no real purpose but for clicks and more attacks.
Is it weird that this is the first time I learned that Adam was gay? I’ve listened to some Sardonicast episodes and watched most YMS videos (never watched the livestreams though). Good on Adam for only broadcasting what he was comfortable with, and not feeling forced to come out to his entire audience. (There are also other content creators where their sexual identity on their sleeve and that’s also valid.)
He has mentioned it before on this podcast. I think it comes up more on the podcast Vs RUclips videos because his RUclips videos are very focused on the given subject
He literally mentions that he's gay in the first episode of the podcast
Laughs thinking back to his Twitter handle
To note about the first show, the reason there weren't that many people was because he was only showing it to people that he knew closely, which is why the woman from the show was there.
What is the lizard thing in NOPE?The way creature opened it's green thing looked like a frilled lizard trying to scare off the predators.There was a line on Keke's shirt like "Jesus is lizard" or something.Mabe the creature hid in the clouds like a reptile does because of being warm blooded or something who hide in the shadow to cool down when they feel hot and be in the open otherwise.
Ralph you gotta resolve you sending out this fake copyright take down you did on a smaller youtube channel called FilmTape, it makes you look really bad cause theirs no real excuse for it you're just abusing the copyright system.
New horror / drama show called Red Rose on Netflix globally and BBC iplayer in the UK, is set and filmed in my hometown of Bolton, made by local lads and it's alright and funny at times. Check it show it some love for semi-independent show.
29:30 anyone else hear a light chiming sound?
I have a 55 inch TCL cause is all I can afford but I love it with my soul, I went from my pc to a big TV was a big change, now I can't watch movies or TV series in any mobile device
Speaking of Gay James Bond. Watch the Miike Snow music video for Ghangas Khan.
“Gay James Bond” is an oxymoron. That video is a parody of a scene that’s already gay as hell.
@@AaronAnaya That video is Brokeback Mountain in 3 minutes if you think about it... With a happier ending.
I highly recommend Ang Lee's early Taiwanese films The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman.
Also, other serious LGBTQ dramas before and after this film: The Wedding Banquet; The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Saving Face; The Watermelon Woman; My Beautiful Laundrette; Happy Together; Carol; Tangerine; Moonlight; Funeral Parade of Roses; Maurice; Philadelphia; The Boys in the Band; Querelle; The Living End. Just to name a few.
For what it’s worth, I think part of the reason why some movies tend to be longer these days is this:
I feel that a lot of audiences have more or less seen it all and tend to be pretty jaded, so in order to really do something that an audience hasn’t seen before, you sort of have to come up with a really wild concept.
If you’re making a movie with a really wild, out there concept (Everything Everywhere All At Once, for instance), and it’s not a movie that’s part of an established franchise and isn’t guaranteed a sequel, you a.) have to set up the concept and its rules within the confines of the story you’re telling and b.) give the concept adequate time to really sing and show you things you haven’t seen without it feeling like a cool opportunity has been missed.
Everything Everywhere All At Once was long to be sure, but it needed that time to do A and B. If you’re talking about standing out in the mind of an audience, sometimes it’s either be longer to give the audience something they haven’t seen before while weaving it into a proper story, or take an hour and a half to tell a story that’s already been told a thousand times before.
Lol crazy how Adam praises brokeback so highly and only gives it an 8/10, I will never understand
8/10 is a great score on his scale
@@tioscha0 yeah I know but he's talking about how it's so fantastic the entire time, how it's so close to him personally, even by his standards it seems like a low score
@@ellemiller7237 yeah reminds me of how he said in one podcast how he loved infinity war and how it’s a great stand alone movie, and a ton of other positives and then gave it a 6/10 like every other movie
I kinda get it. Any rating system is bound to be arbitrary in some way, personally i have a really hard time ranking anything past an 8 that I haven't seen twice. Those top slots are reserved for the select few movies that have a major, major impact and stick around in my head long after I've already seen them.
8/10 is great. 10/10 does not mean "yes I liked it." It's a tier shelf for other titles of similar acclaim, and Adum liked it as much as the other great/amazing films he rates 8/10
More like Big Gay Mountain.
I worked on a tv show just recently where we had some horses on an outdoor set for a few days and it annoyed me now nobody I'm Nope respected the horses (even though they were written that way). I guess OJ could've done his section of the safety meeting better to tell people not to mess with the horse but it's for the story. I loved the film I don't wanna make it seem like I didn't like the film I just wanted to say that the film crew in Nope were assholes
Oh don't worry. New TVs are screwed up for gaming as well, especially if you have multiple consoles from different console gens. The smart tvs will screw with settings a lot of the time
aspects i realized while watching the film is that the design of the alien in Nope changes multiple times and represents multiple things, as adam states in one design its mouth is similar to that of a film camera. its early base form can be likened to an eyeball. Even still its a small black eyeball similar to that of a chimps eye which the jupe alien kid design incorporates with his back story. Later on it expands and reaches out into the sky and actually takes a form that looks very close to biblical accurate angels with multiple wings and what feature do biblical accurate angels have...big massive eye. Side note with my first viewing i thought at first the design of the alien looked like a big cowboy hate with the hole in the middle being where you put your head...which could also work given the western cowboy themes.
Probably there's a comment on this, but he was practicing at night before with horses. We see it early on from a HUGE distance before the alien shows up and eats. It was a small scene so, easy to forget.
Funny how the briefly compared the black phone to a Stephen king story. When the short story was written by Joe hill, AKA Joe hillstrom king. His son.
I have no goddamned idea how I'm gonna quit listening to Sardonicast
fr i dread the day that it ends, whenever that may be
@@etalex7074 yes
I haven't seen RRR but I've been hearing about it from like a bunch of podcasts and stuff like that. Mostly positive stuff. I haven't noticed that from any other Bollywood movies. Seems like it's more than just imdb/letterboxd inflating.
I just want to acknowledge how Adum is honestly a lot more strong a person then I had already thought, hes is someone who at first glance, had me believing was equipped with an uncommon or rare upgraded epidermis layer of tough material for a slight increase to verbal, emotional, mental, and some physical defense. This was before hearing what I heard today, and I already had great respect for Adum, *****can't go without saying the fact that i hold much respect for Ralph and Alex too***** but today Adum is someone who I think is deserving of some recognition for that legendary gear he forged and equipped growing up giving him all the defenses mentioned before, but also imbued with super deflecting teflon and some added points into all stats with additional points to charm and idgaf. I dont think I could be half the dude he is today, such a good guy with a strong drive, who consistently expresses positive outlooks and viewpoints despite experiencing as he was growing up (when we are most impressionable) being told what would be For ME such soul-crushing, life and character development altering, self-esteem halting, and depression producing garbage opinions of family members of his friends, I sure wouldn't be surprised if also spewed out from other losers. Even dealing and enduring together along with his boyfriend and the pointless, ignorant, and hate-filled views of his family, its unimaginably unfair needing to walk on eggshells where and whenver family is near, especially in the year that we are in today, we're supposed to be better by now. The fact im trying to say is that It's hella admirable that no matter what, it seems Adum was and still is true to himself and who he is. Even growing up when the world we experieced was much more impactful and left marks instilled in us who we developed to be, molded by the things we were told, saw, smelled, and felt. I know it must of been a rollercoaster of life experiences and I'm just glad to know you're here with us internet strangers, along with Ralph and Alex, providing us all with enjoyable content that lets me forget for a little while how shitty it is outside and chill out reducing some stress. thanks guys
Is this like a copypasta or something? Lmao
Out of all the critics I just knew Adam would tear Nope to shreds. I’m shocked that he liked it. It has so many things where the more you think about it the less sense it makes.
Like Antlers brings an analog camera and Emerald is stoked that he brought says “I told you he would bring it!” Of course he would bring it. What other purpose would there be for having him? They’re talking on the film with him and in hindsight the entire conversation should have been about whether or not he has an analog camera and can he bring it because that’s the only way they could have filmed it.
They using flailing tube men that explicitly look like big colorful flags in the intricate trap after they establish that the thing is wary of colorful flags. You think it would just say nope and go nowhere near them and so the tube mens function of signaling that its near by would be pointless. The thing is incredibly fast but now he’s outracing it on his horse? Why does it seem to be mesmerized by him at the end? Why doesn’t it just suck him up like its been doing because He’s explicitly looking at it. Why did they steal car engines from an active crime scene? They have a Fry guy and he doesn’t have access to any other suitable batteries?
Was Jupe planning to kill everyone because there was no way he could have encountered the thing multiple times without knowing that you can’t look at it. And if so his plan to show it off to a crowd of people that includes his wife and children and the only other survivor of the chimp attack doesn’t make sense.
Ralphs sleepy voice is so funny. He suddenly sounds like a stoned Alex lol
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind was a beautiful film!
The boys are missing out on RRR. It's pretty epic. They are all taking the L for this opinion
I like how brits say the title of that movie "ah-ah-ah"