404: Mean Girls + The Color Purple

[00:00:00] Hi, if I could change the world, I'd make us have world peace. And also Halloween. Every single day. Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Film Buds podcast. This is episode number 294. And my name is Henry. I'm Elle.

[00:00:22] So we haven't done a weekly, regular weekly episode probably I think since March. We've just been doing, or I've just been doing dailies since then. So it's been a minute since you've been on. And yeah, so it's nice to have you back on the show.

[00:00:36] I mean we live together so... Well it's, you know, nice to be here. Locked all the way from the bedroom. Yeah. Well this time we're going to be doing sort of a...

[00:00:45] I guess they both go together fairly well where they're both remakes and they're also both musical remakes. So Mean Girls, which just came out a couple months ago. And then The Color Purple, which came out I think in late 2023. So should be a great time.

[00:01:02] Figured we could also talk about the Wicked trailer, which you're very hyped about. And then other stuff we watched. So thanks for joining us and make sure if you haven't checked out recent episodes, please do and subscribe and all that good stuff.

[00:01:15] Yeah, what are you doing if you're not? Yeah, seriously. Well, since you've been gone, or at least from this show for a little while, what's been going on? Um, man. Where do I begin? So much has been going on, you know.

[00:01:34] I've been taking pictures. I've been editing. I've been taking pictures. You know, I've been editing. We went on a massive road trip, you know, no big deal. Just gonna brush past that. Yeah, well... Not dive in. We went from New Mexico to North Carolina and back.

[00:01:51] So it took about three and a half days each way. But it really wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be. I mean, it was harder for you just because of fibromyalgia and getting your...

[00:02:03] Kind of being in a car for that long was even tougher for you. Yeah, it tightened up my body for sure. Yeah, but we still saw some new places. We went New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina. So, the first time we'd ever done anything like that.

[00:02:22] So it was pretty enjoyable and we got to spend some time in NC and see some green and all that. So that was a nice change of pace. We haven't been back in two years. So I didn't know... I don't know, just how refreshing the green was.

[00:02:37] I was not expecting that because we've been just surrounded by the desert and dirt for two years. So it was pretty refreshing. Yeah, but other than that, because that was really the big thing. I think as of late we're still kind of recuperating from all that.

[00:02:53] But glad we did it. And we took our three dogs. Yeah, we did have our three dogs in your Ford Fiesta. So pretty small little clown car. It's basically a Prius. So picture that and two large dogs in the back and one Chihuahua in my lap.

[00:03:12] I think the first day with them was the hardest because Elvis did not understand how to lay down. And then the second day, they just were sleeping in the back. So it wasn't that bad considering. Yeah. So yeah, other than that, not much else to say really.

[00:03:33] Hold on, we spent some time in NC. We spent some time at your family's cabin, which is always a good time. We saw your mom, stayed at her place. The dogs ran around a huge yard, which was nice for them. Miley escaped twice. Wally once. Wally once.

[00:03:57] I met your brother. That was a fun time. Hi, John. Met Pat. Yeah. Family friend. Hi, Pat. Sure, she's a listener. So I mean, it was a good time.

[00:04:08] It was a nice, even though it was tiring in a lot of ways, it was still nice to be away. Yeah. So. Yeah, it was just, it's always a challenge traveling. So. It is.

[00:04:20] Just kind of in general anyways, but like just for me, it tightens up my body, makes me hurt more. It kind of sent me into a flare for a few days while I was in North Carolina. But. Yeah.

[00:04:34] But now, like, you know, when you go back home and everybody wants to see you and it's so exhausting. I like my social battery was out like the second day. It's just so exhausting. Same. So I'm I'm glad to be back alone away from him. Just kidding.

[00:04:53] No, like it was good. But, you know, I feel like that's the most social interaction we've had in forever. Yeah. So that's fun. Yeah. But anything else to add? Well, all the states have its own little vibe, which was interesting. Yeah. So that was enjoyable.

[00:05:14] It was just nice to see a lot of new places for the first time. So that was cool. Yeah, because we've never traveled across the country. So that was a that was a new thing. And you know what? No car troubles.

[00:05:26] We didn't get stopped once by the popo. So, you know what? I think that's a win win. So, yeah. Yeah. Other than that, not much else. If you haven't checked out our bonus show page, filmbuds.bandcamp.com and that's in the show note link.

[00:05:42] And that's where you can check out everything in case you haven't seen that yet. Oh, and you caught up with Chloe. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Former co-host of the show, Chloe, who started out, I think, on episode five maybe and was

[00:05:55] there for probably at least a few years, four or five, I think. And so that was nice to see her. Hadn't seen her in a long time. So that was really cool. So, yeah. Well, anything else to add from our big road trip adventure?

[00:06:11] Nothing big, I don't think. Yeah. All right. Well, I guess with all that said, we can get to some movies. So let's get to first review, which is Mean Girls the musical. I guess some people call it and we do have a clip. So take a listen.

[00:07:04] So Mean Girls is on like digital rental purchase now. It might be on a streaming app. Streaming app. Like I think it might be on Paramount Plus. I think it's on Max. Oh, Max. OK. So it is on digital streaming now.

[00:07:17] It's directed by Samantha Jane and Arturo Perez Jr., written by Tina Fey once again. Stars Angori Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli Cravalho, Jekyll Spivey, Jenna Fisher, Tina Fey, a few others, Lindsay Lohan briefly, Jon Hamm.

[00:07:36] And the synopsis is, Katie Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of Alpha Plastic, Regina George. Quite the synopsis there.

[00:07:53] So I actually only saw the first Mean Girls, though, G1, I think last year or the year before when you showed it to me. I'd been mean to get around to it for... Oh, really? Yeah. Oh. I mean, I never did.

[00:08:05] And then we watched it and I loved it. And so I didn't even really realize this one was coming out until shortly before, I think. And we only got around to seeing it once it came out on streaming. And you've been a Mean Girls fan for a while.

[00:08:18] You'd seen it. Oh, yeah. I've seen it a bunch of times. It's just a, you know, it's just a stupid, funny movie to cut on when you're bored. But when I was in Girl Scouts, there was this like a bully, like segment thing that we had

[00:08:34] to get through. And I remember loaning my copy of Mean Girls to my Girl Scout troop. Nice. Yeah. Such great times. Anyway. Yeah, I, you know, just a classic Lindsay Lohan movie, you know? Love them. Yeah. Well, do you want to start off then or shall I?

[00:08:53] You can start off. Okay. Okay. Well, as I just said, I do really like the first one. I thought it was because I love Tina Fey in general. I think she's a great writer, especially an actor as well. And I was really surprised how much I liked it.

[00:09:06] And this one I was a little unsure of going in. I was like, all right, there is remaking it. It's going to be a musical. Probably is going to be lame and not really necessary. Well, you didn't know it was a Broadway musical. No, I knew that.

[00:09:20] Oh, yeah. Yeah. I knew all that. But I felt I said felt felt. That it seemed a little just random and not really needed. But anyways, I was once again very pleasantly surprised how much I liked it. I thought it was very funny.

[00:09:37] Tina Fey, again, great comedic writer. Good satire, again, on more modern high school, young adult sort of drama and gossip.

[00:09:47] And I think it also did a good job of portraying social media craze and viral sensations as well as like cancel culture somewhat in a more once again, a more modern sense than what they had in 2004 or whatever that was. So I really liked it.

[00:10:04] I thought the main actress, I've seen her in a few things. She's not an amazing singer, but she did all right. But I thought the actress who played Regina George was awesome. I liked the the gay guy in this, the friend of the sort of like. Janice.

[00:10:23] Yeah, I thought he was great. So it was really charming. Well put together. Music overall was solid. Like the music looked good. Well directed. So I I enjoyed it a fair bit. What do you think? I mean, I I really liked it.

[00:10:39] The thing that like I've been thinking ever since I watched it, like this is the year for theater kids because Mean Girls, the musical and Wicked. Come on, man. So, yeah, I was really excited to see it.

[00:10:55] I wanted to go see it in theaters, but we didn't have a chance to. But yeah, the main actress who played Katie didn't really not a big fan of her singing. Just weird because she's been in a few other things singing and she was pretty good.

[00:11:12] So I don't know. But I thought the girl who played Regina, her voice was outstanding. It gave me goosebumps galore. But she was really awesome. She looks like 30. So it was kind of she did look a lot older, funny, but she's also a year.

[00:11:34] I looked up how old she was because I was so curious and she's a year younger than me, which is weird to think about. Yeah, I don't know. Just yeah, that's weird because I look like I'm 18. She looks like she's 30. So it's kind of weird.

[00:11:49] But yeah, I big fan of her. Honestly, like if I could download like three albums of her just singing, I would. And the actress who played Janice was fantastic. Yeah, the gay friend was really great. Overall, like I think the acting was pretty good.

[00:12:10] The singing was pretty good. I liked their continuous shots. Like we started out in Africa and then went through the garage, I think. And then went to high school, like all in one take. So I think that was pretty I like the creative choices a lot.

[00:12:28] I found it weird that Katie didn't have a dad in the musical, but I've never seen the musical on Broadway. So yeah, but apparently a lot of people went into the theater a little confused because they thought it was just a remake.

[00:12:45] They didn't know it was a musical. Yeah. So that's kind of funny. But yeah, I like you were saying, I liked how they modernized it a fair bit and they touched on cancel culture. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it did a good job of showing like one little event.

[00:13:02] And then in nowadays, whereas it wasn't really the case in 2004 where everyone has a phone, everyone record everything. They'll all have their own perspectives. They'll all go on Instagram live and give their stupid opinion and can really ruin someone's whole reputation. And then it's there forever.

[00:13:19] So that was all very on point, I think. Yeah, because the 2000s version was like flip phones, you know, YTK kind of era. So it was interesting to see mean girls, you know, in today's golden age, you know? Yeah. So very pleasantly surprised. Very pleasantly surprised.

[00:13:39] I would recommend it if you are unfamiliar with either of them. I would start with the original and then watch this one. But I think that either one or both really are their own standalone movie.

[00:13:50] So you could watch either one and enjoy it, you know, so without much backstory or anything. Because obviously musicals are different and it's going to give you a different feel for it. I always listen to the Janice song, but I never listen to like the Regina songs.

[00:14:10] So I don't know. Well, anything else about Mean Girls, the musical? I think Lindsay Lohan was paid like half a million dollars for her little short cameo. Yeah, she popped in. I don't think that's a spoiler, but yeah, she was in it. That was nice to see her.

[00:14:28] Yeah. Imagine being like paid like that much money. It might be less, so knock on wood. But I heard it was, you know, quite a pinch of cash. I'm not surprised. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:14:43] I just think they did a really good job with the creative choices and the camera work. I honestly like I really like continuous shots like that. And it made it feel like a Broadway musical and not just like another movie. So yeah, big fan of that.

[00:14:57] Also, I felt like I was watching Glee for a little bit. It was a little Glee-y. Glee-y. Yeah, the continuous shots. Yeah. Man. All right, well out of five, I'll go four. I think I rated it on Letterboxd four, so four. All right, cool. Yeah.

[00:15:17] So we can now before we jump into the next review, we can do our Letterboxd review segment, which in case you're new to the show, we pick some reviews at random on Letterboxd to read.

[00:15:27] So if you would like to have yours read on the show, send them our way. Follow us on Letterboxd. And we have a couple here picked out. All right. I had a sip of my coffee. I am ready to share. OK.

[00:15:40] Zoe says, as soon as Renee Rapp finished her first song, the gay guy sitting next to me said, that's the only girl I'd ever go for. And she rated it four stars. That's pretty good. It's fair. This one comes from Reese. Three and a half out of five.

[00:16:10] All right, last one. You usually do three. So G-O-R-L. Interesting name. Rated it one star. This movie feels like it was made in a sheen factory. Welcome to the sheenification of cinema. Hmm. I don't know if I'd agree, but. I don't really agree. To each their own. Yeah.

[00:16:34] All right, well, again, let us know if you have a review for any movie that you'd like to have read on the show. We'd be happy to oblige. Send us a screenshot, you know? Yeah.

[00:16:44] And so now we can get to our second review, which is The Color Purple, the remake from 2023, which is now on Max currently. And we do have a clip as well. So take a listen. First, I got to change into a purple shirt. I'll be right back.

[00:17:15] I love Hoppo. God knows I do. All right, well, let's get to The Color Purple. Directed by Blitz Bazawul. Sorry if I said that name wrong. Who also was a part of the Black is King movie, The Beyonce film.

[00:17:35] It stars Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, Felicia Pearl Mopapsy, and a few others. And the synopsis is a woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

[00:17:55] So I had seen the Steven Spielberg movie, the original years ago. I haven't watched it for quite some time, though. And I remember liking it, not loving it. I don't think it's one of his best movies, but the core story is definitely very powerful.

[00:18:08] And I was curious to see what they would do with this. I didn't know going in that it was a musical or at least when I first heard about it, I didn't know it was a musical. I thought it was just a normal remake.

[00:18:17] And so I was curious. I liked Halle Bailey from Little Mermaid, Taraji P. Henson, a few of the other cast members. So do you want to start off? Yeah. Well, I loved it. That's it. Thanks for joining us.

[00:18:37] No, I watched the original movie in English class because I was forced to read The Color Purple and Anna Tate, you know, in the side margins. And I maybe I was just too young or maybe I just didn't like that version.

[00:18:58] But I like I just really did not like it at all. I don't know why. I think I was maybe too young to understand because I was like 16, 17.

[00:19:10] But the musical just brings another level of just female empowerment that the original never would be able to pull off in my humble onion. Like Danielle Brooks song. Very good. Very good. I want to sing in the car.

[00:19:32] Yeah, I loved her character, which was originally played by Oprah. Right. Right. And I think honestly, like, I think they did a great job with casting. Yeah. Like the young the young Cecily and then the older Cecily look like exactly like. Yeah.

[00:19:55] They just like have the same like bone structure and everything. Yeah. But the singing was amazing. Fantasia did amazing. A couple of her songs I like, you know, I was tearing up. Yeah, I I forgot about the Shug and Cecily like kind of romance that was happening.

[00:20:19] Oh, yeah. Totally forgot about that. Also, it's so funny that Cecily did not know Mr. First name. Oh, yeah, that was funny because Shug was asking her and she was like, you don't know your husband's first name. And she was like, I just call him Mr.

[00:20:39] Like everyone else. So yeah, fine. Yeah, I let's see, I'm trying to think of anything else. I think the creative choices again were pretty great. I wish we saw more of like flashbacks of Nettie and Cecily's kids in Africa. I would have liked to see more of that.

[00:21:07] Like there were some, but just not as much as I wanted to see. Also, I I think from the original film, the. Reunion was a little bit more powerful emotionally than them just showing up at Easter brunch in the musical.

[00:21:27] So kind of disappointed about that because they were like running through the fields like in the original one. It was such an emotional reunion and so a little disappointed with that. But overall, I, I really liked it. Felt like the songs really empowered the story even more.

[00:21:47] And the story was even originally powerful, but it was more powerful with music. So. All right. Well, toss to you. Yeah, well, I liked it a lot as well. I didn't love it. I think that there were there's a lot of great elements.

[00:22:03] I think just the overall choreography is great. The musical numbers and songs are awesome. The visually the movie looks fantastic and like lighting, cinematography, costumes, everything really rich and lavish.

[00:22:19] And I really liked all that and probably one of the better looking movies I've seen in quite some time. Performances across the board are excellent. The Colm, what's his name? Colm Domingo. Oh, Colman Domingo. Yeah, he usually plays. He's like a pretty good character actor.

[00:22:36] He usually plays nice people. So it's interesting to see him play a pretty despicable guy. And he was he was good at it. And I think small issues. I think it was a little long. I think both versions are too long. It could probably lose 20 minutes.

[00:22:53] And because there were points pacing wise and story wise where I was just feeling like it's kind of spinning its wheels or it's repeating certain things. And so there were times where I was like, all right, let's start to wrap this up.

[00:23:05] So I think it was a little long, maybe a little too stagnant every so often. The I think the music was incorporated well into the story for the most part. It is a little shocking at first considering the time period and the subject matter.

[00:23:19] But once you get the flow of it, I think it worked very well. So it is a bit draining to watch. There's so much going on. It's very dramatic and emotional, but it's worth the time.

[00:23:30] I think it should have gotten more praise than it did when it came out. So, yeah, I didn't hear a lot about it. Yeah. So, yeah, I enjoyed it. I encourage people to watch it's a very important story and has a lot of things to say.

[00:23:43] So, well, I think I I was searching Coleman Domingo while you were talking and I think I found his look alike. It does look a little bit like that. Yeah. Which is Rufus from Supernatural.

[00:23:57] I was like, he reminds me of someone and it's going to bug me until I figure that out. Sorry. So, yeah, I enjoyed it. Yeah. What else? I mean, were there any stand up moments? I thought Tarashi P. Henson as is it Shug? Shug. Shug.

[00:24:15] I thought she was I mean, I like her across the board in general. So I wasn't surprised, but she's awesome in it. Yeah, I yeah, I don't think I have anything else to say except those words. Shiny ass pants that she gave a Mr.

[00:24:31] Oh, yeah, those that was pretty killer. Yeah. And I didn't really mind the the reunion maybe because I haven't seen the original in some time, but I thought it worked in this one. But I can understand that criticism. Yeah. So.

[00:24:45] Well, are we ready for a letterbox review time? Sure. Is it that time? I'll give the four as well. I'll give it a four. All right. All righty. Megan rates it three and a half and says, I don't know.

[00:24:59] Seems like he could have been cursed with the weight of his own evils for a little longer before getting invited to Easter brunch. That's fair. It was a little quick. Yeah, that was a little little quick to forgive. But let him stew.

[00:25:14] This one comes from Ira the third. Three out of five. But with a heart. Danielle Brooks is the mother I never had. She is the sister everybody would want. She's the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better best supporting actress contender. I agree.

[00:25:31] Yeah, she was very good. And I loved her in Orange is the New Black. She was my favorite character. All right. Joe rated it four and a half.

[00:25:44] Quote, I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. If it was my call in any sort of way, I didn't. Grave Fantasia Burino, Danielle Brooks and Taraji Taraji. Sorry. Names all on golden statues myself.

[00:26:05] Halle Bailey is a movie star in every sense of the word. Beautiful film. Whoa. High praise. My praise. So let us know your reviews, letterboxed oriented or not. And thanks to all those people. If you're listening, let us know. So yeah, well, the review's done.

[00:26:24] You want to touch on Wicked? Real quick. Yeah. So it comes out Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving. So we watched the trailer last night and I wanted to do a live reaction on here, but didn't happen. I really wanted to watch it. Sorry, guys. Sorry.

[00:26:41] But I don't know why, what it is about today's trailers that like they give the whole movie. Yeah, it was way too long. It was way too. It was like four minutes, way too long. And it literally touched on every single scene imaginable in the film.

[00:26:59] See, that's why I've started to like just not watch trailers, even for a movie I'm really excited about. I tend to be I'll look at a still and then that's usually it now. Yeah. But it was enough for me.

[00:27:09] And I thought that was the like, you know, a good trailer for the whole thing. But it touched on everything we heard popular. You know, we saw like a little mean girl scene pun intended. But yeah, I don't think it should have given that much away.

[00:27:29] But I did like it. I really like Wicked. I love the musical. I've seen it twice on Broadway and and I love the Wizard of Oz. So it's very dear to my heart.

[00:27:44] And I used to sing Defying Gravity very off pitch when I was on the way to school every day. Nice. Well, sorry. So I so I'm really pumped about the film. I'm not super well versed with Wicked. I like Wizard of Oz as much as the next guy.

[00:28:05] But Wicked is something I've never really been that exposed to. So I was mainly watching it because you are so interested in seeing it. And I think it looks good. I don't have any real context for anything. It just it's another sort of fantasy film for me, musical.

[00:28:21] But I think visually it looks good and I like the whole cast. So I'm I'm looking forward to it. I would have rather just not even watch the trailer to be real. But I think it still looks for what it is. Looks great. So we'll see. Yeah.

[00:28:37] Are we going to paint ourselves green for the premiere? Maybe we'll see about that. Can you imagine us actually going to the theater like pink? I bet some people are probably going to. But yeah, no.

[00:28:53] But I did want to touch on the live action Lilo and Stitch movie coming out. Next month. And I want to ask our audience, why is it that Disney Plus does not release any trailers for the movies coming out on Disney Plus? Like why?

[00:29:16] Like I think I think sometimes they do, though. It's just I think it depends. And also it might be like right before it comes out. So I think because like if you think of some of the Marvel stuff, they do release trailers for that.

[00:29:26] But I think it's sort of they release them so like late. Yeah. Yeah. So I think maybe there are some that don't have any trailers. I think they oftentimes do release them really late so that you aren't thinking, oh, well, that looks horrible.

[00:29:41] I'm just not going to watch it as opposed to I'll give it a shot. How bad could it be kind of thing? So we'll see. I agree. I think trailers are just a big no, no. Nowadays, I'm just trying to watch any of them.

[00:29:52] Well, Lilo and Stitch is probably one of my favorite Disney movies. Just backstory. And so I'm really excited about this. And I've been like every maybe few weeks I've been looking up like trailer and nothing pops up.

[00:30:06] So I guess I'm just going to have to wait until it, you know, is on Disney Plus. But fun fact, the actress who plays Lilo is actually like takes hula classes in real life, like even like before wanting to be cast as Lilo. So very excited. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:31] All right. Well, you want to end off with pics of the week? Or I guess pics of the couple of months. Pics of the couple of months. So I mean, we could just touch on stuff we watched on the road trip.

[00:30:41] Well, I actually have a lot to share. OK, well, then. Because I I ran out of things to watch. So I've been watching movies, but I just like watching, you know, stupid sitcoms. Same. And I finished all seven seasons of Grace and Frankie.

[00:30:59] And I highly recommend it was such an easy watch. Each episode is like twenty five minutes. So you kind of breeze through it. And it's an interesting story. And Frankie is amazing. Yeah. Period. It's a good show. I agree.

[00:31:15] But yeah, if you don't know, it's about like 80 year old women starting over their lives after their husbands decided to have an affair with each other. So it's pretty, pretty interesting. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[00:31:33] So besides that, I watched all of the movies that were on the road trip. Besides that, I watched all of finally Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies. And I actually really like it. But I do notice in the most recent Marvel films and TV shows that they try

[00:31:54] too hard to be funny. And it's just kind of a little bit cringy. But overall was good. It wasn't no, you know, Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man movies. You know, love those. The OG pizza time. And that's like the those are like the most like me more of the Spider-Man

[00:32:11] movies. Amazing. But after that, I haven't watched Twilight Eclipse in a while. So I decided to watch that. And then, you know, when you watch like one movie of a saga and you're like, I gotta watch the other one. So I decided to watch that.

[00:32:30] And then you're like, I gotta watch the other one. So I ended up unfortunately watching Breaking Dawn part one and two. And yeah, they're pretty bad. But it just has a nostalgia kind of feel to it, you know, because I used to wait in the midnight premiere lines.

[00:32:52] And I wish there was like a, you know, a saga of movies that gave everyone that excitement again. Because same with The Hunger Games. Like it was just such an era. It's so amazing. But then I watched episode three of Star Wars.

[00:33:09] I watched yesterday where everyone forgets that the Beatles ever existed. How could you? Right. Watched Ringo, watch Soul. I watched the new Jenna Ortega movie Miller's Girl, and it was horrible. It felt like a lifetime movie. It was just really bad. Watched To Die For.

[00:33:33] Watched Bob Marley One Love, and I actually really liked that. Peanut Butter Falcon is really cute. Yeah. What's the first rule? Already there you go. Ready Player One haven't seen that in quite a while. Wonderlust. I watched the movie. Wonderlust.

[00:33:55] And then I add a bunch of stuff to my watch list. And then you know what? I thought might as well have another vendor. Right. So I watched The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Catching Fire, Hunger Games Mockingjay Part One, The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part Two.

[00:34:11] I was like, you know, might as well watch the new Hunger Games movie. Right. So I watched The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. And I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. It was just funny with all like the Katniss references.

[00:34:26] And I thought it was funny that Lucy wrote The Hanging Tree and then Katniss made that like the rebels anthem for the rebellion. So that was kind of funny. But you know, The Hanging Tree is about snow. So it's.

[00:34:45] And then I watched Avengers Infinity War and I'm currently watching Avengers Endgame and I have not finished that. Nice. That's all I've been watching. What about you? Well, I mean, a lot of the stuff that I've watched new wise is I've done as

[00:35:03] dailies, but I did watch a lot of the things that she mentioned while we were on the road to like Rango, one of my favorite animated movies ever. I love Peanut Butter Falcon. I really like Ready Player One.

[00:35:13] And so otherwise, I haven't watched a whole lot of new things. I mostly have just been watching stuff with you or just doing stuff for the show specifically. So you can check out those reviews. I think that's honestly about it. Two and a half men.

[00:35:27] But that's pretty standard. So, yeah, you do love your two and a half men. Yeah. All right. Well, anything else want to mention anything? I'm just really fucking pumped for Beetlejuice 2. Yeah. And Wicked. And they're coming out like a month apart.

[00:35:44] And it's going to be a really great fall. Y'all OK. You can feel it for sure. And I will totally go to the theater dressed as Lydia. I was about to say Wednesday. I got my wires crossed for a split second. So that is about it.

[00:36:05] We're trying to do it every week with the new season. We're trying to do it every week with, you know, with each other. But sometimes that doesn't work out. So our goal is every week. Yeah.

[00:36:16] We're going to sit down after after we hit stop and come up with a schedule. Oh yeah. Yeah. So keep an eye out for all that. But dailies will still be released as normal. And please again rate review subscribe.

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